Starship Asterisk*

Fantastic Image, every star is clearly defined, millions of them! I live in the South Hemisphere so Omega Cen is almost always high in the sky. At naked eye it looks like a blurry star, with common binoculars it's a fantastic object, quite a beautiful sight. I live too far north to see Omega Centau...

Fantastic Image, every star is clearly defined, millions of them!

I live in the South Hemisphere so Omega Cen is almost always high in the sky. At naked eye it looks like a blurry star, with common binoculars it's a fantastic object, quite a beautiful sight.

Thank you for this beautiful image.

Hi All, I just got this piece of news: Minor Planet Center*just issued a circular about new comet discovered by*Pan-STARRS survey.*Comet was designated as C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) and it may be a very bright comet on 2013!*The orbit is not accurate, but it’s already clear that the new comet have closer...

I live in Buenos Aires, flights are cancelled from Ezeiza and reports said the ash cloud might reach the city tomorrow.
Hopefully it will be gone soon as the winds are blowing and there's nothing that could block it.

Thank you a lot for the comments!
I tried and tried to get Mercury and Venus as crescents but it was impossible with the focal length I used.
Happy to be at APOD, it was a great show of conjunctions during May and fighting against the weather was hard.

Greetings from Argentina. The place where everything is upside-down!

Thank you!!!
And my jaw is? Where?

Yes! I would love to identify those stars, I'm not familiar with Pisces so it can take me some time on Stellarium.
A few stars were very close to Venus almost looking as satellites.
One or two of Jupiter's satellites are visible in the full resolution image.

Thanks again for the comments!

Ty everybody.
I'm very happy with my first APOD. This is a nice encouragement to keep working with my photography.

Cheers!
Luis

Stephane: Those are among the most beautiful photos I've ever seen in my life.
I'm speechless. Bow Bow Bow!
You rule.
I don't know what else to say

Easter Island is at 27 degrees south. I think if you could see Polaris you'd miss Easter Island by alot. Ah ha ! Thank you for your comment. Shows I've never been there and am not thinking. This raises yet another question : so if you can't see Polaris, what do you use to navigate by ? Canopus is (...

That's a jet contrail at Sunset, if it was very large and lasted several minutes then it was probably by a big airplane. You can see many more in this google images search for "contrail at sunset" http://www.google.com.ar/images?um=1&hl=es&biw=1579&bih=1024&tbs=isch%3A1&...

Quadruple Conjunction of the Moon, Venus, Mars and Spica Conjunction Junction! http://www.luisargerich.com/night/h39fc8582#h39fc8582 Copyright: Luis Argerich [attachment=0]Conjunction Junction_Argerich.jpg[/attachment][/i] That is a very beautiful image, Luis Argerich. As a color freak, I love how ...

The 2010 Solstice Eclipse Copyright: Luis Argerich http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p84/lrargerich/composite_fases_lowres.jpg This composite shows six stages of the 2010 Solstice Eclipse from full Moon to Totality as seen from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Luis Argerich http://www.luisargerich.com lra...

Ann thank you for your kind comments on my photo. Sometimes I fell like I don't belong in the middle of such a fantastic display of technology and imagination. So many photos in this thread are breathtaking!. So your words do mean something to me and thank you for that!

Luis

Six Degrees of Separation Copyright: Luis Argerich http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p84/lrargerich/L_six_degrees_of_separation.jpg On October 19th the Moon and Jupiter were sepparated by 6 degrees. I wanted to know what can be done with a DSLR camera without a telescope, I was really surprised by...

Hi! This shows our own galaxy: The Milky Way and two of its satellite galaxies: the Magellan Clouds. The Small Magellan Cloud is at the top left next to the big and beautiful cluster 47 Tucanae. The Large Magellan Cloud is below with the Tarantula Nebula visible. The Milky Way shows the area of Scor...

It sure looks like solar eruptions, but I don't think that is what they are. If you examine the image closely, you will find that there are long cloud banks intercepting the Sun where the solar flares appear to be. At least such cloud banks are visible in the same plane as most of the "eruptio...