Recent Submissions: 2011 December 1-4

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:56 am

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ki_cz · Post by **ki_cz** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 2:36 pm

I would like to submit some more recent images for APOD consideration. In order of most recent to oldest:

Pleiades over Snezka mountain in the Czech Republic

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Venus setting over low clouds in the Czech Republic during sunset

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Moon and tiny Venus during sunset over low clouds in the Czech Republic

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Earthshine moon setting over St. Lawrence Church in Prague

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Earthshine moon setting over St. Lawrence Church in Prague

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Earthshine moon over Petrin tower in Prague

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Earthshine moon and Venus setting over Prague

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More from the same sets can be found at www.15sunrises.com as well as www.facebook.com/15sunrises . Thanks for looking

zonalunar · Post by **zonalunar** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 8:44 pm

Sharpless SH2-117
Copyright: Alfonso Carreño
http://www.zonalunar.com

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/2926/s ... 2011mr.jpg

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/8493 ... 2011sv.jpg

Best Regards.

BERNIER Francois · Post by **BERNIER Francois** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:09 pm

Orion wide-field - M42 and IC434
Copyright: BERNIER François
http://astronomie-astrophotographie.fr

[attachment=0]bernier.jpg[/attachment]
http://francois.bernier.fr.free.fr/phot ... RETTES.jpg

Best Regards

BERNIER François

Outters.Nicolas · Post by **Outters.Nicolas** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 10:53 am

Title of image

This is Abell 85 on narrowband.
This object is very very faint and I need to do more than 60 hours of exposure to have a good S/N.

http://outters.fr/Abell85-tec140-proline-s2Hao3.html
Copyright: Outters Nicolas

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To see the full frame :
http://outters.fr/images%20site%20astro/Abell85.jpg

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 10:57 am

Seven Times Earth's Size
http://www.galacticimages.com
Copyright: John Chumack
[attachment=6]sun2xSuperProminence113011_ChumackHRweb.jpg[/attachment]

Crane and Spots
http://dhinakarrajaram.blogspot.com/
Copyright: Rajaram Dhinakar
[attachment=5]CraneSpots.jpg[/attachment]

Prominence at the Eastern Limb
http://ceastronomy.org/tramakers
Copyright: Theo Ramakers

[attachment=4]Sun-Ha-M-046-625-260-Com1 11-11-30 10-21-05InvCrpTxt.jpg[/attachment]

[attachment=3]Sun-Ha-N-046-256-260-Com2 11-11-30 10-31-08InvTxt.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 7552: Barred Spiral Galaxy in Grus
http://www.gemini.edu/node/11697
Copyright: Benjamin Reynolds (Sutherland Shire Christian School), Travis Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage), and the Australian Gemini Office
[attachment=2]NGC 7552_Reynolds.jpg[/attachment]

Deep Field of Simeis 147
http://starrysite.com/index.php?site=galleryitem,321
Copyright: Michał Żołnowski
[attachment=1]simeis final mini.jpg[/attachment]

M1: Crab Nebula in Polarized Light
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de
Copyright: David Muelheims, Argelander Institute for Astronomy, University of Bonn
[attachment=0]M_1-L-X-RGB.jpg[/attachment]

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 12:44 pm

Sharpless 2-170 in Narrowband, Hubble Palette
Copyright: Kelvin Phoon
[attachment=4]Sh2-170-S2HaO3 Phoon.jpg[/attachment]

Celestial Illumination
http://www.flickr.com/photos/salomonsen/6424624257/
Copyright: Ole C. Salomonsen
[attachment=3]oleaurora.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 7331 and Hickson 92
http://www.deep-sky-images.de
Copyright: Markus Noller
[attachment=2]NGC7331klein.jpg[/attachment]

Light on the Dog
Copyright: Jack Fusco
[attachment=1]Jack_Fusco-Finding_Sirius_Sm.jpg[/attachment]

Sh2-239: Impasto on a Celestial Scale
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/sh2_239.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

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Superstars in the Dragonfish's Mouth
http://iopscience.iop.org/2041-8205/743/2/L28
Copyright: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GLIMPSE Team/Mubdi Rahman
[attachment=0]dragonfish.jpg[/attachment]

kwon o chul · Post by **kwon o chul** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 4:03 pm

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2011.Sep. Yellowknife, Canada.
photo by Kwon, O Chul.

darkfire · Post by **darkfire** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 7:57 pm

Possible new nebula near M78?

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http://astrob.in/full/1495/

Roberto Barcellona
rbarcellona@tin.it

asymon · Post by **asymon** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:25 pm

Sharpless 239
http://www.woodlandsobservatory.com
Alistair Symon

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Emil Ivanov · Post by **Emil Ivanov** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:26 pm

Cederblad 214 and the inner part of NGC 7822
http://www.emilivanov.com
Copyright: Emil Ivanov

In HST palette

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In "Visual perception" palette

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Hi-res and details could be found here

SkyViking · Post by **SkyViking** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 7:52 pm

The Circumstellar Disc around Beta Pictoris
http://www.pbase.com/rolfolsen/astro_photography
Copyright: Rolf Wahl Olsen

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My recent image of the circumstellar disc around Beta Pictoris created quite a lot of attention from amateurs and professionals alike and I thought I'd show you a much improved version based on new data I collected on 30th November. This time I used many more subframes and shorter exposures which brings out details closer to the star.
Full details and analysis can be found on my site here: http://www.pbase.com/rolfolsen/beta_pictoris

Ann · Post by **Ann** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 2:28 am

I am perhaps a bit early here, but since we are talking about Recent Submissions 2011 December 1-4 and it is already the 5th here, as I'm writing this, I'll go ahead and post it.

ki_cz, you have contributed many images here, and they are all beautiful. Thank you!

Alfonso Carreño, you bring out the high excitation of the North America Nebula compared with the Pelican Nebula.

I like images that bring out the proximity of and yet the difference between the Horsehead area and the Orion Nebula. You do that very well, François Bernier. (Surely that is your name?)

There are many good solar images here. John Chumack, your Sun image shows us both the solar granulation, some sunspots and a mighty solar flare. Theo Ramakers, your images do the same. Rajaram Dhinakar, you image is nice and original.

David Muelheims, I like the rainbow-like flashes of color from the Crab Nebula in polarized light.

Kelvin Phoon, I like your image a lot! It really reminds me of a the appearance of the largest known volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, except that you nebula is a lot more colorful!

Ole C. Salomonsen and kwon o chul, you have both photographed some great auroras.

Markus Noller, I always like images that show both large nearby galaxy NGC 7331 as well as the distant Deer Lick Group right next to NGC 3771 and probably similarly-distant Stephan's Quintet. I love the fact that your image shows us that Stephan's Quintet is noticeably bluer than the Deer Lick Group, even if we ignore the small blue interloper in the Quintet, NGC 7320. It is certainly quite right that Stephan's Quintet should look bluer than the Deer Lick Group, because the Quintet contains so much more star formation.

Jack Fusco, I completely love your "Light on the Dog" (Sirius) image! My mother grew up in a small village in the 1930s, and the skies above her were pitch black at night. Her father sometimes showed her the stars, and she once told me, "I always thought Sirius looked a bit blue". It did, Mom, because it was bright enough to trigger some color response in your eyes! And Jack Fusco, you certainly makes us understand how bright and blue Sirius is, even though your blue laser "helps" Sirius a bit!

Adam Block, your image is great as usual. It brings out incredible turmoil in this star formation region. We can see veritable "tornadoes" of dust as well as ionized pink blotches, dots and intricate structures of ionized gas, as well as the large black "back" of the cloud that got concentrated enough to be able to trigger star formation in its "stomach".

When I first saw the picture of the Dragonfish's mouth, I was somewhat unimpressed. Another nebula, very red and monocolored. Ho hum. But then I read the caption, and wow!

http://iopscience.iop.org/2041-8205/743/2/L28 wrote:

Young OB associations with masses greater than 104 M ☉ have been inferred to exist in the Galaxy but have largely evaded detection. Recently, a candidate OB association has been identified within the most luminous star-forming complex in the Galaxy, the Dragonfish Nebula. We identify 18 young, massive stars with near-infrared spectroscopy from a sample of 50 members within the candidate OB association, including 15 O-type and 3 luminous blue variables or Wolf-Rayet stars. This number matches the expected yield of massive stars from the candidate association, confirming its existence and ability to power the parent star-forming complex. These results demonstrate the existence of a 105 M ☉ OB association, more powerful than any previously known in the Galaxy, comparable in mass only to Westerlund 1.

What an association! What a picture! Thanks!

Roberto Barcellona, I always like new discoveries. That is an interesting image of yours!

Alistair Symon, your Sharpless 239 image looks very handsome indeed. Tell me, are we really in the Hyades here?

Rolf Wahl Olsen, I have previously praised your fantastic image. I'm glad to see it back in an even better version!

Thanks to everybody who contributed images here!

Ann

Jack Fusco · Post by **Jack Fusco** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 2:15 am

There are so many great images featured and submitted, it's fantastic even just to see mine among the others that are up for consideration.

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