Submissions: 2016 January

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M42

Post by lebowski » Sat Jan 16, 2016 8:51 pm

M42 Data: R. De Benedictis Processing: P.Pinciaroli
3 hours with DSRL
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e-mail: paolo.pinciaroli@tiscali.it
Blog: http://the-boot-blog.blogspot.it/

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Witch Head Nebula

Post by lebowski » Sun Jan 17, 2016 12:34 am


Witch Head Nebula Data: R. De Benedictis Processing: P.Pinciaroli
3 hours with DSRL
copyright: De Benedictis-Pinciaroli
e-mail: paolo.pinciaroli@tiscali.it
Blog: http://the-boot-blog.blogspot.it/

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Ngc 2264

Post by alcarreño » Sun Jan 17, 2016 12:42 am

Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile

ImageNGC 2264_RGB+HALFA+RGB PROCESS by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

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LBN 777

Post by shaunnesy » Sun Jan 17, 2016 11:18 am

Baby Eagle Nebula, finally gahtered enough data to put together this LRGB image .A few degrees from M45, a tough ,extremely feint dark reflection nebula .
total image time 19 hrs, with 13 hours Luminanace , and 2 hours each Red, Green and Blue


For larger high res image follow link below

http://shaunreynoldsastro.com/p18930873 ... #h6239a170
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Re: Submissions: 2016 January

Post by SteveJ » Sun Jan 17, 2016 11:35 am

Aurora, galaxies, meteors and satellites
Aurora_Bruny Island.JPG
Composite of 4 x 30s images taken from Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia on 8th January 2016. Base image of aurora and sky is a single image - composite adds brightest meteors only. Aurora colors not visible to naked eye, although the region closest to horizon appeared similar to twilight. Aurora Kp ~2.7.
Copyright: Steve Johnston
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Comet Catalina meets Galaxies in Ursa Major

Post by angelaros » Sun Jan 17, 2016 11:14 pm

Last saturday, from the OAC Observatory located in Northwestern Spain, I used a 200mm lens and a DSLR camera to shot this image, where we can see Galaxy M101, comet Catalina, star Alkaid and Galaxies M51 (from left-down corner to right-upper corner). A must see which I could not miss despite the strong wind (I had to discard many other shots, namely those taken with a 1000mm Newton telescope).
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Re: Submissions: 2016 January

Post by RCompassi » Sun Jan 17, 2016 11:41 pm

Hello!

This is my version of the Tarantula Nebula

GSO 12" F/5
Canon T1i Modded
66x120"
Presidente Lucena - Brazil
Eimer Sternen Observatory



Imagetarantula_66x120_DBE_9 pq by Rafael Compassi, no Flickr

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NGC 2237

Post by alcarreño » Sun Jan 17, 2016 11:52 pm

Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile

ImageNGC 2237 by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

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Re: Comet Catalina meets Galaxies in Ursa Major

Post by Ann » Mon Jan 18, 2016 6:39 am

angelaros wrote:Last saturday, from the OAC Observatory located in Northwestern Spain, I used a 200mm lens and a DSLR camera to shot this image, where we can see Galaxy M101, comet Catalina, star Alkaid and Galaxies M51 (from left-down corner to right-upper corner). A must see which I could not miss despite the strong wind (I had to discard many other shots, namely those taken with a 1000mm Newton telescope).
This is a wonderful shot, with Comet Catalina next to one of my favorite blue stars, Alkaid, and stunning spiral galaxies flanking the pair in opposite corners! :D

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C/2013 US 10 Catalina passing by M 101

Post by Kapkowski » Mon Jan 18, 2016 7:24 am

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The day, when Catalina was the brightest. Picture taken through the night 16/17 of January, comet at the position 1:10 CET.
Two panel mosaic. Technical details at Astrobin.
Direct link do hires picture : http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/b ... ermark.jpg

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Re: Submissions: 2016 January

Post by astrochuck » Mon Jan 18, 2016 1:49 pm

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NGC2264-Q23-HStar-LUM-12z120f by Chuck Manges, on Flickr

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Re: Submissions: 2016 January

Post by Petr H. » Mon Jan 18, 2016 9:11 pm

Red Sprites at Paranal Observatory
Copyright: Petr Horálek (http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?page_id=20) / ESO (http://www.eso.org)
Amazing image of sprites at Paranal Observatory, captured from the VLT platform on 27 January 2015. First imaged in 1989, red sprites are a ghostly phenomenon that occur at high altitudes above thunderstorms. Photographed here by ESO Photo Ambassador Petr Horálek, the unmistakable tendrils of multiple red sprites are spotted approximately 600 kilometres away from ESO's Paranal Observatory above distant thunderclouds. To capture multiple sprites in one image, two exposures were combined. The upper sprite occurred nearly 21 minutes before the lower one. In the foreground sits a lone 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescope, part of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). More and the image in full resolution can be found here: http://www.eso.org/public/images/150127paranal2345_rs/.
Sprites are extremely rare atmosphere phemomena caused by irregularities in the ionosphere, high above storm clouds, at altitudes of about 80 kilometres. Typically seen as groups of red-orange flashes, they are triggered by positive cloud-to-ground lightning, which is rarer and more powerful than its negative counterpart, as the lightning discharge originates from the upper regions of the cloud, further from the ground. In a short burst, the sprite extends rapidly downwards, creating dangling red tendrils before disappearing. The sprite pictured here was most likely over 500 kilometres away (compare with a satellite image showing the storm over Argentina), spanned a height of up to 80 kilometres and lasted only a fraction of a second. More and the image in full resolution can be found here: http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1505c/.
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Re: Submissions: 2016 January

Post by Petr H. » Mon Jan 18, 2016 9:17 pm

Venus and the swimming Moon
Copyright: Petr Horálek (http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?page_id=20)

A year ago, 21 January 2015, I witnessed very unusual view to the darkening horizon before the first stars appeared above the La Silla observatory. Just a minutes after the sun set over the horizon of distant south Pacific, the crystal purity of the Atacama’s air allowed me to spot the very young Moon. This crescent was followed by bright planet Venus and slowly moved to the horizon too. When it touched the dusty belt of far polluted atmosphere, a rare theater had begun. Moon was literally distorted due to different optical conditions in the thin layer above the horizon and it made a feel like it was swimming there. So yes, the weird „snaky“ shape on the horizon is the Moon… More and the images in higher resolution: http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?p=2080

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Post by Petr H. » Mon Jan 18, 2016 9:25 pm

The fairy tale of Oravska Lesna
Copyright: Petr Horálek (http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?page_id=20)

Once upon a time, a pilgrim with a machine called camera was walking around the world. He witnessed so many wonderful places, tried so many adventures, met so many different people. But this place was magical, the unforgettable one. When he spotted a beautiful gretel of Oravska Lesna in Slovakia, surrounded by wonderful hills and far mountains of High Fatra and with the sky painted by countless twinkling stars, his curiosity made him just to knock on the doors and recognize the people inside. And he didn’t even dream about what followed. Those people were so kind and such infinite generous, that without any questions they gave him rich dinner, allowed him to oversleep in the warm while freezing outside, and in the very next morning – when his wandering feet wanted to continue – they just wished him good-luck for his further life. He was so grateful to make for them just this night portrait of the wonderful place… Based on true experience :-) More and the image in higher resolution: http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?p=2101

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VDB 9

Post by lebowski » Mon Jan 18, 2016 10:21 pm

VDB 109
G. zacchi - P. Pinciaroli
BRC 250, CCD Apogee 6303
L-RGB 460 50 50 50
Copyright: Paolo Pinciaroli
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full: http://the-boot-blog.blogspot.it/

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Re: Submissions: 2016 January

Post by Brendan Kinch » Tue Jan 19, 2016 1:18 am

NGC 2359 - Thor's Helmet

ImageNGC2359 by Brendan Kinch, on Flickr

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Re: Submissions: 2016 January

Post by Guest » Tue Jan 19, 2016 5:21 am

Subject: Sh2-124 (Ha + OIII filters)
Copyrights: James Collins
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Web Site: Meadow View Observatory
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Re: Submissions: 2016 January

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Jupiter, GRS - January 19th, 2016

Post by Efrain Morales » Wed Jan 20, 2016 2:32 am

Jupiter, GRS on january 19th, 09:27ut.
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Re: Submissions: 2016 January

Post by moweryja » Wed Jan 20, 2016 4:38 am

"Lunar Occultation of Aldebaran" - January 19, 2016


This video was recorded from Cayce, SC on 1/19/16 at 9:31pm using my 8" Meade LX200 classic and an iPhone 5S. I set up my telescope shortly after sunset and slowly observed the moon moving closer to Aldebaran. As the event time approached, I attached my phone to my eyepiece using an Orion SteadyPix Pro smartphone mount and began recording a couple of minutes before the event. About 45 minutes later Aldebaran emerged from behind the moon. Temperatures were near freezing during the occultation, but I managed to brave the cold and capture a nice recording of the event.

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Lagoon Nebula

Post by lebowski » Wed Jan 20, 2016 11:59 am


http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R5ACnMC68RI/V ... _Fin-a.jpg

Lagoon Nebula
Data: De Benedictis Riccardo
Processing: Paolo Pinciaroli
Canon EOS 40d
Takahashi TSA 102
About integration 2 hours
Copyrights: Paolo Pinciaroli
http://the-boot-blog.blogspot.it/
e-mail: paolo.pinciaroli@tiscali.it
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Re: Submissions: 2016 January

Post by Glima49 » Thu Jan 21, 2016 2:32 am

NGC 7653
https://www.flickr.com/photos/83142843@ ... ateposted/
Copyright: Brandon Pimenta, Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA
Also known as Polarissima and ErrorName629.
--Brandon Pimenta

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Re: Submissions: 2016 January

Post by sydney » Thu Jan 21, 2016 3:22 am

NGC891

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Nick Pavelchak
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Re: Submissions: 2016 January

Post by Paul Haese » Thu Jan 21, 2016 4:53 am

IC434

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