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Copyrights: Raul Villaverde, Domingo Pestana and Nicolas Romo
NGC1499_2019RGB_Halfa by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

NGC 1365

LRGB : full size : http://www.cielboreal.com/galerie/photo108f.jpg

Crop : done with CDK20, Moravian G4-16000 on Paramount ME2 near Actacama Desert in Chile, El Sauce Observatory

http://www.cielaustral.com
Copyright: Team CielAustral with J.C CANONNE, N.OUTTERS, P. BERNHARD, D. CHAPLAIN & L. BOURGON

M16 - The Eagle Nebula (Ha-SHO)

Location: Toulouse, France
Ha-SHO (Narrow band filters : 6nm)
Bin1x1 Ha:1h40, Bin2x2 OIII:20mn & SII:25mn exposure time
200/1000 mm Newtonian telescope
Camera ZWO ASI1600MM Pro
Preprocessing with SIRIL
Image processing with Photoshop
Final touch with Lightroom
https://www.astrobin.com/6x1g9b/B

Website : https://astrophoto.pagesperso-orange.fr

Gorgeous Galaxy by Kees Scherer, on Flickr

This panoramic view of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) shows the bright yellow nucleus, dark winding dust lanes, luminous blue spiral arms, and bright red emission nebulas.

17.4 hours RGB and 19.5 hours luminance data recorded during 2018 and 2019 have been used for this image crop.
(68x300sec red, 67x300sec green, 74x300sec blue, 233x300sec lum. 432 exposures total)

Esprit 100 refractor+QHY16200 CCD /10 Micron GM2000 HPS / Scopedome 2M.

Carina Nebula



Copyright: Zhuoqun Wu, Wei Zhang

Detail and Full resolution:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/gu5uip/0/

GK Persei by Mark Stiles, on Flickr

AMELICAN
www.astromarcin.pl
Copyright: Marcin Paciorek
Best res http://www.astromarcin.pl/images/nebula ... O_2200.jpg

This image is the solar analemma for 2019, included three type solar eclipses.

Partial eclipse of January 6
Total eclipse of July 2
Annular eclipse of December 26

I succeeded in photographing the sun 320 days a year at an all-weather mini-observatory in Marugame City, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.This includes the partial eclipse on January 6.
http://www.itaime.com/itaime/2018/10/2018-4a43.html

The total solar eclipse on July 2 was filmed in Chile by Takeshi Inoue.
http://tohori.cocolog-nifty.com/about.html

Also, I filmed the annular solar eclipse on December 26 in Guam.
http://www.itaime.com/itaime/2019/12/post-5a5ef5.html

Moon and Venus Conjunction
www.mdieterichphoto.com
Copyright: Matt Dieterich

Atacama Desert Gegenschein and Milky Way
www.mdieterichphoto.com
Copyright: Matt Dieterich https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/493 ... 1cb9_h.jpg

Chilean Milky Way
www.mdieterichphoto.com
Copyright: Matt Dieterich

1-meter Telescope and the Milky Way
www.mdieterichphoto.com
Copyright: Matt Dieterich https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/493 ... be97_h.jpg

IC 63 Gamma Cass Nebula - The Ghost of Cassiopeia

Technical Card: https://www.astrobin.com/cikhbh/J/?nc=user

SHO_v3 IC63 by Daniel Hightower, on Flickr

The Heart nebula

Copyright: Tommaso Massimo Stella

Lights: 121x300s @ 250 Gain (-10°C), 57 Dark, 45 Flat
Telescope: TS PhotoLine 72/432
Camera: ZWO ASI 294mc Pro
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 GT
Autoguide: ASI 224mc & Ultraguide 60
Filters: Optolong L-Enhance
Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop CC, PixInsight , AstraImage

The Milkyway and Orion over Tejeda, Gran Canaria
Canon6D, modified
15x20s, ISO1600, f14mm
Stacked with Sequator, processed with Pixinsight
Copyright: Johannes Jaeger

Veil Filaments - Pickering's Triangle
Copyright: Jesus Canive

From the Cone to Rosette in Narrowband
http://www.woodlandsobservatory.com/
Copyright: Alistair Symon This is a reprocessed version of my Cone to Rosette mosaic in Narrowband. It uses the H-alpha image for luminance now which has significantly improved the detail over the previous version. Total imaging time was 142 hours

Tadpoles_SHO (1 of 1) by Daniel Hightower, on Flickr

IC2118_100_Michael_Taivalmaa by mike.taivalmaa, on Flickr

Happy New Year

Moon

The Moon from my backyard observatory

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/49300329367

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

Bubble Nebula NGC 7635
Fit files from NASA-ESO Hubble Legacy Archive
processed by me.

Celebrating 30 years of the Hubble Space Telescope
In April 2020, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope will celebrate 30 years since its launch.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/49328594498

Copyright: NASA/ESO/Daniel Pasternak

Quadrantid Meteor Shower

Although I had no plans to go and observe/image the specific meteor shower because it's very challenging due to the season that occurs, we had crystal clear skies in Rodokipos Halkidiki Greece that it was too tempting not to go out and give it a try. I started m one hour trip to the observing location and when I arrived I immediately observed the sky for indications of any meteors and it was clear that it was a very active meteor shower. As usual, when observing a meteor shower I made a comfortable place to lay down and under many warm layers of clothes, I had my watch and warm tea in order to measure the ZH rate.

The weather was clear cold and dry and this motivated me to go out at -3 Celsius (26.6F) and make a few images just in case we had some good ZHR rate. I started imaging at 01:30 UT and finished after the sunrise measuring the ZHR and admiring the show. The speed of the meteors was not the same but all of them was not that fast and bright. There were many faint ones not shown in the image as well. I also noticed periods of bursts and longer intervals with no activity. Except for an ISS pass which isn't visible in this image, I had to check more than 700 images with many satellites which were very tedious to recognize and reject. I measured a maximum ZHR of 125 meteors around 03:40UT in my observing location.

The Rosette Nebula NGC 2237

I am dedicating this photo to my father Harry Pasternak who passed away this past 22nd of November 2019 at 4:34 am
Smooth sailing as you return to the Universe from where you came.



https://flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/49102476461

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

The Monkey Head Nebula in SHO NGC 2174

Copyright: Bogdan Borz

Source: backyard Bortle 8 (Ha, O3) ; traveller Bortle 4 (S2).
AltairAstro Wave Series 115ED on AZEQ6 pro
ASI 1600mm à -20° gain 139 offset 21 t -20°
Field Flattener Altair Planostar 1.0
Astrodon Ha 3nm 36x300s gain 139
SII 3nm 29x300s
O3 3nm 38x300s
Total : 8.5 h
100 bias
50 darks
Guiding Altair 60mm et GPCAM3 178C , PHD2
Sequence Generator Pro
Processing: Pixinsight v.1.8.3, Photoshop 202

https://www.astrobin.com/full/bnhsra/B/