Starship Asterisk*

Millions and millions of stars - NGC6520 by Delberson Tiago de Souza, no Flickr

Millions and millions of stars - NGC6520 (crop) by Delberson Tiago de Souza, no Flickr

Sharpless 119 - HaRGB
http://www.far-light-photography.at
Copyright: Arno Rottal
Sharpless 119 - HaRGB
full resolution:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/357926/0/?real=&mod=
18x600sec Ha
9x600sec R
9x600sec G
6x600sec B
Moravian G2-8300 on Esprit80.

Mars with Phobos and Deimos (animation)
Copyright: Dzmitry Kananovich

Preview: Full resolution:
https://cdn.astrobin.com/images/2527/20 ... a19534.gif

Celestron C-11 (f = 2800 mm), ASI 290MM in bin 2x2 mode and 10 fps frame rate with IR/UV block filter. Stacked 900 best frames of 1800, six movies were recorded in approx. 7 min intervals. Between these movies, Mars was captured with R, G, B filters to get non-overexposed color image, which was added afterwards. The animation covers time period 21:21 - 21:53 UT, 23 July 2018. Some background stars are also visible.

Cygnus Bubble & Crescent Nebula: Narrow Band with RGB Stars.

Cygnus Bubble & Crescent Nebula by Brendan Kinch, on Flickr

I went to the Mount Wilson Observatory on July 19, to film the passage of the ISS over Los Angeles in the presence of the Moon and the 4 bright planets along the ecliptic: Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn

The stacked picture:

http://www.astrophoto.fr/planets_moon_iss_la.jpg

and a second with the ecliptic (dotted line):

http://www.astrophoto.fr/planets_moon_i ... liptic.jpg

Crescent Nebula

Crescent Nebula by Brendan Kinch, on Flickr

Claw Nebula with open star cluster NGC 7510

Image acquisition with 10inch Newtonian reflector and astromodified DSLR in own garden:

Copyright: Michael Schmidt, Austria

Here is my photo close to mid-totality for this evening's lunar eclipse.
I shot this a few minutes before the predicted totality because apart from the Earth occulting the Moon (as seen from the Sun!) the Moon itself was also going to occult star SAO 163632 as seen from my observatory (Ir-Rabat, Malta).

You can see this on the left limb as well as in the preceding images which show the Moon approaching the star.


High resolution image at
https://canopus123.files.wordpress.com/ ... -apace.jpg

Best regards,
Alexei Pace

Blood Moon!!

Super and Mini Blood Moon in 2018
http://NightChina.net
Copyright: Steed Yu 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 and compare the blood moons. I was surprised to find that the size of the two moons is so different.

lunar_eclipse_27072018_2259CEST logo by Andre van der Hoeven, on Flickr

In love with Total Lunar Eclipse, Milkyway and Mars Conjunction


Night landscape above Lagoon Korission in Corfu island, a Natura 2.000 area with the Total Lunar Eclipse and the Mars on the left and the Glory of Milkyway during the Eclipse!

Sony a7sii, ef 16-35 Lii 2.8, iso1000, 5X30sec, traced and stacked

Hello,
A remote acquisition from Chilescope ASA20'.
Own processing
The full is here https://www.astrobin.com/full/358234/B/
Hope you enjoy !
https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/P2k8vIg ... hqkGbg.jpg

The longest Total Lunar Eclipse of the 21st century paired with an extra-close Mars,
turns the moon blood red in the night sky over Athens, Greece on July 27, 2018.
https://alexandrosmaragos.com
Copyright: Alexandros Maragos

Total Lunar Eclipse 2018 over Athens, Greece by Alexandros Maragos

Total Lunar Eclipse of July 27, 2018 over Berne, Switzerland, July 28, 2018
http://www.sternklar.ch/images-webpages ... Jul-18.htm

Exposure data:
Takahashi TOA 150/1100 APO-Refractor @ f/11.7 with Canon EOS 5D Mk IV. Exposure time: 1 x 15 sec. @ 200 Asa.

Copyright: Manuel Jung, www.sternklar.ch

Lunar Eclipse from Cuneo (Italy).
Scope: Skywatcher Newton 200/1000
Mount: Skywatcher Eq6Pro
Camera: Canon EOS 450D mod. Baader Full resolution:
https://s33.postimg.cc/anrz4tnst/Ecliss ... e.jpg?dl=1
Paolo Demaria

Total lunar eclipse and Mole
https://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa Please find above the totally eclipsed Moon captured next to the Mole Antonelliana, the building symbol of Turin, Italy.
Picture taken on July 27, 2018

Best regards
Stefano

The Pillars of Creation, Lunar Eclipse version!

Last night we were blown away by the unique scenery of Buharia national park found in Northern Greece and the event of the Lunar Eclipse going through these unique natural columns. I knew that we had a very interesting location selected but when I viewed this, it was way more than I had wished for. You can see planet Mars (Aris in ancient Greek), Antares (instead of Aris in Greek, on the far right) and Saturn in the center, all under the mesmerizing light of the Lunar Eclipse.

This is a panorama image made with a 50mm lens and a Canon 6D full spectrum modification. No blending and no tracking happened here and since the geometry of the 50mm is very near to how our eyes perceive reality, it is as close as to the real observation as it can be. The images were 10sec exposures at ISO10000 and I closed the aperture from f/2 to f/11 for the totality image.

Milky Way, Mars and Eclipsed Moon
Copyright: Dzmitry Kananovich
Higher resolution available here: https://www.astrobin.com/358425/

Canon 6D, ISO 12800, 5 s, Sigma ART 50 mm lens @ f/2.0. Single untracked exposures, mosaic of 4 images. Moon image was added as HDR composite (1/4, 0.5, 1, 2.5 and 5 s). Processed in Lightroom, Pixinsight and Photoshop CC.

In this photo made with only 14 minutes of interval we can see well how the IR pass filter 685 nm easily highlights some formations. In the specific case the polar hexagon and the polar hurricane eye become much better contrasted and therefore easier to visualize.
The HD star 168233 with magnitude estimated at +9.25 is easily visible in the color photo but in the IR photo it was already behind the planet's disk.

Lunar Eclipse July 27, 2018
HDR of the lunar disk egressing the Earth cone shadow
Bari-Italy

Luigi Fiorentino

HR here:

https://flic.kr/p/29vj2Es

On our site, during totality, we watched a magnificent view of the Eclipse with planet Mars and the Milky Way. The site called Buharia is very unique for the Greek landscape and gave us an out of this world experience. Immediately it came to me the scenery of Star Wars movie from the planet with the two Suns Tatooine!
The image is a panorama of 10sec exposures made with a full spectrum modified Canon 6D with a 24mm f/1.4 Samyang lens. No tracking or blending and the images were made at ISO10000.

Kind regards
Constantine Emmanouilidi

Copyright: Rick Stevenson & Martin Pugh



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