Starship Asterisk*

Venus re-appearance on Jun/19 at 4:07am EDT (Marblehead, MA)
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Warm summer night near Magellan telescopes (Las Campanas Observatory, Chile). 28 Jan 2016

Author: Igor Chilingarian (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

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Flight SU103 NY-Moscow 16-17/Oct/2015, Canon EOS6d 24-105/4 @24/4, 10sec per frame, 5fps. Location: somewhere above the North Atlantic. Duration: about 1h45m flight time covered.

The 6.5-m Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT), Mt.Hopkins, Arizona operated jointly by Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and University of Arizona. Taken tonight (Sep/30-Oct/1 2015) just before moonrise. This panoramic picture was composed of 21 individual images. Tucson suburbs are on the left, Nog...

Looking east before dawn at Mt.Hopkins (MMT Observatory) 2015/09/25 http://nice.sai.msu.ru/~chil/photo/MMT_Sep2015/pan_zodlight_01_800.jpg medium res version: http://nice.sai.msu.ru/~chil/photo/MMT_Sep2015/pan_zodlight_01_1k.jpg high res version: http://nice.sai.msu.ru/~chil/photo/MMT_Sep2015/pan_zo...

Rare thunderstorm over Las Campanas Observatory (Atacama desert, Chile) on March/23/2015


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Aurora time lapse. 3h20min over the North Atlantic taken from the Delta Air Lines flight DL466 New York - Moscow on Dec/23/2014

Evening at Las Campanas Observatory. 20/Jul/2014. Full 360deg panorama, Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 (special thanks to Yuri Beletsky who kindly provided a lens), Canon EOS 6d, 20sec*7 frames. http://nice.sai.msu.ru/~chil/photo/LCO_Jul2014/pan_allsky_15jul_lowres_700.jpg Higher resolution versions: http://n...

A full sky panorama featuring the Milky Way plane, twin 6.5m Magellan telescopes (Baade on the left and Clay on the right), a faint band of light along the ecliptic and a colourful airglow. Taken at the Las Campanas observatory in Chile on the Summer solstice night (20-21/Jun/2014) with a 35mm lens....

Snow in the Atacama desert, Andromeda galaxy over Magellan telescopes, and green airglow. Taken a few minutes after the moonset so the clouds over the Pacific ocean surface some 200km North-West where the Moon was still up were still highlighted by it thus creating a bright thin stripe along the hor...

Clear southern sky as seen from the Las Campanas peak, the future 24-m Giant Magellan Telescope site located a few km away from twin 6.5-m Magellan telescopes. Author: Igor Chilingarian (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics). Equipment: Canon EOS6D, Zeiss 21/2.8, 24x1min exposures with tracki...