Starship Asterisk*

The Fly
The object commonly known as “The Fly” is the combination of a red emission nebula, blue reflection nebula, and an open star cluster. The star cluster is listed in the New General Catalog (NGC) as NGC 1931, while the nebulosity is included in the Sharpless catalog as Sh2-237. NGC 1931 is located in an extension of the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way about 7000 light-years away. The stars are relatively young at an age of about 10 million years. A study by A.K. Pandey and H.S. Mahra suggests the nebulosity may be a background object to the star cluster (http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//ful ... 3.000.html).

https://www.astrobin.com/e12qmi/0/?nc=user

Nick Pavelchak
Altamont, NY

IC410 - tadpole nebula

IC 410 - Nebulosa Girino by Corrado.gamberoni, su Flickr

Rosette Nebula

Nebulosa Rosetta by Corrado.gamberoni, su Flickr

Super Snow Moon 2020 from Castel Del Monte Italy
9th February 2020
Full res Image is here:

https://flic.kr/p/2irhF9F

Copyright Luigi Fiorentino

MILKY WAY


I made this image for one person in particular, the image was made with a mixture of two images, one focusing on the lactea route and the other focusing on the house so as not to be disfigured. Unfortunately they had a lot of clouds and it got in the way, but not too much.

More details:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/rp2ra0/D/?nc=user

LOCATION
Jales, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DATE:
12/28/2019

EQUIPMENT
Canon 6D modified
Rokinon 14mm F2.4

50sec, f / 2.4, ISO 1600 [sky]
30 sec, f / 2.4, ISO 1600 [ground]

Copyright: fERNANDO OLIVEIRA DE MENEZES
EMAIL: barretosmed@hotmail.com

barretosmed wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2020 12:20 am MILKY WAY


I made this image for one person in particular, the image was made with a mixture of two images, one focusing on the lactea route and the other focusing on the house so as not to be disfigured. Unfortunately they had a lot of clouds and it got in the way, but not too much.

More details:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/rp2ra0/D/?nc=user

LOCATION
Jales, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DATE:
12/28/2019

EQUIPMENT
Canon 6D modified
Rokinon 14mm F2.4

50sec, f / 2.4, ISO 1600 [sky]
30 sec, f / 2.4, ISO 1600 [ground]

Copyright: fERNANDO OLIVEIRA DE MENEZES
EMAIL: barretosmed@hotmail.com

Click to view full size image

Thank you so much for photographing Orion during this period of the dimming of Betelgeuse!

Ann

Where Ocean meets Celestial River!

This is a stacked Photo of 12 images captured at Acadia National Park, Maine.

Date: 27th July 2019
Nikon D810 - Exposure 15s at f2.8; ISO 10,000

Images were processed in Lightroom and stacked using Starry Landscape Stacker. I also used Photoshop for color correction and contrast adjustments.

Where Ocean meets Celestial River! by Prashant Naik, on Flickr

© Prashant Naik
https://www.naikonpixels.com/
https://www.instagram.com/naikonpixels/
https://www.facebook.com/naikonpixels

Thanks!
Prashant Naik

New Year Meteorite over Italy<br/>
Image Credit & Copyright: Associazione Astrofili Bolognesi(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McvQ5ASNo9M)<br/>
<br/>
Explanation: On the day of January 1 a -10 magnitude fireball crossed the skies of Northern Italy at 18h 26min UT. UfoCapture system at L19 AAB Felsina Observatory(1) in Monte San Pietro location, managed Amateur Astronomer Association of Bologna city(2), recorded the entire, breathtaking fireball phenomenon.<br/>
Upon a careful analysis of the trajectory thanks to 8 further recordings by cameras belonging to the PRISMA fireball video network(3), the astronomers of INAF-Italian National Institute of Astrophysics(4) made known to the public the potential meteorite fall on Earth, in particular in an area near the Province of Modena. Analysis of recordings show the 6-second long fireball reached a magnitude of -8 that bumped up to -10 during a last fragmentation, near 32 km altitude. Final visual altitude was estimated to be 20 km.<br/>
These fragments of fresh meteorites (two pieces of total 55g) have been eventually recovered in the outskirts of the town of Cavezzo(5) on January 4.<br/>
<br/>
(1) <URL url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McvQ5AS ... </URL><br/>
(2) <URL url="https://www.associazioneastrofilibologn ... </URL><br/>
(3) <URL url="http://www.prisma.inaf.it/">http://www. ... </URL><br/>
(4) <URL url="https://www.media.inaf.it/2020/01/04/tr ... <LINK_TEXT text="https://www.media.inaf.it/2020/01/04/tr ... capodanno/">https://www.media.inaf.it/2020/01/04/tr ... </URL><br/>
(5) <URL url="https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/modena ... <LINK_TEXT text="https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/modena ... -1.4966452">https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/modena ... </URL><br/>
<br/>
Equipment:<br/>
Camera: Mintron TV-12V1-EX + UfoCapture<br/>
Lens: Computar 3.8 f/0.8<br/>
Azimut: 295°<br/>
Elevation: 42°<br/>
FOV: 87°<br/>
<br/>
Location:<br/>
(MPC L19) AAB Felsina Observatory<br/>
Monte San Pietro, Bologna, Italy<br/>
11.05 East – 44.17 North<br/>
Altitude 650 m</r>

The Messier 78

Copyright: Tommaso Massimo Stella

Technical data
Lights: 127x300s @ 200 Gain (-15°C), 94 Dark, 42 Flat
Telescope: TS PhotoLine FPL53 Triplet 102 @ f/7
Camera: ZWO ASI 294mc Pro
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 GT
Autoguide: ASI 224mc & Ultraguide 60
Filters: Optolong L-Pro

Rising Full Moon over the Buda Hills
http://www.vadakcsillaga.hu/
Copyright: Tamas Abraham Higher resolution:
http://www.vadakcsillaga.hu/tajkep/ejsz ... 00209.html

Thanks for watching,
Tamas

IC 1805

Detail image :
https://www.astrobin.com/cai7du/?nc=user

NGC2244
Taken on Jan. 22nd 2020, total exposure about 3 hours per Ha and OIII and almost 7 hours per SII.
Processed to enhance structure within nebula. http://shrani.si/f/1x/xU/2vEzAn6C/ngc22 ... esmall.jpg
Hi res: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8x5ksnfg0d8bo ... p.jpg?dl=0

Hi folks

Here I share with you our version of the popular Tarantula Nebula,

Also known as 30 Doradus and NGC 2070, is a large region of ionized gas surrounding a collection of newly-forming stars at the Large Magellanic Cloud. It is being said that if it were as close to Earth as the Orion Nebula it would take up the same area in the sky as 60 full moons and would be bright enough to cast shadows on the ground. In fact, it is the most active and complex star formation region known within the Local Group galaxies.

It was taken from a remote observatory in Chile (about 2h narrowband exposure, 30min Ha, 30min O3, 60 min S2) during the 7th and 8th February 2020. Channels stacked with DSS, combined with MaximDL, and finally processed with Adobe Photoshop.

We hope you like it.
Miguel Sánchez (Sociedad Astronómica Granadina)

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ob7t0vjn5s8z ... s.jpg?dl=0

IC 2177

Full info @: http://www.kinchastro.com/ic-2177.html

Veil Nebula or Witch's Broom Nebula (NGC 6960).

The Veil Nebula is a huge supernova remnant.


More details:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/3jneuf/0/?nc=iotd


Equipment:
Apo ts 80mm
ASI 1600mm
10 x RGB bin2

Munhoz- MG - Brazil
08/07/2019


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

NGC 3324, Gabriela Mistral Nebula and neighborhood
40+ hours with TOA-150 & FLI-ML16200 at El Sauce Observatory, Chile
SHO for nebulosity, RGB for stars, optimized processing to hilight complicated interactions between light-obscuring dust and lumenescent gas of the nebula.

Full details and high-resolution image:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/j2ibw9/0/

Lost in Space: a Cosmic Seagull and a Mythical Helmet

A project with the Very Small Telescope (Nikon 200mm f2) from Chilescope: The Seagull Nebula (IC2177) and Thor's Helmet Nebula (NGC 2359) situated in Monoceros and Canis Major Constellations.

Copyright: Bogdan Borz

Full resolution and technical details: https://www.astrobin.com/full/20scp3/0/

ODD MOMENT .....


***Equipment:***
Canon 6D
Rokinon 14mm 2.4
Single frame 30 "
Iso 1600


*** BEST DETAILS: ***
https://www.astrobin.com/full/oo4lze/0/?nc=iotd

PROCESSING:
Adobe Photoshop, PixInsight.
Pousada Campos Misticos
Munhoz - MG - Brazil
06/30/2019

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

Contemplation Orion
Going high doesn't allow you to reach the stars, but sometimes it's all about feelings.
Contemplating Orione at dusk from above the steep valley of the Elva in the Italian Alps.
Techincal details:
Canon 6D IR modified
24 mm, f/2, 1600 ISO , 13 seconds
panorama of 2 shots with soft focus filter to enhance stars colours.
https://cosmoedintorni.org/
Copyright: Emanuele Balboni

M44 - The Beehive Cluster

Imaged on 2/3/4 Feb 2020 from EEYE in Extremadura, Spain. A beautiful open cluster and one of the closest to Earth, it has an apparent size approximately 3 times that of the full moon and is just visible as a faint haze to the naked eye.

Details and full size image can be found on Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/pew24o

Esprit ED80 + STF8300, 7.9hrs RGB in total.
Acquisition: Graeme Coates & Paul Tribe
Processing: Graeme Coates

MY PEACE...


Was the Earth the hospice of the Universe? (Albert Einstein)


More details:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/bgb22l/0/?nc=user

Equipment:
Canon 6D
Rokinon 14mm 2.4
Single frame 30 "
Iso 1600


PROCESSING:
Adobe Photoshop, PixInsight.
Pousada Campos Misticos
Munhoz - MG - Brazil
06/30/2019


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

Mbm 54

http://www.mynightsky.net/Latest/origin ... 4_2020.jpg

Long Stem Rose
Copyright: Bob Lockwood Descanso Ca.

http://www.mynightsky.net/

(M42) The Orion Nebula. This image is 28 minutes of exposure (Unguided) on an old LXD55 Meade GoTo mount. It was taken through my small wide field APO refractor.

Sirius Gripping Magic Tree by MASAHIRO MIYASAKA, on Flickr