Copernicus Crater

Restored image of Copernicus Crater. Credit: NASA/LOIRP

More imaging goodness is now available from the folks at the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP), a cooperative effort between NASA and private business to give new life to some of the first ever close-up images of the Moon. When this image was originally released in November of 1966, it was called the "Image of the Century." Taken by the Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft, 45.7 kilometers (28.4 miles) above the Moon's surface, the image showed details of the interior of the crater Copernicus. Now, through the work of (LOIRP), the image has been remastered to show even more detail and the dramatic landscape within the crater.
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* not taken by 'Shoals Astronomy Club'. - image and credit to, 'universe today'.

Jon cesar takes picture of horsehead nebula

I went out and took a shot of the Horsehead nebula, IC434 over the last
two nights which were clear with little turbulance. The scope is a
Meade LX90 8" SCT using a Meade DSI pro through a Williams 66mm to guide
and a DSI II mono with LRGB filters through the 8" scope to capture the
shot which consists of the equivalent of about 52 min of exposure

Pictures by Jon Cesar -- 8" Meade

--i would personally like to thank Jon Cesar for taking the trouble of getting these to me... i have plenty more where they came from,but i had some trouble in file conversion... some of them were .bmp and some were .tif.. the .bmp converted more easily. i had trouble with the .tif files.
Anyway, enjoy these great shots by Jon Cesar.. he may want to tell us more about these later at an upcoming meeting. I'll try to add more as time goes on. There were some great shots of the california nebula i wish would have converted.

1. ring
2. saturn
3. owl nebula
4. mars
5. whirpool
6. andromeda
7. dumbell
8. crab
9. jupiter
10. bubble nebula

change of officers elected 01/09

As of 01/09, new club officers are:

The Shoals Astronomy Club acquired new officers:

1. President - Mel Blake
2. Vice President - Matthew Sherrill
3. Club Photographer - Roy Long
4. Public Relations Officer #1 - John Viescas
5. Public Relations Officer #2 - Matthew Sherrill
6. Secretary - Matthew Sherrill
7. Treasurer - Matthew Sherrill
8. Astronomical League Correspondent and blogsite - Stan Peck

More S.A.C february 09 meeting pictures

Pictures of S.A.C. members, Feb 09, taken by Dave Davis :

some members not shown:
Mel Blake, our new President, taking care of business.