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Post by shtutik » Fri Aug 12, 2016 8:00 pm

Perseids. Romantic watching.

Have you taken the grass as bed
And the space as blanket
Humbled of what’s coming
Forgetting what has passed?

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Post by andyc » Sat Aug 13, 2016 12:20 am

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Mars through it's approach to Earth in 2016, as seen from Sydney when weather conditions permitted. All season, the north pole (top) has been tipped marginally towards us, and the Martian northern hemisphere has been experiencing late summer, with the Martian equinox occurring in early July. Mars has also been headed towards perihelion (nearest the Sun) in October. The little North polar cap was never prominent (it's visible in the opposition images), but bright clouds of the South Polar Hood were a regular feature, and particularly earlier in the period, bright clouds over the volcanoes were fairly common - apparently a spring/early summer feature as water vapour migrates equatorward. Volcanoes, albedo features and changing Martian weather have been fun to track through the season.

The last image was 8th August, the northern polar hood appears brighter as that pole tips to winter. Polar hood clouds have gradually appeared in the north over the past month or two.

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Post by astrochuck » Sat Aug 13, 2016 2:13 am

IC 5146 The Cocoon Nebula
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Post by Jeremy Perez » Sat Aug 13, 2016 4:47 am

2016 Perseid over Sunset Crater
A brilliant Perseid fireball streaks along the Summer Milky Way as seen from Cinder Hills Overlook at Sunset Crater National Monument, Arizona—12 August 2016 2:40 AM MST (0940 UT). It left a bright, glowing train that was easily visible for about 30 seconds. After that, the camera continued to capture a twisting, orange train that drifted southward over the course of 45 minutes. The attached image shows a sequence of the first 3 minutes of the persistent train. A time lapse video showing the train in motion over the full 45+ minute time span can be found here: https://vimeo.com/perezmedia/perseidfireball Large imge: http://www.perezmedia.net/beltofvenus/a ... 647_xl.jpg
Photo Details: Each shot—Canon T3i/300D • Rokinon 16 mm f/2 • 10 seconds • f/2 • ISO 3200
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Post by Marco Rank » Sat Aug 13, 2016 5:15 am

THE LONELY PERSEID

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Colors of the night sky seen from Denmark, Hadsund Sogn (August 6th 2016).
Aurora (KP4), airglow and one lonely perseid meteor right beneath the milky way while shooting the panoramic photograph (15 shots, single exposures, nearly 360 degrees).
1Dx, EF 11-24, 11mm, 30sec, f/4, Iso 12.800 (06.08.2016 1:03 - 1:16 a.m.)

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Post by Erictheastrojunkie » Sat Aug 13, 2016 5:59 am

Peak of the 2016 Perseid Shower
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Shot this last night, took about 7 hours worth of images, almost 1,500 total. Got about 100 meteors, almost 125 shots went into this one image alone, a combination of the my Nikon D600 and Rokinon 24mm f1.4 lens on a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer mount as well as a Nikon D7000 and Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 lens on an iOptron Skytracker mount. Exposures changed over the course of the night as the moon set, several different settings used to maximize the number of exposures and light captured. Shot up at Moosehorn Lake in the Uinta Mountains of Utah (bortle 2 skies), the clouds cleared just after sunset and it was clear all night. The forecast was for up to 200 meteors per hour, I'd say the actual rate was around 50-80 per hour from my vantage point, still a really good show. Once the moon set the airglow really picked up and brightened up the shots.
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Post by grantcollier » Sat Aug 13, 2016 9:02 am

Perseids Meteor Shower
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This is a composite of all the meteors I captured during the Perseids Shower on the morning of August 12. I'm not quite sure why the meteor near the radiant on the right has an orange plume extending out from it. I captured the plume over 6 exposures, beginning with the exposure where I captured the meteor. So it took about 3 minutes to extend out that far.

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Post by angelrls » Sat Aug 13, 2016 4:40 pm

Perseids 2016 over the Teide Observatory.

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Combination of 25 meteors from the Perseids meteor shower detected in 24 frames. All frames were taken with a CANON EOS 5D Mark III with a Samyang 14mm lens, 30 seconds exposure at f/2.8 and ISO 800. Frames were taken between 0:00 and 2:30 UTC 12 August 2016 from the Teide Observatory (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain). The central dome is the Carlos Sánchez Telescope (TCS). The building at the right is the Quijote Experiment. The towers at the left belongs to the Solar Telescopes at site. The dome of the MONS Telescope is seen with some orange light.

The frame taken at 0:36 UTC was used for showing the landscape and the star field. The Moon was up, its light painted the landscape and buildings. In the background some light pollution from Santa Cruz de Tenerife and La Laguna can be seen (orange colours). The light pollution was enhanced because of the existence of dust in the atmosphere.

The estimated ZHR (Zenithal Hourly Rate) using these images is ZHR = 31 meteors/hour.

More info and high resolution images in my Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/angelrls/28336861174

Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (Australian Astronomical Observatory / Macquarie University)

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Post by geckzilla » Sat Aug 13, 2016 5:59 pm

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Roiling Heart of Cygnus X
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G79.29+0.46
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Post by Ann » Sat Aug 13, 2016 7:12 pm

Amazing, Geck, but please explain! What, if anything, is known about that "red circular object" with a green-looking star inside? (Yes, I understand that these are infrared images.)

And what is that weird-looking white thing to the lower left of it?

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Post by geckzilla » Sat Aug 13, 2016 7:50 pm

The weird-looking white thing is one of those typical pillars that one sees in star-forming regions, I think, so something like the Cone Nebula, Elephant Trunk, Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula, etc. It also just so happens to be very bright, probably because of stars inside it. G79.29+0.46 is probably a Luminous Blue Variable and the shells around it are ejecta shells. It is interesting to me that they seem very smoothly spherical and regular, which is not something I am used to among the other images of ejecta shells I've seen.
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Post by Zhuoxiao Wang » Sat Aug 13, 2016 7:58 pm

2016 Perseids above Lake Kanas, Xinjiang Province, China.
Associate with comet Swift-Tuttle, Perseids is one of three main meteor showers in north hemisphere, with ZHR~120 usually. This year, with Jupiter Saturn deflection and a bunch of debris of the comet, ZHR would hit 200 in some scientists predictions.
This picture, include 45 meteor trails, was shot at 600m above Lake Kanas, near the borders of China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia.
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Post by GWang » Sat Aug 13, 2016 10:38 pm

Perseid Meteor Shower Over Tuscany Beach
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Device: Canon 6D + 24-70 F4 at 24mm F4,
Exposure Time: 30s*16, ISO3200
Taken Time: August 12th 1am-2am CEST, 2016
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Post by grantcollier » Sun Aug 14, 2016 5:49 am

Perseids Meteor Shower
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This is a composite of all the meteors I captured over Brainard Lake in Colorado on the morning of August 12, 2016.

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Post by SpookyAstro » Sun Aug 14, 2016 11:03 am

ImagePerseid Meteor Shower 8/11-12/2016 by Transient Astronomers, on Flickr

Image credit and copyright Tom Masterson

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Post by nezve » Sun Aug 14, 2016 4:37 pm

Sh2-114 Flying Dragon, Sh2-113 Higher resolution: http://i.imgur.com/ZZmCjIN.jpg
Equipment: TS102 / 700 APO telescope + Ricardi reducer, ATIK 460, Baader Ha and R,G,B filters, HEQ5 mount
Taken during 3 nights in August 2016, total exposure time 16 hours.
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Milky way rising over the Caldera de Taburiente in La Palma, Spain
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The Rising Milky Way at the Lake Balaton
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Up close in to Milky Way
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Gulf of Mexico
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Milky Way
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NGC 1316 (Fornax A)
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Perseids 2015 from Slovakia
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Comparison of solargraphy analemmas
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Milky Way from Palm Coast, FL
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IC 1284
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Easterbunny Comes to NGC 4725
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The Milky Way, Doochary, Co. Donegal, Ireland
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Rainbow
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Milky Way from Normandy
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A Giant Stellar Void in the Milky Way
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Milky Way Over El Peñon Santander Colombia
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Wide field in Cygnus
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Milkyway and red Airglow in Cusco, Peru
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Horsehead Nebula
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Post by astrometbcn » Sun Aug 14, 2016 5:57 pm

Perseida sobre Sant Quirze de Colera ( Girona - Spain )
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Post by Sandgirl » Sun Aug 14, 2016 6:26 pm

Mars on June 11th.
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Milky Way over Burney Falls, CA
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Two Suns in Merlimont
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M83
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Milky Way over an ancient oak
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NGC 6888 (The Crescent Nebula)
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Milkyway & fireballs in Glacier point Yosemite NP
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Perseid, Aurora and Noctilucent Clouds
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Red sprites and Milky Way
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Space debris enters the atmosphere near Mammoth Lakes, California
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SwRI space scientists observe Io’s atmospheric collapse during eclipse
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Heart and Soul
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NGC2170 and associates
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NGC6520 centered Area
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Virga over flat Roque del Conde in Tenerife
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NGC 3521
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CG-4
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M8
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Galactic Core and Airglow
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IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk Nebula
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Startrails over Cazorla National Park in Spain
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Milky Way from Germany
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M20 - The Trifid Nebula
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Eagle Nebula
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Sunset over Frederick House Lake
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ISS over Spain
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Perseid
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Milky Way over ALMA
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Big Dipper
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Saturn (June 11th)
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Perseid Metoer over Texas (2015)
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Milky Way over La Guajira
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Milky Way over Sedona
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Solar Halo from India
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IC1396 and meteor
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A blue ghost over the summer skies
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Post by Jeff_Sullivan » Sun Aug 14, 2016 7:28 pm

ImagePerseid Meteor Shower 2016 by Jeff Sullivan, on Flickr

I've been chasing every meteor shower that I could see with my camera since 2009. This year's Perseid meteor shower was one of the best I've photographed so far.

This composite with 57 meteors covers 1:40 am - 4:34 am on the morning of August 12, as captured on a 14 mm ultra-wide lens on a Canon EOS 6D DSLR on a fixed position tripod (no sky tracking mount).

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Beautiful Vía Lactea (Milky Way) from Menorca
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Talayotic Stargate
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Milky Way
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Iris field
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Milky Way from Nerpio, Spain
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Moon and Mercury
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M31
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Milky Way
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NGC 7023, Iris Nebula
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Milky Way
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NGC 5906
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Abell 2151
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Field of Dreams
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NGC7129 and associates, in Cepheus
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M31
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Cygnus Wall
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IC 5070 (Pelican Nebula)
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NGC 7000
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Post by sydney » Sun Aug 14, 2016 9:42 pm

NGC 7008_ Fetus Nebula
[Ha][OIII] with [RGB] stars

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