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Comet C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS graces a classic Texas sunset above the Wolf Ridge Wind Energy Center near Muenster, Texas. Pan Starrs made its debut in the southern hemisphere during early March and peaked in brightness on March 10, 2013 when it reached perihelion (closest approach to the sun). Viewers in the northern hemis...
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On Halloween, October 31st, kids in America go from door to door wearing costumes and collecting candy. It seemed like a fitting holiday to do some astrophotography. The bands on Jupiter were barely visible as well as several Jovian moons, but our lunar companion was a better target. I had to adjust the telescope const...
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This striking view of the central parts of the Milky Way was obtained with the VISTA survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. This huge picture is 108 500 by 81 500 pixels and contains nearly nine billion pixels. It was created by combining thousands of individual images from VISTA, taken through three...
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From www.eso.org/public/images/eso1211a
/ released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
This new image, taken with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) shows a wide variety of interacting galaxies in the young Hercules galaxy cluster. The sharpness of the picture and the sheer number of objec...-
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My brother Chris and I decided to brave the cold and finally take some night gigapans. You know, the hardest part of doing star photography is getting the damn focus set. Believe it or not, when you're pointing your camera in practically pitch dark, autofocus doesn't work all that well ... lucky for us, we had our truc...
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The very dark skies at the Somuncura Plateau, Rio Negro. Showing part of the Milky Way and the Magellan clouds over "La Azul" lagoon. Taken on a moonless night it was so dark you couldn't see a hand in front of your face. The brownish reflection at the lagoon is the opposite part of the milky way that was at my back...
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Yosemite National Park, Sept., Leica DLux4, 30 sec exposures. Really exciting to see red shift and blue shift from the stars! Not so big. A quality panorama of a starfield would be hard, wouldn't it? Unless using multiple cameras.
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This is a 360 degree Panorama of the Aumndsen-Scott South Pole Station, South Pole Antarctica. This was taken on 7-28 during the afternoon at a temperature of around -90F with a windchill of -130F. The moon in the shot was only a slight crescent but is incredibly bright. When the moon is not around we are surrounded...
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Id: heic0707a Object: NGC 3372, Carina Nebula Type: Nebula Instru-ment: ACS Width: 29566 Height: 14321 Hubble's view of the Carina Nebula shows star birth in a new level of detail. The fantasy-like landscape of the nebula is sculpted by the action of outflowing winds and scorching ultraviolet radiation from the...
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