Starship Asterisk*

Milky Way from Mayotte Island
http://www.lucperrot.fr/
https://www.facebook.com/lucperrotphoto
Copyright: Luc Perrot Some pictures of my last vacation on Mayotte island in the Indian Ocean last month. N'Gouja Beach is an important site or turtles lay.

LDN 988, LBN 409, Sh2-120, Sh2-121, GN 21.01.3, NGC 7031, L988a, LDN 982-4, LDN 1000 - Cygnus



Copyright: Evangelos Souglakos
Detailed info : http://astro.karvouno.org/?p=356 & http://astro.karvouno.org/?p=363

Wide field on M8 and M20

Carlo Rocchi, Italy

Albireo, a LRGB picture
http://www.astro-billeder.dk
Copyright: Niels V. Christensen

Waxing Gibbous Color Moon

Imaged while going through the meridian, high in the sky. 110 DSLR still frames, entirely processed in pixinsight 1.8.

hires: http://www.pampaskies.com/gallery3/var/ ... _hires.JPG

Copyright: Ignacio Diaz Bobillo
http://www.pampaskies.com

Composite ccd image of the Sun. Taken from the Nutwood observatory, Ontario Canada, August 5th 2013.
Web site at http://www.nutwood-observatory.com

Wildfires, sky and eye
Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado
[attachment=5]wildfire-lw.jpg[/attachment]

Moon drop
Copyright: Wayne Boyd
[attachment=4]close moon.jpg[/attachment]

Great Carina, Keyhole and Red Hood Nebulae
Copyright: Harel Boren
http://www.pbase.com/boren/image/151851961/original
[attachment=3]loopboren.jpg[/attachment]

Coronal mass ejection
Copyright: JP-Brahic
[attachment=2]_2013_08_22_153513(220813)couleur.jpg[/attachment]

Sh2-185 and Gamma Cassiopeia
Copyright: Dave Erickson
[attachment=1]Sh2-185_1300.jpg[/attachment]

Over the horizon mountain with full-moon
http://canigou.allauch.free.fr
Copyright: Alain Origné
[attachment=0]horizonmoon.jpg[/attachment]

Iris, phantoms and dust
http://www.astrobin.com/full/53158/B/
Copyright: Daniel Trueba
[attachment=5]iris.jpg[/attachment]

Aurora season begins
http://www.astrofotografen.se
Copyright: Göran Strand
[attachment=4]GS_20130823_Aurora_4378.jpg[/attachment]

Green flash
Copyright: Dennis Olson
[attachment=3]Green Flash sunset Ala Moana .jpg[/attachment]

HaLRGB, two panel mosaic of the North American and Pelican
Copyright: Albert Barr
[attachment=2]napelican.jpg[/attachment]

Meteor over moonlit lake
http://www.luisargerich.com
Copyright: Luis Argerich
[attachment=1]moonmeteor.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 1365: Barred spiral galaxy in Fornax
http://www.jadescope.com/photos/i-n3cRM ... RMnH-O.jpg
Copyright: Angus Lau, Y Van, SS Tong - Jade Scope Observatory
[attachment=0]jadegalaxy.jpg[/attachment]

Nova Delphini and two Planetary nebulae
Copyrights: Anton Spenko New Nova Delphinus
Copyrights: Carles Corney Nova Delphini 2013 - Aug 18th
Copyrights: Damian Peach Bright Nova in Delphinus
Copyrights: John Chumack Nova Delphini 2013 now dimming to 5.5 mag
Copyrights: John Chumack

ALMA Takes Close Look at Drama of Starbirth
Image credit: ALMA/ESO
More about: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1336/ UA Astronomers Take Sharpest Photos Ever of the Night Sky
Image credit: Adam Block/UA SkyCenter
More about: http://uanews.org/story/ua-astronomers- ... -night-sky Hubble Takes Movies of Space Slinky
Credits: NASA, ESA, E. Meyer, W. Sparks, J. Biretta, J. Anderson, S.T. Sohn, and R. van der Marel (STScI), C. Norman (Johns Hopkins University), and M. Nakamura (Academia Sinica)
More about: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... s/2013/32/ NASA's Spitzer Telescope Celebrates 10 Years in Space
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
More about: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitz ... hkP_9I3vbg

Clouds & lightning
Copyrights: Salvatore Spinoso Urban Moon
Copyrights: Fernando Cabrerizo


Fantastic Coronal Mass Ejection
Copyrights: JP Brahic

M31,Double cluster & Perseid meteor shower
Copyrights: Luo Cheng Perseid meteor shower pass by NGC7000
Copyrights: Luo Cheng Perseid Maximum from France
Copyrights: Peter van Leuteren

Sh2-91 Supernova remnant in Cygnus
full size version in better quality and data here:
http://www.astrobin.com/53057/

cheers, Tommy Nawratil

LDN314 Sagittarius image centered ~18h 20m -19° 50'


Dave Erickson http://www.hbastro.com

Tribute to Arthur C. Clarke
http://www.astrofotografen.se
Copyright: Göran Strand
http://obj.fotosidan.se/obj/photo/9f/9f ... 47aeaf.jpg
[attachment=0]goran.jpg[/attachment]

Supernumerary rainbow.
Copyright: César Cantú
http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... ategory/15
http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... ategory/15
http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... ategory/15

When you see the moon in the eyepiece of the telescope you problably not see the colors of the geological features of the moon surface. However, when you take a color picture of this surface and when you process it by saturation of colors, moon shows another appearance. HDR process helps to stack moon face and clouds pictures in the real situation.


Enjoy it !

Best regards !

Didier Favre

Mirrored lunar fogbow

© Thomas Kast, All Rights Reserved
http://www.facebook.com/salamapaja

Last night (August 24, 2013) I was hoping for a great aurora show due to the expected CME and went to this lake near Yli-Ii, Finland. In this rather cold August night (+8C) there was patchy fog, especially in open fields. This lake remained clear for a long time. Unfortunately there were almost no Northern lights. At one point I saw this white bow with the Waning Gibbous behind me, a lunar fogbow. The very small droplets of the fog behave like raindrops and reflect the light. These fogbows are usually white for the human eye because the sunlight reflected from the Moon is very weak.

Gear was D700 +14-24mm and I exposed for 30s at ISO400.

Reflection nebula VdB 126 and dark nebula LBN 778-779 in Vulpecula
Copyright: Gianni Fardelli

Albireo wf1
http://www.astro-billeder.dk
Copyright: Niels V. Christensen Albireo wf2
Copyright: Niels V. Christensen

Relief Effects on Solar halpha

Copyright: Michel Collart - Conflans ste honorine - France
http://www.astrosurf.com/colmic

Equipment:
Takahashi TOA130 Refractor
Coronado Solarmax 90mm double stacked filters
Barlow Televue 1.8x
Point Grey Grasshopper3 ICX674 camera

Process:
Full discs: Mosaic of 12 images processed in autostakkert2 + Registax6 + Photomerge CS5

This weekend we had some really nice ISS flybys. Here is one made at Sunday evening from the port of Thessaloniki. I had to yell at people so they would notice this -2.6mag moving object just above their heads. I wonder how people sees UFO's all the time and miss such a bright slow moving object.

Comet Lemmon - Aug 24th
Copyrights: Damian Peach Milky Way
Copyrights: Alex Ellick
More sizes: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aellick/94 ... otostream/

Lots of old & Young stars:

Small Magellanic Cloud & 47 Tucanae
http://www.skytrip.de
Copyright: Mario Weigand Full resolution

greets

Mario

NGC 7027
Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, Processing by Judy Schmidt

NGC 7027 by geckzilla, on Flickr
Inspired by today's APOD, I couldn't help but try my own processing of this nebula. In addition to the wide band data used in the APOD I also included some narrow band from NICMOS for a more complete view of the nebula.

Red Channel: HST_7365_01_NIC_NIC2_F160W_sci & HST_7365_01_NIC_NIC2_F212N_sci
Green Channel: hst_06119_45_wfpc2_f814w_pc_sci
Blue Channel: hst_06119_45_wfpc2_f555w_pc_sci


HD94910
Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, Processing by Judy Schmidt

HD94910 by geckzilla, on Flickr
The object you thought might be a planetary nebula is apparently NOT a planetary nebula.
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-i ... =HD++94910
http://cdsbib.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/cdsb ... .378..843K

Red Channel (Hydrogen alpha): hst_05149_01_wfpc2_f658n_pc_sci
Green Channel: pseudo
Blue Channel: hst_05149_01_wfpc2_f547m_pc_sci