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Yeah Alex Cherney ... have to remember that name! Hook this guy up with some APODs! Quiet Lagoon is my favorite.

[size=120][b]Quiet Lagoon[/b][/size]
[url=http://www.terrastro.com/showimg.php?file=/04.Cape%20Schanck/04.Pulpit%20Rock.jpg][i](aka Pulpit Rock)[/i][/url]

[size=120][b]Rho Oph and Milky Way[/b][/size]
[url=http://www.terrastro.com/showimg.php?file=/04.Cape%20Schanck/05.Stairway%20to%20Heaven.jpg][i](aka Stairway to Heaven)[/i][/url]

Copyright: [url=http://www.terrastro.com/]Alex Cherney[/url]

WOW, these are great, and there are more at his web site.

[size=120][b]Jupiter and Ganymede with Hubble Comparison[/b][/size]
http://www.bcastropics.com/img/gallery/3/Jup_L_17_06_2010_055504g3_q266-RGB5-set2_full.jpg
Copyright: bottom image, Brian Combs. Image credit, top image: HST
[img2]http://www.bcastropics.com/img/gallery/3/Jup_L_17_06_2010_055504g3_q266-RGB5-set2_full.jpg[/img2]

And here they are!

[size=120][b]Quiet Lagoon[/b][/size]
http://www.terrastro.com/showimg.php?file=/04.Cape%20Schanck/04.Pulpit%20Rock.jpg
Copyright: Alex Cherney
[attachment=1]Quiet Lagoon.jpg[/attachment]


[size=120][b]Rho Oph and Milky Way[/b][/size]
http://www.terrastro.com/showimg.php?file=/04.Cape%20Schanck/05.Stairway%20to%20Heaven.jpg
Copyright: Alex Cherney
[attachment=0]Rho Oph and Milky Way.jpg[/attachment]

Rainer Sparenberg is a new submitter to APOD; I checked out some of the images on his website and cracked my "Oooooo!!" in doing so. <g>

I've got a couple of pics from Australia in the queue and will post them as soon as I have the submitter's permission to do so. Both are good, but one of them I particularly like; it's very cool!

Any new pictures from Wally Pacholka are always welcome, as far as I'm concerned. I really like his work, and it just seems to get better. Wally has been a frequent guest at APOD and TWAN and has a lot more fantastic pictures at his site.
[quote="owlice"][size=120]Palomar Observatory Milky Way Panorama[/size]
Copyright: Wally Pacholka[/quote]
All the other nighttime skies of Earth pictures were also very nice.
[quote="owlice"][size=120]Part of the Milky Way as Seen from the Southern Hemisphere[/size]
Credit and Copyright: Norberto Rodríguez, image acquisition; Emilio Rivero, image processing[/quote]
[quote="owlice"][size=120]Star Trails over Spitzkoppe/Namibia[/size]
Copyright: Rainer Sparenberg[/quote]
[quote="owlice"][size=120]Crescent Moon and Venus over the Lisbon Bridge[/size]
Copyright: Miguel Claro[/quote]
[quote="owlice"][size=120]Skyhenge: An All-Sky View of the Stone Circle and the Summer Milky Way[/size]
Copyright: Till Credner[/quote]
[quote="nuclearcat"][size=120]Moon and Venus conjuntion of 15th of June 2010[/size]
Copyright: M. Raşid Tuğral[/quote]
[quote="owlice"][size=120]Moon and Jupiter[/size]
Copyright: Miguel Claro[/quote]
[quote="owlice"][size=120]Tranquil Evening[/size]
Copyright: John Pesut[/quote]
Rob Gendler has some amazing pictures and anyone who hasn't visited his site should do so.
[quote="owlice"][size=120]NGC 2170: Stellar Nursery in Monoceros[/size]
Copyright: Rob Gendler[/quote]
And, of course, I always like my family portrait.
[quote="owlice"][size=120]Markarian's Chain[/size]
Copyright: Nicolas Outters[/quote]
But my favorite has to be the Statue of Liberty, partly because I don't recall having seen it before. But it is a really good picture.
[quote="owlice"][size=120]NGC 3576: The Statue of Liberty Nebula[/size]
Credit: Steve Mazlin, Jack Harvey, Rick Gilbert, and Daniel Verschatse (SSRO/PROMPT/UNC); copyright: Steve Mazlin[/quote]

[size=120][b]NGC 2170: Stellar Nursery in Monoceros[/b][/size]
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/NGC2170AU.html
Copyright: Rob Gendler
[img2]http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/NGC2170AUSSS.jpg[/img2]

Largest image [url=http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/NGC2170AUM.jpg]here[/url].

[size=120][b]M16: The Eagle Complex[/b][/size]
http://www.galacticimages.com
Copyright: John Chumack
[attachment=0]M16_QHY8CCD_ChumackHRweb.jpg[/attachment]

[size=120][b]Tranquil Evening[/b][/size]
Copyright: John Pesut
[attachment=0]Moon_&_Venus-35_Pesut.jpg[/attachment]

[size=120][b]NGC 3576: The Statue of Liberty Nebula[/b][/size]
http://www.starshadows.com/gallery/display.cfm?imgID=358
Credit: Steve Mazlin, Jack Harvey, Rick Gilbert, and Daniel Verschatse (SSRO/PROMPT/UNC); copyright: Steve Mazlin
[img2]http://www.starshadows.com/_img/image/gallery/2/mid/Statue_Master.jpg[/img2]
Larger image [url=http://www.starshadows.com/_img/image/gallery/2/Statue_Master.jpg]here[/url].

Moon and Jupiter
http://www.miguelclaro.com
Copyright: Miguel Claro
[attachment=0]LuaJupi-FarolEspichel2371-net.jpg[/attachment]

[size=120][b]Markarian's Chain[/b][/size]
http://www.outters.fr/M86-M87-tec140-proline16-LRGB.html
Copyright: Nicolas Outters
[img2]http://www.outters.fr/images%20site%20astro/zone-m86-LRGB3-30.jpg[/img2]

I think my favorite is the Wally Pacholka image, an amazing interplay between "heaven and Earth", so to speak. The way the clouds interact with the starry sky is fantastic. I love the "almost Milky Way-lit" observatory and ground, too, although I assume that this is a double exposure. In any case, it looks great.

Ann

You're welcome, thank you for your kindness.

What a lovely picture! Thank you for sharing it!

[img2]http://gaf.gokyuzu.org/fotogonder/data/media/12/inceminare3.jpg[/img2]
Copyright: M. Raşid Tuğral

Description: Moon and Venus conjuntion of 15th of June 2010
Ince Minaret Medrese (literally, the medrese with the narrow minaret) is a 13th century medrese (Islamic school) located in Konya, Turkey, and built between 1258-1279 by the Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate vizier Sâhib Ata Fahreddin Ali who later founded the Anatolian Turkish Beylik of Sâhib Ata.

The building has a highly ornamented stone façade which includes relief work of scripts, geometric patterning and vertical ribbon-like lines. Restored in 1956, the edifice is used today as a museum where stone and wooden artefacts dating from the Seljuk and Ottoman periods are displayed.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ince_Minaret_Medrese

[size=120][b]Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253)[/b][/size]
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1025/
Credit: ESO
[img2]http://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/newsfeature/eso1025a.jpg[/img2]

More information: http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=19860

[b][size=120]Skyhenge: An All-Sky View of the Stone Circle and the Summer Milky Way[/size][/b]
http://www.allthesky.com/gallery.html
Copyright: Till Credner
[img2]http://www.allthesky.com/nightscapes/big/stonehengeallsky-b.jpg[/img2]
[img2]http://www.allthesky.com/nightscapes/big/stonehengeallskym-b.jpg[/img2]

[size=120][b]Crescent Moon and Venus over the Lisbon Bridge[/b][/size]
http://miguelclaro.com
Copyright: Miguel Claro
[img2]http://www.astrosurf.com/astroarte/LuaVenus-P25Ab-2494-net.jpg[/img2]

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[url=http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=19818][size=110][b][color=#4000BF]<- Previous submissions[/color][/b][/size][/url]


[size=120][b]Palomar Observatory Milky Way Panorama[/b][/size]
http://www.AstroPics.com
Copyright: Wally Pacholka
[attachment=1]PalomarObservatoryMilkyWayPano-12x36-500WPacholka.jpg[/attachment]

[size=120][b]Part of the Milky Way as Seen from the Southern Hemisphere[/b][/size]
Credit and Copyright: Norberto Rodríguez, image acquisition; Emilio Rivero, image processing
[attachment=0]MosaicStarless3.jpg[/attachment]

[size=120][b]Star Trails over Spitzkoppe/Namibia[/b][/size]
http://www.airglow.de/html/startrails/spitzkopp1.html
Copyright: Rainer Sparenberg
[img2]http://www.airglow.de/images/astrogallery/startrails/spitz3_m.jpg[/img2]