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Taken with a ZWO ASI120MC camera, Celestron C8 telescope and Celestron CGEM mount.
Captured in SharpCap, processed in AutoStakkert and Lightroom.
Captured this morning from my observatory. Not sure how folks are getting a longer tail in their images so will try for a longer exposure next.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm ZenithStar APO
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with ZWO Duo band filter
- Guiding Scope: William Optics 31mm Uniguide
- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auto Guider
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: PHD2
- Light Frames: 20*1 mins @ 50 Gain, Temp -10C
- Dark Frames: 20*1 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz Denoise
This is a more complete view than my last of the Eagle Nebula, which includes the famous "Pillars of Creation" at the center. It's a nice backyard target but it's very low in my sky. I acquired a new mount this year which also lets me use my older, heavier telescopes like my Televue TV-85 -- actually considered a "portable" refractor but still too heavy for my mounts which I've used with ultralight gear.
In July I set up to image the nebula nearly every evening without rain but I still needed to discard more than half my data due to clouds or Canadian wildfire smoke, frequently present in the New York area in recent months. The image above integrates 108 minutes of capture from July 10 - 21st. More data would be great to fill out more of the faint regions, but this will have to wait for next year as the nebulae is now lost in my trees by the time it is dark.
Tech Stuff: TV-85 telescope/Borg 1.08 flattener/RST-135E mount/ZWO ASI 533MC Pro camera/IDAS LPS V-4 filter. 108 minutes of unguided 4 to 15-second exposures collected in SharpCap livestacks and processed in PixInsight, GraXpert, Starnetv2, and ACDC GemStone. From my Bortle 7 yard 10 miles north of NYC.
This ISS solar transit was visible from our garden in Oxfordshire at 14:20:01 BST 15th June 2021.
I captured it from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics refractor fitted with a Thousand Oaks glass solar filter. The camera I used was an ASI120MC. The video was captured using SharpCap, then I processed the video using PIPP, extracted frames were processed in Lightroom, stacked in StarStaX then final tweaks in Photoshop CS2.
Today's transit was much easier to capture than yesterday's daytime Moon transit was, but the transit chord was not where the prediction showed, so it just shows that even with the best planning, it's possible than orbital changes to the ISS's orbit can change enough that you could miss the transit entirely. I'm glad I decided to do this without any Barlow lenses in place because if I hadn't had such a large amount of the solar disc in view, I would have missed this! The sunspot you can see on the upper left side is AR12833.
If you want to look for transits from your location, you can use the transit finder website: www.transit-finder.com
PLEASE NEVER ATTEMPT TO OBSREVE OR PHOTOGRAPH A SOLAR TRANSIT WITH A PROPER SOLAR FILTER IN PLACE - IT COULD RESULT IN PERMANENT EYE DAMAGE
If you want to see my VLOG as I captured this transit, you can find it on my You Tube channel here: youtu.be/oLMfIiQADKc
Ecco la Luna in fase piena a poche ore dall'istante in cui si trovava al Perigeo ( il punto dell'orbita più vicino alla Terra). Per questo motivo la notte del 13 il nostro satellite appariva leggermente più grande e luminoso con un diametro apparente maggiore del 7% rispetto alla media. Quindi ecco il motivo per cui viene chiamata anche "superluna", ma in realtà la differenza di dimensione è molto difficile da percepire ed è corretto invece chiamarla Luna Piena al Perigeo. Questa di luglio viene chiamata anche Luna Piena del Cervo ed è la più grande e luminosa del 2022.
La foto è un mosaico di dimensioni 2674x2674 pixels e l'ho ottenuto assemblando 16 immagini delle diverse zone della superficie lunare.
Questa è una versione "mineral moon" in cui i colori sono saturati per evidenziare la diversa composizione chimica della regolite lunare nelle diverse zone del nostro satellite.
Dati:
Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newtoniano
Montatura Eq2 con motore AR con pulsantiera
Camera planetaria QHY5L-II-C
Filtro UV-Ir cut
Sharpcap per acquisire 16 video da 40 secondi ciascuno a 17 fps
Autostakkert!3 e Registax 6 per elaborare ogni video
Autostitch per assemblare le immagini
GIMP per luminosità, contrasto, riduzione rumore (pochissimo) e saturazione dei colori
Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia
Data e ora della ripresa: 14 luglio 2022 da 01:29 a 01:48 UTC
From Wikipedia: The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy and about 44 other smaller galaxies. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye.
The galaxy is the smallest spiral galaxy in the Local Group and it is believed to be a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy due to their interactions, velocities and proximity to one another in the night sky.
Another test shot using the new ZWO ASI071MC-Pro camera and figuring out settings based on the target being captured.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount (pier mounted), ZWO ASI071MC-Pro, 16 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. No darks or bias frames. Image date: November 24, 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
First light image using a Lunt CaK module with B1200 with an 80mm f6 apo triplet and QHY5III 178 mono camera,also used a 0.5x focal reducer to allow full disk image. 1000 frame AVI captured in Sharpcap stacked in Autostakkert and wavelet sharpened in Registax. Final processing in Photoshop CS2 with false colour added.
Image taken 09/01/20
Second attempt at this object, first with the ZWO ASI183MC.
NGC 7635, also known as the Bubble Nebula, Sharpless 162, or Caldwell 11, is an H II region emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. It lies close to the direction of the open cluster Messier 52. The "bubble" is created by the stellar wind from a massive hot, 8.7 magnitude young central star, SAO 20575.
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: 25*5 mins @ 50 Gain, Temp -15C
- Dark Frames: 25*5 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom
Reprocessing older data with new techniques. This image clearly shows the "Pillars of Creation" as made famous by Hubble.
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula and The Spire) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745–46. Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the center of the nebula, an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the aforementioned Pillars of Creation.
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: 25*4 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -17C
- Dark Frames: 25*4 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz Denoise
This animation consists of 10 frames captured between 9:13pm and 10:13pm on February 11th, 2014.
Taken with a Celestron C6 SCT, Celestron AVX mount, 2x Barlow, and ASI120MC. Captured with SharpCap, stacked with AutoStakkert, and processed with Astra Image Pro and Photoshop. Animated with PIPP.
M106 In the constellation of Canes Venatici.
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;
3 x Exp 300s
12 x Exp 500s
Frames: 15 Lights; 2 Darks; 200 flats
90% Crop
Capture: SharpCap
Processed: DSS; PS; Grad Exterminator.
Sky: 100% Full Moon, calm, minimal cloud, cold, excellent seeing.
22-25 million light years distant.
A view in white light of today’s sun showing the two huge active regions AR12674 and AR12673. Image composite of the north and south regions merged to create this whole sun view, artificial color added to the view.
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 4, 2017.
WO RedCat 51 Zwo 071MC Pro cooled color camera, 1 minute exposure 90 total time, SharpCap Pro, Astro Pixel Processor
The Whirlpool Galaxy again, this time imaged with my oldest and heaviest telescope, a Televue-85. Only one of my portable tracking mounts can handle the weight (Star Adventurer) and it's a bit of a project to use but my experimentation with a small, sensitive monochrome camera enabled me to get this satisfactory image in one night. It helps that this bright pair of interacting galaxies rides high in the spring sky in the constellation Canes Venatici.
Tech Stuff: TV-85 with Borg 1.08x flattener; QHY 5III 174 mono camera/ ZWO LRGB filters/SkyWatcher Star Adventurer Unguided 4 and 8 second exposures captured in LiveStacks using SharpCap 3.2. Total integration times L=40 min; R= 36 min; G=32 min; B= 32 min. Processed with PixInsight. Imaged from my yard 10 miles north of NYC on the night of April 18 (Covid Lockdown week 5), SQM-L reading 18.9/Bortle 7 sky.
Telescope: Edge HD 8 / AVX CGEM mount
Camera: ASI585 MC with 1.5x Dakin magic barlow
Image source: 9 SER videos, 1 minute each (35% used - 23k+frames total)
Date: 09/25/2025
Location: St Charles, IL
Apparent Diameter = Planet: 19.44 arc-seconds, With Rings: 45.28 arc-seconds
NOTE: Taken with Sharpcap @16.6ms. All 9 videos de-rotated with WinJupos.
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 Mare Serenitatis with the large crater Posidonius on the right hand edge. The little bay below that is Le Monnier. The partially illuminated crater at the bottom is Plinius.
Jupiter a day before it reached opposition. This is the time when Jupiter is closest to Earth (a mere 588 million km away compared to 968 million km at its furthest) and so it appears bigger and brighter making it the perfect time to image it even though it is quite low in the sky compared with other years. Conditions were not ideal with lots of high cloud to contend with but the forecast for the following days was significantly worse so this seemed like the best night to try for a shot. Three of Jupiter's Galilean moons are visible in this shot; on the left is Ganymede and on the right, closest to the planet is Io. Europa is on the far right of the image. Callisto was much further to the right and doesn't appear in this image. Also visible in the image is Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a persistent high-pressure region in the atmosphere of Jupiter, producing an anticyclonic storm with wind speeds at the edge of about 432 km/h. It is the largest storm in the Solar System and one that has been observed for at least 350 years.
Created from a 1000 frame video with all frames stacked
Captured with SharpCap
Processed in AutoStakkert, Registax and Photoshop
Gain 100%
Exposure 0.04495 seconds
Equipment:
Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS
Sky-Watcher EQ5 Mount
ZWO ASI120 MC camera
x2 Barlow with extension tube
Messier 63, the Sunflower Galaxy, taken from a Bortle 4 site in Landers, CA, USA on a New Moon night. Telescope: TPO Ritchey-Chretien 6 inch with a FL 1370mm. Guiding was with Orion 50mm Guide Scope FL 242mm with a ZWO ASI183MC for the guide camera. Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro. Main imaging camera: ASI294MC PRO cooled to -5C. Exposures: 15 x 240s with Gain at 120. No darks, flats or bias frames. Processed in PixInsight. Slight crop. Polar alignment was with SharpCap Pro.
New processing, better than the last iteration. Some stars appear green to me, which seems wrong. Oh well.
First attempt at this. Quite mysterious looking in my humble opinion.
The Western Veil Nebula is a supernova remnant consisting of oxygen, sulfur, and hydrogen gas. This area of Cygnus is densely populated with stars and includes regions of heated gas that make up the Cygnus Loop.
As APOD so eloquently puts it, the Western Veil Nebula is “an expanding cloud born of the death explosion of a massive star”. NGC 6960 (Caldwell 34) is often referred to as the Witch’s Broom as its delicate filamentary structure resembles this memorable shape.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm Zenithstar II Doublet
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with ZWO Duo Band filter
- Guiding Scope: William Optics 31mm
- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Autoguider
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: PHD2
- Capture Software: SharpCap Pro (LiveStack mode with dithering)
- Light Frames: 20*6 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -20C
- Dark Frames: 20*6 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, and Topaz Denoise AI
2 days to go!
Transparency (4/5)
Seeing (3/5)
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
Telescopio Celestron Newton 114/900, Montatura eq2 Camera planetaria Qhy5L-II Software Sharpcap per l’acquisizione di 15 video da 10 secondi a 15 fps Autostakkert 3 e Registax 6 per l’elaborazione di ciascun video Autostitch per unire 15 foto Camera raw per luminosità e contrasto Dimensioni della foto:2406 x 2449
Date: July 24, 2021
Location: Cabras, Italy
21x30 sec, Gain 42, Offset 15, -20C, QHY183c, UHC-S filter, Televue TV-85 at F/5.6. Bortle Red zone. SharpCap 3.2 livestack w/dither.
The very nice Active Region 2835 (along with the smaller 2836 and 2837). Sharpstar 61 EDPH with Artesky Herschel Wedge and ASI290MM. Skywatcher Star Adventurer. Best 20% of 1000 frames acquired with Sharpcap and processed with Autostakkert, Registax and PS.
Seeing 3/5 T
ransparency 2.5/5.
10 min video derotated. 1.5X drizzle
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian, Tal 2x Barlow, ZWO ASI 120MC. Captured using Sharpcap.
Processed with Registax 6 & G.I.M.P.
A spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici, also in the M51 (whirlpool) group about 29 million light years away.
40 240s lights (2 hours 40 minutes) 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, edited in Star Tools and cropped in PS Lightroom.
Moon: Around about new
Light Pollution and Location: - Bortle 8 in Davyhulme, Manchester.
Seeing: - Average/Not Great
Notes: - A difficult target perhaps for my equipment and the time of year. I took it over 2 nights which gave me about 3 hours each night and I had to scrap a load of frames. I don’t think the seeing was as good as previous astronomy sessions. I’m not willing to give this anymore time at the moment and I want to try something else. I will perhaps try again in March or April in the future when there is still actual night time.
The remote shutter cable for the D3100 is flimsy and yet again this broke meaning I had to order a new one. I’ve also ordered one that will go into the snap port in the mount. I really want to consolidate the amount of software I use to take these pictures and improve on the automation. I think I’ve finally found something that may work called NINA so I am excited to try that out.
m82-333x8-g2098-imx224-85f5_6-v2.
M82, a.k.a. the Exploding Cigar Galaxy is a prime target early in the morning. I managed to stay up late on a work night and take advantage of some transparent skies.
Technical:
333x8 sec @ 2098 Gain (100-5000 range), scaled up in size 200% after stacking.
Televue TV-85 at F/5.6
Rising Tech Sony IMX224 Eyepiece/Guider Cam
Atlas EQ-G w/EQMOD
Orion 30mm Ultra-Mini/Orion Starshoot, PHD Guiding2
Sharpcap 2.9
Bortle Red zone conditions and last quarter moonlight.
I'm attempting to collect an image of the moon for each day of it's "lunation." cycle of about 29.5 days. It will be a challenge between the weather and my need for sleep. The waning phases will be the hardest to get since I will have to stay up late or rise up early.
Last night was mediocre. Everything was milky because of a layer of high cirrus and the seeing was miserable. I used waveSharp 1.beta, the successor to Registax, during processing to try to compensate for the poor conditions. It gave the image a "crunchy" look.
I'm having less challenges with my equipment on the other hand. I've installed a pier for my mount and telescope and have been able to get a good enough polar alignment using NINA's three point method and PHD2's drift alignment function (I don't have a view of Polaris in my suburban observing location.} Tracking for DSOs is marginal; I have to use guiding even for short exposure times. Three minute images are about the best I can do. But for large objects like the moon and the sun using lucky imaging, tracking is more than adequate.
March 18, 2024, about 21:30 local, Tallahassee, Florida. Moon Phase Waxing Gibbous/68.8%
Moon Age 8.70 out of 29.39 days
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.)
Waxing Gibbous Moon at 61.9%. 300 frames capturing using a QHY163 mono camera attached to an Altair Wave 115ED scope. Captured using SharpCap Pro and edited using Autostakkert2 and Registax6.
Genova, Italy (24 Aug 2023 01:23 UT)
Planet: diameter 42.8", mag -2.5, altitude ≈ 45°
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
(640x480 @ 125fps - 120 sec - RAW8 - Gain 168)
Best 25% frames of ≈15000
Alignment/Stacking: AstroSurface U4
Wavelets/Deconvolution: AstroSurface U4
Final Elaboration: GIMP 2.10.34
This is my first serious attempt at Mars.
Taken with a Celestron C6 SCT, Celestron AVX mount, 2.5x Televue PowerMate, and ASI120MC. Captured with SharpCap, stacked with AutoStakkert, and processed with Astra Image Pro and Photoshop.
Image réalisée le 18 juillet 2021 lors de l'observation The Moon Again, matériel Petite Ourse : lunette 102/500 sur AZ3, capture ZWO asi 120MM avi 10s avec SharpCap, images total 161, retenues 60, traitement AutoStakker et RegiStax6.
Lieu : Rue Roger Richard parking du groupe scolaire 88300 Martigny-les-Gerbonvaux.
WO RedCat 51 Zwo 071MC Pro cooled color camera, 1 minute exposure 90 total time, SharpCap Pro, Astro Pixel Processor
NGC2264 and IC1848 with the ES 80mm ED triplet APO refractor, Orion Field Flattener and Zwo ASI1600MM Pro cooled mono camera...
The Pegasus power box was a good buy, Got rid of 3 power adapters and 1 control box
Had clear skies last night, ok 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,
IC1848 was 80 minutes, 1 minute exposure each
NGC2264 was 125 minutes, 1 minute each
40 darks 40 flats and 40 bias frames
Astro Pixel Processor and PS
Ecco la Luna in fase piena a poche ore dall'istante in cui si trovava al Perigeo ( il punto dell'orbita più vicino alla Terra). Per questo motivo la notte del 13 il nostro satellite appariva leggermente più grande e luminoso con un diametro apparente maggiore del 7% rispetto alla media. Quindi ecco il motivo per cui viene chiamata anche "superluna", ma in realtà la differenza di dimensione è molto difficile da percepire ed è corretto invece chiamarla Luna Piena al Perigeo. Questa di luglio viene chiamata anche Luna Piena del Cervo ed è la più grande e luminosa del 2022.
La foto è un mosaico di dimensioni 2674x2674 pixels e l'ho ottenuto assemblando 16 immagini delle diverse zone della superficie lunare.
Dati:
Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newtoniano
Montatura Eq2 con motore AR con pulsantiera
Camera planetaria QHY5L-II-C
Filtro UV-Ir cut
Sharpcap per acquisire 16 video da 40 secondi ciascuno a 17 fps
Autostakkert!3 e Registax 6 per elaborare ogni video
Autostitch per assemblare le immagini
GIMP per luminosità, contrasto e riduzione rumore (pochissimo)
Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia
Data e ora della ripresa: 14 luglio 2022 da 01:29 a 01:48 UTC
Nice little galaxy, but probably need more frames and better processing. Still at the bottom of the learning curve with this!
55 frames livestacked in Sharpcap, total 447 s capture time. Post-processing in Photoshop. Celestron Evolution 9.25 scope with focal reducer.
Well, this is my first attempt at an image using both Luminance and Ha+OIII frames combined. There's a lot of data here, and my luminance frames were offset to my filtered frames, thus the odd cropping/framing. I'll get a wider field image next year.
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
- Filter: ZWO Duo Band (HA & OIII)
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: PHD2
- Capture Software: SharpCap Pro (LiveStack mode with dithering)
- Light Frames: 100*2 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -20C
- HA + OIII Frames: 25*3 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -20C
- Dark Frames: 100*2 mins for light frames, 25*3 mins for HA + OIII frames
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, Photmatix Pro HDR and Topaz Denoise AI
Jellyfish Nebula - IC 443
Ha - 57 x 600 secs
OIII - 52 x 600 secs
SII - 55 x 600 secs
27.3 Hours total
EQ8-R | SW Esprit 100ED | ASI6200MM | Antlia 3.5nm Ha,SII,OIII
SW 50ED | ASI290MM Mini
SharpCap | NINA | Pixinsight | Photoshop
This is my portable astro rig for wide field astrophotography. The setup includes the "one-shot colour camera" ASi 294 MC Pro and Voigtlander 25mm lens, Star Adventurer mount and Pole Master for quick and easy polar alignment.
The ASI 294 is a very sensitive CMOS camera and takes a bit of getting used to after using a traditional "DSLR" based camera.
The guide scope and guide camera (ASI 120 MC-s) are opposite to the camera to reduce weight. I don't really need guiding when doing wide field but use this setup with heavier telescopes and like the configuration.
Guiding is done via PHD2, so I take a laptop as well. Imaging software is SharpCap Pro.
This cluster, located just outside of our galaxy, is about 80 light years across and contains around 100,000 stars. It contains at least 105 variable stars as well as two millisecond pulsars! It is also older than 12 BILLION years!
First attempt at this object through a combination of clear skies and high-level clouds last night. I find Globular Clusters fascinating and super interesting that we can detect variable stars within them.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm ZenithStar APO
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with IR Cut filter
- Guiding Scope: William Optics 31mm Uniguide
- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auto Guider
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: PHD2
- Light Frames: 17*3 mins @ 50 Gain, Temp -20C
- Dark Frames: 17*3 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz Denoise
ASI071MC plus 200p Newt with baader coma corrector and Skywatcher LP filter. -15c. Tenerife sea level. Sharpcap. best 160 frames stacked.
Interesting double loop solar prominence on the Sun yesterday. High temperatures and poor seeing didn't allow for any type of details to be captured.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED, ZWO ASI290MC, Daystar Quark Chromosphere + Daystar 2" UV/IR filter, SharpCap Pro v3.0, best 15% of 5k frames, AutoStakkert, Registax. Image date: 27 July 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA, USA.
Tried to align the R G and B stacks as best I could but there was always some amount of color fringing on the craters. Captured July 29th, 2020.
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**[Equipment:](i.imgur.com/6T8QNsv.jpg)**
* TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian
* Orion Sirius EQ-G
* ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
* Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector
* ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm
* Astronomik LRGB+CLS Filters- 31mm
* Astrodon 31mm Ha 5nm, Oiii 3nm, Sii 5nm
* Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope
* ZWO ASI-120MC for guiding
* Moonlite Autofocuser
**Acquisition:** (Camera at Unity Gain, -15°C)
* R - 1000 x 0.39ms
* G - 1000 x 0.34ms
* B - 1000 x 0.52
**Capture Software:**
* Captured using Sharpcap and [N.I.N.A.](nighttime-imaging.eu/) for mount/filterwheel control
**Processing:**
* Stacked the best 15% of frames in Autostakkert (autosharpened, 2X resample)
* R G and B stacks manually aligned in photoshop and autocolored
* **In PixInsight:**
* Shitloads of [Curve](i.imgur.com/WengIOh.jpg)Transformations to adjust saturation, lightness, and hue
* Extract luminance, LRGBCombination for chrominance noise reduction
* Invert, SCNR, Invert to remove magentas
* SCNR to remove greens
* LocalHistogramEqualization for added contrast
* More curves
* ACDNR (noise reduction)
* ChannelMatch to try to eliminate color fringing
* HistogramTransformation to clip background to black
* DynamicCrop to 16x9 aspect ratio
* Annotation
Nel pomeriggio del 26 luglio, con difficoltà e un po’ di fortuna, sono riuscito a riprendere con la camera planetaria e il piccolo telescopio newtoniano il brevissimo transito della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale davanti al Sole. La durata totale del transito è stata di poco più di un secondo a causa dell’elevata velocità con cui la stazione orbita intorno alla Terra. La ISS è grande circa come un campo da calcio, orbita a circa 400 km di quota e viaggia alla velocità di quasi 28000 km/h compiendo un’orbita in circa 92 minuti. Al momento l’equipaggio è composto da 7 astronauti tra cui anche Samantha Cristoforetti.La ripresa contiene 1059 fotogrammi, in soltanto 8 è presente la sagoma della ISS e tra questi ho preso quello migliore. L’ho poi tagliato per mostrare meglio la parte più interessante:
in quest’immagine sono abbastanza visibili gli enormi pannelli solari della struttura e sono presenti alcune macchie solari nelle regioni attive AR3062 e AR3066, tra cui una più grande ed evidente.
Dati:
Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newton
Montatura Eq2 con motore AR con pulsantiera
Camera QHY5L-II-C
Filtro UV-IR cut
Filtro Astrosolar
Sharpcap per acquisire un video da 1059 fotogrammi a 17 fps con tempo di esposizione di 1/2000 sec
Pipp per scomporre il video in immagini TIFF
GIMP per tagliare l’immagine originale, scrivere i nomi degli oggetti visibili e modificare leggermente la nitidezza e il contrasto.
Luogo: Cabras (OR)
Data: 26-07-2022
Ora esatta del transito:17:41:06.75 ora locale
Brisbane, Australia January 2021
Telescope: Explore Scientific ED80 APO Triplet
Mount; HEQ5 Pro
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI533 MC Pro
Guide Camera; ZWO ASI290 Mini
15 x 240s
15 x Darks
12 x Flats
10 x Bias
Sharpcap Pro Polar Alignment
PHD2, Stellarium, APT, Deepsky Stacker, Photoshop.
M: iOptron EQ45-Pro
T: WO GTF81 Refractor
C: ZWO ASI1600MC
G: 200mm Finder and PHD2
GC: ZWO ASI120MC
Gain: 240; RAW16; FITs
Temp: -10 DegC
Frames: 20 Lights; 6 Darks; 40 flats
Exp: 6 x 180s; 14 x 120s
30% Crop
Capture: Sharpcap
Processed: DSS; PS, Gradient Exterminator.
...in the Leo Constellation. About 31-36 million light years away.
I'm on the fence with this. My image acquisition was good, but this was hard to process and tease out color. Still a bit noisy, too. Maybe good enough for a first attempt.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm ZenithStar APO
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with IR Cut filter
- Guiding Scope: William Optics 31mm Uniguide
- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auto Guider
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: PHD2
- Light Frames: 25*5 mins @ 50 Gain, Temp -10C
- Dark Frames: 25*5 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz Denoise