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 Ha 1.25" 7nm · Baader Planetarium SII 1.25" 8nm · Baader Planetarium O3 1.25" 8.5nm

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:

Nov. 5, 2020 · Nov. 6, 2020

Frames:

Baader Ha 1.25" 7nm: 96x300" (8h) (gain: 200.00) -20°C bin 1x1

Baader Planetarium O3 1.25" 8.5nm: 45x300" (3h 45') (gain: 200.00) -20°C

Baader Planetarium SII 1.25" 8nm: 58x300" (4h 50') (gain: 200.00) -20°C bin 1x1

Integration:

16h 35'

Last night was the first clear Moonless night for a while, so I drove an hour Southwest of Brisbane and took some test shots of some of the larger deep sky objects to see how my 100mm macro lens performs for astrophotography.

The Pleiades (also known as the Seven Sisters) is a galactic star cluster approximately 135 light years from Earth. It contains many young, hot blue stars, and the light from these stars can be seen reflecting off dust in the region.

This image is 30 x 30 second exposures in a Star Adventurer Mini tracker, with the lens at f/4 and 3200 iso. Processed using DeepSkyStacker and Lightroom 5.

Secondo ritratto della Galassia di Andromeda con le altre due galassie ellittiche vicine, M32 e M110.

Rispetto alla prima foto ho cercato più pulizia e fedeltà cromatica.

Scattata in condizioni abbastanza favorevoli come inquinamento luminoso, ma con la galassia sempre abbastanza lontana dallo zenit, prima della nuova Luna piena riproverò.

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Data e luogo:

-Massa, 44° 2'31.08"N 10° 7'9.22"E

-27 Settembre 2011 ore 23 circa.

M-27 Dumbbell Nebula

C-11 @ F/2 Hyperstar CGEM-DX on Pier

16 subs 60 sec iso1600 unguided

0 flats, 0 darks, 0 bias

Total integration 0 hours 16 minutes.

Canon 6D Baader Mod – by Hap Griffin.

Filter - LPS2

seeing - average

many times on target.

Stacked in Deepskystacker

Manually, off-axis guided for 11 x 5-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; final noise reduction using CyberLink PhotoDirector.

Here's a crop of a photo of Comet Lulin shot with the Nikkor 200mm f/4 AI telephoto lens. I had the IDAS light pollution filter on the lens to help bring down the sky fog. There's still a bit of vignetting even though it's cropped. You can clearly see the dust tail (anti-tail) to the left of the comet. The proper tail is not that distinguished as it is projecting away from us. The bloated stars and Saturn were caused by me not using a smaller aperture.

Number 35 in the Messier catalogue, number 2168 in the New General Catalogue.

A quite beautiful open star cluster in the constellation of gemini. At 2,700 light years away it is filled with young hot blue stars, leading to estimates at the age of the cluster to be around 150 million years. Over 500 massive stars spread out amongst 2,500 stars, stretching over just 24 light years.

In stark contrast is the open star cluster NGC 2158 in the lower right corner. Much further away at over 14,000 light years, it appears much more condensed. The lack of any large hot blue stars gives away the fact that it is also much older at an estimated 2 billion years.

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, ZWO asiair plus.

300 seconds at 0 gain.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools.

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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

This planetary nebula is located right on the border of Taurus and Perseus. It is cataloged as NGC 1514 and is also known as the Crystal Ball Nebula. The magnitude, depending on the source, is listed at 10.9.

Observation data: J2000 epoch

Right ascension: 04h 09m 16.98573s

Declination: +30° 46′ 33.4699″

Distance: 1520 ly

Apparent magnitude (V): 9.27

Apparent dimensions (V): 2.2′

Constellation: Taurus

Tech Specs: Orion 8” RC Telescope, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at -10F, 68 x 60 seconds, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in DSS and PixInsight. Image Date: January 2, 2024. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

Known as the Cocoon galaxy.

The smaller companion galaxy is NGC 4485. Referred to collectively as ARP 269.

The galaxies passed close to or through one another sometime in the past and, it's almost certain gravity will bring them back together several billion years in the future.

The red/pink areas are prime star forming regions where dense clouds of ionised hydrogen are irradiated by ultraviolet light from the hot, young stars within.

ARP 269 can be found in Canes Venatici some 24 million light years away. The two galaxies having now passed by one another are now approximately 24,000 light years apart.

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair 60mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 100, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.

180s exposures.

Best 70% of 60 light frames.

Darks, Flats & Bias.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools.

Finally got imaging working again with my new laptop. It's taken a while!

M106 in Canes Venatici plus a few other galaxies, From top to bottom they are NGC 4220, NGC 4248, NGC 4217 and NGC 4346.

This was a quick test image stacked in DeepSkyStacker so there's a couple of satellite trails that could be processed out.

Taken from the Starshed Enterprise on 26th March 2020.

A stack of 9x300s exposures using a QHY22 camera on a TS Imaging Star71 - 71mm f/4.9 Imaging APO telescope. Autoguided using OAG. Flats, darks and bias applied.

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

Ambas feitas com 8 lights + 8 darks e 8 bias, empilhados no Deep Sky Stacker. Utilizei a t3i e a 24mm, com ISO 1600, f/ 2.8 e exp de 15 e 20seg.

August 21st, 2017

Mid-eclipse from Hopkinsville, KY approximately 3 miles away fro position of maximum eclipse. Total duration was 2 minutes, 41 seconds. The star Regulus can be seen on the left side of the eclipse.

Capture:

Canon 55-250mm variable lens

(F/22): Canon 550D

Exposures: 8x0.5"

ISO 100

Stacking: DeepSkyStacker

Processing: Photoshop for curves, color alteration, noise reduction.

Total exposure time: 60 mins

Telescope: Tele Vue-60 APO refractor

Mount: Vixen Super Polaris

Comprised of ionised hydrogen, which gives the distinctive red colour, plus partially silhouetted dust clouds where new stars are forming.

20 x 2-minute, manually guided exposures at ISO 3200.

Astro-modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" f/4 Newtonian reflector telescope.

Frames registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; noise reduced in Cyberlink PhotoDirector.

OTA: Celestron C8N, 8" newtonian reflector

Starizona Nexus 0.75x coma corrector (for f/3.75)

Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM

Filters: Baader CMOS-Optimized Ultra-Narrowband

Exposure: Ha 12x10min, Oiii 7x10min, Sii 7x10min

Mount: CEM70G

Captured with SGP

Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker

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

Galassia spirale NGC 891

AUTORE: Aldo Rocco Vitale (Gruppo Astrofili Catanesi “Guido Ruggieri”)

DATA: 14-15 settembre 2017

ORA: 22:30 – 00:30

LOCALITA’: S. Agata Li Battiati – 250 m.s.l.m.

TEMPERATURA: 25°

UMIDITA’: 60%

SEEING: 2

TRASPARENZA: 2

COSTELLAZIONE: Andromeda

OGGETTO: NGC 891

TIPO: Galassia spirale

COORDINATE: A.R.: 02h 22m 33s ; DEC.: +42° 20′ 57″

MAGNITUDINE VISUALE: 10

DIMENSIONI ANGOLARI: 13,5’ x 2,5’

DISTANZA: 39 milioni a.l.

OBIETTIVO: Celestron C11; D=280 mm; F=1764 mm; f/6.3

CAMERA DI RIPRESA: Canon 1200D

OBIETTIVO GUIDA: Celestron C90; Celestron C90; D= 90 mm; F=1250 mm; f/13.9

CAMERA DI GUIDA: Skywatcher Synguider II

ISO: 1600

TEMPO DI POSA: 48 x 240” ( tot 3h e 12m )

LIGHT: 48

FLAT: 35

DARK: 0

BIAS: 0

SOFTWARE DI ELABORAZIONE: DeepSkyStacker + Astroart + Pixinsight + Photoshop + Lightroom

Astrofarm, France

Nikon D750 - 1 x 15 seconds & 10 x 5 minutes, ISO 400

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in PhotoShop CS2

Taken on a Altair Astro ED80-Refractor and IOptron CEM60 mount

Northfield, OH

DeepSkyStacker, ImagesPlus, rnc-color-stretch

30 exposures @1.6 sec ISO 3200

Pentax K5-II

Super Takumar 200mm F4

iOptron SkyGuider Pro

f/5.6@ISO 800

67x210s stacked using DeepSkyStacker

Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop

This picture was taken in summer 2015 using a Canon 600D (unmodified) with a 50 mm f/1.8 lens, mounted on a meade lxd75 equatorial mount.

12 pictures of 4 minutes exposure each were stacked using DeepSkyStacker freeware.

Total exposure time : 48 minutes

We can spot on this picture :

- the North America Nebula (NGC 7000)

- the Pelican Nebula

- the Butterfly Nebula

- the Veil Nebula

- the Coalsack Nebula (Borealis)

Technical Datas :

Canon EOS 600D + 50 mm f/1.8 lens + meade lxd75 mount

12 x 4 minutes exposure

ISO 800

F/3.2

Lightroom + DSS softwares

Taken using Skywatcher 80ED Pro (.85XFR), Nikon D3300, 137x30" lights (ISO 1600), 100 flats, 110 bias. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop

Summer MilkyWay and its treasures

A project I was working on the past couple of days...4 nebulas depicting their locations within the MilkyWay.The MilkyWay and the Lagoon Nebula were both captured in Judique,Nova Scotia and the Eagle,Swan and Trifid nebulas were caught in my observatory in rural Ottawa,On.

---MilkyWay... ISO 800

18mm-f3.5 @ 360sec

---Swan Nebula...ISO 800:

42 x 30sec

ISO 1600:

22 x 60sec

12 x 300sec

14 x 600sec

12 x 900sec..22 Flats

---Eagle Nebula...ISO 1600

16 x 90sec

10 x 180sec

2 x 300sec

11 x 600sec

16 x 900sec

1 x 1200sec..22 x Flats

---Lagoon Nebula...ISO 1250

11 x 150sec

1 x 300sec..22 x Flats

---Trifid Nebula...ISO 1600

26 x 30sec

7 x 900sec

4 x 1200sec..20 Flats

-Celestron AVX Mount

-150mm SkyWatcher Reflector

-Orion autoguider package

-Nikon D5100 (unmodified)

-AC adapter

-- Capture --

PHD 2.4.1

BackyardNIKON

--Processing --

DeepSkyStacker

PhotoshopElements12

Photoshop CS2

Annie's Astro Actions

Target:SH2-132 Lion nebula, a very faint emission nebula in the constellation of Cepheus at about 11000 light years from Earth.

Location:30/12/2020 and 01/01/2021 from St Helens UK, Bortle 8. Over 90% Moon.

Aquisition:38x 180s Ha, 36x 180s (OIII), 19x 180s (SII). Total integration 279 min.

Equipment:Imaging: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED, HEQ5 Pro, ZWO ASI1600MM Pro with EFWmini and Baader planetarium narrowband filters.

Guiding: Skywatcher 9x50 finder with ZWO ASI120MM.

Software:Capture: NINA, PHD2

Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Photoshop, Starnet++.

Memories:Fog descended on first evening so target resumed a couple of days later on a clearer night.

Nikon d5100

22mm

f3.8

ISO 1600

20 second exposures

20 images stacked

I applied a heavy noise reduction filter to this to try and get that smooth Hubble look :)

M65, M66 and NGC 3628; 30 million light years from home.

I was going to crop this tighter around the galaxies, but then I noticed a telltale streak on the left side of the image. After consulting Cartes du Ciel I discovered it was asteroid 128 Nemesis, which - despite its ominous name - doesn't come anywhere near the earth. (It's currently at a very safe distance of 2 Astronomical Units.)

Total exposure time: 85 mins

Telescope: Tele Vue-60 APO refractor

Mount: Vixen Super Polaris

I had to try it. Not an amazing image, but I'm happy with it considering the short focal length.

Acquisition details: Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 96 x 30 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken on Apr. 16, 2020 under Bortle 3/4 skies.

I processed with 3x drizzle in DeepSkyStacker, but I don't think it made much of a difference; I think my tracking accuracy limits the amount of detail I can achieve on tiny objects with my setup, and possible my sensor. Even though it's tiny, this is still a fairly big crop.

I plan to shoot M 101 next time - my attempt a year ago was marred by windy conditions. I probably won't bother with 3x drizzle, but might still apply 2x drizzle.

First clear night in ages, but at least we haven't had as much rain as in the north of the country.

8 x 7-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/6.25. Modified EOS 600D & Sky-Watcher ED80 refractor, piggybacked on a Celestron C8 telescope for manual guiding.

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

The Ring Nebula (also cataloged as Messier 57, M57 and NGC 6720) is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Lyra. The tiny white dot in the center of the nebula is the star’s hot core, called a white dwarf. M57 is about 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, and is best observed during August. Discovered by the French astronomer Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix in 1779, the Ring Nebula has an apparent magnitude of 8.8. It is easy to find, as it lies about halfway between the two 3rd -magnitude stars “Sheliak” and “Sulafat” which form the bottom of Lyra’s lyre; however, it requires a moderately-sized telescope to see its beautiful ring-like details. (REF: science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/science/explore-the-night...)

Observation data: J2000 epoch

Right ascension: 18h 53m 35.079s

Declination: +33° 01′ 45.03″

Distance: 2567±115 ly

Apparent magnitude (V): 8.8

Apparent dimensions (V): 230″ × 230″

Constellation: Lyra

Tech Specs: Orion 8” RC Telescope, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at 0F, 168 x 60 second exposures, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in DeepSkyStacker and PixInsight software. Image Date: May 2, 2024. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

Mars und Pleiades

Canon 80D / 70-200

2 sec / f 2.8 / Iso5000 / 200mm

DeepSkyStacker

Stack 20 Lightframes / 15 darks

Milky Way from Lake St. John Airport

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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 Ha 1.25" 7nm · Baader G 1.25'' CCD Filter · Baader R 1.25'' CCD Filter · Baader Planetarium O3 1.25" 8.5nm · 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:

Aug. 6, 2020 · Aug. 7, 2020 · Aug. 8, 2020 · Aug. 20, 2020

Frames:

Baader B 1.25'' CCD Filter: 11x240" (44') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1

Baader G 1.25'' CCD Filter: 12x240" (48') (gain: 53.00) -20°C

Baader Ha 1.25" 7nm: 75x300" (6h 15') (gain: 200.00) -20°C bin 1x1

Baader L 1.25'' Filter: 24x240" (1h 36') (gain: 53.00) -20°C

Baader Planetarium O3 1.25" 8.5nm: 39x300" (3h 15') (gain: 200.00) -20°C bin 1x1

Baader R 1.25'' CCD Filter: 12x240" (48') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1

Integration:

13h 26'

Skyobjekt: Messier-42 ( Orionnebula & NGC1977)

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Equipment

Nikon D5300

Sigma 150-600mm

IBresser Messier EXOS-2 EQ GoTo

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Lense 600 mm

ISO 2000

f/ 6.3

Lights 60x 60 sec

Darks 20

Bias 30

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Edit

DeepSkyStacker

PixInsight

Photoshop CC

Lightroom CC

The open star cluster M39 in the constellation Cygnus. An unguided image taken last night over Monticello, NY through a Canon 400mm f/5.6 L lens using a Canon 7D MKII dslr camera on a Celestron AVX mount. Thirty 30 second images, eight dark frames, and fifteen bias frames were stacked using DeepSkyStacker, then enhanced with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop Elements.

Comet Lovejoy looking spectacular for Xmas now with a nice bright tail.

I was surprised to see the small horizontal fuzzy blur under the comet a distant Dwarf Galaxy NGC2188 32.5 Million Light Years away and very dim at Magnitude 12. Making it the dimmest most distant object I have ever photographed!

Olympus OMD-EM1 Camera with Zuiko Digital 150mm 2.0 Telephoto Lens tracked on Ioptron Skytracker. 10X1 minute exposures @ iso 1600 stacked in Deepskystacker

This is just a small part of the nebula. I would have to do a pretty large mosaic to incorporate it all.

NGC7000 is an emission nebula in the Northern constellation Cygnus. At 1,700 light years away and about 100 light years across, it's a fair sized nebula.

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 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.

180s exposures.

Best 90% of 20 light frames.

Darks, Flats & Bias.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight

Photographing the Milky Way is my Muse. I keep going back to it seeing if I can approach it from another perspective. It's intensely beautiful. If you've never seen it, then you owe yourself an opportunity to go away from the city or town and out to a rural area. Even a 20 minute drive outside of the city limits will take you to a dark enough sky to see the general shape of the bright Cygnus region. This was taken the morning of August 12 during the recent Perseid meteor shower.

A view of the Andromeda Galaxy in the constellation of the same name captured in a stack of ninety-one images that were exposed for 10 seconds each using a hand-driven, barn-door type tracking mount (two boards, a hinge, and a screw you turn by hand). This photo also shows Andromeda's two satellite galaxies, M32 and M110 (see image notes for the locations, M110 is the small elliptical galaxy slightly below center).

This image is best viewed in the Flickr light box (press the "L" key to toggle the light box). You can also view on black or at full size by using the following links:

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Captured on December 14, 2011 between the hours of 7:35 PM and 8:07PM PST with a Nikon D5100 DSLR (ISO 2000, 10 second exposure x 91) and a 105mm AI-S 1:2.5 Nikkor lens set to aperture f/4. Image stack created with DeepSkyStacker using 91 image frames combined with 63 dark frames (no flats or bias). Final image adjustments done in Photoshop CS3 with star diffraction spikes enhanced using ProDigital Software's Astronomy Tools.

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M81 (Bodes Galaxy, NGC 3031) + M82 (Cigar Galaxy, Starburst Galaxy, NGC3034).

Lots of high clouds and bad seeing, more data were better.

Pentax K3ii, Pentax HD Rear Converter 1.4x AW

TS APO Triplet 80/480 mm

31 x 300 s @ ISO 400

Combination of a stack with DeepSkyStacker and a Sequator stack.

I caught a news story a few days ago about a supernova in galaxy NGC 3184 and decided to try and image it on March 29, 2016. Problem was the high winds here in Pennsylvania. The magnitude was listed in the 15 range, but decided to try imaging it using my Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM lens.

The wide field image (see my other Flickr post or my blog) is a clip from a full frame, stacked 14-minute total exposure using a Canon 6D and Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM lens mounted on an iOptron ZEQ25 mount. 14 x 60 seconds at ISO 3200, stacked in DeepSkyStacker and further processed in Adobe Lightroom and ImagesPlus.

I then clipped the galaxy from the full frame view and processed it in Lightroom. I found a great pre-supernova (baseline) image by Adam Block (who gave me permission to use his image for comparison purposes – thank you Adam). Adam’s image can be found at www.caelumobservatory.com/obs/n3184.html

I hope to do additional imaging as time permits.

BLOG: www.leisurelyscientist.com

Nebulosasa Norteamérica y Pelicano en el Cisne

iso440.com

10 300s ISO 1600 exposures fully calibrated.

Brent Oliver modified Canon T3

Astronomik 12nm H-alpha filter

Canon f/1.4 50mm @ f/4.0

Guided on CG-5 by an AT65EDQ with a StarShoot Autoguider.

BackyardEOS DeepSkyStacker

Fecha: 06-02-2022, de 03h55m a 05h43m U.T.

Lugar: Las Inviernas, Guadalajara

Temperatura ambiente: de -03.0ºC a -05.5ºC

Cámara: ZWO ASI071MC Pro

Óptica:

Telescopio Newtoniano TS, 200mm de diámetro f/4.

Corrector de coma Baader MPCC Mark III.

Filtro: Omegon Light Pollution Filter.

Montura: Skywatcher EQ6 Pro Synscan v.3.25

Guiado: Automático con QHY-5 mono y PHD Guiding v.1.14.0, utilizando un telescopio refractor Orion 80mm de diámetro a f/5.

Exposiciones:

21 imágenes de 300s cada una, a -05ºC y 100 de ganancia

en total, 1h45min.

30 darks de 300s, a -05ºC y 100 de ganancia

30 flats de 2s, a -05ºC y 300 de ganancia

30 bias de 0.001s, a -05ºC y 100 de ganancia

Software: DeepSkyStacker v.4.2.0

PixInsight LE 1.0

Adobe Photoshop CC 2019

Astronomy Tools v.1.6

I've change the developing software. Deepskystacker is great!

This extent contains eleven Messier objects (M 58, 84, 86-91, 98-100) and many other galaxies. Markarian's Chain is the string of galaxies in the center. My favorite is the Coma Pinwheel Galaxy (M 99) in the center of the upper right quadrant, with its interesting coma shape.

Acquisition details: Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 102 x 30 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken on Feb. 27, 2020 under Bortle 3/4 skies.

The Crux constellation and the Coalsack Nebula (C99) captured with an old DSLR.

My Nikon D5000 have a serious issue with its sensor. On the right corner and top of the image we can see it failure. A region of the sensor which does have a lack of sensitivity.

First I though it was a "flat frame issue", but it's not. Darks and bias doesn't help.

Only after a carefully processing I'm "ok" in posting this picture. But my Nikon D5000 is old, and I'm not happy to say that it needs to retire.

A galaxy in the constellation of Draco.

A barred spiral galaxy that is quite a difficult target because of it's low surface brightness.

11.7 million light years away this galaxy was first spotted by William Herschel in April of 1793.

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, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.

300 seconds at 0 gain.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools & Affinity Photo.

Like REALLY need a tracker. Thanks to my good friend for letting me use his.

Location: Green River State Wildlife Area

Proximal Constellation: Cygnus

Gear

Camera + Lens: Nikon D3300 + AF-S DX NIKKOR

55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED VR II + Hoya RA54 Red Enhancer (Color Intensifier Filter)

Mount: Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer

Acquisition

Focal Length Used: 55mm

78 x 60" light frames (ISO 6400 at f/4)

25 x 60" dark frames (ISO 6400 at f/4)

34 x 1/4000" bias frames (ISO 6400 at f/4)

20 flat frames (ISO 6400 at f/4 with Aperture Priority)

Processing

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, initial heavy processing in Pixinsight, and final processing in Capture One

DSO(s)

NGC 7000/Caldwell 20: North America Nebula (bottom left)

IC 5070 and IC 5067: Pelican Nebula (across from the North American Nebula)

IC 1318: Sadr Region (near top center)

Sharpless 103/Radio Source W78: Cygnus Loop (bottom right)