Astro Photography

Jupiter, Venus, and the Moon above Los Angeles

James Webb Telescope Model at South by Southwest
As big as a tennis court and as tall as a four-story building, a full-scale model
of the James Webb Space Telescope model was on display from March 8-10 at the South
by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.

Comet PAN STARRS over Canmore, AB - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJSCWi-kg4E


Panstarrs over Fuji

mesicni terminator

PanSTARRS z jineho uhlu:
Animation of comet 2011 L4 PanSTARRS entering STEREO-B’s HI camera,
note the twin ion/dust tail reminiscent of Hale-Bopp!


STEREO-B SEES COMET PAN-STARRS: On March 10th, Comet Pan-STARRS passed by the sun
just inside the orbit of Mercury. The close encounter brought it into the field of view of NASA's
STEREO-B spacecraft. The sun, Earth, and comet are labeled in this low-resolution beacon
image from STEREO-B's Heliospheric Imager:

VIRGO: JUPI! :)
Přímý přenos z inaugurace dalekohledu ALMA
Přímý přenos z inaugurace dalekohledu ALMA | astro.cz
http://www.astro.cz/clanek/5662

VIRGO:

(dalsi famozni astrofotograf) John Chumack www.galacticimages.com
The Sun in Hydrogen Alpha Light - The Full Solar Disk on 03-08-2013
Lunt Solar LS60Scope/LS50 F, B1200, Hydrogen Alpha Solar filter
DMK31 fire-wire camera, 1/408 sec exposure, 724 frames
I captured these Shots during my Lunch break...I was expecting to see a bit more Activity on the Sun
with Solar Maximum being only a month away, and yes, there are a few Sunspots & some prominences visible!
I've been hearing that this has been a weaker Solar Maximum. Despite this lower activity, The Sun is always
Beautiful to see in Hydrogen Alpha Light, and just Maybe it will surprise us with some crazy activity sometime soon!
I included the blue image to help you see the finer surface detail. North is up in both images!

The Boogie Man Nebula (Hubble/Heritage)
The Boogie Man Nebula (also known as Lynds’ Dark Nebula (LDN) 1622) is a dark molecular cloud of less than 10 light-years across that lies only 500
light-years away in the constellation of Orion, close on the sky to Barnard’s Loop and just north of Orion’s belt, near the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy.
The Boogie Man Nebula appears against a faint background of glowing hydrogen gas. The interstellar dust of this dark nebula is so thick that it obscures
light from nearby stars or other nebulas. This nebula demonstrates the evolution of stars. Star formation results from the collapse of giant clouds of
molecular gas and dust. The stars eventually emerge into visibility with their blue light scattering and reflecting off dust particles present in the gas.