Starship Asterisk*

by **Voyager3** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 9:24 pm

Thank you very much Ann, that's most gracious of you!
I'm just a novice at AP, and I'm nowhere near Tunç Tezel's or Thierry Legault's (or bladerunner's!) calibre, but having my very first submission so well received by folks who know their business really means the world to me!
(I am stoked!)

Thanks again!

by **Ann** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:01 pm

bladerunner, for me, the lover of all things blue, it was a joy to see your vad den Bergh 14 and 15 reflection nebulae image. I much appreciated your information about the reflection nebulae and the stars illuminating them, too!

Welcome to you, too, Voyager3. That's a nice Moon shot.

Juan Carlos Casado, I'm fascinated by your Summer Equirectangular Vista. It is very appealing and lovely.

Emilio Rivero Padilla, that's a splendid Scorpius portrait! All the nebulae are delightful!

Miguel Claro, thank you so much for annotating your star trails. I'm lously at "reading" star trails, so I very much appreciate having them "translated" for me!

Ann

by **bladerunner** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 3:44 pm

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Veil Complex Narrowband HST

Larger image click below
http://bcjones.zenfolio.com/img/v31/p96484865-6.jpg

by **bystander** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 3:27 pm

Very nice, bladerunner! Welcome aboard the Starship Asterisk*!

by **bladerunner** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 3:23 pm

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First submission....hopefully (:

Vandenberg 14 & 15 Nebula
ABOUTVery Dim
Combination Reflection and Emmision Nebula in Camelopardalis
vdB 15 (and 14) are classified as refleciton nebula. However, there is a surrounding reddish component in the nebulosity and as a result, the object has a faint reddish hue.

vdB 14(to the Right of center) is the oblong-shaped, blue reflection nebula in Camelopardalis near vdB 15(to the Left of center). It is illuminated by the very bright mag 4.2 supergiant (B9Ia) star shown in the image (HD21291). Both vdB 14 and 15 are embedded in the Cam OB1 group of type O-B3 stars and supergiants.

Data:
Lights: Lum 24 x 600sec Bin 1x1
Red: 18 x 300sec Bin2x2
Green: 6 x 300sec Bin2x2
Blue: 18 x 300sec Bin2x2

Scope: Tak FSQ 106 @f5
Camera: QSI 583 wsg
Mount: Takahashi Temma EM 400
Filters: Astrodon LRGB E SERIES GEN-II
Guiding: Starshoot Autoguider
Target Aqusition: CCD4AP_ PinPoint
Camera Control: Maxim DL5
Focus - Robo Focus Automated with FocusMax
The Sky 6
Processed using Maxim DL5, ImagePlus3.8, Photoshop CS3, GradientXtTerminator, Noise Ninja, Astral Imagevan

by **Voyager3** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 3:12 pm

Thanks bystander!
It'a a pleasure to be aboard!

by **bystander** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 3:05 pm

Nice image, Voyager3! Welcome aboard the Starship Asterisk*!

by **Voyager3** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 3:01 pm

Hello,
Here is my first submission.
I hope you like it.
Shot from Montreal, Canada, on Tuesday Aug. 2nd 2011, around 20:00 EST

SW 102mm refractor;
EQ3-2 mount;
Orion SSPIAG (3 image mosaic. 500 shots per image);
Registax 5;
PhotoShop7 (For assembling the mosaic only. No other processing).

by **Arbacia** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 8:01 am

Aflyover Montes Rook and Lacus Autumni
Copyright: Patricio Domínguez

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Here is a fly over Montes Rook and Lacus Autumni at the South-Western margin of the Moon. Montes Rook are the second ring of the multiring Orientale impact Basin. The unnamed mountains at the right side of the picture, with a height of about 6000m, are among the highest peaks of the near side of the Moon. Moreover, behind them there is the depresion of about -3000m of Mare Orientale. Lacus autumni is one of the most recent lava flow deposits (circa 2.7 Ga) of the Orietale basin. At the very left side of the picture, another dark patch represents Lacus Veris (c. 3.4 Ga), and behind it as a darker band, the surface part of the Maunder Fm. interpreted as the Orientale impact melt. Nearer, toward the observer, the knoby deposits of the Montes Rook Fm. which are part of the basin eyecta and "beneath" the observer, and covering most of the picture appears the Hevelius Formation which is the Basin eyecta blanket. In the lower-right corner of the picture can be seen the blunt rim of an aged crater.

Patricio Domínguez (patricio@geo.ucm.es)
Faculty of Geology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Technical Details
Celestron C14 CGE, DMK31AF03.AS camera and Astronomik Planet IR Pro 742 filter.
Observatorio Tres Juncos, Ciudad Real, Spain. July 21th 2011 04:58 UT

by **AlexMaragos** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:24 am

Milky Way over the Island of the Deers (Elafonisos, Greece)
Copyright: Alexandros Maragos

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I had the pleasure to be at the Island of the Deers (Elafonisos) at the end of July.
Elafonisos is a very small island just 19 square km on the Southern Eastern Tip of Peloponesse, Greece.
The distance from the mainland is a mere 570 meters of crystal clear water on top of thin white sand. It's a magical place.

Because of its location, Elafonisos is also one of the best places in Greece to capture the Milky Way.
The light pollution is extremely low and the night sky is simply amazing.

On July 30, 2011 the gorgeous Milly Way was visible even with naked eye.
I took my gear and went to Simos beach to capture it.
Settings was 30sec exposures, 3200 - 6400 iso, f/2.8 at 17mm.

by **owlice** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 8:52 am

Sunrise
Copyright: Harold Poylio
[attachment=6]DSCN0408 - Crop.jpg[/attachment]

ISS and Atlantis in Orbit
http://ifa.hawaii.edu/~jasonchu/photos/ ... lyover.jpg
Copyright: Jason Chu

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Falling into the Ocean
http://www.astrosurf.com/astroarte/Moon ... op-net.jpg
Copyright: Miguel Claro

[attachment=5]Moontrail-FonteTelha_Ocean-Crop-net.jpg[/attachment]

[attachment=4]Moontrail-FonteTelha_Ocean-Crop-net-Label.jpg[/attachment]

Summer Equirectangular Vista
Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado
[attachment=3]panriver.jpg[/attachment]

Milky Way over Bali Hai
http://www.AstroPics.com
Copyright: Wally Pacholka
[attachment=2]BaliHai-MilkyWay-2618-900wp.jpg[/attachment]

Scorpius
http://astrosurf.com/emilio/
Copyright: Emilio Rivero Padilla

[attachment=1]EScorpioFinallPrueba2jp.jpg[/attachment]

[attachment=0]EScorpioFinallPruebaAsterismo_jp.jpg[/attachment]

by **Ann** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 6:59 am

Wow, NGC 2782 is one of my favorite galaxies! So weird! Like someone had grabbed the galaxy and forcefully broken off a large piece of of it!

Note the great color here. The bulge is yellow, as can be expected, and the outer parts are much bluer. One arm - or half of a ring? - shows a lot of star formation, with blue clusters and pink emission nebulae. Faint outer slightly bluish tidal features can be seen. Some of those fuzzy blobs seen in the outer tidal features may well be clusters belonging to NGC 2782, but most are probably distant galaxies.

But I'm mystified by several pink-looking structures in the inner part of NGC 2782. Two oblong structures stretching from the nucleus to the upper left and the lower right are just dust lanes. But what about the intensely pink large blobs that can be seen on either side of the nucleus? Are they super-giant star formation regions? Wow!

Something tells me that the black hole in NGC 2782 either had a delicious helping of food quite recently, or else it will have one soon! Talk about gas piling up in the vicinity of it!

Ann

by **owlice** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 3:20 am

IC 5146: Cocoon Nebula
http://www.starkeeper.it/IC5146.htm
Copyright: Leonardo Orazi
[attachment=1]Cocoon_Orazi.jpg[/attachment]

M8 and M20
Largest image
Copyright: Jesús Vargas (Astrogades) & Maritxu Poyal (Maritxu)

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Walking on Stars
http://www.artinnaturephotography.com/l ... php?id=362
Copyright: Floris van Breugel

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Heart of Orion Nebula
http://indussky.com/viewphoto.php?pcid=3&cid=40&pid=43
Copyright: Sameer Thakur and Nilesh Desai

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Noctilucent Clouds
http://www.fifedrum.org/rhinohug/AMAZIN ... PMC-s.html
Copyright: John Styers
[attachment=0]styers.jpg[/attachment]

Peculiar Galaxy NGC 2782
http://kentbiggs.com/images/Galaxies/N2782.htm
Copyright: Kent Biggs

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by **MANUELC** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:49 pm

Chiclana, Cádiz, Spain.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcastillov/
Copyright: Manolo Castillo Vela.

by **dmkdmkdmk** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:52 pm

Day 23½: Stargazing in Glacier national park (Airglow)
MyLandscape.ch
Copyright: David Kaplan

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During the night from the 23th to the 24th day of our journey we joined a stargazing program lead by a ranger. It was the first night with clear sky and no moon. Also we were much more south than in Canada and so the astronimical dawn was about one hour long from 1 to 2 am. We drove up to a viewpoint after the stargazing, a few minutes outside the park was a great viewpoint which I already saw during daylight. The photo shows the Milky Way and a huge area with burnt trees. Such areas are typical for the dry east side of the rocky mountains. Actually it's not that bad because it increases biodiversity and helps some kinds of plants to seed itself over the park.
A note to the colors of the Milky Way: I exaggurated the colors a bit to show that the Milky Way is everything but white. It has some great colors which are not visible to the human eye. I took the photo with aperture 1.4, ISO 6400 and with the help of neoHDR I was able to expose for about 800s.

PS: I finally found out what this green stuff is, that's all across the sky. It's called Airglow and can only be seen under certain circumstances. Have a look at the short timelapse I made from this scene: http://www.mylandscape.ch/DSC_5264.avi

by **templec** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:17 pm

IC1396A - The Elephant Trunk Nebula in "modified" HST
http://cntastro.smugmug.com/Astrophotog ... zKP5P-A-LB
Copyright: 2011 Craig & Tammy Temple

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by **russelleking** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:47 am

Lightning in Neptune
http://www.rddnj.com
Copyright: Russell E. King

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by **Outters.Nicolas** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:08 am

IC1396 on narrowband
http://outters.fr/ic1396-tec140-proline-s2Hao3.html
Copyright: Nicolas Outters

by **marioweigand** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:41 am

Hi,

here is another view at the sun.

Sunspots at Sunset
http://www.skytrip.de
Copyright: Mario Weigand

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Larger version

- Feldberg / Germany
- Canon EOS 5D Mk II
- Pentax 105/670 SDP

greets

Mario

by **mexhunter** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 3:20 am

Active Corridor
Copyright: César Cantú

[attachment=0]mexhunter_sun.jpg[/attachment]
http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/upload/201 ... 0df090.jpg

Also: http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... category/6

by **lodrigj** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 10:06 pm

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by **Efrain Morales** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 1:25 pm

Good Morning Jupiter & Mars!, On this morning (July 30th) I was imaging the grand planet Jupiter reaching its highest elevation and conditions were optimum. I then decided to imaged Mars under these same conditions but still low in elevation with fine results both planets imaged with same equipment for size comparsing.

(Note) These images of Jupiter are paired for 3D Cross Your Eyes Viewing Enjoy.

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by **AlexMaragos** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 10:39 am

Two more shots of the Milky Way at the deer-island (Elafonisos, Greece)
Copyright: Alexandros Maragos

Milky Way at Elafonisos, Greece by Alexandros Maragos

The Milky Way at Elafonisos, Greece by Alexandros Maragos

by **owlice** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 9:55 am

Night Sky over Uludag
Copyright: Tunç Tezel

[attachment=7]UludagLakesCapPsA.jpg[/attachment]

[attachment=8]UludagLakesCapPsALa.jpg[/attachment]

Asteroid Vesta, which is currently orbited by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, is nearing opposition in Capricornus and visible to unaided eyes in good conditions such as this one. Lake Kilimligöl, one of four glacial lakes on this plateau, is visible on the foreground. Summit of Uludag is to the right, rising 2543 meters above the sea level.

Neptune is in the same area of sky in western Aquarius, which has just last month completed one lap around the Sun since discovery. The faint glow of Gegenschein can be seen to the west of Capricornus, a proof of approaching oppositions of both planetary bodies.

Milky Way over Haleakala Crater
Copyright: Wendy Malinowski
[attachment=6]IMG_0659PS_.jpg[/attachment]

Lightning!
http://www.californiastars.net/
Copyright: Daniel Perry

[attachment=5]GMARS Lightning 05.jpg[/attachment]

[attachment=4]GMARS Lightning 06.jpg[/attachment]

Sunspots
Copyright: Dan Lorraine
[attachment=3]DSCN4374.jpg[/attachment]

Mini-coathanger Cluster in Ursa Major
Copyright: Greg Parker
[attachment=2]minicoathanger_apod.jpg[/attachment]

Active Regions Ar1260, Ar1261 and Ar1263
http://www.fobos.es
Copyright: Jesús Carmona de Argila
[attachment=1]sol010811gx.jpg[/attachment]

Snow at ESO Paranal Observatory
Copyright: Yuri Beletsky
[attachment=0]paranal_meteor.jpg[/attachment]

Active Regions 1260-1265
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Solar-Sunsp ... 07-31b.htm
Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis