Starship Asterisk*

Hi Bob Anderson,
Beauty of an image, M-31. It's amazing what narrowband filtering can do for the brightest objects - brings out all the detail in the arms. Thanks for the submission.
Steve

Curiosity: Between Two Worlds
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tjblackwell/7819341478/
TJ Blackwell (including Creative Commons/Public Domain material) This image can be found in original resolution online at this address:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tjblackwel ... hotostream

This digital composite is a tribute to Curiosity, uniting Earth and Mars across a cosmic divide of over 350 million miles. I've been hooked by all the developments from Curiosity ever since watching footage about the "Seven Minutes of Terror", where the rover loses communication with its operators during atmospheric entry and must complete a flawless automated landing sequence, following meticulously coded software commands and a breathtaking array of technical wizardry. Personally speaking, the most compelling images from the surface of Mars are not ones which look "alien", as such, but the views which portray landscapes familiar to what we see here on Earth. When you look at the rover panoramas and find scenes akin to arid rocky regions of our own planet, it seems to underscore our place in the cosmos and reify these distant words which have been hitherto seen only as ethereal specks of light through the lenses of telescopes.

During development and pre-launch testing, NASA's interplanetary vehicles are often put through their paces in rocky desert areas such as Nevada, Arizona and Chile, as the geology of these regions matches the sort of extraterrestrial terrain the robot will be encountering on its far-flung travels. I looked into my archives and found a photograph of the Arizona desert (seen here on the left hand side, taken when approaching the New Mexico border) which was not unlike some of the pictures that Curiosity has been sending back from its new home in Gale Crater.

The right half of this composite is a genuine shot from the surface of Mars which the rover captured a couple of weeks ago on August 8th. (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/m ... color.html). I have montaged NASA's CGI rendering of the parachute deceleration and rocket-powered descent stage in order to better illustrate the landing.

The graphic of the actual rover is courtesy of Jet Propulsion Laboratory and its original version can be found here: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/overview/. Thanks also go to Canadian Astronomy for their shot of Curiosity's launch, taken whilst the vehicle escaped orbit by riding 285,000 pounds of of thrust aboard an Atlas 5 rocket in November 2011.

Moon, Mars and Saturn
http://www.emilivanov.com/Other_Images/ ... Saturn.htm
Copyright: Emil Ivanov

Iris Nebula (NGC 7023) and Ghosts (VdB 141)

[attachment=0]vi100.jpg[/attachment]
http://s3.amazonaws.com/astrobin_images ... 2d3fe6.jpg

Telescope: TSAPO65Q
Camera: QHY9M
L=17x1200"
RGB= 6x600"

I took this image at AstroAyna StarParty in Spain.

IC1805/Melotte15
http://www.astrofoto-hamburg.de
Copyright: Volker Umland Image taken in Hamburg/Germany
Ha 37 x 12 Min.
OIII 20 x 30 Min.

The Pelican Nebula
Copyright: Antonio Figueroa
[attachment=0]Figueroa_pelican.jpg[/attachment]
http://www.espacioprofundo.com.ar/foros ... mage/32562

Star Trails over the Nullarbor Plain
http://www.astro-photo.net/jpg/nullarbo ... _large.jpg
Copyright: Grahame Kelaher
[attachment=4]starrystarry_kelaher.jpg[/attachment]

Star Fire
http://ciliceastro.blogspot.com/2012/08/star-fire.html
Copyright: Carl Larson Venus-Jupiter Conjunction
Copyright: Ulf Jonsson
[attachment=3]A_JUO3614-L.jpg[/attachment]

Mars, Saturn, Spica, and the Crescent Moon over Madison, WI
http://www.pbase.com/strangeghost/image/145544251
Copyright: John Rummel
[attachment=2]Rummel_conjunction.jpg[/attachment]

Moon, Spica, Mars, & Saturn
http://www.galacticimages.com
Copyright: John Chumack
[attachment=1]MoonSpicaMarsSaturnConj082112_ChumackLRweb.jpg[/attachment]

Dragon about to swallow Venus!
Copyright: Luis Eguren
[attachment=0]Dragon about to swallow Venus.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 6334 and NGC 6357 in Scorpius
http://www.philippemoussette.com
Copyright: Philippe Moussette
[attachment=4]NGC6334_NGC6357_20juil12_1.jpg[/attachment]

Quintet, NGC 7331, and Faint Fuzzes All over the Place
Copyright: Olly Penrice and Yves Van den Broek
[attachment=3]New-Quintetv2-HD.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 7008: Planetary Nebula in Cygnus
http://www.feraphotography.com/AM14/Ngc7008.html
Copyright: Bob and Janice Fera NGC 2841: Unbarred Spiral Galaxy in Ursa Major
Copyright and Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, data collection; Danny Lee Russell, processing
[attachment=2]NGC2841_HLA_Russell.jpg[/attachment]

Hotter than July
http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_p ... _july.html
Copyright: Alan Friedman
[attachment=1]Hotter than July.jpg[/attachment]

Pelican Nebula in Cygnus
http://torgheh.ir/en/
Copyright: Amir H. Abolfath
[attachment=0]Pelikan processed.jpg[/attachment]

Heart Nebula - IC 1805, Sh2-190 with a meteor passing through it.
It was shot during the period of the Perseid meteor shower, so it might be a perseid... but can't really say.

Copyright: Mihai Curtasu http://www.flickr.com/photos/27661823@N ... otostream/

Albireo
http://www.vadakcsillaga.hu/
Copyright: Tamas Abraham Details: http://www.vadakcsillaga.hu/mely_kettos/albireo.html

The Milky Way in Sagittarius

Copyright: Gianni Fardelli
http://www.facebook.com/gianni.fardelli

More like "Watch for Perseids"

Took me quite a few shots to get this the other night during my camp out during the Perseid meteor shower, but it finally paid off.

Canon 5DMKII
NIKKOR 24mm 2.8 with nikon adapter
ISO 3200 at 20 seconds




The Perseid Meteor shower is the best star show of the year. A fellow star gazer friend and I both love space and also happen to love photography, so we packed up our gear and headed to the best place to observe the night sky that we know of, Mt. Lemmon. We set up 2 different time-lapses and this was a frame from one of them. In the time-lapse it shows us and other stargazers sitting on the rock observing the Perseid Meteor Shower under the dark skies about 40 minutes out of Tucson in the Catalina Mountains. Unfortunately there was some cloud cover which limited our view, but we were still able to see an acceptable amount of shooting stars.

Because there were other observers using their flashlights in the area, I decided to add some light painting gestures to the shot here and there. The shot is of me holding my phone and doing a circle motion and it just happened to be perfect timing with the meteor going by above the tree.

The Photo was taken at 1:48 AM. The clouds are reflecting the city lights of Tucson, Arizona. I've also added a warmer temperature to the image, but not much.

Camera Details:

Canon 5D MK II
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L
20 Second exposure @ ISO-1600




"Road to the Moon, Venus, and Orion."

The Pillars of creation from Namibia,

http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/145596396

Imaged with the 16" f3.75 Dream Astrograph.
Apogee Alta U-16M camera.
HA-O3-RGB image
R-HA-O3 (mapped as RGB)
Ha - 40 min ,O3 - 30 min
RGB 10 minutes each

(Total of 1:40 HRS)

Imaged from Tivoli farm in Namibia June 2012.

Kfir Simon (Israel)

Cederblad 214 and NGC 7822 in Cepheus
http://astronomie-astrophotographie.fr
Copyright: François Bernier
[attachment=4]CED214-LRGB-1-17-08-2012.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 7217: Unbarred Spiral Galaxy in Pegasus
http://www.astronomie-hoefferhof.de/de/galerie/176.html
Copyright: Richard Müller


Pining for Starlight
http://blog.deepskycolors.com/archive/2 ... -Pine.html
Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo
[attachment=3]NightCone_Andreo.jpg[/attachment]

The Pleiades
http://cometografia.es
Copyright: José J. Chambó
[attachment=2]m45_120215_medium.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 7129 and NGC 7142 in Cepheus
http://www.astroconti.com
Copyright: Stefano Conti
[attachment=1]NGC-7129-l-LRGB-rid-rid.jpg[/attachment]

Aurora Sky
Copyright: Ulf Jonsson
[attachment=0]A_JUO3810-L1.jpg[/attachment]

Sharpless 2-82
http://www.astroimages.de
Copyright: Siggi Kohlert For imaging details and/or a bigger version please visit my website http://astroimages.de/en/gallery/SH2-82.html

I hope you enjoy the image

Cheers,
Siggi

Star Shepherd
20 frame pano from Bass Harbor Lighthouse - Acadia National Park, ME
http://www.jackfusco.com
Copyright: Jack Fusco

Cassiopea, Perseus, Andromeda ... and Perseids
http://carlosgr-astrophoto.blogspot.com.es
Copyright: Carlos Grillo Ramos More resolution: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KHh2GXI0FzQ/U ... bi3Med.jpg

Iron Sun

August 25, 2012, Full solar disk in Hydrogen Alpha. Imaged with a Lunt 100 Ha telescope double stacked with a 90mm Coronado external ha filter.
Jim lafferty
http://scopetrader.com/jimlafferty
Redlands, California

ISS passes over a Thunderstorm
Copyright Herbert Raab (http://www.flickr.com/photos/herbraab/)

Ths International Space Station (ISS) passes over a thunderstorm. Stars of the constallations Corona Borealis, Bootes and Canes Venatici are also visible above the clouds, many of them fading out as the clouds spread over the image during the exposure. The gap in the trail of the ISS is caused by the dark time between two of the 26 single shots (each of 30 seconds) that were stacked for this image.

ISS passes over a Thunderstorm by herbraab, on Flickr
(Click to view full size image)

M16 - The Eagle Nebula
For full res please click here:
http://stern-fan.de/Seiten/galerie_Bild ... nebel.html

Best Regards

Rolf Geissinger
http://www.stern-fan.de

NGC6888 The Crescent-Nebula
in the lower left, you will also find a relatively new planetary nebula called "Soap-Bubble-Nebula"

For full res please click here:
http://stern-fan.de/Seiten/galerie_Bild_NGC6888.html

Regards

Rolf Geissinger
http://www.stern-fan.de

NGC6888 The Crescent-Nebula in detail


For full res please click here:
http://stern-fan.de/Seiten/galerie_Bild ... etail.html

Regards

Rolf Geissinger
http://www.stern-fan.de

Jove
Copyright: Alessandro Bianconi
[attachment=5]JupOKALPO.jpg[/attachment]

22° Ice Halo
https://twitter.com/Wiseman4th/status/2 ... to/1/large
Copyright: Bill Wiseman
[attachment=4]halo_wiseman.jpg[/attachment]

IC 4628: Prawn Nebula in Scorpius
http://www.glitteringlights.com
Copyright: Marco Lorenzi
[attachment=3]IC4628_HaRGB_3000.jpg[/attachment]

Moon and Heaven
Copyright: Michael M.Schmid
[attachment=2]Half Moon 26 July 2012.jpg[/attachment]

Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex
http://www.astroeder.com/rho-oph_eder_en.html
Copyright: Iván Éder
[attachment=0]rho_oph_ederL.jpg[/attachment]

Northern Lights
Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado
[attachment=1]qalerallit.jpg[/attachment]

Mi pequeño homenaje a Neil Armstrong




Full size:

http://www.astrobin.com/full/18446/0/?mod=none&real=

Buen viaje Neil

hola a todos
os dejo algo del sol de hoy
como siempre los medios son
telescopio: PST
cámara: DMK31AU03.AS
y la lente de barlow que tiene el ocular de 13 mm. del HYPERION
son 400 frames por toma
procesado con registax 3
saludos
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http://i46.tinypic.com/ei1ehi.jpg