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[owlice]

Jupiter with Ganymede
Copyright: Jim Phillips
[attachment=5]2011Aug21JupiterJHP10-29LT.jpg[/attachment]

IC 5068: The Paint Box in Cygnus
http://www.gordonrogers.co.uk
Copyright: Gordon Rogers
[attachment=4]ic5068agxHBMappedAnnotated.jpg[/attachment]

M27: The Dumbbell Nebula in Vulpecula
http://www.martinpughastrophotography.i ... adband.jpg
Copyright: Martin Pugh
[attachment=3]m27_pugh.jpg[/attachment]

Helix Nebula
Copyright: Carlos Malagon
[attachment=2]la foto_carlos.jpg[/attachment]

Unpaved Roads
http://www.AstroArn.com
Copyright: Robert Arn
[attachment=1]unpaved roads red.jpg[/attachment]

August 6 Aurora
Copyright: Philippe Moussette
[attachment=0]aur6août11_3.jpg[/attachment]

[owlice]

NGC 7000: The North America and Pelican Nebulae
http://www.philippemoussette.com
Copyright: Philippe Moussette
[attachment=4]ngc7000_10juil11.jpg[/attachment]

Solar Halo from CTIO
http://www.lcogt.net
Copyright: John Martinez and James Baumann, LCOGT
[attachment=3]canon digital elph_20110823_953am.jpg[/attachment]

Mammatus Clouds
Copyright: Gerry Smerchanski
[attachment=2]Mammatus 1.jpg[/attachment]

NGC6888: The Crescent Nebula in Cygnus
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizarranet ... otostream/
Copyright: Mikel Martínez
[attachment=1]Mikel_Martinez_Veil.jpg[/attachment]

Moon from a Balcony in Framingham, MA
Copyright: Arthur W. Stafford
[attachment=0]BestMoonShot.JPG[/attachment]

[Infrared Vision]

Melotte 15: In the Heart of the Heart

Copyright: Manuel Fernández. Infrared Observatory
León, Spain
http://www.elfirmamento.com/galeria/n_b ... _2000.html

Click to view full size image

[templec]

Cederblad 214 in Hubble Palette
http://cntastro.smugmug.com/
Copyright: 2011 Craig & Tammy Temple

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[owlice]

Jupiter, the Ruler of Gods and Planets
Copyright: John Rozakis
[attachment=3]test-2.jpg[/attachment]

Bridge of Preveli in Grand River
http://astrofarma.gr/
Copyright: Farmakopoulos Antonis
[attachment=2]ursabridge.jpg[/attachment]

Sacred Space
http://exploringsacredspace.com/Sacred_ ... twork.html
Copyright: Kristen Vasques

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Full Solar Disk Hydrogen Alpha Mosaic
http://www.galacticimages.com
Copyright: John Chumack
[attachment=1]Sun_082511FullMosaicChumackHRweb.jpg[/attachment]

Melotte 15 in IC1805
http://www.elfirmamento.com/galeria/n_b ... _1000.html
Copyright: Manuel Fernandez Suarez
[attachment=0]Melotte-15_Manuel-Fernandez_900.jpg[/attachment]

[owlice]

Full Moon over Itanos
Copyright: Sotiris Karanikas
[attachment=2]itanos full moon.jpg[/attachment]

IC 1396
http://www.yesterdaycolors.org
Copyright: François Chevenet
[attachment=1]IC1396-chevenet.jpg[/attachment]

Messier 6 from the Southern Hemisphere
http://www.baskies.com.ar/PHOTOS/M6%20LHaRGB.htm
Copyright: Sergio Eguivar
[attachment=0]M6 LHaRGB.jpg[/attachment]

[Ann]

Farmakopoulos Antonis, your Bridge of Preveli in Grand River is fantastically beautiful. The soft reddish-brown, green and tan colors of the forground contrast beautifully with the blue of the sky and the river. The composition is lovely. The Big Dipper is almost surrealistically clear and bright and placed perfectly above the bridge. We can even see one star reflected bright and perfect in the still water of the river - would that be Merak, Beta Ursa Majoris, the lower of the two pointer stars?

Note the stars above the Big Dipper. They belong to Draco, the dragon wrapping itself around the northernmost parts of the heavens. The reddest of the stars, pretty much right above the pointer stars of the Big Dipper, is Lambda Draco, a cool M-type star. (Why does "Lambda Draco" remind me of Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter universe?) To the upper left of Lambda Draco is Kappa Draco, an intrinsically bright blue B-type star. The blue star at top is Thuban, Alpha Draco, a blue A-type giant that was the Pole star around 2700 BC!

Ann

[Ann]

Sergio Eguivar, your portrait of M6 is fantastically clear and beautiful. Note in the large version how stars tend up to line up in "chains". Note how, between the "head" and the "body" of the butterfly shape of M6, there are two lines of circa tenth magnitude stars, which together form the shape of a "V". How lovely!

The image is just wonderfully resolved, and the colors are splendid!

Ann

[Emilio_R]

M27
http://astrosurf.com/emilio/
Copyright: Emilio Rivero Padilla
[attachment=0]PRUEBA_G_ap.jpg[/attachment]

[owlice]

Sh2-96: Supernova Remnant in Cygnus
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-DSO-Nebulae-Sh2-96.htm
Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis
[attachment=1]dso-nebulae-sh2-96-850pix.jpg[/attachment]

Moonrise in the Alps
http://www.flickr.com/photos/herbraab/
Copyright: Herbert Raab
[attachment=0]moonrise_in_the_alps_50.jpg[/attachment]

[owlice]

NGC 7635: Bubble Nebula with Open Cluster M52
http://www.ccdcam-astrophotography.net/
Copyright: Gérard Finet
[attachment=3]finet_bubble nebula 2011 b.jpg[/attachment]

Nemrut Dagi National Park
Copyright: Tunç Tezel
[attachment=2]nemrutwtmilky.jpg[/attachment]

Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae
http://www.theastrogeeks.com
Copyright: Charles Lillo
[attachment=1]lagoontrifid.jpg[/attachment]

IC1831 Region in Cassiopeia
http://www.newforestobservatory.com/
Copyright: Greg Parker
[attachment=0]ic1831_gjp_proc.jpg[/attachment]

[Guest]

Scorpius over the 1.6 m telescope of the Pico dos Dias Observatory (Brazópolis, MG, Brazil)
Copyright: Tania Dominici (MCTI/LNA)
http://www.lna.br/~tdominici/IMG_0029.JPG (very large file)
[attachment=0]brazil.jpg[/attachment]

[AlexMaragos]

A Starry Night at Syros island, Greece
Copyright: Alexandros Maragos
http://www.alexandrosmaragos.com

Click to view larger image

[astrohack]

McMath Sunset

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

Video of the sun setting behind the McMath Solar telescope atop Kitt Peak in southern Arizona USA. Video was obtained on August 28th, 2011, 12.2 miles from the observatory using a Questar 3.5 and a Canon 5D Mark II camera in video mode at 1080p. A full aperture thousand Oaks Solar filter was used to mitigate the extreme brightness of the Sun's disk. Video is sped up by a factor of 2 for brevity.

© David A. Harvey 2011

[dmkdmkdmk]

Moonrise at Gries lake
www.mylandscape.ch
Copyright: David Kaplan

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[elettrorider]

NGC7023, Iris Nebula
http://stefanofocosi.altervista.org/ast ... 011_HI.jpg
Copyright: Stefano Focosi

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[RafaRo]

C/2009 P1 vs M71 August 26, 2011
http://www.skyandphoto.com

Copyright: Rafael Rodriguez

Click to expand. See link below for full size image.

http://www.skyandphoto.com/photos/Plane ... _FINAL.jpg

[Paul Haese]

Eruptive prominence on Sol

Copyright: Paul Haese

Click here for larger and more impressive image

[attachment=0]Haese_sun.jpg[/attachment]

http://paulhaese.net/Solar%20Images/mos ... 202011.jpg

Sol's is getting more active as cycle 24 progresses. While active regions are smallish the prominences are steeling the show.

[owlice]

Sun Symphony, 1st and 2nd Movements
http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_p ... phony.html
Copyright: Alan Friedman
[attachment=6]sun_symphony.jpg[/attachment]

Widefield of Scorpius
https://picasaweb.google.com/UserRobF/R ... 8361393186
Copyright: Robert Flatman
[attachment=5]flatman.jpg[/attachment]

Kirazli Summer Milky Way
Copyright: Tunç Tezel
[attachment=4]kirazlisummermilky.jpg[/attachment]

IC 1396 in Cepheus
http://mtanous.mine.nu/iweb/astropix/IC1396.html
Copyright: Jose Mtanous
[attachment=3]Mtanous.jpg[/attachment]

Jupiter
http://www.galacticimages.com
Copyright: John Chumack
[attachment=2]Jupiter083011_ChumackLRweb.jpg[/attachment]

Mammatus Clouds
Copyright: Gerry Smerchanski
[attachment=1]Mammatus 7.jpg[/attachment]

Seychelles Beach Sky
http://www.greeksky.gr/files/photos/lan ... 3Chris.htm
Copyright: Chris Kotsiopoulos
[attachment=0]20110803maganitispanobig.jpg[/attachment]

[owlice]

Fallstreak Hole (Punch Hole Cloud)
Copyright: Adam Allerhand
[attachment=1]dsc01337.jpg[/attachment]

ISS Pass and the Milky Way
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rangerbob/ ... hotostream
Copyright: Lance Taylor

Click to view larger image

[Ann]

I haven't gotten around to commenting on it before, but to me as a lover of blue things, Martin Pugh's portrait of M27 is the most beautiful one I've seen of this particular planetary. I really like the "dynamic details" of the nebula, too. A "bar" or "jet" which looks bright "inside" the main oval nebula becomes extremely dark outside. Suddenly the dark "jets" seem to hit something and break sharply. Two bluish curved "trails" are, well, "trailing" behind, as if the entire nebula was rotating clockwise. Really fascinating and beautiful!

I also love Mikel Martínez portrait of the Crescent Nebula in Cygnus. I love how the image seems to combine the advantages of "narrow-banding" with the advantages of an RGB image. The details both of the large red hydrogen alpha structure and the small Crescent Nebula dominated by OIII emission are fantastic, and the overall color balance is delightful.

Robert Arn and David Kaplan are two well-known astrophotographers. Their images here are very beautiful and perfectly composed.

There are no less than three Jupiter portraits here, and I like all three of them. Jupiter is such a handsome planet! It's fantastic to see Ganymede, the largest moon of the solar system, peek out over Jupiter's "shoulder". And John Rozakis' portrait of the Ruler of Gods and Planets is fantastic. The cloud details are so sharp, the colors are very satisfying, and Jupiter almost shows off a "face" in this image! The round cloud feature with a dark interior in the middle of the North Equatorial Belt could almost be an eye. The oblong dark feature in the same Equatorial Belt could perhaps be a misshapen other eye! And the Great Red Spot would be the mouth, of course!

And the Fallstreak Hole (Punch Hole Cloud) image looks rather amazing, Adam Allerhand.

Scorpius is an extremely beautiful constellation, and Robert Flatman does it splendid justice.

Gerry Smerchanski, I like both your mammatus cloud pictures! What a sky show that must have been!

Finally, thanks for submitting your beautiful skyscape painting, Kristen Vasques!

Ann

[islader2]

Ann {without an E} IMHO Preveli Bridge is the best. Thanks for all the work you do to keep us astro-nuts feasting our eyes on such magnificent pictures and your superb explanations with such cool demeanor.

[bystander]

Ann {without an E} IMHO Preveli Bridge is the best. Thanks for all the work you do to keep us astro-nuts feasting our eyes on such magnificent pictures and your superb explanations with such cool demeanor.

It is owlice who keeps this thread running. Ann just comments on the pictures.

[islader2]

bystander: I have reading this "blog" long enough to know and admire deeply the work that owlice does. Ann has commented on the Bridge picture==and I wanted to agree with her and add a well-deserved kudo. owlice has my infinite gratitude==How else could I say it? Thanx.