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Posted: **Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:56 am**

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Posted: **Thu May 12, 2011 3:39 am**

IC1396A: Elephant's Trunk Nebula
http://www.sfu.ca/~trottier/observatory.html
Copyright: Howard Trottier
[attachment=2]Trottier-IC1396A-May9-2011.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 4725: Barred Spiral Galaxy in Coma Berenices
http://www.starkeeper.it/NGC4725_CO.htm
Copyright: Leonardo Orazi & Stefano Conti

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IC5070: Pelican Nebula in Cygnus
Copyright: Robert Fields
[attachment=1]Pelican.jpg[/attachment]

Little Dipper
http://deepskycolors.com/astro/2011/05/ ... Labels.jpg
Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo

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Four Planets over Earth
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/stefan.mei ... G_4412.jpg
Copyright: Stefan Meingast
[attachment=0]Minfest.jpg[/attachment]

Posted: **Thu May 12, 2011 8:33 am**

Jupiter and Venus conjunction
Website: http://ofpink.wordpress.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa

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Photo taken before dawn on May 11, 2011 and showing the conjunction between Jupiter and Venus. The two brightest planets were less than one degree apart in the twilight colored sky above the Langhe (the area in the Northwest of Italy that is world-wide famous for its wines).

I took the picture from La Morra a village some 60 kilometers from Turin. In the center of the photo is visible the Cathedral of Alba.

Best regards

Stefano

Posted: **Thu May 12, 2011 2:52 pm**

Edge Prominences
http://www.galacticimages.com
Copyright: John Chumack
[attachment=1]sun2xblacklargeprom_ChumacklRweb.jpg[/attachment]

NGC5907: The Splinter Galaxy
Copyright: Alfonso Carreño (Observatorio Zonalunar); CAAT - AVA
[attachment=0]NGC5907CAAT-07052011-P1.jpg[/attachment]

Posted: **Thu May 12, 2011 5:53 pm**

Saturn 5-8-11 in LRGB color
http://cntastro.smugmug.com/Astrophotog ... zLZxL-A-LB
Copyright: Craig & Tammy Temple

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Posted: **Thu May 12, 2011 11:56 pm**

Milky way over the Creux du Van in Switzerland
http://www.nuitsacrees.fr
Copyright: Stephane Vetter

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Eath and Sky circles ... rising of the Milky Way to first light

Stefano, the gradient colors in your picture are very beautiful

Friendly
Stephane

Posted: **Fri May 13, 2011 1:55 am**

Crab Nebula Flare
http://www.astroart.org
Copyright: David A. Hardy
[attachment=4]Crab-Hardy.jpg[/attachment]

M57 and Outer Halos
http://www.eprisephoto.com
Copyright: Anna Morris
[attachment=3]M57 - HaLRGB.jpg[/attachment]

Earth's Shadow and Sunrise from TÜBİTAK National Observatory
Copyright: M. Raşid Tuğral
[attachment=2]panorama.jpg[/attachment]

Retrograde Hot Jupiter
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?c ... &from=news
Credit: Lynette R. Cook
[attachment=1]Cook.jpg[/attachment]

Monsanto Moonset
http://www.astrosurf.com/astroarte/Mons ... il-net.jpg
Copyright: Miguel Claro
[attachment=0]MonsantoMoonTrail-net.jpg[/attachment]

Posted: **Fri May 13, 2011 12:34 pm**

Five planets all in line
http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/8480660/1/Astro?h=2156f1
Copyright: Glen Prideaux (Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike CC BY-SA)
[attachment=1]photo1.jpg[/attachment]
Top to bottom, ♃ ☿ ♀ ♂ ♁

Planets rising
http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/8480660/1/Astro?h=2156f1
Copyright: Glen Prideaux (Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike CC BY-SA)
Six exposures 30s apart:
[attachment=0]photo2.jpg[/attachment]

Posted: **Fri May 13, 2011 4:01 pm**

NGC 3628 Tidal Tail
http://www.bricioledicielo.blogspot.com/
Copyright: Andrea Ferrari
[attachment=0]ferrari.jpg[/attachment]
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2P2ZFZJFHis/T ... C+3628.jpg

Posted: **Fri May 13, 2011 10:18 pm**

Yesterday's and today's planetary conjunction shots. I drove down to the Tweed River at Tumbulgum, far north coast NSW, for yesterdays, but today I was lazy and shot from the verandah window.

Black Friday conjunction by Photography by Odille, on Flickr

Conjunction for 14 May 2011 by Photography by Odille, on Flickr