Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-12

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:56 am

________________________________________________________________________________________

Please post your images here.

Please see this thread before posting images; posting images demonstrates your
agreement with the possible uses for your image.

Please keep images under 400K, whether hotlinked or uploaded.

Thank you!
_______________________________________________________________________________________

<- Previous submissions

[c]«« Discuss Anything in Astronomy «» Visit The Asterisk Main Page «» See Introductory Astonomy Lectures »»
[hr][/hr]«« Introduce Yourself «» Please Read the Rules »»[/b][/c]

templec · Post by **templec** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 3:35 pm

Solar Mosaic - January 6, 2012
http://cntastro.smugmug.com/Astrophotog ... 677_BwbJbh
Copyright: 2012 Craig & Tammy Temple

: Click to view full size image

VegaStar · Post by **VegaStar** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 6:47 pm

Twilight's Red Lenticular on the South Road
Aix-en-Provence, France - January 7, 2012 5:40 p.m
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

: Click to view full size image

: Click to view full size image

philto · Post by **philto** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 9:52 am

hello, please find two images of milky way taken from Ariege (FRANCE) alt 1512 m.
canon 135mm F/2.2 + eos 5DMII 3200 iso (HDRsoft society)
3 min exp.
best regards

image by Philippe TOSI (FRANCE)

: Click to view full size image

: Click to view full size image

nuclearcat · Post by **nuclearcat** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:38 pm

Copyright: M. Raşid Tuğral

The images, obtained within November 27th, 2011-January 2nd 2012 and each are spaced 5 days in avarage, are stacked to show how Venus rises in the evening sky. When these images were been taken, the sun was approximately 9 degrees below the horizon. The crescent moon belongs to the exposure taken on 27th of December.

gimmiratto · Post by **gimmiratto** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 2:02 pm

The Witch Head nebula is a large and bright refection nebula at the foot of Orion, gloriously glowing in the reflected light of Rigel. In most cases is displayed in a monotone blue-grey color, but, digging deep in the RGB data there are lots of details and nuances to be seen, including yellowish dust lanes and a soft and faint glow of emission from HII.
This is a deep rendering obtained by Davide Bardini and me in ten nights for a total of about 18 hours of integration in December and early January.

Best Regards, Gimmi Ratto

: Halfa and LRGB composite

philto · Post by **philto** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 2:32 pm

Messier 33 HDR self made telescope 275 mm F/3.3.
50 min exp 1600 iso.
process by Photomatix pro 4 with tone mapping.
best regards.
image by Philippe TOSI (FRANCE)

: Click to view full size image

the big sunspot group of 26 sept 2011.
celstron 14" with red 150 mm of-axis filter.
daystar h-alpha 0.5 A filter.
basler aca 1300 camera.
best regards.
image by Philippe TOSI (FRANCE)

: Click to view full size image

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:47 pm

Thanks, all, for posting (and continuing to post) your submissions; I'm at the AAS meeting and haven't had much time to post submissions the past few days and won't for a few more days. I'm really happy you are posting them here; thank you!!

StefanoDeRosa · Post by **StefanoDeRosa** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:44 pm

Moon House
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa

: Click to view full size image

Please find above a photo I took on 8 January 2012: The first Full Moon of 2012 looked pretty big as rising above a hilltop house in Serralunga d’Alba (some 60 km from Turin, Italy).
Technical details: Canon Eos 5D MkII; 100-500 Sigma lens @ 500 + 1.4x teleconverter; Exp: 1/20 sec. ; F/9; ISO 100

Best regards

Stefano

tglicata · Post by **tglicata** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:52 pm

Lunar Halo from 08Jan12
http://www.tonylicata.org
Copyright: Tony Licata

: Click to view full size image

Sergio · Post by **Sergio** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:47 am

NGC 3532 in Carina

Hello all

This is one of the Southern finest jewels. It is also known as the "Wishing Well Open Cluster" because it resembles silver coins shimmering. This target is a joy to see through the eyepiece. For any summer Star Party, NGC 3532 is always booked as a "must to see" object. Most non frequent observers are hooked as much as with The Jewel Box. In light polluted skies the object is clearly visible with binoculars 12 degrees west of the Southern Cross

The faint HII structure seems to be an arm which belongs to the Carina Nebulosity Complex. The image was taken 100 km north from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

http://www.baskies.com.ar/PHOTOS/NGC%20 ... LHaRGB.htm

Warm Regards
Sergio

VegaStar · Post by **VegaStar** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:26 am

FULL WOLF MOON'S CELESTIAL (Orion, Aldebaran, Procyon, and Sirius...) 01.10.2012 Paris
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier
[attachment=0]vega.jpg[/attachment]
http://img804.imageshack.us/img804/1171 ... tialve.jpg

philto · Post by **philto** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:14 am

hello, thanks for your answer...
here sun prominences of differents dates during 2011.
self made coronographe 150 mm + h-alpha filter 5 A.
basler aca 1300 camera.

image by Philippe TOSI (FRANCE)
best regards

16 juin 2011

: Click to view full size image

12 sept 2011

: Click to view full size image

03 oct 2011 2011

: Click to view full size image

12 oct 2011

: Click to view full size image

20 nov 2011

: Click to view full size image

VegaStar · Post by **VegaStar** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:42 pm

ORION'S TREE WINTER 01.10.2012
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... 672128131/
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

: Click to view full size image

Rothkko · Post by **Rothkko** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 9:01 pm

Mensajes
http://www.artists.de/244536-juan-manue ... o:mensajes

: Click to view full size image

El pasado 2 de enero en Arroyo de San Serván. Spain.
Saludos. Juan Manuel

ManuelJ · Post by **ManuelJ** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:49 pm

NGC 7331, IFN and Tidal
http://www.manuelj.com
Copyright: Manuel Jimenez

: Click to view full size image

I think there is a tidal here that was not imaged before! (upper left corner)

Full size: http://www.manuelj.com/Astronomy/Galaxy ... idal-O.jpg

Randy Shivak · Post by **Randy Shivak** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 12:42 am

All images were taken with an AP (Astro-Physics) 152mm F8 Starfire refractor stopped down to 102mm. A TeleVue 2.5x PowerMate was then used to increase the F ratio further to F30. A Point Grey Research FLE-3 video camera was used to take 3000 frames at 76 frames per second. 800 images were stacked and processed in Registax 6 and color added in PhotoShop.

Seantos · Post by **Seantos** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 4:43 am

Milky Way in Prescott, AZ.

First full moon in 2012

VegaStar · Post by **VegaStar** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 7:29 am

Hello to all!

My first "Full Wolf Moon" 01.09.2012 - Marseille, France
Amid the cold and deep Snows of mid-winter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. January's full moon WAS Also Known As the Old Moon or the Moon After Yule. In Some tribes, This Was the Full Snow Moon, That name order MOST Applied to next month's moon ...
EOS refractor + 6 images in RAW mode, 1/200s, ISO 100.
Treatment: RAW Conversion / NB, registration, addition, unsharp mask.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... hotostream
Copyright: Vegastar Carpentier

: Click to view full size image

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 12:21 pm

NGC 1763: Lagoon area in Large Magellanic Cloud
http://anguslau.smugmug.com/Nature/Astr ... 31-8-7.jpg
Copyright: Angus Lau
[attachment=4]20111229_ngc1763_8x30m_31-8-7-8x10m_halrgb_12.jpg[/attachment]

Moon Halo and Corona
Copyright: Nicolas Salem
[attachment=3]dsc_0427.jpg[/attachment]

Colorful Stars around the South Celestial Pole
Copyright: Aldo Mottino
[attachment=2]picture 1.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 457: Owl or E.T. Open Cluster in Cassiopeia
http://www.astropix.com/HTML/SHOW_DIG/NGC457.HTM
Copyright: Jerry Lodriguss
[attachment=0]jerryl.jpg[/attachment]

IC1283-4
http://cosmicphotos.com/gallery/image.p ... lbum_id=11
Copyright: Data acquisition by Tim Carruthers; mosaic plan and processing by Jason Jennings
[attachment=1]jase.jpg[/attachment]

Randy Shivak · Post by **Randy Shivak** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 12:38 pm

All images were taken with an AP (Astro-Physics) 152mm F8 Starfire refractor stopped down to 102mm. A TeleVue 2.5x PowerMate was then used to increase the F ratio further to F30. A Point Grey Research FLE-3 video camera was used to take 3000 frames at 76 frames per second. 800 images were stacked and processed in Registax 6 and color added in PhotoShop.

: Sunspot Group 1393 going out with a flare and surge prominence!; 11.jpg (71.18 KiB) Viewed 3029 times

Marco Angelini · Post by **Marco Angelini** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:02 pm

M81 - Spiral Galaxy in Ursa Major
http://www.astrobrallo.com/gallery/inde ... llo-A-M-GG
Image acquisition: Marco Angelini - Fabio Tagliani - ADARA
Image Processing: Francesco Antonucci

: Click to view full size image

Randy Shivak · Post by **Randy Shivak** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:50 pm

Image taken with an Astro-Physics 152mm Starfire F8 stopped down to 100mm Aperture. A 2.5x PowerMate was used to achieve 3,040mm EFL. A DayStar Quantum PE Series .5 Angstrom H-alpha Filter along with Point Grey’s Flea-3 video camera was used to capture this image.
- 12.jpg (118.83 KiB) Viewed 2924 times

Ann · Post by **Ann** » Fri Jan 13, 2012 6:42 pm

There are very many lovely images here

, but I don't have that much time to wrote comments!

VegaStar Carpentier, I like your red lenticular cloud, and even more your Full Wolf's Moon Celestial! (But where's the wolf?)

Philippe TOSI, your Milky Way closeups are extremely beautiful. I love how you manage to bring out so many details and so many clusters here. For example, in the second image great open cluster M11 is plainly there at center left!

M. Raşid Tuğral, you have captured the gradual "rising" of Venus against a very beautiful evening sky.

Gimmi Ratto, that's a very fine portrait of the Witch Head Nebula, and I'm impressed at your dedication.

Sergio, I absolutely love your portrait of NGC 3532, which is surely one of the most impressive open clusters in the moderately nearby galaxy. You bring out the splendid richness of this young cluster in the fantastic constellation Carina. (And I just have to say... I love your portrait of yourself and your daughter, too.)

Manuel Jimenez, you manage to give your portrait of NGC 7331 an amazing depth by bringing out the interstellar flux nebula (as I think that the faintg nebulosity that is spread over much of the image is called). When you talk about "tidal", do you mean what looks like a faint tidal stream extending from the left side of the galaxy?

Randy Shivak, that silhouette of a plane(?) seen against the disk of the Sun is rather amazing!

Seantos, that's a very American building or windmill or something. I don't know what it is exactly, but I like the look of it. As for the starry background, I can see the Andromeda galaxy and what looks like the Alpha Persei moving group and perhaps the Double Cluster in Perseus.

And that is an unusually lovely portrait of the Moon. I love the sharp details in combination with the not-too-sharp contrasts. The beige-dark gray color seems so perfectly right. I love the Lady in the Moon in your picture! Look at her Adam's apple to the upper left of the large impact crater Tycho surrounded by white rays!

Vegastar, I can see the Lady's Adam's apple in your image, too.

Angus Lau, I completely love your portrait of NGC 1763! Note how impressive this star forming region is. Note how the rich central cluster has blown a hole around itself, and note how star formation is still going on in several places around the central cluster, though mostly to the lower left of it.

I once saw a picture of this magnificent star forming region with no caption explaining what it was. I decided that it couldn't be a Milky Way object, because I had never seen it before even though it was a well-resolved, optical object. I therefore concluded that it was probably a star forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. That is exactly what it is, too, but it is slightly "detached" from the main body of the LMC, and it is on the opposite side from the Tarantula Nebula. Therefore this object is probably one of the most overlooked massive star formation regions in the Local Group. So thank you so much, Angus Lau, for showing us this magnificent object in all its splendor!

And thank you, Jerry Lodriguss, for showing us owlice in celestial flight in the constellation Cassiopeia. How colorful she is!

Tim Carruthers and Jason Jennings, thank you so much for your beautiful portrait of the small but lovely emission-reflection nebula complex IC1283-4!

And Marco Angelini, Fabio Tagliani and Francesco Antonucci, thank you so much for your incredibly beautiful portrait of the M81 galaxy!

And thank you so much, all the rest of you who contributed images to this thread!

Ann

ManuelJ · Post by **ManuelJ** » Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:29 pm

Ann wrote:Manuel Jimenez, you manage to give your portrait of NGC 7331 an amazing depth by bringing out the interstellar flux nebula (as I think that the faintg nebulosity that is spread over much of the image is called). When you talk about "tidal", do you mean what looks like a faint tidal stream extending from the left side of the galaxy?

Hi Ann!

This is the tidal stream I'm talking about:

: Click to view full size image

Maybe I'm wrong

Starship Asterisk*

Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-12

Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-12

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 6-

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 6-

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 6-

40 days of Venus

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-

Sun Spot Group 1391

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 January 9-