Starship Asterisk*

M 104: the Sombrero Galaxy
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/M104_LRGB.htm
Copyright: Emil Ivanov A hi-res image could be found here .

See full dimension:http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/7093 ... ebaran.jpg

I don't know if is the correct way to show you this image, this night i make this photo with my nikon compact camera.
I'm very surprised to see Aldebaran in this way so I hope you too.

Venus was so lighting that i cannot make a better photo.

M82 - Cigar Galaxy (NGC 3034), irregular galaxy type Ir-II, in Ursa Major

http://www.elateobservatory.com

Copyright: Velimir Popov
Big size is avaliable here

Thank you for looking...

The child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, above Montserrat mountain, near Barcelona

(c) Manel Soria http://www.facebook.com/frikosal

Many times, in the The Odyssey by Homer, "the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn" is mentioned. What is it ?
It is the personification of dawn, a goddess, but also a phenomenon that can be seen twice many days, one just before dawn and the other just after sunset, even from urban areas.
Please click here to see the full size picture: http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/7378 ... s21962.jpg

So many directions

Trails of stars from 49°N (Czech republic) from dusk to moonlight. During the dusk came across the sky coloured cirrus clouds, after that the sky cought dark blue color of non-astronomical July night. During the time flew a few planes, one Iridium satellite and two meteors. The shine left up is moonlight. The direction of trails of stars is defined by their declinaction. Trails below the sky equator have shape of upper part of circles (the radius is bigger how closer to equator trails are) and conversely - trails above the equator are shaped like bottom parts of circles. So you can easily determine the south and west horizon. It's compound of 390x30s expositions to wideangle lenses (8 mm, f8, 400 ISO). The image was taken in areal of Astronomical institute of Czech republic in Ondřejov.
Higher resolution: http://www.astro.cz/_data/images/news/2 ... ha_ond.jpg

Regards,
Petr Horálek
http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/gallery/ ... ?web=astro

Sunspot 1520 and cormorants

Copyright: Mila Zinkova

Mercury & Venus rising over the port of Málaga, Spain.



Taken with a Fuji FinepixF80 compact camera
Full size version here: https://picasaweb.google.com/rachel2900 ... 1272021058

Full moon rising over Mérida, Spain, 3rd July 2012


Taken with a Fuji FinepixF80 compact camera.
Full size version here: https://picasaweb.google.com/rachel2900 ... 7334293394

M 63 - the Sunflower Galaxy
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/ ... B_2012.htm
Copyright: Emil Ivanov Hi-res image can be found here

"Reflections"
http://www.rddnj.com
Copyright: Russell E. King

This is my first post here, so I hope I'm doing this right.

Time Tree This was a tree that I sort of stumbled upon while hiking around in Arches National Park, in the dark. I saw it’s silhouette against the light pollution of Moab in the background and coupled with the rising Milky Way on the horizon, I knew it would make for a dramatic scene. I’d battled fast moving clouds all night but in this case, I think the cloud movement adds to the shot a bit.

http://Twilightscapes.com - Unique Night-Time Photography

Earthshine Moon, July 10, 2012
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

I'm another first time SA* poster...

This image of NGC 6888 was taken in Central Oregon in June and July of this year using a Planewave CDK17, Paramount ME, Apogee U16M and AstroDon 3nm filters.

Total exposure time was just under 6 hours.

Processed using PixInsight and CS5.

NGC 6888 Ha and OIII with RGB stars
http://astrohack.net/AstronomyBlog/
Copyright: Brandt Schram

SkyViking wrote:Into the Depths of the Trifid
http://www.pbase.com/rolfolsen/astro_photography
Copyright: Rolf Wahl Olsen

Click to view full size image

Link to full res image (4MB): http://www.pbase.com/rolfolsen/image/144456519/original

Using 5 different nights in June I managed to get just over 7 hours together for a deep image of the Trifid. I was surprised by the amount of stuff around the nebula itself which I think is not often imaged so deep.

Good work. Very nicely detailed and processed

twilightscapes wrote:This is my first post here, so I hope I'm doing this right.

Time Tree

Click to view full size image

This was a tree that I sort of stumbled upon while hiking around in Arches National Park, in the dark. I saw it’s silhouette against the light pollution of Moab in the background and coupled with the rising Milky Way on the horizon, I knew it would make for a dramatic scene. I’d battled fast moving clouds all night but in this case, I think the cloud movement adds to the shot a bit.

http://Twilightscapes.com - Unique Night-Time Photography

Stunning, haunting and beautiful all in one

Miketrevis, I think you may have imaged Jupiter, not Aldebaran. But I might be wrong.

Hi. Here is first image posting here at Starship Asterisk. I hope this works.
I took it on the 7/7/12 at around 1.45pm. Luck was on my side as i happened to go outside and saw a plane about 90 deg away from the sun. So i quickly setup the scope, pulled the battery off charge, fitted the camera to the scope, pointed to the sun and crossed the fingers. Luckily the focus was already set from a previous moon imaging session as i had literally seconds to spare.
Telescope- C102-HD refractor
Camera- 500D with t-ring
Solar filter"

This image shows a comparison between sunspot group 1520 and the Earth.

The reflection of Venus in the Mediterranean Sea



full size image http://img.webme.com/pic/c/celdevinaros/img_5689rec.jpg

Hi, my name is Federico Margalef Serret and this is my first post in this forum, 10/07/2012 the photography is made in Vinaròs (Spain) regards

For the fourth time this year, A dim star has erupted into prominence in the constellation Sagittarius, the Archer. Unlike the others, however, none of which got brighter than magnitude 9½, this one has rocketed from anonymous obscurity to magnitude 7.8. It's a bit unusual to have several appear in the same constellation.
WO ZenithStar ED80II, P/B LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, ST2000xm ccd, AO8, CFW9, Astronomik LRGB filter set.

Three Phases of the Moon
Copyright: Carlos Di Nallo
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Active Region Ar1514 and Prominence
http://www.fobos.es
Copyright: Jesús Carmona de Argila
[attachment=4]sol080712.jpg[/attachment]

M104: Sombrero Galaxy in Virgo
http://anguslau.smugmug.com/Nature/Astr ... -16-13.jpg
Copyright: Angus Lau
[attachment=3]20120703_M104_53-16-13-13x10m_LRGB_crop2_1600.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 6992: Veil Nebula in Cygnus
http://ptank.blogspot.com/2012/07/ngc6992.html
Copyright: Paul Tankersley
[attachment=2]Veil_Tankersley.jpg[/attachment]

Sprawling Archipelago of Active Region 1520
http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_p ... elago.html
Copyright: Alan Friedman
[attachment=1]Friedman_AR1520.jpg[/attachment]

Sh2-115: Emission Nebula in Cygnus
Copyright: John Ebersole
[attachment=0]Sh2-115nbsmall.jpg[/attachment]

Aurora Planets
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set= ... 318&type=3
Copyright: Frank Olsen
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Arizona Meteor Crater and the Moon
http://www.billionplanetsquest.com
Copyright: Philip A Cruden
[attachment=2]Arizona Meteor Crater Moon.jpg[/attachment]

Shelf Cloud
Copyright: Liz Vaca
[attachment=1]O'Hare cloud.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 4747, 4725, 4712 in Coma Berenices
http://kerschhuber.astronomie.at//galer ... 47_a2.html
Copyright: Günter Kerschhuber
[attachment=0]20120303-Ngc-4747-4725-4712.jpg[/attachment]

Moon Set and Milky Way
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tmo-photo/7534952896/
Copyright: Thomas O'Brien
[attachment=0]_MG_7788-Edit_tmophoto_2012.jpg[/attachment]

Sh2-101: Tulip Nebula in Cygnus
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/Tulip-BYU.html
Copyright: Michael Joner and David Laney (BYU), acquisition; Robert Gendler, processing DWB 111: Propeller Nebula in Cygnus
http://www.martinpughastrophotography.i ... DWB111.jpg
Copyright: Martin Pugh
[attachment=0]PropellerNebula_Pugh.jpg[/attachment]

The North America and Pelican Nebulae
http://carlosgr-astrophoto.blogspot.com.es
Copyright: Carlos Grillo Ramos More resolution: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n1aT1mKHkuE/T ... oc6peq.jpg