all my Astro & Nature Wallpapers

Sky & Nature Wallpapers

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Iridescent cloud

Sun in H-alpha and Plane (20070421)
Skywatcher 100/500 mounted on LX200-12".
Coronado 90mm HA filter.ToucamPro controled with AstrosnapPro software in motion detection mode...
but was already in capture mode from a previous unidentified move.

Comet C/2006/P1/ McNaught, (click on image for wallpaper size) discovered in August 2006
has been easily visible around the 10th of January 2007 in the Northern Hemisphere
before beeing an extraordinary show in the Southern Hemisphere (click here for Gallery).

MARS is back for our pleasure !
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"A strange sunset on the Atlantic Ocean 20050830"
Casion 2900UX, F=320mm

"The lowest full moon in 18 years 20050621"
Canon 10D, expandeur 1.4

"Duo of Jupiter & Moon 20050519"
Canon 10D, Fluorite Perl Vixen 102/900 + F5.6 reduceur,
No processing
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A very colorfull Moon :)
Color extracted from right Canon10D image with PSD !
How ? Load image, duplicate layer, set first layer to luminosity, increase saturation of second layer by steps of 25% until very bright colors appear, gauss 10
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or click on the Moon right of the * for a larger (1024*768) horizontal Moon wallpaper

The nicest and most intense rainbow I have seen for at least 25 years ! Story...
After the sky suddenlly blackened in St Rémy lès Chevreuse, France and then half an hour of cats and dogs raining, I saw a far away large blue strip of sky coming from the side where the Sun was not far from setting. I prepared my 2 Casio cameras for 3D photography and rush into my car to go a few kilometers away on the plateau. Soon the Sun was shining and I started taking 3D pictures. I soon ran out of memory on one camera and had to erase the early shots because the intensity of the rainbow was increasing ... Here is the last shot I took before leaving the spot. BTW there were lightnings and thunder from time to time but I was not lucky enough to have one on a picture !

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3D pictures of this rainbow are visible here !
Other picture : supplementary bows

Spring in Gif sur Yvette, France
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Also 3D-anaglyphe , 3D cross-eyed and 3D-Viewmagic vues

Terminator promenade ! My first animated wallpaper !
If you have a fast internet link (file is 15.5Mo),
after saving this AVI on your hard disk, open it in full page and repeat mode and leave it on ....

Also see astromovies page for more !

"Sun spots, Filament & some prominences on the H-Alpha Sun"
The global look is close from image just below !
Canon 10D, .3s at 400ISO, Fluorite Perl Vixen 102/900, Coronado SolarMax-TMax 90mm , 2005/02/19,
Composition of 50 images with Registax3. Processing with PSP
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"Sun spots, Filament & prominences on the H-Alpha Sun"
Canon 10D, no flash auto mode, Fluorite Perl Vixen 102/900, Coronado SolarMax-TMax 90mm, 2004/12/20,
Processing with PSP
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"Helico on Sun H-Alpha"
Canon 10D, no flash auto mode , Fluorite Perl Vixen 102/900, Coronado SolarMax-TMax 90mm 26/10/2004~16TU,
Processing with PSP
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"Sun spots in H-Alpha"
Webcam VestaPro modified with B&W sensor, Fluorite Perl Vixen 102/900, Coronado SolarMax-TMax 90mm 24/07/2004~0640TU,
Mosaic of 9 AVIs processed with Registax and PSP
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Link to B&W original image Here

"The Moon : Iris & Aristarque"
Canon 10D, LX200 10" + 2x barlow 05/01/2004
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"The Moon, Mars & Pleiades"
Canon 10D // LX200, 03/25/2004
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"The Moon & Venus"
Canon 10D // LX200, 03/24/2004
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See 600x accelerated animation here

"The post-bisextile Moon setting down"
Natural colors, Canon EOS 10D, ISO 100, 01/03/2004
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"Sunspots"
Extremely high activity during this late octobre 2003
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Its spring :)
"Mésange Bleue" just out of the nest calling for food !
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Partial phase of total Moon eclipse (05/16/2003)
Les Molières, France 91,
Fluorite refractor 102/900 Perl Vixen & Casio QV2900UX behind a 35mm eyepiece
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Tsunami... of minute dimensions ... 1m high :)
(La Hague, France when wind towards the see on a nice sand beach,
Casio QV2900UX)
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Superb conjonction (no text on large images)
From left to right : Jupiter, Moon, Venus, Mars & Saturn
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"Back from late observing"
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"Soft Moon"
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"Sun Apparition"
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"Lightning over Valmenier (France, Maurienne)"
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