Starship Asterisk*

Here are some images that I took last night of the Nova Delphinus 2013 together with NGC 6905.
All images copyright André van der Hoeven



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IC1396 & VdB 142
copyright: Francesco di Biase

IC1396 & VdB 142 in Hubble Palette di Francescodb, su Flickr

Milky Way from Lake Anasagunticook
Here is an image from dark skies of Maine. This is imaged from the Canton lighthouse on Lake Anasagunticook in Canton, Maine. We took the motor boat a half mile to this site (a small island) and found we were out of fuel on the way back. There is nothing like rowing across a still lake in the middle of a clear dark sky in Maine. I often wonder why I moved...
Canon T2i (stock)
ProOptic 8mm fish eye lens (f/3.5)
30 second exposure
ISO 3200
Tungsten white balance
Copyright: Steve Coates
http://coatesastrophotography.com/p5110 ... #h6420c333

M17 - Omega Nebula
http://www.astropilar.com.ar/nebulosas/M17_1.html
Copyright: Ezequiel Bellocchio Regards,
Ezequiel.

M31 Andromeda Galaxy HaLRGB
Copyright: Chuck Manges

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M31 LRGBHa V3 by astrochuck, on Flickr


Hydrogen-Alpha- 4x20 minute
Luminance 10x10 minute
Red-6x10 minute
Green-5x10 minute
Blue 7x10 minute
(6 hours)

Imaged 3 nights July 4 & 14th, August 14,2013
Captured with:
QHY9M & AT65EDQ

Subject: NGC6820 and NGC6823 (Ha,OIII,SII + RGB)

Copyrights: James Collins

Larger image URL:
http://jimstar11.com/NGC6823_Apod.jpg

Web Site: Meadow View Observatory
http://jimstar11.com/

IC 5146 Cocoon nebula
Copyright: Kai Wiechen

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http://ic2.pbase.com/o9/92/1047492/1/15 ... _LRGB3.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/kwiechen/image/151851073/large

Comet Lemmon
Copyrights: Damian Peach Nova Delphini
Copyrights: Nick James Nova Del 2013
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado

2013 Perseids in Zhangbei Prairie
Copyrights: Xiang Zhan 2013 Perseids Meteor Shower
Copyrights: Dennis Huff

IC1396 & VdB142
HaLRGB signal combination
Copyright: Francesco di Biase

IC1396 & VdB142 HaLRGB di Francescodb, su Flickr

Unusual Sun ejection from SDO
Credits: NASA
Larger version: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/7464 ... 0blend.jpg NASA Rover Gets Movie as Mars Moon Passes Another
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M Univ
More about: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-253 Colored complex of gas and dust around vdb 152
Copyrights: Fabiomassimo Castelluzzo and Giancarlo Erriquez NGC-7023
Copyrights: Stefano Conti

Cocoon Nebula

A beautifull nebula surrounded by a miriad of stars. The Barnard 168 nebula forms an amazing dark line.

Full size image: http://www.astrobin.com/full/52286/C/?real=

Van Den Berg 152 Nebula in Cepheus.

Do not you remember anything?

Sharpless2-82: Emission/Reflection Nebula in Sagitta
(The Little Cocoon)

http://lbuckphotos.smugmug.com/Astrophotography

Copyright: Lee Buck
View high-res version here

My husband took a virtual spacewalk following ISS - on the ground. He said he enjoyed it a lot!
I watch and photograph ISS whenever I can, but wanted to do something funny so I asked my husband if he'd like to help me with it. As I described him what I planned he agreed as it seemed to be mad enough for him to do. He waved goodbye to ISS when it began fading as it entered Earth's shadow.
Photo credit: Monika Landy-Gyebnar

Proper motion of stars

Recently I found that the images taken for the Digitized Sky Survey around 1990 are about the same image scale as the images I take now with
my TEC-140. So I decided to make a comparison between an image from 1990 and 2013 of NGC 7331 and Stephan’s quintet. It clearly shows the stars are not static and that there is a lot of motion. I tried to show most of the stars that I could see moving… I have never seen so much change in such a small field on this timescale...

animated image

Members of Swedish Astronomical Youth League observe Milky Way
Copyrights: Mikael Ingemyr and Lars Johansson CG4
Image Credit & Copyright: Angus Lau, Y Van, SS Tong - Jade Scope Observatory NGC6826
Copyrights: Morten la Cour and Niels V Christensen NGC 1261 in Horologium
Copyrights: Damian Peach

NOVA DELPHINI 2013
Copyrights: Ernesto Guido & N. Howes Bright Nova in Delphinus
Copyrights: Amirreza Kamkar Nova Delphini Spectrum
Copyrights: Juerg Alean

Zeta Cephei Area
Copyrights: Gianni Fardelli

hello to all
please find here an image of IC 1311 in milky way.
self made newton 275 mm F/3.3 in Ariège (Pyrennees mountains)
image by philippe TOSI
regards

Top of propeller nebulae
http://www.outters.fr/LBN47-tec140-proline-s2Hao3.html
Copyright: Nicolas Outters

avdhoeven wrote:Proper motion of stars

Recently I found that the images taken for the Digitized Sky Survey around 1990 are about the same image scale as the images I take now with
my TEC-140. So I decided to make a comparison between an image from 1990 and 2013 of NGC 7331 and Stephan’s quintet. It clearly shows the stars are not static and that there is a lot of motion. I tried to show most of the stars that I could see moving… I have never seen so much change in such a small field on this timescale...

Oh yeah, the moving stars (among other things) have really thrown me off when I try to use Hubble data that's years apart. No doubt you've seen it there too. It's like finally hitting frame #2 on a movie that has billions of frames. How humbling.

Sandgirl wrote:Nova Delphini Spectrum
Copyrights: Juerg Alean

Is this a fairly typical way of presenting spectrums? I've never seen it like this before. I really like this. The Hubble people wanted everyone to pick their favorite Hubble images and even told us to pick our favorite spectrums but the presentation of spectrums is so... well, it's scientific, which has a beauty if you know how to appreciate it, but I can't help but try to think of ways to make them more easily understandable by the average Joe.

M57 image taken on June 7th without SN and on August 18th, 05:53ut. Showing the Super Nova in the Galaxy IC1296-(Annotated) its ID is SN2013ev. Discovered by F. Ciabattari, E. Mazzoni and G. Petroni (ISSP) (Italy) On Aug12-2013 and independantly Manfred Kliemke (Germany). It is in the same field as the planetary nebula M57. This one is a Type II (z=0.017). This supernova is in the Constellation Lyra. (Equipment: LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, F6.3, CGE mount, ST402me NAB Ccd, Astronomik LRGB filter set.)

Copyright: César Cantú
This image has everything.