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Instrument ou objectif:Sky-Watcher Quattro 250mm f/4 Black diamond
Imageurs:SBIG STF8300M SBIG
Monture:AZ EQ6 GT AZ EQ6
Instrument de guidage:Kepler 60mm
Caméra de guidage:QHY5 Guidecam
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
Résolution: 3328x2514
Dates: 18 juin 2018
Images:
Astrodon HA: 17x600" -10C bin 1x1
OIII: 15x600" bin 1x1
Intégration: 5.3 Heures
Explore #188 - 19.03.2009
Reach out and touch
The perfect dreaming skies
Watch angels dance on clouds
In the fading evening light
Spirits descend on whispers
Surfing the wind as it sighs
Colours shift and squirm
Fleeing the onset of the night
Tom Raven - March 2009
Best Viewed Large On Black - See where this picture was taken. [?]
ASI290MM, Astronomik ProPlanet 807 IR-pass filter, 2x Barlow lens, Sky-Watcher Skyliner 350P Flextube.
Composition of 4 images
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
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 high valley of Bargis points in the perfect direction for a picture of the rising Milky Way core. Combined with perfect conditions (dry, cold, and clean air), capturing this image was pure joy.
Exif
Canon EOS Ra
Samyang 24mm f/1.4
Sky Watcher Star Adventurer Mini
Foregound: stack of 20x30s f/2.8 iso3200
Sky: tracked stack of 40x30s f/2.8 iso3200
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.
The Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Here are16 x 60 sec shots stacked in Sequator. Canon 60D with optolong L Enhance filter on a Skywatcher Quattro 250P F4 Scope.
Exif
Canon EOS Ra
Samyang EF 24mm f/1.4
Canon RF 50mm F1.8 STM
Sky Watcher Star Adventurer Mini
Foregound: 10 stacks of 6x30s f/4 iso3200
Sky: 3 tracked stacks of 20x30s f/2.8 iso3200
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• ZWO Hα 7nm: 44x600s bin1 gain 200
• ZWO OIII 7nm: 52x600s bin2 gain 200
(total integration 16h)
• 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
Exif:
Canon EOS Ra
Samyang 24mm f/1.4
Sky Watcher Star Adventurer Mini
Foregound: single exposure 30s f/2.8 iso3200
Sky: tracked stack of 20x30s f/2.8 iso3200
Telescope: Sky Watcher Maksutov 127/1500
Mount: Takahashi EM400 Temma2
Camera: ASI290MC
Filter: IR/UV Cut
18 tiles mosaic
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• Astronomik L: 76x300s bin1 gain 0
• Astronomik RGB: 52x300s bin2 gain 125
• ZWO Hα 7nm: 40x300s bin1 gain 200
• ZWO Hα 7nm: 8x600s bin1 gain 200
(total integration 15.3h)
• 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
Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's Day and i just got my Heart Nebula data processed and edited. First time using a dual-band pass filter and was excited to see what my OSC astro camera could capture, turned out pretty good altough the integration time was only 4hrs 30min.
Canon 400mm f5.6
Optolong L-eNhance Filter
Skywatcher HEQ5 PRO
ZWO Mini 30mm Guide scope
ZWO ASI120MM Mini mono
ZWO ASI 533 MC PRO
ZWO ASIAIR Plus
43 x 300s
5 x 600s
3-panel mosaic of the Rosette Nebula and Cone Nebula Molecular Cloud Complex.
HOO narrowband color pallet.
75, 600 second, 100-Gain, -20C Ha subs per panel.
75, 600 second, 100-Gain, -20C Oiii subs per panel.
(3 panels total).
Askar 200mm F4 lens.
ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro.
Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro mount.
ASI174mm guide cam.
60mm guide scope.
Pixinsight and Photoshop.
Data was collected on the clear nights from late January - March 2023 regardless of the moon cycle. Locations: My backyard (Bortle -7) and Cheddar Ranch Observatory (Bortle-3).
The stars aren't perfect where the panels overlap because my backspacing wasn't exact with this setup. That said, I still enjoyed doing a deep, well-exposed mosaic of this beautiful patch of sky.
Exif:
Canon EOS 6D
Samyang 24mm f/1.4
Sky Watcher Star Adventurer Mini
Foregound: 4 stacks of 3x120s f/4 iso6400
Sky: 9 tracked stacks of 10x30s f/2 iso1600
The Helix Nebula (also known as NGC 7293 or Caldwell 63) is a planetary nebula (PN) located in the constellation Aquarius. The Helix Nebula has sometimes been referred to as the "Eye of God" in pop culture, as well as the "Eye of Sauron". 42 x 120 sec shots stacked .Canon 5dsr and SW Quattro 250 F4.
Laurieston Moors Area, we stood here sky watching for birds of prey, there was a Peregrine, the moors looked lovely when the sun shone on them.
I've been planning this shot for over a year and finally got to shoot it last Thursday. I tried earlier in the month, but the smoke from the fires made it difficult to see Half Dome, let alone Pleiades.
Pleiades (The Seven Sisters) is the exact relative size and location to Half Dome, taken with the same camera and lens without moving them. Details in Pleiades were brought out thru tracking and stacking.
There will likely be several versions of this clogging up your news feed, but this one shows the enormity of our universe through the endless star-field. It also helps show what the world will lose if we continue to pollute the night sky with artificial lights.
Sony A7S3, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 II, f/3.2, 50s, ISO6400 (for sky). Tracked on Sky Watcher Star Adventurer and stacked in Siril. 40 Lights, and 64 each for Darks, Flats, and Biases. Foreground taken during Blue Hour. Blended and processed in Photoshop and Lightroom
Central Utah is full of amazing desert formations, some buried quite a few miles in the backcountry. This is a location that has become a bit of a unicorn for me, I've been here no less than 5 times and all the previous times I've been skunked by clouds, moonlight, and absolutely crazy weather. Finally this last weekend we made it in and has perfectly clear skies! As I've been working on a big project with my ASI2600mc Pro I was left with time lapse camera, rather than do some timelapse I decided to use the A7s for some nightscapes instead. This shot was done as blue hour was rapidly changing light conditions, a sequential tracked sky and untracked foreground with the intense blue hues dominating the incredible landscape. I don't often do blue shots like this, but the blue hour presented an opportunity I couldn't pass up.
Shot with an A7S and Voigtlander 21mm Nokton lens on a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer Mini tracking mount, 3 exposures went into the shot, 1 for the sky (2 minutes at f2.8 and ISO 800) and 2 for the foreground (focus stacked, 2 minutes at f2.8 and ISO 800).
Télescope Sky Watcher 200/1000
Monture HEQ 5 PRO
boitier CANON 600 D refiltré astrodon
54 x 75 sec 1600 ASA
10 x 15 sec 1600 ASA
The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky with apparent magnitude 4.0. It is about 1,344 light-years away and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light-years across (so its apparent size from Earth is approximately 1 degree). It has a mass of about 2,000 times that of the Sun. (ref. Wikipedia) This image was taken through some high, thin cloud cover.
Observation data: J2000 epoch
Subtype: Reflection/Emission
Right ascension: 05h 35m 17.3s
Declination: −05° 23′ 28″
Distance: 1,344±20 ly
Apparent magnitude (V): 4.0
Apparent dimensions (V): 65×60 arcmins
Constellation: Orion
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO AS2600mc-Pro running at -10C, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, 24 x 300 second guided exposures, darks from the library and flats at the end of imaging, Optolong L-eXtreme 2” filter, focused with a ZWO EAF, controlled with a ZWO ASIAir Pro. Processed using PixInsight and DSS. Image Date: February 8, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Last night’s first quarter moon, three panel mosaic taken under partly cloudy skies.
Tech Specs: Orion 8" f/8 Ritchey-Chretien Astrograph Telescope, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro mount, ASI071MC-Pro, ZWO AAPlus, ZWO EAF, best 20% of 3000 frames, processed using Autostakkert!, Registax, and Adobe Lightroom. Image Date: March 28, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W95), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
NGC 7000 the North America Nebula close-up of the central america portion, also known as the Cygnus Wall. It is about 1,500 light years away. The ridge is about 15 light-years long. It is illuminated by young, hot massive stars and is surrounded by cooler gases and dust. This photo is an integration of 30 hours of data, 10 minute exposures in the SHO palette. Oxygen data from bortle 1, Hydrogen and Sulphur from Bortle 9.
Esprit 120mm, QHY268m camera. Sky-Watcher EQ-R pro mount.
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) that won't return to Earth for another 6,800 years
Picture taken in Negev desert, Israel.
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Eq.: Nikon D610, 70-300 lens, Sky watcher star adventurer tracker.
Sky: tracked - 7 frames x 165mm, f/5, 30 sec, ISO 2500.
Stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker.
Foreground: single exposure after sunset - 70mm, f/6.3, 1 sec, ISO 200
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• EQ6-R Pro
• ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
• ZWO L: 144x90s
• ZWO R, G, B: 75x90s bin2
(total integration 5.5h)
• -20° sensor temp., Gain 0 (HDR)
• TS GPU coma corrector
• 60x240 guide scope, ZWO ASI290Mini guide cam
Captured with ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF, ZWO ASIAIR Pro
Saint Petersburg, Russia, home balcony.
Bortle 8-9 with SQM ~17.6
Captured in two nights in february 2022
processed with DSS & Pixinsight
© P Williamson 2015
Taken in the Desert near Al Khatim (Abu Dhabi-Al Ain Road).
L: 24 x 300s
R:10 x 180s (2x2 bin)
G: Synth from R&B
B: 10 x 180s (2x2 bin)
Camera: Atik 490ex Mono
Scope: Celestron C8
Focal Reducer: F6.3
Mount: Sky Watcher AZ-EQ6 GT
Filters: Baader
M8, Lagoon Nebula. Almost 35 hrs integration time. Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm, QHY278M, Optolong 3nm NG, and RGB filters.
13hrs of Hydrogen data taken from downtown Bortle 9 Phoenix, Arizona. 13 hrs Sulphur split between Bortle 1 and Bortle 9, and 6 hrs Oxygen all Bortle 1, new moon. 1.5 hrs of RGB also at Bortle 1. I did some interesting combinations of the data to get this final image.
It lies about 5,000 light-years away, and spans 100 light-years, in the constellation Sagittarius.
This is my fourth and final summer target. Luckily I was able to finish everything that I planned and started back in July. Here is my longest integration time too at 21 hours in HaRGB
Telescope: William Optics GT71
Mount: Sky Watcher HEQ5
Camera: ZWO ASI183MM Pro
Filters: Astrodon LRGB
Frames
H-alpha: 169x300" (14h)
RGB: 130x180" (6h 30')
RGB: 60x30" (30')
Total Integration: 21h
Mammatus clouds are round, protrubing-looking structures that are found on the underside of a larger, parent cloud, in this case a cumulonimbus that passed over us producing rain, hail, lightning and thunder.
For an explanation of how they form click on this link:
Olympus OM-1, 300mm f/4 pro
at 5 sec, f/4, iso-200, on a Sky Watcher 2i tracker.
Single shot, crop to 1119x1119
Edit in Photolab 6
Moon , Sony α6600 , Pentax 75 SDHF , Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi
月の高い位置で撮影したので、綺麗な色でした。
撮影した後でアイピースに替えて眼視でも楽しみました。
シーイングはあまり良くなかったのですが、ボコボコしたクレーターを見ているとあっという間に1時間ぐらい経っていました。
The Cocoon Nebula is an emission nebula in the constllation Cygnus, about 4000 light-years away. Hidden away inside this 15 light-year wide stellar nursery, hundreds of stars are either already born or in the process of forming. The dark molecular cloud surrounding the nebula and trailing behind it also contains hundreds of embryonic stars, slowly accreting enough matter from their surrounding medium to gain enough mass to ignite the nuclear fusion in their cores.
-=Tech Data=-
-Equipment-
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Esprit 100
Mount: Celestron CGX
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
Filters: Baader UV/IR cut for RGB, STC Duo-Narrowband for Hα
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120 Mini
Guide Scope: Starfield 60mm guide scope
Dew Control: Kendrick
Power: Pegasus Astro Pocket Power Box
- Acquisition -
RGB 23 x 5 Min
Hα 53 x 5 Min
Hα data accquired by extracting the Hα component from my Duo-Narrowband filter with Astro Pilex Processor
- Software -
Acquisition / Rig Control: Sequence Generator Pro
Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor
Processing: PixInsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC
Shot at the Camden Lake Provincial Wildlife Area near Moscow, Ontario.
Exif
Canon EOS Ra
Sigma 28mm f/1.4
Sky Watcher Star Adventurer Mini
Foreground: one stack of 21x30s f/2 iso1600
Sky: one tracked stack of 58x30s f/2 iso1600
This image (false coloured) shows our Sun's chromosphere and filament, captured in Hydrogen Alpha.
This was captured on 6th October 2021 from my backyard in the UK.
Equipment used :
Sky-watcher 120mm Evostar Achro
CEM70
Daystar Quark Chromosphere Ha Eyepiece
Point Grey Blackfly mono CMOS
-=Tech Data=-
-Equipment-
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Esprit 100
Mount: Celestron CGX
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
Filter: Baader UV/IR cut
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120 Mini
Guide Scope: Starfield 60mm guide scope
Dew Control: Kendrick
Power: Pegasus Astro Pocket Power Box
- Acquisition -
40 x 3 min exposures
- Software -
Acquisition / Rig Control: Sequence Generator Pro
Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor
Processing: PixInsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC
Shot at the Camden Lake Provincial Wildlife Area near Moscow, Ontario.
The Rosette Nebula is an H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter.13 x 120 sec exp @ ISO 800 with a Canon 60D on a Skywatcher Quattro 250P F4 Telescope.
M31 The Great Andromeda Galaxy in a sea of Ha.
My "deepest" astro-photo to date. I had only seen a few images of M31 this deep with the faint interstellar clouds of Ha present. I wanted enough integration to not only show the Ha clouds, I wanted to see their structure. All the data for this M31 image was acquired by myself, with my own equipment from a Bortle-1 location during two different years at the Okie-Tex Star Party.
About 39hrs data total?
(I had 178 Ha subs but only used 166 of them)
Ha clouds data:
166, 10-minute, 100 gain, Ha sub exposures, Rokinon 135mm lens at F2.8
ASI2600mm pro
Star Field and LRGB data:
69, 1-minute, 100 gain Lum
69, 1-minute, 100 gain Red
69, 1-minute, 100 gain Green
69, 1-minute, 100 gain Blue
Rokinon 135mm at F2.8
ASI2600mm pro
Galaxy details:
80, 6-minute, 800-ISO, F5.5 at 550mm Esprit 100ED, Nikon D810a
Sky-Watcher EQ6-R pro mount
Dithered and guided, data calibrated with darks, flats, bias, and flat darks.
Pixinsight
Photoshop
Okie-Tex Star Party 2021 and 2022 data
Captured on 23/24 November 2017.
Telescope: Sky-Watcher MN 190/1000
Mount: Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6 GT
Camera: Canon EOS 450D DSLR (full range)
Frames: 34 x 420s Lights; Darks, Bias and Flats calibration.
Capture software: BackyardEOS, PHD2
Calibration and stacking: PixInsight
Processing: Photoshop
Per Wikipedia: NGC 2359 (also known as Thor's Helmet) is an emission nebula in the constellation Canis Major. The nebula is approximately 3,670 parsecs (11.96 thousand light years) away and 30 light-years in size. The central star is the Wolf-Rayet star WR7, an extremely hot star thought to be in a brief pre-supernova stage of evolution. It is similar in nature to the Bubble Nebula, but interactions with a nearby large molecular cloud are thought to have contributed to the more complex shape and curved bow-shock structure of Thor's Helmet.
HOO color pallet.
32, 10-minute, 100 gain Ha subs
13, 10-minute, 100 gain OIII subs
ASI2600mm Pro, Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ED, 550mm focal length, F5.5, ASI174mm guide cam, EQ6-R pro mount, ASI Air pro.
Pixinsight and Photoshop.
Locations: My Bortle-7 backyard and Comanche Springs Astronomy Campus. TX Bortle-2.
4-11, 4-12, 4-13, 4-15, and 4-16-23.