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Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Barlow Lens Not Used, ZWO ASI 385MC. Captured using Firecapture.
Processed with Registax 6, Adobe Lightroom & G.I.M.P.
A two pane mosaic stitched using Microsoft Image Composite Editor.
Sunrise over the Mare Imbrium revealing many interesting features. A lava filled impact basin with evidence of many subsequent impacts, rilles, fault lines and wrinkles.
Best viewed using the expansion arrows.
Messier 13 or M13, also designated NGC 6205 and sometimes called the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules or the Hercules Globular Cluster, is a globular cluster of several hundred thousand stars in the constellation of Hercules.
Equipment
Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro
William Optics Z73
Altair Astro Hypercam 183m V2
Luminosity Filter
40 x 30sec = 20 minutes
Panel 2 of Orion Mosaic
25) 3-minute, ISO-1600, F/4, 135mm focal length lights.
25) Darks
25) Flats
25) Bias
Guided, dithered after every frame, stacked with DSS, edited in PixInsight and Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon D750a
Lens: Rokinon 135mm F2
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro
Location: Fort Davis State Park, Texas.
6X480 secondi a 640 iso vista la qualità del cielo, con Eos 5D Mk 2 su telescopio acromatico Skywatcher 120/1000,autoguida con PHD Guiding su Soligor 200 mm. e Orion Starshoot, processing Pixinsigth 1.8.8-6 elaborazione Photoshop CC15 e Topaz Labs plugin.
NGC 4236 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Draco.
distance 11.7 Mly
Equipment:
10" /f4 TS ONTC Newton
ASI1600mmc v2
ZWO EFW 8x
Skywatcher EQ8
Guiding TS9 OAG Lodestar
aka "Harry Potter and the golden treasure" :D
after a small eternity (9 months!) i finally got two nights with pretty good conditions, first night RGB and second night Ha. due to short night and a 30% waning moon, i got a total of approx. 5 hours of usable data for this classic target in Cygnus.
Canon 50D (astro modified)
Skywatcher HEQ5Pro
Skywatcher 200/1000
RGB 29x180sec @ISO1600
HA&OIII (L-Enhance) 70x180sec @ISO1600
total exposure 4h57min
fully calibrated
guiding with NINA and PHD
stacking in APP, editing in PS
shot under a bortle 5+ sky at 30% waning moon
Canon EOS 6Da | Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro | Lacerta M-GEN | Finderscope 9x50
18x 900sec | ISO800
Flats, Bias, Darks, no LP-filters used
1 min video stack taken 2019-02-09
Sunrise takes about fourteen Earth days to cross the Lunar disc from New Moon to Full Moon.
The dark elliptical shaped crater is Mare Crisium. To it’s left is the dark irregular shape of Mare Fecunditatis
EDIT: thanks to everyone who made this my most Faved image!
This was a project almost 4 months in the making. I spent over the course of 24 separate short late spring/summer nights capturing subs on this, most challenging target. Starting May 8, then every clear night until August 19, after discarding several hours (over 11 hours) of sub standard frames I ended up with just over 53 hours of usable data. Ever since I saw a picture of the object I wanted to capture it myself. but I had no idea the frustration that would ensue! I worked for hours/days on putting the final image together to something I was proud of. I have seen so many gorgeous renditions of this object and I wanted to give it justice as well. I went with a more natural approach to the final version. OU4 is an extremely faint "nebula" I wanted to make sure that it was visible in the final version, but also maintain the appearance of being very faint and natural looking. I did not want to "over cook" OU4.
The oxygen portion of the image was taken with 37 hours of total integration time. It was still very difficult to isolate OU4 from the background even with that amount of time. I went through countless iterations of workflow to bring it out and make it look authentic. The Chroma 3nm filter did a great job of isolating the signal, it is just so faint, maybe 30min subs instead of 20 min subs would have made a difference?
I have done some minor star reduction, but Cepheus is a very dense star field so I wanted to keep them there, just not distracting, to keep the natural feel of the image. Did I succeed?
I have searched for what I perceive as everywhere on the internet for data on OU4 regarding the apparent magnitude of the object. If anyone has this info please let me know.
Overall I am very happy with the way this image has turned out, don't know if I will ever tackle it again as it takes up a lot of clear skies at a time of the year when the dark nights are very short. I would love to hear your feedback and suggestions for the future.
Thank you and clear skies
Dan.
Camera: Canon EOS 6D Mark I
Lens: Canon 100-400 L IS USM
Mount: SkyWatcher Star Adventurer
Exposures:
10 x 60"
Stacked with Pixinsight and processed with Photoshop.
Captured from El Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and Canon 600D. Baader Continuum and Astrosolar filters fitted to telescope. Best 20 of 45 stacked in Registax 6. Green colour caused by Continuum filter removed in Registax 6 after stacking using RGB Balance and Mix tools
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
A freckled Sun. It's possible to see the 3636, 3638, 3639, 3641, 3643. 3644, 3645, 3647, 3649 and 3650 spots
This an image of the Iris Nebula, catalogued as NGC 7023 or Caldwell 4. It is a bright reflection nebula and is found in the constellation of Cepheus which is riding high in our Northern skies at the moment.
This is the first time I have attempted to image this object and I have wanted to try for quite a while.
It is named for the Iris flower - probably because of its blue colour. The dusty nebula material surrounds a hot, young star which provides the illumination. The dominant blue colour is a characteristic of dust grains reflecting starlight.
These dusty blue petals of the nebula are some 6 light-years across. The whole system lies at a distance of some 1300 light-years from us.
Extensive fields of surrounding dark interstellar dust are visible in the image.
Two bright, beautifully contrasting stars are visible towards the bottom left of the image. The left orange-red star is T Cephei, a Mira-type variable star. The star on the right is Alfirk (Beta Cephei), this is also a variable star.
Imaged during the evening of 10th November in clear but deteriorating conditions as shower clouds moved in and guiding was compromised!
I had to trash a number of subs. due to the aforementioned cloud and would have liked to have acquired more - the usual story! However, I am reasonably happy to have got quite a lot of dark dust detail given the fact that I have to deal with a lot of light pollution here - floodlights from council sports facilities and neighbour's security lights are the chief hazards!!
Imaged with a focal reduced Skywatcher Esprit 120ED scope and my ZWO 2600MC camera. I used an IDAS LPS D2 filter.
Calibrated subs. with Temp. matched Darks, Flats and Dark Flats.
38 x 300s Subs
Many thanks for looking!
——— STRUMENTAZIONE ———
Telescopio: Skywatcher 200/800 Wide Photo
Camera: Zwo Asi 294 mm pro monocromatica
Montatura: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6
Autoguida: 60mm UltraGuide Artesky con zwo asi 224mc
Correttore di coma: aplanatico Skywatcher f4
Focheggiatore motorizzato Zwo Eaf
Ruota portafiltri Zwo Efw
Filtri: Antlia 3nm Ha O3 S2
Software d'acquisizione Sgpro
————— FOTO ————
temp 0 con dark, flat e darkflat
HA 87 x 300s
O3 85 x 300s
————— ELABORAZIONE ———
Pixinsight
Photoshop
Pickerings Triangle, the lesser photographed part of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant. It actually has no NGC classification number, although NGC 6979 is sometimes used. This portion of the Cygnus loop was discovered in 1904 by Willamina Fleming, but credited to Edward Pickering, the director of her observatory. This was customary back in that time.
I tried this object last year but was not happy with the data as my timing and clear skies happen to occur during some extremely hot and smoky filled(forest fires) days. This year, the skies cooperated and was able to capture some decent data.
The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49) is a large spherical H II region (circular in appearance) located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Momoceros region of the Milky way galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 (Caldwell 50) is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter
The cluster and nebula lie at a distance of some 5,000 light yeads from Earth and measure roughly 130 light years in diameter. The radiation from the young stars excites the atoms in the nebula, causing them to emit radiation themselves producing the emission nebula we see. The mass of the nebula is estimated to be around 10,000 solar masses.
This image is a total of 6 hours of integration split between OIII and Ha. First light with the Esprit 80 Telescope.
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian, Tal 2x Barlow,
ZWO ASI 385MC.
4000 frames captured using Firecapture.
Approx. 1000 frames stacked with AutoStakkert! 3.1.4, wavelets with Registax 6 & final levels slightly adjusted with G.I.M.P.
Lunar south is uppermost. Reasonably good seeing conditions revealing some of the craterlets on its floor.
This edge-on spiral galaxy is found 50 million light years away in Draco. Nicknamed the Knife Edge galaxy it was first discovered by William Herschel in 1788.
Data was gathered at my bortle 7 back garden in Rochdale, UK.
Boring Techie bit:
Telescope: Skywatcher Quattro 8"
Mount: EQ6r pro
Camera: ZWO 533mc pro
Filter: Optolong UV/IR.
Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+ using Altair 60mm guide scope & ZWO 585mc.
150 light frames 180 seconds each.
Stacked with darks, flats, dark flats & bias using WBPP in PixInsight.
Processed using Graxpert, StarNet2, PixInsight & Affinity Photo.
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, 111
Astronomik 6nm Ha: 121x300s
Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 146x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 20x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 20x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 19x180s
Bortle Scale: 4
Location: Isaszeg, Hungary
Acquisition date(s):
2021.03.02., 2021.03.08., 2021.03.13., 2021.03.19., 2021.03.20., 2021.03.23.
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Nikon D780 at prime focus. EQ6 Syntrek Mount.
Imaging session commenced 23:27 UT
32 x 25s at ISO 1000
Also 17 dark frames.
Processed with Deep Sky Stacker and levels adjusted with Lightroom & G.I.M.P.
Final image cropped.
iphone to 12mm TeleVue Delos lens and SkyWatcher 200P ( 8 inch ) 1200mm telescope - Moon phase Waxing Gibbous 78%
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Nikon D780 at prime focus with Skywatcher Coma Corrector, EQ6 Syntrek Mount.
Imaging session commenced 23:03 UT 26th July
19 x 25s at ISO 3200
16 x 30s at ISO 4000
12 x 30s at ISO 5000
18 dark frames & 18 flats.
Processed with Deep Sky Stacker and levels adjusted with Lightroom & G.I.M.P.
A reasonable outcome for short exposure times.
Qualche sera fa ho provato a fotografare con il telescopio (e dalla città) la galassia M51, chiamata anche Galassia Vortice. In realtà si tratta di una meravigliosa coppia di galassie interagenti che si stanno scontrando a una distanza di decine di milioni di anni luce da noi.
Come sempre, fotografare l'universo dalla città è sempre una impresa difficile, ma grazie alla tecnologia, ad una corretta attrezzatura, un po' di soldini e tanta pazienza, si può pensare sempre più in là.
#m51 #messier #galassia #vortice #skywatcher #newton #200 #1000 #f/5 #universo #astronomy
I took this close-up with a Sky-watcher Skymax 102, ZWO ASI 120MC-S and a Star Adventurer Pro by taking a short video, and then using only the best frames to stack. :)
I decided to go ahead and name most of the lunar features visible in the picture. ;)
Software used: Firecapture, PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax and Photoshop (for the names)
another dark nebula i tried my best on, seems to be a very faint one as 6h of exposure made it only that visible. though the nights are still getting shorter and shorter for 5 more weeks, maybe i spend one or two extra nights on it.
camera: ToupTek ATR533C
mount: Skywatcher HEQ5Pro
scope: TS Optics 115/800 with 0.8x reducer
120x180sec @gain 100 and 1x1 binning, cooled to -10°C
stacking and editing in APP, SIRIL and Affinity 2
shot under a bortle 5+ sky at 12% waxing moon
Skywatcher 72ED
AZ-GTi
ZWO asi178mc
2022 08 10
5.500 frame 10%-a + 21db ISS frame
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The second look at this Nebula you can see the Pillar of Creation better in this shot. With a Totally new Camera wishing for some more fine nights to get a real good chance with the camera.
So here is 69 shots @ 5 min subs till the tree got in the way.
ZWO ASI183MC Pro @ -10c
Prima Luce Essato Focus ,
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps.
OTA: Newtonian Celestron 130 mm/f5 modified
Mount: Skywatcher Heq 5
Imaging Camera: Canon 700D astro modified
Guide Telescope: Gso 50mm
Guide Camera :QHY5L II Mono
Baader Mk III Coma Corrector
Polemaster Eletronic Polar Scope
Total Exposure: 2:30hours (subs 300 sec)
Deep Sky Stacker: Calibration and stacking
Adobe Photoshop Cs2 : Data Processing
PHD Guiding 2: Guide
Darks, Dark Flats, Flats and Bias apply
Serra Negra ( Bortle 4) /São Paulo/Brasil . July/2019
Rosette Nebula in Monoceros ( NGC 2237, 2238, 2239, 2244, 2246 ) by Mike O'Day ( 500px.com/MikeODay )..The Rosette Nebula surrounds a cluster of bright young stars (NGC 2244) and is around 5,200 light years from Earth. The bright red colours usually associated with the nebula are not as visible hear due to the filter in the unmodified Nikon DSLR used to capture the image. ..Links:..https://500px.com/MikeODay.http://photo.net/photos/MikeODay..Details:..This image ~ RA 6h 31m, Dec 5deg 2'. .Skywatcher Quattro 10" f4 Newtonian. .Skywatcher AZ Eq6 GT Mount..Orion Short Tube 80mm guide scope & auto guider - PHD2. .Baader MPCC Mark 3 Coma Corrector (no filter used)..Nikon D5300 (unmodified)..Field of view (deg) ~ 1.35 x 0.90..71 x 30 sec ISO 800...Pixinsight & Photoshop.20 December 2015
Messier 108 Surfboard
Messier 97 Owl
Skywatcher 100ED
Canon 700d
ISO800 10x120s (20 mins)
Celestron CGEM DX
Processed in PixInsight
I tried something different with this because of the really bright stars and the horrible micro lensing of the 1600MM. I used 20 second exposure and tried to capture as many as I could until M45 set to low for me to continue imaging. I ended up with 560 sub frames. I was hoping I could avoid 1600MM issues and still get a decent amount of nebulosity in the image.
This took me 14 iterations of processing to arrive at an image I was somewhat happy with. Trying to balance the bright stars with the dust was a challenge.
Overall I am happy with the image with only 3hrs integration. I really want to fully capture the full extent and detail of the dust and the deep saturation of the reflection elements. I could get more deeper saturation with more integration time and with different sub lengths for a HDR processed image, maybe next year!
Integration Details
Dates:Jan. 13, 2021
Frames:
Optolong B 36mm: 125x20" (gain: 139.00) -20C bin 1x1
Optolong G 36mm: 125x20" (gain: 139.00) -20C bin 1x1
Optolong L 36mm: 185x20" (gain: 139.00) -20C bin 1x1
Optolong R 36mm: 125x20" (gain: 139.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 3.1 hours
Equipment used
Imaging telescope: SkyWatcher Esprit 80ED Super APO Triplet
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-P (Pro Cooled Mono)
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro
Guiding telescope: Orion 50mm Deluxe Guidescope
Guiding cameras: Orion SSAG
Software: Sequence Generator Pro Seqence Generator Pro · PixInsight 1.8 Ripley PixinsIght
Filters: Optolong B 36mm · Optolong G 36mm · Optolong R 36mm · Optolong L 36mm
Accessory: Pegasus Astro FocusCube v2 · ZWO EFW · QHY Polemaster · Pegasus Astro Dew Master
More details here
Sun in white light - false colour
Sunspot 2529
Skywatcher 150p
Baader solar filter
QHY5LII-C
Registax and PS CS2
Second attempt at capturing the Orion nebula, with better material and technique this time - taken from Cheltenham, UK
Skywatcher 80ED with Nikon D5200 - simple tracking on StarAdventurer (pushed it to its limits here I reckon, but it works)
20 shots of 30s combined in DeepSkyStacker and processed
Nearby spiral galaxy NGC 4945 in the constellation Centaurus by Mike O'Day ( 500px.com/MikeODay )..NGC 4945 in the constellation Centaurus is a large spiral galaxy about the size of the Milkyway and around 13 million light years from Earth. It is shown here nearly edge-on and is accompanied in the image by a number of far more distant galaxies; the brightest of which is the 10th magnitude elliptical galaxy NGC 4976 (centre left of the image) which is around 30 million light years away...Links:..https://500px.com/MikeODay.http://photo.net/photos/MikeODay..Details:..centre of image: RA 13h 06m, Dec -49 deg 32' (nova.astrometry.net).. .Skywatcher Quattro 10" f4 Newtonian. .Skywatcher AZ Eq6 GT Mount..Guiding: Orion Shortube 80 guidescope, Starshoot Autoguider, PHD2..Baader MPCC Mark 3 Coma Corrector..Hutech IDAS D1 light pollution filter..Nikon D5300 (unmodified)..Long exposure noise reduction on..Field of view (min) ~ 79.6 x 53..Downsampled image scale ~ 4.4" per pixel..10 x 200sec @ ISO400 (19 Mar 2016).22 x 360sec @ ISO400 ( 1 May 2016).Pixinsight....
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible only the tiny 2822 spot.
The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49) is a large spherical H II region (circular in appearance) located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy.
The cluster and nebula lie at a distance of some 5,000 light-years from Earth) and measure roughly 130 light years in diameter. The radiation from the young stars excites the atoms in the nebula, causing them to emit radiation themselves producing the emission nebula we see. The mass of the nebula is estimated to be around 10,000 solar masses. (Wikipedia)
Technical card
Imaging telescope or lens:Altair Astro RC250-TT 10" RC Truss Tube
Imaging camera:ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mount:Skywatcher AZ EQ-6 GT
Guiding telescope or lens:Celestron OAG Deluxe
Guiding camera:QHYCCD QHY5III174
Focal reducer:Astro-Physics CCDT67 - 0.67x Reducer
Software:Main Sequence Software Seqence Generator Pro, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Filter:Optolong Ha 7nm 36mm
Accessories:MoonLite CSL 2.5" Focuser with High Res Stepper Motor, ZWO EFW
Resolution: 4656x3520
Dates: Jan. 11, 2018, Jan. 12, 2018
Frames: Optolong Ha 7nm 36mm: 18x600" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 3.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 24.98 days
Avg. Moon phase: 21.82%
Astrometry.net job: 2043011
RA center: 97.722 degrees
DEC center: 5.049 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.538 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 87.312 degrees
Field radius: 0.436 degrees
Locations: Berga Resort, Berga, Barcelona, Spain
As I still have the small Rig I went with a suggestion from Carlos, train it on the LMC. This was a good Idea but for the facts it's not in the best position. 1 AM the trees sneak into the shot. Add to this the time of year as clouds increase and rain starts so harder to buy clear nights.
The great part there is a lot of targets out there to shoot. This was a two shot panorama of the area.
ZWOASI 071 MC -10 30 shots per nights per panel 3 nights each.
600 sec each shot.
Sharpstar 61EDPH II
SESTO SENSO Focuser
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.