Submissions: 2015 January

[Sandgirl]

The Mouth of the Beast
Credits: ESO
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1503/

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

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=238855#p238855

2004 BL86
Credits and copyrights: Gianluca Masi and Virtual Telescope Project

The Wizard Nebula (Sh2-142) and NGC7380
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

2004 BL 86 asteroid approaching M44
Copyrights: Andrea Demarchi

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

asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=238859#p238859

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

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

Heart Nebula
Copyrights: Lóránd Fényes

[Sandgirl]

Comet trails
Copyrights: Stan Honda

LBN 777 - The Baby Eagle
Copyrights: Bob Franke
Larger size: http://bf-astro.com/APOD/lbn777big.jpg

Circular Rainbow
Copyrights: Ben Dalgliesh

Evening sky full of jets
Copyrights: Steve Ashmore

Time Lapsed
Credits and copyrights: David Lane & Robert Gendler

Asteroid 2004 BL86
Copyrights: David Niederkofler, Jonathan Seeber, René Nardi, Christof Wiedemair

IC 405 - IC 410 - M38
Credits and copyrights: DSS- POSS II / Giuseppe Donatiello
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/151905/0/

Comet Lovejoy - January 20th.
Copyrights: Damian Peach
Full size: http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/c201 ... 1_20dp.jpg

[Sandgirl]

Eta Carinae - Wide Field
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari
Larger size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/152259/0/

Northern Lights From a Commercial Airliner
Copyrights: Kanji Sugimori

Orion
Copyrights: Scott Kindt

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

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/

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=238965#p238965

Orion Molecular Cloud
Copyrights: John Gleason

Double Cluster in Perseus
Copyrights: Andrea Pistocchini

Aurora over Abisko, Sweden
Copyrights: Sarah Lewis

[avdhoeven]

An updated version of the M77 image.

M77 CFHT/HST updated by Andre vd Hoeven, on Flickr

More info at the Flickr site.

[nvc123]

Close-up picture of the comet LJ. Re-processed raw data from 11. Jan-2015, and taken with a 16" SCT.
http://www.astro-hp.dk
Copyright: Niels V. Christensen

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[jordi.fraxanet]

Dead Tree and Milky Way
Taken last december, from Lladurs, Spain.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jordi_solsona/
Copyright: Jordi Fraxanet

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Larger Size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jordi_sol ... 417937791/

[rcolombari]

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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[Sandgirl]

Messier 42 LRGB
Copyrights: Mario Hébert
Larger size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/151711/0/

Asteroid 2004 BL86 together with mountain
Copyrights: Alfred Dufter

Ice Halo at 30,000 feet
Copyrights: De Ann Troen

[kuulkers]

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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Click to play embedded YouTube video.

[Comet Connoisseur]

@CometConnoiseur #LastQ2Lovejoy5Outing #simpledigitalastroimaging
facebook.com/Tim.Forrest.CET

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
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.

[Mauro Rorato]

M101 Visible & IR

[Comet Connoisseur]

Canon EOS 60Da
Lens: Sigma 28mm; f2.8; 2 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)
Darkest Skies, Atlantic Beach, NC 1/10/2015

[Comet Connoisseur]

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)
Darkest Skies, Atlantic Beach, NC 1/10/2015

[Comet Connoisseur]

Canon EOS 60Da
Lens: Sigma 28mm; f2.8; 5 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)
Brightest Lovejoy,Broad Creek, Newport, NC 1/16/2015

[Comet Connoisseur]

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
facebook.com/Tim.Forrest.CET
Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy #5)
Brightest Lovejoy
Broad Creek, Newport, NC 1/16/2015

[Comet Connoisseur]

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

[Comet Connoisseur]

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

[John Vermette]

Barnards Loop
http://www.johnsastrophotos.com/
Copyright: John Vermette
http://www.johnsastrophotos.com/uploads ... hargb2.jpg

[Davi Weigert]

Tarantula Nebula in the LMC
https://www.facebook.com/davi.weigert.3
Copyright: Davi Weigert

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[Davi Weigert]

Tarantula Nebula in the LMC
https://www.facebook.com/davi.weigert.3
Copyright: Davi Weigert

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[Davi Weigert]

Tarantula Nebula in the LMC
https://www.facebook.com/davi.weigert.3
Copyright: Davi Weigert

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