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Image of the week

Saturn
250mm Newtonian

Maurizio's images just keep getting better! This superb Saturn shot is a tri-colour image taken with True Technology secondary colour filters and an HX516 camera. The Encke division is visible near the outer edge of ring A!


Maurizio Di Sciullo, Florida

[Planetary] - [Deep Space] - [Lunar]

Planetary


 An excellent image of Jupiter and two satellites. Europa is on the disk and Callisto is to the lower left.


Taken with a Takahashi FS152 (150mm aperture) and an MX5-C camera.

Todd Gross, Boston


Jupiter & Ganymede

Jupiter + Ganymede
250mm Newtonian

Another wonderful Tri-colour image from Maurizio Di Sciullo! This one was taken using CMY filters from True Technology (rather than RGB) and an HX-516 camera.

Notice the detail visible on Ganymede!! (Probably Galileo Regio)


Maurizio Di Sciullo

Tri-colour Jupiter

Jupiter + Io
250mm Newtonian

An AMAZING Tri-colour image with an HX-516 camera! This must rate as being one of the best amateur images ever taken! ( Notice the sulphur colour of Io!)


Maurizio Di Sciullo


Jupiter
August 19, 1998
318mm Schiefspiegler
MX5-C CCD
Terry Platt

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An outstanding image of Saturn, showing Ring C and the Encke Discontinuity in Ring A


October 6th 1999
370mm Newtonian @ F20
MX5-C CCD
Mike Brown

Yorkshire UK

Saturn
August 19, 1998
318mm Schiefspiegler
MX5-C CCD
Terry Platt

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Mars
April, 1999

250mm Newtonian
MX5-C CCD
Maurizio Di Sciullo

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Deep Space

This image shows what can be done with an ordinary camera lens!



It shows the Sagittarius star clouds and was taken with a 90mm FL lens attached to an MX916 camera. The exposure was 120 seconds in high-res. mode.



Taken by Gincarlo Ubaldo Nappi


A beautifully colourful image of M16. Taken with an MX5-C (B chip) and 250mm SCT by Michele Brusa (Italy)



A 'deep' image of M104 'The sombrero', taken by Michele Brusa of Montalto, Italy. This manually guided image was taken with a 250mm LX200 at F3.3 and an MX516 camera. Exposure time 5 minutes.
The indicated stars are around magnitude 19.5 ! (see the map below for details)


A map of the region shown in the image above, indicating stars down to mag. 19.5


NGC 4038 'The Mice'

An excellent MX516 image by Michele Brusa, using a 250 mm LX200 at F3.3