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Telescope: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120 ED
Camera: QHY268M
Mount: MYT
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI290MM Mini
On-mount Computer: PrimaluceLab Eagle2 Pro
Software: SGP, SkyX, PHD2, PixInsight 1.8, Lightroom
Accessories: SW Field Flattener, QHY CFW3, QHYOAG M, PoleMaster, NiteCrawler WR30, Flip-Flat, Astronomik 36mm Filters
Images (Gain 56/Offset 40 @ -10*C):
Ha: 96 x 600s
OIII: 121 x 600s
Total integration 36.2hrs
Taken on Aug/Sep 2022
Shot from The Mask and Thor's Hammer in Bryce Canyon the weekend of 02/22/20, a Nikon D5300 and Samyang 35mm f1.4 lens were used on a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer Tracking Mount
Here is the Crescent Nebula in the constellation Cygnus.
I've recently reprocessed this image with more attention paid to the star colors. It was captured using a dual-bandpass narrowband filter, which can create some odd colors.
About the Crescent Nebula: astrobackyard.com/ngc-6888-crescent-nebula/
Details:
Captured from Bortle Class 6/7 backyard in St. Catharines, Ontario
August 23, 2019
Exposure: 25 x 5-minutes (2 Hours, 5 minutes total)
Telescope: Sky-Watcher Esprit 100 APO refractor (550mm FL, F/5.5)
Filter: Optolong L-eNhance
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro (Color)
Autoguiding through PHD2
Stacking in DeepSkyStacker
Processing in Adobe Photoshop 2020
This is a 6 Tiles mosaic of the moon in the night of 29-04-2023 in real colors.
equipment:
Sky Watcher 200p + SW EQ6R-Pro + Player One Neptune C-II + QHY UV/IR cut + ZWO EAF
Each tile was of 5000 frames, 25% of it was stacked.
Software: Sharpcap 4, Autostakkert3, Registax6, Microsoft ICE, Pixinsight and PS
Four panel mosaic of last nights first quarter moon, March 24, 2018.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, best 25% of 5k frames per panel (four panels total). Captured with SharpCap v3 and processed using AutoStakkert!, Registax, and Microsoft ICE. Image Date: March 24, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.
Meu primeiro registro da Galáxia Cata-vento do Sul (Messier 83). Enquanto a câmera Canon não retorna do conserto, estou me adaptando para tentar usar a câmera planetária para registrar objetos de céu profundo com pequeno tamano angular. Os desafios, ao se usar a planetária (ASI 120 MC-S) para DSO, incluem lidar com uma quantidade absurda de ruído gerado pela câmera. Como ocupei a câmera planetária com os registros, tive também que me adaptar para utilizar uma Logitech C270 para guiagem. Este registro contém 2 horas e 15 minutos de exposição. Em uma próxima oportunidade, farei mais frames e, se ela tiver retornado, usando a Canon.
Esta galáxia está localizada a 15 milhões de anos-luz da Terra, na constelação Hydra. Foi descoberta em 1752 pelo astrônomo francês Nicolas Louis de Lacaille. Com uma magnitude aparente de 7.5, a M83 é uma das galáxias espirais mais brilhantes do céu noturno. Fonte: NASA.gov
A galáxia se estende por mais de 40.000 anos-luz, tornando-a aproximadamente 2,5 vezes menor que a nossa Via Láctea. No entanto, em alguns aspectos, é bastante semelhante à nossa galáxia. Tanto a Via Láctea quanto M83 possuem uma barra em seu núcleo galáctico, o denso conglomerado esférico de estrelas vistas no centro das galáxias. Fonte: ESO.org
Refletor Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 com Onstep, ASI 120MC-S (foco primário). Guidescope 50mm com Logitech C270. 28 light frames de 300s (totalizando 2 horas e 15 minutos de exposição), 20 dark frames, 30 Flat frames. Ganho 48. Processamento: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop e PhotoScape.
Here is a view of the Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888, Sharpless 105) located in the constellation Cygnus. The Crescent Nebula is about 5,000 light years away from Earth and was formed by the central star shedding its outer layers. According to NASA, “Burning fuel at a prodigious rate and near the end of its stellar life this star should ultimately go out with a bang in a spectacular supernova explosion”. This is a re-processed image using several new PixInsight plugins called StarXTerminator and BlurXTerminator.
Observation data: J2000.0 epoch
Right ascension: 20h 12m 7s
Declination: +38° 21.3′
Distance: 5,000 ly
Apparent magnitude (V): +7.4
Apparent dimensions (V): 18′ × 12′
Constellation: Cygnus
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO AS2600mc-Pro running at 0C, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro mount, Optolong L-eNhance filter (2”), 54 x 300 second exposures, guided using a ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 Mini, focus with a ZWO EAF, controlled with a ZWO ASIAir Pro. Processed using PixInsight and DSS. Image Date: May 29, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, are an open star cluster located in the constellation Taurus. Robert Burnham states in his Celestial Handbook, "undoubtedly the most famous galactic star cluster in the heavens, known and regarded with reverence since remote antiquity." This was a quick two panel mosaic.
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation: Taurus
Right ascension: 03h 47m 24s
Declination: +24° 07′ 00″
Distance: 444 ly on average
Apparent magnitude (V): 1.6
Apparent dimensions (V): 110' (arcmin)
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO AS2600mc-Pro running at -10C, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, two panel mosaic each 54 x 60 second guided exposures, focused with a ZWO EAF, controlled with a ZWO ASIAir Pro. Processed using PixInsight. Image Date: October 29, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Two panel mosaic of the eastern rim of Mare Imbrium on Earth's moon. One of my favorite regions on the moon and include the craters Plato, Archimedes, Aristoteles, Montes Apenninus and Vallis Alpes.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, ZWO ASI290MC, SharpCap Pro v3.2, best 15% of 10k frames. Image date: 11 June 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.
Exif
Canon EOS Ra
Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 Pancake
Sky Watcher Star Adventurer Mini
Foregound: one stack of 10x10s f/2.8 iso400
Sky: one tracked stack of 81x60s f/5.6 iso3200
NGC 6744 55 x minutes of data taken with QHY 183C PRO on a Sky Watcher Quattro 250 P scope. NGC 6744 is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Pavo. It is considered as a Milky Way mimic in our immediate vicinity, displaying flocculent arms and an elongated core. Wikipedia
Las Pléyades es un cúmulo abierto que se encuentra a 444 años luz en la constelación de Tauro y en la que Charles Messier las catalogó como la M45. En la Mitología griega las Pléyades eran siete hermanas, hijas del titan Atlas y la ninfa Pléyone, a las que persiguió Orión durante cinco años. Zeus para liberarlas de Orión las transformo en palomas y luego en estrellas. Pléyades significa Paloma en griego.
Telescopio: ED80 Sky Watcher
Montura: LXD75 Meade
Cámara: Canon 1100Da
Guiado: MiniScope 50mm Orion, CámaraGuia/QHY5 L-II c
Adquisición: APT (AstroPhotographyTool)
Apilado y procesado: DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight LE, Photoshop
Tomas
RGB: 20x300s/15x600s/6x900s
Temperatura sensor: 10°C /17ºC
Distancia Focal: 600mm
F/ 7,5
celfoscastrofotografia.blogspot.com/2017/11/m45-ahora-si....
Solar surface detail in Ha - 16-10-16
Sky-watcher 120mm Evostar Achromatic Refractor
Quark Chromosphere plus tilt
PG Blackfly
90 light de LUM 120 sg bin 1x1 temp-10
45 tomas 60sg de RGB bin 2s2 temp -10
25 DARK, FLATS, DARKFLAT
camara ASI 183MM PRO
telescopio MAK 127-1500 DE FOCAL SKY WATCHER
MONTURA EQ6R-PRO
guiado MINI GUIDE SCOP ZWO ASI 120 MC
programa de captura SECUENCE GENERATOR PRO
programa de apilado DSS
programa de procesado PIXINSIGHT 1.8
Morning walk on the ridge with Charlie. The neighbor baled her grassy hay which didn't yield a lot.
I am lucky to have purchased enough hay for our hay burners this winter.
The moon from last night. :)
Taken with a Canon EOS 200D, connected to a Sky-watcher Skymax 102.
1/50s; f/12.74; ISO-100
Date : 2021-10-10
Objet : NGC1333
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 = 240s / Nombre de pose : 60
Traitement SIRIL et PHOTOSHOP / Gestion Stellarmate
This was the view from the porch on the 10th.
We are finally getting some beautiful morning colors again.
Four panel mosaic of last nights first quarter moon, April 22, 2018.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, best 25% of 5k frames per panel (four panels total). Captured with SharpCap v3 and processed using AutoStakkert!, Registax, and Microsoft ICE. Image Date: April 22, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.
A quick selfie while imaging Saturn back in August. Saturn was just making it up and over the south facing wall.
LDN1235 The Shark Nebula in Cepheus, captured with an 8 year old DSLR camera.
87, 6-minute, ISO-800, 550mm focal length, F5.5.
Nikon D750a, Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ED, EQ6-R Pro, guided, calibrated with darks.
9/24/22 and 9/25/22, Okie-Tex Star Party 2022
Pixinsight and Photoshop
This is part of a larger emission nebula known as theCygnus Wall - NGC 7000 (Explored) "North America Nebula" because of it's resemblance to the continent. The portion in the image contains Mexico, Central America, the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Coast of the US. The densest area of star formation is along the "Cygnus Wall", which is in the lower right of the photo on the "Pacific Coast" of "Mexico".
Technical Details:
15x5min Lumninance
Tele Vue NP 101
f.l. = 540mm
QSI 6120 Camera
23x1min RGB
Canon 200 f/2.8 @ f/2.8
ZWO AZI178MC
Sky-Watcher AZEQ-5 Mount
Image capture controlled with Sequence Generator Pro
Post Processing in Pixinsight
Sky Watcher SK707AZ2 70mm f/10 + super 10mm (70x).
I took 2 pictures in order to register this incredible conjunction between the Moon and Saturn (with only 9' apart them). Both afocal, with Lumia 640 LTE.
Saturn: ISO200 1/40s, f/2,2 3mm EV0.
Moon: ISO120 1/64s, f/2,2 3mm EV0
Edited with MS Picture Manager and joined with Photofiltre.
Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex:
6-Panel Mosaic
Info for each panel:
7) 5-minute exposures, ISO-800, 550mm focal length. Guided, dithered between each frame, stacked with DSS with calibration frames.
Telescope: Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ed, 550mm focal length, F5.5
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Camera: Nikon D750a (astro-modified by LifePixel)
Processed with Pixinsight and Adobe Photoshop.
Location: Bortle-1 skies
Here is NGC 2539 in the constellation Canis Major.
This image was captured on Tuesday night under a bright (nearly) full moon using narrowband filters and a monochrome camera.
Starlight Xpress SX-42 Mono CCD
Astronomik 6nm Filters (Ha, OIII)
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2
Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
Sky-Watcher Esprit 150 Triplet APO
22 x 6-minutes Ha
13 x 6-minute OIII
Perigee Eclipse, Sept 27/28, 2015
75.4 Megapixel poster
Nikon D5100 on Sky-Watcher Black Diamond 120mm f/5 achromatic refractor and Celestron AVX mount.
Shot from Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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The Helix Nebula (also known as NGC 7293 or Caldwell 63) is a planetary nebula (PN) located in the constellation Aquarius. 48 Minutes of data 16 x 180 secs shot with Canon 5Dsr on Skywatcher Quattro 250 p f4 scope.
M45 The Pleiades
25) Luminace, 5-minute, 0-gain.
15) Red, 5-minute, 0-gain.
15) Green, 5-minute, 0-gain.
15) Blue, 5-minute, 0-gain.
-10 C Cooling
Calibrated with Darks, Flats, Flat-Darks, and Bias.
Stacked in DSS, processed in PixInsight and Photoshop.
ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
ZWO ASI Filter Wheel and Filters
ZWO ASI 68mm OAG
ZWO ASI174MM Guide Cam
ZWO ASI EAF
ZWO ASI Air Pro
Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ED
Sky-Watcher Eq6r-Pro
Pole Master
10-4-2021, Okie-Tex Star Party
Oklahoma City Astronomy Club
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• ZWO Hα 7nm: 45x600s bin1 gain 200
• ZWO OIII 7nm: 39x600s bin2 gain 200
• ZWO SII 7nm: 36x600s bin2 gain 200
(total integration 20h)
• 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
ASI290MM, Astronomik ProPlanet 807 IR-pass filter, Sky-Watcher 2xbarlow, Sky-Watcher Skyliner 350P Flextube.
11% of 3300(60s) frames stacked.
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• Astronomik L: 117x300s bin1 gain 0
• Astronomik RGB: 83x300s bin2 gain 125
(total integration 16.6h)
• 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
Combined data from 2 sessions shot in 2014 and 2015 for a total of 2H 6M of integration time Shot with Nikon D7000 and D5000 on a Sky-Watcher 120mm refractor.
Emission nebula 5000 light years from us in constellation Cygnus
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• Sky-Watcher BK P2001 with TS Optics 2" Dual Speed Focuser
• EQ6-R Pro
• ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
• Baader Hα 7nm: 13x600s
• Baader OIII 8.5nm: 12x600s
(total integration 4.1h)
• -20° sensor temp., Gain 139 (UG)
• Baader MPCC Mark III coma corrector
• 60x240 guide scope, ZWO ASI290Mini guide cam
Captured with ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF, ZWO ASIAIR, Pegasus Astro Powerbox
Saint Petersburg, Russia. Red light pollution zone, balcony
Composite image. 40 shots (1/500s ISO 100) of the daytime Moon aligned and stacked in Photoshop (Mean stack mode). Wavelet sharpening in Registax. Blended back with frame including cloud in Photoshop. Sky-Watcher 150P Newtonian. EQ3-2 mount. Not easy to find any cloud today!
This object is part of a beautiful supernova remnant located 1500 light years away in the constellation of Cygnus known as the Veil Nebula (or Cygnus Loop). Pickering's Triangle is the least known of the 3 main supernova remnants of the massive and beautiful Veil Nebula. The other 2 remnants are NGC 6960 and NGC 6992/6995.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO AS2600mc-Pro running at 0C, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro mount, Optolong L-eXtreme filter (2”), 42 x 300 second exposures, guided using a ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 Mini, focus with a ZWO EAF, controlled with a ZWO ASIAir Pro. Processed using PixInsight and DSS. Image Date: August 3, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
M81, M82 and IFN LRGB
Image Details:
Camera: ZWO ASI1600mm Pro
Telescope: Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ED 550mm focal Length, F5.5
Mount: Sky-Watcher Eq6 R-Pro
Guide Scope: Sky-Watcher Evoguide 50
Guide Camera: ZWO 178mm
Guided and dithered after every 3 frames.
Luminance: 80, 10-Min subs, 60 gain, with calibration frames.
RGB: 45, 1-Min subs per channel, 60 gain, with calibration frames.
Locations: Luminance acquired at Black Mesa State Park, Oklahoma. RGB acquired at Cheddar Ranch Observatory, Oklahoma.
Stacked in DSS and processed with Pixinsight and Photoshop.
Dates: 4/2/21, 4/3/21, 4/4,21 and 4/10/21.
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Photographed from mid-town Toronto, Canada, at 05.17 EST (Moon altitude: 26.6° | Sun 25° below the horizon)
* Temperature -10° C.
December is the cloudiest month in Canada east of the Great Lakes. On average we get only 2-3 clear days this month.
This was the view in an unusually clear dark sky over Toronto at 05.17 EST, which was 10 hours, 17 minutes after the Moon reached its full phase and 39 hours, 49 minutes after it had reached perigee on Dec. 12 (at 358,462 km from Earth). Usually I make multiple exposures and stack them together using special registration software to make a sharper final image. But by the time I got the telescope set up outside in the frigid air and got the exposures, it was too late to do the processing on my home computer, and we had to get dressed and leave for work. So this is a single exposure, processed at the office.
Here was the view of the perigee Full Moon (which some people call the "Supermoon" - a term that I hate) one month earlier, in Nov. 2016:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/22799275468
In August 2014 and March 2015 I made photos of the perigee and apogee Full Moons, to show the 14% size difference between them; see the composite image here:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/16546698629
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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
* ISO 50, 1/160 sec. exposure
Processed in Photoshop CS6
(image rotation, brightness, contrast, colour desaturation, sharpening)
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Telescope: Meade 70mm APO Refractor
Mount: Sky Watcher HEQ5 Pro
Camera: Canon 600D - Ha Modified
Guide Cam: ZWO ASI120MM-S
Filters: Optolong L-eNhance
Exposure Time: 240s x 30 (2 Hours)
NGC 2264 the Cone Nebula, the Christmas Tree Cluster, the Fox Fur Nebula, SH 2-273, LBN 911, Cr 112, Mel 49, Ced 84b.
Star clusters, emission nebulae, reflection nebulae, and dark nebulae all make up this beautiful patch of sky. Most of these objects you can't really see with visual Astronomy. But, when narrowband and broadband long exposures are combined, all their beauty can be enjoyed.
97) 10-minute, 100-gain Ha subs (used for some Lum and some red).
35) 2-minute, 100-gain Red
35) 2-minute, 100-gain Green
35) 2-minute, 100-gain Blue
69) 2-minute, 100-gain darks
45) 10-minute, 100-gain darks
No flats or bias
ZWO ASI2600mm Pro
Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ed
550mm focal length, F5.5
Sky-Watcher EQ6r-Pro mount,
ZWO ASI174mm guide cam,
ZWO ASI 68mm OAG,
ZWO ASI EAF,
ZWO ASI Air Pro II.
Ha subs collected in my backyard (Bortle-7) 2-7-22, 2-8-22, 2-9-22, 2-10-22 and 2-11-22.
RGB subs collected at Packsaddle WMA, Oklahoma (Bortle-2) 2-27-22
Stacked and Processed with Pixinsight and Photoshop