Recent Submissions: 2010 November 27-30

[owlice]

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Please post your images here for November 27-30.

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

Thank you!
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[lup974]

Jupiter over the Cirque of Salazie (Réunion Island)
http://www.lucperrot.fr
Copyright: Luc Perrot

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This photo is taken from the Col des Bœufs (1900m altitude) and show the Cirque of Salazie (one of three cirques of Reunion Island) under a sea of clouds. Light pollution comes from various villages of the Cirque as well as coastal cities.
The sky is dominated by Jupiter (right) and the Milky Way (left).

[owlice]

The Perfect Listener
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/515 ... 929d_z.jpg
Copyright: Nuno Serrão

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M101: The Pinwheel Galaxy
http://astronomyonline.org
Copyright: Ricky Leon Murphy
[attachment=0]M101 - 20in RCOS and SBIG STL-11000 - second deep sky image.jpg[/attachment][/i]

Eta Carinae and Other Southern Gems
http://www.glitteringlights.com
Copyright: Marco Lorenzi
[attachment=1]etacar_HaOIIIRGB.jpg[/attachment][/i]
Zoomable image: http://astrosurf.com/lorenzi/ccd/etacar_HaOIIIRGB.htm
3Mb labeled image: http://astrosurf.com/lorenzi/ccd/etacar ... _label.jpg

[owlice]

Opportunity at Intrepid Crater
http://www.rittenhouseastronomicalsocie ... emer/K.htm
Credit: Kenneth Kremer, Marco Di Lorenzo NASA/JPL/Cornell
[attachment=1]Op Sol 2420 R2 C3B_Kenneth Kremer.jpg[/attachment][/i]

IC443 (Jellyfish nebula) and IC444
http://www.astrophoto-sv.com/index.php?p=1_72
Copyright: Sergi Verdugo Martínez

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Tadpoles and Flaming Star Nebula
http://www.pbase.com/mariobmd/image/130623686/large
Copyright: Mario Bautista
[attachment=0]Tadpoles and Flaming Star_Bautista.jpg[/attachment][/i]
http://i.pbase.com/g1/47/777947/2/13062 ... RdHWsG.jpg

[Ann]

That's an amazing image of the Eta Carina region and neighbouring sights, Marco Lorenzi. And the zoomable and labelled versions are even better.

I usually find the Jellyfish nebula region almost depressing, Sergi Verdugo Martínez. Imagine, two red emission nebulae apparently lit up by two M-type stars!!! Of course it's not the M-type stars that energize these nebulae, and I think (but I'm not sure) that one of them may possibly be a supernova remnant. Maybe. The club of Jellyfish nebula fans are perhaps taking notes, but I don't belong to the club.

Oh, but your image of this region looks really good! Really! The colors are great and varied. The Jellyfish nebula is much more brick red than the other red nebulosity here, and the M-type stars are yellow-orange. Best of all, the small blue reflection nebula, vad den Bergh 75, is delightfully obvious. That's very pretty!

Ann

[owlice]

Habitable Moon
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/vue/ ... 24x576.jpg
Copyright: Daniel D. Durda
[attachment=1]habitable moon_Durda.jpg[/attachment][/i]

Great Salt Desert And Star Trails
Copyright: Arman Golestaneh
[attachment=0]Golestaneh-Desert.jpg[/attachment][/i]

Aurora Curtains
http://www.flickr.com/photos/odderikgar ... /lightbox/
Copyright: Garcia Foto

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[Herbert_W]

M55 - Clobular Cluster in Sagittarius
www.skypixels.at
Copyright: Herbert Walter
[attachment=0]globcluster_walter.jpg[/attachment][/i]
http://www.skypixels.at/m55_full.html
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Hi, it's my first entry in this forum and I show you the fotogen and rarely photographed CCl M55 in Sagittarius.
The loosly and colorful cluster appears with an extension of 2/3 of the full moon.

[Ann]

Like pretty much every other astronomy nerd, I atarted out as a science fiction fan, Daniel D. Durda. At least it was Stanley Kubrick's 2001 - A Space Odyssey that really fired up my interest!

For a while I totally loved, loved, loved stunningly beautiful painted images of imaginary worlds. What made me lose my interest? The increasing scarcity of such images, I suppose.

Well, your image is a complete stunner. Incredibly, incredibly beautiful. The lush yet rocky alien landscape, green but interspaced with fantastic purple flowers (?), and then those graceful birds flying in the sky, and that huge and almost translucent moon - or is that the actaul planet, and the world we get a closeup of is the moon, or one of the moons? - all of it is so graceful, so perfect, so almost painfully beautiful.

Thank you so much for providing one of these amazingly beautiful paintings of alien landscapes. I have missed them!

Ann

[ngc1535]

Bowman's Last Words : IC 4678
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/ic4678.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

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[owlice]

Free Your Mind
Credit: Thunder Foot

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

[Ann]

Bowman's Last Words : IC 4678
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/ic4678.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

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Nice image, Adam. To me, the best thing about it was that it made me aware that I didn't know this nebula, and that gave me reason to hunt it down. So in case there are other people out there who don't know where IC 4678 is located, I can tell them that it is to the "left" - that would be east - of the Lagoon Nebula.

Well, the nubula looks fun. It seems to involve two stars, one orange and one white. I'd say that the orange one, HD 165345, is not involved in making the nebula.I think that star is too orange in itself to be able to create a largish blue reflection nebula. So the culprit here must be the white star, identifed by my software only as GSC 6842 1630.

Thanks for pointing out this nebula to me! The nebula has a funny name, too. Bowman's Last Words. Where does that name come from?

Adam, you know that I deeply admire your dedicated effort to photograph as many galaxies as possible. Personally I can never get too many galaxy pictures. Unlike me, you seem to be at least as interested in nebulae as you are in galaxies. Is your image of IC 4678 a part of your inventory of notable but rarely-photographed nebulae in our galactic neighbourhood?

Ann

[rstevenson]

Thanks for pointing out this nebula to me! The nebula has a funny name, too. Bowman's Last Words. Where does that name come from?

I don't know for sure, but it may refer to the last words of Dave Bowman, the commander of the fictional spaceship in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which were... "My god, it's full of stars."

Rob

[Ann]

Thanks for pointing out this nebula to me! The nebula has a funny name, too. Bowman's Last Words. Where does that name come from?

I don't know for sure, but it may refer to the last words of Dave Bowman, the commander of the fictional spaceship in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which were... "My god, it's full of stars."

Rob

Oh, now I think I get it!

Look at that little dark nebula to the right of the blue reflection nebula. Doesn't it look a little bit like an astronaut dressed in a black spacesuit, with his arms outstretched, and attached to his ship by a long rope or something? Couldn't that dark little cloud be Bowman, uttering his last words? And maybe the reflection nebula is the strange realm that he is about to enter!

Cool!

Ann

[lodrigj]

Comet Hartley 2 and Open Cluster M46
http://www.astropix.com
Copyright 2010 Jerry Lodriguss


Here is a high-resolution version of the image of Comet Hartley 2 and M46.

Jerry

[ngc1535]

Thanks for pointing out this nebula to me! The nebula has a funny name, too. Bowman's Last Words. Where does that name come from?

I don't know for sure, but it may refer to the last words of Dave Bowman, the commander of the fictional spaceship in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which were... "My god, it's full of stars."

Rob

Oh, now I think I get it!

Look at that little dark nebula to the right of the blue reflection nebula. Doesn't it look a little bit like an astronaut dressed in a black spacesuit, with his arms outstretched, and attached to his ship by a long rope or something? Couldn't that dark little cloud be Bowman, uttering his last words? And maybe the reflection nebula is the strange realm that he is about to enter!

Cool!

Ann

Yep! Rob is correct. I have some galaxies for you soon Ann (thanks for your comments). In fact I may just post one now. It really isn't APOD material per se- but it does have a supernova in it.

[dParlevliet]

The Pinnacles
http://www.dp-photographic.com
Copyright: David Parlevliet

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The limestone spires in this panoramic are some of the Pinnacles found In Nambung National Park in Western Australia. The pinnacles have been lit by two flashes to add some light to the landscape. The full band of the milky way stretches across the almost 180 degrees of the panoramic.
The pinnacle on the left has been lit up by the little LED on the back of one flash.

Cheers,
David