Starship Asterisk*

Moon with Anticrepuscular rays.
The moon rises in the east over Andros Island, Greece with Anticrepuscular rays over Evia island
converging at the antisolar point - the point on the sky opposite the setting sun.
http://www.alexandrosmaragos.com
Copyright: Alexandros Maragos

Full moon with Anticrepuscular rays by Alexandros Maragos, on Flickr

NGC 7009 by Onejoshsmith, on Flickr

copyright: Josh Smith

Spiral Cluster
Location London
Credit Jaspal Chadha
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Bubble Nebula
Location London
Credit Jaspal Chadha
[img]FINIAL.jpg[/img]

Wide field of North America Nebula
A wide field photo of North America Nebula and Butterfly Nebula in Cygnus.
http://wondroussky.blogspot.in/
Copyright: Arun Venkataswamy

Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile
El Corazon_2016 by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

IC 1396 - Elephant Trunk Nebula
Copyrights: Barry Schellenberg Elephant Trunk Nebula
Copyrights: Peter Nagy The Orion Nebula - Messier 42
Copyrights: Chee Guan Chan Big prominence 2016.08.08
Copyrights: Alessandro Bianconi M44 The Beehive Cluster
Copyrights: Christian Rausch NGC1499 The California Nebula
Copyrights: Christian Rausch Milky Way at 7:46pm
Copyrights: Mia Stålnacke The Witch Head Nebula (IC 2118)
Copyrights: Martin Heigan Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33)
Copyrights: Bill Schlosser
More sizes: https://www.flickr.com/photos/67226664@ ... 0/sizes/l/ Rosette Nebula
Copyrights: Don Curry Soul and Heart Nebulae
Copyrights: Juan I. Jimenez Veil Nebula Complex
Copyrights: Steve Mazlin
Full size: http://www.fourthdimensionastroimaging. ... icolor.jpg NGC925
Copyrights: Bernard Miller NGC7331 (The Deer Lick Group)
Copyrights: Bernard Miller NGC1499 California Nebula
Copyrights: Leonardo Orazi VDB7, VDB9, LDN 1357 "The Saxophone"
Copyrights: Rafael Rodríguez Dusty NGC7822
Copyrights: Steve Cannistra IC342
Copyrights: Joe Renzetti

Pelican nebula
Copyrights: Jakob Arthur Andersen The spider, the fly and the comet
Copyrights: Jeff Signorelli Craters Theophilus, Cyrillus, Catharina
Copyrights: Francesco Badalotti NGC 1333 and friends
Copyrights: Juan Lozano
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/271341/0/?real=&mod Milky Way over lake of Bajna, Hungary
Copyrights: Ferenc Szémár IC59, IC63 in Cassiopeia
Copyrights: Barry Wilson Southern Cross, Coal Sack, Eta Carinae Nebulae & others
Copyrights: Carlos Fairbairn NGC 891 - Edge on Anatomy of a Galaxy
Copyrights: Patrick Gilliland Starry Night Over the Rhine
Copyrights: Dong Han Sugarloaf Night
Copyrights: Jingyi Zhang Pleiades, the LBN 777 and a meteor
Copyrights: Rafael Schmall CTB1 - Supernova Remnant
Copyrights: Matteo Collina California Nebula NGC-1499
Copyrights: Angel M. Lozano Pérez Unicorn's Rosette
Copyrights: Andrealuna Pizzetti M45 Pleiades
Copyrights: Hector Bada Jupiter in March (top) and June (bottom)
Copyrights: Damian Peach

Halo moon photographed in Poland 2016.11.14 (supermoon)
Is it a diamond ring?

IC 1808 The Heart Nebula in SHO+RGB

Image Credit & Copyright: José Jiménez Priego & Raul Villaverde Fraile

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Startrails from Sintra montain in Portugal
Copyrights: Nuno Pkfloyd NGC 247
Copyrights: Joonhwa Lee Orion Nebula
Copyrights: Roland Störmer Barnard 18, HH 319,DG 37
Copyrights: Antonio Fernandez Markarian 1018: Starvation Diet for Black Hole Dims Brilliant Galaxy
Credits: Chandra X-Ray Observatory
An article: http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2016/mrk1018/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36375
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36577

M76
Copyrights: Tolga Gumusayak Analemna from México
Copyrights: Ruben Nohuitol LEDA 56779
Copyrights: Chris Kotsiopoulos California Vs Pleiades
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile Dissecting the Heart
Copyrights: Hojae Ahn Super Full Moon
Copyrights: Anthony Ayiomamitis M33
Copyrights: Patrick Gilliland Waxing Gibbous Moon 11-09-2016
Copyrights: John Chumack Night sky from Purmamarca, Jujuy, Argentina
Copyrights: Pablo Moltedo NGC 2070 - The Tarantula Nebula
Copyrights: Andrew Campbell

Technical details at Astrobin.
Enjoy!

Bright fireball in Atacama

I managed to catch a bright fireball in the Atacama. For a split second it was bright almost as day. This is the brightest fireball I have ever seen! Smoke trail remained in the sky for a long time.

26.10.2016, local time 23:04:56

Author's site: http://www.astroadventures.ru/
Copyright: Yuri Zvezdny

Old Light New Light
http://www.ancientskys.com
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Copyright: Marc Toso Here's a photo taken along the Utah/Arizona border at a place call Little Black Mountain Petroglyph site. This was not a place I had planned on photographing that night. But the site I was searching for was just a little too far down a road that felt a little tooo rough. So at the last minute I decided to check out this site. I was quite pleased with with I found.
I found a surprising amount of light pollution down there but not to bad.The crescent moon had just set, it's light still obscuring some of the milky way. These petroglyphs are of an unknown age, but probably in 2,000-1000 year range.
Here's some technical for for those interested!
This is a combination of three separate exposures were taken just minutes apart from each other. I did each one on my samyang 14mm f/2.8 ISO 3200 with a nikon d810a
One exposure for the sky, 30s ISO 3200.
Another exposure to illuminate the rock and the ground for 3min.
And then I did another with some light painting, also at 3200 iso. I should have lower the iso for that one, but forgot! Oh well!
All three blended in PS. To blend the foreground long exposure and the light painted one I just adjusted the opacity in PS to bring out a bit from each.

Cygnus Loop Mosaic SHO , 413 hrs
full size (11mo , 6500 x 7500) : http://www.cielboreal.com/galerie/photo66f.jpg
total frame 413Hr done with TEC160 on Paramount MX and+ AP155 on Paramout MX+ during 6 month

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Copyright: Team Cielboreal with J.C CANONNE, P. BERNHARD, D. CHAPLAIN & L. BOURGON

Sleep under the stars of the Atacama

Magellanic clouds over the Hand of the Desert in Atacama

Venus

Orion rises over the volcano Licancabur
Author's site: http://www.astroadventures.ru/
All images copyright: Yuri Zvezdny

Venus
Copyrights: A Kannan Waxing Gibbous Moon
Copyrights: A Kannan Super Moon over Singapore
Copyrights: A Kannan Messier 45
Copyrights: Charles Aubert
Full size: http://www.photoastro.fr/imagesGF/M45.jpg Colorful Horsehead
Copyrights: Josh Smith Red rainbow
Copyrights: Vince Pedroza The Elephant Nebula IC1396
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Cuckson Martínez Upcoming Supermoon
Copyrights: Göran Strand Exploration of Jovian moon Amalthea
Copyrights: Mark A Garlick Gibbous waxing Moon
Copyrights: Yrismel Gomez Colorado Sundogs
Copyrights: Debra Dowell NGC 7635
Copyrights: Danny Lee Russell Pinceladas nocturnas
Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar Solar halo
Copyrights: Maria Lisette Jacobsen Plane and the Sun
Copyrights: Szabolcs Nagy M42, M43 and the Running Man
Copyrights: Alberto Pisabarro Supermoon over Xàtiva
Copyrights: José J. Chambó SuperMoon
Copyrights: Chris Cook

Super moon of november 13 14 2016
Copyrights: Philippe Moussette Supermoon
Copyrights: Adwait Bhagwat Jet flying in front of the SuperMoon
Copyrights: Jon Okerstrom Supermoon from Sunday (13/11) evening
Copyrights: Oliver Stiehler Super Moon
Copyrights: David Duarte Prawn Nebula
Copyrights: David Duarte Bright Taurid (-8 magnitude) above Kamnik–Savinja Alps before Supermoon
Copyrights: Pavle Gartner Supermoon on a Stick
Copyrights: Radostin Djeliov Little Planet Airglow
Copyrights: Jeff Dai Dusty Dark Taurus Region
Copyrights: Johann Nishant Super Moon
Copyrights: Lastrofieffe Suppermoon ISS transit
Copyrights: G. Atchley SuperMoon
Copyrights: George Chatzifrantzis SuperMoon November 14, 2016
Copyrights: Linda Begin Super-Duper Supermoon
Copyrights: Jerry Lodriguss Super Moon Rising
Copyrights: Edward Flynn Super Moon at Night and in the Morning
Copyrights: John Chumack Nearly full Moon
Copyrights: Stan Honda

IC 410 - Tadpoles
Copyrights: Robert Fields Ripple Clouds during Supermoon Rising
Copyrights: A Kannan Starless Heart Nebula
Copyrights: Michael Leung Super Moon from Reunion Island
Copyrights: Stéphane Moser Super Moon
Copyrights: Nikunj Rawal Romance Against Super Moon
Copyrights: Nikunj Rawal NGC 1999
Copyrights: Josep Drudis Full moon at Perigee( SuperMoon) behind the Four Towers in Madrid, Spain
Copyrights: Javier Martínez Morán Plane transiting the Full Moon near Barajas-Adolfo Suárez Airport
Copyrights: Francisco Javier Pobes Serrano Supermoon over Madrid (Spain)
Copyrights: Adolfo Miranda Acropolis of Athens Super Full Moon 14nov
Copyrights: Theofanis Matsopoulos Supermoon and Loi Krathong festival
Copyrights: Jeff Dai Apogee & Perigee / Nov 2 - Nov 14 - 2016
Copyrights: Dylan O'Donnell Super Moon from Coimbra, Portugal
Copyrights: Enviado do Correio NGC 7331
Copyrights: Patrick Gilliland
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/272036/0/?real=&mod The biggest full Moon in almost 70 years
Copyrights: Gary K Froehlich Super Moon from Singapore
Copyrights: Akash Anandh Supermoon as observed from Kathmandu, Nepal
Copyrights: Manisha Dwa Full Moon in Singapore
Copyrights: A Kannan Super Moon Silhouette
Copyrights: Alex Dzierba Super Moon from Lower Saxony, Germany
Copyrights: Peter Muks

Super Moon - Perigee Moon from India
Copyrights: Divyadarshan Purohit Supermoon
Copyrights: Daniele Cipollina Super full Moonset on top of the Marnan bridge
Copyrights: Bijan Moravej IC 1795
Copyrights: Robert Fields Supermoon
Copyrights: M.R. Mauro Melchiori Milky Way over Milaca, Minnesota
Copyrights: Jacob Richards SuperMoon +1 Day
Copyrights: Linda Begin Super fullmoon
Copyrights: Alexander Krivenyshev Supermoon over the Acropolis
Copyrights: Alexandros Maragos From IC1318 to NGC6888 in Cygnus
Copyrights: Francois Chevenet
Full size: http://www.colorsofyesterday.org/IC1318 ... 18-100.jpg Red Aldebaran beside Super Moon
Copyrights: Wang Letian All roads point to Sigma Orionis
Copyrights: John Gleason Full Moon rising over Griffith Observatory
Copyrights: Al Alicea The Moon and the plane
Copyrights: Robin Uffer ISS and Supermoon
Copyrights: Dani Caxete Full Moon
Copyrights: Livio Scalmati

Soul Nebula, IC1848, IC1871
[Ha][OIII] Bi-color

Larger image and info:
http://www.astrobin.com/273101/0/?nc=user

Nick Pavelchak
Altamont, NY

WeBo 1 in IC1805
http://www.ferenczyluc.com

Rolland Balázs

NGC660 FInal Large by Patrick Gilliland, on Flickr
©Paddy Gilliland
A look at the wonderful NGC 660

NGC 891. Taken with an 8" SCT on an exceptionally clear, cool and steady night the day after an unlikely rain in San Diego, CA.

Torres del Paine - Granite skyscrapers of Patagonia

To make this picture I had to rise at night to the rocks. I got to the end of the Hiking trail, but the angle for the shot was bad so I continued to climb up. It was very extreme. The stones slipped from under my feet and and rolled down. The rise became steeper. I reached the top and was able to take a good position for photography. The descent was no less extreme. But in the end everything went well.

it'a single 15 sec exposure.

a7s, canon 50 1.8, f@2.8, 15 sec, iso 6400

Author's site: http://www.astroadventures.ru/
Copyright: Yuri Zvezdny