Starship Asterisk*

Comet 67P Churyumov–Gerasimenko on August 12th, 08:47ut. Tomorrow is at it's closest to perihelion.

NGC6888 HA/OIII

Full and details here: http://astrob.in/full/197876/0/



HA: 14x20mn bin2
OIII: 22x20mn bin2

M27 HA/OIII

Full and details here: http://astrob.in/full/201050/0/



HA: 8x 20mn en bin2
OIII: 10x20mn en bin2

Perseus Metoric Shower in Beijing
Copyrights: Quan Yi

The Perseid Meteor Shower of 2015
https://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/
Copyright: Marion Haligowski

The Perseid Meteor Shower of 2015 by Marion Haligowski, on Flickr

The Perseid Meteor Shower of 2015 - Crop by Marion Haligowski, on Flickr

A bright Perseid meteor was photographed above a patch of sunflowers in Lancaster, PA on the morning of August 13, 2015.

Carina Nebula (ACS, WFPC2, WFC3 mosaics) by Paul C. Swift, on Flickr

Perseids Meteor Shower by csath07, on Flickr

Cygnus Milky Way by Die Launische Diva, on Flickr

Perseid close of Cassiopedia.
César Cantú
The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle. The Perseids are so called because the point from which they appear to come, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Perseus. The name derives in part from the word Perseides, a term found in Greek mythology referring to the sons of Perseus.

http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... category/9

Soaking in the Perseids
https://instagram.com/matt_quinn
Copyright: Matthew Quinn

Technical details at Astrobin.
Enjoy!

TITLE: Big Dipper reflection in a pond on the roof of Galicia


DESCIPTION: You can see the reflection of popular asterism of the Big Dipper that is part of the constellation Ursa Major at a lagoon known as Laguna "Tablillas", of the many that make up the Peña Trevinca, Galicia-called roof (with 2170 meters of altitude). These Trevinca skies are about to be certified as tourist destination Starlight (R).

PICTURE DETAILS: Photographed using a compact "Samsung Galaxy" digital camera from Peña Trevinca in the municipality of A Veiga, Ourense (Galicia, Spain). ISO 3200 sensitivity and an exhibition of 16 seconds was used. The image is the night of August 11 at about 4 am, as we watched the Perseids.

HD PICTURE LINK: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5zRSB ... sp=sharing

CREDITS: Emilio Castro

A piece of the Southern Winter Sky, with Pipe Nebula, Corona Australis itd ..

Perseids over Ling mountain
At the day of Aug.13th, I stood on the Ling mountain of Beijing, watching Perseid meteors fall down on the earth.
Full size: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5757/205 ... 1e88_o.jpg
Copyright: ZhouYannan

Touching the Moon

Blue Moon of July, the 2nd Full Moon of the month, touching the Fortress of San Marco,the New fortress of Corfu, while little Constantina, my niece, trying to touch the Moon with her mother and father, Zoe Metallinos & Alexandros Chimarios.

day's capture was capture the Sequel of the Moonshiner's Full Moon :
http://www.astrovox.gr/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=16332

Moon 15,11 days old
distance 364016km
altitude 1,50°
azimuth 109°48'

Canon eos 6D
Takahashi TOA130 APO,
Astrotech flat
1000mm
f/7.7
iso800
i/60sec

Corfu Greece, 31 Jul 2015

Eta Carinae panorama
Copyrights: Peter Kiss
Full size: http://www.deepeye.hu/upl/etc/ngc3372_d ... erKiss.jpg Small Magellanic Cloud and NGC104
Credits and Copyrights: Data: DSS II/Roberto Colombari; Processing: Roberto Colombari
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/201431/0/?real=&mod= Perseid
Copyrights: Brian Castro SL 25 Dark Nebula in Scorpius
Copyrights: Leonardo Julio
Full size: http://astronomiapampeana.com.ar/foto/1 ... us_hd.html Methane Enshrouds Nearby Jupiter-like Exoplanet
Image credits: Danielle Futselaar and Franck Marchis, SETI Institute
An article: http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/08/13/met ... exoplanet/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35070

Amazing Multitude of Structures around NGC 2001
Copyrights: Dieter Willasch Exploding Lyrid Meteor and resulting 'Z' smoke trail.
Copyrights: Sam Cornwell Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina - Colour Image 11-Aug-2015
Copyrights: Ian Sharp Perseid Meteors
Copyrights: John Chumack Comet 67P - August 12th
Copyrights: Damian Peach

Electric storm in Candelaria, Tenerife - Canary Islands
Copyrights: Rafael Cedrés ISS over Poland - 08.08.2015
Copyrights: Łukasz Sujka Perseid meteor above the Peterberg Observatory
Copyrights: Sebastian Voltmer Andromeda and a Perseid
Copyrights: Daniyyel Nicholas Andromeda Galaxy Perseids Face off
Copyrights: Shreenivasan Manievannan Mammatus
Copyrights: Adolfo Garma Milky Way and Perseid
Copyrights: Chao Zhang Perseid meteor over New Zealand
Copyrights: Tomas Milan 2015 Perseid meteor
Copyrights: Victor van Wulfen Climbers and Perseids
Copyrights: Stephane Vetter
Larger size: http://www.nuitsacrees.fr/DP/AP30/tcl1400.jpg Lightning over Normandy
Copyrights: Mohamed Laaifat Big Dipper reflection in a pond on the roof of Galicia
Copyrights: Emilio Castro

NGC 6888 Crescent Nebula & PN G75.5+1.7 Soap Nebula
Data / FullRes

Recording / preprocessing: by Frank Iwaszkiewicz
Image processing: by Nico Geisler & Frank Iwaszkiewicz


Best Regards Deep-Sky-Astro Team

A Night of the Astro Camp
Copyright: György Soponyai

The annual astro camp of Hungarian Astronomical Association is being held in Gerecse Mountain near Tarján (~40km from Budapest). The first night was clear but the seeing was terrible (limiting magnitude around 5.5-6.0).



2015.08.13. Tarján, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Sigma EF 8/4.0
195 x 110 sec, F4, ISO 2500

NGC 6334 - The Cat's Paw Nebula in narrowband

Added more data to the previous version of this photograph.

Equipment: 4" doublet on Skywatcher AZEQ6, QSI 690 and Astrodon's 3nm filters.
Integration: 23.5 hours (collected over several nights)
Site: Paddington in Brisbane, Australia

http://www.astrobin.com/201490/C/
Copyright: Slawomir Lipinski

The Zodiacal Light

15s/iso4000 / f2.8 / 14mm
Río Atuel, Mendoza, Argentina
April 2015

Copyright: Sergio Montúfar

La Yacama
She likes to drink from the rivers during the night / Inca mythology / Constellation

Copyright: Sergio Montúfar

Fallen stars:

Perseid meteor over an old Mecedes Benz which has lost his star...

Black Forest, Germany

Achim Schaller

Squid nebulae or OU4
http://outters.fr/Ou4_HaOIII_RGB-SV400-Moravian.html
Copyright: OUTTERS Nicolas Link for the full :http://www.outters.fr/images%20site%20a ... I-rvb6.jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/airliner/

© Mavroudakis Fotis