Submissions: 2016 June

Kapkowski · Post by **Kapkowski** » Mon Jun 06, 2016 12:18 pm

Technical details at Astrobin.
Enjoy!

aldomottino · Post by **aldomottino** » Mon Jun 06, 2016 2:10 pm

geckzilla wrote:
aldomottino wrote:Hi all,
The first picture was taken from my backyard at sunset. I was surprised to see such bright spot in the dark clouds since the sun was already below the horizon (18:30 local time aprox). So I moved immediately to the second floor roof and got the second image, and soon after that a zoom image. Minutes later the bright spot just disappeared.
I don’t think it was a sun pillar because the temp wasn’t too low, and sun pillars actually don’t look like that. Probably it was just a very isolated and focused sun ray. What I still don’t understand is how such kind of ray was formed and where it reached the clouds from (below, above, laterally?).
Anyway, it was something rare and really interesting to see, at least for me!
Thanks for looking!
Aldo
It looks like a sun pillar to me.

Thanks Geck. The temp in the surface was around 15ºC, that is well over the freezing temp, and from I have learned you need ice cristals in the atmosphere to see a sun pillar. Maybe moisture in the air produces a similar effect? Also, from I can see in the web it is not usual for sun pillars to end in such bright spot. Maybe it was indeed a sun pillar (an atypical one?).
Best regards,
Aldo

geckzilla · Post by **geckzilla** » Mon Jun 06, 2016 2:41 pm

aldomottino wrote:Thanks Geck. The temp in the surface was around 15ºC, that is well over the freezing temp, and from I have learned you need ice cristals in the atmosphere to see a sun pillar. Maybe moisture in the air produces a similar effect? Also, from I can see in the web it is not usual for sun pillars to end in such bright spot. Maybe it was indeed a sun pillar (an atypical one?).

The temperature at ground level is rarely a reflection of the temperature higher in the atmosphere, though. If you take a look, there is a linear brightening below the false sun as well. This is typical of sun pillars. The top seems exceptionally bright, however. Maybe it isn't one, but I'd put my bet on ice crystals.

c3dr1c · Post by **c3dr1c** » Tue Jun 07, 2016 2:12 am

The Sun Light Pillar and the Moon
06/06/2016 Évora/Alentejo - Portugal

IMG_1612-4 by Cédric Pereira, no Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/photos/138866674 ... res/8ugGpP

Emil Ivanov · Post by **Emil Ivanov** » Tue Jun 07, 2016 9:47 am

The rage of Jupiter
Copyright:Emil Ivanov

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On June 3rd 2016 a strange weather came over Varna. While the sky around the zenith was clear, storm clouds hung low over the horizon. They produced a lot of beautiful lightnings. In this photo can be seen the planet Jupiter (upper right) as well as a powerful discharge, falling over the sea.
More info and hi-res images on website

Curti.Filippo · Post by **Curti.Filippo** » Tue Jun 07, 2016 9:47 am

Elephant's Trunk nebula from an urban polluted sky
This photo of vdB142 was taken during a tracking test session in our amateur observatory under the heavy polluted sky of Civitavecchia (Italy)
Our FB page: https://www.facebook.com/Sanderphil/

Copyright: Filippo Curti and Sandro Spadaro form Sanderphil Urban Observatory

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goldpaintphoto · Post by **goldpaintphoto** » Tue Jun 07, 2016 2:03 pm

Ancient Bristlecone Pines
This image features one of the oldest living trees in the world with the Milky Way, Saturn, & Mars.
Copyright: Brad Goldpaint
http://goldpaintphotography.com/

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The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest is home to the oldest trees in the world, Bristlecone Pines. Some of these living trees exceed 4000 years of age and exhibit spectacular growth forms of twisted and beautifully colored wood.

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Tue Jun 07, 2016 5:48 pm

M5 and M4 mountains on Moon Limbo
Copyrights: Rodrigo Andolfato

Milky Way
Copyrights: Jesús Mendoza

Copernic, Kepler and Aristarchus craters region
Copyrights: Alain Paillou

Sagittarius, Scorpius, Mars and Saturn
Copyrights: Samuel Trépanier

Milky Way and the SDSS telescope
Copyrights: Patrick Gaulme

Full Moon rising over Madrid
Copyrights: Javier Martinez Moran

A planet 1,200 light-years away is a good prospect for a habitable world
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/plane ... able-world
Image credits: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35991

Mars Dog
Copyrights: Dave Lane

Mosaic NGC 7000 - Pellican
Copyrights: Domenico De Luca

Milky Way arch over a "100 below sea level" sign
Copyrights: Rogelio Bernal Andreo

Milky Way arch and green airglow
Copyrights: Rogelio Bernal Andreo

Milky Way "post" on Devil's Golf Course
Copyrights: Rogelio Bernal Andreo

Milky Way rising above ST.George Island Florida
Copyrights: David Woolsteen

M83
Copyrights: Paul Haese

ISS over tajinaste endemic plant in Mt Teide NAtional Park, Canary Islands
Copyrights: Roberto Porto

M13
Copyrights: Howard Trottier

Pilgrims of Mars
Copyrights: Petr Horálek

Moon Light Delicate Arch and Jupiter
Copyrights: Clément Brustel

ISS and the Moon
Copyrights: Yihan Goh

Rosette Nebula
Copyrights: Robert Gendler, Roberto Colombari and Eric Recurt
More sizes: http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/Rosette-New.html

Anticrepuscular rays
Copyrights: A Kannan

Lagoon Nebula
Copyrights: Louie Atalasidis

Moon
Copyrights: Camille

Supernova ASASSN 16fq in M66
Copyrights: Terry Hancock

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Tue Jun 07, 2016 7:16 pm

Art of Saturn
Copyrights: Vishal Sharma

Laser shooting
Copyrights: Alessandro Cavallaro

Jupiter (March 22nd, 2016.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach

Aurora and stars' reflection at Hoopers Inlet
Copyrights: Ian Griffin

The power of image processing
Copyrights: Fayçal Demri / CRAAG

Seagull Nebula - IC 2177
Copyrights: Jeffrey O. Johnson

The Emu – Milkyway Rising
Copyrights: Andrew Catsaitis

Another look of Moon from Reunion Island
Copyrights: FOCK-HANG Pascal

Planetary reflections over the Atlantic ocean
Copyrights: Sergi Luque

Mars 30 May 2016
Copyrights: Alexei Pace

Mars close approach and Milkyway
Copyrights: Amir Shahcheraghian

NGC 4755, The Jewel Box
Credits and Copyrights: Data: Itelescopes.net; Processing: Albert Barr

New Mexico storm at Mars' opposition
Copyrights: Kevin Black

New radio map of Jupiter reveals what’s beneath colorful clouds
Copyrights: Imke de Pater, Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley), Robert J. Sault (Univ. Melbourne)
An article: http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/06/02/new ... ul-clouds/

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36009

Astromontufar · Post by **Astromontufar** » Tue Jun 07, 2016 11:17 pm

Path to the Stars

Image showing the walkig path to the hill where all the telescopes are located in Observatorio Astronómico Felix Aguilar (OAFA), Argentina, San Juan.

AlvinWu · Post by **AlvinWu** » Wed Jun 08, 2016 8:09 am

GALAXY IN THE MT.KONKA

Email:liangchenyi@vip.qq.com

herbraab · Post by **herbraab** » Thu Jun 09, 2016 5:26 am

Milky Way Panorama
Copyright: Erich Meyer
Contact: meyer@sternwarte.at

Link to the high resolution images:
Milky Way, color panorama (24125 x 4175 pixels, Attention: 110 MB)
Milky Way, inverted panorama (24125 x 4175 pixels, Attention: 94 MB)
All Sky image - Coalsack and drak clouds (3767 x 3759 pixels, 6.7 MB)

Description:
Our fantastic Milky Way Galaxy consists of innumerable stars, vast clouds of gas and dust, dark and bright in imaginable colors. The central bulge is very impressive. Also impressive is the large, but very faint Gum nebula and, in comparison, Barnards-loop around the well known constellation Orion.

Some other galaxies are behind our Milky Way visible in this panorama, for example M31, M33 and Centaurus A (NGC5128). Close the bulge the bright planets Mars, Saturn and the greenish comet LINEAR are visible.

The starry sky isn't dark or black. Black are only few regions (for example the Coal Sack nebula) and terrestrial clouds (see all sky image: between the really black terrestrial clouds the black Coal Sack nebula is visible; South: at the bottom). The inverted black-white image shows very clear the dark nebulae (here bright) strewn along the plane of the Milky Way (see the high contrast, black and white version of this panorama).

At full resolution, this mosaic image has 400 megapixels. It was stitched together from 36 deepfield-images taken with a modified DSLR camera. The individual images in this panorama were taken in Austria/Europe in 2015-2016 and in Namibia/Africa in 2016.

sebyta · Post by **sebyta** » Thu Jun 09, 2016 1:18 pm

Area dense dust in australis crown
Photographed from Argentina.
rural area of San Antonio de Areco.
I hope you like the picture.
Copyright: Sebastian Colombo

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More image data and description:
http://astrofotografiadelcielosur.blogs ... /Nebulosas

Rothkko · Post by **Rothkko** » Thu Jun 09, 2016 2:44 pm

stars and colors. polarized filter

foam universe

green flash and sunspot 2546 between clouds

: praia da vieira, portugal, 2016-05-18

in http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 51#p258451

alexconu · Post by **alexconu** » Thu Jun 09, 2016 7:27 pm

The Milky Way arching above Cathedral Cove in New Zealand. To the upper right, the two blue patches of light are the Magellanic Clouds. The electric blue in the water is there because of bioluminescent plankton.
The panorama is stitched from 33 individual vertical frames shot on three rows.
I used a Carl Zeiss Lenses Otus 28/1.4 lens by F64 on a Canon EOS 5D Mark III.

Christian García · Post by **Christian García** » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:13 pm

June Conjuncion : Mars, Saturn and Antares

It was a magical night, I was alone at night in a village Navas de Estena, and this conjunction formed a new constellation.

https://www.flickr.com/gp/113060298@N03/7B6Bd3
Copyright: Christian García Pérez

RuiLi · Post by **RuiLi** » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:17 pm

the moon and forbidden city
Copyright: Rui Li
the Palace Museum in Beijing, China

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RuiLi · Post by **RuiLi** » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:20 pm

the moon and forbidden city
Copyright: Rui Li
the Palace Museum in Beijing, China

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RuiLi · Post by **RuiLi** » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:23 pm

the setting sun

Copyright: Rui Li

in Beijing, China

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RuiLi · Post by **RuiLi** » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:26 pm

the flash and rainbow

Copyright: Rui Li

in Tsinghua Univ. Beijing, China

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RuiLi · Post by **RuiLi** » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:32 pm

Milky Way and Southern Cross

Copyright: Rui Li

Lake Tekapo, New Zealand

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astrochuck · Post by **astrochuck** » Fri Jun 10, 2016 3:54 am

M 08, Sharpless 25, NGC 6523 The Lagoon Nebula
copyright: Chuck Manges

by Chuck Manges, on Flickr

andysea · Post by **andysea** » Fri Jun 10, 2016 5:07 am

Area around Polaris.

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AlvinWu · Post by **AlvinWu** » Fri Jun 10, 2016 6:26 am

copyright:avlinwu

email:liangchenyi@vip.qq.com

angelrls · Post by **angelrls** » Fri Jun 10, 2016 2:11 pm

Colour, gas and dust in the core of the Lagoon Nebula

Mosaic of M8, the Lagoon Nebula, obtained using the Wide Field Camera (WFC) at the 2.5m Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma (Spain). Color image combining data in filters [O III] (blue) + H-alpha (green) + (red). Data taken in 2005, reprocessed in 2016.

Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (AAO/MQU), Sergio Simón-Díaz (IAC), Jorge García-Rojas (IAC) & César Esteban (IAC).

Full resolution image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/angelrls/27545798056

Starship Asterisk*

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