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Venus imaged through an IR pass filter 21st May 2015
8" f/10 SCT, ASI120MM camera
Processed in AS!2, Registax6 and PS CS6
Stacked frames using Lynkeos based on video taken with an iPhone 12 on a 5” reflector with a 2x Barlow and a 10mm eyepiece.
114 Km in diameter, Moretus crater is a sight to behold.
Along with the dramatic lunar edge its one of my favorite area to shoot when the moon is at 86.5% Illumination.
Telescope: Askar 185
x3 Barlow lense
ZWO ASI178MM
Mars images from October 2020 to March 2021. I had to go about three months between the last two images due to poor weather and when clear poor seeing at my location. Image show size, distance and dates for each image. Size is measures in arcsecond. Data captures with a Meade 12" LX200, ZWO ASI174MM camera.
Fighting twilight on the morning of July 11, but it might put on a good show in evenings after July 14th.
The comet is named for a NASA spacecraft that discovered it, the Near Earth Objects Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE). The spacecraft examines the infrared signatures of near-earth objects. It's a follow-on of an earlier mission, WISE.
I hung those planets and stars up in the roof at home, to avoid too much extra work in front of the computer. But I still find it hard to create a finished photograph straight in the camera. Of course, if I had different ideas or another style, that wouldn´t be a problem, but there are so many things that pops into my head that demands those extra things that can´t be done in reality!
I just wrote a blog post about the year of 2012. Go here to read it, and note that I recently changed my blog address.
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
2000 frames captured in Firecapture
Best 60% stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
This is my first attempt at a Hydrogen Alpha image of the sun, showing Active Region (AR) 2674 and 2679 (both to the left) and AR 2677 and 2678 (to the right). The image was taken using a QHY5-290C camera attached to a Lunt 50 THA solar scope. It is the result of 400 frames, stacked in Autostakkert 3 and processed using Registax6.
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51·542 Long -3·593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Tal 2x Barlow Lens, ZWO ASI 120MC Imager.
Captured using Firecapture in daylight.
FPS (avg.)=53
Shutter=0.314ms
Gain=38 (38%)
Apparent diameter at time of capture 23.01"
Phase 52%
Magnitude -4.46
Processed with Registax 6 & G.I.M.P.
Seeing Conditions: Reasonably good.
Out of 7000 frames captured, about 2200 used for processing. Final image enlarged to 150%
Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera captured this detailed view of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 2 September 2016 from a distance of just 2.1 km from the comet’s surface, giving a resolution of just under 4 cm/pixel at the centre of the image. It captures part of the Nut and Serquet regions on the comet’s smaller lobe and shows a mix of fine dust and boulders.
The spacecraft’s trajectory around the comet changed progressively during the final two months, bringing it closer and closer to the comet at its nearest point along elliptical orbits. This image was taken on the spacecraft’s ninth ellipse.
Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Image ref:
lor_0034969214_0x630_sci [False Approximate True Colour]
Converted from RawPDS using Fits liberator 4
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Tal 2x Barlow Lens, ZWO ASI 120MC Imager. Captured using Firecapture
Processed with Registax 6 & G.I.M.P.
Another page from my observations log book
Solar active region AR3998 as it reached the solar edge.
Beyond the edge of the sun activity from AR3996 can still be seen.
Feb 27 2025
Askar 185, Dayatar Quark Chromoshere ds Lunt40, Baader DERF & Player One Apollo-M Max
** Earth was added for scale purposes only **
Some vintage 1950s sci-fi illustration. In 'The Astronot' (www.TheAstronot.com), Daniel dreamed of space travel growing up in the 1940s & 50s.
Image taken with a SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2, using a super 10mm lens.
I edited it with Photofiltre and MS Picture Manager, to get more details.
Moon taken by a remote telescope.
Process/crop
Capture date : 2025
Shooting parameters : I telescope
Processing: Thomas Thomopoulos
Image credit : I Telescope / Thomas Thomopoulos
ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25"
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/TV 2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
10 RGB Runs (6.5ms, gain 385, 3800 frames/filter) captured in FireCapture
Preprocessed in PIPP
Best 50% of frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet Sharpened in Registax
De-rotated in WINJUPOS
Finished in Photoshop
Moon taken by a remote telescope.
Process/crop
Capture date : 2025
Shooting parameters : I telescope
Processing: Thomas Thomopoulos
Image credit : I Telescope / Thomas Thomopoulos
A cloudy day process. Some of my solar system images shot over 2016 and 2017
Pretty obvious but L-R Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. It can fit 1200 Earth inside it. Jupiter is gaseous giant planet composed of Hydrogen, Helium, Methane & Ammonia. Its day is 10 hours and its distance from the Sun is 780 million Km. One of the most prominent surface features is the two dark brown bands around its equator and the Great Red Spot which is a giant Hurricane. Its size is double size of the Earth. Gear setup: Celestron Mak 127/1500, Televue 2.5x, UV/IR cut filter, ZWO 294 MC, iOptron iEQ 30 pro. Captured by Sharp pro. Stacked by Autostakkart!, wavelets by Registax, processed by PS.
I've seen a number of images lately of the famous comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko* and thought I'd try my own. Here's the result from last night, clear enough after a modest snowfall during the day though with temps flirting with 0ºF overnight.
I'm a bit baffled by the tail that seems to be offset from the nucleus, which I don't recall seeing very often except in comets that are much closer to the Sun and sporting both ion and dust tails, and some oddball hybrid comet/asteroid objects.
The image is a composite of 100 frames, 90 seconds each; Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC camera, UV/IR cutoff filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom.
*67P is most famous because it was visited by ESA's fabulous Rosetta spacecraft in 2014 and its Philae lander.
Image taken with a SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Barlow 3X + 10mm lens (210x).
Edited with Photofiltre and MS Picture Manager, to get more details.
Sky Watcher SK707AZ2 70mm f/10 + barlow 3X + super 10mm eyepiece. 04:43 UTC
I took a video with a sony W320 with 4x zoom, 476/599 frames used, edited with Castrator, AS!2 and MS Picture Manager.
Voyage to an Unexplored Planet and a New Realm
The New Horizons mission will help us understand worlds at the edge of our solar system by making the first reconnaissance of the dwarf planet Pluto and by venturing deeper into the distant, mysterious Kuiper Belt – a relic of solar system formation.
The Journey
New Horizons launched on Jan. 19, 2006; it swung past Jupiter for a gravity boost and scientific studies in February 2007, and will conduct a five-month-long reconnaissance flyby study of Pluto and its moons in summer 2015. Pluto closest approach is scheduled for July 14, 2015. As part of an extended mission, the spacecraft is expected to head farther into the Kuiper Belt to examine one or two of the ancient, icy mini-worlds in that vast region, at least a billion miles beyond Neptune’s orbit.
Sending a spacecraft on this long journey will help us answer basic questions about the surface properties, geology, interior makeup and atmospheres on these bodies.
A portrait from the final approach. Pluto and Charon display striking color and brightness contrast in this composite image from July 11, showing high-resolution black-and-white LORRI images.
This is an image I found while cleaning my computer. Taken Feb 18th 2014 with the C11. LRGB image. I captured 20.000 frames for the LUM and 5000 on each of the color filters R,G and B. Focal length aprox. 7200 mm. Processing done using Autostakkert, Registax for wavelets and Phtoshop Elements. De rotation of the LRGB images with Winjupos