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800 frames stacked.
TS-Optics UNC 10" f/5, QHY178M, SW Barlow 2x, Baader Astrosolar Foto and ZWO-R filters.
Moon. I used my 80mm ED refractor along with StarShoot SolarSystem Color Imager IV and software to create this image
Courtesy NASA:
solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/754/what-is-a-lagrange-point/
The easiest way to understand Lagrange points is to think of them in much the same way that wind speeds can be inferred from a weather map. The forces are strongest when the contours of the effective potential are closest together and weakest when the contours are far apart.
Lagrange Contours
L4 and L5 correspond to hilltops and L1, L2 and L3 correspond to saddles (i.e. points where the potential is curving up in one direction and down in the other). This suggests that satellites placed at the Lagrange points will have a tendency to wander off (try sitting a marble on top of a watermelon or on top of a real saddle and you get the idea). But when a satellite parked at L4 or L5 starts to roll off the hill it picks up speed. At this point the Coriolis force comes into play - the same force that causes hurricanes to spin up on the earth - and sends the satellite into a stable orbit around the Lagrange point.
Saturn imaged from London on 22nd August 2016 using a 685nm IR pass filter and ASI120MM camera & Celestron Edge HD11 scope
Very good seeing this night. The mount for the C14 is currently out of commission, so I used my Edge HD 925 with a CGEM DX mount the school has.
This is from 13 45 s SER files taken with a ZWO ASI224MC camera with 3x Barlow and a ZWO UV/IR cut filter. I used FIreCapture to take this data. SER files were used to create stacks of the best 24% of about 800 frames in AutoStakkert, and those stacks were processed in PixInsight. The resulting images were registered and derotated in WinJUPOS, with the result undergoing some final tweaks in GIMP.
During the next shadow transit, Titan will also cross the face of Saturn.
CM I: 2.7°
CM II: 97.8°
CM III: 241.4°
Thick grey clouds. So dark. So a little play with some oil on water. I am pretending that is the sun and planets.
Jupiter, photographed from my backyard in Long Beach, CA
30 s SER files were taken with a ZWO ASI120MM camera through Optolong CCD RGB filters on a Celestron Edge HD 925 telescope using FireCapture. The top 80% of frames went into 7 stacks of each color filter. These stacks were made in AutoStakkert, then sharpened in PixInsight. Stacks were combined and derotated in WinJUPOS, and the resulting R, G, and B images were combined in WinJUPOS to make a de-rotated single color image. Color balancing in Registax, then final touches in Photoshop.
CM longitudes:
System I: 322.7°
System II: 293.1°
System III: 297.5°
Reprocess of a Jupiter image from last week. Additional sharpening was applied and then de-noised using Topaz Labs de-noise which is an amazing piece of software
Saturn imaged from London in the early hours of 12th June 2017. Saturn is getting pretty much as low in northern skies as it can get, so this was shot when the planet was only about 15 degrees from the horizon leading to tricky imaging conditions.
IRRGB image acquired using a Celestron Edge HD11 scope, CGE Pro mount & ASI174MM camera
Jupiter Ganymede and Io imaged on 23rd February from London
Celestron Edge HD11, ASI120M camera, Processed in AS!2, Registax6 and PS CS6
Image taken with a SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Barlow 3X + 10mm lens (210x).
Edited with Photofiltre and MS Picture Manager, to get more details.
The Moon shot from London on 10th October 2016
6 panel mosaic using Celestron Edge HD11 and EOS Rebel T3i
Saturn imaged from London just after 11pm on 14th July 2016
Celestron Edge HD11 scope
ASI120MM camera
Processed in AS!2, Registax6 & PS CS6
Far left to far right in a shallow, climbing diagonal line: Venus, Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. 0345 looking east.
ZWO ASI290MM/EFW (RGB)
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/Tele Vue 2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
4200 frames in R, G, and B captured in FireCapture
Preprocessed in PIPP
Best 50% stacked in AutoStakkert!
Wavlet sharpening and noise reduction in RegiStax
RGB frame derotation in WinJuPos
Finished in Photoshop
Image taken with a SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Barlow 3X + 10mm lens (210x).
Edited with Photofiltre and MS Picture Manager, to get more details.
La Luna di stasera, bellissima, galleggia nel cielo blu dell'imbrunire... sospesa fra luce e buio. La sottile linea del terminatore evidenzia crateri, montagne, solchi, valli... testimonianze di un passato remoto alquanto travagliato... che contrasta immensamente con la visione romantica del nostro amato satellite.
Di questi tempi, c'è poco altro da fare che alzare gli occhi al cielo..
Foto di poco fa
Buona serata
#luna #half #cycle #ciclo #crateri #craters #mari #maria #geological #geo #astronomy #love #heart #romance #meteor #meteroriti #solarsystem #covid19
Venus conjunction with Crescent moon on 09 Oct 2021 in Scorpius constellation. However, Venus is paired with star called Dschubba. In this image, planet Venus is about 3 arc degree from the 3 days old Moon. Also, you can see the Earthshine on the Moon’s dark side with 9% illuminated crescent.
Original image taken from the same NASA planetary size comparison chart as Jupiter: solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?Category=Plan...
This looks like a flipped version of the "Saturn's rings" photo (Photo ID: P-23883C/BW) from the NASA NSSDC Photo Gallery: nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-saturn.html
It was taken by Voyager 2 on July 21, 1981.
It was really fun capturing this year’s blood moon. I wasn’t expecting to see it due to the back to back storms we’ve been having, but Mother Nature was kind and moved the clouds for about an hour so we could enjoy it! I wish I’d captured it rising over something interesting, but I still think it’s mesmerizing by itself surrounded by the night sky.
National Air and Space museum.
Washington DC.
Exploration reveals that our solar system is filled with amazingly diverse places that transform our understanding of Earth and worlds beyond.
The Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery probes the science and history of our exploration of planets and moons. This exhibit tells the stories of the diversity of worlds circling our Sun and how exploring those worlds helps enhance our own understanding of Earth. Exploring the Planets draws on research from scientists in the Museum’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, who are actively involved in current planetary missions.
Captured just before dawn from Red Rock Canyon State Park, CA. Five minute exposure, unguided, with a WO RedCat.
Well I have done my best to try and catch up with everyone, I was so far behind that I could only favourite photo's that I like as I just don't have the energy to comment on the all. I really want to keep up with everyone but I can't promise because I have been feeling so tired.
Today I managed to get a few photo's sorted that I hope to post over the next few days, mostly wildlife shots from last year plus of course photo's of Cirrus and Sweet Pea.
A design image of the planets in the solar system on a child's space cadet T-shirt that got lost at Port Maitland Beach.
Ciao piccola cometa Wirtanen... sei stata difficile da vedere, con la tua chioma rotonda ed azzurra... sempre inseguita dalla luna e dal cattivo tempo... ci vediamo fra 5 anni, forse :)
Foto scattata alcuni giorni fa, 70mm f/4.
Buona giornata
#cometa #wirtanen #celestial #celeste #stelle #stars #astronomy #life #periodic #solarsystem #blue #tail #coda #round #rotondo
Andromeda Galaxy - the closest neighbouring galaxy to us at (only) 2.5 million light years.
This image is basically what Andromeda looked like 2.5 million years ago, when the light photons first started out on their long journey to Earth, before ultimately arriving on my camera sensor.
All of the individual stars you can see in this pic are actually in the foreground - a part of our own Milky Way, and therefore much closer to us than Andromeda.
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Experts go easy on me! This is my very first attempt at photographing a DSO and I don't have a scope or tracker. Any advice appreciated :)
- 200mm, manually tracked by adjusting the tripod every 30 or so frames to keep the galaxy as central as possible.
- 400 x 1.6sec exposure (ISO16000,f2.8), 20 x dark frames, 20 x bias frames.
- Stacked using Deep Sky Stacker.
Jupiter imaged from London on 15th November 2024. Celestron Edge HD11 scope, Televue 2.5x Powermate & ZWO ASI224MC camera