by Ann » Sat Mar 24, 2012 7:59 pm
Just a few comments on my favorite images here.
Thanks, Gilles, for posting that image of Minkowski's Object, and the interesting inset explaining it!
Reinhold, I like your Leo Triplet. The amazing long tidal tail of edge-on NGC 3628 is faintly visible, and I appreciate the bluish tint of M66, the most vigorously starforming of the three galaxies here.
Chris, your last quarter moonrise and temple of Poseidon is just amazing! The temple itself looks like a noble ruin, and the "sideways" Moon with its jagged terminator looks like a sort of ruin too, one that has perhaps just "broken off" the temple and is about to tumble off the hill of the temple of Poseidon! Amazing! I agree with geckzilla, it actually looks as if the tree below the Moon might just be "propping it up"! Just fantastic.
Alistair Symon, that's a nice image of Sharpless 290 and M67. The planetary nebula looks very beautifully colorful in your picture.
Emil Ivanov, that's a very beautiful image of fascinating spiral galaxy M77. The galaxy has an active nucleus and unusually blue outermost arms.
Rolf Geissinger, that's a handsome portrait indeed of NGC 2264, the Christmas Tree Cluster and the Cone Nebula region. Hubble's variable nebula looks good, too!
Leo Dy, that's a very fine image of the constellation Gemini, taken with simple equipment. You bring out the starry richness at the Twin's feet and the "stellar near-desert" between their feet and heads.
Frank Sackenheim, that's a very fine picture of the Coalsack region, particularly the largest version of it. The cluster is of course the Jewel Box. (It is quite a coincidence, isn't it, that the Coalsack is right next to the Jewel Box?) That blue star is Beta Crucis, isn't it?
Dieter Willasch, I like the aqua-colored filamentary supernova remnant superimposed on the blobby red emission nebulae.
Gerrit Burggraaf, your use of the Hubble palette really brings out the high level of ionization near the Trapezium cluster in Orion.
Leonardo Orazi, thank you for that very fine portrait of one of my favorite galaxies, "the jumping pig" of IC 2574! (Although the pig is upside down in this image!)
José Joaquín Pérez, I'm not altogether sure I can see a cometary globule in your picture, but I can indeed see what looks like a kiddie ghost that is smiling while it is saying "Boooh!".
José Joaquín Pérez, that's a beautiful portrait of the Milky Way arcing over zodiacal light and the conjunction between Venus and Jupiter.
Seantos, I like all of your images! I like your very blue and pink Orion Nebula. I like Venus and Jupiter through a Saguaro Cactus, with the Pleiades looking down on them from above. I like your star trail image too, particularly because I think I can identify some of the trails - that "cluster" of blue trails on the right must be the Alpha Persei moving cluster. Your last image is very nice too, with Orion and the Hyades and Pleiades looking like sprinkled sugar or salt on the blue night sky. Tell me, what are those trees called? They look a bit like Araucaria araucana to me. We call them "apträd", monkey trees, in Swedish!
Starsurfer, your picture of Kronberger 61 is very fascinating, although I must say that the colors had me stumped at first. Only when I found out that this is a two-color image, made with OIII and Ha filters, did the colors make sense to me. The picture is of course very beautiful and full of interesting details - the "conjunction" between the planetary, the star to the left of it and the distant spiral galaxy is fascinating!
Thanks to everyone who posted images here!
Ann
Just a few comments on my favorite images here.
Thanks, Gilles, for posting that image of Minkowski's Object, and the interesting inset explaining it!
Reinhold, I like your Leo Triplet. The amazing long tidal tail of edge-on NGC 3628 is faintly visible, and I appreciate the bluish tint of M66, the most vigorously starforming of the three galaxies here.
Chris, your last quarter moonrise and temple of Poseidon is just amazing! The temple itself looks like a noble ruin, and the "sideways" Moon with its jagged terminator looks like a sort of ruin too, one that has perhaps just "broken off" the temple and is about to tumble off the hill of the temple of Poseidon! Amazing! I agree with geckzilla, it actually looks as if the tree below the Moon might just be "propping it up"! Just fantastic.
Alistair Symon, that's a nice image of Sharpless 290 and M67. The planetary nebula looks very beautifully colorful in your picture.
Emil Ivanov, that's a very beautiful image of fascinating spiral galaxy M77. The galaxy has an active nucleus and unusually blue outermost arms.
Rolf Geissinger, that's a handsome portrait indeed of NGC 2264, the Christmas Tree Cluster and the Cone Nebula region. Hubble's variable nebula looks good, too!
Leo Dy, that's a very fine image of the constellation Gemini, taken with simple equipment. You bring out the starry richness at the Twin's feet and the "stellar near-desert" between their feet and heads.
Frank Sackenheim, that's a very fine picture of the Coalsack region, particularly the largest version of it. The cluster is of course the Jewel Box. (It is quite a coincidence, isn't it, that the Coalsack is right next to the Jewel Box?) That blue star is Beta Crucis, isn't it?
Dieter Willasch, I like the aqua-colored filamentary supernova remnant superimposed on the blobby red emission nebulae.
Gerrit Burggraaf, your use of the Hubble palette really brings out the high level of ionization near the Trapezium cluster in Orion.
Leonardo Orazi, thank you for that very fine portrait of one of my favorite galaxies, "the jumping pig" of IC 2574! (Although the pig is upside down in this image!)
José Joaquín Pérez, I'm not altogether sure I can see a cometary globule in your picture, but I can indeed see what looks like a kiddie ghost that is smiling while it is saying "Boooh!".
José Joaquín Pérez, that's a beautiful portrait of the Milky Way arcing over zodiacal light and the conjunction between Venus and Jupiter.
Seantos, I like all of your images! I like your very blue and pink Orion Nebula. I like Venus and Jupiter through a Saguaro Cactus, with the Pleiades looking down on them from above. I like your star trail image too, particularly because I think I can identify some of the trails - that "cluster" of blue trails on the right must be the Alpha Persei moving cluster. Your last image is very nice too, with Orion and the Hyades and Pleiades looking like sprinkled sugar or salt on the blue night sky. Tell me, what are those trees called? They look a bit like Araucaria araucana to me. We call them "apträd", monkey trees, in Swedish!
Starsurfer, your picture of Kronberger 61 is very fascinating, although I must say that the colors had me stumped at first. Only when I found out that this is a two-color image, made with OIII and Ha filters, did the colors make sense to me. The picture is of course very beautiful and full of interesting details - the "conjunction" between the planetary, the star to the left of it and the distant spiral galaxy is fascinating!
Thanks to everyone who posted images here!
Ann