Submissions: 2017 June

[vanamonde81]

Conjunction of Venus and the Moon above Budapest with some NLC
Copyright: György Soponyai

Today early dawn I planned to capture the conjunction with the Hungarian Parliament in the foreground when an unexpected companion joined to the Lunar-Venusian duet on the Northwestern sky: the most wonderful Noctilucent cloud I've ever seen.



2017.06.21. Budapest, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Canon EF 50/1.4
1.6 sec, F2.8, ISO 320

[Adrien Mauduit]

Noctilucent clouds under Cassiopea

Credits: Adrien Mauduit

Explamnation: As the night draws to an end for me and after staying up all night to get pictures, film, time-lapse and participate in one of Project Possum's airborne mission webinars, I was able to capture the season's first bright display of noctilucent clouds over Over strand Denmark. At around 1:30, they shone bright right under the constellation Cassiopea, visible on the picture, along with Capella and Mirphak. They went on for about two hours and half, and a lot of types were visible: I, II, III, IV and V, S.
Some low tropospheric clouds came to play, and remind us that NLC's are the highest ones (83km vs 1km!)
Ordrup strand, Odsherred 21.06.17, 1:30 am GMT+1
Sony Canon 6D + Samyang 24mm f/1.4 @ ISO 250, f/2.8, 3 x 2''
PTGui Pro + Lr/Ps

[mikiclinic]

Pelican Nebula Close up
This image was taken with officinastella 20inch RC and ALTA09000 with ASTRODON 3nm Narrowband filter.
SII/HA/O3: 120min/480min/120min
http://www.miki-hosp.or.jp/BIND
Copyright: Nobuhiko Miki

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[Sandgirl]

Saturn and the dark horse
Copyrights: Todd Hargis

NGC 4402
Credits and copyrights: Data: Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing: Domingo Pestana

ARP148
Credits and Copyrights: Data: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Processing: Jesús M.Vargas & Maritxu Poyal

Coma Cluster of Galaxies
Copyrights: Patrik Tarczi

Mineral Moon on 9/6/17 from Rome
Copyrights: Emanuele Chiapparelli

Big Dipper and ISS
Copyrights: Tamás Mester

Full Moon rising
Copyrights: Chee Guan Chan

Venus rising over low altitude clouds in Iran
Copyrights: Amir Shahcheraghian

IC 5068
Copyrights: Jeff Herman

Moon rise, Manhattan
Copyrights: Stan Honda

Full Moon rise above Rothenburg
Copyrights: Jens Hackmann

Vela Supernova remnant
Copyrights: Dave Curtis

Thunder over San Nikolas church
Copyrights: Iraklios Koyk

Full Moon over Si-o-se pol Bridge
Copyrights: Bijan Moravej Alahkami

Full Moon
Copyrights: Ibrahim Jamal

Shadow of Syzygy
Copyrights: Patricia Shaw

Venus in the Gothic Gate window
Copyrights: Hýža Vašek

Near pass of ISS to Jupiter. 25-may-2017
Copyrights: Francisco José Sevilla

Near pass of ISS to Jupiter. 10-jun-2017
Copyrights: Francisco José Sevilla

Pelican Nebula
Copyrights: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez

Mirrored Rare Lunar Halo
Copyrights: Greg Redfern

Full Moon and Saturn above Pic du Midi
Copyrights: Jean-Francois Graffand

[Sandgirl]

Saturn 06/11
Copyrights: Christopher Go

Omega Centauri (NGC 5139)
Copyrights: Mike O'Day

La Palma skies panorama
Copyrights: José Jiménez Priego

Sun pillar and Monviso
Copyrights: Alberto Boriano

Red Sprites over The Channel
Copyrights: Stephane Vetter

ISS lunar transit
Copyrights: Alexei Pace

Lightning strikes over Paris
Copyrights: Bertrand Kulik
More images: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bertrandk ... otostream/

Elephant's Trunk
Copyrights: R. Colombari / C. Iaffaldano
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/299350/C/?nc=&real=&mod=

Light
Copyrights: Jorgelina Alvarez

Full Moon Aligned with Christ the Redeemer
Copyrights: Carlos Eduardo Fairbairn

M63 deep halo
Copyrights: Jean-Baptiste Auroux

IC1396
Copyrights: Ronald Brecher

ISS transit 2017.06.13
Copyrights: Alessandro Bianconi

On the way to the end
Copyrights: Jose Manuel Gallego Reina

Comet C/2015 V2 (Johnson) approaches
Copyrights: José J. Chambó

Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex
Copyrights: Richard S. Wright Jr

'Two Suns' above the Mayan Temple
Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar

Calm NLC night
Copyrights: Petr Horálek

[Rothkko]

happy solstice of june, earthlings!

merida, spain. 2017-06-21, 21:51

[SpookyAstro]

Milky Way over Mesa Verde National Park by Transient Astronomer, on Flickr


Image Credit and Copyright Tom Masterson

[Václav Hýža]

http://www.vaclavhyza.cz/nejnovejsi/111 ... m-294.html

location: Mountains Jeseníky in the Czech republic. Photographing from Mount Keprnik.
in the picture is: Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune and Zodiacal Light.
date: 21.1.2017
Processing Information: Panorama from 34 shots.
Landscape: 16 frames, 4x EBKT, ISO 3200, f / 3.2, 237, 58, 18 and 3s.
Stars: 18 frames, 2x EBKT, ISO 1600, f / 3.2, 237 and 28s.
Original dimensions: 5840 x 5840 pixels

[astropaddy]

NGC 5363/5364 - A lesser seen pair by Patrick Gilliland, on Flickr

[Ann]

Conjunction of Venus and the Moon above Budapest with some NLC
Copyright: György Soponyai

Today early dawn I planned to capture the conjunction with the Hungarian Parliament in the foreground when an unexpected companion joined to the Lunar-Venusian duet on the Northwestern sky: the most wonderful Noctilucent cloud I've ever seen.



2017.06.21. Budapest, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Canon EF 50/1.4
1.6 sec, F2.8, ISO 320

I find those unbelievably delicate noctilucent clouds wonderfully lovely, too.

Ann

[alcarreño]

Copyrights: Domingo Pestana & Raul Villaverde
Paraje: La Torresaviñan -Guadalajara- Spain
Noche del 17 al 18 de junio
La Torresaviñan by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

[Sandgirl]

Jupiter and H-2A R/B
Copyrights: Srikanth Boga

The Cat's Eye Nebula, NGC 6543, HOLRGB
Copyrights: Eric Coles

Milky way Arc above the heights of Qatry in Abr jungle
Copyrights: Omid Ghiasoddin

Chaotically Magnetized Cloud Is No Place to Build a Star, or Is It?
Image credits: NRAO/AUI/NSF; D. Berry
An article: https://public.nrao.edu/news/2017-alma-serp/

Rosette Nebula
Copyrights: Israel Gil Andani

Full Moon rising
Copyrights: John Entwistle

Saturn 06/14
Copyrights: Christopher Go

Upcoming Summer Solstice
Copyrights: Göran Strand

IC1396
Copyrights: Gianluca Rossi
Larger size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/101872383 ... otostream/

Saturn near opposition from Pic du Midi
Copyrights: Damian Peach

The Prawn Nebula
Copyrights: Sergi Luque

Omega Centauri (NGC 5139)
Copyrights: Delberson Tiago

Pinhole digichromatography
Copyrights: Angelo Bincoletto

Waning Gibbous Moon over Singapore
Copyrights: A Kannan

NGC688 - The Crescent Nebula in Cygnus
Copyrights: Steven Macdonald

Airglow & twilight ligth
Copyrights: José Jiménez Priego

IC 5298
Credits and copyrights: Data: Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing: Domingo Pestana

M83 from TSP 2017
Copyrights: Dean Schwartzenberg

Namjagbarwa and Duoxiongla mountain under the Galaxy
Copyrights: Li Tianhong

Abell 1656
Copyrights: Russ Carroll, Robert Gendler, and Bob Frank

[LuigiF]

Sun rising at the solstice of this year as seen from my location.
3 hrs total exposure 5 minutes is the separation between two solar images.
I'm the author and the owner of the image
HiRes here:

https://flic.kr/p/VZdwvL



Luigi Fiorentino
Bari - ITALY

[Kinch]

NGC 6820 & NGC 6823

Full info, higher resolution and another version of this image @: http://www.kinchastro.com/ngc-6820--ngc-6823.html

[moonrocks]

Welcome back Milky way galaxy! Our home.

Thank you for looking at the Swan nebular in narrowband.

Image here. http://moonrocksastro.com/wp-content/up ... lished.jpg
Copyright: Paul C. Swift

Swan in narrowband by Paul C. Swift, on Flickr

[Greg Parker]

Copyright Prof. Greg Parker 2017

A very widefield image of the Perseus Double Cluster taken with a pair of Canon 200mm DSLR lenses.
http://www.newforestobservatory.com/wor ... Forums.jpg

[markh@tds.net]

Copyright: Steve Mazlin, Mark Hanson, W. Keller, R. Parker, T. Tse, P. Proulx, D. Plesko; SSRO/PROMPT/CTIO

Here is a revamped image from SSRO, Steve Mazlin and I combined our individual images and came up with this.

"In the Shadow of the Horsehead no more"

NGC 2023 is an emmission and reflection nebula located in the constellation of Orion, most times seen in images of the Horsehead nebula. We took direct aim at this nebula to try to bring out all of its wonderful detail.

It is 4 light years in diameter making it one of the largest reflection nebulae ever discovered.

Telescope: 16" RCOS, FLI 16803, Planewave 200HR


Full image can be found here:
https://www.hansonastronomy.com/new-page-1-1-2-1-1

[Harles99]

First Night of Summer 2017 - The Milky Way - Shot in Central Texas.

Photo © Harley Grady 2017

First Night of Summer - Milky Way by Harles99, on Flickr

[Ann]

Copyright: Steve Mazlin, Mark Hanson, W. Keller, R. Parker, T. Tse, P. Proulx, D. Plesko; SSRO/PROMPT/CTIO

Here is a revamped image from SSRO, Steve Mazlin and I combined our individual images and came up with this.

"In the Shadow of the Horsehead no more"

NGC 2023 is an emmission and reflection nebula located in the constellation of Orion, most times seen in images of the Horsehead nebula. We took direct aim at this nebula to try to bring out all of its wonderful detail.

It is 4 light years in diameter making it one of the largest reflection nebulae ever discovered.

Combine2023APODsmall.jpg

Telescope: 16" RCOS, FLI 16803, Planewave 200HR


Full image can be found here:
https://www.hansonastronomy.com/new-page-1-1-2-1-1

Wow, that's a superb image! It's the first time I've seen emission nebulosity in NGC 2023, but since its central star is spectral class B1.5V, it is hot enough to do some ionizing on its own.

Fantastic, candy-color image! (And that is meant as high praise!)

Ann

[IO_12]

NGC 3191 and the supernova SN 2017egm
Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov @ Irida Observatory

Click to view full size image 1 or image 2

On May 23th 2017, the Gaia Photometric Science Alerts program reported the discovery of an apparent supernova in the galaxy NGC 3191. Later it was designed as SN 2017egm. It turned out to be the closest hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova (SLSN-I) ever found. On June 23th we managed to capture an image of this rare cosmic explosion. Below can be seen a highly magnified crop:

Click to view full size image 1 or image 2

More info and hi-res images on website

[SteveJ]

Zodiacal light, outback Australia
Copyright: Steve Johnston

Zodiacal light from Wilcherry homestead ruins, northern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. The image shows the Milky Way and Canopus to the left of the ruins, and to the right, the cone shaped zodiacal light during the last stages of astronomical twilight on 20 June 2017. The homestead operated from the early 1900's to the mid 1950's and is a seldom photographed dark sky site.

[addicted2light]

Summer soliste
http://addicted2light.de/
Copyright: Levin Dieterle

Some Days around summer soliste, sun sets directly behind the old castle of Geroldseck. This beautiful sunset can be seen from Sandhaasen hut at Haslach im Kinzigtal, Black Forest, Germany. This year even a sunspot (2664) and several little green flashes were observable.

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[Rothkko]

supernumerary rainbow

merida, spain. 2017-06-25

[Hermann von Eiff]

The rho Ophiuchi Complex and the Blue Horsehead
Copyright: Hermann von Eiff

[kokehtz]

Sh2-155 Cave Nebula
Autor: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez
Website: https://www.facebook.com/AIP.Astrophotography/

Full resolution:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4205/3469 ... fd12_o.png