Starship Asterisk*

http://www.startrails.de/files/IRISFinalmedium.jpg



Irisnebula photographed wit a cooled Canon 550D and a 2.8/400mm lens, 58 exposures 300s each (photographer Achim Schaller)
Central region photographed wit a ST10 CCD and a 15" Newton (photographer Stephan Studer)

Milky Way
Copyrights: Tunc Tezel Vela Supernova
Copyrights: Angus Lau Sun in Halpha
Copyrights: Umair Asim

Milky Way over Arecibo Observatory
Copyrights: Juan Gonzalez-Alicea / Sociedad de Astronomia del Caribe Barnard 150
Copyrights: Philippe Barraud A Polartrail, Satellite and Iridium in Falperras Hill
Copyrights: Miguel Claro

Galileo Turns The Telescope Toward The Heavens and Discovers The Earth

Mountain Sunrise (1826)

A painting by Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole (1801-1848) of a scene in the Catskill Mountain wilderness as compared to the ionization front within the Pelican nebula as imaged from the northern edge of the Catskill Mountains.
Nick Pavelchak
Altamont, NY

http://www.astrobin.com/51153/B/

Copyright: César Cantú

Copyright: César Cantú

Copyright: César Cantú
Real color of yhe Sun.
Researching the internet, I find that planetfacts.org say that "the Sun has many colours and because of the intensity of those colours our eyes can’t take them all on that is why it appears white. But because it has strong lines of yellow it gives that slight yellowish tint. So it is safe to say that the Sun is white with a yellowish tint."
So we should introduce color would be something like this. I think it is more colorful in shades ranging from yellow to red, going through orange.

High Res version http://www.nightoverontario.com/Astrono ... &lb=1&s=X2

Thanks for looking
Cheers
Lynn

CTB1, Sh2-170 and a new candidate supernova remnant
Copyright: Sara Wager

This image shows the supernova remnant CTB1 and in the middle of the image there is an area of new filamentary structures which is a candidate for a new supernova remnant. At the top of the picture is Sh2-170. The top left of the shell of CTB1 has been confirmed as a shell rupture.
The area shown is here http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full/2 ... /img22.gif


CTB1, Sh2-170 and a new candidate supernova remnant by swag72, on Flickr

Full res image : http://www.flickr.com/photos/swag72/9499344483/

The North American, Pelican and The Cygnus Wall Nebulae of Cygnus
Copyright: Terry Hancock
This ever popular target for Astrophotography, NGC 7000 otherwise known as The North American Nebula due to it's similarity to the shape of the USA, I decided to orient differently. I guess everyone sees something different but I clearly see a devilish face with an open mouth eating the dark absorption cloud (the chin is the cygnus wall), the eye is clearly defined with a star and another star at the tip of his nose, I can even see an ear.....what can you see?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/9490053911/ Here are crops of the most interesting areas

http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/9492844666/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/9490050953/

Summer milky way observation at Mont Saint Michel of Braspart, Brittany, France.
It is a panorama at 6400 iso, 30s, f2.8, canon 6D + samyang 14mm. The final image is composed of 15 images.
More night sky scenes here: https://www.facebook.com/AlexandreCroisierPhotographies

Alexandre Croisier

LBN 468 and variable PVcephei.
©onofre.rodrigo


8-August. Centro Astronómico Alto Turia (CAAT).
Valencia. Spain.


Full View : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/103 ... alforo.jpg

NGC7023 & Vdb 141
©onofre.rodrigo

From Aras de los Olmos. CAAT.
Valencia. Spain



Full view : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/103 ... n-full.jpg

NGC 4725 distorts NGC 4747
Copyrights: Bob Franke HFG1 region
Copyrights: Tom Davis Big Dipper
Copyrights: Jose Manuel Sanchez Bosch Earth from space
Copyrights: Astro-Jeunes
Every year during the Fleurance Astronomy Festival (in France), an astronomy festival called Astro-Jeunes is organised for children between 4 and 16 years old.
During the week, children built a box which will be send in space with an helium balloon. Children places in the box pressure, temperature, radiations detectors, a GPS and a GOPRO camera.
Children have lauched the balloon last thrusday 8th August, with the participation of Mr Michel Tognini, french astronaut at ESA.
This picture has been taken by the GoPro camera at an altitude of 34 km, just before the balloon explosion.

Rosette in the Hubble Palette
http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann, All rights reserved 2013

LDN1156 and HH215
Dark Nebulae LDN1156 (upper) and LDN1153 (lower) in Cepheus

Pre-main sequence star PV Cephei moves through the dust and gas at upper right, forming the fan-shaped nebula HH215.

http://www.pbase.com/dsnope/image/151797569/original

Open Clusters NGC7129 and NGC7142

Reflection nebula IC5134 envelopes NGC7129 and reflects light from the hot blue young stars, a stellar nursery with red emission nebula regions excited by emissions from the giant young stars. The red cresents are Herbig-Haro objects, ionized hydrogen gas compressed by shock waves emitted by the stars.

Edge-on galaxy PGC97261 is just to the left of NGC7142.
Galaxy PGC168098 is on the upper left edge of NGC7142.
Galaxy PGC168082 is above NGC7142.

http://www.pbase.com/dsnope/image/151773279

The Pipe Nebula
Barnard dark nebula B59, B72, B77 and B78 in constellation Ophiucus

The Snake Nebula B72 is at upper center.

http://www.pbase.com/dsnope/image/151746407

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Milky Way under the moonlight.

Copyright: M. Raşid Tuğral

Planet Starfest 2013.

This photo is a planet pano taken at Starfest, a Canadian star party held each August at the dark of the Moon in Ontario near Mount Forest. It's organized by the North York Astronomical Association (NYAA).

This particular image was taken on the field near the main tent and Red Light Cafe in the wee hours of 11 Aug 2013. The scope in the image is a 36" Normand Fullum dobsonian telescope that was delighting anyone who wanted to look through it. The views were exceptional and Normand was more than happy to share them. There was a line up all night long but it's a little hard to see in the planetized form. A ghostly observer stands on the ladder capturing distant photons.

Skyglow from nearby towns is visible at a few places on the horizon, as well as some airglow to the northwest.

The final image is composed of 12 separate images, stitched together in Photoshop and then warped into a planet. I used a Canon 7D with a Tokina 11-16mm lens, shooting raw at 3200 ISO, 30 seconds for each exposure.

Clear Skies
Charlie

Red Planet - The Milky Way behind a red formation, in the Red Desert of Wyoming. Single exposure with a lantern lighting up the foreground. By Randy Halverson
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IC1318 - Butterfly Nebula (Part C)
Located in the Cygnus complex the Butterfly nebula (IC1318) is a single giant HII cloud bisected by a thick obscuring dust lane which gives the symmetry from which its popular names derives. The image shows just one wing of the butterfly designated IC1318 C which is approximately 50 light years across. We are looking deep into the Orion arm of our galaxy in this direction at a distance of 5,000 light years. The image was created by assigning the SII, Ha and OIII data respectively to Red, Green and Blue and then applying a colour map to differentiate the SII and OIII areas from the dominant hydrogen.

Image acquisition and processing details: http://www.darkskiesimaging.com/2013/08 ... la-part-c/

Andrew Harrison
darkskiesimaging

A Perseid Fireball falling sky along the Milky Way
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steedjoy/9506007907/

M31 Andromeda Galaxy

Copyright: Francesco di Biase


M31 Andromeda Galaxy LHRGB di Francescodb, su Flickr