Starship Asterisk*

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51016466700_4e60bae026_h.jpg Perseus molecular cloud by 虞 骏 , on Flickr Perseus molecular cloud The Perseus molecular cloud, located at the junction of Taurus, Aries, and Perseus, about 1,000 light-years away from the Earth. It contains over 10,000 solar masses o...

Two tails of 46P/Wirtanen Copyright: Steed Yu & NightChina.net https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4854/44552670420_a616c9958f.jpg two tails of comet 46P by 虞 骏 , on Flickr On the night of December 14, I used a telescope to track Comet 46P/Wirtanen. In this photo with a cumulative exposure time of 1...

2018双子雨留念，摄于北京灵山。 by 虞 骏, on Flickr

Waning Crescent rising with Mercury
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Comet 21P in the Auriga
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Perseids 2018
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The Night when Mars is closest to Earth http://NightChina.net Copyright:Steed Yu 火星最近的那一夜，2018年7月30日摄于北京苹果园-75%.jpg Today, Mars is closest to us, less than 57.6 million kilometers from the Earth. In other words, for humans on Earth, Mars appears to largest tonight. However, even the largest Mars wi...

Super and Mini Blood Moon in 2018 http://NightChina.net Copyright: Steed Yu 大小血月-1920.jpg There were two total Lunar eclipses in 2018. One in January, just near the perigee, and the other happend today, just near the apogee. I used the same telescope and camera to take the two total lunar eclipses ...

Farewell to Tiangong-1 Copyright: Steed Yu https://farm1.staticflickr.com/898/40250657465_89f56f7303_c.jpg Farewell to Tiangong-1 by 虞 骏 , on Flickr At 5:25 in the morning on April 1st, Tiangong-1 was just passing through the Beijing city and left a trail in the morning light. Tiangong-1 today was ...

Four Planets in our Galaxy Copyright: Steed Yu & NightChina.net In the early morning, when I opened the wooden door to the terrace, there came a stunning view of the starry sky.The Milky Way arched high upon the sea in the southeastern direction, while the zodiac light diagonally pierced into t...

The blood shadow of the Earth
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The Blood Moon with the Beehive Cluster
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The Blood Moon with the Beehive Cluster by 虞 骏, on Flickr

Maximum of the Super Blue Total Lunar Eclipse
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Maximum of Total Lunar Eclipse by 虞 骏, on Flickr

3200 Phaethon with two meteors from Geminids Copyright: Steed Yu & NightChina.net https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4725/27327181499_bf1e5a6441_c.jpg This year's Geminids meteor shower happened to coincide with the asteroid 3200 Phaethon passing near the Earth. On December 15th, I managed to captu...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4172/34686844035_61686d73bf.jpg Heart of the Galaxy by 虞 骏 , on Flickr https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4198/34843198385_7175b9a5a4.jpg Moon rise with Venus by 虞 骏 , on Flickr https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4249/34000608904_d6d72cc108.jpg Moon rise by 虞 骏 , on Flickr

Geminids over LAMOST telescope http://NightChina.net Copyright: Steed Yu https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/658/23238227924_a0ec58a3c2_c.jpg Space dust from asteroid 3200 Phaethon rained into the Earth's atmosphere,and burnt as meteors at about 100 km above Xinglong Station of National Astronomical Obse...

Carnival of Fireflies Copyright: Yu Jun & http://NightChina.net/ The Night of Lake Natron belongs to the stars. Without any artificial light disturbing the pure sky, one can easily see the Southern Milky Way, as well as sparkling starlights scattered in it, such as the most distinctive constell...

Solar Corona from Total Solar Eclipse 2015
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On March 20, the Moon's umbral shadow tracked across Longyearbyen, Svalbard. At the total phase, lasting about 2 and half minutes for that location, an otherwise faint solar corona shimmers around the eclipsed disk.

Solar Corona from Total Solar Eclipse 2015
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On March 20, the Moon's umbral shadow tracked across Longyearbyen, Svalbard. At the total phase, lasting about 2 and half minutes for that location, an otherwise faint solar corona shimmers around the eclipsed disk.

Solar Eclipse Sequence from Longyearbyen Copyright: Chen Jiajun On March 20, the Moon's umbral shadow tracked across Longyearbyen, Svalbard. A series of exposures follows the progress of the total solar eclipse in this composite image. From the beginning to the end, the eclipse lasted more than 2 h...

Solar Eclipse Sequence from Longyearbyen Copyright: Chen Jiajun On March 20, the Moon's umbral shadow tracked across Longyearbyen, Svalbard. A series of exposures follows the progress of the total solar eclipse in this composite image. From the beginning to the end, the eclipse lasted more than 2 h...

Flying Stars
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Milky way and fireflies, taken from Lake Natron, Tanzania.

Flying Stars
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Heart of the Galaxy https://www.flickr.com/photos/steedjoy/16172728714/ Copyright: Yu Jun https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7606/16172728714_a2d0b58fae_z_d.jpg I was just looking at this photo again this morning and have to say I find it astonishingly beautiful. It's like the camera is not there. A li...

Heart of the Galaxy
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"Sleep like a tent"
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