Starship Asterisk*

Leonard and Cows
location: Roldan, Santa Fe, Argentina
date: 22/12/2021, 22:50hs
exif: 180mm, f2.8, speed 3", iso5000
equipment: nikon d750+nikkor 180mm f2.8 ED IF

DSC_8281-6 by Nazareno Kurriger, en Flickr

Nazareno kurriger

Sh2-132 is one of the 312 bright emission nebulae catalogued by Stewart Sharpless. This large area of emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus glows from the characteristic red light of ionized hydrogen. Sh2-132 is about 1,200 light years away. Dark patches within it are due to soot blocking out the light. There are also some prominent dark nebulae blocking out the light of the stars behind them outside the main area of Sh2-132.

Taken over the nights of 9/5, 9/6, 9/7, 9/8, and 9/10 2021

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Stellarvue SV105-3FT
Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI294MM Pro
Mounts: Astro-Physics Mach2GTO
Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI 120MM Mini
Focal reducers: Stellarvue SV-SFF7-3FT
Software: StarKeeper.it Voyager · Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8 Ripley · Open Guiding PHD 2.6.2 · Photoshop CS5
Filters: Chroma OIII 31mm 3nm · Chroma Ha 31mm 3nm · Chroma SII 31mm 3nm
Accessory: ZWO ASI OAG
Dates:Sept. 10, 2021
Frames:
Chroma Ha 31mm 3nm: 64x300" (5h 20') bin 2x2
Chroma OIII 31mm 3nm: 105x300" (8h 45') bin 2x2
Chroma SII 31mm 3nm: 85x300" (7h 5') bin 2x2
Integration: 21h 10'
Avg. Moon age: 3.73 days
Avg. Moon phase: 14.95%

Full image and starless image on https://astrob.in/44ya6y/0/

Comet Leonard as seen from Chile
www.mattdieterich.com
Copyright: Matt Dieterich

Nights under the galactic core



Nights under the galactic core by Andres Molina, on Flickr

Composition sky and ground 07/08/2021

Gear:
Canon EOS 70D + YN50mm f/1.4 lens
Celestron Nexstar SE mount
Image:
53x30s ISO 1600 +1x30s ISO 1600 for background
50Bias 35 Darks 30 Flats
Calibration and process Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC 2022

Mathieu80 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 8:25 am ngc6888_Lrvb by Mathieu Guinot, sur Flickr

Hi all !

Here is the famous NGC6188 Fighting dragons of Ara.
LRGB processing from a free data set provided by Deep Sky West remote observatory and taken with Takahashi TOA150 and FLI ML16200 camera.
Exposure : 20h15

Best regards,

Mathieu

This is an exceedingly lovely image. The details are beautiful, and the colors are superb.

Thank you!

Ann

Davor wrote: ↑Mon Dec 20, 2021 8:49 pm Real Star!

Each of the following movie stars owes its name (or surname) to real stars, so I decided to represent them using tens of thousands of shots taken of their relative stars.
Using an Askar FMA180 on an Az-GTi, shooting with the QHY163C and the L-Pro filter, from the city of Brescia (Italy), with a Bortle 7 sky, I shot, in their real colors, three very famous stars, Sirio, Betelgeuse and Vega.
Blurring the focus slightly, I captured thousands of frames with SharpCap, saving them directly in TIFF and then converting, cropping and debayerizing them with PIPP, and then feeding them to AndreaMosaic for the final composition.
Each single dot is unique and is not repeated, but above all it shows the original colors of the star, they have not been altered in any way.
Filming (in groups of a few thousand at a time) was all carried out in the night between 19 and 20 December 2021.
Although each portrait is made up of around 10,000 photographs, many more were taken to make sure the dots were all different and to cover most of the dynamic range, shooting with different exposures (for nuances) for a total of 58628 shots and 32 GB of data!

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That's a neat idea! I like it! And I appreciate the work that went into it.

Ann

C/2021 A1 (Leonard)　DEC.28,
This Image was taken with ASA inch f3.6 &FLI ML16200 CCD/ SSO remote observatory from Japan
http://miki-hosp.or.jp/BIND/
Copyright: Nobuhiko Miki

Milky Way in SHO and HaRGB
http://www.woodlandsobservatory.com/
Copyright: Alistair Symon The two Milky Way images shown are each large mosaics taken through H-alpha, SII and OII (top image) and H-alpha, R, G, B filters (bottom image). In total there are 216 panels and over 2200 hours of data collection. This image is best viewed in high resolution here:
http://www.woodlandsobservatory.com/Two ... ys2021.htm

The dark dusts of Taurus subtly iluminated by stars

A typical astrophotographic fall-winter classic - the California Nebula, Pleiades and countless amounts of dust on the border of the constellations of Taurus and Perseus, subtly illuminated by bright stars, with the super-bright Aldebaran just behind the lower right corner of the frame. The material collected during the last two nights of the October trip to the Bieszczady Mountains.
2-frame mosaic - 54x120s (top) and 63x120s (bottom), Samyang 135/2 and a modified Nikon D610. Place - eastern Carpathans / Poland

Credit: Ireneusz Nowak
Astrobin location of the full size picture: https://www.astrobin.com/full/z2m3we/0/
Author Astrobin link: https://www.astrobin.com/users/iro/

NGC 7538
Ha/OIII/RGB

Nick Pavelchak
https://www.astrobin.com/cac4vr/

Trajectory of JWST in Orion from the Czech Republic
www.bardon.cz
Copyright: Zdenek Bardon
http://www.bardon.cz/upload/gallery/ori ... rdon21.jpg

Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) captured on December 24th and 25th 2021.
https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/bf-_UxX ... UALzhf.png

The image shows a direct comparison of the activity of the comet only one day apart. We can clearly see the material being ejected and the action of solar winds carrying it away, distorting the shape of its tail.

Site: Itararé - SP - Brazil (Bortle2/3)
Gear:
Takahashi FSQ-85EDX
ZWO ASI1600MM Pro
ZWO LRGB Filters
EQ6-R Pro

EXIF:
57' 45" on December 24th ( L: 14x60" + 7x5"; RGB: 42x60" + 21x5")
54' 20" on December 25th (L: 7x120" + 12x60" + 16x5"; RGB: 27x60")

Still image and an animation if requested of The James Webb Space Telescope cruising along to its destination on December 29th. Several hours ago it deploy and unfolded the Forward Unitized Pallet Structure (UPS) of its vast sunshield. Now the next key steps will be to unfold the Deployable Tower Assembly, release the sunshield cover and begin unfurling the sunshield itself on the 31st. (LX200ACF 305mm OTA, F6.7, CGE Mount, ASI183m Pro Cmos.)

JWST Out Past The Moon by Blake Estes, on Flickr

The JWST continues to be visible well out past the moon even with its sun shield partially deployed. Its distance at the time of the last image was approximately 390,000 miles.

Equipment:
Planewave 17" CDK
FLI 16803 using Luminance filter
Planewave Ascension A200HR mount
4x600 sec exposures
Siding Spring Observatory

NGC 3293 SHO by Mathieu Guinot, sur Flickr

Hi all!

Here is the famous and beautiful open cluster NGC 3293 in the Carina constellation.

The HSO filters allow to show the amazing emission region in which it is located, which looks like a cosmic painting (remembered me the fabulous IC 5068 region).

I tried to give a natural tint to the stars, although RGB exposures would have been better and maybe i will add it later!

Data from Telescope Live (6h10 Bundle set from 6 one click observations) taken from March to July 2021 with CHI-1 telescope at El Sauce Observatory, Chile
Processing : Mathieu Guinot

CDK24
Camera FLI PL9000
S : 13x600s
H : 12x600s
O : 12x600s

Hope you like it and happy end of year to all!

Mathieu Guinot

Hello folks here M45
Telescope: SharpStar 150 f2,8
Guide Scope:Evoguide
Mount : Skywatcher HEQ5
Imaging camera: ZWO 2600MC
Guiding camera: ZWO 290 MC
Filters: Lpro
Plate solving: SGpro
Imaging software: Sgpro
Guiding software: PHD2
Processing software: Pixinsight
Lpro180X60s exposure@100Gain
Integration: 3 hrs
Davide Mancini,Perth,Australia,28/12/2021
Copiright@Davide Mancini

A colorful cosmic rose: A collaboration of 110+ hours of data from three continents by William Ostling, on Flickr

Full version: https://theastroenthusiast.com/wp-conte ... otated.png
Starless version: https://theastroenthusiast.com/wp-conte ... osette.png
I highly recommend opening the full version to take a closer look at some of the finer details revealed by the large integration time. A starless copy is also provided to show off fainter detail.

This incredibly detailed image of the Rosette nebula was created from more than 110 hours of exposure across three continents — Europe, USA, and Oceania. We combined 1064 subframes and 6791 minutes of exposure to reveal faint details previously masked by lower amounts of data. The high exposure time also allowed us to sharpen fine features, giving the image more contrast and revealing more fine structures.

On the top of the image lies a wispy structure of bok globules and dust, framed by the glowing ionized gas behind it. The center of the image displays the faint particle streams created by sulfur and oxygen gas blown away from the bright cluster of stars. Just below the center of the rosette nebula lies a beautiful mountain-like structure created by sulfur and hydrogen gas. Through the center of the image, faint wisps of glowing sulfer gas are visible above the dominant oxygen gas.


Credits:

Image Acquisition: Jens Unger (https://www.instagram.com/jazz.astro/), Rob Olson (https://www.instagram.com/the.robservatory/), Dominic Annis (https://www.instagram.com/domnuch/), Justin P. (https://www.instagram.com/justadudewitha_camera_/), Amrit Prasad (https://www.instagram.com/amrit.insta/), Tommy Lease (https://www.instagram.com/colorado_astro/), Jay Aigner (https://www.instagram.com/aignerastro/)

Image Processing: William Ostling (https://theastroenthusiast.com/), Justin P. (https://www.instagram.com/justadudewitha_camera_/)

We would love to have you in our astrophotography group! The link to join is in our Instagram bio: https://www.instagram.com/friendly.cosmos/

Messier 77

M77 is a barred spiral galaxy and one of the largest galaxies in the Messier catalog. It is located in the constellation Cetus at an approximate distance of 45 million light-years from Earth.

Total exposure: 23hours
Location: Georgetown Texas

Thor's Helmet by Blake Estes, on Flickr

This is an RGBHOO image totaling 10.3 hours of exposure.

Details are:
PlaneWave CDK20
Planewave Ascension A200HR
SBIG STX-16803
Astrodon 50mm Gen3 square filters R,G,B,Ha, OIII
R: 5x600s
G: 4x600s
B: 5x600s
Ha: 9x1800s
OIII: 7x1800s
Siding Spring Observatory
Taken over multiple nights

Happy New Year guys,i did finish it with IC434
Telescope: SharpStar 150 f2,8
Guide Scope:Evoguide
Mount : Skywatcher HEQ5
Imaging camera: ZWO 2600MC
Guiding camera: ZWO 290 MC
Filters: NBZ Idas
Plate solving: SGpro
Imaging software: Sgpro
Guiding software: PHD2
Processing software: Pixinsight
NBZ: 120X120s exposure @100Gain
Integration: 4 hrs
Davide Mancini,Perth,Australia,30/12/2021
Copiright@Davide Mancini
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/189096298 ... ed-public/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/da_ma_astro/

atomo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 2:54 pm Hello folks here M45
Telescope: SharpStar 150 f2,8
Guide Scope:Evoguide
Mount : Skywatcher HEQ5
Imaging camera: ZWO 2600MC
Guiding camera: ZWO 290 MC
Filters: Lpro
Plate solving: SGpro
Imaging software: Sgpro
Guiding software: PHD2
Processing software: Pixinsight
Lpro180X60s exposure@100Gain
Integration: 3 hrs
Davide Mancini,Perth,Australia,28/12/2021
Copiright@Davide Mancini

Click to view full size image

Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/189096298 ... ed-public/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/da_ma_astro/