mérida, spain. 2014-03-11, 2014-07-06 and 2015-01-01
Re: Submissions: 2015 April
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 8:58 am
by amyth91
Aurora Australis - Auckland
Copyrights: Amit Kamble
Was definitely the best decision made to head out to muriwai hilltops with Jonathan Green, we did know there was a bit of activity going on but did not realize until we stopped our timelapse after 2.5 Hrs that we are actually capturing some amazing auroral activity.
Wohoo, 1st ever auroral display.
Nothing so spectacular in terms of Auroral Activity but the best part is, it was visible up at 36.8167° S, 174.4167° E, which is way far away from the Auroral Circle. People have imaged aurora from up this north, but nothing this bright.
venus_ons_small by angelaros1976, on Flickr
Venus set seen from an Atlantic island (Illa de Ons, Spain) in conjunction with the Pleiades cluster.
Credit: P.A. & A.A.
Re: Submissions: 2015 April
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 10:34 pm
by vanamonde81
The Day of the Eclipse Copyright: György Soponyai
This photo sequence was taken on the day of the Solar Eclipse at the shore of Greenland Sea near Longyearbyen Airport in Spitsbergen, Norway. I took the solar disk photos in every 15 minutes from sunrise to sunset with the help of a Baader AstroSolar filter. The foreground was captured on the first minute of the totality.
Photo details:
2015.03.20. Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Samyang EF 8/3.5
Some new images
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 10:05 am
by tango33
Hi,
Here are some new images taken from Tivoli farm in Namibia in 2014.
NGC 2174 - Monkey Head Nebula Copyrights: César Blanco González
Heaven's Gate Copyrights: Francis Audet
Holy Sky!
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 8:33 pm
by conemmil
Busy sky over a holy place.
The image shows the peninsula of Agion Oros, in Chalkidiki Greece. I was located at the summit of the mountain Athos at 2030m shooting for over 14 hours to get enough data and create this composite that shows a double pass of the International Space Station, many airplanes, some more Iridium Satellites and quite a few meteors. It took me 10 hours to hike over the mountain with 50 kilos of equipment, another 14 hours to capture the data and another 15 hours to make the final image. A great experience with a lot of fun making all the details after many cups of coffee.
Inside the Lagoon Nebula there is a wealth of intriguing features including, the bright but complex nucleus known as the Hourglass Nebula, the beautiful young open star cluster NGC 6530 as well as many dark “Bok” globules of condensing gas and dust on their way to becoming “protostars” add to this many bright rifts of a mix of deep red H alpha and proportionally less blue H beta emission and even some faint blue reflection nebula and it gives the whole nebula a characteristic magenta colour.
Man, Moon, Milyway & Science !!
With fellow photographer Hari Venugopal The 30m Telescope at the Warkworth Radio Astronomical Observatory Warkworth, New Zealand
This photo sequence was taken on the day of the Solar Eclipse at the shore of Greenland Sea near Longyearbyen Airport in Spitsbergen, Norway. I took the solar disk photos in every 15 minutes from sunrise to sunset with the help of a Baader AstroSolar filter. The 360 degrees foreground was captured on the first minute of the totality. The final result was created by applying a Little Planet effect to the image.
Photo details:
2015.03.20. Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Samyang EF 8/3.5
"Solar eclipse" by a NASA's scientific balloon from Antarctica / The Sun shadowed by a next-generation scientific balloon over Antarctica
Copyright: Jeng-Lun (Alan) Chiu (Space Sciences Laboratory, UC. Berkeley)
- Date: 21:16, Dec 28, 2014 (UTC)
- Location: LDB site @ McMurdo, Antarctica
- Photo parameters : 15 photos were included in the animated picture (duration ~ 10 seconds) by Nikon D90 (1/1250 sec, f/13, ISO 200)
- Photo Description: A fantastic scene occurred when a "super pressure balloon (filled in Helium)" was launched for the first scientific payload - Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) from Antarctica in December 2014. The Sun was shadowed by the balloon while some ice crystals surrounded. The balloon's shadow was clear seen as a transparent region in the foreground, and the orange glory appeared close to the balloon surface (ps. probably due to Rayleigh scattering by Helium and ice crystals along line of sight). The Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF, a NASA facility) is now carrying out a test flight with a super pressure balloon, which was launched for a ultra long duration balloon (ULDB) flight around the world on Mar 27 from Wanaka, New Zealand. It's almost floating all around the world!
"Solar eclipse" by the COSI Balloon in Antarctica
"Solar eclipse" by the COSI balloon in Antarctica (9 pic. in 1)
"Solar eclipse" by the COSI balloon in Antarctica (Animation) (small) (full size in the link below)
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