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Initial crude stacking of a set of 20x 1 minute exposures of M51 to show the Supernova that recently erupted. (Marked with black arrow, Approximate magnitude 14.5)
The supernova just looks like a small faint star, no brighter than most of the other faint stars in this image ... but keep in mind that it's in Galaxy M51, 31 Million light years away from us. The other faint stars are probably only thousands of light years away, and are within our own galaxy. The supernova could be 5000x further away!
Skywatcher Maksutov Newtonian telescope 190mm F5.3. LXD75 Mount. Canon T1i DSLR ISO800.
I took about 50 exposures mostly 1 minute each. Most of them are streaked too much to use even with my low standards, but I'm happy I was able to get some ok 1 minute shots, usually i can only do 30 seconds. I was setup on a cement patio tonight instead of in the grass which may have helped.
For this quick initial view I just had Deepsky Stacker use the 20 best exposures, I'll take a closer look at them in the next day or so and add dark and flat frames to help remove some of the noise and vignetting.
Orion Nebula in Orion - M42. 14 November 2010
Took this in a rush on 14 November 2010 after intending only to view it. The forecast was for fog but that didn't happen until much later. Quickly set up the camera, took 16 frames at 30 secs and 12 darks before the battery expired! Quick recharge and took 20 flats - processed in a hurry so that I could get to bed! Quite pleased with it really.
Re-processed here
First time I've imaged this compact globular. It's tricky because it's very low from the UK. This result is not great, but I'm posting it anyway, perhaps just for future reference.
13 x 1-minute exposures, ISO 3200, f/4. Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" Newtonian reflector telescope.
Frames registered and stacked in DeepSkyStacker software; curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; noise reduction in CyberLink PhotoDirector.
Image taken with a Nikon D750 and Zenithstar 61 scope, mounted to the iOptron SkyGuider Pro.
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, then processed in Photoshop.
NGC 5907
Sometimes known as Knife Edge or Splinter galaxy.
It's a spiral galaxy that appears edge-on from our viewpoint here on Earth.
It can be found in the constellation of Draco about 50 million light years away, it's roughly about 150,000 light years from one end to the other. Making it about 50% wider than the Milky Way.
First discovered by William Herschel on the 5th of May 1788.
It's quite a faint object, so best viewed on a big screen.
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.
Cámara Nikon D3100, lente Nikkor 135mm manual, trípode básico y Omegon Minitrack LX3. Una hora de exposición (capturas de 20 segundos) a f/2.8 e ISO 1600. Procesado con DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Gimp y Darktable
Nebulae and Milky Way in Cygnus.
11 x 3-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/4.
Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker software.
Unmodified EOS 40D with Canon 100mm f2.8 macro lens, piggybacked on a Celestron C8 telescope. Unguided.
While not coming anywhere near close to the grandeur of the M13 globular cluster, NGC 6229 is another 'glob' that can be found in the constellation of Hercules.
It's discovery is once again down to William Herschel. He discovered NGC 6229 on the 12th of May 1787.
235 Years ago now!
The cluster is approx 100,00 light years away from us. One theory of it's formation, is that it could be the left over stars from a dwarf galaxy that was absorbed by the Milky Way some time in the long distant past.
Boring techie bit below for those interested:
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.
45 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.
This is my second go at deep-sky imaging. Make sure you right-click and view the full-size image to get a better view of the Dumbbell Nebula.
Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, and Celestron CG-4 mount. Consists of 40 light and 20 dark frames, each a 30-second exposure at ISO 800, stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.
Taken using Skywatcher 80ED Pro (.85XFR), Nikon D3300, 194x30" lights (ISO 1600), 100 flats, 110 bias. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy passing as close as 8° to Pleiades. Taken at McDermott Court at MIT.
Camera settings: 50mm F/1.4 lens @ F/2.2, 2 sec. per frame, 682 frames, ISO 1250. Stacked with 54 dark, 30 flat, 64 dark flat, and 100 offset frames subtracted.
Stacking settings: comet stacking, average mode, center 50% cropped, 2x drizzle.
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Interpret has a literal meaning here. Unless we are in a very dark sky our eyes cannot see this scene fully in all its natural beauty. Instead we resort to modern digital trickery to "interpret" what we cannot literally see. Built up from six 30-second exposures an image is revealed that is the equivalent of 3 minutes of light gathering. What does this do for us? Contrast between the dust lanes in this arm of the Milky Way and literally a cloud of billions of stars. Oh, and light pollution from surrounding towns and cities.
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The Nocturnal Photographer 2010 Utata Project has been published!
Pentax K-5 + DA*200/2.8 + O-GPS1.
No equatorial mount !!!! just a standard tripod and a O-GPS1 unit on a Pentax DSLR
No dark, no flat field, no offset ! just lens corrections with Lightroom and fine tuning of the tonal curve
Images stacked with DeepSkyStacker
This image was an experiment with 10 second exposures. I think the 10s exposures worked fine. Total exposure was 20 minutes.
Lens: Sigma 135mm Art f/1.8, @ f/2.2
Camera: Canon 6D (unmodified)
Exposure: 120x10sec, ISO 12800
Filter: None
Mount: CG5-ASGT
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Davis Mountains, TX
Taken using Skywatcher 80ED Pro, Nikon D3300, 81x30" lights (ISO 1600), 100 flats, 110 bias. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop
My first attempt at pure astrophotography. Hardly what I had hoped for, but pretty amazing to be snapped from the backyard with a regular lens.
This was about 200 of the same photo aligned and stacked on top of one another. Such a different approach to regular photography with a particularly deep learning curve.
A triplet of galaxies in the constellation Leo taken with a ZWOASI183 Pro camera attached to a six inch f/4 astrograph telescope. 30 one minute images were stack with DeepSkyStacker and processed with Gimp, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz AI. The elliptical galaxies M105 is in the center right and NGC 3384 is on the center left. The spiral galaxy NGC 3389 is below NGC 3384.
Taken using Skywatcher 80ED Pro, Nikon D3300, 147x30" lights (ISO 3200), 100 flats, 110 bias. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop
Manually, off-axis guided for 11 x 5-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/4.
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; final noise reduction using CyberLink PhotoDirector.
1st outing with the Hyperstar
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Moon State: 1st Qtr (52%)
Total Exposure - 1hr 29 Min
12 x 240sec & 41 x 60sec
H-alpha data only
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker & processed in PS2.
Camera: Atik 490ex Mono
Filter: Baader H-Alpha f/2.
Scope:Celestron C8 with Hyperstar.
Mount: AZ EQ6-GT goto, PhD guided with Orion 50mm guidescope & SSAG.
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).
First decent stacked telescope image. Orion Nebula (M42). Focus and/or seeing could be better, but I am still learning. 21 frames x 6 second per frame (2 min, 6 sec) at 6400 ISO. 1350 mm at f/13 on a Celestron 4SE (no barlow). Stacked with DeepSkyStacker.
Pleiades Star Cluster in Taurus - M45. 16 October 2010.
My first attempt at deep sky imaging.
200p, EQ5, Nikon D40 at prime focus
Unguided, 60 x 30 second exposures
Darks only - no flats or bias
Stacked in DSS, processed in CS5 (and clipped in the process!)
I was quite happy with this as it was my first serious attempt.
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
Target:NGC2174 Monkey Head Nebula, HII emission in the constellation of Orion at 6400 light years distance.
Location:10/02/21 St Helens UK Bortle 8, no Moon.
Aquisition:27x 180 sec Ha, 24x 180 sec (OIII), 30x 180 sec (SII) @ Gain 139, Offset 21, Temp -15c. Total integration 243 min.
Equipment:Imaging: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED, HEQ5 Pro, ZWO ASI1600MM Pro with EFWmini and Baader narrowband filters.
Guiding: Skywatcher 9x50 finder with ZWO ASI120MM.
Software:Aquisition: NINA, PHD2, EQmod.
Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Photoshop, Starnet++.
Memories:A crisp Moon free evening with a few passing clouds. Ambient -3c.
Object Details: M101 is a face-on, grand design spiral galaxy lying approximately 21 million light-years from Earth.
Containing the equivalent of 1 trillion solar masses, it spans about 170,000 light-years from edge-to-edge.
Fairly large, it appears over 28 arc-minutes in diameter in our sky (i.e. approximately the size of the full moon),
and can be found in the constellation of Ursa Major.
The attached composite shows two views of M101 - a 'wide-field', taken with an 80mm apo & a 'close-up' taken with an 8-inch, f/7 newt. Many other smaller & fainter galaxies can be seen in both images.
In 8-inch image, at the very edge of the frame just above center can be seen NGC5477, a round galaxy glowing at magnitude 14.2, while at M101's 7 o'clock position (lower right of the brightest star in the frame) lies MCG9-23-25, a lenticular galaxy with a magnitude of 14.9.
Taking in a much larger portion of our sky, the 80MM wide-field image includes several others. In that image, at M101's 4 o'clock position is NGC 5474, a peculiar galaxy of a fairly rare category known as a dwarf spiral. Being the closest companion galaxy of the M101, NGC 5474's gravitational interaction with the much larger M101 has distorted it, resulting
in the disk being off-center to the galaxy's core. This 'lopsided shape' being quite evident in
the attached shot.
Given the orientation of the 80MM vs. the 8-inch images, NGC 5477 visible in the 8-in shot can be found near the 6:30 position in the 80mm image. To it's left are the round galaxy NGC 5473 at mag. 12.5, and below that the slightly larger and brighter NGC 5485; another round galaxy ,in this case at mag. 12.4, with NGC 5486 at mag. 13.8 at it's lower left.
To M101's upper left at the 10 o'clock position can be found NGC 5422. At mag. 12.8 it is a very elongated galaxy with a (relatively) bright core. Seen here somewhat edge-on,
it is classified as a type S0, which is an intermediate form between an elliptical and a spiral.
As a bonus, visible at M101's 5 o'clock position near the bottom of the frame (and unbeknownst to me at the time) - one of the 80mm subs also captured a meteor flaring as it passed through our atmosphere.
M101 is often referred to as the Pinwheel galaxy, it shares that moniker with the galaxy M33 in Triangulum.
Images of M33 can be found at the following links -
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/23134335865/in/album-72157605735221596/
and
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/24378124428/in/al...
Image Details: The attached images were taken Jay Edwards on March 26, 2019 simultaneously using (left) an 80mm f/6 triplet apochromatic refractor (ED80T CF) connected to a Televue 0.8X field flattener / focal reducer and (right) a vintage 1970 8-inch, f/7 Criterion newtonian reflector. The 80mm was piggybacked on the 8-inch, and the scopes utilized twin (unmodded) Canon 700D / t5i DSLRs.
These optics were tracked using a Losmandy G-11 mount running a Gemini 2 control system and guided using PHD2 to control a ZWO ASI290MC planetary camera / auto-guider in an 80mm f/6 Celestron 'short-tube' refractor which itself was piggybacked on top of the 80mm apo.
The attached composite image was constructed using fairly small stacks of short sub-exposures, and consists of only 42 minutes total exposure for the 80MM shot (i.e. 14 subs of 3 mins. each) & 45 minutes (45 of 1 min ea.) for the 8-in image (both in addition to applicable dark, flat & bias frames).
Processed using a combination of DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight and PaintShopPro, as presented here it has been re-sized down to HD resolution and the bit depth has been lowered to 8 bits per channel.
Given the relatively short exposures used I was fairly pleased with the results, and am hoping to capture deeper images this coming spring (as well as taking a little less than 8 months before first examining them ;) ).
Happy Thanksgiving To All! (where applicable)
Target:NGC 1491 Fossil Footprint Nebula, HII Region in the constellation of Perseus.
Location:06/01/2021 St Helens UK B8 no Moon.
Aquisition:39x 180s Ha, 40x 180s (OIII). Total integration 237 min.
Equipment:Imaging: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED, HEQ5, ZWO ASI1600MM Pro, Baader NB Filters.
Guiding: Skywatcher 9x50 Finder with ZWO ASI1200MM.
Software:Aquisition: NINA, PHD2.
Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Starnet++, Photoshop.
Memories:Ambient temp -2c, Clear moonless night. Fog in forcast but kept clear. Tripod stuck to ground in snow pulling off two of the feet when I moved it. Could not produce good results with SHO data so abandoned the (SII) and processed this image as HOO.
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.
15 @ 5 minutes each, ISO 800
20 darks, 30 bias
Equipment: Canon t2i (unmodded), Orion 8" f/3.9 Astrograph Newt., Atlas EQ-G
Guiding: Orion ST80, PHD, SSAG
Accessories: Baader MPCC, Astronomik CLS Filter (EOS Clip)
Software: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop CS5, Noiseware Community Edition, EQMOD, Backyard EOS
Total of 15 minutes' exposition time (Canon EOS 60D; 10 * 90 second frames @ 200mm, f/2.8, ISO 1600), stacked in DeepSkyStacker, with further processing in Canon DPP.
Cygnus part of the Milky Way - widefield (approx 35deg across) - 31-Jul-2014 Sigma 35/1.4 Art lens on iOptron Skytracker mount - Canon 60Da camera + Didymium LPR Filter, 18 frames (240sec) 35mm @ f/2.0 ISO400 - Total Exp: 1h12m + 26 Darks + 29 EL panel flats, stacked with DeepSkyStacker, post-processed with Photoshop CC/Lightroom
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.
A wide-field view of the Milky Way stretching from the constellation Sagittarius (The Archer) northward to the constellation Aquila (The Eagle). This photo reveals many of the dark nebulae and interstellar dust clouds that obscure both the center of our galaxy and the star clouds that form the spiral-shaped disk of the Milky Way (seen edgewise from our solar system's location in the galaxy).
This image is best viewed in the Flickr light box (press the "L" key to toggle the light box or click the following link):
Captured on August 24, 2011 between the hours of 10:19PM and 10:26PM PDT from a dark-sky location using a Nikon D5100 DSLR and a Nikkor 24mm AI 1:2.8 lens (ISO 6400, 10 seconds x 25 or four minutes and 10 seconds total exposure integration time, aperture not recorded).
Image stack created with DeepSkyStacker (25 "light" frames and 14 "dark" frames) with final adjustments done in Photoshop CS3.
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Had a bit of a play around with some old pics i had sitting around on my computer i took a few months ago to see how registax worked as i seemed to be getting alot of banding issues from using deepskystacker and cutting off parts of my image while working on the m42 constructive criticism welcome . this was stacked with about 6 images and processed in LR5
Drizzle 3x
Telescopio: ED80 Sky Watcher
Montura: LXD75 Meade
Cámara: Canon 1100Da
Guiado: MiniScope 50mm Orion, CámaraGuia/QHY5 L-II c
Adquisición: APT (AstroPhotographyTool)
Apilado y procesado: DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight LE, Photoshop y Lightroom
Tomas
RGB: 2x180 / 3x300s / 9x600s
Expo Total: 1h 48 min
Temperatura sensor: 8°C /12ºC
Distancia Focal: 600mm
F/ 7,5
celfoscastrofotografia.blogspot.com.es/2018/02/del-caball...
- 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 June 5h and 6th 2016 from the Grandview Campground in the White Mountains near Bishop, California.
Possibly my new favorite object. I love the contrast of colors and interesting detail in the various structures in the nebula. This is also where many months of work, testing, purchasing new equipment, troubleshooting, reconfiguring etc. are all coming together. I'm really pleased with this image!
More info - www.youtube.com/watch?v=trkccIaMYIs
Canon 6D
Sigma 120-400 @400mm
f 5.6
ISO 1000 e 1250
25 frames x 90 seconds
30 frames x 60 seconds
total exposure about 105 minutes
15+15 darks
25 bias
15+15 flats
First Semi-successful attempt at deep-ish sky astrophotography.
399 1 second images stacked in DeepSkyStacker shot with a nikon D600 and Nikon 70-200 f4 @f /5.6, ISO6400.
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 Sept. 1 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
Believe it or not we got a clear night down here a couple of days ago. Just two hours before the clouds rolled in again at 2am, but enough time to do 40 x 2 minute subs on this thing. First widefield of the season :) A little overcooked but I'll give it more time if the clouds ever go away. Nice to see the Crescent - more by chance than design :)
As always in this region - too many blasted stars! ;)
Nikon D70 modded, 55-200 Nikkor at 200mm (cropped) , f5.6, 1600iso, Baader Neodymium filter.
40x120sec subs for a total of 1hr 20mins, unguided EQ5
Darks, flats and bias
Stacked and processed in DSS and CS5
Autosave006
NGC2264 Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster (top left) and NGC2237 Rosette Nebula (right) widefield (approx 9deg across) - 19-Dec-2014 Zeiss Sonnar Apo 135/2 lens on Astrotrac TT320X-AG mount - Canon 60Da camera + Hutech IDAS LPR Filter, 38 frames (240sec) 135mm @ f/2.0 ISO400 - Total Exp: 2h32m + 20 Darks + 29 EL panel flats, stacked with DeepSkyStacker, post-processed with Photoshop CC/Lightroom/Nebulosity 3
19x240 seconds iso1600 with Skywatcher Esprit 100 triplet and Canon 6D full spectrum mod and Astronomik-L (IR/UV cut off) XL clip filter. captured with Backyard EOS+PHD2 with dithering every 5 frames. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker with 21 Flatframes and 65 Bias frames. Processed with Pixinsight 1.8 (DBE, backgroundcorr,SCNR,histogram,curves) Imaging date: august 18, 2015
Press L (followed by F11) for the best view.
Date: 03. 04. 2021, Mikebuda / Hungary
Equipments: EQ3 mount, DualAx motor, Skywatcher Explorer 150/750
Camera: Sony a6100
Photo: 110 light frame (30 sec, ISO 1600), 20 dark frame and 20 bias frame.
Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop
Campo amplio hacia el Sur-Sureste.
Nikon D90 - Nikon AF-S 50mm f/1.8 G
f/4 - ISO 400. 20 lights RAW de 30s + 20 darks + 20 bias. 10 minutos de exposición total.
Procesado con DSS + Adobe Photoshop CC.
Fotos tomadas en el observatorio de la Asociación Entrerriana de Astronomía, el jueves 21 de Noviembre de 2013, desde las 00:30 horas.
This photograph is of Comet Neowise which passes earth once in 6,800 years.
Also this photograph is a stack of 100 photographs.
I used Deepsky Stacker to stack the images which took many hours, then the result was Post Processed in Lightroom and Photoshop to be able to bring out as much details as I could which again took many more hours.
Gear used was Canon 5D Mark IV with Canon 100-400mm F/4.5 - 5.6L IS II USM Lens on a standard tripod.
Please make sure you increase the brightness of your screen to 100% to see it better.
Target:SH2-155 Cave Nebula a diffuse nebula in the constellation of Cepheus at 2400 light years distance.
Location:24/01/21 St Helens UK Bortle 8 87% Moon.
Aquisition:25x 180s Ha, 20x 180s (OIII), 20x 180s (SII). Total inegration 195 min.
Equipment:Imaging: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED, HEQ5 Pro, ZWO ASI1600MM Pro, Baader Narrowband Filters.
Guiding: Skywatcher 9x50 Finder, ZWO ASI120MM.
Software:Aquisition: NINA, PHD2, EQMOD.
Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop, Siril, Starnet++.
Memories:A clear, cold frosty night with snow on the ground. Attempted to gather more data a few days later but the moon was then at 96% with high cloud rendering them unusable.
Cencenighe Agordino, 04/12/2010
Transparency: 3/5 (SQM-L 20.40)
Seeing 4/5
Temp: -6°
Takahashi FS60-C F6.2
Canon 350D Baader ACF mod
No LP Filters
24×480sec 800ISO
21 Dark - 21 Bias - 21 Flat
Guided with PHD Guiding
Magzero MZ5+TS OAG9
Nebulosity, Deepskystacker; Pixinsight, Photoshop CS2, small crop
Notes: wonderful