Starship Asterisk*

LBN 437 HsLRGB
http://www.spaceimages.de/astrofotos/nebel/lbn-437
Copyright: Jens Zippel Object: LBN 437
06.08.2016, 07.08.2016, 08.08.2016
Lum: 40 x 600 Sec., RGB each 22x 360 Sec., Ha: 10 x 1800 Sec., sum: 18,3 hrs.
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ85, 450 mm
Filter: Astrodon LRGB E-Series, H-Alpha 5nm
Camera: Atik 460Exm
Guiding: Off Axis Guider, Lodestar
Mount: EQ8

The Flowers of Sagittarius
Copyrights: Will Vrbasso The Lagoon by Starlight
Copyrights: Will Vrbasso Twilight Conjunction
Copyrights: Richard Jaworski Mars (June 17th.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach The Eastern Veil Nebula NGC 6992 et al
Copyrights: Gord Barrett M17 - Omega Nebula
Copyrights: César Blanco González NGC 7000 - The North America Nebula
Copyrights: Francesco Pelizzo Aurora from Alaska
Copyrights: Rudy Wittshirk NGC6888 Crescent Nebula
Copyrights: Isaac Cruz Sept 1 annular eclipse from La Réunion in the Indian Ocean
Copyrights: Jay Pasachoff and Muzhou Lu Enjoying the daytime sky
Copyrights: Adolfo Garcia-Marin SHO of Sh2-119 to the Pelican nebula
Copyrights: Dave Erickson Aurora, Pleiades, Satellite and faint Andromeda Galaxy
Copyrights: Mia Stålnacke Mars, Saturn & Antares
Copyrights: Alain Sallez IC 1848 Soul Nebula
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile Mercury transit
Copyrights: John Reaume Southern Cross and Aurora
Copyrights: Ian Griffin Galactic center of the milky way setting at Pigeon Point Lighthouse in Pescadero, California
Copyrights: Michael Pegram

Venus Moon conjunction
Copyrights: Shahrin Ahmad 3 Planets and the Moon
Copyrights: Axil Lonergan NGC891 Edge On Spiral Galaxy
Copyrights: Terry Hancock
Larger size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhanc ... ateposted/ Hubble discovers rare fossil relic of early Milky Way
Image credits: NASA/ESA/Hubble/F. Ferraro
An article: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1617/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36347

Cygnus loop
Copyrights: Michel Meunier
Full size: http://www.etoiles-a-bleau.fr/transfert/Dentellesg.jpg Eta Carinae and Alot of Dark Nebulae
Copyrights: Fernando Guimaraes 180º of milky way over Chile Skies
Copyrights: Fernando Rey Storm over the Seč reservoir, Czech Republic
Copyrights: Petr Horálek Staring at auroras
Copyrights: Thomas Kast Aurora and Clocktower
Copyrights: Mia Stålnacke Corona over clocktower
Copyrights: Mia Stålnacke NGC 6302 - The Bug Nebula
Copyrights: Fernando Guimaraes Veil Nebula
Copyrights: Pablo Andrés Escobar Eclipse 01/09/16 Reunion island
Copyrights: Samuel Siva Moothen Annular Solar Eclipse from Reunion Island
Copyrights: Coralie Maillot Sagittarius from Spanish Mediterranean coast
Copyrights: Juan Lozano
Full size: http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/d ... Lozano.jpg Corona Australis
Copyrights: R. Colombari / E. Recurt
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/262924/0/?real=&mod= The Sun on 09-05-2016
Copyrights: John Chumack

M52 & The Bubble Nebula Complex
Copyrights: John Chumack Andromeda Galaxy from the Tropics
Copyrights: Remus Chua M31 Andromeda Galaxy
Copyrights: Kayron Mercieca Sharpless 132 - 'The Lion'
Copyrights: Lóránd Fényes HD version: http://www.fenyeslorand.hu/galeria/kozm ... mal/95.jpg

Young Crescent Moon, Venus, Jupiter and Anna Maria
Copyrights: Anthony Ayiomamitis Iris nebula
Copyrights: Andrea Pistocchini Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
Copyrights: Khalifa Algady Crazy Airglow in Acadia NP
Copyrights: Mike Taylor M8 Laguna from Tuscany
Copyrights: Andrea Lucchetti Reunion Island Annular Eclipse
Copyrights: Thierry-Pascal Baum M27
Copyrights: Jose Mtanous
Full size: https://mtanous.files.wordpress.com/201 ... _take4.jpg

Days Before series - 19 July 1969 - Mare Tranquillitatis (Painting) Days Before series - 29 June 1908 - Podkamennaya Tunguska (Painting) Days Before series - 21 August 2006 - Hawaii (Painting) Space history has notable dates. These paintings dwell on quieter moments in places before something happened to elevate them to legend or notoriety. The Hawaii one is no special date; it alludes to data gathered but not looked at for quite a while - whereupon it may acquire great significance.

sh2-155 narrow band image
This image was taken with 20inch RC(officina stella 500-PRO) and ALTA09000CCD with AO-X guiding system.
SAO(ASTRODON 3nm) 120/600/120min

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

IC 1848 - IC 1805 Heart and Soul nebula
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/21144055@N04/albums
https://twitter.com/JJastromet
Copyright: José Jiménez Priego

NGC 281, the pacman nebula.

Author: Gianluca Rossi

higher resolution images can be found at:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/101872383 ... ed-public/

M33 - Triangulum - 17 Hours with DSLR
Copyright: Sergio Kaminsky

All the information here: http://www.myastroscience.com/m33-17hours-dslr

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I love it!

Because I am a diehard fan of stars that are not only blue but intrinsically bright as well, Gamma Cas is obviously a favorite of mine. And because of my love of Gamma Cas, I pay rather close attention to any picture of this star, as well as any portraits of its accompanying nebulas, IC 59 and IC 63. I can say without a doubt that I have never seen what you reveal in your picture.
Although the power of Gamma Cas is many orders of magnitudes weaker than the full blast of cluster NGC 602 in the Small Magellanic Cloud, I think I can see some similarities in the shapes of the surrounding nebulas. In both cases, the stars have carved out a cavity, and the ionized and glowing gases hanging down like a lip or a curtain.

Olly and Tom, your image is brilliant, that's all I can say!

Ann
Thanks for your reply Ann, glad you like the image.
Tom

Thanks for your reply Ann, glad you like the image.
Tom

The Wizard Nebula NGC 7380- Sh2-142

Copyright:Chuck Manges



NGC7380 The Wizard Nebula by Chuck Manges, on Flickr

Two nights ago, there was a brief but pretty cool Northern Lights display in Lofoten. For some reason, I decided to shoot about 90 degrees in azimuth from the main show. And then BAM! this -8 magnitude fireball streaked across the sky. There was a bit of fragmenting towards the end.

Lynds Bright Nebula 603, Lynds Dark Nebula 1295 & 1296 and Tokyo Gakugei University catalogue H807 & H809
http://www.mauricetoet.nl
Copyright: Maurice Toet

Molecular Clouds in Cassiopeia. Larger versions with technical imaging details can be found on my website.

Soul nebula, Heart nebula, Double Cluster, G132.7+0.13 Super Nova Remnant and a lot more.
(4)Panel Mosaic. This image was processed to highlight the background hydrogen cloud that is rarely imaged but present everywhere in the mosaic including the area surrounding the double cluster.

The more that 90 hours of integration are from 2015 and 2016.

Copyright: Dave Erickson
http://www.hbastro.com

higher resolution at: http://www.astrobin.com/full/264052/0/

Sh2-112
http://www.spaceimages.de/astrofotos/ne ... ble-colors
Copyright: Jens Zippel Greetings
Jens

Slightly out of focus capture of Crux.
The most southern localized and brightest star is the blue-white Alpha Crucis or Acrux, followed by four other stars, their clockwise order coinciding with descending magnitude. They are Beta, Gamma (one of the closest to Earth red giants), Delta and Epsilon Crucis. This latter star is a Class K3III, an orange giant located about 228 light-years from Earth. Source: Wikipedia.
Copyright: Aldo Mottino (Argentina).

Copyright Miroslav Horvat

NGC7023 - Iris Nebula by Miroslav Horvat, on Flickr

NGC7023 - Iris Nebula
Transparency: 6/10
Seeing: 7/10
Optics: SW ED80/FF x0.85
Camera: Qhy8c
Mount & guidng: NEQ6 Pro, 9x50 finder guider
Guiding camera: Qhy5L -IIc
Exposure: 16x20 min
Software: PHD, Nebulosity, Pixinsight 1,8,
Location: Petrova gora

Technical details at Astrobin.
Enjoy!

Fireball over Saint Barthelemy Star Party
A very bright fireball (m=-6) over the annual Star Party of Saint Barthelemy, the biggest event in Italy, with dozens of telescopes, caravans, tents. A big wow by all amateurs cut the silence of the night. The fireball ended just above the dome of the Saint Barthelemy Observatory, with a path starting in the Milky Way. On the left the profile of the Alps, and the light pollution of the city Aosta. The author is barely visible on the lower left on the grass with his friends, observing just in the right direction!
3 Sept 2016, h21.03 UT, Canon 60D, Canon 15 mm f/3.5, 30 s exp, 3200 ISO.

hires http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/sp16h.jpg
1200pix http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/sp16.jpg

Author and Copyright: Lorenzo Comolli http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/index2.htm

This is NGC 6960 Nebula .
Image hlrgb made ​​with my telescope Newton SV 300 mm f / 3.3 .
scope : Newton SkyVision MTN 300 f / 3.3
Mount : Astrophysics AP1200 gto
CCD : QSI WSG 540 -15
Guider: Atik GP
Filters : Baader
Ha 17 x 1200 "
L 8 x 600 "
5R5G5B X 600 "


http://www.astrosurf.com/cucculelli/

Orion Nebula

Credit Data by Deep Sky West Observatory , Processed by Jaspal Chadha UK




NGC 1528 and NGC 1545 cluster

Double Cluster
Location: London UK
Imaged and processed by Jaspal Chadha
Copyright Jaspal Chadha

Hi,

here is a 4-panel mosaic of the North America nebula region comprising 74 hrs of exposure.
The image covers also the beautiful elongated dark cloud LDN 914 just south of NGC 7000 and IC 5070.

Mosaic: NGC 7000, IC 5070 and LDN 914
http://www.skytrip.de
Copyright: Mario Weigand Low resolution 1500 x 2293 Pixel (3151 kB)
Medium resolution 2500 x 3822 Pixel (8029 kB)
High resolution 4723 x 7221 Pixel (20527 kB)


cheers

Mario

Sculptor Galaxy



by Artem, on Flickr