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My first guided deep sky astrophoto of 2015, surprisingly.
Manually, off-axis guided for 12 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.
Canon 550D with CGEM DX 1100HD Telescope. Used Celestron's off-axis guider and Orion's 12.5 mm illuminated reticle eye piece for manual guiding.
Nine images taken at ISO 800 and 8 minute exposure, then stacked using Deepskystacker.
This worked out well, except reviewing the images I think I can go up to 15 minutes exposure without saturation of nebula cloud.
Pushing my little NyxTracker to the limit with this close in view near the core region of the Milky Way. Featuring the Lagoon (M8) and Trifid (M20) Nebulae (left) and lots of dust!
Gear Used:
-Camera: Canon EOS 350D (APS-C)
-Lens: Canon EF 75-300mm
-Mount: Nyxtech NyxTracker
Aquistion Details:
43x20" sub exposures
14.3 min total integration
ISO-1600
f/4.5
100mm focal length
Software Used:
RawTherapee
DeepSkyStacker
Pixinsight 1.6
Adobe Photoshop CS5.1
-HLVG Plugin
Another object imaged earlier in the same session as the M42 image last night, the Elephants trunk in Cepheus. Used my 1000D with 7nm Ha filter to capture 9 subs at 12mins apiece through the 6",ISO set at 1600. Stacked in Deepskystacker,then used processing software to split the RGB channels and discarded the green and blue channels. Processed in Photoshop to reduce noise and bring out detail. Image taken midnight 23/10/16
This picture whas my first stacked pictures made with my new (second hand) Meade ETX-70 telescope. I used a T-adapter and T-ring for mounting my Nikon D50. I also used an Sigma 1.4 Teleconverter to have some more zoom. This picture is the result of 37 pictures of 15seconds exposure, that i have stacked with DeepSkyStacker. I used ISO1600. I realy like the result for such cheap telescope.
Localisation : CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date : 2016-12-07
Auteur/Author : ROUGÉ Pierre
Mouture/mount : Orion Atlas EQ-G
Tube/Scope : Orion 200/1000 (F5) + baader MPCC
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 : 102 minutes [34 subexposures of 180 sec each (selected from 34)] @ ISO 800
Calibration : Dark & Bias : 5/11 @ ISO 800 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 400
Temps/Weather : Bonne transparence. Vent nul. T=5°C. Humidité faible.
Constellation : Aurigae/Cocher
Software Used : Astro Photograph Tool (v3.20), DeepSkyStacker 3.3.6, Pixinsight LE, PhotoShop 7, xnview, Noiseware Community Edition
Small stack of 30 images. Taken with a Nikon D90, 50mm lens, f/2.2, ISO 1600, 3 seconds. Showing the Pleiades and Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)
- www.kevin-palmer.com - I shot this picture with a cheap Vivitar 200mm f3.5 lens on an iOptron Skytracker. It is a stack of 11 2-minute, iso 1600 shots. The quality of this lens isn't that great. There's a lot of coma and the brighter stars are bloated. But it still captured a surpising amount of detail in the 2 galaxies. This was taken at Sand Ridge State Forest, which has moderately dark skies.
4x 60s lights, 10 darks, 20 flats, 20 bias. Canon EOS 450D DSLR prime focus, ISO1600. Baader Neodymium filter and coma corrector. Sky-Watcher 150P Explorer on EQ3-2 mount. DeepSkyStacker > PixInsight > PhotoShop + StarSpikesPro 2. Significant mount problems—only 4 of 14 lights usable.
Well, it's not a new one! :)
And it is cloudy out there - I need something to do when it's dark. ;)
I've reprocessed this in an attempt to bring out a little more of the brown colour in the dust. Seems to have worked, although it's now starting to look a little "in ya face" again.
I may take this down tomorrow! :)
Very pleased with the core of this - you can almost make out the four stars of the trapezium.
From the original image:
21/1/2011
200p/EQ5 unguided
Nikon D70 full spectrum prime focus, ISO 1600
70x30 second
10x10 second for the core
22 darks
30 bias
10 flats
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5
Komet Catalina C/2013 US10 mit 14x60s bei ISO 400 F6.3. Bearbeited mit Deepskystacker, Photoshop CC und Lightroom CC
2016-03-07, near Swindon, England
Gear:
Skywatcher 130-PDS with 0.9x coma corrector (585 mm, f/4.5)
Skywatcher NEQ6-Pro Synscan (unguided)
Canon EOS 550D (unmodified)
Acquisition:
- AstrophotographyTools (APT) using APT dithering (unguided)
- 15 x 120s, 17 x 60s, 20 x 30s = total 57 minutes @ ISO 800
- 33 flats + library bias & darks
- Each exposure stacked separately in DeepSkyStacker and post-processed in Photoshop CC 2015
- Final merge of the three different exposures in Photoshop to create manual HDR image
The North America Nebula is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, close to Deneb (the tail of the swan and its brightest star).
The shape of the nebula resembles that of the continent of North America, complete with a prominent Gulf of Mexico.
Date and location : November 2020, Dorlisheim (bortle 5), France
Equipement :
Mount : Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro GoTo
Scope : Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED with OVL Field Flattener
Autoguiding : ZWO ASI 120MM-Mini + 60/280 Guidescope
Camera : Nikon D3300 Astrodon
Filter : Explore Scientific 2" CLS
Acquisition :
Lights : 125x3min, total 6h15
Darks : no darks
Flats : 25
Bias : 125
Software :
Integration : Kstars, Ekos
Pre-processing : DeepSkyStacker
Processing : Siril, Pixinsight
Post-processing : Photoshop
IC 1805 by Olivia (age 10)
Total 40 min
H-Alpha - 4x600sec
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PS2
Camera: Atik 314L+ Mono using Geoptik adapter
Filters: Baader H-Alpha 7nm
Lens: Tamron 70-300mm (set 100mm).
Mount: AZ EQ6-GT goto, PhD guided with Orion 50mm guidescope with SSAG.
Added another 67 subs to this last night, so this is now 3 hrs 14 mins of 60 second subs (193 in total - never done so many!) Took a little more care over the processing as well - some star colour in there if you look closely - but not too close ;) There are at least 19 galaxies visible in this image - and a lot more that aren't :)
I think this is about as far as this one goes.
200p/EQ5 unguided
Nikon D70 modded, iso1600, Baader Neodymium Filter
193 x 60 seconds
Darks, flats and bias
Stacked and processed in DSS and CS5
My first try at a moderately wide field astrophoto with the Vixen Polarie. Shot while on vacation under some really nice dark skies in the Turks and Caicos.
Sony a7R, Canon 135mm f/3.5 LTM lens @ f/5.6, Vixen Polarie, Manfrotto 3001D tripod and Giottos MH1300 ball-head.
160 x 1 minute shots stacked in DeepSkyStacker for a total of 2h45m.
Taken with ed80 and 350d and a h-alpha clip filter, stacked in Deepskystacker and just the red channel in grayscale run through photoshop giving false colour and stretching histogram.
IC1396 known as Elephant trunk nebula, is a dark dust cloud and open cluster in a wider area of hydrogen alpha nebulosity.
An edge-on unbarred spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away.
This is from stacking twenty 10 second exposures.
Canon 6D
Canon 300mm f/4.0 @ f/4.0
Vixen Polarie tracking head
120 x 45 sec @ISO3200 & ISO12800
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed in Lightroom
SkyWatcher 80ED + WO 0.8x TypeII + SEOCooledX2(-11C)
on SkyWatcher HEQ5 PRO
Frames: ISO800 7x900sec (Total:105min)
Guiding: Rumicon + Meade DSI Pro
RAP2, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop CS4
Locations: Kibikogen, Okayama, Japan
Jan. 2010
6" f7 apo triplet and 1000D with UHC filter was used to capture 5 subframes at 20 minutes each,ISO set at 800.
Stacked and darkframe calibrated (4 frames) in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop.
Image taken early hours of 8/11/16
This is a 9-panel Andromeda Galaxy mosaic. I collected the data over the last 3 months. I only had 6 nights because of really bad weather, but I've finally achieved the goal.
EXIF - 940X120" (31h20'), Gain 120, f5
Calibration: Flats - 60, Darks - 60
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro (cooled to -10°C)
Filter: Astronomik L-2 - UV/IR Blockfilter 1,25"
Main optics: Sky-Watcher Explorer 200P (modified)
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Guiding: Artesky UltraGuide 70 + ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Accessories: ZWO ASIair Pro, ZWO EAF
Software: DeepSkyStacker + Pixinsight + Photoshop
Location: Bilice, Sibenik, Croatia
Clear and cold last night so I spent an hour doing some star shots. Here is M42 in Orion which comprises the middle star in Orion's sword sheath. This is about the best I can expect from my backyard. Dec 03, 2013.
Addendum - Technical specs - Stack of:
10 frames x 10 seconds @ ISO6400
18 frames x 10 seconds @ ISO3200
17 frames x 10 seconds @ ISO1600
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker 3.3.3 beta 51, post-processing in darktable 1.2.3
Milky Way in the constellation Cygnus
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KameramodellCanon EOS 650D
AufnahmemodusManuelle Belichtung
Tv (Verschlusszeit)10 Aufnahmen je 30 aufaddiert
Av (Blendenzahl)3.5
MessmodusSpotmessung
Filmempfindlichkeit (ISO)1600
Automatische Filmempfindlichkeit (ISO)AUS
ObjektivEF-S60mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Brennweite60.0mm
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Nachführung mit der Reisemontierung „star adventurer“, siehe:
www.google.de/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=LudPU53qKqOH8Qf67IGoDw#q=...
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Bearbeitung:
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop Elements 10
Northfield, OH
More experimentation with tracking.
3 x 30sec, got lucky with one frame having a meteor.
Date: March, 13th, 2016
Imaging telescope: Skywatcher ED 80
Focal lenght: 480mm
Imaging camera: Canon 600 astro-modificated
Mount: Celestron AVX GoTo
Software: DeepSkyStacker, Fitswork, Photoshop CS3
Filters: Hutech IDAS LPS-D1 (EOS-Clip Filter)
Frames: 59 x 42s, total: 45m
ISO 800
Total 1hr 20 min
H-Alpha - 8x600sec
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PS2
Camera: Atik 314L+ Mono using Geoptik adapter
Filters: Baader H-Alpha 7nm
Lens: Tamron 70-300mm (set 100mm).
Mount: AZ EQ6-GT goto, PhD guided with Orion 50mm guidescope with SSAG.
Spiral galaxy Messier 101 from 14 images x 30s (eq. to 7 min. exposure time) @300mm/f3.2, using the O-GPS1 unit and a standard tripod
No equatorial mount !!!!
No dark, no flat field, no offset ! just lens corrections with Lightroom and fine tuning of the tonal curve
Images stacked with DeepSkyStacker
NGC 281
87 shots of 1 minute each
( Looks more like an Angler Fish to me )
Modified Canon 40D, Skywatcher Quattro 8CF and HEQ5-Pro
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, stretched in Photoshop CS6, finished with Picasa.
In the constellation of Taurus the Bull resides The Seven Sisters. Or, the Pleiades star cluster. Also known as M45 in the Messier Catalog. The Japanese call it Subaru. The eponymous car company's logo is a stylized Seven Sisters.
This is a stack of eight 2-minute exposures. I bought Noel Carboni's Astronomy Actions pack tonight. This is the first image I tried it with. The bluish glow around the bigger stars is what is known as a reflection nebula. Or, more likely it is overflow of the photo sites on the camera sensor caused by the brightness of the larger stars. If it is to be interpreted as the reflection nebulae, then only the brighter portions of the nebulae can be seen through the light pollution from my backyard. There was also a thin layer of clouds so it was not completely transparent seeing.
A heavily-cropped image. Manually, off-axis guided for 15 x 1-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/4. Modified Canon 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 North America and Pelican Nebulae are clouds of ionized hydrogen, and best estimates put the nebulae at about 1800 light years distant. The North America covers an area of more than four times the full moon (if you could see it!) but in fact is over 100 light years across.
First iteration - others may follow :). So many flippin' stars, my cheapo kit lens can't cope with them all :) And again, the red's a little clipped, but I can cope with that.
This is also the first time I've managed 90 second exposures, and my sky would probably allow a little more, which is nice to know.
Nikon D70 full spectrum mounted directly on an EQ5, 55-200 Nikkor at 200mm , f5.6, 1600iso
45x90sec subs for a total of about 1hr 7 mins, unguided
Darks, flats and bias
Stacked and processed in DSS and CS5, with a little help from Noel's tools.
Alternative version here.
it's now painfully clear to me that i should have 1) moved to a location free of trees, and 2) done more astrophotography while i was in yosemite.
40x30s @ ISO800, canon 50d with 16-35 f/2.8L @ f/4 and 16mm. stacked with deepskystacker, processing in pixinsight standard and final hacks in lightroom 2.
that's glacier point at the bottom of the frame.
21x60 seconds iso1600 with Canon EOS 5Dmk2 and Skywatcher Esprit 100ED APO refractor on AZ EQ5-GT.
Processed in DSS (DeepSkyStacker) and Startools. The planetary nebula NGC2438 (mag 10.8) is already clearly visible on the 60 sec sub.
The Leo Triplet is a group of galaxies a mere 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo (not surprisingly). It consists of galaxies M65, M66, and NGC 3628.
Had a lot of trouble with this. My recently overhauled mount, which I was so proud of, decided to go back to how it was before, or worse, so I had to bin 32 of the 60 subs I took. Also had terrible amp glow so this is quite severely cropped to get rid of it. For some reason the darks didn't do their job. Anyway, not a bad result considering the short exposure.
Reprocessed here
24 March 2011
200p, EQ5 unguided
Nikon D70 full spectrum prime focus
28 x 60sec, iso 1600
darks (useless ones), bias and flats.
Stacked in DSS processed in CS5
Despite the title, this is my quadzillionth (and last) reprocess of this thing. The problem I have with this is bringing out what detail there is in the galaxy without completely bloating the stars, particularly those stars overlaying the galaxy itself - they have similar tonal values. This is about as good as it's going to get. Taken with a 200mm zoom lens and heavily cropped, I shouldn't be expecting miracles! :)
Nikon D70 modded, 55-200 Nikkor at 200mm (cropped, a lot), f5.6, 800iso, Baader Neodymium filter.
30 x 4 min, unguided EQ5
Darks, flats and bias
Stacked and processed in DSS and CS5, with a little help from Noel's tools.
Repocessed again! :)
- 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
- 30 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
- Images 9-1-16 at the Grandview Campground in the White Mountains near Bishop, California
La nebulosa de Orión, también conocida como Messier 42, M42, o NGC 1976, es una nebulosa difusa situada al sur del Cinturón de Orión. Es una de las nebulosas más brillantes que existen, y puede ser observada a simple vista sobre el cielo nocturno. Está situada a 1.270±76 años luz de la Tierra, y posee un diámetro aproximado de 24 años luz. Algunos documentos se refieren a ella como la Gran Nebulosa de Orión, y los textos más antiguos la denominan Ensis, palabra latina que significa "espada", nombre que también recibe la estrella Eta Orionis, que desde la Tierra se observa muy próxima a la nebulosa.
La nebulosa de Orión es uno de los objetos astronómicos más fotografiados, examinados, e investigados. De ella se ha obtenido información determinante acerca de la formación de estrellas y planetas a partir de nubes de polvo y gas en colisión. Los astrónomos han observado en sus entrañas discos protoplanetarios, enanas marrones, fuertes turbulencias en el movimiento de partículas de gas y efectos fotoionizantes cerca de estrellas muy masivas próximas a la nebulosa.
Nikon D3100 - Nikon 80-200mm f/4.5-5.6 D @ 200mm - f/5.6 - ISO 100 - 4 lights, 11 minutos de exposición. Montura motorizada Meade (información a corroborar).
Apilado con DeepSkyStacker, procesado con Photoshop CS6.
Imagen recortada de la original.
Info de Wikipedia (es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebulosa_de_Ori%C3%B3n)
Refractor vixen 114/600 , canon eos 400d , exposure time: 44 minutes , 800 iso , software "deepskystacker" astrophography + gimp for contrast .
Samyang 135mm f2
MGEN-3 Standalone Autoguider
ZWO ASI 533C
6min
DeepSkyStacker, Gimp, GraXpert
IC 2118 (also known as Witch Head Nebula due to its shape) is an extremely faint reflection nebula believed to be an ancient supernova remnant or gas cloud illuminated by nearby supergiant star Rigel in the constellation of Orion. It lies in the Orion constellation, about 900 light-years from Earth.
Try as I might I can't get this one right - washed out by moonlight, try again another night.
Canon 550D, 30 1 minute exposures, ISO 800
Sky-Watcher Quattro 8CF ( 800mm f/4 )
x3 Dithering in DeepSkyStacker.
The Pleiades, or seven sisters, (Messier object 45) are an open star cluster containing relatively young hot blue 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 cluster is dominated by hot blue 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 alternate name Maia Nebula after the star Maia), but is now known to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium that the stars are currently passing through.
Picture information:
Meade 80mm ED APO
Canon 40D
Celestron CG5-GT
Autoguided
42x5min eksposures
Deepskystacker
Photoshop CS4 (Curves,Curves,Curves..)
Re-edit with GradientXTerminator plugin in Photoshop from data obtained on December 3. Eliminating the gradient enabled a wider field.
Used ISO3200 and 60 second subs for unguided test of a new iOptron Skyhunter mount. This was a bit short, but managed to capture a dark nebula (Barnard 169) above the elephant trunk nebula (IC1396).
Samyang 135mmf2.0@f2.8
Canon EOS 2000D (Baader modified)
iOptron Skyhunter
DeepSkyStacker: 127x 60sec, +20dark,flats & bias
Pixinsight (BlurXTerminator), Photoshop (GradientXTerminator), Lightroom (colours & levels)
Photo of the Pleiades (Messier 45) taken with a Canon 300D on a Celestron C6-N telescope. Telescope was guided using a Meade 70AZ-Z and SPC900NC webcam using PHD Guiding.
Just like the horsehead, decided to go back and reimage this star cluster using longer exposures to see if I could get a bit more nebulosity out...looks like I did!
Details:
20 x 240s lights (ISO800)
40 darks/ 20 flats/ 20 offsets
Stacked in deepskystacker, final processing in PS CS3
Untracked (just camera on the tripod without a telescope) shot of the Andromeda galaxy (M31), taken from the shores of Nant y Moch reservoir in Mid Wales. The other smaller dwarf galaxy, directly above Andromeda, is M110
Here are the details for anyone interested: stacked exposure (DeepSkyStacker) of 134 frames, each 5s, Canon EOS 450D with Canon 55-250mm lens at 200mm, ISO1600, f/5.6 (total exposure time 11mn 10s). 10 dark frames and 10 biases.
Pretty pleased with how this one turned out, I don't think it's too far from pushing the equipment to its limits :)
- 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
- 45 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
- Shot during the Golden State Star Party 2016
Stoked about how this one came out! The size of the nebula is perfect for the field of view of my telescope. It's super sharp with tons of detail despite the stock camera. Way more then my previous image of this object. Next month I'll have to get the western portion.