Starship Asterisk*

__________________________________________________________________________________________________

Please post your images here.

Please see this thread before posting images; posting images demonstrates your agreement with
the possible uses for your image.

If hotlinking to an image, please ensure it is under 400K.
Hotlinks to images over 400K slow down the thread too much and will be disabled.

Thank you!

_________________________________________________________________________________________________

<- Previous submissions


[c]«« Discuss Anything in Astronomy «» Visit The Asterisk Main Page «» See Introductory Astonomy Lectures »»
«« Introduce Yourself «» Please Read the Rules »»[/c]

NGC7380 - The Wizard Nebula - HST http://www.kinchastro.com/latest-images.html

Bicolor image with RGB stars.
Authors: Jens Zippel, Frank Iwaszkiewicz

Sharpless 2-129 is a faint emission nebula in Cepheus. Outters 4, the green nebula inside Sharpless 129, was discovered by Nicolas Outters in August 2011. The challenge in processing was to use short focal length data of a Takahashi FSQ85 telescope and 1000mm images of an f4 newtonian. The squid even not fitted the camera chip of the newtonian (who delivered half of the [OIII] exposures), so I had to create a mosaic of it first, before I could combine them with mine. Star colors are from additional short RGB exposures.

Sh2-128 and Outters 4
Exposures: from July to August 2016
Ha: 20 x 1200 Sec., OIII: 37 x 1800 Sec., RGB 12 x 420 Sec., Sum: 26,0 hrs.
Telescopes: Takahashi FSQ85, ONTC 10" F4 Newton
Cameras: Atik 460 Exm, Atik 383L+
Mounts: EQ8, Celestron CGE GPS
Locations: Bremen and Eggerdorf near Berlin

[url]http://www.spaceimag...tters-4-bicolor[/url]
http://www.deep-sky-astroteam.de

Ngc7000 in SHO.



image in full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/262036/B/?real=&mod=

Image details:
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106EDX3
Filters: Astrodon Gen2 E-Series OIII 3nm,SII 3nm & HA 3nm
Camera: Moravian G3-16200
Mont: EQ8

Integration: -SII = 49 x 600s
-OIII= 62 x 600s
-HA= 129 x 600s
Total: 40H

Location: France
Author: OLIVIER Romain

Deepsky searching puzzle
http://www.far-light-photography.at
Copyright: Arno Rottal
Look at the full resolution image!
http://www.astrobin.com/full/262375/0/?real=&mod=

Deepsky searching puzzle
30x120sec, iso1600 at f2.8
Sigma Art 35mm 1.4 with Canon EOS 6D

Deneb region
http://www.astromarcin.pl
Copyright: Marcin Paciorek

Canon set+SkyTracker Better res: http://astromarcin.pl/images/wide/cygnu ... 6_2000.jpg

The Missing Observers 2
http://www.dariogiannobile.com
Copyright: Dario Giannobile The Missing Observers 2

Once the courtyards of our farmhouses were places where people met and talked about the strenuous day of work in the fields. May be they stayed sit looking at the clear and dark sky. Nowadays these places are abandoned and no one is looking at the sky any more. That's the reason why the chairs are empty and the mirror reflects the sky that the missing observers would have looked at. A hoe remembers the farming vocation of such places while the prickly pears on the chair represent the island where I live and the period (summer) when this sky has been captured. Light painting creates a surreal mood for a sky that can be seen but is not observed at the same time.

A personal new way to approach the landscape astrophotography where the photographer tries to compose the scene in almost a pictoric way.

Dario Giannobile

Northamerica and Pelicannebula under dark sky
http://www.far-light-photography.at
Copyright: Arno Rottal
Northamerica and Pelicannebula under dark sky

done at 1800m at Emberger Alm in Austria.

ONLY 12x300sec with ISO1600.
Tamron 70-200 f2,8 at 200mm and f5 with Canon EOS550Da.

full resolution can be found here:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/262270/0/

This is something neither Tom O'Donoghue nor I had seen before. It is extremely faint and needed 24 Hrs of Ha to reveal the full 'Breaking Wave' feature seen here. This was blended with LRGB for a total of 51.5 hours. As the feature began to reveal itself we did saveral shifts in the framing to cover it. The project began with a simple capture of IC59 and 63 but turned into a voyage of discovery...



Taken at Les Granges in SE France by Olly Penrice and Tom O'DOnoghue using a dual Takashi FSQ106N setup with Atik 11000 and SXVH36 monochrome CCD cameras on a Mesu 200 mount.

855x960: https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Best-o ... PEG-X2.jpg

2500x2806: https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Best-o ... 20JPEG.jpg

Olly Penrice and Tom O'Donoghue.

ollypenrice wrote:This is something neither Tom O'Donoghue nor I had seen before. It is extremely faint and needed 24 Hrs of Ha to reveal the full 'Breaking Wave' feature seen here. This was blended with LRGB for a total of 51.5 hours. As the feature began to reveal itself we did saveral shifts in the framing to cover it. The project began with a simple capture of IC59 and 63 but turned into a voyage of discovery...



Taken at Les Granges in SE France by Olly Penrice and Tom O'DOnoghue using a dual Takashi FSQ106N setup with Atik 11000 and SXVH36 monochrome CCD cameras on a Mesu 200 mount.

855x960: https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Best-o ... PEG-X2.jpg

2500x2806: https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Best-o ... 20JPEG.jpg

Olly Penrice and Tom O'Donoghue.

I love it!

Because I am a diehard fan of stars that are not only blue but intrinsically bright as well, Gamma Cas is obviously a favorite of mine. And because of my love of Gamma Cas, I pay rather close attention to any picture of this star, as well as any portraits of its accompanying nebulas, IC 59 and IC 63. I can say without a doubt that I have never seen what you reveal in your picture.
Although the power of Gamma Cas is many orders of magnitudes weaker than the full blast of cluster NGC 602 in the Small Magellanic Cloud, I think I can see some similarities in the shapes of the surrounding nebulas. In both cases, the stars have carved out a cavity, and the ionized and glowing gases hanging down like a lip or a curtain.

Olly and Tom, your image is brilliant, that's all I can say!

Ann

"Strings of complication and the lost balloon." By Paul C Swift

http://moonrocksastro.com/

Strings of complication and the lost balloon. by Paul C. Swift, on Flickr

Saturn, Ares und Antares infront of the southern Milkyway
http://www.far-light-photography.at
Copyright: Arno Rottal
Saturn, Ares und Antares infront of the southern Milkyway
8x120sec, ISO800, f5
Canon EF 24-70mm L + 6D
Star Adventurer

Shot at 1800m at Sattelegger/Emberger Alm in Austria

For full Resolution:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/262445/0/?real=&mod=

sundog

Messier 27, the dumbbell nebula, captured using a remote 331mm telescope in Nerpio in Spain. 125 min luminiscence, 160 min RGB bin2 for natural colour, and 350 min narrowband H-alpha, SII and OIII mixed in for contrast.

M27-T18-25x300-lum-32x300s-RGB-70x300s-HSO by Michael Hultström, on Flickr

Saturn at sunset
http://maphilli14.webs.com/
Copyright: Michael A. Phillips http://i.imgur.com/Duh8VWP.png

IC1805
2 panels mosaic, Ha, O3 bicolor.

Pelican, North American, and Sh2-119

copyright Dave Erickson
http://www.hbastro.com

larger version: http://www.astrobin.com/full/262596/0/

Conjunction Venus - Jupiter
Copyrights: Diana Bodea Extreme Deep Field NGC6951 aka 6952
Copyrights: Fabiomassimo Castelluzzo Jupiter, Venus and Mercury
Copyrights: Alex Cherney Jupiter and Venus conjunction over Madrid
Copyrights: Javier Martinez Moran Mars (June 16th.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach The Cygnus Wall
Copyrights: Oliver Huth Western Veil Nebula
Copyrights: John Vermette Milky Way
Copyrights: Vladimir Sulim Bavarian Milky Way
Copyrights: Peter Maier Thunderbolts with Mars, Saturn and Antares
Copyrights: Jens Bydal Venus and Jupiter rendezvous over Vigo Estuary
Copyrights: Pablo Martinez Alemparte Mars & Rho Ophiuchi - Aug 26, 2016
Copyrights: Sebastian Voltmer The Sun on 28th August
Copyrights: Juan M Palomo Venus-Jupiter view from Vallejo, CA
Copyrights: Jennifer Goheen IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk
Copyrights: Valts Treibergs Travelling Andromeda
Copyrights: Dani Caxete Venus & Jupiter Conjunction
Copyrights: Fernando Rey Quantum Satellite: A conversation between sky and ground-(NAOC)
Copyrights: Zhang Chao Dusty NGC 7822
Copyrights: Steve Cannistra

IC1805
2 panels mosaic, Ha, O3 bicolor.

Jupiter Venus kiss conjunction
Copyrights: Amrit Seecharan Venus/Jupiter Conjunction
Copyrights: Bill Basham
Full size: http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/ ... 92394.jpeg NGC7640
Copyrights: Ian G Milky Way above Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland
Copyrights: Lauren Castellana Milky Way and Summer Triangle
Copyrights: Pooyan Sedigh Star trails over Mount Damavand
Copyrights: Pooyan Sedigh Supergiant Star Gamma Cygni - Central Cygnus
Copyrights: Leonardo Orazi Night sky from Oulu, Finland
Copyrights: Jaakko Asikainen Northern Lights
Copyrights: Bittor Zabalegui Guerricagoitia LDN 1251, Anglerfish Nebula
Copyrights: Maurice Toet The Aurora in the stratosphere
Copyrights: Ziyi Ye Omega Nebula panorama
Copyrights: José J. Chambó IC5070
Copyrights: Hans Heiser Record-breaking Galaxy Cluster Discovered
Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Université Paris/T.Wang et al; Infrared: ESO/UltraVISTA; Radio: ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/ALMA
An article: http://chandra.si.edu/press/16_releases ... 83016.html http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36315

Light pollution comparison in two place in Iran
Copyrights: Amir Shahcheraghian NGC 6914
Copyrights: Robert Fields Saturn (June 16th)
Copyrights: Damian Peach IC1396
Copyrights: Alvaro Ibáñez Pérez, Maritxu poyal and Jesus M. Vargas Corona over lake
Copyrights: Mia Stålnacke Swan shaped aurora flies by
Copyrights: Mia Stålnacke

Past and present
Copyrights; Alejandro Sanz Stargazing during a thunderstorm
Copyrights: Jim Bessette Milky Way and LMC from SW Victoria at Morgiana
Copyrights: Gill Fry Dwarf Spheroidal Companions to M31
Copyrights: Jerry Lodriguss ISS Panorama
Copyrights: Benjamin Ohnmacht The Pleiades
Copyrights: Eugene den Ouden More Dust- the Cocoon Widefield
Copyrights: Steve Cannistra Milky Way over neaby of Lake Wivenhoe, QLD, Australia
Copyrights: Josh Calcino NGC 3576 - 'Statue of Liberty' Nebula
Copyrights: Don Goldman Milky Way over Skyros island, Greece
Copyrights: Yannis Larios Perseus Constellation
Copyrights: José Luis Hdez Verdejo Star Trails
Copyrights: James Corsale VdB141 - A ghost nebula
Copyrights: R. Colombari / E. Recurt IC 59 + 63 Gamma Cassiopeia Nebula
Copyrights: Michael Schmidt Milky Way and star trails
Copyrights: Timo Oksanen Sh2-128 and Outters 4
Copyrights: Jens Zippel Pickering's Triangle in the Veil complex
Copyrights: Steve Milne NGC 7293 Helix Nebula
Copyrights: George Chatzifrantzis Galatic flowers
Copyrights: Jeff Dai IC 1318
Copyrights: Barry Schellenberg Solar Eclipse - Reunion Island
Copyrights: Stéphane Moser Annular eclipse from Reunion Island
Copyrights: Luc Perrot

Copyrights: Raul Villaverde Fraile

My Gallery: https://www.flickr.com/photos/113243238@N08/
IC1848RGBHalfa2016forAPOD by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

Eastern Veil Nebula
Copyrights: Phil Young North America Complex
Copyrights: R. Colombari / E. Recurt
Larger size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/262363/0/ The center of the Cygnus constellation
Copyrights: Andre van der Hoeven Milky Way, Zodiacal light with Moonrise in Sea cliff
Copyrights: Yanguang Zhang Frog, Mars, Saturn and Milky Way
Copyrights: Dani Caxete Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
An article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2016-231 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=261749#p261749

Falling Star over the Gulf of Mexico
Copyrights: Christian Rausch NGC 1672
Copyrights: Steve Cooper Annular Solar Eclipse from Madagascar
Copyrights: Mikael Svalgaard M20 - Trifid nebula
Copyrights: Pablo Andrés Escobar NGC 6888 - The Crescent Nebula
Copyrights: Konstantinos Christodoulopoulos NGC7822
Copyrights: Juan I. Jimenez Mars
Copyrights: Brian Ford Sunset
Copyrights: A Kannan Waxing Crescent Moon with Venus
Copyrights: A Kannan Crescent
Copyrights: Tolga Gumusayak M31 - Andromeda Galaxy
Copyrights: Tolga Gumusayak Elephant Trunk
Copyrights: Tolga Gumusayak

Pleiades M45
Data and highrer resolution: http://www.wittich.com/?p=2459