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Thank you Ronnie ! You are an excellent astro artist. I'm trying to find which "galaxies cluster" you put in the upper loop of the Antennae. But it is difficult beacause it 's too blur in this picture. You got it: Abell 1689. I didn't do a very good job with that one. Go to the Hubble gal...

Thank you Ronnie ! You are an excellent astro artist. I visit APOD everyday, but I didn't know this forum. I only registered after reading the introduction of your picture on 15/06/2010 in the APOD site I have just watched your profile, and I found this topic: http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?...

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/5128/starrynight2010warnerga.jpg I marked and numbered the objects that I found in in the above photo. Some objects that I think I know exactly, some that I am not sure and some that I don't know. Thank you for your verifications :D 16 objects that I think I know ...

It is surprising that nobody has yet mentioned The Antenna Galaxy. :D Really ? We discussed about it in the second page, here are some quotations: Einstein Cross above the church in the background. To the bottom right of the antennae is one of the pillars of creation from the Eagle Nebula (someone ...

Happy Birthday To You, APOD !

Thank you so much for your excellent photos which help me improve my knowledge and light up my love with Astronomy and Space flight

I found a strange object just on the right of the tree http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/7845/starrynightstrangeobj.jpg This object dosen't appear in the original Starry Night It looked like the Huygens probe en-routing to Titan :D (just for fun) http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/artwork...

I think that the top left object, just above the Witch Head Nebula is the Rosette Nebula
But I am not sure

I see that there are 2 comets in this picture.

The bigger comet in the left of the tree is Hale-Bopp

The smaller comet in the right of the tree is C/2009 R1 (McNaught), the original picture should be the APOD on 07 June 2010:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100607.html

The swirl in the centre is the antennae To the bottom right of the antennae is one of the pillars of creation from the Eagle Nebula (someone said Orion, which is not the case!) Beside that is the Pinwheel galaxy. The reddish part near the crescent moon is actually the eclipsed moon. I think to the ...