Image of Saturn shot on 20 july 2016, using a Celestron f/10 SC11 with a ZWO 120mm-s planetary camera. Three separate 2-minute AVI captures were made using red, green and blue filters. The three resulting grayscale images were then combined to yield this RGB image of the planet. Like Mars, Saturn is now low in the southern sky, making imaging more difficult. Software were Sharpcap, VirtualDub, Castrator, AutoStakkert2, PixInsight and Photoshop CS3.

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Une image de Saturne réalisé le 20 juillet 2016 avec un télescope Célestron f/10 SC11 et une caméra planétaire ZWO 120mm-s. Trois captures AVI de 2 minutes chacune ont été faites avec des filtres rouge, vert et bleu. Les trois clichés monochromes obtenus ont ensuite été combinés pour donner cette image RGB. Tout comme Mars cet été, Saturne est basse dans le ciel du sud rendant la photographie plus difficile. Les logiciels utilisés sont SharpCap, VirtualDub, Castrator, AutoStakkert2, PixInsight et Photoshop CS3.

Gear:

Imaging Camera: ASI294MM-Pro

Filters: Astrodon 1.25" 3nm Ha,OII,SII

Main Scope: Explore Scientific ED127 FCD-100

Guidescope: Williams Optics 50mm Uniguide

Guidecam: ASI290MM mini

Mount: SW EQ6R-Pro

ZWO EAF, EFW

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Image Details:

HA-104x300s, gain 120, bin 2x2, -10c

OIII-40x300s, gain 120, bin 2x2, -10c

SII-39x300s, gain 120, bin 2x2, -10c

15.25 hrs total integration

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Location: Parker, CO, USA

Bortle 5/6 sky

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Acquisition/Edits:

SharpCap, NINA, PHD2, Stellarium, Pixinsight

Távcső: SkyWatcher 200/1000 Newton

Szűrő: Baader neutrális napszűrő fólia, Baader Solar Continuum szűrő

Mechanika: SkyWatcher EQ-5

Kamera: ZWO ASI 120 MC-S színes kamera

Feldolgozás: SharpCap, AS3, Lightroom

Hely: Eger, Specula egri csillagvizsgáló-Varázstorony-

Dátum: 2020.10.20.

Készítő: Pongrácz Sándor

NGC 4565 is an edge-on spiral galaxy about 30 to 50 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices.

84x5s 7m total exposure

C8 @F/6.3 ASI385

Saved as viewed in Sharpcap (no post-processing)

Cosmic Jellyfish

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Gear:

Camera: ASI294MM-Pro w/ EAF, EFW

Filters: Astrodon 3nm SII,Ha,OIII

Scope: Meade 70mm Quad APO

Guidescope: Williams Optics 30mm Uniguide

Guidecam: ASI120MM mini

Mount: SW EQ6R Pro

Pegasus Astro Pocket Power Box

Astro-Zap dew heaters

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Image details:

81x300s HA, Gain 120, -10c, bin 2x2

77x300s OIII, Gain 120, -10c, bin 2x2

52x300s OIII, Gain 120, -10c, bin 2x2

25 darks, flats, darkflats

17.5 hrs total

Bortle 5/6 sky

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Acquisition/Edits:

SharpCap, NINA, PHD2, Stellarium, Pixinsight, Photoshop

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My Instagram: www.instagram.com/colorado_astro/

Mare Serenitatis with Posidonius, Atlas & Hercules craters amongst others.

Copernicus & Kepler 13/10/22

TAL-1

ZWO ASI120MM

Sharpcap

PIPP

Autostakkert!2

Registax 6

Adobe Photoshop

25 Jun 2025, 0337 UT; Spotsylvania, Virginia USA. Bortle 4.5 zone.

Celestron C8 SCT at f/7.2. Orion Atlas AZ/EQ-G mount. QHY294M Pro mono camera, bin 2x2, exposure 7.5s, gain 1750, stack of 695 frames, no filter, no guiding, no calibration frames, sensor -10°C. Captured in Sharpcap Pro. Processed in PixInsight. Image scale: 1.3 arcsec/pixel. SkyCal used to refine focus.

Clouds: clear

Transparency (AL): 5

Seeing (AL): G

Moon illuminated 0.2%, age 29 days

Description:

Apparent magnitude 9.6

Apparent size 16x11 arcmin

Type SAB(rs)cd

from Wikipedia

NGC 6946, sometimes referred to as the Fireworks Galaxy, is a grand design, face-on intermediate spiral galaxy with a small bright nucleus, whose location in the sky straddles the boundary between the northern constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus. Its distance from Earth is about 25.2 million light-years or 7.72 megaparsecs, similar to the distance of M101 (NGC 5457) in the constellation Ursa Major. Both were once considered to be part of the Local Group, but are now known to be among the dozen bright spiral galaxies near the Milky Way but beyond the confines of the Local Group. NGC 6946 lies within the Virgo Supercluster.

The galaxy was discovered by William Herschel on 9 September 1798. Based on an estimation by the Third Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies (RC3) in 1991, the galaxy has a D25 B-band isophotal diameter of 26.77 kiloparsecs (87,300 light-years). It is heavily obscured by interstellar matter due to its location close to the galactic plane of the Milky Way. Due to its prodigious star formation it has been classified as an active starburst galaxy. NGC 6946 has also been classified as a double-barred spiral galaxy, with the inner, smaller bar presumably responsible for funneling gas into its center.

Various unusual celestial objects have been observed within NGC 6946. This includes the so-called 'Red Ellipse' along one of the northern arms that looks like a super-bubble or very large supernova remnant, and which may have been formed by an open cluster containing massive stars. There are also two regions of unusual dark lanes of nebulosity, while within the spiral arms several regions appear devoid of stars and gaseous hydrogen, some spanning up to two kiloparsecs across. A third peculiar object, discovered in 1967, is now known as "Hodge's Complex". This was once thought to be a young supergiant cluster, but in 2017 it was conjectured to be an interacting dwarf galaxy superimposed on NGC 6946.

Ten supernovae have been observed in NGC 6946 in the 20th and early 21st century: SN 1917A, SN 1939C, SN 1948B, SN 1968D, SN 1969P, SN 1980K, SN 2002hh, SN 2004et, SN 2008S, and SN 2017eaw. For this reason, NGC 6946 has sometimes been referred to as the "Fireworks Galaxy". This is about ten times the rate observed in our Milky Way galaxy, even though the Milky Way has twice as many stars as NGC 6946.

On 27 September 2004, the Type II supernova SN 2004et was observed at magnitude 15.2 and rose to a maximum visual magnitude of 12.7. Images taken during the preceding days revealed that the supernova explosion occurred on 22 September. The progenitor of the supernova was identified on earlier images –– only the seventh time that such an event was directly identified with its host star. The red supergiant progenitor had an initial mass of about 15M☉ in an interacting binary system shared with a blue supergiant.

During 2009, a bright star within NGC 6946 flared up over several months to become over one million times as bright as the Sun. Shortly thereafter it faded rapidly. Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the star did not survive, although there remains some infrared emission from its position. This is thought to come from debris falling onto a black hole that formed when the star died. This potential black hole-forming star is designated N6946-BH1. The progenitor is believed to have been a yellow hypergiant star.

In May 2017, supernova SN 2017eaw was detected in the northwest region of the galaxy, and light curves obtained over the next 600 days showed that it was a Type II-P. The progenitor was determined to have been a red supergiant, with a mass of around 15M☉.

As of 2017, more supernovae had been seen in NGC 6946 than in any other galaxy, a record that has since been surpassed by NGC 3690.

The Ghost of Jupiter Nebula is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Hydra. It is named as such due to its similar size to the planet, but it is also sometimes referred to as the Eye Nebula.

Distance 1,400 ly

101x3.5s 5.8m total exposure

C8 @F/6.3 ASI385

Saved as viewed in Sharpcap (no post processing) cropped

English (e Português abaixo):

These images were taken at different stages of the Solar eclipse of October 14th, 2023, as seen from Riverside, California, USA.

The atmospheric seeing was very good on the occasion. Several sunspot groups were present on the solar photosphere and can be clearly resolved in the images, including their umbrae and penumbrae, as well as bridges cutting through them, solar plages and filaments across the solar disc.

The lunar limb shows itself in an irregular shape, caused by the roughness of the Moon's surface, with its mountain ranges and other sorts of topographic features.

Equipment:

Telescope: Skywatcher Evostar 80ED Refractor

Accessory: 0.8x focal reducer

Filter: Baader Planetarium OD3.8 Astrosolar filter

Mount: Celestron NexStar SE

Camera: QHY183C

Software:

Capture: SharpCap

Trimming: PIPP

Stacking: Autostakkert!

Processing: ImPPG and Photoshop

Each image comprises 2-3 seconds, or 60 video frames. It was necessary to do so because of fast relative movement of the involved celestial bodies.

Português:

Estas imagens foram obtidas em diferentes momentos do eclipse solar de 14 de outubro de 2023, a partir de Riverside, Califórnia, EUA.

O seeing (parâmetro de turbulência atmosférica) estava muito bom na ocasião. Vários grupos de manchas solares estavam presentes na fotosfera solar e são claramente discerníveis nas fotos, incluindo suas umbras e penumbras e pontes fragmentando as manchas, além de "praias solares" e filamentos ao longo do disco solar.

O limbo lunar se mostrou num formato irregular, causado pela rugosidade da superfície da Lua, com suas cordilheiras e outras características topográficas.

Equipamento:

Telescópio: Skywatcher Evostar 80ED Refractor

Accessório: 0.8x focal reducer

Filtro: Baader Planetarium OD3.8 Astrosolar filter

Montagem: Celestron NexStar SE

Câmera: QHY183C

Software:

Captura: SharpCap

Separação dos vídeos: PIPP

Empilhamento: Autostakkert!

Processamento: ImPPG e Photoshop

Cada imagem consiste do empilhamento de 60 frames, o que corresponde a 2-3 segundos. Foi necessário fragmentar desta forma (em tão poucos frames) devido ao rápido movimento relativo dos corpos celestes envolvidos.

M8 Lagoon 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

RAP suite, la nuit de samedi à dimanche a été particulièrement claire... J'avais pas vu un tel ciel depuis longtemps !

M20 la nébuleuse Trifid

120x30" unguided, Capture SharpCap, Newton 150/750, Uranus Cpro @-10C, Filtre IRcut

Traitement Siril, GraXpert, Gimp

Astrométrie

Center (RA, hms): 18h 02m 24.425s

Center (Dec, dms): -22° 58' 28.372"

Size: 48.6 x 27.9 arcmin

Radius: 0.467 deg

Pixel scale: 1.53 arcsec/pixel

Orientation Up is 359.6 degrees E of N

M66 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo.

This galaxy is a member of a small group of galaxies that includes M65 and NGC 3628, known as the Leo Triplet, or the M66 Group.

It lies 31million light-years away and is about 95 thousand light-years across with striking dust lanes and bright star clusters along sweeping spiral arms.

C8 F/6.3 on Evolution Alt/Az mount

ASI385MC one shot color camera

8s subs 11m total

Saved as viewed in Sharpcap (no post-processing)

SharpCap Live Stack

Photoshop Edit

RC6 f/9 1370mm FL

IDAS D1 Filter

[ZWO ASI294MC Pro]

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Turbo USB=65

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=36

Temperature=-10

Target Temperature=-10

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Trail Width=3

Minimum Trail Length=100

Trail Detection Sensitivity=9

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Banding Threshold=10

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NegativeDisplay=0

Display Black Point=0

Display MidTone Point=0.5

Display White Point=1

Notes=

iOptron CEM60,iEQ45Pro/30Pro,CEM25,SmartEQ Pro+,AZ Mount Pro,Cube II Mount=RA=11:16:15,Dec=+54:54:43 (JNOW)

TimeStamp=2023-04-18T06:19:15.1812511Z

SharpCapVersion=4.0.9538.0

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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%, 65x4 sec

no dark subtraction

Sun H-alpha

Sky-Watcher Evolux 62ED

DayStar Quark Chromosphere

DayStar 0.5x focal reducer

ZWO ASI 174MM

Seeing = 3 (clouds)

SharpCap Pro

PixInsight & SolarToolBox

Lightroom

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK

White light:

William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with a Thousand Oaks glass filter. The camera was an ASI120MC fitted with a Baader Continuum filter and through a Celestron 3x Barlow.

H-alpha:

Coronado PST H-alpha solar telescope, 2x Barlow and ASI120MC camera.

In both cases, a 2,000 frame video captured with SharpCap then the best 25% stacked in Autostakkert! 2.

Today was some of the best solar activity I've seen in quite some time!

The Annular eclipse timelapse

Finally the complete sequence as imaged on October 14th during the total annular eclipse from Albuquerque New Mexico.

For three hours I tracked the Sun and the moon with a star tracker, taking a video every 30 seconds.

I used Sharpcap and all the tricks that I learned from the incredible solar imager Simon Tang to capture these images. I used the shortest exposure I could, 0.8ms, 70% histogram and shot 750 frames every 30seconds. The seeing ( atmospheric steadiness) was unlike anything I have every seen in all my days of solar imaging, clear crisp and steady…

The scope was a small and portable (lunt40mm), yet beautiful little H Alpha scope and I used an ASI planetary camera. While I don’t normally use the ASI174MM with this little scope, the large sensor allowed for a view of the full disk of the sun.

All images of the sun were processed inverted so the dark regions are the bright active solar regions and the sunspots themselves are actually white. The H alpha scope allowed me to capture significant detail in the Sun’s chromosphere during the eclipse. Bright solar prominences along the edge and solar filaments were also seen.

The sun is very busy as we are approaching solar maximum so there were at least 5-6 active sunspot regions visible

C8, F/6.3

Evo mount on wedge

ASI533MC Pro, UV/IR cut filter

350 gain, 37x_8.0s_296s

Saved as viewed in Sharpcap + Topaz DeNoise AI

Copper Breaks State Park Texas, Bortle 2

NGC 1365, also known as the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy,[3] is a double-barred spiral galaxy about 56 million light-years away in the constellation Fornax.

NGC 1365 is a barred spiral galaxy in the Fornax cluster. Within the larger long bar stretching across the center of the galaxy appears to be a smaller bar that comprises the core, with an apparent size of about 50″ × 40″. This second bar is more prominent in infrared images of the central region of the galaxy, and likely arises from a combination of dynamical instabilities of stellar orbits in the region, along with gravity, density waves, and the overall rotation of the disc. The inner bar structure likely rotates as a whole more rapidly than the larger long bar, creating the diagonal shape seen in images.

The spiral arms extend in a wide curve north and south from the ends of the east-west bar and form an almost ring like Z-shaped halo. Astronomers think NGC 1365's prominent bar plays a crucial role in the galaxy's evolution, drawing gas and dust into a star-forming maelstrom and ultimately feeding material into the central black hole.

NGC 1365, including its two outer spiral arms, spreads over around 200,000 light-years. Different parts of the galaxy take different times to make a full rotation around the core of the galaxy, with the outer parts of the bar completing one circuit in about 350 million years. NGC 1365 and other galaxies of its type have come to more prominence in recent years with new observations indicating that the Milky Way could also be a barred spiral galaxy. Such galaxies are quite common — two thirds of spiral galaxies are barred according to recent estimates, and studying others can help astronomers understand our own galactic home.

-Wikipedia

Time: 7 August 2024. 01:11 UT+2

Telescope: Celestron SC 203/2032mm @ f/20

Mount: CG-5 AS-GT

Camera: ZWO ASI 120MC-S, 30fps

Barlow: SW APO 2x

Stack: 3% of total 12110 frames

SharpCap, Autostakkert3!, Registax6, GIMP

Resize 150%

The Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) in Sagittarius in narrowband (Hubble pallet). Stellarvue SV105SVFT telescope. Unguided live stack in Sharpcap. ZWO filter wheel with Astrodon Ha 5nm, Sii 5nm, and OIII 3nm narrowband filters. Celestron CGX mount. ~110X20 second subs for HA, OiiI, and Sii. Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop CS2.

Nota anche come Nebulosa Dumbbell.

Nebulosa planetaria visibile nella costellazione della Volpetta.

Dista dalla Terra 1360 Anni Luce. STRUMENTAZIONE: celestron 127 SLT + ASI120 + sharpcap 50 scatti da 30 secondi - 25 dark 25 Bias - elaborazione con DSS e Photoshop

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Coronado PST H-alpha solar telescope + ASI120MC fitted with a 2x Barlow.

1,000 frame video shot with SharpCap, the best 50% of the frames were stacked with Autostakkert! 3. Stacked images were processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer. The colour was removed during processing then false colour added back in using Photoshop CS2.

There was a lot of activity on the Sun that day!

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.

C8 F/5

ASI385MC camera

46x5s 3:49 m total

Zoomed in to 175% to show nucleus detail

Saved as viewed in Sharpcap (no post-processing)

SharpCap

Autiostakkert3

Registax6

Photoshop

RC6 f/9 1370 FL IDAS D1

[ZWO ASI294MC Pro]

Pan=0

Tilt=0

Output Format=AVI files (*.avi)

Binning=1

Capture Area=4144x2822

Colour Space=MONO8

High Speed Mode=Off

Turbo USB=60

Flip=None

Frame Rate Limit=Maximum

Gain=0

Exposure=0.048941

Timestamp Frames=Off

White Bal (B)=76(Auto)

White Bal (R)=99(Auto)

Brightness=0

Temperature=-0.3

Cooler Power=31

Target Temperature=0

Cooler=On

Auto Exp Max Gain=285

Auto Exp Max Exp M S=30000

Auto Exp Target Brightness=110

Mono Bin=Off

Banding Threshold=10

Banding Suppression=0

Apply Flat=None

Subtract Dark=None

#Black Point

Display Black Point=0

#MidTone Point

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#White Point

Display White Point=1

TimeStamp=2019-04-16T00:33:43.3603889Z

SharpCapVersion=3.2.5986.0

Skymax127 / Asi224MC

3200 Frames 18ms 180 Gain

Sharpcap-As!3-Registax

Sarroch 29-10-22 H5:30

Experimentation with Sharpcap & my standard 2x Barlow. Maybe a bridge too far for my 102ED ! Using the tightest ROI available. Also took video.

The Ring Nebula is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Lyra. Such objects are formed when a shell of ionized gas is expelled into the surrounding interstellar medium by a star at the end of its life before becoming a white dwarf.

Distance 2,570 ly

104x8s 13.9m total exposure

C8 @F/6.3 ASI385

Saved as viewed in Sharpcap (no post-processing) and cropped

C8 F/6.3

Evolution mount on wedge

ASI533MC Pro -5C

75x_8.0s_600s

Saved as viewed in Sharpcap,

Processed with Topaz DeNoise AI

Great Plains State Park, Oklahoma

Bortle 3 skies

The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as M51, or NGC 5194, 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 31 million light-years away from Earth.

The galaxy and its companion, NGC 5195, are easily observed by amateur astronomers, and the two galaxies can be seen with binoculars. The Whirlpool Galaxy has been extensively observed by professional astronomers, who study it to understand galaxy structure (particularly structure associated with the spiral arms) and galaxy interactions.

(Wikipedia)

Hardware:

Main scope - SW 100ED Super APO (550mm with flattener)

Main Camera - ZWO ASI6200MC (-20 deg C)

Filter - LPS-D2

Mount - SW HEQ5 (belted and tuned)

Guide Scope - SW 50ED (Guiding at 0.2-0.5 arc/sec total RMS)

Guide Camera - ZWO ASI290MM Mini

Software:

NINA / SharpCap / PixInsight / Photoshop

M27 Dumbbell Nebula

16 Apr 2016 (seeing 3/5, waxing gibbous Moon)

SkyRaider DS2.3+ w/ SharpCap 2.8 software

MC VRC10 + proto MFR10 (f/3.7) w/ 650nm IR high pass

gamma 0.45, gain 100%, 16 sec per frame x 11 frames

dark frame subtraction on

screen capture - zoomed 0.5x

Re-shot M31 using my ASI-294 on a clear and calm night near Natural Bridge, VA. Temps were about 30 degrees F, calm winds and very dry air. Seeing was great. New moon. SQM about 21.2 if I recall.

Details: 112.5 minutes with 2.5 minute unguided exposures using the Samyang 135 mm lens wide open at F2. Gain set to unity (120), temperature set to 0 C. Mount is Orion Atlas Pro. Used SharpCap for capture, PI for all processing.

Used HDR multiscale transform in PI to bring out more detail of dust lanes to fairly good effect. This image is cropped considerably from the original in order to see M31 in better detail.

[ZWO ASI294MC Pro]

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Tilt=0

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Frame Rate Limit=Maximum

Gain=300

Exposure=30

Timestamp Frames=Off

White Bal (B)=50

White Bal (R)=50

Brightness=10

Temperature=-14.8

Cooler Power=42

Target Temperature=-15

Cooler=On

Auto Exp Max Gain=285

Auto Exp Max Exp M S=30000

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Mono Bin=Off

Banding Threshold=5

Banding Suppression=0

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Subtract Dark=E:\SharpCap Captures\darks\ZWO ASI294MC Pro\RAW16@4144x2822\30.0s\gain_300\dark_20_frames_-14.8C_2018-12-18T01_35_44.fits

#Black Point

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SharpCapVersion=3.2.5892.0

Távcső: SkyWatcher 150/1200 Newton+2.25x Baader Barlow

Mechanika: SkyWatcher NEQ-5 pro GoTo

Kamera: ZWO ASI 120 MC-S színes kamera

Feldolgozás: SharpCap pro, AS3, Lightroom

Dátum: 2022.06.19. 02:13 NYISZ

Fotó: Pongrácz Sándor

Távcső: SkyWatcher 200/1000 Newton

Szűrő: Baader neutrális napszűrő fólia, Baader Solar Continuum szűrő

Mechanika: SkyWatcher EQ-5

Kamera: ZWO ASI 120 MC-S színes kamera

Feldolgozás: SharpCap, AS3, Lightroom

Hely: Eger, Specula egri csillagvizsgáló-Varázstorony-

Dátum: 2020.09.24

Készítő: Pongrácz Sándor

Távcső: SkyWatcher 200/1000 Newton

Szűrő: Baader neutrális napszűrő fólia

Mechanika: SkyWatcher EQ-5

Kamera: ZWO ASI 120 MC-S színes kamera

Feldolgozás: SharpCap, AS3, Lightroom

Hely: Eger, Specula egri csillagvizsgáló-Varázstorony-

Dátum: 2020.12.02.

Észlelő: Pongrácz Sándor

Távcső: SkyWatcher 200/1000 Newton

Szűrő: Baader neutrális napszűrő fólia, Baader Solar Continuum szűrő

Mechanika: SkyWatcher EQ-5

Kamera: ZWO ASI 120 MC-S színes kamera

Feldolgozás: SharpCap, AS3, Lightroom

Hely: Eger, Specula egri csillagvizsgáló-Varázstorony-

Dátum: 2020.10.22.

Észlelő: Pongrácz Sándor

M42 Orion Nebula: VRC10 @ f/3, Meade O-III filter, 1/4 gain + 0.45 gamma, 293x1sec exposure, no DFC, SharpCap 2.9 software

Venere è il secondo pianeta in ordine di distanza dal Sole. Fotografando questo pianeta con le tecniche tradizionali e nello spettro visibile (dai 400 ai 700 nanometri circa) riusciamo ad apprezzarne, però, solo le fasi.

Se invece riprendiamo questo pianeta in ultravioletto (dai 300 ai 350 nanometri circa) ed in momenti di seeing quantomeno discreto, si può riuscire a scorgerne le nubi che compongono buona parte della sua atmosfera.

Seeing 6/10

Dati di acquisizione:

Osservatorio Astronomico Galileo Galilei

45°24' N - 18° 59' E

11.03.2020

UTC 06:17 pm (UV)

UTC 06:25 pm (visibile)

Sky-Watcher 200/1000

HEQ5 Pro SynScan

ZWO ASI224 MC

Barlow 3x TeleVue

Filtro IR Block Astronomik

Filtro BG 40

Filtro Tecnosky violetto #47

UV

Acquisizione con SharpCap

Gain: 196/600

Exposure: 0,0097

Circa 30101 frame totali, 3000 elaborati

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Acquisizione con SharpCap

Gain: 146/600

Exposure: 0,0012

Circa 15943 frame totali, 3000 elaborati

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=15

Timestamp Frames=Off

White Bal (B)=50

White Bal (R)=50

Brightness=10

Temperature=-10

Cooler Power=19

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\2019-12-18\FLAT-222-MONO-BIAS\flats\21_14_17_offset=0.243%.fits

Subtract Dark=C:\Users\Chris\Desktop\SharpCap Captures\darks\ZWO ASI294MC Pro\RAW16@4144x2822\15.0s\gain_300\dark_40_frames_-14.1C_2018-11-13T03_58_59.fits

#Black Point

Display Black Point=0.05859375

#MidTone Point

Display MidTone Point=0.3230935476962

#White Point

Display White Point=0.998046875

TimeStamp=2019-12-19T07:43:22.5433240Z

SharpCapVersion=3.2.6128.0

M27 Dumbbell Nebula

23 Apr 2016 (near full Moon)

SkyRaider DS2.3+ w/ SharpCap 2.8 software

MC VRC10 + proto MFR10 (f/3.7) w/ Astronomik UHC

gamma 0.5, gain 50%, 12 x 16 sec

dark frame subtraction off

SharpCap Live Stack

Photoshop Edit

[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=60

Flip=None

Frame Rate Limit=Maximum

Gain=300

Exposure=60

Timestamp Frames=Off

White Bal (B)=50

White Bal (R)=50

Brightness=3

Temperature=-14.1

Cooler Power=35

Target Temperature=-15

Cooler=On

Auto Exp Max Gain=285

Auto Exp Max Exp M S=30000

Auto Exp Target Brightness=110

Mono Bin=Off

Banding Threshold=35

Banding Suppression=30

Apply Flat=E:\SharpCap Captures\2019-02-01\FLATS-BIAS-COL\flats\19_51_27_offset=0.153%.fits

Subtract Dark=E:\SharpCap Captures\darks\ZWO ASI294MC Pro\RAW16@4144x2822\60.0s\gain_300\dark_20_frames_-14.8C_2019-01-26T05_02_54.fits

#Black Point

Display Black Point=0.0374088822894168

#MidTone Point

Display MidTone Point=0.303286972049806

#White Point

Display White Point=0.99609375

TimeStamp=2019-02-02T01:57:03.7911568Z

SharpCapVersion=3.2.5949.0

M8, M20, M21

AT60ED @F/3.8 (F/6.3 SCT reducer), Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi mount ASI533MC, 150x 8.0s 1200s IDAS D1 filter, Bortle 8 Saved as viewed in Sharpcap

Taken on 26 May 2017 at 02.02 BST with NexImage 5MP Camera, connected to Celestron NexStar 6 SE Telescope. Video was captured in SharpCap, processed in Registax 6 and touched-up in Photoshop.

Távcső: SkyWatcher 150/1200 Newton

Szűrő: Baader neutrális napszűrő fólia

Mechanika: Dobson

Kamera: ZWO ASI 120 MC-S színes kamera

Feldolgozás: SharpCap, AS3, Lightroom

Hely: Eger

Dátum: 2021.03.17.

The "Sea of Crisis" on the Moon

Shot taken on 29.07.2018

Celestron C8, AVX mount

ZWO ASI 120 MC

15% of 3500 frames

Processed with SharpCap, PIPP, Registax, Affinity Photo, PhotoFiltr

Snapshot taken in SharpCap, no processing

127mm Meade Apo refractor, Televue x3 Barlow and QHY5111462c camera. Early hours of the 12th Sept 2024 taken from Outon Broad Suffolk. Clear skies but turbulent so achieving focus was difficult at F23. Software used: SharpCap 4.1, PIPP, AS!3, Registax6, Affinity Photo2 and AstroSharp and Clean.

July 2020

The sun in Calicium K

Meade ETX 70mm

Celestron Neximage 5

Sharpcap

ngc2392 Eskimo Nebula: VRC10 @ f/3, Meade O-III filter, 1/4 gain + 0.45 gamma, 25x4sec exposure, no DFC, SharpCap 2.9 software

Gear used:

Main Camera: ASI183MM-Pro w/ ZWO EAF, EFW

Filters: Astrodon 3nm HA, SII 1.25"

Scope: Stellervue SV125A Doublet @ 633 fl

Reducer: Starizona Apex .65x

Guidescope: Williams Optics 50mm Uniguide

Guide camera: ASI120MM mini

Mount: SW EQ6R Pro

Power: Pegasus Astro Pocket Power Box

Dew control: Astro-Zap dew heaters

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Image details:

70x300s, Ha, Gain 111, -15c

86x300s, OIII, Gain 111, -15c

51x300s, SII, Gain 111, -15c

25 darks, flats, darkflats

17.25 hrs total

Bortle 5 sky

Location: Parker, CO, USA

Acquisition/Edits:

SharpCap, NINA, PHD2, Stellarium, Pixinsight, EZ processing suite, Photoshop CC

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