Recent Submissions: 2011 December 9-13

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owlice · Post by **owlice** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 12:04 pm

Geminid Meteors, 2007 Edition
http://www.AstroPics.com
Copyright: Wally Pacholka
[attachment=5]MonumentValley-Geminids2007-5085-850wp.jpg[/attachment]

A Year of Sunsets
Copyright: Anastasios Nezis
[attachment=4]Nezis 1y SUN.jpg[/attachment]

Fox Fur under Christmas Tree
http://www.astro-cabinet.com
Copyright: Dieter Willasch
[attachment=3]NGC2264-DW.jpg[/attachment]

Tycho Changes: Summer/Winter
Copyright: M. M. Schmid
[attachment=2]Tycho Up Right.jpg[/attachment]

Opportunity at Homestake Vein
http://www.kenkremer.com
Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell/Kenneth Kremer/Marco Di Lorenzo
[attachment=1]Opportunity Sol 2761_a_Ken Kremer.jpg[/attachment]

Migrating Common Cranes, Jupiter and Galilean Moons
http://www.focusnature.ch
Copyright: Philippe Haake
[attachment=0]cranes Jupiter.jpg[/attachment]

Photonhunter · Post by **Photonhunter** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 5:17 pm

NGC1333
http://www.photonhunter.at http://www.starhopper.at
Copyright:Patrick Hochleitner and Dieter Beer

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http://www.photonhunter.at/NGC1333_full.html

http://www.starhopper.at/images/NGC1333_crop.jpg

davidebardini · Post by **davidebardini** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:54 pm

IC348 and the area around Omicron Persei
This is my rendition of the data acquired remotely with friend Gimmi Ratto, from our observatory in Tuscany

http://www.astrosky.it/index.php?id=322

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Davide Bardini

davidebardini · Post by **davidebardini** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 12:07 am

VdB 13 - VdB 16 - B204

..as above

http://www.astrosky.it/index.php?id=321

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Davide Bardini

VegaStar · Post by **VegaStar** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 8:43 am

Red FullMoonset Chimneys, December 10, 2011 7:55 a.m
(100% of Lunar Illumination)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70206283@N ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

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astrobrallo · Post by **astrobrallo** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 12:53 pm

Alnitak and surrounding
Image taken by a amatorial robotic observatory in Brallo di Pregola (PV) ITALY

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Fabio · Post by **Fabio** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 12:57 pm

NGC2024 - Flame Nebula & Alnitak, Zeta Orionis - Close-up
Image taken by a amatorial robotic observatory in Brallo di Pregola (PV) ITALY

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owlice · Post by **owlice** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 2:41 pm

M42: Orion Nebula
http://billsnyderastrophotography.com/?page_id=1796
Copyright: Bill Snyder
[attachment=2]snyder_M42.jpg[/attachment]

M51: Whirlpool Galaxy
http://outreach.jach.hawaii.edu/pressro ... index.html
Credit: JAC/UBC/NASA (STScI)
[attachment=1]m51.jpg[/attachment]

NGC7635 and M52: The Bubble Nebula and the Scorpion Cluster
http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/Hyperion/obj ... 2_ing.html
Copyright: Antonio Pérez
[attachment=0]bubble_22112011_HRGB_m.jpg[/attachment]

philto · Post by **philto** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:05 pm

Moon Tycho crater
Copyright Philippe Tosi
Credits : Imaging and HDR processing by Philippe Tosi,
postprocessing by Jean Pajus.

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South is up.

Hello, please find here a HDR (High Dynamic Rendition) processed picture of
Tycho crater taken from Pic du Midi Observatory, France, on october 12th 2011, 23:00 UTC.
The Moon was 15.57 days old, a fine time for viewing the Tycho rays.

Schmidt-Cassegrain C14 telescope + AP 900 GTO mount + Skynyx 2.1 M camera + IR 742 nm
filter, mount and camera from HDRsoft company.

Three pictures sorted and stacked from 0.08 0.16 0.32 sec. exposures
were merged using PHOTOMATIX 4 PRO (settings : tone mapping smoothing
"high", contrast enhancer mode), then submitted to final adjustment using
CS5.
Click here for a higher resolution picture.

asymon · Post by **asymon** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:27 pm

Flaming Star, Tadpole, SH2-234 and M38
http://www.woodlandsobservatory.com
Copyright: Alistair Symon

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owlice · Post by **owlice** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 2:22 am

Narcissus Constellation
http://www.nuits-arvernes.fr/Constellat ... uille.html
Copyright: David Romeuf
[attachment=1]narcissus.jpg[/attachment]

Night Sky over Mt. Roland
Copyright: Lucy Hu
[attachment=0]Night sky over Mt. Roland.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 6960: Veil Nebula (western segment)
http://www.deepskygallery.com/ngc-6960- ... n-segment/
Copyright: Jim Turner

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ghudepoh · Post by **ghudepoh** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 3:03 am

Shooting at the Galactic Center
http://www.atacamaphoto.com
Copyright: Gerhard Huedepohl

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VegaStar · Post by **VegaStar** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 9:40 am

Seagull Lunar (Full Moon) 12.11.2011, 8:11 a.m - Paris, France
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70206283@N ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70206283@N ... /lightbox/

ki_cz · Post by **ki_cz** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:10 am

I'd like to submit 2 photos of today's full moon setting in Prague. Tried to get some shots of yesterday's eclipse, but unfortunately the weather shattered any hopes of getting anything worth sharing here. These are two pictures of the moon setting over the Jan Zizka statue in Prague shortly after sunrise. Taken with a 500mm Pentacon lens and a Canon 40D.

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VegaStar · Post by **VegaStar** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 11:13 am

Seagull Lunar (Full Moon) 12.11.2011, 8:11 a.m - Paris, France
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70206283@N ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

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StefanoDeRosa · Post by **StefanoDeRosa** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 12:50 pm

Post-eclipse Full Moon setting
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa

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After a careful planning, this mornign (December 11, 2011) I went out to capture the post eclipse "Full Cold Moon" setting behind the Alps and the Sacra of San Michele, a religious complex (symbol of the Piedmont region) located some 40 km from Turin (Italy) on the 1000 meters Mount Pirchiriano. You can find other images of the session here: http://stefanoderosa.com/2011/12/11/pos ... n-setting/

Best regards

Stefano

Bogdan Jarzyna · Post by **Bogdan Jarzyna** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 7:15 pm

Wide Field View of The Bubble Nebula region in Cassiopeia

http://www.starrysite.com/pliki/galeria ... rysite.jpg

Bogdan Jarzyna
www.starrysite.com

Ann · Post by **Ann** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:05 pm

As usual, there are many great images here!

Wally Pacholka, you have photographed one of the most magnificent "astronomy sites" in the United States. Those two "buttes" on the left are called "The Mitts" aren't they? You have captured a lovely starry sky and a handsome meteor. Tell me, is that Praesepe at upper left?

Anastasios Nezis, I really appreciate your "Year of Sunsets"! So interesting!

Dieter Willasch, I find your Fox Fur and Christmas Tree image incredibly handsome. Totally lovely! The details are great, and the colors are fantastic. Thank you!

M. M. Schmid, I find your Moon pictures interesting. It's nice to be shown how the Moon "changes its orientation", so to speak. Tycho has moved upwards in the December image, indeed, and the Lady in the Moon is flat on her back!

Philippe Haake, that's a lovely image of Jupiter mingling with the cranes! And you have captured the Galilean moons, too! I note that two of the moons are distinctly brighter than the two others. I guess that one of the bright ones must be Ganymedes, but which one is the other?

Patrick Hochleitner and Dieter Beer, NGC 1333 is a very photogenic and "rewarding" target, and you are doing it very fine justice here.

Davide Bardini and Gimmi Ratto, thank you very much for your very fine image of the bright blue giant Omicron Persei and its beautiful surroundings.

astrobrallo, I find you image of Alnitak and its surroundings absolutely fabulous! Stunning!

Bill Snyder, that's a sharply detailed and very beautiful portrait of the Orion Nebula.

Alistair Symon, I like all your nebulae in Auriga! M38 looks kind of pale and timid in this glorious company of rosy red clouds. Ah, but the asterism of five stars at upper right known as "The Leaping Minnow" is bright enough. The bluest of the blue stars, IC Aurigae, is the bluest of all "peculiar A-type stars", with a color index and a temperature (17,000 Kelvin) typical of a B4 star.

David Romeuf, your image is very lovely, almost reminiscent of a dreamscape impressionist painting. (Okay, maybe not exactly and impressionist painting, but it sure is lovely.) Unfortunately I don't recognize any of the stars.

ki_cz and Vegastar Carpentier, you have captured lovely images of earthly "objects" passing in front of the Moon. ki_cz, I like the statue looking at the airplane and the Moon, and Vegastar, that's a lovely composition with the graceful bird in front of the Moon.

Stefano de Rosa, your Moon image is most impressive and beautiful, too. To me, the Moon looks like a huge luminous beach ball which is about to crash into that jagged mountain. Even scarier is that it really looks as if the Moon contains the Lady in the Moon, who is lying on her back in such a way that she surely has no control over her movements! Will she, and the Moon, explode when they both hit the mountain?

Bogdan Jarzyna, I like your wide field view of the Bubble Nebula region. To me it looks like a mix of RGB and narrowband exposures. In any case, it looks good.

Thanks to everyone who contributed images here!

Ann

Efrain Morales · Post by **Efrain Morales** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:13 pm

Today a large prominence developed North/West of the limb and giving a beautiful show as the filament contrails returned to the surface.

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owlice · Post by **owlice** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:08 am

Orion and Gemini
http://www.prokyon.startime.at/Gemini_Orion.htm
Copyright: Werner Probst

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VegaStar · Post by **VegaStar** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:56 am

Planets's Christmas 12.12.2011 Paris, France

Venus's Christmas 2011 - Pont Alexandre III
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70206283@N ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

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Moon's Christmas 2011 - Champs-Elysées
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70206283@N ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

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Jupiter's Christmas 2011 - Place de la Concorde
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70206283@N ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

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owlice · Post by **owlice** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:43 pm

Mars on Earth? Timanfaya National Park
Copyright: Roberto Quevedo
[attachment=3]PC038576_MAC_det3_nit_niv.jpg[/attachment]

Artist Vision of Exoplanet Kepler 22b
http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/alien ... erings.htm
Copyright: Thierry Lombry
[attachment=2]exo-kepler22b-new.jpg[/attachment]

Lake of the Seven Cities
http://www.astrosurf.com/astroarte/Lago ... ht-net.jpg
Copyright: Miguel Claro
[attachment=1]Lagoa7CidadesAtNight-net.jpg[/attachment]

ISS Lunar Transit
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/upsized ... ransit.jpg
Copyright: Jim Chung
[attachment=0]isslunartransit.jpg[/attachment]

Sharpless 142 and 143
http://www.sharplesscatalog.com/Sharple ... =143&Tab=3
Copyright: Dean Salman

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Moon Halo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33872763@N06/6485500451/
Copyright: Wade De Smidt

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Wah! · Post by **Wah!** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:11 pm

http://www.hkastroforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=23983
Copyright: Wah!

Ann · Post by **Ann** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:56 am

I answered a bit quickly here, before everyone was done posting their images.

Werner Probst, I love the wonderful, dreamy serenity of your image. Are we looking out over a landscape of hills and valleys, and is there fog, or perhaps mist, in the valleys? There is a soft milky sheen over the valleys that I find absolutely lovely, more so since this sheen gets gradually even more pearly luminous as the landscape stretches farther and farther away towards the horizon. And while I often love pictures that boldly bring out the (different) colors of the stars, I really appreciate the whiteness of the stars in this particular setting. Your image puts me in that spot, and I find it absolutely lovely.

Vegastar Charpentier, I like your planets and Moon over Paris! I really like the humor of idea you are presenting here, that the planets and the Moon each have their own preferred spot to hang out over Paris!

Roberto Quevedo, is that really the Earth? I'm amazed at the barren desolation of it. How lucky we are that most of the Earth is lush and life-friendly!

Wade De Smidt, I like your Moon halo, more so since one of Starship Asterisk's very faithful contributors, Beyond, wrote in another forum that he had just seen a halo around the Moon and was amazed at how big it was. That makes your halo image even more interesting, and I like the subtle colors of it, too.

Wah! I really like how you bring out the colors of the almost eclipsed Moon. The upper right crescent of it is brilliantly lit and white-looking, and the lower left part of the Moon is deep red. In between, the red color gets softer, almost orange, and there is a narrow "ribbon" of almost blue light at the "terminator" between the sunlit and the eclipsed parts of the Moon. You cleverly bring out these colors by placing a number of Moon images side by side and partly overlapping. The eclipsed area that you create this way looks like a semi-circle. Also the semi-circle is gigantic, as if the Moon had been as big as the Earth. Maybe that is, indeed, the size of the Earth, and the size of the Earth's shadow on the Moon? Very well done in any case.

Ann

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