Starship Asterisk*

Aldebaran, Moon, Epsilon Tauri, Jupiter

Copyright Randall Kayfes 2013

Object: NGC 4459 - 17 July 2003
FITS data obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA).
Also known as VCC 1154 and UCG 7594.
Nuclei accretion disk visible with galaxy brightness stripped away.
Processing by: Steven Marx Click to view Original FULL scale image

Here is a 5 photo panoramic showing the Summer Milky Way rising over the Checkerboard Mesas in Zion National Park. "Milky Way at Dawn"

Milky way fading away as the sun rises over the Checkerboard Mesas in Zion National Park. This is a single frame from a time-lapse I shot last week.

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Camera Settings:
Canon 5DMKII
Canon 16-35L f/2.8
ISO 3200 for 20 Seconds

Object: ABELL 1689 - 12 June 2002
FITS data obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA).
Gravitational lensing galaxy cluster.
Processing by: Steven Marx
Click to view Original FULL scale image

Flat rainbow over Paris
http://ptrenard.skyrock.com/
Copyright: Bertrand Kulik
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Aurora
http://www.astrofotografen.se
Copyright: Göran Strand
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Aurora in Wasilla, Alaska
Copyright: Mike Clemens
[attachment=2]Aurora, 2.jpg[/attachment]

Orion above Cheese Castle in Porto, Portugal
http://www.astro-andregoncalves.blogspot.pt/
http://pauloandre28.wix.com/andregoncalves
http://500px.com/AndreGoncalves
Copyright: André Gonçalves
[attachment=1]Orion&Castelo_leg_res.jpg[/attachment]

Kepler's Supernova Remnant
http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2013/kepler/
Copyright: X-ray: NASA/CXC/NCSU/M.Burkey et al; Optical: DSS
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=30971
[attachment=0]kepler_w11.jpg[/attachment]

Orion the hunter rising in the horizon
Copyright: Sergio Montúfar

NGC5746
http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Terry Hancock/Fred Herrmann All rights reserved.

Comet Hale Bopp
Copyright: Daniel Schechter
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Crux (Southern Cross), the Coal Sack nebula and NGC4755 (Jewel Box)

Here is a 10 photo panoramic foto showing the Zodiacal light. Astrotrac
Copyright: Smilyk Pavel

• M42 - The Orion Nebula

5 x 40 seconds in each of red, green and blue and 6 x 200 seconds in each of red, green and blue. Captured with a TEC 140 (f/7) and an FLI ML16803. The V component of an HSV separation was stretched, rather than a regular stretch of the whole RGB, to better retain the colour. The full 4096x4096 pixel version is available here.

Here some photos from a night on mount Pilatus in Switzerland. The first photo shows the sea of fog without any moonlight. In the second one the moon hast just risen.

^ Pilatus: Sea of fog by night ^
www.MyLandscape.ch
Copyright: David Kaplan ^ Pilatus: Moonrise above the Sea of Fog ^
www.MyLandscape.ch
Copyright: David Kaplan

NGC 1637
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1315/#.UUpSDxzMhwg
Copyright: ESO
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=30978
[attachment=1]ngc 1637.jpg[/attachment]

Herschel Discovers Some of the Youngest Stars Ever Seen
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-102
Copyright: NASA/ESA/ESO/JPL-Caltech/Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=30981
[attachment=0]pia16839-640.jpg[/attachment]

First sunrise of 2013 spring
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa Please find above the image of the Sun rising alongside the Basilica Don Bosco, few kilometers form Turin, Italy, on March 21, 2013.

Best regards

Stefano

day of the spring equinox.

Galaxy on the horizon
http://www.deepskyobjects.com/
Copyright: Behyar Bakhshandeh

March 20th sunset off the coast of San Diego. It was like seeing a galaxy on the horizon...

From Southern Cross to EtaCarina, total of 50min subs, 50mm lens, ISO 1600, 60Da ..
I like the way this lens "produces" 8-arm stars: see A-Crux ..


As max allowed size is 320kB, see it in Higher Res. @:
http://westcoastpics23.blogspot.com.au/

Sunspot group taken with Astro-Physics 152mm and DayStar Quantum PE .5 Angstrom

http://www.danielmcvey.com/wp-content/u ... y-5195.jpg
[attachment=0]McVey.jpg[/attachment]
Waxing Crescent Moon March 2013 near Constellation: Cetus. http://www.danielmcvey.com

Magellan Clouds and Airglow
http://www.luisargerich.com
Copyright: Luis Argerich
[attachment=7]megel.jpg[/attachment]

G306.3-0.9
http://dept.astro.lsa.umich.edu/~dmaitr ... /g306.html
Copyright: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ of Michigan/M.Reynolds et al; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Radio: CSIRO/ATNF/ATCA
[attachment=5]anr_wide.jpg[/attachment]

Aurora over Gulfoss Waterfall
http://www.nuitsacrees.fr
Copyright: Stephane Vetter
[attachment=0]aurora.jpg[/attachment]

Full Moon
Copyright: Leandro Almeida, SOFIA Observatory
[attachment=2]Full Moon TedBoy Furg Leandro.jpg[/attachment]

Two Halos Around the Moon
Copyright: Amirreza Kamkar
[attachment=1]two halo moon.jpg[/attachment]

Lisbon - Stars and Airtraffic
Copyright: Rui Pedro
[attachment=4]Lisbon.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 3628, the "Hamburger" Galaxy
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com
Copyright: Robert Gendler, Hubble, Subaru, and Marco Burali
[attachment=6]NGC3628-Subaru-HST-SS.jpg[/attachment]

Aurora
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hywq3857/
Copyright: Hu Yang
[attachment=3]Sweden china.jpg[/attachment]

M61
http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann All rights reserved.

Earth Hour- Chongqing, China

Copyright: Leandro Almeida, SOFIA Observatory - FURG

Rainbow at night on the town
http://observatorioelche.blogspot.com.es/
Copyright: Juan Lozano

Copyright: Miguel M. Artificio
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid= ... nt_count=1

My scenic entry for PAGASA's first ever Astrophotography contest in celebration with National Astronomy week Philippines (theme solar maximum).