Photographer

Mark Sibole

E-mail

Astronomy@qteaser.com

Location

Fife Lake, Michigan

Date

Oct 11-2008

Equipment

Meade 80 mm refractor and SXVF-H9 CCD camera

Description

This is a very nice asterism (non-associated stars that form a visual cluster) in the constellation of Vulpecula.that resembles a coat hanger. A full sized image can be seen here. http://astronomy.qteaser.com/images/TheCoatHangerSX.jpg

Photographer

Hunter Wilson

Location

Lexington, Ohio

Date

October 9, 2008

Equipment

Canon 350D Hap Griffin Baader Mod Canon 70-200 f/2.8 L at 200mm Baader 2 inch 7nm H alpha filter Step Down Rings Astro-Physics Mach1GTO Mount

Description

North America and Pelican Nebulae Complex In Cygnus 31x600sec at iso 1600 30 Darks/Flats/Bias Taken during a waxing gibbous moon. Over 5 hours of Hydrogen Alpha data on the huge NGC 7000/IC 5070 Nebula complex in Northern Cygnus. This area is a vast collection of dust and gas in the Orion arm of the Milky way at a distance of about 2000 light years, spanning 100 light years. This group of nebulae, both bright and dark, contains no less than 30 seperate objects

Photographer

William Warden

Location

Los Alamitos, CA

Date

8/27-28/08, 9/27-30/08

Equipment

8" LX200R scope, G11 Mount, SX AO .2 sec exposures, IDAS LPR filter, Ha CS 10 nm filter, Oiii baader 8.5 nm filter, SX H9 Camera. Luminance 28x2 min, Ha and Oiii 17x5 min each

Description

Globular cluster M 15 augmented with narrow band filters to enhance planetary nebula Pease 1 (red object lower right of core). Pease 1 was the first planetary nebula found in a globular cluster. It was initially noted to appear very bright on a photographic plate using a Pulkovo ultra-violet filter compared to neighboring stars (otherwise of about equal magnitude). Subsequent spectrographic study revealed green lines of oxygen characteristic of planetary nebulae as well as red lines of hydrogen. A larger version is available here: http://whwastro.homestead.com/files/M15-f10-2008-800r.jpg Here's a nice article on the topic by Leos Ondra: http://www.seds.org/MESSIER/xtra/leos/pease1.html

Photographer

Mark Sibole

E-mail

astronomy@qteaser.com

Location

Fife Lake Mi.

Date

sept 22 2008

Equipment

Meade 80 mm APO SXVF-H9

Description

Object name: VdB: 152 Magnitude: 8.8 Equatorial: RA: 22h 13m 39s Dec: +70°17'53"(current) Equatorial 2000: RA: 22h 13m 25s Dec: +70°15'05" Horizon: Azim: 27°59'08" Alt: +50°49'43" Transit time: 23:45 Always above horizon. Mark Sibole Fife lake Michigan September 21, 2008 astronomy@qteaser.com Meade 80 mm APO SXVF-H9 120 minutes of luminance information in 10 minute sub frames 40 minutes per color channel in 10 minute sub frames. A total of 4 hours of information went into this rarly images area. It is a mix of reflection Nebula and dusty region .

Photographer

Hunter Wilson

Location

Lexington, Ohio

Date

September 6 and 9, 2008

Equipment

Canon 350D Hap Griffin Baader Mod APM/TMB 130/780 with APM Field Flattener Astro-Physics Mach1GTO Mount

Description

M33, the Whirlpool Galaxy in Triangulum, taken in regular RGB, but then enhanced with the addition of 2 hours or Hydrogen Alpha data and processed using Chris Schur's method for Hydrogen Enhanced Galaxies. 32x180sec at iso 1600 13x600sec Ha with Baader 7nm Ha filter at iso 1600 30 Darks/Flats/Bias

Photographer

Rick Johnson

Location

Northern Minnesota

Date

Sept 8, 2008, 10:00 UT

Equipment

14: LX200R, 10min Lum, 3 min RGB total, STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Description

Taken through dawn skies just to see if it had returned. I was more than a little shocked to find out it has. Unfortunately weather has prevented any further attempts to image it. But it appears much as I last saw it in 2005. I didn't expect a reappearance this soon.

Photographer

Milan Gucic

E-mail

milangucic@gmail.com

Location

Belgrade, Serbia

Date

01. september 2008.

Equipment

Canon 350D with kit lens @18mm.

Description

This is a HDR image of sundog. I merged 7 photos in Photoshop for this sight.

Photographer

Olivier GARDE

E-mail

o.garde@free.fr

Location

Mongolia near Burenhayrhan

Date

01/08/2008 11h04 UT

Equipment

DSLR Canon 20 Da with nikon lens 200mm and focal doubleur Nikon. tripod Manfrotto with astrotrac TT320 guiding system

Description

This picture is the result of stacking 6 singles exposures from 1/2000s to 0,6s at 800 ISO.

Photographer

Günter Kerschhuber

Location

Gahberg Austria/Europe

Date

20080704

Equipment

6'' Maksutov Intes MK69 @900mm St10xme CFW10 for Luminance 4" Apo Televue NP101@540mm SXVH9 CFW10 for RGB Simultaneous on Gemini G42 Mount Filter:Astronomik

Description

Exposure:LRGB 230/73/73/73min 300secsub Comments:Maxim, Astroart, PSP CS2, Fits Liberato

Photographer

Mahdi zamani

E-mail

zidmani@gmail.com

Location

Tehran ; Iran

Date

16 August 2008

Equipment

Telescope : 110mm apo . Camera : 30D EOS Canon

Description

Partial lunar eclipse from Tehran.