Submissions: 2015 January

astroligu · Post by **astroligu** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 8:54 am

Rolando Ligustri wrote: I had an incredible fortune to photograph the disconnection of Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy on January 8 to 19:33 TU . This disconnect was due to the activity of the Sun these days,at PA 160 seems visible beginning of tail of dust

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link for high res, http://www.astrobin.com/full/146949/0/

IO_12 · Post by **IO_12** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 11:10 am

Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) on January 8th 2015
Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov @ Irida Observatory

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More info and hi-res images on website

alcarreño · Post by **alcarreño** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 11:28 am

Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile (Alcarreño)

portada m 42 by astrocentejo, on Flickr

Leonor · Post by **Leonor** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 12:27 pm

The conjunction of Venus and Mercury has been a surprise on the evening of January 9, 2015 from the Observatory of La Hita, Toledo, because of exceptional weather conditions. The clear sky and high atmospheric pressure of more than 1043 hPa provided an unforgettable show. Venus was hiding on the horizon, and when he was about to disappear Venus “doubled” and turned into green... Then he disappeared and again exhibited a green flash similar to the Green Ray that we see for the Sun when the atmosphere is very stable.

Mirage of Venus and its Green Ray
http://www.astronomadas.com
Copyright: Leonor Ana Hernández

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Jose Luis Sánchez · Post by **Jose Luis Sánchez** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 2:24 pm

Star Lake
Copyrights: Jose Luis Sanchez

My Flickr

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lynnhilborn · Post by **lynnhilborn** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 5:01 pm

http://www.nightoverontario.com/Astrono ... K&lb=1&s=L

jsines · Post by **jsines** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 8:27 pm

Rosette Nebula by Jeffrey Sines, on Flickr

bi-color narrowband image, 12x900 Ha, 11x900 OIII, (5.75 hrs total) captured with an SBIG ST-8300M, Baader filters, through an Orion ED80T, on an Orion Sirius mount in a white zone of light pollution.

Thanks for looking!

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 9:05 pm

Where Did All the Stars Go?
Credits: ESO
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1501/

asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=237570#p237570

Study of Andromeda's stellar disk indicates more violent history than Milky Way
Image credit: Ben Williams and the PHAT collaboration
An article: http://news.ucsc.edu/2015/01/andromeda-galaxy.html

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http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34326

M83
Credits and copyrights: Data: Hubble,Subaru,ESO and Roberto Colombari; Processing: Roberto Colombari
Larger size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/146175/0/?real=&mod=

Östersund - The Aurora City
Copyrights: Göran Strand

IC1396 Dark Nebulae
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

NASA Observatories Take an Unprecedented Look into Superstar Eta Carinae
Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/T. Gull et al.
An article: http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nas ... LGRgNKsXhk

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http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34313

Eagle Nebula is moving
Copyright: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) J-L Dauvergne / First Light Magazine

Comet Lovejoy - December 29th
Copyrights: Damian Peach

Moonrise and sunset
Copyrights: Rob French

Rothkko · Post by **Rothkko** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 9:24 pm

s-un-d-og

: mérida, spain. 2015-01-10

Bonobo · Post by **Bonobo** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 10:01 pm

Venus y Mercurio unidos sobre la Campiña Cordobesa
Conjunction of Venus and Mercury on the Cordovan Countryside

Venus y Mercurio unidos sobre la Campiña cordobesa by Juan A. Bafalliu, on Flickr

Robert-Austria · Post by **Robert-Austria** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 10:46 pm

Lovejoys never ending tail
http://www.astrofotos.at
Copyright: Robert Pölzl

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8.1.2015 at 20:00 Utc i captured the Comet Lovejoy - starting at the core oft the comet i made Picture for Picture to the end of the tail.....
In this time Lovejoy made a massive dustexpulsion.
Exiting !!!

Some more Details and Information you can find here:
http://astrofotos.at/index.php?view=det ... Itemid=134

Best regards from austria
Robert Pölzl

starduststeve · Post by **starduststeve** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 11:17 pm

Starboard Conjunction
https://www.facebook.com/stephenscheerp ... fref=photo
Copyright: Stephen Scheer

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Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 11:22 pm

Moon swims in Belt of Venus over the Earth Shadow
Copyrights: Divyadarshan D.Purohit

Comet On January 6
Copyrights: Keith Benoist

Tarantula Nebula
Copyrights: Steven Juchnowski
Larger size: http://members.iinet.net.au/~sjastro/Tar_OIII_Ha.jpg

The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae
Copyrights: Miguel Claro

Shadows cast by a warp in a planet forming system
Credits: MAD at Universidad de Chile
An article: http://www.uchile.cl/noticias/108642/sh ... ing-system

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http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34318

Winter M42
Copyrights: Patrick Gilliland

Comet Lovejoy - December 31st
Copyrights: Damian Peach

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 11:50 pm

Mars and conjunction between Venus and Mercury
Copyrights: Adriano Valvasori

Opportunity rover view from summit of Cape Tribulation
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Marco Di Lorenzo/Kenneth Kremer

Almost Full Moon
Copyrights: Wolfgang Blücher

Comet Lovejoy Moving at 81,689 mph
Copyrights: John Chumack

Sun Dogs image from Indiana
Copyrights: Lorri Markum

The Cathedral of Évora with a Moon Green Flash
Copyrights: Miguel Claro

Comet Lovejoy
Copyrights: Jarred Donkersley

hervedole · Post by **hervedole** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 12:07 am

Winter sky with a comet and telescopes
Herve Dole

image1:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/herve_d/16063763687/

image 2 with labels:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/herve_d/1 ... otostream/

It pictures the winter sky from the Haute-Provence observatory
in southern France (OHP stands for Observatoire de Haute Provence).

Orion and Taurus are majesteous in the sky.

On the horizon, we can see the 2m telescope where
51peg exoplanet was first discovered in 1995. We can also see the
1.2m telescope used with masters' students.

This picture shows also the comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2.

Taken w/ a 14mm f2.8 lens on a full frame reflex digital camera:
10s exposure at 10k ISO, on Jan 10th, 2015 before midnignt.

2 images. the second contains labels of the positions of the constellations
and the comet.

by Pr Herve Dole, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale Orsay (univ Paris Sud & CNRS)

peterlin2008 · Post by **peterlin2008** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 5:14 am

2014/ Jan 9 C/2014 Q2 taiwan hsinChu

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IO_12 · Post by **IO_12** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 10:07 am

Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) on January 8th 2015
Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov @ Irida Observatory

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More info and hi-res images on website

airliner · Post by **airliner** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 10:10 am

Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) by Mavroudakis Fotis, on Flickr

Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2)

Located just off the Pleiades star cluster, comet Lovejoy is an easy binocular object at 5th magnitude. A bright, greenish coma is very evident in this two and a half second exposure taken on the evening of January 10 2015 in the city of Kavala in Greece

© Mavroudakis Fotis
https://www.flickr.com/photos/airliner/

alfredoxa · Post by **alfredoxa** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 1:29 pm

Dear Drs.,
I am an amateur astrophotographer from La Coruña, in NorthWestern Spain. This time I am sending you a picture from In Pau da Cruz da Vella is in the Serra do Buio, 702 meters high, and is considered landmark between the municipalities of Ferreira do Valadouro Cervo, Xove and Viveiro the four of Lugo, 43°35'8.69" -7°29'22.56", Lugo (Galicia).
A past history of Galicia is full of stories that tell us about the conflicts between terrains by the limits. In the case of the Pau da Cruz da Vella happens also, but in this case the discussion is not between people, but even among municipalities: Valadouro, Xove, Cervo and Viveiro quarrel by saying that the Cross is yours.
Moreover, another Galician tradition that comes very last is the legends of the mysterious magical stories or explaining the origin of things; here too the "Cruz" of Pau da Vella has a lot to tell, since even in his name preserves the vestiges of these legends.
I hope you like it and I would be delighted if you consider it good enough to be published as an A.P.O.D.

http://www.astrobin.com/147413/

cometa C2014 Q2_Lovejoy by Alfredo Madrigal, on Flickr

Best regards,

Alfredo Madrigal
M50

astrogufo · Post by **astrogufo** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 5:18 pm

Taken on January,10
Canon 40D central ds on Televue 102 f/7 - 1/125sec.
Carlo Rocchi (Italy)

StefanoDeRosa · Post by **StefanoDeRosa** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 7:38 pm

Venus and Mercury over Monviso
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa

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Please find above an image of Venus and Mercury captured on January 11, 2015 from Turin (Italy) over the Monviso peak (12,602 ft or 3,841 m), the highest mountain of the Cottian Alps.

Best regards

Stefano

bilgebay · Post by **bilgebay** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 8:56 pm

Soap Buble and The Crescent

For the the hires image please click the thumbnail below

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 11:32 pm

Mercury and Venus in conjunction
Copyrights: Fernando Cabrerizo

NGC1499 - The California Nebula (mosaic)
Copyrights: Bernard Miller

Low Glow
Copyrights: Adam Block
Larger size: http://skycenter.arizona.edu/gallery/Nebulae/NGC3132

IC405 and NGC1893
Copyrights: Fényes Lóránd

Night sky over Latemar Mountains
Copyrights: David Gruber

Northern Lights above Talkeetna, Alaska
Copyrights: Dora Miller

SpaceX Falcon 9 CRS-5 Launch and noctilucent clouds
Copyrights: Ben Chandler

Comet Lovejoy Wide and Close Images 10th Jan
Copyrights: Ian Sharp

Larger size: http://astro-sharp.com/images/comets/C2 ... 11_ids.jpg

Venus and Mercury
Copyrights: Rubén Torregrosa Soler

John Ebersole · Post by **John Ebersole** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 1:31 am

Cederblad 90, Gum 3, vdB 94 in HST Palette
http://jebersol.zenfolio.com/
Copyright: John Ebersole

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This emission (and reflection) nebula is located at the south wing tip of the Seagull nebula, IC2177, in Canis Major. A small planetary nebula can also be spotted by the sharp-eyed. A larger image is available at http://jebersol.zenfolio.com/p651566697 ... #h338d2e09

starsurfer · Post by **starsurfer** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:48 am

stevous67 wrote:NGC2029, NGC2035, NGC2040, NGC2020, NGC2014 - HaRGB

This area is sometimes known as the Southern Seagull [I may have it upside down!]

Link to full resolution image:
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7532/162 ... 8bda_o.jpg

Information about the image:

Instrument: Planewave CDK 12.5
Focal Ratio: F8
Camera: STL-11002 + AOX
Camera Sensitivity: Ha BIN 1x1, RGB BIN 2x2
Exposure Details: Ha 1200sec x 28, RGB 240sec x 4
Mount: AP900GTO
Viewing Location: Taken in a suburb of Melbourne [Victoria, Australia].
Software Enhancements: CCDStack2, PS, Pixinsight
Comment: Very little colour data; crazy colours! Hahahaha...
Author: Steven Mohr

I love all the various nebulae of the LMC and considering there are so many to choose from, I think this could be my favourite region! The colours might be crazy but they are fairly accurate and show the abundant hydrogen and oxygen in the area very well! The other great thing is that your image includes two Wolf Rayet nebulae! The more well known one is NGC 2020, the blue bubble near the right and the less well known one is DEM L240, the irregular blue cloud above NGC 2035.

Also I don't know the origin of the name Southern Seagull but I think it might have been mistakenly associated with this region?

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