Submissions: 2015 January

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maphilli14 · Post by **maphilli14** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 6:00 pm

My own solar system bests from my house

Copyright: Michael A. Phillips

Link to full description
2014 Solar System in Review - Spanning from January 4th to December 30th (Never give up!), all photos are mine, including the Earth and all taken within the calendar year of 2014.
http://astromaphilli14.blogspot.com/201 ... eview.html

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 2:27 pm

Hubble Sees the Beautiful Side of Galaxy IC 335
Copyrights: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
An article: http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/hub ... of-ic-335/

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=236871#p236871

Carina Nebula
Credits: South Africa Astronomical Observatory
Full size: http://www.saao.ac.za/wp-content/upload ... tlight.jpg

Comet Lovejoy - Dec 23rd - Twisting Tail
Copyrights: Ian Sharp
Full size: http://astro-sharp.com/images/comets/C2 ... 24_ids.jpg

Horsehead Nebula
Copyrights: José Joaquín Pérez

Omega Centauri - cross-stitch
Credits and copyrights: Risa Horowitz

IC5070 & IC5067 - The Pelican Nebula
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

Christmas sight
Copyrights: Brad E. Tucker

Orion Rising over Tibet
Copyrights: Jeff Dai

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 2:58 pm

Geostationary Satellites
Copyrights: Andrea Pistocchini

M42
Copyrights: Stefan Muckenhuber

M31
Copyrights: Stefan Muckenhuber

IC443, The Jellyfish Nebula
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

Milkyway and Pemaquid Point Lighthouse
Copyrights: Jon Secord

Comet Lovejoy in the sky
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado

New year's sky, Hawaiian style
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 3:24 pm

Comet Lovejoy
Copyrights: Mohammad Nowroozi

NGC457, The Owl Cluster
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

NGC2035 Southern nebula
Copyrights: Roland Christen

NGC 2264 - Cone Nebula region
Copyrights: Alan Smallbone
Full size: http://oc-aisig.org/gallery/main.php?g2 ... ewsIndex=1

Comet C2014 Q2 Lovejoy
Copyrights: Jose F. Hdez

Phemu - December 20 2014
Copyrights: Daniel Leclerc

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 4:13 pm

M-74 and IFN
Copyrights: Stefano Conti

Bubble Nebula
Copyrights: Peter Nagy

ISS crosses the moon
Copyrights: Gadi Eidelheit

Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2
Copyrights: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich

Mediterranean Skies
Copyrights: Antonio Peña

Light pillars & Vega
Copyrights: Andreas Albanese

Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 now 5th magnitude
Copyrights: John Chumack

cc83851 · Post by **cc83851** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 4:17 pm

N44 superbubble in the LMC
A false-colour Hydrogen Alpha image of the N44 superbubble in the LMC. There is still much debate amongst professional astronomers as to whether N44 cavity was blown by the stellar winds of the massive cluster of stars in it centre, or is primarily created by a supernova. Probably both mechanisms have a part to play.

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Copyright: Chris Clayton
http://tantort.webnode.com/photogallery/

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 4:52 pm

Barnard 33 (Horse, Flame nebula)
Copyrights: Dide van den Heuvel

Comet Lovejoy and Watchtower
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado

A simulation of the universe with realistic galaxies
Image credit: J. Schaye et al. 2015
An article: http://www.astronomie.nl/#!/nova/pers/p ... -galaxies/

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34282

Comet Lovejoy
Copyrights: Mike Klinke

Flame Nebula & Alnitak
Copyrights: José Joaquín Pérez

NGC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk Nebula
Copyrights: Roberto Capacci

LBN-522 - Molecular clouds in Cepheus
Copyrights: Oliver Czernetz

IC405 and NGC1893 mosaic
Copyrights: Fényes Lóránd
Full size: http://www.pleiades.hu/en/galeria/kozmo ... mal/79.jpg

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 5:48 pm

M45, The Pleiades Star Cluster
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

Lovejoy 2014
Copyrights: Albert Barr

Victoria Street Tower Star Trail
Copyrights: Tony Prince

Comet Lovejoy meets M79
Copyrights: Dieter Willasch

Comet Lovejoy over village skyline
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado

Ngc6888 + Soap Nebula
Copyrights: Paulo Lobao

The Christmas Tree Cluster
Copyrights: Evangelos Souglakos

M78 wide
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/144588/B/

marioweigand · Post by **marioweigand** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 5:49 pm

Happy new year!

Messier 78 & Barnards Loop
http://www.skytrip.de
Copyright: Mario Weigand

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Flaming Star Nebula IC 405
http://www.skytrip.de
Copyright: Mario Weigand

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Reflection nebulae vdB 14 & 15
http://www.skytrip.de
Copyright: Mario Weigand

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cheers

Mario

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 6:07 pm

Lovejoy and fire tower
Copyrights: John Ashley

Lovejoy
Copyrights: Albert Barr

M33
Copyrights: Imaging by Barry Megdal, processing by Warren Keller and Barry Megdal
Full size: http://www.shbinstruments.com/M33.jpg

Milky way
Copyrights: Shane Mayer-Gawlik

Pelican Nebula (IC5067)
Copyrights: Howard Trottier

NGC 1977
Copyrights: Ralph Harter

Carl Chan · Post by **Carl Chan** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 8:18 pm

Veil Nebula
Copyright: Chan Yat Ping

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avdhoeven · Post by **avdhoeven** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 8:58 pm

After an image made 2 days ago of C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy from Australia I decided to gather some more data from the background to improve the 'depth' of the image. Therefore I took 300s exposures to get more details and fainter stars in the image. Furthermore I completely reprocessed the comet data to get more details in the tail structure. I'm quite happy with this result. This image was made possible by the Tzec Maun Foundation by giving access to their FSQ106 in Siding Springs, Australia.

In the image comet Lovejoy is shown together with Messier 79, taken on Dec. 29 2014.

Exposure information:

10x300s (background)
6x60s (comet)

FSQ106 - SBIG STL11000c

Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy with M79 by Andre vd Hoeven, on Flickr

Copyright: André van der Hoeven / Tzec Maun Foundation

Bersonic · Post by **Bersonic** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 9:33 pm

The Colorful IC 434- The Horsehead and the Flame

I took this with a non modified dslr over the course of two nights. I was astounded to see how much detail was visible, even with basic gear.

Full Res: http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/1 ... rsonic.jpg

Space Flower- The Iris Nebula

Full Res: http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/0 ... rsonic.png

Rho Ophiuchi

Full Res: http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/6 ... rsonic.jpg

All of these were taken with a non modified Nikon D5300.

Copyright Jacob Bers http://bersonicastronomy.com/

Thanks for looking!

Sergio · Post by **Sergio** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:52 pm

Lovejoy at full speed !

8 inches Newtonian with OOUK Mirrors, TeleVue paracorr and QSI 583 WS riding in a SW NEQ6 Mount

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Happy new year !!
Sergio

Astromontufar · Post by **Astromontufar** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:56 pm

Volcán de Fuego

The golden sunset highlights the Volcán de Fuego as seen from Guetmala City on Deccember 26th.

https://www.facebook.com/MilkyWayAddicted
https://www.flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/
http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/profile/517775/
https://500px.com/acubens

By. Sergio Montúfar

K7VF · Post by **K7VF** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 11:16 pm

Lynds Dark Nebula 1529 Copyright: Jeff Husted.

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A collection of dark nebulae in Taurus. Click here to view at full resolution and for image info: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cygnusloo ... otostream/
Location: Panamint Valley California December 21,22,23, 2014.
Equipment: Televue NP127is at f4.1; Atik 383L+; Atlas EQ-G. Processing: Images Plus; Maxim DL; Registar; PS Elements.

alcarreño · Post by **alcarreño** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 1:47 am

Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile (alcarreño)

24x400" en RGB y 40x800 en Halfa

Las tres Marias RGB+Halfa by astrocentejo, on Flickr

marion165 · Post by **marion165** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 3:02 am

Symmetry and Star Trails
https://flic.kr/p/qCGUyv
Copyright: Marion Haligowski

Symmetry and Star Trails by Radical Retinoscopy, on Flickr

Orion, Jupiter, Leo and the winter constellations can be seen rising in the eastern sky in this star trail photograph made of 52 twenty second exposures. (Canon T2i, Canon 8-15L mm zoom lens, ISO 400, f/4.0) The waxing gibbous moon in the west illuminated the rows of harvested corn in this Lancaster, PA field.

Hytham · Post by **Hytham** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 5:07 am

Dusty Subaru
http://hythamsafieh.smugmug.com
Copyright: Hytham Abu-Safieh

Total Integration time: 5h

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Higher Resolution Image Found Here

applewo · Post by **applewo** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 6:04 am

M81
http://www.nightsky.kr
Copyright: Gwangwook Kim

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sydney · Post by **sydney** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 6:54 am

Comet Lovejoy
January 2, 2015
01:42 - 02:16 UT

(under the bright moon)

Larger images:
http://www.astrobin.com/145161/

Nick Pavelchak
Altamont, NY
http://www.astrobin.com/users/sydney/

PepeChambo · Post by **PepeChambo** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 11:09 am

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Title:
Comet Lovejoy and M79

Object/Date:
C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) @ 2014-Dec-29

Tech data:
Takahashi FSQ-106ED refractor + SBIG STL-1100M camera (L:1×180 Bin1 + RGB:1x60 Bin2)

Description:
Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) on December 29, 2014 while passing near globular cluster M 79 into Lepus. The comet has increased its brightness until 5th magnitude meanwhile its gassy coma has extended until a diameter of 0.5 degrees (same apparent size as the Moon), the galaxy NGC 1886 is immersed up in the outside of coma. The ionic tail of the comet departs toward northeast getting out the image with a longitude higher than 2 degrees, and showing a rich structure in which highlights a disconnection to half degree from nucleus.

Location:
Remotely from Siding Spring, Australia

Post link:
http://cometografia.es/lovejoy-m79/

Author:
José J. Chambó

Bob Andersson · Post by **Bob Andersson** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 5:23 pm

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California Nebula - central region in RGB + Ha (5 x 200 secs in each of R, G & B + 8 x 1,000 seconds 3nm Ha. TEC 140 'scope, FLI ML16803 camera, Astrodon filters)

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Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop. Constantly amazed by what I can see from my garden!

Bob.

tango33 · Post by **tango33** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 7:14 pm

2 frames with 200mm lens for this widefield imag.

Larger version:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/158682011

Happy new year!

Kfir Simon

Starship Asterisk*

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