Starship Asterisk*

Riley, I'm glad you like the image. It was submitted to APOD for consideration by the astrophotographers; I post a subset of submissions here at Asterisk. There are many great images submitted; Asterisk lets us see some of them, and yay! for that!

[quote="owlice"][size=120][b]M82: Starburst Galaxy in Ursa Major[/b][/size]
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/[url=http://www.oppapers.com]essay[/url][url=http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/M82-BYU.html]/M82-BYU.html[/url]
Image acquisition: Michael Joner and David Laney (BYU); image processing: Robert Gendler
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Owlice,

This is my favorite image from your collection on this thread. The Cigar Galaxy provides such vivid pictures and can really open up minds. I showed this to a couple of kids at the Boys and Girls club and it was awesome to see how it captured their attention. Good find!

[quote="Ann"]The Markarian's Chain and M 87 was a more than OK image. What I personally like best about it is that an Inadvertant Bot Sire is there right smack in the middle. 8-) [/quote]
Oh no, caught out! Yep, That's me there in the middle hangin' with the rest of the chain.

[size=120][b]M13 : Globular Cluster in Hercules[/b][/size]
http://virtualtelescope.bellatrixobservatory.org/m13_deep.jpg
Copyright: Gianluca Masi
[url=http://virtualtelescope.bellatrixobservatory.org/m13_deep.jpg][img]http://virtualtelescope.bellatrixobservatory.org/m13_deep.jpg[/img][/url]

Very cool, bystander! Thanks for the links!

[quote="owlice"][size=120][b]M82: Starburst Galaxy in Ursa Major[/b][/size]
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/M82-BYU.html
Image acquisition: Michael Joner and David Laney (BYU); image processing: Robert Gendler
[url=http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/M82-BYUSS.html]http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/M82-BYUSS.jpg[/url][/quote]
M82: Starburst Galaxy: In the News

[list][url=http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=19056]RAS: Mystery object in Starburst Galaxy M82 a micro-quasar?[/url]
[url=http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=19230]CXC: "Survivor" Black Holes May Be Mid-Sized[/url]
[url=http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=19265]HEAPOW: Seeds of the Supermassive? (2010 May 3)[/url][/list]

[size=120][b]M82: Starburst Galaxy in Ursa Major[/b][/size]
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/M82-BYU.html
Image acquisition: Michael Joner and David Laney (BYU); image processing: Robert Gendler
[url=http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/M82-BYUL.html][img]http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/M82-BYUSS.jpg[/img][/url]

There were many nice images here! :D

The annotated image of Leo, Cancer and Gemini with their mainstays and visitors was very nice and interesting. Vega and the twisted meteor trail made a nice couple. The Stonehenge image was beautiful and a good reminder of the fact that this monument was built at least partly to be a solar calender, so it was particularly fitting that it would be a solstice image. Also I really liked the morning mists enveloping the ancient stones, so that this awesome construction seems to be half lost in the mists of time.

The Markarian's Chain and M 87 was a more than OK image. What I personally like best about it is that an Inadvertant Bot Sire is there right smack in the middle. 8-)

The M 51 image is also good, and it's interesting to see those long trails of faint old stars that have been flung right out of the galaxies due to tidal effects. And Rob may have turned down the colors of this image, but I certainly didn't! :wink:

And the Arp 194 image was awesome. Talk about interacting galaxies and raging star formation!

[size=120][b]ARP 194 in Cepheus[/b][/size]
Copyright and processing: Danny Lee Russell; image credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA
[attachment=0]HLA_ESA_ARP194_DLR_100609_Russell.jpg[/attachment]

The M51 image is very interesting, as I can compare it to earlier ones I have. I ended up turning down the saturation of the colours by about 50% since it was much too flashy for my desktop as is.

Rob

[size=120][b]New Ultra Deep M51[/b][/size]
http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=1878.0
http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=1988.msg12613#msg12613
Post-processing and copyright: Carlos Milovic; project coordinator: Yuriy Toropin
[url=http://forum-images.pixinsight.com/carlos/m51/m51_quarter.jpg][img]http://forum-images.pixinsight.com/carlos/m51/m51_quarter.jpg[/img][/url]
Contributors (as of May 30, 2010):
Andrey Kuznetsov, Boris Satovskyy, Dmitry Ivanov, Harry Page, Igor Checkalin, Ivan Ionov, Nikita Shamorgin, Oleg Milantiev, Pedro Re, Russel Croman, Steven Mazlin, Vlad Onoprienko, Yuriy Toropin

[size=120][b]Virgo Supercluster[/b][/size]
http://www.astronomicalimaging.com/
Copyright: Ryan M. Hannahoe
[url=http://ryanhannahoe.nmskies.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/NGC4406_RMHannahoe_web.jpg][img]http://ryanhannahoe.nmskies.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/NGC4406_RMHannahoe_web.jpg[/img][/url]

[size=120][b]Manhattan, Moon, and Venus[/b][/size]
Copyright: Juan Miguel Castillo Navarro
[attachment=0]ManhattanMoonVenus_Navarro.jpg[/attachment]

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[url=http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=19677][size=110][b][color=#4000BF]<- Previous submissions[/color][/b][/size][/url]


[size=120][b]Night at Fertő/Neusiedlersee World Heritage Area[/b][/size]
http://ladanyi.csillagaszat.hu
Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi
[attachment=2]conjunction_100605_ladanyi.jpg[/attachment]

[size=120][b]Vega and Twisted Meteor Trail[/b][/size]
Copyright: Alan Sliski
[attachment=1]vega with meteor_Sliski.jpg[/attachment]

[size=120][b]Stonehenge Solstice[/b][/size]
http://www.maxalexander.com/idh_images/XR1a.jpg
Credit: Max Alexander/STFC/SPL; Copyright: Max Alexander
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