Starship Asterisk*

NGC1333, Vdb 12 & 13
Copyright: Jeff Husted Click here to view larger image and image info: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cygnusloop/10870674175/
Location: Alabama Hills, near Lone Pine Ca.
Equipment: Televue NP127is at f4.1; Atik 383L+; Atlas EQ-G.
Processing: Images Plus; AIP4WIN; Registar; PS Elements.

NGC6888 - Crescent Nebula (HaRGB)
Full-size/details: http://jeffjastro.com/dso/NGC6888_28Sep13.htm
Copyright: Jeff Johnson (http://jeffjastro.com)
***Thank you for looking***
http://jeffjastro.com/dso/NGC6888_28Sep13_web.jpg

It's rare enough to get clear skies at Cape Scott, Vancouver Island, Canada, and rarer still to have visible aurora this far south. An area known for its storms, Cape Scott witnessed a different sort of storm this past sunday, Nov 10.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/69093263@N05/10841826473/

Carlo Rocchi, Italy

Detail of Comet ISON C/2012 S1　NOV 16th.2013. 5:30jst
http://www.miki-hosp.or.jp/BIND
Copyright: Nobuhiko miki

Remarkable change of Ison's tail
http://www.miki-hosp.or.jp/BIND/
Copyright: Nobuhiko Miki

NGC300
http://cosmicphotos.com
Copyright: Jason Jennings

Thanks for looking! -Jase

NGC 2264 Christmas Tree Nebula ,Cone Nebula ,and Fox Fur Nebula
Scope: William Optics FLT98 DDG
Camera: Canon EOS 60da
Mount: CGE
Image processing: PixInsight.
Copyright: Ken Walker

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa28 ... g~original Higher Resolution image
http://www.astronomyforum.net/members/k ... nsight.jpg

Nov 16 2013 Sun

http://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak©

IC 342 (Hidden Galaxy) - Spiral Galaxy type Scd in Camelopardalis

http://www.irida-observatory.org

Copyright: [url=mailto://info@irida-observatory.org]Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov[/url]

IC 342 lies at low galactic latitude, only 10.5 degrees from the Galactic Equator, or the Milky Way's disc plane. Therefore, it is heavily obscured by interstellar matter of the Milky Way.
Higher resolution and more information is available on the website ...

Thank you for looking ...

http://www.irida-observatory.org

ISON C/2012 S1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zpavel/
Copyright: Zoltán Pável

ISON Improves
Copyrights: Jerry Lodriguss Comet ISON outburst (Nov 15th)
Copyrights: Damian Peach

y llegó el frío

Simeis 147 aka Sharpless 2-240
Copyright: Jeff Woods Simeis 147 is also known as the Spaghetti Nebula and is catalogued as Sharpless 2-240. It is one of the faintest nearby supernova remnants and is thus very difficult to photograph. It is the diameter of six full moons and at 3,000 light-years distance that makes it about 150 light-years wide. When the central star went supernova some 50,000 to 100,000 years ago, it left a spinning pulsar at the center.

High resolution version available at: http://www.astrobin.com/full/64821/0/

Full resolution version available from there by clicking "View -> Full Resolution" in the upper right.

Two panel mosaic, FSQ-106ED + STL-11000M, each panel integrated 10 x 2400 H-alpha, and 12 x 300 each of RGB at 1x1. CCD Stack, CS5.

Jeff Woods
Reading, PA

Complete view of Milkyway as seen from Cyprus - Composed of 26 individual images. High res file available if requested.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/etunar/10587128214 Perseids Meteor Shower from Glastonbury Tor in Somerset, UK - High res file available if requested.
http://esentunar.com/index.php/gallery/ ... /perseids/
Milkyway over the sand dunes of Karpaz Peninsula in North Cyprus - High res file available if requested.
http://esentunar.com/index.php/gallery/ ... -dunes-ii/

Moon over Tibidabo, Barcelona

When I saw the huge moon going down directly to Tibidabo's Church in Barcelona, I knew I had only a few minutes to
prepare the material and make the photograph. I ran upstairs and I took my tripod, set the camera and looked at the
sky. I had 2 minutes left, so I enjoyed the views till the moment of pressing the shutter.

Technical Details
08 November 2013, 23:18. Sigma 70-300mm (shot made in 300mm), Nikon D300s, 1/8seg. in f/5.6. ISO 200, WB 5200.

ISON comet evolution along this month:


http://cieloprofundo.files.wordpress.co ... saico2.jpg

-Juanjo

Deep Core of ISON

Copyright: Sergio Kaminsky

10" SCT @ 2020mm
DSLR T3i



Bow Shock Effect Color :



Black & White:

Whoa, what's going on with ISON's nucleus there, Sergio?

I think it won't survive the perihelion

Those are fantastic images, Sergio. Tell me, what filters have you used for the color pictures?

Ann

Thank you, Ann, I'm glad you liked it.
Well, it's simple as it gets, it's a DSLR, Canon T3i camera. That's it. Amateur equipment.
It's been modified though (replacing internal filter), to accept more of Ha wavelength, as many DSLR astrophotographers do and I still use it for daytime works with custom white balance.
No additional Clip-In filters have been used.

Young Stars Paint Spectacular Stellar Landscape
Image credits: ESO/Giacomo Beccari
More about: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1347/ CSIRO: Black-Hole Jets Pack a Powerful Punch
Image credits: Credit: NASA / CXC / M. Weiss NRAO: Surprising Image Provides New Tool for Studying a Galaxy
Image Credit: Jayanne English (U. of Manitoba), Judith Irwin (Queen's U.), Richard Rand (U. of New Mexico) and collaborators in the CHANG-ES consortium, NRAO VLA, NASA WISE & Spitzer missions, NOAO, and SDSS.
More about: https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressrelea ... s-new-tool Hubble views an old and mysterious cluster
Image Credit: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
More about: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1321/ NGC6786 Interacting Galaxies
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari Northern Lights
Copyrights: Michel Favret

Melotte 15 Structures
http://observatorioelche.blogspot.com.e ... -1805.html
Copyright: Juan Lozano

Comets: Lovejoy and ISON
Copyrights: Rolando Ligustri Comet 2012 S1 ISON (15/11/2013)
Copyrights: J. F. Hdez Constellations and Comet ISON
Copyrights: Dani Caxete Comet 2012 S1 ISON (16/11/2013)
Copyrights: J. F. Hdez Mars + Comet A1 (Sliding Springs) 2014
Copyrights: NASA/Geronimo Villanueva
Panorama background: NASA/JPL/Caltech