Starship Asterisk*

Micro full moon on 9.6.2017

Uhlirsky vrch near Bruntal ( Czech republic ).

August 18th: beautiful sunrise at Mesa Arch, Canyonlands NP, Utah. The Moon is visible at the top of the image, close to the edge.

http://www.astrophoto.fr/sun_moon_canyo ... egault.jpg

Track in the field

Moon-Venus conjunction over the high-altitude observatory (Caucasus) with 17x zoom view
Canon SX-220HS (DNG mod), 3x10s, ISO 100. RawTherapie, MS ICE.


High resolution
Ed Vazhorov, vazhorov.wordpress.com

Hodaka mountains of Cassiopeia galaxies by MASAHIRO MIYASAKA, on Flickr

NGC 7789
Credit: Jaspal Chadha
https://flic.kr/p/XPUxJ1

Messier 100
http://www.distant-lights.at/m100-2017_03_28.htm
Copyright: Thomas Henne

tommy_h wrote:Messier 100
http://www.distant-lights.at/m100-2017_03_28.htm
Copyright: Thomas Henne

Click to view full size image

Wow, that's a splendid image!

Messier 100 is one of my favorite galaxies. Your picture is a superb wide-angle portrait of the galaxy and its satellites. We see a lot of structural detail and wonderful colors in M100 itself, and an interesting aspect is the galaxy's broad outer spiral arms, made entirely of old stars. I like the satellite galaxy IC 783 some distance to the right of M100, which has such a bright and obvious nucleus and the barest hint of spiral arms. That's quite interesting in a small galaxy at the same distance from us as the large Messier galaxy. Another of my favorites in the menagerie of satellite galaxues is a fluffy, faint and very blue dwarf galaxy (PG 40045) located between M100 and IC 783.

Thank you, what a great image!

Ann

jaspalchadha wrote:NGC 7789
Credit: Jaspal Chadha
https://flic.kr/p/XPUxJ1

That's a lovely portrait of Caroline's Rose, which looks almost like a globular cluster in this image. Read more about it here.

Jaspal Chadha, your image is beautiful indeed!

Ann

Colorful Elephant Trunk (ic1396A)
Copyright: Sergio Kaminsky

Full resolution and details here: http://www.myastroscience.com/elephantstrunk

"Look at the stars"

I'm, binoculars, the starry sky and nothing more!

Nikita Kharlanov
https://500px.com/under-stars
https://pp.userapi.com/c841439/v8414394 ... uxckek.jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/17910585@ ... 167213281/


Datas are on link's page.

Perseid meteor shower over Valais in Switzerland

Credits: Adrien Mauduit

The 2017 Perseid peaked on August 11th but the waning gibbous moon made it hard to see all the small meteorites. Only big ones were visible in the bright sky! I took the shot in the Valais area in Switzerland as I was on vacation with my family from 11:00 pm to 02:11 am (GMT + 1). It was a beautiful scenery and there was barely any light pollution whatsoever: a paradise to shoot pictures in. The mountains of the Valais offer beautiful places with tremendous wildlife and countless things to do. I recommend the place to all nature lovers.
The special shot is the close-upon the Scutum (shield) constellation moving behind the peaks. Can you spot the geostationary satellites as well? I used the Samyang 85 and 135mm to get these shots.

Time-lapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBW85hV7F98

Cygnus 70 panel Gigapixel APP Mosaic by Kees Scherer, on Flickr

This 70 panel Mosaic was planned with SGP's Framing & Mosaic Wizard, imaged with Esprit 100 f5.5 telescope / QHY16200 CCD + 6nm Ha filter and processed with an all new automatic mosaic algorithm in APP (Astro Pixel Processor) The full sized image is over 1 Gigapixels.

The Milky Way over the lights of an aquaculture in the Saronic Gulf, Aegean Sea, Greece.

https://alexandrosmaragos.com
Copyright: Alexandros Maragos

Milky Way + Aquaculture by Alexandros Maragos, on Flickr

A photo anyone (almost) can take!
Copyrights: Richard S. Wright Jr. NGC 6914
Copyrights: Lóránd Fényes Perseid meteor shower in ancient caravanserai
Copyrights: Amir Shahcheraghian Vulpecula Sh2-87 and 88
Copyrights: Jon Talbot Milky Way over the Grand Canyon
Copyrights: Anthony Baumann M16 - Pillars Of Creation
Copyrights: G. Chatzifrantzis ISS crosses the Sun through AR2670, Capalaba, Brisbane, Australia
Copyrights: Michael Marston NGC 2442, The "Meathook Galaxy" in Volans
Credits and Copyrights: Data: Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatories; Processing and Assembly: Robert Gendler and Roberto Colombari
More sizes: http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/NGC2442-HST-ESO.html M8
Copyrights: Manel Martín Folch Rho Ophiuchi Region
Copyrights: Mohammad Nowroozi The Echoed Rivers
Copyrights: Hower JI MIlky Way from Santorini, Greece
Copyrights: Syed Taha Gum Nebulas
Copyrights: Pedro Borja NGC 7023 (Iris Nebula)
Copyrights: Keith Quattrocchi Behold...The Perseids
Copyrights: Steve Cullen Perseids 2016 over Vrchtepla
Copyrights: Petr Horálek NGC1396 The Elephant's Trunk
Copyrights: Christopher Gomez M8
Copyrights: Christopher Gomez Moon and Drone
Copyrights: Giorgi D Partial Lunar Eclipse (2017-08-07)
Copyrights: Anthony Ayiomamitis Partial Lunar Eclipse from Rome
Copyrights: Gianluca Masi Moonrise with partial Lunar eclipse
Copyrights: Jens Hackmann Lunar eclipse
Copyrights: Takiyüddin Astronomi Topluluğu Partial Lunar eclipse and halo
Copyrights: Luocheng

Partial Lunar eclipse at the ancient temple of Poseidon, Sounion, Greece
Copyrights: Elias Chasiotis Aristarchus - Blue Crater
Copyrights: Rodrigo Andolfato Partial Lunar Eclipse in Singapore on 8 August 2017
Copyrights: A Kannan Lunar Eclipse ends over Mediterranean
Copyrights: José J. Chambó Partial Lunar eclipse
Copyrights: Martin Marthadinata Moon and rays
Copyrights: Michael Seeley Partial Lunar eclipse on August 8th in Mashhad,Iran
Copyrights: Shahriar Rahimi Perseid shower 2016
Copyrights: Christian Koll An Eclipse Gathering
Copyrights: Gabriel Curio The anticrepuscular eclipse
Copyrights: Petr Horálek
Copyrights: Dario Giannobile Partial Lunar Eclipse
Copyrights: Mahyar Moradi Chafi Veil Nebula
Copyrights: Evangelos Souglakos Perseids + Milky Way from Chaco Canyon, 2016
Copyrights: James Lowenthal Milky way over Burney Falls
Copyrights: Holly Jauch Lunar Eclipse with Plane Transit
Copyrights: Yakut Burak Yeşilmen ISS Lunar Transit during the Partial Lunar Eclipse 8.8.2017
Copyrights: A Prabhakaran The emission region containing M16 and M17 (and M18...)
Copyrights: Josep Drudis Penumbral lunar eclipse 2017/8/7
Copyrights: Bijan Moravej

The Observing Field
Copyright: György Soponyai

The annual astro camp of Hungarian Astronomical Association is held in Gerecse Mountain near Tarján (~50km southwest from Budapest). Every year ~ 300-400 amateur astronomers come together for common sky-wathcing in a long weekend. This year some technical failures prevented me to complete my original photo plan so the second dawn I was just lurking on the observing field, watching into some telescopes, watching the crowd, the sky and I tried to compose them into a photo. This is the result:



2017.08.19.
Tarján, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Samyang EF 14/2.8
8 x 30 sec, F2.8, ISO 4000

NGC-891 and Little friends

More information about the adquisition and details of the objet can found at my web site http://www.tonimancera.com
Copyright: Toni Mancera, Dark Nigth Colors




Link to full size image
http://www.tonimancera.com/astrophoto/NGC891_RGB.jpg

NGC-225

More information about the adquisition and details of the objet can found at my web site http://www.tonimancera.com
Copyright: Toni Mancera, Dark Nigth Colors
http://www.tonimancera.com/astrophoto/NGC225_fin_th.jpg

Link to full size image
http://www.tonimancera.com/astrophoto/NGC225_fin.jpg

"Look at the stars"

One of the most beautiful parts of the Milky Way! Even on this focal length is already possible to distinguish nebulae M16 and M17!

Nikita Kharlanov
https://500px.com/under-stars
https://pp.userapi.com/c841439/v8414392 ... TlxoLE.jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/146776842 ... ed-public/

Imaging telescope or lens: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED Super APO Triplet
Imaging camera: Canon 700Da modified
Mount: Sky-Watcher AZ EQ6 GT
Guiding telescope or lens: Orion Mini 50mm Guide Scope
Guiding camera: Orion StarShoot AutoGuider
Focal reducer: Hotech SCA Field Flattener
Software: Astro Pixel Processor, PixInsight and Photoshop
Filter: Astronomik Canon Clip CLS


Picture was taken on a vacation in Holsthum Germany.

10x 300s, 10x 120s and 10x 60s light frames
15x flat frames
10x dark frames
200x bias frames

Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile
IC63_2017_RGB_halfa_V4 by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

Venus above Grand Canyon National Park
Copyrights: Wang Letian A Long Drought
Copyrights: Jimmy Westlake Moonrise during a penumbral eclipse
Copyrights: Pablo Martinez Alemparte Partial Lunar eclipse of 8th August
Copyrights: Terry Lee NGC 7000
Copyrights: Jens Zippel Moonrise above Mercantour
Copyrights: Didier Renvaze LDN 1152, RNO 124 (Draco-Cepheus)
Copyrights: Antonio Fernandez Partial Lunar Eclipse as seen from India
Copyrights: Abhijit Juvekar Zodiac
Copyrights: Ondrej Kralik The Fish Nebula
Copyrights: Juan I. Jimenez Orion and Running Man Nebula
Copyrights: Trevor Mahy The beauty of the Cosmos
Copyrights: Adolfo Miranda Eclipse
Copyrights: Christophe Marlot Composite from Partial Lunar Eclipse
Copyrights: Stephane Vetter NGC6188 and NGC6164/NGC6165
Copyrights: Jerome Barkhan The Crescent Nebula (NGC6888)
Copyrights: Andrew Klinger Perseid meteor shower 2016
Copyrights: A. Go The Milky Way of south sky above the lighthouse
Copyrights: A. Go