Starship Asterisk*

The Pinwheel Galaxy - M101

Copyright: Stefan Westphal

More information can you see here: http://www.astrobin.com/173520/B/

Ngc2403
http://outters.fr/ngc2403-LRGB-Rcos-U16-sirene.html
Copyright: Nicolas Outters Full resolution : http://outters.fr/images%20site%20astro ... LRVB11.jpg

M81-M82 Galaxies in Single Luminance (Cropped image at 70% from the original)

Mount: Losmandy G11 Gemini II (ovision)
Telescope: Takahashi Epsilon 180 ED f2.8
CCD: Moravian G2-8300
Exposure: Luminance 103x180 sec.
Software: Pixinsight 1.08.03
Clear Skies
Luis Romero
http://www.flickr.com/photos/llromero/

Sh2-261 Lowers nebula in Orion
Copyrights: Vadim Kozatchenko ISS Terminator
Copyrights: Dani Caxete Milky Way
Copyrights: Brian Acker Giant Galaxies Die from the Inside Out
Image credits: ESO
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1516/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34667

Venus, M45 & fireball 14 April 2015
Copyrights: Annick Merlin Jupiter - Great Red Spot transit
Copyrights: Borcard Daniel Hickson 44 Galaxy Group
Copyrights: Ron Brecher JPL: Dawn Glimpses Ceres' North Pole
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2015-133 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=242439#p242439

Eta Carinae - April 18th from Australia
Copyrights: Dylan O'Donnell NGC 6388: White Dwarf May Have Shredded Passing Planet
Image credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/IASF Palermo/M.Del Santo et al; Optical: NASA/STScI
An article: http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2015/ngc6388/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34670

Conjunction of Mercury and Mars with a young crescent Moon.

Copyright: Jose Luis Sanchez
My Flickr





Sunday, April 19

Conjunction of Mercury and Mars with a young crescent Moon.

Conjunction of Mercury and Mars with a young crescent Moon.

Copyright: Jose Luis Sanchez
My Flickr







Sunday, April 19
Conjunction of Mercury and Mars with a young crescent Moon.
Above we can see the bright Venus.

Future Moon eplorer
Copyrights: Gabriel Mungiuri Aurora from the plane
Copyrights: MA Yinxing IC 2944
Copyrigths: Slawomir Lipinski It's Galaxy Season - M51
Copyrights: William Shaheen
Larger size: http://www.pbase.com/wjshaheen/image/159778378/large Solar CME of April 14 2015
Copyrights: Shane Finnigan The Wizard Nebula
Copyrights: Paulo Lobão M100 and friends
Copyrights: Ron Brecher

Rho Ophiuchi Region
Copyright: Brian Acker


Full Size at: http://i.imgur.com/U7ZKD26.jpg

Nikon D7000 46 minutes of lights, 5 min of Darks, 10x bios f2, iso1000, 85mm
Rancho hidalgo New Mexico 4-19-2015

ISS and startrail.

Copyright: Jose Luis Sanchez
My Flickr

Copyright: Brian Acker 2015
Full Size http://i.imgur.com/H23xCk2.jpg

Nikon D7000, 50mm, f2, iso1000, 191 x 30 second lights + 9 darks. DSS + Photoshop

Copyright: Brian Acker 2015
Nikon D7000 - Rancho Hidalgo Sky Village New Mexico
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Full Size at http://i.imgur.com/YI7dPbM.jpg
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Full Size at http://i.imgur.com/1RYg2nG.jpg
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Full Size at http://i.imgur.com/iARLOS7.jpg
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Full Size at http://i.imgur.com/611zFXZ.jpg

The Iris Nebula



Image details and full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/136727/C/

Moonset in Oslo
Copyright: György Soponyai



On my journey back from the Spitsbergen to Hungary three days after the successful Solar Eclipse spotting I had 17 hours of transfer time in Oslo Airport. The clear weather, the lack of clouds inspired me to travel to Olso city center and take this photo instead of just sleeping in the Airport. The Akershus Fortress was built in the XIII. century to protect Oslo. The wall of the Fortress was the ideal location of my photo sequence with a perfect outlook to the Western-Northwestern horizon above the harbor.
Photos were taken every 10 minutes from 19:45 to 22:55 in the evening, the heavy wind made some of the Lunar and Venusian disks slightly blurred.

Photo details:
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Samyang EF 24/1.4
20 x 2 x (0.5-->1)sec

Valley Of Stars
http://theartofnight.com
Copyright: Mark Gee


Valley of Stars by The Art of Night, on Flickr

The Tasman Valley in the Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand, is an amazing place to visit by day, but once night falls, I can honestly say it one of the most amazing night skies you will ever see. I recently spent a night under the stars there above the glacier lake. It was a spectacular view looking down the valley, especially when the Aurora Australis lit up the sky to the south. The bright band of the Milky Way spanned overhead from east to west, and there were so many shooting stars that night, I lost count - it was certainly one incredible night under the stars to remember!

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The meeting of Comet C / 2015 G2 (MASTER) and Helix Nebula (NGC7293) today at dawn. 4:00 a.m. in Colombia



Good morning everyone, looking dark skies and fleeing the clouds went to the region of Maya Cundinamarca, Monitoring Clouds every half hour, almost thought I was going to spoil the party most covered Andes, I left at 7pm, we aa 1am and good,
it was beautiful to see close to the nebula which facilitated the search,

and from in early May will be visible at sunset. to like another looming is the C / 2013 SU10 (Catalina).


Comet Position: RA: 22h 32.096m DEC: -20 ° 34,166 '
Position Nebula: RA: 22h 30.432m DEC: -20 ° 43,212 '
Data .. - Image FOV: 3 degrees (180 min) by 2.25 degrees (135 min) Expo: 8x 10 min Total 1h20m, ISO 1600, f / 4.8Filtro: IDAS LPS, Meade LX200 10 "Schmith-Cassegrain Telescope f / 10, Canon 7D Camera Focal Reducer / Field Flattener FL = 384mm, f / 4.8 guide MaximDL Processing: Raw conversion and calibration ImagesPlus (dark frames, bias frames, flat frames) conRegistar and Ps5

ISS With Venus, Moon, Mars, Mercury And The Leaning Tower Of Pisa

20 Apr. 2015 / 21:00 CEST
Copyright: Giuseppe Petricca
http://www.astrobin.com/users/gmrphotographer/
I used a Canon EOS 700D camera, unguided, on a tripod, with a 18-55 IS STM Canon Lens, at the focal lenght of 18mm.

Simeis 147
Copyright : Savio Fong
http://www.astro.hk

The Tarantula Nebula
Optics: TS 102mm ED doublet (f/7) with a 0.8 reducer/flattener, QSI CCD 690i at -10°C,
Mount: Skywatcher HEQ5
Exposure times: Astrodon 3nm Halpha 27x600s, Astronomik 12nm OIII 15x300s, Astronomik 12nm SII 15x300s
Final Processing: FITS Liberator and PixInsight 1.8
Copyright: Slawomir Lipinski

The Great Nebula in Carina
Optics: TS 102mm ED doublet (f/7) with a 0.8 reducer/flattener, QSI CCD 690i at -10°C,
Mount: Skywatcher HEQ5
Exposure times: Astrodon 3nm Halpha 28x120s, Astronomik 12nm OIII 12x120s, Astronomik 12nm SII 12x120s
Final Processing: FITS Liberator and PixInsight 1.8
Copyright: Slawomir Lipinski

Full Moon fall in Venus Belt
Copyright: Kuan Chen
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tataima/
https://www.facebook.com/kuan.chen.35/

Time: 2015/04/05 05:46 UTC+8
Location: Tainan, Taiwan
Optics: 18-55mm@18mm
Camera: Canon EOS M

Cañdn de Atuel, Valle Grande, San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina



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https://www.flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/

Argimusco - the heaven above the eagle monolith
http://www.dariogiannobile.com
Copyright: Dario Giannobile Between the Mediterranean sea and the volcano Etna (Sicily - Italy), the upland of Argimusco stands towards the sky. An impressive and evocative place where different monoliths emerge from the ground. Recent studies demonstrated that the site has been used as a natural calendar in order to measure the seasons' cycle. Different shapes characterize the monoliths like the praying woman and the eagle rock here in the foreground with the stars rotating behind.

In the next coming years the Argimusco could become the Mediterranean Stonehenge.

Dario G.

Twilight Aurora
Copyright: György Soponyai



On the evening of the total solar eclipse in Spitsbergen around 21:30 a very impressive Aurora Borealis was visible. At that time the Sun was shining 9 degrees below the horizon -- it was nautical twilight then. The Adventtoppen mountain (786 meter) is illuminated by the Western-Northwestern horizon from the back, the difference of brightness of the mountain sides is obvious. The foreground is painted orange by the lights of building of Longyearbyen Camping (the Northernmost campsite of the World) and the nearby Longyearbyen Airport.

Photo details:
2015.03.20. Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen, Norway
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Samyang EF 8/3.5
10 sec, ISO 320

Goblin Valley
Credit: Brad Goldpaint
http://goldpaintphotography.com/ The Milky Way arcs over Goblin Valley while Zodiacal Light bursts from the horizon towards Venus and Pleiades.

Moon, Aldebaran and Venus over the Castle of Valentino
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa Please find above an image taken on April 21, 2015 from the banks of river Po in Turin and showing crescent Moon, very close to Aldebaran, and Venus over the Castle of Valentino. The historic building houses the Architecture Faculty of the Polytechnic University of Turin.

Best regards

Stefano