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by Ann » Sun Mar 11, 2012 7:36 am
Time for some comments now!
Mohamed Laaifat, I love the picture where a friend of yours(?) is standing on a beach, watching Venus and Jupiter set in the sea. It reminds me of when I went down to the beach of Malmö to try to spot an aurora - I saw no aurora, but seeing so much sky and watching the constellations sink into the horizon, accompanied by the soft lapping of waves, was magical. By the way, just like you, I could see some very colorful artificial lights on the horizon, too.
Franz Kerschbaum, that's a nice all-sky photograph showing Mars, Moon, Jupiter, Venus and Mercury in a row! Thanks for making Mercury easier to spot for us!
Angus Lau, that's a brilliant and so beautiful picture of NGC 1531 (the small galaxy) and NGC 1532 (the big galaxy). It is fascinating to see how the blue arms of NGC 1532 are so distorted, while the yellow bulge appears undisturbed. I'm guessing that the long blue arm to the right has been drawn out into a tidal feature from the interaction. And I just love the brilliant pink emission nebulae!
Nicolás Villegas, that's a fine picture of M81, M82 and NGC 3077 (on the upper right). The meteor is nice, and so is all the galactic and intergalactic cirrus.
Paul Albers, thank you for giving us picture of the "Meathook galaxy", NGC 2442, which is too rarely imaged.
Leonardo Orazi, that's a fine image of NGC 3628. I can spot, faintly, the long tidal tail feature on the left.
Efrain Morales, that's a fine Saturn image, and I'm always glad to see, even faintly, Enceladus!
Siggi Kohlert, that's a beautiful Horsehead and Alnitak region.
Manuel Jimenez, that is an unusually beautiful and intricate Owl Nebula!
Emil Ivanov, that's a very beautiful Tulip Nebula! Thanks for adding a "stem" and a "leaf"! And thanks for giving it to us women of the Starship Asterisk on March 8, international Women's Day!
Stefano Conti, thanks for photographing the interesting pair of galaxies, NGC 4618 (the bigger galaxy) and NGC 4625 (the smaller galaxy). Both galaxies are richly starforming, and they have interesting color properties. Note that NGC 4618 appears to have an outer "intermediate but somewhat blue" population. The intermediate population of NGC 4625 appears to be much yellower, and NGC 4625 appears to have a yellower center than NGC 4618, too. But NGC 4625 has large but faint starforming outer arms, which are lacking in NGC 4618.
The Cassini image of Saturn and Titan is very beautiful, of course.
Adam Block, that's a fine image of the Coma Cluster, which is full of yellow fuzzies!
Marco Lorenzi and Angus Lau, that is a stunningly beautiful picture of the Queen of all nebulae, M42!
Robert Arn, that's an amazing image of almost unspeakable desolate beauty. It looks a bit like a frozen waterfall. Is it really a castle?
Eric Chesak, that's a fantastic image of the Sun during a dust storm. I can indeed see sunspots on it. Good think we don't have dust storms that often, though, because I wouldn't want to breathe that air!
Pavel Pech, that is a very small version of a very beautiful picture of a very fascinating part of the sky!
Gilles Chapdelaine, thank you for that fine image of M60 and NGC 4647. I agree that I can see no sign of interaction in the two galaxies, but I'm not wholly convinced that the galaxies aren't interacting after all. They sure look as if they were at the same distance!
Mario Weigand, that's a fine image of the faint colors around Aristarchus.
John Chumack, that is really funny - a grumpy sunspot!
And speaking about grumpy... Jesús Vargas and Maritxu Poyal, your image is definitely one of my favorites in this thread. The upper nebula looks like a dangerous giant, probably a cyclop, with one star for an eye. The long dust lane bisecting his "face" makes it look as if he is squinting, and the shorter dust lane looks like an angry mouth. This giant looks like he glaring down angrily at the smaller nebula below, the Jellyfish nebula, which appears to try to swim away!
Jaime Fernandez, that's a fine annotated image of a part of the Moon.
Greg Gibbs, that's a lovely Milky Way skyscape over what looks like a farm.
Dave Adalian, with ISS between, you make Venus and Jupiter look like some sort of mathematical sign!
Paolo Aquino, that's a beautiful sunrise shadow sky.
And that's a fine moonrise image, Bret Webster.
Francesc Pruneda, I really like your sky panorama with the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Venus. I really like how your image brings out the constellations and the colors of the individual stars. Tell me something, though. As I was looking at your image, I saw two bright stars looking much like Pollux and Castor sailing over... Pollux and Castor! Have you accidentally doubled the Twins?
Sam, that's a nice aurora.
Rogerio Marcon, that's a very detailed image of an active region on the Sun.
Nicolas Outters and Didier Plassard, that's a very beautiful picture of M81! I love the delightful colors!
Craig and Tammy Temple and Randy Shivak, those are nice images of the Sun.
Thanks to everyone who contributed images here!
Ann
Color Commentator
