Starship Asterisk*

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a pic of the M81 group condensating the surrounding flux nebula, retaining the natural brightness relations


big size: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/879 ... _180mm.png

Sigma 180mm Macro at full f/2.8 Eos 600da, approx 420 subs 3min at Iso800 werde selected.

clear skies!
Tommy

Hubble finds a massive halo around the Andromeda Galaxy
Image credit: A. Feild (STScI)
An article: http://news.nd.edu/news/57688-hubble-fi ... da-galaxy/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34754

M81
Credits and copyrights: Data: Remote and automated Observatory in Arizona; Processing: Roberto Colombari
Larger size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/178622/0/?real=&mod= Looking up from 5000 years down
Copyrights: Ajay Talwar LDN 1495, vdb27, Cederblad 30, and LBN777 Mosaic
Copyrights: Scott Rosen
Larger version: http://www.astronomersdoitinthedark.com ... c=17&p=552 Lunar Eclipse
Copyrights: Nicolas Legatelois Milky Way over South Africa
Copyrights: Aitor Aguirregabiria de la Sen 67/P
Credits and copyrights: Data: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM CC BY-SA IGO 3.0; Processing: Giuseppe Conzo

Have a Crux on Taipei Date: 2015.4.14
Location: Yangmingshan National Park, Taiwan
Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Optics: EF 50mm f/1.8 II-> f/6.3
Exposure: 8 sec at ISO800

Copyright: Hung-Hsuan Yen
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Sunspots AR2339 Chance for Solar flares
Copyrights: John Chumack Starburst Galaxy
Copyrights: Adam Block
Larger size: https://www.adamblockphotos.com/ngc-2903.html Big sunspot
Copyrights: Paco Bellido Lights over Abisko
Copyrights: Christian Rausch Coming Around the Bend
Copyrights: Alan Friedman

Starlight by Moonlight
Richard S. Wright Jr.

A six second DSLR exposure as a nearly full moon rises lights up the landscape and the sky. In a longer exposure the reflected sunlight starts turning the sky blue just as if in daytime, while the stars are still able to shine through. The radio antenna shown here is known at 26 East. It was built in 1962 as part of a NASA tracking station and was used during the Apollo missions, then later as an NSA listening post, and today is part of PARI (The Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute) a radio observatory, science museum and outreach center near Rosman North Carolina.

LDN 134 in Serpens
Copyright:Leonardo Julio
http://astronomiapampeana.com.ar/foto/138/LDN-134.html
http://astronomiapampeana.com.ar//image ... 134-SA.jpg

Messier 16, The Eagle Nebula and the Pillars of Creation


Image Courtesy: LCOGT and Ajay Narayanan
High res version: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajynrynn/ ... ed-public/
Data for this image was collected by the following 1m telescopes operated by the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT) Network:
1m-04, 1m-05 and 1m-09 located at Cerro Tololo, Chile
1m-10 and 1m-12 located at Sutherland, South Africa

ic 434
FSQ 106 ED / QSI 540WSG / AP1200 GTO

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/62369 ... M6full.jpg
Cucculelli Alexandre.

NGC 6888 hrgb
QSI 540 WSG / AP1200GTO /FSQ 106 ED

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/62948 ... enHRGB.jpg
http://www.astrosurf.com/cucculelli/index.html

The Gathering

Photo Credit: Amit Ashok Kamble (Auckland Astronomical Society)

This image sums up an astro night at pakiri beach. A beautifu beach, sound of waves crashing, bioluminescence, milkyway, moon rising and Lunar crepuscular rays.

Moon rise is definitely the most breathtaking moments on earth, it is so elegant and serene at the same time. As the moon rose behind the island, Jonathan , Joanne and I sat down on the beach enjoying the beauty, just to realize we should be capturing the moment. we jumped back to our cameras and started taking shots.

As i was taking this shot, a car drove in with super bright headlights which illuminated the beach, lucky that he turned them off pretty quick.

This is a 2 horizontal image panorama.

Exif: 20sec, f4, ISO 3200 using Canon 50mm on Canon 6D

High Res : https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5332/168 ... 2a02_k.jpg



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For larger version: http://www.pbase.com/wjshaheen/image/160011152/large

Copyright: William J. Shaheen

AR 2339 - 11th of May 2015
204 mm Istar Optical refractor F/8.8 + barlow 4x + green 544 nm filter / skynyx 2.1M (10 images mosaic)
Regards
© Philippe TOSI

In this panorama you can see the core of the Milky Way at the far left, the Sagitarius constellation, part of the Southern Cross at the middle, the Coalsack Nebula, the Carina Nebula (home to a dying star likely to die in a hypernova), and the Large Magellanic Cloud at the bottom - which is a nearby galaxy and satellite of the Milky Way.

This panorama consists of 3 rows of 5 pictures each, for a total of 252 mega pixels (23373 x 10811), and was taken in Esteros del Iberá (Ibera Wetlands; from Wikipedia: "it's a mix of swamps, bogs, stagnant lakes, lagoons, natural slough and courses of water in the center and center-north of the province of Corrientes, Argentina). z

Bigger version: https://500px.com/photo/108386689/milky ... arc%C3%ADa

If it ends up selected, I'll upload the full 252 MP file so everyone can download it.

Messier 92
http://www.astrosurf.com/astrobernier
Copyright: Martin Bernier Full: http://www.astrosurf.com/astrobernier/m92_lrvb_6mai15

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ISS-Transit on May 10, 2015
addicted2light.de
Copyright: Levin Dieterle And here, the Big Version

Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae, Gems of the Southern Milky Way
http://www.astrobin.com/full/179238/0/
Copyright: John Gleason
http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/ima ... terisk.jpg

"Venus observes how UK reminds the victory in the I World War"

The Westminster Abby and Big Ben remind the victory in World War I with a light towards the sky. This light draws a "V" of their victory. A show which only can be seen in the aniversary of the war. The photo was taken in May 10th.

HD: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/499 ... submit.jpg



Copyright: Álvaro Pérez Alonso y Jose Manuel Pérez Alonso.

Webpage: http://www.perezfotografia.es

Sombrero Galaxy
Copyrights: Joe Llama
Larger size: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vsz9vokgvd2v8 ... o.jpg?dl=0 NGC 4631 (Humpback Whale)
Copyrights: Joe Llama
Larger size: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vy0bspdutg2rr ... e.jpg?dl=0 NGC 3521
Copyrights: Stefano Conti M8 - M20
Copyrights: César Blanco González
Full size: http://www.cieloprofundo.com/cesar/foto ... R_2500.jpg Scorpius and Saturn
Copyrights: Dieter Willasch
Larger size: http://astro-cabinet.com/showimage.php? ... ng=english Sun on 10-05-2015
Copyrights: Ivar Kooren Sunspots
Copyrights: Marcel Süssli Double Cluster
Copyrights: Ron Brecher Saturn - March 10th
Copyrights: Damian Peach Pillars in Visible and IR Light
Copyrights: Robert Gendler
More sizes: http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/M16-HST-IR.html

M51
Copyrights: Hap Griffin RCW75, the elephant trunk nebula of the south
Copyrights: Jason Jennings
Larger size: http://cosmicphotos.com/gallery/display ... ld_resol=3 This Butterfly has a Propeller
Copyrights: Terry Hancock The Dark Side of Star Clusters
Credit:ESO/Digitized Sky Survey. Acknowledgement: Davide de Martin
An article: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1519/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34772

Sunspots AR 2339
Copyrights: Bernard Gariépy Strobl JPL: Ceres Animation Showcases Bright Spots
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
An article and animation: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4582 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=243242#p243242

ISS transiting the Moon
Copyrights: Julian Wessel Volcano red over Kilauea
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel Aurora over Iceland - March 18th 2015
Copyrights: Carlos Gauna Little Italy on the Moon
Copyrights: Raffaele Barzacchi
Larger size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/179505/0/?real=&mod=

The Great Jaguar with The Bid Dipper in the sky
f3.5
10s
iso1600
28mm

The Great Jaguar is located in Guatemala's Jungle, The national park Tikal, Peten. This unique place in the world describes the beauty of the Mayan civilization.

Sensing the spheres in the Atacama desert
Copyright: Petr Horálek
More info and the image in higher resolution: http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?p=1430

Above and Below Titan's Atmosphere (May 7, 2015)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriekl ... 6993423393
Copyright: NASA / JPL / SSI / Val Klavans

PK 164+31.1 Jones Emberson
https://www.deep-sky-astroteam.de/sites ... Finish.jpg
Data/FullRes

Recording / preprocessing: by Frank Iwaszkiewicz
Image processing: by Nico Geisler & Frank Iwaszkiewicz


Best Regards Deep-Sky-Astro Team

M51 Whirlpool Galaxy
https://www.deep-sky-astroteam.de/sites ... LRGB_1.jpg
Data/FullRes

Recording / preprocessing: by Frank Iwaszkiewicz
Image processing: by Nico Geisler & Frank Iwaszkiewicz


Best Regards Deep-Sky-Astro Team

IC 405 Flaming Star Nebula
https://www.deep-sky-astroteam.de/sites ... nish_1.jpg
Data/FullRes

Recording / preprocessing: by Frank Iwaszkiewicz
Image processing: by Nico Geisler & Frank Iwaszkiewicz


Best Regards Deep-Sky-Astro Team