Starship Asterisk*

Libration
URL: http://www.radiocluj.ro/blog/messzelato/a-libraciorol
Copyright: Pál VÁRADI NAGY
Short description: Two images taken on March 14th and 17th demonstrate lunar libration. The disks were made the same size.

Road to Terlingua
http://www.highfieldmedia.com
Copyright: Andrew Takano
Description: The Moon setting at around 4AM in Big Bend National Park. Lacking any sky glow to wash out the colors, the scattered moonlight looks as brilliant as a sunset.

ccdbalkon wrote:Three new structures at M 51 / NGC 5198 / NGC 5173
http://www.deepskywonders.com/
http://www.balkonsternwarte.de/Neu2013/index.htm
Copyright: Dr.M.Straube / Dr.A.Sischka / M.Wenge / O.Schneider
combining imaging data from three telescopes to get over 50 hrs. bring up new structures at M 51 and two new structures into the
camera field around Messier 51
Overview

New structures at M 51

New structures at NGC 5198 and NGC 5173

This is a very impressive and unexpected result! There must be lots of these tidal streams associated with many galaxies if you go deep enough. Is this part of the TBG group?

jthommes wrote:Skull and Crossbones - NGC 2467 / Sharpless 311
Star forming region

Webpage and links to Hi Res image -
http://www.jthommes.com/Astro/NGC2467.htm

Click to view full size image

I've never understood why this nebula isn't considered to be popular! There are very few detailed images and yours is certainly one of the best amateur images of this often overlooked southern gem! I would love to see a HaOIIIRGB composite of this by someone like Don Goldman.

The Moon & Its Color

Link to Homepage and further description: http://www.astrofreunde-franken.de/mond.html
Copyright: Claus-Dieter Müller (myself)
Description:

Our Moon: The satellite of the earth is only the fifth largest moon in our solar system. It has a diameter of about 3476 km. To this day he is the only foreign celestial body a man has ever set foot. Nevertheless, there is much that can be explored on the moon. The surface structure of the moon is made of craters, mountains and lowlands. Between the highest point and the lowest point of the Moon are approximately 16,000 m difference in height. Most craters caused by asteroid impacts. Since the invention of the telescope the intensive observation and exploration of the Moon began, which continues to this day.


Thanks for looking.
Kind regards
Claus-Dieter Müller

NGC 6992 Eastern Veil in Cygnus
http://www.elfirmamento.com
Copyright: Manuel Fernandez. Infrared Observatory (Leon, Spain).
Narrowband image in SHO palette, whit an exposure of 22 hours.
Higher resolution and data:
http://www.elfirmamento.com/galeria/ngc ... n_big.html

Mars on march 17th, 04:46ut. At the North Polar Cap Chasma Boreale is visible (Bot), Acidalia planitia (mid-tp), Capri Chasma (bot) and Terra Meridani (L) on the limb misty frost over Hellas Planitia. North at bottom.

SPARKLING CLUSTERS IN CARINA
(NGC3324, NGC3293)
http://www.pleiades.hu/en/index.php
Copyright: Lóránd Fényes

High resolution: http://www.pleiades.hu/en/galeria/kozmo ... mal/68.jpg

Full Panorama from Neuschwanstein Castle at Night



The first quarter moon was next to the open star cluster of the Hyades this March 7th.
The bavarian castle of Neuschwanstein is extremely bright illuminated. Most of this artificial
light however, does not hit the building. Light and Energy is wasted directly into the night sky,
the classic form of light pollution.

More images at http://www.allthesky.com/nightscapes/ne ... stein.html.

Till Credner, AlltheSky.com

Red Moon
Copyright: Dario Giannobile
http://www.dariogiannobile.com

Double exposure 0,5 sec for the moon
30 sec for the seascape

canon 7d, 500 mm f6.3 iso 800

for any user: Any use of the image is not allowed unless you contact me first

Small Magellanic Cloud
Copyrights: Lorand Fenyes Full Moon
Copyrights: Mohamed Laaifat Carina Nebula
Copyrights: Rich Hammar Full Moon
Copyrights: Ajay Talwar The Rosette Nebula (NGC2244) Under A Full Moon
Copyrights: Terry Hancock Full Moon over Madrid
Copyrights: Dani Caxete
Worm Moon in the Lighthouse
Copyrights: Miguel Claro

A disturbed spiral galaxy and an elliptical with shells....
A field with the SBCc galaxy NGC 3642 and it´s heavily disturbed external arm..and the elliptical galaxy NGC 3610 ... showing shells all around and some details ..not just the ellipse form. . The bottom is plenty of little galaxy points...



Biggest resolution and more information at: http://afesan.es/Deepspace/slides/NGC%2 ... or%29.html

Clear skies,¡

sundog http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 05#p222505
happy equinox!

f.lorand wrote:SPARKLING CLUSTERS IN CARINA
(NGC3324, NGC3293)
http://www.pleiades.hu/en/index.php
Copyright: Lóránd Fényes

High resolution: http://www.pleiades.hu/en/galeria/kozmo ... mal/68.jpg

lorand_fenyes_ngc3324_apod.jpg

Holy Schmidt! That is incredible! I have never seen the reflection nebula around NGC 3293 so clearly before!

NGC 6946
Copyrights: Martin Pugh March Moon
Copyrights: Moses Penalosa Sanz and SC Celestron CPC925 Telescope team Star trails
Copyrights: Moses Penalosa Sanz and SC Celestron CPC925 Telescope team Orion's belt/Orion's sword
Copyrights: Giovanni Paglioli
Full size: http://www.flickr.com/photos/astrojohnn ... otostream/ Sparkling Open Cluster NGC 3293
Copyrights: Lorand Fenyes Hubble revisits the Monkey Head Nebula for 24th birthday snap
Image credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
More: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1406/ Dust in Octans Mel 227
Copyrights: Leonardo Julio 4 Seasons of Lake Venus
Copyrights: Tunc Tezel

Inadvertent Lovejoy
Copyrights: Charles L. Hakes NGC363 & NGC3576
Copyrights: Steven Mohr Zodiacal light from Mauna Kea
Copyrights: Roland Christen Rising and setting Full Moon
Copyrights: Rhea Simics Moon Haiku
Copyrights: E Stanley NGC 6992
Copyrights: Manuel Fernandez Suarez Herschel completes largest survey of cosmic dust in local universe
Copyright ESA/Herschel/HRS-SAG2 and HeViCS Key Programmes/Sloan Digital Sky Survey/ L. Cortese (Swinburne University)
An article: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space ... l_Universe

NGC 3504
Copyrights: Adam Block Taurus Molecular Cloud
Copyrights: Adam Block NASA Releases First Interactive Mosaic of Lunar North Pole
Image Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University
An article: http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/march/na ... ytiN6h_tps Moon and Mars
Copyrights: Mohamed Laaifat Mars meets the Moon over church in Östersund
Copyrights: Göran Strand Seven MAGICal Sisters
Copyrights: Miguel Claro Mars 2014.03.19 UT 00.06
Copyrights: Alessandro Bianconi ChangAn Street Sunrise
Copyrights: Haiying Chen

Stars at Sunrise.
Copyright: Charles Hakes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/97737937@N04/13217292193/
This was a frame near the end of an overnight time lapse that had too many clouds. It started clearing off near dawn and these clouds showed up nicely with the stars in the background.


Stars at sunrise by hakescl, on Flickr

Not quite a Tatooine Sunset

A layer of fog above the Pacific Ocean refracts the light in such a way that for a short time two distinct images of the setting sun are visible: a bright yellow one, and below that a dimmer reddish-orange one. Seen from Ridgecrest Boulevard on Mount Tamalpais, Marin County, California.


Not quite a Tatooine Sunset by fksr, on Flickr

Yesterday the weather was beautiful allowing to enjoy a very fine sunset in Thessaloniki Greece. The road shown in the picture is called Nikolaou Germanou and it is aligned exactly on the East-West axis ending at the White Tower, a national monument and a landmark of the city itself. Spring is here at the Northern hemisphere and we can enjoy nature's starting to blossom everywhere!

Mars on March 20th, 04:33ut, 05:37ut. ( 3D like - Cross Your Eyes Method ) Hellas with two bulge dense clouds (lower R) Misty clouds throughout the limbs and dense clouds over Syrtis Major (R) and the north polar hood getting is smaller from the seasonal changes. North is up. (LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE Mount, Flea3 Ccd, TeleVue 3x Barlows, Astronomik RGB filters set. 1 min. per Chnl.

IC2177 Seagull

Una muy justa conjunción Luna - Saturno, tomada el 20 de marzo de 2014
Carlos Di Nallo

NGC1333 reprocessed
2013, October.
Crimea, Ukraine.
HiRes photo: http://olegbr.astroclub.kiev.ua/files/a ... 013_v3.jpg
Copyright: Oleg Bryzgalov

Equinox Sunset with Green Flash
March 20th, 2014 at the Golden Gate in California.


Equinoxe Sunset with a Green Flash by fksr, on Flickr