Recent Submissions: 2011 November 24-27

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marion165 · Post by **marion165** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 4:14 am

http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalret ... 916260832/
Copyright: Marion Haligowski

Northern Startrails above the Carefree Sundial by Radical Retinoscopy, on Flickr

An hour long star trail photograph was taken of the Carefree, Arizona sundial. The photo was made up of 152 twenty-five second exposures and stacked with startrails.exe. Polaris remains virtually stationary in this one hour long exposure. The sundial was erected in 1959 and remains the third largest sundial in the Western hemisphere. Two flares from passing satellites were caught in the exposure.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalret ... 493221891/
Copyright: Marion Haligowski

Winter Sky Spendor by Radical Retinoscopy, on Flickr

Orion, Taurus and the Pleadies are seen setting in the western sky. The photo was taken in Tonto National Forest Northeast of Phoenix, AZ. Light snow can be seen on the roadway from a passing storm.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalret ... 250431077/

Circumpolar Star Trails over Alamo Lake by Radical Retinoscopy, on Flickr

Two and a half hours of circumpolar star trails are photographed under a moonlit sky at Alamo Lake State Park. The composite was made of 442 twenty second exposures with a Sigma 10-20 mm lens set to 14mm (f/5.0 / ISO 800 / Canon EOS 350D). I was aiming for four hours of exposure time but my battery gave out at around 2.5 hours. Alamo Lake is one of the best dark sky sites in all of Arizona and remains relatively free of light pollution. The distinctive peak in the background is Artillery Peak.

(C) 2011 by Marion Haligowski

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 4:07 am

NGC 1042, NGC 1052, and NGC 1048
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n1042.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

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Moon Crane
http://gregoa.de/transfer/000_0549.jpg
Copyright: Gregor Handrich
[attachment=3]mooncrane.jpg[/attachment]

When You Wish Upon A Star
http://www.astroarn.com
Copyright: Robert Arn
[attachment=2]when you wish upon a star red red.jpg[/attachment]

Wisps of Dust in Sharpless 2-1
http://www.glitteringlights.com
Copyright: Marco Lorenzi
[attachment=1]sh2_1_halrgb_med.jpg[/attachment]

Winter Constellations in La Alpujarra
http://guidomontanes.wordpress.com/2011 ... ra-nevada/
Copyright: Guido Montañés Castillo

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Winter Fireball
Copyright: John Zhou
[attachment=0]dsc_1704-panorama_2250x1500.jpg[/attachment]

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 4:57 am

IC 1848: Nebula Soul in Cassiopeia
http://www.atlasastronomia.com/astrofot ... L_2000.jpg
Copyright: César Blanco González
[attachment=3]BlancoSoul.jpg[/attachment]

M31: Andromeda Galaxy
http://galaxyphoto.com/high_res/jw_POSS ... 1_fin1.jpg
Copyright: Jason Ware; additional data from Caltech
[attachment=2]m31.jpg[/attachment]

Moon and Saturn
http://www.helios-photos.com
Copyright: Francis Audet
[attachment=1]dsc_1185.jpg[/attachment]

Lyra: One Million Stars, and One Ring
http://deepskycolors.com/astro/2011/06/ ... 6_Lyra.jpg
Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo

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Veil Nebula
Copyright: Brian Kimball
[attachment=0]veil_bicolor.jpg[/attachment]

ngc1535 · Post by **ngc1535** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 6:00 am

Perception at the Edges
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n1042.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block
[attachment=0]n1042.jpg[/attachment]

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(details, at full resolution, of the submission above... they are at the "edges" of the field, hence the title)

zonalunar · Post by **zonalunar** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 8:03 am

IC410 in SHO palette and HSO palette
http://www.zonalunar.com
Copyright: Alfonso Carreño

http://www.zonalunar.com/images/cielopr ... 011-mr.jpg

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http://www.zonalunar.com/images/cielopr ... 011-mr.jpg

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Best Regards.

blackhaz · Post by **blackhaz** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 4:09 pm

NGC 7635 Bubble Nebula
http://www.bcsatellite.net/bao/
Copyright: Maxim Usatov

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Full size and info:
http://www.bcsatellite.net/bao/BubbleNe ... C7635.html

Nicolas Outters · Post by **Nicolas Outters** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 9:24 am

Sharpless 101 and all around
http://outters.fr/Sh2-101region-tec140- ... 2Hao3.html
Copyright: Nicolas Outters

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Full size : http://outters.fr/images%20site%20astro ... Hao3-5.jpg

VegaStar · Post by **VegaStar** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 12:14 pm

Blue Sun of November 26, 2011
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70206283@N ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

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davidebardini · Post by **davidebardini** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:44 pm

The Cave Nebula Sh2-155

Full res: http://www.astrosky.it/imagebig.php?big=310

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Copyright: Davide Bardini - www.astrosky.it

davidebardini · Post by **davidebardini** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:48 pm

The Cone Nebula - Fox Fur & Christmas Tree Cluster

Full res:http://www.astrosky.it/imagebig.php?big=309

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Copyright: Davide Bardini - www.astrosky.it

SalvatoreGrasso · Post by **SalvatoreGrasso** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 5:10 pm

Messier 33 - Triangulum Galaxy
http://www.SgAstrophotography.com
Copyright: Salvatore Grasso and Dr. Michael Fauerbach
[attachment=0]M33sal.jpg[/attachment]
http://www.sgastrophotography.com/Sgast ... age_19.png
View larger on my webpage http://www.sgastrophotography.com/Sgast ... ier33.html

VegaStar · Post by **VegaStar** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 8:40 pm

Twilight over Paris La Defense Nov26, 2011
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70206283@N ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

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Robert-Austria · Post by **Robert-Austria** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 12:08 am

IC 1848 - The Soulnebula in Hubblepalette
http://www.astrofotos.at
Copyright: Robert Pölzl
[attachment=0]soulnebula.jpg[/attachment]
http://astrofotos.at/index.php?view=ima ... Itemid=134
Here you can find details about the picture: http://astrofotos.at/index.php?view=det ... Itemid=134

Best regards
Robert

ngc1535 · Post by **ngc1535** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:45 am

Hallowed Hollow
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n7635.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

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nuclearcat · Post by **nuclearcat** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 6:38 pm

Moon and Venus in the evening.

StefanoDeRosa · Post by **StefanoDeRosa** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 8:27 pm

Moon and Venus over Monviso
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa
[attachment=0]earthshinevenus.jpg[/attachment]
http://ofpink.files.wordpress.com/2011/ ... onviso.jpg

This evening, just after sunset, the crescent Moon (showing a beautiful earthshine) and the brilliant Venus put on a great show over the Monviso. The mountain (3,841 m – 12,602 ft) is the highest peak of the Coattian Alps and its pyramid-like shape if visible for large areas of the Nortwestern regions of Italy. It also famous for hosting the source of the Po, the longest river in Italy.

Technical details: Canon Eos 5D Mark II with Sigma 150-500mm lens set at 174mm. Exp: 3.2 sec; F/5.6; ISO: 500

Best regards

Stefano

sternklar · Post by **sternklar** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 9:59 pm

Veil Nebula - NGC 6960 & 6992, Sept. 26, 2011
http://www.sternklar.ch/images-webpages ... ept-11.htm
Copyright: Manuel Jung
[attachment=0]veiljung.jpg[/attachment]
http://www.sternklar.ch/images/FotosAst ... 1-med3.jpg

asymon · Post by **asymon** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 1:07 am

B7, B10, B209 and Vdb27
http://woodlandsobservatory.com
Copyright: Alistair Symon

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Ann · Post by **Ann** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 1:36 am

Two of my hands-down favorites have posted images here: Adam Block and Rogelio Bernal Andreo. Adam, I'm still using your 260 galaxy images from your stint at NOAO as a source of reference. If I can't find a color image of a galaxy anywhere else, chances are I can find it "at your place".

Of course, these days your galaxy images look so much better, and your latest galaxy picture is another proof of the fact. What is more, your images combine a fine resolution with a fantastic wide-angle "skyscape quality". We will almost certainly get several galaxies for the price of one when you produce galaxy images.

Galaxy NGC 1042 is one of my favorites, for the simple reason that it was used by James D Wray as a "poster child for blue knots" in his Color Atlas of Galaxies. Now you show it to us in full RGB glory. The galaxy has a multitude of blue star clusters and pink emission nebulae to show off, indeed.

Yes, but NGC 1042 is not the only galaxy in your field! Fascinatingly, there is a small aqua-colored contorted spiral to the right of NGC 1042. I guess it could be a slightly reddened background galaxy. And that is not all. There is a fascinating interacting little pair, whose components are too faint to even have a designation in my software, but they show up beautifully in your image. And elliptical galaxy NGC 1052 is superimposed on a small cluster of, apparently, mostly edge-on and lenticular galaxies, making NGC 1052 look like a Cd galaxy, the biggest class of ellipticals in the universe. In this case, it is apparently just a line of sight coincidence.

Finally, in the complete version of your image which is available at http://www.caelumobservatory.com/mlsc/n1042.jpg, there is a fascinating, butterfly-shaped galaxy(?), which appears to be made up of an intermediate-to-old, neutral-colored population of stars. But in the center of this cosmic butterfly blazes an intensely blue nucleus. Fantastic! This galaxy qualifies as one of the weird unexplained structures of the nearby universe, in my opinion.

But Adam, you have posted images of the Bubble Nebula as well. These images elegantly demonstrate the RGB color difference between the pinkish Bubble Nebula itself and the more brick-red ionized structures outside it.

And Rogelio, you are most definitely another of my "wide-angle RGB" heroes! When I first saw your Lyra image, I almost jumped out of my chair. Who had managed to capture the intense blue-white glow of Vega when seen through a telescope so perfectly? Who, but Rogelio Bernal Andreo?

Your Lyra image reminds me ever so slightly of cycling through a part of my hometown of Malmö called Djupadal. As I cycle there, I'll pass residential homes, nice little 1930s style houses for the most part... then there will be 1960s style houses, and homes from the 1950s... 1970s...

But the thing is, Djupadal is all residential homes. There is nothing else there. No stores, no restaurants, no hairdressers' saloons, nothing.

Fascinatingly, the constellation Lyra is a bit like Djupadal. There are stars there. Stars, stars, stars. A bewildering multitude of stars. And little else. Yes, there is that famous planetary nebula, the Ring Nebula. In your image it is teardrop-shaped, with no "hole" visible in the middle. It is small, intensely bright, and slightly red at the edges.

Anyway, this portrait of Lyra is another wonderful achievement of yours, Rogelio. I thought I could see, at largest magnification, that there appeared to be a population of small blue stars at lower left in your image, but that the young stars seemed to disappear at upper right. It was fun to see Epsilon Lyra too, by the way: It is easy to see in your image that Epsilon Lyra is a double star, but not that it is a "double-double".

I had to thank Adam and Rogelio before I could write anything else here, and now I will have to come back later, which may be a while.

Ann

Ann · Post by **Ann** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 6:58 pm

There are many others who have also posted great images here. For example, there are many "landscape images" here - Earth and sky images - and I like them all. For example, what about Marion Haligowski's fantastic portrait of a sundial that points straight at the Northern Star? Or what about the same photographer's glittering winter constellations over a wintry, partly snow-covered road? Or his fine circumpolar star trails over an almost "summer-like" Arizona lake?

And the Moon Crane by Gregor Handrich is certainly funny. I wonder how high that crane will lift the Moon?

Robert Arn's "When You Wish Upon a Star" is magical. Tell me, Robert, what is that super-bright light? I don't mean the meteor, which is certainly very handsome, but the other light. Is it Venus? I love the people in your picture, too. Actually, to me it looks as if a woman was spending quality time with her pet bear!

Guido Montañés Castillo, I like how your tree at left seems to "reach for the stars". The stars in your picture look nice, too. Aldebaran sure is red and the Pleiades are obviously blue.

John Zhou, that is a fine fireball! Its "prow" is orangish and its middle is brilliantly blue-green!

Francis Audet, I love that peaceful, beautiful scene, where the Moon and Saturn grace the twilight (or morning?) sky over a still, serene lake. The colors are soft and rich at the same time.

I also like VegaStar Carpentier's picture of a purple twilight over distinctive buildings of Paris, and an even more intensely purple reflection in the river Seine.

And nuclearcat and Stefano De Rosa have both produced fantastic images of a crescent and delightfully "Earth-shiny" Moon accompanied by Venus in a wonderfully twilight-red sky.

One of my favorite images in this thread is Marco Lorenzi's fantastic Wisps of Dust in Sharpless 2-1. The star in question is Pi Scorpii, one of the stars in the Scorpion's claws. I love this portrait of the emission and reflection nebulosity surrounding this hot bright star!

Two other of my hands-down favorite images here are the two pictures by Davide Bardini. Davide, your two images are so beautiful! The details and colors are fantastic!

There are other fine images here. Jason Ware, I like how your image of Andromeda brings out the pinkish "molecular ring" of the galaxy, and how this ring separates the yellow population of Andromeda from the blue one.

Salvatore Grasso and Dr. Michael Fauerbach, I really like how your image brings out a very bold "S"-shape in M33, emphasized by brilliant pink nebulae all along the "S"-curve and an elegant long blue spiral arm at lower left.

Thanks to everyone who contributed images here!

Ann

RobertArn · Post by **RobertArn** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 1:02 am

Thank you Ann! I am very fortunate that I have several people that are willing to freeze for hours at a time just to be in my shots. And you are correct, the super-bright light is Venus. I used a telescope with a FL that was 4x that of the rest of the picture with a double fog filter and a homemade star spike filter to create the effect - then I just juxtaposed the "star" into the image.

Robert Arn

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