Starship Asterisk*

raikko21 wrote:ISS from Algiers
Telescope : CGEM DX1100
Camera : DMK51AU02.AS
Location : CRAAG Algiers, Algeria
Copyright : Fayçal Demri / CRAAG

That's an impressive ISS sequence! I like your Saturn, too. Do you have the date and time for the Saturn image?

Searching extrasolar planets with APACHE
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Copyright: Giovanna Ranotto
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Q ... directlink Technical details: Camera Canon EOS 400D Digital, 800 ISO, time of exposure 30 s, aperture f/4
These telescopes help the astronomers of the Astronomical Observatory of the Autonomous Region Valle d'Aosta, North-Western Italy, to search extrasolar planets around red dwarf stars. They belong to the research project APACHE, which is an acronym meaning “A PAthway toward the Characterization of Habitable Earths”. This project has been carried out since 2012, and it is made of five Ritchèy-Chretien telescopes with a diameter of 40 cm, f/8, each one mounted on a German equatorial mount. The main aim of APACHE is to find planets in the habitability zone of the studied red dwarfs. In the sky between the telescopes on the left it is possible to see the Milky Way and the constellation of Sagittarius.

IC1805, the "Heart" of the galaxy.
Called as IC1805, this is emission nebula, where the predominant H II is ionized by a star cluster located in the center and have masses of about 50 times that of our sun is located in the constellation Cassiopeia about 7,500 light years away.
This photo also performed narrow-band filters using only the transmission of hidógeno and oxygen to combine LRGB (luminance, red, green and blue) in the sequence of Ha-Ha-OIII-OIII, for a photo very similar to that resulting from broadband in RGB.
I was used Epsilon 180ED telescope, camera and filters QSI540 of 3nm Astrodon. The total exposure was 4 hours.
Copyright: César Cantú
http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... category/2

IC1805

14x900" H Alfa + 8x900" OIII + 8x900" SII

Takahashi FSQ-106 and CCD QSI 683 ws8



For larger view:

http://www.astrobin.com/full/121027/0/

http://www.astrobin.com/full/121027/0/?real&mod

http://www.sky-astrophotography.com

MELOTTE 15: (This is a CROP from the central image)



For larger view:

http://www.astrobin.com/full/121033/0/

http://www.astrobin.com/full/121033/0/?real=&mod=

http://www.sky-astrophotography.com

CLEAR SKIES

Jesús M. Vargas and Maritxu Poyal

Milky Way over North Caucasus.
Koshtan-Tau - one of the highest and most inaccessible peaks of the Caucasus(5152m)
Copyright: Smilyk Pavel

Aurora Startrails from Lake Dunstan, Central Otago:

'The Wine Trails' by Mikey Mack, on Flickr

A human being confronting the Milky Way:

T E R R E S T R I A L by Mikey Mack, on Flickr

A starburst from Mt Cook, a new method I have created to imitate the Tilt Shift lens effect, happily called Macks Method

'Starburst' by Mikey Mack, on Flickr

When the three stars of the Big Dipper that forms the handle pointing west, it shows the sign of Autumn.
斗杓西指，天下皆秋
Larger Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/redscorpius/15028667698/

Time: 2014/9/14
Location: Japan
Optics: Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L II USM -> f/1.8
Camera: Canon EOS 5DII
Exposure: 0.5s at ISO6400

Copyright: Hung-Hsuan Yen
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Subject: IC1318 Region Ha + OIII + SII + RGB ( 30 hrs of NB + 15 hrs of RGB)
Copyrights: James Collins

Larger image URL:
http://jimstar11.com/IC1318-6.jpg
Web Site: Meadow View Observatory
http://jimstar11.com/

Corona Australis

Crowd sourced astro imaging: M31
Credits: Morten Balling et al - full list of credits and larger image: http://www.astrobin.com/120204/ Crowd sourced astro imaging: M42
Credits: Morten Balling et al - full list of credits and larger image: http://www.astrobin.com/119854/ Crowd sourced astro imaging: M45
Credits: Morten Balling et al - full list of credits and larger image: http://www.astrobin.com/120897/ The Milky Way Galaxy through The Summer Triangle
Copyrights: John Chumack Auroras
Copyrights: Jeremy Gray The King Lives !...in Lacerta
Copyrights: Lynn Hilborn
More sizes: http://www.nightoverontario.com/Astrono ... &lb=1&s=X2 NGC 6188 Hybrid Color Version
Credits: Data Acquisition: Roberto Colombari; Processing: Francesco Antonucci
Larger size: http://www.lumhatrex.it/WORKINimages/XA ... HYBRID.jpg Impossible Task for a Lighthouse
Copyrights: Antonio Peña Violent Origins of Disc Galaxies Probed by ALMA
Credits: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/SMA/CARMA/IRAM/J. Ueda et al.
Copyrights: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1429/ Barnard 343 in the Gamma Cygni Nebula Complex
Copyrights: Bruce Bartle

Scorpius and Center of Galaxy
Copyrights: Dieter Willasch IC 405 FLAMING STAR NEBULA
Copyrights: César Blanco González
Full size: http://www.cieloprofundo.com/cesar/foto ... O_2000.jpg Mt. Wilson Observatory, and light+particulate pollution
Copyrights: Richard Jones Super Wide Angle Andromeda Field
Copyrights: John Chumack Searching for extrasolar planets around red dwarf stars
Copyrights: Giovanna Ranotto IC1805
Copyrights: Jesús M. Vargas and Maritxu Poyal Little Dragon Nebula
Copyrights: Ron Brecher M20
Copyrights: Julien Quirin Partial Lunar Eclipse
Copyrights: Julien Quirin

The Eagle Nebula M16 & The Omega/Swan Nebula
Copyrights: Terry Hancock Sunset from Arlington MA
Copyrights: Richard Koolish Big surprises can come in small packages
Credits: NASA, ESA, D. Coe, G. Bacon (STScI)
An article: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1419/ The Eagle Nebula M16 & The Omega/Swan Nebula Region
Copyrights: Terry Hancock

Artwork of the supercluster, Laniakea (yellow), which includes our own Milky Way. Scientists at the University of Hawaii have examined the velocities of galaxies in unprecedented detail, showing in the process that Laniakea is much bigger than originally thought. It weighs in at 100 million billion solar masses and spans over 500 million light-years of extragalactic space. Each dot in this image is a galaxy - 100,000 in all - each containing in turn millions to trillions of stars. The contour lines are velocity flows: the indicate the direction that galaxies are moving through the supercluster under the combined gravity of all of that matter. The red dot shows the location of the Milky Way, our own galaxy, on the edge of the supercluster.

Nitpicker wrote:

raikko21 wrote:ISS from Algiers
Telescope : CGEM DX1100
Camera : DMK51AU02.AS
Location : CRAAG Algiers, Algeria
Copyright : Fayçal Demri / CRAAG

That's an impressive ISS sequence! I like your Saturn, too. Do you have the date and time for the Saturn image?

Nevermind ... figured it out myself from the star ID near Saturn: 2014-05-13 01:00 UT. Nice image!

Cygnus Region
30 panels mosaic
Original size : 26057*28655 px
http://mad.professor64.free.fr/images/Small.png

10% view
http://mad.professor64.free.fr/images/finalV2-10.png

50% view (274Mo)
http://mad.professor64.free.fr/images/finalV2-50.png

Copyrights: Morolapin

NGC6820 SHORVB - Skymeca 20" full size : http://www.felopaul.com/galerie/photo45f.jpg

http://www.felopaul.com
Copyright: Didier CHAPLAIN & Laurent BOURGON

Zodiacal Light - Pre dawn Zodical light (upper left) and Aurora (top) near Tensleep Wyoming on 8-27.
http://500px.com/photo/83718969

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Sunset on Sahuaro National Park.
Copyright: César Cantú
http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... ategory/29

Aurora Australis at Butchers Dam, Central Otago, New Zealand.

Butchers Glow by Mikey Mack, on Flickr

The Milky way and Haleakala Silverswords
copyright: Robert Malinowski
http:///www.flickr.com/photos/66085839@N02/15286522005/
https://c3.staticflickr.com/3/2941/1528 ... 1778_k.jpg

M33 in Triangulum +20hrs exposure
http://www.astronomie.be/pieter.vandevelde/home.htm
Copyright: Pieter Vandevelde
http://www.astronomie.be/pieter.vandeve ... _thumb.jpg Higher res size image here:
http://www.astronomie.be/pieter.vandeve ... 20LRGB.jpg

Best regards,

Pieter Vandevelde
Belgium

A Haleakala Silversword by moonlight
copyright: Robert Malinowski
https://www.flickr.com/photos/66085839@N02/15099966029/

In this scene from Algonquin Park in North-central Ontario Canada, an annual star party organized by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada called the Algonquin Adventure is taking place. http://rascto.ca/content/2014-annual-al ... -adventure
The approximately 200 degree panorama displays the horizon from the south through to the north-east. The milky way stands tall above misty Mew Lake where campers have come to enjoy the wilderness while the weather still permits. The Northern Lights glow on the horizon, reflecting on the quiet lake. And on the beach with their red-light flashlights (to preserve their night vision) amateur astronomers use their telescopes, their cameras, or simply naked eye to gaze at the heavens. A perfect night for an end-of-summer star party.

Image captured 9:30pm Sept 18, 2014.

by Malcolm Park

Goddess By Nature

Venus, the second planet of the Solar System, but for the Romans was the Goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility and prosperity...
Venus on seashell, from the Casa di Venus, Pompeii. Before 79 AD, beauty painting worth to look for it around the web.
This was how I started this year, shooting at Venus at one of the most beautiful places at El Salvador, Simple and beautiful.

http://500px.com/acubens
https://www.flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/
https://www.facebook.com/MilkyWayAddicted?ref=br_tf

Sergio Montúfar

Copyright : Raul Villaverde Fraile

NGC 281 y alrededores by astrocentejo, on Flickr