Starship Asterisk*

Nice one...

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Newer wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2019 6:25 am Just wondering why for about a week there the sun turned green.

I wondered that too... maybe mild clouds, but not dense? Or maybe air pollution, or something in the air... like pollen? Just my guesses...probably wrong...

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Interesting phenomenon... I get a bit claustrophobic looking at the lower part of the image...the analogy of being "shot under water"...is a good one for me...

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Awesomely Annotated...
And a great image, of course.
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A very nice, and interesting take...

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Sorry if I've already asked this in the past. Whenever I look at such photos, I always wonder, which one of the bright objects (of various sizes, shapes and colors) we see are stars and which ones are galaxies. There are some photos wherein every object (almost every) is a galaxy. But, some have a ...

Very good image...I find it amazing... Maser...with water... AMAZING...so far away...I don't equate Galaxy with Water... I mean...how much is there that it can DO this???

Amazing...
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Hmmm...it seems to... "bind the galaxy together...."....

Though compared to Earth's MF it is extremely weak.

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Nice picture but I am kind of confused. To take this picture requires exquisite timing. You must visit late afternoon at 5 am near the equinox. Is everything I was taught in school wrong? I was taught that 5 pm was late afternoon, and 5 am is early morning? It would appear the APOD is talking about...

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2019 12:34 pm Nicely done stereo; it loos like the head of some kind of animal! Is it pure ice?

I don't think it is "pure ice", but ice and rocky mix...

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Really good 3D effect for me. This is one of the very few that actually APPEAR to bring out the objects from my monitor. Like about 6 inches...especially on the left side. I wonder what the striations sweeping through some areas are... grooves from ice evaporation? There are places that look like &q...

Isn't that sweet? Their getting married... The "Happy Couple"...one BIG happy family...

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Updated Close up...much sharper.

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More Moon shots from last night. Tycho Crater... 2 without the Barlow...Enjoy.

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Hi, gang... I got out the 6" Celestron Evolution, and took some images of the Moon tonight. Each is with the Zwo 120 Color Camera with 2x Barlow, I took 150 frames at 4fps as an AVI file, stacked the best 50 in Registax 6. I think they came out awesome...especially Copernicus Crater. I hope you...

An interesting way to look at an object and its data...

My M13 is not so...detailed...
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As Ann's post picture shows...today's APOD is only the central region...not the whole of the galaxy...so you don't get a true perspective...this galaxy is still very much in a state of "disruption"...either mergers, or "group affected", I would think... Do a search for M96 galaxy...

Very nice... and interesting...

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It is a wonderful coincidence! This is a very awesome close up of the clouds, and the dark area is certainly interesting...it reminds me of the "EYE WALL" in a Hurricane. I wonder if it is really hollow, or if it is some darker material as we see in some of the other swirly areas. It very ...

RocketRon wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2019 5:07 am Interesting.

Would we expect gas giants to have a surface as such ?
Has a radar scan indicated a surface at all ?

Do a search...Is there a surface to Jupiter...

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I hope it is a nice night here on the 10th...I will try to get a picture...

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Nice image... lots of stars...

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Nice focus and detail...disruption is plain to see...I think.

I have a short exposure M63...colors were brought out for "vibrancy"...

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The big picture...after clicking on the image...magnified, is awesome...

There SEEMS to be a LOT of Sulfur....
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Interesting, it rumbles..
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