Starship Asterisk*

Daylight astronomy with the Moon and Venus. August 13th occultation of Venus as seen from San Francisco, CA.


Occultation of Venus by che2525, on Flickr

Perseid Meteor Shower2012 - Focus on Cassiopeia 08.11.2012
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... 064182574/
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

NGC281 Pac-man Nebula in Hubble Palette
http://gallery.lightbuckets.com/jebersole/photo/7676/
Copyright: John Ebersole

Massive eruption on the sun's limb

April 16, 2012---captured at 18:22:32 UT with a Lunt 100 solar Ha telescope and imaging Source DMK 41 camera from Redlands, California

Jim Lafferty
Redlands, California
http://scopetrader.com/jimlafferty

Venus Moon occultation 2012.8.
9min interval.
Korea.

Kwon, O Chul / TWAN

Saturn, Mars and Spica over Isola d' Elba
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa Plase find above an image taken after sunset on August 14, 2012 and showing (top to down) Saturn, reddish Mars and blueish Spica lining up over island of Elba (Isola d'Elba), Italy. I took the image near the town of Capoliveri.

Best regards

Stefano

The Crescent Nebula In a Different Light

The Crescent Nebula, BI-Color
Copyright: Terry Hancock
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhanco ... hotostream The Crescent Nebula, Hubble Palette
Copyright: Terry Hancock
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhanco ... hotostream The Crescent Nebula, CFHT Palette
Copyright: Terry Hancock
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhanco ... hotostream

The Sun with stars in the background
Copyrigth: César Cantú



The Sun with stars in the background, as never could be observed.
Of course this is a composite image.

The higher the resolution:
http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... ategory/15

Setting Saturn, Mars and Spica
http://www.vadakcsillaga.hu/
Copyright: Tamas Abraham Annotated image: http://www.vadakcsillaga.hu/tajkep/ejsz ... rahamt.jpg
Setting Saturn, Mars and Spica over a pine tree captured by a telephoto lens from the Nyakas Hill at Zsambek, Hungary.

NGC 6992 and surrounding galaxies
Copyright: Paolo Demaria


Full resolution: http://www.astrobin.com/17457/
Note: see all the galaxies at the lower right corner

Moon and Mercury before sunrise
http://www.emilivanov.com/Other_Images/ ... ercury.htm
Copyright: Emil Ivanov

Saturn, Mars and Spica 100 km al sur y unos 200 m más abajo, ya no es lo mismo. // 100 km south and 200 m below, and is not the same.

Curiosity Wheels and Gale crater
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kenneth Kremer(http://www.kenkremer.com) Marco Di Lorenzo

The moon passes in front of Venus in the afternoon of August 13, 2012.
Seen from San Rafael, California. (Click on the images for larger versions.)


Moon and Venus - 2 by fksr, on Flickr


Moon and Venus - 3 by fksr, on Flickr


Moon and Venus - 4 by fksr, on Flickr


Moon and Venus - 5 by fksr, on Flickr

Sharpless2-101 - the Tulip Nebula
http://www.astroimages.de
Copyright: Siggi Kohlert For imaging details and/or a bigger version please visit my website http://astroimages.de/en/gallery/SH2-101.html

Thanks for looking!


Cheers,
Siggi

Here is another version. i recently processed.
10 minutes interval / Canon 5D mark III / 24mm lens.

2012.8.14.
Taebaek, Korea.

Solr Disk in white light with background of stars--

Jim Lafferty
Redlands, California
http://scopetrader.com/jimlafferty

Startrails over the Tortolita Mountains
http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalret ... 761526586/
Copyright: Marion J. Haligowski


Startrails over the Tortolita Mountains by Radical Retinoscopy, on Flickr

A star trail photo was made showing rising stars over the Tortolita range which is located north of Tucson, AZ. The photo was taken facing the eastern sky shortly after moonrise. Each individual image was taken with a Canon t2i and a Canon 100 mm f/2.0 prime lens at f/5.0. Each exposure was 13 seconds at ISO 400. Fifty exposures were stacked using the new startrails.exe version 2.0. Conversion to black and white in Photoshop really intensified the contrast enabling the detail of the saguaros on the ridge to "pop".

Obviously from Paris..
Eiffel tower, Panthéon,...

Copyright: Jean-Paul GODARD & Martine TLOUZEAU Respective websites http://uranoscope.free.fr & http://mseclipse.free.fr

Teneriffa Izana Observatory with Moonset

In a beautiful clear night, I could at Izana Observatory photographed this view with the setting moon.
We see the Teide volcano with the next nearest Izana Observatory.
On the right side of the THEMIS solar telescope to be seen.
In the middle of the VVT solar telescope and to the left, the new solar telescope GREGOR.
On the left edge of a piece of the dome can be seen OGS telescope.

The volcano is right and to his left flank is the cable car to see the mountain top with the top station.
Below the mountain are hikers who move from Refugio in 3280 meters above the summit.
the pictures was taken at around 23.30 CET clock.

Startrail
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http://www.balkonsternwarte.de/andere_S ... mm-web.jpg
one Picture
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http://www.balkonsternwarte.de/andere_S ... mm-web.jpg
Here you can find the Pictures and a Movie from the Moonset.
http://www.balkonsternwarte.de/andere_S ... ana-1.html
Copyright: Oliver Schneider
http://www.balkonsternwarte.de

Sunset over the CARMA Array
http://www.facebook.com/frostjeff
Copyright: Jeff Frost
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Stephan's Quintet
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
http://skycenter.arizona.edu/gallery/galaxies/stephQ
Copyright: Adam Block and Vic Eden/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona Waning Crescent Moon
http://www.galacticimages.com
Copyright: John Chumack
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Ced 214 in Narrowband
Copyright: Sara Wager
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M17: Omega Nebula
http://www.btlguce.com
Copyright: Mark Hanson
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Blue Flame Milky Way
Copyright: Jia Hao
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Couple of pictures I got at the peak of the Perseid Meter shower on Augest 11-12, 2012. I took these with a 50mm Lens on my Canon dslr camera. I have the Vapor trail on the larger one disapating after it passed posted up on my website.






Thank you, Great Pictures here, I love them!

David S. Humphrey
http://www.mcmongo.com

One of the many wonders from the dark sky of Namibia

Cheers,

Kfir

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http://i.pbase.com/g4/85/890385/2/14545 ... wxCkUC.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/145452885

Sunspots AR1543 and AR1546 (New Active Region) August 18, 2012
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... 0446664092
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

Heaven and Hell
The Milky Way and Perseid meteor over Bumpass Hell in Lassen Volcanic National Park during their first annual Night Sky Festival. Major forest fire to the left.
http://www.tylernordgren.com
Copyright: Tyler Nordgren