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Venus, still displaying a slender crescent 8 days after inferior conjunction. Imaged from London on the 17th January 2022. Celestron Edge HD 11 scope & ZWO ASI174MM camera.
IC1848 emission nebula located in Cassiopeia.
Skywatcher 100ED
Canon 700d
Celestron CGEM DX
14x180s (42 mins) ISO800
Processed in PixInsight
10328px x 6833px
Resolution ............... 0.797 arcsec/px
Rotation ................. 90.001 deg
Observation start time ... 2023-01-21 21:29:28 UTC
Observation end time ..... 2023-01-21 22:31:41 UTC
Focal distance ........... 554.90 mm
Pixel size ............... 2.15 um
Field of view ............ 2d 17' 14.8" x 1d 30' 48.1"
Image center ............. RA: 2 53 17.192 Dec: +60 26 17.38 ex: +0.053614 px ey: -0.001726 px
Equipment:
Celestron CGEM Mount
Canon FD 300mm f/4 L
Sony a7RIII (unmodified)
Altair 60mm Guide scope
GPCAM2 Mono Camera
Acquisition:
Taos, NM: my backyard - Bortle 3
10 x 151" for 25min and 10sec of exposure time.
10 dark frames
15 flats frames
15 bais frames
Guided
Software:
SharpCap
PHD2
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop
My mount was polar aligned with SharpCap (what an amazing system for aligning). I'm not comfortable using my SCT as my lens yet. My solution is to piggyback my Sony a7RIII and adapted Canon FD 300mm f/4 L on a ADM dovetail rail on the top of my optical tube. I used DeepSkyStacker to combine all frames and then processed the TIFF file in Photoshop using my skill set and relying on the famous Astronomy Tools Action Set.
Planet Saturn with moons (L-R) Dione, Rhea, Tethys & Titan (top). Imaged from London under extremely poor seeing in the early hours of 31st July. Composite of two exposures - one for the moons and another stack for the planet.
Celestron Edge HD11 scope & ZWO ASI174MM camera.
Gassendi crater imaged from London on the 13th January 2022.
Celestron Edge HD11 scope, Televue 2.5x Powermate & ASI174MM camera
Hi guys 👋
It's been far too long since I last posted! These past 2/3 months I had been extremely busy with uni assignments as I was in my final semester of my final year and so the pressure was on! Uni is finally done and dusted but now I'm fasting which makes it a little difficult to go out and shoot! I'm itching to get back behind the camera and will be doing so soon!
Just so you know that I'm not gone, enjoy this moon shot I took last night during sunset!
Sunspot AR3190 imaged in white light and rendered in false colour. 21st January 2023, Celestron Edge HD11, ZWO ASI174MM camera and Baader solar film
The Moon imaged from London before dawn on 19th November
7 panel mosaic shot using Celestron Edge HD11 telescope and Canon EOS Rebel T3i camera
M13 Hercules Globular Cluster
13- 2 minute Luminance frames collected on 4/6/16 with 11" Celestron EdgeHD & Hyperstar, QHY23M camera. I added this to RGB data taken in 2013 with a QHY9M & Orion 102T refractor:
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: 06:30 hours (subs 300 sec)
Deep Sky Stacker: Calibration and stacking
Adobe Photoshop Cs2 : Data Processing
Guide: PHD Guiding 2
Darks, Dark Flats, Flats and Bias apply
Serra Negra ( Bortle 4) /São Paulo/Brasil . 06/2019 + 06/2023
Saturn as imaged using a ZWO ASI224MC astronomy camera through a vintage-1998 Celestron Celestar 8 Deluxe 2032mm f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope plus a Celestron Ultima SV-Series 2x Barlow lens. After pre-processing in PIPP, the best 8% of nearly 23000 frames captured in SharpCap 4.0 were aligned and stacked using Autostakkert! 3 with wavelets processing in Registax 6. Final adjustments using Paintshop Pro 2020 and noise reduction in Topaz.
This is a "telescope" view.
21_27_42_pipp_lapl5_ap39_conv-DeNoiseAI-standard
New Year's Day here was crisp, cold & frosty and once again the bright waning moon just had to be imaged!
The moon was just under 92% illuminated when this imaged was made.
Imaged with a Celestron C11 SCT operating at f6.3 and a Nikon D5300 DSLR.
Long shadows in Plato crater and Vallis Alpes imaged from London on the 20th April 2021.
Celestron Edge HD11 scope, Televue 2.5x Powermate & ZWO ASI174MM camera.
Solar active region 3055 imaged from London on the 11th July 2022.
Celestron Edge HD11, ZWO ASI174MM camera and Baader solar film. False colour image.
Lunar craters Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina imaged from London on the 20th December 2020.
Celestron Edge HD 11 scope, ZWO ASI174MM camera with 685nm IR pass filter.
This is a reprocess of an earlier image using Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch. For this image I collected 45 light frames and used 12 dark frames from a previous session. Also took 35 flat frames and used a master superbias for calibration. The pre and post processing was done in PixInsight.
Equip used
Orion 8" Astrograph
Celestron AVX mount
ZWO ASI120MC guide scope
PHD2 autoguiding software
SGPro capture software
NGC281 The Pacman Nebula
11" Celestron EdgeHD w/Hyperstar (F/2)
QHY23M
Ha- 22x300sec(as Green)
OIII-12x420 sec(as Blue)
SII-21x420 sec (as Red)
5h 41m total
The Pacman nebula is located about 10000 light-years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia. In the center of the image is open star cluster IC 1590, surrounded by gases believed by scientists to be a star forming region. It was discovered in 1883 by E.E.Barnard
Clavius region imaged from London on 11th September 2016
3 panel mosaic shot through a Celestron Edge HD11 and using an ASI120MM camera
Solar active region 2976 imaged from London on the 26th March 2022.
Celestron Edge HD11 scope, ASI174MM camera & Baader solar filter. Rendered in false colour.
The Moon just after full, imaged from London on 16th October 2016
8 panel mosaic - Celestron Edge HD11 & Canon EOS Rebel T3i
Full Moon - Perigee - Distance From Earth 356.509 Km : Pentax K 1 + Meade Focal Reducer f/6.3 + C 11 Celestron 2800mm , Mounted On Losmandy G 11 :
Venus imaged from London on the 11th February 2022. Shot using a Celestron Edge HD11 scope, Televue 2.5x Powermate and ZWO ASI174MM camera with 685nm IR pass filter.
Planet Mars imaged from London on the 9th, 12th, 21st & 31st August 2020.
Celestron Edge HD11 scope, Televue 2.5x Powermate & ZWO ASI174MM camera
Celestron 127 SLT (w/ QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D7500.
30 lights x 60s @ ISO 1600, ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop.
Celestron C9 + ASI SWO 224MC et filtre IR742Pro. Traitement AS!2 et Photoshop. Seeing assez mauvais donc focale assez courte.
Imaged during Wednesday evening (16.10.19) the waning, evening moon was hard to ignore! Some nice detail visible near the lunar terminator. Seeing was not the best.
Imaged with a focally reduced Celestron 8" SCT and a Nikon D5300 camera.
Copernicus crater imaged from London in fantastic seeing on the 13th May 2019.
Celestron Edge HD11, Televue 2.5x Powermate & ASI174MM camera
Celestron C11 at f6,
Canon 6D (Baader filter modified)
ISO6400
30x30 sec with dark and bias frames added.
Stacked in DSS processed in PS Astronomy Tools & LR.
Tracked on a Losmandy G11 mount with no guiding.
NGC 6334 is an active star-forming region that is 4000 light years away in the constellation Scorpius. It's quite low in the sky at my latitude, but I was able to image it during a time of good seeing at a Bortle 3 dark site.
This is first-light of a Starizona hyperstar V2 I purchased for my Celestron EdgeHD 8 SCT telescope. The scope is converted from 2000mm f/10 to a 400 mm f/1.9 imaging system, allowing for a huge amount of light to be captured in a short period of time. 134 frames, each being 15 s each, gave a total exposure time of 30 min. This is a lot of detail captured in only 30 min's! Camera is a QHY 533C.
Globular cluster Messier 3 in Canes Venatici ~33,900 LY distant.
Celestron Edge HD11 & ZWO ASI1600MM Pro camera
30 minutes Luminance (180x10 seconds), 10 minutes each R, G, B channel (60x10 seconds)
Sinus Iridum and Montes Jura. Imaged from London on 13th January 2022.
Celestron Edge HD11, Televue 2.5x Powermate & ASI174MM camera
OTA: Celestron Edge 11 F/2 Hyperstar
Mount: Celestron CGX-L
Camera: ZWO071 MC Pro
Guided by: Stellarvue SV60EDS and Starshoot Autoguider, PHD2.6
34 frames of 360 Sec 90 Gain
Captured with ASI Studio
Processed with Images Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS6.1
Continua la mia nuova esperienza con il Celestron SC C8, e dopo averlo provato con la "M16" l'ho puntato su un'altra famosa nebulosa nella stessa zona di cielo: la bella "Nebulosa Trifida", catalogata come "Messier 20" o M20 e come NGC 6514. Distante circa 5000 anni luce si trova in piena Via Lattea nella costellazione del Sagittario ed è facilmente osservabile con piccoli strumenti amatoriali. Grazie anche alla sua luminosità è uno degli oggetti DS più fotografati dagli astrofili.
Malgrado alcune difficoltà oggettive (autoguida, seeing, trasparenza del cielo, Inquinamento luminoso...) ho cercato di estrapolare tutto il segnale possibile e migliorarla esteticamente.
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My new experience with the Celestron SC C8 continues, and after trying it with "M16", I pointed it at another famous nebula in the same area of the sky: the beautiful "Trifid Nebula", cataloged as "Messier 20" or M20 and as NGC 6514. About 5,000 light-years away, it is located in the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius and is easily observed with small amateur instruments. Thanks in part to its brightness, it is one of the most photographed DS objects by amateur astronomers.
Despite some objective difficulties (autoguiding, seeing, sky transparency, light pollution, etc.), I tried to extract as much signal as possible and improve its aesthetics.+
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Optic: Celestron SC C8 203mm f/10+ Celestron riducer-corrector 0.63X
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC-Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher HEQ5-Pro
Seeing: 4 (scala Antoniadi)
Filter: Narrowband Optolong L-eNhance 2" + SVbony UV-IR cut
-149x180s 250gain/ 25 dark /23 flat / 23 darkflat /80 bias
t° sensor: -5°C
Date: 16-17-19/07/2025
Integration: 7h 27m
Temperature: 24°C (media)
location for : Biancavilla -Catania-(Italy) 515m slm (Bortle 5-6)
Acquisition: NINA, PHDGuiding
Processing: DSS, SIRIL, PS, GraXpert
Saturn imaged from London just after 11pm on 14th July 2016
Celestron Edge HD11 scope
ASI120MM camera
Processed in AS!2, Registax6 & PS CS6
Saturn as imaged using a ZWO ASI224MC astronomy camera through a vintage-1998 Celestron Celestar 8 Deluxe 2032mm f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope plus a Celestron Ultima SV-Series 2x Barlow lens. After pre-processing in PIPP, the best 29% of 30620 frames captured in SharpCap 4.0 were aligned and stacked using Autostakkert! 3 with wavelets processing in Registax 6. Final adjustments using Adobe CS5, Luminar Neo, and noise reduction in Topaz.
This is a "telescope" view.
19_49_41_pipp_lapl4_ap293_conv R6 V4-DeNoiseAI-severe-noise
Tycho is a prominent crater in the southern lunar highlands. The inner wall is slumped and terraced. This slopes down to a rough but nearly flat floor with small knobby domes.
This is an image of 53.4 miles wide (86km) lunar crater Tycho imaged in excellent atmospheric seeing on 21st April.
We simply don't get such steady seeing here very often compared to other favoured parts of the world so I was happy to get this.
Imaged with a Celestron C11 SCT fitted with a focal extender and my ZWO 290MM camera fitted with a Baader longpass filter.
The Moon imaged from London before sunset on 7th September 2016
3 panel mosaic
Celestron Edge HD11 & Canon EOS Rebel T3i camera
The Moon shot from London on the 10th March 2019.
Mosaic comprising 6 stacked images shot using an ASI174MM camera, Celestron Edge HD11 scope & 685nm IR pass filter
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 . 05/2018 - 05/2022