Andromeda Galaxy

Skywatcher 130/650 PDS

ASI 1600MM-C -20C gain 139

ZWO filters

1 minutes

29x L

20x R

20x G

20x B

20x dark frames

30x flat frames

0x bias frames

Skywatcher HEQ5

PHD2

Sharpcap 3.1

Deep Sky Stacker Kappa sigma clipping

Pixinsight 1.8

NGC 869 and NGC 884 Double Cluster in Perseus, taken from a Bortle 4 site in Landers, CA, USA on a New Moon night. I've always liked the colors surrounding these star clusters. And the stark contrast of these shining points of light against the dark sky shows a bit of the reason why we enjoy looking up at the night sky.

Technical Information for This Image

Telescope: Explore Scientific ED102 FL 714mm F7. Guiding was with Orion 50mm Guide Scope FL 242mm with a ZWO ASI290MC for the guide camera. Mount: Celestron Advanced VX. Main imaging camera: Canon T7i DSLR at Prime Focus. Exposures:70 x 45s with ISO 800. Used 10 darks, and no flats or bias frames. Acquisition was through Astrophotography Tool (APT) software. Processing was through Pixinsight software with finishing touches in Adobe Photoshop. Polar Alignment was done through SharpCap Pro software.

Artistic Version with Pearl

Riprese effettuate il 28-29-30-31 Luglio + 01 Agosto 2024 da Ariccia Provincia di Roma

Zenith sky brightness info (2015)

SQM 19.20 mag./arc sec2

Brightness 2.25 mcd/m2

Artif. bright. 2080 μcd/m2

Ratio 12.2

Bortle class 6

Elevation 302 meters

Luna : Da Ultimo Quarto a Mezzaluna calante

Magnitudine visuale: Da -11.2 a -8.5

Dimensione: Da 0° 32' 34.7" a 0° 31' 24.2"

Illuminazione: 10.1%

Età: 26.5 giorni

Dati di scatto, Strumentazione e Software:

Telescopio : Tecnosky LUX60 60mm 360mm F/6 APO FPL53 doppietto

Fotocamera : ZWO ASI 2600MC

Montatura : Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro

Autoguida : ASI 120MMini & Svbony SV165 30mm 120mm F/4

Luci : 145x600s @100 Guadagno, -5°C, 40 Dark, 40 Flat

Acquisizione : SharpCap

Guida : PHD2

Filtri : IDAS NGS1 + IDAS NBZ

Elaborazione : Siril, GraXpert, Starnet++, Photoshop CC, NoiseXterminator

Autore: Carlo Mollicone

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Sh2-119 - LBN 391 - aka The Clamshell Nebula

Sh2-119 è una nebulosa diffusa osservabile nella costellazione del Cigno, si trova a circa 2200 anni luce di distanza.

La sua forma appare simile a due gusci (per questo chiamata la Nebulosa a Conchiglia) che si dispongono ad est e ad ovest di 68 Cygni, la parte orientale è la più estesa e sembra avvolgere la stella 68 Cygni, di quinta magnitudine (la perla in questa immagine) è una delle stelle responsabili della ionizzazione del gas circostante.

Nella parte meridionale sono visibili dei sottili filamenti e bozzoli di nebulosità oscure, che contrastano fortemente sia con il chiarore della nebulosa che con il ricco campo stellare di sottofondo.

Si individua circa 2 gradi ad ovest della Nebulosa Nord America, o 9 gradi ad ovest della brillante stella Deneb.

La nebulosa a conchiglia viene spesso trascurata dagli astrofotgrafi per via della debole emissione in Ha, molto debole in SII ed estremamente debole in OIII.

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I'm delighted to share my first attempt at capturing a transit of the Sun by the International Space Station!

The transit was visible from Oxfordshire, and took place at 5:23pm BST on Thursday 6th June. The whole event lasted just 1.3 seconds!

Telescope: William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with Thousand Oaks glass solar filter

Mount: EQ5 Pro on a permanent pier, tracking at solar speed

Camera: ZWO ASI120MC camera

2,000 frame video captured with SharpCap Pro, started 12 seconds before the predicted transit time. Video was debayered, then run through PIPP to extract the 31 frames which had the ISS in shot. Those frames were then stacked using StarStaX, processed in Lightroom, Registax 6, Photoshop CS2 and Fast Stone Image Viewer.

Ecco un'immagine del pianeta con le sue quattro lune medicee e alcuni dettagli della sua atmosfera come la GMR, visibile quasi sul meridiano centrale.

Ricordo che il 13 aprile prossimo è previsto il lancio della sonda Juice dell'ESA che avrà lo scopo di esplorare e studiare il sistema e in particolare le sue lune ghiacciate Europa, Ganimede e Callisto. La sonda partirà da Kourou, in Guyana francese, e il suo arrivo è previsto a luglio 2031, dopo alcune manovre gravitazionali che la porteranno nella giusta traiettoria verso il pianeta.

Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newton

Montatura eq2 motorizzata Sky-Watcher

Camera QHY5L-II-C

Barlow 2x Celestron Omni

Filtro UV IR cut

Sharpcap 3.2 per un video contenente 1766 fotogrammi

AS!3 e Astrosurface T5 per elaborarne il 31%

GIMP per indicare i satelliti

Gain 13 su 22

Esposizione: 13,94 ms

Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia

Data: 16 ottobre 2022 alle 21:32 UTC

It's been a long time since we did close-ups of the moon. Precise lunar tracking is much harder than using sidereal tracking so the results were not sharp enough. But now we've tweaked the Arduino code and the results are much better. This image is of Mare Nectaris (Latin for "Sea of Nectar"), a small lunar mare or sea (a volcanic lava plain noticeably darker than the rest of the Moon's surface). It is located just south of Mare Tranquillitatis.

Captured with SharpCap

Processed in PIPP and AutoStakkert

Post-processed in Photoshop

Date: 01/12/2023

Jupiter

Made from 1,000 stacked video frames

Gain - 139 (Unity)

Exposure - 0.005244 seconds

Integration - 5.24 seconds

Equipment:

Telescope: Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS

Guide scope: Orion 50mm Mini

Guide camera: SVBony SV105 with ZWO USBST4 guider adapter

Mount: Skywatcher EQ5

Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI120 MC

x2 Barlow with extension tube (equivalent to x3.3)

Planeta Netuno

Data - 17/08/2020

Hora - 21:59 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

Montagem - EQ5

Motorização - On Step

Ligth - 1591 frames (50%)

Software Captura - Sharpcap

Softwares Processamento - AS3/Registax/PS

This is a supernova remnant. The Chinese recorded the supernova event in 1060AD, and even saw it during daylight hours for several days. It lies around 6,500 light years away.

Image Details:

- Imaging Scope: Celestron C8 SCT

- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with ZWO IR cut filter

- Guider: Celestron Starsense Autoguider

- Mount: Celestron CGEM

- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap

- Guiding Software: Celestron

- Capture Software: SharpCap Pro (LiveStack mode with dithering)

- Light Frames: 30*5 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -20C

- Dark Frames: 30*5 mins

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, and Topaz Denoise AI

Crescent Nebula

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

Optik: 14"/1850mm Dobson auf EQ-Plattform

Aufnahmesoftware:SharpCap

Verwendung 5% von 4000Frames

Kameras:ASI 1600 +ASI294 bei -15°

Bearbeitung mit AutoStacker3 und Photoshop

Its been an unusually cloudy stretch this year, so this was literally the first window of a few hours in the last several months. They grey has given an opportunity to redo, mod, tune-up all the astro gear a couple times over, all those things you "will maybe do later when the clouds come in".

Succumbing to the irresistable urge to attach a camera to everything, I attached one to my little Mak. I also modded an old CG3 mount sitting in the closet tuning it up and adding DIY motors to make a little "grab and go" full disk lunar imager. It seems to work pretty well.

My plan is to create a montage with all the phases....once the clouds part and my sanity is restored.

Equipment

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses

Orion StarMax 90mm Maksutov-Cassegrain

Imaging Cameras

Point Grey 5MP mono

Mounts

Celestron CG3

Filters

Red

Accessories

OnStep GoTo Controller · Orion .5x Reducer

Software

SharpCap V2.9 · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4

Acquisition details

Date: Jan. 9, 2022

Frames:

400

FPS: 15.00000

Focal length: 650

Resolution: 5406x6072

Data source: Backyard

This object doesn't rise very high at my latitude so it was good to grab an hours worth of data before it sank into the murk

Canon 550D (modded)/Borg ED45 with 0.85 FR/Astrotrac

21 x 3 minute Lights (unguided)

ISo1600

14 Darks

7 flats

7 flat lights

Sharpcap for polar aligning with a Polemaster camera

M: iOptron EQ45-Pro

T: WO GTF81

C: ZWO ASI1600MC

Gain: 300; RGB24; FITs

Frames: 40 Lights; 5 Darks; 2 flats

Exp: 31s

Cropped to taste.

Capture: Sharpcap

Processed: DSS; PS

Not as fancy as Jupiter, but still there's something about those rings...

Tech Stuff: Questar 3.5”; ZWOASI385MC; TV 2.5X Powermate; SharpCap capture of 1000 frames; AS3 best 70%; assorted steps with PI, RS6, ACDSee. All frames here shot 3:25 am EST from my yard in Westchester

Equipment:

- Nikon D90

- Sigma 300mm prime lens

- Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer

- Star Adventurer Tripod

- Bahintov Mask

- Intervalometer

- DIY diffraction spikes

- Stellarium

- All Sky Plate Solver

- Sharpcap

- Laptop

Acquisition:

- Bortle 2-4

- Iso 800

- F4

- 8/04/2021 – North Panel

- 122 x 2′ light frames

- 100 bias

- 34 dark

- 43 usable flats

- 0/06/2021 – South Panel

- 106 x 2′ light frames

- no bias

- 29 dark

- 50 flats

Processing:

- Calibrate with WBPP

- Blink to discard bad frames

- Generate normalization data with NormalizeScaleGradient

- Image integrate

- CFA drizzle scale 1

- Crop

- DBE each panel

- Photometric mosiac

- TGV noise reduction

- EZ soft stretch

- MMT + Curves

- curves transformation

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Website: theastroenthusiast.com/

Dopo aver ripreso Saturno e dato che le condizioni del cielo erano molto buone, ho deciso di riprendere anche Giove. Il pianeta è ben visibile luminoso prima dell'alba e ricordo che sarà in opposizione il 26 settembre prossimo.

Il video contiene 6160 fotogrammi e la ripresa è durata 90 secondi.

Grazie al buon seeing ho potuto ottenere un'immagine bella e abbastanza dettagliata dell'atmosfera del gigante gassoso con le bande colorate e la Grande Macchia Rossa, la gigantesca tempesta che dura da almeno 3 secoli sul pianeta.

In basso a destra nell'immagine è visibile il satellite Io, uno dei 4 satelliti galileiani.

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 90 secondi

– Autostakkert!3 e Registax 6 per elaborare circa il 25% dei fotogrammi

- Registax e Gimp per regolare il contrasto

– Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia

– Data e ora della ripresa: 14 luglio 2022 alle 3:01 UTC( 5:01 ora locale)

First light with modded webcam, only 239 frames available for stacking as image drifting through field of view as scope dob mounted. Next time will be NEQ6 mounted for tracking making setting up the controls in sharpcap much easier to do ! This image at 15 fps at 640x480, could have gone too 30fps and got more frames, will do next time.

Celestron NexStar 6SE

Zwo Asi224mc with IR cut filter

Zwo ADC

Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate

FireCapture for ADC tuning.

SharpCap for Capturing.

Saturn

2.5 minute video, exposure-5.0ms, gain-360

Moons

1.5 minute video, exposure-10.0ms, gain-450

Saturn and moons-one exposure for moons and one for Saturn.

Processed in AutoStakkert, RegiStax and Lightroom.

A powerful solar flare measuring X3.9 erupted from active region 3664 at 06:54 UTC on May 10, 2024. The event started at 06:27 and ended at 07:06 UTC.

Imaged at 07:03:40 UTC - 100 best frames from 10,000.

Gear: APM107/700, Quark Chromosphere, Baader ERF, Player One Apollo-M Max; captured with SharpCap and processed in AutoStakkert4, ImPPG, PixInsight (Solar Toolbox) and Photoshop.

Major X3.9 solar flare erupts from AR 3664 — the 10th X-class flare in just 7 days

Este é o trio de crateras mais imponente da Lua. Eles estão localizados a oeste de Mare Nectaris e têm suas próprias personalidades distintas.

Theophilus é uma formação espetacular com todas as complexidades concomitantes de uma cratera da classe Tycho: paredes com terraço, piso plano e magníficos picos de montanhas centrais. Tem 96,5km de diâmetro, e a queda das montanhas mais altas na borda para o chão abaixo é de 4,3km de tirar o fôlego! Observadores relataram que a forma da montanha central parece mudar à medida que a lunação avança. Observe-o nas próximas noites e veja se consegue notar alguma diferença na forma da montanha central.

Observe como o piso de Teófilo é muito mais liso do que o piso de Cirilo e Catharina.

27-08-2021 / 06:11 UTC

Sky-Watcher 150mm - f/8

ZWO ASI 120MC-S + Barlow 2x + UV/IR Cut

SharpCap + PIPP + AS!3 + Astrosurface

Porto Real-Brazil

Bortle 4/5 Sky

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This is the most imposing trio of craters on the Moon. They are located just west of Mare Nectaris and have their own distinct personalities.

Theophilus is a spectacular formation with all of the attendant complexities of a Tycho-class crater: terraced walls, a flat floor, and magnificent central mountain peaks. It is 60 miles in diameter, and the drop from the highest mountains on the rim to the floor below is a breathtaking 2.7 miles! Observers have reported that the shape of the central mountain seems to change as the lunation progresses. Observe it over the next few nights and see if you can notice any differences in the shape of the central mountain.

Notice how the floor of Theophilus is much smoother than the floors of Cyrillus and Catharina.

Seeing 2/5

Transparency 2.5/5.

6 images derotated. 1.5X drizzle

C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)

ZWO120MC

SharpCap

Winjupos

AutoStakkert

PixInsight

Moon shot in narrowband on 03-19-2019

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

Saturn reached opposition on August 14. This session took place on the night of the 12/13 of August - just before Earth moved between the sun and Saturn, placing the planet opposite the sun in our sky and when it appears at its biggest and brightest. I used frames above the 75% quality threshhold I arbitrarily chose. This composite image uses two different exposures, one for the planet and one for the moons.

Captured with SharpCap

Processed in PIPP and AutoStakkert

Post-processed in Photoshop

Date: 12-13/08/2022

Saturn

Made from 1,950 stacked video frames (75% quality and above)

Gain - 70%

Exposure - 0.073065 seconds

Integration - 142.48 seconds

Moons

Made from 587 stacked video frames (75% quality and above)

Gain - 80%

Exposure - 1.864855 seconds

Integration - 934.29 seconds

Equipment:

Telescope: Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS

Guide scope: Orion 50mm Mini

Guide camera: SVBony SV105 with ZWO USBST4 guider adapter

Mount: Skywatcher EQ5

Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI120 MC

x2 Barlow with extension tube (equivalent to x3.3)

Taken with a Celestron C6 SCT, Celestron AVX mount, 2x Barlow, and ASI120MC. Captured with SharpCap, stacked with AutoStakkert, and processed with Astra Image Pro and Photoshop.

Magnitude 5,64

Distance 2806,728 Million km

Distance 19,617 UA

Temps lumière 2h36'02,2s

Diam. Apparent 0°00'03,76"

Diam. Équatorial 51118 km

Instrument de prise de vue: Skywatcher T250/1000 Newton F4

Caméra d'imagerie: Player-One Uranus-C IMX585

Monture: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 Pro Goto USB

Instrument de guidage: sans

Caméra de guidage: sans

Logiciels acquisition: Stellarium - SharpCap

Logiciels traitement :AutoStakkert - Astrosurface - Darktable - FastStone Images Viewer

Filtres: IR-Cut / IR-Block Player-One

Accessoires: Focuseur ZWO EAF - Barlow Kepler x2.5 + Projection par oculaire 9mm

Dates: 12 Déc. 2023- 21h30 GMT

Taille: 1920x1080

Images unitaires: SER (1502x60ms) 10% retenues

Gain: 600

Échantillonnage: 0.086 "/pixel

Focale résultante: 7000mm

F/D: 28

Seeing: 0.97 "Arc

Bortle: 5

Phase de la Lune (moyenne): 0%

Eng - Crater Humboldt - thanks to favorable libration

skyandtelescope.org/observing/bah-humboldt-visit-with-a-f...

Time: 13 April 2024, 21:20 UT+2

Telescope: SW Maksutov 150/1800mm @ f/24

Mount: CG-5 AS-GT

Barlow: SW APO 2x

Camera: ZWO ASI 120MC- S, 60 fps

Stack: 3% of total 3442 frames

SharpCap, Autostakkert!3.1, Registax6, GIMP

last night session just to sort out my plate solving issues and my psychotic PHD2 program. Good news I did sort that stuff out.

I just swung over to the Crescent Nebula to take a test image. I did not think an unmodded camera would be worth it on this image (especially with the moon) but after seeing the whole nebula in a single 2 minute exposure, I thought, hmmm.... why not.

My tracking was still terrible. Mostly because I had the balance wrong (at 12:30 realized was WEST heavy and at zenith). So every frame is trailed but whatever.

26@ 120 seconds

ISO 400

100 BAIS

no flats

no darks

AT65EDQ

dithered

Nikon d5300

Celestron CG5 with OnStep (Howard Dutton) and belt and motor upgrade

The worst aluminum tripod filled with sand to make better

QHY 5LII-M guide camera

Orion 50mm mini guide scope

DIY FocuserPro2 arduino focus motor ( Robert Brown)

Software: APT, PHD2, CdC, Sharpcap, ASCOM POTHUB, DSS, Pixinsight, PS/ACR, Team Veiwer.

PS Plug ins: Nik Define 2, Astronomy Tools

Location: backyard, Bortle 4 skies

quick edit, not my final offer

Crescent nebula / Nébuleuse du croissant NGC6888.

Zwo ASI224 MC + Leica-R Apo-Telyt 180mm f3.4 (@f4) adapted through DIY 3D printed adapter.

Dual narrowband with Optolong l-Enhance filter in bortle 7 area.

Post-processed with Gimp and Lightroom.

120 x 15 sec light pictures (total time 1800 sec) stacked wth Sharpcap.

Heart and Soul Nebula with Double Cluster Chi Perseii

Hubble pallette

Bower 85mm f/1.4 @ f/2

ASI 1600MM-C gain 139

ZWO 7nm Ha filter

ZWO 7nm OIII filter

ZWO 7nm SII filter

10x Ha 2min

10x OII 2 min

15x SIII 2 min

11x dark frames

Sharpcap 2.9

Deep Sky Stacker

Pixinsight 1.8

Very very poor seeing.

Celestron NexStar 6SE, ZWO asi224mc with IR cut filter, 2.5x TeleVue Powermate and ZWO ADC. 3 minute video Captured in SharpCap, processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax Wavelets then Lightroom.

Best 35% of 3500

Equipment used;

Celestron hd edge 8

ZWOasi224mc camera

Celestron x-cel lx 2 x Barlow

Captured using sharpcap, stacked in AS2, sharpened in registax and photoshop

Here's one of my EAA (Electronically Assisted Astronomy) objects that I got enough data on to create a keeper image. I acquired the data for this on Dec 1, 2017.

Technical:

10x15 sec, 30x8 sec and 540x2 sec @ 2000 Gain (100-5000 Range), scaled up 200% after stacking.

Televue TV-85 at F/5.6

Rising Tech Sony IMX224 Eyepiece/Guider Cam

Atlas EQ-G w/EQMOD

Orion 30mm Ultra-Mini/Orion Starshoot, PHD Guiding2

Sharpcap 2.9

Bortle Red zone and bright moonlight conditions.

After imaging an ISS solar transit, I shot some more video of the Sun in white light. I caught AR12833 on the upper left, which rotated into view a few days ago, but also very faintly to the right is AR12832 which is about to rotate out of view on the opposite side. Photo taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with a Thousand Oaks glass solar filter. The camera was an ASI120MC. A 2,000 frame video was captured using SharpCap and the best 75% of the frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3. Stacked image was processed in Lightroom, Fast Stone Image Viewer, Photoshop CS2 and Focus Magic.

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor + ASI120MC camera fitted with a 3x Barlow. The mount was my Skywatcher AZ GTi on a tripod. I had to use my portable set up because the Moon was too low to get above the trees from my permanent pier or from the observatory shed.

I grabbed the telescope because I wanted to capture the Lunar X and V on the 44% Waxing Crescent Moon before the Moon set. I had to dodge endless patches of cloud which were making my life miserable! Given the conditions I'm really really happy with the photos I got!

I captured a 1,000 frame video using SharpCap. I stacked the best 50% of those frames in Autostakkert! 3, then processed the images in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.

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 -20C

- Dark Frames: 20*4 mins

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroomand Topaz Denoise AI

Daystar Quark Chromosphere, TS Photoline 130mm, ZWO 2"IR filter, QHY163m, EQ8, SharpCap 4, PIPP, ImPPG, CS6

The Omega Nebula, also known as the Swan Nebula, Checkmark Nebula, and the Horseshoe Nebula is an H II region in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by Philippe Loys de Chéseaux in 1745. Charles Messier catalogued it in 1764. It is located in the rich starfields of the Sagittarius area of the Milky Way. Wikipedia

Image Details:

- Imaging Scope: Astrotelescopes ED 80mm Refractor

- 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 @ 0 Gain, Temp -15C

- Dark Frames: 20*5 mins

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom

Giove del 3-07-2022

Queste sono le mie prime immagini di quest'anno del gigante gassoso, il più grande dei pianeti e il quinto in ordine di distanza dal Sole.

A causa della presenza di nubi e velature non è stato facile ma, grazie a una sufficiente calma atmosferica, sono riuscito comunque a riprendere il pianeta e a ottenere un risultato accettabile.

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 2 minuti

- Autostakkert!3 e Registax 6 per elaborare circa il 60% dei fotogrammi

- GIMP per scrivere i nomi dei corpi celesti

- Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia

- Data e ora: 3 luglio 2022 alle 3:11 UTC

Mare Nectaris along the terminator of the first crescent moon taken with a ZWOASI224MC planetary camera using SharpCap through a Celestron 4SE cassegrain telescope. The images were processed with RegiStax and Lightroom.

In alto a destra è visibile il cratere Gassendi (diametro 111 Km),con all'interno alcuni piccoli crateri e alcune fessure chiamate rime, più a sud invece si trova il mare Humorum ( 419 Km), più scuro e e con pochi crateri al suo interno.

La zona a ovest di Gassendi nell'immagine è ricchissima di dettagli e qui nella foto si vedono bene a causa della vicinanza al terminatore, che è la linea di separazione giorno/notte ed è la zona in cui la luce solare arriva solo a sfiorare le parti alte dei rilievi lunari.

Dati:

Celestron 114/910 Newton

Montatura eq2 con motore AR

Camera planetaria QHY5L-II-C

Barlow 2x Celestron Omni

Filtro UV IR cut

Sharpcap per acquisire un video da 5000 frames

Autostakkert!3 e Registax 6 per elaborare il 30% dei frames totali

GIMP per luminosità e contrasto nel risultato finale.

Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia

Data: 13 maggio 2022 alle 21:26 UTC (23:26 ora locale)

Fase della Luna: Gibbosa crescente al 93%

FFTR in Pixinsight di 20 frame ottenuti con QHY 183C tramite SharpCap, elaborazione finale Photpshop CC15 e Topaz Labs

Scope: Orion 254mm F4.7

Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G

Camera: SVBony 305 - IMX290MC

Televue Powermate 5x

Exposure Time: 12ms

Gain: 300

FPS: 50

Software: Sharpcap, AutoStakkert_3.1.4_x64, Pixinsight

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Found in the constellation of Cygnus.

Note the 'Dark' Nebula streaming to the lower right of the reddish reflection/emission nebula. About 2500 light years distant.

Genova, Italy (10 Jul 2022 04:14 GMT+2)

Planet: diameter 42", mag -2.5, altitude ≈ 36°

Telescope: Orange 1977 vintage Celestron C8 (203 F/10 SC)

Mount: EQ5 with ST4 hand controller (no GoTo)

Camera: QHY5III462C Color

Barlow: GSO APO 2.5x

Filter: QHY UV/IR block

Recording scale: 0.168 arcsec/pixel

Equivalent focal length ≈ 3570mm F/17.6

Recording: SharpCap 4.0 (640x480 @ 60fps - 90 sec - RAW16)

Best 3810 frames of 5444 (70%)

Alignment/Stacking/Wavelets/Deconvolution: AstroSurface T3

Final Elaboration: GIMP 2.10.30

Glowing majestically amidst a region of nebulous hydrogen, the Christmas Tree cluster is a neighbor to the Rosette Nebula in the constellation Monoceros. The Cone Nebula is found just above the tree and the Fox Fur Nebula lies just below.

Tech Stuff: Borg 55FL astrograph with ZWO ASI1600MC using Astronomik CLS and Ha Filters on iOptron Cubepro 8200 unguided mount. SharpCap Livestacks of 8 second exposures 1hr CLS + 3hrs Ha integrated into HaLRGB image with PixInsight. Imaged from my yard 10 miles north of New York City.

I have written an article in the Westchester Amateur Astronomers newsletter about this image, you can find it on page 5 at this link:

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Venus captured at 6pm in complete daytime. Celestron NexStar 6SE, ZWO asi224mc with IR cut filter, 2.5x TeleVue Powermate and ZWO ADC. 2 minute video Captured in SharpCap, processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax Wavelets then Lightroom.

Us city folk learn the Orion constellation as children because the distinctive belt, shoulders and knees are among the only stars we see in the late autumn and winter sky. From the suburbs we learn that Betelgeuse is red and Rigel is blue, and know the fuzzy star in the sword is M42, a remarkable nebula. And backyard astrophotographers learn that the horsehead and flame nebulae flank Alnitak, first star in the sword. Here, some of the region's distinctive nebulosity is revealed by using a Hydrogen-alpha filter, which only allows the reddish color emitted by ionized hydrogen to reach the camera. The large circular structure on the eastern edge of the constellation is Barnard's Loop, which as far as I know is only accessible to suburban viewers through this filtered, long exposure approach.

The Rosette Nebula, a great astro target in its own right, hovers to the east -- to me this looks like a ghostly dog skull accompanying the celestial hunter on his nightly journey.

Tech Stuff: Canon 17-55 f/2.8 lens at 35mm on QHY163 mono cooled astro camera with Astronomik H-alpha filter, unguided tracking via iOptron CubePro mount. 264 minutes of 8 second exposures captured in LiveStacks via SharpCap; processed in PixInsight. Captured over 3 nights, November 2020 from my yard 10 miles north of New York City.

Ecco un’immagine del pianeta gigante ottenuta da una ripresa video mattutina durante il crepuscolo. Si vede bene la Grande Macchia Rossa vicino al bordo orientale, alcuni dettagli sulle bande equatoriali ed è visibile il satellite Io sulla sinistra in basso.Il pianeta cambia continuamente il suo aspetto a causa dell’elevata turbolenza della sua atmosfera e questo si può notare a distanza di poche settimane anche utilizzando telescopi amatoriali.

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 90 secondi

– Autostakkert!3 e Registax 6 per elaborare circa il 50% dei fotogrammi

– Registax 6 per contrasto e luminosità

– Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia

– Data e ora della ripresa: 31 luglio 2022 4:01 UTC (6:01 ora locale)

Bubble Nebula in HOO

Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/vi2erd/

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Gear:

Imaging Camera: ASI183MM- Pro w/ EAF, EFW

Filters: Astrodon 3nm Ha and 3nm OIII 1.25"

Main Scope: Orion 8" f4 Newt 800mm FL

Guidescope: Williams Optics 50mm Uniguide

Guidecam: ASI120MM mini

Mount: SW EQ6R Pro

Coma Corrector: Skywatcher Quattro

Image details:

20% crop to enhance detail

70x300s, Ha, Gain 111, -15c

55x300s, OIII, Gain 111, -15c

25 darks

10.5 hrs total

Bortle 5/6 sky

Acquisition/Edits:

SharpCap, NINA, PHD2, Stellarium, Pixinsight, Photoshop

This lovely sunspot has just rotated into view and is currently nestled in amongst a group of faculae. There was a lovely prominence on the limb above the sunspot and there are lots of spicules visible along the limb.

Taken from Oxfordshire with a Coronado PST and ASI120MC + Celestron 3x Barlow. The telescope was on an EQ5 Pro mount tracking at solar speed. A 2,000 frame video was captured using SharpCap, then the best 50% of the frames were stacked in Autostakkert! 3. Stacked image was processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer. The colour was removed before processing then false colour added back in using Photoshop CS2 once the image had been processed.