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A few new images from the last months...

Thank you for looking!

Larger versions at the link under the image.

Kfir Simon

NGC 1316+1317:


http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/162738449

Messier 8 and friends in Hubble color mapping:


http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/162656936

The Seagull nebula in Hubble color mapping:


http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/163062623

NGC 602 from the SMC:


http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/163062619

NGC 6188 - Hubble color mapping:


http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/162717967

Thor's helmet closeup:


http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/16271

Christmas tree region widefield:


http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/162738457

North america nebula in Narrowband:


http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/163487687

ARPs 71, 122, 172, and 272 in the Hercules Galaxy Cluster Abell 2151
Copyright: Lee Buck
http://lbuckphotos.smugmug.com/Astrophotography
Larger version here

Mono Lake, where this calcium carbonate pillar called Tufa formed in lakebed, has a great night sky condition. The milky way presents as a giant luminous band even by naked eye.

Fig 1. With strong airglow excited by unknown atmospheric activity hundred miles away, green light served as weak aurora standing by the side of milky way.
Fig 2. Tranquil environment without any wind makes Mono Lake a perfect mirror even to reflect Tufa. We can also se the Andromeda Galaxy, the most distant object seeing directly by naked eye, and a piece of milky way.

M20-Trifid-T3-50x300s by Michael Hultström, on Flickr

Messier 20, the Trifid Nebula, which is both beautiful and interesting since it includes all three kinds of nebulae. A bright emission nebula in pink, surrounded by a blue reflection nebula, and set through with dark nebulas.

It was captured using a remote 150mm telescope at iTelescope's observatory at Mayhill in New Mexico with a single shot colour SBIG camera. The total exposure is 50x300s or 4h10min, but equivalent to 4h10min for red and blue, and 8h20min green, ie. 16h40min when using separate filters.

Thanks for your consideration,

Cheers,

Michael

Milky Way from Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
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Milky Way taken early in the morning post moonset on 16-June-2016 from the dorms at CTIO. D810a w/16mm fisheye, 30seconds.
Copyright: John A. Blackwell

Summer Triangle
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Copyright: MArcin PAciorek Better resolution: http://www.astromarcin.pl/images/wide/m ... 680_ap.jpg

SH2-155 (Cave Nebula)

Milky Way summer
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Copyright: José Jiménez Priego

Milky Way summer
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Copyright: José Jiménez Priego

Delicate Arch. Arches National Park - Utah.

IC5146 - The Cocoon Nebula in Cygnus

Copyright: Gerhard Bachmayer

Larger version: http://www.pbase.com/gbachmayer/image/1 ... iginal.jpg

Dark Sky Reserve, Alqueva - Portugal
Shooting Star 08/07/2016 - 22:06

Dark Sky Reserve, Alqueva - Portugal by Cédric Pereira, no Flickr

moon in the bottom of the lake at sunset sundog

Big size pic: https://www.flickr.com/photos/48975225@ ... ed-public/

On the evening of 9th July, 2016. at slopes the Bakony Mountains, Hungary, some peacefully grazing cows were just finishing their late dinner while the crescent Moon and Jupiter hung above them among thin clouds - these created a reddish aureole around Moon. Although the cows are partly responsible for global warming with their methane exhausts, they sill make a landscape tranquil enough to include them in photoes.

Observing the Milky Way center
https://500px.com/photo/162232813/obser ... noz-mateos
Copyright: Juan Carlos Munoz-Mateos

Observing the Milky Way center with UT4, one of the four 8 m telescopes at Paranal Observatory. The laser is used to create an artificial "star", in order to correct the atmospheric turbulence. Canon 6D + Rokinon 14mm, f2.8, 30 sec, ISO6400.

Jupiter (June 15th.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach Jupiter (June 17th.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach The entire face of Jupiter (3 weeks before JOI.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach RCW 103
Copyrights: Steve Crouch n a village of La Mancha
Copyrights: Dani Caxete Comet PanSTARRS above the Milky Way
Copyrights: José J. Chambó Aldebaran occultation at sunrise
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel NGC6781 Planetary Nebula
Copyrights: Ron Brecher North Rim Grand Canyon
Copyrights: John Vermette Comet C/2013 X1 Panstarrs on Milky Way
Copyrights: Francesco Badalotti
M8 & M20
Copyrights: Dean Fournier
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/253968/0/ Rho Oph and dusty lanes
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/253814/0/?real=&mod= Milky Way and meteor
Copyrights: David Martin North America Nebula
Copyrights: Tolga Gumusayak Night rainbow
Copyrights: Payam Safaei Cove of the summer night
Copyrights: Petr Horálek Waning crescent Moon
Copyrights: Olli Arkko M8 and M20
Copyrights: José Francisco del Aguila

Path to the stars

Awakening

Summer Milky Way

Author's site: http://www.astroadventures.ru/
Copyright: Yuri Zvezndy

Caldwell 33 - The Eastern Veil Nebula
Copyrights: Andrei Bacila Milky Way over Trave
Copyrights: Michele Guzzini & Michele Montanari The Milky Way over the Peloponnese peninsula at the Corinthian Gulf
Copyrights: Alexandros Maragos Milky Way over Caldera de Taburiente in La Palma, Spain
Copyrights: Javier Martínez Morán IC4603, 6404, 4605 in Rho Ophiuchus
Copyrights: Dylan O'Donnell Milky Way over Scott Lake
Copyrights: Shan Rimmey Milky Way Galaxy over Chinese Monument Valley
Copyrights: L. Starwisper The Cone Nebula Region
Credits and copyrights: Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), Robert Gendler, Roberto Colombari and Eric Recurt
More sizes: http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/Cone ... ateur.html Milky Way above Halemaumau Crater at Kilaeua Volcano
Copyrights: Ben Cooper Milky Way over the Keck and Subaru telescopes atop Mauna Kea
Copyrights: Ben Cooper Milky Way over Bristlecone Forest
Copyrights: Jen Lee Milky Way over Mono Lake
Copyrights: Jen Lee Barnard 72 - The Snake Dark Nebula Complex
Copyrights: John Chumack A Surprising Planet with Three Suns
Image credit: ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1624/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36133

Maroon Bells Moonrise
Copyrights: Patrick Cullis IC 1396
Copyrights: Francesco Pelizzo Crepuscular rays
Copyrights: Jorgelina Alvarez Colourful sky
Copyrights: Jorgelina Alvarez North America and Pelican nebula
Copyrights: Juan I. Jimenez The starry waterfall
Copyrights: Petr Horálek

Milky Way
Copyrights: Sudhanshu Joshi Small Magellanic Cloud, Telescope dome and Large Magellanic Cloud
Copyrights: Sudhanshu Joshi NGC1309 and friends
Copyrights: Jeff Signorelli
Full size: http://www.skycrumbles.net/Full_Frame_P ... 9_full.jpg Venus belt
Copyrights: Daniele Cipollina Crescent Moon and Earthshine
Copyrights: Ian Griffin Noctilucent Clouds
Copyrights: Simon Lericque Mars & Saturn Above The Galactic Center
Copyrights: John Chumack M7 in a star carpet
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari New Kind of Black Hole Now Firmly Within Observers' Sight
Image credits: Aaron Smith/TACC/UT-Austin
An article: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2016-15 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36126

M20 Trifid
Copyrights: Salvatore Spinoso & Giosi Amante An Interstellar Nest
Copyrights: Terry Hancock Astronomers find evidence of water clouds in first spectrum of coldest brown dwarf
Image credits: Joy Pollard, Gemini Observatory/AURA
An article: http://news.ucsc.edu/2016/07/coldest-brown-dwarf.html http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36127

Cave Nebula
Copyrights: Evangelos Souglakos Malibu Sea Cave
Copyrights: Dhaval Patel Noctilucent Clouds
Copyrights: Tijn Sullot

Bug Nebula.

Taken in Ha OII RGB

Copyright: Paul Haese

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Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile
Los velos 2016v2 by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

Sh2-119
website http://moonrocksastro.com/wp-content/up ... less-b.jpg
Copyright: Paul C. Swift

Sh2-119 Sharpless 119,emission nebular in Narrowband by Paul C. Swift, on Flickr

M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy

Website: https://www.facebook.com/AIP.Astrophotography/
Copyright: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez.

Full resolution:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8713/2762 ... 2b66_o.png

sun, 1000"

IC1396a - The Elephant Trunk Nebula in 3-color narrowband by Transient Astronomers, on Flickr

Image credit and copyright Tom Bramwell / Tom Masterson