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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
Canon 100D en Newton 150/750 sobre HEQ5-Pro. Guiado con Skywatcher Synguider.
Diez tomas de 5 minutos, ISO800, alineadas y apiladas con DeepSkyStacker y postproceso (recorte incluido) mediante Gimp y Darktable.
8ºC temperatura ambiente; 82% humedad relativa!
EXIF - 135X120" (4h30'), Gain 120
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
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Guiding: Artesky UltraGuide 70 + ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Controller: ZWO ASIair Pro
Software: DeepSkyStacker + Pixinsight + Photoshop
Location: Bilice, Sibenik
I did an other processing of this image to get some more detail out.
Camera: Nikon D3x
Filter: UHC-s Baader 2" nebula filter
Optics: Celestron 9,25" EdgeHD
Guiding: LVI SmartGuider 2
Mount: SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro
DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2 settings:
Stacking mode: Mosaic
Alignment method: Bicubic
18 frames (ISO: 1600) - total exposure: 1 hr 24 mn 18 s
RGB Channels Background Calibration: Yes
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Offset: 108 frames exposure: 1/8000 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Dark: 18 frames exposure: 4 mn 41 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Flat: 32 frames exposure: 5 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
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Processing in PixInsight 1.7
12 times:
HistogramTransformation: Midtones 0,45 and highlights 0,85
Writing file: Writing TIFF: 32-bit floating point, 3 channel(s)
HDRComposition
6 times
ChannelExtraction: Processing view: HDR
ATrousWaveletTransform: Processing view: HDR_L
HistogramTransformation: Processing view: HDR
HDR_L: Masking from swap files... (Mistones 0,4)
DarkStructureEnhance (7 layers, Amount 0,15)
HistogramTransformation:
- Red : No change
- Green: Shadows 0.1689, Midtones 0.3808
- Blue : Shadows 0.1872, Midtones 0.3511
- RGB/K: Shadows 0.0799
DarkStructureEnhance (7 layers, Amount 0,15)
ColorSaturation
ChannelExtraction: Processing view: HDR
CloneStamp to darken the center
HistogramTransformation:
- RGB/K: Midtones 0.45
HistogramTransformation:
- RGB/K: Shadows 0.0639, Midtones 0.4543
IC 5146
36 shots of 1 minute each.
Modified Canon 40D, Skywatcher Quattro 8CF and HEQ5-Pro.
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, stretched in Photoshop CS6, finished with Picasa.
This is an experiment in stacking. It consists of 3 images (ISO3200, f2.8, 25 seconds), three dark frames and 3 bias frames. The idea is to boost the signal to noise ratio to bring out the faintest stars. In this case, the Milky Way itself. This is the equivalent of an exposure of 1 min and 15 seconds.
A closer crop (and reprocess) of the original image (with the stars tweaked!)
3 May 2011
200p, EQ5 unguided
Nikon D70 full spectrum prime focus
58 x 60sec
iso 1600
darks, bias and flats.
Stacked in DSS processed in CS5
And yet another version here! :)
Shot using self-modded full spectrum Nikon D5100 through Orion ED80 and CCDT67 reducer, on iOptron iEQ30 Pro mount. Used the Improved DGM NPB filter by Omega Optical along with the UV/IR cut filter by Optolong. Guided and dithered using Metaguide. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in StarTools.
25x 180s @ 1600ISO (calibrated with flats, darks, and bias)
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
17 photos at 18mm, F/3.5, ISO 1600, 2 minutes each. Also 3 darks, combined and whatnot in DeepSkyStacker.
The galactic center is off towards the right. As you look from right to left, we're looking through less and less of the disk of the Milky Way. I managed to catch the entire constellation Cygnus (The Swan) in this image. The stars make up an image that is supposed to be a swan in flight, headed south (to the right in this image). It's actually much easier to see in the sky than in the picture. I highlighted the stars with flickr notes. Also easily visible even in the shrunk down image is the coathanger, one of the coolest asterisms in the sky. :-)
The constellations Sagitta (the arrow shot by the centaur Sagittarius) and Vulpecula (The Fox) are also in this image, between Albireo and Altair. Delphinus (The Dolphin) is also visible towards the bottom right. Although Delphinus is made up of somewhat faint stars, it's small and pretty easy to pick out at night.
A wider angle picture showing the swan in relation to other constellations
A 50mm instead of 18mm photo of the area around Deneb
A 50mm picture of the area between Albireo and Altair, with Sagitta and Vulpecula marked
M42 - Orion Nebula: Canon 70D, EF 300mm f/4L IS USM, about 9 min (15 x 35s with DeepSkyStacker), ISO 640, iOptron SkyTracker
Used my Lumix GH2 and Canon 50mm lenses with a proper adapter to capture this composition of 20 shots featuring Jupiter in the left and M44 on the right. The Beehive Cluster, also known as Praesepe (Latin for "manger"), M44, NGC 2632, or Cr 189, is an open cluster in the constellation Cancer. It is one of the nearest open clusters to the Solar System, and it contains a larger star population than most other nearby clusters.
I used DeepSkyStacker to stack the 20 pictures each with a 10s exposure, along with 50 bias frames and 20 dark frames.
I've tuned up saturation to bring out colors, that's all i did in post. No colors were added.
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Winners:
Advanced Category:
Image entry number: AD-17
Stefanus Potgieter's Keyhole Nebula. (Prize: Celestron NexImage 5 Solar System Imager donated by G&L Agencies).
Beginner Category:
Image entry number: BE-03
Tiaan Niemand's Leo Triplets. (Prize: Celestron Power Tank donated by ScopeX).
Cellphone Category:
Image entry number: CE-08
Grant Peterson's Parade of the Planets. (Prize: Celestron NexYZ Smartphone adapter donate by G&L Agencies).
Special mentions:
Cellphone: Ani Vermulen (Milky Way & Windmill nightscapes).
Beginner: Peter Dunsby (Running Man & Orion core nebulae).
Advanced: Lafras Smit (SALT alignment tower startrails).
Astrophotography - Advanced Category:
AD 01
SALT alignment tower vs. South Pole
Lafras Smit
Canon 200D & Sigma 10 - 20mm lens @ 10mm
315 images of 30 seconds exposure each @ ISO 3200, f/3.5
Stacked with StarStax then processed in Light room.
AD 02
Fighting Dragons of Ara & Dragon's Egg (NGC 6164 / 6165)
John Gill
APM 107/700 telescope + 0.75 Focal Reducer on Celestron CGX mount. ZWO ASI1600 mono cooled camera + ZWO Ha, Sii & Oiii Filters
Exposures of 300 seconds for 5h00m total exposure time
Gain 150. Processed in PixInsight
AD 03
Messier 20 and Messier 8
Ryan Hill
Samsung NX500 DSLR on Williams optics telescope + focal reducer for 330mm focal length
2 hour stack of 2minute sub. Processed in Pixinsight.
AD 04
RIM Nebula (NGC6188)
Otto du Plessis
QHY183C through Edge HD 8 + Hyperstar focal reducer & STC Astro-MultiSpectra light pollution filter on Celestron AVX mount. Guiding : QHY Mini GuideScope 130mm
150 Minutes Integration Time @ Gain 11 Offset 5 (Unity gain).
Processed with Sequence Generator Pro, PHD2, Deep Sky Stacker, Startools, PS CS6 with Astronomy Tools Actions
AD 05
Eagle Nebula (Messier 16)
John Gill
ZWO ASI1600 mono cooled camera with ZWO, Ha, Sii & Oiii Filters through APM 107/700 telescope + 0.75 Focal Reducer on Celestron CGX mount
300-second individual exposures for total exposure time of 7h30m at Gain 300 and 235. Processed in PixInsight.
Imaged over two nights.
AD 06
The Carine nebula
Lafras Smit
Canon 6D at primary focus through Sky-Watcher 10 inch telescope on Skywatcher EQ6 mount
50 images of 1minute exposure each @ ISO 3200,
stacked with DeepSky Stacker and processed with Lightroom.
AD 07
SALT Panorama lit by the setting Moon
Lafras Smit
Canon 6D with 24 - 105mm lens @24mm
15 images of 25 seconds each at ISO 6400, f/4. Stitched with Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) then processed in Lightroom.
AD 08
Red Stone Hills Moonlight
Wim Filmalter
Nikon D5100 with 18-55mm lens @ 18mm on tripod
6x 15sec portrait exposures @ ISO 6400 & F/3.5. Panorama stitched with ICE Image Composite Editor. Foreground illuminated by the rising last quarter Moon from behind at midnight.
AD 09
Lagoon Nebula (M8)
Otto du Plessis
QHY183C Camera through Edge HD 8" OTA + Hyperstar Focal Reducer & STC Astro-MultiSpectra light pollution filter, on Celestron AVX Mount guided by QHY Mini GuideScope 130mm
Gain 11 Offset 5 (Unity gain) exposure of 179 Minutes total Integration Time. Processed with Sequence Generator Pro, PHD2, Deep Sky Stacker, Startools, PS CS6 with Astronomy Tools Actions
AD 10
Red Stone Hills Milky Way
Wim Filmalter
Nikon D5100 with 18-55mm lens @ 18mm on tripod
6x 30sec portrait exposures at ISO 6400 & F/3.5, stitched with ICE Image Composite Editor.
AD 11
Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8)
John Gill
ZWO ASI1600 mono cooled camera with ZWO, Ha, Sii & Oiii Filters through APM 107/700 telescope + 0.75 Focal Reducer on Celestron CGX mount
Exposures of 300 seconds each at Gain 235 and 300, for total exposure time of 10h30m. Processed in PixInsight
Imaged over two nights.
AD 12
Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC6334)
Otto du Plessis
QHY183C camera with STC Astro-MultiSpectra light pollution filter, through Edge HD 8" + Hyperstar Focal Reducer on Celestron AVX Mount, guided by QHY Mini GuideScope 130mm
455 Minutes total Integration Time at Gain 11 Offset 5 (Unity gain). Processed with Sequence Generator Pro, PHD2, Deep Sky Stacker, Startools, PS CS6 with Astronomy Tools Actions
AD 13
Southern Cross and Coal Sack
Ryan Hill
Samsung NX500 DSLR with 50mm kit lens
2 hour stack of 2minute subs, Processed in Pixinsight.
AD 14
Red Stone Hills Milky Way
Wim Filmalter
Nikon D5100 with 18-55mm lens @ 18mm on tripod
6x 30sec portrait exposures @ ISO 6400, F/3.5
Panorama stitched with ICE Image Composite Editor
AD 15
Eta region
Ryan Hill
Samsung NX500 with 85mm prime lens, Tracking on EQ6 mount
90minute stack of 2 min subs @ F4.
Processed in Pixinsight
AD 16
Gabriela Mistral Nebula (NGC3324)
Stefanus Potgieter
Unmodified Canon 60D camera through Celestron EdgeHD 8” telescope (f/10, FL = 2130mm) on Celestron Advanced VX mount, Guided with Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 auto guiding camera via Lacerta Thin Off-Axis-Guider. Alignment via QHY Polemaster.
51 Light frames, 51 dark frames, 73 flat frames, 40 Bias frames;
each with Shutter speed of 4minutes @ ISO 1600.
Controlled via Backyard EOS for Canon, PHD2, Stellarium Scope.
Processed with DeepSkyStacker & Photoshop CS6.
AD 17
Key-Hole Nebula (NGC 3372)
Stefanus Potgieter
Unmodified Canon 60D camera through Celestron EdgeHD 8” telescope (f/10, FL = 2130mm) on Celestron Advanced VX mount, Guided with Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 auto guiding camera via Lacerta Thin Off-Axis-Guider. Alignment via QHY Polemaster.
65 Light frames, 51 dark frames, 73 flat frames, 40 Bias frames;
each with shutter speed 4minutes @ ISO 1600.
Controlled via Backyard EOS for Canon, PHD2, Stellarium Scope.
Processed with DeepSkyStacker & Photoshop CS6
AD 18
Trifid Nebula (Messier 20)
Stefanus Potgieter
Unmodified Canon 60D camera through Celestron EdgeHD 8” telescope (f/10, FL = 2130mm) on Celestron Advanced VX mount, Guided with Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 auto guiding camera via Lacerta Thin Off-Axis-Guider. Alignment via QHY Polemaster.
47 Light frames, 51 dark frames, 73 flat frames, 40 Bias frames;
each with shutter speed 4minutes @ ISO 1600.
Controlled via Backyard EOS for Canon, PHD2, Stellarium Scope.
Processed with DeepSkyStacker & Photoshop CS6
Astrophotography - Cellphone Category:
CE 01
Waxing Gibbous Moon
Hiral Naik
Huawei P20 light cellphone through a 130mm diameter
K-way Celestial telescope & 20mm eyepiece
Shutter speed (1/50s), ISO (50)
CE 02
Kicking up StarDust
Ani Vermeulen
Huawei Mate 20 Pro (LYA-L29), with Leica Vario Summilux -H Tri-camera, Selfie clamp, tripod.
f/1.8 30sec 5,58mm ISO3200 5 May 2019
Post-processing: cropping and contrast.
CE 03
Saturn
Calvin Gloster
Huawei P20 light mounted to eyepiece with 3D printed mount. Eyepiece projection.
Exposure compensation = 0; Auto Focus Continuous mode. Video recording 1280x720 @30fps.
PIPP (planetary imaging PreProcessor) to extract and crop 200 frames, Auto Stakkert 2 to Stack images, RegiStax6 to adjust wavelets and RGB balance.
CE 04
Moon by day
Hiral Naik
Huawei P20 light cellphone through a 130mm diameter K-way Celestial telescope and 20mm eyepiece
Shutter speed (1/244s), ISO (50)
CE 05
Dark Perspectives
Ani Vermeulen
Huawei Mate 20 Pro (LYA-L29), with Leica Vario Summilux -H Tri-camera, Selfie clamp, tripod.
f/1.8 30sec 5,58mm ISO3200 5 May 2019
Post-processing: cropping and contrast.
CE 06
Jupiter
Calvin Gloster
Huawei P20 light mounted to eyepiece with 3D printed mount. Eyepiece projection.
Exposure compensation = 0; Auto Focus Continuous mode. Video recording 1280x720 @30fps.
PIPP (planetary imaging PreProcessor) to extract and crop 200 frames, Auto Stakkert 2 to Stack images, RegiStax6 to adjust wavelets and RGB balance.
CE 07
International Space Station
Grant Petersen
Standard 8" Skywatcher dobsonian - Samsung Galaxy S8 - Solomark Smartphone adapter - 7mm Celestron Excel LX eyepiece and 2 x Orion shorty Barlow. Manually tracked.
Frame from an ISS flyby over Johannesburg on 2018/11/11
Video in Pro Mode ISO 800 EXP 1/2000 sec at 60FPS. Screengrab of 1 x single frame, touched up in Lightroom for Android
CE 08
Parade of Planets 2018/19
Grant Petersen
Standard 8” Skywatcher Dobsonian – Samsung Galaxy S8 – Solomark Smartphone adapter – 7mm Celestron Excel LX eyepiece – 2 x Orion shorty Barlow
Gather about 1 min of video footage, run through PIPP and stack best % of frames with registax. Touched up with Lightroom for Android. Final image is composite of Planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus captured between 2018 and 2019
CE 09
Natural Glow, Unnatural Glow Below
Ani Vermeulen
Huawei Mate 20 Pro (LYA-L29), with Leica Vario Summilux -H Tri-camera, Selfie clamp, tripod.
f/1.8 30sec 5,58mm ISO3200 5 May 2019
Post-processing: cropping and contrast.
CE 10
Full Moon August 2019
Hiral Naik
Huawei P20 light cellphone through a 130mm diameter K-way Celestial telescope and 20mm eyepiece
Shutter speed (1/100s), ISO (64)
CE 11
Occultation of Saturn by the Moon
Grant Petersen
Standard 8" Skywatcher dobsonian - Samsung Galaxy S8 - Solomark smartphone adapter - 7mm Celestron Excel LX eyepiece.
5 sec video using the Cinema FV-5 app - ISO 200, Exp Compensation 2. Run through PIPP and stacked with Registax, touched up in Lightroom for Android.
Astrophotography - Beginner Category:
BE 01
Milky Way in Red
Coert Welman
Canon EOS 77D with Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 DX Lens @ 12mm & Hoya Red Intensifier filter, on Tripod
Aperture f/2.8, Exposure 25s, ISO 3200
Basic editing done in Canon Digital Photo Professional 4
BE 02
The Rosette Nebula
Peter Dunsby
ASI1600MC Cool camera on Photoline 60mm f/6 telescope.
ZWO ASI1600MM Pro camera on Teleskop Service ED 80 telescope operating at f/5.6 through ZWO Narrow Band filter set.
42 X 30 sec RBB using the ASI1600MC Cool one-shot colour camera & the Photoline 60mm telescope. 156 X 5 min Ha using the ASI1600MM Pro & the ED80 telescope. Images combined & processed using Pixinsight, assigning Ha to the Red channel.
BE 03
Leo Triplets
Tiaan Niemand
Canon 750D through Meade LXD75 SN10 guided via Orion 50mm guide scope and QHY5-II mono camera.
Lights x61 + Darks x10 + Flats x10 + Bias x10
Exposures 90 seconds each at ISO 3200
Stacked and processed in Nebulosity 4.2 and final touches in GIMP
BE 04
Lagoon Nebula (M8, NGC 6523)
Phillip du Plessis
Canon 80D through Williams Optics Zenithstar-80 II ED F6.8 Refractor on Sky-watcher HEQ5 Pro mount. Guided by ZWO ASI120MC-s through Orion Mini Guidescope 50mm
Total integration time 11h 44min (L392 D69 F41 B87). Guiding via PHD2, image capture via AstroPhotography Tool (APT). Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker (DSS), processed with StarTools & Lightroom.
BE 05
Centaurus A
Peter Dunsby
ZWO ASI1600MM Pro camera through Celestron Edge HD 800 operating at f/7 and ZWO LRGB filter set, on Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro mount
30 X 60 sec Red, 39 X 60 sec Green, 39 X 60 sec Blue, 180 X 10 sec Lum at Gain/Offset 75/15. Image processed using Pixinsight
BE 06
Church Circles
Coert Welman
Canon EOS 77D with Canon EF-S 24mm f/2.8 STM Pancake lens and Hoya Red Intensifier filter, on tripod.
Aperture f/3.2, Exposure 140 frames of 30sec each @ ISO 200
Stacked using Startrails, basic editing done with Photos (Win 10 SW))
BE 07
Trifid Nebula (Messier 20)
Phillip du Plessis
Canon 80D camera through Williams Optics Zenithstar-80 II ED F6.8 Refractor on Sky-watcher HEQ5 Pro mount, guided via ZWO ASI120MC-s through Orion Mini Guidescope 50mm
1h 45m, ISO200 300s (L22 D0 F24 B50)
8h 36m, ISO200 120s (L272 D57 F20 B94)
28m, ISO400 120s (L15 D21 F40 B24)
57m, ISO200 180s (L20 D35 F20 B44)
Total integration time = 11h 46min. Guiding via PHD2, captured via AstropPhotography Tool (APT). Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker (DSS), processed with StarTools & Lightroom
BE 08
Lagoon Nebula (M8)
Tiaan Niemand
Canon 750D through Meade LXD75 SN10.
Guided via QHY5-II mono camera through Orion 50mm guide scope.
Lights x26, Darks x10, Flats x10, Bias x10 frames; each exposure 90 seconds at ISO 3200
Stacked and processed in Nebulosity 4.2 and final touches in GIMP.
BE 09
Omega/Swan nebula (M17)
Tiaan Niemand
Canon 750D through Meade LXD75 SN10.
Guided via QHY5-II mono camera through Orion 50mm guide scope.
Lights x57, Darks x10, Flats x10, Bias x10 frames; each exposure 180 seconds at ISO 1600.
Stacked and processed in Nebulosity 4.2 and final touches in GIMP.
BE 10
The Running Man & Orion Nebula core
Peter Dunsby
ZWO ASI1600MM Pro camera with ZWO Narrow Band filter set, through Teleskop Service ED 80 telescope operating at f/5.6 & PhotoLine 60mm f/6 telescope, on Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro mount
26 hours of integration time combining Narrow Band data from two telescopes. 120 X 5 min Hydrogen Alpha, 96 X 5min OIII and 96 X 5 min SII at Gain/Offset 75/15.
Processed using Pixinsight assigning Ha, OIII and SII to RGB as follows. 0.5 X SII + 0.5 Ha to Red, Ha to Green and OIII to blue.
BE 11
Ecliptic lines
Coert Welman
Canon EOS 77D & Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 DX @ 12mm, with Hoya Red Intensifier & 2-stop ND soft grad filters, on tripod.
175 frames at 30 sec exposure each @ f/2.8, ISO 400. Stacked using Startrails.exe Basic editing done with Photos (Windows 10 software)
BE 12
Heavens Above
Kanti Narsing
Canon 5D MkIII camera, 14mm lens, on Equatorial mount
32sec exposure @ ISO 3200, f/2.8
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EXIF - 120X120" (4h), Gain 120
Calibration: Flats - 50, Darks - 50
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro (cooled to -10°C)
Filter: Astronomik L-2 - UV IR Blockfilter 1,25"
Main optics: Sky-Watcher Explorer 200P
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Guiding: Artesky UltraGuide 70 + ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Controller: ZWO ASIair Pro
Software: DeepSkyStacker + Pixinsight + Photoshop
Location: Bilice, Sibenik
Shotdate: Januari 10 2015
Shottime: 20:29 - 21:46 UT
Camera: Nikon D4s
Optics: 24-120mm @ 120mm f7.1
Mount: AstroTrac 320TT
Exposure: 30 seconds
Pauze: 15 seconds
ISO-speed: ISO6400
Lights: 77 Darks: 31 Flats: 17 Bias: 40
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, post-processing in PixInsight and Photoshop
The Heart Nebula, IC 1805, Sharpless 2-190, lies some 7500 light years away from Earth and is located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by William Herschel on 3 November 1787. It is an emission nebula showing glowing ionized hydrogen gas and darker dust lanes.
Imaged on 10-13-20 from my backyard.
Explore Scientific ED102/ASI 533 MC Pro camera with Optolong L-eNhance filter, and Stellarview FF/0.80FR.
120 second exposures at gain 104/offset 50
Total integration of 3 hours.
Processed in DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop.
Canon 6D
Canon 300mm f/4.0 + Canon 1.4 Teleconverter @ f/5.6
Vixen Polarie tracking head
51 x 30sec @ISO3200
22 x 30sec @ISO12800
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed in Lightroom
Processed with Hydrogen for Luminance and Red (HaHaGB)
Acquisition details:
Lens: Canon 300mm f/4, stopped down to 61mm (f/4.9)
H-alpha: 45x8min ISO800, with Astronomic 12nm Ha filter
RGB: 15x8min ISO200, with Astronomic CLS filter
Mount: Celestron CGEM DX
Camera: Canon 450d, mod BCF, at 50°F
Guided with PHD, SSAG, Orion 50mm guide scope
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)
12X1200"Sii, 24X1200"Ha, 12X1200"Oiii SVR90T OTA, Atik 428ex, AP900, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop levels, curves, blending, guided with Orion SSAG and Orion ShortTube guidescope.
Prova di stacking fotografico per astrofoto. Somma di 30 light frames, 20 dark, 20 bias. Focusing ed acquisizione fotogrammi con APT, stacking con DeepSkyStacker.
ISO 1600, F8, 7sec per il singolo fotogramma.
Causa inesperienza nell'uso del software di controllo APT (Astro Photography Tool) ed una distrazione, mi è rimasto il diaframma ad F8, mentre volevo scattare ad F2,2! Vista la Luna che stava sorgendo e visto che era l'ultimo giorno di vacanza in montagna, luogo sufficientemente buio per questo genere di foto, non ho avuto purtroppo una seconda possibilità, ma ho comunque voluto tentare l'elaborazione per affinare la tecnica. Questo il risultato, solo in parte soddisfacente: le nebulose attorno alle Pleiadi sono appena visibili e basta che il vostro monitor sia di poco fuori calibrazione per non vederle affatto o vedere tanto, troppo rumore di fondo. Visto comunque quel poco osservabile sul singolo fotogramma, la foto mi è di stimolo per approfondire il metodo e riprovare ancora. Quando avrò occasione di stazionare di nuovo sotto un cielo ragionevolmente libero da inquinamento luminoso...
This is the same session as the previous one but tone mapped to show dark features more clearly.
Canon 6D
Canon 300mm f/4.0 + Canon 1.4 Teleconverter @ f/5.6
Vixen Polarie tracking head
51 x 30sec @ISO3200
22 x 30sec @ISO12800
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed in Lightroom
Oggetto: M31 - Galassia di Andromeda
Autore: Maurizio Ventura
Strumento: Skywatcher ED80 BLACK DIAMOND su HEQ5 Skyscan pro
Autoguida: Celestron Travelscope 70/400 + camera guida Orion Star Shoot autoguider B/N
Ripresa: Nikon D40x, 5x300s + 4x120s + 4x30s + 4x15s - 800 ISO
Luogo: Terminio (AV)
Data: 11/08/2012
Note: DeepSkyStacker, Maxim DL 5.15, Photoshop.
Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) looking spectacular on 8/01/2015. Taken from the Gold Coast Hinterland Australia using Olympus OMD EM1 and Zuiko Digital 150mm f2.0 lens on IOptron Skytracker mount. 11x30 second exposures ISO1600 Stacking on Stars in DeepSkyStacker and Processing in Neatimage and Photoshop.
EXIF - 60x180" (3h)
Calibration: Flats - 60, Darks - 60
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro (cooled to 0°C)
Filters: Astronomik L-2 Luminance UV/IR Block 1.25"
Main optics: William Optics RedCat 51
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Guiding: William Optics Uniguide + ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Controller: ZWO ASIair Pro
Software: DeepSkyStacker + Pixinsight + Photoshop
Location: Sibenik, Croatia
This pair of spirals is very close together, and a good opportunity to use the focal reducer I recently bought.
M65 is top right, M66 is bottom left.
Total effective exposure time here is about 9 minutes.
Imaged with Antlia Gold Narrowband filter, 22 x 300 sec
Imaging Scope: William Optics RedCat 71 Apochromatic Astrograph Refractor (f/4.9, 71mm aperture, 348mm foc length)
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC-Pro (26MP, 23.5x15.7mm, 3.6um pxl size, 50ke full well)
Guide Scope and Camera: William Optics Uniguide 32mm (32mm aperture, f/3.75), ZWO ASI290MM Mini guide camera (2.1mp, 2.9um pxl size, 14.6ke full well)
Mount: iOptron GEM45
Imaging and Tracking: ZWO ASIAir Plus
Processing Software: DeepSkyStacker, PS CC v24.0.1
Filters: Antlia APL-T Dual Band (Ha, Oiii)
This is my attempt at astrophotography with Sagittarius, the milky way, globular clusters and Jupiter. After many difficult adventures and frustrating attempts I found that this is actually easy, go figure. This was taken with a Canon SX100 IS on a $9 walmart tripod. Camera settings in manual mode: ISO1600, F2.8, Shutter speed 15 seconds, Manual Focus to infinity (or as far out as you can get it), and Self-Timer 2-seconds (to get rid of shakes when shooting begins). Post processing was done with DeepSkyStacker (awesome free program) . Stacked 21 Lights, 10 Bias, 10 Darks. After stacking the pictures it looked like I messed things up (very bright image/washed out, the saved image on desktop looked okay) but I took the image to Adobe Creative Suite 2 (not free, but you'd be amazed at who around you may have a copy, so ask around). In CS2 I changed the contrast slider button, the brightness, thought wow, lets move the red and blue slider button too, lol and saved it. I found that DeepSkyStacker did VERY well and that the image was not messed up, I'm not sure why. Please Please ask questions or make comments. I want astrophotography to be enjoyed by all and it almost destroyed me, till again I found out how easy it is. Thanks to my twin brother who helped encourage me through this, and Skype for letting us exchange photos.
...and an Iridium flare (Iridium 70) and the ATV, a.k.a. Jules Verne. And a couple of airplanes. The ISS was a bright -2.2, the Iridium -2.0 and the ATV was -0.7. The ISS is the bright trail in the centre of the image. The Iridium flare is angled across the ISS just left of centre. The ATV is in a higher altitude as it crosses into the Summer Triangle mid-way between Vega and Altair. This is a stacked image comprising three 3 minute exposures covering a 15 minute period from 8:27 PM EDT and 8:42 PM EDT. When I checked Heavens Above earlier this week I noticed that these three satellites would be in the same area of the sky during this time and I made plans to create this shot. Pretty cool. If I could have done this again I would have upped the ISO to 800. Hindsight is 20/20. The order of appearance: the ISS was captured in the first exposure covering the last 3 minutes of its flight; the Iridium flare appeared about a minute after the ISS disappeared during the second exposure; and the ATV during the 3 minutes of the last exposure. There was a 3 minute gap between the second and third exposures because I didn't use that exposure in the final image.
Image taken in early hours of 7th April. C9.25 @ f/10,filterless Atik 314L riding on CEM60.
18 subs @ 60 seconds each stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in PS CS2.
Went out to the field again on 2022-02-09 to capture the moon passing through the Golden Gate of the Ecliptic, which would be just about right above the Zugspitze from that vantage point. I actually managed to capture a slightly better alignment than this, but in the end I think this widefield image with Orion to the left and the Golden Gate to the right framing the mountain looked even better. I additionally took some closeup shots of the Golden Gate with a 50 mm lens, waiting to be processed. Stay tuned!
This time, I also had company from a friend this time, who went home with some rather nice Orion Nebula and Flame Nebula with his telescope.
Captured setting my smartphone to maximum exposure time and mounting it on the Star Adventurer, since otherwise slight star trailing already became clearly visible. Additional frames for the foreground while the tracker was switched off.
I'm honestly quite surprised how well smartphones are usable for widefield astrophotography nowadays (at least if you're not aiming for H alpha - but maybe this will come too...).
EXIF:
Camera: VIVO V21 5G, main camera @ 16 MP (2x2 binning), 4,71 mm f/1.8
Exposure:
sky: 45 x 32 s (24 min total) @ ISO800
foreground: 19 x 32 s @ ISO 800
Mount: Star Adventurer, no guiding ;)
Processing: Stacking with Deep Sky Stacker, processing with Fitswork, Aurora HDR 2018, Luminar 2018 and Photoshop.
Atik 314L+ and Sigma 70-300 zoom lens set to 135mm with Baader 7nm Ha filter piggybacked to main scope on CEM60. Eleven subs at 300 seconds each stacked in Deepskystacker and minima processing in Photoshop CS2.
Image taken 27th Sept 2021
Imaging telescope or lens:Explore Scientific 102mm ED CF APO triplet ED 102 CF
Imaging camera:Altair Hypercam 183C
Mount:iOptron iEQ30 Pro iOptron
Guiding telescope or lens:Starwave 50mm guidscope Starwave
Guiding camera:Altair Astro GP Cam 130 mono Altair
Focal reducer:Altair Lightwave 0.8 Reducer/Flattener Altair Lightwave
Software:PHD2 2.6.4, APT - Astro Photography Tool APT 2.43, DeepSkyStacker (DSS) Deepskystacker 3.3.2, Photoshop CC 2017 Photoshop
Filter:Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar
Resolution: 5412x3630
Dates: Sept. 17, 2018
Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 5x300" (gain: 11.00) 24C bin 1x1
Integration: 0.4 hours
Darks: ~30
Flats: ~40
Avg. Moon age: 7.86 days
Avg. Moon phase: 55.03%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00
Mean FWHM: 5.75
Temperature: 20.00
Astrometry.net job: 2259140
RA center: 289.154 degrees
DEC center: 30.157 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.783 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 278.154 degrees
Field radius: 0.709 degrees
Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Data source: Backyard
M81 & M82 or Bode's Galaxy & the Cigar Galaxy.
Unmodified Canon 100d DSLR, Skywatcher 200p scope, NEQ6 mount, guided.
40 x 3 minute images at 800 ISO, 5 x 3 minute Darks, 5 x Biases & 10 Flats stacked by DeepSkyStacker.
Canon EOS 60Da & EF 17-40mm 1:4 L USM lens piggy-backed on 8" Meade LX10.
ISO800. Focal length 40mm (x1.6). 18x60s light frames @ f/5.6, 20x60s dark frames @ f/5.6, 20x1/8000s bias/offset frames. RAW, 3888 x 2592 pixels.
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, basic processing in PaintShop Pro X4.
...and my sincere "thank you and farewell" to .tiff intermediates.
It appeared that I'm not the only one who experience misunderstanding between Canon 60D and DeepSkyStacker. And while the fix is (hopefully) on the way, I tried to walk around the problem by converting .cr2 RAWs into Adobe DNG. Success! It will not make my images any better, but it allows me to "bake" them faster :)
The only downside of this processing pipeline is that now I need real flat-field images. My trick with blurring the light frames works no more.
Aquisition time (start of a session): JD 2456578.358241 (13.10.2013 00:35:52 MSK)
Image orientation: straight.
Equipment:
Canon EOS 60D (unmodded) with Canon EF-S 60 mm f/2.8 macro USM lens fitted with Baader Planetarium 2" UHC-S filter on Vixen Polarie star tracker mounted on photo-tripod via Manfrotto 410 Junior geared head.
Aperture 21,5 mm
Focal length 60 mm
Tv = 60 seconds
Av = f/2,8
ISO 3200
Exposures: 13 (too few) (plus 10 dark frames (also not enough) and 103 bias frames. No flat-field frames :( )
Processing: images were converted into .DNG format RAWs and stacked in DSS using AAWA method. Final touches in Photoshop.
Note: faster, much faster than with .TIFF. Plus no pain of choosing between linear and sigmoid contrast and no color shifts in resulting image - grey is now grey.
And I have started to collect a library of master offsets/bias frames - will also speed up the further processing.
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Skywatcher ED 80/600
Mounts: Celestron Advanced VX Goto
Guiding cameras: Canon 600 astro-modificated
Focal reducers: TS 2" PHOTOLINE 0.8x reducer / flattener
Software: Photoshop, DeepSkyStacker, Fitswork
Filters: Hutech IDAS LPS-D1 EOS
Resolution: 1906x2835
Dates: Dec. 5, 2015, Dec. 6, 2015
Frames:
Hutech IDAS LPS-D1 EOS: 10x45" ISO1600
Hutech IDAS LPS-D1 EOS: 97x45" ISO800
Hutech IDAS LPS-D1 EOS: 112x57" ISO800
Integration: 3.1 hours
Flats: ~15
Avg. Moon age: 24.07 days
Avg. Moon phase: 30.19%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00
Temperature: 7.00
Pentax K-5 II
Super Takumar 200 F4
iOptron SkyGuider Pro
f/5.6@800 ISO
42x58 seconds stacked using DeepSkyStacker
Post processing in Photoshop
After I have spent hours to watch the starry sky, I tried to realize a image of our nearest neighbor galaxy : Andromeda M31.
Wihtout using a tracking mount, I took 64 images (+ 20 darks) that I superimposed with DeepSkyStacker software.
In order to improve the clarity of the photograph, I used lightroom. But the focus is not perfect unfortunately...
Tehnical datas :
Canon T3i on tripod
50 mm lens
f/1.8
64 x 8 s = 8.5 minutes of exposure
ISO3200
JPEG editing
Stack of 21 exposures at 5 seconds, f/1.8, ISO 1600. Processing in DeepSkyStacker. My platform was a cheap rickety aluminum tripod. :)
This is taken with
Celestron Nexstar 130 SLT (130/650)
Canon Eos 10d.
67 frames with 20 sec. exposure, Iso 1600.
6 Dark pictures and 6 Flat pictures.
Total exposure time is 22min. 11 sec.
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and edited in Phohoshop.
Finally I got time to take enough pictures after all testing. And this time focus was quite good.
I found a very dark place, where it is good to photograpg and it is only 15 min drive away. (In the middle of 2 cities, other one is quite small, so there is very little light polluting).
Target:Full Moon Feburary 2021 "Snow Moon" set against the backdrop of M44, Beehive Cluster in the constellation of Cancer.
Location:26/02/21 St.Helens UK.
Aquisition:Moon:100x 0.006s (OIII), 100x 0.006s (SII)
M44:20x 30s (OIII), 20x 30s (SII)
Equipment:Imaging: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED, HEQ5 Pro, Zwo ASI1600MM Pro, EFWMini, Baader Narrowband (OIII0 and (SII) filters.
Guiding: (starfield only) Skywatcher 9x50 Finder with Zwo ASI120MM.
Software:Aquisition: NINA, PHD2
Processing: Autostakkert, Registax (moon), DeepSkyStacker, Siril (M44), Photoshop (compositing, post processing).
Memories:After an imaging run on the Jellyfish nebula came to a close with low altitude I was left with no more narrowband targets left to image. Decided to image the full Moon with narrowband, mapping (SII) to Red, (OIII) to Blue and 50% both (SII) and (OIII) to create a synthetic Green as no RGB filters in my filterwheel.
Riccardo Rossi / ISAA
23:15 CEST - 21 Lug 2020 - San Pellegrino in Alpe (LU)
NIKON D90 + Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S
Focale 24mm - Apertura f/2.8 - Posa 60” a 800 ISO
Treppiede motorizzato EQ3
Stacking di 33 scatti con DeepSkyStacker (+1 senza inseguimento per il paesaggio)
GH2 with pana 100-300mm on tripod
12 lightframes + 1 darkframe stacked with DeepSkyStacker
each: 0,8sec // f 5,6 // ISO 12800 // @300mm
Equipo: Star Adventurer - Canon 6D - Sigma 100/400mm f/5-6,3
36x 90s @f/5 213mm ISO 6400 - Crop
Procesado: Deepskystacker - Photoshop - Lightroom
Febrero 2022 - Punta Indio - Bortle 3
Telescope: Celestron 11 - CGEM
Reduc 0.6x
Camera: ASI178MM - 120 x 15s
Software: Firecapture - PIPP - DeepSkyStacker - PS6
Another test for lucky imaging with ASI178MM not cooled
No dark, no flat, etc...
Getting a little late in the year for this target now, but after five or so clear nights on the bounce, with night time temperatures hovering around 18° C (not good for the sensor!), the transparency was getting a little suspect, so I left off until last night when I noticed an improvement. Got started a little late and, desperate for something to point at, I picked good ol' Cygnus. Just managed 19 subs before it was too low in the west. There was some pronounced horizontal banding in this that I (or more precisely, Noel's tools) struggled with, so a little blotchy in places, but overall I'm pleased considering the low number of subs.
Nikon D70 modded, 55-200 Nikkor at 70mm (full frame), f5, 1250iso, Baader Neodymium filter.
19 x 4 min, unguided EQ5
Darks, flats and bias
Stacked and processed in DSS and CS5, with a little help from Noel's tools.