Submissions: 2018 March

[Maicon Germiniani]

[img3]Tarantula by maicon germiniani, no Flickr[/img3]

[Maicon Germiniani]

[img3]Omega Centauri by maicon germiniani, no Flickr[/img3]

[Maicon Germiniani]

[img3]Clouds Of Rho Ophiuchi by maicon germiniani, no Flickr[/img3]

[Maicon Germiniani]

[img3]SNAKE NEBULA by maicon germiniani, no Flickr[/img3]

[Thirteen]

Sun - A Massive Prominence in Motion

Image Copyright: Jason Guenzel and Awni Hafedh

An amazing, massive, and evolving prominence hangs over the sun's limb.

Please click to the following link for additional information and the animated GIF timelapse captured over the span of about 1 hour.
https://astrob.in/336309/E/


The full size animation can be seen here...
https://astrob.in/full/336309/E/

[pedro]

M42 and surrounding nebulas
Copyright: Pedro Santos

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Higher resolution link:https://www.flickr.com/photos/23636605@ ... 9/sizes/o/

[Rothkko]

the sword and the satellites

merida, spain. 2018-03-07, 00:05

343" of geostationary satellites and the orion sword

[Paulee97]

Zodiacal light behind the iron curtain
Copyright: Pavel Váňa

http://i66.tinypic.com/2h5lawl.jpg

About 30 years ago people from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and other countries could not travel without any problems. The biggest problem was iron curtain. Now we can travel around the world and see beautiful night sky but there is new big problem, light pollution. In this picture you can see remains of iron curtain, beutiful winter Milky way and Zodiacal light.
It is mozaic composed by 29 single pictures. This image was captured in Cizov, which is located in Podyji national park in Czech Republic.

[pedro]

The star formation RSF 3 Monoceros
IC2169,IC446,NGC2245,NGC2247,NGC2264
Copyright: Pedro Santos

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Higher resolution link:https://www.flickr.com/photos/23636605@ ... 4/sizes/o/

[tommy_h]

vdB 18 and NGC 1342
http://www.distant-lights.at/vdb18-2017_10_14.htm
Copyright: Thomas Henne

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[tommy_h]

NGC 2403
http://www.distant-lights.at/ngc2403-2017_12_18.htm
Copyright: Thomas Henne

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[Paulee97]

Correction
Zodiacal light behind the iron curtain
www.pavel-vana.cz
Copyright: Pavel Váňa

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For higher resolution and size see: https://www.flickr.com/photos/153081618 ... ed-public/
About 30 years ago people from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and other countries could not travel without any problems. The biggest problem was iron curtain. Now we can travel around the world and see beautiful night sky but there is new big problem, light pollution. In this picture you can see remains of iron curtain, beutiful winter Milky way and Zodiacal light.
It is mozaic composed by 29 single pictures. This image was captured in Cizov, which is located in Podyji national park in Czech Republic.

[AnnaKong]

I toke this picture in Dolomites Italy, on Feb 16th,about 5am. The milky way was hanging in the sky, and there are some mountains far away. The sun will rise up soon, so dawn is beginning to show in the east. The location i toke the picture is above 2000 meters, and there is some beautiful airglow in the air.

[AnnaKong]

The panorama milk way in Dolomites Italy, I composed by 6 single picture. It's the spectacular view of Dolomites, which is UNESCO World Heritage, the shining stars is amazing. Meanwhile, i toke a shooting star, it just like a fairy.

[Ajay Narayanan]

The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, or M83

This image was processed with data provided by the Las Cumbres Observatory. The Principal Investigator for this data set was
BJ Fulton. This image included data collected with B, V and I' filters. The data comes from 1 m telescopes at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory and the South African Astronomical Observatory. This image is released under LCO's Creative Commons, non commercial and is free for use with attribution. Full image here. Thanks for looking.

Ajay

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[Sandgirl]

The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) recorded with planetary camera from Italy
Copyrights: Tommaso Massimo Stella

M42/NGC 1976/The Orion Nebula
Copyrights: Chris Souza

Andromeda Galaxy
Copyrights: Vikram Kohli

Aurora Borealis
Copyrights: Matt Robinson

Waxing Gibbous Moon in Singapore
Copyrights: A Kannan

Waxing Gibbous Moon in Singapore
Copyrights: A Kannan

Sunset in Singapore
Copyrights: A Kannan

Venus, Moon and Orion from Brazil
Copyrights: Jordan Patrick

Betwwen California and the Pleiades
Copyrights: Ji Hwan Kim

Orion: From the hip to the sword
Copyrights: David McFeely

Night sky over New Mexico
Copyrights: Feilong Luo

Aurora panorama
Copyrights: Mia Stålnacke

Fall Milky Way Above the Trona Pinnacles
Copyrights: Tom Masterson

Gems of Auriga
Credits and copyrights: Data: POSS-II, Tom Masterson, Terry Hancock; Processing: Tom Masterson

Startrails over the house
Copyrights: David Fox

Milky Way from Grand Prismatic Springs in Yellowstone National Park
Copyrights: Dave Lane

M45
Copyrights: Thomas Pickett

Andromeda Galaxy from Swiss Alps
Copyrights: Sandro Casutt

M31, M33 and more
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde

Sunset in Osaka Castle
Copyrights: Nicolas Maderna

[SteveRosenow]

A ONE OF A KIND ECLIPSE COMPOSITE

A few nights ago, an idea hatched in my head. On a whim, I decided I was going to photograph the same region of the constellation Leo where last August's eclipse occurred. The purpose? Create a one-of-a-kind composite that rarely - if ever - gets published.

It wasn't a hard thing to do, actually. I would shoot a series of quick 30-second exposures for a two-pane stitch, then through Photoshop I would seamlessly (as much as possible) blend the eclipse shot from last August, into the final composite through layer blending and masking.

To do this, I shot a total of twenty 30-second exposures. Ten would comprise the top half, while another ten would comprise the lower half of the final image. Each was stacked separately in Deep Sky Stacker and manually blended in Adobe Photoshop in a process that brought this stout laptop to its knees. After that, I imported the coronal mask layers from the original composite from last August. After that, I then fine-tuned things up a bit, and then exported.

In short, it's a view - complete with the star Regulus and Nu Leonis (as well as dwarf galaxy Leo 1) - of the eclipse that one would've seen from outside Earth's atmosphere.

Image captured on August 21, 2017 with a Nikon D5500, coupled to a Meade Series 5000 80mm APO @f/6.

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(Link to full size: https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4792/4070 ... e911_o.jpg / https://www.flickr.com/photos/rosenow_p ... 2/sizes/o/ )

[sixburg]

B33, LRGBHa with FSQ and ML16200 from Deep Sky West. Focused on "glow" in dusty area under the horse head silhouette. I imagine that area to be lit by the light of surrounding glowing red gases and glowing somewhat red itself. The shadow of he horse head is clearly visible below and to the left of the opaque silhouette. Sigma Orionis' impact is obvious. A lot going on in this favorite part of the sky!

[Ann]

A ONE OF A KIND ECLIPSE COMPOSITE

A few nights ago, an idea hatched in my head. On a whim, I decided I was going to photograph the same region of the constellation Leo where last August's eclipse occurred. The purpose? Create a one-of-a-kind composite that rarely - if ever - gets published.

It wasn't a hard thing to do, actually. I would shoot a series of quick 30-second exposures for a two-pane stitch, then through Photoshop I would seamlessly (as much as possible) blend the eclipse shot from last August, into the final composite through layer blending and masking.

To do this, I shot a total of twenty 30-second exposures. Ten would comprise the top half, while another ten would comprise the lower half of the final image. Each was stacked separately in Deep Sky Stacker and manually blended in Adobe Photoshop in a process that brought this stout laptop to its knees. After that, I imported the coronal mask layers from the original composite from last August. After that, I then fine-tuned things up a bit, and then exported.

In short, it's a view - complete with the star Regulus and Nu Leonis (as well as dwarf galaxy Leo 1) - of the eclipse that one would've seen from outside Earth's atmosphere.

Image captured on August 21, 2017 with a Nikon D5500, coupled to a Meade Series 5000 80mm APO @f/6.

Click to view full size image

(Link to full size: https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4792/4070 ... e911_o.jpg / https://www.flickr.com/photos/rosenow_p ... 2/sizes/o/ )

I really like this image, and I'm very impressed at all the very hard work that went into making it.

Ann

[mikiclinic]

Detail of NGC4565
This image was taken with 20inchRC&PL09000 Cooled CCD with Adaptic optics(AO-X).
ASTRODON LRGB (240/40/40/40min)
http://www.miki-hosp.or.jp/BIND/
Copyright: Nobuhiko Miki

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[whwang]

Milky Way Panorama

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It will be a challenge for APOD to present this image to its readers. It's a high-resolution, 24-frame mosaic image of the 360-deg Milky Way. Here are two alternate presentations of this image at higher resolution:
http://www.gigapan.com/embeds/fcgjJQXjzrQ/
http://group.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/whwang ... index.html

copyright: Wei-Hao Wang

[spinlock]

LBN 437

Author: Leo Shatz

Imaged @DSW remote observatory
FSQ106/QSI683wsg/Paramount MyT
L:25x900s,R:16x900s,G:16x900s,B:15x900s
Link to full size image https://flic.kr/p/FnMYzH

[SteveJ]

Halley's Comet 1986
Copyright: Steve Johnston

Image taken with an Olympus OM-1, 50mm f/1.4 lens, Kodak Ektachrome E6 400 ASA in early 1986 from Harkaway, 40 km southeast of Melbourne, Australia. The original color positive has been scanned and converted to B&W with inverted image for comparison.

[AnnaKong]

Mountain Peitlerkofel, one mountain in dolomites, I toke this single picture more than 900 seconds. there are some beautiful airglow behind the mountain.

[Chris-PA]

IC 405 and IC 410: The Flaming Star and Tadpoles



Copyright: Christopher Sullivan

Higher resolution can be found here: https://www.astrobin.com/full/329654/0/