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Here you will find information about the Astronomers/Astroimagers who have submitted images to the Customer Gallery.
Our thanks to them for their time and sharing their images - all of course taken with our telescopes or optics.
Please contact us if you would like to be considered for inclusion on the Customer Gallery.
You will appreciate that in order to keep the very highest of standards, we will only publish what we consider to be exceptional images.
Please remember to send us a photo of yourself and your telescope / imaging kit.
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ODK10 OTA
A rare opportunity to purchase a 1 year old ODK10
(Zygo Report dated 2 March 2010)
Excellent Condition. OTA Only (Finder Scope, Telrad & Eyepiece/Diagonal not included)
Offers in the region of £2900 (a saving of £1450 on current price)
UK delivery included in price.
For full spec. / details of this telescope model click here.
Serious enquiries only please to the seller by emal trev@trevormckay.co.uk
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Location: UK (Mid Wales)
Telescope: Orion Optics UK AG12 Astrograph
Mount: Losmandy G11
Cameras: Fingerlakes CM-8ME, StarlightXpress SXV-H16
I have quite dark skies for the UK and low horizon to the south.
I just need a few more clear nights!
MIRROR IMAGE is the personal website of AG user Peter Shah. Please click on the link above to visit his site.
M81 & M82 - a first colour
image from a new AG12
Added 9 March 2011
This stunning detailed image of M81 and M82 is the first colour image taken with Peter Shah's new AG12. Exposure time is approx. 9 hours, including Luminance and Ha frames.
The image shows some of the integrated flux nebula or galactic cirrus, which is extremely faint and is rarely seen, hence the long exposure.
Click the image to see the full resolution version . . . its worth it for the amount of detail shown.
This is, no doubt, just one of many great images to come from this talented UK Astroimager.
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Miguel Angel Garcia Borrella - Spain
Astrophotographers using our telescopes are getting into their stride with various models from our ranges. The latest batch to reach us are from talented astrophotographer Miguel Angel Garcia Borrella from Spain. Miguel (pictured left) recently sent us his images - with ODK14 / ODK16.They show the versatility of these models on various targets with some great images of 'difficult' targets. Thanks Miguel for sharing your images. Please click on the image below for links to Miguel's full size images.
Whale Galaxy by Miguel Angel Garcia Borrella from Spain
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Sergio Eguivar - Argentina
Fantastic image taken with 6" Optics!
This recent image form Sergio Eguivar in
Buenos Aires, Argentina is proof of the excellent quality of our Optical Components. Sergio uses our Optics in a hybrid telescope and his results are outstanding.
GUM 15 is located in the north west part of the Constellation Vela. It is right in the middle of two bigger objects: RU 64 and GUM 17. GUM 15 also hosts Collinder 197 a young Galactic Star Cluster with high velocity dispersion. The central region shows dark patches of obscure dust is known as SL2.
The picture was taken from a dark site with the scope 50 meters away from a local car route.
Amateur Astronomers in general would assume that such images would not be possible with small aperture telescopes but this and other images by Sergio certainly proves the point! Well done Sergio and Dark skies!
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Maximo Ruiz - Spain
Máximo Ruiz lives in Barcelona, Spain and has recently sent us these fine images taken with his CT8.
Máximo says, "I bought my CT8 (from Valkanik, Spain), of which I am very satisfied and wanted to send some pictures:
Image Data: vdB 77
Location: Áger / Lerida - Spain.
Date: 6 December 2010
Camera: Canon astro 50d.
Exhibition: 20 shots for 10 minutes,
each at ISO 1600.
Optics: Orion Optics CT8 .
Processed: Images Plus, PixInsight
and Maxim DL
Image Data: M 78
Location: Áger / Lerida - Spain.
Date: 11 December 2010
Camera: Canon astro 50d.
Exhibition: 46 shots for 10 minutes,
each at ISO 1600.
Optics: Orion Optics CT8.
Processed: Images Plus, PixInsight
and Maxim DL
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Mike Sidonio - Australia
Michael Sidonio is located in NSW, Australia and images with an AG12.
Mike has been interested in Astronomy since he was 15 and is now rated as one of the Top 10 Australian Astrophotographers.
Over the years Mike’s experience has grown, so has his long list of achievements and awards worldwide, including numerous publications such as NASA’s APOD, Astronomy.com Picture of the Day, Anarcortes Picture of the Day and many other magazine galleries and articles places him as a leading imager in Astrophotography.
Mike has competed in the "World's Strongest Man" contest and is insantly recognisable at the various star parties around NSW and is also recognised by his peers as a world-class astrophotographer.
Mike refers to his AG12 as "The McLaren Scope - she's so fast . . . like a Formula One Racing Car!"
Mike's image train consists of FLI Atlas Focuser, Atlas to Wynne adatper, Optimised Wynne Corrector, Wynne to CFW adapter, FLI CFW-5-7 Filter Wheel, FLI Proline 16803 Camera.
It's nice to see these fantastic images from the Southern Hemisphere.
Best of luck with future tragets Mike!
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Democritus Observatory
Location: Alexandroupolis - Greece
Telescope: Orion Optics UK 10" Newtonian (SPX250 f6.3)
Mount: SYNTA EQ6 - Skyscan Pro
Cameras:
Canon 350D
Imaging Source DMK21AF04
Unibrain Fire-i785
Mostly photographed from light polluted location near my town center.
First love is detailed lunar and planetary photography.
The SPX model has been superseded by the VX RANGE of telescopes but we include Greoge's images here for their excellent quality.
Visit my website:
www.lunar-captures.com
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Location: Montgomery, Powys, Wales, UK
Telescope: Orion Optics UK AG16 Astrograph
Mount: Paramount ME
Camera: Finger Lakes Instrumentation Proline PL16803
FLI CFW and filters, Astrodon MOAG with Lodestar, FLI PDF focuser.
Lucky enough to be located in a fairly dark sky area on the borders of Mid Wales.
As long as the cloud stays away that is ...
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Arie Nagel is an early retired Professor of Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation and devotes the bulk of his time now to astrophotography. He is also one of the editors of Zenit, a Dutch Astronomy magazine
www.dekoepel.nl/zenit/english.html
He lives in Eindhoven, Netherlands with his wife Cocky. His observatory is nearby, in Heeze.
Arie currently operates with an OOUK CT12L and uses SBIG ST-8300, SBIG ST-10 and modified Canon 40D cameras on an Astro Techniek Mount (Ad Matthijs, Velden, Netherlands www.astrotechniek.net) and can carry 200 kg of equipment! and has a periodic error of 2-3" peak to peak and "it's a beauty in the Dutch national colours". Arie says "I am very happy with my Orion Optics scope!"
Thank you for sharing your images and we wish you dark skies.
Arie's website can be found here:
www.astronomie.be/apn/
Image Notes:
Clavius: with 30 cm @ F/16.5, with 3 x Televue Barlow; DMK BF21 camera; the resulting avi with several thousands of pictures was processed with Registax and Photoshop.
NGC6992: Veil Nebula. 11 x 10 min with Canon EOS 40D and 30 cm newton @ 1156 mm, ISO 800.
M13: Bernard Miller and I merged our M13's - his colorful M13 (2 hours with a TEC 140) and my luminance 2.5 hours with a 300/1156 newton; 5 subs of 720 sec, once 480 sec and 18 subs of 300 sec.
NGC281: Pacman nebula, 5 x 30 min with 30 cm newton @ 1156 mm, ST-10XME, 3 nm H-alpha filter.
I merged this picture with the colours by Jim Thommes.
For the result, see: www.astronomie.be/apn/picdeep-ha.htm
NGC2237: Part of the Rosette nebula, 4 x 30 min with 30 cm newton @ 1156 mm, ST-10XME, 3 nm H-alpha filter.
IC434: Horsehead, 5 x 30 min with 30 cm newton @ 1156 mm, ST-10XME, 3 nm H-alpha filter.
M45: Pleiades with 30 cm newton @ 1156 mm. The frame of the Canon EOS 40D was too small for the whole cluster, so it was photographed in two parts: each part was exposed 8 times 10 min. ISO 800.
M31 / M110: 8 x 10 min with newton 30 cm @ 1156 mm and modified Canon 40D.
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Adam is an Ad Agency Owner, Entrepreneur and Internet Investor.
A passionate astrophotographer, he is the publisher of the biggest Polish Amateur Astronomy Social Portal - one of the biggest such endeavors in the world.
Adam's Astromarket webstore is an internationally recognized official dealer in Poland for some of the best known astronomy brands in the world.
He has actively dealt with astronomy and related fields for over a decade. He has built his own observatory, which he uses on every starry night. Adam is 37 years old.
For astrophotography, Adam uses Orion Optics UK (AG12), Astro-Physics 1200GTO Mount, FLI and Atik equipment.
Luciano Nicola Scaramuzzi - Italy
Luciano is a young undergraduate (23). His passion for photography has expanded over time to astronomy and is evolving by learning new techniques to improve and strive to get the perfect photo . . .
From his first telescope, a classical 130 Newtonian, through a 80ed, to a 8 " Newtonian, the setup now consists of a VX12 1/8 pv on CGEM, guided by oag lacerta and lodestar. Luciano images with a Canon 450d.
Blog: http://astrolucius.wordpress.com
Ever since he was young, Giovanni has loved the sky and its amazing secrets and ancient lights. Born in Cesena (Italy) in 1969 he is an active astronomer with the Cesena Society for Astronomy for 4 years now.
Giovanni started this hobby as a visual observer of the sky with a 12" dobson, he then changed attention to astro-photography. Giovanni decided to turn to fast newtonians and astro-graphs because of their high performance tubes and ability to capture and optimize exposure timings.
Follow this link for Giovanni's Cesena Society gallery:
http://lnx.astrofilicesena.it/PhotoGallery/main.php?cmd=album&var1=Astrobond2/
John Hothersall - Australia
Name: John Hothersall.
Location: Brisbane, Australia.
Telescope: SPX350 F4.53 Ultra Grade.
Mount: EQ6 mod.
CCD: ATK-16HR.
Accessories: Astronomik filters, ATK-MFW, Baader MPCC.
John's Telescope, the SPX350 has now been replaced with the CT14 model but we include his pictures here as testimony to his dedication to astrophotography.
Ezequiel Bellocchio - Argentina
I live in Buenos Aires and my passion for astronomy began from childhood.
My enthusiasm for astrophotography started some years ago.
I am most interested in relatively small objects that requires long focal length and good quality optics. In addition the telescope should be light and handy to transport to dark sky locations.
The ODK10 easily coupled those needs and is giving a lot of satisfaction. It is a telescope I should keep for a lifetime!
Visit my website:
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