Starship Asterisk*

Perseid Fireballs
https://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa Please find above two images of perseid fireballs taken from Isola d’Elba (Elba Island, Italy). The first shows a fireball appeared in the sky just above a nice yacht in the bay of Calanova (in the east coast of the Island), casting a green reflection on the calm sea. The second image shows a bright fireball captured next to the Milky Way.
Elba is a Mediterranean island in Tuscany, located some 10 kilometres from the coastal town of Piombino and is worldwide famous as there Emperor Napoleon was exiled after his forced abdication in 1814.

Best regards
Stefano

An Iris and a Deinotherium Head

http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/3587/201 ... bd46f9.gif

In the faint Lynds' Dark Nebula 1171 I recognize the head of a Deinotherium
(enormous prehistoric proboscidean, with two downward curving tusks, attached to the lower jaw).

Location: Venice, Italy
Date: 2017-07-26

Equipment:
Canon EOS 60Da DSLR camera at ISO 1600 and
Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM.
Astronomik EOS Clip-Filter CLS
Mount: iOptron ZEQ25GT.
Exposure: 492x30s

August is usually regarded as "meteor month," with one of the best displays of the year reaching its peak near midmonth. That display is the annual Perseid meteor. In the foreground is the Monument of Caius Vibius a 4 m high monolith dating to the 1st century AD placed in Filippoi, Kavala Greece an important archaeological site of eastern Macedonia, with characteristic monuments of the Hellenistic, Roman and Early Christian periods
© Mavroudakis Fotis

Galaxy's Tashiro Mire by MASAHIRO MIYASAKA, on Flickr

Saturn Moons Tethys (Lower-Left), Dione (Top-Right) and a Cyclonic storm at the Northern Equatorial Belt region on August 8th, 01:18ut, 01:41ut.

sunset

http://www.astro.cz/fotogalerie/ctenars ... ml?id=5114
http://www.astro.cz/galerie_ctenarska/velke/098869.jpg

Perseid above hill Růžovský vrch in the National park Bohemian Switzerland in Czechia.

Author: Jan Martinek
Location: Jetřichovice, Czechia (50°51'28.0"N, 14°24'06.8"E)
Time: August 12, 2017, 22:00 Central European Summer Time
Camera: Nikon d5500, Nikkor 18-55 AF-P, exposition 30s, ISO 1250. Foreground composed from 30 images.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Switzerland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C5%AF%C ... C3%BD_vrch

IC 5067 SHO
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139240150 ... 011915044/
Copyright: Bradley Craig

IC 1871 SHO
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139240150 ... 011915044/
Copyright: Bradley Craig

NGC 1499 SHO
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139240150 ... 011915044/
Copyright: Bradley Craig

Baily's Beads - Total Solar Eclipse
29-03-2006 Colakli/Side Turquia
© Diana Bodea

http://dianabodea.com

Composite of Perseid meteors over Llwyn Onn reservoir, Wales
http://www.mathewbrowne.co.uk

Who saw some meteors this weekend?
We were lucky enough to have very clear skies over the Brecon Beacons, and I captured over 30 meteors on camera. This photo is a composite of several of the largest meteors that fell during a 35 minute period over Llwyn Onn reservoir.

Nikon D810
Laowa 12mm f2.8
7 x 10 seconds
ISO 1600

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NGC6820 Nebula in HaRGB and SHO

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

HaRGB version: http://www.deepskyobjects.com/Nebulae/N ... HaLRGB.asp

SHO version with a little LRGB thrown in: http://www.deepskyobjects.com/Nebulae/N ... HOLRGB.asp

Twilight galaxy Taisho pond by MASAHIRO MIYASAKA, on Flickr

3 panel mosaic of Sh2-54, M16 and M17 in HaOIIIRGB
Original image 20513 x 11237 (please view in high res )


Mosaic of M16, M17 and NGC6604 in HaOIIIRGB by Christian vd Berge, on Flickr

A crop from M17 from this full mosaic to show level of detail and resolution:
M17 in HaOIIIRGB by Christian vd Berge, on Flickr

Here are 2 new images...

Sh-129 with the Squid nebula and The Heart and Soul mosaic.
Larger versions:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/new_images

Thanks for looking!!!

Kfir Simon

IC 410 SHO
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139240150 ... 011915044/
Copyright: Bradley Craig

IC 410 SHO
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139240150 ... 011915044/
Copyright: Bradley Craig

IC 443 SHO
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139240150 ... 011915044/
Copyright: Bradley Craig

Galaxy firefly in Iwana no Mori by MASAHIRO MIYASAKA, on Flickr

location: Low Jesenik.
in the picture is: Perseids..
date: August 2016

Processing Information: Panorama from 226 shots.
Original dimensions: 4000 x 5600 pixels

Andromeda Galaxy - M 31 by Alessandro Carrozzi, su Flickr

Rho Ophiuchi and the Blue Horsehead by Transient Astronomer, on Flickr

Image Credit and Copyright Terry Hancock / Tom Masterson

IC 1848 Soul Nebula
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139240150 ... 011915044/
Copyright: Bradley Craig

The Milky Way over the Temple of Poseidon, Cape Sounio, Greece

Back to the Temple of Poseidon 2 years after one of my images here was featured as APOD. Info: The Milky Way rise over the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounio, Greece just 44km (27mi) away from the heavily light-polluted sky of Athens.

https://alexandrosmaragos.com
Copyright: Alexandros Maragos

The Milky Way over the Temple of Poseidon, Cape Sounio, Greece by Alexandros Maragos, on Flickr


The Milky Way 44km away from the center of Athens, Greece

The Galactic Center of the Milky Way underlined by an array of red lights emanating from the Wind Turbines of Saint George island, Aegean Sea, Greece. Captured just 44km (27mi) away from the heavily light-polluted sky of Athens.

https://alexandrosmaragos.com
Copyright: Alexandros Maragos

The Milky Way 44km away from Athens, Greece by Alexandros Maragos, on Flickr