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Haha ... I wish !
Of all the places in our solar system , this is the one I am most curious about .
Europa , icy moon of Jupiter ... there is a strong belief that there is an ocean under that ice and therefore the potential for life ( like giant sea cucumbers maybe ... one can dream ... )
There was a show about Europa on TV .
Click !! ... and with the help of NASA and my trusted Moulinex for special effects , voila ! ;-)
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Tal 3x Barlow Lens, ZWO ASI 120MC Astronomical Imaging Camera.
Captured using Firecapture
FPS (avg.)=17
Shutter=57.95ms
Gain=68 (68%)
Brightness=7
Apparent diameter at time of capture 3·73"
Processed with Registax 6 & G.I.M.P.
Seeing Conditions: Reasonably good.
Out of 7000 frames captured, 1900 used for processing. Final image enlarged by 175%
46P/Wirtanen is a periodic comet, discovered in 1948, by the American astronomer Carl Wirtanen. It is will make its closest approach eight days after this image was taken, on 16th December 2018, as it makes its way out almost as far as Jupiter’s orbit.
I was still suffering from the unreliable alignment of my SkyWatcher EQ6-R mount and had to manually locate the object.
Well…… to be honest, I found it with the guidance of my friend John Rombi, who patiently aimed his laser pointer at the target while I battled with the controls, using my red dot finder from an unnatural position somewhere in the tangle of cables below my ‘scope.
Object Details:
Comet 46P/Wirtanen
Constellation: Eridanus.
Visual magnitude: +4.2, brightening.
Actual diameter of nucleus: 1 km
Actual diameter of coma: tbc
Period, 5.4 years.
Distance: 0.09 AU or 13.7 million km (for a comet, that’s close!)
Altitude: 59°.
Tail: not seen.
Image:
Exposure: total 19 minutes over 25 frames.
Date: 2018-12-08.
Location: The Oaks, NSW.
Sky: semi-dark rural.
Cloud: no.
Moon: no.
Image acquisition software: SharpCap.
Image post-processing: PIPP; Deep Sky Stacker > GIMP.
Cropping: slight.
Gear:
Imaging telescope: Skywatcher Esprit 120ED Super APO triplet refractor.
Focal length: 840 mm, focal ratio: f/7.
Telescope mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R.
Optical: field flattener yes; filter no.
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI 071 MC Pro.
Polar aligning method: QHYCCD PoleMaster.
Polar alignment error: 1′ 42″ (Synscan).
Guiding: none.
SharpCap Camera Settings:
[ZWO ASI071MC Pro]
Pan=0
Tilt=0
Output Format=PNG files (*.png)
Binning=1
Capture Area=4944×3284
Colour Space=RGB24
Hardware Binning=Off
Turbo USB=80(Auto)
Flip=None
Frame Rate Limit=Maximum
Gain=337
Exposure=45.767742
Timestamp Frames=Off
White Bal (B)=61(Auto)
White Bal (R)=59(Auto)
Brightness=72
Temperature=-12.9
Cooler Power=100
Target Temperature=-15
Cooler=On
Auto Exp Max Gain=300
Auto Exp Max Exp M S=30000
Auto Exp Target Brightness=100
Mono Bin=Off
Anti Dew Heater=On
Banding Threshold=35
Banding Suppression=0
Apply Flat=None
Subtract Dark=C:\Users\Roger\Desktop\SharpCap Captures\darks\ZWO ASI071MC Pro\RGB24@4944×3284\13.4s\gain_503\dark_5_frames_-14.1C_2018-12-07T11_17_24.fits
#Black Point
Display Black Point=0
#MidTone Point
Display MidTone Point=0.5
#White Point
Display White Point=1
TimeStamp=2018-12-08T11:47:34.3748894Z
SharpCapVersion=3.2.5871.0
TotalExposure(s)=1144.19355
StackedFrames=25
Observing Notes:
Another test night for the EQ6R, following eleven months of unreliability. It failed to align again, with an errot of over 5° and will be returned to the manufacturer for the third time.
Taken a few weeks after this year's opposition. Very chuffed with this one!
Skywatcher 400P Dobsonian
ZWO ASI178MM
Baader IR-Pass filter + RGB
2x Barlow
Stacked in AutoStakkert!
Processed in Registax
Assembled in Photoshop and Lightroom
Jupiter and Europa. Taken using a QHY IMG132E, attached to a Altair Wave 115 ED Triplet Refractor with a Tele Vue 2 x Powermate to increase magnification. It is the result of 500 images, stacked using AutoStakkert 2 and processed using RegiStax 6.
تصويري لكوكب #المشتري والقمر #أوروبا
#my_astrophotography
#Jupiter and it's #Europa moon
تم التصوير باستخدام التليسكوب:
Taken by:
Telescope ðŸ”
Celestron CPC 800
وباستخدام الكاميرا:
And with the camera:
ZWO ASI290MC
2x Barlow Lens
تم التكديس والمعالجة باستخدام:
Stacked using:
Autostakkert
Registax
Photoshop
First image of Jupiter obtained last evening. Red spot is crossing Jupiter`s disk. Managed to get a few images in a window before the next Atlantic depression made its presence felt. Now blowing a gale!
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51·542 Long -3·593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian, Tal 2x Barlow, ZWO ASI 120MC
Captured in daylight using Firecapture
FPS (avg.)=44
Shutter=0.262ms
Gain=38 (38%)
Apparent diameter at time of capture 27.36"
Phase 43%
Magnitude -4.60
Processed with Registax 6 & G.I.M.P.
Seeing Conditions: Reasonably good.
Out of 7000 frames captured, about 2000 used for processing. Final image enlarged by 150%
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Obtained using a 254mm Skywatcher Newtonian, Tal 2x Barlow Lens & ZWO ASI 120MC Astronomical Imaging Camera.
Captured using Sharpcap.
Processed with Registax 6 & G.I.M.P.
Clouds part as NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft roars into the blue sky after an on-time liftoff at 2 p.m. EST aboard an Atlas V rocket from Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Enhanced RGB with F635, F546 and F437 filters
Image taken by Hope probe (Emirates Mars mission) : May 13, 2024
Image credit : Emirates Mars mission/EXI/Thomas Thomopoulos
Moon taken by a remote telescope.
Process/crop
Capture date : 2025
Shooting parameters : I telescope
Processing: Thomas Thomopoulos
Image credit : I Telescope / Thomas Thomopoulos
Solar can 6 month exposure. Taken on photographic film in a pin hole camera. Shows the suns path over 6 months
The Solar System imaged through my telescope.
Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Moon, Sun, and the International Space Station.
Planets I'm still to image and I will add as I image them: Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Neptune.
Skywatcher 8" 200P
Canon 1100D = Sun, Moon
QHY5L-II = Saturn, Mars, ISS
Microsoft Lifecam = Jupiter
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51·542 Long -3·593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian, Tal 2x Barlow Lens, ZWO ASI 120MC
Captured using Firecapture
FPS (avg.)=42
Shutter=0.545ms
Gain=33 (33%)
Gamma=34
Processed with Registax 6 & G.I.M.P.
Seeing Conditions: Average with drifting cloud.
Out of 6750 frames captured, about 1850 used for processing. Final image enlarged to 150%.
William Optics 71mm telescope with solar filter, and Canon T6i in video mode. Stills combined with Photoshop.
Another update on my inner solar system blackwork. Finished all the orbits, onto the outer rays. Then done!
A view of Pluto and Charon as they would appear if placed slightly above Earth's surface and viewed from a great distance.
Un campo amplio de la via lactea
50 fotos a iso 6400 de 15 segundos de exposicion, sobre tripode sin seguimiento en un cielo rural bortle 2.4 con Canon Eos 60D formato RAW objetivo de serie 18-135 mm en 18 mm.
This afternoon's sun, with an image of earth inset. The earth is about 1/100 the diameter of the sun.