Starship Asterisk*

Neowise (of course!) at the Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, last Sunday evening:



A bit later, behind the angel at the top of the abbey:



Larger images:
http://www.astrophoto.fr/neowise_montsa ... 712_fb.jpg
http://www.astrophoto.fr/neowise_montsa ... pse_fb.jpg

Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile
viacometa2p by R Villaverde, en Flickr

Autor: Jose M Rguez Paredes
Ubicación: Sierra de Hornachuelos, Córdoba, España
El equipo empleado fue ...

Telescopio: ED80 Sky Watcher + 0.85X
Montura: LXD75 Meade
Cámara: QHY163m
Guiado: MiniScope 50mm Orion, CámaraGuia / QHY5 L-II c
Adquisición: APT (AstroPhotographyTool) 3.70
Apilado y procesado: PixInsight, Photoshop

Tomas
2 Teselas
Ha: 154x300s y 56x300s
RGB: 20x180s
Expo total: 23 h 30 min
Sensor de temperatura: -10 ° C
Distancia focal: 510 mm
F / 6,3

https://celfoscastrofotografia.blogspot.com/


Al-Niyat Sh2-9 M4 by Cel Fosc Astrofotografía, en Flickr

Hi Everyone, good morning, I would like to submit this image of NGC 6188 - The Fighting Dragons of Ara in Hubble Palette (SHO)

10.6 h of total integration, from Córdoba, Argentina

Main equipment: ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + SW Explorer 250pds + SW Coma Corrector 0.9x + EQ6-R-Pro + ZWO EAF + ZWO 7x2" EFW

Guide equipment: Starguider 60/240 mm F4, ZWO ASI 120mm mini

*Gain 139, -25 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 71x180"
*Gain 139, -25 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 70x180"
*Gain 139, -25 º C, Sii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 70x180"

100 Darks
50 Flats / filter

Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2
Acquisition: SGP 3.1
Processing: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS

Hope you enjoy it, clear skies!



NGC 6188 - The Fighting Dragons of Ara in Hubble Palette (SHO) by Ariel Cappelletti, en Flickr

JUPITER

Best detalis
https://www.astrobin.com/full/ghy74z/0/?nc=user

Equipment
MEADE LX200 10 "UHTC
ZWO Optical ASI 462 MC

Filter: Planetary Baader L 1.25 "
Accessory: TeleVue Powermate 2.0x
Mount: Ioptron Cem60
Polar alignment: SharpCap
Capture: SharpCap V3.0
Processing: Photoshop CS6, AutoStakkert AutoStackert !, Registax 6.

Seeing: 3
Transparency: 8
2020/07/10
São Paulo-SP-Brazil

Copyright: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
Email: barretosmed@hotmail.com

A MARS STILL DISTANT

BEST DETAILS
https://www.astrobin.com/full/rczwf3/0/ ... do_Menezes

Equipment
MEADE LX200 10 "UHTC
ZWO Optical ASI 290 MC

Filter: Planetary Baader L 1.25 "
Accessory: TeleVue Powermate 2.5x
Mount: Ioptron Cem60
Polar alignment: Sharcap
Capture: SharpCap V3.0
Processing: Photoshop CS6 ,, AutoStakkert AutoStackert !, Registax 6.

IMC: 121.6
Seeing: 3
Transparency: 7

May 30, 2020 6:53 AM
São Paulo-SP-BRAZIL

Copyright: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
Email: barretosmed@hotmail.com

From Eagle to Lagoon (tracked, stacked)

Copyright: www.instagram.com/robin_onderka
Full version (please zoom in): https://flic.kr/p/2jmi6ik

Story: When everyone is taking photos of the C/2020 F3 NEOWISE comet, I am still finding beauty in this heart of the galaxy. I photographed this mosaic when observing comet 3 days ago, from top of the hill located near big city of Třinec in Czech Republic.

8 panel mosaic (2 rows)
Location: Loučka, Czech Republic
DATA: 6x60" | f/2.5 | ISO 1600 per panel + 20 darks, BIAS, Flats
Canon EOS 6D astromod + Samyang 135/2

From Eagle to Lagoon by Robin Onderka, on Flickr

Far East Lights
360 pano of the most east poin in italy, Punta Palascia lighthouse.
Start from house early to shot the landscape during blue hour, I had to fight with heavy wind condition on location. When the night comes, my friends reach me to the spot. For some of them was the first milky way shot, first time they saw it naked eyes. Amazing. We had time to try different composition and lots of fun. Unfortunately, i hit the tripod during shots, and once at home i saw the star trailed, so the night later, i came back solo to location and shoot once again the sky, but the show was beautifoul as always.

Original image size: 24690x12345 pixel = 304.8 Megapixel

Sky (no stacking)
12 shots 240s | f/4 | ISO 640

Foreground (no stacking)
12 shots (6x2) 1/8s | f8 | ISO 320

Comet Neowise, Meteor, NLC

The original idea was to take a photo with a comet and my friend, but what I didn't expect would be a bright meteor flying over my field of view, which enhanced an already nice photo

It was a truly unique sight along with beautiful mountains, the rising Sun, the Moon and the morning NLC. There is also a rising Venus in the far right above the horizon.
A moment that will probably won't repeat again!

It is located on the main ridge of the Low Fatra mountain range, Slovakia.
In the foreground, from the left side, there is Poludňový grúň (1460m), rocky Veľky Rozsutec (1610m) and grassy Stoh (1607m)

14.7.2020, 02:37
Canon 6Dmod + Sigma 35mm, f1.4@f2.8, ISO 3200, 10sec


Comet Neowise, Meteor, NLC by Ondrej Králik, on Flickr

http://halfa.webcindario.com/IC1318nombre.jpg
Hola a todos os dejo IC 1318 "La mariposa", espero que os guste;
estos son los datos:
IC 1318
TOMAS:
Ha: 20 Light de 900 segundos, 20 Darks, 26 Flats y 40 Bias
OIII: 16 Light de 900 segundos, 16 Darks, 26 Flats y 40 Bias
SII: 16 Light de 900 segundos, 16 Darks, 26 Flats y 40 Bias
que hacen un total de 13 horas.
PALETA:
HUBBLE
R= SII
G= H-alfa
B= OIII
L= H-alfa
TEMPERATURA: -10 GRADOS
TUBO: FSQ 106 ED
CCD: SBIG ST-8300M
MONTURA: CGEM
CCD guiar: QHY5 II
LUGAR: TORREJÓN DE ARDOZ (MADRID)
Un saludo.
jose

My recently completed Messier catalog: This has been my longest running project, though it wasn't really until spring of 2019 that I pushed to photograph the entire catalog. The majority of these were shot using a 6" f/4 newtonian and ASI1600, but a couple were taken with a 50mm lens or an ETX125 maksutov. Most were shot from my apartment roof in Athens, GA (Bortle 7), and about 10 were taken from various dark sites in GA and NC. The exposure times per object range from 25 minutes (M7) to 19 hours (M78).


Here is a direct link to the full 124MP image:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/500 ... 33d9_o.png

Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE rises above a cloud deck in the pre-dawn sky over Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
July 12, 2020 4:34 am. Canon 40D with 100mm telephoto lens; ISO 800; f/3.5.
Exposures: 8 x 2.5 seconds = 20 seconds total.

The comet and radiotelescope.

Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE over the historical radiotelescope Wurzburg that is still in use to observe the Sun. The observatory Ondřejov, Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

14.7. 21:30 UT, Canon 6DII + Tamron 70-200 @150mm, f4, 30x45sec + 1x60sec iso1600 for landscape

Colors of the gas tail of comet Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)

In first image a point in the gas tail had been used for white balance. The colors in the gas tail come from different elements, but not from Sodium because an Light pollution filter had been used which blocks wavelength between 540nm and 645nm. Colors have not been mixed (no saturation enhancement because red channel became to noisy).

The second image is with natural white balance (using stars). Color factors of first vs. second image are are 3.9 for red and 2.2 for green-

Images are aligned to comet and where captured in Pulsnitz (Germany) on Jul 14 before sunrise. Total exposure time was 60 min.
http://www.simg.de/comets/neowise-02-rgb3-crop-half.jpg
http://www.simg.de/comets/neowise-02-rgb2-crop-half.jpg

Full views at full resolution are available at http://www.simg.de/comets/neowise-2020.html

Comet NEOWISE Below the Big Dipper by Transient Astronomer, on Flickr

Image Credit and Copyright Tom Masterson

Moon, Venus and Aldebaran conjunction
https://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa Please find above three images taken on July 17, 2020 from Tuin (Italy), showing the conjunction between crescent Moon, Venus and Aldebaran first over the Basilica od Superga and then over the Church of Santa Maria al Monte (in the third image also the V shaped Hyades Cluster can be noted).

Best regards

Stefano

Love across the Milkyway

A beautiful world that leads you to fall in love with every star of the galaxy...
Imagine how small you are in this universe but also how rich.

Sony a7sii, ef 16-35 lii 2.8, 35mm, Iso3200, Stacked and track, 10X30sec+10X30sec, Skywatcker Star Adventurer,
Corfu, Greece
many thanks to Elias Chasiotis for the inspirations n guidance.

Comet C/2020 F3 Neowise in conjuction with the Starlink satellites (the group launched on June 13th) on July 15th.
Photo taken from Viano (RE), Italy. SQM is 20.2 mag/arcsec when the sky is fully dark.
Canon EOS 6D and Nikkor 85mm f/1.8. 111x5s f/2.8 3200 ISO untracked
C/2020 F3 Neowise and Starlinks by Alessandro Carrozzi, su Flickr

The rich field of Ngc 7000:

Ngc 7000 mosaic 2 panels with E180 and Asi 071 by gc.iaffaldano, su Flickr

Copyright Dean Salman and G.C. Iaffaldano

July 12-14, 2020: Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
Location Czech Republic by Jana Konecna

~20 Degrees of Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE by Transient Astronomer, on Flickr

Image Credit and Copyright Tom Masterson

M8 Core


Copyright: Zhuoqun Wu, Wei Zhang

Telescope: ChileScope T1, SHO 2hrs

Full Resolution: https://www.astrobin.com/full/f4klw8/B/ ... real=&mod=