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Dragon rising its head
Copyrights: Jiang Douglas Four seasons of Jaha-yeon
Copyrights: Minas Tirith Seo M42
Copyrights: Nick Hartman Night sky over Argentina
Copyrights: Leus Monsalve Mars and the Lagoon Nebula
Copyrights: Sandro Casutt The Angel in the Unicorn
Copyrights: Casey Good Milky Way from Juromenha Castle, Portugal
Copyrights: Pedro Reis Santos Orion hangs over the log cabin
Copyrights: AngelAn Moonbow from the island of La Palma, Spain
Copyrights: Enrique Navarro Night sky over Stanislaus River above Knight’s Ferry California
Copyrights: Eric Houck Messier 8
Copyrights: Connor M Matherne From California to Pleiades
Copyrights: Chris Koll Engulfed in aurora
Copyrights: Dominic Chiu Tarantula Nebula
Copyrights: Eric Coles Soul Nebula
Copyrights: Daniel Beetsma M31
Copyrights: Mustafa Aydin Milky Way from Ibera, Argentina
Copyrights: German Savor Saturn, Mars and Lake Nebula aligned as an asterism
Copyrights: Ricardo Francisco Leite Southern Cross from Nicaraguan Skies
Copyrights: Jorge Luis Moreno Luna

Orion - 9 Pane Widefield + Hybrid Details by Paddy Gilliland FRAS, on Flickr

ISS Transits the Moon


Time: 2018.3.25 10:06:39 UT
Location: Kaohsiung, Taiwan (22.7866, 120.3031)
Optics: Takahashi TOA-130
Camera: Canon EOS 6D (4.2fps)

Copyright: Hung-Hsuan, YEN
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The Sunflower Galaxy, M63, NGC 5055
Full resolution:
http://www.astrobogdan.pl/wp/wp-content ... c-jpeg.jpg

www.astrobogdan.pl

Ursa Major rising
Copyright: Antonio Peña

Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile
IC_1396_RGB_Halfa_2018 by Raul Villaverde, en FlickrNGC7000_2018 by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

Milky Way core above caldera at La Palma island with 3 planets
Copyright: Martin Činčura




Picture was taken on 16th of February 2018 at La Palma Canary Island.
There were also visible 3 planets (4 with Earth ) - Jupiter, Mars and Saturn.
I add also the same picture with constellations and planets.

Canon 6D + Sigma 35mm F1,4 ART

link to full size images:
https://flic.kr/p/25N3Ghi
https://flic.kr/p/25N3GnD

M81, a LRHaGB picture
https://astrob.in/340361/0/
Copyright: Niels V. Christensen. Contributers to the picture?
Please check out the above link info.

NGC891 with Lacerta 10", taken near Vienna, Austria full size/full field/annotated image: https://www.astrobin.com/338105/

Orions nebulas, Eos6d 135mm f/2 taken from Bacalar, Mexico full size/annotated image: https://www.astrobin.com/339973/

thanks for viewing and clear skies, Tommy

[img3]Eta Carinae LRGB by maicon germiniani, no Flickr[/img3]

[img3]NGC 6334 Cats Paw Nebula by maicon germiniani, no Flickr[/img3]

[img3]Tarantula by maicon germiniani, no Flickr[/img3]

[img3]Omega Centauri by maicon germiniani, no Flickr[/img3]

SH2-278 in the constellation Orion
Copyright: Mark Hanson
Taken at "Stellar Winds Observatory" a/k/a Stan Watson Observatory at Dark Sky New Mexico

"Billowing crimson waves of hydrogen gas cascade in an ocean of tranquility in this uncommon view of the rarely photographed emission nebula Sh2-278. Adding a ghostly presence to the proceedings are clouds of blue dust glowing by reflected starlight.

The most apparent component of this cosmic vista is the bright rimmed dark nebula LDN 1634 to the left of the image. Although small, but easily discernable, multiple red knots of nebulosity are visible near the center of LDN 1634. These constitute a flow of Herbig Haro objects, tiny jets launched by young protostars that glow by being collisionally excited.

The largest of these is known as RNO 40 and the RNO catalogue of 'red nebulous objects' was published by the astronomer Martin Cohen in 1980. The RNO 40 outflow is driven by a protostar called IRAS 05173-0555 and is also catalogued as HH 240.

Professional studies have concluded that Sh2-278 is either a remnant of the gas in the Orion Molecular Cloud that formed the Orion OB1 association or a cloud that was pushed to its current location by the winds and pressure of the OB association. In the sky, it is located north of Rigel."
Description" Sakib Rasool"

Telescope: Planewave 17" f6.7 on a Planewave HD Mount. Camera: SBIG 16803 Exposure: 520 min Luminance, 340 of each RGB, HA 810 39 Total hours of exposure.

you can see full resolution image here: https://www.hansonastronomy.com/sh2278

Thank you, Mark Hanson

Imagine flying over the moon in a space capsule and looking down at the lunar surface. What you would see would be astonishing. This image gives a bit of an impression what you could see flying over the Clavius region in the southern part of the Moon when approaching in orbit from the north. That is why I called this image Moonflight...

This image was recorded by my 10 year old son about 1,5 month ago and I decided, because of the great result he got from this data himself, to see if I could extract even a bit more detail from it. Seeing was perfect that night, so that made this image a nice challenge. Also he made a perfect job from focussing so that a lot of detail was recorded.

I decided to use the drizzle function in Autostakkert to see how much detail I could retrieve. It showed that with the drizzle I could even see more details then in the original undrizzled data. The smallest craters I can find in this image are about 1,7 km wide and I think that's very close to the theoretical limit of my Celestron C11 telescope.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do...


Moonflight by Andre van der Hoeven, on Flickr

NGC 2264 (Cone Nebula) and surroundings
Full-size/details: http://jeffjastro.com/dso/NGC2264_15Dec17.htm
Copyright: Jeffrey O. Johnson (http://jeffjastro.com)
... Imaged from my backyard. Thank you for looking ...

Galactic Maelstrom M81 by Transient Astronomer, on Flickr

Image Credit and Copyright, Grand Mesa Observatory, Tom Masterson

M51 Galaxy, a color picture, closeup, 2014->2018
https://astrob.in/164165/C/
Copyright: Niels V. Christensen

NGC3372 hubble palette mode.



Carina Nebulae , or NGC3372, is one of the flagship objects of the southern hemisphere because of its size and ease to observe / photograph. 25 hours of poses allow here to reveal many details.
Also note the presence of the nova detected 3 weeks ago
Clear skies

Copyright : Jonathan Durand

NGC 7635 The Bubble Nebula (reprocessed Hubble image in true colours)

Combined in this image is the Hubble's narrowband image, and colour information from a true-colour image of the Bubble Nebula found at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... _Block.jpg
Original image: http://spacetelescope.org/images/heic1608a
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team.
Reprocessing by Maksim Kakitsev, using data by Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona.

www.flickr.com/photos/wildespace/39512823160

IC2177 Seagull Nebula Copylight ByoungJun Jeong

Full resolution
https://www.astrobin.com/full/340935/0/

Hi res: https://500px.com/photo/248279423/alone ... cantarelli - https://500px.com/photo/210486091/sky-s ... cantarelli

Copyright: Alessandro Cantarelli

To accomplish my APOD project, I've flown from Italy (Rome) to Sahara desert where i've reached Ksar Ghilane oasis. I've started my solitary walk with my backpack to the desert dunes soon after midnight, in order to find the best sky conditions for my project. After 1km walking, i've found a good area and mounted my stuff: Canon 5D mark4, Canon 16-35 f2.8 lenses, Manfrotto tripod 190 series, Skywatcher Star Adventurer electronic mount. I've shot single and complete arch of the Milky Way, being there was absolutely amazing. Still can't describe what I felt in that magic atmosphere surrounded by peaceful silence and gently wind. I really hope to earn this award. That would be my dream.
Thanks for reading.
Regards.

On March 3, 2017 was the last night in Iceland. After a night walk to a geothermal area, I went to my vehicle and instantly saw an unusual phenomenon, a beautiful Lunar corona. First I shot some shots with the wide angle that I had mounted in the camera, it seemed something dark but when doing bracketing one of them had enough signal to be "stretched" in the postprocessing. I opened the camper quickly mounted the telephoto lens in the camera and shot the moon to capture the phenomenon in more detail, seconds later it vanished. Here the shots of the phenomenon, as you can see the telephoto lens I got something "moved" because I did not have time to mount the tripod, rather, when I did it had already vanished.
The shot with the wide angle we also see the alignment between the Moon, Mars and Venus.
The Lunar corona occurs when we have clouds in front of the moon and these are very thin. The effect created is due to the diffraction of light around the small drops of water that contain these clouds that cause light to "split" in its primary colors, like a rainbow.

Alfredo Madrigal

https://www.alfredomadrigal.com/iceland ... -and-mars/
https://www.alfredomadrigal.com/wp-cont ... labels.jpg

Copyrights: Raul Villaverde & Jose Jimenez
NGC2237 RGB 2016 con MET by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr