Picture of the Month December 2021

[philjay]

A Happy and Safe New Year to everyone.

 

I remarked on last months poor weather not imagining that December would be even worse. Not one pixel or photon has been caught by or passed through any of my gear this month it has been so poor. Still, some managed to get out in the brief clear spells we were granted and well done to you that did.

 

So here is a round up

 

Comets, Asteroids, meteors etc

 

Graham posted his round up from November  and December on meteors detected

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20433-novembers-hit-list/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20610-another-year-of-meteor-records-completed/

 

Deep Sky

 

Ibbo kicked us off with more data on his Cygnus Loop

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20454-cygnus-loop-ha-now-8-panes/

then gave us Sh2-223 in Ha

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20575-sh2-223-ha/

 

Derbyshire Dave had the C8 on M1

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20486-c8-crab-nebula/

Plus he gave us some Welsh Soul

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20469-soul-nebula-in-ha/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20516-soul-in-sho/

and the HH Nebula

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20547-a-dark-horse-and-a-flame-in-ha/

 

8472 went deep with his Perseus Molecular cloud

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20493-perseus-molecular-cloud/

then he gave us the next edition of Semeis 147 in NB and RGB, coming on superbly that

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20612-simeis-147-in-hoorgb/

 

RonC gave us an M42

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20496-my-out-off-focus-m42/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20525-finally-got-the-trapezium/

 

BottletopBurly gave us a close up Heart

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20487-heart-nebula-625hrs/

 

Brady bagged the California with his Samyang

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20503-california-nebula/

 

A deep M78 from ChrisP

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20510-m78-lrgb/

 

PeterShah was grabbing the photons from Spain

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20549-ngc7293-the-helix/

 

Lunar

Only 2 posts this month, both from Neil Phillips

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20557-lunar-mosaic/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20574-clavius-24th-dec/

 

Planetary

Only 2 psost this month, again from Neil Phillips

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20439-saturn-jupiter/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20544-jupiter-and-venus-16th-dec/

 

Solar

Graham started us off with

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20432-solar-from-today-02122021/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20441-solar-from-today-04122021/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20605-solar-from-today-31122021/

 

Then Ibbo

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20482-sol-10-1221-ha/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20526-sol-15-12-21-ha-cak/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20606-sol-31-12-21-ha/

 

Then Dean Watson

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20495-first-images-with-my-new-used-sv50/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20521-ha-sun-from-15-12-21-at-around-1100/

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20535-the-sun-16-12-21-at-130/

 

ChrisP gave us 6 months of Sun with his pin hole camera

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20554-solar-can-pin-hole-camera-image-last-six-months-from-my-back-garden/

 

Widefield

Derbyshire Dave kicked us off with some sunsets from his trip to Wales

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20434-elan-valley-sunset/

and a Tannenbaum sunrise

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20517-tannenbaum-sunrise/

 

Ibbo gave us a nice alignment shot

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20483-the-moon-joined-the-after-sun-party/

 

and I could not let a Moon Set go by on one of the rare clear mornings we have had this month

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20546-moonset/

 

 

As ever choosing one image for the picture of the month gets harder each month because the images are all superb but choose I must and this month for me has been a close choice with Neil Phillips a close third with Jupiter and Saturn images

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20439-saturn-jupiter/

 

and 8472 a close second with his image of the Perseus Molecular Cloud

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20493-perseus-molecular-cloud/

 

and first is a stunner of an image of M78 from ChrisP

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/20510-m78-lrgb/

 

I will post POTY tomorrow folks

[Bottletopburly]

Well done everyone clear skies this year hopefully 👍 and we’ll done Phil .

[+Ibbo]

Well done Chris.

And thanks to Phil for the round up.

[Stephen]

Well done Chris 

[+Glafnazur]

Well done Chris 👍

[+RonC]

Congrats Chris, great image and thanks Phil for judging..

[8472]

Well done, Chris! 👍

[Chris P.]

Thanks Phil and Happy New Year to all!

[+Derbyshire Dave]

Well deserved Chris, and thanks Phil. Clear skies to all for this year

[BAZ]

Well done Chris! Many thanks Phil, not a bad selection despite the weather.