Starship Asterisk*

Venus-Mars 2015-02-28 apod2.jpg For those who cannot actually see Mars in my APOD submission just posted.... here is a blow-up with a bit of contrast adjustment to bring it out. Venus is very obvious, but Mars is fairly faint to see well in the full image... at least when reduced in size to that ne...

Sunset with Venus-Mars 2015-02-28 apod.jpg Can you spot the three planets in this photo? The Earth is of course one, with a lovely view of the sunset over Lake Michigan (this was taken from Onekama, MI) on the evening of Feb. 27, 2015. All the "water" that you see is in fact ice, as the l...

This is a shot of Andromeda (M31) with particular focus on one of the prominent dust lanes. In order to simulate the view from outside the Milky Way, the intervening stars have been digitally removed, leaving a striking, uncluttered view of the intricate, wispy patterns in the dust lane. Full resolu...

http://www.stronglycelestial.net/Resources/Solar%20Prom%202013-05-13.jpg Dodging lots of big, white, fluffy clouds around midday on 05-13-2013, I spotted this rather large solar prominence. There was barely enough time between cloud shadows to grab a 1,000 frame AVI using an IS DBK41AU02.AS imager....

http://www.stronglycelestial.net/Resources/Full%20Moon%20and%20Jupiter%20APOD%202012-11-28.jpg http://www.stronglycelestial.net/Resources/Full%20Moon%20and%20Jupiter%20APOD%202012-11-28.jpg Copyright: John Strong Taken: Nov. 28, 2012 with a Canon T2i and Explore Scientific ED-80 telescope How many ...

http://stronglycelestial.net/Resources/Sun%20surface%20pattern%2008-08-12.jpg I normally think of the sun as happy... Why does (s)he look so unhappy today??? Taken by: John Strong Date: 08-08-2012 Telescope: Coronado SolarMax II 60 Imager: Imaging Source DBK 21AU618.AS w/ 2x barlows Processing: Sta...