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Milky Way, Ultra Wide Angle Canon Lens EF 16 35mm f2.8L II , Canon 40D, August 12, 2013, Tripod, 4 images 30 seconds each, DeepSkyStacker
Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF and Mars – 22x120s – 44 minutes
Stock Canon T2i – 70-200mm lens at 200mm f/4
Acquired using BackyardEOS and stacked in DeepSkyStacker 5.1.0
Imaged on February 11th, 2023 at the Danville Conservation Area (New Florence, Missouri).
Thanks go out to Bill Runge for letting me borrow his Canon lens for the night.
I added more expose time, and also this my first try at SHO (Hubble color pallet), and with Luminance from Ha.
OTA: Celestron C10N, 10" f/4.7 newtonian reflector
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM
Exposure: H-alpha 31x10min, O3 10x10min, S2 16x10min
Mount: CEM70G
Captured with SGP
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (light pollution zone: red)
I added another night of data onto my previous image of IC434. A little more lights helped with the general smoothness of the image. Setup and take down of my equipment multiple nights in a row will result in slightly different field of views which can make it difficult to align when stacking multiple imaging sessions.. luckily DeepSkyStacker could handle it easily with no hiccups. It took many hours in the freezing cold to capture this, layered up on lots of clothes to battle the outside temperature, 3 pairs of socks, 2 pairs of longjohns, 2 sweaters and goosedown jacket, toque, gloves, a thermos full of hot tea, but I still had to walk around the park a few times just to get feeling back in my toes.. And this is barely winter weather compared to the rest of Canada, Being the wet climate here though, the moisture seems to chill you right to the bone even when it is only a few degrees below freezing.
Lights: 40 x 4 mins
Darks: 34 x 4min
iso 1600
Canon 500d (Modified)
Skywatcher Esprit120
Antares ALP filter
NEQ6 + Synguider
Stacked in DSS and processed in Pixinsight
Location: Vancouver, BC
Light Pollution: Bortle Scale 7-8
Temperature: -3°C and -4°C
Messier 94 in Canes Venatici.
Taken from the Starshed Enterprise on 31st March 2020.
A stack of 10x300s exposures using a QHY22 camera on a TS Imaging Star71 - 71mm f/4.9 Imaging APO telescope. Autoguided using OAG. Flats, darks and bias applied.
Calibration and stacking done in DeepSkyStacker and post-processing in PixInsight.
QHY268M + Samyang 135mm f/2
Saxon AZ/EQ6 GT, no guiding
6nm filters Ha: 40x4 mins, Sii: 30x4 mins, Oiii: 30x4 mins
Calibration frames: 6 darks, 250 bias, 35 flats
Captured using Sharpcap Pro & ASCOM EQmod
Processed using DeepSkyStacker, Pixinsight, Photoshop, Lightroom & Starnet
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We had several clear nights on the bounce a week or two back, and I spent the time imaging this thing as Cygnus was still getting up above my house a little late. This is just short of 10 hours, but I put it away because I got the feeling it was out of focus when comparing it with the version I did back in 2011 with the 200p. The stars in the cluster don't look quite as tight as I think they should.
Whaddya reckon? Out of focus?
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 L 1.25'' Filter
Accessories
TSOptics TS Off Axis Guider - 9mm · Pal Gyulai GPU Aplanatic Koma Korrector 4-element
Software
Luc Coiffier DeepSkyStacker (DSS) · Topaz Labs DeNoise AI · INDILib · Starnet++ v2.0 · PHD2 Guiding · PhotoShop CS5 · FitsWork 4 · CCDCiel
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
GSO 8" f/5 Imaging Newtonian
Guiding Cameras
ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Acquisition details
Dates:
March 23, 2022 · March 24, 2022 · March 25, 2022
Frames:
Baader B 1.25'' CCD Filter: 18x300" (1h 30') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Baader G 1.25'' CCD Filter: 18x300" (1h 30') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Baader Ha 1.25" 7nm: 20x300" (1h 40') (gain: 200.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Baader L 1.25'' Filter: 62x300" (5h 10') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Baader R 1.25'' CCD Filter: 18x300" (1h 30') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Integration:
11h 20'
Continuing my collection of Not Comets (Messier objects), this is the hugely exciting M92. On its own it would be a reasonably bright cluster (not from my garden) - but when you're in the same constellation as M13, you tend to pale into insignificance.
Now the core of this was interesting. It seems to be a lot brighter even than the core of M13, and was well saturated at 180 seconds. I did some shorter subs to capture the core (10 seconds in fact) and manually stacked them because DSS just chucked out a grey splodge. Layered in, you can at least see some detail in the centre. This is a wider field of view, just to ring some changes.
Now, what next I wonder? :)
SW ED80/EQ5
Canon 500D modded, Baader Neodymium filter
93 x 180 sec subs, iso 1600
Acquisition: APT
Guiding: Quickcam Pro4000/9x50 finderscope, PHD/EQMOD/AstroEQ
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5.
12 subs of 300secs each which were captured using Canon 135mm f/2 lens (stopped down to 2.8) attached via a Geoptik adapter to a SX Trius 694 mono CCD were stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop CS2.
Taken 05/01/22
Much needed reprocess :)
This is a pigging thing! Either my skies ain't up to it or the ED80 is too slow, but this is 11 hours of hard work (well, sort of) and required no small amount of encouragement during processing. And the noise you wouldn't believe!
Unlikely to get the opportunity to add to it this year, so maybe next :)
No apology for the spikes - they hide a multitude of sins, and it is a christmas tree after all :)
SW ED80/EQ5
Nikon D70 modded, Baader Neodymium filter
162 subs, 3-6 mins, iso 800-1600, total 11 hours 2 minutes
Guiding (RA only): Quickcam Pro4000/9x50 finderscope, PHD
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5
Ha: 48 x 600 seconds, ISO 800
RGB: 40 x 480 seconds, ISO 400
50 darks, 50 flats, 200 bias for each
Total exposure time: 13+ hours
Equipment: Canon 450D (full spectrum mod), Orion 8" f/3.9 Astrograph, Atlas EQ-G, Astronomik 12nm HA filter
Software: Pixinsight, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop
Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, and Celestron AVX mount. Consists of 32 180-second light frames and 28 180-second dark frames, all at ISO 400, as well as 31 flat and 25 bias frames. Captured with BackyardEOS, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Photoshop. Diffraction spikes added with StarSpikes Pro.
Full spectrum modified Canon 6D on Skywatcher Esprit 100 APO F5.5 triplet refractor. The only filter used was an Astronomik L (UV/IR cut off filter) 43x240sec lightframes @ISO1600 (2.9 hrs) 65Bias frames, 20Flatframes, no darkframes. image date 11-sep-2015. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in Pixinsight. (DBE, background and colour calibration, histogram stretch, curves adjustment. No noise reduction.)
The Cone nebula and Christmas tree Cluster in Monoceros. Image dates: 16,17,18,19 & 20 feb 2017. 108x 240 seconds iso1600 with Esprit 100 triplet APO / Flattener/ Optolong L filter Canon 6Da on 10 Micron GM2000 HPS II mount. All exposures unguided. Stacked/calibrated in DeepSkyStacker with 150 Bias frames and 40 flat frames. Processed in Pixinsight.
Knight Observatory, Tomar
- www.kevin-palmer.com - Last night was one of the very few clear nights this month. There was just enough time after the quarter moon set to photograph comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy at a dark site. I was able to see the comet with the naked eye and I'm looking forward to it getting even brighter in a few weeks. The comet was passing right over the globular cluster M79 on this night, but it's hard to see in this picture. This is a stack of 12 2.5-minute images, plus dark and bias frames. It was shot with a Takumar 135mm f2.5 lens at f4, ISO 1000 and an iOptron Skytracker was used to track the stars.
Between 5000 and 8000 years ago a supernova exploded in the center of this region in the constellation Cygnus. Today we see the Veil or Cirrus nebula complex with the Eastern veil (NGC6995 left), Pickerings triangle (top right) and Western veil (NGC6960 right). Photographed with Canon 6Da / Esprit 100 APO refractor with Optolong L (IR/UV cut) filter. 39x240 seconds iso1600. Stacked with DeepSkyStacker using 48 dark frames, 30 Flat frames and 174 Bias frames. Processed in Pixinsight. Very little processing, HistogramTransformation, Curves adjustment. No noisereduction was used.
Full resolution (5618x3948) can be downloaded.
Knight Observatory, Tomar
SQM 20.8
Best view: press F11 for full screen followed by L for lightbox view.
Taken on 20th July 2020 with Nikon D850 and Nikkor 2.8/300mm at ISO 2000.
Stack of 200 x 1 sec in DeepSkyStacker, DBE in Pixinsight and final processing in PS.
Grande nébuleuse d'Orion (M42) Orion nebula
Nébuleuse de l'homme qui court (NGC 1975 et NGC 1977) Running Man nebula
Nikon D5100
William Optics ZenithStar 73
150x30 sec + DOF
F/5,9 -- Iso 200
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Traitement: DeepSkyStacker + Gimp (traitement draft)
AstroM1
(r.1.1.2-t2)
M51 Whirlpool galaxy
Image taken on 7th March 2019
Location was Rochdale, UK.
Equipment used was a Skywatcher 8" quattro steel tube on HEQ5 pro mount, no guiding.
Canon 1100d dslr camera with an intervalometer.
The final image is a combination of 100 sixty second exposures at ISO 800. Plus calibration frames consisting of 40 of each, darks, flats, dark flats and bias.
Software used to combine all the shots and create the final image was DeepSkyStacker, to stack all the images together. StarTools to process the final image.
Nikon d90(mod)
TS72 APO + TS72flat
settings: 432mm, f6, iso800, 120min
guiding:
ZWO asi120mcs
TS 50mm guidescope
Tracking: Skywatcher Star Adventurer
software:
guiding: phd2
Stacking: Deepskystacker 4.2.2
Processing: Adobe Photoshop, GradientXterminator, Nik software, HLVG
One for the Trophy cabinet :-)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191014.html
twitter.com/apod/status/1183767014789308417
APOD Discussion about this Image:
Taken using Skywatcher 80ED Pro, Nikon D3300, 1213x30" lights (ISO 3200), 100 flats, 110 bias. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.
This is the open star cluster NGC 2420 (also known as Collinder 154, Melotte 69) located in the constellation Gemini and it has an estimated age of 2.5 ± 0.5 billion years. The cluster counts about 685 member stars within a radius of 20 arc minutes, which corresponds to about 39 light years.
Designation: NGC 2420
Right Ascension (J2000.0): 07h 38m 23.8s
Declination (J2000.0): +21° 34' 27"
Visual magnitude: 8.3 mag
Tech Specs: Orion 8” RC Telescope, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at -10F, 54 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).
The Crescent Nebula.
Scope: William Optics z103 (710mm) x0.8 reducer
Camera: Nikon d600 (unmodified)
Filter: Optolong L-Enhance
Guidescope: Generic 50mm
Guide camera: ASI120MM mini
10 x 600s Lights
3 x Darks
Stacked using DeepSkyStacker
Stretched in Photoshop
Final edits in Lightroom
NGC 7027, also known as the Jewel Bug Nebula or the Magic Carpet Nebula, is a very young and dense planetary nebula located around 3,000 light-years (920 parsecs) from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. Discovered in 1878 by Édouard Stephan using the 800 mm (31 in) reflector at Marseille Observatory, it is one of the smallest planetary nebulae and by far the most extensively studied.
Observation data: J2000 epoch
Right ascension: 21h 07m 1.7s
Declination: +42° 14′ 11″
Distance: 3,000 ly
Apparent magnitude (V): 10
Apparent dimensions (V): 16" × 12"
Constellation: Cygnus
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at 0F, 81 x 60 second exposures, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in DSS and PixInsight. Image Date: August 25, 2024. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Image taken in October of 2010, but reprocessed on 10/13/11.
30 min total exposure, taken at Roxbury, NY.
Canon T1i, 200mm 2.8L lens. Drizzled at 2x (doubled resolution) in DeepSkyStacker.
I am no expert in astro-photography. Just wanted to try it once with my new D750 - the sensor is amazing! Nikkor 50mm/1.8, 55 frames à 5sec, ISO 6400, F=2.8 - Deep Sky Stacker software - The pink structure in the upper center close to Deneb is NGC 7000, the North America Nebula. --
Region der Milchstraße im Sternbild Schwan. Ein erster Versuch, die neue D750 in den Himmel zu richten. Der Sensor ist schon erstaunlich - so wenig Rauschen. Aufnahme-Ort: bei Lauffen bei Heilbronn, mittlere bis starke Lichtverschmutzung. Gut zu sehen sind Deneb (obere Mitte) und NGC 7000, Nordamerika-Nebel, als lila Struktur links davon.
Taken near Mariental (Namibia)
18x30s @ ISO 3200
(+12 blacks, +5 bias)
Equipment: Explore Scientific ED 80, iOptron Skytracker Pro, Canon EOS M3
Software: CHDK, DeepSkyStacker, Affinity Photo
As promised, here's Orion again but this time a 16 minute exposure made with eight 2-minute frames stacked in DeepSkyStacker and then postprocessed with Noel Carboni's Astronomy Photoshop actions.
OTA: Celestron C8N, 8" newtonian reflector and MPCC-III
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM
Exposure: RGB: 12x2min each, L:73x2min
Mount: CGEM-DX
Captured with SGP
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (light pollution zone: red)
Skywatcher 72ED Apo/field flattener,SX Trius 694/filterwheel/OAG (Lodestar)
riding on CEM60. 6x600 subframes taken through Ha and OIII filters,stacked in Deepskystacker,colour combined in Maxim DL4 (Ha,OIII,OIII) processed in Astroart 8 and PS CS2.
Taken 31/10/21
Equipment: Newton 250/1000, EQ6r-pro, Sony a6100
In three nights all together 65 light frame (ISO 3200, 300sec), 25 dark, flat and bias frames.
Processed in deepSkyStacker, Pixinsight and Photoshop
Location: Copernicus public observatory (Volkssterrenwacht), Overveen, The Netherlands.
Date & time: 18 february 2015, 21.50 Local Time (GMT+1).
Moonlit sky, moon low on the horizon, waxing crescent (21%).
Seeing moderate to good.
Telescope: Televue 85 refractor (f=600mm).
Lumicon UHC filter.
Camera: Pentax K-r SLR.
Mount: Paramount ME II; tracking only.
Software used: DeepSkyStacker, PhotoPlus.
10 lightframes @240s, 10 darkframes @240s, 10 biasframes, 10 flatframes; RAW-format @1600 ASA.
Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, and Celestron AVX mount. Consists of 42 120-second light frames and 45 120-second dark frames, all at ISO 800, as well as 32 flat and 50 bias frames. Captured with BackyardEOS, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Photoshop.
M31 - two panel mosaic
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 G 1.25'' CCD Filter · Baader R 1.25'' CCD Filter · Baader L 1.25'' 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:
Sept. 18, 2020
Frames:
Baader B 1.25'' CCD Filter: 5x300" (25') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Baader G 1.25'' CCD Filter: 5x300" (25') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Baader L 1.25'' Filter: 10x300" (50') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Baader R 1.25'' CCD Filter: 5x300" (25') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Integration:
2h 5'
Another clear sky, albeit with half a moon :)
Continuing my obsession with all things cluster, this is M67 in Cancer. Apparently there are few Galactic clusters known to be older (this is something like 4 billion years old), and none of them are as close as M67, so it is the subject of much study (according to Wiki). Slight variation in the spikes on this one, just to ring the changes :) A little noisy, but I had some trouble retaining the colour so decided to put up with it.
SW ED80/EQ5
Canon 500D modded, Baader Neodymium filter
60 x 180 sec subs, iso 800
Acquisition: APT
Guiding: Quickcam Pro4000/9x50 finderscope, PHD/EQMOD/AstroEQ
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5.
Messier 31, the Andromeda Galaxy, looks much better photographed from the dark sky of Killarney Provincial Park than downtown Burlington!
Taken with a Canon 70D fitted with a Sigma 50mm Art Lens mounted on an iOptron SkyTracker. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, ten 60 second light frames shot at f/1.6, ISO 1600, with in-camera noise reduction on, and ten bias frames, no flats.
A guided image of the open star clusters M35 and NGC 2158 in Gemini taken last night using a ZWOASI183MC Pro astronomy camera on an Astro-Tech 70ED refracting telescope with a .8 focal reducer. Thirty 30 second images were processed using DeepSkyStacker, Adobe Lightroom, and Topaz AI. NGC 2158 is the smaller cluster on the top of the image and is at a distance of 14,700 light years from Earth. The larger cluster in the middle of the image is M35 and it is at a distance of 2800 light years from Earth. M35 is estimated to about 100 million years old where as NGC 2158 is thought to be about two billion years old. The bright star at the bottom on the image is 5 Geminorum. It is an orange giant at a distance of 568 light years from Earth and is 20.5 times the Sun's diameter in size.
Askar FRA400 with Altair Hypercam 533C
RGB 26 x 120s
Processed with Deep Sky Stacker and Affinity Photo
I'm still working on MPCC-III spacing and focuser tilt. The previous MPCC was much more forgiving, but it suffered from red reflections on the backside.
OTA: Celestron C8N, 8" newtonian reflector and MPCC-III
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM
Exposure: RGB: 15x2min each, L:85x2min
Mount: CGEM-DX
Captured with SGP
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (light pollution zone: red)
Yep, my first comet :) 5,5m - not bad to try for the first time. If not the Moon :(
Left image is what I consider "normal", the right image is overcooked to drag out, kicking and screaming, what I think is the comet's tail.
Acquisition time: 07.01.2014 22:22-22:58 MSK (UT+3), comet's maximum elevation for me was around 22:41 MSK and peaked at 31° 37'.
Equipment: Canon 60Da with Astronomics CLS-CCD clip-in filter and Baader Planetarium MPCC MkIII coma corrector on Celestron OMNI XLT 150 mm Newtonian reflector riding on Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro.
Exposures: 33 @ISO800 55 seconds with 48 darks, 60 offset frames and 50 flat field frames.
Capture software: Magic Lantern
Processing: images were stacked in DSS in comet tracking mode and stacking result was post-processed in Photoshop.
Note: the Moon: -11,8m, 93,4% full, 19° 07' high.
Note 2: DeepSkyStacker is clever. Of 33 frames I have used it had mistaken the star for the comet on just one frame. Predictive powers :)
The area around Orion's belt, taken with an old 135mm lens on 350D - about 8 x 3mins stacked in deepskystacker
Canon 20D, Tamron 18-250mm @18mm, f/3.5, H1 (3200) ISO, 15 Second Exposure
Stacked 40 light frames with Master Dark and Flat Frames, (each made from 20 shots) and made curves and saturation adjustments in Deep Sky Stacker.
Post Processed in Photoshop CC with Astronomy Tools Actions, using a number of light pollution and noise filters.
Image taken in New South Wales, Australia.
[edit: fixed the color balance a little]
:) finalmente l'80ino tripletto e' stato sistemato dal buon Giuliano di tecnosky, e ho potuto scattare queste due nebulose, prima che passi il periodo e non si vedano fino al prossimo anno
Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: Apo triplet 80/480
Camere di acquisizione: Canon / CentralDS EOS Astro 50D
Montature: Sky-Watcher EQ6 Pro
Telescopi o obiettivi di guida: 60/228
Camere di guida: lacerta mgen2
Riduttori di focale: 0.8X flattener/reducer
Software: DeepSkyStacker, Adobe Lightroom 3, Noel Carboni's Astro Tools for PhotoShop
Date: 10 agosto 2013
Luoghi: Monte Leone, Niella Belbo(CN)
Pose:
Astronomik CLS CCD clip in: 12x360" ISO1600 4C bin 1x1
Astronomik CLS CCD clip in: 3x520" ISO1600 4C bin 1x1
Integrazione: 1.6 ore
Dark: ~22
Flat: ~22
Scala del Cielo Scuro Bortle: 2.00
Temperatura: 20.00