by Ann » Thu Sep 01, 2011 3:18 am
I haven't gotten around to commenting on it before, but to me as a lover of blue things, Martin Pugh's portrait of M27 is the most beautiful one I've seen of this particular planetary. I really like the "dynamic details" of the nebula, too. A "bar" or "jet" which looks bright "inside" the main oval nebula becomes extremely dark outside. Suddenly the dark "jets" seem to hit something and break sharply. Two bluish curved "trails" are, well, "trailing" behind, as if the entire nebula was rotating clockwise. Really fascinating and beautiful!
I also love Mikel Martínez portrait of the Crescent Nebula in Cygnus. I love how the image seems to combine the advantages of "narrow-banding" with the advantages of an RGB image. The details both of the large red hydrogen alpha structure and the small Crescent Nebula dominated by OIII emission are fantastic, and the overall color balance is delightful.
Robert Arn and David Kaplan are two well-known astrophotographers. Their images here are very beautiful and perfectly composed.
There are no less than three Jupiter portraits here, and I like all three of them. Jupiter is such a handsome planet! It's fantastic to see Ganymede, the largest moon of the solar system, peek out over Jupiter's "shoulder". And John Rozakis' portrait of the Ruler of Gods and Planets is fantastic. The cloud details are so sharp, the colors are very satisfying, and Jupiter almost shows off a "face" in this image! The round cloud feature with a dark interior in the middle of the North Equatorial Belt could almost be an eye. The oblong dark feature in the same Equatorial Belt could perhaps be a misshapen other eye! And the Great Red Spot would be the mouth, of course!
And the Fallstreak Hole (Punch Hole Cloud) image looks rather amazing, Adam Allerhand.
Scorpius is an extremely beautiful constellation, and Robert Flatman does it splendid justice.
Gerry Smerchanski, I like both your mammatus cloud pictures! What a sky show that must have been!
Finally, thanks for submitting your beautiful skyscape painting, Kristen Vasques!
Ann
I haven't gotten around to commenting on it before, but to me as a lover of blue things, Martin Pugh's portrait of M27 is the most beautiful one I've seen of this particular planetary. I really like the "dynamic details" of the nebula, too. A "bar" or "jet" which looks bright "inside" the main oval nebula becomes extremely dark outside. Suddenly the dark "jets" seem to hit something and break sharply. Two bluish curved "trails" are, well, "trailing" behind, as if the entire nebula was rotating clockwise. Really fascinating and beautiful! :D
I also love Mikel Martínez portrait of the Crescent Nebula in Cygnus. I love how the image seems to combine the advantages of "narrow-banding" with the advantages of an RGB image. The details both of the large red hydrogen alpha structure and the small Crescent Nebula dominated by OIII emission are fantastic, and the overall color balance is delightful.
Robert Arn and David Kaplan are two well-known astrophotographers. Their images here are very beautiful and perfectly composed.
There are no less than three Jupiter portraits here, and I like all three of them. Jupiter is such a handsome planet! It's fantastic to see Ganymede, the largest moon of the solar system, peek out over Jupiter's "shoulder". And John Rozakis' portrait of the Ruler of Gods and Planets is fantastic. The cloud details are so sharp, the colors are very satisfying, and Jupiter almost shows off a "face" in this image! The round cloud feature with a dark interior in the middle of the North Equatorial Belt could almost be an eye. The oblong dark feature in the same Equatorial Belt could perhaps be a misshapen other eye! And the Great Red Spot would be the mouth, of course!
And the Fallstreak Hole (Punch Hole Cloud) image looks rather amazing, Adam Allerhand.
Scorpius is an extremely beautiful constellation, and Robert Flatman does it splendid justice.
Gerry Smerchanski, I like both your mammatus cloud pictures! What a sky show that must have been! :D
Finally, thanks for submitting your beautiful skyscape painting, Kristen Vasques!
Ann