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Taken through a borrowed Sigma 70-200 f/2.8, lightly cropped. Two 2-minute exposures stacked in DeepSkyStacker. If I had more time with the lens, I'd liked to have done an HDR set (so as not to burn out M42), but alas, condensation on the glass cut my imaging time short. I also didn't get a flat frame, which made processing difficult... once I brought out the Horsehead, the center of the picture was a bright orange blob. I tried synthesizing a flat in IRIS with no luck, and eventually just used a flat frame I took with one of my own lenses, which almost matches.
Esprit 150ED APO and QHY168C with UHC filter. 5 subs at 900 seconds each stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop CS2
Image taken 1/10/18
Reprocessed this image using RAW photos instead of JPEG. This is way back from 10/20/2012. I learned that DeepSkyStacker likes it when I convert my RAW files to DNG first and then stack.
Shot with a Sony NEX-5. Guiding with the Orion SSAG and 50mm mini guidescope piggybacked on 8" SCT w/ f/6.3 reducer mounted on CG-5GT.
First light with my modded 1000d on my new Skytracker.
Lens: Canon 70-200 4L
DIY modded Canon 1000d with Astronomik CLS-CCD Clipfilter on iOptron Skytracker
30x15sec
30x30sec
15x90sec
Stacked with DSS
FSQ106ED + QHY16200A(-0C) L10x600sec (Ambient +27C)
WilliamOptics Star71 + ATIK383L+(-15C)
Astrodon Tru-Balance E-Series Gen2
R4x600sec,G4x600sec,B4x900sec
on SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6GT
(Total:240min)
Guiding: QHYOAG + LodestarX2
DeepSkyStacker, StellaImage7, Photoshop CC2015
Locations: Kamogawa Sports Park, Kibichuocho, Okayama, Japan
Aug. 2016
My first image with my new astro gear. Taken with an unmodified Sony a7R and Astro-Tech AT65EDQ 65mm f/6.5 refractor mounted on a Losmandy G11 mount. 12 x 5 minute sub-frames, 5 averaged darks processed with DeepSkyStacker.
My typical setup for astro imaging on my laptop in the observatory, via UltraVNC viewer indoors on my main PC. Screen capture from my 24" monitor.
Another screen not shown, is the one with DeepSkyStacker Live running (essential for the FWHM, Score and dx/dy graphs).
I have a three screen setup on my study PC.
Keep it simple ;-)
Michael L Hyde (c) 2015
Here's Comet C/2013 US10 (Catalina) above Alpha Centauri at about 8pm last night. At the moment it is gliding through the Milky Way starfields in the southern constellation Circinus. This untracked image is a 22 x 4 sec exposures taken with a Canon 6D and 70-200mm lens at f/4 and 21800 iso, stacked using DeepSkyStacker and processed in Lightroom 5.
Some of the brighter stars and star clusters are labelled in this image.
IC405 Flaming Star Nebula - 13 and 15/01/12 - 8" reflector on HEQ5 mount - QHY8L CCD camera + Coma Corrector + LPR Filter, prime focal, guided with SPC880 webcam FinderGuider and PHD, 36 frames (600sec) Total Exp:6h20m + 29 darks + 29+49 EL panel flats, captured with Nebulosity 2, stacked with DeepSkyStacker, post-processed with Capture NX2/Nebulosity 2
Reprocessed with drizzle and PSF sharpening/deconvolution
Acquisition details:
OTA: Celestron 10" f/4.7 newtonian reflector, C10N
Filter: Orion Skyglow Imaging filter
Corrector: MPCC
Mount: Celestron CGEM DX
Camera: Canon 450d mod BCF, 40°F
Exposure: 16x2min ISO 400
Guided with PHD, SSAG, Orion 50mm guide scope
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)
Milky Way between the constellations eagle (Aquila) and Swan (Cygnus)
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Teleskop / Kamera:
Montierung: Star Adventurer
Optik:60mm f/3.5
EF-S60mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Kamera: Canon EOS 650D
Guider: -
Filter:-
Aufnahmedaten:
Zahl der Aufnahmen: 20
Brennweite:60 mm
Öffnungsverhältnis: 3,5
Belichtungszeit pro Aufnahme: 30 sek.
Empfindlichkeit ISO-Wert: 1600
Darkframes -
Flats -
Bildbearbeitung:
DeepSkystacker:
Standard / Light = Durchschnitt / Ausrichtung= Automatsch / 100% der Bilder
Photoshop Elements 10:
Tonwertkorrekur, Sättigung
Bode Galaxy/Galaxia de Bode (M81) and Cigar Galaxy/Galaxia del Cigarro (M82)
The Bode and the Cigar Galaxy are 12 million light years apart and located in the constellation Ursa Major. The first is a spiral galaxy with about 250 billion stars, and the second is a long, narrow irregular galaxy with about 30 billion stars.
La galaxia de Bode y la galaxia del Cigarro están a una distancia de 12 millones de años luz y están ubicadas en la constelación de la Osa Mayor. La primera es una galaxia espiral con alrededor de 250.000 millones de estrellas y la segunda es una galaxia irregular alargada y estrecha con cerca de 30.000 millones de estrellas.
- Date/Fecha: 21/08/2020
- Location/Lugar: Piedrafita de Jaca - Huesca (42°42'4.4"N 0°19'52.6"W)
GEAR/EQUIPO
- Tracker/Montura Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi
- Guiding with QHY 5L-II Mono and guidescope EZG-60
- Camera Sony ILC3-A7M3 Modo APS-C
- Lens Sony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
IMAGE/IMAGEN:
- 85 Lights at 900mm, ISO 10000, 20seg, f6.3
- 20 Darks at ISO 10000, 20seg, f6.3
- Total time of exposition/Tiempo total de exposición 28min. 19seg.
SOFTWARE
- Stellarium Scope & Stellarium to guide the tracker
- Stacked with DeepSkyStacker
- Guiding with PHD2
- Image viewer Adobe Bridge
- Image processing with Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe Photoshop CC
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This is a portion of the Milky Way running through Cygnus, The Swan. Deneb is the swan's tail and Sadr is the body. The wings go out in each direction and the neck extends out of the frame to the lower right.
The North American Nebula is clearly visible to the left of Deneb, and it got its name for obvious reasons. Just off the coast of "Florida", there's another, much fainter nebula called the Pelican Nebula. The nebulosity around Sadr is called IC1318... As far as I know, it doesn't have a nice, easy to remember name.
Taken with my "nifty fifty" lens, Canon's super-cheap-but-decent-quality 50mm prime lens. 15 exposures, each at 100 seconds (25 minutes total exposure time). ISO 1600 and F/4.0. Aligned and combined in DeepSkyStacker then tweaked a bit in photoshop.
45x30sec lights,20darks. ISO1600. Skywatcher Esprit APO 100ED and Canon EOS 5D mk2. Processed Deepskystacker and Startools.
Except for the rings of Saturn, the Ring Nebula (M57) is probably the most famous celestial band. Its classic appearance is understood to be due to our own perspective, though.In this well-studied example of a planetary nebula, the glowing material does not come from planets. Instead, the gaseous shroud represents outer layers expelled from the dying, once sun-like star, now a tiny pinprick of light seen at the nebula's center. Intense ultraviolet light from the hot central star ionizes atoms in the gas. In the picture, the blue color in the center is ionized helium, the cyan color of the inner ring is the glow of hydrogen and oxygen, and the reddish color of the outer ring is from nitrogen and sulfur. The Ring Nebula is about one light-year across and 2,000 light-years away.
Source of explanation: NASA
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy from Ireland
Skywatcher 200PDS, Canon 1100D
3X60s ISO800
Darks, Bias & Flats
DSS + PI + CS5 processing
11 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; final curves & colour-balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro; noise reduction via CyberLink PhotoDirector.
Taken on the last and clearest night of my Christmas/New Year break.
9 x 6-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
All i can find about this nebula is that it has number 289 in Lynd's Catalog of Bright nebulae. It is not bright at all and "Hidden" in a dense Milky way star field. In the middle of the field of view we can see an open star cluster with code DO45. The location is: RA 21h12m, DEC 37D00m.
Canon 6Da on Esprit 100 triplet APO with Optolong L filter. 51x240sec iso1600 48darks, 30flats, 174bias frames. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, Processed in Pixinsight.
Knight Observatory, Tomar
- 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
- 20 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 July 1st 2016 at the Golden State Star Party
More info - www.youtube.com/watch?v=trkccIaMYIs
The Great Andromeda Galaxy, wide field.
Fotografia a largo campo della Grande Galassia in Andromeda
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-Massa, 44° 2'31.08"N 10° 7'9.22"E
-29/09/2011 10 p.m.
-Canon 450D
-Pentacon 2.8/135
-Heyford EQ8
-27 lightframes (20s, 135mm, f/4, iso 800)
-27 darkframes
-Backyard Eos
-Deepskystacker
-Photoshop CS 2
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Couldn't resist this :) I knew there was more there, and there is, but I may have pushed it a little too far. There's only the very faintest suggestion of nebulosity to the right (south) of the loop, and I can't bring it out. When the moon's gone, I'll give it another go. First iteration
Is this an improvement, or is this too "in ya face"? Despite appearances, it's just this side of being clipped.
Nikon D70 modded, 55-200 Nikkor at 55mm (cropped), f5.6, 1600iso, Baader Neodymium filter.
51 x 3 min, unguided EQ5
Darks, flats and bias
Stacked and processed in DSS and CS5
On a whim I decided to go to the big annual Oregon Star Party, an amazing event for astro-nerds and fellow travelers that's held out in the boonies about a 4-1/2 hour drive from Portlland, and 1 1/2 hours east from Prineville in the Ochoco National Forest.
At the swap meet I bought a decent amature 8-inch telescope, but this photo was taken with my Canon T1i with the 18-55 lens zoomed to the widest view. The only trick was taking lots of 20-second exposures at ISO 3,200. This is the result of stacking 24 images with DeepSkyStacker. I didn't set out trying to get this kind of image, but rather trying to capture more meteors. No meteors showed up, but thanks to some tips from the astro-nerds I discovered photo stacking. It sure brings out the stars, the Milky Way, and the Andromeda Galaxy!!
Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, and Celestron Advanced VX mount. Consists of 38 light and 38 dark frames, each a 60-second exposure at ISO 800, stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.
Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, and Celestron AVX mount. Consists of 40 180-second light frames and 18 180-second dark frames, all at ISO 800, as well as 15 flat and 25 bias frames. Captured with BackyardEOS, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Photoshop.
10" f/4 Newtonian and modified Canon 1100D c/w UHC filter. Captured 5 subs at 5 min exposure at ISO 1600 using capture software BackyardEOS . Stacked in Deepskystacker and processed using Nebulosity 4 and Photoshop,no darks nor flats subtracted. Image taken early hours of 9/9/15
I am finding post processing of astro images very hit and miss, and quite difficult, had another go at this one from the same stack file as previous, and tried very hard not to blow out the highlights, and this is the result, I think to an exstent astro post is very much to personal taste.
Orion Nebula 19-12-20.
57 images stacked in DeepSkyStacker post processed in Photoshop, taken from my garden last night.
Nikon D750, Nikon 80-400mm at 400mm wide open on a Skywatcher Star Adventurer mount, 57 1 minute iso800 lights, 20 darks, 20 flats 20 bias
The Orion Nebula is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being 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 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 2,000 times that of the Sun. Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula.
The Orion Nebula is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky, and is among the most intensely studied celestial features. The nebula has revealed much about the process of how stars and planetary systems are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers have directly observed protoplanetary disks, brown dwarfs, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula.saved with settings embedded.
FSQ106ED + QE0.73X + EOS6D(SEO-SP4)
40x300sec (Ambient +11C) ISO1600
on SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6GT
(Total:200min)
Guiding: ASI120MM + 50mm
DeepSkyStacker, StellaImage7, Photoshop CC2015
Locations: Kamogawa Sports Park, Kibichuocho, Okayama, Japan
Oct. 2016
Using new techniques i've recently learned on cancelling out light polution in Photoshop, I decided to put it to the test and have re-processed this image taken last year of the Orion Nebula. It takes a little time to do but the results are well worth it compared to my earlier attempt seen here.
Nikon D7000 mounted on an AstroTrac: 10 x 240sec 180mm f5.8, stacked in DeepSkyStacker.
An attempt at capturing some of the Milky Way through some pretty bad light pollution. 24 light frames, 25 seconds each and some 20 darks. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and edited more in Photoshop. Processing it all was... interesting, which I think shows in the image. It may look a bit too blotty and blown out in places for my liking but I'm done tweaking it for now!
You can see most of the constellation Cygnus in the lower part of the image with the star Deneb close to the middle of the frame.
I have done this image of a part of the Milky Way by stacking 67 images of 8 seconds each at 3200 ISO with my Canon EOS 600D (unmodified) equipped with a basic 50 mm f/1.8 II lens.
I used also as it can be seen, no tracking mount. Just a simple tripod.
For french speaking people (or you can translate the thing) I have writen an How-capture-the-Milky-Way tutorial, available on my Blog : astrospace-page.blogspot.fr/2014/12/tutoriel-photographie...
This part of the milky way is really pleasant for me because it hides reams of nebulas !
We can find on this picture :
- North America Nebula (NGC 7000)
- Pelican Nebula (IC 5070)
- Butterfly Nebula (IC 1318)
- Veil Nebula (NGC 6992 and NGC 6960)
CANON EOS 600D + 50 mm f/1.8 lens
f/1.8
67 x 8 secs
ISO 3200
My first success at using the HEQ5 Pro and SkyWatcher 200PDS.
Stack of 4 exposures 6 minutes each.
4 lights, 15 darks, 60 bias 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.
Here is my first picutre of the Great globular Cluster in Hercule constellation taken last night.
The full moon was a bit disturbing and despite the polar alignement was not precisely made, I managed to get a result that I tought worst !
This image is made of 20 frames of 15 seconds each at ISO 1600 with a Canon T3i.
The telescope used is a 200/800 reflector (without coma corrector ^^)
20 x 15 secs (5 min) + 10 darks
ISO 1600
F/4
800 mm
M31, NGC 224, Andromeda Galaxy
Optics: Takahashi FS60CB with 0.72x Reducer (255 mm F4.2)
Exposure: Fujifilm X-E3 (APS-C) iso6400 x 1min x 50 frames (with 30 Dark frames )
Mount: Toast Pro (TP2) with Polemaster
Software: DeepSkyStacker, Astronomy Tools, GradientXTerminator, Photoshop
A reprocess and uncropped version of another image of this pair I uploaded a few days ago. This one is the full field of view from my 80ED f/6.
Fireworks Galaxy NGC 6946 and Open Cluster NGC 6939
I've been experimenting with this image. It's a reprocess and uncropped version of the image I posted yesterday (bit.ly/2aZeH54). This time, I tried using the stacking in Photoshop instead of using my tried and true DeepSkyStacker.
What I find most interesting is that despite NOT using dark frames for noise reduction in this stack, the image actually turned out cleaner and with less noise than the version I stacked with DSS including dark frames. And I think the overall result is actually much nicer as a result of this.
That said, Photoshop lacks a lot of what I would consider critical features for doing this (like image quality estimation) and other tools, but in the case where I have a uniformly good data, the results were pretty astonishing.
Nikon D5100
Explore Scientific ED80
Celestron AVX mount, unguided
1H 30m of 2 min exposures @ ISO 1600
Milky Way (stacking): 40 pictures (ISO 1600; 4sec; f2.0) stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Olympus OMD-EM10 MKII + Zuiko 17mm 1.8
Clear sky here last night so I took my camera to the outskirts of our city and pointed it in the direction of Orion for some shots. DeepSkyStacker used to stack 11 frames (f5.6 10 sec exposures at ISO 4000!)
Explanation: The first hint of what will become of our Sun was discovered inadvertently in 1764. At that time, Charles Messier was compiling a list of diffuse objects not to be confused with comets. The 27th object on Messier's list, now known as M27 or the Dumbbell Nebula, is a planetary nebula, the type of nebula our Sun will produce when nuclear fusion stops in its core. M27 is one of the brightest planetary nebulae on the sky, and can be seen toward the constellation of the Fox (Vulpecula) with binoculars. It takes light about 1000 years to reach us from M27, shown here in colors emitted by hydrogen and oxygen. Understanding the physics and significance of M27 was well beyond 18th century science. Even today, many things remain mysterious about bipolar planetary nebula like M27, including the physical mechanism that expels a low-mass star's gaseous outer-envelope, leaving an X-ray hot white dwarf.
Source of explanation: NASA APOD
Object Details: Having been in the midst of thunderstorms for the past several days, not to mention the nearly full moon at the moment; the peak of this year's Perseid meteor shower has been a bit of a non-event in this area.
Therefore, I made the time to take a first look at some wide-field Milky Way images I took while attending my 31st annual Stellafane astronomy convention (held during the first weekend of August in Springfield, Vt, USA (it's 84th year)).
Although I concentrated mainly on visual observing this year, and had the pleasure of viewing dozens of objects through some excellent large binocs & 20" class dobs that my friends had brought, I did setup a Star Adventurer tracking mount & Canon 700D (t5i) with an 18-55mm 'kit' lens and used APT and a laptop to take a series of automated exposures.
Upon examining the resulting images I found that Mother Nature had brought me a small present the morning of my birthday by allowing me to capture one frame showing two meteors running nearly parallel along the portion of the Milky Way known as the Summer Triangle!
Image Details: Taken from the scope field at Stellafane 2019 by Jay Edwards on the morning of August 2nd using a Canon 700D (t5i) and standard 18-55mm 'kit' lens riding on a Star Adventurer tracking mount, the attached is a single 2 minute exposure at ISO 1600 with the lens set to a focal length of 21mm and an aperture of f/4.
As presented here, it has been calibrated with darks & bias frames (but not flats), was processed in a combination of DSS, PI & PSP, is shown uncropped, has been re-sized down to 2X HD resolution and the bit depth lowered to 8 bits per channel.
Although the meteors will most likely get lost (averaged out) in the process, I'm hoping to have captured some additional images of this region of a sufficient quality in order to process a stacked image in an effort to improve the Milky Way's signal-to-noise ratio.
After seeing these excellent photos right next to each other in my contact photo list, and seeing a clear night sky for the first time in 2008, I thought I'd snag an Orion Nebula shot of my own. That's the Running Man nebula near the top.
Canon XTi at prime focus of Orion SVP 80ED. Stack of 33 photos @ 30 seconds each, stacked in DeepSkyStacker.
It's an unremarkable photo as M42 shots go, but definitely one of my best.
Data: 30/03/2016
Telescopio: Celestron CPC-800 xlt
Telescopio di guida:
Montatura: Celestron CPC-800 xlt
Camera di acquisizione: Canon 600D Baader
Camera di guida:
Pose: 30x30 s.
ISO: 3200
Dark: 69
Flat: 21
DarkFlat: 21
Bias: 211
Temp. sensore: 20 °C.
Temp. ambiente: 13 °C
Bortle: 7
Software di acquisizione: O'Telescope BackyardEOS 3.1.
Software di elaborazione: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop.
Luogo: Pedara (CT).
Here's Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy), which is currently visible in the evening sky. This image, which was captured through gaps in the cloud from Warrill View, south west of Brisbane. I'm not convinced that I could see the comet with naked eye, but it was very easily found with my 7x50 binoculars. This untracked image is 11 x 3 second exposures (taken with a tripod-mounted Canon 6D and 70-200mm f/4L at f/4 and 12800 iso), stacked using DeepSkyStacker. The tail is faintly visible towards the top of the image.
Localisation : CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date : 2017-02-16
Auteur/Author : ROUGÉ Pierre
Mouture/mount : Orion Atlas EQ-G
Tube/Scope : Samyang 500 mm F6.3 Dx
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 : 33 minutes [11 subexposures of 180 sec each (selected from 25)] @ ISO 1600
Calibration : Dark & Bias : 5/11 @ ISO 1600 - Flat : 11 @ ISO 100
Temps/Weather : Bonne transparence. Faible vent. T= 9°C. Humidité faible.
Constellation : Orion / Orion
Software Used : Astro Photograph Tool (v3.20), DeepSkyStacker 3.3.6, Pixinsight LE, PhotoShop 7, xnview, Noiseware Community Edition
28 x 5 minutes, ISO 800
40 Darks, 200 Bias
Equipment:Canon 450D (full spectrum modified), Orion 8" f/3.9 Newtonian Astrograph, Atlas EQ-G, Orion SSAG/ST-80, Baader MPCC
Aquisition: EQMOD, Cartes du Ciel, Backyard EOS, PHD
Calibration and 2x drizzle in DeepSkyStacker
Post-processing in Pixinsight
I usually crop my images down more than this but, there is a few clusters towards the edges and to the far right is IC 417. I may reprocess it at a later date and crop it right down to the fly nebula.
The Fly nebula lies in the constellation of Auriga. It is an emission nebula and a reflection nebula. Sometimes referred to as a mini version of the Orion nebula, as it has a star cluster, including it's own version of the Trapezium. Some estimates have the nebula at about 7,000 light years from us.
Boring techie bit.
Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector
HEQ5 pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & GPcam setup
Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.