Starship Asterisk*

Orion over Mississippi River in Carleton Place, ON
Copyright: Adam Moncrieff (http://www.amoncrieff.ca) Canon 60Da, 10mm, ISO 3200, 60s

Attached is an image of the Europa transit on 3 December, a few hours after opposition. Years ago, a friend claims to have seen a crescent-shaped image of a shadow transit near or at opposition as the moon itself blocked part of the shadow. Not sure if I believed him, I went on a quest late Sunday night to check it out. Blog post is at:

http://www.theketelsens.blogspot.com/20 ... -true.html

Sure enough, Europa's shadow appeared as a crescent! -Dean Ketelsen

Perihelion - Aphelion
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Solar-Scene ... helion.htm
Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis Perigee - Apogee
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Lunar-Scene ... e-2010.htm
Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis

IC405 & IC410
Copyright: Carlos Grillo Ramos
http://carlosgr-astrophoto.blogspot.com
More resolution: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Enu_Mdsp5BE/T ... oc6Med.jpg

Labeled topography of M42 And M43
Copyright: Delio Tolivia Cadrecha
SWED80
EZ60+QHY5 guide
QHY8L camera
10X600s
10x300s
20x60s
10x30s

Black and White and inverted. Processed and labeled with Photoshop.



Link to full image:

http://i.imgur.com/qR0Bb.jpg

Imaging of the Planetary Alignment
December 08, 2012
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStarCarpentier

Rising of Jupiter
http://500px.com/rafaeldefavari
Copyright: Rafael Defavari and Julio Lobo

This picture was taken moments after the occultaion of Jupiter by the Moon, as we could see in some places of the Southern Hemisphere. It was registered on the night of 28th November, 2012, 10:10pm local time, Campinas, Brazil.


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Quiver Trees By Night 3
http://floriansphotographs.blogspot.com ... 1-2-3.html
Copyright: Florian Breuer
The warm light pollution from the town of Keetmanshoop contrasts with the cool glow of the Milk Way above the Quiver Tree Forest in Namibia. The Magellanic Clouds are clearly visible.

M42 The Great Orion Nebula
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhanco ... hotostream
A very popular image for this time of the year by many astro photographers, here is my version shot using luminance, RGB and H-Alpha with a total integration time of 9.7 hours
Copyright: Terry Hancock

"The Orion Pearl"



Bigger version here

Other info here - please use google translate

Emil Pera

NGC 925 (UGC 1913) - barred spiral galaxy type SBc/Sc in Triangulum

http://www.elateobservatory.com
http://www.irida-observatory.org

Copyright: Velimir Popov

NGC 925 (UGC 1913) is a very asymmetric galaxy with a strong spiral arm in the south and flocculent arms in the north. NGC 925 has at least 132 cataloged HII regions. It is about 45 million light-years away. The real diameter of the galaxy is nearly 100000 light-years... Large scale and more information is avaliable here ...

Thank you for looking ...

suns

I submit a very late Venus Transit Montage.
I was part of the "Virtual Star Party" hangout, where we showed live views to the world of this awesome event.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YOrRmz-t14A/U ... 605-HD.png

A SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE CELESTIAL PORTRAIT
From New Zealand, the Land of the Long White Cloud, the heavens shine more beautifully than nearly anywhere else on Earth. Here Queenstown's Lake Wakatipu and moonlit snow-capped mountains make a perfect setting to enjoy the night sky on November 20, 2012. Near image-center appear two Southern Hemisphere celestial showpieces--the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two small satellite galaxies of our own. Near bottom center and along the band of the Milky Way (the Long White Cloud) shines the iconic constellation Crux (Southern Cross) and, to its right, the bright stars Beta and Alpha Centauri (the nearest star system to our own sun). © Dennis Mammana/dennismammana.com

Salton Sea...More Human Nature than Mother Nature
http://lbuckphotos.smugmug.com/Astrophotography
Copyright: Lee Buck
"Larger Version"

Salton Sea is a pretty strange place. This is shot on the South East corner of the lake with the glow of a power plant behind me illuminating the trees in a single 30sec exposure.

Cave Nebula
Bigger version is here

Some info - here - please use google translate

Image made in collaboration between Emil Pera and Emil Kolbert

Thanks

Elephant Trunk
Bigger version is here

Some info - here - please use google translate

Image made in collaboration between Emil Kolbert and Emil Pera.

Thanks.

December 11th 2012:
Bright conjunction between the crescent Moon and Venus over "Mont Saint Michel de Braspart's chapel" in Brittany (France).
Mercury is present on the left of the picture.

Halo effects are also present behind Moon and Venus.

Panorama of 6 pictures: canon 350D + tamron 70 200 f2.8, 2.5s, 400iso, 145mm.
full image: http://cyandro.free.fr/IMG_6782%20Panorama-1-2.jpg

Alexandre CROISIER (France)

NGC2237
http://gallery.lightbuckets.com/jebersole/photo/7691/
Copyright: John Ebersole A 2 frame mosaic of the Rosette Nebula in narrowband,Hubble palette.

The Orion Nebula and Running Man HaRGB Collaboration
RGB (Doug German) :
SW ED80/EQ5
Nikon D70 modded, Baader Neodymium filter
31 x 240secs iso 800, 30 x 8 secs iso 800 for the core (2 hours 8 minutes)
Guiding (RA only): Quickcam Pro4000/9x50 finderscope, PHD
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5

Ha (Dave Williams):
10 x 600 secs (I hour 40 minutes)
250mm Hasselblad lens at f4
Moravian G2 8300
5nm filter

Propus Mosaic
http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann

The Flaming Tadpole!
http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann

Crescent Moon and planets over the Basilica
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa Please find above the image I took early yesterday morning (December 11, 2012), showing the lovely conjucntion above the eastern horizon between two naked-eye planets and a bright crescent Moon. Near the left bottom of the frame is Mercury just above the colorful twilight glow while Venus is shining left of the Moon's sunlit crescent.

The scene is completed by the silhouette of the Basilica of Saint John Bosco, located in Castelnuovo Don Bosco, some 20 km from Turin (Italy).

Best regards

Stefano

The Orion Nebula and Running Man HaRGB Collaboration Reprocess
RGB (Doug German) :
SW ED80/EQ5
Nikon D70 modded, Baader Neodymium filter
31 x 240secs iso 800, 30 x 8 secs iso 800 for the core (2 hours 8 minutes)
Guiding (RA only): Quickcam Pro4000/9x50 finderscope, PHD
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5

Ha (Dave Williams):
10 x 600 secs (I hour 40 minutes)
250mm Hasselblad lens at f4
Moravian G2 8300
5nm filter

The Polaris Winter Forest
http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalret ... 267039634/
Copyright: Marion Haligowski


The Polaris Winter Forest by Radical Retinoscopy, on Flickr


The following star trail photograph was made by using 176 twenty-five second exposures for a total exposure time of about 75 minutes. Each exposure was taken with a Canon t2i and a 17-40L lens at 19 mm. (ISO 400, f/4.0) I planned on making the exposure longer but dew started to form on the lens limiting the exposure to 75 minutes. I really like the way the barren trees appear to arch upward virtually reaching around Polaris.