Wired.com Readers' Most Excellent Telescope Photos

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"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."

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"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..."

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

quotSolar Prominence Meade LPI  prime focus LX200GPS 10inch F10 77mm energyrejection filter and Lumincon HydrodenAlpha...

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

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"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"

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"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."

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"A nighttime shot of the unattended Slooh robotic observatory on Mt Teide in the Canary Islands.”

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"Taken on a lagoon just off the beach at San Jose Del Cabo, Baja California, July 11, 1991. At prime focus of a Meade 4-inch f10 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with an Olympus OM-1."

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"M20 Trifid Nebula. Taken with a Stellarvue 80ED and Nikon D50 on a Vixen Super Polaris mount. Westminster, Maryland."

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"The Orion Nebula, Messier 42, located in the Sword of Orion."

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"This is a minimalist design reminiscent of Apple's stuff. Six-inch f/5. Frontside collimation. Curved spider. Focuser baffle. Carbon-fiber arrow shafts. Twelve-inch acrylic lighting globe. The whole thing (except for the trusses) packages up into a ball. - j"

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"The Polish telescope at the Las Campanas observatory, shot during my last observing run to Chile."

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"One arm of the Very Large Array, the well-known giant radio telescope in New Mexico."

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"Taken with a Celestron C8 & Canon A70. 229 frames stacked in Registax."