Starship Asterisk*

Dedicated to all amateurs astronomers with their telescopes under the stars!
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Comet Lovejoy
5 dec 2013, from 4 to 6 UT
Inset with Larson-Sekanina filter to show jets.
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Curtains Copyright: Lorenzo Comolli http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/index2.htm http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/nor13_06p.jpg http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/nor13_01.jpg More aurora images and tech data: http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/nor02.htm More info on expedition: http://www.astrosurf.com...

LBN 603 in Cassiopeia
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Tech details and MOUSE OVER: http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/d161.htm

Comet ISON, November 1, 2013
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Aurora from the airplane
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Diavolezza - Above the Glacier Author: Lorenzo Comolli ( http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/index2.htm ) Recommended: 1080p, full screen, audio on. A night above the Glacier with the Full Moon. The wonderful landscape from Diavolezza in the main theme of this timelapse video. The observing point is a...

Above the Glacier Author: Lorenzo Comolli ( http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/index2.htm ) Description: late summer is the best season to look at the glaciers without a snow coverage. This image seems to be in daylight but was gathered in moonlight, on the night of Full Moon, this month. The Pers an...

Galactic arch
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Hourglass nebula inside IC1318 Copyright: Lorenzo Comolli http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/index2.htm http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/d149p.jpg Tech details and mouse over with H-alpha: http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/d149.htm Hires color: http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/d149m.jpg Hires bw: http...

Thank you all again for the kind comments :-) @ Chris Peterson: thank you for noting; the apod version is not flipped as I wrote, but it is rotated by 180°. The rest of my comment remains the same. I agree that the rotated version is more pleasant for aestetic purposes. Just out of curiosity, what a...

Thanks for comments and for selection!

@Boomer12k: the up-down flipped image is the small one, while the linked one is ok. I suppose the editors preferred to put in "foreground" the dust bands just for aestetical purposes.

Lorenzo

Supermoon http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/index2.htm Copyright: Lorenzo Comolli https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0fETCI71QNw/UcjE5VVh4jI/AAAAAAAAC_E/hEh-KJsr1kk/s1200/IMG_5195-HDR%25283%2529.jpg https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-z3npE-HtaTE/UcjE6GhEVgI/AAAAAAAAC_Q/dOoQsCMXCh4/s1200/IMG_5254.jpg

Abell 1656 galaxy cluster in Coma Berenices
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Tech data and description: http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/d147.htm

M31, The Andromeda Galaxy
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Tech details: http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/d146.htm
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Hei, thank you very much for all the comments! I, and my co-authors, are very grateful.

can anyone tell me how large the field of view in this image is, please?

According to Astrometry.net it is 7.67 x 7.55 deg
http://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/53443#annotated

Lorenzo

Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - 6 panes mosaic Authors and copyright: processing: Lorenzo Comolli. Images by: Lorenzo Comolli, Luigi Fontana, Giosuè Ghioldi, Emmanuele Sordini. Web: http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/d144.htm (with mouse over for object names) http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/d144p.jp...

Updated my website with new processing of the March 21 image. Also a color version is now available. Synchronic bands in Pan-STARRS Author and Copyright: Lorenzo Comolli http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/index2.htm http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/com38b.jpg http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/com38.jpg...

Synchronic bands in Pan-STARRS Author and Copyright: Lorenzo Comolli http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/index2.htm These images show synchronic bands in the dust tail of comet Pan-STARRS. Also a small hint of the sodium tail is visible; this one seems to have decreased the visibility respect to 15 Ma...

Comet Pan-STARRS with 3 tails! From the analysis of 100 averaged imaged, I've found 3 tails: ion (1), sodium? (2) and dust (3). Even if very faint, the ion tail seems to be there, visible only in the BLUE channel. Instead the second tail is completely absent in blue and thus cannot be ion. A hypote...

Comet Panstarrs above Monviso and Italian Alps. 15 March 2013, from Capanne di Cosola (Italy), at 1500 m heigth. Photo details: (1°) 350D, 50 mm f/3.5, 3.2 s exp, 1600 ISO. (2°) 5D, 200 mm f/5.6, 4 s exp, 1600 ISO. Copyright 2013 Lorenzo Comolli http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/index2.htm http://spa...

Ice in the Night First released at CEDIC 2013 conference in Linz. Thanks to the organizing team for the opportunity and David Malin for letting me use his pc. I captured these timelapses in the cold winter nights and sunsets of January and February 2013, in the Italian Alps and Apennines. Some nice...

Abell 1367 galaxy cluster

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LDN1622, The Boogie Man nebula, in Orion
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IC 2169 and 446 in Monoceros
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