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100 mm f/9 refractor, prime focus Nikon Z6, Processed with DeepSkyStacker, 17 light frames, set comet and stars fixed
The Lagoon Nebula (M8) and Trifid Nebula (M20), imaged on 14th May 2018 in the Tankwa Karoo.
Software and equipment:
Imaging Telescope: William Optics GTF-81
Imaging Camera: Canon 7D Mark II
Mount: iOptron ZEQ25GT
Guiding: Moravian Instruments G0-300 with off axis guider
Software: Sequence Generator Pro, DeepSkyStacker and Adobe Photoshop.
The camera was set to ISO 1600 and fifteen 10 minute exposures were used in the final image for a total integration time of 2.5 hours.
Zander Horn
Took my new Sony A7CII out to my favorite dark sky location to see how it handles the night sky. It did wonderfully! No more star eater bug, Sony finally fixed it!
This is M51, I haven't attempted this target for 11 years. This is 3x6 min ISO800 frames + 1x4min ISO6400 stacked with DeepSkyStacker and then processed in Lightroom. I will try this one again with more frames sometime.
80x240s = 5h20min, no moon
location = oakland, ca
date = 7/15/2010 - 7/16/2010
hap griffin modified canon 50d (astrodon L filter), astronomik CLS filter
canon 200mm f/2.8L @ f/4
sensor cooled to 12-13C with peltier cooler
ISO800
master calibration frames made with pixinsight 1.6.
54 bias frames
96 dark frames
40 flat frames
light evaluation with deepskystacker
processing with pixinsight 1.6:
lights calibrated and registered
lights integrated in average mode, winsorized sigma clipping, high = 3.8, low = 3.8
red channel morphological erosion to fix red star bloat
deconvolution (10 iterations RRL, std_dev = 1.4)
a'trous wavelet sharpening
masked stretch
histogram transformation
curves transformation
dark structure enhancement script
lightroom 2.0:
black levels
red hue, luminance
clarity adjustment
On this night I captured Comet Hartley with my camera piggy-back on my telescope, through a zoom lens (Canon T1i, 300mm, F5.6, ISO3200). It's a wide view, 4 full moons could span the height of this image.
40x 30 second exposures were shot between 11:17pm and 11:50pm PST, 20 minutes total exposure time over 33 minutes.
Stacked to hold the comet still with Deep Sky Stacker 3.3.3 b25, 'Kappa-Sigma' formula which in this case represses the star trails. This version brings out more of the glow of the comet, and a hint of a tail going off to the top right.
On this night, Comet Hartley was in the constellation Perseus, shining at about magnitude 5.7. It has a distinct green glow but no distinct tail.
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.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - I decided to go back and re-process this image from the middle of summer. This part of the sky is just filled with interesting objects to observe. On the bottom is the large "Lagoon Nebula". The multi-colored "Trifid nebula" is above that, with the star cluster M21 above the trifid. The large star cluster at the top right is M23. This is a stack of about 65 pictures taken with a Takumar 135mm f2.5 lens. All shot at 4 seconds, f2.5, iso 8000.
First picture from my new photographic challenge.
Tech: Sky watcher Sky Adventurer Eq mount. Nikon D700 Sigma 150-600mm @600mm f/6.3.
Stack of 51 images (lights) 30s exposure ISO1600 and 24 darks. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, developed in StarTools demo. Some horisontal "tracks" in the image, not sure what have caused it. I was "plagued" with Aurora this evening, so maybe the tracks are remains of that. I am very sure the colors are very much of.
Pretty happy with my first attempt, LOADS of things to learn, not least in the fine art of post processing.
This is a 6-minute stacked image from three 2-minute exposures. I'm looking forward to my next dark sky outing. Hopefully Monday will be clear for the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. The AstroTrac is too cool. :)
Oh, and the processing is quick-and-dirty. I should really have spent a bit more time getting the colour tweaked accurately.
Here is my image taken tonight (February 16th, 2008) of the decaying spy satellite USA 193 as it crossed through the heart of the Orion Constellation. About 10 minutes later, the ISS did the same thing, from a 90º angle. The faint line is the trail of USA 193, at Magnitude 1.2, while the brighter line is the Magnitude -2.4 ISS.
This is a 4x6-inch crop from a much larger image taken with a Losmandy G11 Gemini mounted Canon D40, using an 28-135mm lens set at 28mm, ISO 640, using 30-second subs, live-view focusing and mirror lockup. The combined exposure time was just over 30 minutes. DeepSkyStacker combined all the images. Then the combined image was imported into Photoshop CS, where the individual images showing the trails (2 for each satellite) were overlaid as separate layers, using the "Lighten" mode in Photoshop, so the trails would show.
No dark frames, flat fields, bias frames or image clean-up was done on the final image. I plan to use darks and bias frames at least, but it will take all night long for the computer to combine all the individual files. The final image was rotated 90º so it looks like what was seen visually.
I had also captured the trail of the Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission - TRMM satellite just before 7:00 p.m. PDT, right at the end of the image capturing session. It was Magnitude 2.0, but shows very faintly in the original images. This was the faintest of the 3 trails captured going through the Orion Constellation tonight. I will try to add the two images that made up the whole trail. The TRMM cut through Orion just above his feet, essentially knocking him off his feet. First he got hit in the chest by the other 2 satellites, and now this! Looks like Orion had a hard night.
Comments, questions, and critiques welcome. This is pretty crude, but it was incredible to see visually - the ISS was extremely bright tonight!
Clear skies!
Acquisition details:
Camera: Canon 450d mod BCF, 81F
Lens: Canon 50mm f/1.8 at f/4
Filter: None
Mount: Celestron CG5 ASGT
Exposure: 13x3min ISO 1600
No guiding
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Granger Lake, TX (Green Zone)
Camera: Meade DSI Color II
Exposure: 29m (15 x 1m) RGB + (14 x 1m)L
Focus Method: Prime focus
Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm
Mount: LXD75
Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian
Guided: None
Stacked: DeepSkyStacker
Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop
Location: Flintstone, GA
Reprocessed version of the Rosette Nebula.
Capture date: November 3
Scope: Equinox 80mm Apo @ f5 (0.8X WO flattener)
Mount: HEQ5 unguided
Camera: Modified Canon 350, ISO800, IDAS LPS P2 filter
Exposure: 60 minutes, 30x120sec lights, 12 darks, 10 flats
Conditions: average seeing, good transparency
Processing: stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PS CS2
Cencenighe, 13/03/2010
Transparency: 4/5 (SQM-L 20.80)
Seeing 3/5
Temp: -3°
Meade SN6 (152mm f5)
Canon 350D Baader modified
No LPR Filters
25x300 Sec RAW 800 ISO
21 Dark - 21 Bias - 11 Flat
Guided with PHD Guiding (dithering)
Magzero Mz5-m+Orion ShortTube 80 f5
Nebulosity, Deepskystacker; Pixinsight, Iris (remove gradient), Photoshop CS2
IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk Nebula
Ha: 28/10/2012 + 11/10/2012, Diepenbeek, Belgium
OIII: 6/9/2013, Diepenbeek, Belgium
Lights: OIII: 41x120 sec. Ha: 65x120 sec, Darks: 68x120 sec.
Total time = 212 min
Equipment used:
-Skywatcher 200mm F4 Carbon
-NEQ6 mount
-Atik 314L+
-Televue Paracorr 2
-Baader Ha, OIII Filter
-DeepSkyStacker
-Astrozap Dew-shield
-Guiding: Synguider
-Gimp
A volte il silenzio è la migliore musica.
Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari in Oro, incenso e birra
La Via Lattea ripresa dalla riva del Salar di Uyuni. E' la stessa immagine di Sotto lo stesso cielo, stavolta elaborata con Iris e non con DeepSkyStacker.
Grazie a Sergione per il supporto e la compagnia.
Whirlpool galaxy captured using
my C9.25 at f10 with Atik 314L and light pollution filter. 7 subframes captured at 10 minutes each stacked and flat frame calibrated in Deepskystacker and processed in StarTools and Photoshop. Autoguiding used 60mm refractor,SX Lodestar and PHD guide software. Image taken 29/04/15
Messier 3 (M3; also NGC 5272) is a globular cluster of stars in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici.
It was discovered on May 3, 1764, and was the first Messier object to be discovered by Charles Messier himself. Messier originally mistook the object for a nebula without stars. This mistake was corrected after the stars were resolved by William Herschel around 1784
Equipment: EQ5Pro, GSO Newton astrograph 150/600, GSO 2" coma corrector, QHY 8L-C, SVbony UV/IR cut, guiding QHY5L-II-C, SVbony guidescope 240mm.
Software: NINA, DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Adobe photoshop
100x120 sec. Lights gain5, offset115 at -10°C, master bias, 60 flats, master darks.
16 and 17 March 2023
Belá nad Cirochou, northeastern Slovakia, bortle 4
NGC 3507 is the face-on spiral near the centre. NGC 3501 is the edge-on galaxy to the lower right.
In the upper left there is a collection of much fainter, more distant galaxies.
Aggregate exposure ~20 minutes.
Star Trails with Canon EOS M.
Multiple 30 sec images composited with DeepSkyStacker
Above Crowthorne, UK
TS-Optics Photoline 90mm f/6.67 (600mm) Refractor & Flattener
Celestron CGX Mount
Nikon D7500 DSLR
28x320s Light (2 hr. 29 min. 20 sec.)
11x Dark, 50x Flat, 50x Bias
Backyard Nikon, DeepSkyStacker, Nebulosity, Lightroom
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
41 light - 800 iso - 300 sec.
15 dark - 800 iso - 300 sec.
31 offset - 800 iso - 1/8000 sec.
21 flat frame - 800 iso - 1/40 sec.
Reflex no modded on eq5 synscan with guide QHYL5ii-mono and telescope refractor TSED70Q 474mm 70mm F6.7.
Processed with DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2, Photoshop CS6
After sitting in the garage for most of the winter whilst the Borg was
getting used all the time, the Skywatcher 190 MakNewt got to point its
one near-perfect eye at a dark sky again on Sunday night.
After grabbing the RGB data for the Rosette image early in the evening
with the Borg, I quickly swapped over the imaging side of the ADM
side-by-side bar to the MakNewt, rebalanced, realigned, focused, and
fired up CCD Commander to center up M81/M82.
I have forgotten how nice the images are with the MakNewt :) The full
size version has some quite intricate detail, something that gets lost
when uploaded here.
Mount: EQ6 via EQMOD
OTA: Skywatcher 190 MakNewt
Guiding: SW ED80 + SX Lodestar + MaximDL
Imaging: Starlight Xpress M25C + MaximDL, 30×300s, Hutech IDAS LPR (101
bias, 101 flats)
Orchestrated: CCD Commander
Stacked: DeepSkyStacker Post Process: PSCS2 + PixInsight
Canon EOS 450D prime focus Skywatcher 150 Explorer Newtonian. EQ3-2 mount. 10 lights (30s ISO1600), 10 darks, 20 flats, 20 bias. DeepSkyStacker > PixInsight > Photoshop CS5
Lens: Sigma 135mm Art f/1.8
Camera: Canon 6D (unmodified)
Exposure: 14x2min, ISO 1600
Filter: None
Mount: CG5-ASGT
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Davis Mountains, TX
The Pleiadies star cluster.
Canon 40D with 500mm Rubinar mirror lens piggybacked on a Celestron C6S-GT telescope.
20x4min at ISO 1600
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, processing in PixinsightLE and Photoshop CS3
Tracking wasn't great and there's some bad internal lens reflections, but still not bad. I caught the nebulosity around the brighter stars at least.
Was a BEAUTIFUL night tonight, so I decided to go out there and do some astro-photography! Please view LARGE!!
Stack of 10 light frames, 2" exposures at ISO12800, f/5.6 with 5D Mark II + 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS lens @ 400mm
Subtracted 26 dark frames, 20 bias frames.
I'm trying this one more time with a different stacking method to try and reduce the noise a bit more!
Canon EOS 450D prime focus Skywatcher 150 Explorer Newtonian. EQ3-2 mount. 19 lights (30s ISO1600), 10 darks, 20 flats, 20 bias. DeepSkyStacker > PixInsight > Photoshop CS5
First image is obviously the original, stacked using DeepSkyStacker.
The star trails image was created using startrails.exe
Nikon d5100
18mm
Stack of 40 20sec exposures
ISO 640
f5
Celestron EdgeHD 8" SCT
Advanced VX Mount (unguided)
Canon EOS T3i (600D)
13 x 30sec subs, ISO 1600, f/10
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Finished in Lightroom
Taken July 2013 from Stargate Observatory, MI
Taken on September 25, 2011 near Butler, Missouri using an SBIG8300C camera mounted on a CGE1100 Telescope using Hyperstar (F/2). This is the sum of 8 ten minute images, stacked using DeepSkyStacker. The image was then processed with Photoshop CS2.
Guiding used PhD Guiding with an Orion Starshoot autoguider.
Exerted myself to reprocessing the stacked image as a compatriot amateur pointed out that the colors of stars in the previous result look problematic. Color adjusted according to G2V star. The final result this time looks more pleasing to me.
Images stacked in DeepSkyStacker, further processed in Fitswork, IRIS and Photoshop.
By the time CBAT had already announced an official designation of this supernova as 2014J, no longer prefixed by PSN.
First try with Celestron Oxygen Filter, 2 nights before Full Moon.
Only 12x300s exposure ISO 1600 on Orion 80ED with 4 dark, Bias & 3 Flats to begin with.
Stacked using DeepSkyStacker 64bit.
Minor processing on Photoshop CC
Cencenighe, 12/06/2010
Transparency: 4/5 (SQM-L 21.00)
Seeing 4/5
Temp: 16°
Takahashi FS60-C with flattener f6,2
Canon 350D Baader ACF mod
No LPR Filters
16x480 Sec
7 Dark - 21 Bias - 15 Flat
Guided with PHD Guiding
Magzero Mz5-m+Orion ShortTube 80 f5
Nebulosity, Deepskystacker; Pixinsight LE; Photoshop CS2
Notes:n/a
My very first attempt at photographing a deep sky object. I knew nothing about photography and had my friend's Nikon D60 attached to the scope for some prime focus photography.
Nikon D60
8" Meade LX90 ACF telescope
50x 10 second exposures, ISO 2000
20 dark frames , 20 bias frames (accidentally set the cam to ISO 1600 for dark and bias frames)
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop CS 6 and Lightroom 5
Shot from my backyard on feb 4 2014.
Modded 450d @iso 800 on iOptron SkyTracker mount
Astronomik CLS clip-in filter
EF 50mm F/1.4 @ F/3.5
60x 2min subs
30x 15s subs (orion nebula core)
30 darks and some flats
Stack of 20 fifteen second exposures combined using DeepSkyStacker. 16" F/4.6 telescope and Canon XSi.
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: 2811x1989
Dates: Dec. 20, 2014
Frames: 58x180" -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 2.9 hours
Darks: ~15
Flats: ~36
Bias: ~42
Avg. Moon age: 27.33 days
Avg. Moon phase: 5.39%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 3.00
Temperature: 4.00
RA center: 83.801 degrees
DEC center: -5.268 degrees
Orientation: -100.452 degrees
Field radius: 1.544 degrees
Locations: Drassa, Corinth, Greece
Canon T3i
18 x 8 sec exposurs at ISO 1600
Orion XT8 (1200 MM) + baader coma corrector + sky glow filter
Processed with
DeepSkyStacker & StarTools
4 flats
5 flat darks
4 darks
4 offsets
I got a 70-300mm this time so I gave it another try. I stacked 176? images, all with 1.3 sec exposure, f/5.6, 300mm @ ISO 800. The final image was post-processed by Photoshop.
相機/Camera: Canon EOS 40D
鏡頭/Lens: Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 APO DG macro
焦距/Focal length: 300mm
光圈/Aperture: f/5.6
快門速度/Shutter speed: 1.3s
總曝光時間/Total exposure time: 3m48.8s
感光度/ISO: 800
共176張圖以DeepSkyStacker疊合而成/Stacked from 176 images using DeepSkyStacker.
Celestron Nexstar 130 SLT
Canon Eos 10D
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop
14*30sec. Iso 200.
5 Dark 5Flat 50 Bias
Nights are still quite bright, but its getting darker and darker. I had to wait until 1 am, before sky was darkest.
This is not the best one I have gotten, but it was still very fun to start shooting space after bright summer nights.
Days have been so hot (30 degrees) and night are also warm, so it was fun to stay outside..
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: 5411x3636
Dates: June 10, 2018
Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 36x300" (gain: 11.00) bin 1x1
Integration: 3.0 hours
Darks: ~30
Flats: ~40
Avg. Moon age: 25.83 days
Avg. Moon phase: 14.74%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00
Mean FWHM: 6.50
Temperature: 18.00
Astrometry.net job: 2171056
RA center: 311.444 degrees
DEC center: 30.670 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.783 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 96.630 degrees
Field radius: 0.709 degrees
Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Data source: Backyard
201 Ligt Frames - 1.6 sec - 2500 iso - unknown F
101 Bias Frames
106 Dark Frames
Cr2 converted to DNG with Adobe DNG converter and stacked with DSS ,, first edit with DSS and saved to Tiff and reedit in DPP and saved to jpg
results is very low .. shots taken from City ..
This is a cropped version of the wide-field photo of the Andromeda Galaxy. Notice the stars are round?!
C/2011 L4 is getting dimmer but easier to find as it approaches the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Photographed at 8:18-27 pm on April 2 in Cambridge, MA, USA. Stacked from 109 frames of 3.2" exposure each at 190mm, F/5, ISO 1600 using DeepSkyStacker's comet mode. The color bandings in the background came from low clouds and my attempts to manually correct lens vignetting as I did not shoot flat flames for this.