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Astrophotography art by Image Palette

Have you ever thought that your hard-earned astro-images would look great hanging on your wall? Astrosource (UK), in association with Image Palette, can help you bring the Universe into your living room with stunning large-scale canvases and prints.

Image Palette also create canvases showcasing the beautiful vistas of the Peak District and Lake District, picturesque landscapes, plus abstract, natural and still life concepts. Click here to visit the Image Palette website for more information.

Turn your astrophotography into a stunning piece of artwork

Imagine the beauty of the heavens captured on real artist canvas, or on high-quality art paper ...

We can create contemporary gallery-wrap canvases ready for you to hang on your wall using your very own astrophotography images. We carefully enlarge your high resolution digital files, and if necessary re-touch and expand the image so you can take advantage of our stunning wrap-around effect, so your image seamlessly flows around the edges of the frame. Because we understand astrophotography and limitations with regard to digital noise, we will always handle your files with care. This really pays off, resulting in a stunning and exclusive canvas to hang on your wall. We'll even deliver your canvas or print - free - direct to your door.

Our standard sizes are as follows:

300mm x 420mm. Price £55.00
420mm x 595mm. Price £75.00
595mm x 840mm. Price £110.00

We can create canvases at almost any size - however, this is ultimately limited by the quality of your original file. As a guide a 4Mb, 1280px by 960px file can be successfully enlarged to 420mm x 595mm. We can utilize .jpg files, but for the highest possible quality we recommend uncompressed .tif files.

Take advantage of our free image-check

Send your images to us and we'll let you know the maximum size you can print them at. This service is free! Alternatively, if you have any questions or would like to enquire about our service, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Ready-made astro-canvases

If you don't do astrophotography yourself, but would still love to have astronomy-related images hanging on your wall, take a look at our selection of ready-made canvases and prints. Visit the Image Palette website for further details.

 

Sunrise

Astronauts often speak of how the Earth appears to be so fragile when seen from orbit. Here we can begin to comprehend this feeling as we watch the Sun, over 93,000,000 miles away in the distance, creep above the horizon. As it does it illuminates our life-giving atmosphere, and illustrates just how tenuous it is.

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Borealis

To see the Aurora Borealis is a humbling experience. Although its curtains of green and red look incredibly beautiful as they gracefully shift about the heavens, they hide a a more sinister side ... The aurora is caused by massive outpourings of dangerous, ionized particles from the surface of the Sun. The Earth's magnetosphere protects us from this barrage, and the interaction between the two help create these wonderful displays of light.

This particular image was taken from Langley Cricket Club in Cheshire, England. The hill in silhouette is known as Teggs Nose.

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Corona

A total eclipse of the Sun is the most spectacular event in all of Nature. Few people have ever witnessed one, but once seen it is an experience never to be forgotten. The Moon's dark shadow plunges you into an eerie twilight and the Sun's mysterious and incredibly beautiful corona is revealed during totality. Where the Sun once stood, a black disk floats in the sky, outlined by the soft pearly white glow of the corona. Small but vibrant reddish highlight stand on the rim of the Moon's disk. These are prominences - giant clouds of hot gas in the Sun's lower atmosphere.

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Coriolis

Clouds are fascinating to watch as they endlessly change their shape and size as they shift across our skies. However, high above the Earth on the edge of space we can begin to appreciate the sheer enormity and power contained within these weather systems. We control most things in life, but one thing is certain, we cannot exert our full control over Nature.

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Celestial voyage

As the giant Lovell radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory peers into the depths of the universe the stars wheel across the night sky. Then, two points of bright light appear to slowly streak from West to East. This was the International Space Station and a robotic probe named Jules Verne, which was later to dock automatically with the ISS. As they moved silently overhead we watched and wondered how the Earth looked from 200 miles high whilst traveling at nearly 17,000 miles per hour!

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Blue oasis

This is a view only the chosen few ever see. Here, aptly named Blue Planet hangs seemingly motionless in a velvet-black sky. Of course, we know that we don't float in 'nothingness' we are accompanied by the ever-faithful Moon, our planetary neighbours within the Solar System, great clouds of gas and dust, plus millions upon millions of stars in our own Milky Way. And beyond? An infinite Universe teeming with countless galaxies ...

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Phase 7-15

The Moon exhibits different phases as the relative geometry of the Sun, Earth, and Moon change, appearing as a full moon when the Sun and Moon are on opposite sides of the Earth, and as a new moon when they are on the same side. The time between two full moons is on average approximately 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes. Here we see a just-past-full phase and the halfway point where we see an almost perfect symmetry between the boundaries of day and night.

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Polaris

Polaris is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor and is about 430 light-years from Earth. The question is, what causes the concentric streaks of light shown in our image? Well, as the Earth slowly rotates around its axis, we see the stars revolve counter-clockwise around the same axis as it points into the night sky, which by chance is very close to Polaris.

Don't worry though, you won't feel dizzy watching the stars - this image was taken over a period of many hours. One of the things we love about this canvas are the many wonderful, but subtle colours shown by each star trail.

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Stellar creation

Few places in the heavens have intrigued us as much as the Eagle Nebula, where majestic structures of starlit gas and dust now soar into space, marking the architecture of a stellar womb. This place is known as the Pillars of Creation. Yet nothing but a few stars and black emptiness will exist in less than a million years.

This vast area of nebulosity is a classic star-forming region, roughly 7,000 light-years from Earth. It's a scene repeated countless times in countless locations throughout the Milky Way and in other galaxies.

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Lunar stratigraphy

We don't normally see the Moon quite like this, but apart from looking striking, there's a reason for the multitude of shades and colours we see here. Most people will tell you that the Moon is a mono-tonal world. Yet an experienced lunar observer will say that regions of the Moon do in fact show very subtle shades of colour. What we are seeing here is a representation of the composition of our nearest neighbour. Each colour depicts the type, and in some cases, the age of the surface of the Moon. Think of this as a kind of geological map.

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