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Mars at Opposition
http://www.shbinstruments.com/Mars%20Op ... 0-inch.JPG
Copyright: Barry Megdal
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Mountain Sunset
Copyright: Greg Clendening
[attachment=2]Mountains.jpg[/attachment][/i]

Growing Northern Electrostatic Disturbance (NED) on Saturn
http://saturn.cstoneind.com/
Copyright: Christopher Go Rosette Nebula
http://www.robertfields.org/apps/photos/
Copyright: Robert Fields
[attachment=1]Rosette Nebula in Narrowband.jpg[/attachment][/i]

M45: The Pleiades
Copyright: Brian Kimball
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Cloud Cover
Copyright: Charlie Garrett
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Saturn and its Serpent Storm (Unoff.Name) from Jan.11th the storm appears to be longer from last observation but slightly distorted on the lobes and encircling more of the northern Hem. most likely the largest in recorded history. Also this image can be view in Parallel vision or (3D Cross your Eyes version) enjoy.

The Crab Nebula in Taurus
http://www.schursastrophotography.com
Copyright: Chris Schur This unusual image is the result of long exposures in the Red, Blue, Green normally, Hydrogen Alpha 3nm, and a separate set of exposures on the inner continuum radiation with RGB and polarizers crossed 120 degrees for each color. The result is an inner region that is mapped in polarization according to color. The outer filaments are primarily HII and OIII regions and have no polarization.The Object:The Crab Nebula in Taurus is a super nova remnant that exploded in in the year 1084AD and has been rapidly expanding ever since. It is located a degree from the easternmost star in the Bulls horns, and glows dimly at a magnitude of 8.4. While small at 6 arc minutes, it is typical of the size of many galaxies in my telescope, and thus made a good target for my galaxy hydrogen enhancement technique. Look carefully at the lower left of this image, you will see a passing asteroid Anahita. It was 12.2 magnitude at this time, and was the 270th asteroid ever found.

Instrument: 12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Mount: Astrophysics 1200 QMD
CCD Camera: SBIG 10XME NABG with Enhanced Water Cooling
Guider: Meade DSI Pro w/Lumicon Newt Easy Guider
Exposure: LRGB = Ha+RGB = 170:40:40:40 + Polarized RGB = 20:20:20
AstroDon RGB Combine Ratio: 1: 1.05: 1.2
Location: Payson, Arizona, Elevation: 5150 ft.

IC 2118 The Witch Head Nebula
http://www.starscapeimaging.com
Copyright: Jon Talbot

Double Rosette
Copyright: César Cantú
2Mb:
http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/upload/201 ... 151aef.jpg

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Venus and Scorpius rising
http://www.nuitsacrees.fr
Copyright: Stephane Vetter
3 views of the rising ...

That's a fantastic sequence of Venus and Scorpius rising. It is wonderful to see the planet and the stars reflected so perfectly in the still lake.

Ann

Flat Land and Sky
Copyright: Tunç Tezel
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Ann wrote:That's a fantastic sequence of Venus and Scorpius rising. It is wonderful to see the planet and the stars reflected so perfectly in the still lake.

Ann

Thank tour Ann for you comment, it was a perfect moment
Stephane

NGC 2237 (The Rosette Nebula) in HST Palette
http://www.emilivanov.com/
Copyright: Emil Ivanov Higher resolution (1800 x 1336 pixels): http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/ ... _SHO_b.jpg
Full resolution (4006 x 2975 pixels): http://www.emilivanov.com/Examples/NGC2237_SHO_.jpg (Attention: ~ 5.3 Mb!)
S II = 60 min, Ha = 60 min, O III = 60 min, ASA N12 Astrograph, DDM85 Mount, SBIG STL 11000 M Camera
The image was taken from extremely light polluted city centre

Hello

I post my pictures here.

Céline

M78: Reflection Nebula in Orion
http://www.pbase.com/bkpeterson
Copyright: Brian Peterson
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All-sky Panorama
Copyright: Helmut Faugel
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Near IR Image of the Outflow from a Massive YSO in IRAS 17527-2439
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~watsonv/APO ... K_2p5a.jpg
Copyright: Watson P. Varricatt, Joint Astronomy Centre, Hawaii
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M42 Trapezium Dust Clouds
http://www.galacticimages.com
John Chumack
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Waxing Moon, Winging Geese
http://www.high-iso.de/bilder/andere/voegel_vor_mond_1
Copyright: Andreas Möller

Iridium Satellite Flash
http://gallery.astrocava.com/main.php?g ... itemId=243
Copyright: Sergio Cava
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Supermassive Black Hole in Dwarf Starburst Galaxy Henize 2-10
http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2011/bhdwarf/
Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/Virginia/A.Reines et al); Radio (NRAO/AUI/NSF/Virginia/A.Reines et al); Optical (NASA/STScI/Virginia/A.Reines et al)
[attachment=0]he210_rotate_mark.jpg[/attachment][/i]HST optical data is colored red, green and blue; VLA radio data is yellow and Chandra X-ray data is purple. The location of the active supermassive black hole is indicated with a plus mark.

See also http://asterisk.apod.com/vie ... 31&t=22563

Céline, what is that bluish-green "flame" that seems to give off vividly blue "smoke"? It looks a bit like a comet with a green coma and a very wide and flaring blue ion tail!

Ann

Efrain Morales wrote:Saturn and its Serpent Storm (Unoff.Name) from Jan.11th the storm appears to be longer from last observation but slightly distorted on the lobes and encircling more of the northern Hem. most likely the largest in recorded history. Also this image can be view in Parallel vision or (3D Cross your Eyes version) enjoy.

Click to view full size image

Thanks and your welcome!. Efrain

Elephant Trunk in Sea Colors.

Hello,
Last Autumn I made picture of IC 1396. But material was not sufficient
to obtain good results. I decided to repeat it with more material. Now
I made this image as a completely new work. Narrowband in nautical
colors. Elephant under water. Sulfur is red, oxygen blue and powerfull hydrogen in green.
Made in my observatory Solaris in Cracow.
Ritchey Chretien 12.5", 2180mm focal length. SBIG STL 6303, Paramount ME

Best Regards from Poland!
Michal Zolnowski

Moon from London
http://www.jimchristian.net
Copyright: Jim Christian My first attempt at astrophotogaphy

mexhunter wrote:Double Rosette
Copyright: César Cantú

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Astrophoto: Double Rosette Nebula
Universe Today | Nancy Atkinson | 2011 Jan 26

Congratulations, César!

Hi bystander:
Thank you very much. I appreciate your words.
Greetings
César