View allAll Photos Tagged Skywatcher
My first try with the new chip that was put in the camera to replace the broken usb.
I was sent a QHY183M mono chip not the QHY183C Colour chip caused all sorts of problems in the end this camera getting found is now know as QHY183M but takes coloured photos. I lost a whole lot of time with the camera Changes and setting up. This is in effect only 33 shots But happy the way it came out.
QHY183C -10c 33 shot 10 min
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps.
NGC 300 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. It is inclined at an angle of 42° when viewed from Earth and is approximately 94,000 light-years in diameter, which is somewhat smaller than our own Milky Way. It has a very low surface brightness which made it difficult to image from our light polluted driveway.
Once again it seems that every image we do is plagued by issues. From crazy gradients, to focusing issues and tracking problems. This image was taken over two nights, but due to clouds rolling in and wind, we only managed a few hours in total. It was also extremely difficult to process due to its low brightness and we spent hours on this one. As it is summer time here at the moment and it really doesn't get dark for imaging until about 10.00pm, we can only get a few hours imaging of the very few clear nights we get. We really need to be getting greater than 10 hours on each target. Perhaps in the winter time.....
Equipment Details:
•8 Inch Skywatcher Quattro Carbon Fibre F4.0 Newtonian Reflector
•Skywatcher NEQ6 Mount
•SBIG STT 8300m CCD Camera cooled to -20'c
•SBIG FW8G-STT Filter Wheel
•Baader Lum, Red, Green, Blue Filters
•SKywatcher BD 102mm Guide Scope
•Meade DSIii CCD Guide Camera
•Polemaster for polar alignment
Exposure Details:
•Lum 20X300 seconds - Bin 1x1 (Night 1)
•Red 7X300 seconds - Bin 1x1 (Night 2)
•Green 4X300 seconds - Bin 1x1 (Night 2)
•Blue 2X300 seconds - Bin 1x1 (Night 2)
Total Integration Time: 2.75 hours
The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49) is an H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros 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 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.
William Optics GT81
William Optics Flat 6AIII
ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
ZWO ASI Air Pro
Skywatcher HEQ 5 Pro
Optolong L-eXtreme filter
59 x 180s lights, 40 darks, 50 flats, 50 dark flats at gain 100 and cooled to -10C.
Stacked in DSS and processed in PS and LR
Explore 03 March 2021
Overall, I'am happy of the weather for let me finish this project for this year.. But, it is have too much gradient.. I will work on it lately.
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: 30x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 21x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 29x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 30x180s
Dark: 60x
NGC 6744 is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 30 million light years away from Earth in the constellation Pavo. It also has at least one distorted companion galaxy (NGC 6744A) which is similar to one of the Magellanic Clouds. It was discovered by James Dunlop a Scottish astronomer in Parramatta Australia on 30 June 1826.
We are extremely happy with how this image came out considering we lost 15 x 300 seconds of RGB frames due to some issue that I have not identified yet. There were also some extreme gradients which took some innovative processing to remove in PixInsight.
Equipment Details:
•8 Inch Skywatcher Quattro Carbon Fibre F4.0 Newtonian Reflector
•Skywatcher NEQ6 Mount
•SBIG STT 8300m CCD Camera cooled to -20'c
•SBIG FW8G-STT Filter Wheel
•Baader Lum, Red, Green, Blue Filters
•SKywatcher BD 102mm Guide Scope
•Meade DSIii CCD Guide Camera
•Polemaster for polar alignment
Exposure Details:
•Lum 23X300 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Red 3X300 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Green 3X300 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Blue 3X300 seconds - Bin 1x1
Total Integration Time: 2.35 hours
Bubble Nebula or NGC 7635
Skywatcher 200p, NEQ6 mount, Altair Triband filter, Baader MPCC M3 coma corrector, ASI294MC Pro at -20C.
NINA Observatory Software.
24 x 300 second (2 hours) at Gain 350, Offset 30, dithering every 3rd frame, 40 dark frames, 40 flat fields, 40 dark flat frames.
Processed in APP (using Ha-OIII formula), Topaz de-noise and Photoshop. .
9th/10th April 2021.
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: 180x180s
Bortle Scale: 4
Location: Isaszeg, Hungary
Acquisition date(s):
2021.04.08., 2021.04.16., 2021.05.04., 2021.05.05., 2021.05.07., 2021.05.08.
9 November 2023
But I missed the occultation - too cloudy
🔭 Skywatcher Evostar80ED+ Barlow x2
Nikon Z50
and IC3583, IC3611, NGC4584, IC3540
Equipment:
TS 10" f/4 ONTC Newton
1000mm f4
ZWO ASI 1600mmc
Astrodon LRGB
Skywatcher EQ8
Guding:
Lodestar on TS Optics - ultra short 9mm Off Axis Guider
PHD2
30x180s red
30x180s green
30x180s blue
79x180 Luminanz
19/20.04.2018
21/22.04.2018
21.22.04.2020
total exposure time: 8,45hour
Processing: PixInsight/Capture One
Profitant de rares moments de ciel clair en Décembre 2023 (le 16 décembre pour être précis), j'ai essayé d'imaginer cette belle galaxie vue de la tranche.
Elle est vraiment petite à même pas 600mm de focale mais je suis plutôt agréablement surpris par le résultat !
Nikon D7500 astrodon
🔭 Skywatcher Evostar 80ED + 0.85x reducer
Tracking with Skywatcher Staradventurer GTI
13x60s ISO1600
Focale déduite par astrometrie = 521mm
Processed with Siril and Photoshop.
Galaxy Season is almost upon us so I thought I'd get things underway a little early with a January attempt at two of my favorite galaxies. Here are two gems of the northern sky- M81 and M82, known as Bode's Galaxy and the Cigar Galaxy respectively. These two galaxies are sort of right in the middle of a group of galaxies encompassing the constellation of Ursa Major (the Big Dipper). Bode's is one of the most picturesque and gorgeous observable spiral galaxies in my opinion. The pair reside about 12 million light years away, meaning we are looking at some pretty old light 🔭
Bode's is about 36,000 light years in diameter with approximately 20 billion suns- making it one of the densest known galaxies. It was discovered by EJ Bode in 1774. M82 / the Cigar Galaxy is intricately involved with Bode's and has undergone a series of fascinating and somewhat mysterious gravitational events due to their gravitation intermingling. M82 has rapid and diverse star creation as a result of this cosmic interaction.
Their cosmic dance will "soon" come to an end however as it's theorized that the two will merge into one galaxy within the next few billion years- not unlike our own Milky Way and neighboring giant Andromeda.
Specs: 81x200" (4.5 hrs total), 30 dark frames, 40 flats, 40 dark flats. TS130 APO, .80 reducer, Zwo ASI294MCPRO camera, Skywatcher EQ6-R mount. All shots at -20c, unity gain, no light pollution filtering.
Last nights moon. Mosaic of 32 different exposures.
Asiair Plus
Optolong UV / IR Cut Filter
Skymax 127
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro
Zwo ASI 533 MC Pro
September 16. 2017.
Telescope: Sky-Watcher MN190 on AZ-EQ6 GT
Camera: Canon450D mod
Frames: 36x420s (4.2 hours of cumulative exposure)
Software: BackyardEOS & PHD2 for capture; Pixinsight & Photoshop for post processing.
The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs from Earth. It is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way and was often referred to as the Great Andromeda Nebula in older texts... (from Wikipedia)
Being a very large object in our sky, my telescope's 1000mm focal length and 1.25º x 0.83º field of view wasn't nearly enough to capture whole galaxy in one shoot so my choice was "left" part of the galaxy including it's bright core which contains supermassive black whole. In spiral arms there are lots of dust lanes and big blueish star cloud known as NGC 206 along with some of the Ha regions visible. There is also small but bright satellite galaxy M32 near upper edge of the Andromeda Galaxy
I find this fascinating not least because of the 2 for 1 in the field of view!
M35 is the sprawling open cluster 2,800 light years away in the constellation Gemini covering a 30' area with several hundred stars scattered wide. To the South West of that is NGC 2158 sitting on the outer spiral arm of our galaxy at 11,000 light years away. M35 is approx 100 million years old whilst NGC2158 is 10 billion years old.
This was quite a difficult task to process mostly because my DSLR was capturing over 16000+ stars (according to DSS) in one frame. Had to reduce that detection.
Equipment:
Skywatcher 120ED Esprit APO
Focal reducer 0.8x
Celestron AVX
Canon 700D (unmodded)
F5.6
46 Lights (30 secs @ ISO 1600) 24 mins 32s data
20 Darks
20 Flat
100 Bias
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5
I'd like to have a go at this again as my alignment wasn't quite spot on this night.
Stacked: best 10% of 1000 video frames.
Telescope: SkyWatcher Esprit 120
Camera: ZWO ASI 290
Date: 2021-06-17
Nel buio del cosmo, brilla il sovrano degli dèi: Giove, il colosso celeste. Come il mitico Iuppiter dominava l’Olimpo con il fulmine in pugno, così il pianeta più grande regna nel nostro Sistema Solare. La sua immensa gravità protegge la Terra da comete ed asteroidi, proprio come il padre degli dèi manteneva l’ordine tra uomini e divinità.
Osservarlo è come scrutare l’antico volto del mito, impresso nel cielo.
Ripresa effettuata con telescopio 150/750 newton e camera ASI 676 MC, a 2250 mm di focale equivalente
#Giove #Jupiter #astrofotografia #astrophotography #SkyWatcher #NewtonianTelescope #150750 #HEQ5 #planetaryimaging #telescopeview #spacephotography #universe #cosmos #nightphotography #planets #observingthecosmos #astrophoto #celestialwonder #deepinthecosmos #solarsystem #stargazing
The Lagoon Nebula (M8), is a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius. It is classified as an emission nebula.
This is the latest version of the Lagoon Nebula, is another re-process of the image taken 17/07/2020 from my house in Melbourne. This is 20 x 3 min Ha, 30 x 3min Sii and 28 X 3min OIII sub frames with dark, flat and bias frame subtraction. It was captured at 0'c using the SBIG ST2000xm on an 8" carbon fibre Newtonian reflector on a Skywatcher NEQ6 mount.
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + barlow 2X + super 25mm.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the 4149, 4150, 4153, 4154, 4155, 4157 and 4160 and the 4079 spots.
The Heart Nebula is an emission nebula located in the constellation of Cassiopeia, around 7,500 light years away from Earth and have a radius around 165 light years.
The term ’emission’ means that the cosmic gas that forms the nebula is actually glowing itself.
Over the years IC 1805 has been designated as the ‘Heart Nebula’ due to its resemblance to the shape of a human heart.
The glow of the nebula comes from the radiation of a small open cluster of stars known as Melotte 15.
The cluster contains very young, blue, hot supergiant stars that are about 1.5 million years old and is located near the nebula’s centre. Some of this stars are about 50 times as massive as our own Sun.
The stars of Melotte 15 are blasting the surrounding hydrogen and causing it to emit light, powering the Heart Nebula’s beautiful glow.
The third attempt was the good one. Stars were weird/pinched on the first sessions (Redcat Focuser Issue).
So for the last clear night of november I decided to go back on this nebula to break the spell. :p
I've shoot from 7.00 PM to 6.00 AM, resulting in around 9.5 hours of good subs (10 min each)
Another Time, Exposure Time did the job as the Drizzle did.
Clear Skies !
Lights : 58 x 600 sec (9h40)
Darks : 60 ~ Offset: 100 ~ Flats: 100
Setup :
Camera : ZWO ASI 533 MC
Main Scope : William Optics Redcat 51
Guide Camera : ZWO ASI 120MM Mini
Guide Scope : ZWO Mini Guide Scope
Mount : Skywatcher EQ6-R
Filter : Optolong L-Extreme
Others : ZWO ASIAIR PRO
M31 Andromeda Galaxy rising over the Mesa.
I took my Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer with me to Camp Billy Joe last week (home of the Okie-Tex Star Party). We worked on the new Okie-Tex building during the day, and at night I spent some time under the stars.
Some clouds, haze, and smoke were present most nights, I didn't let that stop me. Here is what I did with my trusty old Star Adventurer and Nikon D750a:
SKY: 3, 2-minute, ISO-1600, f/3.2 at 135mm. Tracked with Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer.
GROUND: 3, 2-minute, ISO-1600, f/3.2 at 135mm. Stationary blended in photoshop.
Camera: Nikon D750a (Ha modified by LifePixel)
Lens: Rokinon 135mm f2
Location: Camp Billy Joe (home of the Okie-Tex Star Party)
8-5-21, 10:30pm
OTA: Newtonian Celestron 130 mm/f5 modified
Mount: Skywatcher Heq 5
Imaging Camera: Canon 700D astro modified
Telescope Guide: Gso 50mm
Camera Guide: QHY5L II Mono
Baader Mk III Coma Corrector
Polemaster Eletronic Polar Scope
Total Exposure: 3:00 hours (subs 300 sec)
Deep Sky Stacker: Calibration and stacking
Adobe Photoshop Cs2 : Data Processing,
Pulg-in: Hasta la vista, green, astroflat pro
PHD Guiding 2: Guide
Darks, Dark Flats, Flats and Bias apply
Serra Negra ( Bortle 4) /São Paulo/Brasil . 05/2022
Polaris is a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor and is commonly called the North Star or Pole Star.
With an apparent magnitude of around 2, it is the brightest star in the constellation and is readily visible to the naked eye at night.
The position of the star lies less than 1° away from the north celestial pole, making it the current northern pole star.
The stable position of the star in the Northern Sky makes it useful for astrophotographer in the Northern hemisphere to align our telescopes with the central axis of the Earth. [Wiki]
Imaged over 11 nights in June and July 2024 while waiting for my main target to reach altitude.
I have always wanted to capture the IFN (Integrated Flux Nebula) around our pole star in the Northern hemisphere.
I thought that while I am waiting for my main target to rise in altitude, just sitting on Polaris would be a cool idea.
The main problem is guiding your telescope at the pole. In the end none of the frames were guided, Plate solving was interesting too. I attempted to centre the star but the mount would never end up plate solved and locked on. The solution was to place Polaris off centre. The result was that I obtained a better view of the IFN surrounding the star.
735 x 2 minute images were originally taken without a filter and reduced down to the best 349. This left me with over 11 hours of the best frames to process.
I am very pleased with my first attempt. I must look at either making a mosaic or using a wider FOV telescope to feature more of the surrounding space dust.
A higher resolution image with imaging details can be found on my Astrobin page at: astrob.in/fdzm9m/0/
Thank you for looking.
Technical summary:
Captured: 11 Nights in June and July 2024
Location: Turismo Astronómico, Los Coloraos, Gorafe, Spain
Bortle Class: 3
Total Integration: 11h 39m
Filters: None
Pixel Scale: 1.4 arcsec/pixel
Telescope: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED
Image Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
Mount: Skywatcher EQ 6R Pro
Capture software: NINA, PHD2
Editing software: PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop
Hi there !
For this one, I needed 3 nights to get some good result as the signal seems to be very faint (especially for the O3). With that, Waxing gibbous Moon and some clouds entered in the battle. :D
I had some issue popping the blue O3, that's the reason I'll retry this object in the future, trying to get more details on the Nebula and its surroundings,
Clear Skies :)
Lights : 58 x 600 sec (9h40)
Darks : 60 ~ Offset : 100 ~ Flats : 60
Setup :
Camera : ZWO ASI 2600 MC
Main Scope : Skywatcher Esprit 100 ED
Mount : Skywatcher EQ6-R
Guide Camera : ZWO ASI 120MM Mini
Guide Scope : ZWO Mini Guide Scope
Filters : Antlia ALP-T
Others : ZWO ASIAIR PRO, ZWO EAF
C/2021 A1 Leonard . Canon 5DSr on Skywatcher Quattro 250P , 4 X 30 sec exposures stacked . Have had nothing but clouds for weeks here, finally got a break in the weather and got my astro setup out again after a good 6 month break. Took a while to remember everything involved . had a 2 hour window of oppurtunity just after sunset to get the christmas comet through a tiny gap in the trees in my backyard .Not what I was hoping to get , but only having a tiny window of opurtunity and relearning all the parts and software to drive the telescope , here is my attempt of Comet Leonard .
---Photo details----
Stacks R: 34x2 min
Stacks G: 34x2 min
Stacks B: 34x2 min
Darks : 100
Exposure Time : 3hr24min
Stack program : PixInsight
---Photo scope---
Camera : QSI 660 wsg-8
CCD Temperature : -10C
Binning : 2x2
Filter(s) used:
Astrodon RGB
Tube : Astro-Physics 130 EDF F/6
Field flattener / Reducer : Astro-Physics flattener
Effective focal length : 780 mm
Effective aperture : ~ F/6
---Guide scope---
Camera : Lodestar X2
Off Axis Guiding: yes
Guide exposure : 1 sec
---Mount and other stuff---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
The Eagle Nebula (Messier 16 or M16) is nebulosity surrounding a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens. The dark center of the nebula was made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" when imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is approximately 5700 light years from Earth.
This image was processed using the Ha, Oiii, Oiii (HOO) combination and stars removed in Pixinsight.
Equipment Details:
•8 Inch Skywatcher Quattro Carbon Fibre F4.0 Newtonian Reflector
•Skywatcher NEQ6 Mount
•SBIG ST2000xm CCD Camera
•SBIG CFW8a Filter Wheel
•Astronomik Ha (12Nm) and Oiii (12Nm) Filters
•SKywatcher BD 102mm Guide Scope
•Meade DSIii CCD Guide Camera
•Polemaster for polar alignment
Exposure Details:
•Ha 25X180 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Oiii 29X180 seconds - Bin 1x1
Total Integration Time: 2 hours 42 minutes
IC1396 featuring the Elephant Trunk nebula. Shot using Ha and Oiii filters on completely stock Canon DSLRs.
This was first light on my new setup. Totally new everything aside from camera. I upgraded from a Star Adventurer to an EQ6R-Pro which was a definite learning curve. The first few nights were super frustrating, I just couldn't get anything to work and it felt so inconsistent and like I was never going to get an image.
I also am currently using a Canon 400mm 2.8 IS III, which is just awesome.
Overall I'm really loving this setup, it's incredible to use and so nice to be able to remote operate it.
Image info below
Ha - 26 x 600s
Oiii - 38 x 200s
Equipment:
📷 - Canon 6D & 7D MK II (stock)
🔭 - Canon 400mm 2.8 IS III
⚙️- Sky Watcher EQ6R Pro (unguided)
🌈 - Astronomik 12nm XL Ha and Oiii clip in
⚡️ - Pegasus Pocket Powerbox & adaptors
Stacked using DSS, processed in Siril and Photoshop
NGC 6164 is a bipolar emission nebula of about 4 light-years across that lies some 4,200 light-years away from earth, in the southern constellation of Norma. It is approaching us at approximately 53.9 kilometers per second.
This image was taken with our new (to us) camera, and was our first use. There are still some details that need to be ironed out, such as the spacing between the sensor and the coma corrector.
This image was captured using the Skywatcher 8" carbon fibre telescope, mounted on a Skywatcher NEQ6 mount and guided with a Skywatcher BD102 and Meade DSIii camera on top.
The camera used is an SBIG STT-8300m with self guiding filter wheel and Baader HA, Oiii and Sii 36mm unmounted filters.
This image consists of 20 x 5 minute exposures in both Hydrogen a (Ha) and Oxygen iii (Oiii) cooled to -20'c (total 3 hours and 20 mins). It was processed using Ha to red, Oiii to green and blue.
The moon was pretty much shining down the barrel, but we are very happy how this turned out for our first image with our new camera.
This is Part of the Large Magellanic cloud complex and just below the Man on the Vespa .
While the Shot looks like the Coloured camera shot but it is far from it. This is the filters in the Hubble pallet but using the Foraxx version which removes all the green and brings out the red. The finer details in the wisps is certainly far more visible that the coloured shot. This pure Narrowband Background and RGB (Coloured camera) stars added.
QHY183M -10c 100 Odd shots 5 min each filter over five nights .. 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps
The waxing evening moon (around 88% illuminated) imaged from suburban Belfast, last evening. Just before the clouds rolled in. Skywatcher Esprit 120ED and a ZWO 2600MC
OTA: Newtonian Celestron 130 mm/f5 modified
Mount: Skywatcher Heq 5
Imaging Camera: Canon 700D astro modified
Telescope Guide: Gso 50mm
Camera Guide: QHY5L II Mono
Baader Mk III Coma Corrector
Polemaster Eletronic Polar Scope
Total Exposure: 3:00 hours (subs 300 sec)
Deep Sky Stacker: Calibration and stacking
Adobe Photoshop Cs2 : Data Processing,
Pulg-in: Hasta la vista, green, astroflat pro
PHD Guiding 2: Guide
Darks, Dark Flats, Flats and Bias apply
Serra Negra ( Bortle 4) /São Paulo/Brasil . 05/2022
This is a second look at this Nebula with a whole new Camera QHY183C a replacement for the ZWOASI183MC that was faulty. I could focus automatically with this camera hence the detail in the eye is much better than the first one with the ZWO. This camera took a bit to get use to as I had to change wires and ports on the computer to get this to run and download photos.
35 shot 10 min each till the tree got in the way.
QHY 183C @ -10c
Prima Luce Essato Focus ,
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps.
Practising with a new planetary camera ASI-178MC attached to Skywatcher 127 Mak telescope. Best photo I've managed of Saturn so far - but still room for improvement. (Autostakkert and Registax software used for processing)
Messier 31, The Andromeda Galaxy
15 x 5 min ISO 800 lights + dark,flats & bias.
Skywatcher 130pds
Modded Canon 1000d
CLS clip filter
Equipment:
Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)
Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto
Guide scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6
Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini
Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera
Accessories:
ZWO ASIAIR Pro
ZWO EFW 8x1.25"
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:
28x300s
15x30s
10x60s
Astronomik Deep-Sky G:
5x300s
10x30s
10x60s
Astronomik Deep-Sky B:
6x300s
10x30s
10x60s
Dark: 60x
Flat: 20x
Dark_flats: 20x
M45, The Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, it’s an open star cluster in Taurus.
I photographed this on the 23rd December 2021 and managed to capture 49 minutes. Due to the field of view of my setup, I had to capture this as a mosaic across 4 separate panels.
This came out much better considering how minimal amount of exposure time I had between those 4 panels.
This was also a good test for Astro Pixel Processor’s new mosaic algorithm and speed increase, which I can say worked fantastic over the previous version!
Details below
- 49 x 60s
- Master Dark, Flat & Dark Flat applied
- ZWO 533 (gain 100, Offset 20, -15C)
- ZWO OAG with ZWO 290MM
- Skywatcher 200p newtonian (F4.75 / 950mm) with low profile focuser
- ZWO EAF
- ZWO 2” filter drawer
- Skywatcher EQ6R Pro
- Sharpstar 0.95x coma corrector
- Astronomik 2" L2 UV IR
Capturing - NINA
Guiding - PHD2
Stacking and Pre Processing - APP
Post Processing - Photoshop 2022
Alnitak and the Horsehead nebula - by Mike O'Day ( 500px.com/mikeoday )..Orion's Belt - centred on "Alnitak", is a 1.7 magnitude triple star 740 light years from Earth and appears at one end of the belt. ..The Flame nebula ( cat: NGC 2024 or Sharpless 2-277 ) ( lower centre left of the image) glows yellow-pink due to the ionising radiation that comes from Alnitak. Seen from Earth, the Flame nebula is behind Alnitak and around 80 light years further away from Earth. ..The Horsehead nebula ( cat: Barnard 33 ) ( centre right of the image ) is a dark dust and gas cloud that is only visible from Earth due to the backlight illumination and silhouetting caused by the bright pink glow from the ionised hydrogen gas in the emission nebula IC 434. The bright blue reflection nebula below and to the left of the Horsehead is NGC 2023. ..Details:..Skywatcher Quattro 10" f4 Newtonian. .Skywatcher AZ Eq6 GT Mount .Orion 80mm f5 guide scope and auto guider - PHD2. .Baader MPCC Mark 3 Coma Corrector, no filter.Nikon D5300 (unmodified)..14bit NEF, Long Exp. NR on. 18 Dec 2015.165 x 30 sec ISO 800.13 x 60 sec ISO 800 .Baader UHC-S , 12bit NEF, Long Exp. NR on. 5 Oct 2014.19 x 2min ISO400 ..Pixinsight and photoshop..Links:.https://500px.com/mikeoday.http://photo.net/photos/MikeODay.
I'm still trying to master the C11
I have issues with backfocus for now :(
---Photo details----
Stacks Hα: 32x2 min
Darks : 100
Exposure Time :1h 4min
Stack program : AstroArt 7
Stack mode : Sigma clip
Processed: AstroArt, Topaz Denoise, Lightroom
---Photo scope---
Camera : QSI 660 wsg-8
Binning : 2x2
CCD Temperature : -10C
Filter(s) used:
Astrodon 3nm Hα
Tube : Celestron C11 EDGE HD
Field flattener / Reducer : Celestron 0.7x
Effective focal length : 2000 mm
Effective aperture : ~ F/7
---Guide scope---
Camera : Lodestar X2
Off Axis Guiding: yes
Guide exposure : 2 sec
---Mount and other stuff---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
I grabbed this shot on the evening of 5/15, through some surprisingly thick high-level clouds just about a minute before it entered totality. The clouds resulted in a neat aura/halo effect in the photo.
I'm just thankful to have gotten anything since we were surrounded by storms at that moment. Distant lightning was lighting up the upper atmosphere as I snapped this shot from my front yard. I hope you enjoy!
Specs: 1x8" exposure, ISO800, Canon 6D, TSO130 APO, Skywatcher EQ6-R Mount
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
Lacerta Dew-heater 20cm
Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm
Programs:
PixInsight
Adobe Photoshop CC 2020
Details:
Camera temp: -15°C
Gain: 270
Astronomik 6nm Ha: 10x300s
Optolong L-eXtreme: 115x300s ISO3200 (Pentax K-1)
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Tal 3x Barlow Lens, ZWO ASI 120MC Astronomical Imaging Camera.
Out of 9500 frames about 2200 processed with Registax 6
Colour contrast on albedo features and final levels adjusted with G.I.M.P.
Image size scaled up by 150%
Seeing conditions were fairly good with the target about 39.8° above the horizon at the time of capture.
Der Mond vom 12.03.16 als Singleframe mit Lightroom bearbeitet.
Aufgenommen mit einer Sony Alpha 65 unmodifiziert an einem Skywatcher Newton 150/1200 auf Bresser Exos-2 GoTo
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
At a certain angle of the sun's illumination a number of volcanic lunar domes are visible near the craters of Hortensius, Milichius & T. Mayer. This area is also referred to by the popular name "Domeland"
A two pane mosaic obtained with my Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian, Tal 2x Barlow and a recently purchased ZWO ASI385MC.
The pane with the Hortensius Domes is a much better quality compared to my previous capture uploaded with the Copernicus crater.
4000 frames captured on each pane using Firecapture. Then approx. 1400 to 1500 frames stacked with AutoStakkert! 3.1.4.
Wavelets processed with Registax and images stitched with Image Composite Editor.
Final adjustments, collage and annotations using G.I.M.P.
Lunar south is uppermost. Best viewed in fully expanded mode.
For a reference to scale, the diameter of the crater Hortensius is 15Km (9 miles).