Starship Asterisk*

UludagPeaksLakes2013.jpg UludagPeaksMilky2013.jpg Assos2013Athena.jpg Caption : three panoramas of the southern sky containing Saturn, for APOD. The first one was from Assos near Çanakkale, Turkey; the other two were from Uludag National Park near Bursa, Turkey. Copyright : Tunç Tezel HaRGB-s.jpg C...

RhoOph_Mosaic_Version2.jpeg Caption : Rho Oph. I decided to try another version of what I sent yesterday. I added a bit more red into this. Copyright : Albert Barr M13-The-Hercules-Cluster.jpg Caption : M13 The Hercules Cluster Copyright : Ezequiel Etcheverry hotterthanJuly2.jpg Caption : Sunday's ...

[attachment=0]nasa1.jpg[/attachment] [attachment=1]Heliosphere_redoV3_small.jpg[/attachment] Copyright : NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC/SwRI Caption : NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, recently mapped the boundaries of the solar system's tail, called the heliotail. By combining observation...

http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/screen/heic1312a.jpg Copyright : NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Caption : Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have, for the first time, determined the true colour of a planet orbiting another star. If seen up close this planet,...

http://newsadmin.manchester.ac.uk/newsimages/207/10369_large.jpg Copyright : University of Manchester Caption : Scientists have observed in unprecedented detail the birth of a massive star within a dark cloud core about 10,000 light-years from Earth. The team used the new ALMA (Atacama Large Millim...

Copyright : Tunç Tezel Caption : I want to submit these pictures that I took in Uludag National Park near Bursa, Turkey, for APOD. I was able to reach glacial lakes plateau of Uludag in my third attempt. The two previous trips were unsuccessful, because the road was blocked with snow and ice in May...

[attachment=2]gendler.jpg[/attachment] Copyright : Robert Gendler Caption : This is a composite mosaic of M101 made from Hubble and Subaru data. Completing this field required more than 40 panels of data in total. Full resolution : http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/M101-HST-Subaru-LL.html --------...

Copyright: Marco Lorenzi http://i41.tinypic.com/10zssuu.jpg Caption : A new image of a little-known area of sky in Lupus, at the feet of Scorpion. The Lupus clouds compose one of the main low-mass star forming complexes within 200 pc of the Sun. They contain four main star forming sites, including ...

http://i39.tinypic.com/303l35w.jpg http://photos3.marinetraffic.com/ais/showphoto.aspx?photoid=328069&size=full A stunning photo of a tornado at sea. Here is the link to the ship's page on marinetraffic.com: http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/showallphotos.aspx?imo=9014664&photoid=328069#top_...

http://i42.tinypic.com/2iivk95.jpg Caption : Here is globular cluster NGC 6752 in Pavo captured in colour on July 2nd from Siding Spring. The third brightest globular in the sky behind Omega Cen and 47 Tuc. You really don't see many images of it which is surprising really as its certainly a beautif...

After taking a few pictures of the setting full Moon over Assos on 23rd June, I waited for 3 days for the bright Moon to depart the early evening hours to shoot a few more photos in more familiar conditions. In the evening of 25th June, there would be a dark sky window of about half an hour, between...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph0yLc2W3ZU Caption : The ultra-high resolution images captured by NASA’s Hi-C instrument (High-resolution Coronal Imager) have uncovered an amazing amount of detail within the hot outer atmosphere of the Sun (the corona). Movie top right: “blobs” of electrified gas (...

Image of the Gamma Cyg area (superposition of two frames)
FSQ 106 N f5
STL11000 bin 1x1
L : RGB = 120 m. : 60 m.
Observatorio Altamira J24
Fasnia - Tenerife - Islas Canarias
Author: José Francisco Hdez.
http://altamiraobs.org.es/