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Recent Submissions: 2011 February 1-3

Post by owlice » Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:03 am

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Please post your images here for February 1-3.

If you need instructions on posting images, please see this thread.

Thank you!
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NGC6992 Veil Nebula in Ha and Oiii
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Copyright: Fred Herrmann
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Venus and the Waning Crescent Moon
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Copyright: John Chumack
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Re: Recent Submissions: 2011 February 1-3

Post by lup974 » Tue Feb 01, 2011 2:35 pm

Me and the Milky Way
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Copyright: Luc Perrot For this self-portrait, I had the idea to placing me right at the base of the Milky Way. The South Cross is located just above my head. In the top right of the image, we see the LMC and the brilliant Canopus
Location: Plaine des Sables (2200m) / Réunion Island.
Date: January 26, 2011

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Post by Ann » Tue Feb 01, 2011 7:07 pm

Luc Perrot, that's a beautiful image! With the clouds "radiating away" from the horizon and the bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud apparently being "catapulted away" in the same direction, it almost looks as if you were setting off a super-fantastic cosmic fireworks display, with multicolored lights popping everywhere overhead and streamers of stars flying away above us!

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Post by Paul Haese » Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:45 pm

I took this image at my dark sky site with a 4" TSA refractor and QSI camera.
I hope you consider it worthy of selection
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Post by davidebardini » Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:09 pm

The Lagoon Nebula - reminds to summer time
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Post by lup974 » Wed Feb 02, 2011 8:00 am

it almost looks as if you were setting off a super-fantastic cosmic fireworks display
I was looking for a good title for this photo. "Cosmic Fireworks" seems to be a great idea. Thanks a lot Ann! :D

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Post by Ann » Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:12 am

That's a very fine image of the Orion Nebula, Paul Haese. I like the structural detail, the varying degrees of "illumination" across the face of the nebula, and the colors.

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Post by Céline Richard » Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:15 pm

Hello :)

Here is a colorful drawing, published in the newspaper "Le Parisien", on Sunday 15th May 1910. At this time, the Halley cometa appeared in the sky, thus parisians went out to see it, at night, on the roofs of the city. The Halley cometa aroused everybody's curiosity.

I hope you enjoy it :)

Céline

PS: credits for the Observatory of Paris, where i have taken the picture.
I wanted to attach a bigger picture, but maximum allowed size is 320 KiB. It is strange because sometimes i have the impression i can attach bigger picture. I assume maybe it is due to the fact this picture is a "macro" (little, for instance when you take flowers, very closely, in picture) with a "flash" (light).
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Post by marioweigand » Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:21 pm

The Horsehead nebula
Copyright: Mario Weigand
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http://www.skytrip.de/deepsky/ic434-2011-01-30a.jpg

Optics: Pentax 105/670 SDP
Camera: SBIG STL-11000
Mount: 10Micron GM2000
Location: Riedelbach (Germany)


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Post by PeterR » Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:41 pm

Here is a colorful drawing, published in the newspaper "Le Parisien", on Sunday 15th May 1910. At this time, the Halley cometa appeared in the sky, thus parisians went out to see it, at night, on the roofs of the city. The Halley cometa aroused everybody's curiosity.
As a student I used to live in Paris in the 1970-ies and went out to the suburbs in 1973 with some friend to observe Kohoutek, the "comet of the century". We were approached by an old man who told us about his observations of Halleys comet in 1910. My expectations were very high for the next 13 years waiting for the hyped return of Halley in 1986 but it was a big let-down just like Kohotek had been previously. But still, I was under the impression of observing an historic comet thanks to the encounter with that old man.

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Post by ftherrmann » Wed Feb 02, 2011 7:59 pm

The Rosette
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Post by echesak » Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:53 pm

Hi, This is my first post here. I wanted to share my 8 frame mosaic of the Orion region. This was shot over 9 nights from my backyard in El Paso, Texas. Total exposure time is about 30 hours. The final image is HUGE, over 60 megapixels.

Equipment used:
Takahashi FSQ-106ED with Astrodon MMOAG
Fingerlakes Instruments ML11002 CCD
Baader Ha filter
Losmandy G11 Gemini, with an Ovision worm
Guided with a Meade DSI Pro
Stacked & Calibrated in Maxim DL, Registered in Registar and assembled and Photoshop

Thanks for looking,

Eric

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Post by lodrigj » Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:19 am

Perseus
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Copyright 2011 Jerry Lodriguss

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Click on the image above to see a high-resolution version and a mouse-over with object and constellation identifications.

There's also a little visitor present. For a small challenge, see if you can find it and figure out what it is before you do the mouse-over.

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Post by Ann » Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:43 am

That's a delightfully detailed image, Jerry! I love it. :D

This is what I found in the picture:
For me as a color freak, the blue color of Epsilon Persei (to the left of the California Nebula) just jumped out at me, and with a color index of -0.199, it is probably the bluest-looking of the stars in this area.

A more modest patch of color also called attention to itself. A small rather faint green patch to the lower right of the obvious Double Cluster, and forming a small strongly colored triangle with orange K-type giant Eta Persei and white G-type Gamma Persei. What was the green patch? Why, Comet Hartley, of course! :D

The faintness of the famous Heart and Soul Nebulae in Cassiopeia was also interesting, particularly when you compare them with the California Nebula. Of course the Heart and Soul Nebulae are intrinsically brighter and much farther away. It's also fun to compare the faint reddish color of the Heart and Soul Nebulae with the much more magenta-pink color of NGC 281 in the upper left corner. NGC 281 is not nearly as reddened by dust as IC 1805 and 1§848, the Heart and Soul Nebulae.
Thanks for that cosmic treasure trove, Jerry! :D

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Post by Ann » Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:54 am

Hmm - maybe I shouldn't have written that, if people want to take Jerry's challenge seriously. I don't know how to use the spoiler function. Owlice, can you edit my post and just keep the first line, then add "This is what I found in the picture" and then use the spoiler function to hide the rest?

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Post by owlice » Thu Feb 03, 2011 2:11 am

Good idea, Ann, and done!

The "spoiler" tag works just like the others: highlight what you want in the spoiler, and click the spoiler button. Cool tag, I think!
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Post by owlice » Thu Feb 03, 2011 2:29 am

IC2177: Seagull Nebula in Narrowband
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Post by ftherrmann » Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:22 pm

NGC4244 Galaxy
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