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Submissions: 2017 May

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Post by ildiora » Mon May 01, 2017 3:17 pm

Against The Global LEDing
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Copyright: Dario Giannobile

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After the well known global warming due to CO2, the title of this photo plays with the words to expresse the concept of light pollution induced by LED lamps. It is true that LEDS help enviroment because of their efficiency but the light emitted is much more intensive that old sodium lamps. The space station crew is providing photos showing the impressive impact of LEDS installation with a before-after comparison.
This shot is a metaphor: the crystal sphere represents the planet Earth, the Globe, the LED lamp is the "light pollution" menacing the darkness of the sky. Inside the sphere there is the great castle of Ancient Noto in Sicily. The castle has been illuminated by two orange lights. A star trail has been created shooting directly toward the sphere: 4 hours long, 239 shots plus two shots for lamp's light.
The image is NOT MANIPULATED! the star trail is real within a real sphere!

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Post by Rothkko » Mon May 01, 2017 7:54 pm

sundog at 6
merida, spain 2017-05-01
merida, spain 2017-05-01
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Post by Sandgirl » Tue May 02, 2017 7:55 pm

PHA 2014 JO25
Copyrights: Steve Reed
M64 + 2014 JO25.jpg
Long Match Express
Copyrights: E.C.
LM7_4k_small.jpg
Meteor, Moon and the Milky Way (new version)
Copyrights: E.C.
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M81 M82 NGC3077
Copyrights: Pavol Kollarik
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Deep Field around MRK 820
Credits and Copyrights: Data: Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing: Domingo Pestana
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Comet 2017 E4 (Lovejoy)
Copyrights: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich
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Startrails
Copyrights: H.Aziz Kayıhan
AP_StarStaX_IMG_2023-IMG_2116_gap_filling_small.jpg
Northern Lights over Banff, Alberta, Canada
Copyrights: Christoph Schaarschmidt
MG_8931_stitch_small.jpg
Double Iridium flares
Copyrights: Jacques Fahy
Iridiums_6_51_small.jpg
Asteroid 2014 JO25 and Messier 101
Copyrights: Jeff Wei Shangguan
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Halo
Copyrights: Jacky Vong
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Solar Eclipse
Copyrights: Jacky Vong
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Orion Nebula
Copyrights: Jacky Vong
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Markarian's Chain
Copyrights: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez
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NGC 4565 Needle Galaxy
Copyrights: Jose Ramon Mundo Salvador
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Startrails: Michael West
Copyrights: Michael West
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Strage shape of the clouds
Copyrights: Julius Muljadi
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The Lyrid Meteors and Iridium Flare
Copyrights: Wang Letian
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Lyrid meteor shower
Copyrights: Yuri Beletsky
lyrids_2017_beletsky.jpg
Plane and Venus
Copyrights: Juergen Schiffmann
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Deep M 81 and IFN
Copyrights: Steve Cooper
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Post by Sandgirl » Tue May 02, 2017 8:56 pm

Iridescent Clouds from Brazil
Copyrights: Eduardo Silva Ries
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ISS solar transit
Copyrights: Norbert Rózsa
ISS_SOLAR_TRANSIT_2017.04.23..jpg
Lyrid over Jupiter
Copyrights: Jose Jimenez Priego
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Jupiter and Ganymede
Copyrights: William Pellissard
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Jupiter and Callisto
Copyrights: William Pellissard
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NGC 3521
Copyrights: Gordon Mandell
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Aurora Australis from Wellington, New Zealand
Copyrights: Jonathan Usher
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Comet C/2015 V2 Johnson
Copyrights: José J. Chambó
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High Point Halo
Copyrights: Duane Klein
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Halos
Copyrights: Hubert Dróżdż
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Saturn (April 22nd.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach
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Supernova 2017dfc behind M63
Copyrights: Adriano Valvasori
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A sense of scale
Copyrights: Ian Griffin
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Milky Way with Saturn
Copyrights: Juan Lozano de Haro
Milky way core Saturn J.Lozano.jpg
Omega sunrise
Copyrights: Mohamad Soltanolkotabi
apod1.jpg
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VV 155
Credits and Copyrights: Data: Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing: Domingo Pestana
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Witches
Copyrights: Vlastimil Musil
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Easter Island - 1997
Copyrights: Jay Arthurs
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Star Trails over The Totem - Navajo Tribal Park at Monument Valley
Copyrights: Scotty Kenton
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The hunter and his bow
Copyrights: Johnny Hsieh
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Post by SpookyAstro » Wed May 03, 2017 4:15 am

ImageEarly Morning Milky Way along Lockwood Valley Rd. by Transient Astronomer, on Flickr

Image Credit and Copyright Tom Masterson

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Post by addicted2light » Wed May 03, 2017 9:43 am

Walpurgis Night
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Copyright: Levin Dieterle

One hour of startrials imaged during Walpurgis night at National Park Berchtesgaden, Baveria, Germany.
Fairytale branches of a several hundred year old sycamore maple appear like fractals in the sky.

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Post by Hermann von Eiff » Wed May 03, 2017 1:17 pm

NGC 7129 and NGC 7142 in Cepheus
Copyright: Hermann von Eiff
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Post by KuriousGeorge » Wed May 03, 2017 3:10 pm

NGC 4725. Copyright KG Observatory.

While most spiral galaxies, including our own Milky Way, have two or more spiral arms, NGC 4725 has only one. NGC 4725 is over 100 thousand light-years across and lies 41 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. NGC 4725 is a Seyfert Galaxy, suggesting an active galactic nucleus containing a supermassive black hole.

Imaging telescope or lens: Celestron 8" EdgeHD
Imaging camera: QSI 660 WSG
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Guiding camera: Starlight Xpress Ultrastar
Focal reducer: Celestron 0.7X
Software: PHD Guiding 2, PixInsight 1.8, Neat Image V7, Sequence Generator Pro, Maxim DL6, Adobe Photoshop CC 2014, Astronomy Tools Actions Set V1.6
Filters: Astrodon 1.25" R, Astrodon 1.25" B, Astrodon 1.25" G, Astrodon 1.25" L
Accessories: Innovations Foresight ONAG SC, Optec FocusLock, Starizona MicroTouch Autofocuser
Resolution: 2536x1946
Dates: April 21, 2017, April 30, 2017, May 1, 2017, May 2, 2017
Frames:
Astrodon 1.25" B: 49x120" -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon 1.25" G: 51x120" -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon 1.25" L: 149x120" -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon 1.25" R: 69x120" -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 10.6 hours
Darks: ~20
Flats: ~80
Flat darks: ~80
Bias: ~20
Mean SQM: 19.75
Pixel scale: 0.642 arcsec/pixel
Locations: Home, Rancho Santa Fe, California, United States
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Post by Petr H. » Wed May 03, 2017 4:54 pm

Morning star over the Hot Water Beach
Copyright: Petr Horálek
In these days the planet Venus becomes "Morning star". Here comes shot which I took 3 years ago over the Hot Water Beach, New Zealand, when the Venus was such a beautiful morning star as well as now. More, tech. info and image in higher resolution: http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?p=3019
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Post by Petr H. » Wed May 03, 2017 4:58 pm

The zodiacal light over the South Pacific
Copyright: Petr Horálek
Using more sophisticated methods (see description of the results from the La Silla Observatory - http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?p=2351), I was able to re-process my data of the all-night zodiacal light panorama over the Mangaia Island (the Cook Islands) in the end of August 2014. More, tech. info and image in higher resolution: http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?p=784

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Post by Petr H. » Wed May 03, 2017 5:04 pm

The young Moon
Copyright: Petr Horálek
The young Moon captured on 30th April, 2017, over the Ústupky, Czech Republic. Using a HDR imaging method I could simulate what the human eye can see. More, tech. info and image in higher resolution: http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?p=3022

On Sunday May 7th, the Moon will appear very close to the planet Jupiter in the sky. Enjoy the view!!!

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Post by stefanopalmieri » Wed May 03, 2017 7:15 pm

Lyra costellation rises from the gold mine - Nikon D750, Tamron 15-30 f2,8 @f 24mm 3,2 - 30 sec. - Stefano Palmieri

ImageTeodora_29_aprile_2017 by Stefano Palmieri, su Flickr






History of street art work


THE GOLD MINE Marcellina (Rome) Italy
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The work
Romolo Belvedere is interacting with a site whose historical memory and identity are of great importance to the inhabitans of Marcellina and San Polo dei Cavalieri. In his work “The Gold Mine” with his artistic sensibility he defines the urgency of an individual and collective memory through a shared human experience. Indeed, The Gold Mine is meant as an homage to all the people who worked and died on the site of this blast furnace, part of the former CI.DI. quarry, long abandoned to physical degradation and ungrateful oblivion.

Where there used to be a pile of stones, now there is a gold mine: golden nuggets to remind us of what is not longer there and, at the same time, a suggestion of what there could be. With this somewhat ironic act Romolo Belvedere wants to leave a mark on his home-land.

He points out to us, by marking them, those sites previously marked by his ancestors: silent miners, hard-working labourers who, with their daily labor and toil, devoted their lives to this place.

The street artist Luis Gomez will reinterpret Teodora, a photographic portrait from Romolo Belvedere’s photo essay Le Facce di Pietra - Faces of Stone – (1990). Teodora, a mother and a miner from Marcellina, becomes the symbolic guardian of this place, defending its memory like the Cumaean Sybil.

Brought back to life by Romolo Belvedere, Luis Gomez, with his artistic sensibility, will imprint her forever on the wall of the blast furnace, a celebration of folk history.

Because this work is located inside the Regional Natural Park of Monti Lucretili its historic and natural significance is enhanced. The next step in this work, already in the making, will be The Gold Trail. Some of the stones along the trails that from Marcellina and San Polo lead to Prato Favale will be painted in gold, suggesting the different significations of the park.

The bright tracks left by the artist will reveal the metaphorical treasures hidden in this place that are just waiting to be brought to the attention.

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Post by Sandgirl » Wed May 03, 2017 7:24 pm

Antennae
Credits and Copyrights: Data: NASA/ESA/NAOJ; Assembling and processing: R. Colombari
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Cygnus spacecraft + ISS + Venus
Copyrights: Meire Ruiz
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Cannis Majoris and airglow ripples above Jorge Sahade's telescope
Credits and Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar / Planetario Ciudad de La Plata; Acknowledgement: Casleo Observatory
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M81 from Texas
Copyrights: Jerry Keith
M81_HaLRGB_small.jpg
M13 - 100,000 reasons
Copyrights: Adam Block
Full size: http://www.adamblockphotos.com/uploads/ ... m13s_1.jpg
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The Doomsday Machine - CG4
Copyrights: Andrew Campbell
Larger size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/235840/0/
b9b563951461a90d8cc3362b6ebc6043.1824x0_q100_watermark_watermark_opacity-20_watermark_position-4_watermark_text-Copyright Andys_Astropix 2015_small.jpg
M46 Open Star Cluster & NGC-2438 Planetary Nebula
Copyrights: John Chumack
M46_174mmChumackHRweb_small.jpg
M94 NGC 4736
Copyrights: Brice Fayd'Herbe
M94_small.jpg
Saturn, Cassini and the galactic center
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado
saturn-sagittarius-250417_small.jpg
Night sky
Copyrights: Denis Huber
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ISS in front of the Sun
Copyrights: Dipankar Maitra
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Hot Rod
Copyrights: Jorgelina Alvarez
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Stormy day
Copyrights: Bertrand Kulik
6M2A8820p.jpg
Planetary Nebula Sh2-290
Copyrights: Ronald Brecher
Sh2-290 21hr10m HaO3RGB April  2017_small.jpg
Comet Johnson
Copyrights: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich
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Light Pillar of Charlotte, MI
Copyrights: Vincent Brady
1_LightPillarsOverCharlotteMI_small.jpg
2_LightPillarsOverAirport_small.jpg
3_RoadLightPillars_small.jpg
Northern Lights and Laser
Copyrights: Jason Freeman
SolarScience_GoWildImages_NOR3459.jpg
M27 The Dumbbell Nebula
Copyrights: Göran Erik Nilsson
Larger size: http://www.astrobin.com/293363/B/
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NGC 4731
Copyrights: Gordon Mandell
NGC 4731-LRGB-380-Final_small.jpg
NGC 520
Credits and copyrights: Data: Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing: Domingo Pestana
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Milky Way and Super Blood Moon
Copyrights: Juan Sebastián López
Panoramica eclipse, via lactea y nubes de magallanes PS-1 FIRMADA BR_small.jpg
Iridescent cirrus
Copyrights: Bertrand Kulik
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Post by moonrocks » Thu May 04, 2017 2:41 pm

M13: Great Cluster in Hercules
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Copyright: Paul C. Swift

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Post by moonrocks » Thu May 04, 2017 4:34 pm

The Cigar Galaxy, M82
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Post by Sandgirl » Thu May 04, 2017 8:29 pm

Moondance: Super Perigee Crescent Moon
Copyrights: Jerry Lodriguss
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Jupiter, Europa and Io
Copyrights: Erhan A. Ozturk
FullSizeRender.jpg
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All-night band of the Zodiacal light
Copyrights: Petr Horálek
2014_08_25-26_Mangaia_Zodiak_Panorama-new-kontrast-krajina_1500px_jpg.jpg
The third day’s new moon on Dingdu Pavilion
Copyrights: Yong Yang
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Comet C/2017 E4 (Lovejoy) on April 7th
Copyrights: Damian Peach
c2017e4_2017_04_07dp.jpg
Solar Halo
Copyrights: Sergio Galán Sanchis
Sergio GalanSanchis_Photo of the  Day NASA06.jpg
Startrails
Copyrights: Sergio Galán Sanchis
Sergio GalanSanchis_Photo of the  Day NASA07.jpg
Moon's occultation of Aldebaran
Copyrights: Giuseppe Torneselllo
occultazione_small.jpg
Ocultation of Aldebran
Copyrights: Mohamad Soltanolkotabi
aldebran1.jpg
aldebran2.jpg
aldebran3.jpg
Green and blue Flash
Copyrights: Marcella Giulia Pace
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Night sky - with and without light pollution
Copyrights: Majid Ghohroodi
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Mighty Jupiter and dichotomy on Ganymede
Copyrights: Matúš Motlo
jup20170414_jpg.jpg
Airplane crossing Tarantula Nebula
Copyrights: Fabiano B. Diniz
m - Airplane and Tarantula.jpg
The star M Tauri between two lunar mountains
Copyrights: Ian Griffin
moon.001.jpeg
Sunset in Singapore on 29 April 2017
Copyrights: A Kannan
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Jupiter and Star Spica in Singapore
Copyrights: A Kannan
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Waxing Crescent Moon over Singapore on April 28 , 2017
Copyrights: A Kannan
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4/23 Aurora as seen from Nebraska
Copyrights: Erik Johnson
Erik Johnson Nebraska APOD_small.jpg
Clouds over San Agustin Gran Canaria
Copyrights: Sofie Persson
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Pure Lights in the Sky
Copyrights: Jean-Francois Graffand
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Post by felopaul » Fri May 05, 2017 12:17 am

NGC3586 SHO & HOORVB , 106 hrs
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total frame 106Hrs done with TEC160 on Paramount MX+ in Actacama Desert , El Sauce Observatory

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PS : now picture size < 500 ko
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