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Apogee Moon And the Winter Sky
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53210246@N ... 958883046/

Fog rolled in as the temperature dropped after today's rainfall. The bright moon cast distinct rays of light through gaps in the trees. In this image, Jupiter shines just above left of the moon, nearly hidden by its glare. The winter sky fills the rest.

Copyright: Neil Winston
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light and spheres. 175%. polarized filter in http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 50#p218032

NGC2024 - The Flame Nebula in Hydrogen Alpha Light
http://astrofotky.cz/~Konihlav
Copyright: Pavel Pech

Rising Full Moon and Jupiter

http://www.vadakcsillaga.hu/tajkep/ejsz ... 40115.html
Copyright: Tamas Abraham
Today evening I planned to capture the rising full Moon and the Jupiter with a ruin or anything interesting.
I was looking for sites and stopped finally at a junction between two villages. The landscape was simple with some trees along the road.
I waited a passing car to illuminate the road and during the exposition the rear lights made a red trail.
Photo details: Canon EOS 400D & EF-S 10-22 USM lens at 13 mm, F4, ISO 200 and 15 sec. exp. time.

Tamas

Copyright: César Cantú

Structures of stardust.
The nebula of "Elephant Trunk" with contents of interstellar gas and dust near the star cluster cataloged as IC1396, which ionize the H II gas, located in the constellation of Cepheus, at 2400 light years away from Earth .
I used the Epsilon 180ED telescope, the camera FLI8300 and 2:40 hours of exposure.

Jupiter, GRS coming into view on January 14th, 03:43ut. under average conditions. Equipment: LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, Flea3 ccd, TeleVue 3x barlows, Astronomik RGB filter set at 55 sec.per channel.

Superga Moon
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa Please find above an image taken on January 15, 2014 that shows full Moon rising alongside the Basilica of Superga (Turin, Italy).
Best regards
Stefano

sun halo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medell%C3%ADn,_Spain

The Pleiades (M45)
Copyright: Terry Hancock & Robert Fields
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Full moon in colour
Taken with telescope SW 8" newtonian dobson, and camera Canon EOS 500D,

7 shoots stacked with AS!2.
2014/01/15 23:05 UT
Les Fonts - Barcelona (Spain)
Luis J. Fernández
astrorionis.blogspot.com.es

New Moon (Crescent) and Venus.
Copyright: César Cantú

Anti crepuscular rays during the full moon rise.(Reunion Island)
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Copyright: Luc Perrot

Full Moon HDR Nebula
Copyright: Giuseppe Petricca
http://www.gmrphotographer.net/

http://gmrphotographer.net/APOD/DSCN2564_1HDR1.jpg Taken with a Nikon P90 Bridge on Tripod.

Full Moon HDR Nebula /2
Copyright: Giuseppe Petricca
http://www.gmrphotographer.net/

http://gmrphotographer.net/APOD/DSCN2574_1HDR1.jpg Taken with a Nikon P90 Bridge on Tripod.

M78 nebula in Orion.
2013, November.
HiRes photo with labels: http://olegbr.astroclub.kiev.ua/files/a ... labels.jpg
Copyright: Oleg Bryzgalov, Ukraine

Oleg Bryzgalov wrote:M78 nebula in Orion.
2013, November.
HiRes photo with labels: http://olegbr.astroclub.kiev.ua/files/a ... labels.jpg
Copyright: Oleg Bryzgalov, Ukraine

This is one of the best images of M78 ever!

starsurfer wrote: This is one of the best images of M78 ever!

Thank you very much for your kind words

The Tadpoles of IC 410
http://astrofotki.pl
Copyright: Jacek Bobowik http://astrofotki.pl/IC410_HaRGB.jpg

Lunar Halo in the Eifel mountains

Many thousands of years ago, this used to be Europe's volcanism hotsport: the Eifel supervolcano field. Today, only volcanic lakes (Maars) in former magma chambers of cinder cones remain, as the one shown here in Schalkenmehren, Germany. An intense lunar halo is also visible, probably as it has happened many times over the geological history of the region, irrespective of what happened on the ground.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27891676@N05/

Copyright: Alex Tudorica

Milky Way over Magaña Castle
http://www.astrofotografiadesdesoria.com
Copyright: Jaime Díez, Iván García & Daniel de Francisco

The Great Nebula in Carina
http://nakshatralok.blogspot.in/
Copyright: Subhankar Saha Details: http://nakshatralok.blogspot.in/2014/01 ... -3372.html

A few snaps from my (very) modest setup, taken nowhere special in particular - the patio of an ordinary garden in a town centre location.

M31:
80ED, Atik 383L+, NEQ6


Fullsize: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7314/1177 ... e158_o.jpg

M45:
130pds, Atik 383L+, NEQ6


Fullsize: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3724/1169 ... 5a78_o.jpg


Cocoon Nebula:
80ED, Atik 383L+, NEQ6


Fullsize: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3748/9761 ... 24f7_o.jpg

Sun Pillar
Copyrights: Peter Muks Super Moon vs Micro Moon
Copyrights: Stefano Sciarpetti Blue Horsehead Nebula - IC 4592
Copyrights: Ivan Eder Milky way and Zodiacal light over Meili snow mountain
Copyrights: Jeff Dai Rho Op area
Copyrights: Nicolás Villegas

vdb62 aka LDN1622
Copyrights: José Joaquín Perez Unraveling the Web of a Cosmic Creepy-Crawly
Image credit: NASA, ESA, E. Sabbi (STScI)
An article: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1402/ Picture of Quadrantids
Copyrights: Leo Lam Hubble's First Frontier Field Finds Thousands of Unseen, Faraway Galaxies
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and the HFF Team (STScI) Comet Lovejoy shining over the Great Wall
Copyrights: Jiajie Zhang Comet Lovejoy (Jan 11th, 2014.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach

Mars on January 17th, 10:21ut. Now half of its size from opposition.