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With C11 and ASI 290MC for crominance + QHY290Mono +IRPASS 685 for luminance.
Stack of 15000 frames. Captured in Tarragona, 09/28/2020 at 21:35 UT.
It's quite a gem. The current tilt of the rings is almost at a maximum, so we get a nice display!
What really hooked me on astrophotography in the first place was the realization and amazement of what can actually be imaged from our backyards. Most people don't even really think about it. The detail seen in amateur equipment these days is better than what an interplanetary spacecraft was able to send back to us only 40 years ago.
From where I live, Saturn doens't get more than 30 degrees above the horizon. Unfortunately it will be that way for years to come, so I just have to settle for shooting through a lot of air (which blurs detail).
To sort that convoluted mess out, shot of Saturn is actually a stack of 15,000 individual exposures. The files that went into this weigh in at 11 gigabytes. All for a subject that is 200 pixels across. I have to go hard drive shopping.
Shot on 06-JUN-2015.
Image taken during Apollo 17 mission
Credit : NASA/ASA/JSC/Arizona State University/Thomas Thomopoulos
Jupiter imaged on the evening of the 10.03.14. The volcanic satellite Io has been eclipsed by Jupiter`s shadow and reappeared just over an hour after this capture was acquired. None of the other Galilean satellites are visible within the frame. As usual there is much activity with Jupiter`s belts and zones.
From Aug 3rd, Saturn seems to tolerate poor seeing better than Mars or Jupiter. Mewlon 210, video frames stacked and processed with RegiStax,
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.
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Last night was a weird night for imaging. My yard was soaking wet with mesquites on everything. When I went out at 10pm to turn my dew heater on the sky looked pretty good, but at 11 transparency was poor with lots of moisture in the air and after checking satellite imagery there was a small area of high clouds moving through. I ended up imaging through this fearing with the moisture in the air transparency would not get any better. I took a short break at 12:40 and when I went back out transparency had greatly improved to average with the area of clouds having passed through. I ended up imaging for another hour till 2am before Mars started going over my neighbors house. I got about 100 gigs of data and this is the first set of images I processed. North is up with east to the right. The prominent dark feature across the center is Mare Cimmerium with Sinus Gomer (two finger like features pointing up at 3 o'clock). The bright feature at 10 o'clock is Olympus Mons about to rotate out of view and at 9 o'clock orographic clouds are visible over the volcano Arsia Mons. Orgographic clouds form from air moving up the slope of the volcano and condensate forming clouds. Clouds are also visible along the eastern horizon and along the northern polar hood. The lighter colored area at 2 o'clock is Elysium with the volcano Elysium Mons at center. Meade 12" LX200, ZWO ASI174MM
Four images stacked and processed with RegiStax and combined with Photoshop. 110mm refractor and Imaging Source video camera.
Enhanced RGB with three filters in visible light (Red, Green and Blue) - crop and enlargement
Mars taken by Hirise
Credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona/Thomas Thomopoulos
Image Profile:
Location: Bloomingdale, IL
Type: Color
Frames: AVI of 14000 frames
Imaging time: 20120822 2027
Hardware:
-Main scope: Orion 80mm Short Tube
-Other Filters: Moon Filter
Imaging Applications:
-Orion AmCap
Processing Applications:
-Registax 6
-Corel PaintShop Pro X4
Comments: Fair conditions
I read about a way to use the "live view" function of a DSLR to capture video. Video captured using EOS Movie Recorder, then processed with RegiStax. C11 telescope at prime focus.
Crop / enlargement
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using the SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager, located at the top of the rover's mast.
This image was acquired on March 11, 2025 (Sol 1442) at the local mean solar time of 10:45:46.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/Thomas Thomopoulos
Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) photographed in the (barely, by two minutes) morning astronomical twilight from the Veen Observatory. I had to wait until it cleared the trees.
I know this isn't a really good image, but I didn't have time to get one. I am planning on getting better images in the future.
This was my first view of this object, but hopefully not the last. Will it live up to its hype? We'll just have to see.
Comet ISON was the 60th comet I have observed.
(Note: This image was taken through a telescope. I have no idea why the EXIF says it's a 50mm lens. Looks like Canon made 50mm a default if you don't have a lens on the camera body).
(update December 1, 2013: Since ISON has dissipated after its dive around the Sun, this will be the only image I will get, so I guess I have to live with it.)