Starship Asterisk*

Sh2-129 in Cepheus
Author and Copyright: Lorenzo Comolli ( http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/index2.htm )


Details and H-alpha mouse over: http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/d183.htm

The "Blood Moon" photographer

Canon EOS6D
Dörr Danubia 500mm f8
Manfrotto tripod

large version: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-V5i1 ... 4884_m.jpg
Or greatest: https://www.flickr.com/photos/125145602 ... otostream/
ISO6400
f16
500mm
1/250sec

Lunar eclipse there, but not everywhere. The Moon rise late this night. We planned one "foregroundphoto", but cannot come out in this place yesterday.
After the sunset, i sent my friend on the top of one large hill and i wait for the moment... and fight agasint the mosquitoes.

Rafael Schmall
Hungary, Somogy, Lipótfa
http://rafeeen1.tumblr.com/

October 8th, 2014. Patchy cloud comes and goes throughout the night. But by morning, it has cleared away.
This is my view of the Total Lunar Eclipse, looking south from Lake Carlos State Park, Alexandria Minnesota.
The composite multi-frame panorama was captured at around 5:30am CST this morning in a wonderfully clear Midwest autumn sky.
In the darkness of totality, the moon is a deep rust colour. The Milky Way shines through, as do constellations like Orion, Sirius, Gemini, and others.
Rising in the east, Jupiter challenges for brightest object in the sky, but noticeably, Jupiter rises within a wedge of Zodiacal Light, all visible during totality.
A morning to remember.
Malcolm Park

Lunar Eclipse, Oct 8 2014 with Uranus
Image captured at Lake Carlos State Park, near Alexandria Minnesota.
Malcolm Park

Total Lunar Eclipse


Copyright: Hung-Hsuan Yen
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Aurora, Airglow and Gravity Waves, oh and Magellanic Clouds with the Milky Way.
In Bluff:

Sparkly Stuff!! by Mikey Mack, on Flickr

And in Alexandra, Butchers Dam:
Butchers Gully by Mikey Mack, on Flickr

The colors in the shadow
Copyright: Petr Horálek More info and the image in higher dimension: http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?p=972

Message from Andromeda by Stavros Hios, on Flickr

Comet C/2013 A1 SIDING SPRING on October 8th, 23:23ut.A quick take on LRGB of the comet (fast mover). Here the comet is passing through the back drop (within) of M6 "The Butterfly Cluster" The bright star top left is BM SCO or HD160371.

Lunar Eclipse
Copyright: Brett Boller
https://www.flickr.com/photos/68687246@N07/15301088459/

Comet C/2013 A1 SIDING SPRING on October 8th, 23:15ut. Here the comet is passing through the back drop (within) of M6 "The Butterfly Cluster" The bright star top left is BM SCO or HD160371.

Omicron Persei area
(Takahashi FSQ 106 EDX @f/3,6 - Sbig STL11K - LRGB 41:14:14:14x360sec - Forca Canapine, Italy)
*** more resolution here: http://bit.ly/omicron-persei
Copyright: Gianni Fardelli

Family Stargazing
Copyrights: P-M Hedén APOLLO XVII
Copyrights: Dani Caxete A neighbouring Dwarf Galaxy
Copyrights: Louie NGC6888 Crescent Nebula
Copyrights: Philippe Durville Uranus images
Copyrights: Anthony Wesley Gibbous Moon, Oct 4 2014
Copyrights: Ron Brecher The Sun and the vulture
Copyrights: Leonardo D. Ariza Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070)
Copyrights: Richard Hammar A Colorful Bubble (top) and a Hubble Bubble (bottom)
Copyrights: Terry Hancock Sunrise from the plane
Copyrights: Abhishek Manjrekar NGC-253 Sculptor Spiral Galaxy
Copyrights: John Chumack

Reflection Nebula and Star Cluster in Cepheus side by side, a tricky one to process. Got lots of data, 400 mins Luminance , 150 mins R, G and Blue.
Larger file here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shaun_rey ... /lightbox/

full size here, www.shaunreynoldsastro.com

Earth's Shadow

Copyright: Paul Haese

Click here for larger image

Uranus and Lunar Eclipse 8 October 2014
http://www.ancientstarlight.com
Copyright: Drew Sullivan A page with more details is here:

http://www.ancientstarlight.com/Luna-Ec ... ranus.html

There is also a video of the Lunar Eclipse here:

http://www.ancientstarlight.com/Luna-Ec ... 10-08.html

Regards, Drew Sullivan

Broken Cosmic Egg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tonypysm/
Copyright: Tony Pan

Orbital Resonance 1-2-4

I filmed the movement of Jupiter's moons (1:09 am - 4:34 am UTC). Io (exiting the disk), Europa (right) and Ganymede (left). Took 66 videos in 60GiB video data, stacked the individual videos as frames and then overlayed these frames to get this picture. To my surprise not only the moons' orbits showed up but also the resonance. Part of Ganymede's tail is missing due to bad framing and part of Io's trail is in front of the planet's disk. Anyway, it is clear that Io leaves the loongest tail, Europa about half and Ganymede half of Europa's. North is up, East is left. The GRS is also visible.

URL (text in Hungarian): http://csillagtura.ro/az-io-vonulasa/
Copyright: Pál VÁRADI NAGY Used a SW 150/750 newton telescope on an EQ3 mount with a webcam attached to my laptop.

I composed the frames making up the picture shown above as an animgif timelapse video. The GIF is huge (~2.6 MiB) so mobile users: careful. http://csillagtura.ro/wp-content/upload ... nimgif.gif

On 8th Oct. when the Lunar eclipse occurred, the night is darken enough, and the splendid milky way appeared clearly! It is the only way on the ground to see bright milky way at full moon. I made a panoramic photograph with this scenery. At the top of Mountain Ling around Bejing, the haze and mist are under the foot and coloured by city light. Also plenty of green airglow was showing up to make this view more spectacular. However, the site inside this time zone may be the only place to see the Milky Way and Lunar Eclipse at the same time. If we go west, total eclipse will done at the end of astronomical twilight. And if we move eastward, the milky way will be too low above the horizon.

Rolando Ligustri wrote:Beautiful new meeting of this sky's gypsy , waiting for her maximum approach to the god of war: Mars. Photo here on 9 October when he was 'above' the open storage M6

link for high res, http://www.astrobin.com/full/126939/0/

NGC 7497 and Molekular Clouds MBM 54 (Integrated Flux Nebulae)
Link for High Resolution: http://astrofotografie-hess.heimat.eu/g ... gc7497.htm
Copyright: Rochus Hess

Telescope:8" Newton f4 with Pal Guylay Corrector
Camera: Moravian G2 8300FW with LRGB Filters
Mount: G53f
Exposure time: 23 x 15 min Luminance, RGB 7 x 20 min each
Location: Trattberg and Großglockner (Austria)

Sadr and the Crescent at 200mm
http://www.nightoverontario.com/Astrono ... &lb=1&s=X3

Messier 20
Copyright: Stefan Westphal

Larger Version and data: http://www.astrobin.com/114726/

47Tucane - NGC 104
Copyright: Stefan Westphal

Larger Verion and Data: http://www.astrobin.com/124887/