Magnitude 5,64

Distance 2806,728 Million km

Distance 19,617 UA

Temps lumière 2h36'02,2s

Diam. Apparent 0°00'03,76"

Diam. Équatorial 51118 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 - 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- 21h30 GMT

Taille: 1920x1080

Images unitaires: SER (1502x60ms) 10% retenues

Gain: 600

Échantillonnage: 0.086 "/pixel

Focale résultante: 7000mm

F/D: 28

Seeing: 0.97 "Arc

Bortle: 5

Phase de la Lune (moyenne): 0%

last night session just to sort out my plate solving issues and my psychotic PHD2 program. Good news I did sort that stuff out.

I just swung over to the Crescent Nebula to take a test image. I did not think an unmodded camera would be worth it on this image (especially with the moon) but after seeing the whole nebula in a single 2 minute exposure, I thought, hmmm.... why not.

My tracking was still terrible. Mostly because I had the balance wrong (at 12:30 realized was WEST heavy and at zenith). So every frame is trailed but whatever.

26@ 120 seconds

ISO 400

100 BAIS

no flats

no darks

AT65EDQ

dithered

Nikon d5300

Celestron CG5 with OnStep (Howard Dutton) and belt and motor upgrade

The worst aluminum tripod filled with sand to make better

QHY 5LII-M guide camera

Orion 50mm mini guide scope

DIY FocuserPro2 arduino focus motor ( Robert Brown)

Software: APT, PHD2, CdC, Sharpcap, ASCOM POTHUB, DSS, Pixinsight, PS/ACR, Team Veiwer.

PS Plug ins: Nik Define 2, Astronomy Tools

Location: backyard, Bortle 4 skies

quick edit, not my final offer

Heart and Soul Nebula with Double Cluster Chi Perseii

Hubble pallette

Bower 85mm f/1.4 @ f/2

ASI 1600MM-C gain 139

ZWO 7nm Ha filter

ZWO 7nm OIII filter

ZWO 7nm SII filter

10x Ha 2min

10x OII 2 min

15x SIII 2 min

11x dark frames

Sharpcap 2.9

Deep Sky Stacker

Pixinsight 1.8

Very very poor seeing.

Celestron NexStar 6SE, ZWO asi224mc with IR cut filter, 2.5x TeleVue Powermate and ZWO ADC. 3 minute video Captured in SharpCap, processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax Wavelets then Lightroom.

Best 35% of 3500

Equipment used;

Celestron hd edge 8

ZWOasi224mc camera

Celestron x-cel lx 2 x Barlow

Captured using sharpcap, stacked in AS2, sharpened in registax and photoshop

Here's one of my EAA (Electronically Assisted Astronomy) objects that I got enough data on to create a keeper image. I acquired the data for this on Dec 1, 2017.

Technical:

10x15 sec, 30x8 sec and 540x2 sec @ 2000 Gain (100-5000 Range), scaled up 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 and bright moonlight conditions.

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor + ASI120MC camera fitted with a 3x Barlow. The mount was my Skywatcher AZ GTi on a tripod. I had to use my portable set up because the Moon was too low to get above the trees from my permanent pier or from the observatory shed.

I grabbed the telescope because I wanted to capture the Lunar X and V on the 44% Waxing Crescent Moon before the Moon set. I had to dodge endless patches of cloud which were making my life miserable! Given the conditions I'm really really happy with the photos I got!

I captured a 1,000 frame video using SharpCap. I stacked the best 50% of those frames in Autostakkert! 3, then processed the images in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.

Messier 106 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. M106 is at a distance of about 22 to 25 million light-years away from Earth. There are several other galaxies in the frame, so look at my next post for identification of those.

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: 20*4 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -20C

- Dark Frames: 20*4 mins

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroomand Topaz Denoise AI

M92 is one of the brightest globular clusters in the Milky Way located 27,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Hercules. It a ball of stars containing roughly 330,000 stars in total globular cluster — that orbits our galaxy’s core like a satellite.

Total Integration: 2 hours 48 mins

Equipment:

Stellarvue SVX102T and Flattener

#zwo ASI533MM, ZWO AM5, EAF, EFW, ASI120 guide cam

#wandererastro Rotator Lite

#williamoptics 50mm Uniguide

#chroma 3nm RGB

Acquisition: NINA, Sharpcap for PA

Stacked in APP, bias, flats, flatdarks, darks

Processed/edited in PI, PS

High Resolution Image: app.astrobin.com/i/qpaca9

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Daystar Quark Chromosphere, TS Photoline 130mm, ZWO 2"IR filter, QHY163m, EQ8, SharpCap 4, PIPP, ImPPG, CS6

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. Mount was an EQ5 Pro, tracking at solar speed. A 2,000 frame video captured with SharpCap, the best 50% of the frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 2 then quick processing in Fast Stone Image Viewer.

Saturn reached opposition on August 14. This session took place on the night of the 12/13 of August - just before Earth moved between the sun and Saturn, placing the planet opposite the sun in our sky and when it appears at its biggest and brightest. I used frames above the 75% quality threshhold I arbitrarily chose. This composite image uses two different exposures, one for the planet and one for the moons.

Captured with SharpCap

Processed in PIPP and AutoStakkert

Post-processed in Photoshop

Date: 12-13/08/2022

Saturn

Made from 1,950 stacked video frames (75% quality and above)

Gain - 70%

Exposure - 0.073065 seconds

Integration - 142.48 seconds

Moons

Made from 587 stacked video frames (75% quality and above)

Gain - 80%

Exposure - 1.864855 seconds

Integration - 934.29 seconds

Equipment:

Telescope: Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS

Guide scope: Orion 50mm Mini

Guide camera: SVBony SV105 with ZWO USBST4 guider adapter

Mount: Skywatcher EQ5

Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI120 MC

x2 Barlow with extension tube (equivalent to x3.3)

Giove del 3-07-2022

Queste sono le mie prime immagini di quest'anno del gigante gassoso, il più grande dei pianeti e il quinto in ordine di distanza dal Sole.

A causa della presenza di nubi e velature non è stato facile ma, grazie a una sufficiente calma atmosferica, sono riuscito comunque a riprendere il pianeta e a ottenere un risultato accettabile.

Dati:

- Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newtoniano

- Montatura Eq2 con motore AR con pulsantiera

- Camera planetaria QHY5L-II-C

- Filtro UV-Ir cut

- Barlow 2x Celestron Omni

-Sharpcap per acquisire un video da 2 minuti

- Autostakkert!3 e Registax 6 per elaborare circa il 60% dei fotogrammi

- GIMP per scrivere i nomi dei corpi celesti

- Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia

- Data e ora: 3 luglio 2022 alle 3:11 UTC

FFTR in Pixinsight di 20 frame ottenuti con QHY 183C tramite SharpCap, elaborazione finale Photpshop CC15 e Topaz Labs

Scope: Orion 254mm F4.7

Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G

Camera: SVBony 305 - IMX290MC

Televue Powermate 5x

Exposure Time: 12ms

Gain: 300

FPS: 50

Software: Sharpcap, AutoStakkert_3.1.4_x64, Pixinsight

Jupiter_x5_2022-07-17_03_53_44_12ms_300_lapl5_ap413_Drizzle15_Pixinsight.jpg

Genova, Italy (10 Jul 2022 04:14 GMT+2)

Planet: diameter 42", mag -2.5, altitude ≈ 36°

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: 0.168 arcsec/pixel

Equivalent focal length ≈ 3570mm F/17.6

Recording: SharpCap 4.0 (640x480 @ 60fps - 90 sec - RAW16)

Best 3810 frames of 5444 (70%)

Alignment/Stacking/Wavelets/Deconvolution: AstroSurface T3

Final Elaboration: GIMP 2.10.30

Glowing majestically amidst a region of nebulous hydrogen, the Christmas Tree cluster is a neighbor to the Rosette Nebula in the constellation Monoceros. The Cone Nebula is found just above the tree and the Fox Fur Nebula lies just below.

Tech Stuff: Borg 55FL astrograph with ZWO ASI1600MC using Astronomik CLS and Ha Filters on iOptron Cubepro 8200 unguided mount. SharpCap Livestacks of 8 second exposures 1hr CLS + 3hrs Ha integrated into HaLRGB image with PixInsight. Imaged from my yard 10 miles north of New York City.

I have written an article in the Westchester Amateur Astronomers newsletter about this image, you can find it on page 5 at this link:

westchesterastronomers.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Mar...

Mare Nectaris along the terminator of the first crescent moon taken with a ZWOASI224MC planetary camera using SharpCap through a Celestron 4SE cassegrain telescope. The images were processed with RegiStax and Lightroom.

Us city folk learn the Orion constellation as children because the distinctive belt, shoulders and knees are among the only stars we see in the late autumn and winter sky. From the suburbs we learn that Betelgeuse is red and Rigel is blue, and know the fuzzy star in the sword is M42, a remarkable nebula. And backyard astrophotographers learn that the horsehead and flame nebulae flank Alnitak, first star in the sword. Here, some of the region's distinctive nebulosity is revealed by using a Hydrogen-alpha filter, which only allows the reddish color emitted by ionized hydrogen to reach the camera. The large circular structure on the eastern edge of the constellation is Barnard's Loop, which as far as I know is only accessible to suburban viewers through this filtered, long exposure approach.

The Rosette Nebula, a great astro target in its own right, hovers to the east -- to me this looks like a ghostly dog skull accompanying the celestial hunter on his nightly journey.

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. 264 minutes of 8 second exposures captured in LiveStacks via SharpCap; processed in PixInsight. Captured over 3 nights, November 2020 from my yard 10 miles north of New York City.

Crescent nebula / Nébuleuse du croissant NGC6888.

Zwo ASI224 MC + Leica-R Apo-Telyt 180mm f3.4 (@f4) adapted through DIY 3D printed adapter.

Dual narrowband with Optolong l-Enhance filter in bortle 7 area.

Post-processed with Gimp and Lightroom.

120 x 15 sec light pictures (total time 1800 sec) stacked wth Sharpcap.

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.

Ecco un’immagine del pianeta gigante ottenuta da una ripresa video mattutina durante il crepuscolo. Si vede bene la Grande Macchia Rossa vicino al bordo orientale, alcuni dettagli sulle bande equatoriali ed è visibile il satellite Io sulla sinistra in basso.Il pianeta cambia continuamente il suo aspetto a causa dell’elevata turbolenza della sua atmosfera e questo si può notare a distanza di poche settimane anche utilizzando telescopi amatoriali.

Dati:

– Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newtoniano

– Montatura Eq2 con motore AR con pulsantiera

– Camera planetaria QHY5L-II-C

– Filtro UV-Ir cut

– Barlow 2x Celestron Omni

-Sharpcap per acquisire un video da 90 secondi

– Autostakkert!3 e Registax 6 per elaborare circa il 50% dei fotogrammi

– Registax 6 per contrasto e luminosità

– Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia

– Data e ora della ripresa: 31 luglio 2022 4:01 UTC (6:01 ora locale)

Bubble Nebula in HOO

Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/vi2erd/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/colorado_astro/

Gear:

Imaging Camera: ASI183MM- Pro w/ EAF, EFW

Filters: Astrodon 3nm Ha and 3nm OIII 1.25"

Main Scope: Orion 8" f4 Newt 800mm FL

Guidescope: Williams Optics 50mm Uniguide

Guidecam: ASI120MM mini

Mount: SW EQ6R Pro

Coma Corrector: Skywatcher Quattro

Image details:

20% crop to enhance detail

70x300s, Ha, Gain 111, -15c

55x300s, OIII, Gain 111, -15c

25 darks

10.5 hrs total

Bortle 5/6 sky

Acquisition/Edits:

SharpCap, NINA, PHD2, Stellarium, Pixinsight, Photoshop

Just about 1.4 hours. High clouds cut night short but having the semi permanent set up makes things so much easier.

28@180seconds Gain 50 LUM

50 darks, 50 bias, 30 flats.

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

24.01.2018 - 20:00GMT

This evening's almost first quarter Moon (48% illuminated)

2 panel mosaic joined with Microsoft ICE, same image as before but processed with higher contrast.

Altair Astro StarWave 102ED f/7

Altair IMX178 Hypercam

Captured using - SharpCap 3.1

Best 20% of 3000 frames stacked with Autostakkert 3

Post processed with Photoshop CC 2018

Taken from Oxfordshire UK with a Coronado PST H-alpha solar telescope, Celestron 3x Barlow and ASI120MC camera. A 1,000 frame video was captured with SharpCap and the best 50% of the frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 4. Processing was done with Focus Magic, Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer. In step one of the processing I removed all of the colour, processed the image in monochrome then added false colour back in at the end using Photoshop CS2.

While waiting for Mars to appear it seemed like a good idea to take some shots of Saturn. We managed two before it ducked behind a tree and here the two shots are combined. The extra frames made it possible to bring out even more detail so several of the bands circling the planet are visible as well as more detail in the ring system.

Created from 2 x 5,000 frame videos with only the frames of 75% quality or higher used

Captured with SharpCap

Processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, Registax and Photoshop

Gain 75%

Exposure 0.056551 seconds and 0.060139 seconds

Equipment:

Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS

Sky-Watcher EQ5 Mount

ZWO ASI120 MC camera

x2 Barlow with extension tube

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Technical card

Imaging telescope or lens: Lunt Solar Systems LS60THa/B1200C

Imaging camera: QHYCCD QHY5III174

Mount: Skywatcher AZ EQ-6 GT

Focal reducer: Baader Planetarium Hyperion Barlow x2.25

Software: Emil Kraaikamp AutoStackert! 2 , Astro Capture Software SharpCap, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight

Filter: Optolong UV/IR cut

Accessory: Baader Planetarium Steeltrack 2"

Resolution: 719x518

Date: Oct. 8, 2017

Time: 08:32

Frames: 2100

FPS: 72.00000

Focal length: 1125

Locations: Berga Resort, Berga, Barcelona, Spain

Messier 8 (M8):

300x5 sec stacked with sharpcap (gain 300).

ZWO ASI 224MC & Leica-R Apo-Telyt 180mm f3.4 @f4

Optolong L-Enhance Dual Narrowband Filter.

24.01.2018 - 20:00GMT

This evening's almost first quarter Moon (48% illuminated)

2 panel mosaic joined with Microsoft ICE, process is more subtle.

Altair Astro StarWave 102ED f/7

Altair IMX178 Hypercam

Captured using - SharpCap 3.1

Best 20% of 3000 frames stacked with Autostakkert 3

Post processed with Photoshop CC 2018

Mars as imaged during 2022 opposition. Despite Martian clouds, Sirenum and North Polar Hood are prominent whilst Olympus Mons can just be made out.

Acquisition:Best 5% of 5000x 2.5ms each RGB.

Location: 23:15 7-12-2022 St Helens UK.

Equipment:Skywatcher 200P Newtonian, EQ6R-Pro, ZWO EAF, EFWmini, RGB filters. Altair H183Mpro.

Software:SharpCap, EQMOD.

Processing:AutoStakkert, Registax 6, Affinity Photo 2 with Topaz DeNoiseAI plug-in.

NGC 7293 ou nébuleuse de l'Hélice est une nébuleuse planétaire située dans la constellation du Verseau, à proximité du Poisson austral. Sa forte ressemblance avec un œil humain lui a valu le surnom de « l’œil de Dieu.

Située à environ 650 années lumière de la Terre, elle est l'une des nébuleuses planétaires les plus proches.

Elle se présente sous l'aspect d'une anneau presque aussi étendu que la moitié de la pleine Lune

sur l'image, 2 petites galaxies PGC170394 et 2MASX J22281893-2028278

matériel

lunette FSQ-106ED équipée extender x1.6 sur monture NEQ6 pro goto

caméra ZWO ASI1600MC-C équipée filtre IDAS-LPS-D1

guidage avec lunette APM 50*240 et caméra ZWO120MM

46 poses de 300s

logiciels :

acquisition : Sharpcap 3.2

guidage : PHD2

prétraitement : Deepskystacker

Traitement : Photoshop CS6

Cadre : Gimp

Ecco la nostra Luna in un mosaico composto da 13 pannelli, ognuno dei quali è il risultato ottenuto da un filmato contenente 443 fotogrammi.

La Luna è stata fotografata la notte del 17 ottobre, poche ore prima della fase di Ultimo Quarto.

Dati:

Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newton

Montatura Eq2 motorizzata Sky-Watcher

Camera planetaria QHY5L-ll-C

Filtro UV-IR cut

Sharpcap 3.2 per i 13 filmati

Autostakkert! 3.1.4, Astrosurface T5-TITANIA per elaborare circa il 50% dei fotogrammi in ciascun filmato

Autostitch per comporre il mosaico

Data e ora: 17 ottobre 2022 dalle 02:38 UTC (4:38 ora locale) alle 02:56 UTC (4:56 ora locale)

Fase della Luna: Gibbosa Calante

Frazione illuminata: 55%

Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia

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.

Same picture than previous one but post-procesed with Siril and Lightroom

Taken using a StellaLyra 8" Classical Cassegrain with a ZWO ASI224 MC and ZWO Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector. Video captured using SharpCap, stacked in AS!3 and processed using Registax6 and GIMP.

22:45BST waxing gibbous phase 97% illuminate, clear and bright, the colours came out well on this capture.

Altair Astro 72EDF f/6

AA IMX178C Hypercam

SkyWatcher AZ-GTI mount

Best 15% stacked with Autostakkert 3, of 3000 frames captured with SharpCap Pro 3.2

Post processed with Registax 6 and Photoshop CC2019

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

- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap

- Guiding Software: PHD2

- Light Frames: 32*4 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -15C

- Dark Frames: 32*4 mins

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier. Camera used was a ZWO ASI120MC with a 5x Powermate Barlow attached to the camera nose.

4,000 frame video shot in Sharpcap, best 75% of those frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3, then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.

The Sun continues to be incredibly active and enjoyable to view. The photo on the left is a view of Our Sun's photosphere and on the right is Our Sun's chromosphere. The photosphere highlights the sunspot activity. You can also see faculae on the surface. The chromosphere captured using a Hα filtered telescope, highlights prominences, sunspots, plages, and filaments. The chromosphere is the layer of the Sun immediately above the photosphere.

The pictures were captured in Elkridge, Maryland USA.

The Sun’s photosphere was captured using:

Telescope: Astro Physics Traveler 105mm f6

Solar Filter: baader planetarium Herschel Prism Mark II

Mount: Celestron AVX

Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro

The Sun’s chromosphere was captured using:

Telescope: Lunt 60mm Hα – LS60T Hydrogen alpha

-Double stack: LS50Hα

Mount: Orion Solar Starseeker

Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro

Both images were captured in monochrome.

Capture software:

Sharpcap 3.2

Processing software:

AutoStakkert! 3.1.4

Adobe Light Room Classic

Adobe Photo Shop

M27 Dumbbell Nebula. Scope: Altair Starwave 102ED-R with 0.8X Reducer. Mount SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro. Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro. Guided with Altair GPCAMv2 130M and Orion 50mm. 23 x 60 Secs in SharpCap Pro. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor. Finished in Adobe CC.

6" f5 home built/hand-ground Newtonian

Meade X2 barlow

CG5 mount with OnStep by Howard Dutton

Nema 17 motors with belt drive

Celestron Neximage 5 camera

5000 frames at max gain to get fastest shutter speed best 20% stacked.

Software:

Sharpcap for capture

Autostackert3 for stacking

Registax for sharpening

Photoshop for final tweak

After almost 10 days of overcast skies, finally managed to get some gaps in between the clouds. Also managed to get about 220fps for Mars using Sharpcap. Not bad.

Jupiter and Saturn were de-rotated from a 90sec video

The weird lines were all over the place. Any idea what causing it?

Transparency 2/5

Seeing 3/5

C9.25 EDGEHD

ZWO120MC

SharpCap

AutoStakkert

PixInsight

TS 130 APO

Skywatcher EQ6

Neximage 5 2x barlow

6389 frames in SharpCap

Stacked 2875 in Autostakkert

1.5 Drizzle

Post Astra Image PS cc.

Taken on April 8 2017 @ DSVA

Daystar Quark Chromosphere, TS Photoline 130mm, ZWO 2"IR filter, QHY163m, EQ8, SharpCap 4, PIPP, ImPPG, CS6

Jupiter at Opposition with Europa approaching transit.

Probably my best Jupiter image so far, I tried out my Skywatcher 200PDS with the 2.5 Powermate. Sky was very damp and Jupiter was quite wobbly so pleased with what I got.

ASI462MC Camera with IRcut filter.

Focal length 2250mm @ f9 1.625ms exposure @271 gain.

90 sec video in Firecapture (For some reason Sharpcap wasn't responding to me last night !)

I really wanted to capture the transit but the Clouds rolled in immediately after this capture, and I knew rain was forecast so packed up at @ 12.40am.

I used Firecapture, Autostakkert, Registax, Photoshop and finished in Lightroom.

150mm f/8 refractor with Lunt pressure tune module (off 50THa) and internal ERF,Altair GPCAM2 130M/1.6 magnimax element.Imaging through thin cloud and unsteady seeing captured SER file in Sharpcap,stacked in Autostakkert 3 and processed in Astrosurface and PS CS2.

Celestron NexStar 6SE, ZWO asi224mc with IR cut filter, 2.5x TeleVue Powermate and ZWO ADC. Captured in SharpCap, processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax Wavelets then Lightroom.

M42 Orion Nebula.

Altair Astro 72EDF f/6

AA IMX178C Hypercam - fan cooled

Skywatcher AZ-GTI goto mount (AZ unguided setup with a 3-star alignment)

No filters or flattener.

2sec exposures, Gain = 400 , Black level = 30

1600x unguided light frames

800x dark frames

800x each of flats, dark flats and bias calibration frames

I captured this image on Jan 2nd 2023 over the course of around an hour, it was a bit of a suck it and see experiment really as I had my mini rig out to image the Moon, but decided I would try some unguided short captures and see what I could do with the resulting subs.

There is some degree of rotation as expected and I have cropped the final image, the walking noise does visibly rotate about the field of view when it’s stretched a lot.

However APP along with the calibration frames hasn’t done a terrible job of dealing with it considering it’s just a grab and go AZ capture with no guiding, the 72EDF’s sharp optics have helped reveal some fair details in the dust and darkness.

Captured with SharpCap 4 Pro.

Stacked with Astro Pixel Processor, processing with PixInsight, also using BlurXTerminator and NoiseXTerminator. Tweaked colour in Photoshop 2022.

Mal seeing y mucho jetstream, a ratos nubes altas o sea que condiciones bastante flojas.

Telescopio: Refractor Bresser Messier Acro 102/460 f4.5

Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM

Montura: Montura: iOptron CEM40

Filtros: Baader G CCD Filter

Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop

Fecha: 2019-12-04 (4 de diciembre de 2019)

Hora: 21:01 U.T. (Tiempo universal)

Fase lunar: 55.5% 8.23 días Creciente

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 1 minutos

Resolución: 3096 x 2080

Gain: 150 (29%)

FPS: 27

Exposure: 1.271 ms

Frames: 1660

Sensor temperature= 24.5°C

Frames apilados: 30%