Starship Asterisk*

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53507942956_d2b3893a05.jpg IC1805 Heart Nebula by Paolo , on Flickr In the centre of the beautiful heart nebula are several open star clusters, including the one I decided to capture, Melotte 15. An area rich in star formations and nebulae, it looks like a painti...

Solar disc and prominence evolution with single exposure Finally finished to work on my last timelapse. Next the edge of the Sun there were few active zones and filaments so I decided to try a different setting to capture disc and prominence together. It was hard not to overexpose the disc and in po...

ISS transit over the Sun by AstroPaolo, on Flickr


Prominence QHY5L-II 2013-07-20 by AstroPaolo, on Flickr

Huge solar prominence liftoff



http://www.flickr.com/photos/w0lvy/9037310052/

Here a timelapse if its fast evolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm3cG-mq8fA

Flickr full image

ISS transit in h-alpha
My first capture of the iss over the Sun.
I started to capture 1 minutes before the time and when I was thinking to have lost it, here it come, in a blink of eye.
Exposure time of 0.624ms.

Flickr Image

This HD time-lapse represent a close up portion of the sun of 8 February with the evolution of a huge prominence during an hour of observation. Images taken with a 100 ed refractor using a Daystar h-alpha filter at a focal of 2300mm.

Hedgerow quiescent prominence



Here details and time-lapse.

Very fast solar prominence time-lapse with Daystar h-alpha filter (to look in HD) :D http://astropics.altervista.org/images/sole/thumbs/anim-hd2.jpg The timelapse represent a close up portion of the sun of 30 July with the evolution of a fast prominence during half hour of observation. Images taken ...

Very fast solar prominence time-lapse with Daystar h-alpha filter (look in HD) :D http://astropics.altervista.org/images/sole/thumbs/anim-hd2.jpg The timelapse represent a close up portion of the sun of 30 July with the evolution of a fast prominence during half hour of observation. Images taken wit...