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Orion Sword
http://www.tamanti.it/Nebulae/Orion_Sword_FSQ_new.htm

Copyright: Andrea Tamanti
http://www.tamanti.it/astronomy.htm

Gegenschein in Taurus
Copyright: Petr Horálek, Úpice observatory (http://www.obsupice.cz/new/_ohvezdarne. ... ohvezdarne)
Stack of 44x15 s, dark frames applied (Canon 550D, Samyang 24 mm/1.4, f2.8, 1600 ISO).
Higher dimension (1): http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/gallery/ ... 1200px.jpg
Higher dimension (2): http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/gallery/ ... _popis.jpg

Geminids Fifeball -5mag

During last night star observation at Korakio Oros, Pilida Corfu I was steering the beautiful dark nightsky when suddenly a Fireball so bright came up to the sky and scared me so much that μy heart was beating like crazy, Spectacular moment! Luckily I have put my Canon eos 40D with the 15mm fisheye lens at right place at the right time!!!


Here in better quality: http://www.astrovox.gr/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=15937

Eta carina taken in Réunion island with an Epsilon Takahashi 8" f/d=3 and EOS 7D baader at 800 iso.
2min X 30 = 1 hour.


jérôme ASTREOUD (FRANCE)

Messier7 and barnard 287 taken in Réunion island with an Epsilon Takahashi 8" f/d=3 and EOS 7D baader at 800 iso. 2min X 7 = 14 minutes.



jérôme ASTREOUD (FRANCE)

IC 4628 and NGC 6231 taken in Réunion island with an Epsilon Takahashi 8" f/d=3 and EOS 7D baader at 800 iso. 2min X 30= 1hour.



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Messier 8 and Messier20 taken in Réunion island with an Epsilon Takahashi 8" f/d=3 and EOS 7D baader at 800 iso. 2min X 10= 20 minutes.



jérôme ASTREOUD (FRANCE)

Omega centaurus taken in Réunion island with an Epsilon Takahashi 8" f/d=3 and EOS 7D baader at 800 iso. 1minX10= 10 minutes.



jérôme ASTREOUD (FRANCE)

NGC 3576 and NGC 3603 taken in Réunion island with an Epsilon Takahashi 8" f/d=3 and EOS 7D baader at 800 iso. 2minX20= 40 minutes.



jérôme ASTREOUD (FRANCE)

Eta carina taken in Réunion island with an Epsilon Takahashi 8" f/d=3 and EOS 7D baader at 800 iso.
2min X 30 = 1 hour.


jérôme ASTREOUD (FRANCE)

Eta carina taken in Réunion island with an Epsilon Takahashi 8" f/d=3 and EOS 7D baader at 800 iso.
2min X 30 = 1 hour.


high resolution http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/20 ... essai.jpg/
jérôme ASTREOUD (FRANCE)

Messier 7 and Barnard 287 taken in Réunion island with an Epsilon Takahashi 8" f/d=3 and EOS 7D baader at 800 iso.
2min X 7 = 14 minutes.


high resolution http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/80 ... finwe.jpg/
jérôme ASTREOUD (FRANCE)

IC 4628 and NGC 6231 taken in Réunion island with an Epsilon Takahashi 8" f/d=3 and EOS 7D baader at 800 iso.
2min X 30 = 1 hour.


high resolution http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/54 ... 1web2.jpg/
jérôme ASTREOUD (FRANCE)

NGC 3576 and NGC 3603taken in Réunion island with an Epsilon Takahashi 8" f/d=3 and EOS 7D baader at 800 iso.
2min X 20 = 40 minutes.


high resolution http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/32 ... 03web.jpg/
jérôme ASTREOUD (FRANCE)

Omega centaurus taken in Réunion island with an Epsilon Takahashi 8" f/d=3 and EOS 7D baader at 800 iso.
1min X 10 = 10 minutes.


high resolution http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/60 ... inweb.jpg/
jérôme ASTREOUD (FRANCE)

Messier 8 and Messier20 taken in Réunion island with an Epsilon Takahashi 8" f/d=3 and EOS 7D baader at 800 iso. 2min X 10= 20 minutes.



high resolution http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/85 ... nweba.jpg/
jérôme ASTREOUD (FRANCE)

Jupiter 0n December 10th, 03:04ut, Finally good weather has returned. The storms Oval Ba and the GRS approaching the limb with a trailing tail end of wakes and disturbances. Equipment: LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, Flea3 Ccd, TeleVue 3x barlows, Astronomik RGB filter set.

IC 434 HRGB , made in Close to Paris .


http://www.astrosurf.com/cucculelli/

NGC2403
http://www.darkskyimages.com
Copyright: Scott Tucker & Gil Esquerdo Spiral galaxy NGC2403 imaged earlier this week. Data combined from two telescopes: Luminance and H-Alpha from Hyperion 12.5" f/8 and RGB data from a HyperStar-equipped C11 at f/2. Total combined exposure time from the two scopes is 17.5 hours--all taken on one night!

Website with more details

Full-resolution version

Thanks for looking!
Scott

Asteroid 2012 XE54 and the Seagull
http://www.darkskyimages.com
Copyright: Scott Tucker & Gil Esquerdo
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http://darkskyimages.com/images/2012XE54_Seagull.jpg

While taking the image from the previous post of NGC2403, Gil Esquerdo stopped long enough for us to go catch asteroid 2012 XE54, which was passing only 0.6 lunar distances from Earth at the time. Earlier we had plotted its position over the few hours it would be visible and found it would pass right in front of the Seagull Nebula (IC2177). When the time came, we framed the Seagull as planned and started taking 45-second exposures. Right on schedule the asteroid appeared! Six exposures captured it passing through the field at 600 arcseconds per minute! 9 more frames were added to bring out the Seagull in more detail. Total exposure time of 11.25 minutes. It was a blast to see this little space rock zip by!

Image with a Celestron 11" SCT equipped with an f/2 HyperStar lens and SBIG ST-2000XM camera. Captured on the morning of December 11th, 2012, at about 1:30AM from southern Arizona.

Thanks for looking!
Scott Tucker

What an incredible show we had here in Tucson, Arizona 12-12-12! I was able to see about 50 per hour.

Here are some composites of about 30 frames from a time-lapse I shot of the Geminid Meteor shower at Gates Pass in Tucson, Arizona on the morning of 12-13-12. You can see M31 (Andromeda Galaxy 2.5million light years away) at the left next to the Milky way.

These images took a lot of work as I had to scroll through about 400 frames and find which frames had shooting stars in them, then cut out every meteor and blend.

Camera Details:
Canon 5DMKIII
Carl Zeiss 21mm F/2.8 Distagon
ISO 3200, 20 seconds.

http://www.Sean-Parker.com

This image begins dated one can now, I remain nostalgic. The fastened Space shuttle has Iss .
Image made for 350D and C9 .


http://www.astrosurf.com/cucculelli/

A composite photo from the spectacular Geminid Meteor shower of meteors passing through Canis Minor and Canis Major from Charlestown, Rhode Island.
http://exitpupil.org/photograph.php?p=2 ... eor_shower
https://www.facebook.com/ExitPupilCreativeWorks
Copyright: Scott MacNeill

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http://exitpupil.org/images/photos/scot ... 2-full.jpg

LSR0602+3910 - Brown Dwarf in Auriga
http://www.perseus.gr
Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis For further details, see http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Star-Dwarf-LSR0602+3910.htm .