Starship Asterisk*

Sep 14 2013 Moon Montes Recti 90km long

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Copyright: Daniel Pasternak ©

PV Cephei Region
Copyrights: Jeff Herman Ring galaxy AM0644-741
Copyrights: Damian Peach Moon Air Wind and Sun
Copyrights: Dani Caxete Orion
Copyrights: Salvatore Spinoso

NGC700 Region
Copyrights: Mohammad Nowroozi Analemma Over Ancient Corinth (Temple of Apollo - God of Light)
Copyrights: Anthony Ayiomamitis M31
Copyrights: Paloma Vidal Moro Incredible Solar Prominence
Copyrights: John Chumack Harvest Moon
Copyrights: John Chumack

geckzilla wrote:My pattern memory is doing well today. I knew I remembered seeing OU4 posted here before, albeit not with as much clarity but good nonetheless. Here's a link to a previous submission by Stephane Zoll: http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=182739#p182739

Do you think that the nebula is lined up with the one in the background by chance or are they somehow related?

I remember seeing Stephane Zoll's image, he took an image of it fairly soon after the paper was published last year. What is needed now is a long exposure closeup that shows it in more detail. I'am very curious about what this object is! There is a chance the two are related but this I think is the more unlikely option. It is more likely that it's large size is due to it being very close, maybe only a few hundred light years. If this is the case, it is one of the largest apparent sized planetary nebulae in our galaxy!! It might not even be a planetary nebula and might be a new type of object!!

Clues to the growth of the Colossus in Coma
Copyrights: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MPE/J.Sanders et al, Optical: SDSS Hale-Bopp (1997)
Copyrights: Bruno Cirillo Harvest Moon in Boston
Copyrights: Chris Cook Loch Ness Monster in the sky (LDN 774, LDN 773, LDN 775, LDN 769, LDN 772, LDN 767 and 768)
Copyrights: Jerry Lodriguss Bubble Nebula (NGC7635) and M52
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari

LDN 978
Copyrights: andyc67@gmail.com When astronomy and poetry collide
Image copyrights: Michael West; Poetry: Pablo Neruda Aurora Jacuzzi
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado Harvest Moon
Copyrights: Leonardo Orazi Harvest Moon
Copyrights: Dani Caxete

A Spark from A Samovar
A Spark from A Samovar (TeaPot)
This is single frame worth 40 sec @ ISO800 captured with 60Da on the Polarie and 24mm/F2.8 lens.
Minimum processing in PixInsight and a lot of noise …
Thanks for looking!

Bye Bye Scorpio

Rho Opiuchi wide field



EOS 5DIII mit 85/1.2L@3.2
ISO1600 20x240sek
GP-D2 mit MGEN

Van Den Bergh 149 & 150 and Lynds Dark Nebula 1235
Copyright: Jeff Husted

Click for Larger Image http://www.flickr.com/photos/cygnusloop ... otostream/
Location: Grandview Campground, Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, California.
Equipment: Televue NP127is at f4.1; Atik 383L+; Atlas EQ-G.
Processing: Images Plus; AIP4WIN; Registar; PS Elements.

Sharpless 2-122 in Pegasus
Copyright: Jeff Husted

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Location: Grandview Campground, Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, California.
Equipment: Televue NP127is at f4.1; Atik 383L+; Atlas EQ-G.
Exposure: 21 x 10 minute Luminance (3.5 hours); 50 min each RGB.
Processing: Images Plus; AIP4WIN; Registar; PS Elements

Zodiacal light in the Mátra Mountains.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zpavel/
Copyright: Zoltán Pável

Copyright: Toby Lo
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Camera: Sony NEX-5 Mod
Len: Contax G35/2
Setting: ISO 1600, F/4
Total Exposure: 107 mins (30s for the House)
Mount: iOptron SkyTracker
Process: DSS, PI, PS CS5

Big Eye
http://www.pbase.com/gordg3
Copyright: Gordon Garcia Up close and personal with the Yerkes 40-inch refractor.

Moon....subtle changes in a day (19.09.2013/20.09.2013)




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© Carlos Di Nallo

Barnard 344 narrowband-RGB combination:

Full resolution

Copyright: André van der Hoeven - http://www.astro-photo.nl

Harvest Moon and the Basilica of Superga
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa Harvest Moon rising alonside the Basilica of Superga, few kilometers from Turin (Italy), on September 19, 2013

Best regards
Stefano

Carina Nebula NGC3372 HaR(Ha)GB
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Image of Carina Nebula captured from my backyard here in Australia (Canberra).
Copyright: Chris Marklew

http://www.ried-sternwarte.de
Copyright: Vladimir Rau
Optics: 12" Newtonian
CCD Camera: Moravian G2 8300
Exposure time: 23 hours (Ha 20 x 30min, O3 10 x 30min, S2 16 x 30 min.)
Date: August 2013



Kind regards,
Vladimir Rau

http://www.ried-sternwarte.de
Copyright: Vladimir Rau
Optics: 12" Newtonian
CCD Camera: Moravian G2 8300
Exposure time: 14 hours (H-alpha 14 x 30 min, OIII 14 x 30 min.)
Date: May/June 2013



Kind regards,
Vladimir Rau

Sep 19 2013 Moon CCD
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Copyright: Daniel Pasternak©

3min capture in IC capture 60fps dmk21.au.618 mono
Virtual Dub out full uncompressed then back into VD and out as tiff’s then into RS5.1 to stack and sharpen.
Then into Photoshop to season to taste.

Full Size:
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Stars and Planets
www.pbase.com/gordg3
Copyright: Gordon Garcia Zubenelgenubi (Alpha Librae), Venus and Saturn gather in the western sky at dusk.

Sometimes you get an idea of the sizes of lunar craters is difficult. I wondered why as take a whole lunar mare, such as Mare Humorum (380km/230mi) above Earth's surface, specifically about my country, Spain.

The central image is the result of a video made with a telescope of more than 1000 frames, Humorum Mare, which highlights the crater Gassendi (110 km / 67mi). The satellite image file belongs to Team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/hom ... j8N1dLIjTo
Francisco Javier Pobes Serrano.
http://www.astrofotoplanetaria.com/

Heart and Soul of Cassiopeia
Canon 70-200 F4L
Copyrights: Jacek Bobowik
http://www.astrofotki.pl
Larger Images:
http://astrofotki.pl/IC1805_1848_HaRGB.jpg
http://astrofotki.pl/IC1805_1848_HST.jpg

A veces es conveniente, y necesario, hacer las cosas solo. 4" después de esta fotografía comienza el siguiente video:
Sometimes it is desirable and necessary to do things alone. 4 "after this photograph begins the following video:
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 79#p209379 Espero que les guste. Buen día de equinoccio para tod@s.
Hope you like. Good day of equinox for all.