Starship Asterisk*

owlice wrote:NGC 5529: Spiral galaxy viewed edgewise
http://skycenter.arizona.edu/gallery/Galaxies/NGC5529
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

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This would make an excellent followup APOD to Tuesday's! This warped superthin galaxy has a large band of PAH's around its edges, more here: http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.3808

After sunset sky over Perth with 5%Moon, Mercury and Venus on the left, and Pollux (B-Gem) and Castor (A-Gem) on the right ...

Higher res @
http://westcoastpics23.blogspot.com.au/?view=flipcard

Eta Carinae
http://www.pleiades.hu/en/kapcsolat.php
Copyright: Lorand Fenyes

Original version: http://www.pleiades.hu/en/galeria/kozmo ... mal/51.jpg

http://www.pleiades.hu/kuka/apod/lorand ... arinae.jpg
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Planet conjunction - savanna, Namibia
http://www.pleiades.hu/en/kapcsolat.php
Copyright: Lorand Fenyes

Original version: http://www.pleiades.hu/en/galeria/valog ... mal/52.jpg

M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy. Around 10 hours of luminance data in 300s subs with about an hour per channel for the RGB.

6 Panel Mosaic of the Gamma Cygni Region

each panel consists of

3x20 minute Hydrogen-Alpha(used as Red & Luminance)- 6 hours
3x10 minute Blue & Green/each-4hours
3x10 minute Blue & Green(bin 2x2)*-2 hour
total integration time(so far) 12 hours.

Taken with AT65EDQ & QHY9M


A_F-project3 by astrochuck, on Flickr

While I was doing my Gammi Cyg mosaic, I thought a couple of areas would look good in narrowband. This area is IC 1318B (top) and NGC 6910(bottom right)

Taken with
AT65EDQ & QHY9M

3x20 minutes Ha(green)
4x20 minute OIII(blue)
4x20 minute SII(red)


NGC 6910 and IC1318 HST Palette by astrochuck, on Flickr

Object: NGC3918
FITS data obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA).
Processing by: Delio Tolivia Cadrecha
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M20: Trifid Nebula
http://www.azstarman.net
Copyright: Bernard Miller
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Milky Way in "Daylight"
http://www.miguelclaro.com/wp/wp-conten ... da-net.jpg
Copyright: Miguel Claro
[attachment=5]ViaLacteaScorpiusDaylight-net.jpg[/attachment]

Multiwavelength image of Abell 3135
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013MNRAS.432..243P
Credit and copyright: Siamak Dehghan, Luke Pratley, Melanie Johnston-Hollitt & Ming Sun (composition and processing); Australia Telescope Compact Array, Chandra (data)
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Moon, Venus and Mercury from Buenos Aires
http://www.luisargerich.com
Copyright: Luis Argerich
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LDN673: Dark Nebula in Aquila
http://www.astrobin.com/44752/
Copyright: Salvatore Spinoso
[attachment=1]Ldn673 - 26-24-23 - LRGB-Finito.jpg[/attachment]

Southern Rural Skies
Copyright: Jamie Pole
[attachment=0]Milky Way - East to West.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 3628
Copyright: Alessandro Falesiedi
[attachment=3]NGC 3628.jpg[/attachment]

Aurora Borealis & Mt Adams reflection
theartoftimelapse.com
Copyright: John Eklund
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ISS above Point Betsie
Copyright: Eric Hines
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Black hole naps amidst stellar chaos
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-198
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHU Marks on martian dunes may be tracks of dry-ice sleds
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-200
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona Triple planets
http://www.twanight.org
Copyright: Tunç Tezel
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iridiscence and suns

Star cluster NGC 3766
New kind of variable star discovered
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1326/
Credit: ESO
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IC343: Horsehead Nebula
http://ryanhannahoe.nmskies.com/?p=598
Copyright: Ryan Hannahoe and Salvatore Grasso Gamma Delphinids Meteor Shower
Copyright: Yuri Beletsky
[attachment=1]delphinids_lc.jpg[/attachment]

NGC 6217: Barred Spiral Galaxy in Ursa Minor
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen63/8617227292/
Copyright: Stephen Byrne IC 1295: Planetary nebula in Scutum
http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1317a/
Credit: ESO
[attachment=0]IC1295ESO.jpg[/attachment]

Black Hole Bonanza in Galaxy Next Door
http://www.chandra.harvard.edu/press/13 ... 61213.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chand ... nanza.html
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/R. Barnard, Z. Lee et al.; Optical: NOAO/AURA/NSF/REU Program/B. Schoening, V. Harvey and Descubre Foundation/CAHA/OAUV/DSA/V. Peris Arp 154 (NGC 1316)
http://www.waid-observatory.com/arp154- ... 1-HLA.html
Credit and copyright: Donald Waid (processing); Hubble Legacy Archive (data)

Here is my first post and photo on APOD
Taken in the australian outback with an amazing nightsky
http://500px.com/photo/37300270

M24 Star cloud ( http://www.nightsky.kr/xe/4407 )

Copy Right : Gwangwook Kim

Object: NGC6826
FITS data obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA).
Processing by: Delio Tolivia Cadrecha
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The Wall
http://www.facebook.com/astrofotografia
Copyright: Adam Jesionkiewicz
[attachment=0]wall.jpg[/attachment]
http://astropolis.pl/index.php?app=core ... h_id=97080

Larger version: http://astropolis.pl/index.php?app=core ... h_id=97079

Five hours of integration from Belo Horizonte, city centre, Brazil.
Regards,
Roberto

NGC 3766 in Centaurus

A bright pretty and crowded open star cluster. Through the eyepiece the stars looks like pearls and there comes it nickname. It was discovered by Abbe Lacaille in 1752 from South Africa. It is also a good binocular target even for light polluted skies. From a dark sky NGC 3766 can be glimpsed with naked eyes.

Recently astronomers at ESO in La Silla Observatory in Chile discovered a new type of variables stars with very small changes in its brightness.
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1326/
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=31575

The image was taken a few weeks ago 110 km north from Buenos Aires, Argentina
Astro Tech RC 8” f8 carbon fibre telescope, and a QSI 583 WS riding in a NEQ6 mount.

Higher resolution image in below link

http://www.baskies.com.ar/PHOTOS/NGC%20 ... B%20RC.htm

Best to all !!
Sergio

3605" (3600" chronometer), of ecuatorial. venus (and mercury). nd filters. detail 1582", mundos paralelos. venus and mercury. the background, Espagarralejo.

Copyright Michael Deger
http://www.galaxyphoto.de/ http://www.galaxyphoto.de/ic1396SIIHAOIII_I.htm

Copyright Michael Deger
http://www.galaxyphoto.de/ http://www.galaxyphoto.de/ic1396HASIIOIII_I.htm

Searching for exoplanets
The Danish 1.54 meter telescope hard at work at La Silla, Chile. It is looking for anomalous microlensing events towards the centre of the Milky Way. Such an event might indicate the presence of an exoplanet.
http://www.dianajuncher.dk/astrophoto
Copyright: Diana Juncher (High resolution: http://dianajuncher.dk/astrophoto/wp-co ... escope.jpg)


Star rain in the desert
Star trails over the Atacama desert in Chile. Snow covers the distant mountain tops, and soft clouds can be seen near the horizon to the left.
http://www.dianajuncher.dk/astrophoto
Copyright: Diana Juncher (High resolution: http://dianajuncher.dk/astrophoto/wp-co ... tacama.jpg)

M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy
Meade 10" ACF
Canon T3i
60 x 420 @ ISO1600 total 7 hours

Sergio / Israel

NGC 6726 in Corona Australis
http://www.pleiades.hu/en/kapcsolat.php
Copyright: Lorand Fenyes

Please click here to the HD version:
http://www.pleiades.hu/en/galeria/kozmo ... mal/53.jpg
http://www.pleiades.hu/en/galeria/kozmo ... mal/53.jpg

[attachment=0]lorand.jpg[/attachment]
http://www.pleiades.hu/kuka/apod/lorand ... gc6726.jpg

Rainbow over Bonn
Copyright: Gisela Walter
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Flare star WX UMa
http://www.agenciasinc.es/en/News/The-f ... -3-minutes
Credit: Casey Reed/NASA


A wide view of the center of the Milky Way
http://www.luisargerich.com
Copyright: Luis Argerich
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Hi! our moon is amazing!




Very big: http://www.astrobin.com/full/45188/0/?mod=none&real=