Starship Asterisk*

Get out your red-blue glasses, folks, because it's....
[size=120][b]The Carina Nebula in 3D[/b][/size]
http://www.universein3d.com/Universe_in_3D/Home/Home.html
Image: Hubble Space Telescope (NASA); 3D rendering: Matt Yacavone
[img2]http://www.universein3d.com/Universe_in_3D/Home/Entries/2010/8/6_The_Carina_Nebula_files/3D%20Carina%20Nebula_1.jpg[/img2]

[size=120][b]Lightning and Light Pollution[/b][/size]
Credit & Copyright: Massimo Villata ( INAF-OATo )
[size=85][i][attachment=0]TORINO_HILL.jpg[/attachment][/i][/size]

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I find this to be very appealing... a very clear view of the blue flash and a strangely alien feel to it at the same time.

[size=120][b]Dark Nebulae in Ophiuchus[/b][/size]
Copyright: José Joaquín Pérez
[size=80][i][attachment=0]Snake_V2.jpg[/attachment][/i][/size]

Speaking of color, I like José Francisco Hernández' Milky Way landscape, but the colors look weird. For example, the overall color of the sky is quite orange, but the mountain range in the background is quite blue.

The landscape doesn't look "real", but rather it looks like a weird fantasy world. But that doesn't have to be bad.

Ann

And speaking of the color blue, that's a nice blue flash by Pierluigi Giacobazzi & Agnieszka Ruffini! ::thumbsup::

Ann

I really, really have to applaud George Georgatos' image of the Merope Nebula! ::clap:: ::clap:: ::thumbsup::

I so appreciate seeing this nebula in true color, that is, blue. Of course this nebula is blue for real. Reflection nebulae tend to be blue, and this is a reflection nebula, and reflection nebulae are [i]always[/i] blue if they reflect the light of a blue star, and if they are unreddened. Merope is a blue star, and the Pleiades cluster is basically unreddened, so of course the Merope Nebula is blue!!! The Hubble Telescope took an awful picture of the Merope Nebula some years ago. I remember I wrote to the people responsible for coloring the image and told them that I hated it:

[img]http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/stu/media/hst_heritage_0012.jpg[/img]

Note the barely blue nebula and the [i]red[/i](!!!) light from blue star Merope!!!! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

So thank you, George Georgatos, for your image of the Merope Nebula!!!

Ann (who is not the Color Commentator here for nothing)

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[size=120][b]NGC 6960[/b][/size]
http://observatoriagullo.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/ngc6960_afternoise_full.jpg
Copyright: Pere Gil Rodríguez
[img2]http://observatoriagullo.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/ngc6960_afternoise_full.jpg[/img2]

[size=120][b]NGC 7380: The Wizard Nebula[/b][/size]
Copyright: Doug Hubbell
[size=80][i][attachment=5]ngc7380-narrowband_no_logo_v8_final.jpg[/attachment][/i][/size]

[size=120][b]Dust, Dust Everywhere, and Lynd´s Dark Nebula, vdb 126 and Cohen 110, too[/b][/size]
http://afesan.es/gallery-3.htm
Copyright: Antonio F. Sanchez
[size=80][i][url=http://afesan.es/user/cimage/LDN-778-LRGB-publish.jpg][attachment=4]LDN-778-LRGB-publish.jpg[/attachment][/url][/i][/size]

[size=120][b]IC349: Barnard's Merope Nebula[/b][/size]
Copyright: George Georgatos
[size=80][i][attachment=0]IC349 - Barnards Merope_Nebula2.jpg[/attachment][/i][/size]

[size=120][b]Blue Flash[/b][/size]
Copyright: Pierluigi Giacobazzi & Agnieszka Ruffini
[size=80][i][attachment=3]solar_blue_flash_I_giacobazzi_p_ruffini_a_2010.jpg[/attachment][/i][/size]

[size=120][b]Milky Way Panorama[/b][/size]
http://www.altamiraobs.org.es/
Copyright: José Francisco Hernández
[size=80][i][attachment=2]Via Lactea_desde el Teide.jpg[/attachment][/i][/size]

[size=120][b]North America Nebula: What We Saw Then, What We See Now[/b][/size]
Copyright: Larry Van Vleet
[size=80][i][attachment=1]NAmer-1978-2010-Compare.jpg[/attachment][/i][/size]


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