Oh wow! Awesome pictures! <jumps up and down>
Jason Jennings, that is
the best picture I've ever seen of that fascinating hot massive O star close to famous cluster M6. And what a lovely pink emission nebula you've captured all around it! And there is a cluster there, too - NGC 6374! And note famous emission nebula Pismis 24 at lower right, too, and note that it is redder in color than the emission nebula surrounding NGC 6374. Pismis 24 is deeper in the dust and therefore more reddened. That's a lovely picture!!!
And Ignacio de la Cueva, that's a truly fascinating dust structure you have captured! Wow! There is dark nebulosity there, and pink emission nebulosity, and blue reflection nebulosity, and
yellow reflection nebulosity, too! Fantastic! And thanks for showing me this intriguing object that I wasn't aware of!
I can't resist adding an itty, bitty tidbit about LDN 1622. I found a paper about LDN 1622 by S. Casassus, G. F. Cabrera, F. Förster, T. J. Pearson, A. C. S. Readhead, and C. Dickinson. The abstract begins like this:
The spectral energy distribution of the dark cloud LDN 1622, as measured by Finkbeiner using WMAP data, drops
above 30 GHz and is suggestive of a Boltzmann cutoff in grain rotation frequencies, characteristic of spinning dust
emission.
And Dani Caxete, your Poppy Moon Eclipse - is it delightful or is it delightful? It's just so beautiful! And lovely! Imagine, the Moon is eclipsed by a poppy! That may be a photographic one-of-a-kind!
Laurent Huet, I was happy to see Hanny, too - Hanny in the sky with emeralds!
And Luc Perrot, Owlice is right, you do look as if you're walking on air!
Thanks to all of you and many others here for your great pictures!
Ann
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