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IC 1613 Dwarf Galaxy (Caldwell 51)
Copyrights: Mark Hanson

Birth of Planets Revealed in Astonishing Detail in ALMA’s ‘Best Image Ever’
Credit: ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ); C. Brogan, B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
An article: https://public.nrao.edu/static/pr/plane ... -alma.html http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34073#p234509

Moon and anticrepuscular rays
Copyrights: Steve Rischling Jets, bubbles, and bursts of light in Taurus
Image credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA; Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt
An article: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1424/
Larger size: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/ar ... c1424a.jpg http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34073#p234514

Credits: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 (Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin)
Larger size: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/ar ... c1424c.jpg IC 410
Credits and copyrights: Processing: Francesco Antonucci; Data from WISE IRSA Archive
Larger size: http://www.astrobin.com/134466/0/ Rosetta: The dark side of the comet
Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD ... M/DASP/IDA
An article: http://www.mps.mpg.de/3840101/PM_2014_1 ... ten?c=2169 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=234532#p234532

Lunar Corona
Copyrights: Dani Caxete Hubble Surveys Debris-Strewn Exoplanetary Construction Yards
Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Schneider (University of Arizona), and the HST/GO 12228 Team
An article: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... 4/44/full/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34074

Clavius crater
Copyrights: Marco Guidi

Backyard Andromeda

M31, 38h exposure with 12" Newtonian from my backyard.

Enjoy

Reinhold

markh@tds.net wrote:IC 1613 Dwarf Galaxy (Caldwell 51)
Copyrights: Mark Hanson

NGC1613dWebAPOD.jpg

That is astonishingly lovely, Mark.

Ann

The Great Andromeda Galaxy

I captured this image of M31 on a night of exceptional seeing and transparency in South Florida. Only a little over an hour of total exposure went into this image. Shot with a QHY10 color camera on an 80mm APO refractor and a Paramount MyT.

Richard S. Wright Jr.

Under the Full Moon's Light

This was Moon Photography. During a Astrophotography workshop at the FCAGLP's observatory.




Sergio Montúfar
https://500px.com/photo/88833933/astron ... t%C3%BAfar
https://www.facebook.com/MilkyWayAddicted
flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/

Ann wrote:

markh@tds.net wrote:IC 1613 Dwarf Galaxy (Caldwell 51)
Copyrights: Mark Hanson

NGC1613dWebAPOD.jpg

That is astonishingly lovely, Mark.

Ann

I also agree with you, IC 1613 is one of my favourite dwarf irregular galaxies! I would love to see an image taken with Ha and OIII to emphasise its interesting nebulae.

rwittich_de wrote:Backyard Andromeda

M31, 38h exposure with 12" Newtonian from my backyard.

Enjoy

Reinhold

Click to view full size image

You wouldn't think it was taken from a backyard! Next year, mosaic of the whole galaxy with the same exposure for each frame!

This is a shot of Andromeda (M31) with particular focus on one of the prominent dust lanes.
In order to simulate the view from outside the Milky Way, the intervening stars have been digitally removed, leaving a striking, uncluttered view of the intricate, wispy patterns in the dust lane.

Full resolution image: http://astrob.in/134789/0/
Enjoy,
John Strong

Messier 52
http://www.roguewinds.com
Copyright: George Cavanaugh Link to Larger View http://georgec.zenfolio.com/img/s12/v17 ... 3900-6.jpg

Cropped from a wide field shot of the Bubble Nebula

Cheers,
George Cavanaugh

WR134 - The Other Cygnus Crescent
http://www.gallery.lightbuckets.com/jebersole/
Copyright: John Ebersole The other, less well known crescent of Cygnus is the OIII-rich scimitar of Wolf-Rayet 134, depicted here in HST narrowband.

Siren of IC1396's North Face
http://www.gallery.lightbuckets.com/jebersole/
Copyright: John Ebersole The north face of IC1396 is less popular than the Elephant's Trunk, but it too contains a number of interesting structures, including the dark nebular outline of a mysterious lady of the deep. Narrowband HST palette.

jebersole wrote: WR134 - The Other Cygnus Crescent
http://www.gallery.lightbuckets.com/jebersole/
Copyright: John Ebersole

Click to view full size image

The other, less well known crescent of Cygnus is the OIII-rich scimitar of Wolf-Rayet 134, depicted here in HST narrowband.

Don Goldman really helped make this nebula more well known! Next year you could try the Sagitta Crescent, the WR 128 nebula, see this image by Lionel Mulato: https://sites.google.com/site/lionelmul ... 8-hd187282

Autumn Moonrise thru the Covered Bridge
https://flic.kr/p/pHi78X
Copyright: Marion Haligowski

Autumn Moonrise thru the Covered Bridge by Radical Retinoscopy, on Flickr

Hunsecker’s Mill Bridge is a covered bridge that holds the record for the longest single span in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The wooden bridge was originally built in 1848 and rebuilt in 1973 following hurricane damage. Using Stellarium and some good ole’ fashion trigonometry, the optimal time to photograph the rising full moon through the historic bridge was determined. If you look closely, you can see the familiar “V” pattern of Hyades as well as the Pleiades cluster near the top of the star field.

NGC896 Close-up
http://www.astrodan.com
Copyright: Daniele Malleo Close-up of NGC896 nebula, acquired in Narrowband from my light-polluted backyard near Berkeley, CA.
Larger sizes available on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dmal/15742865161/
Exposure times as follows:
Ha: 18 x 30m
OIII: 19 x 30m
SII: 25 x 30m
Total exposure time: 31 hours

Sunset in Utah
Copyrights: Daron Fraley A black hole in Paris?
Copyrights: 2007 Alexandre Duret-Lutz for the original panorama, 2014
Thibaut Paumard for the derived work presented here. License CC BY-SA 2.0 Aerial Glory
Copyrights: Kevin Wolfe Mauna Kea and Milky Way
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel The full Moon imaged with narrow band filters
Copyrights: Albert Barr Heart Nebula
Copyrights: Lóránd Fényes
Full size: http://www.pleiades.hu/en/galeria/kozmo ... mal/78.jpg Milky way over Gyirong Valley
Copyrights: Jeff Dai Mars & Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae
Copyrights: Roger Groom

The flaming star nebula (IC405) in two colors
http://www.astrodan.com
Copyright: Daniele Malleo Ha and SII data acquired in my light-polluted backyard in Berkeley, CA.
Larger sizes available on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dmal/15694290485/
Exposures
- 25 x 30m subs in Ha (5nm)
- 20 x 30m subs in OIII (3nm)

Lynds Bright Nebula 581
http://www.astrodan.com
Copyright: Daniele Malleo Data acquired from a setup deployed remotely at SRO (Sierra Remote Observatories)
Larger sizes available to see on flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dmal/15640623916/

Exposures:
L: 24 x 900s
R,G,B: 16 x 900s each
Total exposure time: 18 hours

Almach... the Fall Albireo
Copyrights: André Montambault Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex
Credits: Roberto Colombari / Ivan Eder
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/134924/0/?real=&mod= ETA CARINAE
Credits and Copyrights: Processing: Francesco Antonucci; Data: WISE IRSA Archive
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/135007/0/ Ancient bristlecone pine and Milky Way
Copyrights: Joost Daniels TMC
Copyrights: Robert Fields Pelican Nebula close-up
Copyrights: Parijat Singh

ISS , Algiers Algeria
CGEM DX1100, DMK 51AU02.AS.
Exposure 1/4000s, Gain 70%
http://www.astrobin.com/full/121053/0/

Copyrights : Fayçal Demri / CRAAG

AR2192, October 22 2014. Algiers Algeria.

C8, Barlow x2, NEQ6 PRO, DMK 51AU02.AS.
http://www.astrobin.com/full/134485/0/

Copyrights : Fayçal Demri / CRAAG

AR2192, October 27 2014. Algiers Algeria.

C8, Barlow x2, NEQ6 PRO, DMK 51AU02.AS.
http://www.astrobin.com/full/134478/0/

Copyrights : Fayçal Demri / CRAAG

Saturne, Satellites & Stars

CGEm DX1100, Barlow x2, DFK 51AU02.AS.
http://www.astrobin.com/full/121094/0/

Copyrights : Fayçal Demri / CRAAG

M76 - The Little Dumbbell http://www.waid-observatory.com/m076-2014-11-06.html
Image details and description are on the web page.
Copyright: Donald Waid