Photographer

Michael Newberry

E-mail

mn@mirametrics.com

Location

near Tucson, AZ

Date

Dec 1, 2008 5:58PM

Equipment

Nikon D200, 24mm F/16 exposure 2.5 sec at ISO 200

Description

The Moon, Venus, and Jupiter shine at dusk above a chain fruit cholla cactus in the Arizona Desert.

Photographer

Antonios Pantelidis

E-mail

orion1964@ath.forthnet.gr

Location

City of Florina, Greece

Date

12-2-2008

Equipment

Nikkor 300mm, f/2.8 @ 5.6 Nikon D70

Description

A memorable sky event! At my location, on the northern part of Greece, Venus was almost touched by the moon.

Photographer

James Champagne

E-mail

jamesshell2004@yahoo.com

Location

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Date

December 1, 2008 5:45 P.M Central

Equipment

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens at f/3.2 Tripod Canon Xti 12 x 2.5s exposure ISO 400

Description

Conjunction between Jupiter, Venus, and the moon. Nice deep exposure shows surrounding stars.

Photographer

Ben & Vic Levis

E-mail

thephotoguy@iinet.net.au

Location

Carmel, Western Australia

Date

1/12/2008 - (9.00pm

Equipment

Camera: Canon 1Ds mkII Lens: Canon EF 400mm f2.8L IS Exposure: 1 Second at f4.0, ISO 1600

Description

This is a three image mosaic, resulting in a 42 megapixel image; which is showing the Moon, Venus, Jupiter and surrounding star field, taken from our home in Carmel, Western Australia. We have also utilised a false colour technique on the earth-shine illuminated part of the moon.

Photographer

Doug Zubenel

E-mail

dougzubenel@gmail.com

Location

Kill Creek Park, Kansas.

Date

Nov. 18, 2008, 6:28 pm, CST.

Equipment

Canon Rebel XTi (Hutech modified) with a 135mm Nikkor lens @ f/4; 1 minute exposure at ISO 400.

Description

I wanted to go deep in the vicinity of Venus in Sagittarius on the night Venus passed less than 2 degrees SSW of the big, bright globular cluster M22. It is amazing just how deep a lens can go at f/4 at ISO 400. Various objects are labelled.

Photographer

Enrico Africa

Location

West Chester, Ohio

Date

July, 2008

Equipment

Camera: SBIG STL-6303 Class 1 with CFW-L 8-position filter wheel and Astrodon Narrowband (H-alpha, SII and OIII) and LRGB filters Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106N Mount: Astro-Phyics AP1200GTO

Description

This is a narrow-band/RGB emulation of the Veil Nebula complex shot from my light-polluted back yard July 2008. H-alpha data was mapped to Red, OIII to green and a blend of H-alpha and OIII (simulating H-beta) to blue. RGB data was added to give the stars a natural color.

Photographer

Efrain Morales Rivera

E-mail

jaicoa52@yahoo.com

Location

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

Date

11/04/08

Equipment

LX200ACF 12 in., F/R F6.3, CGE mount, DSI III Pro Ccd, Astronomik LRGB filter set, Atik mfw.

Description

One of many beautiful galaxies in the constellation Fornax. It is a Barred type spiral galaxy with its unique dust bands swirling into the core of the galaxy.

Photographer

J-P Metsavainio

Location

Oulu, Finland

Date

26.09.2008

Equipment

- Camera, QHY8 - Filters, Baader 7nm H-alpha and Baader 8,5nm O-III - Optics, Tokina AT-X 300mm @ f2.8 - Exposures, 5 X 1200s H-alpha 3 X 1200s O-III 4 X 1200s S-II + flats and bias - Guiding, LX200 GPS 12" + PHD-guiding and Lodestar

Description

In this image colors are showing difference between Double ionized Sulfur (Red), Hydrogen alpha (Green) and triple ionized Oxygen (Blue). This palette is generally known as a Hubble palette by the palette used to processing images from Space telescope Hubble.

Photographer

Hunter Wilson

Location

Lexington, Ohio

Date

October 30, 2008

Equipment

Canon 350D Hap Griffin Baader Mod Celestron 9.25 reduced 0.63 Astro-Physics Mach1GTO Mount

Description

M77 in Cetus 40x180sec at iso 1600 30 Darks/Flats/Bias Messier 77 (NGC 1068), lies about 60 million light years away (approximately the same distance but another direction as the Virgo Cluster) in the constellation Cetus. It is the nearest Seyfert type II galaxy to Earth, but also the most distant Messier object according to some sources. This galaxy has been studied extensively regarding galaxy core supermassive black holes and is thought to contain a monster black hole of 15 million solar masses.

Photographer

Jacob Bassøe

Location

Frederiksberg, Denmark

Date

24th and 25th september 2008

Equipment

Skywatcher Heq5pro mount, Takahashi FSQ-85, QHY2pro camera, QHY5 guider, Baader filters Ha 7nm SII 8.5nm OIII 8.5nm, Truetech 8pos. filterwheel.

Description

A "Hubble" palette narrowband image of the beautiful Pelican Nebula. It's amazing how much detail one can capture even in a very light polluted city like my town, Copenhagen, Denmark.