Starship Asterisk*

Full Moon rising over San Diego downtown
Copyright: Vijay Balasubramanian

Here is a new image of Mars made this 24th October 2020

This image has been made at UT21:17 with C2PU 1meter Cassegrain telescope located at Calern Plateau (N +43°45’ E +006° 55’).

This image has a resolution going beyond that previously made with this telescope, and shows particularly Valles Marineris with a lot of details I personally have never seen on pictures taken from the ground.

More detailed view here : http://www.astrosurf.com/prostjp/Galeri ... cambre.jpg

Hi,

My submission: The HEART of the Lagoon Nebula M8





Copyright: Wissam Ayoub

Thank you,

PHILOLAUS CRATER

Impact crater located to the north, 73 km in diameter and 3.4 km deep.
It has high walls and features contour formations or steps (terraces). It has uneven ground and two symmetrically separated mountains. It has an irregular border, showing signs of collapse.

BEST DETAILS
https://www.astrobin.com/full/sga3a1/0/?nc=user

Equipment
MEADE LX200 10 "UHTC
ZWO Optical ASI 462MC
Filter: Planetary Baader L 1.25 "
Accessory: TeleVue Powermate 2.0x
Mount: Ioptron Cem60
Polar alignment: Sharcap
Capture: SharpCap V3.0
Processing: Photoshop CS6 ,, AutoStakkert AutoStackert !, Registax 6.

10/28/2020
São Paulo-SP-Brazil

Copyright: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
Email: Barretosmed@hotmail.com

A lucky meteor strike while imaging the M74 galaxy!


The Phantom Galaxy (M74) and a meteor strike by Alex Fliker, on Flickr

Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer + Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED + field flattener + Nikon D610 (ISO200 & 74x131s). Pre- and post- processed in Siril. Stacked 67 out of 74 frames. Post-processing in RawTherapee, then in GIMP and final one again in RawTherapee. The last touch - adding back in the meteor done in GIMP.

2020-10-15 - Chisinau suburbs, Moldova

-Amenophis- wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 6:37 pm The Pleiades (M45)

More details
https://www.astrobin.com/35lk7u/0/

Equipment:
Total exposure 20hrs
Newton ASA10"
Paramount MyT and Canon Ra @ 800ISO (243*300s)
Lorraine - FRANCE

Acquisition software :
- MaxPilot
- TheSkyX pro
- BackYardEOS

Processing Software:
- Astro Pixel Processor
- Pixinsight
- Photoshop

Copyright: Thomas LELU
Email: thomas.lelu@yahoo.fr

Thomas, I love that picture of the Pleiades! I find it exquisitely beautiful. The individual stars sparkle like sapphires, suffused in a soft blue glow.

Ann

mr1337 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 5:38 am The Tarantula in its Cosmic Web
Full Image and Details: https://www.astrobin.com/3kd13c/
Copyright: Mathew Ray

Click to view full size image

Just in time for Halloween...

This is a target I have been hoping to process for a while and have always been mesmerized by the intricate filaments and details in the SHO data I've seen. For this version I wanted to accentuate those details while keeping the rich star field and more subtle details around the edges. Overall my goal was to communicate both the turbulent nature of the nebula while nodding to its spooky, hairy namesake.

Data captured from 9/6 - 10/3

Well done bringing out the hairy spookiness of the Tarantula nebula, Matthew!

Ann

AlessandroCantarelli wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:44 pm S.T.A.Y.

180°tracked panorama of the best Milky Way I've ever seen in my life.
Arcoiris Valley in Atacama Desert, Chile.

Original file is: 7216x3608 pixels

Beautiful Milky Way, Alessandro. I love the man standing among those forbidding mountains with a light in his hand, as if he had stolen the light from the glowing arch above him.

Ann

Llama wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:21 pm Barnard's Galaxy

Copyrights
Data acquisition: Martin PUGH
Processing: Nicolas ROLLAND

Acquisition August 2020
Total acquisition time of 32.5 hours.

Optics: Planewave 17“ CDK @ F6.8
Mount: Paramount ME
CCD: SBIG STXL-11002 (AOX)
Pre Processing: CCDstack & Pixinsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC


Barnard's Galaxy by Nicolas Rolland, sur Flickr

Martin and Nicolas, the full size version of this image is superb!

Ann

lizarranet wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 10:40 pm Tarantula nebula in LMC

Taken from www.deepskychile.com

An LHaRGB image

Details: https://www.imagingtheuniverse.com/chil ... tarantula/

Autors: Mikel Martinez & Cèdric Thomas

Tarantula nebula in LMC by Mikel Martínez, en Flickr

Mikel and Cèdric, you blew me away with this image! The bar of the LMC is so pearly and translucent, and the Tarantula and the surrounding nebulosities are so boldly in-you-face "thick", "massive" and pink! It is as if the "boiling and churning" Tarantula region was just bursting and exploding out of the almost immaterial bar of the LMC!

Ann

sydney wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:56 am Wizard, Bat, and Ghoul
Ha/OIII bi-color
https://www.astrobin.com/full/312279/0/?nc=user

Nick Pavelchak

Nick, you have done an excellent job at creating beautiful colors from exposures taken through only two filters. The various strange shapes and the elegant overall composition adds to the appeal of your image.

Ann

nicolastabbush@gmail.com wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 1:22 am Large Magellanic Cloud by Nicolas Tabbush, en Flickr

Large Magellanic Cloud.
Location: Villa Pardo. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Date: April 9th. 2019.
Mount: Star Adventurer.
Nikon D810 + 180mm.
f/4.5. ISO 1600.
18 x 180 sec. Light Frames.
23 Darks.
19 Flats.
36 Bias.
Autoguiding: ZWO 60/280 + QHY 5L + PHD2.
Processed in Pixinsight + PS.

Nicolas, that is a very very ambitious, very large, and very impressive portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud!

Ann

Wissam Ayoub wrote: ↑Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:30 pm Hi,

My submission: The HEART of the Lagoon Nebula M8





Copyright: Wissam Ayoub

Thank you,

Wissam, I don't usually grow so enthusiastic over mapped color images, but... there's no way I can possibly resist that shade of blue!!!

Ann

Ann wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:57 am

Wissam Ayoub wrote: ↑Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:30 pm Hi,

My submission: The HEART of the Lagoon Nebula M8





Copyright: Wissam Ayoub

Thank you,

Wissam, I don't usually grow so enthusiastic over mapped color images, but... there's no way I can possibly resist that shade of blue!!!

Ann

Hi Ann, it is an honor
Thank you very much

Best,

ISS and Moon
Copyright: Petr Kohoutek
Newton 110/805, minicamera Bresser full HD
https://www.zonerama.com/AstroPetr/Phot ... /247301204