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Antennae Galaxies from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)
http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2011/almafirstpics/
Copyright: NRAO/AUI/NSF; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); HST (NASA, ESA, and B. Whitmore (STScI)); J. Hibbard (NRAO/AUI/NSF); NOAO/AURA/NSF
[attachment=0]AntennaeZoomAllRGB.jpg[/attachment]

Draconids over the Arrábida Mountain Range, Portugal
http://www.astrosurf.com/astroarte/Mete ... op-net.jpg
Copyright: Miguel Claro
[attachment=3]MeterosDraconidas_Final-Crop-net.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 613: Barred Spiral Galaxy in Sculptor
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n613.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona M31: Andromeda Galaxy
Copyright: Lefteris Velissaratos
[attachment=2]Andromeda Galaxy.jpg[/attachment]

Supernova SN2011fe in M101
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1087.html
Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), H. Schweiker & S. Pakzad NOAO/AURA/NSF vdB 149 and vdB 150 Nebula Complex
http://www.starkeeper.it/Vdb149_150.htm
Copyright: Leonardo Orazi
[attachment=1]orazi_nebula_complex.jpg[/attachment]

Hooray! A good color image of SN 2011fe in its host galaxy, M101!

And another favorite of mine, Adam Block, is back. NGC 613 is a very interesting galaxy, with a very long bar which suddenly turns into an out-of-plane spiral arm, almost like a cosmic dog wagging its tail!

Note how most of the pink star formation regions are located near the ends of the bar. The very long bar of NGC 613 is in the process of getting even longer!

NGC 613?

Ann

IC63-59

http://www.posantiborastro.uw.hu http://kepfeltoltes.hu/111010/ic63-59_1 ... es.hu_.jpg
Nebulaes around the Gamma Cassiopeia have wonderful colors.

M33 Triangulum Galaxy LRGB+Ha by Terry Hancock Down Under Observatory, on Flickr

M33 Triangulum Galaxy Down To The Core by Terry Hancock Down Under Observatory, on Flickr

NGC 604 Nebula (within M33) by Terry Hancock Down Under Observatory, on Flickr

http://www.starscapeimaging.com/page63/index.html
Copyright: Jon Talbot

Sunspot 1305 Eruption
http://www.galacticimages.com
Copyright: John Chumack
[attachment=8]sunpot1305_eruption_ChumackHRweb.jpg[/attachment]

Nebulae around Gamma Cassiopeia
http://www.posantiborastro.uw.hu
Copyright: Tibor Pósán
[attachment=7]ic63-59 1250.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 7000: North America Nebula in Hubble Palette
http://www.pbase.com/njh542/image/138602291
Copyright: Nikolas Hodges
[attachment=6]NANeb_Nick.jpg[/attachment]

Nebula around Gamma Cygni
http://www.massimotosco.it/Sadr.html
Copyright: Massimo Tosco
[attachment=0]Sadr-900-1.jpg[/attachment]

Aurora and Draconid Meteor
Copyright: Hans Schremmer
[attachment=5]Draconide und PL_MG_2332_Hans_Schremmer.jpg[/attachment]

Persistent Trains of Draconids
Copyright: Sze-leung Cheung (The University of Hong Kong) and Jin Zhu (Beijing Planetarium) I submit an image of the evolution of the Persistent Trains of a Draconids meteor. We observed it in Bayan Zhuri And Sumu, Inner Mongolia, China on the early morning of Oct 9, 2011 during the peak of the Draconids. However, the radiant was so low and we didn't see many meteors, but we did see a few fireballs. The image [shows] the persistent trains of one of the brightest we observed, about -6mag, brighter than Jupiter; the meteor was white in color, leaving a long trail on the sky. The persistent trains remained in the sky for half an hour. Milky Way Bridge over the VLTs
Copyright: Yuri Beletsky
[attachment=3]beletsky_uts.jpg[/attachment]

Center of IC 1396: The Elephant's Trunk
http://www.deep-sky-images.de/displayim ... play_media
Copyright: Markus Noller
[attachment=2]IC1396hubble.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula
http://www.waid-observatory.com/ngc7023-2011-09-23.html
Copyright: Donald Waid Falling In Love with the Universe
http://www.flickr.com/photos/munnecket/ ... /lightbox/
Copyright: Tom Munnecke
[attachment=1]UniverseLove.jpg[/attachment]

Little Dumbbell seen from the Pic du Midi Observatory
http://astrophotography.fr/
http://www.obs-mip.fr/
Copyright: S2P / IMCCE / Obs. Midi Pyrénées / F Colas /JL Dauvergne
[attachment=0]M76pic.jpg[/attachment]
http://astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/M76pic.jpg

Solar Mosaic - October 1, 2011
http://cntastro.smugmug.com
Copyright: 2011 Craig & Tammy Temple

NGC 281 - The Pacman Nebula in bi-color
http://cntastro.smugmug.com
Copyright: 2011 Craig & Tammy Temple NGC 281 - The Pacman Nebula in modified Hubble palette
http://cntastro.smugmug.com
Copyright: 2011 Craig & Tammy Temple

M33 - The Triangulum Galaxy in LRGB
http://cntastro.smugmug.com
Copyright: 2011 Craig & Tammy Temple

NGC405 and NGC 410 in Narrow band

Copyright: Rafael Rodriguez

Moonrise over Pikes Peak

The nearly full Moon, rising over 14,110 ft (4,300 m) Pikes Peak, Colorado, just before sunset on October 10.
And on October 11, the truly full Moon right over the peak at sunset.

Autumn Sun Dogs
http://tonylicata.org/
Copyright: Tony Licata

NGC7000: North America Nebula in Narrowband
http://astrophotocologne.de/astrophotoc ... _Large.jpg
Copyright: Frank Sackenheim
[attachment=4]naneb_Sackenheim.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 7822: Emission Nebula in Cepheus
http://php.chol.com/~arame/main.php
Copyright: Kim Il Soon
[attachment=3]NGC7822_Il-Soon Kim.jpg[/attachment]

RCW119 in Scorpius
http://cosmicphotos.com/gallery/image.p ... lbum_id=11
Copyright: Jason Jennings
[attachment=2]RCW119_jase.jpg[/attachment]

Small PN Abell 12 in Orion
http://www.galaxyphoto.de/abell12_I.htm
Copyright: Michael Deger
[attachment=1]Abell12.jpg[/attachment]

Fireball!
http://www.galacticimages.com
Copyright: John Chumack
[attachment=0]Fireball20111011_052617_ohioDayton__03Poriginal.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 896: Emission Nebula in Cassiopeia
http://www.feraphotography.com/AM14/Ngc896.html
Copyright: Bob and Janice Fera

The Elephant Trunk Nebula in IC 1396
http://www.astropix.com
Copyright 2011 Jerry Lodriguss


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Hunter's Moon meets the Sacra di San Michele
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa
[attachment=1]huntermoon1.jpg[/attachment]http://ofpink.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/img_7185.jpg

[attachment=0]huntermoon2.jpg[/attachment]http://ofpink.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/img_7195.jpg

I took these two pictures this morning (October 12, 2011) from a location near Turin (Italy). This year’s Hunter's Moon is the farthest full Moon of 2011. Neverthenless, in the first picture it looks pretty big as setting next to the Sacra di San Michele, the monument located on a 962 mt mountain some 40 km from Turin and considered as the symbolic monument of the Piedmont Region. In the second picture, our natural satellite is setting behind the peaks of Alps illuminated by the rising Sun.

Best regards
Stefano

Chris, those are beautiful, thank you.

A very sad moon

http://www.astrotreff.de/topic.asp?TOPI ... e=1#521623

Copyright: Marco Ludwig

[attachment=0]sadmoon.jpg[/attachment]
http://www.astrotreff.de/upload/kleiner ... 1copy1.jpg


And: No, its not a fake! I took this photo on october 13th in Neumünster/Germany

clear skies
Marco

Very sharp Jupiter from the ground
http://astrophotography.fr/
http://www.bagn.obs-mip.fr/webcamV2/

Copyright: © S2P / IMCCE / Obs. Midi Pyrénées /JL Dauvergne / E Rousset / E Meza / P Tosi Thanks to the very good sky of the Pic du Midi Observatory + the old but powerfull 1 meter telescope + and a new sensitive camera (Basler Scout with ICX285 inside), we obtained what may be the best image ever of Jupiter from the groung in visible wavelenghts.

Let see the R-IR,R,G,B layers :
[attachment=1]colorjupiter.jpg[/attachment]
http://astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/jupirvb.jpg

The same in W&B :
[attachment=0]bwjupiter.jpg[/attachment]
http://astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/jupirvbnb.jpg

Crux - The Southern Cross, June 4, 2011
http://www.sternklar.ch
Copyright: Manuel Jung

M33
http://astrosurf.com/emilio/
Copyright: Emilio Rivero Padilla

IC 63 and IC 59
The Ghost of Cassiopeia Nebula
Narrow Band Hydrogen Alpha Image

Carlos David

http://web.me.com/carlosdavid1/ThroughS ... opeia.html