Submissions: 2016 February

[Sternfreund]

99.3% of the moon
http://www.far-light-photography.at
Copyright: Arno Rottal

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99.3% of the moon
mosaic of 43 parts. For each part 30% of 1000frames were used for stacking.
ETX90 with DMK21 on EQ5
full resolution: http://www.astrobin.com/full/239812/B/?real=&mod=

[Janx]

Mineral Moon



Full Resolution

This is the result of the mosaic of many moon images (232 shots) that were obtained
during a whole year (2013-2014).
Images was taken in different moon phases, then merged with Photoshop.
Colors on the Moon are dominantly controlled by variations in iron (red) and titanium (blue) content.
With multiple saturation boost operations we can see this colors.
colors that are imperceptible to the naked eye. To create the image I used three different digital SLRs, and a monochrome camera on a Newton 200mm aperture and 1000mm focal length, and a Maksutov Cassegrain 90mm aperture and 1250mm focal length.
I like if you decide to pubblish attached image in the APOD discussion forum Asterisk.
Sorry for my bad english, i'm from Italy.
I hope you enjoy this shot.

[Sebastian Voltmer]

Currently the LMC is to see very good from southern skies.
This is a new CCD image of the energized nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).


HiRes: https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemovi ... 251455121/

The second pic shows some prominent targets in the LMC from the original image.
These are 100% crops centered on the objects.


HiRes: https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemovi ... 251455121/


Data:
RGB + H-alpha (total: 190min)
Ha: 17x300sec, R: 16x180sec, G: 16x180sec, B: 3x180sec
OTA: Takahashi FSQ-106ED
Focal Length: 530mm (f/5.0)
CCD: FLI Microline 16803
Mount: Paramount PME
Location: iTelescope (T8) Siding Spring, Australia

Copyright: Sebastian Voltmer
e-mail: sebastian@voltmer.de

Best wishes and clear skies,
Sebastian
____________________
http://www.voltmer.de

[Bi2L]

Nightscape above Chomoi, Liapades, Corfu

Night landscape above the paradise beach of Chomoi in Liapades Corfu, with the summer Milkyway above the limestones and the marls of Liapades-Yiannades stones.
Just inside the clouds on the right is the old constellation of the Scorpion's Claws, now known as Lybra is the Red planet, Mars, just 1,1AU away. While the lord of the rings Saturn is on the feet of medicine god Asclepius, know as Ophiuchus, just 10,1AU away, and just under it is the giant star Antares almost 604 light years away.
Just above the rocks of the beach of Chomoi is the Summer triangle, with the stars Deneb, Vega and Altair.

22 Feb 2016
Canon eos 6D
Samyung 14mm
f2.8
iso800
5X30sec
Autopano

[Sandgirl]

Orion to Rosette
Copyrights: Albert Barr

Winter Milky Way
Copyrights: Manish Mamtani

Aurora in Abisko
Copyrights: Sarah Lewis

Bernard 33
Copyrights: Dustin Smith

Stars Rain
Copyrights: Aquilino Molinero

Fire and Ice
Copyrights: Alan Friedman

Moonrise at the Plain
Copyrights: György Soponyai

NGC869 and NGC864 Perseus Double Cluster
Copyrights: Bill Snyder

M5, Globular Cluster
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

Planets alignment of February 5th
Copyrights: Paola Battaglia

M42 - Orion Nebula
Copyrights: Sébastien Gozé

Moon, Venus, and Mercury
Copyrights: Barney Magrath

Galactic Center with the Zodiacal Light
Copyrights: Daniel Monk

Solargraphy analemmas
Copyrights: Maciej Zapiór

The Martian
Copyrights: Javier Martínez Morán

50% Waxing Gibbous Moon
Copyrights: G Wells, Northolt Branch Astro

Light pillars in thailand sky, May 2014
Copyrights: Alexandre Lefrançois

Rossette core
Copyrights: Mike and Trish Berthon-Jones

[Astromontufar]

Jupiter the Moon behing a Lunar Corona

I enhanced the color of the corona and the brightness of Jupiter to increase the dinamic range. The glow in the sky or atmosphere belongs to led light from a nearby football stadium.
As seeing from Guatemala.
Best Regards,

[Tamas Abraham]

Rising Moon and Jupiter over ruined church

Tamas Abraham
http://www.vadakcsillaga.hu/

[cfm2004]

Location: San Romualdo - Ravenna (Italy)
Takahashi Epsilon 180ED
ASA DDM60PRO
QSI583ws cooled -20
Astrodon RGB Gen2 E-series filters
RGB: R (20x60), G (20x60), B (20x60)
Acquired with: MaximDL5
Calibrated with bias, dark and flat.
Processed with: MaximDL5, Astroart4, Startools1.4, Paint Shop Pro X7 and Topaz plug-in Detalis.

Cristina Cellini

[cfm2004]

Location: San Romualdo - Ravenna (Italy)
Takahashi Epsilon 180ED
ASA DDM60PRO
QSI583ws cooled -20
Astrodon RGB Gen2 E-series filters
RGB: R (21x60), G (21x60), B (20x60)
Acquired with: MaximDL5
Calibrated with bias, dark and flat.
Processed with: MaximDL5, Astroart4, Startools1.4, Paint Shop Pro X7 and Topaz plug-in Detalis.

Cristina Cellini

[Bi2L]

Sagittarius Arm above Old Town of Corfu

What does a Spiral arms looks like above two towns?
Our Galaxy Milkyway, a cosmic island with almost 200 billion stars forming Spiral arms, one of this arms can be seen in the above capture.
With the Sagittarius Star Cloud at the centre and top of the the photo, while just above the light-polluted old town of Corfu we can see the Lagoon Nebula, Messier 8 a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius estimated to be between 4,000-6,000 light years from the Earth and actual dimension of 110 by 50 light years. While next and above M8 it is the Triffid Nebula, also known as Messier 20, is an H II region located in Sagittarius. It was discovered by Charles Messier on June 5, 1764. It is approximately 5000 ly away from Earth. Its apparent magnitude is 6.3.
Also next to Sagittarius Star Cloud is the M17 an H II region in the constellation Sagittarius, Omega Nebula is between 5,000 and 6,000 light-years from Earth and it spans some 15 light-years in diameter.

Unfortunately we can barely see the Milkyway Galaxy, the two towns Corfu and Igoumenitsa are making light-pollution to the night-sky. As we can see the lights from the new port are so bright, even there are anti-lightpolution and spot all the light down. Bust still, the light of the monuments like old Fortress or the city lights are light-up the nightsky.

Enjoyable presence on this capture is the Waning Crescent Moon age 27 days old on the left side of the picture, with disc illumination just 7% and just 378771 km away from us...

Canon eos 6D
EF 85mm f1.2 L II
8mm
f1.2
iso800
3.2sec

[Sandgirl]

Rosette nebula
Copyrights: Steven Coates
Larger size: http://coatesastrophotography.com/p1044 ... #h3fc6b2c8

Ice and Fire
Copyrights: Ivaylo Stoynov

Moon-Venus-Mercury Sunrise
Copyrights: Anthony Gomes

Jupiter and its moons
Copyrights: Lucas Paganini

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NGC6357
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

NGC3324, the Gabriela Mistral Nebula
Copyrights: John Ebersole

IC405
Copyrights: Jose F. Hdez

Comet Catalina
Copyrights: Lunam Seagull

NG2146, Pleiades
Copyrights: Lunam Seagull

Supernova in NGC5128, SN2016adj
Copyrights: Greg Bock

M45
Copyrights: Lóránd Fényes

Barnard's Loop
Copyrights: Pedro Borja

IC 2944
Copyrights: Russell Smith
Larger size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/80336656@ ... /lightbox/

The stars from Romania
Copyrights: Doru Stoica

NGC1502
Copyrights: Jaspal Chadha

5 planets
Copyrights: David Rombough

Lenticular Cloud & Iridescent Cloud
Copyrights: Alfred Lee

Spiral galaxy M33
Credits: Agrupació Astronòmica d'Eivissa/Ibiza (AAE) - Marco Antonio Yuste Moreno

Orion Molecular Cloud Complex and Milky Way
Copyrights: Jonathan Rupert

[alcarreño]

Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile

PLEYADES 2016v2 by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

[Sandgirl]

Aurora in Abisko
Copyrights: Sarah Lewis

Supernova 2016adj in Centaurus A
Copyrights: Dave Jurasevich

Christmas Moon
Copyrights: Ross Bower

Orion Nebula
Copyrights: Ezequiel Etcheverry

Colors and dust around IC4603
Copyrights: R. Colombari / E. Recurt
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/238788/0/?real=&mod=

Rainbow
Copyrights: Jose Miguel Torrejon

The Heart Nebula, As Deep As Love
Copyrights: Terry Hancock

Zodiacal Light image
Copyrights: Ken Spencer

Sun Dogs
Copyrights: Amir Shahcheraghian

Centaurus A with Supernova AT 2016adj (Feb 7th.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach
Full size: http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/ngc5 ... 2_07dp.jpg

M81
Copyrights: Bob Fera
Larger size: http://www.feraphotography.com/CDK17/M81.html

Shrouded in dust
Copyrights: Eric Zbinden

Mantis and moon. Villajoyosa / Alicante (Spain)
Copyrights: Jero Esquerdo Galiana

Zodiacal light
Copyrights: Stan Honda

Barnard 18, Barnard 215 & Friends
Copyrights: Oliver Czernetz

A Deep View Of The Heart and Melotte 15
Copyrights: Herb Carpenter & Terry Hancock

Corona Australis
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

[Sternfreund]

Conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter with 4 galilean moons
http://www.far-light-photography.at
Copyright: Arno Rottal

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Conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter with 4 galilean moons
Composite of one short and one long exposure.
EOS6D with Canon EF70-300mm on Skywatcher Star Adventurer.

[Sandgirl]

M-101
Copyrights: Stefano Conti

Northern lights from the inside of a barn
Copyrights: Francisco Aguilar

Rainbow in Benidorm (Spain)
Copyrights: Marc Victor Culot-Thibert

Perspective
Copyrights: Sam Young

Rosette Nebula
Copyrights: Klacsány Andrea
Larger size: http://www.emrefoto.hu/ngc2238_emrefoto1950.htm

LDN 1251 and friends
Copyrights: Hans Jürgen Mayer

Sunset in Bonita Springs Florida
Copyrights: John Schmitz

Corona Australis
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

Plasma fountain above active region on the limb
Copyrights: Łukasz Sujka

Cold Moon
Copyrights: Kenny Zook

Energized Nebulae in the LMC
Copyrights: Sebastian Voltmer

Copyrights: Jonathan Talbot

Stellar Harp Player
Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar

Sunrise of the Triade on the Moon
Copyrights: Raffaele Barzacchi

Solar Halo
Copyrights: Ioan Zemianschi

Venus & Saturn conjunction
Copyrights: Matteo Vacca

Leo I dwarf galaxy
Copyrights: Michael West

ISS Crossing the Skies of the Roman City Ammaia
Copyrights: Miguel Claro

[Sandgirl]

North
Copyrights: Dani Caxete

Celestial Trekkers
Copyrights: Anurag Shevade

Horsehead Nebula
Copyrights: Les Bildy

Moon Reflects Afternoon New Mexico Sky
Copyrights: Gary Zientara

NGC 2403
Copyrights: Eric Coles

Sunset solar rays over Maire Galante island (Guadeloupe)
Copyrights: Herve Biraud

Moon-Jupiter conjunction
Copyrights: Valerio Andrulli

Sprite lightning, Milky Way Venus, Saturn and Mercury
Copyrights: Brandon Giesbrecht

Tadpole
Credits and copyrights: Data: Hubble Legacy Data; Processing: Hunter Wilson

5 Planet Milky Way
Copyrights: Matt Smith

Two Very Different Open Clusters
Copyrights: Bob Franke
Larger version: http://bf-astro.com/m35/m35.htm

Milkyway from Aceh, Indonesia
Copyrights: Muhammad Rizky Rizaldy

2016 Feb 17 - 5 planets alignments + Summer Milky Way
Copyrights: Chin Wei-Loon

Planets alignment from Tenerife
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado

North window Milky Way
Copyrights: Clarence Spencer

C/2013 US10 Catalina and NGC2146
Copyrights: Cristina Cellini

Sh2-129 Flying Bat Nebula
Copyrights: Rafael Rodríguez Morales

SH2-142 - The Wizard Nebula
Copyrights: Larry Van Vleet

[Sandgirl]

NGC4565
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

Changed to Safari
Copyrights: Pnina Gagnon

Lunar Halo
Copyrights: Nicos Kountouris

Edge on galaxy NGC 4945
Copyrights: Damian Peach
Larger size: http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/ngc4 ... 2_15dp.jpg

NGC2359, Thors Helmet
Copyrights: James Dire

IC1805, the Heart Nebula
Copyrights: James Dire

Lunar Halo
Copyrights: Andrea Pistocchini

3 Day Old Moon
Copyrights: Dan Llewellyn

Aug 2014 "Supermoon" to Aug 2015
Copyrights: John Bajur

Rosette Nebula
Copyrights: Stephen Chadwick

Lunar halo
Copyrights: Daniele Cipollina

IC1805
Copyrights: Martin Pugh

Iridescent Clouds in front of the Moon
Copyrights: Trevor T Mahlmann

Sunset 17 Feb 2016
Copyrights: Pnina C Gagnon

Milky Way season has started
Copyrights: Manish Mamtani

Frozen Milky Way
Copyrights: Manish Mamtani

Baby Eagle Nebula - LBN777
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/239550/0/?real=&mod=

IC447 - Reflection Nebula in Monoceros
Copyrights: Jason Jennings
Larger size: http://cosmicphotos.com/gallery/display ... ld_resol=3

LBN878 - Emission Nebula in Orion
Copyrights: Jason Jennings
Larger size: http://cosmicphotos.com/gallery/display ... ld_resol=4

Milky way rising over the Pico Birigoyo
Copyrights: Javier Martínez Morán

NGC1931
Copyrights: Leonardo Orazi

[PepeChambo]

http://cometografia.es/wp-content/photo ... b_1800.jpg
Catalina between Pinwheel Galaxy and Mizar-Alcor

C/2013 US10 (Catalina) @ Jan.17,2016
Takahashi FSQ ED 106mm. f/5.0 & SBIG STL-11000M
Mayhill, New Mexico (USA)

Author:
José J. Chambó
http://cometografia.es

[Greg Parker]

Copyright: Prof. Greg Parker 2016
Polaris and the Integrated Flux Nebula (Galactic Cirrus) taken with the Sky 90 imaging array at the New Forest Observatory.

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[Sandgirl]

NGC 1672
Credits and Copyrights: Data: Hubble Legacy Archive;Processing: Amirreza Kamkar

NGC5866
Credits and Copyrights: Data: Hubble Legacy Archive;Processing: Hunter Wilson

The Boogie Man Nebula
Copyrights: John Vermette

Milky Way and the meteor
Copyrights: Jesse Rockwell

VDB 150
Copyrights: Günter Kerschhuber

Milky Way, Mercury, Venus and the meteor
Copyrights: Ian Griffin

Sh2-163
Copyrights: Günter Kerschhuber

Sh2-135
Copyrights: Günter Kerschhuber

NGC2237 - Rosette Nebula
Copyrights: Fam Hekel

Snow and the Halo
Copyrights: Yilun Ma

ISS transiting the Sun
Copyrights: Javier Martínez Morán

LMC
Copyrights: Sebastian Voltmer

The Tarantula Nebula, NGC 2070
Credits and Copyrights: Data: HST, ESO, Amateur data; Image Assembly and Processing : Robert Gendler and Roberto Colombari
More sizes: http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/Tara ... T-ESO.html

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35686

Rosette Nebula
Copyrights: Bob Lockwood

[Sandgirl]

Sunset in Spain
Copyrights: Roberto Ferrero

Whale and Hockey Stick Galaxies
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

Wolf-Rayet (WR) Ring Nebula - WR30
Copyrights: Don Goldman
Larger size: http://astrodonimaging.com/gallery/wr30/

The Three Musketeers and the Planets
Copyrights: Shreenivasan Manievannan

Carnival of Fireflies
Copyrights: Yu Jun & NightChina.net

Boat and Galaxy
Copyrights: Zhong Wu

The Sun appearing to be the Moon
Copyrights: Antonio Moreno

Galaxy trailed by stunning plume of gas
Credit: CFHT/Coelum
An article: http://www.icrar.org/news/news_items/me ... discovered

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35668

ATLASGAL Survey of Milky Way Completed
Credits: ESO
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1606/

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35673

Sh2-225
Copyrights: Günter Kerschhuber

Moon Halo
Copyrights: Evelyn Banks

Sun on February 20, 2016
Copyrights: Giampaolo

Full Moon rising over Nubble Lighthouse
Copyrights: Manish Mamtani

Day or night?
Copyrights: Óscar Blanco

Lunar Halo
Copyrights: Pascal Sartor

Iceland
Copyrights: Francisco Llano Tomé

M37, Open Cluster
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

[alcarreño]

A few days ago I send this picture, but it was not the final version processing. In this version the weak structures of reflection are more visible.

I hope you like it

Copyrighrs: Raul Villaverde Fraile
PLEYADES 2016v2 by Raul Villaverde, en FlickrPLEYADES 2016v3 by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

[litobrit]

Hello,
11 hours SHO bin 2, Atik 383, Rc8, AZEQ6
The full is here http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/790060 ... LRVBV4.jpg

[Astromontufar]

Spaceship

My first Milky Way shot from this season was from an Airplane on my way back to Argentina. The image was shot over Argentina, I used a manfroto 055 and waited until the lights went off to capture this amazing view of the Milky Way over some Argentinian towns, after several shots to find a good moment of no turbulence I finally shot this one, that shows up the amazing view of the milky way from an airplane.

f3.5
3.2seconds
iso 12800
28mm
sonya7

[Guest]

Aurora - Nutirwik Creek, Brooks Range, Alaska by Fred Wasmer, on Flickr