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The universe is in constant motion in many ways, ranging from slow movement following nice, predictable, easy-to-understand Newtonian physics to mind-blowing accelerating cosmic expansion. Please refer to Monty Python's Universe Song for more information! The black smudge along the bottom is a line of trees at the edge of the field I was shooting from, blurred by the motion of the sky tracker which rotates the camera at the same rate as the Earth, pointing continuously in a fixed direction in the sky. Really, it's nowhere near as complicated as it sounds! :)
Taken under the glorious dark sky of Killarney Provincial Park in Ontario, located about 30,000 light years from the centre of the Milky Way galaxy!
Nikon D610
AF-S Nikkor 50 mm f/1.4G @ f/2.8
Vixen Polarie
Hoya RA54 (didymium)
iso 400
24 lights de 30"
24 darks
12 flats
12 bias
Encuadre y enfoque: APT
Utilidad astro para DSLRs Nikon: Dark current enable tool
Calibrado, registro y apilado: DSS
Post-procesado: Startools demo: Develop, crop, wipe, color
Captura de pantalla de startools demo.
Salou, Tarragona
Agosto 2020
Bright supernova in M101.
A stack of the best 27 of 30x60s exposures using a QHY22 camera on a TS Imaging Star71 - 71mm f/4.9 Imaging APO telescope. Unguided. CLS filter. Flats, darks and bias applied. 2x2 binning.
Calibration and stacking done in DeepSkyStacker and post-processing in PixInsight.
Nebulae area of constellation Cygnus in hydrogen alpha narrowband 3 panel mosaic. Each panel was stacked and processed with 24, 10min exposures for each panel: 24X600"
Equipment used:
Canon 85mm f1.8 lens at f4, ASI183mm camera, AP900 mount, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop levels, curves, blending, Sometimes guided with ZWO174mm and Stellarvue SVR90T.
I processed this photo in Photoshop CC. Can Deep Sky Stacker produce similar or better milky way landscape photo?
Location :CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date :2016-07-09
Author :Pierre Rougé
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 :95 minutes [19 subexposures of 300 sec each (selected from 19)] @ ISO 800
Calibration :Dark & bias : 16/9 @ ISO 800 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 800
Weather :Très bonne transparence. Vent Nord-Ouest. T=24°C humidité faible.
Software Used :Astro Photograph Tool (v3.11), DeepSkyStacker, PhotoShop CS
This is my first image of 2021 and my first time using a hydrogen-alpha filter. It’s amazing how far away and faint this object is, but with the right equipment, hidden wonders beyond everyday light pollution can be uncovered.
I decided to go with a fiery look considering this was my first attempt with a Ha filter. The bright reds and burning oranges never get old especially when you understand this area in space is both a hot star-forming region and where tons of cold, dark gas come together to create beautiful, artistic silhouettes.
Telescope: Startravel 120/600mm
Camera: Astro-modified Canon 60D
Mount: Heq5 Pro
Integration: ~8.3 hrs
Filters:
30x600s using Astronomik 12nm Ha
20x600s using Lumicon UHC
ISO: 500
Location: Vancouver, BC
Bortle 8
Date: January 21 - February 11, 2021
Acquisition:
Astrophotography Tool
PHD2
EQMOD
Processed (in this order):
Deepskystacker
Siril
Starnet++
Photoshop
Denoise AI
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Nice easy summer (northern hemisphere) target; easy to find, and quite bright for a nebula. Always admired this object in my astronomy books as a kid, and now I finally took a photo of it myself!
M57, “Ring Nebula”
Canon 40D
ISO1250
Optical Craftsmen 8" Newtonian, f/5, 900mm
Orion Starshoot autoguider
BackyardEOS, PHD
36 × 60s lights, 40 darks, 40 bias, no flats
Processed in DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop CC, Lightroom 5
Here's a quick shot of Comet P46 Wirtanen above a palm in my suburban backyard, taken through a small gap in the clouds last night. Lots of Brisbane light pollution so the comet was not visible with the naked eye, but it was easily spotted in 7x50 binoculars, and the camera picked up its greenish glow fairly well.
This is 10 x 3.2 second exposures with my 100mm macro lens at f/2.8 and 3200 iso, stacked in DeepSkyStacker.
Manually guided for 5 x 7-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/6.25. Modified EOS 600D & Sky-Watcher ED80 refractor, piggybacked on a Celestron C8 telescope for guiding.
The red halo around Gamma Cass is an imaging artefact (Probably an internal reflection). Also, I had to crop the image due to badly distorted stars around some edges - evidently something wasn't aligned correctly.
Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; initial curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; final curves & colour-balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro; noise reduction via CyberLink PhotoDirector.
Camera: Sony A65
Lens: Minolta 135mm f/2.8
Exposure: ~180 minutes-cm2 (10x60s f/2.8 ISO800)
Tracker: Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Raw converter: RawTherapee
Stacker: Deep Sky Stacker (DSS)
Processing: rnc-color-stretch
Processing: GIMP
Total 6hrs 15min
H-Alpha - 1x600 & 11x900s, Red 8x600s, Blue 5x600s & Green 3x600s
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker & processed in PS2.
Camera: Atik 314L+ Mono
Filters: Baader H-Alpha 7nm, RGB.
Scope: Sky-Watcher Equinox 80ED .
Mount: AZ EQ6-GT goto, PhD guided with Orion 50mm guidescope & SSAG.
Imaging telescope or lens:Altair Astro 72edf deluxe
Imaging camera:Pentax K-5
Mount:iOptron SkyGuider Pro
Guiding telescope or lens:QHYCCD miniGuideScope
Guiding camera:QHYCCD QHY5II-L
Focal reducer:Hotech SCA Field Flattener
Software:DeepSkyStacker 4.1.1, Pleaides Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8 Ripley
Frames:
19x120" ISO800
81x135" ISO800
Integration: 3.7 hours
Darks: ~41
Flats: ~30
Flat darks: ~30
Bias: ~100
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
Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, and Celestron Advanced VX mount. Consists of 41 light and 39 dark frames, each a 50-second exposure at ISO 800, stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.
Kochab
2019-06-01 between 00:00h and 01:00h
50s / f4.0 / ISO500 /@280mm
Canon 80D / 70-200f2.8LII / ext 1,4x
stack 24 lights / 4 darks
Taken in my backyard (a street lamp very close)
Class 4 bortle
ennesima elaborazione da frustrato :) alla disperata ricerca della flux (la cui visibilità varia a seconda del tasso alcolico del medesimo), il tempo non collabora purtroppo. Mi piace ed affascina il dettaglio sulle galassie ed il bilanciamento colori ma è uno scatto tutto da rifare con un cielo degno, sob!
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Yet another frustrated and cropped stack :) in a desperate search of flux (whose visibility varies depending on the alcohol content in the body), unfortunately the weather does not cooperate. I like the detail on the galaxies and the color balance but i need to start all over again with a sky worthy, sob!
Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: APO Triplet 130/910 mm
Camere di acquisizione: Canon / CentralDS EOS Astro 50D
Montature: Sky-Watcher EQ6 Pro
Telescopi o obiettivi di guida: 80/600
Camere di guida: lacerta mgen2
Riduttori di focale: Flattener 2"
Software: DeepSkyStacker, photoshop, Adobe Lightroom 3, Noel Carboni's Astro Tools for PhotoShop
Filtri: Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter
Risoluzione: 1280x853
Date: 04 maggio 2013, 06 maggio 2013
Pose:
Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 15x300" ISO1600 -6C bin 1x1
Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 7x400" ISO1600 -6C bin 1x1
Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 12x480" ISO1600 -6C bin 1x1
Integrazione: 3.6 ore
Dark: ~16
Flat: ~20
Scala del Cielo Scuro Bortle: 3.00
Temperatura: 10.00
Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, and Celestron CG-4 mount. Consists of 37 light and 29 dark frames, each a 40-second exposure at ISO 800, stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.
Manually guided for 7 x 5-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/6.25. Modified EOS 600D & Sky-Watcher ED80 refractor, piggybacked on a Celestron C8 telescope for guiding.
Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; initial curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; final curves & colour-balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro; noise reduction via CyberLink PhotoDirector.
Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 37 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing in GIMP, taken August 3 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 40 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing in GIMP, taken July 29 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
Milky Way (stacking): 7 pictures (ISO 1600; 30sec; f2.8) stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Olympus OMD-EM10 MKII + Zuiko 17mm 1.8
This is one of the most beautiful and distinctive nebulae in our galactic neighbourhood.
The eye-catching Bubble Nebula is designated as NGC 7635, Sharpless 162 and Caldwell 11 and lies close to the direction of the open cluster Messier 52.
It is 7 light-years across – about 1.5 times the distance from our Sun to its nearest star, Alpha Centauri and resides 7100 light years from Earth in north-western Cassiopeia close to the border with Cepheus.
The 8.7 magnitude seething star forming this nebula (BD+60°2522) is 45 times more massive than our Sun. Gas on the star gets so hot that it escapes away into space as a stellar wind moving at almost 7 million km/h.
As the surface of the bubble's shell expands outward, it collides with dense regions of cold gas on one side of the bubble. This asymmetry makes the star appear dramatically off-center from the bubble, with its location in the 10 o'clock position in this image.
Camera: Canon 350Da with Hutech IDAS LPS,
Telescope: Celstron C8 at f/6.3 (with focal reducer)
Guiding scope: Celestron ED80
Mount: Takahashi EM200 Temma Jr
Autoguiding: Toucam 740K, PHD Guiding
Total exposure time: 166 min (9955 sec)
Exposures in detail: 55 x 181 sec , ISO 1600 , 2009-07-25
Alignment and stacking: DeepSkyStacker
Final post-processing: Pixinsight LE, Photoshop CS3
IC1848 is actually the open star cluster in the lower right of the picture. IC1871 can also be found towards the upper middle, looking a little bit like a knight's boot.
This is a 4 panel mosaic captured on the 5th of December 2023 at the Astronomy Centre, Todmorden, UK.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -10c gain 100, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
4 panels combined, each panel made up from 15 exposures, 180 seconds each exposure.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, stitched together in Microsoft ICE and processed in StarTools & Affinity Photo.
Slice of our galaxy in the Cassiopee region. This is not the brightest part of the Milky Way but always fabulous to see it :-)
Canon Eos 600D
3 min 20 s exposure
ISO 1600
f/3.5
18 mm
10 photos superimposed with DSS.
I'd been eyeing this area in Camelopardalis for awhile because of the concentration of dark nebulae. Barnards 8-13 are the dark nebulae on the lower left.
It was a bit of a let down to process - It's not nearly as neat as the the dark nebulae in Taurus or Cepheus, in my opinion, but it was fun to explore anyway. I almost didn't post it because it's a bit underwhelming, but since there aren't too many images of this area, I decided to post anyway.
Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 50 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken on Nov. 24, 2019 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
TS-Optics 6" f/4 UNC Newtonian Telescope - Carbon
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI 183 MM PRO
Mounts
Sky-Watcher NEQ6-Pro
Filters
Baader B 1.25'' CCD Filter · Baader G 1.25'' CCD Filter · Baader R 1.25'' CCD Filter · Baader L 1.25'' Filter
Accessories
ZWO EAF Electronic Auto Focuser · TSOptics TS Off Axis Guider - 9mm · Pal Gyulai GPU Aplanatic Koma Korrector 4-element
Software
Luc Coiffier DeepSkyStacker (DSS) · PHD2 Guiding · PhotoShop CS5 · FitsWork 4 · CCDCiel
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
TS-Optics 6" f/4 UNC Newtonian Telescope - Carbon
Guiding Cameras
Astrolumina Alccd5L-IIc
Acquisition details
Dates:
April 4, 2021
Frames:
Baader B 1.25'' CCD Filter: 17x180" (51') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Baader G 1.25'' CCD Filter: 17x180" (51') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Baader L 1.25'' Filter: 35x180" (1h 45') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Baader R 1.25'' CCD Filter: 17x180" (51') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Integration:
4h 18'
20 superimposed images with DeepSkyStacker
50 mm
f/1.8
ISO 1600
13 x 20 seconds
(JPEG editing only)
Location : France
Just starting to learn things in astrophotography of course with the help and support of GeoAstro team ^_^
27 frames were shot with Nikon D5100, 200mm lens f/2.8, ISO 3200, Exp. 30"
Processed in Deepskystacker and retouched in Photoshop cs6.
Part of the famous Veil Nebula supernova remnant. The bright star with the reflection halo is 52 Cygni.
Unfortunately, this has the frequent problem I get with bloated stars towards the lower right. Not got to the bottom of it yet, but something in the optical chain must be getting out of alignment. I do check collimation before each session. Anyway, I was pleased with the detail in the nebula, so have posted despite the flaws.
Manually, off-axis guided for 11 x 4-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/4. Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" Newtonian reflector telescope.
Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; initial curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; final curves & colour-balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro; noise reduction via CyberLink PhotoDirector.
35 x 8 minutes, ISO 400
30 darks, 100 flats, 100 bias
Equipment: Canon 450D (full spectrum mod), Orion 8" f/3.9 Newtonian Astrograph, Orion Atlas EQ-G, Orion SSAG/80mm, Baader MPCC
Acquisition: EQMOD, Cartes du Ciel, Backyard EOS, Astrotortilla, PHD
Calibration and Post-processing in DeepSkyStacker and Pixinsight
After weeks of cloudy skies, I finally had the opportunity at grabbing a couple of shots of Lovejoy on it's passage past us towards the Sun.
Used 7 x exposures at 100mm, via Deepskystacker, which has removed the green tint from the Comet that shows up single exposures - obviously I need to do some reading up on the Software :)
6sec exposures, ISO5000 at f/2.8 - cropped down to 50%
Guess who got an ED80 for his birthday then? :)
This is my first half successful attempt at using the thing with my new go-faster budget guiding kit :) Guiding was fine, but I ran out of vis towards the end, and as the Reading Fest had just kicked off, I had to contend with searchlights passing through the frame every 20 seconds or so! So on that basis, this ain't too bad - even though it needed a little encouragement during the processing :) Horrendously noisy, hence the small image :)
SW ED80/EQ5
Nikon D70 modded, iso 1250, Baader Neodymium filter
15 x 6 mins for a total of 1 hour 30 minutes
Guiding: Quickcam Pro4000/9x50 finderscope, PHD
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5
Taken using Olympus E-P5 with Panasonic 14mm f/2.5 lens at f/4.
Stack of 52x 13 second exposures at ISO3200, 11 mins total exposure.
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, edited heavily in Photoshop to bring out the Galaxy.
46 x 30sec images
My first foray into using a dedicated astro camera.
Images were taken on the first opportunity of a cloud free night (or close to it) but there was however, a full moon.
I suspect the full moon took away some of the finer details and the blues/purples. Time will tell.
These image files (FITS) were stacked with DeepSkyStacker and then edited in Adobe Photoshop.
Gear used:
ZWO ASI Air Pro
ZWO ASI294
Skywatcher EQ6r
ZWO ASI290 guide camera
William Optics Redcat 51
Latitude:
42deg South
My first attempt to capture Horse Head nebula.
Too much light pollution to capture as expected.
Canon 500D
Sigma 120-400 @120mm
f 6.3
ISO 800
35 frames x 120 seconds
58 frames x 60 seconds
total exposure about 128 minutes
60 darks
61 bias
45 flats
After I have spent hours to watch the starry sky, I tried to realize a image of our nearest neighbor galaxy : Andromeda M31.
Wihtout using a tracking mount, I took 64 images (+ 20 darks) that I superimposed with DeepSkyStacker software.
In order to improve the clarity of the photograph, I used lightroom. But the focus is not perfect unfortunately...
Tehnical datas :
Canon T3i on tripod
50 mm lens
f/1.8
64 x 8 s = 8.5 minutes of exposure
ISO3200
JPEG editing
Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, and Celestron CG-4 mount. Consists of 41 light and 23 dark frames, each a 35-second exposure at ISO 800, stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.
Much needed reprocess :)
This is a pigging thing! Either my skies ain't up to it or the ED80 is too slow, but this is 11 hours of hard work (well, sort of) and required no small amount of encouragement during processing. And the noise you wouldn't believe!
Unlikely to get the opportunity to add to it this year, so maybe next :)
No apology for the spikes - they hide a multitude of sins, and it is a christmas tree after all :)
SW ED80/EQ5
Nikon D70 modded, Baader Neodymium filter
162 subs, 3-6 mins, iso 800-1600, total 11 hours 2 minutes
Guiding (RA only): Quickcam Pro4000/9x50 finderscope, PHD
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5
[English]
The Orion Nebula, also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976, is a diffuse nebula situated south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 ± 20 light years and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across. It has a mass of about 2000 times the mass of the Sun.
Nikon D90 - Meade LX200 10" - f/6.3 - 1600mm - ISO 800 - 14 minutes of total exposure - 42 frames of 20 seconds, stacked with DeepSkyStacker. Tweaked with Adobe Photoshop CC.
Information taken from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Nebula
[Español]
La nebulosa de Orión, también conocida como Messier 42, M42, o NGC 1976, es una nebulosa difusa situada al sur del Cinturón de Orión. Es una de las nebulosas más brillantes que existen, y puede ser observada a simple vista sobre el cielo nocturno. Está situada a 1.270±76 años luz de la Tierra, y posee un diámetro aproximado de 24 años luz.
Nikon D90 - Meade LX200 10" - f/6.3 - 1600mm - ISO 800 - 14 minutos de exposición - 42 fotos de 20 segundos, apiladas con DeepSkyStacker. Postprocesado con Adobe Photoshop CC.
Imagen recortada de la original.
Info de Wikipedia (es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebulosa_de_Ori%C3%B3n)
The Pleiades M45, shot from a dark location in the Black Forrest at almost 1000 m. It was taken on December 3rd in a clear and moonless night.
This was the first field use of my Celestron AVX mount and my new guiding setup.
Camera: Canon EOS 600D, modified
Lens: Canon EF 200 L 2.8 @ f/4 with aperture stopper (I don’t like spikes)
Mount: Celestron AVX
Guiding: ALccd5L-IIc with PHD
Shot Info: 16 x 600 s, ISO 800, total time 160 minutes, 20 bias, no darks, no flats
Software: Astro Photography Tool for Imaging, DeepSkyStacker and PixInsight
Skywatcher Esprit 100mm triplet APO and Canon 6D full spectrum with Astronomik L (IR/UV cut) XL clip filter 40x180sec at iso1600. Stacked with Deepskystacker and processed with Pixinsight 1.8. Image dates 21 and 22 july 2015.
Press L (followed by F11) for the best view.
M-51 Whirlpool Galaxy
C-11 @ F/2 Hyperstar CGEM-DX on Pier
23 subs 60 sec iso1600 unguided
0 flats, 0 darks, 0 bias
Total integration 0 hours 23 minutes.
Canon 6D Baader Mod – by Hap Griffin.
Filter - LPS2
seeing - average
5th time on target.
Stacked in Deepskystacker
Had a session on this last night, and combined with last year's effort for a total of 2 hrs 23 mins.
Not sure that I've gained much, although a little less noisy in the wispy bits, and a couple of fuzzies visible. Don't think I'll get much more out of this target without a serious upgrade of kit! :)
SW 200p, EQ5 unguided
Nikon D70 modded, iso1600, Baader MPCC and Neodymiun filter
142 x 60sec
darks, bias and flats.
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5
Eskimo Nebula or Clown Face Nebula.
Not my best attempt as I went a little too long with the exposures I think, but still not my worst .
NGC 2392 can be found in the constellation of Gemini about 5,000 light years away.
First spotted by William Herschel in 1787. It's thought that this planetary nebula started to form around 10,000 years ago.
Planetary nebulae are formed from dying stars that have burnt through all their fuel supplies and start shedding off outer layers in to space.
Boring techie bit.
Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector
EQ6 R pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & Altair GPcam
Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.
60 exposures of 120 seconds each with the best 75% stacked together with calibration frames.
Software used, PHd2, DeepSkyStacker, StarTools.