Starship Asterisk*

Object: Jupiter, Venus & Mercury at dusk time,
Place: Natural monument Los Barruecos, Malpartida de Cáceres, Spain.
Date: 24/05/20136. Hour: 20:30 (U.T.)
Author: Juan Miguel González Polo, Cáceres, Spain.

Planetary conjunction between Jupiter Venus and Mercury.
Very nice sky show in Brittany with this fisher house.

Canon 6D tamron 70 200.
Alexandre Croisier
http://alexandre.croisier.free.fr/
https://www.facebook.com/AlexandreCroisierPhotographies

May's Full Moon and Old Fortress and old town of Corfu

Observation team of Astronomic Society of Corfu

Foreground: 7km
Moon 15,45 days old
Moon distant: 358366,5 km
Moon altitude: 0° 14.754'
Canon eos 40D
Takahashi TOA130
1000mm
f7.7
Takahashi Em200
0,80sec
iso800


here in high quality http://www.astrovox.gr/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=16422

Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and Elnath.

Moonrise over San Francisco, during sunset, and about one hour before the full Moon. The western horizon already casts a shadow onto most of the city, but the tops of the highest buildings still glow from the last bits of the day's sunlight. (May 24, 2013, 8:15pm PDT).


San Francisco Moonrise - 1 by fksr, on Flickr

The Milky Way


http://www.flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/8837114420/


Sergio Montúfar

Hello,

After many days of hazy skies, last Friday we had very clear weather and we could observe the beautiful show of the planets. Here are two images made on two consecutive days:

This one is from yesterday
This is from Friday
I made both images from Thessaloniki Greece.

Enjoy
Constantine Emmanouilidi

planet show over Chongqing
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8404/8841 ... 5b0e_o.jpg Venus, Jupiter and Mercury have converged to form a bright triangle over the centre of Chongqing.
I'm very happy to have the chance to enjoy this celestial beauty after several rainy days.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffdai/8841868899/

hello,
here, solar chromosphere today:
C.14 + 150mm off axis red filter
daystar 0.5 A h-alpha filter
process by autostakkert 2 CS and photomatix 4.2 pro
regards

The trio at their peak. Taken from Ankara, Turkiye.
Copyright: M. Raşid Tuğral

Hello,

Here is an image of the planetary conjunction between Jupiter Venus and Mercury. This was one of the best skies I've seen in Thessaloniki Greece and it happened with the closest alignment of the planets. What a great view!
Made with a Takahashi FS60 and a Canon 5D

Constantine Emmanouilidi

sundog and stork in Mérida. Spain. 2013-05-26. feliz cumpleaños, cariño.

Here is a photo from my view. In the middle of a wheat field with the electric line.
This photo taken from Ankara, Turkey.

This is my Venus, Jupiter and Mercury ballet From Italy! (FINALLY A "CLEAR SKY" )

http://www.flickr.com/photos/47290344@N06/8846640869/
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5322/8846 ... 5b26_h.jpg

Venus, Jupiter and Mercury in a nice triple planetary conjunction.
The photo sequence was taken from Kos island, Greece.
More info:
http://www.greeksky.gr/greeksky/slides/ ... Island.htm

Chris Kotsiopoulos
http://www.greeksky.gr

Planetary conjunction, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter, from the ESO VLT at Cerro Paranal.
http://www.sc.eso.org/~gbrammer/three_planets/
Copyright: Gabriel Brammer

Venus, Jupiter and Mercury over Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, France on May 26th.
Thierry Legault
http://www.astrophoto.fr

Copyright: Stephen Mounioloux
http://www.cooledpix.com
http://cooledpix.com/2013/05/21/the-virgo-cluster/
note: reposting the correct unreversed image
Mouseover Image: Image w/o annotations: Annotated Image:

best regards
© Philippe TOSI-FRANCE

Hello folks, some really great Jupiter/Venus/Mercury photos so far. Here is my submission from today.

It was taken near Saguaro National Park in Tucson, AZ.

Saguaro Cactus and 3 planets
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevethatsmyname/
Copyright: Steven Gilbert
Here is also a link to a higher resolution version (well above the 400k limit). You can use either version!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8401/8851 ... 1832_k.jpg

There are also a couple other photos from tonight in my Flickr photostream (link above)

Triple planetary conjunction
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa Plesase find above an image taken on May 26, 2013, showing Venus, Jupiter and Mercury converging in a triangle shaped close conjunction in the twilight sky over the Viverone Lake, some 60 kilometers from Turin (Italy).

Best regards

Stefano

Moon over Madrid Towers (Spain)
2013/05/25
distance of 22,3 km to the towers
telescope 550 mm
Nikon D7000
© Dani Caxete
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danicaxete/ one plane two planes

The Spear thru the Scorpion
http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalret ... 855238726/
Copyright: Marion Haligowski


The Spear thru the Scorpion by Radical Retinoscopy, on Flickr

I was taking a two and a half hour star trail sequence on a cool spring evening when a single exposure captured the brightest meteor that I have seen so far! I really like how the meteor is pointing right at the head of Scorpius. The photo is a 20 second exposure at ISO 400 (f/5.0 with a Sigma 10-20 mm lens @ 14 mm). The photo was taken in the quiet Lancaster County countryside in Pennsylvania.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/calle_l_8/8844646212/ Title: Lunas sobre Espejo (Moon over Espejo)
Espejo is a little village in Andalucía (Spain).
(c) Juan A. Bafalliu Catalá

http://www.flickr.com/photos/calle_l_8/8840067351/
Gran Luna llena sobre Espejo (Great full Moom over Espejo)
-Espejo is a little village in Andalucía (Spain)-
(c) Juan A. Bafalliu Catalá