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Subject: IC 410 The Tadpoles (Ha, OIII, SII + RGB for stars)
Copyrights: James Collins

Larger image URL:
http://jimstar11.com/IC410_Tri_apod.jpg
Web Site: Meadow View Observatory
http://jimstar11.com/

hi to all
lovejoy comet with newton 360 mm F/3.75
EOS 5DMII 25 min 800 iso
regards image : Philippe TOSI

Orion Nebula
http://www.eprisephoto.com
Copyright: Anna Morris

Maybe this could be the first amateur image of this object (vdB 47).. a curious orange one..¡¡
There are not clear references into the Sharpless catalog:[url]http://galaxymap.org...w/sharpless/243[/url] and just some minimal explanations..but I can´t locate any clear image of it.

vdB 47 is a reflection nebula associated with an emission visible in the constellation of Taurus. It is a cloud of gas that surrounds the star HD37387, an orange supergiant of spectral class K1Ib,placed at a distance of 6500 light years, at the inner end of the Perseus arm. The nebula has a distinctly orange colour due to the radiation of this star ,having an effective temperature of 4500 kelvin.This cloud may be associated with the region of star formation , which also belongs to the maser DG68 and the IRAS source 05363+2317,together with some sources o radio waves ( Reference: Wikipedia).

A link to full image : http://afesan.es/Deepspace/slides/Vdb%2 ... us%29.html
Clear skies¡
Antonio

Hi! I'm only a humble visualist, but I got this shot with my camera today from my garden, venus and the moon were too beautiful in the dask.. Hope you like it! Here's the link to my tweet https://twitter.com/valvonautadario/sta ... 0730928128
Ciao!!

Curiosity panorama on Sol 467
Images credit: NASA, assembled by Felipe Gallego M104
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari2070
Full size can be found here: http://www.astrobin.com/full/65956/0/?real=&mod= NGC
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari
Full size can be found here: http://www.astrobin.com/full/66039/0/?real=&mod= Rosette Nebula
Copyrights: Albert Barr IC417
Copyrights: Adam Block
Full size: http://skycenter.arizona.edu/sites/skyc ... ic417s.jpg

Comet Lovejoy and Mörby castleruin
Copyrights: P-M Hedén Comet ISON Perihelion
Copyrights: Uğur İKİZLER Comet Lovejoy
Copyrights: László Francsics Lovejoy and windmill
Copyrights: Ladanyi Tamas C/2013 R1 Lovejoy
Copyrights: Ian Sharp

Comet Lovejoy
5 dec 2013, from 4 to 6 UT
Inset with Larson-Sekanina filter to show jets.
Copyright: Lorenzo Comolli
http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/index2.htm

venus and moon on the roman bridge bridge lusitania

Frontier Fields: Abell 2744
Credit/Source: High Level Science Product / STScI, processing by Judy Schmidt
The data isn't in the HLA quite yet but a page with all the data is available for anyone to look at and process. Really cool lens models here! These were just posted today, possibly while I was writing this post because the blog seemed to update suddenly while I was viewing it!

Deep field Fornax Group

43 hours of data taken over 12 nights.
Copyright Paul Haese
Click herefor larger image.

Conjunction of Crescent Moon & Venus
Credit: Brad Goldpaint
http://goldpaintphotography.com/

NGC7293 Helix nebula
Takahashi TOA-130, Apogee Alta U-8300. Bi-colored version. 5nm Ha and O3 filters for a total exposure of 18H40. Process with Pixinsight. Image made at home 30km south of Paris (suburb).
http://hardcity.perso.sfr.fr/hardcity/N ... venue.html
Copyright: Philippe Durville
Larger image : http://hardcity.perso.sfr.fr/hardcity/a ... tyfull.jpg

12-5-13 Crescent Moon / Venus over Peteroglyphics in Saguaro National Park near Tucson, Arizona.

Comet C/2013R1 (Lovejoy) on December 5th 2013
Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov @ Irida Observatory This is a five panel mosaic. The comet's tail covers over 5 degrees. In the inlay is shown a map of the constellations Corona Borealis and Bootes, which demonstrates the dimensions of the comet's tail. More Information and hi-res images can be found on the website

Moon and Venus over the Castle of Valentino
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa Please find above the image of the conjunction between crescent Moon and Venus over the Castle of Valentino, located along the Po river in Turin, Italy

Best regards

Stefano

Orion @ 50mm Ha(clip12)+RGB (60Da + Polarie)
Higher res @
http://westcoastpics23.blogspot.com.au/?view=flipcard

Sept astres dont trois lunes et deux vénus



La planète Vénus semble getter le passage lunaire. Dans cette vue de Pignans en Provence on a représenté la position relative de la Lune les 4 et 5 décembre 2013.
La Lune voyage vers la gauche du tableau et manque Vénus de quelques encablures.
Cette fois-ci , elle est trop haute pour espérer une occultation.

La tour est celle appelée « Sarazine » du joli village provençal de Pignans.

Elle est surmontée comme souvent d’un campanile, élément d’architecture extérieur, c’est une spécificité du Sud de la France. Ils sont destinés à supporter et à embellir un carillon d’horloge publique. Toujours réalisé en ferronnerie il permet au mistral de passer outre. Mais celui de Pignans a la particularité d’être un campanile d’un type particulier, c’est un campanile cosmologique.

Quand la sphère du haut devient Soleil et que tournent autour d'elle 6 astres... elle évoque les sept jours de la semaine.
La lune pour le lundi, Mars pour le mardi, Mercure pour le mercredi, Jupiter pour le jeudi, Vénus pour le vendredi et Saturne pour le samedi. Ce sont les 6 astres qui étaient alors connus des passants et des ferronniers d’art. Pourquoi le jour du soleil, (Sunday en anglais, Sonndag en allemand) s’appelle dimanche, ça on l’ignore.

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In pidgin english :

Seven asters three moons and two Venus

The young moon seems to cross over the planet Venus.
In this watercolour made near Pignans in Provence shows the relative position of the Moon on 4 and 5 December 2013.
The Moon travel to the left of the watercolour and is missing Venus.
This time, it is too far to expect any occultation.

The tower shown is called "Sarasin tower" this one is build in the pretty Provencal village of Pignans.

It is surmounted by a bell as often here southern France. They are intended to support and public clock. Always in ironwork it allows the mistral to go through. This campanile is of a particular type, it is a cosmological campanile.

The top sphere is the Sun and rotate around it 6 planets... in French it evokes the seven days of the week.
Moon for Monday, Mars for Tuesday, Mercury for Wednesday, Jupiter for Thursday, Venus for Friday and Saturday for Saturn. These are the six planets that were then known by art ironworkers.

Why some translations are not faithful that we don’t know.
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Watercolour made by Michel Deconinck http://astro.aquarellia.com/

This very morning, December 3th, from a nice dark sky area in Néoules (Provence - France), thanks to my friends I made 5 sketches with :

• a 80/400mm refractor (10x) for the large field and the long tail,
  a Dobson 12”, 58x and 150x for the coma around the nucleus
  and a 102/1000 refractor (25x and 100x) for the intermediate view.

I used miscellaneous EP from 40mm to 10mm Delos, sometime with filter.
I made this watercolor just after, at home, the paper size is 65cm/25cm. The main idea was to put together the different magnifications on a single view.
Something funny, to sketch the tail, I used a light sand paper to take away the pigment from place to place; this sand feels like real comet dust : scale 1/1...



Clear sky to you all
Michel Deconinck http://astro.aquarellia.com/

My first time here.

I did not know of Starship Asterisk. I found this site trying to figure out how to submit an APOD.

So much candy for the mind. It is easy to loose minutes, hours, even days just looking around.

Here is a link to a photo I took. Sort of appears unworldly. A planet rising in the mist over a watery world of marsh and green. It is actually a fully rainbow. The image is
http://www.olt.net/Redding_Observatory/ ... G_0505.jpg

Here it is as a tiny url http://tinyurl.com/lyuvgyg

I guess the next thing I need to learn to do is upload an image here. Back to reading the manual.

Terry - W6LMJ

Hmm, I thought for sure this would be the place to submit an image for APOD but I still do not see a attachment tool.

Terry - W6LMJ

Following a steady learning curve.

The image above was taken on my way to image comet IOSON.

Planning and preparing for an astronomical event is often more than half the fun. Weather plays a big part in the planning and execution. If the weather doesn’t cooperate, those of us engaged in chasing shadows check the weather all along the path of an event and may pick our observation site based on the most favorable weather forecast, which in turn dictates the most favorable location at which to set up and observe. These factors and others found me in Tomoka State Park on the east coast of Florida setting up to image C/2012 S1 (ISON).

Much of Tomoka is flat marsh with slow moving water ways filled with fish. Fish breaking the water, feeding was a constant. During our first “windshield” tour of the Park we drove through the trees into an open area of marsh looking to the east and beheld a glorious rainbow. The landscape was so strange. The large, apparent orb filled the horizon, it gave the appearance of a planet risen on the edge of a strange world.

It was one of the those rare sights in which both ends of the rainbow were visible. We stopped to take a picture. All I had with me was an iPhone, and so I set about figuring out how to best capture the event with that device. First, I imaged both ends of the rainbow.

Next, I tried shooting a movie! Then I recalled the iPhone has a panorama imaging feature. I gave that a try, even though the camera was hand held, it seemed to work.
Finally, I reshot the panoramic image to exclude the marsh to the left of the frame, changing the field of view upward to capture the full height of the rainbow.

My results are displayed above. This all occurred in the span of just a few minutes. It was a lucky shot and an amazing event to observe. After the experience I am left with the erie feel of the landscape and subdued colors. I have searched for other images of a full rainbow, but have found none to compare to the event I witnessed and imaged.

Terry - W6LMJ

moon and venus, close to home

http://astrob.in/67031/C/