Starship Asterisk*

Awesome and beautiful image... both 20 and 21 together... a great field of view...
With my 10" Meade I get a close up....

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Great image...A friend had a prism, and in August of 2017, I took this SORT OF similar pic with his prism, and my camcorder...

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Ooooo, Pretty....

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I wish it tons of success...

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Outstanding...

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orin stepanek wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:06 pm Do we know if Neutron Stars have any sort of lifespan?

This may give some insight...https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/que ... star-cools

Hope that helps...

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From a search, "A neutron star is formed during a supernova, an explosion of a star that is at least 8 solar masses. The maximum mass of a neutron star is 3 solar masses. If it gets more massive than that, then it will collapse into a quark star, and then into a black hole." Sooo...um... i...

"Welcome to the Solar System" from Earth... "Hope you enjoy your visit."

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It reminds me of Chinese Chess. A river... the red emission of Bernard's loop in this image, with two opponents on either side, the nebulae, M78 and LDN1622, and the stars are chess pieces in the "cosmic game"...

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I was surprised... which IS easy to do... that at only 2000-5000 years old...it is 25 light years in diameter. But considering the Crab Nebula is only 965 years old...at 11 light years in diameter, I guess it makes some sense...I just thought it would have been smaller for some reason... The Firefox...

Not to mention the effects on our own magnetosphere... Solar Storms, can weaken our magnetic field...

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10 ... etic-field

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heehaw wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 9:49 pm The tree looks like an owl, and its stripes look like the paths of the stars....could these be secrets of the Universe?

To me the curved piece on the left, looks like a feline, leaning against the owl, looking up to the stars WITH the Owl...

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Awesome...the colors blending around are cool...

Even a dead old Russian tree stump has a purpose... juxtapose against the sky for contrast, and representation of "time"...

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Stunning image of details of this vast vista...

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Nice work...

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I find it fitting as it is theorized that Cosmic Rays help to set off thunderstorms... it is only fitting to see the heavens above it... :---[===] * August 2019 Thunderstorm shot here in the mobile home park... considerably closer than today's APOD... and LOUD!!! Reverberated across the sky in 3d st...

Awesome... and the music makes it dramatic...
A one billionth Solar Eclipse by Mercury...

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Do they have Thanksgiving on Europa???

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Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2019 6:10 pm

alter-ego wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2019 5:56 pm

Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2019 2:07 pm

Jupiter.

Actually it is δ Sco, mag 2.4. Jupiter is about 17° out of the field of view to the upper left.

I agree. That looks about right.

Thanks to the both of you... Happy TG.
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Interesting image...and great trio of objects... ummm... what is the bright object just above the clouds to the left of Venus then???

We are socked in...rather wet now...

Save some sand for me....er.... PIE... I mean...
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I have a friend, Jean, who used to stargaze with her 10" Meade on the Helipad down from Palomar... She has a painting of M42 as if you are looking through the lens...so there is no color but "off greenish"... awesome painting... I will see if I can get a picture, and put it up in the ...

Sometimes processing...bringing out details, with Contrast or Levels in a photo, can also bring out the Artifacts, from the lens of the camera...there are less in the other photo which is a bit darker, in Ann's comparison. Sometimes to bring out details, or brightness, the background lens defects ca...

Ohhhh..... it's a BABY PICTURE.... awwwwwww....cuuute...

Great image...
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Great image... sorry I missed it...but it was cloudy here anyway...

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Very nice, crisp shot... love the detail in the enlarged image on magnification... awesome...

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