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A 'planetary nebula', formed by a 'dying' star puffing off its outer gas layers.
Manually, off-axis guided for 6 x 10 & 6 x 5-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f10.
Subs registered & stacked using DeepSkyStacker software.
Unmodded EOS 40D & Celestron C8 telescope
approx. 200 photos 2 second 50mm f1.4 stacked with averaging enabled 1 sec between photos very feint starlink? trails visible
This is a stack of 8 exposures of 30s each of the Cygnus constellation. The camera (Sony ILCE7) and the prime lens (Sonnar T* FE 55mm F1.8 ZA) have been attached to a "Star Adventurer"-mount in order to compensate for earth rotation, while shooting at F2.8/ISO 1250-1600. Stacking has been done with DeepSkyStacker, and final editing with Photoshop CC 2015. Hope for clear nights to come in order to test longer exposure times and focal lenghts.
Shotdate: 24th March 2012
Camera: Nikon D3x
Optics: Celestron 9,25" Edge HD
Mount: SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro
Guiding: LVI SmartGuider 2
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DeepSkyStacker settings:
Stacking mode: Standard
Alignment method: Bicubic
Stacking 18 frames @ 5 minute exposure (ISO: 1600) - total exposure: 1 hr 30 mn 0 s
RGB Channels Background Calibration: Yes
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Offset: 108 frames exposure: 1/8000 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Dark: 8 frames exposure: 5 mn 0 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Flat: 50 frames exposure: 1/1 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
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Processing: PixInsight 1.7 and Photoshop CS5
ScreenTransferFunction
DynamicBackgroundExtraction
HistogramTransformation (Took 5 iterations at midtones value of 0.3333333 and saved each step)
HDRComposition
HistogramTransformation
Extracting CIE L* component for a mask
CurvesTransformation with L-mask
HistogramTransformation
ACDNR
Imaging telescope or lens: Canon 70-200 f4 IS L
Imaging camera: Canon 600 astro-modificated
Mount: Skywatcher Star Adventurer B
Software: Fitswork, Photoshop, DeepSkyStacker
Filter: Astronomik Clip-Filter (EOS) / CLS
Auflösung: 2268x1470
Datum: 20. Dezember 2014
Frames: 56x45"
Aufnahmedauer: 0.7 Stunden
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Skywatcher Explorer 130 PDS
Imaging cameras: Canon 600 astro-modificated
Mounts: Celestron Advanced VX Goto
Software: Photoshop, DeepSkyStacker, Fitswork
Filters: Astronomik Clip-Filter (EOS) / CLS
Resolution: 2268x1511
Dates: April 21, 2015
Frames: Astronomik Clip-Filter (EOS) / CLS: 182x50" ISO800
Integration: 2.5 hours
Flats: ~48
Avg. Moon age: 2.46 days
Avg. Moon phase: 6.67%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 6.00
Date:16/9/2011
Location:Brisbane Australia
Imaging Camera: Opticstar 142M
Imaging Scope: Orion EON 80mm ED Refractor
Focal Length: 500mm F6.1
Guide Camera: SSAG
Guide Scope: Orion 80mm F5 Refractor
Guided with PHD Guiding
Mount: Celestron EQ5 GT
Exposure:
25 min Red 5x5min
25 min Green 5x5min
25 min Blue 5x5min
Darks: 25 min 5x5min
Processing: DeepSkyStacker, CS5, Noel Carboni's Astronomy Tools
Shotdate: sept.-3-2014
Camera: Nikon D3x
Optics: Celestron 9.25" Edge HD
Mount: SkyWatcher NEQ6 pro
Exposure: 15 seconds
ISO-speed: 800
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and post-processing in PixInsight
Canon 6D
Canon 300mm f/4.0 + Canon 1.4x Teleconverter
Vixen Polarie tracking head
30sec exposures @ISO 3200, f/5.6
78x Light Frames
22x Dark Frames
20x Flat Frames
24x Offset Frames
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed in Photoshop and Lightroom
1/11/2011, Diepenbeek, Belgium
ISO 3200, Lights 98x60 sec, darks 30x60 sec, flats 17x1 sec.
Equipment used:
-Skywatcher 200mm F4 Carbon
-HEQ5 Pro mount
-Canon 500D
-Televue Paracorr 2
-TS65-M48a adapter connecting Paracorr 2 to OAG (Off-Axis guiding not used)
-Synguider
-Baader UHC-s filter
-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
An Open Cluster containing around 1000 stars, 600 light-years from Earth.
February 2018
Bristol, UK (Bortle 9)
Telescope: Skywatcher Evostar 80ED DS-Pro, .85x r/f
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-C
Mount: Skywatcher HEQ5 PRO
Guide: 50mm finderscope, QHY5
Software: SGPro; DeepSkyStacker; RegiStar; Photoshop; Lightroom
Luminosity:117 x 15 secs, total 29 mins
Red: 85 x 30 secs, total 42.5 mins
Green: 100 x 30 secs, total 50 mins
Blue: 60 x 30 secs, total 30 mins
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Total integration time: 2 hours 31.5 minutes
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By Lee Pullen
Taken with Celestron Nexstar 130 SLT and Canon eos 10D camera.
33*15 sec, iso 1600. Stacked with DeepSkyStacker. Adjustments with photoshop. Cropped.
This is my first picture with 10d.
Focus is bad, and I could have taken more photos to stack, but I had big troubles with mount, and this was testing after fixing it.
The Kelling Heath Autumn Equinox Star party has always been lucky for the
weather, and this year was no different. Of the 4 nights I was there, it
was clear on 2 of them. Thats more clear nights than I have seen in the
previous month!
I do have at least one other image from Kelling that I need to do some
extended work on before it sees the light of day, so I started on this
one first.
Mount: EQ6 via EQMOD
OTA: Borg 77EDII @ f/4.3
Guiding: SW ED80 + SX Lodestar + Maxim
Imaging: Starlight Xpress M25C + MaximDL, 24×600s, Hutech IDAS (101
bias, 101 flats)
Orchestrated: CDD Commander
Stacked: DeepSkyStacker
Post Process: PSCS2 + PixInsight
I know that the camera isnt quite square to the OTA (hence the crop and
the slightly larger stars in lower right corner), but thats something to
work on at some point in the future.
M42 - Orion Nebula - RGB mapped on Ha - 16/02/2014, Diepenbeek
Light: 20x120 sec., RGB: 3x10x120sec., Darks 30x120 sec.
Total time = 100 min
Equipment used:
-Skywatcher 200mm F4 Carbon
-NEQ6 mount
-Atik 314L+
-Televue Paracorr 2
-Baader RGB-filter +Ha-filter
-DeepSkyStacker
-Astrozap Dew-shield
M31 Andromeda galaxy
October 4 2016
Mount: Atlas EQ-G
Scope: SkyWatcher ProED 120mm f7.5
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3
Lights: 120 @45sec ISO 3200
Darks: 30 @45 sec ISO 3200
Flats: 30 @1/4 sec ISO 3200
Biases: 30 @1/4000th sec ISO 3200
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker 3.3.4
Editedin PixInsight and Lightroom
My deep sky astrophotography equipment:
- Canon EOS 1200Da (Modded)
- Skywatcher NEQ6 with Rowan Belt Mod
- Skywatcher Evostar ED80 DS Pro
- Astronomik CLS Clip in Filter
- Baader UV/IR Cut Filter (1.25")
- Baader Ha,Sii,Oiii Filters (1.25")
- Altair GPCAM 1 MONO
- Altair 60mm starwave guide scope
- Pegasus Astro Pocket Powerbox
- Astrozap 3" and 4" Dew heater bands
- Amazon Basics USB 2.0 Hub
20m USB 2.0 Extension Cable
- Various adapters and cables
- Controlled by APT (Astrophotography Tool), and Stark Labs PHD2 Guiding
- Processed in DeepSkyStacker (DSS) and Adobe Photoshop CC
M33 Again
Taken with Celestron Nexstar 130Slt
Canon Eos 10D
Now with
171 Frames*30sec
Iso 800
20Darks
20Flats
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop
Total exposure time1hour 25,5 minutes
I`m getting there..
I have to refresh my editing skills to get rid of that noise..
Localisation : CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date : 2016-12-17
Auteur/Author : ROUGÉ Pierre
Mouture/mount : Orion Atlas EQ-G
Tube/Scope : Sigma 80-200 F4 @ 200 F4
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 : 123 minutes [41 subexposures of 180 sec each (selected from 41)] @ ISO 800
Calibration : Dark & Bias : 8/9 @ ISO 800 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 11/9 @ ISO 400
Temps/Weather : Bonne transparence. Vent nul. T=5°C. Humidité faible. Forte pollution lumineuse
Constellation : Aurigae/ Cocher
Software Used : Astro Photograph Tool (v3.13), DeepSkyStacker 3.3.6, Pixinsight LE, PhotoShop 7, Noiseware Community Edition, Xnview.
18-135mm STM (85mm f/5.6)
9 exposições de 5 segundos em ISO-2500 em RAW.
Stacking feito usando o Deep Sky Stacker.
Photo:
Skywatcher Explorer 150/750 telescope, EQ3 mount, Sony A6100 camera
Guiding:
70/400 guiding scope, ASI120mc guiding camera
Images:
Light frames: 100 x 90 sec + 20 x 30 sec (ISO 1600)
10 dark and bias frames.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, post processed with Photoshop
M51 Whirlpool Galaxy
Sb - spiral galaxy
Z61 + D600 + Ioptron Skyguider
107x60 sec (1h47'12") unguided
ISO 1600
DeepSkyStacker
GIMP
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Canon 70-200 f4 IS L
Imaging cameras: Canon 600 astro-modificated
Mounts: Celestron Advanced VX Goto
Software: Photoshop, DeepSkyStacker, Fitswork
Filters: Hutech IDAS LPS-D1 EOS
Resolution: 1736x2551
Dates: Aug. 22, 2015
Frames: Hutech IDAS LPS-D1 EOS: 42x90" ISO800
Integration: 1.1 hours
Flats: ~10
Avg. Moon age: 6.64 days
Avg. Moon phase: 42.16%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00
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Stacks : 16 frames
Exposure Time : 16x242sec (~1h 4 min total) @ ISO 200 (+10 flats)
Stack program : DeepSkyStacker
Stack mode : Entropy Weighted Average
Post processing : CS6 for : curves adjustments, contrast, saturation and unsharp mask filter, Lightroom 4 for local adjustments (contrast, exposure, noise reduction), global WB adjustments
Crop: 5.6MP out of 24MP
---Photo scope---
Camera : Sony SLT-A77
Tube : Skywatcher Explorer 150P
Type : Newton
Focal length : 750 mm
Aperture : F/5
---Guide scope---
Camera : Starlight Xpress Lodestar
Tube : Skywatcher StarTravel-102
Type : Refractor
Focal length : 500 mm
Aperture : F/4.9
---Mount---
Mount : Skywatcher EQ-6
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M51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, is situated around 31 million light years from the Milky way. M51's weird shape is a result of two interacting galaxies (NGC 5194 and NGC 5195). As they interact, some regions containing gas get compressed and new stars get born.
Also in this image:
IC 4263 : spiral galaxy (App Mag:14.50 \ App Size: 1.9'x0.4')
NGC 5169 : spiral galaxy (App Mag:13.50 \ App Size: 2.1' x 48'')
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App = Apparent
Mag = Magnitude
The 1996 Great Comet three days before its maximum approaching to Earth, with 0.5 magnitude, a 2 degree coma diameter and a blue tail of fluorescent gas of 35 degrees longitude as long as Bootes constellation on wich is placed (the bright star at upper left is Arcturus).
The original chemical photography was obtained during 17 minutes at 800 ASA using a 50 milimeters objective mounted on piggyback on a 8" SCT Meade, and although shown the comet with its great magnificence, also present a strong vigneting and other usual bugs of epoch as a bad pass to positive: a big challenge for its remasterization.
The procedure was: clean the negative and remaster it digitally, to obtain a frameset through a macro against a light box, modify the white balance to neutralize the colour of negative, pass it to positive in PixInsight-LE, then calibrated and stacked in DeepSkyStacker, again with Pix-LE, I processed the image with usual metods, and finally with PSP, masked some scratches and defects of the original negative.
Also into the Blog C O M E T O G R A F I A (in Spanish)
Esprit 150ED Apo with field flattener,QHY168C & UHC filter.
5 subframes taken at 600 seconds each stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop CS2.
Image taken 30/01/19
Sunflower Galaxy
Messier 63 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici consisting of a central disc surrounded by many short spiral arm segments. M63 is part of the M51 Group, a group of galaxies that also includes M51.
Magnitude: 9.3
C-11/CGEM-DX Hyperstar F/2
Canon 450d full spectrum
30 sec subs ISO 800
Imaged under the almost Full Moon.
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
I pointed my camera at the darkest part of the sky and took 10 images. I used 5 darks and 5 biases with DeepSkySTacker.
M13 - The Great Hercules Cluster. This 11.65 billion year old formation of stars is one of the most impressive globular clusters in the northern hemisphere. Containing over 300,000 stars packed into a 145 light year sphere, the center of this object is 500 times more concentrated than its outer perimeters.
Technical Details:
- Explore Scientific ED80
- Focal length: 480mm
- Celestron AVX mount
- Canon EOS M3 with CHDK
- 11 lights, 5 darks, ISO 800, 20 sec each
- altogether: 3:40 min exposure
- Processed with DeepSkyStacker and Affinity Photo
M34 open star cluster
Taken on 28th of September
Messier 34 is in the constellation of Perseus, approximately 1,500 light years away. It's designated NGC1039 in the New General Catalogue. Best observed in the months of October, November and December. You will need at least a pair of 10x50 binoculars to see it, but it looks it's best through a telescope at low magnifications.
Best 70% of 300 exposures, each 30 seconds at ISO 800
50 darks, flats & bias.
Stacked using DeepSkyStacker & processed using StarTools.
Used an 8" Skywatcher Quattro on a HEQ5 mount, my camera as always old Canon 1100D.
Fujifilm X100 on iOptron Skytracker mount and travel tripod.
About 20 subs, 2 minutes, F/4 @ iso 400. A few darks and flats.
Stacked in deepskystacker, edit in photoshop.
This is an image of Messier object 1, the Crab Nebula. Taken as a part of a test done in the back yard to check the way the PEC was working on the mount. I was also testing to see how well double stacking the Baader UV/IR filter with the Moon and Skyglow filter would work to give tighter stars.
I was pleased with the results of the double stack when using it on the SV4 refractor. On the Mak, it gave better results than expected. I was able to get better looking diffraction spikes for focus so it helped ensure good stars.
The stack is the result of 10 subs of 10 minutes each at 400 ISO using the full spectrum modified Pentax K10D camera on the 127mm Orion Maksutov Cassegrain operating at F13.1.
Only after taking these pictures and then looking at them a day or so later did I realize that there was something moving in the frames. It required a bit of work, but I believe that the object is identified in this list from the Minor Planet Checker:
Object (33078) 1997 WN35 RA 05 34 23.2 DEC +22 20 36 Magnitude 19.9 Motion in Arcsecs/Hr: RA 76+ DEC 0-
The finding of this object in the data meant that I had to get something out of the stack, which meant that I would work it over via trial and error.
Data was calibrated in Maxim using 77 darks, 15 flats, 256 bias. I had some flawed darks so I spent a long time chasing the errors. Stacking was done in DSS. Processing in PixInsight for DBE, background calibration, masked stretch, A Trous wavelets for de noise and sharpening, and a few more curve/histogram stretches before annotation. TIF files exported and then passed through LR3 for publish.
Here's the platesolve results:
Referentiation Matrix (Gnomonic projection = Matrix * Coords[x,y]):
+0.000009000243 +0.000208674202 -0.283327255590
-0.000208561976 +0.000008951188 +0.388714444083
+0.000000000000 +0.000000000000 +1.000000000000
Resolution ........ 0.752 arcsec/pix
Rotation .......... -92.479 deg
Focal ............. 1665.55 mm
Pixel size ........ 6.07 um
Field of view ..... 48' 4.3" x 31' 56.9"
Image center ...... RA: 05 34 32.519 Dec: +21 59 10.01
Image bounds:
top-left ....... RA: 05 33 18.987 Dec: +22 22 28.32
top-right ...... RA: 05 33 28.313 Dec: +21 34 27.73
bottom-left .... RA: 05 35 37.099 Dec: +22 23 50.72
bottom-right ... RA: 05 35 45.650 Dec: +21 35 49.67
Date 23 Sep.2014 Iwaki-City Fukushima Japan
ISO1600 480sec. * 20 (total exposure 160 min.)
Camera : Astronomically customized Canon EOS 6D
Telescope : Takahashi FS60CB with RD0.72
Tracking Mount : Takahashi P-2 with HD-4
Guiding Camera : QHY5L-Ⅱ Mono
Guiding Telescope : COSMICAR 50ｍｍ F1.8
Auto Guide Software : PHD Guiding and others
Softwear：DeepSkyStacker ,Photoshop CS6(CC)
Playing around with astrophotography. This is a stack of about 580 dark-subtracted exposures from a stationary mount, 0.3 seconds each, ISO 1600, Pentax DA* 300mm f/4 wide open. Trailing of stars is still apparent. I'm impressed by how much detail even a single exposure contains. It would be nice to get the O-GPS1 accessory to extend the individual exposure time to several seconds without star trails.
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Sky-Watcher Equinox 80ED
Imaging cameras: QHY8L
Mounts: Skywatcher AZ EQ6 GT
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Celestron C6XLT
Guiding cameras: Magzero MZ-5m
Software: DeepSkyStacker, photoshop, Absoft Neat Image
Resolution: 1650x1106
Dates: Sept. 1, 2013
Frames: 37x600" -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 6.2 hours
Darks: ~24
Flats: ~36
Bias: ~52
Avg. Moon age: 25.36 days
Avg. Moon phase: 18.39%
RA center: 43.590 degrees
DEC center: 60.355 degrees
Orientation: -89.839 degrees
Field radius: 1.636 degrees
[08122015]
Plejaden(M45)
Fuji X-E1
Walimex Pro IF 85mm F1.4
77x
F2.8/ISO200|6400|12800|25600/2.5s|5s/85mm
DeepSkyStacker
Fitsworks
FaststoneViewer
The Pinwheel Galaxy is a face on spiral located approximately 21 million light-years from Earth. The galaxy was first discovered in 1781. It is approximately 70% larger than the Milky Way and is estimated to have a mass of over 103 billion solar masses.
Exposure: 92 x 30s exposures @ ISO3200 equiv. Darks & bias/offset, no flats.
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Lens: EF 70-200mm 1:4 L USM @ f/4.0. 200mm (x1.6).
Filters: Astronomik CLS
Mount: Piggy-backed on 8" Meade LX10.
Guiding: None
RAW images stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PSPx5.
NGC1973/5/7 - The Running Man Nebula (left) and M42 - The Orion Nebula (center) taken on 02/06/2012. Unguided 60 second exposures taken using a Hyperstar-equipped Celestron CGEM-925, Canon EOS Rebel T1i, and IDAS LPS-P2 filter. Stacked and processed in DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop.
Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) looking spectacular on 8/01/2015. Taken from the Gold Coast Hinterland Australia using Olympus OMD EM1 and Zuiko Digital 150mm f2.0 lens on IOptron Skytracker mount. 11x30 second exposures ISO1600 Stacking on Stars in DeepSkyStacker and Processing in Neatimage and Photoshop.
---Photo details----
Stacks : 19 frames
Exposure Time : 19x302sec (1h 35min total) @ ISO 400 (+15 flats)
Stack program : DeepSkyStacker
Stack mode : Auto Adaptive Weighted Average
Post processing : CS6 for : curves adjustments, contrast, Lightroom 4 for local adjustments (contrast, exposure), global WB adjustments
---Photo scope---
Camera : Sony SLT-A77
Tube : Skywatcher Explorer 150P
Type : Newton
Focal length : 750 mm
Aperture : F/5
---Guide scope---
Camera : Starlight Xpress Lodestar
Tube : Skywatcher StarTravel-102
Type : Refractor
Focal length : 500 mm
Aperture : F/4.9
---Mount---
Mount : Skywatcher EQ-6
---Image details---
Objects
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M65 - Intermediate spiral galaxy located 35 million ly away from us.
M66 - Intermediate spiral galaxy located 36 million ly away from us.
NGC 3628 - Unbarred spiral galaxy located 35 million ly away from us.
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Source : dso-browser.com/
This image of 5 galaxies in Leo has been made by stacking some shots that I took earlier today using an unmodified Canon EOS 60D mounted onto a Skywatcher 200D reflector.
Date: 6th December 2008
Location: Cambridge, UK
OTA: Skywatcher 190mm F/5.3 Maksutov-Newtonian Astrograph
Guiding: Skywatcher ED80 + DSI-C + PHD
Imaging: QHY8 + Nebulosity, 42×300s, IDAS LPR
Stacked: DeepSkyStacker
Post Process: ImagesPlus + PSCS2 + Noel Carboni’s AstroTools
A quick single frame of 15-second exposure of the Double Cluster in Perseus. Satellite trail was extra.
Localisation : CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date : 2016-11-29
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 : 32 minutes [32 subexposures of 60 sec each (selected from 32)] @ ISO 800
Calibration : Dark & Bias : 10/11 @ ISO 800 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 400
Temps/Weather : Bonne transparence. Faible vent de E à SE. T=xx°C. Humidité faible.
Constellation : Auriga/Cocher
Software Used : Astro Photograph Tool (v3.13), DeepSkyStacker 3.3.6, Pixinsight LE, PhotoShop 7, xnview, Noiseware Community Edition