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In his first attempt at iphone astrophotography, Al Washburn captured this picture of the full Wolf Moon on January 28. He had to brave cold and very windy conditions that night. Al used an Orion 6” Newtonian reflector with a Celestron 25mm wide angle lens. He attached his iphone to the telescope with the Orion cell-phone adapter shown at the right.

John Pancoast now lives in downtown DC, but he was able to get out to the darker skies of the Shenandoah mountains to take this picture of the Bubble Nebula, NGC 7635. This image is based on 7 2/3 hours of integration with a William Optics FLT98 APO refractor, a Tele Vue 2x PowerMate duo narrowband filter, and ZWO ASI071 color camera. John writes: “I am butting up against many constraints – small objective lens, long system focal length with the PowerMate is f/12.6, and the combination of duo narrowband filter with color camera makes it hard to capture enough photons!” Despite all of this, there is a lot of nice detail in this image.