Starship Asterisk*

Omega Centauri - NGC 5139

Copyright: Stefan Westphal

large image and data are here: http://www.astrobin.com/115194/

The Corona Australis Complex - NGC 6729

copyright: Stefan Westphal

larger version is here: http://www.astrobin.com/120666/B/

M20
Copyrights: Francesco Antonucci and Roberto Colombari
Full size: http://www.astrobin.com/139885/B/ M8: The Lagoon Nebula
Credits and Copyrights: Data from Spitzer Space Telescope; Image assembly and processing Robert Gendler
Full size: http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/M8-Spitzer.html M31, The Andromeda Galaxy
Credits and copyrights: Data from Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), NOAO, The Spitzer Space Telescope (JPL); Image Assembly and Processing : Robert Gendler
Full size: http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/M31-Spitzer.html http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34224

Constellations
Credits and Copyrights: Dennis Asfour and Lucas Ferreira Astronomers Identify Gas Spirals as a Nursery of Twin Stars through ALMA Observation
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Takakuwa et al.
An article: http://alma.mtk.nao.ac.jp/e/news/pressr ... ation.html http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34199

Fireball
Copyrights: Jack Fusco IC1795 the Fishhead Nebula
Copyrights: Bill Snyder Cassiopeia, The Queen
Copyrights: Jerry Lodriguss

NGC7635 - Bubble Nebula
Copyrights: Álvaro Ibáñez
Full size (black & white): https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3948/153 ... bcd0_o.jpg Geminids over Great Wall of China
Copyrights: Steed Yu & NightChina.net IC1396
Copyrights: Bruce Bartle NGC 2207 and IC 2163: Galactic Get-Together has Impressive Light Display
Image credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/S.Mineo et al, Optical: NASA/STScI, Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech
An article: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/ngc2207/ http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34218

Rotating Sky above Sydney
Copyrights: Ajay Talwar Jupiter, Ganymede and Io
Copyrights: Andrea Vanoni The Trapezium Cluster and Surrounding Nebulae
Copyrights: László Francsics

Aqueous Moon
Copyrights: Manolo Rodríguez The Soul Nebula
Copyrights: Ron Brecher Swarms of Pluto-Size Objects Kick Up Dust around Adolescent Sun-Like Star (artist impression)
Image credit: A. Angelich (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
An article: https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressrelea ... pluto-alma http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=34219

Mars - opposition 2014
Copyrights: Stefano Quaresima Langrenus - 2014/10/10
Copyrights: Stefano Quaresima Jupiter-like sunset
Copyrights: Robert Kaffan Jupiter by the Mushroom
Copyrights: Luis Argerich

Geminid Meteor Shower
Copyrights: Petra de Ruyter Sky Full of Fish Scales
Copyrights: Warren Anderson Eagle & Swan - A Widefield Mosaic
Copyrights: Oliver Czernetz Clouds
Copyrights: Denny and Tracy Haver

ROSETTA WIELDFIELD
http://www.skyandphoto.com
http://www.cieloyfoto.es
Copyright: Rafael Rodríguez Morales
BIG PHOTO http://www.skyandphoto.com/Photography/ ... WCGRmgG/X3

On December 13th and 14th the annual Geminid Meteor shower peaked.
There was a last quarter moon rising at 11:30pm so plenty of time to observe meteors.
Here's one of them, with Gemini upper right.
Malcolm Park

M42, the great Orion Nebula in HST palette
http://bastienfoucher.smugmug.com/
Copyright: Bastien Foucher Full sized picture is here : http://bastienfoucher.smugmug.com/Astro ... nale15.jpg

Aurora over Alaska
by Reinhold Wittich
http://www.wittich.com

Copyright: Vladimir Rau
http://www.ried-sternwarte.de/index.html

larger version: http://ried-sternwarte.de/gallery/M13ccd.jpg

Copyright: Vladimir Rau
http://www.ried-sternwarte.de/index.html

larger version: http://ried-sternwarte.de/gallery/IC5070.jpg in hubble palette
larger version: http://ried-sternwarte.de/gallery/IC5070-hst.jpg

Copyright: Vladimir Rau
http://www.ried-sternwarte.de/index.html

larger version: http://ried-sternwarte.de/gallery/NGC7822.jpg in hubble palette
larger version: http://ried-sternwarte.de/gallery/NGC7822HST.jpg

Geminid Meteor Shower 2014
https://flic.kr/p/qnpPi9
Copyright: Marion Haligowski

Geminid Meteor Shower 2014 by Radical Retinoscopy, on Flickr

A bright Geminid meteor was captured just to the west of Orion in this twenty second exposure.

blue in the evening

Tadpoles of IC410, a LHa-RHaGB/LHa-RGB picture, total exposure time=4.32hours, picture size 66%
http://www.astro-hp.dk
http://www.astro-billeder.dk
Copyright: Niels V. Christensen A LHa-RGB Picture Color variant

Today I want to submit my latest Solargraph! This solar graph is 6 months worth of the suns movement over the jersey shore. As captured through a Do It Yourself pinhole camera! Hope you all enjoy

The sky in the Ground and the Ground in the Sky

Two image composition. The image of the sky was facing south, the image of the ground was facing east. So I was not able to get good sky while I was in the plane returning home, but the ground was lighted by the moon, blending the image I took from the ground in the airplane with a sky picture I took while back I was able the get a ISS look from the earth.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/m_acubens/
http://500px.com/acubens
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Moonlight

Earth as seeing from my window. I spend a lot of time doing some Astrophotos and Earth pictures while traveling back home, I just love to see how moonlight paints the nightscape seeing from an airplane.


Sergio Montúfar
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The night of the shower peak was behind clouds but the evening after, on 14th December I had a chance of some meteor hunting. Although the circumstances were very far from being good, high humidity, shallow fog and also some clouds were present, still I had 3 hours of Geminids with lots of beautiful bright meteors. The most beautiful was a green, -6 mag. bright fireball.
I created a composite of the Geminids that fell into my field of view.
The bigger size of the pic is here: http://kepfeltoltes.hu/141215/1214_gemi ... es.hu_.jpg
Photoes taken with Nikon D5100, Tokina 11-16 lens @ 11mm, near my hometown, Veszprem, Hungary

Geminids 2014
http://NightChina.net
Copyright: Steed Yu & NightChina One night Before the Maximum of the Geminids, I captured more than 20 meteors in 140 minutes. What a great meteor shower!

Photo details: Camera Model: Canon EOS 6D;Focal Length: 24mm; Aperture: f/1.8; Exposure Time: 15 s for each shot; ISO: 8000, more than 20 exposure are stacked.

Huaer tai, Fangshan district, Beijing, China.

Geminid meteor shower
Copyrights: Majid Ghohroodi Full Moon
Copyrights: Arnab Seth Geminid meteor shower
Copyrights: Jeff Dai Geminid fireball over Mount Balang
Copyrights: Alvin Wu Geminid Meteor Shower Mosaic 2014
Copyrights: Gabriel Funes Geminids meteor shower
Copyrights: Richard G. Sands Geminid Meteors over Ice Lake
Copyrights: Wang Letian Geminid Meteor Shower as seen from Joshua Tree National Park
Copyrights: Justin Carrasquillo Moonset and Milky Way arching out from Aoraki Mount Cook
Copyrights: Mike Mackinven Geminids meteor on YULONG Jokul , YUNAN, CHINA
Copyrights: Luocheng

Geminidi 2014
http://www.dariogiannobile.com
Copyright: Dario Giannobile 12/12/2014 Alignment between The Moon, Regulus, Jupiter and a Gemindi.

Dario G.

Geminid meteors captured over two nights from central Victoria, Australia, Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th December 2014.



Canon 6D and 24mm lens. Background image is 30 secs @f2.8, ISO3200. Meteors captured in individual frames of 2-3 secs, @f1.4, ISO6400. I rolled nearly 9000 of these very short images over two nights from two different locations to capture these few meteors. This composite places each meteor in its correct position relative to the stars and constellations so you can see the position of the radiant in the constellation Gemini at the bottom of the frame with Orion in the centre.

One long earth-grazing meteor on the right hand side lasted through three exposures, with short gaps in the trails between the rapid exposures.

http://philhart.smugmug.com/CometsAndMe ... /i-JTcxX5m

Phil

Eyelashes of the mountain.
Crepuscular rays at sunset.
Chipinque, San Pedro NL Mexico.
Copyright: César Cantú
http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... ategory/15