Starship Asterisk*

Liquid Light Show
http://www.terrastro.com/galleries/liquid-light-show/
Copyright: Alex Cherney

NGC 1763
http://www.spacetelescope.org/projects/hiddentreasures/
Copyright: Josh Lake

Microquasar Makes a Giant Manatee Nebula
https://www.nrao.edu/pr/2013/w50/
Copyright: NRAO/AUI/NSF, K. Golap, M. Goss; NASA’s Wide Field Survey Explorer (WISE)

Rosette Widefield
http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann All rights reserved.

Aurora near Åre
http://www.astrofotografen.se
Copyright: Göran Strand Australian Skies - Total Solar Eclipse 2012
http://www.astrofilm.com
Copyright: Sebastian Voltmer


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Copyright: Kaveh Keshavarzian The Cone Nebula
http://www.michaelastro.com
Copyright: Michael Tzukran

http://www.flickr.com/photos/astro_jjj_ ... /lightbox/
Comet Lemmon, strolling through Crux. Imaged on January 19th 2012.
Camera Camera Canon 550D @ ISO1600, lens Tamron 90mm @ F3.5. Just over 7 minutes of exposure time, 15 subs stacked in DSS and processed in CS3.

NGC 2264 the Cone and Fox Fur nebula
http://coatesastrophotography.com/p8406 ... #h5292bf34
Copyright: Coates Astrophotography NGC 2264 the Cone and Fox Fur nebula is a diffuse, dark and emission nebula ~2,700 light years from Earth, located in the constellation Monoceros.
Imaged January 14 and January 16, 2013 from Ocala, Florida.
RGB data: 6 minute exposure (each channel) stacked in DSS for a total of 3 hours
Ha data: 15minute exposure stacked in DSS for a total of 4 hours.
Orion 80mm EON
Orion 50mm guide scope with SSAG
QSI 683ws
Losmandy G-11 with Gemini II
7nm Baader Ha filter

Mouldy Strawberry Nebula and Sharpless 265
http://www.woodlandsobservatory.com
Copyright: Alistair Symon Higher resolution versions are available at http://www.woodlandsobservatory.com/Mou ... y_0113.htm

Sky over Cappadocia, Turkey with Hoodoo (or locally called as Fairy Chimney) formation.
Light pollution rises to sky behind them.
These two images are thought as single mouse-over image.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappadocia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodoo_(geology)





Planets - Brown
Constellations - Green
Stars - Light Blue
Star Clusters - Dark Blue

Bigger images:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8089/8383 ... 25d3_b.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8044/8382 ... 9765_b.jpg

The Rosette Nebula in "modified" HST palette
http://cntastro.smugmug.com
Copyright: 2013 Craig & Tammy Temple The Rosette Nebula in HST palette
http://cntastro.smugmug.com
Copyright: 2013 Craig & Tammy Temple The Rosette Nebula in HST palette (version 2)
http://cntastro.smugmug.com
Copyright: 2013 Craig & Tammy Temple The Rosette Nebula in CFHT palette
http://cntastro.smugmug.com
Copyright: 2013 Craig & Tammy Temple The Rosette Nebula in synthetic RGB
http://cntastro.smugmug.com
Copyright: 2013 Craig & Tammy Temple

M46 and M47, Two Clusters and a Planetary Nebula
http://www.glitteringlights.com
Copyright: Marco Lorenzi
[attachment=0]M46_M47_2013_RGB_spikes-2.jpg[/attachment]

Hi all.
I stand with my last job.
A greeting.
Raul

Tarantula Nebula in Narrowband
http://www.darkskyimages.com
Copyright: Scott Tucker
Just back from a week of spectacular nights in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Wow, those So-Hemmers have it made! We miss out on some truly unbelievable stuff, my northern friends... As an example, I find this image of the Tarantula Nebula just surreal. Taken with a Hyperion 16" telescope, f/5.6 focal reducer, Apogee U16M camera, Astro-Physics 1600GTO mount, and Astrodon H-alpha and OIII narrowband filters.

Website with details and full-resolution version

Thanks for looking!
Scott

Carina Nebula Mosaic
http://www.darkskyimages.com
Copyright: Scott Tucker
One more highlight from Chile: a 3x3 mosaic of the Carina Nebula. Only had time for hydrogen-alpha, but the detail still amazes me. Fun to peruse the full-resolution version and see all the various types of structures in this huge nebula. BTW, this nebula is incredible at the eyepiece of a scope. Having seen this I will probably just weep uncontrollably every time I look at the Orion Nebula now, thinking how much more amazing Eta Carina was! Taken over 2 nights with a Hyperion 16" telescope, f/5.6 focal reducer, Apogee U16M camera, Astro-Physics 1600GTO mount, and Astrodon H-alpha filter. Camera was binned 2x2 to keep exposure times shorter. Field of view is about 2.4 x 2.2 degrees.

Webpage with more details

Full-resolution version (26 megapixels, 2.9MB)

Thanks for looking!
Scott

Object: NGC 5005

Processing by: Steven Marx
NGC 5005 - 29 June 2004 - Images obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive.
Also known as Caldwell 29 is an inclined spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy has a relatively bright nucleus and a bright disk that contains multiple dust lanes.Distance measurements for NGC 5005 vary from 45 million light-years to 113 million light years, averaging about 65 million light-years. Click to view Original FULL scale image

Object: NGC 1309

Processing by: Steven Marx
NGC 1309 - 27 Sept 2005 - Images obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive.
A spiral galaxy located approximately 100 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus.
It is about 30,000 light-years across; about 1/3 the width of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Click to view Original FULL scale image

Object: NGC 5866 - Spindle Galaxy

Processing by: Steven Marx
NGC 5866 - 12 Aug 2003 - Images obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive.
The Spindle Galaxy lies in the Northern constellation Draco, at a distance of 44 million light-years (13.5 Megaparsecs).
It has a diameter of roughly 60,000 light-years (18,400 parsecs) only two-thirds the diameter of the Milky Way,
although its mass is similar to our galaxy. Click to view Original FULL scale image

Object: NGC 6302 - Butterfly Nebula

Processing by: Steven Marx
NGC 6302 - 27 July 2009 - Images obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive.
What resembles butterfly wings is actually a dying star that was once about five times the mass of the Sun is at the center of this fury. It has ejected its envelope of gases and is now unleashing a stream of ultraviolet radiation that is making the cast-off material glow. NGC 6302 lies about 4,000 light-years away in the arachnologically correct constellation of the Scorpion (Scorpius). Click to view Original FULL scale image

Object: NGC 1579 - Trifid of the North

Imaging by: David Kopacz
Processing by: Steven Marx
Coordinates RA: 04h 30m 09.5s Dec: +35° 16′ 19″
10.5hr integration at F/3.6 with ASA N10 Newtonian Astrograph.
Located in the constellation Perseus about 2,100 light-years away and 3 light-years across.
Illuminated by an embedded young star at its core.
Copyright David Kopacz (data acquisition), Steven Marx (image processing) Click to view Original FULL scale image

Object: IC434
Horse Nebula




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NGC 1491 in "modified" Hubble Palette
http://cntastro.smugmug.com
Copyright: 2013 Craig & Tammy Temple and Bill Snyder This image is a collaboration with Bill Snyder. He captured all the data and we processed it. A big thanks to Bill for sharing his data and allowing us to process it and share our results with everyone. If you are interested in image information and/or seeing individual channel data, click this link (http://smu.gs/WnNJ4N). There you will find links below the image to the individual channels.

Jupiter and Moon Conjunction on January 21, 2013
Handheld shot with Canon 5DMKII + 1.4xTC + 300mm f4L/IS Full Size at:
http://davidpearson-photo.smugmug.com/A ... 906-X3.jpg

January 21, 2013 Moon and Jupiter Conjunction.
http://rddnj.com
Copyright: Russell E. King

"Arrow Of Time" Astrophotography time lapse collection made of approx 20,000 photos shot over the span of three years (2010-2013).

Copyright: Harley Grady
"Connecting Light" - Astro Self Portrait
Copyright: Harley Grady

"Connecting Light" by Harles99, on Flickr

IC405 Flaming Star
http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann All rights reserved.