Starship Asterisk*

(Super) Moonset from 10 March 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand
Filmed by Mark Gee


With everything that's going on in the world at the moment, it's always good to go back to enjoying some of the simple things in life, like taking time out to enjoy the beauty of nature.

I shot this video of the (super) moon setting behind my favorite treeline to the west of the city of Wellington, New Zealand last Tuesday morning. The video has been speed up so it's more of a time-lapse.

For the tech details, the shoot was planned with PhotoPills, and I was 7.4km from the treeline. I shot the video with a Nikon D850 and a 600mm f/4 lens with a 1.4x extender, giving me a total focal length of 840mm. Sunrise was only 25 minutes after I shot this, but because I exposed for the bright moon, the background came out black giving me a great silhouette of the trees as the moon passed behind them. In post, I stabilised the horizontal motion of the moon so it sets vertically rather than drifting right to left, giving the landscape left to right motion instead.

1 hour of exposure in full color: Ritchey-Chretien 20" F/4.5 + CDS-5D + Idas NGS Filter
www.hesnet.net/candy

This video is made of 638 picture of the mook taken during April lunation.

In order to make the lockdown more fun, Ciel et Espace magazine have invited people on social networks to take a picture of the moon every day during April lunation, and publish it on twitter and facebook with the # ChallengeLunaire (Lunar Challenge). This invitation was relayed by French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, so the challenge became very popular and we received more than 600 pictures!
It's a team work made by Ciel et Espace https://www.cieletespace.fr/ , and Gustave Rudman accepted that we use his music https://soundcloud.com/gustaverudman

Occultation of Venus by the Moon, Dec. 01, 2008
...accompanied by Jupiter



Photographed at dusk in Vienna - Austria
Photocredits - Helmut Liebhaber
Photos taken with...
Canon 350D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3,5-5,6 II
Canon Ef 100mm Macro f/2,8
Nikon D70s
Nikkor 18-70mm 1:3,5-4,5G ED DX
Nikkor AF 180mm f/2,8 D

https://www.stern-bild.at/

I filmed the International Space Station passing overhead with a telescope from my driveway the day NASA Astronauts Bob and Doug Arrived to the ISS.

Only a few short hours after NASA Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley docked to the International Space Station (ISS), I captured them flying overhead at over 17,000 mph from Pittsburgh, PA. I used a PlaneWave Instruments L-350 mount with their CDK14 telescope and a ZWO1600mm CMOS camera to video the ISS pass.

Last year I traveled to Chile to experience the total solar eclipse from La Sarena, what an experience it was. It was my first total solar eclipse and an experience I will remember for the rest of my life. I traveled over to work as a photographer for a travel company and I wanted to attempt to capture something that hadn't been done before, a hyper-lapse video of the eclipse from a drone.
Around 10 minutes before totality I moved the drone into position and left it to fly on a pre-programmed route, I couldn't do anything else but wait and hope my planning worked.
I hope you enjoy the result and maybe it will be a fitting APOD for the anniversary of the eclipse in early July.'
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If anyone can help me with embedding this video in the forum I'd greatly appreciate it

Venus re-appearance on Jun/19 at 4:07am EDT (Marblehead, MA)
https://youtu.be/uGD6zY84Wig

June 21, 2020
Annular eclipse in Taiwan
Timelapse Photography Annimation

Milky Way

BEST DETAILS
https://www.astrobin.com/full/m2e19z/0/?nc=user

Equipment:
Canon 6D
Rokinon 14mm f2.4
Iso 1600, time 50 sec
Fixed tripod

Processing: Photoshop CS6, Pixinisight
5/21/2020
Munhoz - MG - Brazil

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

In this period of time you could see how the long tail of this spectacular kite peeks out and rises above the horizon

Time Lapse of the rising Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)


The comet is a naked eye object!


Captured with a Nikon D800 (ISO 320) and a 135mm lens.

Credit: Dr. Sebastian Voltmer
Contact: Insta: @sebastianvoltmer / e-mail: sebastian@voltmer.de

Cheers,
Sebastian

Jupiter & Saturn, 2000-'01
Retrograde motions of Jupiter and Saturn between June 2000 and May 2001, when they were close to each other in Taurus.
Copyright: Tunç Tezel

Neowise comet close up time-lapse.

Images sequence acquired on 24 and 25 July, a total af 160 images in 4 hours are compressed
in many seconds to show the dust ejestions of the comet core:

Neowise dust tail Close up time-lapse
Copyright: Andrea Tamanti and Alberto Tomatis collaborations

Images acquired from ALTO Observatory in Canino VT - Italy
with a RC 16" at 3200 mm focal length and a STL 6303 ccd.

Here a GIF: https://www.astrobin.com/full/jj4rle/0/?real=&mod=
Here the video: https://alto-observatory.smugmug.com/As ... -jzG4jHm/A

Credits: Andrea Tamanti and Alberto Tomatis collaborations

Tamanti: http://www.tamanti.it/astronomy.htm
Tomatis: https://alto-observatory.smugmug.com/Astronomia-1-1

Time-lapse of the Sturgeon Moon rising over the Boston Lighthouse. (08/03/2020, 8:29 pm to 8:38 pm). These images were taken from a distance of 5 Miles.

Timelapse of the Milky Way in the Dark Sky Reserve - Portugal:
It's possible to see several satellites and some perseids shooting stars:

Another milky way timelapse captured on June/July:

Time-lapse of the transit of comet C/2020 (Neowise) and crossing of the International Space Station (ISS)
over the plain of Castelluccio di Norcia in Italy.

Time-lapse of 18 July 2020
from 10.50 pm to 11.44 pm
536 photos

Credit: Giovanna Focardi Nicita

Hello! I'm new to the forum. I'm trying to post a video for APOD consideration, but I guess I don't have permission. How do I do that?

hawky123 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 9:11 pm Hello! I'm new to the forum. I'm trying to post a video for APOD consideration, but I guess I don't have permission. How do I do that?

Is it a youtube or vimeo video? Just use the youtube or vimeo tags with the appropriate url. No special permission needed.

Sorry it's a GIF

SpaceX Starlink satellites passing overhead in succession from Craters of the Moon National Monument.

Thanks for the help. My video is on Astrobin at this link - https://www.astrobin.com/r1kasw/?nc=user
How would embed it? Sorry I've never uploaded to ANY forum before.

A Year of Sunsets Time Lapse

Astrophotography processing is a long process and we put a lot of effort and passion into the images we capture. This video shows that process via a smooth transition from a linear stacked image all the way to a completed photo in less than 60 seconds. The image I used was my shot of the Rosette Nebula in the HOO color palette. I captured this with an Astro-Tech AT115EDT, EQ6-R Pro, ASI1600mm Pro, and Baader narrowband filters. 83 x 120s frames at 200 gain.

Partial Solar Eclipse from Buenos Aires

http://www.baskies.com.ar/PHOTOS/ECLISE%2012-14-20.mp4

190 frames timelapse compressed in 22 seconds
Orion Optics UK 6 inches f5 Newtonian; Canon 60Da

Best Regards
Sergio

Copyright: Vineeth Kaimal
Website (Youtube): http://theurbanastronomer.com
Location: Bengaluru, India
Date: 22-Dec-2020

This is the relative movement of Jupiter, its moons and Saturn captured with my telescope on 22-Dec-2020 just a day after The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Thirteen frames were stacked from one-minute single videos captured within a span of 1 hour. They were then used to make the back and forth animation of the actual motion in 1 hour using PIPP. In Hitfilm Express, I selectively adjusted brightness in the local area of the moons and Saturn and Jupiter to make the objects more visible in this video. This was captured using my GSO 8 Inch Classical Cassegrain mounted on an iOptron CEM25P and using QHY5iii462C camera.

Thanks,
Vineeth