Starship Asterisk*

The Ever Popular Heart Nebula in Narrowband
http://fth.bounceme.net/
Copyright: Fred Herrmann All rights reserved.

NGC 2014 & NGC 2020 in the LMaC

The Large Magellanic Cloud presents interesting objects which are usually seen in wide field pictures.
Well… here is a "close up" of two extra galactic pearls: Intriguing NGC 2020 a kind of open bubble generated by strong stellar winds from massive young stars and NGC 2014 a star forming region also known as Henize 55 with crowded Open Clusters arround the nebula

More information about the acquisition and images with higher resolution at
http://www.baskies.com.ar/PHOTOS/NGC%202020%20LRGB.htm

Best to all
Sergio

Jets are an active, short-lived phase of star formation, lasting only about 100 000 years. They are called Herbig-Haro (HH) objects, named after George Herbig and Guillermo Haro, who studied the outflows in the 1950's. Astronomers still don’t know what role jets play in the star formation process or exactly how the star unleashes them.

Although Herbig–Haro (HH) objects come in a wide array of shapes, the basic configuration is usually the same. Twin jets of heated gas, ejected in opposite directions from a forming star, stream through interstellar space.

In the Pelican Nebula several Herbig-Haro objects can be found. Recently I bought pixinsight and reprocessed some older data from the Pelican. It showed that 7 HH objects can be seen on this image. It's clear this is a star-forming region....

Full resolution image

Large version here.

This is a still from my latest timelapse video, Namibian Nights. The video won First Prize at the recent Travel Photographer of the Year Awards.

The image was shot in the South of Namibia. The light on the trees and rocks was created with little flashlights. The orange glow at the horizon is light pollution from a village.

Marsel van Oosten | squiver.com

Copyright: Ryan Hannahoe and Robert Gendler http://ryanhannahoe.nmskies.com/?p=562

Another year brings another Horsehead and Flame Nebulae.

Larger version and details here:
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/148357402

All the best,

Kfir Simon

Trio of Lunar Crater Theophilus, Cyril and Catherine
Waxing Crescent, January17, 2013
31.9% of Lunar Illumination
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... hotostream
© VegaStarCarpentier P h o t o g r a p h y
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Star trails over the lake Kerkini in Greece http://www.flickr.com/photos/airliner/

Star trails over a medieval tower in Greece http://www.flickr.com/photos/airliner/

Spinning wind power generator during Annual Perseids Meteor shower

http://www.flickr.com/photos/airliner/

Mavroudakis Fotis

A Wind Power Generator during our annual Perseids Meteor shower

http://www.flickr.com/photos/airliner/

Mavroudakis Fotis

Green flash at sunrise on the volcano Teide in the Canary Island. La Palma.



Jose F. Arozena & Carmelo Gonzalez

http://vaya-usted-a-saber.blogspot.com. ... teide.html

Hi All,

"A Window To My Soul" Lookout at "The Horn" Mt Buffalo National Park, Australia

Interior of the hut was gently light painted with a headlamp during the single exposure.

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This was the sight that greeted us at the nearby small town of Örsundsbro in southern Sweden as we made our way back early Saturday morning (04.24 CET) from the Uppsala Amateur Astronomy (http://www.uaa.nu) observatory. During the night the temperature dropped from -10 to about -25 degrees Celcius as a weather front moved in. After a some hours of clear skies this weather front started creating ice crystals that caused both a haze that covered the entire sky and a glittering ground level "fog" that together made further observations and tests fruitless so we quit for the night. We were however treated to this display on our way home. The crystals however disappeared soon after we left Örsundsbro so we couldn't try our luck closer to the larger town of Uppsala.

The previous post was made by me

Patrik Holmström of "Uppsala Amateur Astronomers", Sweden.

2012 Geminids
http://pmartin.smugmug.com/Other/Gemini ... &k=LHdVNzw
Copyright: Pierre Martin Composite of 98 Geminids captured between 9:00PM and 6:00AM on December 13/14, 2012. Stacked digitally with Photoshop. Canon 7D with Canon 17-55mm f/2.8, ISO1600, 30 sec exposures at f/2.8 (meteors); ISO400, 4.5 min exposure at f/4.5 (star field). Tracked with Vixen GPDX. Photographed from near Peebles, Ohio.

The Core of the IC1805 Heart Nebula (Melotte 15)
http://mtanous.wordpress.com/2013/01/17 ... ellas-rgb/
Copyright: Jose Mtanous

Titan Craters, the Old and the New
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-024
Copyright: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/GSFC

Waxing Crescent Moon 01-17-2013
http://www.galacticimages.com
Copyright: John Chumack

Thor's Helmet - NGC 2359
http://www.rolfolsenastrophotography.com
Copyright: Rolf Wahl Olsen Link to large image (2.5MB)
Link to closer crop of the helmet area itself (1.3MB)

This delicate emission nebula is located in the constellation of Canis Major at a distance of about 15,000 light years. The nebula is illuminated by a central star in its last stage of life. This is a massive so called Wolf-Rayet star which is shedding its outer layers of gas at an extremely high rate due to intense radiation pressure. Wolf-Rayet stars are thought to represent a brief stage of evolution near the end of life for giant super massive stars - the last unstable phase before the star explodes as a brilliant supernova.
In the case of Thor's Helmet a large expanding bubble has formed around the bright central star. Interaction with giant molecular clouds in the area have contributed to the overall intricate shape of the nebula and large bow shock structures radiate out from the bubble in several directions. The nebula is some 30 light years in diameter and the strong blue-green colour is due to OIII emission near the star.
This entire spectacle lies embedded in a dense star field consisting of thousands of coloured jewels each casting their own contrasting light onto this dramatic interstellar scenery.

Image details:
Date: 8th, 14th, 19th December 2012 and 5th, 6th, 9th January 2013
Exposure: LRGB: 530:44:33:33m, total 10hrs 40mins @ -28C
Telescope: 10" Serrurier Truss Newtonian f/5
Camera: QSI 683wsg with Lodestar guider
Filters: Astrodon LRGB E-Series Gen 2
Taken from my observatory in Auckland, New Zealand

M 81 and 82 + INTEGRATED FLUX NEBULA

Copyright: Eduard Garcia Ribera (Parc Astronomic Montsec)



Image in more resolution:
http://www.astroedu.net//mediapool/75/7 ... bbbvV2.png

Clear Skies !!

Eduard Garcia Ribera
http://www.parcastronomic.cat
http://www.astroedu.net

The Great Active Region 1654
http://www.miradordelcielo.es http://www.astroeduca.com
Copyright: Francisco A. Rodriguez Ramirez

Fransisco, can you edit your post? I can't see your picture.

Ann

Ann, Francisco didn't post his image; one of our new Observation Deck volunteers did. I'm sure she'll fix it shortly!

Bubble Nebula in Cassiopeia
http://www.martinpughastrophotography.id.au/
Copyright: Martin Pugh