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Sigma set at 70mm
Imaging from my north facing balcony with an Antlia HA filter.
60 * 120 second subs.
The ASI 1600 was at -5 degress and gain 300.
Captured using Nebulosity.
No PA for the Star Adventurer mount.
Real quick processing with AstroPixel Processor, lights only.
A collaborative 4ºx6º mosaic of NGC 7000 and the surrounding area, captured using Vaonis Vespera Observation Stations.
Data collected and processed by Ian Baber and Ray Bellis, with 15 CovalENS mosaics captured late May and early June 2023 and combined to form the larger mosaic.
Processed with Astro Pixel Processor and PixInsight.
This H-alpha image mosaic shows only the Emission Hydrogen nebulae in a part of the Cygnus Constellation. The stars have been removed using a neural network.
Technical information:
telescope: Esprit 100 refractor
camera: QHY16200 CCD
filter:Baader 6nm H-alpha filter
Integration time: 25 hrs.
21 panel mosaic made with Astropixelprocessor, processed with Pixinsight and Starnet++
(This version is reduced in size, a test with the neural network software to process the nebulosity separated from the star image. After star removal the image is showing the nebulosity really well....
We are looking at an individual star at 21 Million lightyears......
Discovered on 22 jan 2019 by ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) on Hawai.
48x300 seconds Luminance stack,6 February 2019 00:00-04:30
Telescope: Esprit 100
Camera: QHY16200 CCD @-20C
Processed: Astropixelprocessor/ Pixinsight.
Next to the enlarged inset is a 3D brightness plot showing AT2019abn in relation to forground stars.
The North America Nebula (NGC7000)
The Pelican Nebula (IC5070 & IC5067)
Shooting Location :
* 51° N 3° E
* bortle class 6 backyard
Object Information - North America Nebula
* Designation : NGC 7000
* Type : Emission nebula - HII region
* Magnitude : 4
* Location (J2000.0): RA 20h 59m 17s / DEC +44° 31' 44"
* Approximate distance : 490 parsecs / 1600 lightyears
Object Information - Pelican Nebula
* Designation : IC 5070
* Type : Emission nebula - HII region
* Magnitude : 8
* Location (J2000.0): RA 20h 50m 48s / DEC +44° 21' 00"
* Approximate distance : 550 parsecs / 1800 lightyears
Hardware
* Mount : Celestron CGX
* Imaging Scope : Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM II @ 135mm
* Imaging Camera : ZWO ASI 183MM
* Filter Wheel : ZWO EFW 7*36mm + Baader Ha 7nm, Baader OIII 8.5nm & Baader SII 8.5nm
*Guide Scope : Sky-Watcher StarTravel 80
* Guide Camera : ZWO ASI 120MM
Exposures
* Single Exposure Length : 120sec
* Sensor Temperature : -20°C
* Gain : 111
* Offset : 10
* Light Frames :
> Baader Ha : 35x
> Baader OIII : 22x
> Baader S2 : 18x
* Flat Frames :
> Baader Ha : 25x
> Baader OIII : 25x
> Baader S2 : 25x
* Dark Frames : 30x
* Bias Frames : 100x
* Total Integration Time : 2h30m
* Capture Date : 2018-07-01
Capture Software
* Sequence Generator Pro
* PHD2 Guiding
Processing Software
* Astro Pixel Processor 1.061
* Adobe Photoshop
Color Mapping
* L : Ha (base) + 33% SII + 33% OIII
* R : SII
* G : Ha
* B : OIII
First ever HARGB image taken with the ASI183MM and Antlia RGB HA 3.5nm filters.
The RGB sequences were taken in Nebulosity at 15 degrees as I could not get the software to cool the camera. NINA was used to capture the HA and it worked a treat. This is fabulous software and its free.
ASI183MM gain = 111
20 * 60 sec RED
20 * 60 sec GREEN
20 * 60 sec BLUE
12 * 600 sec HA.
Calibrated in Astro Pixel Processor.
Mount was the m-zero with just a rough PA so some walking noise in the shadows but hey, I am thrilled :)
This shows the output of the APP program after the automatic mosaic process. APP finds all overlaps (i used 15% for the SGP Frame and Mosaic wizard settings) and positions and the right orientation and distortion correction! I loaded a masterdark, bad pixel map and masterflat together with all the single light frames. Each panel is a single 15 minute H-alpha (7nm) exposure with QHY16200 CCD/ Esprit 100 f5.5 refractor) Again, this Flickr upload is a downscaled version at 12.5%, the full version is 600 megapixels.
Still need to do registration and background optimization.
Knigh Observatory, Tomar.
Image consists of 30 x 90s sub exposures that were integrated using AstroPixelProcessor, so 45minute exposure total.
This image is a representation as the comet moves swiftly between every exposure so the stars and galaxies were processed seperately from the comet and then both processed images combined star matched to one sub exposure
Imaged using RedCat61 and ASI2600MC colour camera
California Nebula - NGC 1499 - 4 from 8 panels mosaic - work in progress
[EN] I would have preferred to finalise the 8 panel mosaic of the California Nebula before the year-end but the rare clear skies allowed me to finalise only 4 panels. The individual panels were stacked in PixInsight (WBP), the 4 panel were transformed to a mosaic by using AstroPixelProcessor and the postprocessing was again done in PixInsight. I hope you like the result and I hope that 2022 will bring enough clear skies to finalize this project.
[NL] Het plan was om voor het einde van dit jaar een 8-delige mozaïek van de Californiënevel te voltooien, maar door het slechte weer zal het voorlopig bij 4 panelen blijven. De afzonderlijke panelen werden gestackt in PixInsight (WBP), de 4 panelen werden in een mozaïek gegoten met behulp van AstroPixelProcessor en de afwerking werd gedaan in PixInsight. Geniet van het resultaat en hopelijk brengt 2022 genoeg ‘clear skies’ om dit project volledig af te werken.
Astrobin link: astrob.in/oh48l9/0/
📷 ZWO ASI533MC PRO - Optolong L-Extreme filter
🌌 L-Extreme: lights - 145 x 300sec (4 panels - 37x 37x 40x 31x) - 12 hours - gain 101 - offset 40 -10°c
🔭 TS-PHoton 6" F5 (150/750) Newton with TS-Optics Newton Coma Corrector 1.0x
💫 guiding with ZWO ASI120 MC-S on TS-Optics 50mm
💻 PHD2, N.I.N.A, PixInsight, TopazDenoise
📍🇧🇪 Belgium, Class 6 Bortle
The Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheriodal Galaxy is the faintest known member of the local group of Galaxies with a surface brightness of 25.5 V-mag/arcsec^2. (ref 3). Distance is 225000 lightyears (ref 1)
RA: 15h09m08.5 / Dec: +67d13m21
Imaged on 4,5,6,10 & 11 May, 2018
Esprit 100 APO Refractor+QHY16200CCD @-20C/ IDAS LP2 filter.
Knight Observatory, Tomar
ref 1) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursa_Minor_Dwarf
ref2 ) www.space.com/15619-faintest-globular-star-cluster.html
Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 42 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken just before astronomic dawn on Oct. 2, 2019 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
November 1, 2021. 4-panel mosaic, each 7 frames, 450 sec., Explore Scientific FCD-100 102mm telescope, ASI294MC camera, UV/IR cut fillter, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir controller, processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom.
NGC 7000, a complex field in the constellation Cygnus in the process of forming new stars out of gas and dust comprise a dynamic region of the Milky Way. Sometimes known as the North America Nebula for its resemblance to the form of the continent, this image is rotated 90º counterclockwise to the usual view to make a better (to my eye) presentation.
A mosaic of 72 exposures, 300 sec. each in three overlapping fields in the light emitted by hydrogen gas. Explore Scientific ED102 0.1m f/7 refractor, Stellarvue 0.8x reducer/flattener, ZWO ASI294MC camera, 7nm H-alpha filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir controller, autoguided. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom.
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a dwarf barred spiral galaxy that orbits our Milky Way Galaxy (MWG) at distance of about 160,000 light years. It has about 10 billion stars and is about 20,000 light years in diameter. It contains about 5% of the stellar mass of the MWG. The closeup photo of the LMC shows the central bar of the galaxy which is about 14,000 light years in length. The central bar spans most of the diagonal of the photo from the upper left corner to the lower right corner. The stars in the central bar are mostly older stars that are typical for the centers of galaxies. Only a small portion of the LMC’s spiral arms are shown within the frame of this photo. The entire LMC is too large fit all of the spiral arm structure within the frame. The spiral arms have been distorted by the gravitational tidal forces of the MWG and a nearby dwarf galaxy called the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The LMC is predicted to collide with the MWG in about 2.4 billion years. A red gas bubble generated by a supernova explosion can be seen in the upper right corner of the photo.
A prominent feature of the LMC is the Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070), which is the reddish-pink patch, in the upper right center of the photo. This is largest star burst region within our Local Group of Galaxies (LGG) which contains the MWG, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) along with about 50 dwarf galaxies. The rate of formation stars in NGC 2070 is many times more than anywhere else in the LGG. The nebula is a stellar nursery that contains some of the largest stars that have ever been studied.
The LMC is visible to observers living in the Southern Hemisphere and spans the boundary between the constellations Dorado and Mensa. The LMC and SMC are named in honor of the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan who circumnavigated the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere from 1519 and 1522. The LMC and SMC appear as cloudy grayish patches to the human eye in the night sky. The LMC occupies a diameter of about 20 full Moons in the sky.
The photo was captured using the remotely controlled T8 astrograph at the iTelescope facilities located at the Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia. The telescope portion of the T8 is a Takahashi FSQED 106 mm (4”) diameter 530 mm (20.9”) focal length f/5 instrument. The camera attached to the telescope is Finger Lakes Instruments FLI Microline 16803 CCD monochrome instrument equipped with individual Luminance, Red, Green, Blue and narrowband Hydrogen-Alpha (Ha) filters. The Ha filter was used to gather imaging data from the ionized Hydrogen stellar regions of the LMC and intensify the wideband red images using color blending. T8 was controlled by me over the Internet from my home in the suburbs of Washington, DC. The resultant images were downloaded to my PC for processing. Sixty-two 66 MB 5-minute exposures were taken using the 5 different filters to capture the structural detail and colors of the LMC. The dedicated astrophotography processing program, Astro Pixel Processor, was used to produce the 90 MB photo of the LMC. Final tweaks to the color and saturation of the final image were performed in Adobe Photoshop CC.
This Galaxy cluster in "Leo's Tail" at 350 Million Lightyears is shown here with Annotated PGC Galaxy Numbers with Their calculated Distances. (It is a big image, so best viewed at full resolution, click here for the Flickr full res: www.flickr.com/photos/kees-scherer/39833714680/sizes/o/)
Image dates: 5,6,16,17,18 april 2018.
Esprit 100 refractor/ QHY16200 CCD @ -20C
2 x Drizzle was used in APP (and a crop)
Platesolved in PI and Annotated with PGC catalog. The 290 PGC Galaxy numbers where used to find the "Modz" (Cosmological distance modulus) in the Hyperleda database: atlas.obs-hp.fr/hyperleda/
The modz value was converted to Megaparsecs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_modulus
And finally converted to Million Lightyears and added with the PI Procees, Painting, Annotation Tool.
Only after adding the distances it becomes clear that there are 3 distinct "levels", first the 350 Million lightyears for Abell 1367 members, second a group at around 1500 Million LJ and third a group at around 2500 Million LJ. And many, many more at greater distances (not in the PGC catalogue)
Knight Observatory, Tomar.
This image was a cooperation with Mabula Haverkamp (the maker of astropixelprocessor) who was imaging M106 at the same time as I did. We shared our data to look what we could get out.
This is the result with a resolution of 1.36"/pixel and a limit of a magnitude of around 22.5.
We were quite happy with this result!
Mabula:
Telescope: Takahashi TSA102
Camera: ASI 1600mm-c
B: 33x120s, 97x300s 9,2h
G: 33x120s, 57x300s 5,9h
R: 33x120s, 85x300s 8,2h
Ha: 20x900s 5h
L: 20x120s, 198x300s 17,2h
Andre:
Telescope: TMB92ss
Camera: QSI583ws
L: 130x300s 10,9h
Total: 56,4 h
Donatiello I is named after its discoverer, Italian amateur astrophotographer Giuseppe Donatiello, and is abbreviated to "Do I". The galaxy's nickname, "Mirach's Goblin", is a reference to the nearby dwarf lenticular galaxy NGC 404, with which it may be physically associated. NGC 404 is nicknamed "Mirach's Ghost" due to its proximity to the second magnitude star Mirach.
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatiello_I
Telecope: Esprit 100 f5.5 APO
Camera: QHY16200 CCD
305x300sec Luminance (25 hrs) imaged during: 29,30,31 aug. 1,2,3,4,26,27,28,29,30 sep 2019.
Software: Sequence Generator Pro/ Astropixelprocessor/ Pixinsight
The image data stacks have been submitted to Giuseppe Donatiello to be used/combined with other data to obtain a deep, collaboration image.
Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
Player One Uranus-C OSC (Offset:10 / Gain:100)
SkyTech LPRO MAX filter
54 x 60sec. subs (54 mins.)
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor (x2 drizzle), GraXpert and Affinity Photo
Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
Altair Astro 533C PROTEC OSC (Offset: 64 / Gain: 125 / HCG On / Ultra mode On)
60 x 120sec. subs (2hr.)
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, GraXpert and Affinity Photo
Date: 24:40-28:00JST Sep.30, 2017
Location: Otaki Town, Chiba Pref., Japan
Cloud Coverage: 0-10%
Lens: SIGMA 135mm F1.8 DG HSM Art
Mount: SWAT-200 (single axis autoguiding)
Autoguider: QHY5L-II, LM75JC, PHD2
Camera: Canon EOS 6D (SEO-SP4)
ISO speed: 1600
Exposure: 3x30x110sec.(f/1.8) + 8x15sec.(f/2.8)
Processing: PixInsight, AstroPixelProcessor
M31 from a Bortle 9 location (Philadelphia).
Per Wikipedia: The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula, is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years (770 kiloparsecs) from Earth and the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way.
Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor, processed in PixInsight and Photoshop. Incorporated Ha data to bring out the nebulas within the galaxy.
Acquisition Details:
Gain 139
Ha - 100 * 180s
Gain 76
L - 862 * 30s
R - 146 * 60s
G - 130 * 60s
B - 130 * 60s
Calibration Frames per filter - 30 darks, 30 flats, 30 dark flats
Total integration time - 18 hours, 57 minutes
Shot from a Bortle 9 location.
Gear:
William Optics FLT91
RST-135
ZWO EFW
ZWO EAF
ZWO ASI1600mm Pro
ZWO ASI120mm - for guiding
ZWO ASI Air Pro
An interesting region of the Milky Way, with a nice cloud shining in the light of hydrogen (IC 5146) with some dark lanes of dust (Barnard 168) obscuring the dense star field behind. Might be just the line of sight, but sure looks to me like the dust surrounds the nebula and trails off behind.
2x2 mosaic, 48 total exposures, 6 min. each (total 4+ hours). Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC one-shot color CMOS camera, UV/IR cutoff filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir controller, auto-guided. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom
I never get tired of imaging this particular object, there's just so much detail in there, The Cone Nebula, The Christmas Tree Cluster and the Fox Fur Nebula
Image Details
Red 51x150S in SII 6nm Filter
Green: 51x150S in Ha 6nm Filter
Blue: 61x150S in OIII 6nm Filter
Darks, Flats and Flat Darks were applied in the image stacking process
Total Capture time: 13.6 Hours
Acquisition Dates: Jan. 18, 2020 , Feb. 3, 2020 , Feb. 17, 2020 , Feb. 20, 2020 , March 2, 2020 , March 3, 2020 , March 12, 2020 , March 16, 2020 , March 22, 2020 , March 23, 2020 , March 24, 2020 , March 25, 2020 , March 26, 2020
Equipment Details:
Imaging Camera: Qhyccd 183M Mono ColdMOS Camera at -20C
Imaging Scope: SharpStar 15028HNT Hyperboloid Astrograph
Guide Camera: StarlightXpress Lodestar X2
Guide Scope: Sky-Watcher Finder Scope
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro
Focuser: Primalucelab ROBO Focuser
Filterwheel: Starlight Xpress Ltd 7x36mm EFW
Filters: Astronomik 6nm Ha, OIII and SII 36mm
Power and USB Control: Pegasus Astro USB Ultimate Hub Pro
Acquisition Software: Main Sequence Software. Sequence Generator Pro
Calibration and Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor
Mosaic Panel Merging: Image Composite Editor
Processing Software: PixInsight 1.8.6
One for the Trophy cabinet :-)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191014.html
twitter.com/apod/status/1183767014789308417
APOD Discussion about this Image:
The Veil Nebula or Cygnus Loop, the remnants of a long-ago supernova explosion, among the most powerful fireworks in the universe.
Tech: 2x3 panel mosaic each 25 4 minute exposures, ZWO ASI294MC camera, Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6 lens, dual narrow-band filter (H+O), iOptron CEM25P drive, ZWO ASIAir controller. Processed with AstroPixelProcessor and Adobe Lightroom.
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was bright comet easyly seen with the naked eye in summer 2020. The picture is a fairly beginners shot with a DSLR showing the comet above the northern horizon around midnight.
Object: Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
Optics: Sigma-Zoom 18-125mm @26mm F4
Mount: Tripod
Camera: Canon EOS 500D, ISO 1600
Exposure: total ~0.5h, 137x15sec, 16 Darks
Date: 2020-07-21
Location: Lillinghof
Capture: Magic Lantern
Image Acquisition: Stephan Schurig
Image Processing: Stephan Schurig
AstroPixelProcessor 2.0.0-beta4: Calibration, Registration, Normalization, Integration, Auto Digital Development
Photoshop 23.5.1: Curves, Exposure (Offset), Masked Nik Dfine 2 Denoise, Placed Foreground
The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy 2.73 million light-years (ly) from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, behind the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye.
Using the William Optics Gt102 / ZWO ASI 294 MC Pro combination.
66 *15 sec lights (10 darks / bias frames) - Unguided
Camera cooled to 0 degrees, GAIN 385 and captured RGB24.
RAW16 is actually the preferred format as I found out later on.
Calibrated in AstroPixel Processor
Side by side images showing the maximum brightness (about magnitude 12.8) and lower brightness (magnitude 15) on March 19. See the lightcurve here:
www.flickr.com/photos/146026104@N07/39205945934
ASRAS page for this SN: www.rochesterastronomy.org/sn2018/sn2018gv.html
The planet Mars photobombs the Pleiades star cluster (Messier 45). A composite of 10 3 minute exposures, ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera, Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 lens, 200mm, f/4, dual narrow-band filter (Hα+[O III]), iOptron CEM25P mount, ZAO ASIAir controller, ZWO ASI120MM Mini guide camera and Astro-Tech 60mm f/4 guide scope.
Date: Aug. 10~14, 2023(GMT)
Location: Hurtado Valley, Chile
Optics: Takahashi TOA150B
Camera: ASI6200MM Pro (-10C)
Filter: Chroma LRGB
Gain: 100
Exposure:
- Panel1 (Northern Part)
L 187x120sec.
R 70x120sec.
G 70x120sec.
B 73x120sec.
- Panel2 (Southern Part)
L 182x120sec.
R 72x120sec.
G 72x120sec.
B 72x120sec.
Processing: PixInsight, AstroPixelProcessor
Askar FRA400 f/5.6
ZWO ASI585C OSC (Offset:8 / Gain:300 HCG)
360 x 10 sec. subs (1hr.)
Data capture using NINA.
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Affinity Photo