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Combined two short sessions worth of data here, total of 19x300s lights. Calibrated with darks, flats, and bias, stacked in DeepSkyStacker. Processed in StarTools, curves manipulation in GIMP, final denoise in AstraImage.

 

GSO 6" RC, Improved DGM NPB filter, CCDT67 reducer, self-modded Nikon D5100. Guided via SSAG, 50mm guidescope, and PHD2.

First attempt at processing last night's captures.

 

Altair Astro Starwave 102ED-R (2017), HEQ5 Pro (Rowan Belt Drive), Berlebach Tripod, Altair IMX178MC Hypercam, Altair 0.6x Focal Reducer, 30 x 30 Second Exposures. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker. Finished in Photoshop and Lightroom.

Shot from Vancouver through the light pollution, the tail is still barely visible.

M81 (NGC 3031) spiral galaxy in Ursa Major.

 

Mount: EQ6 EQMOD

OTA: LX10 8" f/10 SCT + 0.63 Antares FR

Guiding: 300mm f/4.5 TAIR lens + LX-mod SPC880NC + PHD

Imaging: Canon mod-1000D + CLS LP filter, 26x420s, ISO 800, 9 darks

Stacked : DeepSkyStacker

Processing : PixInsight LE

 

Single 1 minute exposure, not processed.

 

It's really amazing the difference between these faint single exposures and a quick and dirty stacking of them where you can see so much more.

My first attempt at a wide-angle Milky Way shot. Lots of noise because I neglected to take darks and flats. Oops! :) Shot with a Nikon D80 and 18-200VR lens. 11 frames of 15 seconds, unguided, f/5, ISO 1600 stacked with DeepSkyStacker.

M101 Pinwheel Galaxy

Telescope (Lens): Stellarvue SVR 80ED Raptor

Addition Optics: None

Camera: Canon XSi

Exposure: 27 x 180sec (ISO 400)

Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop

Mount: Atlas EQ-G

Tracking: EQMOD / Stellarium

Guidance: PHD Guiding - 9x50 Finderscope w/ Logitech 3000 Pro Webcam

Setup: www.flickr.com/photos/nicholall/5523910532/in/set-7215762...

 

Astromomy weather as forcasted by Canadian Meteorological Center:

Cloud Cover: Clear

Transparancy: Above Average

Seeing Category: III (Average)

Temp: 53°F

Humidity: 52°

 

Light Pollution: "Red" - Based on Light Pollution Map

 

Telescope: Celestron 8" newtonian reflector, C8N

Camera: Canon 6D (unmodified)

Exposure: 11x8min, ISO 800

Coma corrector: Baader MPCC

Filter: Optolong UHC clip

Mount: CGEM DX

Captured with BackyardEOS

Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker

Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)

Sh2-142 , chiamata anche Nebulosa Mago è una nebulosa a emissione visibile nella costellazione di Cefeo. Si individua nella parte centro-meridionale della costellazione, prolungando la linea che congiunge le stelle ζ Cephei e δ Cephei e deviando poco verso sud; il periodo più indicato per la sua osservazione nel cielo serale ricade fra i mesi di luglio e dicembre ed è notevolmente facilitata per osservatori posti nelle regioni dell'emisfero boreale terrestre, dove si presenta circumpolare fino alle regioni temperate calde. Sh2-142 è una regione H II situata sul Braccio di Perseo, distanza 11530 anni luce. Appare legata al giovane ammasso aperto NGC 7380.

Dati di ripresa, Telescopio SW 72ed ridotto 0,8x Camera Qhy294c pro , filtro L-Ultimate2" e Uv ir/cut Svbony 2", guida Phd2, cam guida Asi 224 tubo guida 60/240, montatura Heq5pro, software di acquisizione N.I.N.A. scatti da 300" tot. 2h e 50' più 30' per le stelle. somma DeepSkyStacker, elab. Pixi+PS

Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: Orion Mini Guidescope

 

Camere di acquisizione: SVBONY SV305

 

Montature: Celestron SLT

 

Software: SharpCap Pro 3.2 Sharcap · DeepSkyStacker · photoshop

 

Date:02 Gennaio 2021

 

Pose: 248x10"

 

Integrazione: 0.7 ore

 

Giorno lunare medio: 18.07 giorni

 

Fase lunare media: 88.13%

Photographed in Cambridge, MA. Stacked from 358 frames of 2 sec. exposure at F/5.0, 190 mm focal length, ISO 1600.

I finally got DSS (DeepSkyStacker) working :-)

User error :-(

These are the first two real attempts of some deep sky objects.

Technical card

 

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: 5194x3488

 

Dates: Sept. 11, 2018

 

Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 30x120" (gain: 11.00) 15C bin 1x1

 

Integration: 1.0 hours

 

Darks: ~20

 

Flats: ~40

 

Avg. Moon age: 1.96 days

 

Avg. Moon phase: 4.28%

 

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00

 

Mean FWHM: 5.75

 

Temperature: 12.00

 

Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

 

Data source: Backyard

Mars top left, Sirius down below, and Orion in the middle. Stack of 10 shots, 70 seconds total. Stacked using DeepSkyStacker.

Shotdate: 3 sept. 2014

Camera: Nikon D3x

Optics: Celestron 9.25" EdgeHD

Mount: SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro

Guiding: APO 500mm F90mm with LVI SmartGuider 2

Exposure: 15 seconds

ISO-speed: 800

 

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker:

 

Stacking mode: Standard

Alignment method: Automatic

Stacking 32 frames total exposure: 8 mn 0 s

RGB Channels Background Calibration: No

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: 25 frames exposure: 15 s

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

Flat: 32 frames exposure: 1/2 s

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

Post-processing in PixInsight 1.8

Garradd, Coathanger, NGC 6802 Two pane mosaic at 630mm CanonXT, 2(40X100") SVR90, Atlas EQ-G, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop levels and curves, guided with Orion SSAG and tandem mounted SVR70ED.

Stacking three 30-second exposures to get an effective 90 second integration, the Milky Way contrasts with the dust lanes found in the Cygnus region. Also, the Andromeda Galaxy is clearly distinct.

This image is for a DeepSkyStacker tutorial on my blog, Flintstone Stargazing: flintstonestargazing.com/2009/06/26/my-quick-deepskystack...

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: 5428x3636

 

Dates: June 29, 2018

 

Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 36x300" (gain: 11.00) bin 1x1

 

Integration: 3.0 hours

 

Darks: ~30

 

Flats: ~40

 

Avg. Moon age: 15.92 days

 

Avg. Moon phase: 98.49%

 

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 6.00

 

Mean FWHM: 6.50

 

Temperature: 27.00

 

Astrometry.net job: 2165853

 

RA center: 350.234 degrees

 

DEC center: 61.211 degrees

 

Pixel scale: 0.783 arcsec/pixel

 

Orientation: 96.258 degrees

 

Field radius: 0.710 degrees

 

Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

 

Data source: Backyard

camera: Canon EOS 350D(Infrared filter modified) iso800

lens: Pentacon 29/2.8 f5.6

Mount: EQ4 with TianLang60500 human guided(ME!!)

Shooting Parameters: 300s*35

Process: DeepSkyStacker+Photoshop

 

Though the photo was shoot in early summer, I can still remember the chilly wind outside. It was a mountain about 200 miles to the west of the city of Shanghai. Due the the latitude, the Milky way center is not as high in the sky as in Australia, so the unclean atmosphere affected the picture a lot. Thanks to the later process on computer, I get rid of most of them. But the noise is still there, I have to push the image, drag the curve to make it brilliant. It is not comparable to some masterpieces I saw online, the geographic condition is not good enough, the camera is lower level, the lens is so cheap($70) and poor quality, don't even talk about the equatorial mount which is no more than $80 in total and I need my eyes to guided the star, but after long times of guiding and several days of computer processing, everything became magic, I will love it forever.

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

 

DynamicCrop

DynamicBackgroundExtraction

HistogramTransformation

HDRWaveletTransform

HistogramTransformation

ACDNR

HistogramTransformation

ChannelExtraction: L

HistogramTransformation: L

CurvesTransformation

CurvesTransformation

DarkStructureEnhance

HistogramTransformation

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 79m (78 x 30s) RGB + (80 x 30s)L

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: No

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Constellation: Carina

Location: my suburban Sydney backyard on 19/07/2009

Modified Canon EOS 400D, Orion ED80 (FL600mm)at prime focus. IDAS LPS filter

EQ5 mount autoguided by 3"WO refractor;Philips SPC900nc & PhD

ISO800 3 X 4mins subs stacked in DeepSkyStacker with darks.

An improvement from my previous attempt

Due to me feeling like crap and the sky being dominated by the moon, I thought I'd go over the frames I took last month with the 20D. Only had 12 frames (2 min and 3min)but DSS has produced a much better image than I was able to achieve before. I especially like the detail in the core of the Nebula (not blown out at all).

 

Date:26/7/2009

Location:Brisbane Australia

Imaging Camera: Canon 20D prime focus

Imaging Scope: Skywatcher 80mm ED

Focal Length: 600mm F7.1

Guide Camera: SSAG

Guide Scope: Orion 80mm F5 Refractor

Guided with PHD Guiding

Mount: Celestron EQ5 GT

Exposure: 30 min (6x3min and 6x2min) full colour

Darks: 3x3min

ISO: 200 & 800

Processing: DeepSkyStacker, CS3, Noel Carboni's Astronomy Tools

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: 5412x3612

 

Dates: Sept. 12, 2018

 

Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 12x300" (gain: 11.00) 21C bin 1x1

 

Integration: 1.0 hours

 

Darks: ~30

 

Flats: ~40

 

Avg. Moon age: 3.03 days

 

Avg. Moon phase: 10.03%

 

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00

 

Mean FWHM: 5.75

 

Temperature: 18.00

 

Astrometry.net job: 2248571

 

RA center: 298.463 degrees

 

DEC center: 18.763 degrees

 

Pixel scale: 0.783 arcsec/pixel

 

Orientation: 279.741 degrees

 

Field radius: 0.708 degrees

 

Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

 

Data source: Backyard

Only four 30s exposures this time. Nikon D5200+Nikkor 180mm @f4+iOptron Skytracker. Images stacked with Deepskystacker.

Photo:

Skywatcher Explorer 150/750 telescope, EQ3 mount, Sony A6100 camera

Guiding:

70/400 guiding scope, ASI120mc guiding camera

Images:

Light frames: 74 x 90 sec (ISO 1600)

10 dark, bias and flat frames

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker (best 90%), post processed with Photoshop

A "planetary nebula", formed by a dying star expanding and puffing off its outer layers.

3 x 10-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f10. Off-axis, manually guided. Frames registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker. Unmodded Canon EOS 40D & Celestron C8 telescope.

A widefield image of the Elephant's Trunk Nebula... I wanted to capture the dark nebulosity surrounding IC1396 and show the scale of this massive nebula.

Modified Canon 350D and 200mm f4.0 EF lens on a CG-5 mount guided with Phillips webcam ST80 and PHD.

3hrs 30mins, 12x10mins, 18x5mins, darks and flats applied in DeepSkyStacker tweaked in CS3 + Noel's actions.

The sky was very clear after a light rain in this afternoon, so I decided to try night sky shooting again.

Stacking 10 light frames, f/1.8, 5 sec., ISO-100, 0 step, 28 mm, DeepSkyStacker 3.2.2.

[24082016] Delfin

 

Fuji X-E1

Walimex 85mm F1.4@F1.4

 

Stack ISO100-25600 @ 5sec

 

DeepSkyStacker

Fitswork

FaststoneViewer

Manually, off-axis guided for 5 x 10 & 13 x 5-minute exposures, f6.3, ISO 1600. Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker software.

Unmodified EOS 40D & Celestron C8 telescope.

 

I've added more data to last year's version, re-stacked and re-processed.

 

Not an easy object to image from the UK, as it is far to the South.

  

Technical card

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: 2864x2030

Dates: Aug. 22, 2014

Locations: Drassa

Frames: 42x600" -15C bin 1x1

Integration: 7.0 hours

Darks: ~46

Flats: ~42

Bias: ~41

Avg. Moon age: 26.31 days

Avg. Moon phase: 11.31%

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 3.00

Temperature: 28.00

RA center: 311.936 degrees

DEC center: 31.074 degrees

Orientation: 89.935 degrees

Field radius: 1.574 degrees

C/2012 ISON S1 Comet - 27/10/2013, Diepenbeek

Light; 20x30sec, Darks 10x120 sec.

Total time = 10 min

 

Equipment used:

-Skywatcher 200mm F4 Carbon

-NEQ6 mount

-Canon 500D

-Televue Paracorr 2

-HuTech IDAS LP2 Filter

-DeepSkyStacker

-Astrozap Dew-shield

The same photo with noise reduction and starburst effect for wide-screen desktop wallpaper.

You can also just make out IC 1296, a barred galaxy over 200MLY away to the lower right of M57. I might collect some more data later to help reduce the noise.

 

TS-Optics Photoline 90mm f/6.67 (600mm) Refractor & 2x Powermate

Celestron CGX Mount

Nikon D7500 DSLR

22x300s Light (1 hr. 50 min.)

11x Dark

SGPro, Backyard Nikon, DeepSkyStacker, Nebulosity, Lightroom

The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens. Its name derives from its shape that is thought to resemble an eagle. It contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the famous "Pillars of Creation", photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope.

 

Optical Rig

MOUNT: Meade LX850 w/ Starlok

SCOPE: Stellarvue SV105-3SV

REDUCER: SFF7-3SV Field Flattener

CAMERA: Canon 550D Full Spectrum Mod by Gary Honis

FILTER: Astronomik L-UV/IR Filter

SOFTWARE: Nebulosity 3

 

Exposures

19 1-min 1600 ISO @ f3.5 (19min)

11 2-min 1600 ISO @ f3.5 (22min)

5 5-min 800 ISO @ f3.5 (25min)

5 5-min 1600 ISO @ f3.5 (25min)

 

Total Exposure Time 91 minutes

 

Image Processing

STACKER: Deep Sky Stacker

RAW EDIT: Adobe Lightroom

 

Operating System - Windows 8.1 64bit

The Eagle Nebula including the Pillars of Creation in the middle.

 

Taken on June 1, 2011 near Butler, Missouri using an SBIG8300C camera mounted on a CGE1100 Telescope using Hyperstar (F/2). This is the sum of 6 ten minute images, stacked using DeepSkyStacker. The image was then processed with Photoshop CS2.

 

Guiding used PhD Guiding with an Orion Starshoot autoguider.

 

3x10s - 1 Dark - 1 Flat Dark - ISO1600

Nikkor 28-80mm F3.3-5.6G at 28mm F3.3

Fuji FinePix S1 Pro

Deep Sky Stacker

Shot through 300mm lens p̶i̶g̶g̶y̶b̶a̶c̶k̶e̶d̶ Duck taped to tracking telescope to allow long exposure!

 

Stacked in DSS, levels and curves changed in Ps to bring out some milky nebulosity.

SW Equinox 80ED

Canon 1100d 59 x 60s subs, Darks/GFlats/Bias applied.

DeepSkyStacker, PS2.

Total Exposure: 20 minutes

 

Individual frames: 60 seconds

 

Telescope: 10" Orion Dobsonian

 

Mount: Atlas EQ-G Equatorial Mount

 

Processed and stacked in DeepSkySTacker.

8" Orion Imaging Newtonian with Modified Rebel XT, Baader 2" Ha Filter

60x90sec ISO800, Darks

Acquired with APT - Astro Photography Tool v2.01 *** www.ideiki.com/astro/

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2 *** deepskystacker.free.fr/english/download.htm

Final Touch with Photo Shop

22 light - 800 iso - 180 sec.

8 dark - 800 iso - 180 sec.

27 light - 800 iso - 120 sec.

11 dark - 800 iso - 120 sec.

31 offset - 800 iso - 1/8000 sec.

31 flat frame - 800 iso - 1/80 sec.

 

Reflex no modded on eq5 synscan without guide and telescope refractor TSED70Q 474mm 70mm F6.7.

Processed with DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2, Photoshop CS6

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: 2955x1935

Dates: Aug. 6, 2015

Frames: 3x600" -10C bin 1x1

Integration: 0.5 hours

Darks: ~1

Flats: ~11

Bias: ~8

Avg. Moon age: 21.00 days

Avg. Moon phase: 62.14%

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 3.00

Temperature: 30.00

Locations: Drassa, Corinth, Greece

Mount: Skywatcher EQ6 Pro

Camera: Canon 550D unmodified

Lens: 18-55mm Kit Lens @ 55mm

Guiding: Orion Magnificent Mini Autoguider + PHD Guiding

Software: APT, DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight

Images: 12x10min ISO800 Lights; 8x Darks

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