Submissions: 2016 December

[lizarranet]

Pléyades. Diamonds among dust

©Mikel Martinez
fotoastro.blogspot.com

Pleiades. Diamonds among dust by Mikel Martínez, en Flickr

[Andromeda 2013]

Last nights Moon


clink on link for zoom-able version

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/30742523243

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

[Hermann von Eiff]

M78 and NGC 2071 in Orion
Copyright: Hermann von Eiff

M78_HvE_Dec_10_2016.jpg

November 28, 2016, Herchenhainer Höhe Vogelsberg, Germany
Telescope Astro-Physics Starfire EDF 155 mm, with focal reducer (825 mm)
Camera Canon 5D Mark II with Baader UV/IR filter
28 x 5 minutes at ISO 1600
Image processing with PixInsight and Photoshop CC

[Max71]

LBN782 - BARNARD 10 in Taurus
http://www.massimotosco.it/image-galler ... rd-10.html
Copyright : Massimo Tosco

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http://www.massimotosco.it/images/NEBUL ... 10_res.jpg

[chanakan]

Phases of The Moon
Taken in November 2016
By Thanakrit Santikunaporn

for higher resolution: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bz8pd00932a0 ... Chlha?dl=0

Click to view full size image

[shtutik]

Portal

In the Atacama desert near Laguna Tebinquinche there are the two round lakes. The water is almost fresh and you can swim. Because of the similarity with the eyes(viewed from above) they call them "Ojos del Salar" - Salty Eyes. In the picture shows only one "eye", but if you look closely, just above it you can see the "eyebrow" of the second. This place is beautiful by day, but by night it becomes special: the stars and the milky Way reflected in the water and if you stand close to the water, it begins to seem that in front of you opens a portal to some other dimension. Just enough to step... and here you have carries through the "wormhole" to other galaxies, stars, planets...
In that night half the sky was covered by a dense blanket of waves of the red airglow. A powerful Zodiacal light and light pollution shines in the sky. The heavenly fire inflames all more strongly.

a7s, 14mm, f/2.8, pano x 30 sec, iso 5000

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Author's site: http://www.astroadventures.ru/
Copyright: Yuri Zvezdny

[j.s.ebersole@gmail.com]

Vela Supernova Remnant
http://jebersol.zenfolio.com/
Copyright: John Ebersole
http://jebersol.zenfolio.com/img/s4/v10 ... 8092-6.jpg
Nebular filaments emitting OIII (cyan) and Ha (red) wavelengths are depicted in this bicolor narrowband image.

[jaspalchadha]

Little Scorpion Cluster
Credit Jaspal Chadha
London UK

[KuriousGeorge]

When we first purchased our first telescope in 1990, M1 was the first object we viewed. Of course, you must start with M1!

Over the years we tried to photograph M1 using film. Then we tried a digital camera. Anything to see it more!

Finally, when we were able to afford a cooled CCD camera, we tried it again. It took a few years to get it with our small 8" telescope. But now we're almost happy with the results! This is 20.5 hours of HA, R, G and B data. We created a luminance channel with all 20.5 hours and then overlayed that on top of an HaRGB color channel. We hope you enjoy the results as much as we do. This is our favorite object, M1!

Ha: 23x1800", B: 12x900", G: 12x900", R: 12x900". All at -20C bin 1x1 with a QSI 660. Copyright KG Observatory. More details plus recent M1 imaging history at http://www.astrobin.com/275800/?nc=user

[sternklar]

Milky Way Panorama from North America to Eta Carinae Nebula with Planets Saturn (in Ophiuchus) and Mars (in Scorpius), Namibia, Tivoli Southern Sky Guest Farm, Aug. 28 - Sept 02 2016
http://www.sternklar.ch/images-webpages ... ept-16.htm

Exposure data:
4 frames mosaic with Canon EOS 6D(a) and Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 25 mm 1:2.8 ZE@ f/4.0 & 800 Asa.
Aug. 28 2016: 3 frames for the sector from Aquila to Carina including the planets Mars and Saturn.
Sept. 02 2016: 1 frame for the sector including the constellation Cygnus.
Total exposure time for all four frames: 91 x 3 minutes (273 minutes).

Copyright: Manuel Jung, http://www.sternklar.ch

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[astrowimp]

NGC6914
http://www.astrowimp.com
Copyright: Tim Christensen
LHaRGB 9 panel mosaic 72 hours total exposure

[ildiora]

Baroque Star trail behind the cathedral of Syracuse
http://www.dariogiannobile.com
Copyright: Dario Giannobile

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[mikiclinic]

The Soul Nebula(IC1848) Close Up View
This image was taken with 20inch RC f8.0& ML29050 ｆront illuminated cooled CCD camera.
ASTRODON 3nm SII,Ha,O3 (220/600/240min)
http://miki-hosp.or.jp/BIND/
Copyright: Nobuhiko Miki

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[Rothkko]

dawn

málaga, spain. 2016-12-11

[Sandgirl]

Super Moon
Copyrights: Jheison Huerta

Orion Nebula vs the Moon
Copyrights: Dani Caxete

Astrophotography on the Go
Copyrights: Chris Cook

Moon and Venus Conjunction
Copyrights: Ranjit Biswas

A State In Space
Copyrights: George Chatzifrantzis

IC1396- Elephant Trunk
Copyrights: Jesus M. Vargas & Alvaro Ibáñez Pérez & Maritxu Poyal

Southern ways
Copyrights: Petr Horálek

Freezing celestial show
Copyrights: Petr Horálek

Brooken spectre, gloria and Lunar corona
Copyrights: Marcella Giulia Pace

GreenFlash from Sicily (ITA)
Copyrights: Marcella Giulia Pace

Conjunction Over Warrior Queen
Copyrights: Nikunj Rawal

M45 Pleiades
Copyrights: Manel Martín Folch

Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146)
Copyrights: Brian McGaffney

Almost Super Moon Over Licancabur Volcano Chile Nov 2016
Copyrights: Mary Baric

Northern Lights from Iceland
Copyrights: Michael Natschke

Analemma above Siena
Copyrights: Marco Meniero

M81 and M82 galaxies
Copyrights: Jérémie Bottollier Curtet

M33
Copyrights: Attila Robert Horvath

M42
Copyrights: Attila Robert Horvath

Barnard 170, 173. 169 y Sharpless 134
Copyrights: Rafael Rodríguez Morales

IC 1808 The Heart Nebula
Copyrights: Jose Jimenez Priego

The swan goes away
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado

ISS Transit
Copyrights: Norbert Rózsa

SH2 171
Copyrights: Jose Ramon Mundo Salvador

Pleiades Vs California
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde

[bmcgaff]

My Ha+LRGB image of the Fish Head Nebula (IC 1795).
Total acquisition time about 6 hrs from my observatory here in Ontario Canada

You have my permission to post and use.
Thanks Brian McGaffney

[j.s.ebersole@gmail.com]

Vela Supernova Remnant
http://jebersol.zenfolio.com/
Copyright: John Ebersole

http://jebersol.zenfolio.com/img/s9/v91 ... 1099-6.jpg
SNR nebular filaments emitting OIII (cyan) and Ha (red) wavelengths are depicted in this bicolor narrowband image.

[astrochuck]

Light pillars & Orion
copyright: Chuck Manges

This is a single 30 second shot. I was caught off-guard by this thinking it was an aurora at first. Then I realized it is light pollution from a nearby town 11 miles away, reflecting off of ice crystals in the clouds.



Light Pillars and Orion by Chuck Manges, on Flickr

[Efrain Morales]

The Moon ( Super Moon ) on December 13th, 21:30pm. Imaged through a portal in the clouds. (ES ED80 Triplet., ASI 290mm Ccd)

[jsines]

Soul Nebula

by Jeffrey Sines, on Flickr

[astropaddy]

Perseus California Nebula to M45 by Patrick Gilliland, on Flickr
1058 sub (138 hours) hybrid 6 panel mosaic with hybrid longer FL data and 1 year in the making. Full size avail here. http://www.astrobin.com/full/276232/0/?real=&mod=
©Paddy Gilliland

[ManifestStephanie]

Tulip Nebula Sh2-101 (Explored) by Stephanie Pahl Anderson, on Flickr

[Bi2L]

Cape Drastis - Geminids

Nightscape above Cape Drastis with two Geminid meteors inside Cassiopeia constellation above the clay islets of Peroulades, Corfu.
The landscape shines under the light of the Supermoon of December while the colours of water change because of the clay. The sediments are from lower Paleocene age 1-2 million years old.
The Geminid meteor shower caused by the object 3200 Phaethon.

more about Geminids
http://www.imo.net/resources/calendar/#Geminids
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geminids

Canon eos 5D mk2, Ef 15mm fisheye, iso500, 2X15sec

[esordini]

December's Full Moon rising through the clouds and between the barren trees.

Composite of two exposures, 1/2 s for the clouds and halo, 1/25 s for the lunar disk.
Sony A6000 mirrorless camera @200 ISO + Sony 55-210 mm zoom lens @210 mm (f/6.3).
Shot December 13, 2016 near Varese, Italy.

Simple processing in Photoshop: merging of the lunar disk into the longer exposure + slight enhancement of brightness and saturation.

Related post on my personal website: http://www.bloomingstars.com/decembers-cloudy-moonrise/

Enjoy!
Emmanuele Sordini

[Sandgirl]

IC 5146 Coccoon Nebula
Copyrights: Tragoolchitr Jittasaiyapan

Fornax Galaxy Cluster
Copyrights: Tragoolchitr Jittasaiyapan

Milky Way above Volcan Santa Maria´s crater
Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar

Super red Moon above the Ancona's Cathedral
Copyrights: Gabriele Pallucca

3 Planets & The Moon Over the South China Sea
Copyrights: Greg Redfern

Venus and Moon with halo
Copyrights: Ferenc Szémár

2015 Geminid Meteors in Milky Way
Copyrights: Wang Letian

Barred Spiral Aurora Borealis in Alaska
Copyrights: John Chumack

The Andromeda Galaxy, M31
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

APOD Submit SH2-237 Fly nebula
Copyrights: Dean Salman

NGC 2244 The Rosette Nebula
Copyrights: Ezequiel Etcheverry

Moon, planets and star trails
Copyrights: Jeff Dai

Moon Mars Venus
Copyrights: Peter Muks

IC4628
Credits and Copyrights: Data: ESO/INAF/R. Colombari/E. Recurt; Assembling and processing: R. Colombari
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/275113/0/? ... real=&mod=

VdB152
Copyrights: Gordon Wright

Transit of the Moon
Copyrights: Marcella Giulia Pace

IC447 and friends
Copyrights: Rosario Pomillo

Orion Nebula
Copyrights: Heriton Rocha

IC 348
Copyrights: Rafael Schmall

The Great Orion Nebula with Running Man
Copyrights: Daniel Weihrauch

Northern Lights from Alaska
Copyrights: Inger Nennesmo

M78
Copyrights: László Bagi

Evening planets, Moon and snow
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel

M42
Copyrights: Fabrizio Guerrini

SuperMoon
Copyrights: Alan Potts

M81 & M82
Copyrights: Alan Potts