Starship Asterisk*

Extreme Mountain shadowing, Raleigh scattering and solar refraction create this unusual image
Sailboat Sunrise

Copyright: Randall Kayfes

One night, two comets...
The straight and greenish tail of comet Lemmon contrasts with the curved and whitish tail of PanSTARRS as they set behind the Andes, above Bariloche, Argentina. So beautiful! Enjoy it when they move to the Northern hemisphere!

Sun-Trails
http://davidkwock.blogspot.com/
Copyright: David Kwock
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Jellyfish
Copyright: Peter Remmel
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Narrowband Horsehead
Copyright: Bob Fields
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The Amateur's Deepfield
Copyright: Christian Schubert
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Zodiacal light over "chapelle Saint Samson" in Brittany, France. At the extremity, Jupiter and The Pleïades are visible. Alexandre Croisier

Gravitational Telescope Creates Space Invader Mirage
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1304/
http://hubblesite.org/news/2013/09
http://heritage.stsci.edu/2013/09/
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
Acknowledgment: Nick Rose
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=30852
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Volcanic Lightning
Copyright: Martin Rietze
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Earth's Twin Planet as Seen from Saturn
http://www.ciclops.org/view.php?id=7567
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=30849
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My first processing of a Hubble image. Data from the Hubble Legacy Archive, processed by Lynn Hilborn
High resolution
http://www.nightoverontario.com/Astrono ... &lb=1&s=X3

Thanks for looking
Lynn Hilborn

KP6 aurora and pulsating aurora timelapse
http://wwww.flickr.com/mrgoudig
Copyright: Bastien Foucher

Timelapse of a strong KP 6 aurora in the Lofoten Islands, near Laukvik, in Norway, during the night of the 19th-20th January, 2013.
From 00:35 to 01:11, the aurora turned into a "pulsating" aurora : the aurora clouds were blinking.

Hi to Everybody,

Aurora Borealis in Saariselkä-Finnish
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66966766@N ... hotostream I would like to share with all of yours, this photo of the Northern light made in Saariselkä-Finnish. The photo have been made in the top of the mountain at -15 Cº Degrees, and I had lucky to see with my eyes the amazing event of the Auroras Borealis also called Nothern lights. Is an special moment to see with your eyes, how the Auroras changing so faster, so you don´t have too much time to make the photo, because behind your back have another one most amazing, it like to have a energy bath.

Equipment used: Canon 60Da, Sigma 15 Eyefish, Vixen Kit Polarie, 1 x 20 seconds at ISO 800, processed with PixInsight 1.8.0 RC3.

http://www.astrosirius.org/
Copyright: Lluís Romero Ventura

Solar Proturberance in H-Alpha 2013
http://astrosirius.org/
Copyright: Lluís Romero
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66966766@N05/8501962326/
Solar Proturberance in H-Alpha 2012
http://astrosirius.org/
Copyright: Lluís Romero
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66966766@N05/7745690634/

Circumpolar in the Elqui Valley-Chile
http://www.astrosirius.org/
Copyright: Lluís Romero.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66966766@N05/8196300911/

Eta Carinae NGC 3372 & magellanic clouds in the Elqui Valley-Chile
http://www.astrosirius.org/
Copyright: Lluís Romero Ventura
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66966766@N05/8207667400/

The winter milky way over "la Roche de Feu" in Brittany, France. We can see Jupiter and Orion which are the "stars" of this winter sky show. Sorry for the bad quality of the compression.

Alexandre Croisier

Winter Highlights:

Winter Milky Way with Winter Circle (Capella, Aldebaran, Rigel, Sirius, Procyon, and Castor) Aldebaran (Taurus) Jupiter, and the Pleiades over the Gore Range in Summit County, Colorado.

For a Large Scrollable Version of this Image: http://www.danielmcvey.com/?p=3870


NGC 2264 The Cone Nebula
http://astrochuck.blogspot.com/
Copyright: Chuck Manges
astrochuck, on Flickr

Jellyfish or High Altitude Virga Sunrise
Virga is rain/snow that never reaches ground. In this particular case mid-altitude winds are shearing off the higher altitude clouds rain/snow fall.

Spot the Station – 26 Feb 2013

© Thodoris Tzalavras

Shot this picture from our rooftop in the center of Nicosia, Cyprus—hardly the best place for any sort of astrophotography, but still, the objective was to spot the Station and we had fun doing it!

Abell 1367 galaxy cluster

Copyright: Lorenzo Comolli ( http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/index2.htm ) Mode details: http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/d141.htm

Back home
http://www.astronomica.es (image direct link, aditional info)
Copyleft: Jaime Fernandez Artistic composition made of three different images:
- Moon, a four images mosaic of the crescent moon, 4,6 days old. Celestron 9.25 f/6.3 + Atik 314.
- Background, a two images mosaic of central galaxy at Sagitarius. DSLR 18/70 lens.
- Earth, based on Apollo 11 imaginery.

That's quite obviuos it's an artistic photo montage, made just for beauty and enjoy.
Stargazer used to observe the moon will quickly found also that the moon will never be seen this way, even from a starship.
Do you know why?...

Lake Inari under northern lights
http://astrophotography.fr/
Copyright: JL Dauvergne This is a 180° panoramical view made on the Lake Inari at Vasatokka in Finland. On the left you can see Jupiter close to the Pleiades cluster. On the right you see the top of the Summer Triangle. It's funy to see it in the middle of a night of late december !

The sword in Orion
http://www.astronomie.be/pieter.vandevelde/
Copyright: Pieter Vandevelde
Full size Image
http://www.astronomie.be/pieter.vandeve ... %20med.jpg

Best regards,

Pieter

Comet ISON C/2012S1 on March 5-6th, 3x12 min exposures. Four anotated Galaxies are seen in this image also.
http://www.jaicoa-observatory.com/C2012 ... Efrain.jpg
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Picture taken yesterday, when a plane crossed the path of the comet Panstarrs, at approx. 7:50 pm ..
#JP

Women's Day Rose
http://www.pleiades.hu/en/index.php
Copyright: Lóránd Fényes
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http://www.pleiades.hu/galeria/kozmosz2 ... 7_apod.jpg

Full resolution: http://www.pleiades.hu/en/galeria/kozmo ... mal/47.jpg

2.38am and the Milky Way rises high above Wellington's South Coast in New Zealand. The single bright light on the horizon under the Milky Way is the Baring Head Lighthouse. The glow of Wellington and the coastal suburbs of Owhiro Bay and Island Bay can be seen to the left of the photo.

Copyright: Mark Gee
http://markg.com.au
http://facebook.com/markgphoto

Milky Way and Zodiacal light over Mount Emei
Copyright: Jeff Dai
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Larger image
The Milky Way and the zodiacal light rises above the famous ”sea of clouds” view of the world heritage site Mount Emei in China. The Milky Way in this wide angle panorama starts from Cassiopeia (left), pass through the three bright stars of Summer Triangle (middle up) ,and ends in Scorpius and Sagittarius (right) where the elongated band of the Zodiacal Light dissolves in the bright bulge of the Milky Way.