Took these pictures Saturday night, M27 and M22 & M28

WO SkyCat 51, Zwo 183MC Pro cooled color camera

Zwo IR/cut filter

#SharpCap Pro

Ioptron i45 Pro EQ mount PHD2 guiding

Orion 60mm guidescope SSAG

120 Gain offset 20 0c cooling, 1 minute exposure, M22 & M28 was 40 minutes, M27 was 80 minutes total, 1 minute exposure each

50 darks 50 flats and 50 bias frames

Astro Pixel Processor and PS

Full moon too...

My first lunar image shot using the ZWO 533.

The second full moon of the year, known as the ’Snow’ moon, this is the full moon of February - shot on the 27th.

Captured in Sharpcap, 600 frames of 877 stacked in Autostakkert2.

- ZWO 533

- Canon 70-200 2.8 IS II + 1.4 III (280mm @F5.6)

- EQ6R Pro

📷:)

78F sensor temps, hazy, high thin clouds, fireworks smoke, looking into light pollution.

Lots, maybe too much noise reduction.

12@ 300 seconds HA Gain 111

15 darks at 78F!!!

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

Waxing Crescent/30.1%

Moon Age 4.87 out of 29.39 days

March 14, 2024, about 9 pm. Tallahassee, Florida.

The seeing was good and the No. 15 yellow filter seemed to work well for improving contrast. Rupes Altai is easily seen. It is usually washed out in later phases.

TMB 80mm f/6.3 refractor; ASI585MC, full resolution (3840 x 2160) cropped; UV/IR cut filter; No.15 yellow filter; SharpCap; best 1000 frames out of 10,000. Gain 300; PIPP, AutoStakkert. WaveSharp. Photoshop (for exposure and color adjustment.)

I'm delighted to share my first attempt at capturing a transit of the Sun by the International Space Station!

The transit was visible from Oxfordshire, and took place at 5:23pm BST on Thursday 6th June. The whole event lasted just 1.3 seconds!

Telescope: William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with Thousand Oaks glass solar filter

Mount: EQ5 Pro on a permanent pier, tracking at solar speed

Camera: ZWO ASI120MC camera

2,000 frame video captured with SharpCap Pro, started 12 seconds before the predicted transit time. Video was debayered, then run through PIPP to extract the 31 frames which had the ISS in shot. Those frames were then stacked using StarStaX, processed in Lightroom, Registax 6, Photoshop CS2 and Fast Stone Image Viewer.

Widefield View: Messier 101 Disrupted by Companions

The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457) is a face-on spiral galaxy 21 million light-years (6.4 megaparsecs) away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781 and was communicated that year to Charles Messier, who verified its position for inclusion in the Messier Catalogue as one of its final entries.

M101 is a large galaxy, with a diameter of 170,000 light-years. By comparison, the Milky Way has a diameter of 100,000[11] light-years. It has around a trillion stars, twice the number in the Milky Way. It has a disk mass on the order of 100 billion solar masses, along with a small central bulge of about 3 billion solar masses. Its characteristics can be compared to those of Andromeda Galaxy.

M101 is asymmetrical due to the tidal forces from interactions with its companion galaxies. These gravitational interactions compress interstellar hydrogen gas, which then triggers strong star formation activity in M101's spiral arms that can be detected in ultraviolet images. (Wikipedia.org)

Technical Info for Image:

Telescope: Explore Scientific ED102 APO f7.

Mount: Celestron Advanced VX Equatorial Mount. Main Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro cooled to -10C and set to a Gain of 400.

Guide Scope: Orion 50mm with a FL 242mm connected to a ZWO ASI290MC camera monitored by PHD2 auto-guiding software.

Exposures: 121 x 30 seconds each at Bin 1x1.

Filters: None Used.

Image Acquisition: Astrophotography Tool (APT).

Post: Processing: Pixinsight software.

Polar Alignment: SharpCap Pro.

Final Touchup: Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud. Location: Landers, California USA.

DISCOVERED a new color calibration tool in PixInsight (Photometric Color Calibration) which is getting me much better color in my images during processing. Very pleased with this result!)

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

Coronado PST single stack, ASI183M, 2 imaged blended. One tuned for surface, one tuned for proms. SharpCap, Autostakkert3!, PI deconvolution, PS for blending layers and color. Tracked on a GM8 base with OnStep controller

Scope: Orion 8" f4 Astrograph with Baader Coma Corrector

Mount: iOptron iEQ45 pro

Camera: ZWO ASI183M non cooled

best 50% of 5000frames

ZWO 850nm IR Pass Filter

Sharpcap, CdC, Photoshop, autostakert!3, Registax

Taken from Bortle 7 city skies using 150mm refractor, ASI294MC Pro camera and Optolong L-Pro filter. Consists of 200 x 60 second exposure captured in Live Stacking mode in SharpCap Pro software.

RED for detail120 each @ 15 seconds Gain 200

30 darks

Color from Jim Carroll's data

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 LRGB

Moonlite focuser CR2

Moonlight Hi Res stepper motor

MyFocuer Pro v2 (Robert Brown) controller

Bahtinov mask

Home Observatory

Software: APT, PHD2, Sharpcap, CdC, Pixinsight, Photoshop, Team Viewer

Taken with ASI2600MC camera using an Espirit 150mm scope. Exposure consists of 58 x 5 minute sub exposures Live Stacked and calibrated on the fly in SharpCap Pro

27.02.2018 - Last night's Waxing Gibbous Moon (94% illuminated) in between the snow fall last night.

Altair Astro LightWave 72EDR

Altair Astro IMX178 colour Hypercam

SkyWatcher AZ-GTI mount

Best 200 frames stacked from 2000 captured.

SharpCap 3.1

Post processed with Photoshop CC 2018

Saturation and contrast boosted.

M51 In the constellation of Canes Venatici.

M: iOptron EQ45-Pro

T: William Optics GTF81

C: ZWO ASI1600MC-Cooled

F: Hutec IDAS D2

G: PHD2

GS: BaaderFlip Mirror with OAG

GC: ZWO ASI120mini

RAW16; FITs

Temp: -15 DegC

Gain 139;

7 x Exp 500s

Gain 200;

14 x Exp 200s

Frames: 20 Lights; 50 Darks; 100 flats

Approx 50% Crop

Capture: SharpCap

Processed: DSS; APP; PS

Sky: 80% moon, calm, minimal cloud, cold, fair seeing.

31 million light years distant.

(NOTE: This new image replaces an earlier image I had taken. Hope you like it.)

The Fascinating Neighborhood of the Star Sadr

Compared to our Sun, Sadr is an enormous star, with 12 times the Sun's mass and about 150 times the Sun's radius. It is emitting over 33,000 times as much energy as the Sun, at an effective temperature of 6,100 K in its outer envelope. This temperature is what gives the star the characteristic yellow-white hue of an F-type star. Massive stars such as this consume their nuclear fuel much more rapidly than the Sun, so the estimated age of this star is only about 12 million years old. (Wikipedia.org)

Technical Information for This Image

Sadr is the center star in the large cross asterism in the constellation of Cygnus. This image was taken with a William Optics Zenithstar 81 APO Doublet Refractor on an iOptron CEM25P mount. This telescope is a very compact unit and has optical elements made of FPL53 glass and is actually considerably sharper than some of my larger telescopes. The main imaging camera, attached to the prime focus of the telescope was a ZWO ASI294MC Pro cooled camera which was cooled to -5C. The 12 exposures were each 240 seconds, and the gain was set to 120. Auto guiding was done using a William Optics 50mm guide scope with a 200mm FL. Attached to the guide scope was a ZWO ASI183MC camera which was connected to PHD2 autoguiding software. Capturing was done with Astrophotography Tool (APT) software and post processed with Pixinsight software with finishing touches put in using Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud. Polar Alignment for the evening was done using SharpCap software.

Vlacq Crater – diameter is 89 km and it is located in the southeast region of the moon, named after Adriaan Vlocq a Dutch book publisher and author of mathematical tables (1600-1667). The rim is eroded, the interior largely flat but does have a central mountain.

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 2, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.

This fabulous region of Cygnus is a big glowing hydrogen cloud, invisible to the naked eye but revealed in larger telescopes and in images like this from small scopes when filtered for the H-alpha wavelength. I'm happy with the improvement from my last serious imaging attempt 3 years ago.

Tech stuff: Borg 55FL astrograph at f/3.6/ZWO ASI1600MC/IDAS LPS-V4 filter/iOptron CubePro mount. 8 Second exposures unguided captured in SharpCap Livestacks; total integration time 132 minutes. From my Bortle 7 yard 10 miles north of NYC. Captured August 1st.

Equipment

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses

Meade LX65 6" MAK OTA

Imaging Cameras

ZWO ASI224MC

Mounts

Celestron Advanced VX

Filters

SVBony UV/IR Cut 1.25"

Software

Adobe Photoshop · AstroSharp Ltd SharpCap · Cor Berrevoets et al. Registax · Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert

Acquisition details

Date: July 22, 2022

Time: 03:07

Frames: 2000

FPS: 80.890

Exposure per frame: 7.36 ms

Focal length: 1800

Resolution: 984x723

File size: 366.4 KB

Locations: Sassari, Sassari, Sardegna, Italy

Data source: Backyard

The Leo Triplet (also known as the M66 Group) is a small group of galaxies about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. This galaxy group consists of the spiral galaxies M65, M66, and NGC 3628.

I must say, the new William Optics 61mm ZenithStar refractor is very capable and seems to work nicely with the ZWO ASI183MC Pro camera.

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: 40*4 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -16C

- Dark Frames: 40*4 mins

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz Denoise AI

Went out Tuesday night, Just NGC2244 and SH2-240 Had clear skies...….

SH2-240 is a very large dim supernova remnant, also called the Spaghetti nebula, 3 hours isn't enough time, Need at least 10 hours+ to bring out the details, I was able to get a portion of the nebula...

WO RedCat51, Zwo1600MM Pro cooled mono camera

Astronomik Ha 12nm CCD 1 1/4" filter

#SharpCap Pro, PoleMaster

Ioptron i45 Pro EQ mount, PHD2 guiding

Orion 60mm guidescope SSAG

200 Gain offset 50, -10c cooling,

NGC2244 was 60 minutes, 1 minute exposure each

SH2-240 was 3 hours @ a minute each

100 darks 100 flats and 100 bias frames

Astro Pixel Processor and PS

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: starguider 60/240 mm, ZWO ASI 120mm mini

*Gain 139, -25 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 85x180"

*Gain 139, -25 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 80x180"

*Gain 139, -25 º C, Sii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 80x180"

100 Darks

100 Flats por filtro

Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2

Adquisición: SGP 3.1

Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS

ZWO ASI294MC-Pro Cooled + Meade ETX90 f.1250mm f/d13.8 sur Sky Watcher Star Adventurer.

50 poses de 1/125s . Acquisition avec SharpCap 3.2 - Empilement AutoStakkert - Traitement RegiStax 6 et FastStone Image Viewer.

Plus petit cratère défini ( ex. Gambart H) D = 4 km

This is my first go at sunspots since completing the the observatory. Sunspot Group 12674 was captured using a piggyback setup on my main telescope (Meade 12” LX90). Happy with the results this far, technical details below.

Tech Specs: Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM + Canon 2x Extender III + ZWO ASI290MC camera piggyback mounted on a Meade 12” LX90 telescope on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount. Best 50% of 5000 frames collected using SharpCap v3.0 and AutoStakkert! V3.0.14 (x64). A 77mm Thousand Oaks Optical Solar Filter was on the business end of the lens. Date: September 1, 2017.

This is the other half of a pair of images, which were recently created on a beautiful Saturday night, with a barbecue with friends from the Volkssternwarte München on the side. For the other image, see: Where the Telescope Looked...

This was the main course of the evening: NGC7380, also known as the Wizard Nebula, in the constellation Cepheus. It is one of the of the better recognizable shapes of all the nebulae out there. I had seen many beautiful examples of this object here on Flickr, and thought it would be framed nicely on the telescope and camera I had available here. Indeed, I think the framing turned out well!

In contrast to many other images of this object, this one was taken without any filters with a color camera, i.e., it's what the eye could see if it could see colours at night, and if it could do long exposures. Accordingly, the stars appear very dominant here, since they are not suppressed by narrowband filters. But I think it gives the image its own appeal and offsets it a bit form the others. Let's just imagine the many stars are the sparkles set off by the Wizard's magic! Also, I still find it fascinating what wonders you can wrestle from the light-polluted Munich downtown sky with (moderate!) digital post-processing.

Image information:

Acquisition: 345x 30s

Camera: ASI 294 MC Pro, Gain 120, Brightness 30

Acquisition software: SharpCap Pro, live stacking mode with sigma clipping and digital gradient reduction

Correction: 256x flats with flat-darks, 120x darks

Filters: none

Telescope: Meade LX200 16" Schmidt-Cassegrain, f/10

Reducer: Starizona SC corrector, x0.63

Effective focal length: 2524 mm

Mount: custom-built, stationary equatorial mount, no guiding

Post-processing:

SiRiL: Photometric calibration with plate solving, fine background removal, first de-noising step

Fitswork: sharpening, wavelet noise reduction

Luminar 2018: final touch (sharpening, saturation)

Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: Celestron 127/1500 Maksutov-Cassegrain

Camere di acquisizione: SVBONY SV305

Montature: Celestron SLT

Software: PIPP x64 2.5.9 · SharpCap Pro 3.2 Sharcap · ASTROSURFACE · AutoStakkert! · photoshop

Data:24 Dicembre 2020

Pose: 1200

FPS: 50,00000

Lunghezza focale: 1500

Seeing: 4

Trasparenza: 8

Risoluzione: 902x601

Luoghi: Terrazzo di casa (Sant'Agata li Battiati), Sant'Agata Li Battiati, CT, Italia

Origine dei dati: Giardino

Been learning a lot about PixInsight, so ran some data captured a couple of months ago through some new processing. Super sharp result, probably my best image of this galaxy to date!

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.

Image Details:

- Imaging Scope: Astrotelescopes ED 80mm Refractor

- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with UV/IR Blocking filter

- Guiding Scope: William Optics 66mm Petzva

- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auto Guider

- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap

- Guiding Software: PHD2

- Light Frames: 41*5 mins @ 50 Gain, Temp -25C

- Dark Frames: 41*5 mins @ 50 Gain, Temp -25C

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom

27% Waxing Crescent Moon. Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor with ASI120MC camera + Celestron 3x Barlow. The telescope was on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier.

2,000 frame video was captured using SharpCap, the best 30% of the frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3 then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer. The first video I shot was pretty clear but then thin cloud was moving across the Moon for the remainder of the imaging session.

This region shows the craters near to the shadow terminator and the south western region. The crater with a central peak at the top of this image is Piccolimini. To the lower left are two more craters with central peaks, and they are Pitiscus and Vlaq. There are so many craters to study during this lunar phase!

IC434 and IC1805 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

#SharpCap Pro, PoleMaster

Ioptron i45 Pro EQ mount, PHD2 guiding

Orion 60mm guidescope SSAG

200 Gain offset 50, -10c cooling,

IC1805 was 80 minutes, 1 minute exposure each

IC434 was 220 minutes, 1 minute each, over 3 1/2 hours

100 darks 100 flats and 100 bias frames for IC434

30 darks 30 flats and 30 bias frames for IC1805

Astro Pixel Processor and PS

A few small solar prominence's on today’s sun (July 4, 2019).

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher 120ED Esprit, ZWO ASI290MC, Daystar Quark Chromosphere + Daystar 2" UV/IR filter, SharpCap v3.0, best 15% of 2k frames, AutoStakkert, Registax. Image date: 4 July 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA, USA.

On the year of the 50th anniversary since the first Moon landing, this is the very first time I'm capturing the Moon seriously with a telescope. Best 50% of 2000 frames captured with the ASI1600 on an 80mm Triplet APO. Captured on the evening of March 23rd 2019 via SharpCap and processed with Autostakkert and Lightroom.

Here is a view of the planet Venus taken on January 1, 2017, now at 57% full and it will be progressively getting narrower over the next few weeks.

Tech Specs: Meade LX90 12” Telescope, ZWO ASI290MC camera at prime focus, best 1000 frames of 5000 frames sampled. Taken from Weatherly, Pennsylvania. Software included SharpCap 2.9, Registax, and Adobe Lightroom.

Messier 42, the Great Nebula in Orion, taken from a Bortle 4 site in Landers, CA, USA on a New Moon night. Telescope: Explore Scientific ES80 Refractor with a FL 480mm and F7. Guiding was with Orion 50mm Guide Scope FL 242mm with a ZWO ASI183MC for the guide camera. Mount: Celestron Advanced VX. Main imaging camera: Canon T7i at prime focus. Exposures: 20 x 60s with ISO at 400. No darks, flats or bias frames. Processed in PixInsight. Slight crop. Polar alignment was with SharpCap Pro.

First attempt at this galaxy for me. Great skies last night until about 2:30am when clouds rolled in. Not bad for an 80mm ED scope on this considering it's distance and relative size.

The Black Eye Galaxy is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy 17 million light-years away in the mildly northern constellation of Coma Berenices. It was discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779, and independently by Johann Elert Bode in April of the same year, as well as by Charles Messier the next year. It contains around 100 billion stars, about the same as our own Milky Way.

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: 30*4 minss @ 40 Gain, Temp -20C

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom

Another grab ofnthe M42 Orion Nebula. Actually a test image as I'm getting weirdness with my camera output. Thought I'd share anyway.

Image Details:

- Imaging Scope: William Optics 66mm Petzval

- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with UV/IR Blocking filter

- Guiding Scope: AstroTelescopes 80mm ED Refractor

- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auto Guider

- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap

- Guiding Software: PHD2

- Light Frames: 20x5 mins @ 100 Gain, -25F

- Dark Frames: 20*5 mins

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom

I've imaged this before and this is not my best but I'm happy with this output from an uncooled planetary camera, part of my ongoing exploration of ultraportable urban astrophotography.

The North America nebula is named for its striking resemblance to the continent and the Pelican, likewise, for its less compelling resemblance to the sea bird. Both are part of the same cloud of ionized Hydrogen which emits the characteristic reddish H-alpha wavelength that facilitates imaging with an appropriate filter. Higher resolution take here:

www.flickr.com/photos/124244349@N07/43192523632/in/datepo...

Compared with the cooled camera used for this linked image, the planetary camera used here has a much smaller chip and is a fraction of the cost. While a camera like this is great for imaging Jupiter and Saturn, its performance on a target like this a testament to the improvement in sensor technology.

Tech Stuff: Canon 17-55mm f2.8 zoom lens/ZWO ASI385MC/IDAS LPS-D2 filter/iOptron CubePro 8200 mount, unguided. Two hours total integration time of 4 second exposures, captured with SharpCap and processed with PixInsight. Captured from my yard in Westchester County.

Magnitude -2,74

Distance 632,729 Million km

Distance 4,230 UA

Temps lumière 0h35m10,6s

Diam. Apparent 0°00'46,61"

Diam. Équatorial 142984 km

Instrument de prise de vue: Skywatcher T250/1000 Newton F4

Caméra d'imagerie: Player-One Uranus-C IMX585

Monture: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 Pro Goto USB

Instrument de guidage: sans

Caméra de guidage: sans

Logiciels acquisition: Stellarium - SharpCap

Logiciels traitement :AutoStakkert - Astrosurface - Registax 6 - Darktable - FastStone Images Viewer

Filtres: IR-Cut / IR-Block Player-One

Accessoires: Focuseur ZWO EAF - Barlow Kepler x2.5 + Projection par oculaire 9mm

Dates: 12 Déc. 2023- 21h41 GMT

Taille: 1920x1080

Images unitaires: SER (2509x5ms) 70% retenues

Gain: 500

Échantillonnage: 0.086 "/pixel

Focale résultante: 7000mm

F/D: 28

Seeing: 0.97 "Arc

Bortle: 5

Phase de la Lune (moyenne): 0%

Aberkenfig, South Wales

Lat +51.542 Long -3.593

Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Tal 2x Barlow Lens, ZWO ASI 120MC Imager. Captured using Sharpcap.

Processed with Registax 6 & G.I.M.P.

Seeing Conditions - Reasonably Good.

Final image expanded to 175%

M101 In the constellation of Ursa Major.

M: iOptron EQ45-Pro

T: William Optics GTF81

C: ZWO ASI1600MC-Cooled

F: No Filters

G: PHD2

GC: ZWO ASI120mini

RAW16; FITs

Temp: -15 DegC

Gain 139;

73 x Exp 300s

Frames: 73 Lights; 10 Darks; 200 flats

70% Crop

Capture: SharpCap

Processed: PIPP; DSS; PS

Sky: No moon, calm, minimal cloud, cold, fair seeing.

20.87 million light years distant.

Skywatcher T250/1000 Newton F4

Player-One Uranus-C IMX585

Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 Pro Goto USB

Logiciels acquisition: Stellarium - SharpCap

Logiciels traitement : PIPP - AutoStakkert - Pixinsight

Filtres: IR cut

Accessoires: Focuseur ZWO EAF - Barlow Kepler x2.5

Dates: 18 Janv. 2025- 22h38 GMT

Images unitaires: SER (1054x3.36ms) 10% de 10541

Gain: 330

Échantillonnage: 0.137 "/pixel

Focale résultante: 4390mm

F/D: 17.56

Seeing: 1.10 "Arc

Bortle: 5

Phase de la Lune (moyenne):72%

Using a Coronado SM40/BF10 filter set on my 72ED apo an 800 frame SER was recorded with QHY5III 178 and Sharpcap of the surface detail and another 300 Frame SER for the prominence image,stacked in Registax and processed in Astrosurface,the two images combined using layers in Photoshop CS2 adding false colour to the disk.

Image taken 15/12/20

Skywatcher 12" goto dob, 5x TeleVue Powermate, ZWO224MC, Sharpcap, PIPP, AS3

2021-08-25-1123_4__pipp_lapl4_ap185_Drizzle15_convRS1

The Leo Tripet, about 35 million light years away from us, here on Earth.

Equipment:

Celestron CGEM Mount

Nikon 500mm f/4 P Ai-s @ f/5.6

Sony a7RIII (unmodified)

Altair 60mm Guide scope

GPCAM2 Mono Camera

Acquisition:

Taos, NM: my backyard - Bortle 3

15 x 240" for 60.5 minutes of exposure time.

10 dark frames

20 flats frames

20 bais frames

Guided

Software:

SharpCap

PHD2

DeepSkyStacker

Photoshop

My mount was polar aligned with SharpCap (what an amazing system for aligning). I'm not comfortable using my SCT as my lens yet. My solution is to piggy back my Sony a7RIII and adapted Nikon 500mm f/4 on a ADM dovetail rail on the top of my optical tube. I had to throw away about 5 frames due to satellites passing through or near my targets. This was low on the horizon and when I came out to end my imaging session I found my guidescope not being able to guide and had to delete my last 3 frames becasue the images were not sharp. It was a fun learning experience, looking forward to trying again when this target is higher in the sky.

NGC 6960, the Western Veil Nebula, taken from a Bortle 4 site in Landers, CA, USA on a New Moon night. Telescope: Explore Scientific ES80 APO Refractor with a FL 480mm and F6. Guiding was with Orion 50mm Guide Scope FL 242mm with a ZWO ASI183MC for the guide camera. Mount: Celestron Advanced VX. Main imaging camera: Canon T7i DSLR. Exposures: 60 x 60s with ISO 1600. No darks, flats or bias frames. Processed in PixInsight. Slightly cropped. Polar alignment was with SharpCap Pro.

Messier 16 Heart of the Eagle

This image was produced from a stack of exposures captured at a Bortle 4 site in Landers, CA, USA on a New Moon night. The telescope used was an Explore Scientific ED102 FL 714mm F7. Guiding was with an Orion 50mm Guide Scope FL 242mm, and a ZWO ASI290MC for the guide camera, with PHD2 auto-guiding software adjusting the tracking during the exposures. The Computerized GOTO mount used was a Celestron Advanced VX. The main imaging camera was a ZWO ASI294MC PRO cooled to -5C. Exposures taken numbered 124 at 45s each. The camera was set to a Gain of 280 and a of Bin 1 x 1. No darks, flats or bias frames were used. The post processing was done through Pixinsight software, while the polar alignment for the evening was with done with SharpCap Pro. The image was cropped to show the center feature known as the Pillars of Creation.

Explore Scientific AR152 refractor @125mm aperture, with Baader x2.25 Barlow and ZWO 120MM-S (f17.8 0.35"/pixel) on EQ6. Baader OD 3.8 solarfilm, solar continuum + UV/IR cut filters. 250 of 2500 frames captured in SharpCap, processed in AutoStakkert.

Close up shot of the lunar landscape showing the 'Mare' or 'Sea' looking as though it has actual waves. (Middle right hand side) A fave moon pic of mine, a lot of detail to be seen, including the Rilles running along the surface, and sharp edges to the smaller craters that only really show up under good Seeing conditions with a decent size aperture.

Scope: 200p f5 newt

Camera: ZWOASI120MC

Barlow: TeleVue 3x

Captured: Sharpcap

Stacked: Registax6

Post-process: Photoshop.

Went out Wednesday night, M45, M57 and IC434

WO SkyCat 51, Zwo 183MC 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 20 0c cooling, 1 minute exposure, 60 minutes for M57, IC434 was 22 minutes, 1 minute exposure each, M45 was 2 hours, 1 minute each, Had problems with the wind, clouds and storms north of me

50 darks 50 flats and 50 bias frames

Astro Pixel Processor and PS

This is a two-panel mosaic of today’s sun in white light, artificial color. From SpaceWeather.com “SUNSPOT NUMBERS AT A 20-YEAR HIGH: For the second month in a row, the monthly-average sunspot number is cruising toward a 20-year high. The current value, around 230, would eclipse every month since Sept. 2001, which occurred during the peak of old Solar Cycle 23. The current cycle (Solar Cycle 25) was not supposed to be this strong, and it may become even stronger before Solar Max is finished.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO ASI462MC planetary camera, glass solar filter, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO IR/UV filter, ZWO 0.5x focal reducer, best 20% of 2000 frames, Autostakkert+Registax, unguided, focus with a ZWO EAF, captured using SharpCap 4.0, controlled with a ZWO ASIAir Pro. Image Date: August 23, 2024. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

The crater Piccolomini photographed on April 2, 2017 – The crater is named after 16th century Italian Archbishop and astronomer Alessandro Piccolomini. It is 88 kilometers in diameter and 4,500 meters deep. The main peak rises to a height of 2.0 kilometers above the surrounding floor.

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. 10k frames, stacked the best 500. Photographed on April 2, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.

First light for the Zwo 1600MM Pro cooled mono camera

Also got to try out the new focuser from Deepskydad, The focuser worked very well, Got the stars down to 1.68

Went out Tuesday night, Just NGC7380, Had clear skies but a bright object, in the night sky

WO RedCat51, Zwo1600MM Pro cooled mono camera

Astronomik Ha 12nm CCD 1 1/4" filter

#SharpCap Pro, PoleMaster

Ioptron i45 Pro EQ mount, PHD2 guiding

Orion 60mm guidescope SSAG

200 Gain offset 10, -10c cooling,

NGC7380 was 125 minutes, 1 minute exposure each

100 darks 100 flats and 100 bias frames

Astro Pixel Processor and PS