Starship Asterisk*

Greetings!
My name is Pau Montplet, I'm writing to you from Breda, Catalonia, Spain.

I share my progress and images on my Instagram (@astro_breda)

It is a pleasure for me to be able to show you my best image of the planet Saturn (2024-08-12).

Night with perfect seeing conditions.

The equipment used was an 11" aperture Schmidt Cassegrain and a dedicated planetary camera, with other mechanical and optical accessories.

Processed with Autostakkert, Astrosurface and WinJupos

Credits: Pau Montplet Sanz @astro_breda
Location of capture: Breda, Catalonia, Spain.
Date of Capture: 2024-08-12

Best regards!
Pau M. S.
The Ringed Beauty, Saturn by Pau Montplet Sanz, en Flickr
The Ringed Beauty, Saturn (named version) by Pau Montplet Sanz, en Flickr

Monks Lake under the Milky Way core


Monks Lake under the Milky Way core by Martin Giraud

Here is a panorama taken during the night of August 8th to 9th.

In this picture, you can see the core of the Milky Way above a lake called "Lac des Moines," which means "Monks' Lake" in French. It's located in the Aubrac region, a beautiful area with vast steppes reminiscent of Mongolia.

For the panorama, I captured 8 tiles for the sky, with each tile being a stack of 7 pictures, each with a 30-second exposure. So, for the sky, this represents nearly 30 minutes of exposure time. I used a Star Adventurer mount to avoid star trails in my pictures. As a result, I had to take the foreground separately, which consists of 3 tiles.


Location: Lac des Moines, Aubrac, France
Settings: ISO 4000 - f/2 - 30 seconds
Equipment: Canon 6D (astro-modified) - Sigma ART 20mm - Star Adventurer


Martin GIRAUD
https://www.instagram.com/tinmar_g/

Messier 70 - The NGC 6681 Globular Cluster

BEST DETAILS:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/nyvbqa/0/

EQUIPMENT:
Esprit 150mm triplet
Zwo asi 6200mc
Mount CEM120
Frames 93 x 100""

LOCATION: Munhoz - MG - Brazil
DATES: From 08/230/2023 to 09/21/2023


PROCESSING AND CAPTURE:
Adobe Photoshop, ASTAP, SGP, PHD2 and PixInsight

Author: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
Email: Barretosmed@hotmail.com
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/menezes_fo?ig ... _source=qr
(Organizing author of the book Amateur Astrophotography in Brazil)
https://clubedeautores.com.br/livro/ast ... -no-brasil

The Crescent nebula
The Crescent Nebula, or NGC 6888, is a 25 light-year-wide emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. This “cosmic bubble” in space owes its striking appearance to a central Wolf-Rayet star, WR 136, that pushes the hydrogen and oxygen atoms outward.
It has an apparent magnitude of 7.4, is 18 x 12 arc minutes in size, and lies about 5,000 light-years away from Earth. The Crescent Nebula is also known as Caldwell 27, and Sharpless 105, and was first cataloged by William Herschel in 1792.

Image Credit: Andrea Iorio
Marino, Rome, Italy
Aug 2024, Bortle 7/8 (sqm 18.71)
ZWO ASI533MC Pro (gain 101, offset 40, -10°C)
ZWO OAG & ASI 120MM for guiding
Tecnosky GSO RC6" @ f6 (+ 0,67X reducer)
Skywatcher EQM-35 Pro
Svbony SV220 dualband 7nm filter
Svbony UV/IR cut filter (for stars)

Total acquisition 14 hours




https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/WPXPcMs ... TZ0INm.jpg

Andromeda’s central black hole

The Andromeda Galaxy, which is visible to the naked eye, is one of the nearest galaxies to the Milky Way. In its centre it houses a very massive black hole, which has a mass more than 100 million times that of the Sun. The mass of Andromeda's monster black hole is 140 million times greater than that of our Sun. Andromeda is 2.5 million light-years from Earth.

The study reveals the existence of long filamentary structures of gas and dust which move in a spiral starting at a distance from the black hole and ending up at the black hole itself.

To see the filamentary structure more clearly, please do zoom up (left image) revealing these filaments of dust and gas which is being pulled into to the black hole.

A further zoom of the zone (right image) shows the filaments targeting with precision the black hole location, obviously taking into consideration this image is done by an amateur telescope (RC 400mm).

https://www.flickr.com/photos/astrotolva/
Copyright: Lluís Romero Ventura

Rho Ophiuchi

https://www.instagram.com/max.nti/
Copyright: Max Inwood

Location: New Zealand
Date: 2 August 2024

Rho Ophiuchi is easily one of the most spectacular and colorful parts of the night sky, containing everything from dark dust and emission nebulae to globular clusters. Located right next to the Milky Way core, the long winter nights in New Zealand are an ideal time to photograph it. Image taken at 135mm.

Higher res: https://www.flickr.com/photos/199702830 ... ateposted/
Annotated: https://www.flickr.com/photos/199702830 ... otostream/