Random astropicture thread

[Notebook]

Had some good moons recently:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36584404

Never heard of "Strawberry Moon", we did have "blackberry week" for the school holidays
at this time of year.

Any other names for the Moon In June?

N.

 

[Notebook]

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/08/Solar_eruption_larger_than_Earth

Title Solar eruption larger than Earth
Released 01/08/2016 11:13 am
Copyright SOHO (ESA & NASA)
Description
A gigantic ribbon of hot gas bursts upwards from the Sun, guided by a giant loop of invisible magnetism. This remarkable image was captured on 27 July 1999 by SOHO, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. Earth is superimposed for comparison and shows that from top to bottom the loop of gas, or prominence, extends about 35 times the diameter of our planet into space.

 

[orb]

[ame="http://vimeo.com/180637962"]Infinity ² on Vimeo[/ame]
[ame="http://vimeo.com/179416969"]The Moving Stars of the Southern Hemisphere on Vimeo[/ame]
Well, they are astrovideos, but still it's like a moving astropicture.

 

[Soheil_Esy]

Man and Venus

http://0e33611cb8e6da737d5c-e13b5a9...2017-03-31-Man-and-Venus-01_1490920939_lg.png
http://spaceweathergallery.com/indi...d=134363&PHPSESSID=3qj7518dfrb7pc3ia3m7kgemp0
Taken by Vladimir Scheglov on March 31, 2017 @ Magadan, Russia


Details:

After several attempts we were able to shoot my friend Alexander Korolenko during the rise of Venus. The distance between us was about 3300 m. Shot in the area of ​​the Armanskiy pass, near Magadan. Thanks to Sergey Shibetskiy for the transport.
Camera Panasonic GH2, Rubinar 1000 mm, F10 lens. Frames from video:



Video

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozBLTxleh-8"]2017 03 31 Человек на фоне Венеры [/ame]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozBLTxleh-8​

 

[Kyle]

That's actually incredibly cool. How did you guys figure that out?

 

[jroly]

That's actually incredibly cool. How did you guys figure that out?

I bet they used Stellarium, I use it sometimes.

 

[sitha241]

Aurora from plane above greenland!

I was flying from Canada to Europe and during night saw aurora borealis!
Bad pictures, took them with phone but it was magnificent!

 

[MikeB]

Jupiter animation based on amateur photos

I had to tell someone: this is pretty neat:

 

[Notebook]

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2017

All photographs courtesy of Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-40789348

http://www.rmg.co.uk/royal-observatory/insight-astronomy-photographer-year/exhibition

 

[Matias Saibene]

A cone-shaped solar flare?

Helioviewer video: http://www.mediafire.com/file/fj7wj...4_08_2020_10_24_01_54_07_LASCO_C3-hq.mp4/file

 

[Matias Saibene]

Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy ​

Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy. This result provides overwhelming evidence that the object is indeed a black hole and yields valuable clues about the workings of such giants, which are thought to reside at the centre of most galaxies. The image was produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, using observations from a worldwide network of radio telescopes.

https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronomers-reveal-first-image-black-hole-heart-our-galaxy

https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205/page/Focus_on_First_Sgr_A_Results

 

[N_Molson]

Will James Webb be able to help on this one ?

 

[Michkov]

Unlikely, that image has been "taken" with a telescope the size of the Earth. By taken I mean radio data that was reassembled into an image over the course of years.