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and Cepheus, Lacerta, Vulpecula. Six thirty-second exposures processed in Deep Sky Stacker along with dark, flat, and offset frames. Nikon D200 DSLR. Nikkor 24mm AI manual focus wide-angle lens. Unguided/untracked.

 

Date: 4. january 2024.

Lication: Županja - Bortle 5

Telescope: SW Esprit 80ed

Camera: ASI2600mc pro

Filter: Baader UV/IR-Cut / L-Filter

Guiding: SW 9x50 + ASI290mm

Mount: SW HEQ5 Pro Rowan mod

Other: AsiAir Plus

Stack and processing : DeepSkyStacker, GraXpert , Siril, Photoshop

 

Exposure(gain 100):

Lights: 30x300sec

Flats, bias, darks yes

North America Nebula/Cygnus Region

 

Bower 85mm F4

Canon T4i ISO 800 90 seconds

9x light frames

9x dark frames

Backyard EOS

iOptron SkyTracker

DeepSkyStacker

Pixinsight 1.8

 

Buy a print of this on RedBubble:

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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

Again, the stars are rather poor, with coma and bloating, but I was pleased with the spiral structure of the galaxy.

9 x 4-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/4. Manually guided off-axis. Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" Newtonian reflector telescope.

Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; initial curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; noise reduction, colour balance and final curves adjustment via CyberLink PhotoDirector.

Pictures taken during a the full moon night!

 

DeepSkyStacker :

 

20 photos

0 Dark

0 Offset

60 sec / Photos

800 Iso

F = 200 mm

  

- Canon 7D Mark II

- Orion 8" f/3.9 Astrograph

- Baader MPCC Mark III Coma Corrector

- Orion Atlas Pro Mount

- ZWO ASI 120MC-s guide camera w/ 60mm guide scope

- 21 x 300 second Lights ISO 1600. Dithered each frame

- 10 flats

- No dark or bias

- Captured with BackyardEOS

- Guided with PHD2

- Stacked with DeepSkyStacker

- Processed in Pixinsight

 

- Imaged on September 2nd 2016 from the Grandview Campground in the White Mountains near Bishop, California.

2013/12/14 5:40~

EOS60D EF135mm F2.8 ISO1600 15秒 x 11shot

using DeepSkyStacker

Celestron EdgeHD 8" SCT

Advanced VX Mount (unguided)

Canon EOS T3i (600D)

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

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker

Finished in Lightroom

Taken June 2013 from Memphis, MI

M-20 Trifid Nebula

C-11 @ F/7 Reducer CGEM-DX on Pier

244 subs 60 sec iso1600 unguided

0 flats, 0 darks, 0 bias

Total integration 4 hours 0 minutes.

Canon 6D Baader Mod – by Hap Griffin.

Filter - LPS2

seeing - average

2nd time on target.

Stacked in Deepskystacker

 

First test with a new camera...

Target: Messier 33

OTA: Celestron C8N, 8" Newtonian reflector

Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM

Exposure: L: 21x2min, R: 10x2, G:10x2, B:10x2, Ha: 10x5

Mount: CGEM-DX

Captured with SGP

Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker

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

Constellation: Dorado.......... Distance: 180,000ly

Location: suburban Sydney backyard on 20/01/2010

Modified Canon EOS 400D, Orion ED80 (FL600mm) at prime focus. IDAS LPS filter

EQ5 mount autoguided by 3"WO refractor;Philips SPC900nc & PhD

ISO800 2 x 4min subs stacked in DeepSkyStacker with darks. Cropped.

Note: unfortunately data collection was cut short when camera starts hitting tripod

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

Captured on November 10 2017 from a Bortle 5 zone.

 

Equipment:

* TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian

* Orion Sirius EQ-G

* Canon Rebel T3 (Full spectrum modified)

* High Point Scientific 2" Coma Corrector

* StarGuy 2" CLS-CCD filter

* Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope

* ZWO ASI-120MC for guiding

 

Acquisition: 2 hours 33 minutes

* Lights- 28x180" at ISO1600 + 14x300" at ISO 1600

* Darks-10x180" + 9x300"

* Flats- 19

 

Software and Processing:

Captured using Sequence Generator Pro beta and stacked in DeepSkyStacker. PHD2 guiding.

 

Photoshop Processing:

* Levels

* Curves

* GradientXTerminator

* Camera raw filter

* Astronomy Tools Action Set

Stacked from 2 frames at 4 seconds each taken with 50mm f/1.2 Ai-S Nikon manual focus lens. Taken wide open at f/1.2, results in weird shape on bright stars near the corners. Open star clusters M36, M37, and M38 are visible with locations noted in the standard view page. Surprised how much detail came out at 50mm, will have to check them out with the telescope soon.

My first somewhat successful deep sky image. This is M45 or "Pleiades" Star Cluster. I learned a lot from this experiment and hope to have better success in the future. I was only able to pull part of the dust cloud due to the extreme light pollution where I live. I will be investing in a good light pollution filter in the near future.

 

Meade LXD75 5" Refractor

Canon 5DMK2

Stacked using DeepSkyStacker

The North American Nebula and the Pelican Nebula

Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm at ~170mm and f/4

Mount: EQ6 Pro running EQMod with CDC

Camera: Modded Canon 350D, CLS Clip Filter

Guiding: Skywatcher ST80, Phillips SPC900NC webcam and PHD

Exposure: ~1hr 45mins, 71 x 90secs ISO 800 with 30secs gap between, 25 x Darks, no flats.

 

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in CS3 using Noel's Actions.

Had to crop quite severely as I couldn't sort some weird gradients out.

M102 in Draco. There is some controversy over whether Messier actually observed this galaxy or it was an accidental duplication of M101.

 

This tiny galaxy is actually a spectacular edge-on galaxy with a magnificent dust lane as seen in professional images. I really only took this image as it's a Messier object I haven't imaged before, it's not very exciting at this scale!

 

Taken from the Starshed Enterprise on 29th March 2020.

 

A stack of 5x300s exposures using a QHY22 camera on a TS Imaging Star71 - 71mm f/4.9 Imaging APO telescope. Autoguided using an off-axis guider. CLS filter. Flats, darks and bias applied.

 

Calibration and stacking done in DeepSkyStacker and post-processing in PixInsight.

    

Shotdate: 7-7-2013

Camera: Nikon D3x

Optics: Celestron 9,25"

Guiding: LVI SmartGuider2

 

21x25 seconds with 50 dark and 35 bias frames on ISO6400 (H2).

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and post-processing in PixInsight

 

Very poor guiding

Somewhere close to the centre of the Milky Way.

 

16 40 second frames (About 10 Minutes) ISO 1600, f/5.6. Lens set at 62mm.

 

SynScan AZ Goto Mount

Nikon D3100 connected to the mount with a dovetail.

Yongnuo MC-36R/N3 Wireless Timer Remote.

Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker with darks.

Processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

 

Taken at the Summit of Moel Farwyd in Snowdonia looking over the light pollution of Ffestiniog.

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.

Nikon D90 camera

Sigma 150-500mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM APO Autofocus Lens

Orion TeleTrack GoTo Altazimuth Telescope Mount

14 X 30” exposures, f/6.3, ISO1600, 500mm

Dark, flat, dark-flat, and offset-bias frames applied

IC 5070, nebulosa del Pelicà.

Àger, fotografies del 20 de juny de 2009.

10 imatges de 10 minuts a ISO 400, registrades i cal·librades amb DeepSkyStacker. Tractament amb PiCore.

Telescopi LongPern 66/320, amb corrector-reductor William Optics 0'8x, càmera Canon 350 modificada. Autoguia amb Meade DSI II-pro i Lunatico EZ60.

Camera: D300 without IR-cut filter.

Optics: Celestron EdgeHD 9,25"

Guiding: LVI SmartGuider2

 

DeepSkyStacker:

Stacking mode: Standard

Alignment method: Bicubic

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

 

www.flickr.com/photos/14721988@N02/7848791952/in/photostr... processing screenshot

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

Celestron CGX Mount

Nikon D7500 DSLR

39x240s Light (2 hr. 36 min.)

12x Dark, 50x Flat, 50x Bias

Backyard Nikon, DeepSkyStacker, Nebulosity, Lightroom

12 usable lights (60s), 10 darks, 20 flats, 20 bias. Canon EOS 450D DSLR prime focus, ISO1600. Baader Neodymium filter and coma corrector. Sky-Watcher 150P Explorer on EQ3-2 mount. DeepSkyStacker > PixInsight > PhotoShop.

Camera: Nikon D3x

Optics: 80-400mm f4.5-5.6 set at 400mm f6.3

Mount: NEQ6Pro

Guiding: LVI 2 SmartGuider

 

DeepSkyStacker settings:

 

Stacking mode: Custom Rectangle

Alignment method: Bicubic

Drizzle x2 enabled

Stacking step 36 frames (ISO: 1600) - total exposure: 18 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: 40 frames exposure: 30 s

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

 

Flat: 40 frames exposure: 1/40 s

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

 

Post-processing in PixInsight 1.7

 

Masked Semi-HDR technique, also used an exposure of 1 minute as a mask to improve the structures (blowing the core)

 

New effort:

www.flickr.com/photos/14721988@N02/8075286391/in/photostr...

The Dumbbell Nebula (M27) from the backyard.

 

This was from my first night of (attempted) astrophotography, so it's not much to look at. It does show a bit more detail in the larger size, though.

 

Canon 5D through Celestron C8-SGT.

4 x 30min exposures stacked with DeepSkyStacker.

 

M27 Dumbell nebula imaged with Celestron 200mm SCT, astromodded Canon EOS550, CLS clip filter, using multiple 30s exposures and DeepSkyStacker

Twain Harte, California.

 

Unmodified Sony a7R and Astro-Tech AT65EDQ 65mm f/6.5 refractor mounted on a Losmandy G11 mount. 13 x 5 minute sub-frames, 5 averaged darks processed with DeepSkyStacker.

Not too noisy!

 

$25 eBay lens, diaphragm stuck wide open.

 

Check out the next image in my photostream for an unstacked, noisy version of this starfield.

 

Nikon D600 DSLR on tripod

Vivitar 135mm f/2.8 manual focus F-mount lens, set to infinity stop and shot wide open.

ISO 12,800 and 2 second exposure to minimize star trailing while capturing some fainter stars.

 

I shot 31 "light" frames, and a forgotten number of "dark" frames, all stacked together with Deep Sky Stacker to hide hot pixels and reduce quantum noise.

 

Shot in Big Valley, California, on a concrete slab next to our largest hot tub. Big Valley has dark skies, and plays host to the Golden State Star Party (GSSP) each year, about three miles from our Ranch.

  

Deep Sky Stacker:

deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html

  

Golden State Star Party:

www.goldenstatestarparty.org/

1) Equipment

Nikon D3200 (23.2 x 15.4 mm CMOS-sensor); 50 mm lens (Nikkor AF-S, 1:1.8 G);

 

2) Settings

(f-stop F/1.8 - shutter speed 2 s - ISO 12800) x 16 of the night sky segment

www.flickr.com/photos/neon194/16080923906/

 

3) 16 light-frames and 8 dark-frames were stacked with DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2.

 

4) The 150 MB tif file was modified with RawTherapee: Saturation=75, Black=5000, cropped and saved as jpg with 51 KB.

 

5) The small file was uploaded to astrometry.net

nova.astrometry.net/user_images/515571#redgreen

Center (RA, Dec):(50.569, 49.883)

 

6) I annotated some of the faintest visible stars. Stars up to twelfth magnitude are visible!

 

What does the Andromeda galaxy really look like? The featured image shows how our Milky Way Galaxy's closest major galactic neighbor really appears in a long exposure through Earth's busy skies and with a digital camera that introduces normal imperfections. The picture is a stack of 223 images, each a 300 second exposure, taken from a garden observatory in Portugal over the past year. Obvious image deficiencies include bright parallel airplane trails, long and continuous satellite trails, short cosmic ray streaks, and bad pixels. These imperfections were actually not removed with Photoshop specifically, but rather greatly reduced with a series of computer software packages that included Astro Pixel Processor, DeepSkyStacker, and PixInsight. All of this work was done not to deceive you with a digital fantasy that has little to do with the real likeness of the Andromeda galaxy (M31), but to minimize Earthly artifacts that have nothing to do with the distant galaxy and so better recreate what M31 really does look like. via NASA ift.tt/33xOKAd

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.

 

Our Nearest neighbour, M31.

18 x 8mins, 2hrs 24mins, Darks and flats applied.

Scope: Skywatcher ED80

Mount: EQ6 Pro running EQMod with CDC

Camera: Modded Canon 350D, CLS Clip Filter

Guiding: Skywatcher ST80, Phillips SPC900NC webcam and PHD

Exposure: 18 x 8mins, iso 800, 2hrs 24mins, Darks and flats applied.

 

Images stacked in DeepSkyStacker, then processed in Photoshop CS3 using curves, levels and Noel's Photoshop Actions. Not that happy with this yet, the full moon didn't help at all.

©️Eric Walker 10 Oct 2018

 

Top of Farm Track, Conon Bridge

 

2100h BST

 

Canon 760D f6.3 ISO6400 fl10mm 30s

 

15 frames stacked with DeepSkyStacker

 

Processed with Photoshop CC

Two open star clusters.

 

This was a test of the guiding system after some guiding problems.

 

Equipment/Software:

Explore Scientific ED 102 APO

Celestron Advanced VX Mount

Orion Starshoot Autoguider on Orion 50 mm guidescope

Nikon D3300 (unmodified)

20 images at 120 seconds at iso 800

DeepskyStacker - Startools

Canon EOS 450D 20x 20s subs ISO800 Prime focus Skywatcher 150 Explorer Newtonian. Processed in DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight and Photoshop CS5

As seen and photo'd 9-9-2017 from the Dark Skies of Ward, Arkansas

Canon 5dmkii f/2 C-11 /CGEM-DX / Hyperstar. 25 lights, no Darks, no Bias, no Flats, stacked in Deepskystacker.

 

The Pleiades or Seven Sisters (Messier 45 or M45), is an open star cluster containing middle-aged hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky. The celestial entity has several meanings in different cultures and traditions.

The cluster is dominated by hot blue and extremely luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years. Dust that forms a faint reflection nebulosity around the brightest stars was thought at first to be left over from the formation of the cluster (hence the alternative name Maia Nebula after the star Maia), but is now known to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium, through which the stars are currently passing. Computer simulations have shown that the Pleiades was probably formed from a compact configuration that resembled the Orion Nebula. Astronomers estimate that the cluster will survive for about another 250 million years, after which it will disperse due to gravitational interactions with its galactic neighborhood.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades

 

Canon EOS 450D at prime focus Skywatcher 150 Newtonian. 20 lights (30s ISO1600), 10 darks, 20 flats, 20 bias. Processed in DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight, Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop CS5

©️Eric Walker 10 Oct 2018

 

Top of Farm Track, Conon Bridge

 

2100h BST

 

Canon 760D f6.3 ISO6400 fl10mm 30s

 

15 frames stacked with DeepSkyStacker

 

Processed with Photoshop CC

5 exposures 6 minutes each stacked with DeepSkyStacker.

 

5DMkIII on a Skywatcher 200PDS with a Paracorr coma corrector.

HEQ5 Pro mount controlled via PHD2.

QHY5II guide camera on a Skywatcher 9x50 finderscope.

Camera control via BackyardEOS.

Raw files stacked with DeepSkyStacker and postprocessed in Lightroom.

Nikon D300

AstroTrack

8 x 300 sec. 60mm Micro f3.5 ISO 800

DeepSkyStacker

3 x Drizzle of the total image

North American Nebula in Cygnus (NGC7000, C20)

 

Image capture: Canon 760D with Sigma 70-300mm APO DG lens - f4.0, fl 70mm, ISO6400, 10s (11.11.18 21:30h)

 

Perfect focus achieved using a Starsharp2 Bhatinov grating.

  

I exposed it for 3s too long and got a bit of star trailing (500/70mm = 7.1s). Will remember next time or fix the camera to a guided mount!

 

Processing: 10 images stacked using DeepSkyStacker with appropriate flats, darks, and bias frames. Stacked image further processed using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.

8 min of exposure (16x30s) using a 5.5" Orion OMC-140 Maksutov Cassegrain and Nikon D90 at prime focus. ISO3200. HEQ-5 mount. Frames processed in DeepSkyStacker. Taken on the 4th October 2018. Image resized and cropped.

Camera: Nikon D50

Exposure: 1hr 9m (23 frames) ISO 800 RGB

Filter: Orion Skyglow Imaging Filter

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: Yes - PHD Guiding

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Single 60 secs exposure

200/800 mm reflector telescope

 

Sony nex-5

Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 300mm f/4 MC

DeepSkyStacker

10 x 2sec. 800iso.

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