Starship Asterisk*

moon and clouds

The Ghost Ship (Greece, July 20, 2015)
http://www.alexandrosmaragos.com
Copyright: Alexandros Maragos

The Milky Way over "Dimitrios" shipwreck at Gytheio, Greece.

The Ghost Ship I by Alexandros Maragos


The Ghost Ship II by Alexandros Maragos

The Swan and the Eagle
https://mtanous.files.wordpress.com/
Copyright: Jose Mtanous

Light Pillars

Río Salado, General Belgrano, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Copyright: Sergio Montúfar Codoñer

At a distance of 30,000 light years from the Sun, globular cluster NGC 6144 lies well beyond the dusty regions around the star Antares through which its light shines. This places it about three times further away than the more famous globular cluster M4 located nearby. The light from NGC 6144 travels through a lot of intervening dust as well as the yellow coloured nebula around the bright star Antares and this contributes significantly to its beautiful yellow-red colouring.
Copyright: Michael Sidonio

Larger image here: http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ ... 5/original

A 100-Billion-Suns Set.
Resende, July/2015 - Brazil.
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Lights on, lights off
http://canopus123.wordpress.com
Copyright: Alexei Pace
A widespread power cut in Malta on 24 June provided a good opportunity to view the night sky...though sadly clouds came up when the crescent Moon had set! The image is superimposed on a 'normal' image shot on June 30 when Jupiter and Venus had their closest approach.

Sometimes you need a negative to see it...Halpha Shock Waves in Cygnus

Dave Erickson http://www.hbastro.com

Sunset Trio Moon-Venus-Jupiter at the edge of the Earth. Cape Tarkhankut. 18 July.
Copyright: Yuri Zvёzdny

Deneb Alpha Cygni
© VegaStarCarpentier P h o t o g r a p h y https://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarc ... 0006080325

Plutonian Tombaugh Regio (Full-resolution mosaic)
NASA/JHU-APL/SwRI/Roman Tkachenko
https://psv4.vk.me/c612826/u46695085/do ... ATiyAGR1je

A very nice Milky Way as seen from Austria seen during my holiday.



Milky Way Austria - reprocessed by Andre van der Hoeven, on Flickr

Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex

This image is composed from 3 frames - each frame taken a year apart - a total of 3 years in making!

The project started in 2012 - each year I added another frame and still in 2014 ,I wasn't happy with the outcome.

In May 2015 - I finally was able to add the proper color data.

This is X2 downgrade in the resolution from the original 11677X4046 pixels and still it is a huge image.

Each frame is 90 min of luminance, 30 min Ha and 30 min RGB.
The total time is 7.5 hrs for the whole image...

Imaged with the 16" f3.75 Dream Astrograph.
Apogee Alta U-16M camera.

Imaged from Tivoli farm in Namibia from June 2012 till May 2015.

Please see the (almost) full resolution image here:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/160830033/original

Thanks for looking!!!

Kfir Simon

Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile
Sharpless 126 v3 by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

Carlo Rocchi, Italy

ALMA Witnesses Assembly of Galaxies in the Early Universe for the First Time
Credit: ESO/R. Maiolino
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1530/ Sunset, mountains (and plane)
Copyrights: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez Milky Way rising over Llano del Jable, La Palma, Spain
Copyrights: Javier Martinez Moran Helix Nebula
Credits and Copyrights: SSRO-South (Steve Mazlin, Warren Keller, Steve Menaker, Jack Harvey) & PROMPT/CTIO
Larger size: http://www.starshadows.com/gallery/disp ... ?imgID=380 Northern Lights
Copyrights: Robert Vice M42
Credits and copyrights: Data: NASA/ESO; Processing: Roberto Colombari
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/196356/0/?real=&mod= Pluto New Horizons imagery
Credits and copyrights: Data: NASA; Processing: Damian Peach

Milky Way
Copyrights: Leandro Cetz Arana Milky Way with Saturn and Pluto panorama
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado Pulsar Punches Hole In Stellar Disk
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/G.Pavlov et al; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
An article: http://chandra.si.edu/press/15_releases ... 72215.html Airship passing near a black hole!
Copyrights: John Chumack Abell 2294
Copyrights: Matthias Kluge
Larger size: http://www.usm.uni-muenchen.de/people/m ... z118_3.jpg Moon reflection
Copyrights: Dan Molnar Pluto
Credits and Copyrights: Data: NASA/JHUAP/SWRI; Processing: Giuseppe Conzo NGC6883, Open Cluster with Nebula
Copyrights: Ron Brecher The C/2014 Q1 Panstarrs' Coma
Copyrights: Aldo Kleiman

Bonsoir by Thanasis Papathanasiou, on Flickr

Line of Light by Thanasis Papathanasiou, on Flickr

Further New Horizons imagery
Credits and Copyrights: Data: NASA; Processing: Damian Peach Larger size: http://www.damianpeach.com/plutonh/sput ... ic_col.jpg Sh2-126
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile Iris Nebula NGC 7023
Copyrights: Rigoberto Cortes Bou Antares Region
Copyrights: Navaneeth Unnikirshnan Half Meter Telescope and Milkyway
Copyrights: Navaneeth Unnikirshnan Lagoon Nebula and Trifid Nebula
Copyrights: Navaneeth Unnikirshnan Messier 13 24 July 2015
Copyrights: Giacomo Di Felice

Full Moon of July & Temple of Poseidon at cape Sounio, Attica, Greece


Full Moon 15.48 days old, rise behind the ancient Temple of Poseidon,
This is the first Moon of July, capture on 2th July 2015 21:15(UT+3), the Moon was on the left hand(ρ1-Sgr) of Constellation of Sagittarius and it was 371645km (230929miles) away from us, and it was about 4° above the Ecliptic. While the Sun was at the opposite site just 6° under the horizon.
This year July has two full moons the second one is on 31th of July and it call it Blue Moon.
The Moon appears huge because of the telescopic illusion, the Temple was 1540m.(5052ft) away, while the photo shot by a 1000mm f7.7 Telescope.


According to Greek Mythology, Cape Sounion is the spot where Aegeus, king of Athens, leapt to his death off the cliff, thus giving his name to the Aegean Sea.
Archaeological finds on the site date from as early as 700 BC. Herodotus tells us that in the sixth century BC, the Athenians celebrated a quadrennial festival at Sounion, which involved Athens' leaders sailing to the cape in a sacred boat.


Canon eos 700D
iso800
Takahashi TOA 130 APO of the Astronomical Society of Corfu
1000mm
f7.7

Single and panoramic images captured at dusk from the Triassic Park Ischigualasto, San Juan, Argentina.
Copyright: Aldo Mottino (Argentina).

This is a hybrid image generated from a Tone Mapped Hubble Palette image, combined with a RGB image enhanced with both H-alpha and O3 narrowband data.
Copyright Eric Coles and Mel Helm

The Soap Bubble Nebula, Hubble Palette Tone Mapped SHO image.
Copyright Eric Coles and Mel Helm

Gamma Cyg nebula project. Part 3 The Cresent by Paul Swift, on Flickr

North America & Pelican Nebulae by Paul Swift, on Flickr