Probably my last view of comet C/2021A1 (Leonard). Schlepped out to Goose Pond Fish & Wildlife area in Greene County, Ind., a dark site with low horizons on a cold but crystal evening. The comet was very low by the time it got dark enough to emerge from the twilight so it appears redder than when higher in the sky. But I got enough exposures, to show some detail in the tail and coma. This is a composite, processed twice: registered on the comet and separately registered on the stars, combined in Photoshop.

30 15 sec. exposures, Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC camera, UV/IR cut filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir Pro controller, processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Lightroom and Photoshop.

#cometleonard, #astrophotography

The picture is intended to depict a view of the Sun from the planet Mercury which is the closest of the Planets to the Sun.

I wanted to achieve this image entirely photographically from my own images. No digital painting and no planet or star images from others like NASA.

3 main layers were used. First for the landscape I used a picture taken from the side of the Caldera Colorada volcano, near Masdache, Lanzarote. There is a 45 minute walk round the base of the cone. One side is an unusual rich red, made up from cinder, rich in iron oxide. This image was taken with an 8mm fisheye and was processed in camera RAW and Topaz and Photoshop to boost colours and detail.

The next image was the Sun. I followed an online tutoriaI step by step although it was based on an earlier version of Photoshop. This was quite complex and rarther than go over it again here, if you are interested see www.devppl.com/forum/photoshop-tutorial-creating-a-sun-fi...

The last image was a combination of various Star field images to provide a denser star field and edits for star diffraction and enhanced colours.

The star field was used as a base and selections of the landscape and sun pasted in as new layers.

For the full story and details of the processing together with and the images used see my Blog at Edwin Jones Photography Blog

For Galleries, Prints and Licences see Edwin Jones Photography

Waxing Gibbous Moon at 61.9%. 300 frames capturing using a QHY163 mono camera attached to an Altair Wave 115ED scope. Captured using SharpCap Pro and edited using Autostakkert2 and Registax6.

ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25" (IR: 1 x 90s)

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/TeleVue 2.5x PowerMate

Losmandy G11

One 90s IR run (1.1ms, gain 400, histogram 74%, 502 fps, 45,244 frames) captured in Firecapture.

Best 60% of frames stacked in Autostakkert

Wavelet sharpened in Registax

Finished in Photoshop

#TeleVue #PowerMate

#Meade

#Losmandy

#ZWO

#Mars

#Syrtis Major

#Planet

#Solar System

#Hellas

#Lucky Imaging

His birthday party theme was our solar system.

Cake decorations included the sun, jupiter, saturn, mars, and earth.

Sydney, Australia (Sunday 23 Sep 2018)

Sunlight filtering through the branches and leaves of a tree form eclipse images on the wall. No camera? No problem.

Moon taken by a remote telescope.

Process/crop

Capture date : 2025

Shooting parameters : I telescope

Processing: Thomas Thomopoulos

Image credit : I Telescope / Thomas Thomopoulos

Mars through a small refractor with 360mm focal length and 2x Barlow.

William Optics Zenithstar61

Skywatcher AZ-GTI mount

ZWO ASI224MC- camera

(30sec avi-file in Raw8-format, gain200, 3847 frames)

...best 10% stacked in AS!3

Interesting sign at Kennedy Space Center (Florida)

Chrys' school project

تصويري لكوكب #المشتري والقمر #أوروبا

#my_astrophotography

#Jupiter and it's #Europa moon

تم التصوير باستخدام التليسكوب:

Taken by:

Telescope 🔭

Celestron CPC 800

وباستخدام الكاميرا:

And with the camera:

ZWO ASI290MC

2x Barlow Lens

تم التكديس والمعالجة باستخدام:

Stacked using:

Autostakkert

Registax

Photoshop

Crescent Moon on February 24th 2023. Today my astronomy club in Maryland - Howard Astronomical League - lost one of its longtime members and former Presidents Bob Prokop. Bob was a great admirer of the Moon and knew it like the back of his hand. In memory of Bob when I got home tonight I took this image of theMoon. Taken with a Meade 12" LX200 scope and Canon T7i camera.

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%

a glass ball with the solar system inside

AI generated

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.

This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows a region of Mars known as Caralis Chaos, where copious water is thought to have once existed in the form of an ancient lake.

Numerous labels have been placed across the terrain, highlighting features and regions of note. Be sure to click on these labels to explore the landscape in detail!

This image comprises data gathered by Mars Express’s High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on 1 January 2024 (orbit 25235). It was created using data from the nadir channel, the field of view aligned perpendicular to the surface of Mars, and the colour channels of the HRSC. North is to the right. The ground resolution is approximately 15 m/pixel and the image is centred at about 38°S/177°E.

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[Image description: This tan-coloured slice of ground is smoother to the left and becomes covered in small hills and mounds to the right. Wriggly, uneven ridges cut horizontally across the frame, while two prominent fault lines cut down vertically on the left and right. Large and small craters are peppered across the terrain. The worn-away boundaries of a once-colossal lakebed can be seen curving up and away from the bottom-centre to the top right; this skirts around the largest crater seen here, which sits in the middle of the picture encircled by rough, irregular valleys and channels.]

Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

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 🔭

Celestron CPC 800

وباستخدام الكاميرا:

And with the camera:

ZWO ASI290MC

2x Barlow Lens

تم التكديس والمعالجة باستخدام:

Stacked using:

Autostakkert

Registax

Photoshop

Completed my Solar System photo

Took around 4 years to complete this photo

Nikon Coolpix p1000

Bresser Messier MC 127 + ASI 224MC

ZWO Seestar S50

2000/4000 frames stacked.

ASI120MC-s Camera

200p Scope

2.5x Powermate

ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25" (RGB)

Tele Vue 2.5x PowerMate

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)

Losmandy G11

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%

Poor conditions taken 31st May 2016.

Three panel mosaic using LS35T and ASI290MM camera

Moon on October 6th 2020

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.

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Moon on the morning of June 10th 2020

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%.

Photoshop's photomerge utility used to merge three frames. Automatic settings used.

Another update on my inner solar system blackwork. Finished all the orbits, onto the outer rays. Then done!