Submissions: 2013 August

lup974 · Post by **lup974** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 7:23 am

Milky Way from Mayotte Island
http://www.lucperrot.fr/
https://www.facebook.com/lucperrotphoto
Copyright: Luc Perrot

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Some pictures of my last vacation on Mayotte island in the Indian Ocean last month. N'Gouja Beach is an important site or turtles lay.

evansg · Post by **evansg** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 8:35 am

LDN 988, LBN 409, Sh2-120, Sh2-121, GN 21.01.3, NGC 7031, L988a, LDN 982-4, LDN 1000 - Cygnus

Copyright: Evangelos Souglakos
Detailed info : http://astro.karvouno.org/?p=356 & http://astro.karvouno.org/?p=363

astrogufo · Post by **astrogufo** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 11:51 am

Wide field on M8 and M20

Carlo Rocchi, Italy

nvc123 · Post by **nvc123** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 2:03 pm

Albireo, a LRGB picture
http://www.astro-billeder.dk
Copyright: Niels V. Christensen

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ignacio_db · Post by **ignacio_db** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 2:42 pm

Waxing Gibbous Color Moon

Imaged while going through the meridian, high in the sky. 110 DSLR still frames, entirely processed in pixinsight 1.8.

hires: http://www.pampaskies.com/gallery3/var/ ... _hires.JPG

Copyright: Ignacio Diaz Bobillo
http://www.pampaskies.com

bmcgaff · Post by **bmcgaff** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 3:13 pm

Composite ccd image of the Sun. Taken from the Nutwood observatory, Ontario Canada, August 5th 2013.
Web site at http://www.nutwood-observatory.com

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 5:08 pm

Wildfires, sky and eye
Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado
[attachment=5]wildfire-lw.jpg[/attachment]

Moon drop
Copyright: Wayne Boyd
[attachment=4]close moon.jpg[/attachment]

Great Carina, Keyhole and Red Hood Nebulae
Copyright: Harel Boren
http://www.pbase.com/boren/image/151851961/original
[attachment=3]loopboren.jpg[/attachment]

Coronal mass ejection
Copyright: JP-Brahic
[attachment=2]_2013_08_22_153513(220813)couleur.jpg[/attachment]

Sh2-185 and Gamma Cassiopeia
Copyright: Dave Erickson
[attachment=1]Sh2-185_1300.jpg[/attachment]

Over the horizon mountain with full-moon
http://canigou.allauch.free.fr
Copyright: Alain Origné
[attachment=0]horizonmoon.jpg[/attachment]

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 5:53 pm

Iris, phantoms and dust
http://www.astrobin.com/full/53158/B/
Copyright: Daniel Trueba
[attachment=5]iris.jpg[/attachment]

Aurora season begins
http://www.astrofotografen.se
Copyright: Göran Strand
[attachment=4]GS_20130823_Aurora_4378.jpg[/attachment]

Green flash
Copyright: Dennis Olson
[attachment=3]Green Flash sunset Ala Moana .jpg[/attachment]

HaLRGB, two panel mosaic of the North American and Pelican
Copyright: Albert Barr
[attachment=2]napelican.jpg[/attachment]

Meteor over moonlit lake
http://www.luisargerich.com
Copyright: Luis Argerich
[attachment=1]moonmeteor.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 1365: Barred spiral galaxy in Fornax
http://www.jadescope.com/photos/i-n3cRM ... RMnH-O.jpg
Copyright: Angus Lau, Y Van, SS Tong - Jade Scope Observatory
[attachment=0]jadegalaxy.jpg[/attachment]

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 7:31 pm

Nova Delphini and two Planetary nebulae
Copyrights: Anton Spenko

New Nova Delphinus
Copyrights: Carles Corney

Nova Delphini 2013 - Aug 18th
Copyrights: Damian Peach

Bright Nova in Delphinus
Copyrights: John Chumack

Nova Delphini 2013 now dimming to 5.5 mag
Copyrights: John Chumack

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 7:49 pm

ALMA Takes Close Look at Drama of Starbirth
Image credit: ALMA/ESO
More about: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1336/

UA Astronomers Take Sharpest Photos Ever of the Night Sky
Image credit: Adam Block/UA SkyCenter
More about: http://uanews.org/story/ua-astronomers- ... -night-sky

Hubble Takes Movies of Space Slinky
Credits: NASA, ESA, E. Meyer, W. Sparks, J. Biretta, J. Anderson, S.T. Sohn, and R. van der Marel (STScI), C. Norman (Johns Hopkins University), and M. Nakamura (Academia Sinica)
More about: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... s/2013/32/

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NASA's Spitzer Telescope Celebrates 10 Years in Space
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
More about: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitz ... hkP_9I3vbg

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 8:14 pm

Clouds & lightning
Copyrights: Salvatore Spinoso

Urban Moon
Copyrights: Fernando Cabrerizo

Fantastic Coronal Mass Ejection
Copyrights: JP Brahic

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 8:52 pm

M31,Double cluster & Perseid meteor shower
Copyrights: Luo Cheng

Perseid meteor shower pass by NGC7000
Copyrights: Luo Cheng

Perseid Maximum from France
Copyrights: Peter van Leuteren

tommy_nawratil · Post by **tommy_nawratil** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 9:31 pm

Sh2-91 Supernova remnant in Cygnus

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full size version in better quality and data here:
http://www.astrobin.com/53057/

cheers, Tommy Nawratil

hbastro · Post by **hbastro** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 10:19 pm

LDN314 Sagittarius image centered ~18h 20m -19° 50'

Dave Erickson http://www.hbastro.com

astrofotografen.se · Post by **astrofotografen.se** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 12:21 am

Tribute to Arthur C. Clarke
http://www.astrofotografen.se
Copyright: Göran Strand
http://obj.fotosidan.se/obj/photo/9f/9f ... 47aeaf.jpg
[attachment=0]goran.jpg[/attachment]

mexhunter · Post by **mexhunter** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 4:48 am

Supernumerary rainbow.
Copyright: César Cantú
http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... ategory/15
http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... ategory/15
http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... ategory/15

alcyone · Post by **alcyone** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:37 am

When you see the moon in the eyepiece of the telescope you problably not see the colors of the geological features of the moon surface. However, when you take a color picture of this surface and when you process it by saturation of colors, moon shows another appearance. HDR process helps to stack moon face and clouds pictures in the real situation.

Enjoy it !

Best regards !

Didier Favre

topl · Post by **topl** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:39 am

Mirrored lunar fogbow

© Thomas Kast, All Rights Reserved
http://www.facebook.com/salamapaja

Last night (August 24, 2013) I was hoping for a great aurora show due to the expected CME and went to this lake near Yli-Ii, Finland. In this rather cold August night (+8C) there was patchy fog, especially in open fields. This lake remained clear for a long time. Unfortunately there were almost no Northern lights. At one point I saw this white bow with the Waning Gibbous behind me, a lunar fogbow. The very small droplets of the fog behave like raindrops and reflect the light. These fogbows are usually white for the human eye because the sunlight reflected from the Moon is very weak.

Gear was D700 +14-24mm and I exposed for 30s at ISO400.

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gianni · Post by **gianni** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:39 am

Reflection nebula VdB 126 and dark nebula LBN 778-779 in Vulpecula
Copyright: Gianni Fardelli

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nvc123 · Post by **nvc123** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 1:18 pm

Albireo wf1
http://www.astro-billeder.dk
Copyright: Niels V. Christensen

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Albireo wf2
Copyright: Niels V. Christensen

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colmic · Post by **colmic** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 8:21 pm

Relief Effects on Solar halpha

Copyright: Michel Collart - Conflans ste honorine - France
http://www.astrosurf.com/colmic

Equipment:
Takahashi TOA130 Refractor
Coronado Solarmax 90mm double stacked filters
Barlow Televue 1.8x
Point Grey Grasshopper3 ICX674 camera

Process:
Full discs: Mosaic of 12 images processed in autostakkert2 + Registax6 + Photomerge CS5

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conemmil · Post by **conemmil** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 8:31 pm

This weekend we had some really nice ISS flybys. Here is one made at Sunday evening from the port of Thessaloniki. I had to yell at people so they would notice this -2.6mag moving object just above their heads. I wonder how people sees UFO's all the time and miss such a bright slow moving object.

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Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Mon Aug 26, 2013 8:05 am

Comet Lemmon - Aug 24th
Copyrights: Damian Peach

Milky Way
Copyrights: Alex Ellick
More sizes: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aellick/94 ... otostream/

marioweigand · Post by **marioweigand** » Mon Aug 26, 2013 5:46 pm

Lots of old & Young stars:

Small Magellanic Cloud & 47 Tucanae
http://www.skytrip.de
Copyright: Mario Weigand

Full resolution

greets

Mario

geckzilla · Post by **geckzilla** » Mon Aug 26, 2013 6:06 pm

NGC 7027
Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, Processing by Judy Schmidt

NGC 7027 by geckzilla, on Flickr
Inspired by today's APOD, I couldn't help but try my own processing of this nebula. In addition to the wide band data used in the APOD I also included some narrow band from NICMOS for a more complete view of the nebula.

Red Channel: HST_7365_01_NIC_NIC2_F160W_sci & HST_7365_01_NIC_NIC2_F212N_sci
Green Channel: hst_06119_45_wfpc2_f814w_pc_sci
Blue Channel: hst_06119_45_wfpc2_f555w_pc_sci

HD94910
Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, Processing by Judy Schmidt

HD94910 by geckzilla, on Flickr
The object you thought might be a planetary nebula is apparently NOT a planetary nebula.
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-i ... =HD++94910
http://cdsbib.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/cdsb ... .378..843K

Red Channel (Hydrogen alpha): hst_05149_01_wfpc2_f658n_pc_sci
Green Channel: pseudo
Blue Channel: hst_05149_01_wfpc2_f547m_pc_sci

Starship Asterisk*

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Albireo widefield pictures

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Looking at the International Space Station

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