Submissions: 2014 October

[Rothkko]

green flash and sunspots. frame of http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 22#p233822

sunspots. enlarged photo

mérida, spain. 2014-10-23, 08:44 and 13:40

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[dsnope]

Maximum partial solar eclipse from Southern California at 15:30 PST



http://www.pbase.com/dsnope/image/157950864

[Astromontufar]

See the Light


Venus


https://www.flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/

500px.com/acubens

[Astromontufar]

Venus Belt, Earth Shadow

[Astromontufar]

Coalsack, Crux, alfa & Beta Centauri, Pleiades, Eta Carinae




https://www.flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/
https://www.500px.com/acubens/

Sergio Montúfar

[Andromeda 2013]

Oct 23 2014 Sun Active Region 2192

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@ ... otostream/

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

[Andromeda 2013]

Oct 23 2014 Sun Active Region 2192

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@ ... otostream/

I have never seen so many Light Bridges in my life.

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

[SkyViking]

NGC 6334 - The Cat's Paw Nebula
http://www.rolfolsenastrophotography.com
Copyright: Rolf Wahl Olsen

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The Cat's Paw was one of the objects I managed to gather some data for on the side, while working on my 75 hours deep field Antennae Galaxies project. In total just over 19 hours was collected on this nebula which was a bit more than planned - but of course some extra data never hurts!
I had good seeing during this time so the result is a fairly high resolution Cat's Paw which I'm pretty happy with. I was also able to tease out some subtle colour nuances in this otherwise predominantly deep red nebula.

The Cat's Paw Nebula is located among the dense star fields of the southern constellation Scorpius. Being about 5,000 light years distant, in the direction towards our galaxy's crowded central region, it appears visibly reddened by large amounts of interstellar dust that lie between us and the glowing cloud. This gives it a much warmer deep red hue than most other emission nebulae. Some other nebulae which are similarly obscured are the gigantic NGC 3603 in Carina, as well as NGC 6357 (The Lobster Nebula), also in Scorpius.
The Cat's Paw Nebula contains up to 200,000 solar masses of material and is currently undergoing a starburst; producing new stars at a very high rate. These newborn stars are the ones that light up the nebula and cause it to glow with the prominent red colour of hydrogen emission. The starburst activity will likely not last more than a few million years, after which a number of large star clusters will have emerged and replaced the once glowing gas.
The nebula was first noticed by John Herschel in 1837 and its name refers to the distinct likeness with a giant feline paw print, particularly when viewed in wide field images.
It is some 50 light years wide and covers an area in our sky equal to that of the full Moon.

Image details:
Date: 29th, 30th April and 26th, 27th, 31st May and 3rd, 22nd June and 15th, 17th, 19th, 22nd July 2014
Exposure: LRGB: 600:170:200:180 mins, total 19 hours 10 mins @ -25C
Telescope: Homebuilt 12.5" f/4 Serrurier Truss Newtonian
Camera: QSI 683wsg with Lodestar guider
Filters: Astrodon LRGB E-Series Gen 2
Taken from my observatory in Auckland, New Zealand

[Astromontufar]

Moon Halo



https://500px.com/acubens
https://www.flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/

Sergio Montúfar

[astroedo]

Magnificent M33
7 hours of exposure to go deep in triangulum galaxy

Image captured by Luigi Fontana ( http://www.astrobin.com/users/luigifontana/)
Processing by Edoardo Luca Radice (http://www.astrobin.com/users/astroedo/ and http://www.radice.biz)

Copyright: Luigi Fontana, Edoardo Luca Radice

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Please enjoy at full resolution
http://www.radice.biz/images/APOD/drizz ... e_dura.jpg

Image details

here http://www.astrobin.com/130755/

and here http://www.astrobin.com/130826/B/

[Sandgirl]

Sunspot AR2192
Copyrights: Dani Caxete

Countless galaxies
Credits & Copyrights: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
Full size: http://skycenter.arizona.edu/gallery/Galaxies/NGC90

Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring and NGC 6548
Copyrights: José J. Chambó

AR2192 - panorama
Copyrights: Frédéric Jabet

Moster AR2192
Copyrights: Divyadarshan D.Purohit

Northern Lights play Halloween
Copyrights: Bente Bjercke

Full Moon - inverted
Copyrights: Cassiano Carromeu

M45
Copyrights: Cassiano Carromeu

[Sandgirl]

Two Families of Comets Found Around Nearby Star
Image credits: ESO/L. Calçada
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1432/

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34002

M1 - The Crab Nebula
Copyrights: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez
Full size: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5604/154 ... bf63_k.jpg

Milky way and airglow over Monfragüe Castle, Monfragüe National Park, Spain
Copyrights: Javier Martínez Moran

Timestack from August Full Moon
Copyrights: Javier Martínez Moran

Messier 31
Copyright: R. Colombari / F. Antonucci
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/130722/0/?real=&mod=

M33: Triangulum Galaxy
Copyrights: Justin Fortinberry

Constellations
Copyrights: John Chumack

High resolution giant
Copyrights: Alan Friedman

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34009

[Sandgirl]

OSIRIS images of Rosetta’s comet show spectacular streams of dust emitted into space.
Image credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
An article: http://www.mps.mpg.de/3821092/PM_2014_1 ... nen?c=2169

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=233817#p233817
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=233819#p233819

Sun pillars
Copyrights: Göran Strand

Sunspot and Towers
Copyrights: Dani Caxete

Regulus and the Dwarf Galaxy
Copyrights: Francesco Antonucci
Full size: http://www.lumhatrex.it/WORKINimages/XA ... DWARFf.jpg

The Massive Sunspot AR2192 on 10-23-2014
Copyrights: John Chumack

Sunspot and Madrid Towers
Copyrights: Dani Caxete

Close Approach of Asteroid 2014 SC324
Copyrights: Ernesto Guido, Nick Howes & Martino Nicolini

Sunspot and the plane
Copyrights: Leonardo D. Ariza

Knife in the Water
Copyrights: Alan Friedman

Mt. Baker
Copyrights: Trudy Friesen

[carlosdn]

Sunspot 2192 from Buenos Aires - Argentina - 22.10.2014

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© Carlos Di Nallo

[pisto92]

Comet C/2013 A1 at 15 milion Km from Mars
High Resolution: http://www.astrobin.com/131178/
Copyright: Andrea Pistocchini

[swag72]

IC443 - The Jellyfish nebula - in full HST palette

Copyright Sara Wager

A larger res image can be seen here http://swagastro.weebly.com/uploads/2/3 ... colour.jpg



IC443 (Sh2-248 ) The Jellyfish nebula by swag72 (http://www.swagastro.weebly.com), on Flickr

[Rothkko]

moon and saturn

in video http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 02#p233902

mérida, spain. 2014-10-25

[joelshort]

Sharpless 2-155 The Cave Nebula
Narrowband Image - 20hrs
Stellarvue LZOS 152mm Triplet Refractor
Copyright: Joel Short

larger image and information: http://www.buckeyestargazer.net/Pages/N ... 2-155.html

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[russelleking]

"Super Sunspot"
http://www.rddnj.com
http://rddnj.com/RussellsOctober252014Sunspots.html
Copyright: Russell King

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[Kapkowski]

NIcely separated emission nebula in Perseus.
Taken with Officina Stellare RH200, STL 11000 and ASA DDM 60 mount. All expositions 18x1200 second and 30x300 seconds unguided.

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[markg]

AR 2192
http://theartofnight.com
Copyright: Mark Gee

AR 2192 by markg, on Flickr

26 Oct 2014 - the end of another day as the sun sets to the west of Wellington, New Zealand. It's been quite an active period lately for our Sun, and a massive sunspot - AR 2192, has formed. The sunspot is approximately 128,000km across, which is 10 time wider than our own planet Earth. The active region has already produced with 2 X-class flares with the potential of more to come. If this happens, then there is a chance of intense Aurora activity around the high and mid magnetic latitudes here on Earth.

You can see sunspot AR 2192 in this photo just to the right of the bank of cloud which partially covers the sun from the left.

[masahiro miyasaka]

Autumn Color change Meteor by masahiro miyasaka, on Flickr

Large green meteor has changed to yellow and red.
Meteor urged the change of seasons on the ground.
Larch and maple was changed in the Autumn color　
The color change was fast(^_^)

After the meteor appearance, outdoor lighting was suddenly turned off!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SiXce5mJAw

[vanamonde81]

Hilltop Startrails
Copyright: György Soponyai

Yesterday evening I observed and photographed the conjunction and occultation of Saturn and the Moon atop Kab Mountain, Hungary. I chose this observation place because of its perfect Western horizon and the foggy valley may act as beautiful foreground. I started photographing this 66-minute-long startrail sequence shortly after Moonset.



Photo details:
2014.10.25. Kab Mountain, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Carl Zeiss Distagon 28/2.8 66x60sec, ISO500, F5.6

[Sandgirl]

A monster in the sky
Copyrights: Leo Aerts

Sunspot and Madrid Towers 2.0
Copyrights: Dani Caxete

Close up of AR2192 2014.10.25
Copyrights: Alessandro Bianconi

Sun Ghost
Copyrights: Cheryl Alexander

Venus in Zodiacal Light
Copyrights: Khalid P Marwat

NGC7000
Copyrights: Francesco Antonucci
Larger size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/131657/0/

Canopus over Himalayas
Copyrights: Jeff Dai

The City and the Stars
Copyrights: Mehdi Momenzadeh

[etiqi]

Saturn reappears behind the moon
http://www.astroemporda.net
Copyright: Francesc Pruneda Agusti

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