Starship Asterisk*

NGC 7822 & NGC 7762

NGC 7822 by Brendan Kinch, on Flickr

Kinch

SH2-308 Dolphin in Space

Image detail:https://www.astrobin.com/422087/B/
Full resolution:https://www.astrobin.com/full/422087/B/?real=&mod=

Copernicus (lunar crater) - FALSE COLOR
Copernicus (lunar crater) - A Deeper Study

Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who fought geocentrism, placing the Sun at the center of the universe with Earth and the planets spinning around it. He removed the earth from the center of the universe.
COPERNICUS is one of the moon's most spectacular craters, with a large extension (93 km), just 3.8 km deep, with a sharp edge and well positioned for a good view of your floor using small telescopes. It is also surrounded by a complex lightning system from the debris ejected by the enormous impact that created COPERNICUS, mainly due to its “young” age of approximately 800 million years. What catches the eye is its difference in composition.

The moon is usually seen in subtle shades of gray or yellow.

The different colors made with the renowned false color technique known by nasa (https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/de ... d=PIA00132), , are recognized to correspond to actual differences in the chemical composition of the lunar surface. Blue hues reveal areas rich in ilmenite, which contains iron, titanium and oxygen, mainly titanium, while orange and purple show relatively poor titanium and iron regions.

EQUIPMENT:
ZWO ASI 1600MC COLED
Meade 10 "UHTC in F10
Powermate 2x
Date: 08/13/2019
Time: 01:06
Location: Sao Paulo - SP - Brazil

Processing and Capture:
PixInsight 1.8 PI 1.8, Photoshop CS6, SharpCap V3.0 Sharcap, AutoStakkert AutoStackert !, Registax 6, PhotoScape


Copyright:Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
Email: Barretosmed@hotmail.com

Copernicus (lunar crater) in INVERTER COLOR

Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who fought geocentrism, placing the Sun at the center of the universe with Earth and the planets spinning around it. He removed the earth from the center of the universe.

COPERNICUS is one of the moon's most spectacular craters, with a large extension (93 km), just 3.8 km deep, with a sharp edge and well positioned for a good view of your floor using small telescopes. It is also surrounded by a complex lightning system from the debris ejected by the enormous impact that created COPERNICUS, mainly due to its “young” age of approximately 800 million years. What catches the eye is its difference in composition.

A reverse color technique was performed to show in more detail the composition difference, the image is with better observational value, without scientific value.

Best detail: https://www.astrobin.com/full/422260/0/?nc=user

EQUIPMENT:
ZWO ASI 1600MC COLED
Meade 10 "UHTC in F10
Powermate 2x

Date: 08/13/2019
Time: 01:06
Location: Sao Paulo - SP - Brazil

Processing and Capture:
PixInsight 1.8 PI 1.8, Photoshop CS6, SharpCap V3.0 Sharcap, AutoStakkert AutoStackert !, Registax 6, PhotoScape

Copyright: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
Email: barretosmed@hotmail.com

Ancient Supernova Remnant - The Cygnus Loop - 6 Panel Mosaic

Imaged from Marathon, Texas and Chattanooga, TN in the months of July and August.

Please view the full resolution here: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/486 ... 1d24_o.jpg

Acquisition details here: http://www.astrobin.com/421917/C/?nc=user

M22 is an elliptical globular cluster of stars in the constellation Sagittarius, near the Galactic bulge region. It is one of the brightest globulars that is visible in the night sky.

Tecnosky AG70/350 F/5 su ASA DDM60PRO - Unguided images
CCD QSI 583ws cooled -15 - RGB Astrodon Gen2 E-series filters
RGB: R 18x2min, G 18x2min, B 18x2min.

Cristina Cellini

vdB 141 - Ghost Nebula
Copyright Michael Deger

Image details and higher resolution: http://galaxyphoto.de/en/vdB141/

Best regards
Michael

WR134 Wolf-Rayet Shell Nebula
http://www.joerenzetti.com/
Copyright: Joe Renzetti Nestled in the sea of ionized hydrogen in the Cygnus arm of the Milky Way is a Wolf–Rayet star. They shed their outer envelopes in powerful stellar winds that create a faint bubble nebula surrounding this highly luminous variable.
C14 & Hyperstar ASI1600MM 24 subs HA 37 subs OIII

Startrails over the Hell's gate by Alessandro Carrozzi, su Flickr

Startrails over Pietrafagnana, the Hell's gate
Clear skies
Alessandro

Andromeda Galaxy - Messier 31 by Delberson Tiago de Souza, no Flickr

NGC 6188
Deep Sky West @ El Sauce
TOA150
ML16200
FLI Filters
AP 1600AE

~18 hours LRGB

Clear skies,
-Lloyd

The Moon as seen from Mount Benand in the Alps this Winter. After a night chasing the Milky Way and composing with trees and snow, I came across this perspective while on my way back to my car. It reminded me of the game Pong that I use to play when I was younger and thought this would be an original image.

Single shot with a Canon EOS 7D Mark II and a Sigma 18-35 1.8 Art.

Detail of sh2-101
This picture was taken with 20inch RC f8.0&FLI PL09000 front-illuminated cooled CCD camera
ASTRODON 3nm narrowband filter (SII,HA,O3: 300min,300min,300min)
http://miki-hosp.or.jp/BIND/
Copyright: Nobuhiko Miki

Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (M83)

Earth Distance: 15,040,000 light years

BEST DETAILS:

1) https://www.astrobin.com/full/422776/E/?real=&mod=

EQUIPMENT:

APO TRIPET 150MM
QHY 16200

DAYS 7 AND 8 JULY 2019

MUNHOZ- MG - BRAZIL 20x500” L
SAO CARLOS - SP - BRAZIL 45x 300” RGB

Processing and Capture:

PixInsight 1.8 PI 1.8, Photoshop CS6, PHD2, APT, PhotoScape

URL of website, if any
Copyright: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
Email: Barretosmed@hotmail.com

Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (M83)

Earth Distance: 15,040,000 light years

BEST DETAILS:

https://www.astrobin.com/full/422788/0/?nc=user

EQUIPMENT:

APO TRIPET 150MM
QHY 16200

DAYS 7 AND 8 JULY 2019

MUNHOZ- MG - BRAZIL 20x500” L
SAO CARLOS - SP - BRAZIL 45x 300” RGB

Processing and Capture:

PixInsight 1.8 PI 1.8, Photoshop CS6, PHD2, APT, PhotoScape

URL of website, if any
Copyright: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
Email: Barretosmed@hotmail.com

NGC 6726
DSW Chile
TOA150
17.8 Hours

Holding Jupiter
www.rafaeldefavari.com

The source of light in my hand is nothing but the most massive planet in our Solar System: Jupiter.

No artificial light was used, and the image is the result of a single 30s exposure. There was no one around at the time, so I had to "shoot - run - align - freeze - check - run and align again" for a while to achieve this composition. I have also made a mini video showing all the trials and errors that I will upload in the comments below.

Saturn is the other brightest spot just above the Milky Way in the center of the image.

EXIF: Canon 6D, 15mm, f2.8, 30s, ISO6400.

Fireball
Copyright: György Soponyai

After the first night of the annular astro camp of Hungarian Astronomical Association, on the morning of 26th July 2019 I wrote the following post about my experiences:

The most beautiful, brightest, most spectacular fireball of my life so far! My first fireball that was PERFECTLY visible with 8mm fisheye lens. Composing that into an all-sky startrail photo -- this might have been THE PICTURE I'm dreaming about for years..
I finished my photo session when the Moon rose and reviewed the raw photos. Wonderful! I captured the screen of the camera with my phone and send it to home: "Look! Look at it! I think I've done IT at last!"
I immediately wanted to start the photo-processing but when I pulled the memory card out of the camera it became unreadable and corrupt. Been using it for three years it died! Raw photos of four nights of the one-week-long trip in France? Solar "dots" of my almost complete fourth analemma? My once in a lifetime fireball photo? All of them were taken to the grave..
The following hours I spent trying lots of data restoring tricks, softwares and black magics without success. *%/%!!%/(%/ (rude cursing censored)


The startrail photo was recaptured the next night using my spare memory card, the lack of two "dots" on the analemma-curve might be not so prominent (you will see it in middle of September, prepare your eyes! ). My new passion besides nightscape photography is painting with oil pastels. I consider a challenge to paint the french experiences -- and finally this fireball scene. Here is the result!



Details:
2019.08.20. - 2019.08.30.
43x30 cm, Sennelier oil pastels

That's a beautiful and fascinating painting, György. Thank you.

Ann

Milky Way

Several trips driving over 200km, with over 70 kilograms of equipment, with an average utilization of 40% of the nights, waiting for a single moment, this reminds me of Olavo Bilac poem in which a part says:

And I will tell you, “Love to understand them!
For only those who love may have heard
Able to hear and understand stars. ”

Best details:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/npqk4p/C/?nc=user

Equipment:

Canon 6D
Rokinon 14mm Lens
Unique frame without image composition
Display: 30 "
ISO 1600

Processing:
AdobeTeam Photoshop
PixInsight
Location: Munhoz - MG - Brazil

Date: 07/08/2019
Copyright: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes

North America Nebula
16.5 hours narrowband filters through Bortle 8/9 skies

Copyright: Jeffrey Sines


North America Nebula 20190824 by Jeffrey Sines, on Flickr