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My own solar system bests from my house

Copyright: Michael A. Phillips

Link to full description
2014 Solar System in Review - Spanning from January 4th to December 30th (Never give up!), all photos are mine, including the Earth and all taken within the calendar year of 2014.
http://astromaphilli14.blogspot.com/201 ... eview.html

Hubble Sees the Beautiful Side of Galaxy IC 335
Copyrights: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
An article: http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/hub ... of-ic-335/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=236871#p236871

Carina Nebula
Credits: South Africa Astronomical Observatory
Full size: http://www.saao.ac.za/wp-content/upload ... tlight.jpg Comet Lovejoy - Dec 23rd - Twisting Tail
Copyrights: Ian Sharp
Full size: http://astro-sharp.com/images/comets/C2 ... 24_ids.jpg Horsehead Nebula
Copyrights: José Joaquín Pérez Omega Centauri - cross-stitch
Credits and copyrights: Risa Horowitz IC5070 & IC5067 - The Pelican Nebula
Copyrights: Ron Brecher Christmas sight
Copyrights: Brad E. Tucker Orion Rising over Tibet
Copyrights: Jeff Dai

Geostationary Satellites
Copyrights: Andrea Pistocchini M42
Copyrights: Stefan Muckenhuber M31
Copyrights: Stefan Muckenhuber IC443, The Jellyfish Nebula
Copyrights: Ron Brecher Milkyway and Pemaquid Point Lighthouse
Copyrights: Jon Secord Comet Lovejoy in the sky
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado New year's sky, Hawaiian style
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel

Comet Lovejoy
Copyrights: Mohammad Nowroozi NGC457, The Owl Cluster
Copyrights: Ron Brecher NGC2035 Southern nebula
Copyrights: Roland Christen NGC 2264 - Cone Nebula region
Copyrights: Alan Smallbone
Full size: http://oc-aisig.org/gallery/main.php?g2 ... ewsIndex=1 Comet C2014 Q2 Lovejoy
Copyrights: Jose F. Hdez Phemu - December 20 2014
Copyrights: Daniel Leclerc

M-74 and IFN
Copyrights: Stefano Conti Bubble Nebula
Copyrights: Peter Nagy ISS crosses the moon
Copyrights: Gadi Eidelheit Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2
Copyrights: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich Mediterranean Skies
Copyrights: Antonio Peña Light pillars & Vega
Copyrights: Andreas Albanese Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 now 5th magnitude
Copyrights: John Chumack

N44 superbubble in the LMC
A false-colour Hydrogen Alpha image of the N44 superbubble in the LMC. There is still much debate amongst professional astronomers as to whether N44 cavity was blown by the stellar winds of the massive cluster of stars in it centre, or is primarily created by a supernova. Probably both mechanisms have a part to play.
Copyright: Chris Clayton
http://tantort.webnode.com/photogallery/

Barnard 33 (Horse, Flame nebula)
Copyrights: Dide van den Heuvel Comet Lovejoy and Watchtower
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado A simulation of the universe with realistic galaxies
Image credit: J. Schaye et al. 2015
An article: http://www.astronomie.nl/#!/nova/pers/p ... -galaxies/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34282

Comet Lovejoy
Copyrights: Mike Klinke Flame Nebula & Alnitak
Copyrights: José Joaquín Pérez NGC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk Nebula
Copyrights: Roberto Capacci LBN-522 - Molecular clouds in Cepheus
Copyrights: Oliver Czernetz IC405 and NGC1893 mosaic
Copyrights: Fényes Lóránd
Full size: http://www.pleiades.hu/en/galeria/kozmo ... mal/79.jpg

M45, The Pleiades Star Cluster
Copyrights: Ron Brecher Lovejoy 2014
Copyrights: Albert Barr Victoria Street Tower Star Trail
Copyrights: Tony Prince Comet Lovejoy meets M79
Copyrights: Dieter Willasch Comet Lovejoy over village skyline
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado Ngc6888 + Soap Nebula
Copyrights: Paulo Lobao The Christmas Tree Cluster
Copyrights: Evangelos Souglakos M78 wide
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/144588/B/

Happy new year!

Messier 78 & Barnards Loop
http://www.skytrip.de
Copyright: Mario Weigand Medium size
Large version



Flaming Star Nebula IC 405
http://www.skytrip.de
Copyright: Mario Weigand Medium size
Large version



Reflection nebulae vdB 14 & 15
http://www.skytrip.de
Copyright: Mario Weigand Medium size
Large version



cheers

Mario

Lovejoy and fire tower
Copyrights: John Ashley Lovejoy
Copyrights: Albert Barr M33
Copyrights: Imaging by Barry Megdal, processing by Warren Keller and Barry Megdal
Full size: http://www.shbinstruments.com/M33.jpg Milky way
Copyrights: Shane Mayer-Gawlik Pelican Nebula (IC5067)
Copyrights: Howard Trottier NGC 1977
Copyrights: Ralph Harter

Veil Nebula
Copyright: Chan Yat Ping

After an image made 2 days ago of C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy from Australia I decided to gather some more data from the background to improve the 'depth' of the image. Therefore I took 300s exposures to get more details and fainter stars in the image. Furthermore I completely reprocessed the comet data to get more details in the tail structure. I'm quite happy with this result. This image was made possible by the Tzec Maun Foundation by giving access to their FSQ106 in Siding Springs, Australia.

In the image comet Lovejoy is shown together with Messier 79, taken on Dec. 29 2014.

Exposure information:

10x300s (background)
6x60s (comet)

FSQ106 - SBIG STL11000c

Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy with M79 by Andre vd Hoeven, on Flickr

Copyright: André van der Hoeven / Tzec Maun Foundation

The Colorful IC 434- The Horsehead and the Flame

I took this with a non modified dslr over the course of two nights. I was astounded to see how much detail was visible, even with basic gear.




Full Res: http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/1 ... rsonic.jpg

Space Flower- The Iris Nebula



Full Res: http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/0 ... rsonic.png

Rho Ophiuchi



Full Res: http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/6 ... rsonic.jpg

All of these were taken with a non modified Nikon D5300.

Copyright Jacob Bers http://bersonicastronomy.com/

Thanks for looking!

Lovejoy at full speed !

8 inches Newtonian with OOUK Mirrors, TeleVue paracorr and QSI 583 WS riding in a SW NEQ6 Mount

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Happy new year !!
Sergio

Volcán de Fuego

The golden sunset highlights the Volcán de Fuego as seen from Guetmala City on Deccember 26th.

https://www.facebook.com/MilkyWayAddicted
https://www.flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/
http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/profile/517775/
https://500px.com/acubens

By. Sergio Montúfar

Lynds Dark Nebula 1529 Copyright: Jeff Husted. A collection of dark nebulae in Taurus. Click here to view at full resolution and for image info: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cygnusloo ... otostream/
Location: Panamint Valley California December 21,22,23, 2014.
Equipment: Televue NP127is at f4.1; Atik 383L+; Atlas EQ-G. Processing: Images Plus; Maxim DL; Registar; PS Elements.

Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile (alcarreño)

24x400" en RGB y 40x800 en Halfa

Las tres Marias RGB+Halfa by astrocentejo, on Flickr

Symmetry and Star Trails
https://flic.kr/p/qCGUyv
Copyright: Marion Haligowski

Symmetry and Star Trails by Radical Retinoscopy, on Flickr

Orion, Jupiter, Leo and the winter constellations can be seen rising in the eastern sky in this star trail photograph made of 52 twenty second exposures. (Canon T2i, Canon 8-15L mm zoom lens, ISO 400, f/4.0) The waxing gibbous moon in the west illuminated the rows of harvested corn in this Lancaster, PA field.

Dusty Subaru
http://hythamsafieh.smugmug.com
Copyright: Hytham Abu-Safieh

Total Integration time: 5h
Higher Resolution Image Found Here

M81
http://www.nightsky.kr
Copyright: Gwangwook Kim

Comet Lovejoy
January 2, 2015
01:42 - 02:16 UT

(under the bright moon)

Larger images:
http://www.astrobin.com/145161/

Nick Pavelchak
Altamont, NY
http://www.astrobin.com/users/sydney/

Title:
Comet Lovejoy and M79

Object/Date:
C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) @ 2014-Dec-29

Tech data:
Takahashi FSQ-106ED refractor + SBIG STL-1100M camera (L:1×180 Bin1 + RGB:1x60 Bin2)

Description:
Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) on December 29, 2014 while passing near globular cluster M 79 into Lepus. The comet has increased its brightness until 5th magnitude meanwhile its gassy coma has extended until a diameter of 0.5 degrees (same apparent size as the Moon), the galaxy NGC 1886 is immersed up in the outside of coma. The ionic tail of the comet departs toward northeast getting out the image with a longitude higher than 2 degrees, and showing a rich structure in which highlights a disconnection to half degree from nucleus.

Location:
Remotely from Siding Spring, Australia

Post link:
http://cometografia.es/lovejoy-m79/

Author:
José J. Chambó

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California Nebula - central region in RGB + Ha (5 x 200 secs in each of R, G & B + 8 x 1,000 seconds 3nm Ha. TEC 140 'scope, FLI ML16803 camera, Astrodon filters)
Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop. Constantly amazed by what I can see from my garden!

Bob.

2 frames with 200mm lens for this widefield imag.

Larger version:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/158682011

Happy new year!

Kfir Simon