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Many deep sky objects are visible, including the Double Cluster (NGC 884 & 869) and nebulae IC 1848 & IC 1805 at lower left; the Pacman nebula (NGC 281), middle right, and star cluster NGC 7778 (top right). There are over 8000 stars in the image (according to DeepSkyStacker - I didn't count them!)

17 x 2-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/2.8.

Unmodified EOS 40D with Leica Summicron 50mm f2 lens, piggybacked on a Celestron C8 telescope. Unguided.

Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker software.

Perseids 2012

Lens: Samyang 8mm Fisheye

7 x 10-minute exposures at ISO 1600.

Canon EOS 600D (modified by DSLRAstromod), Meade ED 127mm telescope, manually, off-axis guided. Sub-exposures registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker software.

Tamron 70-200 zoom lens set at 85 attached to 314L unfitered,running piggyback to main scope. 8 subs at 2minutes each stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop CS2.

Image taken 19/01/15

Total 1hr

H-Alpha - 6x600sec

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker & processed in PS2.

 

Camera: Atik 314L+ Mono

Filters: Baader H-Alpha 7nm.

Scope: Sky-Watcher Equinox 80ED .

Mount: AZ EQ6-GT goto, PhD guided with Orion 50mm guidescope & SSAG.

 

Imaging telescope or lens:Explore Scientific 102mm ED CF APO triplet ED 102 CF

 

Imaging camera:Altair Hypercam 183C

 

Mount:iOptron iEQ30 Pro iOptron

 

Guiding telescope or lens:Starwave 50mm guidscope Starwave

 

Guiding camera:Altair Astro GP Cam 130 mono Altair

 

Focal reducer:Altair Lightwave 0.8 Reducer/Flattener Altair Lightwave

 

Software:PHD2 2.6.4, APT - Astro Photography Tool APT 2.43, DeepSkyStacker (DSS) Deepskystacker 3.3.2, Photoshop CC 2017 Photoshop

 

Filter:Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar

 

Resolution: 5358x3546

 

Dates: Sept. 12, 2018

 

Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 16x300" (gain: 11.00) 20C bin 1x1

 

Integration: 1.3 hours

 

Darks: ~30

 

Flats: ~40

 

Avg. Moon age: 3.03 days

 

Avg. Moon phase: 10.03%

 

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00

 

Mean FWHM: 7.00

 

Temperature: 17.00

 

Astrometry.net job: 2248693

 

RA center: 323.364 degrees

 

DEC center: -0.820 degrees

 

Pixel scale: 0.783 arcsec/pixel

 

Orientation: 100.410 degrees

 

Field radius: 0.699 degrees

 

Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

 

Data source: Backyard

Horsehead Nebula/Flame Nebula

 

November 8 2016

 

Mount: German EQ-G

Scope: Skywatcher ProED 120mm f7.5

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3

Lights: 180 @40sec ISO 6400

Flats: 40 @1/160th sec ISO 6400

Darks: 40 @40sec ISO 6400

Biases: 40 @1/4000th sec ISO 6400

 

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker 3.3.4

Processed in PixInsight

Manually, off-axis guided for 9 x 10-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/6.3.

Modified EOS 600D & Celestron C8 telescope.

Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker software; noise reduced using Noel Carboni's tools in Photoshop Elements; curves adjusted using Paint Shop Pro.

September nights are great for observing... Less humidity, reasonable viewing hours, not too cold... and no mosquitoes! Not looking forward to those -15 C nights, but I know they're coming. Tonight's quarry... Messier 29. M29 is a fairly sparse cluster in Cygnus that to me looks a bit like a mini-Pegasus.

 

A whole bunch of 15-second exposures with MagicShutter (along with dark frames) stacked in DeepSkyStacker. Added some star spikes for effect.

Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: Sky-Watcher Equinox 80ED

Camere di acquisizione: QHY8L

Montature: Skywatcher AZ EQ6 GT

Telescopi o obiettivi di guida: Celestron 102mm f/6.6 Achromat

Camere di guida: Magzero MZ-5m

Software: DeepSkyStacker, photoshop, Absoft Neat Image

Accessori: TecnoSky Flattener 1x

Risoluzione: 2568x2030

Date: 25 dicembre 2014

Pose: 24x600" -15C bin 1x1

Integrazione: 4.0 ore

Dark: ~44

Flat: ~52

Bias: ~39

Giorno lunare medio: 3.25 giorni

Fase lunare media: 11.50%

Scala del Cielo Scuro Bortle: 3.00

Temperatura: 4.00

Centro AR: 60,460 gradi

Centro DEC: 36,241 gradi

Orientazione: -86,286 gradi

Raggio del campo: 1,469 gradi

Luoghi: Drassa, Corinth, Grecia

DeepSky Potograph using 140 Frames to earn 56 minutes Exposure time.

Pentax K-30, SkyWatcher 130PDS, EQ5.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, Pocessed with PhotoShop and Fitswork.

 

Canon 6D

Canon 300mm f/4.0 + Canon 1.4 Teleconverter @ f/5.6

Vixen Polarie tracking head

51 x 30sec @ISO3200

22 x 30sec @ISO12800

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker

Processed in Lightroom

Optics: Fujifilm XF 27 mm

Mount: iOptron Skytracker

Exposure:: Fujifilm X-E3 (APS-C) 27mm f2.8 iso3200 60sec * 12 Software: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop CS6 (Astronomy tools, GradientXTerminator)

314L with Ha filter attached to a Tamron 70-200 zoom lens set at 135mm and piggybacked to the main scope.

5 subs at 10 minutes each stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in StarTools and Photoshop.

Image taken 2/01/17

Although severe light pollution and clouds this region of the sky shows its colors in the Carina Nebula. Running Chicken Nebula colors was neutralised by light pollution reflected by the clouds in front of it. Southern Pleiades was very bright. Even in the Wishing Well cluster we can distinguish the color variation of the stars (blue and orange).

I thought in the post-processing in the option of don't apply any change in the clouds colors. That is my condition inside the city and I going to show it as it is.

I used only 12 photos x 15 seconds, ISO 3200 and f/2.8.

 

#astrophotography #southernsky #fujixe1 #meike35mm #deepskystacker #adobecameraraw #adobephotoshop #fitswork

Taken on May 31, 2011 near Butler, Missouri using an SBIG8300C camera mounted on a CGE1100 Telescope using Hyperstar (F/2). This is the sum of 6 ten minute images, stacked using DeepSkyStacker. The image was then processed with Photoshop CS2.

 

Guiding used PhD Guiding with an Orion Starshoot autoguider.

 

First light Skywatcher ED80

Info:

Object: NGC281, Pacman nevel

Telescope: Skywatcher ED80 w/ 0.85x Reducer/Fieldflattener

Camera: 450D Full Spectrum

Mount: Heq 5 pro

Guiding: TSOAG9 met Orion SSAG

Imaging time: 53x5min. = 4hr. 25mn

Darks: 8x 5min

Flats: 21 x 3,2 sec

Bias: 30 x 1/4000 sec

Filter: Hutech IDAS LPS-P2

ISO: 400

Stacked in: DeepSkyStacker (DSS)

Editing: Photoshop CS6

Location: Sterrenwacht Halley, Heesch (NL)

Datum: 26-10-2013

Shot date: 31st October 2011

Location: Home, Teuge, NL

Camera: Nikon D3x

Optics: Celestron Edge HD 9,25"

Mount: Skywatcher NEQ6Pro

Guiding: LVI Smartguider 2

 

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Stacking in DeepskyStacker 3.3.2

 

DeepSkyStacker settings:

Stacking mode: Standard

Alignment method: Bicubic

Stacking 18 frames (ISO: 800) - total exposure: 18 mn 02 s

RGB Channels Background Calibration: Yes

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

Offset: 120 frames exposure: 1/8000 s

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

Dark: 20 frames exposure: 1 mn

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

Flat: 100 frames exposure: 1/3 s

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

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Postprocessing in PixInsight Core 1.7 Starbuck

 

DynamicBackgroundExtraction

ColorCalibration

HistogramTransformation (11 times)

HDRComposition: Global context HDR composition of 11 images

HistogramTransformation

DarkStructureEnhance

ChannelExtraction: HDR_L

HistogramTransformation: HDR_L

ATrousWaveletTransform: HDR_L

CurvesTransformation: HDR_L: Masking

CurvesTransformation

ACDNR

ColorCalibration

HistogramTransformation

 

My First attempt st the M42 Orion Nebula.

 

Shot With:

Sony SLT A77 (unmodified)

SkyWatcher ED80

Celestron AVX Equatorial Mount

 

39 stacked photos in DeepSkyStacker

Edited in Adobe Photoshop 2021

The first Nebular I've imaged (and my first attempt). I think it's come out well. When I saw the original subs all murky and orange I wasn't expecting to see this much colour.

 

I think I could have focused better the stars are more blobs than points. But I'm really impressed with how well the motor on the mount kept up. Especially with the extra weight of the camera and lens.

 

The Orion Nebula (aka "Great Nebula in Orion") is supposedly the easyest to got good images of so I expect I'll be back for more.

 

40x10s

f5.6

450mm (35mm equiv)

ISO6400

D300s, 70-300 Piggybacked on a motorised EQ2 mount

M7 Milky Way 9-02-2014, Central Ohio. a rudimentary image of the Milky Way Galaxy with Sagittarius, M7 Cluster and the Butterfly Cluster. The fog was already starting to rise with high clouds in the sky. From Hilliard you can not see the Milky Way with the naked eye. I also captured moon light in the upper right. Shot with my 50D and a Tamron 50mm prime 1.5 lens.This is full view with no crop.

Messier Object 42, The Orion Nebula

Anyone who has ever looked at the constellation Orion has seen these objects

 

There is more than just M42 in this shot.

 

Actually, it's widely believed that most of the nebulae in Orion are all part of the same cloud of gas and dust, so I guess it could be just one object...

 

Anyhow, the technical stuff:

 

2 minutes, 13 seconds at ISO 800

Canon EOS 30D

Prime Focus on a 10" (254mm) Newtonian Reflector

1016mm Focal Length (Which makes it F/4 for those of you keeping score)

 

This is actually a collection of these frames, stacked in DeepSkyStacker.

 

I used a 5 minute dark frame, which may have actually resulted in a slightly inaccurate final picture, since it's twice as long as the total light frame exposure.

  

I captured about 30 minutes worth of various exposures, playing with ISO and expsore settings.

 

Perhaps I'll get around to stacking those at some point.

 

Here is the exact same stacked result with some slightly different modifications in Photoshop.

 

It's late, but soon I'll post the original copy, before I messed with saturation. It barely has any hint of color, but shows a couple details better.

An untracked/unguided, wide-field view of the constellation Leo the Lion and the planet Mars. This photo also captured the small center cores of the galaxies M105, M96, M95, and NGC 3384 which are members of the galaxy group known as the Leo I Group (or simply the M96 Group). A 100% scale crop of the area in which the galaxies appear can be seen in my photo entitle "Mars and the M96 Group of Galaxies (5 Second, Untracked Exposure Stack)."

 

This image is best viewed in the Flickr light box (press the "L" key to toggle the light box and optionally click on the "View all sizes" menu item to see the image at its largest size). Within the light box you will also be able to see the central outline of the stick figure which represents the body and head of the lion.

 

Captured on December 7, 2011 between the hours of 4:20AM and 4:30AM PST from a significantly light-polluted, near-center-city location using a Nikon D5100 DSLR (ISO 4000, 5 seconds x 64 or just over five minutes total exposure integration time) and an AF Nikkor 35mm 1:2D lens set to aperture f/4. Image stack created with DeepSkyStacker (64 "light" frames and 32 "dark" frames) with final adjustments done in Photoshop CS3. Star diffraction spikes were enhanced in Photoshop CS3 using ProDigital Software's Astronomy Tools.

 

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I imaged this little cluster in Cygnus with the MagicShutter app. Four 30-second exposures stacked in DeepSkyStacker along with dark frames, and a few star spikes to make it look a little warmer to the eye.

Canon Eos1100D

StarAdventurer

5*120sec

2 Dark

No Flats or Bias

Iso400

Total exposure10min

 

DeepSkyStacker

Photoshop

 

This is quite low in the sky this time of year.

Nights are also getting brighter before summer.

Have to try again after the summer.

The Orion Nebula and Running Man Nebula

NCG1976 (Messier 42) and NCG1977

Bainbridge, OH

Meade LXD-75 6" SN w/ UHTC

Orion 80mm Short Tube w/ StarShoot Autoguider and PHD

Canon Digital RebelXT 350D

10 Exposures @ 5 seconds each

07 Exposures @ 10 seconds each

49 Exposures @ 30 seconds each

20 Exposures @ 117 seconds each

Total Exposure Time: 65.6 minutes

19 Flats

Prime, f/5, ISO 800, Focal Length 762mm

Stacked and Calibrated with DeepSkyStacker

Processed with PhotoShop CS, Gradient XTerminator and Noiseware

Seeing Poor: Light Polluted w/ Snow Covering

Temperature: 9° Fahrenheit

Humidity: 80-85%

January 23, 2011

Brief details:

 

QHY9 CCD @ -35C

TMB 130SS + 0.8X reducer

260 minutes of Ha 7nm

Processed in DeepSkyStacker and PSCS2

M20 o Nebulosa Trífida por tener una franja de polvo que divide a la nebulosa en 3 partes. Se puede apreciar dos tipos de nebulosas en uno, roja de emisión y azul de reflexión.

Se encuentra a una distancia aproximada de 5500 años luz en la constelación de Sagitario.

 

M21 es el cúmulo abierto que aparece arriba a la derecha en la imagen compuesto por unas 60 estrellas y dista de nosotros a unos 4200 años luz.

 

18/3/2012

SkyWatcher reflector 200/1000

Canon T1i foco primario con corrector de coma SkyWatcher

Montura NEQ6

 

17 subexposiciones de 300 segs. a ISO 800 + 41 darks + 41 bias + 15 flats + 21 dark flats procesadas en DeepSkyStacker

Proceso final en Photoshop y Pixinsight

Imaging telescope or lens:Explore Scientific 102mm ED CF APO triplet ED 102 CF

 

Imaging camera:Altair Hypercam 183C

 

Mount:iOptron iEQ30 Pro iOptron

 

Guiding telescope or lens:Starwave 50mm guidscope Starwave

 

Guiding camera:Altair Astro GP Cam 130 mono Altair

 

Focal reducer:Altair Lightwave 0.8 Reducer/Flattener Altair Lightwave

 

Software:PHD2 2.6.4, APT - Astro Photography Tool APT 2.43, DeepSkyStacker (DSS) Deepskystacker 3.3.2, Photoshop CC 2017 Photoshop

 

Filter:Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar

 

Resolution: 5380x3636

 

Dates: July 8, 2018, July 10, 2018, July 11, 2018

 

Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 50x300" (gain: 11.00) bin 1x1

 

Integration: 4.2 hours

 

Darks: ~30

 

Flats: ~40

 

Avg. Moon age: 26.16 days

 

Avg. Moon phase: 13.88%

 

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00

 

Mean SQM: 6.60

 

Mean FWHM: 6.67

 

Temperature: 20.00

 

Astrometry.net job: 2143762

 

RA center: 23.474 degrees

 

DEC center: 30.656 degrees

 

Pixel scale: 0.783 arcsec/pixel

 

Orientation: 96.594 degrees

 

Field radius: 0.706 degrees

 

Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

 

Data source: Backyard

The Rosette Nebula is a large spherical H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter.

 

Imaged on 12/30/19.

 

Nikon D5300 (Ha modified)

Explore Scientific ED102 APO Refractor

 

72 light frames for 150 seconds at iso 800 stacked in DSS.

darks, flats, and bias calibration frames.

 

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and Processed in Startools 1.6.382.

Technical card

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Sky-Watcher Equinox 80ED

Imaging cameras: QHY8L

Mounts: Celestron CG5-ASGT

Guiding telescopes or lenses: Celestron 102mm f/6.6 Achromat

Guiding cameras: Magzero MZ-5m

Software: DeepSkyStacker, photoshop, Absoft Neat Image

Accessories: TecnoSky Flattener 1x

Resolution: 3064x2030

Dates: April 22, 2014

Frames:

7x300" -15C bin 1x1

8x600" -15C bin 1x1

Integration: 1.9 hours

Darks: ~10

Flats: ~10

Bias: ~10

Avg. Moon age: 21.79 days

Avg. Moon phase: 53.80%

RA center: 169.949 degrees

DEC center: 13.308 degrees

Pixel scale: 3.225 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 64.675 degrees

Field radius: 1.647 degrees

M45 - The Pleiadies star cluster

 

Canon 40D at ISO 1600

200mm Bushnell F3.5 lens

Camera piggybacked on a Celestron C6S-GT telescope

51x1min

Stacked and processed in DeepSkyStacker, PixinsightLE and Photoshop

Canon 500D (mod) mounted on Astrotrac, Canon 40mm f/2.8 stop down to f/5.6, ISO 800, total exposure time 40*5min

Images calibrated by bias, dark and flat frames in DeepSkyStacker, coadded in Sequator, sky gradient removal in MaxImDL, colour & intensity adjustment in Photoshop.

The air temperature was measured by QCZ as varying from 105 F to 95 F during these images were being taken. I have never taken any long exposure images in such high temperatures. As a result, the original raw images look terrible, teemed with hot pixels, since my camera was uncooled. I could have used exposure time >10min but I was afraid that the hot pixels could not be removed properly in the calibration process.

Comet Lovejoy continues to show nicely in the hours before dawn, passing in front of the stars of the constellation Corona Borealis. It is currently around 4th magnitude which is bright enough to see with the naked eye in a dark sky. Unlike the photo from a couple of nights ago, this one is a stack of 15 exposures which reveals a bit more of the growing tail. Our good observing window will be closing over the next few days as the Arctic ridge weakens and cloud starts to roll in from the Pacific. Prince George, BC. Dec 06, 2013.

 

Technical specs -

Camera: Pentax K-3

Lens: DA*300mm

Tracking mount - AstroTrac TT320X-AG

8 frames x 8 seconds @ f4.5 @ ISO6400

7 frames x 8 seconds @ f4.5 @ ISO3200

 

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker

A guided image of the Little Beehive Cluster (M41) in Canis Major taken with a ZWOASI183MC Pro camera though an Astro-Tech 70mm ED refracting telescope. Twenty 30 second images were used to create the photo using DeepSkyStacker, Adobe Lightroom, and Topaz AI.

 

Here are the planets Venus and Uranus in the dawn sky this morning (May 13th), At the time they were separated by about 3.5 degrees, but the gap will reduce to about 1.3 degrees on the 16th May.

 

With apparent magnitudes of -3.94 and 5.92, respectively, Venus appears 8800 times brighter than Uranus!

 

Notice the blue/green colour of Uranus.

 

This is 10 x 1 sec exposures with my 70-200 f/4L at 200mm f/5, 1600 iso; stacked using DeepSkyStacker and processed in LR5.

Camera: D300 without IR-cut filter.

Optics: Celestron EdgeHD 9,25"

Guiding: LVI SmartGuider2

 

DeepskyStacker 3.3.2 settings

 

Alignment method: Bicubic

Drizzle x3 enabled

Stacking 25 frames (ISO: 800) - total exposure: 50 mn 23 s

 

RGB Channels Background Calibration: Yes

Per Channel Background Calibration: No

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

Offset: 87 frames exposure: 1/8000 s

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

Dark: 17 frames exposure: 2 mn

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

No Flat

 

Postprocessing in PixInsight 1.7

 

Color correcting thrue histogram changes and masks with ATrousWaveletTransform.

ACDNR and afterwards a mask without wavelet for setting the background. mask

Taken from underneath the Owachomo bridge.

Canon T2i, ISO 6400, 10 sec exposure, 50 mm, f/1.8

10 images stacked using DeepSkyStacker (beta) and post-processed in PS (CS4).

New moon!

 

From the National Bridge website:

 

The beauty of the night sky, the lack of light pollution, and the National Park Service commitment to night skies as a natural resource, led the International Dark-Sky Association this spring to designate Natural Bridges National Monument as the world’s first International Dark Sky Park.

 

Natural Bridges is one of the darkest national parks in the country according to a comprehensive study of night sky quality conducted by the National Park Service.

 

Just how dark is it? “It’s the only Bortle class 2 sky they’ve documented,” said Chris Luginbuhl of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona., and a board member of the International Dark-Sky Association. “In plain English that means it’s the darkest or starriest sky they’ve seen while doing these reviews. The Bortle system is a 10-level scale with one and two being the darkest skies and 10 having the most light pollution.”

 

Celestron EdgeHD 8" SCT

Advanced VX Mount (unguided)

Canon EOS T3i (600D)

17 x 15sec subs, ISO 3200, f/10

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker

Finished in Lightroom

Taken June 2013 from Memphis, MI

This is my first picture while try to learning deepskystacker for hotpixelremoving. What you see is a bit of the milkyway and about 3000 + stars. Press L to see this picture in the lightbox.

5/12/2013

Orion XT8 (Undobbed)

Baader Coma Corrector (MPCC III)

Baader Sky Glow Filter

46 x 25 Sec @ 400 ISO

15 Darks

15 Flats @ 100 ISO

15 Dark Flats

Captured with Backyard EOS

Processed with DeepSkyStacker, StarTools

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.

This is a cropped version of the wide-field photo of the Andromeda Galaxy. Notice the stars are round?!

Image of the Medusa nebula in Gemini using my Esprit 150ED Apo and QHY168C with 2" UHC filter to take 5 subs at 900 seconds each and 2 subs at 2400 seconds each. Stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop CS2. EQ6 mount autoguided using a 60mm "Tasco" refractor,Altair GPcam2 130M with 0.5x reducer and PHD2.

Image taken between midnight and 02:30 GMT 03/02/19

Nikon D3100 - Nikon NIKKOR-H Auto 50mm f/2 @ f2 / f2,8 / f4

Procesado con DeepSkyStacker + Adobe Photoshop CS6

 

Shotdate: Januari 9th 2011

Camera: Nikon D3x

Optics: AF VR 80-400mm 1:f4.5-5.6 D

 

22 x 125 sec

 

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2

 

Postprocessing in PixInsight 1.7

 

Functions used are coming

The Milkyway taken above Rutland Water.

 

This shot consists of the following:

 

10 Light Frames @ f/2.8, 15 seconds, ISO 3200.

 

2 Dark Frames @ f/2.8, 15 seconds, ISO 3200.

 

All the frames were then stacked together using DeepSkyStacker and a final curves adjustment in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Attempt at the Crescent Nebula from back garden using unguided Celestron 8" SCT, 30s exposures with Canon EOS500D and CLS filter, stcked with DeepSkyStacker

After a very successful imaging session last night, under the dark skies of Joshua Tree National Park, here's the first result. This shows the famous Flame Nebula (NGC 2024), which is below the really bright star Alnitak. And the even more famous Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) to the upper right of Alnitak, which resembles a horse's head. This one turned out better than I expected. Many more to come. :)

 

01/28/12

Joshua Tree, CA

4 frames = 190 seconds ISO 6400

6 frames = 665 secondsISO 3200

1 frame = 60 seconds ISO 1600

15 minutes 25 seconds in total

Images stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in Gimp 2

6" Meade Newtonian Reflector LXD75 EQ Mount

Canon Rebel T3 DSLR

Stacked shots taken with Pentax K-5 + DA 14mm F2.8

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