Starship Asterisk*

Earth Hour 2013 in Paris
http://astrophotography.fr/
Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne I've also made a panoramic view Higher resolution : http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/ ... PARIS1.jpg

gif : http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/earthhourgif.gif

And a short time lapse : http://youtu.be/XapAqmCk6c8

5 photographies with smartphone overlapped.

NGC 3132 - The Southern Ring Nebula
http://www.waid-observatory.com
Copyright: Donald Waid
[attachment=1]NGC3132-2013-03-23-HLA-0715.jpg[/attachment]

Zodiacal Beam
http://www.astroarn.com
Copyright: Robert Arn
[attachment=2]Zodiacal Beam.jpg[/attachment]

NGC4631 The Whale Galaxy
http://www.astro-fotos.com
Copyright: Dirk Bautzmann
[attachment=0]whale.jpg[/attachment]

Here is a bi-color processing of Arp 81.

Small with description:
http://www.waid-observatory.com/arp081- ... 4-HLA.html Click on the images to view higher resolutions.

Best,

Don Waid
http://www.waid-observatory.com

M1 - Crab Nebula (narrowband)
http://jeffjastro.com/dso/M1_1Dec12.htm
Copyright: Jeffrey O. Johnson
[attachment=0]jeff.jpg[/attachment]
http://jeffjastro.com/dso/M1_1Dec12_web.jpg

Lagoon Nebula revisited

here are two Versions of some Date i took in Namibia in 2011. A HaLRGB and a standard Hubble Palette Version of M8.

[attachment=1]frank1.jpg[/attachment]
http://astrophotocologne.de/astrophotoc ... _Final.jpg
http://astrophotocologne.de/astrophotoc ... _Small.jpg


[attachment=0]frank2.jpg[/attachment]
http://astrophotocologne.de/astrophotoc ... e_2012.jpg
http://astrophotocologne.de/astrophotoc ... _Small.jpg

CS Frank

IC 4592 - the Blue Horsehead Nebula
http://www.astronomersdoitinthedark.com/
Copyright: Scott Rosen
[attachment=2]IC4592-200-450D-NoFilt-400-2013-0315-0316--70x300--2048x.jpg[/attachment]

Young stars in the open star cluster NGC 2547
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1316/
Copyright: ESO
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=31033
[attachment=3]eso1316a.jpg[/attachment]

Venus Vortices
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 152140.htm
Copyright: ESA/VIRTIS/INAF-IASF/Obs. de Paris-LESIA/Universidad del País Vasco (I. Garate-Lopez)
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=31022
[attachment=1]130324152140-large.jpg[/attachment]

Tiger Stripes: The Icy Jets of Enceladus
http://lucyweststudios.com
Copyright: Lucy West
[attachment=0]Lucy West_Tiger Stripes_The Icy Jets of Enceladus 600h.jpg[/attachment]

M81 - Bode's Galaxy
http://jeffjastro.com/dso/M81_13Feb13.htm
Copyright: Jeffrey O. Johnson

M101 - Pinwheel Galaxy
Full-size/details: http://jeffjastro.com/dso/M101_13Feb13.htm
Copyright: Jeffrey O. Johnson (http://jeffjastro.com)

NGC 4395
21 hours LRGB, the very faint Galaxy in Canes Venatici
Copyright: Patrick Hochleitner + Dieter Beer
Mouseover for lager view: http://www.photonhunter.at

http://www.starhopper.at

Thanks for viewing Patrick + Dieter

THE MOON CLOUDS
Waxing Gibbous,90.2% - 03.23.2013 - Champagne Ardenne, France
© VegaStarCarpentier
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... 585837694/

M42 and NGC1977
http://digilander.libero.it/saurodonati/index.htm
Sauro Donati

Comet Panstarrs over the lighthouse Kermorvan at le Conquet. (Brittany, France)
Canon 6D, tamron 70 200, 2.5s, 3200 iso, f2.8
Alexandre Croisier

Beijing is not a good place for comets, however its atmosphere is still ok for moonlight. Being frustrated in looking for the L4 comet at downtown, an airplane flew over the moon just in front of my lens gave me some comfort.
The full moon tonight is just beautiful.

Hi Res version at http://www.nightoverontario.com/Astrono ... &lb=1&s=X3
Data from the Hubble Legacy Archive established by the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre.
Thanks for looking
Cheers
Lynn

The Pinwheel Galaxy M101
Copyright: Terry Hancock
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhanco ... hotostream

Occultation of Spica
Copyright: Chanakan Santikunaporn

http://500px.com/photo/29492115

M31
http://digilander.libero.it/saurodonati/index.htm
Sauro Donati

Object: NGC 2074 - 10 August 2008
FITS data obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA).
Seahorse of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)
Processing by: Steven Marx Click to view Original FULL scale image

Centaurus A galaxy as imaged from Tivoli farm in Namibia.

Larger version can be seen here:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/149409991

Thanks for looking!

Kfir Simon

A cropped version of the previous image.

Large version:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/149409996

Kfir Simon

NGC 2170
http://astrofotografie-hess.heimat.eu/g ... newton.htm
Copyright: Rochus Hess

Stargazers

Copy Right: Sergio Montúfar

Lagoon Nebula
http://astrophotocologne.de/astrophotoc ... ommen.html
Copyright: Frank Sackenheim
[attachment=6]lagoon.jpg[/attachment]

Valles Marineris
http://spaceinimages.esa.int/Images/201 ... _Marineris
Copyright: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
[attachment=5]Valles_Marineris_node_full_image.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 7822
http://www.atlasastronomia.com/
Copyright: César Blanco González
[attachment=1]NGC 7822.jpg[/attachment]

M13
http://www.astrophoto.es
http://www.astrosurf.com/jordigallego/
Copyright: Jordi Gallego
[attachment=4]m13.jpg[/attachment]

Aurora Borealis
http://www.astrofotografen.se
Copyright: Göran Strand M64
http://www.martinpughastrophotography.id.au/
Copyright: Martin Pugh
[attachment=3]M64.jpg[/attachment]

W3 GMC
http://universe.utoronto.ca/
Copyright: ESA/PACS & SPIRE consortium, A. Rivera-Ingraham and P. G. Martin, University of Toronto, HOBYS Key Programme (F. Motte)
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=31034
[attachment=2]W3.jpeg[/attachment]

Markarian's Chain
http://bf-astro.com
Copyright: Bob Franke
[attachment=0]markariansChain.jpg[/attachment]

http://www.ried-sternwarte.de
Copyright: Vladimir Rau http://ried-sternwarte.de/Internet/NGC281-4


Kind regards,
Vladimir Rau