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M101 is about 25 million lightyears away from us. Its spiral arms show several "knots" that are regions of star forming.
101 x 180s @ ISO 800
Pentax K3ii and TS 130/910 APO.
This is the version stacked with AstroPixelProcessor.
The Heart (IC 1805, right) and Soul (IC 1848, left) star-forming nebulae. A composite of 18 5 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.
24-07-2020, 9 x 30 seconds Luminance, Esprit 100 telescope/QHY16200 CCD @-20C. Calibrated subs in AstroPixelProcessor, further processing in Pixinsight: Staralignment, Cometalignment, ImageIntegration, DynamicBackgroundExtraction, MaskedStretch, Curves, HDRMultiscaletransform
Dati: 36 x 4 min. 800 Iso + 15 Dark + 25 flat e darkflat software: AstroPixelProcessor e Photoshop CS2 Strumenti: ottica Takahashi FSQ106 f/5 su Skywatcher EQ6 pro - Canon 40D CentralDS. 12/08/2020 - Castelletta (AN), Temp. esterna: 20° C temperatura al sensore 0,00°C - Umidità 79%
Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
QHYCCD Minicam8
HOO
60 x 60sec. Ha
48 x 60sec. OIII
Processed with Astro Pixel Processor, NoiseXTerminator and Affinity Photo.
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
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
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
Starforming Nebula IC 410 in the constellation Auriga in the light of sulfur (red), hydrogen (green), and oxygen (blue). 19 hours total exposure, Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC camera, dual narrow-band filter (Hα,[O III]), [S II] filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom.
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
Comet Leonard increased in brightness by more than 2 magnitudes and within a day faded and then faded further in the next day.
COBS (Comet OBSveration database) contributions indicates that C/2021 Leonard had a significant outburst just prior to its recovery in the evening sky on December 15/16 2021. The comet flared to mag 3.5 and then quickly subsided to mag 5 by December 18. These three images were captured with a Vixen VSD 100 mm telescope and a Nikon Z7II camera mounted on a Vixen SXP. About 2.5 minutes of images were acquired with subs and stacked with AstroPixelProcessor and finished with Photoshop. With clouds and haze in Tucson and Comet Leonard gaining altitude each day the differences shown are not normalized and are a qualitative product of the captures. On December 17 there was considerable haze that like reddened the coma shown.
The photos were converted to BW, stretched, and then a inverted to show the coma stretched greatly to show the faint coma. The outburst on Dec 15/16 ejected much coma material. This then appears to be observed as an extended coma trail 24 h later in the middle image on December 17, and without the continuing outburst on December 18th the coma is much smaller and compact in the faded comet.
I managed to catch a nova last night! That's an unusual astronomical event in which a star brightens tremendously in a short time. This one, known as Nova Cas 2021 was discovered in the constellation Cassiopeia just a few days ago and is now bright enough to see in binoculars and photograph with modest equipment. It also shares the view with some other interesting objects: an open cluster of stars, Messier 52 (M52) and a nice star-forming nebula, NGC 7635, known as the Bubble Nebula for the interstellar cavity being blown by a bright, young star.
By studying spectra (the distribution of the light across colors/wavelengths) and the light curve (the change in brightness over time), astrophysicists have determined that Nova Cas is a "classical nova" in which one of the stars in a close binary system transfers some of its mass to its white dwarf star companion, which eventually results in a tremendous nuclear explosion that we can see across the galaxy. Here's an article from Astronomy Now with more information: astronomynow.com/.../new-nova-in-cassiopeia.../.
Tech: ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera, Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6 lens @500mm, 15x60sec. exposures, processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom.
#astrophotography #novacas2021
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
Askar 60F refractor @ f/6.8
ZWO ASI585MC OSC
360 x 30sec. subs. (3hrs.)
Processed with Astro Pixel Processor, GraXpert, NoiseXTerminator and Affinity Photo.
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
Equipo: Star Adventurer - Mak 102 - Canon EOS 6D - Filtro Optolong L-PRO
13 lights de 15s - ISO 1600 - 1300mm . f/12,7 del 2018-01-21 1:10 UTC -3 en Buenos Aires
Procesado: AstroPixelProcessor - Lightroom
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.
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
Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
Altair Astro Hypercam 585C OSC (Offset:10 / Gain:190)
HDR mode on
60 x 120 sec. subs (2hrs.)
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, StarNet, NoiseXTerminator and Affinity Photo
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.
One for the Trophy cabinet :-)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191014.html
twitter.com/apod/status/1183767014789308417
APOD Discussion about this Image:
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
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.
NGC 7822 is a beautiful emission nebula in Cepheus, well-known and popular for its shape and the dark nebulae running through it.
Thanks to good weather three weeks ago, I was able to collect 17.5 hours of data at f/2 for this SHO version. When it comes to color, I like the classic processing in the style of the Hubble Telescope, but this slightly more modern color scheme also has its charm.
Celestron RASA 8
Celestron Motorfocus
EQ6-R Pro
TS 2600 MP (Gain 100, Offset 200, -10°)
Baader H-Alpha Highspeed 3.5nm: 178 × 120″ (5h 56′)
Baader O-III Highspeed 4nm: 174 ×120″ (5h 48′)
Baader S-II Highspeed 4nm: 176 × 120″ (5h 52′)
Total: 17h 36′
Bortle 5 (19.50 SQM)
N.I.N.A., Guiding with ZWO ASI 120MM and PHD2
Astropixelprocessor, Photoshop, Pixinsight
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
Dati: 39 x 300 sec ( 3,25 ore) Iso 1600 @ f/4.5 + 15 dark
Montatura: EQ6 pro
Ottica: Nikkor 35mm f/1.8
Sensore: Nikon D5100
Software sviluppo: AstroPixelProcessor e Photoshop
Temperatura esterna: 9 ° C - Umidità 40%
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
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.
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
Also known as "The Eye of God" and "The Eye of Sauron", The planetary Nebula NGC7293 shows up clearly in H-Alpha. It's south Declination of -20d50m makes it difficult to image from Europe but it is no problem from Portugal. Imaged with Esprit 100 f5.5 refractor/ QHY16200 CCD camera and 6nm Ha filter. 26x 15 minutes (6.5 hrs), Stacked with APP and processed further with Pixinsight. Image dates :24,25,26 and 27 October 2017.
Inverse image added to enhance the faint outer structures.
Knight Observatory, Tomar.
IC 4601 is a beautiful reflection nebula usually imaged in widefield images of the Blue Horsehead but worthy of attention on its own
Imaged from Bortle 6 so bringing out the dust after gradient removal was challenging.
Equipment
Redcat 651/AM3/ZWOASI533MC/Antlia Triband Filter/ASIAIR
4 hours of integration, 5 minute subs
Processing
stacked in AstroPixelProcessor, processed in PixInsight
Processing Notes
Stack
Dynamic Crop
Tried three tools for Gradient Removal
-Auto DBE
-GraXpert
GradientCorrection
Gradient Correction did the best job IMHO
Blur X -correction
Image Solver
SPCC
Starnet++
Nebula
BlurX
GHS
Curves Transformation
Stars
SetiAstro star stretch script
stars and nebula combined with Pixelmath
Minor tweaking in Photoshop CS6
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
Dati: 34 x 300 sec a gain 5 e offset 25 a -10° c + 70 dark + 30 flat e darkflat
Filtro: Astronomik UV/IR Block L2
Montatura: EQ6 pro
Ottica: Takahashi FSQ106
Sensore: QHY168C
Cam guida e tele: magzero mz5-m su Scopos 62/520
Software acquisizione: nina e phd2
Software sviluppo: AstroPixelProcessor e Photoshop
Temperatura esterna: 18.5 ° C - Umidità 70%
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.
Samyang 135 mm/AM 3/ASIAIR/Antlia Triband filter
2 hours of integration- 300 second subs
AstroPixelProcessor/PixInsight/ Photoshop CS 6
Contains a number of objects besides M 24 and M 17 including
NGC 6596
NGC 6603
NGC 6565
NGC 6590
NGC 6595
IC 1283
IC 1284
IC 4701
Dati: 24 x 300 sec ( 2 ore) gain 5 @ -10° c + 70 dark + 30 flat e darkflat
Filtro: Astronomik UV/IR Block L2
Montatura: EQ6 pro
Ottica: Takahashi FSQ106
Sensore: QHY168C
Cam guida e tele: magzero mz5-m su Scopos 62/520
Software acquisizione: nina e phd2
Software sviluppo: AstroPixelProcessor e Photoshop
Temperatura esterna: 15 ° C - Umidità 59%