Starship Asterisk*

The Elephant's Trunk in IC 1396
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olegbr/812 ... otostream/
Copyright: Oleg Bryzgalov, Ukraine
Crop, size 50%

Hello,

I like to show you my first solar mosaik. It was made from 30 single pics, acquired on 19. Oct. 2012.



Here in full resolution:

http://www.deep-sky-images.de/albums/us ... efarbe.jpg

Thanks for looking,

Markus

Sh2-173 The Phantom of the Opera Emission Nebula in Cas
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-DSO-Nebulae-Sh2-173.htm
Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis

Comet 186/P Hergenrother in Pegasus
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Comets-168P ... 121006.htm
Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis Please allow a moment for the animation to also load.

Comet 260/P McNaught in Andromeda
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Comets-260P ... 121011.htm
Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis

Sun Dogs Over Georgia. 10.26.2012

A galaxy in the mist (NGC 6822)
http://www.glitteringlights.com
Copyright: Marco Lorenzi

Yesterday's 97% Moon, shot taken with SONY A65 and CPC925 while testing new Feather-Touch Focuser ..

Higher res
http://www.nightoverontario.com/Astrono ... &lb=1&s=X3

Thanks for looking
Cheers
Lynn

Ice crystal halo event over Boston - 10/27/2012
Link to imgur album: http://imgur.com/a/Bwfkb

I'd like to submit the artist's rendition for the discovery of a circumbinary planet (dubbed "PH1") in a four-star system by Planet Hunters. Planet Hunters is a citizen science project enlisting the general public to inspect the publicly released Kepler dataset for extrasolar planets. PH1 is the first confirmed planet for the Planet Hunters project and is the first planet to be found in a four-star system. The planet was discovered by Planet Hunters' volunteers Robert Gagliano and Kian Jek and followed-up and confirmed by a Yale-led team of astronomers.


Image Credit: Haven Giguere/Yale

A family portrait of the PH1 planetary system: The newly discovered planet is depicted in this artist’s rendition transiting the larger of the two eclipsing stars it orbits. Off in the distance, well beyond the planet orbit, at ~1000 AU resides a second pair of stars bound to the planetary system. (Image by Haven Giguere/Yale)

A larger version >400K version can be found here.

The paper announcing the discovery has been submitted to Astronomical Journal and can be found in preprint form here.

We have also have a blog post on the Planet Hunters website announcing the discovery which can be found here

I'm project scientist for Planet Hunters and lead author of the paper. I have permission to post the image and submit it to APOD.

Cheers,
~Meg Schwamb
megan.schwamb@yale.edu

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=29772
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=22312

Emission Nebula IC 410 (LBN 807) and Open Cluster NGC 1893 in Auriga

http://www.elateobservatory.com

Copyright: Velimir Popov

The acquisition of the frames was implemented remotely and this is the first light of the remotely controled IRIDA OBSERVATORY.
Large scale and more information is avaliable here ...

Thank you for looking ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/a_costa/8134216753/
La luna del cazador también conocida como luna sanguinea es la primera luna llena después de la luna de la cosecha, que es la luna llena más cercana al equinoccio otoñal. La
Luna del Cazador se llama así porque la luz de la luna es ideal para que los cazadores puedan tirar a las aves migratorias en el norte de Europa. El nombre también se dice que ha sido utilizado por los nativos americanos ya que los rastreadores podian seguir y matar a sus presas a la luz de la luna para conseguir alimentos en otoño y almacenarlos para el invierno. La Luna del Cazador y la Luna de las Cosechas no son más brillantes, más grandes o más amarillas que durante otras épocas del año, pero todas las lunas llenas tienen sus propias características especiales, basándose principalmente en su posición en la eclíptica en el cielo en la época del año que son visibles. Las lunas llenas de septiembre, octubre y noviembre, como se ve desde el hemisferio norte-que se corresponden con la luna llena de marzo, abril y mayo, según se ve desde el hemisferio sur, son bien conocidos en el folklore del cielo.

The sun had some great filaments yesterday. They went over more than 1/4th of the sun and continued over the edge as can be seen in this image.

Imaged with my Lunt 152mm BF3400 and Flea2 ccd video camera.

Cassiopeia
http://skymonsters.net/immagine.php?img ... a_50mm.jpg
Copyright: Nicola Montecchiari

Thierry Legault wrote:A night at Wallaman Falls, Queensland, Australia. A bright meteor crosses the Milky Way, while the light of the gibbous Moon causes a moonbow with the waterfall.

Click to view full size image

Nice capture Thierry, the long exposure with moonlight
really brings out the landscape. Well done.

Bob Andersson wrote:

The Pleiades - M45

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The 2048 x 2048 pixel version may be found here.

Just 5 x 1,000 second blue subs plus 5 x 200 second subs in each of red, green and blue, all at f/7 using a TEC 140 telescope plus an FLI ML16803 camera. Processing via PixInsight and Photoshop. More detail in this thread over at the Stargazer's Lounge.

Bob.

Gorgeous, Bob. The wisps/textures look like paint strokes.

"HC-130 - Hunter's Moon"

Check out this HC-130 passing in front of tonight's "Hunter's Moon" in Tucson, Arizona!

Photo Details:
Canon T3i mounted through a Stellarvue 4" APO Refractor
F/7 ISO 400

Dave Moulton NGC 281

Pacman-Nebula-NGC281-small by daveymoulton, on Flickr

Dave Moulton Western Veil Nebula
Skywatcher Mn 190 scope Camera QSI583, Astrodon Narrowband Filters

Veil-Neb-small by daveymoulton, on Flickr

Dave Moulton Heart Nebula
Scope; Meade ED80, Camera QSI583, Using Astrodon Narrowband Filters, 6HRS Data

Heart-Nebula IC1805 by daveymoulton, on Flickr

Hunter's Moon over the Alps
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa The yellow Hunters Moon setting over the Alps kissed by the first light of the day was a stunning spectacle! The mountain visible in the picture is Rochemelon (11,608 ft or 3,538 m), in the Italian Graian Alps.

Technical details: Turin, October 30, 2012, 7.08 a.m. – Canon Eos 5D MkII – focal lenght: 373 mm – exp: 1/40 sec – aperture: f/8 – ISO: 100.



Best regards

Stefano

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