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This image of the Pleiades (M45) has been made from 109 DSS stacked frames that I took recently. The shots were taken in a light polluted city surburb (no filter used) using an unmodified Canon EOS 60D mounted onto a Skywatcher 200D reflector (ISO 6400; Exp. 15 sec at prime focus). Photoshop CS6 used to process after stacking.
Darn hard work this! I'll fill the details in later!
LATER: Bode's Galaxy M81 & M82 galaxies in Ursa Major (The Big Dipper). About 12 million light years away.
200p, EQ5
Nikon D70 Full Spectrum
48 x 60 second subs, unguided, plus darks, flats and bias.
Stacked in DSS, processed in CS5.
Looks a bit monochromatic to me, apart from the merest hint of colour in M82 (which would be exploding with red if I had better kit!).
Got up at 3.20am to take this, so be gentle with me :)
Re-processed here
Lens: Canon 300mm f/4, stopped down to f/4.8
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM
Exposure: Ha 10min x 12, O3 10min x 12, S2 10min x 13
Mount: CEM70G
Captured with SGP
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX
Canon 6D
Canon 300mm f/4.0 + Canon 1.4x Teleconverter
Vixen Polarie tracking head
30sec exposures @ISO 3200, f/5.6
78x Light Frames
22x Dark Frames
20x Flat Frames
24x Offset Frames
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed in Photoshop and Lightroom
Casera Razzo (BL) 23/09/09
Transparency 2/5
Seeing 3/5
Sigma 300mm f4 Apo
Canon 350D Baader ACF II
18x480 sec RAW 800 ISO
10x120sec RAW 800 ISO
12+6 Dark - 21 Bias - 13 Flat
Guided with PHD
Philips Vesta Pro+Celestron 80/400
Deepskystacker (stack); PixInsight; Photoshop
Note: Cloudy, Very wet
Imaging telescopes: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED APO Triplet
Imaging cameras: ZWO 1600MM-COOL
Mounts: Sky Watcher NEQ6 pro
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED APO Triplet
Guiding cameras: ASI290MM
Software: Photoshop CC Photoshop · Astrophotography Tool · DeepSkyStacker 4.1.1 64bit Deepskystacker
Filters: Chroma 5nm HA · Chroma Sii 3nm · Chroma OIII 3nm
Accessory: ZWO EFW 36 mm Filter Wheel
Frames:
Chroma 5nm HA: 28x600" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1
Chroma OIII 3nm: 30x600" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1
Chroma Sii 3nm: 48x900" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 21.7 hours
Lagoon and Trifid nebula
Bower 85mm F4
Canon T4i ISO 800
7x 80 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Backyard EOS FWHM focusing
DeepSkyStacker
Pixinsight 1.8
Exposure: 100 x 15s exposures @ ISO3200 equiv. Darks & bias/offset, no flats.
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Lens: EF 70-200mm 1:4 L USM @ f/4.0. 200mm (x1.6).
Filters: Astronomik CLS
Mount: Piggy-backed on 8" Meade LX10.
Guiding: None
RAW images stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PSPx5.
NGC 2264, The Cone Nebula (B-color H-alpha and O-III)
Lens: Canon 300mm f/4
Mount: CGEM DX
Camera: Canon 350d mono mod, with TEC cooler
Exposure: ISO 800, 23x8min H-alpha, 30x8min O-III
Filter: H-alpha Astronomic 12nm EOS-clip
Filter: O-III Optolong 2" 12nm
Guided with PHD, SSAG, 9x50
Captured with BackyardEOS
Mono conversion with dcraw -D -4 -T -b 16
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)
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Stacks : 13 frames
Exposure Time : 13x242sec (52 min total) @ ISO 200 (+10 flats)
Stack program : DeepSkyStacker
Stack mode : Entropy Weighted Average
Post processing : CS6 for : curves adjustments, contrast, saturation and unsharp mask filter, Lightroom 4 for local adjustments (contrast, exposure, noise reduction), global WB adjustments
Crop: 7MP out of 24MP
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Camera : Sony SLT-A77
Tube : Skywatcher Explorer 150P
Type : Newton
Focal length : 750 mm
Aperture : F/5
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Camera : Starlight Xpress Lodestar
Tube : Skywatcher StarTravel-102
Type : Refractor
Focal length : 500 mm
Aperture : F/4.9
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Mount : Skywatcher EQ-6
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M101 is also known as the Pinwheel galaxy and is located about 21 million light years away, in the constellation Ursa Major. This galaxy is relatively large, being about 70% larger than our own Milky way. It is thought that its shape was influenced by some gravitational interaction with one of its neighbors.
Objects
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M 101 / NGC 5457 : spiral galaxy (App Mag:7.9 \ App Size: 28.5' x 28.3')
NGC 5473 : elliptical galaxy (App Mag:11.4 \ App Size: 2.2' x 1.7')
NGC 5477 : faint dwarf ellptical galaxy (App Mag:14.0 \ App Size: 1.6' x 1.3')
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Source : dso-browser.com/
Total 1hrs 10min
H-Alpha - 7x600sec
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker & processed in PS2.
Camera: Atik 314L+ Mono
Filters: Baader H-Alpha 7nm.
Scope: Sky-Watcher Equinox 80ED .
Mount: AZ EQ6-GT goto, PhD guided with Orion 50mm guidescope & SSAG.
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:Stellarium, StellaiumScope Stellarium, FITS Liberator 3.0, 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: 5424x3627
Dates: Oct. 10, 2018
Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 33x300" (gain: 11.00) 26C bin 1x1
Integration: 2.8 hours
Darks: ~30
Flats: ~40
Avg. Moon age: 1.43 days
Avg. Moon phase: 2.31%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00
Mean FWHM: 6.25
Temperature: 22.00
Astrometry.net job: 2304419
RA center: 324.002 degrees
DEC center: 57.491 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.783 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 358.714 degrees
Field radius: 0.709 degrees
Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Data source: Backyard
Venus, the Pleiades & a satellite flare from Bigelow Aerospace Genesis I.
2 sec. / ISO 6400 / 125mm / f5.6
124 light frames
15 each - dark, flat, bias
Shot with a Nikon D600 on a tripod without an equitorial mount from my driveway in light polluted Parma, Ohio.
Stacked and aligned using Deep Sky Stacker.
Processed in Photoshop CC and Camera Raw.
Spikes added using Star Spikes Pro 3.
Deux tentatives réussies de capturer la comète C/2013 R1 Lovejoy. Malheureusement, la queue ne se détache que très mal du fond du ciel. Les raisons peuvent être le début de l'aube et la présence de la Lune presque pleine. Je tenterai de combiner les 10 fichiers d'assez bonne qualité avec Deepskystacker ou IRIS.
Two attemps of capturing Comet C/2013R1 Lovejoy. Unfortunately, the comet's tail doesn't detach that clearly from the background sky. Reasons can be the approaching dawn and the almost full Moon, which was that far in the sky (roughly 90°). I will try to stack the 10 good files I made in Deepskystacker or IRIS.
Date: 07. Feb 2016
Imaging telescope: Celestron 8SE
Focal lenght: 2000mm
Imaging camera: Canon 600 astro-modificated
Mount: Celestron AVX GoTo
Software: DeepSkyStacker, Fitswork, Photoshop CS3
Filters: Hutech IDAS LPS-D1 (EOS-Clip Filter)
Frames: 59x15"
Aufnahmedauer: 0.2 Stunden
Nikon D90 camera
Sigma 150-500mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM APO Autofocus Lens
Orion TeleTrack GoTo Altazimuth Telescope Mount
Vello ShutterBoss Timer Remote Intervalometer
30” exposure, f/16, ISO 2000
1520mm 35-mm equivalent focal length;
I stacked 27 images using DeepSkyStacker software; Post-processing with Photoshop CS5. Darks, flats, dark-flats and offset-bias frames applied.
Info:
Object: M42
Telescope: Skywatcher explorer 150p f/5
Camera: Canon 1100d unmodified
Mount: Heq 5 pro
Guiding: Orion SSAG w/ 70mm f/10 Orion
Imaging time: 14x4min and 12x15 sec. for the center
Filter: N.v.t.
Darks: 10x4 min.
Flats: N.v.t. (but artifical flat)
ISO: 800
Stacked in: DeepSkyStacker (DSS)
Editing: Photoshop CS5.1
Location: Heesch (NL)
Date: 8-2-2013
Wow, this one is a stretch, but I hereby claim two more galaxies in my imaging empire! The larger galaxy at the bottom is Messier 81, the smaller one M82. Together, they are sometimes referred to as Bodes's Nebula. It's not much of an image... I'll do better next time!
Taken under the beautiful dark skies of Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario.
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Photographed at 05.01 EDT from the football pitch at Northern Secondary School in mid-town Toronto, Ontario, Canada
THIS PHOTO WAS JUST FOR FUN, to see what this well-known star cluster would look like from a terrible astrophotography location!
Sun 13.5° below the horizon
Altitude of M45 at time of exposures: 54.6°
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Description:
This most famous of all open star clusters is readily visible to the unaided eye even in the middle of a light-polluted city. Morning twilight was starting to creep into the eastern sky when I grabbed the subframes to make this image, so the sky was starting to turn a little blue.
Even though the subframes from which this stacked images were made were only 10 seconds in length, at ISO 200, stars to 14th magnitude can be seen if you look carefully.
For a version of this photo WITHOUT STAR LABELS, click on your screen to the LEFT of the photo, or click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/54787415517
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Technical information:
Nikon D810a camera body on Tele Vue 127is (127 mm - 5" - diameter) apochromatic refracting telescope, mounted on a Sky-Watcher EQ6-R PRO SynScan mount
Eleven stacked frames; each frame:
660 mm focal length
ISO 200; 10 sec. at f/5.2; unguided
(with LENR - long exposure noise reduction)
Subframes registered in DeepSkyStacker;
Processed in Photoshop CS6
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NGC7000 from the Cherry Springs Star Party June 20/17
10 subs each 300 seconds
No darks, flats or bias frames
Processed using DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop CC 2017 and The GIMP
Added another 90 minutes of data to the previous night for this image. Really tamed the noise down.
Taken 4-27-16 and 4-30-16 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
15x600" lights (2hr 30min total exposure time)
10x darks
30x flats
150x bias
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker (2x drizzle custom rectangle)
Processed in Photoshop CS6
The Dumbell Nebula (M27) can be found in the constellation Vulpecula. This is a stack of 24 pictures taken with a Takumar 135mm lens at 4 seconds, f2.5, iso 12800. At the top right is a 100% crop.
M101, The Pinwheel Galaxy
M101, The Pinwheel Galaxy. 22 minute stack of 15x90"" exposures on a Canon 500D through an Orion ED80.
Captured using Backyard EOS, stacked with DeepSkyStacker.
15min total (3x300s@800iso)
UK 9/12/13
Takahashi FSQ106ED f/5
Celestron Advanced Vx Mount Guided
Canon D1100 (modified) CLS filter
BackyardEOS, PHD
Deepskystacker, Photoshop CS6
This is a faint but relatively large PN in the constellation of Lynx. Since my telescope is only f/8 I had to gather a (for me) substantial amount of exposure time. Unfortunately, due to time constrains and the weather, I couldn't finish the project in one season, so this is the result of 3 nights of imaging done in 2 years (9/4/2021, 1/4/ and 19/4/2022).
Imaged through my usual 8 inch GSO RC I collected 31x10 minutes of data on this PN. Camera was a cooled EOS 700Da, filter an Optolon L-eNhance. Unfortunately, I had issues getting rid of artefacts by the amplifier glow, although I made new and correct dark frames. Instead of trying to fix it through processing, I simply cropped the image.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker in sigma clipping mode (incl. dark, flat and bias correction with no factorisation of the colour channels), further processed with Fitswork (background neutralisation, alignment of RGB channels), Affinity Photo (curves and contrast, saturation) and Noiseware (noise reduction).
North is up.
Astrographe epsilon160 f3.3 takahashi
eos350d baader+ cls
24x5 minutes 200asa
deepskystacker+photoshop
24x5min le 27.02.2009
"Darkness falls across the land
And the first stars twinkle into sight
And the moon on the trees is beautiful
But not so lovely as you
But not so lovely as you
Day to day we work away
To earn the time to make for play
So rare to take the time to sit
And stare into your eyes
And stare into your eyes
Before I found this place with you
My heart was kept inside a cage
But now it flies on feathered wings
And finds its way to you
It finds its way to you
My love for you, it's like a river
It runs and falls and goes on forever
I can't see around each bend
But still I love you more
But still I love you more
Darkness falls across the land
And the first stars twinkle into sight
And the moon on the trees is beautiful
But not so lovely as you
But not so lovely as you"
—Amy Millan
Info:
Object: B33, IC434, Paardenkopnevel
Telescope: Skywatcher ED80 w/ 0.85x Reducer/Fieldflattener
Camera: 450D Full Spectrum
Mount: Heq 5 pro
Guiding: TSOAG9 met Orion SSAG
Imaging time: 44x10min = 7hr 20mn
Darks: 9 x 10min
Flats: 21 x 3,2 sec per sessie
Bias: 30 x 1/4000 sec per sessie
Filter: Hutech IDAS LPS-P2
ISO: 400
Stacked in: DeepSkyStacker (DSS)
Editing: Photoshop CS6
Location: Sterrenwacht Halley, Heesch (NL)
Datum: 30-12-2013 & 2-2-2014
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Sky-Watcher Equinox 80ED
Imaging cameras: QHY8L
Mounts: Skywatcher AZ EQ6 GT
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Celestron 102mm f/6.6 Achromat
Guiding cameras: Magzero MZ-5m
Software: DeepSkyStacker, photoshop, Absoft Neat Image
Accessories: TecnoSky Flattener 1x
Resolution: 3038x2030
Dates: Aug. 18, 2015, Aug. 19, 2015, Aug. 20, 2015
Frames: 58x600" -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 9.7 hours
Darks: ~18
Flats: ~21
Bias: ~18
Avg. Moon age: 3.94 days
Avg. Moon phase: 16.95%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 2.00
Temperature: 30.00
RA center: 10.660 degrees
DEC center: 41.227 degrees
Orientation: -88.005 degrees
Field radius: 1.639 degrees
it is especially hard to photograph the Milky Way here as the Galactic Center never rises above 19 degrees. The weather was not perfect (humid, low clouds) but with stacking of 55 overexposed shots (5 sec exposure, F/1.8, ISO 1000) and heavy post-processing I finally managed to get some details.
The Andromeda Galaxy in Andromeda - M31. 10 November 2010.
Everyone has a go at this! 2.5 MILLION light years away! More difficult than you expect. Unguided, 24 x 1 minute exposures, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, dark frame subtracted. Processed in CS5.
I might have a go at getting slightly longer exposures next time for more detail, but unguided it's difficult.
Equipo: Star Adventurer - Canon 6D - Canon 24/105mm f/4
30 x 120s @f/5 105mm ISO 3200
Procesado: Deepskystacker - Photoshop - Lightroom
Febrero 2022 - Punta Indio - Bortle 3
Date: 7/7/13. UK.
Exposure: 24min (6x240s), iso 400, f/6.3, Guided.
Celestron 8SE OTA, Celestron Advanced Vx mount, Canon 1100d DSLR (modified) with UV/IR filter, Orion 10x50 finder, LifeCam Cinema (modified) guide camera.
Backyard EOS, PHD, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop.
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Canon 70-200 f4 IS L
Imaging cameras: Canon 600 astro-modificated
Mounts: Skywatcher Star Adventurer B
Software: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop, Fitswork
Filters: Astronomik Clip-Filter (EOS) / CLS
Resolution: 2090x3150
Dates: Dec. 21, 2014
Frames: 81x60"
Integration: 1.4 hours
taken at McDermott Court at MIT.
Camera settings: 70-300mm lens @ 300mm, F/5.6, 2 sec. per frame, 144 frames, ISO 1250. Stacked with dark, flat, and offset frames subtracted.
Shot is taken on a Canon 40D with a specialized clip-in light pollution filter using the 35mm f/1.4L lens @ 1.4
A stacking of 9 light, 11 dark, and 9 bias frames with DeepSkyStacker.
I'm not completely sure what the "scratches" are in the image, but they don't appear anywhere in the source images. The "blotchiness" in the sky is caused by mixtures of clouds overhead as a result of the stacking process. I should redo with no clouds :(
I plan to add a few more nights of data to this and present a more widefield view.
Taken 4-27-16 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
6x600" lights
5x darks
30x flats
150x bias
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker (2x drizzle custom rectangle)
Processed in Photoshop CS6
Since I think I am at the limit of what is possible with the Andromeda Galaxy without a means of tracking, I thought I'd switch targets.
The next obvious thing to try was the Pleiades, so here's the result of tonight's exposure stacking. Around 180 two second exposures @ ISO 1600.
Just a hint of the reflection nebula, particularly around Merope.
While the telescope is collecting it's data with Canon 6D attached, the Canon 5D mk2 with 16mm lens took 20, one minute pictures around 03 am today. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker (no alignment and HDR selected)
Seen over Otmoor (UK) on the night of Sunday 19 July.
This is a stack of 68 frames at 100mm f4.5 and 2s - using DeepSkyStacker.
You (well, I!) can just make out the ion tail going straight out, slightly to the left of the diffuse, curved dust tail. The sky doesn't get super dark around here, so it was hard to get enough signal - plus on reflection I should really have used my f2.8 100mm lens rather than the 100-400mm!
I wasn't going to post this.
I have processed this thing to death, stretched it far too much, and clipped it in all sorts of places, but having said all that I'm sort of pleased. At least you can see what it is!
Had terrible trouble with ice (Saturday night) and had to bin most of the subs as Alnitak looked like it was peering through frosted glass (even more so than it does now), so this is just 16x60second frames (hence the reason I had to stretch it to death). I took 90. Also the master dark didn't fit anymore as I took the darks at the end (all iced up!)
My next attempt will be better (I hope)
16 x 60 second subs
20 darks
20 bias
10 flats
On my diy modded full spectrum Nikon D70, 200p, EQ5 unguided. DSS and processed til it squeaked in CS5.
Reprocessed here
As hard as I tried, this was about the best I could get from Phoenix. From a Bortle 6 zone, I captured 500 2 second exposures of C/2020 F3 #NEOWISE, the #neowisecomet, on July 18th from 9-9:40pm. I ended up with a massive .tiff file and not a whole lot of detail for my trouble :/ I think I was just too late to the party (Neowise was much brighter a few days prior), and was shooting through too much light pollution, atmosphere, and haze.
Nikon D7200
f/5.6
2 sec x 500
ISO-12800
Nikon 200mm
Canon EOS T3i (600D)
Rokinon FE14M-C 14mm F2.8 Ultra Wide Lens
7 x 15sec subs, ISO 3200, f/2.8
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Finished in Lightroom
Taken July 2013 from Green Point Dunes, MI
Start of a project to image the wider Sadr Region in Cygnus in Ha and RGB with DSLR.12nmHa Optolong filter Esprit100/Canon6Da 25x900sec iso1600, 20 Dark frames 19 Flatframes, 174 Biasframes. (20+21+22 june 2016)
Imaged under a full moon.
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed with Pixinsight 1.8 (DBE, Staralign, Mergemosaic, Histogramtransformation, Curvestransformation)
F11+ L for large view, Full image downloadable in 6472x4971 pixels.
Knight Observatory, Tomar.