Submissions: 2015 September

[Sandgirl]

Pairs of Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxies May Be Rarer Than Previously Thought
Credit: Roberts, et al., NRAO/AUI/NSF
An article: https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressrelea ... hole-pairs

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35200

Thunderstorm over Eleftherios Venizelos Airport, in Greece
Copyrights: Joanna Vassilopoulou

M33
Copyright: R. Colombari, C. Iaffaldano
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/212937/0/?real=&mod=

A delicate pearl inside a cosmic shell
Credits and Copyrights: Data : red and blue from Digitized Sky Survey (POSS-II) and narrowband from David Lindemann; Image processing : David Lindemann

Mayan Plaza under the Moonlight and stars
Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar

The Jungle under the Moonlight and stars from Mayan Temple 4
Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar

NGC7538 Region
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

The Helix Nebula
Copyrights: Ian Sharp
Larger size: http://astro-sharp.com/images/DeepSky/A ... GB-ids.jpg

California Nebula (NGC 1499)
Copyrights: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich
Full size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fhhemmeri ... /lightbox/

The North America Nebula (NGC 7000)
Copyrights: Cesar Cantu Quiroga

[Sandgirl]

Rainbow in the crescent of Venus
Copyrights: Mehdi Esmaily

C/2013 US10 (Catalina) @ Sep.17,2015
Copyrights: José J. Chambó

Milky Way and the Moon
Copyrights: Glendor Diaz Suarez

NGC253 The Sculptor Galaxy
Copyrights: Stéphane Guisard

NGC 7479
Copyrights: Joe Morris

LDN 988 and Company
Copyrights: Rafael Rodríguez

How much does the Milky Way weighs?
Copyrights: Alba Eugenio

15 Moaïs
Copyrights: Alba Eugenio

M51A and M51B wide field
Copyrights: Danny Lee Russell

[Maurizio Cabibbo]

Sh2-155 Cave Nebula
Copyright Maurizio Cabibbo - http://www.astroinfinity.it
Sh2-155LHRG by Maurizio Cabibbo, su Flickr

[carlosdn]

Moon 19.09.2015 - Mosaic

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© Carlos Di Nallo

http://carlosdn-alfacentauri.blogspot.com.ar/

[ccarromeu]

When Science, Architecture and Nature converge: Equinox at the Salk Institute

[dllamas]

It´s autumn, in Spain Milky Way has hidden its center, but when Scorpion lows and disappears into horizon, other wonders appear over it.

In this resolution is complicated, but into this picture we see a lot of things.

At right we see, clearly, the Pleiades and Andromeda, more complicated is observed Aldebaran, above Pleiades, lost between light pollution. Near the arch of the Milky Way we see, very bright, Capella.

At center, if you see at right rock Polaris and to his left, near the trees, Vega. Rising from it we find Deneb in the middle of the arc of the Milky Way.

At left, following Vega and going through Milky Way Altair.

Photo is made at Penas das Rodas, Galicia, Spain. This area is surrounded by towns, but still have a great firmament.

15 vertical photos are covering 270º in two rows. And, of course, it´s a selfie!!!

Sorry for my poor english.

If you like our work follow us at https://www.facebook.com/enfoquenocturno (and click I Like )

[chil]

Looking east before dawn at Mt.Hopkins (MMT Observatory) 2015/09/25

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medium res version: http://nice.sai.msu.ru/~chil/photo/MMT_ ... _01_1k.jpg
high res version: http://nice.sai.msu.ru/~chil/photo/MMT_ ... _01_3k.jpg

[Sandgirl]

Iridescent cloud
Copyrights: Walter

NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud
Copyrights: Don Goldman
Larger size: http://astrodonimaging.com/gallery/ngc-346-and-371/

The Moon and clouds
Copyrights: Dany Sucuc

Uranus in excellent seeing (Sep 20th.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach

LDN 1251
Copyrights: Bob Franke
Larger size: http://bf-astro.com/APOD/ldn1251big.jpg

The Planet Venus 09-23-2015
Copyrights: John Chumack

Yarmouth Rainbow
Copyrights: Laura Conrad

Milky Way's Black Hole Shows Signs of Increased Chatter
Credit: NASA/CXC/MPE/G.Ponti et al; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
An article: http://chandra.si.edu/press/15_releases ... 92315.html

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35204

M31
Copyrights: László Bagi

[Sandgirl]

Plane passing in front of Moon
Copyrights: Ananth Srinivasan

ROSETTA reveals comet's water-ice cycle
Credit: Data: ESA/Rosetta/VIRTIS/INAF-IAPS/OBS DE PARIS-LESIA/DLR; M.C. De Sanctis et al.
An article: http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/56513-rosett ... ice-cycle/

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=248282#p248282

Orion rising over Alamut Castle
Copyrights: Amir Shahcheraghian

Night sky over Smoky Mountain National Park
Copyrights: Doug Holik

Sundog
Copyrights: Marcia Rogers

The Witch Head nebula
Copyrights: Dave Lane

NGC 7497 and the Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN)
Copyrights: Eric Coles and Mel Helm

M31
Copyrights: Efrem Frigeni

[gianluca67]

http://www.astrobin.com/213894/

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[elettrorider]

M31 and M110
http://www.stefanofocosi.altervista.org/M31_2015.html
Copyright: Stefano Focosi

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[Andromeda 2013]

Moon Over Toronto

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@ ... otostream/

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

[Andromeda 2013]

Moon Over Toronto 2

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@ ... otostream/

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

[Andromeda 2013]

Moon Over Toronto in color

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@ ... otostream/

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

[mewlon300]

CANOPUS (Alpha Carinae)
Copyright: Eduard Garcia-Ribera (Siding Spring Observatory)
Full size: http://www.astroedu.net//mediapool/75/7 ... B-apod.jpg

[Greg Parker]

Copyright: Prof. Greg Parker 2015

A 4-frame mosaic of the Kemble's Cascade region in Camelopardalis taken with 3 x Sky 90s and 3 x M26C OSC CCDs.

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[alcarreño]

Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile
https://www.flickr.com/photos/113243238 ... 3149002556

[Sandgirl]

Revisiting the Veil Nebula
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team
More about: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1520/?lang

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=248296#p248296

Autumnal Equinox Washington Monument
Copyrights: Shashank Shekhar

A Trio of Lunar Eclipses
Copyrights: Jimmy Westlake

Milky Way
Copyrights: Godfrey Capiral

Star Trail
Copyrights: Samuel Banks

Ancient Planetarium
Copyrights: Aggelos Makris

NGC 663 and Friends
Copyrights: Jaspal Chadha

Lunar and Venus corona
Copyrights: Jeff Dai

Barnard 33
Copyrights: Rodrigo Andolfato

Double Eclipse October 2014
Copyrights: James Martin

[Sandgirl]

Earthshine Moon
Copyrights: John Chumack

Observing the Antares region, the heart of Scorpio
Copyrights: Cristian Lopez

Perseid Meteor Shower Nightscape and Airglow
Copyrights: Roger Clark

Helix Nebula
Copyrights: James C Renard

AR2403 good bye
Copyrights: Alessandro Bianconi

Moon in a red cloudbed
Copyrights: Stephan Heinsius

Photographing Orion
Copyrights: Jeff Dai

America's Dust
Copyrights: Fényes Lóránd

The Moon
Copyrights: Joanna Bialek

[Florian Kainz]

The Moon with natural hues but exaggerated color saturation.
For the colors, the mean of 54 separate exposures was computed to keep noise down before increasing saturation. Atmospheric distortion caused the the 54-frame average image to be slightly blurry, so colors from that image were transferred onto a grayscale version of a single, sharper exposure.

The Moon Last Night, in Color by fksr, on Flickr

[stardust steve]

Moonlight Vapor.
89% Waxing Gibbous Moon Transit 25.9.15.

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https://flic.kr/p/yQDmE9

[Astromontufar]

I trully like the event, not because of the light that gets to the ground when the earth is between the Sun and the Moon, I love this event, because it's the only way we can trully perciben (see) earth's spherical shape.. Yup, pure science evidence.

[cfm2004]

August 2015
Location: San Romualdo - Ravenna (Italy)
LX200 12"GPS with Starizona reducer/coma-corrector F/7.1
CCD QSI 540wsi cooled -18
RGB Astrodon Gen2 True-Balance I-series and Narrowband 5nm
Autoguide with ASI120MM and PHDguiding2 on ETX105
OIII-RGB: OIII 61x5min, R 40x3', G 40x3', B 39x3'
Acquired with: MaximDL5 - Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat
Processed with: MaximDL5, Astroart4, AstraImage4, StarTools1.3, Paint Shop ProX7, Topaz Plug-in and StarSpikePro

Cristina Cellini

[Thierry Legault]

Hello,
I had a transit of the ISS during the lunar eclipse, only 10 miles away from my home. The Moon was very low on the horizon (16°), so the ISS was quite far (1100 km).
To my knwoledge, this is the first lunar eclipse photographed with a simultaneous transit of the ISS.

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Click to play embedded YouTube video.

[Sandgirl]

Ngc7000 and IC5070
Copyrights: Alessandro Segantin, Giuseppe Bianchi and Luigi Colombo

NGC7635 The Bubble Nebula and M52 Cluster
Copyrights: Francesco di Biase

Rupes Recta
Copyrights: Kiran Chakravarti

Rho Ophiuchi complex and around center of Milky Way
Copyrights: Zhuoxiao Wang

IC 63 and IC 59
Copyrights: Brad Benedict

Total lunar eclipse with the Milky Way (2014)
Copyrights: Zhuoxiao Wang

Sh2 155 Cave Nebula
Copyrights: Fabiomassimo Castelluzzo

Pleiades - M45
Copyrights: Cesar Cantu Quiroga

Neptune (Sep 24th.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach

How Rosetta's Comet Got Its Shape
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA; M. Massironi et al. (2015)
An article: http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/56543-how-ro ... its-shape/

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=248453#p248453

NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4722

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35217