Recent Submissions: 2011 January 5-8

[marco lorenzi]

That's a splendid, fantastic image, Marco Lorenzi! It is amazingly beautiful. The colors are absolutely stunning, some of them vivid, some of them subtle. And it is the first time ever that I have actually seen emission nebula Sharpless 34 (the nebula at upper left) in a picture of the Lagoon and Trifid region. I wonder what causes this nebula. Could it be the combined ultraviolet light from all the hot bright stars in this area?

I had indeed discovered Sharpless 22 before. That nebula is centered on O type star HD 162978.

Anyway, that is a brilliant, lovely picture! Thank you, Marco Lorenzi!

Ann

Thanks Ann, you are very kind! Colors in this part of the sky are really amazing, I am happy to have been able to get them in their glory

Clear Skies
Marco

[Emil Ivanov]

M 1 (The Crab Nebula)
http://www.emilivanov.com
Copyright: Niki Petrov, Yanko Nikolov, Emil Ivanov

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The image was taken on November 14th 2010 with 2m RCC telescope at Rozhen National Observatory (Bulgaria)
Image details can be seen here: http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/ ... _11_14.htm
A full resolution (1266 x 1249 pixels) : http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/ ... 1_14_b.jpg

[Chris Schur]

IC443 - Supernova Remnant
http://www.schursastrophotography.com/astromain.html
Copyright: Chris Schur

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This extremely faint object in near the feet of Gemini is the result of a star exploding several thousand years ago, in creating a nebula that was formed the same way the more famous and well known Veil nebula in Cygnus came about. Spanning over a half a degree in extent, the progenitor star is located within the lower brighter portion. The brilliant star is Eta Geminorium "Propus", and is 3.3rd magnitude of a very orange type M3. South is up in this image.

Optics: 8" f/4 Newtonian Astrograph w/Baader MPCC Coma Corrector
Platform: Astrophysics AP1200
Camera: Hutech Modified Canon XTi @ ISO800
Exposure: 17 x 5m
Location: Payson, Arizona