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Hello. Captured late sumer this year from my back garden observatory in Ditchingham UK It is a total of 19 hours exposure of 900 sec subs, % hrs Ha , 7 hrs O111 and 7 hrs S11

An Image captured recently , not enough data I guess but I put together an Ha , O111 and s green to show detail in the nebulae.
Taken from home obs in Ditchingham UK two weeks ago. My kit at present is; FLT 98 APO refreactor with WO iv flattner/reducer on NEQ6 mount and sxvh r694 mono cooled (-10c) CCD , ST80 guide scope with Loadstar guide cam.


FLAMING STAR by Shaun Reynolds, on Flickr

Done this year from Ditchingham UK in back garden obs , an LRGB of 300 sec subs 3 hrs Luminance and 1 hour each colour

the cone nebula done over a period of a year starting 2012 and through to 2013 . a 20 hour H alpha, O111 and s Green image in two panes showing cone, Christmas tree and surrounding nebulosity. 20 hrs in total comprising 900 sec subs . Link takes through to flickr page


Cone, Christmas Tree and Fox by Shaun Reynolds, on Flickr

World first Logs handcrafted astronomical observatory
https://www.facebook.com/observatoirehf
Copyright: Alexandre Dumas
Here’s an overview of the sky from site of first astronomical observatory log handcrafted known with retractable roof. Named as Horizon of Frontiers Observatory due to its geographical proximity in the southern Quebec Canada and Maine State USA and it's use for stargazing such as being final frontier. The observatory benefits the fact of being facing a large forest area in State of Maine for the quality of the night sky. Larger image

The Piton de la Fournaise surrounded by a sea of ​​clouds / Reunion
http://www.lucperrot.fr/
https://www.facebook.com/lucperrotphoto
Luc Perrot Mars is in the upper left corner, just below Spica. Saturn is a little bit above and to the left of Antares (27/02/2014)

Horsehead Nebula by Adam Jaffe
HaRGB over 9 hours


Hires at http://astrob.in/80808/B/

Aurora photo from Iceland (23022014)
Copyrights: Thorvardur Arnason Simeis 147
Copyrights: Jyrki Haajanen The Sun with a Large sprawley Sunspot group!
Copyrights: John Chumack The International Space Station Flyby on a Cloudy Night!
Copyrights: John Chumack Ishida Weinberger 2 (IW2) Planetary Nebula
Copyrights: Don Goldman

heart of heart nebula
http://www.felopaul.com/
Copyright: Didier CHAPLAIN & Laurent BOURGON Full size version : http://www.felopaul.com/galerie/photo41z.jpg

The Southern Seagull in Narrowband
Copyrights: Ian Sharp Roll Cloud 2012.07.19
Copyrights: Edward M. Schubert Space Station from Durango
Copyrights: Charles L. Hakes ISS transit over Sardinian Sky
Copyrights: Alessandro Bianconi Moon and Venus conjunction
Copyrights: Gadi Eidelheit

Venus & Waning Crescent Moon on 02-26-2014
Copyrights: John Chumack X-ray flare (2/25/2014, 00:49 UT)
Image credits: David Haworth, WA9ONY Fast Clouds and Fog in Caldera de Taburiente
Copyrights: Miguel Claro Moon meets Venus
Copyrights: Richard Ludacka Jupiter images (Feb 15th, 2014.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach Moon and Venus from Alamut
Copyrights: Tunc Tezel

Birth of an eruptive prominence on the edge of the solar limb
Copyrights: J P Brahic Sun H-alpha February 23, 2014. Activity of the sun in H-alpha
Copyrights: Olivier Hardy
Full size: http://soleilhalpha.free.fr/soleil/2014 ... 0TU_70.jpg Aurora Corona after CME Impact
Copyrights: Göran Strand Mt Hood, the Moon and Venus over Portland
Copyrights: Dwight Sargent Winter milky way
Copyrights: Guang-Sin Lu Jupiter and Callisto transit image submission - animated
Copyrights: Edwin Pottillius

New fast and furious black hole found
Image Credits: M83 - NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team
An article: http://www.icrar.org/news/news_items/me ... hole-found The Moon ant the Venus from Budapest
Copyrights: Ferenc Simics The Moon, Lake Effect weather, and strange spiral cloud
Copyrights: Scott Stoll Narrowband Cone
Copyrights: Robert Fields

IC 443 Jellyfish Nebula
Technical Data: http://www.astrobin.com/73883/
Copyright: Dieter Hofer

Zodiacal sky-o-meter



The first evening of March brought beautiful clear sky and a chance to see the zodiacal light. At the hills of Bakony, near the village Hárskút, Hungary, I could find a dark sky location with a good view to the western sky. I took some pics, the one I submit is a panoramic image of 24 photoes. The panorama projection with the half circle reminded me to a special sky-o-meter which shows the darkness of the location with the zodiacal light, as an indicator and the arc of the Milky Way as a scale.
Larger size image: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3758/1287 ... c9f2_o.jpg
Foto details:
Nikon D5100 with 18-55 kit lens at 18mm
ISO6400
F3.5
20 sec. exposures

Eta Carina @ 135mm

Higher res @
http://westcoastpics23.blogspot.com.au/?view=flipcard

Hello,
here my narrowband version of Simeis147 (Sh2-240).
Hope you enjoy it.
Thomas Jäger

click here for a highres image

Not often imaged, but spectacular open cluster M47.

I got kind of fed up by all these colour nebulae. Sometimes it is relaxing to focus on the simple and normally overlooked object.
For full resolution and acquisition details click http://astrofotky.cz/gallery.php?show=O ... 782498.jpg

A while back I made images of M81/M82 and combined those with images of Michael Van Doorn. This image asked for more detail and I wanted to try to show these two galaxies in their full glory. I found a great image of Neil Fleming and after contact with him we decided to combine our imagery in one new image. This increased the detail in the IFN significantly and also the galaxies showed up very nicely. I think this is the deepest image of this region that I have seen until now...


M81/M82 with SN2014J Extreme deep field by Andre vd Hoeven, Neil Fleming and Michael van Doorn, on Flickr

The Puszta at Night
Copyright: György Soponyai

The last night was an ideal one for some wide field astrophotography. The New Moon, the crystal-clear skies and the moderate light pollution led me out to this well near Kiskörös at the border of Kiskunság National Park. This kind of old draw well is the symbol of the Hungarian Plain, the Puszta.



Photo details: 2014.03.01. Kiskörös, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Carl Zeiss Distagon 28/F2.8
20 sec, F2.8, ISO3200

un mes de color 5/11 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 12#p221412

Solar Halo
Copyright: César Cantú

http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... category/6

Northern Lights Big Style
http://www.astrofotografen.se
Copyright: Göran Strand On Thursday 27 of February we had a fantastic aurora here in Östersund with lots of red colors. I took the opportunity to make my biggest panoramic image so far. The image below consists of 23 separate images with a 360 degree coverage from the horizon and all the way up to zenith. The original image has a resolution of 25,000 x 14,000 pixels at 300 dpi and with a 16 bit color depth.

Thawing the observatory.
Copyright: César Cantú

http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... ategory/15

Milky Way rising over Lake Eppalock in central Victoria, Australia on the morning of Monday 3rd March, 2014. The bright star above centre is Antares, 'rival to Mars'.
Full res and more images: http://philhart.smugmug.com/Night-Sky-P ... &k=MqPVdQh

Phil

http://www.philhart.com/