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November 8th, 2008 by chapmanlogic

Gallery: Wired.com Readers’ order prednisone Most Excellent Telescope Photos

Although we assume our readers to be über-capable technophiles, we were still impressed by the photos we received during our call for submissions of telescope photos. They include both photos of telescopes and photos taken with telescopes.

Click through the gallery to see the superb photography of these space fans.

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Planetary Nebula Abell 78 Submitted by Don J. McCrady & Adam Block

Photographer’s comment:

“Abell 78 is the colourful remnant of a dying star that has shed its spent hydrogen and helium layers at the end of its life. The outer shell contains large amounts of ionized hydrogen, while the inner shell contains large amounts of helium. This very dim object is located in Cygnus.

I took this image using the equipment at the Mount Lemmon Sky Center, under the guidance of Adam Block.

24″ RCOS Carbon Truss f/8 SBIG STL-11000M (self-guided) Luminance: 150 minutes (15 minute exposures) RGB: 100:80:80 (10 minute exposures) Processed with Maxim/DL and Photoshop CS3 Noel Carboni’s Astronomy Tools”

Dyer Observatory With the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Endeavor in Chase Submitted by Billy Teets

Photographer’s comment:

“This is a view of Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory, which houses the Carl Seyfert 24-inch reflector, last March in Brentwood, Tennessee. The International Space Station and Space Shuttle Endeavor were flying over with the shuttle about 20 seconds behind the station. Thirty-second exposure taken with a Sony Cybershot F717 and 0.5x wide-angle lens.”

Simple Shot of the Moon Submitted by Jacob Riskin

Photographer’s comment:

“This is a composite image I made of the moon using a Pentax K10D camera, an old eight-inch Celestron telescope and 10 separate exposures stacked with Keith’s Image Stacker. Enjoy…”

Mist on Mt. Haleakala Submitted by Jeromy

Photographer’s comment:

“I took this photo while mountain biking down the back of Mt. Haleakala on Christmas Eve 2004. Nice.”

The Loop Submitted by JAT Observatory

Photographer’s comment:

“Solar Prominence Meade LPI @ prime focus LX200GPS 10-inch F10 77mm energy-rejection filter and Lumincon Hydroden-Alpha filter.”

M45 : The Pleiades Submitted by Eric Pieninck

Photographer’s comment:

“M45 JMI 8″ f3.5 Mak-Newt Losmandy G11 autoguided Canon 40d @ prime Baadar Sky Glow filter 1 x 481s @ 1250 iso 2008.09.01″

The Sword of Orion Submitted by Ed

Photographer’s comment:

“The Sword of Orion contains the Orion Nebula, the Running Man Nebula, de Mairen’s Nebula and the bright star Nair Al Saif. This image is a 1-hour-6-minute composite taken with a Nikon D50 at prime focus of an LXD75 8-inch Schmidt-Newtonain.”