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LDN 1622: Dark Nebula in Orion by Oleg Bryzgalov, on Flickr

Hello,

I am happy to submit the image of the soul nebula in H-alpha taken by me from Kibber, a village at an altitude of over 14000 ft. The capture details are as follows:

Scope: Takahashi FSQ 106 ED
Camera: SBIG ST 8300M with FW-5-8300
Filter: Astrodon 6nm
Mount: Celestron CGE Pro
Guide camera: LodeStar
Image captured with: TheSkyX, CCDAutoPilot 5.0, MaxImDL 6.0
Image processed with: PixInsight

Copyright: Michael Sidonio

Larger image here: http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ ... 0/original

Melotte 15:

http://www.astrobin.com/121033/




IC1805:

http://www.astrobin.com/full/121027/0/?real=&mod=

NGC 6960:

http://www.astrobin.com/full/119208/0/

NGC 6992 :

http://www.astrobin.com/full/116438/0/

IC1396 - Elephant's Trunk nebula


Winter is Coming over IC1396 :

http://www.astrobin.com/full/112424/0/




IC1396 SHO + Stars RGB :

http://www.astrobin.com/full/112559/0/

IC5070-The Pelican Nebula


IC5070-CROP:

http://www.astrobin.com/full/107346/0/




IC5070-The Pelican Nebula - ORIGINAL:

http://www.astrobin.com/full/107345/0/

Thank you for that beautiful portrait of NGC 7793, Strongmanmike!

Ann

This was captured from my home observatory in Scranton, PA. It is a combined 16 hours of exposure in Ha and OIII processed in a bi-color palate.

Melotte 15 - Inside the Heart Nebula by Adam Jaffe


Full Size Image
http://astrob.in/full/135919/C/

Messier 21 in Sagittarius

Taken from Buenos Aires, Argentina

More details in the following link
http://www.baskies.com.ar/PHOTOS/M%2021%20LRGB.htm

Nice weekend !!
Sergio

This is a two panel mosaic of IC1805 and IC1848 in the HST palette, it was taken over several weeks with over 20 hours total exposure time. It was taken with a Televue NP127/FLI astrograph on a Paramount ME
A larger version can be seen at the following link

http://m7.i.pbase.com/o9/29/869929/1/15 ... st4000.jpg

Gordon Haynes

rainbow

NGC 1333 and neighborhoods
Copyright: Lorenzo Comolli (images and processing) and Edoardo Radice (processing)
Links to authors: http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/index2.htm and http://www.astrobin.com/users/astroedo/


Tech data: http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/d184.htm

First Observations of the Surfaces of Objects from the Oort Cloud
Image credits: C/2013 P2 - Gemini North 8-meter telescope (left), P/2014 S3 - CFHT (centre), C1995 O1 Hale-Bopp - K. Meech, O. Hainaut, and J. Bauer (rifht)
An article: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-re ... t_objects/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34098

Cassini Sails into New Ocean Adventures on Titan
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Cornell
An article: http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/cassini-sails-i ... GfQJTSsUvY http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=234730#p234730

New Insights Into Comet Siding Spring
Image credits: Hubble Space Telescope
More about: http://www.psi.edu/news/press-releases http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=234737#p234737

ALMA Finds Best Evidence Yet for Galactic Merger in Distant Protocluster
An article: https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressrelea ... otocluster
Credit: B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF) - artist's impression Credit: Subaru/NASA/JPL, P. Capak (SSC/Caltech); ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ); B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF) http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34100

The Moon
Copyrights: Floriant Lallemand Follow the Dust to Find Planets
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4368
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech - artist's impression Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34099

Amateur, professional astronomers alike thrilled by extreme storms on Uranus
An article: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/11/ ... on-uranus/
Image copyrights: mke de Pater (UC Berkeley) & Keck Observatory images http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34112

Mare Marginis - Sea of the Edge
Copyrights: John Chumack

M33 - Triangulum Galaxy (DSLR)
Copyright: Sergio Kaminsky

Full resolution Image and Imaging details on my website:
http://www.myastroscience.com/#!m33---t ... laxy/c1oi4

Interacting galaxies NGC 4490/4485 (Arp 269)

(C) Kai Wiechen
Data and full res: http://www.pbase.com/kwiechen/image/158244434

Best regards,

Kai

Hickson Compact Galaxy Group 44

(C) Kai Wiechen
Data and full res: http://www.pbase.com/kwiechen/image/158244348

Best regards,

Kai

Copyright: Jose Luis Sanchez

Copyright: Jose Luis Sanchez

Copyright: Jose Luis Sanchez

As a fan of RGB astrophotographs, I was very happy to see so many beautiful pictures here. There are several delightful galaxy pictures and several beautiful nebulas, and also a lovely star cluster.

Thank you all!

Ann

Ghost Nebula vdB 141

Copyright Kai Wiechen
Data and full res: http://www.pbase.com/kwiechen/image/158244432

Best regards,

Kai

Elephant's Trunk Nebula IC 1396A

Copyright: Kai Wiechen
Data and full res: http://www.pbase.com/kwiechen/image/158244433

Best regards,

Kai

A Visual Journey to Bennu, the Target of NASA'S asteroid sampling mission OSIRIS-REx
An article: http://uanews.org/story/a-visual-journe ... osiris-rex
Image credits: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=234983#p234983

Astronomers discover the first lightning from a black hole
An article: http://ruvid.org/wordpress/?p=17271 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34103

IC 5067, the 'head of the pelican' and "the moutains in the mist"
Copyrights: Denis Priou M42/NGC1999
Copyrights: Andrew Genualdi Jupiter's Red Spot is Likely a Sunburn, Not a Blush
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4372
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ Space Science Institute http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34104

Mutual events: Jupiter's Moons
Copyrights: Marco Guidi Apennine Mnt. Range & Apollo 15 Landing Site
Copyrights: John Chumack