2. Astronomy

NIGHT OVER ONTARIO

These photos were taken by Lynn Hilborn of Grafton, Ontario.
Pictures have appeared on the cover and inside editions of SkyNews magazine and in Sky & Telescope and Astronomy magazine, and as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.

“ Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,”
W.B.Yeats



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Early Comet Lovejoy C2014/Q2 half moon, no tracking, camera on tripod 8 x 5 seconds f2.8 1600 ISO, Canon 6D with Canon 135mm f2 lens.<br /> Taken from balcony, WhistleStop Obs by Lynn Hilborn December 29,2014.
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Early Comet Lovejoy C2014/Q2 half moon, no tracking, camera on tripod 8 x 5 seconds f2.8 1600 ISO, Canon 6D with Canon 135mm f2 lens.
Taken from balcony, WhistleStop Obs by Lynn Hilborn December 29,2014.

  • Pelican's Neck Ha 4x30m bin 1x1 TEC 140 @f5.6 and ML8300. Taken by Lynn Hilborn August 3, 2012.<br /> The prominent ridge of emission featured in this skyscape is designated IC 5067. Part of a larger emission nebula with a distinctive shape, popularly called The Pelican Nebula, the ridge spans about 10 light-years and follows the curve of the cosmic pelican's head and neck. Fantastic, dark shapes inhabiting the view are clouds of cool gas and dust sculpted by energetic radiation from hot, massive stars. But stars are also forming within the dark shapes. In fact, twin jets emerging from the tip of the central, dark tendril are the telltale signs of an embedded protostar cataloged as Herbig-Haro 555. The Pelican Nebula itself, also known as IC 5070, is about 2,000 light-years away. To find it, look northeast of bright star Deneb in the high flying constellation Cygnus. Text from APOD.<br /> Also see similiar object in Carina nebula <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130324.html">http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130324.html</a>
  • Constellation Cygnus with Hydrogen Alpha filter (12nm) on EOS camera ( Canon 60D modded) in wide angle with 50mm lens at f4 and 1000 ISO.<br /> 18 x10m for total 3 hours of exposure. Taken by Lynn Hilborn, WhistleStop Obs, June 30, 2012. The lens was $99, 'nifty fifty' Canon f1.8
  • The Dark Horse and Rho Antares taken with clock drive mount. June 23,2012 Canon 60D modified and Canon 50mm f1.8 lens, 50 x 120seconds,1000 ISO. Taken by Lynn Hilborn, Grafton, Ontario.
  • Star trails, Iridium flare, planes and fireflies...over the observatory. 100x45 seconds Canon 60D and Sigma 10mm f2.8 lens. Taken by Lynn Hilborn, June 22, 2012.
  • The Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146, S125). TEC 140 @f5.6 and ML8300 camera with Baader filters. Lum 1x1 9x 10m, RGB 2x2 9x5m. Taken on July 20,2012 by Lynn Hilborn, WhistleStop Obs, Grafton, Ontario
  • Comet Panstarrs C/2011 3 minute exposure shot through a sucker hole on a cloudy night , Canon 60D with f2.8 200mm lens, 11:50pm June 02, 2013. Taken by Lynn Hilborn, WhistleStop Obs, Grafton, Ontario.
  • Abell 1656 Coma Cluster of galaxies surrounded by IFN (intergalactic flux nebula). Taken by Lynn Hilborn, WhistleStop Obs,Grafton, Ontario on April 23,24,26,2014.<br /> TEC 140 @f5.3 and FLI ML8300 camera with Baader filters on Takahashi NJP Temma2 mount.<br /> Lum 1x1 23x10m, RGB each 2x2 9x5m. The inverted view (next image) shows a 21.0 mag quasar QSO HB89.<br /> <br /> The Coma Cluster (Abell 1656) is a large cluster of galaxies that contains over 1,000 identified galaxies. Along with the Leo Cluster (Abell 1367), it is one of the two major clusters comprising the Coma Supercluster. It is located in and takes its name from the constellation Coma Berenices.<br /> <br /> The cluster's mean distance from Earth is 99 Mpc (321 million light years). Its ten brightest spiral galaxies have apparent magnitudes of 12–14 . The central region is dominated by two giant elliptical galaxies: NGC 4874 and NGC 4889. The cluster is within a few degrees of the north galactic pole on the sky. Most of the galaxies that inhabit the central portion of the Coma Cluster are ellipticals. Both dwarf, as well as giant ellipticals, are found in abundance in the Coma Cluster.<br /> <br /> As is usual for clusters of this richness, the galaxies are overwhelmingly elliptical and S0 galaxies, with only a few spirals of younger age, and many of them probably near the outskirts of the cluster.<br /> <br /> The full extent of the cluster was not understood until it was more thoroughly studied in the 1950s by astronomers at Mount Palomar Observatory, although many of the individual galaxies in the cluster had been identified previously.<br /> <br /> An extended X-ray source centered at 1300+28 in the direction of the Coma cluster of galaxies was reported before August 1966. This X-ray observation was performed by balloon, but the source was not detected in the sounding rocket flight launched by the X-ray astronomy group at the Naval Research Laboratory on November 25, 1964. A strong X-ray source was observed by the X-ray observatory satellite Uhuru close to the center of the Coma cluster and this source was suggested be designated Coma X-1.<br /> <br /> The Coma cluster contains about 800 galaxies within a 100 x 100 arc-min area of the celestial sphere.<br /> <br /> Text from Nasa
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  • Milky Way over Lake Ontario...3 panel panorama. Canon 6d at ISO 3200, Tamaron 28-75mm lens @ f2.8, 25 seconds each frame.<br /> Taken by Lynn Hilborn, Grafton, Ontario on June 22, 2014.<br /> Looking south to Rochester NY.
  • Reflections of Gemini and Jupiter...Canon 6d, Canon 24mm f2,8 lens at f4, 20 seconds 800 ISO.<br /> Taken by Lynn Hilborn,Grafton, Ontario, May 17, 2014.
  • Inverted image of Abell 1656 galaxy cluster...note Quasar<br /> QSO [HB89] 1256+280 21.0 mag With a red shift of 2.66, this quasar is at a distance of about 10.3 to 12.3 Billion Light Years, depending on who's redshift calculator you use.<br /> <br /> This picture was subject of an article "Pushing The Frontiers of Backyard Astronomy" by Terence Dickinson in Sept/Oct 2014 edition of SkyNews magazine
  • Partial eclipse over Lake Ontario...shot with solar filter over Canon 6D with Canon 135mm f2 lens and 1.4X teleconverter. Note large aea of sunspots.<br /> Taken by Lynn Hilborn , October 23.2014
  • Sinking eclipsed sun...without solar filter.<br /> Canon 6D and Canon 135mm f2 lens with 1.4x teleconverter.<br /> Taken by Lynn Hilborn, October 23.2014
  • Magnificent sunset and clouds following the eclipsed sun.<br /> Canon 6D and Canon 24mm f2.8 lens.<br /> Taken by Lynn Hilborn
  • When the eclipsed sun set... I turned around, and saw this most wonderful double rainbow.<br /> Canon 6D and Canon 24mm f2.8 lens.<br /> Taken by Lynn Hilborn, Grafton,Ontario
  • Globular Clusters and a small PN <br /> M11 Wild Duck cluster (center right), M26 (lower left), NGC 6712 (upper left) with small green Planetary Nebula IC1295 just above NGC 6712.<br /> 200mm f2.8 lens and FLI ML8300 camera with Baader filters, taken by Lynn Hilborn, WhistleStop Obs, Grafton, Ontario.<br /> July 22,23 25 and August 04,2014.<br /> Lum bin 1x1 12x10m, RGB bin 1x1 each 8x5m, OIII bin 1x1 2x10m.
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  • Early Comet Lovejoy C2014/Q2 half moon, no tracking, camera on tripod 8 x 5 seconds f2.8 1600 ISO, Canon 6D with Canon 135mm f2 lens.<br /> Taken from balcony, WhistleStop Obs by Lynn Hilborn December 29,2014.
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