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From this selection of six APODs, my first vote would go to Flying Over Planet Earth. Second vote swings between Galaxy In A Bubble and Apollo 17 Site.

By the way, M27: Not A Comet was not the winner in its week, even though it is looking lovely to me.

I especially liked the picture of crater in Sinus Meridiani. Thanks, Bystander, for continuing to post these amazing pictures from HiRISE.

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That big white thing was actually there. By guess is, that relative darkness outlying that chunk of ice is because of "Unsharp Mask" filter applied in Adobe Photoshop. Less image processing would have delivered a better result. What's this HUNK of photoshop job in the middle of the photo? ...

The green of Aurora is too much saturated, guessing the wavelength of the light accordingly may not deliver a correct result. The saturation seems to be resulting from picture processing, not from the recording of the images. Nice green aurora. It's a shade of green which isn't yet yellow-green, but...

Retrograde Saturn composite picture taken by Ugur Ikizler looks really interesting, not only for Saturn coming to the stationary point very close to Porrima but also for the swirling set of Titan images as it revolved every 16 days. If only the weather been more cooperative and not cause the gaps in...

Leo Triplet is has already become an APOD:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110803.html

Sam wrote:That's beautiful, thank you!
Are there locations at sea that might provide a more light-free sky?

Most probably; as long as the sky is clear and transparent, one can enjoy a very dark sky in the open seas. Taking a photograph of that sky will be more difficult, of course.

It all started with the following question asked by Stéphane Guisard: "What are the conditions needed to have the darkest sky possible?" Obviously there should be no Moon light. The Milky Way and Zodiacal Light should not be visible, or kept to a minimum. Last, there should be no light pol...

Nice to see that The Olive Tree at Sounion is growing, while I am Watching The Sky...

I am sensing foul play in this poll. Please do not cheat, or at least be fair enough to vote for a second picture along.

Endeavour's Starry Night really reflects the high velocity motion of the shuttle in orbit. It also looks really beautiful with the bright night sky and not-so-dark Earth down below. June 2nd? It feels like a much longer time ago. And of course Lightning Eclipse From The Planet Of The Goats gets my o...

Because of cloudy weather in my hometown Bursa, Turkey, I decided to drive as far east as possible. I found clear skies in Göreme National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It took more than 8 hours to drive 650 km. GöremeEclipse shows the eclipsed Moon in the middle of the galactic bulge. I took ...

It is a very ingenious idea to look for the signs of an eclipse below the horizon and this is a flawless execution by Tarmo Tanilsoo. Very nice looking, too. Midnight Twilight Eclipse Copyright: Tarmo Tanilsoo During the [recent solar] eclipse, I took a number of digital photos of the Northern horiz...

The image is an abstract patchwork, can be considered as some kind of art. But it is nowhere near an accurate astronomy picture.

There is an even better looking picture with more of the Earth with city lights. In the background are the constellations of Crux and Centaurus: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/31/stunning-pic-of-endeavours-last-spacedock/ http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/554473main_iss028e0...

Antipodes Milky Way http://www.twanight.org Copyright: Tunç Tezel http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/photos/3002864.jpg Top panorama is the rising Milky Way as seen from Cape Gelidonya, near Kumluca, Antalya, Turkey. This rocky headland is one of the southernmost points of the Anatolian subcontinent b...

Winter Sky above Toros Mountains http://www.twanight.org Copyright: Tunç Tezel http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/photos/3003157.jpg Milky Way over Caybogazi Dam and Akdag Peak in Elmali, Antalya, Turkey. Caybogazi Dam in the foreground is located in Gombe near Elmali. The snow capped Akdag Peak is on...

I like these alignment photos as a whole experience; planning, calculation and execution. Really nice, thank you Anthony.

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A fine selection of pictures, as always. I voted for Phobos from Mars Express and Hartley 2 Star Cluster Tour pictures. Supercell Thunderstorm picture looks superb, but it is related with astronomy a bit more loosely.

Not too much people have voted in the poll, by the way.

I also think this is monochromatic light on an optical surface. It looks like a mirror or lens test with a laser.

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7 months of Venus' motion in the evening sky, between December 2006 and July 2007. It can also be seen in this TWAN page: http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/photos.asp?ID=3001233 This is a time lapse of the same project: http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/photos.asp?ID=3002807 Tunç Tezel http://www.twanig...

I liked it. This is a less imaged galaxy and it looks good. The reddish colour because of Milky Way's obscuring dust stands out.

After reading Beyond's post, I started to see not only the icy crater but also the smaller craters as hovering balls. They look equally interesting that way.

I liked them all, but I will choose the first one by Kevin Black every time over the others. That is because in that picture I see a gorgeous Milky Way, star clouds and dark nebulae versus normal clouds and lightning. It has it all.