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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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  • Thor's Helmet flies with the Seagull<br />
Top left is the red hydrogen emission nebula "The Seagull", behind bottom right is the blue nebula "Thor's Helemet"<br />
Teleskop Service TS Star 71 astrograph stopped down to f5.3 with an aperture mask, Canon 6d modified. 7x4min exposures at 3200 ISO.<br />
Taken by Lynn Hilborn, Whistlestop Obs, Grafton,Ontario. March 15,2015.
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  • Aurora over Covered Bridge, near Grafton,Ontario<br />
March 17,2015. Lynn Hilborn.
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  • From Lagoon Nebula (bottom) to Trifid,to Omega, to Eagle (top). Canon 135mm f2 lens at f2.5 and Canon 6d modified.<br />
22 frames 4 minutes each at 1600 ISO. Taken by Lynn Hilborn June 16, 2015 at WhistleStop Observatory, Grafton,Ontario.
  • "Hi There"...from the little people.<br />
Dark dust in Cepheus, LBN552, taken with 5 1/2 hours of exposure, Canon 6d modified and TEC140 @f5.3.<br />
Taken July 10,11,14 2015 by Lynn Hilborn WhistleStop Obs, Grafton,Ontario.
  • PLUTO on July 10, 2015 0500 GMT.<br />
In honour of the efforts to flypast in the next 4 days....<br />
Taken by Lynn Hilborn, WhistleStop Obs. Grafton, Ontario<br />
TEC 140 @f5.3 and Canon 6d  11x4mins 3200ISO
  • NGC891 with C9.25 and Starizona Corrector, crop of Canon 6d
  • Veil Nebula
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  • Lynn Hilborn in the WhistleStop Observatory. TEC 140 telescope mounted on a Takahashi NJP Temma 2 mount with Finger Lakes Instruments ML8300 camera and CFW-2-7 filter wheel.  June 2011.
  • Trifid M20 and Lagoon M8
  • Comet Neowise over Baltimore, Ontario
  • Cobourg Harbour Earthshine
  • Cobourg Harbour Earthshine
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