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Mel 15 / IC1805 Heart Nebular Deep-Sky-Astroteam Fullres
http://www.astrobin.com/132814/C/

Recording / preprocessing: by Frank Iwaszkiewicz
Image processing: by Nico Geisler & Frank Iwaszkiewicz


Best Regards Deep-Sky-Astro Team

Hello,

The Cone nebula and Christmas tree cluster region in Hubble color mapping.

Larger view:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/158033696

Thanks for looking!

Kfir Simon

The Cave nebula - Hubble color mapping

A larger view:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/158033473

Thanks for looking!

Kfir Simon

A part of the Heart nebula which is overlooked many times because of the much more interesting center.

A larger view:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/158033471

Thanks for looking!

Kfir Simon

Copyright : Juan Ignacio Jimenez Cuesta
Mosaic NGC7635 + NGC 7538 + NGC7510 in narroband

Mosaico-NGC7635-7538-7510 by jijc76, on Flickr

The Colorful IC 434- The Horsehead and the Flame

I took this with a non modified dslr over the course of two nights. I was astounded to see how much detail was visible, even with basic gear.




Full Res: http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/1 ... rsonic.jpg

Space Flower- The Iris Nebula



Full Res: http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/0 ... rsonic.png

Rho Ophiuchi



Full Res: http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/6 ... rsonic.jpg

All of these were taken with a non modified Nikon D5300.

Copyright Jacob Bers http://bersonicastronomy.com/

Thanks for looking!

IC 2488 in Vela

A colorful open star cluster in the southern limits of the constellation of Vela. There are not many color pictures on IC 2488 although due its beauty, it could rival with many other popular NGC southern open clusters.
Image produced in collaboration with Ezequiel Bellocchio (acquisition) and Sergio Eguivar (processing).

More info can be seen in below link

http://www.baskies.com.ar/PHOTOS/IC%202488%20LRGB.htm

Southern greetings
Ezequiel / Sergio

Objets in the Sky

Hard to get a non noisy picture using a Nikon d5100, still I think the experience I get every night I do Astrophotos its much important, working under hard conditions just makes you better. I improved my post process, the hardest part of the work,, I think a better camera will do the difference. That night weather conditions and the fact that I was out in the route taking pictures was such a great experience, we drove long way to get clear skies. The magellanic clouds, the Southern Pleiades, Eta Carinae, just a beautiful conbination of the art of the Universe.



https://500px.com/acubens
https://www.flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/
https://www.facebook.com/MilkyWayAddicted

Sergio Montúfar

Astromontufar wrote:Objets in the Sky

Hard to get a non noisy picture using a Nikon d5100, still I think the experience I get every night I do Astrophotos its much important, working under hard conditions just makes you better. I improved my post process, the hardest part of the work,, I think a better camera will do the difference. That night weather conditions and the fact that I was out in the route taking pictures was such a great experience, we drove long way to get clear skies. The magellanic clouds, the Southern Pleiades, Eta Carinae, just a beautiful conbination of the art of the Universe.



https://500px.com/acubens
https://www.flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/
https://www.facebook.com/MilkyWayAddicted

Sergio Montúfar

Hi Sergio,

Interesting to compare notes on the Nikon D5100, which I use as well. My best (and only) image thus far of the LMC and SMC together, was created from a stack of 10-20 subs, taken with a D5100, on a fixed tripod, with the kit zoom lens at 18mm: Note that the exact same subs were used to create my first (and only) ever star trail image, which I posted a while back, here:
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 35#p217235
... where you can see evidence of yucky orange light pollution and clouds. Less than ideal conditions, I'm sure you'll agree. I'm not sure it is fair to blame the D5100 for all the noise. I think it is a great little DSLR. It is more about stacking and processing enough subs to increase the signal-to-noise ratio.

Winter Jewels - M78, Flame and Horse Head
http://hythamsafieh.smugmug.com
Copyright: Hytham Abu-Safieh Higher resolution: http://hythamsafieh.smugmug.com/Astrono ... rgb-X3.jpg




Surfing California
http://hythamsafieh.smugmug.com
Copyright: Hytham Abu-Safieh Higher Resolution: http://hythamsafieh.smugmug.com/Astrono ... 2.1-X3.jpg




The Swan's Heart
http://hythamsafieh.smugmug.com
Copyright: Hytham Abu-Safieh Higher Resolution: http://hythamsafieh.smugmug.com/Astrono ... dv1-X3.jpg

Looking like a huge Colonial Galactica class Battlestar being chased by a small pack of Cylon Raider craft, NGC 247 in Cetus is actually a nearby dwarf spiral galaxy seen tilted somewhat edge on at a distance of about 11 Million light years away. This is the same distance as to the more famous nearby spiral NGC 253 but NGC 247 is only 2/3 its size. At this relatively close distance many young star clusters with massive blue stars are clearly resolved and many pink HII regions of star birth are scattered throughout the galactic disc.
See a larger file here: http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ ... 4/original

What look like Cylon chaser craft following NGC 247 are in fact 5 much more distant galaxies:

A: ESO 540-25 SBc, Mag 14.7, 1' X 0.8'
B: ESO 540-24 SBbc, Mag 15.7, 0.75' X 0.52'
C: MCG-4-3-12 Type unknown, Mag 17, size < 0.5'
D: ESO 540-23 SBb, Mag 14.5, 1' X 0.39'

A faint bridge of matter is visible that appears to connect MCG-4-3-12 to the larger and brighter ESO 540-23
Copyright: Michael Sidonio

Bunch of Halos
On 1st November 2014, a bunch of halos were visible (location: Oberwolfach, Germany), including parhelia (sun dogs), a piece of the parhelic circle, the upper tangent arc, the circumzenithal arc and a Parry arc with a very faint supralateral arc.
http://addicted2light.de/
Copyright: Levin Dieterle

Copyright: LEPANOT Aurélien.
personal website: http://500px.com/lepanot

full size image: http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/201 ... podm45.jpg



Technical data:
Telescope: Newtonian telescope 8inch (200/1000)
Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G Mount
Camera: Canon EOS 1200D.
pictures: 64x240 "@ 800ISO
Offset: 93
Dark: 35
Flat: 33
Software: PixInsight

Planet-forming Lifeline Discovered in a Binary Star System: ALMA Examines Ezekiel-like ‘Wheel in a Wheel’ of Dust and Gas
Credit: ESO/L.Calçada, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
An article: https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressrelea ... a-lifeline http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34040

Crescent Moon
Copyrights: Elke Schulz Moonrise over Salmendinger Chapelle
Copyrights: Frank M. Rapp Sunspots and the bird
Copyrights: Walton Mattei NGC-1973-75-77 Reflection Nebula
Copyrights: John Chumack Possible Supernova in M61 (TOCP Designation: PSN J12215757+0428185)
Copyrights: Ernesto Guido, Martino Nicolini & Nick Howes http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34044

Double Sun at Vadodra Mars, Lagoon Nebula and Trifid Nebula
Copyrights: Derek J Demeter

Hubble Sees 'Ghost Light' From Dead Galaxies
Image Credit: NASA/ESA/IAC/HFF Team, STScI
An article: http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/hub ... -galaxies/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34046

Cederblad 214
Copyrights: Albert Barr M8 and M20
Copyrights: Richard Bloch Cygnus Wall (NGC 7000)
Copyrights: Richard Bloch "Pretty Pic" of M15
Copyrights: Bob Franke
Larger size: http://bf-astro.com/APOD/m15big.jpg Jupiter
Copyrights: Conor Cunningham The Tarantula Nebula
Copyrights: Conor Cunningham Sh2-188
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

Cassini Sees Sunny Seas on Titan
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. Arizona/Univ. Idaho
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4359 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=234126#p234126

Refraction and Sunspot
Copyrights: Dani Caxete Orion Deep - Wide
Copyrights: Assembling and processing: Roberto Colombari and Federico Pelliccia. Additional data from Robert Gendler
Larger size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/133170/0/ Job's Coffin
Copyrights: Thomas Wildoner NGC 6914: Blue Clouds in Cygnus
Copyrights: Robert Gendler
More sizes: http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/NGC6914NM.html

150 million years ago
https://www.flickr.com/photos/68018999@N08/
Copyright: Jose Luis Sanchez Sauropods were the largest creatures ever lived on Earth, first appeared in the early to middle Jurassic period, reaching their peak by the end of Jurassic, 150 million year ago, being mostly replaced by titanosaurs until the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, 65 million years ago. By this time, the Earth's axis did not point to the Polar star, but star trails looked quite similar to that shown here.

This real size model (35m long and 10m high) of a Sauropod is located in the small village of Fuentes de Magaña (Soria, Spain), in the center of a wide extension of teropods and sauropods footprints. It's probably the bigest and more detailed reproduction of a sauropod outdoors in whole Europe.

This image is a two hours exposure showing the star trails surrounding Polar star and the sauropod landscape, transporting us to a far past in the Earth's evolution.

150 million years ago
https://www.flickr.com/photos/68018999@N08/
Copyright: Jose Luis Sanchez Sauropods were the largest creatures ever lived on Earth, first appeared in the early to middle Jurassic period, reaching their peak by the end of Jurassic, 150 million year ago, being mostly replaced by titanosaurs until the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, 65 million years ago.

This real size model (35m long and 10m high) of a Sauropod is located in the small village of Fuentes de Magaña (Soria, Spain), in the center of a wide extension of teropods and sauropods footprints. It's probably the bigest and more detailed reproduction of a sauropod outdoors in whole Europe.

Northeast Rho Ophiuchi
Copyrights: Oliver Czernetz Ou4 & SH2 129: A Giant Squid Nebula and a Flying Bat
Copyrights: Harel Boren IC1396 - The Elephant's Trunk Nebula
Copyrights: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez
Full size: https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7473/154 ... 3e83_k.jpg Ced 214
Copyrights: Albert Barr Orion Rising over Tibet
Copyrights: Jeff Dai Colourful sky
Copyrights: Levin Dieterle NGC 7000
Copyrights: Dustin Scriven M45 Pleiades
Copyrights: Paolo Matassa

NGC7129 Nebula and NGC7142 Open Cluster
http://www.deepskyobjects.com/
Copyright: Behyar Bakhshandeh
 
http://www.deepskyobjects.com/Nebulae/NGC7129_LRGB.asp

Extremely dim nebula, part of SNR G 65.3+5.7.
Ha and OIII filters used.
Ha: 20x1800 sec, OIII:12x1800, LRGB 6x600 each.
After that all the nebula was at noise level .

IC1396A The Elephant Trunk Nebula
Cropped from two panel Mosaic
4.4 Hours HA 12nm Filter and DSLR

NGC281/Pacman SHORGB full size : http://www.cielboreal.com/galerie/photo48f.jpg

total frame : 50Hrs with Skymeca 20" on a ME2

http://www.cielboreal.com
Copyright: Jean-Claude CANONNE, Didier CHAPLAIN & Laurent BOURGON

M31 - Andromeda Galaxy - LHaRGB
http://astrofotky.cz/~Konihlav/
Copyright: Pavel Pech