Starship Asterisk*

Venus Jupiter conjunction
Copyrights: Chris Wyatt Venus conjunction with Jupiter 30/06/2015
Copyrights: Omar Mangini Jupiter & Venus Embracing Lisbon
Copyrights: Fernando Fortes Full Moon
Copyrights: Justin Olson Milky Way over Molas Lake
Copyrights: Daniel Lowe Venus and Jupiter and Lightning
Copyrights: Derek Demeter Venus-Jupiter Conjunction above Dingdu Tower
Copyrights: Haiying Chen Venus, Jupiter and Galilean moons
Copyrights: Teale Britstra Jupiter and Venus
Copyrights: Roshan Lala

Gamma Cygni Nebulae IC1318A
Copyrights: Terry Hancock Nebulae Eta Carinae and Lambda Centauri
Copyrights: Kadu Fairbairn
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/190668/0/ Venus-Jupiter conjunction
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado Milky Way at "Due Sorelle" beach
Copyrights: Michele Guzzini Dark Matter Map Begins to Reveal the Universe's Early History
Image Credit: NAOJ/HSC Project
An article: http://subarutelescope.org/Pressrelease ... index.html http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34934

Jewel Box Cluster
Copyrights: Steve Mazlin
Larger size: http://www.starshadows.com/gallery/disp ... ?imgID=522 From the Moon to the Sun
Copyrights: Robert Blasius NGC 6919
Copyrights: Juan Lozano
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/190483/0/?real=&mod The Stars Trail beyond the Mochou Lake
Copyrights: Li Hang NGC 1333: Stellar Sparklers That Last
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/S.Wolk et al; Optical: DSS & NOAO/AURA/NSF; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech
More about: http://www.chandra.si.edu/photo/2015/ngc1333/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34938

A Sounio temple moonrise from July 2, 2015.

http://www.ancientskys.com/Night-sky-ph ... -Lpk8xzJ/A
http://www.ancientskys.com
Copyright: Marc Toso Light from the crescent moon on Baron Peak in the Sawtooth mountains of Idaho. Thin layer of clouds with the Milky Way above. The orange glow on the mountains to the right is light pollution from Boise, Idaho.

Six planets taken through the course of 2014-2015 with differen gear.

Last night I was out on rise fields found very close to Thessaloniki city trying to make an image with the full moon rising. Conditions were optimal and the haze made the red color pop on the Moon's disc, but millions of mosquitos were coming in clouds and I had to be full body protected except my face and fingers...
Clear skies
Constantine Emmanouilidi
f/b: Infection Photography

The Iris Nebula
http://www.skymonsters.net
Copyright: Nicola Montecchiari
Image Details:http://skymonsters.net/immagine.php?img=NGC7023.jpg

M16 Pillars
http://www.pbase.com/dsantiago/image/160607382
Copyright: Derek Santiago and Tolga Gumusayak

The Gamma Cygni Region 2 panel Mosaic
Copyrights: Terry Hancock The Whole Moon in Your Hand
Copyrights: Tom Harradine Jupiter and Venus
Copyrights: Fabio Castelluzzo Full Moon
Copyrights: Justin Tomlinson Jupiter and Venus
Copyrights: Paco Bellido Meeting of Venus and Jupiter over Paris
Copyrights: Bertrand Kulik Venus and Jupiter conjunction
Copyrights: Daniel López Venus, Jupiter, Moon - composite image
Copyrights: Shahrin Ahmad M27 (Dumbbell Nebula)
Copyrights: Mike Malik

Alien Spaceship on Petrova Gora
Copyrights: Boris Štromar ISS crossing the Sun
Copyrights: Mirek Zagórski AR2373-2376 with Earth at scale
Copyrights: JP-Brahic Moon, Venus and Jupiter with the Laser Guide Star System
Copyrights: Ana García Suárez Venus & Jupiter conjuction
Copyrights: S. L. Kumar Venus, Jupiter and Galilean moons
Copyrights: Pramod Galgali Earth in Aphelion
Copyrights: Gabriel Murawski Aurora Butterfly
Copyrights: LI Hang

Abell 39 - a planetary nebula in Herkules
www.astrofotos.at
Copyright: Robert Pölzl
Abell 39 is a faint planetary nebula in constellation of Herkules - it is 6800 Lj. far away.
I invested 24 hours of exposuretime with narrowband and RGB Filters.

Kind regards from Austria
Robert Pölzl
www.astrofotos.at

M17- The Swan Nebula
http://www.bersonicastronomy.com
Copyright : Jacob Bers
Full Res: http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/4 ... rsonic.jpg

B86- The Ink Spot Nebula
http://www.bersonicastronomy.com
Copyright: Jacob Bers
Full Res: http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/f ... rsonic.jpg

venus and jupiter (jupiter double exposure) in the roman aqueduct of los milagros

Astrophotographer panorama

Cacharí, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
This is a reprocessed panorama.

venus, down, and jupiter in the roman aqueduct of los milagros. jupiter double exposition

Globular cluster Messier 22 in Sagittarius by Oleg Bryzgalov, on Flickr

Whirpool galaxy M51 in Canes Venatici (2015) by Oleg Bryzgalov, on Flickr

Last night (July 5 after midnight) thanks to a mild solar wind stream buffeting the Earth's magnetic field, the Northern Lights were visible at Bon Echo Provincial Park, in Ontario. Far from any city lights, the aurora shone through despite the best efforts of the moon to spoil the view. Reflecting in the still water of Upper Mazinaw Lake the aurora were active most of the night, but this is about as bright as they got around 1:00am. This is a composite panorama of 5 images panning from north (left) to south. Each frame was a 2 second exposure at 2500 iso, 14mm F/2.8

cheers,

Combining wedding and astro photography.


Wedding star trails - Maruševec castle by Zoran Novak, on Flickr

In the constellation of Cygnus one can find NGC 6914. In this region emission nebulae, as well as absorption and reflection nebulae can be found. In the beginning of June I photographed this region, just like Tim Schuurman (a fellow astrophotographer). We shared our data and then I worked on this, but all still in low resolution.

Now I reprocessed the data using the Drizzle option in pixinsight, blowing up the original to twice its size and then in the end reducing it back to the original size, while obtaining more fine detail.

Furthermore also Digitized Sky Survey was incorporated in the image to get more detail in the dark nebulae. Altogether I think it resulted in a nice image of this interesting region.



NGC 6914 Emission and reflection - DSS data included on Flickr

On the image also two interesting objects can be seen (see detail image):

To the right we see V1515 Cyg, that's a star surrounded by a disk of gas/dust that can be well seen in the image. To the left we see the protoplanetary nebula GN 20.22.7
Telescopes: TMB92 / 20cm f/5 Newton / 1.2m Oschin Schmidt Telescope
Camera: QSI583ws / Canon 350Da

Exposures:

QSI583:
30x600s Red
30x600s Green
27x600s Blue
25x1200s Ha

Canon 350Da (cooled):
145 x 5 min ISO 800
Total: 35 hours

Credits: André van der Hoeven (astro-photo.nl) / Tim Schuurman (astrovirus.nl) / Space Telescope Science Institute

IC 1318
Copyrights: Steve Martin Panorama for the Milky Way
Copyrights: Luocheng Venus and Jupiter Close Conjunction
Copyrights: Ronald Linder NGC6791
Copyrights: Ron Brecher A star to see
Copyrights: Adam Block
Larger version: https://www.adamblockphotos.com/ic-4605.html Venus-Jupiter conjunction from South Africa
Copyrights: Simon Walsh Venus-Jupiter conjunction
Copyrights: Saber Karimi Conjunctions
Copyrights: Alfred Lee

Anticrepuscular rays, Prague, Czech Republic, 28.6.2015
Copyrights: Pavel Prokop ISS front of the Moon
Copyrights: David Duarte Full Moon from Bucharest, Romania
Copyrights: Nicholas Daniyyel Venus and Jupiter over Potala Palace
Copyrights: Jeff Dai NGC253
Credits and copyrights: Data: NASA/ESO/NAOJ; Processing: Roberto Colombari
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/191967/0/?real=&mod= Aurora Australis 23 June 15 from Melbourne, Australia
Copyrights: Russell Wiltshire M82
Copyrights: Julian Hancock
Larger size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/77406484@ ... hotostream Interstellar
Copyrights: Gaspare Silverii Aurora Borealis with Fireworks
Copyrights: Chris Cook Luminous Moon
Copyrights: Jaim Hirschman

Jupiter meets Venus in Paris
Copyrights: Daniel Harrus NGC6819
Copyrights: Ron Brecher Core of the Milky Way
Copyrights: Jesse Rockwell Close-up Study, Pillars of Creation
Copyrights: Harel Boren
More about: http://www.pbase.com/boren/image/160635098/original NLCs Venus Jupiter
Copyrights: Wolfgang R. Wiesinger Aurora Australis from Antarctica
Copyrights: LI Hang The Pillars Of Creation & Eagle Nebula
Copyrights: John Mansur & Terry Hancock Sunspots
Copyrights: Joanna Bialek

Title: Conjunction of Jupiter & Venus , just 1/3° apart
Location: Chiayi City , Taiwan
Date: July 1st, 2015 (local time 19:54)
Credit: Yulang Kung

for best quality of image :
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/538/1946 ... 3e8e_o.jpg

Not far to Jupiter & Venus upper left, appearing much fainter, is Regulus, the alpha star in the constellation Leo.
You will find it in the large image.

The Hidden Scorpion
I named this picture for the imaginary shape that I see in the dark nebula that skirts about the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae. This is a mosaic of two 2-hour long integrations of the area. The Great Andromeda Nebula
It amazes me how this was once considered a great spiral nebula and the dawning comprehension of the true scale and distance of this structure was just a passing thought yet to come. 4 hour exposure. The Emerald Brick Road
Barely discernable to the naked eye, the rich green glow of Nitrous Oxide's birth taints one of the darkest skies I've seen yet. However, The Milkyway could not be interrupted in its quest to bisect the dark sky. Gnarled Resilience
Every night, the Sonoran Desert sleeps calm and resolute. Whether the winds are chilled or burning, the tree keeps growing. The spin of the Earth brings seasons day to day.