Starship Asterisk*

M45 - Alcyone, Merope, Maia, Electra, Sterope, Taygeta, Celaeno
http://astrofotky.cz/~Konihlav/
Copyright: Pavel Pech


100% size link: http://www.astro.cz/galerie/d/67320-1/M ... llsize.jpg

NGC 289

The bright central region of this galaxy is only about 3 arc min in diameter but the extensive
and very faint complex blue outer arms, revealed in this deep exposure, extend the the size of
the galaxy out to 14 arc min across. At an estimated distance of 75 Million light years, this
makes the true size of this galaxy a gigantic 300,000 light yrs across or more than twice the
size of our own Milky Way galaxy!
Copyright: Michael Sidonio

Larger view here: http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ ... 5/original
Deep high contrast negative here: http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ ... 9/original

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Copyright Paolo Pinciaroli

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M42 Hubble Legacy Archive
Processing Paolo Pinciaroli
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Hres:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/122482/C/

Copyright Paolo Pinciaroli
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Processing Paolo Pinciaroli
hres:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/122744/0/

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processing Paolo Pinciaroli
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hres:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/124785/0/

Aurora reflections, Isle Royale National Park
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Copyright: Shawn Malone The aurora borealis and constellations brightly reflect on a flat calm Tobin Harbor, Lake Superior during a late September 2014 trip to Isle Royale. This photo, taken 9/28/14 catches a brief but bright auroral substorm, having been triggered by the autumn equinox. Just as the sky brightened, I was fortunate enough to find a clearing to position my tripod (even though it still was in the water because of the lack of dry shoreline) to catch the entire sequence of this auroral substorm from bright arc to the burst of rays and waves of light that stretched overhead at times. I was on the last boat of the season leaving Isle Royale, and am grateful for this rare opportunity and perfect conditions to capture this memory.

Processing Paolo Pinciaroli
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hres:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/125230/0/

Inside the "Running Chicken" nebula - IC 2944

A larger view:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/157681551

Thanks for looking!

Kfir Simon

Tadpole Galaxy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/7438341@N06/15245301538
Hubble Legacy Archive
Processing: Muhammad Yusuf

The Galactic whale over the South Pacific
http://www.astronom.cz/horalek
Copyright: Petr Horálek (and the whale graphic: Chris huh, Wikipedia)
The South Pacific is famous for lot of spots, where you can watch the migrating whales. One of the spot is, of course, Rarotonga of the Cook Islands. I saw few of them in daylight, but the biggest one was in the sky... Can you see it too?
More info and the image(s) in higher dimension: http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?p=939

Carlo Rocchi, Milan (Italy)

Winter approaches...looking south over Lake Ontario 5am
http://www.nightoverontario.com/Astrono ... &lb=1&s=X2

IC5146 Cocoon Nebula and B168 Dark Nebula

High Resolution: http://www.astrobin.com/125403/
Copyright: Andrea Pistocchini

Solar flare
Copyrights: Frédéric Jabet Deeper into Lagoon
Copyrights: Aldo Mottino

Surfing the Milky Way Dark Rift
Copyrights: Leonardo Orazi
Larger size: http://www.starkeeper.it/MWCenterRift.htm The Zodiacal light with Jupiter meets the Milkyway
Copyrights: Damian Peach
Larger version: http://www.damianpeach.com/starmus14/zo ... ight03.jpg Trifid and Lagoon
Copyrights: Albert Barr LDN 673
Copyrights: Bob Franke
Larger size: http://bf-astro.com/APOD/ldn673Big.jpg

Sunspot on 03/10/2014
Copyrights: Frédéric Jabet NGC 6888 Crescent Nebula
Copyrights: Gianluca Rossi Horseshoe Bend - The End of the Summer Milky Way
Copyrights: Jack Fusco Around the Pelican Nebula
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/125142/0/?real=&mod= Galaxy rising and red airglow
Copyrights: Shingo Takei Double Cluster - NGC 884 & NGC 869
Copyrights: Oliver Czernetz

Copyright: Juan Ignacio Jimenez

In real size IC1318-NarrowbandV4

The fireworks, one open cluster and some IFN

Link to full size image
https://www.flickr.com/photos/andyinsea ... 8/sizes/o/

ARP 87 HST
Frequencies used 450-550 -814
Processing Paolo Pinciaroli

astrobin; http://www.astrobin.com/full/125579/0/?real=&mod=
NGC 3808 and NGC 3808A are a pair of interacting galaxies located in the constellation Leo, and 300 million light years away: both are spiral galaxies.

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The RGB component (upper picture) was captured from my backyard observatory in Rosario, Argentina (http://asterisk.apod.com/download/file. ... &mode=view).
It was combined with an older picture selected as APOD (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110511.html) consisting of narrow band visible and broad band near-infrared, which I used as luminance of the RGB image (bottom picture).

Image credit and copyright: Optical (RGB): Aldo Mottino; narrow band visible and broad band near-infrared: Julia Arias and Rodolfo Barbá (Dept. Física, Univ. de La Serena), ICATE-CONICET, Gemini Observatory/AURA.
Processing: Aldo Mottino

Astronomical Selfie

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/
https://500px.com/acubens

Astronomical Selfie


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Astronomical Selfie

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M33 - HaLRGB
Copyright: Ondřej Kozáčik