There have been some great pictures posted here in June, and I would like to comment on some of them. I will do so from the position of my own personal preferences, which means that I will not be perfectly fair to all of you, I'm sorry to say.
The first June picture that I really liked was Petr Horálek's fascinating "Various Airglow and Gravity Waves above the La Silla".
I really liked Colin Robson's Southern Cross image, where the Coalsack looks like a whale, ready to eat Alpha Crucis.
I really appreciated Roberto Colombari's portrait of M78.
Jeff Dai's picture of Milky way and Zodiacal light over Yamdrok Lake cut the Milky Way fascinatingly in two, and showed us both the northern part of the Milky Way with Perseus and Cassiopeia and the southern part with Sagittarius and Scorpius.
Michelle St. Onge's Lunar Eclipse from Australia has an almost otherworldly quality, with the eclipsed Moon hanging broodingly in the sky as an ominous alien presence.
I'm always fascinated by the planetary nebula-like object Ou4, which is more likely the result of an outburst of a binary or multiple massive hot bright star, so I was very happy to see Josh Smith's portrait of it. Great color, too!
I'd like to thank Sebastián Colombo for bringing the Big Foot of Sagittarius to our screens!
I think Sergio's portrait of Collinder 316 and IC 4628 Region in Scorpius is splendid. The detail is sharp and crisp, and the color is simply delightful.
I'm glad to see noodle come back here to post his(?) second picture, a fine image of the Blue Horsehead sniffing the cosmic odour(?) of Saturn!
I'm glad to see nezve's wide image of the fascinating star formation region of Corona Australis.
I like the dreamy feeling of Nicolas Guerin's Venus and the colorful sunset.
I like C. Iaffaldano and R. Colombari's portrait of M20. This is the second time that I have seen a part of the blue reflection nebula of M20 look faintly yellowish where it meets the red emission nebula of the same object.
I like Damian Peach's Jupiter portraits, where the Great Red Spot, peeking through at right in the top image, clearly looks redder than any other part of the cloud tops.
I like Geonni Banner's impressive cloud!
I like Aggelos Makris' portrait of the winter constellations and the intense color of Comet Lovejoy passing through.
I like Nicholas Daniyyel's portrait of the moonrise on June 2. Again there is this otherworldly feeling, where the Moon looks at once huge and delicately weightless, as if it had been a pale yellow balloon soaring over the the landscape.
I like John Vermette's portrait of one of my favorite galaxies, M100. M100 is barred spiral-like galaxy with no visible bar, and this portrait makes it glaringly obvious that M100 has all the characteristics of a barred galaxy except, indeed, the visible bar.
I like Marcin Paciorek's image of the Cygnus Cross. I appreciate the fact that the image is not too red, and that you are able to appreciate what parts of Cygnus look red without extra Ha enhancement. Note that both the North America Nebula and the Veil Nebula look slightly bluish.
I like Marcin Paciorek's fine picture of Fireworks galaxy, NGC 6946, and open cluster NGC 6939.
I like Klaus R. Brasch's image of the Scorpion's stinger. That is a very fine and exuberantly starry portrait of the lower part of Scorpius.
I find Cristian López' portrait of a moonlit beach lovely indeed.
It's good to see a fine Hubble portrait of a galaxy here. The colors are great, too, which is not always the case with Hubble pictures.
Tango33, I like your new images, particularly the one of the Eyes galaxies!
Petr Horálek, your picture "From the Earth to the Vega" is a great way to bring out both the Milky Way and the lovely blue Vega!
Alfonso Carreño, I like your processing of the Crescent Nebula! The details are fine, and the colors great.
Wow, Daniel Pasternak, that is some cloud bank!!!!
And the sunset is beautiful.
Amit Ashok Kamble, I really like your Scorpius portrait! That's lovely.
Denis Priou, that is a fine portrait of the cluster that looks like an open cluster but is really a globular cluster.
Bonobo, I love that sunset image of yours! Amazing.
randallx200, that is truly a fantastic-looking Moon portrait!
Richard Hammar, I love your M6 portrait! So beautiful.
Francisco José Fernández Gómez, there have been so many great Venus-Jupiter conjunction images here, but yours is special to me. There is something about the nostalgic 19th century technology of the railway, with the railway tracks stretching into the distance as if reaching for the future, with the colorful railway lights echoing the light spectacle in the sky, and the serene late twilight sky colors adding a dreamy quality to the scene.
Amirreza Kamkar, those trees in your conjunction pictures are fantastic!
Sergio Emilio Montúfar Codoñer, I love your annotated image of the Moon-Venus-Jupiter conjunction sky!
Raul Villaverde Fraile, that is a fantastic image of Cygnus. I can't get over the fact that I can so clearly see NGC 6914 in such a wide-angle picture! And I can clearly see one of the most colorful stellar trios in the sky, double star 31 Cygni along with 30 Cygni.
Markus Noller, I simply love your Antares region portrait! You made this well-known complex look like an enormous multicolored flower emerging from a sickly-green stem.
Jeff Warner, if you only knew how rarely I comment on aurora photos! But yours is special. The way those multicolored columns stick up over the mountain, like the headgear of some kind of incredible alien, is fantastic. The weirdly shaped Moon adds to the otherworldly feeling of the image.
fred_76, thanks for posting your very first images here! I like your Pluto-Charon animation.
daniyyel, I can see that this is your first post here! Welcome to Starship Asterisk*, and thank you for your fine Moon photo.
Tunç Tezel, I like the colors of your conjunction picture. I especially like the pinkness of the Moon.
Zhuoxiao Wang, I like your galaxy and Antares pictures.
StrongmanMike, that is a great portrait of the Swan Nebula!
Alex Dantart, I simply love the sky you have photographed here. The waviness of the clouds make them look solid, and the crescent Moon looks like a delicate lamp or decoration of some sort, hanging in front of the clouds.
I like the ESO image of M87, particularly because it made me pay attention to another galaxy in that picture. That is a Virgo spiral galaxy with no star formation or young stars or dust at all,
NGC 4440.
I really liked the picture of the Special Astrophysical Observatory/Hubble Space Telescope image of a black hole in dwarf galaxy Holmberg II, not least because it made me look up Holmberg II and find some fascinating pictures of it.
LI Hang, I like the green aurora arching like a green rainbow over the Moon.
Wei-Hao Wang, I like your NGC 7023 with nearby bright Mira variable. Could the Mira variable be T Cepheus?
Chris Cook, the aurora in your picture blends in a most lovely way with the sunset colors.
Leonardo Orazi, I'm always happy to see your beautiful pictures with their splendid colors!
Rogelio Bernal Andreo, I love your wide-angle images! It was a joy to go galaxy-hunting in your image and find, among other galaxies, M60, M90, M91, the Siamese twins, M99, M100, and of course Markarian's Chain with the Eyes galaxies, as well as Cd galaxy M87.
Robert Gendler, thank you so much for processing the Hubble image of great cluster Westerlund 2 in Carina!
Bill Warden, that is a fascinating animation showing the expansion of the Crab Nebula!
Jose Luis Sanchez, thank you for the annotated image of the summer Milky Way!
Josh Smith, I like your "Equality for all" portrait of great globular cluster M13.
Marcin Paciorek, thank you for showing us three crosses in the southern sky!
José Francisco del Aguila, that is a brilliant portrait of IC 4015 and IC 410 and the asterism, the Leaping Minnow. I just love how you brought out the extra blue color of ApSi star IQ Aurigae!
Dani Caxete, those fossilized trilobites look fantastic.
strongmanmike, that is an amazing portrait of planetary nebula 6545! It almost looks as if there was a red heart inside it.
cyandro, I love how you have composed your image so that the arch of the Milky Way mirrors the slope of that hill and the trees growing on it.
Philippe TOSI, I can't believe how you managed to make Venus peek through the "eye hole" of that decorative rooster!
Sérgio Bettencourt, that is an amazing cloud. Seriously!
Wolfgang Neszmerak, I love that "extra blue color" of the noctilucent clouds in your picture.
Aldo Mottino, that is a very fine picture of Jupiter and Venus. The crescent shape of Venus is beautifully portrayed, and you can see all the Galilean moons of Jupiter.
Giuseppe Petricca, that is a lovely conjunction picture over the leaning tower of Pisa.
