Photographer

Marco Meniero

E-mail

meniero@gmail.com

Location

Pisa, Toscany, Italy

Date

September 10th, 2011

Equipment

Canon EOS 5DMKII + Ef 300L IS f/4

Description

Angel seems to look at the beautiful Moon

Photographer

Brian Combs

E-mail

bgcombs@cox.net

Location

Buena Vista, GA

Date

9-13-11 7:14 and 7:41 UT

Equipment

C14@f/27 Paramount ME DMK 21AU618.AS

Description

Seeing was indeed excellent when these images were taken!

Photographer

robert fields

E-mail

robertfields@yahoo.com

Location

Howell, MI

Date

August 8th

Equipment

STL 4020 Takahashi Epsilon 180

Description

IC 5146 Ha:OIII:RGB 180:120:60:60:60 min

Photographer

Tom Murdic

E-mail

murdic1@bellsouth.net

Location

Franklin, Tn., USA

Date

Aug. 20, 2011 at 10:00pm

Equipment

Captured image with 8",f/4 newtonian and Canon 350 XT all on Celestron CI 700 GEM.

Description

Image show Barnard 91 and 303 as well as IC 1274 and IC 1275, NGC 6559 and GN 18.06.6.01.

Photographer

Curtasu Mihai

E-mail

curtasu_mihai@yahoo.co.uk

Location

Valea Frumoasei, Romania

Date

02/08/2011

Equipment

Celestron 9.25" with a focal reducer and an astrobaader photographic filter. Canon 40D.

Description

I'm really lucky to shot this image because the sky was cloudy and just before it started to set behind the fir trees it cleared up.

Photographer

Jeanette Dunphy

E-mail

nettielamb63@yahoo.com.au

Location

Kilcoy, Queensland, Australia

Date

Around mid night 4th of August

Equipment

HEQ5Pro ED80 Canon 550D

Description

Comet Garradd in a stunning conjunction with globular cluster M15.

Photographer

Lynn Hilborn

E-mail

lynnhilborn@yahoo.ca

Location

Grafton, Ontario

Date

July 12-14, 2011

Equipment

TEC 140 @f7, FLI ML8300 camera with Baader filters, Takahashi NJP mount.

Description

Elephant's Trunk Nebula in IC1396. Done in Hubble palette with narrowband filters to highlight emissions of Hydrogen, ionized Sulphur and ionized Oxygen. Ha binned 1x1 12x20m, SII binned 2x2 10x30m, OIII binned 2x2 10x 30m. Total of 14 hours of exposure. Taken by Lynn Hilborn WhistleStop Obs,Grafton, Ontario in July 2011. TEC 140 @f7 and FLI ML 8300 camera with Baader filters, Tak NJP mount.

Photographer

Bob Johnson

E-mail

bjohnson555@hotmail.com

Location

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Date

July 25th 12:42 am

Equipment

Canon 40D camera with a 140mm lens.

Description

Was out to capture the Moon and Pleiades conjunction when as I was setting up and Aurora arrived as well. Breath taking to see this all happen live.

Photographer

Bernard Miller

E-mail

bgmiller011@cox.net

Location

Rancho Hidalgo, NM

Date

May 28 - June 1, 2011

Equipment

Telescope: TEC-140 (F7) Camera: SBIG ST-8300M Mount: AP900 GTO Luminance: 15x10 minutes Red: 6x10 minutes Green: 6x10 minutes Blue: 6x10 minutes

Description

Here is a picture of M64, also known as the Black Eye Galaxy and the Sleeping Beauty Galaxy. It is a spiral galaxy about 20 million light years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. It is about 45,000 light years in diameter, and the inner part of the galaxy (about 3000 light years in diameter) is rotating in the opposite direction from the outer part of the galaxy (about 40,000 light years in diameter).

Photographer

Lynn Hilborn

E-mail

lynnhilborn@yahoo.ca

Location

Grafton,Ontario

Date

July 1,3,5,2011

Equipment

TEC 140 @f7 and FLI ML8300 camera with Baader filters. Mount is a Tak NJP with Temma2.

Description

Young star forming region and reflection nebula contrasted against dust clouds of the Milky Way. Also seen are small compact emission clouds (Herbig-Haro objects) commonly seen in star forming regions.