Submissions: 2018 January

[Rothkko]

iss, 33"

merida, spain. 2018-01-26, 20:29

[frant]

M45 Pleiades
Copyright: Richard Cardoe

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Full resolution version - https://www.flickr.com/photos/90472923@N03/39869005252

[SteveJ]

Three planets and a moon
Copyright: Steve Johnston

Waxing crescent moon, Mercury on right, Venus forming a triangle at top and Earth in the field of view.
Noojee, Victoria, Australia, 7 February 2016 at 4.33am AEST.
Canon 5dMkII, 28-105mm, F/3.5, ISO-100, 5 sec exposure.

[Adrien Mauduit]

Winter night sky gems

Credits: Adrien Mauduit

We are about midway through the Orion season and it's crazy to see Orion already risen in the sky when night falls. We really have to take advantage of all these red-emission nebulae while it lasts. Not too long ago, I hiked up the ski slopes of the Mont Jura mountains again to get this shot as Orion was setting in the early hours of the morning.
I really love this view because it really highlights all the visible deep sky objects at 50mm: the Orion region just setting above the tree line, The Rosette nebula and the Chritsmas Tree cluster, the Hyades and Taurus, The pleiades, the California nebula, the dark dust lanes and the light from all the stars in the fainter outer arms of our milky way.
I wouldn't have been able to get all those colors and details if it weren't for the combinations of techniques perfected over a long period of trials and mistakes. It is the result of tracking individual panels (2 rows of 3 pictures) at 50mm with a light pollution filter and an astromidifed camera. The very sharp and bright lens (Sigma 50mm f/1.4) also helped acquire some good data. I really do hope you enjoy the view.

Canon 6D + Sigma 50mm f/1.4 art
3 rows of 3 pictures, background tracked, foreground untracked
Stitched panorama of 9 x 40'', ISO 1600, f/2,8

[Rothkko]

solar noon, without sunspots

merida, spain. 2018-01-28, 13:17, 13:39 and 13:39

equiv 288mm. polarized filter

[Alson Wong]

2017 Total Solar Eclipse - Baily's Beads at Third Contact
http://www.alsonwongastro.com
Copyright: Alson Wong

[Alson Wong]

2017 Total Solar Eclipse - Earthshine on the Moon
http://www.alsonwongastro.com
Copyright: Alson Wong

[strongmanmike]

Renowned for stealing your hot chips when you sit by the sea ...NGC 2177 soars majestically like a magenta Seagull on the border between Canis Major and Monoceros

See a big image here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/strongman ... ed-public/

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Copyright: Michael Sidonio

[Kinch]

Thor's Helmet

www.KinchAstro.com

[KuriousGeorge]

Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392). KG Observatory.

The Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392), also known as the Clownface Nebula or Caldwell 39, is a bipolar double-shell planetary nebula 2,870 light-years away. It was discovered by astronomer William Herschel in 1787. The formation resembles a person's head surrounded by a parka hood. It is surrounded by gas that composed the outer layers of a Sun-like star. The visible inner filaments are ejected by a strong wind of particles from the central star. The outer disk contains unusual light-year-long filaments.

Imaging telescope or lens: Celestron 8" EdgeHD
Imaging camera: QSI 660 WSG
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Guiding camera: Starlight Xpress Ultrastar
Focal reducer: Celestron 0.7X
Software: PixInsight 1.8, PHD Guiding 2, Neat Image V7, Photoshop CS3, Sequence Generator Pro, Maxim DL6
Filters: Astrodon 1.25" 3nm OIII, Astrodon 1.25" 5nm Ha, Astrodon 1.25" L
Accessories: Innovations Foresight ONAG SC, Optec FocusLock, Starizona MicroTouch Autofocuser
Resolution: 633x542
Dates: Jan. 25, 2018, Jan. 26, 2018, Jan. 28, 2018
Frames:
Astrodon 1.25" 3nm OIII: 36x120" -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon 1.25" 5nm Ha: 37x120" -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon 1.25" L: 317x10" -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 3.3 hours
Darks: ~40
Flats: ~60
Flat darks: ~60
Bias: ~20
Avg. Moon age: 9.42 days
Avg. Moon phase: 70.09%
Mean SQM: 19.50
Astrometry.net job: 1909350
Locations: Home, Rancho Santa Fe, California, United States

[team-janus]

NGC1532 interacting with NGC1531. Remote reflector 520mm F/D=3.8 in Chile. L=11h, RVB layer 1h each.


The full resolution is here:
http://www.etoiles-a-bleau.fr/transfert/NGC1532.jpg

Team Janus

[paddygilliland]

IC 1848 - Soul Nebula (2 Pane) by Patrick Gilliland, on Flickr

[halh2]

The Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405), embedded in the Milky Way deep in the constellation of Auriga, glows primarily in the light of atomic hydrogen excited by the massive star AE Aur as it rapidly moves through the interstellar cloud of gas and dust comprising the nebula. The wispy blue emission curling away from this 23 solar mass star resembles smoke, giving rise to the sensation that it is “on fire.” The data used to prepare this picture were collected as unguided 1-min sub-exposures at the Burke-Gaffney Observatory in Halifax by a robotic 0.61-m Planewave CDK24 reflector (f/6.5) equipped with an Apogee CG-16M CCD camera and Astrodon broadband (LRGB) and narrowband (H-alpha) filters. The camera output was binned 2x2 to provide a 2048 x 2048 px image-plane with an full field-of-view of 31.9 x 31.9 arcmins2, and a resolution of 0.94-arcsecs/binned pixel. The sub-exposures were integrated using CCDStack (CCDWare) to produce mean grey-scale images of 1.3, 1.1, 1.1, 1.8 and 2.9-hrs duration in the LRGB and H-alpha bands, respectively. The mean H-alpha image was blended in Photoshop (Adobe) with both the mean Luminance and Red images to enhance their detail. The results were high-pass filtered and combined with the mean G and B images to produce the colored image. Stellar profile shapes were corrected to reduce distortions introduced by the lack of guiding, and the final image was cropped to a spatial size of ~11.1 lys in each dimension at the assumed distance to the star.

The posted image was cropped to a spatial size of 12.6 lys (W) x 13.1 lys (H) rather than to 11.1 lys in each dimension as stated originally, assuming that the star powering the emission (AE Aur) lies at a distance of 1450 lys.

[afesan]

More resolution: http://afesan.es/Deepspace/Ced%2051,%20 ... _orig.html

Cederblad 51 is a part of the large Sh2-264 nebula, the "Orion's head".Red colour shows the large H-alpha emission nebula (GN 05.30.0), blue the reflection nebulae ( Ced 51) and brown,the dust nebulae (dark nebulae such as: LDN1582,LDN 1584,Barnard 31,Barnard 30..) .Also Herbig-Haro targets such as HH 179 and HH 244 can be guess between dust.

[Rothkko]

supermoon (no eclipse )
illuminated 99,53%, crescent

30' after ghostly iss viewtopic.php?f=29&t=22884&p=279463#p279463

illuminated 99,87%, crescent

illuminated 99,94%, waning

merida, spain. 2018-01-31, 00:35, 07:30 and 19:06

[Steed]

Maximum of the Super Blue Total Lunar Eclipse
Copyright: Steed Yu

Maximum of Total Lunar Eclipse by 虞 骏, on Flickr

[Andromeda 2013]

Moon

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/28199761439/

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

[Andromeda 2013]

Frozen Blue Blood Super Moon

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

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

[Andromeda 2013]

Blue Blood Super Moon 31 Jan 2018

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

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

[Drewster]

Lunar Eclipse January 31 2018
http://www.ancientstarlight.com
Copyright: Drew Sullivan

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The image and information on capture can also be seen here:

http://www.ancientstarlight.com/Luna-Ec ... 01-31.html

[kevin-palmer]

http://darksitefinder.com/wp-content/up ... clipse.jpg

After an evening snowstorm in northeast Wyoming, the clouds cleared out just in time before the lunar eclipse began. Devil's Tower was covered in white, and it was a beautiful scene as the moon entered totality. This was taken just before twilight started drowning out the stars.

This is a combination of 3 exposures, 1 for the moon, 1 for the stars, and 1 for the tower. Shot with a Nikon 180mmf2.8 lens on a Nikon D750.

[AlexMaragos]

A drone flies in front of the Super Blue Blood Moon as it rises
over the Parthenon at the Acropolis of Athens, Greece on January 31, 2018.
http://www.alexandrosmaragos.com
Copyright: Alexandros Maragos

Super Blue Blood Moon over the Acropolis by Alexandros Maragos

[sixburg]

M95 Barred Spiral

RCOS 14.5"
22 Hours
Deep Sky West

[mdieterich]

Lunar Eclipse over the Rocky Mountains
http://www.instagram.com/mattdieterichphotography
Copyright: Matt Dieterich

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[goldpaintphoto]

Lunar Eclipse Over Castle Crags
https://goldpaintphotography.com/
Copyright: Brad Goldpaint

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Pre-dawn lunar trifecta: ‘super blue blood moon’ rising over Castle Crags, located in the far Western region of the United States. The Earth’s shadow slowly wandered its way across the Moon to form the mesmerizing color of totality above its towering spires.