Starship Asterisk*

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You are welcome and encouraged to post pictures of this celestial linkup here!
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http://www.astroemporda.net
Copyright: Francesc Pruneda Agusti
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http://www.miguelclaro.com
Copyright: Miguel Claro
Related thread: PhysOrg: Planets to create a celestial chorus line

Related astronomy lectures:
Mercury, Mars, and Venus
Earth and Moon
Saturn and Neptune

Mirror Universe
http://www.jwestlake.com
Copyright: Jimmy Westlake Earlier tonight, I captured the spectacular gathering of the crescent Moon, Venus, Mars, and Saturn reflecting from the surface of a small pond near Toponas, Colorado. The stars of Leo and Virgo provided the backdrop while the lingering glow of sunset and moonlight illuminated the evening clouds over the distant mountains of the Flat Tops Wilderness. It was like standing at the edge of a mirror universe.
~ Jimmy Westlake

As far as aesthetics go, I quite enjoy Jimmy's photo. It's so quiet, serene, and simple.

Planet Triad in the Alps
Copyright: Stefan Seip
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Five Planets in a Row (One Up Close!)
Copyright: Luiza Whitaker
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Here I send a panorama photo of planetary alignment. The photos are taken during my trip to TUG (Turkish national Observatory). There are three telescopes here: The first one at the frontside contains a 60cm telescope and its name is T-60. At the left side you see a small white building. It's ROTSEIIId. ROTSE (Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment) III is a robotic telescope system and used for observing gamma ray bursts and x-ray bursts in visual wavelenght. There are 4 of them around the globe which can enable observing an event (like GRB) without an interruption.
Here you can see where they are.
http://www.rotse.net/information/world/
The third one at the far side has a telescope consist of 1m primary mirror. The observations by T-100 will be start in August.

Copyright: M. Raşid Tuğral

Raşid, thank you very much for posting your lovely image!

Planets and Araucarias
Copyright: Luiza Whitaker
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owlice wrote:Raşid, thank you very much for posting your lovely image!

Your welcome, thank you for your kindness!

Hi Owlice, thank you for posting two of my images!
Both photos, "5 planets in a row (one up close!)" and "Planets and Araucarias", were taken in Campos do Jordao, a winter resort on the hills, just over 100 miles northeast of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Since I live in Sao Paulo, the sierra is where I get the chance to enjoy beautiful skies. The region is nearly covered by araucaria pine trees, seen as symbols of the town. Campos do Jordao lies along an international air route, and on the second photo a series of faint, double dots can be seen between Mercury and the tree to the right, as an airplane blinked by during the 3.2" exposure.

Sunset planets from the summit of Mount Lawu, Java, Inodonesia
Copyright: Jia Hao

Planets and Moon at Mt. Kilimanjaro
http://www.twanight.org
Copyright: O Chul Kwon
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Yesterday's conjuction.

By the way the photos were taken from Mogan Lake in Ankara.