Starship Asterisk*

Although it is one of the most recognizable star groupings on the sky, Orion's icons don't look quite as colorful to the eye as they do to a camera. In this shot, cool red giant Betelgeuse takes on a strong orange tint as the brightest star at the upper left. Orion's hot blue stars are numerous, wit...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53408196726_e494f73af2_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53408196726_e494f73af2_b.jpg Hi guys, I've always liked this picture and always wanted to, but I thought the light pollution would spoil the picture and it would be a wasted night, so I always used ...

I do not understand from where the color, if only captured the meteor with monochrome ccd, for now remains only clarify whether he caught the meteor with ccd or if it could also capture also with the dslr rgb....... You need to learn more before commenting As he said in his flickr: Technique: paral...

The author himself says: APOD is not a competition, it is a place to disseminate and share scientific knowledge, whether such knowledge is distortive, are no longer valid, does not serve science with lies and falsehoods.

Finally got out and got my shots...not very good...my camera is a Samsung F40 video camcorder, but takes stills, and the focus kept going in and out. So, I ended up with some "Light Fans", "Light Bleed"....instead of points...My other shots, though foreground was focused, did no...

Oh Ann, excuse my bad and poor english

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Hmm, that's a very nice image of the Pleiades, Ferran Bosch. Very blue, too. But considering it's so popular to chase down every last photon of red hydrogen alpha emission and paint skyscapes all red, why not chase down the blue reflection nebulosity photons with a similar diligence? :D Ann ¿Too bl...