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This is M31 the Andromeda galaxy. At 2.5 million light years away it is the furthest object that can be easily seen by the naked eye and it's existence has been known for over a thousand years.
Now it is headed our way.
In about 4 billion years it will collide with our own Milky way to produce a new combined giant elliptical galaxy. Until then we can just enjoy the view.
This image was taken with a small (80mm) telescope about 10 feet from my back door. Want to know how it’s done? This is a good place to start - astrobackyard.com/beginner-astrophotography/
Data for this image was acquired from Trevor Jones @astrobackyard - Image was captured from a dark sky site in Southern Ontario (Bortle Scale Class 4/5) using a Canon EOS 60Da DSLR camera, and a 74mm refractor telescope. The images were shot using only a UV/IR cut filter in front of the camera sensor, something I cannot do from my light polluted backyard in the city. Post-processing was done by me using Photoshop CC, Astronomy Tool v1.6.2, and Milky Way Finisher.
Monochrome Hydrogen Alpha emissions from the Jellyfish Nebula ( IC 433, Sh2-248 ) which is a supernova remnant located about 5,000 light years from Earth in the constellation of Gemini. It has an angular diameter of 50 arcmin which is about 1.7 full Moon widths. The SNR is abundant in SII, Ha and OIII emissions.
07 Feb 2023 with 98% Moon
- 41 x 600sec Ha
About 8 hours exposure
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Mistral
The nebula is Named after the Chilean Poet when you see the photo in the link above you can miss the profile in the side. small part of the huge Carina nebula that is only seen in the Southern skies this is three nights worth of shots 41 Shots each night.
QHY 183C -10c 41 shots each night 10 min each over Three nights..
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps .
An old favourite target, the Horsehead and Flame Nebulae in Orion. The bright blue star in between the two nebulae is Alnitak which is the left most star in Orion's belt (as viewed from UK latitudes). Could have done with more Hydrogen alpha acquisition but looks like dismal cloudy weather again for a while so publishing this as is...
Equipment:
- Redcat 51 (250mm focal length at f/4.9)
- ASI1600MM mono camera
- HaRGB filters in EFW filter wheel
- ZWO EAF focuser
- Ioptron GEM28 mount
Acquisition:
24 Jan 2023
- 20 x 60s each RGB for stars
- 18 x 300s Ha
with camera sensor at -15degC
Processing:
APP, StarTools and Gimp.
This is a 4 night Two panel shot join is in the middle of the two shots. As I am able to rotate the Nikon 300mm F4 prime on its lens clamp I marked the degrees so I could rotate to suit camera angle. once done I got an error reading each night 1.4 degrees.
the two panels joined perfectly with next to no step between the two panels. I am impressed so much I am almost willing to for go the Auto Focus with the belt to be able to rotate the camera.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_Supernova_Remnant
for those interested a bit more info in the link.
Who can see the face in the shot.
ZWOASI071MC -10c 90 shots per panel 600 secs, over 4 night camera rotated.
ZWOEAF disconnected ,
Optolong LeNhance filter In filter draw,
Nikon 300MM F4 D Lens,
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps & Lr.
Same image as previous but processed for reduced air glow and more Milky Way core detail.
Comments on preferences between the two are welcome!
Part of the Large Magellanic Cloud area but a part I have not taken before. N70 is the unmistakable Circular nebula top right. this was taken over two night to test out the New power supply box and how stable it is. The other effect of the power box was to reduce the number of cords that have to go from the top to the bottom to lessen the weight on guiding. the number of cord has reduced to two a far cry from the heavy load of the original 9. Now its fine tuning PHD2 to get the very small movement of guiding and better round stars.
ZWOASI071MC Pro -10c 90 shot 10 min
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps PTGui.
The Whirlpool Galaxy lies 28 million light-years from Earth and has an estimated diameter of 76,000 light-years.[17] Overall the galaxy is about 43% the size of the Milky Way. Its mass is estimated to be 160 billion solar masses,[18] or around 10.3% of the mass of Milky Way Galaxy.e saved with settings applied.
I have always known there was a Christmas tree in space but it never seemed to come up in time to post for Christmas.
You cant mistake the White/ Greenish Christmas tree with the big bright star at it top in the image. It is surrounded in a lot of red but I have tried not to over do the red.
Along with the Christmas tree there is the Cone nebula and the Fox Fur nebula in this shot.
So this is a real Merry Christmas from Space to everybody
QHY 183C -10c 38 shots each night 10 min each over Three nights.
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps .
I was starting to do the Witches head but the camera would not focus not matter what I did. My thought was where the stars too Faint. so I turned to Orion with it big bright star.
I did get focus but it turned out the program kept asking me to increase the step size . It turned out it was the very opposite I had to make the steps smaller to the perfect curve.
I had planned to do this as a one shot for both which i still will be doing Plus a 50mm shot of the whole area and the Huge Bernard's Loop of the Whole Orion Area.
This is 148 shot 2 min long all night long then the next night I had to take shorter shots 60 sec , 30sec and 15 sec to over come the blown out core of Orion.
QHY 183C -10c 148 shots & 138 shot 2 min over two nights.
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps PTGui.
I was suggested my target I had chosen was good one but at astro fest no one is going to hang around to see a 10min shot. So I went for the area next the Star bank in the Large Magellanic cloud ( blueish area to the left.) .
The other advantage in live stacking the colour chip in this camera shows up when stacked. I tested out the sequence before I went live at astrofest. Its looking like this year is only indoors Saturday is Rain and total cloud cover. Oh well I got to learn a little more about Nina and the shot gets seen even though its not live. Part of doing the sequence the photos get saved in the stack from my trial night and the night at astrofest would only add to the stack but a better looking photo from all the combined shots.
ZWOASI071MC Pro -10c 260 over two nights shot 2 min
MeLE Mini PC
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps.
You have seen part of this before but as I am waiting for a target to rise In the milky way that I found when I did the milky way panorama. I do not have a name for the nebula but know where it is on the milky way its one I have never see in any photo so it going to be a new look at some thing I have never seen close.
So what became just the" body" top left I went clockwise taking the whole of the Running Chicken Nebula as an extra 3 shot to get the whole of the Nebula. I still can NOT see it even though I am enjoying this years Shiraz I still cant see no chicken. none the less enjoy the fruits or a lot of night to get the total in all its detail. Last was a single shot ED80 and APSC ZWO as a single shot.
QHY 183C -10c 55 shots 10 min over 9 night some in moonlight. .
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps .
Close up of the Center of the Very large Nebula. Still not Drunk enough to see a chicken any where in this nebula but I can see a Lioness in profile. A lot of learning editing between these two photos some two years worth and it getting a little easier.
QHY 183C -10c 45 shots 10 min each over three nights.
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps .
There is a total lunar eclipse happening on November 8th. Are you ready?
More info, and how to capture it: astrobackyard.com/supermoon-lunar-eclipse/
This is a second go at this target but rains are killing any more nights worth of shots.
In the very center of the nebula there looks to be a dog sitting on it hind legs begging these are called the "Pillars of Creation" sadly this is a close as I can go.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation
QHY183C -10c 87shot 5 min
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps.
Although I've imaged the Andromeda galaxy every year for the past 4 years I felt I'd never really done it justice, so this year I decided to try and get a 'poster quality' image. This image includes data added to the image from August (flic.kr/p/2nHVN3M) over 4 sessions between August and September 2022, including 5 hours of Hydrogen Alpha data to highlight those pink star forming regions in the spiral arms of the galaxy, The dust lanes in the galaxy show up nicely so I'm happy with this result. On to other objects when the lousy weather allows!
Equipment: Redcat 51, ASI1600MM with LRGB filters, ZWO EAF, Ioptron GEM28 mount
- 45 x 200s Luminance,
- 35 x 200s each of RGB,
- 30 x 600s Ha
at -15degC cooled camera, processed in APP, StarTools and Gimp.
This is a two panel shot of the area the middle being the Horse Head. The right side took three night the left side took two night. the difference was the tree next to the mount got pruned so the shots went to 4 am.
This was my first trial of using the rotation marks and getting the cameras square to the shot all 5 night had the very same error 3.3 degrees within the 5 degree limit I had set. I watched each night to see if I had to change rotation. The two shots fitted together perfectly making this method very workable.
This was the fav nebula of mine since I was a kid seeing the close up of the Horse on the red background. My only regret my father did not get to see this shot.
QHY183C -10c 82 shots Each Panel 10 min each over 5 nights and camera rotated.
Prima Luce Essato Focus ,
Optolong L-eNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.
As every man and his dog are imaging Comet C2022 E3 ZTF I thought I'd give it a go as well. I didn't want to mess with my small rig as it has been performing well recently with the mono camera and filter wheel (for nebula imaging really). A DSLR/OSC would have been far better for comet catching, however I managed to get just 10 minutes on each of LRGB filters in mono format before the inevitable clouds spoiled the party.
Of course the comet does not travel at sidereal velocity so stacking for the comet leaves star trails and stacking for the stars leaves a blurry comet, compounded by the fact I've also got 3 separate colour channels plus luminosity so its taken me all day to figure out how to process this. Considering its just 10 minutes per channel, it didn't turn out too bad.
Equipment:
- Redcat 51 (250mm focal length at f/4.9)
- ASI1600MM mono camera
- LRGB filters in EFW filter wheel
- ZWO EAF focuser
- Ioptron GEM28 mount
Acquisition:
27 Jan 2023
- 10 x 60s each LRGB
with camera sensor at -15degC
Only 40 minutes in total!
Processing:
APP, StarTools and Gimp.
This is the end result of starting End Of April Finished to 12/7/2022. what started out as a look at the area I have been taking photos of for years. To get this completed this is the third iteration getting the over lap correct so it finished first was 12% , and second was 23% but in the end I could see the panels walking away from each other as I shot, so settled for 45%. So the true start was early in April getting this part to get correct so it finished. Added to this I went from an easy Rotation Error of 5 degrees to a very small 1.5 degree. Even last night at 11:53pm at flip the camera had to be rotated 1.8 degrees after flip to finish out the night.
I thought the best way to tell you Milky Way core is 53 shots per night X 22 panels = 1166 shot or x 10min exposure time.. = 11660 minutes of exposure to get the whole thing or divide by 60min gives you hours. = 194 hours. not to get you confused...at all.
The result of two sequences and 22 panels (11 panels long)each panel a night shooting, The Tiff is 22653 x 8024 1.01 GB, Jpeg is 176Mb the shot here is under 25mb. The end was I thought my first sequence finished where I wanted to but I was way out by 6 more panels to get below the Eagle Nebula.
I thought Bonsai taught me patience but this has been a very long set of shots trying to get clear nights to get each panel between clouds and rain.
The march across the milky way as I took it stated with far right to left as the Milky Way rose in the sky:-
Fighting Dragons, Prawn , Cats Paw, Lobster, Dark horse ( bottom half only), Snake, Lagoon and Trifid, Horse Shoe, Swan and Eagle.
Enjoy the milky way like I have never seen before.
ZWOASI071MC -10 53 shots each of the 22 nights
10min rotated to error of 1.5 degrees.
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Nikon 105 mm f2.8 G Lens
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, PTGui, Ps, Lr.
My first 'galaxy season' image is the beautiful galaxy known as Messier 106 in Canes Venatici.
Look at all of the other galaxies in the field! Really cool.
About Galaxy Season: astrobackyard.com/8-deep-sky-targets-galaxy-season/
I took this image using a one-shot-color dedicated astronomy camera and 150mm telescope in my backyard.
After my last accidental panorama I thought I should at lest attempt a proper panorama.
This is a two shot vertical panorama of the whole area around the Dragon's as well. I did this as I was able to shoot two whole night in a row one night each panel some 61 shots each 10 min. this was mostly edited in PIxInsight stitched with PTGui that I have used for years to do all the milky way bows put the two photos together straight up. as you can see have been able to over come the filter colour in this shot.
The story goes these Dragons are fighting over the egg below NGC6164
Taken with ZWO CMOS camera 121 Files 10 min files Shot With
ZWO ASI071MC Pro @ -10c
Manual Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher EQM35Goto
Guided PHD2, SGP
DSS, Pixinsight, PTGui Ps, Lr.
It just so happens that the Dragon's are rising in the milky way at the moment so it made a good target to shoot but I had to wait for the Nebula to get above the shed and fence. This is two nights of 6.5 hours each night and yielded quite a spectacular image. very different to my first because of the filter and the size of the sensor 900mm shot.
Taken with ZWO CMOS camera 77 Files 10 min files Shot With
ZWO ASI071MC Pro @ -10c
ZWO AEF,
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher EQM35Goto
Guided PHD2,
Stacked DSS. Processed PixinSight (stil learning), PS and Lr.
Final Edition... Ha!
A tight crop of my latest image of the Crescent Nebula captured in the backyard.
This cosmic bubble spans 25 light-years across in the constellation Cygnus. That beautiful oxygen is what everyone is after, and in this version, I enhanced that seductive blue glow we all crave.
Maybe it's just me. Whatever, I like it.
Telescope: bit.ly/2VYOTMy
Camera (CCD): bit.ly/2XCqX2h
Mount: bit.ly/2FuHjDi
This is some thing I have always wanted to take after I took it on Feb 2019 this is purely us under southern skies. So I used my 105mm Nikon lens to take a 3 shot panorama of the area over the last three night. The Points of Interest is what we see every night the Southern Cross and the Pointers not forgetting the head of the Emu between them both. The detail in the shot was an outstanding bonus but certainly no spectacular nebula in the shot its all about the stars and there is plenty of them. This was 80 shots a night for the three night getting each panel together. Each night it was a manual focus ZWOASI071MC -10 80 shots per the 3 nights
450 sec rotated 73 degrees.
Nikon 105 mm f2.8 G Lens
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.
This was a trial with the MeLE Nuc to see if things where right I had three nights to "play" with the whole set up. The Nuc sits under the Skywatcker ED80 so 5 long 3 m cables gone going to the laptop they all stay up on the top of the scope.
Night one did not work out at all could not get plate solve to work properly could hardly see the stars. After some two hours I gave up went to bed.
Night two I bumped plate solve exposure by more than double the time finally plate solve worked. So I thought I would try some thing to check if the system worked. On taking the very first photo it would not down load and I lost the camera. The usb cable that was supplied with the camera died. My only option was to bundle up my normal 3m cable and connect up to the camera and the Nuc and try a fix the whole lot to the scope. The whole thing looked like it was normally what I was use to seeing.
Night three I had to remove the dead cable and wrap the 3m one around the guide scope. I decided to do a real test set up the system to start on it own 6:45Pm. I sat in side the computer room and watched the sequence start flawless totally on its own. This is the result of those two nights some more 1m cables on there way to lessen the weight of cables. Plate solve has gone back to its normal 10 sec exposure time.
QHY183C -10c 226 shot 2 min
MeLE Mini PC
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps.
Sample image taken with the new William Optics RedCat 61!
Full Review: astrobackyard.com/william-optics-redcat-61/
Here is a supernova remnant known as the Veil Nebula. A section called Pickering's Triangle.
"It was discovered photographically in 1904 by Williamina Fleming (after the New General Catalogue was published), but credit went to Edward Charles Pickering, the director of her observatory, as was the custom of the day."
#veilnebula #pickeringstriangle #zwo #asi533mcpro #losmandy #patience #godsbeauty
#astrophotography #astrobackyard #losmandy #losmandygm8 #zwo #asi533mcpro #optolong
Technical Info:
Optics: SGO 6" f/4 Imaging Newtonian @ 610mm FL
Explore Scientific 2" HR Coma Corrector
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro
Filter: 2" Optolong L-Enhance
Mount: Losmandy GM8
Guiding: QHY Mini Guide Scope + PHD2 Software
Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro
Exposure: Light (Gain 200) - 35 subs @ 240 Seconds (2 hours 20 Minutes)
Calibration: 30 Darks, 50 Flats, 50 Dark Flats
​Processing: Deep Sky Stacker, Adobe Photoshop, Topaz Denoise AI, Astronomy Action Set plug in for PS, Astro Flat Pro plug in for PS
The picture was taken during 4 nights in August. By shooting the tulip Nebula earlier that month, I saw the white 'arc' on my subs / stacking result.
This gave me some hope to shoot this "weird" object (tbh it was the first time I saw it) without knowing directly what it was. :p
There were a lot of details in the O3 layer, so I was able to make pop (faintly but you know, Bortle 8) the Blue bubble surrounding the star and the blue nebulosity in this region.
As the Hydrogen was also a bit weak, I didn't apply many curves transformations on the image, to keep it clean and "natural"
Clear Skies :)
Lights : 96 x 600 sec (16h)
Darks : 60 ~ Offset : 100 ~ Flats : 60
Setup :
Camera : ZWO ASI 2600 MC
Main Scope : Skywatcher Esprit 100 ED
Mount : Skywatcher EQ6-R
Guide Camera : ZWO ASI 120MM Mini
Guide Scope : ZWO Mini Guide Scope
Filters : Antlia ALP-T
Others : ZWO ASIAIR PRO, ZWO EAF
This was the other project that I was going to work on with the 105mm lens. The Vela Super nova and the Gums. Also in an area not far from the Carina Area, This show you more the relation ship of the parts to each other. This has been worth while using just a Nikon lens to capture there and i quite good detail.
This was shot over two nights Nikon 105mm F2.8 Macro lens in total 100 odd shots. Its good to see most of the target I have taken over the last few years with the ED80 in reality to each other. I make no apology for the number of stars in the shot.
ZWOASI071 -7 100 shots 450 sec rotated 7 Degrees
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.
This is a Colour Photo of Gum 15 in contrast to My first effort with filters and borrowed B/W camera, Below. This has always reminded me of an apple and a hand (three finger like an Avatar) stealing the apple.
www.flickr.com/photos/33814724@N03/51841716708/in/datepos...
This Taken from my backyard in the city of Perth an improvement in understanding as some new tools editing has take a big leap for the better. Results like this was alway my main aim when I started.
QHY 183C -10c 38 shots each night 10 min each over Three nights.
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps .
The Pleiades is an open star cluster in the constellation Taurus. It lies about 400 light-years from Earth and is about 100 million years old.
In the northern hemisphere, the fall and winter seasons are the best time to observe and photograph the Pleiades.
More Info: astrobackyard.com/m45-the-pleiades/
This is the result Of shooting three nights in a Row with out a moon or clouds. In total 68 shots or 11 1/2 hours shot time I had the trees one side and the house the other so limited my number of shot to 30odd a night. The shots guided with PHD2 Dev3 which proved very good at guiding. For the first time editing done in Pix Insight, Photoshop and Finished out in Light room. This is the Skywatcher ED 80 scope at work with the D810 the extra detail that came out with each night photos added made this worth while.
Getting to know Nina better.
QHY183C -10c 90 shot 10 min
MeLE Mini PC
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps.
This was a target I first did in 2019 even just this target on its own with the 300mm prime lens and converter. As the moon came up later I wanted to use the dark moomless time to get some detail especially the coloured stars that are associated with this target. what is staggering is the halo look is a multitude of very very small stars that ring the globular target on my computer I can enlarge the shot to see them, uncountable..........
QHY183C -10c 286 shot 2 min over two nights( second night was only up to moon rise).
Prima Luce Essato Focus ,
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps.
A target I did a year ago with my DSLR and ED80 this is almost the other way around ZWO camera and 300mm Prime Nikon lens. the original shot give a good idea just how far in a year thing have improved. The Camera and lens rotated within the lens holder so the wings went from side to side across the whole picture. The next project is a wide field of the same area with 100mm lens.
ZWOASI071MC -6c 104 shots 600 secs, over 3 night camera rotated.
ZWOEAF disconnected ,
Optolong LeNhance filter In filter draw,
Nikon 300MM F4 D Lens,
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps & Lr.
I was trying out some new equipment when I thought I would try Carina as it was over head. At one point I had to go inside the smoke was so strong and the Guiding got very bad. Only the Second shot I have done that was almost totally edited in PixInsight never see the amount of nebulocity around the main nebula. the mount stopped as the house next door got in the way enjoy the Southern hemisphere at 900mm. DSLR @ 600mm same scope.
www.flickr.com/photos/33814724@N03/50865552351/in/datepos...
Taken with ZWO CMOS camera 49 Files 10 min files Shot With
ZWO ASI071MC Pro @ -10c
Manual Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher EQM35Goto
Guided PHD2, SGP
DSS, Pixinsight, Ps, Lr.
Here is the Western Veil Nebula in Cygnus (also known as the "Witches Broom Nebula".
More Info: astrobackyard.com/ngc-6960-western-veil-nebula/
Just 23 x 4-minutes! (1.5 hours of total exposure)
This photo is a crop from a larger image captured using a QHY268C camera, and Optolong L-eXtreme filter.
Sky-Watcher Esprit 100 APO telescope.
About the filter: astrobackyard.com/optolong-l-extreme-filter-review/
The name of this one how could I resist. Has been a cloud fight to get the shots over 4 night in very strong winds. this sits just below the Horse head nebula and just off the red ring that goes around Orion. Barnards loop the goes around half of the Orion area, Barnards loop I will wait for moon less night to try and get this target with my 50mm F1.8 lens ZWOASI071.
QHY183C -10c 82 shots 10 min each over 4 nights and camera rotated.
Prima Luce Essato Focus ,
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.
The Omega Nebula (Messier 17) is one of several brilliant deep sky astrophotography targets located in the constellation Sagittarius.
More Info: astrobackyard.com/omega-nebula/
M17 (Also called the Swan Nebula) is an H II region (emission nebula) that lies between 5000-6000 light-years from Earth.
This image includes just over 4 hours of total exposure time using a monochrome camera and narrowband filters (Hubble palette).
This is the view I was after when the USB plug broke on the camera March last year. This proved to be a marathon getting images as the mount threw up a curveball and at this stage still not sure if I have found the answer to the problem.
This will be my last photo for a very long time as I do a huge panorama of the Milky way of some 40 odd shots. Enjoy it.
QHY 183C -10c 21 shots each night 10 min each over Five night..
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps .
This is bench colomated the just used as a trial I tried to collimate on the mount Its so bad I cant take photos as it can not focus.
QHY 183C -10c 104 shots 5 min each over one night.
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps .
This is 12 shots(6x2) as the milky way rises in our Southern Skies as per the plan by Nina, This Is Not Seen North Of The Equator. This is halfway to where I want to get there is another panorama of 12 shots to go to get to the panorama I took last year. Each Panel is a night worth of shots then added to PtGui to get the panorama. There positively no edits on the stars this is the number that the camera can see.
ZWOASI071MC -10 43 shots per night
600 sec rotated 80 degrees.
Nikon 105 mm f2.8 G Lens
Optolong LeNhance filter,
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.