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Psychic TV (PTV3) @ Sala Apolo, Primavera Sound, Barcelona, 2016.05.30

 

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PLACE: Moccasin Lake, Winston, Georgia

INSTRUMENT: 14 Inch (36 cm) Meade LX200 SCT

FOCAL RATIO: f/6.3

ACCESSORIES: Meade 0.63x reducer

MOUNT: Meade Fork

CAMERA: SBIG ST-1001 ccd

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Mar. 4, 2005

Moccasin Lake, Winston, GA

14 inch SCT Meade LX200

SBIG ST-2002 ccd camera

10 sec subs, 39 frames

exposure 6 minutes 30 seconds

Processed with MaxIm DL

 

Gemini

PN G197.8+17.3

07 29.2 +20 55 (J2000.0)

47"x43"

9.2 mag; 10.4 mag CS

Type 3b+3b

2,900 light years

Uranometria 2000.0 Map 75R

  

Cave Nebula, also known as Sh2-155 or Caldwell 9 is a huge emission nebula located in the constellation of Cepheus. The Cave itself is the dark arcuate object in the center surrounded by the red emission nebula. It has about 14 light years in diameter and is part of a much bigger cloud of gas and dust, which lies at a distance of 2740 light years.

 

I captured this image in September through a borrowed telescope Vixen 81S with my modified camera Canon EOS 1300D. It is my first attempt at taking emission nebulae through the telescope, not a lens, and I am pretty happy with it. There is much more detail than it would be through the common lens.

 

Canon EOS 1300D (modified), SVBony CLS filter

Vixen 81S, EQ-5 mount

 

EXIF: 48x120sec (1 hour 36 minutes in total), ISO 6400

Darks, flats, biases

 

Processed in DSS, Siril, StarNet++ and Photoshop

15/09/2023, Mašov, Czech Republic (Bortle 5)

The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulas under Bortle 4 skies.

 

Details:

-Stock Canon Rebel T7 on Star Adventurer

-135mm Rokinon lens @f/2, ISO 1600 and 25 minute-long exposures stacked in Deep Sky Stacker along with calibration frames (25 bias, 15 flats and no dark frames)

-Total integration time of 25 minutes

-Final stacked image histogram stretched and color-corrected in Photoshop

-Starnet++ used to separate and color-correct star clouds and nebulae in photoshop, final result was merged with stars

I've decided to take more photos, and stack them.

So, this is my result by 131 x 2,5 sec light frames and 15 dark frames.

10" Newton

Canon 60D

20 x 400s

Alccd5l-llc (Guiding)

  

After two weeks of testing and tuning my new 10" Newton this is my first picture with it.

IC 1396. Em5mk2 on 550mm scope

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PLACE: Sossusvlei Desert Lodge, Namibia, Africa

INSTRUMENT: 12 Inch (30 cm) Meade LX200 SCT

FOCAL RATIO: f/6.3

ACCESSORIES: Meade 0.63x reducer

MOUNT: Meade Altazimut

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Psychic TV (PTV3) @ Sala Apolo, Primavera Sound, Barcelona, 2016.05.30

 

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HaRGB ...3rd iteration ;-)

Soul Nebula (IC 1848)

 

The Soul Nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia.

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Location: Montclair, California, USA (Bortle 8)

Date: January 4-5, 2022

Moon: Waxing Crescent (8-14%)

Camera: ZWO ASI6200MC Pro

Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 61II APO f/5.9

Flattener/Reducer: William Optics FLAT61A Field Flattener

Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme 2”

Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro

Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini

Guide Scope: William Optics UniGuide 32 f/3.75

Camera Settings: Gain 100 | f/5.9 | 5 min

Acquisition: 53 x 5 min Lights | 50 Darks | 100 Bias | 20 Flats

Integration Time: 4 hrs 25 min

Software: ZWO ASIAIR PRO, PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom Classic

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Copyright © 2022 Steven K. Wu Photography. All Rights Reserved.

The Sombrero Galaxy (M104), 04/18/2021

Like I said in my last photo, its galaxy season, lol. A few weeks ago, I took my gear up into the woods and was able to capture lots of images while in the dark skis. I have always wanted to photography this galaxy, but it is really small and far away (31 million light-year), but I did it anyways. This picture is cropped in a lot. The Sombrero Galaxy is almost perfectly edge on to our field of view, so the dust lanes really pop. It also contains one of the biggest super-massive black holes ever discovered.

 

Equipment:

RASA 8

iOptron GEM45

ZWO ASI294MC-Pro

ZWO Asiair

Optolong L-Pro filter

 

Details:

Location – Long Mire Campground

Bortle Class 2

167 30-second Lights (1.4 hrs.)

60 Darks

60 Dark flats

60 Flats

Astro Pixel Processor

Lightroom

Photoshop

 

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Canon 60D

6" Newton

ISO 800

13 x 7min

20 x 2min

15 x 20s

  

This is my first Orion Nebula of the season. I used my smaller 6" Newton to capture it. In the next weeks i try to use the 10" to get a detailed picture of the center of the nebula.

Bode's Galaxy (M81), Cigar Galaxy (M82), NGC 3077

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Location: Whittier, California, USA (Bortle 8)

Date: March 2, 2021

Moon: Waning Gibbous (80%)

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro

Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 61II APO f/5.9

Flattener/Reducer: William Optics FLAT61A Field Flattener

Adapter: None

Filter: Optolong L-Pro

Mount: iOptron SkyGuider Pro

Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini

Guide Scope: William Optics UniGuide 32 f/3.75

Imaging Controller: ZWO ASIAIR PRO

Camera Settings: Gain 100 | f/5.9 | 4 min

Acquisition: 44 x 4 min Lights | 100 Darks | 100 Bias

Integration Time: 2 hour 56 min

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Canon 60Da

10" Newton

ISO 800

80 x 2min

  

This is my first time using the H-Alpha Version of my Canon 60Da. Great to see it captures the H-Alpha lines so well. Barnard 33 is one of the most amazing objects is captured so far, I hope you enjoy the picture !

Sky-Watcher 80/400 (Achromatic Refractor)

Sky-Watcher HEQ5

Canon 350Dm

45x60s @ ISO1600 (45min)

 

Calibrated, registered, stacked in PixInsight.

Postprocessing in PS5.

Star forming region Milky Way Galaxy

Leo Triplet (M65, M66, NGC3628), 03/17/2021

Galaxy season is here. In Spring most of the nebulas set too early to photograph so attention turns to distant and dim galaxies. For my current setup this is unfortunate because I have wrong field of view for tiny galaxies. But a YouTube channel I watch (Chuck’s Astrophotography) did this group using the same telescope I have so I gave it a go. Thanks Chuck! I did spend a lot of time on this so I would have enough detail to crop it in a bit. So, I give you the Leo Triplet, unsurprisingly found in the constellation Leo. These gravitationally bound galaxies are approximately 35 million lights years from you.

 

Equipment:

RASA 8

iOptron GEM45

ZWO ASI294MC-Pro

ZWO Asiair

Optolong L-Pro filter

 

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Location – My Backyard

Bortle Class 7

109 120-second Lights (3.6 hrs.)

60 Darks

60 Dark flats

60 Flats

Astro Pixel Processor

Lightroom

Photoshop

 

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The Rosette Nebula is a large spherical H II region around open cluster NGC 2244. The stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter. The cluster and nebula lie at a distance of some 5,000 light years from Earth and measure roughly 130 light years in diameter.

 

Sky-Watcher 80ED 600mm

Sky-Watcher 0.85x Reducer/Flattener

Sky-Watcher HEQ5

Canon 450Dm

 

73x600s (12h 10min)

Constellation Cygnus - Sadr (star) (Narrowband image)

Starting to pull out detail from the galaxy. Need to start generating flats. Start Data collection over on these images. Make sure that certain temp is attained before taking lights. Prevents noise.

Crescent Nebula, also known as NGC6888

15 MARZO 2021

3671 sec - Frames da 1 minuto

 

TS OPTICS 80/540

ASI 290 COLOR

FOCAL REDUCER 0,5

 

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PHOTOSHOP

I created this mosaic with a ZenithStar 61ii throughout August, September, and October 2021. Each panel integrated a minimum of 7 hours of 6 minute exposures at dual narrowband. The mosaic shown here integrates 107.5 hours of photons.

 

Take a look for the Heart Nebula, Soul Nebula, Fish Head Nebula, quite a few planetary nebulas, and quite a few more hydrogen-rich formations.

 

For each panel, I extracted and stacked Ha and [OIII] separately, then processed to remove light pollution.

 

I then stitched separate mosaics for Ha and [OIII] and combined them with an HOO2 palette.

 

I found that taking adding 3-6 panels at a time and carefully matching across boundaries was helpful in building a consistent mosaic. I also found that the LNC typically suggested for mosaics (LNC degree 4, 3 iterations) introduced wavy artifacts across the mosaic, but blending with simple MBB (20% overlap) gave a much better result since I had already reduced light pollution from the individual panels.

 

See more views and acquisition details at astrobin: www.astrobin.com/ar32lb

 

A comet streaks across a dark night sky, dotted with distant stars. No specific person is identifiable in the image, but the image shows a celestial event, likely captured by an amateur astronomer or astrophotographer. The comet's tail is visible, indicating its movement through space. The image's purpose is likely to document and share the observation of this astronomical phenomenon.

The North America Nebula. 25x5 minutes with a Nikon D600 and an 80mm Refractor

My very first experience in AP without any cropping. Still learning the craft and post processing (if you're in AP this is very obvious just by looking at the picture).

 

This is the Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237). This nebula is 5,219 light years away from earth with an approximate radius of 65 light years. Image is comprised of approximately 18 images at 4 minute exposure with a combination of 20 dark frames, 20 bias frames, 20 flat frames, and 20 dark bias frames.

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Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a nebula, a structure of gas and dust, located in the constellation Cepheus. It belongs to a lot larger emission nebula IC 1396 (the entire red object in the image). The elephant's trunk itself is only a small part (in the middle of the crop in the second image), which really looks like a curled elephant's trunk. The whole nebula is ionized by a massive star in the center and is home to very young stars. It lies at a distance of 2400 light years and has a size of 6 full moons in the night sky!

 

The obviously red star at the edge of the nebula is called Herschel's Garnet Star or Erakis. It was noted by William Heschel, who described it as "a very fine deep garnet colour, such as the periodical star Omicron Ceti (variable star in Cetus)". It is one of the largest known stars with a radius of around 1.2 billion km and is expected to explode "soon" like a supernova and become a black hole.

 

There is also a part of Sh2-129 (the Squid Nebula) in the lower right corner.

 

I took this image in August with my modified Canon EOS 1300D and CLS filter. It was made from only less than two hours because of a short night and clouds, but it still looks pretty good.

 

Canon EOS 1300D (modified), SVBony CLS filter

Sigma 135mm f/2.8

iOptron SkyGuider Pro

 

EXIF: 104x60sec (1 hour 44 minutes in total), ISO 6400, f/5.6

Darks, flats, dark flats, biases

 

Processed in DSS, Siril, StarNet++ and Photoshop

14/08/2023, Mašov, Czech Republic (Bortle 5)

Orion, Running Man, Flame, and Horsehead nebulae under Bortle 4 skies

 

Details:

-Stock Canon Rebel T7 on Star Adventurer

-135mm Rokinon lens at f/2, ISO 800 and 45 minute-long exposures stacked in Deep Sky Stacker along with calibration frames (50 bias, 20 dark, and 30 flat frames)

-Total integration time of 45 minutes

-Final stacked image histogram stretched and color-corrected in Photoshop

-Starnet++ used to separate and color-enhance surrounding nebulosity in photoshop, final result was merged with stars and cropped

Originally captured on 03.06.2020, I thought I had significant light pollution and lost the image. Having more experience doing post processing, I was able to pull this out. Very proud of it considering I am still new to the hobby

Night Owl Star Party 2025

Spruce Knob Mountain Center

Rho Ophiuchi

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