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Palomar Observatory Milky Way Panorama
http://www.AstroPics.com
Copyright: Wally Pacholka Part of the Milky Way as Seen from the Southern Hemisphere
Credit and Copyright: Norberto Rodríguez, image acquisition; Emilio Rivero, image processing Star Trails over Spitzkoppe/Namibia
http://www.airglow.de/html/startrails/spitzkopp1.html
Copyright: Rainer Sparenberg

Crescent Moon and Venus over the Lisbon Bridge
http://miguelclaro.com
Copyright: Miguel Claro

Skyhenge: An All-Sky View of the Stone Circle and the Summer Milky Way
http://www.allthesky.com/gallery.html
Copyright: Till Credner

Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253)
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1025/
Credit: ESO More information: http://asterisk.apod.com/vie ... 29&t=19860

Copyright: M. Raşid Tuğral

Description: Moon and Venus conjuntion of 15th of June 2010
Ince Minaret Medrese (literally, the medrese with the narrow minaret) is a 13th century medrese (Islamic school) located in Konya, Turkey, and built between 1258-1279 by the Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate vizier Sâhib Ata Fahreddin Ali who later founded the Anatolian Turkish Beylik of Sâhib Ata.

The building has a highly ornamented stone façade which includes relief work of scripts, geometric patterning and vertical ribbon-like lines. Restored in 1956, the edifice is used today as a museum where stone and wooden artefacts dating from the Seljuk and Ottoman periods are displayed.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ince_Minaret_Medrese

What a lovely picture! Thank you for sharing it!

You're welcome, thank you for your kindness.

I think my favorite is the Wally Pacholka image, an amazing interplay between "heaven and Earth", so to speak. The way the clouds interact with the starry sky is fantastic. I love the "almost Milky Way-lit" observatory and ground, too, although I assume that this is a double exposure. In any case, it looks great.

Ann

Markarian's Chain
http://www.outters.fr/M86-M87-tec140-pr ... -LRGB.html
Copyright: Nicolas Outters

Moon and Jupiter
http://www.miguelclaro.com
Copyright: Miguel Claro

NGC 3576: The Statue of Liberty Nebula
http://www.starshadows.com/gallery/disp ... ?imgID=358
Credit: Steve Mazlin, Jack Harvey, Rick Gilbert, and Daniel Verschatse (SSRO/PROMPT/UNC); copyright: Steve Mazlin Larger image here.

Tranquil Evening
Copyright: John Pesut

M16: The Eagle Complex
http://www.galacticimages.com
Copyright: John Chumack

NGC 2170: Stellar Nursery in Monoceros
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/NGC2170AU.html
Copyright: Rob Gendler Largest image here.

Any new pictures from Wally Pacholka are always welcome, as far as I'm concerned. I really like his work, and it just seems to get better. Wally has been a frequent guest at APOD and TWAN and has a lot more fantastic pictures at his site.

owlice wrote:Palomar Observatory Milky Way Panorama
Copyright: Wally Pacholka

All the other nighttime skies of Earth pictures were also very nice.

owlice wrote:Part of the Milky Way as Seen from the Southern Hemisphere
Credit and Copyright: Norberto Rodríguez, image acquisition; Emilio Rivero, image processing

owlice wrote:Star Trails over Spitzkoppe/Namibia
Copyright: Rainer Sparenberg

owlice wrote:Crescent Moon and Venus over the Lisbon Bridge
Copyright: Miguel Claro

owlice wrote:Skyhenge: An All-Sky View of the Stone Circle and the Summer Milky Way
Copyright: Till Credner

nuclearcat wrote:Moon and Venus conjuntion of 15th of June 2010
Copyright: M. Raşid Tuğral

owlice wrote:Moon and Jupiter
Copyright: Miguel Claro

owlice wrote:Tranquil Evening
Copyright: John Pesut

Rob Gendler has some amazing pictures and anyone who hasn't visited his site should do so.

owlice wrote:NGC 2170: Stellar Nursery in Monoceros
Copyright: Rob Gendler

And, of course, I always like my family portrait.

owlice wrote:Markarian's Chain
Copyright: Nicolas Outters

But my favorite has to be the Statue of Liberty, partly because I don't recall having seen it before. But it is a really good picture.

owlice wrote:NGC 3576: The Statue of Liberty Nebula
Credit: Steve Mazlin, Jack Harvey, Rick Gilbert, and Daniel Verschatse (SSRO/PROMPT/UNC); copyright: Steve Mazlin

Rainer Sparenberg is a new submitter to APOD; I checked out some of the images on his website and cracked my "Oooooo!!" in doing so. <g>

I've got a couple of pics from Australia in the queue and will post them as soon as I have the submitter's permission to do so. Both are good, but one of them I particularly like; it's very cool!

And here they are!

Quiet Lagoon
http://www.terrastro.com/showimg.php?fi ... 20Rock.jpg
Copyright: Alex Cherney
Rho Oph and Milky Way
http://www.terrastro.com/showimg.php?fi ... Heaven.jpg
Copyright: Alex Cherney

Jupiter and Ganymede with Hubble Comparison
http://www.bcastropics.com/img/gallery/ ... 2_full.jpg
Copyright: bottom image, Brian Combs. Image credit, top image: HST

Quiet Lagoon
(aka Pulpit Rock)

Rho Oph and Milky Way
(aka Stairway to Heaven)

Copyright: Alex Cherney

WOW, these are great, and there are more at his web site.

Yeah Alex Cherney ... have to remember that name! Hook this guy up with some APODs! Quiet Lagoon is my favorite.