Recent Submissions: 2012 March 5-7

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:06 am

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A Loch full of stars
Copyright: Stewart Watt
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Heart of IC1805
http://www.starlightfriend.de/html/gall ... 20LRGB.htm
Copyright: Peter Bresseler
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Four planets during one night shown to scale
http://aida.astroinfo.org/displayimage.php?pid=5402
Copyright: Chris Bosshard
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ic1848 · Post by **ic1848** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:53 pm

Jones-Emberson 1 / (PK 164 31.1) in Lynx

http://www.astromodelismo.es/index.htm
Copyright: Máximo Ruiz

http://www.astromodelismo.es/Web%20Astr ... /index.htm

nuclearcat · Post by **nuclearcat** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:26 pm

Copyright: M. Raşid Tuğral

chapdelaine · Post by **chapdelaine** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:30 pm

NGC 4647
Copyright: Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and obtained from the Hubble Legacy Archive, which is a collaboration between the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI/NASA), the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF/ESA) and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC/NRC/CSA). Processing: Gilles Chapdelaine

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Composition of this image had been done using Hubble's frame taken with following filters: F555W(for blue), F814W(for red) and a mix of these two for the green.

Cheers
Gilles

Efrain Morales · Post by **Efrain Morales** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:07 pm

Mars at close opposition to Earth today (March 5th), Bright bluish oragraphic clouds in Elysium region at the limb and through out the equatorial belt region, (Top) Utopia region, Polar cap shrinking more. (Bot) Dark dot is Huygens crater and center Hellas basin is brighting.

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Seantos · Post by **Seantos** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:32 am

Waxing Gibbous Moon

An inverted perspective of the moon:
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http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/22 ... allgu.jpg/

Drewster · Post by **Drewster** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:40 am

Venus and Jupiter at Dusk over the Santa Cruz Mountains, California

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Drew Sullivan

Tamas Abraham · Post by **Tamas Abraham** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:57 am

Venus and Jupiter with setting Mercury
http://www.vadakcsillaga.hu/
Copyright: Tamas Abraham

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Moonlit landscape with planets. Setting Mercury shimmers at bottom right, Jupiter and Venus shine strikingly over the pine tree.
The Pleiades above joins to the row of planets.

lynnhilborn · Post by **lynnhilborn** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:49 pm

This is a giant molecular cloud stretching from IC348 (left) to NGC1333 (right).

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I shot this data 18 months ago and reprocessed March 2012
A higher res version is here
http://www.nightoverontario.com/Astrono ... &lb=1&s=X3
Cheers
Lynn Hilborn, WhistleStop Obs

RafaRo · Post by **RafaRo** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:33 pm

Rafael Rodriguez
http://www.skyandphoto.com

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mexhunter · Post by **mexhunter** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:00 am

M5
Copyright: César Cantú

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Also: http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... category/3

Siggi · Post by **Siggi** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:04 am

Hi there!

Here's my interpretation of the horse head nebula region.

IC434 et. al.
http://www.astroimages.de
Copyright: Siggi Kohlert

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For a bigger version version and details please click here: http://www.astroimages.de/en/gallery/IC434-Mosaik.html

Hope you enjoy it!

Siggi

ChrisKotsiopoulos · Post by **ChrisKotsiopoulos** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:58 pm

Castle vs Moon

This is a 360 degree little planet night panorama of a medieval castle at Fyla, Evia - Greece. The bright spot at the left is the overexposed Moon.
During the shooting and later at post processing, I didn't expect that the final result would resemble an alien, pacman like creature, moments before devouring our celestial neighbor!
More info:
http://www.greeksky.gr/files/photos/lan ... Castle.htm

Zumosol · Post by **Zumosol** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:22 pm

Inside of The Rosette Nebula
http://obscarlsagan.blogspot.com/
Copyright: José Manuel Sánchez

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ccdbalkon · Post by **ccdbalkon** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:55 pm

five Picture : one objekt: IC 443
http://www.balkonsternwarte.de/CCD_Bild ... 32012.html
Copyright: Oliver Schneider
http://www.balkonsternwarte.de

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Leonardo · Post by **Leonardo** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:19 pm

Edge-on NGC3628
http://www.starkeeper.it/NGC3628.htm
Copyright: Leonardo Orazi

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All the best,
Leo

Wolfgang · Post by **Wolfgang** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:09 pm

NGC2174
Copyright: Wolfgang Promper

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http://www.astro-pics.com/2174plm.htm

nuclearcat · Post by **nuclearcat** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:24 pm

Copyright: M. Raşid Tuğral

philto · Post by **philto** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:36 pm

hello,
here the end of winter in Pyrenees montains, Ariège (FRANCE) 1300 m of hight.
best regards.

Philippe TOSI

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Rothkko · Post by **Rothkko** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:53 pm

Esperando a Mercurio.

Rothkko · Post by **Rothkko** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:01 am

Luna casi llena al atardecer.

Rothkko · Post by **Rothkko** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:07 am

Iluminan la escena la luna casi llena y la ciudad de Mérida.

capaleve · Post by **capaleve** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:16 am

Rosette Nebula
http://joaovieira.zenfolio.com
Copyright: João Vieira

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VegaStar · Post by **VegaStar** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:56 am

Full Worm Moon 03.07.2012
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... hotostream
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Ann · Post by **Ann** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 2:06 pm

Time for a few comments here!

Stewart Watt, I love your Loch full of stars. I don't know what that yellow light is, but I guess it's some sort of light pollution. But it's fun to pretend that it's some sort of fire floating on the water, and the the Milky Way is like blue smoke rising from that fire!

Chris Bosshard, I like your four planets to scale. I appreciate the brilliant whiteness of Venus. Tell me, is that moon Ganymede?

Máximo Ruiz, I really like your fine RGB portrait of planetary nebula Jones-Emberson 1. I like the delicate red shell, the almost imperceptible blueness of the interior, and the fascinating inner "bumps" or "hills", which change in color from pink to white to blue. Also I love the intensely blue white dwarf inside. It is clearly the hottest star in this field, and its color proves it! (By the way, I checked out your homepage too, and I was delighted at this portrait of the Pleiades. The cluster looks like a magnificent blue butterfly or bird!

M. Raşid Tuğral, I like your contemplation of Venus and Jupiter. I, too, have stood much like that looking out the window!

chapdelaine, that's a fine processing of the Hubble data of small spiral galaxy NGC 4647. Unless I'm mistaken, this is the poor little spiral that is on its way to colliding with giant elliptical galaxy M60!

Lynn Hilborn, that's a splendid portrait of a giant molecular cloud. I love the soft and subtle colors and the sense of windblown dynamism of this cloud.

Siggi, that's a fine portrait of the Horsehead and Alnitak region.

Chris Kotsiopoulos, your image is definitely one of my favorites in this thread. You pointed out that you think that your castle looks like an alien, pacman-like creature on its way to devouring the Moon! I have to agree with you that it looks just like that, but I see something else in it, too. Let me call it "Star Wars: A Thousand Years Later". The castle would be a spent and broken wreck of a spaceship drifting aimlessly in space, all that remains of an all-out cosmic war. I found that interpretation quite poignant.

José Manuel Sánchez and João Vieira, you have both posted fine images of the Rosette Nebula.

Wolfgang Promper, I like the "mysteriousness" of your nebula.

Philippe TOSI, isn't that what the constellations look like as winter is turning into spring! Orion and the Hyades are leaning heavily to the right, and the Pleiades has sunk already!

Rothko, I think that your images are so well-composed and beautiful. You make the landscape and lonely trees "harmonize" with a beautiful sky.

Vegastar, I like the blue light of the moonlit sky. It's really true that the moonlit sky is blue, just like the cloudless daytime sky. And that's a fine portrait of the Lady in the Moon, sitting so whitely in the center of all that soft light of blue!

Thanks to everyone who contributed images to this thread!

Ann

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