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.

La cintura di orione dal Sestriere! :)

Due notti in montagna PER sciare ma io pensavo innanzitutto a provare il setup light e grazie all'amico Alessandro che si è immolato per la causa, siamo stati un paio d'ore a -12°c venerdi notte, e ora orgoglione posso dire che il setup funziona bene :) ci vorrà piu integrazione, per questo scatto, rimedierò, mentre io ora sono a casa costipato che starnutisco :\ spero almeno di non avere sulla coscenza anche Alessandro influenzato..

Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: Apo 70/420

Camere di acquisizione: Canon / CentralDS EOS Astro 50D

Montature: Celestron CG-5 Advanced GT

Telescopi o obiettivi di guida: 80/600

Camere di guida: LVI Smartguider 2

Riduttori di focale: 0.8X flattener/reducer

Software: Noel Carboni’s Astro Tools for PhotoShop, Deepskystacker, Adobe Lightroom 3

Filtri: Orion Skyglow 2″ Filter

Risoluzione: 1280×853

Date: 11 gennaio 2013, 12 gennaio 2013

Luoghi: Sestriere

Pose:

Orion Skyglow 2″ Filter: 7×180″ ISO1600 -28C bin 1×1

Orion Skyglow 2″ Filter: 6×240″ ISO1600 -28C bin 1×1

Integrazione: 0.8 ore

Dark: ~20

Flat: ~20

Giorno lunare medio: 14.41 giorni

Fase lunare media: 0.51%

Scala del Cielo Scuro Bortle: 2.00

Temperatura: -12.00

Centro AR: 05:40:17.584

Centro DEC: -02:20:07.793

Campionamento: 10.71 arcsec/pixel

Orientazione: 43.49 gradi

Larghezza del campo: 3.81 gradi

Altezza del campo: 2.54 gradi

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.

The Sadr region in Cygnus, Esprit 100mm APO f5.5 refractor and Canon 6Da with 12nm Optolong Ha filter. 4x14x900 seconds (14 hrs) iso1600, each panel stacked in DeepSkyStacker with 30 darkframes, 30 Flatframes and 174 biasframes. Processed with Pixinsight using DBE (per panel), Staralignment, GradientMergeMosaic, HistogramTransfer, ExponentialTransformation and curvesTransformation. Panels recorded during the nights of 20+21 june and 13+14 july 2016.

Knight Observatory, Tomar

... are crazy for not realizing that "you are nothing and nobody" in this universe.

Pentax K-5

Fish-Eye Takumar 17/f4

8 exposures of 20s@1600@f4

3 Black frames

1 Bias frame

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker

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

Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, and Celestron CG-4 mount. Consists of 43 light and 32 dark frames, each a 35-second exposure at ISO 800, stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in 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.

Location :CastresmallObservatory (Castres, 81100 - France)

Acquisition Date :2016-01-27 beginning at 19:47:15 UT

Author :Pierre Rougé

Scope :Newton Orion 200/1000 (f/5)

Autoguiding :Skywatcher Synguider v1.1 & Meade ETX 70/350 mm

Camera :Canon EOS 400D (Digital Rebel Xti) refiltré Astrodon (modded Astrodon)

Exposure :75.0 minutes [25 subexposures of 180 sec each (selected from 25)] @ ISO 2000

Calibration :Dark & bias : 52/9 @ ISO 2000 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 400

Weather :Bonne transparence. Faible vent de E à SE. T=7°C humidité faible

Software Used :DeepSkyStacker 3.3.4, Pixinsight LE, PhotoShop CS

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.

My Utata Speaks 2008 contribution.

Project 366 2008 Aug 9 222/366

The Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with one of its satellite galaxies, Messier 110, visible above it, and another, Messier 32 in front. This is made with ten 2-minute exposures stacked with DeepSkyStacker. That's 20 minutes of light gathering. I'm sold on the AstroTrac. Heck, I even bought one. :)

The completely black areas in the image mean I need to clean my sensor.

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And what beauty the heavens hold. We have eyes that gather photons of light so that our brains may interpret the universe. These photons come at us directly, or reflect off objects and by doing so may lose some momentum, its frequency divided, modulated. Then our brain tells us what meaning, what shape and colour to assign these packets of energy.

Before telescopes were in widespread use, the Andromeda Galaxy was perceived as a curious smudge in the sky. We now understand that it is the closest spiral galaxy to us and the largest in our Local Group. The light from its stars takes 2.5 million years to reach us. On a moonless night you can see its centre as a faint smudge, but its full angular dimension is larger than the moon.

8 images (30 sec. exposure each) @200mm f/2.8

stacked with DeepSkyStacker

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 some fine tonal curve

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

Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, and Celestron CG-4 mount. Consists of 43 light and 31 dark frames, each a 45-second exposure at ISO 800, stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.

Localisation : CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)

Acquisition Date : 2017-01-25

Auteur/Author : ROUGÉ Pierre

Mouture/mount : Orion Atlas EQ-G

Tube/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 : 93 minutes [31 subexposures of 180 sec each (selected from 31)] @ ISO 1600

Calibration : Dark & Bias : 19/11 @ ISO 1600 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 400

Temps/Weather : Bonne transparence. Faible vent. T= -2°C. Humidité moyenne.

Constellation : Cassiopae / Cassiopée

Software Used : Astro Photograph Tool (v3.20), DeepSkyStacker 3.3.6, Pixinsight LE, PhotoShop 7, xnview, Noiseware Community Edition

M27, also known as The Dumbbell Nebula is a planetary nebula (nebulosity surrounding a white dwarf) in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1360 light-years. It was the first such nebula to be discovered, by Charles Messier in 1764. At its brightness of visual magnitude 7.5 and diameter of about 8 arcminutes, it is easily visible in binoculars and is a popular observing target in amateur telescopes.

Telescope : T120 (www.obs-hp.fr/guide/t120.shtml)

Camera : Andor iKon-L 936 (www.obs-hp.fr/guide/camera-120/camera-120.shtml)

Filters : UBVRI Filter Set (www.obs-hp.fr/guide/camera-120/ubvri.shtml)

Acquisition :

Lights : Ha+RGB, total ~15min

Darks : no darks

Flats : 25 flats for each color

Bias : 25

Software :

Pre-processing : DeepSkyStacker

Processing : Siril, Pixinsight

Post-processing : Lightroom, Photoshop

Here, NGC 884 and 869 are shown. Commonly reffered to as "The Double Cluster", these two Open Star Clusters are reletively close to Earth within our Milky Way. The two lie in the constellation of Perseus. The Double Cluster is a naked eye object for some depending on age and location. Personally, NGC 884 and 869 are two of my favorite objects to look at. Because they are so large, most telescopes have to use low power magnification to veiw them, which makes the young hot stars really POP out from the background sky. Each star can be resolved, looking like a cloud of diamonds against the charcoal gray of the night sky.

Canon Rebel T3 (1100D) Unmodified

Exposure 68x60sec ISO 800 (1 hour and 8 minutes) though BackyardEOS

Imaged with an AT65EDQ f/6.5 at 420mm of focal length.

The scope rode on a Celestron CG-5, guided with an Orion Starshoot Autoguider in an Orion 50mm mini guidescope, ran in PhD, and dithered with BackyardEOS.

The image is fully calibrated in DeepSkyStacker with darks, flats, bias, and flat darks. Post processing was done in CS6.

M45 with the Nikon 180mm from my backyard in Los Alamos (White Rock), New Mexico.

85 x 2 min @ ISO 1600 and f/4

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker

Canon Rebel XT modified

Nikon 180mm f/2.8 ED

Astrotrac TT320k

Open star cluster NGC 559 in Cassiopeia.

3,700 light years from Earth and at over 2 billion years old.

It's estimated to contain between 50 - 100 stars within the cluster. It can be seen with a medium to large telescope, big binoculars also if your lucky enough to have very dark skies.

I made the mistake of not guiding. As I thought I wouldn't need it as I was only taking 50 second exposures. My polar alignment wasn't the best and my collimation was a little out, noticeable in some elongated stars. It shows up more as I've cropped it quite heavily. The bigger you're reflector the more often it needs collimating I find.

Below is the boring specs bit for those interested.

Skywatcher 8" quattro on a HEQ5 pro mount.

Skywatcher f4 aplanatic coma corrector.

Canon 1100D with Neewer intervalometer and Astronomik CLS CCD APS-C clip filter (which is meant for astro modded camera's really).

Best 75% of 150 light frames 50 seconds at ISO 800

40 of each calibration frame darks, flats, dark flats & bias.

Stacked using Deep Sky Stacker and all processing done with StarTools.

Nebulose ad emissione M 42 ed M 43

AUTORE: Aldo Rocco Vitale (Gruppo Astrofili Catanesi “Guido Ruggieri”)

DATA: 26 ottobre 2017

ORA: 22:30 – 00:00

LOCALITA’: S. Agata Li Battiati (CT) 250 m. s.l.m.

TEMPERATURA: 14°

UMIDITA’: 70%

SEEING: 3

TRASPARENZA: 3

COSTELLAZIONE: Orione

OGGETTO: M 42 + M 43

TIPO: Nebulose ad emissione

COORDINATE: A.R.: 5h 35m 4s ; DEC.: -5° 27′00″

MAGNITUDINE VISUALE: 2,9

DIMENSIONI ANGOLARI: 1°

DISTANZA: 1950 a.l.

OBIETTIVO: Celestron C11; D=280 mm; F=1764 mm; f/6.3

CAMERA DI RIPRESA: Canon 1200D

OBIETTIVO GUIDA: Celestron C90; Celestron C90; D= 90 mm; F=1250 mm; f/13.9

CAMERA DI GUIDA: Skywatcher Synguider II

ISO: 1600

TEMPO DI POSA: 31 x 120” + 5 x 60” + 20 x 30” (Tot: 2 h 15 m)

LIGHT: 56

FLAT: 35

DARK: 15

BIAS: 15

SOFTWARE DI ELABORAZIONE: DeepSkyStacker + Pixinsight + Photoshop CC + Lightroom

El cielo desde oro verde.

40 lights de 25" (6,67 Minutos de exposición).

Nikon D3100 - Nikon 18-55 mm, a 18mm y f3,5. ISO 800.

Apilado con DSS + Photoshop CS6.

taken with my Nikon d3400 on my celerstron evolution 9.95 telescope light pollution filter and focal reducer.20 images and 25 darks stacked in deepskystacker, and finally a good image .There is just so many pitfalls from telescope alinement ,good focus ,under or over exposure ,cloud turning up part way through what you are doing or skystacker rejecting your pictures.

Une galaxie satellite d'une autre

Newton Sky-Watcher 200/1000 HEQ5 Pro GOTO - Coma corrector SW0264 - Nikon D600

Map "Skychart" - EQMOD,

Processing : DeepSkyStacker

Image correction : Lightroom 5

9 x 180s = 27mn

OTA: Celestron C8N, 8" newtonian reflector and MPCC-III

Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM

Exposure: RGB: 15x2min each, L:83x2min

Mount: CGEM-DX

Captured with SGP

Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker

Photographed from Round Rock TX (light pollution zone: red)

The clouds held just enough to get a few shots of the milky way under the beautiful dark skies of Bon Echo Provicial Park.

Here are my first few edits, feel free to comment on some improvements. I'm using Rawtherapee for all pictures, and will be using DeepSkyStacker to try and lower noise down in my next edits.

Thanks for viewing!

Camera: Sony A65, Minolta 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200mm

Composition: 36 stacked frames

Total exposure: 36 minutes, ~1400 minutes-cm2 (36x60s f/2.8 ISO1600)

Tracker: Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer

Processing: RawTherapee, Deep Sky Stacker (DSS), GIMP

La nebulosa Pellicano

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I apologize! is soon to make summer nebulae, but I could not wait to try the new optic .. is just an hour and a little more integration and a slight crop (I have to remove a frame is not centered from the stack, I'll fix)

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

Date: 07 maggio 2013, 12 maggio 2013

Pose:

Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 10x300" ISO1600 -6C bin 1x1

Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 3x360" ISO1600 -6C bin 1x1

Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 6x480" ISO1600 -6C bin 1x1

Integrazione: 1.9 ore

Dark: ~10

Flat: ~20

Scala del Cielo Scuro Bortle: 3.00

Temperatura: 10.00

Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, and Celestron CG-4 mount. Consists of 45 light and 41 dark frames, each a 35-second exposure at ISO 800, stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.

Taken a couple of nights ago from the back garden, a view of the star field at the end of the W shape of the constellation Cassiopeia, including the green glow from the gas surrounding Comet Jacques. Also visible is the background of stars in our Milky Way galaxy and two open clusters of stars. Messier 52 can be seen in the top centre and NGC 7789 to the lower right. There are two faint red patches of light - coming from glowing clouds of hydrogen, NGC 7822 close to the left and about a third of the way up from the bottom and to the top right of the cluster Messier 52 is NGC7635, also known as the bubble nebula.

In total there were 40 exposures of 20s used, combined in DeepSkyStacker and the image corrected in FitsWork to flatten the background.

Sony A7 / Sigma EX 105mm / Light Pollution filter.

Milky Way on 07/09/2018, early morning.

2 pictures separetely processed with DeepSkyStacker (DSS) and then stitched with Image Composite Editor. Final processing with Lightroom.

Nikon D600 - Sigma 70-200 f/2.8 - Star Adventurer

20x15" -70mm - f/2.8 - ISO3200

32 minuti totali di esposizione, 8 immagini da 4 minuti sommate con deepskystacker, 11 dark, 11 flat, 11 dark flat, 11 bias. Elaborazione finale con photoshop. iso 800, nikon d3000, 18-55 a 18mm, f3.5, inseguitore autocostruito.

Fujifilm X-T10, XF18-55mm F2.8-4.0 @ F4 and 18mm, ISO 1600, 6 x 5 min, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing in GIMP, taken 11 Sept 2018

If you look carefully, the Dumbbell Nebula is visible.

13 Sept update: Increased contrast a bit.

19 Apr update: Increased brightness and contrast, increased color saturation, and reduced stars (GIMP)

Messier 42, the Orion Nebula, as seen from the Eagle Eye Observatory at Canyon of the Eagles, Burnet, Texas, on the night of Feb 19, 2017

Nikon D600 and Reflex-Nikkor 500mm f/8, mounted on an iOptron Sky Tracker Pro.

Sixty-two 30-second images at ISO 6400, stacked in DeepSkyStacker for a total exposure time of 31 minutes.

I'm gradually getting better at this. Next stop, filters!

Taken using a Sony A3000 and a Celestron Powerseeker 114EQ. Processed in DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop Lightroom. Total set up cost $400 USD. For the price I'd say its pretty damn good. I still have improvements to make though

Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, and Celestron CG-4 mount. Consists of 28 light and 22 dark frames, each a 30-second exposure at ISO 800, stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.

Optics: Takahashi FS60CB with 0.72x Reducer (255 mm F4.2)

Exposure: Fujifilm X-E1 (Unmodded) iso3200 x 1 min x 75 subs (with Dark, Flat, Flat Dark)

Mount: Toast Pro (TP2)

Software: DeepSkyStacker, Astronomy Tools, GradientXTerminator, Adobe Photoshop

M-104 Sombrero Galaxy:

C-11 @ F/2 Hyperstar CGEM-DX on Pier

OverallQuality = 1244.70 in Deepskystacker

42 subs 60 sec iso1600 unguided

5 flats

5 darks

5 bias

Total integration 42 minutes.

Canon 450D Full spectrum - self Mod

Filter - LPS2

seeing - better than normal

2nd time on target

Normally you can't see the Milky Way this clearly from a backyard in the city. But I took 20 exposures of 20 seconds each and combined them with 6 dark frames in DeepSkyStacker and then converted the resulting 32-bit TIFF into an 8-bit JPEG using Photoshop's HDR function.

This section of the Milky Way is at the zenith, or directly overhead from 44° N.

Telescopio: Maksutov Celestron 127 mm

Montatura: Celestron SLT.

Fotocamera: Canon EOS R100 (non modificata).

Pose: 11x15 secondi @3200 ISO.

Elaborazione: DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Pixinsight, Gimp.

The "Hamburger Galaxy".

Approximate exposure equivalent to 18.5 minutes.

Augenommen mit einer SONY A7RII einem Tamron 150-500mm F/5.0- F/6,7 30x30sec mit einem Open Astro-Tracker am 25.10.2022. Aufgenommen mit N.I.N.A, gestackt mit dem DeepSkyStacker 4.2.6 und nachbearheitet mit Gimp 2.10.32

Primo esperimento di stacking ed elaborazione di foto DeepSky. Foto scattate in montagna con scarso inquinamento luminoso

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Corpo macchina: Canon EOS 6D (non modificata)

Obiettivo: Canon EF 50mm f1.4 @ f2.2

ISO 640

Macchina montata su Astroinseguitore "Star Adventurer"

Lights 43 x 60 sec.

6 Flats

13 Darks

16 Bias

Stacking:

DeepSkyStacker

Elaborazione:

Photoshop e Lightroom

Telescope Aperture: 150 mm

Telescope Focal Length: 1095 mm (f/7.3)

M51 Distance to Earth: 23.16 million light years

Coordinates: RA 13° 29' 53" | Dec 47° 11.718'

3x 6 minute exposures.

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker

Processed in Lightroom.

Location :CastresmallObservatory (Castres, 81100 - France)

Acquisition Date :2016-01-27 beginning at 21:11:08 UT

Author :Pierre Rougé

Scope :Newton Orion 200/1000 (f/5)

Autoguiding :Skywatcher Synguider v1.1 & Meade ETX 70/350 mm

Camera :Canon EOS 400D (Digital Rebel Xti) refiltré Astrodon (modded Astrodon)

Exposure :24.0 minutes [8 subexposures of 180 sec each (selected from 8)] @ ISO 2000

Calibration :Dark & bias : 52/9 @ ISO 2000 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 400

Weather :Bonne transparence. Faible vent de E à SE. T=7°C humidité faible

Software Used :DeepSkyStacker 3.3.4, Pixinsight LE, PhotoShop CS

Kit lens at 18mm, ISO 800, tracked by hand. Combined exposure time 4m 25s (69s+196s). Processed in DeepSkyStacker and Paint Shop Pro.

Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, and Celestron CG-4 mount. Consists of 43 light and 33 dark frames, each a 40-second exposure at ISO 800, stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.

- www.kevin-palmer.com - A few weeks before perihelion, I went out to see and photograph Comet ISON (C/2012 S1). Astronomical twilight started only 20 minutes after the comet was high enough above the horizon. I'm glad I was able to see and photograph it because 2 weeks later, the comet burnt up by the sun. On this night ISON could just barely be seen as a fuzzy green point of light in binoculars. Through an 8" dobsonian telescope it looked fairly small but beautiful. Since the comet was in Virgo, several small galaxies can also be seen in this picture. This was shot with a 135mm lens and is made up of 15 2-minute exposures, plus bias and dark frames. An iOptron Skytracker was used to track the stars. Spring Lake State Wildlife Area where this was taken has moderately dark skies and a low horizon to the southeast, so it was a great place to view the comet.

A stack of 27x15s exposures at 200mm using a Nikon D40 on an Omegon MiniTrack LX3 clockwork mount. ISO1600 f5.6. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker

Panel 1 on the left was taken on the nights of 25/7/2014,2/8/2014 26 x 600 secs subs. Panel 2 on the right was taken on the nights of 3/8/2014,4/8/2014 27 x 600 secs subs. In total 8Hrs 50 mins. Only bias was used for stacking. Microsoft ICE was to used to stitch the two panels together. Will be returning to this to add some colour data but it might have to wait til next year.

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,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, Microsoft ICE

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy that contains between 200,000 and 400,000 million stars and where the solar system is located. Image obtained by stacking photos with different sensitivities and exposure times to achieve better detail.

La Vía Láctea ​es una galaxia espiral que contiene entre 200.000 y 400.000 millones de estrellas y donde se situa el sitema solar. Imagen obtenida a través del apilado de fotos con distintas sensibilidades y tiempos de exposición para conseguir mayor detalle.

- Date/Fecha: 20/08/2020

- 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 FE 24mm F1.4 GM

IMAGE/IMAGEN:

1 frame (ISO 6400) - 35seg.

1 frame (ISO 800) - 1min. 53seg.

1 frame (ISO 1600) - 2min. 9seg.

1 frame (ISO 1600) - 3min. 53seg.

1 frame (ISO 640) - 5min. 2seg.

1 frame (ISO 1000) - 5min. 2seg.

Total time of exposition/Tiempo total de exposición 18min. 34seg.

Without Darks, Flats and Bias.

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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