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The famous Spaghetti nebula, more properly known as Simeis 147, on the border of Auriga with Taurus is a supernova remnant of a star which exploded around 40,000 years ago. It is a large object, spanning more than 3 degrees, but also very dim. This image is a 6 panel mosaic with each panel being a stack of 300 second subframes integrating to 10 or more hours total exposure. The imaging camera was a QHY168C with an STC duo-narrowband filter. The scope was a WO Zenithstar 102. Sequence Generator Pro was used to plan the mosaic and manage the image capture. Guiding was via PHD2. The mount was a Skywatcher EQ6R Pro. All post-processing was carried out in PixInsight.
Observed from Prachinburi, Thailand.
While keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that there will be an opportunity to photograph the fabulous nebulae in the Milky Way around Sagittarius before the rainy season puts an end to my astrophotography, I had another go at processing data I captured last year for the Eagle nebula, M16. It's an HαRGB blend with about 3.5 hours of data in each channel captured on a QHY163M using Optolong filters. All post-processing was carried out in PixInsight.
Observed from Prachinburi, Thailand
The first deep-sky object I've photographed in ages!
Taken with a TMB92L, Hutech-modified Canon T3i DSLR, Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, and Celestron AVX mount. Consists of 23 180-second light frames, plus darks, flats, and bias frames. Captured with BackyardEOS, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Photoshop.
LRGB
Luminance 7x300s
RGB 2x300s (each)
DSS > PixInsight > PS
SBIG STL-11000M
Takahashi FSQ 106ED
Paramount PME
A shot of my parents narrowboat on the Kennet and Avon canal. The clear starry night seemed quite fitting with the name of the boat!
Not one to hang on the wall unfortunately, as there is a lot of noise in the sky, which is not helped by the light pollution. A fun experiment though!
I welcome any constructive comments to help me improve.
Image of the Great Rift in Aquila I for some reason never got around to processing. Also visible is Barnard's E and the Coathanger Cluster.
captured on August 30th, 2019
7x30"
EOS 350D, 50mm f/1.8
sony a7s
Jupiter 21M 200mm/f4
SkyWatcher Star Adventurer
Hutech IDAS LPS P2 48mm
Hutech Sony E-mount to Nikon F lens adapter
124x30sec ISO3200
bias 60
darks 30
Pixinsight 1.8
did some testing the other day for wide field astrophotography. Always important to do a normal shot so you've got something at the end of a session, especially since it's often a lot of effort to get somewhere to shoot in the first place. Did about 6 x 28 image panoramas on the night. This is the first normal sort of one.
It's been a while since I've taken a shot of the moon, I got this while waiting for bird flyovers in waning light.
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge
This image shows one of my favourite regions in the Northern skies. It's the region surrounding the star Sadr in the constellation of Cygnus. This image was made using astrodon narrowband filters for Ha (5nm), OIII (3nm) and SII (5nm).
Equipment used was a TMB92 with a QSI583ws ccd camera cooled to -20C.
Processing done with Astropixelprocessor and photoshop.
Exposures used:
42 x 900s Ha
20 x 900s OIII
15 x 900s SII
Total: 19,25 hours
Barnard 33 (IC 434)
Shot in Arnaia, Greece (bortle class 4).
Equipment:
Modified Canon EOS 50D and Optolong UV/IR-cut filter.
Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED + 0.85x reducer/flattener.
Skywatcher EQ5 pro SynScan mount.
Guiding:
Orion StarShoot and Orion 50mm guide scope
Imaging:
40 light frames at ISO1600 (180sec)
52 dark frames
55 bias frames
Preprocessing: Pixinsight
Postprocessing: Pixinsight & Adobe Lightroom
This was my first time to ever be able to experience a celestial event with my own eyes. It was pretty incredible.
Why I'm Proud of This Photo
I went literally all day without taking a photo, and as evening approached I knew I had to make it worthwhile. I also had never shot anything in the night sky before, so I looked up a few tips online before I went out.
Getting this shot took a couple hours. It was too cold to stay outside the whole time, so I was in and out with the camera.
I shot using my 135mm-equivalent lens, which wasn't long enough at all, but the details this lens produces are fantastic and the sensor I'm using allows for a decent crop.
I had no idea the stars were even recorded in my raw file until I got them into Lightroom. That was such a cool bonus.
IC410 in the constellation of Auriga is an emission nebula of gas and dust surrounding the young star cluster NGC 1893 and famous for the two "tadpoles", regions of denser gas and dust being sculpted by the radiation and solar winds from the cluster's stars.
This image is an integration of over 26 hours of data captured as 314 x 300 second exposures on a QHY183C cooled CMOS OSC camera. The scope was a William Optics FLT110 with Flat4 and an STC duo narrowband filter was used to allow through only the light from ionized hydrogen and oxygen.
Image sequencing was managed via SGP with PHD2 for guiding and all post-processing was carried out in PixInsight.
Observed from Prachinburi, Thailand
Nikon D750 (Stock)
Nikkor 300mm f/2.8 AI-S ED lens
f/2.8
ISO 1600
AstroTrac TT320X-AG - no guiding
Acquisition:
82 x 60" exposures (82 mins. total integration time)
Processing:
RawTherapee, Deep Sky Stacker, RNC-Color-Stretch, & Photoshop.
🔭: Askar 107 PHQ
📷: ASI 1600mm Pro
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R
️: -10
⚫️: Antlia Ha 3nm 40x 600s
⚫️: Antlia Oiii 3nm 42x 600s
⚫️: Antlia Sii 3nm 34x 600s
🔴: Antlia Pro Red 30 x 45s
: Antlia Pro Green 30 x 45s
🔵: Antlia Pro Blue 30 x 45s
Integration:
20h 27′ 30″
IC 2944, also known as the Lambda Centauri Nebula, is a stunning region of space located in the southern constellation of Centaurus. The region is famous for its striking appearance, earning the nickname "Running Chicken Nebula" due to the distinctive shape of its larger structure.In this image, small, dark molecular clouds called Thackeray's Globules can be seen towards the centre.
These "eggs" are rich in cosmic dust and have the potential to form new stars through gravitational condensation, but they are also being rapidly eroded by the intense radiation from nearby young stars, leaving their fate uncertain. The region also contains patchy glowing gas and complex areas of reflecting dust, all illuminated by the massive and energetic stars that form the open cluster Collinder 249.This stunning object spans about 60 light-years and is estimated to be located at a distance of 6,500 light-years from Earth.
Processing:
I have spent a long time on the luminance layer blending carefully all the details present in all 3 emissions layer. There are some interesting structural details present on the Sii image that can be easily overwhelmed by the Ha layer. This is one of those object that works really well in SHO with minimal tweaks required to get a pleasing colour palette. I personally really like the starless version of this image.
More info: www.astrobin.com/8ezs23/
[orion nebula]
Taken yesterday night. I know some would like to see the background a bit lighter but I like the darker contrast here...
Star Adventure 2i
(no guiding, only Polar Aligned)
Canon 7D mk2
Sigma 150-600mm
ISO 800
300mm
f6.3
60 x 60 sec shutter speed
Taken with a Canon 70D and a Rokinon HD8M-C 8mm f/3.5 HD fisheye lens with the following settings: ISO6400, f/3.5, 30-second exposure.
Canon EOS-R with EF 70-200 f/2.8 lens shot at 200mm
Nebula -
180-1 minute ISO2500 f/4.0 images stacked using Deep Sky Stacker, processed in Siril and Starnet to get a starless images. Enhanced with levels, curves and sharpening in Photoshop
Stars
10-1 minute ISO2500 f/4.0 images stacked using Deep Sky Stacker Enhanced in Photoshop. This was done due to the shear number of stars in the original stack.
from Wikipedia
The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus. It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop,a supernova remnant. The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun which exploded between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago. At the time of explosion, the supernova would have appeared brighter than Venus in the sky, and visible in daytime.
Halpha: 75x600". Gain200. Bin1
[OIII]: 102x600". Gain 200. Bin2
RGB: 40x20" per filter (for stars colour)
Total integrarion time: 30.16 hours
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM
Mount: EQ6R-PRO
OTA: Meade R8 200/1000 Newtonian
Guiding: EZG60 + QHY5LII-M
Capture SW: NINA + PHD2
Processed with Pixinsight 1.8.8.7
Data captured along several nights of July and August 2021 from Belmonte, Cuenca (Spain)
Morceaux de lune entre les nuages.
Images prise avec une DMK41 + filtre rouge et C8 Vintage Orange. Seeing mauvais, passage de nuages et vent.
Data from May 2019. Reprocessed with Pixinsight Core 1.8
Meade 203/1000. Canon 550D mod. EQ6-R.
Lights: 20x600
Darks: 15x600
No Flats. No Bias
SHO
Ha 72 * 600s
Oiii 41 * 600s
Sii 48 * 600s
Integration Time 26h50m
William Optics Z61
ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
iOptron CEM60
Antlia Ha, Oiii, Sii 3.5nm filters
Askar FMA180 Guiding Scope
ZWO ASI120M
ZWO EAF, EFW
Nina, PixInsight, Topaz DeNoise AI, Photoshop
Rainy day re-process of Jupiter
GRGB image, Celestron Edge HD 11, ASI120M camera
AS!2 Registax 6 & PS CS6
Taken w/ Skywatcher Evostar Pro 80 ED (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D3300.
243 lights x 90 s @ ISO 800 (6 total hours), ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop.
Skywatcher ed 80 f/7.5
Atik 314L+ mono
Guiding camera QHY 5L-II mono
Exposure L:153min
R:30min, G:30 min, B: 30 min
BIN 1x1
16-9-2017
Location Grammatiko, Attika, Greece
So I squeezed in a Globular Cluster tonight with only an hour of clear skies.
Messier 3 or M3 is contains the oldest stars in our universe (all Globular Clusters contain the oldest stars). M3 of course is in our Milky Way galaxy and is ~90 light years away.
Captured with 12 x 5 seconds of live stacking using an ASI6200mc.
My previous attempt compared to my friend's image HERE.
Rencontre Lune-Saturne-Mars-Antares_20160908. Canon EOS 760d + 18/135mm.
Petite balade dans al campagne vendéenne pour trouver un coin sympa
My first attempt to create starless Eagle nebula M16 using Stars eXterminator. The colour is boosted and more sharpening applied using PS.
Fianarantsoa, Madagascar, light pollution in the city is not as high as it may seem, there are no street lights, and all around is dark.
I had an amazing weekend camping trip chasing the milky way with photog friends... survived 30 deg cold weather camping in the deep woods in search of a glimpse of a galaxy... making new friends and chillin with old friends... sometimes it's about the experience as much as it is about getting the shot.