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For some reason the moon feels close from this angle. Maybe its so customary to visualize it as a flat disk that we look at straight on.
100/4000 frames.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
ZHUMELL Z12
Imaging Cameras
Point Grey Grasshopper 3 1.4MP
Mounts
DIY Equitorial Platform
Filters
Red
Accessories
Orion Shorty Barlow 2x
Software
Autostackert! · SharpCap V2.9 · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Acquisition details
Date: March 9, 2022
Frames: 100
FPS: 25
Focal length: 3000
Resolution: 2156x2983
Data source: Backyard
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.
As you can see from the vlog parts of this video, I was extremely excited that the clouds parted literally seconds before I needed to start the video and they stayed away just long enough to capture this!
Plato is the crater towards the left of the frame, and is about 100kms wide. To the upper right is the Vallis Alpes, a large valley that stretches about 166kms long.
ZWO ASI120MC camera, Celestron C8 8" SCT telescope, Celestron CGEM mount. 54 frames per second captured in SharpCap, 1500 frames stacked in AutoStakkert.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor and ASI120MC fitted with a Celestron 3x Barlow and Baader Continuum filter. 1,000 frame captured with SharpCap and the best 50% of the frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3. Processing was done in Lightroom and Photoshop. Initially the colour was removed for processing then false colour added back in at the end.
Active regions AR12975 and AR12976 had just rotated into view on the NE limb.
A bit of fun in how to blend images of widely differing exposures to provide an HDR image.
My first use of a ZWO 294 MC Pro camera for an extended imaging session. It's normally used only for outreach and EAA.
Image details:
RGB exposures: four sec, 30 sec, 120 sec.
Telescope: 200mm Ritchey-Chretien plus a 0.7x reducer to give 1160mm focal length at F/5.8
Camera: ASI ZWO 294 MC Pro
Mount: Skywatcher EQ8
Software: Sharpcap, Deep Sky Stacker, Pixinsight, Photoshop, Capture One, Topaz Studio 2, Topaz Denoise AI
Location: Cambridge
Data - 24/04/2021
Hora - 20:54 ~ 21:45 local (-3 UTC)
Lat - 7,13S
Log - 34,83W
Local - João Pessoa, PB - Brasil
Bortle - Class 8
Câmera - ZWO ASI 120MC-S
Telescópio - SW 150mm F8
Montagem - EQ5
Motorização - OnStep Brasil
Light - filme de 2000 frames (empilhados 50%)
Software Captura - SharpCap
Softwares Processamento - PS/Registax
This was on my wish list now that I have a bigger fov with the new camera. Really pleased with how it turned out even under a first quarter moon.
Skywatcher 72ED, HEQ5 PRO
AA lightwave 0.8 reducer/flattener, AA quad band filter, AA 269c pro TEC
AA Starwave 50mm guidescope and AA Gpcam2 290c
36x300s guided plus darks and flats
SharpCap, PHD2, Astro Pixel Processor and Photoshop
Here is a view of the planet Venus taken on January 25, 2017, now at 43% full and it will be progressively getting narrower and larger over the next few weeks.
Tech Specs: Meade LX90 12” Telescope, ZWO ASI290MC camera at prime focus, best 2,000 frames of 10,000 frames sampled. Taken from Weatherly, Pennsylvania. Software included SharpCap 2.9, Registax, and Adobe Lightroom.
Ecco un’ immagine del gigante gassoso e dei satelliti galileiani. L’atmosfera appare nitida e si possono notare dettagli sulle bande atmosferiche e anche alcune macchie. Dato che è ancora lontano dall’opposizione, il pianeta mostra una leggera fase sul suo bordo orientale e per questo appare più sfumato rispetto a quello occidentale.
La durata della ripresa è stata di 90 secondi e il video originale contiene 4195 fotogrammi totali.
Nell’immagine partendo da sinistra sono visibili anche i satelliti Ganimede, Europa e Io.
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: 23 luglio 2022 alle 2:54 UTC (4:54 ora locale).
Another take on this favorite, rendered here by Hydrogen Alpha capture which brings out the red hydrogen rich regions of summer nebulae. I wanted improved stars compared with my last outing and used both a new adapter and coma corrector, which seems to have worked well. I also used the new PI Starnet neural network module during processing to separate the stars from the nebula and I can see how this will be a very powerful tool going forward.
Tech stuff: Borg 71FL/TV 2XPM/Baader MPCCIII/Astronomik HA filter/QHY163mono/iOptron CubePro 8200 guided 160 minutes About half of data was captured with 15 second exposures, half with 60 second exposures, LiveStacked into 8 minute stacks with SharpCap Pro. Processed with PixInsight, GIMP and ACDSee. Captured in 2 nights July and August 2019 from my yard 10 miles north of New York City.
21.02.2019. Waning Gibbous Moon 92% illuminated.
Altair Astro StarWave 102ED (x0.8 reducer)
AA IMX183C PROTEC Hypercam
AZ-EQ6 GT
2000 frames captured with SharpCap Pro 3.2
Best 100 frames stacked with AS3!
Processing with Adobe Photoshop CC2019
Moon 98% Waximg Gibbous. 80% of 600 Frames. ASI6200MC + SharpStar 107PH. Captured in SharpCap Pro. Processed in PIPP and Siril. Finished in Adobe CC.
Celestron NexStar 6SE
Zwo Asi224mc with IR cut filter
Zwo ADC
Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate
FireCapture for ADC tuning.
SharpCap for Capturing.
Jupiter and moons-one exposure.
Processed in AutoStakkert, RegiStax and Lightroom.
Genova, Italy (17 Oct 2020 - 01:24 GMT+2)
Orange vintage C8 (203 F10 SC Telescope) on EQ5 Mount + QHY5L-II Color Camera @ F25 (Barlow APO 2.5x).
Best 15075 frames of 50250 (30%)
Recording: SharpCap 3.2 (320x240 @ 130fps)
Stacking: AutoStakkert! 3.1.4
Wavelets: Registax 6.1
Final: GIMP 2.10.8
November 29 2020
Coronado Personal Solar Telescope (PST) 400mm f10 telescope specifically designed to only pass a very narrow slice of the Hydrogen Alpha wavelength.
ZWO ASI183 monochrome USB camera
Best 50% of 500 high speed video frames captured using SharpCap software, analyzed and stacked using Autostakkert3! software, sharpened in imppg free software, false color added in Photoshop.
Harvest Moon - 21st September 2021
The full moon of September 2021 named the Harvest Moon because it marks the time to harvest the crops before the frosts and cold weather arrives. The moon is so bright it can light the night sky enough to harvest crops.
Taken from my home in Gérgal, Almería, Spain.
Equipment:
Telephoto Lens: Tamron 150-600mm f/6.0 at 600mm
Camera: ZWO ASI 183MC Pro, cooled to -5C
Telescope Mount: iOptron Smart EQ Pro
Captured with Sharpcap Pro 4.0
Processed using AutoStakkert 3, Adobe Lightroom Classic and Topaz Sharpen AI.
Images: The best 200 of 1,000 frames.
#moon #fulllmoon #harvestmoon #astrophotography #sharpacp #autostakkert #tamron #zwo #topaz #ioptron #gérgal
9x300; 12x180 second subframes, -30degrees, gain 10.
Total integration 1 hour 20 minutes.
Imaging:
William Optics ZenithStar II 80 ED,
QHY163C with Astronomik CLS filter.
Guiding:
Skywatcher Star Travel 120,
Orion SSAG.
All on
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro
Captured using SharpCap, Cartes du Ciel and EQMOD.
Stacked and processed in DSS, Fitswork and Gimp
17th November 2017
Cambridge, UK
Messier 13, the Globular Cluster, taken from a Bortle 4 site in Landers, CA, USA on a New Moon night. Telescope: TPO Ritchey-Chretien 6 inch FL 1370 F9. Guiding was with Orion 50mm Guide Scope FL 242mm with a ZWO ASI183MC for the guide camera. Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro. Main imaging camera: ASI294MC PRO cooled to -5C. Exposures: 53 x 120s with Gain at 120 and Bin 1 x 1. No darks, flats or bias frames. Processed in PixInsight. Slight crop. Polar alignment was with SharpCap Pro.
M106, a spiral arm galaxy with a massive black hole at the center is about 25 million light years distant. High in the sky right now, it is shown with companion galaxy NGC 4217 (at about 60 million ly) and a few smaller galaxies.
Tech Stuff: Borg 71FL/Baader MPCC /ZWO ASI1600MC cam/IDAS LPS-D2 filter/iOptron CubePro 8200 mount unguided/2 hours total exposure time using 8 second exposures captured with SharpCap Pro/processed with PixInsight and GIMP. SQM-L reading about 17 with three quarters moon. From my yard 10 miles north of New York City March 17, 2019.
Transparency (3/5)
Seeing (3/5)
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
Object Details: The attached composite shows the huge sunspot groups AR2993 & AR2994 as they were just rotating on back on April 18th. Having previously posted images showing them near mid-disk (attached here - www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/52034939249/
), as a result of a 4 day blackout due to a snow storm that week, I just had the opportunity to process this data).
During their passage across the Earth-facing side, they threw a variety of flares including two X-class. Large enough to be seen 'naked-eye' (with a proper solar filter of course), helioseismic imaging is currently tracking a large active region on the non-Earth facing side of the Sun which may be AR2994. If it remains intact it should rotate on the eastern limb in approximately a week.
Image Details: The images making up this composite were taken by Jay Edwards on the early morning hours of April 18, 2022 under high clouds of varying opacity from the RoR observatory I built at my home here in upstate, NY using:
At left: An Orion ED80T CF (i.e. an 80MM, f/6 triplet, carbon-fiber refractor) with a 0.8x Televue field flattener / focal reducer, Kendrick film solar filter and an unmodded Canon 700D DSLR controlled by APT, meant simply as a reference it is a single-frame taken at ISO 100 and with a 1/2500 second exposure;
At right: a vintage 1970, 8-inch, f/7 Criterion newtonian reflector with a home-made Baader (visual grade material) off-axis solar filter and a ZWO ASI290MC planetary camera / auto-guider. They are stacks of several hundred frames, in this case at various exposures, selected from short video clips consisting of several thousand.
The ASI290MC was placed at prime focus and was controlled by SharpCap Pro and all scopes were tracked using a Losmandy G-11 goto mount running a Gemini 2 control system. The images also utilized a set of specialized planetary filters (Infrared, Ultraviolet & Methane) in addition to the over-the-aperture solar filter. As shown here the entire composite has been resized down to HD (one-third of it's original resolution).
I'm looking forward to seeing AR2994 survives it's trip around the Sun !
Similar composites or various solar system objects, many using additional wavelengths, can be found at the links attached below:
Solar:
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/51992208177/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/51948806640/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/51747214403/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/50815383151/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/50657578913/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/51027134346/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/51295865404/
Saturn:
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/51489515877/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/51345118465/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/51007634042/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/51316298333/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/50347485511/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/50088602376/
Jupiter:
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/51405393195/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/51679394534/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/51307264271/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/50303645602/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/50052655691/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/50123276377/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/50185470067/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/50993968018/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/51090643939/
Mars:
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/50425593297/
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/50594729106/
The attached composite shows how the massive active region AR3112 appeared as it began to rotate onto the Earth facing side of the solar disk on October 5, 2022.
Object Details: As noted on the image, it spanned over 80,000 miles ( > 130,000 km) end-to-end and was one of the largest groups in the last several years. At the time it had an extremely complex magnetic configuration with multiple north and south poles in close proximity to each other and was capable of X-class flares. Albeit, and maybe somewhat unexpectedly, it did not produce many large flares. It is however possible that it was actually several separate sunspot groups posing as one giant active region. If this were the case, it could explain the lack of flaring since it would suggestive a less complex magnetic configuration.
Image Details: The images making up this composite were shot through high cirrus clouds during the early afternoon hours of October 5, 2022. Since I also enjoyed observing it with the 8-inch newt. while imaging it that day, a short description of how it appeared using a 16mm eyepiece is included in the accompanying text at the following link. In addition to some low-resolution screen shots of AR3112, that composite contains some quick images I was taking of the early fall foliage adorning the observatory I built at my home here in upstate, NY that afternoon.
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/52409519996/
The upper left full-disk reference image used an Orion ED80T CF (i.e. an 80mm, f/6 carbon-fiber triplet apochromatic refractor) with a Kendrick film 'over-the-aperture' solar filter and a Televue 0.8X field flattener / focal reducer connected to an unmodded Canon 700D (t5i) DSLR controlled by AstroPhotographyTool (APT). It is a stack of 32 exposures shot at 1/4000 sec and ISO 100. Since the field-of-view using an 80mm, f/5 doublet refractor with an ASI290MC only covers approx. 2/3's the solar disk, the full disk reference image at center is a mosaic of two images taken with that setup and a type II Thousand Oaks glass solar filter. The ASI290MC was controlled by SharpCap Pro.
The larger luminance image; as well as the infrared, ultraviolet and methane shots, were taken using a vintage 1970, 8-inch, f/7 Criterion newtonian reflector with a home-made, off-axis Baader (visual grade material) film over-the-aperture solar filter connected to the ASI290MC with a set of specialized planetary filters on the camera's 1.25" nosepiece. All of these scopes were tracked on a Losmandy G-11 running a Gemini 2 control system, and as shown here a NASA image of the Earth has been added for size comparison with the 8-inch images, the entire composite has been resized down to 2x HD resolution and the bit depth lowered to 8 bits per channel
At bottom center is a NASA helioseismic image showing that as of this writing (Oct. 27, 2022) an extremely larger sunspot group is once again about to rotate onto the Earth facing side of the solar disk over the coming days and weeks. Although AR3112 did not produce much geomagnetic activity, I am hoping that this one might at some point during it's upcoming anticipated two week passage. Since there is a higher propensity for auroral activity during fall (and to a lesser degree spring), I've included a few images of auroral displays I have shot here during previous autumns in hope to stimulate some good karma ;) !
And since autumn here in the Northern Hemisphere also brings my all-time favorite holiday; I'll take a moment to wish everyone a very
Happy Halloween !!! ;)
Higher resolution versions of the aurora images shown here, as well as many other shots of the Northern Lights, can be found in the album linked here:
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/albums/7215760573...
While similar solar & planetary composites can be found in the albums at the attached links:
Solar:
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/albums/7215760573...
Jupiter:
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/albums/7215760574...
Saturn:
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/albums/7215760574...
Mars:
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/albums/7215760574...
Ce fût ma toute première photo planétaire faite seule
au foyer de mon 130/900.
Je découvrais fébrilement l'astrophoto et j'ai été fascinée par la rapidité d'obtenir un cliché sympa avec pas grand chose !
Cette première Jupiter, avec l'ombre du satellite Io est issue d'une vidéo de 21 secondes à 60 images par secondes capturées par le logiciel SharpCap. Elles ont ensuite été empilées sur le logiciel Autostakkert. Le traitement quant à lui a été fait avec Registax, notamment grâce aux ondelettes qui améliorent grandement la netteté de l'image.
Le materiel utilisé est très basique :
Une webcam spc900nc dans une Barlow bas de gamme x2, le tout au foyer de mon Skywatcher 130/900 sur eq2 non motorisé à l'époque.
First attempt at this. Tricky to capture and process, but a decent result, perhaps (?). I think it looks like a jellyfish here.
IC 443 (also known as the Jellyfish Nebula and Sharpless 248 (Sh2-248)) is a galactic supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Gemini. On the plane of the sky, it is located near the star Eta Geminorum. Its distance is roughly 5,000 light years from Earth.
IC 443 may be the remains of a supernova that occurred 30,000 - 35,000 years ago. The same supernova event likely created the neutron star CXOU J061705.3+222127, the collapsed remnant of the stellar core. IC 443 is one of the best-studied cases of supernova remnants interacting with surrounding molecular clouds.
This nebula lies around 5,000 light years away and is about 7,000 light years across.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm Zenithstar II Doublet
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color
- Guiding System: Celestron Starsense Autoguider
- Filter: ZWO Duo Band (HA & OIII)
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: Celestron
- Capture Software: SharpCap Pro (LiveStack mode with dithering)
- Light Frames: 40*5 mins
- Dark Frames: 15*7 mins, 10*5 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, and Topaz Denoise AI
This photo has had the saturation increased to emphasize the different minerals on the lunar surface (blue=titanium rich, brown=iron rich). Surprisingly these colors are visible to the human eye, but *way* less saturated than in this photo (I can usually make out the color difference between Mare Serenitatis and Mare Tranquillitatis when looking through my 5" maksutov telescope) Captured at 8pm on March 21st, 2021.
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**[Equipment:](i.imgur.com/6T8QNsv.jpg)**
* TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian
* Orion Sirius EQ-G
* ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
* Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector
* ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm
* Astronomik LRGB+CLS Filters- 31mm
* Astrodon 31mm Ha 5nm, Oiii 3nm, Sii 5nm
* Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope
* ZWO ASI-120MC for guiding
* Moonlite Autofocuser
**Acquisition:** (Camera at Unity Gain, -15°C)
* R - 1000 x 0.357ms
* G - 1000 x 0.297ms
* B - 1000 x 0.427ms
**Capture Software:**
* Captured using Sharpcap and [N.I.N.A.](nighttime-imaging.eu/) for mount/filterwheel control
**Stacking:**
* Stacked the best 15% of frames in Autostakkert (autosharpened, 3X Drizzle)
**PixInsight Processing:**
* ChannelCombination to combine monochrome images into RGB image
* DynamicCrop
* ChannelMatch to align G and B channels to R
* HistogramTransformation (slight stretch, also applied to red stack)
* SCNR green > invert > SCNR > invert
* LRGBCombination using red stack as luminance
* ColorCalibration
* CurvesTransformations to adjust lightness, contrast, colors, saturation, etc.
* ColorSaturation to desaturate red fringing around some craters
* LocalHistogramTransformation
* UnsharpMask
* More Curves
* ACDNR
* Annotation
Genova, Italy (12 Aug 2021 - 02:03 GMT+2)
Orange vintage C8 (203 F10 SC Telescope) on EQ5 Mount
QHY5L-II Color Camera @ F25 (Barlow APO 2.5x)
Recording: SharpCap 4.0 (640x480 @ 38fps - 2min)
Best 1520 frames of 4607 (33%)
Stacking: AutoStakkert! 3.1.4
Wavelets: Registax 6.1
Final: GIMP 2.10.8
Vallis Schroeteri, Craters Aristarchus and Herodotus (Colongitude 56°)
Object: Vallis Schroeteri, Craters Aristarchus and Herodotus
Colongitude: ~56°
Optics: Celestron 9.25 F20
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R
Camera: ZWO ASI 120MM-S
Filter: RGB 1,25" Filters
Exposure: R 10% of 2000 Frames, G 10% of 2000 Frames, B 10% of 2000 Frames
Date: 2019-02-16 21:07:00Z
Location: Schwaig
Capture: SharpCap 3.1
Image Acquisition: Stephan Schurig
Image Processing: Stephan Schurig
AutoStakkert 3.0.14: Analysis, Stack
Fitswork 4.47: RGB Combine
Photoshop 20.0.3: Unsharp Masking, Smart Sharpen w. Denoise, HighPass Sharpening, Unsharp Masking, Nik Dfine 2 Denoise, Dynamic (Dynamic, Saturation), Curves
Equipo Principal: ZWO ASI183MC-pro + Askar ACL200 + EQ6-R-Pro + ZWO EAF
Equipo guía: Hercules 32/130 mini guidescope, Player One Neptunce C-II
ASI183MC-pro:
*Gain 111, -15 º C, Optolong L-QEF 2", 106x180"
Tiempo Total de Integración: 5.3 h
100 Darks
50 Flats / 50 Darkflats por filtro
Polar alignment: Sharpcap 4
Adquisición: SGP 3.2
Guiado: Phd2
Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.9, PS
My first step into astrophotography. SW 80ed with a ZWO120ms-c, best 700 of 3000 frames. Processed in Sharpcap, PIPP and Photoshop. Teetering on the edge of the rabbit hole.
Recorded 5000 frames using Sharpcap as my software, then processed the video in Registax and used the wavelets tool to bring out details in the image.
Taken with the ASI120MC webcam
Genova, Italy (12 Aug 2021 - 02:39 GMT+2)
Orange vintage C8 (203 F10 SC Telescope) on EQ5 Mount
QHY5L-II Color Camera @ F25 (Barlow APO 2.5x)
Recording: SharpCap 4.0 (800x480 @ 44fps - 2min)
Jupiter:
Best 3685 frames of 5276 (80%)
Stacking+Wavelets: AstroSurface REDSHIFT-1
Europa and Ganimede:
Best 1741 frames of 5276 (33%)
Stacking: AutoStakkert! 3.1.4
Wavelets: Registax 6.1
Final: GIMP 2.10.8
Sol Región Activa 2741 - Barlow Powermate 2'5X
Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: EQ5 Bresser EXOS2 motorizada sin goto
Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.6, T=25%)
- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (540nm)
Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism
- TeleVue Lente de Barlow 2,5x Powermate 1,25"
Software: SharpCap, Pipp, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2019-05-10
Hora: 16:59 T.U.
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 2 minutos
Resolución: 1024 x 768
Gain: 100
Exposure: 0,000049
Frames: 14662
Frames apilados: 10%
FPS: 121.95
IC434 Horsehead and Flame Nebula, and M42 Orion and Running Man Nebula - Test FOV ASI6200MC, 6th February 2020. ASI6200MC Pro. Optolong L-eNhance. TSAPO65Q. SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro / 6R StellarDrive. 8 x 10 Mins with SharpCap Pro. Processed in NINA. Some artefacts remain - issues processing.
M51 with the Rokinon lens 135mm
Zwo ASI071MC Pro cooled color camera
Had clear skies last night, but windy
Pegasus Power Box and EAF
Zwo IR/cut filter 2"
#SharpCap Pro, PoleMaster
Orion Skyview Pro EQ mount
100 Gain offset 20, 0c cooling,
M51 was 55 minutes, 30 seconds exposure each
50 darks 50 flats and 50 bias frames
Astro Pixel Processor and PS
Plus the moon, Orion 102mm Mak-Cass telescope Zwo 290MC camera AS3 RegiStax6 and PS
Taken on 6 April 2018 at just after midnight (utc), with Celestron NexStar 6se SCT and ZWO ASI224 mc camera. Video was captured in SharpCap and processed in Autostakkert and PSP8.
O Mare Crisium possui 556 km de diâmetro e 176.000 km² de área. Tem um piso muito plano, com um anel de cristas rugosas (dorsa) em direção aos seus limites externos.
A bacia é do período pré-imbriano, há 4,55 a 3,85 bilhões de anos.
Mare Crisium foi batizado por Giovanni Riccioli, cujo sistema de nomenclatura de 1651 foi padronizado.
📆 24-08-2021 / 02:39 UTC
🔭 Sky-Watcher 150mm - f/8
📷 ZWO ASI 120MC-S + Barlow 2x + UV/IR Cut
Capture Area: 1280x960 pixels
2500 frames stacked
👨💻 SharpCap + PIPP + AS!3 + Astrosurface
🇧🇷 Porto Real-Brazil
Bortle 4/5 Sky
Sinus Iridum (Latin: "Rainbow Bay") is a basaltic lava plain located on the northwestern extent of Mare Imbrium on the Moon. It is surrounded, in a northeast-southwest direction, by the Jura Mountains range. The protruding portion to the southwest is called Promontorium Heraclides and the northeast is called Promontorium Laplace.[2] This plain and the underlying mountain ranges are considered to be one of the most beautiful spots on the Moon and are a favorite observation point among astronomers.
The bay-shaped plain does not contain any relevant impact points but includes the craters Heraclides E to the south, Laplace A along its eastern boundary and Bianchini G to the north. The surface is flat but is marked by a small amount of back.
Sinus Iridum (latim: "Baía do Arco-íris") é uma planície da lava basáltica localizada na extensão noroeste do Mare Imbrium, na Lua. É cercada, na direção nordeste–sudoeste, pela cadeia de Montes Jura. A parte saliente a sudoeste é chamada de Promontorium Heraclides e a nordeste é chamada de Promontorium Laplace.[2] Esta planície e as cadeias de montanhas subjacentes são considerados um dos mais bonitos pontos da Lua e é um ponto favorito de observação entre os astrônomos.
A planície, em forma de baía, não contém nenhum ponto relevante de impacto mas inclui as crateras Heraclides E ao sul, Laplace A ao longo de seu limite oriental e Bianchini G ao norte. A superfície é plana mas é marcada por pequena quantidade de dorsa.
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
Veil Nebula (redone in Siril)
Eastern Vail (NGC6992)
Pickering Triangle
Witches Broom (NGC6960)
ISO1600
31x245 sec (2h06'35")
16 light
32 bias
12 dark
33 flat
GT81
CEM25P
Nikon Z6
L-Enhance
asi224mc guide
PHD2 2.6.9
Sharpcap polar alignment 3.2
Digicamcontrol 2.1.2.0
Siril 1.2.0-beta2
GIMP 2.10.34
32*30 second subs, 16 minutes total capture time
Photographed at Curramore, QLD, Bortle Class 2
Acquisition software: SharpCap
Unguided
ASI294MC Pro temp = 0
Gain 120.
Processed in AstroPixel Processor, light only
The front element of the RASA8 had started to dew up. Bummer !!
NGC2237 Rosette Nebula
Integration 2h02'
Lights 122x60"
Darks 40x
Bias 55x
Flats 55x
GT81
CEM25P
ASI533mc
L-Enhance
ASI224mc guide
PHD2 v2.6.9dev4
Sharpcap 3.2
DSS 4.2.5
GIMP 2.10.20
[ZWO ASI533MC Pro]
Debayer Preview=On
Pan=0
Tilt=0
Output Format=FITS files (*.fits)
Binning=1
Capture Area=3008x3008
Colour Space=RAW16
Hardware Binning=Off
Turbo USB=100(Auto)
Flip=None
Frame Rate Limit=Maximum
Gain=101
Exposure=60
Timestamp Frames=Off
White Bal (B)=95
White Bal (R)=52
Brightness=5
Temperature=-7
Cooler Power=4
Target Temperature=-10
Cooler=On
Auto Exp Max Gain=300
Auto Exp Max Exp M S=30000
Auto Exp Target Brightness=100
Mono Bin=Off
Banding Threshold=35
Banding Suppression=0
Apply Flat=None
Subtract Dark=None
#Black Point
Display Black Point=0
#MidTone Point
Display MidTone Point=0,5
#White Point
Display White Point=1
Notes=
TimeStamp=2021-03-02T21:50:48.9938812Z
SharpCapVersion=3.2.6433.0
Taken on 20 Jan 2020 at 16.23 BST, with Celestron NexStar 6SE SCT & Altair Hypercam 183c Camera, using a violet passfilter. AVI video captured in SharpCap and processed in Registax 6.
Subtle cloud features can just be seen. Clouds of Venus consists of concentrated Sulfuric acid. SO2 reflects very brightly in UV. There is also a dark UV absorber that no one knows what it is.
Data - 24/04/2021
Hora - 20:54 ~ 21:45 local (-3 UTC)
Lat - 7,13S
Log - 34,83W
Local - João Pessoa, PB - Brasil
Bortle - Class 8
Câmera - ZWO ASI 120MC-S
Telescópio - SW 150mm F8
Montagem - EQ5
Motorização - OnStep Brasil
Light - filme de 2000 frames (empilhados 50%)
Software Captura - SharpCap
Softwares Processamento - PS/Registax
Seeing 2/5
Transparency 2.5/5.
5 images derotated. 1.5X drizzle
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
Jones-Emberson 1 (PK 164 + 31.1) est une nébuleuse planétaire de magnitude 14 située dans la constellation du Lynx, à une distance de 1600 années-lumière. C'est une nébuleuse planétaire avec une faible luminosité de surface. L'étoile centrale d'une magnitude de 16,8 est une naine blanche très bleue de la taille de la Terre
matériel :
FSQ-106ED, extender x1.6
monture NEQ6 pro goto
caméra ZWO 1600MC-C avec filtre IDAS-LPS-D1
logiciel acquisition : Sharpcap 3.2
logiciel guidage : phd2
traitement avec deepskystacker, PSS
Image issue de 40poses de 300s
Object Details: Jupiter reached opposition this Monday, it's closest point to Earth for the year. In this case due to Jupiter being near the closest point to the Sun in it's 12 year orbit in January 2023 and at opposition to Earth this month, it also happened to be the closest it has been to Earth since 1963, lying a 'mere' 367 million miles away.
Given to this (relatively speaking) 'close' approach, it appears extremely bright in our sky. Blazing at magnitude -2.9, with no moon Monday night it was the brightest object in our skies; far out shining even the brightest stars. Although we had a major downpour with accompanying hail Monday afternoon, which due to the high sun angle at the time ended by producing a very low altitude rainbow so brilliant it colored the trees east of our home; by sunset the sky began to clear.
Due to the turbulent atmosphere caused by the passing weather front however, the seeing was horrible - rating a 1 out of 5, (officially labeled as 'Bad', although I might have given it a near zero and called it horrendous ;) ). In spite of these terrible conditions, given the significance of this year's opposition I thought I'd try to see if I could catch a quick image of it.
In addition to making Jupiter appear brighter in our sky, it's close approach also causes it to appear larger than it might normally be spanning 50 arc-seconds in apparent diameter. The attached composite shows how it appeared through one of our longer focal lengths scopes using three different filters.
Like the thunderstorm and hail which ended with a beautiful rainbow, as a consolation for the terrible seeing, I found Jupiter's Great Red Spot was in the process of transiting the Earth facing side of Jupiter as I began imaging it (seen here just past the meridian in the luminance filter, at lower right in the Infrared image and starting to rotate off the limb in the Methane shot). Many large festoons and smaller storms can also be seen in the planet's atmosphere (most readily apparent in the infrared image given that filter's ability to reduce the detrimental effects of poor seeing to some degree); and Jupiter's moon Io also appears to the left of the planet in the Methane image.
Image Details: Taken by Jay Edwards over the course of about 20 minutes on the evening of Sept. 26, 2022 from the observatory I built at my home here in upstate NY; the data making up the attached composite was acquired using a vintage 1970, 8-inc, f/7 Criterion newtonian reflector and a 3X Televue barlow connected to a ZWO ASI290MC planetary camera / autoguider. As is often the case here the camera was controlled by SharpCap Pro & the scope was mounted and tracked using a Losmandy G-11 running a Gemini 2 control system.
Each image is a stack of several hundred frames selected from video clips of a few thousand. Since the clouds moved back in the next day and it has been raining here ever since, although due to the terrible seeing at the time the images are softer and contain more noise than we might normally accept, I was fairly pleased to be able to catch this rare opposition. Since humans tend to see detail in an image via it's contrast and brightness, as opposed to it's color, I have extracted the lightness channel from each image and place them in the second row. As shown here the data have been processed using a combination of Registax, PaintShopPro and PixInsight, and the entire composite has been resized down to approximately 50% of it's original size.
As Jupiter has now moved into our evening skies and for some time will remain nearly as bright and big as it was at opposition, I'm hoping to be able to catch it again in the near future under much better seeing conditions. If the opportunity arrives to observe or image Jupiter in the near future I would highly recommend doing so as it has not been this close to Earth for 59 years and will not be this close again until the year 2129 !
Wishing clear, calm & dark skies to all !
Solar:
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/albums/7215760573...
Jupiter:
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/albums/7215760574...
Saturn:
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/albums/7215760574...
Mars:
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/albums/7215760574...
First light for my new ZWOASI120MC cmos camera which I got for Christmas. We've had the mono version for years and I loved it, but it stopped running on my Windows 8 laptop and nothing we tried would stop it from crashing each time I plugged it in. So I haven't used it for a very long time and it's in fact now used as a guide camera in our observatory set up! I got the colour version for Christmas but hadn't even plugged it in because I assumed I would have the same issues that I had with the older camera. Today I just figured I'd give it a try and to my astonishment it worked!
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, and the ASI120MC camera with a 2x Barlow attached. The whole assembly was on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier.
2,000 frame video shot using SharpCap, the best % frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3 Beta and wavelets adjusted in Registax 6. The image was then processed in Lightroom, Fast Stone Image Viewer and Focus Magic.
Target: NGC 2359 aka Thors Helmet
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Equipment:
Orion 6" f4 Newt w/ SW Quattro CC
ASI294MC-Pro
2"STC Astro Dual Band filter
ZWO 2" filter drawer
SW HEQ5-Pro
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Image Details:
180x180s, gain 120, bin 1x1, -10c
9 hrs total integration
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Location: Parker, CO
Bortle 5 sky
Moon Illumination 85%
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Acquired with NINA, Sharpcap Pro, PHD2. Processed in Pixinisight, Photoshop, Star Spikes Pro
Messier 45 the Pleiades or the seven sisters, near to the constellation of Taurus it is an open star cluster that is dominated by young hot blue luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years. Surrounded by reflection nebulae and lots and lots of dust, all illuminated by the stars, it is recorded as the closest messier catalogue object to Earth at a distance of 444 light years away.
Equipment
Altair Astro 72EDF f/6 (x1.0 Starwave flattener)
AA183C ProTEC
SkyTech LPRO-MAX filter
AA50mm Guider 130M GPCAM (PHD2 guiding)
SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6 GT mount
Captured with SharpCap Pro 4, using the software’s suggested smart histogram settings.
Exposure: 44.6sec
Gain: 389
BL: 24
TEC Temp: -1°C
162 Lights
50 Darks
50 Flats
50 Dk Flats
Integration with Astro Pixel Processor
Processed with PixInsight, RC Blur XTerminator - Noise XTerminator
Final tweaks with Adobe Photoshop
This is a composite shot of Saturn with a few of its moons. Saturn reached opposition on the night of July 9th and this shot was taken six nights later when the sky was (slightly) less cloudy. It would have been nice to have taken the shot closer to when it reached opposition but this was the first opportunity. However it still looks quite big and bright with plenty of detail visible. The predicted distance of Saturn at opposition was 1,351,000,000 km with its disk measuring 18.4 arcseconds in diameter. We measured Saturn's disk to be 18.1 arcseconds (an expected reduction in size after nearly a week of receding again) and giving us a distance of 1,352,364,750 km. So the calculations seem reasonably accurate.
Captured with SharpCap
Processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert and Registax
Post processed and composited Photoshop
For planet:
4,784 frames of video
Gain 100%
Exposure 0.052728 seconds
For moons:
284 frames of video
Gain 100%
Exposure 0.640857 seconds
Equipment:
Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS
Sky-Watcher EQ5 Mount
ZWO ASI120 MC camera
x2 Barlow with extension tube (equivalent to x3.3)