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Re: Recent Submissions

by Ann » Thu Oct 06, 2011 9:26 am

I absolutely love your recent images, Adam. It's just that I'm particularly interested in galaxies which are bright enough to have made it into catalogues and to have had some of their properties determined, such as their color indexes. It's not that I don't love your recent images, but the thing is that I can't look up the fantastic background galaxies in your recent images and read anything about them.

Ann

Re: Recent Submissions

by ngc1535 » Thu Oct 06, 2011 6:13 am

Not to be too clever, but the Schulman Telescope is the largest telescope in the Southwest dedicated to offering public outreach programs (and generating pictures like these). With its large aperture and big CCD camera (with greater sensitivity) I would argue that the number of galaxies in my recent gallery is *far greater* than my older work- even at only 25% the number of fields of view. :) Now that this telescope will be available for remote observing, I suspect the rate of images produced will exceed past efforts in the coming months (and years).

Adam

Ann wrote:
ngc1535, Adam Block, wrote:
Thanks Ann. Please do refer to the most recent gallery of images I am producing at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter (http://Skycenter.arizona.edu). Galaxies, for example, can be found here:
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/galaxies.shtml
or here
http://skycenter.arizona.edu/gallery/galaxies
Hopefully more images to come soon...
I know exactly what you mean, Adam. Your new images are much better than your old ones, which are, however, also good. But what makes the old gallery so interesting is that there are 260 different galaxies there, and there are far fewer in your most recent gallery.

But I, too, very much look forward to seeing more galaxies in you most recent gallery! :D

Ann

Re: Recent Submissions

by mexhunter » Wed Oct 05, 2011 10:19 pm

Re: Recent Submissions

by Ann » Wed Oct 05, 2011 12:09 pm

ngc1535, Adam Block, wrote:
Thanks Ann. Please do refer to the most recent gallery of images I am producing at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter (http://Skycenter.arizona.edu). Galaxies, for example, can be found here:
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/galaxies.shtml
or here
http://skycenter.arizona.edu/gallery/galaxies
Hopefully more images to come soon...
I know exactly what you mean, Adam. Your new images are much better than your old ones, which are, however, also good. But what makes the old gallery so interesting is that there are 260 different galaxies there, and there are far fewer in your most recent gallery.

But I, too, very much look forward to seeing more galaxies in you most recent gallery! :D

Ann

Re: Recent Submissions

by ngc1535 » Wed Oct 05, 2011 10:25 am

Thanks Ann. Please do refer to the most recent gallery of images I am producing at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter (http://Skycenter.arizona.edu). Galaxies, for example, can be found here:
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/galaxies.shtml
or here
http://skycenter.arizona.edu/gallery/galaxies
Hopefully more images to come soon...

-Adam
Ann wrote:There are many splendid images here! :D

I have to start off by noting that one of my all-time favorites, Adam Block, is back. I'm eteernally grateful to Adam for his amazing dedication in photographing so many different astronomical objects, not least galaxies. If you want to see an image of a particular galaxy, chances are you'll find it here: http://www.caelumobservatory.com/obs/bestofaop.shtml.

Anyway, Adam has posted two images here, and me being me, I am of course happiest about his galaxy image. NGC 266 is one more of those not-so-often-photographed galaxies, so it's great that Adam has imaged it. NGC 266 is one of those galaxies with a braod bright yellow bar and thin, elegant, blue spiral arms, which are clearly winding down in star formation activity. In my opinion, the fact that there is so little star formation in this galaxy is a likely contributing reason for it being so elegant and symmetrical.

Of course I like your image of globular cluster NGC 2419 too, Adam. I particularly like how well your image shows the bright orange-colored Asymptotic Giant Branch stars in NGC2419 (these are red giants at their very brightest, just before they start shedding their atmospheres and turning into planetary nebulae central stars), as well as the "intermediately-bright" blue horizontal branch stars, which can form only if the stars they start out from contain very low levels of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium.

Ann

Re: Recent Submissions

by Bogdan Jarzyna » Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:20 pm

IC1805, IC1848 (Heart and Soul nebulae) in Casseopeia
ProLine FLI 16803, FSQ 106 EDXIII, AP Mach1GTO
Ha, SII, OIII (23h) sub-frame Ha,SII, OIII 1800s/binx1
Luczanowice, Polska
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Ha 7,5h
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Bogdan Jarzyna
http://www.starrysite.com
jarzynabogdan@o2.pl

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Re: Recent Submissions

by Wolfgang » Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:30 pm

Re: Recent Submissions

by Wolfgang » Tue Oct 04, 2011 1:01 pm

Re: Recent Submissions

by Wolfgang » Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:57 pm

Re: Recent Submissions

by Ann » Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:17 am

I wasn't done! Not by far! Although I don't know how much time I have...

I love that Milky Way Hermit Crab. The one was born of the other!

I love the Mira watching Mira image, too. Thanks for pointing out one of the two MIras with that laser, Tamás Ladányi! (By the way, what is that kind of laser called in English? A "pocket laser"? A "stargazing laser"?)

The Mira & Mira image is just generally great, and connects the Earth and space so wonderfully. Apart from Mira (the cosmic one), the Pleiades look great, and that bright light must be Jupiter? (Oh, and.. yes, the Eartlhly Mira looks great, too!)

Rolf Wahl Olsen, I love your Uranus and Neptune images. Neptune is so blue!!! :D I checked out your homepage, and I just love your solar system images, particularly the image where you line up your best shots of the planets in our solar system. You post them in such a way that the relative size of the planets correspond to their apparent brightness as seen from the Earth, or at least that is my impression. (But I wonder if Venus shouldn't look bigger compared with Jupiter, but maybe I'm wrong...)

There are a number of images here that look almost magical or otherworldly or fantastical, or something like that. I'm thinking of the "broken" lunar crescent, the Sun with "bangs", the fading star trails which look as if Tinkerbell had shaken her magical wand over the Earth, releasing millions of glittering shooting stars, the gigantic slightly "breast-like" (hence their name) mammatus clouds with the tiny airplane apparently lost among them, and the amazing copper-colored storm clouds sprouting lightning bolts and the black sky with stars behind them.

There are many other great images here, but I don't have time to write more!

Ann

Re: Recent Submissions

by Ann » Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:18 am

There are many splendid images here! :D

I have to start off by noting that one of my all-time favorites, Adam Block, is back. I'm eteernally grateful to Adam for his amazing dedication in photographing so many different astronomical objects, not least galaxies. If you want to see an image of a particular galaxy, chances are you'll find it here: http://www.caelumobservatory.com/obs/bestofaop.shtml.

Anyway, Adam has posted two images here, and me being me, I am of course happiest about his galaxy image. NGC 266 is one more of those not-so-often-photographed galaxies, so it's great that Adam has imaged it. NGC 266 is one of those galaxies with a braod bright yellow bar and thin, elegant, blue spiral arms, which are clearly winding down in star formation activity. In my opinion, the fact that there is so little star formation in this galaxy is a likely contributing reason for it being so elegant and symmetrical.

Of course I like your image of globular cluster NGC 2419 too, Adam. I particularly like how well your image shows the bright orange-colored Asymptotic Giant Branch stars in NGC2419 (these are red giants at their very brightest, just before they start shedding their atmospheres and turning into planetary nebulae central stars), as well as the "intermediately-bright" blue horizontal branch stars, which can form only if the stars they start out from contain very low levels of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium.

Ann

Re: Recent Submissions

by rich bowden » Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:30 pm

Re: Recent Submissions

by Bi2L » Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:28 pm

Startrails and Lightnings over Corfu town
B.Metallinos©, Corfu Astronomic Society©
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http://www.astrovox.gr/forum/album_picm ... c_id=13633
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Re: Recent Submissions

by owlice » Mon Oct 03, 2011 10:44 am

Under a Red Sky
Copyright: Francisco Almeida
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Mars and the Beehive Cluster (M44)
Copyright: Tunç Tezel
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Crescent Moon, Atmospheric Distortion
Copyright: Chin Wei-Loon
[attachment=4]IMG_0222s.jpg[/attachment]

Sun through Atmospheric Layers
Copyright: Parag Mahajani
[attachment=3]Sun through atmospheric layers.jpg[/attachment]

Under the Maelstrom: Mammatus and Aircraft
http://fredwasmer.com/apod/img7838_mamm ... wasmer.jpg
Copyright: Fred Wasmer
[attachment=2]Mammatus and plane.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 281: Living the High Life
http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2011/ngc281/
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/S.Wolk; IR: NASA/JPL/CfA/S.Wolk
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 45#p158634
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Fading Star Trails
http://fredwasmer.com/apod/img5886_star ... wasmer.jpg
Copyright: Fred Wasmer
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Re: Recent Submissions

by owlice » Mon Oct 03, 2011 10:18 am

NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula
http://www.deep-sky-images.de/displayim ... play_media
Copyright: Markus Noller
[attachment=4]NGC7023.jpg[/attachment]

IC 1805: Heart Nebula in Cassiopeia Central Region
http://myastroimages.com
Copyright: Doug Hubbell
[attachment=3]ic1805-v4.jpg[/attachment]

Dust in Western Cepheus
http://www.astrofun.pl/Dust.jpg
Copyright: Maciej Kapkowski
[attachment=2]Dust in Western Cepheus.jpg[/attachment]

Mira Watches Mira
http://www.astrophoto.hu
Copyright: Tamás Ladányi
[attachment=1]mira_111001_ladanyi_web.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 2419: Intergalactic Wanderer
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n2419.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona Mars Visits the Beehive Cluster
http://www.luisargerich.com
Copyright: Luis Argerich
[attachment=0]beehive_mars1.jpg[/attachment]
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Re: Recent Submissions

by SkyViking » Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:49 am

The Distant Worlds of Uranus and Neptune
http://www.pbase.com/rolfolsen/image/138548280/original
Copyright: Rolf Wahl Olsen
[attachment=0]rolf.jpg[/attachment]
http://i.pbase.com/o6/03/951103/1/13854 ... tation.jpg
This image shows Uranus with the four largest moons Oberon, Titania, Umbriel and Ariel - and Neptune with its large mooon Triton.
The image was taken with my 10" f/5 Serrurier truss Newtonian and is a composite of short exposures for the planet discs and longer exposures for the fainter moons. Miranda, the smallest of Uranus' five larger moons, was very close to Uranus when the image was taken and therefore lost in the glare of the planet itself in the long exposure image used to capture the moons. The orbits of the moons were added to illustrate the scale and orientation of the two systems as viewed from Earth, with South being towards the top of the image.
Both Uranus and Neptune are so far away from us that their angular diameters are only a few arcseconds, being 3.7" and 2.3" respectively. This makes it extremely difficult to discern any details on then and they nearly always appear as tiny cyan/blue balls except when imaged by large observatories or the Hubble Space Telescope. In fact, the entire orbit of Triton would easily fit behind the disc of Mars when the latter is at opposition. Still, with relatively modest equipment it is possible to get a good glimpse of these fascinating icy worlds.
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Re: Recent Submissions

by Alson Wong » Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:41 am

Re: Recent Submissions

by Alson Wong » Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:38 am

Re: Recent Submissions

by owlice » Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:53 pm

Crescent Nebula, Nebulosity and Bubble
http://www.zonalunar.com
Copyright: Alfonso Carreño
[attachment=5]crescent_carreno.jpg[/attachment]

Manitoba Aurora
Copyright: Meagan O'Donnell
[attachment=4]IMG_1185_filtered.jpg[/attachment]

Star Spots
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cameran/61 ... /lightbox/
Copyright: Cameran
[attachment=3]K3CCD_0017_wavelet22_4_good3_large1_2_3_large (2)_2c_medium.jpg[/attachment]

Trailing Jupiter, ISS and Orion above The Channel
http://www.astronomie.be/philv/
Copyright: Philippe Vercoutter, AstroLAB IRIS (http://www.astrolab.be)
[attachment=2]Star trails above The Channel - Philippe Vercoutter - 42 x 15 minutes (20111001) web.jpg[/attachment]

More Star Spots!
Copyright: Mark Robson
[attachment=1]sun_robson.jpg[/attachment]

Nebulosity around Orion
Copyright: W.L.Chin
[attachment=0]orion_chin.jpg[/attachment]
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Re: Recent Submissions

by sternklar » Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:11 pm

M 8, M 20 & NGC 6559 - Emission Nebulae in Sagittarius, June 3, 2011
http://www.sternklar.ch
Copyright: Manuel Jung

Re: Recent Submissions

by owlice » Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:27 am

NGC 266: Spiral Galaxy in Pisces
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n266.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona Centaurus A, NGC 5128
http://www.glitteringlights.com
Copyright: Marco Lorenzi
[attachment=3]ngc5128_LRGB_3000.jpg[/attachment]

IC1396 and VDB142
Copyright: Christoph Kaltseis
[attachment=2]ic1396_vdb142_210minLRGB_66per_Kaltseis.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 1333 & Vdb 12, 13, 16 & 17: Reflection Nebula in Perseus and Dark Nebulae
http://astrofarma.gr/index.php/en/ngc-1 ... b-12131617
Copyright: Antonis Farmakopoulos
[attachment=0]NGC1333.jpg[/attachment]

Comet P45/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková
http://www.altamiraobs.org.es/
Copyright: Jose Francisco Hernandez
[attachment=1]45P-111001-J24.jpg[/attachment]

Milky Way Hermit Crab
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43894176@N07/6188041823/
Copyright: Masahiro Miyasaka
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Re: Recent Submissions

by Fabrizio Francione » Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:55 am

Billions of stars in M33 (HDR) Equipment and exposition details:
http://www.astrophoto.it/galaxies/page1.html

Best regards,
Fabrizio Francione
http://www.astrophoto.it

Re: Recent Submissions

by geissi » Sat Oct 01, 2011 1:26 pm

Comet C/2009 P1 Garradd
Aprox. 13' x 9'

[attachment=0]Garradd_Geissinger.jpg[/attachment]
http://www.stern-fan.de/Bilder/Internet ... arradd.jpg

Regards
Rolf Geissinger
http://www.stern-fan.de
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Dust in Western Cepheus

by Maciej Kapkowski » Sat Oct 01, 2011 9:17 am

VdB 141 Ghost Nebula together with NGC 7023 Iris Nebula. North to the top.
[attachment=0]ghost.jpg[/attachment]
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/9921 ... gc7023.jpg
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Re: Recent Submissions

by Tamas Abraham » Sat Oct 01, 2011 7:03 am

Mars in the Beehive Cluster
http://www.vadakcsillaga.hu/
Copyright: Tamas Abraham Second image taken from 6x1 minutes frames shows the shift of Mars during 50 minutes with 10 minutes intervals.

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