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An old image I have dragged out of the records from 2013, I can't really remember the image info any more so I have put down what I could.
Acquisition Equipment
Camera - CANON EOS 60D
Filter - Astronomik CLS-CCD
Telescope - Sky-Watcher 80ED w/Sky-Watcher .85x Reducer/Flattener
Focal Length - 510mm
F Ratio - F6.3
Mount - Celestron CG-5 Advanced GEM
Guide scope - Celestron 9x50 Finder
Guide Camera - QHY 5 Mono
Acquisition Software
Guiding - PHD2 - Open PHD Guiding
Planetarium - Stellarium
Processing Software
Stacking - DeepSkyStacker
Post-processing - Adobe Photoshop
Links
NGC 2174 (also known as Monkey Head Nebula) is an emission nebula located in the constellation Orion. a region of interstellar atomic hydrogen that is ionized.
DeepSkyStacker - Photoshop
This is my first time imaging a comet through a telescope. What a beautiful comet! Besides imaging and observing it with a telescope, I also viewed it with binoculars. I could detect it naked eye as a smudge to the right of the Pleiades.
Taken with a TMB92L, Hutech-modified Canon T3i DSLR, Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, and Celestron AVX mount. Consists of 23 90-second light frames and 23 90-second dark frames, all at ISO 800, as well as 23 flat and 53 bias frames. Captured with BackyardEOS, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Photoshop.
Equipo: Star Adventurer - Canon 6D - Canon 24/105mm f/4
31 x 120s @f/5 105mm ISO 3200
Procesado: Deepskystacker - Photoshop - Lightroom
Febrero 2022 - Punta Indio - Bortle 3
This colorful and diverse nebulosity which owes its name to the star Rho Ophiuchi, includes the bright red supergiant star Antares and composes the closest star forming region to our solar system, approximately 400 light-years away.
The interstellar clouds of gas and dust that make up the complex contain emission nebulae rich of glowing hydrogen (red gas) and blue nebulae that reflect light of nearby stars. The dark-brown areas consist of interstellar dust that prevent any light from passing through.
From the upper left corner of this image begins the enormous dust lane Barnard 44 known as the "Dark River" which extends about 100 light-years up to the Pipe Nebula.
IC 4603 can be identified as the turbulent region that connects the yellow and blue nebulosity. This reflection nebula is illuminated mostly by the 7.9 magnitude star SAO184376.
IC 4604 is the blue nebulosity around Rho Ophiuchi, the triple star in the upper portion of the image.
IC 4605 is the small blue reflection nebula around 22 Scorpii (a magnitude 4.8 star).
IC 4606 is the yellowish cloud associated with Antares, the first-magnitude star near the bottom of the image.
Antares designated "α Scorpii" is on average the 15th brightest star in the night sky and apparently the most prominent star here. It appears distinctly reddish when viewed with the naked eye and lies 550 light-years away from the Sun.
This red super-giant will almost certainly explode as a supernova, possibly in the next 10000 years. At that time Antares could be as bright as the full moon and will be visible even in daytime for a few months.
M4 (Messier 4) is the distant globular star cluster visible to the right of Antares. However, M4 lies far beyond the colorful cloud complex at a distance of some 7000 light-years from Earth.
To the upper right of Antares is the smaller globular cluster NGC 6144.
Technical details:
Camera: Canon 1000Da
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f2.8L IS USM II (at 175mm)
Aperture: f/2.8
Mount: Astrotrac TT320X
Total exposure time: 65.25min (3915 sec)
29 x 135 sec , ISO 1600 , 2012-07-20
Post-processing: DeepSkyStacker, Pixinsight LE, Photoshop CS3
P45 12/28/2016 18:16-18:24 PST
Technical Info:
15x 30" @1600 ISO
Camera: Canon 6D Hutech UV/IR mod
Scope: Williams Optics Star 71 Astrograph
Mount: Advanced VX
Stacking: DeepSkyStacker
Processing: Photoshop CC
Location: Lockwood Valley, CA
Among the astrophotographs I made, this is, at the moment, the one with the longest total exposure time, totaling 19 hours and 35 minutes (captured in four nights).
"The beautiful spiral galaxy Messier 83 is located in the constellation Hydra and is also known as NGC 5236 and as the Southern Pinwheel galaxy. Its distance is about 15 million light-years, being about twice as small as the Milky Way". Source: eso.org
Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 reflector with Onstep and electronic focuser ZWO EAF, Canon T6 (primary focus) modified, Optolong L-eNhance filter (in part of the frames). 50mm guidescope with ASI 290MC. 235 light frames (116x300 "ISO 800 + L-eNhance: 119x300" ISO 1600), 40 dark frames, 64 flat frames. Processing: DeepSkyStacker and PixInsight.
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Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
2023-01-29
Nikon D5300
Nikkor 55-200mm (200mm)
EXIF: f/5.6 ISO8000
95x8s (12.6min)
22xdarks
Stacked/Apilado: DeepSkyStacker
Edited/Editado: Lightroom
C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is a long period comet from the Oort cloud that was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility on 2 March 2022. The comet has a bright green glow due to the presence of diatomic carbon and cyanogen.
The comet reached its perihelion on 12 January 2023, at a distance of 1.11 AU, and the closest approach to Earth was on 1 February 2023, at a distance of 0.28.
C/2022 E3 (ZTF) es un cometa de período largo proveniente de la nube de Oort que fue descubierto por el proyecto Zwicky Transient Facility el 2 de marzo de 2022. Este cometa tiene un brillo de color verde debido a la presencia de carbono diatómico y cianógeno.G
El cometa alcanzó su perihelio el 12 de enero de 2023, a una distancia de 1.11UA y su aproximación más cercana a la Tierra fué el 1 de febrero de 2023, a una distancia de 0.28UA.
Observatori de Pujalt, Catalunya, España
M31 - the Andromeda Galaxy
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Teleskop / Kamera:
Montierung: Star Adventurer
Optik:60mm f/3.5
EF-S60mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Kamera: Canon EOS 650D
Guider: -
Filter:-
Aufnahmedaten:
Zahl der Aufnahmen: 30
Brennweite:60 mm
Öffnungsverhältnis: 3,5
Belichtungszeit pro Aufnahme: 30 sek.
Empfindlichkeit ISO-Wert: 1600
Darkframes -
Flats -
Bildbearbeitung:
DeepSkystacker:
Standard / Light = Durchschnitt / Ausrichtung= Automatsch / 100% der Bilder
Photoshop Elements 10:
Tonwertkorrekur, Sättigung
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Die Andromedagalaxie, auch Andromedanebel oder Großer Andromedanebel, ist eine Spiralgalaxie vom Typ Sb. Sie ist im Messier-Katalog als M31 und im New General Catalogue als NGC 224 verzeichnet. Am Sternenhimmel ist sie im Sternbild Andromeda, nach dem sie benannt ist, zu finden. In klaren Nächten kann die Andromedagalaxie von einem dunklen Standort aus mit bloßem Auge gesehen werden. Sie ist das fernste Objekt, das regelmäßig mit bloßem Auge gesehen werden kann.
The Andromeda Galaxy /ænˈdrɒmɨdə/ is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years (2.4×1019 km) from Earth[4] in the Andromeda constellation. Also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, it is often referred to as the Great Andromeda Nebula in older texts. The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest spiral galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy, but not the nearest galaxy overall. It gets its name from the area of the sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda, which was named after the mythological princess Andromeda. The Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also contains the Milky Way, the Triangulum Galaxy, and about 30 other smaller galaxies.
Quelle / source:
This is an open star cluster in the constellation of Auriga. Sometimes called the Salt & Pepper cluster.
It was first discovered in the early 1650's by Giovanni Battista Hodierna. Later to be independently discovered by Charles Messier in 1764.
The cluster lies 4,511 light years away from us and is estimated to be between 350 and 550 million years old. Quite a few red giants can be seen within the 500+ stars that make up the cluster.
The best time to observe M37 or NGC 2099 as its listed in the New General Catalogue is the months of December, January and february.
Boring techie bit.
Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector
EQ6 R pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & Altair GPcam
Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.
70 - 80 second exposures with the best 75% stacked in DeepSkyStacker with calibration frames.
All other processing done with StarTools
L(RGB) = 6x480s(5x240s:5x240s:5x240s)
L = 1x1bin
RGB = 2x2bin
12" R-C in rodeo, new mexico (lightbuckets.com LB-0003)
stacked with deepskystacker
initial processing with pixinsight 1.5
- normalization of ngc1977 vs. m42 data
- all subs aligned to luminance data
- rgb merge
- combined ngc1977 and m42 data with pixel math to produce a single image
- deconvolution
- histogram stretch (x10) of merged rgb data and luminance data
enfuse:
- HDR blend of all exposures generated in pixinsight
- luminance: hard mask, mean=0.54026, sigma=0.23154
- rgb: hard mask, mean=0.64026, sigma=0.23154, l-star grey projector
- had to duplicate the unstretched exposure 8 times to recover trapezium
photoshop: remove geosynchronous satellite streaks
pixinsight:
- histogram fixes and color calibration of rgb images
- histogram fixes, dark structure enhancement and atrous wavelets on luminance image
- LRGB merge
- chop composite image back into 2 separate images
- further histogram fix of ngc1977 to better match m42
hugin:
- stitch of ngc1977 and m42 images
lightroom:
- fix red/magenta saturation (pixinsight is running without color management... long story)
- crop
comments: the deconvolution is kind of bad... its heavy duty signal processing work that requires more patience than i could muster. as a result i've got some ringing and sharpening of bogus features.
it was really hard to get the two images to have the same brightness even though the exposures were the same. different nights, different amount of moon, different sky transparency all conspire to make two identically exposed images very different.
finally this is HDR so although the relative brightness between m42 and ngc1977 should be correct, the dynamic range of both have been greatly compressed. most other treatements of these objects show ngc1977 much fainter than seen here. but what is realistic when dealing with astrophotography?
second attempt at the orion nebula taken on the 6.1.21 with sony a7iii with 200-600 lens mounted on a iptron mount
98mins of exposure taken and edited done in deep star stakker and photoshop
The Sombrero Galaxy, Messier 104 (M104) is in the constellation Virgo. From my vantage point, it just makes it high enough over the roof of my house to snap a few pictures. The image below was taken on April 24, 2016 using a Canon 6D, Meade 12” LX90, both mounted on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount, unguided. I used a mix of 15-second exposure at ISO 5000 and 6400 to combine 7-minutes of data. I tried several targets, all less than 10-minutes total exposure time so I could test out my collimation of the Meade telescope.
I used the following software packages in producing this image: DeepSkyStacker, ImagesPlus, Adobe Lightroom, and Corel Paintshop Pro.
The Sombrero Galaxy is about 50,000,000 light years away with an apparent magnitude of 8.3.
Nikon d610 with TS72
iso1600
2hrs.17min
Tracking: Skywatcher Star Adventurer
Software used:
Stacking: DeepskyStacker
Processing: Adobe Photoshop,Adobe camera raw, Photokemi Startools action set, GradientXterminator, Nik software, HLVG
M42 Orion Nebula and Running Man Nebula
Vixen Polarie + Standard Tripod
modified Canon 500d
Lights: 35 x 1 minute
Darks: 12 x 1 minute
iso 1600
f/5.6
70-300mm (300mm)
Aligned and stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed in Pixinsight and cs5
Location: Vancouver, BC
Temp: 2°C
Acquisition Details...
6 Hours 5 Minutes
81 x 120 Second Images
15 x 300 Second Images
67 x 240 Second Images
- | Equipment | -
Camera: Canon 80D (Unmodified)
Mount: Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro (Rowan Belt Modified)
Guide Camera: ZWO 120MM Mini
Guide Scope: Altair Starwave 50mm Guidescope
- | Image Acquisition | -
Astrophotography Tool
PHD2 Guiding Software
- | Processing | -
DeepskyStacker
Adobe Photoshop 2019
Youtube vlog: youtu.be/6qQjvKA118E
Zona astrale del Cigno (a dx al centro Deneb, alpha Cyg, più al centro Sadr, gamma Cyg, circondata dalle nebulosità rosse di IC1318).
Stacking con 9 light frames, 13 bias, 10 dark effettuato con DeepSkyStacker.
Inseguimento siderale con Minitrack LX per scatti singoli da 60" @ F2
Scatti effettuati dalla riva del lago di Braies
Another showpiece spiral, also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy, in Ursa Major.
40 x 2-minute exposures, ISO 3200, f/4 (frames taken 25 March 2020); plus 7 x 5-minute, f/4, ISO 1600 (older frames, from November 2013). Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" Newtonian f/4 reflector telescope.
Frames registered and stacked in DeepSkyStacker software; curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; noise reduction in CyberLink PhotoDirector.
The sky was clear last night so I pointed the 'scope at a ghost -- that's what Halloween is all about. This is the Ghost of Cassiopeia through an Ha filter. I collected about 8 hr of data last night and added it to Ha data collected in 2022. I had 17 hr of data in total and the image was made from the best 12 hr, as rated by DeepSkyStacker.
IC 59 is the upper-left part of the dust cloud, IC 63 is the "ghost" in the middle, and the lower lump/bump doesn't have a name, so I think we should call it IC Nothing. Below are a few fun facts about this little grouping.
IC 59 and IC 63 are a combination of faint, arc-shaped emission and reflection nebulae, located about 600 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. Together they are approximately 10 light-years across. IC 63 is known as the Ghost of Cassiopeia.
The brightest star in the image is Gamma Cassiopeiae, which is 19 times more massive, 65,000 times brighter, and spins 200 times faster than our sun. The radiation from Gamma Cass is so intense that it affects the IC 63/59 gas/dust cloud several light years away.
Rio Rancho NM Bortle 5 zone, Months and months
William Optics Redcat 51
ZWO 183mm pro
ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 Mini
Optolong Ha filter
ZWO ASI Air Pro
Sky-Watcher HEQ5
Dithering Darks Flats GraXpert
Gain 111 at -10C
Processed in DSS and PS
Another old favourite of the Spring sky. I've had to crop this far more than I'd like, though, as the photo edges looked awful due to coma and tilt (both of which bloat and mis-shape the stars).
22 x 1-minute exposures, ISO 3200, f/4. Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" Newtonian f/4 reflector telescope.
Frames registered and stacked in DeepSkyStacker software; curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; noise reduction in CyberLink PhotoDirector.
My very first attempt at the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae in HaRGB. 4 hours total integration time.
Skywatcher ED80
QHY268M + CFW3
ZWO EAF
Saxon AZ-EQ6 GT
Primalucelab Eagle LE
Processed using DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop & Lightroom
Went out to look at the sky, but it was particularly windy, making for a frustrating time. This was the only decent image I was able to generate from the night, but it did come out well. Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, 50 mm, f/2.0, 3200 ISO, 101 Frames, 8m25s total exposure
Wide field astrophotography - Cygnus Milky Way
CAMERA: Canon 40D
OPTICS: Canon 16-35mm f 2.8 L II USM
MOUNT: Tripod
EXPOSURE: 16 X 30 sec. (Total: 8 min)
PROCESSING: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop
Taken on the first of 3 evenings imaging the comet, though the weather was never quite ideal. On this night patchy cloud caused the uneven background in the image.
18 x 30-sec exposures at f/4.5 and ISO 3200 with an EOS 600D and Zeiss Jena 135mm f/3.5 lens on a Vixen Polarie star tracker. The frames were stacked on the comet in DeepSkyStacker, hence the trailed stars. Curves adjustment and further noise reduction were applied in post-processing.
Reprocess of data I took in January.
Canon 200D + Canon 55-250mm lens on a Star Adventurer Pro (no guiding).
67x90s Lights, 80 Darks and 25 Flats.
90s exposures, f/5.6, ISO-800, 250mm
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and edited in Photoshop 2020.
I've never been that interested in imaging this region of the Milky Way with my Samyang 135 for whatever reason, perhaps because I can't resolve the Pillars of Creation in the center of the Eagle Nebula (bright emission nebula in upper right quadrant) with my 135mm lens. Even so, the wider field is full of interesting contrasting features. This area is quite bright and colorful relative to other regions that I've imaged recently, so processing was a cinch.
Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 30 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken on Aug. 23, 2020 under Bortle 3/4 skies around the setting of the 25% illuminated moon.
From Wikipedia: The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is cataloged as Messier 33 or NGC 598. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy and about 44 other smaller galaxies. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye.
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation: Triangulum
Right ascension: 01h 33m 50.02s
Declination: +30° 39′ 36.7″
Distance (comoving): 970 kpc (3.2 Mly)
Apparent magnitude (V): 5.72
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90 SCT Telescope, Antares Focal Reducer, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at 0F, 91 x 60 seconds, Celestron CGX-L pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in DSS and PixInsight. Image Date: July 29, 2025. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Taken with a TMB92L, Hutech-modified Canon T3i DSLR, Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, and Celestron AVX mount. Consists of 25 360-second light frames and 21 360-second dark frames, all at ISO 800, as well as 35 flat and 50 bias frames. Captured with BackyardEOS, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Photoshop.
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More info about Drizzle, an alghoritm designed for deep space: www.xamad.net/blog/en/the-function-drizzle-in-alignment-a...
Learn about Drizzle processing astrophotography with Deepsky Stacker, here is my video tutorial in english:
www.xamad.net/blog/en/tutorial-by-astrophotography-deepsk...
Available on selz.co/Nkr33nwq$
(a little preview of this tutorial is on youtube: youtu.be/wsuZ0TTv3Nk)
Original shot full field, and same specs, here: www.flickr.com/photos/xamad/28162232012
that's about 28 shots @1600 iso with a Canon 600D full spectrum and 80/480mm super-apo triplet reduced 0.8x, about 1h 25min total integration time, not so much but enought for the dark sky of Colle di Sampeyre, italian western Alps :)
Wiki about the deepsky object in this shot: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_Loop
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Orion Nebula—same data as in www.flickr.com/photos/mikejolley/50621468907/, but with some alternative processing. These were done in AstroPixelProcessor instead of DeepSkyStacker.
Another from Saturday night / Sunday morning.
16 x 4-minute manually off-axis guided 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; noise reduction and final curves adjustment via Cyberlink PhotoDirector 8.0.
This is the galaxy designated NGC 7331 located in the constellation Pegasus. Inside the galaxy close to the central core is the supernova 2025rbs that I imaged on July 23, 2025. My magnitude estimate based on 90 minutes of collected data is V12.7.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90 SCT Telescope, Antares Focal Reducer, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at 0F, 60 x 60 seconds, Celestron CGX-L pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in Tycho Tracker and PixInsight. Image Date: July 23, 2025. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Nikon D7000, Tamron 17-50 f2.8 @ 17mm, F2.8.
Sky: 60x15", 6400ISO
Trees: 30", 400ISO
Stacked in Deepskystacker, processed in Lightroom and Photoshop
M8 The Lagoon Nebula (catalogued as Messier 8 or M8, NGC 6523, Sharpless 25, RCW 146, and Gum 72) is a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius. The Lagoon Nebula was discovered by Giovanni Hodierna before 1654 and is one of only two star-forming nebulae faintly visible to the eye from mid-northern latitudes. Seen with binoculars, it appears as a distinct oval cloudlike patch with a definite core. Within the nebula is the open cluster NGC 6530
22 subs 5 min - 0 gain offset 50 -15*c
C-11 Hyperstar F/2 ZWO2600MC Pro
AP1100gto - unguided.
N.I.N.A beta capture - DeepSkyStacker.
Albireo (or Beta Cygni) is the 5th brightest star in the constellation Cygnus. Albireo appears to the naked eye to be a single star, but even through a modest telescope you will see a beautiful double star. The brighter yellow star is also a close binary system. The two stars are striking in their color contrast. This was the first double star I ever looked at as a young amateur astronomer in the 1970’s.
Burnham states “Albireo is one of the most beautiful double stars in the sky, considered by many observers to be the finest in the heavens for the small telescope. The brighter star is a golden yellow or ‘topaz’, magnitude 3.09, the ‘sapphire’ companion is magnitude 5.11. The separation is 34.3 seconds, an easy object for the low power telescope”. Burnham’s Celestial Handbook, Robert Burnham Jr., Volume 2.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90 SCT Telescope, Antares Focal Reducer, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at 0F, 60 x 10 seconds, Celestron CGX-L pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in DSS and PixInsight. Image Date: July 22, 2025. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
A galaxy no less :)
NGC 2903 is a barred spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, discovered by William Herschel. And it's a faint bugger, or at least the outer bits are - too faint for my pathetic skies really.
This is the first image I've done using dithering. Not sure how much difference it made as I wasn't able to give it enough subs anyway. Certainly increased the session time, that's for sure! I'll reserve judgement on dithering :)
SW ED80/EQ5
Canon 500D modded, Baader Neodymium filter
3 hrs 15 mins of 180 sec subs, iso 1600
Acquisition: APT
Guiding: Quickcam Pro4000/9x50 finderscope, PHD/EQMOD/AstroEQ
Stacked in DSS (3 x drizzle) and processed in CS5.
Taken with a TMB92L, Hutech-modified Canon T3i DSLR, Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, and Celestron AVX mount. Consists of 24 240-second light frames and 18 240-second dark frames, all at ISO 800, as well as 30 flat and 50 bias frames. Captured with BackyardEOS, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Photoshop.
My first almost completed image of the Flaming Star and Tadpole Nebulae area using the ASi183mm. This is a false color narrowband image meant to mimic what the nebulae would look like in the visible spectrum. H-alpha is assigned to the Red channel, Oiii to the Blue, and 75% Oiii, 25% Ha for the Green Channel.
24X600"Ha, 24X600"OIII
Equipment used:
Canon 200mm f2.8 lens at f4, ASi183mm camera, AP900 mount, DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight star alignment, Photoshop levels, curves, blending, guided with ZWO174mm and Stellarvue SVR90T.
Re-procesada
Telescopio: ED80 Sky Watcher
Montura: LXD75 Meade
Cámara: Canon 1100Da
Guiado: MiniScope 50mm Orion, CámaraGuia/QHY5 L-II c
Adquisición: APT (AstroPhotographyTool)
Apilado y procesado: DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight LE, Photoshop y Lightroom
Tomas
RGB: 10x15s / 10x30s / 10x300s / 12x600s / 6x900s
Expo Total: 4h 28 min
Temperatura sensor: 7°C /15ºC
Distancia Focal: 600mm
F/ 7,5
celfoscastrofotografia.blogspot.com.es/2017/12/despidiend...
3 panel narrowband mosaic of the nebulous area around the constellation Cygnus. Each panel was stacked, assembled, and processed with the following exposure times for each panel: 24X600"Ha, 24X600"OIII, and 24X600"SII.
Equipment used:
Canon 85mm f1.8 lens at f4, ZWO ASI183mm camera, AP900 mount, DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight star alignment Photoshop levels, curves, blending, guided with ZWO174mm and Stellarvue SVR90T.
... I actually went out Aurora hunting on the night of this image but there was nothing happening so I turned around and captured this instead
Here is a view of Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) from last evening, March 21, 2020. This is just a 14-minute stacked exposure showing the comet as it is traveling through the constellation Ursa Major. The comet tail is clearly visible.
Technical Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro, 14 x 60 second exposures, Gain 200, Temp -5C, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Captured using SGP v3.1 and processed in DeepSkyStacker. Image date: March 21, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
NGC 6934 is a globular cluster of stars in the constellation Delphinus. It's located about 52,000 light-years from the Sun and is home to some of the most distant stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
NGC 6934 is located close to the celestial equator, so it's visible from both hemispheres at certain times of the year. Backyard scopes show a fuzzy disk of nebulosity, about 5 arc minutes in diameter with a brighter core. The cluster stars are estimated to be some 10 billion years old.
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Class: VIII
Constellation: Delphinus
Right ascension: 20h 34m 11.37s
Declination: +07° 24′ 16.1″
Distance: 52 kly
Apparent magnitude (V): 8.83
Apparent dimensions (V): 1.20′
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90 SCT Telescope, Antares Focal Reducer, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at 0F, 81 x 60 seconds, Celestron CGX-L pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in DSS and PixInsight. Image Date: August 3, 2025. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Using my C9.25 at f/10 and 314L attached to SX filterwheel with OAG I captured 4 subs at 900 secs each in Ha and another 4 subs at 900secs each in OIII. Stacked in Deepskystacker,using Maxim DL4 to colour combine (Ha,OIII,OIII) then processed in Photoshop CS2. No darks nor flats.
Image taken 30/11/18
Atik 314L+ with Sigma 70-300 zoom lens (set to 135mm) and Baader 7nm Ha filter (1.25") piggybacked to main scope on a CEM60. Four subframes of fifteen minutes each stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in PS CS2.
Taken early hours of 30th Sept 2021
The Beehive Cluster (M44), an open star cluster in Cancer taken with a Rokinon 135mm f/2 lens. Ten 3 second images at ISO 3200 and f/2 were combined with DeepSkyStacker and processed with Gimp and Lightroom.
Manually guided for just 3 x 7-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/6.25. Modified EOS 600D & Sky-Watcher ED80 refractor, piggybacked on a Celestron C8 telescope for guiding.
Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; initial curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; final curves and colour balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro; noise reduction via CyberLink PhotoDirector.
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D810 L Bracket: amzn.to/2SVSaYo
Nikon D750: amzn.to/2GvViHn
Intervalometer: amzn.to/2JQLojn
Lenses:
Tamron 15-30 (for Nikon): amzn.to/2KROjJ5
Tamron 15-30 (for Canon): amzn.to/2Z3o24w
Tamron 15-30 (sony): amzn.to/2FAsBZo
Sigma 14mm (for Nikon): amzn.to/31PNC9Y
Sigma 14mm (for Canon): amzn.to/31JElAg
Sigma 14 1.8 (nikon): amzn.to/2MYxL33
Sigma 35 1.4 (nikon): amzn.to/2FyVi8Y
VLOG Gear:
GoPro: amzn.to/2VRX22C
Sony RX10: amzn.to/2M7Rhta
Litra Light: amzn.to/2RGMDb5
hot shoe holder: amzn.to/2sunlP7
Rode Mic: amzn.to/2VWdD5k
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Tascam DR-05: amzn.to/2sqgoi5
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Mavic 2 Pro : amzn.to/2BR23PU
Mavic 2 Pro Bundle : amzn.to/2BR2DNA
Mavic 2 Zoom : amzn.to/2BYE41s
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Polar Pro Filters: amzn.to/2sc2gZx
Tripods:
Main Tripod / Oben: amzn.to/2DakuAT
Tripod Head: amzn.to/2su21JC
Nodal Slider: amzn.to/2SPJVgB
Bags:
Altura -The Great Adventurer Bag: amzn.to/2FwrCJz
Ruggard 75: amzn.to/2GsGidi
iOptron Sky Tracker Pro: amzn.to/2WZJC9h
Check out the worlds smallest and most portable star tracker!
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EDC Gear:
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Paracord: amzn.to/2G1sLJs
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Manual: www.ioptron.com/v/Manuals/3322_SkyTrackerPro_Manual.pdf
Phone/iPad app for accurate polar alignment (itunes.apple.com/us/app/ioptron-polar-scope/id564078961?mt=8) or Android phone polar finder app (play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.techhead.polarf...)
Stacking Software
Deep Sky Stacker (PC): deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html
Sequator (PC): sites.google.com/site/sequatorglobal/download
Registax (PC): www.astronomie.be/registax/
Starry Landscape Stacker (Mac): itunes.apple.com/us/app/starry-landscape-stacker/id550326...
pixinsight (mac): pixinsight.com/
Nebulosity (mac): www.stark-labs.com/nebulosity.html
Melotte 15, is a small cluster of stars 7500 light years away in the heart of the Heart Nebula a few of which are 50 times the size of our sun. Their energetic light and wind sculpts the dust pillars into the enigmatic shapes we see today.
Acquisition:61x 240s Ha, 50x 240s (OIII). Calibrated with Darks, Flats and Dark Flats. Total integration 7.4h.
Location:08-10-2022 & 03-11-2022, St Helens, UK Bortle 7, full to 78% moon.
Equipment:Skywatcher 200P, EQ6-R Pro. Altair H183Mpro. ZWO EFWmini, EAF. Baader MPCCMkIII coma corrector, 6.5nm NB filters.
Guiding:Skywatcher Evoguide 50ED and Altair GPCAMAR0130M.
Software:NINA, PHD2, EQMOD.
Processing:DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Affinity Photo with StarXTerminator, Topaz DeNoiseAI and HLVG plug-ins.