Astronomy Images

[Haris]

NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula

[Haris]

Perseid meteor amid moonlight & auroral glow in Colarado.

[Haris]

Colorised image of Venus recorded by the Jupiter-bound Galileo spacecraft
shortly after its gravity assist flyby of Venus in 1990.

[Haris]

NGC 1569: Starburst in a Dwarf Irregular Galaxy

[Haris]

Sunset on Mars.

[faye]

frying pan nebula

[Apollyon]

Great thread, the eclipse is only visible from Australia I believe.

Black holes

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2007/11/record-breaking-black-hole/

http://science.discovery.com/tv/through-the-wormhole/photos/black-holes/images/black-holes-01.jpg

[Midnight_Sun]

Astrophotography rocks. Too bad it's so damn expensive. I was thinking of getting a nice geomount, telescope, good viewfinder, converting my 600D for IR, getting a small laptop for calibration...but then I realized it cost about $8,000 total. I will get one soon, but I think I'll just focus on photography for now.

[Midnight_Sun]

Yeah overcast and light pollution is another big problem. I'm going to take some test night sky shots soon, maybe even tonight, to see what kind of starscape I can see. We have lots of shopping malls and suburbs popping up in my area now, so I might lose my view.

Here's a shot of the moon, and a Moon Ring (caused by refracted ice crystals in the upper atmosphere):

[Midnight_Sun]

Here's the photo of the stars I saw last night:

[randolph85]

i love this kind of stuff.

[Midnight_Sun]

Amazing, was that from your backyard?

Thanks bro, yes, this is from my backyard.

[DaZahroJaam.]

[Haris]

Noctilucent clouds over Moscow.
From the edge of space, about 80 kilometers above Earth's surface, the icy clouds can still reflect sunlight even though the Sun itself is below the horizon as seen from the ground:



The seasonal clouds are understood to form as water vapor driven into the cold upper atmosphere condenses on the fine dust particles supplied by meteor smoke (debris left by disintegrating meteors) or volcanic ash.

Another image:


What they look like from space:

[Haris]

Stars and Lightning Over Greece

It may appear, at first, like the Galaxy is producing the lightning, but really it's the Earth.
In the foreground of the above picturesque nighttime landscape is the Greek Island of
Corfu, with town lights surrounding Lake Korrision. Visible farther in the distance are
lights from the town of Preveza on the Greek mainland. In the more distant sky a
thunderstorm is threatening, with two lightning strokes caught together during this 45
second wide-angle exposure taken in mid-May. The lightning branch on the left appears
to be striking near Preveza, whereas the lightning strike on the right appears to be
striking near Mount Ainos on the Greek Island of Cephalonia. Much farther in the
distance, strewn about the sky, are hundreds of stars in the neighborhood of our Sun in
the Milky Way Galaxy. Furthest away, arching over the entire panorama, are billions of
stars that together compose the central band of our Milky Way.