Submissions: 2016 January

[Paul Haese]

LDN1622 (the Bogey Man Nebula)

Copyright: Paul Haese

Click here for larger resolution image.

[astrodoc71]

M15 by astrodoc171, on Flickr

[Greg Parker]

Central star Ruchbah in this wide field image containing many open clusters and some nebulosity.
Copyright: Prof. Greg Parker 2016

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[DougG]

NGC 7331 in Visible and Infrared
Copyright: Douglas Gardner
http://www.remote-astrophotography.com

Here are two aligned images of the NGC 7331 galaxy. One image is in the visible band and the second is the visible plus an IR overlay from the Spitzer Space Telescope. All processing was done by me from FITS files.

When I look at galaxy images in the visible band I think of the dust lanes as non luminous but in the IR band the emission from the dust lanes jumps right out and NGC 7331 seems to have a lot of dust.

One image is processed from the visible band from the Kitt Peak 2.1M telescope. The second has an IR overlay from the Spitzer Space Telescope.

Example page to show switching between the two images with a mouse over:
http://www.remote-astrophotography.com/ ... C7331.html

[Efrain Morales]

Jupiter on January 21st, 09:24ut, 09:30ut. Under average conditions. Check out with crossing your eyes - parallel vision (3D).

[Juan Lozano]

Gamma Cassiopeiae and nebulas
http://observatorioelche.blogspot.com.e ... iopea.html
Copyright: Juan Lozano de Haro

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[Sandgirl]

M22 globular star cluster
Copyrights: Stewart Yeung

Double cluster of Perseus
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile

The Universe at my feet
Copyrights: Trevor T Mahlmann

Big Dipper slowly rising, spring is coming
Copyrights: Gallon Weng

El Volcán de Fuego
Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar

The Pleiades star cluster
Copyrights: Maximilian Teodorescu

Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
Copyrights: Alfonso Gordon Sanchiz

C/2013 X1 (PanSTARRS) - Jan 4th
Copyrights: Damian Peach

Quadrantid Meteor Shower
Copyrights: Manish Mamtani

Zodiacal Light
Copyrights: Dany Sucuc

Aldebaran rise over Mount Everest
Copyrights: Jeff Dai

Milky Way, Auroras, Perseus and Andromeda Galaxy
Copyrights: Ole Salomonsen

Barnard 30
Copyrights: Robert Fields

Strolls in The Star River
Copyrights: Caren Zhao

Andromeda galaxy M31
Copyrights: Sergio Bove

Sun Pillar
Copyrights: Mike Dolphin

Comet Catalina C/2013 US 10
Copyrights: John Chumack

Sun pillars
Copyrights: Göran Strand

Inca de Oro Observatory, Atacama desert
Copyrights: Christian Espinosa Illanes

Integrated Flux Nebula in Pegasus
Copyrights: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez

Big Bubble Nebula
Copyrights: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez

[mdieterich]

Airglow and Milky Way over Glacier National Park
http://www.mdieterichphoto.com/p2811580 ... #h6cd3dd0a
Copyright: Matt Dieterich

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[Sandgirl]

New method solves 40 year-old mystery on the size of shadowy galaxies
Image credit: Adrian Malec and Marie Martig
An article: http://www.swinburne.edu.au/news/latest ... laxies.php

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35533

Comet C/2013 US10 06-Jan-2016
Copyrights: Ian Sharp

The Horsehead Nebula Complex
Copyrights: John Chumack

Moonlight Gorak Shep
Copyrights: Jeff Dai

MPIA: First Global Age Map of the Milky Way
Image credits: M. Ness & G. Stinson / MPIA
An article: http://www.mpia.de/news/science/2016-01 ... way-agemap

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http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35534

Shadow in the sky
Copyrights: Allen Poston

Orion Nebula
Copyrights: Evangelos Souglakos

Half Dome
Copyrights: Amirreza Kamkar

APOD IC1871 The Soul Nebula
Copyrights: David Wills

The Heart Nebula
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/235602/0/?real=&mod=

Mare Crisium
Copyrights: Julien Quirin

Little rainbow
Copyrights: Bertrand Kulik

IC 1340
Copyrights: James C Renard

Ring Nebula
Copyrights: Jim Renard

M37 Cluster
Copyrights: Greg Spakoski

X marks the spot
Copyrights: Bruce Waddington

The Case of the Missing Quasar
Image Credit: Dana Berry / SkyWorks Digital, Inc.; SDSS collaboration
An article: http://www.sdss.org/releases/the-case-o ... ng-quasar/

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35537

Marvelous Moon,Venus and Saturn conjunction
Copyrights: Martin Marthadinata

Comet Catalina
Copyrights: Ian Sharp

Moon, Venus and Saturn
Copyrights: Ian Sharp

[Sandgirl]

Horsehead + Flame Nebula
Copyrights: Giancarlo Erra

Lunar/Planetary Conjunction
Copyrights: John Chumack

Crescent Moon, Saturn and Venus
Copyrights: Stan Honda

Sunset at Alibag Beach
Copyrights: Vijay Kapoor

LDN777 - The Baby Eagle
Copyrights: Eric Coles

M13 - Hercules Cluster
Copyrights: Greg Hogan

M33 - Triangulum Galaxy
Copyrights: Greg Hogan

C/2013 US10 with NGC5466 - Jan 6th
Copyrights: Damian Peach

The Fishhead Nebula
Copyrights: Jose Manuel Sanchez

Conjunction of Moon, Saturn, Venus, Mars and Jupiter from Barcelona Recibidos
Copyrights: Alfredo Miguel

Volcán de Fuego
Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar

Airglow at Bryce Canyon
Copyrights: Dave Lane

[Sergio]

Southern Albireo (aka 145 CMa)


This beautiful pair is well visible on urban skies even with small telescopes. The primary star is yellowish-orange and the companion is a pale bluish white. As increasing magnification the colours began to fade compare to the Albireo in Cygnus. This stars are not related and can be seen only as a pair because the perspective towards the Earth.

Taken from 110 kms north from Buenos Aires, Argentina using an Orion Optics UK 6 Inches Reflector, QSI 583 WS, SWNEQ6 Mount

More info and higher resolution version at
http://www.baskies.com.ar/PHOTOS/145%20CMa%20LRGB.htm

Cheers to all !!
Sergio

[pablo22]

NGC1333 widefield, vdB12, vdB13, vdB16, Barnard 202-206
http://astrofotky.cz/~Konihlav
Copyright: Pavel Pech

[astrochuck]

M33 Triangulum Galaxy

Copyright: Chuck Manges




M 33 Triangulum Galaxy Reprocessed by Chuck Manges, on Flickr

[Greg Parker]

A 2-frame mosaic of the Caph region of Cassiopeia.
Copyright: Prof. Greg Parker 2016

http://www.newforestobservatory.com/wor ... orumsl.jpg

Greg

[AstroTanja]

Zodiacal Light, Venus & Saturn rising
http://www.astrotanja.com
Copyright: Tanja Schmitz

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[Bi2L]

Shooting Star & Apotripiti's islet, Canal D'Amour, Corfu

A bright meteor with green colour, a little rock with magnesium, sodium and iron, heated up and burn from the collision with air particles in the upper atmosphere, in a night landscape above the clay hill and the clay islet age 1m.-2m. years old of Apotripiti's beach in Canal D'Amour illuminated by the Moon.

22 Jan 2016, Peroulades, Corfu.
Canon eos 6D
Samyung 14mm
f2.8
iso800
30sec

[jcbo]

NGC 2174 Monkey Head Nebula
http://astrofotki.pl
Copyright: Jacek Bobowik

Larger image: http://www.astrofotki.pl/NGC2174.jpg

[Robert-Austria]

Dark nebula Barnard 08
http://www.astrofotos.at
Copyright: Robert Pölzl

http://astrofotos.at/index.php?view=ima ... Itemid=134

Edward Barnard was a great astronomer. He discovered many astronomy objects and he made pictures of the dust in the milkyway - like this picture - Barnard 08 - located in the constelation "Comelopardalis"
This RGB image is a 6 part mosaic.

Best regards from austria
Robert Pölzl

[Sternfreund]

The moon and a plane
http://www.far-light-photography.at
Copyright: Arno Rottal

http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/9 ... phy.at.jpg
The Moon and a Plane
Handheld EOS 6D with 24-70mmL f4

[angelaros]

A second more agressive postprocess of my previous image of Comet Catalina near galaxies M101 and M51. Now also featuring famous pair of stars Mizar and Alcor (up-left corner). Visit my gallery in flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/50559413@N03/?

[Sandgirl]

Runaway Stars Leave Infrared Waves in Space
Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Wyoming
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4812

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35523

VLA Reveals Dramatic New Evidence About Star, Planet Formation
Image credits: [url]CREDIT: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF.[/url]
An article: https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressrelea ... -formation

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35530

Dance of Stars and Light
Copyrights: Reuel Norman A. Marigza, Jr

Forest fires
Copyrights: Pablo Andrés Escobar

Volcán de Fuego's
Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar

Orion Nebula with meteor pass just over it
Copyrights: Ahmed Shrief

Eastern Soul Nebula
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

Winter sky from Kalahari desert
Copyrights: Petr Horálek

Sun magnetic loops above AR12473
Copyrights: Łukasz Sujka

Inside The Rosette Nebula
Copyrights: Terry Hancock

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Sh2-129 + Ou-4 Nebula
Copyrights: Manolis Malakopoulos

Proof That Some Galaxies are LIERs
Image Credit: Jennifer Johnson (The Ohio State University) and the SDSS Collaboration
Black hole: NASA/Dana Berry/SkyWorks Animation; White dwarf: NASA/JPL (Raghvendra Sahai)
An article: http://www.sdss.org/releases/proof-that ... are-liers/

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35536

IC2087 in Barnard 22 - Lovely dust
Copyrights: Ian Sharp
Larger size: http://astro-sharp.com/images/spain2015 ... in_ids.jpg

Flaming Star Nebula in Auriga, IC405
Copyrights: Stuart Heggie
Larger size: http://www.astrofoto.ca/stuartheggie/cc ... PI_Big.jpg

M81 – Bodes Galaxy
Copyrights: Dan Meek

Messier 31
Copyrights: James Fitzjohn

[Sandgirl]

The sky after sunset
Copyrights: Stephen Horowitz

Saturn and Venus
Copyrights: Mohamed Laaifat

'Under the dome'
Copyrights: Ken Dulabhan

Simeis 147
Copyrights: Martin Rusterholz

Crescent Moon, Venus, Saturn and Scorpius
Copyrights: Derrick Lim

Night Sky over Flagstaff
Copyrights: Michael West

Comet 67P - Jan 8th
Copyrights: Damian Peach

Stargazing at the largest meteorite
Copyrights: Petr Horálek

Orion Nebula
Copyrights: Robert Bishop

Circumpolar star trail Rotation in the South America
Copyrights: Cristian Lopez

M 78
Copyrights: Robert Fields

IC 434
Copyrights: Robert Fields

ALMA emits the Milky Way
Credit:J. Busqué/ESO

NGC2264 and environs
Copyrights: Ian Sharp
Larger size: http://astro-sharp.com/images/spain2015 ... in_ids.jpg

IC447 (IC2169)
Copyrights: Bernard Miller

M74
Copyrights: Bernard Miller

M2
Copyrights: Bernard Miller

Gamma Cygni
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

ISS, transit across the sun
Copyrights: Alfredo Miguel

[Sandgirl]

2016 January 7 morning
Copyrights: Bunny Buds

Meteor Crater
Copyrights: Manish Mamtani

Small Magellanic Cloud & 47 Tucanae
Copyrights: Carlos Eduardo Fairbairn

Antares & Earth
Copyrights: Carlos Eduardo Fairbairn

The tails of Comet Catalina
Copyrights: Paul Klauninger

Flaming Star Nebula
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari
Full version: http://www.astrobin.com/full/235978/0/?real=&mod=

Red airglow on The mountain KongKa
Copyrights: Zhong Wu

M42 & M43 The Orion Sword Region
Copyrights: John Chumack

Comet C/2013 X1 PanSTARRS
Copyrights: Adriano Valvasori

M15
Copyrights: Dave Doctor
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/236024/0/

Colorful IC2169 & B37 region in Monoceros
Copyrights: Chris Cook

Rainbow in NYC
Copyrights: RC Staab

Comet Catalina 12-Jan-2016
Copyrights: Ian Sharp

C/2013 US10 Catalina - Jan 9th
Copyrights: Pete Lawrence

The beauty of the Orion
Copyrights: Tony Pan

Pinwheel Galaxy
Copyrights: Greg Hogan

Rosette Nebula
Copyrights: Francesco Tallarico
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/36067/0/

C/2014 S2 on Jan 12th
Copyrights: Damian Peach

The Many Faces of Our Moon
Copyrights: Phillip A Cruden
More at: http://www.billionplanetsquest.com/p/ca ... ilips.html

[Petr H.]

Celestial X of both hemispheres
Copyright: Petr Horálek (http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?page_id=17)
This image shows view to the sky in January from both hemispheres. It ingeniously uses the compositions and timing to demonstrate different views in the Milky Way and the zodiacal light close to the Sun in the sky, which is located in both cases under the horizon. While the upper image was taken from Slovakia on 2 January 2016 after the sunset, the bottom image just before the dusk in the early Chilean morning on 26 January 2015. Except the columns of the zodiacal light you can also notice reddish or pink H II regions emission nebulae in the visible plane of our Galaxy. On the northern hemisphere, the most noticeable is NGC 7000 or The North America Nebula (close to the upper right corner), while on the south – in completely opposite position – you can find a rose-shaped Carina Nebula. Both images were captured with same equipment in almost the same season, just with a year difference between first and the second one. Unfortunately, the northern part (from Slovakian village Oravska Lesna) is pretty much disturbed by the light pollution unlike the southern part, captured from ESO’s Paranal Observatory, which is located in incredibly naturally dark spot of the Atacama desert. The image in higher resolution: http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?p=2149

The image with labels of locations: http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/wp-conte ... 1500px.png

Click to view full size image

[Sandgirl]

New Details on Ceres Seen in Dawn Images
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2016-008

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=252776#p252776

First Light For Future Black Hole Probe
Image credits: ESO/GRAVITY consortium/NASA/ESA/M. McCaughrean
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1601/

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35549

Comet Catalina meets the Whirlpool 13th Jan 2016l
Copyrights: Ian Sharp

Comet McNaught 13/01/2007
Copyrights: Emmanuel Jehin

Four Planets on Parade
Copyrights: Alex Cherney

Orion
Copyrights: Robert Fields

Startrails
Copyrights: Javier Martínez Morán

NGC2264
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile

Auroras and ice crystal pilars
Copyrights: Antero Vipunen

Star trails over Utah
Copyrights: Christopher Pruzenski

Comet Catalina 14-Jan-2016 near M51
Copyrights: Ian Sharp

Earthshine Moon
Copyrights: Pavle Gartner

The Turbulent Birth of a Quasar
Image credits: NRAO/AUI/NSF; Dana Berry / SkyWorks; AL ... NAOJ/NRAO)
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1602/?lang

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35558

Parisian rainbow
Copyrights: Bertrand Kulik

Rosette
Copyrights: Dylan O'Donnell

Horsehead & Flame
Copyrights: Greg Hogan

C/2014 A4 (SONEAR) with NGC 7814
Copyrights: Damian Peach

Light pillars
Copyrights: Mia Heikkilä

Sombrero Galaxy
Copyrights: Greg Hogan

SH2-264
Copyrights: Rafael Rodríguez