Recent Submissions: 2011 October 6-9

[ChrisKotsiopoulos]

Fire in the sky! This is an image sequence containing 70 lightning shots, taken at Ikaria island during a severe thunderstorm that took place the night of the total lunar eclipse at June 15, 2011. In order to make the sequence, I set the camera to a tripod taking 20 second shots. After 83 minutes I ended up with approximately 90 lightning shots. I had to exclude around 20 because the photo condensed so much that didn't look nice. Also, in many shots I have captured more than one lightning. I believe that the number of actual lightning captured that night is more than 100.
Thanks.
Chris.
http://www.greeksky.gr

[moladso]

Startrails and spanish rural landscape
Aditional information regarding this image and full sized picture: www.astronomica.es
Copyright: Jaime Fernandez

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[azstarman]

Hi,

Here are two images of IC1396 (The Elephant Trunk Nebula); One in LRGB and one in HaLRGB.

[attachment=1]azstarman1.jpg[/attachment]http://www.azstarman.net/images/IC1396_PS2_15x11.jpg

[attachment=0]azstarman2.jpg[/attachment]http://www.azstarman.net/images/IC1396_PS2_Ha_15x11.jpg

Thanks for looking.

Bernard