Submissions: 2015 April

Rothkko · Post by **Rothkko** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 8:28 pm

iridiscencias al óleo

: mérida, spain. 2014-10-25

philto · Post by **philto** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 9:59 am

3 D on sun
11th of April / H-alpha 204 mm refractor F/10
ragards.
image Philippe TOSI
website http://www.photoastro.com/

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zhouyannan · Post by **zhouyannan** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 4:18 pm

Planet & Cluster

Conjunction of Venus and Pleiades over Chongqing

Copyright: ZhouYannan

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Full Size: https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7704/164 ... 636a_o.jpg

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 6:27 pm

Venus. Pleiades, and Aldebaran from Atacama
Copyrights: Yuri Beletsky

Around the horse's head
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile

NGC 1499
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile

Jupiter 04/10 Oval BA Close up
Copyrights: Christopher Go

Milky Way
Copyrights: Dave Lane

Small Magellanic Cloud
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

Self portrait with Aurora Borealis
Copyrights: Chris Kiez

New comet C/2015 G2 (MASTER)
Credits: Ernesto Guido & Nick Howes
More about: http://remanzacco.blogspot.it/2015/04/n ... aster.html

IC443 Jellyfish Nebula
Copyrights: Haim Huli

Hytham · Post by **Hytham** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 6:39 pm

Cave to Bubble Mosaic
http://hythamsafieh.smugmug.com
Copyright: Hytham Abu-Safieh

Original Size: http://hythamsafieh.smugmug.com/Astrono ... le_1.8.jpg

Additional Info:
Tak FSQ 106 EDX III @F5
FLI ML16803
Astrodon LRGB
AP Mach 1
Integration time: ~10h

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 7:59 pm

Jupiter and Beehive cluster
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel

M106 - NGC 4258 (with NGC 4248)
Copyrights: Jeffrey O. Johnson
Larger size: http://jeffjastro.com/dso/M106_26Nov14.htm

Ring Nebula and plane lights
Copyrights: Daniel Lindsay

M16 - The Eagle and the Pillars of Creation
Copyrights: Oliver Czernetz
Larger size: http://www.astrobin.com/171377/

Jupiter 11/04 - White Spot Z
Copyrights: Christopher Go

Flux nebula
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile

Gravity kit - build your own planetary system!
Credits and copyrights: Stefano Meschiari and the SAVE/Point team
Game link: http://save-point.herokuapp.com/gravitykit

Rothkko · Post by **Rothkko** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 8:52 pm

three moons at sunset
in the east

in the southwest

in the east, with the belt of venus

: mérida, spain. 2014-03-11, 2014-07-06 and 2015-01-01

amyth91 · Post by **amyth91** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 8:58 am

Aurora Australis - Auckland

Copyrights: Amit Kamble

Was definitely the best decision made to head out to muriwai hilltops with Jonathan Green, we did know there was a bit of activity going on but did not realize until we stopped our timelapse after 2.5 Hrs that we are actually capturing some amazing auroral activity.

Wohoo, 1st ever auroral display.

Nothing so spectacular in terms of Auroral Activity but the best part is, it was visible up at 36.8167° S, 174.4167° E, which is way far away from the Auroral Circle. People have imaged aurora from up this north, but nothing this bright.

also a small timelapse, showing the activity.

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

IanP · Post by **IanP** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 11:40 am

CG4: The Mouth of the Beast aka God’s Hand

Paul Haese · Post by **Paul Haese** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 12:36 pm

NGC3324

Copyright: Paul Haese

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goldpaintphoto · Post by **goldpaintphoto** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 4:24 pm

Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, New Mexico
Credit: Brad Goldpaint
http://goldpaintphotography.com/

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'Alien Eggs' are illuminated by twilight in New Mexico's Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness (pronounced Bis-Tie & Deh-nah-zin).

AlexMaragos · Post by **AlexMaragos** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 5:50 pm

Circular 22° Halo around the Sun (and Aircraft Contrail Shadow)

Copyright: Alexandros Maragos
http://www.alexandrosmaragos.com

Circular 22° Halo around the Sun (and Aircraft Contrail Shadow) by Alexandros Maragos

angelaros · Post by **angelaros** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 9:33 pm

venus_ons_small by angelaros1976, on Flickr
Venus set seen from an Atlantic island (Illa de Ons, Spain) in conjunction with the Pleiades cluster.
Credit: P.A. & A.A.

vanamonde81 · Post by **vanamonde81** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 10:34 pm

The Day of the Eclipse
Copyright: György Soponyai

This photo sequence was taken on the day of the Solar Eclipse at the shore of Greenland Sea near Longyearbyen Airport in Spitsbergen, Norway. I took the solar disk photos in every 15 minutes from sunrise to sunset with the help of a Baader AstroSolar filter. The foreground was captured on the first minute of the totality.

Photo details:
2015.03.20. Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Samyang EF 8/3.5

tango33 · Post by **tango33** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 10:05 am

Hi,

Here are some new images taken from Tivoli farm in Namibia in 2014.

Larger versions can be seen here:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/namibia_june_2014

Thanks for looking!

Kfir Simon

Deep in the Small Magellanic cloud - NGC 346 in the middle:

Central part of the Vela SNR:

Eta Catherina nebula in Hubble color mapping:

The Keyhole nebula:

The Meathook galaxy:

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 8:27 pm

Mapping the cosmos: Dark Energy Survey creates detailed guide to spotting dark matter
Image credits: Image: Dark Energy Survey
An article: http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press ... 50413.html

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34657

Venus and Pleiades
Copyrights: Iacopo Sassarini

M77 - one of the most studied galaxies in the Universe
Copyrights: Adam Block
Larger size: https://www.adamblockphotos.com/m77.html

Milky Way over Olmedillo de Roa
Copyrights: Victor Marc Culot

Zodiacal Light
Copyrights: Ajay Talwar

Markarian's chain
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile

IC 443
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile

M101
Copyrights: Andrea Demarchi

NGC 2174 - Monkey Head Nebula
Copyrights: César Blanco González

Heaven's Gate
Copyrights: Francis Audet

conemmil · Post by **conemmil** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 8:33 pm

Busy sky over a holy place.

The image shows the peninsula of Agion Oros, in Chalkidiki Greece. I was located at the summit of the mountain Athos at 2030m shooting for over 14 hours to get enough data and create this composite that shows a double pass of the International Space Station, many airplanes, some more Iridium Satellites and quite a few meteors. It took me 10 hours to hike over the mountain with 50 kilos of equipment, another 14 hours to capture the data and another 15 hours to make the final image. A great experience with a lot of fun making all the details after many cups of coffee.

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Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 8:51 pm

Circular 22° Halo around the Sun (and aircraft contrail shadow)
Copyrights: Alexandros Maragos

Two pair night
Copyrights: Fernando Cabrerizo

Jupiter, March 2nd.
Copyrights: Damian Peach

A woodpecker in the sky
Copyrights: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez

Venus & M45
Copyrights: Chris Cook

IC428 and IC427 - Phantom Feline In Orion
Copyrights: Tim Carruthers

Conjunction in Tihany
Copyrights: Tamas Ladanyi

Milky Way
Copyrights: Sarah Lewis

The Lonely Astrophotographer and Venus
Copyrights: Jerry Lodriguss

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 9:20 pm

Jupiter 13/04 GRS
Copyrights: Christopher Go

Venus & M45 Pleiades in Conjunction
Copyrights: John Chumack

M104 The Sombrero Edge on Spiral Galaxy
Copyrights: John Chumack

Dawn's Ceres Color Map Reveals Surface Diversity
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
More about: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4548

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=242283#p242283

Monster Storm
Copyrights: Jerry K. Hatfield

Sun Pillar
Copyrights: Raul Moreira

Iridium flare
Copyrights: Stefano Sciarpetti

strongmanmike · Post by **strongmanmike** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 1:35 pm

Inside the Lagoon Nebula there is a wealth of intriguing features including, the bright but complex nucleus known as the Hourglass Nebula, the beautiful young open star cluster NGC 6530 as well as many dark “Bok” globules of condensing gas and dust on their way to becoming “protostars” add to this many bright rifts of a mix of deep red H alpha and proportionally less blue H beta emission and even some faint blue reflection nebula and it gives the whole nebula a characteristic magenta colour.

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Copyright: Michael Sidonio

Rothkko · Post by **Rothkko** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 6:01 pm

venus and mercury

: merida, spain. 2015-01-10

Manoj Kesavan · Post by **Manoj Kesavan** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 9:18 pm

Man, Moon, Milyway & Science !!
With fellow photographer Hari Venugopal The 30m Telescope at the Warkworth Radio Astronomical Observatory Warkworth, New Zealand

Here's a bigger version https://www.facebook.com/Wizardsphotogr ... =1&theater

vanamonde81 · Post by **vanamonde81** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 10:55 pm

Eclipse Planet
Copyright: György Soponyai

This photo sequence was taken on the day of the Solar Eclipse at the shore of Greenland Sea near Longyearbyen Airport in Spitsbergen, Norway. I took the solar disk photos in every 15 minutes from sunrise to sunset with the help of a Baader AstroSolar filter. The 360 degrees foreground was captured on the first minute of the totality. The final result was created by applying a Little Planet effect to the image.

Photo details:
2015.03.20. Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Samyang EF 8/3.5

astrowimp · Post by **astrowimp** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 12:37 am

Pinwheel Galaxy
http://www.astrowimp.com
Copyright: Tim Christensen

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clchiu214 · Post by **clchiu214** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 7:36 am

"Solar eclipse" by a NASA's scientific balloon from Antarctica / The Sun shadowed by a next-generation scientific balloon over Antarctica
Copyright: Jeng-Lun (Alan) Chiu (Space Sciences Laboratory, UC. Berkeley)

- Date: 21:16, Dec 28, 2014 (UTC)
- Location: LDB site @ McMurdo, Antarctica
- Photo parameters : 15 photos were included in the animated picture (duration ~ 10 seconds) by Nikon D90 (1/1250 sec, f/13, ISO 200)
- Photo Description: A fantastic scene occurred when a "super pressure balloon (filled in Helium)" was launched for the first scientific payload - Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) from Antarctica in December 2014. The Sun was shadowed by the balloon while some ice crystals surrounded. The balloon's shadow was clear seen as a transparent region in the foreground, and the orange glory appeared close to the balloon surface (ps. probably due to Rayleigh scattering by Helium and ice crystals along line of sight). The Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF, a NASA facility) is now carrying out a test flight with a super pressure balloon, which was launched for a ultra long duration balloon (ULDB) flight around the world on Mar 27 from Wanaka, New Zealand. It's almost floating all around the world!

: "Solar eclipse" by the COSI Balloon in Antarctica

: "Solar eclipse" by the COSI balloon in Antarctica (9 pic. in 1)

: "Solar eclipse" by the COSI balloon in Antarctica (Animation) (small) (full size in the link below); 20141229_COSI_Balloon_Eclipse_Animation_s.gif (327.46 KiB) Viewed 6103 times

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/1086 ... 2511875506

- References:
(1) Super pressure balloon : http://sites.wff.nasa.gov/code820/spb.html
(2) Nature news for COSI launch : http://www.nature.com/news/nasa-launche ... on-1.16642
(3) COSI : http://hea.ssl.berkeley.edu/
(4) CSBF : http://www.csbf.nasa.gov/
(5) SPB flight from Wanaka, NZ : http://www.csbf.nasa.gov/newzealand/wanaka.htm
(6) News for (5) : http://stratocat.com.ar/indexe.html

Starship Asterisk*

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