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narrowband m42
http://www.astrosurf.com/astrobernier
Copyright: Martin Bernier Full: http://www.astrosurf.com/astrobernier/m42hoos2_22jan16

Thanks for looking

M42 take at St-Liboire, Québec

AT12IN F4 sur EQ8
QSI 683wsg à –50 degrés.
Autoguidage. ASI120mm sur diviseur optique. Avec PHD2.
filtres Astrodon.
Ha 6nm = 4x10 min et 6x1min.
O3 5nm = 4x10 min et 6x1min.
S2 5nm = 4x10 min et 6x1min.
En bin 1x1 partout.
Acquisitions et prétraitement CCDSoft.
Traitement final PS CS6

Purple forbidden enclosure in the sky
Copyrights: Jeff Dai Jupiter 01/22 Oval BA
Copyrights: Christopher Go Thor's Helmet
Copyrights: John Vermette The Flame Nebula
Copyrights: John Vermette Elephant Trunk
Copyrights: Jakob Arthur Andersen M35 and NGC2158
Copyrights: Ron Brecher Lunar Halo over Corfu
Copyrights: Stathis Koutsiaftis The Moon and the Astronomer
Copyrights: Dani Caxete Solar Arcs & Halos
Copyrights: Chris Cook The Milky Way and star trails shining over Cannon Beach, OR
Copyrights: Mara Novo-Leite The Planets Align in Utah
Copyrights: Richard Keele Frozen moonlight
Copyrights: Tamas Ladanyi Five Planets at Once
Copyrights: Wang Letian Moonrise over the Four Towers in Madrid, Spain
Copyrights: Javier Martínez Morán Noctilucent Clouds over Sunderland, UK
Copyrights: Matt Robinson Sirius Rising Above Grossmugl Star Walk
Credits: Project Nightlife Encounter of Catalina, M101 and Arkaid
Copyrights: Rafael Rodríguez Celestial X - Milky Way and zodiacal light from both hemispheres
Copyrights: Petr Horálek Five planet line up
Copyrights: Greg Hogan

NGC 2174 - Monkey Head Nebula
Copyrights: Klacsány Imre M81 - M82 Galaxy Group
Copyrights: André van der Hoeven, Neil Fleming and Michael van Doorn IC 342
Copyrights: Thomas Henne The Celestial 'G'
Copyrights: Steven Brown Barringer Meteorite Crater
Copyrights: Manish Mamtani Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) from Las Cruces, NM
Copyrights: Jeffrey O. Johnson Catalina and M101
Copyrights: Fabrizio Guerrini Lunar Halo
Copyrights: Rolland Balázs IC342
Copyrights: Lovro Dujnic The First Full Moon of 2016 - Jonas Blizzard Moon
Copyrights: John Chumack Winter sky and 4 planets
Copyrights: Marin Prodan The sky full of nebulae
Copyrights: Pavel Pech
Larger size: http://astrofotky.cz/gallery.php?show=K ... 484886.jpg ISS Flies over Singapore
Copyrights: Mervin Yap Milky Way Arch & Airglow over Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona
Copyrights: Wally Pacholka Galactic Centre Mosaic
Copyrights: Tom O'Donoghue C/2013 X1 on Jan 13th
Copyrights: Damian Peach The Milky Way’s Clean and Tidy Galactic Neighbour
Image credits: ESO
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1603/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35599

I'm new and so I've only had a chance to look at a few of these submissions so far, but, oh my!!! If these are the submissions from which new APODs get chosen, I don't know how they ever decide. I wouldn't have set any aside that I've seen so far. Thank you everyone who takes these images. Absolutely fantastic work. Your dedication and results are inspiring.

There are so many favs already, in just the final couple of pages that I looked at. For example:

- Gordon Haynes: Horsehead and Flame Nebula (a fresh, artistic look with a lovely interpretive palette)

- Vargas and Poyal: NGC 6888 (a delicate, rusting palette with blue companionship)

- Stephan Studer: NGC 4402 (an ethereal yet sculptual view of an object I've never seen before)

- Göran Strand: The Bridge to Halo (extreme clarity and a beautiful scene)

- Martin Heigan: Light From Our Fav Star (another beautiful composition with amazing grace and clarity)

- Mara Novo-Leite: Milky Way and Star Trails Over Oregon (a fresh look at star trails [which I normally don't take to] and the Milky Way, an inspired, artistic version)

This post is probably already too long, but I'm leaving out so much that I'm grateful for: the two views of sun halos, the Celestial X, the Orion region images in chocolate tones and softened tones, the annotated map of Orion, Gemini, etc., the Barringer Crater, the collage of planets showing their alignments..........

Thank you again to everyone who is out there doing this work.

All the way - Milkyway
Credits: Amit Ashok Kamble
http://facebook.com/amitkamblephotography
amit.kamble@hotmail.com

A 6 image vertical pano of our milkyway galaxy. This was shot a while ago on 16th Aug 2015 from Tongariro National Park while Jonathan and I were returning to auckland from Stellarfest-15. The image also shows light pollution, air glow and slight gravity waves. The one on right is light pollution and the one on left is light pollution along with air glow.

This is probably the most of milkyway that can be seen from New Zealand at one given time. Being August, this is the time when the galactic core is overhead and is the best time for people to drive out into the dark and enjoy the stars. The milkyway in this pano stretches all the way from the constellation carina (South - on left) to Cygnus (North - On Right)

Never got to process this image. So now that i am on holiday and did not get much to shoot, decided to process this beautiful image. This images shows milkyway all the way from southern tip to north (South is Left) from Eta Carina to the Great Rift.

6 image pano stitched in Lightroom, processed in Photoshop CC

Exif: 60sec, F2.8, ISO 1600, 24mm using Samyang 24mm on Canon 6D, tracked using iOptron Skytracker.

Rosette Nebula-HST Palette, LRGB & a Crop




The Rosette Nebula in HST(Hubble Space Telescope) Palette***Reprocessed*** by Chuck Manges, on Flickr




NGC2237-LUM-30x120-RGB by Chuck Manges, on Flickr



NGC2237-LUM-30x120core by Chuck Manges, on Flickr

Orion region
Copyrights: Richard Fensch Horsehead Nebula
Copyrights: Roger Clark Stellar Bridge ... M110 to M31
Copyrights: Leonardo Orazi
Larger size: http://www.starkeeper.it/M31BridgeM110.htm Shooting Star
Copyrights: Charles Baldwin Planet Alignment (Mercury, Venus, Saturn Mars, Jupiter) again
Copyrights: Greg Hogan Carina and the Wishing Well cluster Setting
Copyrights: Luis Argerich Space-Earth System Produces Highest-Resolution Astronomical Image
Credits: Gomez, et al., A. Lobanov.
An article: https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressrelea ... resolution http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35596

ISS transitting the Sun
Copyrights: Richard Asarisi Visible planets early January
Copyrights: Martin Marthadinata Pleiades
Copyrights: Fabrizio Guerrini The Moon
Copyrights: Fabrizio Guerrini Dragon from the Sun
Copyrights: Fabrizio Guerrini Orion
Copyrights: Glendor Diaz Suarez Wolf Moon
Copyrights: Evelyn Banks Horse Head and Flame Nebula
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/237301/0/?real=&mod= VdB 126
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari
Full size: https://www.astrobin.com/full/236905/0/?real=&mod= Alignment of Planets and Moon
Copyrights: Jose Antonio Hervas Mora The Moon and the astronomer 2
Copyrights: Dani Caxete Planets from Barcelona, Spain
Copyrights: Alfredo Miguel

Rainbow Cloud
Copyrights: Ottavio Giannella Stargate
Copyrights: Jose Antonio Hervas Mora IC405
Copyrights: Albert Barr M11 - The Wild Duck Cluster
Copyrights: Ron Brecher Planets
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Murillo 6 planet alignment panorama
Copyrights: Sean Walker 6 planet alignment and Moon panorama
Copyrights: Sean Walker Monstrous Cloud Boomerangs Back to Our Galaxy
Image credits: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)
An article: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... s/2016/04/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35604

Saturn
Copyrights: Fabrizio Guerrini Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae
Copyrights: Fabrizio Guerrini 5 planets from NY
Copyrights: Stan Honda Startrails
Copyrights: Mike Ince LBN 106
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile 2016 Jan 29 - 5 planets alignments + Moon
Copyrights: Chin Wei-Loon Dinner Time
Copyrights: Javier Martinez Moran New Animation Takes a Colorful Flight Over Ceres
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
More images and video: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2016-028 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=253723#p253723

Pluto’s Widespread Water Ice
An article: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Scie ... age_id=406
Copyrights: NASA/JHU APL/SwRI http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=253759#p253759

Pluto’s Blue Atmosphere in the Infrared
An article: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Scie ... age_id=407
Copyrights: NASA/JHU APL/SwRI http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=253760#p253760

Alpha to Eta, 2-panel mosaic ...

M101 - Pinwheel Galaxy

http://www.galaxyphoto.de/m101_I.htm
Copyright: Michael Deger

http://www.galaxyphoto.de/M101_2.jpg

Image details and higher resolution of this image: http://www.galaxyphoto.de/m101_I.htm


Best regards
Michael Deger

Tucson Alignment W/captions:
https://scontent.fphx1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... 5840_o.jpg

Hello, my name is Luigi. I would like to show you this picture taken some time ago.

Dust, gas and stars in Orion


Full res.
http://astrob.in/full/237559/0/

Venus, Saturn, Mars, ISS, Jupiter and the Moon
January 24, 2016
My flickr
Copyright: Jose Luis Sanchez







Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter and the Moon
January 24, 2016

AR 2489 in H-alpha light
204 mm F/10 pst 1A modified refractor + bf-15/ basler 1920-155 camera.

My contribution to the planetary conjunction: Five planets above the partially frozen lake.
(c) Jean-Francois Gout

The flaming Horse - HaRGB
http://www.far-light-photography.at
Copyright: Arno Rottal
The flaming Horse - HaRGB
13x1200sec Ha
each 3x300sec RGB
Moravian G2-8300 on Esprit80.

100% version: http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/4 ... phy.at.jpg

Panorama of Monoceros in Narrowband
http://moonrocksastro.com/wp-content/up ... 2000px.jpg
Copyright: Paul Swift
Panorama of Monoceros in Narrowband by Paul C. Swift, on Flickr

Lunar Halo

Lunar halo with visible Jupiter and Mars. Pictures taken 2016.01.29.
[img3] https://plus.google.com/115204296999030 ... 9030099992 [/img3]

[img4] https://plus.google.com/115204296999030 ... 9030099992 [/img4]


https://www.facebook.com/pawelkalinowskiphotography/
Copyright: Paweł Kalinowski

Six planets and one moon.
http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/upload/201 ... a729b7.jpg

http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/upload/201 ... 661d98.jpg

Rosette Nebula
http://observatorioelche.blogspot.com.es/
Copyright: Juan Lozano de Haro

Pic du Midi Observatory tiny planet

Copyright: David Néel full size can be found here :
http://nsa37.casimages.com/img/2016/02/ ... 997624.jpg

Dome on the left is former NASA 1m telescope (used to map moon for Apollo missions)
top left corner is CLIMSO solar telescope
Dome on the right is T60 amateur telescope

Orion Widefield

Higher resolution and data: http://www.wittich.com

Flaming Star Widefield

Higher resolution and data: http://www.wittich.com

Heart and soul

Higher resolution and data: http://www.wittich.com