I'm changing the title of the image because I've noticed that last August was the anniversary of the 100th year after the first world war and the monument on the image is devoted to the people that fought at the time. If you look closely at the fence of the chappel, it is made by war bombs and barbed wire used to make military obstacles. It is a good reminder that we are all equal under the stars and maybe we should use our knowledge to avoid these events from ever happening again.
Going out to watch the Perseids meteor shower can be very worthy as many things can happen during one night. At an altitude of 2525m and on the second highest peak of Greece, there is a chappel made to honor the human losses of the first world war called Prophet Elia. On the same evening there was a bright fireball and a double ISS passage over the mountain while the Moon was rising at the east.
The top of the temple points to the Northern Star Poraris and above it lies the winter Milky Way rising in the mornign hours of late August. The image is a composition of both tripod non moving images and images made on an equatorial mount. It was made with a cropped 1.6X DSLR camera set at ISO1600 and a fishye lens with 8mm diameter set at f/3.5.
iridescences and capitoline wolf (reproduction given by the city of rome, italy, to the city of mérida, spain)
mérida, spain. 2014-09-13
Re: Submissions: 2014 September
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 11:13 pm
by mexhunter
NGC7000 and IC 5067 in narrow band.
The North America Nebula is cataloged as number NGC7000 and is in the constellation Cygnus, close to the star Deneb. Although unknown distance from our solar system, it is estimated that if Deneb is the star that ionizes the hydrogen form, is to be found at a distance of 1800 light years. Just used a Canon 70-200 zoom lens at 200mm focal length coupling QSI540 cooled CCD camera, working at f/5.6, with narrowband filters, to make this frame of nebulae in North America and its neighbor the Pelican.
Copyright: César Cantú
This is a single shot taken on August 27th, 2014 from inside a rock cave at Shark Fin Cove just north of Santa Cruz, CA. Exposure was 30s with a Canon EOS 6D and Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 ED lens at 14mm, f/2.8, ISO 3200.The shape of the tunnel "frame" reminds me of a shark's open jaws. The "shark fin" shaped rock stack is only partially visible on the right edge. I used "augmented reality" feature of the PhotoPills iPhone app to determine if and when the Milky Way would be aligned with the tunnel's opening.
Aurora and Moon
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 7:33 am
by PeterR
A magnificent display of last nights aurora photographed from Väddö, some 100 km north-east from Stockholm (where the sky was overcast).
The Moon helped by lighting up the scenery and added some blue and silver to the colorful palette.
The panorama is about 200° and results from stitching 3 fisheye images.
Photographed the 12th of September at midnight (local time)
/*Peter R
Re: Submissions: 2014 September
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 9:53 am
by David_Forteza
Milky Way and Moon.
From Cala Santanyí, Mallorca, Balearic Island, Spain.
Iridium-Flare and faint Aurora over an Icelandic Glacier. The red cloud is illuminated by the fissures af the vulcano Bardarbunga which is in 100km distance!
Near the star Rho Ophiuchi, in the extreme southwest corner of Ophiuchus, is a region of strangeness and beauty. The star itself is enmeshed in a vast diffuse nebulosity, IC 4604, too faint to be studied visually. But from this nebulous region a number of dark narrow lanes flow out toward the east, appearing like black tentacles obscuring the starry background. These vacant lanes end near the star Xi Ophiuchi. Near Xi also is the large and strangely shaped dark cloud B63. This is an extraordinary region, described by Barnard as making a picture almost unequalled in interest in the entire heavens.
First mentioned by Ptolemy over 2 thousand years ago, it has a diameter of about 20 light years. Professional telescopic studies find that nearly 100% of the stars in M7 are binary stars, an inordinately high frequency of binaries compared to the Galactic field (where > 50% of main-sequence stars are binaries). Professional telescopic studies have counted about a hundred stars belonging to this cluster. Telescopically, M7 resembles a cosmic flower opening in the morning mist of the Milky Way, the long axis of the cross being the flower's stamen, and the haloes its petals.
Night photographer Mike Berenson provides his own "icing on the cake" in this flashlight illuminated, starry night image with Milky Way skies at Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park, Utah. Mike captured this image with a Nikon D800 and Bower 14mm f/2.8 Lens on August 19th, 2014.
Re: Submissions: 2014 September
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 1:15 pm
by tango33
The Running Chicken wing - 4 different views
RGB
Ha only
Ha-RGB
S2-Ha-O3 - Hubble color mapping
Panorama taken by Curiosity rover on sol 739 at 14h25 local time. Curiosity is overlooking Amargosa Valley.
Credits: Data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems; Stitching and processing: Thomas Appéré
