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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• Astronomik L: 292x300s bin1 gain 0
• Astronomik RGB: 112x300s bin2 gain 125
(total integration 33.6h)
• 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
Sh2-119, or Sharpless 119, is a large complex of emission nebulosity in Cygnus constellation, about 2 degrees east of the North American Nebula.
It is located just around 68 Cygni, a quite bright star of magnitude 5. The nebula was catalogued by astronomer S. Sharpless in his famous "Catalogue of HII Regions", published in 1959. Sharpless described it as a large (have an apparent diameter of about 2 degrees) and "bright" nebula.
The nebula is crossed by several dark dust lanes and globules, especially on the southern part.
(description credits skyfactory.org)
Technical card
Imaging telescope or lens:Teleskop Service TS Photoline 107mm f/6.5 Super-Apo
Imaging camera:ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mount:Astro-Physics Mach-1 GTO CP4
Guiding telescope or lens:Celestron OAG Deluxe
Guiding camera:QHYCCD QHY5III174
Focal reducer:Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x
Software:Main Sequence Software Seqence Generator Pro, Astro-Physics AAPC, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Filters:Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm, Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm, Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm
Accessories:ZWO EFW, MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30
Resolution: 2286x1752
Dates:Sept. 23, 2018, Sept. 24, 2018, Oct. 5, 2018, Oct. 10, 2018
Frames:
Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 50x1" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 50x1" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Optolong Ha 7nm 36mm: 57x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm: 14x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 50x1" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm: 14x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 7.1 hours
Avg. Moon age: 13.59 days
Avg. Moon phase: 54.14%
Astrometry.net job: 2351882
RA center: 319.578 degrees
DEC center: 43.722 degrees
Pixel scale: 2.930 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 89.941 degrees
Field radius: 1.172 degrees
Locations: Berga Resort, Berga, Barcelona, Spain
Data source: Backyard
Meu primeiro registro da Nebulosa do Homem Correndo (NGC 1977).
Nebulosa do Homem Correndo: Você consegue enxergar um homem correndo nesta imagem? Bem, astrônomos conseguiram. É por esse motivo que a NGC 1977 ficou conhecida como a nebulosa “Running Man” (ou nebulosa do Homem Correndo). Essa nebulosa de reflexão está localizada a 35° ao norte da M42, a Grande Nebulosa de Órion. Ela é visível a olho nu, distante e difusa no céu, perto das três estrelas que formam o Cinturão de Órion. A grande parte azul da imagem é a luz das estrelas vizinhas refletidas em NGC 1977. A reflexão contrasta nitidamente com o avermelhado e com as grossas nuvens escuras de poeira situadas entre a NGC 1977 e Grande Nebulosa de Órion. A grande parte azul da imagem é a luz das estrelas vizinhas refletidas em NGC 1977. A reflexão contrasta nitidamente com o avermelhado e com as grossas nuvens escuras de poeira situadas entre a NGC 1977 e Grande Nebulosa de Órion. Fonte: www.hypescience.com
Refletor Sky-Watcher 200mm F/5 EQ5, Canon T6 (Foco Primário) não modificada. Guiagem Onstep, com Guidescope 50mm e ASI 120MC-S. Processamento: Sequator, DeepSkyStacker, PhotoScape e PS Express.
Nebulosa do Homem Correndo: 17 light frames de 120 segundos, 10 dark frames, 20 bias frames. ISO 800.
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Minha primeira tentativa com a Nebulosa da Roseta (NGC 2237), a qual possui menos da metade do brilho da Nebulosa de Órion, tornando mais difícil o seu registro. Foram empilhados 27 frames de 5 minutos, totalizando 2 horas e 15 minutos de exposição (mesmo assim, pareceu ser necessário bem mais tempo, para melhorar o registro). Ainda preciso estudar muito mais sobre processamento.
NGC 2237 ou Nebulosa da Roseta é uma enorme nuvem de gás e poeira com cerca de 100 anos-luz de comprimento, também é conhecida por ser um gigante berçário estelar. Está localizada na direção da constelação do Unicórnio a 4 500 anos-luz de nosso sistema solar. Fonte: www.astronoo.com/
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My first attempt with the Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237), which has less than half the brightness of the Orion Nebula, making it more difficult to register. 27 frames of 5 minutes were stacked, totaling 2 hours and 15 minutes of exposure (even so, it seemed that much more time was needed to improve the record). I still need to study much more about processing.
NGC 2237 or Rosette Nebula is a huge cloud of gas and dust about 100 light years in length, it is also known for being a giant stellar nursery. It is located in the direction of the Monoceros constellation 4,500 light-years from our solar system. Source: www.astronoo.com/
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Refletor Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 com Onstep, Canon T6 (foco primário) não modificada. Guidescope 50mm com ASI 120MC-S. 27 light frames de 300 segundos, 15 dark frames. ISO 800. Processamento: Sequator, DeepSkyStacker, PhotoScape e PS Express.
This beautiful Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) is emission nebula in Cassiopeia constellation. Its formed by a powerful solar wind of a Wolf-Rayet star. It is a young star that emits strong ultraviolet rays that energise the surrounding molecular gas clouds to form a shape like a bubble. The diameter of the bubble is around 3-5 light years @ distance of about 7100 light years. Gear setup: Celestron Edge HD 8 f/7, Celestron F/R, Ioptron GEM45, Skywatcher EvoGuide 50, ZWO ASI290 MM Guide camera, ZWO EFW 5 x 1.25 Baader SHO narrowband filters, ZWO ASI1600 MM pro cooled @ 0. Lights Ha 14 x 300, O iii 23 x 300, Flats 20 each filter, Darks 20, Bias 50. Total integration 3 hrs & 5 min. Captured by APT, Sharpcap pro, PHD 2. Stacked in PI, processed in PS as HOO with little crop & Topaz Denoise AI. This is my first attempt to image by my new gear setup. The balancing of the scope of Celestron edge HD 8 on Ioptron GEM 45 was difficult. I bought an extra 2 counterweights of 2.5 kg and put it near the RA center to get a perfect balance in RA. While the balance on DEC was made by a Celestron top rail attached to the scope. The Guide graph in PHD 2 was 0.27-0.37 RMS. For full details: www.astrobin.com/full/wczf7i/0/
Widefield Iris Nebula (NGC 7023) and Ghost Nebula (VdB 141) in Cepheus Region
Canon EOS 7Da | Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L at f/4.0
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro | Lacerta M-GEN | Finderscope 9x50
5x 1800sec | ISO200
3x 900sec | ISO400
no filters used
A farewell to one of the most imaged objects in the night sky. A project I started in February on the Esprit 100ED telescope at the complex, but didn’t manage to get round to edit it until now. I used it to practice some new scripts in PixInsight for image blending. I am happy with the details in this image, the Esprit 100ED really is a great telescope for wide field imaging. The focal length of this image is 564mm after using the Skywatcher field flattener.
A much higher resolution image with imaging details can be found on my Astrobin page at: astrob.in/ev6jv9/0/
Thank you for looking.
Technical summary:
Captured: 9 Nights in February 2024
Location: Turismo Astronómico, Los Coloraos, Gorafe, Spain
Bortle Class: 3
Total Integration: 26h 54m
Filters: Baader Moon & Skyglow, Optolong L-Ultimate
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
3454mm/F6.8 astronomical telescope
Apogee F16M cooled CCD
total exposure time = 12.2 hr
see www.astrobin.com/4cppgt/ for more technical details.
The Veil Nebula captured recently using the new QHY600 60 Megapixel Full Frame Monochrome CMOS camera mounted on the Takahashi 130 FSQ that we have the honor of testing for QHYCCD.
In this Hubble Palette version (SHO) the H-Alpha is mapped to green, SII is mapped to red and OIII is mapped to the blue channel. while the colors in this image are not the true colors, the narrowband filters used in the making of this Hubble Palette image reveal much more of the hidden gasses not visible in a broadband image, covering an area over 3 x 2 degrees of sky of are the Eastern Veil Nebula NGC6992 to the Western Veil Nebula NGC6960 (Witch’s Broom) far right with “Pickering’s Triangle” in between at the top of the image as well as “The Funnel” just below and the many knot’s and strands visible here and within this beautiful Supernova remnant.
View in High Resolution on Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/j8x7uw/
This new setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 1.
Captured over 5 nights in July and August for a total acquisition time of 8.8 hours.
Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Dates of Capture July 30, August 6th, 8th, 11th and 13th 2020
HA 210 min 21 x 600 sec
OIII 140 min 14 x 600 sec
SII 180 min 18 x 600 sec
Narrowband Filters by Optolong
Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS Photographic version
Camera Details and Specs www.qhyccd.com/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show...
Gain 60, Offset 76 in Read Mode Photographic 16 bit
Calibrated with dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
Image Scale: 1.19 arcsec/pix
Field of View: 3d 7' 41.0" x 2d 3' 5.3 (127.3 x 190.1 arcmin)
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6 Pre Processing in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC
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New apporach to this popular object after five years from my first image.
IC 443 (also known as the Jellyfish Nebula and Sharpless 248 (Sh2-24) is a galactic supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Gemini.
ts distance is roughly 5,000 light years from Earth.
IC 443 may be the remains of a supernova that occurred 3,000 - 30,000 years ago.
C 443 is one of the best-studied cases of supernova remnants interacting with surrounding molecular clouds.
This images is a result of a 65 hours of integration time using rgb and narrow band filters.
One learning on that image is that I am really happy with this new tube used, a Takahashi Epsilon 160-ED did all the captures and this is the second published result.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Takahashi Epsilon-160ed
Imaging Cameras
QHYCCD QHY294M-Pro
Mounts
Skywatcher AZ EQ-6 GT
Filters
Baader Planetariun Blue 36mm CMOS-optimized · Baader Planetarium Green 36mm CMOS-optimized · Baader Planetarium Red 36mm CMOS-optimized · Baader Planetarium Oiii 36mm 6.5nm CMOS-optimized · Baader Planetarium Sii 36mm 6.5nm CMOS-optimized · Baader Planetarium Ha 36mm 6.5nm CMOS-optimized
Accessories
Pegasus Astro Usb Control Hub · Pegasus Astro FocusCube 2 (Universal) · QHYCCD QHYCFW3M-US · Astrolink 4.0 mini · TALON6 R.O.R
Software
Starkeeper Voyager · Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
Teleskop Service TSOAG9 Off-Axis Guider
Guiding Cameras
ZWO ASI290 Mini
Acquisition details
Dates:
Jan. 23, 2022 · Jan. 25, 2022 · Jan. 26, 2022 · Jan. 29, 2022 · Jan. 31, 2022
Frames:
Baader Planetarium Green 36mm CMOS-optimized: 115x60" (1h 55') (gain: 0.00) -15C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium Ha 36mm 6.5nm CMOS-optimized: 146x600" (24h 20') (gain: 1600.00) -15C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium Oiii 36mm 6.5nm CMOS-optimized: 102x600" (17h) (gain: 1600.00) -15C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium Red 36mm CMOS-optimized: 115x60" (1h 55') (gain: 0.00) bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium Sii 36mm 6.5nm CMOS-optimized: 112x600" (18h 40') (gain: 1600.00) -15C bin 1x1
Baader Planetariun Blue 36mm CMOS-optimized: 115x60" (1h 55') (gain: 0.00) -15C bin 1x1
Integration:
65h 45'
Avg. Moon age:
24.07 days
Avg. Moon phase:
34.69%
RA center: 06h18m11s.98
DEC center: +22°35′04″.0
Pixel scale: 2.371 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 0.096 degrees
Field radius: 1.239 degrees
WCS transformation: thin plate spline
Resolution: 3123x2096
Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain
Data source: Own remote observatory
Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• Astronomik L: 154x600s bin1 gain 0
• Astronomik RGB: 56x600s bin2 gain 125
(total integration 35h)
• 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
Mixed image with new equipment and old one.
For me a very difficult target.
Perfect to compare the performance of the new filters, mount and focuser.
Really an improvement from last year non published picture. www.astrobin.com/298085
Anyway, I don't try to solve the small inside, maybe at some point next year :D
Technical card
Imaging telescope or lens:Altair Astro RC250-TT 10" RC Truss Tube
Imaging camera:ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mounts:Skywatcher AZ EQ-6 GT, Astro-Physics Mach-1 GTO CP4
Guiding telescope or lens:Celestron OAG Deluxe
Guiding camera:QHYCCD QHY5III174
Focal reducers:Astro-Physics CCDT67 - 0.67x Reducer, Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x
Software:Astro-Physics AAPC, Main Sequence Software Seqence Generator Pro, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Filters:Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm, Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm, Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Optolong OIII 6.5nm 36mm, Optolong Ha 7nm 36mm
Accessories:MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30, MoonLite CSL 2.5" Focuser with High Res Stepper Motor
Resolution: 3916x2876
Dates: June 14, 2018, June 20, 2018, July 17, 2018
Frames:
Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 15x30" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Optolong Blue 36mm: 17x90" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 15x30" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm: 12x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Optolong Ha 7nm 36mm: 6x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm: 13x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Optolong OIII 6.5nm 36mm: 17x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 15x30" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Optolong Red 36mm: 14x90" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 9.2 hours
Avg. Moon age: 4.40 days
Avg. Moon phase: 25.66%
Astrometry.net job: 2154174
RA center: 269.636 degrees
DEC center: 66.634 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.508 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 269.888 degrees
Field radius: 0.343 degrees
Locations: Berga Resort, Berga, Barcelona, Spain
Data source: Backyard
1 stack of 44 60s images, Canon 800D at ISO 800, Canon 50mm f1.8 at f2.8, 1m exposures, tracked with Omegon minitrack lx2. a couple dozen darks, 120 biases. Processed in PixInsight as described at www.astrobin.com/tc2202/
M86 lies in the heart of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
The Virgo Cluster is a cluster of galaxies whose center is 53.8 ± 0.3 Million light years away in the constellation Virgo. Comprising approximately 1300 (and possibly up to 2000) member galaxies, the cluster forms the heart of the larger Virgo Supercluster, of which the Local Group (containing our Milky Way galaxy) is a member.
On my picture you could see M86 as the largest galaxy but you could observe more than a hundred galaxies more, on the annotated version you could find all the information (please, see comments).
Technical card
Imaging telescope or lens:Teleskop Service TS Photoline 107mm f/6.5 Super-Apo
Imaging camera:ZWO ASI183MM-Cool
Mount:Skywatcher AZ EQ-6 GT
Guiding telescope or lens:Teleskop Service TSOAG9 Off-Axis Guider
Guiding camera:ZWO ASI290 Mini
Focal reducer:Telescope-Service TS 2" Flattener
Software:Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight , Seqence Generator Pro
Filters:Optolong Green 36mm , Optolong Blue 36mm , Optolong Red 36mm , Optolong Lum 36mm
Accessories:ZWO EFW , TALON6 R.O.R , MoonLite CSL 2.5" Focuser with High Res Stepper Motor
Dates:Jan. 29, 2020 , Feb. 2, 2020 , Feb. 19, 2020 , Feb. 20, 2020
Frames:
Optolong Blue 36mm: 70x120" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Optolong Green 36mm: 70x120" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon L Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 307x120" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Optolong Red 36mm: 70x120" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 17.2 hours
Avg. Moon age: 16.07 days
Avg. Moon phase: 24.47%
Astrometry.net job: 3343099
RA center: 12h 26' 44"
DEC center: +12° 49' 30"
Pixel scale: 2.090 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 83.513 degrees
Field radius: 0.639 degrees
Resolution: 2716x1836
Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain
Data source: Own remote observatory
Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• Astronomik L: 263x300s bin1 gain 0
• Astronomik RGB: 98x300s bin2 gain 125
(total integration 30h)
• 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
TS 115/800
ZWO ASI 1600 MONO COOLED
LRGB OPTOLONG 31mm Unmounted
L: 200 minutes (subs 5 minutes)
RGB: 40 / 30 / 30 (subs 2 minutes)
DSS + PixInsight + PS6
3454mm/F6.8 astronomical telescope
Apogee F16M cooled CCD
Total exposure time = 18 hr
see more technical details here: www.astrobin.com/lbnla3/
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• Astronomik L: 170x300s bin1 gain 0
• Astronomik RGB: 75x300s bin2 gain 125
(total integration 20.4h)
• 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
A two panel mosaic which includes the Cocoon Nebula and Barnard 168.
The Cocoon Nebula, also known as IC 5146, is both a reflection and an emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. The trailing darkness to the right of the Cocoon is a dark nebula designated as B168.
I was camping with the family at Killbear Provincial Park and decided to pack my portable astro imaging kit to take advantage of the Bortle 1 skies. Seeing and transparency were good during the nights I was camping over there. It was a wonderful week of kayaking and paddleboarding with the wife and kids during the daytime, along with two nights of excellent imaging opportunities!
Full technical details can be found at my Astrobin page:
Info Source:
Ha: 17x1800s
SII: 16x1800s
OIII: 16x1800s
Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII and QSI683 @ DeepSkyWest
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The Heart Nebula, IC 1805, Sharpless 2-190, lies some 7500 light years away from Earth and is located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. This is an emission nebula showing glowing gas and darker dust lanes. The nebula is formed by plasma of ionized hydrogen and free electrons.
The very brightest part of this nebula (the knot at the right) is separately classified as NGC 896, because it was the first part of this nebula to be discovered.
The nebula's intense red output and its configuration are driven by the radiation emanating from a small group of stars near the nebula's center. This open cluster of stars known as Melotte 15 contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass of our Sun, and many more dim stars that are only a fraction of our Sun's mass. The cluster used to contain a microquasar that was expelled millions of years ago.
Source: Wikipedia
1100mm/F7.3 telescope
Pentax 645z (astro-modified)
total exposure time = 25.3 hr
see www.astrobin.com/jcd0v8/ for more technical details.
The North America Nebula NGC7000 captured earlier this year using the QHY367 Pro C full frame one shot color 36 Megapixel CMOS camera mounted on the Takahashi 130 FSQ.
Often ignored in images of The North America Nebula is the immense patch of shadows, the dark nebula LDN 935 appearing prominently (left of center) with the Cygnus Wall (at bottom left) and The Pelican Nebula IC 5070 (at center). The dust from this dark nebula obscures the emission nebula to form the region known as The Gulf of Mexico. This detailed image surely visualizes the nature of dust and gas clouds that populate the universe.
In this Hubble Palette version (SHO) the H-Alpha is mapped to green, SII is mapped to red and OIII is mapped to the blue channel. RGB data was used for the natural star color, while the colors in this image are not the true colors, the narrowband filters used in the making of this Hubble Palette image reveal much more of the hidden gasses not visible in a broadband image, covering an area over 3 x 2 degrees of sky.
Captured over 5 nights in May and June 2020 for a total acquisition time of 20.8 hours.
View High Resolution Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/hz7qvn/
Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Dates of Capture May 21, 29, June 10, 12, 15 2020
RGB 290 min 29 x 600 sec
HA 495 min 33 x 900 sec
OIII 210 min 14 x 900 sec
SII 255 min 17 x 900 sec
Narrowband Filters by Chroma (5nm)
Camera: QHY367 ProC full frame one shot color CMOS
Filter Wheel: QHYCFW3 Large
Gain 2850, Offset 76
Calibrated with dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
Image Scale: 1.56 arcsec/pix
Field of View: 3d 7' 41.0" x 2d 3' 5.3 (127.3 x 190.1 arcmin)
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6 Pre Processing in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC and Starnet.
420mm/F3.9 telescope
Fujifilm GFX-50R (astro-modified)
Total exposure time: 9.3 hr
see www.astrobin.com/e5ug5e/# for more technical details.
Luminous Crescent @ 21% photographed on 01/10/2021 @ 3:00AM. Gear setup: ES 102 APO FCD100 @ f/5.6, ZWO ASI294MC pro. Captured by Sharpcap pro. Stacking by Autostakkert, wavelets by Registax and touch up in PS. For full image details: www.astrobin.com/full/xmqj7p/0/
IC 4603
LUMINANCE: 150 MINUTES
RGB: 30 MINUTES EACH CHANNEL
TOTAL: 4 HOURS
WILLIAM OPTICS 80 ED II
ZWO ASI 1600 MONO COOLED
PROCESSING: PIXINSIGHT + PS6
New version with processing my friend Leandro Fornazieiro
M 78 Reflection nebula and Barnards Loop Ha emission nebula situated in the constellation of Orion.
13 hours of data imaged over several nights in March 2025 at the Complejo Astronómico complex in Gorafe.
This image is slightly late to the party due to Orion setting early in the West making way for the summer constellations to appear in our Spring and Summer skies.
I love the way the rich reds of the hydrogen alpha gas contrast with the cool blues of the M 78 reflection nebula. The image also features the dark dense clouds that obscure the starlight behind, but hold deep secrets into the formation of new stars.
More details at app.astrobin.com/i/p4wpm4
Technical Information:
Telescope: AIRY APO 130T PrimaLuceLab
Mount: Paramount MyT - Software Bisque
Camera: QHYCCD QHY9
Filter: Optolong H-a 7nm, OIII 6.5nm, SII 6.5nm
Frames: H-a: 40x900s -- OIII: 46x900s -- SII: 36x900s
Total Integration: 30.5 Hours
Software: SGP – TheSkyX – PHD2 – DSS – PixInsight – CS6
Location: AstroAtlas Observatory - Noventa di Piave (Venice) 4 meter above sea level – ITALY
Environment Temperature: About 23°C
Relative Humidity: 90%
Date: 11.09.20 - 12.09.20 - 13.09.20 - 14.09.20 - 15.09.20 - 17.09.20
This is the Bi-Color version taken from the AstroAtlas Observatory situated in Noventa di Piave (ITALY); The image shows IC1795 and NGC896.
I do really love this object! I have used the Hubble Palette (Black and white) version like Luminance.
I hope you like it and clear skies!
AstroBin: astrob.in/0mxywd/0/
NOTE: The image was acquired from a polluted sky with high humidity - Bortle 5.
#astrophotography #astronomy #astroatlas
Orion will be leaving us soon ☹ for another season and I’m Just getting around to processing the broadband data from Grand Mesa Observatory on the Horsehead (IC434) and The Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) using the QHY600M monochrome CMOS on the TAK130 and I was so impressed with the luminance data that I decided to share this image, “besides I just love black and white photos”. This is a 56% crop of the original and just 43 x 2 minutes exposures with no noise reduction whatsoever applied to the image for a total integration time of 86 minutes. Also visible in this image in quite good detail NGC2023, IC 435, IC 432, IC 431 and of course the triple star system of the blue supergiant Alnitak is also seen in all its glory with not so much of a halo.
We have the honor of testing the new QHY600 60 Megapixel Full Frame Monochrome CMOS camera for QHYCCD.
This setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 1. grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment
View in High resolution
Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/wpebfr/
Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Dates of Capture December 24th, Jan 6th, 9th 2021
LUM 86 min 43 x 120 sec
Broadband and Narrowband Filters by Chroma
Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS Photographic version
Gain 60, Offset 76 in Read Mode Photographic 16 bit
Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
Image Scale: 1.19 arcsec/pix
Field of View: Field of view 1d 47' 6.3" x 1d 13' 44.9"
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6 Pre Processing and Starnet in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC
Meu primeiro registro da Galáxia Cata-vento do Sul (Messier 83). Enquanto a câmera Canon não retorna do conserto, estou me adaptando para tentar usar a câmera planetária para registrar objetos de céu profundo com pequeno tamano angular. Os desafios, ao se usar a planetária (ASI 120 MC-S) para DSO, incluem lidar com uma quantidade absurda de ruído gerado pela câmera. Como ocupei a câmera planetária com os registros, tive também que me adaptar para utilizar uma Logitech C270 para guiagem. Este registro contém 2 horas e 15 minutos de exposição. Em uma próxima oportunidade, farei mais frames e, se ela tiver retornado, usando a Canon.
Esta galáxia está localizada a 15 milhões de anos-luz da Terra, na constelação Hydra. Foi descoberta em 1752 pelo astrônomo francês Nicolas Louis de Lacaille. Com uma magnitude aparente de 7.5, a M83 é uma das galáxias espirais mais brilhantes do céu noturno. Fonte: NASA.gov
A galáxia se estende por mais de 40.000 anos-luz, tornando-a aproximadamente 2,5 vezes menor que a nossa Via Láctea. No entanto, em alguns aspectos, é bastante semelhante à nossa galáxia. Tanto a Via Láctea quanto M83 possuem uma barra em seu núcleo galáctico, o denso conglomerado esférico de estrelas vistas no centro das galáxias. Fonte: ESO.org
Refletor Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 com Onstep, ASI 120MC-S (foco primário). Guidescope 50mm com Logitech C270. 28 light frames de 300s (totalizando 2 horas e 15 minutos de exposição), 20 dark frames, 30 Flat frames. Ganho 48. Processamento: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop e PhotoScape.
Astrobin Top Pick
Featured on BBC The Sky At Night 10 February 2019
The Astro Imaging Channel Image Of The Week 18 June 2018
www.testing.theastroimagingchannel.com/blog/
A deeper look at The Whirlpool Galaxy - 30 hours in total.
18 hours captured on the TMB in Spain (RGB 1h40m each, Lum 10h, Ha 3h) plus 12 hours captured when visiting Olly at Les Granges (RGB 2h20m each, Lum 5h) on his TEC140.
APM TMB 152 F8 LZOS, 10 Micron GM2000HPS, QSI6120wsg8
M51 (a.k.a. NGC5194 and NGC5195) was the first spiral structure ever observed by Lord Rosse in 1850 at a time when the true nature of galaxies was unknown. Its undeniable beauty explains its recognition as a true showpiece of the night sky. M51 represents a dramatic demonstration of an interacting pair of galaxies.
Technical Information:
Telescope: AIRY APO 130T
Mount: Paramount MyT - Software Bisque
Camera: QHYCCD QHY168C -20°C
Filter: Optolong 2" L-eXtreme
Frames: RGGB: 40 x 900s for each panel - 4 Panel Mosaic
Total Integration: 40 Hours
Software: SGP – TheSkyX – PHD2 – DSS – PixInsight – Photoshop 2022
Location: AstroAtlas Observatory - Noventa di Piave (Venice) 4 meter above sea level – ITALY
Environment Temperature: About 15°C
Relative Humidity: 87%
Date: 06.09.21 - 08.09.21 - 09.09.21 - 11.09.21 - 01.10.21 - 08.10.21 - 09.10.21
This is a 4 panel mosaic of IC1805 - The Heart Nebula - taken with the Optolong 2" L-eXtreme Filter!
I am happy of the result! I had some trouble to merge the 4 panel mosaic but, in the end, I am satisfied of this image.
IC1805 is a diffuse nebula in the constellation of Cassiopea.
Taken from the AstroAtlas Observatory situated in Noventa di Piave (ITALY);
I hope you like it and clear skies!
AstroBin: astrob.in/gce3g6/0/
NOTE: Sky Bortle 5.
#astrophotography #astronomy #astroatlas
The Flame Nebula, also known as NGC 2024, is a bright emission nebula located in the constellation Orion. It is located just to the south of the Horsehead Nebula, which is a famous dark nebula that is visible in the same region of the sky.
The Flame Nebula gets its name from its orange and red appearance, which is caused by glowing hydrogen gas that has been excited by the radiation from nearby young, hot stars. The nebula is located about 1,500 light-years away from Earth and is about 30 light-years wide.
The Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33, is a small, dark nebula that is located in the constellation Orion. It is a popular target for amateur and professional astronomers because of its distinctive shape, which is caused by a dense cloud of gas and dust that is blocking the light from the glowing hydrogen gas behind it.
The Horsehead Nebula is located about 1,500 light-years away from Earth and is about 3 light-years wide. It is a part of the larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, which is a region of active star formation. The nebula is named for its shape, which resembles the head of a horse.
Both the Flame and Horsehead Nebulas are located in the Orion constellation, which is one of the most recognisable and well-known constellations in the night sky. It is visible in the Northern Hemisphere during the winter months and is easily recognisable due to the three bright stars that form a belt in the centre of the constellation.
More details and Hi Res on Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/th4x80/
🔭: Askar 107 PHQ
📷: ASI 1600mm Pro
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R
️: -10
⚫️: Antlia Ha 3nm 70x 600s
🔴: Antlia Pro Red 12 x 300s
: Antlia Pro Green 12 x 300s
🔵: Antlia Pro Blue 12 x 300s
Total integration: 14h 40′
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• Astronomik L: 101x300s bin1 gain 0
• Astronomik RGB: 44x300s bin2 gain 125
• ZWO Hα 7nm: 29x300s bin1 gain 200
(total integration 14.5h)
• 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
The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51a, M51a, and NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy.
Its distance is estimated to be between 15 and 35 million light-years.
Technical card
Imaging telescope or lens:Altair Astro RC250-TT 10" RC Truss Tube
Imaging camera:ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mount:Skywatcher AZ EQ-6 GT
Guiding telescope or lens:Teleskop Service TSOAG9 Off-Axis Guider
Guiding camera:QHYCCD QHY5III174
Focal reducer:Astro-Physics CCDT67 - 0.67x Reducer
Software:Main Sequence Software Seqence Generator Pro, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Filters:Optolong CLS - CCD (V4) 36mm, ZWO red, ZWO green, ZWO blue
Accessories:MoonLite CSL 2.5" Focuser with High Res Stepper Motor, ZWO EFW
Resolution: 3892x2892
Dates: March 3, 2017, May 17, 2018
Frames:
Optolong CLS - CCD (V4) 36mm: 90x120" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
ZWO blue: 25x60" (gain: 139.00) -20C bin 1x1
ZWO green: 25x60" (gain: 139.00) -20C bin 1x1
ZWO red: 28x60" (gain: 139.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 4.3 hours
Avg. Moon age: 3.74 days
Avg. Moon phase: 16.80%
Astrometry.net job: 2065334
RA center: 202.470 degrees
DEC center: 47.199 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.549 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 269.057 degrees
Field radius: 0.369 degrees
Locations: Berga Resort, Berga, Barcelona, Spain
Sunspot action in H-alpha! I really like how the sunspots seem to organize the surrounding chaos here—magnetic fields giving some structure to the wild solar surface. A large sunspot group has been making it across the disk for days about to cross over the limb.
This one kind of marks a milestone. Still got tons to learn, but with this I followed a workflow where more or less knew what I wanted from this session—and got it. Also helped a lot that I’ve now set up a remote desktop solution (using google remote desktop, easy, free and works great), so I can run most of the capturing process indoors (so much better being able to review focus framing in a darker room with close to a cooling fan (we are having a heat wave)). See comment for a short video of that.
From now on, I’ll be uploading most of my Sun and Seestar shots to AstroBin (Flickr but for astrography) instead of here, but if I manage something interesting, I'll probably still find their way here. So this is kind of a "last" Flickr Sun post—but maybe not really :)
Fujifilm GFX100S (astro-modified)
Fujifilm GF 23mm/F4.0 @ F4.0
17 5-minute exposures, 4 of which taken through a diffuse filter.
see more technical details at: www.astrobin.com/o8u8ol/
My previous attempt at this was a failure so I moved to a faster scope.
My intent with this image is to show the subtly of this faint structure.
Acquisition details: www.astrobin.com/prmon5/
The Cygnus area is one of my favourite parts of the Milky Way, and two hours of shooting in the area got me some good meteor trails. Funnily enough, they appear to converge on the same area - the short horizontal one is a Perseid, I think the long one to the right is a Kappa Cygnid and I've no idea about the origin of the exploding one.
100 60s frames with Canon 800D iso 800, Samyang 16mm f2 at f2.8, tracked with Omegon Minitrack Lx2, processing details on www.astrobin.com/qq6lhj/
Because the weather does not cooperate, time to reprocess some old data from March 2015:
Canon EOS 6D (not astromodified) | EF 100m f/2.8L Macro IS
on Bresser MON2
f/4.0 | ISO2000 | 14*300sec
no LP-filters used
(my first attempt to dither)
February 2016:
> added 60 flats, flatdarks and 120 bias from the last Pleiades/Taurus session
> stacked in DSS
> processed in PI, fine tuning in PS
> no crop
Astrobin Top Pick
The Crescent Nebula (also known as NGC 6888, Caldwell 27, Sharpless 105) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 5000 light-years away from Earth. It is formed by the fast stellar wind from the Wolf-Rayet star WR 136 colliding with and energizing the slower moving wind ejected by the star when it became a red giant around 250,000 to 400,000 years ago. The result of the collision is a shell and two shock waves, one moving outward and one moving inward. The inward moving shock wave heats the stellar wind to X-ray-emitting temperatures.
14 hours total integration. RGB each 10x300s, Ha 26x900s, OIII 20x900s
APM TMB 152 F8 LZOS, 10 Micron GM2000HPS, QSI6120ws8
Hampshire Astronomical Group Picture of the Month March 2020.
Published in Astronomy Now Magazine April 2020.
Kronberger 50 is a very faint filamentary circular planetary nebula in the constellation Cepheus. It is without any doubt the faintest target that I have ever attempted. I can find no examples of it on Astrobin, nor on a Google search, so I believe that this is the first time that it has been imaged in colour.
Astrodon Blue: 20x300"
Astrodon Green: 22x300"
Astrodon Red: 22x300"
Astrodon OIII: 32x1800s bin 4x4
Astrodon Ha: 52x1800s bin 3x3
Total Integration:47.3 hours
Captured on my dual rig in Spain.
Scopes: APM TMB LZOS 152 (6" aperture 1200mm focal length)
Cameras: QSI6120wsg8
Mount: 10Micron GM2000 HPS
500mm/F2.8 telescope
Nikon D800 (astro-modified) and D810A
25-frame mosaic
Total exposure time = 64.6 hr
This is a 0.35x reduction of the original image. The original image has 610 mega pixels. More technical details and a different version can be found here:
www.astrobin.com/407984/D/?nc=user
You can also visit the GigaPan page:
www.gigapan.com/embeds/omJXQKULt0M
to navigate through the 0.5x reduction.
Very faint nebulosa in Auriga.
That's the most complicated object I never did and my first integration from new really dark location at Montsec, Lleida (Spain). Integration of 29.5 hours.
A really proof for remote operations that I started one month ago.
Technical card
Imaging telescope or lens:Teleskop Service TS Photoline 107mm f/6.5 Super-Apo
Imaging camera:ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mount:Astro-Physics Mach-1 GTO CP4
Guiding telescope or lens:Celestron OAG Deluxe
Guiding camera:QHYCCD QHY5III174
Focal reducer:Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x
Software:Main Sequence Software Seqence Generator Pro, Astro-Physics AAPC, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Filters:Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm, Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm, Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm
Accessories:ZWO EFW, MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30
Resolution: 2328x1760
Dates:Jan. 9, 2019
Frames:
Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 45x10" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 45x10" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm: 104x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm: 36x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 45x10" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm: 35x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 29.5 hours
Avg. Moon age: 3.07 days
Avg. Moon phase: 10.31%
Astrometry.net job: 2466785
RA center: 81.629 degrees
DEC center: 42.932 degrees
Pixel scale: 2.936 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 89.771 degrees
Field radius: 1.190 degrees
Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain
Data source: Own remote observatory
Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility
Fujifilm GFX100S (astro-modified)
Fujifilm GF 23mm/F4.0 @ F4.0
3-panel panorama.
total exposure time = 5.2 hr
see www.astrobin.com/axumee/ for more technical details.
The Horsehead and Flame Nebula captured recently using the new QHY600 60 Megapixel Full Frame Monochrome CMOS camera mounted on the Takahashi 130 FSQ that we have the honor of testing for QHYCCD.
This new setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 1. grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment-rentals
In this Hubble Palette version (SHO) the H-Alpha is mapped to green, SII is mapped to red and OIII is mapped to the blue channel. while the colors in this image are not the true colors, the narrowband filters used in the making of this Hubble Palette image reveal much more of the hidden gasses not visible in a broadband image, I used Starnet in Pixinsight to make the image Starless and then added the more natural star color by inserting stars from the LRGB image. Captured over 6 nights in September and November 2020 for a total acquisition time of 27.1 hours.
Happy Holidays from Grand Mesa Observatory
View in High Resolution
Astrobin www.astrobin.com/74v40p/
Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Dates of Capture September 26, 28, 29th November 24, 25, 26th
LUM 12 min 6 x 120 sec
RED 14 min 7 x 120 sec
GREEN 12 min 6 x 120 sec
BLUE 10 min 5 x 120 sec
HA 620 min 62 x 600 sec
OIII 460 min 46 x 600 sec
SII 500 min 50 x 600 sec
Narrowband Filters by Chroma
Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS Photographic version
Gain 60, Offset 76 in Read Mode Photographic 16 bit
Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
Image Scale: 1.19 arcsec/pix
Field of View: 3d 7' 41.0" x 2d 3' 5.3 (127.3 x 190.1 arcmin)
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6 Pre Processing in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC
This is the prior version I did last season using the QHY367 ProC www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/31083362747/in/datepos...
Less than one hundred light years from the Orion Nebula lies the aptly named Horsehead Nebula, another outcropping of the Orion Molecular Cloud and one of the most recognizable assemblies in the heavens. Whereas the Orion Nebula generates enough light to be visible to the unaided eye, the Horsehead has a far lower surface brightness and presents a challenge to visual observers even with large telescopes. But it’s a delight for astrophotographers and arm chair stargazers.
The Horsehead complex lies just south of the brilliant blue supergiant star Alnitak, the easternmost star in Orion’s Belt and just north of the Orion Nebula. The glowing reddish-pink region in the background is cataloged by astronomers as IC 434. Like the Orion Nebula, IC 434 is an emission nebula. It’s powered by the blazing-hot star Sigma Orionis, just south of Alnitak. Much of the nebula is permeated by tenuous streaks caused by magnetic fields in the region. This extract from The Armchair Astronomer by Brian Ventrudo and Terry Hancock
The book is available in multi-media format from Apple’s iBooks store, in high-resolution PDF format, and in standard e-book format from Amazon’s Kindle store. cosmicpursuits.com/astronomy-courses-and-e-books/armchair....
abbiam fatto le 6 del mattino :) finalmente una nottata tutta intera in compagnia ed ospite dell'amico Giorgio Ferrrari, sabato notte, da Tiglieto (GE)
full specs: www.astrobin.com/n86reu/E/
NGC 1333 is a reflection nebula located in the constellation Perseus. It belongs to the Perseus molecular cloud.
from @wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_1333
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Not lucky firstlight for the TS-Optics Photoline 140mm f6.5
Very bad seeing, lost 1h of images due to clouds.
1h exposition , 300secs shots.
ZWO ASI 294 MC + L-Pro
iOptron CEM70G
Seeing 4/10
Transp 2/5
Astrometric info here www.astrobin.com/full/esaypn/0/