Starship Asterisk*

Perseids between Alien Skies and Alien Places
Copyrights: Lefteris Velissaratos All Sky Crepuscular and Anti-Crepuscular Rays
Copyrights: Robert Sparks Moon over the Ice Beach in Island August 19th
Copyrights: Leonardo Villa Three Stars Rise between Buildings
Copyrights: Jiakang Zhang M33 close-up
Copyrights: Michael Schmidt Milky Way from Calcutta, India
Copyrights: Ranjit Biswas Perseid meteor
Copyrights: Arman Golestaneh Mars dust storm (June 15th.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach Hubble Space Telescope over Scorpious
Copyrights: Fernando Cabrerizo Milky Way and Lighthouse
Copyrights: Victor Gonzalez Jupiter, Mercury, Venus from Madrid
Copyrights: José Luis Hdez Verdejo Up close image of Friday's Delta IV launch
Copyrights: John Kraus Perseid meteor shower
Copyrights: Jacob Penchansky M97 and M108
Copyrights: Jose Mtanous Very close Jupiter-Venus encounter - 01/07/2015h
Copyrights: Petr Horálek Perseid outbust over Slovak Dark sky park
Copyrights: Petr Horálek Bolide over the Carpathian mountains
Copyrights: Boris Pankovčin Protostar and Propylids
Copyrights: Josh Smith
Larger size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/89595690@ ... ed-public/ Meteor shower
Copyrights: Boris Štromar Perseids
Copyrights: Ugo Bartole Sharpless 115 with Abell 71
Copyrights: Jens Zippel MIlky way from South to North
Copyrights: Jordi Fraxanet
Larger size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jordi_sol ... 871006690/ Mercury, Venus and Jupiter triangle from APEX, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Copyrights: Felipe Mac Auliffe

Copyright: Elisabetta Trebeschi
Star trail with ISS, Italian Air Force, and iridium flare. Taked from Siena in Italy, in a cloudy night
Star trail, ISS, air force and Iridium after sunset by E T, su Flickr

Lunar eclips behind Wind turbine
Copyright: Ariana Ahangari

Solar portrait 27 Sep 2011 1618 UTC (Painting) None too easy to pay respect to our Sun, with painting knife and oils. This was based on a sketch done on to paper while projecting with binoculars.

"Volcanic turmoil", radiating out from the propeller nebular . by Paul C. Swift, on Flickr

LDN 1250 - 1251
http://observatorioelche.blogspot.com.es/
Copyright: Juan Lozano de Haro https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ysWPdp3vuSA/ ... 2B400k.jpg

NGC7380: The Wizard Nebula
http://www.zonalunar.com
Copyright: Alfonso Carreño Garcerán (Observatorio Zonalunar)

The Nebulae of Sagittarius and Clouds of the Milky Way by Transient Astronomers, on Flickr

Image credit and copyright Tom Masterson

NGC 7129 & 7142
Copyright: Chuck Manges





NGC7129 V2.0 by Chuck Manges, on Flickr

Io over Jupiter's clouds from Voyager 1 on March 3 1979

https://www.flickr.com/photos/alex-is-s ... ed-public/
The scene is composed of a 12-frames mosaic made of 28 individual images (12 oranges filters and 16 violets filters).
Image credit : Voyager 1 Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS): NASA / JPL-Caltech / Alexis Tranchandon / Solaris

The vortex at Saturn's north pole from Cassini on December 30, 2013

https://www.flickr.com/photos/alex-is-s ... ed-public/
Color composite from red,CB2 and MT2 filters images.
Image credit : NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute / Alexis Tranchandon / Solaris

SH2 140
http://www.massimotosco.it/image-galler ... 2-140.html
Copyright : Massimo Tosco

Messier 27, the Dumbbell nebula captured in narrowbad H-alpha, SII, OIII to RGB with a total exposure time of 335 min using a 318 mm PlaneWave CDK at iTelescope's observatory at AstroCamp in Nerpio, Spain.

M27-T18-HSO-335min by Michael Hultström, on Flickr

Cheers,

Michael

Image Acquisition by Lloyd Smith at Deep Sky West Remote Observatory and processing Jaspal Chadha UK

Orion Nebula

NGC 659
Copyright: Jaspal Chadha

Albireo
Copyright Jaspal Chadha
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Mount Everest and the Himalayas
Credits and Copyrights: Data: ISS; Processing: Michael West The Full Moon at Mauna Kea, Hawaii
Copyrights: Richard Nederlander ISS crossing the Sun
Copyrights: Scott Gauer Double planetary conjunction on Sunday 21st August
Copyrights: Doug Ingram Belt of Venus
Copyrights: Alessandro Marchini The Moon
Copyrights: Dan Llewellyn M31, Andromeda Galaxy
Copyrights; Yu-Hang Kuo Campo Imperatore Observatory (2150m) in the moonlight
Copyrights: Danilo Pivato First quarter phase of the Moon
Copyrights: Francesco Badalotti Lunar landscapes
Copyrights: Francesco Badalotti Cygnus Loop and a fake galaxy
Copyrights: André Füzfa Thunder in Dallas
Copyrights: Chris Heck Spiral Meteor Spears the Heart
Copyrights: Roger N Clark Scientists Discover Massive Galaxy Made of 99.99 Percent Dark Matter
Image credits: Pieter van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, GEMINI, Sloan Digital Sky Survey
An article: http://www.keckobservatory.org/recent/e ... ark_matter http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36292

Milky Way over Redfish Lake near Stanley Idaho
Copyrights: Wally Pacholka

A rare close encounter of Venus & Jupiter. It won't happen again until 2065. Gulf of Patras, Greece.
http://www.alexandrosmaragos.com
Copyright: Alexandros Maragos

A rare close encounter by Alexandros Maragos, on Flickr

Perseids Shower One Day After the Peak
Copyrights: Miguel Claro Star trails over Forbidden city
Copyrights: Jeff Dai Perseid meteor shower
Copyrights: Theresa Rose Ditson M51 and more than 2700 galaxies
Copyrights: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez Cosmic Neighbors Inhibit Star Formation, Even in the Early-Universe
Image credits: NASA/CXC/SAO/G.Ogrean/STSCI/NRAO/AUI/NSF
An article: http://www.keckobservatory.org/recent/e ... ever_found http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36285

Saturn (June 15th)
Copyrights: Damian Peach Milky Way from Custer Institute in Southold, NY
Copyrights: Michael Ledesma NGC7129
Credits and Copyrights: Data: Scott Johnson, Daniele Malleo, Rick Stevenson, Bret Charles, José Mtanous and John Kasianowicz; Processing: José Mtanous M96 group of galaxies - M95, M96, M105, NGC 3384, NGC 3389
Copyrights: Jeffrey O. Johnson (near) infrared Cocoon
Copyrights: Denis Priou Moonrise and milky way over the lavender fields in Brihuega, Spain
Copyrights: Javier Martínez Morán Moonrise over the Four Towers Business Area in Madrid
Copyrights: Javier Martínez Morán Milky way over the caldera de Taburiente in La Palma, Spain
Copyrights: Javier Martínez Morán ALMA Finds Unexpected Trove of Gas Around Larger Stars
Credits: NRAO/AUI/NSF; D. Berry / SkyWorks
An article: https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressrelea ... ma-ob-disk http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36293

Aurora over Eurosian fault
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado

Setting Jupiter & Venus conjuction

copyright: Rafael Schmall

Large version: http://www.asztrofoto.hu/galeria/img/1472332065.jpg

"The planning after rush hour project". Look, find, take photos and chill. How about the sky? The transparency is very bad... Seeing also, but ... this is a rare situation.

Object: Jupiter & Venus

Image Details:
72 x 1/20 sec / ISO1600 / f11 / 400mm

Telescope: Admiral 400/6.3 telelens
Camera: Canon EOS6D
Guiding: none
Filter: none
Mount: Fix

Processing: Startrails and Photoshop

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

A Day in the Astro Camp
Copyright: György Soponyai



This picture is the result of a 33-hour-long photo experiment I had been planning for more than two years. Besides analemmas and solar eclipses, whole-day-long Little Planets were always on the top of my photo wish-list.

The annual astro camp of Hungarian Astronomical Association is held in Gerecse Mountain near Tarján (~50km southwest from Budapest) every year.
At first two years ago I tried to take a picture like this one however I left half of my equipment at home including the extra batteries. Using the remaining stuff I quickly improvized a other style of picture - this was the result: https://www.flickr.com/photos/vanamonde81/14616245588

The next March I went to the Spitsbergen in order to capture the total solar eclipse and my dream was an additional 24-hour-long photo with the Totality and some cool startrails painted green by aurora. What I did not except was the lack of darkness during the night, the maximum depth of the Sun was 9 degrees below the horizon at midnight. However I completed the daylight-part of the picture with this result: https://www.flickr.com/photos/vanamonde81/16528000654

My third attempt on The astro camp of last year was cut short after the night-part. I captured the startrails but the morning was so cloudly. Here is that result: https://www.flickr.com/photos/vanamonde81/21022861192


Now, my fourth attempt started on 28th July Thursday evening. The air was very humid and partially cloudly. From 10:00 pm to 04:30 I took the startrails but I was not satisfied seeing the result.
From sunrise to sunset I took photos of the Solar disk every 20 minutes. By the afternoon my shoulder and back became completely sunburnt (this year I forgot bringing sunscreen instead of the spare batteries . After sunset I started recording the startrails again with red lights of observing lamps of fellow amateur astronomers in the foreground. Before midnight International Space Station flew through the Northern sky -- it's visible on the photo too.
In the morning of third day I retook some solar disk photos as the first ones of the previous days had been slightly underexposed and my photo experiment was completed after 33 hours.

Photo details:
2016.07.28-30. Tarján, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Sigma EF 8/4.0

haze afternoon
sun jupiter (left) and venus
no eran visibles a simple vista, y apenas por el visor de la cámara por el polvo sahariano. 32º C
they were not visible to the naked eye, and just through the viewfinder of the camera by the saharan dust. 32° C

Conjunction Venus-Jupiter
Ibiza, Spain

Canon 5D Mark II + 24-105mm F/4
Exposure 1/4 sec, F/8.0
ISO 400
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/712 ... 49-jvm.jpg

© Diana Bodea 2016
http://dianabodea.com

Hello everyone, this image shows the Melotte 15 in IC1805 in a HaLRGB composition.
L: 25x600
Ha: 26x1200
RGB: 180x10 each
SX H694, Sharpstar AL106II
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nyuko8o5exv99 ... b.jpg?dl=0
Best Regards

When the sky is decently, it is not necessary any more.

A walk through the woods in Galicia can bring us to the universe, the foreground in backlight to not disturb.

In this heaven highlight the Milky Way, of course. To his right the triangle formed by Saturn, Mars and Antares. To his left, above the trees, the brightest star is Altair.
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More quality at https://500px.com/photo/169926345

Partial part of viel nebulae
http://outters.fr/wp/dentelles-2/
Copyright: Nicolas Outters Link for the full frame
http://outters.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads ... O_rvb7.jpg