Submissions: 2016 March

[astrometbcn]

Spring is here, and with it also the Milky Way......

Copyright: José Jiménez

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[DougG]

NGC 3344 - The Sliced Onion Galaxy
http://www.remote-astrophotography.com

Spiral galaxy in Leo Minor that doesn't get much attention. This is a close up of the core processed from the Hubble Legacy Archives. I have done the image processing. It has 3 different blue wavelengths layered to bring out the star forming regions. I think the Hubble Team’s published image of this data set isn’t as well done as many others. Processing software was FITSLiberator and Photoshop.

Hi-resolution image on my website:
http://www.remote-astrophotography.com/ ... 203344.tif

http://www.remote-astrophotography.com/ ... -width.jpg

Hubble files:
Blue: hst_13364_22_wfc3_uvis_f275w_sci.fits
Blue: hst_13364_22_wfc3_uvis_f336w_sci.fits
Blue: hst_13364_22_wfc3_uvis_f438w_sci.fits
Green: hst_13364_22_wfc3_uvis_f555w_sci.fits
Red: hst_13364_22_wfc3_uvis_f814w_sci.fits

[Ann]

That is such a lovely image, Doug! Thanks for processing the Hubble data and producing this delightful picture. NGC 3344 is of course a wonderfully graceful galaxy, starforming but serene.

I think your image is superior to the image that is generally found on the net, namely this one. Yours, among other things, has north up, although the one I linked to has a somewhat wider field of view. But your colors are better, because the arms of NGC 3344 are really dominated by blue stars. Also your image shows more detail in the nucleus.

Ann

[hewholooks]

NGC 1275 in Perseus.

This one's made the rounds of APOD since about 2005, I think, but it cycles back every 2 to 3 years like a periodic comet. My version of processing of Hubble Legacy Data is different than the other iterations that have been on APOD before. Not sure if it's better, just different.

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Link to full size image on my site (REALLY big - be careful): http://hwilson.zenfolio.com/img/s10/v10 ... 581604.jpg

Link to folder on site: http://hwilson.zenfolio.com/p187515715

Thanks,

Hunter

[Sandgirl]

Lunar corona over Mt. Teide in Tenerife, Canary islands
Copyrights: Roberto Porto

Dawn's First Year at Ceres: A Mountain Emerges
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2016-060

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=255169#p255169

Orion Nebula
Copyrights: Gunther Brueggemann

Total solar eclipse over Ternate, Indonesia
Copyrights: Jeff Dai

Pleiades
Copyrights: Rich Hammar

2013 eclipse from Le Soleal
Copyrights: Robert Hawley

Partial Solar Eclipse Sighting over Singapore on 9 March 2016
Copyrights: A Kannan

Partial Eclipse of the Sun and Sun Spot
Copyrights: A Kannan

The Solar Eclipse from Luwuk, Indonesia
Copyrights: Yu Jun

Partial Solar Eclipse Sunrise
Copyrights: Stephen Styris

9March Total Solar Eclipse at Kalore, Central Sulawasi
Copyrights: Kathy Wong

Partial Solar Eclipse from Alaska
Copyrights: Matthew Skinner

IC 447 region in Monoceros
Copyrights: Rafael Rodríguez

Jovian System 03-08-2016
Copyrights: John Chumack

Running Chicken nebula
Copyrights: Steve Crouch
Larger size: http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/ic29 ... 3_RC14.htm

Total solar eclipse 2016 from Indonesia
Copyrights: Michael Seeboerger-Weichselbaum

The Night Sky mosaic
Copyrights: Cesar Cantu Quiroga

At the Edge of the Umbra
Copyrights: Wang Letian

[Sandgirl]

Above a lenticular cloud there is another cloud
Copyrights: Oscar Jhon Harold Acosta

Rainbow Bands of Airglow
Copyrights: Miguel Claro

Totality of The Solar Eclipse over the sea
Copyrights: Ziyi Ye

Northern lights over St Lawrence river
Copyrights: Jerome Papaya

M7
Copyrights: The chameleon team, Franz Hofmann and Wolfgang Paech
Larger size: http://chamaeleon-observatory-onjala.de ... 7-2015.htm

NGC 6334
Copyrights: The chameleon team, Franz Hofmann and Wolfgang Paech
Larger size: http://chamaeleon-observatory-onjala.de ... 4-2015.htm

M17
Copyrights: The chameleon team, Franz Hofmann and Wolfgang Paech
Larger size: http://chamaeleon-observatory-onjala.de ... 7-2015.htm

Totality from Ternate/size]
Copyrights: Jay Pasachoff

5 Seconds Before Totality
Copyrights: Muhammad Rayhan

Glastonbury Tor star trails
Copyrights: Chris Kotsiopoulos

Pillar of Stars
Copyrights: Will Vrbasso

Partial Solar Eclipse from Jakarta Indonesia
Copyrights: Ryan Wong

Total solar eclipse from Palu, Indonesia
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado

Jupiter with moon Europa and Io
Copyrights: Regards Richard

Powerful Telescopes Combine to Push Frontier on Galaxy Clusters
Image credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/G. Ogrean et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI; Radio: NRAO/AUI/NSF
An article: https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressrelea ... y-clusters

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35723

Jupiter (March 7-8th, 2016)
Copyrights: Damian Peach

Jupiter, March 7th
Copyrights: Sean Walker

NGC1333 - An Interstellar Dust Cloud
Copyrights: Callum Hayton

Sirius and the Seagull, and more
Copyrights: Rogelio Bernal Andreo
Larger size: https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2903/1395 ... e866_o.jpg

Proton Arc - Eagle Harbour,03062016
Copyrights: Venkata Rajesh Chundru

Waxing Moon & Chapel
Copyrights: Sebastian Voltmer

M13
Copyrights: Domenico De Luca

[Sandgirl]

Total eclipse - wide angle
Copyrights: Jay Pasachoff

Light Pollution in Joshua Tree National Park
Copyrights: Brad Goldpaint

NGC1999 in Orion
Copyrights: Jason Jennings

RCW11 - Gourd Nebula
Copyrights: Jason Jennings

Diamond ring of total Solar Eclipse from Belitung Island,Indonesia 03/09/2016
Copyrights: Martin Marthadinata

Strange form of cloud
Copyrights: Anthony Choi

Flash spectrum Ternate TSE 2016
Copyrights: Len Fulham

Zodiacal light
Copyrights: Arnaud Besancon

TSE 09 Mar 2016
Copyrights: Martin Junius

Indonesian Eclipse
Copyrights: Don Sabers

Wonderful Bailey's beads and Corona from Total Solar Eclipse 2016
Copyrights: Óscar Martín Mesonero

Wonderful corona composition
Copyrights: Óscar Martín Mesonero

Jupiter and moons
Copyrights: Amy Mytnik

Total Solar Eclipe over Kaolin Lake, Belitung, Indonesia
Copyrights: Stephan Heinsius

NGC2237 - The Rosette Nebula
Copyrights: Ezequiel Etcheverry

Northern lights over Troms area
Copyrights: Jose Jimenez

39 h old crescent over Bruneck
Copyrights: Christof Wiedemair

Wolf-Rayet nebula, NGC3199
Copyrights: John Ebersole

2016 Total Solar Eclipse
Copyrights: Justin NG

Rainbows
Copyrights: Bertrand Kulik

[dllamas]

The tide was not adequate, the phase of the moon either, but it did not matter, there is only one hour at year that can make this picture.

EARTH HOUR!!!

On any other night of the year the castle is illuminated by dozens of halogen spotlights.

It is a pity that we only have one hour between 3600 to contemplate Taurus, the Pleiades and Cassiopeia above the Castle of Santa Cruz.

If you like my work, you can see more at http://daniel-llamas.es

[tommy_h]

vdB 133 and Sh2-106
http://www.distant-lights.at/vdb133-2015_07_16.htm
Copyright: Thomas Henne

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[avdhoeven]

M106 High resolution - Amateur/pro data by Andre van der Hoeven, on Flickr

This image shows a unique view of M106 in the highest resolution obtainable from Earth until now I think. The image was made with the 3.6m CFHT telescope in Hawaii, and data was combined with several professional and amateur sources. Extended info can be seen on the Flickr site. I would really recommend to look at the full resolution version (which is almost 25 Mp).

[shaunnesy]

IC 410, Tadpoles in Auriga
A combination of Halpha - Red , O111 - Blue and Green for colour
and Halpha Deconvoluted and DDP blend for Luminance
NEQ6
FLT 98
SXV 694
Astrodon 5nm Ha and O111
Astrodon RGB
toal exposure time 16 hrs

High res at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shaun_rey ... ed-public/

[shaunnesy]

M81 and 82 with IFN
Wanted to do this for a while showing the Intergrated Flux Nebula and this is a heavily processed image to show it
LRGB with Halpha
NEQ6
FLT 98
SXV 694

total exposure 19 hrs
High res on flickr link below
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shaun_rey ... ed-public/

[Sandgirl]

NGC 2237
Copyrights: Peter Hergesheimer

Caribbean Moonlight Colors
Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar

Saturn (13 Mar 2016)
Copyrights: Alexei Pace

Mars 13 March 2016
Copyrights: Alexei Pace

Lunar Puzzle
Copyrights: Francesco Badalotti

M31 - Andromeda Galaxy
Copyrights: Rolland Balázs

Night sky over Lowell Observatory
Copyrights: Michael West

The Lunar Corona
Copyrights: A Kannan

Solar corona around atmospheric corona
Copyrights: Petr Horálek

M106 wildfield
Copyrights: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez
Full size: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1552/2545 ... 2a80_o.jpg

M51
Copyrights: Ivan Izquierdo Bernal

Jupiter 12.03.16
Copyrights: Simon Kidd

Opposition of Jupiter
Copyrights: Charles Duffney

M64
Copyrights: Lorenzo Siciliano

Sunflower galaxy
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile

Milky Way Core, Rho Ophiuchi complex, Saturn and Mars
Copyrights: Eric Benedetti

ISS transit
Copyrights: Seth K

Milky way Panorama - Highland Lighthouse, Cape Cod
Copyrights: Manish Mamtani

Astronomers see black hole raging red
Image Credit: ESO/L. Calçada
An article: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/ ... -hole.page

Black Hole March 2016.jpg_SIA_JPG_fit_to_width_INLINE (1).jpg (16.41 KiB) Viewed 8317 times

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34912#p255420

[Sandgirl]

Milky Way glory
Copyrights: Amirreza Kamkar

The belt and sword of Orion
Copyrights: Göran Strand

Solar Eclipse
Copyrights: Hu Yang

360 Planet Pano - Highland Lighthouse, Cape Cod
Copyrights: Manish Mamtani

Milky Way selfie
Copyrights: Manish Mamtani

Colorful, Brilliant WR-22 in Carina
Copyrights: Don Goldman
Larger size: http://astrodonimaging.com/gallery/wr-22/

Antares Region
Credits and copyrights: Data: WISE**/DSS*; Processing: Giuseppe Donatiello

Simeis 147 / Sh2.240
Credit and copyright : Giuseppe Donatiello (Italy) and Tim Stone (USA)

Red Moon rising, 2013
Copyrights: László Beinrohr

Moon devouring Aldebaran
Copyrights: Chander Devgun

Rainbow clouds
Copyrights: Al Zee

Breath taking diamond ring and huge prominence
Copyrights: Petr Horálek

Occultation of Aldebaran from India
Copyrights: Divyadarshan Purohit

Hunting the Milky Way
Copyrights: José Jiménez Priego

Barnard 30
Copyrights: Robert Fields

Total Solar Eclipse Images from Mare Island (Indonesia)
Credits Frank A. Rodriguez (AstroEduca.com - SAROS.org)

Milky Way over Morocco
Copyrights: Arnaud Besancon

A galaxy's ghost from a ghost town in Texas
Copyrights: Robert Pettengill

Tropical island dreaming
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel

[astrodan]

NGC672, Collinder 21 and more in Triangulum
http://www.theskyabove.net
Copyright: Daniele Malleo

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Imaged from Sierra Remote Observatories with a shared setup:

Scope: Ceravolo 300 f/4.9 (FL: 1480mm)
Camera: FLI PL16803
Mount: AP 1100AE

Image at native resolution (1.26"/pixel) visible on my website.
Thanks for your consideration!

[j.s.ebersole]

IC2944, Running Chicken Nebula, East Wall
http://jebersol.zenfolio.com/
Copyright: John Ebersole

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Lambda Centauri shines brightly over the nebular landscape of the east wall of IC2944. Image in HST narrowband palette.

[Efrain Morales]

Jupiter on March 16th,17th,18th and 19th. Making it possible to cover the Jovian disc completely under above average conditions.

[canopia]

Tropical island dreaming
Copyright: Tunç Tezel

I was able to see the total Solar eclipse of 9th March 2016 from Pulau Plun, a small island less than a kilometer wide, which lies east of Halmahera island in eastern Indonesia. Apart from the pictures already shared in this thread, I also photographed this all-sky panorama of the eclipse. And here, I have the all-sky panorama of the eclipse sky, looking east.

This is from the first minute of 3 minutes 17 seconds of totality. According to the EXIF data, I shot the 6 individual pictures making this panorama in 27 seconds. Thankfully, one of the pictures was able to catch Venus in the sky as well. Before the totality began, the Sun mostly remained in view through the clouds in a way eclipse shades were not much needed. About 20 minutes before second contact, I was feeling confident enough that the eclipsed would be visible in some way, so-so, okay or good. Only after looking into this all-sky view I fully realise how difficult the conditions actually were.

[tango33]

Trumpler 10 in Vela with an unknown new nebula...
This is the wide field image - The big red nebula on the left is part of Gum 17:



At the upper Right is the cluster NGC 2671 - just under it see the enlarged and marked image here:


Can you see the Bi-polar shaped reddish nebula?

Larger images:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/162616104
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/162616111

Thanks for looking!

Kfir Simon

[Sandgirl]

Jupiter + GRS (14 Mar 2016)
Copyrights: Alexei Pace

NGC 6188 in Ara
Copyrights: Martin Pugh
Full size: http://martinpughastrophotography.id.au ... posite.jpg

TSE2016 totality - no white corona
Copyrights: Patrick Poitevin

OU4 The Squid Nebula
Copyrights: Bob Franke
Larger size: http://bf-astro.com/APOD/OU4-big.jpg

Jupiter and its three moons: Europa
Copyrights: Marcin Łaszyn

Total Solar Eclipse
Copyrights: Peter Aniol

Caucasus Montes - Caucasus Lunar Mountains with Peak Shadows
Copyrights: John Chumack

Spirit 985
Copyrights: Benjie Freund

Comet 252P LINEAR
Copyrights: Michael Mattiazzo

Comet 252P Linear and LMC cojunction
Copyrights: Justin Tilbrook

Aldebran reappear behind the Moon occultation
Copyrights: Gadi Eidelheit

NGC2264
Copyrights: Reinhard Wallner

IC 2177
Copyrights: John Vermette

Winter Triangle
Copyrights: A Kannan

Globular Cluster M2
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

New Comet C/2016 E2 (Kowalski)
Copyrights: Ernesto Guido & Nick Howes

[Sandgirl]

Students map Milky Way with dwarf stars
Credit: The Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC)
An article: http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/28 ... warf-stars

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35737

Hubble unveils monster stars
Credits: NASA, ESA, P Crowther (University of Sheffield)
More about: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1605/

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35740

M33
Credits and Copyright: Data: NAOJ, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie - Heidelberg, Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte - Napoli, Roberto Colombari; Assembling and processing: Roberto Colombari
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/242040/0/?real=&mod=

Milky Way over Morocco
Copyrights: Arnaud Besancon

Gyulbudaghian's Nebula and friends
Copyrights: Ginge Anvik

Jupiter
Copyrights: Marco Guidi

Starlit valley
Copyrights: Anand Mn

NGC2170 in Monoceros
Copyrights: Davide Coverta
Full size: http://www.madeofstars.net/home/photo_d ... +Monoceros

Horsehead and Flame nebulae
Copyrights: Davide Coverta
Full size: http://www.madeofstars.net/home/photo_d ... ame+Nebula

VLA Shows Earliest Stages of Planet Formation
CREDIT: Carrasco-Gonzalez, et al.; Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
An article: https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressreleases/hltau-vla

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35744

Pluto Reveals More Secrets
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
An article: http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/pres ... re-secrets

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=255500#p255500

Vernal Equinox
Copyrights: Mehdi Momenzadeh

The Big prominence and inner corona of Solar eclipse 09 March 2016
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado

Night "pearls" of unknown Halmahera Timur
Copyrights: Petr Horálek

Farewell to the Orion
Copyrights: Attila Robert Horvath

Apollo landing site
Copyrights; Michał Żołnowski

[nvc123]

M97, 6.6 hours exposure, 2014-2016
http://www.astrobin.com/162408/C/
Updated version.
Copyright: Niels V. Christensen

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[Astromontufar]

colorful conjunction
The Moon & Jupiter
march 21 2016

HDR
1 x 3.2s
1 x 0.6s
1 x (1/640s)

[rwittich_de]

NGC 2403
by Reinhold Wittich

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Data and higher resolution: http://www.wittich.com/?p=2411

[Sandgirl]

Milky Way from Mt. Haituo
Copyrights: Zhuoxiao Wang

St. Patrick's Day Aurora Rainbow
Copyrights: Matthew Skinner

M45 and the California Nebula
Copyrights: Tom Carrico

Milky Way panorama
Copyrights: Peter Wintergren

Aurora Borealis
Copyrights: Didier Van Hellemont

TSE 09/03/2016
Copyrights: Muhammad Rayhan

Aurora Borealis
Copyrights: Raphaël Errani

Diamond ring 3rd contact
Copyrights: Wolfgang Strickling

Waning Gibbous Moon from Singapore
Copyrights: A Kannan

Heart Nebula (IC 1805)
Copyrights: Jeffrey O. Johnson

Lunar mountains
Copyrights: Julian Weßel

M31 - Andromeda Galaxy
Copyrights: Oliver Czernetz

NGC 1342 - Open cluster in Perseus
Copyrights: Oliver Czernetz

NGC 253 - The Sculptor Galaxy
Copyrights: Oliver Czernetz

Jupiter – 17 Mar 2016
Copyrights: Alexei Pace