Starship Asterisk*

M 45 (The Pleiades)
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/M45_2.8_2012.htm
Copyright: Emil Ivanov Larger image could be seen here

NGC 1579 (The Northern Trifid)
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/NGC1579.html
Copyright: Emil Ivanov Larger image could be seen here

Another photo of the day most of the autumn equinox, with the castle in the morning mists enveloped the river Guadiana.
Otra fotografía más del día del equinoccio de otoño, con el castillo envuelto en las brumas matinales del río Guadiana.

NGC 7635 (Bubble Nebula, LBN 548, Sh 2-162) - Bright Emission Nebula in Cassiopeia

http://www.elateobservatory.com

Copyright: Velimir Popov
Narrowband Ha
Large scale and more information is avaliable here ...

Thank you for looking ...

Fireball with auroras
http://www.arcticlightphoto.no
Copyright: Ole C. Salomonsen
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Occultation of Mars
http://www.luisargerich.com
Copyright: Luis Argerich
[attachment=3]LuisMoonMars.jpg[/attachment]

NGC7000 and IC5070: Sirius Wall and the Pelican Nebula
http://mtanous.wordpress.com/ngc7000-ic5070/
Copyright: José Mtanous
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I Ate the Moon and Mars
http://www.flickr.com/photos/djulik/800 ... /lightbox/
Copyright: Julien H. V. Girard Jones 1, PK 104-29.1: The "Gremlin" Planetary Nebula
http://www.spotastro.com/Gremlin_Nebula.html
Copyright: Mark Manner NGC 5146: The Cocoon Nebula
Copyright: Danny Lee Russell
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Jupiter above Kaloots
Copyright: Saber Karimi
[attachment=3]Bright jupiter above Kaloots-Saber Karimi- APOD.jpg[/attachment]

September Sun
http://higginsandsons.com/astro/images/ ... color2.jpg
Copyright: Wes Higgins
[attachment=2]Sun-09-19-12-full-invert-color2-CNIGHT.jpg[/attachment]

M33: Triangulum Galaxy
Copyright: Marcello Amari
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Clouds Near & Far
http://www.guidescope.net/starfields/mw_lake.htm
Copyright: Tom Matheson Chromosphere/photosphere
http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_p ... hromo.html
Copyright: Alan Friedman
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A DC3 lost on the black sands of th e Islandic south coast
http://astrophotography.fr/
Jean-Luc Dauvergne
On novembre 24th 1973, this Dakota DC3 of the US Navy has been obliged to land in emergency on the south coast of Iceland.
The reason is that the plane ran out of fioul after getting lost in bad weather.
It's located in the Solheimasondur area at the feet of the famous Eyjafjoll volcano that erupted in 2010 and paralized all the aerial trafic over Europe.
I took those pictures on september 20th 2012.

Epic Mountain Observatory
Sylvain Roux - Association Copernic http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/ ... 5g15z2.jpg

Northerne lights over the Jökulsárlón
http://astrophotography.fr/
Jean-Luc Dauvergne
Last week I was in Iceland and the biggest auroral activity occured when I was at the
Jökulsárlón. It means "glacial river lagoon" in Icelandic. The weather was nearly perfect. What a luck !
I think that this incredible place may be one of the most beautifull landscape in the world to photography with notherne ligths.

This lake is the interface between the biggest galcier in Europe (the Vatnajökull), and the ocean.

The show was amazing, green and red lights were easy to see with the naked eye.

One more :
Jean-Luc Dauvergne
http://astrophotography.fr

Cloud Rays and Star Trails
http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy
Copyright: Marion Haligowski


Cloud Rays and Star Trails by Radical Retinoscopy, on Flickr

During the 81 exposures used to make this photograph clouds began rolling across the sky in a north to south direction. I made a composite image without the clouds but decided to include them in the final image. I like how the clouds appear to originate from a "radiant" to the northwest. This image was made of 81 twenty-second exposures taken with a Canon t2i. Each exposure was 20 seconds, 800 ISO, f/4.5 using a Sigma 10-20mm lens at 10 mm. Two exposures were taken at the end focusing on the plants in the foreground, stopping the lens down to f/22 and light painting the field. All images were stacked using StarStaX.

I finally got to capture a passenger airline transiting the 92% Waxing Gibbous Moon (Harvest Moon).
I used my 500D @ prime focus on my C102-HD refractor.

Star trails and the ancient ruins of Knossos
Copyright: Andreas Meladakis Once every year, during the August full moon, the Bronze Age palace of Knossos in Crete is accessible to civilians at night. Here, the colorful charging bull fresco with the star trails behind it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE% ... F%8C%CF%82

Olympus e-420,f-6.3, iso 100 ,exposure time 160x30 seconds

Star Clouds in the Andromeda Galaxy
http://www.feraphotography.com/AM14/Ngc206.html
Copyright: Bob and Janice Fera
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Deer Lick Galaxy Group and Stephan's Quintet
http://tinyurl.com/8lbetpp
Copyright: Ed Lubat
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NGC 1333/VdB 16 Nebular Complex in Perseus
http://www.astrogb.com/vdb16crop.htm
http://www.astrogb.com/hires/vdb16cropi.htm (<-- Big, but go look. Seriously!)
Copyright: Giovanni Benintende
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Inhabited Extrasolar Moon (Artist's conception)
http://ooo.aip.de/People/RHeller/
Copyright: René Heller
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IC 1848: Emission Nebula in Cassiopeia
http://www.ccdsky.eu/Astronomy/Nebula/s ... clone.html
Copyright: Christoph Puetz
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Camping under a Starry Sky
http://www.astrofotografen.se
Copyright: Göran Strand
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The wings of the Eagle
http://www.glitteringlights.com
Copyright: Marco Lorenzi

Jupiter on September 27th, 07:49ut, A large white Oval has formed at the NEB region and a Red barge is still present at the SEB.
(Equipment: LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, F30, CGE mount, Flea3 Ccd, TeleVue 3x Barlows, Astronomik RGB filter set. 50sec per channel).

NGC 281 (Pacman Nebula)
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/NGC281_2012.htm
Copyright: Emil Ivanov Larger image could be seen here

Jupiter Impact Composite Image
http://georgeastro.weebly.com/jupiter-impact-image.html
Copyright: George Hall
This is an image of the Sept. 10, 2012 Jupiter impact. The impact was first observed visually by Dan Petersen of Racine, Wisconsin who then posted his observation on the ALPO_Jupiter forum. George Hall, of Dallas, Texas, after seeing the post reviewed video that he had collected earlier and discovered that he had captured the impact on video. The image was made using Registax on the original 2 minute video and combining the resulting image with a single frame from the video that contained a good representation of the impact flash.

More detailed information can be found at this URL:
www.utdallas.edu/physics/jupiter

Harvest Moon and Hunad Hatun Complex

Hunad Hatun Mosque and Complex was built in 12th century during Anatolian Seljuk Empire. It was built by Hunad Hatun who was the wife of Kayqubad I. The complex includes Turkish bath, Madrasa and a türbe (tomb).

M24 star cloud
http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/index2.htm
Copyright: Lorenzo Comolli

Tech data and description with object names: http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/d136.htm

Soul nebula, IC 1848
Copyright: Predrag Knezevic
Address:
Locka 17, 48322 Drnje
Croatia

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Sky-Watcher Equinox ED120
Imaging cameras: Atik 383L+ mono
Mounts: Celestron CGEM
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Sky-Watcher Equinox ED120
Guiding cameras: Starlight Xpress Lodestar
Focal reducers: Sky-Watcher 0.85x
Software: Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Filters: Baader SII 8nm, Baader OIII 8,5nm, Baader H-alpha 7nm
Accessories: Atik EFW2, Dew-Not Dew-Not heater, Teleskop-Service TSOAG9
Dates: Sept. 22, 2012
Frames:
Baader H-alpha 7nm : 6x1800" bin 1x1
Baader OIII 8,5nm: 10x1800" bin 1x1
Baader SII 8nm: 6x1800" bin 1x1
Integration: 11.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 6.51 days
Avg. Moon phase: 40.76%
Better resolution:

Harvest full moon and migrating birds
http://www.photon-hunter.de
Copyright: Levin Dieterle

Harvest full moon (29. September 2012 at 22:30 CEST) togetherwith two migrating birds flying south. During observation every 30-60 sec a bird crosses the disk of the full moon. It was rather challenging catching some exposures of these migrating birds because each of these transits last only about one second.
higher resolution:
http://photon-hunter.de/temp/astro/harvestfullmoon.jpg

kind regards,
Levin

Faint reflection nebulae VdB 14 and VdB 15 in Camelopardalis
http://www.foto.astronomie.cz/index.html
Copyright: Milos Hroch Subject of this image is rarely photographed complex of very faint reflection nebulae VdB14 and Vdb15, which are
part of huge molecular cloud between Perseus, Camelopaedalis, Cassiopeia and Auriga constellation

Better resolution image and details about object and photography can be found here:
http://www.foto.astronomie.cz/data/nebulae/vdb14.html
http://www.foto.astronomie.cz/data/nebu ... /vdb14.jpg

Regards,
Milos Hroch

Solar effects at sun rise

The picture was taken at "Pic du Midi" observatory in the south west of France.
The wind blowing from the valley is carying ice particles upward. Using a cupola of the observatory to mask the rising sun,
I captured this nice effect.
Copyright: Jean-Paul GODARD & Martine TLOUZEAU

Respective websites http://uranoscope.free.fr & http://mseclipse.free.fr

Full Harvest Moon Rising
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier