Starship Asterisk*

Venus, Moon and Cloud

Venus, Moon and a fortuitously placed cloud close to moon set (and not long after sunset) on July 15, 2018.

The Cocoon Nebula, IC1396.

Full version on Astrobin: https://astrob.in/350879/0/

IC1396 and the Elephant's Trunk Nebula This image was captured with 6 hours of data from Tablemountain near Ellensburg, WA and Goldendale WA. Details are as follows: Atik 383L+ camera and TMB130ss refractor on an Atlas EQ6. Captured with Sequence Generator Pro and processed with Pixinsight 1.8.05 Lu...

M33 or the Triangulum Galaxy This image was taken from Goldendale Washington in September 2016. Technical details: Imaged with a TMB 130ss at f/7 with an Atik 383+ Mono on an Atlas EQ6 mount. The exposure includes 5 hours of Luminance, and approximately 1 hour each of Red, Green, Blue and H-alpha. L...

NGC 5128 I processed this image with publicly available data from the Las Cumbres Observatory. The PI for this observation was Edward Gomez at the Las Cumbres Observatory. This image included data collected with B, V and R filters. The data comes from 1 m telescopes at the South African Astronomical...

The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, or M83 This image was processed with data provided by the Las Cumbres Observatory. The Principal Investigator for this data set was BJ Fulton. This image included data collected with B, V and I' filters. The data comes from 1 m telescopes at the Cerro Tololo Interameric...

Messier 65 I downloaded the publicly available data from the LCOGT network and processed this image. Data for this image was collected by a 1m telescope (1m-08) operated by the Las Cumbres Observatory telescope network at he McDonald Observatory. The Principal Investigator for this data set was BJ F...

NGC 1672 https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1544/23852635999_4b31778ed2.jpg Full resolution image here shows many faint galaxies, some visible through the disk of NGC 1672. Data for this image was collected by the following 1m telescopes operated by the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT) Ne...

Messier 16, The Eagle Nebula and the Pillars of Creation https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7774/17508059575_5021e24d77.jpg Image Courtesy: LCOGT and Ajay Narayanan High res version: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajynrynn/17508059575/in/dateposted-public/ Data for this image was collected by the followi...

NGC 2359, Thor's Helmet https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7653/16785090658_d1c7d7b347.jpg Data for this image was taken with two 1m telescopes (1m-04 and 1m-05) at CTIO (Cerro Tololo, Chile) operated by the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT) Network. This is a broadband image using R, V ...

The Soul Nebula in a narrowband blend.

Use this link and click to zoom on Flickr for a detailed image

Ajay Narayanan

NGC 6822 or Barnard's Galaxy, Narrow Band https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7306/15934867043_282d95b9f9_z.jpg This image uses data provided by Dr. Philip Massey (PI) as distributed by the NOAO Science Archive. NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. u...

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula, IC 1396 Ajay Narayanan, 2014 https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8600/15919403339_622d13181f_c.jpg Large Size (1024 Pixels): https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8600/15919403339_622d13181f_b.jpg Largest Size (1600 Pixels): https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8600/15919403339_a54b3db284...

NGC 6205 or M13. Widefield https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7473/15775983166_bacd11c9c4_z.jpg High res on Flickr: https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7473/15775983166_63df9166b4_h.jpg Centercrop https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5609/15179692844_126faa7711_z.jpg High res on Flickr showing full scale center cr...

IC1805, The Heart Nebula

High Res image: https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2946/153 ... 6863_h.jpg