Starship Asterisk*

NGC 1385 by William Ostling, on Flickr

Full write up here: https://theastroenthusiast.com/ngc-1385-from-hubble/

NGC 1385 is a strange spiral galaxy in the constellation Fornax. Originally a normal spiral, interaction with other galaxies nearby distorted its shape. The center of the galaxy was pulled and rotated 90 degrees to the shape it appears in now.

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The Mythical Helmet

Copyright: Bogdan Borz

This is a SHO composition of the Thor's Helmet Nebula (NGC 2359), situated in Canis Major, my latest project from 2021.

Clear skies!

Telescope : ASA Newtonian 500mm, F3.8
Camera: Fli Proline 16803
Location: Chilescope, Coquimbo Region, Chile
Exposure: 6h. Astrodon 3nm filters
Dates: December 25,26, 28 2021
Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop
Full resolution: https://www.astrobin.com/full/5dpjv4/0/

Here is a 12 pane full frame Mosaic of the Witch Head, LDN 1616 and Rigel area, bordering the Orion and Eridanus constellations.
This has 156hrs of LRGB exposures taken over 2 years.
Taken with a Tak FSQ106ED and Atik 11 meg CCD camera from my remote observatory in the South of France
Thanks Tom O'Donoghue
www.astrophotography.ie
https://flic.kr/p/2mWhz67

Sunspots 2924 and 2925 White Light
https://flic.kr/ps/3XUSsR
Copyright: Mark Hoffman
Williams Optic Z73
Meade White Light Glass Filter
Xcel 2x Barlow
ASI 120MM-S
ZWO EAF
5% stacked of 1000 images in AutoStakkert 3
Gain 0, Exposure 21.3ms, Gamma 0
Wavelets in Registax 6
RGB color and contrast in Photoshop

Earthshine in High Resolution
Earthshine in High Resolution by Tom Glenn, on Flickr

This image shows the Earthshine illuminated Moon in high detail, with all features of the night side of the Moon clearly visible.

Full size image:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/518 ... 681a_o.jpg

The image was produced by stacking 47 individual exposures, each of 2s duration, to increase the signal. The image was captured last week on January 4, 2022, from San Diego, CA, shortly after sunset at 17:41 local time.

A reciprocal exposure of the sunlit crescent can be seen here:
https://twitter.com/thomasdglenn/status ... 6770033664

Equipment:
--6" f/6 Newtonian telescope
--ASI183mm camera w/610nm long pass red filter
--coma corrector

Astroscapist wrote: ↑Sun Jan 09, 2022 1:20 pm HDR Moon - Waxing Crescent 21% lit
So I finally made the moon shot I said I would do. It's been awhile I could do the shot since it has been too much clouds and I needed to wait to the right moon phase and time to do this, but here it is!
A moon with a true Earthshine and Moonglow with its true Starfield. Meaning these shots are from the same camera, lens at the same time (120 images used from the Timelapse shot between 18:07 and 18:09 2021-01-06)

EXIF:
Sony A7R4 + TS-Optics 115/800
800mm, f/7
ISO640
60*1/125 for the illuminated part
60*0.5s for the Earthshine, Moonglow and Starfield.


foto online

Nice!

I'm usually unimpressed with Moon pictures. I usually find them either boringly black and white, or else the Moon is shown in exaggerated, unrealistic color. Well, your picture is quite different. There is color, and the color looks really nice, but it is not exaggerated. It looks "real". And the composition is attractive, too. There are really great details in the Sun-illuminated part of the Moon! And your picture gives us a great idea of what the Earthshine-illuminated Moon really looks like. It is quite dark, but I can make out the "Lady in the Moon".

Welcome to Starship Asterisk*!

Ann

NGC 300
www.mattdieterich.com
Copyright: Matt Dieterich

2021 Sun Analemma in Taipei in the Morning and Afternoon
If you record the sun at the same place and time every day, you will find that the po-sition of the sun keeps changing. One year later, put all the suns in the same photo or make an animation in sequence, and you will see it draw a big figure of 8 in the sky exactly as the laws of physics tell us. This is really very exciting and moving! The tra-jectory of the sun in a year is called the sun analemma. The link to the video of the sun analemma in Taipei is as follows：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59MW1aqO7L4 The sun analemma seen on the earth is basically like a figure of eight, and the two circles of the figure-8 are of different sizes. This is related to the eccentricity of the earth's orbit and the tilt of the earth's rotation axis. The degree of the figure-8 tilt in the sky is related to the latitude of the observer's location and the recorded time.
In 2021, I spent a whole year in Taipei recording the position of the sun at 7:30 am and 4:30 pm. In the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice of the sun analemma in the morning is at upper left, and the winter solstice at lower right. As for the sun analemma in the afternoon, the tilt direction is different from that in the morning. The summer solstice is at upper right, and the winter solstice at lower left. Whether it is in the morning or in the afternoon, sun analemma has a small circle above and a large circle below. It is also worth noting that the intersection of the figure-8 did not form at vernal equinox or at autumnal equinox. In addition, I recorded four days of sunrise and sunset tracks respectively in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and combined them with sun analemma. The degree of inclination of sunrise or sunset can be used to determine the latitude of the shooting location.
Due to heavy winter and spring rains and frequent summer afternoon thunder-storms, whether it is morning or afternoon, it is not easy to shoot the sun within a fixed period of time in Taipei. Some large gaps in sun analemma indicate that the sun did not show itself to be photographed for up to 20 days, and since sometimes the sun had to be photographed even when it was partially hidden in the clouds, several suns in the picture are not complete! Therefore, in addition to the trajectory of the sun in a year, the Taipei sun analemma can also be used to see the weather patterns in Taipei.
The landscape below sun analemma in the morning is the mountains in the south-east of Taipei. In fact, Taipei is a basin surrounded by mountains. The landscape be-low analemma in the afternoon is the downtown area of Taipei. Note that the tall building in the foreground is Taipei 101 (508 m), which used to be the tallest building in the world from December 1, 2004 to January 7, 2010.

NGC 105 by William Ostling, on Flickr
Full write up here: https://theastroenthusiast.com/ngc-105-from-hubble/

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope displays spiral galaxy NGC 105, which lies 215 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. NGC 105 appears to be plunging edge-on into a collision with a neighbouring galaxy, but this is just the result of the chance alignment of the two objects in the night sky. NGC 105’s elongated neighbor is actually far more distant and remains relatively unknown to astronomers. These misleading conjunctions occur frequently in astronomy, a great example being NGC 3314: https://theastroenthusiast.com/ngc-3314-from-hubble/

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Thor's Helmet in HOO

Sub exposures taken from my Bortle 5 backyard observatory on January 8th and 9th 2022.
Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 11
Camera: ZWO 2600MM
Filters: Chroma 3nm Ha and Oiii
43 x 300s Ha
40 x 300s Oiii

Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop

Higher resolution can be found on my astrobin page: https://www.astrobin.com/h8tajw/0/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parkesburg_observatory/

Thank you for looking!

Steve Gill

Trapped into Barnard's Loop

Orion - is a constellation that never gets boring and it is probably the most anticipated area of the winter sky. An astrophotographer and a visual stargazer will be tempted to do so... I do not remember how many times I have stayed most of autumn stargazing night longer to watch its sunrise ...

Samyang 135/2 and a modified Nikon D610. Place - eastern Carpathans / Poland

Credit: Ireneusz Nowak
Astrobin location of the full size picture: https://www.astrobin.com/oxoryi/
Author Astrobin link: https://www.astrobin.com/users/iro/

Sh2-232
Click on above to enlarge.

Full info (& larger image) @ https://www.kinchastro.com/sh2-232-2022.html

The Flaming Star and Tadpoles of Auriga (flipped)
in Ha-Ha[O III]RGB, ~12.5 hours


The Flaming Star and Tadpoles of Auriga by Markice Stephenson, on Flickr


Thank you for your time

Markice S

Venus during at inferior conjunction 2022.
These images were taken during 4th-12th January 2022.

Telescope: Takahashi TOA150
Camera: ZWO174
Filter: Methane (889 nm)
Taken by: Thanakrit Santikunaporn/Thressapong Siriboon/NARIT
Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand

Image >> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nd65I- ... sp=sharing

Hello,Today, with as much fatigue as with pride, I present to you my biggest astrophoto project to date, the big Spaghetti Nebula (Simeis 147 or SH2-240) in HOORVB mosaic of 2 tiles.

Full resolution is here : https://astrob.in/043eov/B

It's an object that has always fascinated me, that I dreamed of shooting knowing it wouldn't be easy.
SPOILER: It was worse than that!

It took me 2 months to acquire enough lights to make anything out of it.

Indeed, I shot 14 winter nights between November and January (5 of which played with my nerves with the fog lifting at nightfall without being able to do anything).

You should know that I could not even shoot the Ha during the moonlight because it passed directly over my target and was therefore very close over ten nights per cycle.

Since this project is particularly close to my heart and living in an apartment, I decided to put all the chances on my side by making the necessary route to go shoot where the weather would allow it.

So I shot from the Vosges, I camped in 0 ° C in Alsace, I shot from my astrobro Christope in Moselle, I went south of France to Valensole and I moved on several spots on several nights in this region.A total of 3,600 km of road to acquire the 55 hours of lights retained which consist of:

Tile 1:
Ha -> 71x600 ’’
Oiii -> 78x600 ’’
R G B -> 90x10 '' per filter

Tile 2:Ha -> 94x600 ’’
Oiii -> 78x600 ’’
R G B -> 90x10 '' per filter

While the acquisition was long and complex, so was the processing, I had to work with 400GB of data for a final image of 15 000 x 12 000px.Suffice to say that the PC has smoked!
Once again a big thanks to Christophe who illuminated me with his advices during the processing and gave me invaluable help, thanks also to Nico for his always correct eye!

Technical part:
Takahashi FSQ106 EDX4 with 645-QE super reducerAsi 2600MM Pro
Barilla (Antilla) RGB + H and O 3nm filters
Eq6r-pro
Altaïr 60/225 guide + asi 290mm mini
Sky bortle 3-4

Acquisition: N.I.N.A + Phd2
Processing: Siril + PixInsight + Photoshop

Taken in several parts of France between 2021/11/10 and 2022/01/03

Copyright : Yann SAINTY

NGC 7635 - Bubble Nebula Full resolution: https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/2h40ymu ... muqi8S.jpg

Gear:
Imaging Telescope: TS Optics Ritchey-Chretien 8" Carbon
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI294MM Pro
Mount: Avalon Instruments Linear Fast Reverse
Filters: Chroma OIII 3nm · Chroma Ha 3nm · Chroma SII 3nm
Software: Sequence Generator Pro · Photoshop CC · PHD 2 · PixInsight 1.8 Ripely

Acquisition details:
Date: December 2021, January 2022
Total exposure: 22 hours
Filters' distribution:

• Chroma Ha 3nm: 37x600" (6h 10') (gain: 200.00) -15C bin 2x2

• Chroma OIII 3nm: 51x600" (8h 30') (gain: 200.00) -15C bin 2x2

• Chroma SII 3nm: 47x600" (7h 50') (gain: 200.00) -15C bin 2x2

Hello all,

Here is my is my first astrophotography made with my freshly acquired lens/telescope the Redcat 51

This picture as been shot in l'Ile de Ré in France under a Bortle 4 sky. It was during the night of the 31st december before the new year when the weather decides to offer me a clear sky.

My equipment :
Canon 6D astrodon modified
William Optics Redcat 51
Skywatcher Star Adventurer moun

EXIF :
Stack of 300 pictures (2h30 in total)
30sec exposure | ISO-3200 | F4.9 | 250mm
No DOF



Orion constellation by Martin Giraud, sur Flickr

Thanks and have a great sky

Cosmic perspective : NGC 4725 group & LoTr5
Full version : https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/vmzTQmt ... 2EQU70.jpg

Here is a mosaic of 2 images with the main galaxies of the group NGC 4725 (located at about 55 million light-years) and the planetary nebula LoTr5, discovered in 1980 and located "only" at 1650 light-years from us!
The small galaxy NGC 4712, to the right of NGC 4725, is located more than 200 million light-years away.
A beautiful "cosmic perspective" with these different objects!

Mosaic of 2 images in LRGB + OIII.

TSA102 - AtikOne6.0 - AZEQ6
L : 32 x 600s bin 1
RGB : 72 x 300s bin2
OIII : 18 x 600s bin2
Total : 14h20
Fouras (France) April 2018 / April 2021

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

C/2021 A1 (Leonard)　DEC.28.2021 to Jan 5. 2022
This Image was taken with ASA inch f3.6 &FLI ML16200 CCD/ SSO remote observatory from Japan
http://miki-hosp.or.jp/BIND/
Copyright: Nobuhiko Miki
https://mikicln.air-nifty.com/photos/un ... 2021a1.gif

Saturn and the Polar Hexagon

The polar hexagon of Saturn is unique and truly intriguing phenomenon.

First observed in 19081 by Voyager , it is located at about 78 degree N. The southern pole does not have a hexagon.

The overall diameter is some 18,000 miles (29,000km) and each side of the hexagon is 9,000 miles (14,000km), that is larger than the Earth.

This image was captured from our backyard on a night with excellent seeing. The planet was only about 40 degrees in altitude and the ADC was tuned to counteract the effect of atmospheric dispersion as much as possible.

The C14 was collimated as best a possible and the mono ASI290mm was used with RGB filters with 90sec per filter exposures.

Data was stacked and derotated with Winjupos.

Link: https://www.astrobin.com/l403ir/
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Imaging Telescope: Celestron C14
ZWO ASI290M
Filters: Baader LRGB
Accessories: AstroPhysics Advanced Barlow
Software: Gimp · AS3 · WinJUPOS · FireCapture 2.6 x64 x64

Good evening everyone,

Here is my last post on this Orion and Barnard Loop photo,

I spent the only clear moonless night to try the samyang 135mm f2, because I wanted to have fun doing astrophoto with the lens as well. I absolutely wanted to shoot the constellation of Orion and the Barnard Loop.

It was complicated to image it with a seeing more than hazardous but on 210 shots of 120 seconds I kept only 100 raw.

After some treatment trials, I was happy with my final treatment but it is incomparable with the one done by Philippe Bernhard, you feel very small next to it I've been practicing for a year, I had made good progress in treatment compared to my beginnings but I still have a long way to go

Full version https://astrob.in/9iu4n3/0/

Samyang 135mm open to f2.8
Canon 6D Iso 1600 defiltered
Heq5 pro goto
100 raw x 120 ''
30 dof

Have a good sky

Good evening everyone,

Here is my last post on this Orion and Barnard Loop photo,

I spent the only clear moonless night to try the samyang 135mm f2, because I wanted to have fun doing astrophoto with the lens as well. I absolutely wanted to shoot the constellation of Orion and the Barnard Loop.

It was complicated to image it with a seeing more than hazardous but on 210 shots of 120 seconds I kept only 100 raw.

After some treatment trials, I was happy with my final treatment but it is incomparable with the one done by Philippe Bernhard, you feel very small next to it I've been practicing for a year, I had made good progress in treatment compared to my beginnings but I still have a long way to go

Full version https://astrob.in/9iu4n3/0/

Samyang 135mm open to f2.8
Canon 6D Iso 1600 defiltered
Heq5 pro goto
100 raw x 120 ''
30 dof

Have a good sky

First post on this forum and my first image of the Rosette Nebula
https://i.imgur.com/epLLSnc.jpg

Equipment:

Redcat 51

L-eXtreme

ZWO ASI533MC

Star Adventurer

ASIAIR

ZWO mini guidescope

ZWO ASI290MC



3.5 hours total integration time

300” sub exposures

Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop

Hi guys just finish M42
Telescope: SharpStar 150 f2,8
Guide Scope:Evoguide
Mount : Skywatcher HEQ5
Imaging camera: ZWO 2600MC
Guiding camera: ZWO 290 MC
Filters: NBZ Idas,Lpro Optolong
Plate solving: SGpro
Imaging software: Sgpro
Guiding software: PHD2
Processing software: Pixinsight
NBZ: 90X120s exposure @100Gain
Lpro:90X120s exposure @100Gain
Integration: 6 hrs
Davide Mancini,13/01/2022 Perth.Australia
Copiright@Davide Mancini

The Reflexion Nebula - Messier 78

Messier 78 is a blue reflection nebula that is found near of constellation Orion. A reflection nebula is a cloud of dust that reflects light from one or more nearby. The red surrounding colour emission nebula (H-alpha) belong to this constellation (Orion). H-alpha (Hα) is a specific deep-red visible spectral line with a wavelength of 656.28 nm in air.

This is the first serious image taken from my new remot control observatory.

Telescope: RC16"
Camera: Moravian G3-11002
Total exposure time: 39 hours (L-RGB)
http://astrotolva.com/
Luis Romero Ventura