February is almost up, and I'm going to comment on some of my favorites here!
Wu Zhuoqun, that's a very fine Pencil Nebula.
Daniel Hightower, glad to see you back here, and that's a nice portrait of IC 342.
Litobrit, that's a stunning Orion Nebula!
Paolo Demaria, that's a very fine portrait of all the curious nebulosities surrounding the Horsehead Region and Orion's Belt.
Sebastian Voltmer, that's a stunningly beautiful solar eclipse sky!
Mark Hanson, I've praised your picture of NGC 3628 with tail before, but the more I look at it, the more fantastic it becomes. You richly deserves having this and others of your pictures be a part of
the science of astronomy, so that it is not just a pretty picture.
AlessandroCantarelli, I just love that picture. Not only is it evocative and atmospheric, but I love the fact that the Milky Way above is so detailed and full of recognizable stars and nebulas. Yes, I understand that your picture is a composite. So what!!!
astrodoc, good to see you back here with a very fine picture of NGC 5128, Centaurus A!
Bogdan Borz, that's an absolutely stunning image of M78! Simply fantastic and so beautiful!
Matt Dieterich, that is also a very fine picture of Centaurus A!
Nick Pavelchak, I love the colors of your picture of "the Fly"!
Tommaso Massimo Stella, that's a beautiful picture of M78!
noodle, good to see you back here with a fine picture of the Heart Nebula!
mr1337, that a very fine picture of the Gabriela Mistral Nebula and surroundings!
Bogdan Borz, I love that juxtaposition of the Seagull Nebula and Thor's Helmet!
Emanuele Balboni, that is such a beautiful and evocative picture of a man balancing on a ledge jutting out over a precipice, contemplating the night sky and Orion. I love the fact that we can see the higher-than-average stellar density of the winter Milky Way at left.
Graeme Coates, I love your Beehive Cluster!
BackyardAstronomy2018, well done taking a fine picture of the Orion Nebula with your modest equipment.
Masahiro Miyasaka, I absolutely love your picture of the crispy clear star-bright night sky over a wintry Earth landscape. It's magical, indeed!
Bob Lockwood, nice seeing you here again with two fine new pictures.
Efrem Frigeni, I like the OIII details in the otherwise very red IC 443 supernova remnant.
Jean-Baptiste Auroux, I like the fact that your picture shows us NGC 3077 along with famous galaxies M81 and M82. I like the details in M81 and M82, and I like the IFN. And I can't resist your blue reflection nebula of NGC 5367!
Kinch, that's an interesting portrait of cluster NGC 2259, but it's an even more interesting portrait of that nebula. I thought at first that it was a reflection nebula because it's blue, but it is an emission nebula taken through Ha/OIII/SII filters. Does the blue color mean Ha here? Because if it means OIII, then whatever ionizes that nebula must be very powerful. Well, interesting, in any case!
David Wills, your second post here is a fine portrait of the Whirlpool Galaxy, M51 and friend!
Tamas Abraham, that's a fine crescent Moon with Earthshine, illuminating a cloud bank!
Celfosc, it's your first post here and it's a very fine portrait of Thor's Helmet!
Iaffaldano Giuseppe Carmine, you captured some very fine details in the Antennae Galaxies, NGC 4038-4039.
Iaffaldano Giuseppe Carmine, I love your picture of Venus illuminating a cloud band and turning it into a reflection nebula. And I love the contrast between the Pleiades and the Andromeda Galaxy!
kolec, that's a fine picture of NGC 2264.
Masahiro Miyasaka, I like your Magic Mountain Seven Stars. I like the fine portrait of the Big Dipper, and I really like seeing the Coma star cluster in Coma Berenices.
vendetta, that's a fine composition with the abandoned(?) train car and the vast Milky Way above it.
Kfir Simon, I completely love your picture of the Christmas tree and Cone nebula region. The exquisite details and stunning mostly RGB colors are so, so much my thing!
KuriousGeorge, you have posted so many great galaxy pictures here, and I love it. Your portrait of the Hickson group 44 is just one beautiful example. I love it. This group contains galaxies of "all sorts", a spiral, a "ring galaxy", a lenticular galaxy and an elliptical. You do them full justice. I love it!
daniele.bonfiglio, that's a stunningly beautiful Moon. What if the Moon actually looked like this when we watch it through binoculars and telescopes? Just imagine.
Again, thank to everyone who provided such great and beautiful pictures to Starship Asterisk* this month!
Ann