SH2-101 wide field

Agosto/Settembre 2021

Località: San Romualdo - Ravenna

Samyang 135mm F/4

Avalon M1 - QHY5III 174M su OAG Celestron

QHY294C - Gain 1600 - Offset 5 - raffreddata -15

Filtri Optlong L-enhance - 31x5min. + L-extreme 57x10min.

Acquisizione: SharpCap - Calibrata con Dark e Flat.

Elaborazione: Astroart8, StarTools1.6, Paint Shop Pro 2021, Topaz e Nik Plug-in.

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Plato Crater on Earth's Moon. From Wikipedia: Plato is a lava-filled lunar impact crater on the Moon. Its diameter is 101 km. It was named after ancient Greek philosopher Plato. It is located on the northeastern shore of the Mare Imbrium, at the western extremity of the Montes Alpes mountain range.

Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, ZWO ASI290MC, best 25% of 10,000 frames, unguided. Captured using SharpCap v3.2, edited with Registax and PixInsight. Image date: May 31, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.

Genova, Italy (15 Oct 2023 05:20 UT)

Planet: diameter 26.6", mag -4.4, altitude ≈ 38°

Telescope: Celestron CPC C8 XLT (203 F/10 SC)

Camera: QHY5III462C Color

Focal Extender: Explore Scientific 2x (1.25")

Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector: Artesky

Filter: QHY UV/IR block

Recording scale: ≈0.15 arcsec/pixel

Equivalent focal length ≈4000 mm F/19.7

Image resized: +50%

Recording: SharpCap 4.0

(360x360 @ 250fps/4ms - 90s - RAW8 - Gain 69)

Best 25% frames of ≈22500

Alignment/Stacking (Jupiter): AstroSurface U4

Wavelets/Deconvolution: AstroSurface U4

Final Elaboration: GIMP 2.10.34

Theophilus Crater – diameter is 100 km and named after the Greek astronomer (c. 412 AD). The rim of Theophilus has a wide, terraced inner surface that shows indications of landslips. The floor of the crater is relatively flat, and it has a large, triple-peaked central crater that climbs to a height of about 2 kilometers above the floor (Wikipedia).

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, ZWO ASI290MC, best 25% of 5k frames, captured using SharpCap Pro v3.1. Image date: September 15, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.

Here is a view of Saturn from August 4, 2018.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mmED Triplet Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ASI 290MC, best 25% of 30k frames. Captured with SharpCap, processed in AutoStakkert, refined in Registax and Lightroom. Image Date: 4 Aug 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, Pennsylvania, USA.

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Waiting to confirm if the optimistic predictions for 25th solar cycle are true.

It will be the strongest in the last 50 years?

Will see :D currently is really calm but who knows on the next 5 years.....

Technical card

Imaging telescopes or lenses:Lunt Solar Systems LS60THa/B1200C , Lunt Solar Systems LS60FHa (Double Stack)

Imaging cameras:ZWO ASI174MM

Mounts:Skywatcher AZ-GTi

Software:Emil Kraaikamp Autostackert! 3 , SharpCap

Date:Sept. 5, 2020

Time: 13:55

Frames: 6000

FPS: 170.00000

Focal length: 500

Resolution: 1557x1396

Locations: Berga Resort, Berga, Barcelona, Spain

Data source: Backyard

Test exposure of NGC 2403 using the ASI071MC-Pro camera, no darks or bias frames used. NGC 2403 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis. NGC 2403 is an outlying member of the M81 Group, and is approximately 8 million light-years distant. Star forming regions can be seen in this galaxy.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount (pier mounted), ZWO ASI071MC-Pro, 11 x 60 second exposures, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Captured using SharpCap v3.2 live stacking and saved in FITS format for processing. Image date: November 24, 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.

Tránsito de Mercurio

Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED

Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM

Montura: iOptron CEM40

Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.9, T=12.5%)

- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (540nm)

Accesorio: Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism

Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop

Fecha: 2019-11-11

Hora: 12:39 T.U. (Tiempo universal)

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 30 segundos

Resolución: 2320 x 1560

Gain: 72

Exposure: 0,000032

Frames: 963

Frames apilados: 26%

FPS: 31.92

Genova, Italy (06 Dec 2022 23:33 UT)

Planet: diameter 17.1", mag -1.9, altitude ≈ 68°

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: 0.150 arcsec/pixel

Equivalent focal length ≈ 3990 mm F/19.7

Image resized: +50%

Recording: SharpCap 4.0

(320x240 @ 225fps - 60 sec - RAW16 - Gain 120)

Best 25% frames of about 13500

Alignment/Stacking: AutoStakkert! 3.1.4

Wavelets/Deconvolution: AstroSurface T5

Final Elaboration: GIMP 2.10.30

Nice solar prominence on today’s sun! First light using the Williams Optics Redcat 51 for solar imaging.

Tech Specs: Williams Optics Redcat 51, ZWO ASI290MC, Daystar Quark Chromosphere + Daystar 2" UV/IR filter, SharpCap v3.0, best 15% of 10k frames, AutoStakkert, Registax. Image date: 30 June 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA, USA.

It appears the comet's gas and dust production has tapered off from what was seen the previous day. Hopefully it will get better instead of worse, in terms of tail length, since it still hasn't made its closest approach to the sun, yet (not till Jan 3, 2022.)

This was imaged with 1 minute exposures starting at 06:26 local time (00:26 UT) and I took over 50 shots. The first dozen were still in strong twilight, so I left them out. I used 33 of the remainder to make the image.

Equipment: Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8, QHY183c astrocamera cooled to -20C, Gain 20, Offset 50, UV/IR filter, SharpCap 4.x for acquisition in FITS format. Calibrated and stacked in IRIS with dark master (10x60 sec.) PS for final post-processing,

Bortle 4/4.5 location, clear and above average transparency, 55F, light winds.

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Image captured using a 1965 quartz Questar 3.5-inch Maksutov Cassegrain telescope, a ZWO ASI120MC camera coupled with a Celestron Ultima 2x Barlow with a capture of 664 frames using SharpCap 3.0 and Registax 6 for stacking and processing, minor adjustments with PS Elements.

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40 minutes with 160x15 sec sub-images. TV-85 at F/5.6, QHY183c at -15C, Optolong L-eNhance filter, Gain 37, Offset 200. SharpCap 3.2 LiveStacking w/Dithering, PHD2 Guiding, Atlas EQ-G w/EQMOD.

Metro area, Bortle 7-8 zone, full moon, but with excellent seeing and very clear and transparent skies. Taken on Oct 2, 2020.

Telescopio: Celestron C11 XLT Fastar

Montatura: iOptron CEM60

CMOS di ripresa: ZWO ASI 174 mono Cooled

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

Filtro: Optolong Red CCD 50,8 mm

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

Data: 12 Giugno 2019 Ore: 20:57

Pose: 500 a 73fps

Lunghezza focale: 2800 mm Seeing: 2 Trasparenza: 8

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

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

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 120x180"

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 180x180"

100 Darks

100 Flats por filtro

Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2

Adquisición: SGP 3.1

Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS

A view of last evening's moon at 72% illumination.

Tech Specs: Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro, three image mosaic, best 25% of 250 images, unguided. Captured using SharpCap v3.2. Image date: May 31, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.

Telescopio: Celestron C8 Edge HD

Montatura:iOptron CEM60

Camera di acquisizione: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, Astra Image 4 SI

Ora: 21:04

Pose: 250 FPS: 45

Lunghezza focale: 2032 mm

Seeing: 3 Trasparenza: 7

M2 contains over 150,000 stars. The first globular cluster to be added to the Messier catalog, M2 is located roughly 37,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius.

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

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 IR PASS filter

Moonlite focuser CR2

Moonlight Hi Res stepper motor

MyFocuser Pro v2 (Robert Brown) controller

Home Observatory

Software: Sharpcap, CdC, Photoshop, Team Viewer, autostakert!3, Registax

Sunflower galaxy M63 is a spiral galaxy located about 37 million years from Earth in Canes Venatici. It’s resemble sunflower with compacted dust lanes, yellow core and Blue spiral arms. Gear setup: Celestron HD8 @ f/7, iOptron GEM45 guided by Celestron OAG with ZWO 174, light subs from last year with ZWO 2600MC -5C, Optolong L-Pro 12/05/2023 - 27x180sec, 13/05/2023 42x180sec, Darks 20, Flats 10, Bias 50. Celestron HD11 @f/7, iOptron CEM70, light subs 04/05/2024 235x30sec, 11/05/2024 31x180sec , Antlia Tri RGB ultra Filter. Total exposure 7 hours. Captured by APT, Sharpcap pro, PHD2. Stacking by APP and processed by PI & PS.

A star exploded 8000 years ago creating this large structure in the constellation Cygnus. Six times wider than the moon, it's invisible to the naked eye, even from a relatively dark location. But imaging with filters that block all but the wavelengths of excited Hydrogen (red) and Oxygen (blue) reveals the broken sphere of gasses still expanding in space.

Tech Stuff: Borg 55FL astrograph/QHY163 mono/Astronomik H-alpha and O3 filters/iOptron CubePro 8200 unguided. Captured with SharpCap 3.2 as 8 minute stacks of 8 second exposures; total integration time in minutes HA X 95; O3 X 180. Processed with PixInsight including Starnet neural network separation of stars and nebula. Captured from my yard in Westchester County, 10 miles north of New York City, September 15-19 2019.

Earlier today marked the closest approach of the red planet, at 38.6 million miles. While it starts to pull further away, it will still dominate the night sky for a few weeks. Practice pays off; this image taken with my little Questar is certainly my best so far.

Tech Stuff: Questar 3.5"/TV 2.5X PowerMate/QHY5iii178 color/SharpCap/AS3/PI/ACDSee.

Taken with the WO RedCat refractor, Over 2 nights

ASI Zwo 294MC Pro cooled color camera IR/cut filter

M42 with Zwo 183MC Pro Cooled color camera

Had clear skies last night, No guiding

#SharpCap Pro, PoleMaster

Orion Skyview Pro EQ mount

120 Gain offset 10 and 20, -10c cooling,

M42 was 50 minutes, 30 seconds each

North Star was 25 minutes, 30 seconds

Markarian's Chains was 130 minutes, 30 seconds

50 darks 50 flats and 50 bias frames

Astro Pixel Processor and PS

First attempt at this. I know there's more color in the galaxy but I think I used an incorrect capture setting. I fell asleep while my camera was shooting away, so this is the result of 3 hours of data!

This galaxy lies around 27 million light years away. That white line is a satellite pass.

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: 50*3 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -40C, 50 * 5 minute dark frames

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom

Here is a view of last evening’s moon, 75% illuminated.

Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90 Telescope, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ASI071MC-Pro, ZWO AAPlus, ZWO EAF, best 15% of 500 frames, two image composite. Processed using SharpCap, Autostakkert, Registax and Luminar Neo. Image Date: June 9, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

Telescopio: Celestron C11 XLT Fastar

CMOS: ZWO ASI 174 mono Cooled

Montatura: iOptron CEM60

Software:Registax 6.1.0.8, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 3.0.14, SharpCap 3.1 Pro, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8, Astra Image 4 SI

Filtro Baader Planetarium IR-Pass 685nm

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

FPS: 65,00000 Lunghezza focale: 2.800 mm

Seeing: 3 Trasparenza: 9

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

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

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 120x180"

*Gain 139, -20 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 180x180"

100 Darks

100 Flats por filtro

Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2

Adquisición: SGP 3.1

Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS

In 2018 I was able to image M31, the Andromeda Galaxy from the High Line during NY's Amateur Astronomers Association outreach sessions from this great urban park. From 12th Street near 10th Avenue we're 1.5 miles from Times Square and clearly in a Bortle 9/ White Zone -- there's a lot of light pollution. Here I have used updated processing tools including a couple of AI utilities to clean up the image.

The Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light years from our Milky Way and contains about one trillion stars.

Tech Stuff: Borg 55FL/ZWO ASI1600MC/IDAS LPS-V4 filter/iOptron CubePro 8200mount/SharpCap/PixInsight/NoiseXterminator/BlurXterminator/ACDSeeGemstone12.

43 minutes of 4 second exposures.

Capture Session and 2018 process version shown here in my Instagram www.instagram.com/p/Bpr8_1-gEmN/ and www.instagram.com/p/BpqCv5CgjO2/

So, this is my baseline image of Mars for 2020, now to work on increasing the capture time and collecting a lot more surface details.

Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, ASI290MC, best 20% of 5k frames, Sharpcap v3.2, Autostakkert, Registax. Image date: August 30, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.

Small solar prominence on the sun captured on June 11, 2019.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, ZWO ASI290MC, Daystar Quark Chromosphere, SharpCap v3.2, best 10% of 1000 frames. Image date: 11 June 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.

I'm really enjoying having the ability to flip open the backyard obs every single clear and calm night here in Honolulu. I've always done DSO imaging, but this planetary stuff is pretty darn fun over a couple beers! I think most of the fun comes from good seeing.

8" SCT, ASI120MC, SharpCap, AS!2, Registax.

Last night's moon shining at 52% illumination, three panel mosaic with the Meade 12".

Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro, three panels, best 20% of 300 frames, unguided. Captured using SharpCap v3.2, processed in AutoStakkert, stitched in Microsoft Image Composite Editor. Image date: August 25, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.

Added HA data to the RGB. I split the RGB channels then combined the HA and blue channel using mean (HA, blue) in pixel math and used that for lum, and the rgb frames for rgb, all weighted equal. LRGB combo was done with non linear images. Came out halfway decent. Note: the color version of this is not as scary as the HA lol.

16@ 300 seconds HA gain 111

15 @ 60 each RGB gain 50

not cooled! temps around 65F, my darks were taken on a different night at temps of 75F and actually worked better at calibrating out amp glow.

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

Took these pictures Friday night, M15 and M27

Orion 80mm ED refractor, Zwo 294MC Pro cooled color camera

Zwo IR/cut filter

#SharpCap Pro PoleMaster

Ioptron i45 Pro EQ mount PHD2 guiding

Orion 60mm guidescope SSAG

120 Gain offset 10 0c cooling, 1 minute exposure, 65 minutes, for M15, M27 was 80 minutes,1 minute exposure each

50 darks 50 flats and 50 bias frames

Astro Pixel Processor and PS

79% moon....

This popular imaging target is well positioned this time of year, so I took another whack at it. The two face-on galaxies, M65 and M66 are among the brighter Messier galaxies and along with edge-on NGC 3628 lie some 30-35 million light years off into space.

Tech Stuff: Tele Vue 85/Borg 1.08x flattener/IDAS D2 filter/ZWO ASI 1600 MC/Skywatcher Star Adventurer Unguided/ 4 second exposures with dark and flat subtraction grouped into 20 X 8 minute LiveStacks in SharpCap 3.2 for 160 minutes total exposure. Processed with PixInsight. From my yard in Westchester County, NY March 9/10 2021; SQM-L readings 18.5-18.75 (Bortle 7).

This version of the same target used a different set of gear and combined data from 2018 and 2019 into one image; I think the two versions are more similar than different.

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A very interesting solar prominence on today's sun.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, ZWO ASI290MC, Daystar Quark Chromosphere + 2" UV filter, SharpCap v3.2, best 15% of 10k frames, AutoStakkert, Registax. Image date: 23 June 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.

From Wikipedia - The Sea of Nectar (Mare Nectaris) is a small lunar mare or sea (a volcanic lava plain noticeably darker than the rest of the Moon’s surface) located near the Sea of Tranquility (Mare Tranquillatis) and the Sea of Fecundity (Mare Fecunditatis). Several large craters are situated at the borders of Mare Nectaris. The largest one is lava-filled Fracastorius (124 km), which fuses with southern coast of the Sea. A prominent trio of 100-km craters Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina is located near northwestern coast.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, Televue Powermate 2.5x, best 50% of 5k frames under bad seeing. Captured with SharpCap v3 and processed using AutoStakkert! And Registax. Image Date: February 20, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.

An emission/reflection nebula in Auriga.

Tech Stuff: Borg 71FL/Borg 1.08 Flattener/ZWOASI 1600MC/IDAS LPSV4 filter/iOptron CubePro. 132 minutes total of 8 Second exposures captured in SharpCap Livestacks, Processed in PixInsight and ACDSee. From my yard in Westchester.

Orion 80mm ED refractor 600mm f 7.5 and Zwo 071MC Pro cooled color camera, Ioptron i45 EQ mount, laptop for capture, Sharpcap Pro, 18ah battery pack

This galaxy lies approximately 21 million light years away. It is interacting/colliding with another galaxy (smaller object to the top, NGC 5195) which has been continuing for millions of years. Several supernovas have been spotted here in recent years.

Last night presented an exceptional night of viewing here in Central Texas. Temperatures around freezing, clear skies and a moon that set around 9:15pm. I was able to capture 3 hours of data on this object before I had to go to bed to get ready for work the next day.

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: 33*5 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -30C

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in Photomatix Pro HDR and Adobe Lightroom

تغطي هذة الصورة الجميلة منطقة واسعه من السماء. حيث تم اخذ الصورة باستعمال عدسة عريضة ١٣٥ ملم لتغطي نطاق رؤية ١٥ * ١٠ درجة من السماء. تبين الصورة حلقة برنارد في الاسفل و هي سديم انبعاثي غازي يتألف بشكل اساسي من غاز الهيدروجين و يقع في كوكبة الجبار او الصياد. و يعتقد العلماء بان هذة الحلقة الغازية نتجت عن انفجار نجم قبل ٢ مليون سنة. كما و تشمل هذة المنطقة من السماء على عدد من الاجرام الفلكية مثل سديم الجبار على اليمين و سديم راس الحصان الذي يقع في منتصف الصورة و جنب نجمة النطاق. و كذلك يظهر في الصورة حزام كوكبة الجبار و الذي يتألف من ثلاثة نجوم ( المنطقة و النظام و والنطاق) و هي نجوم قام العرب بتسميتها وقد اعتمدها النظام الدولي الفلكي في التسمية. This beautiful region is covering a wide field of the sky. The image is taken by Samyang 135 lens to give 15 x 10 degrees FOV. It is an emission nebula composed mainly of Hydrogen gas and located in Orion constellation. In the lower part is Barnard’s loop SH2-276 which is formed from star explosion before 2 million years ago. This complex molecular gas cloud consists of many celestial objects. In the center of the image is the Orion belt ( The Three Stars : Mintaka منطقة، Alnilam النظام، Alnitak النطاق all taken from Arabic). Beside Alnitak star, there is the Horsehead nebula (IC 434) and on the right is the Orion nebula (M42). Gear setup: Samuang 135mm/f2.8, iOptron GEN45 pro guided by ZWO mini guide scope, ZWO 120MM-S, Optolong L-Pro & Ha filters, ZWO 2400MC @ 0. Total integration 3 hours, subs 30 x 120sec L-Pro, 24 x 300sec Ha. Captured by Sharpcap pro, APT, PHD2 and processed by PI.

My scope setup had been in Hibernation for about 6 weeks while I had been away from home, and this was from a test imaging session last night to see how it was going. Obviously, not bad! Autoguiding was on-point (achieved one of the best guide graphs I've ever recorded) and this is a decent result for a small refractor!

Image Details:

- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm ZenithStar II Doublet

- 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

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

- Light Frames: 15*4 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -20C

- Dark Frames: 15*4 mins

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroomand Topaz Denoise AI

Copernicus Crater – diameter is 96 km, named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. It typifies craters that formed during the Copernican period in that it has a prominent ray system. Need many more frames to strengthen the details.

Tech Specs: ZWO ASI290MC camera and Meade 12” LX90, best 25% of 10k frames. Software used included Sharpcap Pro v3.1 and AutoStakkert!3. Photographed on March 17, 2019 from the Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, Pennsylvania, USA.

Here is an early work in progress showing my first attempt at imaging the Witch Head Nebula (IC 2118) in the constellation Orion. The bright star in this image is Rigel. With Orion now in the western skies after sunset, I will probably not be able to add additional data to this until next season. Still, happy to have finally imaged this one!

Tech Specs: Williams Optic’s Redcat 51, Celestron CGEM-DX mount (pier mounted), ZWO ASI071MC-Pro running at -10C, 30 x 120 second exposures, GAIN 200, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Captured using SharpCap v3.2. Image date: January 29, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.

Telescopio: APM 140 mm f 7 APO

Lente di Barlow Zeiss Abbe 2X

Camera di ripresa: :ZWO ASI 174 mono Cooled

Montatura: iOptron CEM60

Software:Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 3.0.14, SharpCap 3.1 Pro, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8, Astra Image 4 SI

Filtro:Meade Red 31,8 mm

Risoluzione: 2000x1259

Pose: 200 a 33 fps

Lunghezza focale: 1960 mm

Seeing: 3 Trasparenza: 7

270 subs at 15 seconds each in HA, pretty good but 15 seconds is too short, pattern noise still comes through.

HA 270@ 15seconds Gain 200 offset 5

20 darks at 62

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

Schuler HA 9nm

Moonlite focuser CR2

Moonlight Hi Res stepper motor

MyFocuer Pro v2 (Robert Brown) controller

Home Observatory

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

IC1805 Heart Nebula. First attempt + testing of guiding problems/solutions. Scope: TSAPO65Q. Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro. Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro. Guide: Altair 130M + Orion 50mm. 25 x 5 Mins in SharpCap Pro. Processed in APP. Finished in Adobe CC.

Telescopio: Celestron C8 Edge HD

Montatura: Ioptron CEM60

Camera di acquisizione:ZWO ASI 174 CMOS mono Cooled

Lente di Barlow: Televue Powermate 2.5X

Software:SharpCap 3.2 Pro, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, Stark Labs Nebulosity 4.2, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8, Astra Image 4 SI, Avistack 2.0

Filtro:Meade Red 31,8 mm

Pose: 150 su 502 riprese a 34 ftgs

Lunghezza focale: 5..080 mm

Seeing: 2 Trasparenza: 8

NGC 7000 with the ES 80mm ED triplet APO refractor

Zwo ASI1600MM Pro cooled mono camera and Orion Field Flattener

Had clear skies last night, good tracking, till the clouds came in

Astronomik 1 1/4" 12nm Ha filter, EAF and EFW

#SharpCap Pro, PoleMaster

Ioptron CEM 25 EQ mount, PHD2 guiding

Orion 30mm Mini guidescope Zwo 120MM mini

200 Gain offset 50, 0c cooling,

NGC 7000 was 5 minutes exposure 15 frames total, was going for 2 1/2 hours worth, total was 1 hour and 15 minutes

12 darks 32 flats and 32 bias frames

Astro Pixel Processor and PS

Ghost of Cassiopeia

HA 145@ 60 seconds Gain 200 offset 5

30 darks

Blue channel from Digitized Sky Survey

Scope: Orion 8" f4 Astrograph with Baader Coma Corrector

Mount: iOptron iEQ45 pro

Camera: ZWO ASI183M non cooled

Guide camera: QHY5Lii

Guide Scope: Stellarvue 50mm

ZWO 8 position 1.25 filter wheel filter wheel

Schuler HA 9nm,

Moonlite focuser CR2

Moonlight Hi Res stepper motor

MyFocuer Pro v2 (Robert Brown) controller

Home Observatory

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