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The Pencil Nebula - NGC 2736
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Copyright: Gábor Tóth
Full resolution image with detailed description is available on my website: http://astro.i-net.hu/node/89

Evening at Pueblo Bonito
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Copyright: Marc Toso An interesting aspect of Pueblo Bonito's design is it's alignment with the cardinal directions. If a line were drawn through the center of the half circle shape it would lie in an exact north-south orientation. The southern wall is aligned in an east-west orientation, during spring and fall equinoxes the sun rises and sets in perfect alignment with this southern wall.

Object: NGC 2467 - 18 Feb 2004
FITS data obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA).
HST_9857_04_ACS_WFC_F660N
PSEUDO GREEN
HST_9857_04_ACS_WFC_F658N

Processing by: Steven Marx Click to view Original FULL scale image (3686x3990)

Copyright: Aldo Mottino (Rosario, Argentina)

Hi,

here is my newest picture:

Mosaic of the SMC & 47 Tucanae
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Copyright: Mario Weigand Medium Resolution - 2909 x 2112 Pixel (3659 kB)

Full Resolution - 5818 x 4223 Pixel (11310 kB)

cheers

Mario

Nautilus in the sky meets Human constructs in Corfu

Human constructs meets the celestial symmetry, creating a fantastic sight.
Stellar traces of 2.5 hours meet the moat of akropolis the new fortress of Corfu by creating the illusion of Nautilus.
In the photo on the left there is an Iridium Flare, while close to Polaris's a shooting star.

IC4605, LDN 1689, IC4603
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Copyright: Rafael Rodríguez Morales
High Definition Photo

http://www.skyandphoto.com/Photography/ ... 5xPsPFh/X3

Milky Way in Arteaga, Mexico.
Copyright: César Cantú



http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... category/9

Light Pillar



Panorama of a great sunset with a Light Pilar.

7/27/2014
Ranchos, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.


Sergio Montúfar

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360 Degree Startrail Panorama
Copyright: György Soponyai

The annual astro camp of Hungarian Astronomical Association was held last weekend in Gerecse Mountain near Tarján (~40km from Budapest). During these three nights I took the opportunity to accomplish my long-planned all sky startrail panorama photo with the hope that the light of observing lamps could produce a cool and intimate foreground of the scene. I was very lucky with the weather: only the first night was partially cloudly so I took 106 minutes of exposure (53 x 2 min) turning the camera to different directions every night.

On the Western horizon some light pollution of Tatabánya is clearly visible.



Photo details:
2014.07.24-26. Tarján, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Samyang EF 8/3.5, 3 x 53x120sec, ISO 1250, F5.6

North America Nebula SHO by Jeffrey Sines, on Flickr

IC443 and IC444.
Copyright : César Cantú

Elephant's Trunk nebula in Bicolor
http://www.photonhunter.at/IC1396.html
Copyright: Patrick Hochleitner and Dieter Beer
Image processing and acquisition Patrick Hochleitner

THE CRESCENT NEBULA NGC 6888
Copyright: Samuele Gasparini
http://www.astrobook.it/index.htm
Location: Torre Doganiera farm (Pievescola-Tuscany-Italy)
Telescope: Boren Simons 20 cm with Moravian G2-4000 and HAlpha+OIII+LRGB Filters
Description from Wikipedia: The Crescent Nebula (also known as NGC 6888, Caldwell 27, Sharpless 105) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 5000 light-years away. It was discovered by Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel in 1792.[2] It is formed by the fast stellar wind from the Wolf-Rayet star WR 136 (HD 192163) colliding with and energizing the slower moving wind ejected by the star when it became a red giant around 250,000[3] to 400,000[citation needed] years ago. The result of the collision is a shell and two shock waves, one moving outward and one moving inward. The inward moving shock wave heats the stellar wind to X-ray-emitting temperatures.
It is a rather faint object located about 2 degrees SW of Sadr. For most telescopes it requires a UHC or OIII filter to see. Under favorable circumstances a telescope as small as 8cm (with filter) can see its nebulosity. Larger telescopes (20cm or more) reveal the crescent or a Euro sign shape which makes some to call it the "Euro sign nebula".


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© Hector Rafael Vazquez Rispoli
Location: San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires Argentina

NGC6188

Teles WO GTF 81 478mm - SWHEq5
total 4h - 48 x 5min. +25 bias + 15 darks + 20 flats.
PI + PS HI RES
http://s13.postimg.org/5et9d6l0n/ngc6188_alta.jpg

Lagoon Nebula M8
Copyrights: Rodrigo Losada Trifid M20
Copyrights: Rodrigo Losada Sunset in Cabo Roche
Copyrights: Mario Ximenez M20 and M21
Copyrights: Fényes Lóránd Lagoon Nebula in visible light
Copyrights: Joe Bruce The Pillars of Creation
Copyrights: Ian Sharp Young Binary Star System May Form Planets with Weird and Wild Orbits (artist impression)
Credit: R. Hurt (NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC)
An article: https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressrelea ... ild-orbits http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=33703

Mono Meteor Reflection
Copyrights: Shreenivasan Manievannan Solar Cycle
Credit: SAO, NASA, JAXA, NAOJ, Patrick McCauley
More about: http://xrt.cfa.harvard.edu/xpow/20140725.html North Amercian Nebula, Pelican Nebula & Deneb
Copyrights: John Chumack Cassini Spacecraft Reveals 101 Geysers and More on Icy Saturn Moon
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-246 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=33691

Centaurus A
Copyrights: Albert Barr Small Magellanic Cloud
Copyrights: Albert Barr Alpha Capricornids Meteor & Persistent Train over Mount Rainier
Copyrights: Brad Goldpaint NLC panorama
Copyrights: Göran Strand

NASA Long-Lived Mars Opportunity Rover Sets Off-World Driving Record
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-245 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=33694

Messier 7- A carpet of stars in the heart of Milky Way
Copyrights: Federico Pelliccia
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/109918/0/?real=&mod= Trilobite Wilderness Area in the Californian Mojave Desert
Copyrights: Tommy H. Gooch III Clouds over the eastern basin of Lake Erie
Copyrights: Dan Taylor Rubber ducks
Credits: Jonathan Poritz
Animated gif: http://www.poritz.net/jonathan/APODidea/anim.gif
Preview: Thin Crescent Moon
Copyrights: Mohamed Laaifat NGC 7023, The Iris Nebula
Copyrights: Ryan Hannahoe The Hercules Globular Cluster M13
Copyrights: Terry Hancock

Summer night and meteors
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel M16 & M17
Copyrights: Karl Kuehn
Larger size: http://www.kkuehn.com/images/2014/m16m17.jpg The Pelican Nebula IC5067 & IC5070
Copyrights: Terry Hancock Milky way Couple - Mono Lake
Copyrights: Shreenivasan Manievannan The Milky Way's arm and Andromeda above Yosemite
Copyrights: Patrick Phelan Strong airglow waves
Copyrights: Alex Cherney New NASA Research Shows Giant Asteroids Battered Early Earth
Credit: Simone Marchi/SwRI
An article: http://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/new-nas ... rly-earth/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=33709

A mosaic of the Western Veil Nebula

Details: http://www.wittich.com/?p=1213

Enjoy this beautiful nebula

Reinhold

ISS emerging from Earth's shadow
Copyrights: James Collinson A distinct coma surrounds comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen from Rosetta.
Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
An article: http://www.mps.mpg.de/3701561/PM_2014_0 ... Aktivitaet http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 01#p229801

Omega Centauri
Copyrights: Albert Barr Alqueva All Sky
Copyrights: Miguel Claro Double rainbow
Copyrights: Göran Strand IC 1295
Credits: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
Full size: http://skycenter.arizona.edu/gallery/Nebulae/IC1295 Sky Highway
Copyrights: Francis Audet

Super Moon and ISS
Copyrights: Gerry Michaud NGC6589
Copyrights: Jose F. Hdez Milky Way from Spain
Copyrights: Antonio Vallano López The Crescent, The Soap Bubble and a Carbon Star
Copyrights: Steve Loveridge Sh2-86 Sh2-87 Sh2-88 Sh2-89 and Sh2-90
Copyrights: Lynn Hilborn
Larger size: http://www.nightoverontario.com/Astrono ... &lb=1&s=X2 IC4685
Copyrights: Chris Clayton
This and more images: http://tantort.webnode.com/photogallery/#t31-ic4685-jpg

Jewelry



Crux, Alpha Centauri, Coalsack Nebula, Southern Pleiades, The Great Carina Nebula, NGC 4755

From, Ranchos, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Credit: Sergio Emilio Montúfar Codoñer

Date: 07/27/2014
iso 3200
f5
1x39.1sec exposure
26mm
Time: 02:57 Local Time
(5:57 UT)


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Object: NGC 2074 - Seahorse of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - 10 August 2008
FITS data obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA).

Processing by: Steven Marx
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