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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.
Altair Astro Starwave 102ED-R (2017), HEQ5 Pro (Rowan Belt Drive), Berlebach Tripod, Altair IMX178MC Hypercam, Altair 0.6x Focal Reducer, Pegasus Stepper Motor Focuser, 21 x 30 Second Exposures. Processed in AstroPixelProcessor Finished in Photoshop and Lightroom.
Am 03.03.2022 nutze ich Teleskop 68 von iTelescope.net und nahm 3 Aufnahmen à 240 sec des Quallennebels IC 443 auf. Dies ist meine erste Aufnahme eines Supernova Überrestes. Die Belichtungszeit könnte natürlich länger sein, aber der Nebel kommt schon ganz gut zum Vorschein. Aufgrund des dichten Sternfeldes in dem der Nebel liegt, habe ich die "Starreducer" Funktion in AstroPixelProcessor eingesetzt, damit der Nebel etwas beser heraussticht.
Teleskop: Celestron RASA 11" 280mm mit ZWO ASI2600 Farbkamera. Standort: Mayhill, New Mexico.
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
The Draco Group consists of three galaxies of which the barred spiral NGC 5985 is on the left. Together with NGC 5982 (center) and NGC 5981 (right) it forms the gravitationally bound trio Holm 719.
Object: NGC 5985, NGC 5982, NGC 5981 (Holm 719, Draco Group)
Optics: GSO Newton 8" F4 + GPU
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R
Camera: ZWO ASI 183MM Pro @-20°C, Gain=53, Offset=10
Filter: ZWO EFW 7x36mm, ZWO 36mm Filters
Exposure: total 7h, R 12x240sec, G 12x240sec, B 12x240sec, L 69x240sec, 200 Bias, 40 Darks, 60 Flats per channel
Date: 2018-05-12, 2018-05-19, 2018-05-21, 2021-08-10
Location: Schwaig, Lienz
Capture: Sequence Generator Pro, N.I.N.A.
Guiding: Off-Axis, ASI120MM, PHD2
Image Acquisition: Stephan Schurig
Image Processing: Stephan Schurig
AstroPixelProcessor 1.082: Calibration, Registration, Normalization, Integration, Remove Light Pollution, Background Calibration, Star Colors Correction, Auto Digital Development
Photoshop 22.5.1: Curves, Exposure (Offset), Nik Dfine 2 Denoise (Color Noise), Masked Nik Dfine 2 Denoise (Contrast Noise), Star Shrink, Starless Masked Smart Sharpen, Masked Dynamic (Dynamic, Saturation)
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
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.
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%
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.
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
AT2018fhy was discovered on August 21, 2018 using data from 16-21 Aug.
wis-tns.weizmann.ac.il/object/2018fhy
Looking at my data from 10-16 Aug used for my latest M31 image:
www.flickr.com/photos/kees-scherer/30243178338/
I can see AT2018fhy as shown in this upload with inverse blow-up inset and 3D brightness plot. The Extragalactic Nova candidate is still unconfirmed as the brightness decreased rapidly after 21 Aug.
(We are looking at events on a white dwarf star the size of planet Earth at 2.5 Million Lightyears distance.)
ASRAS : www.rochesterastronomy.org/novae.html
What is a Nova? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova
(17.4 hrs RGB, Esprit 100/ QHY16200 CCD)
This is my first completed image with the ZWO ASI6200MC Pro Full Frame OSC Camera using the Optolong L-eXtreme filter and all data was acquired over 4 nights, I love the North America Nebula because of all the detail it packs into a single subject spanning over 140 Light years and at a distance of 2590 light years (give or take 25 parsecs).
RA: 20h56m24.45s
Dec: 43°54'01.80"
Constellation: Cygnus
Designation: NGC7000 / Caldwell 20
Specific named items in the nebula: Cycgnus Wall, Pelican Nebula
Image Details: 101x300S at Gain 100
Darks: 101 Frames
Flats: 101 Frames
Bias: 101 Frames
Acquisition Dates: Oct. 26, 2020 , Oct. 27, 2020 , Nov. 2, 2020 , Nov. 3, 2020
Total Capture time: 8.4 hours
Equipment Details:
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI6200MC Pro 62mpx Full Frame OSC
Imaging Scope: SharpStar 15028HNT Hyperboloid Astrograph
Guide Camera: StarlightXpress Lodestar X2
Guide Scope: 365Astronomy 280mm Guide Scope
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro
Focuser: Primalucelab Sesto Senso V2
Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme Dual Band Filter
Power and USB Control: Pegasus Astro USB Ultimate Hub Pro
Acquisition Software: Main Sequence Software. Sequence Generator Pro 3.2
Calibration and Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor
Processing Software: PixInsight 1.8.8 and EZ Processing Suite for Star Reduction
iTelescope 9 x 150 sec stack with AstropixelProcessor
Even though Atlas is relatively faint at mag 9.4 it is a quite attractive comet.
So trying different things lately. This is only my third attempt at a DSO. A very steep learning curve indeed!
Nikon D5300 - unmodded
300mm f/2.8 AF-S
SW HEQ5 Mount - unguided
Polemaster
Bortle 5+ skies
80 Lights - 90sec, f/4 ISO400
20 Darks
50 Flats
50 Bias
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, finished in PS Elements
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
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.
Der Kugelsternhaufen M13 (Messier 13) im Sternbild Herkules.
Aufgenommen mit Teleskop T05 von iTelescope.net in New Mexico, USA.
10 Einzelbilder pro Farbkanal (2x60s, 3x120s, 5x180s), d.h. 23 min Belichtungszeit pro Kanal, 69 Minuten Gesamtbelichtungszeit. Prozessiert mit AstroPixelProcessor und Photoshop.
Great globular cluster M13 in Hercules. Taken with a remote telescope (T05 from iTelescope.net).
10 Frames per colour channel (2x60s, 3x120s, 5x180s), 23 min per channel, 69 minutes total exposure time.
Processed in AstroPixelProcessor and Photoshop.
Messier 17, also called the Omega Nebula, a brilliant star-formation region in the constellation Sagittarius. This black & white image is from the light of hydrogen, revealing the densest areas of gas, some of it hidden behind relatively dense clouds of dust.
28 5-minute exposures (2 hr., 20 min. total). Explore Scientific ED102 0.1m f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC camera, H-alpha filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir controller.
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom.
The Lagoon (M8 at bottom) and Trifid (M20) nebulae in the constellation Sagittarius. 2 frames, 20 exposures, each 360 sec. Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 refractor, 0.8x reducer/flattener, ZWO ASI294MC camera, H-alpha filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir controller. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Lightroom,and Photoshop
This is a four panel mosiac of the Region surrounding the bright star Dschubba.
One and a half hours per panel in rgb (club dark site) and one hour per panel in H alpha (Bortle 6)
10 hours of integration in total.
Stacked individual panels -RGB and Ha -separately in AstroPixel Processor; 4 panel RGB and Ha mosaics created -LNC first degree, MBB 20% in APP
Stacked mosaics processed in Pixinsight
Dynamic crop
ADBE
BlurX (correct only)
Image solve
SPCC (RGB only)
BlurX
Starnet++
NoiseX
Nebula
Generalised Hyperbolic Stretch
Curves
SetiAstro star stretch
PixelMath to add stars back to starless image
Mosaics registered in Pixinsight
Stars removed from registered Ha mosaic with Starnet++. This still left a few very bright stars.
Converted to tiff and remaining stars removed using content aware fill in Photoshop CS6
(this did a better job than clone stamp in PixInsight)
Saved in PI as XISF File.
Combined RGB and Ha using the excellent Combine Ha and RGB process in PixInsight
Equipment
Samyang 135mm/ZWOASI 533 Mc and MM/Optolong UV/IR Filter/Antlia 3nm H alpha filter/ASIAIR/AM3
Software
ASIAIR App
AstroPixelProcessor
PixInsight with RC plugins (NoiseX, Blur X) and Starnet++
Photoshop CS6
M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy
M51 Feb 2019
QHY163m with Astrodon Filters
175 x 300s Lum
95 x 300s RGB (per filter)
Stacked and stretched in AstroPixelProcessor
Processed in PixInsight
Finished in Photoshop using Astronomy Tools Action Set
Imaged in Wakefield, bortle 6 skies from 25-28th Feb 2019
A Seestar 30 pro image
NGC 3572-the Southern Tadpoles, NGC 3576-the Torch Bearer, and open clusters 3603 and 3590
RCW 56 is lurking in the bottom right corner - below the dark squiggle- surely the latter too has a name? - and the bright star Z Carina
Just over 4 hours of integration:
101*20 Seconds + 32*30 seconds +183*60 seconds
Bortle 7.6
23 % moon setting early
Stacked in AstroPixelprocessor ( which in this instance did a much better job than SIRIL my usual goto, thanks I believe to MBB)
Processed in PixInsight
Reprocesado de flic.kr/p/UH3wzN
29-04-2017 - 04:00 aprox. GMT -3
Star Adventurer
Canon 6D - Canon 50mm f/1.4 USM @ f/4
ISO 1600 - 5150K - 120s - DF 50mm
46 lights, 32 darks, 29 flats, 32 dark flats y 32 bias
AstroPixelProcessor (Trial) y Adobe PS
42 Lights 600sec
6 Darks
50 Flats
ASI2600MC ,Gain 100, Cooled -10
William Optics GT81
Skywatcher HEQ5-Pro
ASIAIR Pro
This image is from exactly the same data as the data from the following image:
However I used my own tutorial in creating the SHO Hubble Palette image from Dual Band OSC Data, the process is documented here:
www.stastrophotography.com/creating-a-hubble-palette-imag...
RA: 20h56m24.45s
Dec: 43°54'01.80"
Constellation: Cygnus
Designation: NGC7000 / Caldwell 20
Specific named items in the nebula: Cygnus Wall, Pelican Nebula
Image Details: 101x300S at Gain 100
Darks: 101 Frames
Flats: 101 Frames
Bias: 101 Frames
Acquisition Dates: Oct. 26, 2020 , Oct. 27, 2020 , Nov. 2, 2020 , Nov. 3, 2020
Total Capture time: 8.4 hours
Equipment Details:
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI6200MC Pro 62mpx Full Frame OSC
Imaging Scope: SharpStar 15028HNT Hyperboloid Astrograph
Guide Camera: StarlightXpress Lodestar X2
Guide Scope: 365Astronomy 280mm Guide Scope
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro
Focuser: Primalucelab Sesto Senso V2
Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme Dual Band Filter
Power and USB Control: Pegasus Astro USB Ultimate Hub Pro
Acquisition Software: Main Sequence Software. Sequence Generator Pro 3.2
Calibration and Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor
Processing Software: PixInsight 1.8.8 and EZ Processing Suite for Star Reduction