Starship Asterisk*

Copyright: Aldo Mottino, Carlos Colazo, Raúl Melia, César Fornari and Carlos Rodríguez (EABA, UNC, Córdoba, Argentina).

Copyright: Aldo Mottino (Argentina).

Original wide field Wolfgang's image was taken at Tivoli southern sky guestfarm (http://www.astro-pics.com/2536m.html) and complemented with a close up of the galaxy captured from 'Bosque Alegre' observatory in Córdoba, Argentina.
Copyright: Wolfgang Promper, Aldo Mottino and Carlos Colazo.

Slightly out of focus capture of Crux. The most southern localized and brightest star is the blue-white Alpha Crucis or Acrux, followed by four other stars, their clockwise order coinciding with descending magnitude. They are Beta, Gamma (one of the closest to Earth red giants), Delta and Epsilon Cr...

Main: Hubble image used as luminance and EABA image used as chrominance.
Inset: EABA image.

Credits and copyright: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (narrowband) and EABA/OAC/UNC (RGB); RGB acquisition and processing: Aldo Mottino, Carlos Colazo, Raúl Melián, Carlos Rodríguez and César Fornari.

Image credits and copyright: H-alpha: KPNO 4.0 M telescope (NOAO/AURA/NSF); color: 1.5 M telescope (EABA/UNC); processing: Kfir Simon, Carlos Colazo, Aldo Mottino.

Taken from Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
Copyright: Aldo Mottino (Argentina)

Hi all, The first picture was taken from my backyard at sunset. I was surprised to see such bright spot in the dark clouds since the sun was already below the horizon (18:30 local time aprox). So I moved immediately to the second floor roof and got the second image, and soon after that a zoom image...

Hi all, The first picture was taken from my backyard at sunset. I was surprised to see such bright spot in the dark clouds since the sun was already below the horizon (18:30 local time aprox). So I moved immediately to the second floor roof and got the second image, and soon after that a zoom image....

Credits: Infrared: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA; Optical (RGB+Ha): Aldo Mottino (Argentina).
Processing: Aldo Mottino (Argentina).

Image from the Spitzer Space Telescope was partially used as luminance of the RGB+Ha image captured from my observatory in Argentina (http://asterisk.apod.com/download/file.php?id=23378&mode=view). Thanks for looking! Aldo Credits and copyright: Optical (RGB+Ha): Aldo Mottino (Argentina); Infrar...

Copyright: Aldo Mottino (Argentina).

Credits and Copyright: Luminance by ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA. NASA, ESA, ESO, D. Lennon (ESA/STScI) et al. and the Hubble Heritage Team. Chrominance (RGB+Ha) and processing by Ezequiel Bellocchio and Aldo Mottino (Argentina).

M 46 in RGB was captured from Rosario, Argentina. The planetary NGC 2438, shown with more detail in the inset, was captured from Bosque Alegre Observatory, Córdoba, and integrates RGB with Ha. Picture 1: Credits and Copyright: Aldo Mottino (Rosario), Argentina. Picture 2: Credits and Copyright: Aldo...

The first cross belongs to a small but beautiful catholic temple. The ‘San Eduardo’ chapel is placed at a top of a hill, 22 km away from San Carlos de Bariloche, Patagonia, at the south of Argentina. The chapel presents a SE-NW orientation and is very close to the Andes mountains. Main trees in the ...

Copyright: Aldo Mottino (Argentina).
My special thanks to Sergio Galarza for inviting me to the star party in Bigand, Santa Fe, Argentina!

A super Moon means at the same time a super Earth (for ‘Selenites’). Also, the magnificent lunar eclipse of September 2015 meant at the same time a solar eclipse for ‘Selenites’. Okay, forget the ‘Selenites’, but imagine we are orbiting the moon and suddenly… there it is, the unmistakable blue plane...

Copyrigh: Aldo Mottino (Argentina)

Two photos assembly.
Copyright: Aldo Mottino (Argentina)

Copyright: Aldo Mottino (Argentina)

Copyright: Aldo Mottino (Argentina)

The infrared image from ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA telescope was partially used as luminance of the color image captured from EABA observatory in Córdoba, Argentina.
Image Credit & Copyright: Optical (RGB): Aldo Mottino & Carlos Colazo (EABA, UNC, Argentina); Infrared: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA.

Single and panoramic images captured at dusk from the Triassic Park Ischigualasto, San Juan, Argentina.
Copyright: Aldo Mottino (Argentina).

Copyright: Aldo Mottino (Rosario, Argentina)

Copyright: Aldo Mottino (Rosario, Argentina)