Starship Asterisk*

IC5070 & NGC7000
Copyrights: Pasi Sarkkinen VDB9
Copyrights: Alessandro Benedetti & Daniele Ceniti IC1805 The Heart Nebula
Copyrights: Simon Addis
Larger size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22865357@N06/21927114908/ IC 1396 Elephant's Trunk Nebula
Copyrights: Simon Addis
Larger size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22865357@N06/17298798075/ IC 434 The Horsehead and Flame Nebula
Copyrights: Simon Addis
Larger size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22865357@N06/16287732556/ Uranus (October 7-8th.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach Acorn leaves and nuts and Milky Way
Copyrights: Chao Zhang Crepuscular rays
Copyrights: Divyadarshan Purohit Andromeda Omicron and the VdB 156
Copyrights: Robert Fields M31
Copyrights: Jean-Baptiste Auroux IC59 and IC63 in Gamma Cas
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile

Copyrights: Raul Villaverde, Domingo Pestana y Nicolas Romo

HFG1
Copyrights: Sascha Schüller Sh2-261
Copyrights: Vadim Kozatchenko VLA Reveals Spectacular "Halos" of Spiral Galaxies
Image Credit: Jayanne English (U. Manitoba), with support from Judith Irwin and Theresa Wiegert (Queen’s U.) for the CHANG-ES consortium; NRAO/AUI/NSF; NASA/STScI
An article: https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressreleases/galaxy-halos http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35258

Circumzenithal Arc
Copyrights: Paweł Kalinowski IC443 and IC444
Copyrights: Cesar Cantu Quiroga Hubble’s planetary portrait captures changes in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
Image credits: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
An article: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1522/?lang http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35261

Fogbow, glory and broken spectre
Copyrights: Jordi Solé International Space Station
Copyrights: Justin Barnard 174 and surroundings
Copyrights: Maurice Toet Forces of Nature
Copyrights: Rico Granger

Colourful Moon
Copyrights: Dmitry Makolkin Angelic Sky
Copyrights: Stephane Vetter
Larger size: http://nuitsacrees.fr/DP/AP32/moonbow1400.jpg ALMA Telescope unveils rapid formation of new stars in distant galaxies
Image credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
An article: http://www.ipmu.jp/node/2300 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35265

Aurora of October 7
Copyrights: Philippe Moussette The Moon (and Aldebaran - bottom picture)
Copyrights: Philippe Moussette The Andromeda Galaxy, Milkyway, and Moon over Malibu
Copyrights: Elliot McGucken
Larger size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/herosjour ... 961466730/ New Horizons Reveals Pluto’s Striking Surface Variations & Unique Moon Rotations
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
An article: http://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/features/3286 NGC 6726 region in Corona Australis
Copyrights: Pablo Cirielli

M45 cluster

Copyrights: Frederic Caron



Larger version available here : http://www.astrophotodigitale.com/M45_F ... 7_33PC.htm

mars and jupiter conjunction dawn october 17
copyrights:martin marthadinata
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60466949@ ... ed-public/

NGC281

new processing (drizle mode):
http://www.cielboreal.com/galerie/photo48.jpg

full size : http://www.cielboreal.com/galerie/photo48f.jpg
total frame 51H done with ODK20 on Paramount ME2

http://www.cielboreal.com
Copyright: J.C CANONNE, P. BERNHARD, D. CHAPLAIN & L. BOURGON

Detail of CED214
Deatail of CED214 was taken with 20inch RC & Adaptive optics.
http://miki-hosp.or.jp/BIND/
Copyright: Nobuhiko Miki

Melotte15
Melotte15 was taken with 20inch RC & Adaptive optics.
http://miki-hosp.or.jp/BIND/pg158.html
Nobuhiko Miki

Punta Ameghino

After Sunset, the crescent Moon was near the Milky Way, in this place, the night colors are so amazing, even affected by light polllution from Puerto Madryn (lights on the left) you can still have an amazing view of the night sky. The cliffs, cold water, birds and whales pass by around the area. This is an amazing view of Punta Ameghino, near Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina.

My entry "Mercury and the Crescent Moon, Venus, Mars, & Jupiter Before Dawn" was sent with the title for another image. The correct title is:
"Mercury & the Moon with Earthshine"

;rob

http://moonrocksastro.com/index.php/201 ... 5-sh2-190/

IC 1805 Heart nebula by Paul C. Swift, on Flickr

Animal parade in the Rosette nebula.
The Matter structures seems to be animals in an endless parade...

Larger view:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/161595888

Thanks for looking!

Kfir Simon

Helix
Copyrights: Philippe Moussette M8 and M20
Copyrights: Philippe Moussette M27
Copyrights: Philippe Moussette Comet 67P (Sep 23rd.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach
Larger size: http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/67p_ ... _23dpc.jpg B173-174
Copyrights: Gregg Ruppel
Larger size: http://greggsastronomy.com/IMAGES/b173_HaRGB.jpg Milky Way from Toubkal mount in Morocco
Copyrights: Arnaud Besancon Andromeda from West Virginia
Copyrights: Bill Purdy Summer Sprites over the North Sea
Copyrights: Laura Kranich The surface of the Sun up close
Copyrights: Alexandre Lhoest

Milky Way and Roque Cinchado
Copyrights: Javier Martinez Moran Closest Northern Views of Saturn's Moon Enceladus
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2015-316 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35267#p249172

Messier 17
Credits and Copyrights: Data: ESO / Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg / Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Napoli; Assembling and processing: R. Colombari
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/219789/0/?real=&mod= One day over Palm Desert
Copyrights: Mike Sanford Winter Rising
Copyrights: Amir shahcheraghian Pinhole Solargrahy
Copyrights: Arnaud Claisse NGC 6726, Corona Australic Molecular Cloud region
Copyrights: Richard Galli North American Nebula and Pelican Nebula
Copyrights: Göran Strand

Dark nebula TGU H774 P19, vdB 2....


More resolution (2400x1800) , information and details:
http://afesan.es/Deepspace/slides/TGU%2 ... ia%29.html

Clear skies.
Antonio

Seeking Venus under the Spitzkoppe arch
Copyright: Petr Horálek
There are not so many places in the world, where you can feel so small and nugatory in compassion to the nature around you, but also such grateful to the world to be the part of a moment in this beautiful natural spot. With no doubt, one of those places is the Spitzkoppe national park in Namibia. Many rounded rocky structures in the large park and no big city so far around make this place absolutely amazing for gazing the stars. As for that, I spent a night time under tempting arch with only reason – to seek the morning „beauty“ planet Venus. Brightest morning object of 23rd September 2015 was such bright in the dark nature, that it wasn’t a big problem to see my own shadow produced by the shine of the planet. Except that, just over the rocky bridge there was tensed the winter Milky Way with bright purple emission nebulae of Vela or Orion. The Magellanic clouds, two isolated starry islands, were majestic addition to the whole view… More info and the image in higher dimension: http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?p=1774

California and Pleiades
Copyrights: Nestor Yanes Milky Way - Galactic Center
Copyrights: Mariano Ribas Smal Magellanic Cloud and 47 Tuc
Copyrights: Mariano Ribas Ring Nebula
Copyrights: Steve Riley
Larger size: http://astrosteve.com/images1/astro/M57-full-3.jpg NGC 1232 in Eridanus - Oct 6th.
Copyrights: Damian Peach
Larger size: http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/ngc1 ... 0_06dp.jpg The Deep
Copyrights: Paul Wilson NGC1365
Copyrights: Stéphane Guisard Lunar Eclipse 2007
Copyrights: Arie Nagel Wanderer of Darkness
Copyrights: Arpan Das Summer-to-Autumn Sky Transition
Copyrights: Antonio Peña NGC55 in Sculptor
Copyrights: Ian Sharp

Messier 31
Copyrights: Copyrights: Raul Villaverde, Domingo Pestana and Nicolas Romo C/2013 US10 on Sep 11th.
Copyrights: Damian Peach
Larger size: http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/c201 ... 9_11dp.jpg M8 & M20
Copyrights: James Dire IC 405
Copyrights: Van Macatee SH2-132
Copyrights: Brad Benedict M51/Google deep dream
Copyrights: Yassine Ouhilal IC 1871
Copyrights: Eric Coles Elephant Trunk
Copyrights: Cesar Cantu Quiroga NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula
Copyrights: Georges Chassaigne

A rocky field,

we couldn't get rid of the clouds, we travelled more than 150kms and finally found some not too good weather conditions but we where able to see the stars after a week of crappy weather, the Souther pole looks pretty high from -43 latitude.

Next to Laguna La Amarga, on a small town called Sierra Chata, there was this old abandoned rock stractor company, the owner was lawsuited by an injured employee, the company was shut after that, we asked the owner to let us in and check it around, there was some beautiful animals even if it looks like a ghost creepy place. I had no chance to image the sky because of the weather conditions for almost a week or so, this was the first semi clear night sky in more than a week, even if the sky was most of it clear, I couln´t get the chance to image the Milky Way in its all glory, laying behind the clouds, almost settling, the light was passing through the clouds. Anyway, since it was my first clear night, I builded this pano, because I also liked the rocky scenario, it looks like from another world. The Large Magellanic Cloud, Canopus from Carinae, The Small Magellanic Cloud next to Archernar, takes the show away, even if we can see a violet cast around the Crux and the amazing Airglow green cast in the sky, the rest of yellowish belongs to the sucky light pollution from far towns.

http://moonrocksastro.com/wp-content/up ... 8-long.jpg

The one that got away! by Paul C. Swift, on Flickr

IC 5332 is a somewhat tenuous spiral galaxy with a very low surface brightness
of just 23.8 mag/squ arc sec, making it a challenging target with elusive features
that are hard to reveal well. The tight symmetrical spiral inner arms develop into
more irregular outer arms with many HII regions spread across the galactic disc.
Copywrite: Michael Sidonio

Larger image here: http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ ... 0/original

Messier 13
Copyright: Arie Nagel [M13-Nagel-small.jpg] https://www.dropbox.com/s/0dxan7pwh5yun ... l.jpg?dl=0 [/M13-Nagel-small.jpg][/superhide] Messier 13, photographed by a 30cm F/4 newton, LRGB 1x1 binning, subs of 10 min and in total 28 hours.
Data are remotely acquired from AstroCamp, Nerpio, Spain. Processing in PixInsight and Adobe Photoshop.

Original can be downloaded here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/s8ndxtjha0nls ... l.jpg?dl=0
1.3Mb

Owner of the data and processed by:
Arie Nagel, Netherlands

Final Kiss of Two Stars Heading for Catastrophe
Image credit: ESO/L. Calçada
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1540/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35279

Most Earth-Like Worlds Have Yet to be Born
Image credit: NASA / ESA / G. Bacon (STScI)
An article: http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/27 ... to-be-born http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35276

Peach State Stargaze Star Party
Copyrights: David Woolsteen 9 Months Of Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy
Copyrights: Adriano Valvasori IC1848 - The Soul Nebula
Copyrights: Andre van der Hoeven IC 342, A Hidden Gem
Copyrights: John Hayes Celestial Swirl
Copyrights: Theodore Sadler

First discovery of a magnetic field in a normal delta Scuti star (*)
Image credits: Sylvan Cnuddle LESIA/Paris Observatory
An article: http://www.astro.oma.be/en/first-discov ... cuti-star/ Milky Way - Peach State Stargaze Star Party
Copyrights: David Woolsteen Autumn Milky Way through Cepheus
Copyrights: Marc Ricard Seeking Venus under the Spitzkoppe arch
Copyrights: Petr Horálek Intergalactic Highway
Copyrights: Andrew Kennard Triangulum Galaxy M33
Copyrights: Terry Hancock
Larger size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhanc ... ed-public/ NGC 1398 in Eridanus - Sep 11th.
Copyrights: Damian Peach Solar Flare
Copyrights: Kim Jong - Ho ISS
Copyrights: Adam Hurley