Starship Asterisk*

Every night has been the same thing. Tornados and lightning that I have never seen at such strong strength. Been unable to open the observatory so decided to point to the skys anyway. Using a DSLR and tripod I took this with a one second exposure looking west from north of Van Buren, AR. I am locate...

I guess my lame hummor has struck again. I wasn't a bit serious about the use of images used on apod. I have been published 3 different times over the years. I did mean that the name might be a little off and I do think that the topic links should be refined or maybe shortened for a quicker eye cont...

Well let me ask a couple of questions. If I told you the name was wrong -Asterisk-and I wanted to get a picture posted to APOD again, would this hurt my chances? :?: Second. What if I said that I have visited as a member for a while and was looking for a specific subject being discussed or possibly ...

dr_olman wrote:Looks like dampening vibration caused by camera shake. Notice symmetrical blur marks around star images.

Look like this to me. The enlarged stars show the movement as faint distortion above and below the star

http://www.fototime.com/BD880B0A6A9FAF1/orig.jpg For what it's worth. If you take out all the text if that is text and other distractions and look at the image it, to me , appears like the Sun and Moon together. Perhaps a 12 month calendar with 1/2 night and the other daytime. Perhaps a personal ca...

soupphysics wrote:
I also thought it looked like bare skin with tatoos!

bare skin was a polite way of stating it

From 1/8/2007 this shows the comet with a 5" refractor and an astronomical ccd. This was shot through RGB and L filters. Gradients with the setting Sun to the lower left were big but the color is as it was imaged. The telescope was orented in a N/S giving the comet the level look behind a dista...

Fragmented fragments with a 4" FSQ refractor and FLI CCD. Covers about 1x1.5 deg. fov. 3x40 sec exposures. Better to burn out than just fade away?
Thank You
Mike Holloway
Holloway Comet Observatory

Greetings. This 3xmosaic shows the three pieces. The brightest comp. "C" at the left with "B" to the right and "G" a dim third to the right of "B". "C" is about 4' East of Arcuturus (glow at the upper far right). This was taken and composed 03/25/200...

C/2006 A1 has arrived for the northern comet watchers. 73P makes it's way in for the May show. Thanks, Mike Holloway

At my location in W Arkansas, this is the best comet show in town. Taken 12/30/2005 with a 4" FSQ refractor and Maxcam10 ccd. It sits low in the S/SW sky at dark and has a mgnitude at this image time of about 10. Only thing is, the tail is pointing towards the Sun. Anti-tail? I don't know. :? :...

Imaging sessions sometimes gather 2 or more gigs of information. Most of this is saved and processed as time allows. This is a mosaic that has 12 sub-frames contained in the 3 piece mosaic. Taken with a 4" refractor and CCD. N is up and E to the left. Information taken on 01/02/2005 from Van Bu...

I was recently accused in over-locking topics. Don't want repeat myself, so just go and check the link in my signature, if you care. Anyway, I'd like to hear everybody's voice. Did I locked to many topics for the sake of keeping forum clean? Should everybody be allowed to start a thread on their ow...

Imaged on 06/12/2005 and again on 06/15/2005. Clearly shows a fragment. 24x45 sec exp with a 4" refractor and ST2000XM ccd. Thanks, Mike Holloway, Van Buren, AR

For a size comparison , this mosaic was put together using information taken 05/01/2005. 9P on the left and two galaxies magnitude 11.1 and 11.5 on the right. Thanks, Mike H.

You are of course correct and thanks for the reply. Thanks http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=22&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 Ok---- If I have made some mad, My appologies. I know that I am no expert but I know that no responce usually means negative things. I know nothing of ...

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=22&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 Ok---- If I have made some mad, My appologies. I know that I am no expert but I know that no responce usually means negative things. I know nothing of the scientific studies that must be made with these images....

Please don't take the wrong but I have been a member of this forum for a while and really---I don't get it. What are these images used for? There is no detail. Most times it is one person wanting to know if someone else knows what it is. ---With the complete lack of detail, How would one know? The d...

It appeared that comet Machholz was having a hard time controling itself 02/14/2005. Imaged with a 4" F5.3 refractor and ccd from Van Buren, AR. Thanks

Although color makes the headlines, sometimes B&W says more. 4" Refractor and ST2Kxm CCD from 1/27/2005. 3x mosaic with 3' of comet. Thanks.

Image from 01/16/2005-RGBL-4"-CCD