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I have reworked this a bit to reduce the quantity of stars that overpower the image.
There is over 11 hours of imaging time in this image which was captured 31st Dec, 7th Jan and 14th Jan 2016, using the following equipment and software.
TS APO65Q Telescope
Atik 490EX CCD Camera
QHY5L Guide Camera on 90x50 finder scope
Baader Ha, OIII and SII narrow band filters.
Artemis Capture.
PHD2 Guiding.
All processing Pixinsight incl stacking (image integration)
This image is blended from SII, OIII and Ha filters using the PixelMath component in Pixinsight. The mix is to suit my own taste.
The SII has added Ha
The Ha as some OIII added
The OIII is on it's own
Thanks to Kayron at www.lightvortexastronomy.com for the wonderful tutorials.
I am very pleased with the detail of the data but I feel the stars do overpower and I would welcome any constructive criticism as to what I may be doing wrong (over exposure?) or can do to correct this in processing.
Dusty emission in the Tadpole nebula, IC 410, lies about 12,000 light-years away in the northern constellation Auriga. The cloud of glowing gas is over 100 light-years across, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from embedded open star cluster NGC 1893. Formed in the interstellar cloud a mere 4 million years ago, bright cluster stars are seen all around the star-forming nebula. Notable near the image center are two relatively dense streamers of material trailing away from the nebula's central regions. Potentially sites of ongoing star formation in IC 410, these cosmic tadpole shapes are about 10 light-years long.
M57 Ring Nebula.
Little smoke ring in the constellation Lyra.
The Ring nebula is the glowing remains of a star much like our own Sun as it sheds off it's outer layers to leave behind a white dwarf.
Captured using a Skywatcher Quattro 8" and a ZWO 533mc pro camera. 45 exposures of 60 seconds each.
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745–46. Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the center of the nebula, an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the aforementioned Pillars of Creation. The Eagle Nebula lies in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way.
Equipment:
Celestron EdgeHD800, ZWO ASI2600MM, EAF, EFW, ASIAIR, AM5
Antlia 3nm SHO Pro filters
Pixinsight, Photoshop
This pair of galaxies found in the constellation of Triangulum have been measured to be approximately 88 thousand light years apart and are thought to be interacting with each other so extensively they share a common envelope of gas and intermingling stars.
17 hours of exposure time taken over the duration of 3 months with an Atik 460ex & ALtair Astro 6"RC. Captured in SGPro, constructed in Pixinsight and processed in CS5.
Under clear skies with very good transparency (temperature 48F, RH 65%, calm winds), I recorded the comet (34x44s, iso 3200, Nikon 180mm f/2.8) and background stars (25x30s, f/2.8, iso 1100). Used Pixinsight and PS CS 6.0. Taken between 4AM and 5AM MDT on 15 Sep 18.
🌓 Fin de cette mini série sur la Lune avec le premier quartier de début Mai.
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C'est pour l'instant ma photo la plus détaillée de notre cher satellite naturel. C'est très loin d'être parfait et ça manque de résolution, mais c'était une première pour moi avec une telle focale. Il y'a encore une bonne marge de progression avec des méthodes de traitement un peu plus poussées.
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En effet, c'était ma toute première lumière avec ce gros bébé : un télescope de Newton de 250mm de diamètre et 1m de focale ! J'y reviendrais en détail dans un prochain post pour vous présenter la bête et tout ce qui va autour. J'ai encore un peu de mal à maîtriser cet instrument mais ca va venir avec la pratique .
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EXIF :
- @canonfrance EOS 6Da
- Newton 250/1000 f/4
- Correcteur GPU 4 lentilles
- Pose UNIQUE 1/320s ISO 200
- Lune croissante illuminée à 48%
- 8 Mai 2022 à 22h30
- Élévation 50°
- 394164 km de distance
- Crop à environ 65%
- Traitement Pixinsight & Photoshop
Sh2-155
Locations: Deep Sky West, Rowe, New Mexico, United States
PlaneWave17" CDK Telescope
Grayscale, 40min of Ha data, combination in PixInsight done:
Ha: 2 x 1200sec
Camera: FLI ML16803
Filter: Astrodon Ha
Focal Length: 2939mm
Focal Ratio: f/6.7
Pixels: 9μm
Mount: Paramount Taurus 400
Optique: TSAPO 125-975 Photoline (x0.79)
Monture: HEQ-5
Imageur: Zwo ASI-2600MC-Pro
Guidage: Zwo ASI 120 MC
Prise de vue: ASI Air
Filtre: Optolong L-extreme
200 Brutes de 120s Gain:100 60 DOF
Pré-traitement: SIRIL
Traitement: PixInsight
NGC 6979 also know as the Pickering's Tringle is a part of a larger nebula, the Cygnus Loop in the Cygnus constellation.
The Triangle is brightest along the northern side of the loop.
This supernova remnant is located around 2400 light-years.
Full resolution : flic.kr/p/2nxmK3E
-Equipment-
Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -5°C gain 101 offset 49
Guiding: ZWO OAG
Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6
Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme
-Acquisition-
Light : 76x300s
Total integration time 6,3h
Dark: 100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100
Date : 3,5,6,7,9 July 2022
Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5
-Software-
Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight
Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon
darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/
-Pre Processing in PixInsight-
Image Calibration
Cosmetic Correction
Debayer
Subframe Selector
Star Alignement
Local Normalization
Image Integration
Drizzle x2
Dynamic crop
-Processing
DBE MasterLRGB
___RGB layer___HOO
Split RGB channels to build Ha and Oiii
Ha=R Oiii= B*0.3+G*0.7
EZ_Soft Stretch
HOO combination with Foraxx formula
R=Ha
G=((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Ha + ~((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Oiii
B=Oiii
SCNR
Starnet++ build a mask nebula
Color Saturation
Curves Tansformation
___L layer___
Ez_Deconvolution
Ez_Soft Stretch
Local Histogram Equalization with nebula mask
UnsharpedMask with nebula mask
___LRGB___
Ez_Denoise
Final Curve Transformation
Annotation
Dynamic Crop
Save as JPG
Clear skies !
This data was captured by Peter Jenkins of telescope live. The equipment details are as follows:
Telescope : CHI-2 ASA 500 f3.6
Camera : FLI16803
Location : El Sauce Chile
Filters :Astrodon 3nm( Ha,OIII and SII).
Total Exposure Time : Under 2 Hrs.
Processing : Pixinsight, Photoshop
58x1min iso 1600
Canon 6D + Canon 400mm f5,6 @5,6
Optolong L pro filter
skywatcher star adventurer mount
stacking in dss
processing pixinsight + photoshop
ASI 294 MC PRO.
72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.
Star Adventurer.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc
74x300s
L-Extreme
Bortle 8.
PixInsight, Topaz Denoise AI.
Astro-Physics 130 GTX + QUADTCC @ F/4.5
Moravian G3 11002 + Chroma Ha 8nm
Astro Physics 1200
2 Panels:
Ha: 12x1800s bin 1x1
Total exposure: 12h
Captured with Sequence Generator Pro
Processed with Pixinsight, Astro Pixel Processor
ASI 294 MC PRO.
72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.
Star Adventurer 2i.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 123/ Offset 5 -10ºc.
L-Extreme 53x300s.
Bortle 8.
PixInsight.
The first visit to the Orion this season.
83 unguided 30s.LRGB subframes.
Mount: SW NEQ6 pro
Telescope: TS UNC 8" f/5
Cam: QSI 583wsg
Data collected from Bazaleti, Georgia on November 4, 2016.
processes in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.
Over 150 globular star clusters populate the Milky Way Galaxy. Many formed early in the evolution of the galaxy and are distributed in a roughly spheroidal halo extending above and below the galactic plane. The four clusters in this composite image were captured with the same telescope and camera under similar conditions and are identically scaled, allowing us to see how they compare as viewed from earth. Each photo spans just under 0.5 degrees on a side, or about the width of the full moon.
Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 8 @ f/7 (1422mm focal length)
Camera: QSI 683wsg
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach1GTO
Integration: ~10 mins per channel (10 x 1 mins subs)
Post Processing: PixInsight 1.8, Adobe Photoshop
Eta Carinae
TS 115/800
ZWO ASI 183MM PRO
HOO (optolong)
175 minutes | 150 Minutes | 130 Minutes
DSS + PixInsight + PS6
Descrição:
A Nebulosa de Eta Carinae é uma das jóias do céu do
hemisfério Sul. São muitos as zonas interessantes a se destacar: Keyhole, bright-rimmed globules, dark globules, Dust Pillars, Star cluster Trumpler 14 e Trumpler 16, Mystical Mountain e os Stellar Jets. É uma das maiores nebulosas difusas do céu e cerca de quatro vezes maior que a Grande Nebulosa de Orion. Está a cerca de 7500 anos-luz da via láctea. A região central da imagem nos brinda com brilhantes filamentos bem como nuvens escuras de poeira cósmica.
Image Details:
12.5 hours exposure.
15x1200s Ha 1x1 (5hrs)
14x900s OIII 2x2 (3hrs 30mins)
12x1200s SII 1x1 (4hrs)
Darks, flats and bias, -20c.
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.
Trifid Nebula in Sagittariusi ( Messier 20, NGC 6514 ) in HDR - by Mike O'Day ( 500px.com/MikeODay ).
An "High Dynamic Range" ( HDR ) image of the Trifid Nebula built from exposures ranging from 1/8 to 240 seconds in duration.
Image details:
nova.astrometry.net ->
Size: 52.4 x 34.7 arcmins.
Centre: 18h 2 min 31.1 sec, -22 deg 57' 34.7''.
Orientation: up is -88.2 East of North ( ie. E^ N> ).
Telescope:
Orion Optics CT12 Newtonian ( mirror 300mm, fl 1200mm, f4 ).
Corrector: ASA 2" Coma Corrector Quattro 1.175x.
Effective Focal Length / Aperture : 1410mm f4.7.
Mount:
Skywatcher AZ Eq6 GT.
Guiding:
TSOAG9 Off-Axis-Guider, Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2, PHD2 .
Camera:.
Nikon D5300 (unmodified) (sensor 23.5 x 15.6mm, 6016x4016 3.9um pixels).
Location:
Blue Mountains, Australia
Moderate light pollution ( pale green zone on darksitefinder.com map ).
Capture:
12 sets of sub-images with exposure duration for each set doubling ( 1/8s to 240s ) all at ISO800.
105 x 240sec main image.
5 each for exposures 1/8 to 120sec - to caputure highlights.
Processing:
Calibration: master bias, master flat and no darks.
Integration in 12 sets.
HDR combination using Pixinsight's PixelMath function.
PhotometricColorCalibration
July 2017.
Links:
Worked on this 2 panel mosaic of the Crescent Nebula and WR 134. If you look closely, you can see the Soap Bubble Nebula below the Crescent.
Taken with an AstroTech AT65EDQ, ZWO ASI1600mm-Pro, and Chroma 5nm Ha and 3nm Oiii filters on a belt modded Orion Sirius EQ-G.
Total Exposure time: 67.33 Hours
- 351 x 300" Ha
- 457 x 300" Oiii
All processing in PixInsight
Also catalogued as Caldwell 5 in Patrick (Caldwell) Moore's catalogue of Deep Sky Objects.
Spiral Galaxy IC342 is relatively close to us at about 10.7 million LY and subtends across 21.4 x 20.9 arcminutes of sky which makes it about 2/3 of the size of the full Moon yet it is quite faint and not well known to visual observers.
This is because it lies, from our viewpoint, behind a veil of Milky Way stars and dust clouds which obscure its brightness.
Bright red/pink Hydrogen alpha zones and dark dust lanes can be made out but the general "blueness" of its spiral arms which are rich in young OB class stars is subdued by the intervening dust. Overall, the galaxy is, well..., sort of too red! And our eyes aren't sensitive to red.
If it wasn't for the dust, this galaxy would be naked eye visible! I had to resist the temptation to bump up brightness and blueness during processing - its meant to be obscure and reddish!
Legacy Data from Grand Mesa Observatory, Colorado.
IC342 is in the constellation Camelopardalis
Espirit 150mm refractor. RGB subs
Image scale 0.731 arcsec/pixel.
Centred on:
RA: 3d 46m 48.31s
DEC: +68d 06m 08.9s
Processed in PixInsight. PI StarNet module used to make nebulosity masks.
NGC6357 / War and Peace Nebula
Planewave 17” CDK
Camera: FLI ML16803
Filter: Chroma Ha
Focuser: IRF90
Focal Length: 2939mm
Focal Ratio: f/6.8
Mount: 10 Micron GM3000
Location: Deep Sky West, Chile
6,5h of Ha data, combination in PixInsight done:
Ha: 13x 1800sec
Imaging telescope or lens: RCOS 14.5"
Imaging camera: SBIG STX KAF-16803
Mount: Paramount-ME
Software: Pixinsight 1.8
Filters: Ha 5nm, OIII 5nm, SII 5nm
Resolution: 3852x3756
Dates: Sept. 12, 2017, Sept. 14, 2017, Sept. 19, 2017
Frames:
Ha 5nm: 17x1800" bin 1x1
OIII 5nm: 16x1800" bin 1x1
SII 5nm: 17x1800" bin 1x1
Integration: 25.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 23.99 days
Avg. Moon phase: 36.01%
Astrometry.net job: 1739203
Locations: Deep Sky West Remote Observatory (DSW), Rowe, New Mexico, United States
It's been a while since I looked at a narrowband image, so this was fun.
The ridge of IC 5067 inside the Pelican, IC 5070, shows some excellent structures including the famous columns with Herbig-Haro 555 and its jets - most likely from an embedded protostar, all topped off with some nice dust features.
Hope you enjoy.
I know that I am a bit late to the party, but here is my take of the close encounter of Mars with the Pleiades open cluster.
I would have loved to shoot this as a deepscape from a dark sky location with some nice landscape in the foreground, but first I was clouded out and when it finally cleared, I had to fly the other day and was only able to shoot from my light polluted backyard.
Sometimes, you have to take what you can, even if it means to shoot a reflection nebula under a bortle 5 sky. Hope I will have better conditions in 17 years, when this encounter will happen again.
EXIF
Canon EOS 7D mkii
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8
Skywatcher AZ-GTI
Controlled with ASIair
120 x 30s + 60 x 15s @ ISO800 @ 200mm f/2.8
IC 2944
Running Chicken Nebula
TS 115/800
ZWO ASI 1600 mono cooled
H-ALPHA 12nm
40 frames de 300 segundos
PixInsight + PS6
Kekaha, Hawaii
July 18, 2022
Takahashi FSQ106
Nikon D850
20 60sec exposures @ 8000 ISO
Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop
Globular Cluster Messier 10 is in the top right of the frame
When the moon is out and you have finished all your trials. You go back and try and learn just a bit more from old data. I know I want to do this again properly not just a trial shot but quite impressed how it worked out none the less. this was the camera that was faulty why I never looked at the data before right magnification though.
Here is 35 shots @ 5 min subs.
ZWO ASI183MC Pro @ -10c
Prima Luce Essato Focus ,
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps
A HaSHO palette of NGC3372. Images courtesy of Telescope Live.
This is a re-process of an earlier image using Nik Szymanek's masterful Youtube video on Affinity Photo processing of SHO palette images.
Processed in PIxInsight 1.8 and Affinity Photo
Sh2-157 and Sh2-162 are HII regions in the constellation Cassiopeia. The bubble is a shockwave created by an unstable star nearing it's death as a supernova. The shockwave collides with the nearby cold gas, sweeping it up and causing it to glow.
Image Details:
3-Panel Mosaic
Scope: A-P 130mm EDFS @ f/4.9 (reduced with 27TVPH)
Camera: QSI 6120
Mount: Takahashi EM-200
Guiding: QHY 5LII-M & Mini Guidescope (PHD2)
Image Capture: Sequence Generator Pro
Processing:
AstroPixelProcessor - Calibration, Mosaic Stitching, and HOO Pallete blending
PixInsight - Noise Reduction and Final Edits
Location: Central District, Seattle, WA
Each Panel
Ha: 12x10min
OIII: 18x10min
Total integration time = 900 min ~ 15 hours
A complete reedit starting with Pixinsight and only using Ps to finish out the edit. This was only ever a trial as it only 28 subs to see how I could get photos from in the city very early on in the journey of deep space photography with computerised programs. Never before have I seen this much detail of the dust clouds around Orion or the very small nebula just below NGC1999. Ps have never given me anything like this amount of detail. Compare the shot below my first look at editing this nebula.
At the end of the year this will be revisited out of the city on a farm, where I have all night to capture frames no trees no houses.
This is the very last photo from the ED80 that has be retired most likely sold off or given away. I am starting the harrowing learning of using a reflector telescope. the good part the focuser and camera train are the very same as was on the ED80. I had a list of things to buy just to get the scope operational it has been a slow progress to not in stock or slow deliveries, my last part lands wednesday next week
The biggest part is learn how two line up the two mirrors so you get a photos. What I am changing to is a 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA its not a lens as such but all mirrors. I will be changing from a 420mm to an 800mm. This will be a while off as I get use to lining up but for the next it will be a shot from my fathers prime Nikon 85mm F1.8 D lens of Antares and the Blue horse.
the ever changing view we get of space and the things we challenge ourselves This Is a shot that took three night to get and it was hard fought with clouds. now we are in a good week plus of rain a clouds just to remind you we have our feet firmly place on this earth..
QHY 183C -10c 150 shots 10 min each over three 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 Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps .
Translate into English
NGC 6820 is an emission nebula located 6000 light years away in the constellation Cygnus. This nebula is approximately 65 light years wide
Uncropped version : flic.kr/p/2nD9DFa
-Equipment-
Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -5°C gain 101 offset 49
Guiding: ZWO OAG
Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6
Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme
-Acquisition-
Light : 75x300s
Total integration time 6,3h
Dark: 100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100
Date : 7,8 August 2022
Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5
-Software-
Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight
Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon
darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/
-Pre Processing in PixInsight-
Image Calibration
Cosmetic Correction
Debayer
Subframe Selector
Star Alignement
Local Normalization
Image Integration
Drizzle x2
Dynamic crop
-Processing
DBE MasterLRGB
___RGB layer___HOO
Split RGB channels to build Ha and Oiii
Ha=R Oiii= B*0.3+G*0.7
EZ_Soft Stretch
HOO combination with Foraxx formula
R=Ha
G=((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Ha + ~((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Oiii
B=Oiii
SCNR
___L layer___
Ez_Deconvolution
Ez_Soft Stretch
Local Histogram Equalization with nebula mask
UnsharpedMask with nebula mask
___LRGB___
Ez_Denoise
Curve Transformation
Crop + Rotation
Annotation
Save as JPG
Clear skies !
M46
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
10,5h of LRGB data, combination in PixInsight done:
L: 3 x 600sec
R: 28 x 600sec
G: 11 x 600sec
B: 21 x 600sec
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 50x300s
Bortle 8.
PixInsight, Topaz Denoise AI.
NGC2014 Ha grayscale
Planewave 17” CDK
Camera: FLI ML16803
Filter: Chroma Ha
Focuser: IRF90
Focal Length: 2939mm
Focal Ratio: f/6.8
Mount: 10 Micron GM3000
Location: Deep Sky West, Chile
5h of Ha data, combination in PixInsight done:
Ha: 10 x 1800sec
More data will be added soon, ...
SH2-132 The Lion
near the constellations of Cepheus and Lacerta
aproximatly 10000 light years from earth
44x900 each SHO channel
15x300 RGB
Stellarvue SVX 130t Raptor
Paramount MYT
Mallincam Ds26m TEK
SG-Pro
PixInsight
My first try with the new chip that was put in the camera to replace the broken usb.
I was sent a QHY183M mono chip not the QHY183C Colour chip caused all sorts of problems in the end this camera getting found is now know as QHY183M but takes coloured photos. I lost a whole lot of time with the camera Changes and setting up. This is in effect only 33 shots But happy the way it came out.
QHY183C -10c 33 shot 10 min
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps.
Celestron 9.25" + Celestron f/6.3 Reducer + ZWO ASI533MC + Optolong L-Pro
AZ-EQ5
102x60" lights
Calibrated with dark and bias frames
Nebulosity4
PixInsight
Photoshop CC
Backyard, Cairns, Australia
Bortle 5
58% Moon taken through a Hydrogen Alpha filter taken from my backyard in Gérgal, Almería, Spain on 7th July 2022.
An experiment in monochromatic imaging using narrow band filters and special processing techniques using PixInsight.
A stack of 27 images of 0.15 seconds created using FFT Registration. Image processed using deconvolution, HDRMT and MLT sharpening. The process flow was described by Ron Brecher in the Masters of Pixinsight tutorials website.
GALÁXIA DE ANDRÔMEDA
William Optics 80 ED II
ZWO ASI 1600 MC
Lum: 5 horas
RGB: 1 hora cada canal
Total 8 horas
Processamento: PixInsight + PS
This is an unknown but one of the reasons I took the panorama of the milky way what is out there. This has always in my mind looked like a "Leaping Frog" has been a long time getting the data due to rain and clouds. Next is going to be Dark Wolf a bit further around on the same ring.
I did this as HaSS as Hubble did not work and no info in the O chanel. Have to say 2.1 C sun up this morning and it looked like the Scope had had a bath and water dripping off it ......
QHY268M -10c 120 Ha 100 S shots 5 min each filter over 3 nights .. 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 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
... La fourrure du renard, l'amas de l'arbre de Noël et la nébuleuse variable de Hubble !
Lunette Skywatcher Esprit 80/400, ASI2600MM-Pro, filtres Astronomik H et O en 6nm (3 heures par filtre et par poses unitaires de 5 minutes).
Traitement Pixinsight remix 2024
When the moon was up, I took a few h-alpha frames of M106. Processing was mainly done in Pixinsight, also to create a LHaRGB image. I found it quite challenging to find the right color balance and It was quite hard to bring out just a little of the h-alpha jets around the center of the galaxy.
EQUIPMENT
Camera: SBIG STF-8300
Filters: Astrodon LRGB, Astronomik Ha 6nm
Telescope: TS ONTC 10"
Mounts: Astro-Physics 1100 GTO, Skywatcher AZ EQ6
Guiding: Starlite Xpress Lodestar X2, TS 80/500 Triplet Apo
DETAILS
Location: My backyard
Exposures:
L: 7 x 900s
Ha: 6 x 1200s
RGB: 4 x 600s each
Binning: 1x1
CCD Temp: -30°C
Total integration time: 5.75 hours
SOFTWARE
Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro
Guiding: PHD2
Processing: Pixinsight, Fitswork