Starship Asterisk*

A Luminous Blue Variable and 3 Quasars in M51 field [DSLR]
Copyright: Paolo Demaria

Telescope: Skywatcher Newton 200/1000 with Baader RCC.
Camera: Canon EOS 450D modified Baader.
21X600s @800ISO
Castelmagno, Cn, Italy. Full resolution: https://postimg.cc/1g1BzBpX

Thanks to Marco Bruno for his precious help!

Best Regards,
Paolo Demaria

The Spider Web
www.sadr.fr
Copyright: Fabien Trebuchet (Team Sadr)

71mm refractor at Sadr Observatory (La Canelilla > 7km from El Sauce Observatory)
80x300s Ha +RGB Gum 12 Nebula in Vela

zema88 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2019 7:57 am A Luminous Blue Variable and 3 Quasars in M51 field [DSLR]
Copyright: Paolo Demaria

Telescope: Skywatcher Newton 200/1000 with Baader RCC.
Camera: Canon EOS 450D modified Baader.
21X600s @800ISO
Castelmagno, Cn, Italy.
M51-finale2 (2).jpg
Full resolution: https://postimg.cc/1g1BzBpX

Thanks to Marco Bruno for his precious help!

Best Regards,
Paolo Demaria

Fascinating! Thanks!

Ann

Woman admiring the Lunar eclipse on July 27th, 2018 in Andalusia, Spain.

120ED Sky Watcher telescope, focal 900mm and Canon 40D. To do this photograph the distance between the woman and the camera was half a mile.

The correct position was calculated with:
https://www.photoephemeris.com/

This image has been treated slightly in color curves and some wrinkles or small imperfections of the dress. Finally deconvolution and noise cleaning. Done with GIMP and Astraimage software.

Copyright: Antonio Román (Sociedad Astronómica Granadina)
Woman: Paloma Paredes; Acknowledgment: G. Román, S. Alonso

Thanks and clear skies.
A.

M16 The Eagle Nebula by Paddy Gilliland FRAS, on Flickr

Witch Head Nebula (IC 2118).
Capture made by the longtime friend FO Menezes de São Paulo. I am happy to follow the evolution of my astronomical friends.
Located about 900 light years from us, it is about 70 light years from end to end. It is a nebula of reflection (nebula that reflects the light of a neighboring star). The next star, responsible for its brightness and blue color, is Rigel, the brightest star in the Orion constellation whose brightness is 85,000 times greater than the Sun.

BEST DETAILS:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/396384/0/?nc=user

EQUIPMENT
TS 80MM f4
Asi 1600mm cooled
50 x 200sec LRGB
Dates: January 12, 2019
JALES - SP - BRAZIL

Copyright: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes

IC2944 - New edition:

Running Chicken Nebula - IC2944 - New Edition by Juan Filas, en Flickr

Copyright: Juan Filas

Thanks!

NGC3718 polar ring galaxy with Hickson 57 group
NGC3718_20180407_10Nf4_ASI1600MMC by Tommy Nawratil, https://www.astrobin.com/394866/

Orion nebula in natural look, fullframe with Epsilon130ED
M42_20190205_E130_Eos6d_ by Tommy Nawratil, https://www.astrobin.com/396375/

thanks for viewing!
clear skies, Tommy

2019 Spring equinox SuperMoon
https://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa Please find below the following images:

The first, taken on the evening of March 20, 2019, shows the Moon rising next the Basilica of Superga, sitting on the top of a hill in the sorrunding of Turin (Italy). Completed in 1726, it representes one of the symbols of the city and resembles some elements of Michelangelo's dome at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

The second, taken on the morning of March 21, 2019, shows the Moon setting by the Saint Michael's Abbey (Sacra di San Michele), a religious complex on Mount Pirchiriano (962 m high), few kilometers from Turin. This monumental abbey served as one of the inspirations for the book The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

Belt of Venus and rising Full Moon on the Spring Equinox day
www.vadakcsillaga.hu
Copyright: Tamas Abraham
http://www.vadakcsillaga.hu/tajkep/ejsz ... raham1.jpg
http://www.vadakcsillaga.hu/tajkep/ejsz ... raham2.jpg
Thanks for watching,
Tamas

CG4 Nebula

RGBSHO : full size : http://www.cielboreal.com/galerie/photo94f.jpg

done with CDK20, Moravian G4-16000 on Paramount ME2 near Actacama Desert in Chile, El Sauce Observatory

http://www.cielaustral.com
Copyright: Team CielAustral with J.C CANONNE, N.OUTTERS, P. BERNHARD, D. CHAPLAIN & L. BOURGON

M42 Region in mapped Ha and O3 colors This image is the latest edition of my repeated trials on this probably most magnificent of all nebulae.The deep image took more than six hours of exposure to unveil the incredible beauty and complexity of this sky object using H-alpha and O[3] narrow band filters.

For details see http://astro-cabinet.com/showimage.php? ... mRGB_1.jpg

Interacting Galaxies Arp 273
http://astrophotographysirius.com/
Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing: Lluís Romero
Copyright: Lluís Romero

"The greatest show"

On the night of August 11th, I climbed up to a mountain hut in the French Alps. It took me about 7-8 hours to get to the hut with all my photography gear. I had planned this shot for more than 2 years.

As you can see in the photo, The Perseids fly over the sky in the presence of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Also, you can see the highest mountain in the European Union, the always magnificent Mont Blanc, in the French Alps.
Surrounded by two glaciers that converge a bit further down, you can see both of them in the image, the Mer de Glace which flows for a total distance of 12 kilometers, covering an area of 32 square kilometers in the central third of the Mont Blanc massif. On the left-hand side, you can spot the Leschaux Glacier and its hut (the light just next to the glacier).
In addition, if you take a deeper look, just below the Grandes Jorasses mountain range you will be able to spot climbers trying to summit the mountain with the first lights (you can see their headlamps).
As always, we were gifted with a spectacular Perseids show at almost 3000m high.



Photo in HD: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/7c7 ... D.jpg?dl=0

Copyright: Álvaro Pérez & Jose Manuel Pérez Alonso (www.scapenature.com)

The shot was taken with Sony A7R III and Laowa 15mm f2.0
Panorama of 15 photos.
24mm @ 10'' @ ISO 3200 @ F2.8

Church of the Good Shepherd at night
Copyright: Steve Johnston Taken in the early morning of 22 January 2019, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand, just prior to waxing gibbous moonset and after the crowds have departed. Canon 6D, 28mm, F2.8, ISO-6400, 20s, 4 image stack to clean up foreground noise and single image for sky.

Milky Way and Aurora Australis from Hilltop lookout in Riverton, New Zealand
Copyright: Martin Činčura


I captured this amazing view during my October trip in New Zealand last year. I was lucky to witness Aurora Australis twice during my journey. Favorable forecast of auroral activity on 10th of October 2018 called me to spend almost the whole windy night next to city Riverton in the south of the South Island. It was worth it. I enjoyed that moment absolutely and I would like to share my experience with you. I hope you will like the picture.

Canon 6D + Sigma 35 mm F1,4 ART

Link to full size image:
https://flic.kr/p/RxbbDp

Milky Way and Aurora Australis from Hilltop lookout in Riverton, New Zealand
Copyright: Martin Činčura


I captured this amazing view during my October trip in New Zealand last year. I was lucky to witness Aurora Australis twice. Favorable forecast of auroral activity on 10th of October 2018 invited me to spend almost the whole windy night next to city Riverton in the south of the South Island. I enjoyed that moment absolutely.

Canon 6D + Sigma 35 mm F1,4 ART

Link to full size image:
https://flic.kr/p/RxbbDp

https://astrob.in/396838/0/

Saturn through Titan's haze
https://flic.kr/p/TbspjU
Copyright: NASA / JPL / SSI / Val Klavans

On March 31, 2005, just minutes after the Cassini spacecraft's closest approach to Titan, Cassini viewed Saturn peeking through Titan's thick atmosphere. Saturn's rings are seen here casting dark, dramatic shadows across the planet's northern disk (upper left). More details & full size image: https://flic.kr/p/TbspjU

Rosette Nebula:

Rosette Nebula by Juan Filas, en Flickr

Copyright: Juan Filas

Cross eye 3D moon, from personal archive
csillagtura.ro
Copyright: Pál VÁRADI NAGY

NGC 4244: edge-on spiral in Canes Venatici

For the 2019 galaxy season, an object off the well known parts, about 15 million lightyears away from Earth. Imaged with a 10inch Newtonian reflector and APS-C sized DSLR.

An all-time classic - Messier 51, the Whirlpool-Galaxy:

After a first try in 2016, I've now redone that well known object with the same equipment, but better (less dew) weather conditions.
10inch Lacerta-Newton with APS-C sized DSLR.

AN EMISSION NEBULA IN ORION Sh2-261

Sh2-261 (aka Lower's Nebula or Sharpless 261) is found in the constellation Orion near the border of Gemini. Sh2-261 is a large faint region of predominantly ionized hydrogen. The distance of this nebula is not known with certainty, but estimated to be about 3000 light years away. Image was a total of 8 hours exposure taken with a Takahashi CCA-250 f/5 astrograph and QSI683wsg camera (Astrodon Gen2 filters) on a Paramount ME during the nights of 28, 30 Jan; 26 Feb; and 5 Mar 2019 in Mayhill, NM (15 x 1200 sec lights @ -20 degrees C.; 3 x 1200 sec with R, G, and B filters; 24 darks; 128 flats; 128 bias). Processed in PixInsight 1.8.6.1457 Ripley (x64).

M3


M3 & Distant Galaxy NGC 5263 by Brendan Kinch, on Flickr

Full info & higher resolution @: http://www.kinchastro.com/m-3-star-cluster.html