Starship Asterisk*

Thank you Mark. I had photographed this image from the rooftop of our apartment building in Bursa, Turkey; located at 40° 11' N, 29° 4' E. -There are already inevitable messages about the duration between sunrise and sunset being longer than 12 hours on equinox days. This is further complicated by h...

Colourful Olives and Stars
Copyright: Tunç Tezel
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Mars really is closer to the Earth in the middle of the loop, so it is looking the brightest. In fact, this past Mars season was a very favourable one for planet observers, with the red planet coming to a perihelic opposition on 27th July and shining at mag. -2.8, its brightest since 2003. To better...

Voyage of the Moons
Processed by: Kevin Gill (NASA-JPL)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmgill/44583965185/

There is a mouseover Titan-only version, actually.

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Thank you Robert. Yes, I photographed this panorama in the morning of 29th January 2018; from Steam Vents in Kilauea. From March 2008 to May 2018, there was a lava lake in Halema'uma'u crater, which produced smoke and water vapour. This vapour-smoke mixture was lit by the lava lake below, making it ...

Venus Tour 2010
Venus in the evening sky, from March to September 2010.
Copyright: Tunç Tezel
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2 Novae in deep southern sky Copyright: Tunç Tezel [br] In mid-January, the news of a nova in Musca arrived. According to the initial observations, this was a 7th magnitude object, bright enough to be spotted by binoculars. After peaking at around mag. 6.7, it started to fade slowly. https://www.aa...

I don't see the total Lunar eclipse on 31st January 2018.

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Comet Holmes, 2007-8 Copyright: Tunç Tezel http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/photos.asp?ID=3004106 HolmesLoop.jpg 17P/Holmes is normally a faint periodic comet. It was discovered by Edwin Holmes on 6th November 1892, because of a sudden increase in its magnitude, when it had brightened to an approxim...

Asteroid 3122 Florence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQhbH2VY_V8 Copyright: Uğur Ikizler https://scontent-otp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/21366773_10155236794764232_6425948668111341503_o.jpg?oh=dcf7069afb3cc516227b08bb33aac583&oe=5A5E80F2 03.09.2017; 01:09 – 04:22 GMT+3 Mudanya - Bursa; 40.3602...

2 Planets, 2 Analemmas, 1 Sun
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel (left)
Credits: NASA/JPL/Cornell/ASU/TAMU (right)

Lunar Corona
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Annular Solar Eclipse https://www.facebook.com/stephen.bedingfield.7/posts/10154042761157563 Shot from the centreline near Facundo, Chubut, Argentina. Copyright: Stephen Bedingfield https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16997840_10154042760507563_6329866291529358929_n.jpg?oh=49f090335d19994...

The Moon is just 2 degrees above Mercury, seen as a crescent with earthshine. It was 2 days before new Moon, as the left half of the panorama is from the morning of 26th January. The right half is from the evening of 24th January with the middle part after midnight, 25th January. I originally planne...

Thanks Ann! Actually that faint looking dot is indeed Mercury. It was at mag. -0.2 back then; I had to shoot it with the intervening clouds and the twilight had already begun. The brighter light above Mercury is the Moon, which was a thin crescent with earthshine.

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Retrograde Motion of Venus in 2009 This composite picture shows Venus tracing a retrograde loop in the first half of 2009. Back then, Venus passed inferior conjunction in late March after many months of performance as the Evening Star (just like it will be doing this coming March). Venus passed the ...

Venus' Evening Tour 2000-2001 Ve2000-1.jpg Ve2000-1La.jpg After nearly 3 months of absence behind the Sun's glare, Venus is slowly creeping out of the evening twilight day by day. It will be shining in the western sky as the Evening Star for the next 8 months until it will be passing through inferi...

Thank you all. Al_from_Ottawa, this panorama consists of 20 panels of 30-second exposures I shot with an EOS 6D camera at ISO 3200 and a 24 mm f/1.4 lens at f/3.2. I used a hand driven equatorial drive for the sky exposures (first 15 of them), and shot the last 5 for the foreground without tracking....

Guest is right. It had taken much less time for me to edit the panorama from the same spot 6 years ago, as the light pollution was less back then:
http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/photos.asp?ID=3002742

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Aldebaran occultation at sunrise Copyright: Tunç Tezel The most recent Aldebaran occultation was visible from my hometown Bursa, Turkey around sunrise on 2nd July 2016, so I was ready to catch it at the rooftop of our apartment block. Like with earlier similar occultations, I used my trusty 8"...

Wow, that correction was made by The Flash, probably. Thanks!

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Actually, the bright star far left of the halo is Canopus. Sirius is lower in the sky and just next to the left hand side Magellan telescope dome.

Even the cloudy Chilean skies are better than most, apparently.

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Tropical island dreaming Copyright: Tunç Tezel I was able to see the total Solar eclipse of 9th March 2016 from Pulau Plun, a small island less than a kilometer wide, which lies east of Halmahera island in eastern Indonesia. Apart from the pictures already shared in this thread, I also photographed...

Window to the Milky Way Copyright: Tunç Tezel Milky Way of summer and winter shines over a high forest lake near Bozcaarmut village in Bilecik province, about 100 km due east of my hometown Bursa, Turkey. This is an occasionally visited lakeside with dark skies and also good spots for fishing, camp...