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Post by owlice » Sat Aug 22, 2015 4:13 pm


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Thank you for your cooperation! Also for sharing your spectacular images!!
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Post by LuigiF » Sat Aug 22, 2015 5:13 pm

The Sun and the International Space Station on 22nd Aug. 2015

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Ngc7000 - IC5070

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Post by litobrit » Sun Aug 23, 2015 11:46 am

A recent M20 picture on 3 short nights. Very low flying nebula in France.
RCGSO8, Atik 383 AZEQ6.
Maxim Dl and Maxpilot for capture. Pixinsight and Photoshop processing
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Post by Sugar73 » Sun Aug 23, 2015 2:12 pm

Hello,

I send a picture of the Sun setting over San Pietro church in the beatiful sea village of Porto Venere, Italy.
As a bonus, a green flash popped up in the right moment and a fisherman boat was just in the right place!

Hope you like it!

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Post by Sergio » Sun Aug 23, 2015 4:18 pm

Messier 83 - The Southern Pinwheel in Hydra

Taken from Argentine Pampas
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Post by tjugo » Sun Aug 23, 2015 5:00 pm

Sadr Region

Copyright: Jose Mtanous
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Post by Rothkko » Sun Aug 23, 2015 7:46 pm

stormy afternoon
mérida, spain. 2015-08-21
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Post by Max Teodorescu » Sun Aug 23, 2015 7:55 pm

An image of sunspot group 2403 on August 23rd, 2015. The image was acquired using a homemade 200mm F/5 Newtonian and ASI 120MM-S camera, of course with a solar filter attached at the front. From around 50000 frames, only 700 were selected for this images, which was artificially colored. The group was spanning almost 170 000 km at the moment of the image, and it is still evolving, so perhaps more interesting views of AR2403 are still to come. The size of the Earth is also mentioned, in the lower-right corner of the image. Clear skies! (Maximilian Teodorescu, from Magurele, Romania).

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Post by Petr H. » Sun Aug 23, 2015 8:31 pm

Perseid rain over the Kolonica Saddle
Copyright: Petr Horálek
The annual meteor shower Perseid had absolute great conditions this year. New Moon occurred just day after the maximum as it was about 6:30 to 9:00 UTC on August 13th, 2015. Last time the „moonless Perseids“ were in 2013 and the next time we will enjoy that in 2018. I took a risk for possible bad weather and chose amazing locality of eastern Slovakia, where can be found the Poloniny Dark Sky Park. The decision showed up to be absolutely great. Even if the dusty and dry weather (with almost all nights without clouds!) highlighted the light pollution of far cities, especially in the Ukraine, the silvery Milky Way was such beautiful at least higher above the horizon. As a member of meteoric expedition for youth at the Kolonica observatory I had great hinterland for capturing as much Perseid meteors as I could. I spent glorious 6 nights under the Poloniny sky and captured this fantastic portrait of the meteor shower. You can count 174 meteors of the Perseids, captured between 8th and 14th August 2015. Watching the skies on the image, I was standing there above the Kolonica Saddle and enjoying the show despite a danger of negligible presence of the wild Brown bears. The brightest fireball in the upper part of the image was about -7 magnitude and followed by colorful meteoric „smoky“ trail (this one fallen on 14th August just a two hours before the daybreak). In the Milky Way there are numerous nebulae as NGC 7000 „The North America“ or NGC 896 „Heart and Soul“. The colors of the meteors are caused by the energy of excitation of the Nitrogen and Oxygen in our atmosphere, which is given to the air by the debris of the comet 109P Swift-Tuttle, with entry speed about 59 km/s. The comet invited the inner Solar System in 1992 and next time return is being more less planned for our children or grandchildren in 2126. But the meteor shower remains us the comet every year… More info: http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?p=1700
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Post by Astromontufar » Mon Aug 24, 2015 2:21 am

The Maginus Sunrise Lunar Ray

Copyright: Sergio Montúfar
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Post by nvc123 » Mon Aug 24, 2015 8:51 am

M27 a 16 hours RHa,GOIII,BOIII picture
Also shown here in full size, http://www.astro-hp.dk
Copyright: Morten la Cour. Picture processing: Niels V. Christensen https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/100 ... 100pct.jpg

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Post by gaspare.silverii » Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:24 am

Eternity - Trabocco Il Turchino
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De Sidera - Castelluccio di Norcia
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Oblivion - Castle of Rocca Calascio
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Post by gaspare.silverii » Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:26 am

Bove Mountain - Sibillini National Park
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Palascia Lighthouse - Otranto
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Palascia Lighthouse - Otranto
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Post by gaspare.silverii » Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:28 am

Minervino Tower - Otranto
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Bauxite Cave - Otranto
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Pass St Leonard
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Post by gaspare.silverii » Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:29 am

Red Blade - Perseidi 2015
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Post by johnw3d » Mon Aug 24, 2015 3:36 pm

Heart of the Heart
Center crop of the Heart Nebula, IC 1805, in Cassiopeia.
Copyright: John Wainwright

This is an image I took of the center of the Heart Nebula, IC 1805, in Cassiopeia. It’s an RGB image with Ha for luminance, shot at the Oregon Star Party on August 15th this year. It comprises 5 x 18 minute Ha subs at 1x1 and 7 x 6.5 minute RGB subs at a 2x2 binning, all shot unguided.

I’m particularly happy with the dust lane detail in this image and the sculptural power of a bright open cluster such as Melotte 15 is just astonishing. This probably the best image I’ve taken so far in the 3 years I’ve been pursuing amateur astrophotography, my first APOD submission.

The equipment used includes a Takahashi FSQ-106ED OTA, a QHY9M cooled CCD mounted on a 10Micron GM1000HPS. The software used includes Sequence Generator Pro for capture and PixInsight + StarTools + Photoshop for processing.

Higher res version here: http://www.lyric.com/astro/Heart-of-the-Heart.jpg. Check out the detail at 100% zoom!

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Post by Janx » Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:36 pm

Mineral Moon
Integration of 232 sub frames.

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Post by Sandgirl » Mon Aug 24, 2015 6:34 pm

Perseid meteor shower 2015
Copyrights: Ruslan Merzlyakov
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Colorful meteor over a world heritage site
Copyrights: Amirreza Kamkar
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Coat Hanger
Copyrights: Andrea Pistocchini
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Watching eclipsed setting Sun
Copyrights: Li Jianxing
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Ou4 - Giant Squid Nebula
Copyrights: Nicolas Outters
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Perseid Showers & Trails
Copyrights: Chandra Mouli
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Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina - 15-Aug-2015
Copyrights: Ian Sharp
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Milky Way - Galactic Core
Copyrights: Will Vrbasso
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18+ Perseids over Mauna Kea + Persistent Train
Copyrights: Rogelio Bernal Andreo
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NGC6888 - Crescent Nebula
Copyrights: Jesús M. Vargas and Maritxu Poyal
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NGC 2264
Copyrights: Jesús M. Vargas and Maritxu Poyal
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Post by Sandgirl » Mon Aug 24, 2015 7:10 pm

Milky Way over Mount Everest
Copyrights: Jeff Dai
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Perseid Meteor Shower
Copyrights: Brad Goldpaint
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Venus and the case of the missing cusp extensions...
Copyrights: Pete Lawrence
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Rain of light
Copyrights: Jan Jensen
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IC59 and IC63
Copyrights: Horst Ziegler
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Perseid Meteor and Milky Way
Copyrights: Mike Zampelli
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Starry fireworks
Copyrights: Dax Perrin
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Sibling Stars
Credits: ESO
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Fireball from the Perseids
Copyrights: Brendan Alexander
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Moon among stormy clouds
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Post by Sandgirl » Mon Aug 24, 2015 7:38 pm

Milky Way from Spain
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Cygnus Region
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Milky Way from Italian Alps
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Milky Way over Mount Viso
Copyrights: Emanuele Balboni
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Startrails and radio telescope in Spain
Copyrights: Jon Teus
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The 2015 Perseid meteor shower reflected in water
Copyrights: Ellie Yuan
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Solar Eiffel Tower
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Airglow and Milky Way over As Catedrais Beach
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Seagull Nebula (IC 2177)
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Post by Sandgirl » Mon Aug 24, 2015 8:06 pm

NGC884 - One of two (Persei)
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari
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Large Magellanic Cloud
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2015 The Best Perseid Meteor Showers in Years
Copyrights: John Chumack
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Milky Way above Chile
Copyrights: Alba Eugenio
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Blue Proton Arc
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M17 - Omega Nebula
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Aurora Australis from Cressy Northern Tasmania
Copyrights: Stephanie Dennison
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Aurora Fall
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Sand, Stars, and a Tree
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Milky Way - Galactic Core - Another shot
Copyrights: Will Vrbasso
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M8 and M20
Copyrights: Alejandro Cunningham
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VdB 149
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M16 Pillars of creation - August 19th.
Copyrights: Damian Peach
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Milky Way over eucalyptus
Copyrights: Dani Caxete
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Milky Way, Andromeda and Pleiades
Copyrights: Mahdi Mollaee
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ISS double transit
Copyrights: Hartwig Luethen
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Comet Catalina
Copyrights: Raffaele Esposito
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Faro Punta Roncadoira and Milky Way
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Heart of the Heart
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Sunspots 2403 and Solar granulations
Copyrights: Qin Yu
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Fantastic Aurora Arcs in Parallel
Copyrights: LI Hang
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Sunspots
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The Horsehead Nebula And Flame
Copyrights: Federico Pelliccia
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Cederblad 214
Copyrights: Fényes Lóránd
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Northamptonshire Moon with DHL Aircraft
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