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Name: Don Joski Date: 04/18/05 Object: The Moon
Details:
Telescope: Celestron C9.25
Camera: Fuji S7000; Maxview 40 w/ ScopeTronix attachment
Exposure:
Site location:

Processing:
3 images processed using Registax
Name: Adam Stuart Date: 06/15/05 Object: Moon craters Arzachel and Alpetragius
Details:
Telescope: 10" LX200 @ f/10
Camera: Olympus C-2100 UZ
Exposure: 1/8 second
Site location: Miami, FL
Any Other Pertinent Information: Image scale at 578 mm FL, f/3.5

Processing:
3Single frame, mild sharpening and mild unsharp mask
applied in Astroart 3.0.

Additional Thoughts: My LX200 is plagued with Dec runaway. I unplugged the Declination cable and was able to image at sidereal rate without any problems.
Name: Andrew Scheck Date: 03/05/05 Object: Saturn
Details:
Telescope: Celestron NexStar 8 GPS
Camera: Canon PowerShot S45
Exposure: 1/15 seconds
Site location: Scaggsville, MD
Any Other Pertinent Information: afocal image, MaxView 40, MaxPower 1.6x lens on diagonal, 3x optical zoom on S45, 10 sec delay on each exposure

Processing:
Composite of 41 separate images; rotated and sub-pixel alignment by my home-grown code; stacked, sharpened, mirrored, levels and color adjusted with Image Stacker.
Name: Mike Lecza Date: 10/28/04 Object: Lunar Eclipse
Details:
Telescope: Meade 12" LX200 Classic with f/6.3 Focal Reducer
Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel
Site Location: Durham, CT USA

Processing:
Composite created in Photoshop CS. Applied just a shade of burning to the upper edge of Image 1 to tone down the overexposed portion.

Additional Thoughts: These images were taken while running in and out of the house to watch the Red Sox win the World Series. Hopefully the judges here are Red Sox fans ;-)
Name: Andy Miller Date: 06/17/05 Object: Crater Gassendi
Details:
Telescope: Celestron Ultima - 8 inch f/10 SCT
Camera: HP point and shoot digital
Exposure:
Site location: My driveway under a street light
Any Other Pertinent Information: hand held to the eyepiece

Processing:
Picture was cropped from a larger image to show Gassendi. No other processing was done. Cropping was done in PhotoSuite 4
Name: Nicolas Carbajales Date: 05/11/05 Object: Moon mosaic
Details:
Telescope: Orion Starmax 127 (5") Maksutov-Cassegrain
Camera: Canon Powershot G3 4MP digital camera
Exposure: 1/125 seconds @ ISO 50 and f/2.0
Site location: Surrey BC
Any Other Pertinent Information: Coupled with a ScopeTronix 25 mm plossal
eyepiece and camera adapter. Manual setting was used.

Processing:
This photo is composed of 6 frames that formed a mosaic. Each frame is made of an average of 9 stacked images. Each image
was stacked in Astrostack 2. Once all images were stacked, brightness was adjusted in Astrostack 2. Photo frames were then resized to a smaller size in ImageJ. Photo stitching was also done in ImageJ. Final editing which included sharpness filters was
done in Adobe Photoshop limited edition. Some images were slightly darker then others so some processing was done to even brightness out in final stitched image.

Additional Thoughts:
Seeing was fairly steady despite moon being close to the horizon. This is the first image taken with my newly acquired 5" Maksutov-Cassegrain.
Name: George Gajdos Date: 07/07/04 Object: Sunspots
Details:
Telescope: Meade ETX90
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel
Exposure: 1/200 seconds
Site location: Lodi,OH
Any Other Pertinent Information: Orion sun filter.

Processing:
Photoshop: levels, unsharp mask.
Name: John Clouthier Date: 06/20/05 Object: Sunspots
Details:
Telescope: Meade 2080b 8" SCT with Antares 32mm Erfle
Camera: Nikon COOLPIX5900
Exposure: 1/331.1 second - f/4.9
Site location: Whitby ON from my front step.
Any other pertinent information: Camera on Auto White Balance and Exposure and in-camera Auto Sharpening. Kendrick solar filter with Baader Solar film.

Processing:
None

Additional Thoughts: This is my first attempt at photography as I just purchased this camera. The camera was hand held at the eyepiece.
Name: Alan Fugiero Date: 03/05 Object: Saturn
Details:
Telescope: NexStar 8 GPS
Camera: Olympus 2100 digital camera
Exposure: 100 images each 1/8 second at ISO 200
Site location: Milford, CT
Any Other Pertinent Information: 10x zoom with 30mm eyepiece.

Processing:
Stacked with RegiStax and Paintshop pro7 for color correction.

Additional Thoughts: The seeing was fair to good.
Name: Andjelko Glivar Date: 06/27/05 Object: Mercury and Venus conjunction
Details:
Telescope: Celestron 9.25 at f/20
Camera: Canon EOS 300D
Exposure: 1/30 second, ISO 400
Site location: Donja Stubica, Croatia.
Any Other Pertinent Information: Losmandy GM8 mount.

Processing:
N15 images were aligned and stacked in Registax v3. Final processing in Photoshop.

Additional Thoughts: Mercury (left) and Venus together - only 5 arc minutes apart. Image is not attractive like others but is interesting to have two planets in one field of view and with high magnification. This is the closest we'll see them until 2070!.
Name: Chuck Callaghan Date: 12/26/04 Object: Saturn
Details:
Telescope: Meade ETX-125 Maksutov-Cassegrain
Camera: Nikon CP 995
Exposure: 30 images at 1/30 second; f/6; ISO 400
Site location: Dunedin, FL (Tampa Bay).
Any Other Pertinent Information: 18mm eyepiece.

Processing:
Images stacked in ImagesPlus, touch-up in PS7. Cool, clear and
exceptionally steady night in West Central Florida.
Name: Gerald WECHSELBERGER Date: 05/09/05 Object: The Moon
Details:
Telescope: Meade ETX90
Camera: Canon 10D
Exposure: 40 x 1/3 second exposures at ISO 800
Site location: Watamu Beach near Malindi KENYA
Any Other Pertinent Information: Focal length of1250mm; Synta EQ-5 mount.

Processing:
40 images selected and averaged with Registax, sharpening via wavelet 1 at 12 and wavelet 2 at 8. Final masked sharpening and contrast improvement with Photoshop.
Name: Jacques-Andre REGNIER Date: 09/09/04 Object: The Moon (daylight)
Details:
Telescope: Celestron Nexstar 5i at f/10
Camera: Canon EOS 300D (Digital Rebel)
Exposure: 55 exposures of 1/400 seconds at ISO 400 in RAW mode
Site location: My backyard located at Etréchy (France).

Processing:
NRegistration, stacking and unsharp mask processing with Iris; final enhancements (curves and levels adjustments, reduction and final unsharp masking) with Photoshop.

Additional Thoughts: This is a daylight moon. The image is reduced to 37.5% of it's original size.