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Clavius (above)
by CHARLES GENOVESE

The huge walled plain Clavius spans some 225 kilometers (140
miles) in the Moons rugged southern highlands. It includes
many challenging features for telescopes of all sizes. Clavius is
particularly dramatic as the sunrise terminator sweeps over
the region in the days following first-quarter Moon.

Harvest Sky (above right)

by CARL MILAZZO

The familiar Pleiades and Hyades star clusters climb high in

the eastern sky during late October evenings and provide a
backdrop for this harvested cornfield near Buffalo, New York,
which was illuminated with a flashlight during the exposure.

Sagittarius Starfield (below right)

by CHRIS COOK

Using the Tele Vue 85-millimeter refractor he reviewed in last

months issue (page 59), Chris Cook captured the Lagoon and
Trifid nebulae (M8 and M20, respectively) in Sagittarius. Easily
seen in binoculars, these deep-sky objects are popular targets
for astro imagers doing color work. The open star cluster M21
appears at the top of the frame.

Scorpius-Ophiuchus Region (facing page)

by GERALD RHEMANN and FRANZ KERSCHE

Swirls of dust reflect orange light from brilliant Antares (bottom left) and blue light from several hot, young stars including the triple Rho Ophiuchi (top center) to create one of the
most colorful photographic vistas in the heavens. The globular star cluster M4 at lower right is an easy target for binocular users.

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Starman (above)
by CARL MILAZZO

A modern sculpture appears to be gazing skyward

in the direction of Orion in this short exposure
made with a camera tracking the skys motion.

NGC 281 in Cassiopeia (right)

by PRESTON SCOT T JUSTIS

Although this emission nebula, located 1.7 east of

Alpha Cassiopeiae, was discovered visually by E. E.
Barnard with a 6-inch refractor, it remains little
known among todays amateurs. The glowing nebulosity is about 12 across. It is embedded in a dark
cloud of atomic hydrogen roughly 1 in diameter.

HOW THEY DID IT

Clavius

Scorpius-Ophiuchus Region

10-inch f/6 Newtonian reflector, eyepiece projection

with a Tele Vue 11-mm Plssl yielding approximately
f/45. Murnaghan VIP-RG video camera and Hi-8 video
recorder. Image digitized with a Snappy and processed
with Software Bisques Sky Pro. South is up to match
the view in an inverting astronomical telescope.

Pentax 125-mm f/6.4 refractor, two 50-minute exposures on 120-format Kodak Pro Gold 400 PPF film
stacked and printed. Field 314 wide centered at 16h
26.5m, 25 05'; north is up.

Harvest Sky

Starman

24-millimeter wide-angle lens, 5-minute exposure at

f/2.8 on Kodak Ektachrome P1600 film.

24-mm wide-angle lens on a tracking mount, 5-minute exposure at f/2.8 on Fujichrome 1600 film.

Sagittarius Starfield
Tele Vue 85-mm refractor at f/7.8 with a field flattener
for a 40-minute exposure on unhypered Kodak Pro 400
PPF film.Negative copied twice onto Kodak Vericolor
print film to make two transparencies, and transparencies stacked and printed to make a master negative.
Darkroom work done by Tony Hallas.The field is almost
2 wide centered at 18h 3.5m, 23 40'; north is up.
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NGC 281 in Cassiopeia

10-inch f/6 Newtonian reflector, 160-minute exposure on gas-hypersensitized Kodak Tech Pan 2415
film. Field 40' wide centered at 0h 52.6m, +56 37';
north is up.