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Rosette Nebula 01/15/2015 by Jeffrey Sines, on Flickr

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In Brittany, we have lots of beautiful places to capture the stars.
This one is called Meneham. The gatehouse was built between two rocks. Its aim was to monitor the coast, inhabited over the time by customs officer, military etc...
In the center, discover the constellation of Orion, just on the right, the Pleiades and below it, Comet Lovejoy. A halfway between the comet and the clouds completely on the right, we see a blur: the M31 galaxy.
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Alexandre Croisier

IC1396A - Elephant's Trunk
Copyright: Claus Mueller (myself)




660x880px: http://www.astrofreunde-franken.de/dump ... ken_de.jpg

Thanks for looking

Kind regards
Claus Müller
Nuremberg, Germany

Our website with descriptions of various astronomical objects: http://www.astrofreunde-franken.de

Title:
Comet Lovejoy mosaic (Jan.17,2015)

Object/Date:
C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) @ 2015-Jan-17

Tech data:
Takahashi Takahashi FSQ Fluorite refractor + SBIG STL-11000M camera 3x(L:1×180 Bin1 + RGB:1x60 Bin2)

Description:
Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) on January 17, 2015. Image composed by a mosaic of three frames and covering a field of 7 x 3.5 degrees, in those the comet shows a gassy full of changing details. Also can be detected a wide but very short dust tail departing from coma toward southeast.

Location:
Remotely from Mayhill, New Mexico (USA)

Post link:
http://cometografia.es/mosaico-lovejoy-17ene2015/

Author:
José J. Chambó

M101: The Pinwheel Galaxy and supernova SN 2011fe (processed 2015) by Oleg Bryzgalov, on Flickr

The C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy comet and the Milky Way
Canon 40d mod. e Samyang 14mm f2,8 @f4 16 shots of 7 min. + 6x2 minutes for comet area with Nikon Nikkor 105 Ai-s and median/stack with Registar . Campo Felice, Italy - January 14, 2015


wide_ABE_comet1 by stefano_palmieri, on Flickr




Author: Stefano Palmieri - Rome, Italy

Narrowband Tarantula
https://www.flickr.com/photos/7776810@N07/16172625926/
Copyright: Alan C Tough
Apologies for the missing image- I've updated the link:

The Dust lanes , the Nebula, the Cluster and the Comet
Copyrights: Rishabh Jain Evening sky with Lovejoy and planets
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel Comet C/2014 Q2 (LoveJoy)
Copyrights: Adam Block Circumcomet
Copyrights: Jean-Luc Plouvier The Comet Lovejoy with Pleiades and California Nebula
Copyrights: Federico Pelliccia
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/150067/0/ Comet Lovejoy's tail meets M45
Copyrights: Ian Sharp
Full size: http://astro-sharp.com/images/comets/C2 ... 00_ids.jpg Light Pillars in Upstate NY
Copyrights: Ryan J. McDonell

Evening shot of Mars, Venus & Zodiacal Light
Copyrights: Oliver Stein A different look to a familiar nebula - Eta Carinae
Copyrights: Remus Chua The Sun
Copyrights: Marina Costa\Osservatorio Astronomico del Righi Zodiacal light, Lovejoy, Andromeda, meteor
Copyrights: Jeff Warner Eta Carinae
Copyrights: Stefano Pesci Atlas V and Canis Major
Copyrights: Jud McCranie Comet Lovejoy and the Pleiades
Copyrights: Ulf Jonsson C2014Q2 Lovejoy
Copyrights: Jose F. Hdez

Comet Lovejoy, Aldebaran, the Hyades and Pleiades
http://joaovieira.zenfolio.com/p722202736/e170c800e
Copyright: João Vieira

IC 63, IC 59 and Gamma Cassiopeiae
Full-size/details: http://jeffjastro.com/dso/IC63_24Oct14.htm
Copyright: Jeff Johnson (http://jeffjastro.com)
... Thank you for looking ...

The Great Foot of Sagittarius.
Starting with M8 as the heel and finishing with IC4685 as the toes, it really does look a giant foot wearing a flip flop (or thong for we Aussies)
Info
42x5min subs, imaged through a Takahashi FS78 using a .8x focal reducer. Canon CDS1100D modified/cooled camera. Captured using BackYardEOS, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and processed in Photo Shop CS3.
thanks for looking
Jeanette Lamb

The Rosette Nebula in Monceros

FSQ106/STL11000m/Baader HaLRGB
26.5 hours total exposure from West Chester, Pennsylvania



Full version at http://exosky.net/images/Rosette_full_final.jpg

Lovejoy comet with M45
Copyrights: Philippe Bernhard
Full size: http://www.astroccd.eu/images/M45_C2014 ... Medium.jpg Mercuryset
Copyrights: J. Gregorio Maza Comet Lovejoy mosaic (Jan.17,2015)
Copyrights: José J. Chambó
Full size: http://cometografia.es/mosaico-lovejoy-17ene2015/ Observing Variable Stars
Copyrights: Henry Throop Moon 20 years ago
Copyrights: Kevin Hartnett M45 and Pleaides
Copyrights: Dave Lane
Larger size: http://re-prop.com/apod/lj45.jpg Evening pair -Venus and Mercury
Copyrights: Paolo Lazzarotti Photo Atlas V MUOS-3 Launch 1-20-2015
Copyrights: Troy McClellan Conjunction
Copyrights: Mohamed Laaifat

Jupiter - January 17th
Copyrights: Damian Peach Venus and the Cheshire Cat Moon
Copyrights: Tom Hooten Valentine's picture
Copyrights: Sofia Ramstedt Solar Halo
Copyrights: Göran Strand Comet Lovejoy
Copyrights: Mitsunori Tsumura
Full size: http://park10.wakwak.com/~tsumura/ Jupiter Triple Shadow Transit Alert
Copyrights: John Chumack http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34379

Changes on the surface of Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Credit : ESA/ROSETTA/NAVCAM/FIRST LIGHT/JL Dauvergne Moon & Venus
Copyrights: Steven Collins

Venus and Mercury
Copyrights: Giovanni Zizzari Mars, Venus and Moon
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel M33
Copyrights: Jeff Johnson
http://jeffjastro.com/dso/M33_29Oct14.htm 3 sparkling open clusters
Copyrights: Fényes Lóránd
1: Praesepe 2: NGC2547 Owl Cluster California nebula NGC1499
Copyrights: David Lindemann

Jupiter, GRS coming in to view and Oval Ba looking pale with a inner dark ring. under above average conditions on January 22nd, 07:22ut.

The Evening Show

On the evening of January 21st, 2015 I captured this image on a tripod with my Canon 5D Mark III. The moon is featured prominently just after sunset illuminated by both the sun and earth shine. To the upper right of the moon shining brightly is the planet Venus. To the lower left Mercury can be seen. A couple of bright stars are also visible, to the upper left of Venus we see Deneb Al Giedi in Capricorn, and to the upper right of the moon is Sadalsuud in the constellation Aquarius. In the forground is my mount and telescope ready for a night of astrophotography. The evening show begins...

Image by Richard S. Wright Jr.
Web site: http://www.eveningshow.com/scopeless/th ... ow.png.php

the Rosette nebula in Hubble palette
http://coatesastrophotography.com/
Copyright: Steven Coates
Rosette nebula (aka NGC 2237, NGC 2238, NGC 2239, NGC 2244, NGC 2246) is an emission nebula associated with open clusters of stars located in the constellation of Monoceros, 5,200 light years away.
Imaged from Ocala, Florida through Ha, OIII and SII filters and processed using Hubble palette, assigning SII to RED, OIII to BLUE and Ha to GREEN.
20 minute exposures combined to a total of:
3 hours Ha (binned 1x1)
3 hours OIII (binned 1x1)
3 hours SII (binned 1x1)
Processed in Photoshop using Hubble palette
Imaging telescope: Orion 80mm EON (Focal length 480mm)
Imaging camera: QSI 683 wsg-8
Losmandy G-11 with Gemini II German equatorial mount

Lovejoy V Tail
Copyright: Jason Matter

Comet Lovejoy and Plejades above Paranal Observatory
http://www.atacamaphoto.com
Copyright: Gerhard Hüdepohl This image was taken on Jan 19, 2015 in Chile at the Very Large Telescope Observatory, Cerro Paranal.
Eight images were stacked, each image of 6 sec. exposure time with ISO 12800.

C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy


Data
FullRes

Recording / preprocessing: by Frank Iwaszkiewicz
Image processing: by Nico Geisler & Frank Iwaszkiewicz

Best Regards Deep-Sky-Astro Team

NGC2237 Rosette Nebula
Part of NGC2237 RosetteNebula , 6 IR panels Mosaic.
Image Credit:WISE-IRSA-Processin & Copyright : Mauro R.

http://www.astrobin.com/150845/

Snow comet over Yunnan
Copyright: Zhen Zhou http://tuchong.com/photo/31655437/