Starship Asterisk*

M109
http://www.azstarman.net
Copyright: Bernard Miller

M109
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Copyright: Bernard Miller

Super bubble in Vela
Copyrights: Wei-Hao Wang
Larger size: http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/169804 Auriga Panorama
Copyrights: Terry Hancock Aurora at zenith of the sky
Copyrights: Evangelos Souglakos Letting the Moon go
Copyrights: Edward Wolohan Milky Way
Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar Solar Halo
Copyrights: Mike Melnychuk Black Hole Winds Pull the Plug on Star Formation
Image credits: ESA
An article: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space ... _formation http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34587

Milky Way from Germany
Copyrights: Thorsten Fritz

Best View Yet of Dusty Cloud Passing Galactic Centre Black Hole
Image credits:ESO/A. Eckart
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1512/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34591

Dark matter even darker than once thought
Image credits: NASA, ESA, D. Harvey (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland), R. Massey (Durham University, UK), the Hubble SM4 ERO Team, ST-ECF, ESO, D. Coe (STScI), J. Merten (Heidelberg/Bologna), HST Frontier Fields, Harald Ebeling(University of Hawaii at Manoa), Jean-Paul Kneib (LAM)and Johan Richard (Caltech, USA)
An article: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1506/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34588

Seagull Nebula - IC2177
Copyrights: Madhup Rathi TIROS Radio Satellite and Star Trails
Copyrights: Jack Fusco Gum 15 and NGC 2626
Copyrights: Leonardo Julio
Larger version: http://astronomiapampeana.com.ar/foto/1 ... 26_hd.html Milky Way over Arch Rock
Copyrights: Rick Whitacre Further Jupiter images (Feb 26th.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach Rosette Nebula
Copyrights: Augusto Hernandez

Omega Centauri
Copyrights: Steve Broadbent Jupiter 22nd Mar 2015
Copyrights: Simon Kidd Giant Prominence on March 27, 2015
Copyrights: Oscar Martín Mesonero Circumzenithal Arc
Copyrights: Florian Wirth Saturn (February 26th, 2015)
Copyrights: Damian Peach M109
Copyrights: Bernard Miller Omega Centauri in wide-field
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari
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Jupiter and the Beehive
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Copyright: Marion Haligowski

Jupiter and the Beehive by Radical Retinoscopy, on Flickr

upiter is seen near the constellation cancer and the beehive cluster on March 24, 2015. This photo is a stack of 61 twenty second exposures taken with a Canon T2i, Canon 100 mm f/2.0 lens at f/3.2 @ ISO 800. Tracking was done with an iOptron Sky Tracker and stacked in Nebulosity.

ULA Delta IV GPS IIF-9 Launch
Copyrights: Jared Haworth Luminos Red Nova
Copyrights: Ciprian Dumitru\Astronomical Observatory Barlad One Extra Star
Copyrights: Jimmy Westlake Great Red Spot rotation movie (Feb 26th.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach
http://www.damianpeach.com/barbados15/g ... ion_dp.gif Moon
Copyrights: Joanna Bialek

River of Stars

This wield field Astrophoto includes a lot of celestial objects, NGC3114, Southern Pleiades, NGC3572, NGC3552, Lambda cen Nebula, Pearl Cluster, NGC4103, NGC4436, NGC4349, Coalsack Nebula, NGC4756, NGC 4852, these is a 8x30s image! of one of my favorite regions of the Milky Way.

APOD only: Feel free to remove the data from below the image.

I am attaching two versions.

By. Sergio Montúfar

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Star Cluster M34 in Perseus by Oleg Bryzgalov, on Flickr

M100: spiral galaxy in Coma Berenices by Oleg Bryzgalov, on Flickr

Hickson 44 in Leo by Oleg Bryzgalov, on Flickr

Copyright. Raul Villaverde Fraile
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Markarian by astrocentejo, on Flickr

309" . sun. 180mm 580". sun. 400mm. para este día había previsión de cenizas procedentes del volcán Eyjafjallajökull de Islandia. el sol se podía ver bien alto sin protección// to this day he had forecast ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. the Sun was a visible high good without protection 358" . moon and tree. 400mm. waxing crescent, age 17,98%, illumination 28,85% .

Galactic center from the VLT platform at Cerro Paranal by alexis.coleiro, on Flickr

Galactic center from the VLT platform at Cerro Paranal by alexis.coleiro, on Flickr

M13
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Copyright: Tim Christensen

Northern Lights over Vesturhorn Mountain, Iceland
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Copyright: Grant Collier

I captured this shot of the northern lights over Vesturhorn Mountain while in Iceland recently. In the foreground, you can see many small black sand dunes with grass on the top. It's a very surreal place.

The Antennae - A collision of galactic proportions
NGC4038 and NGC4039
This is an LRGB composition, with 16.5 hours of data collected through a 12.5" telescope, from a suburban Canberra (Australia) backyard, March 2015.
Faint structures are clearly visible showing the merger of the two central cores. This is a good example of some serious star-burst activity occurring

https://flic.kr/p/rR1ZjY
http://www.astrobin.com/full/168338/C/
Copyright: Chris Marklew

Zodiacal light, Mercury and the Galactic center from Cerro Paranal by alexis.coleiro, on Flickr

Zodiacal light, Mercury and the Galactic center from Cerro Paranal by alexis.coleiro, on Flickr

MW Core near Sagitarius

This is a full frame 55mm stacked tight shot of the Milky Way near the constellation Sagittarius. The core is apparent and "below left" of the core you can make out the very bright region associated with the Lagoon Nebula (M8).
Copyright: Ardash Muradian
Bigger image at: https://plus.google.com/+ArdashMuradian ... nkQByz2eMp
Bigger image at: https://plus.google.com/+ArdashMuradian ... nkQByz2eMp

Beautiful shot - great composition too!

NGC 3576 The Statue of Liberty From the south.
Image obtained from San Antinio de Areco Buenos Aires Argentina 22/03/15.
Telescope 200/1000.
SW Mount NEQ6 By.
Guided Astro-Tech Quad Apo 65MM.
I hope the Agrade.
Greetings.
Copyright Sebastian Colombo

IC4628 Gamba nebulosa
Foto obtenida de San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires, Argentina el 21/03/15.
SW 200/1000 en el monte NEQ6.
Copyright: Sebastián Colombo

Winter Constellation, Jupiter, Venus and Moon with 22 degree Halo
Copyrights: Sneh Kesari Aurora borealis from the plane
Copyrights: Carsten Jonas South African Large Telescope and Milky Way
Copyrights: Paul Kruger A Spotty Jupiter with Io (February 25th.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach Night sky over Roque de Los Muchachos
Copyrights: Oliver Stein NGC1579, The Northern Trifid Nebula
Copyrights: Ron Brecher SH-2 312
Copyrights: Leonardo Julio
Full size: http://astronomiapampeana.com.ar/foto/1 ... 12_hd.html Aurora Australis
Copyrights: Russell Wiltshire NGC 7380 - Wizard Nebula
Copyrights: César Blanco González
Full size: http://www.cieloprofundo.com/cesar/foto ... 0_2000.jpg Super Moon on August 11th 2014
Copyrights: Natalia Faulkner Crescent Nebula NGC6888 Bi-Color
Copyrights: Terry Hancock NGC 3359
Credits and copyrights: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona Return to Rhea
Credits: NASA
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/det ... d=pia19057

Equinox New Moon & Conjunction
Moon+Venus


Date: 2015/03/21

by: Sergio Montúfar
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Colima Volcano.
Copyrigth: César Cantú
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