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Attempt at the Crescent Nebula from back garden using unguided Celestron 8" SCT, 30s exposures with Canon EOS500D and CLS filter, stcked with DeepSkyStacker
After a very successful imaging session last night, under the dark skies of Joshua Tree National Park, here's the first result. This shows the famous Flame Nebula (NGC 2024), which is below the really bright star Alnitak. And the even more famous Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) to the upper right of Alnitak, which resembles a horse's head. This one turned out better than I expected. Many more to come. :)
01/28/12
Joshua Tree, CA
4 frames = 190 seconds ISO 6400
6 frames = 665 secondsISO 3200
1 frame = 60 seconds ISO 1600
15 minutes 25 seconds in total
Images stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in Gimp 2
6" Meade Newtonian Reflector LXD75 EQ Mount
Canon Rebel T3 DSLR
10 Things:
From a relatively dark site I managed to build this wonderful image of the Orion Nebula in the constellation of Orion.
A rough shot, trying out my telescope the night I got it back from repairs. The repaired telescope still has it's quirks, but is much improved.
The mount wasn't properly polar aligned, so the stars are trailed slightly in this stack of 26x 30 second exposures, shot at iso800 and 1600 on a Canon T1i at prime focus on a 10" Meade SN-10AT telescope with an Antares ALP light pollution filter. 13 Minutes total exposure time.
This was also my first night trying out the light pollution filter. I've realized that It's not actually the filter I intended on getting, it cuts out quite a wide band of the visible spectrum. Light pollution is cut out pretty well, giving a much darker background, but it made it hard to adjust the colours in this image.
The Double Cluster is a pair of young open star clusters about 100 light years apart from each other, 7600 light years from earth in the constellation of Perseus. They are just visible to the naked eye from dark skies. They span an apparent area on the sky similar in size to the full moon.
Info:
Object: M106
Telescope: Skywatcher ED80 w/ 0.85x Reducer/Fieldflattener
Camera: 450D Full Spectrum
Mount: Heq 5 pro
Guiding: TSOAG9 met Orion SSAG
Imaging time: 30x10min = 5hr
Darks: 17 x 10min
Flats: 21 x 2,5 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: 22-2-2014 & 23-2-2014
Celestron EdgeHD 8" SCT
Advanced VX Mount (unguided)
Canon EOS T3i (600D)
14 x 15sec subs, ISO 3200, f/10
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Finished in Lightroom
Taken June 2013 from Memphis, MI
Skywatcher 150PDS
Celestron CG5
Nikon D90
112 x 30 s @ ISO1600
Total exp.: 56 min
DeepSkyStacker
GIMP 2.10
Taken in a layby at cairnomount on a crystal clear night last Saturday. 75 30 second light frames, 10 30 second dark frames and 10 1/4000 second bias frames all stacked together in deepskystacker. Canon 550D, Tamron 70-300mm lens. First proper image of any deep sky object, I'm absolutely chuffed with the results.
Imaging telescopes or lenses: 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 Sii 3nm · Chroma 5nm HA · Chroma OIII 3nm
Accessory: ZWO EFW 36 mm Filter Wheel
Frames:
Chroma 5nm HA: 32x600" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1
Chroma OIII 3nm: 32x600" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1
Chroma Sii 3nm: 34x900" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 19.2 hours
Darks: ~30
Flats: ~30
Flat darks: ~30
Bias: ~30
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 6.00
Astrometry.net job: 3986609
RA center: 18h 4' 15"
DEC center: -24° 19' 10"
Pixel scale: 1.415 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 179.919 degrees
Field radius: 1.042 degrees
Janco Moolman
So this is the first astro photo I've taken where I can clearly see a galaxy. I think I can see Andromeda on the right hand side just above the sloping roof line of the house. Wish it was this clear at home!
Also in the shot: The Pleiades (M45), Cassiopeia and a bunch of others. The white glow at bottom centre is from Jupiter.
Info:
20111223 @ 22:34
SW sky (Much Wenlock)
30x20s, f3.5, ISO2000
16mm
Stacked with Deep Sky Stacker
It was a bit cloudy (that's what what all the smudging along the bottom quarter is)
My first try at imaging the Horsehead Nebula. Shots taken during the early hours of yesterday morning using an unmodified Canon EOS 60D mounted on a Skywatcher 200 reflector in a city suburb. No filter or guiding; 1 star alignment used.
DSS used to stack 57 frames (ISO 6400; exp 30s). Further processing done using Photoshop CS6.
This is the first day shot of Astrography shoot !! Brought in some demon like Canon / CentralDS EOS 50D Astro with Celestron CG-5 Advanced GT, Sky-Watcher EQ6 Pro and HEQ5 Sky-Watcher and telescope Tecnosky 80/600
3guys one mission
M42
Galaxy shots are in RAW so post u after editin n processing.
Stuffs used here
Camera: Canon 5D Mark III with
Sky-Watcher EQ6 Pro
Lens: 14mm f/2.8 L II USM
Software: Adobe Lightroom 3, DeepSkyStacker, photoshop, Noel Carboni's Astro Tools for PhotoShop
Date: January 02, 2013
Places: Erba
Eye-Fi adhoc
MacBook
Celestron 8" Newtonian and an AVX Mount.
ZWO1600MC - Cooled Colour Camera.
Image: (Subframes of 1 minute each were stacked)
Stacking with DeepSkyStacker
Processing in Photoshop and LightRoom.
Eagle Nebula M16 - 95 Minutes of Light
Hendrik le Roux
Flickr Page:
10 x 2-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/2.8.
Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker software.
Modified EOS 600D with Leica 50mm f/2 lens, piggybacked on a Celestron C8 telescope. Unguided.
Total 1hr 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.
Brief details:
QHY9 CCD @ -35C
TMB 130SS + 0.8X reducer
260 minutes of Ha 7nm
Processed in DeepSkyStacker and PSCS2
314L with Ha filter attached to a Tamron 70-200 zoom lens set at 135mm and piggybacked to the main scope.
5 subs at 10 minutes each stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in StarTools and Photoshop.
Image taken 2/01/17
Taken with a rather awful 28mm lens I bought 30 years ago. (I have a better - though just as old - 28mm but the adapter required for it is jammed on another lens!)
9 x 4-minute exposures at f/4 and ISO 1600, registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker software.
Unmodified EOS 40D, piggybacked on a Celestron C8 telescope for tracking. Not guided, due to the short focal length employed.
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. 26, 2018
Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 18x300" (gain: 11.00) 15C bin 1x1
Integration: 1.5 hours
Darks: ~30
Flats: ~40
Avg. Moon age: 16.10 days
Avg. Moon phase: 98.01%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00
Mean FWHM: 6.50
Temperature: 11.00
Astrometry.net job: 2272025
RA center: 303.008 degrees
DEC center: 26.465 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.783 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 278.445 degrees
Field radius: 0.709 degrees
Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Data source: Backyard
鏡筒: 8cm F6 (笠井 BLANCA-80EDT) + 0.6x レデューサー
カメラ: OM-D E-M5
赤道儀: スカイメモS
288mm, F3.6, 20s, ISO1000 を DeepSkyStacker で8枚コンポジット。LightRoom CC でトリミング、トーンカーブ調整等。
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.
The Rosette nebula imaged at our local Stargazing Live event in Ipswich on the evening of monday Jan 16th.
Whilst the 300 (yes, 300!) people were all queing up to look through some of the scopes set up I was showing them images taken on my modest imaging rig via my laptop. In the mean time the rig was snapping away at the Rosette nebula.
This is a total of 23 X 6 minute exposures with matching darks and flats applied. The full details are as follows:
Photographer: Ben Jarvis
Location: Christchurch park, Ipswich, Suffolk
Date and time: 6pm - 9pm Mon Jan 16th 2012
Camera: Canon Eos 500D (modded)
Filters: LP clip filter only
Scope: Williams Optics Megrez 72 Apo + FF2 flattener/reducer operating at 345mm fl and f4.8
Mount: SkyWatcher HEQ5 Pro
Guiding: SX Lodestar camera + ST80 scope - PHD + EQMod
Stacking: DeepSkyStacker
Processing: Photoshop 7
I consider this pic somewhat of a homage to the BBC's Stargazing Live show as it was that show that got me into this hobby exactly one year ago :-)
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