Starship Asterisk*

M81, M82 and friends
http://www.manuelj.com
Copyright: Manuel Jimenez

Lensed Quasar QO957+561 and NGC3079
LRGB

Larger images and exposure info:
http://www.astrobin.com/283012/0/?nc=user

Nick Pavelchak
Altamont, NY

MBM 54 Integrated Flux Nebula and NGC 7497

Copyright Scott Rosen. Website: http://www.astronomersdoitinthedark.com/


Full Resolution Version

NGC 7497 is an edge on galaxy located at a distance of 59 million light years. In this astrophoto, the galaxy is seemingly surrounded by beautiful faint nebulosity. As it happens, the nebulae is actually about 60,000 times closer to us, located in the outer reaches of our own Milky Way Galaxy. The nebulosity shown in this image is part of MBM 54.

More image information is available at http://www.astronomersdoitinthedark.com ... =165&p=584.

Triangulum Galaxy M33 DSS-II by Transient Astronomers, on Flickr

Image Credit and Copyright: Digitized Sky Survey-II (http://archive.eso.org/dss/dss) Processing: Tom Masterson

Namibian desert



Untitled by Artem, on Flickr

Witch Head Nebula
Copyright: Sedat Bilgebay I guess this object had been submitted a zillion times but here is my effort. This is a very interesting field with lots of nebulosity, star formation and background galaxies.

Imaging telescope: Takahashi FSQ106
Imaging camera: Canon EOS 6D Hutech modified
Mount: New Atlux
Guiding telescope: Takahashi FSQ106, Lacerta OAG
Guiding camera: QHY5L-II-M
Focal reducer: Takahashi Reducer 0.73x
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended, PixInsight, Main Sequence Software SequenceGeneratorPro, PHD Lab PhD Guiding 2
Date of capture: Dec. 14, 2014
Frames:
1x1200" ISO1600
3x300" ISO1600
3x600" ISO1600
6x900" ISO1600
Location: Bilgebay Observatory, Mugla, Marmaris, Turkey

For a little larger version please click the thumbnail below:

In the clutches of the tarantula

Last Saturday I filmed a lunar transit of the ISS with my compatriot the French astronaut Thomas Pesquet inside, from Rouen (his birth city):
http://www.astrophoto.fr/iss_transit_170204_100.jpg

IC2118 witch head nebula
Copylight ByoungJun Jeong

full resolution
http://www.astrobin.com/full/283131/0/?real=&mod=

Hubble Legacy Archive
Process: Raul Villaverde Fraile
m82Hubble by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

NGC 7635
5,5 hour Ha, 200/800 mm

Retrograde Motion of Venus in 2009

This composite picture shows Venus tracing a retrograde loop in the first half of 2009. Back then, Venus passed inferior conjunction in late March after many months of performance as the Evening Star (just like it will be doing this coming March). Venus passed the highest point of its orbit above the ecliptic on 15th March 2009, just 13 days shy of inferior conjunction on 28th March 2009. Thanks to its proximity to the Earth, Venus was more than 8 degrees north of the Sun. This helped the observers in the northern hemisphere to see it in both evening and the morning for a week around the inferior conjunction.

Sun-Venus-Earth configurations repeat after every 8 days, as 13 Venus years very nearly equals 8 Earth years. So, this year's retrograde loop of Venus will be a very close copy of that of 2009.

Tunç Tezel

Hubble Legacy Archive
Process: Raul Villaverde Fraile

ARP87 Hubble by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

The Moon at its maximum penumbral eclipse on February 10th, 8:43pm local time. (Equipment: ES80 APO, CGE Mount, PGR Flea3 Ccd). Four panel mosaic.

Time for Eclipse

Copyright: Ihor Khomych

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse of February 11, 2017. In a front of Moon is a bell tower of Bernardine Church.
Lviv, Ukraine. February 11, 2017.
Nikon D600, 200mm (crop) @ f/11, 1/200-1/20-1/2-2s, ISO 200

Rho Ophiuchi Clouds

Total exposure time 15 hours
Canon 5DMkII(modifyed)
Newton200/4,Winne2.5"

Namibia



Rho Ophiuchi Clouds by Artem, on Flickr

Omega Centauri @ SkyGems, Namibia

Officina-Stellare RiDK 305, GTO 1200
Camera: STF 8300M
RGB filters, 3.5 hours total integration time

Penumbral lunar eclipse - Avellaneda - Argentina
© Carlos Di Nallo
http://carlosdn-alfacentauri.blogspot.com.ar/

Fullmoon
11.02.2017 / THAILAND
Copyright: Fevzi DINTAS

September 9th 2016
Location: San Romualdo - Ravenna (Italy)
Tecnosky Apo 130 f/6.9 on ASA DDM60PRO
CCD QSI 520wsi cooled -10 - Unguided images.
LRGB Baader filters
LRGB: L 25x2min, R 11x2min, G 11x2min, B 11x2min.
Acquired with: MaximDL5 - Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat.
Processed with: MaximDL5, Astroart6 and Paint Shop Pro X9

Cristina Cellini

TOMAS:
H alfa: 16 Light de 900 segundos; 30 flats, 16 darks y 50 bias
OIII: 16 Light de 900 segundos; 30 flats, 16 darks y 50 bias
SII: 3 Light de 900 segundos; 30 flats, 3darks y 50bias
TEMPERATURA: -10 GRADOS
TUBO: FSQ 106 ED
CCD: SBIG ST-8300M
MONTURA: CGEM
CCD guiar: QHY5II
LUGAR: LAS INVIERNAS (GUADALAJARA)
un saludo
jose

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
https://www.flickr.com/photos/7776810@N07/32825479016/
Copyright: Alan C Tough

The Edge of Darkness
Copyright: György Soponyai

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Mg: -0.04. Hand-held due to technical problems.




Mogyoród, Hungary
2017.02.10-11.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Canon EF 200/2.8L
12 x 1/1250sec, ISO 100, F2.8

Sunspot and Green-flash at sunset
Copyrights: Marcella Giulia Pace IC-405 and IC-410
Copyrights: Rodd Dryfoos Night sky over South Brazil
Copyrights: Egon Filter NGC63 and neighbourhood
Copyrights: Andrea Demarchi and Carlo Dellarole M42 from France
Copyrights: David de Cuevas Flaming Star Nebula region
Copyrights: Ray Leeson Trip to the Pleiades
Copyrights: Dani Caxete Comet 2P/Encke @ January 23,2017
Copyrights: José J. Chambó Sharples 132
Copyrights: Günter Kerschhuber A window to Orion
Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile Stellar Nursery
Copyrights: Artūras Medvedevas Rosette Nebula
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Cuckson Martínez
Larger size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/139578784 ... 525849825/ VDB62
Copyrights: Evangelos Souglakos Puma in the Rosette Nebula
Copyrights: Christopher Gomez Orion Balad
Copyrights: Baptiste Zloch/Zloch Team Astro Winter night over Xinglong Observatory, CAS
Copyrights: Jingyi Zhang Moon, Mercury and a bigger space party
Copyrights: Luo Cheng 10 days lunar phase
Copyrights: Francesco Badalotti NGC 1491
Copyrights: Danny L. Russell Melotte 15
Copyrights: José Francisco del Aguila del Aguila

Venus + Active Lava Flow Ocean Entry
Copyrights: Jack Fusco The Milky Way and Car Trail at East Lingshan
Copyrights: Philip Lee Other worldly sunset
Copyrights: Alfredo G Perez A sundial traced by the Sun
Copyrights: Angelo Bincoletto Volcano and the planets
Copyrights: Sergio Montúfar Tadpoles in IC410
Copyrights: Christopher Gomez Nebula IC1805 core
Copyrights: Franco Sgueglia The three lucky stars of Chinese spring festival
Copyrights: Ziyi Ye Analemmas
Copyrights: Maciej Zapiór and Łukasz Fajfrowski M31
Copyrights: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich Plane passing by Moon
Copyrights: Yilun Ma Vela SNR- "The Holy Grail"
Copyrights: Andrew Campbell
Larger size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/281588/0/ Eta Carinae Nebula from Tenerife
Juan Carlos Casadoize=150] Horse Head Nebula wide field
Copyrights: Sébastien Gozé IC434
Copyrights: Christian Kussmann IC1805
Copyrights: Christian Kussmann NGC2419
Copyrights: Ron Brecher NGC7479
Copyrights: Ron Brecher Hickson 44
Copyrights: Ron Brecher