Starship Asterisk*

While photographing aurora borealis in Abisko National Park (North Sweden), an orionid meteor happened to cross our field of view (and the camera´s too!).

A lovely souvenir from the upper atmosphere.

Copyright: Carmen Sánchez García.

NGC7822
Copyright: Matts Sporre
Web: http://istarion.net/ For details and other color mappings please visit http://istarion.net/Picturepages/Nebulas/NGC7822.shtml

Καλημέρα from Corfu, Greece

Hello, I've got this beautiful Sunrise today, hope you like it

here in hi-re : http://www.astrovox.gr/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=15843

hi,
please find this picture taken in pyrenees montains 1st november.
best regards

Philippe TOSI

NGC 6188
http://skymonsters.net/immagine.php?img=NGC6188_b.jpg
Copyright: Nicola Montecchiari

http://www.astrobin.com/24722/B/?real=&mod=

IC 1396 (wide field)
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/ ... mosaic.htm
Copyright: Emil Ivanov This is a two panel mosaic. Details can be found on the website, bigger size here

sundogs

Spotting The Station

A shot of the ISS flying thru the constellation Canis Major with what looks like a faint meteor. I used the new NASA spot the station email alert and it worked great! I signed up for it on Monday and they emailed me on Tuesday with an alert. I set up to capture it pass overhead before dawn on the morning of 11/14/12 at 5:08am. EST

You can sign up to receive emails at: spotthestation.nasa.gov/
Copyright: Scott Tully
http://www.flickr.com/photos/79734303@N ... otostream/

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29993

I've decided this is worth submitting. I only wish I had found and was able to submit it for the Hidden Treasures contest!

Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, Processing by Judy Schmidt

Click for Large

geckzilla wrote:I've decided this is worth submitting. I only wish I had found and was able to submit it for the Hidden Treasures contest!

Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, Processing by Judy Schmidt

Click for Large

That is kinda neat... whatever it is.

LBN 460 (Colibri Nebula) - Bright Nebula in Lacerta
LBN 460 is a bright nebula which is seldom imaged. I found a very few images in the internet. This interesting object which resembles a bird is about 30 arc min long and it is situated in constalation Lacerta, very close to the border with Andromeda. This nebula is a dificult object to capture and to process. It needs considerable amount of exposure time. The lonely sharp spike on the left (North) comes from the 5.6 magnitude star 16 Lac (SAO 52512). My friend Emil Ivanov a well-known astrophotographer who first saw my image of LBN 460 mentioned that the nebula resembles the ethereal and delicate colibri bird and he suggests the name "Colibri Nebula"

http://www.elateobservatory.com

Copyright: Velimir Popov
Large scale and more information is avaliable here ...

Thank you for looking ...

M42: The Great Orion Nebula

Authors: F. Antonucci - M. Angelini - F. Tagliani
ADARA - Astrobrallo: http://www.astrobrallo.com
Details: http://www.astrobrallo.com/gallery/inde ... /color/M42
Full-size: http://www.astrobrallo.com/gallery/var/ ... 1353044480

M 34 - Open cluster in Perseus
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/M34.htm
Copyright: Emil Ivanov Bigger size available here

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/147301185

http://m5.i.pbase.com/o6/29/633929/1/14 ... crop75.jpg

SN2012fr is the bright star just below the nucleus of NGC 1365

Thank You for the email on anticrepuscular rays. Here are a few more images. We have seen these every evening for a week as the sun filters through towering cumulus clouds to our west here in Mae Taeng Thailand.

I have to comment on a few images here. I'm sorry that I don't have the energy to comment on them all. But thank you, all of you, for submitting your great images!

I have to start with Rolf Wahl Olsen, whose image of galaxy NGC 1365 and supernova SN2012fr is spectacular. The color contrast between the galaxy and the supernova is delightful! The overall B-V index of galaxy NGC 1365 is +0.69, a little yellower than the Sun, and the likely B-V index of SN2012fr is about -0.01, about the same color as Vega. But of course, the difference in absolute luminosity between Vega and SN2012fr is... unimaginable. According to Rolf Wahl Olsen, the absolute magnitude of SN2012fr is -19.27. So what's the luminosity of the Large Magellanic Cloud, including the Tarantula Nebula and R136 and all? It can't be that much more than -19.27, meaning that SN2012fr might be shining as bright as all of LMC put together. Wow!

Handy13 also submitted a fine image that brought out the color contrast between the galaxy and the supernova. But Strongmanmike submitted an image where the color contrast seemed to be gone. That is in fact possible. Supernovae type Ia, like this one, grow progressively redder over time.

Leaving the supernova, I must say that Thomas Jaeger (starhopper-de) submitted an absolutely wonderful picture of M33. Note how his picture brings out the smoothness of the rich but faint old and intermediate populations of M33. These populations are yellow in the center and grayish, with a hit of green, further out. On top of these smooth populations the bright OB stars are sprinkled like tiny blue pebbles. Brilliant reddish-pink emission nebulae spout like magnificent blossoms over the face of M33. It is fantastically beautiful.

And while there is no scarcity of M42 images, I must say that Marco Angelini's image is something extra. The combination of wild colors and shapes and stellar rays makes this picture look like the perfect background for a magnificent rock concert, particularly if the picture could be made to sparkle and pulsate. Please note that I mean all of it as a compliment!

Ann

Last night I had the TEC140 running on my EQ6 while I was sleeping. Result 11x1800s S2 data that I could add to my previously gathered data. It took almost two months with the sparse clear nights here, but the result I do like a lot...

Exposures:

9 x 1800s H-alpha (4,5nm – 06/10/2012)
12 x 1800s OIII (3nm – 10/10/2012)
11 x 1800s S2 (5nm – 17/11/2012)
10 x 300s R,G,B (22/10/2012)

(total approx. 17 hours)

SXV-H9 / TEC-140 / NEQ-6 / DMK21-618 OAG

Moon Dreaming Child
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... 191017647/
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier http://vegastarcarpentier.com/wp-conten ... 3%A921.jpg

Waxing Crescent Moon November 17, 2012
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... 193769505/
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier
http://vegastarcarpentier.com/wp-conten ... ier-21.jpg
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A few days ago, astronomers from ESO using the CFHT and VLT, discovered a rogue body in the AB Doradus moving stellar group (ABDMG). located at about 65 l.y away (45-100 l.y).
The new body is located at the edge of the group, at about 100-130 l.y. away. According to measures performed with the Keck and NTT telescopes, the body is much smaller than a usual dwarf brown star; it shows a mass between 4-15 Mj and a surface temperature below 100°C.
Named CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9 the properties of this body are not known yet with accuracy; it can be a jovian-size exoplanet or more probably a T-type (Tp < 900°C) dwarf brown star of 50-120 million year old. Methane and water have been found in its atmosphere.

Here is a rendering of this orphan body and ABDMG in front of the Terzan 5 globular cluster.



More renderings are available at
http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/alien ... erings.htm

Thierry Lombry
LUXORION

A Leonid, The Dog, & The Hunter

I captured a large bright Leonid over rural Connecticut yesterday morning it was......AMAZING!!
11/17/2012 @ 5:08 am EST
Copyright: Scott Tully

http://www.flickr.com/photos/79734303@N ... hotostream

MAIA, CELAENO, ELECTRA AND MEROPE : THE PLEIADES (M 45)
Image Details and full size : http://www.astrophoto.it/globularopenclus/page1.html (refresh it if it doesn't appear)
Best regards,

Fabrizio.

http://www.fourthdimensionastroimaging. ... aster2.jpg
60 hours of data from SSRO-South at PROMPT/CTIO, please view the full size image at http://www.starshadows.com/_img/image/g ... aster3.jpg

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http://www.over-sky.fr/webimages/bubble ... versky.jpg

thanks for looking.
best regards