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Canon 5dmkii f/2 C-11 /CGEM-DX / Hyperstar. 25 lights, no Darks, no Bias, no Flats, stacked in Deepskystacker.
The Pleiades or Seven Sisters (Messier 45 or M45), is an open star cluster containing middle-aged hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky. The celestial entity has several meanings in different cultures and traditions.
The cluster is dominated by hot blue and extremely luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years. Dust that forms a faint reflection nebulosity around the brightest stars was thought at first to be left over from the formation of the cluster (hence the alternative name Maia Nebula after the star Maia), but is now known to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium, through which the stars are currently passing. Computer simulations have shown that the Pleiades was probably formed from a compact configuration that resembled the Orion Nebula. Astronomers estimate that the cluster will survive for about another 250 million years, after which it will disperse due to gravitational interactions with its galactic neighborhood.
5 exposures 6 minutes each stacked with DeepSkyStacker.
5DMkIII on a Skywatcher 200PDS with a Paracorr coma corrector.
HEQ5 Pro mount controlled via PHD2.
QHY5II guide camera on a Skywatcher 9x50 finderscope.
Camera control via BackyardEOS.
Raw files stacked with DeepSkyStacker and postprocessed in Lightroom.
Nikon D300
AstroTrack
8 x 300 sec. 60mm Micro f3.5 ISO 800
DeepSkyStacker
3 x Drizzle of the total image
North American Nebula in Cygnus (NGC7000, C20)
Image capture: Canon 760D with Sigma 70-300mm APO DG lens - f4.0, fl 70mm, ISO6400, 10s (11.11.18 21:30h)
Perfect focus achieved using a Starsharp2 Bhatinov grating.
I exposed it for 3s too long and got a bit of star trailing (500/70mm = 7.1s). Will remember next time or fix the camera to a guided mount!
Processing: 10 images stacked using DeepSkyStacker with appropriate flats, darks, and bias frames. Stacked image further processed using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.
8 min of exposure (16x30s) using a 5.5" Orion OMC-140 Maksutov Cassegrain and Nikon D90 at prime focus. ISO3200. HEQ-5 mount. Frames processed in DeepSkyStacker. Taken on the 4th October 2018. Image resized and cropped.
Camera: Nikon D50
Exposure: 1hr 9m (23 frames) ISO 800 RGB
Filter: Orion Skyglow Imaging Filter
Focus Method: Prime focus
Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm
Mount: LXD75
Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian
Guided: Yes - PHD Guiding
Stacked: DeepSkyStacker
Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop
Location: Flintstone, GA
Managed to grab about 100 or so decent 2 sec frames during a break in the cloud late last night. Stacked together this give about 3 minute equivalent exposure time. Not really long enough but the tail is definitely there just poking up from the noise.
Riccardo Rossi / ISAA
22:35 CEST - 15 Lug 2020 - Denzano (MO)
NIKON D90 + Nikkor 70-300mm F/4.5-5.6G ED VRII
Focale 300mm - Apertura f/5.6 - Posa 30” a 400 ISO
Treppiede motorizzato EQ3
Stacking di 10 scatti con DeepSkyStacker
Located 1500 light-years from Earth, this nebula is glowing due to energetic radiation from the nearby star Menkib, the brightest visible in this photo.
January 2018
Bristol, UK (Bortle 9)
Telescope: Skywatcher Evostar 80ED DS-Pro, .85x r/f
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-C
Mount: Skywatcher HEQ5 PRO
Guide: 50mm finderscope, QHY5
Software: SGPro; DeepSkyStacker; RegiStar; Photoshop; Lightroom
H-a (red): 40 x 4 mins, total 160 mins
SII (purple): 40 x 4 mins, total 160 mins
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Total integration time: 5 hours 20 minutes
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By Lee Pullen
NGC 253 re-do with new luminance and old color
OTA: Celestron C10N, 10" newtonian reflector
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM
Exposure: L 202x1min (and color from canon 450d)
Mount: CEM70G
Captured with SGP
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (light pollution zone: red)
Milky Way - Seen from Carickalinga Beach. Early experiments with Astro Photography. 10 frames plus 2 dark frames stacked in DeepSkyStacker.
- 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
- 30 x 300 second Lights ISO 1600. Dithered each frame
- 30 flats
- No dark or bias
- Captured with BackyardEOS
- Guided with PHD2
- Stacked with DeepSkyStacker
- Processed in Pixinsight
- Imaged on October 1st from the Grandview Campground in the White Mountains near Bishop, California.
Mars in Gemini, over North Sydney
52 stacked 30second images using DeepSkyStacker.
Used Lumicon Hydrogen Alpha filter to cut out some of the light pollution.
Camera mounted on EQ1 mount.
There are 3 galaxies in this image taken from my back garden on the 10th of May, the night of the stunning aurora we all witnessed. They are NGC 5981 120 million light years away, NGC 5982 123 million light years away and NGC 5985 140 million light years away.
Look more closely and you'll notice quite a few more galaxies hiding in this image. There are quite a lot more that my camera couldn't pick up.
At the heart of NGC 5982 lies a black hole thought to be 830,000,000 solar masses.
For context, our Sun is 1 Solar mass, equivalent to 333,000 Earths.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 100, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.
180s exposures.
Best 80% of 45 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools.
Canon 450D stock - 50 lights 30 sec iso 1600 stacked in Deepskystacker f/7 reducer on C-11 / CGEM-DX
M82 in Ursa Major. About 11 million light years away.
Taken at the prime focus of a Celestron CGEM EdgeHD 925.
Stack of 8 exposures of 1 minute each.
Stack of 21 exposures at 5 seconds, f1/8, ISO 1600. Processing in DeepSkyStacker and Iris. My platform was a cheap rickety aluminum tripod.
Check it out--right next to the leftmost star in Orion's belt (easier seen large). I got the flame nebula!
Under a dark rural sky on New Year's Eve I tried another shot of the four well known Orion nebulae. The tracking was slightly off (as illustrated by the elongated stars) so I only managed to use three of the six frames I took. Still that's 12 minutes of light gathering on the CCD sensor. There was no filter used during the exposure since I don't have one to fit the 72mm thread on the 180mm lens.
Tracker: Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Camera: Sony A57
Lens: Sony 85mm f/2.8 @f/2.8
Exposure: 144 minutes-cm2 (10x 120s ISO400)
Raw converter: RawTherapee
Stacker: Deep Sky Stacker (DSS)
Processing: rnc-color-stretch
Processing: GIMP
Captured on September 8, 2017 from a Bortle 5 zone
Equipment:
* TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian
* Orion Sirius EQ-G
* Canon Rebel T3 (Full spectrum modified)
* High Point Scientific 2" Coma Corrector
* StarGuy 2" CLS-CCD filter
* Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope
* ZWO ASI-120MC for guiding
Acquisition:
* Lights- 12x300" at ISO 800
* Darks- 10
* Bias- 100
Software and Processing:
Captured using AstroPhotography Tool and guiding done with PHD2. Stacked using DeepSkyStacker. Processed in Photoshop using levels, curves, Solar Screech plugins, and HLVG.
Imaging telescopes: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED APO Triplet
Imaging cameras: ZWO 1600MM-COOL
Mounts: Sky Watcher NEQ6 pro
Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI 120 MC-s
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
Dates:Jan. 25, 2020 , March 6, 2020
Frames:
Chroma 5nm HA: 6x900" (gain: 200.00) -15C bin 1x1
Chroma OIII 3nm: 6x900" (gain: 200.00) -15C bin 1x1
Chroma Sii 3nm: 24x900" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 9.0 hours
Shotdate 21-02-2011
Camera: Nikon D3x
Optics: Celestron 9.25" Edge HD
Guiding: LVI AutoGuider 2
Mount: Sky-Watcher HEQ6 Pro
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11 frames of 300 seconds (ISO: 800) - total exposure: 55 mn 4 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: 8 frames exposure: 5 mn
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Flat: 40 frames exposure: 1/2 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Staking: DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2
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Postprocessing: PixInsight 1.6
DynamicBackgroundExtraction
HistogramTransformation
HDRWaveletTransform
ACDNR
Saved the image with preforming five times a HistogramTransformation and saving each transformation in 32-bit TIF for making HDR composite
HDRComposite function
ChannelExtraction L (For a lightness mask)
HistogramTransformation on L
Applied the mask L
CurvesTransformation
HistogramTransformation
The Horsehead and Flame nebulas surrounding the bright star Alnitak at the left of constellation Orion's belt. 70 minutes of total exposure to an Orion Starshoot Pro Color (V1) camera through a Pentax 105EDHF refractor. The system is mounted on an Orion Atlas mount, guided piggyback style with a Vixen 80mm A80SS refractor using PHD software. The image was processed with Michael Herman's personal software and then stacked in DeepSkyStacker and further improved in Photoshop CS3. Images taken Jan 5 2010 from backyard in Sunnyvale, California.
A composite of about 20 frames. There's more detail, but the clouds are smeared out, obscuring much of it.
The Andromeda galaxy is visible above left of centre (it looks kinda like a smeared orange star).
A little part of Milky Way Galaxy.
4x20s - 1 Dark - 1 Flat Dark
ISO1600
Fuji FinePix S1 Pro
Nikkor 28-80mm F3.3-5.6 at 28mm F3.3
Deep Sky Stacker
Andromeda shot with my Nikon D50 and a plain 50mm lens. A total exposure time of 6 min 30 sec stacked with DeepSkyStacker. Each picture was 5secons exposure. ISO 1600 and f/2.8.
The moon was almost full so it has a negative influence on the picture. This was my first time i shot andromeda, but i will try again when there is no moon. Also there was alot of litepolution from the city, as this picture is shot from the middle of Oostende (Belgium).
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: 5400x3630
Dates: Sept. 11, 2018
Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 17x300" (gain: 11.00) 17C bin 1x1
Integration: 1.4 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: 14.00
Astrometry.net job: 2246126
Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Data source: Backyard
Imaging telescope or lens: Canon 70-200L F4.0
Imaging camera: Canon EOS 350Da
Mount: AstroTrac TT320X-AG
Software: photoshop, DeepSkyStacker
Dates: Dec. 1, 2013
Frames: 14x180"
Integration: 0.7 hours
M27 The Dumbbell Nebula taken by Dan Brandon on 7-12-13 with an Orion 10"Newtonian Astrograph and a Canon T3i DSLR camera. This image is 5 x 120 sec. exposures Stacked using DeepSkyStacker
Nikon D5300
Nikkor 55-300mm DX ED VR @ 300mm
Orion AstroView EQ w/motor drive
~65 x 50 sec. exposures at f/8, ISO 640
Bortle 8 light pollution
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed with LightRoom and Fitswork
06/03/2013
Telescope: AstroTech 72ED
Field Flattener
Baader Sky Glow Filter
Canon T3i
18 x 3 min, ISO 400
13 darks
15 flats & dark flats
Capture Software: Backyard EOS
Processing Software: DeepSkyStacker, StarTools
Guiding: QHY5L-II/Orion Mini/PHD
OTA: Canon 300mm f/4, stopped to 62mm for f/4.8
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM
Filters: Baader CMOS-Optimized Ultra-Narrowband
Exposure: Ha 12x10min, RGB 15x2min
Mount: CEM70G
Captured with SGP
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (light pollution zone: red)
Canon 6D
Canon 300mm f/4.0 @ f/4.0
Vixen Polarie tracking head
120 x 45 sec @ISO3200 & ISO12800
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed in Lightroom
Vorige donderdag bij Sterrenwacht Halley, het was helder, en het is alweer meer als een maand geleden toen we de Takahashi opnieuw hadden gecollimeerd dus: FOTOGRAFEREN!
De maan was voor 3/4e deel belicht, nevels zijn eigenlijk niet te doen maar we zijn toch eigenwijs, en hebben ic405 de Flaming Star Nebula proberen te pakken. De seeing was wel ECHT slecht, meer als 2 arcsec. en de dec as stond te springen in PHD, maar het is toch goed gegaan.
Uiteindelijk 2 uurtjes aan data verzameld, heb er toch nog wat uit kunnen halen, het is niet veel, maar we hebben wel bereikt wat we wilden. (Namelijk kijken of de collimatie o.k. is)
Collimatie is echt goed nu, alleen moeten we wel nog finetunen met de afstanden tot aan de corrector, want nu we een filter ertussen hebben gezet kan de afstand weer net 1mm meer zijn etc. etc....
Maar we kunnen wel zeggen dat we zo goed als klaar zijn in de kleine koepel!
Info:
Object: ic405, Flaming Star Nebula
Telescoop: Takahashi E300, f3.8 Astrograph
Camera: 450D Full Spectrum
Mount: AstroTechniek CP180
Guiding: ASH OAG, w/ Orion SSAG
Opnametijden: 26x5min = 2hr10mn totaal.
Darks: 3x5min
Flats: 21x2,5sec.
Bias: 35x1/4000sec.
Filter: Hutech IDAS LPS-P2
ISO: 400
Gestacked in: DeepSkyStacker (DSS)
Bewerking: Photoshop CS6
Plaats: Sterrenwacht Halley
Datum: 12-12-2013
Camera: Nikon D50
Exposure: 10 x 180s ISO 1600 RGB
Filter: none
Focus Method: Prime focus
Lens Aperature/Focal Length: 80mm×500mm
Lens: Adorama ProOptic f6.3 500mm Mirror Lens
Guided: PHD Guiding
Stacked: DeepSkyStacker
Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop
Location: Flintstone, GA
Info:
Object: NGC6960 Western part of the Veil Nebula
Telescope: Skywatcher explorer 150p f/5 met Baader MPCC
Camera: 450D Full Spectrum
Mount: Heq 5 pro
Guiding: TSOAG9 met Orion SSAG
Imaging time: 132x5min = 11hr total
Filter: Hutech IDAS LPS-P2
Darks: 67x5min
ISO: 400
Stacked in: DeepSkyStacker (DSS)
Processing: Photoshop CS6
Location: Heesch
Date:13-07-2013, 18-07-2013 & 19-07-2013
The Prawn Nebula IC 4628
There is a total of 3hrs and 20min of 5 minute subs in this image. I'd started using iso400 but upped the ante to iso 800 later, but I tossed all of them in the pot to create the final image.
Darks and flats taken separately.
Scope - ed 80
Mount - heq5pro
Guiding using qhy5
Camera Canon 20d
Software used ..... DeepSkyStacker and CS3
Imaged from a dark sky site on the 3rd and 4th of June 2010.
The newly discovered SN in M82 taken on local 22 Jan - 23 Jan predawn.
Info within the pic itself.
Dark and bias subtracted and flatfielded. Processed in DeepSkyStacker, Fitswork and Photoshop. Original size yet cropped.
The air temperature was the coldest since last winter, ~3 Celsius. Transparency excellent at the beginning, yet worsened as the humidity climbed up. The strong moonlight also was further scattered by droplets in the air. In a word I'm very pleased I was able to get the result from a suburban place where NELM was only ~4.5.
No attempt to do photometry with the G channel, as I'll be aware of the unevenness of the galaxy, very possibly leading to a mistaken background subtraction under the poor resolution.
This is a widefield shot showing the large lagoon nebula, smaller trifid nebula, and much more. The star cluster at the top right is M23. This is a stack of 65 pictures taken with a Takumar 135mm f2.5 lens. All shot at 4 seconds, f2.5, iso 8000.
This is the constellation Cygnus, the Swan.
Taken on 10/1/2013 near Gran Quivira National Monument in New Mexico.
Canon EOS T1i (modified) with a Nikkor 28mm lens at f5.6, ISO 400. Mounted on a Losmandy G-11/Gemini with autoguiding. Eight 4-minute exposures. Processed with DeepSkyStacker and Paint.NET.
10 subs at 5 minutes each of NGC 281 captured using my Skywatcher Esprit 150 apo triplet and Atik 314L with Ha filter (7nm). Stacked in Deepskystacker and processed using Photoshop.
Image taken 20/10/16
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: 5419x3618
Dates: Sept. 27, 2018
Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 32x300" (gain: 11.00) 15C bin 1x1
Integration: 2.7 hours
Darks: ~30
Flats: ~40
Avg. Moon age: 17.08 days
Avg. Moon phase: 94.06%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00
Mean FWHM: 6.00
Temperature: 10.00
Astrometry.net job: 2275369
RA center: 78.977 degrees
DEC center: 34.393 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.783 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 179.118 degrees
Field radius: 0.709 degrees
Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Data source: Backyard
It's too bad that when you want your equipment to run while you are sleeping it starts to fail on you. Out of over 200 images shot in this serie, I only had 2 that I could use, because of a failing connection which cause my mount and guiding to stop working.
Shot date: 25-02-2012
Shot time: 0:23 cet
Camera: Nikon D3x
Optics: NIKKOR 1000mm f11
Mount: SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro
Guiding: LVI SmartGuider 2
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Stacked in DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2
Stacking mode: Standard
Alignment method: Bicubic
Stacking 2 frames (ISO: 3200) - total exposure: 1 mn 0 s
RGB Channels Background Calibration: Yes
Per Channel Background Calibration: No
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Offset: 29 frames exposure: 1/8000 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Dark: 53 frames exposure: 30 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
Flat: 40 frames exposure: 1/40 s
Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)
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Postprocessing in PixInsight 1.7
DynamicBackgroundExtraction
HistogramTransformation
ColorCalibration
(Extracting L-mask and applied a HistogramTransformation and ATrousWaveletTransform to it)
HistogramTransformation (masked)
CurvesTransformation (masked)
ACDNR
Manually, off-axis guided for 10 x 5-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/4.
Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" Newtonian reflector telescope.
Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; initial curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; final curves & colour-balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro; noise reduction via CyberLink PhotoDirector.