Starship Asterisk*

M13 an urchin in the sky
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Marc JOUSSET
http://www.astrosurf.com/jousset
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The antenna of the South Tower of Golden Gate Bridge points directly to sunspot 1520

Copyright: Mila Zinkova

Proximities of Alnitak
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Copyright: Delio Tolivia & Kike Diez
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Hiogher res
http://www.nightoverontario.com/Astrono ... &lb=1&s=X2

Thanks for looking
Cheers
Lynn

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Comparation of two mosaics composed about 40 to 50 images each, taken with SCT8" and DMK21au618

The Night Sky over Frank Lloyd Wright's First Christian Church
http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalret ... 562761334/
Copyright: Marion Haligowski


The Night Sky over Frank Lloyd Wright's First Christian Church by Radical Retinoscopy, on Flickr

A star trail photograph was made of seventy 10 second exposures. Each exposure was made with a 17-40L lens at 24 mm. (f/5.6, 400 ISO). The exposures were kept relatively short to abate the prominent light pollution in Phoenix.

The First Christian Church is located at 6750 N. 7th Avenue in north-central Phoenix. The church is an authentic Frank Lloyd Wright design that was finished in 1973. The characteristic spire rises to a height of seventy-seven feet and has become a Phoenix landmark. The design was commissioned for the Southwest Christian Seminary in 1949; however, construction was never initiated at that time. After Mr. Wright’s death the plans were released by his estate to facilitate construction by the First Christian Church in 1971.

Behind the Summer Triangle
http://www.starscapeimaging.com/page86/index.html
Copyright: Jon Talbot Cygnus Wide Field image taken 21 June 2012 with a Canon 60Da and 35mm f1.4 lens.

Trailing Stars over Frank lloyd Wright's First Christian Church
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Copyright: Marion Haligowski


Trailing Stars over Frank lloyd Wright's First Christian Church by Radical Retinoscopy, on Flickr

The First Christian Church is located at 6750 N. 7th Avenue in north-central Phoenix. The church is an authentic Frank Lloyd Wright design that was finished in 1973. The characteristic spire rises to a height of seventy-seven feet and has become a Phoenix landmark. The design was commissioned for the Southwest Christian Seminary in 1949; however, construction was never initiated at that time. After Mr. Wright’s death the plans were released by his estate to facilitate construction by the First Christian Church in 1971.

Omega Sunrise with huge AR1420
http://stefanoderosa.com/
Copyright: Stefano De Rosa
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This morning (July 14, 2012) I had the fortune to admire from the beach of Lido di Dante (Ravenna, Italy) a spectacular sunrise with the huge AR1520 sunspot rising on an omega shaped Sun over the sea.

Best regards

Stefano

Hi

I'm going to show you an image of big sunspot taken by my amatorial telescope:

Celestron C14HD edge
Solar Filter Astrosolar ND 3.8
Camera Basler acA640mono
Focal Lenght: 3910 mm
Seeing: 4/10
Trans: 8/10
Wind: 15-20 mph

Best regards
Alessandro Bianconi
Dolianova (CA) Italy

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Starry night at ChongQing

All is full of stars at this clear skies after the rain.
i find a moment of peace at the busy city life
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeef_dai/7 ... otostream/

Spiral Galaxy NGC 5792 with Distant Background Quasars
http://www.pbase.com/rolfolsen/astro_photography
Copyright: Rolf Wahl Olsen NGC 5792 is a beautiful barred spiral galaxy about 83 million light-years away in the constellation Libra. In the distant background a wealth of faint galaxies dot the area and even 14 quasars lie within this narrow field of view.
Large image with quasars marked: http://upload.pbase.com/rolfolsen/image ... 2/original

Aurora Borealis over Sparks Lake in Central Oregon
Copyright: Brad Goldpaint
http://www.goldpaintphotography.com/

Valley of the Lightning Galaxy
The Milky Way rising over Monument Valley as lightning flashes from storms rolling through the desert.

Larger Version here:
http://whiterockastronomy.com/gallery/m ... itemId=404

IC1318
http://gallery.lightbuckets.com/jebersole/photo/7665/
Copyright: John Ebersole

Constellation of Lyra in the July's Sky
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

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UPS! by Jose cabello

http://www.astropeumayen.com.ar/foro/do ... &mode=view
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Copyright: Aldo Mottino

The Iris Nebula
http://astrohack.net/AstronomyBlog/
Copyright: Brandt Schram

14 hours of LRGB data (3.5 each) Planewave CDK17, Apogee U16M on Paramount ME.

Thanks for taking a look.

Milky Way over sunflowers


It's a panorama image of 7 individual photoes taken at a sunflower field near Veszprem, Hungary. There's some orange coloured light pollution of Veszprem visible on the small clouds at the left side but between and above these clouds the very faint purple colouration is an aurora. (The aurora was also seen in the Czech Republic on the night of 15/16th July, and of course at many other places being closer to the magnetic north pole). I could not see the aurora but when checking my pics I noticed it on many of them taken in about 30 minutes. Later it disappeared. Crops were lit by a small pocket flashlight.
A cold front sweeped my sky clear so the seeing was very good that's why the Milky Way was so bright despite being only at 3 kms distance of my hometown.

Here's a bigger size version of the panorama pic:
http://users.atw.hu/egbolt/sunflowers_m ... y_0716.jpg
Photo details: Nikon D5100 with 10mm Sigma lens, f2.8, ISO4000, 20 sec. expositions

Cheers,
Monika Landy-Gyebnar

NGC 6960
http://www.astrosurf.com/astrobernier
Copyright: Martin Bernier Full: http://www.astrosurf.com/astrobernier/n ... _final.jpg

Thanks for looking

NGC7000 & Perikan Nebula
http://www.miki-hosp.or.jp/BIND
Copyright: Nobuhiko Miki

In the vicinity of Lagoon

http://www.pampaskies.com
Copyright: Ignacio Diaz Bobillo
full-res: http://www.pampaskies.com/gallery3/var/ ... -hires.JPG

Thanks for looking,
Ignacio

I received a suggestion from someone on Google+ to post my recent (15 July) photo of Aurora Australis from Christchurch, New Zealand, on APoD. Copyright Gavin Treadgold, and yes, I give you permission to use it, should you choose

These colours weren't visible to the naked eye at the time, the colour was only achieved by a 20 second exposure. It was faint green to the naked eye.


20120715-225512 by rediguana, on Flickr

Look at Orion
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... hotostream
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier