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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Our Sun was putting on an excellent fireworks display this 4th of July. And it was one you enjoy during the daytime. Of course you would need to have a hydrogen alpha filtered solar telescope. The large prominence at the 2:00 position is approximately 225,000 miles long. That means you could put about 28 earths side by side in that space.

The image was captured using:

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

Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro

Capture software: SharpCap

Processing was done using:

Adobe Light Room Classic

Adobe Photoshop

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

Theophilus and Cyrillus Craters – continued work on the Sky-Watcher 120ED and Televue 4x Powermate. Seeing was good with a few high clouds, this is only the best 15% of 5000 frames. Looking forward to capturing 25k frames in future efforts.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Televue 4x Powermate, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC. Captured using SharpCap v3.0 software. Image date: 19 June 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA, USA.

Additional Info:

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_(crater))

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillus_(crater))

The Apenninus Mountains are one of my favorite locations to image on the moon. It is also home to our moons tallest mountain, Mons Huygens, which stands 3.4 miles tall!

Tech Specs: Orion 8" f/8 Ritchey-Chretien Astrograph Telescope, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ASI290MC, ZWO AAPlus, ZWO EAF, best 15% of 10k frames at full resolution, processed using SharpCap Pro and Registax. Image Date: March 11, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

Three 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. Did you know Mare Imbrium is one of the larger craters in our solar system?

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, ZWO ASI290MC, SharpCap Pro v3.2, best 150 of 2000 frames. Image date: 10 July 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA, USA.

Heart Nebula HA data combined with DSLR from last year HHO with Oiii being from the blue channel of my DSLR data.

24@ 300 seconds Gain 111 no cooling but 32F ambient (sensor was 42-46F)

30 darks

no flats (needs them), no bias (no need)

Scope: AT65EDQ

Mount: iOptron iEQ45

Camera: ZWO ASI183M non cooled

Guide camera: QHY5Lii

Guide Scope: Stellarvue 60mm

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, Team Viewer, Google Chrome Remote, autostakert!3, Registax

A view of the unusual Schiller Crater on the Moon -- The first thing you notice with this crater is the elongated shape, it almost looks like a footprint left on the surface. The crater measures about 179 x 71 kilometers and was formed by at least two impacts. The crater was named for Julius Schiller (c. 1580-1627).

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.

Tránsito de Mercurio con Bawlow Powermate 2'5x

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)

Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism

- TeleVue Lente de Barlow 2,5x Powermate 1,25"

Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop

Fecha: 2019-11-11

Hora: 13:13 T.U. (Tiempo universal)

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 30 segundos

Resolución: 1920 x 1080

Gain: 110

Exposure: 0,000154 s

Frames: 857

Frames apilados: 23%

FPS: 28.44

Nice 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. Image date: 22 June 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.

**REPROCESSED**

The Pinwheel Galaxy is a face-on spiral galaxy distanced 21 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. This galaxy contains over one trillion stars! (Our own Milky Way has around 200 billion!)

Two night's worth of data on this one due to cloudiness. Very hard to process even using PixInsight, but an okay result. Not too happy with the noise in the image despite taking Dark frames and trying to get rid of it in PixInsight.

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: 16*5 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -40C, 16 * 5 minute dark frames

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom

Apparent Venus Diameter: 13.9 arc-seconds

Venus phase: 78.3% illuminated

Image date: 2024-10-27

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The image software used to produce the picture was:

SharpCap (SER video capture of 1000 frames),

Autostakkert (convert the best 20% of frames to TIF format),

Gimp (basic image processing) and

Topaz (enlarge and sharpen).

Each video frame exposure was 15.625 milliseconds.

[Most of .. ] M45 in the Constellation of Taurus,

M: iOptron EQ45-Pro

T: WO GTF81 Refractor & Baader Flip-Mirror.

C: ZWO ASI533MM-Pro

G: OAG and PHD2

GC: ZWO ASI120Mini

Gain: 101; MONO16; FITs

Temp: -10 DegC

Area: 3008 x 3008

Binning: 1

Light L Frames: 11 x 40s

Light R Frames: 11 x 120s

Light G Frames: 11 x 240s

Light B Frames: 11 x 240s

Light Ha Frames: 11 x 300s

Cal Frames: No Darks; No flats

Exp: 10 x 60s; 4 x 300s

100% Crop

Capture: Sharpcap

Processed: APP, Gradient Exterminator, PS.

Here is a high contrast view of Mare Imbrium and Mare Serenitatis on Earth's moon.

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: October 18, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.

Oct 20, 2022

10x5 min, Gain 10, Offset 0, QHY183c at -20C, UV/IR filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8. SharpCap v4 for acquisition (LiveStacking.)

hh-10x300-g10-o0-qhy183c_-20C-uvir-60f4_8-v2

First stab at this with my new ZWO ASI183MC Color camera. I'm still learning as it's rather different from a DSLR, but it provides very nice color presentation and is able to tease out more detail than my D750 could.

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: 30*3mins

Dark Frames: 20*3mins

Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

Processed in Photomatix Pro HDR and Adobe Lightroom

Rupes Recta (latin for straight cliff) is a dark and almost straight line, stretching across the large crater which is almost dead centre of the above image.

It is a huge fault line or escarpment on the surface of the Moon, which can be seen just after daybreak at it’s Lunar location, when the Moon is about 8 days through its twenty-eight day cycle (around First Quarter Moon).

The low angle of sunlight casts a shadow that gives it the appearance of a steep cliff, which is 240–300 m high, although it may not be as steep as it looks, because it is 2-3 km wide.

Its length is roughly 110 km and it is located in the south-eastern part of the Mare Nubium.

Exposure: screen shot of zoomed video, in SharpCap.

Date: 2019-06-11.

Moon: 8 days since New Moon.

Location on the Moon: 22.1°S 7.8°W.

Last night’s moon from Weatherly, PA.

Tech Specs: Sky Watcher 120ED Esprit, Celestron CGEM-DX mount (pier mounted), ZWO ASI071MC-Pro, best 15% of 2500 frames, unguided. Captured using SharpCap Pro v3.2 and stacked in AutoStakkert! 3.0.14. Image date: December 7, 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.

Mars 11 October 2020 - a few days from opposition and a few days after its closest approach. 2020. Image taken at around 40 degrees altitude as well! From the back yard.

Equipment: Telescope 12" goto Skywatcher dobsonian,

Camera QHY163m, baader rgb filters, Tele Vue 5x powermate.

Software: Sharpcap, AutoStakkert 3, RegiStax 6, Topaz Denoise Ai, CS6.

Equipo Principal: NIKON D7500 + 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

ISO 800, 154 x 180" Lights

100 Darks

100 Flats

85 Bias

Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2

Adquisición: SGP 3.1

Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS

Taken under skies Bortle 2, from Observatorio La Banderita, La Pampa, Argentina, special thanks to Leonardo Julio for the invitation to travel to La Banderita (www.astronomiapampeana.com.ar).

Located 5200 light years away in the Constellation Monoceros. A massive star forming region of gas and dust .Notable here are the procession of animals crossing with the leaping Leopard and Bison amongst others and Boks globules. This image was shot over several nights in Winter 2022 with a total of 20 hours integration of 600 second exposures using sulphur, Hydrogen and Oxygen 3nm filters and 550mm refractor. Durham Uk bortle 5 skies . Skywatcher Esprit 100. Zwo Asi 1600 monochrome camera .Heq5 pro tracking mount . Qhy 5 ii guide camera with Phd . Image capture with sharpcap. Processed in Pixinsight as modified SHO and Lightroom .

The North America Nebula and the Pelican Nebula 5-Panel Mosaic - Taken over 3 nights in Nov 2020. Full size image is 8724 x 6831 pixels, which was too big to save as a JPG in PSCS3! I never had that problem before. LoL. Four of the panels were about an hour exposure each and one had only 37 minutes. The last two panels were taken during a full moon. The equipment used included a QHY183c camera (20MP), an Optolong L-eNhance filter and a Televue TV-85 at F/5.6. Sharpcap 3.2 was used for acquisition and stacking.

Telescopio: APM 140 mm f 7 APO

Montatura:iOptron CEM60

Camera di acquisizione:ZWO ASI 174 CMOS mono Cooled

Lente di Barlow: Televue Powermate 2.5X

Lunghezza focale: 2450 mm

230 pose somate su 507 riprese a 34 ftgs

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

Seeing: 2 Trasparenza: 7

First combined exposures using Bry's Observatory!

Equipment:

Scope: Celestron Edge HD 9.25 (with 0.7x reducer)

Mount: Celestron CGX-L mount

Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600mm-Pro camera (Cooled to -20, unity gain 139/50).

Off-axis Guider: Celestron OAG with a Touptek Guide Camera

Filter/Filterwheel: Astromania Manual Filter wheel, Astromania LRGB Filters

14 x 300s Red

15 x 300s Green

11 x 300s Blue

200 total minutes of integration shot from a Bortle 7/6 zone near Salt Lake City, Utah.

Software:

PHD2 for guiding

Sharpcap for Polar Alignment

Sequence Generator Pro for exposure acquisition

Celestron PWI for mount interface

PixInsight for:

Exposure registration and integration

Dynamic cropping

Mono channel registration

Dynamic cropping

Background extraction

LinearFit to Blue Channel

Channel combination

Dynamic background extraction

ScreenTransferFunction

Curves and histogram manipulation to generate contrast

SCNR to remove background green and blue noise

MultiscaleLinearTransfer to increase detail/sharpness

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Mars 11 October 2020 - a few days from opposition and a few days after its closest approach. 2020. Image taken at around 40 degrees altitude as well!

Equipment: Telescope 12" goto Skywatcher dobsonian,

Camera QHY163m, baader rgb filters, Tele Vue 5x powermate.

Software: Sharpcap, AutoStakkert 3, RegiStax 6, Topaz Denoise Ai, Topaz Sharpen Ai, CS6. Taken about 30 mins after my previous Mars photo from the same day.