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Lunar Landscape (left)

by BERND FLACH-WILKEN

The well-known trio of craters Arzachel,

Alphonsus, and Ptolemaeus (top to bottom) are prominent features along the
terminator near first- and last-quarter
Moon. They appear with an extraordinary amount of internal detail in this
CCD image obtained on September 23,
1997, at about 4:23 Universal Time.

Satellite Crossroads (below left)

by CONRAD POPE

With hundreds of satellites currently orbiting Earth, its not unusual for one to
show up in a long-exposure photograph.
But this view of the Orion Nebula obtained last March 7th from Kelly, North
Carolina, is unusual in that it captured
four (one is very faint) traveling in a westto-east direction (nearly vertical) and another two moving in north-south orbits.

Solar Close-Up (below)

by GORDON GARCIA

Solar activity recorded in hydrogenalpha light with a video camera caused

the chaotic appearance of this sunspot
complex last July 10th.

Summer Spectacle (facing page)

by CHUCK ZELLMER

The rich Milky Way fields surrounding

brilliant Antares in Scorpius are among
the most colorful in the sky. The globular
star cluster M4 is prominent to the west
(right) of Antares, while the smaller globular NGC 6144 is to the stars upper right.

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HOW THEY DID IT

Lunar Landscape
12-inch schiefspiegler reflector working at
an effective focal length of 15 meters.
Apogee AM-13 CCD camera and 0.07second exposure. South is up to match the
view in an inverting telescope used in the
Northern Hemisphere.

Satellite Crossroads
Brandon 94-mm f/7 refractor. 40-minute
exposure on Kodak PJ400 color-negative
film. Field 2 14 wide centered at 5h 35.2m,
5 25. North is at lower left.

Solar Close-Up
Astro-Physics 130-mm f/8 refractor
stopped to 120 mm with an energy-rejection filter and fitted with a Tele Vue 4
Powermate Barlow lens. DayStar 0.56angstrom hydrogen-alpha filter. Astrovid
2000 CCD video camera and MRT VideoPort Professional frame grabber.

Summer Spectacle
Nikon 300-mm f/2.8 ED lens set to f/4. 35minute exposure on Kodak Pro 400 PPF
color-negative film. Field 414 wide centered at 16h 26m, 25 26. North is up.

NGC 7023
Celestron 11-inch f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain
telescope and gas-hypersensitized Kodak
Pro 400 PPF color-negative film. Three 1hour exposures digitized and combined
with Picture Window and further processed
with Adobe Photoshop. Field 20 wide centered at 21h 1.6m, +68 12. North is up.

Andromeda Galaxy
Meade 6-inch f/9 refractor. 45- and 90minute exposures on 120-format gashypersensitized Fujicolor HG 400 film. Negatives digitized and combined with Picture
Window and further processed with Adobe
Photoshop. Field 2 wide centered at 0h
42.7m, +41 16. North is at upper left.

NGC 7023 (top)

by BOB and JANICE FERA

Although it is one of the skys brightest reflection

nebulae, NGC 7023 in Cassiopeia is not well known
outside the circle of hard-core deep-sky observers.
The nebulosity surrounds an easily located 7th-magnitude star.

Andromeda Galaxy (above)

b y J A S O N WA R E

Visible to the naked eye when the sky is dark and

transparent, the Andromeda Galaxy is a member of
the Local Group, which includes our own Milky Way. It
is a stunning sight in large binoculars.

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