Starship Asterisk*

Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile
https://www.flickr.com/photos/113243238@N08/


sh2-129_RGB_Halfa_OIII por astrocentejo, en Flickr

IC4628

Copyright: Paul Haese

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Mount Rainier under Moonlight
Copyright: Brad Goldpaint
http://goldpaintphotography.com/

NGC 7822. Dust and gas

LRGB image


NGC7822 LRGB por Lizarranet, en Flickr

Mikel Martínez

http://fotoastro.blogspot.com.es/
http://www.laotramitad.org

Nebula "Elephant Trunk" is a consentracion of interstellar gas and dust near the star cluster cataloged as IC1396, which ionize the H II gas located in the constellation Cepheus, 2,400 light years away from our planet.
Copyright: César Cantú

A close-up of Comet C/2014 E2 Jacques on August 4th, 08:57ut. (exp. 26min.)

This is the whole of Delphinus captured by Greg Parker at the New Forest Observatory and processed by Noel Carboni in Florida U.S.A.
A higher resolution image can be found here: https://flic.kr/p/oBisTF

Canon 5D MkII DSLR (unmodified) and a Canon 200mm prime lens at f#4, single frame, 29 subs at 4-minutes per sub and ISO400.

2014/08/04 Moon & Saturn (130% Zoom)
Time: 19:33 (HKT) 11:33 (UT)
Location:Hong Kong Sai Kung
Telescope: Skywatcher 80ED/600mm f/7
Camera:Canon 60D 1/250s ISO 400
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-IyeY ... aturnR.jpg

The Moon and the storm
Copyrights: Fred Wasmer Double Rainbow Panorama
Copyrights: Chris Carter Mirrors of HESS2 atmospheric Cherenkov telescope
Copyrights: Berrie Giebels IC1396 - Elephant's Trunk nebula
Copyrights: Jesus M. Vargas and Maritxu Poyal M8 & M20 The Lagoon & Trifid
Copyrights: John Chumack The Eagle Nebula M16 & The Omega/Swan Nebula M17
Copyrights: Terry Hancock NGC 6726
Copyrights: Don Goldman
Large size: http://astrodonimaging.com/gallery/disp ... ?imgID=276 Triangulum Galaxy Snapped by VST
Credits: ESO
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1424/

NASA Mars Curiosity Rover: Two Years and Counting on Red Planet
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-262 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 60#p230060

Milky Way
Copyrights: Jérôme Obiols Abell 2218
Copyrights: Data: Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA); Image processing: Amirreza Kamkar Milky Way from New Jersey
Copyrights: Jason Gambone NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Celebrates 15th Anniversary
Image credits: NASA/CXC/SAO
More about: http://www.chandra.si.edu/press/14_rele ... 72214.html http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=33690

Finally there! Rosetta arrives at 67P
Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
An article: http://www.mps.mpg.de/3709585/PM_2014_0 ... ta-Ankunft http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 27#p230127

NASA’s Hubble Finds Supernova Star System Linked to Potential “Zombie Star”
Image Credit: NASA, ESA
An article: http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/august/n ... -KlCeNdUZM http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=33733

Airglow over Nerpio, Spain. This is the first time I have seen in my life. It's an incredible phenomenon.

Copyright: Álvaro Pérez Alonso.

Our website: http://www.perezfotografia.com

In high resolution: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/499 ... irglow.jpg

Comet C/2014 E2 Jacques on August 6th, 08:43ut. (exp. 28min.). Showing its changing forms of its tail from the last session on the 4th.

Lagoon Nebula or M8 in narrow band.
Copyright: César Cantú

M20 Trifid Nebula
by Vicente J. Molina

Full resolution image: http://goo.gl/3OxLC5

http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/b ... ermark.jpg Image data:
Telescope: ES ED127CF + QHY9 CCD
L: 16x900" bin 1x1
R: 5x300- bin 2x2
G: 5x300" bin 2x2
B: 5x300" bin 2x2

http://buscandocometas.blogspot.com

Barnard 228 in Lupus is a Very large Dark nebula more than 4 Degrees in the sky.

Each image is 1.5x1.5 degrees.

Larger version:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/new_images

Thanks,

Kfir Simon

Barnard 228 part 1:


Barnard 228 part 2:


Mosaic of the two:

http://astrofotki.pl
Copyright: Jacek Bobowik Larger image: http://www.astrofotki.pl/NGC281_NB.jpg

Small clip of the evolution of Nova Delphini V339 during a single year
Amazing change from bright cyan to bright red and then to deep blue.
(First image without the nova is from the DSS archive)

Video clip on Vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/102874222

or an SWF animation:
http://www.fastswf.com/PEKlbUA

Animation Frames:
Celestron CGE & C9.25" f/10 @ 2350mm & SBIG ST-2000XCM.
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http://s5.postimg.org/kj926g49z/Nova_De ... on_480.png
Nova Delphini Evolution

George Georgatos.
Clear Skies!

while waiting for the milky way was in the right place to photograph
Lights in the background are from Malaga coast (spain)

Arp 86 and IFN
Copyright: Jaime Alemany, Salvatore Iovene and Samuel Diaz



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C/2014 E2 Jacques

Autore: Andrea Pistocchini
High Resolution: http://www.astrobin.com/112173/

Star Trail over the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica
http://www.dariogiannobile.com
Copyright: Dario Giannobile
http://www.dariogiannobile.com/img/s6/v ... 3127-5.jpg 260 shots (260 min) to compose this star trail over the rocky necropolis of Pantalica (Unesco World Heritage). The Necropolis of Pantalica contains over 5,000 tombs cut into the rock near open stone quarries, most of them dating from the 13th to 7th centuries BC. Vestiges of the Byzantine era also remain in the area, notably the foundations of the Anaktoron (Prince’s Palace). Tombs can be seen in the rocky wall below the stars.

Dario G.

The Mily way over the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica
http://www.dariogiannobile.com
Copyright: Dario Giannobile
http://www.dariogiannobile.com/img/s12/ ... 8716-5.jpg The Necropolis of Pantalica contains over 5,000 tombs cut into the rock near open stone quarries, most of them dating from the 13th to 7th centuries BC. Vestiges of the Byzantine era also remain in the area, notably the foundations of the Anaktoron (Prince’s Palace). Tombs can be seen in the rocky wall below the stars. Above the wall the sky with the milky way and a meteor.

Dario G.

Clouds over an old farmhouse
www.dariogiannobile.ccom
Copyright: Dario Giannobile The light of the moon and the city below seems to paint the sky. The clouds and the wind together act like a brush creating a frame all around an old farmhouse.
Dario

Sagittarius Triplet

http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/3 ... ermark.jpg http://www.astrobin.com/110842/

Bests
Roberto

Omega Centauri Cluster or NGC5139.
Copyright: César Cantú