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Messier 78 es una nebulosa de reflexión en la constelación de Orión.
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El equipo empleado fue...
Telescopio: ED80 Sky Watcher + 0.85X
Montura: LXD75 Meade
Cámara: QHY163m
Enfoque: MyFocuserPro2
Guiado: MiniScope 50mm Orion, CámaraGuia/QHY5 L-II c
Adquisición: APT (AstroPhotographyTool) 3.87
Apilado y procesado: PixInsight, Photoshop
Tomas
L: 9x180s
RGB: 20x180sbin2
Total Expo: 3 h 27 min
Temperatura sensor: -10°C
Distancia Focal: 510mm
F/ 6,3
Telescope: William Optics GT71
Mount: Sky Watcher HEQ5
Camera: ZWO ASI183MM Pro
Filters: Astrodon 5nm Ha, Gen2 LRGB
Frames
H-alpha: 52x300" (4h 20')
Luminance: 187x90" (4h 40')
RGB: 157x180" (7h 51')
Total Integration: 16h 51'
Moon , Sony α6600 , Pentax 75 EDHF , Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi
月齢が大きな月は見頃が夜半過ぎになるのであまり撮っていないんですよね。
この日は少し霞が残っていたのか黄色っぽく色付いていました。
あとはシーイングがかなり悪い(-_-)、ゆらゆら揺れていてピントが合わせづらかったです。
IC1396
The bright rim of the "trunk" is the surface of the dense cloud that is being illuminated and ionized by a very bright, massive star (HD 206267). It's a spectacularly huge and photographic target!
Image Details:
Taken in my backyard in Central District, Seattle.
Tele Vue NP101is with QSI6120
Astrodon 3nm Narrowband Filters:
23x10min Hydrogen Alpha
31x10min Sulfur II
37x10min Oxygen III
Total Integration Time: 15.2 hours
Sky-Watcher AZEQ5 Mount
Re-edit
120s subs merged with 30s light subs and the core looks way better now.
ASIAIR PRO
ASI ZWO 533mc Pro
Canon 400mm f5.6
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro mount
Pixinsight + Photoshop
Taken in Bortle 9 inner city sky so this amazing for me what we can photograph with the technology we have today.
21 x 5min Lights, 20 Flats and dark subs
1hr 45mins total exposure. IC 443, NGC 2174
Stacked in DSS and processed in SetiAstro.
ASI294MC camera, Tamron 100-400 lens at 200mm, ASI Air Pro, Optolong e-Extreme dual band filter, Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTI Mount
The Andromeda Galaxy, this is my first light on it using the Sky-Watcher APO. The Andromeda Galaxy is also designated Messier 31 (M31) and is the nearest major galaxy to out Milky Way, which it happens to be on a collision course with! Also pictured are the elliptical galaxies Messier 110 (M110) to the upper left of Andromeda and Messier 32 (M32) the large white dot just to the right of the center of Andromeda.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, Canon 6D stock camera, ISO 3200, 75 x 60 second exposures with dark/bias frames, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Image date: October 30, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
I put together a widefield setup from scraps and spare bits lying around to run as a secondary imaging rig. My main setup is a 100mm refractor on an EQ mount. My favorite star party of the year Okie-Tex is coming up, the first week of October. I want to maximize my time under the Bortle-1 skies.
This is an old Nikon D7100 from 2013, full-spectrum modified, a Rokinon 135mm prime lens, ZWO Eaf focuser, Sky-Watcher Evo-Guide, and ZWO ASI 178mm guide cam. The Nikon D7100's sensor is showing its age, but it can still get the job done with enough integration.
I like to use aluminum angle iron bolted to universal "bread plates". This way, I can mount accessories any way I need to.
I spent last Tuesday and Wednesday nights at CRO working the kinks out of this setup. After a few adjustments and swapping out guide cameras, it's working great. I tested it with APT, Backyard Nikon, PHD2 and Celestron PWI, and Cartes du Ciel.
I was able to get some data of the bright Nebulae near Deneb. The North America Nebula and the Pelican Nebula.
Image data:
88), 5-minute, iso-200, f/3.2 at 135mm, stacked with calibration frames. 90% of best subs stacked. Nikon D7100 (full spectrum modified), guided, stacked with DSS, processed in Pixinsight and Adobe Photoshop.
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• Astronomik L: 292x300s bin1 gain 0
• Astronomik RGB: 112x300s bin2 gain 125
(total integration 33.6h)
• 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
The Rosette Nebula is a stunning astrophotography target for your camera and telescope.
Over the years, I have photographed the Rosette Nebula many times using various camera types.
This version primarily consists of data captured using a ZWO ASI533MC Pro and Sky-Watcher Esprit 100 ED APO refractor. (11 x 5-minutes)
Here is some fascinating information about the Rosette Nebula, and best practices for photographing it through a telescope: astrobackyard.com/caldwell-49-rosette-nebula/
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El equipo empleado fue...
Telescopio: ED80 Sky Watcher + 0.85X
Montura: LXD75 Meade
Cámara: QHY163m
Guiado: MiniScope 50mm Orion, CámaraGuia/QHY5 L-II c
Adquisición: APT (AstroPhotographyTool) 3.70
Apilado y procesado: PixInsight, Photoshop
Tomas
2 Teselas
Ha: 154x300s y 56x300s
RGB: 20x180s
Total Expo: 23 h 30 min
Temperatura sensor: -10°C
Distancia Focal: 510mm
F/ 6,3
A crop of NGC 3372 Carina Nebula to show all the extra details close to the core.Keyhole Nebula ,Eta Carinae ,Homunculus Nebula ,Defiant Finger ,Trumpler 14 , 15 and 16 .Mystic Mountain. 15 x 55 second exposures with flat and darks stacked in DSS improved in Pixinsight and PS. Canon 5DSr on a Sky Watcher Quattro 250 F4 mounted to a Sky Watcher NEQ6 pro .
Photo By Bryan He
Post Processing By Fluorine Zhu
Image Telescope/Lens : Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED APO
Image Camera : ZWO ASI1600mm
Mount : Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6
Filter : Astrodon 3nm Ha/Oiii
Frames : Ha 29*300sec/Oiii 25*300sec
Integration : 4.5 hours
Location : Home observatory, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Bortle Scale : ~6
Photo By Sky Lee
Post Processing By Fluorine Zhu
Sky-Watcher BKP P200 DS
QHYCCD QHY695A
Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Integrate 4 hours
M13
Instrument ou objectif:Sky-Watcher Quattro 250mm f/4 Black diamond
Imageurs:SBIG STF8300M SBIG
Monture:AZ EQ6 GT AZ EQ6
Instrument de guidage:TS Optics TS APO65Q 65mm F/6,5 Quadruplet Astrograph
Caméra de guidage:Orion StarShoot AutoGuider - Orion
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
Filtre:Astrodon Luminance Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2 RGB
Accessoires:Robofocus
Résolution: 3219x2346
Dates: 18 mars 2018
Images:
Astrodon RBG True Balance Gen II 36mm: 30x180" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2 RGB: 15x300" bin 1x1
Intégration: 2.8 Heures
Âge moyen de la Lune: 0.95 jours
Phase moyenne de la Lune: 1.01%
Astrometry.net job: 2016790
Centre AD: 250,417 degrés
Centre DEC: 36,457 degrés
Échelle des pixels: 1,113 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 91,288 degrés
Rayon du champ: 0,616 degrés
Lieux: Observatoire perso, LA BASTIDE, VAR, France
The Pinwheel Galaxy, or M101, is a spiral galaxy approximately 21 million LY from Earth in Ursa Major. M101 is a rather large galaxy with a diameter of 170 000 LY, compared to our own home galaxy's estimated size of 100 000 LY.
-=Tech Data=-
-Equipment-
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
Mount: Celestron CGX
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
Focus: Pegasus Astro Dual Motor Focuser
Guide Camera: Orion SSAG
Guide Scope: Starfield 60mm guide scope
Dew Control: Kendrick
Power: Pegasus Astro Pocket Power Box
- Acquisition -
6 hours 16 minutes of mixed 3 and 5 minute exposures.
- Software -
Acquisition / Rig Control: Sequence Generator Pro
Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor
Processing: PixInsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC
Shot at the Lennox and Addington Dark Sky Viewing Area near Erinsville, Ontario.
First video capture with the Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor. I’m very impressed with this telescope and can’t wait to try out some open clusters. This is Copernicus crater on the moon.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, Televue 2.5x Powermate, best 4,000 of 8,000 frames. Image Date: January 26, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.
March 30, 2011.
You don’t take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams
Ten things I want to do before I die
1. Travel wherever I want to go, stand on top of mountains with the wind tugging at my hair, feel the cold air sinking into my lungs, like I'm actually learning to breathe
2. Write a book. I really want this to come true more than anything else.
3. Stand in the middle of a road at midnight with cars speeding past just to have that feeling of almost-dying-but-not-going-to because it's reckless. For once.
4. Get soaked in the rain without anyone telling me not to or that I'm going to fall ill.. Have water dripping into my eyes, have my hair soaked down my back, have water cascading through my fingers
5. Play a grand piano on the beach with waves crashing in the background, birds flying in the sky, the sun setting.
6. Lie under cherry blossoms with my eyes shut feeling petals falling onto my face, and the soft scent of flowers in the air
7. Have those cinematic moments when my eyes lock with someone from my past and time seems to slow down. Heart thumping, mind racing, wind sighing, everything else dissolving into a blur except the both of us. It would be nice if music was playing at the same time :P
8. Run in a wheat field with sunshine streaming everywhere, get that feeling of being immensely tiny compared to the world
9. Climb onto my roof and just watch the sky and clouds racing past for hours, have light burning onto me. Experience that emotion of being made up of light.
10. Set up some kind of foundation to help people, in some way, any way.
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• ZWO Hα 7nm: 27x900s bin1 gain 200
• ZWO OIII 7nm: 30x900s bin2 gain 200
• ZWO SII 7nm: 26x900s bin2 gain 200
(total integration 20.7h)
• 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
Here is a seven panel mosaic of last night’s waxing gibbous moon, happy with the details.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, best 25% of 5k frames per panel (seven panels total). Captured with SharpCap v3 and processed using AutoStakkert!, Registax, and Microsoft ICE. Frame rate averaged 116fps, Exposure=0.000563, Gain=231. Image Date: April 26, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.
ASI290MM, Astronomik ProPlanet 807 IR-pass filter, Sky-Watcher 2xbarlow, Sky-Watcher Skyliner 350P Flextube.
Composed from two separate pictures. 20% of 5600(90s) frames stacked.
Out under Ominous skies watching Over the Ocean. The remains of Isaac pass by.
submitted to ODC/ topic ~ "O"
My recent observations of these two planets visible in late July's evenings. On the accessory tray is my favourite magazine and its front cover represents these two planets that you can see in the background. Can you tell them apart?
Centaurus A (also known as NGC 5128 or Caldwell 77) is a galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus. It was discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop from his home in Parramatta, in New South Wales, Australia. Shot with Canon 5Dsr and SW Quattro 250 F/4. 10 x 55 sec frames stacked in Sequator.
This is a mosaic of 3 panels I made of the East side of the moon. The final image was rotated 90° CCW.
I used a Sky-watcher Skymax 102 and ZWO ASI 120MC-S to capture 3 different close-ups (left to right), which I later stitched together in Photoshop. :)
If you look at the top left, you can see the shadows over "Mare Crisium" ;)
Software used:
- Firecapture
- Autostakkert
- Registax
- Photoshop
Moon:
3 images, 1000 frames each, and 25% best of these used to stack.
Imaged through a Sky-Watcher 80mm ED telescope, and through thin cloud still lit by the Sun after sunset. From our perspective, only 2.9% of Venus was lit by the Sun at the time this was taken.
Such a cool galaxy, and SMALL!
I photographed this one last week using the Sky-Watcher Esprit 150 (1050mm focal length) on the EQ8.
A few more lessons learned on this one, the big one being optimizing exposure times depending on target/filter.
I shot 7-minute LUM exposures - which were not ideal. Next time around I'll shoot shorter subs and try to rack up a lot more.
10 x 300-seconds RED
10 x 300-seconds GREEN
10 x 300-seconds BLUE
18 x 420-seconds LUM
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop 2020
Equipment:
Starlight Xpress Trius 694 Mono CCD
Sky-Watcher Esprit 150 APO
Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress 7-Position Filter Wheel
Astronomik LRGB Filters (1.25")
A shot from Friday nights trip to Seaton in Cornwall to shoot the milky way.
This shot is made up of a tracked sky and a long exposure foreground blended in Photoshop
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• Astronomik L: 154x600s bin1 gain 0
• Astronomik RGB: 56x600s bin2 gain 125
(total integration 35h)
• 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
M27 can be found in the constellation of Vulpecula, which is high overhead in summer months. This planetary nebula lies at a distance of about 1227 LY from earth. It's a very bright object easily visible in binoculars. As a result, it's a favourite for stargazers. What we see is the remains of a star like our sun that grew through its red giant stage and cast out its outer shell, leaving little more than its core behind as a white dwarf to irradiate and illuminate the expanding shell of gas. This will be the fate of our own sun in a few billion years.
Since it's cold and the weather is not conducive to going out into the field, I'm looking back through older data I'd collected to process with new tools and techniques. In this case, I combined data from 2 separate sessions shot in the summer of 2019.
-=Tech Data=-
-Image Details-
Hα & OIII: 252 minutes of 3 and 5 minute exposures
-Equipment-
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
Mount: Celestron CGX
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
Focus: Pegasus Astro Dual Motor Focus Motor & Controller
Guide Camera: Orion SSAG
Guide Scope: Orion mini guide
Filter: STC Astro Duo-Narrowband filter (Hα and OIII)
Power: Pegasus Astro Pocket Power Box
-Software-
Acquisition / Rig Control: Sequence Generator Pro
Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor
Processing: PixInsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC
-Location-
Shot at the Dark Sky Viewing Aread and Camden Lake Provincial Wildlife Area near Moscow in South Eastern Ontario.
My first try with sky watcher star tracker. its going to take some practice but I am impressed with it so far. Due to only driving 30 mins to this spot there is alot of light pollution from Perth but all in all a successful effort. I am excited to see how it goes once the milkyway core is visible again.
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This is my new project. I hope to complete it in Ha RGB.
The Orion Nebula 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.
Distance to Earth: 1,344 light years
Age: 3.002 million years
Magnitude: 4
Discovered: November 26, 1610
Constellations: Orion
Discoverer: Christiaan Huygens
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Imaging telescope or lens: Vixen VSD
Imaging camera: Starlight Express SXVR-H18
Mount: Sky-Watcher NEQ6 and Pro Paramount MX
Guiding telescope or lens: Vixen VSD
Software: Sequence Generator Pro
Filter: Baader H-alpha 3.5 Nm
Accessory: Starlight Xpress Lodestar Guider
Resolution: 1000×912
Dates: Feb. 4, 2016
Frames: 80×1800″
Integration: 40.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 24.78 days
Avg. Moon phase: 23.48%
Locations: Home observatory, Valencia, Spain
Captured: 1. Jun .2018. 04:00h UT+1
Location: AO Nostromo, Gornji Milanovac
Telescope: SW Mak 180 on AZ-EQ6
Focal Length: ~7000mm
Camera: ZWO ASI120MM-S
Filters: RGB
Frames: R x 2000; G x 2000; B x 2000
Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert2!, Registax, PixInsight, Adobe Photoshop
-#101 in Explore 13/09/2017 (verificato 14/09/2017 ore 08:00)
Le nebulose Laguna (M8) e Trifida (M20) sono forse tra le nebulose più osservate e fotografate. E poterle ammirare nello stesso FOV è veramente bello e spettacolare.
Le condizioni meteo di quella sera non sono state eccezionali: cielo non molto trasparente e seeing mediocre, e per questi motivi ho scelto oggetti DS luminosi.
Volevo realizzare un mosaico con 2 pannelli acquisiti con le stesse condizioni di cielo quindi ho potuto utilizzare solo le circa 5 ore di buio disponibili.
Un'integrazione di 1h e 40min e la temperatura del sensore 26°C non possono certo permettere elaborazioni estetiche esagerate, quindi ho fatto quello che ho potuto e penso di aver raggiunto un discreto risultato.
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-#101 on Explore 09/13/2017 (checked on 09.14.2017 8.00 am)
Laguna (M8) and Trifida (M20) nebulae are perhaps among the most observed and photographed nebulae. And seeing them in the same FOV is really beautiful and spectacular.
The weather conditions that night were not exceptional: sky not very transparent and seeing middling, and for these reasons I chose bright DS objects.
I wanted to make a mosaic with 2 panels scanned with the same sky conditions so I could only use the approximately 5 hours of astronomical night available.
Integration of 1h and 40min and 26 ° C sensor temperature can not allow exaggerated aesthetic elaborations, so I did what I could and I think I have achieved a decent result.
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Optic: Rifrattore APO Scopos TL805 80mm/f7 + WO 0.8X
Camera: Canon EOS 550D (Rebel T2i) mod. Baader BCF
Mount: Sky Watcher HEQ5 Synscan
Seeing: 2 (scala Antoniadi inversa)
(M20) 20x300s 1600iso / 21 dark /21 flat / 21 bias
(M8) 20x300s 1600iso / 21 dark /21 flat / 21 bias
Date: 24/06/2017
Integration: 1h 40min +1h 40m
Temperature: 18°C (media)
Temperature sensor: 26°C (media)
Location: monti Nebrodi (Sicily-Italy) 1550m slm
Elaborazione DSS + PSCS3.
Clavius is a large crater found on the southern side of the moon, it measures approximately 136 miles across. The crater was named after Christoph Klau (or Christophorus Clavius) a 16th century German mathematician and astronomer.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, Televue 4x Powermate, best 15% of 5,000 frames. Image Date: May 24, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.
Re-edited in Pixinsight & Photoshop
Canon 6D
50mm f1.8
Haida Clear-Night NanoPro Filter
Sky tracked with Sky-Watcher
Star Adventurer
Hailuoto Organum is a concrete spatial art work built by Hai Art, located in Ulkokarvo. The piece was designed by the renowned acoustic artist Lukas Kühne. Lukas Kühne has previously designed similar works for Estonia and Iceland.
The sculpture consists of three domes of different sizes attached to each other. Each dome has its own resonance that corresponds to a note and acts as a natural sound amplifier.
Autrement dit, la Voie Lactée depuis le désert d'Atacama
Or the Milky Way from the Atacama Desert, Chile
Nikon D7500 on Skywatcher Staradventurer - single shot
Lillian, a homeless died monday and her funeral will be tomorrow. I talked to her sister, who told me the cause of her too early death and said : Now she is up in the sky watching her streets !
I like the way this overexposed image came out, this is several minutes before the total eclipse.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED, Canon 6D, single 4 second exposure at ISO 250, unguided. Image date: January 21, 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
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El equipo empleado fue...
Telescopio: Esprit ED100 Sky Watcher
Montura: AZ-EQ6 Pro
Cámara: QHY16200A
Enfoque: RB Focus Myrddin v2.3
Guiado: MiniScope 50mm Orion, CámaraGuia/QHY5 L-II c
Adquisición: SGP (Sequence Generator Pro)
Apilado y procesado: PixInsight, Photoshop
Tomas
L: 24x300s 44x600s
RGB: 13x300s
Total Expo: 13h 5min
Temperatura sensor: -10°C
Distancia Focal: 550mm
F/ 5,5
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:HA, Astrodon RBG True Balance Gen II 36mm, Astrodon Luminance Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2 RGB
Accessoires:USB_Focus V3, Robofocus
Résolution: 3247x2391
Dates: 2 juillet 2018
Images:
HA: 63x600" bin 1x1
Astrodon RBG True Balance Gen II 36mm: 60x180" bin 1x1
Intégration: 13.5 Heures
From my light polluted driveway.
I got about 2.5 hours on it.
ZWO ASI533MC Pro
Optolong L-Extreme dual narrowband filter
Sky-Watcher Quattro 200P
Sky-Watcher Quattro Coma Corrector
Orion Atlas Mount EQ-G
ZWO ASI 120mm guide camera
Orion 50mm guide scope
ZWO ASIAir Mini
30 / 300sec exposures
10 Dark frames
Bortle 6 skies
Processed with Pixinsight and Lightroom Classic
Caradhras
Vršič Pass is a high mountain pass across the Julian Alps in northwestern Slovenia. It is the highest pass in Slovenia, as well as the highest in the Eastern Julian Alps. It connects Upper Carniola with the Trenta Valley in the Slovene Littoral. The road across the pass, now known as Russian Road (Ruska cesta), was originally built for military purposes in the early 19th century and followed an earlier trade route. Vršič Pass is considered an excellent starting point for excursions to surrounding peaks.
And one of those peaks is Prednje robičje (1941m), where this image was taken from. On Sunday afternoon me and a friend of mine were still quite undecided where to go - I just knew I wanted to capture probably the last winter Milky way arch of the season above snow covered peaks and this location was sort of a last minute idea while we were driving towards Vršič pass. Sometimes it pays off to be a bit more spontaneous.
The hike itself (if you don't count my bad physical performance) was not demanding - in fact it was way easier compared to summer.
Big thanks to Sigma Slovenia for letting me try out the new Sigma 20mm f1.4 DG DN lens with Megadap TZE21 adapter. My go-to lens for this kind of panoramas is Sigma 28mm f1.4 ART and if I had to choose one brand new between these two, it would be a difficult one. For Sigma 20mm I can say it is a SUPERB lens for astrophotography, without any doubt. Compared to 28mm, the image quality is on top. And to add more positive things, it is very light, very compact and small (and then you have Megadap TZE21 adapter, which is almost invisible compared to FTZ adapter), you end up with a very neat setup. Also, the focus lock button is just icing on the cake. So, why would I have a difficult time deciding between Sigma 28mm and 20mm? Well, the ONLY reason is that I like to shoot my panos a bit more tightly due to details, so it is a very personal preference.
CATEGORY:
H-alpha + RGB panorama / tracked / blend
GEAR:
H-alpha modified Nikon Z6 & Sigma 20mm f1.4 DG DN lens + Megadap TZE21 adapter
Sky Watcher Star Adventurer
Astronomik 12nm H-alpha clip in filter
FocusOnStars focusing filter
EXIF:
Landscape: panorama, 1 row, 12 images.
Single image settings: 20mm, ISO 1000, f2, 90sec (+30sec and 15sec for the light of a house in bottom left)
Sky RGB: panorama, 1 row, 12 images
Single image settings: 20mm, ISO 1000, f2, 90sec
Sky Ha: panorama, 1 row, 12 images
Single image settings: 20mm, ISO 6400, f1.4, 120sec