Starship Asterisk*

Striped Clouds
http://www.deepskyobjects.com/
Copyright: Behyar Bakhshandeh

Interesting cloud formation over San Diego, Jan 10, 2016

M78
http://www.astrowimp.com
Copyright: Astrowimp
http://nebula.wsimg.com/382e1404ac9dd45 ... oworigin=1
6 panel mosaic 23.7 hours exposure LRGB

Central Orion by David Dvali, on Flickr

Great Nebula in Orion by David Dvali, on Flickr

]M46 and m47 with NGC2438 and 2425


https://www.flickr.com/photos/77307461@N03/13995711175/

http://www.astrobin.com/136834/

Copyright: Jason Matter

New Year’s Titan by Val Klavans, on Flickr

Latest, but very different revision.

NGC 7380 The Wizard nebula, gas and dust.
http://moonrocksastro.com/index.php/201 ... rd-nebula/


NGC 7380 The Wizard nebula, gas and dust. by Paul C. Swift, on Flickr

The beauty of the Orion
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tonypysm/
Copyright: Tony.Pan original size: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1585/2370 ... 512e_o.jpg

A nightscape photographer imaging in a winter night with Sirius and constellation Orion in the starry sky of e YaJiaGeng Red Stone Park in SiChuan province of China. This deep image is a panorama of 6 photos, The red circle across all constellation Orion is Barnard's Loop. The Horsehead nebula, SH2-264, Rosette Nebula and Witch Head Nebula are also visiblein this shoot.
This picture was stitching with six single shots. ISO5000/F2.0/25s.SONY A7(MOD)+SAMYANG 35/1.4 and 0.5X tracked.

Went out at dusk today in the Pershore Wetlands ( Worcestershire, England, UK) - a lovely evening with a bright crescent moon and a murmuration of starlings wriggling around the sky like some mythical monster. Brilliant !
James
James Woodend

Crescent Moon & a Starling Mumuration by james boardman-woodend, on Flickr

Abell 12: The "Hidden" Planetary Nebula

This magnitude 12.4 planetary nebula in Orion has been called the "hidden" nebula because it is mostly obscured in images and when observing due to its proximity to the bright mag 4 white main sequence star, Mu Orionis. However, using OIII and Ha filters in addition to LRGB to tame the star, and with careful processing, the nebula is quite apparent.

Full Size:
http://www.pbase.com/dsantiago/image/162322763

Close Crop:
http://www.pbase.com/dsantiago/image/162323090

Copyright: Derek Santiago

100 Hour Galactic Centre Mosaic by Tom O'Donoghue, on Flickr

Window to the Milky Way
Copyright: Tunç Tezel
Milky Way of summer and winter shines over a high forest lake near Bozcaarmut village in Bilecik province, about 100 km due east of my hometown Bursa, Turkey. This is an occasionally visited lakeside with dark skies and also good spots for fishing, camping and barbecue, especially in summer. This pair of pictures work really well together, nicely showing the difference of the summer and winter sky and especially Milky Way. The foreground has some interesting changes as well, like the calm and clear look of the lake in summer, while it is misty and foggy in winter. The autumn colours of the trees in the winter picture is also interesting; this was caused by the weather being much warmer than usual before new year.
http://www.twanight.org

The Rosette: Part two of twelve
http://moonrocksastro.com/wp-content/up ... x-nrpi.jpg
Copyright: Paul C. Swift

Gran Nube de Magallanes
https://www.facebook.com/lanocheysuencanto/
http://astronomiapampeana.com.ar/
Copyright: Damián Avila, Leonardo Julio
La Gran Nube de Magallanes, observable a simple vista en los cielos del sur, una galaxia de forma irregular. 23 fotos con Canon 6D de 2 minutos a iso 1600 85mm F2, procesada por mi amigo Leonardo Julio.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/79069100@ ... ed-public/

Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile

This is a dramatic phenomenon known as "Earthshine." Just a thin sliver of the moon at the bottom of the image is illuminated directly by the sun. The rest of the moon is seen indirectly, lit up by light reflected off of the Earth, what we see is Sun light reflected from the Earth to the Moon and back to our eyes.
http://www.hevanskies.com/earthshine.html

the orion nebula only 5 stacked images 130 seconds eack taken with a Canon 60D primed focused on a 8 inch schmidt cassagrain on celestron advance vx mount.

http://www.hevanskies.com/the-great-orion-nebula.html

Detail of IC405
http://www.miki-hosp.or.jp/BIND
Copyright: Nobuhiko Miki

Milky way with meteor strike...


Milky Way with meteor strike by Andre van der Hoeven, on Flickr

Night on the Rocks by Rob Dickinson, on Flickr
Castle hill , Canterbury New Zealand, 360 degree panoramic.

IC 443 and Sh2-249
http://www.bastienfoucher.com
Copyright: Bastien Foucher 2 panels mozaic. The high resolution image is available here : http://www.bastienfoucher.com/Astrophot ... /ic443.jpg

47 Tucanae - final edit (honest!)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/7776810@N07/23884667286/
Copyright: Alan C Tough

Souls of Castelluccio - Double Star Trail
www.dariogiannobile.com
Copyright: Dario Giannobile Many graves, encarved in the rocks like the ones in Panalica UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE, lay on the ground in the necropolis of Castelluccio, between Noto and Palazzolo Acreide 's countriside in Sicily -Italy. Warm lights enhance the frame of the tombs from inside. The idea behind the use of the lights is to put the observer in the condition to feel the supernatural dimension of this magic place but at the same time the warm colors trasmit a feeling of confort remembering the hearth fire; the star trails transmit a feeling of time flowing over a very old place (2200-1800 b.c.). The use of a mirror allows to have in the same image both the north and south pole.

Dario G.

Belt of Orion Data: R. De Benedictis Processing: P.Pinciaroli
3 hours with DSRL
copyright: De Benedictis-Pinciaroli
e-mail: paolo.pinciaroli@tiscali.it
Full size: http://the-boot-blog.blogspot.it/