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CONSTELLATIONS & STARSCAPES

Image	Date	Taken by	Notes

	08.06.07	Frank Ryan Jr	This is a shot of two of the Shannonside Astronomy Club members observing summer DSO's through a 20'' 'Obsession' Dobsonian.
	09.06.07	Frank Ryan Jr	The Summer Milky Way, Boher, Limerick
	18.05.07	Frank Ryan Jr	Scorpius & Jupiter Starscape, Portugal
	06.04.07	Frank Ryan Jr	I was photographing Orion, Taurus, The Playides and Venus tonight when a plane flew overhead.
	25.11.06	Frank Ryan Jr	Orion over the Shannon.
	10th of October 2004	David Lillis	The star clusters of the Pleiades and Hyades. It is a montage of two images taken with a canon 300D set at ISO1600, F5.6, 120 second exposure. The camera was piggybacked on a LX200 and processed in photoshop.
	August 2004	David Lillis	Altair. This is from stacking 6 frames at ISO 1600 for 30 seconds, Equip = Meade 12”LX200 + canon EOS 300d + registax2d+ photoshop. Note how bright Altair is compared with the background stars.
	April 2003	Michael O'Connell	Alcor, Mizar and Ludwig in a 1 second digital camera exposure. This is a close-up photo of the double-star which can be seen to the naked eye in the "handle" of the Plough
	April 2001	David Lillis	Orion. If you look very closely you can see the glow from the horsehead nebula, This was a 5 minute picture with a 50mm lens piggybacked on an LX200. The skyglow to the bottom of the picture is from Limerick.
	March 2001	David Lillis	The picture of the double cluster in Perseus was taken using ISO100 film with a 500mm camera piggybacked on an LX200 for 5 minutes
	March 2001	David Lillis	Perseus and Cyngus, taken with IS100 film using a 50mm lens piggybacked on an LX200 for over 10 minutes. The California nebula and M34 are clearly visible.