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
