Starship Asterisk*

Although it is not an actual conjunction, it represents the appearance of the planets, from left to right, of Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus, which mark, very graphically, the line of the ecliptic. It is a composite image of 4 images sewn from the Canon 6D, with the Sigma lens of 14 mm f / 1.8, Iso...

Sunrise of Mars. On the edge of our border with the USA, on the Rio Grande, next to the magnificent Santa Elena Canyon, wetting my feet, I found this sunrise of the planet Mars that needs no introduction to know why it was a warrior god in Roman mythology. http://www.astrocolorsllc.com/picture.php?/...

We rarely have the luxury of observing the planet Mars as a "morning star", but at dawn yesterday at Laguna Hanson in Baja California Mexico there was present delighting the panorama after a spectacularly clear night and taken advantage of by at least 30 Astrophotographers of the Night Pan...

BTW, I personally don't think there is anything wrong with combining two pictures in photoshop. That should be allowed, as long as the photographer clearly states what has been done to the picture(s). It's not a composite, though, unless there was a serious lapse in communication between the editor...

The autor has already acknowledged that the picture is a composition and has offered apologies to the Apod editors. This happened in a congress in Buenos Aires. Link in spanish: https://www.facebook.com/sigmas57/posts ... 4261122979

Six planets and one moon.
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Fire and plasma.
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Dunas de Yeso (Gypsum Dunes) in Coahuila, México.
César Cantú
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Perseid close of Cassiopedia. César Cantú The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle. The Perseids are so called because the point from which they appear to come, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Perseus. The name derives in part from the word Perse...

On the directions of the galactic center.
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Volcán de Colima
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Sun Halo at the National Observatory of San Pedro Martir in Baja California, México.
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A variation of the conjunction of the moon and Venus last night, where also the star Regulus and the planet Jupiter appear. Canon 5D MIII 140 mm 2.0 sec; f / 5.6; ISO 100 And a lot mist. http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/upload/2015/07/19/20150719110400-b55bede6.jpg http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.p...

The same image of last week, processed as a typical astronomical image, share it because I liked the result.
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I'll post today two crops, 100% of the resolution and on a quarter of the image, clarify if not add them to the original frames, two images that seem very interesting due to the high definition of many of the phenomena which occur during the explosion. Copyright: César Cantú http://www.astrophoto.co...

Timelapse of Volcano of Colima.
César Cantú.
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The rotation of the Earth which takes an eruption of Volcán de Fuego (Volcano of Fire), in Colima, Mexico.
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Scorpion in the summer sky in Sahuaro National Park.
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From June 18, 2014.
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Volcán de Colima.
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Colima Volcano.
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Mars, Moon and Venus.
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Poza Azul in the light of the Moon.
The water is so clear, that even with the little night light, the background can be seen from the pond about 12 feets deep.
Cuatrociénega, Coahuila, Mexico
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Clouds, sand and stars in Coahuila desert.
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Orion in the Desert.
Sotol (dasylirion miquihuanensis) blooming in the cold desert night of the Dunas de Yeso (Gypsum Dunes) in Cuatrociénegas, Coahuila, México.
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Eyelashes of the mountain.
Crepuscular rays at sunset.
Chipinque, San Pedro NL Mexico.
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