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Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 60 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken October 26 under Bortle 3/4 skies.

 

The faint haze on the right edge is integrated flux nebulae (IFN).

 

Nov. 2020 update: Tweaked color.

I have the cluster bug :)

 

Spent a good amount of time recently testing a bit of kit that effectively converts my EQ5 to a Goto, and now using EQMOD in conjunction with PHD for guiding. Working well, and for £90 (and in the true spirit of budgetastro) I'm more than pleased :)

 

Found this cluster while I was zipping around the heavens playing with the Goto, and fell in love with it. M35, aka NGC 2168 in the foreground, is about 2.8K light years away, quite young at 150m years (hence the blue stars) and contains about 2500 stars. NGC 2158 (above right of M35) is about 10K lights years away and is ten times older than M35 (hence the orange stars). It contains many more stars than M35 but in roughly the same volume of space (30 ly wide), so looks more like a globular cluster. Nice contrast :)

 

SW ED80/EQ5

Canon 500D modded, Baader Neodymium filter

56 x 180 sec subs, iso 800

Acquisition: APT

Guiding: Quickcam Pro4000/9x50 finderscope, PHD/EQMOD/AstroEQ

Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5.

M97 the Owl Nebula, is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Ursa Major, The Great Bear.

Estimated to be about 8,000 years old it lies just over 2,000 light years away from us. It's given the monicker 'Owl Nebula' because of what looks to be a round face with two big eyes.

 

M108, also in Ursa Major, is much further away at approximately 46 million light years. This barred spiral galaxy gets the nickname 'Surfboard galaxy'. This edge on galaxy is thought to have a black hole at it's core 24 million times the mass of our Sun.

 

Both objects were first discovered by the French astronomer Pierre François André Méchain in 1781. Discovering M108 three days after M97.

 

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 100, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.

180s exposures.

Best 70% of 32 light frames.

Darks, Flats & Bias.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools.

My first attempt at stacking images with DeepSkyStacker about 60 pictures stacked.

Canon 6D

200mm

ISO 10000

2 second exposures

Target:IC405 Flaming Star Nebula, an emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Auriga at about 1500 Light years away.

 

Location:Captured 20/12/2020, St Helens, UK. Bortle 8 sky. 40% Moon.

 

Aquisition:20x 180s Ha, 20x 180s (OIII), 14x 180s (SII). Total integration 162 min.

 

Equipment:Imaging:Skywatcher Esprit 100ED, HEQ5Pro, ZWO ASI1600MM Pro, Baader planetarium narrowband filters.

Guiding:Skywatcher 9x50 Finder, ZWO ASI120MM.

 

Software:Aquisition:NINA, PHD2.

Processing:DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop.

Esprit 150ED APO and QHY168C c/w UHC filter was used to capture four 900 second subs,stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop CS2.

 

Image taken in early hours 31/10/18.

Total 3hrs

H-Alpha - 9x600, RGB 6x300s

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker & processed in PS2.

 

Camera: Atik 314L+ Mono

Filters: Baader H-Alpha 7nm, RGB.

Scope: Sky-Watcher Equinox 80ED .

Mount: AZ EQ6-GT goto, PhD guided with Orion 50mm guidescope & SSAG.

 

IC 1396A - The Elephant's Trunk Nebula, or even more unofficially the lady walking away, Mufasa on pride rock, I mean it looks like anything you see.

 

This is a dark cloud of dust and gas in a much larger cloud of ionized gas illuminated by a very bright massive star (HD 206267).

 

Shot the "blue" data last night using my Esprit 100ED S-APO, the lack of Moon meant I could get some detail and contrast, though the OIII component to this nebula is very faint.

 

Was a great night to just sit on the beach whilst my scope imaged and watch Orion rise over the cliffs and see a small number of "shooting stars".

C2017 K2 PANSTARRS

 

Fecha: 23-07-2022, de 21h27m a 23h09m U.T.

Lugar: Las Inviernas, Guadalajara

Temperatura ambiente: de +20.5ºC a +18.5ºC

Cámara: ZWO ASI071MC Pro

Óptica:

Telescopio Newtoniano TS, 200mm de diámetro f/4.

Corrector de coma Baader MPCC Mark III.

Filtro: Omegon Light Pollution Filter.

Montura: Skywatcher EQ6 Pro Synscan v.3.25

Guiado: Automático con QHY-5 mono y PHD Guiding v.1.14.0, utilizando un telescopio refractor SvBony 60mm de diámetro a f/4.

Exposiciones:

20 imágenes de 300s cada una, a +01ºC y 100 de ganancia

en total, 1h40min.

29 darks de 300s, a 0ºC y 100 de ganancia

30 flats de 60s, a -05ºC y 100 de ganancia

30 bias de 0.001s, a 0ºC y 100 de ganancia

Software: DeepSkyStacker v.4.2.6

PixInsight LE 1.0

Adobe Photoshop CC 2019

Astronomy Tools v.1.6

Observaciones:

Cámara girada 90º respecto al tubo del portaoculares del TS200.

  

C/2017 K2 PANSTARRS

542 Sussana

 

Distancia a la Tierra (UA)

1,83

2,23

 

Magnitud aparente

+6,94

+13,47

 

Diámetro (km)

20

41,6

The Raspberry nebula is in the center.( SH2-263 is the red emission nebula and VDB38 is the blue reflection nebula.) The central star is HD34989. To the right is SH2-265 and lower left shows a section of the Lambda Orionis ring SH2-264. The blue light from the star Bellatrix "shines" from the lower right.

 

Image dates: 24,25,26,27 and 28 december 2016

Esprit 100 triplet APO with matching flattener/ Canon 6Da/ Optolong L filter/ 10 micron GM2000 HPS II in Scopedome 2M

201x240 seconds iso1600. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker with 34 Flats, 27 Darks and 150 Bias frames.

This is enough data so i could use only basic processing in PI: DBE, HistogramTransformation, a little SCNR to remove green and a little curves adjustment. So no BackgroundNeutralisation, no ColorCorrection, no Noise reduction etc.

 

Knight Observatory, Tomar

The Milky Way soars over Lady Mountain in Zion National Park.

 

I stacked 8 30-second exposures (and 3 dark frames) using DeepSkyStacker. This helped reduce noise and allowed me to aggressively process the resulting image. This is my first attempt at doing this, so I'd appreciate any helpful feedback.

 

The foreground was processed in a second pass through DeepSkyStacker, without de-rotation, and the result masked into the sky image.

 

(Explore #329, 11/19/2010)

Taken 24/08-01/09-02/09/2014 9x600 secs Ha 8x600 secs OIII. Ha used for red channel OIII used for green,blue channels

 

Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Mono Cooled to -10C

 

Guiding: PHD ,ST80 Scope, Lodestar X2

 

Optics: Altair Astro 8" RC Astrograph fitted with a Astro Physics CCDT67 0.67x Reducer. Reducing down from F8 to F5.3

 

Filter: Baader H-alpha 7nm OIII 8.5nm,Astronomik CLS Filter

 

Mount: Skywatcher AZ EQ6-GT EQ & Alt-Az Mount connected to the Sky X and Eqmod via HitecAstro EQDIR adapter

 

Image Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro

 

Stacking and Calibrating: DeepSkyStacker

 

Processing: Pixinsight 1.8

  

Equipment

 

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses

Sky-Watcher Esprit 80ED

Imaging Cameras

ZWO ASI 183 MM PRO

Mounts

Sky-Watcher NEQ6-Pro

Filters

Baader B 1.25'' CCD Filter · Baader Ha 1.25" 7nm · Baader G 1.25'' CCD Filter · Baader R 1.25'' CCD Filter

Accessories

TSOptics TS Off Axis Guider - 9mm · Skywatcher Field flattener for Esprit 80mm

Software

Luc Coiffier DeepSkyStacker (DSS) · PHD2 Guiding · PhotoShop CS5 · FitsWork 4 · CCDCiel

Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses

Sky-Watcher Esprit 80ED

Guiding Cameras

Astrolumina Alccd5L-IIc

 

Acquisition details

 

Dates:

May 30, 2021

Frames:

Baader B 1.25'' CCD Filter: 8x300" (40') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1

Baader G 1.25'' CCD Filter: 8x300" (40') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1

Baader Ha 1.25" 7nm: 8x300" (40') (gain: 200.00) -20°C bin 1x1

Baader R 1.25'' CCD Filter: 8x300" (40') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1

Integration:

2h 40'

 

Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 38 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken just before astronomic dawn on Oct. 2, 2019 under Bortle 3/4 skies.

 

Inclusion of LBN 777, the Baby Eagle or Vulture Head Nebula, on the left, was a happy accident.

M13 Globular Cluster in Hercules.

 

Location:29-05-23 St Helens, UK, Bortle 7. 71% Moon.

 

Acquisition:19x 180s Red, 20x 180s Green, 20x 180s Blue. Calibrated with Bias, Darks, Flats and Dark flats.

 

Equipment:Skywatcher 200P Newtonian (modified), EQ6Rpro; Baader MPCCMkIII Coma Corrector; Optolong RGB filters; ZWO ASI533MMpro, EFW, EAF.

 

Guiding:Skywatcher Evoguide 50ED, Altair GPCAMAR0130M

 

Software:NINA, PHD2, EQMOD

 

Processing:DeepSkyStacker, Affinity Photo with NoiseXTerminator plug-in. GraXpert, Siril, AstroSharp.

  

Several other galaxies are visible in the background.

This is the first of a series of images taken during several clear nights last week.

13 x 4-minute, manually guided exposures at f/4 and ISO 1600. Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" Newtonian reflector telescope.

Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; noise reduction via Cyberlink PhotoDirector.

M42 - THE GREAT ORION NEBULA AND RUNNING MAN - Jan 2021

 

Ok, this is my final version of this subject for this year. I added another 2 and a half hours of data, to make this a total final exposure of 5 hours.

This is an HDR image created by blending 3 different exposure lengths after stacking and initial processing in Photoshop. It is the first time I've really tried to complete a full HDR image and I think the core of M42 has turned out OK. You can still see detail in the bright Trapezium core region, as well as still seeing fainter details in the outer nebulosity.

I am super happy with the look of this final image, it's muted and has a slightly dreamy colour balance, some will say I've pushed the data too far, but I like it.

Thanks for looking and sharing, comments always welcomed.

 

Clear skies.

 

Ed

 

Acquisition Equipment

Camera - CANON EOS 60D (Mod)

Filter - Astronomik CLS-CCD EOS Clip

Telescope - SkyWatcher 80ED

Reducer/Flattener - 0.85x

Focal Length - 510mm

F Ratio - F6.3

Mount - Celestron CG-5 Adv GT GEM

Guide Scope - Celestron 9x50

Guide Camera - QHY 5 Mono

 

Image Capture

136 x 10 secs = 22 mins

28 x 60 secs = 38 mins

80 x 180 sec = 4 hours

Total = 5 hours

350 x Dark frames

250 x Bias frames

230 x Flat frames

230 x Dark flat frames

 

Acquisition Software

Capture/Sequence - N.I.N.A.

Plate Solving - ASTAP

Guiding - PHD2

Planetarium – Stellarium

 

Processing Software

Stacking - DeepSkyStacker

Post - Adobe Photoshop / Bridge / Camera Raw

 

Links

www.instagram.com/edholtastro

www.flickr.com/photos/edholtastro/

twitter.com/edholtastro

www.astrobin.com/users/EdHoltAstro/

This, I am reliably informed by my software, is the cluster M34 aka NGC 1039, chillin' up there somewhere in Perseus. With some spikes of course, to make it a little less uninteresting. Charles Messier must have had bloody good eyesight!

 

17 down, 93 to go. At my present rate, I should have them all just before my 132nd birthday. :)

My latest attempt at The Andromeda Galaxy. 2.5 Million light years away..

 

51x60sec

48x90sec

Canon XSi

Orion 80ED Telescope

Atlas EQ-G

 

M57 (NGC 6720) is probably one of the most recognizable Messier objects. It is a planetary nebula found in the constellation Lyra, referred to as the Ring Nebula, and lies about 2,300 light-years from Earth. M57 is the glowing remains of a sun-like star. The star expelled a vast envelope of ionized gas before becoming a white dwarf.

 

Observation data: J2000 epoch

Right ascension: 18h 53m 35.079s

Declination: +33° 01′ 45.03″

Distance: 2300 ly

Apparent magnitude (V): 8.8

Apparent dimensions (V): 230″ × 230″

Constellation: Lyra

 

Tech Specs: Orion 8" f/8 Ritchey-Chretien Astrograph Telescope, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ASI071MC-Pro, ZWO AAPlus, ZWO EAF, 111 x 60 seconds at -10C, processed using DeepSkyStacker and PixInsight. Image Date: April 13, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W95), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

 

Equipment

 

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses

GSO 8" f/5 Imaging Newtonian

Imaging Cameras

ZWO ASI 183 MM PRO

Mounts

Sky-Watcher NEQ6-Pro

Filters

Baader B 1.25'' CCD Filter · Baader Ha 1.25" 7nm · Baader G 1.25'' CCD Filter · Baader R 1.25'' CCD Filter · Baader Planetarium O3 1.25" 8.5nm

Accessories

TSOptics TS Off Axis Guider - 9mm · Pal Gyulai GPU Aplanatic Koma Korrector 4-element

Software

Luc Coiffier DeepSkyStacker (DSS) · PHD2 Guiding · PhotoShop CS5 · FitsWork 4 · CCDCiel

Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses

GSO 8" f/5 Imaging Newtonian

Guiding Cameras

Astrolumina Alccd5L-IIc

 

Acquisition details

 

Dates:

March 14, 2020 · March 15, 2020 · Feb. 25, 2021 · Feb. 27, 2021 · Feb. 28, 2021 · March 1, 2021 · March 2, 2021

Frames:

Baader B 1.25'' CCD Filter: 20x300" (1h 40') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1

Baader G 1.25'' CCD Filter: 20x300" (1h 40') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1

Baader Ha 1.25" 7nm: 89x600" (14h 50') (gain: 200.00) -20°C bin 1x1

Baader Planetarium O3 1.25" 8.5nm: 43x600" (7h 10') (gain: 200.00) -20°C bin 1x1

Baader R 1.25'' CCD Filter: 20x300" (1h 40') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1

Integration:

27h

East Veil Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust, a supernova remnant 2400 light years from Earth.

 

⏱️ 4h44min (71 x 4min ISO 800 frames)

Kaunas, Lithuania (Bortle 8 skies)

📅 September, 2021

 

Setup:

📷 Canon EOSR unmodified

🔭 Skywatcher Explorer 150PDS

️ Baader MPCC and IDAS LPS-D2 filter

⚙️ Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro

↖️ Guiding with ZWO ASI 120MM Mini + ZWO 30mm Mini Guide Scope + PHD2

 

💻 Stacked and edited with DeepSkyStacker and PixInsight

A stack of 10x10s images at ISO 800 taken with an Olympus PEN E-PL6 M4/3 camera body through a William Optics Megrez 72mm f/6 refractor with Baader coma corrector. Omegon clockwork tracking mount on a camera tripod. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight.

 

Taken between 22:36 and 22:40 UT the comet was at an altitude of only 5°40' about 10° west of north.

 

Milky Way Of Hong Kong @ 2017-11-17

 

Shooting Date : 2017-11-17

Tv (Shutter Speed) : 12 Sec

Av (Aperture Value) : f/4

ISO Speed : 4000

 

Camera : Sony A7RII

Scope : Sigma 50mm F1.4 EX DG HSM

Tracking Mount : Nano-Tracker

 

Total Exposure Time : 10mins 36Sec (12Sec x 53 frames)

 

Process w : DeepSkyStacker & Photoshop CC

 

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#DeepSkyStacker

#Hiking

#HongKong

#Landscape

#MilkyWay #MilkyWayOfHongKong

#NanoTracker

#Sigma #Sigma50mm

#Sony #SonyA7RII

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#ThisIsHongKong

#風景 #美景 #雲海 #銀河

A picture of the galaxies M81, M82, and NGC3077 in Ursa Major created by stacking 29 30 second images taken by a Canon 400mm f/5.6 telephoto lens on a Canon 7D MKII dslr camera processed using DeepSkyStacker, Gimp, and Lightroom.

An attempt to pull out Milky Way Dark Rift.

 

The catch is: it's the cheapest DSLR, basic fast lens, no tripod, no remote shutter, and, of course, no telescope.

 

19 images from Nikon D3100 10s f/1.8 35mm ISO 1600 stacked in DeepSkyStacker + developed in Acdsee Pro.

 

White balance and tint can be questioned but hey you don't see these colors with aided or unaided eye anyway :)

 

Same source files as those used to produce flic.kr/p/Agb4wN, but this time with flats applied.

NGC 6229 is a globular cluster located in the constellation Hercules. NGC 6229 is located about 100,000 light years away from Earth, almost 5 times farther than M13, and is located in the outer halo of our galaxy.

 

Observation data (J2000 epoch)

Constellation: Hercules

Right ascension: 16h 46m 58.8s

Declination: +47° 31′ 40″

Apparent magnitude (V): 9.4

Apparent dimensions (V): 4.50'

 

Tech Specs: Orion 8" f/8 Ritchey-Chretien Astrograph Telescope, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ASI071MC-Pro, ZWO AAPlus, ZWO EAF, 81 x 60 seconds at -10C, processed using DeepSkyStacker and PixInsight. Image Date: March 20, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W95), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

 

Skywatcher 72 ED

Nikon D3500

ISOSPEED= 3200

EXPTIME = 18167.5995368958 / Exposure time (in seconds)

EXPOSURE= 18167.5995368958 / Exposure time (in seconds)

NCOMBINE= 403 / Number of stacked frames

SOFTWARE= 'DeepSkyStacker 5.1.6'

DATE-OBS= '2024-12-29T02:09:50'

Processed with Siril and Darktable

The Andromeda Galaxy from my backyard in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

 

Orion ED80

Canon 5D

Celestron CG5 mount.

32 x 1min exposures at ISO 1600

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker.

Imaging telescope or lens:Altair Astro 72edf deluxe

Imaging camera:Pentax K-5

Mount:iOptron SkyGuider Pro

Guiding telescope or lens:QHYCCD miniGuideScope

Guiding camera:QHYCCD QHY5II-L

Focal reducer:Hotech SCA Field Flattener

Software:DeepSkyStacker 4.1.1, Pleaides Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8 Ripley

 

Frames:

63x120" ISO800

16x150" ISO800

Integration: 2.8 hours

 

Darks: ~26

Flats: ~7

Flat darks: ~7

Bias: ~100

M: iOptron EQ45-Pro

T: WO GTF81 Refractor

C: ZWO ASI1600MC-Cooled

G: 200mm (FL) Finder and PHD2

GC: ZWO ASI120MC

RAW16; FITs

Temp: -20 DegC

Gain 200; Exp 60s

Frames: 84 Lights; 10 Darks; 10 flats

60% Crop

Capture: Sharpcap

Processed: DSS; LR, PS, Gradient Exterminator.

Sky: No moon, breezy, no cloud, good seeing.

 

23.16 million light years distant.

I've taken the first steps to learning more about astrophotography. This shot of M13, the Hercules Cluster was taken on a polar aligned mount with a 500mm lens piggybacked on my optical tube. I recently bought an autoguider but this was just before I did that. This is 27 90 second images stacked with darks, biases and flats in deepskystacker.

EXIF - 140X180" (7h), Gain 0

Calibration: Darks - 40, Bias - 40

Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro (cooled to -10°C)

Filter: Astronomik L-2 - UV IR Blockfilter 1,25"

Main optics: William Optics RedCat 51

Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro

Guiding: William Optics UniGuide + ZWO ASI120MM Mini

Controller: ZWO ASIair Pro

Software: DeepSkyStacker + Pixinsight + Photoshop

Location: Sibenik, Croatia

Heart Nebula IC 1805, Fishhead Nebula IC1795

 

4.5hrs guided

Camera and scope : TS72 APO + TS72flat, Nikon d90 mod

432mm /f6/ iso800

  

Tracking: Skywatcher Star Adventurer

guiding: TS 50mm f3.6 guidescope , zwo asi120mc-s

 

Software: Deepskystacker, Photoshop, PHD2

About 9.5 hours of exposure over four days using a Tamron 150-600mm lens set to 300mm attached to a Canon EOS 50D(modified). Taken in strong Los Angeles light pollution under the hated light pole. I really need to invest in a light pollution filter but they're expensive...

 

Processed using DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop, Topaz Denoise AI, and Lightroom.

Immagine realizzata in collaborazione con Giuliano Monti (www.tecnosky.it) coautore che ha gentilmente concesso tutta la strumentazione, lol, io ho messo solo la camera eos e due birre ♥

 

Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: GSO RC12

Montature: SkyWatcher AZ EQ6 GT

Camere di guida: Starlight Xpress Lodestar

Software: DeepSkyStacker, Adobe Lightroom 3, Noel Carboni's Astro Tools for PhotoShop

Filtri: Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter

Accessori: Tecnosky Guida fuori asse-OAG

Date: 30 luglio 2013

Luoghi: Fubine (AL)

Pose:

Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 7x480" ISO1600 1C bin 1x1

Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 4x600" ISO1600 1C bin 1x1

Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 1x780" ISO1600 1C bin 1x1

Integrazione: 1.8 ore

Dark: ~21

Flat: ~24

Scala del Cielo Scuro Bortle: 3.00

Temperatura: 17.00

 

Haven't been around these parts much lately, but managed a couple of images in the meantime.

 

This is another collaboration between myself and Dave Williams, who provided the Ha used as luminance. My first mosaic, it consists of three frames (well, two and a tiny little strip in between really) processed using photomerge in Photoshop, which I was impressed with. Several sessions between July and September 2013

 

Meaningless stats follow:

 

RGB:

SW ED80/EQ5

Canon 500D modded, Baader Neodymium filter

All three frames: 246 subs totalling 13 hours 28 minutes

Acquisition: APT

Guiding: Quickcam Pro4000/9x50 finderscope, PHD

Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5, using photomerge for the stitching together

 

Ha (Dave Williams):

Usual :)

  

www.DonegalSkies.com

  

Location: Killygordon, Co. Donegal, Ireland.

Time: 22:00 - 00:00

Date: 21 Sep 2012

Target: ANdromeda Galaxy

Exposures: 8 x Five minute exposures (12Darks) Flats

 

Equipment:

Mount- Celestron CG5-GT (unguided)

Camera- Self-modified Canon 1000D

Telescope- Celestron Oynx 80ED

Additional- Astronomik cls clip LP filter.

Stacking & Processing: DeepSkyStacker & Photoshop CS5

Night shift today with my son Kevin. The green dot on the top right is the comet "Leonard". It passes the earth only every 80,000 years (!) and is visible this year from late November to early December. Unfortunately the weather is very cloudy, we have been watching the weather forecast for days and saw last night that this morning could be an opportunity with a lot of luck. So we got up at half past four and searched. After about 30 minutes we had found it. Then made a total of 120 pictures each 4 seconds and stacked them with DeepSkyStacker. Lens was the "bokeh master" Sigma 105/1.4.

[edit: reprocessed]

 

Ho usato solo lo spianatore con il 102 a 700mm, sono molto contento del campo ai bordi :) ma si sono generati due strani flare che erano già comparsi con la foto delle Pleiadi di settembre, chiaramente non ho la benchè minima idea di cosa la generi, forse il filtro skyglow, nelle due foto ho usato due spianatori differenti..

Vabbèè

 

Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: 102ED

Camere di acquisizione: Canon EOS 450D / Digital Rebel XSi / Kiss X2

Montature: Sky-Watcher EQ6 Pro

Telescopi o obiettivi di guida: 80/600

Camere di guida: LVI Smartguider 2

Riduttori di focale: Tecnosky Spianatore 2"

Software: DeepSkyStacker, Adobe Lightroom 3

Filtri: Orion Skyglow 2" Filter

Luoghi: Cossombrato (AT)

Pose: 15x600"

Integrazione: 2.5 ore

Giorno lunare medio: 6.18 giorni

Fase lunare media: 37.30%

Centro AR: 05:40:32.709

Centro DEC: -02:20:15.945

Campionamento: 4.98 arcsec/pixel

Orientazione: 125.66 gradi

Larghezza del campo: 1.77 gradi

Altezza del campo: 1.18 gradi

Erste Gehversuche mit Deep Sky Fotografie und DSS (Stacker).

Stack von 25 Bilder mit Canon 70-200 /2.8

200mm / f2.8 / 1,6sec / ISO 1250

Aufnahme vom 2019-02-24

Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 32 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing in GIMP, taken June 2 under Bortle 3/4 skies.

 

July 31 edit: Reduced green cast.

The faint outer halo is just visible, bringing out the dark ring around the brighter centre of the galaxy.

34 x 1-minute unguided exposures at ISO 6400. Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" f/4 Newtonian reflector telescope.

Frames registered and stacked in DeepSkyStacker software; curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; noise reduction in CyberLink PhotoDirector.

The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457) is a face-on spiral galaxy 21 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. The giant spiral disk of stars, dust and gas is 170,000 light-years across — nearly twice the diameter of our galaxy, the Milky Way. M101 is estimated to contain at least one trillion stars. The galaxy’s spiral arms are sprinkled with large regions of star-forming nebulas. These nebulas are areas of intense star formation within giant molecular hydrogen clouds. Brilliant, young clusters of hot, blue, newborn stars trace out the spiral arms. (ref: Wikipedia and NASA)

 

Observation data (J2000 epoch)

Constellation: Ursa Major

Right ascension: 14h 03m 12.6s

Declination: +54° 20′ 57″

Distance: 20.9 ± 1.8 Mly

Apparent magnitude (V): 7.9

 

Tech Specs: Orion 8” RC Telescope, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at -10F, 47 x 60 seconds, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in DSS and PixInsight. Image Date: February 5, 2024. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

12/4/2018 12:46-1:41am MST

 

Grand Mesa Observatory

grandmesaobservatory.com/

 

14x 240sec

 

Processing: Photoshop CC, PixInsight

Stacking: DeepSkyStacker

 

Camera: QHY367C One Shot Color CMOS

Pixel Size: 4.88x4.88

Image Scale (1x1): 1.55 arcsec/pixel

FOV: 127.3 x 190.1 arcmin

 

Optics: Takahashi FSQ130

Aperture: 130mm

Focal Length: 650mm

Focal Ratio: F5

Guiding: Stellarview 50mm

 

Mount: Paramount ME

Framing is a little out as this was shot using 2 scopes.

 

H-alpha data captured by Mick Hyde (9 Feb 14).

 

H-Alpha - 12x300s & 7x20s

Green - 21x120s & 21x15s (2x2)

Blue - 15x120s & 15x15s (2x2)

 

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker & processed in PS2.

 

Camera: Atik 490ex Mono

Filters: Baader H-Alpha 7nm, GB.

Scope: (G&B) Sky-Watcher Equinox 80ED .

Mount: AZ EQ6-GT goto, PhD guided with Orion 50mm guidescope & SSAG.

 

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grazie ad Ale ed a Edo, per l'ospitalita', l'assistenza e la compagnia!! :) un bel regalo di compleanno ragassi!

 

Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: APO Triplet 130/910 mm

Camere di acquisizione: Canon / CentralDS EOS Astro 50D

Montature: Sky-Watcher EQ6 Pro

Telescopi o obiettivi di guida: 80/600

Camere di guida: lacerta mgen2

Riduttori di focale: Flattener 2"

Software: DeepSkyStacker, Adobe Lightroom 3, Noel Carboni's Astro Tools for PhotoShop

Filtri: Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter

Risoluzione: 1600x1066

Date: 07 giugno 2013, 08 giugno 2013

Luoghi: Refrancore

Pose:

Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 10x240" ISO1600 bin 1x1

Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 18x360" ISO1600 bin 1x1

Integrazione: 2.5 ore

Dark: ~12

Flat: ~20

Comet ATLAS C/2019 Y4, discovered in December 2019, has been quickly increasing in brightness over the last few months, and many of us hope that trend will continue; past projections put it as reaching naked-eye brightness this April or May. However, it's brightness has recently plateaued around magnitude +8. That and an elongated nucleus suggest that it might be disintegrating.

 

It was likely about magnitude +8 when I photographed it last night, April 9th, near Star 42 Camelopardalis. I'm not sure what the faint nebulosity is to the lower left of the comet: either Dark Nebula HSVMT 25, integrated flux nebula (IFN), or it's simply an artifact. Galaxy NGC 2366 is also apparent in the upper right corner.

 

Acquisition details: Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 50 x 30 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker (used comet stacking mode so stars and comet were stacked separately and then combined), editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken in the 30 minute-window between astronomic dusk and the rise of the 93% illuminated moon on April 9, 2020 under Bortle 3/4 skies.

A spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis.

It goes by the nickname of the Hidden galaxy as it's a very difficult target for visual and for photography. This is due to it lying pretty much in the same line of sight as the Milky Way and all it's bright stars and dust lanes. Except IC342 which is about 11 million light years further on.

  

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -10c gain 100, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.

Darks, Flats & Bias.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools & Affinity Photo.

28 x 5 minutes, ISO 800

Sensor temp: +39-43C

60 darks, 60 flats, 100 bias

 

Equipment: Canon t2i, Orion 8" Astrograph, Atlas EQ-G

 

Guiding: SSAG, Orion ST80, PHD

 

Accessories: Astronomik CLS, Baader MPCC

 

Acquisition: EQMOD, Cartes du Ciel, Backyard EOS

 

Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Pixinsight, Photoshop CS6 (for mask fine-tuning)

 

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