Submissions: 2014 January

Moon rising at twilight with jupiter and orion constellation 3
Moon rising at twilight with jupiter and orion constellation 3
Copyright: Dario Giannobile

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ildiora · Post by **ildiora** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 9:10 pm

Moor rising
URL of website, if any
Copyright: Dario Giannobile

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Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 9:15 pm

ildiora wrote:Moon rising at twilight with jupiter and orion constellation 3
Moon rising at twilight with jupiter and orion constellation 3
Copyright: Dario Giannobile
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Breath taking image!

Astromontufar · Post by **Astromontufar** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 9:30 pm

Active Volcanoes in Guatemala
Acatenango, Santiaguito & Fuego left to right.

http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/photos/2860617/

By. Sergio Montúfar

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 12:28 am

M42 in Orion
Tad off framing
10 x 10min and 10 x 1min
using itelescope.net
Copyright: Lucas Saldanha Werneck

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Horsehead Nebula
LHaRGB
Stack from 10 x 10min
using itelescope.net
Copyright: Lucas Saldanha Werneck

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Wah! · Post by **Wah!** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:49 am

Five Color Sun

Original Post: http://solarchat.natca.net/index.php/en ... aic#103256
Copyright: Wah!

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The images were captured by my new DIY spectroheliograph.
It was so fun that can produce a full solar disk from thousands of spectral lines, especially that we can't buy such wavelength solar filters from the market

starsurfer · Post by **starsurfer** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:08 am

SkyViking wrote:Into the Shadow of the Horsehead
http://www.rolfolsenastrophotography.com
Copyright: Rolf Wahl Olsen
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Link to the full resolution image (3MB): http://goo.gl/IwdfjG

The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33) is without doubt one of the most recognized and fascinating objects in the sky. This iconic feature is formed by the sharp outline of a dark dust cloud, with a remarkable likeness to a horse's head, silhouetted against a brightly glowing patch of ionized Hydrogen (IC434) that is being energized by the hard ultraviolet radiation from nearby Sigma Orionis, a quintuplet star system lying just outside the top of the image.

I sought to process this image to show not only the traditional Horsehead silhouette but also the details of the dense dust cloud (Lynds 1630 molecular cloud) from which it emerges.
Visible in the foreground is a large looming shadow being cast by the Horsehead's tower of dust, appearing as a dark fan-shape all across the image down towards the bottom centre-left, intercepted on its left edge by the intricate bright blue reflection nebula NGC2023.
In contrast to the red emission glow, the reflection nebula is caused by light from the nebula's bright blue central stars which is being reflected off the surrounding dust.The brightest member of the central cluster is the B star HD 37903, a very young star with intense ultraviolet radiation that has carved a four light years wide cavity in the dust that we see as the reflection nebula.

Throughout the dark cloud, both in and below the Horsehead, are several small glowing reddish patches. These are the feeble lights from new stars being born in the cloud. Some of these are Herbig-Haro objects; the result of plasma jets ejected from young protostars which collide with the surrounding gas and dust and cause the glowing emission. Inside the bright blue nebula NGC2023 are also several brightly coloured wisps of emission patches, further hints of young stellar objects and the regions' overall complexity and beauty.

Image details:
Date: 7th, 8th, 9th, 20th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 31st December 2013 and 2nd, 5th, 6th, 9th January 2014
Exposure: LRGB: 460:65:65:60 mins, total 10 hours 50 mins @ -25C
Telescope: 12.5" f/4 Serrurier Truss Newtonian
Camera: QSI 683wsg with Lodestar guider
Filters: Astrodon LRGB E-Series Gen 2
Taken from my observatory in Auckland, New Zealand

It's a shame this won't make APOD as there was another image of it recently.

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:19 am

starsurfer, unless you can reliably read the minds of Drs. Nemiroff and Bonnell, now and into perpetuity, you don't know whether Rolf's lovely image will be shown on APOD or not.

istvanmatis · Post by **istvanmatis** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:48 am

Cloudy Analemma: taken in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania. This is now the second one in this city, and the third one in the country.
It required quite some planning to fit into the urban landscape and patience to outbrave the weather.

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Copyright 2014, István Mátis

Camera: Canon EOS 450D
Sun photos: 42 photos taken between 11/6/2012 and 1/19/2014 at 7:00 UT; Exposure: 1/2000s, f/3.5, ISO 100, 18mm
Background: taken on 1/15/2014, 5:53:32 UT; Exposure: 1/20s, f/3.5, ISO 100, 18mm

A more detailed article can be found here:
http://borealis.astroclubul.org/index.p ... &Itemid=10.
Image link with different resolutions:
http://borealis.astroclubul.org/imatis/ ... lang=en_UK
Full resolution direct image URL is here:
http://borealis.astroclubul.org/imatis/ ... alemma.jpg

Efrain Morales · Post by **Efrain Morales** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 2:11 pm

Super Nova In M82 The Cigar Galaxy on January 23rd 06:23ut. comparing to the image I took on april of last year showing the SN with markers with the latest image. The supernova detected as early as the 15th of january is currently at magnitude +11 to +12 at 12 million light years distance.

mexhunter · Post by **mexhunter** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:21 pm

"Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle Nebula (M16)
Copyright: César Cantú

geckzilla · Post by **geckzilla** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:30 pm

I really like this galaxy with an X-shaped bulge.

ESO 137-2
Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA; Processing: Judy Schmidt

Jost Jahn · Post by **Jost Jahn** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:44 pm

SN 2014J in M82 with ROTAT 0.60-m/f3.2 and 3x300s of each LRGBHalpha (sum 75 minutes)

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starsurfer · Post by **starsurfer** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:22 pm

owlice wrote:starsurfer, unless you can reliably read the minds of Drs. Nemiroff and Bonnell, now and into perpetuity, you don't know whether Rolf's lovely image will be shown on APOD or not.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7128

Ann · Post by **Ann** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:38 pm

geckzilla wrote:I really like this galaxy with an X-shaped bulge.

ESO 137-2
Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA; Processing: Judy Schmidt

Fantastic image, geckzilla! Thanks for processing all that Hubble data and creating stunning images for us!

Ann

jhuggins · Post by **jhuggins** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:44 pm

Jupiter and Moonbeams
http://www.astronomy.net/
Copyright: John S. Huggins

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Andromeda 2013 · Post by **Andromeda 2013** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 12:40 am

23 Jan 2014 Sundog

http://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/

Copyright: Mike Morgulis

Sundog over Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Andromeda 2013 · Post by **Andromeda 2013** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 12:43 am

23 Jan 2014 Sundog 1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak ©

Sundog over Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

iphone camera

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Andromeda 2013 · Post by **Andromeda 2013** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 12:44 am

23 Jan 2014 Sundog 2
http://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak ©

Sundog over Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Astromontufar · Post by **Astromontufar** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 8:20 am

Volcanoes in Guatemala

Acatenango and Fuego

http://www.flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/12110002475

Sergio Montúfar

IO_12 · Post by **IO_12** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 8:53 am

SN 2014J - type I in M82 (NGC 3034) in Ursa Major.

http://www.irida-observatory.org/Observ ... tions.html

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

According to CBET 3792 this transient has been discovered by Steve J. Fossey on 2014/01/21.810
NGC 3034 (M82)-SN2014J (= PSN J09554214+6940260)
Found in M82 at R.A. = 09h55m42s.14, Decl. = +69°40'26".0 (= NGC 3034)
Located 54" west and 21" south of the center of M82

Following the posting on the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) about a possible Supernova in M82 (TOCP Designation: PSN J09554214+6940260) we performed some follow-up of this object through a 12"RC astrograph + CCD from our remote controlled IRIDA Observatory.

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Thank you for looking ...

http://www.irida-observatory.org/Observ ... tions.html

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

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