Starship Asterisk*

Earth View of the Backyard Observatory
http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann All rights reserved.

Saguaro Milky Way

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-kSrw ... G_4041.jpg

Hubble Ultra Deep Field
In the constellation Fornax.
This image only includes the Infrared data from WFC-3.
hlsp_hudf12_hst_wfc3ir_udfmain_f105w_v1.0_drz_drz(Blue)
hlsp_hudf12_hst_wfc3ir_udfmain_f140w_v1.0_drz_drz(Green)
hlsp_hudf12_hst_wfc3ir_udfmain_f160w_v1.0_drz_drz(Red)

M51 (NGC 5194 & NGC 5195) - The Whirlpool Galaxy - Canes Venatici
Authors: M.Angelini-F.Antonucci-F.Tagliani - ADARA IT
http://www.astrobrallo.com
Full-Res Image: http://www.astrobrallo.com/gallery/var/ ... 1370737779
Details: http://www.astrobrallo.com/gallery/inde ... -2013-text

http://www.flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/8992354956/

Sergio Montúfar

ESO: Rare Lightning Instead of Stars Above Paranal
The sky above Paranal Observatory in Chile, home of the Very Large Telescope, is normally covered with millions of stars.
However yesterday night, the first time in many years, a thunderstorm passed along the nearby coast. Strong flashes of
lightning painted for a fraction of seconds beautiful and impressive lines in the sky above the telescopes. An hour later it was all gone.
http://www.atacamaphoto.com
Copyright: Gerhard Hüdepohl At the left corner a coastal part of the Atacama Desert is illuminated by lightning and a small band of clear sky with a single star
(now identified as Procyon) is seen.

Milky Way Saguaro
Test/frame image that actually turned into a keeper...

NGC 7000 North America Nebula



Details and full resolution:

http://www.astrophoto.it/nebulae1/page1.html

Dedicated to Ella Morgan

Regards,

Fabrizio

This picture shows the huge region of hydrogen clouds in Cygnus.
The RGB part was taken with a Canon DSLR and 4 hours exposure time in the year 2010.
The Halpha part was taken on June 2013 with an ATIK 383l+ and Baader Ha filter, 7nm. -> 2 hours.
Processing with PixInsight.


Some larger version can be seen here: http://www.ccdsky.eu/Astronomy/Nebula/s ... ds_v4.html

Thanks for looking,
Christoph Puetz

Stars and Stripes
A "Patriotic" Cygnus Loop

4 hours of Ha and 4 hours of OIII, combined to make a synthetic RGB. While tweaking the colors, it just started looking like a tattered American Flag to me so I ran with it. I thought it was appropriate for the coming July 4th

Camera: QSI 683 w/Astrodon 3nm Ha and OIII filters
Optic: Canon 200mm f/2.8 L at f/4
Mount: Paramount MX
Exposures: 12 x 20 minutes each filter.



Larger resolution posted here: http://www.eveningshow.com/rawImages/Cy ... nthRGB.jpg

Thanks for looking,
Richard S. Wright Jr.

Gateway of India & the sky above
http://goo.gl/SmW7G
Copyright: Ajay Talwar Moon and Mars Conjunction at dawn
Copyright: Luis Argerich
http://www.luisargerich.com
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Abell 39
Copyright: Martin Pugh
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Aurora and ISS
http://www.astroarn.com
Copyright: Robert Arn
[attachment=0]Gliding Half size.jpg[/attachment]

i realize APOD is usually a picture, but the following graphic might be of interest

http://ldecola.net/files/distances.png

among other things it shows what a big leap getting to something out of the solar system will be.

Copyright: Vladimir Rau
http://www.ried-sternwarte.de/index.html
The photograph data:
Optics: 12" Newtonian
CCD Camera: Moravian G2 8300
Exposure time: 14 hours (H-alpha 14 x 30 min, OIII 14 x 30 min.)
Date: May/June 2013



Kind regards,
Vladimir Rau

Copyright: Vladimir Rau
http://www.ried-sternwarte.de/index.html
The photograph data:
Optics: 12" Newtonian
CCD Camera: Moravian G2 8300
Exposure time: L 9 x 15 min, RGB je. 5 x 15 min, Ha 15 x 40 min, O3 6 x 40 min. (total 20h).
Date: May 2013



Kind regards,
Vladimir Rau

Object: NGC5979
FITS data obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA).
Processing by: Delio Tolivia Cadrecha

Sharpless 27
http://www.woodlandsobservatory.com
Copyright: Alistair Symon Higher resolution images can be viewed at http://www.woodlandsobservatory.com/SH27/SH27_0613.htm

M100
http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann, Terry Hancock 2013 All rights reserved.

asymon wrote:Sharpless 27
http://www.woodlandsobservatory.com
Copyright: Alistair Symon
http://www.woodlandsobservatory.com/SH2 ... 800Low.jpg
Higher resolution images can be viewed at http://www.woodlandsobservatory.com/SH27/SH27_0613.htm

Wow it shows the optical Ha bowshock associated with Zeta Ophiuchi, the bright star near the bottom left corner!! I would love to see a long focal length mosaic done of this!!

NGC2359 - Thor's Helmet in Hubble palette
http://istarion.net/
Copyright: Matts Sporre Taken at Siding Spring, Australia, remotely from Sweden

Details and other color palettes at http://istarion.net/Picturepages/Nebula ... lmet.shtml

Uploaded with ImageShack.us
http://astrob.in/43826/B/

Conjunction of Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter
Copyright: James Lowenthal
[attachment=4]MercVenJup_2013may26_JL_trails_150kb.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 5529: Spiral galaxy viewed edgewise
http://skycenter.arizona.edu/gallery/Galaxies/NGC5529
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona Range of dust in comet's orbital plane
http://www.osservatoriosormano.it
Copyright: Enrico Colzani
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M31: Andromeda Galaxy, southwest arm
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/M31- ... u-HST.html
Credit and Copyright: Robert Gendler (image assembly and processing); Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), Hubble Space Telescope, Robert Gendler (data)
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SolarMax-Now & Then
http://www.TheAlaskaCollection.com
Copyright: Dave Parkhurst
[attachment=1]SolarMax21-22-23-24 Poster.jpg[/attachment]

Conjunction of Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter
http://www.peterboroughastronomy.com
Copyright: Rick Stankiewicz
[attachment=0]conjunction.jpg[/attachment]

Object: NGC 6326
FITS data obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA).
Processing by: Delio Tolivia Cadrecha
Object: NGC 6153
FITS data obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA).
Processing by: Delio Tolivia Cadrecha
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Conjunction of Moon, Mercury and Venus above the Canary Island Teneriffa. Image was taken 2013/06/10 from Gran Canaria. Approx. 100 km distance from Teneriffa.

The Vulcano-Shaped Mountain is the Teide, the highest Mountain in Spain.

Greetings,

Hans Schremmer

Hi! this is a beautiful moon taken with my children's scope (Astromaster90) and my dmk21au618 with IR-Pass filter, on 2013/04/24 in Málaga (Spain). Panorama of 16 images, reduced to 50%.
http://www.astrobin.com/full/44772/?mod=none



Jose Cabello

Supernova in NGC4414
http://www.starkeeper.it/NGC4414SN.htm
Copyright: Leonardo Orazi