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What are your favorite astronomy photos?

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What are your favorite astronomy photos?

Here are a few of mine:

Star on a Hubble diet

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Hubble images remarkable double cluster

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Extreme star cluster bursts into life in new Hubble image

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Light continues to echo three years after stellar outburst

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While not as fancy as Hubble, these are my favorites because I took them. For a while my interest was astro-photography...the filters and such were getting a bit expensive and I needed a second scope for tracking and my software got out-dated...so I may try it again at some point but these are my first two attempts.
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jaws said:
While not as fancy as Hubble, these are my favorites because I took them. For a while my interest was astro-photography...the filters and such were getting a bit expensive and I needed a second scope for tracking and my software got out-dated...so I may try it again at some point but these are my first two attempts.
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Thanks for posting those.

You know, lots of us sort of believe that the planets and galaxies and such are just things we've seen on TV. It's sort of hard to believe that they really exist until we actually look at them with our own eyes through the use of a telescope. It's really breathtaking to view a planet through a telescope for the first time. It's nice to see something other than stars up in the sky. To even view the moon through a telescope is breathtaking.
 
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That's awesome, Jaws. I want to get into astrophotography
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Thanks. I was using a Meade 6" LXD75 reflector scope and a Meade deep sky imager for the nebula and a cheap Canon digital camera for the Saturn photo. I tweaked them with a free program call Registack and and Photoshop. Each one is about 50 individual photos stacked together to bring out the details. The deep sky imager is basically a long exposure webcam that uses tracking software/hardware on the scope to stay lined up...the hard part is keeping the scope corrected when it drifts a bit on a long exposure...which is why I need another scope on top to track with and the main scope to take the picture.

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I included pics in case anyone whats to try it out themselves...it is pretty fun, but can be expensive.
 
Those are cool pictures, ???. I especially like the first one.

jaws said:
Thanks. I was using a Meade 6" LXD75 reflector scope and a Meade deep sky imager for the nebula and a cheap Canon digital camera for the Saturn photo. I tweaked them with a free program call Registack and and Photoshop. Each one is about 50 individual photos stacked together to bring out the details. The deep sky imager is basically a long exposure webcam that uses tracking software/hardware on the scope to stay lined up...the hard part is keeping the scope corrected when it drifts a bit on a long exposure...which is why I need another scope on top to track with and the main scope to take the picture.

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I included pics in case anyone whats to try it out themselves...it is pretty fun, but can be expensive.
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Thanks for posting this. I looked up astrophotography to start learning about it. I Googled that telescope and it costs $1200 here so it'll be a few months before I can afford one.
 
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A new ultradeep image of the nearby galaxy Centaurus A offers the best view yet of the effects of an active supermassive black hole, astronomers announced yesterday.

The image, taken by the space-based Chandra X-Ray Observatory, reveals a powerful jet of high-energy particles that extends for 13,000 light-years. A weaker counterjet points in the opposite direction.

Astronomers think the jet is created by energy escaping as matter falls into a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy, a system known as an active galactic nucleus.

Such jets likely deliver energy to the rest of the galaxy, fueling star formation.
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Source: National Geographic
 
that's pretty remarkable work JAWS. to do that with a 6 inch reflector is amazing. i have an 8 inch s.c.t. , viewing only, and i'm really lucky to find a night clear enough to use the necessary eyepiece to see saturn like that. i'm a widefield viewer mostly, some vision problems.

thanks for posting.

i was lucky enough to have a clear night to see the spot left on jupiter after it was hit by the comet. all i could think of was what if it had hit the earth.
 
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Probably not as impressive as these other ones, but this was taken by a colleague while I was interning at McDonald Observatory in Texas! That's the 82" Otto-Struve telescope we worked at. 30 second exposure.
 
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Probably not as impressive as these other ones, but this was taken by a colleague while I was interning at McDonald Observatory in Texas! That's the 82" Otto-Struve telescope we worked at. 30 second exposure.
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That's cool. I've actually been there a couple of times (the last time was about five years ago). Highly recommended for all space/astronomy nerds. At night, they have "star parties" with lots of telescopes set up. Definitely do that if you get a chance. Just being somewhere that has a properly dark night sky with no light pollution is kind of awesome even without telescopes.

The only downside is that there's...kinda not much else to do in that area.
 
Yea, I remember that it was 30 minutes to the nearest place to buy food (a convenient store). But the lodge managed to hold me over for a week. I was actually doing some research there with a professor on galaxy evolution!
 
I've always been fascinated with the horsehead nebula which looks so eerie and strange especially when I try to imagine the dimensions of it and the distance from earth.
 
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