Starship Asterisk*

The ash-grey moonlight with the illuminated surface of the moon inverted.



Place: Cáceres, Spain.
Date: 20/06/2015
Hour: 20:45 (U.T.)
Age: 3 days.
Telescope: Meade LX200 Classic, 12"
Focal reducer: 6,3
Camera: Canon 40D
ISO: 200

Exposure ash moonlight:2,5 sec
Exposure illuminated moon: 1/50 sec
Processing: Photoshop CS6

PLANETARY TRIANGLE TRAIL


Sum of 836 photos of the planetary triangle of last 06/20/2015 night. Cáceres, Spain.
Camera: Canon 40D+Tokina 12-24, f/4
ISO: 200
Exposure:10sec x 836 frames
Processing: StarTrails + Photoshop CS6

Today was the summer solstice and just two hours after the precise time, it was setting time for Thessaloniki Greece. Here is a very carefully calculated and timed image that had many difficulties to be solved. Luckily position calculations worked and weather cleared at the right moment: the sun is only one degree above the horizon here.
Clear skies
Constantine Emmanouilidi

Monument Valley
johnsastrophotos.com
Copyright: John Vermette

transit iss on Ganymede ?
photogram of http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 44#p244844

Southern Jewels
Copyright: Amit Ashok Kamble


A very rich part of the southern sky, home to the extreme star birth region carina , IC 2944 another star forming region also known as the Running Chicken Nebula and many other star clusters including the jewel box and southern pleiades. Mostly visible in the southern hemisphere, This is one of the busiest region in the milkyway. A hoem to star forming regions, open clusters, most prominent dark nebula and few more.

Total exposure for the image is 122 x 10 = 1220 sec = 20.33 min. I wanted to a bit more on this area but had to leave as it was late and this region was getting close to horizon and light pollution.

High Res link here: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3777/184 ... 7da1_o.jpg


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Bright Conjunction

(Salado River) Rio Salado, General Belgrano, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

20150621 Bolide Sai Kung Hong Kong 21:06 HKT
Sky exceptionally bolide,particularly one that bright fireball explodes.
https://flic.kr/p/v2yUor
https://flic.kr/p/v1N6aY
https://flic.kr/p/uJQnER

Bright Sunset

(Salado River) Rio Salado, General Belgrano, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

wrong forum, sorry

Fireflies of the Night by Greg Hogan, on Flickr

Sunspots group AR2371 22th of June
image © Philippe TOSI
Regards

The Rising Milky Way above Lake Szálka
Copyright: Soponyai György


The smoke on the water on the left edge of the picture is illuminated by the headlights of some night fishermen.

2015.06.21. Szálka, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Samyang EF 24/1.4
4 x 20 sec, F2, ISO 3200

IC 5070 / 5067 Pelican Nebula
Data / FullRes


Recording / preprocessing: by Frank Iwaszkiewicz
Image processing: by Nico Geisler & Frank Iwaszkiewicz


Best Regards Deep-Sky-Astro Team

Moon-Venus-Jupiter-ISS
Copyrights: José J. Chambó Conjunction at Twight
Copyrights: Richard Jaworski ISS flyover
Copyrights: Stan Honda Moon, Venus and Jupiter over the pool
Copyrights: Stephen Menke M6 in Scorpius
Copyrights: Richard Hammar Conjuction over Brisbane
Copyrights: Stephen Mudge Jupiter, Venus, and the Moon
Copyrights: Israel Monterroso Villatoro Crescent Moon
Copyrights: Divyadarshan Purohit

b]Solstice conjunction[/b]
Copyrights: Ladanyi Tamas Moon, Venus and Jupiter conjunction
Copyrights: Alessandro Carrozzi Sagitarius region
Copyrights: Philippe Moussette Conjunction Moon-Jupiter-Venus
Copyrights: José J. Chambó The Moon, Venus and Jupiter over Ourense railway station
Copyrights: Francisco José Fernández Gómez Triple conjunction
Copyrights: Amirreza Kamkar Conjunction
Copyrights: Mark Lane Solstice stunner
Copyrights: Alan Friedman Monument Valley
Copyrights: John Vermette

Solstice Conjunction

Venus / Jupiter / Crescent Moon in Cancer

7x15s / f10 / iso500
Ioptron Skytracker / Nikon 55mm-200mm @~200 attached to a Sony a7.

General Belgrano, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Sun and Active Region 2371
The Sun at Brazil/Pernambuco/Caruaru
Copyright: Edinaldo Oliveira
Telescope Maksutov Cassegrain 90mm + Thousand Oaks

Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile
La Crescent y la burbuja "gran campo" by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

Barnard 252 - The Dolphin
http://www.astropilar.com.ar/nebulosas/B252_1.html
Copyright: Ezequiel Bellocchio

Venus, Jupiter, Moon - June 20th - from Chile
Copyrights: Elke Schulz Astronomy besieging the castle
Copyrights: Fernando Cabrerizo Sunset celestial show
Copyrights: Jeff Dai The Crescent & Gamma Cygni Nebulae
Copyrights: Terry Hancock NGC 7000
Copyrights: Oliver Czernetz Milky Way
Copyrights: Olivier Sauzereau Celestial Triangle
Copyrights: Lynsey Slavonic

iss transits: sun, moon and jupiter... http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 51#p244951

M8/M20
Copyrights: Markus Noller Antares
Copyrights: Markus Noller Fireflies of the Night
Copyrights: Gregory Hogan Astronomers Discover More than 800 Dark Galaxies in the Famous Coma Cluster
Image credits: NAOJ
An article: http://subarutelescope.org/Pressrelease ... index.html http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34900

Lighting the way
Copyrights: Carlos Fernandez New Horizons - Pluto surface, artist impression
Copyrights: Carol Kucera The Milky Way
Copyrights: Jennifer Rose Lane M12
Copyrights: Bob Fera
Larger size: http://www.feraphotography.com/CDK20/M12.html Dreaming Island
Copyrights: Farhan Zaidi Master Blaster
Copyrights: Alan Friedman

Here is a few Milky Way shots stitched together into a panoramic to show the center of the Milky Way from Buck Bald Mtn, TN. You will notice a few areas missing where i did not get shots but I still love how this turned out. Make sure you zoom in and pan around to see all the star clusters and nebulas in the shot!

Taken with a Canon 60D with 50mm 1.8 lens. Each shot was 30 second exposure. This took about 8 shots to get the area. And this version of the image was scaled down 50% from original.

https://flic.kr/p/uLGo7N

The Aurora Borealis made a brief but spectacular appearance last night over Loveland Pass, Colorado (11,990' MSL). Moon is located approximately over Loveland Valley Ski Area, with 13,240' Mt. Sniktau at right. Image is a composite stitched from 12 vertical frames captured over the course of 3 minutes, at approximately 2313 MST.