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GUEST SKY ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY

Last updated: 3 December 2009

Some ETX users have sent me examples of their astrophotography. If you have some examples you would like included here please send me a description of how you made the astrophotos and a copy of the images as GIF or JPEG files (due to internet email gateway issues, please send only one image file per message). Send to etx@me.com. Alternatively, if you have created your own web page with your examples please let me know and I'll include a link to your site.

Submitted by: Stewart Long (Stewart.Long@boots-plc.com) [3 Dec 09]
ISS with shuttle Atlantis docked (arrowed). Taken over Rutland in U.K. last week with an ETX 125 and a Nikon D200 attached to rear port. This is 12 Registax stacked frames. The shuttle can be seen docked with the payload doors open (with some imagination!). 800iso, 800th sec exposures, tracked by hand. Not many more shuttle missions left to grab images like this. It will be a real shame when they retire these.

Submitted by: Rob Roach (rob0260@hotmail.com) [4 Apr 09]
I took this photo with my canon A460 5mp digital camera at 4x optical zoom throught the window of my truck travelling at 55 mph from Nipigon, Ontario, Canada on March 27,09. The pictures was taken just after the sun set below the trees. Considering the circumstances, I think it turned out ok. Hope it's good enough to post and thank you for maintaing a great site Mike. I referance it often.

Submitted by: Ryan Flunker (ryan_flunker@hotmail.com) [18 Mar 09]
I had the ETX out tonight to check out NASAs shuttle launch, and the rocket was amazing... great shots at sunset with the contrails. Then a few minutes after the launch I noticed this erie mysterious cloud rapidly forming in line with the rocket's path. Turns out it was a very high altitude condensation cloud from the shuttle exhaust. Because the sun had already set on earth, the sky was dark, but way up where the shuttle was the sun was still shining, so it left this amazing cloud that look totally "out of place." I'm attaching the photo because I've never seen anything like it. Venus is also off to the left.

Submitted by: Nohr Tillman (ntillm01@yahoo.com) [6 Mar 09]
CalSky has been predicting flares from the SkyMed satellites along with the Iridium predictions in the last few months. I've spotted a few of them now and caught this one on film. These are a much longer lasting flare, and not a bright flash like Iridiums. For most of the pass, it looks like a bright satellite (ISS) flyover, but on film it is a flare. SkyMed 1 Flare (mag -2.1) ALT 65 AZ 210 19:11 EST Pentax MX with 50mm 1:1.4 @ 2.8 Kodak Kodachrome 64 (last of it on the planet) 80 second exposure Dwayne's Photo processing and scan

See the Guest Sky Astrophotography Archive for photos posted in August-December 2008.

See the Guest Sky Astrophotography Archive for photos posted in January-July 2008.

See the Guest Sky Astrophotography Archive for photos posted in July-October 2007.

See the Guest Sky Astrophotography Archive for photos posted in January-June 2007.

See the Guest Sky Astrophotography Archive for photos posted in September-December 2006.

See the Guest Sky Astrophotography Archive for photos posted in March-August 2006.

See the Guest Sky Astrophotography Archive for photos posted in January-February 2006.

See the Guest Sky Astrophotography Archive for photos posted in November-December 2005.

See the Guest Sky Astrophotography Archive for photos posted in September-October 2005.

See the Guest Sky Astrophotography Archive for photos posted in July-August 2005.

See the Guest Sky Astrophotography Archive for photos posted in January-June 2005.

See the Guest Sky Astrophotography Archive for photos posted in November - December 2004.

See the Guest Sky Astrophotography Archive for photos posted in April - October 2004.

See the Guest Sky Astrophotography Archive for photos posted in January - March 2004.