Starship Asterisk*

BETELGEUSE by David Duarte, sur Flickr

Dark shark in Cepheus by Jan Veleba, on Flickr

LRGB two panel mosaic consiting of L 150+180x300s, R 50+50x300s, G 41+50x300s, B 61+50x300s... 52,6 Hours total.

Taken with 102/714 APO with ASI1600MM Pro from my cottage.

A DIFFERENT WAY TO SEE THE STARS


***Equipment:***
Canon 6D
Rokinon 14mm 2.4
30 "single frame
ISO 1600

*** BEST DETAILS: ***
https://www.astrobin.com/full/5s08r2/B/?nc=user

PROCESSING:
Adobe Photoshop, PixInsight.
Pousada Campos Misticos
Munhoz - MG - Brazil
06/30/2019

Copyright: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
Email: barretosmed@hotmail.com

Paulee97 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:49 pm In the end of November 2019 we had an opportunity to see one beautiful date of Moon, Venus and Jupiter. This photos describe beautiful atmosphere we had in Prague.
Copyright: Pavel Váňa
Canon EOS 6D, Canon 70-200 mm f/4 L

Moon dating with Venus and Jupiter at Prague castle
apod2.jpg

Beautiful meeting in Prague
apod.jpg

Both your images are beautiful, but the top one looks like a dream vision. The Moon looks like a thin sliver without substance, a luminous crescent of light that has disentangled itself from its material moorings.

It's not only beautiful, it's magical.

Ann

Copyright: Asociacion Astronomica de Ocentejo.
Roseta by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

Spectra around Orion by Juan-Carlos Munoz-Mateos, on Flickr

Ann wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 6:09 am

Paulee97 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:49 pm In the end of November 2019 we had an opportunity to see one beautiful date of Moon, Venus and Jupiter. This photos describe beautiful atmosphere we had in Prague.
Copyright: Pavel Váňa
Canon EOS 6D, Canon 70-200 mm f/4 L

Moon dating with Venus and Jupiter at Prague castle
apod2.jpg

Beautiful meeting in Prague
apod.jpg

Both your images are beautiful, but the top one looks like a dream vision. The Moon looks like a thin sliver without substance, a luminous crescent of light that has disentangled itself from its material moorings.

It's not only beautiful, it's magical.

Ann

Thank you, Ann! Every time we are looking to the universe is like a dream, don't you think?

Paul

Seldom imaged as far as I can see....I had my own problems getting this image together:

SH2-284 Info @ http://www.kinchastro.com/sh2-284.html

NGC 7789, AN OPEN CLUSTER IN CASSIOPEIA

NGC 7789 is an open cluster found in the constellation Cassiopeia. The cluster was discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1783, and is estimated to be 6,000 light-years away. The exposure was a total of 4 hours exposure taken with a Takahashi CCA-250 f/5 astrograph with a QSI683wsg CCD camera (Astrodon Gen 2 filters) on a Paramount ME in Mayhill, NM on the nights of 22, 25 Oct. 2019 (4 X1200 sec @ -20 degrees C. lights though R, G, and B filters, respectively; 24 darks; 128 bias; 128 flats for R, G, and B, respectively). Processed with PixInsight 1.8.8-3 Ripley (X64) using the Weighted Batch Preprocessing Script. Deconvolution performed on a synthetic light.

Eagle Nebula M 16, photographed from Namibia
http://www.sternklar.ch/images-webpages ... ept-16.htm

M 16, photographed under the exceptional Kalahari Desert Sky in Namibia (Tivoli Southern Sky Guest Farm) with my Takahashi TOA 150 Apo Refractor (Sept 1, 2016).

Exposure data:
Takahashi TOA 150/1100 APO-Refractor @ f/5.6 (TOA 645 Reducer), SBIG STL-11000M and Exposure time of 165 minutes trough Baader RGB-Filters (1x1). Copyright: Manuel Jung, www.sternklar.ch

Space Station as it passes through the constellation Orion seen from El Paso, island of La Palma. On Friday, January 17 at about 19.39 hours we could see the Space Station (ISS) crossing the sky of La Palma from the Southwest to the Northeast. The image is composed of two photos to record two different strokes of the ISS. It is taken from the Visitor Center of the Caldera de Taburiente National Park. Photo taken with Alfa58 SLR camera, f / 2.8, 17mm, 15s exposure, 1000 Iso. A diffuser, tripod and trigger cable were used.

Last month's annular solar eclipse from Empty Quarter UAE.

ngc6888, the Crescent nebula in Cygnus



Astrophotography from light polluted skies is hard, but it can be made good by shooting hours and hours in a permanent observatory at home.

This image emerges from more than 76 hours total exposure time! I hope you enyoy it.

High resolution image and technical data: http://www.javierlaina.es/IMAGENES/ngc6888.html

Javier Gómez Laina (Spain)
http://www.javierlaina.es/indexeng.html

NGC2237 in Monoceros - Bicolor
Copyright Luigi Morrone

C14 Edge HD+Hyperstar f/1.9
Fornax52 mount
ASI 1600MMPRO
Baader Highspeed filter f/2: H-alpha & OIII

For High resolution see link below:
https://forum.astroimaging.it/download/ ... &mode=view

Agerola-Amalfitan Coast-Italy

Another Rendition of SH2-284
Full info @ http://www.kinchastro.com/sh2-284.html

Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), photographed from Namibia
http://www.sternklar.ch/images-webpages ... Jun-11.htm
SMC, photographed under the exceptional Kalahari Desert Sky in Namibia (Tivoli Southern Sky Guest Farm) with my Takahashi FSQ-106ED Apo Refractor (June 6, 2011).

Exposure data:
Takahashi FSQ-106ED f/5.0 @ f/3.65 (Reducer QE 0.73x), SBIG STL-11000M and Exposure time of 105 minutes total trough Baader RGB-Filters (1x1).
Copyright: Manuel Jung, www.sternklar.ch

This narrowband image renders the southeastern portion of the Large Magellanic Cloud’s supergiant shell LMC-4 in the Hubble Color Palette. Spanning 1583 lys on a side, the 32- by 32-arcmin field shows the frothy brownish (Ha, SII) superbubble NGC 2014, itself 650- by 325-lys in extent, that was blown by the massive stars of an OB-Association embedded within the bright nebula along its eastern edge. Wisps of blue trace OIII emission along its western edge. Roughly 100 lys to its east lies the reddish-blue Wolf-Rayet bubble, NGC 2020, whose bright oval-shaped inner ring spans 74 lys in its longest dimension. The bluish-white star-forming complex along the left edge of the frame encompasses NGC 2032, 2035 and 2040. The image was produced from 10-min exposures taken on November 24th and December 3rd by an FLI ProLine 16803 camera through SII, H-alpha and OIII filters at the Newtonian focus of Chilescope’s 0.5-m (f/3.8) Telescope 2. The data in each band were integrated for 1-hr. Processing was accomplished using CCDStack2 and Photoshop CC 2018. Additional 10-min exposures taken through broadband red, green and blue filters were used to produce naturally-colored stars, which were blended into the final image to replace its original falsely-colored stars. North is up, and East to the left.

Cristina Cellini
Italy

More than 30 cometary globules (CG) have been found in the Gum Nebula since the late 1970’s that generally have dense, dusty heads and long faint tails pointing away from the center of the Vela OB2 association. The intricate structure evident in this Ha-enhanced RGB image of CG4, which probably originated from ablation of a relatively opaque neutral cloud by the fierce winds and radiation fields from that association’s massive stars, render it as one of the most striking examples. The serendipitous appearance of the nearly edge-on background galaxy ESO 257 – G019 (PGC 21338) pointing to a tight circlet of stars about 9-arcmin above the center of the globule’s head adds to the drama of the image, as does the presence of the bright star-forming cloud Sa 101 beneath the globule’s tail. Located in Puppis approximately 1300 lys away, the head of CG4 spans nearly 2.9 lys at its greatest projected width on the sky, and the emerging tail is another roughly 8 lys in length. East is up and north is to the right on this image whose overall field-of-view spans approximately a square-degree, corresponding to 23.3 lys on a side. The data were obtained by an FLI Proline 16803 CCD camera on Chilescope’s 0.5-m Telescope 2 (f/3.8) on the nights of March 30th and April 26th 2019. Unbinned data were collected at the Newtonian focus through Red, Green, Blue and H-alpha filters during 10-min exposures, which were integrated to form mean band images by CCDStack2 for either 40- mins (Red) or 50-min for each of the other channels. Subsequent processing was accomplished using Adobe Photoshop CC 2018.

Lofoten Islands
Copyright: Álvaro Perez & Jose Manuel Pérez Alonso
website: www.scapenature.com



Full version: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/lp0mm58f83l8de ... a.jpg?dl=0

Horsehead Nebula LRGB,Ha. Taken from PixelSkies, Spain www.pixelskiesastro.com

Horsehead Neblua (Barnard 33)
https://www.pixelskiesastro.com/recent-images
Copyright: David Wills Lum 25x900Secs
Red 48x300Secs
Green 19x300Secs
Blue 20x300Secs
Ha 81x1200Secs


40 hours 35 mins in total.

Equipment used:

Telescope: Tec 140 F7

Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Mono Cooled to -10C

Image Scale: 0.95

Guiding: OAG

Filters: Astronomik LRGB, Ha

Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount

Image Acquisition: Voyager

Observatory control: Lunatico Dragonfly

Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight

Processing: Pixinsight 1.8

Messier 33
http://www.astrosurf.com/cucculelli/galaxie35.html



3 décembre 2019 - 5 janvier 2020
Instrument Télescope Astrographe UNC 254 mm f/4
Imageur Caméra CCD QSI 540WSG à -25°, guidage Atik GP
Exposition L 22x600 sec en bin 1x1 le 3:12:2019, RGB 8x300 sec en bin 1 x1 le 05:01:2020, Ha . 30:12:2019
Prétraitements 8 Dark /8 Flat/8 Offset
Traitements Prism 10, Photoshop CS3
Remarques Problème de flat

alex.

Constellation d'Orion by David Duarte, sur Flickr

Orion nebula and the runnig man, the most wonderful and bright nebula. This image was taken in Saint-Georges-de-Windsor Québec, Canada
-17 degrees good for sensor but not for the hands!

2 hours exposition (1600ISO) with modded canon 6D and 500 mm (f6.25) apochromatique skywatcher refractor process in Pixinsight and ps6.

Copyright:Raphaël Dubuc