My first Magazine Sky & Telescope - 02.2019 | Page 78

GALLERY u SPYING THE SWAN Amir Shahcheraghian Large regions of emission nebulae in Cygnus, including NGC 7000, the North America Nebula (upper middle), and IC 1318, the Butterfl y Nebula (middle), peek through the trees in Iran’s Khar Turan National Park. DETAILS: Canon EOS 6D DSLR camera with 50-mm lens at f/2. Total exposure: 25 seconds at ISO 4000. p SATURNIAN STORM Antonio Checco Among the many atmospheric belts in Saturn’s cloudtops, a small, white storm is seen near the Ringed Planet’s north polar region at 3:07 UT, July 7, 2018. DETAILS: Homemade 13-inch Newtonian refl ector at f/20 with ZWO ASI290MC video camera. Stack of roughly 15,000 frames. Gallery showcases the fi nest astronomical images submitted to us by our readers. Send your best shots to [email protected]. See sky- andtelescope.com/aboutsky/guidelines. Visit skyandtelescope.com/gallery for more of our readers’ astrophotos. 76 FE B RUA RY 2 019 • SK Y & TELESCOPE