Starship Asterisk*

B150 - NGC6946 - NGC6939
(Takahashi FSQ 106 EDX f3.6 - two panel mosaic 20x600sec + 16x600sec QHY8L camera - Forca Canapine, Marche)
Copyrights: Gianni Fardelli

Better resolution here: http://bit.ly/1666Of9

Milky Way from La Palma
http://www.astronomie.be/pieter.vandevelde/
Copyright: Pieter Vandevelde

This Mosaic was taken last week from Roque de los Muchachos on the Canary Island La Palma.
It is made up of 2 panels each exposed for 1 hour.
Full size here:
http://www.astronomie.be/pieter.vandeve ... 20apod.jpg

Best regards,

Pieter

Let me place here my own pictures - they are not so spectacular, but I am proud of it anyway - all the more so because I did these photographs without the specialist equipment - ordinary camera.

M7
Konstantin Poezjaev
http://www.kost973.com/images/_2013/M7.html

Rho Ophiuchi
http://www.astrofotografia.com.pl/
Copyright: Piotrek Sadowski FULL RESOLUTION:
http://www.astrofotografia.com.pl/photo ... HO/rho.htm

IC1805 The heart nebula Hubble pallete combined with RGB

copyright: André van der Hoeven

Full resolution

The Elephant Trunk Nebula
Copyright: Lonnie Hunker

M45 Pleiades Cluster
http://www.joerenzetti.com
Copyright: Joe Renzetti

Lunar Iridescent Clouds again...

Sonora Desert Marana Arizona
15 Sep 2013, 19:14

Lunar Newport Lagoon

http://exitpupil.org
Copyright: Scott MacNeill

http://exitpupil.org/images/photos/luna ... l_full.jpg
[attachment=0]lunar_newport_lagoon_scott_macneill_full.jpg[/attachment]

NGC281 - Pacman Nebula BICOLOR (Ha+OIII)
http://blog.astrofotky.cz/pavelpech
Copyright: Pavel Pech


NGC281 - Pacman Nebula (Ha+L)
http://blog.astrofotky.cz/pavelpech
Copyright: Pavel Pech

Samuel Díaz López
http://www.astrobin.com/users/samueldl/

NGC 7771 Galaxy Group



This image was taken from astronomical remote observatory AstroCamp (Nerpio, Spain)

Trifid Nebula, M20
http://www.astrotiermes.es
Copyleft: Jaime Fernandez

Amateur challenge:
Well, for sure this is not the best Trifid nebula picture ever seen. But have a look to the equipment specifications: It have been done using a rather modest telescope, camera and mount, the kind of equipment almost any amateur can get for a very few bucks.

- Telescope was a GSO reflector, 200mm diameter. Very fast f/4 and one of the best valued in the low price band, but heavy and not the best optics/mechanics you can get in the market.
- Camera was a second hand Canon 350D, home-modified to take IR filter off. This have been the first serious astrophoto camera for many of us, a good base to learn but plenty of hot pixels during northern summer.
- Mount was a Vixen GP, maybe one of the best in his class, but surely a little small for such amount of weight.
- Guidescope was purchased in eBay for less than 30$. After some glue, screwing and adaptations, the focuser only play and wobble by 0.5mm to each direction...

Now see it again and think on the efforts of getting such image with so limited equipment, and let me explain the enjoyment and pride I feel sharing it now with all of you.

Trifid Nebula:
The Trifid Nebula (also known as Messier 20 and NGC6514) is an H II region with a remarkable collection of open cluster, emission nebula (the lower, red portion), reflection nebula (the upper, blue portion) and dark nebula (the septation within the emission nebula causing the trifid appearance, also designated Barnard 85).

Comet ISON ( C/2012 S1 ) on September 14th, 09:29ut. At last I was able to capture it above the forest canopy and just in time before Sunrise, light over exposure. Neg. image 50% enlarged. Raw (unprocessed) Animation At: http://www.jaicoa-observatory.com/C2013 ... im-EMr.gif Time lapse of 20 min. approax. (Equipment: LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, F6.3, CGE mount, ST402me NAB Ccd, Astronomik Ir/Uv filter.)

Subject:NGC6992 imaged in Ha + OIII
Copyrights: James Collins

Large image URL:
http://jimstar11.com/NGC6992_apod
Website:
http://jimstar11.com

Tunnel of Lunar Iridescent Clouds
Taken 16 Sep 2013 22:19
Sonora Desert of Marana Arizona Three of the Last Four Nights with Lunar Iridescent Clouds
Taken 16 Sep 2013 22:20
Sonora Desert of Marana Arizona

Starry night over the Great Wall of China


Meteor, firefly, Milky way and watch tower on Great wall of China by SteedJoy, on Flickr


Milky way over watch tower of Great Wall by SteedJoy, on Flickr


Airglow over the Big Dipper on the Great wall by SteedJoy, on Flickr


Gemini and Orion over Great Wall of China by SteedJoy, on Flickr

For more photos please check http://www.flickr.com/photos/steedjoy/.

M22 - wide
Copyright: Marcin Paciorek http://www.astromarcin.pl

FSQ/ST8300 - LRGB

Full picture http://www.astromarcin.pl/images/cluste ... 3_2500.jpg

NASA's Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space
Image credits: NASA
More about: http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pressr ... 130912.asp Aurora over Viking house
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado PV Cephei and Gyulbudaghian's Nebula
Copyrights: Leo Bette M33
Copyrights: Marko Rukavina Fireworks Galaxy NGC 6946
Copyrights: Martin Rusterholz Jet Shows How Stars Begin Their Final Transformation
Credits: E. Lagadec/ESO/A. Pérez Sánchez
More about: http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/22 ... sformation

Rho Opuchi
Copyrights: Eduardo Latorre and José Joaquín Pérez Contemplating Milky Way
Copyrights: Juan Filas NGC5139 Omega Centauri
Image Credit & Copyright: Angus Lau, Y Van, SS Tong - Jade Scope Observatory C/2012 V2 LINEAR
Copyrights: Damian Peach The Milky Way
Copyrights: Greg Bradley

NGC 7023 Iris Nebula
Copyright: Thomas Henne
http://www.distant-lights.at Higher Resolution

The middle of Lagoon Nebula

http://www.astrofotografia.com.pl
Copyright: Piotrek Sadowski

NGC7000 & co, 65H in NSHO with FSQ106ED

http://www.felopaul.com/galerie/photo37f.jpg info : http://www.felopaul.com/galerie/photo37.htm

Copyright: Didier CHAPLAIN & Laurent BOURGON
http://www.felopaul.com

M31 Andromeda Galaxy
http://www.joerenzetti.com
Copyright: Joe Renzetti

I'm submitting this photo to APOD of anticrepuscular rays at moonrise, taken over Nimisila Reservoir near Akron, Ohio.
It was taken the evening of September 17, 2013 by David Richards, Director , Hoover-Price Planetarium