Starship Asterisk*

Star-Forming Region N11B
http://www.astrobin.com/237354/
Copyright: Hubble Legacy Archive, Brandon Pimenta

NGC 6565
http://www.astrobin.com/237014/
Copyright: Hubble Legacy Archive, Brandon Pimenta

NGC 6751
http://www.astrobin.com/231776/
Copyright: Hubble Legacy Archive, Brandon Pimenta

Spirograph Nebula
http://www.astrobin.com/224991/
Copyright: Hubble Legacy Archive, Brandon Pimenta

Boomerang Nebula
http://www.astrobin.com/225079/
Copyright: Hubble Legacy Archive, Brandon Pimenta Butterfly 2346
http://www.astrobin.com/225356/
Copyright: Hubble Legacy Archive, Brandon Pimenta Lemon Slice Nebula
http://www.astrobin.com/225283/
Copyright: Hubble Legacy Archive, Brandon Pimenta

Crescent Moonrise over Budapest
Copyright: György Soponyai

On 5th February 2016 the dawn sky promised a wonderful phenomena with the crescent Moon, Venus and Mercury on the Eastern horizon. However the clouds didn't allowed me to photograph the planets, the "remaining" scene with the rising Moon herself and the waking Budapest in the foreground was still marvellous. The bank of river Danube with the Chain Bridge (Lánchíd - the oldest bridge of the city) is an UNESCO World Heritage Site.



Photo details:
2016.02.05. Budapest
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Canon EF 200/2.8L
10 x 2 sec, F3.2, ISO 250

Orion - The Hunter
https://flic.kr/p/DdBucf
From the Trapezium to the tenuous outer structures of Messier 42 (M42), a.k.a The Great Orion Nebula.
Copyright: Chris Marklew Orion Nebula, Running Man Nebula, etc. Wide-field, Narrowband composition.

Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII, FLI PL16803.
SHO 468:678:630 - 29.6hours total.

Atlas Observatory - Canberra, Australia

Jupiter on February 4th, 07:41ut, 07:53ut. Now within one month from opposition. View in parallel vision (cross your eyes).

NGC 225 and vdB 4
http://www.distant-lights.at/vdb4-2015_10_17.htm
Copyright: Thomas Henne

Data captured at the New Forest Observatory, U.K. and processed by Noel Carboni, Florida, U.S.A.

Copyright: Greg Parker & Noel Carboni 2016

Planetary Conjunction above Corfiot sea
Night landscape before the dawn above the island and the sea of Corfu, with the waning crescent Moon, age 27 days old, shines above all at 378694km away.
Just under and right is our sister planet Venus with magnitude almost -4.0 shines at 1,37AU away almost above the old Fortress of Corfu.
And just above Igoumenitsa in the red horizon little Mercury shines almost at 0mag 0,97AU away from as.
06 Feb 2016
Canon eos 5D mk2
EF 100L Macro IS USM
100mm
f2.8
iso800
5sec

The Moon, Venus & Mercury on a Friday Morning

Image, Feb 5th 2016

Mercury, Venus and the Moon
February 6, 2016

My flickr
Copyright: Jose Luis Sanchez

Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter and the Moon
February 5, 2016
My flickr
Copyright: Jose Luis Sanchez

NGC 602
http://www.astrobin.com/238260/
Copyright: Hubble Legacy Archive, Brandon Pimenta

M101 and surrounding galaxies, including NGC5474 (bottom right) and NGC522 (upper left)

Lords Of The Winter Nights Piazza Duomo Syracuse - Unesco World Heritage Site
http://www.dariogiannobile.com
Copyright: Dario Giannobile

Jupiter, Moon and Sirius, Lords of The Winter Nights, paint their trails in the sky of Ancient Syracuse. It includes the old city’s foundation, Ortygia, built by Greeks from Corinth in the 8th century BC. The site of the city, which Cicero described as ‘the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of all’, retains vestiges such as the Temple of Athena (5th century BC, later transformed to serve as a cathedral), a Greek theatre, a Roman amphitheatre, a fort and more.

Dario Giannobile

I did not want to miss the last day of the planetary conjunction with the Moon, but I was worried I would not be courageous enough to get up when the alarm would ring around 6am. So I solved this problem by staying the whole night out, taking pictures of deep sky objects with the telescope. It was a fairly cold night on the shores of Monroe Lake (Bloomington, IN), but totally worth it. In the morning, the 5 planets lined up were joined by a very thin crescent of moon.



Full size (very large file): http://www.jfgout.com/photos/i-RfsNFw9/ ... fsNFw9.jpg


With the Moon taken through the telescope at the same time:



Full size: http://www.jfgout.com/photos/i-FJQKMP4/ ... JQKMP4.jpg

The sky was getting really bright, so I add to enhance a little bit the contrast around the stars in Photoshop to make them pop out. I don't like having to do this sort of things, but it was the only way to see the stars and the planets while looking at the full panorama on a small screen.

All images (c) Jean-Francois Gout

jf

M33

12h Exposure

Full resolution:

http://www.astrobin.com/full/238388/0/?real=&mod=

Hello, this is my first submission on this forum

Ghost and family :

AstroDon L: 12x600" -20C bin 1x1
RVB: 8x300" -20C bin 2x2

Intégration: 2.7 Heures
http://www.astrobin.com/194414/C/
click image for the full image




Francois Doussoux

M42-Narrowband3 by Chuck Manges, on Flickr



Copyright: Chuck Manges

Francois_Doussoux wrote:Hello, this is my first submission on this forum

Ghost and family :

AstroDon L: 12x600" -20C bin 1x1
RVB: 8x300" -20C bin 2x2

Intégration: 2.7 Heures
http://www.astrobin.com/194414/C/
click image for the full image




Francois Doussoux

Welcome, Francois! That's a nice picture!

Ann

Moonrise at the Plain



2016.02.06. Kiskőrös, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Samyang EF 24/1.4
6sec, F2.0, ISO3200

IC2220 is a cloud of gas and dust illuminated from within by a star called HD 65750, a red giant star about 5 times more massive than our Sun.
The nebula sits in a complex region of very faint molecular dust in the southern constellation of Carina. The Toby Jug shape was first coined by David Malin, Paul Murdin and David Allen when they noticed the strong resemblance to the once popular china jugs: http://www.worldcollectorsnet.com/features/tobyjugs/
Copyright: Michael Sidonio

I Love You
Since it's the month of love! Here's a message under the stars....
http://www.astrotanja.com
Copyright: Tanja Schmitz