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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.
Celestron NexStar 6SE
Zwo Asi224mc with IR cut filter
Zwo ADC
Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate
FireCapture for ADC tuning.
SharpCap for Capturing.
2 minute video, exposure-4.5ms, gain-360
Processed in AutoStakkert, RegiStax and Lightroom.
10 X 1 minutes de-rotate.
60% gain
Transparency (3/5)
Seeing (3/5)
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
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.
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.
Sadr region with the Kitcat 135mm Rokinon lens
Zwo ASI071MC Pro cooled mono camera
Pegasus EAF, 10X7 degrees FOV
Had clear skies last night, Full moon, some clouds
Optolong L eNhance 2" filter
#SharpCap Pro, PoleMaster
Ioptron CEM 25 Pro EQ mount
200 Gain offset 20, 0c cooling,
Sadr region was 2 hours, 5 minutes exposure each
24 frames total
12 darks 12 flats and 12 bias frames
Astro Pixel Processor and PS
Was out at Starr ranch
Tycho Crater – diameter is 86 km and it is about 4.8 km in depth, located in the southern region of the moon. Starting to get more details in the finished photos, this one is starting to show details on the mountains inside the main crater.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX90, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ASI290MC, best 2.5k of 5k frames, AutoStakkert! V3.0.14 (x64), FireCapture v2.5.10 x64 and Registax v6. Software used included Sharpcap v2.9 and AutoStakkert! Alpha Version 2.3.0.21. Photographed on July 4, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.
Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: Orion Mini Guidescope
Camere di acquisizione: SVBONY SV305
Montature: Celestron SLT
Software: SharpCap Pro 3.2 Sharcap · PixInsight 1.8 Ripley Pisinsight 1.8 · photoshop
Date:23 Gennaio 2021
Pose: 186x10"
Integrazione: 0.5 ore
Giorno lunare medio: 9.70 giorni
Fase lunare media: 73.71%
I've imaged M13 in Hercules before. This Globular Cluster is bright enough that it is one of the few Messier objects I was able to track down visually through a small telescope from my suburban yard. This makes it a fat target for astro-imaging. This is "first light" for a new field flattener that enables me to get pretty, round stars all across the image field. Click into the image to confirm that it's working nicely. When you do, take note of the small smudge above and to the left of the cluster -- that's galaxy NGC 6207, 30 millon light years away (compared with M13 just across the street at 22,000 ly).
Tech Stuff: Borg 71FL/Borg 1.08X MultiFlattener/ZWO ASI1600MC cam/IDAS LPS-D2 filter/iOptron CubePro 8200 mount unguided/56 minutes total exposure time using 8 second exposures captured with SharpCap Pro/processed with PixInsight, GIMP and ACDSee. SQM-L reading about 18.7. From my yard 10 miles north of New York City March 27, 2019.
The Sturgeon Moon - Gérgal - 2021-08-24
Captured from my home in Gérgal, Almeria, Spain on the 24th of August 2021.
Weather conditions were cloudy with a lucky break for a few minutes around 1:00 AM to capture the frames.
Best 500 images out of 1,000 images captured.
Camera: ZWO ASI183-MC Pro cooled to -10 C
Telescope: William Optics GT81 385mm f/5.6
Telescope mount: Celestron CGX Equatorial mount.
Capture software: Sharpcap Pro
Processed in Autostakeert, Topaz Labs GigaPixel and Adobe Lightroom
#moon #astrophotography #topaz
NGC 2264 and the associated Cone Nebula are part of a huge nebular complex in Monoceros. This lies about 2,700 light years away. The cone shape (at upper left) is formed by a dark absorption nebula positioned in front of a faint nebula of ionized hydrogen. The entire region is an active site of new star formation.
First attempt at this part of this sky. Found it pretty tricky to process as there is a lot happening here. I will try for more, longer exposures next month.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: AstroTelescopes 80mm ED 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: 27x4 mins @ 40 Gain, -10F, Offset 40
- Dark Frames: 25*4 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Photomatix Pro HDR and Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, Celestron 3x Barlow and ASI120MC camera, when the Moon was a 40% illuminated Waxing Crescent. A 2,000 frame video shot with SharpCap Pro, the best 75% percent were stacked with Autostakkert! 3 then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer
The large escarpment running across the image is Rupes Altai. It is about 427km long and at its northern end it reaches a height of nearly 1km. The crater at the southern end of Rupes Altai is Piccolomini. The large crater to the upper right of it is Catharina.
M13 is a great astro target this time of year and I recently posted an image based on a single night's captures. My Questar telescope has a slow focal ratio -- f/16 -- which leads to big differences in images based on the total amount of capture time. In this case you can clearly see the differences in color and detail for 3 hours versus 35 minutes of exposure time. See adjacent image www.flickr.com/photos/124244349@N07/48069056958/in/photos... for comparison.
Tech Stuff: Questar 3.5" telescope at native 1400mm focal length (f/16)/QHY 163 mono camera/guided/8 second exposures captured in SharpCap live stacks/ L 14 min; R 65 min; G 36 min; B 55 min/Processed with PixInsight and AcDSee. Captured over 5 nights in June, 2019 from my yard in Westchester County, NY.
Target:Sun during partial solar eclipse.
Location:10/06/21 @ 11:17 St Helens UK.
Aquisition 160x 0.772mS
Equipment:Altair 60EDF, Skywatcher AZGTi, ZWO ASI120MC, Baader Solar filter.
Software:Sharpcap, Synscan iphone app.
Processing:AutoStakkert, Registax, Affinity Photo
Memories:100% cloud cover but set up anyway and took advantage of a fleeting gap in the clouds.
The Omega Nebula, also known as the Swan Nebula, Checkmark Nebula, and the Horseshoe Nebula is an H II region in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by Philippe Loys de Chéseaux in 1745. Charles Messier catalogued it in 1764. It is located in the rich starfields of the Sagittarius area of the Milky Way. Wikipedia
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: 20*5 mins @ 0 Gain, Temp -15C
- Dark Frames: 20*5 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom
A large part of the North America Nebula [NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20] Seen in the constellation of Cygnus.
The 'Gulf of Mexico' is the large dark area just below the centre
. 'America' is tilted on it's side, North to the right.
M: iOptron EQ45-Pro
T: William Optics GTF81
C: ZWO ASI1600MC-Cooled
F: IDAS filter (Light Polllution)
G: PHD2
GC: ZWO ASI120mini
RAW16; FITs
Temp: -15 DegC
Gain 260;
19 x Exp 200s
33 x Exp 300s
Frames: 49/52 Lights; 20 Darks; 100 Flats
100% Crop
Capture: SharpCap
Processed: DSS; APP, PS, Gradient Exterminator Pro.
Sky: 80% Moon, no wind, 0% to 5% cloud, mild, good seeing.
Bortle 5 Sky.
Distance from Earth: 2,202 light years.
27-08-2021
Sky-Watcher 150mm - f/8
ZWO ASI 120MC-S + Barlow 2x + UV/IR Cut
SharpCap + PIPP + AS!3 + Astrosurface
Porto Real-Brazil
Bortle 4/5 Sky
After midnight, the Pleiades star cluster rises in the eastern sky. Calming my eager heart, I pointed my SAMYANG 135mm F2 lens at the Pleiades and stacked images over about an hour, spread across two nights. The reflection nebula around Merope and the dark, nebula-free grooves are beautiful.
SAMYANG 135mmF2
ASI662MC
UV/IR blocking filter
AZ-GTi alt-azi mode
sharpcap as platesolver
stacked by Siril 1.2 x2 drizzle
889x5sec frames used
Dati:
Celestron 114/900 Newton
montatura eq2 con motore AR
camera Qhy5L-IIC
filtro UV IR cut
Sharpcap per acquisire 20 video da 40 secondi ciascuno
Autostakkert 3 e Registax 6 per l'elaborazione dei video
Autostitch per creare il mosaico
Registax 6 e Camera Raw per luminosità, contrasto e bilanciamento del colore nel risultato finale
Adobe Photoshop per aumentare la saturazione del colore
Luogo: Cabras (OR)
Data: 19-11-2021 a 00:17 ora locale ( 18-11-2021 alle 23:17 UTC)
Zona de Aristóteles, Eudoxus, montes Caucasus, etc
Telescopio: Celestron C6-A XLT 150/1500 f10
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: EQ5 Bresser EXOS2 motorizada sin goto
Filtros: Baader UV/IR Cut / L-Filter
Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Fitswork
Fecha: 2019-03-13
Hora: 21:02 T.U.
Fase lunar: 43.6% 6.8 días Creciente
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 2 minutos
Resolución: 2320x1560
Gain: 91
Exposure: 0,011754
Frames: 2935
Frames apilados: 18%
FPS: 25
Mars with one of its moons Deimos. First time I’ve managed to capture a Martian Moon! Unfortunately it’s 2nd moon Phobos was too close to the planet to pick it up because of the technique I use to image moons.
2 stacked exposures combined
Celestron NexStar 6SE
Zwo Asi224mc with IR cut filter
Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate
2 minute video in SharpCap
Processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, Lightroom and PhotoLayers
Our star today captured with an 80mm APO Refractor at F/50. Daystar Quark Chromosphere and ASI290MM. Sharpcap has been used for the capture, then Autostakkert, ImPPG and PS for the post-processing. Active regions 2778 and 2779 are now very near the limb. Some nice prominences are visible as well.
This nebula lies around 1,300 light years away, and lies in the Orion constellation, right next to the Horsehead Nebula.
My first attempt at a starless astronomical image (Except, of course that massive main star which happens to be Alnitak and too large to remove from the shot!). I was skeptical about starless images but they do a great job of revealing the molecular dust and gas in the area of the objects involved.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: AstroTelescopes 80mm ED 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: 15x3 mins @ 100 Gain, -10F, Offset 40
- Dark Frames: 15*3 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Photomatix Pro and Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop
The same image I had previously uploaded to Flickr but with the stars removed to give a more 3D appearance looking into the heart of the nebula.
Taken with 150mm refractor, 0.75X reducer and ASI294MC camera. Consists of 24 x 5 minute exposures stacked and calibrated on the fly using the Live Stacking function in SharpCap Pro.
Managed a single scan of the solar disk during a break in the clouds using my 72ED,Herschel wedge with Sol'Ex SHG, QHY5III 178M and 7nm Ha filter attached to nose of the Sol'Ex. 16x sidereal speed used on CEM60 to force the slit across the Sun whilst recording a 16 bit SER file in Sharpcap. Being a single scan no processing except rotation and flipping to correct orientation and resizing of image.
A composite image of active sun spot group AR2665 and prominences on the eastern limb of the Sun - Captured on 09.07.2017 15.41GMT (16.41BST)
Telescope: Altair Astro StarWave 102ED f/7
Camera: Altair Astro IMX174 mono Hypercam.
Solar Hydrogen Alpha filter: Daystar Quark Chromosphere
Captured with Sharpcap 3.0
Processed with Registax and Photoshop CC 2017
Double Cluster Cassiopeia.
26@120 seconds
ISO 400
100 BAIS
no flats
no darks (dither every frame)
AT65EDQ
dithered
Nikon d5300
Celestron CG5 with OnStep (Howard Dutton) and belt and motor upgrade
QHY 5LII-M guide camera
Orion 50mm mini guide scope
Bahtinov mask
DIY FocuserPro2 arduino focus motor ( Robert Brown)
$65 laptop
Software: APT, PHD2, CdC, Sharpcap, ASCOM POTHUB, Pixinsight, PS/ACR, Team Veiwer.
PS Plug ins: Nik Define 2, Astronomy Tools
Location: backyard, Bortle 4 skies
NGC 869 884 in Perseus
William Optics Zenithstar 61 APO refractor, Zwo ASI183MC Pro cooled color camera, Ioptron i45 Eq mount, capture in SharpCap Pro, DSS, PS, dark flats and bias frames, 1 minute exposure, 42 total minutes, 120 gain 0 offset
Jupiter/Saturn Conjunction 2020
Near Jupiter from left to right are moons Europa, Io, Castillo. Just below Saturn is moon Titan.
Scope/Mount: TS-Optics PhotoLine 130mm F7 APO Refractor, Celestron CI-700 Mount
Camera: ZWO ASI185MC color
Guiding: none
Exposure: Composite of 1 frame each of 4 ms, 17 ms, 67 ms, 250 ms.
Software: SharpCap, PixInsight
Comment: 12-21-2020, San Diego, CA, poor seeing.
Been figuring out deconvolution and EZ Tools within PixInsight. Also, applied some HDR techniques to draw out some of those dusty areas a little better. Overdone??
The Trifid Nebula is located in Sagittarius. It was discovered by Charles Messier on June 5, 1764. Its name means 'divided into three lobes'. The object is an unusual combination of an open cluster of stars; an emission nebula, a reflection nebula and a dark nebula. It lies approximately 5,200 light years from Earth.
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
Ecco un mosaico della Luna al 93% prima del 16 maggio mattina, giorno di fase piena e in cui diventerà rossa a causa del fenomeno dell'eclissi.
In questo caso ho aumentato la saturazione dei colori per mostrare le differenze di composizione chimica della regolite sulla superficie lunare.
Ho leggermente modificato lil bilanciamento del colore, la luminosità e il contrasto della foto condivisa in precedenza.
Dati:
- Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newton
- montatura eq2 con motore AR
- camera planetaria QHY5L-II-C
- filtro UV-IR cut
- Sharpcap per l'acquisizione di 21 video da 30 secondi ognuno
- Autostakkert! 3 e Registax 6 per elaborarli
- Autostitch per assemblare le 21 parti del mosaico
- GIMP per luminosità, contrasto e saturazione dei colori
Luogo: Cabras (OR)
Data: 13 maggio 2022 alle 20:20 UTC ( 22:20 ora locale)
M33 Triangulum Galaxy. Testing Guiding. Scope: TSAPO65Q. Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro. Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro. Guiding: Altair GPCAMv2 130M with Orion 50mm. 9x5 Mins. Captured in SharpCap Pro. Processed in APP. Finished in Adobe CC.
Data - 24/04/2021
Hora - 20:54 ~ 21:45 local (-3 UTC)
Lat - 7,13S
Log - 34,83W
Local - João Pessoa, PB - Brasil
Bortle - Class 8
Câmera - ZWO ASI 120MC-S
Telescópio - SW 150mm F8
Montagem - EQ5
Motorização - OnStep Brasil
Light - filme de 2000 frames (empilhados 50%)
Software Captura - SharpCap
Softwares Processamento - PS/Registax
A fantastic early morning seeing Jupiter with 2 of its moons Io and Ganymede casting their shadows on the gas giants surface! Io just starting it’s transit across the face too. Managed to pick up a bit of surface detail on Ganymede too.
Celestron NexStar 6SE
Zwo Asi224mc with IR cut filter
Zwo ADC
Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate
FireCapture for ADC tuning.
SharpCap for Capturing.
2 minute video, exposure-3.0ms, gain-320
Processed in AutoStakkert, RegiStax and Lightroom.
This is an animation of some proms from 14th June 2023
Location: West Midlands, UK
Scope: Coronado SM60 II
Camera: ASI 178MM, 2 x TAL Barlow
Mount: CEM60-EC
Integration: 106 x 500 frames, best 20% from each
Acquisition: Sharpcap Pro
Processing: AutoStakkert, PI, ImPPG and PIPP
Well, almost. lol
This was taken before the moon was actually closest to the Earth on Saturday evening, Dec 2, 2017, 7:30 PM CST.
It is a 2 panel mosaic with 100 frames stacked per panel. The little eyepiece cam I used works extremely well for stuff like this.
Technical:
Televue TV-85 at F/5.6
Rising Tech Sony IMX224 Eyepiece Cam
Atlas EQ-G w/EQMOD
Sharpcap 2.9
A guided image of the Silver Sliver Galaxy (NGC891) in Andromeda taken using a ZWOASI183MC Pro camera in a 6-inch f/4 reflecting astrograph telescope. 60 ninety second images were captured using SharpCap and processed with DeepSkyStacker and Adobe Lightroom.
Here is an image I took from March 24, 2017 distilled from a video and processed in Registax. It is the first time I have been able to identify the feature referred to as Oval BA, also known as Red Spot Jr. The image on the right was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on April 3, 2017 for comparison, you can more clearly see this cloud feature in the HST image.
From NASA, “Oval BA first appeared in the year 2000 when three smaller spots collided and merged. Using Hubble and other telescopes, astronomers watched with great interest. A similar merger centuries ago may have created the original Great Red Spot, a storm twice as wide as our planet and at least 300 years old.” (Source: science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/02mar_...)
I look forward to continue learning planetary image processing and collecting additional video streams.
Tech Specs: Video captured using Meade LX90 12” telescope and ZWO ASI290MC camera. Imaging was done on March 24, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania. Software included AutoStakkert! V2.3.0.21, Registax v6 and Sharpcap v2.9.
A massive star explosion that happened thousands of years ago in the constellation of Cygnus as I photographed it using narrowband filters (Hydrogen-a + OIII) and a small 60mm reduced refractor. This is the reedited 2021 version. I hope I will add RGB data soon.
Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM-PRO USB 3.0 Mono (Type CMOS)
Sensor Cooling Temperature: -15C
Filters: 1.25" 5nm Astrodon Hydrogen-alpha (Ha), 1.25" 3nm Astrodon Oxygen III (OIII)
Imaging Telescope: Takahashi FS-60CB
Correcting Lens: Takahashi Reducer 0.72x (composite focal length at 264mm and focal ratio at f/4.9)
Mount: iOptron CEM25EC
Software: SharpCap Pro, PixInsight, Lightroom, Photoshop
Website: astrotakis.com/
Low in my southern sky in the constellation Aquarius, the Helix Nebula is a tough target which I actually didn't think I could image from home. Another collapsed star like the Dumbbell and other planetary nebula, this one resembles a giant eye with the outer hydrogen gas cloud surrounding a bluish center. It's actually relatively close to earth for a deep sky target, only 650 light years away. With the skyglow from New York behind the nebula, and a moderate amount of summer haze in the sky, I suspect this is an image that can be improved dramatically by adding several additional hours of exposure time. With our current weather patterns that will take me well into the 20's!
Tech stuff: Borg 71FL with 1.08X Borg flattener/ZWO ASI 1600MC camera/IDAS LPS-V4 filter/iOptron CubePro 8200 mount, guided. 48 minutes of 8 second exposures captured over two nights with SharpCap 3.2; Processed with PixInsight and finished with GIMP and ACDSee. From my yard 10 miles north of New York City.
Celestron NexStar 6SE, Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate, Zwo Asi224mc. 10K frames captured in SharpCap, stacked 50% in AutoStakkert, sharpened in wavelets and finished in Lightroom.
First attempt at this object for me. The ZWO Duo Band filter did a nice job of pulling out some good detail. Happy with the result!
The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. The common name comes from William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, who observed the object in 1842 using a 36-inch telescope and produced a drawing that looked somewhat like a crab. This nebula is located about 6,500 light years away.
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: 22*3 mins @ 150 Gain, Temp -20C
- Dark Frames: 22*3 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz Denoise AI
Technical card
Imaging telescope or lens:Astro-Tech AT-65EDQ
Imaging camera:Nikon D5300
Mount:Celestron CG5
Guiding telescope or lens:Orion Mini 50mm Guide Scope
Guiding camera:QHY 5 L II M
Software:APT - Astro Photography Tool, Adobe Lightroom CC, PixInsight 1.8 Ripley PixInsight, ProDigital Software Astronomy Tools Actions Set, Sequator global Sequator 1.4a, Photoshop CC 2017
Resolution: 5965x4261
Dates: April 7, 2018
Frames: 32x120"
Integration: 1.1 hours
Avg. Moon age: 21.42 days
Avg. Moon phase: 57.69%
Astrometry.net job: 2012281
RA center: 169.941 degrees
DEC center: 13.262 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.955 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 95.311 degrees
Field radius: 0.972 degrees
Locations: Maine, United States
Description
Leo Triplet
First time using guiding. Overall went well. Also first time using APT (AstroPhotography Tool imaging software). Also first time using SharpCap for polar alignment. That was super easy.
Not the best night, but was really trying out my new toys more than anything and Leo is heading west for the summer.
31 X120 seconds ISO 800
9 darks
no flats
Nikon D5300
AT65mm Quadruplet APO
OLD CG5 with Onstep and belt drives
Stacked in Sequator
Processed in Pixinsight
finishing touches in PS
I imaged this gem of the night sky last night while waiting for the moon to set. It's a great sight, and I wanted to set the new 61mm refractor on it last night again now that I have a field flattener.
The Double Cluster consists of the open clusters NGC 869 and NGC 884, which are close together in the constellation Perseus. Both visible with the naked eye, NGC 869 and NGC 884 lie at a distance of 7,500 light 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
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: PHD2
- Light Frames: 15*2 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -10C
- Dark Frames: 15*2 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom
Waxing Gibbous/77.4%
Moon Age 9.71 out of 29.39 days
March 19, 2024, about 2200 local, Tallahassee, Florida. Unusually good seeing tonight!
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.)
Taken with ASI294MC camera and 400mm Canon lens on Losmandy G11 GT mount. No darks, bias, or flat frames and no guiding. Captured in Livestack option in Sharpcap. An Optolong L-Pro filter was used to manage the light pollution.
M27 Dumbbell Nebula. Scope: Ostara HR152 Achromat. Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro. Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro. Guide: Altair GPCAMv2 130M with Orion 50mm. 8 x 2 Mins in SharpCap Pro. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor. Finished in Adobe CC.
Skywatcher 12" goto dob, 5x TeleVue Powermate, ZWO224MC, Sharpcap, PIPP, AS3
2021-08-25-1135_0__pipp_AS_P15_lapl5_ap1195_Drizzle15_conv_RS1
The Sun was playing hide & Seek with clouds today, but I managed to grab a few videos in the gaps so I could test out the new Baader Solar Continuum Filter that I bought from First Light Optics a few weeks ago. This filter helps to reduce the effect of atmospheric turbulence and I could definitely see that on screen. It also increases definition and brings out the granularity of the Sun's visible surface. I have wanted one of these for about 9 years so I'm super thrilled to finally have one! I'm looking forward to playing with it some more.
Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with a Thousand Oaks glass solar filter. The Camera was an ASI120MC fitted with a Celestron 3x Barlow. Mount was an EQ5 Pro, tracking at solar speed. 290 frame video captured with SharpCap, the best 25% of the frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 2 then quick processing in Fast Stone Image Viewer.