Starship Asterisk*

M11 The Wild Duck Cluster with a Scutum star cloud background:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12801949@N02/9252430933/

The Cygnus Wall in HaRGB (updated)
Copyright: André van der Hoeven - http://www.astro-photo.nl

High resolution HaRGB (8Mp)

NGC 7000 is also known as the North America Nebula with the so called Gulf of Mexico. In this area the Cygnus Wall can be found. This part is the Mexican and Middle American part of the Nebula. It’s one of the most interesting parts of the nebula because this is a region of active star formation. Very near to the Wall a dark area (the Gulf of Mexico) can be seen that consist mainly of cold gas and dust, the ingredients for new stars. The wall actually is an ionization front where UV light from young stars ionize the cold hydrogen gas and make it glow in its typical red color.

Telescope: TEC-140
Camera: QSI-583
Mount: NEQ-6

6 x 1800 s H-alpha (3nm astrodon)
4 x 600 s R,G,B (astrodon gen 2 true RGB)

Total exposure time: 5 hours

Until now this is my finest image concerning the star colors and sizes I think...

Iris Nebula (NGC 7023)
Copyrights: James Collins Witch's Broom Nebula (NGC 6960)
Copyrights: Robert Fields Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon
Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute)
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=31730

Moon Rays
copyright: Robert Malinowski
Moon Ray passing through Kalahaku Overlook, Haleakala crater Maui from inside the Crater's floor 2384ft below
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66085839@N02/9304821636/

Title
NGC6888 Crescent Nebula + The Soap Bubble Nebula

Larger Image URl:
http://jimstar11.com/NGC6888_apod.jpg
Copyright: James Collins

Website: Meadow View Observatory
http://jimstar11.com

From the Crescent to Sadr 9 Panel mosaic with a DSLR to get this. 1200 miles of driving involved.
Copyright: Dan Watt
http://www.pocketrubbish.com/ap/?p=481

Northern Lights in Laurentides Wildlife Reserve ( 70km north Québec city, Canada) taken on 15 july 2013.
This picture is one of the 455 photos taken to create a time lapse that you can find here:


for more images of july 2013 auroras , it's here http://www.pbase.com/dominiccantin/juillet2013

Dom

Hi all
this is an image made whit a small astrophoto setup.

Instruments : GSO Newton 8" f/5
Imageurs: Canon EOS 350D / No filter
Montures: Sky-Watcher EQ6 Syntreck
Instruments de guidage: GSO Viewfinder 8X50
Caméras de guidage: Orion SSAG
Réducteurs/correcteurs de focale: TS Koma Korrektor
Filtres: Astronomik clsccd clip2


Dates: 9 juillet 2013, 10 juillet 2013, 11 juillet 2013, 12 juillet 2013, 13 juillet 2013, 15 juillet 2013

157 subs:
17x300" ISO800
Astronomik CLS CCD Filter: 110x300" ISO800
Astronomik CLS CCD Filter: 30x480" ISO800

Intégration: 14.6 Hour

Full resolution : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/385 ... 2_edit.jpg

Sharpless 155
http://www.astrobin.com/users/pilou/
Copyright: Frederic Segato

Messier 27, the Dumbbell Nebula in Vulpecula the fox. Taken using narrowband filters, Ha and Oiii taken on the evening of 7/2/13. 10 frames each, Ha & Oiii, Ha mapped to red, Oiii to green and blue equally. Taken with a 6" Newtonian.

TeaPot, the centre of Milky Way and 8 Messier objects:
M7, M8, M20, M22, M28, M54, M69 &M70

PK164 +31.1 / Jones-Emberson 1

http://istarion.net/index.html
Copyright: Matts Sporre
Details at http://istarion.net/Picturepages/Nebulas/PK164.shtml

BR
Matts

NGC5128 - The Hamburger Galaxy

http://istarion.net/index.html
Copyright: Matts Sporre
http://www.istarion.net/images/Galaxies ... -1280C.jpg
Details at http://istarion.net/Picturepages/Galaxi ... 5128.shtml

BR
Matts

NGC4038/NGC4039 - The Antennea Galaxies

http://istarion.net/index.html
Copyright: Matts Sporre
http://www.istarion.net/images/Galaxies ... -1280C.jpg
Details at http://istarion.net/Picturepages/Galaxi ... 4039.shtml

A mighty collision If you live long enough the same thing is believed to happen to the Milky Way and Andromeda.....

BR
Matts

"The Land of Fairy Tales"

© Vittorio Poli - http://www.vittoriopoli.com
The small town where I live (Conco, Asiago plateau, Italy) shrouded in fog, image taken from an altitude of about 1000 meters a.s.l. -Mount Bertiaga- (5 December 2011).
Camera: Sony Alpha 200
Lens: Sigma 70-300 APO

This photograph is a single shot (no composite pictures!)

Rho Ophiuchi
Copyright: Rafael Defavari
http://500px.com/rafaeldefavari


Click to view full size image

Taken from Gonçalves, Brazil. Technical details: http://www.astrobin.com/48670/

Full resolution image attached (6MB)

Caption: Rho Oph. I decided to try another version of what I sent yesterday. I added a bit more red into this.
Copyright: Albert Barr
Caption: M13 The Hercules Cluster
Copyright: Ezequiel Etcheverry
Caption: Sunday's Scorcher.
Copyright: Alan Friedman
Caption: an image that I got last week during my stay at the Algonquin Radio Observatory. We got blessed with clear skies and the second day, some northern lights!
Copyright: Wesley Liikane

Caption: three panoramas of the southern sky containing Saturn, for APOD. The first one was from Assos near Çanakkale, Turkey; the other two were from Uludag National Park near Bursa, Turkey.
Copyright: Tunç Tezel

Caption: Horse Head nebula and M42. This is an image I took last year but now I added the Ha chanel. This is the final result, with the Ha cannel added to a RGB, for a total of 3 hour 45 minutes exposure time. Taken from Tenerife with a Sky90 and a SBIG STL11000.
Copyright: Carlos Vàsquez

Caption: Images of gas cloud being ripped apart by the black hole at the centre of the galaxy
Story link: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1332/
Copyright: ESO’s Very Large Telescope
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 80#p203395

Doing this more of a test to see if I can actually post an image on this page rather than anything else
Here is Carbon star V Aquilae - Copyright Prof. Greg Parker

http://www.newforestobservatory.com/wor ... ae_nfo.jpg

The Swan and its neighbors

Copyright: Maria Rosa Vila

http://imageshack.us/a/img153/9650/r3nm.jpg I took this image of the Cygnus constellation last week in the French Pyrenees. With the bright star Deneb in the swan's tail, appears high in the summer sky along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Its brightest stars mark the Northern Cross and the three bright stars Deneb, Vega (in the constellation of Lyra), and Altair (in the constellation of Aquila) mark the Summer Triangle. I had a fun time pointing to in the picture each one of the stars of the constellation and its neighbors.

An updated to my image post here few hour ago . M42 and Horse Head Nebula HaRGB 60-60-55-50 to a total of 3 hour 45 minutes of total image time. Taking in Tenerife at 2296 meters with a Takahaski Sky90 and a STL11000. Carlos Luis Vázquez Darias

SAO 69360 an S-type star in Cygnus: Lower left you can see part of NGC 6871.
Copyright Prof. Greg Parker

An early dawn startrail image taken at Lake Balaton, at the harbour of Alsóörs, on 18-07-2013 while I was waiting for Mars and Jupiter to emerge above the boats.
A very light breeze was slowly moving the sailboats so the result of the image became this dynamic but still calm pic. Stars began to fade into the brightening dawn, the lake reflected the purple and blue colours, the boats and their masts reflected the streetlights at the coastline creating a golden-orange curtain above the boats.
Copyright: Monika Landy-Gyebnar

Lobster tastes better with Lemmon
Copyright: Terry Hancock
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhanco ... /lightbox/
Captured over 2 nights, the 14th and 15th July, I was oblivious to the fact that Comet Lemmon was visiting this neighborhood, when I processed this at first I thought I had captured aircraft lights.
So much happening in this barrage of a cosmic garden with the M52 Cluster (top center) The Bubble Nebula NGC7635 (left of center), the emission and reflection nebula NGC7538 (lower central area) and Sharpless 157 or otherwise known as The Lobster Claw Nebula (bottom left) and Comet Lemmon in the upper right. I created a time lapse video showing the movement of Comet Lemmon during this capture which can be seen here http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/9316082493/
Total Exposure time 8.5 hours