Starship Asterisk*

delberson wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 11:37 pm Mars and Moon in 2020 by Delberson Tiago de Souza, no Flickr

Thank you for this stunning portrait of the color contrast (and the apparent size contrast) between the Moon and Mars!

Ann

Hello,

The James Webb Telescope is Awesome !!!...Every new photo has hidden ,more deeper data available.

I have reprocessed Einstein Halo.

The stunning halo is the result of light from a distant galaxy passing through warped space-time surrounding another galaxy aligned between the distant light source and Earth. The new James Webb Space Telescope image, which was created by a Reddit-based astronomy enthusiast, is one of the best examples of the trippy astronomical phenomenon ever captured.

The ring of light in the new image comes from the distant galaxy SPT-S J041839-4751.8 (or JO418 for short), which is around 12 billion light-years from Earth, making it one of the oldest galaxies in the universe. JO418 is orientated directly behind another galaxy — the bright blue light at the center of the ring — which is so massive that its gravitational pull warps the space-time around it. As light from JO418 reaches the foreground galaxy it travels through this warped space-time. From Earth, it looks as though the light has curved around the galaxy, but the electromagnetic waves we see have actually been traveling in a straight line the entire time.

My reprocess:
https://spaceweathergallery.com/full_im ... 717742.jpg

Original:
https://www.sciencealert.com/images/202 ... tyears.jpg

Ghost of Cassiopeia imaged from the heavily light polluted skies just North of Dallas, TX

Rasa 8
294MMPro @ 0c
Narrowband HA/O / S - F2 Filters
30 hours of Ha
8 Hours of Oxygen
6 Hours of Sulfur
Bortle 8
Processed in Pixinsight


Ghost of Cassiopeia
Copyright: Steve Duke

Link to full size image:
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5270 ... 97~mv2.jpg

I would like to submit my photo of the Perihelion to Aphelion 2022 for APOD consideration.

Location details:

Perihelion: Oceanside, California
Aphelion: Oceanside, California

Date:

Perihelion: Jan 4th 2022
Aphelion: Jul 4th 2022

Equipment:

Telescope: Coronado Solarmax III Double Stack
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Camera: ZWO ASI 174MM


Image acquisition and processing:

I used Sharpcap to acquire videos of the sun on both days. Each video was about 2000 frames.

I ran both programs through AutoStakerrt3! and stacked 20 percent of the best frames. I then loaded each file into ImPPG and processed them to bring out more surface detail. Finally I then loaded them up into Photoshop, added a false color to blend the two images together and added the text.

You have my permission to use this wherever you want.

If selected please link to this:
https://www.instagram.com/bryangoffphoto/

Thank you for your consideration,

Bryan

Mosaic of Earth - Apollo 11 by Charly ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎Lebouc, sur Flickr

"Fall is on the Doorstep"

It's been quite the wet summer for us across the Panhandle and Big Bend of Florida and while it hasn't totally shut the door for astrophotography, it's made things difficult. Combined with my work schedule, I have to take every opportunity when the skies will be clear and the moon is gone. So a few mornings ago, I got up at 3am to head out to some of the darkest skies you can find in Florida. Main goal was to photograph the rising constellation of Orion along with the zodiacal light, a very cool astronomical phenomena that I haven't photographed much. Orion rising in the early morning sky marks the close arrival of Fall, and a welcome change for Florida astrophotographers who have spent the summer battling mosquitos, no-seeums, and nasty heat/humidity.

Near Panacea Florida.

A stack of 10 exposures at f/3.5, 30 seconds, and ISO6400 with Sony a7ii and Sigma 14mm f/1.8 lens.

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Harvest Moon taken on a clear night on September 9. This image was cropped to highlight the rising moon over the horizon.

1/13 sec, ISO 100
William Optics Gran Turismo 71
Sky-Watcher EQM-35
Canon EOS 5D mark iv

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danielhu.photography/

Harvest Moon by Daniel H, on Flickr

Title of image
Heart and soul shot from the soul relaxing Saint Catherine Valley
Copyright: Mohamed Usama Ismail / Ursamo Astrophotography
Equipment:
Imaging Lens ,Canon 135mm f2.0 L
Imaging Camera ,Canon 80D (Stock)
Mount ,Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Dates:
Aug. 31, 2022 · Sept. 1, 2022
Frames:
Astronomik OIII 12nm: 79×180″(3h 57′) ISO1600 f/2
Astronomik H-alpha 12 nm : 175×180″(8h 45′) ISO1600 f/2

Location: Egypt - Saint Catherine - Dar Eid
Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/c0o2nq/
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UrsamoAstro/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ursamo_astrophotography/

The Barnard's Galaxy ( NGC 6822)

BEST DETAILS:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/if326g/B/

EQUIPMENT:
Esprit 150mm triplet
ASI 6200mc
Mount CEM120
196x300"

LOCATION: Munhoz - MG - Brazil
DATES: 07/20/2022 to 08/10/2022

Author: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
(Organizing author of the book Amateur Astrophotography in Brazil)
https://clubedeautores.com.br/livro/ast ... -no-brasil

Ha and Oiii narrowband Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888 with RGB stars. Imaged from May to July, 2022 from my home in Houston, TX.

Integration: 52.18 hours

Telescope: Takahashi TOA-130

Camera: QHY268M

Dates:
May 27, 2022 · May 28, 2022 · June 5, 2022 · June 6, 2022 · July 8, 2022 · July 9, 2022 · July 10, 2022 · July 13, 2022 · July 14, 2022 · July 15, 2022 · July 16, 2022 · July 17, 2022 · July 18, 2022 · July 19, 2022 · July 20, 2022

Frames:
H-alpha 3nm: 307 × 300″ (25h 35′)
OIII 3nm: 293 × 300″ (24h 25′)
Red: 87 × 30″ (43′ 30″)
Green: 90 × 30″ (45′)
Blue: 85 × 30″ (42′ 30″)

More info: https://astrob.in/9zozi9/0/

Large Magellanic Cloud, 2 panel Mosaic

This is a Mosaic with the Askar FMA180 (180mm FL) small refractor alongside with the Asi2600mc camera. It consists of 2 framings, each one with approximately 3h of integration (179 x 120s frames total, 5h58'). A broadband Idas LPS-D3 filter was used.
It is sort of surprising the amount of Ha details in this capture since no Ha filter was used.
Captured in Giruá, Brazil, bortle 4 zone.

From the Prawn Nebula, "Fenrir" Nebula to The Dragons of ARA. 4 panel Mosaic
114 x 180s frames, 5.7h integration (Roughly 1.5h per panel).
Photographed in Giruá, Brazil, Bortle 4.
Askar fma180 apo
Asi294mm camera
Antlia ALP-T filter
Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop.

From Cygnus Loop to Crescent Nebula, 4 panels mosaic
This was my first mosaic attempt. Wasn’t expecting much, but the result surprised me in a good way.
Each panel has 26 180s images, totalizing 104 images and 5,2h of integration time.
🗓 June 31st to August 02nd. 2022.
Giruá, RS, Brazil. Bortle 4.
ASKAR FMA180 (40mm f4.5)
asi2600mc
🕶 Antlia 5mm duo narrow band
pixinsight, photoshop

Hi there,

Below my apod submisssion :

It has been a long time since we have seen such a beautiful and spectacular solar flare. The matter ejected with fury by our Star is now heading towards the Earth and its magnetic field, which it should tickle tomorrow. is good news for aurora enthusiasts, and of course, photographers who hunt them, because the shock of the CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) on the magnetosphere, followed by the interaction of solar particles with those of the upper atmosphere , should be visible in sumptuous dances of dawn this Saturday, October 30, after the plasma has traveled the 150 million kilometers that separate us.

Luck was therefore with us, all we had to do was enjoy and immortalize the moment.

Iceland 4th november 2021.
Taken with a Sony A7III + Samyang 14mm F 3.2
Instagram : andreave71



Iceland 4th November 2021 by Andrea VE

SH2-170 Little Rosette

https://www.deepskyobjects.com/Nebulae/SH2-170_SHO.asp
Copyright: Behyar Bakhshandeh, Carlsbad, CA


Scope: DSI RC10C, fl 1867 mm @ f/7.3
Camera: FLI ML6303 camera guided by SBIG ST-i via the MMOAG
AP9000GTO Mount
4 Hours of Ha, 2.75 hours of SII and OIII. 40 Mins of LRGB each for the stars. Total of just over 10 hours.
All unbinned for an image scale of 1 arcsec/pix

http://www.deepskyobjects.com/

Hi,

Below my APOD submission to your review and consideration.

Target : NGC 2244 or the so-called "Rosette Nebula".

Hubble Palette color obtained by using a cocktail of Sii, Ha, and Oiii filters combined with RGB stars.

RGB Data = 9.5 hours
SHO Data = 28 hours

Copyright : Data courtesy = Russell Croman, New Mexico, USA.
Processing and rendering dome by myself.

Equipment : Takahashi FSQ 106edIII



https://cdn.astrobin.com/images/96600/2 ... 2ae99e.png

https://www.astrobin.com/6rr45y/D/

Lone astronomer

Copyright: Pavel Váňa


NP Canyonlands showed me how it is like to be in area with pure dark sky. It was just terrific view! Even with small telescope (10cm in diameter) we could saw galaxies, nebulas and clusters which we can't see from Czech Republic with that small telescope. I will never forget the silence and thousands of glittering stars.

Canon EOS 6D, 29x13 s, Tamron 24-70mm f/2.8@3.2, ISO 8000

Air Glow Explosion and the Milky Way from La Palma (Canary Islands)
http://www.instagram.com/astroeduca http://www.astroeduca.com
Copyright: Frank A. Rodriguez

Spectacular night from the summit of La Palma (Canary Islands), next to the Roque de los Muchachos observatory and the GTC (10.4m), the largest optical and infrared telescope at the moment. Images taken on September 29, 2022

10 x 6" exp. Canon EOS R. ISO 16000


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/523 ... ac9f_h.jpg
Full https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/523 ... 548e_k.jpg


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I see in FB an album Harvest Full Moon 2022, here is the moonrise under the Triumphal Arch in Paris, April 17
Larger image, together with sunset under the Arch on August 1st: http://www.astrophoto.fr/moon_sun_arc_2022.html

...and the Moon with the Eiffel tower, one moonrise during the Bastille Day fireworks, and one moonset at dawn
Larger images and time-lapse: http://www.astrophoto.fr/moon_eiffel_2022.html

autor: Nazareno Kurriger

Fotografía de la luna, el día 10/09/2022, sobre la planta de procesamiento de soja.
nótese el gradiente de temperatura atmosférica deformando la luna.

date: 10/09/2022, 19:26,
location: San Jerónimo, Santa Fe Argentina
exif: 550mm (180mm+TC2X x 1.5aps-c crop), 1/8seg, f8, iso640, Nikon D7100




regards

French mills haloed by the Milky Way

full : https://www.flickr.com/photos/julienloo ... en-public/

Copyright: Looten Julien
At the top of a panoramic hillock not far from Saint-Émilion (France), 5 mills dating from the 16th century stand proudly. Two of the five winged mills have been renovated and magnify the Bordeaux vineyards. Three of the five mills can be seen here... including the two most beautiful!
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Located more than 40 km from Bordeaux, this site is ideal for astrophotography. Nevertheless, the light pollution of the city of Libourne is visible to the left of the central mill, in the form of a very luminous white halo which masks the heart/bubble of the Milky Way...
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The Milky Way is very high in the sky at the moment, the constellation Cygnus, with its numerous red nebulae, is at its zenith. To the right of the Milky Way, you can see the Andromeda galaxy, located very close to its neighbour, the Triangulum galaxy. Or, further down, the Pleiades and the California Nebula...... And so on...
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This panoramic photograph was taken with a Sigma 28mm f1.4 and a Canon 6d astrodon. More than 50 images were needed to form this large puzzle..... A final image of more than half a billion pixels... So the computer suffered a lot (and so did I )... So here is a very (very very) compressed and cropped view. Ps: for the purists, no stacking
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I hope you'll like it! Have a good week

Instagram : j.looten
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Julien.Looten.Photographie
flickr : https://www.flickr.com/photos/julienlooten/

The Roaring Lion

This one turned out much better than the initial master stacks. Post processing got a lot of depth and details out.

Captured with the CDK14 in "f/4.76 Astrograph" mode, the longer nights and clear nights have been a nice change.

Seeing has been better too with some frames going below 2.0".

At full resolution, some interesting and intricate details can be been in the brighter regains.

This image was captured through 3nm ultra-narrowband filters and is a composite of ionized Sulphur, Hydrogen, and Oxygen atoms and displayed with a modified SHO "Hubble" Palette. Hydrogen Alpha data was collected over 3 nights from the outskirts of Vancouver, Canada (Bortle 6).

Link to Gallery:
https://rouzastro.com/nebulae/

Clear Skies
Rouz
www.RouzAstro.com

The Egg Nebula. KG Observatory, Julian, CA.

https://www.astrobin.com/0fxeyz/

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Moon rise over Mohamed Ali Mosque by Wael Omar, on Flickr

This was really a challenging shot. I planned for it for several days to find the best location in a very crowded area in down town to put the moon within the same frame with " Mohamed Ali " mosque and Citadel of "Salah Al Din" , the most famous medieval Islamic-era fortification in Cairo. I climbed an old Minaret that was built in Medieval ages away by 2 km from the Citadel to observe the moon rising and passing behind the Minaret of the Mosque . I use canon 200 D with Sigma lens 600mm .

Settings : iso 800 . F5.7 - 4/5 second at focal lens 180 mm.

For the moon 13 shots , iso 200- F 5 - 1/10 sec.
Image credit : Wael Omar WO / https://www.instagram.com/waelomar_astrophotography/