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Old 07-October-2005, 02:15 AM
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Default IC405 Flaming Star Nebula in Auriga
I posted a hydrogen-alpha version of this nebula on Sept 19, 2005. Here is the color version. It is an amazing nebula complex. The reflection nebula near the center appears so surreal.

A higher resolution version is here:

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astr...s-1_000041.htm

Thanks for looking. Comments and criticisms welcome.

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Gorgeous.
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I concur. Truly magnificent!
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The brightest star in the lower-left corner of the high-resolution image appears to have a red X centered on it (a very flattened X at a slight clockwise angle). Is this visible in other images or simply an artifact in this one? I don't see it around any of the other stars in the image, so I don't think it's a diffraction artifact (oh, you're using a refractor, so that couldn't be it anyway). If it is in other images, what are we seeing?

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If it is in other images, what are we seeing?

I believe these are small internal reflection spikes.

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what type of equipment are you using ..
very nice picture by the way,,
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what type of equipment are you using ..
Astro-Physics 155EDF f/7 refractor
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!!! Very nice, indeed!!!
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Stunning. Great web site by the way.
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oh ya i new i fergot something nice scope too!
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Amazingly beautiful, Tom.

Ad so many people look at APOD (and hey, people who visit APOD also visit Bad Astronomy).
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/ma.../astropix.html

I'm looking at my November Sky & Telescope right now, you know the gallery in the back where readers send in their photos? Hope to see one of yours there.

(Hasn't Shahriar Davoodian posted a photo here? That name looks familiar. There's a moon pic in there.)
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Melusine Shahriar Davoodian is one of my best friend in Iran.
If you want he post pic from moon I will tell him.
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Melusine Shahriar Davoodian is one of my best friend in Iran.
If you want he post pic from moon I will tell him.
He had already posted it, which is why I recognized his name in the magazine. See my comment here Lunar pictures . I found the thread started by Slotdrag where Shahriar posted this particular photo and it is the same one as in the magazine, but it's just upside down from his photo here. Does he know that it's in the November magazine? Please let him know--it's always fun to have your picture and blurb in a well-known magazine. I love the photos readers send in, but they must get a lot. August's issue had a very cool sun photo by some guy Gary Palmer, btw.

OK, back to Tom's gorgeous photo....
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Yes he know that his pic will in November Magazine of skyand telescope.
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