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August 19th, 2017
Our most nearby galactic neighbor. My first time imaging this relatively large angular object, had a problem with hot pixel streaking (added random noise in post to suppress but it's a problem I encounter sometimes with my canon) . It's definitely not one of my best but it's still my start of galaxy imaging. Object was also located in a more light polluted portion of my sky so the work to eliminate that was more difficult as well. Will most likely have to shorten exposures next time.
Capture:
Orion Newtonian Astrograph 8"
(F/4): Canon 550D
Exposures: 16x119"
ISO 1600
Stacking: DeepSkyStacker
Processing: Photoshop for curves, color alteration, noise reduction.
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
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.
Taken using Skywatcher 80ED Pro, Nikon D3300, 1213x30" lights (ISO 3200), 100 flats, 110 bias. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.
Taken using Skywatcher 80ED Pro, Nikon D3300, 213x30" lights (ISO 3200), 100 flats, 110 bias. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop
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
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.
Veil nebula
The Veil Nebula complex is huge, covering about 7 moon widths on the sky, so I can’t get it all into one image. This image shows NGC6960 (sometimes called “The Witch’s Broom”), Pickering’s triangle, and NGC6979. All of these objects are part of a supernova remnant.
The supernova that created the Veil Nebula happened between 5000-8000 years ago and the nebula has been expanding ever since. The glowing gas is mostly hydrogen and sulphur (red) and oxygen (teal) whose atoms are being excited by the pressure waves created by the massive supernova explosion. The progenitor star whose explosion created this object was about 1,470 light years away.
Image details
Location: Filiates Thesprotias(Greece)
Exposure time 3:00 Hours
William Optics Star 71mm f/4.9 Astrograph
Neq6 Equatorial Mount with autoguider
Canon 60d Modified
Pre Processing Deepskystacker
Post Processing Photoshop CS6
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
I gave Thor's Helmet (NGC 2359) a shot last year, but this time around I was able to get some more well-rounded data across the various narrowband wavelengths. While this nebula emits primarily in Oxygen-iii, it still has some Hydrogen-alpha and Sulfur-ii data emissions that I was able to more appropriately include (to some degree this time).
This nebula's path across my night sky has it only going above the trees for a brief window (a few hours) on a given night, so this image came from two nights toward the end of December. Each exposure was three minutes long, and I was able to get about 2.5 hours of time on both nights. Individual exposures were stacked in DeepSkyStacker and then the wavelengths were aligned and mapped to the Hubble palette in PixInsight before doing my final tweaks to taste in Lightroom.
Scope: Skywatcher 150PDS
Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM with ZWO EFW and filters
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.
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.)
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.
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)
One for the Trophy cabinet :-)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191014.html
twitter.com/apod/status/1183767014789308417
APOD Discussion about this Image:
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.
Known as the Cocoon galaxy.
The smaller companion galaxy is NGC 4485. Referred to collectively as ARP 269.
The galaxies passed close to or through one another sometime in the past and, it's almost certain gravity will bring them back together several billion years in the future.
The red/pink areas are prime star forming regions where dense clouds of ionised hydrogen are irradiated by ultraviolet light from the hot, young stars within.
ARP 269 can be found in Canes Venatici some 24 million light years away. The two galaxies having now passed by one another are now approximately 24,000 light years apart.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair 60mm 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 60 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools.
Open star cluster located approximately 385 light years from Earth.
The faint reflection nebulosity (forming the Maia and Merope Nebulae) visible around the hot blue stars is caused by light from the stars reflecting off dust in the surrounding interstellar medium.
Exposure: 100 x 15s exposures @ ISO2000 equiv. Darks & bias/offset, no flats. Total integration time: 25 mins.
Camera: Canon EOS 7D MKII
Lens: EF 70-200mm 1:2.8 L USM @ f/3.5. 200mm (x1.6).
Filters: None
Mount: Piggy-backed on 8" Meade LX10. Rough polar alignment.
Guiding: None
RAW images calibrated & stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PSPx9
[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
WARNING!! Original size image contains 39 tiny megapixels*!
Constellation Cygnus, the Swan, is in the trend now, so I want to participate. The black gap in Milky Way (sometimes reffered as the Nothern Coal Sack :) where the Swan resides, is full of emission nebulae, so it is there I pointed the camera this time.
SWANS stands for Semi-Wide Angle Nebulae Survey. I'm a big fan of the way how NASA and CERN name their experiments and missions.
Lots of upgrades in all aspects of imaging. Prime lens, UHC filter, firmware hack in camera, three overlapping datasets collected in two nights, artificial flat-field image, automatic stitching, formalized processing in Photoshop. This is the positive side. On the other hand, the second night of imaging brought with it the hazard of dewing. That was the negative experience. Cost me a lot of precious time.
Some trailing is apparent at 1:1 view and bugs me, but with the arrival of polar finder it wouldn't be an issue anymore, I hope.
Another issue is the inconsistency of data, since the "Albireo" panel is this image and it differs from two other in ISO value (3200 vs 2000) and in amount of data (10 subframes vs 29 and 20, respectively).
And yet another bit of information: the Crescent nebula (see note on the image) is an unusual object. It's an emission nebula produced from the outer layers of so called Wolf-Rayet star. These rare objects are massive - about 10-15 Solar masses - highly evolved stars that had lost the outer hydgrogen shells and are in fact the exposed helium cores that produce tremendous amount of energy and dense streams of "stellar wind". Amazing objects :)
Aquisition time: 03 and 04.08.2013 between 00:00 and 01:40 MSK (UTC+4)
The Sun's deepest dive was -17° @01:30, so stricktly speaking I was imaging in the dusk.
Equipment:
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro USM lens and Baader Planetarium 2" UHC filter mounted in front of the lens via step-down ring attached to Canon EOS 60D running Magic Lantern 2.3 firmware override riding on Vixen Polarie tracking platform over photo-tripod (alltogether codenamed "Anywhere Is, SWANS configuration").
Aperture 21,4 mm
Focal length 60 mm
Tv = 60 seconds (Magic Lantern's bulb timer and intervalometer rock the suburban skies :)
Av = f/2.8
ISO 2000 for "Deneb" and "Sadr" areas and 3200 for "Albireo" area
Exposures: 29 for "Deneb" area, 20 for "Sadr" area, 10 for "Albireo" area (plus 10 dark frames and 10 offset frames plus 2 fake flat-field frames).
Processing: Contrast was set to "linear" for all images in Canon DPP and 16-bit outputs were fed to DSS.
Flat-field images were made by applying Gaussian Blur of 250 pixel radius to a randomly chosen image from the series. After blurring the histograms were adjusted to end at 70% of saturation. Since I have aquired three series of overlapping fields, I made a Master Flat by combining fakes from both series. Works fine - without it the Veil nebula can't be seen due to vingetting.
16-bit stacking results were then processed in Photoshop with AutoContrast and Levels (namely gamma was set to 3,5), stiched in Microsoft ICE (that's coool!) and back in PS Curves were applied(skewed sigmoid curve was applied at first step, and at step two the segment of red and blue curves corresponding to the brightness of nebulae was elevated).
* 1 Megapixel = 1048576 pixels.
NGC4565 Needle Galaxy
C-11 @ F/2 Hyperstar CGEM-DX on Pier
OverallQuality = 1530.38 in Deepskystacker
41 subs 60 sec iso1600 unguided
5 flats
5 darks
5 bias
Total integration 41 minutes.
Canon 450D Full spectrum - self Mod
Filter - LPS2
seeing - better than normal
1st time on target
M82 (Cigar Galaxy) taken on the evening/morning of 9-10 Oct 13.
H-Alpha - 7x900s
Red/Blue - 9x600s
Green - Synthesized from Red & Blue channels.
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker & processed in PS2.
Camera: Atik 314L+
Filters: Baader H-Alpha 7nm, Red & Blue
Scope: Celestron C8 with 6.3 F/reducer.
Mount: AZ EQ6-GT goto, PhD guided with Orion SSAG through OAG.
Telescope: Celestron 8" newtonian reflector, C8N
Camera: Canon 6D (unmodified)
Exposure: 105x2min, ISO 800
Coma corrector: Baader MPCC
Filter: Orion Skyglow imaging filter
Mount: CGEM DX
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)
Taking advantage of a clear night for some astrophotography loving. Oh, and read the lovely interview I did for Meera Sethi at Inkling Magazine: www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/qa-phillip-chee
Used my 10" f/4 Newtonian and Atik 314L with narrowband filters to capture 6 subs at 5mins each in OIII and 8 subs at 5mins each in Ha. Stacked both image sets in Deepskystacker and colour combined (Ha,Ha,OIII) in Maxim D/L 4. Final processing carried out in Photoshop. Image taken 9/10/15
This is two interacting galaxies, NGC 4490 being the larger, and NGC 4485 being the smaller one above.
They have already passed by one another, but interacted heavily with each other as they went. They are still connected by a stream of material stretching some 25 light years.
The pinkish spots on NGC 4490 are area's of intense star birth which have been triggered by the close fly by from NGC 4485.
They have passed through each other now, however gravity may well just pull them back together and smash them in to each other again and again over billions of years.
We are safe here for now. This is all happening about 24 million light years away in the constellation of Canes Venetici.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector
HEQ5 pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & GPcam setup
Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.
67 exposures of 133 seconds at ISO 800
Stacked together with 20 each of Flats, Darks, Dark Flats & Bias calibration frames.
Processed with Deep Sky Stacker & StarTools.
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 in GIMP, taken July 30 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
Reprocessed Aug. 2 without using a luminance layer, to keep emission nebulae red; I like the colors much better now and the Seahorse Nebula also pops better in this version. I decided several months ago to use luminance layers in processing after getting some nice results, but after reprocessing several images without luminance and getting better color results, I'm thinking using a luminance layer is now the exception rather than the rule for me.
M45 Pleiades: Star Cluster of the City of Durham
Equipment used:
136X100",SVR90T OTA, Canon T3i, AP900, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop levels, curves, blending, guided with ZWO174mm and Canon 200mm f2.8.
The universe is in constant motion in many ways, ranging from slow movement following nice, predictable, easy-to-understand Newtonian physics to mind-blowing accelerating cosmic expansion. Please refer to Monty Python's Universe Song for more information! The black smudge along the bottom is a line of trees at the edge of the field I was shooting from, blurred by the motion of the sky tracker which rotates the camera at the same rate as the Earth, pointing continuously in a fixed direction in the sky. Really, it's nowhere near as complicated as it sounds! :)
Taken under the glorious dark sky of Killarney Provincial Park in Ontario, located about 30,000 light years from the centre of the Milky Way galaxy!
Nikon D610
AF-S Nikkor 50 mm f/1.4G @ f/2.8
Vixen Polarie
Hoya RA54 (didymium)
iso 400
24 lights de 30"
24 darks
12 flats
12 bias
Encuadre y enfoque: APT
Utilidad astro para DSLRs Nikon: Dark current enable tool
Calibrado, registro y apilado: DSS
Post-procesado: Startools demo: Develop, crop, wipe, color
Captura de pantalla de startools demo.
Salou, Tarragona
Agosto 2020
Bright supernova in M101.
A stack of the best 27 of 30x60s exposures using a QHY22 camera on a TS Imaging Star71 - 71mm f/4.9 Imaging APO telescope. Unguided. CLS filter. Flats, darks and bias applied. 2x2 binning.
Calibration and stacking done in DeepSkyStacker and post-processing in PixInsight.
Nebulae area of constellation Cygnus in hydrogen alpha narrowband 3 panel mosaic. Each panel was stacked and processed with 24, 10min exposures for each panel: 24X600"
Equipment used:
Canon 85mm f1.8 lens at f4, ASI183mm camera, AP900 mount, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop levels, curves, blending, Sometimes guided with ZWO174mm and Stellarvue SVR90T.
I processed this photo in Photoshop CC. Can Deep Sky Stacker produce similar or better milky way landscape photo?
Location :CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date :2016-07-09
Author :Pierre Rougé
Scope :Newton Orion 200/1000 (f/5) + MPCC Baader
Autoguiding :Skywatcher Synguider (v1.1) & Meade ETX 70/350 mm
Camera :Canon EOS 400D (Digital Rebel Xti) refiltré Astrodon in Side (modded Astrodon in Side)
+ EOS CLIP CLS Astronomik
Exposure :95 minutes [19 subexposures of 300 sec each (selected from 19)] @ ISO 800
Calibration :Dark & bias : 16/9 @ ISO 800 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 800
Weather :Très bonne transparence. Vent Nord-Ouest. T=24°C humidité faible.
Software Used :Astro Photograph Tool (v3.11), DeepSkyStacker, PhotoShop CS
This is my first image of 2021 and my first time using a hydrogen-alpha filter. It’s amazing how far away and faint this object is, but with the right equipment, hidden wonders beyond everyday light pollution can be uncovered.
I decided to go with a fiery look considering this was my first attempt with a Ha filter. The bright reds and burning oranges never get old especially when you understand this area in space is both a hot star-forming region and where tons of cold, dark gas come together to create beautiful, artistic silhouettes.
Telescope: Startravel 120/600mm
Camera: Astro-modified Canon 60D
Mount: Heq5 Pro
Integration: ~8.3 hrs
Filters:
30x600s using Astronomik 12nm Ha
20x600s using Lumicon UHC
ISO: 500
Location: Vancouver, BC
Bortle 8
Date: January 21 - February 11, 2021
Acquisition:
Astrophotography Tool
PHD2
EQMOD
Processed (in this order):
Deepskystacker
Siril
Starnet++
Photoshop
Denoise AI
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