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Image taken with a SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Barlow 3X + 10mm lens (210x).
Edited with Photofiltre and MS Picture Manager, to get more details.
Testaufnahme mit der Canon 6D
Trotz schlechter Transparenz, recht gutes Ergebnis dabei herausgekommen
distance 444 ly
Equipment:
Skywatcher ED80/600
Skywatcher Reducer x0,85
Canon 6D
Celestron AVX
Guiding:
i-Nova PLA-Mx on 9x50 Finderscope
PHD
30x300s ISO3200
19.01.2017
28.01.2017
total exposure time: 2:30
Processing: PixInsight/Lightroom
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) or Comet NEOWISE is a long period comet with a near-parabolic orbit. Here seem in Triunfo, Pernambuco, Brazil, on 23-July-2020. Using the Skywatcher Star Adventurer tracker.
For this image, I used just 9 subs. A lot of the subs were not good enough guided. I dont know really why. The MGEN autoguider works very good and sometimes it breaks out...( Dithering was enabled).
Conditions were bad, the whole sky was fogged up.
Exposure
9x300" ISO 500
Equipment used
Telescope/Lens: APM Apo107/700 mm
Mount: Skywatcher AZ EQ6 GT
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Guidescope:TS Deluxe 60mm
Guidecam: Lacerta MGEN
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + barlow 2X + super 25mm.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
Skywatcher ED80 + Atik 314 (Colour), Taken Nov 2013
Celestron C8 Hyperstar + Atik 490 (B/W Ha), Taken March 2015.
Stacked using Registar.
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + barlow 2X + super 25mm.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
Equipment:
Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)
Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto
Guide scope: Orion 50mm mini
Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini
Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera
Accessories:
ZWO ASIAIR Pro
ZWO EFW 8x1.25"
Lacerta Dew-heater 20cm
Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm
Programs:
PixInsight
Adobe Photoshop CC 2020
Details:
Camera temp: -15°C
Gain: 53
Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 92x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 16x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 14x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 20x180s
The Trifid Nebula (catalogued as Messier 20 or M20 and as NGC 6514) is an H II region in the north-west of Sagittarius in a star-forming region in the Milky Way's Scutum-Centaurus Arm. It was discovered by Charles Messier on June 5, 1764 Its name means 'three-lobe'. The object is an unusual combination of an open cluster of stars, an emission nebula (a relatively dense, red-yellow portion), a reflection nebula (the mainly NNE blue portion), and a dark nebula (the apparent 'gaps' in the former that cause the trifurcated appearance also designated Barnard 85) Shot with Canon 60D on a SW Quattro 250 /f4 on a SW NEQ6 Pro. 7 x 30 sec frames and 5 x 55sec frames blended together in Sequator.
Bortle 8, UK, back garden, 72ED with Sony A6000, 433 subs, 35 secs, Tracked using AZ-GTI, NINA sequencer, Stacked in ASTAP, processed by @astroben in Siril, PS.
The bright star Gamma Cas is attended by two large wisps of nebulosity, IC 59 and IC 63.
Processing was done in Fitswork and Photoshop CS2. No callibration data (darks, flats, bias) used. Image is cropped.
IMAGING DATA
8x 600 seconds ISO400
1.3 hours of total exposure time.
EQUIPMENT
Camera: Canon EOS60Da
Telescope: TS ONTC 10" f4.7 Newton
Corrector/ Flattener: TS Wynne 2.5" Coma Corrector
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 on concrete pier
Guiding: Finderscope,
Lacerta MGEN Autoguider
While taking photos of the lunar eclipse, never did I think I would actually capture a meteor striking the surface of the moon!
You can see the quick flash of light in the lower left quadrant of the moon, which happened at 10:41 PM CST.
This was definitely luck and that night I just decided to set Sharpcap to capture exposures every few seconds during the hour leading up to peak totality (hoping to get an airplane in transit).
Equipment
- Explore Scientific ED80 CF
- ZWO ASI294MC Pro
- Skywatcher EQ-6 R Pro
- Polemaster
Sharpcap Settings
- Single, 3 second exposure
- Gain: 125
Processed in Photoshop to combine two different exposures I took of the moon and the stars behind the moon.
About 23 thousand light years away and 145 light years in diameter comprising of several hundred thousand stars. Most of these stars are incredibly old, about 12 to 13 billion years. Sometimes, as they are so densely packed together, they collide and make new ‘blue straggler’ stars. I can imagine living on a planet around one of these stars, you must not be able to see beyond the local cluster. (Wikipedia and Earthsky)
12 300s and 13 250s Lights (Approx. 1.5 hours) with 21 flats and 79 bias. Dithered.
Telescope: - Skywatcher 130PDS Newtonian.
Camera: - Nikon D3100.
ISO: 400. Automated white balance
Filters: - Baader Mark-III MPCC Coma Corrector. IDAS D2 Light Pollution Suppression Filter
Flats taken with a Huion L4S Light Box.
Wireless Remote: PIXEL TW-283 DC2 2.4G.
Mount: - Skywatcher EQ6R.
Guiding: Skywatcher EvoGuide 50ED & ZWO ASI120MM-Mini.
Polar Aligned with SharpCap Pro.
Control Software: - Stellarium Scope, Stellarium, Poth Hub, EQMOD, All Sky Plate Solver, PHD Guiding 2 and PHD Dither Timer.
Processing Software: Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and edited in Star Tools.
Moon: - Newish
Light Pollution and Location: - Bortle 8 in Davyhulme, Manchester.
Seeing: - Goodish
Notes: - Much as I have enjoyed taking galaxies I really wanted to try something different so had another go at the M13. I did some reading on this beforehand and a lot of people say they don’t overexpose as the core gets blown up. For this reason I took several 30s, 60s, 150s and 300s subs. In the end, the Star Tools Decon module did a really good job of bringing out detail in the core even with my 5 minute exposures so I have just abandoned my shorter ones.
Colour is a constant problem for me with my red/green colour blindness so I rely on the Max RGB option in Star Tools and my wife although I didn’t bother her in this process. In this case I cranked up the ‘Cap Green’ option, and took a sample of the core/nearby galaxy so I hope this is close to being right.
The amount of noise in this picture is annoying me. Another go may be required at some point, either to reprocess or to take the picture when its closer to the zenith.
Previous attempt for comparison:- www.flickr.com/photos/andrewsingleton/8721642768. 7 years ago and some new equipment has made a remarkable improvement on this old picture. This was my first ever attempt at astrophotography through a telescope.
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
IC410 is an emission nebula in the constellation of Auriga. Often called the Tadpole Nebula in reference to the two tadpole shaped clumps in the upper left of the nebula.
NGC1893 is the open cluster of stars in the middle of IC410. It's these stars that are ionizing and shaping the surrounding nebula. The tadpoles themselves could be collapsing in to new stars.
The nebula is around 12 to 12,500 light years away and 100 light years across.
The open star cluster is believed to have been formed 2 to 4 million years ago.
Captured from my back garden in Rochdale, UK. Bortle 6.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8"S with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Backyard Universe primary mask and Backyard Universe secondary spider. Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.
120s exposures.
Best 80% of 40 light frames.
Darks, Flats, Dark Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.
Orion widefield
Jupiter 135mm f5/6
ISO800
Canon Eos 100D (modified)
Skywatcher HEQ5 ProGoto
Lacerta Mgen2 autoguider
Made from 48 x 88 sec frames with 6 dark frames. Pentax K3II Pentax DA*300mm f4 on SkyWatcher GTi tracking mount.
Shot taken with a Skywatcher 80ED refractor telescope mounted on my Nikon D500. The resulting focal length is 1200mm (1800mm eq) due to the 2x Barlow lens added to the setup.
Edited in Photoshop to extract the shades of the minerals on the moon soil (just saturation increased in multiple small steps).
© Matteo Foiadelli
Do not use this photo without my express consent
Les Dentelles du Cygne (Veil Nebula).
Premier essai en combinant le Celestron RASA 11'', filtres Astronomik LPS et deux à bande étroite (H alpha 12nm et O III 12nm) et un traitement avec Siril, en me concentrant sur une partie seulement du rémanent de supernova. Traitement Siril et PS CS4
RGB: 11 images et 20 Flats. Ha: 19 images et 21 Flats. O III 39 images et 22 Flats 30 Darks, 28 Offsets.
Nikon D5300 modifié astro par Eos for Astro, Celestron RASA 11'', tiroir à filtres UFC Baader télécommande Twin1 ISR2 + Monture Skywatcher EQ6-R pro.
Paramètres: 60s F/2.2 ISO 800, 620mm (équivalent à environ 930mm en 24x36).
Série prise le 6.8.2020.
Skywatcher 130/900 f/7
QHY 5L-II mono
Filter: Astronomik, planet IR pro 807
Barlow: Televue 3x
Processing: AutoStakkert 2.1.0.5, Registax 6, Photoshop
Location: Vironas, Athens, Greece
UT: 185802.132
Date: 26-03-2021
89 x frames totalling 8300 seconds or 2.5 hours, Sky watcher Quattro 250 P and QHY 183MC Pro camera. NGC 55, is a Magellanic type barred spiral galaxy located about 6.5 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. Along with its neighbor NGC 300, it is one of the closest galaxies to the Local Group, probably lying between the Milky Way and the Sculptor Group. It has an estimated mass of × 10¹⁰ M☉. Wikipedia
Radian Raptor61 + QHY268c, Skywatcher EQ6-R Mount, guided
190 x 600 sec, 20 x 30 sec Radian Triad Ultra Quad-Band filter
54 x 600 sec broadband.
I can hardly believe what the camera can capture, and what can be pulled out with processing. The Great Orion Nebula. Mostly taken from my rooftop in central Phoenix, AZ Bortle 9.
This was my next target but the forecast was clouds for the next few days after I finished the wide field. The good news is have not seen any clouds that worried the mount . The tree next to the mount gets in the way of photos at 3am so getting less and less each day as the star seem to move across the sky( its us moving.)
I wanted to do this target as it is a very interesting shape and it is no a big one as you can see by the wide field photo of the Seagull the small white dot middle of frame. I had to rotate to get this orientation or it would have been along the length of the shot.
QHY183C -10c 98 shots 10 min each over 3 nights, Rotated 94.4 degrees.
Prima Luce Essato Focus , Focus every hour.
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the huge 3615 and 3619 spots
Skywatcher Evostar Pro 80 ED (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D7500. 1200 total frames shot over 1 minute. Stacked in PIPP & AS!3, post-processed in Photoshop
The Horsehead Nebula is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, one of the bottom stars in Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.
This was our longest total exposure, comprising of approximately 15 hours of Ha. R, G and B frames. Captured with the Sbig ST2000xm attached to the Skywatcher ED80.
This is a planetary nebula in constellation Vulpecula, at about 1227 light-years from Earth.
Planetary nebulae are the remains of "dead" stars and are quite beautiful to image :)
Technical details: about 2h worth of 30s/1600ISO exposures taken with Nikon D7500 on Skywatcher Evostar80ED + Barlow 2x.
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.
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + barlow 2X + super 25mm.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the 2757 spot, the most proeminent to emerge on solar disk since May of 2019.
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the huge 3607, 3613, 3614, 3615 and 3617 spots
Skywatcher 150P
Canon EOS 650D
Astronomik UHC-E Clip Filter
Capture:
BackyardEOS
-Lights
--20 x 20 seconds @ ISO 800
--20 x 80 seconds @ ISO 800
--8 x 120 seconds @ ISO 800
-10 Darks per exposure length
-20 Flats
Stacking: DSS
Postprocessing: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Reprocessed as flic.kr/p/qEhLkF
Equipment:
Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)
Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto
Guiding: OAG
Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini
Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera
Accessories:
ZWO ASIAIR Pro
ZWO EFW 8x1.25"
ZWO EAF
ZWO OAG
ZWO 1.25 Helical focuser
Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm
Programs:
PixInsight
Adobe Photoshop CC 2020
Details:
Camera temp: -15°C
Gain: 53
Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 25x300s, 160x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 20x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 20x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 19x180s
Bortle Scale: 4
Location: Isaszeg, Hungary
Acquisition date(s): 2021.01.09., 2021.01.15., 2021.02.08., 2021.02.09., 2021.03.11. 2021.02.12., 2021.02.13.
Comet Lovejoy 2014 is around 43 million miles from Earth and was thought to be travelling at around 15 miles a second. The comet will next return in about 8,000 years
Taken on 18/01/2015 From London
LRGB 4x 120 seconds
Skywatcher Espirt 100ED
QSI 690CCD
Skywatchers are in for an end-of-year treat. What has become known popularly as the “Christmas Star” is an especially vibrant planetary conjunction easily visible in the evening sky over the next two weeks as the bright planets Jupiter and Saturn come together, culminating on the night of Dec. 21. Here, the Moon, left, Saturn, upper right, and Jupiter, lower right, are seen after sunset with the Washington Monument, Thurs. Dec. 17, 2020, in Washington.
Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
#NASA #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #MSFC #Marshall #Jupiter #Saturn #GreatConjunction #planets #astronomy
Read more about the Great Conjunction
distance ca. 1350 Lj
Equipment:
Skywatcher ED80/600
Skywatcher Reducer x0,85
EOS 1000Da
Celestron VX
Guiding:
i-Nova PLA-Mx on 9x50 Finderscope
PHD
17x300s ISO800
08.12.2015
Processing: PixInsight/Lightroom
A re-process of some data gathered in August 2024.
Having improved a little with PixInsight, I feel I've improved a little on my older version of this.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -10c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.
180s exposures.
Best 90% of 44 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo
I love that I can travel light years and stay in my backyard.
This is an emission nebula IC410, also known as the Tadpole Nebula. There is an open cluster in the center of the nebula, NGC 1893. Stellar winds from these young stars sculpts some of the nebula's gas and dust into two tadpoles near the center of the gas cloud.
Techie Stuff:
Explore Scientific ED102 Scope, Skywatcher EQ6R-pro Mount, ZWO ASI1600MMPro-Cool, Nightcrawler focus/rotator.
Data: 8 hours over 2 nights in January 2019. Average exposure was 5 minutes. Combination of RGB, HA & Oiii (I took Sii but did not see any detail) Edit with PixInsight, Photoshop, OnOne2017
Last time I tried to shoot this region, it was last year. It took me almost 5 nights to tame the AZ-GTI. This time was clearly easier! It was a kind of revenge :D
I was supposed to shoot during two nights, but after processing the first night, it was clearly enough. (Even with a 90% Moon)
Clear Skies (without Moon !!)
Lights : 22 x 600 sec (3h40)
Darks : 60 ~ Offset : 100 ~ Flats : 60
Setup :
Camera : ZWO ASI 2600 MC
Main Scope : Skywatcher Esprit 100 ED
Guide Camera : ZWO ASI 120MM Mini
Guide Scope : ZWO Mini Guide Scope
Mount : Skywatcher EQ6-R
Filters : Antlia ALP-T
Others : ZWO ASIAIR PRO, ZWO EAF
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