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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
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Coronado PST H-alpha solar telescope + Celestron 3x Barlow and ASI120MC camera. The telescope was on an EQ5 Pro mount, tracking at solar rate.
2,000 frame video captured with SharpCap, the best 75% stacked using Autostakkert! 3, then processing was done using Lightroom, Photoshop CS2, Fast Stone Image Viewer and Focus Magic.
This was an impressive region of prominence activity on the south eastern limb, and it was amazing to see how the area had changed in the space of an hour. There were several filaments visible on the disc as well.
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)
Telescopio: Refractor Bresser Messier Acro 102/460 f4.5
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: EQ5 Bresser EXOS2 motorizada sin goto
Filtros: Baader UV/IR Cut / L-Filter
Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2019-03-20
Hora: 02:40 T.U.
Fase lunar: 98.8% 13.5 días Creciente
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 2 minutos
Resolución: 3096 x 2080
Gain: 100
Exposure: 0,000451
Frames: 732
Frames apilados: 22%
FPS: 6.09
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier. Camera used was a ZWO ASI120MC with a 5x Powermate Barlow attached to the camera nose.
4,000 frame video shot in Sharpcap, best 75% of those frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3, then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.
Tránsito de Mercurio
Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: iOptron CEM40
Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.9, T=12.5%)
- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (540nm)
Accesorio: Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism
Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2019-11-11
Hora: 12:47 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 60 segundos
Resolución: 800 x 600
Gain: 72
Exposure: 0,000032
Frames: 6044
Frames apilados: 10%
FPS: 100.60
Markarian's Chain in Virgo Cluster of Galaxies. Just as galaxies are communities of hundreds of billions of stars, Unimaginably large clusters of galaxies exist containing thousands of them. The Virgo Galaxy Cluster is one such cluster. Within this galaxy cluster is an smaller grouping we call Markarian's Chain. It has the shape almost of a ball and chain. The field of view of larger aperture telescopes are not wide enough to fit in the galaxies that comprise both the "ball" and the "chain" in that shape. So, this image is only wide enough to contain the "ball", or the grouping of galaxies that are distributed in a round fashion. While 10 to 12 galaxies in this image may be readily seen, others are smaller and fainter appearing. In fact, a careful eye, and a magnified view, can find more than 20 galaxies. Look for small elongated smudges that are not round and crisp like stars are. And don't forget the tiny, distant galaxy hiding behind the "halo" of the bright M86 galaxy. Three of the galaxies can be found along the bottom of the image near the center of the picture's border.
This image is the result of one and a half hours of 5 minute exposures on the Ritchey-Chretien 6 inch telescope with a Canon T7i DSLR at the prime focus. The exposures were all 300 seconds at ISO 800. The auto guiding work was done with a Skywatcher 50ED Evoguide guide scope and a ZWO ASI183MC camera connected to PHD2 auto-guiding software. Polar alignment was done with Sharpcap Pro software. Note: The thin straight line through the image was made by a satellite passing overhead during one of the frames.
Nébuleuse du Cocon IC5146.
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.
100 x 15 sec light pictures
(total time1500 sec) stacked wth Sharpcap.
2 minutes video recording - de-rotated
Seeing 3/5
Transparency 3/5
C9.25 EDGEHD
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
Tonight's Moon, Waxing Gibbous 65% illuminated
Altair Astro 72EDF
AA IMX178C Hypercam
AZ-GTI mount
Best 100 frames stacked with AS3! of 2000 captured with SharpCap 3.2 Pro.
Post processed with Adobe Photoshop CC2019
Data - 14/08/2021
Hora - 18:15 local (-3 UTC)
Lat - 7,13S
Log - 34,83W
Local - João Pessoa, PB - Brasil
Bortle - Class 8
Telescopio - SW 1200mm F8
Câmera - ZWO ASI 120 Color
Método - Projeção positiva
Ocular - 9mm Plossi GSO
Montagem - Dobsoniana manual
Ligth - 1032 frames (50%)
Software Captura - SharpCap
Softwares Processamento - PIPP/AS3/Registax/PS
#astfotbr
The Sun's chromosphere is the layer just above the photosphere. This is what you are seeing. The photosphere is the layer we see when you directly look at the Sun. Don't do that!
The chromosphere is not visible to us without a Hydrogen-alpha filter on your telescope. Around the edge of the Sun you see prominences. On the disc itself, the dark lines are filaments, the bright areas are are plages, and the dots are sunspots.
The image was captured using:
This picture was capture using a 60mm Lunt Hα telescope in the double stack configuration.
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro
Capture software: SharpCap
Processing was done using:
Autostakkert
Adobe Light Room Classic
Adobe Photoshop
Waning Gibbous/85.1%
Moon Age 19.02 out of 29.39 days
I recently obtained a used set of planetary imaging filters containing Wratten no. 25 (red), no. 21 (orange), no. 12 (yellow), no. 58A (green), and no. 80A (blue). I used the first three filters to see if I could distinguish any differences. I think the red filter produced the better results although it was difficult to tell. Yellow came in a close second. The orange was a bit soft in comparison.
The moon was just past meridian when I started imaging but was about 31 degrees above the southern horizon. The seeing was quite bad. According to the experts, a red filter can reduce seeing effects. That seems consistent with my findings. We must live in the same universe.
TMB 80mm f/6.3 refractor; ASI585MC, ROI of about 2000 x 2000; UV/IR cut filter; No.25 red filter; SharpCap; best 500 frames out of 5000. Shutter speed 1 ms; Gain 300, AutoStakkert. Photoshop (for exposure and color adjustment.)
Plato é uma das mais famosas e observadas crateras de impacto da Lua. Está situada na margem norte do Mare Imbrium e foi formada a cerca de 3,84 bilhões de anos atrás. Sua região é uma das mais lindas e fotografadas da superfície lunar.
Plato é uma cratera de impacto que teve seu fundo coberto por lava produzida por erupções provenientes de falhas do subsolo interno da cratera causadas pelo impacto. A inundação de lava ocorrida há 3,5 bilhões de anos soterrou um provável pico central e criou um aspecto plano e liso, com uma aparência escura, tornando-a uma cratera rasa com apenas 1 Km de profundidade e sem picos no centro. Antes de ser inundada por lava, provavelmente Plato tinha 4 Km de profundidade, com as bordas das paredes parecendo degraus ou curvas de nível (como em Copernicus) e montanhas no centro.
27-08-2021 / 06:22 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
My first image after polar aligning with Sharpcap, a great piece of software IMHO. Got my guiding almost to the limits of local "seeing" conditions.
Imaging telescope or lens:Meade Starfinder 8
Imaging camera:Canon T1i Full Spectrum
Mount:Losmandy GM-8
Guiding telescope or lens:MEADE 50mm Finder Guidescope
Guiding camera:ZWO ASI120MM
Software:Open Guiding PHD2 Guiding, DeepSky Stacker (DSS) DSS 3.3.2, Auriga Imaging RegiStar, Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4 , Stark Labs Nebulosity Nebulosity 2.1.2
Filter:Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter
Accessory:Baader MPCC coma corrector
Resolution: 5683x3778
Dates:June 30, 2016, June 1, 2019
Frames:
41x45"
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter: 54x180" ISO1600
Integration: 3.2 hours
Darks: ~50
Bias: ~50
Avg. Moon age: 26.34 days
Avg. Moon phase: 12.34%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4.00
Data source: Backyard
Jupiter and 3 of its moons. Two small dots are Io and Ganymede. The small dot over the planet is Europa in transit. Europa's diameter is 3,121.6 km and Earth's is 12,742 km so no you can imagine how small is Earth compared to Jupiter.
Imaged on June 26th 2020.
Tech details:
1000 frames of Sun, 23% gain, 28ms exposure
Equipment:
Scope: Skywatcher 150/750 F5 Newtonian
Mount: NEQ6
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI120MM
Software: SharpCap 3.2, AutoStakkert, Registax, Lightroom, Photoshop
Object Details: The attached composite shows Jupiter during a transit of it's Great Red Spot and the shadow of it's largest moon Ganymede (the largest satellite in the solar system, being larger than Mercury or Pluto & only slightly smaller than Mars). Ganymede itself can be seen on the right as it moves away from the planet while another Jovian moon (Io) can been seen on the left as it begins to transit.
Jupiter set below my horizon prior to Io's shadow transit, however a similar event showing both shadows in transit last year in a time-lapse can be shown at the link attached here: www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/48059027006/in/al...
Although the eye professionals in my family would probably admonish me for saying this ;) , if you cross your eyes to form a single merged image, given the slightly different a viewing angels due to the elapsed time, the image takes on a 3-D effect with Ganymede's shadow appearing to 'float' above Jupiter. Another example of this effect can be accomplished using a set of the image from 2016 attached here - www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/27109906411/in/al... .
I have had the pleasure of witnessing & imaging a few 'double shadow transits' on Jupiter, and although the transparency & seeing conditions were terrible at the time, I did have the opportunity once (in 2013) to image an extremely rare triple shadow transit - a (terribly noisy & low res.) shot of which can be found at the link here:
www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/10619712624/in/al...
Image Details: Taken by Jay Edwards on the of the evening of August 14, 2020 (UT date Aug. 15, 2020) at the HomCav Observatory using a (vintage 1970) 8-inch, f/7 Criterion newtonian reflector, 3X Televue barlow and an ASI290MC 'planetary camera / autoguider'. The scope was mounted on and tracked with a Losmandy G-11 running a Gemini 2 control system. The camera was controlled by SharpCap and used in 'full frame' mode.
Due to the thick, nearly solid cloud deck in my area that evening, I had to constantly adjust the imaging parameters to compensate for the varying thickness of the cloud deck during these briefs times of 'thinning' and attempted to match their appearance, w.r.t contrast, brightness, saturation, etc., via post processing.
Processed using a combination of AS3, Reistax & PSP, as presented here the images have been resized down so the entire composite is half HD resolution.
Given the challenging conditions at the time I was fairly pleased with the results, and hope others are getting a chance to witness these fascinating events.
Mosaico lunare del 1-09-2021
Le condizioni di trasparenza non erano ottimali ma secondo me ho ottenuto comunque un buon risultato.
Dati:
Celestron Newton 114/900
montatura eq2 con motore AR
camera planetaria Qhy5L-II
filtro uv ir cut
Sharpcap per acquisire 8 video da 200 frame ciascuno
Autostakkert 3 e Registax 6 per elaborare i video
autostitch per creare il mosaico
Camera raw per regolare luminosità, contrasto e riduzione rumore nel risultato finale
Location: Cabras, Italia
Date: September 1, 2021
Copyright: Roberto Ortu
Composite image made by combining two separate output from different exposure videos.
Taken on 21 June 2019 at 23.43 UTC, with Celestron NexStar 6se SCT and ZWO asi224mc Camera. Video captured in SharpCap, stacked in AutoStakkert, then processed in PSP8, Registax 6 and LR.
Now this really was one heck of a challenge! There was an International Space Station daytime lunar transit visible from our garden at 11:55:26. The Moon was only a 15% Waxing Crescent and on a bright sunny day with patches of cloud, even getting the Moon in shot was a challenge. I had my laptop in a box but still it was incredibly difficult to see the Moon on the screen so it was really hard to focus. The seeing was terrible and the gusts of wind were bouncing the telescope around.
I honestly didn't think I had a hope in hell of capturing this, so I was astonished when I was watching the screen and saw the ISS zoom past. Knowing how bad the seeing was, I didn't have high hopes of getting anything top quality, so I'm really pleased with this result.
William Optics 70mm refractor and ASI120MC camera with a 2x Barlow. 1,500 frames captured with Sharpcap. I debayered the video using PIPP then used Movie Maker to create the video. I also extracted all of the individual frames from the original video then processed the 30 frames that contained the ISS, then stacked them using StarStaX then made final tweaks in Fast Stone Image Viewer
ISS Solar Transit
July 4th, 08:39:10 MST, 0.6 seconds
Composite of best 150 of 1595 frames with 17 of ISS
Celestron 6se with solar filter and f/6.3 reducer
Celestron AVX
Zwo ASI1600MC-C
Sharpcap, Autostakkert!, PixInsight, Photoshop
21:50BST 96% illuminated, bright but hazy sky with poor transparency, not too bad, but details couldn't be sharpened much more.
Altair Astro Lightwave 72EDR f/6
AA IMX178C Hypercam
SkyWatcher AZ-GTI mount
Exp = 1.85ms
Gain= 250
Best 10% stacked with Autostakkert 3, of 3000 frames captured with SharpCap Pro 3.2
Post processed with Registax 6 and Photoshop CC2019 with Astra Image plugins for deconvolution, and sharpening.
Managed to capture a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) on Friday July 28th 2023 starting from 15:42UT to 16:13UT.
Location:
Botkyrka, Stockholm, SE
This is by far the best solar I have ever captured in my entire time as an amateur solar photographer, a journey I started back in early 2022.
Equipment in use:
Lunt Solar Systems LS50THa/B600
Player One Astronomy Neptune-M (IMX178), 6 MP mono
iOptron GEM28 GoTo
Software in use:
SharpCap for capturing
Autostakkert! 3 for stacking
ImPPG for deconvolution
Photoshop CC for colorization and creating the video with
EXIF (Metadata):
1000 frames each, MONO16, 30 fps, SER format, 4 ms Exposure, 0 Gain, 0 Offset
40% stacked with Resample 2x
M8 ou NGC 6523 ou la nébuleuse de la Lagune située dans le Sagittaire
La nébuleuse de la lagune est un immense nuage d'hydrogène et de poussières éclairé par une supergéante bleue, l'étoile 9 du Sagittaire. La taille de la nébuleuse est d'environ 110 années-lumière et sa distance tourne autour de 5 000 années lumière ce qui lui donne un diamètre apparent trois fois plus important que celui de la pleine Lune. La nébuleuse, comme de nombreuses nébuleuses diffuses, contient un bel amas ouvert, NGC 6530
en bas à droite, l'amas globulaire de l'étoile de mer (NGC6544)
matériel
FSQ-106ED sur une monture NEQ6 pro Goto
caméra ZWO 1600MC-C équipé d'un filtre IDAS-LSP-D1
Guidage avec lunette APM 60*240 et PHD2
72 poses de 180s
acquisition : Sharpcap 2.9
prétraitement : deepskystacker
traitement Photoshop
cadre avec Gimp
Gérard
Moon mosaic taken with SkyWatcher Esprit 100ED, ZWO ASI224MC, Sharpcap, PIPP, Autostakkert and Microsoft ICE.
My first ever photo of Uranus, captured last night (2024-01-26)
This was captured using my newly purchased ZWO 715MC. This camera has amazingly small pixels that allows a telescope often used for deep sky to overcome its small focal length with densely packed small 1.45 micron pixels.
This is a perfect match for my 8" newtonian which has a native focal length of 1000mm. Typically you'd need an SCT or a big dobsonian with a camera with larger pixels. Up until now, basically all planetary cameras have had a pixel size of 2.9 microns.
This photo shows 4 of Uranus' moons. They're incredibly faint even on a relatively fast aperture setup for planetary. At magnitude 15, they're as faint as many deep sky targets requiring long exposures to reveal them. Long exposures and planetary are not something you hear very often.
The setup:
- ZWO ASI 715MC
- ZWO ADC
- ZWO EAF
- Skywatcher 200P (modified)
- Skywatcher EQ6R
- SharpCap
- AutoStakkert
- Registax
- Photoshop
10,000 frames captured at 112FPS, Moons 5s x 20 (max gain of 600)
Sadr region bicolor
Canon 200mm f/2.8 @ f/2.8
ASI 1600MM-C -20C gain 139
ZWO filters
2 minutes
14x Ha
14x Oxygen
Sharpcap
Sequence Generator Pro
Cartes Du Ciel
Pixinsight 1.8
The giant gas planet Saturn, located to the East of Jupiter, low in the late August sky.
Saturn last night. Celestron 8SE, Alt/Az mount, and TeleVue 3x Barlow. Using a ZWO ASI120MC camera ('Best' of 1K frames), SER movie file captured with SharpCap.
Images processed with PIPP then stacked with AS!2 / Registax-6 finally tweaked in PS.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Coronado PST
Imaging Cameras
Point Grey Grasshopper3 GS3-U3-23S6M-C
Mounts
Celestron Omni CG-4
Accessories
OnStep Telescope Mount Goto Controller
Software
Adobe Photoshop · AstroSharp Ltd SharpCap · Emil Kraaikamp AutoStakkert!
Acquisition details
Date: Oct. 11, 2022
Frames: 200
FPS: 15
Focal length: 700
Resolution: 2011x1510
File size: 2.5 MB
Data source: Backyard
Reprocessed data using new tricks in PixInsight!
The Leo Triplet (also known as the M66 Group) is a small group of galaxies about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. This galaxy group consists of the spiral galaxies M65, M66, and NGC 3628.
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: 12*3 mins @ 50 Gain, Temp -16C
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom
Mono - processed with ImPPG and Photoshop CC 2017
Captured with:
Altair StarWave 102ED f/7
Altair Hypercam IMX174 mono
Daystar Quark Chromosphere Ha filter
Sharpcap 3.0
8.05.2019 : Messier 51 The Whirlpool Galaxy (NGC5194)
A spiral galaxy which lies in the constellation of Canes Venatici (latin for hunting dogs).
Its distance is estimated to be between 15 and 35 million light-years.
Telescope: Altair Astro StarWave 102ED f/7 x1.0 flattener
Camera: AA IMX183C PROTEC Hypercam
Mount: SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6-GT
Guidescope: AA 60mm Guider
Guidecam: AA GPCAM120M
Filter: SkyTech LPRO-MAX
40x 180sec Lights, 45x Dark, 50x Flat.
(Gain= 400 BL= 20 TEC= -15C)
Captured with SharpCap Pro 3.2
Integration with Astro Pixel Processor
Post processing with Pixinsight 1.8.6 and Photoshop CC2019
6 images - de-rotated
Seeing 2.5/5
Transparency 3/5
Collimation slightly off.
C9.25 EDGEHD
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
Jupiter Europa, early in the morning August 06, 2022
C-9.25XLT and ASI224mc camera. above Average seeing for my location. Best 25% frames stacked out of 18381.
SharpCap Settings
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Observer=Pascal De Sanctis
Location=Coteau du lac,qc
Scope=C9.25 XLT
Camera=ZWO ASI224MC
Profile=Jupiter
Diameter=45.75"
Magnitude=-2.71
CMI=29.6° CMII=36.8° CMIII=313.7° (during mid of capture)
FocalLength=5300mm (F/22)
Resolution=0.15"
Filename=2022-08-06-0818_5-U-G-Jup.ser
Date=060822
Altitude=46.12°
FocalLength=5300mm (F/22)
Frames captured=17116
Duration=180.006s
FPS (avg.)=95
Bit depth=8bit
ROI=640x480
ROI(Offset)=0x0
Shutter=10.50ms
Gain=250 (41%)
AutoExposure=off
AutoGain=off
Brightness=20
Gamma=41
On the morning of Friday 13th May my friend Stuart tipped me off that there was a huge looping prominence visible on the Sun. It was cloudy at the time but I could see a few gaps possibly heading my way so I set up the solar telescope just in case. What followed was a hugely frustrating imaging session, with strong gusts of wind and lots of cloud scudding past the Sun every time I started to capture video. My laptop screen also hadn't been fixed yet so it was incredibly difficult to get focus and exposure right. By the time I got a clear look at the Sun the large prominence in question had lifted off and vanished! However, I manage to get some ok shots out of the imaging session.
Coronado PST and ASI120MC fitted with a 2 x Barlow. I shot either 500 or 1000 frame videos with SharpCap and stacked the best 50% of the frames using Autostakkert! 3. Processing was done in Lightroom, Photoshop CS2 and Fast Stone Image Viewer.