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This image of M82 was photographed by Lars Zetterlund using a C14 during 2 nights for a total of more than 12 hours.
I helped with the post processing of the images mixing the Ha to the LRGB files.

/*Peter R

It was indeed a beautiful conjunction.
According to a simulation I did in StarryNightPro, on this day in 2008 the Moon was close to full so I think this picture was rather photographed on the 30th of November 2008.

http://0e33611cb8e6da737d5c-e13b5a910e105e07f9070866adaae10b.r15.cf1.rackcdn.com/Peter-RosAcn-M1-Animations-03Meng_1490831561.gif The Crab Nebula, or M1, is the expanding remains of a supernova that exploded in the year 1054 in the constellation of Taurus. I have assembled 5 images that span at lea...

. 1,000 images contributed by 91 amateur planetary photographers from around the world. I started this project a year ago and it has taken me thousands of hours to stitch together the images into this animation. It is also a contribution to Mission Juno: several of the amateurs in this project also ...

A magnificent display of last nights aurora photographed from Väddö, some 100 km north-east from Stockholm (where the sky was overcast). The Moon helped by lighting up the scenery and added some blue and silver to the colorful palette. The panorama is about 200° and results from stitching 3 fisheye ...

The NLC display in Stockholm last night was just incredible and covered half of the sky with electric blue filaments. I stitched together 24 exposures taken with my fisheye lens into a Little Planet-projection so I could also include the beautiful summer cityskape. Normaly the almost full Moon would...

We made a follow up short movie https://vimeo.com/98629249 to our previous longer version https://vimeo.com/98291257 , where we have put the Voyager 1 and our Voyager 3 sequences side by side. We adapted both the inflight direction and the position of the Great Red Spot (GRS) so they would match and...

In 1979, the Voyager 1 probe took a stunning series of images on its final approach to Jupiter that clearly showed the intricate movement of the cloudbelts for the first time. 35 years later, almost to the day, a group of 7 swedish amateur astronomers set out to replicate this odyssey as a tribute t...

4 days after photographing Deimos, the atmospheric conditions were excellent with no wind and almost no turbulence, the kind of conditions you only get once or twice in a year :D I changed the setup from my Newton to a 4" apo refractor that is very sharp and this time I was lucky to capture the...

This is a good year for observing Mars even if the planet stays low in the sky for us living far up in the north. I live in Stockholm, Sweden and Mars never gets higher than 27° above the horizon. Next favorable opposition will be in 2020 so I took my chance at photographing Mars faint Moons, Deimos...

A year ago, I was standing in the staircase on the top floor of my appartment buiding talking to a neighbor. Suddenly he noticed a perfect image of the Sun slowly moving across the wall behind me. It only lasted for a couple of minutes. The Sun was shining through a keyhole which acted as a lens, ju...

This image shows natures elegant calligraphy in all its simplicity.
The thin illuminated crescent represents the right half of an Etruscan Vase as the the line bends outwards just above the horizon line.

/*Peter R

I composited all the meteors from 5 hours of shooting on the night of 12-13 of August into a single image.

/*Peter R
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As the weather forecast looks rather bad for the days ahead, I spent 3 hours tonight photographing the sky with a fisheye lens, hoping to catch some early Perseids. I managed to get a total of 8 and a great number of flashing satellites that can sometimes be mistaken for meteors. Satellites typicall...

NLC_0748-2Leng.jpg NLC_0748_3D-2Leng.jpg Click the images for larger views. On July 30 we got some very bright and beautifull NLCs upp here in Stockholm. I work on an extended timelapse to study the intricate way the NLCs suddenly appear, evolve and dissapear. Whenever possible I use the proper mot...

A wonderful, partialy eclipsed Moon rising over Stockholm on the 25th of April. Because of the passing clouds the eclipse was not visually very evident. It was more sensed by a slightly dimmed luminosity. Here is a link to the high res image: http://spaceweather.com/gallery/full_image.php?image_name...

Yesterday evening I focused on PanStarrs nucleus and coma rather than on it's tail, so I exposed not to saturate the nucleus and on 4-5 sequences there seems to be a fragment splitting from the nucleus visible bellow the coma. This image was taken starting at 18:08:39 UT on the 15th of March and is ...

Some days ago, NASA released a paper presenting the preliminary results from Goldstone radar antennas with the first 18 images showing 2012 DA14 tumbling around its axis in 7 hours http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/pdf/pres/stsc2013/2013neo-05E.pdf . Even though the images are just some pixels wide, they...

In Stockholm it was mainly overcast but the clouds also made a dramatic and beautiful framing to this rare transit. /*Peter R [attachment=1]PeterR1.jpg[/attachment] Link to the highres image: http://spaceweather.com/submissions/pics/p/Peter-RosAcn-Venus_37B0189-4Meng_1338989915.jpg [attachment=0]Pet...

The Moon and Venus displayed very similar phases yesterday (23 May) almost looking like twins, one heading for the Sun, the other having just performed a remarkable transit wich resulted in the annular eclipse 2 days ago. The Moon (30') is still 2 arc minutes smaller than the Sun (32'). The sizes of...

The first picture shows the oversize new Moon tonight (5th of May) above Stockholms Globe Arena making it look like a paler twin. The second picture is a 270° panorama with the bright moon in the middle of the earth shadow that is the rising dark arch at the opposite side of the sun. /*Peter Rosén L...

http://spaceweather.com/submissions/pics/p/Peter-RosAcn-Blueflash_0213-2Heng_1330552483.jpg Full resolution image: http://spaceweather.com/submissions/pics/p/Peter-RosAcn-Blueflash_0213-2Heng_1330552483.jpg Image taken on Feb. 29, 2012 from Stockholm, Sweden While doing the photographic Planet Mara...

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3 faces of the moon from Stockholm, Sweden All images © 2011 - Peter Rosén A tiny crescent at sunset on the 5th of march 2011. The moon was only 20h 40m old when it passed the church 1.6 miles away and less than 1° above the horizon. The weather was so clear I was able to follow it all the way down...

Here is a colorful drawing, published in the newspaper "Le Parisien", on Sunday 15th May 1910. At this time, the Halley cometa appeared in the sky, thus parisians went out to see it, at night, on the roofs of the city. The Halley cometa aroused everybody's curiosity. As a student I used t...