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Comet Garradd and galaxies M81 M82
©Jesper Grønne
http://www.astrophoto.dk
http://www.groenne.eu

NGC 253 (Silver Dollar Galaxy, Silver Coin Galaxy, Sculptor Galaxy, Caldwell 65), spiral Galaxy type Sc, in Sculptor

http://www.elateobservatory.com

Copyright: Velimir Popov
Big size is avaliable here

Thank you for looking...

After the nice remarks of Ann (thanks for that) to my previous post I update my M77 picture with much better colors I think. Here it is.

Datasets used (a lot ):
hst_05754_01_wfpc2_f336w_wf
hst_05754_01_wfpc2_f502n_wf
hst_05754_01_wfpc2_f547m_wf
hst_05754_01_wfpc2_f658n_wf
hst_05754_01_wfpc2_f791w_wf
hst_05942_01_wfpc2_f673n_wf
HST_9788_02_ACS_WFC_F658N
HST_9788_02_ACS_WFC_F814W

Messier 77 HST
Full resolution: http://www.astro-photo.nl/photoblog/ind ... ategory=33
Copyright: Hubble Legacy Team/NASA/ESA processing: André van der Hoeven

From the Moon to the Pleiades
Copyright: Luis Abraham Nuño Thanks for looking!

Luis Abraham Nuño

LMC in visible light

http://www.pampaskies.com
Copyright: Ignacio Diaz Bobillo
Hi-res with imaging data: http://www.pampaskies.com/gallery3/Wide-Field/LMC

Hi-res fast view: http://www.pampaskies.com/APOD-submission/lmc_hires.JPG

Thanks for looking!

M13. the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
http://www.astrosurf.com/astrobernier
Copyright: Martin Bernier Full: http://www.astrosurf.com/astrobernier/m13_rvb_3avril12

Thanks for looking

Star trails above the forest of peaks in Yingde,Guangdong.
[attachment=0]trailsleo.jpg[/attachment]
http://www.crux-gd.org/wp-content/uploa ... _10242.jpg

Spring conjunction.In this farming season, people are still busy preparing the farming.They clean up and burn weeds,and make them into fertilizer...

A camera lens will do just fine...200mm Canon lens @f2.8 high resolution http://www.nightoverontario.com/Astrono ... &lb=1&s=X3
Cheers
Lynn

Helix nebula, NGC 7293 -- via Spitzer
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Q ... directlink <--- Link to 4 MB hires version
Copyright: NASA/JPL/Spitzer team , All processing from raw FITS datasets by me: Rolf Karlstad

After seeing the 'teal' version of this image, I dipped back into using Spot/Leopard when I was in Iraq back in 2010. Somehow being deployed gets me interested in processing images, and I started looking at this image again recently. I, quite immodestly, like what I did here, quite a bit!

In order to avoid what I considered to be a largely monochromatic (yet, somehow, teal...) image, I flipped the script a little, representing long --> short wavelengths of Infrared with blue --> red, other than the 24 micron image, which I left as red. The baleful eye just didn't look right in any other shade. This 'odd' (?) choice of color assignment made the background look 'realistic', and yet showed a decent (wild, in comparison) amount of color variation in the background stars and galaxies.

Hope you like it -- please, please follow the link and download the full image from the link. It's worth it! Check the color detail in the 'comet' fragments. This version specifically optimized for 800x resolution, it looks pretty decent. Full version is roughly 3000x2000 and includes a little more on the right hand side and slightly less on the top relative to the original image, which was posted by JPL back in ~ 2007. Enjoy! All mosaic creation (with the tiny Spitzer images, this was Quite a Bit) and other processing done by me using the wonderful IRIS freeware image processing software. Check it out. Jpeg(s) by Photoshop...

NGC 2683 Edge-On Spiral Galaxy
http://www.starkeeper.it/NGC2683.htm
Copyright: Leonardo Orazi

Galaxy M106 (NGC4258) in the Constellation of Canes Venatici
http://blog.astrofotky.cz/pavelpech
Copyright: Pavel Pech




Ann: you are right, my latest post missed link to bigger (full) size of the image, so here we go once more:

Perseus to Aries (IC348, B1, B2, B3, B4, B205, NGC1333, vdB12, vdB13, vdB16)
http://blog.astrofotky.cz/pavelpech
Copyright: Pavel Pech

Colorful Cloud of Antares

Copyright: Ivan Eder

[attachment=0]eder.jpg[/attachment]
http://www.astroeder.com/images/antares_eder_1024.jpg
More information about the image can be find here:
http://www.astroeder.com/antares-m4_eder_en.html

Larger image size is available here:
http://www.astroeder.com/antares-m4_ederL.html

Thanks for looking!
Ivan Eder
http://www.astroeder.com/en.htm

Moon, Venus, Jupiter, Hydes cluster and M45

M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy in HaLRGB
http://cntastro.smugmug.com/Astrophotog ... 000_Kjt99P
Copyright: 2012 Craig & Tammy Temple

Solar Prom Forest - March 26, 2012
http://cntastro.smugmug.com/Astrophotog ... 677_BwbJbh
Copyright: 2012 Craig & Tammy Temple Solar Mosaic - April 9, 2012
http://cntastro.smugmug.com/Astrophotog ... 677_BwbJbh
Copyright: 2012 Craig & Tammy Temple

NGC 3372 narrow band from Buenos Aires, Argentina

Copyright: Emilio Primucci
Higher resolution http://observatorio.codigoaustral.com/w ... HO_big.jpg
More info: (spanish) http://observatorio.codigoaustral.com/?p=153

Thanks for your time watching

Emilio

Not another Moon - Yes, another Moon --> Last full Moon

FullMoonII Tuileries Gardens, Paris
04.06.2012
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

very nice work!

Venus meets the Pleiades

©Milan Miloradovic 2012

M13 Under a Full Moon

http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/6925023200/

Copyright: Terry Hancock

Pol with Holy Mary from Corsica
http://www.astrofotos.at
Copyright: Robert Pölzl
[attachment=0]trailsaustria.jpg[/attachment]
http://astrofotos.at/index.php?view=ima ... Itemid=134

During the summerholidays we visited Corsica by car. This island is a paradise with his mountains and nature. I saw this beautiful holy Mary on the top of Col de Bavella (1218m) and knew that’s the perfect environment for a polfoto. The sky was excellent dark and clear. It was a very mystical feeling!!!

Best regards from austria
Robert Pölzl

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