Starship Asterisk*

Horsehead Nebula
Credits and Copyrights: Data: Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing: Daniel Nobre Cone Nebula Region
Credits and Copyrights: Data: ESO; Processing: Daniel Nobre Crux to Carina
Copyrights: Martin Pugh May aurora from Cape Ann
Copyrights: Roger Porter Sunspot NOAA2665
Copyrights: Luigi Morrone The Lagoon Nebula - Up Close and Personal
Copyrights: Ray Palmer Milky Way
Copyrights: Joshua Hollinger Eagle Nebula
Copyrights: Ronald Brecher Milky Way from Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma
Copyrights: Sergi Luque Above the sea of clouds
Copyrights: Sergi Luque Sun and AR2665 on 13/07
Copyrights: Jhon Harold The sunrise on 13 Jul 2017
Copyrights: Jhon Harold "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...."
Copyrights: Jeffrey O. Johnson
Larger size: http://jeffjastro.com/dso/NGC3184_1Feb17.htm Triffid Nebula
Copyrights: Evangelos Souglakos NGC 300, Spiral Galaxy in Sculptor
Credits and Copyrights: Data: ESO; Image Processing and Assembly Robert Gendler, Roberto Colombari
More sizes: http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/NGC300-ESO.html Milky Way from the Island of Saba in the Caribbean
Copyrights: Prajesh Joshi

Copyright: Nicolas Romo, Domingo Pestana y Raul Villaverde
Messier_17_V2 by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

"Milky way in Carpathians mountains"

The picture was taken at the top of the Gendarme Mountain (1765m). On the right is one of the mountains in Ukraine: Mount Bliznitsa (1883m). To the left extend the lights of the villages at an altitude of about 800 meters above sea level. In the sky the Milky Way visible from the constellation of Sagittarius to the constellation Perseus. In the picture it is good to see a fairly bright glow of the atmosphere in green and purple color. The Andromeda galaxy, the constellation Cassiopeia, the North America nebula, Saturn and dust clouds of the central part of the Milky Way are also very clearly visible.

https://500px.com/photo/221469383/milky ... -kharlanov
https://pp.userapi.com/c836633/v8366330 ... 1an4D4.jpg

Catch of the day
http://www.astrobin.com/305077/C/
Copyright: Slawomir Lipinski http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/0 ... pinski.jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/17910585@ ... 167213281/

http://www.astrobin.com/302553/B/?nc=user

From my observatory in Arizona before the monsoon.

A billion stars wrapped in dark
Larger images and info:
http://www.javierlaina.es/IMAGENES/Pipa.html

6 frames mosaic
Canon 6D - 135mm Samyang objetive lens

Cheers,
Javier Gómez Laina (Madrid - Spain)
http://www.javierlaina.es/

Hello,

This wide region of IC 1396 revealed an Obscure emission nebula DA 568 seen at upper left.

Larger versions:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/165820373

Thank you for looking!

Kfir Simon

NGC 6888, Sadr area with Atik One 6 and Canon 70 mm/f4.
160 minutes H-alpha and 60 minutes O-III.

Race trails during a special night

I'm french and I hope that you will excuse my poor English.

In France, each year during summer, we have a special night for astronomers : Les Nuits des Etoiles (approx : Stars Nights). Created in 1991 by the AFA (Association Française d'Astronomie / French Astronomy Society), this national event permit to numerous people (about 100.000 in 2016) a look at the stary sky with astronomy societies all over the country. This year, it is from friday 28 to sunday 30/07, with about 480 events in about 270 sites.

In my little village of Périgord (South-west of France), my new astronomy society Astro24M (created in last september) organized a public star party last night and we have the ISS two times : first during the twilight (22h12 local time) and second at night (23h50). I joined the two trails (and an unwanted plane trail) in this image : The first ISS trail : (because of the twilight sky, short 3s exposure with a 10s interval)

The second ISS trail : And finally a compilation of all the night (about 1h1/2) : More images in our forum (French only) : http://astro24m.forumactif.org/t173-nui ... -et-photos

Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile
La percha_2017 by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

Galactic trees fireflies by MASAHIRO MIYASAKA, on Flickr

Eta Carina Nebula
Eta Carina nebula in HOO.
http://www.bastienfoucher.com
Copyright: Bastien Foucher Bigger size : https://photos.smugmug.com/Astrophotogr ... ne_HOO.jpg

In line

The photo is made in Astro Ayna, an astrophoto event in the interior of Spain and that at this time Spain is full of events of this type.
We gathered more than 30 telescopes
Miquel Duart

Somewhere in Cygnus : "Entanglement"
URL of website, http://moonrocksastro.com/wp-content/up ... SHED-E.jpg
Copyright: Paul C. Swift

Somewhere in Cygnus : "Entanglement" by Paul C. Swift, on Flickr

Red Clouds of Cygnus by Transient Astronomer, on Flickr


Image Credit and Copyright Tom Masterson

Sh2-136 Ghost Nebula in Cefeo
Autor: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez
Website: https://www.facebook.com/AIP.Astrophotography/

Full resolution:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4291/3626 ... bec8_o.png

Sh2-155 in Cepheus

Copyright: Bart Delsaert
Website: http://delsaert.wordpress.com/
Link to high res picture: http://delsaert.files.wordpress.com/201 ... hargb1.jpg




VdB141 in Cepheus

Copyright: Bart Delsaert
Website: http://delsaert.wordpress.com/
Link to high res picture: http://delsaert.files.wordpress.com/201 ... 1_lrgb.jpg




LDN1235 in Cepheus

Copyright: Bart Delsaert
Website: http://delsaert.wordpress.com/
Link to high res picture: http://delsaert.files.wordpress.com/201 ... _lrgb1.jpg

"Flightpath"
I was testing out my new (to me) Canon 500mm F4 IS L lens adjusting the framing and getting the settings just right when I noticed something moving at the top of the frame. I don't know how I was lucky enough to hit the shutter when I did but the end result was awesome! Sometimes the most unexpected and unplanned shots are the best.

Shot on a Canon 1DX MK II & Canon 500mm F4 L IS lens.

©Harley Grady 2017

Flightpath by Harles99, on Flickr

Ann wrote:

moonrocks wrote:Weiburger's classic Planetary Nebular in colour
Full image here: http://moonrocksastro.com/wp-content/up ... a-2000.jpg

Copyright: Paul C. Swift

Weiburger's classic Planetary Nebular in colour by Paul C. Swift, on Flickr

Thanks for showing us Weiburger's planetary nebula in RGB+Ha, Paul! Previously, you have showed us a fascinating portrait of this nebula in narrowband.

The planetary nebula itself is certainly very interesting! Not many planetaries are as perfectly round as this one.

Ann

Pleasure Ann! Much appreciated !

Title of image
Perseid meteor shower
Copyright:John Zhou
2016-08-12
link provided to the original image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/136825225 ... en-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/136825225 ... en-public/