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Re: Submissions: 2015 January

Post by Sandgirl » Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:22 pm

The Mouth of the Beast
Credits: ESO
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1503/
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http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=238904#p238904

Kepler astronomers discover ancient star with five Earth-size planets
Image credits: Illustration by Tiago Campante/Peter Devine
An article: http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2015/01/26/kepler444
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http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=238855#p238855

2004 BL86
Credits and copyrights: Gianluca Masi and Virtual Telescope Project
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The Wizard Nebula (Sh2-142) and NGC7380
Copyrights: Ron Brecher
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2004 BL 86 asteroid approaching M44
Copyrights: Andrea Demarchi
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http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34402

NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Captures Best-Ever View of Dwarf Planet
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
An article and animation: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4461
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Citizen Scientists Lead Astronomers to Mystery Objects in Space
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4462
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http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34397
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34409

Asteroid 2004 BL 86
Copyrights: José Luis Hdez Verdejo
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Heart Nebula
Copyrights: Lóránd Fényes
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Re: Submissions: 2015 January

Post by Sandgirl » Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:51 pm

Comet trails
Copyrights: Stan Honda
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LBN 777 - The Baby Eagle
Copyrights: Bob Franke
Larger size: http://bf-astro.com/APOD/lbn777big.jpg
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Circular Rainbow
Copyrights: Ben Dalgliesh
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Evening sky full of jets
Copyrights: Steve Ashmore
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Time Lapsed
Credits and copyrights: David Lane & Robert Gendler
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Asteroid 2004 BL86
Copyrights: David Niederkofler, Jonathan Seeber, René Nardi, Christof Wiedemair
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IC 405 - IC 410 - M38
Credits and copyrights: DSS- POSS II / Giuseppe Donatiello
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/151905/0/
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Comet Lovejoy - January 20th.
Copyrights: Damian Peach
Full size: http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/c201 ... 1_20dp.jpg
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Re: Submissions: 2015 January

Post by Sandgirl » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:16 am

Eta Carinae - Wide Field
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari
Larger size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/152259/0/
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Northern Lights From a Commercial Airliner
Copyrights: Kanji Sugimori
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Orion
Copyrights: Scott Kindt
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Lofar’s record-sharp image gives astronomers a new view of galaxy M82
Image Credit: Onsala Space Observatory/R. Hammargren
An article: http://www.chalmers.se/en/centres/oso/n ... -M-82.aspx
M82_LOFAR_154_118_665x318.jpg
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34403

The tell-tale signs of a galactic merger
Credits: ESA, NASA
An article: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1503/
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http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=238965#p238965

Orion Molecular Cloud
Copyrights: John Gleason
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Double Cluster in Perseus
Copyrights: Andrea Pistocchini
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Aurora over Abisko, Sweden
Copyrights: Sarah Lewis
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Re: Submissions: 2015 January

Post by avdhoeven » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:23 am

An updated version of the M77 image.

ImageM77 CFHT/HST updated by Andre vd Hoeven, on Flickr

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Re: Submissions: 2015 January

Post by nvc123 » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:11 pm

Close-up picture of the comet LJ. Re-processed raw data from 11. Jan-2015, and taken with a 16" SCT.
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Re: Submissions: 2015 January

Post by jordi.fraxanet » Sun Feb 01, 2015 5:35 pm

Dead Tree and Milky Way
Taken last december, from Lladurs, Spain.
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Re: Submissions: 2015 January

Post by rcolombari » Sun Feb 01, 2015 7:59 pm

In this image the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope takes a close look at the spiral galaxy NGC 4217, located 60 million light-years away from Earth. The galaxy is seen almost perfectly edge on and is a perfect candidate for studying the nature of extraplanar dust structures — the patterns of gas and dust above and below the plane on the galaxy, seen here as brown wisps coming off NGC 4217.


These tentacle-like filaments are visible in the Hubble image only because the contrast with their surroundings is so high. This implies that the structures are denser than their surroundings. The image shows dozens of dust structures some of which reach as far as 7,000 light-years away from the central plane. Typically the structures have a length of about 1,000 light-years and are about 400 light-years in width.


Some of the dust filaments are round or irregular clouds, others are vertical columns, loop-like structures or vertical cones. These structures can help astronomers to identify the mechanisms responsible for the ejection of gas and dust from the galactic plane of spiral galaxies and reveal information on the transport of the interstellar medium to large distances away from galactic disks.


The properties of the observed dust structures in NGC 4217 suggest that the gas and dust were driven out of the mid-plane of the galaxy by powerful stellar winds resulting from supernovae — explosions that mark the deaths of massive stars.


Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
Processing: R. Colombari

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Post by Sandgirl » Sun Feb 01, 2015 11:21 pm

Messier 42 LRGB
Copyrights: Mario Hébert
Larger size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/151711/0/
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Asteroid 2004 BL86 together with mountain
Copyrights: Alfred Dufter
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Ice Halo at 30,000 feet
Copyrights: De Ann Troen
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Re: Submissions: 2015 February

Post by kuulkers » Fri Feb 06, 2015 1:29 pm

To boldly go where no-one has gone before: an INTEGRAL travel through Galactic space

A first-ever: from behind the Galactic Centre we are facing towards our Sun (the tiny yellow blob just above the centre of the image). This image is a still from the movie containing the results from the Galactic bulge monitoring program and a 3D journey through Galactic space (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfexQlB8GOc). During the first part of the movie a time-lapse view of our Galactic Centre region is shown in 2D in hard X-rays / soft gamma-rays: it is a kind of Christmas tree, with high-energy sources brightening and fading on all time scales. During the second, 3D part of the movie one first zooms out of the Galaxy, showing a bird's eye view of the gamma and hard X-ray sources in our Galaxy detected by INTEGRAL, and then conclude with a fly-through of the central part of the Galactic bulge, before returning to our Solar System and the orbit of INTEGRAL around Earth. More stills, as well as more movies can be found at http://integral.esac.esa.int/BULGE/links/Movies.html.

Copyright: ESA - C. Carreau & E. Kuulkers
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Re: Submissions: 2015 February

Post by Comet Connoisseur » Thu Feb 12, 2015 3:18 am

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Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy no.5!) 2/8/2015
Andromeda Galaxy M31 Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy M110 Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy M32
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da<br />Lens: Sigma 28mm; f3.5; 15 secs;  iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Lens: Sigma 28mm; f3.5; 15 secs; iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da

Lens: Sigma 28mm; f2.8 to 3.5; 13 to15 secs; iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.

Lens: Canon EF 135mm; f2.0; 2.5 to 4 secs; iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.

Telephoto Lens: ADORAMA MC90 Maksutov-Cassegrain, D:90mm F:500mm, f5.6; 30 secs; iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
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Camera: Canon EOS 60Da<br />Lens: Sigma 28mm; f3.5; 15 secs;  iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Lens: Sigma 28mm; f3.5; 15 secs; iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da<br />Lens: Sigma 28mm; f3.5; 13secs;  iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Lens: Sigma 28mm; f3.5; 13secs; iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.

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Re: Submissions: 2015 January

Post by Mauro Rorato » Fri Feb 13, 2015 11:08 am

M101 Visible & IR

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Re: Submissions: 2015 January

Post by Comet Connoisseur » Sun Feb 15, 2015 12:22 am

Canon EOS 60Da<br />Lens: Sigma 28mm; f2.8; 2 secs;  iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
Canon EOS 60Da
Lens: Sigma 28mm; f2.8; 2 secs; iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
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Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy #5)
Darkest Skies, Atlantic Beach, NC 1/10/2015
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Canon EOS 60Da<br />Telephoto Mirror Lens: ADORAMA MC90 Maksutov-Cassegrain, D:90mm, F:500mm, f5.6; 30 secs;  iso 12800; AWB;  iOptron SkyTracker;  Manfrotto Tripod.
Canon EOS 60Da
Telephoto Mirror Lens: ADORAMA MC90 Maksutov-Cassegrain, D:90mm, F:500mm, f5.6; 30 secs; iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
Canon EOS 60Da<br />Lens: Sigma 28mm; f2.8; 0.6 secs;  iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
Canon EOS 60Da
Lens: Sigma 28mm; f2.8; 0.6 secs; iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
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Re: Submissions: 2015 January

Post by Comet Connoisseur » Sun Feb 15, 2015 12:33 am

Canon EOS 60Da<br />Telephoto Mirror Lens: ADORAMA MC90 Maksutov-Cassegrain, D:90mm, F:500mm, f5.6; 30 secs;  iso 12800; AWB;  iOptron SkyTracker;  Manfrotto Tripod.
Canon EOS 60Da
Telephoto Mirror Lens: ADORAMA MC90 Maksutov-Cassegrain, D:90mm, F:500mm, f5.6; 30 secs; iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
@CometConnoiseur #Lovejoy #HAPPYVALENTINE'SDAY #ValentinesDay #simpledigitalastropics
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Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy #5)
Darkest Skies, Atlantic Beach, NC 1/10/2015
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Canon EOS 60Da<br />Telephoto Mirror Lens: ADORAMA MC90 Maksutov-Cassegrain, D:90mm, F:500mm, f5.6; 25secs;  iso 12800; AWB;  iOptron SkyTracker;  Manfrotto Tripod.
Canon EOS 60Da
Telephoto Mirror Lens: ADORAMA MC90 Maksutov-Cassegrain, D:90mm, F:500mm, f5.6; 25secs; iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
Canon EOS 60Da<br />Telephoto Mirror Lens: ADORAMA MC90 Maksutov-Cassegrain, D:90mm, F:500mm, f5.6; 30 secs;  iso 12800; AWB;  iOptron SkyTracker;  Manfrotto Tripod.
Canon EOS 60Da
Telephoto Mirror Lens: ADORAMA MC90 Maksutov-Cassegrain, D:90mm, F:500mm, f5.6; 30 secs; iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.

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Re: Submissions: 2015 January

Post by Comet Connoisseur » Sun Feb 15, 2015 12:49 am

Canon EOS 60Da<br />Lens: Sigma 28mm; f2.8; 5 secs;  iso 12800; AWB;                iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
Canon EOS 60Da
Lens: Sigma 28mm; f2.8; 5 secs; iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
@CometConnoiseur #Lovejoy #HAPPYVALENTINE'SDAY #ValentinesDay #simpledigitalastropics
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Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy #5)
Brightest Lovejoy,Broad Creek, Newport, NC 1/16/2015
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Canon EOS 60Da<br />Lens: Canon EF 135mm; f2.0; 6 secs;  iso 12800; AWB;  iOptron SkyTracker;  Manfrotto Tripod.
Canon EOS 60Da
Lens: Canon EF 135mm; f2.0; 6 secs; iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
Canon EOS 60Da<br />Lens: Sigma 28mm; f2.8; 10secs; iso 12800; AWB;                iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
Canon EOS 60Da
Lens: Sigma 28mm; f2.8; 10secs; iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.

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Re: Submissions: 2015 January

Post by Comet Connoisseur » Sun Feb 15, 2015 12:56 am

Canon EOS 60Da<br />Telephoto Mirror Lens: ADORAMA MC90 Maksutov-Cassegrain, D:90mm, F:500mm, f5.6; 30 secs;  iso 12800; CWB;  iOptron SkyTracker;  Manfrotto Tripod.
Canon EOS 60Da
Telephoto Mirror Lens: ADORAMA MC90 Maksutov-Cassegrain, D:90mm, F:500mm, f5.6; 30 secs; iso 12800; CWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
@CometConnoiseur #Lovejoy #HAPPYVALENTINE'SDAY #ValentinesDay #simpledigitalastropics
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Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy #5)
Brightest Lovejoy
Broad Creek, Newport, NC 1/16/2015
Attachments
Canon EOS 60Da<br />Telephoto Mirror Lens: ADORAMA MC90 Maksutov-Cassegrain, D:90mm, F:500mm, f5.6; 30 secs;  iso 12800; CWB;  iOptron SkyTracker;  Manfrotto Tripod.
Canon EOS 60Da
Telephoto Mirror Lens: ADORAMA MC90 Maksutov-Cassegrain, D:90mm, F:500mm, f5.6; 30 secs; iso 12800; CWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.

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Re: Submissions: 2015 January

Post by Comet Connoisseur » Sun Feb 15, 2015 1:12 am

Canon EOS 60Da<br />Telephoto Mirror Lens: ADORAMA MC90 Maksutov-Cassegrain, D:90mm, F:500mm, f5.6; 30 secs;  iso 12800; AWB;  iOptron SkyTracker;  Manfrotto Tripod.
Canon EOS 60Da
Telephoto Mirror Lens: ADORAMA MC90 Maksutov-Cassegrain, D:90mm, F:500mm, f5.6; 30 secs; iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
@CometConnoiseur #Lovejoy #HAPPYVALENTINE'SDAY #ValentinesDay #simpledigitalastropics
facebook.com/Tim.Forrest.CET
Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy #5)
Out of Focus Night...AAaarrrrgggh!
Broad Creek, Newport, NC 1/25/2015
Attachments
Canon EOS 60Da<br />Telephoto Mirror Lens: ADORAMA MC90 Maksutov-Cassegrain, D:90mm, F:500mm, f5.6; 30 secs;  iso 12800; AWB;  iOptron SkyTracker;  Manfrotto Tripod.
Canon EOS 60Da
Telephoto Mirror Lens: ADORAMA MC90 Maksutov-Cassegrain, D:90mm, F:500mm, f5.6; 30 secs; iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
My favorite of all the shoots...the dark side of the lit moon and the lens aberrations throwing light back towards the comet look so neat to me... <br />Canon EOS 60Da<br />Lens: Sigma 28mm; f2.8; 8 secs;  iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
My favorite of all the shoots...the dark side of the lit moon and the lens aberrations throwing light back towards the comet look so neat to me...
Canon EOS 60Da
Lens: Sigma 28mm; f2.8; 8 secs; iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.

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Re: Submissions: 2015 January

Post by Comet Connoisseur » Sun Feb 15, 2015 1:28 am

Canon EOS 60Da<br />Telephoto Mirror Lens: ADORAMA MC90 Maksutov-Cassegrain, D:90mm, F:500mm,                f5.6; 1/6400 secs;          iso 12800; AWB;  iOptron SkyTracker;  Manfrotto Tripod.
Canon EOS 60Da
Telephoto Mirror Lens: ADORAMA MC90 Maksutov-Cassegrain, D:90mm, F:500mm, f5.6; 1/6400 secs; iso 12800; AWB; iOptron SkyTracker; Manfrotto Tripod.
From the previous image
"...My favorite of all the shoots...the dark side of the lit moon and the lens aberrations throwing light back towards the comet look so neat to me... "
The Whole Moon That Night 1/25/2015

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Re: Submissions: 2015 January

Post by John Vermette » Sun Feb 22, 2015 9:45 pm

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Re: Submissions: 2015 January

Post by Davi Weigert » Fri Apr 01, 2016 10:37 pm

Tarantula Nebula in the LMC
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Re: Submissions: 2015 January

Post by Davi Weigert » Fri Apr 01, 2016 10:50 pm

Tarantula Nebula in the LMC
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Tarantula Nebula in the LMC

Post by Davi Weigert » Fri Apr 01, 2016 10:55 pm

Tarantula Nebula in the LMC
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