Starship Asterisk*

Moon and Mars Conjunction
http://www.carlosoruephotography.com
Copyright: Carlos Orue

Messier 13, The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules


My favorite object in the eyepiece, and it makes for a nice astrophotograph too I think. This is only 1.5 hours of data on a CCD with an f/3 RH-200 telescope. 3 minute subs, 10 per color channel. It shows what can be done from light polluted skies (much less a gibbous moon) with proper calibration... and a suitably bright target.

Richard S. Wright Jr.

A Star Cluster in the Wake of Carina
Credits: ESO
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1416/ Messier 51 Galaxy
Copyrights: Federico Pelliccia
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/96952/0/ Fata Morgana on May 14,2014
Copyrights: Mila Zinkova Saturn on April 15th
Copyrights: Damian Peach M101 the Pinwheel Galaxy
Copyrights: Bill Nguyen Shadow fighter jet
Copyrights: Dani Caxete Copernicus Impact Crater & Ejecta Rays
Copyrights: John Chumack

This wide field panorama, comprising of 25 images stitched together, was captured the 3rd of January 2014 at Goatshead Bluff, South Arm, in south eastern Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
It features a mild showing of the Aurora Borealis.
Despite being the peak of summer in Australia, southern Tasmania nights can get very low temperatures for Australia. I struggled to keep warm this night for the 6 hours that I sat on the craggy rocky outcrop hoping for a big spike in Aurora activity.
Captured with Canon 7D, Tokina 11mm-16mm Zoom at 11mm, f3.2, ISO 3200 and with a 31 seconds exposure.

Some pictures i made with a C11 at F7.7 in the Netherlands

M101
M63 Copyrights: Michael van Doorn - http://www.dutchastrocolors.com

Saturn and the moons Tethys (top-left) and Enceladus (left) on May 21st, 04:03ut. Under optimum conditions while it lasted. Disc shadow begining to appear at left of disk limb and the Ring shadow casted at the southern pole (bottom). ( LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, Flea3 Ccd, TeleVue 3x barlows, Astronomik LRGB filter set. 90 sec.per channel.)

The iris in the sky Link to full size image:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/andyinsea ... 0/sizes/o/

Comet C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS) near NGC 3726
Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov Irida Observatory More info and hi-res images on website

Dusty Iris nebula...

http://astrob.in/full/97403/0/
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RYQkJwP5-gQ/U ... SQ+red.jpg

http://fotoastro.blogspot.com.es/

April 18th
Location: San Romualdo - Ravenna (Italy)
Tecnosky Apo 130 on ASA DDM60PRO
Unguided image.
CCD QSI 520ws cooled -20
RGB Baader CCD filters
RGB: R 16x5min, G 15x2min, B 16x5min.
Acquired with: MaximDL5 - Dark, Bias and Flat subtract
Processed with: MaximDL5, AstraImage4 and Paint Shop ProX6

Best regards,
Cristina Cellini

Another M101 but now with Ha added.
Shot with a C11 at f7.7 in the Netherlands.
Copyrights: Michael van Doorn - http://www.dutchastrocolors.com

IC1396 The Elephant's Trunk Nebula

LRGB HA and OIII through the FSQ106ED.

Regards
Reinhold
http://www.wittich.com

Comet C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS) at NGC 3614
Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov Irida Observatory More info and hi-res images on website

iridiscence in taurus un mes de color 9/11 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 71#p226171

"Beauty of Nature"

Taken in Cañada de la Cruz, Murcia, Spain.

It's a unique image. 17mm ; 30'' expo ; F/5 ; ISO 10.000.

Higher resolution: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/499 ... kyway1.jpg

Our website: http://www.perezfotografia.com

Thanks! Álvaro Pérez Alonso.

iss transit. 200% http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 43#p226543

Title: Meteor-shower's radiant near Polaris

This is my first time I have got an experience with a Meteor shower. I couldn´t see too much meteor due to the maximum in Lleida-Spain raining it was at 9 am, so I had no chance to capture this event due to the light. But during the early hours of Saturday, I was able to take this circumpolar from 4:00 am to 5:00 am, that we can see two meteor near the Polaris. What a pitty not to catch more than two, but enough to be the first contact.

Details photo:

Place: Coll d'Ares, altitude 1500 meters (Lleida-Spain)
Temperature: 5ºC
Mount: Tripod
Camera: Sony a7r
Lense: Zeiss Distagon 15 f/2.8
Exposures: 79x30 seconds at ISO 3200

Copyright by: Lluís Romero. Flickr link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/llromero/

By the way I also takook my first Panoramic astrophoto in the same night. This is a composition of 6 vertical photos with 13 seconds exposures and ISO 3200, the assemble is made with Ligthroom.

I hope so you like as well.

Title: Walking to the Milky Way.
Copyright by: Lluís Romero.

Details photo:

Place: Coll d'Ares, altitude 1500 meters (Lleida-Spain)
Temperature: 4ºC
Mount: Tripod
Camera: Sony a7r
Lense: Zeiss Distagon 15 f/2.8
Exposures: 6x13 seconds at ISO 3200 in vertical.

Copyright by: Lluís Romero. Flickr link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/llromero/

Clear Skies.
Luis Romero Ventura.
http://www.astrosirius.org/

M13
Copyrights: Albert Barr The night sky over Australian Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) in Narrabri
Copyrights: Andrew Davis Milky Way over Goatshead Bluff
Copyrights: Andrew Davis Meteor and Trail (2001)
Copyrights: John Pane Radio Telescope at Gauribidanur
Copyrights: Ajay Talwar Sky of Milk in a Lake of Fire – Azores
Copyrights: Miguel Claro

The Cloud hand
Copyrights: Tolbert Williams NGC6188
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/97581/0/ Milky Way and the Sailing Rocks
Copyrights: Matipon Tangmatitham, Michael Roman Stars trails, Volcano and Tajinaste in Spring
Copyrights: Gabriel Funes

The meteor and the Discovery Channel Telescope
Copyrights: Robert Mueller Fleeting Messenger at Greatest Western Elongation
Copyrights: Anthony Ayiomamitis 4 AO Lasers on Mauna Kea
Copyrights: Jason Chu Mammatus and sand from Maghreb over Paris
Copyrights: Bertrand Kulik A Long Time Coming...
Copyrights: Brian Wilson Observatories at Mount Kea and their laser guiding systems
Copyrights: Nimesh Patel

Milky Way, Saturn and Mars
Copyrights: Dani Caxete Snow at the Atacama desert
Copyrights: Alain Maury Starry sky over Tibet
Copyrights: Jeff Dai Everest Dream
Copyrights: Jeff Dai Moon and Venus
Copyrights: Mohamed Laaifat Moon, Venus and Crepuscular rays
Copyrights: Ondrej Koucky

NGC4565 The Needle Galaxy
More info: http://jeffreyjongmans.nl/photo.php?id=51
Copyright: Jeffrey Jongmans

The region of IC 1396 is actually quite large with its spattering of star formation and imbedded clusters of stars we sometimes miss the big picture.
This wide field DSLR capture shows its intensity yet only reveals part of its majestic glory.
Copyright: Ken Walker
Canon EOS 60da
CGE
FLT98
PixInsight

Higher resolution http://www.astronomyforum.net/members/k ... -trunk.jpg

3400x2264 http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa28 ... g~original

Mosaic taken remotely with the fsq106 and sbig stl11000 one shot color ccd camera at the siding spring observatory in New South Wales, Australia. This image was taken over 3 consecutive days and consists of 4 panels. Each panel was made of 5 images of 15 minutes. So total effective exposure is 1.25 hours and 6 hours all together.

The image shows the region of m20 (trifid nebula) and m8 (lagoon nebula) near the milky way center.

Thanks to the Tzec Maun foundation and Ron Wodaski for the support and opportunity to image on this system.

The full image is 20 megapixel and near 25mb. It can be found via the Flickr page.



M8/M20 from Siding Spring Observatory, Australia by Andre vd Hoeven and Tzec Maun Foundation, on Flickr