Comet PANSTARRS can be seen as a little fuzzy at bottom left next to one of the bright stars there. NGC884 is part of the Double Cluster.

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: 10* mins

Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

Processed in Photomatix Pro HDR and Adobe Lightroom

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

What a night to have, clear skies breeze and coyotes in the background , 2 1/2 hours of time exposures 3 minute each, DSS used 2 hours of data, WO ZenithStar 61 APO refractor Zwo ASI294MC Pro cooled color camera, Sharpcap Pro, Sirius EQ mount, no guiding, just tracking, finished in LR and PS, I'm VERY HAPPY with the results of a good night out under the stars

Rosette Nebula (or skull nebula) from last night, yes last night @ -15F temps :)

Blended data from Digitized Sky Survey for the Blue Channel. That also reduced the noise a bit and also added some resolution.

148 @ 60 seconds gain 100 offeset 8 HA filter.

Scope: AT65EDQ

Mount: iOptron iEQ45

Camera: ZWO ASI183M non cooled

Guide camera: QHY5Lii

Guide Scope: Stellarvue 60mm

ZWO 8 position 1.25 filter wheel filter wheel

Schuler HA 9nm,

MyFocuer Pro v2 (Robert Brown)

Bahtinov mask

Home Observatory

Software: APT, PHD2, Sharpcap, CdC, Pixinsight, Photoshop, Nic Dfine 2, Astronomy Tools plug in, Google Chrome Remote

Acquisition:

Rising Cam IMX571 color + Zenithstar 73

SharpCap

Traitement/processing :

PIPP, Registax & Gimp

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

*Gain 139, -15 º C, R-CCD 2" Svbony + L-Pro 2" Optolong, 30x120"

*Gain 139, -15 º C, G-CCD 2" Svbony + L-Pro 2" Optolong, 30x120"

*Gain 139, -15 º C, B-CCD 2" Svbony + L-Pro 2" Optolong, 30x120"

*Gain 139, -15 º C, L 2" Optolong + L-Pro 2" Optolong, 79x120"

50 Darks

50 Flats / filter

Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2

Adquisición: SGP 3.1

Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS

My intention is to duplicate the information acquired, and add at least one night of Ha, but due to weather conditions this is the best result for now.

RGB 120 each @ 15 seconds Gain 200

30 darks

Scope: Orion 8" f4 Astrograph with Baader Coma Corrector

Mount: iOptron iEQ45 pro

Camera: ZWO ASI183M non cooled

ZWO 8 position 1.25 filter wheel filter wheel

ZWO LRGB

Moonlite focuser CR2

Moonlight Hi Res stepper motor

MyFocuer Pro v2 (Robert Brown) controller

Bahtinov mask

Home Observatory

Software: N.I.N.A. PHD2, Sharpcap, CdC, Pixinsight, Photoshop, Team Viewer

Perhaps my favorite ever astro image! There's something about the view of a side-on galaxy done right - I think it portrays the vastness of these objects so well. Anyway, another excellent result using the Celestron Starsense Autoguider. Very accurate tracking with the 8" SCT, and now almost too easy to use. I love the detail in the central dust lane here (enhanced a little by the BlurXTerminator app in PixInsight).

NGC 891 is an edge-on unbarred spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by William Herschel on October 6, 1784. The galaxy is a member of the NGC 1023 group of galaxies in the Local Supercluster. It has an H II nucleus.

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

This beautiful capture of the Trifid Nebula was achieved at the Green Bank Observatory in Green Bank, WV USA. I was attending Star Quest 2022. I highly recommend this event to you for 2023 and beyond.

The Trifid Nebula is an emission nebula. It is 5,200 light years away.

This picture was captured with an Astro Physics 5" f/8 refractor, and a ZWOI294MC camera. The software was SharpCap Pro. This was a series of 30 second exposures that were "live-stacked". The only post processing that was done was some minor adjustments using Light Room Classic and PhotoShop.

This was my first color capture of a nebula.

Two panel mosaic of the eastern rim of Mare Imbrium on Earth's moon. One of my favorite regions on the moon and include the craters Plato, Archimedes, Aristoteles, Montes Apenninus and Vallis Alpes.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, ZWO ASI290MC, SharpCap Pro v3.2, best 15% of 10k frames. Image date: 11 June 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.

About 23 thousand light years away and 145 light years in diameter comprising of several hundred thousand stars. Most of these stars are incredibly old, about 12 to 13 billion years. Sometimes, as they are so densely packed together, they collide and make new ‘blue straggler’ stars. I can imagine living on a planet around one of these stars, you must not be able to see beyond the local cluster. (Wikipedia and Earthsky)

12 300s and 13 250s Lights (Approx. 1.5 hours) with 21 flats and 79 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: - Newish

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

Seeing: - Goodish

Notes: - Much as I have enjoyed taking galaxies I really wanted to try something different so had another go at the M13. I did some reading on this beforehand and a lot of people say they don’t overexpose as the core gets blown up. For this reason I took several 30s, 60s, 150s and 300s subs. In the end, the Star Tools Decon module did a really good job of bringing out detail in the core even with my 5 minute exposures so I have just abandoned my shorter ones.

Colour is a constant problem for me with my red/green colour blindness so I rely on the Max RGB option in Star Tools and my wife although I didn’t bother her in this process. In this case I cranked up the ‘Cap Green’ option, and took a sample of the core/nearby galaxy so I hope this is close to being right.

The amount of noise in this picture is annoying me. Another go may be required at some point, either to reprocess or to take the picture when its closer to the zenith.

Previous attempt for comparison:- www.flickr.com/photos/andrewsingleton/8721642768. 7 years ago and some new equipment has made a remarkable improvement on this old picture. This was my first ever attempt at astrophotography through a telescope.

There is a lot of unglamorous work associated with owning a private observatory. In our case, we had to upgrade the telescope control system about a year ago and thereafter ensued a lot of additional upgrades and testing which revealed other problems we had not been aware of. Consequently we have cleaned the 26" primary mirror, adjusted the polar alignment, fine-tuned the tracking rate, laser-collimated the optical system, installed new dome control, installed a new auto-guiding system, added three new cameras and a new filter wheel. Each step is followed by testing an exhausting number of star images on every clear night available, which commences after our observatory guests have left around midnight.

You might guess that the glamorous part is getting to capture images of the wonders in our universe, but actually it is meeting the wonderful people who visit us and shake our hands when they leave.

Prior to this image, we had photographed the Pinwheel in April of 2021 and by a complete coincidence chose it as our live-stack object for guests about 10 1/2 hours after Supernova SN 2023ixf was discovered on May 19, 2023. At the time of discovery, the estimated magnitude was 14.9 and the object brightened significantly in our subsequent imaging to an estimated magnitude of 11 on May 22.

This image was taken on July 9, showing that the object has dimmed and while not a perfect image, we are noting significant improvement and claiming a bit of success following the work we have done on our imaging train thus far.

Equipment: 26" Newtonian Reflector Telescope f/4.8

Custom Mount with PMC-8 Controller

ZWO ASI6200 MC Pro Camera (broadband single shot color)

Optec TCF Focuser

Imaging: 119 images captured in Sharpcap Pro @ 60 sec unguided

Processed in Deep Sky Stacker, Pixinsight, Astro-Flat, StarXTerminator and Topaz

Thank you for reading.

Messier 10 or M10 is a globular cluster of stars in the equatorial constellation of Ophiuchus. The object was discovered by the French astronomer Charles Messier on May 29, 1764, who cataloged it as number 10 in his catalogue and described it as a "nebula without stars".

The cluster is about 14,300 light years away, is about 41 light years across and contains around 100,000 stars!

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*2 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -10C

- Dark Frames: 10*2 mins

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

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

M42-M43-NGC2024-B33-M78 in Orion

Febbraio/Marzo 2022

Località: San Romualdo - Ravenna

Samyang 135mm F/4

Avalon M1 - QHY5III 174M su OAG Celestron

QHY294C - Gain 1600 - Offset 5 - raffreddata -25

Filtro Optlong L-enhance: 65 pose da 5 min. e 63 pose da 30"

Filtro Optlong L-Extreme: 13x10min

Acquisizione: SharpCap - Calibrata con Dark.

Elaborazione: DeepSkyStacker, Astroart8, MaximDL5, Paint Shop Pro 2021, Topaz e Nik Plug-in.

www.cfm2004.altervista.org/astrofotografia/nebulose/orion...

Luminous Crescent @ 21% photographed on 01/10/2021 @ 3:00AM. Gear setup: ES 102 APO FCD100 @ f/5.6, ZWO ASI294MC pro. Captured by Sharpcap pro. Stacking by Autostakkert, wavelets by Registax and touch up in PS. For full image details: www.astrobin.com/full/xmqj7p/0/

Life should have gone so much better last night. Gremlins. I only got RGB data and only 15 minutes of each. Had much bigger plans for last night. Seeing was much worse that predicted and that makes focusing and guiding crazy hard.

Will try for some HA data tonight

M20 Trifid Nebula and M21 Star Cluster

15 @ 60 seconds each RGB

Scope: AT65EDQ

Mount: iOptron iEQ45

Camera: ZWO ASI183M non cooled

Guide camera: QHY5Lii

Guide Scope: Meade 60mm achro fl 300

Orion 5 position manual filter wheel

ZWO LRGB

Schuler HA 9nm, Schuler 9nm Sii

MyFocuer Pro v2 (Robert Brown)

Software: APT, PHD2, Sharpcap, CdC, Pixinsight, Photoshop, Nic Dfine 2, Astronomy Tools plug in, Google Chrome Remote Desktop

Telescopio: Celestron C8 Edge HD

Montatura: iOptron CEM60

Camera: QHY 178 mono cooled

Filtro:Optolong Red CCD 50,8 mm

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

Pose: 150 FPS: 24

Lunghezza focale: 2032 mm

Seeing: 3 Trasparenza: 9

A pretty section of the southern part of the Moon.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, ZWO ASI290MC, SharpCap Pro v3.2, five panel mosaic, each panel best 15% of 2000 images. Image date: September 4, 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.

The same active region as yesterday was creating some really nice prominence's 24-hours later.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher 120ED Esprit, ZWO ASI290MC, Daystar Quark Chromosphere + Daystar 2" UV/IR filter, 0.5x reducer, SharpCap Pro v3.0, best 10% of 1k frames, AutoStakkert, Registax. Image date: 10 July 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA, USA.

m13-100x30-g42-o15_-20C-qhy183c-uhcs-85f5_6v2b.jpg

100x30 sec, QHY183c, UHC-S filter, Televue TV-85 at F/5.6. SharpCap 3.2 livestack w/dither. Bortle Red zone.

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, camara guia ZWO ASI 120mm mini

*Gain 139, -25 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 78x180"

*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, 82x180"

100 Darks

100 Flats por filtro

100 DarkFlats

Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2

Adquisición: SGP 3.1

Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS

The Great Nebula in Orion. Lots of gaseous goodness can be seen here. The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted new planets being formed around some of the stars in this image, the stars themselves being quite new, relatively speaking. This nebula lies around 1300 light years away.

Another attempt with the new ZWO ASI183MC camera, this time with a UV/IR Blocking filter attached

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: 18*5 mins

Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

Processed in Photomatix Pro HDR and Adobe Lightroom

This is a 6 Tiles mosaic of the moon in the night of 29-04-2023 in real colors.

equipment:

Sky Watcher 200p + SW EQ6R-Pro + Player One Neptune C-II + QHY UV/IR cut + ZWO EAF

Each tile was of 5000 frames, 25% of it was stacked.

Software: Sharpcap 4, Autostakkert3, Registax6, Microsoft ICE, Pixinsight and PS

Four panel mosaic of last nights first quarter moon, March 24, 2018.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, best 25% of 5k frames per panel (four panels total). Captured with SharpCap v3 and processed using AutoStakkert!, Registax, and Microsoft ICE. Image Date: March 24, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth.

Image Details:

- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm Zenithstar II Doublet

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

- Guiding Scope: William Optics 66mm Petzval

- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auutoguider

- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap

- Guiding Software: PHD2

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

- Light Frames: 20*7 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -20C

- Dark Frames: 20*7 mins

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, Photmatix Pro HDR and Topaz Denoise AI

Taken a little before midnight on February 26th with a Celestron C6 SCT, Celestron AVX mount, 2x Barlow, and ASI120MC. Captured with SharpCap, stacked with AutoStakkert, and processed with Astra Image Pro and Photoshop.

Tough object when imaging from inside a metro area with a UHC filter. It was low in the muck when I started, so that did not help. I did 2.5 hrs (300x30 sec) worth of 30 sec sub-images LiveStacked in SharpCap 3.2 and even that was not enough. Televue TV-85 at F/5.6, Baader UHC-S filter, QHY183c camera at -20C on an Atlas EQ-G mount w/EQMOD

While taking photos of the lunar eclipse, never did I think I would actually capture a meteor striking the surface of the moon!

You can see the quick flash of light in the lower left quadrant of the moon, which happened at 10:41 PM CST.

This was definitely luck and that night I just decided to set Sharpcap to capture exposures every few seconds during the hour leading up to peak totality (hoping to get an airplane in transit).

Equipment

- Explore Scientific ED80 CF

- ZWO ASI294MC Pro

- Skywatcher EQ-6 R Pro

- Polemaster

Sharpcap Settings

- Single, 3 second exposure

- Gain: 125

Processed in Photoshop to combine two different exposures I took of the moon and the stars behind the moon.

HA (L) RGB (DSLR)

data from dslr here: www.flickr.com/photos/141707873@N03/29078228358/in/datepo...

30@ 300 seconds HA filter

15 darks

Scope: AT65EDQ

Mount: iOptron iEQ45

Camera: ZWO ASI183M non cooled

Guide camera: QHY5Lii

Guide Scope: Meade 60mm achro fl 300

Orion 5 position manual filter wheel

ZWO LRGB

Schuler HA 9nm, Schuler 9nm Sii

MyFocuer Pro v2 (Robert Brown)

Bahtinov mask

Software: APT, PHD2, Sharpcap, CdC, Pixinsight, Photoshop, Nic Dfine 2, Astronomy Tools plug in, Google Chrome Remote Desktop, autostakert!3, Registax

A H II region of space. A H II region or HII region is a region of interstellar atomic hydrogen that is ionized. It is typically a cloud of partially ionized gas in which star formation has recently taken place. The Pelican is much studied because it has a particularly active mix of star formation and evolving gas clouds. The light from young energetic stars is slowly transforming cold gas to hot and causing an ionization front gradually to advance outward. (Wikipedia)

74 180s lights (3 hours and 42 minutes) taken over 3 nights with flats and 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 and edited in Star Tools.

Moon: A waking crescent which was about half way there on day 3.

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

Seeing: - A mixture of average and good nights.

Notes: - Processing threw a new curve-ball at me for this picture. Not only is the nebula taking up the whole frame, but there was a line going through it. After a bit of forum help and a reprocess I have tried to remove it. Apparently it was caused by a reflection of something out of frame; as it pointed directly at Deneb, this is the likely candidate. The Star Tools Heal module did an OK job. This is a reprocess of the original I uploaded getting rid of a lot of noise and green although both is still present.

It’s been hot in Manchester for a little while now. Its nice to have a good few nights of work to do even if I don’t get many subs per night.

I managed to get a lead and adapter that will connect the mount to the shutter release in the D3100 so I feel my road to automation is getting closer. I tried to get NINA to work which successfully opened and closed the shutter once but then it seemed to want to find a picture file. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to let me do that on the D3100. I’ve done some research and ordered a wifi sd card which I believe will give NINA somewhere to look. I just have to wait a month and a half until delivery date!

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: 20*4 mins @ 140 Gain, Temp -30C

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom

NGC 2903 is an isolated barred spiral galaxy in the equatorial constellation of Leo, positioned about 1.5° due south of Lambda Leonis. It was discovered by German-born astronomer William Herschel, who cataloged it on November 16, 1784. This galaxy lies around 30 million light years away.

Image Details:

- Imaging Scope: Celestron C8 SCT

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

- Guider: Celestron Starsense Autoguider

- Mount: Celestron CGEM

- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap

- Guiding Software: Celestron

- 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

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

*Gain 100, -20 º C, R-CCD 2" Svbony + L-Pro 2" Optolong, 30x120"

*Gain 100, -20 º C, G-CCD 2" Svbony + L-Pro 2" Optolong, 30x120"

*Gain 100, -20 º C, B-CCD 2" Svbony + L-Pro 2" Optolong, 30x120"

*Gain 100, -20 º C, L 2" Optolong + L-Pro 2" Optolong, 77x120"

50 Darks

50 Flats / filter

Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2

Adquisición: SGP 3.1

Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS

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, Blur Exterminator

No guiding :)

Lum 226 @ 15 seconds Gain 111

R: 153 @ 15 gain 111

G: 102 @ 15 gain 111

B: 119 @ 15 gain 111

Darks 102 @ 15 seconds temps 48F ish

no flats, no bias

Scope: AT65EDQ

Mount: iOptron iEQ45

Camera: ZWO ASI183M non cooled

Orion 5 position manual filter wheel

ZWO LRGB

MyFocuer Pro v2 (Robert Brown)

Bahtinov mask

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

Open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky.

ED102 FCD100, 0.8 FFFR, ZWO ASI294MC Pro cam - 12 subs x 120s @ 120gain, cooled to -15C

Used both APT and Sharpcap Pro for acquisition and afterflipping Sharpcap Pro images (Lightroom), calibrated and blended these into the stack using Pixinsight.

Four panel mosaic of last nights first quarter moon, April 22, 2018.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, best 25% of 5k frames per panel (four panels total). Captured with SharpCap v3 and processed using AutoStakkert!, Registax, and Microsoft ICE. Image Date: April 22, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.

Telescopio: Officina Stellare APO 105 mm f 6.2

Montatura:iOptron CEM60

Camera di ripresa: QHY CMOS 183 Color Cooled

Lunghezza focale: 651 mm

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

Data: 16 Luglio 2019 Ore: 23:31

Pose: 122 su 200 rprese a 5 fotogrammi al secondo

Seeing: 2 Trasparenza: 8

This emission nebula in Orion looks like a monkey's head, I guess.

Tech Stuff: Borg 71 FL/Borg 1.08 flattener/ZWO ASI 1600 MC/ IDAS LPS V4 filter/ iOptron CubePro mount. 42 minutes of unguided 8 second exposures captured in LiveStacks with SharpCap, processed in PixInsight, and finished in ACDSee. From my yard in Westchester. For comparison here's the same target captured almost 5 years ago with a different camera, filter and technique -- note the dramatic improvement in the appearance of the stars www.flickr.com/photos/124244349@N07/33800363290/in/photol...

The NGC 2264 region in Monoceros includes the Cone Nebula, the Christmas Tree Cluster and the Fox Fur Nebula.

This is a reprocess of RGB and H-alpha data I collected in 2018 (it's hard to believe 5 years have passed). My original finished version can be found here www.flickr.com/photos/124244349@N07/28107500639/in/dateta...

I have taken some liberties with color and contrast to add drama, but the biggest differences stem from using AI image processing tools to sharpen and tighten distorted stars and reduce noise.

Tech Stuff: Borg 55FL astrograph with ZWO ASI1600MC using Astronomik CLS and Ha Filters on iOptron Cubepro 8200 unguided mount. SharpCap Livestacks of 8 second exposures 1hr CLS + 3hrs Ha integrated into HaLRGB image with PixInsight. Imaged from my yard 10 miles north of New York City in January, 2018 and reprocessed April, 2023.

The moon is an object that can be both loved and reviled by astronomers, both amateur and professional alike.

Its close proximity and brightness make it a joy to observe with thousands of fine features that can be observed using even small telescopes.

On the other hand, it's brightness in its fuller phases washes out the sky, which is a frustrating time for stargazers looking to observe those faint, deep sky objects. The glow of the moon has much the same effect as light pollution, making deep sky observation prohibitively difficult or impossible. This is what earns it the distinction of "The Devil's Flashlight" amongst astronomy buffs who try to avoid its presence or use filters in an attempt to minimize its effect.

But no one can deny the beauty of our closest celestial neighbour as it does its eternal gravitational dance with our home planet.

-=Tech Data=-

-Equipment-

Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P

Mount: Celestron CGX

Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro

Filter: STC Astro Duo-Narrowband filter (Hα and OIII) (yes, this was shot with a filter!)

-Software-

Acquisition: Sharpcap

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

Stacking: Autostakkert!3

Post Processing: Photoshop CC with Astra Image Deconvolution plugin

Best 1500 of 2100 shots

Shot at the Camden Lake Provincial Wildlife Area near Moscow Ontario.

HaRGB NGC7635 Bubble Nebula. Scope: TSAPO65Q with TeleVue NPR-1073 0.8x Reducer. Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro. Mount: SkyWatcher EQM-35 Pro. Guide: SkyWatcher EvoGuide + Altair 130M. 1hr RGB + Ha captured in SharpCap Pro. Processed in APP. Combined in Adobe CC.

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, -20 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 116x180"

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 122x180"

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Sii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 144x180"

100 Darks

100 Flats por filtro

Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2

Adquisición: SGP 3.1

Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS

Our nearest neighbour, captured in the Ha wavelength

Location: West Midlands, UK

Scope: Coronado SM60 II / BF10 / Teleview 2.5x Powermate

Camera: ASI 178MM

Mount: CEM60-EC

Integration: 6 panel mosaic, best 200 of 2000 frames for each panel

Acquisition: Sharpcap Pro

Processing: Autostakkert 3.1 / ImPPG / Photoshop

Horsehead nebula IC 434, is a beautiful emission nebula composed mainly of ionised Hydrogen gas that emits red light. The dark shape that resemble a horse head is a dark nebula that hides the stars behind it (B33). On the left, is another Hydrogen glowing gas cloud called Flame nebula NGC 2024. Alnitak star is shining just above the Flame nebula. Alnitak is one of stars that forming Orion belt (The Hunter). Also, this region of the sky contains a Reflection nebula just below the Horsehead nebula. NGC 2023 is a blue reflection nebula, it is composed of clouds of gases that reflect the young stars light to glow in blue light. All those nebulae are about 1500 light years from Earth. Gear setup: ES 102 APO f/7 @ 713mm, F/F zero, iOptron GEM 45, guided by ZWO mini guide scope and ZWO 120MM-S, ZWO 2600MC cooled @ 0, Optolong L-pro & Ha filter. Light subs 70 x 120sec L- Pro filter and 15 x 180sec in H-alfa filter, 20 Darks, 50 Bias, 20 Flats. Total integration of 3 hours. Captured by APT, Sharpcap pro and PHD2. Stacked in APP and processed by PI. For more image details visit my astrobin page: www.astrobin.com/full/g780si/0/

The Sun remains very active. The surface is filled with sunspots, filaments, and plages. Not much happening off the edge in the way of prominences.

This picture was capture using a 60mm Lunt Hα telescope in the double stack configuration.

Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro

Capture software: SharpCap

City dwellers learn to spot Orion by the three bright stars forming his belt, and M42 in the sword is a popular target for small telescopes. But we never see the other vivid nebular areas which are revealed by long exposures. And it's easy to overlook these really large structures when learning astrophotography. Once I had my camera lens configured with my astrocam, I wanted to try this shot of the wide semicircular emission nebula around the belt and sword. Once again, the IDAS LPS-V4 filter brings out not only the nebular regions but also a surprising star field from my "red zone" suburban yard.

Tech Stuff: Canon 17-55mm f2.8 zoom lens/ZWO ASI1600MC cam/IDAS LPS-V4 filter/iOptron CubePro 8200 mount unguided/70 minutes total exposure time using 8 second exposures captured with SharpCap Pro/processed with PixInsight and GIMP. SQM-L reading 18.9. From my yard 10 miles north of New York City January 6, 2019.

Ennio Rainaldi 1 s

Telescopio: Celestron C11 XLT Fastar

Montatura: iOptron CEM60

Camera di acquisizione: ZWO ASI 174 COS mono Cooled

Software:SharpCap 3.2 Pro, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8, Astra Image 4 SI, Avistack 2.0

Filtro:Meade Red 31,8 mm

Focuser: Moonlite CF 2,5" focuser with high resolution stepper DRO

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

Crescent Moon in HDR showing the darkside due to Earthshine. Moon age is 4 days with 19% illuminated. Gear setup: Celestron 127SLT @ f/6.3, ZWO 294MC pro, iOptron 45GEM. Capturing by Sharpcap pro. Stacking by Autostakkart!. Wavelets by Registax. Processed and merged manually by PS. For image full details visit my astrobin link: www.astrobin.com/full/cs8a81/0/