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Photo Contest Gallery
Pleiades (M 45) (Seven Sisters) (Subaru) (located about 450 light years from earth) Photographer: Burton Briggs '66 Camera: Canon 20Da Lens: 180 mm, f 2.8 Takashai telescope Comments: Taken January 16, 2009 from Cherry Valley, California. It is a "stack" of 30 2-minute exposures. The images were 'stacked' in ImagesPlus, 2.75, and color adjusted with Photoshop. (Additional Note: The seven of the brightest 9 stars were named after the 7 sisters of Greek methology: Sterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygete, Celaeno, and Alcyone.)
Another entry by Burton Briggs '66, the "mountains of the moon."
Costa's Hummingbird (Calypte costae) chicks, approximately nine days old Photographer: Dennis E. Park '07-hon Camera: Nikon D200 Lens: AF-S Nikor 18-200mm 1:35-5.6 G ED DX VR Filter: Hoya HMC 72mm UV(0) Comments: Photo taken on June 2, 2009, at approximately 2:30 p.m. in Loma Linda, California, at the Charland House—Office of Legal Council, Loma Linda University |