Submissions: 2015 December

[Sternfreund]

Aldebaran's Occultation
http://www.far-light-photography.at
Copyright: Arno Rottal

http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/3632/201 ... 027ec4.gif

Aldebaran's Occultation
ETX90 with Canon 650D
Star Adventurer
2015-12-23

[Greg Parker]

Lulworth Cove is a cove near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in Dorset, southern England. Apart from its unique geomorphology it is an ideal target for Winter Solstice photography. From this vista it spans 115 degrees across the southern horizon whereas the Sun covers 103 degrees from sunrise to sunset at this latitude during the shortest day of the year.

Five photos stacked during the whole day at 20/12/2015, two days before the Winter Solstice.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

That is a superbly executed image!! Well done and Merry Christmas to you too
Greg Parker

[dllamas]

Orion, Sirio and a christmas tree with Light Painting at Garita de Herverira - Spain

[AlexMaragos]

Full Cold Moon Christmas 2015: The Full Cold Moon rises behind spruce trees and Christmas lights
in Greece on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2015. Not since 1977 has a full moon dawned in the skies on Christmas.
This rare event won't happen again until 2034.
http://www.alexandrosmaragos.com
Copyright: Alexandros Maragos

Full Cold Moon Christmas 2015 by Alexandros Maragos, on Flickr

[moonrocks]

http://moonrocksastro.com/index.php/201 ... or-auriga/

Intergalactic Crocodile departing for Auriga #Explored by Paul C. Swift, on Flickr

[Brendan Kinch]

Tadpoles - Crop


Tadpoles by Brendan Kinch, on Flickr

[ildiora]

Aldebaran Meets The Moon - Syracuse - Plemmirio
http://www.dariogiannobile.com
Copyright: Dario Giannobile

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[astrojunk]

How much astronomy can you get in a single photo taken from a drone!

Here we see a full moon rising on Christmas day, surrounded by anti-crepuscular sun rays and on the belt of Venus (The Earth’s rising shadow).

Seasons greetings from Australia everyone



http://shadowchaser.com.au/wp-content/u ... asMoon.jpg

[Bonobo]

Luna llena en Navidad

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©Juan A. Bafalliu

[nvc123]

M42, the central part shown in hubble palette colors
http://www.astrobin.com/users/nvcchr1/
Copyright: Niels V. Christensen

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Artificial RGB colors

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[sydney]

Christmas Moon 2015
Taken on the night of December 25, 2015
Nikon D70 camera
Nikon 18-55 lens@18mm
30sec@f/8
Foreground is the Helderberg Observatory, Altamont, NY

Larger Image at:
http://www.astrobin.com/234133/0/

Nick Pavelchak
Altamont, NY
http://www.astrobin.com/users/sydney/

[Sandgirl]

22° Lunar halo
Copyrights: Mia Stålnacke

The Aurora planet
Copyrights: Mia Stålnacke

Horse Head Nebula
Copyrights: Shadi Nassri

V1025 Tau (Beginnings)
Copyrights: Adam Block

Southern End Of The Veil Nebula
Copyrights: Bob Franke
Larger size: http://bf-astro.com/ngc6992/ngc6992.htm

Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina 19th and 20th Dec 2015
Copyrights: Ian Sharp

Catalina from northern Sky
Copyrights: Günter Kerschhuber

Geminid Meteor in Milky Way
Copyrights: Wang Letian

The Cave Nebula, SH2-155
Copyrights: John Vermette
Larger size: http://www.johnsastrophotos.com/uploads ... 5hargb.jpg

Fox Fur
Copyrights: John Vermette

Orion's Belt
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile

2015-LAMOST & Geminids
Copyrights: Luocheng

Jupiter Rising over Snowy plains
Copyrights: Amir shahcheraghian

[Sandgirl]

Eagle - Phoenix shaped Northern Lights
Copyrights: Isaac G.P.

Aurora selfie
Copyrights: Isaac G.P.

Geminids Fireball
Copyrights: Zhen Zhou

Finger of God
Copyrights: Ivan Sanchez

Geminid Meteor Shower over Yulong Snow Mountain
Copyrights: Berhmam Wong

Sunrise
Copyrights: William Maddock

Comet 2013 US Catalina
Copyrights: Eric Recurt

Chandra Finds Remarkable Galactic Ribbon Unfurled
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/University of Bonn/G. Schellenberger et al; Optical: INT
More about: http://chandra.si.edu/press/15_releases ... 22115.html

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35489

Winter Solstice
Copyrights: Chris Kotsiopoulos

SpaceX Falcon9 OG2 launch
Copyrights: Michael Seeley

Milky Way and at the Magellanic Cloud
Copyrights: Stéphane Moser

[Gabor Szendroi]

Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina on December 20, 2015.
Copyright: Gábor Szendrői


Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina by Gábor Szendrői, on Flickr

[nvc123]

M42, a SII,Ha,OIII=RGB color picture
http://www.astrobin.com/234338/
Copyright: Niels V. Christensen

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[AstroTanja]

Milky Way Mosaic
http://www.astrotanja.com
Copyright: Tanja Schmitz

[Andromeda 2013]

Full Cold Moon

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

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40 panel mosaic Canon 6D stock C-11 CGEM-DX F/10

The Full Cold Moon brightens up the night sky on Christmas Day: Rare lunar event stuns crowds across the world for the first time since 1977... and it won't happen again until 2034.

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

[Andromeda 2013]

Full Cold Moon

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

Canon 6D stock C-11 CGEM-DX F/10

The Full Cold Moon brightens up the night sky on Christmas Day: Rare lunar event stuns crowds across the world for the first time since 1977... and it won't happen again until 2034.

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

[Andromeda 2013]

Heart of Orion

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

The core of the Orion Nebula.

The Moon was hanging in the night sky -Waning Gibbous 85% illuminated.

Ambient outside temperature -5*C or 23*F
Camera and Telescope designed for use above freezing or 0*C or 32*F

C-11 at F/10 cgem-dx
Canon 450D Baader filter replacement.
78 lights each 25 seconds iso 800
no darks/bias/flats - Stacked in photoshop

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

[Elias Chasiotis]

I swear i hadn't planned this! Visited Paris for Christmas without special photographic equipment, just with a 20x compact camera. The Christmas full moon had other plans, despite the fact that the sky was mostly covered by clouds. When i arrived at the bottom of the Tower, the sky cleared up and the moon appeared perfectly aligned to the middle of the tower, facing southeast! Full moon altitude was favorable too, so i also took a picture of the tower with the full moon as a Christmas star on top.

[Sandgirl]

Sh2-264, Angelfish Nebula
Copyrights: Rafael Rodríguez

Geyser explosion with sunset
Copyrights: Wikout

Winter Hexagon over Manla reservoir
Copyrights: Jeff Dai

Aurora over Woolpit, Suffolk
Copyrights: Mark Hunter

Dimming The Sun
Copyrights: Alexandros Maragos

Lowdown on Ceres: Images From Dawn's Closest Orbit
Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2015-384

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=251987#p251987

Cepheus
Copyrights: Pierre Fauchet

Cutting the finest detail
Copyrights: Raffaele Barzacchi
Full size: http://www.raffaelebarzacchi.com/galler ... t_barz.jpg

Orion Nebula - M42
Copyrights: Cesar Cantu Quiroga

Falcon 9 Launch & Landing
Copyrights: Jared Haworth

Flame and Horsehead nebula
Copyrights: Michele Trungadi

Ghost Ranch Milky Way
Copyrights: Matt Foerschler

Rosette Nebula
Copyrights: Stefano Conti

Sun trail in the sky during Winter Solstice
Copyrights: Chen Chih Hsiung

[jerry10137]

Copyrights: Jerry Gardner
HaRGB
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H-Alpha
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[Sandgirl]

Airglow on mountain "Zheduo"
Copyrights: Zhong Wu

The mountain kongka is holyland
Copyrights: Zhong Wu

The Orion
Copyrights: Zhong Wu

Tent and Orion
Copyrights: Zhong Wu

Giant Sundog from Baker Lake, Nunavut
Copyrights: Doug Iglookyouak

Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina 23rd Dec 2015
Copyrights: Ian Sharp

Orion
Copyrights: Ian Sharp

Nearly-Christmas Moon
Copyrights: Dani Caxete

Comet Catalina - 24h- apparent motion
Copyrights: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich

Aldebaran passes behind the Moon (and an airplane...)
Copyrights: Christoph de Brucker

Moon and Aldebaran
Copyrights: Christof Wiedemair

Christmas fullmoonrise
Copyrights: Jens Hackmann

Rare Full Cold Moon - Christmas 2015
Copyrights: Alexandros Maragos

Delaware river sky reflection
Copyrights: Vince Cook

Stereo Solargraph
Copyrights: Jesse Mason

[Sandgirl]

Geminids Meteor Shower 2015
Copyrights: Vedant Pratap Singh Jadon

Stars falling on "Christmas tree"
Copyrights: Luocheng

Full Moon halo
Copyrights: Diana Bodea

Christmas Full Moon Halo
Copyrights: Francisco Diego

C/2014 S2 (Dec 9th)
Copyrights: Damian Peach

LBN 468 - Dark clouds and a lot of dust
Copyrights: Oliver Czernetz

Full Moon for Christmas
Copyrights: Maximilian Teodorescu

A Squiggly Meteor Trail
Copyrights: Piotr Strzałkowski

Kékes-tető - Hungary's highest peak over the clouds
Copyrights: Ferenc Szémár

Comet Catalina
Copyrights: José J. Chambó

Christmas night and rare full moon from Kerala India
Copyrights: Rupesh Sreeraman

Comet Catalina Disconnection Event Animation - 21st December 2015
Copyrights: Dave Eagle
http://www.eagleseye.me.uk/Sky/Images/C ... 151221.gif

[Chassaigne Georges]

IC 1871 nebula in cassiopea in SHO Total 31h45
Ha=16h30+SII=7h45+OIII=7h30
127 frames of 15mn at -25°C
RC14" Astrosib+mount AP1600AE+Camera Moravian G4 16000
The SkyX + Pixinsight
Location:Bègles (France in center of town)
SQM 17.79 to 18.42
http://www.astrobin.com/full/229668/F/