by Ann » Sun Jan 01, 2012 12:09 pm
As usual, there are many lovely images here. The most stunning one is Stefano De Rosa's fantastic Moon and Venus over the Viverone Lake, but that one has already, most deservedly, been made the Astronomy Picture of the Day, so I'll say no more about it here.
My second most favorite image here is Davide Bardini and Gimmi Ratto's delightful portrait of S Mon and the Cone nebula, old yellow cluster Trumpler 5, blue reflection nebula IC 447 and assorted faint red emission nebulae. How lovely!
I also love Nebulium's and Stefano De Rosa's images of the Moon-Venus conjunction when Venus is below the Moon. That's what the Moon-Venus conjunction looked like when I saw it.
I really appreciate Jerry Lodriguss' comparison between various planetary nebulae and their respective sizes and colors.
Usually I'm not too interested in star trails, because I can almost never identify the stars in them, but I appreciate darkfire's fantastic "windblown torrent" of stars and his whirligig of stars. When I scroll down, the stars seem to move!
I really like David Kaplan's Kepler 22b image. It's fantastic to imagine that we can pinpoint the location of Kepler 22b, and look in the direction of this planet, somewhere north and to the left of Vega, that comfortable mainstay in the sky. Suddenly, the sky has been ripped open and extended incredible light-years beyond Vega's twenty-five light-years.
I like Vegastar's subtle, sublime portrait of the Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, appropriated put inside a frame.
There are many other great images here, and I'd like to thank everybody for their contributions!
Ann
As usual, there are many lovely images here. The most stunning one is Stefano De Rosa's fantastic Moon and Venus over the Viverone Lake, but that one has already, most deservedly, been made the Astronomy Picture of the Day, so I'll say no more about it here.
My second most favorite image here is Davide Bardini and Gimmi Ratto's delightful portrait of S Mon and the Cone nebula, old yellow cluster Trumpler 5, blue reflection nebula IC 447 and assorted faint red emission nebulae. How lovely!
I also love Nebulium's and Stefano De Rosa's images of the Moon-Venus conjunction when Venus is below the Moon. That's what the Moon-Venus conjunction looked like when I saw it.
I really appreciate Jerry Lodriguss' comparison between various planetary nebulae and their respective sizes and colors.
Usually I'm not too interested in star trails, because I can almost never identify the stars in them, but I appreciate darkfire's fantastic "windblown torrent" of stars and his whirligig of stars. When I scroll down, the stars seem to move!
I really like David Kaplan's Kepler 22b image. It's fantastic to imagine that we can pinpoint the location of Kepler 22b, and look in the direction of this planet, somewhere north and to the left of Vega, that comfortable mainstay in the sky. Suddenly, the sky has been ripped open and extended incredible light-years beyond Vega's twenty-five light-years.
I like Vegastar's subtle, sublime portrait of the Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, appropriated put inside a frame.
There are many other great images here, and I'd like to thank everybody for their contributions!
Ann