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Looking for the Perseids Before 13-August-2015 On Saturday morning on August 8, 2015, I went to planning for the next meteor shower most famous of the year, known as the Perseids, which peak it will be dawn on August 13. Between clouds, wind and a little dedication to extract light pollution and ex...

The Bardenas Reales-Navarra-Spain. This is is a Natural Park of wild beauty declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO. It is a semi-desert landscape covering 42.500 hectares that is striking and surprises the visitor every time. An unusual spectacle in south-east Navarre, near Tudela which, despite it...

Summer is comming Jubierre is one of the most impressive areas of Los Monegros-Zaragoza-Spain. It is spacious declining representing the connection between depression of Sariñena, through which the river Alcanadre and the upper platform. The nature of the materials has favored the installation of a...

M81-M82 Galaxies in Single Luminance (Cropped image at 70% from the original) Mount: Losmandy G11 Gemini II (ovision) Telescope: Takahashi Epsilon 180 ED f2.8 CCD: Moravian G2-8300 Exposure: Luminance 103x180 sec. Software: Pixinsight 1.08.03 http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/7cf2bf12b8aaed2fae5...

M101 The Pinwheel Galaxy Details Photo Mount: Losmandy G11 Gemini II (Kit Ovision) Telescope: Takahashi Epsilon 180 ED f/2.8 Camera: Moravian Instruments G2-8300 Guide: Minitelescope Orion 50 + QHY5 Exposure: L=50x240 sec h Ha:44x600 sec R:12x240sec G:12x240 sec B:12x240 sec Software: TheSkyX + Pix...

The dance of galaxies M81-M82 between the IFN nebulosity https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7624/16880529271_784e150d60_c.jpg Observatory: Astrosirius-Àger-Lleida. Average measured SQM: 21,4 mag/arcseg2 (Unihedron SQM-LU) Mount: Losmandy G11 Gemini II (ovision) Telescope: Takahashi Epsilon 180 ED f2.8 C...

Incredible Northern Lights under the Iceland forest Copyright: Lluís Romero & Javier Checa The spectacle of Aurora Borealis requires dark and partly clear skies, but the night that we took this photo the moon was full, so the light moon illuminated the Sky better than I could imagine. https://w...

Northen LIghts - Kefliavik-Iceland An aurora is a natural light display in the sky (from the Latin word aurora, "sunrise" or the Roman goddess of dawn), predominantly seen in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions. Auroras are caused by charged particles, mainly electrons and pr...

Hello friends, Last week I made the Horsehead nebula, the seeing was very bad, clouds windy...but I was enjoying too much, this is the most important thing when you have a hobby!!! Details photo: Title: The Horsehead Nebula or Barnad 33 Place: Observatorio AstroSirius Àger-Lleida Date: 10-01-2015 SQ...

Hello to everybody, This is the first image I have taken from my new roll-off roof observatory (I took 18 months to get my final installation, in my fix observatory after my adquisicion, located in the Astronomical Observatories of Sabadell in the Montsec, in the town Àger-Lleida-Spain) The image is...

My first light of 2015, here you have the Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy I hope you liked. This image is took under the shadow of a holm oak due to the light pollution to the city of Berga-Barcelona-Spain, It was enough time to capture the Comet, I have made a hard work to remove the gradients due to the l...

M45 Pleiades Wild Field. In astronomy, the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters (Messier 45 or M45), is an open star cluster containing middle-aged hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the n...

Hello to everybody, Here you have my first light, after one year working with my fix observatory located in the town of Àger-Lleida-Spain. In astronomy, the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters (Messier 45 or M45), is an open star cluster containing middle-aged hot B-type stars located in the constellation of...

The Magic Weekend, This weekend I have spent two days in my observatori. This picture is made in the Observatories of the Association in Montsec, that are located in the Pyrenean foothills, in the town of Ager (Lleida), in innovative facilities that benefit from the excellent conditions of the night...

Who Created the Universe? The God's crucifix (Rasos de Peguera-Barcelona-Spain) Details Photo: Camera: Sony A7R Lense: Zeiss Distagon 15 f/2.8 Exposure: 20 sec f/3.5 ISO 3200 Software: Pixinsight & Ligthroom 5.6 https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3863/15382593431_54508d5f35_z.jpg By Lluís Romero Cl...

Hello to everybody, Last week I was observing the Comet C/2014 E2 (Jacques) that now we can observe before the Sunrise. This is my first time that I make a photo to a Comet and I am very happy with the results, at least, for me have been a great satisfaction. Details Photo: COMET C/2014 E2 (Jacques)...

Title: Meteor-shower's radiant near Polaris This is my first time I have got an experience with a Meteor shower. I couldn´t see too much meteor due to the maximum in Lleida-Spain raining it was at 9 am, so I had no chance to capture this event due to the light. But during the early hours of Saturda...

NGC 7000 The North America Nebula Copyright: Luis Romero Place: Ager-Lleida-Spain (Astrosirius observatory) Date: 27-04-2014 Mount: Losmandy G11 with Gemini II Telescope: Takahashi Epsilon 180 ED f/2.8 Camera: Canon 5D Mark II mod. Telescope guide: Mini telescope Orion 50 df:165mm CCD guiding: QHY5...

A halo also known as a nimbus, icebow or gloriole) is an optical phenomenon produced by ice crystals creating colored or white arcs and spots in the sky. Many are near the sun or moon but others are elsewhere and even in the opposite part of the sky. They can also form around artificial lights in ve...

NGC7000 The North American and IC 5070 The Pelican Nebulae http://www.astrosirius.org/ Located in the summer constellation of Cygnus, the North American Nebula (NGC 7000 at the middle left of this image) and the Pelican Nebula (IC 5070 on the right) form a complex of hydrogen emission nebulae locat...

Milky way in the Observatories of the Montsec in Àger-Lleida-Spain http://www.astrosirius.org/ Mount: Tripod Camera: Sony a7r Exposure: 1x13 sec ISO 3200 Copyright: Luis Romero Ventura https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5558/14034373354_c3cc215fc3_b.jpg Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/llromero/14...

Hi friends, This is the first light, made in my new observatory located in Àger-Lérida from Spain. This is an special place where our organization have 40 amateurs observatories. I am very happy with this basic treatment made just to see the apperance that I have made with Pixinsight, during the nex...

Hi at all!! This is the first light of my roll-off-roof observatory after 1 year doing the installation. I hope you like it. Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy) is a spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Due to its proximity to Earth, large...

Title of image IC 2118 (also known as Witch Head Nebula due to its shape), is an extremely faint reflection nebula believed to be an ancient supernova remnant or gas cloud illuminated by nearby supergiant star Rigel in Orion. It lies in the Eridanus constellation, about 900 light-years from Earth. ...

Orion Constellation Here you can see the Orion Constellation that I made a 1500 mts height near the town of Àger-Lérida-Spain. The mountain name is Coll d'Ares in the Pre-Pirineus between Spain and France. The weather conditions was perfect, with a good seeing even the Moon was at 33% light, finall...