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Mogi das Cruzes, 07/08/2013
23° 27' 49.39" S, 46° 16' 12.52" W
Equipamento:
- Sky-Watcher Sprit 120ED Super APO Triplet
- Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6 GT
- Canon Rebel T3i (EOS 600D)
- Astronomik CLS-CCD Clip Filter
- Orion DeLuxe Off-Axis Guider
- Orion StartShot Auto-Guider
Frames:
- 20 Light 300s ISO 800 RAW
- 24 DARK 300s ISO 800 RAW
- 24 BIAS 1/4000 ISO 800 RAW
- 24 FLATS 0.5s ISO 100 RAW
- 24 DARK-FLATS 0.5s ISO 100 RAW
Softwares:
- BackyardEOS 3.0
- PHD Guiding
- DeepSkyStacker 3.3.3 beta 51
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5
A nice night for catching stars in Kananaskis Country.
From a picnic spot in Station Flats. Deep Sky Stacker counted over 4500 stars in the shot. I`m not going to double-check that.
10x 60s subs stacked in DeepSkyStacker (10 Darks, 20 Flats, 20 Bias) processed in PixInsight and Photoshop. Canon EOS 450D DSLR prime focus Sky-Watcher 150P Newtonian EQ3-2 mount. Baader Neodymium filter.
Milky Way with Orionids meteor. Five 8 second exposures, 30mm f/2.0 at ISO1600, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker. Registered incorrectly at the bottom right due to the meteor streak.
10" f/4 Newtonian,314L with 7nm H-alpha filter. Captured 12subs at 5mins each,stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in StarTools and Nebulosity3. Synthesized stars tool in StarTools used to add effect to the brighter stars.
Image taken 12/08/2014
- 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/ Orion mini guide scope
- 10 x 200 second Lights (1 hour) ISO 1600
- 10 flats
- no dark or bias
- Captured with BackyardEOS
- Guided with PHD2
- Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
- Processed in Pixinsight
This is a dwarf galaxy in Sagittarius also called Barnard's galaxy. I imaged this object in two nights, 26-27/08 and 15-16/09/2017. Note the different distribution of bright blue stars and the brownish "bulge". North is on the right. I increased the colour saturation much more than I usually do in order to show this difference.
Imaging data: 75 x 3 min. exposures through a GSO RC 8" f/8 with a PrimaLuceLab 700Da cooled at -5 degree Celsius; ISO 3200; no light pollution filter. Stacked with DeepSkyStacker in autoadaptive weight averaging mode and further processed in PS, Fitswork4 and Noiseware Community.
Shotdate 21-02-2011
Camera: Nikon D3x
Optics: Celestron 9.25" Edge HD
Guiding: LVI AutoGuider 2
Mount: Sky-Watcher HEQ6 Pro
11 frames of 300 seconds (ISO: 800) - total exposure: 55 mn 4 s
RGB Channels Background Calibration: Yes
Per Channel Background Calibration: No
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Offset: 120 frames exposure: 1/8000 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Dark: 28 frames exposure: 5 mn 7 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Flat: 26 frames exposure: 1/2 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Staking: DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2
Postprocessing: PixInsight 1.6 and Photoshop CS4
EXIF - 140X180" (7h), Gain 0
Calibration: Darks - 40, Bias - 40
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro (cooled to -10°C)
Filter: Astronomik L-2 - UV IR Blockfilter 1,25"
Main optics: William Optics RedCat 51
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Guiding: William Optics UniGuide + ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Controller: ZWO ASIair Pro
Software: DeepSkyStacker + Pixinsight + Photoshop
Location: Sibenik, Croatia
Canon EOS 450D prime focus Skywatcher 150 Explorer Newtonian. 20 lights (20s ISO1600), 10 darks, 20 flats, 20 bias. DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight, Photoshop CS5
Catch a falling star - a Geminind I suppose, passing through Canis Minor.
Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Lepus & Taurus.
33, 20 second exposures.
10 each - dark, flat & bias.
Deep Sky Stacker.
Tripod - no mount.
Nikon D600
24mm lens f3.5
ISO 640
Info:
Object: M101
Telescope: Skywatcher explorer 150p f/5
Camera: 450D Full Spectrum met JTW Ice Cube cooling
Mount: Heq 5 pro
Guiding: TSOAG9 met Orion SSAG
Imaging time: 2x15 min. en 8x10 min.= 1hr 50mn
Filter: Hutech IDAS LPS-P2
Darks: -
ISO: 400
Stacked in: DeepSkyStacker (DSS)
Processing: Photoshop CS5.1
Location: Achterhoekweekend, Laren
Datum: 07-04-2013
Canon 5D3 with Celestron CGEM 1100HD. ISO 1600, 10 minute exposures with dark frame for each. Stack of 5 shots using Deepskystacker. A 2.5 minute exposure was used to blend into the center core to reduce washout there.
Manual guiding using Celestron's off-axis guider and Orion's 12.5mm illuminated reticle eyepiece.
Good seeing night provided a pretty good image for this globular.
My longest exposure ever. A stack of the previous four images.
Taken with AstroTrac and Canon T3i
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiopeia_%28constellation%29
Note: This was taken last night during the Full Moon last night as well. If the skies were darker, it would be even more impressive. DeepSky Stacker registers almost 8,400 stars in this exposure.
I went out to my first astronomy club observing night this year. Nice clear sky before the clouds rolled in at 11 p.m. We lucked out and found Comet Garradd was passing by M71, a small globular cluster in Sagitta. The comet is the small greenish orb with the bright centre and is located just above the globular cluster.
I also managed to get Brocchi's Branch (the upside-down Coat Hanger) in the upper-right quadrant and in the upper-left quadrant M27, the Dumbbell Nebula.
This is a stack of six 10-second exposures imaged with a Nikon D200 DSLR and a Nikkor 85mm f/2 AIS lens.
Taken from Joshua Tree National Park, about 10 miles north of the Cottonwood area.
Canon T2i, ISO 6400, 10 sec exposure, 50 mm, f/1.8
10 images stacked using DeepSkyStacker (beta), post-processed in PS (CS4)
New moon!
Taken on June 1, 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.
This photo was taken from Silchester, Hampshire, UK (51.35 long, 1.06667 lat).on 24 September 2013 between 11.30pm and 12.00am.
The photo is composed of 20 exposures of 75 seconds at ISO 6400 with 8 dark frames subtracted and all stacked using Deepskystacker.
The Monkey Head Nebula (NGC 2175) is a small emission nebula located in the constellation Orion. In my opinion, this nebula really does resemble it's name (although to me it looks more like a human skull).
My equipment is a modified Canon EOS 1100D, a Sky Watcher ED80 telescope and an EQ3-2 Mount with an RA motor. I also used a UHC filter.
Compilation de 12 photos de 20s + 2 darks avec DeepSkyStacker. Shooté avec un Canon EOS 500D + Samyang 8mm Fisheye à F3.5 et 1600iso.
Camera: Nikon D50
Exposure: 44m (11 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
Picture saved with settings embedded.
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: 5406x3612
Dates: March 11, 2018
Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 15x180" (gain: 30.00) bin 1x1
Integration: 0.8 hours
Darks: ~20
Flats: ~20
Bias: ~50
Avg. Moon age: 23.93 days
Avg. Moon phase: 31.46%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00
Mean FWHM: 7.00
Temperature: -1.00
Astrometry.net job: 2076590
RA center: 189.994 degrees
DEC center: -11.585 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.784 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 25.273 degrees
Field radius: 0.708 degrees
Data source: Backyard
My 4th attempt at The Orion and Running Man nebulae.
Sony SLT A77
Sky-Watcher Evostar ED80
Celestron Advanced VX
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Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Edited in Adobe Photoshop 2021
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Total exposure time of 1h 33m
93 60sec exposures + darks + flats + bias
Equipo: Star Adventurer - Canon 6D - Canon 24/105mm f/4
17 x 120s @f/5 105mm ISO 3200
Procesado: Deepskystacker - Photoshop - Lightroom
Febrero 2022 - Punta Indio - Bortle 3
Canon 1100D (modified) with CLS clip filter attached to 6" f5
achro refractor. Captured 10 subs at 5mins each using Backyard EOS,stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in StarTools and GIMP2. Image taken 15-16th July 2014
21/11/2011, Diepenbeek, Belgium
ISO 800, Lights 18x240 sec, darks 20x240 sec, flats 9x10 sec.
Equipment used:
-Skywatcher 200mm F4 Carbon
-HEQ5 Pro mount
-Canon 500D
-Televue Paracorr 2
-TS65-M48a adapter connecting Paracorr 2 to OAG
-Telescope Service 9mm Off-Axis-Guider - T2 & Canon EOS adaptation
-TS Optics - T2 Extension ring - Length 5mm
-Synguider
-Neodymium filter
-DeepSkyStacker
No Off-Axis-Guiding is used. Guiding is done using a guiding telescope mounted on the contraweight shaft.
First attempt at stacked astrophotography.
Canon EOS 450D, 21 exposures, each of 22s, ISO800, f/3.5, 18-55@18mm, bloody cold (!), stacked with DeepSkyStacker.
Canon 60d + Batterie grip + 70 - 200 lens
Triton ball head rotule ( Load capacity: 10 kg )
AstroTrac TT320X-AG ( Load capacity:15 kg )
AstroTrac Polar Scope
Tele-Optic Mount 320 TT
Berlebach Tripod ( Load capacity: 20 kg )
DeepSkyStacker :
10 photos
0 Dark
0 Offset
120sec / Photos
800 ISO
F = 200 mm
Comet C/2014 E2 Jacques and M31, clusters and nebulae in the same field of view.
8 shots stacked plus darks & bias. Nikon D700 Nikkor 50mm AI f/1,2 @ f/2,8 8x30s ISO 2500 Skytracker, DeepSkyStacker
Used my modified 1100D and Revelation 10" f4 Newtonian to take 9 subs at 4 minutes each of M33 (Triangulum galaxy). Stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop and StarTools. BackyardEOS was used to control the camera.
Image taken 21/08/15
My 1st attempt at the Beehive Open Cluster
Sony SLT A77
Sky-Watcher Evostar ED80
Celestron Advanced VX
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Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Edited in Adobe Photoshop 2021
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Total exposure time of 3h 18m
561 25sec exposures + darks + flats + bias
- 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/ Orion mini guide scope
- 16 x 300 second Lights ISO 1600
- 14 dark
- 20 bias
- 10 flat
- Captured with BackyardEOS
- Guided with PHD2
- Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
- Processed in Pixinsight
Cencenighe Agordino (BL), 06/11/2010
Transparency: 4/5 (SQM-L 21.10)
Seeing 4/5
Temp: 2°
Takahashi FS60-C F6.2
Canon 350D Baader ACF mod
No LP Filters
24x480sec 800ISO
11 Dark - 21 Bias - 21 Flat
Guided with PHD Guiding
Starlight Lodestar+TS OAG9
Nebulosity, Deepskystacker; Pixinsight, Photoshop CS2, no crop
Notes: some residual noise, flat partially worked
Andromeda , Shot with a Nikon D50 and a Sigma 150mm f2.8. Exposure time of 500 seconds @ ISO 1600. Stacked with DeepSkyStacker.
An unguided/untracked, wide-field view of comet Garradd taken with a 105mm telephoto lens mounted to a Nikon digital camera. The base exposure time was only 1.3 seconds, although multiple images were taken and then combined ("stacked") to produce a higher-contrast and lower-noise result. I hope to do a better job with the image processing as time allows so consider this a draft or first attempt with this data.
Comet Garradd is currently in the constellation Hercules and on the morning of February 3 it was quite close to the globular cluster M92 (shown just below the comet in this photograph). I've convinced myself that there is some evidence of the tails of this comet that extend upward and to the right and downward and to the left (fan shaped or dual tails). If you squint and think good things you may see them also (YMMV). However, the outer stars to the globular cluster M92 are definitely being resolved (Wikipedia reports M92 as having a total magnitude of 6.3).
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).
Comet Garradd, View At Full Size
Photographed on February 3, 2012 between the hours of 5:18AM and 5:33AM PST using a Nikon D5100 DSLR (ISO 3200, 1.3 seconds x 128, 105mm 1:2.5 Nikon Ai lens at f/2.8).
Image stack created with DeepSkyStacker using 128 "light" frames (giving approximately 166 seconds of total integration time), 64 "dark" frames, and 64 bias frames. Final adjustments done in PixInsight v01.07.04.0759 (trial) and Photoshop CS5.
[UPDATE]When reviewing this image using the freeware sky charting software Cartes du Ciel I found that I had somehow flipped and rotated the image, I fixed the rotation but what you see above is still flipped left-to-right (horizontally) which unfortunately I can't correct without a reposting of the image which would break existing links. I also used Cartes du Ciel to estimate the distance between M92 and the comet and that appears to be close to 30' or 0.5 degrees which is about the same angular size as the full moon.
Lastly, I checked some of the stars to see what magnitudes I had recorded and it looks like the faintest stars in this photo are somewhere between magnitude 14 and 15 (that's pretty good for a stack of 1.3 second-long exposures). The relatively bright star that is just touching the top of the comet's coma is 3UC 267-141797 which has a visual magnitude of 12.1 (according to Cartes du Ciel).[/UPDATE]
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Technical card
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: 5412x3630
Dates: Sept. 14, 2018
Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 13x300" (gain: 11.00) 24C bin 1x1
Integration: 1.1 hours
Darks: ~30
Flats: ~40
Avg. Moon age: 5.05 days
Avg. Moon phase: 26.22%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00
Mean FWHM: 6.00
Temperature: 24.00
Astrometry.net job: 2254680
RA center: 306.301 degrees
DEC center: 42.292 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.783 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 280.424 degrees
Field radius: 0.709 degrees
Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Data source: Backyard
The Triangulum Galaxy always strikes me as looking messy, as if it has permanent bedhead.
Captured under the dark sky of Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario.
Black Eye Galaxy
The Black Eye Galaxy was discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779, and independently by Johann Elert Bode in April of the same year, as well as by Charles Messier in 1780.
Magnitude: 9.36
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
Third shot, taken at 18mm 20 20 second exposures taken at f/3.5 with ISO 1600. Camera just set on ground and photos taken via a connected laptop and EOS utility. Shots then stacked with deepskystacker. Looking for feedback.
View more of my work in my gallery
I am now able to process RAW files from my Canon EOS 60D using DeepSkyStacker so here is another image of the Triangulum Galaxy!
Skywatcher 72ED and Atik 314L with UHC and UV/IR block filters piggybacked to main scope on CEM60. 28 subs at 120secs each stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop CS2,no flat nor dark frame subtraction.
Nikon D5100, GSO 6" RC, CCDT67, on iOptron iEQ30Pro. Guided using Metaguide with FlexRX. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in StarTools, final denoise in Noiseware
7x 8min lights, 4x darks, 42x flats (ISO 320)
I should take another 10 or so lights next opportunity - amazing what I can be done with only 7 subs.
Date: 6/20/23
Frames: 55x300s - 4h35m
OTA: Orion 8" F3.9 Astrograph
Mount: ZWO AM5
Camera: ASI 533MC Pro
Accessories: SkyWatcher Coma Corrector, Optolong L-eNhance
Guide Scope: Orion 50mm
Guide Camera: ASI 120mm mini
Software: DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight, GIMP
Galaxie du Moulinet -
Luminance 1h25.
RVB 1H / color
Total L-RVB 4h25 minutes.
Lunette 80ED - Caméra monochrome Atik 460ex
Deepskystacker - Pixinsight
The Helix is very difficult to image from my latitude and location, as it is very close to the Southern horizon and then only visible for a very short time due to obstructions. Hence the image is still rather noisy, despite a total of 2 hours & 41 minutes of exposure.
21 manually-guided exposures of between 4 to 10 minutes were taken in 2009, 2010 & 2012; registered and stacked in DeepSkyStacker software.
Unmodified EOS 40D and Celestron C6 telescope at f6.3.
Localisation : CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date : 2017-10-05
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 : 80 minutes [40 subexposures of 120" @ ISO 1600]
Dark & Offset 6/9 @ ISO 1600 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 11/9 @ ISO 1600
Temps/Weather : Bonne transparence. T=15°C. Humidité faible. [lune / moon]
Constellation : Vulpecula / Renard
M27 - NGC6853
Mag : 7.30
Dim : 48'x34'
Software Used : Astro Photograph Tool (v3.33), DeepSkyStacker 3.3.6, Pixinsight LE, PhotoShop 7, xnview, Noiseware Community Edition