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huge solar prominence https://astrowhw.blogspot.com/2024/01/huge-solar-prominence-1102024.html Copyright: William Warden working from home thanks to covid, I brought my grab and go scope out at lunch and captured this huge prominence during a weekday, at a time when no one else was lucky enough to ...

I was delighted by this APOD, but many others have been very critical of it. I must defend my enthusiasm... Ann your point is well taken it is an inspiring picture the objection most have is that it is presented as a real picture i think a more accurate caption would have obviated the objections

There is nothing about this image that remotely reflects the actual appearance of the event. It is synthesized from different times and different light levels in order to illustrate some aspects of the event that are not visible to the human eye. Do not attempt to analyze anything other than the ge...

have to say i'm also pretty disappointed by the claim that the image of the moon is "real, but...artificially brightened" when it's clear that it was taken on a night at least 2 weeks distant from the event. perhaps the only redeeming feature is that the word " real " links to an...

Ann wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 5:18 pm
The wizard is here?

Ann

yes

wizard is above the APOD crop, only his hand shows
larger size
10/25/2009

um, you missed the wizard part

supermoon rising over Corona Del Mar, California 6/24/21

more images and details here:
https://astrowhw.blogspot.com/2021/07/r ... acted.html

Thanks for looking

-Bill Warden

Eclipse shot for Flag Day (6/14) my main concern setting up for the eclipse the night before was that this pole not block my telescopic view. When I went to take my widefield shot, well there it was, serendipity. Copyright: William Warden http://whwastro.homestead.com/files/great-american-eclipse-co...

Great American Eclipse for 4th of July Not a big flag waver, my main concern setting up for the eclipse the night before was that this pole not block my telescopic view. When I went to take my widefield shot, well there it was, serendipity. Copyright: William Warden http://whwastro.homestead.com/fi...

Please consider this APOD submission in memory of my parents. perhaps for 3/23 or around Easter 4/16 here is my image of Abell 30, a born again planetary nebula who's central star re-ignited after turning into a white dwarf, creating a new system of complex knots of oxygen (blue-green) inside a matu...

M76 in Nitrogen II Oxygen III and Helium II a rainbow in space http://astrowhw.blogspot.com/2015/03/m76-in-nii-oiii-and-heii-rainbow-in.html Copyright: William Warden http://whwastro.homestead.com/files/M76-N-NOIIIHeII-linear.jpg a quick blink of the mono channels for this one showed me that the br...

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Helium in M27. Here's the M27 Dumbbell Nebula in nitrogen (NII-red), oxygen (OIII-teal), and Helium (HeII-blue) http://whwastro.homestead.com/files/m27-NOHe-blink.gif Copyright: William Warden hover over image for a blink of NII OIII and HeII for reference While the high energy helium at the center ...

hiya was hoping someone could help me explain what's moving in my images of the heart of the crab nebula is it electrons moving at relativistic speed? originally submitted to the photography forum here's the short version: this past winter i shot multiple images of the crab nebula and detected motio...

Propeller Nebula Copyright: William Warden http://whwastro.homestead.com/files/propeller-HaRGB-800w-3.jpg hello this is my first post so apologies if this is the wrong thread or forum. above is an image of the propeller nebula (aka DWB 111, Simeis 57), part of an extended HII region in cygnus. as f...