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The Andromeda Galaxy, or M31, Found in the constellation of Andromeda
M: iOptron EQ45-Pro
T: WO GTF81 Refractor
C: ZWO ASI1600MC-Cooled
G: 200mm (FL) Finder and PHD2
GC: ZWO ASI120MC
App: SharpCap Pro
RAW16; FITs
Temp: -20 DegC
Gain 200
Exp 100s
Frames: 25 Lights; 4 Darks; 0 flats
Processed: DSS; LR, PS, Gradient Exterminator.
Sky: No moon, calm, Slight cloud, good seeing.
Approx 2.537 million light years distant.
In questo periodo il pianeta è visibile per buona parte della notte e tra un mese esatto si troverà in opposizione, quindi al meglio della sua osservabilità.
La ripresa video da cui ho ricavato quest'immagine è della notte scorsa e contiene quasi 8000 fotogrammi per una durata di 5 minuti.
La foto è abbastanza nitida e sono visibili le bande orizzontali dell'atmosfera del pianeta, i suoi anelli e la divisione di Cassini.
Se si guarda bene giù a destra è visibile debolmente Titano, il suo satellite più grande.
Dati:
– Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newtoniano
– Montatura Eq2 con motore AR con pulsantiera
– Camera planetaria QHY5L-II-C
– Filtro UV-Ir cut
– Barlow 2x Celestron Omni
-Sharpcap per acquisire un video da 5 minuti
– Autostakkert!3 e Registax 6 per elaborare circa il 25% dei fotogrammi
- Gimp per ridurre leggermente il rumore
– Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia
– Data e ora della ripresa: 14 luglio 2022 alle 2:43 UTC ( 4:43 ora locale)
NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula in the constellation of Cepheus.
First run at this target on a 99% full moon night.
M: iOptron EQ45-Pro
T: William Optics GTF81
C: ZWO ASI1600MC-Cooled
F: No Filters
G: PHD2
GC: ZWO ASI120mini
RAW16; FITs
Temp: -20 DegC
Gain 139
104 x Exp 100s
Frames: 104 Lights; 2 Darks; 200 flats
95% Crop
Capture: SharpCap
Processed: APP; PS; Grad Exterminator.
Sky: Full Moon, calm, no cloud, mild, good seeing.
NGC7023: 1.3 thousand light years distant.
M61 with Supernova
LUM 261@ 15 seconds Gain 200
this was taken with NINA software but I live stacked the sub in Sharpcap with no darks or flats. This is the saved stack from that, actually processed better than my DSS stack w darks.
no flats, no bias, darks
No guiding but dithering via NINA
Scope: Orion 8" f4 Astrograph with Baader Coma Corrector (still working on collimation)
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: PHD2, Sharpcap, CdC, Pixinsight,Team Viewer,
Saturn, taken this evening using a QHY5-III 290C camera attached to a Sky-Watcher Mak 180 Pro telescope. Captured in SharpCap Pro, stacked using AutoStakkert 2 and edited in Registax 6 and PhotoShop CC
Equipo Principal: ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + SW Explorer 200p + ZWO EAF + SW Coma Corrector 0.9x + EQ6R-Pro
*Gain 100, -20º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 5000 frames (apilado solo el 70%, 3500 frames en total)
Procesado: Sharpcap 3.2, Autostakkert 3, Registax 6, PS CC 2017
Messier 31 The Andromeda Galaxy
The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula, is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years (770 kiloparsecs) from Earth and the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. ...
The virial mass of the Andromeda Galaxy is of the same order of magnitude as that of the Milky Way, at 1 trillion solar masses (2.0×1042 kilograms). The mass of either galaxy is difficult to estimate with any accuracy, but it was long thought that the Andromeda Galaxy is more massive than the Milky Way by a margin of some 25% to 50%. This has been called into question by a 2018 study that cited a lower estimate on the mass of the Andromeda Galaxy, combined with preliminary reports on a 2019 study estimating a higher mass of the Milky Way. The Andromeda Galaxy has a diameter of about 220,000 ly (67 kpc), making it the largest member of the Local Group in terms of extension, if not mass.
The number of stars contained in the Andromeda Galaxy is estimated at one trillion (1,000,000,000,000), or roughly twice the number estimated for the Milky Way. (Wikipedia.org)
Technical Information for This Image
This image was taken with a William Optics Zenithstar 81 APO Doublet Refractor on an iOptron CEM25P mount. This telescope is a very compact unit and has optical elements made of FPL53 glass and is actually considerably sharper than some of my larger telescopes. The main imaging camera, attached to the prime focus of the telescope was a ZWO ASI294MC Pro cooled camera which was cooled to -5C. The 51 exposures were each 120 seconds, and the gain was set to 120. Auto guiding was done using a Skywatcher EVO Guide 50mm refractor attached to a ZWO ASI290MC camera which was connected to PHD2 autoguiding software. Capturing was done with Astrophotography Tool (APT) software and post processed with Pixinsight software with finishing touches put in using Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud. Polar Alignment for the evening was done using SharpCap Pro software.
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Best 75% of 2000 frames
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 IR PASS filter
Moonlite focuser CR2
Moonlight Hi Res stepper motor
MyFocuser Pro v2 (Robert Brown) controller
Home Observatory
Software: Sharpcap, CdC, Photoshop, Team Viewer, autostakert!3, Registax
The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy 2.73 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, behind the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm Zenithstar II Doublet
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with UV/IR Blocking filter
- Guiding Scope: William Optics 66mm Petzval
- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auto Guider
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: PHD2
- Light Frames: 20*5 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -15C
- Dark Frames: 20*5 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom
Took this picture Monday night, IC 59 & IC 63 and M45
WO SkyCat 51, Zwo 183MC Pro cooled color camera
Zwo IR/cut filter
#SharpCap Pro
Ioptron i45 Pro EQ mount PHD2 guiding
Orion 60mm guidescope SSAG
120 Gain offset 20 0c cooling, 1 minute exposure, was 2 hours and 30 minutes for IC 59 & 63, 1 hour and 15 minutes for M45, 1 minute each
50 darks 50 flats and 50 bias frames
Astro Pixel Processor, StarTools and PS
Image taken with ASI294MC camera and 150mm refractor with 0.75 focal reducer. This image was stacked, dark frame subtracted and flat fielded on the fly using Sharpcap Pro in Live Stacking mode. Image consist of 24 x 5 minutes sub exposures.
Telescopio: APM APO-SD 140/980 mm f 7
Montatura: iOptron CEM60
Camera CMOS QHY5III183C
Software: SharpCap 3.0, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 2.6.8, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8, Astra Image 4 SI
Pose: 400 fotogrammi a 8 fps
Lunghezza focale: 980 mm
I took the opportunity on March 1st to try and capture an image of Sirius and the Pup, the companion white dwarf to the brightest star in the sky (besides the Sun). I chose to use the Meade 12” LX-90 and the ZWO ASI290MC camera to tackle this image. Information from Stella Doppie (www.stelledoppie.it/index2.php?iddoppia=27936) was showing the Pup at a distance of 11.193 arc-seconds from Sirius, the next few years are prime for imaging the Pup as it is approaching its maximum distance from Sirius.
The snapshot shown was taken from inside SharpCap (v3.2) using a GAIN of 109 and exposure setting of 0.986 seconds. To help confirm this was the companion to Sirius, the camera was rotate to make sure the Pup rotated with the camera.
Using the CCD Calculator tool from Astronomy Tools (astronomy.tools/calculators/ccd), the resolution of the photograph was calculated to be 0.2"/pixel (using a 2.9 um CCD pixel size and a 3,048mm focal length). Measuring the pixel distance from the center of Sirius A to what I believe is Sirius B shows a calculated distance of 12.6 arc seconds, which is close to the predicted 11.193 separation provided by Stella Doppie.
Additional details including a video can be found at this link:
sites.google.com/view/thedarksideobservatory/deep-sky-ast...
Tech Specs for all images and video: Meade 12” LX-90, ZWO ASI290MC camera. Captured using SharpCap v3.2. Image date: March 1, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
M51 with other galaxies
Taken with the Astro-Tech 102mm ED APO refractor
ASI Zwo 294MC Pro cooled color camera IR/cut filter
Had clear skies last night, good tracking
#SharpCap Pro, PoleMaster
Ioptron i45 Pro EQ mount, PHD2 guiding
Orion 60mm guidescope Zwo 120MM mini
120 Gain offset 10, 0c cooling,
M51 was 120 minutes, 1 minute exposure each
60 darks 60 flats and 60 bias frames
Astro Pixel Processor and PS
Taken last night at Mineral Wells state park, The Double Cluster, WO SkyCat 51 Zwo 071MC Pro cooled color camera, Ioptron i45 Pro EQ mount, #Sharpcap Pro, Astro Pixel Processor and PS, PHD2, 104 framers, 1 minute each with darks flats and bias frames, I would had gotten more time but high thin clouds started coming in
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Meade LX65 6" MAK OTA
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI224MC
Mounts
Celestron Advanced VX
Filters
SVBony UV/IR Cut
Software
Adobe Photoshop · AstroSharp Ltd SharpCap · Cor Berrevoets et al. Registax · Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert
Acquisition details
Date: July 10, 2022
Time: 21:42 UTC
Frames: 3000
FPS: 63.970
Exposure per frame: 3.45 ms
Focal length: 1800
Resolution: 1156x920
Locations: Sassari, Sassari, Sardegna, Italy
Data source: Backyard
In the constellation of Cassiopeia.
M: iOptron EQ45-Pro
T: William Optics GTF81
C: ZWO ASI1600MC-Cooled
F: L-eNhance filter (Dual Ha,Hb & Oiii Narrowbands)
G: PHD2
GC: ZWO ASI120mini
RAW16; FITs
Temp: -20 DegC
Gain 200;
10 x Exp 200s
3 x Exp 300s
7 x Exp 400s
Frames: 20 Lights; 0 Darks; 20 flats
100% Crop
Capture: SharpCap
Processed: DSS; PS
Sky: 80% Gibbous moon, calm, minimal cloud, cold, fair seeing.
7,500 light years distant.
Taken 18.04.2014 this is 40% best of 2 minute avi. First time using my ASI120MC Planetary camera on mars. This was my last try using a SPC900 webcam www.flickr.com/photos/nightcasper/6949990175/in/set-72157...
Camera: ZWO ASI120MC
Optics: Skywatcher 200PDS, X3 Televue barlow lens
Filter: IR
Mount: Skywatcher AZ EQ6-GT EQ & Alt-Az Mount connected to the Sky X
Image Acquisition: Sharpcap
Stacking and Calibrating: AutoStakkert,RegiStax 6
Processing: Photoshop CS2
Markarian's Chain
Taken with the WO RedCat refractor
ASI Zwo 294MC Pro cooled color camera IR/cut filter
Had clear skies last night, No guiding
#SharpCap Pro, PoleMaster
Orion Skyview Pro EQ mount
120 Gain offset 10 -10c cooling,
Markarian's Chains was 142 minutes, 30 seconds each
50 darks 50 flats and 50 bias frames
Astro Pixel Processor and PS
The other picture is from All Sky Plate Solver
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Coronado PST on an EQ5 Pro mount.
Camera was an ASI120MC fitted with a 2x Barlow. A 1000 thousand frame video was captured using Sharpcap and the best 75% were stacked using Autostakkert! 3. Processing was done in Focus Magic and Lightroom
Messier 106 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. M106 is at a distance of about 22 to 25 million light-years away from Earth. There are several other galaxies in the frame, so look at my next post for identification of those.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm ZenithStar II Doublet
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with UV/IR Blocking filter
- Guiding Scope: William Optics 66mm Petzval
- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auto Guider
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: PHD2
- Capture Software: SharpCap Pro (LiveStack mode with dithering)
- Light Frames: 20*4 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -16C
- Dark Frames: 20*4 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroomand Topaz Denoise AI
WO RedCat 51 Zwo 071MC Pro cooled color camera, 5 minute exposure 40 minutes total SharpCap Pro, Astro Pixel Processor
From Tycho to Clavius in Infrared
The clearest image of the moon I have ever captured
Best 1800 images stacked from over 7000
C9.25 2350mm F10 290MM IR807nm+
Captured in SharpCap Pro, Stacked AS3!, Sharpened in Registax, Processed in Photoshop.
Veil Nebula
Nikon D5300
AT65EDQ
CG5 with OnStep
18@300 seconds ISO 400
100 bias
20 flats
APT, CdC, PHD2, Sharpcap (for polar alignment), PixInsight, Photoshop, Astronomy Tools Action Set.
70 degrees F!! High humidity but surprisingly dark.
Would have had more integration time but moon was rising and almost 2AM (had to work in the AM)
This is a tough target for an unmodded camera as the star field is overwhelming.
The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus. It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop (radio source W78, or Sharpless 103), a large but relatively faint supernova remnant. The source supernova exploded circa 3,000 BC to 6,000 BC, and the remnants have since expanded to cover an area roughly 3 degrees in diameter (about 6 times the diameter, or 36 times the area, of the full Moon). The distance to the nebula is not precisely known, but Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) data supports a distance of about 1,470 light-years.[2]
The Hubble Space Telescope captured several images of the nebula. The analysis of the emissions from the nebula indicate the presence of oxygen, sulfur, and hydrogen. This is also one of the largest, brightest features in the x-ray sky.
Emission nebula located in Monoceros, located 5500 lightyears away and spanning 128 lightyears across. It surrounds a cluster of hot, young stars known as the Rosette Cluster (NGC 2244).
Capturing and processing this was both painstaking yet highly rewarding. Enjoy!
📷 QHY268M | CFW3 | ZWO EAF
🔭 Saxon AZ-EQ6 GT | Skywatcher Evostar 80ED
Subs: 8 mins | Sii x20 | Ha x20 | Oiii x13
Calibration: Bias x30 | Flats x30
Capture software: SharpCap 4.0 | PHD2
Process software: Pixinsight | Starnet | Photoshop | Lightroom
A view of the unusual Schiller Crater on the Moon -- The first thing you notice with this crater is the elongated shape, it almost looks like a footprint left on the surface. The crater measures about 179 x 71 kilometers and was formed by at least two impacts. The crater was named for Julius Schiller (c. 1580-1627) who published a star atlas called Coelum Stellatum Christianum which replaced pagan constellations with biblical and Christian figures – it did not gain acceptance….
Tech Specs: Meade 12" LX-90, ZWO ASI290MC, best 20% of 5k frames using SharpCap Pro v3.1. Date: February 16, 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
Moon, 91.8% Waxing Gibbous. 6th February 2020. Testing ASI6200MC Pro. TSAPO65Q. Captured in SharpCap Pro. Best 75% Frames of 300. Processed in PIPP, AS!3. Wavelets in Registax.
Here is a view of Mars from the early morning hours of August 5, 2018. Horrible seeing, Mars just barely makes it high enough to image. Tried both 25% and 10% best of the captured frames and this seems to be the most detail I can pull out of it.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mmED Triplet Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ASI 290MC, Televue Powermate x2.5, best 25% of 30k frames. Captured with SharpCap, processed in AutoStakkert, refined in Registax and Lightroom. Image Date: 5 Aug 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, Pennsylvania, USA.
Eudoxis Crater (Lunar) – diameter is 70 km, named after the Greek astronomer (c. 408-355 BC). Noted for the terraced slopes on the interior walls (that you can make out in my image) and not having a central peak.
Tech Specs: ZWO ASI290MC camera and Meade 12” LX90 telescope mounted on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount. Software used included Sharpcap v2.9, AutoStakkert! Alpha Version 2.3.0.21, ImagesPlus v5.75a, and Registax v6.1.0.8. Photographed on January 7, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.
Tough getting this before the comet sunk behind the walls of my observatory and while the sky was still kinda light. This is also pretty close, using an 80mm refractor telescope OTA. Anyway, I think it's dramatic.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: Astrotelescopes ED 80mm Refractor
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with UV/IR Blocking filter
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Light Frames: 10*8 secs @ 0 Gain, Temp -15C
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom
Crescent Nebula
added DSLR data from last summer.
last ditch effort to get something last night despite nicest, calmest skies ever lol.
I did not think this was even going to have any detail based on the APT preview. My mount was not tracking well either so probably best I did not stay up till 4AM on this. I only got 11 3 minutes exposures but shocked.
I had to turn off my DIY cooler because the red LED was leaking into the frame :(
11@ 180 seconds gain 111, offfset 5, 100 bias, 30 flats, 20 darks HA filter
Scope: AT65EDQ
Mount: iOptron iEQ45
Camera: ZWO ASI183M non cooled
Guide camera: QHY5Lii
Guide Scope: Meade 60mm achro fl 300
Orion 5 position manual filter wheel
ZWO LRGB
Schuler HA 9nm, Schuler 9nm Sii
MyFocuer Pro v2 (Robert Brown)
Software: APT, PHD2, Sharpcap, CdC, Pixinsight, Photoshop, Nic Dfine 2, Astronomy Tools plug in, Google Chrome Remote Desktop
2020-07-13-1336_0-2020-RGB RS4 PS5a upscale
Jupiter one day off opposition. Seeing 5/10 - taken from backyard.
Telescope 12" goto Skywatcher dobsonian, Camera QHY163m, baader rgb filters, Televue 5x powermate.
Software: Sharpcap, PIPP, AutoStakkert 3, WinJupos, RegiStax 6, CS6.
The moon Europa is transiting (and eclipsing shadow on surface of planet), and Io is off to the left side, the Great Red Spot just in view to the right.
my first moon mosaic. 9 panels. AT65EDQ, Neximage 5, settings in comments.
Sharpcap for capture, AS!3 for stacking best 25% of 500 each, Registax for sharpening, Photoshop for combining and final editing.
Rosette Nebula from a Relaxing Night Under the Stars
Sometimes astrophotography can become too stressful of a hobby, and you forget the beauty of the heavens that lured you out under the dark skies in the first place. Then it's time to just program the telescope to capture a simple target (NCG 2244) ... yes, even one that you've done before ... and sit down in a nice, comfortable chair, and simply look up and be in awe of His creation ... unwind. For this image an Orion 80ED doublet APO telescope was mounted on a Skywatcher HEQ5 mount with guiding using a small ZWO 30mm fl 120mm guidescope and PHD2 guiding software. Even the computer was a very small, inexpensive HP Stream laptop costing about $250 USD ... and it handled the project nicely while it's battery lasted all night. No darks or other calibration frames were taken. The computer did all the work as 20 exposures at 240 seconds each were captured. The ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera was cooled down to -5 C, and the gain was set to 120. Binning was set to 2x2. The site was a Bortle 4 location at 4,000 feet altitude (1,230 meters), and the early November temperature was 15 C (59 F).
Capturing the exposures was done with APT. Processing was done with Pixinsight with final touches in Corel Paintshop Pro. Polar Alignment for the evening used SharpCap Pro.
The Helix Nebula (also known as NGC 7293 or Caldwell 63) is a planetary nebula (PN) located in the constellation Aquarius. Discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding, probably before 1824, this object is one of the closest to the Earth of all the bright planetary nebulae.650 light years away.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm ZenithStar APO
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with ZWO Duo band filter
- Guiding Scope: William Optics 31mm Uniguide
- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auto Guider
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: PHD2
- Light Frames: 25*6 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -10C
- Dark Frames: 25*6 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz Denoise
Mars in the evening sky taken with a ZWOASI224MC planetary camera through a 2x barlow lens in a Celestron 5se Cassegrain telescope. A SharpCap video capture of 1000 frames was stacked with Autostakkert then processed using RegiStax and Adobe Lightroom.
Moon shot in narrowband on 03-19-2019
(reprocessed to sharpen details...)
Moon didn’t quite fit in frame so I had to do a 2 panel mosaic, I had LRGB data also but it didn’t align properly and Im tired of messing with it.
Shot 100 frames at very short exposures with each filter (Ha, Sii, Oiii) using Sharpcap
Stacked best 50% in Autostakkert 3
Combined the 2 shot panels for each filter in photoshop into 1 frame for each channel
Combined each channel in Pixinsight
Slight curves adjustment after that.
It was a long process but a fun test of the new scope.
Celestron EdgeHD 8” with .7x reducer
ZWO ASI1600MM PRO with 8 pos filter wheel
Astrodon 5nm Ha – 5nm Sii – 3nm Oiii
EQ6R Pro mount
Captured with Sharpcap, Polemaster
Processed in Autostakkert3, Photoshop, Pixinsight
Took these pictures Saturday night, M27 and M22 & M28
WO SkyCat 51, Zwo 183MC Pro cooled color camera
Zwo IR/cut filter
#SharpCap Pro
Ioptron i45 Pro EQ mount PHD2 guiding
Orion 60mm guidescope SSAG
120 Gain offset 20 0c cooling, 1 minute exposure, M22 & M28 was 40 minutes, M27 was 80 minutes total, 1 minute exposure each
50 darks 50 flats and 50 bias frames
Astro Pixel Processor and PS
Full moon too...
LINK: darksideobservatory.com/open-cluster-ngc-1664-in-auriga/
NGC 1664 is an open cluster in the constellation of Auriga, it has a magnitude of 7.6 and is about 3,910 light years away from Earth. It is also referred to as the “Kite Cluster”, I also found references to a heart-shaped balloon (which I really do not see). Can you find the kite in the center of the image?
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount (pier mounted), ZWO ASI071MC-Pro running at -25C, 20 x 60 second exposures, GAIN 200, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Captured using SharpCap v3.2. Image date: January 15, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
Been a while since imaging the moon. This is before sunset tonight in the Bay of Islands / NZ.
1000 frames through Sharpcap Pro, processed in Registax & Photoshop.
An image of the Staright Wall on a waning moon taken under a steady sky with a ZWOASI224MC planetary camera using a 2x barlow lens on a Celestron 5se cassegrain telescope. All the images were created from 500 frame videos shot using SharpCap, stacked with RegiStax, and processed with Adobe Lightroom.
Here is a quick capture of the planet Saturn and an overexposed image of Saturn capturing seven of the planet's brighter moons.
Tech Specs: Sky Watcher Esprit 120ED, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI290MC, and ZWO EAF, Televue 1.5x Barlow. Captured in SharpCap Pro, processed in Autostakkert and Registax, top image single 5-second exposure, bottom image is best 20% of 9000 frames. Image date: October 13, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
One more stab at the Sword of Orion Region before it sets for the year. This image was made using two sets of data, put together using HDRComposition in PixInsight. Maybe my best yet.
The Sword of Orion region, in the Orion Constellation. This features the amazing Orion Nebula (M42) as well as the smaller and less colorful Running Man Nebula (NGC1977). Hubble has spied new planets being formed around the newer stars in the heart of the Orion Nebula, thus making it a true stellar nursery.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm Zenithstar II Doublet
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with UV/IR Blocking filter
- Guiding Scope: William Optics 66mm Petzval
- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auto Guider
- Filter: ZWO Duo Band (HA & OIII)
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: PHD2
- Capture Software: SharpCap Pro (LiveStack mode with dithering)
- Light Frames: 25*3 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -20C for the broader nebula; 30*30 secs @ 100 GAIN, Temp-20C for the Core
- Dark Frames: 25*3 mins, 30*30 secs
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, Photmatix Pro HDR and Topaz Denoise AI
Planeta Marte
Data - 17/08/2020
Hora - 23:19 local (-3 UTC)
Lat - 7,13S
Log - 34,83W
Local - João Pessoa, PB - Brasil
Bortle - Class 8
Telescopio - SW 1200mm 150mm
Câmera - ZWO ASI 120 Color
Barlow - 2,5X GSO
Montagem - EQ5
Motorização - On Step
Ligth - 5000 frames (50%)
Software Captura - Sharpcap
Softwares Processamento - AS3/Registax/PS
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Target: Moon
Focal Length: 1400 mm
Resolution: 0.65 arcsec/px
Imaging telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 8 @f7
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro
Gain: 120
Sensor temp:
Filter: Baader UV/IR Cut
Guiding telescope:
Guiding camera:
Mount: iOptron CEM60EC
Accessories: Celestron Focus Motor
Software: Sharpcap, PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax
Dates: May 28 2020
Frames: 960
Target: Rosette Nebula Caldwell 49 in the constellation of Monocerous
Distance:5200 Light years
Object Type:Large spherical HII region 130 light years diameter
Date:25th and 26th March 2020
Location:St Helens, Merseyside. Bortle 8 sky at new moon.
Exposure:19x 240s Ha; 20x 240s [OIII]; 24x 240s [SII], 30x 240s Darks with gain 2000 offset 20 temp 7-10 deg C.
Flats:30x 1.25s Ha flats, dark flats. 30x 1.0s [OIII] flats, dark flats. 30x 1.5s [SII] flats, dark flats. 15 deg C.
Integration:252 min.
Imaging:Altair Astro 60EDF, 1x Flattener, Zwo EFW mini filterwheel,Bader Ha, [OIII], [SII], Altair Hypercam 183M Pro.
Guiding:Altair MG32 mini guidescope, Zwo ASI120MC camera.
Mount:Skywatcher Star Adventurer Pro.
Software: APT,PHD2,Sharpcap Pro (polar alignment),Deepsky Stacker, Photoshop.
Reprocessed 13/10/2019 amidst prolonged cloudy weather.
Galaxies: Whirlpool Galaxy - M 51, NGC 5195,
IC 4278, IC 4277, PGC 3556035
Star magnitude limit ≈ 20.0
Exposure: 139 minutes
stacked the best 278 light frames (30s each @ 228 gain) out of 385
+ 5 dark frames
Telescope: Orange 1977 vintage Celestron C8 (203 F/10 SC)
Mount: EQ5 with ST4 hand controller (no GoTo)
Reducers: Celestron 0.63x + Svbony 0.50x (@0.74x)
Camera: QHY5III462C Color (@FullHD RAW16)
recording Visible + Near Infrared light (no filters)
Guide: 70/280 Guidescope + QHY5L-II Color Camera
Recording scale: 0.632 arcsec/pixel (plate solved)
Equivalent focal length: 946mm F/4.66
Plate Solving data:
Center (RA, Dec): (202.478, 47.218)
Center (RA, hms): 13h 29m 54.787s
Center (Dec, dms):+47° 13' 03.028"
Size: 19.9 x 11 arcmin
Pixel scale: 0.632 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is 257.4 degrees E of N
Recording: SharpCap 4.0 (Live Stack mode)
Guiding: PHD2 2.6.11
Stacking/Alignment/Deconvolution: AstroSurface T1
Final Elaboration/Crop: GIMP 2.10.30
Genova, Italy (06 Apr 2022 - 00:27 GMT+2)
Equipo Principal: ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + Long Perng S400G + LP Field Flattener + EQ6-R-Pro
Equipo guía: Guidescope Starguider 60/240 mm, camara guia ZWO ASI 120 mm mini
*Gain 139, -20º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 103 Lights x 180"
100 Flats por filtro
100 Darks
Adquisición y Procesado: SharpCap Pro 3.2, SGP v3, Pixinsight 1.8.6, PS