Starship Asterisk*

Orion and the Running Man
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Astronomy is full of old, fuzzy pictures :) But, here's a page where I posted RGB images that corresponded to the green-light frames used for the animation in today's APOD. I noted in the original post that the "anomaly" appeared brighter at shorter wavelengths, so I made the original gree...

The Rosette Nebula in Monceros

FSQ106/STL11000m/Baader HaLRGB
26.5 hours total exposure from West Chester, Pennsylvania



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Here is Jupiter on the morning of Sept. 13, 2012 as one of its more recently developed anti-cyclones, Oval BA (often referred to as "Red Spot, Jr."), is transiting past the atypically pale, faded GRS ("Great Red Spot") as it does approximately every 2 years. Jupiter's Equatorial ...

I can't call it a cloud, but it looks like one. So far, astronomers are unable to explain exactly what this is, but here is a green-light animation of a feature I imaged on Mars on the evening of March 19th (March 20th UT). http://exosky.net/images/Mars-anim_20-March-2012.gif and here's an RGB image...

Hi all, Here's a stumper for any Mars experts. While processing my Mars images from last night, I found a strange feature over Acidalia (top left of the animation below). I made this 5-frame animation of the green-light images. The feature appears in all the channels, but is most visible in blue and...

Here's an image of Mars from 17 March 0325ut (the evening of March 16) taken under excellent seeing and showing a very interesting orographic cloud over Olympus Mons. The peak of the great volcano is peaking out of the clouds and the base of the great shield dome is outlined as well. The Tharsis reg...