Starship Asterisk*

not sure what this is

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/49726802938

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

Covid-19 Moon – clean air

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/49733136301

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

Copyright: Ron Voigt

The Trio
Moon, Venus and the Pleiades. March 28th, 2020.

Copyright: Behyar Bakhshandeh, Carlsbad, CA

http://www.deepskyobjects.com/

M64 Going into the gravity of the Blak Hole Eye Galaxy

The Black Eye Galaxy (also called Evil Eye Galaxy and designated Messier 64, M64, or NGC 4826) is a relatively isolated.

The Black Eye Galaxy, also known as Messier 64 (M64), is a famous spiral galaxy located in the constellation Coma Berenices.

The galaxy is also sometimes called the Evil Eye Galaxy or Sleeping Beauty Galaxy. It has the designation NGC 4826 in the New General.

Catalogue Messier 64 is also notable for being composed of two counter-rotating disks, roughly equal in mass. The inner disk contains the galaxy’s spectacular dust clouds and lanes. All the stars in the Black Eye Galaxy rotate in the same direction as the gas in M64’s core region, clockwise, while the gas in the outer regions rotates in the other direction.</r>

Data archives downloaded from Access MAST Data, for your information these are the followings archives that we have processed (15 files)

mast:HST/product/idxr37030_drc.fits - mast:HST/product/idxr37030_drz.fits - mast:HST/product/idxr37040_drc.fits
mast:HST/product/idxr37040_drz.fits - mast:HST/product/idxr37050_drc.fits - mast:HST/product/idxr37050_drz.fits
mast:HST/product/idxr37060_drc.fits - mast:HST/product/idxr37060_drz.fits - mast:HST/product/idxr37070_drc.fits
mast:HST/product/idxr37070_drz.fits - mast:HST/product/n4k45yerq_cal.fits - mast:HST/product/o67108010_flt.fits


Processing by Lluís Romero
Tittle: M64 . going into the Gravity of the Black Eye Galaxy

This is an image of the Soul Nebula, IC1848. It's a two panel mosaic taken in Linz, Austria. Roughly 30 hours of integration time went into this image. Hope you like it!
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This is the link to astrobin:
https://www.astrobin.com/zwbwxj/?nc=user

IC 1396 in custom HOO. This is probably one of my most colorful images. The Elephant Trunk in Hydrogen and Oxygen. Taken mid march in Linz, Austria.
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Astrobin Link: https://www.astrobin.com/paiqea/0/

The planet Venus and the Pleiades star clusters over Althofen, Carinthia, Austria.

The sky was mostly cloudy that evening. Just for a brief moment, the sky dropped the veil of clouds and revealed the goddess of love and the seven sisters.


Venus and the Pleiades by H. Raab, on Flickr

Venus in conjunction with the Pleiades shot through a Pentax 75 SDHF and diffusing filter:


A wider view of the conjunction next to the tower of Sofienberg church in Oslo. To the left of the tower, the open cluster of the Hyades is also visible.

Adopted Sister
https://flic.kr/p/2iLV3gB
Copyright: Brent Newton

A composite of Venus Transiting the Pleaides from April 3, 2020

William Optics Star71-II APO

ZWO ASI1600MM-P, ZWO LRGB filters

Venus: 10 x 5", 2", 1" each R, G, B

M45: 200 x 60" L, 120" x 120 each R, G, B (from November 2019)

Full size
Venus passing through Pleïades within 3 days.

Canons EOS 6D Mark II, Megrez 80/480, 30x8s at 6400 ISO and 10x1s at 200 ISO (Venus), 6 pictures assembled

Animated GIF :


Full size

Despite its artificial look, a fusion with an old image of M45 (october 2009) revealing nebulosity (30x2mn at 800ISO with an EOS 5D) :


Full size
Animated GIF

The Witchead nebula in a wide field.

Full resolution:
https://pbase.com/image/170550866/original

Cheers,

Kfir Simon

A colorful NGC 2467

Full resolution:
https://pbase.com/tango33/image/170429227/original


Thanks,

Kfir Simon

A couple of galaxies: NGC 4151 and NGC 4145

Full resolution:
https://pbase.com/tango33/image/170376013/original

All the best,

Kfir Simon

HH46 -47 with HH47B Jet

Widefield full resolution:
https://pbase.com/tango33/image/170372551/original

Closeup full resolution:
https://pbase.com/tango33/image/170569539/original

Thanks,

Kfir Simon

2 Versions of NGC 3572:

Full resolution RGB:
https://pbase.com/tango33/image/170169772/original

Full resolution Hubble color mapping:
https://pbase.com/tango33/image/170169774/original

Cheers,

Kfir Simon

M51 In a wide field
This 1.5X1.5 wide field shows the beautiful M 51.
In this deep image you can find many small galaxies in the background.

This Northern object DEC +47 was suprisingly imaged from Namibia at 23 DEG SOUTH!!!
Due to the absolute darkest skies in Tivoli - some frames were imaged 8 degrees above the horizon!
It took 7 nights with about 50 min per night (when the galaxy was at the zenith) to produce this unique image.

Full resolution:
https://pbase.com/tango33/image/170164511/original

Enjoy,

Kfir Simon

I have seen several very good photographs here in this section.
Congratulations

Venus and the Pleiades over Althofen (Carinthia, Austria).
Single shot. No tracking, no stacking, no blending.


Venus and the Pleiades by H. Raab, on Flickr

NGC 6302, also called Butterfly Nebula, is a bipolar planetary nebula in the constellation Scorpius. The structure in the nebula is among the most complex ever observed in planetary nebulae. The spectrum of NGC 6302 shows that its central star is one of the hottest stars known, with a surface temperature in excess of 250,000 degrees Celsius, implying that the star from which it formed must have been very large. (wiki - cit)

This photo was obtained by processing the Hubble data with Pixinsight using:
- R = F658n
- G = F673n
- B = F656n
we also enhanced the R and B channels using the F479n data.

Copyright: Hubble Legacy Archive
Processing: Paolo Zampolini, Giorgio Mazzacurati

Copyright hubble legacy archive
Processing: Paolo Zampolini, Giorgio Mazzacurati

Cone Nebula
Ngc 2264 Newton 200/1000
Camera asi zwo 294
85x300sec

Martina Franca (IT)

https://flic.kr/p/2iLE3kP

Copyright: Luca Dinoi

Virgo Galaxy Cluster
http://www.woodlandsobservatory.com
Copyright: Alistair Symon This is an image of the galaxy chain in Virgo. This is a 13 hour image through LRGB filters taken with a 35mm CCD camera and 4 inch refractor. There is a larger resolution image here: http://www.woodlandsobservatory.com/Gal ... in0320.htm

Sharpless 232
http://www.woodlandsobservatory.com
Copyright: Alistair Symon This is a false color image of Sharpless 232. This is 11 hours of data collection through Ha, SII and OIII filters combined using the Hubble palette. A 4 inch refractor and 35mm CCD camera was used.

The Tadpoles (IC 410) in hubble palette

https://www.astrobin.com/rgmvlp/?nc=user

Lucadinoi wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:32 pm Cone Nebula
Ngc 2264 Newton 200/1000
Camera asi zwo 294
85x300sec

Martina Franca (IT)

https://flic.kr/p/2iLE3kP

Copyright: Luca Dinoi

Luca Dinoi, I took the liberty of inserting a thumbnail version of your image here, so that others can see it without clicking on your link.

Hope you don't mind!

Ann