Recent Submissions: 2011 April 20-22

[owlice]

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[owlice]

Circumzenithal Arc over Victoria, BC
Copyright: Garett Keirns
[attachment=0]2011-04-08_17-58-23_69_victoria.jpg[/attachment]

Fireball with Radio Reflection
http://www.heliotown.com/Fireball_April_17_2011.html
Copyright: Thomas Ashcraft

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Lunar Green Flash
http://www.atacamaphoto.com
Copyright: Gerhard Hüdepohl

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M81/M82
http://www.astrogades.es
Copyright: Jesús Vargas (Astrogades) & Maritxu Poyal (Maritxu)

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot
http://www.mmedia.is/bjj/images/index.html
Copyright: Björn Jónsson
[attachment=1]Jupiter.jpg[/attachment] http://www.mmedia.is/bjj/images/grs_vgr ... hanced.jpg

Saturn 04/16 NED Wake
http://saturn.cstoneind.com
Copyright: Christopher Go

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NGC 5907: Splinter Galaxy
http://www.bcsatellite.net/bao/NGC5907/ngc5907.html
Copyright: Maxim Usatov

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[templec]

Messier 101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy
http://cntastro.smugmug.com/Astrophotog ... UZrKU-A-LB
Copyright: Craig & Tammy Temple

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[lodrigj]

Galaxies M81 and M82 in Ursa Major
http://www.astropix.com
Copyright 2011 Jerry Lodriguss



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4 hours of RGB data and 2 hours of Ha data taken with a Canon 20Da and a modified Canon 550D.

[owlice]

Moon over England
Copyright: Emma Storey
[attachment=4]DS Not the super moon.JPG[/attachment]

Downtown Virgo
http://deepskycolors.com/astro/2011/04/ ... rgoGCM.jpg
Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo
[attachment=3]Downtown Virgo.jpg[/attachment]

SN 1987A: Supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/NGC1987.html
Copyright: Data, Hubble Legacy Archive; processing, Robert Gendler

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Waxing Gibbous Moon
Copyright: Richard Hammar
[attachment=2]moon025.jpg[/attachment]

M63: Sunflower Galaxy
http://darkforceastro.de/pix1/CI_M63-FS ... -UP-75.jpg
Copyright: Immo Gerber
[attachment=1]M63.jpg[/attachment]

M97: Owl Nebula Nested in an OIII Shell
http://cosmicphotos.com/reprocessed/M97Owl-large.jpg
Copyright: Jason Jennings
[attachment=0]M97.jpg[/attachment]

Artist Concept of Electrical Circuit between Saturn and Enceladus
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassi ... 13765.html
Credit: NASA/JPL/JHUAPL/University of Colorado/Central Arizona College/SSI

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[owlice]

M81: Spiral Galaxy in Ursa Major
http://www.vstobservatory.net
Copyright: Wolfgang Van den Berghe
[attachment=2]m81 lrgb rc.jpg[/attachment]

IC 2118: Witch Head Nebula in Eridanus
Copyright: John Bunyan
[attachment=1]witches-head.jpg[/attachment]

Rising Moon Arch
http://www.bretwebsterimages.com
Copyright: Bret Webster
[attachment=0]IMG_3688 Moon In Arch .jpg[/attachment]

[owlice]

Full Moon over the Archabbey of Pannonhalma
http://www.astrophoto.hu
Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi
[attachment=2]pannonhalma_110418_ladanyi.jpg[/attachment]

The Moon's Stork Plateau
Copyright: Paulo Lobao
[attachment=1]stork_at_moon.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 3372: Carina Nebula
http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/ne ... p/info.htm
Copyright: José Joaquín Pérez
[attachment=0]max.jpg[/attachment]

[Ann]

I really like Immo Gerber's picture of M63, the Sunflower Galaxy. The colors are splendid. We can see a somewhat overexposed yellow center, surrounded by a yellow ring whose color is diluted by the presence of newborn blue stars, typically found in a ring structure around the center. Then there is a reddish-brown zone characterized by thick dust and dust reddening, and then there is a blue zone characterized by newborn massive stars. And then there is this huge greyish-brown outer envelope, probably full of gas and dust and possibly a population of old reddish stars. Like so many other well-resolved galaxy images, this one shows that major star formation in a spiral galaxy is often only found in a relatively narrow zone between the bulge and a large outer envelope.

What a great picture!

Abb

[rstevenson]

The Moon's Stork Plateau

It was a stork and moony night, ... .

Rob

[owlice]

It was a stork and moony night, ... .

Rob

lol!! Oh, that's great!