Starship Asterisk*

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Star trails over TUG (Turkish National Observatory)
http://gaf.gokyuzu.org/img/2010-07-20.jpg
Copyright: M. Raşid Tuğral
[attachment=2]TUG_2010-07-20.jpg[/attachment][/i]

NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula
http://www.astrofoto.it
Copyright: Marco Bastoni and Filippo Barbieri
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How Galileo Saw Saturn
http://fototek.geol.u-psud.fr/Saturn-an ... ml?lang=en
Copyright: Chiara Marmo - Photothèque Planétaire d’Orsay For the 400th anniversary of Galileo's observations of Saturn, we prepared a simulation of what he must have seen through his telescope, including the effects of diffraction and atmospheric turbulence. It appeared in a PBS Documentary produced by Brooklapping a few months ago (http://www.brooklapping.com/news.php?id=952). This is one of the still images used to produce the video. ~ Chiara Marmo
NGC6441 and G Scorpi
http://www.schursastrophotography.com/x ... c6441.html
Copyright: Chris Schur There are few pairs of deep sky objects in the sky as dramatic as this one, a distant dust yellowed globular cluster combined with a brilliant orange star side by side. This has been one of my favorites to shoot for years, and I believe this image portrays it the best so far. Located in a dense stellar Milky Way field just off the tail of Scorpius, this pair makes a fine telescopic target for medium sized telescopes. The Globular cluster on the left is NGC6441, a bright 7.2 magnitude object spanning 10 arc minutes in size. It is barely resolved here, the outermost stars can be seen in the largest image as a sprinkling of dim yellow stars. Dust from our galaxy has blotted out nearly all of the blue stars here. Most stars in this object are 16th magnitude, making resolution into stars beyond the range of most small telescopes.
The brilliant K0 type orange star just to the right of the globular is 3.2 magnitude G scorpii, creating a brilliant companion object.
~ Chris Schur


Milky Way over Bryce Canyon
http://www.launchphotography.com/Milky_ ... norama.jpg
Copyright: Ben Cooper IC1318A
http://www.massimotosco.it/IC1318A.htm
Copyright: Massimo Tosco IC4812 in Corona Australis
http://www.backyardskies.com/BackyardSkies/IC4812.html
Credit: capturing: Gary Beal (New Zealand); post-processing and copyright: Emanuele Colognato (Italy) <- Previous submissions

Glowing Moon
Copyright: Brendan Alexander
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NGC 281: The Pacman Nebula
http://www.marius.fotografiaastronomica.com
Copyright: Marius Duran
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Ancient Light over Ancient Rocks
http://www.earthandskyphoto.com/importe ... -rock.html
Copyright: Jeff Ball

Wow! That Moon image is stunning! Positively otherworldly! (And it is otherworldly too, of course, but you know what I mean...)

And the Milky Way and Bryce Canyon image ain't bad, either!

Ann

Hi to all:
The circumpolar ones always I have liked, the Earth turns on itself and leaves us, thanks to the photographic memory, the best evidence of distant stars that leave their trails like a perpetual signature.
The Iris, is like a moon between clouds and the Marius's Pacman, in narrow band, emphasizes colorful a very attractiveness.
Many greetings
Cesar

Eta Carina
http://www.starrysite.com/pliki/galeria ... koniec.jpg
Copyright: Bodgan Jarzyna

M16: The Pillars of Creation
Copyright: Paulo Lobao
[attachment=0]M16 - The Pilars of Creation.jpg[/attachment][/i]

NGC 7000
http://www.pbase.com/dsantiago/image/126331929
Copyright: Derek Santiago

Steinberg Milky Way
http://www.nuitsacrees.fr/
Copyright: Stephane Vetter
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Star Trails over Thorns
http://gaf.gokyuzu.org/fotogonder/data/ ... railss.jpg
Copyright: M. Raşid Tuğral

Nebulae near the Southern Cross
http://astrosurf.com/emilio/
Image acquisition: Ovidio García; image processing: Emilio Rivero
[attachment=0]prueba_final_12x3.jpg[/attachment][/i]

Milky Way at Glacier Point in Yosemite
http://www.spacelapse.net
Copyright: Pascal Christian
[attachment=0]The Milkyway_Christian.jpg[/attachment][/i]

Crescent Moon
http://www.makolkin.ru/Gallery/gallery.html
Copyright: Dmitry Makolkin
[attachment=0]Moon_100217_TAL-250K_DMK31_dvmak_003f-a.jpg[/attachment][/i]

Venus near M44 in Cancer over Spitzkoppe (Namib Desert)
http://aida.astroinfo.org/displayimage.php?pos=-4894
Copyright: Michael Steffen

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IC 5070: Pelican Nebula in Cygnus
Copyright: John Gordon
[attachment=0]IC5070_John-Gordon.jpg[/attachment][/i]

ISS over Twin Lake Village, New London, NH
http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_p ... ation.html
Copyright: Alan Friedman

Shooting Stars at Bryce Canyon
http://www.LaunchPhotography.com
Copyright: Ben Cooper
[attachment=0]cooper_Bryce_2.jpg[/attachment][/i]

The Eta Carina image is very impresive, Waaauu. Congrats Bodgan.

Regards
Marius

IC1318: The Butterfly Nebula
http://www.astrosurf.com/astrojb
Copyright: Jean-Baptiste Gordien
[attachment=0]ic1318-ha-siihaoiii-ete2010.jpg[/attachment][/i]

Thank`s Marius,

Night Landscape in Bachs, Switzerland
http://www.kplan.ch/content/DSC_4488_45 ... large.html
Copyright: David Kaplan

Barnard 150 Nebula in Cepheus
http://www.massimotosco.it/B150.htm
Copyright: Massimo Tosco

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owlice wrote:M16: The Pillars of Creation
Copyright: Paulo Lobao
[attachment=0]M16 - The Pilars of Creation.jpg[/attachment][/i]

Hello,

I'm the newest member of the forum .
I'm from Portugal and I live at Matosinhos a well LP city . I made some photos here but my best place it is in the countryside where my parents live .
I'm 45 years old and I allways have great interest in astronomy! But I only start making pictures with the arriving of comet Holmes in late 2007! Since then, I made lots of pictures and I spend lot of time learning all I can about astrophotography (which for me is at least half the fun). My main interest is photometry and astrometry (I have MPC observatory codes J11 and J15). Last 11th of July I captured my first 20.0 mag asteroid (2007 HJ96) and after sending the MPC report they corrected the asteroid orbit which made me proud for my insignificant contribution for science . (I don't know where to describe these things here, I mean astrometry stuff! Is any specific discussium forum for astrometry? Is of any interest?)
Ok I'm off-topic now...about the Pilars: I made this composition with 120 min of each SII, Ha and OIII. I used my Takahashi FS102NSV @ f/6.2 and a QSI532WS grade 1 @ -20ºC and Baader NB filters. My mount was an ATLAS EQmod guided with a small Tak FS60C @ f/6.2 + QHY5.
I have more 3 versions of it that I can share but first I need to read the Forum rules (since I don't know if I can do it or not and where!).

I hope to learn a lot here and contribute in any way with my humble opinions and photos.

Cheers from portugal,
paulo

Welcome aboard the Starship Asterisk*, Paulo. Nice pic!