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Keenan's System (NGC 5216-8)
http://sleshin.startlogic.com/stargazer ... itemId=740
Copyright: Stephen Leshin This image shows possibly unknown tidal plumes!

NGC 2174
http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/gallery_NGC2174.html
Copyright: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team

W3
http://herschel.cf.ac.uk/results/w3-star-forming-region
Copyright: ESA/PACS & SPIRE consortia, A. Rivera-Ingraham & P.G. Martin, Univ. Toronto, HOBYS Key Programme (F. Motte)

Milky Way
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hakka69/86 ... otostream/
Copyright: Lincoln Harrison

NGC 3621
http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/ngc3 ... 303_RC.htm
Copyright: Steve Crouch

Pleiades (M45)
http://bf-astro.com/m45-83/m45.htm
Copyright: Bob Franke

ScienceCasts: The Sun's Magnetic Field is About to Flip Credit: NASA artist Werner Heil on a concept by John M. Wilcox, which was based on a paper by Ken Schatten (whew!)
Found here: http://www.science20.com/news_articles/ ... lip-117931
Reported here: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/sc ... fieldflip/
And more info here: http://wso.stanford.edu/gifs/HCS.html
And here: http://wso.stanford.edu/

1% from New Moon and Mercury
On August 5, 2013 at 5:16AM I captured this nice image of a Crescent
that is 1% from New Moon. Mercury is also in this picture in the upper
left at the edge of the longer cloud. Picture was taken at Bradley
Beach, New Jersey.
http://www.rddnj.com
Copyright: Russell E. King






http://rddnj.com/sitebuilder/images/Rus ... 90x543.jpg

1% from New Moon
On August 5, 2013 at 5:16AM I captured this nice image of a Crescent
that is 1% from New Moon. Picture was taken at Bradley
Beach, New Jersey.
http://www.rddnj.com
Copyright: Russell E. King

Ear Nebula (IPHASX J205013.7+465518)
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1169.html
Copyright: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF) A true colour image by Don Goldman can be seen here: http://www.astrodonimaging.com/gallery/ ... ?imgID=249

P.S. Finally this nebula is being studied!!!

M95
http://www.capella-observatory.com/Imag ... es/M95.htm
Copyright: Makis Palaiologou, Stefan Binnewies and Josef Pöpsel

Cepheus widefield
http://www.bucksnortobservatory.com/dee ... saic.shtml
Copyright: John Davis The right half is in Cepheus and the left half is in Cassiopeia.

RCW 104
http://www.astrodonimaging.com/gallery/ ... ?imgID=258
Copyright: Don Goldman

Noctilucent Clouds and Aurora
Copyrights: Maciej Winiarczyk
Suggested by George Brims

LDN 778
http://www.pbase.com/dsnope/image/151240827
Copyright: Dave Snope

NGC 4535
http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1312a/
Copyright: ESO

Comet Lemmon
Copyrights: Damian Peach Nova Delphini
Copyrights: Nick James

NGC 6559
http://rickstevenson.smugmug.com/Astro- ... /i-3ptPp3b
Copyright: Rick Stevenson

Launching Stratospheric Probe.
http://www.kost973.com/ecs/Stratospheri ... probe.html big image - http://www.kost973.com/ecs/Stratospheri ... 2013-2.jpg
We have specially launched a probe into the stratosphere to take pictures of the moon and the sun. The height of about 31 km.
Amateur astronomers from the northern city of Russia - Syktyvkar.
Kamera - GoPro. Data - 16/08/2013. Konstantin Poezjaev

NGC 5557
http://www.karelteuwen.be/photo_page.ph ... 5&album=14
Copyright: Karel Teuwen The plumes of NGC 5557 have a diameter of 1.3 million light years making them longer than the 1.1 million light year long tidal tails of the Superantennae galaxy!
In the image, to the right is the overlapping galaxy pair of NGC 5544-5 and near the right edge is the edge on galaxy NGC 5529. They can be seen more clearly in the following closeups by Adam Block:
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n5544.shtml
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n5529.shtml

This isn't an image. An appropriate photo would have to be procured. Reading Luca's blog entry on how he almost drowned was definitely a "wow" moment for me which is what is sought after for APODs. http://blogs.esa.int/luca-parmitano/201 ... -frontier/

Here's a photo of Luca in his space suit anyway.

WR 134 nebula
http://www.astrosurf.com/zoll/images/WR134_HOO.jpg
Copyright: Stephane Zoll

Happy 10th birthday, Spitzer!
Copyright: Peter Teuben
[attachment=0]spitzerbdaycake_Teuben.jpg[/attachment]

SNR B0519-69.0
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1317a/
Copyright: ESA/Hubble & NASA. Acknowledgement: Claude Cornen