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ASI 294 MC PRO.
SV503, 80 ED Svbony con
aplanador x1 (560mm).
Star Adventurer 2i.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc.
L-Extreme 53x300s.
Bortle 7.
PixInsight.
First Light Image using a new QHY600M Water Cooled photographic version monochrome CMOS camera that we are beta testing for QHYCCD, a review of this awesome new camera is forthcoming soon.
Quote from QHYCCD: The water cooled version provides an additional 10C ambient over the standard version and an important feature is the water cooled version has zero vibration because there is no fan inside the camera.
This setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 1.
grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment-rentals.
In this Hubble Palette version (SHO) the H-Alpha is mapped to green channel, SII is mapped to red channel and OIII is mapped to the blue channel.
Captured bin 2x2 over 3 nights in December 2012 for a total acquisition time of 16.25 hours.
Here is an earlier image of IC443 for comparison using the QHY367C Pro www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/49625298658/in/datepos...
The Supernova Remnant IC443 otherwise known as the Jellyfish Nebula and Sharpless 248, lying at a distance of approximately 5000 light years from us in the constellation Gemini, visible towards the top left in this image is the Jellyfish, the remains of a supernova that occurred between 3000-30000 years ago, lower right in this image is the diffuse and reflection Nebula IC444 otherwise known as Sharpless 249.
View in high resolution
Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/r7b7ue/
Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Dates of Capture December 2nd, 3rd and 4th 2021
HA 330 min, 66 x 300 sec
OIII 325 min, 65 x 300 sec
SII 320 min, 64 x 300 sec
Narrowband Filters by Chroma
Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS Photographic version
Gain 26, Offset 76 in Read Mode Photographic 16 bit, bin 2x2
Calibrated with Dark, Dark/Flat Frames
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
Mount: Paramount ME
Image Scale:2.39 arcsec/pix
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6, Pre Processing in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC
An LRGB image of Gum 15. It is part of the Gum catalog, an astronomical catalog of 84 emission nebulae in the southern sky. It was made by the Australian astronomer Colin Stanley Gum.
Data subs courtesy of Telescope Live.
Subs stacked and processed in PixInsight with the finishing touches in Affinity Photo.
I was suggested my target I had chosen was good one but at astro fest no one is going to hang around to see a 10min shot. So I went for the area next the Star bank in the Large Magellanic cloud ( blueish area to the left.) .
The other advantage in live stacking the colour chip in this camera shows up when stacked. I tested out the sequence before I went live at astrofest. Its looking like this year is only indoors Saturday is Rain and total cloud cover. Oh well I got to learn a little more about Nina and the shot gets seen even though its not live. Part of doing the sequence the photos get saved in the stack from my trial night and the night at astrofest would only add to the stack but a better looking photo from all the combined shots.
ZWOASI071MC Pro -10c 260 over two nights shot 2 min
MeLE Mini PC
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps.
NGC1909 / IC2118
Takahashi TOA-150
Camera: FLI ML16200
Filter: Chroma L,R,G,B
Focuser: FLI Atlas
Focal Length: 1100mm
Focal Ratio: f/5.0
Mount: A-P 1600GTO-AE
Location: Deep Sky West, Chile
11,3h of LRGB data, combination in PixInsight done:
L: 21 x 600sec
R: 16 x 600sec
G: 14 x 600sec
B: 17 x 600sec
The California Nebula Captured recently in Narrowband using the new QHY600 60 Megapixel Full Frame Monochrome CMOS camera mounted on the Takahashi 130 FSQ that we have the honor of testing for QHYCCD.
This setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 1.
grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment
In this Hubble Palette version (SHO) the H-Alpha is mapped to green, SII is mapped to red and OIII is mapped to the blue channel. while the colors in this image are not the true colors, the narrowband filters used in the making of this Hubble Palette image reveal much more of the hidden gasses not visible in a broadband image.
Captured over 5 nights in January and February 2021 for a total acquisition time of 11.6 hours.
Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Dates of Capture January 16, 20, 26, 31 and February 6th 2021
HA 210 min 21 x 600 sec
OIII 280 min 28 x 600 sec
SII 210 min 21 x 600 sec
Narrowband Filters by Chroma
Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS Photographic version
Gain 60, Offset 76 in Read Mode Photographic 16 bit
Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
Image Scale: 1.19 arcsec/pix
Field of View: 3d 7' 41.0" x 2d 3' 5.3 (127.3 x 190.1 arcmin)
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6, Pre Processing and Starnet in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC
This was a trial with the MeLE Nuc to see if things where right I had three nights to "play" with the whole set up. The Nuc sits under the Skywatcker ED80 so 5 long 3 m cables gone going to the laptop they all stay up on the top of the scope.
Night one did not work out at all could not get plate solve to work properly could hardly see the stars. After some two hours I gave up went to bed.
Night two I bumped plate solve exposure by more than double the time finally plate solve worked. So I thought I would try some thing to check if the system worked. On taking the very first photo it would not down load and I lost the camera. The usb cable that was supplied with the camera died. My only option was to bundle up my normal 3m cable and connect up to the camera and the Nuc and try a fix the whole lot to the scope. The whole thing looked like it was normally what I was use to seeing.
Night three I had to remove the dead cable and wrap the 3m one around the guide scope. I decided to do a real test set up the system to start on it own 6:45Pm. I sat in side the computer room and watched the sequence start flawless totally on its own. This is the result of those two nights some more 1m cables on there way to lessen the weight of cables. Plate solve has gone back to its normal 10 sec exposure time.
QHY183C -10c 226 shot 2 min
MeLE Mini PC
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps.
Lights: 57x90" (1h25)
DOF: 30
Iso: 1600
Traitement: PixInsight / PS / DxO PhotoLab / Topaz Denoise
Canon 450D Défiltré
Skywatcher 80ED Equinox (80x500)
Télévue TV85 Field Flatteneur 0.8x
Skywatcher Neq6 Pro
Can you see the dragons? For me, there are 2 dragons fighting, but who knows, right?
The "bubble" at the bottom of the image are two nebulae, NGC 6164 and NGC 6165. This bluish, soap bubble-like outer nebulosity is being pushed by the central star, an O7 supergiant, approximately 40 times more massive than our sun. Can you imagine such a thing?
14 hours of exposure, in a mix between L-PRO and L-Enhance filters (Enhance as luminance).
EXIF:
Canon 750D astromod
Long Perng 66mm f6
L-PRO: 114x120s, ISO 1600
L-Enhance: 214x180s, ISO 1600
Eta Carinae is one of the most massive and luminous stellar systems in our galaxy, located about 7,500 light-years away in the Carina constellation. Gabriela Mistral, in the top right, with the nebula's shape resembling a human profile, earned it the nickname. NGC 3324 was also one of the first deep-space targets imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope.
An LRGB image of 4B228.
Data subs courtesy of Telescope Live.
Processed in PixInsight and Affinity Photo.
NGC3324 Grayscale
Planewave 17” CDK
Camera: FLI ML16803
Filter: Chroma Ha, OIII, SII
Focuser: IRF90
Focal Length: 2939mm
Focal Ratio: f/6.8
Mount: 10 Micron GM3000
Location: Deep Sky West, Chile
29h of data, combination in PixInsight done:
Ha: 21 x 1800sec
OIII: 14 x 1800sec
SII: 23 x 1800sec
Shot from Poipu Beach, Kauai, Feb 12-26, 2022
A-P 92mm refractor
0.8x reducer
QHY 268C
IDAS NB1 filter
RST-135 Mount
122 x 2 min exposures
Camera control - N.I.N.A.
(First time with 3-star polar alignment - worked great off the condo balcony w/o view of Polaris)
Processing - PixInsight
Canon 6Da, ef 500mm f4; iso1600, f4, 24 x 3 minuten; 25 februari 2022, Vorden
PixInsight 1.8, Photoshop Elements 13
Equipment:
Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)
Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto
Guiding: OAG
Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini
Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera
Accessories:
ZWO ASIAIR Pro
ZWO EFW 8x1.25"
ZWO EAF
ZWO OAG
ZWO 1.25 Helical focuser
Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm
Programs:
PixInsight
Adobe Photoshop CC 2020
Details:
Camera temp: -15°C
Gain: 53, 111
Astronomik 6nm Ha: 121x300s
Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 146x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 20x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 20x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 19x180s
Bortle Scale: 4
Location: Isaszeg, Hungary
Acquisition date(s):
2021.03.02., 2021.03.08., 2021.03.13., 2021.03.19., 2021.03.20., 2021.03.23.
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 37x300s
Bortle 8.
PixInsight,
This image was captured while I was taking advantage of a bright, moonlit urban sky to check out my imaging system. The capture occured while I was validating that NINA-automated meridian flips were occuring on time and executing correctly,
While there is a target object in this image, this is essentially a stars-only image, illustrating that great stars can be obtain in a what seemed to be an impossibly bright sky. Two points relative to stars-only images are worth mentioning.
90s exposures were way longer than needed, because the histogram sky fog peak was separated from the left edge by over 3,000 ADU, the camera (16-bit) provides enough dynamic range to prevent the brightest stars' centers from saturatinng. With test exposures, I could have significantly lowered the exposure duration and still have gotten the same quality image I got with 90s exposures.
A ton of Luminance frames were shot. I made a couple of attempts to add luminance with LRGBCombination, but found that it degrated my image. My sense is that I could have adjusted the stretch of my luminance image to get a combined image at least as good as the image appeared without luminance, but I don't think that adding luminance would ever improve the image. This illustrates that there is enough signal in RGB that the stars can stand on their own.
Equipment:
ZWO ASI6200MM-P/EFW 2" x 7 (RGB)
TeleVue NP101is (4" f/4.3)
Losmandy G11
Software:
Captured in NINA
Processed and finished in PixInsight
Integration:
24 frames x 90s for each RGB filter
Total integration: 1;48
This is a bit of an odd ball as it does not follow anthing like I have done before. I found this Dark looking structure on Stellarium but it was not named so could not select it by writing the name. I was able to use the cool feature in Nina Select it in Stellarium and it brings it into Nina as a target. The star is HIP 54413 at least I knew that part from Stellarium This is two nights worth of shots and about 6 goes at trying to edit this which is so different to how I have done all the others.
I think this is pushing the limits of the ED 80 with all this very light dusty part of the sky. The mount performed flawlessly so really happy with the two upgrades.
ZWOASI071MC Pro -10c 90 shot 10 min
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps PTGui.
The Ghost Nebula Sh2-136, VdB 141 is a reflection nebula located in the constellation Cepheus.
It lies near the cluster NGC 7023. The Ghost Nebula is referred to as a globule and over 2 light-years across. There are several stars embedded, whose emissions make the nebula shine in brownish colour.
Captured by David Wills at PixelSkies, Castillejar, Spain www.pixelskiesastro.com
Lum 99 x 600s
Red 163 x 180s
Green 182 x 180s
Blue 168 x 180s
42 hours 9 mins 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 Lum,Red,Green,Blue
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
Another collaboration by Tom Masterson and Terry Hancock captured at Grand Mesa Observatory 11/25/2021 using their System 4a telescope now available for subscription grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment
The image captures a steadily brightening Comet C/2021 A1 Leonard as it passes by the Whale Galaxy (NGC4631) and the Hockey Stick Galaxy (NGC 4556 and 4657 in the early morning hours this past Thursday 11/25/2021.
You might remember this particular celestial backdrop from another image (apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210513.html) Tom and I captured of Comet C/2020 R4 (ATLAS) earlier this year back in early May of 2021. It's pretty neat that we have another comet traveling through this portion of our sky, can't say I've ever experienced such a repeat :)
Technical info:
Location: Grand Mesa Observatory, Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Date of capture: 11/25/2021
Exposures: 116 x 60 second
Camera System 4a: QHY367 Pro C One shot Color CMOS
Gain: 2850 Offset: 76
Optics System 4a: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre-Processed in Pixinsight, Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processed in 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
175x120s
L-Pro
Bortle 8.
PixInsight.
Ha (AIP):
Telescope: TS115 Triplet APO refractor (focal lenght: 630mm)
Mount: Takahashi EM-400
Camera: CCD Atik 460EX mono + Baader Ha 7nm
Guider: Lunático EZG-60 + SXLodestar
Focus: RoboFocus + AstroMatic (ftorrev)
Adquisition: MaximDL + AstroMatic (ftorrev)
Processing: PixInsight Core 1.8 + PS
Ha: 13x900s bin1 -10ºC from Camarma de Esteruelas, Spain and 15x600s bin1 -5ºC from Pioz, Guadalajara, Spain.
OIII (Maritxu & Jesús):
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106EDX (focal lenght: 530mm)
Mount: Losmandy Gemini v.4
Camera: QSI 683 ws8 + Baader OIII 8,5nm
Guider: Lunático EZG-60 + QHY5
Focus: Seletek
Adquisition: MaximDL
Processing: PixInsight Core 1.8 + PS
OIII: 8x600s bin1 from Benamahoma, Cádiz, Spain.
SII (Maritxu & Jesús):
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106EDX (focal lenght: 530mm)
Mount: Losmandy Gemini v.4
Camera: QSI 683 ws8 + Baader SII 8nm
Guider: Lunático EZG-60 + QHY5
Focus: Seletek
Adquisition: MaximDL
Processing: PixInsight Core 1.8 + PS
OIII: 14x600s bin1 from Benamahoma, Cádiz, Spain.
Another re-edit using Pixinsight / StarXterminator.
3hours in 3 minute subs
Flourostar 91mm
ZWO 2600 MC pro
EQ6-R-Pro
Leyburn, Queensland
This is a close up as I can get with current setup the detail in the nebula is just perfect.
QHY 183C -10c 38 shots each night 10 min each over four nights.
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps PTGui.
This is a reworked image of the Gamma Cygni nebula.
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed with PixInsight.
-captured: 25.09.16
26x600" ISO200
4.33h
A wide-field 2 panel mosaic, of the cosmic dust clouds that cross the rich field of stars of Corona Australis (Latin for the Southern Crown).
Gear:
William Optics Star 71mm f/4.9 Imaging APO Refractor Telescope.
QHY163M Camera Sensor cooled to -30°C.
Technical Card:
Integration Time: 18 hours total (9 hours per panel).
L = 9 hours total (Binning 1x1).
R = 3 hours total (Binning 2x2).
G = 3 hours total (Binning 2x2).
B = 3 hours total (Binning 2x2).
Calibration frames:
Bias, Darks & Flats.
Image Acquisition:
Guiding in Open PHD.
Image acquisition in Sequence Generator Pro.
Plate Solving in Platesolve 2 via SGP Framing & Mosaic Wizzard.
Processing:
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
star separation with StarNet++ Pi Plug-in,
and finished in Photoshop.
Astrometry Info:
Center (RA, Dec): 285.970, -37.530
Center (RA, hms): 19h 03m 52.739s
Center (Dec, dms): -37° 31' 46.701"
Size: 3.63 x 2.86 deg.
Radius: 2.312 deg.
Pixel scale: 8.17 arcsec/pixel.
Orientation: Up is 162.5 degrees E of N.
View an Annotated Sky Chart of this image.
View image in the WorldWideTelescope.
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This image is part of the Legacy Series.
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Photo usage and Copyright:
Medium-resolution photograph licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Terms (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For High-resolution Royalty Free (RF) licensing, contact me via my site: Contact.
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Astro-Physics 130 GTX + QUADTCC @ F/4.5
Moravian G3 11002 + Chroma Ha 8nm + Astrodon RGB
Astro Physics 1200
Ha: 24x1800s bin 1x1
RGB: 25x300s bin 1x1
Total exposure: 18h
Captured with Sequence Generator Pro
Processed with Pixinsight, Astro Pixel Processor
The Leo Triplet is a small group of galaxies about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. This galaxy group consists of the spiral galaxies M65, M66, and NGC 3628.
Captured by David Wills at PixelSkies, Castillejar, Spain www.pixelskiesastro.com
Lum 83 x 600s
Red 49 x 180s
Green 53 x 180s
Blue 49 x 180s
21 Hours 23 mins in total.
Equipment used:
Telescope: Takahashi Baby Q FSQ-85ED F5.3
Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Pro Mono Cooled to -20C
Image Scale: 2.08
Guiding: OAG
Filters: Astronomik Lum,Red,Green,Blue
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
Captured on September 22nd at Grand Mesa Observatory using QHYCCD’s latest offering the QHY410C Back Illuminated Full Frame one shot color CMOS camera that we have the honor of testing. A myriad of different types of objects are visible in this wide field image covering over 4 x 2.4 degrees of sky. From Lynde’s Catalogues of Bright and Dark Nebulae LDN 1089, LDN 1100, LDN 1094, LBN 444, LBN 447. Emission Nebula Sh2-130, face-on intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 6949 and 17 distant galaxies from the PGC catalogue.
This new setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 4a
View High Resolution
Astrobin www.astrobin.com/6mfj8b/
Technical Info:
Total Integration time 3.75 hours
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Date of capture: September 22nd 2020
Color RGGB 225 min, 45 x 300 sec
Camera: QHY410C Back Illuminated Full Frame Color CMOS
Gain 0, Offset 76
Read Mode: High Gain Mode
Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre Processed in Pixinsight and Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processed in Photoshop
This is bench colomated the just used as a trial I tried to collimate on the mount Its so bad I cant take photos as it can not focus.
QHY 183C -10c 104 shots 5 min each over one night.
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps .
1 stack of 110 30s images, Canon 800D at ISO 800, Canon 400mm f5.6 lens wide open, iOptron Skyguider Pro tracker. 100 darks, 350 biases. Processed in PixInsight (full description at www astrobin com 6v85ug )
/// Setup
- Camera: Moravian G2-8300 + OAG
- Telescope: Omegon 126/880 f/7 Triplet Apo
- Riccardi Reducer 0.75x (660 mm @ f/5.25)
- Mount: Losmandy G11
- Guiding Camera: Starlite Xpress Lodestar X2
/// Software
- Capturing Software: Sequence Generator Pro / PHD2
- Processing Software: PixInsight 1.8
/// Image Integration
- 11x600" Red / bin 1x1 / -25°C
- 10x600" Green / bin 1x1 / -25°C
- 9x600" Blue / bin 1x1 / -25°C
(5.00h)
Taken using T12 on iTelescope.net (Takahashi FQS-ED 106mm / SBIG STL-11000M). 45 minutes of data (3 Ha, 3 Sii, 3 Oii). Images stacked and processed using PixInsight
In this image taken on the early morning of Dec. 3, 2021, at Grand Mesa Observatory, Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) is seen moving past Globular Cluster M3 in our night sky when a meteor streaked across this scene, lighting up the image and creating one of the most spectacular shots we have had the privilege of working with. It was captured and processed by Terry Hancock and Tom Masterson using a QHY367 Pro C one shot color CMOS and a Takahashi E180 Astrograph, GMO’s System 4a telescope grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment
After processing this image, I looked up what the color of the meteor means for its makeup and found that yellow/orange meteors most likely are made up of sulfur and iron. The strands of vapor moving off the meteor tail are so mesmerizing. What a treat it was to capture this image! Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) will continue to brighten in our night sky this month but will become difficult to image or observe as it approaches the sun in our sky. It flips around and becomes an evening comet later this month, which will hopefully make it easier for more people to observe. Fingers crossed it brightens past expectations. Currently it’s a binocular-observable comet, but it may become naked eye visible in the next couple nights if it’s not already.
Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/q1rf3t/
Technical Info:
Captured and processed by Tom Masterson and Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado www.grandmesaobservatory.com
Date/Time of Capture: 4:31 AM MT, December 3rd
Single 120 second combined with 40% mix for noise reduction from a 90 x 120 second stack
Camera: QHY367 Pro C Full Frame One Shot Color CMOS
Optics: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre-Processed in Pixinsight
Post Processed in Photoshop
Distance ca. 12 Mio. light years
diameter of 90,000 light years
Equipment:
TS 10" f/4 ONTC Newton
1000mm f4
ZWO ASI 1600mmc
Astrodon LRGB
Losmandy G11/LFE Photo
Guding:
Lodestar on TS Optics - ultra short 9mm Off Axis Guider
PHD2
70x180s Luminanz
25x180 red
26x180 green
38x180s blue
total exposure time: 7,9 hours
February 2020, February 2021
Processing: PixInsight/Capture One
Filmed: June 29, 2024
Nikon D750 IR modified, 300mm, f4.0, ISO3200, SS60sec, Polarie U
Sky: 25 frames, Foreground 15 frames, Dark 20 frames, Bias 40 frames, Flat 40 frames
PixInsight, Photoshop
Due to bad angle, half of M110 has been missing.
The Rosette Nebula is a cloud of dust containing enough gas and dust to make about 10,000 stars like our Sun. In the centre of the nebula is a cluster of hot, bright young stars. These are warming up the surrounding gas and dust, making it appear bluer. The small, bright white regions are cocoons of dust in which huge stars are currently being born. These “protostars”, each one of which will probably become a star up to ten times more massive than the Sun, are heating up the surrounding gas and dust and making it clow brighter. The smaller, redder dots on the left side and near the centre of the image also contain protostars, but these are smaller, and will go on to form stars much like our Sun. Just as the centre of the nebula contains bright young stars, in a few tens or hundreds of millions of years these stars will have died, but the protostars will have evolved into fully-fledged stars in their own right. In this way, the star formation will move outwards through the nebula.
58 180second subs
Processed in Pixinsight
William Optic GT81 with a William Optics 0.8 field flatner
ASIAIR Pro
ASI533mc Pro
Skywatcher EQ-6 AZ
This rarely image part of the sky is a considered a dark nebula. It is part of a larger dark nebula region called Lupus 1 or The Dark Wolfe Nebula.
CDK24
Moravian Camera
El Sauce Observatory, Chile
L: 32x15m
R: 21x15m
G: 19x15m
B: 21x15m
Total Integration = 23.25h
PI (RGB): BXT, RGB, SXT, NXT, HT, CT, Rescreen
L: BXT, SXT, NXT, HT, CT, Rescreen
PS: ColorEfex, StarShrink, Selective Color, Shadow Highlights, Curves, Saturation
Data from Martin Pugh.
This is the end result of starting End Of April Finished to 12/7/2022. what started out as a look at the area I have been taking photos of for years. To get this completed this is the third iteration getting the over lap correct so it finished first was 12% , and second was 23% but in the end I could see the panels walking away from each other as I shot, so settled for 45%. So the true start was early in April getting this part to get correct so it finished. Added to this I went from an easy Rotation Error of 5 degrees to a very small 1.5 degree. Even last night at 11:53pm at flip the camera had to be rotated 1.8 degrees after flip to finish out the night.
I thought the best way to tell you Milky Way core is 53 shots per night X 22 panels = 1166 shot or x 10min exposure time.. = 11660 minutes of exposure to get the whole thing or divide by 60min gives you hours. = 194 hours. not to get you confused...at all.
The result of two sequences and 22 panels (11 panels long)each panel a night shooting, The Tiff is 22653 x 8024 1.01 GB, Jpeg is 176Mb the shot here is under 25mb. The end was I thought my first sequence finished where I wanted to but I was way out by 6 more panels to get below the Eagle Nebula.
I thought Bonsai taught me patience but this has been a very long set of shots trying to get clear nights to get each panel between clouds and rain.
The march across the milky way as I took it stated with far right to left as the Milky Way rose in the sky:-
Fighting Dragons, Prawn , Cats Paw, Lobster, Dark horse ( bottom half only), Snake, Lagoon and Trifid, Horse Shoe, Swan and Eagle.
Enjoy the milky way like I have never seen before.
ZWOASI071MC -10 53 shots each of the 22 nights
10min rotated to error of 1.5 degrees.
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Nikon 105 mm f2.8 G Lens
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, PTGui, Ps, Lr.
This is a second go at this target but rains are killing any more nights worth of shots.
In the very center of the nebula there looks to be a dog sitting on it hind legs begging these are called the "Pillars of Creation" sadly this is a close as I can go.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation
QHY183C -10c 87shot 5 min
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps.
Messier 51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy
Image acquisition: Mauro Santoro
Image processing: Diego Pisano
Acquired from Terravecchia (Cs) Italy, from June, 20 until July, 04
Total exposure 32 hours
Camera: QHY 294C Pro
Filter: Optolong L pro
Scope: Sky-Watcher QUATTRO 250P
Mount: Sky-Watcher Az Eq6
Editing: Pixinsight
The Milky Way and solitary trees are a perfect combination. When I saw this beautiful Coast Live Oak (Quercus Agrifolia) in a lofty spot, high above the Pacific coast near Big Sur, I immediately checked the Milky Way's alignment and was pleased to find that this majestic tree aligns perfectly with the dark horse riding above it. Fortunately, the field of view was clear enough to allow me to shoot it with a 70mm focal length, which is great for highlighting the size of the galaxy over an earthly foreground.
EXIF
Canon EOS Ra
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 70mm
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sky
Stack of 10x 90s @ ISO1600
Forward
Stack of 6x 60s @ ISO 3200
The dragons lair in ARA. The dragon egg NGC6164 is easy to see. Captured at Telescopelive in Australia, and heavily processed by me in PixInsight. About 4000 light years away.
Date: July 26, 2023
D750 IR modified, ISO1600, f4.0, SS120sec, 300mm
Light 30, Bias 40, Flat 40
PixInsight, Photoshop
NGC3521 LRGB
Planewave 17” CDK
Camera: FLI ML16803
Filter: Chroma L,R,G,B
Focuser: IRF90
Focal Length: 2939mm
Focal Ratio: f/6.8
Mount: 10 Micron GM3000
Location: Deep Sky West, Chile
11,75h of LRGB data, combination in PixInsight done:
L: 62 x 300sec
R: 23 x 300sec
G: 30 x 300sec
B: 26 x 300sec
BlurXTerminator used.