Starship Asterisk*

M45
http://hardcity.perso.sfr.fr/hardcity/N ... venue.html
Copyright: Philippe DURVILLE
Thank for looking! Larger image : http://hardcity.perso.sfr.fr/hardcity/a ... rdcity.jpg

Barnard's Loop between M78 and LDN1622
http://astrofotky.cz/~Konihlav/
Copyright: Pavel Pech

copyright: Michael Sidonio Larger Image: http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ ... 7/original

El abrazo del Sol y el castillo por calle L, 8, en Flickr

El abrazo del Sol y el castillo
The embrace of the Sun and the castle

El Sol se pone tras el castillo de Almodóvar del Río, Córdoba, España.
El movimiento continuo del astro rey tras las capas de nubes en la atmósfera terrestre, produce deformaciones y diferentes coloraciones en el disco solar.
The sun sets behind the castle of Almodóvar del Río, Córdoba, Spain.
The continuous movement of the sun behind the cloud layers in the atmosphere, produces deformations and different colors on the solar disk.

This photograph was made from 34 kilometers away from the castle with a Canon EOS 60D and Samyang telephoto 500 mm. With no filter.

©Juan A. Bafalliu, Spain, 2014

IC 410 the Tadpoles
http://www.CoatesAstrophotography.com/
Copyright: Steven Coates
IC 410 an emission nebula about 12,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Auriga. Near the center of the nebulous region is a star cluster ( NGC 1893) and just to the bottom right of this cluster lies two structures that resemble tadpoles. These structures are made of leftover hydrogen and dust from the formation of the star cluster and the "tails" are from the solar wind coming from the stars of NGC 1893.
RGB: 1 hour 18 min Red, 1 hour Green and 1 hour Blue (binned 1x1) using 80mm EON
Ha: 4 hours (binned 1x1) using the 8 inch RCT.
Processed in PhotoShop CS5
Imaging telescopes: Orion 80mm EON (FL 480mm) to collect RGB data, and the Astro-Tech 8" Ritchey-Chrétien (FL 1625mm) to collect Ha data.
Imaging camera: QSI 683 wsg-8
Losmandy G-11 with Gemini II
Astrodon Tru-balance E-Series Generation II LRGB filters
Astrodon 5nm Ha filter

Camping Under The Stars

Copyright: Mark Gee
http://theartofnight.com
It's a simple thing that people have been doing since the beginning of mankind, an open camp fire miles away from anywhere with just you and the stars above. It's something I try to do as often as I can, even if there's no camp fire involved.

In this world where technology usually keeps us company, I think everyone should experience this at some point in time. For me it certainly puts life in perspective - so look up and enjoy, it's free for everyone.

Messier 101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy
http://www.eveningshow.com/messier-mara ... 01.png.php
Copyright: Richard S. Wright Jr.

The Whale and Hockey Stick http://www.eveningshow.com/galaxies/#wh ... ystick.png
Copyright: Richard S. Wright Jr.
The Whale (NGC 4631) is an edge on spiral galaxy about 25 million light years away. Both the Whale and the Hockey Stick (NGC 4656) seen at lower left have smaller interacting companion galaxies. The one next to the Whale is often referred to as the "pup", and the two together are sometimes photographed together as the "Whale and Pup".

M44 The Beehive Cluster. 3 March 2014, Reading, UK
Copyright: BudgetAstro

B33
2/28/14
Copyright: Jason Matter



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Jupiter images (Feb 16th, 2014.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach Big Activity of the sun in H-alpha
Copyrights: Olivier Hardy
Full size: http://soleilhalpha.free.fr/soleil/2014 ... 5TU_80.jpg Full size: http://soleilhalpha.free.fr/soleil/2014 ... U_80nb.jpg Dissected Sun in H-Alpha light, CaK light and Whilte light
Copyrights: Alvaro Ibáñez Pérez Andromeda Composite
Copyrights: Martin Pugh
Full size: http://martinpughastrophotography.id.au ... posite.jpg Electro-magnetic fields
Copyrights: William L. Proctor
Booklet about the topic: http://www.proctorillustration.com/EMF-4.pdf
Image: Cutaway of the particle's magnetic field Sunrise in Beijing
Copyrights: Mike Bolte Venus rising under the Milky Way
Copyrights: Jack Fusco

Copyright: Terry Hancock
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/12955929143/

Zodiacal Light in Georgia
Copyrights: Stephen Rahn IC410 and IC405 - The Tadpoles and the Flaming Star
Copyrights: Oliver Czernetz M81
Copyrights: Manfred Konrad The launch a 48 foot sounding rocket into an auroral arc
Copyrights: Jason Ahrns
https://www.flickr.com/photos/musubk/12903921685/ Mars on March 2nd 2014
Copyrights: Leo Aerts M63 Sunflower Galaxy
Copyrights: Bill Snyder Curiosity at Junda with Mount Sharp - Sol 548
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Marco Di Lorenzo/Kenneth Kremer

Messier 42 (The Orion Nebula)
Copyrights: Lukas Bochtler
Full size: http://timelordomega.deviantart.com/art ... -437572236 Young Thin Crescent Moon in the West!
Copyrights: John Chumack Sunrise
Copyrights: Joe Bohanon M45
Copyrights: Philippe Durville Sunspot AR1991 taken by me on 3rd March, 2014
Copyrights: Karzaman Ahmad Thin Waxing Crescent Moon & Earthshine!
Copyrights: John Chumack

raptor and iridiscence http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... &start=300

Hello. M44 , the Beehive Cluster captured last week during very poor damp seeing in UK Bungay. Its an LRGB image made up of 300 sec subs, 6 hours total

M31, natural colours (not boosted or suppressed during stretching) but with some additional Ha
5 x 1000 seconds in each of R, G and B plus 10 x 1500 seconds Ha. TEC 140 plus ML16803 with Astrodon filters.

Triple solargraphy analemma
The first ever analemma exposed every day using solargraphy technique.
Gaps caused by cloudiness.
Exposition: 1 March 2013 - 1 March 2014 at 10:30, 12:00 and 13:30 (CET) in Wrocław, Poland.
The project homepage:
http://www.analemma.pl
Copyright: Maciej Zapiór and Łukasz Fajfrowski

RX J1131-1231: A Rapidly Spinning Black hole in a Gravitationally Lensed Quasar at z=0.658
Multiple images of a distant quasar are visible in this combined view from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. The Chandra data were used to directly measure the spin of the supermassive black hole powering this quasar (a* > 0.66, 5σ confidence level). Mouseover to show the position of the quasar images and the lensing galaxy. Please see http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/rxj1131/ for further details.

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ of Michigan/R.C.Reis et al; Optical: NASA/STScI.

Higher resolution here http://www.nightoverontario.com/Astrono ... &lb=1&s=X2
Cheers
Lynn Hilborn

Copyright: Terry Hancock
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/12863124885/

In Between The Stars

Copyright: Paul Haese

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Jupiter& Oval BA 5 march
http://www.astrobin.com/users/Edwin/
Copyright: Edwin Pottillius

In The Field

Copyright: Paul Haese
Data acquisition: Paul Haese

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Spiral galaxy spills blood and guts
Credits: NASA, ESA
Acknowledgements: Ming Sun (UAH), and Serge Meunier
An article: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1404/ Svartifoss Starry Night
Copyrights: Stephane Vetter vdB 93
Copyrights: Bob Fera Sharpless 115
Copyrights: László Francsics Gum 17 and Gum 15 - part of Vela Supernova remnants
Copyrights: Leonardo July
Full size: http://astronomiapampeana.com.ar/foto/1 ... um-15.html In the Heart of the Rosette
Copyrights: Don Goldman Moon and Venus conjunction
Copyrights: Tamas Ladanyi The Moon and Earthshine
Copyrights: Alan Friedman NGC1555
Copyrights: Bill Snyder