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Taken at Moel Farwyd in Snowdonia looking over the light pollution of Ffestiniog. The stars are tracking on the mount which is why the hills are blurred. The centre of the Milky Way is near the bottom.

 

15 40 second frames (About 10 Minutes) ISO 1600, f/5.6. Lens set at 18mm.

 

SynScan AZ Goto Mount

Nikon D3100 connected to the mount with a dovetail.

Yongnuo MC-36R/N3 Wireless Timer Remote.

Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker with darks.

Processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

 

Taken on the 7th July 2013.

Camera: Canon Rebel T3i

Lens: 75-300mm zoom lens

Focal length: 75mm @f/5

Exposure: 47x30 seconds (23.5 minutes)

Location: Locust Valley, NY

Calibrated with dark and flat frames.

 

Processed with DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop, GradientXTerminator and Astronomy Tools plugin

Photo of M31, the Andromeda galaxy, taken from Trondheim city center. I used Astronomik CLS clip-in filter to remove the city glow.

 

Stack of 13 exposures 7 minutes each.

Canon 60D with 300L.

HEQ5 Pro mount controlled via PHD2.

QHY5II guide camera on a Skywatcher 9x50 finderscope.

Camera control via BackyardEOS.

Raw files stacked with DeepSkyStacker and postprocessed in Lightroom.

M81 and M82 again!

 

M81, M82 and Iridium flare of GLOBALSTAR M036 satellite.

( APR. 3. 2019. 21:13 KST)

 

Time: 2019. 4. 3. 20:00 ~

 

Location: Boeun, South Korea (Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4)

 

Optics: Takahashi FS60CB with 1.7x Extender (600 mm ƒ/10)

 

Exposure: Sony A7s (Modified) ISO 12800 x 30s x 325 subs (with Dark, Flat, Bias frames)

 

Mount: Toast Pro (TP2)

 

Software: DeepSkyStacker, Astronomy Tools, GradientXTerminator, Adobe Photoshop

  

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A wide-field view of the Triangulum Galaxy in the constellation of the same name captured in a stack of fifty images that were exposed for 25 seconds each using a hand-driven, barn-door type tracking mount (two boards, a hinge, and a screw you turn by hand). The Triangulum Galaxy is generally consider to be the most distant object that can be seen with the naked eye (it is smaller, dimmer, and more distant than the Andromeda Galaxy).

 

This is my first serious attempt to photograph M33 and although this image has some problems it actually turned out better than I expected (given that I'm not using a telescope and considering the rather poor conditions from my front driveway -- pretty serious light pollution since I live very close to the center of a large metropolitan area). I can just make out the spiral arms on the galaxy but the short exposure and "push" processing has drained all of the color from the now-bloated stars.

 

In the image notes I've identified a small object that may be NGC 604 (a very large nebula and star forming region in the Triangulum galaxy -- NGC 604 is perhaps a hundred times the size of the Milky Way's Orion nebula).

 

In any case, this image is best viewed in the Flickr light box (press the "L" key to toggle the light box or click the following link):

 

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Captured on December 22, 2011 between the hours of 8:09PM and 8:44PM PST with a Nikon D5100 DSLR (ISO 4000, 25 second exposure x 50) and a 105mm AI-S 1:2.5 Nikkor lens set to aperture f/4. Image stack created with DeepSkyStacker using 50 image frames combined with 48 dark frames (no flats or bias).

 

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Samyang 14mm + SEOCooledX2 on CD-1

15x300sec (Total:75min)

StellaImage7, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop CS6

Locations: Koresato, Akaiwa, Okayama, Japan

Nov. 2010

Taken 5-05-16 at Lake Ray Roberts, TX

Scope: William Optics GT81 w/ 0.8x reducer (382mm focal length at f/4.7)

Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G

Guidescope: Orion 50mm guidescope

Guiding camera: StarShoot Autoguider

Imaging camera: Canon t3i (unmodified)

 

ISO400

13x600" lights (2hr 10min total exposure time)

5x darks

30x flats

150x bias

 

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker (3x drizzle custom rectangle)

Processed in Photoshop CS6

This image of the Ring Nebula (M57) has been cropped from a stacked data-set of images taken last night using a Canon EOS 60D mounted onto a Skywatcher 200 reflector.

A bit more software experimenting, this time using Deepskystacker.

This works in a different way to Starstax which layers up multiple frames for startrails. This one aligns the stars, making them brighter, by adding one on top of the other.

A side effect of this action is that it loses a lot of the other rubbish that is in the original images like meteors, aircraft, satellites and clouds, Oh and hot pixels from the sensor.

 

This is a blend of 48 x 20second exposures, then the foreground from one of the original shots blended in, as in the lining up process, fixed land based objects get blurred.

Must find a more interesting sky to experiment with this software some more :)

 

none of these astro pics could have been possible without Mo. Thanks for helping the noobie Mo.

So for DeepSkyStacker alludes me....this stck done via CS6 and Dr.Brown's stack-o-matic out of Bridge.

The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. (Wikipedia)

148 photos stacked in DeepSkyStacker.

 

Check out the full size farm4.staticflickr.com/3785/9516814696_f2c9e3f37f_o.jpg

 

Canon EOS 450D

50 mm

f/2.0

5 s

ISO 1600

 

Basic tripod

15 lights (10s f/5.6 ISO1600), 10 darks, 20 bias. Canon EOS 450D DSLR + Tamron 70-300mm zoom @ 124mm on static tripod. DeepSkyStacker > PixInsight > Photoshop (incl Star Spikes Pro 2)

An old favourite I've imaged several times.

7 x 5-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.

Quick shot of the Elephant's Trunk Nebula & surrounding area. Located approximately 2400 light years from Earth.

 

Exposure: 62 x 30s exposures @ ISO3200 equiv. Darks & bias/offset, no flats.

Camera: Canon EOS 60Da

Lens: EF 70-200mm 1:4 L USM @ f/4.5. 200mm (x1.6).

Filters: Astronomik CLS

Mount: Piggy-backed on 8" Meade LX10. Rough polar alignment.

Guiding: None

  

RAW images stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PSPx5.

Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy

Canon 5D III

Canon EF 200/2.8L II @ f3.5

34x120s @ ISO800

Tracked on NEQ-6 un-guided

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker

Post Processed in PS CC x 64

 

Ring Nebula (M57 or NGC6822) - a planetary Nebula in constellation Lyra.

 

Shot trough Celestron C11 - Schmidt-Cassegrain 280/2800mm with Canon 550D mounted on NEQ6Pro.

 

26 frames at 20s, ISO 3200 each.

 

Stacking with DeepSkyStacker.

522 1-s exposures, ISO 6400, f/5.6, 300 mm. Photographed from an urban location -- lights from a million people.

Using my 120mm f5 achromat refractor and modified 1100D with 2" UHC filter I captured 17 subs at 4 minutes at ISO 1600 to create this widefield view of the Cocoon nebula in Cygnus.

Stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop.

Image taken 20/09/15

Orion Nebula (M42)

50 frames processed in DeepSkyStacker

38 - 20 sec @ iso 800

10 - 20 sec @ iso 400

2 - 20 sec @ iso 1600

12 dark frames, 10 bias frames, 17 flat frames

 

Camera Canon 50D with a f/2.0 HyperStar 3 lens

Mounted on an 11” Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope.

Manually guided for 12 x 7-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/6.25. Modified EOS 600D & Sky-Watcher ED80 refractor, piggybacked on a Celestron C8 telescope for guiding.

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.

Localisation :

CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)

Acquisition Date :

2016-10-04

Author :

Pierre Rougé

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 :

60.0 minutes [6 subexposures of 600 sec each (selected from 6)] @ ISO 800

Calibration :

Dark & bias : 3/11 @ ISO 800 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 800

Weather :

Bonne transparence. Vent nul. T=17°C. Humidité nulle.

Constellation : Cassiopea / Cassiopée

Software Used :

Astro Photograph Tool (v3.13), DeepSkyStacker, PhotoShop CS

... until I've overhauled my EQ5, sometime when. I need more data and can't get it with 30 second exposures. Hopefully the overhaul will enable me to hit an unthinkable 90 seconds!

 

This one's better framed than my previous efforts, and the running man is just about visible, which is nice. Pleased considering there was a big moon up there.

 

21/1/2011

200p/EQ5 unguided

Nikon D70 full spectrum prime focus, ISO 1600

70x30 second

10x10 second for the core

22 darks

30 bias

10 flats

 

Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5

 

Re-processed here

my "second" first astro picture! :) sony a6000, Minolta MD Tele Rokkor 2.8/135 @ f4, 1s@ISO3200 on static tripod, 12 Lightframes, 11 Darkframes, 11 Flatframes stacked in DeepSkyStacker, heavily cropped

Celestron Nexstar 130 SLT

Canon EOS 10d

24*20 sec. Iso 1600.

DeepSkyStacker.

Photoshop.

 

Very fast editing, too tired.. Later better version.

Interacting galaxies M51a and M51b.

Distance: 30 million light years

 

Shot in March 2019. Had guiding issues about 2 hrs in and aborted.

 

Equipment/Software:

Explore Scientific ED 102 APO

Celestron Advanced VX Mount

Orion Starshoot Autoguider on Orion 50 mm guidescope

Nikon D3300 (unmodified)

80 images at 120 seconds at iso 800

DeepskyStacker - Startools

This is one way that you can setup the equipment that I have for sale. I prefered setting up the guidescope and main scope in a side by side configuration. If you wanted to you could attach the guidescope directly to the telescope. All required cables are included.

 

To take and process pictures you will need the following:

 

BackyardEOS - purchase online $24

Deepskystacker - free download

PHD - free download

Some form of image editing software

25x60s@iso400

65x30s@iso400

 

150mm (750mm FL) F5 Newtonian with GSO coma corrector.

 

First try with autoguiding using PHD2. Unfortunately the 3D printed guidescope mount was not nearly robust enough. 2/3 of the exposures were thrown out.

 

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and post processed in Photoshop.

 

Unfortunately a large number of Geo satellites were present in the view and created streaks.

 

Next -- attempt to remove that pesky light gradient from the background

My first attempt at tracked astrophotography. What a learning experience it was!

 

Canon 80D and 70-200 F4L IS

 

200mm, f4, ISO 1600, 45" x 23

 

5 darks, 5 biases

 

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, default settings

 

Edited in lightroom and photoshop.

 

Most important lesson learned: tripod stability is everything. I took 35 mins of exposures, and lost 12 to shake, likely from passing cars. Next time, I go further from the road, stabilize the tripod better, and pick sturdier ground.

Canon 450Dfs 25 lights 30 sec iso 1600 stacked in Deepskystacker f/7 reducer on C-11 / CGEM-DX

Date:15/9/2011

Location:Brisbane Australia

Imaging Camera: Opticstar 142M

Imaging Scope: Orion EON 80mm ED Refractor

Focal Length: 500mm F6.1

Guide Camera: SSAG

Guide Scope: Orion 80mm F5 Refractor

Guided with PHD Guiding

Mount: Celestron EQ5 GT

Exposure:

30 min Red 15x2min

30 min Green 15x2min

30 min Blue 15x2min

Darks: 40 min 20x2min

Processing: DeepSkyStacker, CS5, Noel Carboni's Astronomy Tools

Primer intento de combinar data de dos días diferentes.

 

1) 20200907: 277 lights + 22 darks

2) 20200910: 356 lights + 32 darks

Todo a 30 segundos a ISO800

  

Todo esto da un total de exposición de 5 horas 16 minutos y 30 segundos.

  

El procesado en DeepSkyStacker tardó unas 8 horas (para tenerlo en cuenta) y luego trabajé en Gimp para ajustar curvas y niveles.

 

Las fotos de sacaron con una Canon T2i + evostar 72 ed sobre montura eq3 motorizada en AR.

Telescopio Vixen 130 f/5

Cámara Canon T2i sin modificar

Tomas:

30 Light 60 seg + 12 Darks 60 seg

ISO 800

Apilado con DeepSkyStacker

 

Post proceso y recorte por:

Renán Van De Wingard con Photoshop

 

Locación: Observatorio Cerro Pochoco de ACHAYA

24 enero 2012

First night out with the Explore Scientific ED102CF Telescope. 60x60" exposures shot with a Nikon D7200 on an unguided Celestron AVX Mount. Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in Lightroom/Photoshop.

Pentax K5

Tair 3S 300mm F4.5

iOptron SkyGuider Pro

~ f/6@ISO 800

99x180s stacked using DeepSkyStacker

Processed in PixInsight

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North American Nebula

 

72Frames 30sec Iso1600

1Frame 60Sec Iso1600

30Dark 0Flat 50Bias

DeepSkyStacker

Photoshop

 

I have been away for a long time, but finally I have some time and new pictures.

 

This is taken with Canon Eos1100D and 18-200mm lens.

Tracking with Celestron130SLT mount.

Cropped, rotated and generally faffed about with this one. Far more neb, but the stars are a pig - I hate stars! ;). Original process here.

 

Nikon D70 full spectrum, 55-200 Nikkor at 200mm , f5.6, 1600iso

45x90sec subs for a total of about 1hr 7 mins, unguided, EQ5

Darks, flats and bias

Stacked and processed in DSS and CS5, with a little help from Noel's tools.

The owls on the hillside just north of my home have been keeping me company at night. This little star cluster has risen above the treeline from which they call.

 

Nikon D90 camera

Sigma 150-500mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM APO Autofocus Lens

Orion TeleTrack GoTo Altazimuth Telescope Mount

 

20 X 30” exposures, f/6.3, ISO1600, 500mm

Dark, flat, dark-flat, and offset-bias frames applied

Stacking software: DeepSkyStacker

Post-processing: Photoshop CS5

 

New images (only a few due to cloud cover) and a new method of processing. It is a little blotchy but much more detail in the cloud.

 

Date:6/9/2009

Location:Brisbane Australia

Imaging Camera: Canon 1000D prime focus

Imaging Scope: Skywatcher 127mm Mak Cas

Focal Length: 1500mm F12

Guide Camera: SSAG

Guide Scope: Orion 80mm F5 Refractor

Guided with PHD Guiding

Mount: Celestron EQ5 GT

Exposure: 24 min (6x4min) full colour

Darks: 4x4min

ISO: 800

Processing: DeepSkyStacker, CS3, Noel Carboni's Astronomy Tools

The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus.

 

It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers. The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun which exploded between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago. At the time of explosion, the supernova would have appeared brighter than Venus in the sky, and visible in daytime. The remnants have since expanded to cover an area of the sky roughly 3 degrees in diameter (about 6 times the diameter, and 36 times the area, of the full Moon). While previous distance estimates have ranged from 1200 to 5800 light-years, a recent determination of 2400 light-years is based on direct astrometric measurements.

 

Imaged from my backyard on 8/19/20.

 

Explore Scientific ED102/Nikon D5300 (Ha mod) with IDAS LPS D-1 filter, w/Stellarview FF/0.80FR.80% illuminated moon.

55 Light frames at iso 400 for 240 seconds

Total integration of 3 1/2 hours.

Processed in DeepSkyStacker , Startools, Starnet++, and Photoshop.

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 : 63 minutes [21 subexposures of 180 sec each (selected from 21)] @ ISO 400

Calibration : Dark & Bias : 11/11 @ ISO 400 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 400

Temps/Weather : Bonne transparence. Vent nul. T=11°C. Humidité faible.

Constellation : Perseus/Persée

Software Used : Astro Photograph Tool (v3.13), DeepSkyStacker 3.3.6, Pixinsight LE, PhotoShop 7, xnview, Noiseware Community Edition

  

M92

Date: 08-21-2013

Telescope (Lens): Orion 8in f/3.9 Newtonian Astrograph

Addition Optics: Baader Planetarium RCC1 Coma Corrector

Camera: Canon XSi

Exposures: 48 x 60 sec (ISO 800) + Darks x10 ,Flats x10

Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop

Mount: Atlas EQ-G

Tracking: EQMOD / Stellarium / PHD Guiding

Guidance Camera: Logitech 3000 Pro

Guidance Scope: Celestron 9x50 Finder

  

Astromomy weather as forcasted by Canadian Meteorological Center:

Cloud Cover: Clear

Transparancy: Above Average

Seeing Category: IV (Above Average)

Temp: 75°F

Humidity: 55°

 

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

6- 10sec exposures and then DeepSkyStacker

Sigma DP2s used with a tripod

This is my first real attempt at image stacking. This actually took quite a while, now I just need to learn how to spot things in the sky. Ultimately, my goal is to get a nebula, i know now, this is going to take some work.

 

The process is quite involved, the image processing is involved as well and with it comes all kinds of algorithms and processes..

 

So, just learn as you go.

Orion Nebula M42

 

Celestron Nexstar 4se with T-ring

Canon eos 500d

About 15 mins of data with dark file

ISO 3200

Stacked in DSS

Levels stretched in Ps - I cant work out how to get colour

Nice, bright star cluster in constellation Cancer. This cluster have fallen into the sweet spot of my optics, so the halos around bright stars are at least center-symmetrical and not comet-shaped. Yes! This one turns out at steady 3 out of possible 5.

 

This shot and this share the same effective resolution so the apparent sizes can be compared. This only applies to "original" size of the images. M67 is tiny compared to Praesepe/Beehive. And has only 7,5m against 4m of the Beehive.

 

Aquisition time: 13.04.2013 ‏‎around 23:45:00 MSK (GMT+4).

Equipment:

Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8L lens + Canon EF 2x III extender on EOS 60D mounted on Celestron CG-4 GEM (German equatorial mount) with RA drive.

Aperture 71 mm

Focal length 400 mm

Tv = 30 seconds

Av = f/5,6

ISO 800

Exposures: 85 + 12 dark frames

Processing: contrast was set to "linear" and vingetting was corrected with Canon DPP, 16 bit TIFFs were stacked in DeepSkyStacker, contrast'n'colors adjusted in Photoshop. Image scaled down 50% (cheat!).

Notes: this time I have recorded the steps of contrast adjustment. I'll better have bluish sky than reddish.

Orion Nebula, the middle "star" in Orion's sword. Crop from this image. 105 stacked 1/2 s exposures from Olympus E-520 with 300 mm lens.

We had three relatively clear nights on the bounce last week, which hasn't happened since the Roman occupation ;) This was taken Saturday night, but I only managed 12 frames before some cloud rolled in, so this is just 36 minutes.

 

Taken with the longest lens I possess at present (200mm), and then cropped a bit to take out the remnants of the amp glow that my darks don't seem to want to deal with at the moment, it doesn't reveal a lot of detail. But it looks cute! ;)

 

Nikon D70 modded, 55-200 Nikkor at 185mm (cropped), f6.3, 800iso, Baader Neodymium filter.

12 x 3 min, unguided EQ5

Darks, flats and bias

Stacked and processed in DSS and CS5, with a little help from Noel's tools.

 

Spiked :)

  

I was very pleased to get this result, as it is about as far South as I can see!

 

Unmodified EOS 40D & Celestron C8 telescope.

Manually off-axis guided for 3 x 5-minutes at ISO 1000 & 15 x 5-minutes at ISO 1600, f6.3. Images registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker software.

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