Starship Asterisk*

Crescent Moon
July 22, 2020


©VegaStarC/Liard P h o t o g r a p h y

It was a Wonderful Evening with the Crescent Moon Setting a little after the Sun


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

The Golden State Nebula

NGC 1499 California Nebula

Last night I had another attempt at this one. I shot new Ha and S2 band passes of light. I skipped O3 due to the bright moon glow. Moon glow is more readily transmitted by O3 filters than Ha and S2. A nearly full moon, passing clouds and wind were my enemy, I had to throw away more than half my images.Because I only had 2 colour channels I had to synthesise the third. I did a H HS S palette combination using pixel math. I hope you like the colour combination.

Ha -> Red
0.65*Ha + 0.35*S2 -> Green
S2 -> Blue

Ha was 18, 5 minute exposures
S2 was 10, 5 minute exposures
140 minutes total exposure.

Gear

Sky Watcher Star Adventurer
Skywatcher Stainless Tripod
ZWO ASI 183mm Pro
Antlia 3.5nm Ha & S2 filter
ZWO Electronic Filter Wheel
William optics Redcat 51
ZWO mini Guidescope and ADI 120mm mini guide camera

Controlled by ASIair.

Processed in APP and Pixinsight. With touches in Lightroom.

The Golden State Nebula by Ronan Hunt, on Flickr

Mars and the Moon conjunction as seen from Puerto Rico. Inset afterwards when taken. (ED80 APO, LX200ACF 305mm, ASI290mm Cmos, PowerMate Barlows, Astronomik RGB.)

Venus over 7 months - Orbit Composite
http://theurbanastronomer.com
Copyright: Vineeth Kaimal [/attachment]

This is a composite image of several captures of Venus between 28 Nov 2019 and 13 May 2020. The image shows the apparent change in size and the phase change in Venus as it is captured over 7 months. The Venus images have been arranged to give the illusion of an orbit path around the Sun from our perspective which help us intuitively understand the changes in observation.

Venus capture details:
Telescope: GSO 6 Inch F5 Newtonian
Mount: iOptron CEM25P
Eyepiece: 8mm
Barlow: 3X
Nikon 1 J5 Camera
Processed from 1500 frames each using PIPP and Autostakkert. The final composite was sharpened in Gimp.

The Sun image was captured on 21 June 2020 just before the solar eclipse started.
Sun capture details:
Telescope: GSO 6 Inch F5 Newtonian
Mount: iOptron CEM25P
Nikon 1 J5 Camera
Baader aperture solar Filter
This was a single shot capture, color temperature adjusted in Gimp for visual appeal.

VegaStarCarpentier wrote: ↑Sun Sep 06, 2020 2:42 pm Crescent Moon
July 22, 2020


©VegaStarC/Liard P h o t o g r a p h y

It was a Wonderful Evening with the Crescent Moon Setting a little after the Sun


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

That's a lovely and exquisite photo! Thank you!

Ann

Dark nebulae in the region of the constellation of the Eagle

In this image the predominant star is Altair, it has a name of Arabic origin which means "the one who flies" is the brightest star in the constellation of the Eagle.
There are also several dark nebulae and smaller clusters, such as NGC 6828, NGC 6837, in addition to the planetary nebula NGC 6803 and NGC 6804.

More details
https://www.astrobin.com/full/w92qf7/0/?nc=user

Equipment:
Canon 200mm lens
Canon 6d
31x 100 sec
Ioptron Smart-eq mount, without guide

Munhoz - MG - Brazil
From the 20th to the 22nd of July 2020

Processing and capture:
Software: Pixinsight, Adobe Photoshop, APT ,, Polemaster, SharpCap


Copyright: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
Email: Barretosmed@hotmail.com

Ann wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 7:21 am

VegaStarCarpentier wrote: ↑Sun Sep 06, 2020 2:42 pm Crescent Moon
July 22, 2020


©VegaStarC/Liard P h o t o g r a p h y

It was a Wonderful Evening with the Crescent Moon Setting a little after the Sun


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

That's a lovely and exquisite photo! Thank you!

Ann

Hy Ann,

Thank you very much for your comment Ann, I'm glad you like it
it's with pleasure
Take care of you
Best regards,

The little cocoon nebula


Not much information on this nebula.
A small but enchanting denizen of the Milky Way, Sh2-82 is a beautiful cloud of gas and dust consisting of an emission nebula enveloped by a hazy reflection nebula. It is embedded in the dark nebula LDN 727 and is the site of some star formation and young stellar objects (YSO). Located at a distance of approximately 3600 light years, Sh2-82 is ionized by the star HD 231616, which can be seen near the centre.

More details
https://www.astrobin.com/full/d1w2g3/D/

Equipment:
Newton ASA10"
Paramount MyT
Canon Ra at 800ISO
278*300s
Total exposure : 23hrs
Autoguiding by EvoStar72ED and ASI120mm
Softwares :BackyardEOS, TheSkyX pro, Maxpilote, PixInsight, AstropixelProcessor and Photoshop.

Lorraine - FRANCE
July and August 2020

Copyright : Thomas LELU

Milky Way above Czech landscape

Credits: Robin Onderka |www.instagram.com/robin_onderka
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This photo was taken in Pulčín, a small village in Czech Republic. Very quiet place, which is located at an altitude of about 675 m above sea level and where the street lights go out at night.

In the background you can see a strip of yellow light along the entire horizon, which is an example of light pollution in our country. I remind you that a professional technique was used for the photo and there is a lot of work for it to be able to see the Milky Way in such a detail on this photo.

Where is Jupiter? This year, we have a very beautiful planets drifting across our sky, Jupiter and Saturn, moving slowly to a Milky Way core. I took this photo in 13th July, when these 2 planets were further to the east. By the end of this year, we can expect them to move even closer to the Milky Way’s Great Rift!
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Date: 13th July 2020
Location: Pulčín, Czech Republic
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Canon 6D astro modified + Sigma 35/1.4
Sky: 10 x stacked 60" f/2.8 ISO 1600
Ground: 240" f/4 ISO 800

Milky Way above Czech Landscape by Robin Onderka, on Flickr

Moonrise Above New York City
Copyright: Gabriela Levit

This Moonrise photo was taken at the waterfront in Jersey City, overlooking the World Trade Center and Manhattan skyline.

It is a stack of 39 images, taken every two minutes to show the Waning Gibbous rising. The first moon image is reddish because of the atmosphere and some thin clouds. The moon then got progressively lighter as it rose. I took a separate image for the foreground, stacked them together, and cropped the image to enlarge it.

Equipment:
Nikon D7500
18-300mm lens

Processed with StarStax, Lightroom and Photoshop.

Date: September 6th, 2020

antonioSardAstro wrote: ↑Sun Sep 06, 2020 10:45 am Hello everybody, Antonio from Italy here. First post in the forum.

Please find attached my images of the Lunar occultation of Mars as seen from Sardinia island this morning 8 am local time. The occulation lasted 38 minutes

Welcome, Antonio! That's a fine first post of yours!

Ann

Coalsack Nebula

It is a dark nebula in the constellation of Crux, it is about 600 light years from Earth. It is easily visible to the naked eye like a dark spot in the sky.

Best details
https://www.astrobin.com/full/zuv0a2/0/?nc=user

Equipment:
Canon 200mm lens
Canon 6d
17x 100 sec
Ioptron Smart-eq Mount

July 20-23, 2020
Munhoz - MG - Brazil

Processing and capture:
Software: Pixinsight, Adobe Photoshop, APT ,, Polemaster, SharpCap


Copyright: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
Email: Barretosmed@hotmail.com

Dust and colors in IC 1318

IC 1318 Lrgb with Epsilon 180 and Asi 071 by gc.iaffaldano, su Flickr

Copyright Dean Salman and Iaffaldano GC.

NGC 1097 and the four jets

Copyrights
Data acquisition: Martin PUGH
Processing: Nicolas ROLLAND

Acquisition November 2019
Total acquisition time of 35.2 hours.

Optics: Planewave 17“ CDK @ F6.8
Mount: Paramount ME
CCD: SBIG STXL-11002 (AOX)
Pre Processing: CCDstack & Pixinsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC


NGC 1097 and the four jets by Nicolas Rolland, sur Flickr

Dark Nebula LDN1161 in Hα-SII/OIII/OIII+rgb (Sh2-132 region) by Jose Carballada, on Flickr



This dark nebula belongs to the head of the Lion Nebula or Sh2-132.

Amazing fight on this complex area where a large number of dark nebulae, emission gases and eruptive stars give to us this nice show.
I need to explore more in detail this region on my next captures!!!

On this picture, I integrated more than 75 hours in narrow band and rgb data to resolve all possible details and structures.
Processed on natural colors using a palette ha+Sii / Oiii / Oiii and RGB stars.

Summer Milky way over Monteboaggine graveyard. Built during the middle ages, together with the nearby castle the castle It was owned by Montefeltro family. It was used until WWII and now It's completely abandoned.
Canon EOS 6D with Samyang 14mm f/2.8. 7x80s f/4 6400 ISO tracked with Stardventurer for the Sky. 1x100s 6400 ISO f/4 untracked for the landscape
Milky Way over Monteboaggine graveyard by Alessandro Carrozzi, su Flickr
Milky Way over Monteboaggine graveyard by Alessandro Carrozzi, su Flickr

NGC 6888 The Crescent nebula and PN G75.5+1.7 The Soap bubble

My first non-test image with the new telescope. Nearly 20 hours of acquisition time. I chose this target as I had good data set from last year to compare the image quality of the new telescope with and because I really like this target.

Telescope: TS Photoline 130/910 APO Triplet with 3" 0.8x reducer
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM Pro with ZWO Narrowband filters
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Sowftware used: SGP, PHD2 for acquisition and Pixinsight and Photoshop for processing

COPYRIGHT: Data and Processing Rodney Michael

I began experimenting with mosaics in August. My first effort is the Veil Nebula.

This is a 4-panel mosaic in HOO (HOO=RGB) captured over 23-days, approximately 2.5 hours of OIII and 2.5 hours of Ha per panel (37 4-minute subframes of OIII and 37 4-minute subframes of Ha per panel). The mosaic is centered on the star GSC 2688:1366.

The Veil Nebula is located in the constellation Cygnus and is an emission nebula generally agreed to be the remnant of a supernova that occurred between 5,000 and 15,000 years ago. The nebula itself is a cloud of ionized (charged) gas and particles resulting from the explosion of a large star. It is approximately 1,500 light years distant from us. The entire Veil from east to West is probably over 75 light years in diameter.

Equipment and Software:
TELESCOPE: Celestron RASA, 11", f2.22
MOUNT: Software Bisque Paramount MX+
GUIDING; The SkyX Pro, Pro-Track
CAMERA: QSI683WS
PROCESSING: PixInsight

SH2-114 - Flying Dragon
Full details @ https://www.kinchastro.com/sh2-114---th ... ragon.html

SATURN

Best detalis
https://www.astrobin.com/full/zbjkge/0/?nc=user

Equipment
MEADE LX200 10 "UHTC
ZWO Optical ASI 462 MC
Filter: Planetary Baader L 1.25 "
Accessory: TeleVue Powermate 2.0x
Mounting: Ioptron Cem60
Polar alignment: Sharcap
Capture: SharpCap V3.0

Processing: Photoshop CS6, AutoStakkert AutoStackert !, Registax 6, Winjupos
Seeing: 3
Transparency: 8
2020/08/12
01:39 UT
São Paulo-SP-BRAZIL

Copyright: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
Email: Barretosmed@hotmail.com

IC 5146 Cocoon nebula
Newton 200/1000 camera asi 294pro
skywatcher eq6 pro
79x300s filter l-enanche
Luca Dinoi from Martina Franca
Image hight resolution: https://flic.kr/p/2jFet9D

Ngc7635 Bubble Nebula
Newton 200/1000 camera asi 294pro
skywatcher eq6pro
81x300s filter l-enanche
luca Dinoi from Martina Franca
Image hight resolution: https://flic.kr/p/2jFHFq2

Hello

A great night this last 05th of September 2020, with an excellent seeing : I had the opportunity to use one of the 1-meter telescope of Calern Observatory in South of France. The result is I think excellent, with a very high resolution on Mars surface. We deem this is one of the most resolved picture of Mars made from ground
http://www.astrosurf.com/prostjp/Galeri ... 090%25.png

Clear skies to all

Jean-Pierre

Hello! I've been working on this project for almost a month now and I think I'm finally done. It is of the very faint vdB 152 in Cepheus and is my first submission here!


Please see the above link for information considering the capture.

Thanks!