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Orion from Down-Under
It’s a blend of several pictures taken between Nov-2012 and Feb-2013 with Canon 60Da and 50mm-f2.8 lens.
All stacked in PixInsight …
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Actually, Orion is right side up in Australia !!!

TeaPot and the Centre of the Milky Way
Picture taken last October just after sunset, therefore the bottom part is a little bit blueish ..
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Barrow Island (Western Australia) - Cyclone NARELLE

Probable copyright: Brett Martin

Perth's Bell Tower points (trough Jupiter) to Hyades, Pleiads are on the left ..
Full-Moon (visible bottom part of the halo) was just above the Pleiads, but this time it was not the "subject" of the shot ......

Orion Nebula & CO
Shots taken with Canon 60Da and Orion ED80 ...

Following the lead of the solar eclipse quilt from a couple of weeks ago, I have talked my wife into posting her quilt. Horsehead in Orion https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5YQr-5nKlpA/UKmEgEJbP7I/AAAAAAAAKwc/_tgwtYtJAGU/s714/Full-2.jpg By Mary Ann Andrews La Canada, Ca This is an amazing picture ...

Photo taken with Canon 60Da, CPC925 ...

Yesterday's 97% Moon, shot taken with SONY A65 and CPC925 while testing new Feather-Touch Focuser ..

Air traffic above Australia, Late Afternoon-Western Seaboard, Evening-Eastern Seaboard.

M22, M25, M17, M16, M8, M21 and M20
Photo taken with 60Da and 50mm F/1.4 lens

Rainbow Angel I think this is a neat demonstration of three aspects of atmospheric physics here - the high-G turn slowed the plane enough to permit a sharp photograph, which in turn caused a region of high pressure on the top surface of the plane which condensed moisture out of the air for the ethe...

Here is another version of "TeaPot and the centre of the Milky Way".
Shot taken on the 1st of October 2012 with 60Da and standard 17-200mm lens.

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Teapot and the centre of the Milky Way (+ M8, M20 etc etc)
with Canon 60DA and 18-200mm lens ..

Here is the second picture captured with my mobile phone on the flight from Perth, Western Australia to Bali, Indonesia. This one shows the Barrow Island (see map), the second biggest island in Western Australia. Photo taken from the "usual" altitude of 10,900m, and the island's width from...

This photo was captured on the 31st of July 2012 on the flight between Perth, Western Australia, and Bali, Indonesia. It shows the Exmouth Peninsula and the very corner of the north-west of Western Australia .. and part of the wing of my plane .. http://i.imgur.com/TWTI1.jpg http://www.maplandia.com...

City of Perth at night + full MOON ..

Here is one 25sec frame of M8 captured on the 25th of August.
Right through the middle you can see one satellite and in the bottom left-hand-corner there is another one ....

As seen yesterday ...

Orange Moon rising over Osborne Park industrial area, Western Australia, 4-July-2012

I did not have the optics required to take stunning shots of the transit yesterday. I had a great time viewing it through binoculars, and enjoying the crisp, clear afternoon in Reno, NV. However, the view of the transit as seen from my kitchen was unlike any I've seen yet on this forum. Cheers, -Ow...

It is winter, so many cloudy days, but this is what we can find right above us .. Omega Centauri ..

NGC3293 - The Gem Cluster .. One star is a red-orange supergiant that particularly stands out like kappa Crucis in the Jewel Box ..

NGC4755 - The Jewel Box as capured on the 20th of May 2012
Have a look at the red supergiant M star that stands out near the center of the group. It has a luminosity of about 16,000 suns and is similar to Betelgeuse in Orion ...

Crater Copernicus, picture taken 01-May-2012

Saturn and its biggest moon Titan, as captured on 17-04-2012 ..
After making this image a touch brighter, there are 3 other moons visible ..