Submissions: 2013 September

[conemmil]

The sky is kind enough to shows us signs of the hidden treasures it keeps! Zodiacal light and the Milky Way are met in this interesting X shape and all we have to do is just look up and enjoy. I actually was fooled by the false dawn created from the intense Zodiacal light and didn't expect it to be so bright. The location of the image is Mt Voras at Northern Greece in an altitude of 2134m and it was made with a Canon 350D coupled with an 8mm fisheye lens at f3.5 on a single 30sec exposure.

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Kind regards
Constantine Emmanouilidi

[ViliMax]

Tidal Streams in NGC 4216, the members of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster

http://www.irida-observatory.org

Copyright: [url=mailto://info@irida-observatory.org]Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov[/url]

This image was taken during several nights on April, 2013 in remotely controlled IRIDA Observatory. We used our both telescopes: 12"ASA Astrograph + SBIG 11000M CCD and 12"RC Astrograph + ATIK 4000M CCD to obtain 12.5 hours of total exposure time with LRGB filters. The three edge-on galaxies NGC4216 (in the center of the image), NGC4222 (top left) and NGC4206 (bottom right) are members of the Virgo galaxy cluster. In the east of NGC4216 one can find a very faint structure, which is a stellar stream. The edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4216 is nearly 100 000 light-years across, about the size of our own Milky Way and is about 40 million light-years away.

LRGB combination

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Mousehover image

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BW version

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Inverted version

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Higher resolutions are avaliable ON THE WEB SITE

More information courtesy: The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. IV. NGC 4216: A Bombarded Spiral in the Virgo Cluster (Sanjaya Paudel, Pierre-Alain Duc, Patrick Cote, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Laura Ferrarese, Etienne Ferriere, Stephen D. J. Gwyn, J. Christopher Mihos, Bernd Vollmer, Michael L. Balogh, Ray G. Carlberg, Samuel Boissier, Alessandro Boselli, Patrick R. Durrell, Eric Emsellem, Lauren A. MacArthur, Simona Mei, Leo Michel-Dansac, Wim van Driel)

NGC 4216 is a barred spiral galaxy – it is classified as SAB(s)b in the RC3 cataloge (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991) – located in the outskirts of the Virgo Cluster at an angular distance of 4 degrees from the cluster center, M87. It has an edge-on orientation with an inclination angle i = 85 degree. Its central regions are characterized by a prominent dust lane (Chung et al. 2009) and a red and compact bright nucleus. The galaxy is surrounded by a very diffuse stellar halo, and complex filamentary structures, including streams and plumes.

The most prominent tidal stream F1, East of NGC 4216, has an angular extent of ~12.5 arcmin on the sky, which corresponds to ~60 kpc at the assumed mean distance of the cluster, 16.5 Mpc (Mei et al. 2007). The filament starts from the South-East corner of NGC 4216 and near its easternmost tip it makes a sudden turn towards the West-North with an angle of about 120 degree. Although further away it gets lost within the halo of a bright red star, when it emerges again, it seems to join the F2 the second longest filament in the field, North of NGC 4216.

Thank you for looking ...

[herbraab]

Colorful Conjunction
The crescent Moon, Saturn and Venus in the evening twilight on September 9, 2013
Copyright: Herbert Raab (http://www.flickr.com/photos/herbraab/)

Colorful Conjunction by herbraab, on Flickr
Link to full size image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/herbraab/9 ... otostream/

[fitant]

Campfire under the Milky Way. I took this shot whilst on a recent camping trip near Brisbane, Australia.

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Copyright - Tony FitzGerald

[evansg]

LDN1251 on Cepheus

http://astro.karvouno.org/wp-content/up ... 24x788.png
http://astro.karvouno.org/?p=371

Copyright: Evangelos Souglakos

[astrovirus]

NGC7380; The Wizzard Nebula in HaRGB by DLSR
info: http://www.astrovirus.nl/Gallery_NGC7380HaRGB-2013.html
Copyright: Tim Schuurman, acknowledgement to Scott Rosen for small color correction due to my color blindness

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high resolution: http://www.astrovirus.nl/images/NGC7380 ... lres90.jpg

[frikosal]

Milky Way and Zodiacal Light from Uyuni, Bolivia
Copyrights: Manel Soria
http://www.imaginem.cat

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[kwon o chul]

LMC&SMC with baobab tree in Western Australia.
At dawn, with moonlit.

Baobab trees are seen at Africa & North-west Australia.
The living proof of continental drift theory.

Kwon, O Chul (TWAN)

[Sandgirl]

Minotaur Launch - LADEE
Copyrights: Chris Cook

LADEE launch over NYC
Copyrights: Ben Cooper

NASA Minotaur Launch carrying LADEE satellite Bound for Moon
Copyrights: Steve Shilling

[Sandgirl]

Cygnus Constellation
Copyrights: Mohammad Nowroozi

IC 2944 (Running Chicken) Nebula
Copyrights: Angus Lau

Milky Way
Copyrights: Michael Specian

M33 (Triangulum Galaxy)
Copyrights: Albert Barr

Corona Australis
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari
Full size: http://postimg.org/image/wai4mheqn/full/

[felopaul]

NGC7635 in SHO



info : http://www.felopaul.com/galerie/photo36.htm
40H in SHO with CDK Skymeca 20"

Didier CHAPLAIN & Laurent BOURGON
http://www.felopaul.com

[loki_p]

Daydream

Copyright: Piotr Potepa http://www.piotrpotepa.art.pl
Info: 2013.09.06 Poland, near Torun. 7 exposures from tripod (f/2.5, 13s, iso3200, 35mm).

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[francescodib]

Propeller Nebula - DWB111
Copyright: Francesco di Biase


DWB111 - Propeller Nebula in Cygnus di Francescodb, su Flickr

[Olivier GARDE]

Here's a time evolution spectrum taken with an eshel spectrograph and a C14 since the discovery of the nova (August the 14Th) to the 5th september.

Hbeta region evolution



and the FeII lines risen "the iron age of the nova"


Olivier GARDE
ARAS group
FRANCE

[Sandgirl]

Castle Ruins With Milky Way
Copyrights: Alexander Reinders

Planets and Crescent Moon Alignment - "Lost in the beach"
Copyrights: Miguel Claro

VdB 142 in Cepheus
Copyrights: Leonardo Orazi

M33 HaLRGB
Copyrights: Albert Barr

Mars and M44 (Beehive Cluster)
Copyrights: Uğur İKİZLER

[Infrared Vision]

M16 in SHO palette
http://www.elfirmamento.com
Copyright: Manuel Fernández

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Full size image:
http://www.elfirmamento.com/galeria/mes ... _1500.html

OBSERVATORIO INFRARED, LEON, Spain. Jun 2013
Telescope TAKAHASHI TOA 130 APO @ f/5,8 (754 mm)
Mount TAKAHASHI EM400 TEMMA 2
Camera CCD QHY9 (-20º)
Guide STV CAMERA /EZ GUIDER 60 mm
Expos. Ha, OIII, SII. TOTAL 9 Hours
Filters IDAS LPS, Ha Astronomik, OIII, SII Baader

[RafaRo]

IC 5146 + Barnard 168
http://WWW.SKYANDPHOTO.COM
Copyright: Rafael Rodríguez Morales

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Details and big photo: http://www.skyandphoto.com/Other/My-Smu ... &lb=1&s=X3

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[Guest]

Two pictures of Pluto, taken one week apart.

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Copyright: Adolfo Muñoz Carrero (adolfomc@hotmail.es)

[gregbradley]

The Milky Way with Hydrogen Alpha and Sulphur 2 added:


http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/152301406

Taken from Bigga NSW Australia using a Nikon D800E camera,
with Ha and S11 taken with a FLI Proline 16803 camera from Kurrajong NSW Australia.

Greg.

[Hytham]

On the Heels of Perseus - NGC 1333, IC348
http://hythamsafieh.smugmug.com
Copyright: Hytham Abu-Safieh
http://hythamsafieh.smugmug.com/Astrono ... 348-XL.png
[attachment=0]perseusheels.jpg[/attachment]


Tak FSQ 106 EDXIII
FLI ML16803
AP Mach1 GTO
6.1h Integration

Dusty Robes of Cepheus - LDN 1235, VDB 149, 150
http://hythamsafieh.smugmug.com
Copyright: Hytham Abu-Safieh
http://hythamsafieh.smugmug.com/Astrono ... L/o-XL.png
[attachment=1]dust.jpg[/attachment]

Tak FSQ 106 EDXIII
FLI ML16803
AP Mach1 GTO
5.25h Integration

[starsurfer]

On the Heels of Perseus - NGC 1333, IC348
http://hythamsafieh.smugmug.com
Copyright: Hytham Abu-Safieh
http://hythamsafieh.smugmug.com/Astrono ... 348-XL.png
[attachment=0]perseusheels.jpg[/attachment]


Tak FSQ 106 EDXIII
FLI ML16803
AP Mach1 GTO
6.1h Integration

Dusty Robes of Cepheus - LDN 1235, VDB 149, 150
http://hythamsafieh.smugmug.com
Copyright: Hytham Abu-Safieh
http://hythamsafieh.smugmug.com/Astrono ... L/o-XL.png
[attachment=1]dust.jpg[/attachment]

Tak FSQ 106 EDXIII
FLI ML16803
AP Mach1 GTO
5.25h Integration

Those are some incredible widefields! I have never seen vdB149 and LDN 1251 together before! Marvellous stardust for everyone to enjoy!

[Turnit Tops]

Albert Barr
I added four hours of Ha to the LRGB wide field I recently did of the Cocoon from Mayhill NM

Ernesto Guido & Nick Howes
We just updated the blog with our confirmation image and info of new
comet C/2013 R1 (LOVEJOY)

Peter Muks
Hope you like this Orion image.

Roberto Colombari
Pleiades in wide field with FSQ 106 and SBIG 11000

Onofre Rodrigo Chiner
I am a amateur astrophotograph fron Valencia (Spain).
LBN 552 is a brown dust cloud in Cepheus. Its fantasmagoric looking make it´s known by Daemons Dance.
Inside of it there is a molecular gas nebula named Cohen 129.
I took this picture from the CAAT (http://www.astroava.org/index.php/caat.html) in Aras de lo Olmos (from 70 Km Valencia city), with a Takahasi FSQ106, Atik 383 (30x600 seg) for luminance, and Canon 55d cooled DSRL (50x300 seg) for RGB.

Damian Peach
Here is an image obtained on Sep 10th of the unusual ring galaxy NGC 1291 in Eridanus. It may well be the closest and brightest ring galaxy to us at 33 million light years away and 10th magnitude. The outer ring of material is much fainter than 10th mag though.
20"CDK with FLI-PL6303e camera. LRGB. L: 13 x 5mins. RGB: 5,5,10mins.

Tunç Tezel
I want to add this panorama of southern and western skies in the evening of 8th September in the submissions to APOD.

Manuel Fernandez Suarez
I send the last picture made from my observatory in Leon, Spain.
M16 in Serpens.
Data acquisition and datails:
http://www.elfirmamento.com/galeria/mes ... _1000.html
Higher resolution in:
http://www.elfirmamento.com/galeria/mes ... _1500.html

Jim Young
Taken at Cannon Beach, Oregon September 9, 2013. The foreground rock spires
are called "The Needles", south of Haystack Rock. Cannon Beach is about 28
miles south of the entrance of the Columbia River on the Oregon north coast.
Note the reflections of both the crescent moon and Venus in the foreground
tide pools at low time.

[afesan]

A rare imaged LDN in Cepheus: LDN 1221.. with floaty dusty streamers that stretch diagonally...


A full image view and more data at:
http://afesan.es/Deepspace/slides/LDN%2 ... us%29.html

[Gerhard Bachmayer]

http://www.pbase.com/gbachmayer/image/1 ... 5/original



The nebula is the glowing remain of the outer hydrogen shell, shed off from a red super-giant sun and exposing its helium burning center, which is called a Wolf-Rayet star. Strong stellar winds from the star compressed and stimulated the surrounding gas and dust, and the strong ultra violett radiation excited it to glow.

Gerhard

[terry.hancock]

Sagittarius Quartet
Copyright: Terry Hancock and Fred Herrmann
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/9730354418/

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