Category: Astrophotos

Astrophotographer Tom Orff took this Moon picture of the three major lunar craters; Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina, on the 28th April 2001 from Shenandoah PA, USA. Image was acquired with a Starlight Xpress MX516 CCD camera and an 8″ Celestron Starhopper Dobsonian with a Dob Driver II at 3x prime focus (3600mm focal length (at f/18) with a TeleVue 3x barlow).

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Monty Leventhal took this filtergram of the Sun on the 14th July from Sydney, Australia. Monty used a 10″ Meade S.C. 2500m and Olympus OM1 camera.

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Kari A. Kuure took this picture of the Sun on the 9th of July from Tampere, Finland.
Kari used a 150/20063 mm lens telescope with a solar filter, and a Canon EOS D60 ISO-400 camera with a 1/45 exposure time.

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Lorenzo Comolli took this beautiful picture of North America Nebula on the 16th of May 2002 in Capanne di Cosola, Italy. Lorenzo used a Pentax 75 apochromatic refractor with an exposure time of 45 minutes.

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Astrophotographer Bert Verstraete took this picture of the Sagittarius region in October 1997, with 10 minute exp , F3.5 28mm from near Upham, New Mexico.

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Karen Breytenbach took this picture of the moon and Jupiter on the 13th of July from Johannesburg, South Africa. Karen used digital Nikon Coolpix8700, mounted on a tripod, set on night landscape mode with maximum zoom.

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Astrophotographer Tom Diana took this picture of M100 – Spiral Galaxy in Coma Berenices from his backyard observatory in southeast Minnesota. Tom used C11 @f/6.5 telescope with Losmandy G-11 Gemini mount and ST-9 camera.

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Adam Steiner took this picture of Venus transit on the 8/6/04 from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Charles Bell demonstrates that amateur astronomers can photograph Pluto with their backyard telescopes. Charles used a 12″ Meade 200LX-GPS with a 120 second exposure.

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Many photographers sent in their images of the recent planetary conjunction of Venus, Mercury and Saturn. Here’s a picture taken by Glenn James from Barossa Valley in South Australia.

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