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Here is my image taken tonight (February 16th, 2008) of the decaying spy satellite USA 193 as it crossed through the heart of the Orion Constellation. About 10 minutes later, the ISS did the same thing, from a 90º angle. The faint line is the trail of USA 193, at Magnitude 1.2, while the brighter line is the Magnitude -2.4 ISS.

 

This is a 4x6-inch crop from a much larger image taken with a Losmandy G11 Gemini mounted Canon D40, using an 28-135mm lens set at 28mm, ISO 640, using 30-second subs, live-view focusing and mirror lockup. The combined exposure time was just over 30 minutes. DeepSkyStacker combined all the images. Then the combined image was imported into Photoshop CS, where the individual images showing the trails (2 for each satellite) were overlaid as separate layers, using the "Lighten" mode in Photoshop, so the trails would show.

 

No dark frames, flat fields, bias frames or image clean-up was done on the final image. I plan to use darks and bias frames at least, but it will take all night long for the computer to combine all the individual files. The final image was rotated 90º so it looks like what was seen visually.

 

I had also captured the trail of the Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission - TRMM satellite just before 7:00 p.m. PDT, right at the end of the image capturing session. It was Magnitude 2.0, but shows very faintly in the original images. This was the faintest of the 3 trails captured going through the Orion Constellation tonight. I will try to add the two images that made up the whole trail. The TRMM cut through Orion just above his feet, essentially knocking him off his feet. First he got hit in the chest by the other 2 satellites, and now this! Looks like Orion had a hard night.

 

Comments, questions, and critiques welcome. This is pretty crude, but it was incredible to see visually - the ISS was extremely bright tonight!

 

Clear skies!

Acquisition details:

Camera: Canon 450d mod BCF, 81F

Lens: Canon 50mm f/1.8 at f/4

Filter: None

Mount: Celestron CG5 ASGT

Exposure: 13x3min ISO 1600

No guiding

Captured with BackyardEOS

Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker

Photographed from Granger Lake, TX (Green Zone)

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 29m (15 x 1m) RGB + (14 x 1m)L

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: None

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Reprocessed version of the Rosette Nebula.

 

Capture date: November 3

Scope: Equinox 80mm Apo @ f5 (0.8X WO flattener)

Mount: HEQ5 unguided

Camera: Modified Canon 350, ISO800, IDAS LPS P2 filter

Exposure: 60 minutes, 30x120sec lights, 12 darks, 10 flats

Conditions: average seeing, good transparency

Processing: stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PS CS2

Cencenighe, 13/03/2010

Transparency: 4/5 (SQM-L 20.80)

Seeing 3/5

Temp: -3°

Meade SN6 (152mm f5)

Canon 350D Baader modified

No LPR Filters

25x300 Sec RAW 800 ISO

21 Dark - 21 Bias - 11 Flat

Guided with PHD Guiding (dithering)

Magzero Mz5-m+Orion ShortTube 80 f5

Nebulosity, Deepskystacker; Pixinsight, Iris (remove gradient), Photoshop CS2

 

IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk Nebula

Ha: 28/10/2012 + 11/10/2012, Diepenbeek, Belgium

OIII: 6/9/2013, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Lights: OIII: 41x120 sec. Ha: 65x120 sec, Darks: 68x120 sec.

Total time = 212 min

 

Equipment used:

-Skywatcher 200mm F4 Carbon

-NEQ6 mount

-Atik 314L+

-Televue Paracorr 2

-Baader Ha, OIII Filter

-DeepSkyStacker

-Astrozap Dew-shield

-Guiding: Synguider

-Gimp

A volte il silenzio è la migliore musica.

Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari in Oro, incenso e birra

 

La Via Lattea ripresa dalla riva del Salar di Uyuni. E' la stessa immagine di Sotto lo stesso cielo, stavolta elaborata con Iris e non con DeepSkyStacker.

 

Grazie a Sergione per il supporto e la compagnia.

Whirlpool galaxy captured using

my C9.25 at f10 with Atik 314L and light pollution filter. 7 subframes captured at 10 minutes each stacked and flat frame calibrated in Deepskystacker and processed in StarTools and Photoshop. Autoguiding used 60mm refractor,SX Lodestar and PHD guide software. Image taken 29/04/15

Messier 3 (M3; also NGC 5272) is a globular cluster of stars in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici.

It was discovered on May 3, 1764, and was the first Messier object to be discovered by Charles Messier himself. Messier originally mistook the object for a nebula without stars. This mistake was corrected after the stars were resolved by William Herschel around 1784

Equipment: EQ5Pro, GSO Newton astrograph 150/600, GSO 2" coma corrector, QHY 8L-C, SVbony UV/IR cut, guiding QHY5L-II-C, SVbony guidescope 240mm.

Software: NINA, DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Adobe photoshop

100x120 sec. Lights gain5, offset115 at -10°C, master bias, 60 flats, master darks.

16 and 17 March 2023

Belá nad Cirochou, northeastern Slovakia, bortle 4

NGC 3507 is the face-on spiral near the centre. NGC 3501 is the edge-on galaxy to the lower right.

In the upper left there is a collection of much fainter, more distant galaxies.

 

Aggregate exposure ~20 minutes.

Star Trails with Canon EOS M.

Multiple 30 sec images composited with DeepSkyStacker

Above Crowthorne, UK

TS-Optics Photoline 90mm f/6.67 (600mm) Refractor & Flattener

Celestron CGX Mount

Nikon D7500 DSLR

28x320s Light (2 hr. 29 min. 20 sec.)

11x Dark, 50x Flat, 50x Bias

Backyard Nikon, DeepSkyStacker, Nebulosity, Lightroom

Canon 6D

Canon 300mm f/4.0 + Canon 1.4x Teleconverter

Vixen Polarie tracking head

40sec exposures @ISO 3200, f/5.6

90x Light Frames

41x Dark Frames

29x Flat Frames

30x Offset Frames

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker

Processed in Photoshop and Lightroom

41 light - 800 iso - 300 sec.

15 dark - 800 iso - 300 sec.

31 offset - 800 iso - 1/8000 sec.

21 flat frame - 800 iso - 1/40 sec.

  

Reflex no modded on eq5 synscan with guide QHYL5ii-mono and telescope refractor TSED70Q 474mm 70mm F6.7.

Processed with DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2, Photoshop CS6

After sitting in the garage for most of the winter whilst the Borg was

getting used all the time, the Skywatcher 190 MakNewt got to point its

one near-perfect eye at a dark sky again on Sunday night.

 

After grabbing the RGB data for the Rosette image early in the evening

with the Borg, I quickly swapped over the imaging side of the ADM

side-by-side bar to the MakNewt, rebalanced, realigned, focused, and

fired up CCD Commander to center up M81/M82.

 

I have forgotten how nice the images are with the MakNewt :) The full

size version has some quite intricate detail, something that gets lost

when uploaded here.

 

Mount: EQ6 via EQMOD

OTA: Skywatcher 190 MakNewt

Guiding: SW ED80 + SX Lodestar + MaximDL

Imaging: Starlight Xpress M25C + MaximDL, 30×300s, Hutech IDAS LPR (101

bias, 101 flats)

Orchestrated: CCD Commander

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker Post Process: PSCS2 + PixInsight

Canon EOS 450D prime focus Skywatcher 150 Explorer Newtonian. EQ3-2 mount. 10 lights (30s ISO1600), 10 darks, 20 flats, 20 bias. DeepSkyStacker > PixInsight > Photoshop CS5

Lens: Sigma 135mm Art f/1.8

Camera: Canon 6D (unmodified)

Exposure: 14x2min, ISO 1600

Filter: None

Mount: CG5-ASGT

Captured with BackyardEOS

Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker

Photographed from Davis Mountains, TX

The Pleiadies star cluster.

 

Canon 40D with 500mm Rubinar mirror lens piggybacked on a Celestron C6S-GT telescope.

20x4min at ISO 1600

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, processing in PixinsightLE and Photoshop CS3

 

Tracking wasn't great and there's some bad internal lens reflections, but still not bad. I caught the nebulosity around the brighter stars at least.

 

Was a BEAUTIFUL night tonight, so I decided to go out there and do some astro-photography! Please view LARGE!!

 

Stack of 10 light frames, 2" exposures at ISO12800, f/5.6 with 5D Mark II + 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS lens @ 400mm

 

Subtracted 26 dark frames, 20 bias frames.

 

I'm trying this one more time with a different stacking method to try and reduce the noise a bit more!

C/2013 X1 PanSTARRS is moving across Milky Way.

Comet stacking with DeepSkyStacker

Canon EOS 450D prime focus Skywatcher 150 Explorer Newtonian. EQ3-2 mount. 19 lights (30s ISO1600), 10 darks, 20 flats, 20 bias. DeepSkyStacker > PixInsight > Photoshop CS5

First image is obviously the original, stacked using DeepSkyStacker.

The star trails image was created using startrails.exe

 

Nikon d5100

18mm

Stack of 40 20sec exposures

ISO 640

f5

 

Taken on September 25, 2011 near Butler, Missouri using an SBIG8300C camera mounted on a CGE1100 Telescope using Hyperstar (F/2). This is the sum of 8 ten minute images, stacked using DeepSkyStacker. The image was then processed with Photoshop CS2.

 

Guiding used PhD Guiding with an Orion Starshoot autoguider.

 

Exerted myself to reprocessing the stacked image as a compatriot amateur pointed out that the colors of stars in the previous result look problematic. Color adjusted according to G2V star. The final result this time looks more pleasing to me.

Images stacked in DeepSkyStacker, further processed in Fitswork, IRIS and Photoshop.

By the time CBAT had already announced an official designation of this supernova as 2014J, no longer prefixed by PSN.

First try with Celestron Oxygen Filter, 2 nights before Full Moon.

Only 12x300s exposure ISO 1600 on Orion 80ED with 4 dark, Bias & 3 Flats to begin with.

Stacked using DeepSkyStacker 64bit.

Minor processing on Photoshop CC

Cencenighe, 12/06/2010

Transparency: 4/5 (SQM-L 21.00)

Seeing 4/5

Temp: 16°

Takahashi FS60-C with flattener f6,2

Canon 350D Baader ACF mod

No LPR Filters

16x480 Sec

7 Dark - 21 Bias - 15 Flat

Guided with PHD Guiding

Magzero Mz5-m+Orion ShortTube 80 f5

Nebulosity, Deepskystacker; Pixinsight LE; Photoshop CS2

 

Notes:n/a

My very first attempt at photographing a deep sky object. I knew nothing about photography and had my friend's Nikon D60 attached to the scope for some prime focus photography.

 

Nikon D60

8" Meade LX90 ACF telescope

50x 10 second exposures, ISO 2000

 

20 dark frames , 20 bias frames (accidentally set the cam to ISO 1600 for dark and bias frames)

 

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop CS 6 and Lightroom 5

Shot from my backyard on feb 4 2014.

 

Modded 450d @iso 800 on iOptron SkyTracker mount

Astronomik CLS clip-in filter

EF 50mm F/1.4 @ F/3.5

60x 2min subs

30x 15s subs (orion nebula core)

30 darks and some flats

Stack of 20 fifteen second exposures combined using DeepSkyStacker. 16" F/4.6 telescope and Canon XSi.

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Sky-Watcher Equinox 80ED

Imaging cameras: QHY8L

Mounts: Skywatcher AZ EQ6 GT

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: 2811x1989

Dates: Dec. 20, 2014

Frames: 58x180" -15C bin 1x1

Integration: 2.9 hours

Darks: ~15

Flats: ~36

Bias: ~42

Avg. Moon age: 27.33 days

Avg. Moon phase: 5.39%

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 3.00

Temperature: 4.00

RA center: 83.801 degrees

DEC center: -5.268 degrees

Orientation: -100.452 degrees

Field radius: 1.544 degrees

Locations: Drassa, Corinth, Greece

Canon T3i

18 x 8 sec exposurs at ISO 1600

Orion XT8 (1200 MM) + baader coma corrector + sky glow filter

Processed with

DeepSkyStacker & StarTools

4 flats

5 flat darks

4 darks

4 offsets

I got a 70-300mm this time so I gave it another try. I stacked 176? images, all with 1.3 sec exposure, f/5.6, 300mm @ ISO 800. The final image was post-processed by Photoshop.

 

相機/Camera: Canon EOS 40D

鏡頭/Lens: Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 APO DG macro

焦距/Focal length: 300mm

光圈/Aperture: f/5.6

快門速度/Shutter speed: 1.3s

總曝光時間/Total exposure time: 3m48.8s

感光度/ISO: 800

共176張圖以DeepSkyStacker疊合而成/Stacked from 176 images using DeepSkyStacker.

Celestron Nexstar 130 SLT

Canon Eos 10D

DeepSkyStacker

Photoshop

 

14*30sec. Iso 200.

5 Dark 5Flat 50 Bias

 

Nights are still quite bright, but its getting darker and darker. I had to wait until 1 am, before sky was darkest.

This is not the best one I have gotten, but it was still very fun to start shooting space after bright summer nights.

Days have been so hot (30 degrees) and night are also warm, so it was fun to stay outside..

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: 5411x3636

 

Dates: June 10, 2018

 

Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 36x300" (gain: 11.00) bin 1x1

 

Integration: 3.0 hours

 

Darks: ~30

 

Flats: ~40

 

Avg. Moon age: 25.83 days

 

Avg. Moon phase: 14.74%

 

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00

 

Mean FWHM: 6.50

 

Temperature: 18.00

 

Astrometry.net job: 2171056

 

RA center: 311.444 degrees

 

DEC center: 30.670 degrees

 

Pixel scale: 0.783 arcsec/pixel

 

Orientation: 96.630 degrees

 

Field radius: 0.709 degrees

 

Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

 

Data source: Backyard

201 Ligt Frames - 1.6 sec - 2500 iso - unknown F

101 Bias Frames

106 Dark Frames

Cr2 converted to DNG with Adobe DNG converter and stacked with DSS ,, first edit with DSS and saved to Tiff and reedit in DPP and saved to jpg

 

results is very low .. shots taken from City ..

The Double Cluster in Persus. Nikon D700 and 70-300mm. Around 14 minutes worth of exposures.

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

C/2011 L4 is getting dimmer but easier to find as it approaches the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Photographed at 8:18-27 pm on April 2 in Cambridge, MA, USA. Stacked from 109 frames of 3.2" exposure each at 190mm, F/5, ISO 1600 using DeepSkyStacker's comet mode. The color bandings in the background came from low clouds and my attempts to manually correct lens vignetting as I did not shoot flat flames for this.

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Sky-Watcher Equinox 80ED

Imaging cameras: QHY8L

Mounts: Skywatcher AZ EQ6 GT

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: 2811x1989

Dates: Dec. 20, 2014

Frames: 58x180" -15C bin 1x1

Integration: 2.9 hours

Darks: ~15

Flats: ~36

Bias: ~42

Avg. Moon age: 27.33 days

Avg. Moon phase: 5.39%

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 3.00

Temperature: 4.00

RA center: 83.801 degrees

DEC center: -5.268 degrees

Orientation: -100.452 degrees

Field radius: 1.544 degrees

Locations: Drassa, Corinth, Greece

This image is for a DeepSkyStacker tutorial on my blog, Flintstone Stargazing: flintstonestargazing.com/2009/06/26/my-quick-deepskystack...

Monastier (TV) - 22/01/09

Transparency 4/5

Seeing 3/5

Meade SN6 (Schmidt Newton 15cm/6")

Canon 350D Baader ACF II

15x300 sec RAW

7 Dark - 11 Bias - 11 Flat

Guided with K3CCD

Philips Vesta Pro+Sigma 400mm f5.6

Deepskystacker; Photoshop

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Explore Scientific 127mm ED TRIPLET APO

 

Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI1600MM Pro-Cool

 

Mounts: iOptron CEM60

 

Guiding telescopes or lenses: Starfield 60mm Guidescope

 

Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI290MM mini

 

Focal reducers: Explore Scientific 0.7 Reducer/Flattener

 

Software: Topaz Sharpen Topaz · Photoshop CC 2020 Photoshop · Topaz Denoise Topaz · ZWO ASIAIR · PixInsight 1.8.8 Ripley · DeepSky Stacker (DSS) Deepskystacker 3.3.6

 

Filters: Astronomik SII 1.25" 12 nm · Astronomik Ha 1,25" 12 nm · Astronomik OIII 1.25" 12nm

 

Accessory: ZWO EAF Electronic Auto Focuser · ZWO 8x 1.25" Filter Wheel (EFW) · Celestron 9x50 finderscope

 

Date: Aug. 3, 2019

 

Locations: UAE desert, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

After a long night at Joshua Tree last night, here's the first result! The open star cluster, NGC 2244 and the Rosette Nebula (Caldwell 49). A large star forming region in the direction of Monoceros. New stars are being formed and exerting radiation pressure scultping the surrounding nebula. :)

 

02/19/12

Joshua Tree National Park, CA

44 frames = 45 min 3 seconds ISO 6400

Images stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in Gimp 2

6" Meade Newtonian Reflector LXD75 EQ Mount

Canon Rebel T3 DSLR

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: 5419x3614

 

Dates: July 25, 2018

 

Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 24x300" (gain: 11.00) bin 1x1

 

Integration: 2.0 hours

 

Darks: ~30

 

Flats: ~40

 

Avg. Moon age: 12.66 days

 

Avg. Moon phase: 95.08%

 

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00

 

Mean FWHM: 5.50

 

Temperature: 22.00

 

Astrometry.net job: 2167924

 

RA center: 250.428 degrees

 

DEC center: 36.461 degrees

 

Pixel scale: 0.783 arcsec/pixel

 

Orientation: 276.620 degrees

 

Field radius: 0.708 degrees

 

Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

 

Data source: Backyard

Composed this image with 30x240s subs for 2hrs of exposure.

 

Equip: SW80EDBD using DSI3pro (mono) stacked with DeepSkyStacker and leveled using Gimp.

Manually, off-axis guided for 7 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 & colour-balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro.

The Ring Nebula (M57) from the backyard

Canon 5D through a Celestron C8-SGT

 

I reprocessed the M57 images in DeepSkyStacker (rather than Nebulosity) with improved results. Also spent a bit more time playing with curves in Photoshop.

 

I decided not to crop the image, so check out the larger sizes for a better view of the actual nebula.

Stack of 31 x 8 sec. exposures of Orion area beginning at 05:47 EDT during morning twilight, Rochester, NY. The track of the International Space Station can also be seen. Processed with DeepSkyStacker.

Picture saved with settings applied.

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