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Last weekend I had a starparty in one of the darkest parts of the Netherlands and there I imaged all night M106. In total 14x10 min without filter, 5x3 min R,G,B and 3x30 min Ha were taken with a Tak FSQ106 and SXV-H9. In the final image I can see about 50 galaxies apart from M106. Even some detail can be seen in the galaxy pair NGC4321/4322 and NGC4226....

Just east of Merak: M97 & M108
http://www.skytrip.de
Copyright: Mario Weigand Full resolution

greets

Mario

NGC 4565
http://www.astrofotografia.com.pl
Copyright: Piotrek Sadowski http://www.astrofotografia.com.pl/photo ... gc4565.htm

Leo Triplet - Three Frames Mosaic
http://stefanofocosi.altervista.org
Copyright: Stefano Focosi Hi-Res: http://stefanofocosi.altervista.org/ast ... let_Hi.jpg

Hubble image of NGC3521 core
http://www.astro-photo.nl/
Copyright: Hubble Legacy Archive/ESA/NASA processing: André van der Hoeven Full resolution:

http://www.astro-photo.nl/photoblog/ima ... _andre.jpg

Orion M42 with HDR process
URL of website, if any
Copyright: Hata Sung from TAIWAN

avdhoeven wrote:Hubble image of NGC3521 core
http://www.astro-photo.nl/
Copyright: Hubble Legacy Archive/ESA/NASA processing: André van der Hoeven

Click to view full size image

Full resolution:

http://www.astro-photo.nl/photoblog/ima ... _andre.jpg

Hey, you should post that here too so I'm not all alone.

Venus and Jupiter to blaze beneath the Waxing Crescent Moon
03.28.2012 Paris, France
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... otostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... otostream/
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

Sunset from the Concorde Bridge, Paris
03.29.2012
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... otostream/
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

Galaxy Group NGC 3718, NGC 3729 and HG 56A
http://www.starkeeper.it/NGC3718_RC10.htm
Copyright: Leonardo Orazi Processing RGB data i found a possible orange/red ring just on the core of galaxy NGC3718.
Someone may help me to understand if is an artifact or not (I checked the data but seem all ok) ?
This is the RGB data only, red layer enanched.

All the best,
Leo

I think that's a dust ring, and I think it is real.

Ann

Alange, Spain. 2012-03-29

The NEO 2012 Eg5 has been fragmented?

[img2]http://astrobin_images.s3.amazonaws.com/643556e4-c875-4923-a13a-20f5859456fe_resized.png[/img2]

Roberto Barcellona
Associazione Astrofili Bisalta - CUNEO - ITALY

Omega Centauri from suburban skies
http://www.pampaskies.com
Copyright: Ignacio Diaz Bobillo Image taken from my backyard, outisde of Buenos Aires city, with a 130mm APO and an entry level DSLR.


Hires version with imaging data: http://www.pampaskies.com/gallery3/Deep ... Omega-cent

Full resolution version: http://www.pampaskies.com/APOD-submissi ... -hires.JPG

Thanks for looking!

Cocoon Widefield
Website URL - http://daemongpf.blogspot.com/
Copyright: Josh Knutson & Salvatore Grasso Acquisition - Celestron Nexstar 8GPS, Hyperstar III, QHY-8 30x300 seconds
High Resolution image link - http://www.astrophotogallery.org/data/702/Cocoon5.jpg

NGC 2403, the small M33
http://www.manuelj.com
Copyright: Manuel Jimenez Full size and details: http://www.manuelj.com/Astronomy/GalaxyGallery

Filamentary shell G296.2-2.8
http://www.glitteringlights.com/Images/ ... &lb=1&s=X3
Copyright: Marco Lorenzi

Hi @all,

the last nights I collectet over 15 hours photones from M63 the sunflower galaxy.



Here you can see higher resolutions:
http://www.astro-fotos.com/m63_20120322.html


Thanks for looking and best regards,
Dirk

Venus joins the Pleiades Star Cluster
04.01.2012
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

Copyright: Rafael Rodriguez
http://www.skyandphoto.com

Wind mill conjuntion and time lapse video. Tenerife sky. March 2012
Copyright: RobertoPorto

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40046536@N ... hotostream

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Again, some belated comments.

Another fine image of M106 and a number of its "companion galaxies" (though most are line-of-sight companions)! Thanks, avdhoeven! Your image confirms that there is a large red emission nebula at one end of the bar of the small satellite galaxy, NGC 4248. Like you said in your own comment, there is a lot of splendid detail in your image!

Mmmm, Mario Weigand, I like it! You are of course right that Merak is a blue star. At 9,000 degrees Kelvin it is about 3,200 degrees hotter than the Sun, and if it were closer to us, so that it made our color vision react, we couldn't fail to see that it is quite blue. And what a skyscape that is with bright star Merak, galaxy M108 and planetary nebula M97! Fine details can be seen in both the galaxy and the planetary.

Stefano Focosi, thanks for going to the trouble of making a three frame mosaic of the Leo Triplet! It looks very fine.

That's a beautiful Orion Nebula, Hata Sung!

Ah, Vegastar, those are three lovely images of Paris and the sky! The Eiffel Tower "spitting light" and that magnificent fountain look splendid below the Moon, Venus and Jupiter. The sunset image is very beautiful, too. And I really like the Pleiades next to Venus, too!

Leonardo Orazi, I have commented on your image before. It is a very fine portrait of galaxies NGC 3718 and and 3729. You bring out the starforming ring of dust in NGC 3718 and contrasts it with the overall transparency of NGC 3718. The red ring that you have spotted in NGC 3718 - and I didn't quite get what you were talking about before - is almost certainly real. I'd say its the remnant of a previous starburst ring around the nucleus of NGC 3718. Many galaxies have such rings, but usually the rings are blue in color from ongoing star formation. In the case of NGC 3718, the nuclear star formation has ceased long ago, but a bright ring where the "stellar density" is high remains. (However, I think that the red color of your ring isn't real, because there is a dust lane crossing the ring that makes it look red.)

Ignacio Diaz Bobillo, I'm impressed that you have taken such a fine image of Omega Centauri from a suburb.

Josh Knutson and Salvatore Grasso, that's a fine image of the Cocoon nebula and its vicinity.

Manuel Jimenez, that's a very fine image of NGC 2403! And I like the name, the small M33.

Marco Lorenzi, what an interesting picture! I had to go to your homepage to find more information about it. We are in the constellation Musca, deep in the southern sky, and the small red "comet-like" thing above one of the bright blue stars in the image is a starforming region called IC 2966. It seems unlikely, I agree, that the large filamentary nebula is ionized the small star forming region. The large red "spaghetti structure" looks like a supernova remnant to me. In any case, what an interesting part of the sky this is, and what a fine picture!

Dirk, I checked out your Sunflower galaxy on your own homepage, and the full resolution image is beautiful indeed.

Rafael Rodriguez, that's a very handsome portrait of magnificent galaxy M101!

RobertoPorto, that's a very striking image of a windmill and the conjunction between the Moon and Venus!

Thanks to everyone who contributed images here!

Ann