Starship Asterisk*

Comet Catalina moves away forever
Copyrights: José J. Chambó M106 Widefield
Copyrights: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez Meteor glow
Copyrights: Chris Kotsiopoulos Pelican Nebula
Copyrights: Rick Burke Partial Solar Eclipse, Anchorage
Copyrights: David Cortner Green flash
Copyrights: Jaume Orell Jupiter and moon Callisto
Copyrights: Richard Bosman Jupiter
Copyrights: Marco Guidi Moon on March 13, 2016
Copyrights: Pedro Luis Moreno

The 21.3.2016 could see a beautiful conjunction Moon - Jupiter at times between clouds.
Buenos Aires - Argentina

© Carlos Di Nallo
http://carlosdn-alfacentauri.blogspot.com.ar/

Milky Way Mosaics:

Copyrights:
David Forteza & Ferran Bosch
Procesado cortesia de Ferran Bosch "Caliu", integramente en Pixinsight. by David Forteza, en Flickr

Copyrights:
Raul Villaverde, Domingo Pestana & David Forteza
Bolido junto Via Lactea desde la Alcarria by David Forteza, en Flickr

Copyrights:
David Forteza
Reprocess Air-Glow by David Forteza, en Flickr

SH2-132 and PK 164 +31.1 Jones-Emberson 1


Data/FullRes


Data/FullRes

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


Best Regards Deep-Sky-Astro Team

Mount Tarawera

Credit: Amit Ashok Kamble

High Resolution: https://www.flickr.com/photos/amyth91/2 ... 53/sizes/l
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/amyth91
Facebook: http://fb.com/amitkamblephotography

One of the most beautiful nights that i've ever had in New Zealand. Lake Tarawera is just an amazing place to be to watch the milkyway rise.
I usually read on the location that i go to shoot, but this visit was not planned so, did not read much. Only to come back home and realize, what is hidden behind this beautiful view. The eruption of Mount Tarawera on 10 June 1886. Although it's been years now, knowing what happen makes you feel sad. This image is dedicated to all those people, who were unfortunate.

The image shows a beautiful today with milkyway rising over lake Tarawera , air glow and a violent past of the mount Tarawera eruption.

Equinox with Full Moon & African Dust over Athens, Greece.
http://www.alexandrosmaragos.com
Copyright: Alexandros Maragos

Equinox by Alexandros Maragos, on Flickr

Rising Jupiter and sea sparkle with light pollution in Oman

NGC 6188

http://www.astroadventures.ru/
Copyright: Yuri Zvezdny

Big size.

Equatorial sky: From Big Dipper to the Southern Cross
Copyright: Petr Horrálek (http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/)

While staying at Maba village on equatorial Indonesian island Halmahera in this March, I realized one amazing fact. This place with latitude only 40’N, is the best one to capture both of commonly known „pointer“ showing the celestial poles. As the north celestial pole can be found by stars of the Big Dipper (pointing to the star Polaris), the south pole is possible to find by the Southern cross. Check this on annotated image version. Both of these celestial „shapes“ were perfectly visible in the late night of 4th March 2016 from incredibly dark place of the Maba beach, where I was taken by such a nice local citizen Mr. Hardi, followed by his uncle Mr. Haruna. Both of them came on the beach and sat on a log of dry wood, nearby a fading campfire. Apart from both celestial shapes, the sky was enriched by rising center of the Milky Way („Miett“ in local Maba language) with bright „red“ planet Mars and a bit fainter Saturn close to the bright red star Antares in the Scorpius. Strong lights on the right come from the village, partly disturbing view to the southern Milky Way with pink Carina nebula. On the left, the light belongs to far nickel mining company. But not only artificial lights were captured. Red and green „flames“ in the sky are caused by natural atmospheric airglow. Beautiful Mobon Island behind the guys completes this calm but memorable view as a foreground in the Jiko Mobon Gulf (Gulf around Mobon Island). More info and images in better quality can be found here: http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?p=2281.

Mosaic of the M81 m82 in Ursa Major.
http://moonrocksastro.com/index.php/201 ... -ngc-3031/
Copyright: Paul C Swift
Mosaic of the M81 m82 in Ursa Major. by Paul C. Swift, on Flickr

Milky Way and the Earth
Image info: http://www.astrobin.com/196679/B/
Copyright: Carlos Fairbairn

Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex
Image info: https://www.astrobin.com/198358/
Copyright: Carlos Fairbairn https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hp ... 5471_o.jpg

hola a todos:
os dejo una foto en banda estrecha, es LA ROSETA, a ver que os parece,
esta en paleta hubble y estos son los datos:
TOMAS:
H alfa: 16 Light de 900 segundos; 30 flats, 16 darks y 50 bias
OIII: 16 Light de 900 segundos; 30 flats, 16 darks y 50 bias
SII: 3 Light de 900 segundos; 30 flats, 3darks y 50bias
TEMPERATURA: -10 GRADOS
TUBO: FSQ 106 ED
CCD: SBIG ST-8300M
MONTURA: CGEM
CCD guiar: QHY5II
LUGAR: LAS INVIERNAS (GUADALAJARA)
un saludo
jose

Northern lights above Kiruna
Copyright: Sabine Gloaguen
On the full quality picture, we can see the green light of the LIDAR laser beam of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics. Northern lights and Devil's Jaws
Copyright: Sabine Gloaguen Lights surrounding the Lighthouse
Copyright: Sabine Gloaguen

Gum 23.

Located in the constellation of Vela at a distance of around 5000 light years. Often over looked as a target due to the nearby Vela SNR, some of which can be seen in the lower left of the frame. Integration time of 47.5 hours.

Copyright: Paul Haese

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M104, Sombrero Galaxy by David Dvali, on Flickr

M51 Whirlpool Galaxy by David Dvali, on Flickr

sun at noon

inner universe by MASAHIRO MIYASAKA, on Flickr

Tantric Buddhism is the universe
Cassiopeia is in the icicle

I've created this image to show the scale of the Solar System bodies during the total solar eclipse from Indonesia. The perspective is astonishing! I've seen nine total solar eclipses so far but the view of the large prominence with the unaided eye was just remarkable! I can't believe how lucky we were having this big prominenece right next to the last Baily's Beads.
I wish that more people would get the scale of things on our universe and maybe then realise how important is to keep our spaceship healthy and operable. Its the only one we have after all!

Never Forget The Shadow!
Constantine Emmanouilidi
f/b: Infection Photography

Hi,

here are 4 new moon mosaics, enjoy!

The Moon - March 14 2016 - 5.70 days old Medium size - 2500 x 4084 pixel (1686 kB)
Full resolution - 4322 x 7060 pixel (4379 kB)


The Moon - March 16 2016 - 7.74 days old Medium size - 2500 x 3659 pixel (2029 kB)
Full resolution - 4824 x 7060 pixel (5783 kB)


The Moon - March 17 2016 - 8.75 days old Medium size - 2500 x 3316 pixel (1638 kB)
Full resolution - 5322 x 7060 pixel (5823 kB)


The Moon - March 18 2016 - 9.74 days old Medium size - 2500 x 3085 pixel (1429 kB)
Full resolution - 5722 x 7060 pixel (5677 kB)


Copyright: Mario Weigand
http://www.skytrip.de

cheers

Mario

Large Magellanic Cloud - HaLRGB
http://www.astrotanja.com
Copyright: Tanja Schmitz / AstroTanja

Propper motion of M51

Choose any area of ​​the sky such as occupying M51, the spiral Whirlpool Galaxy. If we compare for example the marked area with an image of the same field taken by DSS (Digitized Sky Survey) 60 years ago we can see how some stars look that they have been displaced. Actually, all the stars move.
The apparent stillness is the product of the enormous distances that separates us from them, something that makes the movement can be perceived only by comparison of different observations separated by long periods of time.

DSS image is of the Schmidt telescope 48-inch at Monte Palomar (CA, USA) only one frame in April 8, 1956. My image is a stack of 30x300s the last year in March 29, 2015 (59 years apart)

Image credit: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez (https://www.facebook.com/AIP.Astrophotography/)
Text credit: Emilio Gálvez Ranera (emilio.galvez@planetmad.es)

full resolution: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1651/2603 ... 3d12_o.gif

Vernal Equinox/Light Pilla
Copyrights: Al Alicea Solar Corona from TSE2016
Copyright: Yu Jun & NightChina.net The Wilds of the Local Group
Image credits: ESO
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1610/?lang The Hunter and the Tree
Copyrights: Javier Martínez Morán Milky Way over Tenerife, Spain
Copyrights: Javier Martínez Morán York University astrophysicists detect ultra-fast winds near supermassive black hole
Image credit: NASA, and M. Weiss (Chandra X -ray Center)
An article: http://news.yorku.ca/2016/03/18/york-un ... lack-hole/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35752

Milky Way from Otago, New Zealand
Copyrights: Taichi Nakamura Jupiter and its moons
Copyrights: A Kannan New Gravity Map Gives Best View Yet Inside Mars
Image Credits: MIT/UMBC-CRESST/GSFC
An article: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/201 ... ravity-map http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35754

NGC2420
Copyrights: Ron Brecher Equinox Solargraphy cube
Copyrights: Olivér Nagy NGC1333 wide field
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari NGC1333 Close-up
Copyrights: NAOJ / Roberto Colombari Jupiter
Copyrights: Marco Guidi Ganimede
Copyrights: Marco Guidi Stargazers
Copyrights: Martin Marthadinata Carina Nebula
Copyrights: Delberson Tiago Conjunction
Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar NGC4567 The Siamese Twins
Copyrights: Bill Snyder

Comet C/2016 BA14
Copyrights: Greg Hogan ISS
Copyrights: Stan Honda The Source
Copyrights: Jess Deitz Sun pillar and solar halo
Copyrights: Derek Smith Spring Full Moon
Copyrights: Pablo Martinez Alemparte Conjunction between the Moon and Jupiter
Copyrights: Alfredo Miguel Jewel Box (NGC4755) and star Mimosa
Copyrights: Delberson Tiago Moon over Davenport field
Copyrights: Tom Warren Northern lights of 2015
Copyrights: John Chumack Atlas V rocket
Copyrights: Don Hladiuk Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Rising
Copyrights: Wang Letian Spaceflight
Copyrights: Alex Polimeni NGC4755 Jewel Box
Copyrights: Christian Rausch Equinox with Full Moon & African Dust
Copyrights: Alexandros Maragos Clouds and company
Copyrights: Jhon Harold