Starship Asterisk*

Zodiacal light, counterglow and airglow
Canon 5Dmark2+sigma 15 f2.8 panorama 9*40sec iso6400
Uzbekistan, Maydanak Canon 5Dmark2+sigma 20 f1.8 30sec iso3200
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9306/140 ... 71f9e_orig
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Copyright: Smilyk Pavel

The Fireworks Galaxy wide field
Copyright: Andy Ermolli
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5347/9256 ... ec37_b.jpg
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The ANdromeda Galaxy
Copyright: Andy Ermolli
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2864/9457 ... d63f_b.jpg
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Sh 2-240
Copyright: Andy Ermolli
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8102/8459 ... 457b_b.jpg
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The Stars Come Out at Night
http://www.pbase.com/gordg3
Copyright: Gordon Garcia Summer Milky Way.

Mt Athos is placed at Chalkidiki Greece, a peninsula with three legs into the Mediterranean sea. This makes it the perfect place for dark skies since there is no electricity there. The name of the mountain was given from an ancient greek myth that puts Titan Athos shooting a mountain from Thrace to Zeus during the war of Gods and Zeus repelling it to its current position.

These days, Mt Athos is a monastic community (Agio Oros) which is cutoff from the rest of the country and is devoted to St Mairy. Its unique position into the sea makes it a site with the darkest skies I've seen in Greece. On the right, you can see the reflection of Sirius into the sea!
The image made with a Canon 350D and a 8mm lens at f3.5.

Clear skies
Constantine Emmanouilidi

Crescent Nebula
Full size image: http://www.astrofoto.dk/Deepsky/Crescent_2012_2013.jpg
Copyright: Jesper Sørensen

5 Moons and Jupiter

Conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter - January 21, 2013

Jovian Moons from top to bottom (L to R) are Ganymede, Europa, Io, Callisto
http://www.astrobin.com/30957/

Thanks for looking up.

Nick Pavelchak
Altamont, NY

NGC7331 - The Deer Lick Group and IFN
Copyright: Lee Buck & Dave Kopacz
http://lbuckphotos.smugmug.com/Astrophotography
View higher-res version here

Comet Lovejoy on September 22nd, 08:54ut, Finally the weather improved slightly. A satelite passed by. Image not croped, all Equipment info on image.

Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) on September 22nd, 09:23ut. Animation At: http://www.jaicoa-observatory.com/C2012 ... im-Emr.gif .Under improved conditions. Imaged not croped, all Equipment info on image.

Aurora in Eastern Oregon
Copyright: Brad Goldpaint
http://goldpaintphotography.com/ The Aurora Borealis, Milky Way, Andromeda Galaxy, and a lone Perseid meteor over Moccasin Lake in Eagle Cap Wilderness. Wallowa–Whitman National Forest, Oregon

Here is the spring Milky Way in the southern hemisphere, around 31deg-S, at 8pm

Ursa Major and Polaris with a distant squall from Key West, FL, Sigsbee Naval Annex looking North over the Gulf of Mexico. Nikon D800, 30 seconds, ISO 800, f3.0, 18mm.
-Sean Mathews

This year's edition of the monsoon gave me plenty of time to assess my imaging situation and ponder the future. From the end of June until early September I was able to turn on the camera exactly once. I worked on processing a huge backlog of data and realized I wasn't happy with the color data on any of it. So, back to basics - I came out of the monsoon by shooting a simple RGB image of an open cluster just to get back into the swing of things. I love a well done image of an open cluster and I feel pretty good about this one. I hope you enjoy as well. Comments and criticisms are appreciated. Weather seems to be cooperating so I hope to get a couple of other projects finished really soon. It's been too few and far between the last 6 months for me.

I was really surprised to see the number of bright, but small background galaxies that are in and around this cluster. I may have to go hunting for them visually next time out - hopefully this new moon cycle.

Object: M34
Dates: Sep 1 to 14, 2013
Location: Benson, Arizona
Telescope: Explore Scientific ED152CF (6" f/8 carbon fiber triplet)
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO CP3
Camera: SBIG ST-8300m w/Astrodon filters
Exposure: 8 x 1200s each R,G,B - 8 hours total exposure

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Thanks for looking.

IC1396
http://jcanive.blogspot.com/
Copyright: Jesus Canive Large version:
http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/3f71f691 ... 798e1f.jpg

Mars on September 24th, 09:41ut, Very small (4.30) and approaximately seven months from opposition. Conditions started to deteriate slightly just before sunrise. ( Bottom shows the channels, Combining )

Jupiter and Europas Shadow on September 24th, 09:29ut. The shadow of Europa is close to the limb and the GRS just barely showing on the limb edge. Conditions were optimum today very rare lately.

M31 in LRGB and Ha also showing details of dust lanes in M110 For full size image and detail in M110 go to following link

http://ic2.pbase.com/o9/29/869929/1/152 ... nalHab.jpg

http://www.imagingtheheavens.co.uk

Comet ISON and Eros in the same sky and video
http://www.fundacionastrohita.org
Copyright: Leonor Ana AND THE TRAVELLERS ISON AND EROS IN THIS VIDEO: http://youtu.be/ndGhYOK4jxg and this http://youtu.be/6JcB7dnzLlM taken in La Hita Observatory.

Regards!
Leonor

Lagoon Nebula
http://www.astrofotografia.com.pl/
Copyright: Piotrek Sadowski big size
http://www.astrofotografia.com.pl/photo ... 8_full.htm

Sun in Calcium-K light
Copyrights: Marco Bruno Chamaeleon I region
Copyrights: Lorand Fenyes Eta Carinae
Copyrights: Lorand Fenyes M45
Copyrights: Mike Chasin VDB142
Copyrights: Emilio Rivero Padilla

Lunar close-ups
Copyrights: George Tarsoudis M81, M82 and IFN
Copyrights: Ivan Eder NGC3324 - Gabriela Mistral Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Angus Lau, Y Van, SS Tong - Jade Scope Observatory Comet Ikeya-Zhang
Copyrights: Paul Zelichowski Comet Ison
Copyrights: John Chumack

IC1396A & VdB142
Image Web Page Link: http://skymonsters.net/immagine.php?img ... tTrunk.jpg
Copyright: Nicola Montecchiari

Beach Star Party


This picture was before Venus transit, doing some tests.


Copyright: Sergio Montúfar