Starship Asterisk*

The Cone Nebula
Copyright: Massimo Tosco
http://www.massimotosco.it/NGC2264_tsa.html

Tadpoles of IC410. HaSII-R,G-OIII,B-OIII / Hubble palette color pictures. Stars shown in RGB colors.
http://www.astro-hp.dk
Copyright: Finn Nancke, Niels V. Christensen

M78 in Orion
http://www.theskyabove.net
Copyright: Daniele Malleo Larger versions available on: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dmal/16401536087/. Much larger versions available on demand.

Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) on February 21st 2015 (near M 76)
Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov @ Irida Observatory More info and hi-res images on website

Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile
ngc 2170 by astrocentejo, on Flickr

Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile
M51 widefield by astrocentejo, on Flickr
M51 widefield anotada by astrocentejo, on Flickr

M81 and M82 in a field of Integrated Flux Nebula exposure time 28hours LRGB

M81 IFN by peter shah, on Flickr

Dusty Orion
http://www.astrofotografie-laupheim.de/ ... nzeige=412
Copyright: Manfred Konrad

FLAME NEBULA
http://astrofotki.pl
Copyright: Jacek Bobowik
Larger image: http://www.astrofotki.pl/NGC2024.jpg

Chasing Aurora
http://www.astrofotografen.se
Copyright: Göran Strand A 360 degree panoramic image of an aurora mixed with clouds that are lit up by the city light of Östersund, Sweden. During this night I also took some real time video footage of the aurora. You can watch the movie here

Atacama skies
Copyright: Rafael Defavari
http://500px.com/rafaeldefavari
http://rafaeldefavari.com

Observing the nightsky at Atacama desert, Chile.

Copyright Tom Masterson

Location: Sky's the Limit Observatory, 29 Palms, CA

Date: 2/17/2015

International Space Station, 5600mm focale lenght
23 February 2015, 18:20UT, Algiers Algeria
This image was taken in very bad conditions (clouds, wind and humidity)
Setup : CGEM DX1100, Barlow x2 and a DMK51 monchrome camera, manual tracking

Copyrights Fayçal Demri / CRAAG

Elephants Trunk IC 1396 in SHO

Copyright: Stefan Westphal

This image was made in five several nights in autum '14 at three different mobile locations in Mittelfranken/ Nothern Bavaria-Germany.
The total exposure time amounted to 12,25 hours.
Here you can see the image details and more reslution of my result: http://www.astrobin.com/159443/

Thor's Helmet - NGC 2359
Hubble Palette Narrowband Click the link below for image description, exposure, and equipment used.
http://www.waid-observatory.com/ngc2359 ... 09-NB.html
Copyright: Donald Waid

Hello,

Here are some new images.
Larger versions can be seen here:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/new_images

Thanks for looking!

Kfir Simon

Orion mosaic:


Gems in Orion:


NGC 1499 Hubble color mapping:


NGC 6744:


NGC 1313:


IC 2602 - The Southern Pleiades:

Hi everyone,

Here is my contribution to the submissions for February 2015. This picture shows the International Space Station (ISS) moving right in front of the Moon. You can also see Venus and Mars behind the tree, left of the house.
What you can't see in this picture is the disappointment of the astronomer (me) missing the shoot through the telescope... While I had the telescope pointed at the Moon and the camera ready to burst a series of fast pictures at the time the ISS was flying in front of the Moon, I did not do a good job at keeping track of time and the ISS flew in front of the Moon while I did not have the remote control in my hands. The transit is so fast (0.6 seconds) that there is no time to grab the remote and shoot. Lesson learned...

Picture taken on February 23rd from Bloomington, IN. Canon Rebel XT (350d) + Fish eye Tamron 8mm. 84 seconds exposure time @100 ISO.



Full size image is available here: http://www.jfgout.com/Astronomy-Misc/i- ... _v1-X3.jpg

Clear skies,

jf

 M106 and Friends
http://www.deepskyobjects.com/
Copyright: Behyar Bakhshandeh
  The small satellite galaxy next to it is NGC4248.
The small dual galaxies on the right side are NGC4231/NGC4232.

http://www.deepskyobjects.com/Galaxies/M106_LRGB4.asp

I would like to submit SH2-308.

Copyright: Josh Smith

SH2-308 by Onejoshsmith, on Flickr

The Cone nebula in bi colour - A combination of Ha and SII of 21.5 hours in total
Copyright: Sara Wager



NGC2264 - The Cone Nebula in Bi colour #Explored by swag72 (http://www.swagastro.weebly.com), on Flickr

M51
http://www.nightsky.kr/xe/4850
Copyright: Gwangwook Kim

Milky Way over Palouse Falls by jon.webb1, on Flickr

Between 15,000 and 20,000 years ago a collosal lake, called Lake Missoula, was created behind an ice dam in southwestern Montana. As the ice age slowly began to fade into history the ice dam failed and released the largest known flood ever onto the landscape of present day southwestern Montana, eastern Oregon and eastern Washington, creating features we know of as the scablands. The raging torrent of current scoured out canyons and unique features. One of those features is Palouse Falls, shown here, which plunges 198 feet into the bottom of the canyon below. In this photo the falls which are a remnant of multiple ancient floods is seen in the foreground with the Milky Way rising in the background. A moon bow can also be seen in the falls mist to the left of Palouse Falls

NGC2237 - Dust Sculptures in the Rosette Nebula
About 30h total integration, Ha OIII RGB
Credits: Francesco di Biase and Leonardo Orazi - http://www.astropixel.it

NGC2237 - Dust Sculptures in the Rosette Nebula by Francescodb

Two Face Moon
http://www.astrofotografen.se
Copyright: Göran Strand A shot of the Moon when 50% lit. Several exposures were merged together to get both the dark side and the bright side of the half moon. The two stars down to the left is HIP20877 (Mag. 4,93) and TYC1265-499-1 (Mag. 8,18).

Messier 106
http://www.rankinstudio.com
Copyright: David Rankin