Starship Asterisk*

Here is one of mine taken at 11:00 am back in 2007
[url=http://s189.photobucket.com/albums/z159/BMAONE23/?action=view&current=PICT0002crop.jpg&newest=1][img]http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z159/BMAONE23/PICT0002crop.jpg?t=1272119768[/img][/url]
To appreciate the entire image, I linked it to the imbedded image

Brendan, that's lovely; thank you for sharing it!

Hi,

I captured this image of Venus, Mercury and the young cresent Moon on 15April2010 from my home in Donegal, Ireland, just as the the volcano ash cloud begain it's occupation of western european skies!

[img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2679/4536607708_9ff22899d9_b.jpg[/img]

Thanks for looking

Brendan
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/48625409@N02/]MyAstrophotos[/url]

Very nice additions; thank you for posting them!

Here's one from this weekend's SGL-5 Star Party in Hereford, showing a friend of mine viewing the moon in my ED120. Mercury is also faintly visible.

[img]http://www.phetheanphotography.co.uk/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=798&g2_serialNumber=2[/img]

Andrew

Moon adn Venus over Ankara, Turkiye. The faint Mercury can also be seen on the lower right side .
[img]http://gaf.gokyuzu.org/img/2010-04-22.jpg[/img]

Copyright: M. Raşid Tuğral

[b]Moon and Venus over the European Parliment, Strasbourg, France[/b]
http://nice.sai.msu.ru/~chil/photo/Strasbourg_Apr2010/1934_Europarliament_processed.jpg
Copyright: Igor Chilingarian
[url=http://nice.sai.msu.ru/~chil/photo/Strasbourg_Apr2010/1934_Europarliament_processed.jpg][img]http://nice.sai.msu.ru/~chil/photo/Strasbourg_Apr2010/Moon_and_Venus_over_the_Europarliament.jpg[/img][/url]


[b]Moon and Venus over Lissewege, Belgium[/b]
http://www.astronomie.be/pieter.vandevelde/lissewege.jpg
Copyright: [url=http://www.astronomie.be/pieter.vandevelde/]Pieter Vandevelde[/url]
[url=http://www.astronomie.be/pieter.vandevelde/lissewege.jpg][attachment=2]Moon and Venus over Lissewege.jpg[/attachment][/url]

[b]Moon and Venus over Troy, Turkey[/b]
Copyright: Tunç Tezel
[attachment=0]Moon and Venus over Troy.jpg[/attachment]

[b]Moon and Venus over Bursa, Turkey[/b]
Copyright: Tunç Tezel
[attachment=1]Moon and Venus over Bursa.jpg[/attachment]

[b]Moon, Venus, and Mercury over West Norwood, UK[/b]
http://skotworld.blogspot.com/2010/04/volcanic-ash-sunset-moon-venus-and.html
Copyright: Emmanuel Marchal
[url=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PLCgHsfRVFk/S8wVMqJQWxI/AAAAAAAALSM/pX-fUi9NSXw/s1600/IMG_1766.jpg][img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PLCgHsfRVFk/S8wVMqJQWxI/AAAAAAAALSM/pX-fUi9NSXw/s400/IMG_1766.jpg[/img][/url]


[b]Moon, Venus, and Mercury over Edmonton, Canada[/b]
http://www.vanzella.com/astro/astro/20100416_moon_with_friends.htm
Copyright: Luca Vanzella
[url=http://www.vanzella.com/astro/astro/20100416_moon_with_friends.jpg][img]http://www.vanzella.com/astro/astro/20100416_moon_with_friends.jpg[/img][/url]