Submissions: 2015 January

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 10:19 pm

Snow comet over Yunnan
Copyrights: :Zhou Zhen

Widefield image of Lovejoy
Copyrights: Hermann Koberger

Moon, Mars & Venus
Copyrights: Jack Fusco

Venus-moon-Mercury
Copyrights: Richard Mentock

NGC6960 and Pickering's Triangle
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

Comet Lovejoy on 24th Jan 2015
Copyrights: Ian Sharp
Larger size: http://astro-sharp.com/images/comets/C2 ... 24_ids.jpg

Storm, Orion and Canis Major
Copyrights: Davi Weigert

PepeChambo · Post by **PepeChambo** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 10:55 pm

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Title:
Comet Lovejoy and Pleiades

Object/Date:
C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) @ 2015-Jan-17

Description:
Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) on January 17, 2015 approaching to 8 deg. from Pleiades star cluster (M 45). Still shining at its maximun around 4th magnitude, its ionic tail with more than 11 deg. long extends beyond the field limits of this image.

Location:
Los Giles - Olba, Teruel (Spain)

Tech data:
Canon lens at 95mm. f/5.6 + Canon EOS 100D camera (4×300 sec. at ISO 1600)

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

Author:
José J. Chambó

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 10:56 pm

NGC1499
Copyrights: Stephen F. Armen
Full size: https://500px.com/photo/96649785/ngc149 ... er_library

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Asteroid 2004 BL86
Copyrights: Dieter Willasch
Larger size: http://astro-cabinet.com/showimage.php? ... ng=english

Night skies over Mauna Kea
Copyrights: Jacob Gerritsen

Meteor and Satellite Crossing
Copyrights: Jeff Dai

Mosaic NGC 7000 - IC 5067
Copyrights: César Blanco González
Full size: http://www.cieloprofundo.com/cesar/foto ... GRANDE.jpg

Gigantic ring system around J1407b much larger, heavier than Saturn’s
Image credits: Ron Miller
An article: http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/gig ... nd-j1407b/

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34392

Tarantula nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Color (RGB+Ha): Aldo Mottino & Ezequiel
Bellocchio (Argentina); Luminance: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA. NASA, ESA, ESO,
D. Lennon (ESA/STScI) et al., and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA).

Larger size: http://www.astropilar.com.ar/nebulosas/NGC2070_2.html

Night sky and volcano
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel

37 Cluster
Copyrights: Gordon Barrett

felopaul · Post by **felopaul** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 11:18 pm

IC410 SHO

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full size : http://www.cielboreal.com/galerie/photo51f.jpg

http://www.cielboreal.com
Copyright: Jean-Claude CANONNE, Philippe BERNHARD, Didier CHAPLAIN & Laurent BOURGON

terry.hancock · Post by **terry.hancock** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 12:19 pm

Copyright: Andy D'Arienzo & Terry Hancock
One of my earliest collaborations from 2010 with Andy who did the post processing
https://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhanc ... /lightbox/

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astrofotografen.se · Post by **astrofotografen.se** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 1:16 pm

The hidden city of Östersund
http://www.astrofotografen.se
Copyright: Göran Strand

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Last night there were a very thick fog covering the city of Östersund. In this photo you can see the fog lit up from beneath by the city lights. It's very interesting to see all the different colors from different type of light sources. One of the most known landmarks of Östersund is Rådhuset (City hall) and you can see the tower/spire of that building sticking up through the fog in center of the photo.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:46 pm

Asteroid 2004 BL86 Passes the Beehive - Timelapse

On January 26 & 27th Asteroid 2004 BL86 passed within 745,000 miles of the Earth. That is about 3 times the distance to the Moon. Traveling at 35,000 miles per hour the Asteroid flew in front of the Beehive Cluster, Messier 44 (M44). During the event I took 607 images of the pass. Due to clouds only 314 were usable. I created a video using these to show 78.5 mins of the Asteroid pass.

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

tommy_h · Post by **tommy_h** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 9:10 pm

LBN 406
A very faint Molecular Cloud in Draco
Copyright: Thomas Henne
http://www.distant-lights.at/lbn406-2014_05_20.htm

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shaunnesy · Post by **shaunnesy** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 10:40 pm

More data added last night to NGC 2175 on a good clear night , Hubble Palette here

https://www.flickr.com/photos/shaun_rey/16383834985/

Nitpicker · Post by **Nitpicker** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 11:48 pm

Guest wrote:Asteroid 2004 BL86 Passes the Beehive - Timelapse

On January 26 & 27th Asteroid 2004 BL86 passed within 745,000 miles of the Earth. That is about 3 times the distance to the Moon. Traveling at 35,000 miles per hour the Asteroid flew in front of the Beehive Cluster, Messier 44 (M44). During the event I took 607 images of the pass. Due to clouds only 314 were usable. I created a video using these to show 78.5 mins of the Asteroid pass.

Nice work!

Ezequiel · Post by **Ezequiel** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 4:49 pm

NGC 2467 in Puppis
http://www.astropilar.com.ar/nebulosas/NGC2467_1.html
Copyright: Ezequiel Bellocchio

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Regards,
Ezequiel.

Rothkko · Post by **Rothkko** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 7:42 am

Ann wrote: Rothkko, those are fantastic sundogs!

thanks

jldauvergne · Post by **jldauvergne** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:42 pm

2015 is the last year to have good chances to see northern lights

http://astrophotography.fr/
http://www.firstlight-magazine.com/

Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne

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I've also done some time lapses :

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27i0JRs ... e=youtu.be[/youtube]

December 26th, 2014. It was the first day of a trip in Iceland. Just few hours after landing I've seen the best nothern light of the week. This very impressive mountain is Kirkjufell, it means "mountain-church". I was very lucky to shot the aurora just as it took the same shape as the mountain ! Few seconds before or after it was not the same.

I took this image with the new Sony Alpha 7s that is realy very sensitive : its has a big sensor with only 12 millions pixels, and the readout noise is very low.

2015 is the last year to have a solar activity at its best : http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/so ... number.gif
May be that the begining of 2016 will allso be ok.

After we will have to wait 2021 or 2022 to have a good level of solar activity.

Pavel S · Post by **Pavel S** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:46 pm

Vega star and Milky Way.
Copyrights: Smilyk Pavel
Vega will eventually become the brightest star in the sky in around 210,000 years, will attain a peak brightness of magnitude –0.81 in about 290,000 years and will be the brightest star in the sky for about 270,000 years

Pavel S · Post by **Pavel S** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 2:00 pm

Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) on January 22. Wide-field Image
Copyrights: Smilyk Pavel

PauloPPereira · Post by **PauloPPereira** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 4:37 pm

Cosmos
https://pauloppereira.wordpress.com/
Copyright: Paulo P Pereira

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RafaRo · Post by **RafaRo** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 4:45 pm

LOVEJOY 23 JAN
http://www.skyandphoto.com
Copyright: RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ MORALES

High Definition: http://www.skyandphoto.com/Photography/ ... SPGF4tF/X3

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Klacsány Imre · Post by **Klacsány Imre** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 9:14 pm

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http://www.emrefoto.hu/ic_410_emrefoto2000.htm
www.emrefoto.hu

astrochuck · Post by **astrochuck** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 9:16 pm

Copyright: Chuck Manges

Orion Nebula by astrochuck, on Flickr

A 6 panel mosaic was used for Luminance (60x1min) Taken with a 11" Celestron EdgeHD with Hyperstar(F/2). and a QHY23M (60 min)
RGB was taken last year with a Astro-Tech AT65EDQ and a QHY9M(Red-5x600s
Green-5x600s Blue-5x600s) (2.5 hours)
The "core" of the nebula was emphasized with 6x60s Luminance filtered images taken with the EdgeHD @F/10. (6 min)

NCHANT · Post by **NCHANT** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 1:16 am

Another Orion complex series

Taken with a Canon 6D (not modded) and an EF 200mm ƒ2.8 lens, giving the telescope guys a run for their money?

140x 30 seconds + 10 x 5 seconds, no darks or any other frames
ƒ3.2
6400 ISO
Stacked in Nebulosity, stretched in PS and LR.

Full stacked image:

Pot full of Nebulas (re edit) by Mikey Mack, on Flickr

100% crops:

Orion Nebula (re edit) by Mikey Mack, on Flickr

Flaming Horsehead! (re edit) by Mikey Mack, on Flickr

rcolombari · Post by **rcolombari** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 9:17 am

This image has been composed using frames from my Takahashi FS60c (SBIG8300):
L: 19x420s
Ha: 15x900s
RGB: (7, 7, 7)x420s
Belo Horizonte (southern side of the city), MG, Brazil

enhanced, in the eta carinae surroundings, with frames done with a 11" Rowe Ackermann astrograph at F2.2 by Cristóvão Jacques:
L: 25x30s
Oliveira, MG, Brazil

http://www.astrobin.com/152259/

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avdhoeven · Post by **avdhoeven** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 8:35 pm

M77 Canadian-French-Hawaii Telescope/Hubble Space Telescope by Andre vd Hoeven, on Flickr

Recently I started working on crawling through some science databases of several large telescopes to see what data can be found in these archives. Some of the most interesting archives I found are, amongst others, the Subaru Telescope, the Gemini Telescopes, the Canadian-French-Hawaii-Telescope (CFHT) and of course the Hubble Legacy Archive.

This image shows a mosaic of Messier 77 made from data of two of these databases.
The widefield data was observed by the CFHT in visible light using Sloan u,g,r-filters, which is comparable to standard rgb. This image has a resolution of 0.28”/pixel, and is as far as I have found one of the most detailed images of this galaxies available.

The central part of this galaxy was observed by the Hubble Space Telescope and I used the data I generated for my price winning image of M77, which received a second place in the Hubble Hidden Treasures competition in 2012.

The data from the CFHT is really a great place to start. This 3,5 m / f 3.9 telescope has a huge ccd, comprised of 36 separate sensors, covering a field of 1x1 degree with a resolution of 0.18”/pixel. The total image is size is a mesmerising 340 Megapixels.

I downloaded the subimages of 2 ccd sensors covering M77 for this image in the mentioned filters and created an rgb image from this. The process of this I will describe in further detail during my workshop at the CEDIC conference in March in Austria and will be public after that.

Messier 77 / NGC 1068

Messier 77 was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1780. Méchain communicated his discovery to Charles Messier, who listed the object in his famous catalog. Messier gave the following description: “A cluster of small stars which contains some nebulosity in the Whale and on the parallel of the star delta, reported of the 3rd mag. but which Messier estimates to be of the 5th. M. Mechain saw this cluster on the 29th Oct. 1780, in the form of a nebula.”

In 1848, Lord Rosse described the galaxy as having a spiral structure together with 14 other nebulae of spiral nature, which we now know to be galaxies.

Now it is known that M77 is a spiral galaxy at a distance of about 50 million light-years with a diameter of about 170.000 lightyears. At first sight, M77 looks like every an ordinary galaxy. However when examined closely some oddities appear. The core is much brighter than its direct surroundings. Spectral analysis reveals huge amounts of glowing gas present in the core, triggered by the presence of a black hole in the centre of the galaxy. The black hole is highly active and gaining mass by swallowing materials from the galaxy core. The cores of these types of galaxies are called AGN (Active Galactive Nuclei).

The galaxy belongs to the class of Seyfert galaxies that show clearly different spectral emission than ordinary galaxies, caused by the presence of huge amounts of gas not belonging to stars in the core.

Observations over a five day timespan with the Chandra X-ray observatory showed matter is being accelerated away from the core by the violent processes going on there. Over distances of up to 3000 light-years, material is ejected with speeds up to 2.5 million km/h, actively suppressing star formation near the core.

M77 is the largest member of a small group of galaxies which includes spiral galaxies NGC 1055 and NGC 1073 as well as five small, irregular galaxies located in the constellation of Cetus.

Image information:

Center (RA, Dec):(40.669, -0.012)
Center (RA, hms):02h 42m 40.553s
Center (Dec, dms):-00° 00' 44.902"
Size:11.5 x 9.41 arcmin
Radius:0.124 deg
Pixel scale:0.282 arcsec/pixel
Orientation:Up is 180 degrees E of N

Exposures:

CFHT:
5 x 40s g,r (green and red)
5 x 150s u (blue)

Hubble:
606, 658 and 814 nm data

Acknowledgements:

This data was generated using the facilities of the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre operated by the National Research Council of Canada with the support of the Canadian Space Agency.

Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and obtained from the Hubble Legacy Archive, which is a collaboration between the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI/NASA), the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF/ESA) and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC/NRC/CSA).

Klacsány Imre · Post by **Klacsány Imre** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 8:09 am

Klacsány Imre wrote:
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http://www.emrefoto.hu/ic_410_emrefoto2000.htm
http://www.emrefoto.hu

cfm2004 · Post by **cfm2004** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 1:42 pm

September 2014
Location: San Romualdo - Ravenna (Italy)
LX200 12"GPS with Starizona reducer/coma corrector F/7.1
CCD QSI 520wsi cooled -18
Baader RGB and Narrowband Filters
Autoguide with Magzero MZ5-M and PHDguiding on ETX105
HA-OIII-RGB: H-alpha Baader 7nm 38x5', OIII Baader 8,5nm 58x5', R 37x3', G 40x3', B 35x3'
Acquired with: MaximDL5 - Dark, Bias and Flat calibrated
Processed with: MaximDL5, Astroart4, StarTools1.3 and Paint Shop ProX7

Best regards,
Cristina Cellini

francescodib · Post by **francescodib** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:43 pm

M42 The Great Orion Nebula HDR by Francescodb, on Flickr

Copyright: Francesco di Biase
http://www.astropixel.it

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NGC 6826 Blinking planetary nebula

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