Our closest celestial neighbour needs no introduction. This gem is the brightest object in the sky besides the sun and seen by everyone on a regular basis, but it's still nice to be able to see it close up and see the details in the craters.

-=Tech Data=-

-Equipment-

Imaging Scope: 8" Meade LX90 ACF

Mount: Celestron CGX

Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 120MC-S

-Software-

Acquisition: Sharpcap

Pre-processing: Planetary Image Pre-Processor (PiPP)

Stacking: Autostakkert!3

Post Processing: Photoshop CC with Astra Image Deconvolution plugin

12 frame panorama (4 x 3), 2500 images stacked per frame.

Shot at the Lennox and Addington Dark Sky Viewing Area near Erinsville, Ontario.

Telescopi O Obiettivi Di Acquisizione

Orion Mini Guidescope

Camere Di Acquisizione

SVBony SV305

Montature

Celestron SLT

Software

AstroSharp Ltd SharpCap · photoshop · DeepSkyStacker · Maxim DL

Dettagli d'acquisizione

Date:

02 Gennaio 2021

Pose:

219×10″(36′ 30″)

Integrazione:

36′ 30″

Giorno lunare medio:

18.07 giorni

Fase lunare media:

88.13%

Dettagli astrometrici di base

Astrometry.net job: 4159587

Centro AR: 06h08m55s.7

Centro DEC: +24°19′04″

Campionamento: 3,279 arcsec/pixel

Orientazione: 267,115 gradi

Raggio del campo: 0,755 gradi

Equipo Principal: ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + SW Explorer 250pds + SW Coma Corrector 0.9x + EQ6-R-Pro + ZWO EAF + ZWO 7x2" EFW

Equipo guía: starguider 60/240 mm, ZWO ASI 120mm mini

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 260x180"

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 140x180"

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Sii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 132x180"

100 Darks

100 Flats por filtro

Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2

Adquisición: SGP 3.1

Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS

Went out 2 nights, IC1396, NGC6888, NGC2244, NGC7293, IC1805 and IC434

Orion 80mm ED refractor, Zwo 183MC Pro cooled color camera

Optolong L eNhance filter

#SharpCap Pro, PoleMaster

Ioptron i45 Pro EQ mount, PHD2 guiding

Orion 60mm guidescope SSAG

220 Gain offset 20 0c cooling,

IC1396 was 90 minutes, 1 minute exposure each

IC434 was 60 minutes, 1 minute exposure each

NGC2244 was 15 minutes, 1 minute exposure each

IC1805 was 60 minutes total, 1 minute exposure each

NGC7293 was 60 minutes total 1 minute exposure each

NGC6888 was 90 minutes total 1 minute exposure each

Weather was good all night for me, Getting colder too with some dew forming

50 darks 50 flats and 50 bias frames

Astro Pixel Processor and PS

Iris Nebula

175 subs @ 15 seconds each

Gain 200

ZWO ASI183 mono non cooled camera

Orion 8" F4 Astrograph Telescope

iOptron iEQ45 Pro mount

ZWO 8 position 1.25 filter wheel filter wheel

ZWO LUM filter

Color from old DSLR data

Moonlite focuser CR2

Moonlight Hi Res stepper motor

MyFocuer Pro v2 (Robert Brown) controller

Bahtinov mask

Home Observatory

Software: Sharpcap, CdC, Pixinsight, Photoshop, Team Viewer

Image consists of 11 x 10 minutes sub exposures that were live stacked using SharpCap software. Taken with the ASI294MC Pro camera and Optolong L-Pro filter

Equipo Principal: ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + SW Explorer 250pds + SW Coma Corrector 0.9x + EQ6-R-Pro + ZWO EAF + ZWO 7x2" EFW

Equipo guía: starguider 60/240 mm, ZWO ASI 120mm mini

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 140x180"

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 72x180"

100 Darks

100 Flats por filtro

Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2

Adquisición: SGP 3.1

Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS

M106 was discovered by Charles Messier’s observing assistant, Pierre Méchain, in 1781. It is located 24 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici.

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

- Light Frames: 25*5 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -20C

- Dark Frames: 25*5 mins

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

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

Whirlpool galaxy M51 represents a collision between two galaxies. The gravitational interaction between M51 and its companion will result in formation of one large galaxy. Whirlpool galaxy is a spiral galaxy and it is 76,000 light years across which is smaller than our milkyway galaxy. It lies at a distance of 31 light years from us and located in constellation of Canes Venatici. Gear setup: ES 102 CF APO @ 710mm Zero x F/F, Optolong L-Pro, ZWO 2600MC @0, iOptron GEM 45, ZWO mini guide scope+ZWO 120MM-S. Captured by APT, PHD2, Sharpcap Pro. Light subs 130 x 180sec, Darks 20, Flats 20, Bias 50 total exposure of 6.5 hours over two nights. Processed by PI.

April 21, 2022

Phoenix, AZ. Esprit 80, IR cut filter, Daystar Quark, and QHY 174. Mosaic of 14 frames. Each image was 1000 frames in SharpCap, best 15%, processed in AutoStakkert, NAFE, IMPPG, Photoshop, Topaz deNoise, and Lightroom.

Imaged from my backyard in Gérgal, Almería, Spain

The Iris Nebula is a bright reflection nebula in the constellation of Cephus. It is illuminated by a magnitude +7.4 star designated SAO 19158. Its size is 6 light-years across and is 1,300 light-years from Earth.

In this wide field view you can see the dark dust clouds that surround the blue illuminated clouds that extent to the bottom of the image. To see the fine details, zoom in or view the high resolution image at astrob.in/full/w868zb/0/

This is another image taken with my small portable setup and was taken to practice more advanced editing techniques using a modest one shot colour camera.

5 Imaging sessions 1st - 6th June 2022

196 x 300 sec exposures using a Baader Moon & Sky Glow Filter

Total time: 16hours 20mins

Bortle Class: 4 to 5

Telescope: William Optics GT81 @ 385mm

Image Camera: ZWO ASI 183 MC Pro -10C

Guiding: ZWO OAG with ZWO ASI 192MM S

Focusing: Pegasus FocusCube 2

Filter: Baader Moon & Sky Glow

Mount: Celestron CGX

Computer: Intel Atom NUC

Capture software: NINA, PHD2, Sharpcap Pro

Processing software: PixInsight, StarXterminator, NoiseXterminator, Adobe Lightroom

Equipo Principal: ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + SW Explorer 200p + SW Coma Corrector 0.9x + EQ6-R-Pro + Long Perng 2" Dual Speed Low Profile Crayford Focuser + ZWO EAF + ZWO 7x2" EFW

Equipo guía: guidescope 60/240 mm, ZWO ASI 120mm mini

*Gain 139, -25 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 160x180"

*Gain 139, -25 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 85x180"

*Gain 139, -25 º C, Sii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 85x180"

100 Darks

100 Flats por filtro

100 DarkFlats

Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2

Adquisición: SGP 3.1

Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS

When I look at this patch of sky over my house, there's nothing there but the grayish suburban night sky background. It still amazes me that all these stars and nebulae are hiding in plain sight. This is very similar to an image I did a year ago but I've employed a new technique or shortcut at nearly every stage of capture and processing, getting a similar or slightly better result with less effort.

Tech Stuff: Borg 55FL astrograph/ZWO ASI 1600MC/IDAS LPS-D2/iOptron CubePro. 70 minutes of 4 second exposures captured in 6 minute Livestacks with SharpCap including fake flat subtraction (fake flat = PI ABE background). Processed in PixInsight and ACDSee. Imaged from my yard 10 miles north of New York City

Bodes Galaxy is a grand design spiral galaxy about 12 million light years away. The Cigar Galaxy is thought to have at some point interacted with Bodes Galaxy, taking lots of dust and causing it to be become a starburst galaxy where stars are being born 10 times faster than the milky way. (Wikipedia)

60 300s Lights with 62 flats and 67 bias. Dithered.

Telescope: - Skywatcher 130PDS Newtonian.

Camera: - Nikon D3100.

ISO: 400. Automated white balance

Filters: - Baader Mark-III MPCC Coma Corrector. IDAS D2 Light Pollution Suppression Filter

Flats taken with a Huion L4S Light Box.

Wireless Remote: PIXEL TW-283 DC2 2.4G.

Mount: - Skywatcher EQ6R.

Guiding: Skywatcher EvoGuide 50ED & ZWO ASI120MM-Mini.

Polar Aligned with SharpCap Pro.

Control Software: - Stellarium Scope, Stellarium, Poth Hub, EQMOD, All Sky Plate Solver, PHD Guiding 2 and PHD Dither Timer.

Processing Software: Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and edited in Star Tools.

Moon: - New

Light Pollution and Location: - Bortle 8 in Davyhulme, Manchester.

Seeing: - Good

Notes: - I have got to the point where I can just set up and get going. This has taken me a long time to get to. I did take pictures for 2 nights but in the end only kept the second nights work. I may at some point come up with a successful re-process with both days data. In the end I felt 5 hours is enough for this setup although I have read somewhere that this object benefits from as much data as possible.

I think the flats on the first night and prior shots I’ve taken had too much exposure. I still think I am overexposing these as I am getting rings in my pictures. I’ll go even lower on the next object.

This remnant of a stellar explosion is invisible to the naked eye, but is now a familiar and easy target for backyard astrophotography.

Tech Stuff: Borg55FL Astrograph/IDAS LPS-V4 filter/ZWO ASI1600 MC/iOptron CubePro mount. 4.4 hours of 4 second exposures captured in SharpCap LiveStacks; processed in PixInsight and ACDSee. From my yard 10 miles north of NYC, SQM-L = 18.9.

Compare with this version from two years ago, using a more classic Narrowband filter/Mono Camera technique

www.flickr.com/photos/124244349@N07/48822600536/in/datepo... I would say the NB version has better blue/O3 detail while the OSC (one shot color) camera version has more depth in the red/HA regions. The color version, with my current processing scheme, delivers more color in the rich starfield, and both capture and processing are streamlined by comparison. Both were captured unguided using a very portable mount. One nice feature of imaging with the 200mm focal length Borg is that I can use PHD to do a precise drift alignment. This enables the modest CubePro to easily acquire the targets and track accurately for hours -- I did not need to reposition once during over 4 hours of capture.

Esprit 80mm, Daystar Quark, QHY 174, Sharpcap acquisition.

April 18, 2022

Genova, Italy (15 Lug 2022 01:16 UT)

Planet: diameter 18.5", mag +0.5, altitude ≈ 31°

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: 0.165 arcsec/pixel

Equivalent focal length ≈ 3625mm F/17.9

Image resized: +33%

Recording: SharpCap 4.0 (640x480 @ 60fps - 180 sec - RAW16)

Best 40% frames of about 10820 for each video

Alignment/Stacking: AutoStakkert! 3.1.4

Wavelets/Deconvolution: AstroSurface T3

Final Elaboration: GIMP 2.10.30

Questi sono i colori abbastanza reali del nostro satellite.

Telescopio: Officina Stellare APO 105 mm f 6.2

Montatura:iOptron CEM60

Camera:QHY 183C Color

Software:SharpCap 3.2 Pro, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 3.0.14, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8

Here is a seven panel mosaic of last night’s waxing gibbous moon, happy with the details.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, best 25% of 5k frames per panel (seven panels total). Captured with SharpCap v3 and processed using AutoStakkert!, Registax, and Microsoft ICE. Frame rate averaged 116fps, Exposure=0.000563, Gain=231. Image Date: April 26, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.

Equipo Principal: SW Explorer 200p + SW Coma Corrector 0.9x + ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + ZWO EAF + ZWO 7x2" EFW + SW EQ6-R-Pro

Equipo guía: ZWO M68 OAG + camara guia ZWO ASI 120mm mini

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 80x180"

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 80x180"

100 Darks

55 Flats por filtro

100 Dark-Flats por filtro

Polar Align: SharpCap 4

Adquisición: SGP 3.1

Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.9, PS

Been busy Saturday night, IC1396, Sadr Complex, NGC7000 and IC434

WO SkyCat 51, Zwo 183MC Pro cooled color camera

Optolong L eNhance filter

#SharpCap Pro PoleMaster

Ioptron i45 Pro EQ mount, PHD2 guiding

Orion 60mm guidescope SSAG

220 Gain offset 20 0c cooling, 1 minute exposure, 1 hour 45 minutes for IC1396, IC434 was 45 minutes, 1 minute exposure each, NGC7000 was 30 minutes, 1 minute each, Sadr complex was 4 panel 15 minutes each, 1 hour total,

Weather was good all night for me, I didnt get home till 3 in the morning

50 darks 50 flats and 50 bias frames

Astro Pixel Processor and PS

These towering tendrils of cosmic dust and gas sit at the heart of M16, or the Eagle Nebula. The aptly named Pillars of Creation, featured at center, are part of an active star-forming region within the nebula and hide newborn stars in their wispy columns.

Stretching roughly 4 to 5 light-years, the Pillars of Creation are a fascinating but relatively small feature of the entire Eagle Nebula, which spans 70 by 55 light-years. The nebula, discovered in 1745 by the Swiss astronomer Jean-Philippe Loys de Chéseaux, is located 7,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens. With an apparent magnitude of 6, the Eagle Nebula can be spotted through a small telescope and is best viewed during July. A large telescope and optimal viewing conditions are necessary to resolve the Pillars of Creation.

Despite some guiding issues, shooting through the light dome of a nearby city, as well as some Saharan dust that made its way into our neck of the woods this week, I am really pleased with this image. Lots of gorgeous detail! I have a Duo Band filter waiting, and will hit this again later using that filter if weather permits.

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

- Light Frames: 25*4 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -10C

- Dark Frames: 10*4 mins

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

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

Black and white - green filter only

Camera ZWO asi6200mm pro,

Filters - baader 2" G filter

Telescope: TS Photoline 130mm F7 @ F5.53 w/ 0.79 reducer

Software: Autostakkert! 3, CS6, SharpCap 3.2

2021-01-08-1809_5RGB Moonrs copy 2

Equipo Principal: ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + SW Explorer 250pds + SW Coma Corrector 0.9x + EQ6-R-Pro + ZWO EAF + ZWO 7x2" EFW

Equipo guía: starguider 60/240 mm, ZWO ASI 120mm mini

*Gain 139, -25 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 120x180"

*Gain 139, -25 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 70x180"

*Gain 139, -25 º C, Sii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 30x180"

100 Darks

80 Flats por filtro

Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2

Adquisición: SGP 3.1

Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS

A planetary nebula 2,500 light years away in the constellation Lyra. Planetary Nebula are formed when a shell of ionized gas is expelled into the surrounding area by a star in the last stages of its evolution before becoming a white dwarf. (Wikipedia)

53 180s lights (2 hours 40 minutes) with 39 flats and 53 bias. Dithered.

Telescope: - Skywatcher 130PDS Newtonian.

Camera: - Nikon D3100.

ISO: 400. Automated white balance

Filters: - Baader Mark-III MPCC Coma Corrector. IDAS D2 Light Pollution Suppression Filter

Flats taken with a Huion L4S Light Box and a white t-shirt.

Wireless Remote: PIXEL TW-283 DC2 2.4G.

Mount: - Skywatcher EQ6R.

Guiding: Skywatcher EvoGuide 50ED & ZWO ASI120MM-Mini.

Polar Aligned with SharpCap Pro.

Control Software: - Stellarium Scope, Stellarium, Poth Hub, EQMOD, All Sky Plate Solver, PHD Guiding 2 and PHD Dither Timer.

Processing Software: Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, edited in Star Tools and cropped in PS Lightroom.

Moon: - 50% waning, it rose at 3pm when it was already getting light.

Light Pollution and Location: - Bortle 8 in Davyhulme, Manchester.

Seeing: - Good

Notes: - Having set up for about 9pm it was still very much daytime; the north star finally appear at about 10pm but it was getting on 10.30 before I could do the SharpCap polar alignment. According to the FLO clear skies app, it was the first night with just twilight and no night. I had to do some weeding while waiting to get going. Also, it went down below 0 which is crazy for the middle of May. I am glad I a dithering these days and not relying on darks with the major shifts in temperature.

How I will get on as the days get even longer will be interesting. It must take a week to get any decent exposure time.

This picture was captured using a telescope with a Hydrogen-alpha (Hα) filter. This lets us see the Sun's chromosphere. As a result we can see many solar features, such as sunspots (seen here as black dots, plage (beach), seen here as bright white areas, filaments (black lines) and prominences (seen around the edge). Although these features may look small, we must keep in mind that the Sun has a diameter of 840,000 miles (compared to Earth's 8,000 mile diameter).

Telescope: Lunt 60mm Hα with double stack

Camera: ZWO I178MM monochrome

Capture Software: SharpCap

Processing Software:

AutoStakkert, RegiStax6, Light Room Classic, Photo Shop

Starless Version Using Starnet++

Nikon D5300

45 @ 180 seconds ISO 400 (2.25 hours)

100 BAIS

no flats

no darks (dither every frame)

Drizzle integration resize by 30% to reduce file size

AT65EDQ

dithered every 3rd frame

Nikon d5300

Celestron CG5 AS-GT

QHY 5LII-M guide camera

Astromania 60mm guide scope

Bahtinov mask

DIY FocuserPro2 arduino focus motor ( Robert Brown)

$65 laptop

Software: APT, PHD2, CdC, Sharpcap, ASCOM POTHUB, Pixinsight, PS/ACR, Google remote desktop

PS Plug ins: Nik Define 2, Astronomy Tools

Location: backyard, Bortle 4 skies

Moon 98.5% Full. RGB (270 Frames Each) Captured in SharpCap Pro. ASI1600MM, SharpStar 107PH Triplet. Processed in Siril. Wavelets Regsitax. Enhanced Colour in Lightroom CC.

Equipo Principal: ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + SW Explorer 250pds + SW Coma Corrector 0.9x + EQ6-R-Pro + ZWO EAF + ZWO 7x2" EFW

Equipo guía: starguider 60/240 mm, ZWO ASI 120mm mini

*Gain 139, -25 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 71x180"

*Gain 139, -25 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 70x180"

*Gain 139, -25 º C, Sii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 70x180"

100 Darks

50 Flats por filtro

Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2

Adquisición: SGP 3.1

Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS

Dedicated to the Love of my Life in her 37th Birthday!!!!

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

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.

Image Details:

- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm ZenithStar APO

- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with ZWO Duo band filter

- Guiding Scope: William Optics 31mm Uniguide

- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auto Guider

- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap

- Guiding Software: PHD2

- Light Frames: 20*5 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -10C

- Dark Frames: 20*3 mins

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz Denoise

The Owl Nebula is a planetary nebula approximately 2,030 light years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Estimated to be about 8,000 years old, it is approximately circular in cross-section with a faint internal structure.

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*4 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -20C

- Dark Frames: 30*4 mins

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

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

Imaged with a 1965 3.5-inch Questar Quartz Standard Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope. The camera was a ZWO ASI224MC and a 2x Barlow (a Celestron Ultima SV-Series).

This was the best 25% of 6874 frames captured in SharpCap 4, pre-processed in PIPP, then analyzed and stacked in AS!3, with wavelets in Registax 6.

18_56_32_lapl5_ap18_pipp_20221115_180141_conv P24 Jupiter 14 Nov 2022 V2

Took LUM data the other night and for once, everything went right, focus, tracking, meridian flip, framing. And guess what, every frame was plagued with rays from Rigel :(

Color from DSLR from a few years ago

LUM: 56 @ 180 seconds

30 Darks temp 25F

Scope: AT65EDQ

Mount: iOptron iEQ45

Camera: ZWO ASI183M non cooled

Guide camera: QHY5Lii

Guide Scope: Stellarvue 60mm

ZWO 8 position 1.25" filter wheel

ZWO LRGB

Schuler HA 9nm, Schuler 9nm Sii

MyFocuer Pro v2 (Robert Brown)

Bahtinov mask

Home Observatory

Software: APT, PHD2, Sharpcap, CdC, Pixinsight, Photoshop, Nic Dfine 2, Astronomy Tools plug in, Team Viewer

Equipo Principal: ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + SW Explorer 250pds + SW Coma Corrector 0.9x + EQ6-R-Pro + ZWO EAF + ZWO 7x2" EFW

Equipo guía: ZWO M68 OAG, ZWO ASI 120mm mini

*Gain 139, -15 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 80x180"

*Gain 139, -15 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 50x180"

*Gain 139, -15 º C, Sii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 60x180"

100 Darks

80 Flats / 80 Darkflats por filtro

Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2

Adquisición: SGP 3.2

Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS

Last night I directed my scope and camera to the Great Orion Nebula (M42). I really wanted to test the new ZWO ASI183MC camera for detail, and this is a good subject for that. I love how detailed the gas clouds are here, wonderful swirling and dust lanes. This is a star-forming region, and Hubble has spotted new planets being formed around some of these stars. The core, where the really new stars are, is rather blown out here so will try for shorter exposures then enxt time we get clear skies. I think there's more color here to obtain as well.

Image Details:

Imaging Scope: Astrotelescopes ED 80mm Refractor

Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color

Guiding Scope: William Optics 66mm Petzval

Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auto Guider

Acquisition Software: Sharpcap

Guiding Software: PHD2

Light Frames: 25*4mins

Dark Frames: 20*3mins

Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

Processed in Photomatix Pro HDR and Adobe Lightroom

24 @ 300 seconds in HA

Blue data from Digitized Sky Survey

Scope: AT65EDQ

Mount: iOptron iEQ45

Camera: ZWO ASI183M non cooled

Guide camera: QHY5Lii

Guide Scope: Stellarvue 60mm

Orion 5 position manual filter wheel

Schuler HA 9nm,

MyFocuer Pro v2 (Robert Brown)

Bahtinov mask

Software: APT, PHD2, Sharpcap, CdC, Pixinsight, Photoshop, Google Chrome Remote

The Orion Nebula

Using an old favorite to test my new camera

Taken with ASI1600MC camera through a 9.25 Celestron SCT using Sharpcap.

Composite of 3 stacks:

One stack of 10 30sec shots

One stack of 15 60sec shots

One Stack of 10 60 sec (300 gain) shots

Each with a Dark Frame set.

M16 with the ES 127mm ED triplet APO refractor 952mm FL

Zwo ASI294MC Pro cooled color camera

Had clear skies last night, Better than last week, ok tracking

Optolong L eNhance 2" filter

Zwo EAF and filter slider

#SharpCap Pro, PoleMaster

Ioptron i45 Pro EQ mount, PHD2 guiding

Orion 60mm guidescope Zwo 120MM-S

220 Gain offset 10, 0c cooling,

M16 was 124 minutes, 2 minute exposure each

30 darks 44 flats and 44 bias frames

Was playin with PS with layers to help control the core brightness

Astro Pixel Processor and PS

Equipo Principal: ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + SW Explorer 250pds + SW Coma Corrector 0.9x + EQ6-R-Pro + ZWO EAF + ZWO 7x2" EFW

Equipo guía: ZWO M68 OAG, ZWO ASI 120mm mini

Tesela 1:

*Gain 139, -15 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 80x180"

*Gain 139, -15 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 50x180"

*Gain 139, -15 º C, Sii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 60x180"

Tesela 2:

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 82x180"

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 50x180"

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Sii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 60x180"

Tesela 3:

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 84x180"

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 50x180"

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Sii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 60x180"

Tesela 4:

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 80x180"

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 45x180"

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Sii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 55x180"

100 Darks

80 Flats / 80 Darkflats por filtro

Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2

Adquisición: SGP 3.2

Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS

Le Soleil, avec 9 régions actives et 156 taches solaires! En bas

à droite la région active 3664; d'une taille de 2100MH, soit plus de 12x la taille de la taille!

The Sun, with 9 Active regions and 156 Sunspots. The biggest Sunspots are located in the Active Region 3664, which is about 12x Earth size (2100 MH).

Risingcam IMX571 color

William Optics Zenithstar73ii

iOptron CEM26

Filtre UV/IR cut

Filtre Thousand Oaks Solarlite ND5

Exp. 18ms / Gain 100

Best 500 de 2500

Aquisition: Sharpcap

Traitement: PIPP, AutoStakkert 4.0, Registax et Gimp

@Astrobox 2.0 / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec

AstroM1

= Acquisition info =

William Optics Zenithstar 73ii (FL 430mm)

Risingcam IMX571 color

iOptron CEM26 + iPolar

Sharpcap

= Séance photo =

17 février 2024 @ 18h15

Filtre UV/IR cut

Best 250 de 1000x0,2s

= Traitement/processing =

PIPP, Autostakkert & Gimp

@Astrobox 2.0 / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec

AstroM1

Equipo Principal: ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + SW Explorer 200p + SW Coma Corrector 0.9x + EQ6-R-Pro + ZWO EAF

Equipo guía: guidescope 60/240 mm, camara guia ZWO ASI 120mm mini

*Gain 139, -20º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 70 Lights x 180"

*Gain 139, -15º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 60 Lights x 180"

*Gain 139, -20º C, Sii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 52 Lights x 180"

100 Darks

100 Flats/Filtro

Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2

Adquisición: SGP 3.1

Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS

Equipo Principal: ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + SW Explorer 250pds + SW Coma Corrector 0.9x + EQ6-R-Pro + ZWO EAF + ZWO 7x2" EFW

Equipo guía: starguider 60/240 mm, ZWO ASI 120mm mini

*Gain 139, -25 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 85x180"

*Gain 139, -25 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 80x180"

*Gain 139, -25 º C, Sii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 80x180"

100 Darks

100 Flats por filtro

Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2

Adquisición: SGP 3.1

Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS

Le Soleil, avec 12 régions actives et 243 taches solaires!

The Sun, with 12 Active regions and 243 Sunspots

Risingcam IMX571 color

William Optics Zenithstar73ii

iOptron CEM26

Filtre UV/IR cut

Filtre Thousand Oaks Solarlite ND5

Exp. 20ms / Gain 100

Best 500 de 3500

Aquisition: Sharpcap

Traitement: PIPP, AutoStakkert 4.0 et Gimp

@Astrobox 2.0 / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec

AstroM1

M45 Pleiades from multiple days and scopes. Scopes: TSAPO65Q + Altair 102ED-R. Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro. Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro. Guiding: Altair GPCAMv2 130M with Orion 50mm. TSAPO65Q (28x2 Mins) + 102ED-R (15x3Mins). Captured in SharpCap Pro. Multi-Session Processed in APP. Finished in Adobe CC.

Three days old Moon with Earthshine on the Moon’s dark side with 9% illuminated crescent. Gear setup: Celestron 127 SLT with Meade 0.63 F/R @ f/7.5, ZWO 294 MC pro. Captured by Sharpcap pro. Stacking by Autostakkart!. Wavelets by Registax. Processed by PS & Topaz Denoise AI.

This beautiful Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) is emission nebula in Cassiopeia constellation. Its formed by a powerful solar wind of a Wolf-Rayet star. It is a young star that emits strong ultraviolet rays that energise the surrounding molecular gas clouds to form a shape like a bubble. The diameter of the bubble is around 3-5 light years @ distance of about 7100 light years. Gear setup: Celestron Edge HD 8 f/7, Celestron F/R, Ioptron GEM45, Skywatcher EvoGuide 50, ZWO ASI290 MM Guide camera, ZWO EFW 5 x 1.25 Baader SHO narrowband filters, ZWO ASI1600 MM pro cooled @ 0. Lights Ha 14 x 300, O iii 23 x 300, Flats 20 each filter, Darks 20, Bias 50. Total integration 3 hrs & 5 min. Captured by APT, Sharpcap pro, PHD 2. Stacked in PI, processed in PS as HOO with little crop & Topaz Denoise AI. This is my first attempt to image by my new gear setup. The balancing of the scope of Celestron edge HD 8 on Ioptron GEM 45 was difficult. I bought an extra 2 counterweights of 2.5 kg and put it near the RA center to get a perfect balance in RA. While the balance on DEC was made by a Celestron top rail attached to the scope. The Guide graph in PHD 2 was 0.27-0.37 RMS. For full details: www.astrobin.com/full/wczf7i/0/

Telescopio: APM 140 mm f 7 APO

Montatura:iOptron CEM60

Camera CMOS di ripresa: ZWO ASI 224 MC

Lunghezza focale: 2548

Software:SharpCap 3.2 Pro, Registax 6.1.0.8, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 3.0.14, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8

:Focuser Starlight Feather Touch 3,5", Barlow Zeiss Abbe 2.6X

Data: 25 Giugno 2019 Ore: 22:28

Pose: 3000 sommate su 20.008 riprese

FPS: 299 Seeing: 3 Trasparenza: 8

The Apenninus Mountains are one of my favorite locations to image on the moon. It is also home to our moons tallest mountain, Mons Huygens, which stands 3.4 miles tall! I never get tired of imaging this region, each time trying to get more details. Thus far, this is my best wide-field view to date of this mountain range. I hope you like it!

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, best 25% of 10k frames. Captured with SharpCap v3 and processed using AutoStakkert! And Registax. Image Date: March 26, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.