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Re: Submissions: 2015 August

Post by Sandgirl » Mon Aug 03, 2015 8:29 pm

Venus
Copyrights: Franz Kerschbaum
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Vela Supernova Remnant
Copyrights: Marco Lorenzi
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Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex
Copyrights: Carlos Fairbairn
Larger size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/198358/0/
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130° Panoramic Milky Way of Brazilian Cerrado Lands
Copyrights: Carlos Fairbairn
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North America (NGC 7000) and Pelican Nebulae (IC5070)
Copyrights: Richard Flinn
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Blue Moon
Copyrights: Ladanyi Tamas
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Milky Way over Honolulu
Copyrights: Jason Chu
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M8/M20
Copyrights: Markus Noller
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Bridge to Other Worlds
Copyrights: Alex Cherney
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Milky Way from Northwest Indiana
Copyrights: Trevor Mahlmann
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Re: Submissions: 2015 August

Post by Sandgirl » Mon Aug 03, 2015 9:20 pm

Double rainbow
Copyrights: Fakhreddin Sabooniha
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M20 from Tuscany, Italy
Copyrights: Andrea Lucchetti
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The Swan Nebula (M17)
Copyrights: Donald Waid
Larger size: http://www.waid-observatory.com/m017-20 ... -1500.html
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NGC6744 from Chile
Copyrights: José Joaquín Perez
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Milky Way over Newport
Copyrights: Michelle St. Onge
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M16
Copyrights: Francesco Antonucci, Roberto Colombari
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M8 M16 M17 M20
Copyrights: Alfredo Madrigal
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Milkyway at Monument Cove, Acadia National Park, Maine
Copyrights: Venkat Pakala
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Milky Way over deserts of South West Texas
Copyrights: Jonathan Zaharek
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Milky Way over Arch Rock in Joshua Tree National Park
Copyrights: Jeremy Johnson
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Re: Submissions: 2015 August Venus

Post by Guest » Tue Aug 04, 2015 6:42 am

For my Venus sequence I took pics using my trusty orange Celestron 8 from 1983 starting on Feb 21 and ending on August 1, 2015 through a 742+nm filter and a skyris 132m camera. Typically 500 out of 5000 frames were used... It demonstrates the geometry of Venus overtaking Earth on the inner track. ;)
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Copyrights: Franz Kerschbaum
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Re: Submissions: 2015 August

Post by Rothkko » Tue Aug 04, 2015 7:01 pm

color in the night
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Re: Submissions: 2015 August

Post by Sandgirl » Tue Aug 04, 2015 7:51 pm

Blue Moon rising behind the Four Towers
Copyrights: Javier Martinez Moran
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Full Moon & Blue Moons
Copyrights: John Chumack
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Eagle and Swan
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari
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Perseid pathways - 2013
Copyrights: Petr Horálek
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Moon over Viveiro (Monte San Roque)
Copyrights: Dani Caxete
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Uranus 02.08.15
Copyrights: Simon Kidd
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Venusian Crescent - July 25th- August 3rd
Copyrights: Pete Lawrence
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The Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope
Copyrights: René Venus
Larger size: http://www.venusfotos.de/data-pictures/ ... -2-web.jpg
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IC1396
Copyrights: Patrick Gilliland
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M8 Lagoon
Copyrights: Patrick Gilliland
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Re: Submissions: 2015 August

Post by Sandgirl » Tue Aug 04, 2015 8:21 pm

Milky Way
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel
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The Ghostly Remnants of Galaxy Interactions Uncovered in a Nearby Galaxy Group
Credit: NAOJ/HSC Project
An article: http://subarutelescope.org/Pressrelease ... index.html
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http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35038

Helix Nebula with some extensions
Copyrights: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich
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M17 The Swan Nebula
Copyrights: Don Waid
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IC5068 and IC5070 The Pelican
Copyrights: Terry Hancock
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Milky Way at Haystack Rock
Copyrights: Anthony Krueger
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ISS
Copyrights: Wah
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Moon like Saturn
Copyrights: David Blanchflower
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Vdb149
Copyrights: Patrick Gilliland
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IC5146
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Re: Submissions: 2015 August

Post by Sandgirl » Tue Aug 04, 2015 8:58 pm

Solar Halo, sundogs and light pillars
Copyrights: Frederik Dieckmann
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M27
Copyrights: Rafael Leon Batista
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ISS & CSD
Copyrights: Matthias Rehs
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M57 The Ring Nebula dying Star
Copyrights: John Chumack
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Andromeda Rising
Copyrights: Matteo Dunchi
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Neptune 04.08.15
Copyrights: Simon Kidd
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NGC6726
Copyrights: Rafael Leon Batista
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21° Latitude Milkyway
Copyrights: Henry Weiland
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Meri snow mountain and stars
Copyrights: Wu Alvin
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Mosaic of Elephant Trunk Nebula
Copyrights: Juan I. Jimenez
More sizes: https://www.flickr.com/photos/89350593@ ... 5/sizes/o/
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Crepuscular rays
Copyrights: Daniele Cipollina
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NGC 2069
Copyrights: Daniele Cipollina
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Comet 67P Churyumov–Gerasimenko on August 4th, 09:04ut

Post by Efrain Morales » Tue Aug 04, 2015 9:04 pm

Comet 67P Churyumov–Gerasimenko on August 4th, 09:04ut. Its getting brighter slightly now and nine days to perihelion ( closest to the sun ).
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Re: Submissions: 2015 August

Post by avdhoeven » Wed Aug 05, 2015 6:55 am

Milky Way with overview of visible objects

ImageMilky Way with visible objects by Andre van der Hoeven, on Flickr
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Post by Maria Rosa Vila » Wed Aug 05, 2015 8:38 am

What happens when the lights turn off
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Sunday night July 19, something magical happened. A town discovered the Milky Way above its houses. The residents and the mayor of the town of Rupit, near Barcelona, decided to turn off the lights of the town and their houses at 12 o'clock at night to see if they could see the Milky Way up above them. They had never seen it before because of the artificial lights. Before the magical moment, a small group of excited people expected it while eating a sandwich, watching how the clouds were gradually disappearing. And at 12 o'clock artificial lights switched off... and lit the stars! The Milky Way appeared resplendent above the houses, in front of the eyes of the speechless neighbors. The photographer Magi Sanjosé captured the moment with his camera making a total of 14 vertical photos.

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Post by Maria Rosa Vila » Wed Aug 05, 2015 8:51 am

Pointing Andromeda
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With lasers and telescopes at the observatory of Les Planes de Son, in Catalonia.
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Post by Maria Rosa Vila » Wed Aug 05, 2015 8:55 am

Milky Way over the dunes in the Sahara Desert
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Comet 67P Churyumov–Gerasimenko on August 5th.

Post by Efrain Morales » Wed Aug 05, 2015 6:49 pm

Comet 67P Churyumov–Gerasimenko on August 5th, 09:08ut. Now within eight days to perihelion
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Re: Submissions: 2015 August

Post by avdhoeven » Thu Aug 06, 2015 1:53 am

When processing my Milky Way image I noticed a meteor in one of the images. After seeing this post on the internet: I thought what if? Could it be that I had something like this also? And it shows that it was indeed also an expanding cloud here... WOW!!!! I think this is quite a unique observation...

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Meteorite explosion by Andre van der Hoeven, on Flickr

Link to animation

Here is an image of the strike itself combined with the second image from the series. You can clearly see the plasma cloud coming from the meteor and that it was accompanied by at least 4 more pieces of debris. Also it seems there was a break-up event and a piece of debris came off...

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Meteorite vaporization detail by Andre van der Hoeven, on Flickr
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Re: Submissions: 2015 August

Post by Hung-Hsuan Yen » Thu Aug 06, 2015 9:13 am

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Re: Submissions: 2015 August

Post by Maciej Libert » Thu Aug 06, 2015 4:53 pm

Moon appears as Saturn :-)

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Re: Submissions: 2015 August

Post by geckzilla » Thu Aug 06, 2015 8:29 pm

avdhoeven wrote:When processing my Milky Way image I noticed a meteor in one of the images. After seeing this post on the internet: I thought what if? Could it be that I had something like this also? And it shows that it was indeed also an expanding cloud here... WOW!!!! I think this is quite a unique observation...

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You already saw my comment on FB, but I should say again this is just a really good, serendipitous shot!
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Comet 67P Churyumov–Gerasimenko on August 6th.

Post by Efrain Morales » Thu Aug 06, 2015 11:28 pm

Comet 67P Churyumov–Gerasimenko on August 6th, 09:09ut. Animation At: http://www.jaicoa-observatory.com/67P-0 ... im-EMr.gif. Moon influenced but above average conditions.
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Re: Submissions: 2015 August

Post by ccarromeu » Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:02 pm

Orion Nebula in High Dynamic Range (HDR) to show its core in high detail. Taken with a small Explorer Scientific 80mm refractor and non modified Canon T3 (1100D) camera.

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Re: Submissions: 2015 August

Post by litobrit » Sat Aug 08, 2015 10:20 am

Hello,
Iris nebula NGC7023
Atik 383, RCGSO, AZEQ6 Do Lodestar on mobile set-up.
LRGB: 25/07/2014 120x300s bin 2
L: 05,06,07/08/2014 135x300s bin 2
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The full is here http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/287958NGC70233200.jpg

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Re: Submissions: 2015 August

Post by ildiora » Sat Aug 08, 2015 12:02 pm

Blue Moon Among The Columns of Segesta Temple bis
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Segesta is one of the most important cities of the Elymians, an ancient people known for its culture and tradition descendant of the Trojans.Outside the walls, along the ancient entrance roads to the city, there are two important sacred places: the Doric Temple (430-420 B.C.) and the Sanctuary of Contrada Mango (VI-V sec. B.C.).
Here the Juy 2015 blue moon has been captured among the columns. Two consecutive shots to compensate for different light conditions.
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Re: Submissions: 2015 August

Post by Josh Smith » Sat Aug 08, 2015 5:04 pm

ImageBarnard 175 / VDB 152 and HH 450 by Onejoshsmith, on Flickr

Copyright: Josh Smith and Adam Jaffe acquisition
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Re: Submissions: 2015 August

Post by Sandgirl » Sat Aug 08, 2015 9:22 pm

The Ghost of a Dying Star
Credit: ESO
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1532/
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http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35029#p246625

First Detection of Lithium from an Exploding Star
Credit: ESO
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1531/
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http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=35015

Unusual rainbow
Copyrights: Joe Fierst
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IC 5146 - The Cocoon Nebula
Copyrights: Scott Rosen
Larger size: http://www.astronomersdoitinthedark.com ... -2048x.jpg
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Church of the Good Shepherd
Copyrights: Alvin Wu
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Sh2-129 and Ou4
Copyrights: Arno Rottal
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vbd142 & The Elephant Trunk
Copyrights: Bob Franke
Larger size: http://bf-astro.com/APOD/vdb142big.jpg
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M20
Copyrights: Jacques Ardissone
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Moon mosaic
Copyrights: Wah
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Re: Submissions: 2015 August

Post by stringdom42 » Sat Aug 08, 2015 9:24 pm

Titan before Saturn
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Copyright: NASA / JPL / SSI / Val Klavans
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