Photographer

Asbjørn Bonvik

Location

Vestby, Norway

Date

Jan 20, 2008, 5:32PM

Equipment

Snapshot with handheld Sony DSC-V3

Description

A vortex, probably from a passing plane, seems to be suspended in a display of colorful nacreous clouds after sunset. The vortex was writhing and corkscrewing, giving a stunning 3-dimensional effect.

Photographer

dietmar hager

E-mail

dietmar.hager@maz.at

Location

35 km north of linz, austria

Date

1-8-08

Equipment

9" TMB Apo SXVF H36 (crop)

Description

f/18 (big barlow) for luminance 9" TMB Apo f/9 for rgb all 1x1 binned 18x4 min lum 5x4 min rgb each channel seeing excellent! www.stargazer-obseravtory.com

Photographer

Mike Broussard

E-mail

mike.broussard@gmail.com

Location

Maurice, LA, USA

Date

Dec 31, 2007, 1:00 UT

Equipment

Televue TV-85 w/0.8x FR/FF (480mm F.L.), Meade SN-8 at F/4 w/MPCC (812mm F.L.), Hutech Canon 350XT, IDAS-LPS, Atlas EQ-G w/EQMOD.

Description

81x60 sec @ ISO 1600 of the comet and M33 combined with 30x300 sec @ ISO 1600 of M33 taken with the TV-85 on Dec 4, 2007. Additional 27x180 sec @ ISO 1600 of M33 taken with SN-8 on Oct 6, 2007. IRIS, Registar, Gradient XTerminator, PS w/Noel Carboni's Astronomy Tools.

Photographer

Tunç Tezel

E-mail

canopia@yahoo.com

Location

near Bolu, Turkey

Date

26th December 2007

Equipment

Canon EOS 5D camera at ISO 3200, 100-400 mm lens at 400 mm, composite of 1-minute exposure f/5.6 and 2-minute exposure at f/11 to prevent Mars' glare. All system piggybacked on an 8" Meade LX10 SCT.

Description

Mars at opposition passed 2.5 degrees north of bright open cluster M35 and its companion NGC2158. This is the second close pass of Mars, thanks to its retrograde motion, the first was in early October and the last will be in mid-March.

Photographer

Stig Rognes

Location

Oslo, Norway

Date

DEC 15th 2007 10 AM

Equipment

Nikon D70

Description

Sun dogs at sunrise.

Photographer

Zbigniew ZEMBATY

E-mail

zet@po.opole.pl

Location

Israel, Negev Desert

Date

December 6th 2007, 4.15 am

Equipment

Canon 30D with Sigma 30mm lens stopped down to f/2.8, exposure of 15 seconds.

Description

At Technion, Haifa, I had an opportunity to go to the Negev Desert and take a picture of 17P/Holmes. The sky was slightly illuminated by the waining Moon.

Photographer

Lorenzo Comolli

E-mail

comolli@libero.it

Location

Tradate, VA, Italy

Date

13 december 2007, 21.14 UT

Equipment

Canon 350D, 8mm f/3.5 objective, ISO 400, 60 s exposure.

Description

A Geminid fireball on 13 december 2007, 21.14 UT

Photographer

Matt Thomas

E-mail

matt@astromatt.com

Location

JMSM Observatory, Mayhill, NM

Date

October 29 through November 7, 2007

Equipment

# Telescope: TMB152, 1200mm FL # Mount: Paramount ME # Camera: SBIG STL-6303 CCD, AstroDon E-Series TruBalance Ha and RGB Filters

Description

Three panel mosaic of the California Nebula. Exceptionally deep (both in detail and color) and much higher resolution than normally seen on this object (due to the mosaic at longer focal length). Full resolution image is ~5800x3000 pixels. Image is a combination of Ha and RGB data. The Ha data was used for the nebula in the red channel (100%) and partially in the blue channel (15%). The red data was used only for the stars in the red channel. The green and blue data were used for the entire image. Total exposure time for the entire image is 26 hours 18.2 minutes.

Photographer

William Warden

Location

Los Alamitos, CA

Date

9-11/07

Equipment

Takahashi FS102, SX-AO @.2-.4 sec guider exposures, CS 10 nm HA filter-SX H9, IDAS LPR-H9C, G11 HA 14x20 min, RGB 32x20 min.

Description

The Bubble Nebula in HA RGB. LPR and HA filters combined with extended exposure time (15 hours) were used to combat heavy suburban light pollution (Bortle white). The HA filtered images were used to enhance the nebula, tighten the stars, smooth the background, and eliminate light pollution.

Photographer

Richard S. Bell

Location

Kalamazoo, MI

Date

11/30/2007 @ 10:00 pm EST

Equipment

Tele Vue Pronto 70 mm refractor (with Focal Reducer/Field Flattener) and Canon 300D piggybacked on 12" LX200

Description

This was my first chance to capture an image of Comet Holmes in over a month (Michigan weather can be very cruel). I'm glad it's still putting on a great show!