Starship Asterisk*

Fly me to the moon..... Yesterday (04/01/2015) I could photograph these three different planes flying over the almost full moon. I was so lucky

NGC1491
Copyrights: Ron Brecher Thunderstorm
Copyrights: Stefano Sciarpetti Vela Supernova Remnant
Copyrights: Don Goldman
Full size: http://www.astrodonimaging.com/gallery/ ... ?imgID=282 A Meteor on The Mount Fuji
Copyrights: Lysuna Orion Nebula
Copyrights: Burley Packwood IC 434 Horsehead Nebula
Copyrights: Jose Ramon Mundo Salvador IC 1805, NGC 896 and WeBo 1
Copyrights: César Blanco
Larger size: http://www.cieloprofundo.com/cesar/foto ... _WeBo1.jpg Comet Lovejoy and M79
Copyrights: José J. Chambó

C/2014 Q2 flew over Hong Kong
Copyrights: Vincent Cheng Winter constellations
Copyrights: Chris Newsome Moon
Copyrights: Mohamed Laaifat Winter Sky
Copyrights: Dani Caxete Belt of Venus over Parana river delta
Copyrights: Aldo Mottino Sun Dog
Copyrights: Walter Cecchini Jupiter - Dec 30th, 2014
Copyrights: Damian Peach

venus, star 4 capricorn and mercury. more venus and mercury https://vimeo.com/116046657

Venus & Mercury

As seen from Guatemala's Pacific Ocean, the planetary conjunction Venus & Mercury in an Astronomical Seascape.

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Astronomical Selfie


Using Moonlight
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Tarantula Zone NB+RGB

Orion's Sword, M42 and NGC1977. William Optic Star 71mm f/4.9 Apo, SBIG ST-8300C camera, 70 minutes, KEASA Observatory, Kauai, Hawaii, USA. December 26, 2014.

IC4592. William Optic Star 71mm f/4.9 Apo, SBIG ST-8300C camera, 150 minutes, KEASA Observatory, Kauai, Hawaii, USA. June 21 & 24, 2014

NGC1499. William Optic Star 71mm f/4.9 Apo, SBIG ST-8300C camera, 360 minutes, KEASA Observatory, Kauai, Hawaii, USA. Nov 27 and Dec 21, 2014

NGC7000. William Optic Star 71mm f/4.9 Apo, SBIG ST-8300C camera, 270 minutes, KEASA Observatory, Kauai, Hawaii, USA. July 27, August 15, and August 23, 2014

NGC884. 8-inch f/8 Ritchey–Chrétien Cassegrain (with a Televue 0.8x focal reducer/field flattener yielding f/6.4), SBIG ST-2000XCM camera, 300 minutes, KEASA Observatory, Kauai, Hawaii, USA. December 6, 2014

M45. William Optic Star 71mm f/4.9 Apo, SBIG ST-8300C camera, 150 minutes, KEASA Observatory, Kauai, Hawaii, USA. August 23, 2014.

Barnard 207
Copyright: Massimo Tosco
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Full Moon & Venus Belt

First Full Moon of 2015 as seen from the pacific coast of Guatemala. It was a beautifull moment since the moon was right under the earth shadows (Venus Belt).

Sergio Emilio Montúfar Codoñer
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The Old Ship Under the Moonlight
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Copyright: http://www.dariogiannobile.com This is apparently an enchanted view of an old ship run on the shore of Siracusa. The truth is that every day lots of migrants, coming from Africa, are trying to reach the cost of Italy hoping for a better life. They sail on board of old and crumbling ships like this, often (very often) losing their lives. This image is for everyone in order to remember this huge tragedy.
Dario G.

Reflected Sky
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Copyright: Marc Toso I spent 5 days over Christmas in the Grand Gulch in southern Utah looking for rock art and ruins. Found a fair share, but night photography was difficult when it got below freezing so soon after sunset. We found ourselves drinking hot beverages and retreating to our sleeping bags for 12hr sleep marathons instead.
This photo is from the final night, near the rim of Redman Canyon, a small tributary of the Grand Gulch. The pool was so still, like a mirror. In the morning it was a solid block of ice

Rocchi Carlo, Italy

A narrowband ,false hue for this nebula, Rosette, total of 30 hours exposure with Ha, O111 S2, plus RGB for stars
I hope the colour has brought something to this image
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Comet Lovejoy Q2 from Spain
Copyrights: Eric Recurt Jupiter and Callisto (December 30th 2014)
Copyrights: Daniel Leclerc Pickering's Triangle
Copyrights: Ron Brecher Overwhelming Nebula
Copyrights: Adam Block
Larger size: http://skycenter.arizona.edu/gallery/Nebulae/NGC2359 Cone Nebula Area
Copyrights: Leonardo Orazi
Larger size: http://www.starkeeper.it/ConeZone.htm Aphelion vs Perihelion
Copyrights: Paco Bellido Sun and Moon - farthest vs nearest
Copyrights: Ehsan Rostamizadeh Ring in the sky
Copyrights: Florian Kainz

The Moon's Palette.
Guatemala's Pacific Ocean under the Full Moon's light.

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Searching for comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) under a full Moon
Copyrights: Paolo Demaria NGC 1097
Credits and Copyrights: Steve Mazlin, Jack Harvey, Jose Joaquin Perez; SSRO-South at PROMPT/CTIO
Larger size: http://www.starshadows.com/gallery/disp ... ?imgID=505 Comet Lovejoy - Dec 24th
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Larger size: http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/c201 ... 2_24dp.jpg SDSS: Sloan Survey Opens New Public View of the Sky
Credits: SDSS-III Collaboration
An article: http://www.sdss3.org/ Amherst Astronomy Professor Detects Record-Breaking Black Hole Outburst
Image Credit: Image by ESO/MPE/Marc Schartmann
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NASA's Chandra Detects Record-Breaking Outburst from Milky Way's Black Hole
Credit: NASA/CXC/Northwestern Univ/D.Haggard et al
An article: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/15_rel ... 10515.html Revisiting an icon - Hubble captures the Pillars of Creation twenty years on
Credits: NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team
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Hubble's High-Definition Panoramic View of the Andromeda Galaxy
Image credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton (University of Washington, USA), B. F. Williams (University of Washington, USA), L. C. Johnson (University of Washington, USA), the PHAT team, and R. Gendler
Larger (zoomable) version and an article: http://hubblesite.org/news/2015/02 McMath Solar Telescope
Copyrights: Dean Salman The Gemini Planet Imager produces stunning observations in its first year
Image credit: Christian Marois (NRC Canada), Patrick Ingraham (Stanford University) and the GPI Team
An article: http://www.gemini.edu/node/12314 Plane shadow and the rainbow
Copyrights: Fang Fang Northern Lights over Stockholm
Copyrights: Alessandro Merga

full moon and the star of bethlehem http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 17#p237517

I like the picture of NGC 1097 and its jets, but who took it? Is there some more information about that image?

Ann