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Moon and Venus over the Viverone Lake
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa

Please find below two images I took on December 26, 2011 and showing a crescent Moon and Venus decorating the sky over the calm water of the Viverone Lake (some 60 km from Turin) in the evening after Christmas.

Best regards

Stefano

Gum 15 aka RCW 32 in Vela
http://www.baskies.com.ar
Copyright: Sergio Eguivar
[attachment=4]gum 15 lhargb_hr.jpg[/attachment]

Full Solar Disk in Hydrogen Alpha Light - Mosaic
http://www.galacticimages.com
Copyright: John Chumack
[attachment=3]SunFulldiskmosaic121111ChumackHRweb.jpg[/attachment]

Ice Halos in Slovakia
Copyright: Miroslav Susky
[attachment=2]halos.jpg[/attachment]

Two-day-old Moon Ear-to-Ear
Copyright: Greg Redfern
[attachment=1]DSC_0014.JPG[/attachment]

NGC 7635: Bubble Nebula
http://www.sfu.ca/~trottier/observatory.html
Copyright: Howard Trottier
[attachment=0]citso_bubble_2011.jpg[/attachment]

Dear Asterisk,
mosaic of the Cone Nebula area including the reflection nebula IC447 and many friends:
[attachment=0]ratto.jpg[/attachment]
http://www.collectingphotons.com/Astro/ ... 00_new.jpg

Data for the three panels were collected in ten night. Further details here:
http://www.collectingphotons.com/Astro/ ... Nebula.htm

Best season greetings to all,
Davide Bardini, Gimmi Ratto

December 27th 2011 Moon and Venus conjunction


Hello

A simple picture taken with a compact camera...
16:50 UTC, Mediterranean Sea, Côte d'Azur, France.

Rosette Nebula: Ha-OIII Blend
http://lbuckphotos.smugmug.com/Astrophotography
Copyright: Lee Buck

Full size image can be viewed here:
http://tinyurl.com/6p5ln8g

Sharpless 2-157 Emission Nebula in Cepheus (Hubble Palette)
Copyright: Keith Egger

Moon, Venus and the Cedar of Lebanon
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa I also attach an image taken on December 27, 2011 when the Moon and Venus continued the show in the twilight sky. In the image the pair is shown next to a centenary Cedar of Lebanon located atop a hill in the heart of The Langhe, the region in northwest Italy famous for its wine.

Best regards

Stefano

9 Planetary Nebulae for Moonlit Nights
http://www.astropix.com
Copyright 2011 Jerry Lodriguss


Click on the image to see a higher resolution version with more information.

Here are 9 different planetary nebulae, all shot with the same focal length (C11 at 2,794mm) and all presented at the same image scale.

The sizes can be directly compared.

Brightness varies a bit, but all are surprisingly bright except for NGC 2371. Most of the others are so bright, in fact, that these were all shot from my driveway in suburban Philadelphia with a ton of light pollution on nights with an almost full moon!

They are all relatively small, under about 1 arc minute in apparent angular diameter, except for M57 at about 90 arc seconds on the long dimension, and M76 at about 3 arc minutes if you include the fainter outer loops.
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The Seven Sisters (The Pleiades)
Constellation Taurus
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

NGC 1977 The Running Man Nebula
http://www.astrophoto.it/nebulae/page1.html
Francione Fabrizio

IC443 & SHII-249 SHO

Copyright: Alfonso Carreño (Zonalunar Observatory)
http://www.zonalunar.com

Full size image can be viewed here:
http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/6628 ... 2011mr.jpg Best Regards.

San Magno - Italy

[img2]http://astrobin_images.s3.amazonaws.com/edd2b480-ca6b-4150-8028-3e61ac0c7e89_resized.png[/img2]

http://www.astrobin.com/2460/?mod=none

Roberto Barcellona
Associazione Astrofili Bisalta

San Magno - Castelmagno (CN) - ITALY
[img2]http://astrobin_images.s3.amazonaws.com/b5267ebb-45c0-4f9d-8d1e-06414a03f012_resized.png[/img2]

http://astrob.in/2459/

Roberto Barcellona
Associazione Astrofili Bisalta (CN)

Rho Oph and Environs
Copyright: David A Harvey

Conjonction between Moon and Venus on Dcember 27 night
Copyright: BERNIER François
http://astronomie-astrophotographie.fr


[attachment=0]http://francois.bernier.fr.free.fr/phot ... terisk.jpg[/attachment]

Full size : http://francois.bernier.fr.free.fr/phot ... C-2011.jpg

many more nighscape images of this night here :

http://francois.bernier.fr.free.fr/phot ... e-2011.htm

Best Regards

BERNIER François

° Kepler 22b: Are we alone? °
http://www.MyLandscape.ch
Copyright: David Kaplan We may know very few about Kepler 22b. One thing can be said almost certainly: If Kepler 22b has a solid surface, it's gravity will make high mountains as on Earth very unlikely.

Wikipedia wrote: Kepler-22b is the first confirmed extrasolar planet found by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope to orbit within the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Kepler-22b, a possible super-Earth, is 600 light years away from Earth, in orbit around Kepler-22, a G-type star.

Sharpless 2-157 Emission Nebula in Cepheus
Copyright: Keith Egger
Four-channel "pseudo-natural color narrowband" palette where R=Ha+some SII, B=OIII+some Ha, Y=mostly SII

startrail with moon
a nice Startrail with moon. at my internetside you can also find a movi.
http://http://www.balkonsternwarte.de/6 ... 22011.html
Copyright: Oliver Schneider

NGC1977, TheRunning Man Nebula
http://stefanofocosi.altervista.org
Copyright: Stefano Focosi
High Res: http://stefanofocosi.altervista.org/ast ... 011_Hi.jpg

VdB 16 / B206 and a lot of dust
http://www.astrofotos.at
Copyright: Robert Pölzl
Here you can find informations about equipment, exposuretime and a higher resolutuionhttp://astrofotos.at/index.php?view=det ... Itemid=134

NGC1499 - California Nebula mosaic in Ha
Aditional information regarding this image and full sized picture: www.astronomica.es
Copyright: Jaime Fernandez

The Sun on the last day of the year and still giving impressive proms (Like a Forest) and with sunspots AR1389 at the eastern limb, Something to watch in the coming New year (CME).

StefanoDeRosa wrote:Moon and Venus over the Viverone Lake
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa

Please find below two images I took on December 26, 2011 and showing a crescent Moon and Venus decorating the sky over the calm water of the Viverone Lake (some 60 km from Turin) in the evening after Christmas.

Best regards

Stefano

Click to view full size image

Click to view full size image

Hi. I am curious to know what kind of camera you used to take that picture. I tried to take with with my canon A225 camera with and without flash and my pictures came out very blurry.

As usual, there are many lovely images here. The most stunning one is Stefano De Rosa's fantastic Moon and Venus over the Viverone Lake, but that one has already, most deservedly, been made the Astronomy Picture of the Day, so I'll say no more about it here.

My second most favorite image here is Davide Bardini and Gimmi Ratto's delightful portrait of S Mon and the Cone nebula, old yellow cluster Trumpler 5, blue reflection nebula IC 447 and assorted faint red emission nebulae. How lovely!

I also love Nebulium's and Stefano De Rosa's images of the Moon-Venus conjunction when Venus is below the Moon. That's what the Moon-Venus conjunction looked like when I saw it.

I really appreciate Jerry Lodriguss' comparison between various planetary nebulae and their respective sizes and colors.

Usually I'm not too interested in star trails, because I can almost never identify the stars in them, but I appreciate darkfire's fantastic "windblown torrent" of stars and his whirligig of stars. When I scroll down, the stars seem to move!

I really like David Kaplan's Kepler 22b image. It's fantastic to imagine that we can pinpoint the location of Kepler 22b, and look in the direction of this planet, somewhere north and to the left of Vega, that comfortable mainstay in the sky. Suddenly, the sky has been ripped open and extended incredible light-years beyond Vega's twenty-five light-years.

I like Vegastar's subtle, sublime portrait of the Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, appropriated put inside a frame.

There are many other great images here, and I'd like to thank everybody for their contributions!

Ann