Starship Asterisk*

Copyright: Terry Hancock
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hi to all,
today 16th of June a bie solar eruption !
225 mm coronograph + 5A H-alpha filter
regards

Philippe TOSI

Tufas and the Milky Way
Copyrights: Brad Goldpaint Jupiter and Saturn in the next few years
Copyrights: Sverrir Gudmundsson
Background image: planetarium program Stellarium The Little Planet and the Moon
Copyrights: Lukas Weckfort NGC2547 OC and gripping star
Copyrights: Fényes Lóránd
Larger size: http://www.pleiades.hu/galeria/kozmosz2 ... mal/75.jpg Ancient Supernova SN185 (RCW86) in visible and IR light
Copyrights: Marco Lorenzi Sunrise in Kenya
Copyrights: Tunc Tezel IRIS - Sunrise II
Credits: Astroinnova Association
Larger version: http://www.stjornufraedi.is/media/namse ... 4-2025.jpg

Saturn on April 21st
Copyrights: Damian Peach Sun plane transit
Copyrights: Mario Ximenez Dead Horse Point at Night
Copyrights: Mike Taylor M65 and M66
Copyrights: Keith Quattrocchi Andromeda Galaxy: June 15 2014
Copyrights: Shailesh B. Trivedi NGC 4911
Copyrights: Oliver Czernetz A Monumental "Honey Moon"
Copyrights: Miguel Claro

AR2087 and intense activity on the edge of the solar limb
Copyrights: JP-Brahic

Circumpolar Southern Hemisphere



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Credit: Sergio Emilio Montúfar Codoñer

Comet C/2012 K1 PANSTARRS on June 14th, 01:07ut. A distant galaxy is also seen PGC 2082039. LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, ST402me, Astronomik LRGB filter set. Exp. L5min.,RGB3min.

Mars' 2014 retrograde colors, a look back to my images this apparition.
http://astromaphilli14.blogspot.com/201 ... -back.html
Copyright: Michael A. Phillips
http://i.imgur.com/SJ3FyMb.png

Thors Helmet.

NGC 2359 is a large emission nebula with a large giant hot Wof Rayet star driving the emissions and creating the shockwave with the surrounding molecular cloud.

Taken at my observatory in Kurrajong NSW Australia. This bicolour image (Ha and O111) shows the nebula in its intricasies.



Greg.

Messier 55 ( NGC 6809 ) "The Summer Rose Star". on June 14th, 05:50ut. A globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius.

Lynds Bright Nebula 406
LBN 406 is a molecular cloud in the constellation Draco. Several distant background galaxies can be seen on the large image version.
Copyright: Jeff Husted Click here to view larger image and image info: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cygnusloop/14421545622/
Website: http://www.crabnebula.us
Location: Grandview Campground, Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, California. June 2014.
Equipment: Televue NP127is at f4.1; Atik 383L+; Atlas EQ-G; TS OAG; Astrodon E Series LRGB filters.
Processing: Images Plus; Maxim DL; Registar; PS Elements; AIP4WIN.

whilst waiting for dark skies again , I decided to venture out with new canon 6D and try out some widefield stuff. This has wet my appetite to do more along side the deep sky CCD this winter! Taken at Seething Observatry UK on 1st June at 11.40 pm GMT

Sunspots at Sunrise
http://theartofnight.com
Copyright: Mark Gee

Sunspots over the Rimutakas by markg<<, on Flickr

Yoga By The Honey moon
http://theartofnight.com
Copyright: Mark Gee

Yoga By The Honey Moon by markg<<, on Flickr

We made a follow up short movie https://vimeo.com/98629249 to our previous longer version https://vimeo.com/98291257 , where we have put the Voyager 1 and our Voyager 3 sequences side by side.
We adapted both the inflight direction and the position of the Great Red Spot (GRS) so they would match and compare more easily.
The most noticeable difference is how much smaller the Great Red Spot has become in 35 years that separate the sequences.
The left sequence represents 28 earth days whilst our is taken over 90 days, 3 times longer.
That explains why our cloudbelts revolve 3 times faster to be in synch.
In fact, the rotation speed of our sequence has been accelerated more than 1 million times! That is what it takes to animate the surface of Jupiter.

For the team
/*Peter R

IC 405 The flaming Star Nebula

HaRGB technique it's not my favorite, but it's the only way to show this dramatic flaming view !!!
Ha (Ha+R)GB
Ha:80'(8x10') R:50'(10x5') G:50'(10x5') B:80'(16x5')
total exposure 260min Copyright: Theodore Arampatzoglou
http://arasteo.blogspot.gr/

Hello,

Here is an image taken on June 18, 2014 in Stoneham (Quebec, Canada) with a Canon 60D and a Tokina 11-16mm lens. It's a stack of 44x30 seconds sub-frames. In the lower portion of the image, you can see hundred of fireflies during mating season. You can also see startrails and the celestial equator.



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Copyrights: Stéphan Gaumont-Guay
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Yet another M101
http://www.deepskyobjects.com/
Copyright: Behyar Bakhshandeh

The Stars Above And The Fog Below
http://theartofnight.com
Copyright: Mark Gee


The Stars Above And The Fog Below by markg, on Flickr

Moor rise over the tree

Copyright : Seok Yeong Kim

moonset. 150% http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 50#p227997

día más grande
por noche más pequeña.
fuera, silencio

happy solstice!

Dissected Sun in H-Alpha, CaK and White light for the International SUN-day.
Copyright: Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez
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Dream that comes true

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan


*****

The small dome keeps the dream of anyone who loves the observational astronomy, a telescope which was commissioned in 1906 to the house known as Carl Zeiss Jena, Germany. The lovely Carl Zeiss comet hunter team which conducted Delavan observations of comets 1913. Has a 20cm refractor lens diameter and a focal length of 138 cm (f/6.9), with a rotary device that allows you to use 3 eye pieces alternately and an equatorial mount, the most beautiful part of this piece of art is a hand wheel chair really that is connected to the dome via a cable, allows the viewer to turn the dome without leaving its position.

Over 100 years ago Comets "Delavan" were discovered with this telescope

The comet hunter from Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas
Universidad Nacional de La Plata

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9 image panorama, had to work with some contrast of the sky due to light pollution, I had a lot of hard time to display some light coming from the milky way!

Sun yo-yo:

This is a animation with one year photos of the sunset taken near of my home, Cáceres-Spain, with a compact camera. Once each week I walked to the Sierrilla hill with my dogs and took one photo when the Sun just touched the horizon and registered the hour. As result I made one photo composition and animation where you can see how big is the amplitude of the sun movement between solstices: 70 degrees in azimut and 2 hours in time.

http://juanmiguelgp.fotografiaastronomi ... mpleto.gif

http://juanmiguelgp.fotografiaastronomi ... os2010.jpg

Solargraph taken from December 21st 2013 to June 21st 2014 (today) using a pinhole camera at the New Forest Observatory.
You can see the Sun's path across my southern horizon for the past 6-months together with the awful weather we've had.
You can also see the two New Forest Observatory domes, and the oval-shaped object in the middle foreground is the top of a Teak garden table.
Copyright Greg Parker 2014.
Higher resolution can be found here: https://flic.kr/p/nLxYFZ

Greg Parker