Starship Asterisk*

This year we don't get to see blue Moon, but still the "normal" one is very beautiful. Taken from Alikes Pieria Greece.

The image was made with a Takahashi FS60C and a Canon 5D.

The show is getting more intense and my camera just made it capturing this bright Perseid meteor before the clouds came in. I've noticed it from my shadow since I was focusing the telescope at the moment of appearance... The image was made with a Canon 5D and a Rokinon 14mm lens at f/2.8 http://www....

Many times we don't realize that we are living aboard a fast moving spaceship and sometimes we need to remind ourselves about that, since its the only one we've got! I think this image depicts nicely the fact that we are standing on a very rare place on the galaxy and we are blessed on having such a...

At the beginning of July, we had our annual national amateur astronomers observation in Mt Grammos which is located in the Northern Greece, about 50km from Kastoria city. This imaging sequence shows how the stars and busy observers, all under a trully dark sky, are painting with light into the camer...

There is a very bright supernova happening at M74 galaxy and was recently discovered by Lick Observatory. This morning at 01:45UT i made this observation of the SN from my robotic observatory at Nea Magnisia Thessaloniki. At the time of the observation, the explosion had a magnitude of 12.4Mag and i...

Last Sunday, a major thunderstorm came into our city and gave us a spectacular view which reminded me the laser shows of Jean Michelle Jarre! While talking the images, I couldn't hide my enthusiasm every time a bolt was grounded to the mountains above the city. The image is a composition of more tha...

The joy of astronomy! Under the pristine dark skies of Mt Grammos Greece, amateur astronomers from all around the country, gathered to enjoy the splendors of the night sky. I was lucky enough to make this image of gamma Cygni with the proper name Sadr and its neighborhood hydrogen nebula. Its so nic...

Hi, Today we watched a magnificent Moorise from Thessaloniki Greece which came with Moon's Perigee. It was a beautiful scenery viewed by many people in our city. http://www.stellar-explosions.com/smoon_portr_low.jpg http://www.stellar-explosions.com/smoon_land_low.jpg We didn't expect to see anythin...

Hello,

I'm sending you a video that shows my experience from the totality as it happend in Queensland Australia last Novemeber 2012:
Kind regards
Constantine Emmanouilidi

Hello, Here is an image of the planetary conjunction between Jupiter Venus and Mercury. This was one of the best skies I've seen in Thessaloniki Greece and it happened with the closest alignment of the planets. What a great view! http://www.stellar-explosions.com/PlanetsTA.jpg Made with a Takahashi ...

Hello, After many days of hazy skies, last Friday we had very clear weather and we could observe the beautiful show of the planets. Here are two images made on two consecutive days: This one is from yesterday http://www.stellar-explosions.com/PlanetsBikesAndCarsA.jpg This is from Friday http://www.s...

The father of Alexander the Great is watching comet Panstarrs in Thessaloniki Greece. I wonder what is he thinking now? Maybe he sees the comet as a good sign for a future military expedition? Maybe not. Anyway, it is always remarkable when two great icons are joined together! http://www.stellar-exp...

Comet Panstarrs is moving fast to the western horizon, besides the street lights! I could see it with naked eyes today and could see the tail. Beautiful! http://www.stellar-explosions.com/StopComet!.jpg I wish it wasn't moving as fast so I could enjoy the beautiful view more. Constantine Emmanouilidi

I don't know how many of us realise that all the energy we are using on Earth, comes from our star the Sun. Having many kinds of forms, its just solar energy coming to Earth with photons! Taken from the port of Thessaloniki with a Canon 5D and a Takahashi FS60C telescope. http://www.stellar-explosio...

Hello, I'm sending an image of the Moon setting over the amazing 12 Apostles site in South Australia. I find very interesting the upside down Orion constellation at the upper right corner! [attachment=0]Moonset-Constantine.jpg[/attachment] http://www.stellar-explosions.com/MOON_SET.JPG Regards Const...

Hello, Here are two images we had the time to make during the first partial phase of the total solar eclipse. Taken from Palm River Roadhouse Queensland where the sky was clear and gave us on of the most spectacular eclipses of our lives! One image was made through Peg's binoculars and the second on...

Hello, I never thought that basketball and stars could be combined, but an old court proved otherwise. In my birthday night, I thought that I could spend time under the stars but never imagined that I was gonna shoot hoops with them! [attachment=0]trailshoop.jpg[/attachment] http://www.stellar-explo...

Hi, Yesterday we had an amazing thunderstorm in northern Greece and I was lucky enough to carry my camera with me. Heading for a night swim I noticed that the weather was turning to be quite dynamic and quickly set up my Canon 5D to take some images. What I noticed was this fisherman that was almost...

International Space Station missed the Moon by a little more than 2 degrees.
Taken with a Canon 5D and 15mm lens from Kalavasos water dam at Cyprus.

Hello,

I'm sending two images I made yesterday of the planetary conjunction between Venus and Jupiter.
Constantine Emmanouilidi