Starship Asterisk*

Behind The Sun

Copyright: Mehdi Heidari


This image composite of two full dome panorama
The inner panorama captured after sunset and the outer panorama captured before sunrise

All images captured  at one night (February 28th) and same place (Damghan Salt Lake in Iran) using Nikon D800 and 24mm lens
Each panorama contains 30 images

Full resolution:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F9PZsE ... JjzbR/view
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This image is composed of photos of Venus taken over a period of 6 months starting from December 1, 2019 to May 31, 2020 from my backyard in Ontario, Canada. I've put the different phases in a representation that showcases how the position of Venus in its orbit affects the phase and the apparent size from our perspective.

I used my Skywatcher 8 inch Dobsonian with manual tracking and an asi 224mc to capture each of these photos.

Full resolution image: https://www.astrobin.com/full/l0e9z1/0/

NIGHT-SHINING CLOUDS
Copyright: Alan C Tough

The summer months are the best time for seeing the high-altitude, electric-blue clouds known as Noctilucent Clouds (NLC). NLC form on the edge of space when water vapour condenses and freezes onto small meteoric dust particles. These eerie and extremely tenuous clouds can only be seen under the right lighting conditions: i.e. when the Sun is between 6 and 16 degrees below the horizon and the temperature in the Mesosphere is low enough. Therefore, in the northern hemisphere, the best time to view this phenomenon is from the last week in May to the first week in August (between the hours of 11 p.m. and 3 a.m.).

I captured this beautiful early-season display, at 00:25 UT on 2020 June 1, from a field near my house in Elgin, Moray, Scotland. Near the horizon these 'space clouds' are golden-yellow in colour, and at the uppermost part of the display the clouds are electric blue.

Highest resolution image here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/7776810@N07/49992304563/

Shooting abnormally bright and long noctilucent clouds over the Volga.
Novocheboksarsk, Chuvashia, 22:03 UT, 10.06.2020
Canon 350D 18-55@18/3.5, 5x2s, ISO100, MS ICE, RawTherapee
Copyright: Ed Vazhorov, fb.com/vazhorov

NGC 7380, the Wizard, in Cepheus. A compilation of Hyperstar and f/7 images, taken over several years. 10.5 hours narrowband, Ha, OIII, SII. Imaged with a Celestron 11", Astronomik narrowband filters and a Starlight Xpress H18.

NGC 7380 The Wizard by Lynn van Rooijen, on Flickr

High Resolution Mosaic of the Nebulosity in Cygnus
http://www,woodlandsobservatory.com
Copyright: Alistair Symon This is a 22 image mosaic of the nebulosity in Cygnus taken with a Takahashi FSQ106 4 inch refractor and SBIG STXL-11002 CCD camera. 74 hours of data was collected through H-alph, Red, Green and Blue filters. You can find a higher resolution image here:
http://www.woodlandsobservatory.com/Cyg ... ic2020.htm

A Composite image of the the International Space Station transiting the Sun photographed from my apartment terrace in Bangalore, India on June 8th, 2020. The sunspot AR 2765 is also visible in the photo. A dream come true to photograph this event in my second attempt.

Copyright : Ashwin Deshpande/Amruth Harsha
Camera Details : Nikon D5 + Nikon 200-500mm Telephoto Lens + Baader Solar Filter with a tripod.
Location: Yeshvantpur, Bangalore, India
Date: 8th June 2020
Transit Time: 09:59:35:66ms AM
Transit Duration : 0.67 seconds
Reference Websites : Transit Finder/CalSky
Number of Frames stacked : 8 frames ( From Entry to Exit )
EXIF: Shutter Speed: 1/4000s, Aperture : f/11, ISO : 100 Shot on Manual Mode without any shutter release cable.

IC 1318

Astrocycle wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 11:30 am Behind The Sun

Copyright: Mehdi Heidari


This image composite of two full dome panorama
The inner panorama captured after sunset and the outer panorama captured before sunrise

All images captured  at one night (February 28th) and same place (Damghan Salt Lake in Iran) using Nikon D800 and 24mm lens
Each panorama contains 30 images

Full resolution:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F9PZsE ... JjzbR/view
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Click to view full size image

Welcome to Starship Asterisk*, Mehdi! That's a lovely and wonderfully original photo!

Ann

NGC 55


Following the guidelines and positive criticisms of my friend Leandro Fornaziero, I am redoing some of my captures and trying new details in the processing.

The previous image I will leave in the comments,

NGC 55. This galaxy is an irregular barred spiral and is believed to be very similar to the Great Magellanic Cloud, but turned on its side, while the GNM faces us.

It is part of the sculptor's group of galaxies.

More details:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/c52usc/G/?nc=user

Equipment:
Apo 150mm triplet
Qhy 16200
During the months of June and July
27 L 500 "
49 RGB 300 "
Mount: Ioptron Cem60
Polar alignment: Sharcap
Capture: APT
Processing: Photoshop CS6, , Pixinsight

Munhoz - MG-Brazil
26,27,28 and 29 July 2019

NGC 6334

I know that most of the time we see astrophotography here, but because letter "P" in abbreviation "APOD" stands for "picture", not "photography", I would like to submit a bit different photo, or rather a photo of one of my cosmic painting. This image depicts NGC 6334, also known as the Cat's Paw Nebula or the Bear Claw Nebula.

I made this art based on the object photos in the Internet. My technique - watercolours on canvas, dimentions - 30x30 cm.
I assume in case of artwork, place of creation is not so crucial, but for the record I made the painting in Inwałd - small village in southern Poland.

Copyright: Aleksandra Krzemień
Full resolution: https://www.krzemienienie.art/wp-conten ... x2048.jpeg

alekskrzemien wrote: ↑Sat Jun 13, 2020 6:06 pm NGC 6334

I know that most of the time we see astrophotography here, but because letter "P" in abbreviation "APOD" stands for "picture", not "photography", I would like to submit a bit different photo, or rather a photo of one of my cosmic painting. This image depicts NGC 6334, also known as the Cat's Paw Nebula or the Bear Claw Nebula.

I made this art based on the object photos in the Internet. My technique - watercolours on canvas, dimentions - 30x30 cm.
I assume in case of artwork, place of creation is not so crucial, but for the record I made the painting in Inwałd - small village in southern Poland.

Copyright: Aleksandra Krzemień
Full resolution: https://www.krzemienienie.art/wp-conten ... x2048.jpeg

Very nice, Aleksandra! Thanks for your contribution!

Ann

Ann wrote: ↑Sat Jun 13, 2020 6:14 pm Very nice, Aleksandra! Thanks for your contribution!

Ann

Thank you for the nice words, Ann.

NGC7822 DEMON IN THE SKY by Rob Bates, on Flickr]

NGC7822 DEMON IN THE SKY

Dont know if you guys see it but processing this instantly reminded of the fire demon out of Lord of the rings, even got the wings coming around it! Never knew this target looked like this, anybody know the correct name for it? Is it something like Cederblad??

NGC 7023 Iris Nebula
Newton 200/1000
Camera zwo 294pro
7h -10° filter L-pro and L-eNhance

Hight resolution: https://flic.kr/p/2jbxzQJ

Ngc 5128 Galaxy Centaurus A and jets streams by gc.iaffaldano, su Flickr

M 82 ( Cigar Galaxy ) is a starburst galaxy approximately 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major

Telescope: ASA EQ1000 f7 - ASA 1 m equatorial telescope
Location: Vega Observatory - House of Nature Salzburg, Austria
Camera: FLI Microline 16803
Exposure time: 49x7min. Luminance, 35x20min Ha, 30x7min.RGB all unbinned

Copyright: Rochus Hess larger resolution
http://www.astrofotografie-hess.at/asse ... large3.jpg

Website
http://www.astrofotografie-hess.at/

Cygnus - Sadr Region
https://maphilli14.webs.com/
Copyright: Michael Alexander Phillips
https://i.redd.it/4pethngqv4551.png

M51 galaxy (deep version)
Full version : https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/IoV2JmV ... zXV3LN.jpg

M51 and NGC5195, interacting galaxies, with faint tidal trail extensions, and some tiny IFN in the field.

Takahashi TSA102 - AZEQ6 - Atik Cameras AtikOne 6.0
L : 125 x 600s bin1
RGB : 75 x 300s bin2
Ha : 32 x 600s (bin1 & bin2)
17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24 & 25 May 2020 - Fouras (France)
Pixinsight & PS

Copyright: Jean-Baptiste Auroux
https://millenniumphoton.com/
https://www.astrobin.com/users/Jean-Baptiste_Paris/

Iaffaldano Giuseppe Carmine wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 11:19 am Ngc 5128 Galaxy Centaurus A and jets streams by gc.iaffaldano, su Flickr

That's a lovely image and a great portrait of Centaurus A and its jet! It's so fascinating that we can see a jet only on one side of the galaxy, just like we do in giant elliptical galaxy M87.

Thank you!

Ann

Jean-Baptiste Auroux wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2020 12:33 am M51 galaxy (deep version)

Click to view full size image

Full version : https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/SXf52D9 ... XURFLk.jpg

M51 and NGC5195, interacting galaxies, with faint tidal trail extensions, and some tiny IFN in the field.

Takahashi TSA102 - AZEQ6 - Atik Cameras AtikOne 6.0
L : 125 x 600s bin1
RGB : 75 x 300s bin2
Ha : 32 x 600s (bin1 & bin2)
17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24 & 25 May 2020 - Fouras (France)
Pixinsight & PS

Copyright: Jean-Baptiste Auroux
https://millenniumphoton.com/
https://www.astrobin.com/users/Jean-Baptiste_Paris/

That's a great image! I love the colors of M51 and the huge halo of old stars surrounding both galaxies. I love how the halo of stars reflects the tidal forces of this interacting pair and the spiral shape of M51. The two elongated "tails" near NGC 5195 almost look like two fuzzy yellow spiral arms.

Ann

NGC 1999 HaLRGB by Nicolas Rolland, sur Flickr

Hi
This is NGC1999 in HaLRGB.
RA: 05h 36m 25.3s
DEC: -06° 42’ 57“
Location: Orion
Distance: 1,500 ly

Copyrights:

• Data acquisition: Martin Pugh

• Processing: Nicolas Rolland

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Technical details:
Fiel Of view: 41.3 x 27.1 arcmin
Total acquisition time of 24.7 hours.

Location: El Sauce Observatory, Rio Hurtado, Chile
Dates of Capture December 2019 & January 2020
L 14 x 1200 sec
R 14 x 1200 sec
G 14 x 1200sec
B 17 x 1200sec
Ha 10 x 1800sec
Optics: Planewave 17“ CDK @ F6.8
Mount: Paramount ME
CCD: SBIG STXL-11002 (AOX)
Pre Processing: CCDstack & Pixinsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC

Cheers,
Nicolas ROLLAND

Llama wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2020 9:30 am

NGC 1999 HaLRGB by Nicolas Rolland, sur Flickr

Hi
This is NGC1999 in HaLRGB.
RA: 05h 36m 25.3s
DEC: -06° 42’ 57“
Location: Orion
Distance: 1,500 ly

Copyrights:

• Data acquisition: Martin Pugh

• Processing: Nicolas Rolland

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Technical details:
Fiel Of view: 41.3 x 27.1 arcmin
Total acquisition time of 24.7 hours.

Location: El Sauce Observatory, Rio Hurtado, Chile
Dates of Capture December 2019 & January 2020
L 14 x 1200 sec
R 14 x 1200 sec
G 14 x 1200sec
B 17 x 1200sec
Ha 10 x 1800sec
Optics: Planewave 17“ CDK @ F6.8
Mount: Paramount ME
CCD: SBIG STXL-11002 (AOX)
Pre Processing: CCDstack & Pixinsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC

Cheers,
Nicolas ROLLAND

Welcome to Starship Asterisk*, Nicolas! That's a fine and colorful portrait of a yet another fascinating nebula and its surroundings in Orion!

Ann

Thanks Ann

Ann wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2020 1:24 am

Iaffaldano Giuseppe Carmine wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 11:19 am Ngc 5128 Galaxy Centaurus A and jets streams by gc.iaffaldano, su Flickr

That's a lovely image and a great portrait of Centaurus A and its jet! It's so fascinating that we can see a jet only on one side of the galaxy, just like we do in giant elliptical galaxy M87.

Thank you!

Ann

thanks for your always kind precence.