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Taken using Skywatcher 80ED Pro (.85X reducer), Nikon D3300, 165x30" lights (ISO 1600), 100 flats, 110 bias. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.
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Three is a crowd, some people say. In this image taken on the evening of April 10, 2024, even fiveastronomical objects gathered in the same field of view.
Most prominent would certainly be the crescent moon, with a clearly visible earthshine (i.e., sunlight reflected from earth to the moon, and back to earth again). Just bottom left of it, there is bright planet Jupiter showing diffraction spikes originating from the aperture blades of the lens. It is even accompanied by the Galilean moons, of which 3 can be recognized if you zoom in. Io, the innermost moon, is not visible here because it stood to close to Jupiter. Roughly at 10 o'clock from Jupiter stands the planet Uranus, which appears like a moderately bright star here, and is also dimmed a bit by the light clouds. At the left edge of the image shines the Pleiades open cluster, M45. And at about 4 o'clock from the moon, just above the tree line, you can even spot the periodic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which disappeared shortly after from northern skies and will reappear in 71 years from now.
This image really was quite the lucky shot. I had marked it down in my calendar weeks before, but on the big day, the weather was... not so nice. Even at sunset, it was quite cloudy, and I had almost given up hope to be able to take the shot. But around 9 pm, just before the comet was about to disappear behind the trees, it suddenly cleared up, and I hurriedly set up the tracking mount and camera. I was able to find a spot near my front door where I could peer between trees and buildings and take a number of 30 s exposures for stacking. This is the result! The image is actually a composite of one stack alinged on the stars, one stack aligned on the moon using the same raw images, and one stack without tracking or alignment for the foreground. I didn't have enough time to find and fix a ball head for leveling the image though, so this is equatorially aligned. Still looks nice though, I think.
Special thanks to my wife who made me take a look outside once more instead of just giving up!
Image information:
Lens: Canon 50 mm f/1.4 USM @ f/3.2
Camera: Canon M50 Mk.II
Filter: none
Mount: Skywatcher Star Adventurer
Acquisition: 16x 30s @ ISO100 for the sky, 5x 30s @ ISO100 for the foreground
Stacking: Deep Sky Stacker aligning on the stars, SiRiL aligning on the moon
Image composition: Photoshop & Luminar
M31 Andromeda Galaxy - 5, 9 and 28-Dec-2013 - William Optics GT102 102mm triplet refractor on HEQ5 mount - QHY8L CCD camera + 0.8x Flattener/Reducer (560mm @ f5.5), guided with QHY5-II FinderGuider and PHD, 22 frames (300sec) + 7 frames (600s) Total Exp:3h00m + 29 darks + 29 EL panel flats, captured with Nebulosity 3, stacked with DeepSkyStacker, post-processed with Capture NX2/Nebulosity 3
Komet Catalina C/2013 US10 mit 14x60s bei ISO 400 F6.3. Bearbeited mit Deepskystacker, Photoshop CC und Lightroom CC
Orion Nebula
Running Man Nebula
Canon 200mm F2.8 @ F3.5
Canon T4I ISO 800 30 seconds
32x light frames
iOptron SkyTracker
DeepSkyStacker
Pixinsight 1.8
11% moon illumination
Poor seeing/Hazy
Bortle 4
Another star cluster imaged using an Ioptron Minitower II Pro Alt-az mount and 80mm triplet Apo with QHY178M/0.5x reducer. 20 subs at 10 seconds each stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Nebulosity 4.
Image taken 8/01/19
Localisation : CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date : 2017-01-17
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 : 100 minutes [50 subexposures of 120 sec each (selected from 50)] @ ISO 1600
Calibration : Dark & Bias : 10/11 @ ISO 1600 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 400
Temps/Weather : Bonne transparence. Faible vent nul. T= -2°C. Humidité faible.
Constellation : Gemini / Gémeaux
Surnom /Surname : Nébuleuse de la Méduse /Medusa Nebula
Software Used : Astro Photograph Tool (v3.20), DeepSkyStacker 3.3.6, Pixinsight LE, PhotoShop 7, xnview, Noiseware Community Edition
M52 cluster and Bubble Nebula (centre left) and Cave Nebula (right) widefield (approx 9.5deg across) - 02-Aug-2014 Zeiss Sonnar Apo 135/2 lens on iOptron Skytracker mount - Canon 60Da camera + Hutech IDAS LPR Filter, 100 frames (90sec) 135mm @ f/2.0 ISO400 - Total Exp: 2h30m + 29 Darks + 29 EL panel flats, stacked with DeepSkyStacker, post-processed with Photoshop CC/Lightroom
Primo esperimento di stacking ed elaborazione di foto DeepSky. Foto scattate in montagna con scarso inquinamento luminoso
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Corpo macchina: Canon EOS 6D (non modificata)
Obiettivo: Canon EF 50mm f1.4 @ f2.2
ISO 640
Macchina montata su Astroinseguitore "Star Adventurer"
Lights 43 x 60 sec.
6 Flats
13 Darks
16 Bias
Stacking:
DeepSkyStacker
Elaborazione:
Photoshop e Lightroom
Another shot at processing Andromeda. This time I merged two seperate stacks taken with slightly different iso settings and aperture. That allowed me to bring out fainter details of the galactic disk.
Exposure: 90x60s, ISO 800 and ISO 1250
Camera: Olympus E-PL1
Lens: Konica Hexar 200mm f/4 with external aperture mask
Mount: EQ3-2
Software: DeepSkyStacker, Darktable, Krita
Location :CastresmallObservatory (Castres, 81100 - France)
Acquisition Date :2016-01-27 beginning at 21:11:08 UT
Author :Pierre Rougé
Scope :Newton Orion 200/1000 (f/5)
Autoguiding :Skywatcher Synguider v1.1 & Meade ETX 70/350 mm
Camera :Canon EOS 400D (Digital Rebel Xti) refiltré Astrodon (modded Astrodon)
Exposure :24.0 minutes [8 subexposures of 180 sec each (selected from 8)] @ ISO 2000
Calibration :Dark & bias : 52/9 @ ISO 2000 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 400
Weather :Bonne transparence. Faible vent de E à SE. T=7°C humidité faible
Software Used :DeepSkyStacker 3.3.4, Pixinsight LE, PhotoShop CS
Taken using a Sony A3000 and a Celestron Powerseeker 114EQ. Processed in DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop Lightroom. Total setup cost of $400 USD. VERY cheap for the results. Next time I go for this objects I will go for some longer subs; this one only had 8sec ISO 3200 subs. Really happy so far though.
With a reducer-corrector I can get a wider field view of M42, but at the cost of over exposure (!).
Also I need to sort out some flat fields and reduce the vignetting there...
19x 10seconds.
150ED apo refractor and astro modified 1000D with UHC filter.
5 subs at 600 second exposures for this image of the "Wizard" nebula (NGC7380) in Cepheus.
Stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop CS2.
Image taken 29/09/18
A total of 11 exposures, 15 seconds each, taken with Pentax K50, 10 inch f/5 motorized (tracking) Dob, and ParaCorr Type 2 corrector. I used the corrector so the camera (with T-adapter and 2" nosepiece) could reach focus - why manufacturers continue to produce scopes that can't reach focus with common imaging steups is beyond me. The (Orion) Dob was only off by 1/2". Image produced using DeepSkyStacker in Comet Mode.
Orion nebula (You are seeing the year 680, because orion nebula is 1344 light years away from Earth)
Gear details & location
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Camera: Nikon D7500
Lens : Nikon 70-300mm kit lens 300mm @f6.3
Equatorial Mount: iOptron Skyguider Pro
Tripod : Manfrotto MT190
Bortle class: 4
Location: Kerala,India
Image acquisition details
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Total exposure: 1 Hour
Light frames : 100 x 30" ISO 1600
Light frames : 10 x 30" ISO 800
Light frames : 10 x 30" ISO 3200
Dark frames: 15 x 30"
Stacked using DeepSkyStacker,image processing using Siril, ImagesPlus
An attempt at the M81 & M82 couplet in Ursa Major (plus a cheeky little NGC 3077). I tried applying a 2x drizzle this time since these objects were very small in the raw image at 200 mm. Between the drizzle and compounded crop factors, this is maybe 6-8 times larger than off the sensor. Seemed to work ok, but some of the brighter (larger) stars look a bit blobby and weird.
As ever, the trick really is just to get as many exposures on a given area as you can. More exposures = better image. It'll reduce noise and get better drizzle. I just find it difficult to focus on getting just one image in a two or three hour night when the sky is SO BIG and I only get out so often! It would also be good to get a telescope or tracking mount, but that's another issue...one step at a time.
This images is 50 exposures stacked with DeepSkyStacker, each 2.5 sec, f/2.8, 200 mm, 6400 ISO. (13 dark frames...also not enough darks)
21 x 2.5 second exposures with a tripod-mounted Canon 6D and 70-200mm telephoto lens @ f/4 and 12800 iso, stacked using DeepSkyStacker
Augenommen mit einer SONY A7RII einem Tamron 150-500mm F/5.0- F/6,7 30x30sec mit einem Open Astro-Tracker am 25.10.2022. Aufgenommen mit N.I.N.A, gestackt mit dem DeepSkyStacker 4.2.6 und nachbearheitet mit Gimp 2.10.32
- www.kevin-palmer.com - The Rosette Nebula is a target I've been wanting to photograph for awhile. But my last few tries have been unsuccessful because of the wind. The bright red nebula is found in the constellation Monoceros. On the lower left is the Christmas Tree cluster surrounded by faint nebulosity. The blue nebula doesn't even have a name other than NGC 2247.
This image is a stack of 14 2.5-minute, ISO 1000 exposures shot with the Nikon 180mm f2.8 lens at f/4.5. It was then cropped about 50%. I had intended to shoot more exposures but my iOptron Skytracker stopped tracking after awhile and I had to toss some images that were blurred from the wind. But I'm still happy with the results from an unmodified Nikon D750. I used the Astronomy Tools plugin in Photoshop to help bring out the colors and details.
Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237)
L(R:G:B) = Ha(R:G:B) = 40m(26m:26m:26m) = 1x1(2x2:2x2:2x2)
L subs = 300s each. RGB subs = 260s each
telescope:
Lightbuckets LB-0002
AstroSysteme Austria Newtonian Astrograph
Model N8
Aperture 200mm
Focal Length 720mm
f/3.6
camera:
Apogee Alta U8300
Resolution: 3326 x 2504
stacked with DeepSkyStacker
processing with Pixinsight Standard 1.5:
L = histogram stretch, masked stretch, curves, dark structure enhancement, atrous wavelets
RGB = histogram stretch, masked stretch, curves
LRGB merge with noise reduction (L=0.6, R=0.95, G=0.85, B=0.84)
touchup in Lightroom 2.0: contrast, clarity, adjust black point
M42, Orion Nebula. 21st January 2017. 23x 76s + 11x 121s, @ISO 400, Skywatcher 200P/DS + EQ5 Guided with PHD2. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed with LR+PS
The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, 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 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across. It has a mass of about 2000 times the mass of the Sun.
Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula.
Source: Wikipedia
OTA: Meade LX10 Schmitt Cassegrain 8", 2000mm, f10
Camera: Canon EOS60Da (IR modded) at Prime Focus.
Filters: None
Guiding: None
Exposure: 88 x 5s exposures @ ISO3200 equiv.
Total integration time: 7 mins.
Darks & Offset/bias. No flats.
RAW images calibrated & stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PSPx9
Additional post-processing (2023) with Photoshop
My last astrophoto of 2008. I love the winter constellations, especially Orion. So much to see. The winter Milky Way is not as bright as the summer Milky Way, but it's still beautiful.
Alnitak got a bit fuzzy here, I believe the mirrors are in need of collimation.
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 using Nebulosity, FITS Liberator, Photoshop and Lightroom.
First trial at using Nebulosity and FITS Liberator.
I didn't use anything particularly special to make this photo, I used a Canon 5DMkII with Samyang 14mm lens. I shot 10 photos, one after another, at ISO6400 for 15 seconds each. The lens was set to f2.8 and focussed on infinity. Each photo looked dim and uninteresting.
I then converted the RAWs to JPG (for memory consideration) and ran them through the free software DeepSkyStacker which puts the photos together and unrotates them so the stars don't 'trail'.
Then the combined image was processed in Photoshop to make the blacks black and whites white as the averaged photo has little contrast.
All this is from the data that I captured on location and it was in the Brecon Beacons in Wales! I'm impressed anyway :-)
Here's my other take at the moon just passing the Golden Gate of the Ecliptic on February 9, 2022. This close-up was taken with the Samsung NX30 camera and Samsung 50-200 mm OIS-III telezoom lens @ f = 70 mm and stopped down to f/6.3.
I really like how the Aldebaran and the Hyades cluster on the lower left and the Pleiades cluster on the upper right align almost perfectly with the moon. I'm also happy I managed to bring out some star colours, particularly bright orange-yellow Aldebaran.
EXIF:
Camera: Samsung NX30 (APS-C, unmodified)
Lens: Samsung 50-200 mm f/4.0-5.6 OIS-III @ 70 mm f/6.3
Filters: none
Exposure: 11x 120 s @ ISO 200
Calibration: 30 darks, 25 flats
Mount: Skywatcher Star Adventurer
Stacking: Deep Sky Stacker
Processing: Aurora HDR 2018, Photoshop
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Bi colour image produced using Esprit 150ED apo triplet with 0.77x reducer/flattener,SX Trius 694 Pro mono CCD and Baader 2" 7nm Ha and OIII narrowband filters. Four subframes in each filter @ fifteen minutes exposure stacked in Deepskystacker and colour combined (Ha/OIII/OIII) in Maxim DL4 finishing in Photoshop CS2.
Taken early hours of the 21st Aug 23
Laos Phonsavan , Sony A7S + Tamron 150-600 , lens flare at bottom of flame nebula, due to some equipment failure , stacked exposure of total 1 min only
An unguided image of the California Nebula taken last night over Monticello, NY through a Canon 400mm f/5.6 L lens using an astro-modified Canon T3i dslr camera on a Celestron AVX mount. Thirty 60 second images, ten dark frames, and sixteen bias frames were stacked using DeepSkyStacker, then enhanced with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop Elements.
Taken 5-05-16 at Lake Ray Roberts, TX
Scope: William Optics GT81 w/ 0.8x reducer (382mm focal length at f/4.7)
Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G
Guidescope: Orion 50mm guidescope
Guiding camera: StarShoot Autoguider
Imaging camera: Canon t3i (unmodified)
ISO400
13x600" lights (2hr 10min total exposure time)
5x darks
30x flats
150x bias
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed in Photoshop CS6
My 80ED has a field of view just wide enough to take in both M8 and M20--but I might try this with my 70-300 lens sometime to give them a bit more border (that is, if I can rig up a way to use that lens on my mount somehow)
Stack of thirty 30-second, ISO 1600 shots done in DeepSkyStacker.
Andromeda Galaxy with 8" Orion Imaging Newtonian with Modified Rebel XT on Orion Sirius Mount
60 x 180 sec ISO800+Darks & Flats
Acquired with APT - Astro Photography Tool v1.9 *** www.ideiki.com/astro/
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2 *** deepskystacker.free.fr/english/download.htm
Final Touch with Photo Shop
Taken a couple of nights ago from the back garden, a view of the star field at the end of the W shape of the constellation Cassiopeia, including the green glow from the gas surrounding Comet Jacques. Also visible is the background of stars in our Milky Way galaxy and two open clusters of stars. Messier 52 can be seen in the top centre and NGC 7789 to the lower right. There are two faint red patches of light - coming from glowing clouds of hydrogen, NGC 7822 close to the left and about a third of the way up from the bottom and to the top right of the cluster Messier 52 is NGC7635, also known as the bubble nebula.
In total there were 40 exposures of 20s used, combined in DeepSkyStacker and the image corrected in FitsWork to flatten the background.
Sony A7 / Sigma EX 105mm / Light Pollution filter.
Las Pléyades (Objeto Messier 45, Messier 45, M45) es un objeto visible a simple vista en el cielo nocturno.
8 pueden ser observadas a simple vista dependiendo de las condiciones atmosféricas (cielos muy limpios y ausencia de Luna): Taygeta (4.3), Pleione (5.09), Merope (4.17), Maia (3.88), Electra (3.71), Celaeno (5.46), Atlas( 3.63) y Alcyone (2.87).
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Leica SL2 & 50mm APO Summicron-M @f/2.0
200 Exposures each 2.5sec @ ISO12500, stacked together with 15 Dark and 15 Bias Frames.
68x30seconds lights, 20 darks. Skywatcher Esprit 100ED super APO triplet and Canon EOS 5D mk2. Processed with Deepskystacker and Photoshop CS.
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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
(285 km by road north of Toronto)
* Altitude of centre of the frame at time of exposures: 18°, declining to 16°
* Total exposure time: 15 minutes
* 1253 mm focal length telescope
* Field of view: 1° wide x 0.6° high
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Description:
One of the most prominent, largest, brightest and well known nebulae in the sky is the Lagoon Nebula, which is a favourite target of amateur astronomers with modest telescopes.
From Wikipedia: "The Lagoon Nebula ... is a giant interstellar cloud ... classified as an emission nebula and as an H II region. [It] was discovered by Giovanni Hodierna before 1654 and is one of only two star-forming nebulae faintly visible to the eye from mid-northern latitudes. Seen with binoculars, it appears as a distinct oval cloudlike patch with a definite core. Within the nebula is the open cluster NGC 6530.
The Lagoon Nebula is estimated to be between 4,000-6,000 light-years away from the Earth. In the sky of Earth, it spans 90' by 40', which translates to an actual dimension of 110 by 50 light years. ... The nebula contains a number of Bok globules (dark, collapsing clouds of protostellar material), the most prominent of which have been catalogued by E. E. Barnard as B88, B89 and B296."
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Technical information:
Nikon D810a camera body on Explore Scientific 152 mm (6") apochromatic refracting telescope, mounted on a Sky-Watcher EQ6-R PRO SynScan mount
Fifteen stacked subframes - each frame:
1253 mm focal length
ISO 8000; 1 minute exposure at f/8, unguided
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed in Photoshop CS6 (brightness, contrast, levels, colour balance)
I got one ! This night I have taken some 250 photos and this is the only one where a meteor has been captured !
Canon EOS 600 D.
64 photos (superimposed with DeepSkyStacker)
ISO 1600
18 mm
f/3.5
22.3 minutes
M106 11 x 600 secs in Lum. Testing my new Orion Optics CT8 F4.5 scope fitted with a Baader Mark-III MPCC Coma
Optics: Orion Optics CT8 F4.5 fitted with a Baader Mark-III MPCC Coma Corrector.
Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Mono Cooled to -20C
Guiding: OAG witha Lodestar X2
Filter: Baader Lum
Mount: Skywatcher AZ EQ6-GT EQ & Alt-Az Mount connected to the Sky X and Eqmod via HitecAstro EQDIR adapter
Image Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro
Stacking and Calibrating: Deepskystacker
Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC
Esprit 150ED APO and QHY168C
c/w UHC filter. Six 900 second subs and three 1200 second subs stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop CS2.
Image taken 29/10/18