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Second attempt this summer of the Andromeda Galaxy, now from the viewpoint of the stars at Sesué, in the Benasque Valley.
Segundo intento este verano de la Galaxia de Andromeda, ahora desde el mirador de las estrellas de Sesué, en el Valle de Benasque.
Andromeda Galaxy / Galaxia de Andromeda
M31, Messier 31, NGC 224
- Date/Fecha: 31/08/2019
- Location/Lugar: Mirador de las estrellas, Sesué - Huesca (42°33'58.5"N 0°28'19.3"E) Alt. 1270m
IMAGE / IMAGEN
- 91 Lights at 600mm, ISO 8000, 20s, f5.6
- 25 Darks at ISO 8000, 20s, f5.6
- Haida Slim Nano Pro MC Clear Night filter
- Total time of exposition / Tiempo total de exposición 30m 20s
GEAR / EQUIPO
- Tracker / Montura de seguimiento Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi
- Camara Sony ILC3-A7M3 Modo APS-C
- Objetivo Sony FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
SOFTWARE
- Stellarium Scope & Stellarium to guide the tracker
- Stacking with DeepSkyStacker
- Image Stretching with the rnc-color-stretch algorithm by Roger N. Clark (ClarkVision.com), GUI RNCColorStretch 0.3 by Vincent Duparc and Davinci 2.18 from Arizona State U. (davinci.asu.edu)
- Image processing with Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe Photoshop CC
- Stellarium Scope & Stellarium para el guiado de la montura
- Apilado con DeepSkyStacker
- Ajustes de color con el algoritmo rnc-color-stretch de Roger N. Clark (ClarkVision.com), párametros a través de la GUI RNCColorStretch 0.3 de Vincent Duparc y Davinci 2.18 de la Arizona State U. (davinci.asu.edu)
- Procesado con Adobe Camera Raw y Adobe Photoshop CC
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37 x 1-minute unguided exposures at ISO 3200 (taken 8 Sept 2019 and 19 Sept 2015).
Astro-modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" f/4 Newtonian reflector telescope.
Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; noise reduction via CyberLink PhotoDirector.
I first shot Comet C/2020 F8 (SWAN), which was just barely above the horizon. I abandoned that idea after one shot - the core was just barely visible, and I was almost sure I wouldn't get much of the tail because I was shooting so low. Plus there were quite a few low clouds along the horizon, despite most of the sky being perfectly clear.
After being disappointed, I was about to pack up and get some sleep, but decided I'd get just one shot of Comet C/2017 T2 (PANSTARRS) near M 81 and M 82. I almost packed up again when I had trouble locating M 81 and M 82 quickly, but finally found them after searching (no go-to capabilities with the SkyTracker of course).
Instead of being disappointed this time, I was surprised and excited to see an obvious tail on Comet C/2017 T2 (PANSTARRS) in my first shot, so I stuck around and got some more subs so I'd be able to pull out the Integrated Flux Nebulae (IFN) in the area.
I wish now I'd just stuck around for just another 20 minutes of so but whatever, I'm happy with this image and its layers: it features a comet within our solar system (14 light minutes away), IFN near the edge of our galaxy, and distant galaxies (Bode's Nebulae are about 12 million light years away).
Acquisition details: Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 43 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken May 23, 2020 from Bortle 3/4 skies. I didn't bother to stack on the comet and stars separately - so the core of the comet is slightly smudged, but that gets lost in the bright core of the comet after stretching to bring out the IFN.
A mere 25 million light years away (as the crow flies) i.e. this is what it looked like 25 million years ago.
We've had two clear nights on the trot this week, which must be a record for the UK. Beset with problems the first night (not least of which I couldn't find the thing!), so managed just 18 90 sec subs. Second night managed 88 subs of 30 seconds remotely. So this is just over the hour after DSS had ditched some.
27-28 February 2011
200p, EQ5 unguided
Nikon D70 full spectrum prime focus
20 x 90sec, 88 x 30sec iso 1600
darks, bias and flats.
Stacked in DSS processed in CS5
First iteration - watch this space! :)
Reprocessed here
This picture is the longest I have ever captured in astrophotography (and photography too) : 1 hour 10 minutes of total integration.
I stacked 14 frames of 5 minutes exposure each, using DeepSkyStacker freeware.
An unmodified Canon EOS 600D with a 50 mm f/1.8 lens were used, mounted on a lxd75 tracking mount
Despite we can see reams of stars on this photo, some great nebulas are also spottable : Eagle Nebula, Omega nebula, Trifid and Laguna nebulas ...
However, the large and ugly yellow halo coming downside is the light pollution of nearby cities. My most difficult challenge was to face to this problem while editing the picture.
Technical Datas :
Canon EOS 600D + 50 mm f/1.8 lens + meade lxd75
14 x 300 secs exposure
ISO 400
F/3.2
+5 darks frames
+20 offset frames
This was one of the most exciting projects for me to work on. Still new to monochrome imaging with a CCD camera, and building SHO palette images.
Plenty "wrong" with this image, mainly the mix of colors (I guess it's a Hubble Palette hybrid?). Probably too heavy on the green for most, but I'm really digging this look.
Thanks for looking, and happy shooting!!
60 x 300s Ha
16 x 300s OIII
9 x 300s SII
Sky-Watcher Esprit 150 APO
Starlight Xpress Trius 694 Mono
Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop 2020
Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is one of the brightest and closest open clusters. The Pleiades contains over 3000 stars, is about 400 light years away, and only 13 light years across. Quite evident are the blue reflection nebulae that surround the brighter cluster stars.
Esprit 100mm APO refractor with Optolong L (IR/UV cut) filter and Canon 6Da. Combination of 30, 240, 360 and 600 second exposures. Total 10hr30m on 13+21 october and 6 november 2015. Average SQM:20.7
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and (Re)Processed in PixinSight.
Full 5178x3298 resolution via the download option.
Knight Observatory Tomar
Press L (followed by F11) for the best view.
[English Below]
Minha primeira tentativa com a Nebulosa da Roseta (NGC 2237), a qual possui menos da metade do brilho da Nebulosa de Órion, tornando mais difícil o seu registro. Foram empilhados 27 frames de 5 minutos, totalizando 2 horas e 15 minutos de exposição (mesmo assim, pareceu ser necessário bem mais tempo, para melhorar o registro). Ainda preciso estudar muito mais sobre processamento.
NGC 2237 ou Nebulosa da Roseta é uma enorme nuvem de gás e poeira com cerca de 100 anos-luz de comprimento, também é conhecida por ser um gigante berçário estelar. Está localizada na direção da constelação do Unicórnio a 4 500 anos-luz de nosso sistema solar. Fonte: www.astronoo.com/
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My first attempt with the Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237), which has less than half the brightness of the Orion Nebula, making it more difficult to register. 27 frames of 5 minutes were stacked, totaling 2 hours and 15 minutes of exposure (even so, it seemed that much more time was needed to improve the record). I still need to study much more about processing.
NGC 2237 or Rosette Nebula is a huge cloud of gas and dust about 100 light years in length, it is also known for being a giant stellar nursery. It is located in the direction of the Monoceros constellation 4,500 light-years from our solar system. Source: www.astronoo.com/
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Refletor Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 com Onstep, Canon T6 (foco primário) não modificada. Guidescope 50mm com ASI 120MC-S. 27 light frames de 300 segundos, 15 dark frames. ISO 800. Processamento: Sequator, DeepSkyStacker, PhotoScape e PS Express.
The very bright streak is Jupiter traversing the sky, it's a great time to look for our solar system's biggest planet! And don't miss the Perseid Meteor Shower right around the corner peaking Aug. 12th, it should be a good year for it!
This is one of my first stacked star trail images, usually in the past I used slide film or used 15-30 min exposures. For this image, 62 1 min 11 sec exposures 1 sec apart were combined with this free Photoshop action. Others you might want to try, especially if you need a stand alone if you don't have PS are here and here. Enjoy!
NGC6992 Veil nebula (aka network nebula) in the Cygnus loop supernova remnant.
A Bi-colour image of hydrogen alpha and Oxygen3. filters. and a monochrome camera.
Taken through my ED80 refractor.
8 x 300s ha - 9x300s OIII
Stacked in deepskystacker and processed in Ps.
Nikon d610(stock), iso800
TS-Optics 72mmf6
total of 120 minutes with 240sec subs
guiding:
ZWO asi120mcs
TS 50mm/f3.6 guidescope
Tracking: Skywatcher Star Adventurer
software:
guiding: phd2
Stacking: Deepskystacker 4.2.2
Processing: Adobe Photoshop, GradientXterminator, Nik software, HLVG, Adobe Raw
NGC 2174 (also known as Monkey Head Nebula) is an emission nebula located in the constellation Orion. a region of interstellar atomic hydrogen that is ionized
DeepSkyStacker - Photoshop
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Star trails over Acele Morarului, Bucegi, Romania. Taken with a Canon 350D and Tamron 16-300, ISO 1600, f3.5, 100 18s stacked exposures. Processed in DeepSkyStacker and Darktable
#من_تصويري
#مجرة_المثلث أو مسييه 33 (بالإنجليزية: Triangulum Galaxy أو Messier 33 أو NGC 598) هي مجرة حلزونية تبعد نحو 3 ملايين سنة ضوئية عن الأرض، وتقع في كوكبة المثلث.
تضم المجموعة المحلية ثلاث مجرات الكبيرة هي مجرة المثلث وأندروميدا ومجرتنا درب التبانة. تشغل المجموعة المحلية مكانا في الفضاء يبلغ نصف قطره 10 ملايين سنة ضوئية وتحتوي بالكامل على نحو 40 من المجرات معظمها مجرات قزمة.
#my_astrophotography
The #Triangulum_Galaxy is a spiral galaxy 2.73 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, behind the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy.
Telescope التليسكوب
🔭 152mm David H. Levy Comet Hunter at Focal length 730mm.
محرك استوائي Mount
AZ-EQ5 GoTo Mount
كاميرا التصوير Camera
ZWO ASI294 mc pro
كاميرة توجيه Guide Camera
ZWO ASI120MC
برنامج التصوير Imaging Software
Astro Photography Tool
برنامج التكديس Stacked using
DeePSkYStacker
Pixinsight
40 Light images
120 sec. Each
A stack of 6 exposures of 5 minutes each making a half hour of integration time. I stacked this with DeepSkyStacker and accidentally left the 2x drizzle on so that's why it's such a large image.
This beautiful galaxy resides in Coma Berenices, and I highly recommend this target for my fellow northern hemisphere imagers!
This image uses 4 hours of total exposure time captured from a bright city sky.
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I collected exactly an hour's worth of data (20 x 3-minutes) through each LRGB filter (not nearly enough!) and stacked each set together in DeepSkyStacker using dark calibration frames).
The color channels were aligned and processed entirely in Adobe Photoshop to complete the image. Thanks for looking, and clear skies!
There is a lot of unglamorous work associated with owning a private observatory. In our case, we had to upgrade the telescope control system about a year ago and thereafter ensued a lot of additional upgrades and testing which revealed other problems we had not been aware of. Consequently we have cleaned the 26" primary mirror, adjusted the polar alignment, fine-tuned the tracking rate, laser-collimated the optical system, installed new dome control, installed a new auto-guiding system, added three new cameras and a new filter wheel. Each step is followed by testing an exhausting number of star images on every clear night available, which commences after our observatory guests have left around midnight.
You might guess that the glamorous part is getting to capture images of the wonders in our universe, but actually it is meeting the wonderful people who visit us and shake our hands when they leave.
Prior to this image, we had photographed the Pinwheel in April of 2021 and by a complete coincidence chose it as our live-stack object for guests about 10 1/2 hours after Supernova SN 2023ixf was discovered on May 19, 2023. At the time of discovery, the estimated magnitude was 14.9 and the object brightened significantly in our subsequent imaging to an estimated magnitude of 11 on May 22.
This image was taken on July 9, showing that the object has dimmed and while not a perfect image, we are noting significant improvement and claiming a bit of success following the work we have done on our imaging train thus far.
Equipment: 26" Newtonian Reflector Telescope f/4.8
Custom Mount with PMC-8 Controller
ZWO ASI6200 MC Pro Camera (broadband single shot color)
Optec TCF Focuser
Imaging: 119 images captured in Sharpcap Pro @ 60 sec unguided
Processed in Deep Sky Stacker, Pixinsight, Astro-Flat, StarXTerminator and Topaz
Thank you for reading.
In Sagittarius, low in the south, just above hot rooftops (37C daytime temp) with 30+ degrees C sensor temperatures taken with Canon 6Da and Esprit 100mm f5.5 telescope and Optolong L (IR/UV cut) filter. Two separate stacks in Deepskystacker 12x30sec iso1600 and 40x120sec iso1600 using 20 darks, 31 flats and 174 biasframes. Processed in Pixinsight using DBE, HDRCombination, Histogramtransformation, HDR Multiscaletransform and Curves. No Noisereduction.
Knight Observatory, Tomar
Use F11 and L for best view.
M42-M43-NGC2024-B33-M78 in Orion
Febbraio/Marzo 2022
Località: San Romualdo - Ravenna
Samyang 135mm F/4
Avalon M1 - QHY5III 174M su OAG Celestron
QHY294C - Gain 1600 - Offset 5 - raffreddata -25
Filtro Optlong L-enhance: 65 pose da 5 min. e 63 pose da 30"
Filtro Optlong L-Extreme: 13x10min
Acquisizione: SharpCap - Calibrata con Dark.
Elaborazione: DeepSkyStacker, Astroart8, MaximDL5, Paint Shop Pro 2021, Topaz e Nik Plug-in.
www.cfm2004.altervista.org/astrofotografia/nebulose/orion...
The Rho Ophiuchi and the Antares region are incredible glimpses of the night sky. They are full of multicolor reflection and dark nebulae.
Blue, orange, cyan and red nebulae decorate one of the most beautiful constellation of the boreal sky: the Scorpius (one of my favourites).
In this photo on the left you can see the cyan/blue Rho Ophiuchi nebula near a scythe-like dark nebula on the right. Two of the three stars inside the Rho Ophiuchi nebula are actually double stars.
Antares is on the right, just a little bit over the frame (south). That's why everything looks golden in that area (Antares is a red giant).
Unfortunately the sky was not perfectly clear that day so the photo is not like I imagined it.
Canon EOS 60D (unmodded) and TS APO 80/480 Triplet on a HEQ5 guided mount (QHY5L-II + 60/200).
Photos were acquired with Astrojan Tools and PHD Guiding.
Calibration and stacking with MaximDL and post processing with PixInsight LE and Photoshop.
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Grand Mesa Observatory
14x 240sec
Processing: Photoshop CC, PixInsight
Stacking: DeepSkyStacker
Camera: QHY367C One Shot Color CMOS
Pixel Size: 4.88x4.88
Image Scale (1x1): 1.55 arcsec/pixel
FOV: 127.3 x 190.1 arcmin
Optics: Takahashi FSQ130
Aperture: 130mm
Focal Length: 650mm
Focal Ratio: F5
Guiding: Stellarview 50mm
Mount: Paramount ME
EOS 6D, EF 70-300 @ 300, F 5.4, ISO 6400, 80 x 10 s stacked and processed with DeepSkyStacker, SIRIL, and Photoshop
Here is the Crescent Nebula in the constellation Cygnus.
I've recently reprocessed this image with more attention paid to the star colors. It was captured using a dual-bandpass narrowband filter, which can create some odd colors.
About the Crescent Nebula: astrobackyard.com/ngc-6888-crescent-nebula/
Details:
Captured from Bortle Class 6/7 backyard in St. Catharines, Ontario
August 23, 2019
Exposure: 25 x 5-minutes (2 Hours, 5 minutes total)
Telescope: Sky-Watcher Esprit 100 APO refractor (550mm FL, F/5.5)
Filter: Optolong L-eNhance
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro (Color)
Autoguiding through PHD2
Stacking in DeepSkyStacker
Processing in Adobe Photoshop 2020
I've been waiting over 2 months for a clear, Moonless night for deep sky imaging. Even by UK standards, it's been a frustrating Summer! Once the appropriate conditions finally came, they didn't last long and I only managed 3 frames.
This is part of the famous Veil Nebula supernova remnant. The bright star with the reflection halo is 52 Cygni.
Despite the limited frames, I think the result is slightly better than last year's of the same subject, as I've stopped the telescope's mirror shifting - by fitting stronger collimation support springs.
Manually, off-axis guided for 3 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; noise reduction via CyberLink PhotoDirector.
The second tail is faintly visible.
17 photos stacked in DeepSkyStacker. Taken with a Canon R camera and Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS II lens.
Each photo 400mm, 1.3 sec. at f/6.3, ISO 16000
The Sombrero Galaxy (also known as Messier Object 104, M104 or NGC 4594) is in the constellation Virgo. From my vantage point, it just makes it high enough over the roof of my house to capture some photons a few nights a year. The Sombrero Galaxy is about 31,000,000 light years away with an apparent magnitude of 8.3.
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation: Virgo
Right ascension: 12h 39m 59.4s
Declination: −11° 37′ 23″
Distance: 31.1 ± 1.0 Mly
Apparent magnitude (V): 8.0
Tech Specs: Orion 8" f/8 Ritchey-Chretien Astrograph Telescope, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ASI071MC-Pro, ZWO AAPlus, ZWO EAF, 108 x 60 seconds at -10C, processed using DeepSkyStacker and PixInsight. Image Date: March 16, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W95), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
IC410 is an emission nebula in the constellation of Auriga. Often called the Tadpole Nebula in reference to the two tadpole shaped clumps in the upper left of the nebula.
NGC1893 is the open cluster of stars in the middle of IC410. It's these stars that are ionizing and shaping the surrounding nebula. The tadpoles themselves could be collapsing in to new stars.
The nebula is around 12 to 12,500 light years away and 100 light years across.
The open star cluster is believed to have been formed 2 to 4 million years ago.
Captured from my back garden in Rochdale, UK. Bortle 6.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8"S with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Backyard Universe primary mask and Backyard Universe secondary spider. Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.
120s exposures.
Best 80% of 40 light frames.
Darks, Flats, Dark Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.
Pleiades, M45
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6 Pro
Scope: William Optics Fluorite Doublet 80/555
Camera: Nikon Z6
Seeing conditions: 60% ..from by home in Rome
Unguided exposures:
- ISO800 x 40'' x 60 exposures
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Today is astronomy day April 25, 2015!
Backyard Astrophotography from New York City - Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) and Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33)
Canon 60Da with Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 L II USM Telephoto Lens and iOptron SkyTracker tripod.
Exposure 10sec x 148 - about 25 min total. ISO-800, f/3.2
I stacked images using DeepSkyStacker, and for post-processing used Photoshop.Photo was done Jan 31, but just today did final post-proseccing.
We had one good night of clear skies during our camping trip to Mew Lake in Algonquin Park. The seeing was acceptable but not great due to a light haze, despite the nice dark sky. This was taken looking out over Lake of Two Rivers on Thursday, July 20th to the accompaniment of howling wolves and relatively few mosquitoes. I'm actually not pleased with this image. The constellation Scorpius lies low and just above the horizon viewed from this latitude, meaning we see this marvelous cloud complex at a low slant angle though the Earth's thick and turbulent atmosphere, which filters the blue wavelengths resulting in a rather monotone image. Still, the stars are in reasonably sharp focus and the dark nebula structure looks good. This is a stack of 16 light frames (I recorded about 40 but most were ruined by meteors and aircraft!) taken at ISO 1600 for 30 seconds at f/2.0, 16 dark frames made in-camera (long exposure noise reduction), 11 flat frames and 10 bias frames, using my trusty Sigma 50mm ART lens and Canon 70D mounted on my iOptron SkyTracker. The images were stacked using DeepSkyStacker, with the final product processed in Lightroom.
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Widefield of Helix nebula in Aquarius
This was imaged using the 80mm Orion EON and the Astro-Tech 8" Ritchey-Chretien with a focal length of 1625mm (f/8).
RGB 6min subs totaling 3 hours (1 hour each channel) using the Orion 80mm EON.
Ha 20min subs totaling 1 hour and 20 minutes.
OIII 20 min subs totaling 2 hours using the Astro-Tech 8" Ritchey-Chretien with a focal length of 1625mm (f/8)
Imaging camera: QSI 683 wsg-8
Losmandy G11 Gemini II German equatorial mount
Imaging telescopes: Orion 80mm EON and Astro-Tech 8" Ritchey-Chretien.
Processing software: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop CS5 and RegiStar
An unfinished work. Only 53 minutes and 30 seconds of exposure.
107x30 ISO 800
Nikon D5000
CEM25P
Long Perng S400-G 66/400 F6 Apo Doublet
No autoguiding this time.
Canon EOS 450D prime focus Skywatcher 150 Newtonian. 5 light frames (30s ISO1600); 11 darks; 20 flats; 20 bias. Processed in DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight and Photoshop CS6.
Had to push this quite hard to bring the tail out.
Taken with the good old omd e-m5
330 Lightframes each 25 sec. - 210mm + 1,7 teleconverter
iso4000 - f4
+
30 Darks
30 Flats
Tracking with Vixen Polarie and aligned with the Polar Finder telescope, mounted on a self-made bracket with counterweight. Edited in Deep Sky Stacker and Lightroom.
The result is slightly better than the last time I tried to photograph M31. At that time, many pictures were unusable because they became blurred in the course of the evening. So this time I secured the focusing ring of the lens with a piece of paper and a rubber band.
Auriga is busy; DeepSkyStacker registered 50k+ stars in this extent. DSOs include the Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405), the Tadpole Nebula (IC 410), the Spider (IC 417) and Fly (NGC 1931) Nebulae, the Pinwheel Cluster (M 36), the Starfish Cluster (M 38), dark nebulae MLB 35, B 222, and CB 27 (on the lower right), and Sharpless 232, 231, and 235 (emission nebulae on the upper left, flic.kr/p/Ru8EmT).
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. 21, 2019 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
Taken using Skywatcher 80ED Pro, Nikon D3300, 213x30" lights (ISO 3200), 100 flats, 110, bias. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop
Camera: Nikon D750
Lens: Nikon 500mm f5.6 PF
SkyGuider Pro tracker
Exposure time: 60 x 40 seconds = 40 min total integration
Focal length: 500mm
Aperture: 5.6
Stacked and combined in DeepSkyStacker
My Astrophotography
The Horsehead Nebula (and Flame Nebula)
Telescope 🔭
152mm David H. Levy #Comet_Hunter at Focal length 730mm.
Mount
AZ-EQ5 GoTo Mount
Camera
ZWO ASI294 mc pro
Guide Camera
ZWO ASI120MC
No filters
148 images light frames:
100 X 90 sec APT
48 X 90 sec N.I.N.A
15 flats
100 Bias
20 Darks
Imaging Software
N.I.N.A + APT
Stacked using
DeePSkYStacker
Pixinsight
Photoshop
Bortle 4/5
An unguided image of the globular star cluster M22 taken with SharpCap using a ZWOASI183MC Pro camera attached to a Celestron 130mm f/5 reflecting telescope. Five 20 second images were combined and processed using DeepSkyStacker, Gimp, and Lightroom.
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Manual: www.ioptron.com/v/Manuals/3322_SkyTrackerPro_Manual.pdf
Phone/iPad app for accurate polar alignment (itunes.apple.com/us/app/ioptron-polar-scope/id564078961?mt=8) or Android phone polar finder app (play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.techhead.polarf...)
Stacking Software
Deep Sky Stacker (PC): deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html
Sequator (PC): sites.google.com/site/sequatorglobal/download
Registax (PC): www.astronomie.be/registax/
Starry Landscape Stacker (Mac): itunes.apple.com/us/app/starry-landscape-stacker/id550326...
pixinsight (mac): pixinsight.com/
Nebulosity (mac): www.stark-labs.com/nebulosity.html
Canon 6d 200mm f2.8 fuzzy seeing - overcast sky - testing the Camera Lens. 183 x 30 sec subs iso 800 deepskystacker
Grand Mesa Observatory
10x 300sec
Processing: Photoshop CC, PixInsight
Stacking: DeepSkyStacker
Camera: QHY367C One Shot Color CMOS
Pixel Size: 4.88x4.88
Image Scale (1x1): 1.55 arcsec/pixel
FOV: 127.3 x 190.1 arcmin
Optics: Takahashi FSQ130
Aperture: 130mm
Focal Length: 650mm
Focal Ratio: F5
Guiding: Stellarview 50mm
Mount: Paramount ME
15 frames x 60 sec (Deepskystacker)
17" planewave, ASI1600MC camera
Hypati, Greece
Credits Kostas Delibasis, Fanis Smanis
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 Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken July 4 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
Aug 2. reprocess: Stretched lighter reds more to increase red and decrease pink color of emission nebulae.
Sept reprocess: Another re-edit, this time increasing red even more.
Taken using Skywatcher Evostar 80ED Pro (.85x reducer), Celestron Nexstar SLT Mount & Nikon D3300. ISO 1600,135x30s lights, ~100 flats and bias. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and post processed in Photoshop.
This is a re-process of some very old acquisition data that I had using some new post-processing tools from Russel Croman. His NoiseXTerminator tool is extremely helpful in reducing noisy images!
A guided image of the globular star cluster M12 in Ophiuchus taken through a Celestron 130mm f/5 reflecting telescope using a ZWOASI183MC Pro camera. Thirty 30 second light images and 20 dark images were stacked using DeepSkyStacker and processed using adobe Lightroom to create the picture.
FSQ106ED + QHY16200A(-15C) L11x10min (Ambient +20C)
WilliamOptics Star71 + ATIK383L+(-15C)
Astrodon Tru-Balance E-Series Gen2
R4x10min,G3x10min,B3x15min
on SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6GT (Total:225min)
Guiding: QHYOAG + LodestarX2
DeepSkyStacker, StellaImage7, Photoshop CC2015
Locations: Kamogawa Sports Park, Kibichuocho, Okayama, Japan
Aug. 2016
1st time out with my Askar FRA400 telescope.
Wouldn't quite fit the entire galaxy in to the field of view, so I went for a 2 panel mosaic.
M31 lies 2.5 million light years away from us and has two visible dwarf galaxies for companions. They are M32, just above and left of centre and M110, an elliptical galaxy to the bottom centre of the image.
Captured at www.astronomycentre.org.uk
Boring Techie bit:
Telescope: Askar FRA400
Mount: EQ6r pro
Camera: ZWO 533mc pro
Filter: Optolong L'eNhance.
Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+
The 2 panels each consisted of 60 lights frames at 120 seconds exposure each. Plus darks, flats, dark flats & bias calibration frames.
All stacked together in DeepSkyStacker and the resulting 2 images were then stitched together and processed further in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.