Starship Asterisk*

Sleeping under a blanket of stars in Morocco
Copyrights: Maria Rosa Vila

Maria Rosa Vila wrote:Sleeping under a blanket of stars in Morocco
Copyrights: Maria Rosa Vila

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Wow what a beautiful picture of a beautiful place taken by someone with a beautiful name!
Simple perfection!!

geckzilla wrote:Not rare at all, nope. I've been using Balick's PNIC page for reference. Not the prettiest of pictures but pretty comprehensive.

I use my internal database of extended features stored inside my mind!
Most of my information is gleaned from many scientific papers and having a good memory helps.

Comet ISON C/2012 S1 On November 13th, 09:41-51ut. Two dense tails at the trailing end (neg). Severe gradients (sun glare) and tree branchs at the mountain range playing havoc with my guider, Could be my last session until it wraps around the sun if all goes well.

7 Sisters November 3rd 2013 high in the mountains of New Mexico
Scope: William Optics FLT98 DDG
Camera: Canon EOS 60da
Mount: CGE
Image processing: PixInsight.
Copyright: Ken Walker



Higher resolution http://imageshack.us/a/img28/9338/1b06.jpg

Library of "Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas"
National University of La Plata, Argentina, Buenos Aires


All bocks pictured are Astronomy books

http://www.flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/10849231344/

Sergio Montúfar

Wizard's ambition
Technical Data
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Time: 2013.11.8
Location: Tataka, Yushan National Park, Taiwan
Camera: Canon EOS 5DII (IR modified)
Optics: Canon EF 135mm 1:2 L -> 4.0
Mount: Takahashi EM-200
Exposure: 7 10-minute at ISO1600
Note: Images stacked in DSS, and processing in Photoshop.



星天日和
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Winter sky over Roche cliff


Jerónimo Losada
Visit my Webblog: http://elcieloaldesnudo.blogspot.com.es/

Stairway to heaven

... heaven for sky loves, of course



Jerónimo Losada
Visit my Webblog: http://elcieloaldesnudo.blogspot.com.es ... o%20heaven

Herbig Haro objects in IC5070 nebula
The most known is HH555 at the top of the dark pillar in the center of the field.
Image in SHO palette done from Paris suburb with a 12" f/8 scope.
http://www.astrosurf.com/jousset
Copyright: Marc JOUSSET

C/2013 R1 Lovejoy on November 14th
Comet C/2013 R1 Lovejoy On November 14th, 3:46-4:20 JST
http://www.miki-hosp.or.jp/BIND/
Copyright:Nobuhiko Miki

Comet ISON C/2012 S1 On November 14th
Ion tail is growing!!
http://www.miki-hosp.or.jp/BIND/
Copyright: Nobuhiko Miki

Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) taken today from Spain. Comet is in outburst.


http://cieloprofundo.files.wordpress.co ... 14-j01.jpg

And the ISON evolution along this month, days 3. 9. 12 and 14


http://cieloprofundo.files.wordpress.co ... saico1.jpg

-Juanjo González

The star forming regions of Carina, including NGC3372, Great Carina Nebula and NGC3324, Gabriela Mistral nebula.

Copyright: Thomas Tang



Takahashi FSQ-ED FL530 f/5, SBIG STL-11000M, Paramount ME autoguided @ Siding Spring, NSW, Australia
Ha 10mins X 8, G&B 3mins X 6 each (total 1hr56mins), HaHaGB, PixInsight, PS.

A 50% resize image: http://i918.photobucket.com/albums/ad27 ... g~original

Storm over Oro Verde, Entre Ríos, Argentina.

Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: Nikon 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6
Focal Lenght: 18mm
Shutter Speed: 39 seconds
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 200
Accessories used: Tripod, CPL Filter, ND Filter.
License: CC BY-SA / Emilio Küffer

Full image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emiliokuffer/10612586044/ or http://www.flickr.com/photos/emiliokuff ... /lightbox/

Milky Way
Image credits: Eugenides Planetarium of Athens, Greece
More images: https://googledrive.com/host/0By4yNOEb_ ... HLUk/naoi/ Star forming region of Carina, including NGC3372 and NGC3324
Copyrights: Thomas K W Tang Venus visits the Milky Way
Copyrights: Luis Argerich Sun Spot, Spotting and Bird
Copyrights: Dani Caxete IC 405 and IC 410
Copyrights: Albert Barr

NGC 7497
Copyrights: Adam Block IC 405 and IC 410
Copyrights: Albert Barr Moon over Tibidabo, Barcelona
Copyrights: Marta Breto NEW GOCE GEOID
Copyrights: ESA/HPF/DLR
More about: http://spaceinimages.esa.int/Images/201 ... GOCE_geoid NGC 1097
Copyrights: Martin Pugh

Airglow over Spain
Copyrights: Dani Caxete Easter Veil
Copyrights: Jose Mtanous Rosette nebula
Copyrights: Salvatore Spinoso Sun H-alpha November 9, 2013
Copyrights: Olivier Hardy Barnard 170
Copyrights: Nicola Montecchiari

NGC7822 in narrowband
Copyrigts: Bernard Miller Eagle nebula
Copyrights: László Francsics Centaurus A widephoto
Copyrights: Fényes Lóránd

Comet Mrkos (1957)
Image credit: Michael West and Maria Mitchell Observatory Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) November 8th 2013
Copyrights: Adam Block Four Comets (Lovejoy, ISON, LINEAR, and Encke)
Copyrights: Jimmy Westlake Comet ISON (Nov 7th.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach

Comet Lovejoy and M44 together with a meteor

Date: 2013.11.09
Time: 04:30-05:15(UT+8)
Location: Yinna Shan, Meizhou, China
(Canon 1100D 50mm iso3200 f/4 total exposure time 45mins)
Comet Lovejoy, Praesepe (M44) and a meteor existed in the sky at the same time before sunrise.
It was amazing that three different kinds of sky objects appear in the capture.

higher resolution:
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2850/1084 ... 1d15_k.jpg
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2806/1084 ... 33a9_k.jpg

Copyrights: Eddie Yip

Thanks for watching!

Comet C2013 R1 Lovejoy - the tail changes in 1.5 hours.

Copyright : Savio Fong - Galaxy Scientific Group Hong Kong
http://www.astro.hk

Location : My robotic observatory at 4350m altitude, YBJ Tibet, China.
http://www.astrocafe.hk/viewtopic.php?f ... 280#p14562
Date & Time : UT 2013-11-12 20:11, 20:36, 21:01, 21:28 (Upper left, upper right, lower left, lower right)

Single short 5min exposure each, field of view is around 2.25x3 degree each frame, this indicate how much the tail changes in so short period of time.
Or see animation of the tail changes here, it's 4Mb, but personally I like it very much,
http://www.astrocafe.hk/download/file.php?id=9416

Or more discussion on Cloudynights.com
http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/ ... in/6191901

Or on Astrocafe.hk
http://www.astrocafe.hk/viewtopic.php?f ... 759#p24046

See also single shot image of C2013 R1 Lovejoy this morning, b/w inverted,

Date & Time : UT 2013-11-14 21:59-22:27
hope you enjoy and thanks for looking.

Clear sky,

Savio Fong

Sandgirl wrote:NGC 7497
Copyrights: Adam Block

n7497s.jpg

I think this image as impressive as it is would have been much better if it was a 4 frame mosaic centred on the galaxy.

Comet ISON C/2012 S1 On November 14th, 09:41-45ut. Very low now and rising above the mountain tops and the sunrise influence effecting image quality.

Comet Lovejoy C/2013 R1 On November 14th, 09:15-25ut. Displaying a long tail and a small bulge of dust just below of it. Inset showing bow shock that has been around for many days still.