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Combining data from 2021 and 2022

Edinburgh Bortle 7/8 zone

Sept 2021 plus Dec 2022 combined

Celestron RASA 8"

ZWO 183mc pro

Optolong l-pro filter

ZWO ZWO ASI Air Pro

Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro

4 hrs lights; with flats, darks and bias

Gain 122 at -10C

 

Instruments ou objectifs:TS-OPTICS 10 F/4 CARBON, Sky-Watcher Quattro 250mm f/4 Black diamond

Imageurs:ATIK 383L+, SBIG STF8300M SBIG

Montures:10 MICRON GM1000 HPS, AZ EQ6 GT AZ EQ6

Instrument de guidage:Kepler 60mm

Caméras de guidage:QHY5 Guidecam, ATIK 383L+

Réducteur/correcteur de focale:TS-Optics TS.Optics GPU

Logiciels:Photoshop CC 2017, Bisque Software TheSkyX Pro, MaxPilote, MaxIm DL Pro 5 MaxIm DL, PixInsight

Filtres:Astrodon HA, OIII

Accessoires:USB_Focus V3, Robofocus

Résolution: 3300x2440

Dates: 18 juin 2018

Images:

Astrodon HA: 83x600" bin 1x1

OIII: 15x600" bin 1x1

Intégration: 16.3 Heures

Âge moyen de la Lune: 5.33 jours

Phase moyenne de la Lune: 28.82%

Astrometry.net job: 2126163

Centre AD: 311,421 degrés

Centre DEC: 30,716 degrés

Échelle des pixels: 1,108 arcsec/pixel

Orientation:

Nicknamed by one publication the " Angel of the Nauld "; as a tongue-in-cheek reference to the "Angel of the North" at Gateshead, this steel sculpture was created by award winning public artist Andy Scott, in his Maryhill studio in Glasgow

Smoke Photo Art.

 

I made this one some time ago, but several others got in the way of it being released. I thought it was appropriately titled for this weekend, when many people have been watching the sky. Fortunately Hurricane Irene appears to have been pretty gentle.

2 minute tracked shot of the Milky Way core and Rho Ophiuchi nebula

Addition de 50 poses de 3mn à 800iso, Canon 350D + zoom 70-200 à 70mm F4.5, sur monture Sky-Watcher Star-Aventurer.

A gigors le 29 aout 2019.

 

2019-08-29 M45+N1499_350D+70-200à70mm-F4.5_50x3mn_800a_399_SW-SA-SsAG_Gigors_002-01a2_DxO_fg

Moon , Sony α6600 , Pentax 75 EDHF , Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi

この撮影をした1時間ほど前まではうっすら雲がかかっていたのですが、一気に澄んだ空に変わりました。

シーイングはイマイチでしたけどね。

 

今回は色収差があるというEDHFを使いましたが、L41というUV成分をカットするフィルターを併用しての撮影です。

カメラのモニター越しではあるのですが色収差は感じませんでした。

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses

Celestron C11 SC XLT

Imaging Cameras

Canon EOS 6D (modified) ×

Mounts

Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6 PRO

Filters

IDAS LPS-P2 50 mm

Software

Adobe Lightroom · Aries Productions Astro Pixel Processor (APP)

Acquisition details

Dates:

April 4, 2024

Frames:

IDAS LPS-P2 50 mm: 40×15″(10′)

Integration:

10′

Avg. Moon age:

24.65 days

Avg. Moon phase:

24.60%

NGC 3293 The Gem Cluster located in the Carina constellation in the southern sky, the brighter stars in the middle are blue supergiant stars. Sky watcher Quattro 250P and QHY 183cPRO camera. 38 x 60 sec exposures . Taken 250223.

www.astrobin.com/unoexu/

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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P

• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro

• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro

 

• Astronomik L: 27x300s bin1 gain 0

• Astronomik RGB: 30x300s bin2 gain 125

• ZWO Hα 7nm: 41x600s bin1 gain 200

• ZWO Hα 7nm: 13x300s bin1 gain 200

• ZWO OIII 7nm: 4x600s bin2 gain 200

• ZWO OIII 7nm: 36x300s bin2 gain 200

(total integration 16.3h)

 

• ZWO OAG & ASI290Mini guide cam

• TS GPU coma corrector

• ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF & Pegasus Astro Ultimate Powerbox 2

 

Trevinca, Valding, Spain

Bortle 3, SQM 21.8

 

processed with Pixinsight

NGC3195 is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Chamaeleon. It is the most southern of all the bright sizable planetary nebula in the sky. Discovered by Sir John Herschel in 1835, this 11.6 apparent magnitude planetary nebula is slightly oval in shape, with dimensions of 40×35 arc seconds. The distance is about 5500 light years from the Earth. In hindsight, I shouldn’t have imaged this at 3000mm focal length because the seeing conditions were poor on the night.

 

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses

Celestron C11 SC XLT

Imaging Cameras

Canon EOS 6D (modified) ×

Mounts

Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6 PRO

Filters

IDAS LPS-P2 50 mm

Software

Adobe Lightroom · Aries Productions Astro Pixel Processor (APP)

Acquisition details

Dates:

April 4, 2024

Frames:

90×15″(22′ 30″)

Integration:

22′ 30″

Avg. Moon age:

24.65 days

Avg. Moon phase:

24.60%

Second set of data on M42 Data from December 11th 2022

Celestron RASA 8"

ZWO183mc pro

ZWO EAF

IDAS NBZ filter

ZWO air pro

Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro

60x 30s, 120 x 1s/2s , 30*5s Lights, Flats , Darks and Bias.

Gain 122 at -10C

Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop

AAW: April 8 - 15: Sky Watching

Wild waves under a dramatic sky

Watched by a mysterious eye

That in clouds does secretly hide

Gazing at the water wide

Looking as wild waves, race and fly

Shore to shore, under a dramatic sky

Televue NP101 (540mm) on Sky-Watcher AZEQ5 Mount (Guided)

QSI6120 LRGB with Astrodon filters

27x2min L

7x5min L

20x2min R

19x2min G

19x2min B

Stacked and processed with Pixinsight

 

This was taken from Yakima Canyon, WA on a very cold night (-7-degrees C). My dew heaters eventually lost the battle to the frost!

Se muestra bel Mare Nectaris en la región sur oriental de la imagen

Entre el Mare Nectaris y el Mar de la Tranquilidad , está el Sinus Asperiatis

 

Sky Watcher 200P Dobsoniano Manual

ZWO ASI120MC-S

Young Western Gold Finch.

Lunar eclipse , Sony α6600 , Pentax 75 SDHF , Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi

少し色温度を変更してターコイズフリンジを表現してみました。

彩度やコントラストの強調は行わずに、色温度を4200Kに変更しています。

Cygnus Sky-scape featuring the bright star Cygni 32 and the Propeller nebular. This is made up of 4 panels..

 

This image was photographed from my back yard.

 

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Vixen VSD

Imaging cameras: Starlight Express SX ccd camera

Mounts: Sky-Watcher & MX

Guiding telescopes or lenses:Vixen VSD

Guiding cameras: sx loadstar

M16 Eagle nebula . A starless version shot with QHY 183mc Pro and a Sky watcher ED80 Scope. 30 x 140 sec .

Follow the line under the skies

Watch it with your looking eyes

As it disappears out of sight

Swallowed by the far off light

That chases the clouds of steel grey

Across the land and far away

Astrofotografie mit Makroobjektiv Sigma 105mm f/2,8. 1Stunde und 25Min Belichtungszeit, 85 Fotos a 60 Sec. bei f/4, ISO 1250, Brennweite 157 mm. Nachführung Sky-Watcher STARADVENTURER GTi. Kamera Nikon Z6II

 

Nebulosa diffusa in associazione ad un ammasso aperto, nella costellazione di Cassiopea

7500 A.L.

 

telescopius.com/pictures/view/238127/deep_sky/heart-nebul...

 

Acquisizione: 43 light da 300sec. + (25 Dark - 25 Flat - 25 Bias) - Dithering

Integrazione complessiva: 3 ore e 25 min

Guadagno: 100

Temp. Camera: 0°C

Temp. Ambiente: 20°C

Bortle: 8

 

- Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Air

- Tubo: Askar FRA400

- Filtro SVBony SV220 (7nm - H-Alpha/O-III)

- Montatura: Skywatcher EQ AL55i Pro

 

- ASIAIR: Gestione/Acquisizione

 

- PIXINSIGHT + GRAXPERT + BlurXTerminator + Starnet: Allineamento, Somma, Correzione Gradienti , Deconvoluzione, Separazione Stelle e Riduzione Rumore

 

- PHOTOSHOP: Sviluppo finale

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Date : 2022-10-07

Objet : NGC 281

Instrument : Lunette 80 ED Esprit Super APO Sky_Watcher

Camera : ZWO ASI1600 MC / Filtre = L-EXTREME / Temp = -15°c / Gain= 139 / Offset = 21

Durée pose unitaire = 240s / Nombre de pose : 100 / Durée total = 6h40

Traitement SIRIL et PHOTOSHOP / Gestion Stellarmate

Phase lunaire : Waxing Gibbous(0.392)

 

Données Météo

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Fin de session StellarMatte : 2022-10-07 06:18:58

Lever du soleil : 08:09 AM

Coucher du soleil : 07:32 PM

Conditions climatiques : clear sky

Couverture nuageuse : 2 %

Taux d'humidite de 72 %

Pression : 1026 hpa

Vitesse Vent : 10 km/h

Orientation : 53 ° (N=0° / Est = 90° / Sud = 180° / Ouest = 270°)

La temperature en fin de session est de 6 °c

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@ Frank TYRLIK -->>> www.flickr.com/photos/frank_tyrlik/

Nikon D7100 full spectrum ISO 800

Lights 150 x 5 sec

Lights 150 x 10 sec

Lights 150 x 20 sec

Lights 100 x 200 sec

Darks 20 x 5 sec

Darks 20 x 10 sec

Darks 150 x 20 sec

Darks 10 x 200 sec

Flats 25

 

Sky-Watcher HEQ 5 PRO

Sony IMX290 Board + Custom Refractor Guide

 

#4 Rural/suburban transition

moved in and across the ridge one could see the layers of trees across the cropland.

 

Then the heavy fog moved in and nearly everything disappeared.

 

June 29th: Dense Fog Warning!

 

I think the fog makes for an interesting sunrise.

 

The Whirlpool Nebula, M51, 31 Million Light-Years away. Sky-Watcher EQ6 Rpro mount, Esprit 80mm, Player One Uranus M Camera and filter wheel, Antlia LRGB, H filters, Primaluce Eagle 3, Essato/Arco. NINA Acquisition.

 

those little galaxies in below it are up to 139 Million light-years away!

The Wizard Nebula, also known as NGC 7380.

 

Integration time 22 x 600s

Bortle 4-5 sky, Hailuoto Finland

 

Gear used:

Sky-Watcher HEQ5 PRO

ZWO ASI 533 MC Pro

Canon 400mm f5.6

ZWO mini guider

Optolong L-eNhance 2"

ZWO ASIAIR Plus

 

Edited in Pixinsight, Photoshop & Lightroom,

 

Have a nice sunday!

 

The God Of Thunder

NGC 2359 otherwise known as Thor’s Helmet and Sharpless 2-298 in the constellation of Canis Major at a distance of 15,000 light years from earth and spanning 30 light years, The central star is the Wolf-Rayet star WR7, a very hot star thought to be in a pre-supernova stage of it's life.

Photographed using broadband filters in channels RGB together with narrowband filters H-Alpha mapped to the red channel and OIII mapped to the blue channel using the Sky-Watcher Esprit 150ED Triplet Super APO Refractor (which we have on loan for testing thanks to Sky-Watcher USA) together with the QHY163M Monochrome CMOS

This setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 2B grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment

 

Total acquisition time 21.13 hours.

 

View in High Resolution

Astrobin : www.astrobin.com/naqfkx/

 

Technical Details

Captured and Processed by Kim Quick and Terry Hancock

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado

 

HA 280 mins 40 x 420

OIII 280 mins 40 x 420

RED min 192 mins 32x360

GREEN 258 min 43x360

BLUE 258 min 43x360

Filters by Optolong

Camera: QHY163 Monochrome CMOS

Calibrated with Dark, Dark Flat and Flat Frames

Optics: Sky-Watcher 150 Esprit (courtesy of Sky-Watcher USA)

Image Scale: 0.75 arcsec/pix

Field of View: 1.37 degrees

EQ Mount: Paramount MEII

Image Acquisition NINA, Pre Processing in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC

 

Thor (from Old Norse: Þórr) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, the protection of humankind, hallowing, and fertility. Besides Old Norse Þórr, the deity occurs in Old English as Þunor, in Old Frisian as Thuner, in Old Saxon as Thunar, and in Old High German as Donar, all ultimately stemming from the Proto-Germanic theonym *Þun(a)raz, meaning 'Thunder'.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor

  

A moody sky being watched by someone at the top of Smeaton's Tower on Plymouth Hoe.

November 20th starting 17:40

Edinburgh Bortle 8 zone

Celestron RASA 8"

ZWO 183mc pro

ZWO EAF

IDAS NBZ filter

ZWO air pro

Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro

4 panel mosaic -- each panel 45 x 60s lights, with flats, darks and bias

Gain 122 at -10C

Processed in APP , Pixinsight and Photoshop

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Date : 2022-11-19

Objet : NGC 1499

Instrument : Lunette 80 ED Esprit Super APO Sky_Watcher

Camera : ZWO ASI1600 MC / Filtre = IrCut + L-Extrême / Temp = -15°c / Gain= 139 / Offset = 21

Durée pose unitaire = 180s / Nombre de pose : 45

Traitement SIRIL et PHOTOSHOP / Gestion Stellarmate

Phase lunaire : Waning Crescent(0.847)

 

Debut capture : 2022-11-19 01:40:27

Conditions climatiques : few clouds

Couverture nuageuse : 13 %

Taux d'humidite de 89 %

Pression : 1012 hpa

Vitesse Vent : 7 km/h

Orientation : 343 ° (N=0° / Est = 90° / Sud = 180° / Ouest = 270°)

Temperature en fin de session est de 2 °c

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@ Frank TYRLIK -->>> www.flickr.com/photos/frank_tyrlik/

Data - 07/02/2022

Hora - 18:28 ~ 20:08 local (-3 UTC)

Lat - 7,13S

Log - 34,83W

Local - João Pessoa, PB - Brasil

Bortle - Class 7

Telescopio - Sky Watcher 200mm F5

Montagem - EQ5

Motorização - On Step Brazil

Guider - SW 9x50 + SVbony 105

Câmera - Canon T3i modificada

Filtro L-Enhance Clip Optolong

ISO - 1600

Light - 60 x 60s (60 min)

Flat - 15 x 1/3200s

Dark - 15 x 60s

Bias - 15 x 1/4000s

Temperatura do sensor ~ 27°C (Home made cooler)

Software Captura - APT/PHD2

Softwares Processamento - SiriL/PIX

 

#astfotbr

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NOTE: This photo is mislabelled as having been made on Dec. 16. It was made on Dec. 21!

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Photographed from mid-town Toronto, Canada, at 04.55 EST (Moon altitude: 41° | Sun 30° below the horizon)

* Temperature -6° C. ~ warmer than last week!

 

The Sun reached the December solstice - marking the start of winter in the northern hemisphere and of summer in the southern hemisphere - at 05.44 EST today. The subframes for this image of the Moon were obtained just 49 minutes earlier.

 

At the time of this photo the Moon had passed its last quarter phase exactly 8 hours earlier, so the Moon was in its waning crescent phase, with the terminator (the dividing line between day and night) already appearing slightly curved. Slightly less than half (actually, 46.7%) of the Moon is illuminated by the Sun in this photo.

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Nikon D810 camera body on Explore Scientific 152 mm (6") apochromatic refracting telescope, mounted on Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6 SynScan mount.

 

1200 mm focal length, f/8

 

Best twelve of fourteen identical stacked frames; each frame:

* ISO 200, 1/200 sec. exposure

 

Stacked in Registax

Processed in Photoshop CS6

(image rotation, brightness, contrast, 35% colour desaturation, sharpening on left side of Moon)

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Données prise de vue

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Date : 2022-05-30

Objet : IC4665

Instrument : Lunette 80 ED Esprit Super APO Sky_Watcher Camera : ZWO ASI1600 MC / Filtre = IrCut / Temp = -15°c / Gain= 139 / Offset = 21 Durée pose unitaire = 180s / Nombre de pose : 30 / Traitement SIRIL et PHOTOSHOP / Gestion Stellarmate Phase lunaire : New Moon(0.986) Echelle de Bortle = 4-5

 

Données Météo

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Fin de session StellarMatte : 2022-05-30 03:32:24 Lever du soleil : 06:14 AM Coucher du soleil : 09:47 PM Conditions climatiques : few clouds Couverture nuageuse : 12 % Taux d'humidite de 92 % Pression : 1012 hpa Vitesse Vent : 17 km/h Orientation : 42 ° (N=0° / Est = 90° / Sud = 180° / Ouest = 270°) La temperature en fin de session est de 7 °c

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Taken at the prime focus of a Sky-Watcher ED100 refractor.

ASI290MM, Astronomik ProPlanet 807 IR-pass filter, 2x Barlow lens, Sky-Watcher Skyliner 350P Flextube.

 

Composition of 4 images

The Star Nursery

At about 1,500 light-years ...

 

📷 Canon EOS Rebel T5i ( 700D )

Sigma DG - 70/300 mm f/4 - 5.6

🔭 Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer

ISO 1600

ExpTime 30 image x 30s

300mm

August 14th - Edinburgh Bortle 7/8 zone

Celestron RASA 8"

ZWO 183mc pro

Optolong L-Pro filter

ZWO air pro

Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro

60 X 60s lights; with flats, darks and bias

Gain 122 at -10C

processed Pixinsight

Vastness Ocean and Endless Sky

Watching the horizon decorated by cloud

I feel I am lucky to be here

 

Telescopio Dobson manual 200mm

Ocular Sky Watcher 24mm 2"

Nikon D3300

Taken through a Sky-Watcher ED 80mm telescope shortly before moonset. 500mm focal length and f/6.75. The image has been cropped heavily.

The appearance of a comet visible to the naked eye this week came as a surprise to many sky watchers. Comet NEOWISE (named after the NASA space telescope that found it) survived a trip around the sun, unlike most dusty iceballs that make up the core of a comet, and began to glow in the eastern night sky in early July.

 

I first learned of this comet from a Flickr post, which prompted me to rise early the next morning to view it in the twilight sky. I got some decent photos, but was disappointed at missing any foreground interest. The next morning I got up at 3 and took a chance at seeing the comet rise over something of greater interest than city haze, and was fortunate to pick a spot that had distant enough foreground elements to show up well in a tele lens in dim light. The slopes of Grassy Top have wind sculpted trees that seem to delight in pointing to the comet on this morning.

 

Comet NEOWISE will be visible in the early mornings for the next week, but for those not liking early mornings it will be visible in the NW sky about 90 minutes after sunset after July 12.

NGC 6188 , The Fighting Dragons of Ara , 10 x frames @ 300 seconds each stacked in DSS . Canon 5DSr on a Sky Watcher Quattro 250 F4 Telescope.

Sky Watcher ED80 f/7 + EOS100D

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