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hello,
please find here an image of IC 405
self made newton 275 mm F/3.3 on ap 900 GTO
20 min exposure with EOS 5DMII 800 iso
process by iris and photomatix 4.2 PRO with detail enhancer developped by HDRsoft
image Philippe TOSI (Ariege-France)

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IC 405 (Flaming Star Nebula) - IC 410 Narrowband
Copyright: Luca Moretti
http://www.astrobin.com/users/remidone/
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hello,
here a new HDR image with C.14 and wratten 29 filter.
lumenera 24x36
4 videos recombined with registax 5 (100 images/ exposures), CS5 and fusion of 2 exposures of 0.015 and 0.008 sec with this incredible software :
Photomatix 4.2 pro developped by HDRsoft.
fusion with normal mode.
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image Philippe TOSI (FRANCE-Nîmes)

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http://www.hdr-sky.com/data/tosi/lune%2 ... menera.jpg

Orion and Horsehead
http://astronomiapampeana.com.ar/foto/9 ... ehead.html
copyright Leonardo Julio

Sharpless 2-260: Twisted clouds at the end of Orion's "Bow"
http://lbuckphotos.smugmug.com/Astrophotography
Copyright: Lee Buck
Exposure: 23x30min (1x1) H-alpha only.

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Hi all,
"Room With A View" View from the lookout up on top of Mt Buffalo National Park in Australia.

At the top of the image is the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) which are dwarf satellite galaxies of our own Milky Way. The LMC is home to the very large star forming region of the Tarantula Nebula (brighter greenish patch). The bright spot just to the right of the SMC is the second largest globular cluster in the night sky 47 Tucanae which contains millions of stars. In the lower section of the image to the left of the hut are Alpha and Beta Centauri, the closest star system to our own Sun. Above that in the Milky Way is the Southern Cross (Crux) Constellation and the dark Coal Sack Nebula. Further along the plane of the Milky Way is the Carina Nebula star forming region.

I love my southern hemisphere skies.

Couldn't resist a selfy under the stars at the same location. Cheers
Greg
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IC410
http://pbase.com/djrlx90
Copyright: David Rosenthal

IC410, commonly known as the Tadpoles, is a dusty and dense emission nebula in the constellation Auriga. I chose to shoot this using narrowmand filters for two reasons. Firstly my local light polllution is really horrid as I live only 20 miles NW of New York City and these filters do a great job of blcoking it out. Secondly, the Ha, OIII and SII filters really give you an interresting view into the chemical make-up of the nebula and let you see the ionization fronts clearly. It lends a 3D like appearance to thje object, almost like the Tadpolse are diving into a pool of water to escape the fire closing in on them.

Camera : SXVR-H18 with AstroDon Gen II E-Series filters
Optics : Borg/Pentax 125SD at f/4.6
Mount: Losmandy G11 Gemini I
Location : Midland Park, NJ

The image was shot with narrowband filters to highlight some of the physical processes going on here - i.e. I attempted to get an image with a little scientific value. I shot with three filters that record just the light that's emitted by ionized Hydrogen, ionized Sulfur and ionized Oxygen. I then mapped the data to specific colors. Everything in red in the image is caused by the Sulfur. Green is Hydrogen and blue is Oxygen - aka the Hubble Palette. It shows a bit of what's going on in there and just looks cool at the same time. The effort to construct this image involved combining 106 different images totalling just over 19 hours of telescope time.

M42 - Hubble Palette
Dates: December 17th, 2012 through January 4th, 2013
Location: Goodyear, Arizona
Telescope: Explore Scientific ED127CF Refractor - 127mm f/7.5 Carbon Fiber Triplet
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO CP3
Camera: SBIG ST-8300m and SBIG FW8-8300 filter wheel
Guiding: SBIG ST-i Mono and SBIG OAG-8300 off-axis guider
Exposure: 19.1 hours - 3nm filters, subs of 30s, 180s and 1800s
Capture: CCD AutoPilot v5, Maxim DL 5.18
Calibration & Processing: PixInsight 1.7

A larger image can be found at: M42 - Hubble Palette

Hello,

A rare phenomene of double transit of galilean moon's shadows hapened the 2013/01/23 and clouds just permits me to capture it.
Transparency was good but bad layers made variable conditions during the capture from south-west of France.
SC280 dmk21 F/d 27 (L)RGB

Jupiter Io & Ganymede
http://www.astrosurf.com/ers/Accueil.html
Copyright: Emmanuel SUBES Best regards
Emmanuel

The Flame Nebula in Orion : NGC 2024
http://www.astrophoto.it

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Fabrizio

hello,
HDR image of moon with 24x36 lumenera
exposures of 0.015 and 0.08 sec
process by registax 5 CS5 and fusion by Photomatix 4.2 Pro
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image Philippe TOSI (FRANCE-Nîmes)
http://www.hdr-sky.com/data/tosi/APOD/l ... menera.jpg

A 2% Waning Moon and Venus
The Moon, which was 2% of full and the Planet Venus were in close approach on the morning of January 10, 2013. I shot this pictures with my Canon EOS Rebel Xsi Digital Camera from my home in Neptune, New Jersey. I used my Canon 75-300mm lens set at 300mm. Camera was set on manual. Fstop was f/5.6. Exposure was for 1 sec. ISO was 800. Visually pleasing for the length of time it was visible to the naked eye.
http://www.rddnj.com
Copyright: Russell E. King

A 2% Waning Moon and Venus
The Moon, which was 2% of full and the Planet Venus were in close approach on the morning of January 10, 2013. I shot this pictures with my Canon EOS Rebel Xsi Digital Camera from my home in Neptune, New Jersey. I used my Canon 75-300mm lens set at 300mm. Camera was set on manual. Fstop was f/5.6. Exposure was for 1 sec. ISO was 800. Visually pleasing for the length of time it was visible to the naked eye.
http://www.rddnj.com
Copyright: Russell E. King
http://www.rddnj.com/RussellsVenusMoonB1102013.jpg

A Deep View of Orion in H-Alpha
Copyright: Josh Lake, Olmsted Observatory Seven hours of H-alpha data collected on M42 with 20 minute subexposures. Processed in PixInsight.

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Flame Horsehead Classic!
http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann All rights reserved

NGC 281 in Ha
http://hardcity.perso.sfr.fr/hardcity/N ... venue.html
Copyright: Philippe DURVILLE

larger image : http://hardcity.perso.sfr.fr/hardcity/N ... 281_2.html
http://hardcity.perso.sfr.fr/hardcity/a ... city-p.jpg

Sh2-222/NGC 1579 in Perseus
Copyright: Jon Talbot
http://www.starscapeimaging.com
Higher res images here: http://www.starscapeimaging.com/page100/index.html
HaRGB image.
Processing: PixInsight 1.7

The Double Cluster
http://flic.kr/p/dKAU4N
Copyright: Dustin Scriven

The Double Cluster by Dustin Scriven, on Flickr

Canon Rebel T3 (1100D) Unmodified
Exposure 68x60sec ISO 800 (1 hour and 8 minutes) though BackyardEOS
Imaged with an AT65EDQ f/6.5 at 420mm of focal length.
The scope rode on a Celestron CG-5, guided with an Orion Starshoot Autoguider in an Orion 50mm mini guidescope, ran in PhD, and dithered with BackyardEOS.
The image is fully calibrated in DeepSkyStacker with darks, flats, bias, and flat darks. Post processing was done in CS6.

Full Moon over Rome
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa Image taken on December 27, 2012

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Stefano

hello,
HDR image of moon with 24x36 lumenera
exposures of 0.015 and 0.08 sec
process by registax 5 CS5 and fusion by Photomatix 4.2 Pro
best regards

image Philippe TOSI (FRANCE-Nîmes)

IC 405 the Flaming Star nebula
IC 405 the Flaming Star nebula
Ocala, FL
Constellation: Auriga
1,500 light years distant
Imaged December 19, 2012, January 9 and January 10, 2013.
RGB data: 6 minute exposure (each channel) stacked in DSS for a total of 3 hours
Ha data: 15minute exposure stacked in DSS for a total of 4 hours.
http://coatesastrophotography.com/p8406 ... #h51effdd0
Copyright: Coates Astrophotography

NGC1333 is a reflection nebula with the bluish hues of starlight reflected by dust on the edge of a large star-forming molecular cloud in Perseus. It is a dusty region with contrasting emission in red jets and glowing gas from recently formed stars. Dark nebula Bernard 1 is south and Bernard 2 is north of NGC 1333 in this image (north in upper right).
This is a 4.9 hr LRGB image taken 12/9/12 at Mercey Hot Springs, CA.
http://www.astrophotogallery.org/member ... c1333.html
Copyright: Jeff Weiss

Hello,

This is my first try at Hubble data. I looked for something not often processed.
I filled in the gaps with Photoshop’s content aware fill.
This was a fun little project!
This is part of a system known as Hickson Compact Group 7, consisting of four NGC galaxies.
Lenticular at upper right: NGC 0196
Blue spiral at upper middle: NGC 0197
Red spiral at left: NGC 0192
Spiral not in FOV is NGC 0201

Data set:
HST_10787_20_ACS_WFC_F435W(Blue)
HST_10787_20_ACS_WFC_F606W(Green)
HST_10787_20_ACS_WFC_F814W(Red)


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NGC281 in Ha
http://hardcity.perso.sfr.fr/hardcity/N ... venue.html
Copyright: Philippe DURVILLE
Larger image : http://hardcity.perso.sfr.fr/hardcity/N ... 281_2.html