Photographer

Bill Dickinson

E-mail

whd@verizon.net

Location

Glen Allen, VA USA

Date

November 21, 2007 4:50 UT

Equipment

8" Celestron and DMK21AF04.AS

Description

The Mare Cimmerium, Tyrrhenum, and Northern polar haze are prominent. As well as the bright area surrounding Elysium Mons. www.skynoir.com

Photographer

Garrett Grainger

Location

New Smyrna Beach, FL

Date

11/9/07 all night

Equipment

Orion ED80 Imaging Scope, Orion Sirius mount, Orion ST80 guidescope with Meade DSI-c. Canon RebelXT modified by Hap Griffin for imaging.

Description

IC443 the Jellyfish Nebula. 3 hours and 20 minutes with darks/flats and bias frames. IC 443 (also known as the Jellyfish Nebula) is a Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Gemini. Imaging scope was Orion ED80 - Orion Wideband Filter Canon Rebel XT - Hap Griffin Modified 40 x 300s Guided with PHD & EQMOD DSLR Focus V3, IRIS, PS CS3

Photographer

Gabor Szitkay, Barnabas Koch

E-mail

negerzorro@yahoo.com

Location

Hungary, Nyul village, A*P*O Observatory

Date

Nov. 4. 2007 22:00UT

Equipment

180mm Nikon ED at F5,6, modified Canon 30D, Fornax 100 mount.

Description

This photo shows Comet Holmes trough a 180mm Nikkor tele. The image is stacked from 20x155" images at ISO1250. You can see an intersting effect around the bright stars, because we used the F2.8 tele at F5.6.

Photographer

Leon Aslan

E-mail

leon@socalastro.com

Location

Anza, CA

Date

2007-11-18

Equipment

I used a Hutech modified Canon Digital Rebel XTi Camera with a Sigma 30mm lens on a Takahashi EM-10 equatorial mount. The shot is a composite of 20 images that are each 5 minutes long taken at ISO400 f/4.0. Stacking of the images was done in ImagesPlus 2.80 software and final processing in Adobe Photoshop CS2.

Description

This is a widefield shot of the Orion constellation region. Not only in the familiar shape of the constaellation is visible, but also the bright red loop known as Barnard's Loop, The Rosette Nebula in the upper left as well as the bright start Sirius in the lower left of the frame.

Photographer

John Cargill

Location

Chisos Basin Big Bend National Park Texas

Date

9/28/07 6:28 am

Equipment

Canon xti with 10 - 22mm set at 11mm. Camera is set on automatic

Description

Eary morning shot of Venus rising by Casa Grande in the Big Bend National Park - Texas

Photographer

John Buonomo

Location

N. Billerica, MA

Date

11-17-07 12am-4am

Equipment

Celestron CGE and William Optics 80mm Modified Canon350d and Celestron LPR Filter 33x360sec Processed In Photoshop

Description

The Rosette Nebula

Photographer

Bruce Karbal

E-mail

skyloverz@aol.com

Location

Mt Carroll, Illinois

Date

November 7 11:00 PM

Equipment

Canon 40 D stock camera with Canon 300 mm F 2.8 image stabilized lens

Description

This shot is my first DSLR image captured with a Canon 40D it's a combination of 10 frames at 6 minutes each processed in photoshop CS 3 The shot really shows how nicely the latest digital camera technology performs for astrophotography

Photographer

Ian Wheelband

Location

Thornbury, Ontario, Canada

Date

10 November 2007 19:00 EST

Equipment

Skywatcher ED100 Pro telescope, SBIG STL11000M camera

Description

Comet Homes, stacked image on the comet comet nucleua and processed in Photoshop to bring out details of the comet tail and coma near the nucleus

Photographer

Matija Pozojevic

Location

Petrova Gora (Croatia)

Date

November 12th, 2007

Equipment

Celestron C10-N, Canon 300d, 12x420sec @ ISO800 Guiding: manually with Maksutov 90/1250 + Microguide EP 12.5mm Mount: EQ6 Vis Proccessing softweare: DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight 1.0, Photoshop CS2

Description

The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33 in bright nebula IC 434) is a dark nebula in the Orion constellation. The nebula is located just below Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. Left bottom nebula is the Flame nebula

Photographer

P. Battaglia, F. Riccio

E-mail

pallabat@tin.it

Location

Passo del Giovà, Apennine Mountains, Italy

Date

November 2nd, 2007

Equipment

Vixen R200SS on a EQ6 (Sky Scan) mount with a Canon EOS 20Da.

Description

The photo shows the Great Orion Nebula, including the blue reflection nebulae NGC 1973, 1975 and 1977. The image is the result of a combination of 5 images: 2 at 800 ISO (5 minutes each), 1 at 100 ISO (5 min.), 1 at 100 ISO (60 sec.) and 1 at 100 ISO (15 sec.).