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Panorama at 180 degrees showing the northern lights in the Norway's sky http://astrophotography.fr/ Copyright: JL Dauvergne http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/x34l2m73S.jpg (file size is 300 kb) On the right you can see Jupiter and on the left, the Summer Triangle. I took this panorama last dec...

Hello, this is an uncuted video of 5 hours of auroras at 30x. Hope you enjoy it. http://www.vimeo.com/55783446 More info in description: http://www.vimeo.com/55783446 Very impressive ! And funny, I was also at Vasatoka just few days ago, but the weather was not so good. I've juste this photo of the...

Jupiter, Pleiades and Hyades behind the northern lights astrophotography.fr Copyright: JL Dauvergne [attachment=2]Aurora2_Dauvergne.jpg[/attachment] http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/Jupiterhyades2.jpg [attachment=1]Aurora3_Dauvergne.jpg[/attachment] http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/jupi...

Old fisherman's boats under the northern lights http://astrophotography.fr/ Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne [attachment=0]Aurora_Dauvergne.jpg[/attachment] http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/IMG_9465ts.jpg Thanks to a huge coronal hole last week, beautifull auroras were visible in Norway like thi...

Aurora over salmons http://astrophotography.fr/ Copyright: JL Dauvergne [attachment=0]Salmon_Dauvergne.jpg[/attachment] http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/Panorama%20sans%20titre1T.jpg In this period of christmas, many people savor smoked salmon. Most of it in Europe come from Norway. Salmons a...

Frost, Fire and Northern Lights in Iceland



Jean-Luc Dauvergne
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Northern light with a very bright meteor over le Jökulsárlón lake in Iceland URL : http://astrophotography.fr/ Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/jokulmeteore.jpg I thought that I missed this very bright and impressive meteor (brighter than Venus). Fortunatly I had...

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Jean-Luc Dauvergne
http://astrophotography.fr

Northerne lights over the Jökulsárlón http://astrophotography.fr/ Jean-Luc Dauvergne http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/jokulsarlon.jpg Last week I was in Iceland and the biggest auroral activity occured when I was at the Jökulsárlón. It means "glacial river lagoon" in Icelandic. The ...

A DC3 lost on the black sands of th e Islandic south coast http://astrophotography.fr/ Jean-Luc Dauvergne http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/dakota.jpg http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/dakotab.jpg http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/dakotab2.jpg http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/d...

The Pic du Midi observatory. This film was done between 2011 and 2012 at the Pic du Midi Observatory. It mainly shows the 1 meter telescope cofinanced in the early 60's by NASA in order to prepare Apollo Missions. It's still one of the best telescopes in the world for high resolution imaging of plan...

The Moon form the Pic du Midi Observatory Thierry Legault http://www.astrophoto.fr/ Christian Viladrich http://www.astrosurf.com/viladrich/indexf.html Marc Delcroix http://www.astrosurf.com/delcroix/ François Colas http://www.imcce.fr/fr/presentation/personnels/personnels.php?uid=colas Jean-Luc Dau...

ALMA reach the halfway http://astrophotography.fr/ Copyright: JL Dauvergne / Ciel et Espace On 12 may 2012, one more antenna have been add on the plateau of Chajnantor, bringing the total number to 33 for the first time : the half of the total number. So now ALMA is halfway : http://www.almaobserva...

Venus and Jupiter over Paranal http://astrophotography.fr/ JL Dauvergne / Ciel et Espace http://astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/vlt2.jpg To have a different point of view of what we usualy see of Paranal observaoty, I've been outside, on the road. With the end of the sun set, Jupiter, Venus and the Ple...

Road to the sky http://astrophotography.fr/ JL Dauvergne / Ciel et Espace http://astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/vlt.jpg This is the VLT observatory as seen from Vista's plateform. I like this point of view, it's like an invitation to go to the top. The road with very faint lights powered by batteries ...

Men working in the shadow of the observatory http://astrophotography.fr/ JL Dauvergne / Ciel et Espace http://astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/vista.jpg Thanks to guys like Guillaume Blanchard, an observatory at the state of the art like Paranal can produce good science every days. Guillaume is an optic...

Vénus, the Moon, Jupiter and the Pleiades from Paris http://astrophotography.fr/ Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne [attachment=0]conjunctionParisObs.jpg[/attachment] http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/lunevenus26032012.jpg A nice weather toonight in Paris. The astronomer François Colas show us the ...

Full rotation of Jupiter http://astrophotography.fr/ Copyright: S2P / IMCCE / OPM / JL Dauvergne / Elie Rousset / Eric Meza / Philippe Tosi / François Colas / Jean Pajus / Xavi Nogués / Emil Kraaikamp http://vimeo.com/31170870 To celebrate Jupiter's opposition, I'm proud to submite you this animati...

Full rotation of Jupiter http://astrophotography.fr/ Copyright: S2P / IMCCE / OPM / JL Dauvergne / Elie Rousset / Eric Meza / Philippe Tosi / François Colas / Jean Pajus / Xavi Nogués / Emil Kraaikamp http://vimeo.com/31170870 To celebrate Jupiter opposition, I'm proud to submite you this animation...

Yes but may be we could try with a narrow band filter, it's a little bit like lonnking for HII proeminences around the sun. We have not tried yet, but we are thinkind about it

The most impressive image of the run for me is this one : This one puch the limits from the ground over

I wonder if the pros are doing what the amateur planetary imagers have been doing - take LOTS of short photos, use software to choose the best, then average the best to reduce noise. I imagine that a well-funded highly sensitive professional grade camera would beat the pants off of the webcams amat...

Io and Ganymed ballet aroud Jupiter http://astrophotography.fr/ Copyright: S2P/IMCCE/Obs. Midi Pyrénées / JL Dauvergne / F Colas Observatory : http://www.bagn.obs-mip.fr/webcamV2/ Telescope : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm3h2e_mOjI http://www.cieletespace.fr/files/image_du_jour/jupiter2011101322...

Ganymede getting out of the shadow
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Copyright: JL Dauvergne Very funy configuration : Ganymede is getting out of the shadow just before passing behind the north pole of Jupiter.

Very sharp Jupiter from the ground http://astrophotography.fr/ http://www.bagn.obs-mip.fr/webcamV2/ Copyright: © S2P / IMCCE / Obs. Midi Pyrénées /JL Dauvergne / E Rousset / E Meza / P Tosi http://astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/jupiter12octobre21h51.jpg Thanks to the very good sky of the Pic du Midi O...