Starship Asterisk*

http://www.flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/8992354956/

Sergio Montúfar

SUN
This is 4 days before venus transit 2012

BY: Sergio Montúfar

comet hunter

Inside the dome, there is a comet hunter, Facultad de Ciencias Astronomicas of La Plata university, the observatory at fall.

c. Sergio Montúfar

The Milky Way


http://www.flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/8837114420/


Sergio Montúfar

ISS

F5.6
1x20s
1600iso
Guatemala. Cuchumatanes
8/12/2012

Copyright: Sergio Montúfar

The Venus Transit 2012 from Guatemala

Picture by: Sergio Montúfar

Iphone 4
Celestron 127mm
15mm eyepiece
Baader filter

GEGENSCHEIN
Sergio Montúfar

Our Galaxy, The Milky Way
Copyright: Sergio Montúfar

Earth and Milky Way

Copyright: Sergio Montúfar

Circumpolar stars Depending on the viewers location on earth a circumpolar star is a star that never sets due to its proximity to the celestial poles, the picture above represents the circumpolar borealis (north) and the picture below represents the circumpolar australis (south). Copyright: Sergio M...

The candle in the dark

Explination: Dark skies?, our galaxy shines in the dark skies like a candle in the dark that light up all the stars

copyright: Sergio Montúfar

Rising milky way


CopyRight: Sergio Montúfar

Stargazers

Copy Right: Sergio Montúfar

Orion the hunter rising in the horizon
Copyright: Sergio Montúfar

The delicate moon´s reflection
Copyright: Sergio Montúfar

Crescent Moon with Latitude changes
Explination: From Central America to South America, how the moon turns from a horizontal position to a vertical position.

Credit: Sergio Montúfar

Thank you for your answer Ann! I was thinking that it might hit the earth and create some chaos, but I like to learn new things and I learned from your message.

great thank you Ann.

The Great Jaguar Explanation: December 21st 2012 the world didn´t end ... there was a total cofusion around how some people interpreted the mayan calendar, but according to resent investigations and discoveries in La Corona, one of the most important archeological sites in Guatemala, such discoveri...

when I saw how the oort cloud was, i thought about why not expending some good money to protect us from comets, we are so unprotected, just like what happened on russia

I just ended reading Carl Sagan´s "science as a candle in the dark book", one of my favorite books, what other science book do you suggest

Beyond, you are right, much better civilization

i guess that i have seen a lot of panstarrs pictures, but the best pictures are the ones with lakes, mountains and snow

i might be dead already, what hould happen if the star exploded 600 lights years ago?

i love astrophotography, i can spend all night watching the sky and how it moves, i will buy a camera soon to improve my astrophotography skills, youtube will work fine for me to learn something related to astrophotos haha, i hope someone can help me with some tips.