A delicate pearl inside a cosmic shell Credits and Copyrights: Data : red and blue from Digitized Sky Survey (POSS-II) and narrowband from David Lindemann; Image processing : David Lindemann
Mayan Plaza under the Moonlight and stars Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar
The Jungle under the Moonlight and stars from Mayan Temple 4 Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar
When Science, Architecture and Nature converge: Equinox at the Salk Institute
Penas das Rodas
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 9:39 am
by dllamas
It´s autumn, in Spain Milky Way has hidden its center, but when Scorpion lows and disappears into horizon, other wonders appear over it.
In this resolution is complicated, but into this picture we see a lot of things.
At right we see, clearly, the Pleiades and Andromeda, more complicated is observed Aldebaran, above Pleiades, lost between light pollution. Near the arch of the Milky Way we see, very bright, Capella.
At center, if you see at right rock Polaris and to his left, near the trees, Vega. Rising from it we find Deneb in the middle of the arc of the Milky Way.
At left, following Vega and going through Milky Way Altair.
Photo is made at Penas das Rodas, Galicia, Spain. This area is surrounded by towns, but still have a great firmament.
15 vertical photos are covering 270º in two rows. And, of course, it´s a selfie!!!
Autumnal Equinox Washington Monument Copyrights: Shashank Shekhar
A Trio of Lunar Eclipses Copyrights: Jimmy Westlake
Milky Way Copyrights: Godfrey Capiral
Star Trail Copyrights: Samuel Banks
Ancient Planetarium Copyrights: Aggelos Makris
NGC 663 and Friends Copyrights: Jaspal Chadha
Lunar and Venus corona Copyrights: Jeff Dai
Barnard 33 Copyrights: Rodrigo Andolfato
Double Eclipse October 2014 Copyrights: James Martin
Re: Submissions: 2015 September
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2015 7:02 pm
by Sandgirl
Earthshine Moon Copyrights: John Chumack
Observing the Antares region, the heart of Scorpio Copyrights: Cristian Lopez
Perseid Meteor Shower Nightscape and Airglow Copyrights: Roger Clark
Helix Nebula Copyrights: James C Renard
AR2403 good bye Copyrights: Alessandro Bianconi
Moon in a red cloudbed Copyrights: Stephan Heinsius
Photographing Orion Copyrights: Jeff Dai
America's Dust Copyrights: Fényes Lóránd
The Moon Copyrights: Joanna Bialek
Re: Submissions: 2015 September
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2015 9:33 pm
by Florian Kainz
The Moon with natural hues but exaggerated color saturation.
For the colors, the mean of 54 separate exposures was computed to keep noise down before increasing saturation. Atmospheric distortion caused the the 54-frame average image to be slightly blurry, so colors from that image were transferred onto a grayscale version of a single, sharper exposure.
I trully like the event, not because of the light that gets to the ground when the earth is between the Sun and the Moon, I love this event, because it's the only way we can trully perciben (see) earth's spherical shape.. Yup, pure science evidence.
NGC 7662 Blue Snowball
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 9:10 am
by cfm2004
August 2015
Location: San Romualdo - Ravenna (Italy)
LX200 12"GPS with Starizona reducer/coma-corrector F/7.1
CCD QSI 540wsi cooled -18
RGB Astrodon Gen2 True-Balance I-series and Narrowband 5nm
Autoguide with ASI120MM and PHDguiding2 on ETX105
OIII-RGB: OIII 61x5min, R 40x3', G 40x3', B 39x3'
Acquired with: MaximDL5 - Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat
Processed with: MaximDL5, Astroart4, AstraImage4, StarTools1.3, Paint Shop ProX7, Topaz Plug-in and StarSpikePro
Cristina Cellini
Transit of the ISS during the lunar eclipse
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 10:27 am
by Thierry Legault
Hello,
I had a transit of the ISS during the lunar eclipse, only 10 miles away from my home. The Moon was very low on the horizon (16°), so the ISS was quite far (1100 km).
To my knwoledge, this is the first lunar eclipse photographed with a simultaneous transit of the ISS.
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