Starship Asterisk*

IC 5070 close up
Copyright: Lynn van Rooijen-McCullough

NGC 281, the Pacman nebula
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lynn_van_ ... 255209074/
Copyright: Lynn van Rooijen-McCullough

Colours of Antares, Venus and Saturn
27 October 2016, Melbourne, Australia
Copyright: Steve Johnston

SuperMoon 16/10/2016 Rivas-Vaciamadrid (Spain)
Copyright: Francisco Carricondo

Trough to the clouds
ejszakaitajkep.hu
Copyright: Rafael Schmall I shoot the LBN 777 and Pleiades composition (200mm telelens) at october 27, in the Zselic Starry Sky Park. I didnt sight the meteor, only finded at the in the 9. exposure, when I come home. Not only the trail visibe, the meteor have smoke flow under the Pleiades. Perhaps, this is not a Taurid (I checked the radiant), not Orionid... so this is a sporadic and bright meteor. What a lucky night. Where is my lottery ticket?

Constellation: Taurus
Object: Lbn 777, Messier 45, and the Flux nebulas

Image Details:
40 x 180 sec - 2 hours~ / ISO2000 / f3.2 / 200mm

Telescope: Canon EF 200mm f2.8 L USM
Camera: Canon EOS6D - Baader IR Modified
Guiding: No guiding, only a good polar alingment
Filter: Baader IR/UV block
Mount: EQ-5 GT

Processing: Nebulosity and Photoshop
Darks and Flats applied
(single meteor image used as top layer - hard remove of star bloat)

Rafael Schmall
Hungary, Somogy, Zselic Observatory
http://www.ejszakaitajkep.hu
http://www.asztrofoto.hu/adatlap/Rafeee

Moon and Mercury from the Observatorio del Teide (OT) at Tenerife (Canary Islands)
Copyrights: Juergen Rendtel M42 - Orion Nebula
Copyrights: George Chatzifrantzis NGC 300
Copyrights: Joonhwa Lee Venus Reflecting on Causeway Coast of Northern Ireland
Copyrights: Miguel Claro Jupiter
Copyrights: Fabrizio Guerrini Mars, M8 and M20
Copyrights: Fabrizio Guerrini Saturn on 26/03
Copyrights: Damian Peach Full Moon from Punta del Hidalgo, Tenerife (Canary Islands. Spain)
Copyrights: Bernardo Herrera Alonso Melotte 15
Copyrights: ByoungJun Jeong Antares Rocket Launch
Copyrights: Chris Bakley Plasma
Copyrights: Cesar Cantu Quiroga Mercury transit on 9 May '16
Christoph de Brucker Sunset
Copyrights: Nahuel Srnec Milky Way
Copyrights: Nahuel Srnec Horsehead Nebula
Copyrights: Matt Herbik M42 - Orion Nebula
Copyrights: Matt Herbik M33 - Triangulum Galaxy
Copyrights: Matt Herbik Solar Halo and Sundogs
Copyrights: Gábor Nagy Titan experiences dramatic seasonal changes
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
An article: http://www.europlanet-eu.org/titan-expe ... l-changes/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36493

Long-term, hi-res tracking of eruptions on Jupiter’s moon Io
Image credits: Katherine de Kleer and Imke de Pater image, from Gemini Observatory/AURA & Keck Observatory
An article: http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/10/20/lon ... s-moon-io/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36497

Cygnus region
Copyrights: Jérôme Rudelle The Dark Side of the Moon
Copyrights: Alan Potts Mars In Sagittarius
Copyrights: Ugur Ikizler

Orion Nebula
Copyrights: Maicon Germiniani Sundog
Copyrights: Pete Hamilton Downward Light Pillar
Copyrights: Ilya Sheershoff Green flash
Copyrights: Leo Aerts Spiral Galaxy M101
Copyrights: Bijan Moravej Electric Startrail
Copyrights: Stephane Vetter Antares Returns to Flight
Credits and Copyrights: Jared Haworth / We Report Space (wereportspace.com) NGC7380
Copyrights: Haim Huli IC1795
Copyrights: Don Waid
Larger size: http://www.waid-observatory.com/images/ ... B-1600.jpg Noctilucent clouds display over Denmark
Copyrights: Adrien Mauduit Milky Way from San Juan
Copyrights: Jorgelina Alvarez NGC 7331 & Stephan's Quintet
Copyrights: Bagi László Cloud wave
Copyrights: Simon Curthoys Milky Way
Copyrights: Alejandro Romar Tejeiro M31 - Andromeda Galaxy
Copyrights: Ian Griffin Moonrise in the Sunset shadow
Copyrights: William D. Smith ISS Flyby
Copyrights: Dave Sheehy NGC 2170, Stellar Nursery in Monoceros
Copyrights: Robert Gendler
More sizes: http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/NGC2170AU.html Startrails from Perú`s Andes - July 2016
Copyrights: Guillermo Spiers Madge The Pleiades and Hundreds of Galaxies
Copyrights: Ron Brecher Sharpless 2-129 + Outters 4 + vdB 140
Copyrights: Rolf Geissinger

Rigel and Witch Head Nebula reloaded
Copyright: Hermann von Eiff
Farm Tivoli Namibia September 2016
Canon 5D Mark II, modified with Baader UV/IR-filter, Canon 200 mm f/2,8 at f/3,5
60 x 5 min at ISO 1600
processed with PixInsight and Photoshop CC

stars and clouds on the beach
clouds stars https://vimeo.com/172651990

NGC 7380 Wizard Nebula
Copyrights Frank Iwaszkiewicz
www.deep-sky-astroteam.de

Milky Way
Copyrights: Jaime P. Araia Great Sand Dunes National Park
Copyrights: Rick Gleason IC1396
Copyrights: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez, Jesus M. Vargas and Maritxu Poyal Into the thin Air
Copyrights: Jeff Dai NGC281
Copyrights: Jeff S Gegenschein over Tibet
Copyrights: Jeff Dai Milky Way over Pacific Ocean
Copyrights: Brian Haidet M31
Copyrights: Stefano Meneguolo M33
Copyrights: Andreas Max Böckle M78
Copyrights: George Chatzifrantzis M33
Copyrights: Cheng Ke Moon on 07/12/2013
Copyrights: Giuseppe Donatiello Bubble nebula
Copyrights: Sébastien Gozé NGC2070, Tarantula Nebula
Copyrights: Pedro Goles VLT Detects Unexpected Giant Halos Around Distant Quasars
Image credits: ESO/Borisova et al.
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1638/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36505

ICRAR: Australian Telescope Views Sky in Radio Technicolor
Image credits: Radio image by Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR/Curtin) and the GLEAM Team. MWA tile and landscape by Dr John Goldsmith / Celestial Visions.
An article: http://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/ ... _small.jpg http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36511

Night Sky over Driftwood Beach
Copyrights: James N. Brown Human vision (bottom) versus imaging (top) aurora
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado Part of Eastern Veil Nebula called the Bat Nebula (aka Network Nebula)
Copyrights: Steve Milne Young Stellar System Caught in Act of Forming Close Multiples
Image credits: Bill Saxton, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), NRAO/AUI/NSF.
An article: https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressrelea ... tem-caught http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36510

Soul and Heart Nebulae look like mineral geodes
David Lindemann

Cat's Eye Nebula
Credits and Copyrights: Data: Hubble Archive; Processing: Geoffrey Griffith Lightning Strike in Singapore on 25 October 2016
Copyrights: A Kannan M31 - Andromeda Galaxy - Core
Copyrights: Manolis Malakopoulos Pelican Nebula
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Cuckson Martínez The eye in the sky
Copyrights: Stuart Rankin Milky Way, airglow and startrails
Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar NGC 4100
Copyrights: Adam Block Eta Carinae
Credits and copyrights: Data: ESO/INAF/R.Gendler; Processing: R. Colombari / R. Gendler Zodiacal light Teide National Park
Copyrights: Alejandro Roman Gonzalez Perseids meteor shower composite from Joshua Tree National Park
Copyrights: Michael Krypel Rainstorm approaching the coast of Madeira
Copyrights: Ana Andrade

Hello,
The central part of Hearth Nebula.
About 58 hours of 1200s bin 2 SHO. 3 tiles.
ATIK383, AZEQ6, RCGSO8. Pixinsight, Photoshop, Maxpilot, Maxim DL, Focusmax
Hope you enjoy.
The full is here : http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/877555 ... V4full.jpg

Orion , m45 star constellations in a cloudy sky
http://www.astro-hp.dk
Copyright: Niels V. Christensen https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/100 ... I25pct.jpg

Ominous Looking Halloween Aurora

Copyright: Giuseppe Petricca
The picture was taken on October 13th, when the clouds drew a distorted grinning face, with two different colors for the eyes: a bright green in the right one, due to the aurora, and a blue one on the left, due to the twilight colours after the sunset.

The view completely captivated me, and I had the absolute need to capture it in a single picture for the festivity!

10" - f/3.5 - ISO 1600
Canon EOS 700D - 18 mm - Lightroom CC - Photoshop CC
Stornoway - Outer Hebrides - Scotland

From Flame to Sword in Orion Larger at: https://flic.kr/p/MLAfxZ

hola a todos:
Os dejo una foto en LRGB de M-45, a ver que os parece,
estos son los datos:
TOMAS:
R: 15 Light de 600 segundos, 16 Darks, 30 Flats y 50 Bias
G: 16 Light de 600 segundos, 16 Darks, 30 Flats y 50 Bias
B: 16 Light de 600 segundos, 16 Darks, 30 Flats y 50 Bias
L: 16 Light de 600 segundos, 16 Darks, 30 Flats y 50 Bias
TEMPERATURA: -10 GRADOS
TUBO: FSQ 106 ED
CCD: SBIG ST-8300M
MONTURA: CGEM
CCD guiar: QHY5II
LUGAR: LAS INVIERNAS (GUADALAJARA)

M27, the Dumbbell Nebula
Copyrights: John Hayes NASA Missions Harvest a Passel of ‘Pumpkin’ Stars
Image credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Francis Reddy
An article: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/201 ... pkin-stars http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36516

A Dead Star's Ghostly Glow
Image credits: NASA and ESA, Acknowledgment: M. Weisskopf/Marshall Space Flight Center
An article: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/201 ... ostly-glow http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36512

IC11805 & Melotte15
Copyrights: Gerhard Bachmayer In Sahara
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel IC349 - Barnard´s Merope Nebula
Copyrights: Ralf Kreuels The Aurora and zodiacal light
Copyrights: Jingyi Zhang Witch Head Nebula
Copyrights: Dave Lane Front row seat to Aurora + flare
Copyrights: Mia Stålnacke Moon and Jupiter conjuction with airplane
Copyrights: Amir Shahcheraghian Zodiacal light and Moon rising
Copyrights: Amir Shahcheraghian Sunrise in Indianapolis
Copyrights: Dan Heacock The Milky way above the dead
Copyrights: Alejandro Sanz Earthshine Moon
Copyrights: Dani Caxete Face to face with the devil. Sh2 173
Copyrights: Fabiomassimo Castelluzzo La Palma night Skies
Copyrights: Sergi Luque Saturn, Venus and the mill of Monpézat d'Agenais (France - Lot-et-Garonne) on October 29th, 2016
Copyrights: Emmanuel Linden New Bright Nova in Sagittarius
Copyrights: Jeff Dai Setting Milky Way & Venus from Australia
Copyrights: Dylan O'Donnell

Andromeda Galaxy M31
Data: http://www.wittich.com/?p=2491

Helix Nebula in OIII/NIR/Ha by Onejoshsmith, on Flickr

Copyright: Josh Smith

Venus, Saturn, Antares at Dusk
Taken at Walkerville, Victoria, Australia on 29 October 2016
Single exposure, Canon 60Da, 14mm f/2.8, 20s, ISO-3200
Venus extremely bloated, however, star bloat highlights Scorpius nicely.
Alpha Centauri-B and Hadar (The Pointers) on image left point to Crux (Southern Cross) off image.

Lighthouse, planets & stars at dusk
Taken at Cape LIptrap, Victoria, Australia on 30 October 2016
Single exposure, Canon 60Da, 14mm f/5.6, 25s, ISO-400 taken during a brief window in rapidly closing cloud cover.
Venus and Saturn left of image center. Scorpius in upper image center.

The Seven Sisters
http://www.far-light-photography.at
Copyright: Arno Rottal
The Seven Sisters - Pleiades
1x1200sec, 9x900sec L
each 12x600sec for R, G and B

Moravian G2-8300 on Esprit80.

Full resoulution can be found here:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/270786/0/?real=&mod=

The Orion Nebula Complex
http://www.far-light-photography.at
Copyright: Arno Rottal
The Orion Nebula Complex
for Ha:
25x10sec
20x30sec
10x60sec
3x1200sec

each for RGB:
3x30sec
5x5sec
4x600sec

Moravian G2-8300 on Esprit80.

Full resolution can be found here:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/269664/0/?real=&mod=

hola a todos:
Os dejo una foto en LRGB de M-45, a ver que os parece,
estos son los datos:
TOMAS:
R: 15 Light de 600 segundos, 15 Darks, 30 Flats y 50 Bias
G: 16 Light de 600 segundos, 16 Darks, 30 Flats y 50 Bias
B: 16 Light de 600 segundos, 16 Darks, 30 Flats y 50 Bias
L: 16 Light de 600 segundos, 16 Darks, 30 Flats y 50 Bias
TEMPERATURA: -10 GRADOS
TUBO: FSQ 106 ED
CCD: SBIG ST-8300M
MONTURA: CGEM
CCD guiar: QHY5II
LUGAR: LAS INVIERNAS (GUADALAJARA)