Recent Submissions: 2012 January 22-27

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

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Paul Haese · Post by **Paul Haese** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:26 am

The Dark Doodad
Copyright: Paul Haese

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geissi · Post by **geissi** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 11:09 am

Hello,

I'd like to show you my latest image:

NGC 281 - Pacman-Nebula in Hubble colors

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and in real-colors as well

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Enjoy!

Regards

Rolf Geissinger
http://www.stern-fan.de

Bi2L · Post by **Bi2L** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 2:09 pm

Fireball almost -8mag at mount Pantokrator Corfu during star observation.
20:23UT 21 Jan 2012

[attachment=0]Bi2L.jpg[/attachment]
http://www.astrovox.gr/forum/album_picm ... c_id=14271

Canon eos 40D
ef 15mm fisheye
f/2.8
iso 800
30sec
Photoshop, Croped
Here full size 8mb http://www.astrovox.gr/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=14271

Also I'have made this small Animation, hope you like it, have a look

http://www.astrovox.gr/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=14276

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:30 am

One Cocoon, Two Views
http://Noel.ProDigitalSoftware.com/Astr ... _Color.jpg
http://Noel.ProDigitalSoftware.com/Astr ... Normal.jpg
Copyright: Greg Parker, imaging; Noel Carboni, processing
Can enhancing star color digitally and looking at an image in overview help one visualize the extent and density of an intervening dark nebula?

[attachment=3]Cocoon_normal.jpg[/attachment]

[attachment=2]cocoon_enhanced.jpg[/attachment]

Large Magellanic Cloud
http://rafaeldefavari.500px.com/
Copyright: Rafael Defavari
[attachment=1]A closer look at LMC - Rafael Defavari.jpg[/attachment]

Merope Reflection Nebula and IC349
http://www.starkeeper.it/Merope.htm
Copyright: Leonardo Orazi
[attachment=0]Merope.jpg[/attachment]

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:25 am

LDN 1622: Dark Nebula in Orion
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/ldn1622.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

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Flares, filaments, active regions and sunspots
http://www.fobos.es
Copyright: Jesús Carmona de Argila
[attachment=4]sol210112fin.gif[/attachment]

Ring in the Sky
http://www.astroarn.com
Copyright: Robert Arn
[attachment=3]ring in the sky.jpg[/attachment]

Andromeda Galaxy over Bear Valley
http://www.AstroPics.com
Copyright: Wally Pacholka
[attachment=2]BearValleyCalifornia-AndromedaGalaxy-3690-900.jpg[/attachment]

M42
http://anguslau.smugmug.com/Nature/Astr ... 2mRGB7.jpg
Copyright: Angus Lau
[attachment=1]m42_lau.jpg[/attachment]

Orion and Iridium Flare
Copyright: Bob Parker
[attachment=0]iridium flare in orion (cleaned up).jpg[/attachment]

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:56 am

Contrail and Shadow
Copyright: Glenn M. Ryan
[attachment=2]contrail_1.jpg[/attachment]

El Gordo — A “Fat” Distant Galaxy Cluster
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1203/
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Rutgers/J.Hughes et al, Optical: ESO/VLT/Pontificia Universidad. Catolica de Chile/L.Infante & SOAR (MSU/NOAO/UNC/CNPq-Brazil)/Rutgers/F.Menanteau, IR: NASA/JPL/Rutgers/F.Menanteau
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=26438

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Narrowband Image of NGC 7000 in Hubble Palette
Copyright: Kurt-Peter Zirn
[attachment=1]ngc7000_nb_kupezi.jpg[/attachment]

Sunspots and Clouds
http://www.deepskywatch.com/Photography ... -2012.html
Copyright: Michael Vlasov
[attachment=0]sunspot group and clouds.jpg[/attachment]

rwittich_de · Post by **rwittich_de** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 6:56 pm

Hello,

enjoy my latest picture of the plejades.

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Regards

Reinhold

http://www.wittich.com

elettrorider · Post by **elettrorider** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:10 pm

The Orion Sword, mosaic of three frames
http://stefanofocosi.altervista.org/Ori ... osaic.html
Copyright: Stefano Focosi

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atamanti · Post by **atamanti** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:32 pm

Sun in H-Alpha

I shot this image on January 12, 2012. It's a 18 frames mosaic to cover the sun full disk,
it takes some days for processing so it's not so fresh

. It's a false color image
derived from a grayscale image:
http://www.tamanti.it/Solar%20Sys/Sun_m ... -01-12.htm

Here is a link to the zoom page that allows to navigate
on the surface of the Sun at the original resolution (4500x4500 pixel):
http://www.tamanti.it/Solar%20Sys/Sun_m ... _zoom.html

Best regards

Andrea Tamanti
http://www.tamanti.it/astronomy.htm

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Hung-Hsuan Yen · Post by **Hung-Hsuan Yen** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:43 pm

The 27 hours old Moon.

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Thanks.

My space
http://www.facebook.com/redscosky

Lorenzo Comolli · Post by **Lorenzo Comolli** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:10 pm

All-Sky with and without Milky Way
http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/d106.htm
http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/d107.htm
Copyright: processing Lorenzo Comolli, images Lorenzo Comolli, Luigi Fontana, Giosuè Ghioldi, Emmanuele Sordini

IanP · Post by **IanP** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:38 am

M42 looks like a butterfly ..

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:40 pm

NGC 1579: Trifid of the North
http://www.massimotosco.it/Ngc1579.html
Copyright: Massimo Tosco
[attachment=3]tosco_trifidNorth.jpg[/attachment]

Under a Brazilian Sky
Copyright: Fabiano B. Diniz
[attachment=2]IMG_1216b.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 3239 (and SN 2012a)
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n3239.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=26865

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St. Louis Eclipse
http://pollittphoto.com/
Copyright: Alex Pollitt
[attachment=1]IMG_9058.jpg[/attachment]

Star Trails above a Garden
Copyright: Amirreza Kamkar
[attachment=0]Startrails_e.jpg[/attachment]

Aurora over Ireland
http://www.DonegalSkies.com
Copyright: Brendan Alexander

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Tamas Abraham · Post by **Tamas Abraham** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:21 pm

Crescent Moon and Venus
http://www.vadakcsillaga.hu/
Copyright: Tamas Abraham

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AlexFR · Post by **AlexFR** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 2:44 am

Southern and Northern skies
Copyright: Alexandre Santerne
My Flickr Gallery
[attachment=0]alex.jpg[/attachment]
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7013/6762 ... dab8_b.jpg

This picture was took last night from La Silla Observatory (ESO) in the direction to the North. I used the Sweden Radio telescope (SEST) on the left as a mirror to see the south pole. The ESO-3.6m telescope with its planet-hunter spectrograph HARPS is on the right. This photo is the composition of about 250 pictures of 1 minute exposure time each (a total exposure time of about 4 hours). I hope you will enjoy this star trail !

Alex

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:09 am

Cassini Sees the Two Faces of Titan's Dunes
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/det ... d=pia15225
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech, and NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=26808

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Aeolian Processes
http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_025042_1375
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=26861
[attachment=7]Dune composition.jpg[/attachment]

CME over Norway
http://www.northernlightsphotography.no
Copyright: Fredrik Broms
[attachment=6]APOD_22jan2012_FredrikBroms.jpg[/attachment]

M42: Orion Nebula
http://astroentrerios.com.ar/galileo/as ... 0-hd-edge/
Copyright: César Fornari
[attachment=5]M42-Orion.jpg[/attachment]

Southern Ursa Majoris
http://www.flickr.com/photos/santerne/6 ... hotostream
Copyright: Alexandre Santerne

[attachment=4]Southern_Ursa_Majoris_1.jpg[/attachment]

[attachment=3]Southern_Ursa_Majoris_2.jpg[/attachment]

ISS Moon Transit
files.me.com/jflarouche/59hjbz
Copyright: Jean-Francois Larouche
[attachment=2]ISS14avril2011.jpg[/attachment]

NGC6888: Crescent Nebula and Nebulosity
http://carlosdeepsky.files.wordpress.co ... al2peq.jpg
Copyright: Carlos Grillo Ramos
[attachment=1]CrescentFinal2peq2.jpg[/attachment]

M45: The Seven Sisters
http://www.altamiraobs.org.es/
Copyright: José Francisco Hdez.
[attachment=0]M45-L2h15m-RGB7h15m-900.jpg[/attachment]

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:26 pm

Solargraph with Norman Lockyer Observatory
Copyright: Kate Kay
[attachment=4]NLO.jpg[/attachment]

Orion Rising over Sedona's Cathedral Butte & Oak Creek
http://www.AstroPics.com
Copyright: Wally Pacholka
[attachment=3]SedonaArizona-CathedralButte-OakCreek-Orion-850wp.jpg[/attachment]

New Big Blue Marble
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegal ... _2159.html
Credit: Image Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=26868

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Evening Pair: Moon and Venus
http://www.danielegasparri.com
Copyright: Daniele Gasparri
[attachment=2]venus_moon_gasparri_small.jpg[/attachment]

Proof Owlice Needs to Move North
http://www.flickr.com/photos/salomonsen ... hotostream
Copyright: Ole Christian Salomonsen

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Rosette Nebula
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18070659/tonemap.jpg
Copyright: Bent Munkholm
[attachment=1]Munkholm.jpg[/attachment]

Solargraph with Calar Alto Observatory
http://solarigrafia.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarigrafia/
Copyright: Diego López Calvín
[attachment=0]Calar Alto Observatory 03.jpg[/attachment]

ddpurohit · Post by **ddpurohit** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 3:53 pm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gurudevobservatory/

bystander · Post by **bystander** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:22 pm

ddpurohit wrote:http://www.flickr.com/photos/gurudevobservatory/

Is there some particular image you wish to submit? <img> tags require a link to an image, not a page link.

StefanoDeRosa · Post by **StefanoDeRosa** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:02 pm

Moon and Venus over the Princess bridge
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa

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The image above, taken on January 25, 2012, shows the lovely pair of the crescent Moon and the blazing Venus shining over the Princess Isabella Bridge crossing the Po river in Turin (Italy)

Best regards

Stefano

lynnhilborn@yahoo.ca · Post by **lynnhilborn@yahoo.ca** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:10 am

M78 a reflection nebula
http://hilborn.smugmug.com/Astronomy/Ni ... &lb=1&s=X2
[attachment=0]LRHaGB Scaledbest small 2.jpg[/attachment]

Lynn Hilborn
WhistleStop Obs
Grafton,Ontario

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:53 am

Large Magellanic Cloud
http://www.flickr.com/photos/astro_gvan ... otostream/
Copyright: Geert Vanhauwaert
[attachment=3]lmc_cobinat2ixsi_small.jpg[/attachment]

Opportunity 8th Anniversary Mosaic
http://www.kenkremer.com
Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell/Marco Di Lorenzo/Kenneth Kremer
[attachment=2]Opportunity 8th Anniversary_1_Ken Kremer.jpg[/attachment]

M34: Open Star Cluster in Perseus
http://www.astrofotografie-laupheim.de/
Copyright: Manfred Konrad
[attachment=1]m34.jpg[/attachment]

Dusty Great Nebula in Orion
http://www.thehwk.net
Copyright: Nicolás Villegas
[attachment=0]m42 dusty wide field hwk.jpg[/attachment]

VegaStar · Post by **VegaStar** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:04 am

Moon's EarthShine
01.26.2012 - Paris, France
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

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Canon1000D 300mm, Exposure time 2s, ISO200
Good Heaven!

Ann · Post by **Ann** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:03 am

There are many lovely images here, but I seem to have less time than ever to comment. However...

Adam Block, you know that I love your NGC 3239 images to bits, but I commented on it rather extensively when it was the Astronomy Picture of the Day! So let me just say that I love your "LDN 1622: Dark Nebula in Orion" image, too. I love the dark, blue-black, almost menacing appearance of the thick dark cloud! Note, by the way, how many different nebulae we have here: there is a very dark nebula, of course, but there is also pink emission nebulosity, a whitish reflection nebula and an orange nebula where starlight is reddened by intervening dust.

Note, by the way, how many great portraits there are of various aspects of Orion here! Adam Block's image of a dark nebula in Orion is the first of them. Angus Lau's lovely portrait of the Orion Nebula, looking like a perfect cosmic rose, is the second. Bob Parker's Orion and Iridium Flare, where Orion's Sword seems to have been substituted for a brilliant flying saucer-shaped iridium flare, is the third. Stefano Focosi's brilliant image of the Orion Nebula and the Running Man nebula is the fourth. Note not only the color and brightness difference between the Orion Nebula and the Running Man nebula, but also the "soft texture" of the Running Man nebula, whereas the Orion Nebula is sharply resolved into long "strings" and "tendrils" of nebulosity. That's what the violent ultraviolet blasts of a newborn O6 star will do to a nebula!

The fifth great image of Orion is Ian Polczynski's closeup of the Trapezium area, giving us a good idea of what the Orion Nebula looks like through a telescope.

The sixth great Orion image here is César Fornari's closeup of the inner workings of M42. The sharply increasing brightness of the Trapezium area, as well as the "structural chaos" in there compared with the less chaotic structure of the rest of M42, is very well brought out. I like the softly changing colors, too.

The seventh great Orion image is Wally Pacholka's "Orion Rising over Sedona's Cathedral Butte & Oak Creek". In all Wally Pacholka's images, the starry sky has an incomparably sparkling quality. Also, Wally Pacholka always finds fantastic settings for his images.

The eighth great Orion image is Lynn Hilborn's very fine portrait of M78, a bright reflection nebula in Orion.

The ninth great Orion image is Nicolás Villegas' toffee-colored Orion dustscape, where the Orion Nebula and the Running Man Nebula are shining through like pink and blue highlights.

Perhaps I should also mention Lorenzo Comolli's Sky with and without Milky Way, where Orion is peeking out prominently at the top of this (incredibly impressive!!!!) image.

There are also several great Pleiades images here. I may start off with Lorenzo Comolli again, because you can very clearly see the Pleiades in the same image where you can see Orion. Lorenzo, I'm incredibly impressed at your two images. The amount of structure and detail is incredible. I know that Luigi Fontana, Giosuè Ghioldi and Emmanuele Sordini helped you with the images.

Leonardo Orazi has made a wonderful portrait of the Merope Nebula, where you can not only see the "combed hair" quality of the blue reflection nebula (probably caused by the dust particles lining up along magnetic lines), but also the small bright IC 349 nebula, right next to Merope itself.

Reinhold Wittich has also made a very fine portrait of the Pleiades, where there is a veritable treasure trove of small stars nestled among the big ones (although many of them may be background stars), and where nebulosity is highly resolved and fantastically structured.

Fabiano B. Diniz has shown us the "upside down Pleiades" in a Brazilian sky!

In José Francisco Hdez' image the sky in the entire Pleiades area is awash with light, blue around the Pleiades and pink below Merope and around the bright orange star at top.

There are many other very interesting images here. Paul Haese, I love your Dark Doodad in Musca. I'm too lazy to look it up now, but I know that the blue star is one of the brightest stars in Musca, a typical early type B star. I love the color contrast between the young star and the perhaps twelve billion year old globular.

Bi2L, what a fantastic fireball you captured! I love the contrast between the deep blue sky and the brilliant blue-green meteor.

Greg Parker and Noel Carboni, what an interesting portrait of the Cocoon Nebula that is! That is indeed a good way to bring out the extent and thickness of the dark nebula.

Jesús Carmona de Argila, that's a lovely Sun portrait. It looks to me as if the Sun is "smiling"! I like your inclusion of the Earth for comparison.

Robert Arn, what a mysterious "sky circle" you have photographed. I can see now that I should have included your image among the Orion and Pleiades images.

Wally Pacholka, that is a great Perseus, Cassiopeia and Andromeda picture you have posted here.

I like the crescent Moon images, since I've recently admired the crescent Moon myself, and I love the clever way of making the Moon and Venus seeming to be closer together in the sky than they really are!

And there are a pair of fine solargraph images here, and some great aurora images, particularly the one by Ole Christian Salomonsen (I like the image title, too), an incredible Big Blue Marble, amazing sand dunes on Mars, the Big Dipper upside down, fine images of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a fine image of rarely-photographed cluster M34 is Pereus and a lot more, but I have no more time now...

So thank you, all of you, for your fantastic images!

Ann

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