Submissions: 2014 March

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Post by pablo22 » Tue Mar 04, 2014 3:19 pm

Barnard's Loop between M78 and LDN1622
http://astrofotky.cz/~Konihlav/
Copyright: Pavel Pech
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Re: Submissions: 2014 March

Post by Bonobo » Tue Mar 04, 2014 10:17 pm

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El abrazo del Sol y el castillo por calle L, 8, en Flickr

El abrazo del Sol y el castillo
The embrace of the Sun and the castle

El Sol se pone tras el castillo de Almodóvar del Río, Córdoba, España.
El movimiento continuo del astro rey tras las capas de nubes en la atmósfera terrestre, produce deformaciones y diferentes coloraciones en el disco solar.
The sun sets behind the castle of Almodóvar del Río, Córdoba, Spain.
The continuous movement of the sun behind the cloud layers in the atmosphere, produces deformations and different colors on the solar disk.

This photograph was made from 34 kilometers away from the castle with a Canon EOS 60D and Samyang telephoto 500 mm. With no filter.

©Juan A. Bafalliu, Spain, 2014

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Post by broca » Tue Mar 04, 2014 11:23 pm

IC 410 the Tadpoles
http://www.CoatesAstrophotography.com/
Copyright: Steven Coates
IC 410 an emission nebula about 12,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Auriga. Near the center of the nebulous region is a star cluster ( NGC 1893) and just to the bottom right of this cluster lies two structures that resemble tadpoles. These structures are made of leftover hydrogen and dust from the formation of the star cluster and the "tails" are from the solar wind coming from the stars of NGC 1893.
RGB: 1 hour 18 min Red, 1 hour Green and 1 hour Blue (binned 1x1) using 80mm EON
Ha: 4 hours (binned 1x1) using the 8 inch RCT.
Processed in PhotoShop CS5
Imaging telescopes: Orion 80mm EON (FL 480mm) to collect RGB data, and the Astro-Tech 8" Ritchey-Chrétien (FL 1625mm) to collect Ha data.
Imaging camera: QSI 683 wsg-8
Losmandy G-11 with Gemini II
Astrodon Tru-balance E-Series Generation II LRGB filters
Astrodon 5nm Ha filter

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Post by markg » Wed Mar 05, 2014 4:43 am

Camping Under The Stars

Copyright: Mark Gee
http://theartofnight.com
It's a simple thing that people have been doing since the beginning of mankind, an open camp fire miles away from anywhere with just you and the stars above. It's something I try to do as often as I can, even if there's no camp fire involved.

In this world where technology usually keeps us company, I think everyone should experience this at some point in time. For me it certainly puts life in perspective - so look up and enjoy, it's free for everyone.
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Post by rwright4930 » Wed Mar 05, 2014 3:21 pm

Messier 101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy
http://www.eveningshow.com/messier-mara ... 01.png.php
Copyright: Richard S. Wright Jr.
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Post by rwright4930 » Wed Mar 05, 2014 3:31 pm

The Whale and Hockey Stick
WhaleAndHockeyStick.jpg
http://www.eveningshow.com/galaxies/#wh ... ystick.png
Copyright: Richard S. Wright Jr.
The Whale (NGC 4631) is an edge on spiral galaxy about 25 million light years away. Both the Whale and the Hockey Stick (NGC 4656) seen at lower left have smaller interacting companion galaxies. The one next to the Whale is often referred to as the "pup", and the two together are sometimes photographed together as the "Whale and Pup".

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Re: Submissions: 2014 March

Post by BudgetAstro » Wed Mar 05, 2014 4:59 pm

M44 The Beehive Cluster. 3 March 2014, Reading, UK :)
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Post by shadowoo2 » Wed Mar 05, 2014 7:39 pm

B33
2/28/14
Copyright: Jason Matter

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Full Res: http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u169 ... edor-2.jpg

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Post by Sandgirl » Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:23 pm

Jupiter images (Feb 16th, 2014.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach
2014_02_16rgbs.jpg
Big Activity of the sun in H-alpha
Copyrights: Olivier Hardy
Full size: http://soleilhalpha.free.fr/soleil/2014 ... 5TU_80.jpg
soleil_2mars2014_12H05TU_80_small.jpg
Full size: http://soleilhalpha.free.fr/soleil/2014 ... U_80nb.jpg
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Dissected Sun in H-Alpha light, CaK light and Whilte light
Copyrights: Alvaro Ibáñez Pérez
Diseccted_Sun_Alvaro_small.jpg
Andromeda Composite
Copyrights: Martin Pugh
Full size: http://martinpughastrophotography.id.au ... posite.jpg
M31-Composite_small.jpg
Electro-magnetic fields
Copyrights: William L. Proctor
Booklet about the topic: http://www.proctorillustration.com/EMF-4.pdf
Image: Cutaway of the particle's magnetic field
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Sunrise in Beijing
Copyrights: Mike Bolte
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Venus rising under the Milky Way
Copyrights: Jack Fusco
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Post by Sandgirl » Wed Mar 05, 2014 9:58 pm

Zodiacal Light in Georgia
Copyrights: Stephen Rahn
zodiacal-light.jpg
IC410 and IC405 - The Tadpoles and the Flaming Star
Copyrights: Oliver Czernetz
IC410-IC405_Widefield_POSS2_Czernetz_small.jpg
M81
Copyrights: Manfred Konrad
m81web_small.jpg
The launch a 48 foot sounding rocket into an auroral arc
Copyrights: Jason Ahrns
https://www.flickr.com/photos/musubk/12903921685/
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Mars on March 2nd 2014
Copyrights: Leo Aerts
Mars 2 maart 2014 2h23 UT a.jpg
M63 Sunflower Galaxy
Copyrights: Bill Snyder
M63-LHaRGB---PS1-V10-for small 4 WEB_small.jpg
Curiosity at Junda with Mount Sharp - Sol 548
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Marco Di Lorenzo/Kenneth Kremer
Curiosity at Junda Sol 548_2b_Ken Kremer_small.jpg

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Post by Sandgirl » Wed Mar 05, 2014 10:19 pm

Messier 42 (The Orion Nebula)
Copyrights: Lukas Bochtler
Full size: http://timelordomega.deviantart.com/art ... -437572236
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Young Thin Crescent Moon in the West!
Copyrights: John Chumack
Youngmoon030214Chumack.jpg
Sunrise
Copyrights: Joe Bohanon
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M45
Copyrights: Philippe Durville
M45_LRVB-hardcity_small.jpg
Sunspot AR1991 taken by me on 3rd March, 2014
Copyrights: Karzaman Ahmad
SUN20140303_SS1991_2xbarlow_2_bw_small.jpg
Thin Waxing Crescent Moon & Earthshine!
Copyrights: John Chumack
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Post by Rothkko » Wed Mar 05, 2014 11:31 pm

raptor and iridiscence
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mérida, spain. 2012-10-29
mérida, spain. 2012-10-29
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M44

Post by shaunnesy » Thu Mar 06, 2014 8:00 am

Hello. M44 , the Beehive Cluster captured last week during very poor damp seeing in UK Bungay. Its an LRGB image made up of 300 sec subs, 6 hours total

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M31, Ha enhanced

Post by Bob Andersson » Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:48 pm

M31, natural colours (not boosted or suppressed during stretching) but with some additional Ha
5 x 1000 seconds in each of R, G and B plus 10 x 1500 seconds Ha. TEC 140 plus ML16803 with Astrodon filters.

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Post by maciejzapior » Thu Mar 06, 2014 1:05 pm

Triple solargraphy analemma
The first ever analemma exposed every day using solargraphy technique.
Gaps caused by cloudiness.
Exposition: 1 March 2013 - 1 March 2014 at 10:30, 12:00 and 13:30 (CET) in Wrocław, Poland.
The project homepage:
http://www.analemma.pl
Copyright: Maciej Zapiór and Łukasz Fajfrowski
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Post by Mark Reynolds » Thu Mar 06, 2014 3:30 pm

RX J1131-1231: A Rapidly Spinning Black hole in a Gravitationally Lensed Quasar at z=0.658
Click to view full size image 1 or image 2
Multiple images of a distant quasar are visible in this combined view from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. The Chandra data were used to directly measure the spin of the supermassive black hole powering this quasar (a* > 0.66, 5σ confidence level). Mouseover to show the position of the quasar images and the lensing galaxy. Please see http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/rxj1131/ for further details.

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ of Michigan/R.C.Reis et al; Optical: NASA/STScI.

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Goodbye to the winter Ha targets....

Post by lynnhilborn » Thu Mar 06, 2014 4:57 pm

Goodbye to the winter Ha targets....
Goodbye to the winter Ha targets....
Higher resolution here http://www.nightoverontario.com/Astrono ... &lb=1&s=X2
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Post by Paul Haese » Thu Mar 06, 2014 9:46 pm

In Between The Stars

Copyright: Paul Haese

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Post by Edwinp » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:00 pm

Jupiter& Oval BA 5 march
http://www.astrobin.com/users/Edwin/
Copyright: Edwin Pottillius

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Post by Paul Haese » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:05 pm

In The Field

Copyright: Paul Haese
Data acquisition: Paul Haese

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Post by Sandgirl » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:15 pm

Spiral galaxy spills blood and guts
Credits: NASA, ESA
Acknowledgements: Ming Sun (UAH), and Serge Meunier

An article: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1404/
heic1404a.jpg
Svartifoss Starry Night
Copyrights: Stephane Vetter
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vdB 93
Copyrights: Bob Fera
vdb93c_small.jpg
Sharpless 115
Copyrights: László Francsics
sharpless115_francsics_apod_small.jpg
Gum 17 and Gum 15 - part of Vela Supernova remnants
Copyrights: Leonardo July
Full size: http://astronomiapampeana.com.ar/foto/1 ... um-15.html
gum-17-and-gum-15ap_med.jpg
In the Heart of the Rosette
Copyrights: Don Goldman
RosetteSSOWeb2.jpg
Moon and Venus conjunction
Copyrights: Tamas Ladanyi
alamut_140226_ladanyi_web_small.jpg
The Moon and Earthshine
Copyrights: Alan Friedman
earthshine.jpg
NGC1555
Copyrights: Bill Snyder
NGC1555-CCDStack-LRGB-ORG-PS1V4for-APOD_small.jpg

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