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Cone and Fox Fur nebulae
http://www.astrowimp.com
Copyright: Tim Christensen
LRGB mosaic 42 hours total exposure

IC 1808 The Heart Nebula in SHO+RGB

Image Credit & Copyright: José Jiménez Priego & Raul Villaverde Fraile

https://flic.kr/p/PcpJk4

https://www.facebook.com/jose.jimenezjj
https://www.facebook.com/raul.villaverdefraile?fref=ts

NGC 2237 The Rosette Nebula in SHO+RGB

Image Credit & Copyright: José Jiménez Priego & Raul Villaverde Fraile

https://flic.kr/p/P5QgpJ

https://www.facebook.com/jose.jimenezjj
https://www.facebook.com/raul.villaverdefraile?fref=ts

HFG1 & Abell6 Planetary Nebulae
Image Credit & Copyright: Frank Iwaszkiewicz & Nico Geisler FullRes:
https://www.deep-sky-astroteam.de/de/node/391

NCG 1360 by Onejoshsmith, on Flickr

copyright: Josh Smith

Astrophotographers Spanish team formed by Jesus M. Vargas, Alvaro Ibáñez Pérez and Maritxu Poyal , have made this whole team work as astronomical.



The image data:
Ha filter (AIP)) Alvaro Perez Ibáñez
Telescope: TS115 Triplet APO refractor (focal lenght: 630mm)
Mount: Takahashi EM-400
Camera: CCD Atik 460EX mono + Baader Ha 7nm
Guider: Lunatic EZG-60 + SXLodestar
Focus: RoboFocus + AstroMatic (ftorrev)
Adquisition: MaximDL + AstroMatic (ftorrev)
Processing: PixInsight Core 1.8 + PS
Ha: -10 bin1 13x900s from Camarma de Esteruelas, Spain and 15x600s bin1 from -5C Pioz, Guadalajara, Spain.

OIII and SII filters (Jesus M. Vargas and Maritxu Poyal):
Telescope Takahashi FSQ106EDX (focal lenght: 530mm)
Mount: Losmandy Gemini v.4
Camera: QSI 683 WS8 + Baader OIII 8,5nm
Guider: Lunatic EZG-60 + QHY5
Focus: Seletek
Adquisition: MaximDL
Processing: PixInsight Core 1.8 + PS
OIII: 8x600s bin1 and SII : 14x600s bin1 to -10 ccd ,from (Benamahoma Mountain, Cádiz), Spain.

To enlarge, click here:

http://www.sky-astrophotography.com/ind ... re&id=1141


Image Credit & Copyright:

Team: Jesus M. Vargas & Alvaro Ibáñez Pérez & Maritxu Poyal

(http://www.sky-astrophotography.com)

(https://www.facebook.com/AIP.Astrophotography/),



The Elephant Trunk Nebula is an elongated emission nebula IC 1396 in the constellation Cepheus dark globule. Located at a distance of 2,450 light-years, the globule is a condensation of dense gas that is barely surviving the strong ionizing radiation from a nearby massive star. The globule is being compressed by the surrounding ionized gas. The dark globule is seen in silhouette at wavelengths of visible light, illuminated by the light of a bright star to the left of the field of view.
The appearance of filaments globule results are the effects of sculpture competing physical processes. The winds of a massive star, located to the left of the image, producing a circular comprising the 'head' of the globule and aerodynamic tail of an edge dense gas.

A couple of young stars (349 LkHa c LkHa and 349) have been formed from the dense gas has cleared a spherical cavity inside the head of glóbulo.Podemos see the presence of a thick disk of dust around LkHa c 349. such circumstellar discs are the precursors of planetary systems. They are much thicker in the early stages of star formation when the material forming the placental planet (gas and dust) is still present.
Jets and winds of particles emitted from this star are also away the gas and dust environment. Nearly 3,000 light years distant, the relatively faint IC 1396 complex covers in the sky a much larger region than shown here, with an apparent width of more than 10 moons.

NGC2264
Copyright: Wolfgang Promper http://www.astro-pics.com/6412m.html

M45
Copyright: Wolfgang Promper http://www.astro-pics.com/4512m.html

Hi all,
November 14th 2016, sunset. Pictures were taken from Mar del Plata, an emblematic touristic city in Argentina facing the Atlantic ocean.

Picture 1 was taken before sunset and shows a group of dark clouds at low altitude over Mar del Plata city. Sun was close to reach the west horizon. The dark clouds were moving from the continent (west) to the Atlantic ocean (east) probably carrying some water from the Pacific ocean due to El Niño. Picture was taken from a breakwater.

After this capture I approached the city while the group of clouds moved in opposite direction and is now seen over the ocean (picture 2). Lots of people were preparing to enjoy the spectacle of the full supermoon rise (right edge of the photo).

Only few minutes later the clouds illuminated by the sun gave us a wonderful seen (picture 3). The east horizon looks like a mixture of cloudy sky and belt of Venus phenomenon. At that point it was hard to be optimistic about seen the moon rising, but people remained in their position.
Finally there it was! Moon rising image in the next post together with a cropped image of the previous panoramic picture I liked most, and a combination of both.

Thanks for looking!
Aldo

Here it is Moon rise. See previous post for explanations.
Thanks,
Aldo

NGC 1499, the California Nebula in Hubble Palette
http://www.pbase.com/ccoop/image/164541101
Copyright: Steve R Cooper

NGC 1499, the California Nebula in Narrowband
Here is a more "natural" color version where R = 80% Ha & 20% SII, G = 100% OIII, and B = 85% OIII & 15% Ha.
http://www.pbase.com/ccoop/image/164541118
Copyright: Steve R Cooper

IC 1396 Elephant's Trunk nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: José Jiménez Priego

https://flic.kr/p/NDJNe3

https://www.facebook.com/jose.jimenezjj

Supermoon November 14 2016
Copyrights: Philippe Moussette The full Moon over Rockport Massachusetts
Copyrights: Carol Pelletier The day after the SuperMoon: FullMoon
Copyrights: Vivek Bannore Full Moon
Copyrights: Ismail Thonash Dark Nebula B343: A Close Look
Copyrights: Jeffrey O. Johnson Super Copernicus during full Moon perigee (Supermoon)
Copyrights: László Francsics Double Exposure of the Moon
Copyrights: Greg Hogan Uber Moon
Copyrights: Callen Hearne Plane and Perigee Moon
Copyrights: Nirmal Walunzkar Full Moon Monday 14 November
Copyrights: Johanna Thonon Big Dipper time lapse from now to year 100,000
Copyrights: Nils Austa IC 59, IC 63 and the Gamma Cassiopeiae
Copyrights: Zsolt Kardos SuperMoon over Denver
Copyrights: Jeff Warner Milky Way from la Palma Island
Copyrights: Sergi Luque Fantasy and the Supermoon
Copyrights: Jose Suro The Rosette Nebula
Copyrights: Danny Lee Russell The Omega Centauri Cluster
Copyrights: Ezequiel Etcheverry Colors of Creation
Copyrights: Rogelio Bernal Andreo Colorful Super Moon 20161114
Copyrights: Wah! Supermoon from Montevideo, Uruguay
Copyrights: Fefo Bouvier M76
Copyrights: Tolga Gumusayak HFG1
Copyrights: Tolga Gumusayak NGC2237
Copyrights: Jose Jimenez Priego Super Moon Photo taken in India
Copyrights: Ramesh Menon Analemna
Copyrights: Darek Dorosz Super Moon and Halo
Copyrights: Steve Irvine Moon & Stars & Earthshine
Copyrights: Greg Hogan A Dusty Pelican Nebula
Copyrights: Steve Richards Supermoon
Copyrights: Giuseppe Saitta NGC 288
Copyrights: Franz Hofmann NGC253
Copyrights: Franz Hofmann Aurora nr 666
Copyright: Egon Filter

The various faces of Messier 1:
3 different versions - Hydrogen Alpha only, LRGB, Hubble color mapping and a comparison view.

Larger versions and details:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/new_images

Thanks for looking!

Kfir Simon

Barnard's Merope nebula.

Full details and larger versions:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/new_images

Thanks for looking!

Kfir Simon



And a closer view:

Milky Way over the cliffs of Torres del Paine.

On the sky we can see dust clouds of the southern Milky Way. Did you know that the cosmology of the Incas operates not only the constellations, but also the dark dust nebulae? Dark gaps in the Milky Way take pride of place in the myths and legends of the Inca civilization on a par with the stars. Do you see in the sky the llama and her baby? The fox that is chasing them? Can you see a shepherd nearby? And somewhere nearby are heard by his eternal dance even a Condor, Puma, toad, partridge and other characters... I was able(at least I think I managed to identify some of the figures.

Left to right: llama, laby llama, fox, shepherd

a7s, 14mm, f/2.8, 30 sec, iso 5000

Author's site: http://www.astroadventures.ru/
Copyright: Yuri Zvezdny

Fire and sky
Copyrights: Gabriel Barathieu ISS transits November's supermoon
Copyrights: G Atchley Astronomy chart
Copyrights: David Dominé Full Moon
Copyrights: Jorgelina Alvarez Real colours of the Moon
Copyrights: Catovic IC 1808 The Heart Nebula
Copyrights: José Jiménez and Raul Villaverde IC1805
Copyrights: Matej Kovalčík NGC281
Copyrights: Matej Kovalčík Milky Way
Copyrights: Vedant Pratap Singh Jadon Supermoon over the Superstition Mountains, AZ
Copyrights: Craig Smith Star trails from Hong Kong
Copyrights: Einstein Chu IC1396- Elephant Trunk
Copyrights: Jesus M. Vargas & Maritxu poyal & Alvaro Ibáñez Pérez M 31 from Hanle
Coprights: Suresh Mohan Neelmegh Orion on a tree
Copyrights: Francesco Pelizzo Colors of supermoon
Copyrights: Fausto Rovetti Fly me to the Moon
Copyrights: Tim McManus Moon over the Stanford dish
Copyrights: Tim McManus Heart Nebula
Copyrights: Julien Martel Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)
Copyrights: John Gleason M42 - Orion Nebula
Copyrights: Nicolas Lefaudeux NGC 1499 the California Nebula
Copyrights: Steve Cooper

Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile
http://astrocentejo.wixsite.com/alcarria

mosaico pleyades california 2016v6 by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

Elephant trunk nebula
http://www.astrowimp.com
Copyright: Tim Christensen
LHaRGB, 2 panel mosaic

IC434 and Flame Nebula - HaLRGB
http://www.far-light-photography.at
Copyright: Arno Rottal
IC434 and Flame Nebula - HaLRGB
9x1200sec L
13x1200sec Ha
each 3x600sec RGB
Moravian G2-8300 on Esprit80.

full resolution:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/275093/0/?real=&mod=

vdB 130 in Cygnus
http://www.distant-lights.at/vdb130-2016_08_07.htm
Copyright: Thomas Henne

Milky Way, Zodiacal Light and Gegenschein
Credits : Stephane Vetter : http://nuitsacrees.fr / TWAN : http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/index.asp ) /S2P / IMCCE / OMP Northern lights Inari, Finland
Copyrights: Teppo Laitinen Perseus Cluster of Galaxies
Copyrights: Howard Trottier The Heart Nebula
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile In Cefeo
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile Atlas V launch
Copyrights: Manuel Del Moral M101
Copyrights: César Blanco González Moon and birds
Copyrights: Ekkehard Gnadler SH2-171 / NGC 7822
Copyrights: Sebastien Chareyre Orion and the Horsehead
Copyrights: Wes Schwarz NGC7822
Copyrights: Hans Heiser Eastern Moon
Copyrights: Sam Miller Messier 45
Copyrights: Adam Ellenberger Planets in 2016
Copyrights: Pavel Prokop Milky Way and planets
Copyrights: Jorgelina Alvarez NGC 4414
Copyrights: Albert Bosma The Centre of the Milky Way Above Prayer Flag on the Steppe
Copyrights: Yilun Ma LMC vs M31 on the horizon
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel and Sergio Montúfar Perseus Double Cluster
Copyrights: Péter Feltóti NGC7331 - Stephan's quintet
Copyrights: Péter Feltóti

NGC 5258 and NGC 5257
Copyrights: Chris Kotsiopoulos IC 342
Copyrights: Jens Zippel Barnard 26, 27 and 28
Copyrights: Robert Fields Large Magellanic Cloud
Copyrights: Francesco Badalotti GOES-R
Copyrights: John Kraus M45
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari Ghost of Cas
Copyrights: Tolga Gumusayak NGC 6520 & Barnard 86
Copyrights: Tragoolchitr Jittasaiyapan NGC 4565
Copyrights: Edward Popovitch IC405 - Ephemeral Flame
Copyrights: Adam Block Messier 31 (plus M110 and M32)
Copyrights: Alan Potts Gamma and Delta Cass; plus Double cluster Perseus
Copyrights: Alan Potts Super Moon
Copyrights: Brian W Scott Bright North Taurid over Poland
Copyrights: Michał Kałużny M42 The Great Orion Nebula
Copyrights: Angus Lau Supermoon Rising
Copyrights: Antaratara Ghosh Crater Moretus
Copyrights: Stephen Curling The Horse Head Nebula Close up
Copyrights: Joaquin Fabrera Polleri / Ezequiel Etcheverry HST Solar Transit
Copyrights: Michael Marston Sun without filters
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Verde Mosaic NGC7000-IC5070
Copyrights: Jesús M. Vargas and Maritxu Poyal Lunar rainbow and the northern lights over the waterfall of Aldeijarfoss
Copyrights: Rubén Dominguez Ocon Pacman Nebula
Copyrights: Albert Barr Ngc 6960 - The Witch's Broom Nebula
Copyrights: George Chatzifrantzis Intense Aurora
Copyrights: Mia Stålnacke