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Non-linear finishing in Affinity Photo instead of PixInsight. See original posting for comparison.
ZWO ASI6200MM-Pro/EFW 2" x 7 (LRGB)
Tele Vue NP101is
Losmandy G11
Captured in NINA (3 hours total integration)
L: 45 x 120s
RGB: 15 x 120s
Processed in PixInsight and Affinity Photo
The Aurigid meteor shower is active from August 28 to September 5. In 2025, it will reach its peak on September 1.
I was lucky enought to capture few.
Tracked with Skywatcher HEQ5 pro, guiding with 30F4 Mini Guide Scope and ASIAIR Plus.
Images captured with stock Canon R8 with Sigma 14mm f/1.8 art lens.
Stacked with Sequator, edited in Pixinsight, Photoshop and Lightroom.
12 exposures for the sky and 1 exposure for the foreground.
Hailuoto, Marjaniemi beach, Finland
ASI 294 MC PRO.
72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.
Star Adventurer.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 250 -10ºc
20x300s
L-Enhance
Bortle 8.
PixInsight, Topaz Denoise AI.
Total of just over 63 hours of integration to complete this image of OU4 the Squid Nebula. 47 hours of OIII data alone was required to bring out this extremely faint target.
Taken from my backyard in Vernon BC.
Finer details available here,
Nikon D7100 full spectrum ISO 800
Lights 150 x 5 sec
Lights 150 x 10 sec
Lights 150 x 20 sec
Lights 100 x 200 sec
Darks 20 x 5 sec
Darks 20 x 10 sec
Darks 150 x 20 sec
Darks 10 x 200 sec
Flats 25
Sky-Watcher HEQ 5 PRO
Sony IMX290 Board + Custom Refractor Guide
#4 Rural/suburban transition
NGC 2359, Sharpless 2-298 or Thor's Helmet, is an emission nebula situated in the constellation of Canis Major. The central star is the Wolf-Rayet star WR7, an extremely hot star thought to be in a brief pre-supernova stage of evolution. It is similar in nature to the Bubble Nebula but interactions with a nearby large molecular cloud are thought to have contributed to the more complex shape. It lies around 11,960 distant.
Image made up from subs collected using 2 different setups. My 150mm Esprit/QHY294M and TSAPO130Q/QHY294C.
NEQ6 PRO
TSAPO130Q @F/5
QHY294C Gain 2900 -20C
STC Duo Narrowband filter
EQ6-R-PRO
150mm Esprit
QHY294M Gain 2900 -20C
Astronomik 6nm Ha and OIII narrowband filters
Acquisition time 10hrs
Processed using Pixinsight and Photoshop 6.
C9XLT, ASI678MC, ADC, filtre L Astronomik type 2c.
FireCapture, Astrosurface, Pixinsight NoiseXTerminator AI3
I've been messing around with the starnet++ and NoiseXTerminator plugins for Pixinsight. One of the cool things is removing all the stars, and just leaving behind the residual background, and the three galaxies left behind. The next step for me is in improve on re-adding all the stars back into the image.
-10-8-19
-Nikon D5300
-Skywatcher Star Adventurer
-Tamron 70-300mm f4-5.6 @300mm f8
-ISO 3200
-Exposure: 52x30sec
-Bortle 4
9-13-20
-Nikon D5300
-Skywatcher Star Adventurer
-Tamron 70-300mm f4-5.6 @300mm f7.1
-ISO 1600
-Exposure: 57x1 minute
-Bortle 4
9-10-21
-Nikon D5300
-Skywatcher Star Adventurer
-Tamron 70-300mm f4-5.6 @300mm f5.6
-ISO 1600
-Exposure: 81x1 minute
-Bortle 4
best 10% of 1000 frames LUM
Scope: Orion 8" f4 Astrograph with Baader Coma Corrector
Mount: iOptron iEQ45 pro
Camera: ZWO ASI183M non cooled
ZWO 8 position 1.25 filter wheel filter wheel
ZWO LRGB
Moonlite focuser CR2
Moonlight Hi Res stepper motor
MyFocuer Pro v2 (Robert Brown) controller
Home Observatory
Software: Sharpcap, CdC, Pixinsight, Photoshop, Team Viewer, autostakert!3, Registax
ZWO ASI6200MM-P/EFW 2" x7 (RGB, S-II, Ha, O-III)
Tele Vue NP101is (4" f/4.3)
Losmandy G11
RGB Stars: 10 subs/filter x 30s = 15m
SHO Nebula
Ha: 18 x 600s (180m)
S-II: 5 x 600s (50m)
O-III:: 13 x 600s (130m)
6 hours total SHO integration
Processed in PixInsight
Finished in Affinity Photo
Astro-Physics Riccardi-Honders 305mm @ F/3.65
Moravian C3 61000 + Chroma L, Ha
Astro Physics 1200
Astro-Physics 130 GTX + QUADTCC @ F/4.5
Moravian G3 11002 + Astrodon RGB
Astro Physics 1200
L: 93x300s bin 1x1
RGB: 150x300s bin 1x1
Total exposure: 20h
Captured with Sequence Generator Pro
Processed with Pixinsight
IC 1848, Westerhout 5 or Sharpless 2-199 is an emission nebula located in the constellation of Cassiopeia. It lies at a distance of around 7,500 light years. Imaged over 3 nights in November 2024.
HEQ5 PRO
RedCat 51 WIFD
QHY183M Gain 21 -20C
Astronomik 6nm SHO narrowband filter set
Acquisition time 7hrs30min
Processed using Pixinsight and Photoshop 6.
First light with Askar ACL200
Askar ACL200: 200mm f/4
ZWO ASI533MM Mono Camera at -20C
74x60s uvir
Guided on ZWO AM5
Processed with PixInsight, Ps
Lunette triplet APO 80x480 + réducteur x0.79 + filtre Idas LPS D1.
HEQ5 et guidage chercheur + ASI120mc.
Canon 1000D défiltré partiel.
28 x 180s ; ISO400.
Ciel mag 21.12.
Siril, Pixinsight, Photoshop
Ha 19 x 10 min 3 x 30 min. OIII 12 x 30 min 19 x 10 min. SII 11 x 30 mins
Optics: Takahashi Baby Q FSQ-85ED F5.3
Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Mono Cooled to -20C
Guiding: OAG Lodestar X2
Filter: Baader Ha
Mount: Skywatcher AZ EQ6-GT EQ & Alt-Az Mount connected to the Sky X and Eqmod via HitecAstro EQDIR adapter
Image Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro
Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight
Processing: Photoshop CC, Pixinsight
Shotdate: 13-8-2016
Camera: Nikon D4s
Optics: NIKKOR 24-120mm f4.0 @ 35mm f4.0
Mount: SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro
Exposure: 60 seconds
ISO-speed: 3200
Lights: 250
Darks: 25
Flats: 18
Bias: 105
Stacking in DeepSkyStacker
Post-processing of the background in PixInsight
Adding the meteors in PhotoShop, for a grand total of 29 Percoids and one other.
Messier 94, the spiral galaxy in the constellation The Hounds. It was seen in a telescope by Messier's colleague Pierre on March 22, 1781. Also called NGC 4736, it has a diameter of 50,000 light years and is 16 million light years away from Earth. If you want to think in big numbers, the galaxy contains something like 40 billion stars.
Equipment
ZWO ASI6200MM-Pro
TeleVue NP101is
Losmandy G11
Capture
R: 20 x 90s
G: 20 x 90s
B: 20 x 90s
Total Integration: 1.5 hours
Processing
PixInsight
Photoshop
ASI 294 MC PRO.
72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.
Star Adventurer 2i.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc
L-Extreme 97x300s
Bortle 8.
PixInsight.
The flame and horsehead nebulae flank the first star in Orion's belt.
Tech Stuff: Borg 55FL astrograph/ZWO ASI1600MC/IDAS LPS-V4 filter/iOptron CubePro unguided/ 3 hours of livestacked 8 second exposures/PixInsight. From my yard in Westchester County NY.
ASI 294 MC PRO.
72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.
Star Adventurer.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc
L-Extreme 86x300s
Bortle 8.
PixInsight,
Crop de l'image du pélican
ASI2600MM, Esprit 80/400, filtres Astronomik 6nm
Pixinsight, process Bill Blashan
NGC2244 capture by TelescopeLive in Australia. Processing in PixInsight and Lightroom by Jan Zettergren.
Messier 106 (also known as NGC 4258) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. M106 is at a distance of about 22 to 25 million light-years away from Earth.
Technical Info:
67 x 180 sec. ZWO Red filter
68 x 180 sec. ZWO Green filter
65 x 180 sec. Zwo Blue filter
Gain 200, Offset 50, Binning 1x1
Total Integration 9.9 hours
Celestron Edge HD 9.25 f/10
Sensor cooled to -15°C on ZWO ASI1600MM Pro (mono)
Calibration frames: Bias, Darks, and Flats.
Plate Solve-PlateSolver 2 via N.I.N.A. 1.11
Image processing Pixinsight 1.8.9-2, and Photoshop CC 2024
Taken w/ William Optics Redcat 51, QHYCCD Polemaster, Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D7500.
177 x 90s, 80 x 120s lights @ ISO 800, ~45 dark, ~80 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop & PixInsight
60tomas de 180sg a iso 800
Cámara canon 600d modificada sin filtro ir
Tubo TS 60/290 apocromatic
Reductor tus photoline x79
Tubo de guiado zwo mini Guido 30/125
Cámara de guiado qhy5II/C
Montura eq6r
Capturadas con SGP
apiladas con DSS
procesada con pixinsight 1.8
A small patch of emission nebula, located in the constellation Cygnus.
Imaged under at least a 90% illuminated moon, in the light of ionised hydrogen and oxygen.
Altair Astro 6" RC and Atik 460ex, Astrodon narrowband filters. Captured in SGPro and processed in Pixinsight and CS5.
Imaging telescope or lens: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200
Imaging camera: FLI MicroLine 8300 CCD-camera FLI
Locations: FOVO - Field of View Observatory, Home, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
Mount: Paramount-ME
Guiding telescope or lens: Borg 77 ED
Software: Pixinsight 1.8
Filters: Ha 5nm, Astrodon Luminance, Astrodon Blue, Astrodon Red, Astrodon Green
Accessories: FLI Atlas, Starlight Xpress lodestar 2
Resolution: 3083x2196
Dates: Dec. 21, 2016, Dec. 22, 2016, Dec. 28, 2016, Jan. 4, 2017, Jan. 5, 2017
Frames:
Astrodon Blue: 26x300" bin 1x1
Astrodon Green: 25x300" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 44x10" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 50x30" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 27x300" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 43x60" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 197x600" bin 1x1
Astrodon Red: 24x300" bin 1x1
Ha 5nm: 54x300" bin 1x1
Integration: 47.1 hours
Despite a lot of clear nights over the last few weeks seeing has been average or worse. I decided that hunting down a interesting dim target would be pointless! Instead I chose something bright that could be well resolved and provide some detail. After 7-8 nights I decided i better process the data :). The is a lot of data here that has worked well for the two main galaxies. However with this many subs I was hoping for more IFN. There was a lot there but it was not clean, even with nearly 200 lum subs so I did my best to resist the temptation of pushing to hard and just focused on the galaxies. These did process well despite the conditions, on review I could have probably got similar results with 1/3 data but I wanted to see if IFN would resolve under average seeing. Answer is clearly a no! Well not in a way that is clean enough to process nicely!
ZWO ASI6200MM-P/EFW 2" x7 (RGB, S-II, Ha, O-III)
Tele Vue NP101is (4" f/4.3)
Losmandy G11
RGB Stars: 10 subs/filter x 30s = 15m
SHO Nebula
Ha: 18 x 600s (180m)
S-II: 5 x 600s (50m)
O-III:: 13 x 600s (130m)
6 hours total SHO integration
Processed in PixInsight
Finished in Affinity Photo
Here’s my latest capture: the stunning M8, also known as the Lagoon Nebula! 🌌 This is the result of 70 stacked photos, all processed with PixInsight to reveal as much detail as possible—even with the heavy light pollution here in Tel Aviv (Bortle 9 skies!) 💡️.
I used my usual setup: Omegon veTEC 533 camera, SkyWatcher Star Adventurer mount, guiding system, and autofocuser, with everything controlled through NINA on my laptop. 🔭💻
It’s always a challenge imaging from the city, but I’m amazed by what 70 exposures can reveal. The colors and dark dust lanes in the nebula really pop after careful processing. This is why I keep coming back—every session is a little escape from the noise of daily life, and a reminder of how beautiful the universe is.
Here's a 2 pane mosaic of a small part of the Veil Nebula that I have been working on for some time. This is the first mosaic I have done in a long time. I used Microsoft Image Composite Editor to stitch the two images together then Pixinsight and Photoshop for the processing.
The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated ionized gas, oxygen, sulfur, and hydrogen in the constellation Cygnus.
Captured by David Wills at PixelSkies, Castillejar, Spain www.pixelskiesastro.com
The Western Veil Nebula
Ha 45 x 900s
OIII 63 x 900s
Pickering's Triangle
Ha 64 x 900s
OIII 72 x 900s
61 hours in total.
Equipment used:
Telescope: Takahashi Baby Q FSQ-85ED F5.3
Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Pro Mono Cooled to -10C
Image Scale: 2.08
Guiding: OAG
Filters: Astronomik Ha,OIII
Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount
Image Acquisition: Voyager
Observatory control: Lunatico Dragonfly
Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight
Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC
M2 is a large, bright globular cluster in the constellation Aquarius. This image was acquired under dark skies near Goldendale, WA, using a telescope and cooled CCD camera designed for astroimaging.
Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 8
Camera: QSI 683wsg
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach 1 GTO
Integration: 25-30 minutes each of RGB (5 minute subs)
Post Processing Software: PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom
Astro-Physics 130 GTX + QUADTCC @ F/4.5
Moravian G3 11002 + Astrodon RGB + Chroma Ha 8nm
Astro Physics 1200
RGB: 75x300s bin 1x1
Ha: 23x1800s bin 1x1
Total exposure: 30h
Captured with Sequence Generator Pro
Processed with Pixinsight
Caméra 2600mm
+filtre optolong L pro 114X300S
Caméra 2600mc + filtre optolong l'extrème
114X300S
Takahashi TSA 120
AZEQ6
Focuseur AEF ZWO
ASIAIR PRO
caméra guide 290mm + skywatxher evoguide 242mm
Acquisition 19h
Juin 2021
ASI 294 MC PRO.
72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.
Star Adventurer 2i.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc
L-Extreme 97x300s
Bortle 8.
PixInsight. Bill Blanshan's Color Palette.
Imaging telescope or lens: Takahashi FSQ 106EDXIII
Imaging camera: QSI 683WSG-8 OAG QSI 683
Mount: Paramount-ME
Guiding camera: QSI 683WSG-8 OAG QSI 683
Software: Pixinsight 1.8
Filters: Astrodon Luminance, Astrodon Blue, Astrodon Red, Astrodon Green
Resolution: 3284x2355
Dates: Dec. 30, 2016
Frames:
Astrodon Blue: 9x900" bin 1x1
Astrodon Green: 9x900" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 18x900" bin 1x1
Astrodon Red: 9x900" bin 1x1
Integration: 11.2 hours
A quick look at Markarian's Chain in the Virgo cluster. Galaxy season is on its way.
Lots of galaxies here have tried not to over-process in order not to lose any of the small fuzzies.
Happy new year to you all.
Telescope Triplet 115/800
Focal Reducer/ Flattener 0.79x
ZWO ASI 1600MMPRO
ZWO FILTER WHEEL 8x1.25
LRGB
Luminance: 40 x 180 (bin1x1)
Red: 40 X 180 (bin2x2)
Green: 40x180 (bin2x2)
Blue: 15X180 (bin2x2
DSS+Pixinsight
Hello folks here Centaurus A
Telescope: SharpStar 150 f2,8
Guide Scope:Evoguide
Mount : Skywatcher HEQ5
Imaging camera: ZWO 2600MC
Guiding camera: ZWO 290 MC
Filters: Lpro
Plate solving: SGpro
Imaging software: Sgpro
Guiding software: PHD2
Processing software: Pixinsight
Lpro 90x120s exposure@100 Gain
Integration: 3 hrs
I have learned a few more Pixinsight techniques and applied them to the Iris Nebula that I did almost 1 year ago. Selective saturation! Big improvement I feel on the original here www.flickr.com/photos/astropictures/14963845019/in/photos...
Over 3 hours exposure and taken over 3 nights 31/8, 2/9 and 3/9/2014.
Using my SW 250pds, filter wheel, LRGB filters and Atik 490ex. Guiding was 90x50 finder with QHY5IIL. Software used was Artemis capture, PHD guiding, Pixinsight and Photoshop.
x14 L 180secs 1x1
x8 R 300 secs 2x2
x7 G 300 secs 2x2
x14 B 300 secs 2x2
NGC7023 the Iris Nebula is bright reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus. It is about 1300 light years away and 6 light years across. NGC7023 is the cluster inside the nebula. The nebula is illuminated by a +6.8 mag star SAO19158.
This subject is evidently very difficult to obtain much detail in light polluted sky's so I am reasonably pleased with this one. However there is rather to much Coma.
M42 taken with 8 in Meade SCT after collimation and cleaning a horrendously dirty mirrors and corrector plate. Image take by.a friend of mine using a cox mount that has some issues with tracking. 600 second exposure, ASI6200MC Pro camera at -7C. Lenhance filter, processed PixInsight and Photoshop.
Canon 6Da, Skywatcher N 200/1000 PDS, Baader h-alpha 7nm filter; iso3200, 32 x 5 minuten
PixInsight 1.8, Photoshop Elements 13
NGC3621
Planewave 17” CDK
Camera: FLI ML16803
Filter: Chroma L,R,G,B,Ha
Focuser: IRF90
Focal Length: 2939mm
Focal Ratio: f/6.8
Mount: 10 Micron GM3000
Location: Deep Sky West, Chile
9,6h of data, combination in PixInsight done:
R: 18 x 600sec
G: 20 x 600sec
B: 20 x 600sec
Picture taken the 21th of July from my flat in Tel Aviv. Mosaic of two panels videos. Very cloudy night but good results.
Telescope Williams Optics Z73III and camera ZWO ASI715MC. Processing of the video with PIPP and AutoStakker and editing the final picture with Pixinsight.
ASI 294 MC PRO.
Samyang 135mm.
Star Adventurer.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc
20x300s
L-Extreme
Bortle 8.
PixInsight, Topaz Denoise AI.