Submissions: 2020 March

[CBonafilia]

Barnard 33 and the flame nebula remains one of my favorite targets. The simplicity and complexity of the shot amazes me every time I point my scope towards it. Wide field or close up I am always astonished by its depth.

[Ann]

NGC 1788 , The cosmic bat

HaRGB :

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full size : http://www.cielboreal.com/galerie/photo111f.jpg

done with CDK20, Moravian G4-16000 on Paramount ME2 near Actacama Desert in Chile, El Sauce Observatory

http://www.cielaustral.com
Copyright: Team CielAustral with J.C CANONNE, N.OUTTERS, P. BERNHARD, D. CHAPLAIN & L. BOURGON

Thanks, that's a lovely image! The picture is just extremely beautiful.

I also much appreciate your images of galaxy NGC 253 and the Gabriela Mistral Nebula. The reason why I like the NGC 253 image is that it demonstrates something I have never seen before, namely the large gas and dust-free purely stellar halo or outer disk surrounding the well-known inner dusty galactic disk. As for the Gabriela Mistral nebula, I'm usually not a great fan of Hubble palette images, but the large round blue shape of NGC 3324 sitting inside a "wreath of cosmic autumn leaves-colored nebulosity" is very beautiful and fascinating.

Thank you!

[markh@tds.net]

NGC 2442 - The Meathook Galaxy

Copyright Mark Hanson

Taken from El Sauce, Chile

You can see a full resilution image here: https://www.hansonastronomy.com/ngc-244 ... ook-galaxy

Thank you,
Mark Hanson

[javierflores]

I want send you this picture take from Chile Observatory in a project of Society astronomy of Granada (Spain) to take objects the south hemisfery.

[Kinch]

NGC 281 Pacman Nebula
(Reprocess of 2018 data)

Click on image for a closer look.

www.KinchAstro.com

[Hermann von Eiff]

M35, NGC 2158 and IC 2157

Copyright: Hermann von Eiff

[kiwiastro]

Taken from Bay of Islands / New Zealand

Horsehead & Flame Nebulae by KiwiAstro Photography, on Flickr

[delberson]

Tarantula Nebula - NGC 2070 by Delberson Tiago de Souza, no Flickr

[philhart]

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Venus and Orion from the South

In the southern hemisphere, Orion is a summer constellation so seeing it setting in the west in the evenings signals the end of the summer and the transition to longer and colder nights ahead. Venus shining brightly in the twilight is always welcome!

Phil

http://philhart.com/

[Astro_MAA]

https://flic.kr/p/2iJi1gC

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

This is my new work Processing in handling Hubble data..
Bad weather and corona will not deprive us of the astronomy

Copyright: Mohammad Aljady
https://www.instagram.com/astro_maa/

[Geoff]

Dusty clouds and a reflection nebula in Chamaeleon.
https://www.astrobin.com/full/8aalro/C/

IC 2631 is a blue reflection nebula in the far southern constellation of Chamaeleon. It surrounds a young T Tauri star HD973000, about 500 light years away. It lies in the Chamaeleon Cloud Complex which is a large star forming region that includes the Chamaeleon I, Chamaeleon II, and Chamaeleon III dark clouds. The Chamaeleon Complex occupies nearly all of the constellation Chamaeleon and overlaps into Apus, Musca, Carina and Octans. The dust partially or nearly totally obscures the stars within and behind it.

[astrosirius]

NGC 4535 Black hole with surrounding arms

NGC 4535 is a barred galaxy and one of the largest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, a massive cluster of as many as 2000 galaxies, about 50 million light-years away. Although the Virgo Cluster is not much larger in diameter than the Local Group — the galaxy cluster to which the Milky Way belongs — it contains almost fifty times as many galaxies.

The small nucleus is of type HII, meaning the spectrum resembles that of and H II region, as you can see if you make zoom, you will see it.

Data archives downloaded from Access MAST Data, for your information these are the followings archives that we have processed (15 files)

mast:HST/product/idxr28030_asn.fits -mast:HST/product/idxr28030_drc.fits-mast:HST/product/idxr28030_drz.fits-mast:HST/product/idxr28040_asn.fits -mast:HST/product/idxr28040_drc.fits-mast:HST/product/idxr28040_drz.fits
mast:HST/product/idxr28050_asn.fits-mast:HST/product/idxr28050_drc.fits-mast:HST/product/idxr28050_drz.fits
mast:HST/product/idxr28060_asn.fits-mast:HST/product/idxr28060_drc.fits-mast:HST/product/idxr28060_drz.fits
mast:HST/product/idxr28070_asn.fits-mast:HST/product/idxr28070_drc.fits-mast:HST/product/idxr28070_drz.fits

Processing by Miguel Ángel García and Lluís Romero
Tittle: NGC 4535 Black hole with surrounding arms

[abhijitpatilphotography]

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Comet Atlas Y4. Captured on Macrh 27, 2020 from Vermont, USA.
Total integration time 100 minutes.
Skywatcher EQ6R-Pro mount
Orion ED80T CF scope
Nikon D750 Unmodded at crop sensor image area (10.2 MP)
Astronomik CLS filter
Aperture - f/4.8
Focal length - 570mm
Exposure time - 120 seconds
ISO 1600
Number of shots - 50

[Ann]

Dusty clouds and a reflection nebula in Chamaeleon.
https://www.astrobin.com/full/8aalro/C/

IC 2631 is a blue reflection nebula in the far southern constellation of Chamaeleon. It surrounds a young T Tauri star HD973000, about 500 light years away. It lies in the Chamaeleon Cloud Complex which is a large star forming region that includes the Chamaeleon I, Chamaeleon II, and Chamaeleon III dark clouds. The Chamaeleon Complex occupies nearly all of the constellation Chamaeleon and overlaps into Apus, Musca, Carina and Octans. The dust partially or nearly totally obscures the stars within and behind it.

Geoff, I hope you don't mind, but I inserted a small version of a small part of your image, because I thought it would be nice if people could see something of your image.

Note to everybody: Geoff''s image is much wider, much more highly resolved and, of course, just generally much better. Do take a look at the large version of it!

Welcome, Geoff! Hope we will see more images of yours!

Ann

[Ann]

NGC 4535 Black hole with surrounding arms

NGC 4535 is a barred galaxy and one of the largest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, a massive cluster of as many as 2000 galaxies, about 50 million light-years away. Although the Virgo Cluster is not much larger in diameter than the Local Group — the galaxy cluster to which the Milky Way belongs — it contains almost fifty times as many galaxies.

The small nucleus is of type HII, meaning the spectrum resembles that of and H II region, as you can see if you make zoom, you will see it.

Data archives downloaded from Access MAST Data, for your information these are the followings archives that we have processed (15 files)

mast:HST/product/idxr28030_asn.fits -mast:HST/product/idxr28030_drc.fits-mast:HST/product/idxr28030_drz.fits-mast:HST/product/idxr28040_asn.fits -mast:HST/product/idxr28040_drc.fits-mast:HST/product/idxr28040_drz.fits
mast:HST/product/idxr28050_asn.fits-mast:HST/product/idxr28050_drc.fits-mast:HST/product/idxr28050_drz.fits
mast:HST/product/idxr28060_asn.fits-mast:HST/product/idxr28060_drc.fits-mast:HST/product/idxr28060_drz.fits
mast:HST/product/idxr28070_asn.fits-mast:HST/product/idxr28070_drc.fits-mast:HST/product/idxr28070_drz.fits

Processing by Miguel Ángel García and Lluís Romero
Tittle: NGC 4535 Black hole with surrounding arms
NGC-4535-Surrounding-Arms-Black-Hole.jpg

Thank you for doing this, Miguel Ángel García and Lluís Romero. I googled NGC 4535, and there existed no really good highly resolved picture of this galaxy until you posted this processed version out of Hubble data.

Thanks again!

Ann

[Virindi]

Widefield from M81 M82 to C/2019 Y4 Atlas Comet by Cedric BEGUE, sur Flickr
Hi. A wide wiew from M81 to the Atlas comet. Shot with photo lens and ASI 294MC Pro camera. France. 24/03/20.

[felix_wegerer]

IC 1848, The Soul Nebula, 2 panel mosaic!

https://www.astrobin.com/full/zwbwxj/0/

Deep View in SHO, captured in Linz.
~29 hours total integration time
Hope you like it!

[felix_wegerer]

IC 1848 in SHO.
It's a 2 panel mosaic taken in Linz with an APO. I tried to bring out the sulfur a bit more than usual.

Here is the link to the image on astrobin:

https://www.astrobin.com/zwbwxj/?nc=user

Clear skies!
Felix

[brent1123]

Moon | Venus | Pleiades Conjunction
https://flic.kr/p/2iKcPCy
Copyright: Brent Newton

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75mm Lens
Canon T3i (IR-mod)

A rare conjunction of Venus, the Moon, and M45 in the darkening Western skies on March 28th, 2020

Multiple 2", 1/2", and 1/10" exposures (plus an overlay of a recent M45 closeup) blended together

[avdhoeven]

NGC7822 / Cederblad 214 by Andre van der Hoeven, on Flickr

[javier_gl]

Ngc3718 & Hickson 56 in Ursa Major



High resolution image and technical data: http://www.javierlaina.es/IMAGENES/ngc3718_b.html

Javier Gómez Laina (Spain)
http://www.javierlaina.es/indexeng.html

[Ann]

Moon | Venus | Pleiades Conjunction
https://flic.kr/p/2iKcPCy
Copyright: Brent Newton

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75mm Lens
Canon T3i (IR-mod)

A rare conjunction of Venus, the Moon, and M45 in the darkening Western skies on March 28th, 2020

Multiple 2", 1/2", and 1/10" exposures (plus an overlay of a recent M45 closeup) blended together

Wow, I love it!

Ann

[tommasostella]

Flaming star nebula
Copyright: Tommaso Stella

Lights: 112x300s @ 250 Gain (-15°C), 51 Dark, 84 Flat

Telescope: TS PhotoLine Apochromatic FPL53 Triplet 102 @ f/5.53
Camera: ZWO ASI 294mc Pro
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 GT
Autoguide: ASI 224mc & Ultraguide 60
Filters: Optolong L-Enhance
Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop CC, PixInsight, AstraImage Plus

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[Robin_Onderka]

Venus meet Pleiades
(clean photo without labels available)

At this time you can observe an interesting encounter between Venus and Pleiades in the constellation Taurus. Visibility may be worse because of the present moon, but it also opens up new possibilities for creative photography.

The object in the background is the Remote Radar Post in Stara Ves nad Ondrejnici, Czech Republic. This RRP is (as far as I know) in operation since 1977 and the last known unit present at this station was in 2003. Current inhabitants of the base are unknown, but the place is still guarded by a military unit.

EOS 6D mark II on 24 mm | 6" f/2.8 ISO 1600 | auto portrait

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[KuriousGeorge]

M82 from KG Observatory, Julian CA.

Technical details at https://www.astrobin.com/odh68l/