Okay, these are my favorite pictures from page 2 of the December submissions!
1) KuriousGeorge, that's a nice portrait of M82. I note a very blue star there - it looks like a blue supernova, but I guess not!
(I mean - as if no one else would have noticed it - yeah, right...)
2) Again, KuriousGeorge, that's a very impressive portrait of M101! Looks like there is a giant vortex swallowing the whole galaxy, which is swirling and crackling and sparkling with color as it is going down the drain... (No, that is not what's happening, but it looks impressive!)
3) Tim Christensen, you have posted several pictures here this month, and I like them all. I like your RGB palette, your processing and your framing, and the way you contrast light against dark and softness versus sharp details.
4) Tom Masterson, that's a wonderfully colorful Milky Way! Look at Barnard's Arc and the round pink pancake that is the Lambda Orionis Nebula!
5) Manjeet Singh, I like your image. I like the "searchlight" effect of the brilliant Moon.
6) Göran Strand, I love your eloquent "RGB" statement. There is red stuff on your telescope, the sky behind you is bright green, and you are wearing a blue jacket. Perfect!
7) R Bottern, wow, that's some sunrise!
8) Petr Horálek, what a lineup over the Namibian mountains! Everyone was there, the Magellanic Clouds, the Andromeda Galaxy, Sirius and Canopus, Orion and the Pleiades, the California Nebula and the stunning Gum Nebula, the Triangulum Galaxy and Achernar, the Rosette Nebula and the Double Cluster. Take a bow!
9) Ryan Raposo, your Full Moon looks like a dramatic painting from the Romantic period!
10) Tim Bruton, I like your illustration of the wanderings of the planets.
11) Aggelos Makris, nice composition!
12) Josselin Desmars, I love the elegant lines and soft colors of this image. The subtle sunset hues are delightful, the art deco shape of the Eiffel Tower always looks good, and then the thin soft bluish beams of light seem to point almost at the thin, thin, golden crescent of the Moon. Lovely!
13) Chris Erikson, those rainbows are stunning!
14) D. Pestana - R. Villaverde - D. Forteza, I like that bolide between clouds.
15) Shreenivasan Manievannan, I love that aurora - airplane wing picture. The Pleiades are blue, the aurora is green and reddish, and there is a dramatic splash of brilliant red on the airplane wing.
16) R. Colombari et al., your pink dream of a Lagoon Nebula has already been chosen an APOD. I love it!
17) Rogelio Bernal Andreo, I love those incredibly colorful clouds to one side of the Milky Way.
18) Mike Berthon-Jones and Trish Berthon-Jones, thanks so much for photographing NGC 1532! That is such a fascinating galaxy. I can spot several tiny bright pink "free-floating" spots in the vicinity of NGC 1532, as if they were emission nebulas detached from the main luminous body of the galaxy. And then there is a supernova, too!
19) Steve Mazlin, that's a delightful portrait of NGC 1316 and NGC 1317! The shells of NGC 1316 are fantastic, of course, but personally I love the inner blue ring of NGC 1317. Presumably there is some star formation there, but there are no new stars being born elsewhere in the two galaxies.
20) Tim Christensen, you are here again! Again there is this nice RGB palette and the dramatic contrast between soft-textured, pitch black sinuous and almost "exploding" dust, and riotous wealth of stars.
Page 2 done! I plan to be back.
Ann