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Test shot: Pentax Astrotracer mode 3.
A cropped image of Orion's Great Nebula. 40 seconds @ f5.6 ISO 1600 in quite ordinary atmospheric seeing, using an HD PENTAX-D FA 150-450mm f4.5-5.6 lens on K1. Some tweaking of levels and a quick pass through Topaz Denoise AI. The star shapes are pleasingly undistorted.
Please note this is one of two test shots for use with Pentax Forums' Astro group. Feel free to comment here, but no worries if you don't.
© 2015 by Wil Wardle.
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80pics mit je 15sec bei ISO 1000 + 15darks + 15bias
erster Versuch mit Teleskop RC 8" 1680 mm, im Ruhrgebiet (hohe Lichtverschmutzung), bei Vollmond;
stacked/stretched mit Siril, nachbearbeitet mit LR
80pics with 15sec each at ISO 1000 + 15darks + 15bias
first try with telescope RC 8" 1680 mm, in the Ruhr area (light pollution high) at full moon;
stacked/stretched with Siril, final processing with LR
Cropped: long side 8500 to 7600 pixel (Nikon d850)
Copyright: Robin Onderka | www.instagram.com/robin_onderka
What is that green bulb next to the Orion’s belt? At this time, you can observe and photograph beautiful Comet C/2020 M3 Atlas, which is currently passing by Orion Constellation. Although not as majestic as Comet Neowise, it is definitely worth mentioning.
In the photo you can see the constellations that are typical of the winter sky in the northern hemisphere. They beautifully stretch over the mountains and cities of Slovakia, which are shrouded in mist. Thanks to the modified camera and long exposures, you can also see a lot of details of the emission (red) and reflection (blue) nebulae of these constellations. if you look closely, you will also see a Gegenschein and a soft airglow.
Photographed from: Beskid Mountains, Czech Republic
Gear: Canon 6D astromod + Sigma 35 mm f/1.4 + SW Star Adventurer
EXIF: 6 panel panorama | 4 x 60“ f/2.8 ISO 1600 per panel
SW: Astro Pixel Processor, Photoshop
Contact e-mail: robinonderka@gmail.com
What can you do with an old unmodified DSLR and a camera lens? Quite a bit actually.
I took this photo of central Orion with the popular Rokinon/Samyang 135mm f/2 lens and my old unmodified Canon 6D. No filters or guiding used and it was captured from Bortle ~4 skies in Maryland, USA. I've had this lens a few months, but this is my first time using it for astro-imaging. Very impressed with the results.
Image Details:
Canon 6D, Samyang 135mm f/2 @ f/2.8, ISO1600, 101x120s exposures. Losmandy G11 mount. Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop CC.
Branched Oak State Recreation Area, Nebraska
Orion was very prominent in the sky and I decided to try a photo to see if I could see the Orion Nebula in the photo. I was surprised to see that the nebula is visible in the photo. I think the large halos around the stars are due to haze from the clouds drifting in.
There is a note on the photo.
The star tracker used was a Move-Shoot-Move
Sternenhimmel über dem Traunsee. Links Orion, in der Bildmitte oben die Plejaden und rechts Venus. Im HIntergrund links der Traunstein und rechts das Höllengebirge. Der Gmundnerberg (884 m) ist ein beliebtes Nahausflugsziel nahe Gmunden mit einem fantastischen Ausblick über Traunseebecken.
NIght sky over the Traunsee(lake). To the left Orion, in the top center the Pleiades and to the right Venus. In the background the Traunstein to the left and the Höllengebirge to the right. The Gmundnerberg (884 m) is a popular recreation area near Gmunden. It offers a fantastic view over the Traunsee basin.
Here is another shot we captured, last night, with our new/used Astro tracker.This image is raw no processing was done, what you see is what you get.
It’s great to see Orion constellation again.
There are many nebulosities in this area, such as the Flame and horse head nebulas, the Rosette and Cone, the monkey head, the witch head, Barnard loop, lambda orionis and obviously the Orion nebula.
it really deserves an astromodified camera.
Sony A7s AstrodonInside with Canon FD 35mm F/2
Stack of 11x10s Iso 3200 @ F/2.8
Finally a clear night without the moon. Near ideal conditions. Single shot using a 120 Euro lens. Not too shabby
1107 and 1104 work through Warabrook with Carrington bound Ore train 8466 from Cobar.
2020-03-21 Qube 1107-1104 Warabrook 8466N
Trailing three Copper Basin Railway units is this long string of unique 100 ton side dump ore cars, some of which are only a few years old. They are seen here exiting the west portal of 150 ft long Tunnel 2 at about MP 988 on the Copper Basin Railway mainline with the first empty ore train of the day. Just ahead is Ray Junction where they will swing off the former Southern Pacific branch and on to the former KCC line that leads five miles up to the load out at the concentrator adjacent the giant open pit Ray copper mine.
Having heard that these famous Copper Basin Railroad ore haulage trains, the last of their kind in the nation, are no more I've been looking back to better days when I spent three fun days in copper country. Its uncertain if they'll ever return so enjoy these views from when the rock still rolled!
To learn more about this railroad check out the detailed caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2kVWC7m
Pinal County, Arizona
Friday October 17, 2015
Another image of winter Mikly Way and the beautiful constellation Orion, tanken from another Swiss Alpine Pass. This one was taken on Sattelegg.
The red nebulas in Orion, Barnards Loop and, to the left of it, Rosetta Nebula (C 49) are clearly visible in the lower parts of the image. Higher in the sky, you can see the open clusters Hyades and Pleiades in Taurus. The red California Nebula (NGC 1499) is visible in the upper center.
Astro-modified Canon EOS 6D
Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 @ 15mm
Foreground:
- 4 x 180s @ ISO1600
- Stacked with PS
Sky:
- 8 x 90s @ ISO1600
- Tracked with iOptron Skytracker
- Stacked with fitswork4
This is perhaps my favorite astro photo to date. There is some much happening here, with really interesting details throughout most of the frame. Not to overpower this very bright object, I used 30 second frames, ultimately stacking 200 of them! I took darks just to be safe, but the raw light frames were reltatively free of noise.
This is a view of the core of the Orion Nebula, or M42. It's a massive star-forming region some 1,344 light years away. Within it, lies newer stars around which the Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the formation of new planets. these are all being formed as gas and dust within the nebula collapses.
There are three different kinds of shocks in the Orion Nebula. Many are featured in Herbig–Haro objects:
- Bow shocks are stationary and are formed when two particle streams collide with each other. They are present near the hottest stars in the nebula where the stellar wind speed is estimated to be thousands of kilometers per second and in the outer parts of the nebula where the speeds are tens of kilometers per second. Bow shocks can also form at the front end of stellar jets when the jet hits interstellar particles.
- Jet-driven shocks are formed from jets of material sprouting off newborn T Tauri stars. These narrow streams are traveling at hundreds of kilometers per second, and become shocks when they encounter relatively stationary gases.
- Warped shocks appear bow-like to an observer. They are produced when a jet-driven shock encounters gas moving in a cross-current.
The interaction of the stellar wind with the surrounding cloud also forms "waves" which are believed to be due to the hydrodynamical Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. (!)
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: Celestron C8 SCT
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with ZWO IR cut filter
- Guider: Celestron Starsense Autoguider
- Mount: Celestron CGEM
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: Celestron
- Light Frames: 200*30 seconds @ 0 Gain, Temp -20C
- Dark Frames: 200*30 seconds
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, and Topaz Denoise A
The Orion Nebula, possibly the most photographed deep sky object in the night sky; it is also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976, a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, located south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is located at a distance of 1350 light years and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across and it has a mass of about 2000 times that of the Sun.
William Optics GT81
William Optics Flat 6AIII
ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
ZWO ASI Air Pro
Skywatcher HEQ 5 Pro
Optolong L-eXtreme filter
100 x 180s lights, 40 darks, 50 flats, 50 flat darks at gain 101 and cooled to -10C.
Stacked in PixInsight and processed in PixInsight, PS and LR.
As spring progresses, Orion slips ever southwards and opportunities to capture it diminish for the year. 600mm with a stack of 106 light, 35 dark and 30 bias frames at 1600ISO and 40s. This is M42, which appears as the middle 'star' in the 'sword' of Orion (this shot is rotated through 90 degrees, as the sword hangs vertically).
M42 The Orion Nebula
Since we're currently getting buried in snow and there's no clear skies in sight, I decided to "practice" on M42. I used 6 panels from my latest hyperstar mosaic as luminance. www.flickr.com/photos/astrochuck/16138742249/
Combined color data from last years AT65EDQ/QHY9M image
www.flickr.com/photos/astrochuck/10848930723/
and core luminance from my QHY23M/11" EdgeHD @F/7
I've added a layer of "dark sky data" to my Orion Nebula image (on the right).
Which one do you prefer?
Some people like the dynamic, contrasty saturated look of the first one. I personally enjoy the extra softness and glow of the stars in the second.
This diffused nebula is located 1300 light years away in the Milky Way Galaxy .
The image consists of roughly 2 hours of light images along with darks, dark flats, and flats for calibration.
It was processed using Deep Sky Stacker and finished in Photoshop. Images were taken with an ASI294MC Pro camera through an Evostar 72ED OTA and was tracked but not guided. I used an ASIAir Pro to control everything.
Hope you enjoy and any comments/suggestions welcome.
Captured on a Canon EOS 70D crop sensor DSLR, no telescope. Multiple images combined using HDR software can be a great way to actually increase the dynamic range and signal to noise ratio, even for deep space astrophotography images.
Rail Operations Group Class 57 57312 tows Orion Livery 326001 (former 319373) + Orion Livery 768001 (former 319010) on 5q42 0950 Mossend Down Yard - Crewe C.S. passes a dull Woodacre near Garstang on 12/12/2021
After a bit of a break I have started to play with imaging Deep Sky Objects again. This is a stack of images taken with a 200mm lens rather than a telescope. It shows the stars that make the belt of Orion and four of the Nebula, The orion nebula, running man nebula, flame nebula and horse head nebula. Taken from the back garden, bortle class 5, 120 second light frames stacked in DSS and processed in photoshop. It still amazes me that you can see this from your back garden
Nice calm clear night sky over Baltimore, Maryland ... been wanting to try making some captures of Orion's Nebula for a while, finally had some good conditions and the time.
Was surprised how much detail could be captured here in the non-dark skies so close to Baltimore City.
Need to get to some darker areas and try this again to see if any additional detail can be captured.
This is a combination of two captures. One capture at ISO 6500 and 1/4 second to get the stars not moving ... and then another at two seconds and ISO 5000 to get more of the detail in the nebula.
The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky with apparent magnitude 4.0. It is 1,344 ± 20 light-years (412.1 ± 6.1 pc) away and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light-years across (so its apparent size from Earth is approximately 1 degree). It has a mass of about 2,000 times that of the Sun. Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula.
The Orion Nebula is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky and is among the most intensely studied celestial features. The nebula has revealed much about the process of how stars and planetary systems are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers have directly observed protoplanetary disks and brown dwarfs within the nebula, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula. [Text from wikipedia]
Takahashi fsq106 f/5
Mount Astro Physics 1100 GTO
Camera ASI 6200 MMpro
Filters: Astrodon GenII RGB
Luminance 90x420s
RGB: 26x420s
Date: Jan-Feb 2023
Italy, Long 7°41'40"E, Lat 45°28'18"N. Sky 20,9-21,2
Automation software: Voyager (L. Orazi)
Processing: Photoshop, Pixinsight
Just another simple shot of the loaded afternoon ore train eastbound on the Copper Basin Railway mainline headed to the dumper at Hayden from Ray Mine back when the ore trains still cycled all day long. They are snaking into the west end of the yard just west of Hayden Junction at about MP 999.9 (measured from 3rd and Townsend Station in San Francisco) on this former Southern Pacific Branchline.
A pair of ex Kennecott Copper pit motor GP39-2s bracket an ex Louisville and Nashville GP40. Leading the train is 501 blt.Oct 1978 as KCCo 791 with a high cab and raised fuel tank for visibility and clearance in the Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah.
To learn more about this railroad check out the detailed caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2kVWC7m
Pinal County, Arizona
Saturday October 17, 2015
Orion, Running Man, Horsehead and Flame Nebulas
No tracker, Bortle Class 9
D700 & Nikkor 80-200mm push-pull version 2 on tripod
I captured Orion from the south of France. I stacked 20 pictures with 45 seconds exposure each.
This is the easiest nebula to shot, located in Orion belt.
Orion's Belt is a very colorful region in the center of the constellation of Orion. This very deep image was composed of 4 panels and shows a huge chunk of sky at very high resolution. The region is filled with dust an gas, notably the Horsehead and Flaming star nebula are visible. Also notice the many other objects: IC423, 426, 431, IC432...
Four panel color image taken at the remote observatory from the E-Eye site in Spain.
The image is composed of 47.5 hours of exposure time with the ZWO ASI-2600MC color camera using a Takahashi Epsilon 180 ED Astrograph, riding on a Paramount ME II.
"-Orión."
Toma 2.
-El perfil de los Picos de Europa y el Valle de Turón se quedan pequeños bajo la parte más llamativa de la constelación de Orión, que comienza a ascender de madrugada.
La estrella Betelgeuse de color amarillo y la rojiza Nebulosa de Orión resaltan sobre las demás y nos dan una ligera idea de la amplia gama de colores que el cielo nocturno tiene y que a ojo desnudo apenas podemos apreciar. ¿Podrías nombrar alguna otra? Pista: Al menos una salía en Harry Potter... 😁
-En general, los azules están relacionados con estrellas jóvenes y más calientes mientras que los amarillos corresponden a menos temperatura y fases más avanzadas de la evolución de una estrella. ---> www.astrofisicayfisica.com/2012/10/estrellas-jovenes-y-vi...
-Vistas desde la sierra del Aramo, Asturias, hacia el este. Valle de Turón en el centro, derecha luz residual de Moreda, y a la izquierda la carretera que nos lleva a Mieres.
Compartid si os apetece, y añadid info o correciones si lo veis necesario.
-Foto: DiegoRai Fotografía 50mm f2 3200 ISO. 10".
17 minutes into Umbra, she was still glowing blue on the edge. And what a great site she was! Of course I had to blind pan it as it was nowhere near Orion. Some noise redux and a crop, otherwise no PS.
About the blueish glow: The color temperature setting on camera was set in the cool range to draw this out. Eclipse researcher Dr. Richard Keen of the University of Colorado explains:
"Most of the light illuminating the Moon passes through the stratosphere, and is reddened by scattering. However, light passing through the upper stratosphere penetrates the ozone layer, which absorbs red light and actually makes the passing light ray bluer!" This can be seen, he says, as a blue fringe around the red core of Earth's shadow.
The Orion constellation and the winter Milky Way over Lake Huron, Michigan. The city lights are coming from Canada across the lake.
This shot is roughly 20 stacked images. I used a Hoya Red Intensifier for light pollution reduction.
Canon 7D ii, EF 300 f/4 L, stack of 48 x 1 minute exposures (Starry Sky Stacker), ISO 250, f/4. Tracked with IOptron Skyguider Pro. No calibration frames. Shot from my backyard, Bortle 4-5 skies.
The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars shaping the nebula to the pillars of dense gas that may be the homes of budding stars. The Trapezium resides in the bright central region. Ultraviolet light unleashed by these stars carves a cavity in the emission nebula and disrupts the growth of hundreds of smaller stars.
Image credit: NASA,ESA, M. Robberto (STScI/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team
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Northfield, OH
Another try at tracking (Star Adventurer)
lights: 30 x 120 sec @ ISO 320
darks: 23, bias: 30, flats: 31
processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop
The cold mornings and clear skies in Wisconsin show my favorite constellation, Orion the Hunter, in the southern sky.
38 degrees F (3 C) at 5:30AM.
Jefferson, Wisconsin, USA
A quick shot of the Orion Nebula (M42), one of my favourite celestial objects and a really satisfying target. I've been waiting a year for an opportunity to image this nebula again, this time with a polar alignment and guiding to enable much longer exposures than the 15 second subs I took last time and with a lower ISO to reduce noise. The next project with this is to either stitch two shots together or, better still, rotate the camera in order to fit both the Orion Nebula and the nearby Running Man Nebula into one frame.
13 x 4 minute exposures at 400 ISO
8 x dark frames
10 x flat frames
21 x bias/offset frames (subtracted from flat frames only)
Total exposure time - 52 minutes
Guided with PHD
Processed in Nebulosity, Maxim DL and Photoshop
Equipment
Celestron NexStar 127 SLT
GoTo AltAz mount with homemade wedge
Orion 50mm Mini Guide Scope
ZWO ASI120 MC guiding camera
Canon EOS 700D DSLR
[Wikipedia] The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 ± 20 light years and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across. It has a mass of about 2000 times the mass of the Sun. Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula.
The Orion Nebula is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky, and is among the most intensely studied celestial features. The nebula has revealed much about the process of how stars and planetary systems are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers have directly observed protoplanetary disks, brown dwarfs, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula. [Wikipedia]