Starship Asterisk*

Dear Editors, Greetings from Guatemala. Image details: April 26, 2021 - Holy Grail Timelapse integration - Canon 6D Mark 2 - iso 3200 -125mm I attached an APOD Submission, this image was captured last year during full moon over Temple 4 of Tikal National Park in Peten, Guatemala. UNESCO HERITAGE SIT...

[ENGLISH] The lunar halo is an optical phenomenon in the form of a disk around the moon. The halo is caused by suspended ice particles in the troposphere that refract light and generate a spectrum of colors. In this case I was lucky that it was triple, an extremely rare event. [SPANISH] El halo lun...

A wonderful image. Also a slightly illusory picture as the ship in the front is pointing left, toward the big ship on the sky: the constellation Argo Navis with Canopus. Nowadays you don't talk about Argo Navis as it is so big and one instead speak about the constellations Carina, Vela and Puppis. ...

neufer wrote:

[b][size=150]Sergio encounters caterpillars.[/size][/b]

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geckzilla wrote:
I wonder why the caterpillars bothered you.

that´s the face I made when I saw the field full of them, I don´t know, maybe it was living that kind of hell tale movie jajaja

geckzilla wrote:Got a pic of one of the caterpillars, Sergio? The panorama is beautiful, but I wonder why the caterpillars bothered you.

no photo, I don´t like caterpillars. jaja

Path to the Stars

Image showing the walkig path to the hill where all the telescopes are located in Observatorio Astronómico Felix Aguilar (OAFA), Argentina, San Juan.

Dramatic Night Scene

The Eruption happened on January 3th/4th 2016.

Guatemala, Central America. Volcán de Fuego.

mexhunter wrote:The autor has already acknowledged that the picture is a composition and has offered apologies to the Apod editors. This happened in a congress in Buenos Aires. Link in spanish: https://www.facebook.com/sigmas57/posts ... 4261122979

the congress was in Medellin colombia

colorful conjunction
The Moon & Jupiter
march 21 2016

HDR
1 x 3.2s
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1 x (1/640s)

Spaceship My first Milky Way shot from this season was from an Airplane on my way back to Argentina. The image was shot over Argentina, I used a manfroto 055 and waited until the lights went off to capture this amazing view of the Milky Way over some Argentinian towns, after several shots to find a ...

Jupiter the Moon behing a Lunar Corona

I enhanced the color of the corona and the brightness of Jupiter to increase the dinamic range. The glow in the sky or atmosphere belongs to led light from a nearby football stadium.
As seeing from Guatemala.
Best Regards,

The Moon, Venus & Mercury on a Friday Morning

Image, Feb 5th 2016

Traveling under a galaxy of fireflies in this Moontrailscape. It's really nice to see how they shine during twilight.

This was shot before Geminids on Dec 13. That night it went cloudy.
Sony A7 /50mm/ f4.5/iso6400 / 72 x 1.3s / Dec 13th. 2015
Atalaya, Provincia de Buenos Aires. Argentina

KryptoCleric wrote:Why are some of the Power Lines that cross the image bent?

Was this a panorama of some type?

It's a panorama, sadly we have a lot of power lines all over the place, almost impossible to get rid of them.

Ann wrote:That's really beautiful!

And congratulations to Sergio Montúfar, one of the stalwarts of the Recent Submissions forum, which he graces with so many fine pictures!

Ann

Thank you for your kind words Ann!

Sergio

Clouds & Planets.

Jupiter, Mars, The Moon, Venus.

Conjunction 12/07/2015

Image taken with a sony a7 14mm, General Belgrano, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Scattered

Erupting Volcán de Fuego, the sunbeams are probably made by the ashes in the atmosphere.

Taken on February 19 2015. Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala.
Fuego: Nikond5100 f18 / 1/500s / iso 100 / 200 mm

Fuego2: f18 / 1/800s iso 100 / 80mm

Andromeda & Triangulum + Airglow over La Isla de Los Pájaros
Out of 13x20s f3.5 / iso 12800 @ 28mm (sony a7)
16/10/2015

The Rise of the summer skies (south)

Península Valdés, Chubut, Argentina.

Airglow, M31, M33, Milky Way, Magellanic Clouds.

Orion's arm.

Andromeda the Dragonfly The star trail image was build using the stack of 70 images over Isla de Los Pájaros at Península Valdez. This is how the northen hemesphere looks like, from 44 degrees latitude south. I found Isla de los Pájaros a lovely place to mix with my astrophotography, The camera not ...

The Eye in the Sky

After Sunset, sat 17th. Punta Ameghino. Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina.

The Eye is the Milky way crossing the sky.

A rocky field, we couldn't get rid of the clouds, we travelled more than 150kms and finally found some not too good weather conditions but we where able to see the stars after a week of crappy weather, the Souther pole looks pretty high from -43 latitude. Next to Laguna La Amarga, on a small town ca...

Punta Ameghino After Sunset, the crescent Moon was near the Milky Way, in this place, the night colors are so amazing, even affected by light polllution from Puerto Madryn (lights on the left) you can still have an amazing view of the night sky. The cliffs, cold water, birds and whales pass by aroun...

Stellar Travel Travelling isn't easy, I had to take a bus, to travel more than 24 hours for my next astrophotography site. I was at Cordoba, Bosque Alegre Observatory last week, but I couldn't do any image since it was a cloudy week, an unpredicted weather. I really hope clear skies this time, trave...

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