Starship Asterisk*

Milky Way - 5D Mark II/17-40mm@17/30"/4.0/ISO 6400/RAW
Here you can download the full resolution image: http://www.ortner-schuhe.at/milkyway.jpg
Copyright: Michael Ortner

Crescent Moon Plane
06.22.2012
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

Dreaming Crescent
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

Milky Way above Cabo Espichel
http://astroarte.astrosurf.com/MilkyWay ... el-net.jpg
Copyright: Miguel Claro
[attachment=0]MilkyWayVertical-CaboEspichel-net.jpg[/attachment]

great prominence today !!
self made coronograph 150 mm
h-alpha 5 A filter
basler aca 1300 camera
process by registax 6 CS5 and photomatix 4.2 pro

best regards

Philippe TOSI (FRANCE)

M8 Lagoon Nebula
Copyright: Martin Matias Menrath
http://www.astronommmia.blogspot.com.ar/

Star Trail composition of 424 still frames from a Milky Way time lapse shot over the largest solar telescope in the world, the McMath-Peirce Solar Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona.

Camera settings:
Canon 5D MKII / Nikon 14mm
25 Second exposures at F/2.8 ISO3200

Trifid to Lagoon Mosaic
http://pocketrubbish.com
Copyright: Dan Watt
[attachment=0]watt.jpg[/attachment]
http://www.pocketrubbish.com/ap/wp-cont ... n-400k.jpg

Milky Way over Balance Rock
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bads_photo ... hotostream
Copyright: Bret Dahl
[attachment=3]BalanceRock_MilkyWay_submit.jpg[/attachment]

Rho Ophiuchi Region Mosaic
http://de-regt.com/Astronomy/RhoOphiuchi.htm
Copyright: Mark de Regt Night at Delicate Arches
http://www.launchphotography.com/Arches_night.html
Copyright: Ben Cooper
[attachment=1]Cooper_DelicateArches.jpg[/attachment]

Spiral Galaxy M51 Widefield
http://www.thehwk.net
Copyright: Nicolás Villegas
[attachment=2]M51widefieldhwk.jpg[/attachment]

Sagittarius Stuff
(IC1284 / VdB118 / VdB119 /Sh2-35 / M24)
http://www.starkeeper.it/IC1284.htm
Copyright: Leonardo Orazi
[attachment=0]Orazi_Sagittarius.jpg[/attachment]

owlice wrote: Night at Delicate Arches
http://www.launchphotography.com/Arches_night.html
Copyright: Ben Cooper

Wow, Ben, what are we launching there?

PIPE NEBULA
Copyright: Sergi Verdugo
[attachment=0]verdugo.jpg[/attachment]
http://astrophoto-sv.com/web_images/Low ... _petit.jpg
More details about the image and full resolution version at my website: http://astrophoto-sv.com/index.php?p=1_87

Cheers,
Sergi Verdugo

Milky Way over the city
http://carlosgr-astrophoto.blogspot.com.es/
Copyright: Carlos Grillo Ramos
[attachment=0]ramos.jpg[/attachment]
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X5GbCEYW4i4/T ... al2peq.jpg
Picture taken in Coll d'Ares, 1600m of altitude in Lleida, Spain
The city of the picture is Balaguer.
Canon 450d modified + Canon 16-35 at 16mm.

Cometary Globule 12 & Reflexion Nebula NGC5367

http://www.pampaskies.com

Copyright: Ignacio Diaz Bobillo
hires: http://www.pampaskies.com/APOD-submissi ... -hires.JPG

Image acquired with a cooled DSLR.
Thanks for looking.

M8 (Lagoon Nebula) in Sagittarius
[attachment=0]bogdan.jpg[/attachment]
http://www.starrysite.com/pliki/galeria ... koniec.jpg
Bogdan Jarzyna
http://www.starrysite.com

M27, The Dumbbell Nebula
http://www.astrosurf.com/astrobernier
Copyright: Martin Bernier Full: http://www.astrosurf.com/astrobernier/m ... juin12.jpg

Thanks for looking

Keck's Laser
http://www.pbase.com/johnbunyan/Keck-La ... -stars.jpg
Copyright: John Bunyan Imaged June 8th 2012 from Mauna Kea, Hawaii
Canon 20Da 28mm f7 1024 sec.

Solar Images from Sunday June 24th
http://www.deepskyobjects.com/
Copyright: Behyar Bakhshandeh

SUN/MOON AIRPLANE
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... otostream/
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier Sun Airplane With the Sunspots1486
05.24.2012 http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... hotostream

Pied-moon-t
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa Above is a mosaic with a collage of my images of Full Moon “captured” alongside monuments of Piedmont region (North-west of Italy) and therefore I named it “Pied”moon”t. Venues and Moon names included in the mosaic are listed in this post: http://stefanoderosa.com/2012/06/26/piedmoont-poster/

Best regards

Stefano

a big prominence today !!
1 and 3 : self made 95 mm coronograph F/15.
h-alpha 5 A filter.
2 : clavé 80 mm + coronado sm 60 BF/30
aca camera 1300
best regards

Philippe TOSI (FRANCE)

This image was taken in Anthem AZ with a AP 152mm telescope and a Daystar Quantum PE .5 angstrom filter and Flea3 ccd video camera. Shows hi resolution detail.

Sadr region: IC1318, NGC6910
http://www.pleiades.hu/en/index.php
Copyright: Lóránd Fényes

[attachment=1]Fenyes1.jpg[/attachment]http://www.pleiades.hu/en/galeria/kozmo ... _kicsi.jpg

[attachment=0]Fenyes2.jpg[/attachment]http://www.pleiades.hu/en/galeria/kozmo ... mal/37.jpg

Milky Way in Teide National Park
Copyright: Emilio Rivero Padilla

Antares region from Bustamante, Mexico.



Canon Xsi mod. Vintage Nikkor 105mm 2.5 @f4. Celestron CG5 mount. 30 images 2 min each, processed with PixInsight


Original image:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudiayhe ... hotostream

Greetings from Mexico!!

Ghost of Jupiter
Copyright: Wolfgang Promper http://www.astro-pics.com/3242plm.htm