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Taken using Skywatcher 80ED Pro, Nikon D3300, 275x30" lights (ISO 3200), 100 flats, 110, bias. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop
There are no fewer than four "bright" comets visible in the pre-dawn sky from northern latitudes right now. The two brightest are ISON and Lovejoy. Lovejoy is the one most well-placed for admiring from my location, the others being too close to the sun to afford much of a photographic opportunity. Lovejoy and ISON both have a coma that is glowing bright green due to the formation of poisonous cyanogen gas. The "dirty snowball" is getting brighter as it approaches the sun and the increased heat sublimates the ice producing more gas. The tail is rather dim now (best seen in a dark room with averted vision) but is expected to become more prominent as it nears the sun. Lovejoy swings around the sun in early December so here is hoping it survives its scorching. If it does survive, it will be visible through most of 2014 albeit becoming dimmer with time. This is a stack of 33 x 10 second frames stacked in DeepSkyStacker. Prince George, BC, Nov 16, 2013.
This is old data but reprocessed using separate layers for DSO and stars. A definite improvement I think, considering it's just 16 minutes. This is back in the day (all of 8 months ago) when I couldn't get longer than 60 second subs no matter how hard I tried. Having said that, I haven't pointed my kit at the equator for a while, so we'll see! Looking forward to having another crack at this this year. :)
Nikon D70 modded, 55-200 at 200mm, f6.3, 1600iso
16x60sec subs, unguided EQ5
10 each darks, flats and bias.
Stacked and processed in DSS and CS5 with a little help from Noel's tools.
Acquisition details:
OTA: Celestron 10" f/4.7 newtonian reflector, C10N
Filter: Astronomik CLS
Corrector: MPCC
Mount: Celestron CGEM DX
Camera: Canon 450d mod BCF, 39°F
Exposure: 25x8min ISO 200
Guided with PHD, SSAG, Orion 50mm guide scope
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)
sony a6000, Minolta MD Tele Rokkor 2.8/135 @ f2.8, 190x1s@ISO3200 on static tripod (190 Lightframes, 30 Darkframes, 24 Flatframes stacked in DeepSkyStacker), edited in photoshop and lightroom
I'll probably re-do this object with a smaller refractor 'scope later - that will give me a sharper image and a wider field, more suitable for this large object.
10 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.
Skywatcher 150P
DMK21AU618
Baader LRGB beginner filter set
Baader IR-UV block fiter
Captured: Firecapture
L: 75 subs @ 20 seconds, 10 darks
R: 46 subs @ 30 seconds, 10 darks
G: 40 subs @ 26 seconds, 10 darks
B: 25 subs @ 21 seconds, 10 darks
Stacking: DeepSkyStacker
Postprocessing: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Update Oct. 7, 2019 - A wide-field image of this area, shot simultaneously with the above and also showing the gravitationally interacting nearby "Hockey Stick' galaxy, can be found at the link attached here - www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/48859476636/
Object Details: Lying approximately 30 million light-years from Earth, 'The Whale Galaxy' (NGC 4631) is an edge-on barred spiral whose wedge-like shape gives rise to it's nickname. It is gavitationally interacting with the nearby dwarf elliptical galaxy NGC 4627 (visible directly below the Whale in this image) and contains a central starburst (i.e. a region of extremely intense star formation).
Similar in size to our own Milky Way galaxy, visually it spans about 15 x 3 arcminutes in our sky (i.e. lengthwise, approximately have the diameter of the full moon). Glowing at magnitude 9.8 in the constellation Canes Venatici, it is detectable in small scopes as a thin sliver of light and it makes for a spectacular object in larger instruments.
Image Details: The attached was taken by Jay Edwards at the HomCav Observatory on the evening of April 6, 2019 using an 8-inch, f/7 Criterion newtonian reflector and a Canon 700D DSLR tracked on a Losmandy G-11 mount running a Gemini 2 control system. This in turn was guided using PHD2 to control a ZWO ASI290MC planetary camera / auto-guider in an 80mm f/6 Celestron 'short-tube' refractor.
This is my first attempt at imaging this object, and as such is a test consisting of a (relatively speaking) very short stack totaling only 45 minutes of exposure (not including darks, flats & bias frames). Although I was fairly pleased with the result, it contains more noise in the outer regions than I would prefer and I will therefore look forward to re-imaging this object in the future using a longer total exposure.
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed using PixInsight and PaintShopPro, as presented here it has been resized down to HD resolution and the bit depth has been lowered to 8 bits per channel.
The 'Orion Nebula' and the 'Running Man'.
Picture consists of a total of 220 RAW-files (Lights, Darks, Flats), stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and edited in Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC
This region in Cygnus features IC1311 the open cluster (with mag 13) visible at the top-left, Barnard 343, the dark nebula to the right and part of the gamma Cygni nebulosity complex. Canon 6D full spectrum with CLS-CCD filter on Skywatcher Esprit 100 mm refractor. 27x240 seconds ISO1600, stacked with DeepSkyStacker, processed in Pixinsight 1.8
Radian Raptor 61 F/4.5 Apo triplet
Optolong L-eXtreme dual band filter
Zwo ASI2600MC Pro
25-360 second subs
Sharpcap
DeepskyStacker
Adobe Photoshop CC 2021
Minolta XD7/MC W.ROKKOR-X 24/2.8/FUJI Natura1600/9000ED
我就这么盯着银河看，一些感觉与知觉迅速褪去
而又不经意间触到了亿万思绪里的一个个细枝末节
摄于若尔盖唐克牧场大酒店楼顶
Brief details:
QHY9 CCD @ -35C
TMB 130SS
260 minutes of Ha 7nm
45 Minutes each R,G,B through QHY colour filter wheel and QHY RGB filter set
Processed in DeepSkyStacker and PSCS2
HaRGB blend
Here is Comet C/2021 Y1 (ATLAS) from last evening.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, Antares Focal Reducer, ZWO AS071 running at -10C, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASIAir Plus, ZWO EAF, 60 x 60 second exposures, darks from the library and flats after the imaging session, DeepSkyStacker and Tycho Tracker. Image Date: December 14, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Localisation : CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date : 2016-11-30
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 : 135 minutes [45 subexposures of 180 sec each (selected from 45)] @ ISO 800
Calibration : Dark & Bias : 10/11 @ ISO 800 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 400
Temps/Weather : Bonne transparence. Vent nul. T=11°C. Humidité faible.
Constellation : Aurigae/Cocher
Software Used : Astro Photograph Tool (v3.13), DeepSkyStacker 3.3.6, Pixinsight LE, PhotoShop 7, xnview, Noiseware Community Edition
This Comet will be around Magnitude 6 around June, 2017. My first imaging session (dec 06 03:40-04:09 GMT) shows the Comet at magnitude 12.
Esprit APO 100mm f5.5. 8x240 seconds iso1600. Canon 6Da and Optolong L filter. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker in normal starmode and processed (Platesolved/Annotated) in Pixinsight.
Knight Observatory, Tomar
Imaging telescopes: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED APO Triplet
Imaging cameras: ZWO 1600MM-COOL
Mounts: Sky Watcher NEQ6 pro
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED APO Triplet
Guiding cameras: ASI290MM
Software: Photoshop CC Photoshop · Astrophotography Tool · DeepSkyStacker 4.1.1 64bit Deepskystacker
Filters: Chroma 5nm HA · Chroma Sii 3nm
Accessory: ZWO EFW 36 mm Filter Wheel
Frames:
Chroma 5nm HA: 30x600" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1
Chroma Sii 3nm: 10x600" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 6.7 hours
2010-02-07 Orion Nebula - Third Attempt
12 x 45 second exposures and 3 x 30 second exposures stacked into one image using Deep Sky Stacker
One of my first attempts at stacking expsoures. They aren't very long exposures and not a big total exposure time but I'm happy with the detail captured around the core of the nebula.
Shot with a Canon T1i at prime focus, ISO 200 with automatic dark frame subtraction on a 10" Meade SN-10-AT telescope. 1016mm F4.
My very first astrophotography trial
I took 5sec exposured images, aligned and stacked. I tried to use DeepSkyStacker but then when I find some better ways on GalacticFool web page I did by myself at Photoshop.
To reduce light pollution: galacticfool.com/reduce-light-pollution-photoshop/
To align and stack images: galacticfool.com/align-stack-images-photoshop/
If you can see, the Orion Nebula is also visible in some sense, which makes me very very happy.
Canon 135mm f/2 lens (stopped down to 2.8) attached to SX Trius 694 using a Geoptik Canon to CCD adapter with internal Baader 7nm Ha filter and piggybacked to main scope on a CEM60.
12 subs at 300secs each stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop CS2.
Taken 05/1/22
sony a6000, Minolta MD Tele Rokkor 2.8/135 @ f2.8, 237x1s@ISO3200 on static tripod (237 Lightframes, 31 Darkframes, 8 Flatframes stacked in DeepSkyStacker), edited in photoshop and lightroom
Veil Nebula supernova remnant widefield (approx 7deg across) - 30-Jul-2014 Zeiss Sonnar Apo 135/2 lens on iOptron Skytracker mount - Canon 60Da camera + Hutech IDAS LPR Filter, 147 frames (60sec) 135mm @ f/2.0 ISO400 - Total Exp: 2h27m + 29 Darks + 29 EL panel flats, stacked with DeepSkyStacker, post-processed with Photoshop CC/Lightroom
Galaxy M33. Shot from a relatively dark site for a change.
C6S-GT at F6.3
Canon 40D at ISO 1600
11x7min
Stacked and processed in DeepSkyStacker, PixInsightLE and Photoshop
Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) was discovered by amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy in August 2014. This long-period comet will reach perihelion (closest approach to the sun) on 30th January 2015 and won't return to the inner Solar System for another 8000 years.
Stack of 83 x 25s exposures (35 min) @ ISO800 equiv. Darks & bias/offset, no flats.
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Lens: EF 70-200mm f:2.8 L USM @ f/3.2. 200mm (x1.6).
Filters: None
Mount: Piggy-backed on 8" Meade LX10. Rough polar alignment.
Guiding: None
Calibration, alignment & stacking: DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2
Post-processing & image crop: PSPx4
Taken on Feb.4, 2015
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Lightroom.
10 light frames, 10 second exposire each (without dark frames).
- 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
- 24 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 September 2nd 2016 from the Grandview Campground in the White Mountains near Bishop, California.
The heart shaped Heart Nebula (a.k.a. IC 1805) is an emission nebula approximately 7,500 light years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia and is part of a large star forming complex in the Perseus arm of the Milky Way galaxy.
In the middle of the heart lies the open star cluster Melotte 15 and the bright knot at the lower right is separately classified as NGC 896 (it was the first part of IC 1805 which was discovered).
I have imaged it using narrowband filters, mapping Sulfur-II, Hydrogen-Alpha and Oxygen-III to R, G and B respectively to reveal its details in the Hubble palette.
The overall integration time is 6 hours (distributed over 80 subs) - the data has been collected in Kist (close to Würzburg, Bayern, Germany) with a Class 4 Bortle sky.
C9.25 with f3.3 reducer,Atik 314L+ ccd and 7nm H-alpha filter. Took 10 subs at 4mins each,stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop CS2.
Image taken 23-24 November 2014
Comet Lovejoy taken tonight (24th Jan 2014) from my back garden in South Shields. A race against time before the clouds rolled in...
Nikon D7000 mounted on an Astrotrac, 180mm Prime f2.8 ED lens @ f4, 5 x 90sec exposures stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.
Comet Lovejoy is currently 96.2 million km from Earth and the light from it takes 5.35 light minutes to reach us.
Another rendering of constellation Cygnus to emphasize Milky Way. Was photographed between two tall pines, the dark blotches
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The prominent star near bottom center is Deneb , Also seen are Gamma, Epsilon and Delta Cygni [but not Alberio at the tail; out of frame].
Seven images @ 30 seconds per image @ f2 @ ISO400. Processed in DeepSkyStacker.
PE: LAB processing: color intensified on A & B layers, brightness / contrast adjusted on L layer. No sharpening or content editing.
First light with new (to me) GSO 6" Ritchey Chretien
Nikon D5100
10x 180s subs
ZEQ25GT
Guided w/ 9x50 finderscope/Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000
Stacked using DeepSkyStacker, processed in StarTools.
This one was only minimally cropped to eliminate the stacking artifacts on the edges - really shows off the nice flat field of the Ritchey Chretien design, especially on an APS-C sensor.
Nikon D7100
180mm f2.8 ED AI-S @ 2.8
1.6 seconds per exposure
ISO 6400
500 Light Frames
50 Dark Frames
20 Bias Frames
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker
And many hours waiting for a stack to finish so I could run it again with a different setting checked.
I don't think this is mind blowing but for my first stacked image of an object in space I think it came out decent.
Taken using Skywatcher 80ED Pro, Nikon D3300, 205x30" lights (ISO 3200), 100 flats, 110, bias. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop
Nikon D5100 w/ Tamron 18-270mm @ 200mm
10x 120s subs
ZEQ25GT, guided
Fought heavy dew this session, wasn't able to get any longer subs before lens started to fog.
Stacked using DeepSkyStacker, processed in StarTools.
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Explore Scientific 127mm ED TRIPLET APO
Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI1600MM Pro-Cool
Mounts: iOptron CEM60
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Starfield 60mm Guidescope
Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI290MM mini
Focal reducers: Explore Scientific 0.7 Reducer/Flattener
Software: Topaz Sharpen Topaz · Photoshop CC 2020 Photoshop · Topaz Denoise Topaz · ZWO ASIAIR · PixInsight 1.8.8 Ripley · DeepSky Stacker (DSS) Deepskystacker 3.3.6
Filters: Astronomik SII 1.25" 12 nm · Astronomik Ha 1,25" 12 nm · Astronomik OIII 1.25" 12nm
Accessory: ZWO EAF Electronic Auto Focuser · ZWO 8x 1.25" Filter Wheel (EFW) · Celestron 9x50 finderscope
Date: Aug. 3, 2019
Locations: UAE desert, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Sky was a little murky, which made the picture a little less sharp than it could have been.
Nikon D7000 + Sigma 400mm f/5.6
23 x 2 minute ISO3200 exposures
DeepSkyStacker Kappa-Sigma median stacking
IC405 and IC410 in Auriga (HaHaGB)
Lens: Canon 300mm f/4, stepped down to 61mm (f/4.9)
Mount: Celestron CG5 ASGT
Camera: Canon 450d mod BCF
RGB: 21x8min ISO 200 with Astronomik CLS filter
H-alpha: 32x8min ISO 800 with Astronomik 12nm H-alpha filter
Guided with PHD, SSAG, 9x50
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)
A stack of 15x30s exposures taken through a 300mm F/4 Newtonian telescope using a Nikon D40 camera body.
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker. Post processed in PixInsight.
50min total (10x300s@800iso)
UK 31/12/13
Takahashi FSQ106ED f/5
Celestron Advanced Vx Mount Guided
Canon D1100 (modified) CLS filter
BackyardEOS, PHD
Deepskystacker, Photoshop CS6
22 x 5 minutes, ISO 800
40 darks, 40 flats, 200 bias
Gear: Orion 8" f/3.9 Astrograph, Canon 550d (unmodded), Baader MPCC
Calibration and post-processing in DeepSkyStacker and Pixinsight
Messier 3 (aka M3 or NGC 5272) is a globular cluster in the constellation of Canes Venatici. At 34K lights years from Earth, it is about 8 billion years old and contains about 500,000 stars. Nice.
Clusters really ain't my thang - I took this whilst waiting for something interesting to get into position (i.e Cygnus). It's not in a great position for my unguided kit, particularly being a cluster, so I had to ditch almost half the subs I took, resulting in 31 minutes total exposure. Nice to see a fuzzy in the top right - NGC 5263 apparently :)
SW 200p, EQ5 unguided
Nikon D70 modded, iso1600, Baader MPCC and Neodymiun filter
31 x 60sec
darks, bias and flats.
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5
Pleyades
M45, Messier 45 or Seven Sisters
Date: 10/08/2019
Location: Aras de los Olmos (39°55'08.2"N 1°07'19.4"W)
Bortle class 3
IMAGE
- 32 Lights at 400mm, ISO 10000, 15s, f5.6
- 16 Darks a ISO 10000, 15s, f5.6
- Total time of exposition 8m 0s
HARDWARE
- Tracker Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi in EQ-Mode
- Sony ILC3-A7M3 with 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
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Date: March, 13th, 2016
Imaging telescope: Celestron 8 SE
Focal lenght: 2000mm
Imaging camera: Canon 600 astro-modificated
Mount: Celestron AVX GoTo
Software: DeepSkyStacker, Fitswork, Photoshop CS3
Filters: Hutech IDAS LPS-D1 (EOS-Clip Filter)
Frames: 84 x 15s
ISO 1600
Aquisition details:
Camera: Canon 450d mod BCF, 88°F
Lens: Canon 50mm f/1.8 at f/4
Filter: Astronomic CLS EOS-clip
Mount: Celestron CG5 ASGT
Exposure: 30x2min ISO 1600
No guiding
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Granger Lake, TX (Green Zone)
After years of dabbling with astrophotography (with little success), finally rigged up my old Meade 8" LX200 classic with an autoguider, did some serious homework, and came out with this image of the dumbbell nebula taken from my backyard in Austin, TX.
The autoguider (orion SSAG) made all the difference as I could get my exposure times way up w/o any tracking errors. It was awesome and tracked perfectly! I used the autoguider and phd running on my netbook to guide the scope and eosbackyard to capture the images (great piece of software). With the scope autoguiding, all I had to do was tell eosbackyard how many images I wanted, duration, and iso and I headed inside to wait it out. 2 hours later all the images were captured and only the processing challenge remained (which I still have much to learn / very different in astro)!
Tech details:
8" Meade LX200 classic with f/6.3 reducer
orion SCT skyglow filter (for light pollution)
canon 7d prime focused (eosbackyard controlling the shots)
orion SSAG attached to 50mm guide scope, guided by phd
shots:
20 flats (iso100, Av mode, of the uniform sky)
20 flat darks (same settings as flats with the lens cover on)
50 bias (iso100, 1/8000s, lens cover on)
30 lights (240s, iso1600)
10 darks (exact same settings as lights, lens cover on)
processing:
deepskystacker
cs4
Komet Catalina C/2013 US10 mit 14x60s bei ISO 400 F6.3. Bearbeited mit Deepskystacker, Photoshop CC und Lightroom CC
Taken on New Years Day night from Pondalowie Bay (Innes National Park) on Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.
The resultant astro lapse made with the almost 400 photos taken that night appears in my short film Light writers & sky riders: hello 2011