Starship Asterisk*

Thanks VÁRADI NAGY Pál! Your animated image of the eclipse on Europa is really quite amazing!

Ann

Ghost Ship
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Ghost Ship by The Art of Night, on Flickr

The Galactic Core of the Milky Way rises to the east, silhouetting and an old fishing boat that ran aground in a storm. The boat has been abandoned and makes for an interesting subject to photograph. I climbed up onto the boat that night and illuminated the cabin with a simple headlamp. This image is a single exposure photograph.

Illumination Tower
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Copyright: Marc Toso This is commonly called Tower House. It's found on Comb Ridge in Utah. Tower House is an ancient two story structure with vegas (wooden roof beams) still intact! This was taken somewhat early in the evening, sometime around 7:30 or 8:00pm before the moon had time to rise in the middle of February. The night was as dark as it gets. This is a single exposure, all of the light was generated by gently placing a headlamp just inside the door of the structure.

Crux

Over the Mayan Temple 5 of Tikal, Peten, Guatemala.


Sergio Montúfar
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Pedra que Bole
Praia de Santa Cruz | Torres Vedras | Portugal
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Paulo Pereira

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Ganymede's shadow on Europa (around 2015-03-09 23:39 UT)
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Copyright: Pál VÁRADI NAGY
Description: I recorded a total of 22 pics (1 GB video each), aligned and rotated, offset and superimposed them. Objects: Europa, Ganymede, Jupiter. The noisy background is the sum of the sensor noise, its area reflect the original framing of the webcam. On this picture time passes downwards, East is to the left, North is upwards. 150/750 newtonian, 2x barlow, webcam, eq3. The seeing was very bad

360º panosphere by Mike Mackinven

S T A R G A Z E R by Mikey Mack, on Flickr

Milky Way and the Zodiacal Light as the sun is about to rise by Mike Mackinven

Z O D I A C by Mikey Mack, on Flickr

Milky Way rising from Te Arai Point, New Zealand by Mike Mackinven

S T A R S H I N E by Mikey Mack, on Flickr

"Sleep like a tent"
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Copyright: Yu Jun

Mayan Temple (The Great Jaguar) under the stars

2 Image Panorama of the Great Jaguar, located in Tikal, Petén, Guatemala, the image was shoot with Moonlight on 20150101.

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Megamosaico 6 teselas by astrocentejo, on Flickr

AR 2297 in white light / 204mm F/8.8 refractor
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regards

Copyright: Kim Quick & Terry Hancock

Thors Helmet NGC 2359
Presented here in LRGB, H-Alpha and OIII, this collaboration by Kim Quick and Terry Hancock was captured by Kim over 17 nights between 12/28/14 - 2/15/15 from his backyard observatory in Florida under moderately high light polluted sky conditions.
Using his QSI 583 Mono CCD and Explorer Scientific ED 127 Refractor. Processed and Calibrated in CCDStack, Post Processing in CS3
Total Integration Time 27 Hrs 30 Minutes
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IC410 Tadpole Nebula
Data
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Recording / preprocessing: by Frank Iwaszkiewicz
Image processing: by Nico Geisler & Frank Iwaszkiewicz


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Subject:NGC7635 The Bubble Nebula (Filters: Ha and OIII)
Copyrights: James Collins

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From a few weeks ago I went out in hope of aurora, sadly not to be so I set up at Happisburgh ,North Norfolk UK by its iconic light house foe 90 mins of star trails

Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) imaged on January 25, 2015 into a field of 4.5 deg lenght and 2 deg width. The tail still showing structures in spite of seems less active than previous days. Under comet head there is a cluster of small galaxies, being the brightest NGC 1060.

Takahashi Takahashi FSQ-106ED refractor + SBIG STL-11000M camera 2x(L:1×300 Bin1 + RGB:1x60 Bin2)

Remotely from Mayhill, New Mexico (USA)

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José J. Chambó

Subject: NGC6992 Eastern Veil (Ha. OIII)
Copyrights: James Collins

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Heart of the Galaxy
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The Bright Dipper - Ursa Major
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Night sky over Gillespie Wash
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Copyrights: Roberto Colombari
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Copyrights: Navaneeth Unnikrishnan Messier 46 + two planetary nebulae
Copyrights: Denis Priou A Grand Extravaganza of New Stars
Credits: ESO
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Green and blue lunar flashes
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NGC 6992
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Copyrights: Alessandro Terzi Star Trail - Pietranzoni lake night reflection - Gran Sasso National Park
Copyrights: Alessandro Terzi Milky Way over the Forest - Dolomites
Copyrights: Alessandro Terzi The Sea Turtle Head or #3 on the Sun
Copyrights: John Chumack Venus, If You Will, as Seen in Radar with the GBT
Image credits: B. Campbell, Smithsonian, et al., NRAO/AUI/NSF, Arecibo
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Copyrights: Antonio Peña 12 Moonrises since January 2014 until March 2015
Copyrights: Javier Martinez Moran M78 (NGC 2068) and NGC 2071
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AR 2297 in H-alpha light /204 mm H-alpha refractor
Image © Philippe TOSI
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Steed wrote:Heart of the Galaxy
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I was just looking at this photo again this morning and have to say I find it astonishingly beautiful. It's like the camera is not there. A little difficult to explain, but the camera introduces a lot of its own nature into photographs but I find its effects minimal here. The smoothness and subtlety of the Milky Way is conveyed flawlessly. It is subtle and yet it is also bright and very obvious.

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Steed wrote:Heart of the Galaxy
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Copyright: Yu Jun

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I was just looking at this photo again this morning and have to say I find it astonishingly beautiful. It's like the camera is not there. A little difficult to explain, but the camera introduces a lot of its own nature into photographs but I find its effects minimal here. The smoothness and subtlety of the Milky Way is conveyed flawlessly. It is subtle and yet it is also bright and very obvious.

Thank you!

Showcasing the full dynamic range of this field well without looking unnatural is quite difficult but by using various short to medium exposure times and blending them all together it correct ratios, it is possible to reveal the
elusive twin lobed ejecta of the Homunculus Nebula around the bright and massive star Eta Carina (bellow the keyhole nebula), the Fickle Finger (just above right of the Keyhole) and also show the insides of the keyhole and it's surrounds.
Copyright: Michael Sidonio