Starship Asterisk*

Pléyades. Diamonds among dust

©Mikel Martinez
fotoastro.blogspot.com

Pleiades. Diamonds among dust by Mikel Martínez, en Flickr

Last nights Moon


clink on link for zoom-able version

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/30742523243

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

M78 and NGC 2071 in Orion
Copyright: Hermann von Eiff November 28, 2016, Herchenhainer Höhe Vogelsberg, Germany
Telescope Astro-Physics Starfire EDF 155 mm, with focal reducer (825 mm)
Camera Canon 5D Mark II with Baader UV/IR filter
28 x 5 minutes at ISO 1600
Image processing with PixInsight and Photoshop CC

LBN782 - BARNARD 10 in Taurus
http://www.massimotosco.it/image-galler ... rd-10.html
Copyright : Massimo Tosco http://www.massimotosco.it/images/NEBUL ... 10_res.jpg

Phases of The Moon
Taken in November 2016
By Thanakrit Santikunaporn

for higher resolution: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bz8pd00932a0 ... Chlha?dl=0

Portal

In the Atacama desert near Laguna Tebinquinche there are the two round lakes. The water is almost fresh and you can swim. Because of the similarity with the eyes(viewed from above) they call them "Ojos del Salar" - Salty Eyes. In the picture shows only one "eye", but if you look closely, just above it you can see the "eyebrow" of the second. This place is beautiful by day, but by night it becomes special: the stars and the milky Way reflected in the water and if you stand close to the water, it begins to seem that in front of you opens a portal to some other dimension. Just enough to step... and here you have carries through the "wormhole" to other galaxies, stars, planets...
In that night half the sky was covered by a dense blanket of waves of the red airglow. A powerful Zodiacal light and light pollution shines in the sky. The heavenly fire inflames all more strongly.

a7s, 14mm, f/2.8, pano x 30 sec, iso 5000
Author's site: http://www.astroadventures.ru/
Copyright: Yuri Zvezdny

Vela Supernova Remnant
http://jebersol.zenfolio.com/
Copyright: John Ebersole
http://jebersol.zenfolio.com/img/s4/v10 ... 8092-6.jpg
Nebular filaments emitting OIII (cyan) and Ha (red) wavelengths are depicted in this bicolor narrowband image.

Little Scorpion Cluster
Credit Jaspal Chadha
London UK

When we first purchased our first telescope in 1990, M1 was the first object we viewed. Of course, you must start with M1!

Over the years we tried to photograph M1 using film. Then we tried a digital camera. Anything to see it more!

Finally, when we were able to afford a cooled CCD camera, we tried it again. It took a few years to get it with our small 8" telescope. But now we're almost happy with the results! This is 20.5 hours of HA, R, G and B data. We created a luminance channel with all 20.5 hours and then overlayed that on top of an HaRGB color channel. We hope you enjoy the results as much as we do. This is our favorite object, M1!

Ha: 23x1800", B: 12x900", G: 12x900", R: 12x900". All at -20C bin 1x1 with a QSI 660. Copyright KG Observatory. More details plus recent M1 imaging history at http://www.astrobin.com/275800/?nc=user

Milky Way Panorama from North America to Eta Carinae Nebula with Planets Saturn (in Ophiuchus) and Mars (in Scorpius), Namibia, Tivoli Southern Sky Guest Farm, Aug. 28 - Sept 02 2016
http://www.sternklar.ch/images-webpages ... ept-16.htm

Exposure data:
4 frames mosaic with Canon EOS 6D(a) and Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 25 mm 1:2.8 ZE@ f/4.0 & 800 Asa.
Aug. 28 2016: 3 frames for the sector from Aquila to Carina including the planets Mars and Saturn.
Sept. 02 2016: 1 frame for the sector including the constellation Cygnus.
Total exposure time for all four frames: 91 x 3 minutes (273 minutes).

Copyright: Manuel Jung, http://www.sternklar.ch

NGC6914
http://www.astrowimp.com
Copyright: Tim Christensen
LHaRGB 9 panel mosaic 72 hours total exposure

Baroque Star trail behind the cathedral of Syracuse
http://www.dariogiannobile.com
Copyright: Dario Giannobile

The Soul Nebula(IC1848) Close Up View
This image was taken with 20inch RC f8.0& ML29050 ｆront illuminated cooled CCD camera.
ASTRODON 3nm SII,Ha,O3 (220/600/240min)
http://miki-hosp.or.jp/BIND/
Copyright: Nobuhiko Miki

dawn

Super Moon
Copyrights: Jheison Huerta Orion Nebula vs the Moon
Copyrights: Dani Caxete Astrophotography on the Go
Copyrights: Chris Cook Moon and Venus Conjunction
Copyrights: Ranjit Biswas
A State In Space
Copyrights: George Chatzifrantzis IC1396- Elephant Trunk
Copyrights: Jesus M. Vargas & Alvaro Ibáñez Pérez & Maritxu Poyal Southern ways
Copyrights: Petr Horálek Freezing celestial show
Copyrights: Petr Horálek Brooken spectre, gloria and Lunar corona
Copyrights: Marcella Giulia Pace GreenFlash from Sicily (ITA)
Copyrights: Marcella Giulia Pace Conjunction Over Warrior Queen
Copyrights: Nikunj Rawal M45 Pleiades
Copyrights: Manel Martín Folch Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146)
Copyrights: Brian McGaffney Almost Super Moon Over Licancabur Volcano Chile Nov 2016
Copyrights: Mary Baric Northern Lights from Iceland
Copyrights: Michael Natschke Analemma above Siena
Copyrights: Marco Meniero M81 and M82 galaxies
Copyrights: Jérémie Bottollier Curtet M33
Copyrights: Attila Robert Horvath M42
Copyrights: Attila Robert Horvath Barnard 170, 173. 169 y Sharpless 134
Copyrights: Rafael Rodríguez Morales IC 1808 The Heart Nebula
Copyrights: Jose Jimenez Priego The swan goes away
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado ISS Transit
Copyrights: Norbert Rózsa SH2 171
Copyrights: Jose Ramon Mundo Salvador Pleiades Vs California
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde

My Ha+LRGB image of the Fish Head Nebula (IC 1795).
Total acquisition time about 6 hrs from my observatory here in Ontario Canada

You have my permission to post and use.
Thanks Brian McGaffney

Vela Supernova Remnant
http://jebersol.zenfolio.com/
Copyright: John Ebersole http://jebersol.zenfolio.com/img/s9/v91 ... 1099-6.jpg
SNR nebular filaments emitting OIII (cyan) and Ha (red) wavelengths are depicted in this bicolor narrowband image.

Light pillars & Orion
copyright: Chuck Manges

This is a single 30 second shot. I was caught off-guard by this thinking it was an aurora at first. Then I realized it is light pollution from a nearby town 11 miles away, reflecting off of ice crystals in the clouds.



Light Pillars and Orion by Chuck Manges, on Flickr

The Moon ( Super Moon ) on December 13th, 21:30pm. Imaged through a portal in the clouds. (ES ED80 Triplet., ASI 290mm Ccd)

Soul Nebula

by Jeffrey Sines, on Flickr

Perseus California Nebula to M45 by Patrick Gilliland, on Flickr
1058 sub (138 hours) hybrid 6 panel mosaic with hybrid longer FL data and 1 year in the making. Full size avail here. http://www.astrobin.com/full/276232/0/?real=&mod=
©Paddy Gilliland

Tulip Nebula Sh2-101 (Explored) by Stephanie Pahl Anderson, on Flickr

Cape Drastis - Geminids

Nightscape above Cape Drastis with two Geminid meteors inside Cassiopeia constellation above the clay islets of Peroulades, Corfu.
The landscape shines under the light of the Supermoon of December while the colours of water change because of the clay. The sediments are from lower Paleocene age 1-2 million years old.
The Geminid meteor shower caused by the object 3200 Phaethon.

more about Geminids
http://www.imo.net/resources/calendar/#Geminids
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geminids

Canon eos 5D mk2, Ef 15mm fisheye, iso500, 2X15sec

December's Full Moon rising through the clouds and between the barren trees.

Composite of two exposures, 1/2 s for the clouds and halo, 1/25 s for the lunar disk.
Sony A6000 mirrorless camera @200 ISO + Sony 55-210 mm zoom lens @210 mm (f/6.3).
Shot December 13, 2016 near Varese, Italy.

Simple processing in Photoshop: merging of the lunar disk into the longer exposure + slight enhancement of brightness and saturation.
Related post on my personal website: http://www.bloomingstars.com/decembers-cloudy-moonrise/

Enjoy!
Emmanuele Sordini

IC 5146 Coccoon Nebula
Copyrights: Tragoolchitr Jittasaiyapan Fornax Galaxy Cluster
Copyrights: Tragoolchitr Jittasaiyapan Milky Way above Volcan Santa Maria´s crater
Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar Super red Moon above the Ancona's Cathedral
Copyrights: Gabriele Pallucca 3 Planets & The Moon Over the South China Sea
Copyrights: Greg Redfern Venus and Moon with halo
Copyrights: Ferenc Szémár 2015 Geminid Meteors in Milky Way
Copyrights: Wang Letian Barred Spiral Aurora Borealis in Alaska
Copyrights: John Chumack The Andromeda Galaxy, M31
Copyrights: Ron Brecher APOD Submit SH2-237 Fly nebula
Copyrights: Dean Salman NGC 2244 The Rosette Nebula
Copyrights: Ezequiel Etcheverry Moon, planets and star trails
Copyrights: Jeff Dai Moon Mars Venus
Copyrights: Peter Muks IC4628
Credits and Copyrights: Data: ESO/INAF/R. Colombari/E. Recurt; Assembling and processing: R. Colombari
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/275113/0/? ... real=&mod= VdB152
Copyrights: Gordon Wright Transit of the Moon
Copyrights: Marcella Giulia Pace IC447 and friends
Copyrights: Rosario Pomillo Orion Nebula
Copyrights: Heriton Rocha IC 348
Copyrights: Rafael Schmall The Great Orion Nebula with Running Man
Copyrights: Daniel Weihrauch Northern Lights from Alaska
Copyrights: Inger Nennesmo M78
Copyrights: László Bagi Evening planets, Moon and snow
Copyrights: Tunç Tezel M42
Copyrights: Fabrizio Guerrini SuperMoon
Copyrights: Alan Potts M81 & M82
Copyrights: Alan Potts