Starship Asterisk*

Trillium Lake Night Sky by Transient Astronomers, on Flickr

Image Credit and Copyright Tom Masterson

NGC 7380 - the Wizard Nebula in HaOiiiLRGB

Copyright Scott Rosen. Website: http://www.astronomersdoitinthedark.com/


Full Resolution Version
Discovered in 1787 by Caroline Herschel, NGC 7380 is the open star cluster embedded within the emission nebula known as the Wizard Nebula. The stars within the cluster were formed from this surrounding nebula. Covering about a half a degree of sky (about the same as the Full Moon) in the constellation of Cepheus, the nebula shines brightly in the red light of glowing Hydrogen gas. There is also a strong Oxygen III component, showing in this image as a light blue color.

More image information is available at http://www.astronomersdoitinthedark.com ... =149&p=581.

Thanks for looking!

LDN 1235, vdB149, vdB150 (The Shark Nebula).
Copyright: Sebastiano Recupero



LDN 1235 is a molecular cloud in the Cepheus constellation, likely an extended red emission nebula (ERE), that outshines through photoluminescence when dust particles are hit by high-energy UV radiation. Within its border, there are two reflection nebulae, vdB149 e vdB150 (van den Bergh catalog), respectively illuminated by the stars BD+72 1018 and HD 210806, both with a spectral type B8IV, which give the surrounding gas and dust a markedly bluish color. In the field two small galaxies are also visible, PGC67671 and PGC67347, that appear yellowish because their light, crossing the gas and dust along the line of sight, loses part of its spectrum.

Telescope: FSQ-106EDX3 @f/3.6
Camera: QSI 683 wsg8
Filters: Astrodon Gen2 Tru-Balance LRGB
Mount: Paramount MyT
Integration: L:R:G:B —> 50:11:12:7 x 600s, total: 13h 30m
Data acquired in 4 nights:
31 agosto 2016, from Nebrodi mountains
1-2-3 settembre 2016, from Margio Salice, Nebrodi mountains
Software: TheSkyX, FocusMax, PHD2, Voyager, PixInsight.


Regards,

Sebastiano.

VDB 141

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http://www.astrosurf.com/cucculelli/

Lights over the Atacama
When the Milky Way, the zodiacal light and the comet 252P/LINEAR meet each other under planet March brightness... The telescope focuses above the Andes Mountains...
Copyright: Sabine Gloaguen HD image here :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4wYp1 ... sp=sharing

Supernova Remnant CTB1
http://www.buckeyestargazer.net/Pages/Nebulae/CTB1.php
Copyright: Joel Short

Stephan's Quintet
LRGB
Larger images and exposure data:
http://www.astrobin.com/264444/0/

Nick Pavelchak
Altamont, NY

The wizard nebula - a deeper view
http://www.far-light-photography.at
Copyright: Arno Rottal
Wizard Nebula - NGC7380 - SHO Version
20x1200sec 1x1bin Halpha
7x1200sec 2x2bin OIII
7x1200sec 2x2bin SII

full resolution:
http://www.astrobin.com/264447/

Moravian G2-8300 and Skywatcher Esprit 80
Imaged with APT

The wizard nebula - a deeper view
http://www.far-light-photography.at
Copyright: Arno Rottal
Wizard Nebula - NGC7380 - HaOIIISIIRGB
20x1200sec 1x1bin Halpha
7x1200sec 2x2bin OIII
7x1200sec 2x2bin SII
each 6x600sec 1x1bin for R, G and B

full resolution:
http://www.astrobin.com/264446/C/

Moravian G2-8300 and Skywatcher Esprit 80
Imaged with APT

If you want to ask me where the nightsky is the most beautiful in New Zealand? In fact, as long as the light from throughout the city, are very beautiful, like the mystery of the night sky Tekapo, bright. Even, sometimes, I think that lying in Oumarou's mid park lawn, one side is the city lights, the other side is the hundreds of millions of light-years stars, you should carefully compare, perhaps really no par. However, this picture stars, it is north of the Takaka night, a person sitting on the side of the mountain to see the wind in the Milky Way fall into the mountains, well, probably the local people do not know, so they grew familiar with the stars in the sky, there are people waiting in the night.

the shooting parameters:use 35mm lens,(F2.8,iso800,120s)x15
copyright:Alvin Wu
large size pic:https://www.facebook.com/AwuNP/photos/a ... =3&theater
e-mail:412924302@qq.com

NGC281-HaRGB_v5 by Gianluca Rossi, on Flickr

NCG 281 The Pacman nebula in HaRGB. Total exposure Ha 5.5 hours, RGB 1.5 hours per channel. Apo refractor 90 mm f/6 Atik 383L+

Tales of Active Region 1471 of 2012 (Painting) I traced the story of sunspot cluster AR 1471/2012 (thanks to SDO/HMI imagery) with daily 2D drawings cumulated into a columnar 'chronotactic' (time-arrangement) narrative structure, painted with knife. Umbrae are set in penumbral envelopes. Here Time flows upwards.

NGC 7380 Wizard Nebula
Copyrights: Michael Kolstad Rosette nebula
Copyrights: Pedro Lozano Andromeda galaxy
Copyrights: Dennis Sprinkle Rho Opiuchi - Antares nebula
Copyrights: Ezequiel Etcheverry M31 - Andromeda Galaxy
Copyrights: Ezequiel Etcheverry Barnard 33 - The Horsehead Nebula
Copyrights: Ezequiel Etcheverry LDN 673 in Aquila
Copyrights: Rafael Rodríguez Coast Galaxy
Copyrights: Yanguang Zhang Celestial Light＆ Ocean Light
Copyrights: Yanguang Zhang Solar Eclipse from Reunion Island / 1st September 2016
Copyrights: Bruno Bamba Andromeda Galaxy from the Italian Alps
Copyrights: Paola Battaglia Jupiter and Venus Conjunction from Enna (Sicily)
Copyrights: Paola Battaglia North American Nebula
Copyrights: Marc Ricard Close Approach of Asteroid 2016 RB1
Copyrights: Ernesto Guido NGC7000
Copyrights: Riccardo Crescimbeni NGC7441
Copyrights: Ian Gorenstein DG 191
Copyrights: Robert Fields Titan's Dunes and Other Features Emerge in New Images
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Universite Paris-Diderot
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2016-232 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36352

Triangulum Galaxy - M33
Copyrights: Giacomo Di Felice M8 Laguna from Tuscany
Copyrights: Andrea Lucchetti M33 Triangulum
Copyrights: Dennis Sprinkle

Penumbral lunar eclipse over Budapest, Hungary

Penumbral lunar eclipse over Budapest by Nikoletta Szakály, on Flickr

Today's Penumbral Moon Eclipse.
I was shooting the eclipse, and while I waited for the moon to rise a little more I went to the bathroom, when I got back, I noticed that there was a plane passing by, and rushed to shoot it, leaving us with this photography. When I saw it on my camera, I was very hyped, that I got a photography like this
Hope you like it

Penumbral Lunal Eclipse 16-09-2016
Nice penumbral Lunar Eclipse this evening visible from Europe, Africa, Asia, Aus., w Pacific.
Here is a composition of two shots made with the same exposition time and post-processing, at the greatest and the final phase
Celestron c925+reducer and Canon 650D

https://flic.kr/p/M8624U


Luigi Fiorentino
Italy

Melotte 15
http://www.spaceimages.de/astrofotos/nebel/melotte-15
Copyright: Jens Zippel Date: 14.09.2016, 15.09.2016
Ha: 13 x 1800 Sec., [OIII]: 4 X 1800 Sec., [SII]: 4 x 1800 Sec., Sum: 10,5 hrs.
Telescope: 10'', F4 Newtonian
Filter: Astrodon H-Alpha 5nm, [O III] 3nm, [SII] 3nm
Camera: Atik 460Exm
Guiding: Off Axis Guider, Lodestar
Mount: EQ8

"Auriga." By Paul C Swift

http://moonrocksastro.com/

Auriga by Paul C. Swift, on Flickr

Elephant's Trunk Nebula, VdB 142 Details and higher resolution: http://www.wittich.com/?p=2470

Milky Way over ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest
Copyrights: Jack Fusco Greek legend over the Christian chapel
Copyrights: Petr Horálek Moon and Lincoln Park School
Copyrights: Greg Knekleian The glow o a single cigarette
Copyrights: Dani Caxete The Cave Nebula
Copyrights: Frederick Steiling The great Andromeda galaxy
Copyrights: Davide Coverta Cygnus Wall
Copyrights: Michael Fast IC 5267 - A Galaxy Belonging to the Grus Cluster
Copyrights: Fernando Guimaraes NGC 7000 North American Nebula
Copyrights: Brendan Bronzan NGC 6995
Copyrights: George Chatzifrantzis NGC 281 - Pacman Nebula
Copyrights: Gianluca Rossi IC5070 (The Pelican Nebula)
Copyrights: Bernard Miller M27
Copyrights: Bernard Miller IC 1848 and NGC 7293
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile The Sun
Copyrights: Juan M Palomo From Corona Australis to Rho Ophiuchi
Copyrights: Carlos Fairbairn Comet PanSTARRS departs
Copyrights: José J. Chambó Sunrise
Copyrights: Daniele Cipollina M8 and M20 nebulae
Copyrights: Francesco Badalotti

IC1396 - Elephant Trunk Nebula
Copyrights: Simon Todd NGC 281
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile Around Sadr
Copyrights: R. Colombari / E. Recurt
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/263455/0/?real=&mod= OSIRIS-REx launch - rocket contrail shadow
Copyrights: Gautham Narayan IC5146
Copyrights: Dean Schwartzenberg Nebula (NGC 7023)
Copyrights: Jason Furman NASA launches OSIRIS-REx mission to Bennu
Copyrights: Jared Haworth / We Report Space Andromeda Galaxy , M31
Copyrights: Juan Lozano de Haro
Larger size: http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/6 ... ermark.jpg Moon, Mars and Saturn conjunction over Madrid
Copyrights: Adolfo Miranda Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2016-236 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36361

Contact P1 - U1 Lunar Eclipse and transit Plane
Copyrights: Jonathan Ospina Hope
Copyrights: Konstantinos Vasilakakos IC63 and IC59
Copyrights: Jérémie Bottollier Curtet Soul nebula
Copyrights: Juan I. Jimenez The Sun on September 5 2016
Copyrights: Philippe Moussette Aurora on September 1 2016
Copyrights: Philippe Moussette The Moon on September 4 2016
Copyrights: Philippe Moussette NGC 7822 complex
Copyrights: Philippe Moussette NGC700 complex
Copyrights: Philippe Moussette NGC700
Copyrights: Philippe Moussette IC1396
Copyrights: Philippe Moussette M16
Copyrights: Stephen Armen

sundogs. not simultaneous, intermittent

sunset

Southern Pinwheel Galaxy M83

Click to view full size image
A barred spiral galaxy approximately 15 million light-years away, one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies in the sky.
Apparent dimensions: 12′.9 × 11′.5
Exposure: Luminance: Bin1 6x600 sec, Red: Bin2 3x300 sec, Green: Bin2 3x300 sec, Blue: Bin2 3x300 sec.
Remote telescope Planewave 17" CDK (T32),
Imager: CCD FLI Proline 16803
Location: Australia
Processed in PixInsight, with a touch of Photoshop
Author: Boris Fedorov