Young Western Gold Finch.

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

Imageurs:ATIK 383L+

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

Instruments de guidage:Kepler 60mm, TS-OPTICS 10 F/4 CARBON

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:HA, Astronomik 2 HA, OIII

Accessoires:USB_Focus V3, Robofocus

Résolution: 3264x2439

Dates: 18 juin 2018

Images:

HA: 83x600" bin 1x1

OIII: 32x600" bin 1x1

Intégration: 19.2 Heures

Âge moyen de la Lune: 5.33 jours

Phase moyenne de la Lune: 28.82%

Astrometry.net job: 2162614

Centre AD: 311,423 degrés

Centre DEC: 30,713 degrés

Échelle des pixels: 1,111 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 88,646 degrés

Rayon du champ: 0,629 degrés

Lieux: Observatoire perso, LA BASTIDE, VAR, France

Data source: Own remote observatory

At around 32 million LY from Earth, the Phantom Galaxy hangs unassumingly in the constellation Pisces. It's face-on orientation to us gives a great view of the structure created by its two majestic spiral arms.

-=Tech Data=-

-Equipment-

Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Esprit 100

Mount: Celestron CGX

Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro

Filters: 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 -

RGB 31 x 5 Min

- 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.

November 8, 2022. Canon R, Sigma 150-600mm lens, on sky-watcher eq5 mount for tracking.

Situé dans la constellation d'Hercule, à 22 180 années-lumière de nous, il contient environ 100 000 étoiles.

C'est un des objets célestes visibles à l’œil nu par beau temps.

Addition de 33 photos de 1mn prises avec une camera N&B Atik 314L+ sur une lunette Sky-Watcher 80ED, de 600mm de focale, sur une monture EQ6-R motorisée et autoguidée. Beaumont-les-valence le 08/04/2021 vers 4h du matin.

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IC 63 is 610 light-years distant. It is faint at apparent mag. +10, and has extremely low surface brightness surrounds bright variable star gamma Cas (γ Cas). This star is partly unstable and is known as a "shell star". It currently shines at mag. +2.15, making it the brightest star in Cassiopeia.

Taken with:

Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm

QHY268M, QHY filter wheel, Moonlite focuser/rotator

Eagle4, NINA acquisition.

Optolong 3nm SH filters, and RGB for stars

R 180s x 42

G 180s x 35

B 180s x 30

S 600s x 83

H 600s x 90

Total 34hr 11min, Phoenix, AZ

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

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

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

Northfield, OH

July 26 & Sep 2, 2024

Telescope: Explore Scientific ED 80, field flattener (no reducer), 480mm focal length

Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro

Camera: ZWO ASI294MC-Pro

Guide scope: Williams Optics 50mm guide scope

Guide camera: ZWO ASI120MM-S

Software: NINA, PHD2

Imaging--

Lights: 37x300s

Darks, Flats, DarkFlats, Bias: assorted

Sensor temp: -10.0

Filter: Optolong L-Extreme

Sky: Bortle 6 (nominal)

Post processing--

Software: PixInsight, Photoshop

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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/

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.

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

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!

Trifid Nebula or M20 . 20mins of data taken with QHY 183CPro and Sky watcher Quattro 250P Scope .The Trifid Nebula is an H II region in the north-west of Sagittarius in a star-forming region in the Milky Way's Scutum-Centaurus Arm.

Watch the birds, see them play

Across the air, all of the day

Up and down, side to side

On the wind they do ride

Above the roofs, roads so wide

Across the wild countryside

Between the clouds, they do race

Up and down, from place to place

Across the skies, watch them play

See them on the air today

Morris sits on top of a round bale to enjoy his 'kingdom' and farm.

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

Sky Watcher 200P Manual Dobsoniano

ZWO ASI120MC-S a foco primario

Carte technique

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:TS Optics TS APO65Q 65mm F/6,5 Quadruplet Astrograph

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

Accessoires:USB_Focus V3

Résolution: 3190x2442

Images:

Astrodon HA: 12x600" bin 1x1

Astrodon HA: 20x900" bin 1x1

Astrodon RBG True Balance Gen II 36mm: 77x180" bin 1x1

Astrodon Luminance Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2 RGB: 82x300" bin 1x1

Intégration: 17.7 Heures

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!

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

Dead sea area, Israel

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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

Edinburgh Bortle 7/8 zone

3 sessions in August 2021

Celestron RASA 8"

ZWO 183mc pro

IDAS NBZ filter

ZWO ZWO ASI Air Pro

Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro

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

Gain 122 at -10C

Processed in APP and Pixinsight

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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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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

AAW:Sky Watching

I got out of the hospital a couple of days ago. Despite my doctor's order to stay in bed for a week, I crept out of the house early this morning to catch the sky's sunrise. Here in Florida, our skies on the beach very early are magnificent.

Explore #188 - 19.03.2009

Reach out and touch

The perfect dreaming skies

Watch angels dance on clouds

In the fading evening light

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

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

Telescopio Dobson manual 200mm

Ocular Sky Watcher 24mm 2"

Nikon D3300

Sky Watcher ED80 f/7 + EOS100D

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

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.

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

From what I have been able to discover online, this building at 290 Mare Street in Hackney Central was built in 1971. I only recently noticed that its concrete exterior has a brutalist aesthetic.

Until recently its ground floor was occupied by a bank but at the time of taking this shot it had become vacant.

--- UPDATE Dec 2022 ---

The ground floor has been converted to a Pizza Express restaurant.

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.

It started out as a dud but transmorified into something stunning.

Sunrise.

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

www.astrobin.com/waikf2/

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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

1st Shots out of my new Sky watcher QUATTRO 250 f/4 scope.

Telescope: William Optics GT71

Mount: Sky Watcher HEQ5

Camera: ZWO ASI183MM Pro

Filters: Astrodon 5nm Ha, Gen2 RGB

Frames

H-alpha: 132x300" (11h)

RGB: 130x180" (6h 30')

RGB (stars): 60x30" (30')

Total Integration: 18h

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