Starship Asterisk*

LBN 468 + HH-215 by Patrick Gilliland, on Flickr
LBN 468 + HH 215 a variable neubla simalar to the hubble varibale.
©Paddy Gilliland

LDN 1355,7 LBN 643 VdB 9 & 7 - The Helping Hand by Patrick Gilliland, on Flickr

LDN 1355,7 LBN 643 VdB 9 & 7 - The Helping Hand
©Paddy Gilliland

VdB 141 - A review by Patrick Gilliland, on Flickr
VdB 141 - Different Perspectives
©Paddy Gillland

Milky Way Arch over Tivoli Southern Sky Guest Farm, Namibia, August 28, 2016
http://www.sternklar.ch/images-webpages ... Aug-16.htm
Description of photograph:
The image shows (from left to right): Magellanic Clouds, Milky Way Arch, Observatories West and North of Tivoli Southern Sky Guest Farm (foreground), Andromeda Galaxy and M 33.

Exposure data:
9 Frames with Canon EOS 6D(a) and Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 15 mm 1:2.8 ZE@ f/2.8. Exposure time for each frame: 25 seconds @ 6400 Asa.

Website Southern Sky Guest Farm:
http://www.tivoli-astrofarm.de/e_tivoli_astrofarm.php

Copyright: Manuel Jung, http://www.sternklar.ch

Super Moon

clink on link for zoomable version

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/31017299165

Thank you asterisk.apod and all your viewers for generously giving me over 1 million views on my photos over the past 3 years.

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

Moon

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/30836193306

Thank you asterisk.apod and all your viewers for generously giving me over 1 million views on my photos over the past 3 years.

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

Sundog

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/30744768355

Thank you asterisk.apod and all your viewers for generously giving me over 1 million views on my photos over the past 3 years.

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

Pinching the North Star
http://www.dariogiannobile.com
Copyright: Dario Giannobile This image won the First Prize in the PHOTO NIGHTSCAPE AWARDS 2016 PNA - In Town Category!!!

"The Cathedral of Syracuse is enriched by many external sculptures: Saint Lucia, Saint Marciano, the Virgin Mary, Saint Peter and Paul. Here Saint Paul keeps upon his fingers the north star Polaris whilest all the other stars rotate around his hand in a very extreme star trail.
Ancient Syracuse includes the old city’s foundation, Ortygia, built by Greeks from Corinth in the 8th century BC. The site of the city, which Cicero described as ‘the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of all’, retains vestiges such as the Temple of Athena (5th century BC, later transformed to serve as a cathedral), a Greek theatre, a Roman amphitheatre, a fort and more."

Image with a slightly different luminosity equilibrium with respect to the previous post.
Available without labels.

Dario Giannobile

The Missing Observer
http://www.dariogiannobile.com
Copyright: Dario Giannobile This image won the Jury Special Mention in the PHOTO NIGHTSCAPE AWARDS 2016 PNA - Nightscape Category!!!

Once the courtyard of our farmhouses were places where people met and talked about the strenuous day of work in the fields. May be they stayed sit looking at the clear and dark sky. Nowadays these places are abandoned and no one is looking at the sky any more. That's the reason why the chairs are empty and the mirror reflects the sky that the missing observers would have looked at.
A hoe remembers the farming vocation of such places while the prickly pears on the chair represent the island where I live and the period (summer) when this sky has been captured. Light painting creates a surreal mood for a sky that is not seen but is there at the same time.

Dario Giannobile

Supermoon by Rajneesh Parashar, on Flickr

Supermoon
14th Nov 2016
Canon 700D

Melotte 15 - The Heart Of The Heart by Patrick Gilliland, on Flickr

The Heart of [the] Matter - Melotte 15 in the Heart of the Heart.
©Paddy Gilliland (Data - Deep Sky West)

Subject: NGC281 Pac Man Nebula
Copyrights: James Collins

Larger image URL:
http://jimstar11.com/NGC281cropped.jpg
Web Site: Meadow View Observatory
http://jimstar11.com/

NGC 2237 The Rosette Nebula in SHO+RGB

Image Credit & Copyright: José Jiménez Priego & Raul Villaverde Fraile

https://flic.kr/p/P5QgpJ

https://www.facebook.com/jose.jimenezjj
https://www.facebook.com/raul.villaverdefraile?fref=ts

Wanderer in Patagonia

Author's site: http://www.astroadventures.ru/
Copyright: Yuri Zvezdny

Inside ic1805
http://www.ferenczyluc.com

Copyright: Rolland Balázs

In the Sculptor - NGC 288 and 253

NGC 288


further informations http://chamaeleon-observatory-onjala.de ... 8-2015.htm

NGC 253


further informations http://chamaeleon-observatory-onjala.de ... galaxy.htm

Copyright: Franz Hofmann and Wolfgang Paech

Sh2-273
http://www.skymonsters.net
Copyright: Nicola Montecchiari

Within the Rosette Nebula

http://www.KinchAstro.com

Within the Rosette Nebula II

Full Image @: http://www.kinchastro.com/rosette-nebula---hsho.html

IC 1808 The Heart Nebula in SHO+RGB

Image Credit & Copyright: José Jiménez Priego & Raul Villaverde Fraile

https://flic.kr/p/PcpJk4

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August 2016
Location: San Romualdo - Ravenna (Italy)
LX200 12"GPS with Starizona reducer/coma corrector F/7.1
CCD QSI 540wsi cooled -18
Astrodon RGB Gen2 True-Balance I-series and Narrowband 5nm filters
Autoguided images with ASI120MM and PHDguiding2 on ETX105
HA-OIII-RGB: HA 53x6min, OIII 48x6min, R 40x3', G 30x3', B 40x3'
Acquired with: MaximDL5 - Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat
Processed with: MaximDL5, Astroart6, StarTools1.4, Photoshop CS2, Paint Shop ProX9, Topaz Plug-in and StarSpikePro3

Cristina Cellini

Rosette Nebula NGC 2244 Bi-Color Narrowband by Transient Astronomers, on Flickr

Image Credit and Copyright Tom Bramwell / Tom Masterson

astropaddy wrote:LDN 1355,7 LBN 643 VdB 9 & 7 - The Helping Hand by Patrick Gilliland, on Flickr

LDN 1355,7 LBN 643 VdB 9 & 7 - The Helping Hand
©Paddy Gilliland

I love "The Helping Hand" as well as the colors and composition of the picture. What a great image!

Ann

M81 from an 8" Celestron Edge HD in San Diego, CA. This image was constructed from 48 5-minute luminance subs and 36 10-minute color subs in a 19.75 mean SQM urban sky.

Blue Horsehead
http://www.astromarcin.pl/images/nebula ... 6_2000.jpg
Canon 6D mod with 200mm
Copyright: Marcin Paciorek
http://www.astromarcin.pl/images/nebula ... 16_800.jpg
Gallery: http://www.astromarcin.pl