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NGC 2174: Monkey’s Head Nebula
http://www.astrographica.com/index.php? ... temId=9926
Copyright: John Ebersole
[attachment=4]NGC2174-Ebersole.jpg[/attachment][/i]

The Fires from Hell Surrounding the Central Star of the Orion Sword
http://www.collectingphotons.com/Astro/ ... /vdb48.htm
Copyright: Gimmi Ratto Shadow in the Sky
Copyright: Melanie Cleary
[attachment=3]CloudShadow_Cleary.jpg[/attachment][/i]

M42: Orion's Sword
Copyright: Louie Atalasidis
[attachment=2]Orions Sword_Louie.jpg[/attachment][/i]

Sun Dogs at Sunset, 2:50 PM, Fairbanks, Alaska
Copyright: Len Kamerling
[attachment=1]Sun Dogs.jpeg[/attachment][/i]

NGC 6334: Cat's Paw Nebula
Copyright: Troy Piggins
[attachment=0]NGC6334_stars_small_Piggins.jpg[/attachment][/i]


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Pelican Nebula (IC5070, IC5067) - HST
http://astrofotky.cz/~Konihlav/
Copyright: Pavel Pech

Looking Out at the Rain
Copyright: Peter Dielissen
[attachment=0]StJohns.jpg[/attachment][/i]
This image was taking through a restaurant window during a "weather bomb" rainstorm in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

M 74 Edge-on Spiral galaxy obtained by FORS 1instrument. Combination of B_BESS (Blue), V_BESS (green), R_BESS (red) and H-alpha and HEII filters.

Credit: ESO VLT Processing: M. Raşid Tuğral

M31: The Andromeda Galaxy
In Tricolour Narrowband and Continuum Subtracted Hydrogen Alpha
http://www.beskeen.com/gallery/galaxy/m31/m31.shtml
Credit: Paul Beskeen

NGC 1333: Nebula in Perseus
http://jordigallego.fotografiaastronomi ... efield.jpg
Copyright: Jordi Gallego
[attachment=0]NGC1331_800.jpg[/attachment][/i]

M27: The Dumbbell Nebula
http://darkside.selfip.com/indexx.php?o ... te_M27.jpg
Copyright: Jyrki Keski-Jylhä
[attachment=0]HST_M27Narrow_copyright.jpg[/attachment][/i]

Fighting Light Pollution with the Computer
http://aljayani.ujaen.es
Credit: Josep Marti, Pedro L. Luque-Escamilla, and Jose Martinez-Aroza These two images show exactly the same view of the the whole sky as seen with a fisheye camera located in the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Jaen (UJA), Spain. The campus site is severely affected by light pollution coming from the nearby city of Jaen, as the left panel obviously shows. However the right panel features, at exactly the same time, an almost pristine sky where all city lights vanished as if a sudden blackout had occurred. But this did not happen. Instead, what actually happened was that the artificial light background was computer-subtracted. The same techniques that astronomers use at infrared wavelengths, where the sky background is naturally bright, were applied here but in the optical domain. A great amount of images taken by the automated camera (an All-Sky 340c from SBIG) were combined to produce an accurate estimate of the background light to be removed. As a result, stars up to 5th magnitude become visible as well as traces of the Milky Way next to the observatory dome. A video showing a full night of dark-sky images taken from the light-polluted UJA Campus can be watched at the videogallery available at http://aljayani.ujaen.es

NGC 6939 and NGC 6946
Copyright: Darryl Aitchison
[attachment=0]NGC 6939 - 6946_Aitchison.jpg[/attachment][/i]

M42
Copyright Marcin Paciorek http://www.astromarcin.pl/images/nebula ... 0_1440.jpg

nuclearcat wrote:

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M 74 Edge-on Spiral galaxy obtained by FORS 1instrument. Combination of B_BESS (Blue), V_BESS (green), R_BESS (red) and H-alpha and HEII filters.

Credit: ESO VLT Processing: M. Raşid Tuğral

Sorry, it should be face-on

NGC 6726: The Anteater Nebula in Corona Australis
http://eder.csillagaszat.hu/deepsky/350 ... er_en.html
Copyright: Iván Éder

M42: The Orion Nebula
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/Trap ... ndler.html
Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, data; Robert Gendler, processing

Melotte 15: The Heart of the Heart
http://www.pbase.com/djrlx90/image/1307 ... iginal.jpg
Copyright: David Rosenthal
[attachment=0]Melotte_Rosenthal.jpg[/attachment][/i]

http://www.starpointing.com/ccd/rosettalarge2.html

Once again, a very impressive array of images; my thanks to the astrophotographers for sharing them!