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An impressive holiday compilation, by Aggelos Kechagias (with deep sky astrophotos captured by him on 2012):
http://www.astrovox.gr/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=15979
Aggelos's website:
http://astrocorinth.webs.com/

M106
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/M106-HST.html
Copyright: Rob Gendler

Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
http://www.karelteuwen.be/photo_page.ph ... 7&album=14
Copyright: Karel Teuwen

starsurfer wrote:M106
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/M106-HST.html
Copyright: Rob Gendler
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/M106-HST-S.jpg

This is an absolutely stunning image.
Ive always wanted to peer deeper into the core of M106
very intense

Perseus Galaxy Cluster (Abell 426)
http://www.capella-observatory.com/Imag ... ell426.htm
Copyright: Makis Palaiologou, Stefan Binnewies and Josef Pöpsel

Two fantastic new galaxy pictures by Adam Block!

NGC 7753 and UGC 3697, The Integral Sign Galaxy!

Note, by the way, all the pale nebulosity in the NGC 7753 image. That nebulosity is almost certainly the integrated flux nebulae.

Ann

Gust front associated with cyclone Narelle
Copyright: Brett Martin
Source: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weath ... 2cj35.html

Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253)
http://www.astrogb.com/ngc253.htm
Copyright: Giovanni Benintende

Barrow Island (Western Australia) - Cyclone NARELLE

Probable copyright: Brett Martin

NGC 1808
http://www.martinpughastrophotography.i ... GC1808.htm
Copyright: Martin Pugh

NGC 1313
http://anguslau.smugmug.com/Nature/Astr ... &lb=1&s=X3
Copyright: Angus Lau

Ced 51
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/ced51.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

http://spaceweather.com/submissions/pic ... 529_lg.gif

Here is an animation of C/2012 S1 ISON taken through a 4-inch refractor, starting at 23h on the 15th of Jan and ending at 01h on the 16th. The comet is clearly visible moving among the stars of Gemini, in an area just to the south of Castor. Heres a direct link to the animation:

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/comets/S1_ ... 1-crop.gif

NGC 1999
This wide-field panorama of star formation was captured with the National Science Foundation’s Mayall 4-meter telescope on Kitt Peak. Located in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter), the image show a portion of one of Orion’s giant molecular clouds (known as “Orion A”) where new stars are forming.
Image Credit: Z. Levay (STScI/AURA/NASA), T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (NOAO/AURA/NSF)

Abell 30
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/a30/
Copyright: Inset X-ray (NASA/CXC/IAA-CSIC/M.Guerrero et al); Inset Optical (NASA/STScI); Widefield X-ray (ESA/XMM-Newton); Widefield Optical (NSF/NOAO/KPNO)

Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635)
http://www.cav-sfo.com/BubbleIon.html
Copyright: Joe Mize

Heart Nebula (IC 1805)
http://www.pbase.com/kwiechen/image/147257393
Copyright: Kai Wiechen

Soul Nebula (IC 1848)
http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/83cb818e ... 33212a.jpg
Copyright: Immo Gerber

Adam Block has posted a fantastic new image of lovely spiral galaxy M74!

Ann

Jupiter on January 24th, 00:02ut. Impressive disturbances throughout this side of the globe in particular NNTeB region (Top Left) and at the NTrZ region (Center) a very bright white Oval from the pair.
(LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, Flea3 Ccd, TeleVue 3x barlows, Astronomik RGB filter set. (55 sec. per ch.)

Saturn on January 19th, Now approahing at a reasonable altitude in the morning hours. My first session of the year.

The Horse and The Hunter - 7nm hydrogen alpha wide field ( Barnard 33 - Messier 42 )
http://www.lightwavesobservatory.com
Copyright: James Black Takahashi FSQ106ED Starlight Xpress SXVR-H36 ccd camera - 6hrs total exposure with 30 second core frames

Pacman Nebula (NGC 281)
http://www.starpointing.com/ccd/ngc281.html
Copyright: Fabian Neyer

Formation of northern lights during a flight from Seattle to Barcelona.
Flight at 32000 ft

Northern lights flight
http://www.diaridelabonavida.com

Copyright: Manel Puente