by Ann » Mon Feb 06, 2012 6:11 pm
Okay, I'll get back to where I was when I left off.
Alain Origné, I'm totally fascinated by your image, but I don't really understand it. "Refraction, Pic of Canigou, and the Notre Dame de la Garde" - where is the refraction? In the sky? I don't know where it is, but I can see that the sky looks fantastic. All magenta and cerise, with tones of apricot, and then there are those dark gray clouds that look like they had been painted with broad brush strokes by an artist with Indian ink. And those mountains on the other side of the sea(?) looks like a mirage. Amazing!
Günter Kerschhuber, your image looks as if a swimming creature of the cosmic sea had captured a galaxy in its yarn and carried it with it!
The image produced by NASA, ESA, Hubblesite and others and showing that incredible lensed galaxy is of course just fantastic. I think, however, that I read a caption somewhere that I don't agree with - I think it said that distant galaxies like the elongated lensed one are typically bursting with star formation, whereas nearby galaxies are typically "red and dead". But many nearby galaxies are forming a lot of stars. It is true, however, that large clusters of yellow ellipticals are the best "foreground lenses", and it is true, too, that star formation peaked in the universe several billion years ago. Well, it is a splendid image, that much is certain!
NASA and ESA have also produced a magnificent image of nearby spiral NGC 1073. But I have already commented on that image elsewhere on these boards.
Mike Putnam, I like your glory in the clouds! Your cloudscape looks slightly unreal in itself, and that glory is just so totally unlikely! (But nice!)
Rich Hammar, I've said it before, I really like your picture of Albireo! I particularly like the softness and subtleness of the colors of the two components, which strikes me as so true to life.
Vedran Matica, as I scroll down your image, the stars seems to move and wheel around! Goodness! I like your nodding donkey, too, which brings movement of another sort to your image. I must say that I have rarely seen so much movement in a still as I have seen in your image!
Ezequiel Bellocchio, thanks for taking us to the Zoo of the Rosette!
Luc Perrot, your two images of Sky of the Southern Hemisphere/Réunion Island are fantastic. Splendid! And I love the fact that you have included not only an annotated image, but an annotated image that is so richly - well, so richly annotated!
Yuriy Toropin, that really and truly looks like a bogeyman! And that sickly yellow nebula behind him is the Eye of Sauron, perhaps?
Finally, avdhoeven, I'm not the best person to be commenting on Moon images. But even I can see that your Moon images are really very, very fine!
Thanks to everyone else, whose images I haven't commented on. Thanks to everybody here for submitting your fine images here!
Ann
Okay, I'll get back to where I was when I left off.
Alain Origné, I'm totally fascinated by your image, but I don't really understand it. "Refraction, Pic of Canigou, and the Notre Dame de la Garde" - where is the refraction? In the sky? I don't know where it is, but I can see that the sky looks fantastic. All magenta and cerise, with tones of apricot, and then there are those dark gray clouds that look like they had been painted with broad brush strokes by an artist with Indian ink. And those mountains on the other side of the sea(?) looks like a mirage. Amazing!
Günter Kerschhuber, your image looks as if a swimming creature of the cosmic sea had captured a galaxy in its yarn and carried it with it!
The image produced by NASA, ESA, Hubblesite and others and showing that incredible lensed galaxy is of course just fantastic. I think, however, that I read a caption somewhere that I don't agree with - I think it said that distant galaxies like the elongated lensed one are typically bursting with star formation, whereas nearby galaxies are typically "red and dead". But many nearby galaxies are forming a lot of stars. It is true, however, that large clusters of yellow ellipticals are the best "foreground lenses", and it is true, too, that star formation peaked in the universe several billion years ago. Well, it is a splendid image, that much is certain!
NASA and ESA have also produced a magnificent image of nearby spiral NGC 1073. But I have already commented on that image elsewhere on these boards.
Mike Putnam, I like your glory in the clouds! Your cloudscape looks slightly unreal in itself, and that glory is just so totally unlikely! (But nice!)
Rich Hammar, I've said it before, I really like your picture of Albireo! I particularly like the softness and subtleness of the colors of the two components, which strikes me as so true to life.
Vedran Matica, as I scroll down your image, the stars seems to move and wheel around! Goodness! I like your nodding donkey, too, which brings movement of another sort to your image. I must say that I have rarely seen so much movement in a still as I have seen in your image!
Ezequiel Bellocchio, thanks for taking us to the Zoo of the Rosette!
Luc Perrot, your two images of Sky of the Southern Hemisphere/Réunion Island are fantastic. Splendid! And I love the fact that you have included not only an annotated image, but an annotated image that is so richly - well, so richly annotated!
Yuriy Toropin, that really and truly looks like a bogeyman! And that sickly yellow nebula behind him is the Eye of Sauron, perhaps?
Finally, avdhoeven, I'm not the best person to be commenting on Moon images. But even I can see that your Moon images are really very, very fine!
Thanks to everyone else, whose images I haven't commented on. Thanks to everybody here for submitting your fine images here!
Ann