Starship Asterisk*

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milky way lighthouse

Panoramic view from south to north of the lighthouse under the milky way arch in Capo Spartivento, Sardinia (Italy). Stitched panorama of 12 shots.
by Ivan Pedretti
http://www.thewildlifemoments.com

Star Trails in Florida
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15001517@N06/9156569391/
Copyright: Patrick Saltsman
11 minute exposure at ISO1600, taken at Santa Rosa Beach, Florida on June 5th, 2013.

Supernova in NGC 5806
Credit: HST Archive, Chris Gelino (IPAC), Yi Cao (Caltech), Iair Arcavi (Weizmann Institute of Science)
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searching the color II

M20 - Trifid Nebula
Location: Taken from El Dorado Hills, California (object is about 25-30 degrees above horizon at peak)
Dates: Taken over 6 nights from May 19 - June 8, 2013
Field of view: approx. 24x36 arc minutes
Plate Scale: 0.54 arcseconds/pixel
Exposures: L 4x10min Bin 1x1; R 7x20min Bin 2x2, G 6x10min Bin 2x2, B
7x20min Bin 2x2
(total exposure 400 minutes, or about 6.7 hours; certainly could use
another 2-3 hours of luminance!)
Sky condition: approx 19.5 mag/arcsec^2 (suburban Sacramento)

Equipment Information

Telescope: Meade 12" LX200R
Focuser: Clement Bellerophon 3", RoboFocus, using FocusMax software
Rotator: Optec Pyxis 3"
Guider: Astrodon MOAG, SBIG Remote Guide Head
Filters: SBIG FW-8 filter wheel with Custom Scientific LRGB (2")
Camera: SBIG STL-11000M
Mount: Software Bisque Paramount ME
Observatory: Sirius 8' dome on custom 10' square building
Location: In our backyard, and fully remote controllable via internet
Software: CCDAutoPilot - automated acquisition software
MaximDL - camera control software
TheSky 6 Pro - planetarium software
CCDStack - register, normalize, data reject, & combine software
Photoshop CS4 - image processing software

Copyright: Steve Fry

Object: NGC 6369 - 27 February 2002
FITS data obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA).

Processing by: Steven Marx Click to view Original FULL scale image (1024x983)

Saturn's Hexagon
http://www.flickr.com/photos/valerieklavans/9153651224/
Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / composite by Val Klavans
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Saturn & Lens Flare
http://www.flickr.com/photos/valerieklavans/9134837771/
Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / composite by Val Klavans
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Distinctly Venus
Copyright: Kenneth Green

Gas-Giant Exoplanets Cling Close to Their Parent Stars
http://www.gemini.edu/node/12025
Credit: Gemini Observatory/AURA; artwork by Lynette Cook Milky Way over Teide
http://altamiraobs.org.es/
Copyright: José F. Hernandez
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IRIS ignition
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/2 ... phere.html
Creditt: NASA
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Rainbows over Oak Park
Copyright: Dave Coulter
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Tornadic clouds
Copyright: Karen Spisak
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I took this image from my backyard near the town of Ravenna in Italy.

Location: San Romualdo - Ravenna (Italy)
Refractor Tecnosky Apo 130 f/6.9
ASA DDM60PRO
unguided images
CCD QSI 520ws cooled -14
RGB Baader filters
RGB: R 24x10min, G 23x10min, B 22x10min.
Acquired with MaximDL5 - Dark, Bias and Flat subtract
Processed with MaximDL5, Astroart4 and Paint Shop ProX4


Best regards,
Cristina Cellini

An image of Saturn taken this year in March from Bucharest, Romania.

Saturn
http://www.astronomywonders.wordpress.com
Copyright: Daniel Nicolae

Object: Calabash Nebula (OH231.8+4.2)
FITS data obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA).
Processing by: Delio Tolivia Cadrecha
More photos on our Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/SeccionAstrofoto

Violent neutron star formation in a three-dimensional computer simulation
Credits: Elena Erastova and Markus Rampp, RZG

Full story can be found here: http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/mpa/inst ... dd-en.html

Yes those are sunspots not dust on my lens whereas the other bands are cloud variations.
We had just enough clouding to filter the sun down for sunspot observations.
The photo was taken with no camera attached filters at all.
The big one near the bottom of the picture (AR1777) threw an eruption our way and due to glance by on the 30th or 31st.
This is what the sun looked like zoomed back to a normal landscape photo

The star Gliese 667 on June 29th, Its a triple-star system in the constellation of Scorpius. Gliese 667 C is the smallest stellar component of this system and its a red dwarf type star. The three exoplanets within the habitable zone of the star are called Gliese 667C c, f and e. It is 22 light years distance from Earth. The animation ( http://www.jaicoa-observatory.com/Glies ... Anim-1.gif ) in which I was surprise to find out is that the star is moving comparing to some DSS plates unfortunate no dates on them but last frame is my current image.

Sun pillar
Seen yesterday Jun 29 during sunset in Catalonia
Copyright: Maria Rosa Vila

Taken with my Celestron C8 and MS LifeCam 5000HD.

Brian Ford

M8 - The Lagoon Nebula
Equipment: Atik 420m on William Optics ZenithStar 66SD
Mount: Meade LXD75
Exposure: 6x15min Ha and 6x15min OIII
Copyright: Pablo Rosell-González More info and full size:http://www.astrobin.com/46624/0/?mod=none

Wide Field Northern Cygnus
http://www.skymonsters.net/immagine.php?img=Cigno50.jpg
Copyright: Nicola Montecchiari

IC 4592 - IC 4601
Equipment: Canon 40D Central d.s. on Triplet Apo 80mm f/4.8
Mount: Takahashi Temma EM-200
Exposure:77x2min ISO 1600
Copyright: Carlo Rocchi

Perseid meteor shower 2012
Copyright: Petr Horálek (Úpice observatory), Miloslav Druckmüller (http://www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/) Full resolution (2 MB, 1982x1382 px): http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/gallery/ ... 1800px.jpg

Comet Panstarrs

Movie can be seen here: http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/pans ... 2013dp.wmv

Animated gif can be seen here: http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/pans ... 2013dp.gif

Copyrights: Damian Peach

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IC1318 Gamma Cyg

Copyrights: José Francisco Hdez

Noctilucent cloud observer
A bright NLC close the first month of the summer

Copyright: Rafael Schmall

Large image: http://imageshack.us/a/img4/7640/4gtl.jpg

Location: Hungary, Somogy, Kaposfö (!!) (NLC are rare in this country)
Image taken: 2013.06.30. 22:20 (UTC+2)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rafael-Sc ... 6556170718

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Supermoon 2013

Telescopes is a Takhashi TOA150B with an SBIG ST200xme camera.
Exposure time 0.002 seconds.