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LDN1235 - The Shark Nebula

Something different, that the comet is everywhere

From Parque Natural Hayedo De La Tejera Negra, Guadalajara, Spain.

Total exposure: 24h

Copyright: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez
Website: www.aipastroimaging.com

Full resolution (4467x3581):
https://aipastroimaging.com/wp-content/ ... 00_AIP.jpg
- attached also two zooms of the most interesting areas
https://fotos.subefotos.com/5c999e74575 ... 341a2o.png

Stacking and processing of 31 shots of the F3 Neowise from last July 22 from our HYPARCO Observatory in Andorra (Teruel)
At that time and according to Stellarium, the Comet had a magnitude of 4.1 (absolute 7.50) and was at a distance from the Sun of 0.627 AU (93.802 M Km).
With about 10 km of core diameter, the Coma was about 331,000 km in diameter and a length of the gas trail of about 3.54 M km.
Image data:
QHY168c camera with IR / UV filter and OMEGON Graphite 126 / 880mm on EQ8.
10 fr of 60sg at Gain 11 and Off 6 and 21 fr of 30 sg at equal G and Off
Stacked and processed with PixInsight 1.8.5

I can't insert an image

You can see it on Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2jrf6jp

Comet NEOWISE over the Boston Lighthouse.

I took this image from Hull, MA using a telephoto lens. This image was taken on 07/18/2020.

Exif - F2.8, 2.5 Seconds, ISO 6400.

Comet NEOWISE and Airglow from Craters of the Moon National Monument
www.mattdieterich.com
Copyright: Matt Dieterich I captured this stack of 15 x 1 minute photos of Comet NEOWISE from Craters of the Moon National Monument. The skies were dark and filled with amazing green airglow! I used a Nikon D850 and 70-200mm lens with a Radian tripod and Skywatcher tracker to keep the stars pinpoint.

Mason and Plana Craters

At the center of the image are the different Maison and Plana craters, which are shown in close contact

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Equipment
MEADE LX200 10 "UHTC
ZWO Optical ASI 290 MC
Filter: Planetary Baader L 1.25 "
Accessory: TeleVue Powermate 2.5x
Electronic focuser: Lupus by Fornaziero
Mount: Ioptron Cem60
Polar alignment: Sharcap
Capture: SharpCap V3.0
Processing: Photoshop CS6, AutoStakkert AutoStackert !,
Registax 6

Seeing: 4
Transparency: 7
May 30, 2020 4:50 AM

São Paulo-SP-Brazil
Copyright: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes

Moon Halo captures Jupiter & Scorpius
Copyright: Steve Johnston A 22 degree halo around the Moon with Jupiter (lower right) and the majority of Scorpius (top) both inside the halo. Saturn is outside the halo near Jupiter. Taken form Melbourne, Victroria, Australia on 31 July 2020. Technical details: Canon 6D, Sigma 24mm @ f/5, ISO-400, 1 x 10s.

Hi,

Here is my Andromeda Galaxy M31.
http://yann-sainty.com/m31_FINAL_apod.png



Full here : https://flic.kr/p/2jryTk6

14h de poses during 5 nights :
- 130x5’ with L-Pro Bortle 6
- 250x60’ with L-Pro Bortle 6
- 75x120’ Bortle 4
- 60x180’ with L-Enhance Bortle 6
- 25x240' with L-Pro Bortle 6
- 45x240’ with L-Enhance Bortle 6

The idea was to get H-Alpha parts with L-Enhance filter.

I'm really proud to get this with just an EQ3-2 mount without guiding !*

Skywatcher Evostar 72ED
Corrector / reductor 0.85
Eq3-2 Mount
Canon 60D
Without guiding

NEOWISE (C / 2020 F3)

My contribution to the comet, unfortunately we got it very low, with a lot of atmospheric turbulence.

BEST DETAILS AND QUALITY
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Equipment:
Apo ESPRIT 150mm
Asi 6200mc
95 x 10sec
Mount Cem60
07/23/2020
Munhoz- MG- Brazil

Processing and capture:
Software: Pixinsight, Adobe Photoshop, SGP, PHD, Polemaster, SharpCap

Copyright: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes

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Greetings all,
I would like to submit this recent integration. I love how the Cosmos mimics life on Earth at times, or does life mimic the Cosmos

LND 1235 The Dark Shark Nebula
Distance: 650 ly

Copyrights:
Data acquisition/processing: Mark Murrin, Instagram
Location: Lower Burrell, PA - NexDome (The Orion Observatory)

Total Integration 14.8 hours (120sec exposures)
Dates: 7/17, 7/18, 7/27, 7/28/2020
Skies: Bortle 5
Gain: 121
Flats/Flats Darks/Darks
Filter: Lpro 2"
Astro Pixel Processor stack and Light Pollution removal + star calibration and PixInsight Refinements

Celestron EdgeHD 11"
Mount CEM120
Hyperstar V3
Asi294Mc pro
Svbony 60mm guidescope with Asi290mm Mini

markm75 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 01, 2020 2:40 am
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Greetings all,
I would like to submit this recent integration. I love how the Cosmos mimics life on Earth at times, or does life mimic the Cosmos

LND 1235 The Dark Shark Nebula
Distance: 650 ly

Copyrights:
Data acquisition/processing: Mark Murrin, Instagram
Location: Lower Burrell, PA - NexDome (The Orion Observatory)

Total Integration 14.8 hours (120sec exposures)
Dates: 7/17, 7/18, 7/27, 7/28/2020
Skies: Bortle 5
Gain: 121
Flats/Flats Darks/Darks
Filter: Lpro 2"
Astro Pixel Processor stack and Light Pollution removal + star calibration and PixInsight Refinements

Celestron EdgeHD 11"
Mount CEM120
Hyperstar V3
Asi294Mc pro
Svbony 60mm guidescope with Asi290mm Mini

Welcome to Starship Asterisk*, Mark! That's a fine picture of this dark nebula!

Ann

Jupiter and Moon conjuntion on 1st August 2020.
In the image you can see Jupiter with 3 moons ( Europa , Ganimedes and Calisto from more close to more far away)
The cloud give a nice light to this view.

Hope you like it

Carlos

www.loscielosdetenerife.es
https://www.facebook.com/vazquezdarias

Comet NEOWISE C/2020 F3 (c-lrgbsho).

Total integration: 37 minutes/2210 seconds (37m L + 7-8m for RGBSHO).

Cameras: *QHY163M (16mp mono) and **QHY247C (24mp OSC) CMOS cooled to -15 degrees C.
Telescopes: *Takahashi FC100DF Steinheil fluorite doublet and **Stellarvue SV70T triplet apochromat refractors @ f/4.9 and @ f/4.8.
Reducers: *Takahashi FC-35 (0.66x) and **SFFR70-APO (0.8x).
Mount: Celestron AVX.
Filters: 1.25" Astrodon 5nm Ha, 3nm O3, 3nm S2, Orion SkyGlow.
Software: TheSkyX Pro, SharpCap, PixInsight.

Full sized version: http://ram.org/images/space/scope/1.4+7 ... ho_37m.jpg Full sized version: http://ram.org/images/space/scope/1.4+7 ... ho_37m.jpg Inline images with reduced quality uploaded to the forum. Full sized versions of both these and the LRGB and L only images are also available at: https://www.astrobin.com/d5zk98/

From my description on AstroBin: "I rarely see people taking narrowband data of comets, so I thought that was interesting. You can see both tails in the narrowband only image (B) are mostly green indicating hydrogen signal but the comet head is purple indicating a combination of sulphur and oxygen and the gases right behind are cyan indicating some combination of hydrogen and oxygen. The LRGB image (C) on the other hand shows the typical green halo of comets that's due to the presence of carbon. There's some internal structure to the body (i.e., the actual ball of rock and ice is clearly distinguishable). Finally the different sets of images combine to make one that is clearly brighter/better in my opinion even though I have a soft spot for the narrowband only image. That said, having processed my very first comet, I do wish I had spent more time capturing additional data."

As always, thanks for looking!

--Ram

This was taken from my backyard in Brisbane, AUS during the Lunar Eclipse in July 2018. I used a Nikon D7100 and attached it to a 10" Newtonian which was sitting atop of an NEQ6 Pro mount. I took a shot every 5 mins with varying exposures at the telescopes native f4.8.

4 of the images at the 7-9 o'clock position are composites of 2 images to bring about more detail.

I give public license to this image, do what you will with it.
LUNAR ECLIPSE by David Moore, on Flickr

M16 Eagle nebula with pillars of creation and the fairy
This image is made with
- Celestron C11hd at 2800 mm focal length
- main imager zwo Asi6200mm pro
- guiding Zwo OAG and zwo asi290 mono
- filter astronomik 6nm SHO 30x300s each
for a total of 7,5H hours of integration time.
This picture was taken from Mougins, in the south-east of France

The image in full resolution is on Astrobin
https://www.astrobin.com/lptye7/?nc=user




(C) Georges ATTARD 30/07/2020

Moon and Jupiter conjunction
https://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa The image, taken during the night of August 1, 2020, shows the conjunction between an almost full Moon, surrounded by a beautiful corona, and the superbright Jupiter netx to the the temple section of the Mole Antonellian, a 167.5 high monument considered as the symbol of Turin, that houses the National Museum of Cinema and was the inspiration for the official emblem of the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Best regards

Stefano De Rosa

MOON IN COLOR

BEST DETAILS (CLICK ON TOTAL RESOLUTION)
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EQUIPAMENTS:
NEW ZWO ASI 6200MC PRO COLED
Esprit 150mm
Filter baader ir cut

The moon is usually seen in subtle shades of gray or yellow.
The different colors are recognized to correspond to actual differences in the chemical composition of the lunar surface. Blue hues reveal areas rich in ilmenite, which contains iron, titanium and oxygen, mainly titanium, while orange and purple show relatively poor titanium and iron regions.
White areas are taller areas that are most exposed to the sun.
Trips to the moon have already been indicated by similar images.
Made with saturation technique, moon in color.


Date: . 07/12/2020 02:45
Local: Sao Paulo - SP - Brazil

Processing and capture:
PixInsight 1.8 PI 1.8, Photoshop CS6, SharpCap V3.0 Sharcap, AutoStakkert AutoStackert!, Registax 6, PhotoScape

Copyright: Fernanndo Oliveira de Menezes
Email: Barretosmed@hotmail.com

Ann wrote: ↑Tue Jul 28, 2020 5:56 am

mmamtani wrote: ↑Tue Jul 28, 2020 3:29 am Little planet image (360° Panorama) image of the night sky showing Comet NEOWISE, Milkyway, and the Moon. This image was taken on 25th July near Jaffrey, New Hampshire.

5 Fisheye images were stitched together to create this pano.neowise-360-fb.jpg

Welcome to Starship Asterisk*. mmamtani! That's a very nice image showing the Big Dipper, too! And I have to wonder, is that Jupiter?

Ann

Thank you Ann. To my knowledge - Jupiter and Saturn near the milky way.

Hello folks here M42
Telescope: SharpStar 150 f2,8
Guide Scope:Evoguide
Mount : Skywatcher HEQ5
Imaging camera: ZWO 2600MC
Guiding camera: ZWO 290 MC
Filters: None
Plate solving: SGpro
Imaging software: Sgpro
Guiding software: PHD2
Processing software: Pixinsight
Frames: 60X60s,60x10s,1x1200s,2x600s exposure@100 Gain
https://www.flickr.com/photos/189096298 ... 379588457/

The meeting: Orion, Scorpius and Rukapillan

Place: Villarrica volcano, La Araucania region, Chile.
Date: January 17th, 2020
Time: 04:00 AM
Story: It is well known that the constellations of Orion and Scorpion mark the beginning and end of the seasons in the year.
In fact, in Greek mythology it is said that the goddess Gea created a giant scorpion to chase the hunter Orion, and thus protect the animals and humans of the Earth , but that in a fatal encounter, where both were already dying, the gods decided to commemorate the Scorpion by putting him in the sky, and Orion not to leave him in oblivion but if by way of torture, the Scorpion would pursue him eternally, so then never we see both contelations together in the night sky.
Except in certain latitudes (Here is latitude 39°S) at certain times, with enough opening to the East and West, we can appreciate these 2 giants, and thus also have this panoramic view of 3 arms of the Milky Way: Orion, Carina and Sagittarius.
It was also a night of company with the most active volcano in Chile, the Rukapillan (Villarrica volcano) and this chemamull (sacred mapuche sculpture) at its feet.

Equipment: Nikon d850, Lens Nikkor 14-24 f2.8 and Tripod Benro GA168TB1
Exif of each photo: 14mm f2.8 ISO 6400 30"
Panorama: 20 photos

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