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While I'm away from Asterisk, please post your images here for September 28 - 30.

If you need instructions on posting images, please see this thread.

Thank you very much!!

Owlice

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Hi,

this is my first post in this board.
Here is a nice scene with Jupiter, GRS, Io and Ganymede.

Jupiter with Ganymede and Io
http://www.skytrip.de
Copyright: Mario Weigand - Offenbach / Gemany
- DMK21 FireWire camera with Baader RGB filters
- 14-inch SCT

greets

Mario

Hello,

This is an image that was a collaborative imaging project between Myself (Salvatore Grasso) and Josh Knutson. It is a Star trail image, however this was aquired through a Celestron 8" Sct with Hyperstar 3 and a QHY8. The original FOV of this image is 4x3 Degrees but is a bit less now because i cropped the edges. The Brightest star trailing in this image is polaris. Josh Acquired the image, and i processed it.

Polaris Star Trails
Salvatore's Website http://sgastrophotography.zenfolio.com/
Josh's Gallery http://www.astrophotogallery.org/m220-d ... type1.html
Copyright: Salvatore Grasso and Josh Knutson

That's a really nice Jupiter image, Mario Weigand!

Jupiter itself looks really nice, with a smaller orange spot below the famous Great Red one. But what I like best is the moons. You bring out the color difference between Ganymede and Io very well, and you manage to make Ganymede look big!

And Salvatore Grasso, I like your star trails too, except it always drives me crazy that I can't identify the stars. The only one I can definitely spot here is, of course, Polaris itself. Feel free to identify some of the blue trails for me, please!

Ann

NGC6888, the Crescent Nebula
http://www.astronomicalimaging.com/
Copyright: Ryan M. Hannahoe

M31 and its HII areas.
Collecting Photons © Gimmi Ratto.
http://www.collectingphotons.com/Astro/ ... M31ASA.htm

It was done this summer, at Galicia, North West of Spain. The star trails were captured from inside a graveyard, giving the shot some romantic and magic look:

Graveyard Star Trails
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simpliflickado/
Copyright: Enrique Álvarez Fanjul Galicia is a region of Spain where the culture of death is very peculiar. Lots of legends and popular histories are around the after-life world . The graveyards are beautiful and well preserved. Somehow, they are central part of the culture and the tradicion of the people. I believe this is why I was able to go at night there to prepare the camera and made the 3 hours shot withot any problem, apart of being myself a bit apprehensive...

I hope you will enjoy it!

Best Regards

Enrique

PS: the photo at flickr is at 1/6th of the original resolution....

Widefield Orion's Sword in HaRGB

A data sharing collaboration, using an RGB mosaic enhanced with Ha data.

Image is copyright of the following four contributors.
Maurice Toet - http://www.dutchdeepsky.com/
Steve Loughran - http://www.steves-astro.com
Darren jehan - http://darrenjehan.me.uk/
Tim Jardine

More details and link to full size version is available > HERE <

VDV 142 in SHO palette

I send the last picture made from my observatory in Leon, Spain
and this is my first post in this board.
The object is VDB 142 in IC 1396. Elephant trunk in Cepheus.
Manuel Fernandez. Infrared Observatory. http://www.elfirmamento.com
Data acquisition are:
OBJECT: VDB 142 IN IC 1396. July 2010
TELESCOPE: TAKAHASHI TOA 130 APO + Reducer @ f/5,8 (754 mm)
MOUNT: TAKAHASHI EM400 TEMMA II
CAMERA: CCD QHY9 (-25º)
GUIDE: STV CAMERA / EZ GUIDER 60mm.
TOTAL EXPOSURE: 13,5h (Ha=5x30min, SII=11x30min, OIII=11x30min)
FILTERS: Ha 6 nm Astronomik, SII - OIII Baader
IC 1396 in the Hubble Palette. SII data mapped to Red, H-alpha to Green, OIII to Blue.

Best Regards,
Manuel Fernandez

Hi!

on 23rd I take some pictures to jupiter, and here is the one I like most.

Jupiter and its moons in opposition
http://www.astroemporda.net/2010/09/jup ... -oposicio/
Copyright: Francesc Pruneda The moons are Europa (on the left edge), Calixto and Io (on the right).
I used a C8 telescope and a Orion Starshoot SSPIAG camera.
There are all details in my website http://www.astroemporda.net, I hope you enjoy!

Hey, that's a very nice image of M31, Gimmi Ratto! Really very very nice! You bring out the HII regions just beautifully, and the overall color balance seems absolutely great!

When I look at this kind of splendid and perfectly colored portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy, then I'm reminded of how bright the galaxy's large yellow bulge is, how relatively faint the blue arms are, and how small the individual star formation regions are (with the exception of NGC 206, the largest blue patch in the disk). If we had seen M31 from much farther away, say, from a distance of a hundred million light years or so, we might have said that this appeared to be a galaxy devoid of star formation, at least if we had seen it perfectly edge on.

Ann

Amazing! all of a sudden we seem to have quite a few new people posting their own pictures of things way out in space. Even if it's the same thing that Hubble took a picture of, it seems to be different somehow. Really makes for a nice variety!!

Ann, if you clicked on to infared's site address to check out his Astromical equipment, did you see his big fuzzy puddy tat? From what i can tell, it resembles yours quite a bit.

beyond wrote:Amazing! all of a sudden we seem to have quite a few new people posting their own pictures of things way out in space. Even if it's the same thing that Hubble took a picture of, it seems to be different somehow. Really makes for a nice variety!!

Ann, if you clicked on to infared's site address to check out his Astromical equipment, did you see his big fuzzy puddy tat? From what i can tell, it resembles yours quite a bit.

::mystified:: ::intrigued::

Big fuzzy puddy tat? I looked and looked, but I couldn't find it!

I agree with you about all the new astrophotographers here. It's so much fun to see all the good work by all the new astroimagers here!

Ann

Sh2-106 Hourglass Nebula in Cygnus
http://helixgate.net
Copyright: Michael Siniscalchi

Ann wrote:

beyond wrote:Amazing! all of a sudden we seem to have quite a few new people posting their own pictures of things way out in space. Even if it's the same thing that Hubble took a picture of, it seems to be different somehow. Really makes for a nice variety!!

Ann, if you clicked on to infared's site address to check out his Astromical equipment, did you see his big fuzzy puddy tat? From what i can tell, it resembles yours quite a bit.

::mystified:: ::intrigued::

Big fuzzy puddy tat? I looked and looked, but I couldn't find it!

I agree with you about all the new astrophotographers here. It's so much fun to see all the good work by all the new astroimagers here!

Ann

Hi Ann

Beyond may refer to my observatory equipment. It may be similar to yours for what it says.
If so, the address is http://www.elfirmamento.com/equipo.html
http://www.elfirmamento.com/observatorio.html

Best regards
Manuel

beyond wrote:Amazing! all of a sudden we seem to have quite a few new people posting their own pictures of things way out in space. Even if it's the same thing that Hubble took a picture of, it seems to be different somehow. Really makes for a nice variety!!

Ann, if you clicked on to infared's site address to check out his Astromical equipment, did you see his big fuzzy puddy tat? From what i can tell, it resembles yours quite a bit.

Thanks Beyond¡
.
It is a great pleasure to publish my images in a forum like this.

Manuel

Ann, if you haven't found the puddy tat yet, click on http://www.elfirmamento.com/observatorio.html in Infared Vision's post, which should be the second one before this one. Sorry, i don't know how to make these things active in this site. Scroll down 3 pictures and look at the telescope on the right. Meow.

Ann wrote:Hey, that's a very nice image of M31, Gimmi Ratto! Really very very nice! You bring out the HII regions just beautifully, and the overall color balance seems absolutely great!

When I look at this kind of splendid and perfectly colored portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy, then I'm reminded of how bright the galaxy's large yellow bulge is, how relatively faint the blue arms are, and how small the individual star formation regions are (with the exception of NGC 206, the largest blue patch in the disk). If we had seen M31 from much farther away, say, from a distance of a hundred million light years or so, we might have said that this appeared to be a galaxy devoid of star formation, at least if we had seen it perfectly edge on.

Ann

Ann, thanks a lot, what nice things you said!
Your comment on the brightness of the bulge is so appropriate. Indeed, it takes lots of trickery to keep the bulge at bay while stretching the spiral arms. My standard technique is to create a spline model of the bulge luminosoty that is subtracted from the image before the stetching. Event in that way the bulge comes out.

The contrast of the HII areas is even more drammatic. These areas are really very faint and the photo does not represent at all the true phomoteric relationship between stars, dust and HII nebula.

But it is certainly prettier this way!
Thnks, cheers, gimmi