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I took this image on a perfectly clear Christmas Eve night. Pictured here is the Andromeda galaxy (M31), and the smaller galaxies, M110 and M32. The Andromeda galaxy is believed to contain up to a trillion suns, and is definitely one of the most amazing objects to view in a dark sky.
12/24/11
Escondido, CA
2x30, 1x45, and 1x10 second exposure ISO 6400
1x11, 1x30, and 1x45 second exposure ISO 3200
Images stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in Gimp 2
80mm Skywatcher Refractor LXD75 EQ Mount
Canon Rebel T3 DLSR
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Stacks : 9 frames
Exposure Time : 9x302sec (45min total) @ ISO 200 (+15 flats)
Stack program : DeepSkyStacker
Stack mode : Auto Adaptive Weighted Average
Post processing : CS6 for : curves adjustments and unsharp mask filter, Lightroom 4 for local adjustments (contrast, exposure)
---Photo scope---
Camera : Sony SLT-A77
Tube : Skywatcher Explorer 150P
Type : Newton
Focal length : 750 mm
Aperture : F/5
---Guide scope---
Camera : Starlight Xpress Lodestar
Tube : Skywatcher StarTravel-102
Type : Refractor
Focal length : 500 mm
Aperture : F/4.9
---Mount---
Mount : Skywatcher EQ-6
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Objects
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Altair Astro Starwave 102ED-R (2017), Altair Hypercam IMX178C, Altair 0.6X Reducer, UHC Filter, HEQ5 Pro, 5 x 2min Subs. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker. Finished in Photoshop.
Wide field shot of Cygnus region
Taken earlier in the year from Capel Curig, Snowdonia National Park.
Eight 30 second dark frames at ISO1600
EF 17-40mm f/4L USM @ 17mm, f/4
stacked using DeepSkyStacker then imported into LR2 for curve, contrast adjustments.
Standard tripod, no tracking.
Focus was off a bit and the lens is not great at f/4
It just shows what a dark site can show compared to the light polluted urban areas.
The two largest asteroids, Ceres and Vesta, are heading for a close conjunction in mid July 2014. They are both too faint to see with the naked eye, but are easy targets in binoculars, near the fairly bright star Eta Virginis (which currently forms a nice triangle with Mars and Spica, as shown in this image). The asteroids will continue to move closer to each other over the next few weeks.
Incidentally, NASA's Dawn spacecraft is currently on route from Vesta to Ceres, where it will arrive in 2015!
For this image, I stacked 20 x 2.5 sec exposures (plus 10 corresponding dark frames) taken with my Canon 50D and EF35mm f/2 lens at f/2.8 and 1600 iso, using DeepSkyStacker.
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 PixInsight and post-processing in PixInsight 1.7
This is a mix of two images, one with the nebulosity and the other with the colors.
NGC 6188 es una neulosa de emisión ubicada a unos 4000 años luz en la constelación de Ara.
Esta imagen es el resultado de 6 imágenes capturadas con filtros especiales (2x HAPLHA, 2x OIII y 2x SII), apiladas con Deep Sky Stacker y posteriormente asignadas a su respectivo canal RGB en Photoshop para resaltar los colores; mismas que he obtenido de la base de datos de Telescope Live y fueron capturadas por el telescopio AUS - 2; Takahashi FSQ106-EDX, en Australia.
He demorado dos días simplemente en apilar y asignar de forma correcta las imágenes, pero ahora mismo me siento feliz con el modesto resultado de mi primer trabajo de apilado y procesado para un objeto de cielo profundo.
The suburban skies of the Burlington, Ontario were cold, stable and reasonably dark on the evening of December 4th, 2018. The combination of good viewing conditions and a better-than-usual polar alignment on the tracker permitted me to capture and stack forty 30-second exposures of the Orion Nebula. I need to process this more, however I'm happy with the first cut.
Canon 70D with Astronomik CLS FIlter
Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 lens
iOptron SKyTracker
40 light frames, 300 mm @ 30 sec f/5.6 ISO 6400, 40 darks, 20 flats and 20 bias stacked in DeepSkyTracker, processed with Lightroom.
Winner of Cloudy Nights Beginners DSO Challenge June 2013
June 17, 2013
17x 1 minute @ 400 ISO
15 Darks
15 Flats
15 Dark Flats
Orion XT8 (Undobbed)
Canon T3i
Guiding: QHY5L-II/Orion Mini/PHD
Capture Software: Backyard EOS
Processing: DeepSkyStacker/StarTools
Alrighty, here's another one from last night. The Pleiades star cluster. (M45). It's easily visible even to the naked eye, but imaging the object is usually required to bring out the whisp-like nebulosity.
01/28/12
Joshua Tree, CA
9 frames = 8 minute 55 second exposures ISO 6400
Images stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in Gimp 2
6" Meade Newtonian Reflector LXD75 EQ Mount
Canon Rebel T3 DSLR
The Rosette Nebula is a beautiful nebula shaped like a christmas wreath or donut by the stellar winds of the massive stars in the cluseter at its heart. The glowing pink is Hydrogen Alpha emissions from Ionized H2 gas.
It's a planetary nebula located about 1000 light years away in the constellation of Vulpecula. Like M57, it was created when a star similar to our own hit old age and puffed off it's outer layers.
Without a camera, just looking through the telescope, no colour is apparent. It just looks like a fuzzy patch faintly dumbell shaped, no sign of the outer shell.
The photo consists of 30x 20 second exposures at ISO1600 on a Canon T1i DSLR at prime focus on a 10 inch SN-10AT telescope using a light pollution filter. 10 minutes total exposure time. Photo stacked with Deep Sky Stacker. Cleaned up a little with Gimp.
I tried to take more care with this one, limiting the exposure length to try and keep the stars looking sort of like stars, although they are still kind of squiggly.
Stacked a series of 19 20 second images using deepsky stacker, Photoshop to stretch using levels adjustment and a removal of a gradient. Jupiter is the bright object, Antares is to the lower right. Images from Big Bend National Park August 2019.
Taken from Mt. Pinos. Fought my autoguider the whole time. Only 8 subs, 4 minutes each.
ZS66, LXD75, Nikon D60. Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, processed in GIMP.
Canon 50mm EF lens (MK I), at f/2.8, ISO 800. Five hand-tracked exposures (total exposure time 3m 15s), stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.
The colour gradient is caused by light pollution, which almost washes out this part of the sky from where I am.
Localisation :
CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date :
2016-10-03
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 :
75.0 minutes [15 subexposures of 300 sec each (selected from 15)] @ ISO 1600
Calibration :
Dark & bias : 9/11 @ ISO 1600 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 1600
Weather :
Bonne transparence. Vent nul. T=x18°C. Humidité nulle.
Constellation : Cassiopea / Cassiopée
Software Used :
Astro Photograph Tool (v3.13), DeepSkyStacker, PhotoShop CS
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Stacks : 14 frames
Exposure Time : 14x122sec (28min total) @ ISO 100 (+11 flats)
Stack program : DeepSkyStacker
Stack mode : Entropy Weighted Average + 2x Drizzle
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: 6.4MP out of 24MP
---Photo scope---
Camera : Sony SLT-A77
Tube : Skywatcher Explorer 150P
Type : Newton
Focal length : 750 mm
Aperture : F/5
---Guide scope---
Camera : Starlight Xpress Lodestar
Tube : Skywatcher StarTravel-102
Type : Refractor
Focal length : 500 mm
Aperture : F/4.9
---Mount---
Mount : Skywatcher EQ-6
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Source : dso-browser.com/
21 lights (8s f/5.6 ISO 1600 Canon EOS450D DSLR 18-55 lens @55mm (88mm 35mm equivalent)) Darks "in-camera", no flats or bias. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker; processed in PixInsight and Photoshop. Star Spikes Pro 2 used to emphasise the dolphin asterism.
Looks to be similar magnitude to 29 Vulpeculae ~4.8. Comparison magnitudes from AAVSO chart 12506UL
The M42 Orion Nebula and Running Man Nebula. 75x45 sec exposures on a SkyGuider Pro tracker with Nikon Z6 and Z 100-400mm S lens with Z TC-1.4x teleconverter @ 560mm, f/8 and ISO1600. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and stretched in Photoshop. No processing other than stretching and curves.
Canon 5D3 with Celestron CGEM 1100HD and 0.7x focal length reducer. Manually guided using Celestron's off-axis guider and Orion's 12.5mm illuminated reticle eyepiece.
Stacking (using Deepskystacker) of 11 shots taken at ISO 800 with 10 minute exposure (plus dark frame for each). I took 16 shots of the sky in the morning for the flats to correct background brightness variations.
Seeing was very good for Wisconsin, lots of detail in this one.
Taken from underneath the Owachomo bridge.
Canon T2i, ISO 6400, 25 sec exposure, 18 mm, f/3.5
10 images stacked with DeepSkyStacker (beta), post-processed in PS (CS4)
New moon!
From the National Bridge website:
The beauty of the night sky, the lack of light pollution, and the National Park Service commitment to night skies as a natural resource, led the International Dark-Sky Association this spring to designate Natural Bridges National Monument as the world’s first International Dark Sky Park.
Natural Bridges is one of the darkest national parks in the country according to a comprehensive study of night sky quality conducted by the National Park Service.
Just how dark is it? “It’s the only Bortle class 2 sky they’ve documented,” said Chris Luginbuhl of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona., and a board member of the International Dark-Sky Association. “In plain English that means it’s the darkest or starriest sky they’ve seen while doing these reviews. The Bortle system is a 10-level scale with one and two being the darkest skies and 10 having the most light pollution.”
1-2-2014 Galaxia Molinillo del sur
Light 24 x 1.30seg ISO 800
10 Dark, Flat, Bias
Canon t5i NO modificada
Celestron 130eq / Montura cg-5
Apilado DeepSkyStacker / Procesado PI
Autor: socios Marcela Díaz y Pedro Muñoz.
I got outside with the telescope over the weekend, albeit only briefly. I took the opportunity to finally image M45, something I'd not gotten round to previously. I wasn't really in the mood for it, and unfortunately that led to me taking some shortcuts and the final image suffered somewhat because it.
I didn't accurately level or polar align the mount, so in the 6 minute-long exposures I ended up taking, there was some rotation of the field, so the stars towards the edge of the image were obviously elongated. The image above is significantly cropped from the full image, so thankfully it's not noticeable. Still, I intend to re-visit this target in the future!
Takahashi FSQ85 f/5.3 + Canon 500D at prime focus, guided using Equinox ED80 + QHY5, 11 x 6m00 subs, captured using EOS Utility, stacked in DeepSkyStacker.
First serious attempt to use DeepSkyStacker to stack Milky Way photos. Used 30 lights and 10 darks.
Taken with 8mm Samyang fisheye lens on a Canon T1i DSLR camera. Used a SmaTrig2 time lapse controller. Shots done at 3200 ISO and F/5.6 for 30 seconds each.
The main object that caught my attention while looking for what to experiment with was the constellation 'Sagittarius'.
Taken on the night of 19 July 2020.
This is a stack of 38 frames each Tv 8, Av 3.5, ISO 800 at 10mm. Stacked using Sequator (I couldn't get DeepSkyStacker to work with these for some reason), then tweaked using a combination of Luminar, NeatImage and Photoshop.
12/23/2013
Location: The George Observatory - Brazos Bend State Park, Texas
Scope: AstroTech 72ED
Mount: Celestron AVX
Camera: Canon Rebel XT (350D) w/Baader Mod
Guiding: QHY5L-II/Orion Mini 50mm/PHD
Capture: Backyard EOS
Processing: DeepSkyStacker/StarTools
38 x 4 min @ 400 ISO
Darks & Flats & Dark Flats
AstroTech 2" Field Flattener
This is a semi-narrowband composition of the Flaming Star Nebula (IC405) and IC410. Since I use a full-spectrum DSLR, I used an Improved DGM NPB filter which allows through the spectrum lines of Hb (486nm) and both Oiii (495.9nm + 500.7nm) in one passband, and Ha (656.3nm) in a second 10nm-wide passband. This allows for decently color-balanced results to start with when using a full-spectrum sensor. I split the raw output stack from DSS into RGB channels (R being virtually all Ha), processed them separately in StarTools, created a synthetic luminance frame, then added the color back in using a bi-color approach with Ha as red and a blended G+B frame as blue, letting StarTools interpolate green.
Shot using self-modded full spectrum Nikon D5100 through Orion ED80 and CCDT67 reducer, on iOptron iEQ30 Pro mount. Used the Improved DGM NPB filter by Omega Optical along with the UV/IR cut filter by Optolong. Guided and dithered using Metaguide. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in StarTools. Used GIMP 2.9.3 to split RGB channels, and Noiseware for final denoising.
18x 240s @ 1600ISO (calibrated with flats, darks, and bias)
Canon 400D EF 75 - 300mm f/4 - 5.6 lens. Manual Barndoor mount
20 x 45 sec light frames (300mm f5.6 ISO 1600)
10 x 45 sec dark frames
Conditions:
Limiting visual magnitudel 4.0 - 4.5
Transparency - average
Seeing - average
Lots of light polution. Picture taken directly over Edmonton (pop 550,000) about 6 km from downtown in the burbs.
Stacked using DeepSkyStacker
Processed using PixInsight
1. Curve Adjustment to brighten
2. Background Extraction to eliminate vignetting
3. Set light and dark points
4. Play with curves to get what I could out of the photo
I took this photo from inside my house out of my bedroom window. It was -32C outside. I could not polar align the mount so I just guessed where the celestial pole was. Being new to astrophotography (I believe I have only a dozen processed pics) I cannot overstate how enjoyable it is to use a barndoor mount. I do not have a big budget and am saving for a telescope for astrophotography. I have a good camera with the cheap lens, add a couple of pieces of wood with a screw and I am amazed at what can be achieved. Anyone that cannot afford a good mount for widefield photography should build this type of mount. Even with a 300mm lens you can barely detect any star trails. I have modified my barndoor. Just like with a telescope, the mount needs to be sturdy, Any movement will ruin the picture. Rather then use a photo tripod (which was just to shaky) I screwed it directly onto a small table. I also made it so that I can change the angle of the axis incase I cannot find any flat ground. I just use a level to ensure it is somewhat level. I have downloaded a new pic.
Shotdate 02-04-2011
Camera: Nikon D3x
Optics: Celestron 9.25" Edge HD
Guiding: LVI AutoGuider 2
Mount: Sky-Watcher HEQ6 Pro
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DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2
11 frames 300 seconds (ISO: 800) - total exposure: 55 mn 13 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: 14 frames exposure: 5 mn 4 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Flat: 95 frames exposure: 1/30 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
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PixInsight 1.6
DynamicBackgroundExtraction
HistogramTransformation 6 time to make an artificial HDR
HDRComposition
Deconvolution
HDRWaveletTransform
HistogramTransformation
ChannelExtraction creating a mask hdr_L
HistogramTransformation hdr_L
ATrousWaveletTransform hdr_L
HistogramTransformation hdr_L
CurvesTransformation with mask hdr_L
ACDNR
HistogramTransformation
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Last weekend was a bright morning, seeing was not all that good, but I had a go at M57, The Ring nebula. Funny when the world around you wakes up. Started setting up at 03:00 started shooting at around 4:00. Used Vega as a guiding star, since guiding worked even when most of the stars where not there anymore.
120s@1600iso, Chiswick 18/01/15
Altair 115ED/APO, AZ-EQ6, Canon 1100D (modified) CLS filter
BackyardEOS, Deepskystacker, Photoshop CS2
Some bright pillars.
KP6 Aurora
Balmy Beach, Ontario, Canada
Yi4K 20 seconds ISO 800 RAW
Dark frame subtraction
DeepSkyStacker
Pixinsight 1.8
No guiding, and I didn't get my mount spot on, so this is is made up of 14 shots, 10 seconds each at various ISOs, and my first go with DeepSkyStacker. So much to learn!
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, which are satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. This image was made by stacking 15 x 15 second exposures (plus 6 x dark exposures) taken with the 6D and EF 35mm f/2 lens at f/2.8 and 6400 iso, using DeepSkyStacker.
Well past its best here, but still showing the wide dust tail and long ion tail - the latter is faint but can be seen heading right out of the frame in the 10 o'clock position.
20 x 15-second exposures at f/4 and ISO 3200 in moonlight. Canon EOS 7D and Zeiss Jena 135mm f/3.5 lens on a Vixen Polarie star tracker.
Frames stacked on the comet in DeepSkyStacker software; curves and colour balance adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; noise reduced using Cyberlink PhotoDirector.
Image by Herman Bonnet
14 January 2013, Bloemfontein
Camera: Canon 60Da
Mount: CGEM PRO
Lens: Canon EF 50 mm F4 ISO 1600
10 x 5min light frames
5x bias frames
5x flat frames
5x dark frames
Stacked in DeepskyStacker
Levels and curves in Photoshop
- Canon 7D Mark II
- Orion 8" f/3.9 Astrograph
- Baader MPCC Mark III Coma Corrector
- Orion Atlas Pro Mount
- ZWO ASI 120MC-s guide camera w/ 60mm guide scope
- 22 x 300 second Lights ISO 1600. Dithered each frame
- 10 flats
- No dark or bias
- Captured with BackyardEOS
- Guided with PHD2
- Stacked with DeepSkyStacker
- Processed in Pixinsight
- Imaged on September 2nd 2016 from the Grandview Campground in the White Mountains near Bishop, California.
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: 5419x3627
Dates: Sept. 11, 2018
Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 13x300" (gain: 11.00) 18C bin 1x1
Integration: 1.1 hours
Darks: ~30
Flats: ~40
Avg. Moon age: 1.96 days
Avg. Moon phase: 4.28%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00
Mean FWHM: 6.50
Temperature: 15.00
Astrometry.net job: 2246003
Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Data source: Backyard
Location :CastresmallObservatory (Castres, 81- France)
Acquisition Date :2016-03-14
Author :Pierre Rougé
Scope :Newton Orion 200/1000 (f/5) plus MPCC Baader
Autoguiding :Skyxatcher Synguider v1.1 & Meade ETX 70/350 mm
Camera :Canon EOS 400D (Digital Rebel Xti) refiltré Astrodon in Side (modded Astrodon in Side)
plus EOS CLIP CLS Astronomik
Exposure :66.0 minutes [22 subexposures of 180 sec each (selected from 22)] @ ISO 2000
Calibration :Dark & bias : 56/56 @ ISO 2000 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 400
Weather :Bonne transparence. Faible vent de E à SE. T=17°C humidité faible
Software Used :Astro Photograph Tool v3.00, DeepSkyStacker 3.3.6, PhotoShop CS
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
It's a bit grainy, but what do you expect with just 3 frames :)
The halo in the image is reflection from my roof, I just have to do this over soon.
Shot date: 28st November 2011
Location: Home, Teuge, NL
Camera: Nikon D3x
Optics: Celestron Edge HD 9,25"
Mount: Skywatcher NEQ6Pro
Guiding: LVI Smartguider 2
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Stacking in DeepskyStacker 3.3.2
DeepSkyStacker settings:
Stacking mode: Standard
Alignment method: Bicubic
Stacking 3 frames (ISO: 800) - total exposure: 15 mn
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: 14 frames exposure: 5 mn
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Flat: 47 frames exposure: 1/2 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
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Postprocessing in PixInsight Core 1.7 Starbuck
DynamicBackgroundExtraction
ColorCalibration
HistogramTransformation
ChannelExtraction: L
HistogramTransformation: L
ATrousWaveletTransform: L
CurvesTransformation: L: Masking
CurvesTransformation
ACDNR
HistogramTransformation
The Crab Nebula is the remnant from the supernova observed by Chinese astronomers in the year 1054. At it's center is a neutron star roughly the mass of the sun, but squished down to the size of a city.
29x 30 second exposures shot with a Canon T1i DSLR at ISO1600 on a 190mm F5.3 Skywatcher Maksutov Newtonian telescope. 14.5 minutes total exposure time.
I shot 54x 30 second exposures, and tossed out nearly half of them due to my unsteady LXD75 mount not tracking the stars sufficiently.
It was shot using the camera's long exposure dark frame noise reduction. I need to shoot some flat frames to remove the vignetting.
M65, M66 and NGC3628.
~150 images stacked using DeepSkyStacker.
Each photo 300mm/f2.8; 1.6s, ISO6400, exposure bias +5, and processed to enhance the highlights before stacking.
Nikon D810 with Sigma 120-300/2.8.
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: 12-13-2011
Seeing: moon glow and cloud haze
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
Lights: 10 x 2min @ 400 ISO, 10 x 5min @ 400
Darks: 10 x 2min @ 400 ISO, 10 x 5min @ 400
Stacking: DeepSkyStacker
Image Processing: Adobe Lightroom 3.6 64bit
OS: Windows 7 64bit
Had a quick break in the clouds. Never got enough exposures so I though I would experiment a little. 3x drizzle in Deepskystacker. It amazes me what can be captured with a 80mm scope.
Technical info about the image:
Object: Messier 27, The Dumbbell Nebula
Mount: HEQ5 Pro
Imaging scope: Equinox 80ED
Imaging FL: 400mm
Imaging camera: unmodified Canon 400D
Lights: 3 x 600 sec (30 min) at ISO 1600
Calibration: no darks, no bias, no flats
Guide scope: KWIQ Autogider
Other details: guided with PHD, calibrated and stacked using Deep Sky Stacker, post-processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop CS3.