Starship Asterisk*

Veil Nebula
http://www.astroccd.eu/crbst_85.html
Copyright: Philippe Bernhard

Tarantula Nebula widefield
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andres_vat ... hotostream
Copyright: Andres Vattuone

Yeah, well... since I myself am the worst color nerd I have ever come across, and since I have a stronger love of the color blue than anyone I have ever come across, I would, of course, also want to see more true color images of anything astronomical. I agree that in some cases "true color ima...

APOD is a great exploratory vessel of the universe that takes planet Earth to galaxies far far away and dramatic cauldrons of starbirth. But what would you like to see on APOD more? Me? I would want a few more true colour images of planetary nebulae included!

IC 4592 widefield
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ytoropin/6 ... 696089762/
Copyright: Yuriy Toropin

Filamentary shell G296.2-2.8
http://www.glitteringlights.com/Images/ ... &lb=1&s=X3
Copyright: Marco Lorenzi

Vela Supernova
http://jpgleason.zenfolio.com/p55079938 ... #h3f8715d2
Copyright: John Gleason

Orion Nebula
http://www.weatherandsky.com/main.php?g ... terAlbum=0
Copyright: Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn

IC 4633 and IFN
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/140906693
Copyright: Kfir Simon

Hello Ann! It's great to see how passionate you are about astronomy and your devotion to commenting on everyone's hard work! Frank Sackenheim, that's a very fine picture of the Coalsack region, particularly the largest version of it. The cluster is of course the Jewel Box. (It is quite a coincidence...

Kronberger 61
http://www.gemini.edu/node/11656
Copyright: Gemini Observatory/AURA

Cometary globule CG4 widefield
http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/ne ... 4/info.htm
Copyright: José Joaquín Pérez

Coalsack region
http://astrophotocologne.de/astrophotoc ... _Large.jpg
Copyright: Frank Sackenheim

Coma Galaxy Cluster with IFN
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/142030396
Copyright: Kfir Simon
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chapdelaine wrote: Remark that the "jet" is not visible on the HLA data.

The jet isn't visible in HLA data as it is a radio jet that isn't visible in the optical!

Eta Carinae Nebula
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/141738539
Copyright: Michael Sidonio

Sh2-180, Sh2-179 and vdB4
http://www.outters.fr/Sh2-180-179-Vdb4- ... oline.html
Copyright: Nicolas Outters
http://www.outters.fr/images%20site%20a ... GB3-30.jpg

Peculiar planetary nebula KjPn 8
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1089.html
Copyright: T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF

NGC 1999 and Herbig Haro 1 and 2
http://www.capella-observatory.com/Imag ... 9HH1u2.htm
Copyright: Makis Palaiologou, Josef Pöpsel, Stefan Binnewies