Submissions: 2016 June

[strongmanmike]

The Prawn Nebula IC 4628 is located near the bend in the Scorpions tail


Copright: Michael Sidonio

See a larger image here: http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ ... 9/original

[Efrain Morales]

Dusty, Hazy Mars from June 11th-17th. Some dust disturbances has formed in many regions (annotated - Region Of Interest) during the last several days. a little early then the norm but will be monitored when possible to see if it progresses as time goes.

[Efrain Morales]

Saturn and two of its moons (L) Tethys and (R) Enceladus.

[astrosirius]

Herbig Haro HH 555 IC 5070 Pelican Nebulae

HH 555 is the clearest example of a Herbig-Haro object in the Pelican Nebula. In this image detail you can easily see the jet shooting out of the tip of the pillar indicating the presence of an unseen protostar.

Moreover there are more irradiated Jets and outflows in the Pelican Nebula as you can see in the image like: HH 563, HH 564, HH 565, HH 566, HH 567 and the HH 568.

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Equipment:

Mount: ASA DDM85X-SL
Telescope: GSO RC14" Truss.
Camera: Moravian G2-8300
Exposures: H:10x900 seg + L:10x600 seg
Software: Pixinsight + Photoshop CC

Clear Skies
Lluís Romero.

http://www.astrosirius.org/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/llromero/

[Sandgirl]

Messier 17 in Sagittarius
Copyrights: Terry Robison

The Galactic center
Copyrights: Ondrej Kralik

Aurora Borealis above Murmansk downtown
Copyrights: Vitor Quinta

A stellar conversation
Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar

The Jorge Sahade telescope under the Milky Way
Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar

NGC6188
Copyright: Roberto Colombari

NGC884 & NGC869 The Double Cluster
Copyrights: Terry Hancock

Craters of the Moon
Copyrights Ronald J. McCray

Solargraphy compilation 2008-2015
Copyrights: Maciej Zapiór

Largest Spiral Galaxy NGC 6872
Copyrights: Don Goldman

Interacting Galaxies NGC5746 and NGC5740
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

M13
Copyrights: Michael West

Eta Carinae Mosaic
Copyrights: Mervyn Millward

M63 - Sunflower Galaxy
Copyrights: Greg Schwimer

Iris of God
Copyrights: Giorgos Malamidis

Mercury Transit
Copyrights: Payam Safaei

Rho Ophiuchi
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile

International Space Station transit 2016.06.15
Copyrights: Alessandro Bianconi

M22
Copyrights: Dan Heacock

Transit of Mercury
Credits and Copyrights: Big Bear Solar Observatory/NJIT, with Jay Pasachoff, Glenn Schneider, Dale Gary, Bin Chen, Vasyl Yurchyshyn, John Varsik, Claude Plymate, and BBSO staff

Strawberry Moon Rise (2014)
Copyrights: Göran Strand

NGC 6811
Copyrights Houssem Ksontini

Star trails above Zarzalejo (Albacete - Spain)
Copyrights: Francisco José Montalban Rodriguez

[Sandgirl]

Milky Way
Copyrights: Mircea Goia

A part of Emission nebula "IC1318"
Copyrights: Bijan Moravej

Startrails: From Jupiter to Saturn
Copyrights: Ali Shafieian

Rio 2016 Olympics + Summer Solstice
Copyrights: Anthony Ayiomamitis

Owl and the Moon (left); Owl and the Sun (right)
Copyrights: Leonardo Caldas

ISS transiting the Moon
Copyrights: Dylan O'Donnell

Parisian rain curtain
Copyrights: Bertrand Kulik

Temple of Mars
Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar

Mercury Transit from Colombia
Copyrights: Carlos Galeano

Colourful scene of NGC2626
Copyrights: Jason Jennings

Sundog in June
Copyrights: Umberto Genovese

5 visible planets & Moon at Costa Nova do Prado – Portugal
Copyrights: João Pedro Bessa

Milky Way arch from the island of La Palma, Spain
Copyrights: Sergi Luque

Cloudy dusk for fisherman
Copyrights: Petr Horálek

Irregular Neighbours
Copyrights: Stefan Buda

Copernicus Great Impact
Copyrights: Rodrigo Andolfato

Soul and Heart mosaic
Copyrights: Juan I. Jimenez

The Cat's Paw Nebula (NGC 6334)
Copyrights: Martin Heigan

The Trifid Nebula (M20)
Copyrights: Martin Heigan

The Lagoon Nebula (M8)
Copyrights: Martin Heigan

M16 and its neighbors
Copyrights: Róbert Németh

[vanamonde81]

Rise of Mars at Lake Szálka
Copyright: György Soponyai

I had only one weekend in May to do some "recreational" nightscape photographing and those nights the sky was unexpectedly clear. Szálka is a small village in South Hungary with an almost perfect Southern horizon. The small lake near the village is very popular amongst bathers and fishermen.



Photo details:
2016.05.28. Szálka, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Samyang EF 24/1.4 + Vixen Polarie
12 x 60sec, F2.0, ISO 2000

[astrometbcn]

Heart Nebula, IC 1805 Hubble Palette
https://www.flickr.com/photos/21144055@N04/albums
https://www.facebook.com/jose.jimenezjj
https://twitter.com/JJastromet

Copyright: José Jiménez

[ildiora]

Double Arc Above The Sea Shore Of Plemmirio - Syracuse
www.dariogiannobile.com
Copyright: Dario Giannobile

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without labels

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24 shots for the sky with soft focus filter
24 for the foreground without soft focus filter
1 shot to recover highlight from the moon

Double Arc Above The Sea Shore Of Plemmirio - Syracuse. A double arc in the sky one with the Milky way, the other with the planets.
From right hand side to the left: The Milky Way with the summer Triangle Altair, Vega, Deneb, the lights of Syracuse, Jupiter, The Moon, Mars, Saturn and Antares in the Scorpio Constellation.

[ildiora]

Toward the Sky
www.dariogiannobile.com
Copyright: Dario Giannobile

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Saint Peter, Saint Marciano and the cathedral of Syracuse (once a greek temple) drive the look toward the sky where a two hour star trail struggles against the city lights!
Dario

[SpookyAstro]

Colorful Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex POSS-II Combo by Transient Astronomer, on Flickr

Image copyright Tom Masterson - POSS-II/DSS-II

[SpookyAstro]

Trifid Nebula, M20 (Narrowband Bicolor Ha/O-III) by Transient Astronomer, on Flickr

Image copyright Tom Bramwell / Tom Masterson

[Steve Pastor]

The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, Messier 13

Messier 13, or the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, was discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714. The cluster is estimated to contain from 300,000 to a half-million stars and is about 26,000 lights years distant from our solar system.

12.5” RCOS f/9 telescope operating at f/5.94 (Astro-Physics CCDT67 telecompressor)
SBIG STF8300c camera (6 x 20 min lights @ -20 degrees C; 40 darks; 128 bias; 128 flats)
Paramount ME
Mayhill, NM on 28 May 2016
Processed with PixInsight 1.8.4.1195

For a higher resolution version, see http://astronomersgroup.org/gallery/dis ... fullsize=1

[Kapkowski]

Beautiful part of NGC 7000 America Nebula.


Enjoy!

[Sandgirl]

Strong ‘electric wind’ strips planets of oceans and atmospheres
Image credits: Dr Glyn Collinson
An article: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles ... atmosphere

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36069

Newborn giant planet found orbiting an infant sun
Image credits: Mark A. Garlick
An article: http://news.yorku.ca/2016/06/20/newborn ... nfant-sun/

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36071

Young Super-Neptune Offers Clues to the Origin of Close-In Exoplanets
Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
An article: http://www.noao.edu/news/2016/pr1602.php

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36070

ALMA Dishes
Copyrights: John A. Blackwell

Moon over Bogota Eastern Mountains
Copyrights: Leonardo Villa Alvarez

Moon Over Monserrate Sanctuary June 19/16
Copyrights: Leonardo Villa Alvarez

One Sun, two perspectives
Copyrights: Chris Kotsiopoulos

Lunar Halo
Copyrights: Carlos Galeano

Heart Nebula, IC 1805
Copyrights: José Jiménez Priego

Earth Shadow
Copyrights: Payam Safaei

Fox under the Large Magellanic Cloud and Canopus
Copyrights: Credits: Sergio Montúfar; Acknowledgement: Planetario Ciudad de la Plata / Observatorio Astronómico Felix Aguilar

Airglow over Los Andes as seen from El CASLEO
Credits: Sergio Montúfar; Acnknowledgement: Planetario Ciudad de La Plata / CASLEO

Terzan 5
Copyrights: Steve Crouch

June moonrise/sunset
Copyrights: Stan Honda

Solstice Full Moon Setting
Copyrights: Greg Hogan

ISS and sunspot
Copyrights: Goran Petrov

The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
Copyrights: Steve Pastor

[juferame]

Galactic Tripulation

This is my group of friends, hunters stars.

Canon 6D - Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 - ISO 2.500 and 30''

http://www.juanframirez.co

Copyright: Juan F. Ramírez Mejía

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[Sandgirl]

Cirrus over Paris
Copyrights: Bertrand Kulik

Cerro Tololo with Milky Way
Copyrights: Genevieve de Messieres

Monoceros
Credits and Copyrights: Data: R. Colombari [DSW] / E. Recurt; Processing: R. Colombari
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/252915/0/?real=&mod=

Full Moon
Copyrights: Leonardo Villa Alvarez

Mars from Atlanta
Copyrights: Andy Spielman

Full Moon on June 20th(Soltice)
Copyrights: Jerry Bilton

Flaming Star, Tadpoles and Spider Nebulae IC405, IC410, IC417
Copyrights: Terry Hancock

2016 Strawberry Moon
Copyrights: Mack Frost

Golden Gate Startrails
Copyrights: Ajay Talwar

Strawberry Moon over Dade City, Florida 6/20/2016
Copyrights: Jill A. Yelverton

Full Moon at Summer solstice
Copyrights: Catalin Beldea

Solstice Sun Over Chalkida (2016)
Copyrights: Anthony Ayiomamitis

NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula
Copyrights: Francesco Pelizzo

Full Moon and Lick Observatory
Copyrights: Laurie Hatch

Strawberry Moon
Copyrights: Stan Honda

Summer solstice sunset
Copyrights: Joanna Bialek

[alcarreño]

Copyrights:Raul Villaverde Fraile


Crescent NGC 6888 y su hermana Sadr by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

[juferame]

River of Stars from San Vicente Ferrer, Antioquia (Colombia)

Canon 6D - Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 - ISO 5.000 and 30''

http://www.juanframirez.co

Copyright: Juan F. Ramírez Mejía

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[McFrost]

THE BELT OF VENUS

Canon T2i and 70-200mm/f4 IS

On Sunday, June 19th, the moon had already set, but I had a beautiful rendition of the Belt Of Venus. I was on a ridge above the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway northwest of Cody, Wyoming, looking at the northern range of the Absaroka Mountains. An anti-crepuscular ray from high clouds to the east of me cast an additional shadow on the left side of the photo, above Trout Peak, at 12,226 feet the highest mountain in the North Absarokas.

Photo by Mack H. Frost

[Bonobo]

Cazadores de Luna llena - Hunters full Moon

Aprovechando la Luna llena de Junio, que este año coincidía con el Solsticio, varios amigos fotógrafos quedamos para cazarla saliendo tras el imponente pueblo de Espejo (Córdoba, España).
Las condiciones eran inmejorables, el aire estaba limpio y transparente, no había una sola nube.
A una distancia de algo más de 14 km del castillo de Espejo, en mitad de un campo de trigo recién segado, sacamos nuestras cámaras y trípodes y esperamos que saliera por el lugar esperado.
Yo puse mi cámara unos 300 metros más atrás para cazar también a los cazadores.

Taking advantage of the full moon of June, which this year coincided with the solstice, several photographers were friends to hunt out after the stunning town of Espejo (Cordova, Spain).
The conditions were excellent, the air was clean and clear, there was not a single cloud.
At a distance of just over 14 km from Castle Espejo, in the middle of a field of freshly cut wheat, we took our cameras and tripods and hope to get out of the place expected.
I put my camera about 300 meters back to also hunt the hunters.


Copyright: Juan A Bafalliu. Spain-2016


Cazando la Luna llena by Juan A. Bafalliu, en Flickr

[MaPa]

Scorpio surrounded by 2 planets
http://www.astromarcin.pl
Copyright: Marcin Paciorek

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[joelshort]

LBN468 in Cepheus The King
http://www.buckeyestargazer.net
Copyright: Joel Short

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[addicted2light]

Summer soliste
http://addicted2light.de
Copyright: Levin Dieterle

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A few days around summer soliste, sun sets directly behind the castle ruin of Geroldseck. This event can be seen from the Sandhasen hut in Haslach im Kinzigtal (Germany). A few attempts were necessary to get the perfect shot. This year I were lucky.

[alcarreño]

Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile

Crescent y Sadr by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr