Starship Asterisk*

venus and mercury, full moon and the star of bethlehem

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

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This 7 min 15 sec long animation movie is built from two high resolution lunar mosaics shot during last summer first and last quarter.

The "vessel" follows a path at variable height and flies above well known locations on the Moon .


© 2015 Emmanuel Beaudoin, Valère Leroy, Jean Pajus

Other flies over are available on the VIMEO page
For the best quality, you may want to download the full movie (98 Mbytes) by clicking (right button, "Save target as ...")
this link
for then watching it with your preferred player.

More information is available in this page

Rare haloformation video
Credits and copyrights: Anne and Pekka Honkakoski


Lovejoy's ion tail waving in the breeze
Copyrights: Jerry Lodriguss
http://www.astropix.com/C_2014_Q2_Lovejoy_20150110.HTM

Lovejoy 2014 Q2 tail variation
Copyrights: José Luis Hernández Verdejo


Comet Lovejoy seen from Portugal
Copyrights: Miguel Claro

Animation made with 11 mosaics of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken between 19 November and 3 December 2014. Each mosaic is composed of 4 NavCam pictures. These images were taken while Rosetta was in a 30-km orbit around the comet. Frames between NavCam mosaic are interpolated using a morphing software.
Credits : ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM/Thomas Appéré - CC BY-SA IGO 3.0

Illusion of Lights: A Journey into the Unseen
The night sky captured from numerous locations across the Western United States.

Asteroid 2004 BL86 Passing the Beehive - Time Laspe

On January 26 & 27th Asteroid 2004 BL86 passed within 745,000 miles of the Earth. That is about 3 times the distance to the Moon. Traveling at 35,000 miles per hour the Asteroid flew in front of the Beehive Cluster, Messier 44 (M44). During the event I took 607 images of the pass. Due to clouds only 314 were usable. I created a video using these to show 78.5 mins of the Asteroid pass.

This time lapse was done in the same time that the pictures I've posted here : http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... &start=250

Moonlight Skating
http://www.astrofotografen.se
Copyright: Göran Strand

A Jovial Dance 2015-02-12
by VÁRADI NAGY Pál
http://www.csillagtura.ro

The aurora display of March 17/18, 2015 fron Hankasalmi observatory, Finland. arto

We had a public event at the University Observatory, didn't even try to photograph something out of the ordinary.

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I'm a 17 year old filmmaker from England. Check out this short film I made about the #eclipse2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuBi0MSN_Pk

Solar Eclipse 2015
Copyrights: Nicolas Soldati

Gigapixels of Andromeda
Credits and copyrights: NASA/ESA/PHAT, Robert Gendler, Dave Achuk Young crescent Moon and Venus setting over Warsaw
Copyrights: Slawomir Charzynski Dark Sky Alqueva Time Lapse - The First Starlight Destination
Copyrights: Miguel Claro


Messier Marathon
Copyrights: Rich Richins Strongest in a decade solar storm
Copyrights: Phillip (Skydancephil) Solar eclipse 20/03/2015 as seen by coronograph
Copyrights: OA team of Fiducial

Hello,
Here is my accelerated video clip of the total solar eclipse from Svalbad / Longyearbyen
Clear skies
Tahir Saban

A time-lapse of the full Moon rising behind Lick Observatory in San Jose on Friday, April 3, 2015:



Watch for the small plane at around 26 seconds in, and the cars driving around the main building.

William Phelps

Here is a timelapse I made while I was in Chile in San Pedro de Atacama at Alain Maury's observatory and on the VLT platform at Paranal. Jean-Marc from France

9 de diciembre

4K x 4K Real time video for Planetarium
NOT time-lapse
Aurora substorm of 2015.3.16. 00:41~
Aurora Village, Yellowknife. Canada.

Kwon, O Chul. (TWAN)
www.twanight.org/kwon

Moreton Wave generated by a M3.3 Solar Flare on June 03 2012 1752-1801 UT

This fast-mode magnetohydrodynamic wave was captured in the hydrogen-alpha wavelength of 656.28 nanometers using a 50 mm double-stacked solar telescope at my observatory near Lamy, New Mexico. I have captured eight or so Moreton waves this solar cycle and this was the best specimen thus far.

Hoping for more.

See other various specimens at my website below.

Thomas Ashcraft - HELIOTOWN - http://www.heliotown.com

Star Park
http://theartofnight.com
Copyright: Mark Gee



I managed to capture reflections of the Milky Way in the bonnet of my car one night when I was photographing the night sky, so I decided next time round try and do a time-lapse - this was the end result.

Litrík Stormur



A strong geomagnetic activity lit up the sky of Iceland on 17 to 21 March: "Litrík stormur », color storm in icelandic.
Pictures, time-lapses and especially real-time video (indicated by a red dot) of coronal and pulsating auroras.

Stephane Vetter
http://www.nuitsacrees.fr

My latest production, featuring a few years of gathered material:
Enjoy!

12 day video by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) using the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument showing a full side to side passing of sunspot group 2339 between May 5 and May 17, 2015.

Credit: NASA SDO
Author and copyright: astro-alert.ru