Astroshots of the month
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Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Location: Kolkata, India
“After 13 days during October 2021, from 4 to 16 October, the Sun’s active region came to an end. The resulting sunspot – known as AR 2882 – generated some solar flares, ejections of electromagnetic radiation from the solar atmosphere. I enjoy imaging the Sun, and have been doing so for a little over a year. The image on the right might look like there’s a solar prominence erupting from our nearest star, but it’s in fact an optical illusion caused by hot fumes coming from the airliner’s exhaust.”
“I enjoy imaging the Sun, and have been doing so for a little over a year”
Jaspal Chadha
Location: London, UK
Telescope: Takahashi TOA-130
“I’ve been imaging for around two-and-a-half years now after spending years looking through various telescopes and eyepieces, where I enjoyed learning all about the objects in the night sky. After months of research and trial and error, I finally invested in a set-up that I thought would work for me. My biggest challenge has been to fend off the myths around imaging in light-polluted areas, as I live in London. I started out with DSLR astrophotography but now use a CCD to capture a wide range of night-sky targets.”
Jeff Johnson
Location: Las Cruces,
New Mexico
Telescope: Takahashi FS-60C
“I have a long love of astronomy, which began when I was ten years old, and I have observed the night sky for many years with binoculars and a telescope. I did my first ‘real’ astrophotography in 1996, when I used a 35mm SLR camera to take photographs of Comet Hyakutake. I took a tripod out into the desert, here in Las Cruces, and just experimented with different exposures. Later, I bought a ten-inch Dobsonian telescope for observing the night sky, and within a week I was taking pictures through the eyepiece for fun. Within a few more weeks, I knew I wanted to get serious with astroimaging.”