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Neq6 Pro , SW N 150/750 , May 21 , 2018 . ( NGC 6888 ) Crescent nebula 48mn 24s, Canon eos 350d full spectrum ...processed in DeepSkyStacker 3.3.4. and PSCS6

Picture 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.

Astrofarm, France

Nikon D750 - 10 x 20 seconds, ISO 12800

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in PhotoShop CS2

Been waiting to have a crack at this - couldn't wait for the moon to go away :) Three quarters of these subs were taken with a fat moon looking on, so I'm quite pleased really.

 

Only got half the loop in here (gets a bit faint out to the right), and I did have room on the left for Sharpless 264, but that didn't put in an appearance at all - so I cropped it!

 

This is the first iteration, others may follow. Or I may wait until the moon has gone and have a crack at 4 minute subs - difficult unguided on the equator though.

 

Don't ask me where the spikes came from - I haven't a clue. :)

 

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

 

The inevitable repro :)

My first Milky Way shot, of the Cygnus constelation area. Not perfect but I keep learning :)

 

Technical info:

Canon 500D + Tamron 17-50mm f2.8

17mm, f2.8 ISO3200.

Steady tripod, no tracking.

20x30sec lights, 5 dark frames, 5 offset frames. Total: 10min.

Merged with DeepSkyStacker, then adjusted levels/colors with Lightroom.

First attempt at a galaxy. Shot from home (Bortle 6). Extreme crop (280mm only) with 2x drizzle. Ideally should've stopped down to f/5.6 to reduce fringing & improve stars.

 

Camera: Sony A7R II (unmodded)

Lens: Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 L II + EF 1.4x II = 280mm @ f/4

ISO: 640

Subs: 144 x 60sec lights, no calibration frames

Tracker: 3D-printed OpenAstroTracker

 

Processing: Camera Raw (defringe, reduce colour noise), DeepSkyStacker (2x drizzle), PixInsight (adapted steps from Light Vortex galaxy tutorial)

Messier Object M42 - Orion Nebula

Date: 12-16-2011

Telescope (Lens): Stellarvue SVR 80ED Raptor

Addition Optics: None

Camera: Canon XSi

Exposure: 42 x 210 sec (ISO 800)

Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop

Mount: Atlas EQ-G

Tracking: EQMOD / Stellarium

Guidance: PHD Guiding - 9x50 Finderscope w/ Logitech 3000 Pro Webcam

Setup: www.flickr.com/photos/nicholall/5523910532/in/set-7215762...

 

Astromomy weather as forcasted by Canadian Meteorological Center:

Cloud Cover: Clear

Transparancy: Above Average

Seeing Category: II (Below Average)

Temp: 25°F

Humidity: 80°

 

Light Pollution: "Red" - Based on Light Pollution Map

 

Total exposure time 1 hr 41m 39s

ISO6400 F5.6 30sx206 400mm

stacked by Deepskystacker and processed in LR

How-to.

 

White T shirt, white screen, white paper. (actually they don't have to be white, can be any colour you like)

Telescope perpendicular to screen, few cm away.

For my CCD expose for typical value of 20,000 ADU centre.

Cooling set to -10C (same as light frames, otherwise you will get a gradient).

Turn room lights out.

Usually about 30 to 40 subs and Median Kappa-Sigma Clipping in DeepSkyStacker.

 

Takahashi Sky 90 90mm scope, Atik 460exm CCD.

 

Other ways are to use an Electroluminescent panel, Construct a light box, or an overcast sky.

Large Magellanic Cloud , LMC

77 Archivos Apilados en DeepSkyStacker

Procesados integramente en

PixInsight Core 1.8 Ripley

+ firma Photoshop

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Canon T3 + Helios 58mm f2

10 segundos, f2, iso 6400

Mars in Taurus. 15x10s exposures taken with an Olympus PEN Lite E-PL6 camera with a 25mm lens. Standard tripod with an Omegon MiniTrack LX3 clockwork tracking mount. Tide CineSoft diffusion filter. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight.

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.

  

Taken at F7 for 29 min exposure ISO 3200

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

7 x 8-minute exposures at ISO 1600.

Canon EOS 600D (modified by DSLRAstromod), Meade ED 127mm f7.5 telescope, manually, off-axis guided. Sub-exposures registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker software.

Dedicated to the memory of Sir Patrick Moore, who inspired my interest in astronomy from an early age.

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

or in this instance a Geminid meteor.

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.

Target: IC 410, the Tadpole Nebula in Auriga

OTA: Celestron C8N, 8" Newtonian reflector

Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM

Exposure: Ha: 34x5min, OIII 15x15min

R=Ha, B=OIII, G=synth, L=Ha

Mount: CGEM-DX

Captured with SGP

Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker

Photographed from Round Rock TX (light pollution zone: red)

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

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