Starship Asterisk*

M81 and M82 and IFN Link to full size image below:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/andyinsea ... 9/sizes/o/

Copyright: Terry Hancock
Captured from my backyard observatory in Fremont, Michigan
LRGB Version
https://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/14214628503/ LRGB+H-Alpha Version
https://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/14017056848/

M106 Galaxy
http://www.astrobin.com/95447/C/
Copyright: Andrea Pistocchini
http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/f ... ermark.jpg

Title: Moon rising above wheat field
copyright: Dario Giannobile
URL:http://www.dariogiannobile.com
Dario G.

Copyright: Sergio Kaminsky
Inside of M104, Sombrero Galaxy



Full resolution can be found HERE.

iridiscence in taurus un mes de color 9/11 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 71#p226171

IC 4601
Copyright: Jeff Husted Click here to view larger image and image info: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cygnusloop/14212757191/
Website: http://www.crabnebula.us
Location: Grandview Campground, Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, California.
Equipment: Televue NP127is at f4.1; Atik 383L+; Atlas EQ-G.
Processing: Images Plus; Maxim DL; Registar; PS Elements.

Another Pale Blue Dot
https://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriekl ... 900701094/
Copyright: Ian Regan & Val Klavans On April 11, 2014 the Cassini spacecraft captured Uranus for the first time ever.

More details on this observation can be found here: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-bl ... ssini.html

Image Processing: Ian Regan
Image Assembly: Val Klavans
Image Data: NASA / JPL / SSI

Saturn's Hexagon and Rings
https://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriekl ... 228122884/
Copyright: Val Klavans This is a true color view of Saturn's north polar region and its rings, taken by Cassini's Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) on October 10, 2013. You can see Saturn's mysterious hexagon in this view.

Image Processing: Val Klavans
Image Data: NASA / JPL / SSI

Crescent Moon and Castle
Copyright: György Soponyai

On 2nd May evening I observed and photographed as the setting Moon reaching the roof of the Hungarian royal palace, the Buda Castle (UNESCO World Heritage Site). I wanted to take a photo in the moment when the Moon was touching the top of the Castle however our Sister Planet sank behind clouds shortly after this photo had been taken.


Photo details:
2014.05.02. Budapest, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + SkyWatcher 80/600 ED Apo, 1sec, ISO200

Timeless Wall
http://www.ancientskys.com/
Copyright: Marc Toso Night sky photography of a wall at the Anasazi ruin of Arch Canyon Pueblo near Blanding, UT.

Saturn occultation by the Moon
Copyrights: Gianluca Masi
More details: http://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2014/05/ ... lar-image/ The shrinking of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
Image credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (GSFC)
An article: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1410/ McWay Falls, up close and starry
Copyrights: Rogelio Bernal Andreo
Full size: https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2927/140 ... b372_o.jpg IC 2944-2948, Running Chicken Nebula
Copyrights: Ivan Eder Milky Way over Lake Vättern, Sweden
Copyrights: Martin Fransson Full Moon with Saturn occultation
Copyrights: Roger Groom Image of an alien planet
Image processing by Christian Marois, NRC Canada
An article: http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2014/pr-pla ... 51614.html

Airplane and the Moon
Copyrights: Sebastien Lebrigand The prominence
Copyrights: Umair Asim Mars closest to Earth on April 14th.
Copyrights: Damian Peach Messier 51 with a RCOS Telescope
Copyrights: Denis Priou NGC 7000
Copyrights: Gianluca Rossi Sagittarius Triplet (M20, M8, NGC 6559)
Credits and Copyrights: Luminance:Digitized Sky Survey
Color and additional data: Robert Gendler
Image Assembly and Processing : Robert Gendler and Roberto Colombari
Larger size: http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/Sagittarius-DSS.html A Lunar face
Copyrights: Ferenc Simics

Solar Halo Over Athens (three flavours)
Copyrights: Anthony Ayiomamitis[/b Saturn and its rings - artist impression
Copyrights: Edward W. Gennetten
More images: http://www.extraterrestrialphotography.com/index.html Busy Skies full of Planes and Meteors
Copyrights: Dave Lane Clouds over Kühlungsborn (Germany)
Copyrights: Martin Lubke NGC3372 Eta Carinae
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari, Robert Gendler, Stephane Guisard, Oliver Czernetz The Sun and 4 Sunspots
Copyrights: Joanna Bialek A comet, a star and a galaxy
Copyrights: Gregg Ruppel

NGC 6384 - Hubble space telescope
Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and obtained from the Hubble Legacy Archive, which is a collaboration between the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI/NASA), the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF/ESA) and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC/NRC/CSA). (PropID: 9395)

Processing done by myself, Fredrik Ödling.

Full-res can be found here: http://www.astrobin.com/full/97063/0/ (Sorry, no direct link. Astrobin ToS)

Preview:

Sequences of the Occultation of Saturn by the Moon on May 14th 2014

Images taken on 14 May 2014 from Sydney using a Telescope Skywatcher Black Diamond D = 80 mm, f = 600 mm, 20 mm eyepiece + CANON EOS 600D. All times are given in Universal Time.

1. Saturn disappears:



Images of Saturn obtained combining many frames at 1/60 and 1600 ISO using Lynkeos software + Photoshop.
Image of the Moon obtained combining 20 best frames using Photoshop.
High resolution: https://www.flickr.com/photos/angelrls/14024239787/

2. Saturn reappears:



Images of Saturn obtained combining many frames at 1/100 and 1600 ISO using Lynkeos software + Photoshop.
Image of the Moon obtained combining 11 best frames using Photoshop.
High resolution: https://www.flickr.com/photos/angelrls/14207538171/


More info: http://angelrls.wordpress.com/2014/05/1 ... -the-moon/
This information is also available in Spanish in: http://angelrls.blogalia.com/historias/74606

Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (Australian Astronomical Observatory / Macquarie University, Australia
& Agrupación Astronómica de Córdoba / Red Andaluza de Astronomía, Spain).

Captured from the summit of Mauna Kea, morning of 19 May 2014. (Already submitted via email)
Scopes and observers, L-R: Gemini North (beam only - telescope is on the next ridge over, taking queue observations for Andrea Ghez), Keck II (Ghez et al), Keck I (Ghez et al), Subaru Telescope (Shogo Nishiyama).
Ghez et al study Sgr A* eating habits (gas cloud), Nishiyama studies effects of General Relativity on stars orbiting Sgr A*. Credit: Dan Birchall, Subaru Telescope

NGC2626
Copyright: Wolfgang Promper http://www.astro-pics.com/2626npm.htm

NGC5139
Copyright: Wolfgang Promper http://www.astro-pics.com/5139npm.htm

NGC6188
Copyright: Wolfgang Promper http://www.astro-pics.com/6188npm.htm

NGC4038
Copyright: Wolfgang Promper http://www.astro-pics.com/4038npm.htm

Cloudy Mars on May 19th, 01:42ut. Olympus Mons at left Tharsis volcanoes below. Above average conditions while it lasted. North is top. ( LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, Flea3 Ccd, TeleVue 3x barlows, Astronomik LRGB filter set. 60 sec. per channel.)

Saturn, Tethys, Dione, Enceladus on May 19th, 02:47ut, under above average conditions. Three moons are visible they are (top-Left) Tethys, Dione and Enceladus. ( LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, Flea3 Ccd, TeleVue 3x barlows, Astronomik LRGB filter set. 90 sec. per channel.)

Comet Jacques C/2014 E2 on May 12th, 05:12ut.

Comet 209P LINEAR on May 13th, 00:17ut.