Starship Asterisk*

Looking through my files, I noticed I had a lot of different scenarios to mix the conjunction with

Rio Salado, General Belgrano, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

A Pelican in the Swan
http://observatorioelche.blogspot.com.e ... on-de.html
Copyright: Juan Lozano de Haro

Hello,
prominence taken on 23th of june.
regards.
image © Philippe TOSI

Hi,

This is my first submission to the APOD as some friends told me to do it. Here is an animation made from pictures I processed from the New Horizons Lorri images taken between the 16th and 22nd June 2015. I posted it in the UMSF forum, here is a link to the discussion :

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/inde ... t&p=221691

Some explanation of the post-processing pipe.

All images have been processed with IRIS from Christian Buil and the following sequence :
- registration of all 3 or 4 LORRI images from each date
- addition with min-max rejection
- x1.33 the levels for the days with only three photos available
- move the background level to 0
- deconvolution using Vancittert method, FWHM=2.3 and 4 iterations
- spline upscale by a factor of 4
- wavelet with factors 4, 2, 1.2 and a remain factor of 0.80
- save as BMP

Then
- rescale and rotation with Photoshop CS2 to fit the grid provided by Pluto Viewer (barycentric, viewed from New Horizons from 45000 km)

The animation :


Click to see the animation

Note that the animation dimensions have then been decreased by a factor of 2 otherwise it would have been too big to fit in most screens...

Enjoy !

Fred

Apennine Mountains ...the ones on the Moon!

Waiting for a night fish… with planets
Copyright: Petr Horálek
http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/

Here slowly comes the end of June 2015 and with this end should come even more remarkable event than just turning over the list of calendar. Just a dozens minutes after sunset a pair of bright planets – Venus and Jupiter – are taking the center stage as the Moon is waxing. Like on this shot, where I witnessed that by the twilight on 23rd June 2015, while I was waiting for a night fish. Unfortunately, I didn’t catch anything, but the view worth it. The closest meeting of the two planetary wanderers will come on 1st July 2015 and then we will loose the planets from the sight for a while…

IC 1805 the Heart Nebula
http://dcastro.us/gallery/ic1805.php
Copyright: dcAstro (Danny Flippo and Chris Lasley)

VBD 152
http://www.SkyandPhoto.com
Copyright: Rafael Rodríguez Morales

BIG PHOTO: http://www.skyandphoto.com/Photography/ ... sig-XL.jpg

Cygnus mosaic
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile Neutron star’s echoes give astronomers a new measuring stick
Image credits: NASA/Chandra X-ray Observatory
An articlehttp://www.news.wisc.edu/23858 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34903

Saturn and the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex
Copyrights: Derek J Demeter Aurora in deep twilight over Cape Cod
Copyrights: Chris Cook Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex
Copyrights: Carlos Eduardo Fairbairn
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/137349/B/ Milky Way Center
Copyrights: Carlos Eduardo Fairbairn
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/137334/B/ ISS transit of the Moon
Copyrights: David Duarte Jellyfish Nebula
Copyrights: Haim Huli Moon, Venus and Jupiter
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel

Sh2 101
Copyrights: Fabio Castelluzzo
Larger size: http://www.astrofabiomax.it/sh2101.html Moon, Venus and Jupiter over Torrelodones, Spain
Copyrights: José Carlos González Payo Moon - Venus - Jupiter and a crazy tree
Copyrights: Andrea V. Anfossi Center of the Milky Way
Copyrights: Daniel Herron Around NGC6231 and IC4628 in Scorpio
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/189278/0/?real=&mod= Moon Venus Jupiter from Spain
Copyrights: Fernando Rey Aurora Borealis and Moon over Loveland Pass
Copyrights: Jeff Warner Crab Nebula
Copyrights: Bill Warden Moon Jupiter Venus Triangle
Copyrights: Sam Fernix

Entre Antenas......

Waiting for the June 30, Venus and Jupiter are close...

Take: 24.06.2015 - Buenos Aires - Argentina

Carlos Di Nallo

Markarian's Chain is a string of galaxies within the Virgo Cluster, the closest cluster of galaxies to our own Milky Way Galaxy:



Larger version: http://www.astronomersdoitinthedark.com ... -Final.jpg

More image information: http://www.astronomersdoitinthedark.com ... =113&p=553

M 13 Crop by Onejoshsmith, on Flickr

M13 Final by Onejoshsmith, on Flickr

Copyright: Josh Smith

Here is the milky way from the galactic center to cygnus.

From the palette around Antares to the galactic center.

Imaged through Halpha and OxygenIII filters the famous Swan Nebula reveals plenty of details and presents a decidedly Stars and Stripes colour scheme!
Copyright: Michael Sidonio

Large image here: http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ ... 6/original

Gear : 8 inch SCT C8 with WO APO 2,5 x Barlow ( Effective 5m) , ZWO ASI 120 MC, Takahashi EM-10 Temma PC.Jr.
500 frames avi each 4 sec. Aquisition : FireCapture, Processing: Autostakkert, PixInsight, Photoshop. Taken 23.06.2015 from Starogród near Warsaw, Poland.

The Lagoon Nebula
Copyrights: Ivan Bok Young Moon
Copyrights: Alex Dantart Pelican Nebula in Cygnus
Copyrights: Juan Lozano
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/189294/0/?real=&mod Giant Galaxy is Still Growing
Image credits: ESO
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1525/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34911

Startrails over Pyrenees
Copyrights: Kike Herrero Casas Unexpectedly Little Black-hole Monsters Rapidly Suck up Surrounding Matter
Image Credit: Special Astrophysical Observatory/Hubble Space Telescope
An article: http://subarutelescope.org/Pressrelease ... index.html http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34914

Soda Creek, South Sister and the Aurora Borealis
Copyrights: Jason Brownlee Cb and mammatus
Copyrights: Boris Tékaty Anticrepuscular Rays in New Milford CT
Copyrights: Michael Tuleja

Red dwarf burns off planet’s hydrogen giving it massive comet-like tail
Image credits: Mark Garlick\Warwick University
An article: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents ... warf_burns http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34908

Aurora
Copyrights: Shane Mayer-Gawlik Smoky Sun with Spots
Copyrights: Steve Gerrish Bright Night with Aurora
Copyrights: LI Hang NGC 7023, IR bright Mira variable, and others
Copyrights: Wei-Hao Wang
Larger version: http://www.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/~whwang/ ... -large.jpg 5 way conjunction
Copyrights: David Marriott Sunset vs. Aurora
Copyrights: Chris Cook
Larger version: http://www.abmedia.com/astro/current/au ... 215-3.html M24 Cloud
Copyrights: Leonardo Orazi
Larger size: http://www.starkeeper.it/M24.htm Carina Nebula
Copyrights: Daniyyel Nicholas/Daniel Nicolae Milky way over Parque Natural Sierras de Cazorla
Copyrights: Brian Tomlinson Hunting lightnings
Copyrights: Vangelis Seretidis

The Milkyway inverted.
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Copyright: Damián Avila https://www.flickr.com/photos/79069100@N03/19165902345/

https://500px.com/photo/113051163/the-m ... er_library


Copyright 2015 Connor Hicks

67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko @ Jun.24,2015

Planewave 20" CDK f/4.4 reflector & FLI PL09000 camera (L:1×120s Bin1 + RGB:1x60s Bin2) remotely from Siding Spring (Australia)

Image of the periodic comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken on June 24, 2015 entering to inner Solar Sistem with a brightness still near magnitude 14,5. I think is the first taken in color. The geometry of this apparition of comet 67P is very unfavorable for be observed from Earth being always at low altitude above horizon. In spite of difficulties for take the image shows a tail of 5' long, and with more contrast can be detected a greenish envelope of 1,5' diameter around a small inner coma whitish and very condensed in which is located the Rosetta probe orbiting the comet nucleus.

Author: José J. Chambó

The Sun on 06-24-2015
Copyrights: John Chumack Monster Black Hole wakes up after 26 years
Image copyrights: ESA/ATG medialab
An article: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space ... r_26_years http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34912

Milky Way
Copyrights: Marcos Molina Crescent Nebula
Copyrights: Drew Hastings
Larger size: http://www.astrobin.com/189138/ Startrails and Aurora
Copyrights: Robert Schwarz
http://www.antarctic-adventures.de/ Virgo Cluster
Copyrights: Rogelio Bernal Andreo
Larger size: http://deepskycolors.com/astro/2015/06/ ... p_2048.jpg Westerlund 2 (Gum 29) , Star Cluster in Carina
Credits and copyrights: Data: Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing and Image Assembly: Robert Gendler
More sizes: http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/Westerlund-HST.html Aurora Borealis
Copyrights: Steven Webber

Cygnus
Copyrights: Robert Fields First color image of comet 67P (from Earth)
Copyrights: José J. Chambó NGC6888 - Close up on the Crescent Nebula
Copyrights: R. Colombari / C. Iaffaldano
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/189834/0/?real=&mod= From Butterfly to Crescent
Copyrights: Yves Van den Broek Pluto - artist impression
Copyrights: David A. Hardy Tajinastes, startrails and laser
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado Triple Conjunction
Copyrights: R. Ellis Milky Way over pavilion
Copyrights: Luocheng Crab nebula expansion 2006 to present
Copyrights: Bill Warden
http://whwastro.homestead.com/files/M1- ... gb-500.gif

Moon, Jupiter, Venus conjunction
Copyrights: Mariano Ribas Monster prominence
Copyrights: Alessandro Bianconi 22 degree solar halo in Naples
Copyrights: H. Aziz Kayihan