Found Images: 2013 October

[starsurfer]

---

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.

Please keep images under 400K, whether hotlinked or uploaded.

Thank you!


<- Previous

---

Helix Nebula (NGC 7293)
http://www.chart32.de/index.php/object- ... lix-nebula
Copyright: CHART32

Click to view full size image

Click to view full size image

I think this image would make a very interesting mouseover!

[geckzilla]

Click to view full size image 1 or image 2

[starsurfer]

M8 and M20
http://www.astroeder.com/m8-20_eder_en.html
Copyright: Iván Éder

[starsurfer]

NGC 6590
http://www.astrophoto.com/NGC6590LRGB.htm
Copyright: Tony Hallas

[canopia]

Southern Lights
http://spaceweather.com/gallery/indiv_u ... d_id=87301
Copyright: Minoru Yoneto

Click to view full size image

[starsurfer]

Abell S1077
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1319a/
Copyright: ESA/Hubble & NASA
Acknowledgement: N. Rose

Click to view full size image

[geckzilla]

Rover feet! They seem rather worn after a relatively short period. Lots of dents and dings and it even looks like a small rock is embedded in the middle wheel.


MSL wheels - Sol411 - 2nd Oct 2013 by Mick Hyde, on Flickr

[Beyond]

Mars is a ruff place for footsies, even the shoeless kind. All that sand and gravel and pointy little stones are enough to make anyone's dogs bark, even a rovers. Maybe they shoulda also sent some Dr. Scholl's foot powder

[starsurfer]

Alpha Camelopardalis
http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/gallery_AlphaCam.html
Copyright: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team

Click to view full size image

This bowshock is also visible in the optical wavelength but has received very little study from professional astronomers. As far as I'm aware, the only optical image is this one by Steve Mandel: http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/ap061124.html

[starsurfer]

WR 157 nebula
https://sites.google.com/site/lionelmul ... -CCD/wr157
Copyright: Lionel Mulato

This Wolf Rayet nebula is part of the Sh2-157 complex.

[starsurfer]

NGC 520
http://sleshin.startlogic.com/stargazer ... itemId=671
Copyright: Stephen Leshin

This peculiar galaxy is also known as Arp 157.

[Ann]

Hooray!!! Adam Block is back, and he has posted a splendid new image of M33!

And he has posted a gereat new image of Comet ISON, too!

Ann

[bystander]

Martian Scars
ESA Space Science | Mars Express | 2013 Oct 10

[url=http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Highlights/Mars_images9][i]Mosaic of Hebes Chasma by Mars Express - Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)[/i][/url]

---

[geckzilla]

Russian missile making a cloud near the ISS:

Source - Luca Parmitano's Twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/astro_luca/status/3 ... 92/photo/1

Found information at Phil Plait's blog:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronom ... m_iss.html

also on Universe Today:
http://www.universetoday.com/105457/mis ... -in-space/

[geckzilla]

A cross post of a photo I've become fond of for one of the photographers at the Flickr stream. I like it a lot because we often get comments from people wishing they could see these larger structures against a real night sky to get a better feel for their size. This captures that nicely while having a kind of natural feel to it. He also has a photo of the California Nebula and Pleiadies. Pretty!

Colourful sky above Tibetan prayer flags by Jeff Dai, on Flickr

[Ann]

Just like Stephen Lehsin, Adam Block has a new image of NGC 520.

It is interesting to compare the two images. NGC 520 is a galactic train wreck, the result of a tremendous collision of two galaxies, where the debris is actually cooling somewhat. That's why we don't see that many young stars in NGC 520. Alternatively, the galaxies that collided didn't contain a lot of "fuel" - that is, they might have been gas-poor. The upper arm, the one that is curved, is bluer in color than the rest of the galaxy, and it also contains many young clusters. The rest of the galaxy seems to lack clusters altogether. The smooth non-yellow populations in this galaxy are certainly made up of intermediate stars, where most of the light comes from A-, F- and G-type stars. The brightest fireworks, the O- and B-stars, have already sparkled and died.

In any case, both Adam Block's and Stephen Lehsin's images are very beautiful, interesting and informative.

Ann

[starsurfer]

Eta Carinae Nebula (NGC 3372)
http://www.glitteringlights.com/Images/ ... -rdGW9Nb/A
Copyright: Marco Lorenzi

Click to view full size image

[starsurfer]

Vela Supernova Remnant
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/Velamosaic.html
Copyright: Robert Gendler

This previous APOD would make an excellent rerun!

[starsurfer]

Beehive Cluster (M44)
http://www.darkatmospheres.com/astro/ga ... clusters_5
Copyright: Roth Ritter

Click to view full size image

[starsurfer]

Gem Cluster (NGC 3293)
http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/ngc3 ... 11K_RC.htm
Copyright: Steve Crouch

This cluster isn't referred to by it's popular name as much as it should be!

[geckzilla]

Sergio Montúfar posted some positively spooky photos to the Flickr APOD group over the past couple of days. Maybe we can avoid using the Witch Head or Ghost nebula this year?


Frio - Calor by Sergio Montúfar, on Flickr


Under the clouds by Sergio Montúfar, on Flickr

[starsurfer]

M2
http://kepler-observatorium.ru/index.ph ... 5&Itemid=5
Copyright: Andrey Kuznetsov

[starsurfer]

SMC
http://upload.pbase.com/gregbradley/ima ... 0026/large
Copyright: Greg Bradley

[starsurfer]

NGC 371 region
http://www.martinpughastrophotography.id.au
Copyright: Martin Pugh

This is a region of many nebulae (and supernova remnants) in the SMC!

[Ann]

NGC 371 region
http://www.martinpughastrophotography.id.au
Copyright: Martin Pugh

Gems-in-the-SMC.jpg

This is a region of many nebulae (and supernova remnants) in the SMC!

Oh, that's a nice image, starsurfer!

Ann