Starship Asterisk*

Mars on April 19th, 03:29th. Left at the limb now Tharsis Montes region poking through the clouds and at (right-center) Candor Chasma, right Sinus Meridiani at the limb. Top North polar cap-Chasma Boreale is still visible and a region of interest at left bright clouds.

The Amazing Sun is loaded with Active Sunspots 04-16-2014
Copyrights: John Chumack Aurora after the Lunar Eclipse
Copyrights: Stephen Bedingfield Mars on April 16th 2014
Copyrights: Leo Aerts

Stars over Havasu Falls
Copyrights: Coty Spence Sunset from Spain
Copyrights: Oscar Blanco Perseus dust and nebulas
Copyrights: Pedro Santos Comparing Mars with the Moon
Copyrights: Leo Aerts Mars on 04/19/2014
Copyrights: Oliveira Ednilson

iAstrophoto of 4/15/14 Lunar Eclipse
http://www.iAstrophotography.com
Copyright: Matt Schwartz

This image of the 4/15/14 lunar eclipse "blood moon" was taken using a Celestron AstroMaster 130 and an iPhone 5s in San Diego, CA.

The Monkey head nebula NGC 2174

Thanks for looking!

Kfir Simon

Larger version:

http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/154322723

The Small Magellanic cloud with 2 Globular clusters
The Small Magellanic Cloud can be seened accompanied with the Globular cluster 47 TUC (at upper Right) and NGC 362 (at upper Left)

Thanks for looking!

Kfir Simon

Larger version:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/155172916

NGC 3532 - The Wishing Well Cluster

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Kfir Simon

Larger version:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/155172638

NGC 2626
The Emission/Reflection small nebula NGC 2626 can be seen at the upper Left of the image.
It lies near the border of the Southern constellations of Vela and Puppis.
It is embedded in a much larger Hydrogen cloud RCW 27 (seen all around the image...)
Thanks for looking!

Kfir Simon

Larger version:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/155172124

The Dark tower in Scorpius.

Thanks for looking!

Kfir Simon

Larger version:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/155171930



and only in Hydrogen Alpha:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/155171933

Title: Vendicari Chimney Stack
Copyright: Dario giannobile
Site: http://www.dariogiannobile.com



This is an old chimney stack used for the old manifacturing of the tuna-fish. The fishermen caught the fish by means of the tuna-fish net where they were entraped in the death chamber. Now the place is a nature reserve : the nature reserve of Vendicari. The place was photographed under the full moon's light.

Dario Giannobile

Title: Vendicari's Tower
Copyright: Dario giannobile
Site: http://www.dariogiannobile.com



The 15th century tower in the nature reserve of Vendicari (italy-Sicily) was a strategical sighting tower used for the coast defence. That night the Moon was showing itself through one of the two windows.

Dario Giannobile

Title: Vendicari Iridescent clouds
Copyright: Dario giannobile
Site: http://www.dariogiannobile.com



The full moon is high in the clear sky when a small clouds passed in front of it. Suddenly colors spread all around! A composition of 4 shots.
Dario Giannobile

M101 In Ursa Major, 23 hour exposure.



Medium resolution: http://www.astronomie.be/pieter.vandeve ... 14_med.jpg

Best regards,

Pieter Vandevelde
http://www.astronomie.be/pieter.vandevelde/home.htm

crepuscular rays http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 08#p224308

Bright Blood Moon...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarc ... 856875443/
Copyright : VegastarCarpentier https://www.facebook.com/VegastarCarpentierPHOTOGRAPHY

Good to see you back here, Vegastar! Welcome back! That's some blood Moon!

And Kfir Simon, thank you so much for a number of lovely pictures here! I think my favorite is the Wishing Well cluster seen against a wisp of red nebulosity... no, I think it is the Small Magellanic Cloud... no, I think it is NGC 2626... no, I think it is the cometary globule...

Dario giannobile, what a lovely iridescent cloud in front of the Moon!

PieterVDV, that's a great portrait of M101!

Rothkko, I love the bird over the golden clouds and the crespuscular (anti.crepuscular?) rays!

Thanks to everyone who contributed pictures here!

Ann

Hi

I got the Dragon capsule catching up to the ISS on Saturday night over Southern Ontario. They passed on each side of Jupiter.





With annotations

http://billlongo.com/iss_09.php

Thanks for looking.

Eclipsed MOON by Mona Garliceanu, on Flickr

Eclipsed MOON picture map by Mona Garliceanu, on Flickr

sequence

https://www.flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/13954411751/

De. Sergio Montúfar

Collective image obtained with the contribution of the following amateur astronomers (in alphabetical order):
Domenico Argentiero, Giuseppe Donatiello, Marco Favuzzi, Terenzio Fusco, Rolando Ligustri, Federico Pelliccia, Andrea Pistocchini.

Full-Res image: http://www.astrobin.com/full/91365/B/

Integrated Flux Nebula in UMa, near SAO 6792
Author and Copyright: Lorenzo Comolli (http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/index2.htm)


More details: http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/d166.htm

mammatus cloud at sunset

Lorenzo Comolli wrote:Integrated Flux Nebula in UMa, near SAO 6792
Author and Copyright: Lorenzo Comolli (http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/index2.htm)


More details: http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/d166.htm

That's a really beautiful image of something that has never been photographed before! Integrated flux nebulosity is found in many other constellations including Pegasus, Aries, Leo, Virgo, Apus, Octans and Libra to name a few. I would love to see a closeup of Abell 788 by Adam Block.

Rolando Ligustri wrote: comet C/2012 K1 Panstarrs already a few weeks after its discovery had shown a strong activity, measured with a big af(rho) value . In recent weeks the dust production declined, but has begun to show a good gas activities with a more extended coma and an ion tail, for now still weak...but there are still 4 months at its perihelion and if this continues it could become a very beautiful comet to follow

link for high res, http://www.astrobin.com/92116/

Saturn 2014
http://500px.com/rafaeldefavari
Copyright: Rafael Defavari