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Nova Sagittarii 2015 No. 2 (an exploding star in Sagittarius, which was discovered on March 15th), photographed from my suburban Brisbane backyard this morning. For this image I stacked 10 x 8 second exposures (each taken using the Canon 6D and EF 35mm f/2 lens @ f/3.2 and 3200 iso) using DeepSkyStacker. It's surprising how much Milky Way detail can be pulled out after stacking, despite the Brisbane light pollution.
Stacked from 10 frames in DeepSkyStacker then processed for color, these plus another 90 were used non-aligned to make a star trails image. I believe each frame was taken around 5 seconds at f/1.4 and ISO 1600 or 2000 for reference. The D800 with the 85mm f/1.4 is just shockingly sharp. I need to figure out how to deal with the vignetting at the corners though as it really makes a difference in the stacking.
30 lights (25s f/3.5 ISO1600); 20 darks; no bias. Canon EOS 450D 18-55mm lens @18mm. DeepSkyStacker > PixInsight > Photoshop
The Veil Nebula (part of it).
I used an unmodified Canon 5D, and I'm pretty unimpressed with the length of integration necessary to get this much of an image. Maybe it's time to look into a modified dSLR to capture more of the Hydrogen-alpha light. Although, I'm pretty happy with the amount of detail (check out the large view).
32 x 4 minute @ ISO1600
stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
Canon 5D through an Orion ED80
Autoguided with a Meade DSI Pro through an Orion ST80 using PHDGuiding
Celestron CG5 mount
Constellation Cygnus as photographed between two tall pines.
The prominent star is pinkish Deneb at bottom center, Also seen are Gamma, Epsilon and Delta Cygni [but not Alberio at the tail; out of frame].
Seven images @ 30 seconds per image @ f2 @ ISO400. Processed in DeepSkyStacker.
PE: LAB processing: color intensified on A & B layers, brightness / contrast adjusted on L layer. No sharpening or content editing.
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE). 42 images stacked with DeepSkyStacker 4.2.3. Canon 5DIII, Tamron SP AF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 Di VC USD, ISO 2500, 300mm, f/5.6, 3.9s.
Second test with a new camera...
Target: NGC1499, California Nebula
OTA: Celestron C8N, 8" Newtonian reflector
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM
Exposure: H-alpha: 20x10min
Mount: CGEM-DX
Captured with SGP
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (light pollution zone: red)
Acquisition details:
OTA: Celestron 8" newtonian reflector, C8N
Filter: Orion Skyglow Imaging filter
Corrector: MPCC
Mount: Celestron CGEM DX
Camera: Canon 450d mod BCF, 34°F
Exposure: 44x4min ISO 400
Guided with PHD, SSAG, 9x50
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)
Comet Lemmon (C2012 F6) near the South Celestial Pole in Feb 2013. Reprocesed in Lightroom 5.
The original description is here:
"Comet Lemmon (C/2012 F6) near the South Celestial Pole on the evening of 6th Feb 2013. Tripod-mounted Canon 50D and EF 70-200 mm lens. 11 x 30 sec exposures (plus 3 darks) at 200mm, f/4 and 1600 iso stacked using DeepSkyStacker."
Camera: Sony A57
Lens: Sony 85mm f/2.8 @f/2.8
Exposure: ~14 minutes-cm2 (4x 30s ISO3200)
Tracker: Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Raw converter: RawTherapee
Stacker: Deep Sky Stacker (DSS)
Processing: rnc-color-stretch
Processing: GIMP
125 light 30sec iso 800
33 dark frame 30sec iso 800
31 bias frame 1/8000sec
31 flat frame 1/80 sec iso 800
Reflex no modded on eq5 synscan without guide and telescope refractor TSED70Q 474mm 70mm F6.7.
Processed with DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2, Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 5.3.
This is something I've wanted to do for awhile: a panoramic view of the Milky Way. Each part of the composite contains two fisheye views of the sky, the left centred on the Perseus Arm and the right centred on the Cygnus Arm. The uneven seam is because of the differences in the light pollution and sky fog from within the city.
The left edge is the north-east horizon and the right edge is the south-west horizon. The Summer Triangle is at the zenith.
Each part of the composite is itself a composite of sixteen 25 second exposures stacked with DeepSkyStacker and then converted to 8-bit JPEGs using Photoshop CS2's HDR Conversion (local adaption).
Samyang 500mm f/6.3 mirror lens/QHY168C with UHC filter piggybacked to main scope.
10 subs at 120sec each stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop CS2.
Image taken early hours 14/12/18
con l'aiuto del prode amico Paolo Porcellana, che si è immolato per la causa
Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: GSO RC6
Camere di acquisizione: Canon EOS 450D / Digital Rebel XSi / Kiss X2
Montature: Sky-Watcher EQ6 Pro
Telescopi o obiettivi di guida: 80/600
Camere di guida: LVI Smartguider 2
Software: Luc Coiffier's DeepSkyStacker, Adobe Lightroom 3
Date: 15 settembre 2012
Luoghi: Saint Barthelemy
Pose: 6x890" ISO800
Integrazione: 1.5 ore
Dark: ~14
Flat: ~13
Giorno lunare medio: 28.35 giorni
Fase lunare media: 1.57%
Scala del Cielo Scuro Bortle: 2.00
Temperatura: 3.00
First attempt at widefield - the famous belt and sword in Orion.
I need more data in this to bring out the horsehead area more clearly and reduce the noise, and I need shorter exposures for the core of M42. Stars may be a little bloated because of the properties of the full spectrum sensor. Other than all that, I'm reasonably happy! :)
Nikon D70 full spectrum, 55-200 at 200mm mounted directly on an EQ5, f6.3, 1600iso
16x60sec subs, unguided
10 each darks, flats and bias.
Stacked and processed in DSS and CS5
Re-processed here
9 x 4-minute images registered and stacked for the outer nebula; 2 x 1-minute for the bright, inner nebula; 4 x 15-second for the very centre of M42. ISO was 1600. Subs registered & stacked using DeepSkyStacker software; post-processing employed Canon Photo Professional and Noel Carboni's tools in Abobe Photoshop Elements.
Meade 127mm ED telescope & unmodified EOS 40D
I was happy with this shot until I saw what everyone else was achieving. :)
Time-lapse here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKUkdXx6Iqg
It was shot piggyback on my alt az telescope. With my Canon 6D and 75-300 4-5.6 @300mm - F5.6 I shot 26 43s light frames and 17 dark frames. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker.
Shot from home (Bortle 6). Quick process with Ez suite. Slightly egg-shaped stars due to tripod mount not being fully secured.
Camera: Sony A7R II (unmodded)
Lens: Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 L II + EF 1.4x II = 280mm @ f/5.6
ISO: 640
Subs: 98 x 120sec lights, no calibration frames
Tracker: 3D-printed OpenAstroTracker
Processing: Camera Raw (crop, reduce colour noise, reduce highlights), DeepSkyStacker, Pixinsight (DBE,BC,CC,Ez stretch,MT to reduce stars)
56 x 8 minutes, ISO 800
40 darks, 100 flats, 300 bias
Canon 450D (Unmodded)
Orion 8" f/3.9 Astrograph, Atlas EQ-G, Baader MPCC
Captured with Backyard EOS using EQMOD. Guided with an Orion ST80 and SSAG through PHD.
Calibration in DeepSkyStacker, Post-Processing in Pixinsight
Nikon D5000
Lens Nikon 55.0-200.0 mm f/4.0-5.6
F5.6
200mm zoom
ISO 1600
Exposure 9 x 2.5sec
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Edited in Lightroom and spickes in CS5
First light with new GSO reflector...
OTA: GSO 6" F/5 newtonian reflector
Starizona Nexus 0.75x coma corrector (for f/3.75)
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM
Exposure: Ha 7x10min, OIII 7x10min, S2 7x10min
Mount: CEM70G
Captured with SGP
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (light pollution zone: red)
- Canon 60D
- Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L w/ 2x teleconverter (at 400mm f/5.6)
- Orion SSAG w/ 50mm mini guidescope
- Celestron CGEM Mount
- 29 x 300 second 1600 ISO Light Frames (2.42 hours)
- 10 x 300 second Dark Frames
- 15 Bias Frames
- Captured in BackYardEOS
- Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
- Processed in PixInsight
I remembered that I had a 135mm 1:2.8 somewhere so I dug it out and filled up a card with two second exposures to see what the extra stop would get me. The wider field of view means I can get the Orion nebula and the Flame Nebula in one frame, and Deep Sky Stacker helps bring them out. The Flame Nebula is the fuzzy divided patch just to the left of the left-most star in the belt of Orion.
DSS pinottu, 10x30s. Talosta löytyy myös EQ 3-2 seurantajalusta, jota oli tarkoitus päästä kokeilemaan kotigalaksimme kuvaukseen. Note to self: tarkista seurantamoottorin paristot ennen kun lähdet kuvaamaan tähtiä.
The Orion Nebula is a star forming region located approximately 1,600ly from Earth in the constellation Orion. There are believed to be over 700 stars being born in this nebula.
It is visible to the naked eye as the centre 'star' in the sword of Orion. (see Orion constellation in my wide field set of images)
Much of this nebula is illuminated by four stars in an open cluster called "the Trapezium." These remarkable 4 stars are just visible in this image in the lower centre of the nebula. There are reflection and emission nebulae present in this image. The bluish wisps are reflection nebulae, reflecting radiation while the red regions are emission nebulae.
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ED80 APO Refractor | Rebel XS DSLR not modded | Guided | HEQ5 Pro mount
stacked in DeepSkyStacker | processed and layer masked in Photoshop | Noiseware
x8 8 second exposures = 1min 8 sec
x8 30 second expoures = 4min 2sec
x8 480 second exposures = 1hr 6min 29 sec
total: 24 frames stacked | 1hr 11min 39sec
Taken with:
-Sigma 24-105mm f/4 lens @ 24mm f5.6
-Stock APS-C sensor mirrorless camera
-Skywatcher Star Adventurer tracking mount
8x300 second frames stacked in Deepskystacker.
Date is somewhere around 2020.
Location :
CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date :
30/08/16
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 :
150.0 minutes [30 subexposures of 300 sec each (selected from 30)] @ ISO 1600
Constellation :
Vulpecula / Petit Renard
Calibration :
Dark & bias : 12 & 9 @ ISO 1600 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 1600
Weather :
Bonne transparence. Faible nul. T=24°C. Humidité nulle
Software Used :
Astro Photograph Tool (v3.11), DeepSkyStacker, PhotoShop CS
First successful try at taking a Deep Sky Object using the Pentax O-GPS 1 unit.
Pentax K-5 II
smc PENTAX-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL WR
Pentax O-GPS 1
10x140 seconds stacked using DeepSkyStacker
Post processing in Photoshop
It's amazing. I've been in the astronomy club for over two years and this is my first club observing night I attended. What a treat it was. The sky had great seeing tonight. I saw Jupiter's cloud bands for the first time; the double-double near Epsilon Lyrae; Uranus, Neptune, M13, M15, M31, M33, M45, the Ring Nebula, and the small Dumbell Nebula. We also caught half a dozen meteors.
Tankerton seafront, Whitstable, Kent UK 22.12hr Canon 60 Da + 50mm macro lens, 36 x 15sec (total 9 minutes) at 1600 ISO Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, cleaned up in Photoshop CS6.
I was pleased to record the elusive thin blue ion tail. The comet was a very easy object in binoculars, and I think I did manage to see a glimpse of it with the naked eye.
OTA: Celestron C8N, 8" newtonian reflector
MPCC-III coma corrector
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM
Exposure: L 94x1min. RGB 15x2min
Mount: CGEM-DX
Captured with SGP
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (light pollution zone: red)
10 shots, each 6 s, 50mm, f/2.8, ISO 800, stacked in DeepSkyStacker.
Pretty good for fixed-tripod astrophotography taken from my own backyard. Cooperative weather certainly helped (good lower-atmosphere transparency, with some high thin clouds thrown in to give the bright stars a gauzy glow).
Here's comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 taken on Mont Cima near Aspremont on an evening with Florent Dubreuil his father. On a full moon night as I am leaving Nice before the weekend! Big thank you Florent for the tracking mount!
35 Light frames, 25 Darks, 20 Bias stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in LR5. 35 x 30 sec, ISO800 , F/5.6, 120mm cropped
Homúnculo e fechadura
28-11-2020
1969 lights 100 draks 0,4s exp
Toya 114mm AZ-2
ASI 120MC
FireCapture, DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight
Matupá/MT
Localisation : CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date : 2017-02-18
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 : 87 minutes [29 subexposures of 180 sec each (selected from 29)] @ ISO 1600
Calibration : Dark & Bias : 5/9 @ ISO 1600 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 11/9 @ ISO 400
Temps/Weather : Bonne transparence. Vent nul. 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
47x120 seconds ISO1600. Skywatcher 100ED Esprit APO triplet and Canon EOS 6D full spectrum. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Pixinsigth 1.8. Image date may 24, 2015.
Taken with Celestron 1100HD and CGEM DX. Used QSI 640wsg camera with Lodestar guide camera.
14 shots of luminance at 1x1 bin at 10 minutes each and 9 shots each of RGB at 2x2 bin at 5 minutes each. 16 frames each of dark/flats/bias frames Processed with DeepSkyStacker and GIMP 2.6. RGB exposure was a little two long resulting in some star bloating. The 640 is a much better camera than my Canon 60Da with almost no noise in dim areas.
OTA: Celestron C8N, 8" newtonian reflector and MPCC-III
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM
Exposure: RGB: 12x2min each, L:49x2min
Mount: CGEM-DX
Captured with SGP
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (light pollution zone: red)
First picture of the year!
Rosette Nebula
Canon 200mm F2.8 @ F3.5
Canon T4i ISO 800 45 seconds
8x light frames
iOptron SkyTracker
DeepSkyStacker
Pixinsight 1.8
11% moon illumination
Poor seeing/Hazy
Bortle 4
22 lights (30s ISO 1600) 10 darks, 20 flats, 20 bias. Skywatcher 150 Explorer Newtonian EQ3-2 mount. DeepSkyStacker > PixInsight > Photoshop CS5.
A triplet of galaxies that can be found, surprisingly enough, in the constellation of Leo.
The three galaxies making up the triplet are M65 (upper left), M66 (upper right) and NGC 3628 (bottom centre).
M65 & M66 are given Messier catalogue numbers as they were first discovered by the French astronomer Charles Messier in 1780. NGC 3628, also known as the Hamburger galaxy, was missed by Messier. Most likely due to it's lower magnitude (brightness). It was however, discovered just four years later by German born, British astronomer William Herschel in 1784. Lying about 35 million light years away the three galaxies are thought to be interacting with each other. All three show signs of disturbance of some sort, especially the brighter of the three M66. Noticeable in the spiral arms and by the bursts of star formation clearly taking place in those spiral arms.
All data gathered at The Astronomy Centre, Todmorden, UK.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -10c gain 100, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
180s exposures, Gain110 at -20c
Best 70% of 40 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, and processed in StarTools.
Second test image with the mono 350d. Full calibration, but still without cooling.
NGC 1499, California Nebula (H-alpha)
Lens: Canon 300mm f/4
Mount: CGEM DX
Camera: Canon 350d mono, no cooling, 45F ambient
Exposure: 47x4min ISO 1600
Astronomik 12nm H-alpha filter
Guided with PHD, SSAG, 9x50
Captured with BackyardEOS
Mono conversion with dcraw -D -4 -T -b 16
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)
I was going to replace the original image with this, but then I wasn't sure if it was an improvement. California is a little more subdued, with slightly improved contrast, and M45 is a little more prominent against the background stars, which I think were a tad bloated in the previous version. The stars seem more prominent in Taurus than they do in Perseus for some reason.
Subtle difference, and probably not worth worrying about. Anyway - last version :)
Nikon D70 modded, 55-200 Nikkor at 78mm, f4.5, 1600iso, Baader Neodymium filter.
30 x 4 min, unguided EQ5
Darks, flats and bias
Stacked and processed in DSS and CS5.
M104 or the Sombrero Galaxy on the Virgo - Corvus border. I was quite pleased with this result even though it was quite low in the sky when taken.
Unmodified Canon 350D - 6 x 6 minute exposures + darks and flats. Processing in DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop.
Taken at the prime focus of an Intes MN71 (1060mm at f6) on an EQ6 Pro, Autoguide via PHD and a DSI 1. Image scale is a bit smaller than I'd like but we use what we have!
I reprocessed the previous JPG image using curves on the red channel in PS. Couldn't get the same result from the TIF, but now it's looking a little more like Orion should look! :)
What is that haze to the north?
KP6 Aurora
Balmy Beach, Ontario, Canada
Yi4K 30 seconds ISO 800 RAW
Dark frame subtraction with
DeepSkyStacker
Pixinsight 1.8
Shotdate: 23-11-2013
Camera: Nikon D3x
Optics: Celestron 9.25"EdgeHD
Guiding: LVI SmartGuider2 om APO F500mm f90mm
ISO speed: 1600
Exposure: 16 x 300 seconds
DeepSkyStacker settings:
Stacking mode: Standard
Alignment method: Automatic
Lights 16 frames - total exposure: 1 hr 20 mn
RGB Channels Background Calibration: No
Per Channel Background Calibration: No
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Offset: 108 frames exposure: 1/8000 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Dark: 32 frames exposure: 5 mn 0 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Flat: 70 frames exposure: 1 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Post-processing in PixInsight 1.7 and a bit in PhotoShop