Starship Asterisk*

The large Sunspot Group AR1944 in the last ten years on January 6th, 16:10ut. The M4-class explosion from sunspot AR1944 on Jan. 4th and is expected to deliver a glancing blow to our planet's magnetic field on Jan. 7th. A two panel mosaic.

Analemma of the Sun
Copyright: György Soponyai

This Analemma picture of the Sun was taken in Budapest, Hungary with Canon EOS 5D Mk II camera and Carl Zeiss Distagon 28/F2.8 lens.
Standing at the bank of river Danube and facing East you can see some office buildings, the Hungarian National Theater, the Palace of Arts and the Eastern pillar of Rákóczi Bridge. The solar photos were taken between 2013-01-29 and 2014-01-06 at 08:00 the morning (local time), and the foreground in 2013-11-28 early afternoon.


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Photo details: 2013.01.29. - 2014.01.06. Budapest, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Carl Zeiss Distagon 28/F2.8
Solar disks: 33 x 1/8000, F2.8, ISO 100
foreground: 3 x 1/80, F8, ISO 200

EN: As an analemma-photographer, let me congratulate.
HU: Mint analemma-fotós, hadd gratuláljak. Van-e részletes cikked?

IC63 in HaRGB
Full-size : http://www.felopaul.com/galerie/photo40f.jpg
info : http://www.felopaul.com/galerie/photo40m.jpg

Copyright: Laurent BOURGON & Didier Chaplain
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Setup : CDK20" on Paramount ME2 with Moravian G4-16803

Tidal Streams in NGC 474, NGC 470, NGC 467 (Arp 227) - Interacting Early-Type Galaxies (ETGs) in Pisces

http://www.irida-observatory.org

Copyright: [url=mailto://info@irida-observatory.org]Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov[/url]

NGC 474 is the huge elliptical galaxy with the numerous tidal tails. NGC 470 is the spiral galaxy next to it, located at the same distance (~100 million light years). The faint, wide arcs or shells of NGC 474 could have been formed by a gravitational encounter with neighbor NGC 470.

LRGB combination - 28:15 hours
Annotated image
Higher resolution and more information is available on the website ...

Thank you for looking ...

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Shot of the flaring sun rising over Koko crater, on the east side of Honolulu. This image was taken at 8:49 Hawaii time (18:49 UT). AR1944 looms large towards the center of the disk.

DMK51 camera on a Coronado solar telescope with H-alpha filter.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32859947@N08/11824262506/

Calcium K Line Image of Active Region 1944

As the Solar polar reversal continues the southern equatorial band dominates the surface activity. Active region 1944 is definitely one of the most impressive active regions of the solar cycle 24 to date.
Joe(sullij)Sullivan

The sun with the giant sunspot rise aboive the pacific ocean
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Cone Nebula NGC 2264
Copyright: Jeff Husted Website: http://www.crabnebula.us
Click here to view larger image and image info: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cygnusloop ... /lightbox/
Location: Tehachapi, California.
Equipment: Televue NP127is at f4.1; Atik 383L+; Atlas EQ-G; Astrodon 3nm Ha and E series LRGB filters
Processing: Images Plus; AIP4WIN; Registar; PS Elements.

From the Horse head to M78 Link to full size image (large file)
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A few minutes after sunset, and just before fog rolling in through the Golden Gate covers it, a narrow crescent Venus is visible above the Eucalyptus trees in the Presidio of San Francisco. Since Venus is already pretty low in the sky, atmospheric refraction spreads its light into rainbow colors (look at the full-resolution version of the picture to see the colors in the crescent).


Crescent Venus by fksr, on Flickr

2014 Quadrantids Meteor Shower in Taiwan

Time: 2014/1/3 19:10-21:25 UTC (total 17pics)
Location: Tatachia, Taiwan
Optics: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L at 24mm f/3.2
Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Exposure: 20s/pic at ISO3200

Copyright: Kuan Chen
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NGC 1333 - Dusty star forming region in Perseus
Here's a link to more information about the image: http://www.astrobin.com/71638/

Here's a link to a larger version: http://www.astrobin.com/full/71638/0/

Finally, a link to the full resolution image: http://www.astrobin.com/full/71638/0/?real=&mod=

little blue green flash crepuscular rays moon at sunset

LDN907 narrowband
TEC 140 and Proline FLI with Astrodon SII Ha 5nm and OIII 3nm
http://outters.fr/LDN907-tec140-proline-s2Hao3.html
Full version : http://outters.fr/images%20site%20astro ... Hao3-7.jpg
Copyright: Outters Nicolas
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Jupiter, GRS on January 5th, 02:24ut,03:21ut. Within hours of its close approach to Earth ( Opposition ). Equipment: LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, Flea3 Ccd, TeleVue 3x barlows, Astronomik RGB filter set at 55 sec. per channel.

Jupiter, Oval Ba on January 8th, 03:07 under above average conditions. Equipment: LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, Flea3 ccd, TeleVue 3x barlows, Astronomik RGB filter set at 55 sec.per channel.

Captured with AP 152mm at 2400mm EFL White Light

The Horsehead-

Caption: Sunspots
Copyright: Asim Patel

NGC 660
A fine example of a polar ring galaxy, NGC 660 is over 20 million light years away in the constellation of Pisces. Polar ring galaxies have a large population of gas, dust and stars orbiting the galaxy in a ring-like feature. The image was taken with the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope in La Palma and the new PFIP CCD camera, being the first light image for this instrument.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27891676@N05/
Copyright: Alex Tudorica and Ovidiu Vaduvescu
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Elice e Cynosura on Mount Vettore (central Apennines, Italy)

Nikon d700, Samyang 14mm 2,8 @3,2 - 30 sec. @ 1600 iso


_DSC4991_pt di stefano_palmieri, su Flickr



The Hunter, 25x5min from San Polo dei Cavalieri (Roma, Italy) + 5x5 min. from Forca Canapine (Ascoli Piceno, Italy) - Nikon 28 2,8 ais @3,2 e 1600 iso + 10x5min. @ 1600 iso with Nikon 85 f1,8 @f4 for witchhead nebula (IC 2118) region
Canon 40d Central Ds - Elab. Iris, Registar, Pixinsight e Ps Cs6

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http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5511/1174 ... 1672_c.jpg orione_nikon_28_Ai_s_30_25_pose_5_minuti_1600_iso_san_polo_più_5_forcastellar_red di stefano_palmieri, su Flickr

NGC 1499, the California Nebula
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http://bastienfoucher.smugmug.com/ The high resolution version is here : http://www.helloduf.info/astro/ngc1499_ccd.jpg

Mars on January 9th, 10:31ut. At above average conditions. Top: Sinus Sabeaus, Meridiani regions at left Arabia region. Misty high altitude clouds at the right side of the limb. Lower North polar hood.

The Heart and Moon



No, this is not one exposure, but both images were taken with the same camera and lens, with a hydrogen alpha narrow band filter. It shows a number of things. One is the relative size of a common deep sky astrophotography target compared to the moon. Many people think there's huge magnifications involved, it's really about light gathering power... speaking of which, the image of the moon was .03 seconds and the image of the heart nebula was 20 minutes... 1200 seconds, or 40,000 times longer! On top of that, the heart image was "stretched" or brightened in photoshop to be about 20 times brighter than when captured, which makes the moon 800,000 times brighter than this nebula (at least in Hydrogen Alpha light)!

Larger Version
http://www.eveningshow.com/rawImages/HeartAndMoon.jpg

Richard S. Wright Jr.