Photographer

JAMIE BRADLEY

E-mail

yz426fo@chesnet.net

Location

Spartanburg SC

Date

6/20/08 0100Hrs

Equipment

Celestron 10" Newt atop an Orion Atlas Mount Self modified Canon 350Da. 30x0 Sec exp ISO 100.

Description

The nearly full Moon. Saturation tweaked to show that the more color differentiation.

Photographer

Zbigniew ZEMBATY

E-mail

z.zembaty@po.opole.pl

Location

Opole. Poland

Date

May 6th, 2008, 20:17:03

Equipment

Canon EOS 30D with 70-300mm Sigma zoom @70mm

Description

I took a picture of waxing Moon in a nice par environment and initially did not realize I was also picturing Merure with such a rare, bright apperance

Photographer

Joao Cruz

E-mail

xumaxer@hotmail.com

Location

Leiria, Portugal

Date

Jun 4th, 2008 at 21h06 UT

Equipment

William Optics ZS80FD+0.8xFR, Canon 350D.

Description

I got so lucky that night; in between clouds, the Moon showed up for this long awaited crescent.

Photographer

Greg Bruggemann

Location

North Haven NSW Australia

Date

May 23 2008 - 8.30-930pm Local Time

Equipment

Meade LX-90 20cm @ F5 with Meade DSI 25 x 11.8 second exposures over 45 minutes (unprocessed) Poor seeing with unsteady coastal air.

Description

Animation of the noticeable movement of Comet Boattini as it makes its way toward the Sun.

Photographer

Mario Hébert

E-mail

hebert_mario@cgocable.ca

Location

Ste-Angèle de Laval, Qc, Canada

Date

18 may 2008, 2:00 A.M.

Equipment

Canon EOS 350D on a tripod, with 50 mm F1,8 Canon lens

Description

Gibbous moon one hour before she sets down at horizon, over Laviolette Bridge and St-Lawrence river near Trois-Rivières city in province of Québec, Canada.

Photographer

Doug Zubenel

E-mail

dougzubenel@gmail.com

Location

Flint Hills - Kansas.

Date

May 4, 2008, 10:01 pm, CDT

Equipment

This is a 3 minute exposure with a Canon Rebel XTi (Hutech modified) and a 24mm Nikkor lens @ f/4 and a Tiffen Fog2 filter at ISO 800.

Description

After being reminded of the alignment of Mars with Pollux and Castor in Gemini, I made this image after photographing Mercury and the Pleiades. The glow in the bottom right of the pic is from the zodiacal light.

Photographer

Richard S. Bell

Location

Kalamazoo, MI

Date

May 6, 2008 @ 8:37 pm EDT

Equipment

Canon 300D and Sigma 70-300mm zoom lens set at 214mm.

Description

The eastern-half of North America was treated to a nice conjunction of the Waxing Crescent Moon and Mercury on the evening of May 6. The weather turned out to be near-perfect in West Michigan that day so I was able to capture the scene above. The only thing that's missing is a gentle spring breeze and the sound of geese "honking" in the distance. Mercury can be found about 2 degrees below and slightly to the left of the 2% illuminated Moon.

Photographer

Mike Hood

Location

Kathleen GA USA

Date

4-18-08 3hrs 58mins UT

Equipment

TEC 200ED on AP 1200 mount. The camera was a SKYnyx at F-25.

Description

Saturn with a zone white storm.

Photographer

Mark Sibole

Location

Fife Lake Michigan

Date

March 20-29, 2008

Equipment

Meade DSI PRO III Meade 80 mm APO Piggybacked on a Meade LX200R 10 inch

Description

This is a very nice area of Galaxys. It was captured over several nights. It has 240 minutes of luminance in 5 minute sub frames. It also has 40 minutes of color information per color channel. You can view the full size image here. http://astronomy.qteaser.com/images/M106LRGBfinal.jpg Mark Sibole

Photographer

Jim Lafferty

E-mail

shogun000@netzero.com

Location

Redlands, California

Date

December 11, 2007 10pm

Equipment

FSQ106N Takahashi NJP Temma 2 mount ST2000xm camera with Astrodon filters

Description

An unusual look at the Great Nebula in Orion using Ha, SII, and OIII filters. 32 minutes exposure in each filter, unbinned.