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by **John Stetson** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 4:29 pm

ISS lunar transit 101111_(2) persp_12.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/42892564@N ... /lightbox/
Stereoscopic images of our moon date back to the mid 1800's. Daguerre tried to image the moon in 1839; a long unguided exposure produced a fuzzy ball. Warren de la Rue produced beautiful full-moon images in 1858 and 1859 (to catch lunar libration) for a stereoscopic presentation. Henry Draper completed a series of full-moon stereoscopic images in 1863.

by **ChrisKotsiopoulos** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 9:33 pm

Sunrise and the ancient temple of Poseidon at Sounio, Greece.
More info:
http://www.greeksky.gr/greeksky/slides/ ... rise01.htm

by **mexhunter** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 4:44 pm

Hemispheric Countersense.
Looking toward the poles, north and south, seems to be a hemispheric countersense in the rotation of the earth.
Copyright: César Cantú
Timelapse:

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

Compositive Image:

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Also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BKhzFOsEtY
http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... category/9

by **Rothkko** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 12:07 am

alejandra at sunset

: Los Canchales, Spain. 2012-11-27

by **Efrain Morales** » Thu Nov 29, 2012 8:14 pm

Jupiter on the 28th of November and within less then 100 hrs from opposition. The Grs now going to the dark side of the jovian disc and showing its trailing end disturbances wakes from within. The Moon Europa coming from behind of Jupiter showing some albedo features.

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by **echesak** » Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:48 pm

Sh2-112 & 115 + Filament Nebula
Here's an area East of Deneb shot in 3nm Ha. Included are Sh2-112/115. There are also some very interesting filament nebula on the Lower RHS of the frame, near the bright star. These extend all the way to the edge of the frame. The crop shows these in more detail (click to view the crop in detail).
Copyright C. Eric Chesak, 2012

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by **IanP** » Thu Nov 29, 2012 1:43 pm

Perth's Bell Tower points (trough Jupiter) to Hyades, Pleiads are on the left ..
Full-Moon (visible bottom part of the halo) was just above the Pleiads, but this time it was not the "subject" of the shot ......

by **tango33** » Thu Nov 29, 2012 10:23 am

A Dance in space:
The NGC 7331 Galaxy group and Stephan's quintet appear as in an endless dance in vast space.
Many small galaxies in the background join this dance...

Larger version:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/147515781

Thank you,

Kfir Simon

by **BZd** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 9:48 pm

The Moon: Perigee & Apogee
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bzd/
Copyright: Zoltán Bánfalvy

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I took the image on the left in May when the Full Moon was closest to Earth. The image on the right was taken seven Full Moons later, when it was farthest from our planet.

by **Seantos** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 7:32 pm

My latest and greatest Orion Nebula image. This was taken up at Kitt Peak Observatory a couple weeks ago. Total exposure time was around 12 minutes taken with the Canon 5DMKII through a TEC 140mm f/7 APO ED Refractor Telescope. — at Kitt Peak National Observatory.
Huge thank you to Astronomer Blythe Guvenen for allowing me to come up to photograph with him.

by **Bi2L** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:53 pm

Venus & Saturn Conjuction, 0,30°

by **Miguel Angel Spag** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:36 am

[attachment=0]Core_Spag.jpg[/attachment]
http://observatoriosspag.es/images/2012 ... eFINAL.jpg

Dia 12 de Noviembre-2012
Target: M31core
Place OAR-SPAG Monfrague (Caceres)
Camera STL-11000c2
Telescope MEWLON 10" F10
Mount TITAN 50
Subexpositions L: 12X600sg Bining x1 // RGB: 12 x 600sg, channel / Bining x1
Tracking AOL 0,7 Hz.
Filters Astronomik

Enjoy
Miguel Angel Garcia Borrella

by **Efrain Morales** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 6:08 am

ViliMax wrote:
Efrain Morales wrote:Jupiter on November 18th, 05:30ut. Beautiful up-drifts, Festoons and many small ovals throughout the regions. The GRS and Oval Ba has transit
ed across the disc with a dramatic trailing tail of disturbances and the Dark cyclonic oval its walls seems to be making contact with the Oval Ba's walls.
Equipment: LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, Flea3 Ccd, TeleVue 3x barlows, Astronomik RGB filter at 55 sec. per channel.
http://www.jaicoa-observatory.com/Jupit ... -R-EMr.jpg
Your Jupiter images are perfect ... congratulations

Thank you very much ViliMax!, I appreciate much my friend!

by **templec** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 7:34 pm

Sh2-157 - Lobster Claw Nebula in Bicolor
http://cntastro.smugmug.com/Astrophotog ... 273_zd5krv
Copyright: Craig & Tammy Temple

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Sh2-157 - Lobster Claw Nebula in HST
http://cntastro.smugmug.com/Astrophotog ... 176_3B9Bv5
Copyright: Craig & Tammy Temple

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Sh2-157 - Lobster Claw Nebula in "modified" HST
http://cntastro.smugmug.com/Astrophotog ... 176_3B9Bv5
Copyright: Craig & Tammy Temple

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by **starsurfer** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 6:26 pm

markh@tds.net wrote:NGC 1555 Hind's variable Nebula
Copyright Mark Hanson

Here is an image of NGC 1555 Hind's variable Nebula as well as 4 Herbig-Haro Objects HH355 D, E, F as well as another at the top of the image. I didn't knwo much about these objects until this image, I noticed them but had to do some searching to find out what they were. A larger version of this image can be found on my website at : http://www.btlguce.com/

Mark

OMG that's amazing!! Your image shows the giant Herbig Haro outflow HH 355, which was discovered only in 1997!!! It's a shame that other imagers don't include Ha exposures.

by **Randy Shivak** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 4:35 pm

Dramatic AR1620 Surge filament captured on Nov. 25th.

: Dramatic AR1620 Surge filament captured on Nov. 25th. Imaged with Astro-Physics 152mm F8 and DayStar Quantum PE .5 Angstrom Filter. 3000mm EFL

by **nuclearcat** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 3:49 pm

Saturn and Venus are 1/2^o apart in these pictures. Mercury is also visible below.

Copyright: M. Raşid Tuğral

by **ViliMax** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 8:53 am

Efrain Morales wrote:Jupiter on November 18th, 05:30ut. Beautiful up-drifts, Festoons and many small ovals throughout the regions. The GRS and Oval Ba has transit
ed across the disc with a dramatic trailing tail of disturbances and the Dark cyclonic oval its walls seems to be making contact with the Oval Ba's walls.
Equipment: LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, Flea3 Ccd, TeleVue 3x barlows, Astronomik RGB filter at 55 sec. per channel.
http://www.jaicoa-observatory.com/Jupit ... -R-EMr.jpg

Your Jupiter images are perfect ... congratulations

by **ViliMax** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 8:50 am

NGC 6946 (Arp 29, UGC 11597) - Spiral Galaxy type Scd, in Cepheus

http://www.elateobservatory.com
http://www.irida-observatory.org

Copyright: Velimir Popov

NGC 6946, also known as the Fireworks Galaxy, is a face-on spiral galaxy about 10 million light years away beyond a multitude of forground stars within our own galaxy. It spans nearly 40000 light-years across. Nine supernovae have been discovered in NGC 6946 since 1917, which is a sign of an abnormally high star formation rate.

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Large scale and more information is avaliable here ...

Thank you for looking ...

by **philto** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 8:02 am

hi,
please find here an HDR image of moon taken the october 19th.
process by registax 5, CS5 and photomatix 4.2 pro with intensive fusion of two images exposed 0.015 and 0.03 sec.
C.14 with 24x36 mm lumenera and red filter W.29.
image by Philippe TOSI (France- Nîmes)
best regards

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by **Efrain Morales** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 4:31 pm

Jupiter on November 18th, 05:30ut. Beautiful up-drifts, Festoons and many small ovals throughout the regions. The GRS and Oval Ba has transit
ed across the disc with a dramatic trailing tail of disturbances and the Dark cyclonic oval its walls seems to be making contact with the Oval Ba's walls.
Equipment: LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, Flea3 Ccd, TeleVue 3x barlows, Astronomik RGB filter at 55 sec. per channel.

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by **Ayiomamitis** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 2:48 pm

Partial Penumbral Eclipse (Aug 6th, 2009)
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Eclipses-2009-08-06.htm
Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis

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An analysis involving the partial penumbral eclipse on Aug 6th, 2009 involving the partial entry of the full moon in the penumbra. The first image involves the full moon four minutes prior to first contact whereas the second image involves the full moon at its maximum entry into the penumbra.

The image labelled "Diff-1" is the difference between the two earlier images and where a hint of partial immersion into the penumbra is revealed in the lower third of the lunar disk. A nonlinear adjustment was applied to the "Diff-1" image so as to make the small difference in the lower lunar limb more visible (as per "Diff-2").

All camera exposure settings were purposely the same for the two original images with RAW format purposely used so that the camera on-board software would not tamper in any way with the recording of the images themselves.

Anthony.

by **markh@tds.net** » Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:07 pm

NGC 1555 Hind's variable Nebula
Copyright Mark Hanson

Here is an image of NGC 1555 Hind's variable Nebula as well as 4 Herbig-Haro Objects HH355 D, E, F as well as another at the top of the image. I didn't knwo much about these objects until this image, I noticed them but had to do some searching to find out what they were. A larger version of this image can be found on my website at : http://www.btlguce.com/

Mark

by **paulbeskeen** » Sun Nov 25, 2012 10:46 pm

M42 - The Great Orion Nebula

Detail Crop

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Full frame

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Details, crops and higher resolution images: http://www.beskeen.com/gallery/nebula/m42/m42.shtml

Copyright: Paul Beskeen

by **markh@tds.net** » Sun Nov 25, 2012 10:39 pm

Emil Ivanov wrote:NGC 1555 (Hind's Variable Nebula) and surroundings
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/NGC1555_m.htm
Copyright: Emil Ivanov
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Despite NGC 1555 is often imaged object, there are only few images showing wider FOV of this region. Initially I thought that the zebra-like pattern in the MC is due to some processing artefacts, but this image of Thomas V. Davis convinced me that they are real .
Details on the webpage, larger image here

Nice job on this object, Im working on this same object.
Mark

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