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Celestron CPC Deluxe 1100 Edge HD
ASI120MM-S Mono Camera
X-Cel 2X Barlow
ZWO Filter Wheel - Green Channel
Celestron Origin, 30 minutes of live stacking, ZWO duo band filter. Bortle 4 sky near Frazier Park, CA.
NGC2024 - Flame Nebula
IC434 - Horsehead Nebula
Both of these nebulae are located in the constellation of Orion and are on the left side of Orions Belt, the Horsehead Nebula is approximately 1500 Light years from earth, and the Flame Nebula is approximately 900 Light years from earth
This image consists of the following:
22x600S in Luminance
10x600S in Red
10x600S in Green
10x600S in Blue
Equipment Used:
ATIK 383L+ Mono CCD Cooled to -20C
StarlightXpress 7x36mm Filter Wheel
Celestron C80ED Imaging Scope
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro - Pier Mounted
QHY5L-II Guide Camera
PHD2 Guiding software
Sequence Generator Pro Capturing Software
Pre-Processed in Nebulosity 3.0
Post Processed in PixInsight
This is an image of Mars captured using an IR 685nm filter.
Unfortunately imaging was cut short due to the deteriorating weather here...
However, I was able to acquire three IR runs and these were stacked with Autostakkert 3, sharpened using Registax wavelets and the resultant images derotated using Winjupos. The images were finished using Photoshop 2020.
Some nice detail is present before conditions deteriorated and I was at least thankful to get something!
I have included an annotated image naming some of the albedo features which were resolved that night.
Imaged using a Celestron C8 SCT with ZWO290MM camera and Baader IR filter.
Thanks for looking!
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
Pulg-in: Hasta la vista, green, astroflat pro
PHD Guiding 2: Guide
Darks, Dark Flats, Flats and Bias apply
Serra Negra ( Bortle 4) /São Paulo/Brasil . 05/2022
SH2-171 e' una Nebulosa ad emissione visibile nella parte orientale della costellazione di Cefeo, distante dal sistema Solare 2.740 anni lice .
Zona della via Lattea ricca di polveri oscure è particolarmente attiva nella formazione di nuove stelle.
Riprese del 5 agosto 2022 effettuate dal giardino di casa , Mogoro , Sardegna , Italia
Celestron C11 Fastar + mc
Hyperstar V3 , cam Asi 2600 , filtro optolong l-enhance, mont. ZWO AM5 , guida SVbony 60/240 , cam Asi 120 mini mm, Asi air pro , Pixinsight , 150 LIGHT X 120" + 29 DARK , 30 FLAT
I always find astrophotography refreshing - a good reminder of how insignificant we truly are, and that we shouldn't take minutia too seriously.
1.5 hours of integration from my Bortle 3 backyard in southern Arizona.
Celestron C8 with 0.63x Focal Reducer
ZWO asi533mc pro
ZWO AM5 Mount, with 120mm guide camera, using the AsiAir Plus
Edited in PixInsight and Lightroom
Celestron CPC800XLT
ZWO LRGB filter set & wheel
Orion Shorty 2X Barlow
Altair GPCAMv2 130 Mono
Autostakkert 2.6.8
Registax 6
Photoshop CC 2017
This is a "work in progress" of the Pinwheel Galaxy in the constellation of Ursa Major. The galaxy lies at a distance of 21 million light-years. At the rate I'm going it will take this long to complete :)
Captured over 6 nights March-April, each night interrupted by clouds. I plan to add more Luminance & Red frames the next clear moonless night
Celestron 11" EdgeHD + Starizona Hyperstar (F/2)
QHY23M CCD & Baader LRGB+Ha filters
CGEM-DX mount
Astro Tech AT65EDQ as a guide scope
QHY5L-IIM guide camera
Guiding accomplished with Metaguide
Images acquired with APT (Astrophotography Tool 2.82)
Each color channel pre-processed, aligned and stacked with Nebulosity 3 & Deep Sky Stacker
Color channels combined and post-processed using Photoshop CS6
Lum 15x120 3/17/15
Red- 15x120 3/18/15
Green- 24x120 3/22/15 & 4/11/15
Blue-26x120 3/22/15, 4/10/15 & 4/11/15
Ha- 12x300 4/24/15
Here is a different looking planetary nebula designated as NGC 2371 and 2372 found in the constellation Gemini. You can just start to make out the “wings” on either side of this nebula with a 54-minute exposure. Distance to this planetary nebula is listed at 4,400 light-years.
Tech Specs: Orion 8" f/8 Ritchey-Chretien Astrograph Telescope, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI290MC and ASI071MC-Pro, ZWO AAPlus, ZWO EAF. 54 x 60 seconds at -10C plus darks and flats. Image Date: November 5, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Celestron 9.25 + Celestron f/6.3 Reducer + ZWO ASI533MC + Optolong L-Pro
EQ6-R Pro
Guiding with ASI120MC-S + William Optics UniGuide 32mm
220 x 30" lights
No calibration frames
Nebulosity4 for Mac
PixInsight
Cairns, Australia
Bortle 6
Mare Humboldtianum imaged from London on 14th December 2016
Celestron Edge HD11, ASI174MM camera and Televue Powermate 2.5x
Celestron 130 EQ Telescope
Barlow 2x, 3x or 5x
Red or Moon Filters
Canon EOS 500D Camera
02.07 to 03.24 GMT
Blackford Hill
Edinburgh
Celestron C11 Edge HD
Player One Mars-M Camera
RGB Filter Wheel
TeleVue 2.5 Powermate
Primalucelab Eagle2 Pro
Europa is below the GRS, half way through the transit.
Celestron SC8 at f/10 104 x 100second frames with ZWO ASI174MM, controlled and captured using ASIAir Pro, guide-scope Orion ST80 with ZWO ASI290MC, on SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro mount. Processed in ImagesPlus
The Rosette Nebula in HST(Hubble Space Telescope) Palette
The original version was a bit oversharpened, so I tried to tone in down with my older version of the Rosette in HST
The Rosette Nebula (Caldwell 49 or NGC 2237) is a large, circular H II region located in the constellation Monoceros . Open cluster's NGC 2244 (Caldwell 50) stars have been formed from the nebula's matter.
The Rosette Nebula consists of 5 parts NGC 2237,NGC 2238,NGC 2239,NGC 2244,NGC 2246. The cluster and nebula are about 5,000 light-years from Earth and measure roughly 130 light years in diameter. The nebula is estimated to be around 10,000 solar masses
I used LRGB data that I finished collected last night with older data.
First the older data used:
Telescope-AstroTech AT65EDQ
Mount-Orion Sirius
Camera-QHY9M
12/26/13,12/27/13
*Red- 7x10 minutes
Ha-3x20 minutes(as green)
OIII-3x20 minutes(as blue)
SII-3x20 minutes(as red)
LRGB
Telescope: 11" Celestron EdgeHD w/Hyperstar (F/2)
Camera: QHY23M
1/2/16,1/27/16
LUM- 33x120sec
Green-14x120sec
Blue-14x120sec
Red- used HA- 9x300sec from Hyperstar & Red from QHY9M/AT65EDQ( 7x10 minutes)
(5h 57m total)
Closeup of the "core" flic.kr/p/CDaZdd
Older HST version:
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: 1:50 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
Telescope: Celestron 8SE
Camera: Celestron Skyris 132C with Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate
Image source: 750 frame AVI video
Date: 10/8/2020
NOTE: The main feature seen is Hellas Basin (just below center), Sinus Meridiani, Schiaparelli Crater, and Sinus Sabaeus is on the left. Syrtis Major is seen on the right. Also seen, is the Southern Polar Cap, as well as the Northern Polar hood (not the Northern Polar Cap), and hints of clouds.
Mars angular diameter is 22.56 arcseconds and is 99.7% illuminated.
Last night I tried the Orion Nebula with my Celestron 9.25 Advanced VX. This was the first time I tried deep space with the 9.25.
I have never had success with this scope, not from any problems with the scope, but from me struggling to understand what I was doing. Thanks to some people here on this group I took what I learned, and have had pretty good results with the Skywatcher I received for Christmas so I thought I’d give it a try.
I did pick up the 6.3 corrector this week and gave it a try.
I did 40 @ 20 seconds ISO 1600, then 10 at 13 seconds to try to get some core detail, and then 10 more at 5 seconds to get what more I could from the core.
I did take darks and biases, but I am struggling how to properly get them to work in Lynkeos (I have a Mac). So this image is a stack of just my frames
Celestron C8 SCT with Starizona Hyperstar V 4 at F/1.9 , ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera, IDAS L filter, ASIAir Plus guiding and acquisition. Siril processing, Photoshop and Topaz tweaking
SIMPLE = T / file does conform to FITS standard
BITPIX = -32 / number of bits per data pixel
NAXIS = 3 / number of data axes
NAXIS1 = 4144 / length of data axis 1
NAXIS2 = 2822 / length of data axis 2
NAXIS3 = 3 / length of data axis 3
EXTEND = T / FITS dataset may contain extensions
COMMENT FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) format is defined in 'Astronomy
COMMENT and Astrophysics', volume 376, page 359; bibcode: 2001A&A...376..359H
MIPS-FHI= 1 / Upper visualization cutoff
MIPS-FLO= 0 / Lower visualization cutoff
BZERO = 0 / offset data range to that of unsigned short
BSCALE = 1 / default scaling factor
DATE = '2023-07-06T22:32:50' / UTC date that FITS file was created
DATE-OBS= '2023-07-06T07:55:16.775718' / YYYY-MM-DDThh🇲🇲ss observation start,
INSTRUME= 'ZWO ASI294MC Pro' / instrument name
OBSERVER= ' ' / observer name
TELESCOP= 'EQMod Mount' / telescope used to acquire this image
ROWORDER= 'BOTTOM-UP' / Order of the rows in image array
XPIXSZ = 4.63 / X pixel size microns
YPIXSZ = 4.63 / Y pixel size microns
XBINNING= 1 / Camera binning mode
YBINNING= 1 / Camera binning mode
FOCALLEN= 390.3 / Camera focal length
CCD-TEMP= -10 / CCD temp in C
EXPTIME = 60 / Exposure time [s]
STACKCNT= 31 / Stack frames
LIVETIME= 1860 / Exposure time after deadtime correction
EXPSTART= 2.46013e+06 / Exposure start time (standard Julian date)
EXPEND = 2.46013e+06 / Exposure end time (standard Julian date)
IMAGETYP= 'Light ' / Type of image
CVF = 0.399 / Conversion factor (e-/adu)
GAIN = 200 / Camera gain
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: 5:30 hours (subs 300 sec)
Deep Sky Stacker: Calibration and stacking of frames
Adobe Photoshop Cs2 : Data Processing, Plug-in: Hasta la vista, green, astroflat pro
PHD Guiding 2: Guide
Darks, Dark Flats, Flats and Bias apply
Serra Negra ( Bortle 4) /São Paulo/Brasil . may/2021
The Owl nebula, NGC3587 or M97 lies approximately 2,030 light years away in the Ursa Major.
Discovered by French astronomer Pierre Méchain in 1781 and later observed by Messier it was included in his catalogue as Messier 97.
It measures approx. 3′.4 × 3′.3
On further investigation I discovered that this image also contains a QUASAR J111504.4+550143 which has a magnitude of +19.1 and is 8.2 Billion Light Years away.
simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=%40553563&N...
Taken 14/ 3 /2023, 16 x 300 secs exposures + darks, 8" Celestron Edge 2,032 mm ASI 533MC camera
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. The forecast called for overcast skies the night of the lunar eclipse. Rain was coming later in the evening. So I took whatever I could before the clouds covered the moon completely.
The clouds obscured the moon throughout the evening, but I kept shooting. There were clouds in all the photos. At one point I saw blue and brown colors surrounding the moon.
This particular photo shows the moon just starting to get darkened by the Earth's shadow on the lower corner. Fast moving clouds obscured the moon just as this photo was being taken so that's why part of the moon is darker in areas while other areas are bright.
Nikon Zf, Celestron Edge HD 8, Losmandy mount.
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: 3:30 hours (subs 300 sec)
Deep Sky Stacker: Calibration and stacking
Adobe Photoshop Cs2 : Data Processing, Pulg-in: Hasta la vista, green, astroflat pro
PHD Guiding 2: Guide
Darks, Dark Flats, Flats and Bias apply
Serra Negra ( Bortle 4) /São Paulo/Brasil . 2019
Lunar crater Posidonius imaged from London on 12th April 2016
Celestron Edge HD11, ASI120MM
Processed in AS!2, Registax6 & PS CS6
Celestron C11, ZWO-ASI174MM, Televue 2.5x Powermate
A couple of shots stitched together - not often the sky is actually clear enough to get some sharp decent detail in the bay, the Lunar domes towards the bottom left are nicely illuminated
Celestron CPC Deluxe 1100 Edge HD
ASI290MC Color Camera
ZWO Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector
X-Cel 2X Barlow
Around 2400 light years away from earth this nebula is situated in a ionized gas region of IC 1396. Taken from my patio during a full moon night using Optolong L-Enhance filter. 1.5 hours of total integration and processed in PixInsight. Telescope is Astrotech 130 EDT on a Celestron CGEM 2 and camera is ZWO AI2600 MC cooled to -10 degrees.
NGC 6820 is a small reflection nebula near the open cluster NGC 6823 in Vulpecula. The reflection nebula and cluster are embedded in a large faint emission nebula called Sh 2-86. The whole area of nebulosity is often referred to as NGC 6820.
Open star cluster NGC 6823 is about 50 light years across and lies about 6000 light years away. The center of the cluster formed about two million years ago and is dominated in brightness by a host of bright young blue stars. Outer parts of the cluster contain even younger stars. It forms the core of the Vulpecula OB1 stellar association. (Description credits: Wikipedia)
Technical card
Imaging telescope or lens:Teleskop Service TS Photoline 107mm f/6.5 Super-Apo
Imaging camera:ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mount:Astro-Physics Mach-1 GTO CP4
Guiding telescope or lens:Celestron OAG Deluxe
Guiding camera:QHYCCD QHY5III174
Focal reducer:Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x
Software:Main Sequence Software Seqence Generator Pro, Astro-Physics AAPC, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Filters:Baader Planetarium Ha 1.25" 7nm, Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm, Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm, Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm, Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm
Accessories:ZWO EFW, MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30
Resolution: 4552x3428
Dates: July 27, 2017, Aug. 3, 2018, Aug. 4, 2018, Aug. 5, 2018
Frames:
Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 15x10" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 15x10" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm: 23x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium Ha 1.25" 7nm: 37x120" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm: 15x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 15x10" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm: 18x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 6.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 17.52 days
Avg. Moon phase: 44.61%
Astrometry.net job: 2213054
RA center: 295.811 degrees
DEC center: 23.263 degrees
Pixel scale: 1.469 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 89.830 degrees
Field radius: 1.163 degrees
Data source: Backyard
Celestron C8 SCT OTA
ZWO ASI183MC Pro Camera
Celestron XCel 2x Barlow
3000 frames @ 80fps
Processed in PIPP, Auto-Stakkert, Registax, and Lightroom.