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Close-up shot of Clavius
iOptron iEQ45pro + ES127 + ZWO ASI 178MC +3xBarlow. Captured with SharpCap. 20ms exposure, 100/1000 frames.
Stacked with AutoStakkert
Our lately quiet sun with the last AR in days (12713) and two big flares.
The lower right flare is about 80.000 km high, more that 6x the diameter of the Earth.
Technical card
Imaging telescope or lens:Lunt Solar Systems LS60THa/B1200C
Imaging camera:QHYCCD QHY5III174
Mount:Skywatcher AZ EQ-6 GT
Software:SharpCap, Emil Kraaikamp Autostackert! 3
Resolution: 1299x1145
Date: June 13, 2018
Time: 17:00
Frames: 30
FPS: 80.00000
Focal length: 500
Locations: Berga Resort, Berga, Barcelona, Spain
Data source: Backyard
Finally, after hours upon hours of what seemed to be an endless learning curve, I'm happy to present the fruits of my first step into deep space astrpophotography. Hope you like it!
Shot with QHY268M + Nikkor 200-500 f5.6 @ 350mm
Saxon AZ-EQ6 GT Mount
QHYCFW3 Filter Wheel
Captured using Sharpcap Pro & Stellarium
6nm Sii, Ha, Oiii Filters mapped respectively to RGB
Integration time: Ha - 50 x 3 mins, Oiii - 30 x 3 mins, Sii - 30 x 3 mins (330 mins total)
Calibration frames: 30 Dark, 60 Flat, 142 Bias
Processed using Deep Sky Stacker, Starnet, EasyHDR, Photoshop and Lightroom
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: Meade LX-90 12", ZWO ASI290MC, best 25% of 5k frames, captured using SharpCap Pro v3.1. Image date: March 12, 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
This image is taken 5 days after Saturn opposition on 01/09/2023. In opposition, Saturn’s rings appear brighter than usual. Apparent diameter is 19” arc second. Saturn orbits the Sun every 25 years. Gear setup: Celestron Edge HD8, TV 2.5 power mate, Baader UV/IR cut filter, ZWO 290MC, Celestron motor focuser. Captured by Sharpcap pro Exposure 13ms, Gain 300, Bin 2x2, FPS 75, 6000 frames taken. Stacking by Autostakkart! Srizzled by 3x. Wavelets by Registax and processed in PS.
The weather has been cloudy to partly cloudy for a few weeks. This afternoon was relatively clear with a few small cumulus clouds passing by. I thought I'd try and use a Coronado PST solar telescope to image the sun today. I find this scope a challenge to focus and adjust the etalon. There's image shift because the focusing mechanism is a sloppy movable prism. The etalon is goofy and causes half of the sun to look good while the other half is blurry. It's still fun to use. Besides it is all I have for solar observing. The sun has been active as it approaches solar maximum. There is something new to see every day.
Coronado PST; ZWO ASI432MM; 2x Barlow. I was lazy and used Sharpcap’s live stacking feature to process the image.
The thermometer read 99F, so I didn't image for very long. Not only I was overheating, but my equipment was too!
Tycho Crater – diameter is 86 km and it is about 4.8 km in depth, located in the southern region of the moon. The crater was named after Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546–1601). From Wikipedia, “The crater is sharply defined, unlike older craters that have been degraded by subsequent impacts. The interior has a high albedo that is prominent when the Sun is overhead, and the crater is surrounded by a distinctive ray system forming long spokes that reach as long as 1,500 kilometers. Sections of these rays can be observed even when Tycho is illuminated only by earthlight. Due to its prominent rays, Tycho is mapped as part of the Copernican System.”
Tech Specs: ZWO ASI290MC camera and Meade 12” LX90 telescope mounted on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount. Software used included Sharpcap v2.9 and AutoStakkert! Alpha Version 2.3.0.21. Photographed on February 6, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.
M31 Andromeda Galaxy. Scope: Altair Starwave 102ED-R with Lightwave 0.8x Reducer, Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro, Cam: ZWO ASI294MC Pro, Filter: ZWO IR/UV Cut. 18x1Min + 18x2Min. Captured in SharpCap Pro 3.2. Processed in APP 1.065. Finished in Adobe CC.
Dusty Mars.
27 days to opposition.
Low in the horizon. Still rising.
Seeing 2.5/5
Transparency 3/5.
3 images derotated. 1.5X drizzle
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
blend of HA and DSLR
AT65EDQ
ZWO ASI183MM non cooled
iOptron iEQ45 w 8604 HC
5 @ 300 seconds gain 111 (unity)
guided with QHY5Lii M
Software: ASCOM POTH, SharpCap Pro 3.1, Photoshop CC 2017, Google remote desktop, CdC, APT - Astro Photography Tool, PixInsight 1.8 Ripley PixInsight, ProDigital Software Astronomy Tools Actions Set
Accessories:Arduino Focuser DIY FocuserPro2 arduino focus motor ( Robert Brown)
Data source: Backyard
Another take on Orion, Barnard's Loop and the Rosette using an H-alpha filter to emphasize the hydrogen clouds through the region. Narrowband filters block most wavelengths including light pollution from the city and the moon. I added an hour of data to four hour's worth collected last year and made different processing choices for this version.
Tech Stuff: Canon 17-55 f/2.8 lens at 35mm on QHY163 mono cooled astro camera with Astronomik H-alpha filter, unguided tracking via iOptron CubePro mount. 330 minutes of 8 second exposures captured in LiveStacks via SharpCap; processed in PixInsight. Captured over 4 nights, November 2020-January 2021 from my yard 10 miles north of New York City.
IC410, NGC2244 and NGC2264 with the ES 80mm ED triplet refractor and Zwo ASI294MC Pro cooled color camera
Was trying out the focuser from Zwo EAF, Works flawless with SharpCap Pro
Had high thin clouds, tracking soo soo, better on NGC2244
Optolong L eNhance 2' filter
#SharpCap Pro, PoleMaster
Ioptron i45 Pro EQ mount, PHD2 guiding
Orion 60mm guidescope SSAG
220 Gain offset 10, -10c cooling,
IC410 was 90 minutes, 1 minute exposure each
NGC2244 was 90 minutes, 1 minute each
NGC2264 was 15 minutes, 1 minute each
50 darks 50 flats and 50 bias frames
For NGC2264 was 8 darks, 8 flats and 8 bias frames
Astro Pixel Processor and PS
Tonight’s moon (Nov 12, 2021) currently 66% illuminated, two panel mosaic.
Tech Specs: Orion 8" f/8 Ritchey-Chretien Astrograph, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI071, ZWO EAF. Captured in SharpCap Pro, processed in Autostakkert and Registax, two panel mosaic. Image date: November 12, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Moretus Crater is located in the highland region of the lunar south pole. The central mountain formation rises about 2,700 meters above the floor of the crater. In this view of the crater, south is at the top.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, Televue Powermate 2.5x, best 20% of 20k frames. Captured with SharpCap v3 and processed using AutoStakkert! And Registax. Image Date: February 26, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.
Here is a collection of Venus images from December 2016 to February 2017 showing how the size and phase of Venus has changed as it starts to move between the Earth and the Sun. Eventually, Venus will pass between the Earth and Sun and emerge into the morning sky once again.
TheSkyLive.com has a nice animated solar system map that you can view online (theskylive.com/).
Imaging Tech Specs: Meade LX90 12” Telescope, ZWO ASI290MC camera at prime focus, each image was composed of the best 2,000 frames of 10,000 frames sampled. Taken from Weatherly, Pennsylvania. Software included Sharpcap v2.9, AutoStakkert! Alpha Version 2.3.0.21, Registax, and Adobe Lightroom.
I tracked the comet for 2 hours on Feb 1. I could not see it visually, but the camera revealed the comet moving swiftly against the background stars and clouds. The faint tail does not come through in this process of the best 47 minutes but the green color -- typical of the comets I have imaged -- shows well here.
Borg 55FL/ZWOASI1600MC/IDAS LPS-V4/ 47 X 1 minute stacks of 4 second exposures using SharpCap. Processed with PixInsight, and ACDSee Gemstone 12. From my yard in Yonkers, NY.
Technical card
Imaging telescope or lens:Astro-Tech AT-65EDQ
Imaging camera:Nikon D5300
Mount:Celestron CG5 Advanced GT
Guiding telescope or lens:Meade 277
Guiding camera:QHY 5 L II M
Software: ASCOM POTH, SharpCap Pro 3.1, Photoshop CC 2017, Google remote desktop, CdC, APT - Astro Photography Tool, PixInsight 1.8 Ripley PixInsight, ProDigital Software Astronomy Tools Actions Set
Accessories:Arduino Focuser DIY FocuserPro2 arduino focus motor ( Robert Brown), OnStep by Howard Dutton OnStep
Resolution: 5874x3888
Dates:Dec. 4, 2018
Frames: 34x180" ISO400
Integration: 1.7 hours
Bias: ~100
Avg. Moon age: 26.79 days
Avg. Moon phase: 8.29%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 5.00
Locations: Home, Limington, maine, United States
Data source: Backyard
M106, a spiral arm galaxy with a massive black hole at the center is about 25 million light years distant. High in the sky right now, it is shown with companion galaxy NGC 4217 (at about 60 million ly) and a few smaller galaxies.
Tech Stuff: Borg 71FL/Borg 1.08 flattener/ZWO ASI1600MC cam/IDAS LPS-D2 filter/iOptron CubePro 8200 mount unguided/60 minutes total exposure time using 4 second exposures captured with SharpCap Pro/processed with PixInsight and finished in ACDSee. SQM-L reading about 18.7. From my yard 10 miles north of New York City March 14, 2021.
Telescopio: APM 140 mm f 7 APO
Montatura: Ioptron CEM60
Barlow Zeiss Abbe 2X Focale:di ripresa: 1960 m
Camera di acquisizione:ZWO ASI 174 CMOS mono Cooled
Filtro:Meade Red 31,8 mm
Software:SharpCap 3.1 Pro, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8, Astra Image 4 SI, Avistack 2.0
250 frames 34 fotogrammi al secondo
Clavius is a large crater found on the southern side of the moon, it measures approximately 136 miles across. The crater was named after Christoph Klau (or Christophorus Clavius) a 16th century German mathematician and astronomer.
Tech Specs: ZWO ASI290MC camera and Meade 12” LX90, best 20% of 5k frames. Software used included Sharpcap Pro v3.1 and AutoStakkert!3. Photographed on February 16, 2019 from the Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Lagoon Nebula, Messier 8 (NGC 6523) is one of the finest star-forming regions in the sky, and is faintly visible to the naked eye. It is a giant glowing cloud of interstellar gas, divided by a dark lane of dust, containing a cluster of young stars (NGC 6530) that have formed from it. The earliest observations of this object were made by Giovanni Battista Hodierna before 1654. When Charles Messier cataloged this object in 1764, he primarily described the cluster, and mentioned the nebula separately as surrounding the star 9 Sagittarii.
Distance from Earth: 4,100 light-years
Dimensions: 100 x 50 light-years
2 imaging sessions 29 - 30 June 2022
245 x 120 second exposures using no filters
Total time: 8hours 10mins
maged from my backyard in Gérgal, Almería, Spain
Bortle Class: 4 to 5
Telescope: William Optics GT81 @ 385mm
Image Camera: ZWO ASI 183 MC Pro -10C
Guiding: ZWO OAG with ZWO ASI 192MM S
Focusing: Pegasus FocusCube 2
Filter: None
Mount: Celestron CGX
Computer: Intel Atom NUC
Capture software: NINA, PHD2, Sharpcap Pro
Processing software: PixInsight, StarXterminator, NoiseXterminator, Adobe Lightroom
Mars imaged last evening, best 15% of 20k frames.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, ZWO ASI290MC, unguided. Captured using SharpCap v3.2 (64 bit), processed in Autostakkert and Registax. Image date: October 9, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
The Andromeda Galaxy is our closest galactic neighbor at only ~2.5 million light-years away from Earth. It is the most distant thing the human eye can see. On a moonless night in a dark sky area you can easily discern a smudge of light larger than the moon, a telescope or binoculars will help you see more detail. It is so bright even an ordinary mirrorless or DSLR can capture in it in a ~30-second widefield shot. The Andromeda Galaxy and our Milky Way Galaxy are scheduled to collide in ~4.5 billion years.
I have photographed our galactic neighbor before, but I wanted to give it a go with fresh data using PixInsight for the bulk of my image processing, and I was not disappointed.
Shot from my backyard near Taos, New Mexico.
Equipment:
SkyWatcher EQ6-R Mount
Canon FD 300mm f/4 L - shot at f/5.6
Sony a7RIII (unmodified)
ZWO 30mm Guide Scope
GPCAM2 Mono Camera
Acquisition:
Taos, NM: my backyard - Bortle 3
57 x 151" for 2 hours, 23 min and 27 sec of exposure time.
5 dark frames
15 flats frames
15 bias frames
Software:
SharpCap
PHD2
PixInsight
Lightroom
Photoshop
My a7rIII and adapted Canon FD 300mm f/4 L lens were mounted to my SkyWatcher EQ6-R mount using a vixen rail. The guidescope/camera were fixed to the front of the rail. I used SharpCap to achieve "excellent" polar alignment. I shot ISO 800 at f/5.6. I took 151" exposures using PHD2 with my guidescope to keep tracking accurately. I brought the lights/darks/flats/bias frames into PixInsight for stacking and aligning and then used: STF, Cropping, Dynamic Background Extraction, BlurXTerminator, plate solving, color correction, NoiseXTerminator, and then the galaxy was separated from the stars using StarXterminator, and both files processed and stretched separately and then recombined using PixelMath. That file was brought into Lightroom for Metadata and EXIF tags, light post-processing, and cropping. I used Photoshop to sharpen the final image.
Located 25 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major, M101 has an apparent magnitude of 7.9.
The giant spiral disk of stars, dust and gas is 170,000 light-years across — nearly twice the diameter of our galaxy, the Milky Way. M101 is estimated to contain at least one trillion stars. The galaxy’s spiral arms are sprinkled with large regions of star-forming nebulas. These nebulas are areas of intense star formation within giant molecular hydrogen clouds. Brilliant, young clusters of hot, blue, newborn stars trace out the spiral arms.
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*4 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -10C
- Dark Frames: 10*4 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, and Topaz Denoise AI
Equipo Principal: ZWO ASI183MC-pro + Askar ACL200 + EQ6-R-Pro + ZWO EAF
Equipo guía: Hercules 32/130 mini guidescope, Player One Neptunce C-II
ASI183MC-pro:
*Gain 111, -15 º C, Optolong L-Ultimate 2", 364x300"
50 Darks
70 Flats / 100 Darkflats por filtro
Polar alignment: Sharpcap 4
Adquisición: SGP 3.2
Guiado: Phd2
Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.9, PS
Messier 31 with Zenithstar 61ii and DSLR No Calibration Frames
This was one of those rare, beautiful nights when I wanted to just admire the heavens ... to do something less stressful ... something more simple ... with a very small telescope and a cheap DSLR. This William Optics Zenithstar 61ii was mounted on an iOptron CEM25P with guiding using a very small ZWO 30mm fl 120mm guidescope and PHD2 guiding software. No darks or other calibration frames were taken. Just the 10 exposures at 240 seconds each. ISO was set to 800. The site was a Bortle 4 and the temperature was 15 C (59 F). The Canon T7i DSLR sensor temperature was 21 C (70 F). I was curious how low the outside temperature had to be to use an uncooled, stock DSLR without worrying about background noise. I'm pleased with the results.
Capturing the exposures was done with APT. Processing was done with Pixinsight. Polar Alignment for the evening used SharpCap Pro. If you look closely at the NGC 206 star cluster contained in the Andromeda galaxy, you can see individual blue giant stars ... individual stars in another galaxy ... with a 61mm telescope. The technology available today is amazing.
Equipo Principal: ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + SW Explorer 250pds + SW Coma Corrector 0.9x + EQ6-R-Pro + ZWO EAF + ZWO 7x2" EFW
Equipo guía: ZWO M68 OAG, ZWO ASI 120mm mini
*Gain 139, -15 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 80x180"
*Gain 139, -15 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 50x180"
*Gain 139, -15 º C, Sii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 60x180"
100 Darks
80 Flats / 80 Darkflats por filtro
Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2
Adquisición: SGP 3.2
Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS
Clavius is a large crater found on the southern side of the moon, it measures approximately 136 miles across. The crater was named after Christoph Klau (or Christophorus Clavius) a 16th century German mathematician and astronomer.
Tech Specs: Meade 12" LX-90, Celestron CGEM-DX mount (pier mounted), ZWO ASI290MC, best 25% of 2,500 frames. Captured using SharpCap v3.2 and processed in Autostakkert! 3.0.14. Image date: February 3, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
Lune décroissante 45.5%, prise au petit matin vers 6h30
Moon photographed early in the morning, around 6h30.
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Risingcam IMX571 color
William Optics Zenithstar73ii
iOptron CEM26
Filtre Optlong L-Pro
Exp. 15ms / Gain 101
Best 500 de 2500
Aquisition: Sharpcap
Traitement: PIPP, AutoStakkert 4.0, Registax et Affinity Photo 2
@Astrobox 2.0 / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec
AstroM1
These 2 pictures from Friday night, NGC 6888 & NGC7000 with IC 5070
WO SkyCat 51 Zwo 071MC Pro cooled color camera
Optolong eNhanced filter
#SharpCap Pro
Ioptron i45 Pro EQ mount PHD2 guiding
Orion 60mm guidescope SSAG
200 Gain offset 20 0c cooling all pictures 1 minute exposure, NGC 6888 was 1 hour, NGC 7000 & IC 5070 was 2 hours and 10 minutes
50 darks 50 flats and 50 bias frames
Astro Pixel Processor and PS
M42 & M43 with the ES 80mm ED triplet APO refractor
Orion Field Flattener and Zwo ASI1600MM Pro cooled mono camera
Had clear skies last night, good tracking
Astronomik 1 1/4" 12nm Ha filter, EAF and EFW
#SharpCap Pro, PoleMaster
Ioptron i45 Pro EQ mount, PHD2 guiding
Orion 60mm guidescope Zwo 120MM mini
200 Gain offset 50, -10c cooling,
M42 was 2 hours and 10 minutes, 10s exp X60,
30s exp X60, 60s exp X60 and 180s exp X10
100 darks 100 flats and 100 bias frames for M42
I used multi-sessions in APP for stacking
Astro Pixel Processor and PS
Taken with ES127mm scope from my Bortle7 skies. Using AS2600MC camera and Optolong L-eNhance filter for light pollution and moon light. Consists of 18 x 7 minutes Live Stacked and calibrated on the fly in SharpCap Pro. Unfortunately the dither function failed to work in PHD2 so things are less smooth than I would like.
Includes NGC2032, NGC2052, NGC2040, NGC2038, NGC2021, NGC2020, NGC2014, NGC2004 plus others.
= Acquisition info =
William Optics Zenithstar 73ii (FL 430mm)
Risingcam IMX571 color
iOptron CEM26
Sharpcap
= Séance photo =
@Astrobox 2.0
St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec
Bortle 9
10 septembre 2024 à 20h00
Filtre UV/IR
Best 250 de 2000 x 100ms
= Traitement/processing =
PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax & Affinity Photo 2
AstroM1
This is the star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion. In the last few weeks there has been some discussion about the dimming of this star and the possibility of it going supernova. While it will explode someday, the recent dimming is probably due to its variability and not that it is getting ready to explode (maybe). You can read more about this at EarthSky.org (earthsky.org/space/betelgeuse-fainting-probably-not-about...).
Here are some interesting facts about this 9th brightest star in the sky. The name Betelgeuse is derived from the Arabic Yad al-Jauzā’ meaning “the hand of Orion”. Betelgeuse is a red supergiant, 20 times the mass of the sun, is a variable star and lies at a distance around 640 (I’ve found various ranges, this number seems like the largest I have come across) light-years away from Earth.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount (pier mounted), ZWO ASI071MC-Pro running at -25C, 5 x 60 second exposures, GAIN 200, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Captured using SharpCap v3.2. Image date: December 21, 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
Counting down to the October 14th annular eclipse.
Coronado 70mm Solarmax III single stacked Ha telescope.
Orion Atlas Pro EQ mount.
ZWO ASI174mm camera.
SharpCap, Autostakkert, Lightroom, Photoshop software.
Nothing special with this photo but it's been a long road plagued with equipment breakdowns, manufacturing defects, and setbacks. Business as usual.
Now we wait...
Here is a view of Saturn and several moons taken on August 23, 2018.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mmED Triplet Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ASI 290MC, and Televue 2.5x Powermate (1.25”). Captured with SharpCap software and processed in Corel Paintshop Pro. Image Date: 23 August 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, Pennsylvania, USA.
hh-123x30-g42-o42-qhy183c_-20C-lenh-85f5_6-v4
Shot this from a red zone with an Optolong L-eNhance dual-band filter and a little over an hour of 30 second sub-images. Acquired and stacked in SharpCap 3.2 with LiveStacking and dither turned on. Relatively high gain setting of 42 on a 1 to 54 scale with offset at 42 and -20C cooling, QHY183c camera mounted on a Televue TV-85 at F/5.6.
Genova, Italy (18 Oct 2022 23:18 UT)
Planet: diameter 3.8", mag +5.6, altitude ≈ 58°
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 @ 15fps - 180 sec - RAW16 - Gain 249)
Best 25% frames of about 2700
Alignment/Stacking: AutoStakkert! 3.1.4
Final Elaboration: GIMP 2.10.30
NGC 2683 is a field spiral galaxy in the northern constellation of Lynx. It was nicknamed the "UFO Galaxy" by the Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory. It was discovered by the astronomer William Herschel on February 5, 1788. 30 million light years away!
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: Celestron C8 SCT
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with ZWO IR cut filter
- Guider: Celestron Starsense Autoguider
- Mount: Celestron CGEM
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: Celestron
- Capture Software: SharpCap Pro (LiveStack mode with dithering)
- Light Frames: 30*4 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -20C
- Dark Frames: 30*4 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, and Topaz Denoise AI
This is the result of a long-term project (multi-year!) Data over two years combined with ongoing, recently-learned processing techniques. Quite happy with this one.
The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula, is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth and the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way.
It will collide with our own Milky Way in about 4.5 billion years.
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
- Mount: Celestron CGEM
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: PHD2
- Light Frames: 50*4 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -15C, 50x2 mins @ 150 Gain, Temp -20C
- Dark Frames: 32*4 mins, 40x2 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz Denoise
A Globular Cluster in the constellation Lyra approximately 32,900 light-years from Earth and measures roughly 84 light-years across. The cluster has an estimated age of 13.70 billion years and is following a retrograde orbit through the Milky Way. (Wikipedia)
20 180s lights (1hour) with flats and bias. Dithered.
Telescope: - Skywatcher 130PDS Newtonian.
Camera: - Nikon D3100.
ISO: 400. Automated white balance
Filters: - Baader Mark-III MPCC Coma Corrector. IDAS D2 Light Pollution Suppression Filter
Flats taken with a Huion L4S Light Box and a white t-shirt.
Wireless Remote: PIXEL TW-283 DC2 2.4G.
Mount: - Skywatcher EQ6R.
Guiding: Skywatcher EvoGuide 50ED & ZWO ASI120MM-Mini.
Polar Aligned with SharpCap Pro.
Control Software: - Stellarium Scope, Stellarium, Poth Hub, EQMOD, All Sky Plate Solver, PHD Guiding 2 and PHD Dither Timer.
Processing Software: Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and edited in Star Tools.
Moon: 6 day/see my prior picture!
Light Pollution and Location: - Bortle 8 in Davyhulme, Manchester.
Seeing: - Average. It’s hot in Manchester at the moment and permanently clear however a bit musty.
Notes: - With this object being so close to the milky way there are so many stars. From a processing point of view, I am not sure what is noise and what is just general nebulosity. This poses new challenges that I have not had before. I think I need to do some reading up on this.
This picture is far more satisfying than my previous deep sky attempt on the Sunflower galaxy, I think I’ll look to take some more pictures around the milky way in the immediate future. Lots of stuff to choose from but it would seem most are too big for my setups field of view. I may as well try anyway, and see what happens.
Explore Scientific AR152 refractor @125mm aperture and ZWO 120MM-S on EQ6. Baader OD 3.8 solarfilm, Solar continuum + UV/IR cut filters. 250 of 2500 frames captured in SharpCap, processed in AutoStakkert.
Hazy day.
These 5 pictures from Monday and Tuesday nights, Sadr region, IC1396, Heart & Soul Nebulas, M8 & M20 and Veil complex...
WO SkyCat 51 Zwo 071MC Pro cooled color camera
Optolong eNhanced filter
#SharpCap Pro
Ioptron i45 Pro EQ mount PHD2 guiding
Orion 60mm guidescope SSAG
200 Gain offset 20 0c cooling all pictures 1 minute exposure
50 darks 50 flats and 50 bias frames
Astro Pixel Processor and PS
Clavius is a large crater found on the southern side of the moon, it measures approximately 136 miles across. The crater was named after Christoph Klau (or Christophorus Clavius) a 16th century German mathematician and astronomer.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, Televue Powermate 2.5x, best 20% of 20k frames. Captured with SharpCap v3 and processed using AutoStakkert! And Registax. Image Date: February 26, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.
The Sun's Chromosphere
H-alpha image of the Sun using a ZWO ASI 174MM Camera and a Daystar Quark Combo Chromosphere H-alpha filter with a Questar 3.5 50.5-inch focal length Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope. Best 50 of 500 frames were captured with SharpCap 2.9 and aligned and stacked using Autostakkert! 2 with wavelets applied in Registax 6.
Tycho Crater – diameter is 86 km and it is about 4.8 km in depth, located in the southern region of the moon. This is my best result to date of imaging this crater. The addition of the Pegasus FocusCube to my Meade 12" LX-90 has really made a difference and has allowed me to do precise focusing without the scope jittering around while turning the focus knob. Looking forward to even better results when capturing 30k+ frames.
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.
Taken Nov 7/8, 2021. I stayed out till almost 1:00 AM on a work night shooting this image of the California Nebula. It is 2.55 hours of 3 minute sub-images (51x180 sec) calibrated and stacked in SharpCap 3.2 LiveStacking, then a quick stretch and color balance adjustment in FitsWorks with final post processing in PS.
Taken with a QHY183c camera at -15C cooling (gain 11, offset 50,) an Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8 and an Optolong L-eNhance filter. Metro area location under heavy light pollution, but clear and transparent skies.
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Tonight’s moon from Weatherly, PA, December 29, 2022.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO AS2600mc-Pro running at -10C, Celestron CGEM-DX Pier Mounted, best 20% of 1000 frames, focus with a ZWO EAF, controlled with a ZWO ASIAir Pro. Processed using SharpCap Pro, AutoStakkert and Registax. Image Date: December 29, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
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, 71x180"
*Gain 139, -20 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 71x180"
100 Darks
100 Flats por filtro
Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2
Adquisición: SGP 3.1
Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS
LUNA GIBOSA CRECIENTE AL 58,5% del 26-07-2023
Se trata de un mosaico de 52 fotos.
En realidad se capturan 52 vídeos, de dichos vídeos se apilan los mejores frames, para obtener una imágen nítida. Luego se da contraste y enfoque, a cada una de las teselas, y finalmente se monta el mosaico.
EXIF: Telescopio Bresser Maktsukov 152, 1900mm, a f12,5; montura Explore Scientific EXOS 2 PMC8 wifi, cámara QHY5 462C, filtro UV/IR cut de 1,25.
Software de captura Sharpcap.
Procesada con Astrosurface, apilada con ICE (programa descontinuado de microsoft pero que va muy bien).
Espero que os guste.
Saludos.