Submissions: 2017 January

[jaspalchadha]

M31 Galaxy
Copyright Jaspal Chadha
London UK
https://flic.kr/p/QaHqhs

[xuranus]

LDN1622 Boogie Man Nebula

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Copylight ByoungJun Jeong

full resolution
http://www.astrobin.com/full/279511/B/? ... real=&mod=

[Efrem Frigeni]

Image recorded in two sessions in January 2017 from Avaro Mountain (Cusio) and Resegone Mountain (Brumano) - Italy.
Luminance Channel recorderd by Efrem Frigeni
RGB Channels recorded by Massimiliano Zullian
Processing and Development - Efrem Frigeni

https://www.flickr.com/photos/148843148 ... en-public/
Copyright - Efrem Frigeni

[astrowimp]

Rosette Nebula
http://www.astrowimp.com
Copyright: Tim Christensen
4 panel mosaic LRGB 17 hours total exposure

[Andrea Tosatto]

Galaxy Triplet in Leo and Asteroid 947 Monterosa
Copyrights: Andrea Tosatto (http://www.andreatosatto.com)

Image acquired in 2 nights (30/12/2016 and 2/01/2017) from Cencenighe Agordino (BL)


Imaging Data: https://www.andreatosatto.com/photo/mai ... 4_LRGB.jpg
Full Resolution Image: https://www.andreatosatto.com/photo/mai ... 4_LRGB.jpg

M66 and Asteroid 947 Monterosa CloseUp (CROP)

Imaging Data: https://www.andreatosatto.com/photo/mai ... p_LRGB.jpg
Full Resolution Image: https://www.andreatosatto.com/photo/mai ... p_LRGB.jpg


Full Blog Article (Italian): https://www.andreatosatto.com/blog/2017 ... on-ospite/

[KuriousGeorge]

NGC 1530, Copyright KG Observatory, San Diego, CA.

Imaging telescope or lens: Celestron 8" EdgeHD
Imaging camera: QSI 660 WSG
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Guiding camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2
Focal reducer: Celestron 0.7X
Software: PixInsight 1.8, PHD Guiding 2, Neat Image V7, Sequence Generator Pro, Maxim DL6, Adobe Photoshop CC 2014
Filters: Astrodon 1.25" R, Astrodon 1.25" B, Astrodon 1.25" G, Astrodon 1.25" L
Accessories: Innovations Foresight ONAG SC, Optec FocusLock
Resolution: 1409x1162
Dates: Dec. 7, 2016, Dec. 19, 2016, Jan. 6, 2017
Frames:
Astrodon 1.25" B: 36x300" -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon 1.25" G: 36x300" -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon 1.25" L: 116x300" -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon 1.25" R: 36x300" -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 18.7 hours
Darks: ~20
Flats: ~80
Flat darks: ~80
Bias: ~20
Avg. Moon age: 11.58 days
Avg. Moon phase: 56.29%
Mean SQM: 19.75
Astrometry.net job: 1403665
RA center: 65.880 degrees
DEC center: 75.293 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.642 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 179.212 degrees
Field radius: 0.163 degrees
Locations: Home, Rancho Santa Fe, California, United States

[Sandgirl]

M31
Copyrights: David Wemhöner

SuperMoon
Copyrights: Rand Hedrick

Moon venus over Montparnasse (Paris)
Copyrights: Bertrand Kulik

Orion over the church
Copyrights: Bertrand Kulik

The Moon, Mars and Venus, above Rennes
Copyrights: Erwan Corre

2017 Quadrantids
Copyrights: Haitong Yu

Sunset 2 Jan 2017
Copyrights: Marcus Saunders

Last young Moon of 2016
Copyrights: Nicolas Guerin

Moon, Mars, Venus above the Eiffel Tower
Copyrights: Christophe Nasarre

IC348 and B1-B2-B3-B4-B5
Copyrights: Leonardo Orazi

Moon and various planets
Copyrights: Alvaro Jose Cano Mejia

Quadrantids from Thailand
Copyrights: Derrick H Lim

Winter sky Milky Way
Copyrights: Derrick H Lim

Quadrantids Meteor Shows over China
Copyrights: Keliu

The Nebulae of the Pleiades
Copyrights: Frederick Steiling
Full size: http://fuzzy.photos/images/astro_conten ... ct_web.jpg

2017 QUA over Great Wall
Copyrights: Zhan Xiang

Conjunction over Ireland
Copyrights: Brendan Alexander

Moon and Venus over Persian Gulf
Copyrights: Amirreza Kamkar

IC-443
Copyrights: Rodd Dryfoos

Quadrantids above the Chinese Xiuyan crater
Copyrights: Cheng Luo

Venus from Scotland
Copyrights: Davidson Samuel

[paza140]

Supermoon
Copyright: Fevzi DINTAS

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[Manel Martín Folch]

NGC2264
Copyright: Manel Martin Folch

[Sandgirl]

North America nebula in a sea of colors
Copyrights: Manjeet Singh

Venus,Mars conjuntion with moon over the Chinese Xiuyan crater
Copyrights: Cheng Luo

Quadrantids over the Chinese Xiuyan crater
Copyrights: Cheng Luo

M78
Copyrights: Francesco Pelizzo

M78 nebula in Orion costellation
Copyrights: Marco Burali Tiziano Capecchi, Marco Mancini

Open Cluster NGC3532
Credits and Copyrights: Data: ESO/WFI; Assembling and processing: R. Colombari
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/278992/0/? ... real=&mod=

2017 Quadratid meteor shower over the Great Wall
Copyrights: Jiajie Zhang

Researchers get first look at new, extremely rare galaxy
Image Credits: Ryan Beauchemin
An article: http://naturalsciences.org/calendar/new ... re-galaxy/

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36710

High Contrast Chess Piece
Copyrights: Richard S. Wright Jr.

Astronomers Discover Powerful Cosmic Double Whammy
Image credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/R. van Weeren et al; Optical: NAOJ/Subaru
An article: http://chandra.si.edu/press/17_releases ... 10517.html

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36716

Deepest X-ray Image Ever Reveals Black Hole Treasure Trove
Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/B.Luo et al.
An article: http://chandra.si.edu/press/17_releases ... 7cdfs.html

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36717

M42
Copyrights: Sara Wager

Bifrost bridge over Alaska
Copyrights: Chris Fieldhouse

Crecent Moon, Venus, Mars
Copyrights: Carlos Galeano

Lagoon Nebula, M8
Copyrights: Josep M. Drudis

Supernova AT2016gkg in NGC 613[/b]
Copyrights: Ruben Barbosa

IC 2169
Copyrights: Rafael Schmall

[astrosirius]

M45 Pleiades Star Cluster - Merope Nebula & IC 349 (Barnard's Merope Nebula)

IC 349 (Barnard's Merope Nebula) is a small, bright extension of the Merope Nebula (NGC 1435) in the Pleiades star cluster. IC 349 lies 36 arc-seconds (corresponding to a linear distance of about 0.06 light-year or 3,500 times the Earth-Sun distance) to the southeast position angle 165°) of Merope. This small reflection nebula first discovered by E. E. Barnard in 1890 and is also referred to as Barnard's Merope Nebula.

In the 1999 Hubble Space Telescope image shown here, Merope itself is just outside the frame on the upper right. The colorful rays of light at the upper right, pointing back to the star, are an optical phenomenon produced within the telescope, and are not real. However, the remarkable parallel wisps extending from lower left to upper right are genuine features, seen for the first time.

In 1890, American astronomer E.E. Barnard, observing visually with the Lick observatory 36-inch telescope in California, discovered an exceptionally bright nebulosity adjacent to the bright Pleiades star Merope. It is now cataloged as IC 349, or "Barnard's Merope Nebula."IC 349" is so bright because it lies extremely close to Merope--only about 3,500 times the separation of the Earth from the Sun, or about 0.06 light-year--and thus is strongly illuminated by the star's light.

ANIMATED GIF: GHOST OF MEROPE IC 349

About this Image:

Location: Àger-Lleida-Spain
Dates: 18-19-23 December 2016
Avergage SQM: 21.4-21.6
Telescope: GSO RC14” Truss f8
Camera: Moravian G3-11000 classe 2
Focuser: Feather Touch 3” Kit boss II
Flattener: TSFlattener 2.5”
Filters: Astrodon LRGB Gen2 I-Series True-Balance
Exposures: L:18x300 sec bin1 // R:G:B: 10:10:10 sec x 300 sec bin1 & R:G:B: 15:15:15 seg x 600 sec bin1
Total Exposure: 11.5 hours
Processing: Pixinsight y Photoshop CC 2017

Note: I would like to say thank to my good friend Miguel Angel García Borrella from the Spag Observatories http://observatoriosspag.es/index.php/es/ for the training and helps whithin all these years. Thank you my friend!!!

[alcarreño]

Copyrights: Hubble Legacy Archives
Process: Raul Villaverde Fraile
NGC 6543 by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

[stavroshios]

ORION ABOVE PLASTIRAS LAKE by Stavros Hios, on Flickr

[paza140]

Star Trails
Doi Inthanon National Park, THAILAND.
Copyright: Fevzi DINTAS

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[shtutik]

Treasures of the southern sky.

This images shows the interesting objects of the southern sky. The Southern Cross, Coal Sack nebula, star Hadar, Alpha Centauri and even Proxima Centauri - the closest star to us. It can be distinguished at the limit of sight in this image. At the time of shooting the weather was bad(in Patagonia the weather is almost always bad ), the sky was attended by a transparent haze. That is why the stars are swollen. But in this case it's look nice

a7s, Canon 50 1.8, f@2.8, 30 sec, iso 5000

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

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[GerminianiMaicon]

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[GerminianiMaicon]

My Best Orion
William Optics 80 ED II
Canon 450D Modded - Hutech Filter
50 frames X 300 Seconds
60 frames x 30 Seconds
ISO 400
Total Exposure: 4 hours and 40 Minutes
Processing: PixInsight + PS6
Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/147696734 ... ed-public/

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[GerminianiMaicon]

The Sculptor Work
William Optics 80 ED II
ZWO ASI 1600 MONO COOLED
LUMINANCE: 3 hours
RED: 40 minutes
GREEN: 30 Minutes
BLUE: 30 Minutes
Total: 4 Hours and 40 Minutes
Processing: PixInsight + Photoshop CS6

Description:
Located at approximately 10 Million light-years,
In the Constellation of the Sculptor, this beautiful barred spiral galaxy, with
Apparent magnitude of 7.3, is one of the brightest galaxies in the sky.
It was discovered in 1873 by Caroline Herschel.

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[Sandgirl]

Messier 42
Copyrights: Michael Stadtlober

Fire Meteor of the Quadrantid Meteor shower
Copyrights: Amy Shi

Moonbow
Copyrights: Abe Snider

ISS Moon Venus Mars
Copyrights: Norbert Rózsa

M31
Copyrights: Alan Potts

IC 405-410
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile

The Horsehead Nebula
Copyrights: Gaurav Kumar

Quadrantid meteor shower
Copyrights: Jorge Febles

The Case of the 'Missing Link' Neutron Star
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2017-003

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36728

The Shot Ansel Adams Could Not Get
Copyrights: Dave Lane

Messier 33
Copyrights: John Sadler

Your Home Planet, as Seen From Mars
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2017-004

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36694#p265785

From Pleiades to Magellanic Clouds
Copyrights: Jose Manuel Sanchez

Sunrise over Lake Waubesa in Madison
Copyrights: Steve Ciucci

Ice fog photos at night in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Copyrights: Chad Wanless

M42 and Horsehead Nebula (and Moon)
Copyrights: Aleksandar Merlak
Full size: http://www.hum.hr/astro/USPOREDBA_velicine.jpg

SH2-155
Copyrights: Leonardo Orazi

Hubble Captures 'Shadow Play' Caused by Possible Planet
NASA, ESA, and J. Debes (STScI)
An article: http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2017-03

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36731

M82 - The Cigar Galaxy
Copyrights: George Chatzifrantzis

Mosaic of the Sagittarius Trio - M8, M20 and NGC 6559
Copyrights: Martin Heigan

[rstevenson]

This might make for an interesting APOD...Photographer captures amazing 'light pillars' phenomenon in North Bay, Ont.

Rob

[astrosirius]

M45 Pleiades or Seven Sister

In astronomy, the Pleiades or Seven Sisters (Messier 45 or M45), is an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky. The celestial entity has several meanings in different cultures and traditions.

The cluster is dominated by hot blue and extremely luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years. Dust that forms a faint reflection nebulosity around the brightest stars was thought at first to be left over from the formation of the cluster (hence the alternative name Maia Nebula after the star Maia), but is now known to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium, through which the stars are currently passing. Computer simulations have shown that the Pleiades was probably formed from a compact configuration that resembled the Orion Nebula. Astronomers estimate that the cluster will survive for about another 250 million years, after which it will disperse due to gravitational interactions with its galactic neighborhood.

Source: Wikipedia

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Copyright by: Lluís Romero

About this Image:

Location: Àger-Lleida-Spain
Dates: 18-19-23 December 2016
Average SQM: 21.4-21.6
Telescope: GSO RC14” Truss f8
Camera: Moravian G3-11000 classe 2
Focuser: Feather Touch 3” Kit boss II
Flattener: TSFlattener 2.5”
Filters: Astrodon LRGB Gen2 I-Series True-Balance
Exposures: L:18x300 sec bin1 // R:G:B: 10:10:10 sec x 300 sec bin1 & R:G:B: 15:15:15 sec x 600 sec bin1
Total Exposure: 11.5 hours
Processing: Pixinsight y Photoshop CC 2017

Best regards
Lluís Romero Ventura

https://www.flickr.com/photos/llromero/
http://www.astrosirius.org/

[Oleg Bryzgalov]

NGC 5965 and NGC 5963 in Draco by Oleg Bryzgalov, on Flickr

[Oleg Bryzgalov]

M74: The Perfect Spiral by Oleg Bryzgalov, on Flickr

[Oleg Bryzgalov]

M33: Triangulum Galaxy (2016-2017 edition) by Oleg Bryzgalov, on Flickr

[Oleg Bryzgalov]

Pickering's Triangle in the Veil by Oleg Bryzgalov, on Flickr