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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.
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.
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.
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.
Shotdate: 10-11-2013
Camera: Nikon D3x
ISO speed:1600
Exposure: 40 x 300 seconds
Optics: Celestron 9.25" Edge HD
Guiding: LVI SmartGuider 2 on F500mm D90mm APO
Calibration: 32 dark, 108 bias and 30 flat frames.
Stacking in DeepSkyStacker and post-processing in PixInsight 1.7
獵戶座 M42 及其他
Orion M42 and others
20170211 20:16 to 20:46
51 shoots
Eath ISO 1 dark frame
Camera OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA E-PL5
Lens Miranda 35-70mm 1:3.5-4.5 MC MACRO
Tripod WF WT 3730
Software
DeepSkySacker 3.3.2
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.1 (Windows)
ISO1600 to 25600
70mm ( 140mm )
f3.6
3.2s
Old data again - just humour me, I'm addicted to this stuff. This is from my scope days ;)
Parts of this came out a rather putrid shade of green the last time I did it. :)
SW 200p, EQ5 unguided
Nikon D70 modded, iso1600
58 x 60sec
darks, bias and flats.
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5
Had another go at this area of NGC 7000 this time using my 8" f4 Schmidt Newtonian and Atik 314L+ with narrowband filters. 6subs at 5mins each for Ha,6subs at 5mins each for SII and 7subs again at 5mins each for OIII. Stacked in Deepskystacker and colour combined (Hubble palette) in Maxim DL4. Final processing in StarTools and Photoshop.
Autoguided using OAG.SX Lodestar and PHD2.
Image taken 13/10/15
NGC 7000 The North America Nebula, and IC 5070 Pelican Nebula (H-alpha)
Lens: Nikkor 180mm ED AI-s at f/2.8
Mount: CGEM DX
Camera: Canon 350d mono, with 3.4V to TEC cooler
Exposure: 31x4min ISO 800
Astronomik 12nm H-alpha filter
Guided with QHY5L-IIm and PHD2
Captured with BackyardEOS
Mono conversion with dcraw -D -4 -T -b 16
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)
Cúmulo de Hércules
M13, Messier 13 o Gran Racimo
- Fecha: 31/08/2019
- Lugar: Mirador de las estrellas, Sesué - Huesca (42°33'58.5"N 0°28'19.3"E) Alt. 1.270m
IMAGEN
- 101 Lights a 600mm, ISO 10000, 8s, f5.6
- 25 Darks a ISO 10000, 8s, f5.6
- Tiempo total de exposición 13m 4s
EQUIPO
- Montura de seguimiento Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi
- Camara Sony ILC3-A7M3 Modo APS-C
- Objetivo Sony FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
- Haida Slim Nano Pro MC Clear Night filter
SOFTWARE
- Stellarium Scope & Stellarium para el guiado de la montura
- Apilado con DeepSkyStacker
- Procesado con Adobe Camera Raw y Adobe Photoshop CC
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These towering tendrils of cosmic dust and gas sit at the heart of M16, or the Eagle Nebula. The aptly named Pillars of Creation, are part of an active star-forming region within the nebula and hide newborn stars in their wispy columns.
Telescope : T120 (www.obs-hp.fr/guide/t120.shtml)
Camera : Andor iKon-L 936 (www.obs-hp.fr/guide/camera-120/camera-120.shtml)
Filters : UBVRI Filter Set (www.obs-hp.fr/guide/camera-120/ubvri.shtml)
Acquisition :
Lights : RGB, total ~15min
Darks : no darks
Flats : 25 flats for each color
Bias : 25
Software :
Pre-processing : DeepSkyStacker
Processing : Siril, Pixinsight
Post-processing : Lightroom, Photoshop
Canon EOS 450D prime focus Skywatcher 150 Explorer Newtonian. EQ3-2 mount. 24 lights (30s ISO1600), 10 darks, 20 flats, 20 bias. DeepSkyStacker > PixInsight > Photoshop CS5
NGC 2683 known as the UFO galaxy
best 60% of 120 light frames, each of 65 seconds at ISO 800.
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker with calibration frames, then processed in StarTools.
North America Nebula
Canon 200mm f2.8 @ f2.8, f3.2, f4
Canon T4i ISO 800 90 seconds
20x light frames
iOptron Skytracker
DeepSkyStacker Kappa Sigma Clipping
Pixinsight 1.8
This 1.7 km asteroid made a flyby 31 october 2016. This stack of 10 images, 120 seconds each shows the fast movement of 60 arcminutes per minute. Esprit 100 APO/Canon 6Da on 10 Micron GM2000 HPS II, unguided), iso1600 using Sequence Generator Pro). Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed/ platesolved/ annotated in Pixinsight)
Knight Observatory, Tomar
another shot of our neighbor galaxy M31 using 514 light frames (42m50s total exposure time). taken in Cambridge, MA with 70mm F/4.0, cropped 1:3, and processed with 2x drizzle.
EXIF - 210X120" (7h), Gain 120, f5
Calibration: Flats - 60, Darks - 60
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro (cooled to -10°C)
Filter: Astronomik L-2 - UV IR Blockfilter 1,25"
Main optics: Sky-Watcher Explorer 200P
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Guiding: Artesky UltraGuide 70 + ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Controller: ZWO ASIair Pro
Electronic focuser: ZWO EAF
Software: DeepSkyStacker + Pixinsight + Photoshop
Location: Bilice, Sibenik, Croatia
One from the clear, moonless nights a fortnight ago. I hadn't posted it previously due to the problem of focus varying across the frame. I think I know the cause(s).
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 in Canon Photo Professional; final curves & colour-balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro; noise reduction via CyberLink PhotoDirector.
The moon was out last night, so I tried H-alpha IC1805 and IC1848.
Lens: Canon 50mm f/1.8, stopped down f/4
Filter: Astronomik 12nm H-alpha
Mount: Celestron CG5 ASGT
Camera: Canon 450d mod BCF, 39F
Exposure: 36x4min ISO 1600
Guided with PHD, SSAG, 9x50
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)
NGC 1333 from Fort Davis TX last November. More integration time would help, but the clouds did not cooperate.
NGC 1333
Lens: Canon 300mm f/4
Mount: CG5-ASGT
Camera: Canon 450d mod BCF
Exposure: 19x4min ISO 1600
Filters: None
Guided with PHD, SSAG, 9x50
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Fort Davis TX