Starship Asterisk*

Aurora in Iceland, over the Kirkjufell (the "Church-mount")


Full image: http://www.astrophoto.fr/kirkjufell_auroras_fb.jpg

Friday morning at 9:28UTC, the resupply cargo Cygnus NG-11 (Northrop-Grumman / Thales Alenia Space) docked to the Canadarm2 articulated arm, while the ISS was flying over northern France at 28000 km/h. It is at this precise moment that I took a photo of their transit in front of the Sun: the small c...

The eclipse after totality, seen from the Sully bridge near Notre-Dame de Paris

http://www.astrophoto.fr/eclipse20190121_0711_fb.jpg

for its 20 years anniversary, here a 3D video of the ISS with Discovery docked, plus the astronaut Steve Bowen in spacewalk , taken in Feb 2011. The shape of the ISS in 3D is perceived with cross-eyed method or anaglyph (red/blue glasses) method. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc_SFPnk8iM This is t...

The solar granulation at high resolution (0.1"/pixel) in green light, taken from the French Alps at 2930m altitude in August with a 356mm telescope (C14). A window of (relatively) stable seeing allowed me to make this animation showing the evolution of the solar surface during 16 minutes. The l...

The comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner this morning, near the open cluster Messier 35. Below M35, the tight open cluster NGC2158.
Celestron Rowe-Ackermann 11 " (280mm f/2.2) & Sony Alpha 7S, 9 x30s.

http://www.astrophoto.fr/20180916_giaco ... ner_fb.jpg

I went to the Mount Wilson Observatory on July 19, to film the passage of the ISS over Los Angeles in the presence of the Moon and the 4 bright planets along the ecliptic: Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFgM2Vv_PZ8 The stacked picture: http://www.astrophoto.fr/planets...

very nice picture, but the antennas have been published here about once per year since 2010...would there be a lack of (more) original pictures proposed in starship asterisk?

The very thin lunar crescent at the precise moment of the New Moon, today May 15 from Normandy at 11h48m UTC! nm_180515[1].jpg http://www.astrophoto.fr/nm_180515.jpg The separation from the Sun being only 5°, the sky was extremely bright and I had to: - use an infrared filter to decrease the blue of...

I filmed Tiangong-1 this morning over France, passing between Mars and Saturn! Waiting for the crash, next night

The Chinese Space Station Tiangong 1 is going to crash very soon (likely Sunday or Monday), somewhere on Earth between 43°N and 43°S... I would like to watch the reentry: what nice fireworks it will be! :D Two solar transits of Tiangong (docked to the Shenzhou module) taken in June 2013 from Souther...

The total (super)moon eclipse of Jan 31 over Singapore! http://www.astrophoto.fr/eclipse180131_partial_singapore_900.jpg http://www.astrophoto.fr/eclipse180131_total_singapore_900.jpg From left to right: The Singapore Flyer, the Art&Science Museum and the Marina Bay Sands hotel during the laser...

Impressive image...however, I don't understand why it's in Astronomy Picture of the Day Is there a shortage of astronomical pictures ? (if yes, we have solutions )
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The Empire State Building playing cup-and-ball with the November Full "Beaver" Moon Single shot 0.5s image taken Nov 3rd with 135mm lens from Hoboken (New Jersey). The Moon is dimmer than usual thanks to the layer of high clouds. fullmoon_empirestatebuilding_vertical1000[1].jpg http://www...

Two wide angle shots of the Milky Way through Delicate Arch (Utah), respectively taken with 20mm and 14mm lenses. Saturn is visible just over the Pipe nebula :) http://www.astrophoto.fr/milkyway_delicate_arch_sigma20mm_thierrylegault_cpr_apod.jpg http://www.astrophoto.fr/milkyway_delicate_arch_light...

August 18th: beautiful sunrise at Mesa Arch, Canyonlands NP, Utah. The Moon is visible at the top of the image, close to the edge.

http://www.astrophoto.fr/sun_moon_canyo ... egault.jpg

Hello, I filmed the passage over France (Tours) Saturday night, about 20 min after launch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN2cLT11qJU You can see the Dragon, stage 2, solar panel covers plus a nice surprise I discovered during processing: several fast ejections of material, probably from thrusters! ...

Last Saturday I filmed a lunar transit of the ISS with my compatriot the French astronaut Thomas Pesquet inside, from Rouen (his birth city):
http://www.astrophoto.fr/iss_transit_170204_100.jpg

I would have been good to precise that the round colored halos around all bright stars are not nebulas but reflections in the optics! They are very visible and I think that's confusing for most people.

Unfortunately, TLE predictions (which Calsky uses) are not accurate enough for reliable , precision conjunction assessments like a satellite / planet overlap, and ground track accuracy typically is better nearer, or even prior, to the TLE epoch. In addition, a large, LEO satellite like the ISS adds...

I was also amazed when I first saw this one. Still amazed now. Mr Legault has a habit of amazing me. And I bet he put additional thought into his position, so as to avoid the possibility of the ISS lining up with Mercury and potentially obscuring it. Actually I used the Calsky calculation for the t...

Oh, Cool.... but tell me this.... WHY does it look like a T.I.E. Fighter????? :shock: :---[===] * it's not the first time I have that comment about the TIE fighter, but it's not the case when you look at the close-up: http://www.astrophoto.fr/mercury-transit-2016-crop.jpg Moreover, Empire spokesman...

First of all, thanks to the APOD editors and for those nice comments above. It's been a lot a efforts in time, money and energy for me to take those pictures (including one week of vacancy and all travel expenses from France). As you can see, there are clouds passing in front of the Sun during the t...

A crop on the double transit image, for more details on Mercury and the ISS

Transit of Mercury and the ISS, taken from Philadelphia: http://www.astrophoto.fr/mercury-transit-2016-50.jpg The video shows the double transit, plus another double transit with an unexpected guest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le-B2AnFiWw 10 minutes after the transit of the ISS, I was under a th...