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Here's Comet C/2013 US10 (Catalina) above Alpha Centauri at about 8pm last night. At the moment it is gliding through the Milky Way starfields in the southern constellation Circinus. This untracked image is a 22 x 4 sec exposures taken with a Canon 6D and 70-200mm lens at f/4 and 21800 iso, stacked using DeepSkyStacker and processed in Lightroom 5.
Some of the brighter stars and star clusters are labelled in this image.
Distancia: 1350 años luz
Información sobre la nebulosa de Orión: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/M42
Constelación: Orion
Camera: Canon T1i unmodified
Exposure: 1hr 40 min (20 x 5 min) at ISO 800
Capturing software: Backyard EOS
White balance: Custom
Mode: RAW
Focal ratio: f6.3
Telescope: Celestron C6 SCT OTA
Filter: Astronomik CLS Light Pollution Filter - Canon EOS Clip
Mount: iOptron iEQ45
Guiding: Orion StarShoot Autoguider with PHD and Stellarvue F60M3
Dithering: Yes
Calibration: 30 flats, 24 darks, 31 flat darks
Processing: Stacking in Deep Sky Stacker, PixInsight
Date: 30-Dec-2011
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
IC405 Flaming Star Nebula - 13 and 15/01/12 - 8" reflector on HEQ5 mount - QHY8L CCD camera + Coma Corrector + LPR Filter, prime focal, guided with SPC880 webcam FinderGuider and PHD, 36 frames (600sec) Total Exp:6h20m + 29 darks + 29+49 EL panel flats, captured with Nebulosity 2, stacked with DeepSkyStacker, post-processed with Capture NX2/Nebulosity 2
Reprocessed with drizzle and PSF sharpening/deconvolution
Acquisition details:
OTA: Celestron 10" f/4.7 newtonian reflector, C10N
Filter: Orion Skyglow Imaging filter
Corrector: MPCC
Mount: Celestron CGEM DX
Camera: Canon 450d mod BCF, 40°F
Exposure: 16x2min ISO 400
Guided with PHD, SSAG, Orion 50mm guide scope
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)
Milky Way between the constellations eagle (Aquila) and Swan (Cygnus)
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Teleskop / Kamera:
Montierung: Star Adventurer
Optik:60mm f/3.5
EF-S60mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Kamera: Canon EOS 650D
Guider: -
Filter:-
Aufnahmedaten:
Zahl der Aufnahmen: 20
Brennweite:60 mm
Öffnungsverhältnis: 3,5
Belichtungszeit pro Aufnahme: 30 sek.
Empfindlichkeit ISO-Wert: 1600
Darkframes -
Flats -
Bildbearbeitung:
DeepSkystacker:
Standard / Light = Durchschnitt / Ausrichtung= Automatsch / 100% der Bilder
Photoshop Elements 10:
Tonwertkorrekur, Sättigung
Bode Galaxy/Galaxia de Bode (M81) and Cigar Galaxy/Galaxia del Cigarro (M82)
The Bode and the Cigar Galaxy are 12 million light years apart and located in the constellation Ursa Major. The first is a spiral galaxy with about 250 billion stars, and the second is a long, narrow irregular galaxy with about 30 billion stars.
La galaxia de Bode y la galaxia del Cigarro están a una distancia de 12 millones de años luz y están ubicadas en la constelación de la Osa Mayor. La primera es una galaxia espiral con alrededor de 250.000 millones de estrellas y la segunda es una galaxia irregular alargada y estrecha con cerca de 30.000 millones de estrellas.
- Date/Fecha: 21/08/2020
- Location/Lugar: Piedrafita de Jaca - Huesca (42°42'4.4"N 0°19'52.6"W)
GEAR/EQUIPO
- Tracker/Montura Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi
- Guiding with QHY 5L-II Mono and guidescope EZG-60
- Camera Sony ILC3-A7M3 Modo APS-C
- Lens Sony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
IMAGE/IMAGEN:
- 85 Lights at 900mm, ISO 10000, 20seg, f6.3
- 20 Darks at ISO 10000, 20seg, f6.3
- Total time of exposition/Tiempo total de exposición 28min. 19seg.
SOFTWARE
- Stellarium Scope & Stellarium to guide the tracker
- Stacked with DeepSkyStacker
- Guiding with PHD2
- Image viewer Adobe Bridge
- Image processing with Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe Photoshop CC
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Except for the rings of Saturn, the Ring Nebula (M57) is probably the most famous celestial band. Its classic appearance is understood to be due to our own perspective, though.In this well-studied example of a planetary nebula, the glowing material does not come from planets. Instead, the gaseous shroud represents outer layers expelled from the dying, once sun-like star, now a tiny pinprick of light seen at the nebula's center. Intense ultraviolet light from the hot central star ionizes atoms in the gas. In the picture, the blue color in the center is ionized helium, the cyan color of the inner ring is the glow of hydrogen and oxygen, and the reddish color of the outer ring is from nitrogen and sulfur. The Ring Nebula is about one light-year across and 2,000 light-years away.
Source of explanation: NASA
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy from Ireland
Skywatcher 200PDS, Canon 1100D
3X60s ISO800
Darks, Bias & Flats
DSS + PI + CS5 processing
11 x 4-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/4. Manually guided off-axis. Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" Newtonian reflector telescope.
Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; initial curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; final curves & colour-balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro; noise reduction via CyberLink PhotoDirector.
All i can find about this nebula is that it has number 289 in Lynd's Catalog of Bright nebulae. It is not bright at all and "Hidden" in a dense Milky way star field. In the middle of the field of view we can see an open star cluster with code DO45. The location is: RA 21h12m, DEC 37D00m.
Canon 6Da on Esprit 100 triplet APO with Optolong L filter. 51x240sec iso1600 48darks, 30flats, 174bias frames. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, Processed in Pixinsight.
Knight Observatory, Tomar
- Canon 7D Mark II
- Orion 8" f/3.9 Astrograph
- Baader MPCC Mark III Coma Corrector
- Orion Atlas Pro Mount
- ZWO ASI 120MC-s guide camera w/ 60mm guide scope
- 20 x 300 second Lights ISO 1600. Dithered each frame
- 10 flats
- No dark or bias
- Captured with BackyardEOS
- Guided with PHD2
- Stacked with DeepSkyStacker
- Processed in Pixinsight
- Imaged on July 1st 2016 at the Golden State Star Party
More info - www.youtube.com/watch?v=trkccIaMYIs
The Great Andromeda Galaxy, wide field.
Fotografia a largo campo della Grande Galassia in Andromeda
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-Massa, 44° 2'31.08"N 10° 7'9.22"E
-29/09/2011 10 p.m.
-Canon 450D
-Pentacon 2.8/135
-Heyford EQ8
-27 lightframes (20s, 135mm, f/4, iso 800)
-27 darkframes
-Backyard Eos
-Deepskystacker
-Photoshop CS 2
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SW Esprit 150ED Apo triplet with 0.77 reducer/flattener,SX Trius 694 with SX filterwheel/OAG (Lodestar guide camera) loaded with Baader narrowband filters,CEM60.
Three subs at 900 seconds each stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in PS CS2.
Taken 03/10/21
Couldn't resist this :) I knew there was more there, and there is, but I may have pushed it a little too far. There's only the very faintest suggestion of nebulosity to the right (south) of the loop, and I can't bring it out. When the moon's gone, I'll give it another go. First iteration
Is this an improvement, or is this too "in ya face"? Despite appearances, it's just this side of being clipped.
Nikon D70 modded, 55-200 Nikkor at 55mm (cropped), f5.6, 1600iso, Baader Neodymium filter.
51 x 3 min, unguided EQ5
Darks, flats and bias
Stacked and processed in DSS and CS5
On a whim I decided to go to the big annual Oregon Star Party, an amazing event for astro-nerds and fellow travelers that's held out in the boonies about a 4-1/2 hour drive from Portlland, and 1 1/2 hours east from Prineville in the Ochoco National Forest.
At the swap meet I bought a decent amature 8-inch telescope, but this photo was taken with my Canon T1i with the 18-55 lens zoomed to the widest view. The only trick was taking lots of 20-second exposures at ISO 3,200. This is the result of stacking 24 images with DeepSkyStacker. I didn't set out trying to get this kind of image, but rather trying to capture more meteors. No meteors showed up, but thanks to some tips from the astro-nerds I discovered photo stacking. It sure brings out the stars, the Milky Way, and the Andromeda Galaxy!!
Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, and Celestron Advanced VX mount. Consists of 38 light and 38 dark frames, each a 60-second exposure at ISO 800, stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.
10" f/4 Newtonian and modified Canon 1100D c/w UHC filter. Captured 5 subs at 5 min exposure at ISO 1600 using capture software BackyardEOS . Stacked in Deepskystacker and processed using Nebulosity 4 and Photoshop,no darks nor flats subtracted. Image taken early hours of 9/9/15
FSQ106ED + QE0.73X + EOS6D(SEO-SP4)
40x300sec (Ambient +11C) ISO1600
on SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6GT
(Total:200min)
Guiding: ASI120MM + 50mm
DeepSkyStacker, StellaImage7, Photoshop CC2015
Locations: Kamogawa Sports Park, Kibichuocho, Okayama, Japan
Oct. 2016
Using new techniques i've recently learned on cancelling out light polution in Photoshop, I decided to put it to the test and have re-processed this image taken last year of the Orion Nebula. It takes a little time to do but the results are well worth it compared to my earlier attempt seen here.
Nikon D7000 mounted on an AstroTrac: 10 x 240sec 180mm f5.8, stacked in DeepSkyStacker.
I have done this image of a part of the Milky Way by stacking 67 images of 8 seconds each at 3200 ISO with my Canon EOS 600D (unmodified) equipped with a basic 50 mm f/1.8 II lens.
I used also as it can be seen, no tracking mount. Just a simple tripod.
For french speaking people (or you can translate the thing) I have writen an How-capture-the-Milky-Way tutorial, available on my Blog : astrospace-page.blogspot.fr/2014/12/tutoriel-photographie...
This part of the milky way is really pleasant for me because it hides reams of nebulas !
We can find on this picture :
- North America Nebula (NGC 7000)
- Pelican Nebula (IC 5070)
- Butterfly Nebula (IC 1318)
- Veil Nebula (NGC 6992 and NGC 6960)
CANON EOS 600D + 50 mm f/1.8 lens
f/1.8
67 x 8 secs
ISO 3200
Here is my first picutre of the Great globular Cluster in Hercule constellation taken last night.
The full moon was a bit disturbing and despite the polar alignement was not precisely made, I managed to get a result that I tought worst !
This image is made of 20 frames of 15 seconds each at ISO 1600 with a Canon T3i.
The telescope used is a 200/800 reflector (without coma corrector ^^)
20 x 15 secs (5 min) + 10 darks
ISO 1600
F/4
800 mm
A reprocess and uncropped version of another image of this pair I uploaded a few days ago. This one is the full field of view from my 80ED f/6.
Fireworks Galaxy NGC 6946 and Open Cluster NGC 6939
I've been experimenting with this image. It's a reprocess and uncropped version of the image I posted yesterday (bit.ly/2aZeH54). This time, I tried using the stacking in Photoshop instead of using my tried and true DeepSkyStacker.
What I find most interesting is that despite NOT using dark frames for noise reduction in this stack, the image actually turned out cleaner and with less noise than the version I stacked with DSS including dark frames. And I think the overall result is actually much nicer as a result of this.
That said, Photoshop lacks a lot of what I would consider critical features for doing this (like image quality estimation) and other tools, but in the case where I have a uniformly good data, the results were pretty astonishing.
Nikon D5100
Explore Scientific ED80
Celestron AVX mount, unguided
1H 30m of 2 min exposures @ ISO 1600
Milky Way (stacking): 40 pictures (ISO 1600; 4sec; f2.0) stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Olympus OMD-EM10 MKII + Zuiko 17mm 1.8
Clear sky here last night so I took my camera to the outskirts of our city and pointed it in the direction of Orion for some shots. DeepSkyStacker used to stack 11 frames (f5.6 10 sec exposures at ISO 4000!)
Explanation: The first hint of what will become of our Sun was discovered inadvertently in 1764. At that time, Charles Messier was compiling a list of diffuse objects not to be confused with comets. The 27th object on Messier's list, now known as M27 or the Dumbbell Nebula, is a planetary nebula, the type of nebula our Sun will produce when nuclear fusion stops in its core. M27 is one of the brightest planetary nebulae on the sky, and can be seen toward the constellation of the Fox (Vulpecula) with binoculars. It takes light about 1000 years to reach us from M27, shown here in colors emitted by hydrogen and oxygen. Understanding the physics and significance of M27 was well beyond 18th century science. Even today, many things remain mysterious about bipolar planetary nebula like M27, including the physical mechanism that expels a low-mass star's gaseous outer-envelope, leaving an X-ray hot white dwarf.
Source of explanation: NASA APOD
Object Details: Having been in the midst of thunderstorms for the past several days, not to mention the nearly full moon at the moment; the peak of this year's Perseid meteor shower has been a bit of a non-event in this area.
Therefore, I made the time to take a first look at some wide-field Milky Way images I took while attending my 31st annual Stellafane astronomy convention (held during the first weekend of August in Springfield, Vt, USA (it's 84th year)).
Although I concentrated mainly on visual observing this year, and had the pleasure of viewing dozens of objects through some excellent large binocs & 20" class dobs that my friends had brought, I did setup a Star Adventurer tracking mount & Canon 700D (t5i) with an 18-55mm 'kit' lens and used APT and a laptop to take a series of automated exposures.
Upon examining the resulting images I found that Mother Nature had brought me a small present the morning of my birthday by allowing me to capture one frame showing two meteors running nearly parallel along the portion of the Milky Way known as the Summer Triangle!
Image Details: Taken from the scope field at Stellafane 2019 by Jay Edwards on the morning of August 2nd using a Canon 700D (t5i) and standard 18-55mm 'kit' lens riding on a Star Adventurer tracking mount, the attached is a single 2 minute exposure at ISO 1600 with the lens set to a focal length of 21mm and an aperture of f/4.
As presented here, it has been calibrated with darks & bias frames (but not flats), was processed in a combination of DSS, PI & PSP, is shown uncropped, has been re-sized down to 2X HD resolution and the bit depth lowered to 8 bits per channel.
Although the meteors will most likely get lost (averaged out) in the process, I'm hoping to have captured some additional images of this region of a sufficient quality in order to process a stacked image in an effort to improve the Milky Way's signal-to-noise ratio.
After seeing these excellent photos right next to each other in my contact photo list, and seeing a clear night sky for the first time in 2008, I thought I'd snag an Orion Nebula shot of my own. That's the Running Man nebula near the top.
Canon XTi at prime focus of Orion SVP 80ED. Stack of 33 photos @ 30 seconds each, stacked in DeepSkyStacker.
It's an unremarkable photo as M42 shots go, but definitely one of my best.
The famous Double Cluster (a.k.a. h and Chi) in the constellation Perseus. Imaged with TAIR-3S @ f/5.6 on Samsung NX30 with Rollei Astroclear (anti-citylight) filter. 23 subs of 30 s exposure. ISO 3200.
Stacking with DeepSkyStacker. Post-processing with Aurora HDR 2018 (tonemapping, color corrections, HDR cosmetics) and ImageJ (2x2 binning, CLAHE filtering).
Data: 30/03/2016
Telescopio: Celestron CPC-800 xlt
Telescopio di guida:
Montatura: Celestron CPC-800 xlt
Camera di acquisizione: Canon 600D Baader
Camera di guida:
Pose: 30x30 s.
ISO: 3200
Dark: 69
Flat: 21
DarkFlat: 21
Bias: 211
Temp. sensore: 20 °C.
Temp. ambiente: 13 °C
Bortle: 7
Software di acquisizione: O'Telescope BackyardEOS 3.1.
Software di elaborazione: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop.
Luogo: Pedara (CT).
Here's Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy), which is currently visible in the evening sky. This image, which was captured through gaps in the cloud from Warrill View, south west of Brisbane. I'm not convinced that I could see the comet with naked eye, but it was very easily found with my 7x50 binoculars. This untracked image is 11 x 3 second exposures (taken with a tripod-mounted Canon 6D and 70-200mm f/4L at f/4 and 12800 iso), stacked using DeepSkyStacker. The tail is faintly visible towards the top of the image.
Localisation : CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date : 2017-02-16
Auteur/Author : ROUGÉ Pierre
Mouture/mount : Orion Atlas EQ-G
Tube/Scope : Samyang 500 mm F6.3 Dx
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 : 33 minutes [11 subexposures of 180 sec each (selected from 25)] @ ISO 1600
Calibration : Dark & Bias : 5/11 @ ISO 1600 - Flat : 11 @ ISO 100
Temps/Weather : Bonne transparence. Faible vent. T= 9°C. Humidité faible.
Constellation : Orion / Orion
Software Used : Astro Photograph Tool (v3.20), DeepSkyStacker 3.3.6, Pixinsight LE, PhotoShop 7, xnview, Noiseware Community Edition
28 x 5 minutes, ISO 800
40 Darks, 200 Bias
Equipment:Canon 450D (full spectrum modified), Orion 8" f/3.9 Newtonian Astrograph, Atlas EQ-G, Orion SSAG/ST-80, Baader MPCC
Aquisition: EQMOD, Cartes du Ciel, Backyard EOS, PHD
Calibration and 2x drizzle in DeepSkyStacker
Post-processing in Pixinsight
I usually crop my images down more than this but, there is a few clusters towards the edges and to the far right is IC 417. I may reprocess it at a later date and crop it right down to the fly nebula.
The Fly nebula lies in the constellation of Auriga. It is an emission nebula and a reflection nebula. Sometimes referred to as a mini version of the Orion nebula, as it has a star cluster, including it's own version of the Trapezium. Some estimates have the nebula at about 7,000 light years from us.
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.
Milkyway & Devils Tower, Wyoming Nigh landscape above the Wyoming's Bear Lodge Butte in Crook County bit.ly/2FAYvoG Canon eos 6D, EF85L2 1.2, 85mm, f/1.2, iso1600, 5X6sec, Deepskystacker
A deep 90mm view of the core of our galaxy from the pink lagoon nebula to the red cats paw and war and peace nebula. Intricate dark dust lanes and star clouds with millions of stars like our sun dominate the image. Somewhere in the centre lurks Saggitarius A* the supermassive black hole weighing 4 million times our sun.
25x1 minute exposures iso 1600.
OTA: Celestron C10N, 10" newtonian reflector and MPCC-III
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM
Exposure: Red=H-alpha 17x10min, Blue=OIII 17x10min
Mount: CEM70G
Captured with SGP
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (light pollution zone: red)
I wasn't going to process this because I had triple spikes around Alnitak following the addition of data from previous sessions and not realising that the camera wasn't aligned in the same way each time! Doh! So I cloned them out.
This looks more natural than my previous overprocessed/clinical efforts, although it needs shed loads more data of course, which I can't provide unguided. 1 hour 26 minutes in total.
9 March 2011 and before
200p, EQ5 unguided
Nikon D70 full spectrum prime focus
16 x 60sec
37 x 70sec
23 x 70sec
iso 1600
darks, bias and flats.
Stacked in DSS processed in CS5
M33 - Triangulum Galaxy
Spiral galaxy 2.73 million light-years distant
FINALLY got this image processed. Started gathering data for this project in early November 2020 but the weather has been so bad here in the UK, that I have given up trying to add further data to this image this. Only 6.6 hours total integration time sadly.
Quite happy with how it turned out though as I am still getting back into the hobby and learning all I can about post-processing. The dark arts are deep and mysterious in this hobby.
Comments welcome. Clear skies.
Acquisition Equipment
Camera - CANON EOS 60D - Modified
Filter - Astronomik CLS-CCD Filter
Telescope - Sky-Watcher 80ED w/Sky-Watcher .85x Reducer/Flattener
Focal Length - 510mm
F Ratio - F6.3
Mount - Celestron CG-5 Advanced GEM
Guide scope - Celestron 9x50 Finder
Guide Camera - QHY 5 Mono
Image Capture
Sub Frames - 106 Light, 50 Dark, 100 Bias, 100 Flat
Exposure - 66x180sec + 40x300sec
ISO - 1600
Total Exposure - 6 h 37 min
Acquisition Software
Capture/Sequence - N.I.N.A. - Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy
Plate Solving - ASTAP - Astrometric STAcking Program
Guiding - PHD2 - Open PHD Guiding
Planetarium - Stellarium
Processing Software
Stacking - DeepSkyStacker
Post-processing - Adobe Photoshop 2021
Links
Now the Moon has taken it's leave for a while, and Orion is showing himself at a reasonable hour, this is the next obvious target.
Canon EOS 20D, Asahi Super Takumar 200mm 1:4. 180 two-second untracked exposures at ISO 1600, combined with Deep Sky Stacker for an equivalent ~6 minutes.
William Optics Gran Turismo 71
Flat6AIII Flattener/Reducer 0,8x f=336mm
MGEN-3 Standalone Autoguider
ZWO ASI 533C
CLS Filter
4x300s, 4x180s
DeepSkyStacker, Gimp
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: 70 x 25s exposures @ ISO1600 equiv. Darks & bias/offset, no flats. Total integration time: 29 mins.
Camera: Canon EOS 7D MKII
Lens: EF 70-200mm 1:2.8 L USM @ f/5.0. 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. Annotated using PixInsight ImageSolver.
10 x 4-minute exposures (taken 26 March 2017) and 10 x 5-minute exposures (taken 21 February 2014) at ISO 1600, f/4. Manually guided off-axis. Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" Newtonian reflector telescope.
Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; initial curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; final curves & colour-balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro; noise reduction via CyberLink PhotoDirector.
Due to heavy wind, most of the sub frames were unusable, only 1/3 of the sub frames are stacked.
Time: 2019. 3. 13. 20:00 ~
Location: Boeun, South Korea (Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4)
Optics: Takahashi FS60CB with 1.7x Extender (600 mm ƒ/10)
Exposure: Sony A7s (Modified) ISO 12800 x 30s x 84 subs (with Dark, Flat, Bias frames)
Mount: Toast Pro (TP2)
Software: DeepSkyStacker, Astronomy Tools, GradientXTerminator, Adobe Photoshop
A bit cloudy last night, and moony, so just managed one hour on this. It tells me I need a flattener! :)
SW ED80/EQ5, cropped
Nikon D70 modded, iso 1600, Baader Neodymium filter
20 x 3 mins for a total of 1 hour
Guiding: Quickcam Pro4000/9x50 finderscope, PHD
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5
This is my first attempt at photographing the
milky way. It's difficult as there are few clear
sky nights and I live in very light area. It's much
darker here in Seaton and there's a nice open
view over the sea.
It is 25 photos, lights, darks and bias, stacked
with DeepSkyStacker 5.1.3. Rather than using
the raw files, I used JPEGs to cope with barrel
distortion. Saved result to clipboard and then
used paint to create a JPEG. Squared, framed
and colour balance changed using my software.