Submissions: 2017 November

[Paulee97]

Colourful storm
http://www.pavel-vana.cz
Copyright: Pavel Váňa

This photo describes what my first night in Utah looked like. Just one hour before it was stormy and I did not believe that I can see anything, but...
This was the night of Perseids and I have to say that I have never seen that much meteors like that night. It was just awesome!
I love night sky pics, but they cannot contain the feelings of the photographer even what was happening during that night...there were no sounds, I saw tenths of meteors, I was surrounded by thunderstorms, first nice structures of airglow I have ever seen...There were too much things that night.
And this is why I love astrophotography!

Canon EOS 6D, Tamron 24-70 mm f/2,8@3,2, 37 x 15s, ISO 8000.

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[Paulee97]

Lone astronomer
http://www.pavel-vana.cz
Copyright: Pavel Váňa

Lone astronomer in Canyonlands: NP Canyonlands showed me how it is like to be in area with pure dark sky. It was just terrific view! Even with small telescope (10cm in diameter) we could saw galaxies, nebulas and clusters which we can't see from Czech Republic with that small telescope. I will never forget the silence and thousands of glittering stars. Canon EOS 6D, 29x13 s, Tamron 24-70mm f/2.8@3.2, ISO 8000

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[Ann]

Tree Galaxies in a row - M 31, NGC 404 (Mirach's Ghost) and M 33, Berne, Switzerland, Okt. 12 2017
http://www.sternklar.ch/images-webpages ... Okt-17.htm

Exposure data:
Tamron 85 mm 1:1.8 Di VC USD @ f/2.8 with Canon EOS 6Da. Exposure time: 92 x 2 minutes @ 800 Asa.

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

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I love the colors of your picture, Manuel Jung. The Andromeda galaxy is pale yellow-white (the bulge) and beige (the arms), the Triangulum galaxy is bluish, and Mirach is quite red.

I love it!

Ann

[sternklar]

Thank you Ann for your comment, - very much appreciated!
Manuel

[mikiclinic]

detail of IC434
This image was taken with officina stella 20inch RC+FLIPL09000 CCD with ASTRODON 3nm narrowband filter(SAO+N2:120/360/120min+120min).
http://www.miki-hosp.or.jp/BIND/
Copyright:Nobuhiko Miki

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[litobrit]

Hello,
13 hours of SHO with a CMJN color mixing.
ASA10, Moravian 16200, AZEQ6, Pixinsight, Photoshop.
Full is here : https://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/16993 ... V18bit.jpg
Hope you enjoy

[Sandgirl]

A Wise Son Makes a Glad Father
Copyrights: Robin Stuart

Milky Way above the volcano from the island of La Palma - Spain
Copyrights: Jose Jimenez Priego

Spectacular meteor shower
Copyrights: Gato

Stargazing
Copyrights: Victor van Wulfen

Comet C/2017O1(ASASSN1) & NGC 1624
Copyrights: G. Chatzifrantzis

The Milky Way in Sanya, Hainan Province, China
Copyrights: Hongyang Luo

M33
Copyrights: Andre Van Zegveld

Star trails from Yellowstone National Park
Copyrights: Dan Pick

Comet C/2017 O1 (ASASSN) and the NGC 1624 nebula
Copyrights: Lionel Majzik

Night Sky Roque de los Muchachos - Isla de la Palma
Copyrights: Alexis Javier Acosta Simón

Eruptin Volcán de Fuego in Guatemala next to the amazing Milky Way
Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar

Andromeda Galaxy
Copyrights: Trevor Jones

Earth Shine and Milky Way
Copyrights: Camilo Jaramillo

Milky Way above Mosquito Lake
Copyrights: Eric Houck

NGC1396
Copyrights: Christopher Gomez

IC1848
Copyrights: Christopher Gomez

Full Moon over Grand Canyon
Copyrights: Wang Letian

ISS Transit
Copyrights: Steven Madow

Melotte 15
Copyrights: Artūras Medvedevas

ISS TRANSIT 2017.10.16
Copyrights: Alessandro Bianconi

NGC 7331 and Stephan's Quintet + IFN
Copyrights: Jonathan Fertil

[moonrocks]

North America Nebula
URL of website, http://moonrocksastro.com/wp-content/up ... la-web.jpg
Copyright: Paul C. Swift

North America Nebula by Paul C. Swift, on Flickr

[Astro Tom]

Moon Illusion
Tom O'Donoghue Dublin Ireland
Here I attempted to show how the Moon appears a different size by our eyes, compared to how a camera sees it. I used a different zoom for each rising Moon against a set 70mm zoom for the camera's representation.
Canon 5D Mk3 70-200mm lens
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28192200@N02/26441701879/

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[bzpc]

http://bzpc.hu/upl/etc/VDB1.jpg
http://bzpc.hu/gallery/nebulae/vdb1/

I'm looking for a WDB1 photo to challenge myself. This is a very faint object, close to a shiny star to add to Chap, it made it hard work much. The photo presented was a result.
Instrument:
200/1000-es Newton,carbon astrograph, Camera:Atik ONE 6, Mount:SkyWatcher EQ6 GoTo, Guiding:Lacerta Mgen OAG, Exposure: R:420; G:420; B:420; L:780 minute

[Sandgirl]

M31
Copyrights: Massimo Splendori

M42
Copyrights: Diego Colonnello

Milky Way from Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park
Copyrights: David McColm

The Coathanger and the Little Cocoon
Copyrighs: Maurice Toet

Pelican Nebula
Copyrights: Juan I. Jimenez

IC1848
Copyrights: Arno Rottal

NGC1499
Copyrights: Arno Rottal

Ashes in Pegasus
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile

Castor & Pollux - The Gemini Twins
Copyrights: John Chumack

Crescent Moon, Venus Rising. October 17, 2017
Copyrights: Barbara Hauzinger

Sunrise
Copyrights: Markus Tapani Aleksanteri Hotakainen

Anticrepuscular rays
Copyrights: Mteteaji Carnes

Statue of Liberty - ESO/VLT
Credits and copyrights: Data: OmegaCAM/VST/VPHAS+; Assembling and processing: R. Colombari

Andromeda / M31
Copyrights: Jakob Arthur Andersen

IC 1848
Copyrights: Vincenzo Iodice

Pondering
Copyrights: Paul Wilson

Red sun seen through smoke from California fires
Copyrights: Robert Nobuo Ishikawa

IC1396
Copyrights: Guillermo Cervantes

Moonrise at St. Stephen's Basilica, Budapest
Copyrights: György Soponyai

The Milky Way in Sanya, Hainan Province, China
Copyrights: Hongyang Luo

Mineral Moon
Copyrights: Giancarlo Melis

Photographer against the galaxy
Copyrights: Petr Horálek

The Milky Way from Eagle County Colorado
Copyrights: Spitzer Richard

Venus and a nearly new Moon rising above the South ridge of the Valsugana Valley (Trentino, Italy)
Copyrights: Bruno G. Caprile

Two Circles: Earth and Halo
Copyrights: Wang Letian

Mars, Venus, Moon, Bursa
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel

Green Flash
Copyrights: Marcella Giulia Pace

M8
Copyrights: Steve Robertson

[Bogdan J.]

The Rosette Nebula (Caldwell 49), NGC2237,2244 (Ha,SII,OIII)

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Full resolution:
http://www.astrobogdan.pl/wp/wp-content ... bogdan.jpg
Bogdan Jarzyna
http://www.astrobogdan.pl

[paddygilliland]

IC 1805 The heart Nebula by Patrick Gilliland, on Flickr

[spinlock]

M45 from Negev Desert

By Leo Shatz
QHY367c/APM 107-700/Mach1
Total exposure time: 5.6 hours
Link to high res: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4460/239 ... 147a_k.jpg

[SpookyAstro]

The Shoulder of Cygnus (DSS-II Combo) by Transient Astronomer, on Flickr

Image Credit and Copyright Tom Masterson

[SpookyAstro]

Dusty and Colorful North America and Pelican Nebula (DSS-II Combo) by Transient Astronomer, on Flickr

Image Credit and Copyright Tom Masterson

[Ann]

Dusty and Colorful North America and Pelican Nebula (DSS-II Combo) by Transient Astronomer, on Flickr

Image Credit and Copyright Tom Masterson

I love that picture!

I love the vivid colors, obviously, but I also love how the picture makes it clear that a lot of very dark dust is seen in front of many of the colorful features.

The picture makes it easy to believe that the North America Nebula and the Pelican Nebula may be one and the same, separated by a thick dust lane between them (and possibly in front of them).

Perhaps there is a star responsible for ionizing all this nebulosity, and perhaps it is hidden behind all this dark dust.

Ann

[jldauvergne]

The very faint Gegenschein light
http://www.astrophotography.fr
Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne

http://astrosurf.com/uploads/monthly_20 ... 2ff206.jpg

The faint light of the Gegeinshein is visible between the 1 meter telescope and the Pleiades, from Pic du Midi observatory. We can see also the green light due to the airlow.

[AstroScience]

LBN 762 / MBM 13 - Drunken Dragon Nebula
Copyright by Sergio Kaminsky

Rarely imaged molecular cloud with brownish bright LBN nebula, which is closest star nursery to our Solar System containing pre-main sequence stars.
All the details at:
http://www.myastroscience.com/lbn762mbm13

[markh@tds.net]

Ferrero 6 (Fe 6) PN G129.6 +03.4
Copyright: Mark Hanson

https://www.hansonastronomy.com/ferrero ... n-g1296034
Explanation From Sakib Rasool

"Fe 6 is a planetary nebula that was discovered by the French amateur astronomer Laurent Ferrero in November 2013 whilst searching archival sky survey plates. It was spectroscopically confirmed as a true planetary nebula by the professional astronomer Laurence Sabin in January 2014. It has also been independently discovered in the professional IPHAS survey and is also known as IPHASX J015624.9+652830. Its structure consists of a low surface brightness bubble with a size of 3.5 arcminutes, which is accentuated by a thin "bright" rim on the outside. It is very likely to be an ancient evolved planetary nebula that is interacting with the interstellar medium (ISM) and its intensely blue central star is easily visible near the centre. Despite its faintness, it is possible to visually observe it in very large telescopes."



Telescope: Planewave 24" f6.7 on a Planewave HD Mount Camera: SBIG 16803

Location: Stellar Winds Observatory at DSNM, Animas, New Mexico

Exposure: L,R,G,B,HA,03 280,280,280,280,900,450

[Hermann von Eiff]

IC 1848 - The Soul Nebula
Copyright: Hermann von Eiff

[Sandgirl]

Running Man Nebula - 3 different molecular clouds
Copyrights: László Francsics

Moon, Venus and Mars the 17 Oct 2017
Copyrights: Scalmati Livio

Highway to the north
Copyrights: Ferenc Szémár

M27 - Dumbbell Nebula Bicolor
Copyrights: Steve Milne

Mothers Day Aurora 2016
Copyrights: Evelyn Banks

Night sky from Izmir-Turkey
Copyrights: Önder Taşdelen

Messier 78
Copyrights: Péter Feltóti

Comet C/2015 V1 on Oct 18th
Copyrights: Damian Peach

NGC 7000 IC 5070 IC 5067
Copyrights: Jose Ramon Mundo Salvador

Colorful Cocoon Nebula (IC5146)
Copyrights: John Hayes

M16
Copyrights: Guillermo Cervantes

The Witches Head and her Galaxies
Copyrights: Dave Lane

Meteors
Copyrights: Arnaud Besancon

Big Dipper over Yellowstone National Park
Copyrights: Wang Letian

Melotte 15 (the Heart of the Heart Nebula IC 1805)
Copyrights: Chuck Ayoub

October's Big Beautiful Solar Prominence
Copyrights: Alan Friedman

M33 Galaxy
Copyrights: G. Chatzifrantzis

CG4
Copyrights: Chamaeleon Team: Franz Hofmann, Wolfgang Paech

Orionid Meteor Shower in Sanya, Hainan Province, China
Copyrights: Hongyang Luo

NGC6744
Copyrights: Haim Huli

Uranus and moons
Copyrights: Oleg Bouevitch

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[trobison]

NGC 246 -The Skull Nebula

The Skull Nebula is located in the constellation Cetus. It is a planetary nebula discovered by William Herschel in 1785. From our vantage point, it has an angular resolution of 3.7 arcmin. The estimated diameter is about 2.3 light years, and is at a distance of 1,600 light years from our planet. The listed magnitude of the nebula is around 11th magnitude, so is has a fairly low surface brightness. Quite often, visual observers can find the foreground stars overpowering. The central star is fairly bright at 11.8 magnitude. The eastern limb of the nebula is brighter suggesting that it is interacting with the interstellar medium.

Instruments:
10 Inch RCOS fl 9.1
Astro Physics AP-900 Mount
SBIG STL 11000m
FLI Filter Wheel
Astrodon Lum, Red, Green, Blue Filters
Baader Planetarium H-alpha 7nm Narrowband-Filter
Baader Planetarium O-III 8.5 Narrowband-Filter

Exposure Details:
62 X 900 Bin 1X1 Lum
25 X 450 Bin 2X2 Red
22 X 450 Bin 2X2 Green
20 X 450 Bin 2X2 Blue
5 X 900 Bin 1X1 Ha
10 X 900 Bin 1x1 OIII

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Cropped version:




Terry

[pablo22]

Double Cluster (NGC869, NGC884)
http://blog.astrofotky.cz/pavelpech
Copyright: Pavel Pech

[pablo22]

Chi Persei - NGC884
http://blog.astrofotky.cz/pavelpech
Copyright: Pavel Pech


h Persei - NGC869
http://blog.astrofotky.cz/pavelpech
Copyright: Pavel Pech