Submissions: 2015 May

The canyons and hills of Mount Sharp - Gale crater, Mars

Mosaic of MastCam 100mm pictures taken by Curiosity rover on sol 952 at 11h00 local time.
This image shows stratified hills of Mount Sharp carved by canyons.
Colors were adjusted for a more natural look.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Thomas Appéré

vanamonde81 · Post by **vanamonde81** » Wed May 06, 2015 11:00 am

Crescent Moonrise over Budapest
Copyright: György Soponyai

On 1st December 2013 the dawn sky promised a wonderful phenomena with the rising crescent Moon (43 hours before New Moon phase), Saturn and Mercury. Three days after the perihelion of comet ISON - I had been planning to capture this photo for a long time. ISON had disintegrated during the rendezvous with the Sun however the "remaining" scene was still marvelous with the rising Budapest in the foreground. The bank of river Danube with the Chain Bridge (Lánchíd - the oldest bridge of the city) is an UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Photo details:
2013.12.01. Budapest
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Canon EF 50/1.4
5 sec, F8, ISO 400

amyth91 · Post by **amyth91** » Wed May 06, 2015 11:39 am

Parallel Worlds

copyright : Amit Kamble Photography (Amit Kamble Photography - http://fb.com/amitkamblephotography, Auckland Astronomical Society - http://fb.com/AuckAstroSoc)

Can i jump in the water and be in a parallel world ? Sure, looks like it, would have tried, but the pool wasn't deep enough. That night was surprisingly calm and just before the water rushed in to disturb the pool, i managed to get the reflections. Being there, one could easily see the milkyway reflecting in the water.

This is a 2 x 2 panorama shot from Pakiri Beach back in February. Pakiri Beach is an amazing dark spot around Auckland region, the light pollution from auckland is blocked by pakiri hills which lets you enjoy the milkyway better than any other location.

zonalunar · Post by **zonalunar** » Wed May 06, 2015 2:27 pm

Painting IC434 "The HorseHead Nebula"
http://www.zonalunar.com
Copyright: Julia Piqueras Moya (Observatorio Zonalunar)

IanP · Post by **IanP** » Thu May 07, 2015 3:51 am

Chook’s Beak – IC2872

Center (RA, hms): 11h 28m 49.208s
Center (Dec, dms): -62° 45' 26.867"
Orientation: Up is 93.7 degrees E of N

Astromontufar · Post by **Astromontufar** » Thu May 07, 2015 4:23 pm

Third Quarter Moon Panel (53%)

This 23 image Moon Panel was constructed using 23 videos processed using Registrax6 for 23 frames, I used Registrax6 waveleth for some detail adjustments for each image, then, the Panel and final process was performed using photoshop.

I used the finderscope of The "Gran Ecuatorial Gautier", the Gran Ecuatorial has more than 100 years, and its being used by "Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofisicas de La Plata" for public observations of planets, moon and some other celestial objects to show people the beauties of our nightskies. (in the past it was used for science)

The dimensions of the Telescope are: 43 cm and a f 9.06m.

The finderscope, which was the one I used is: 12cm and f 110cm. I attached an Imagesource camera to the finderscope the night of November 16th, 2014 and it took more than 4 hours to finish gathering the data, it was hard because of the size of the telescope.

Please read about the Telescope: (http://fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar/extension/pre ... ORIAL.html) only in spanish.
This is a video of me gathering the data: ( https://www.facebook.com/MilkyWayAddict ... =2&theater )

By: Sergio Emilio Montúfar Codoñer

https://www.facebook.com/MilkyWayAddicted
https://www.flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/
http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/profile/517775/
https://500px.com/acubens
http://www.astrobin.com/users/m_acubens/

Ezequiel · Post by **Ezequiel** » Thu May 07, 2015 10:53 pm

Progress M-27M - 05/07/2015 21h51m42s UT - Between Canopus & Clouds
Copyright: Ezequiel Bellocchio
Location: 34º30'S 58º56'W - Pilar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Canon 6D - Canon 50mm F1.8 @F3.5 - Five seconds single image

Astromontufar · Post by **Astromontufar** » Fri May 08, 2015 3:41 am

Zodiacal Light, Light pollution from Guatemala City and Antigua City, The Milky way and Guatemalan Volcanic Chain.

I took this image, before sunrise, Feb 28 2014. at the top of Volcán Santa Maria.

f5.6
iso5000
20s

tignasse · Post by **tignasse** » Fri May 08, 2015 3:22 pm

Hi,

Panoramical view from Swiss,Chasseral nationnal park,1600m alt.
60 images.

Hope you'll enjoy!

Arnaud BESANCON

HD size: http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/633495panofinsrvb.png

SpookyAstro · Post by **SpookyAstro** » Fri May 08, 2015 5:49 pm

Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex with POSS-II data added

Copyright Tom Masterson

Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex with POSS-II data added by tompmasterson, on Flickr

randallx200 · Post by **randallx200** » Sat May 09, 2015 8:32 am

The pass through Polaris star of the ISS.
04/18/2015. 20:30 (UT). Cáceres, Extremadura (Spain)

Juan Miguel González Polo

IanP · Post by **IanP** » Sat May 09, 2015 9:19 am

Great Carina Nebula - L(95%Ha)+NB+RGB

Rothkko · Post by **Rothkko** » Sat May 09, 2015 9:07 pm

sundog

: mérida, spain. 2015-05-09

vanamonde81 · Post by **vanamonde81** » Sat May 09, 2015 9:07 pm

Budapest by Night
Copyright: Soponyai György

This 360 degree startrail panorama photo was taken between 06th and 08th of March this year from Budapest, Hungary. The look-out tower in József Hill is an excellent viewpoint in Winter: the whole city center is visible from here (from late Spring to Autumn the phenomena is hidden behind the leaves of the trees in the foreground).
Every night I started the photo sessions four minutes earlier using the same camera settings so the visible position of stars were identical.

Photo details:
2015.03.06-08. Budapest, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Samyang EF 8/3.5
3 x 90x60 sec, ISO 800

amyth91 · Post by **amyth91** » Sun May 10, 2015 11:33 am

Beauty of the night sky
Photo Credit: Amit Ashok Kamble

This is a milkyway rising shot taken from Pakiri Beach last night. This is a bit different from my usual shots, as this is a combination of 3 images.

1) With Light Pollution Filter (Tracked)
2) Without LIght Pollution Filter (Tracked)
3) Without Light Pollution Filter (Untracked)

Light Pollution filter, takes away any light pollution being reflected off the clouds and atmosphere but makes the image a green / blue cast, which is hard to fix in post process, so i shot an image without the filter and median stacked in Photoshop, i was amazed at the result, as the final image had details from the image with filter and sky / colour from the unfiltered image.

Added the foreground later from the untracked image. The blue line on the left is actually the waves crashing on the shore, it is the Bio-luminescence making the waves look blue.

The image shows some details in the nebulous regions which are not usually captured from this location in a 2 minute exposure.

Even the SH2-27, The Zeta Ophiuchi Nebula, around the star Zeta Ophiuchius is visible which is a really faint object.

In the comment will upload images comparing images with and without filter straight out of camera.

Exif: 120sec, ISO 3200, f2.8 (Tracked with Light Pollution Filter)
Exif: 120sec, ISO 1600, f2.8 (Tracked / Untracked without Light Pollution Filter)

Using Samyang 24mm on Canon 6D, tracked using Jonathan's Vixen POLARIE

High Res : https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7738/172 ... 85b5_k.jpg

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