Starship Asterisk*

Posted: **Fri Jan 02, 2015 9:12 pm**

Happy new year 2015 !
solar activity of the 2nd january
image Philippe TOSI

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Posted: **Fri Jan 02, 2015 10:35 pm**

Belt of Venus over the delta of the Paraná River in Rosario city, Argentina, captured at dawn. The Paraná flows north–south and becomes an alluvial basin between the Argentine provinces of Entre Ríos, Santa Fe and Buenos Aires, then emptying into the Atlantic. The belt of Venus is visible over the east horizon, all along a north-south imaginary line as well. The veleta at the top of the tower illustrates such north–south direction.
The image is a composite of three individual captures. A zoomed version is shown at bottom.

Copyright: Aldo Mottino (Rosario, Argentina).

Posted: **Sat Jan 03, 2015 9:52 am**

NGC2024 The Flame Nebula
http://www.starkeeper.it/FlameNebula.htm
Copyright: Leonardo Orazi

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Posted: **Sat Jan 03, 2015 11:19 am**

Compared to the previous one, this is an extended view of the Cone and Christmas Tree complex using data from Subaru, ESO and DSS.

Panel from Subaru (656nm): 600
Additional luminance data: ESO
Color data: DSS

http://www.astrobin.com/145491/

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Posted: **Sat Jan 03, 2015 3:15 pm**

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Jupiter, one month before opposition. This animated GIf shows how fast Jupiter is rotating (images captured during one hour). It also illustrates how a relatively modest scope can capture some details on Jupiter as well as its moons. This is Jupiter and Callisto on December 30th, 2014. Animated gif was made after stacking 23 avi files: http://www.astrosurf.com/danleclerc/Jup ... clerc_.gif
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Sky-Watcher 8-inch Newtonian telescope, Barlow 4X.
DBK21AU618.AS camera, UV/IR-cut Baader filter, 60fps.

Posted: **Sat Jan 03, 2015 6:58 pm**

Moonlight Landscape and Stars in Switzerland
URL of website : http://www.ccdsky.eu
Copyright: Christoph Puetz

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Location: Area around Truebsee at Titlis-Engelberg-Switzerland, about 1800m elevation.
Date : Dec 9th 2015

This image was taken during a moonlit night, which illuminated the landscape.
There was new snow fallen about 2 hours ago.
The star at the center of the image is Sirius ( alpha Canis Majoris )

Thanks for your interest.
Christoph

Posted: **Sat Jan 03, 2015 7:04 pm**

Southern Orion over a moonlit landscape
URL of website http://www.ccdsky.eu
Copyright: Christoph Puetz

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Location: Area around Truebsee at Titlis-Engelberg-Switzerland, about 1800m elevation.
Date : Dec 9th 2015

Camera: Canon EOS450d (modified), 24mm lens, f/8, 30sec at ASA 800.
This image was taken during a moonlit night, which illuminated the landscape.
There was new snow fallen about 2 hours ago.

The red light on the left side near the center is a communication tower on the top of mount TITLIS ( about 3020m )

Thanks for your interest.
Christoph

Posted: **Sat Jan 03, 2015 8:11 pm**

IC-405 Flaming Star Nebula

Happy New year!

Copyright: LEPANOT Aurélien.
personal website: http://500px.com/lepanot

full size image: http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/201 ... 405-80.jpg

Technical data:
Telescope: Newtonian telescope 8inch (200/1000)
Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G Mount
Camera: Canon EOS 1200D defiltred
pictures: 69x240 "@ 1600ISO
Offset: 97
Dark: 30
Flat: 27
Software: PixInsight

Posted: **Sat Jan 03, 2015 9:21 pm**

NGC1805 SHORGB

new processing : Mosaic done with 3 pictures with TEC140 and ODK 20"

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full size : http://www.cielboreal.com/galerie/photo47fb.jpg

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http://www.cielboreal.com
Copyright: Jean-Claude CANONNE, Philippe BERNHARD, Didier CHAPLAIN, Laurent BOURGON

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2015 1:26 am**

Venus and Mercury
Copyrights: Jose Luis Sanchez

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Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2015 5:47 am**

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula, IC 1396
Ajay Narayanan, 2014

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Large Size (1024 Pixels): https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8600/159 ... 181f_b.jpg
Largest Size (1600 Pixels): https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8600/159 ... b284_h.jpg

Thanks for looking.

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2015 1:18 pm**

Supernovae Remnant Sh2-211 in SHO Hubble palette
This supernovae remnant was never imaging at this resolution because of the faint signal, the focal of the TEC140 is too strong but the result is impressive.
I don't understand why nobody do it at this resolution before !
http://outters.fr/Sh2-221-s2Hao3-tec140-proline.html
Copyright: Nicolas Outters

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Full frame : http://outters.fr/images%20site%20astro ... Hao3_8.jpg
There is a story of this SNR, is this real or not ?
http://outters.fr/images%20site%20astro ... ashmir.pdf

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2015 7:44 pm**

venus, top left; below, mercury. the statue of the roman emperor augustus and the lusitania bridge

: mérida, spain. 2015-01-04, 19:59

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2015 8:28 pm**

NGC4676 The Mice

Data
FullResolution

Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope,
and obtained from the Hubble Legacy Archive, which is a collaboration
between the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI/NASA), the Space
Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF/ESA) and the Canadian
Astronomy Data Centre (CADC/NRC/CSA).

Image processing: by Nico Geisler & Frank Iwaszkiewicz

Best Regards Deep-Sky-Astro Team

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2015 8:31 pm**

M51 M 51 Whirlpool Galaxy

Data
FullResolution

Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope,
and obtained from the Hubble Legacy Archive, which is a collaboration
between the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI/NASA), the Space
Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF/ESA) and the Canadian
Astronomy Data Centre (CADC/NRC/CSA).

Image processing: by Nico Geisler & Frank Iwaszkiewicz

Best Regards Deep-Sky-Astro Team

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2015 9:43 pm**

Poza Azul in the light of the Moon.
The water is so clear, that even with the little night light, the background can be seen from the pond about 12 feets deep.
Cuatrociénega, Coahuila, Mexico
Copyright: César Cantú
http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... ategory/15

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:22 pm**

Narrowband Tarantula
https://www.flickr.com/photos/7776810@N07/16172625926/
Copyright: Alan C Tough

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Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:49 pm**

Sharpless 192, 193, 196
http://www.astrofotos.at
Copyright: Robert Pölzl

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Steward Sharpless has in his Catalog many wonderful emissionsnebulae.
In this Picture you can see tree of them.
In the upper left Sharpless 196
In the lower right Sharpless 192 and 193

I invested 32 hours to get enough data in RGB and H-Alpha.

More informations and higher Resolution you can get from my Website:
http://astrofotos.at/index.php?view=det ... Itemid=134

Best regards from austria
Robert Pölzl

Posted: **Mon Jan 05, 2015 1:46 am**

Heart Nebula 12/28/2014 by Jeffrey Sines, on Flickr

Posted: **Mon Jan 05, 2015 10:33 am**

Dusty Hyades
http://www.astromarcin.pl
Copyright: Marcin Paciorek

Full frame and better resolution: http://astromarcin.pl/images/wide/tauru ... 4_2000.jpg

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Posted: **Mon Jan 05, 2015 2:15 pm**

My first light of 2015, here you have the Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy

I hope you liked. This image is took under the shadow of a holm oak due to the light pollution to the city of Berga-Barcelona-Spain, It was enough time to capture the Comet, I have made a hard work to remove the gradients due to the light pollution, but I liked.

Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy

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Information details:

Placer: City of Berga-Barcelona-Spain
Date: 03-01-2015
Moon Phase: Full Moon
Mount: Star Adventurer SkyWatcher
Camera: Sony A7S
Lense: Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L II USM
Exposures: 60 x 30 seconds at ISO 1600, darks, bias, without flats.
Software: Pixinsight + Lightroom

Best regards
Lluís Romero.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/llromero/
http://www.astrosirius.org