Found Images: 2012 November

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 2:34 pm

Have you seen a great image or video somewhere that you think would make a great APOD? Nominate it for APOD! Please post as much information here as you have about the image/video with a link to any source(s) for it you know of here, and the editors will take a look.

When posting the image itself, please do not post anything larger than a thumbnail here; please honor the copyright holder's copyright.

Thank you!

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bystander · Post by **bystander** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 2:35 pm

Credit: David H. Hathaway (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)

Look! Up in the sky! It’s…it’s… it’s an amazing optics display
Discover Blogs | Bad Astronomy | 2012 Nov 01

bystander · Post by **bystander** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 6:21 pm

Curiosity Self-Portrait by MAHLI, Sol 84

: [size=120][b][i]Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS[/i][/b][/size]

High-Resolution Self-Portrait by Curiosity Rover Arm Camera
NASA | JPL-Caltech | 2012 Nov 01

NASA's Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture this set of 55 high-resolution images, which were stitched together to create this full-color self-portrait.

The mosaic shows the rover at "Rocknest," the spot in Gale Crater where the mission's first scoop sampling took place. Four scoop scars can be seen in the regolith in front of the rover.

The base of Gale Crater's 3-mile-high (5-kilometer) sedimentary mountain, Mount Sharp, rises on the right side of the frame. Mountains in the background to the left are the northern wall of Gale Crater. The Martian landscape appears inverted within the round, reflective ChemCam instrument at the top of the rover's mast.

Self-portraits like this one document the state of the rover and allow mission engineers to track changes over time, such as dust accumulation and wheel wear. Due to its location on the end of the robotic arm, only MAHLI (among the rover's 17 cameras) is able to image some parts of the craft, including the port-side wheels.

Curiosity Rover Takes an Incredible Self-Portrait
Universe Today | Nancy Atkinson | 2012 Oct 31

Getting up to speed with Curiosity as of sol 84
Planetary Society | Emily Lakdawalla | 2012 Oct 31

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 7:46 pm

Central region of the Andromeda galaxy (M31, NGC 224)
With the 1.23 m and 3.5 m telescopes from Calar Alto Observatory

http://pixinsight.com/gallery/M31-CAHA/en.html

http://pixinsight.com/gallery/M31-CAHA/ ... n_1200.jpg

Credits: Calar Alto Observatory (CAHA), Descubre Foundation, DSA, OAUV,
Vicent Peris (OAUV), Jack Harvey (SSRO), Steven Mazlin (SSRO), Gilles Bergond (CAHA).

starsurfer · Post by **starsurfer** » Sun Nov 04, 2012 1:57 pm

Whale Galaxy (NGC 4631)
http://www.cosmotography.com/images/small_ngc4631.html
Copyright: R. Jay GaBany

starsurfer · Post by **starsurfer** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 2:21 pm

NGC 247
http://anguslau.smugmug.com/Nature/Astr ... &lb=1&s=X3
Copyright: Angus Lau

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starsurfer · Post by **starsurfer** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 8:00 am

NGC 986
http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/ngc9 ... 303_RC.htm
Copyright: Steve Crouch

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owlice · Post by **owlice** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 5:36 pm

: DailyMailStormCloud.jpg (18.87 KiB) Viewed 2986 times

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/11/ ... 64x624.jpg
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... asons.html

bystander · Post by **bystander** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:21 pm

Space Science stamps launched by Royal Mail
Images Courtesy: Royal Mail

: [url=http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Venus_Express/SEML26808BE_0.html]Venus Express[/url] launched on 09 Nov 2005

: [url=http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEMVOZ1VQUD_0.html]Cassini-Huygens[/url] is a joint NASA/ESA mission launched on 15 Oct 1997

: [url=http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMNS75V9ED_0.html]Mars Express[/url] was launched on 02 Jun 2003

: [url=http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/about/about.html]SOHO[/url] is a joint NASA/ESA mission studying the sun, launched on 02 Dec 1995

: Cassini-Huygens

: [url=http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMYMF374OD_0.html]Rosetta[/url] launched on 02 Mar 2004

starsurfer · Post by **starsurfer** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 8:38 am

NGC 253
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ ... xy_ngc_253
Copyright: Michael Sidonio

bystander · Post by **bystander** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 4:26 pm

A Nearby Stellar Cradle | NASA IOTD | 2012 Nov 08
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/J.Drake et al, Optical: Univ. of Hertfordshire/INT/IPHAS, Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SST

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=29947

JohnD · Post by **JohnD** » Fri Nov 09, 2012 3:02 pm

The "Pillars of Creation" are a well known dust cloud and star formation site in the Eagle Nebula.
This video puts together images from five different space observatories, that span the whole of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Makes for a whole new view of this familar sight.

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

John

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=26630

Ann · Post by **Ann** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:25 am

Here is a new image of M33 by Robert Gendler.

Ann

starsurfer · Post by **starsurfer** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 2:44 pm

NGC 7769 and NGC 7771
http://www.capella-observatory.com/Imag ... GC7771.htm
Copyright: Makis Palaiologou, Stefan Binnewies and Josef Pöpsel

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owlice · Post by **owlice** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 6:57 pm

Our Story in 1 Minute

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

starsurfer · Post by **starsurfer** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 11:43 am

NGC 474
http://www.glitteringlights.com/Images/ ... &lb=1&s=X3
Copyright: Marco Lorenzi

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bystander · Post by **bystander** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 5:54 pm

Sheldon Glacier | NASA IOTD | 2012 Nov 13
Image Credit: British Antarctic Survey

View of Sheldon Glacier with Mount Barre in the background, seen from Ryder Bay near Rothera Research Station, Adelaide Island, Antarctica. A new NASA/British Antarctic Survey study examines why Antarctic sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change over the past two decades.

starsurfer · Post by **starsurfer** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:03 pm

NGC 3166-9
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1125.html
Copyright: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF)

markh@tds.net · Post by **markh@tds.net** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:19 pm

NGC 2170
Copyright: Mark Hanson

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Larger Image can be found here: http://www.btlguce.com

geckzilla · Post by **geckzilla** » Thu Nov 15, 2012 2:53 am

How freaking neat is this? It's 100,000 stars right in your browser. And you can click and view info on a whole bunch of the named, studied stars. Mostly to scale to give you a good sense of vastness!

Note: It doesn't run very well unless you view it with Google Chrome. Not using Chrome but want to see it anyway? Don't say I didn't warn you. It's pretty choppy.
http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/

JohnD · Post by **JohnD** » Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:28 am

New panoramic image from Opportunity brings this old song to mind

There's a long, long trail a-winding
Into the land of my dreams,
There's a long, long night of waiting
Until my dreams all come true;
Till the day when I'll be going down
That long, long trail with you.

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/ ... tc_br2.jpg

John

starsurfer · Post by **starsurfer** » Thu Nov 15, 2012 11:56 am

markh@tds.net wrote:NGC 2170
Copyright: Mark Hanson
http://www.btlguce.com/wpimages/wp8774780c_00.jpg

Larger Image can be found here: http://www.btlguce.com

Amazing image of one of the greatest regions of the winter sky! Is the image cropped? I would have expected the field of view with a 14 inch RCOS to be slightly wider.

starsurfer · Post by **starsurfer** » Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:09 pm

NGC 1097
http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1128a/
Copyright: ESO/R. Gendler

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markh@tds.net · Post by **markh@tds.net** » Thu Nov 15, 2012 6:00 pm

starsurfer wrote:
markh@tds.net wrote:NGC 2170
Copyright: Mark Hanson
http://www.btlguce.com/wpimages/wp8774780c_00.jpg

Larger Image can be found here: http://www.btlguce.com
Amazing image of one of the greatest regions of the winter sky! Is the image cropped? I would have expected the field of view with a 14 inch RCOS to be slightly wider.

Yes but only about 50 pixels or so, the scope is a F8 and U16M thats a field about 43x43 arcmin

Rothkko · Post by **Rothkko** » Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:54 pm

Portrait of Global Aerosols

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Image credit: William Putman, NASA/Goddard
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegal ... _2393.html

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