Starship Asterisk*

Heart and Soul Nebula
Copyright: Stefan Westphal

61x5min/ ISO 800/ Canon 5dMKII/ EF 300 f4

Archive Legacy Hubble
Reprocess :Raul Villaverde Fraile
NGC 2936-2937 by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

The Frog nebula - AKA Barnard 163
In Ha-RGB and only in Ha

Larger versions:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/new_images

Thanks for looking!

Kfir Simon

Ic 434 "Horse Head Nebula"
Refractor Apo Ts Photoline 80mm with 0.80X reducer and flattener
Ccd Atik 383L+ -14° in binning 1x1
Exp di 4h con sub frames di 900 sec in HAlpha channel + 120 min for LRGB channels
Samuele Gasparini Castelfiorentino (Fi) website: http://www.astrobook.it

Explanation from Wikipedia: The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33) is a dark nebula in the constellation Orion.[1] The nebula is located just to the south of the star Alnitak, which is farthest east on Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. The nebula was first recorded in 1888 by Scottish astronomer Williamina Fleming on photographic plate B2312 taken at the Harvard College Observatory.[2] The Horsehead Nebula is approximately 1500 light years from Earth. It is one of the most identifiable nebulae because of the shape of its swirling cloud of dark dust and gases, which bears some resemblance to a horse's head when viewed from Earth.

Rosette Nebula
Gso 200/800 F4 with baader coma corrector
Ccd Atik 383L+mono
Skywatcher Az-Eq6 GT
Baader narrowband filters
halfa -20 15x600s binning 1x1
olll -15 10x300s binning 2x2
sll -15 10x300s binning 2x2
Qhy5 guider with 50mm finder scope

The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49) is a large, spherical (circular in appearance), H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 (Caldwell 50) is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter.
The cluster and nebula lie at a distance of some 5,000 light-years from Earth and measure roughly 50 light years in diameter. The radiation from the young stars excites the atoms in the nebula, causing them to emit radiation themselves producing the emission nebula we see. The mass of the nebula is estimated to be around 10,000 solar masses.

Rosette nebula
Rosette nebula by Juan Carlos Cuckson, en Flickr
Copyright: Juan Carlos Cuckson Martinez

Hubble Legacy Archive
Reprocess: Raul Villaverde Fraile
M51 Hubble by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

The one day phase crescent moon setting into Pacific Ocean.
We can see the magnificent atmospheric refraction when the moon setting down. As moon close to the horizon, it gets flatter and distorted by inversion layer, especially the last one.

The wave like sculpture is in the University of California, Santa Cruz, known as 'the Squiggle'.
Looking into this startrails photos, one trail below sculpture, is surprisingly the second brightest star in the whole night sky, Canopus. It's located at -52°42′ declination and rises up no more than 1 degree above the horizon even with the help of atmosphere refraction.
Here we have a glimpse of Canopus at 37 degrees Northern Latitude, and the extremely low altitude also distorted the trails at the end part.

Copyright Jerry Gardner
HaRGB
20xHa@600 sec
20xR@600 sec
20xG@600 sec
20xB@600 sec
http://www.keith-engineering.com/pictur ... aRBG_2.jpg

http://www.theconstellationranch.com

Pleaides Star Cluster

Total of 3h10min (38x300s) at ISO800
TS80 Triplet Apo
Canon 1000Da
NEQ6 Pro II Tuning
Autoguide with ASI120MC

Pleiades - M45 by Alejandro Pertuz, en Flickr

SHII 136 - A Spooky Nebula

Copyright: CAAT - Centro Astronómico del Alto Turia - Gonzalo Fornas
Processing: Laureano Martín - Alfonso Carreño Best Regards.-)

Jupiter, GRS, Oval Ba and South Equatorial Belt zone disturbance on 2017-01-29-0938ut. LX200ACF 12 in OTA, CGE Mount, ASI290mm Ccd, PowerMate 2.5x Barlows, Custom Scientific RGB filters.

Triple conjunction over Gran Sasso mountain - Abruzzo, Italy
http://www.giovannidifabio.com
Copyright: Giovanni Di Fabio

SH2-261 Lowers Nebula

Copyrights: Frank Iwaszkiewicz FullRes: https://www.deep-sky-astroteam.de/de/node/406

Moon, Venus, and Mars conjuction January 31st, 2017 from Victoria, Texas.

Moon, Venus, and Mars Conjunction
URL of website, http://www.mdieterichphoto.com
Copyright: Matt Dieterich https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/436/32261 ... 292a_h.jpg

On the night of January 31st, the Moon passed within 2 degrees of Mars (top center) while joining Venus in the night sky.

Conjunction
URL of website, http://www.mdieterichphoto.com
Copyright: Matt Dieterich

http://themaurosky.wixsite.com/astrophotography/m37

Messier 37 (also known as M37 or NGC 2099) is the richest open cluster in the constellation Auriga , It is the brightest of three open clusters in Auriga.
M37 is located in the antipodal direction, opposite from the Galactic Center as seen from Earth.[4] Estimates of its age range from 347[1] million to 550[3] million years.
It has 1,500[2] times the mass of the Sun and contains over 500 identified stars,[3] with roughly 150 stars brighter than magnitude 12.5. M37 has at least a dozen red giants and its hottest surviving main sequence star is of stellar classification B9 V. The abundance of elements other than hydrogen and helium, what astronomers term metallicity, is similar to, if not slightly higher than, the abundance in the Sun.[1]
At its estimated distance of around 4,500 light-years (1,400 parsecs)[1] from Earth, the cluster's angular diameter of 24 arcminutes corresponds to a physical extent of about 20–25 ly (6.1–7.7 pc).

IC 447/446/2169 + NGC 2247/2245 - The Blue Tadpole? by Patrick Gilliland, on Flickr

Here we have a look at the IC 447/6 areas - nice feature packed area of the sky. Not seen too often either.
© Paddy Gilliland 2017

Thors Helmet - NGC 2359 by Patrick Gilliland, on Flickr

A winter favorite - NGC 2359 Thor's Helmet.
© Paddy Gilliland 2017