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Title: Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
Object/Date: M13 @ 2013-07-06
Tech data: GSO 8" f/4 Refractor + Canon EOS 350D camera (12×180 sec. at ISO 1600)
Description:
M13 is the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, contains about 300.000 stars in a sphere with a radius of 75 years-light. Was discovered by Edmond Halley on 1714. With a combined magnitude of 5,8 is hardly visible at naked eye from dark sites, but with a simple binoculars is possible to perceive its beautiful and resolve a lot of stars that compose it. At upper left it can see the galaxy NGC 6207 with 12 magnitude, and a half dozen more of small and faint galaxies spread along the image.
Post link:
http://cometografia.es/2013/07/gran-cumulo-hercules/
Copyright:
José J. Chambó

Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) on September 18th, 09:28ut. Lower image negative (right) a small galaxy PGC25384 mag. 16.2. ( Equipment info on image )

Shooting Star Over Key Monastery
Arun Kandpal Inside the Small Magellanic Cloud
Copyrights: Marco Lorenzi Lenticular Cloud Formation
Copyrights: Beata Czifrik Cometary Globule CG-30-Subaru-DSS Composite
Copyrights: Robert Gendler
More about: http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/CG-3 ... u-DSS.html High Noon analemma (Equinox 1)
Copyrights: Tunc Tezel

Sh2-129 VdB140 and the misterious OU4
http://skymonsters.net/immagine.php?img=Sh2-129_OU4.jpg
Copyright: Nicola Montecchiari

Subject: NGC6992 in Ha + OIII
Copyrights: James Collins

Larger image URL:
http://jimstar11.com/NGC6992_apod2.jpg
Web Site: Meadow View Observatory
http://jimstar11.com

Northern Lights over Jökulsárlón glacier lake in Iceland. The moonlight behind me, attenuated by the clouds, illuminated the icebergs which float on the lake. The water surface of it also reflects the northern light colours. The brightest light on the right is Jupiter. The shot also took some stars behind the aurora borealis.


Copyright: Pablo Esvertit

link to better resolution file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oznznrjcs3sik ... D-high.jpg

nicola montecchiari wrote:Sh2-129 VdB140 and the misterious OU4
http://skymonsters.net/immagine.php?img=Sh2-129_OU4.jpg
Copyright: Nicola Montecchiari

Holy WOWWWWW! This is the first image of Sh2-129 that clearly shows Ou 4!! It was discovered in 2011 but not made public to the world until 2012 and here we are in 2013 with the first "proper" image of it! I predict in 2014 there will hopefully be a study of it published and we will know for sure what it is. Also more info here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.2477

P.S. Also vdB140 looks very nice, this also seems to be possibly the first colour image that clearly shows its associated emission nebula.

NGC281 - Pacman Nebula in HST palette
http://blog.astrofotky.cz/pavelpech
Copyright: Pavel Pech

starsurfer wrote:I predict in 2014 there will hopefully be a study of it published and we will know for sure what it is. Also more info here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.2477

Thanks for the comment and link. I also hope there will be an article asap, would like to learn more about this curious object.

My pattern memory is doing well today. I knew I remembered seeing OU4 posted here before, albeit not with as much clarity but good nonetheless. Here's a link to a previous submission by Stephane Zoll: http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=182739#p182739

Do you think that the nebula is lined up with the one in the background by chance or are they somehow related?

The Temple of Debod is originally from Egypt, in an old village near the Nile river, which gives its name ... Debod.

This temple was a gift to Spain for aiding in saving the temples of Nubia (Egypt), due to the construction of the Aswan Dam.

The Temple of Debod is an age of about 2200 years.

About the temple we can see the conjunction of Venus and Saturn on 09/18/2013. If we look closely we can see the planets reflected in the water ...

Francisco Javier Pobes Serrano.

http://www.astrofotoplanetaria.com/

Hi,

Here are a few new images:
The Dumbledore nebula SH-132:


Larger version can be seen here:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/152421145

The Pacman nebula:


Larger version can be seen here:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/152421147

Sharpless 190:


Larger version can be seen here:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/152421144

All the best,

Kfir Simon

Luna eléctrica por calle L, 8, en Flickr

Luna llena eléctrica.
Electric full Moon.

Última Luna llena del verano boreal. La próxima en otoño.
Last Full Moon of the summer. The next fall.

La última Luna llena del verano boreal aparece sobre el horizonte este de Castro del Río, Córdoba, Andalucía, España.
Las torres del tendido eléctrico, también forman parte del paisaje.
The last full moon of summer appears on the horizon east of Castro del Río, Córdoba, Andalucia, Spain.
The electrical towers, also part of the landscape.

© Juan A. Bafalliu 2013 Spain

Subject: NGC6823 imaged in NB, Ha/OIII/SII
Copyrights: James Collins

Larger image URL:
http://jimstar11.com/NGC6823_apod2.jpg
Web Site: Meadow View Observatory
http://jimstar11.com/

4 Seasons of Lake Venus
Copyrights: Tunc Tezel Milky Way
Copyrights: Konstantinos Basilakakos Fogbow
Copyrights: Patrick Lécureuil NGC 7129 and NGC 7142 field
Copyrights: Leonardo Orazi
Larger version can be seen here: http://www.starkeeper.it/NGC7129WF.htm Young Stars Cooking in the Prawn Nebula
Image Credit: ESO. Acknowledgement: Martin Pugh
More about: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1340/

Iridium 22
Time: 2013/9/19 18:59:00
Location: Tainan, Taiwan
Brightness: -8.2
Optics: Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L II USM
Camera: Canon EOS 5DII
Note: This is a mosaic picture of 6 (2x3) frames.

Copyright: Hung-Hsuan Yen
https://www.facebook.com/redscosky

Copyright: Jon Talbot
North American and Pelican nebula area mosaic.
6 panel mosaic combining Ha, OIII and RGB taken during the months of July-Sep 2013
4" refractor working at f5.6. 720min of Ha, 720min of OIII and 360min of each RGB channel
Mosaic built and processed in PixInsight 1.8
Web page to image: http://www.starscapeimaging.com/page125/index.html

[quote="Sandgirl"]Shooting Star Over Key Monastery
Arun Kandpal I am confused whether its a shooting star or Iridium Flare

Open Dome
http://www.pbase.com/gordg3
Copyright: Gordon Garcia Yerkes Observatory 40-inch refractor illuminated by waxing gibbous moon.

Southern Orion

Heres My AstroBin gallery
http://www.astrobin.com/users/astroedo/
Copyright: Edoardo Luca Radice This image is a composition of 20 90" exposures of the southern part of Orion with a Canon EOS 350D camera.

Here the full size picture.

Clear Skies

Edoardo Radice

The Triangulum Galaxy

Heres My AstroBin gallery
http://www.astrobin.com/users/astroedo/
Copyright: Edoardo Luca Radice
This image is a composition of 32 360" exposures of M33 with a Canon EOS 350D camera on a 80/520 refractor.

Here the full size picture.

Clear Skies

Edoardo Radice

IC 4628 (Gum 56, Ced 137b, Prawn Nebula ) in Scorpius

http://www.irida-observatory.org

Copyright: [url=mailto://info@irida-observatory.org]Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov[/url]

IC 4628 (Gum 56, Ced 137b, Prawn Nebula) is an emission nebula located south of Antares about 6 000 light-years away and it is about 250 light-years across. It is observed in the southern part of the constellation, just north of the bright open cluster NGC 6231, which is also located in the same galactic environment. It is an HII region that directly receives the radiation of the massive stars which forms the core of NGC 6231 - Scorpius OB1 association. The main ionizing star is, according to a 1984 study, the blue giant HD 152723. Other sources suggest that the ionizing source is the star HD 322417, also a class O5 or O6, although this may be at a distance greater than the region of Scorpius OB1.

HaLRGB combination HaHaOO version Ha version Higher resolutions and more images and information are avaliable ON THE WEB SITE

Thank you for looking ...

Sep 19 2013 Moon 4
http://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/
Copyright: Daniel Pasternak ©

the harvest moon