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My deep sky astrophotography equipment:
- Canon EOS 1200Da (Modded)
- Skywatcher NEQ6 with Rowan Belt Mod
- Skywatcher Evostar ED80 DS Pro
- Astronomik CLS Clip in Filter
- Baader UV/IR Cut Filter (1.25")
- Baader Ha,Sii,Oiii Filters (1.25")
- Altair GPCAM 1 MONO
- Altair 60mm starwave guide scope
- Pegasus Astro Pocket Powerbox
- Astrozap 3" and 4" Dew heater bands
- Amazon Basics USB 2.0 Hub
20m USB 2.0 Extension Cable
- Various adapters and cables
- Controlled by APT (Astrophotography Tool), and Stark Labs PHD2 Guiding
- Processed in DeepSkyStacker (DSS) and Adobe Photoshop CC
The Milky Way is continually generating radiation in all directions, in the form of light; X-rays; infrared, ultraviolet; gamma rays & radio. When radiation at the wavelengths of visible light collides with the sensor in a digital camera, you get photos like this one, taken at the Telstra telecommunications station at Maddens Plains in New South Wales, Australia. The microwave dishes mounted on the tower are sending and receiving radio signals that carry voice and data communications traffic along the east coast of Australia. I thought it fitting to have these earthly and heavenly radiation generators in the same shot. Something I remember distinctly about capturing this image was that I had to lay on my back underneath the camera and tripod so that I could line up the shot and make sure the focus was sharp. I think it was worth the discomfort.
This photo was created from two nearly-identical images that were combined to reduce the amount of digital noise present in them, using a process known as “stacking”. Each photo was taken with equipment and settings as follows: Canon EOS 6D camera, a Canon 40mm STM lens @ f/3.2, an exposure time of 6 seconds @ ISO 6400.
Sony a6000 with Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM
2 seconds, f5.6, 250mm, ISO 25600
Stack of 33 images using DeepSkyStacker, curve adjustments in Lightroom
The Pleiades also known as the Seven Sisters has nine hot bright blue stars and is in a region of blue reflection nebulosity. The brightest nebulae are NGC1432 the Maia Nebula and NGC1435 the Merope Nebula.
Canon 5D3 and Sigma800 mounted on Skywatcher EQ2 with RA motor drive.
ISO1600, f/5.6, 800mm focal length
105 x 10 second exposures
20 darks
20 bias/offsets
Processed in DSS with curves and levels adjusted in PS Elements.
I finally got to see and image Comet ISON (C/2012 S1). Used DeepSkyStacker to stack only on the stars showing the comet's movement and color better. The Zodiacal light was pretty bright right where the comet was, also the comet was moving very quickly so exposures longer than 2 minutes resulted in a oval shaped coma. Using a NEX-5 mounted to a C8 OTA, f/6.3 reducer, CG-5GT mount. Guided with a Orion SSAG and 50mm guidescope piggybacked on the C8.
Comprising NGC 869 (lower left) and NGC 884 (upper right). Photographed in poor conditions: although I took around 30 frames, I deleted all but 5 that were less affected by wind and passing cloud. There's still some mistyness here around the brighter stars due to thin cloud.
Just 5 x 2.5-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/6.25. Modified EOS 600D & Sky-Watcher ED80 refractor, piggybacked on a Celestron C8 telescope for manual guiding.
Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; initial curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; final curves and colour balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro; noise reduction via CyberLink PhotoDirector.
Localisation : CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date : 2017-03-15
Auteur/Author : ROUGÉ Pierre
Mouture/mount : Orion Atlas EQ-G
Tube/Scope : Newton Orion 200/1000 (f/5)
Autoguiding : Skywatcher Synguider (v1.1) & Meade ETX 70/350 mm
Camera : ATIK 383L+ (www.astrosurf.com/apam/)
Exposure : 60 minutes [60 subexposures of 60 sec each (selected from 60)] Binning 1x1
Calibration : Dark & Bias : 9/0 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 0/0
Temps/Weather : Bonne transparence. Vent nul. T=12°C. Humidité faible.
Constellation : Ursa Major / Grande Ourse
Software Used : Astro Photograph Tool (v3.20), DeepSkyStacker 3.3.6, Pixinsight LE, PhotoShop 7, xnview
Information du catalogue: SAC
Saguaro Astronomy Club Database
Magnitude: 6.90
Nom: NGC 3031
Luminosité de surface: 13.20
Dimension: 24.9 x 11.5 '
Angle de position: 157
Classe: Sb
Description: ! eB
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brightest in group
fine spiral
Constellation: Grande Ourse
Mein erster Versuch mit der Astrotrac TT320X-AG Nachführung.
Die Astrotrac wurde auf ein Manfrotto 055XPROB Pro Stativ montiert.
Die Ausrichtung erfolgte mit dem Manfrotto Getriebekopf 405 und die Kamera ist auf einen Manfrotto Kugelkopf 498RC4 montiert.
Das Fotos besteht aus 8 RAW Einzebildern (plus zusätzlich 3 Dunkelbilder) und es wurde mit DeepSkyStacker zusammen gestackt.
Daten zu den Einzelbildern:
Belichtungszeit: 50sec.
Blende: f4,5
ISO: 2500
Brennweite: 70mm
Für die Aufnahme habe ich meine Canon EOS 7D und das Canon 70-200mm f2.8 IS II USM Objektiv verwendet.
Zusätzlich wurde noch ein Astronomik CLS Clip Filter eingesetzt um die Farben etwas besser heraus zu holen. Zusätzlich wurde das Foto mit DPP etwas nachgearbeitet.
My frist test with my Astrotrac TT320X-AG.
The Astrotrac is mounted on a Manfrotto 055XPROB Pro Tripod.
The alignment was made with the Manfrotte Geardhead 405 and the camera is but on a Manfrotto Ballhead 498RC4.
The Picture is made from 8 RAW sinlge frames (and 3 Darks) and was stacked with the DeepSkyStacker software.
Information tot he Single Frame:
Exposure Time: 50sec.
Apature: f4,5
ISO: 2500
Focal lengh: 70mm
I used my Canon EOS 7D and the Canon 70-200mm f2.8 IS II USM Lens.
Additionally i used a Astronomik CLS Clip Filter for better colors. The Picture was re-mastered a little with DPP.
Camera: Canon EOS 500D
Lens: Pentacon 200mm F/4 M42
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker:
- 6sec Exposures @ ISO 6400
- 9 Lightframes
- 10 Darkframes
Sadly exposed a little bit too long ... probably should have been 4secs or so...
Taken with
Celestron Nexstar 130SLT
Canon Eos10D
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop
162Frames
Iso400 and Iso 800
30sec exposure
20Dark
20Flat
This is a difficult object to image due to its limited visibility from this latitude (50 deg. North). NGC 253 is about 25 deg. South.
Canon EOS 40D, Celestron C8 telescope. 13 x 5, 6 x 4 & 15 x 2-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f6.3. Images registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker software.
I posted an earlier version of this object last year, but have since added more light frames and re-processed.
Nikon D7000, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8. Stack of 14 images, each 10 seconds exposure for a total exposure of 2m30s. Used DeepSkyStacker for stacking, RawTherapee for 16b editing.
Jan. 29, 2014
A Blend of two images
20 x 3 min @ 200 ISO
20 x 30 sec @ 200 ISO
darks & flats & dark flats
Telescope: AstroTech 6" Imaging Newt
Mount: Celestron AVX
Camera: Canon XT Modded
Baader MPCC - III
Baader Sky Glow Filter
Processing: DeepSkyStacker/StarTools
Capture: Backyard EOS
Color Balancing: Regim
Guided: Orion 50mm Mini/QHY5L-II Mono/PHD2
- www.kevin-palmer.com - I finally got around to processing the images of the Andromeda Galaxy from August. I inserted a picture of the moon taken with the same lens for a size comparison. In dark skies (like where this was taken) you can easily see the bright core of the galaxy with the naked eye. The crazy part is the galaxy is at least twice the size shown in this picture. I just don't have the equipment to capture the faint outer portion. There are two more galaxies in this shot if you know where to look. This is a stack of about 100 pictures taken with a Takumar 135mm f2.5 lens. All shot at 4 seconds, f2.5, iso 12800.
Canon 400D. Zenitar 16mm f/2.8. ISO 1600. 23 seconds. f/2.8. 6 light and 6 dark frames stacked in Deep Sky Stacker.
- Canon 60D w/ 70-200 f/2.8L @ 200mm f/4
- Celestron AVX Mount
- 17, 190 second iso 1600 lights
- 20 darks
- 20 bias
- Captured in BackyardEOS
- Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
- Processed in PixInsight
Trifid Nebula, a.k.a M20 - the famous nebula in Sagittarius - shot on 1st March 2009 at Yelagiri hills with IITM's 8" f/5 Reflector and a Canon 40D.
Processed using DeepSkyStacker.
Copyright Owners: Astronomy Club, IITM; Akarsh Simha; Sandeep Kakarlapudi
The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated south of Orion's Belt. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across.
Date: 11-25-2011
Scope: Stellarvue SV105-3SV
Mount: Celestron CGEM
Finder: Stellarvue F50M3
Focal Reducer: Stellarvue SFF7-3SV
Filter: Baader Planetarium Moon & Skyglow Filter
Camera: Canon T2i/550D unmodified
Autoguide: Orion Starshoot + PHD
Image Capture: Nebulosity 2
Exposures: 12 x 3min @ 800 iso
Stacking: DeepSkyStacker
Image Processing: Adobe Lightroom 3.5 64bit
OS: Windows 7 64bit
This is a shot from a while back. I went camping with a friend near Cunninghams Gap in the Great Dividing Range. There is very little light pollution there, so I was able to get this shot of the milky way.
Taken with the Pentax Kit DA 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 @ 18mm, f4.0, ISO 1600 around 15 sec exposures. This is 8 shots stacked using Deep Sky Stacker.
Getting better at this exposure stacking stuff...DeepSkyStacker: 190mm, f/2.8, 35 frames, 56 sec, 12800 ISO
This image was made to commemorate the excitment I have experienced when I finally found for the first time this neat tiny nebula, the first deepsky object I have observed. That was also a moment of understanding the fact that visual observations are not my way.
View "Original" size - the Ring Nebula is only 2' across and spans the whole 33 pixels here :)
Aquisition time: 10.11.2012, around 19:20 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 640
Exposures: 9(?)
Processing: contrast was set to "linear", 16 bit TIFF were stacked in DeepSkyStacker, contrast and colors adjusted in Photoshop.
Pushing my astro gear to the limit: Messier 51 (a.k.a. Whirlpool Galaxy) is a 100 billion stars galaxy 23.16 million light years away from Earth (with a tiny size of only 11 x 7 arcmin)...
32 x 1-minute exposures, ISO 3200, f/4. Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" Newtonian f/4 reflector telescope.
Frames registered and stacked in DeepSkyStacker software; curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; noise reduction in CyberLink PhotoDirector.
First attempt.
Altair Astro Starwave 102ED-R (2017), HEQ5 Pro (Rowan Belt Drive), Berlebach Tripod, Altair IMX178MC Hypercam, SkyWatcher UHC Filter, Altair 0.6x Focal Reducer, Pegasus Stepper Motor Focuser, 25 x 30 Second Exposures. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker. Finished in Photoshop and Lightroom.
Taken using a Sony A3000 and a Fotasy 35mm f/1.7 CCTV lens. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, farther processing in Photoshop Lightroom.
Shotdate: 15 nov 2012
Camera: Nikon D3x
Optics: Celestron 9,25" Edge HD
Mount: SkyWatcher HEQ6 Pro
Guiding: f500mm F90mm LVI SmartGuider2
Somewhere in my optical train I have some reflection.
Time to find what it is.
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DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2
17 frames (ISO: 800) - total exposure: 1 hr 19 mn 20 s
RGB Channels Background Calibration: Yes
Per Channel Background Calibration: No
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Offset: 120 frames exposure: 1/8000 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Dark: 40 frames exposure: 4 mn 40 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Flat: 17 frames exposure: 3 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
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PixInsight Core 01.07.06.0793 Starbuck (x86_64)
DynamicCrop
Next action done twice (until the extraction L is too light or the stars are getting too big).
ChannelExtraction
ATrousWaveletTransform on L with layer R scale 16 enabled.
HistogramTransformation: Masking from swap file with Midtones value of 0.4.
Next action done eight times, until the image gets nearly saturated.
ChannelExtraction
HistogramTransformation on L if L is getting too bright.
ATrousWaveletTransform on L with layer R and 4, scale 8 and 16 enabled.
HistogramTransformation: Masking from swap file with Midtones value of 0.4.
HDRMultiscaleTransform with six layers.
ChannelExtraction
HistogramTransformation on L to dim the too bright area's.
CurvesTransformation: Masking from swap file
Deconvolution
Emberger Alm (Austria), 09/10/2010
Transparency: 5/5 (SQM-L 21.45, peak 21.60 at 3am)
Seeing 5/5
Temp: -4°
Takahashi FS60-C F6.2
Canon 350D Baader ACF mod
No LP Filters
18×600sec 800ISO
4 Dark - 11 Bias - 9 Flat
Guided with PHD Guiding
Starlight Lodestar+TS OAG9
Nebulosity, Deepskystacker; Pixinsight, Photoshop CS2, no crop
Notes: wonderful, Second elaboration more stretched and saturated, some residual vignetting
Had a few minutes without clouds blocking the view. So i stopped the car and took some pictures.
Stacked (8 Lightframes, 3 Darkframes, 30sec Exposures) with DeepSkyStacker
Walimex Pro (Samyang) 8mm F/3.5 Fisheye @ F/5.6 ISO3200
Hardware:
Skywatcher Evostar 72ED
Canon 700D
ZWO ASI 120mm Mini
9x50 Guidescope
Skywatcher HEQ-5 Pro
Software:
Backyard EOS
PHD2
EQMOD
Stellarium Scope
DeepSkyStacker
Adobe Photoshop
114x300s-Iso800-f/5.8
Canon 6D
Canon 300mm f/4.0 + Canon 1.4x Teleconverter
Vixen Polarie tracking head
40sec exposures @ISO 3200, f/5.6
90x Light Frames
41x Dark Frames
29x Flat Frames
30x Offset Frames
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed in Photoshop and Lightroom
I was unable to see the Andromeda galaxy that clear night with the naked eye in our light-polluted city suburb but I can on this image (just left of centre)! I had a little help from DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop CS6 to reveal this galaxy and lots of other stars that I did not see!
I took 15 light frames, 20 dark frames at the southwest end of the Old Bahia Honda Bridge, stacked them in Deep Sky Stacker and post-processed in Adobe Lightroom CC.
Milky Way and Large Magellanic Cloud, 10 Exposures, 8mm M.Zuiko PRO f1.8 Fish Eye at f1.8, ISO 6400, 20 seconds, with 1x Dark Frame, Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, with post completed in Lightroom.
A widefield image of the famous Orion Star Region including the Orion Nebula Running Man Nebula Flame Nebula and Horsehead Nebula 23 minutes of exposure time at F2.0 300mm equivalent focal length.
Taken with Olympus OMD EM1 Camera and Zuiko 150mm F2.0 Lens on IOptron Skytracker Mount Processed with Deepskystacker and Neatimage
Not entirely sure this was worth posting, but gives me something to do whilst I wait patiently for the sky to clear.
I took this on 2 September, having waited since 5 August for a clear sky. Transparency was opaque ( had to concentrate really hard to pick out Cygnus!), but I thought what the hell. So I suppose under those conditions, this could be considered a fair result :) (processing aside!)
I'll give this another go when the visibility is better, and the moon and cloud have gone away.
Nikon D70 modded, 55-200 Nikkor at 200mm (cropped), f5.6, 800iso, Baader Neodymium filter.
23 x 5 min subs for a total of 1 hour 55 mins, unguided EQ5
Darks, flats and bias
Stacked and processed in DSS and CS5, with a little help from Noel's tools.
The aurora was to the zenith, east and west and looked like flames lapping in a fire.
KP6 Aurora
Balmy Beach, Ontario, Canada
Yi4K 20 seconds ISO 800 RAW
Dark frame subtraction
DeepSkyStacker
Pixinsight 1.8
This evening Comet C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto) passed in front of the spiral galaxy NGC 2903. Observing conditions were pretty poor for this initially, with a lot of high cloud and a bright half moon. However, the cloud gradually cleared and I watched the slow movement of the comet over a couple of hours.
This image is a stack of sixty five 10 second exposures for a total exposure on the galaxy of 11 minutes or so. Because the comet was moving relative to the background stars it's smeared out into the greenish line from centre bottom to top right. The line has gaps because some frames weren't good enough to stack.
Messier 106 galaxy, also called NGC4258, centered within the picture.
Also NGC4217 edge-on spiral galaxy is captured on top of the image, with the other NGC4346 and NGC 4220 with low visibility.
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6 Pro
Scope: William Optics Fluorite Doublet 80/555
Camera: Nikon Z6
Exposures of 30 seconds, unguided.
Seeing conditions: 70-80%
Result of my first stacking using DeepSkyStacker.
Sum of the following 30'' exposures:
- 5 x ISO4000
- 5 x ISO3200
- 5 x ISO2500
- 10 x ISO1600
An untracked/unguided, short-exposure view of the western portion of the constellation Leo the Lion including a faint trace of the 9th-magnitude, barred-spiral galaxy NGC 2903. This galaxy appears just south of the star lambda Leonis (upper right edge of the full image and better seen in the enhanced image insert at the bottom right of the picture).
I suspect that the only thing that I've recorded is the brighter center core of the galaxy, although I can just make out a slight elliptical shape in the image (I think, it's quite small). In any case, stars down to the 12th magnitude were recorded in this image as verified with the Cartes du Ciel star charting software (highly recommended free download).
The sickle-shaped asterism that forms the head of Leo the Lion is also identified and is best viewed in the full-sized image ("View all sizes" under the Flickr light box -- press the "L" key to toggle the light box).
Captured on December 4, 2011 between the hours of 4:54AM and 5:04AM PST from a significantly light-polluted, near-center-city location using a Nikon D5100 DSLR (ISO 3200, 4 seconds x 90 or six minutes total exposure integration time) and a Nikkor 50mm AI-S 1:1.8 lens set to aperture f/4.
Image stack created with DeepSkyStacker (90 "light" frames and 30 "dark" frames) with final adjustments done in Photoshop CS3. Star diffraction spikes were added in Photoshop CS3 using ProDigital Software's Astronomy Tools.
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The sky was pretty transparent such that a camera can just record the Milky Way in an urban sky. This is three 1-minute exposures stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Location: Copernicus public observatory (Volkssterrenwacht), Overveen, The Netherlands.
Date & time: 16 February 2014, 21.30 Local Time (GMT+1).
Moonlit sky, moon low on the horizon, waning gibbous (98%).
Telescope: TEC 140 refractor (unfortunately not mine...)
Mount: Paramount ME II; tracking only.
Camera: Pentax K-r SLR.
Software used: DeepSkyStacker, PhotoPlus and Noiseware.
10 lightframes @30s, 5 darkframes @30s, 5 biasframes; RAW-format @1600ASA.
Comet Lulin from my driveway. This version used the comet's coma for alignment, so the stars are trailed by the comet's motion. Focus was a bit off, too.
46 x 120s @ f/4 and ISO1600
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Canon 450D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
AstroTrac TT320
Andromeda Galaxy
Bainbridge, OH
Canon Digital RebelXT 350D
Canon Zoom EF 75-300mm lens
Piggybacked on Meade LXD-75 6" SN w/ UHTC
No Guiding
96 Exposures, 30 secs each (48 min)
f/5, ISO 800, focal length 180mm
9 Darks, 0 Flats
Stacked and Calibrated with DeepSkyStacker
Processed with PhotoShop CS
October 10, 2010
The same 12 exposures, but this time I got hold of Deep Sky Stacker and used that to register and stack all the images. It chucks out a 32-bit TIFF, which I tweaked a bit to produce this image. I'm impressed - pretty sure that's a dust lane just above and right of the nucleus.
First go at Astrophotography! Learned lots of things for next time! But happy with how it turned out! :)
Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II
Lens: Samyang 7.5mm f/3.5
Post Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop CS6, Adobe Camera Raw
Image Info:
30s, ISO 1600, f/3.5, 10 Stack
Extra:
This is an updated version of a previous upload using better techniques and fixing some mistakes ;)