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12" skywatcher dob, 5x Tele Vue Powermate, ZWO224mc, SharpCap, Pipp, AS3
2021-08-26-0820_7__pipp_lapl4_ap35_convRS1
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with my brand new Altair Herschel wedge (first light!) and a Baader Continuum Filter + Celestron 3x Barlow. The camera was an ASI120MC. I captured a 2,000 frame video using Sharpcap then stacked the best 50% of the frames using Autostakkert! 4. Processing with Focus Magic, Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer
Pomigliano D'Arco - 7 giugno 2022
Newton SW 150 portato a F15 su EQ5 synscan e camera planetaria SV305Pro
Acquisizione SharpCap - Elaborazione Astrosurface
|Object| --> IC 1805 - Heart Nebula
|Equipment|
Scope: Skywatcher Evostar 72ED w/ Ovl fieldflattner (non reducer)
Mount: Heq5 pro w/ beltmod
Guidescope: Orion 50mm guidescope
Guiding camera: Zwo Asi 120mm mini
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM PRO
Filters: Zwo 7nm (31mm) Ha,OIII & SII
|Software|
NINA
PHD2
Stellarium
PixInsight
Photoshop
Sharpcap PRO for polaraligning
|Acquisition|
Location: Skövde, Sweden (Bortle 5-6)
Dates: 2020-04-11, 2020-04-14 , 2020-04-20
Gain: 139 Offset: 50
Camera temp: -20C
Ha: 50
SII: 40
OIII: 48
Darks: 50
Flats: 30
DarkFlats: 50
Total integration time: 11.5h
Hubble palette of IC 1805.
The Whirlpool Galaxy is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus. It lies in the constellation Canes Venatici, and was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy. Its distance is estimated to be 23 Mly away from Earth.
The pronounced spiral structure of the Whirlpool Galaxy is believed to be the result of the close interaction between it and its companion galaxy NGC 5195, which may have passed through the main disk of M51 about 500 to 600 million years ago. In this proposed scenario, NGC 5195 came from behind M51 through the disk towards the observer and made another disk crossing as recently as 50 to 100 million years ago until it is where we observe it to be now, slightly behind M51.
C8 F/6.3 on Evolution Alt/Az mount
ASI385MC one shot color camera
262x8s 35m total
Saved as viewed in Sharpcap (no post-processing)
M97 Owl Nebula
05 May 2016
ZWO ASI290MM w/ SharpCap 2.8 software
MC VRC10 + Meade 3.3 (f/2.9) w/ Astronomik UHC
gamma 0.7, gain 50%, 10x4 sec
no dark subtraction
24.04.2021 - LUNA al 12esimo giorno.
Aristarchus, uno dei crateri più particolari e difficili da fotografare per via della sua forte luminosità; è talmente così chiaro da essere il cratere più "luminoso" della superficie lunare, ben visibile anche ad occhio nudo quando la fase lunare lo consente. La sua forte luminosità è dovuta alla sua "recente" formazione.
Ha un diametro di circa 40km, ed insieme al suo "vicino" Herodotus e la sinuosa "Valle Schroter" costituisce una delle zone più particolare del nostro satellite. La valle ha una lunghezza complessiva di circa 185km ed è larga fra i 3 e i 6km. Stuoenda!
Numerose le "rime" che si trovano in questa regione, fra cui appunto la "rima Aristarchus" e, più in basso, al "rima Marius" che sembra quasi un lunghissimo serpente che si muove contorto nell'Oceano Procellarum. O come le rime Prinz, Artsimovich e Krieger, che si snodano dal vicino cratere semisommerso "Prinz", alle pendici dei "monti Harbinger".
Sopra Aristarchus, leggermente a sinistra, la catena montuosa dei "monti Agricola", da cui nasce la "rima Agricola". Più verso sinistra il cratere Schiapparelli, in penombra.
In basso il cratere Marius se ne sta solitario fra le "Marius Hills", una zona costituita da oltre 300 coni vulcanici, e forse con la più alta concentrazione di vulcani del nostro satellite.
Telescopio Newton GSO "Voyager" 300mm f/5 su montatura Celestron CGX-L.
Asi 178mm + Barlow APM 2,7x + R filter
somma di 250/3000 frame
Sharpcap, Autostakker, Registax, Photoshop
1 May 2023, 01:51 UT, Stuart, Florida USA.
Clouds: clear
Seeing: below avg 4/10
Transparency:
Celestron CPC Deluxe 1100 HD telescope, f/10. QHY 294 mono camera, bin 1, 16 bit, exposure 64s, 0°C, gain ~80%, no filter, no guiding. Stacked 4 frames (livestacked in sharpcap?).
Image scale: 0.34 arcsec/px (Dawes Limit: 0.42 arcsec) -- oversampled.
Altitude: 69°
Processing: Quick and dirty processing in Photoshop (stretch, RC StarXterminator, Topaz Denoise, resize).
Notes: First light for new (used) telescope. Moon craters looked marvelous in spite of poor seeing. This is a snaphot of M51. f/10 is not ideal for DSOs, yet image is pleasing despite overexposure (core is blown out).
Try reducing exposure, setting gain & offset to recommended values, and stacking more frames. try bin 2?
Significant patterned noise -- hot pixels field-rotating across FOV of stacked image. Stars elongated in corners (field rotation?). ALT/AZ mount seems to work well, though very different from my EQ mount. Am going to enjoy learning this new instrument!
M16 Eagle Nebula
05 May 2016
ZWO ASI290MM w/ SharpCap 2.8 software
MC VRC10 + Meade 3.3 (f/2.9) w/ Astronomik UHC
gamma 0.7, gain 50%, 4x4 sec
no dark subtraction
23.03.2021 - CLAVIUS e dintorni
Clavius,uno fra i crateri più grandi della Luna, ha un diametro di circa 230km. All'interno troviamo altri crateri minori formatisi successivamente, mentre lungo il suo bordo spiccano i due crateri Porter e Rutherfurd. Verso sinistra e sotto Clavius, ancora in parte in ombra, i crateri Scheiner e Blancanus, mentre più in basso crateri Gumberger, Klaproth e Moretus con il suo picco centrale che sembra quasi un "pennacchio".
In basso, completamente in ombra ma con i bordi illuminati, cratere Casatus.
Una curiosità: è proprio all'interno di Clavius che, come ha annunciato la Nasa il 26 ottobre 2020, è stata trovata dell'acqua molecoare.
Telescopio Newton GSO 12" f/5 su CGX-L
Asi 178mm + filtro Ir-Pass 683nm e Barlow X-Cel 3x
Staking di 450/3000 frame.
Seeing discreto.
Sharpcap, Autostakkert, Astrosurface, Photoshop
M81 Bode's Galaxy
05 May 2016
ZWO ASI290MM w/ SharpCap 2.8 software
MC VRC10 + Meade 3.3 (f/2.9) w/ Astronomik UHC
gamma 0.7, gain 50%, 54x4 sec
no dark subtraction
M17 Swan Nebula
05 May 2016
ZWO ASI290MM w/ SharpCap 2.8 software
MC VRC10 + Meade 3.3 (f/2.9) w/ Astronomik UHC
gamma 0.7, gain 50%, 13x4 sec
no dark subtraction
My first attempt at post processing a video capture of Jupiter. Best of 1000 frames using Sharpcap, Autostakkert and Registax.
C8 F/10 on Evolution Alt/Az mount
ASI385MC one shot color camera
C8, 0.63x reducer, Altair 26C Hypercam, UV/IR filter.
Lucky imaging.
SharpCap, PIPP, AS!4, ImPPG, PixInsight, Photoshop.
SharpCap Live Stack
Photoshop Edit
RC6 AP f/9 1300mm FL
IDAS D1 Filter
[ZWO ASI294MC Pro]
FrameType=Flat
Debayer Preview=On
Pan=0
Tilt=0
Output Format=FITS files (*.fits)
Binning=1
Capture Area=4144x2822
Colour Space=RAW16
High Speed Mode=Off
Turbo USB=45
Flip=None
Frame Rate Limit=Maximum
Gain=300
Exposure=120.000s
Timestamp Frames=Off
White Bal (B)=50
White Bal (R)=50
Brightness=10
Cooler Power=53
Temperature=-10
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
Trail Width=3
Minimum Trail Length=100
Trail Detection Sensitivity=9
Remove Satellite Trails=Off
Background Subtraction=Off
Planet/Disk Stabilization=Off
Banding Threshold=35
Banding Suppression=0
Apply Flat=C:\Users\Chris\Desktop\SharpCap Captures\2022-05-17\FLAT-710-MONO-BIAS-NATIVE\flats\MasterFlat_21_45_35_offset=-0.066%.fits
Subtract Dark=C:\Users\Chris\Desktop\SharpCap Captures\darks\ZWO ASI294MC Pro\RAW16@4144x2822\120.0s\gain_300\dark_25_frames_-10.0C_2020-06-10T16_14_32.fits
NegativeDisplay=0
Display Black Point=0
Display MidTone Point=0.5
Display White Point=1
Notes=
iOptron CEM60/40,GEM45,iEQ45Pro/30Pro,CEM25,SmartEQ Pro+,AZ Mount Pro,Cube II Mount=RA=13:16:48,Dec=+41:55:27 (JNOW)
TimeStamp=2022-05-18T04:20:12.0140696Z
SharpCapVersion=4.0.8949.0
TotalExposure(s)=1200
StackedFrames=10
LiveStack.SaveRawFrames=None
LiveStack.AlignFrames=True
LiveStack.Derotate=True
LiveStack.StarsForAlignment=10
LiveStack.StarDetection.Sensitivity=75
LiveStack.StarDetection.SuppressHotPixels=True
LiveStack.AlignAutoDisabled=False
LiveStack.ReduceNoiseAmount=1
LiveStack.BrightnessLimit=70
LiveStack.FilterBrightness=False
LiveStack.AutoBrightnessLimit=False
LiveStack.FWHMLimit=4
LiveStack.FilterFWHM=False
LiveStack.WarningThreshold=5
LiveStack.StackingMode=1
LiveStack.SigmaClipInitialCount=5
LiveSack.SigmaClipThreshold=3
LiveStack.SigmaClipLowLimit=0
LiveStack.AutoSaveReset=False
LiveStack.AutoSaveResetMinutes=5
LiveStack.LogarithmicHistogramHorizontalAxis=True
LiveStack.AutoSave=False
LiveStack.BlackLevel=5.986146
LiveStack.WhiteLevel=92.23694
LiveStack.MidLevel=10.45445
LiveStack.WBB.db=1.777121
LiveStack.WBG.db=0
LiveStack.WBR.db=13.05384
LiveStack.Saturation=1.196987
AutoStretch.Strength=1
LiveStack.StarDetection.FaintStarsOptimization=False
Messier 87 (also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, generally abbreviated to M87) is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo. One of the most massive galaxies in the local universe, it has a large population of globular clusters—about 12,000 compared with the 150–200 orbiting the Milky Way—and a jet of energetic plasma that originates at the core and extends at least 4,900 ly, traveling at a relativistic speed. It is one of the brightest radio sources in the sky and a popular target for both amateur and professional astronomers.
C8 F/10 on Evolution Alt/Az mount
ASI385MC one shot color camera
139x4s 9.2m total exposure
Saved as viewed in Sharpcap (no post-processing) and cropped
M27 Dumbbell Nebula
05 May 2016
ZWO ASI290MM w/ SharpCap 2.8 software
MC VRC10 + Meade 3.3 (f/2.9) w/ Astronomik UHC
gamma 0.7, gain 50%, 47x4 sec
no dark subtraction
ngc6888 Crescent Nebula
05 May 2016
ZWO ASI290MM w/ SharpCap 2.8 software
MC VRC10 + Meade 3.3 (f/2.9) w/ Astronomik UHC
gamma 0.7, gain 50%, 48x4 sec
no dark subtraction
Target : Sun
Location:
Kuwait - Kuwait City
Description:
I know, I know, watch me spam new sun photos now. but how can I not be amazed every time I see these details. it's shocking how much change there is from day to day. while today treated us with a solar flare which is quite stunning there were also many sun spots and details which unfortunately I could not use due to something called enwton rings which are due to the optics and alignment of the optical train. hopefully with time I can mechanically adjust and fix these issues. but until then here is my focus of the solar flare.
Also I managed to image with a mono cam and that made quite a difference on the details I could resolve in the flare and tendrils.
Equipment:
° Mount: Rainbow Rst-135 - @rainbow_astro
° Main Imaging: ZWO 120mm@zwoasi
° OTA: Lunt LS100MT modular day and night telescope @luntsolarsystems
° Aquisition Device: Lenovo Yoga slim 7 laptop with Sharpcap
° Filter: Lunt B1800 blocking filter and H-alpha pressure tuned filter system
Integration:
1000 x 0.26s x 15 frames
Software:
Autostakkert 3!
Microsoft ICE
Impgg
Adobe Photoshop
Process: analyse each panel for best 5% of the frames and stack them , then stich total image using Microsoft Ice and photoshop to blend overlaps. Image was then taken to impgg for deconvolition sharpening and levels/tone correction to bring out the finer details. finally image moved back to photoshop for false color and tweaking.
Andromeda Galaxy M31, Andromeda constellation. 44 light (120 sec, ISO800, F3.2), 9 dark, 10 bias, 10 flat
Bortle 4
HEQ5, Jackery 500
Nikon D750, Tamron 70-200mm F/2.8
Altair G-Cam2, 126mm Guide Scope
APT, Sharpcap, PHD2, Stellarium, EQMOD, DSS, GIMP
TS Photoline 72mm F/6
ZWO AM5n
DayStar Quark Chromosphere
ZWO ASI 174MM
Seeing = 3/5
SharpCap Pro
Pixinsight & SolarToolBox
DaVinci Resolve
Target: North American Nebula (NGC700) and Pelican Nebula (IC5070)
Description:Ionised hydrogen (H II) region behind interstellar dust in the constellation of Cygnus
Location:Taken 29/11/19 from St Helens, Merseyside.
Bortle 8 sky with no moon.
Exposure: 78x 120sec @ iso 1600, total integration 156 mins, 20x each darks flats and bias.
Equipment:Altair Astro 60EDF, Altair 1x Flat 60, Canon EOS 1200D (unmodified), Skytech CLS CCD clip filter, Skywatcher Star Adventurer mount, Altair MG32 Mini Guide and Polar Scope, Zwo ASI120MC (RA guide camera)
Software:Sharpcap Pro (polar alignment only), APT, PHD2, Deepsky Stacker, Photoshop.
AT60ED F/3.8, Celestron Evolution mount on wedge
ASI533MC Pro, -5C, Optolong L-eXtreme narrowband filter
80x_30.0s_2400s
Bortle 8 skies
Saved as viewed in Sharpcap Pro + Topaz DeNoise AI
The California Nebula (NGC 1499) is an emission nebula located in the constellation Perseus. It is so named because it appears to resemble the outline of the US State of California on long exposure photographs. It is almost 2.5° long on the sky and, because of its very low surface brightness, it is extremely difficult to observe visually. It can be observed with a Hα filter (isolates the Hα line at 656 nm) or Hβ filter (isolates the Hβ line at 486 nm) in a rich-field telescope under dark skies. It lies at a distance of about 1,000 light years from Earth. Its fluorescence is due to excitation of the Hβ line in the nebula by the nearby prodigiously energetic O7 star, Xi Persei (also known as Menkib, seen at center right)
The California Nebula was discovered by E. E. Barnard in 1884.
By coincidence, the California Nebula transits in the zenith in central California as the latitude matches the declination of the object.
23.03.2021 - GASSENDI
Questo è in assoluto il miglio Gassendi che sia riuscito a fotografare fino ad oggi. L'altra sera mi sono proprio divertito a "girellare" sulla superificie del nostro satellite, sperimentando e imparando sul campo alcune cose nuove.
Gassendi e dintorni, secondo me una delle regioni più spettacolari del nostro satellite. Cratere famoso per le numerose "Rime" presenti al suo interno, come delle piccole strade che conducono al Picco Centrale. Gassendi si affaccia maestoso sul "mare Humorum" insieme al cratere semissommerso Dopplemayer. A destra di Dopplemayer troviamo il cratere "Vitiello", con il suo picco centrale a terrazze. Poco sopra troviamo il promontorio "Kelvin" con la sua rupe, affiancato dalle "rime Hippalus". Sul bordo in basso a destra, cratere Campanus. Poco sotto il cratere Ramsden con le sue rime.
Bellisismo l'effetto della superficie frastagliata del "Mare Humorum", che sembrano quasi delle onde che si insinuano nel golfo del mare.
Meravigliosa Luna....
Telescopio Newton GSO 12" f/5 su Celestron CGX-L
Asi 178mm + filtro IR-Pass 685nm e Barlow X-Cel 3x
300/3000 frame per pannello
Sharpcap, Autostakkert, Astrosurface, Photoshop
Solar hydrogen alpha image (false colour process).
Altair Astro StarWave 102ED f/7 refractor
Altair Astro IMX174 mono Hypercam
Daystar Quark Chromosphere filter.
Captured with SharpCap 3.0
Post process with Photoshop CC 2017
M109 galaxy
05 May 2016
ZWO ASI290MM w/ SharpCap 2.8 software
MC VRC10 + Meade 3.3 (f/2.9) w/ Astronomik UHC
gamma 0.7, gain 50%, 83x4 sec
no dark subtraction
Time: 9 November 2022, 22:49 UT
Telescope: Celestron SC 203/2032mm @ f/35
Mount: CG-5 AS/GT
Camera: ZWO ASI 120MC-S, Exp: 8ms, 60 fps
Stack: 15%,/ 11230 frames
SharpCap, AS3!, Registax6, GIMP
Place: Virovitica. Hrvatska - Croatia
Equipment
Skywatcher 200P Dobsonian
ZWO ASI 120MM-S USB 3.0 Mono
Software
SharpCap
Autostakkert3
Image Composite Editor
Gimp
Sole ripreso in data 7 giugno 2017 con filtro H-Alfa 35 Nm rifrattore acromatico 80/400 diaframmato a 40 mm, montato in parallelo ad un Celestron Nexstar 8" (su Superwedge Meade). Filtro Astrosolar D5, camera ASI 178 mmc, acquisizione con SharpCap ed elaborazione con Registax-6. L'utilizzo del filtro H-Alfa (nato per fotografia deep sky) ha permesso di evidenziare la granulazione in maniera molto evidente
Altair Astro Wave 130 F7 Triplet APO
AA Hypercam 183C
20@ 1min exposures
Sharpcap
PHD2 Guiding
DeepSky Stacker
Edit in Photo Affinity
Rielaborazione tramite Winjupos di Venere del 18.03.2020.
Seeing 8/10
Dati di acquisizione:
Osservatorio Astronomico Galileo Galilei
45°24' N - 18° 59' E
18.03.2020
UTC 05:49 pm (visibile)
UTC 06:25 pm (UV)
Sky-Watcher 200/1000
HEQ5 Pro SynScan
ZWO ASI224 MC
Barlow 3x Tele Vue Optics
Filtro IR Block Astronomik
Filtro BG 40
Filtro Tecnosky violetto #47
UV
BG 40: 310 - 770 nm
#47: 300 - 450 nm
BG 40 + #47: 310 - 450 nm
Acquisizione con SharpCap
Gain: 125/600
Exposure: 0,015
Circa 30780 frame totali, 5000 elaborati
Visibile
IR-UV Block: 370 - 700 nm
Acquisizione con SharpCap
Gain: 0/600
Exposure: 0,0024
Circa 13974 frame totali, 3000 elaborati
A bicolor narrowband DSLR image. With a Baader 2" Ha 7nm and Baader 2" Oiii 8.5nm filters from Bortle 7-8 area of my home. 5 nights in total (Jul 31-Aug 5 2018)
44 subs × 720s for Ha (dithered)
28 subs x 720s for Oiii (dithered)
25 flats for each
50 bias for each
D5300 Ha modded
AVX mount
Orion ED80 with 0.85 reducer
ST80/QHY224C quiding
Sharpcap alignment
Stacked in DSS, processing in Pixinsight
Same steps for Ha and Oiii channels:
- Debayered strong channel extracted
- DBE
- Deconvolution
- MLT
- Histogram transformation
Star alignment of Oiii with Ha image
LRGB Combine:
L: Ha
Red: Ha
Green: Oiii
Blue: Oiii
SCNR
Curves
Unsharpmask
Star Reduction
M13, a globular cluster in the constellation Hercules, is about 145 light-years in diameter, and it is composed of several hundred thousand stars, the brightest of which is a red giant, the variable star V11, with an apparent visual magnitude of 11.95. M13 is about 22,200 light-years away from Earth.
The cluster has an estimated age of 11.65 billion years and contains about 300,000 stars. The estimated mass of the cluster is about half a million solar masses.
It wasn't until 1779 that the single stars in this globular cluster were resolved. Compared to the stars in the neighborhood of the Sun, the stars in M13's stellar population are more than a hundred times denser. They are so densely packed together that they sometimes collide and produce new stars. The newly-formed, young stars, so-called "blue stragglers," are particularly interesting to astronomers.
C8 F/6.3 on Evolution Alt/Az mount
ASI385MC one shot color camera
IDAS LPS D1 light pollution filter
22x8s 3.5m total
Saved as viewed in Sharpcap (no post-processing)
March 4, 2021 from Raindrop Lane. 55 minutes of 90 sec exposures, gain of 300, sensor at -10 C, ASI-294. Used guiding and PhD dithering, driven by SharpCap. Data was very clean and very little noise in this image.
Imaging telescope or lens:Explore Scientific 80mm FCD100
Imaging camera:ZWO ASI 1600MM PRO -Cooled
Mount:Explore Scientific G11 with PMC-8
Focal reducer:Hotech 2 Flattener
Software:SGPRO, PHD2. PixInsight, Photoshop,SharpCap
Filters:Astrodon 3nm Ha 31mm, Astrodon 3nm OIII 31mm
Accessory:Zwo Off axis guider
Resolution: 8820x6100
Dates:March 2, 2018, March 3, 2018
Frames:
Astrodon 3nm Ha 31mm: 80x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon 3nm OIII 31mm: 80x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 13.3 hours
Darks: ~20
Flats: ~10
Flat darks: ~10
Bias: ~150
Jupiter's moon Io and its shadow were going to transit Jupiter on October 16th, 2022 night. The GRS (Great Red Spot) was also supposed to be close to the center of the image. We took this opportunity to capture several videos of Jupiter to get this unique image. The dark spot in the middle is Io's shadow, lagging behind the small moon itself (brighter blob to the right of shadow). At the time of this video, Io was supposed to be on the top left edge of GRS.
We captured this image on October 16, 2022 using our newly acquired ZWO-ASI 178MC color camera. Our gear included the Celestron HD800 (C8 Edge) telescope fitted with a 2xPowermate. The effective focal length was a 4064mm which allows us to focus on tiny objects (like planets in our skies). This allowed us to take a nice close-up of Jupiter.
We used the "Lucky Imaging" technique for our image. In Lucky Imaging of planets, a short video with high frame rates is used to "freeze" the individual images to minimize the blurring caused by turbulence in the air column above us. We captured a video of 5000 frames using SharpCap capture software.
The video mode used an exposure of 20 ms (milliseconds), a gain of 265 and at 52 fps shooting speed. We then stacked the best 2500 of the best frames in AutoStakkert3 and then did wavelet sharpening in Registax to get the final image. Enjoy!
Sky-Watcher 200/1000
HEQ5 Pro SynScan
Camera planetaria ASI224 MC
Barlow 3x Tele Vue Optics
Filtro IR-Cut Meade Instruments
Acquisizione con SharpCap
Saturno
Gain: 350/600
Exposure: 0,04
5.622 frame totali, 1.000 elaborati
Lune
Gain: 350/600
Exposure: 3,5
57 frame totali, 30 elaborati
First light with Optolong L-Enhance filter on ASI533MC, with SharpCap, Explore Scientific 102 Triplet and EQ6R mount. Can't believe that it has taken me this long to try filters. Took 80 64sec subframes for a total exposure of 85 minutes. It's the Eastern Veil Nebula, NGC 6995 from my driveway and Bortle 6+ skies with average seeing and transparency.
SharpCap Live Stack
Photoshop Edit
RC6 f/6.8 1032 FL IDAS D1
[ZWO ASI294MC Pro]
Debayer Preview=On
Pan=0
Tilt=0
Output Format=FITS files (*.fits)
Binning=1
Capture Area=4144x2822
Colour Space=RAW16
High Speed Mode=Off
Turbo USB=46
Flip=None
Frame Rate Limit=Maximum
Gain=300
Exposure=30
Timestamp Frames=Off
White Bal (B)=50
White Bal (R)=50
Brightness=10
Temperature=-10
Cooler Power=34
Target Temperature=-10
Cooler=On
Auto Exp Max Gain=285
Auto Exp Max Exp M S=30000
Auto Exp Target Brightness=100
Mono Bin=Off
Banding Threshold=35
Banding Suppression=0
Apply Flat=C:\Users\Chris\Desktop\SharpCap Captures\2019-12-30\FLAT-218-MONO-BIAS\flats\19_09_22_offset=0.246%.fits
Subtract Dark=C:\Users\Chris\Desktop\SharpCap Captures\darks\ZWO ASI294MC Pro\RAW16@4144x2822\30.0s\gain_300\dark_50_frames_-10.0C_2019-12-31T00_38_57.fits
#Black Point
Display Black Point=0.0515581109550562
#MidTone Point
Display MidTone Point=0.222428039547019
#White Point
Display White Point=0.998046875
TimeStamp=2019-12-31T01:31:29.0497279Z
SharpCapVersion=3.2.6128.0
SharpCap Live Stack
Photoshop Edit
RC6 AP f/9 1300mm FL
IDAS D1 Filter
[ZWO ASI294MC Pro]
FrameType=Flat
Debayer Preview=On
Pan=0
Tilt=0
Output Format=FITS files (*.fits)
Binning=1
Capture Area=4144x2822
Colour Space=RAW16
High Speed Mode=Off
Turbo USB=45
Flip=None
Frame Rate Limit=Maximum
Gain=300
Exposure=60.000s
Timestamp Frames=Off
White Bal (B)=50
White Bal (R)=50
Brightness=10
Cooler Power=53
Temperature=-9.4
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
Trail Width=3
Minimum Trail Length=100
Trail Detection Sensitivity=9
Remove Satellite Trails=Off
Background Subtraction=Off
Planet/Disk Stabilization=Off
Banding Threshold=35
Banding Suppression=0
Apply Flat=C:\Users\Chris\Desktop\SharpCap Captures\2022-05-17\FLAT-710-MONO-BIAS-NATIVE\flats\MasterFlat_21_45_35_offset=-0.066%.fits
Subtract Dark=C:\Users\Chris\Desktop\SharpCap Captures\darks\ZWO ASI294MC Pro\RAW16@4144x2822\60.0s\gain_300\dark_25_frames_-10.0C_2022-04-17T03_25_00.fits
NegativeDisplay=0
Display Black Point=0
Display MidTone Point=0.5
Display White Point=1
Notes=
iOptron CEM60/40,GEM45,iEQ45Pro/30Pro,CEM25,SmartEQ Pro+,AZ Mount Pro,Cube II Mount=RA=14:03:41,Dec=+54:16:39 (JNOW)
TimeStamp=2022-05-18T03:50:52.1312754Z
SharpCapVersion=4.0.8949.0
TotalExposure(s)=3000
StackedFrames=50
LiveStack.SaveRawFrames=None
LiveStack.AlignFrames=True
LiveStack.Derotate=True
LiveStack.StarsForAlignment=10
LiveStack.StarDetection.Sensitivity=75
LiveStack.StarDetection.SuppressHotPixels=True
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AT60, F/6 on Evolution mount on wedge
ASI533MC-Pro
Bortle 8
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Topaz DeNoise AI (smoothing and sharpening)
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La Luna è piena di rimae, ovvero delle formazioni che quando le si osservano o si fotografano ricordano dei letti di fiumi prosciugati. Sappiamo bene però che sulla Luna non c’è mai stata acqua, ed in effetti i fiumi che hanno formato queste rime erano fatti di… lava!
Nella foto spicca al centro la Rima Hyginus, lunga ben 204 km: è una depressione ricca di tanti piccoli crateri che si pensa siano in realtà camere laviche collassate su loro stesse. Nelle immediate vicinanze troviamo tante altre rimae, ad esempio leggermente in alto a destra troviamo la rima Ariadaeus che lambisce il cratere Silberschlag fino a raggiungere il piccolo cratere che le dà il nome; poco sopra, a formare una specie di “Y” all’interno del cratere Boscovich, troviamo la rima Boscovich. Sotto la rima Hyginus troviamo un complesso sistema di rimae, ovvero il gruppo di rimae Triesnecker, che lambiscono l’omonimo cratere e che si congiungono nella parte Nord con la stessa rima Hyginus. Poco sotto il cratere Triesnecker trovamo Pallas, un modesto cratere con un picco centrale ben pronunciato. In basso sulla destra è invece la volta della rima Reaumur, che lambisce il cratere omonimo, il quale appare in foto come un pianoro costellato di piccoli crateri e circondato da imponenti massicci montuosi.
I crateri più luminosi che troviamo al centro della foto sono, partendo da sinistra verso destra: Manilius, Agrippa e Godin. In alto a destra, ormai semisommerso, giace il cratere Julius Caesar.
Telescopio Meade SC ACF 16" a focale nativa (f/8) su montatura Celestron CGX-L
Camera ZWO ASI 178 monocromatica
Filtro Verde Baader Planetarium
Software utilizzati: CPWI, Sharpcap, Autostakkert, Astrosurface, Photoshop
Captured 19 Apr 2021, 23:16 hrs ET, Springfield, VA, USA. Bortle 8 skies, Mallincam DS10C camera, Celestron 8 inch SCT f/6.2, exposure 20 sec, gain 20, bin 1, stack of 16 light frames, dark and flat frames subtracted, no filter.
Clouds: clear
Seeing: 30 (good)
Transparency: 20 (good)
Moon phase: ~40%
FOV: 47 x 36 arcmin before crop
Resolution: 0.8 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is South
Apparent magnitude: +8.5
Apparent size: 11 x 5 arcmin
Appearance: bright core, remainder low contrast against foreground sky.
Note: Additional 1/32 turn CCW added to sharpest focus (focused on Capella at center of FOV using Bahtinov mask and Sharpcap focus assist) to flatten field. Same technique applied to the other images captured same date.
From Wikipedia:
The Black Eye Galaxy (also called Evil Eye Galaxy and designated Messier 64, M64, or NGC 4826) is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy 17 million light-years away in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices. It was discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779, and independently by Johann Elert Bode in April of the same year, as well as by Charles Messier the next year. A dark band of absorbing dust partially in front of its bright nucleus gave rise to its nicknames of the "Black Eye" or "Evil Eye" galaxy.
This galaxy is inclined 60° to the line-of-sight and has a position angle of 112°. At the distance of this galaxy, it has a linear scale of 65 ly per arcsecond. The morphological classification in the De Vaucouleurs system is (R)SA(rs)ab, where the '(R)' indicates an outer ring-like structure, 'SA' denotes a non-barred spiral, '(rs)' means a transitional inner ring/spiral structure, and 'ab' says the spiral arms are fairly tightly wound. Ann et al. (2015) gave it a class of SABa, suggesting a weakly barred spiral galaxy with tightly wound arms.
M64 is a type 2 Seyfert galaxy with an HII/LINER nucleus. The central region is a weak source of radio emission. A soft X-ray source has been detected at the nucleus, which is most likely coming from the circumnuclear region rather than directly from an active galactic nucleus. There is an inner disk of molecular gas that is truncated at a radius of 2,300 ly. At present, the non-rotational motions of this disk do not significantly feed the core, but the disk does produce a vigorous rate of star formation, with also approximately 100 billion stars inside the galaxy. There is also evidence of a recent large inflow of mass.
The interstellar medium of Messier 64 consists of two counter-rotating disks that are approximately equal in mass. The inner disk contains the prominent dust lanes of the galaxy. The stellar population of the galaxy exhibits no measurable counter-rotation. Possible formation scenarios include a merger with a gas-rich satellite galaxy in a retrograde orbit, or the continued accretion of gas clouds from the intergalactic medium. It has a diameter of 54,000 ly.
M16, M17
AT60ED @F/3.8 (F/6.3 SCT reducer), Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi mount ASI533MC, 118x 8.0s 944s IDAS D1 filter, Bortle 8 Saved as viewed in Sharpcap
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RC6 f/6.8 1032 FL IDAS D1
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Taken from Oxfordshire, UK on the evening of 22nd March 2021 during a 62% Waxing Gibbous Moon. Image was taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor, 2x Barlow and ASI120MC camera. The set up was on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier. I had set up to capture the ISS lunar transit that was visible at 20:08 GMT, and between 18:48 - 18:59 I captured a load more videos.
2,000 frame video was captured using SharpCap, then the best 50% were stacked using Autostakkert! 3. Processing was done in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.
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I'm always blown away by how much detail this little telescope / camera combo can produce when you put a Barlow in the imaging train. There was a fair bit of thin cloud around during this imaging session so I've even more impressed by the images!
Coronado Personal Solar Telescope (PST) 400mm f10 telescope specifically designed to only pass a very narrow slice of the Hydrogen Alpha wavelength.
QHY5lii USB monochrome camera
Best 50% of 500 high speed video frames captured using SharpCap software, analyzed and stacked using Autostakkert3! software, sharpened in imppg free software, false color added in Photoshop.