Starship Asterisk*

Scorpius, Ophiuchus, and Sagittarius in the Milky Way
Copyright: David Liu

Full Moon perigees & apogees
HiRehttp://www.astrovox.gr/forum/album_show ... c_id=13784


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http://www.astrovox.gr/forum/album_picm ... c_id=12411
HiRe: http://www.astrovox.gr/forum/album_pic. ... ser_id=685

CED 110/111 in Chamaeleon
http://www.pbase.com/gbachmayer/image/1 ... 3/original

Copyright: Gerhard Bachmayer

NGC 2736, Gum 23 and Gum 35
http://astronomiapampeana.com.ar
Copyright: Leonardo Julio http://astronomiapampeana.com.ar/foto/8 ... um-35.html

Looking into the MAGIC telescope
Copyright: Colin Dooley
http://www.artlum.com/pub/magic.jpg

Looking into the mirror of the 17m MAGIC telescope,
La Palma, Canary Islands. The photographers can be
seen at the top.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAGIC_%28telescope%29

Landscape with rapse lit by the perigee Moon, Veszprem, Hungary , May 6th 2012
Startrails composed of 760 individual photoes, each with Nikon D5100 & 10mm Sigma lens @ F2.8, ISO1250, 8 sec. exposures

Larger image: http://users.atw.hu/egbolt/landscape_wi ... e_moon.jpg

Manfred,

I bet it is a diffraction spike from 2nd magnitude Phecda in the Big Dipper. It is right next to M109, just outside your field of view. I bet it is beyond the camera's field of view, but still within what the scope can effectively see. A 2nd mag star would make a pretty huge diffraction spike off your scope's spider vanes. Great image, by the way!

Scott

hello,
please find here an image of sun taken today 7th MAY 2012.

C.14 + 150mm red off-axix filter + daystar 0.5 A
basler ACA 1300 caméra
process by Registax 6 and photomatix 4.2 pro with tone mapping
best regards

image : Philippe TOSI (Nîmes- FRANCE)

Today, during a break at work I made some pictures of a sun corona and clouds shadows. I used a digital camera fujifilm finepix s5600,(setted at F8,1/2000s exposure and 64ISO). There was a very hot day this morning,about 30°C, but the sun corona was very beautiful and clear to see with this fine clouds shadows near the sun.
Giuseppe Pappa http://spaceweather.com/submissions/lar ... 402582.jpg

I couldn't figure out how to edit the previous post to fix my
post so here it is again (but smaller and following the rules):

Looking into the MAGIC telescope
Copyright: Colin Dooley
Looking into the mirror of the 17m MAGIC telescope,
La Palma, Canary Islands. The photographers can be
seen at the top.

More info: If you look on the ground you'll see the
remains of some snow - very unusual in the Canary
Islands. We were due to visit one of the observatories
but the visit was cancelled because of the snow. We
had to be content with taking pictures instead.

MAGIC telescope:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAGIC_%28telescope%29

Original, full size image here:
http://www.artlum.com/pub/magic.jpg

PS: Is there a way to edit posts?

Selene Obelix wrote:PS: Is there a way to edit posts?

Just click the <edit> button, but there is a one hour time limit in which you can do edits.

Venus taken on February 26 from 2311 to 2347 UTC in UV.

I wouldn't have ever thought to look but Emil Kraaikamp had found rotations in the clouds of Venus in a short 30-60 min of time. I had some captures laying around from Feb 26 and may have found moment in the following animation of 3 frames: 2309, 2340, and 2346 UT. Look in the lower left hand portion near the 'pole' for a high contrast area that shows the progression of what I think to be a cloud. Venus has been a tough target this year due to weather, work and family but I'm excited for the upcoming transit of Venus over the Sun!

This is an Ir / sG / UV - false color composite: Here's is the 3 frame animation: Thanks!

Mike

NGC 474
http://www.cav-sfo.com/NGC474ccd.html
Copyright: Joe Mize

The Third Brightest Globular, NGC 6752 in Pavo
http://www.pbase.com/rolfolsen/astro_photography
Copyright: Rolf Wahl Olsen
The colorful globular cluster NGC 6752 is located appriximately 13,000 light years away in the southern constellation of Pavo. It is the third brightest globular cluster in the sky after Omega Centauri and 47 Tucanae.
This image was taken under an unforgiving 94% illuminated Moon but despite these conditions there are even a handful of faint background galaxies showing, see if you can spot them!
[attachment=0]skyviking.jpg[/attachment]
http://www.pbase.com/rolfolsen/image/14 ... iginal.jpg
Highest resolution image available here: http://www.pbase.com/rolfolsen/image/143154105/original

Clouds at Sunset, June Lake, California
Copyright: Don Anderson
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Hind's Variable Nebula (NGC 1555)
http://www.capella-observatory.com/Imag ... GC1555.htm
Copyright: Makis Palaiologou, Stefan Binnewies and Josef Pöpsel

22°Solar Halo
http://www.emilivanov.com/Other_Images/ ... halo_b.jpg
Copyright: Emil Ivanov

22°Lunar Halo
http://www.emilivanov.com/Other_Images/ ... halo_b.jpg
Copyright: Emil Ivanov

hello

sun today : 9th of may
process by avistack, CS5 and photomatix pro 4.2 with tone mapping
C.14 + 150 mm off-axis daystar filter 0.5 A (HDRsoft)
aca 1300 camera

Best regards

Philippe TOSI (Nîmes-FRANCE)

Huge sunspot group 1476 Taken with Lunt 152mm BF3400 and FLEA-3 ccd video camera on May 9, 2012

M35 and NGC2158
http://www.skymonsters.net
Copyright: Nicola Montecchiari
[attachment=0]M35_cn.jpg[/attachment]
http://www.skymonsters.net/galleria/M35_cn.jpg

vdB38
http://www.bucksnortobservatory.com/dee ... erry.shtml
Copyright: John Davis

Sunspot Sunrise
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa This morning (May 10, 2012) the sight of the majestic Sunspot AR 1476 was great as the Sun was rising alogside the Basilica of Superga (located in a hill in the surroundings of Turin, Italy).

Best regards

Stefano

NGC 4755 Jewel Box and Coalsack Nebula
Copyright: Leonardo Julio http://astronomiapampeana.com.ar/foto/8 ... ebula.html
http://astronomiapampeana.com.ar

This was imaged near Lake Pleasant AZ, USA. 100mm SkyWatcher telescope , DayStar H-alpha filter deturned and Flea3 ccd video camera.