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The M 101 Pinwheel Galaxy in LRGB with 2023 ixf supernova
M 101 is a very large, face-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major, also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy.
M 101 was discovered by Pierre Mechain in 1781, and later the same year by Charles Messier.
M 101 has produced three supernovae in the 20th century: SN 1909A, 1951H, and SN 1970G, and now only a few days ago we can see supernova 2023 ixf in the NGC 5461 region.
Three nights of imaging in May 2023 from my home in Gérgal, Spain.
A higher resolution image with imaging details can be found on my Astrobin page at: astrob.in/full/v61k3u/0/
Thank you for looking.
Technical summary:
Captured: 10,14,15-05-2023
Imaging Sessions: 3
Location: Gérgal, Andalucía, Spain
Bortle Class: 4
Total Integration: 11h 41m
Filters:
Red 139x 60s 2h 19m BIN 2 Gain 100 0C
Green 145x 60s 2h 25m BIN 2 Gain 100 0C
Blue 142x 60s 2h 22m BIN 2 Gain 100 0C
UV/IR 275x 60s 4h 35m BIN 2 Gain 100 0C
Pixel Scale: 0.55 arcsec/pixel
Telescope: Celestron C11 Edge HD f/10 2800mm
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 6200MM Pro
Guiding: ZWO OAG-L - ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Filters: Astronomik R, G, B, UV/IR
Mount: iOptron CEM120 EC
Computer: Minix NUC
Capture software: NINA, PHD2
Editing software: PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom
M 82 Cigar Galaxy HaLRGB
Messier 82 was discovered in 1774 by Johann Elert Bode, rediscovered by Pierre Mechain August 1779 who reported them to Charles Messier, who added them to his catalog in 1781.
M 82 is the prototype irregular starburst disk galaxy. In the core of M 82, the active starburst region spans a diameter of 500 parsecs.
Tendrils of material extend away from the nucleus, suggesting a colossal explosion. Studies have revealed filaments expanding outward from M 82 at 600 miles per second.
Imaged over 5 nights from my home in Gérgal, Spain.
A higher resolution image with imaging details can be found on my Astrobin page at: astrob.in/full/amhw1l/0/
Thank you for looking.
Technical summary:
Captured: 26,27,28-02-2023 & 02,03-03-2023
Imaging Sessions: 5
Location: Gérgal, Andalucía, Spain
Bortle Class: 4
Total Integration: 32h 28m
Filters:
Red 349x 60s 5h 49m BIN 3 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.7
Green 300x 60s 5h 00m BIN 3 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.7
Blue 300x 60s 5h 00m BIN 3 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.7
UV/IR 484x 60s 8h 04m BIN 3 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.7
Ha 103x 300s 8h 35m BIN 3 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.7
Pixel Scale: 0.33 arcsec/pixel
Telescope: Celestron C11 Edge HD 2800mm fl
Image Camera: ZWO ASI 6200MM Pro
Guiding: ZWO OAG L with ZWO ASI 192MM Mini
Filters: Astronomik R, G, B, UV/IR, Ha
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6R Pro
Computer: Minix NUC
Capture software: NINA, PHD2
Processing Software: PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom
My first record of the Trifid Nebula. The stacked frames, captured on two consecutive nights, totaled 5 hours and 10 minutes of exposure.
"The Trifid Nebula, also known as Messier 20 (M20), is a large star-forming region located in the southern constellation Sagittarius. The nebula’s name means “divided into three lobes,” and refers to the object consisting of three types of nebulae and an open star cluster. The open cluster is surrounded by an emission nebula, a reflection nebula, and a dark nebula within the emission nebula that gives M20 the trifurcated appearance for which it is known". Source: constellation-guide.com
Sky-Watcher 203mm F / 5 EQ5 reflector with Onstep, Canon T6 (primary focus) modified, Optolong L-eNhance filter (in one third of the frames). Guidescope 50mm with ASI 290MC. 62 light frames (42x300 "ISO 800 + L-eNhance: 20x300" ISO 1600). Processing: Sequator and PixInsight.
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From Wiki: The Sombrero Galaxy (also known as Messier Object 104, M104 or NGC 4594) is a spiral galaxy in the constellation borders of Virgo being about 9.55 megaparsecs (31.1 million light-years) from our galaxy.
Capture detail here: www.astrobin.com/95k1hi/0/
SH2-115
Caméra 2600mm zwo
ROUE EWF zwo
filtres
Astrobin sho 3mm
Croma LRVB
Caméra guide 120mc-s zwo
Lunette guide évoguide skywatcher 242mm
focuser EAF zwo
Asiair pro
Monture AZEQ6 skywatcher
Lunette FSQ85 TAKAHASHI
intégration 21H15mn
H:118X 300S
S: 67X300S
0:67X300S
Lune de 50 à 85%
DARK 64
FLAT 18
traitement pixinsight
The famous Horsehead Nebula in the constellation Orion, taken back in March.
For more information please see my Astrobin: astrob.in/fw4yw0/I/
SH2-171 ou NGC7822
Caméra 2600mm zwo
ROUE EWF zwo
filtres
Astrobin sho 3mm
Croma LRVB
Caméra guide 120mc-s zwo
Lunette guide Évoguide skywatcher 242mm
focuser EAF zwo
Asiair pro
Monture AZEQ6 skywatcher
Lunette FSQ85 TAKAHASHI
intégration 23H05
H:70X 300S
S: 40X300S
0:49X300S
Lune de 5 %
DARK 64
FLAT 18
caméra 2600MC
59X600S NOVEMBRE 2020
traitement pixinsight
L: 27x300s
RGB: (7, 7, 7)x300s
Image aquisition : Eric Recurt
Processing : Roberto Colombari
Astrograph: 350mm F3.0
CCD: FLI PL 16803-65 / FLI Atlas focuser
Mount: ASA
From Teide Observatory , Cosmos Tenerife , IAC/ TADer dome .
Tenerife , 2360m
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The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years (ly) from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598, and is sometimes informally referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy, a nickname it shares with Messier 101. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy and about 44 other smaller galaxies. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye.
The galaxy is the smallest spiral galaxy in the Local Group and it is believed to be a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy due to their interactions, velocities[7] and proximity to one another in the night sky. It also has an H-II nucleus.[8]
Source: Wikipedia
Imaging telescope or lens: Sky-Watcher 200/1000 mm Newton
Imaging camera: Canon EOS Rebel T6
Mounts: Onstep, Sky-Watcher EQ5
Guiding telescope or lens: Guidescope 50mm
Guiding camera: Zwo ASI120MC
Software: Adobe Phosotshop CC , Astrophotography Tool , PHD Guiding , Deepskystacker (DSS), PhotoScape
Filter: Optolong L-eNhance
Dates: April 24, 2020
Frames: Optolong L-eNhance: 14x300" ISO800
Integration: 1.2 hours
Darks: ~7
Flats: ~20
Bias: ~15
Resolution: 4169x2679
Locations: Home observatory, Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Data source: Backyard
Ao mesmo tempo: Meu primeiro registro da Nebulosa da Lagoa com o telescópio atual; meu primeiro registro após o conserto e modificação (para astrofotografia) da câmera; e meu primeiro registro com o filtro Optolong L-Enhance.
"A Nebulosa da Lagoa (Messier 8, NGC 6523) é uma gigantesca nuvem interestelar na constelação de Sagitário, localizada a cerca de 5.200 anos-luz de distância da Terra e cobre uma área de cerca de 140 por 60 anos-luz". Fonte: astropt.org (Ruben Barbosa)
Refletor Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 com Onstep, Canon T6 (foco primário) modificada, Filtro Optolong L-Enhance. Guidescope 50mm com ASI 120MC-S. 14 light frames de 300 segundos, 07 dark frames, 20 flat frames, 15 bias frames. ISO 800. Processamento: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop e PhotoScape.
@LopesCosmos
My latest astro image, an interesting region of the sky in the constellation Cassiopeia, this includes the Lobster Claw Nebula, The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635), the open cluster M52 and the Northern Lagoon Nebula (NGC 7538)
More details on Astrobin astrob.in/dkl14p/E/
IC 2944/2948 (catalogued twice)
Heart of the Running Chicken nebula
Open cluster and associated emission nebula in the southern constellation of Centaurus. Spanning about 100ly at the distance of approx. 6000 light years from earth. Dark molecular clouds (Bok globules) can be seen towards the center of the nebula.
Insta
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Astrobin
www.astrobin.com/users/leonelpc/
The image is a SHO (hubble palette) combination of about 11hrs of integrated data
Ha - 24 x 900s
Oiii - 17 x 600s
Sii - 16 x 600s
All subs at gain 111, -10°C, bin 2x2
Gear
HEQ5 Pro, 6in reflector, ASI183MM Pro Cooled (imaging), ASI120MM mini (guiding), Baader Mpcc mkiii coma corrector, ASIAir Pro, Optolong Ha 7nm, Optolong Oiii 6.5nm, Optolong Sii 6.5nm, ZWO EAF, ZWO filter drawer.
Location: Perth, Western Australia
January, 2021
From Wiki: NGC 5068 is a face-on field barred spiral galaxy in the Virgo constellation. NGC 5068 is located approximately 22 million light-years away and has a diameter that exceeds 45000 light-years.
Capture details here: www.astrobin.com/twhxez/0/
Frames recorded at DeepSkyWest with a Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII and QSI683.
L: 32x900s
RGB: (12, 13, 15)x600s
Copyright: R. Colombari
Note: Comet 67P was passing through the field. Its passage is visible near the tidal tail of NGC3628
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Leo Triplet
Explanation: A mere 30 million light-years away, large spiral galaxy NGC 3628 (center left) shares its neighborhood in the local Universe with two other large spirals, in a magnificent grouping otherwise known as the Leo Triplet. In fact, fellow trio member M65 is near the center right edge of this deep cosmic group portrait, with M66 just above it and to the left. But, perhaps most intriguing is the spectacular tail stretching down for about 300,000 light-years from NGC 3628's warped, edge-on disk. Known as a tidal tail, the structure has been drawn out of the galaxy by gravitational tides during brief but violent past interactions with its large neighbors. Not often imaged so distinctly, the tidal tail is composed of young bluish star clusters and star-forming regions.
Source: APOD
M33
Caméra 2600mm zwo
ROUE EWF zwo
filtres
Astrobin sho 3mm
Croma LRVB
Caméra guide 120mc-s zwo
Lunette guide Évoguide skywatcher 242mm
focuser EAF zwo
Asiair pro
Monture AZEQ6 skywatcher
Lunette FSQ85 TAKAHASHI
300S PAR POSES
10H45 D'intégration
25XB
31XG
30XH
19XL
25XR
IC1805 is a large emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia, some 7500 light years from Earth.
The image is a combination of Sulphur II, Hydrogen Alpha and Oxygen III emissions with each band mapped to R,G and B respectively to produce a false colour image from a total of 12 hours of individual frames.
Full details on Astrobin: astrob.in/0cdm6m/H/
This bright emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia is 9,459 light years away and is named because of it's similarity to the famous video game character.
Also on Astrobin: astrob.in/4sorxj/D/
Technical details:
Imaging telescope: Takahashi FSQ-85EDX Baby-Q
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI533MC-Pro
Mounts: iOptron CEM70
Guiding telescope: Primaluce 60mm Guidescope
Guiding cameras: ZWO Optical ASI290MC
Focal reducers: Takahashi Flattener 1.01x for FSQ-85EDX
Software: StarXterminator · Aries Productions Astropixel Processor · openphdguiding.org PHD2 v2.6.10 · Incanus Ltd. Astro Photography Tool · Adobe Photoshop v22.5
Filters: Optolong L-eXtreme 1.25"
Accessory: ZWO EAF 5V Electronic Auto Focuser
Dates:Sept. 19, 2021 , Sept. 20, 2021
Frames:Optolong L-eXtreme 1.25": 124x300" (10h 20') (gain: 100.00) -10C bin 1x1
Integration: 10h 20'
Darks: 30
Flats: 50
Flat darks: 50
Bias: 50
Júpiter (durante o dia)
Meu primeiro (e singelo) exercício de registros planetários com o telescópio atual. Realizado sob a luz do dia (Júpiter às 06h22min e Marte às 07h15min) com atmosfera turbulenta. Planetas ainda com alguns meses de distância de sua oposição (quando se aproximam mais de nosso planeta e podem ser melhor apreciados). Reaprendendo a capturar e a processar registros planetários.
No momento dos registros, Júpiter estava a cerca de 800 milhões de quilômetros de distância da Terra.
Refletor Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 com Onstep, ASI 120MC-S, Barlow Starguider 5x. ASICAP, AutoStakker, RegiStax e Photoshop. Empilhados, aproximadamente, 2600 frames.
Lion Nebula - Sharpless 132
The Lion Nebula, catalogued as Sharpless 132, in the constellation Cepheus, is a faint emission nebula around 10,000 ly away. It contains two ionizing Wolf Rayet stars and two dark nebulae (LDN 1150 & 1154).
My latest astro project and my first attempt at mono with my ASI294mm-Pro. Processing was done with AstroPixelProcessor and Photoshop with StarXTerminator. A total of 17h 10' of exposure time with Ha, OIII and SII 7nm ZWO filters. The colours are false using a SHO palette which maps the SII signal to red, Ha signal to green and OIII signal to blue and the colours then changed in Photoshop.
More details and full resolution on Astrobin: astrob.in/yghdzf/E/
This image is 2-panel mosaic of NGC 3372 (Eta Carinae nebula), one of the brightest and largest DSOs in the night sky.
The image is the result of a 2-panel mosaic in SHO. Aiming at a 9-panel mosaic to cover the entire nebula...hoping my computer's graphics card can handle it 😅. A total of 14hr integration time so far.
Gear used
HEQ5 Pro, 6in reflector, ASI183MM Pro Cooled(imaging), ASI120MM mini (guiding),Baader Mpcc mkiii coma corrector, ASIAir Pro, Optolong Ha 7nm,Optolong Oiii 6.5nm, Optolong Sii 6.5nm, ZWO EAF, ZWO filter drawer
109 x 420s subs at gain 111, -10°C, bin 2x2
The star at the center (η Car) was once the second brightest star in the night sky after it suddenly exploded in the 19th century...an event known as The Great Eruption.
Insta
Astrobin
Imaged over 6 separate nights in January and February 2022, this large area of nebulosity lies within the constellation Cepheus. The image consists of two separate panels, stitched together as a mosaic. For full capture details look at the version on Astrobin: astrob.in/fhosoy/0/
This is an emission nebula in the Orion spiral arm of the Milky Way and is one of the nearest of these regions to our Solar System. The image is presented in false colour (SHO) using Hydrogen Alpha, Oxygen III and Sulphur II narrowband filters.
Techie stuff:
SHO Hubble palette
6h 55' integration (2 panel mosaic)
Takahashi FSQ-85EDX
iOptron CEM70
ZWO ASI294mm-Pro
ZWO EFW with Antlia 3nm narrowband filters
ZWO EAF
APT, APP, Photoshop
More details on Astrobin: astrob.in/ki6ln6/E/
The Flaming Star and the Tadpoles
The Flaming Star Nebula (IC405) and the Tadpoles Nebula (IC410) are two neighbouring emission nebulae in the constellation Auriga. The former is 1500 light years away and the latter is 12000.
My first target for 2022 during a clear spell of 4 nights. 7h 30' of narrowband data with my ASI294MM-Pro on the Takahashi FSQ-85EDX Baby-Q with 0.73x reducer. I wasn't expecting to get anywhere near this with the bright Moon but my dark (Bortle 4) skies definitely help.
I processed this as a modifed SHO Hubble palette in APP and Photoshop with StarXTerminator to separate the stars and Topaz Denoise AI for noise reduction.
More details on Astrobin: astrob.in/vc2q85/0/
NGC 4565 lies at a distance of approximately 40 million light years from our own Galaxy in the constellation of Coma Berenices. Its size is approximately 162,000 light years across at the longest edge and 20, 000 light years at the centre bulge. To the lower right of NGC 4565 is the smaller galaxy NGC 4562. This small galaxy is moving away from NGC 4565 at the rate of 123,000 km per second.
Imaged over 3 nights from my home in Gérgal, Spain.
A higher resolution image with imaging details can be found on my Astrobin page at: astrob.in/full/st1ss3/0/
Thank you for looking.
Technical summary:
Captured: 22,23,25-03-2023
Imaging Sessions: 3
Location: Gérgal, Andalucía, Spain
Bortle Class: 4
Total Integration: 20h 30m
Filters:
Red 48x 300s 4h 00m BIN 2 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.6
Green 48x 300s 4h 00m BIN 2 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.5
Blue 438 300s 4h 00m BIN 2 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.6
UV/IR 102x 300s 8h 30m BIN 2 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.6
Pixel Scale: 0.5 arcsec/pixel
Telescope: Celestron C11 Edge HD f/10 2800mm
Image Camera: ZWO ASI 6200MM Pro
Guiding: ZWO OAG L with ZWO ASI 192MM Mini
Filters: Astronomik R, G, B, UV/IR
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro
Computer: Minix NUC
Capture software: NINA, PHD2
Processing Software: PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom
This image is the combination of different datasources.
The Luminance comes from Eric.
He recorded in Tenerife, with his 350mm F3.3 and FLI16803, the following data:
L: 15x300s 5x120s 5x10s
RGB: (5, 5, 5)x120s / (5, 5, 5)x60s / (5, 5, 5)x10s
The color data for M42, M43 and the Running Man come from his filters.
For the surrounding areas I have used the colors I did in a previous image (www.astrobin.com/156241/B/) which basically came out from
a combination of my APO data and iTelescope:
APO 80mm/480mm + SBIG8300:
L: 33x360s
Ha: 21x600s
iTelescope FSQ106 + SBIG11000:
RBG: (1, 1, 1)x300s binning 2
Addional Ha data have been partially (the field of view was not exactly the same) used from DeepSkyWest:
Ha: 13x1800s / 8x900s
Copyright: R. Colombari / E. Recurt
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The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion.[b] It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 ± 20 light years[3][6] and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across. It has a mass of about 2000 times the mass of the Sun. Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula.[7]
The Orion Nebula is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky, and is among the most intensely studied celestial features.[8] The nebula has revealed much about the process of how stars and planetary systems are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers have directly observed protoplanetary disks, brown dwarfs, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula.
Source: Wikipedia
Markarian's Chain is a stretch of galaxies that forms part of the larger Virgo Custer in the constellation of Virgo. The two bright galaxies on the lower section of the chain are M84 and M86 discovered by Charles Messier in 1781. In this field of view approximately 30 identified galaxies are visible making it a spectacular target to image.
A combination of 10 nights imaging in January and February 2022 and May 2023 using two different cameras. 2022 images were taken using a mono camera and 4 filters, 2023 images were taken using a colour camera and a single filter.
Imaging and processing details can be found on my Astrobin page at: astrob.in/full/zy1fpo/0/
Thank you for looking.
Technical summary:
Captured: 7,8,29,30,31 Jan 2022, 1,2,3 Feb 2022 and 13,14 May 2023
Imaging Sessions: 10
Location: Gérgal, Andalucía, Spain 2022 and Gorafe, Granada, Spain 2023
Bortle Class: 4 Gergal, 3 Gorafe
Total Integration: 23 hours 10 minutes
Blue 116x 120s 3hr 52m BIN 1 Gain 100 -5C
Blue 4x 300s 20m BIN 1 Gain 100 -5C
Green 123x 120s 4hr 6m BIN 1 Gain 100 -5C
Green 11x 300s 55m BIN 1 Gain 100 -5C
Red 149x 120s 4hr 58m BIN 1 Gain 100 -5C
Red 8x 300s 40m BIN 1 Gain 100 -5C
UV/IR 142x 120s 4hr 44m BIN 1 Gain 100 -5C
UV/IR 3x 300s 15m BIN1 Gain 100 -5C
Moon & Skyglow: 40x 300s 3hr 20m BIN 1 -5C
Pixel Scale: 2 arcsec/pixel
Telescope: William Optics GT 81 385mm
Imaging Cameras: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro and ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
Guiding: ZWO UniGuide 50mm - ZWO ASI120MM-S
Filters: ZWO R, G, B, UV/IR and Baader Moon & Skyglow
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro
Capture Computer: Eagle 4
Capture software: NINA, PHD2
Editing software: PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• ZWO Hα 7nm: 26x600s bin1 gain 200
• ZWO OIII 7nm: 54x600s bin2 gain 200
(total integration 13.3h)
• ZWO OAG & ASI290Mini guide cam
• TS GPU coma corrector
• ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF & Pegasus Astro Ultimate Powerbox 2
Trevinca, Valding, Spain
Bortle 3, SQM 21.8
processed with Pixinsight
about 4 of total interation time in LRGB, from Tiglieto (GE) with SQM 21.09. Taken with an astrograph RC8 Carbon Tecnosky, redu/flattener Astrophysics 0.67x and a ZWO ASI1600 Mono on Skywatcher AZEQ6
full specs: www.astrobin.com/417872/
M 81 Also known as Bodes Nebula is a spiral galaxy located in Ursa Major. It is a close neighbour to M82 Cigar Galaxy in the same constellation.
M 81 was first discovered by Johann Elert Bode, who found it, along with M 82, in 1774.
M 81 is approximately 12 million light years from our galaxy and spans almost 70,000 light years.
A few hundred million years ago, a close encounter took place between M 81 and M 82, during which M 82 was dramatically deformed.
Imaged over 5 nights from my home in Gérgal, Spain.
A higher resolution image with imaging details can be found on my Astrobin page at: astrob.in/full/btwb3x/0/
Thank you for looking.
Technical summary:
Captured: 21,22,28,30,31-01-2023
Imaging Sessions: 5
Location: Gérgal, Andalucía, Spain
Bortle Class: 4
Total Integration: 28h 47m
Filters:
Red 301x 60s 5h 01m BIN 3 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.6
Green 259x 60s 4h 19m BIN 3 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.5
Blue 251x 60s 4h 11m BIN 3 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.7
UV/IR 905x 60s 15h 05m BIN 3 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.3
Pixel Scale: 0.389 arcsec/pixel
Telescope: Celestron C11 Edge HD 2800mm fl
Image Camera: ZWO ASI 6200MM Pro
Guiding: ZWO OAG L with ZWO ASI 192MM Mini
Filters: Astronomik R, G, B, UV/IR
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6R Pro
Computer: Minix NUC
Capture software: NINA, PHD2
Processing Software: PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom
Full details of the capture can be found here: www.astrobin.com/t4fzld/
Baader Blue 36 mm: 63x60" (1h 3') (gain: 0.00) -10°C bin 1x1
Baader Green 36 mm: 75x60" (1h 15') (gain: 0.00) -10°C bin 1x1
Baader Red 36 mm: 72x60" (1h 12') (gain: 0.00) -10°C bin 1x1
ZWO H-alpha 7nm 36mm: 109x180" (5h 27') (gain: 120.00) -10°C bin 2x2
Integration:
8h 57'
SH-2 132 Lion Nebula HOO
SH2-132 Lion Nebula has always been an image I wanted to capture and actually look a little like a Lion.
Not sure if it made the grade this time but pleased with the colour contrast and details in the Oiii and Ha regions.
In this image I made some changes to the editing workflow to leave the colour control and blending to PhotoShop and used PixInsight for the image pre-processing and stacking.
A high resolution image with imaging details can be found on my Astrobin page at: astrob.in/4pj3m2/0/
Technical summary:
Captured: 8 Nights in August 2024
Location: Turismo Astronómico, Los Coloraos, Gorafe, Spain
Bortle Class: 3
Total Integration: 38 hours 20 mins
Filter: Optolong L-Ultimate
about 4h of total integration time (bin 1x1, 180 sec with Optolongfilter L-Enhance and 30 min with only UV / IRCUT for natural colors)
Specs: Skywatcher Newton 20cm f/4 + GPU comacorr 1x
ZWO ASI 294 MC Pro
on AZEq6, guide with TS 80/600 acro and Lodestar
@astrobin: www.astrobin.com/riihr5/
Hello! :)
I am alive and well !! Are you all right guys? sorry for the absence, no much free time, little use of the DSLR (only astrophotography), now I shoot mainly with the smartphone and post something on instagram :)
if you want to take a ride: www.instagram.com/xamaddino/
WR 134 is a variable Wolf-Rayet star located around 6,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus, surrounded by a faint bubble nebula blown by the intense radiation and fast wind from the star. It is just over four times the radius of the sun, but due to a temperature of 63,000 K it is 250,000 times as luminous as the sun. [Wiki]
Imaged over 11 nights in July 2024 .
A high resolution image with a starless version and full imaging details can be found on my Astrobin page at: astrob.in/0fg4co/0/
Thank you for looking.
Technical summary:
Captured: 11 Nights in July 2024
Location: Turismo Astronómico, Los Coloraos, Gorafe, Spain
Bortle Class: 3
Total Integration: 46h 50m
Filters: Optolong L-Ultimate Dual Band
Pixel Scale: 1.4 arcsec/pixel
Telescope: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED
Image Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
Mount: Skywatcher EQ 6R Pro
Capture software: NINA, PHD2
Editing software: PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop
RGB HDR composition: data from my archive
180", 60" and 5" frames to compose the HDR for each RGB channel.
T:Takahashi FSQ 106ED reduced @f3.8
M: Astrophysics Mach1 GTO
C: QSI 690ws-g8
G: Lodestar X2
F: Astrodon LRGB E-Gen2 set;
Foc: Sesto Senso - Primalucelab
CPU: Eagle-S Primalucelab
Sw: Sequence Generator Pro - PHD2 - Pixinsight 1.8
bias: 512
dark: 64
flat 30:30:30
ASTROBIN : astrob.in/0sbsky/0/
for the serie "the sky of South Corse"
this is my last taken on M20, about 3 hours of total integration time with a RC8 and ZWO ASI1600 mon in Ha-LRGB
Full specs on my astorbin:
This is another experiment with my dual 200mm camera setup. And even though this uses narrowband filters it's a pseudo-natural color image. I used a dual narrowband filter with my color camera for Ha and Oiii and did not modify the colors. These are represented by the red and blueish-greens. I then added Sii from a monochrome camera as orange, in reality Sii should be a slightly darker red than Ha but using that would make it nearly indistinguishable from the Ha.
I'll do an additional session using monochrome Ha and Oiii. Likely that will give me sharper detail. But it can only be done shot over two nights, which rarely happens... or with three cameras. The other route is to change my setup so I can dither between images. I can't currently do that with my current setup. Dithering would perhaps allow me to get a noticeable improvement in the color images with drizzle.
From Luca Marinelli on astrobin: "Sharpless 132 (Sh2-132) goes by the common name of the Lion Nebula and it straddles the boundary of the constellations Cepheus and Lacerta. It is primarily an emission nebula with several embedded small dark nebulae and is estimated to be at a distance of roughly 10,000 light years from Earth. The core of Sh2-132 includes pillar-like structures, Bok globules and the characteristic oxygen-rich stripe through the head of the Lion. The star HD211853 in the core region is a Wolf-Rayet star with catalog number WR-153ab. Wolf-Rayet stars are extremely hot stars in late stages of stellar evolution that are often associated with molecular emissions as is the case in the more famous Crescent Nebula and WR-134 in Cygnus."
Askar ACL200: 200mm f/4
ZWO ASI533MC Color Camera at -20C
11x60s with UV/IR cut filter (for the stars only)
62x300s with Ha/Oiii filter
Nikon 70-200mm 200mm f/2.8
ZWO ASI533MM Mono Camera at -20C
45x300s with Sii filter
Guided on ZWO AM5
Processed with PixInsight, Ps
Stacking of 101 30 sec photos, taken on April 2, 2020, with a Tair 300 telephoto lens at f8, I added 2 hours of integration on the Pleiades, aligning a old photo(2018), with the Newton 200/1000 www.astrobin.com/40o18v/?nc=user
This wider field capture of Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF
This wider field capture of Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF passing by Mars from Grand Mesa Observatory on the night of 2/11/2023 shows more of the comet's ion tail streaming away from the nucleus to the left in this image.
This roughly 4.33 x 2.93 degree image (the full Moon is about half a degree in width for reference) captures more of the scene around this interesting and transitory event. The comet nucleus shows up surrounded by a green coma and the two tails stream off to the left, the curved off white/yellowish more fanned out tail is the dust tail that is streaming off the comet relative to it's movement through it's orbit while the ion tail shoots out almost in a straight line from the nucleus which is driven by the intense solar wind coming from our Sun. Mars in this image is about 1.3 degrees away from the comet from our perspective here on Earth at the time of this capture. Also to note is the dark nebula Barnard 22 and reflection nebula IC 2087 above Mars in this image, to be sure this nebula is not located in our solar system but is much farther away at about 430 light-years distant.
This data and setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 2c grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment-rentals
Captured on 11th February for a total acquisition time of 66 minutes
View in High Resolution
Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/v0cyk7/
Technical Info:
Captured and Processed by Tom Masterson, Terry Hancock and Kim Quick at Grand Mesa Observatory
Capture date 2/11/2023
Location: Grand Mesa Observatory grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment-rentals
Grand Mesa Observatory System 2c
Camera: QHY 128 Pro C One Shot Color
Optics: Borg 107ED
Image Acquisition software N.I.N.A
Pre Processing in PixInsight Post Processing in Photoshop CC
The Horsehead and Flame nebulae in Orion. The famous Horsehead is a dark nebula, catalogued as Barnard 33, framed by the Hydrogen Alpha emissions of IC434. The large bright star is Alnitak, the furthest East of the three stars of Orion's belt and further east is The Flame Nebula, NGC 2024. Further emission nebulae, including NGC2023, IC435 and VdB51 also feature.
The total image is composed of a total of 7 hours 13 minutes of Hydrogen Alpha and RGB data.
Full details on Astrobin: app.astrobin.com/i/kviaqr
The Pleiades or Seven Sisters is an open star cluster in the constellation Taurus. The seven main stars are easily visible with the naked eye.
This is a reprocessed version of an image taken back in October 2023 which now reveals fainter dust surrounding the main stars.
More details on Astrobin: astrob.in/48x9ar/B/
fresh photons! fresh astrophoto!
Messier 92 - a globular cluster in hercules.
#astrophotography #nature #astronomy #space #clearskies
Canon EOS R(a), Baader Travel Companion
There are so many delights in Orion. This region in the head of Orion spans Barnard's Loop. Cederblad 51 is the blue reflection nebula near the centre which is surrounded by various LDN and Barnard dark structures together with areas of Hydrogen Alpha emissions.
More details on the capture and annotated version on Astrobin: astrob.in/wngl0f/E/
Compared to the previous one, this is an extended view of the Cone and Christmas Tree complex using data from Subaru, ESO and DSS.
Panel from Subaru (656nm): 600
Additional luminance data: ESO
Color data: DSS
The Eagle
Here is the first light of my new mount, camera and filters that I coupled with my 10 years old Takahashi FS60c.
I managed a good integration for the HAlpha and O3 filters during the last 2-3 days using FAST, as usual, so I decided to give a processing run even without SII.
www.astrobin.com/full/ftltm8/0/?nc=user
HAlpha (6nm Astronomik): 63∙270s gain 139, -10C
O3 (6nm Astronomik): 55∙270s gain 139, -10C
Takahashi FS60c
ASI1600MM Pro
7 Position FW, 36mm
Feather Touch Starlight
Pegasus Astro
EQ6
FAST
Frames recorded at DeepSkyWest with a Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII and QSI683,
L: 26x900s
RGB: (19, 20, 17)x600s
Copyright: R. Colombari
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Explanation: An eerie blue glow and ominous columns of dark dust highlight M78 and other bright reflection nebula in the constellation of Orion. The dark filamentary dust not only absorbs light, but also reflects the light of several bright blue stars that formed recently in the nebula. Of the two reflection nebulas pictured above, the more famous nebula is M78, in the image center, while NGC 2071 can be seen to its lower left. The same type of scattering that colors the daytime sky further enhances the blue color. M78 is about five light-years across and visible through a small telescope. M78 appears above only as it was 1600 years ago, however, because that is how long it takes light to go from there to here. M78 belongs to the larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex that contains the Great Nebula in Orion and the Horsehead Nebula.
Source: APOD
Hello, we back again this is the first image from the latest Corse trip, hope you like it, more image soon!
full specs: www.astrobin.com/yu0n1j/
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