Starship Asterisk*

A scorpion in the desert.
Copyrigth: César Cantú
http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... category/9

M81 Bode's galaxy with RC8
Copyright: Stephane Venet

Full resolution here: http://astrob.in/full/137385/0/

Home
Copyrights: Mehdi Momenzadeh A Colourful Gathering of Middle-aged Stars
Credits: ESO/G. Beccari
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1439/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=235674#p235674

WW II Tower & Beautiful Sea Arch from Donegal, Ireland
Copyrights: Brendan Alexander Rosetta Comet Landing in 'Thud' and 3D
Image Credit: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/ROLIS/DLR
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4389 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=235597#p235597

Kilauea dominating the sky
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel Oceanus Procellarum
Copyrights: Valter Luna

The Rosette Nebula. done with H alpha, and O111 and synth Green. 17 hrs total exposure , on going project for hubble palette but due to English cloudy claggy skies no progress for the foreseeable future!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/shaun_rey/

full res on www.shaunreynoldsastro.com

Four Galaxies Over Moon Valley
Copyrights: Rafael Defavari Sunspots and Solar Eclipse
Copyrights: I Ctein Pacman NGC 281
Credits and copyrights: Processing: Francesco Antonucci; Data: IR WISE IRSA Archive
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/137632/ NGC 6910-6914
Copyrights: César Blanco González
Full size: http://www.cieloprofundo.com/cesar/foto ... A_3000.jpg NGC-2261, R Monocerotis & Hubble's Variable Nebula aka Cadwell 46
Copyrights: John Chumack IC1871
Copyrights: Don Waid The Soul Nebula IC1848
Copyrights: Terry Hancock
Larger size: https://www.astrobin.com/full/137745/0/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=235658#p235658

24 Hour Young Moon
Copyrights: Ajay Talwar Full moon and halo, La Palma
Copyrights: Paul Van Cauteren

Clouds of two colors
This is a recent picture of mine taken on Maunakea, Hawaii.
This wide-field image of the Pleiades shows dust clouds of two distinct colors.
The blue clouds are all close to Pleiades. They reflect the light from the
blue, young stars in the cluster. There are also very diffused clouds all over
the image, and they are yellowish. They reflect the light from the large
number of older, less massive stars in the Milky Way.

High resolution images and more info can be found here:
http://www.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/~whwang/ ... e_2014.htm

Copyright: Wei-Hao Wang

Title:
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy approaching

Object/Date:
C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) @ 2014-11-26

Tech data:
Planewave 20" CDK f/4.4 reflector + FLI PL09000 camera (L:1×120 Bin1 + RGB:1x60 Bin2)

Description:
Image of comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) taken on November 26, 2014. Although be to two months of its perihelion already has increased brightness until 8 magnitude, showing a powerful coma of C2 gas with 10' diameter, and a weak ionic tail barely visible in the image toward northwest.

Post link:
http://cometografia.es/2014/11/2014q2-l ... 26nov2014/

Copyright:
José J. Chambó

M78 reflection nebula in Orion by Francescodb, on Flickr

Copyright: Francesco di Biase - http://www.astropixel.it

NGC 7293 Helix Nebula by Francescodb, on Flickr
Copyright: Francesco di Biase - http://www.astropixel.it

Cocoon Nebula IC 5146 by Francescodb, on Flickr

Copyright: Francesco di Biase - http://www.astropixel.it

IC5067 in Ha False Color
http://www.gallery.lightbuckets.com/jebersole/
Copyright: John Ebersole This is not an image of the sun's surface, but rather one of the Pelican Nebula taken in Ha and displayed in a modified "hot iron" false color palette.

Melotte 15 in RGB taken with Full Spectrum Canon T3i
http://www.astrobin.com/full/138272/0/

Mammatus

La Plata, Buenos Aires Argentina
2014-11-29








Sergio Montúfar

Mel 15 / IC1805 Heart Nebular Deep-Sky-Astroteam Fullres
http://www.astrobin.com/132814/C/
Recording / preprocessing: by Frank Iwaszkiewicz
Image processing: by Nico Geisler & Frank Iwaszkiewicz

Best Regards Deep-Sky-Astro Team

This magnificent spiral galaxy in Dorado gets its name from its resemblance to the swirling dress of a spinning female Spanish dancer when viewed from above
Copyright Michael Sidonio

Taken with Veloce RH200, STL11000 and ASA DDM 60. Unguided
LRGB 180:15:15:15 mins. Chip -40 C.
29.11.2014, Warsaw.
Better quality at www.astrofun.pl

Supernova ASASSN-14ha was discovered in NGC 1566 on 11 Sept 2014 Copyright: Michael Sidonio

strongmanmike wrote:Supernova ASASSN-14ha was discovered in NGC 1566 on 11 Sept 2014
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7483/159 ... 6b1b_o.jpg
Copyright: Michael Sidonio

Thank you for your lovely images of beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1566, Michael!

Your picture of the supernova, ASASSN-14ha, (what a name!) is intriguing. Its non-blue color suggests that it is not a supernova type Ia, and its location right next to a dust lane and its probable proximity to massive stars suggests that it is a core-collapse supernova. Indeed that appears to be the case.

Ann

Setting into the Caribbean Sea
https://flic.kr/p/otxFNu
Copyright: Marion Haligowski

Setting into the Sea by Radical Retinoscopy, on Flickr

Seventeen 20 second exposures were taken off the coast of Cemetery Beach on Grand Cayman Island. The southern sky constellations of Scorpius and Corvus can be seen setting into the sea. (Canon T2i, Canon 8-15L lens at f/4.0, ISO 800)

Carlo Rocchi, Italy

NGC2264 The Cone Nebula & Christmas Tree Cluster
copyright: Chuck Manges

NGC2264 by astrochuck, on Flickr

sunspots ar2216 to ar2222 moon at sunset

Fire and Smoke: SH2-64
http://lbuckphotos.smugmug.com/Astrophotography
Copyright: Lee Buck
Higher-res Version