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Messier M31 - Hercules Globular Cluster
Lens: Sky-Watcher Mak 90 (Telescope)
Mount: AZ-GTe (AZ)
Camera: Canon EOS M5
Frames: Light 12x (~ 15 min)
Processing: Deep Sky Stacker, FITStacker, Lightroom
Location: Moscow region
Waning Crescent Moon, 40 % illuminated
A Mineral Moon photo lets you see what you can watch of the Moon: its colors!
As you can see, lunar maria are blue, because of their basaltic composition, while mountain zones are usually orange/red for anorthite.
Technical data: It is a “mineral lunar” mosaic (oversatured to exalt colors), made up by 3 photos of 3 parts of the Moon for luminance channel + one photo (from a 18 min video) for RGB channel . Each luminance photo is a stacking of 6 min videos, captured by a Canon Eos 550d and an Explore Scientific Maksutov MN 152/740 with afocal method.
RGB channel was captured by a Canon Eos 1300d that followed the Moon by a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer.
I elaborated them by PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax and Photoshop. The mosaic was made up by Autostitch.
Sky Watcher 200p + SW EQ6R-Pro + ZWO ASI 178mc + Celestron Xcel LX Barlow 3X + ZWO EAF
7230 frames (apilado el 20%)
Here is my latest image of the Sadr region, which includes the butterfly and crescent nebula. It is located in the constellation Cygnus. This is made up of 2 nights of images, presented in SHO color palette. Hope you all enjoy and thanks for any constructive comments.
Equipment:
Telescope - William Optics Redcat 51
Imaging Camera- Qhy268m
Mount - Sky-watcher EQ6-R Pro
Software:
Sequence Generator Pro
Pixinsight
Lightroom
Photoshop
Lights:
R-50x30sec
G-50x30sec
B-50x30sec
Sii-30x300sec
Ha-30x300sec
Oiii-30x300sec
35 Darks
100 Bias
Total integration 8.75 hours
Sky Watcher 200p + SW EQ6R-Pro + ZWO ASI 178mc + Celestron Xcel LX Barlow 3X + ZWO EAF
11300 frames (apilado el 23%)
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Williams Optics Redcat 51
ZWO183mc pro
Optolong l-extreme filter
ZWO air pro
Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro
250 mins Lights. Flats , Darks and Bias.
Gain 122 at -10C
Processed in APP and Pixinsight
Continuing to work on the SHO palette
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Every night
She casts the magelight up into the sky,
Watching them as they float,
Up and up,
Wondering where they will fly.
Hoping that one day,
They'd reach him.
The one that disappeared,
And she has been longing to see for years.
But she knows that could never happen.
And she screams at the night,
Trying to see past the stars,
Wondering where her heart is.
The sky holds no answers for her.
Not tonight.
And so she casts more magelights,
With messages,
Of words she never said.
Wondering if the dead,
Watch down upon her.
And if they can hear her cries,
And how she'd like to die.
Just to be by her lover's side.
More magelights float,
In the air.
To who knows where.
And she sits and waits.
Hoping one day,
She'll get an answer,
From the stars.
Red Tail Hawk moulting. It seems that it has already lost the same feather on its left side and this hanging one is almost ready to drop.
Here is a view of the Mercury transit across the sun from earlier today in Pennsylvania.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED, ZWO ASI290MC, Daystar Quark Chromosphere + Daystar 2" UV/IR filter + 0.5x focal reducer, SharpCap Pro v3.0, best 15% of 500 frames, AutoStakkert, Registax. Image date: 11 November 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA, USA.
Located about 6,000 light-years from Earth, the Heart and Soul nebulae form a vast star-forming complex that makes up part of the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way Galaxy.
Taken from downtown Phoenix, Arizona.
Raptor 61 telescope with a quadband filter. QHY268C, Sky-Watcher EQ6R pro mount
332 x 300sec = 27 hr 40m integration
Here is a view of the open cluster called the Wild Duck Cluster (Messier 11, M11, NGC 6705) in the constellation Scutum. One of the nicest open clusters in the Northern skies. It has a magnitude of 6.3 and contains an estimated 2900+ stars. The cluster lies between us and the Scutum galactic cloud. The dark areas in the image are actually obscured by dust and gas.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, Canon 6D stock camera, ISO 3200, 53 x 60 second exposures with dark/bias frames, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Image date: August 23, 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
Canon 200D + Sky-watcher Skymax 102 + Star Adventurer Pro.
EXIF:
- 1/40s
- f/12.74
- ISO-100
Stack of 15 images for reduced aberrations..
The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae, visible to the naked eye. M42 is located at a distance of 1,400 light years and is the closest region of mass star formation. M42 contains many protoplanetary disks, brown dwarfs, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula.
This was shot under some rather difficult conditions with fog rolling through, causing the large bloom around the stars at the edge of the field, but despite that, I'm still quite happy with this image. It's my sharpest, most detailed and colourful image of it so far.
-=Tech Data=-
-Image Details-
47 x 2 minute exposures
134 minutes of total integration time
-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
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 Camden Lake Provincial Wildlife Area near Moscow in South Eastern Ontario.
Milky Way and Andromeda with my Sky-Watcher Esprit 80mm and Radian Raptor telescopes. Taken in bortle 1-2 area north of Ash Fork, AZ. There a touch of northern lights, and skyglow. Single Exposure, 20sec, Canon 6DM2 14mm, f4.5 ISO 10,000
Two panel mosaic from Barnard's Loop to the Great Orion Nebula
Cam: Canon EOS 6Da
Scope: Sky-Watcher Esprit ED80 Triplet Apo
Astromount: Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro
Autoguider: Lacerta M-GEN plus Finderscope 9x50
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This is the Cygnus Wall, a portion of the North America Nebula (NGC 7000) in the constellation Cygnus. The nebula is approximately 1,500 light years from Earth, and the Cygnus Wall spans about 20 light years. The Wall exhibits the most concentrated star formations in this nebula.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO AS2600mc-Pro running at 0C, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro mount, Optolong L-eNhance filter (2”), 41 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, DSS and Luminar NEO. Image Date: June 5, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Nature's crown
Slemenova špica (Slovenia)
CATEGORY:
H-alpha + RGB 360 panorama / tracked / blend
GEAR:
H-alpha modified Nikon Z6 & Tamron 15-30mm / Sigma 28mm ART
Sky Watcher Star Adventurer
Astronomik 12nm H-alpha clip in filter
FocusOnStars focusing filter
EXIF: a total of 93 images captured over the span of 3.5 hours
Landscape: Tamron 15-30mm
10 images panorama + 4 images focus stack for close foreground
settings: 3min, ISO 640, f2.8, 15mm
Sky RGB: Sigma 28mm ART
45 images panorama, 3 rows, 15 images per row
settings: 2min, ISO 640, f2, 28mm
Sky Ha: Sigma 28mm ART + 12nm H-alpha clip in filter
34 images panorama, 3 rows, 15 images for first and second row + 4 images at Zenith
settings: 2min, ISO 6400, f1.4, 28mm
This is my biggest (and my favourite) panorama I have captured so far, with a strong Zodiacal light on left, winter Milky way arch, Andromeda galaxy, regions full of red Hydrogen where Orion stands out the most, in company of red-orange and green airglow, all above the might peaks of Julian Alps.
This was also the first night in all the years I had problems with my Sky Watcher Star Adventurer.
It first started when I was capturing deep-scape with Orion. Lights started blinking fast and tracking stopped. Turning the tracker off and on a few times didn't help as the problem repeated every time. I replaced the batteries, but it didn't help. I am thinking my rechargeable batteries are worn out, but when I tested the tracker with the same batteries in my living room, everything worked and I'm still a bit confused and at the same time worried what will happen next time I go out.
HCG 44
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• EQ6-R Pro
• ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
• ZWO L: 167x90s
• ZWO R, G, B: 75x90s bin2
(total integration 6h)
• -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 three nights in jan, feb, march 2022
processed with DSS & Pixinsight
Messier 38 (M38 or NGC 1912) is a large open cluster found in the constellation Auriga. It lies at a distance of about 4,200 light years away from Earth and is about 13 light years across. Also included in this view is open cluster NGC 1907 to the upper right of M38.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Canon 6D stock camera, ISO 3200, 26 x 60 second exposures with dark/bias frames, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Image date: November 10, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
The full 'Flower Moon' on May 5th, 2023.
This is a composite image using 3 separate exposures to create a more dramatic look.
Canon EOS Ra
Sky-Watcher Esprit 150 APO
Sky-Watcher CQ-350 Mount
I finally have an updated LHaRGB Image of my previous luminance on M81 and M82, new learning curve was the HDR Compose process in PixInsight, I used this to include the 300S Exposures I had previously that were burning out the core, I may try and get some 60S exposures to narrow the core down even further, but here it is so far:
Target: M81 and M82 Galaxies in Ursa Major
Image Details:
101x150S in LRGB, Total 16.83 Hours
25x300S in LRGB, Total 8.33 Hours
25x600S in Ha, Total 4.16 Hours
Total exposure time: 29.32 Hours
BIAS, Darks and Flats subtracted
Equipment Used:
Imaging Camera: Qhyccd 183M Back Illuminated ColdMOS Camera at -20C
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher 8" Quattro F4
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro
Guide Camera: Qhyccd QHY5L-II
Guide Scope: Sky-Watcher 90x50 Finder
Filter Wheel: Starlight Xpress Ltd 7x36mm EFW
Filters: Baader Planetarium LRGB + 7nm Ha
Software:
Image Acquisition: Main Sequence Software SGPro
Image Processing: PixInsight
Sky Watcher SK707AZ2 70mm f/10 + super 25mm (28x).
A record of the beautiful conjunction involving Mars and the Beehive Cluster, also known as NGC 2632 or Praesepe, it lies at Cancer (The Crab) constellation.
Afocal, Xiaomi Redmi 7A ISO400 2s f/2,2 3,8mm.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and joined with Photofiltre.
M33 The Triangulum Galaxy
HaLRGB
37) 5-minute, 0-gain Lum
35) 5-minute, 0-gain Ha
15) 5-minute, 0-gain Red
15) 5-minute, 0-gain Green
15) 5-minute, 0-gain Blue
Calibrated with Darks and Flats, Stacked with PixInsight. Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop.
Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ed
550mm focal length, F5.5
Sky-Watcher EQ6 R-Pro mount
ZWO ASI2600mm pro, ZWO ASI Filters, ZWO ASI OAG, ZWO ASI174mm guide camera.
Okie-Tex Star Party 2021
10/3/2021.
IC 59 and IC 63 are found in the constellation Cassiopeia very near the bright star Gamma Cassiopeia. This set of objects is also known as the Ghost of Cassiopeia. Gamma Cassiopeia also has the informal nickname of Navi. The “IC” designation comes from a group of objects discovered between 1888 and 1907, most made possible by photography, and known as the Index Catalogue.
These nebulae are a combination of emission and reflection, they are located about 610 light years from Earth and are about 10 light years across. Gamma Cassiopeia provides the radiation to light up this area of dust and gas, eventually dissipating in the area.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO AS2600mc-Pro running at 0C, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro mount, Optolong L-eNhance filter (2”), 39 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: July 30, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Here is a four image mosaic of last evening’s 66% illuminated Waxing Gibbous moon. Each panel is the best 20% of 5,000 images captured in video mode and stitched together using Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE).
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO ASI462MC, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO EAF, ZWO ASIAir Plus, best 20% of 5000 frames on four panels. Processed with Autostakkert, Registax, and Microsoft ICE. Date: February 28, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Lunar Eclipse from Weatherly, Pennsylvania on January 21, 2019.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED, Canon 6D, single 10 second exposure, unguided. Image date: January 21, 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
Partial Lunar Eclipse as seen from the South/Central United States 11-19-21. Sequence from about Midnight - 3:15 am.
1900mm focal length, Nikon D750a, Sky-Watcher EQ6r-Pro mount.
All full-res lunar images are arranged in Photoshop to show the sequence of the Eclipse.
I struggled with equipment all night, but this didn't spoil the Eclipse for me. It was a beautiful sight, the Eclipsing moon with M45 to the right and Orion to the left. Even from my city backyard, it was awe-inspiring.
11-19-21
Yukon, OK.
This is a star trails image made up of only 8 1/2 minutes of exposures!
I set up my camera on a polar aligned Sky Watcher Star Adventurer equatorial tracking mount and took 9 exposures.
A single 30 second exposure with the tracking motor turned off to get the castle and ground still.
And then 8 x 50 second exposures with tracking set to "south spin" (when in the northern hemisphere) and at 12x the normal rate.
So I got a much accelerated star trail shot!
Nice to know it can work if time is short and I have the tracking mount with me. :)
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The Dumbbell Nebula (Messier 27, M27 or NGC 6853) is a bright planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula. It is easily seen in binoculars and wide-field photographs. The central star is an extremely hot blueish subdwarf. The nebula was created by the dying star ejecting a shell of gas into space.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Canon 6D stock camera, ISO 3200, 25 x 60 second exposures with dark/bias frames, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Image date: August 23, 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
IC434 nebulosa de la cabeza del caballo
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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: 53x600s
RGB: 6x600s
Total Expo: 11h 50min
Temperatura sensor: -10°C
Distancia Focal: 550mm
F/ 5,5
The Horsehead Nebula is a diffuse dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The Horsehead Nebula is also referred to as Barnard 33 and is located inside the emission nebula IC 434 (the reddish background), it lies about 1,500 light-years away. The bright star to the left of the Horsehead Nebula is actually the star Alnitak, the left most star in the belt of Orion.
Tech Specs: Williams Optics REDCAT51, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro running at -10C, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro mount, Optolong L-eNhance filter (2”), 18 x 300 second exposures with dark frames, guided using a ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 Mini, controlled with a ZWO ASIAir Pro running v1.5 Beta software. Image date: November 7th, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
Messier 25 (M25) is an open cluster found in the constellation Sagittarius. It is about 2,000 light-years away from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 4.6. The number of stars in this cluster have ranged from 86 to 601 depending on the source!
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, Canon 6D stock camera, ISO 3200, 15 x 60 second exposures with dark/bias frames, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Image date: September 28, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
Messier 13 (M13 or NGC 6205) is also referred to as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, is one of the brightest and best known globular clusters in the northern skies. It shines at a magnitude of 5.8, is about 22,200 light years away and contains an estimated 300,000 stars.
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Class: V
Constellation: Hercules
Right ascension: 16h 41m 41.24s
Declination: +36° 27′ 35.5″
Distance: 22.2 kly
Apparent magnitude (V): 5.8
Apparent dimensions (V): 20 arcminutes
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO AS2600mc-Pro running at -10C, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, 70 x 60 second guided exposures, darks from the library and flats at the end of imaging, focused with a ZWO EAF, controlled with a ZWO ASIAir Pro. Processed using PixInsight and DSS. Image Date: February 15, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Photos from our Utah trip last year that I somehow managed to forget to post.
(Yes, this really is copyrighted. And No, you really can't use it w/out my permission.)
This is the faint emission nebula designated as IC 1396 in the constellation Cepheus. This region is energized by the bright, bluish central multiple star HD 206267. You can see the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula, IC 1396A, on the lower edge of this image. From NASA APOD, “Stars could still be forming inside the dark shapes by gravitational collapse. But as the denser clouds are eroded away by powerful stellar winds and radiation, any forming stars will ultimately be cutoff from the reservoir of star stuff.”
Tech Specs: Williams Optics REDCAT51, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro running at 0C, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro mount, Optolong L-eNhance filter (2”), 32 x 300 seconds (2hr40min), guided using a ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 Mini, controlled with a ZWO ASIAir Pro running v1.5 software, stacked in DSS and processed using PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom. Image date: September 19th and 20th, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
ASI290MM, Astronomik ProPlanet 807 IR-pass filter, Sky-Watcher 2xbarlow, Sky-Watcher Skyliner 350P Flextube.
Here is a 48-minute stacked image taken during our live stream event last evening of Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF during its closest approach to Earth. Tycho software (Daniel Parrott) estimated the movement at 16.7" per minute.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO AS2600mc-Pro running at -10C, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO EAF, ZWO ASIAir Pro, 48 x 60 seconds. Processed using DeepSkyStacker and PixInsight. Image Date: February 1, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
ASI294MC Pro
Sky Watcher EvoStar 72ED
iOptron CEM26
ZWO 120mm mono guide scope
ZWO ASIAIR Plus
ZWO Dual Narrowband filter
48 / 5 minute subs
15 Dark frames
120 gain / -10c
B6 sky - Seeing "good"
Here is a view of the emission nebula NGC 2359 also referred to as Thor’s Helmet. I’m not sure how much more detail can be obtained with a straight Canon 6D camera, at some point I will attempt some imaging using a H-Alpha filter.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, Canon 6D stock camera, 45 minutes total integration time at ISO 3200, imaged on March 16, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.