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Another object that I can't reach from my backyard.. taken in the desert of Utah. Never realized those famous pillars would be visible in my small telescope.
from space.com: "The Eagle Nebula is located in the constellation Serpens and covers an area of 70 by 55 light-years. It is home to the iconic Pillars of Creation, made famous by an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995.
Parts of the Eagle Nebula are emission nebulas, meaning that the clouds of gas and dust are so hot they produce their own light. Other parts are dark nebulas, which are made of cold gas and are only visible because of the silhouettes they create against the nebula's glowing backdrop."
Askar 120APO: 840mm f/7
ZWO ASI533MM Mono Camera at -20C
Guided on ZWO AM5
20x180s with Ha filter
20x180s Oiii
20x180s Sii
Processed with PixInsight, Ps
The heart of the Heart nebula revisited using the "natural palette" with special attention to the dark nebulas there.
It a complete rework of a previous image made on SHOrgb.
A total of 57 hours of integration and a lot of intermediate version on the process.
Still I think that I could obtain more details, but this will be next year (maybe :P ).
Technical card
Imaging telescopes or lenses:Teleskop Service TS Photoline 107mm f/6.5 Super-Apo , Altair Astro RC250-TT 10" RC Truss Tube
Imaging cameras:ZWO ASI183MM-Cool , ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mounts:Skywatcher EQ6R Pro , Mesu 200 Mk2
Guiding telescopes or lenses:Celestron OAG Deluxe , Teleskop Service TSOAG9 Off-Axis Guider
Guiding cameras:ZWO ASI290 Mini , ZWO ASI174 Mini
Focal reducers:Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x , Telescope-Service TS 2" Flattener
Software:Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight , Seqence Generator Pro
Filters:Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm , Optolong SII 6.5nm 36mm , Optolong OIII 6.5nm 36mm
Accessory:ZWO EFW , MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30 , MoonLite CSL 2.5" Focuser with High Res Stepper Motor
Dates:Nov. 29, 2019
Frames:
Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm: 166x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Optolong OIII 6.5nm 36mm: 80x600" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: -75.00) -15C bin 1x1
Optolong SII 6.5nm 36mm: 80x600" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 56.6 hours
Avg. Moon age: 2.95 days
Avg. Moon phase: 9.53%
Astrometry.net job: 3907933
RA center: 2h 34' 16"
DEC center: +61° 21' 18"
Pixel scale: 1.007 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 359.646 degrees
Field radius: 0.408 degrees
Resolution: 1760x2328
Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain
Data source: Own remote observatory
Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility
Another collaboration between Tom Masterson and Terry Hancock
In this image taken at Grand Mesa Observatory, www.grandmesaobservatory.com. Comet C/2017 T2 takes another photo op as it passes by Galaxy Messier 106 (M106) in the night sky this past Tuesday night, June 23, 2020.
Discovered on Oct. 2, 2017 by the PanSTARRS sky survey, this comet has put on quite the show over the past couple months. Here it's seen passing within a degree from M106, a very close and beautiful event. While they might look really close to each other in this image If you were travelling at the speed of light it would take between 22 to 25 million light-years to reach M106 but only 14.5 light-minutes to reach Comet C/2017 T2.
Messier 106 is an intermediate spiral galaxy located in the constellation Canes Venatici and It’s is one of the largest and brightest nearby galaxies similar in size and luminosity to the Andromeda Galaxy.
A great write-up on Comet C/2017 T2 can be found on Universe Today at: www.universetoday.com/144774/catch-comet-t2-panstarrs-thi...
A real time tracker of Comet C/2017 T2 can be found here: theskylive.com/c2017t2-info
Wiki of M106: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_106
Technical Info:
Captured from Grand Mesa Observatory in Western Colorado on the June 23, 2020 using the QHY367 Pro C Full Frame One Shot color CMOS camera on the William Optics 156 Refractor Telescope.
Total Integration time: 2.1 hours
Image details
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colo.
38.963365, -108.237225
Dates of capture: June 23, 10:08pm - June 24, 12:17am
Color RGGB 125 min, 20 x 300 sec, 10 x 180 sec.
Camera: QHY367 Pro C Color CMOS
Gain 2850, Offset 76
Calibrated with flat, Dark & Bias
Optics: William Optics 156 Refractor Telescope
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre Processed in Pixinsight and Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processed in Photoshop
Imaging telescope or lens: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 MKII Gus
Imaging camera: FLI MicroLine 8300 CCD-camera FLI
Mount: Paramount-ME
Software: Pixinsight 1.8
Filters: Astronomik Deep-Sky R Filter, Astronomik Deep-Sky B Filter, Astronomik Deep-Sky G Filter, Astronomik L2 Lum, Astronomik Ha 6nm
Accessory: FLI Atlas
Resolution: 3146x2484
Dates: Dec. 21, 2017, Dec. 22, 2017, Dec. 23, 2017
Frames:
Astronomik Deep-Sky B Filter: 19x300" bin 1x1
Astronomik Deep-Sky G Filter: 19x300" bin 1x1
Astronomik Deep-Sky R Filter: 19x300" bin 1x1
Astronomik Ha 6nm: 38x300" bin 1x1
Astronomik L2 Lum: 31x300" bin 1x1
Integration: 10.5 hours
Locations: Image The Universe Remote Telescopes, Fregenal de la Sierra, Extremadura, Spain
The new RH 200 MKII is nearly ready to roll - a few tweaks yet to be done to improve a few aspects but nothing major. The test data was very nice, hopefully, the image demonstrates that.
At just 10.5 hours including Ha the benefits of such a fast scope are clear to see.
As well as the nice blue reflection around the Christmas Tree Cluster area which structurally seems to be lifted out from the red emissions, I was also interested to see the nice yellow tones appearing just below the cone.
Hope you enjoy.
Càmping Les Paules (Ribagorça, Osca, Aragó).
Canon 50D and Canon 10-18, at 10mm.
224 images, 30s, ISO800, f5,6
Deep Sky Stacker, Startrail and PixInsight.
You can watch the Celestial Equator, the stars of the South hemisphere in the left and down corner, the stars of the North hemisphere in the right and top corner.
Sh2-230 with a Rokinon 135
Camera: QSI 583 WSG5
Filter: Astrodon Ha
Focuser: Robofocus
Focal Length: 135mm
Focal Ratio: f/2.0
Pixel Size: 5.4μm
Image Scale: 8”
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO
Location: Deep Sky West, New Mexico
5,9 h of Ha data, integration in PixInsight done:
Ha: 71 x 300sec
This has been a very long winded project due to rain and clouds. It has gone so long winded the tree next door no longer lets me get a whole nights worth of shots . Some of the nights where clear before rain storms so it was stay up watching the sky and the rain coming in. Alot of my targets this year have been past by do to the rains and clouds.
This gives you are close up view of the "Pillars of Creation " the part that Is in the middle of the shot that looks like a begging dog.
This is taken with filters and is in The Hubble pallet . Interesting side note this has taken me about 30 min to upload and add info gone are the 3 min uploads.
QHY183M -10c Ha Sii Oiii about 80 shots 5 min each filter over 4 part nights .. 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
ZWO Filter wheel and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser Rotated 22 degrees from last
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps, Lr
Reprocess while waiting for our UK weather to improve.
Data captured 10th, 13th, 14th and 15th April. Scope was Skywatcher 250pds. Atik 490EX CCD, Baader RGB filters and Astronomik CLS for L. Guiding was 90x50 finder with QHY5IIL. Software used was Artemis capture, PHD guiding, Pixinsight.
Processed to try to bring out the nebulosity area's as much as possible.
6 1/2 hours exposure in total and a similar time to process.
L x42 1x1 300 secs total 210 mins
R x12 1x1 300 secs total 60 mins
G x11 1x1 300 secs total 55 mins
B x14 1x1 300 secs total 70 mins
The Milky Way rises over the fog near Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California. Mount Tamalpais is often considered symbolic of Marin County. Much of Mount Tamalpais is protected within public lands such as Mount Tamalpais State Park, the Marin Municipal Water District watershed, and National Park Service land, such as Muir Woods. Astromodified Nikon Z7, 4x180s exposures, Skywatcher Star Adventurer Mini, PixInsight, Photoshop.
Astrophotography always creates a perspective shift.
Check our my full astrophotography gallery in my Albums, or on my website here. (link might not be visible on mobile)
As always, captured on a clear night in my Bortle 3 backyard in southern Arizona using my C8, AM5, and ASI533MC Pro. About 2 hours of integration.
Image Details:
11x1200s Ha 1x1 (3hrs 40mins)
8x900 OIII 2x2 (2hrs)
8x1800s 2x1200 SII 1x1 (4hrs 40mins)
Darks, flats and bias, all binned 1x1 @-20c.
Total exposure of 10 hours 20 mins.
Optic - SW Evostar ED80 DS-PRO with SW 0.85 reducer.
Mount - HEQ5 PRO Synscan with Rowan Belt Drive mod.
Sensor - Atik 383l+ Mono CCD + Baader 36mm 7nm Ha, 8.5nm OIII and 8nm SII filters.
Guiding - ZWO ASI120MM + Orion 162mm/F3.2 guidescope with PHD2.
Sequence Generator Pro and PixInsight.
Thanks for looking.
Tele Vue 85
Tele Vue 0.8x reducer/flattener
Optolong L-eXtreme
ZWO ASI533MC Pro
Skywatcher AZ-EQ5
Guiding ZWO ASI120MC-S + William Optics UniGuide 32mm
Nebulosity4
PHD2
PixInsight
Photoshop
Only 3 300" lights dithered
Calibrated with dark and bias frames
Cairns, Australia
Bortle 5
Target
NGC6888 The Crescent Nebula
The Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus.
It was formed by the stellar winds of Wolf-Rayet star WR 136 colliding with and energizing
the slower moving winds ejected by the star when it became a red giant around 250,000 to 400,000 years ago
Distance - about 5000 light years from earth.
Gear:
Mount: ZWO AM5
Main Cam: ZWO ASI294MC Pro @ gain 121 and 14F
Guide Cam: ZWO ASI120MM Mini with ZWO 30mm f/4 scope
Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 500
Filter: Antlia ALP-T 5nm Ha and Oiii
Acquisition:
48 5 min exposures total of 4.0 hours
Location: Rural area just west of Houston outer loop
Bortle: 4/5
Moon: 34% below horizon for most of session
Processing:
Pixinsight WBPP
Pixinsight SPCC, SCNR
Pixinsight DBE
PixInsight BlurXTerminator
Pixinsight NoiseXTerminator
Pixinsight StarXterminator
Pixinsight EZ Soft Stretch
PhotoShop/ACR selective colors
Pixinsight Curves, MMT, EZ Star Reduction, recombine stars
M7
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
10h of LRGB data, combination in PixInsight done:
L: 20 x 600sec
R: 15 x 600sec
G: 10 x 600sec
B: 16 x 600sec
ASI 294 MC PRO.
72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.
Star Adventurer.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 123/ 30 offset/ -10ºc
48x120s
L-Pro
Bortle 8.
PixInsight, Topaz Denoise AI.
T:Takahashi FSQ 106ED @f/3,65 w 0.73x focal reducer
M: Astrophysics Mach1 GTO
C: QSI 690ws-g8
G: QHY-MZ5m
F: Astronomic deep sky LRGB set
Foc: Sharp Sky Pro foucser
CPU: Eagle-S Primalucelab
Sw: Sequence Generator Pro - PHD2 - Pixinsight 1.8
L:R:G:B=12:12:12:12 x 300"
Bias: 21
Dark: 21
Flat: 25
Camera: QHY294C Pro
Scope: SW 200/1000 Newtonian modified
Mount: SW EQ6-R Pro
Filter RGB: Optolong L-Pro 2"
Filter Ha & OIII: Antlia ALP-T 2"
Expo RGB: 85 x 300s Light + Dark, Flat, Bias
Expo Ha & OIII: 24 x 600s Light + Dark, Flat, Bias
Controlled by StellarMate
Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop LR
Part of the Large Magellanic Cloud but off to the side first time I have seen so much dust in the background.. Looks like an area that has a lot to offer.
QHY183C -10c 90 shot 10 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.
Está es mi primera foto de campo profundo, esta realizada con:
Telescopio SW ED 80 Black Diamond sin guiado sobre montura Celestron AVX
Canon 1100D modificada
Filtro optolong L-Pro
40 Light ISO 3200 40s
40 Dark
30 Bias
El procesado está realizado con PixInsight con la ayuda de mi buen amigo Kike Rodríguez de la Asociación Astronómica Cruz del Norte
Reworked image from 17.03.2017
First time with PixInsight.
It`s not perfect, but the background is pretty flat.
Last Sunday 1/10/2021 Comet 156P/Russell-LINEAR was, by our perspective on Earth, close to the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) making for a nice photographic image. This image taken from Grand Mesa Observatory, captured and processed by Terry Hancock and Tom Masterson, highlights this close conjunction of the two celestial objects.
Technical Info:
Captured and processed by: Tom Masterson and Terry Hancock using Grand Mesa Observatory's System 2a William Optics FLT156mm APO now available with our subscription grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment-rentals
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Date of Capture January 10th, 2021
RGB 86 min 43 x 120 sec
Camera: QHY367 ProC full frame one shot color CMOS
Filter Wheel: QHYCFW3 Large
Gain 2850, Offset 76
Calibrated with dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: William Optics FLT 156mm F7.8 1228mm
Image Scale: 0.82 arcsec/pix
Field of View: 1d 4' 52.0" x 1d 07' 05
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6 Pre-Processing in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC
From the Wiki…
NGC 3532 (classified by Sir Patrick Moore as Caldwell 91), also commonly known as the Pincushion Cluster, the Football Cluster, the Black Arrow Cluster and the Wishing Well Cluster, is an open cluster some 405 parsecs from Earth in the constellation Carina. Its population of approximately 150 stars of 7th magnitude or fainter includes seven red giants and seven white dwarfs.On 20 May 1990 it became the first target ever observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. A line from Beta Crucis through Delta Crucis passes somewhat to the north of NGC 3532. The cluster lies between the constellation Crux and the larger but fainter "False Cross" asterism. The 4th-magnitude Cepheid variable star x Carinae (V382 Car) appears near the southeast fringes, but it lies between the Sun and the cluster and is not a member of the cluster.
The cluster was first catalogued by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751. It was admired by John Herschel, who thought it one of the finest star clusters in the sky, with many double stars (binary stars).
About processing this image…
Anyone trying to process this object will quickly realise the field is overwhelmed by the brightness of the main star cluster, with the faint background nebulosity being a trick to bring out without destroying the stars. In the end, I have actually used the Ha stars for the main cluster [so I lost some of the very faintest stars], and created an artificial flat in the base colour of the star glow, selectively applied to where it was needed, and subtracted that out to remove the strong and massive halo from all the stars. I did apply a star mask to this artificial flat so not to change the colour of the stars whilst subtracting the selective flat. That seemed to work.
Hi res link:
live.staticflickr.com/65535/50939560953_722bc98976_o.jpg
Information about the image:
Instrument: Planewave CDK 12.5 | Focal Ratio: F8
Camera: STXL-11000 + AOX | Mount: AP900GTO
Camera Sensitivity: Lum + Ha: Bin 1x1, RGB: Bin 2x2
Exposure Details: Total: 22.6 hours | Lum: 15 x 900 sec [3.75hr], Lum: 80 x 60 sec [1.33hr], Ha: 30 x 1200 sec [10.0hr],RGB 20 x 450sec each [7.5hrs]
Viewing Location: Central Victoria, Australia.
Observatory: ScopeDome 3m
Date: January 2021
Software Enhancements: CCDStack2, CCDBand-Aid, PS, Pixinsight
Author: Steven Mohr
BE142 shot in LRGB.
Data subs courtesy of Telescope Live.
Subs stacked in Astro Pixel Processor, then into PixInsight with the finishing touches in Affinity Photo.
I have come to the conclusion that these nebula are my favourite targets.
91x120s Luminanz
25x120s red
25x120s green
25x120s blue
5,5 hour
Equipment:
10" f/4 ONTC Newton Teleskope
ASI294mmPro
Astronomik Filter
Skywatcher EQ-8 Pro
This short integrated time of less than 3 minutes is perfect to see the comet against fixed stars without incurring comet drift.
Tech spes: Fujifilm X-T5, Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 @ f4, iso 1600, Astrotrac tracking. This 7.5x5.0 degree f.o.v. shows the first 5 degrees of Comet Lemmon's tail. The moon was 52 percent illuminated under cloudless and windless conditions. Temperature was 31F, our first freeze this autumn.
Click 2x to see small galaxies with one in the tail (center).
Picture of the day
The Rosette Nebula or Skull Nebula is a huge star-forming region spanning 100 lightyears across and located 5,000 lightyears away.
It can be seen in the Monoceros constellation in the winter months and this is what I captured back in February this year with a camera and star tracker.
An earlier attempt at processing the data using Siril delivered an ok result but this time using PixInsight has done a much better job at creating what I wanted but I will let you all be the judge of this.
Tech Details -
Nikon Z6ii
Tamron 70-200 G2 lens at 200mm
70 lights (60 secs, f/4, ISO 800)
Calibration Frames (Darks, Flats & Biases)
Skywatcher Star Adventurer 2i
K&F Light Polution Filter
Processed in PixInsight and edited in Lightroom Classic
Thank you for viewing my images.
A while ago I posted a 9.5 hours "OHS" version of the Orion region which is mostly blue. I kept imaging it until reaching 30 hours, and tried an SHO (Hubble Palette) combination this time! Here is the result! You can also see the 30-hour version of the "OHS" (blue) version here (higher resolution as well): www.galactic-hunter.com/post/ic-434-the-horsehead-flame-n...
This was taken from Las Vegas, with 3nm narrowband filters.
Mount: Atlas EQ-G
Scope: Radian Raptor 61
Camera: QHY600M
Filter: Chroma Narrowband
Bortle 9 Las Vegas
YouTube: www.youtube.com/galactichunter
IG: galactic.hunter
GEAR USED:
Camera: QHY600M
Telescope: Radian Raptor 61
Mount: Atlas EQ-G
Guiding: ASi290MM
Processing: Pixinsight
ACQUISITION DETAILS:
Total Exposure Time: 30 hours
Exposure Time per frame: 600 seconds
Filters: Narrowband O/H/S
GAIN: 56
Sh2-240 (aka Simeis 147, the Spaghetti Nebula)
Integration time 21hrs 30min
Edited in Pixinsight & Lightroom
My Pixinsight workflow for this object:
Weighted batch preprocessing
BlurXTerminator
NoiseXTerminator
ChannelCombination
Ez Soft Stretch
StarXTerminator
NarrowBandNormalization
Curves Transformation with masks
MultiscaleLinearTransform sharpening
Stars + starless combined with Pixelmath
Telescope.live dataset
Telescope Specification
Model: Takahashi FSQ-106EDX4
Aperture: 106 mm
Focal Length: 382 mm
F-ratio: 3.6 (with 0.73x focal reducer)
Mount: Paramount MX+
CMOS Camera Specification
Model: QHY 600M Pro
Pixel Size: 3.76s μm
Pixel Array: 9576 x 6382 pixels
Filters: Astrodon Luminance, Red, Green, Blue, Halpha, SII, OIII
I wanted an easy Target for my first night on my own using the ZWO CMOS camera and getting Fits files. 33 Files 10 min files Shot With ZWO ASI071MC Pro @ -10c and ZWO AEF, Optolong LeNhance filter, Guided PHD2, Stacked DSS. Processed PixinSight (stil learning), PS and Lr.
I would like to try for the larger stars 5 min shots rather than 10min.
This photo came up in a discussion I said I wanted to take a photo of the Nebula I called the Man Riding a Vespa I can not find a name for it at all to show them both. I had to input NGC2001 and then I could see it and then take the photos. you cant mistake the sitting position when you see some one riding a Vespa the real bonus was the head next to the rider. This is a real comparision to the ZWO 183 that was faulty.
Man On Vespa
24 hours worth of shots rather than this just be a fill in to catch the Witch later in the night. I am impressed with the details that have come out of the small camera.
QHY183C -10c 98 shot 15 min over five nights.
Prima Luce Essato Focus ,
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps.
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Another M82 :D
More that 20 hours of integration time. Specially dificult to display the fine details but it was easy to use only one telescope to capture all data.
Messier 82 is a starburst galaxy approximately 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. A member of the M81 Group, it is about five times more luminous than the Milky Way and has a center one hundred times more luminous.
(desc credits: wikipedia)
Technical card
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Altair Astro RC250-TT 10" RC Truss Tube
Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mounts: Mesu 200 Mk2
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Celestron OAG Deluxe
Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI174 Mini
Focal reducers: Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x
Software: Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight · Seqence Generator Pro
Filters: Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm · Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm · Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm · Astrodon L Gen.2 E-series 36mm
Accessory: ZWO EFW · MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30
Dates:Dec. 17, 2020 , Jan. 18, 2021 , Feb. 11, 2021 , Feb. 25, 2021 , March 10, 2021
Frames:
Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 100x120" (3h 20') (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 100x120" (3h 20') (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm: 25x600" (4h 10') (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon L Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 240x120" (8h) (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 100x120" (3h 20') (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 22h 10'
Avg. Moon age: 15.41 days
Avg. Moon phase: 28.56%
Astrometry.net job: 4600468
RA center: 9h 55' 56"
DEC center: +69° 40' 41"
Pixel scale: 1.007 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -178.751 degrees
Field radius: 0.337 degrees
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Resolution: 1818x1583
Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain
Data source: Own remote observatory
Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility
Animals! the Jellyfish Nebula (IC443) and the MonkeyHead Nebula, and SH2-247
Let me know what you think of this wide view. 68hrs integration with a Radian Raptor 61, ASI2600mm, SHO with RGB stars.
A partir de los datos en el infrarrojo del archivo del telescopio Hubble , he compuesto una imagen en color procesándola con Pixinsight y PS.
La cabeza de caballo es una nebulosa fría y oscura de absorción sita en la constelación de Orión al sur de la estrella Alnitak , en el cinturón de Orión, a unos 1300 años luz de la Tierra. Cuando se observa en fotografías realizadas en RGB o en hidrógeno alfa se ve ese color parduzco anaranjado o rojo oscuro de esas nubes frías y oscuras, las cuales vemos por contraste con la nebulosa de emisión que se encuentra detrás IC434.
Sin embargo cuando se la fotografía en infrarroja se observa transparente y de aspecto frágil, etéreo. las longitudes de onda infrarroja tienen la capacidad de atravesar esas nubes oscuras donde se ven perfectamente los pliegues dándole una riqueza extraordinaria a la imagen.
Using the infrared data from the Hubble telescope archive, I have composed a color image by processing it with Pixinsight and PS.
The horsehead is a cold and dark absorption nebula located in the constellation Orion south of the star Alnitak, in the Orion belt, about 1,300 light years from Earth. When observed in photographs taken in RGB or in hydrogen alpha, you see that brownish orange or dark red color of those cold and dark clouds, which we see in contrast to the emission nebula behind IC434.
However when infrared photography is observed transparent and fragile, ethereal in appearance. Infrared wavelengths have the ability to pass through those dark clouds where the folds are perfectly visible, giving an extraordinary richness to the image.
This was my final two nights in Perth Before getting on the plane to NZ. The Antares area or Rho Ophiuchi two nights. I was doing the Milky way panorama so this could rise up. The camera was rotated to get the dark rivers in the full photo A far cry from the original photo I took in may 2019.
ZWOASI071MC -10 57 shots per the 2 nights
600 sec rotated 105.5 degrees.
Nikon 105 mm f2.8 G Lens
Optolong LeNhance filter
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.
M78 and Barnard's Loop in the constellation Orion.
Preliminary result of one of my favourites.
I have to double the total exposure time with longer subs for a smoother background and to enhance the weaker parts of the nebula.
Canon EOS 7Da
Lacerta ED 72/432 plus 0,85x Flattener
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro | Lacerta M-GEN | Finderscope 9x50
17x 1200sec | ISO400
more Details: www.astrobin.com/274868/?nc=all
My Astrobin My 500px My Facebook
© Claus Steindl
distance 25.100 ly
exposure time: 3,9 hours
Processing: PixInsight/affinity photo
Equipment:
10" /f4 TS ONTC Newton
ASI1600mmc v2
ZWO EFW 8x
Skywatcher EQ8
Guiding TS9 OAG Lodestar
328x30s Luminanz
84x20s red
37x20s green
94x20s blue
April 2020
May 2021
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 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.
Captured using data from Grand Mesa Observatory's system 1 the Takahashi FSQ 130 (available on our subscriptions) using the new QHY367 Pro C full frame One Shot Color CMOS camera with Chroma Narrowband Filters.
In this Hubble Palette version the H-Alpha is mapped to green, SII is mapped to red and OIII is mapped to the blue channel. Then I used the naturally colored stars from the broadband image, 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 2020 for a total acquisition time of 16.5 hours.
Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Dates of Capture January 15, 17, 19, February 2, 11 2020
HA 240 min 16 x 900 sec
OIII 450 min 30 x 900 sec
SII 300 min 20 x 900 sec
Narrowband Filters by Chroma "5nm"
Camera: QHY367 Pro C
Gain 2850, Offset 76 with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6 Pre Processing in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC
A starless SHO image of M16, again I did not acquired the data just processed the raw subs. I removed the stars to push the data.
Processed in PixIsight 1.8.8.6.
Single-frame from a stack mostly ruined by condensation. Canon 800D, ISO 800, 1m exposure, Samyang 16mm f2 lens at f2.8, Omegon Minitrack Lx2 tracker, processed in PixInsight
Nov 22nd 2024
Taken from Edinburgh
Celestron RASA 8"
ZWO183mc pro
ZWO EAF
IDAS NBZ filter
ZWO air pro
ZWO AM5 mount
50 x 10s + 37*60s Lights, Flats , Darks and Bias.
Gain 122 at -10C
Processed in Pixinsight and photoshop
an event of the Seattle Astronomical Society held at Brooks Memorial State Park
Saturday night 9/3/2016
Taken with a ZWO ASI178MC and included all sky lens
955x30 sec exposures
Color Calibration and Stretched with PixInsight
AVI video with PIPP
I have to say I have been beaten by nature so this is what I have... We have clouds next few night. This is on the Northern Track of the Milky way Does not get very high so very prone to City lights.two night put it far too low to try for more shots.
I think I have left this on way too late( waiting for the moon to die down) as it did not get much above the trees and power lines. There is a whole lot more below and right that this two shot panorama did not capture. This was set up with camera rotation on the field of view in Nina and I have to say this two shot panorama is 100% perfect in the way it was pictured and how it came out.
This was to be a 6 night group of shots but clouds have killed it as it is really now far too low to try for more shots after the clouds pass,this is three night 25 shots panel one bottom of image but the main the top panel is only 2 night at 25 shots per night. To say I am a little surprised that it has come out fairly well for the number of shots and the clarity of shots above the city lights.
I hope to come back to this next year to get the whole area with the Nikon 300mm lens. enjoy a few of the odd balls of space.