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Celestron Edge HD 800 and CGEM mount. ADM top rail with a camera adapter holding a Sony a7rIII and adapted Canon FD 300mm f/4 L
A quick process of Jupiter and Io with 685nm IR pass filter from 4th April 2016
Celestron Edge HD11, ASI120MM, Powermate 2.5x
Processed using AS!2, Registax6 and PS CS6
Telescòpio: celestron 130 slt(130mm/f5) modificado
Montagem: celestron nexstar slt altazimutal computadorizada
Câmera: Canon sl1 modificada com filtro astrodon ad40 clear
Baader MkIII coma corretor
Filtro astronomik cls ccd eos clip
Deep sky stacker: calibração e integração dos frames
Processamento: photoshop cs2, astronomy tools, star spikes pro 3
Exposição total: uma hora
04/2016
serra negra- são paulo
Fifty minutes of live stacking with a Celestron Origin.
NGC7331 is about 43 million light years away while 4 of the 5 members of Stephan's Quintet are between 200 and 350 million light years away.
A closeup of Jupiter and Saturn the night after their closest approach in their "Great Conjunction" of December 2020. This was the evening of December 22, with Jupiter just 10 arc minutes to the east of Saturn, with Jupiter's four Galilean moons visible and three of Saturn's moons, though just! The fainter objects in the field are stars. I added labels to this version.
This is a stack of six 4-second exposures (to bring out the moons) taken about 5:45 pm local MST. All were through the Celestron SE6 Schmidt-Cassegrain at f/10 (so 1500mm focal length) on the Sky-Watcher EQM-35 mount tracking the sky but only roughly polar aligned, and through the Canon EOS Ra camera at ISO 800, and cropped in. The planets' low altitude blurred their images from poor seeing. Atmospheric dispersion adds to colour fringing.
Celestron 9.25 @ f/20
Celestron X-Cel LX 2x Barlow
ZWO ASI224MC + IR cut filter
FireCapture (Gain = 300; Exposure = 3)
AS!3
WinJUPOS (17x90")
Celestron C11, Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate, ZWO ASI462MC, Pierro Astro ADC
6 single shot colour captures taken over 8mins; de-rotated in Winjupos - Firecapture, Autostakkert, Registax & Photoshop
another attempt at processsing, the same data, but this time using much finer wavelets in Registax :D
Merseyside, UK
Jupiter and Saturn in the same telescope field on December 14, 2020, as they approached their Great Conjunction of December 21, 2020. Some of the moons are visible in this exposure taken in deep twilight before the planets got too low in the southwest. They planets were less than a degree apart, with a separation of 45 arc minutes, closing to 6 arc minutes a week later. I've added labels in this version.
This is a stack of 8 exposures with the Celestron SE6 f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain (so 1500mm focal length), each for 5 seconds at ISO 800 with the Nikon D750. The disks of the planets are overexposed to bring out the moons. I had the Celestron SCT on the Sky-Watcher EQM-35 equatorial mount, tracking the sky. The images are stacked to smooth noise. A lot of gradient correction applied to even out the huge level of vignetting and uneven illumination from the SCT optics.
Telescopio: Celestron C8 Edge HD
Montatura: iOptron CEM60
Camera di ripresa: ZWO ASI 174 mono Cooled
Filtro: Optolong Red CCD 50,8 mm
Software:SharpCap 3.2 Pro, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 3.0.14, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8, Astra Image 4 SI
Focuser: Moonlite CF 2,5" focuser with high resolution stepper DRO
Pose: 1007 a 150 ftgs
Lunghezza focale: 2032 mm
Seeing: 3 Trasparenza: 5
Celestron Omni XT 1000/100mm refractor
Ioptron ZEQ25GT mount
Solarscope DSF 70mm dual stacked etalons
ZWO ASI174MM CMOS camera
Processed in AutoStakkert!3 and RegiStax 6 and Photoshop
Find the V and X letters on the moon! Picture taken with a Canon 6D mounted on a Celestron C8 Edge HD telescope. Images extracted from a Canon 6D movie and processed with Siri-L and Lightroom.
I think day seven or eight of the cycle (I think). Just past first quarter. Trying to figure out registration and stacking with lunar images. Kind of getting there. 21 images, weedled down to four or five, still wouldn't register. Not sure how to improve that. This is one of the source files. DX 5" SCT, 25mm Plossl EP, Nightcap, NexYZ DX, iPhone 12, adjustments in Photopea.
أقرب وصف قد يتراءي إلى ذهني عن السديم هو أنه حضانة للنجوم حيث أنه موضع ميلاد الكثير منها كونه عبارة عن مزيج من غازات الهيدروجين و الهيليوم و غبار كوني. و كل ما يحتاجه النجم كي يولد هو انصهار نووي. كذا الحال في سديم الجبار (M42) حيث تولد فيه النجوم إلى يومنا هذا. و يبعد هذا السديم عنا حوالي ١٣٥٠ سنة ضوئية (كل سنة ضوئية تعادل قرابة ١٠ تريليون كيلو متر). و تنقسم السُدم عامة إلى نوعان: سُدم إشعاعية و اللتي تشع من ذاتها نتيجة تولد طاقة عند تكون الهيدروجين و سُدم عاكسة و اللتي تعكس ضوء النجوم المجاورة.
بإمكانكم رؤية سديم الجبار بشكل واضح و بالعين المجردة و لكن قد يغلب على الظن كونه نجما آخرا.
A closest description that comes to my mind about Nebulas is to think of them as the birthplace of stars. Literally thousands of stars are being formed in nebulas till this day and all it needs is a little process called fusion of Hydrogen to form the core. The great Orion’s nebula (or M42) is one of the closest to us. When i say close, i mean 1350 light years away (1 light year is 10 Trillion Kilometers( yet on a dark night you can clearly see it with your naked eye, except that you have to know that it is a Nebula and not another star. Nebula’s can be mainly categorized to two types: Emission Nebulas, the one that emit light due to formation of Hydrogen that gives out energy in the form of red light and reflection nebulas that (as the name implies) reflect light from other nearby stars.
Camera Gear:
Canon 5d MarkII
Telescope mount:
Celestron Nester SE8 with GoTo Alt-Azm mount
Celestron Focal Reducer/Corrector f/6.3
Images:
50 light frames
30 dark frames
30 bias frames
Software:
DeepSkyStacker (DSS)
Adobe Lightroom CC
Adobe Photoshop CC
Celestron C11, 4x TeleVue Powermate, ZWO RGB FIlter Set, ZWO ASI174MM, Pierro Astro ADC
9 RGB image runs taken over several months in 2017 were used to make the image map of Jupiter I used to make this full rotation video.
Several small parts of Jupiter were missing (mainly on the poles) so I copied and pasted similar looking detail into those areas, just so that I could complete the map (note: as such the map is not 100% accurate, only about 94%)
When the seeing was not as good I have attempted to compensate for those by sharpening those more, and by also blurring back the images captured on the better nights.
To integrate (blend) the images together - I used the map tools in Winjupos to initially create a master (with all 9 maps added, just showing their best parts), then manually blended (in photoshop) the parts that varied quite a bit in sharpness/colour and brightness - it took about 1 full day to blend the images for this rotation !
Each of the 9 images I captured images were either RGB or LRGB runs vids taken over 20mins to an hour between May-July 2017...
Software Used: Firecapture, Autostakkert, Registax, Winjupos & Photoshop
Merseyside, UK
After a few days of awful weather here I was surprised that Sunday dawned a beautiful day.
This unexpectedly allowed me to grab another image of Venus before her "disappearing" act at solar conjunction.
The planet presenting an illumination phase of only 3.7% with an apparent diameter of almost 55".
Imaged with a Celestron C8 SCT and a ZWO 290MM camera/Baader 685nm IR filter.
- Canon 7Dmkii
- 10" Orion f4 Newtonian Scope
- Celestrion CGEM mount
- QHY5L-II guidecamera
- Orion Mini 50 mm Guidescope
- QHY Polemaster
- PHD2
- BackyardEOS
- Stellarium
- pixinsight
24 - 240 s lights
50 - lights
19 - darks
superbias in pixinsight
"It has always been our goal to bring the wonders of astronomy to the general public, and partnering with the Griffith Observatory is the perfect vehicle to accomplish that goal," said Celestron CEO, Joseph A. Lupica. "We are honored to have our telescopes become a part of Griffith's long and reputable history." Source: www.celestron.com/about-us/public-relations/press-release...
Celestron 9.25" + Celestron f/6.3 Reducer + ZWO ASI533MC + Optolong L-Pro
AZ-EQ5
115x60" lights
Calibrated with dark and bias frames
Nebulosity4
PixInsight
Photoshop CC
Cairns, Australia
Bortle 5
Celestron 1100HD on a CGEM mount, complete with a Hyperstar giving me an 11" f2 photographic optic.
Native format is 11" aperture or 280mm @ 2800mm f10
Astrophotography will be a new and exciting venture for myself.
Jupiter with moon Ganymede and it's shadow imaged from London on the 13th January 2025.
Celestron Edge HD 11 scope, Televue 2.5x Powermate & ZWO ASI224MC camera
Telescopio: Celestron C11 XLT Fastar
Camera di acquisizione: Point Grey Flea3 FL3-U3-32S2M
Montatura: Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro Synscan
Software: Firecapture 2.4.06 beta, Astra Image 3.0 SI, Avistack 2.0
Filtra: Filtro Baader Planetarium IR-Pass 685nm
Moonlite CF 2,5" focuser with high resolution stepper DRO
Pose: 500 a 59 FPS
Sinus Iridium and Montes Jura imaged from London on 14th August 2016
Celestron Edge HD11 & ASI120MM Camera
Mosaic of 8 photos of the Moon, taken Celestron C6-N, 12.5mm. eyepiece, ISO50, 1/4" of exposure, F/8 aperture, and 3x optical zoom. The focus is terribly difficult.
ENGLISH
This is been from my second astrophotographic session. I have learned to connect and to disconnect the camera quickly, and already have shortened the time of framing. For the next one I will try to improve the focusing.
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The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. The average center-to-center distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,403 kilometres (238,857 miles), which is about 30 times the diameter of the Earth. The Moon has a diameter of 3,474 kilometres (2,159 miles) — slightly more than a quarter that of the Earth. This means that the volume of the Moon is only 1/50th that of Earth. Its gravitational pull is about a 1/6th of Earth's. The Moon makes a complete orbit around the Earth every 27.3 days, and the periodic variations in the geometry of the Earth–Moon–Sun system are responsible for the lunar phases that repeat every 29.5 days. The gravitational attraction, and the centrifugal forces generated by the rotation of the Moon and Earth around a common axis, the barycentre, is largely responsible for the tides on Earth. The energy dissipated in generating tides is directly responsible for the reduction in potential energy in the Moon-Earth orbit around the barycentre, resulting in a 3.8 cm yearly increase in the distance between the two bodies. The Moon will continue to move slowly away from the Earth until the tidal effects between the two are no longer of significance, whereupon the Moon's orbit will stabilize.
The Moon is the only celestial body that humans have travelled to and landed on. The first artificial object to escape Earth's gravity and pass near the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 1, the first artificial object to impact the lunar surface was Luna 2, and the first photographs of the normally occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3, all in 1959. The first spacecraft to perform a successful lunar soft landing was Luna 9 and the first unmanned vehicle to orbit the Moon was Luna 10, both in 1966. The US Apollo program has achieved the first (and only) manned missions to date, resulting in six landings between 1969 and 1972. Human exploration of the Moon ceased with the conclusion of the Apollo program, although as of 2007, several countries have announced plans to send either people or robotic spacecraft to the Moon. On 4 December 2006, NASA outlined plans for a permanent base on the Moon as part of preparation for a voyage to Mars. Construction of the base is scheduled to take about five years, with the first preliminary missions by 2020.
The Moon has no formal English name, although it is occasionally called Luna (Latin for "moon") to distinguish it from the generic "moon" (referring to any of the various natural satellites of other planets). Its astronomical symbol is a crescent (☽). The related adjective for the Moon is lunar (from the Latin root), or the adjectival prefix seleno- or suffix -selene (as in the Greek deity Selene). The word moon is Old English from older Germanic origins, with links back to Latin mensis, and back further to the PIE root of me- as in measure (time), with reminders of its importance in measuring time in words derived from it like Monday, month and menstrual.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
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CASTELLANO
Esto es resultado de mi segunda sesión fotográfica. Ya he aprendido a acoplar y desacoplar la cámara con rapidez, y he acortado el tiempo de encuadre. Para la próxima intentaré mejorar el enfoque.
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La Luna es el único satélite natural de la Tierra. Es el astro más cercano (la distancia media entre el centro de la Tierra y la Luna es de 384.400 km) y el mejor conocido. Su diámetro es de menos de un tercio del terrestre (3.476 km), su superficie es una decimocuarta parte (37.700.000 km²), y su volumen alrededor de una quincuagésima parte (21.860.000 km³).
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna
My first image of Jupiter for 2018. The storm band which runs from the right of the Great Red Spot, wraps around the entire planet and ends in the turbulence to the left of it. This band wasn't there last year so I don't know how long it will last.
OTA: Newtonian Celestron 130 mm/f5 modified
Mount: Skywatcher Heq 5
Imaging Camera: Canon 700D astro modified
Telescope Guide: Gso 50mm
Camera Guide: QHY5L II Mono
Baader Mk III Coma Corrector
Polemaster Eletronic Polar Scope
Total Exposure: 2:30 hours (subs 300 sec)
Deep Sky Stacker: Calibration and stacking
Adobe Photoshop Cs2 : Data Processing
PHD Guiding 2: Guide
Darks, Dark Flats, Flats and Bias apply
Serra Negra ( Bortle 4) /São Paulo/Brasil . July/2019
Celestron 9.25" + Celestron f/6.3 Reducer + ZWO ASI533MC + Optolong L-eXtreme
EQ6-R Pro
59x180"
Nebulosity4
PixInsight
Photoshop CC
Cairns, Australia
Bortle 5
Celestron C9.25
Cámara Sony NEX-5N en foco primario
Lights 30x30"x1600x3200
DFB
Apilado en Siril
Edición en Topaz y GIMP
Preciosa nebulosa que fotografié en Julio 2022 y procese anoche 13 de noviembre porque las noches no han estado buenas para la observación.
#celestron925 #celestrontelescopes #celestronuniverse #celestronfans #sonynex #siril
Celestron 8 @ f/6,3
No autoguide, manual dithering
131 light frames 25" @ 1600 ISO (Canon 450d aka Rebel XSi)
20 dark frames
1 bias
Processed in DSS, PS.
HDR obtained by the TIFF file with Luminance HDR.
SQM of the site 20,99
Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Mantiuk
Parameters:
Contrast Mapping factor: 0.1
Saturation Factor: 0.8
Detail Factor: 1
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PreGamma: 1
A little note about this version:
Luminance HDR is one of the most powerful software I use for obtain HDR images also in Astroimaging... and is a freeware.
Lunar crater Schiller imaged from London on 11th November 2016
Celestron Edge HD11, ASI174MM camera and Televue 2.5x Powermate
M42 Orion Nebula Core & De Mairan's Nebula M43
This is a 3 panel mosaic using "Live Capture" in Sharpcap.
QHY462C(w/1.25" x.5 reducer) & 11" Celestron Edge HD @F/10
Each panel consists of 60-5 second images. Stacked in Live Stack, hand-aligned, merged & tweaked in Photoshop & Pixinsight
Center (RA, Dec): (83.821, -5.385)
Center (RA, hms): 05h 35m 16.941s
Center (Dec, dms): -05° 23' 04.819"
Size: 11.2 x 17.7 arcmin
Radius: 0.175 deg
Pixel scale: 0.379 arcsec/pixel