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M51
MyWebSite: http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann

Hi to all.. here it is a startrail photo..

Title: Astrophotographer at work
my homepage: http://www.andreatosatto.com

The Pleiades from my House
http://www.zonalunar.com
Copyright: Alfonso Carreño A greeting.

Hubble Space Telescope Flare
Copyright: M. Raşid Tuğral

Milky Way over The Creux du Van in Switzerland
http://www.nuitsacrees.fr
Copyright: Stephane Vetter A biggest version is avaible in zoomify : http://www.nuitsacrees.fr/DP/pano_creuxduvan.html

Stephane

Young Crescent Moon
http://www.astropix.com
Copyright 2011 Jerry Lodriguss



Young Moon just 20 hours and 23 minutes old, shot unfiltered.

Click on the image or link above to see a higher-resolution version.

Cygnus Loop
MyWebSite: http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann

M1 Animation (4 years)
Full size: http://www.astroclub-radebeul.de/crab_nebula.gif
Copyright: Martin Fiedler

Hello

I LOVE the wonderful picture called "Milky Way other The Creux du Van in Switzerland" from Stephane Vetter!!!
The "M1 Animation (4 years)" from Martin Fiedler is so impressing! He needed so much patience!!

I put two pictures here. In the Outback, at the very heart of Australia, stands a great monolith called Uluru (Ayers Rock). It was formed a long time ago. It is 3.6 km long, 2 km wide, 348 m high and 9.4 km round. At sunrise (and at sunset), tourists gather in the surroundings of Uluru, in order to admire a strange phenomenon: the sunlight comes over this huge rock, which becomes purple, then red, orange and gold. It is a marvellous scene that changes every few minutes.

Australian Aborigines consider Uluru as sacred. The Dreamtime, or Dreaming, is the name given to the Australian Aboriginal mythology. The Dreamtime describes the beginning of life and how everything in the physical world came into being. The Dreamtime tells of the journeys and the deeds of the Creation Ancestors, sent on Tya, the Earth, at the time of the chaos to mould a new world. They travelled about the land, performing good and evil deeds. The story describes extraordinary feasts of creation and destruction. Once the world settled, according to the belief, humans, animals, birds and fish were sharing a relationship. Each of them could transform into each other. A plant could become an animal, an animal a landform, a landform a man or a woman. Everything was created from the same source and moulded from only one identity with the power, wisdom and intentions of the ancestral beings. These ancestral beings could change their appearance too.
I tell all this because... Uluru would be the spiritual home of dozens of ancestral beings, who would still inhabit special sites.
Source(for this paragraph): Peter SUTTON (from an exhibition, organised at the South Australian Museum, Adélaide, Australia, in collaboration with The Asia Society Galleries, New-York, in 2004)

Since Uluru is considered to belong to the World Heritage at UNESCO, 400 000 tourists come to admire it each year. Some of them even climb onto the rock. I was told that the landscape, at the top of it, looks like a moon landscape. But Aboriginal are deeply reluctant to see their sacred place desecrates by footstep of thousand of tourists (a malediction is supposed to fight anybody bringing back rocks from the monolith or climbing onto the sacred place itself).

I wish you a very nice day,
Best regards,

Céline

IC 410
http://www.emilivanov.com
Copyright: Emil Ivanov I took this narrowband image of IC 410 in Auriga on Feb. 6 and 7th from my home in the very light polluted city center. Total exposure times is 10 hours. The colors are mapped to correspond to the visual perception. Please hover the mouse over the image to see the traditional HST palette mapping. Bigger mouseovers can be found here:
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/ ... HO_V_H.htm (800 x 520 pixels) and here:
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/ ... _V_H_b.htm (1800 x 1209 pixels)

Best regards

Emil

NGC 1499 - California-Nebula

natural colors: Hubble-palette colors:
Enjoy!

Regards
Rolf Geissinger

http://www.stern-fan.de

M42 and The Running Man
http://lvvastro.com/wordpress/
Copyright: Larry Van Vleet

MartinF wrote:M1 Animation (4 years)
Full size: http://www.astroclub-radebeul.de/crab_nebula.gif
Copyright: Martin Fiedler

Click to view full size image

Nice work Martin,
It would be interesting to see it in 3D

Martin Fiedler's M 1 GIF is very interesting. A star is also moving at the lower right. Does this reflect real motion over a 4-year period?

Bob Gillette

Hi,

this is my Rosette Nebula from 2011 with Starlight Xpress H36, 12" Newtonian, LRGBHA=240:240:240:240:300 minutes with 15 minutes subframes.
Enjoy the Rosette.

Reinhold

tekic545 wrote:Martin Fiedler's M 1 GIF is very interesting. A star is also moving at the lower right. Does this reflect real motion over a 4-year period?
Bob Gillette

I see that one too. Also -- and more difficult to find -- the brightest star just outside the nebula at about the 3 o'clock position has a tiny spot appearing at its upper edge and then disappearing. Possibly an image artifact, but perhaps a binary peeking out from behind its primary?

Rob

I agree with Céline that Nuitsacrees' image, Milky Way other The Creux du Van in Switzerland, is stunning. It's fantastic to look at the larger version of it and pick out lots and lots of objects in the Milky Way and its surroundings: The Beehive cluster, teh Tau Canis Majoris cluster, the Rosette Nebula, the Lambda Orionis nebula, the Alnilam association, M35, the Pacman nebula, the Crab Nebula, the Flaming Star Nebula, the Pleiades, the California Nebula, M34, NGC 752, the Double Cluster, the Heart and Soul nebulae, the Andromeda galaxy, even M33... And the wintry Earthly background, with the sedimentary cliffs with many geological layers but also evidence of life (the trees!) is stunning, too.

Martin Fiedler's Crab Nebula animation is fantastic, like a beating heart.

Rolf Geissinger's two versions of the California Nebula are fantastic. The natural color image is a bit more beautiful in my opinion, but even I have to agree that more details can be seen in the Hubble palette image. Rolf has gone to the trouble of seeing to it that the stars are not pink in his Hubble palette image - thank you so much for that, Rolf!

I like Reinhold's Rosette Nebula image, too, with its fine star colors!

Ann

As for the red star that is moving in the Crab Nebula image, do you think it could be an 11.7 magnitude star designated TYC 1309 1640, whose proper motion is given as -61 ± 2 milliarcseconds/year in RA and -239 ± 3 milliarcseconds/year in dec? The color of the star is given as B-V = 0.954 ± 0.243, which seems reasonable based on the appearance of the star. No spectral class is given for the star, but it could be a small main sequence K-type star, perhaps even a halo population star whizzing by us fast, like Arcturus does, though Arcturus is so much bigger. And Arcturus is a lot faster, too.

Ann

IC434 Portrait in Halpha
MyWebSite: http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann

Sharpless 294 using Hydrogen-Alpha bended with RGB.

Celine and Ann, thank you for your nice comments and sorry for my broken English, it's of course, the Milky Way over the Creux du Van, a place also sacred as Uluru ...
Stephane

SH2-281
MyWebSite: http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann

NGC1566

Taken from NSW Australia by Greg Bradley.

A beautiful southern spiral galaxy.

Planewave CDK17 and FLI Proline 16803 camera.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/132352722

There is a wider field version as well.

Greg.

Thanks for the nice comments. The fast moving star has been known for a while, see the following link: http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//ful ... l%20br%20/
The picture was recorded using a ST10XME CCD Camera camera and a telescope focal length of 1600mm, which results in a resolution of 0.88 arc-seconds/pixel. The first picture was taken on 26.12.2006 and the second picture on 29.01.2011.

Martin