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Evening Sky
01.17.2012 Paris
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

Venus Phases
Copyright: Wah!

H-Alpha-Sundrawing

DATE: 18.01.2012 / 10:50 UTC - 12:50 UTC
Observatory: Freising / Bavaria / Germany
Telescope: Coronado PST 40/400
Ocular: 9mm SW 66°



My webside: http://www.dersonnenzeichner.de

I use a drawing pattern with lightgray sun. I draw the prominences, sunspots and
filaments with graphite pencil. For the active regions and flares i use the knife to
scrape the gray color off. On this away I can hold finest details.

Kind regards,

Michael Wendl

Winter Sky and Airglow
Copyright: Tunç Tezel
[attachment=5]glow_Tunc.jpg[/attachment]

Moonlit Aurora Australis
http://www.terrastro.com
Copyright: Alex Cherney
[attachment=4]Cherney_Moonlit_Aurora_Australis.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 2359: Thor's Helmet
http://anguslau.smugmug.com/Nature/Astr ... -7-7-O.jpg
Copyright: Angus Lau
[attachment=3]20120103_NGC2359_36-7-7-7x10m_LRGB_crop1.jpg[/attachment]

Stellar Bridge Above the VLT
Copyright: Yuri Beletsky
[attachment=2]paranal_uts.jpg[/attachment]

Smiley Sol
http://www.spotastro.com/files/Smiley_Sol.jpg
Copyright: Mark Manner
[attachment=1]Smiling Sunspots 1401-1402.jpg[/attachment]

M45: The Pleiades
http://www.ccdimages.com
Copyright: Dean Salman
[attachment=0]m45_salman.jpg[/attachment]

Anticrepuscular Rays near Cheyenne, WY
Copyright: Nate Cassell
[attachment=4]anticre.jpg[/attachment]

Milky Way, Comet Lovejoy, and the Large Magellan Cloud
http://www.luisargerich.com/lovejoy
Copyright: Luis Argerich
[attachment=3]mwaytiffstacl_e_lovejoy.jpg[/attachment]

Solstice to Solstice
Copyright: Regina Valkenborgh and Bayfordbury Observatory
[attachment=2]Bayfordbury_Solargraph.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 2244: Rosette Nebula
Copyright: Ching-Min Yu
[attachment=1]Rosette Nebula Hubble Palette Ching Yu Amsterdam.jpg[/attachment]

Cocoon Nebula
http://www.pbase.com/escilla/image/1409 ... iginal.jpg
Copyright: Jorge Garcia/NTO
[attachment=0]cocoon.jpg[/attachment]

Horse Drawn To Water Horse Drawn To Water by Terry Hancock, Down Under Observatory, on Flickr

The Sculptor Galaxy
http://www.astrofotografia.com.pl/
Copyright:Piotrek Sadowski http://www.astrofotografia.com.pl/photo ... ngc283.htm

Piotrek

Moon over the Wave Rock near Hyden, Western Australia ..

Sh2-170
(Rosette Nebula)
http://www.emilivanov.com
Copyright: Emil Ivanov
Often called the small rosette due to its resemblance to the original,
this small Sharpless object is five times smaller in size and much less
bright than the Rosette Nebula. Therefore it is not a common imaging target.
Total exposure time was 31 hours. Here could be found a bigger size as well as object and image details

Moonset at Sunrise
Copyright: Reiner Euler
[attachment=5]MoonSettingatSunrise2.jpg[/attachment]

Widefield Horsehead Nebula Region
http://imagingthecosmos.com
Copyright: Chris Hetlage
[attachment=4]horsehead_ha_lrgb1.jpg[/attachment]

First Light of Gemini Multi Conjuguate Adaptive Optics Systems
http://www.gemini.edu/node/11718
Credit and copyright: Gemini Observatory/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.
[attachment=3]gemini first light.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 7380 in Perseus
http://starrysite.com/index.php?site=galleryitem,339
Copyright: Michał Żołnowski
[attachment=2]ngc7380.jpg[/attachment]

Orion's Sword
Copyright: Louie Atalasidis
[attachment=1]orion's sword.jpg[/attachment]

Gathering of Winter Nebulae
http://www.starrywonders.com/ic410u16mcroppedsmall.html
Copyright: Steve Cannistra
[attachment=0]winter nebulae_cannistra.jpg[/attachment]

M76 - The Little Dumbbell
http://www.lvvastro.com/wordpress
Copyright: Larry Van Vleet Link to larger image

Crepuscular rays
Crepuscular rays before a beautiful sunrise.
Copyright: Arun Venkataswamy

NGC 650A : Polar Ring Galaxy Copyright and Credit: Data, Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA); processing, Gilles Chapdelaine

Polar ring galaxies are unusual systems where a gas rich ring lies in a particular orbit i.e., perpendicular to disk plane

IC443 - Jellyfish Nebula in HST palette with a "Jellyfish" for comparison Gordon Haynes
http://www.imagingtheheavens.co.uk

NGC1499 California HOS
http://www.zonalunar.com
Copyright: Alfonso Carreño (Zonalunar Observatory)

Full size image can be viewed here
Best Regards.

Earth Shadow from Kitt Peak
Ccdimages.com
Copyright: Dean Salman Reflection Nebulae IC 446/IC 447
http://www.massimotosco.it/Vdb79.html
Copyright: Massimo Tosco
[attachment=3]tosco.jpg[/attachment]

Delta Streaks over Shuttle
http://www.LaunchPhotography.com
Copyright: Ben Cooper
[attachment=2]wgs-4.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 2626: Reflection and Emission Nebula in Vela
http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/ngc2 ... 303_RC.htm
Copyright: Steve Crouch
[attachment=1]Crouch.jpg[/attachment]

Horsehead Nebula
Copyright: Alexandre Cucculelli
[attachment=0]ic 434 full copie.jpg[/attachment]

Bird Spots!
Copyright: Divyadarshan D.Purohit
[attachment=6]nbn3.jpg[/attachment]

Polarimetry Color Information Superimposed on M1
Copyright: Alex Tudorica & David Muelheims
[attachment=5]m1_Alex.jpg[/attachment]

M33: Triangulum Galaxy
Copyright: Carl Wasleske
[attachment=4]M33 9-30-11 6x600+3x1200 Repro.jpg[/attachment]

WSG-4 Launch from Cape Canaveral
Copyright: Mike Killian
[attachment=3]WSG-4 Launch Mike Killian.jpg[/attachment]

Orion & Company
http://www.jwestlake.com
Copyright: Jimmy Westlake [attachment=1]Sneffels_Starlight labelled.jpg[/attachment]

Winter Milky Way over Zabriskie Point in Death Valley
http://www.AstroPics.com
Copyright: Wally Pacholka
[attachment=0]Winter Milky Way over Death Valley 450wp.jpg[/attachment]

I just have time for some very quick comments here.

I totally, completely love Alex Cherney's Moonlit Aurora Australis. It's truly magical to see the Magellanic Clouds look almost exactly like pale water vapour clouds in the Earth's atmosphere. And yet, despite the moonlight, the Milky Way band is seen very clearly and well resolved. And then there is the pink aurora australis near the horizon. How magical and beautiful!

There are many other fine "Milky Way and Earth" images here. Yuri Beletsky's Stellar Bridge Above the VLT is beautifully detailed and very pleasingly colored.

And Luis Argerich's Milky Way, Comet Lovejoy, and the Large Magellan Cloud is delightful. It looks as if the LMC has spouted a kind of tail!

And Wally Pacholka is of course a mainstay here, and he always produces fantastic images. His Winter Milky Way over Zabriskie Point in Death Valley is wonderful. And since I'm fond of annotated images, I really like Jimmy Westlake's Orion & Company.

I'm not usually very interested in black and white images, but I find Terry Hancock's Horse Drawn To Water completely magical. It is a reminder that a lot of water has been found in and around the Orion Nebula!

I just love Emil Ivanov's Sh2-170 image, too. The Rosette Nebula, indeed. I love how the shape is similar to the Rosette, but this nebula only has one hot star blowing a hole in the center of the nebula, whereas the real Rosette has several hot O-type giants.

I love the fantastic deep blue Earth shadow rising below the pale pink Belt of Venus in Dean Salman's image.

There are very many other splendid images here, but unfortunately I have no more time to comment. Thanks to everyone who posted images here!

Ann