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NGC 1999
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n1999.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block Gibbous Moon and Clouds
http://www.spotastro.com/Moon_Fire.html
Copyright: Mark Manner M81 and M82
http://www.flemingastrophotography.com/m8182.html
Copyright: Neil Fleming
[attachment=0]8182_Fleming.jpg[/attachment]

M42
http://www.astrogades.es/index.php?nodo ... ure&id=718
Copyright: Jesús Vargas (Astrogades ) and Maritxu Poyal

M44: Beehive Cluster in Cancer
Copyright: Alan Tough
[attachment=0]M44_20110210_tough.jpg[/attachment]

M1 expanding
http://www.emilivanov.com
Credit HST image: NASA, ESA and Allison Loll/Jeff Hester (Arizona State University). Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
Copyright 2nd image: Niki Petrov, Yanko Nikolov, Emil Ivanov This is the Hubble Spase Telescope image from 2005. Hovering the mouse over the image will reveil the image taken on November 14th 2010 with the 2m RCC telescope at Rozhen National Astronomical Observatory. The expansion of the nebula for a 5 years period is clearly seen. Bigger mouseovers could be seen here:
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/ ... ding_m.htm (1024 x 1012 pixels) or:
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/ ... ding_b.htm (1800 x 1779 pixels)

Adam, I'm glad to see your image of NGC 1999. (Sounds like a twelve-year-ago nebula, doesn't it?)

It's fascinating to see this light blue reflection nebula awash in a sea of otherworldly dark redness. (That's because all that redness is a large faint emission nebula, of course.) The black thing in the blue reflection nebula looks really weird, but I think that the latest theory about that black shape is that it really is a hole!

Anyway, your image brings out a wealth of detail and colors, so thanks!

Ann

P.S. I can't say that your image is a lot like a William Turner painting, but there is a slight similarity there, anyway. Like Turner, you have "painted" a landscape awash in color!

M81

http://www.astro-pics.com/81pcm.htm

copyright: Wolfgang Promper

M79 Cluster
MyWebSite: http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann

Hello

Here are two pictures i have taken near Bernex, in the Alpes, in France.
Thanks for looking, have a very nice day !!!
Best regards,

Céline

Aurora over the Northwest Territories
http://dehchojournal.blogspot.com/
Copyright: David Overall Planets at Sunset: Mars, Venus, Saturn
Copyright: Caryn Kanel
[attachment=3]367.jpg[/attachment]

Snow Moon Rising in Edmonton
Copyright: Luca Vanzella
[attachment=2]20110218_moonrise_crop_small.jpg[/attachment]

M42, M43, and NGC1977
http://www.astrogades.es/
Copyright: Jesús Vargas (Astrogades) & Maritxu Poyal (Maritxu)
[attachment=1]M42.jpg[/attachment]

Sun Pillar in Poland
http://www.piotrpotepa.art.pl
Copyright: Piotr Potepa NGC2146/2146A
http://www.astrogrossi.de
Copyright: Torsten Grossmann
[attachment=0]ngc2163-LRGB-full2.jpg[/attachment]

There are many nice "clouds" here!

I've never seen a Sun pillar actually emerge in full view from the Sun, and then continue below the Sun, too!

The Moon looks fantastic and eerie and almost otherworldly in Luca Vanzella's picture, too. That picture would make a nice painting!

There are two nice pictures of M81 here, one in clear weather, one in driving mists!

I like the picture of the Beehive Cluster. This cluster is fascinatingly full of apparent wide binaries, sometimes in contrasting colors.

There is something fascinating about Mark Manner's Gibbous Moon and Clouds. The blue sky reminds me of a narrowband portrait of oxygen emission, and the deep orange clouds look darkly otherworldy, too.

Ann

Hello

Here is a sunset at Cooper Pedy, an Australian town, called the “opal capital of the world”, in the Outback (cf. http://www.cooberpedy.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=191 ). The population was less than 2,000 people over there, in 2006.

Thanks for looking,
Best regards,

Céline

Night Skies over Lake Salda, Turkey
Copyright: Tunç Tezel

Cluster of open clusters
http://www.vadakcsillaga.hu/mely_hal/cl ... 10218.html
Copyright: Tamas Abraham

IC410 Tadpole Nebula
MyWebSite: http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann

Circumpolar Startrail
remiboucherphoto.com
Copyright: Remi Boucher
[attachment=2]OMM_Circumpolar_RemiBoucher.jpg[/attachment]

Morning Line Up: Saturn, Spica, Red Giant, Antares, Venus and the Galactic Core
http://www.AstroPics.com
Copyright: Wally Pacholka
[attachment=1]JoshuaTreeNorth-Venus and MW Rising-550wp-111317.jpg[/attachment]

Green Flash at Sunset
http://www.danilopivato.com
Copyright: Danilo Pivato Solar Halo in Switzerland
Copyright: Jean-Louis Regez
[attachment=0]DSC03425.jpg[/attachment]

IC443: The Jellyfish Nebula
http://istarion.net/Picturepages/Nebula ... 20wide.htm
Copyright: Matts Sporre

See: http://www.flemingastrophotography.com/m44toa.html for larger sizes and full details.

Cheers...Neil

Crop of M81 from the image near the top of this page:
Crop of M82 from the image near the top of this page:
Full write-up and details available at:
http://www.flemingastrophotography.com/m8182.html

Cheers...Neil

NGC 891
http://www.cosmotography.com/images/sma ... _2010.html
R. Jay GaBany (Cosmotography.com)

The Crab
MyWebSite: http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann

M1 Expansion over 38 Years
MyWebSite: http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann, Early M1 image credit NOAO, Kitt Peak, 10/1973

jgabany wrote:NGC 891
http://www.cosmotography.com/images/sma ... _2010.html
R. Jay GaBany (Cosmotography.com)

Click to view full size image

Spectacular work Jay!

atalas wrote:

jgabany wrote:NGC 891
http://www.cosmotography.com/images/sma ... _2010.html
R. Jay GaBany (Cosmotography.com)

Spectacular work Jay!

Thank you!!!