Starship Asterisk*

Messier minimal (M108 and M97) full HD
http://www.pleiades.hu/en/index.php
Copyright: Lorand Fenyes

Full resolution:
http://www.pleiades.hu/en/galeria/kozmo ... mal/49.jpg

By clicking on the link you can check a high resolution photo of M97 and M108. There are several galaxies in the background too.

Sun in CaK light
Copyright: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez
Web: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kokehtz
The chromosphere is a place of high solar activity. In the course of a few minutes we can observe changes in the ejecta and prominences, in the path of the filaments, and as matter flows following very characteristic arches. Chromosphere is also visible in the light emitted by the ionized calcium, in the violet part of the solar spectrum in a wavelength of 393.4 nm. It is Calcium K line. This light comes from calcium atoms that have lost an electron.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kokehtz/8672910772/

Moonbirds

http://www.sternwanderer.eu/?page_id=55

Copyright: Marco Ludwig

October 13, 2011, Moonrise with birds in Neumünster / Germany (Neumünster Observatory) And a smiling moon on March 12, 2013: http://www.sternwarte-nms.de
and
http://www.sternwanderer.eu

Hey! Here are a few images from my work. More, at http://www.astrographist.com Thanks for looking!
Copyright: Alex Conu

Sun in CaK light (Calcium II K)
Copyright: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez
Web: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kokehtz
The chromosphere is a place of high solar activity. In the course of a few minutes we can observe changes in the ejecta and prominences, in the path of the filaments, and as matter flows following very characteristic arches. Chromosphere is also visible in the light emitted by the ionized calcium, in the violet part of the solar spectrum in a wavelength of 393.4 nm. It is Calcium K line. This light comes from calcium atoms that have lost an electron.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kokehtz/8674945393/

Rosseta
http://www.skyandphoto.com
Copyright: Rafael Rodriguez
High Resolution and data

http://www.skyandphoto.com/Other/My-Smu ... f&lb=1&s=O

Our Amazing SOL!
http://www.galacticimages.com/
Copyright: John Chumack
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[attachment=8]sunfd042213ChumackHRweb.jpg[/attachment]
[attachment=7]sunspot1726_042213ChumackHRweb.jpg[/attachment]

Centaurus A
http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/ga ... A/info.htm
Copyright: José Joaquín Pérez
[img2]http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/ga ... 0A/med.jpg[/img2]

Widefield NGC 6888
Copyright: Robert Fields
[attachment=6]NGC 6888 Ha_OIII_LRGB Final_resized.jpg[/attachment]

Milky Way over the Mediterranean
http://www.josephcaruana.net/
Copyright: Joseph Caruana
[attachment=5]milkyway_dwejra.jpg[/attachment]

Hershel Links Jupiter's water to Comet Impact
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space ... met_impact
Copyright: ESA
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=31236
[img2]http://spaceinimages.esa.int/var/esa/st ... _image.jpg[/img2]

Horsehead Nebula
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/HH-HST-ESO.html
Copyright: Robert Gendler
[img2]http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/HH-HST-ESO-SS.jpg[/img2]

Kilauea volcano and Milky way
http://www.sky-in-motion.de/de/
Copyright: Michael Kunze
[attachment=4]kunze_kilauea.jpg[/attachment]

Galaxy Within Reach
http://www.mikesalway.com.au/
Copyright: Mike Salway
[attachment=3]within-reach-galaxy.jpg[/attachment]

Milky Way and the Stone Tree
Copyright: Daniel Lopez
[attachment=2]Milky Way and Stone Tree DLopez.jpg[/attachment]

The scale of the Solar System: ISS and bird transit the Sun
Copyright: Miguel Pérez Ayúcar
[attachment=1]isssun2013Apr20_all_color.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 4905
Copyright: Martin Pugh
[attachment=0]NGC4905v4.jpg[/attachment]

Saturn now within days of opposition its ring has brighten more due to the Seeliger Effect and its hexagon northern pole shows well. Also two two of its principle moons are visible Tethys top left and Enceladus bottom right of the rings. (Equpment: LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, Flea3 Ccd, TeleVue 3x barlows, Astronomik LRGB filter set.

Venus Anaglyph
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uclmaps/86 ... hotostream
Copyright: NASA/JPL/USGS, anaglyph by P. Grindrod (UCL)
[img2]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8534/8671 ... 2183b3.jpg[/img2]

M97
http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann All rights reserved.

M78
http://www.cxielo.ch/gallery/f/m78
Copyright: Martin Rusterholz
[attachment=1]m78-08-rgb.jpg[/attachment]

Sky glow, Milkyway & Light Pollution
Copyright: Majid Ghohroodi
[attachment=0]majid.jpg[/attachment]

Andromeda-Milkyway Panorama
http://frontrange.ca/blog/2011/08/colum ... index.html
Copyright: Darren
[attachment=0]2011Aug20-4863-Andromeda-MilkyWayPano-1200WM.jpg[/attachment]

Statue Of Liberty Nebula, NGC3576

Copyright 2013 Mark de Regt

http://www.de-regt.com/Astronomy/NGC3576.htm

Trifid and Lagoon Nebula Region

Copyright 2013 Mark de Regt

http://www.de-regt.com/Astronomy/TrifidLagoon.redo.htm

M3 Globular Cluster
http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann All rights reserved.

Here is a shot taken just 1 hour before the partial eclipse, during a flight between Tangier and Paris. Thanks to the atmospheric refraction, both the Sun and the Full Moon were visible simultaneously, in addition with the Venus belt.

[attachment=0]ThierryEclipse.jpg[/attachment]
http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/eclipse_130425.jpg

Copywrite: Daniel Evans
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielevansdidsomething/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielevan ... 681911076/

Details of ISS flying over Madrid, Spain
Copyright: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez
URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kokehtz/

The International Space Station is a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ISS is a modular structure whose first component was launched in 1998. Like many artificial satellites, the station can be seen with the naked eye from Earth without any special equipment. The ISS consists of pressurised modules, external trusses, solar arrays and other components. ISS components have been launched by American Space Shuttles as well as Russian Proton and Soyuz rockets.
FULL resolution: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8253/8683 ... 0a28_h.jpg

Partial Lunar Eclipse from Caraglio, Cn, Italy
Copyright: Paolo Demaria



Full resolution and technical specifications: http://www.astrobin.com/40144/

Partial Lunar Eclipse from Ukraine 2013 April 25

A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes directly behind the Earth into its umbra (shadow). This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned (in "syzygy") exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle. Hence, a lunar eclipse can only occur the night of a full moon. The type and length of an eclipse depend upon the Moon's location relative to its orbital nodes. Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a certain relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of the Earth. A lunar eclipse lasts for a few hours, whereas a total solar eclipse lasts for only a few minutes at any given place, due to the smaller size of the moon's shadow. Also unlike solar eclipses, lunar eclipses are safe to view without any eye protection or special precautions, as they are no brighter (indeed dimmer) than the full moon itself.

Interval between the first and last image - one hour 20:07-21:07GMT.
Setup: Meade 1020 TELEPHOTO + Canon EOS 350D
Big size here - http://astroclub.kiev.ua/gallery/detail ... ge_id=1947
Copyright: Andriy Avramenko

Partial eclipsed Moon.

http://www.imcce.fr/~lmaquet/eclipse.jpg
[attachment=0]lucieEclipse3.jpg[/attachment]
http://www.imcce.fr/~lmaquet/eclipse3.jpg

Last moments of the partial Lunar Eclipse
Setup: Meade 1020 TELEPHOTO + Canon EOS 350D
Full size here - http://astroclub.kiev.ua/gallery/detail ... ge_id=1950
Copyright: Andriy Avramenko

A wonderful, partialy eclipsed Moon rising over Stockholm on the 25th of April.
Because of the passing clouds the eclipse was not visually very evident. It was more sensed by a slightly dimmed luminosity.
Here is a link to the high res image: http://spaceweather.com/gallery/full_im ... 930768.jpg
and a huge mosaic of 10 images showing Stockholm skyline: http://spaceweather.com/gallery/full_im ... 978781.jpg .

/*Peter R

The Horsehead Nebula
Copyright: Terry Hancock
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhanco ... hotostream

Day after day, the Sun sets more to the North.
Pictures were taken on 24 and 25 of April from a South East surburb of Paris




Sunset in Halpha



Copyright: Jean-Paul GODARD & Martine TLOUZEAU

Respective websites http://uranoscope.free.fr & http://mseclipse.free.fr