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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.
Shot on the Natchez Trace Parkway at the Meriwether Lewis Monument.
Camera: EM1 Mark II
Lens/Telescope: Prime Focus with Stellarvue 80mm f6 Achromatic Refractor (Nighthawk Classic)
Subs: 10 x 60s, ISO 6400
Darks: 10
Flats: 30
Dark Flats: 30
Bias: 30
Mount: Celestron ASGT EQ (unguided)
Location: Bortle Scale 5
Software: DeepSkySTacker, Lightroom, 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.
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! :)
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.
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
GH2 with pana 100-300mm on tripod
12 lightframes + 1 darkframe stacked with DeepSkyStacker
each: 0,8sec // f 5,6 // ISO 12800 // @300mm
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.
...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)
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.
Added 45min Ha subs (3x900 bin 1x1) to previous DSLR image.
Takahashi FSQ106ED f/5, QSI683ws CCD, 6nm Astronomik Ha filter, Canon 1100d DSLR (mod), Celestron Advanced Vx Mount, Orion 10x50 Guidescope, MS Lifecam Cinema guide camera.
Sequence Generator Pro, PHD, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop CS6, Noiseware plug-in, StarSpikesPro 3
The last time I did this I wasn't equipped with my neodymium filter, so I thought I'd give it another go before it disappeared for the year. With the 70mm widefield I did recently this area leapt off the laptop at me, so I had high hopes for this, but it didn't really happen. Still, it's only 1hr 27mins, and there was a fat moon up there for the latter part of the session, so on the whole I'm quite pleased. No star reduction used in this I'm happy to say. I can do better with this area, but I'll leave it until next year now. Or I may not :)
Nikon D70 modded, 55-200 Nikkor at 200mm (full frame), f6.3, 1250iso, Baader Neodymium filter.
29 x 3 min subs for a total of 1 hour 27 mins, unguided EQ5
Darks, flats and bias
Stacked and processed in DSS and CS5, with a little help from Noel's tools.
There's a full moon tonight so conditions are not ideal, but it was such a clear night I thought I'd try this again.
This is made from stacking around 180 two second exposures (ISO1600), using Deep Sky Stacker. Roughly every 10 shots I put my glove over the lens hood and took a 2sec dark frame.
The extent of the galaxy is much more visible and the dust lanes I thought I could make out in my first attempts are obviously there in this image.
The darker band at the bottom is due to me placing the target at the lower right of the frame at the start so there's progressively less exposure the nearer the edge, because those parts were out of frame for part fo the total exposure.
Target:IC 1848 Soul Nebula in the constellation of Cassiopeia.
Location:26/09/20 Ty Newydd Farm, Wales, Bortle 2, 79% Moon.
Aquisition:84x 120s subs @ iso 800, 20x darks, 40x bias, 40x flats.
Equipment:Imaging: Altair Astro 60EDF, x1 Flat 60, Canon 1200D astro modified, Skytech CLS-CCD clip filter Skywatcher Star Adventurer Mount.
Guiding (RA): Altair Astro MG32 Mini, ZWO ASI120MC.
Software:APT, PHD2, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop, Starnet++.
Second night of data added to the previous image. Total of 37 minutes exposure. Canon EOS 450D DSLR prime focus, ISO1600. Baader Neodymium filter and coma corrector. Sky-Watcher 150P Explorer on EQ3-2 mount. DeepSkyStacker > PixInsight > PhotoShop.
Messier 97 and Messier 108
OTA: Celestron 8" newtonian reflector, C8N
Filter: Orion Skyglow imaging filter
Corrector: MPCC
Mount: Celestron CGEM DX
Camera: Canon 450d mod BCF, 50F
Exposure: 15x4min ISO 400
Guided with PHD, SSAG, TS-OAG9
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)
Crescent nebula, imaged night of June 27 2022, from backyard in Sunnyvale California. Camera is QHY168C at -10C, mount is Losmandy G11 with Gemini-1. Autoguided with PHD2 using Celestron OAG, with ZWO ASI224 autoguide camera. Equipment run by NINA. This is a stack of 8 subs of 300 sec each, using DeepSkyStacker with LogSqRt of luminance stretching. Added Halpha filtered image as Red. Added Televue Nebustar filtered image (Hbeta+Oxygen3 as Blue layer.
Manually, off-axis guided for 9 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 and noise reduced in Canon Photo Professional; final curves & colour-balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro.
Not the first time I've imaged this object this year. Last time I used the C8, so it was good to be able to use exposures half as long this time, but at the expense of coma (distorted stars around the edges). I'm still pleased with the result, which I've processed to emphasise the reddish areas of star formation.
C9.25 with 6.3 focal reducer,QHY168C and UHC filter. 6 subs at 300 secs each stacked in Deepskystacker and processed using Nebulosity 4 and Photoshop CS2. Flats and darks subtracted and image cropped.
Taken early hours 01/08/19
FSQ106ED + QE0.73X + QHY600EB(-15C)
Astrodon Tru-Balance E-Series Gen2
L12x300sec,R4x300sec,G4x300sec,B4x300sec
on SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6GT (Total:120min)
Guiding: QHYOAG + ASI120MM-Mini + ASIAir
DeepSkyStacker, StellaImage7, Photoshop CC2019
Locations: Kamogawa Sports Park, Kibichuocho, Okayama, Japan
Nov. 2019
Moon up there, and not a lot of dark, so thought I'd reprocess something, as you do.
More definition and colour in this version I think. Not sure if the colours are correct, but it looks nice!
24 March 2011
200p, EQ5 unguided
Nikon D70 full spectrum prime focus
28 x 60sec, iso 1600
darks, bias and flats.
Stacked in DSS processed in CS5
C9.25 with 6.3 focal reducer,QHY168C and UHC filter. 6 subs at 300 secs each stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Nebulosity 4 and Photoshop CS2. Darks and flat frames subtracted and image cropped.
Taken midnight 01/08/19
Fujifilm X-T10, XF18-55mm F2.8-4.0 @ F5.6 and 55mm, ISO 3200, 10 x 3 min, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing in GIMP, taken Sept. 19 just before astronomic dawn at my semi-dark site
While Rosalind and I spent a few days in rural NSW, we had clear skies at night and I decided to get a good shot of the Southern Cross (Crux). It's amazing how a photograph can show so many more stars than the eye could see. The stripe of the Milky Way passes right through this photo.
The bright star in the lower left part of the picture is Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our solar system - a little over 4 light years away.
This was my first real attempt at astrophotography, a subject I learned a lot about while processing this photo. I didn't have a system to track the stars, so I was limited to about 15 second exposures to prevent star trails. I took 8 shots and merged them in DeepSkyStacker to produce this image. I'm looking forward to the next time I'm in a clear, rural area so I can try some more astrophotography.
C9.25 with Antares 6.3 focal reducer,QHY 168C and UHC filter was used to collect 10 subs at 60 seconds each. Stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Nebulosity 4 and Photoshop CS2. Darks and flats subtracted and image cropped.
Taken early hours of 01/08/19
Here's a crop of the M42 region showing the Running Man Nebula north of the Great Orion Nebula. The Running Man is a reflection nebula (notice the blue gas cloud similar to the Pleiades's Merope Nebula) with a dark dust cloud that sort of looks like a man running.
Taken by Doug Spalding on April 10, 2011 near Butler, Missouri using an SBIG8300C camera mounted on a CGE1100 Telescope using Hyperstar (F/2). This is the sum of 12 five minute images, stacked using DeepSkyStacker. The image was then processed with Maxim DL and Photoshop CS2.
Guiding used PhD Guiding with an Orion Starshoot autoguider.