Starship Asterisk*

Messier 33
http://www.distant-lights.at/m33-2016_11_02.htm
Copyright: Thomas Henne

NGC 6888- Crescent Nebula
http://www.distant-lights.at/ngc6888-2016_09_09.htm
Copyright: Thomas Henne

A Night at the River
Copyright: György Soponyai

Dömös is a Hungarian village in the Danube Bend (Dunakanyar) located 45 km north from Budapest. The Dunakanyar is often considered as one of the most beautiful part of river Danube where it flows between Börzsöny Mountain and Visegrád Mountain.

I often escape from the Capital and travel here for some recreational wild camping or simply for staring at the sky in a sleeping bag at the bank of the river.

The night of 28th March 2017 was moonless, cloudless and warm so I went here for taking this seven-hour-long all-sky photo, the longest one I've made.



Photo details:

2017.03.28-29.
Dömös, Hungary

Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Sigma EF 8/4.0
218 x 120 sec, F4.5, ISO 1600

NGC3521 – The Flocculent Galaxy in Leo
http://danks.netfirms.com/astronomy.htm
Copyright: T.A. Danks

IC342 Face On Spiral in Camelopardalis
http://danks.netfirms.com/astronomy.htm
Copyright: T.A. Danks

March 28th, 2017
Location: San Romualdo - Ravenna (Italy)
Tecnosky Apo AG70/350
ASA DDM60PRO
QSI583wsi cooled -25
Astrodon RGB GenII E-series filters
RGB: R (5x120"), G (2x120"), B (2x12") - Binning2
Acquired with: MaximDL5
Calibrated with bias, dark and flat
Processed with: MaximDL5, Astroart6, StarTools1.4, Paint Shop Pro X9 and Topaz Details plug-in.

Cristina Cellini

M90, Negative Redshift
Copyrights: Yves Van den Broek Seahorse aurora
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado The Cone, Christmas Tree & Fox Fur NGC2264
Copyrights: Terry Hancock
Full size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhanc ... ateposted/ Aurora in Alaska 2017
Copyrights: John Chumack Crowns for the Vestrahorn (Iceland)
Copyrights: Guillaume Scheib Sun and Moon - 19/08/2016
Copyrights: Flavius Ilie NGC6357 - Lobster Nebula
Copyrights: John O’Neill Dynamic Sprite from Texas storms with Jupiter and Spica
Copyrights: Thomas Ashcraft Spring on Earth: ice, open water, and phytoplankton
Copyrights: John Stetson Undulatus asperatus
Copyrights: Bertrand Kulik Aurora dance over waterfalls
Copyrights: Gísli Már Árnason Double circular rainbow
Copyrights: Israel Hermelo Moon, Eartshine and Mercury above Atlantic Ocean
Copyrights: Pedro Bessa MCG+07-33-027
Credits and copyrights: Data: Hubble Space Telescope; Processing: Sergio Montúfar; Acknowledgement: Judy Smith Recent Type 1a supernova in NGC5643 (in Lupus)
Copyrights: Rich Hammar Moonset / Mercury-set
Copyrights: György Soponyai Far Flung Fandango
Credits and Copyrights: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona in collaboration with the Chart32 (additional color data)
Larger size: http://www.adamblockphotos.com/ngc-125.html Orion on Urban Sky
Copyrights: E.C. Chilean sky
Copyrights: Petr Horálek Iridium communication satellite
Copyrights: David Sirrine Venus at dawn
Copyrights: David de Cuevas Milky Way's Mirror
Copyrights: Carlos Eduardo Fairbairn Mercury & Moon with Mars
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel

M51 and NGC5195
1) Luminance
2) L(HaR)GB

Larger images and info:
http://www.astrobin.com/290684/?nc=user

Nick Pavelchak
Altamont, NY

Elephant Trunk IC1396
Ha/OIII Bi-color
Larger images and info:
http://www.astrobin.com/268390/?nc=user

Nick Pavelchak
Altamont, NY

Jupiter - GRS, Oval Ba on Opposition day April 7th, 06:28ut. Under optimum conditions.

Objeto: NGC1976 - Orion Nebula
Data:2017-03-29
Telescope: Sprit100
CCD: QHY9 CCD Camera.
HA-15X600""
HA-7X60""
L-17X600""
L-11X60""
R-11X300""
R-7X30""
G-9X300""
G-7X30""
B-9X300""
B-7X30""
Total frames / integration: 100 frames / 8,22 horas
RA center: 05 34 58
DEC center: -05 15 27
ALT/AZ: 24.5186 / 274.8495
SITE: LAT-23 00 52 LONG:-47 36 14
Capture: Leandro Fornazieiro
http://www.astrobin.com/users/leandrof58/
Processing: Maicon Germiniani

Circles and Spirals
http://www.ancientskys.com
http://www.fb.com/AncientSkys
Copyright: Marc Toso Star Trails in symmetry with a spiral petroglyph pecked into a 800 year old wall in Mesa Verde National Park. I intentionally defocus the stars slightly to bring out their natural color. All illumination on the wall is from moonlight.

Bewitched by a Dome - 40 hours in my slowly improving automated observatory.

Landscape:


Portrait (North Up):


https://philhart.smugmug.com/DeepSkyAst ... /i-H65Zt22

Phil

Jupiter


https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@ ... otostream/

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

Solar - Power

clink on link for zoom-able version

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/33079365144

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

Black Moon

clink on link for zoom-able version

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/33787965701

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

M 33

http://www.celestialobjects.net/m33.html

Regards

Patrick Winkler

While IC 2872 makes up "the head" of the chicken in many wide field images of the larger Running Chicken Nebula in Centaurus, it is rarely imaged in close up like this, with imagers favouring the area around the famous Bok or Thackeray's Globules in the brighter section of the nebula.

True colour HaRGB version: Copyright: Michael Sidonio
Larger image here: http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ ... 5/original

Full wavelength ordered (SIIHaOIII) narrowband emission line version: Copyright: Michael Sidonio
Larger image here: http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ ... 6/original

You can see exactly where the Chickens Head is here: http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ ... 1/original

Comet Hale-Bopp on April 11, 1997. Average of two exposures: 2x 10 min at 200 mm / 300 mm f/6 on Kodak EPP 100 (hyp).
Taken from the Peterberg plateau (584 m), Germany.
Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/TEkJ9G

Copyright: Sebastian Voltmer
http://www.astrofilm.com

Cheers,
Sebastian

JNCE_2017086_05C00110_V01-mapprojected by Valmir M. de Morais - Estação Astronômica PieGise, no Flickr

Complex activity in the Jupiter bands

Image of Jupiter captured 2017-03-27 09:12 UT by the JunoCam camera from NASA's Juno Mission.
Mission Phase : PERIJOVE 5
Image processed by Valmir Martins de Morais.

Credit : NASA / SwRI / MSSS / ValmirMMorais

Hi,

I want to share an image of NGC2264 region, the region is full of hydrogen and a nice reflection nebula

Copyrights: Jose Mtanous
Full image and pure Ha version here: https://mtanous.wordpress.com/ngc2264/

IC 1848 - IC 1805 Heart and Soul nebula in circumpolar composition

Image Credit & Copyright: José Jiménez Priego

https://flic.kr/p/TLi2Bg

https://www.facebook.com/jose.jimenezjj

fullmoon

Opposition of Jupiter
Copyrights: Marco Guidi Vdb141 molecular cloud in Cepheus
Copyrights: Hans Heiser Venus phases
Copyrights: Abhijit Juvekar Mars observations
Copyrights: Abhijit Juvekar Moon craters and full Moon
Copyrights: Abhijit Juvekar Eagle and the Great Rift
Copyrights: Konstantinos Vasilakakos ISS on March 29, 2017
Copyrights: Marcel Süssli Two night arcs
Copyrights: Ondrej Kralik Ganimede
Copyrights: Marco Guidi The Cone, Christmas Tree & Fox Fur NGC2264
Copyrights: Terry Hancock Supernova in NGC5643 in Lupus
Copyrights: Richard Hammar Milky Way view from the cave
Copyrights: Brandon Yoshizawa Aurora - God's dance
Copyrights: Dick Chen IC2087 & Barnard 22
Copyrights: José Jiménez Priego Messier 63 (NGC 5055, Sunflower Galaxy)
Copyrights: Alessandro Pensato Aurora above Skógafoss waterfalls, Iceland
Copyrights: Francisco Llano Tomé Beyond the appearances: The anatomy of the Orion Jedi revealed by radio-astronomy
Image credit and copyrights: Top image: J. Pety, the ORION-B Collaboration & IRAM; Bottom image: Sergi Verdugo Martínez
An article: http://www.iram-institute.org/EN/news-a ... 7/144.html Comet Loveyoy C/2017 E4
Copyrights: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich In the eye of the Castle
Copyrights: Stephane Vetter

20 years ago: Comet Hale–Bopp over Chuvashia


large image
March 1997. Zenit-ЕТ, Jupiter-37A (F=135, 1/3.5), Fuji Superia 400, exp: 15 min. Manual guiding (!) with telescope "Mizar" (made in USSR)


large image
February 1997. Zenit-ЕТ, Helios 44 (F=55, 1/2), Fuji Superia 400, exp: 2 min.

Ed Vazhorov (Chuvashia, Russia)