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Solstice day

Post by Rothkko » Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:27 am

21h 38' right, castle Alange, arabic, the ninth century.
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21h 39'
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22h 02? in the east
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Solstice day 2

Post by Rothkko » Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:38 am

22h 03'
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22h 12 moon
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23h 01' pollux, mercury and moon
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Solstice day 3

Post by Rothkko » Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:43 am

23h 04'
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23h 22' castor, pollux, mercury and plane. MF.
Alange's reservoir, Spain. 2012-06-21
Alange's reservoir, Spain. 2012-06-21
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APOD: WR 134 Ring Nebula (2012 Jun 21)

Post by roy13_13@hotmail.com » Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:02 am

Hi, I'd like to share this picture I took last night at San Pedro Mártir, Baja California. Hope you like it!

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Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 June

Post by behyar » Fri Jun 22, 2012 3:17 am

M16 in Hubble Palette
http://www.deepskyobjects.com/
Copyright: Behyar Bakhshandeh

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Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 June

Post by Bi2L » Fri Jun 22, 2012 9:57 am

Hello, I capture this Panorama of our Galaxy at the Castle of the Angels, Aggelokastro, Corfu Greece.
Hope you like it :wink:

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Canon eos 40D
ef 15mm fisheye
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3X17X3,5min

Here in better quality: http://www.astrovox.gr/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=15032
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Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 June

Post by owlice » Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:52 am

Summer Solstice Sunset Rainbow
http://www.photopixels.com/rainbow-6-20-2012/
Copyright: Bruce Challgren
[attachment=4]Rainbow-6-20-2012-001.jpg[/attachment]

M83: Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
http://www.starshadows.com/gallery/disp ... ?imgID=456
Copyright: SSRO South (Jack Harvey, Steve Mazlin, Rick Gilbert, and Daniel Verschatse) Nearly Solstice Sunset
http://www.astrofotografiadesdesoria.com
Copyright: Jaime Díez and Iván García
[attachment=3]sunset june soltice APOD.jpg[/attachment]

BVRH-alpha Mosaic of M81
http://www.iac.es/telescopes/IAM/page/gallery
Copyright: IAC/P. Rodríguez-Gil, P. Bonet, J. Pérez, R. Gimeno
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Serpent Stars
http://www.bretwebsterimages.com
Copyright: Bret Webster
[attachment=1]IMG_8903-Serpent-Stars-.jpg[/attachment]

Crescent Nebula
http://obscarlsagan.blogspot.com.es/
Copyright: José Manuel Sánchez Bosch
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Mt Niles in the Twilight and Moonlight

Post by philhart » Fri Jun 22, 2012 11:01 am

These images of Mt Niles in the Canadian Rockies were taken on the night of 7th April, Easter Saturday, one day after Full Moon. The top image is 42 one minute exposures which started during evening twilight. The bottom image is 5 one minute exposures, just as the bright Easter Moon was rising in the east.
More details: http://philhart.com/content/mt-niles-tw ... -moonlight

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Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 June

Post by owlice » Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:07 pm

Mare Imbrium
http://www.astronominsk.org/index_en.htm
Copyright: Yuri Goryachko, Mikhail Abgarian, Konstantin Morozov
[attachment=1]Moon_20120503_Imbrium_color.jpg[/attachment]

Salins Sundial, 1980
Copyright: Jean-Marc Mari
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Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 June

Post by jip » Fri Jun 22, 2012 6:27 pm

Solargraph
http://zonnekijkster.dse.nl/solargraph/
CC BY-NC-ND Jip Lambermont Half a year in one picture
The pinhole camera which took this solargraph was set up on one of the busiest streets of Eindhoven in The Netherlands. Over 3,5 million people in cars drove by during the half year exposure of this picture. Yet, there is no trace left of them in this solargraph. The next time people end up here in a traffic jam, they can comfort themselves with the thought that the street is actually quite empty.

More background information on this solargraph at: http://zonnekijkster.dse.nl/solargraph/ [nl+en]
(direct link to English version http://zonnekijkster.dse.nl/solargraph/index_en.html)

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Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 June

Post by Florian Kainz » Sat Jun 23, 2012 10:09 am

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Can you find the Moon? by fksr, on Flickr

Can you find the Moon in this picture?

37 hours after the new Moon and a few minutes after sunset an extremely thin crescent Moon is seen in the northwestern sky above Point Bonita near San Francisco, California.

In reality the crescent was very difficult to see; you really had to know where to look for it. Even though a smartphone astronomy app had told me that the Moon should be above and slightly to the left of the antenna on the hill in the foreground, it took me some ten minutes to spot it. This photo was shot with a telephoto lens, and the contrast has been enhanced.

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Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 June

Post by etalon » Sat Jun 23, 2012 11:15 am

Hello,

this is an Antares wide field, which I took a week ago in my holiday on the Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma, near GranTeCan. The minimalist camera equipment was a modified Canon EOS 450Da with an Canon EF 24-70mm L zoom lens @24mm on an Astrotrac traveller mount. Exposure time is 48x5min, in total 4h.

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High res:

http://www.deep-sky-images.de/albums/us ... region.jpg

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Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 June

Post by mtbdudex » Sat Jun 23, 2012 11:30 am

mtbdudex wrote:"Astronomy + Fireflies" Taken June-20-2012,
Bonus: I also captured an iridium satellite flare, which is 1/2 way up from the horizon and 1/3 in from LH.

Raw output with all planes
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28 frames with plane streaks removed, hence you see startrail "gaps" because I removed some images
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Link to image I am submitting as canidate for APOD;
1600 pix image, watermark included.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fZkx ... %25202.jpg
I posted the above earlier, as bonus, there is a iridium satellite flare 1/2 way up and 1/3 way in from LH side, this individual 2 frame composite & crop shows it clearly.

There is a 1 second pause between frames, as can be seen in the image, those flares last very briefly, usually just 3-5 seconds total to the naked eye, camera sensor will show longer.
I've seen just 1 -7mag flare and it was so bright and stunning!
Heavens-above has info to plan and capture them for those interested.
link to full size image https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-V2Ec ... sinski.jpg
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Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 June

Post by Tim Jensen » Sat Jun 23, 2012 11:59 am

Taken with a Coronado PST40, Flea3 video camera and 2x barlow. 20 overlapping 30 second AVIs were captured to create the panels that were then stitched together to make this full disk mosaic.

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Post by Pieter Vandevelde » Sat Jun 23, 2012 1:04 pm

Variable star in Andromeda
http://www.astronomie.be/pieter.vandevelde/home.htm
Copyright: Pieter Vandevelde

[attachment=0]andromeda.jpg[/attachment]
http://www.astronomie.be/pieter.vandeve ... riable.jpg

After reading an article about Variable star V1, I tried to find it on my Andromeda picture from 2 years ago. And I've got it! See below for all image details.

This star might be the most important in the history of Astronomy. Edwin Hubble discovered this star in 1923 using the 100 inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson, at that time the biggest telescope in the world.

Hubble used this variable star to determine that the Andromeda galaxy was beyond the borders of our own Milky Way, this finding revolutionized the way astronomers look at the Universe.


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Re: Solstice day 2

Post by Rothkko » Sat Jun 23, 2012 11:52 pm

Rothkko wrote: 23h 01' pollux, mercury and moon
solstice_day-6.jpg
Not pollux

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Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 June

Post by Rothkko » Sat Jun 23, 2012 11:57 pm

mercury, pollux and castor.
Mérida. Spain. 2012-06-23
Mérida. Spain. 2012-06-23

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Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 June

Post by zema88 » Sun Jun 24, 2012 10:07 am

Iris Nebula frm Castelmagno, Cn, Italy
Copyright: Paolo Demaria, Ass. Astrofili Bisalta

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Skywatcher Newton 200/1000 on Eq6 Pro.
Baader RCC.
Canon Eos 450D modded Baader.
Processing: DSS, PixInsight Le32, Photoshop.
21x420s @800ISO.
Guiding setup: QHY5 on Skywatcher 70/500.

Full res: http://www.astrobin.com/13461/C/

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Re: APOD: Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater (2012 Jun 24)

Post by russelleking » Sun Jun 24, 2012 12:01 pm

Scorpious at Cherry Springs
http://www.rddnj.com
Copyright: Russell E. King

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Post by owlice » Sun Jun 24, 2012 5:00 pm

Summer Solstice, ISS, Meteor, Star Trails
Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado
[attachment=4]solsticep.jpg[/attachment]

The Wings of the Eagle
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/144171900
Copyright: Michael Sidonio
[attachment=3]eaglemike.jpg[/attachment]

Due North Sun from the Arctic Circle
Copyright: Judith Irwin
[attachment=2]DSCN0853-1.JPG[/attachment]

B2: The Snake Nebula
http://www.starkeeper.it/B72.htm
Copyright: Leonardo Orazi
[attachment=1]Orazi_B72.jpg[/attachment]

Pipe Nebula in Ophiuchus
http://www.massimotosco.it/PipeNebula.html
Copyright: Massimo Tosco
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Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 June

Post by davidpearson » Sun Jun 24, 2012 5:20 pm

A Texas Scorpion
Captured north of Lampasas, Texas.
Large version at:
http://whiterockastronomy.com/gallery/m ... itemId=398

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Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 June

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Crescent Nebula

Post by rwittich_de » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:50 pm

Hello,

I hope you enjoy my result of 16 hours exposure time for NGC 6888.

Best wishes

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Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 June

Post by Guest » Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:51 pm

IC1318 and NGC6888 in Cygnus Here's a larger version:
http://www.californiastars.net/gallery/ ... 3_1800.jpg

And here it is with exposure and equipment details:
http://www.californiastars.net/gallery/ ... k_fsq.html

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Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 June

Post by owlice » Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:29 am

Venus, Jupiter and Aldebaran Conjunction
http://www.luisargerich.com
Copyright: Luis Argerich
[attachment=1]IMG_5043_Panorama.jpg[/attachment]

Venus Transit Green Flash
Copyright: Kevin Moore
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