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A complementary near-far juxtaposition. In the lower left is the relatively nearby ball of glowing gas known as M97 or the Owl Nebula, and at upper right is the much more distant spiral galaxy M108. Other even more distant galaxies appear in the same frame. The stars and the nebula are all in our Milky Way Galaxy a few thousand light-years away while M108, also known as NGC 3556 is at an astounding 32 million light-years away.
80 exposures, 6 minutes each, Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC camera, dual narrow-band filter (Hα,[O III]), iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir controller. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom.
One of the objects I was able to photograph last night with some unusually clear sky after many cloudy nights, despite it being quite near the horizon. This is one of the more colorful regions of the Milky Way, called the Rho Ophiuchi nebula after the bright star within the blue cloud near the top. The brighter red star near the bottom is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius called Antares, the Heart of the Scorpion. Much of the region is filled with dust, reflecting the light of nearby stars as well as some gas, mostly hydrogen, glowing because it's energized by the nearby hot stars.
Tech: 12 300 sec. exposures, Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 lens @200mm, ZWO ASI294MC camera, iOptron CEM25P mount, processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Adobe Lightroom.
IC 443, the Jellyfish Nebula, also known as Sharpless 248, is a galactic supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Gemini and may be the remains of a supernova that occurred 3,000 - 30,000 years ago. The bright star located near the nebula is Eta Geminorum.
Object: IC 443 (Jellyfish Nebula)
Optics: GSO Newton 8" F4 + GPU
Mount: Celestron CGEM
Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MMC @-20°C, Gain=75, Offset=15
Filter: ZWO EFW 7x36mm, ZWO 36mm Filters
Exposure: total ~1.5h, H-alpha 23x240sec, 200 Bias, 40 Darks, 40 Flats
Date: 2017-10-19
Location: Schwaig
Capture: Sequence Generator Pro
Guiding: Off-Axis, ASI120MM, PHD2
Image Acquisition: Stephan Schurig
Image Processing: Stephan Schurig
AstroPixelProcessor 1.074.1: Calibration, Registration, Normalization, Integration, Background Flattening & Calibration, Auto Digital Development
Starnet++: Starremoval
Photoshop 20.0.4: Levels, Curves, Exposure (Offset), Masked Nik Dfine 2 Denoise, Starless Masked Smart Sharpen, Levels, Exposure (Offset), Masked Shadows/Highlights
Remarks: This image opened my eyes to the ASI 1600MMC, too bad!
Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
Altair Astro Hypercam 585C OSC (Offset:10 / Gain:158)
HDR mode on
104 x 120sec. subs (3hr28min.)
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Affinity Photo
The North American Nebula in SHO:
3 hours Ha
1 hour O3
1 hour S2
Equipment:
Altair Astro 72EDF
QHY163m camera with Baader filters
Software:
Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor finished in PixIsight and Photoshop
Processing:
This was a challenge as the stars in my first Ha were terrible due to slop in my image train (an extension wasn't flush with the focuser) so I shot 30 mins of Ha and then stacked that with the S2 and O3 before using Starnet+ to extract the stars. I then used Starnet+ to remove the stars from the main filters before stacking and processing them. I finally re-added the good starfield using PixelMath.
Overall, it is still lacking but this is mainly due to lack of overall integration but I'm pleased with it for a total of 5 hours. Used the Hubble SHO pallette for integration
This Open Cluster, Messier 50, No. 2323 in the NGC, lies in the constellation Monoceros and spans almost 18 light-years across.
Object: M 50
Optics: Lacerta Newton 12" F4 + 3" Wynne-Corrector
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8
Camera: ZWO ASI 071MC Pro @-15°C, Gain=0
Exposure: total ~0,3h, RGGB 40x30sec, 200 Bias, 60 Darks, 40 Flats
Date: 2019-03-02
Location: ATHOS Centro Astronómico S.L., La Palma
Capture: Sequence Generator Pro
Guiding: Off-Axis, ASI120MM, PHD2
Image Acquisition: Stephan Schurig
Image Processing: Stephan Schurig
AstroPixelProcessor 1.071: Calibration, Registration, Normalization, Integration, Remove Light Pollution, Background Calibration, Star Colors Correction, Auto Digital Development
Photoshop 20.0.4: Curves, Exposure (Offset), Nik Dfine 2 Denoise, Star Shrink, Masked Dynamic (Dynamic, Saturation), Masked HighPass Sharpening
Remarks: ASI 071MC Pro made available by Teleskop-Service, Ransburg
Dati: 12 x 300 sec ( 1 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: 18 ° C - Umidità 70%
This is a Ha RGB image with a Samyang 135 - a two panel mosaic
About 4 hours of integration in Ha and 7 hours in RGB with an triband filter from a Bortle 7.6 backyard- total integration of 11 hours and 55 minutes. 64% moon on average.
I started this project way back in 2023 when I first collected the Ha data, but only got around to capturing the colour data in June of 2025. To be completely honest, I got tired of waiting for an opportunity to do so from a darker site!
Stacked individual panels in Ha and RGB
Mosaic assembled in AstroPixelProcessor and RGB and Ha data registered and aligned also in APP
Processed in PixInsight-usual workflow -roughly as follows
Dynamic Crop (RGB and Ha ; re-registered in APP after crop)
BlurX correct
ADBE
astrometric solution for RGB
SPCC for RGB
Starnet++
GHS
NoiseX
Histogram transformation
Combined Ha with RGB using the PixinSight script
Minor adjustment in Photoshop CS6 to finish
Samyang 135mm/ ZWO ADI 533 MM/ZWO ASI 533 MC/Antlia 3nm H Alpha Filter/Antlia triband filter/ AM3/ASIAIRMINI
Location: Hurtado Valley, Chile
Optics: Takahashi TOA150B
Camera: ASI6200MM Pro (-10C)
Processing: PixInsight, AstroPixelProcessor
[LRGB]
Date: Aug.10-14, 2023(GMT)
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.
[SHO]
Date: Jul.29 - Aug.01, 2023(GMT)
Filter: Chroma SHO 3nm
Gain: 300
Exposure:
- Panel1 (Northern Part)
S2 52x300sec.
Ha 59x300sec.
O3 54x300sec.
- Panel2 (Southern Part)
S2 51x300sec.
Ha 54x300sec.
O3 51x300sec.
Here's another supernova, this time in the spiral galaxy NGC 3147 a whopping 130 million light-years from us. Similar to the one in my previous photo, this one, SN 2021hpr, is also Type Ia, a "standard candle" some 5 billion times as bright as the Sun, which is why we can see it so far away. Kinda boring photo but pretty cool phenomenon.
Looks like the brightness currently is at about magnitude 15, by comparing to the known brightness of other stars in the frame. Several other galaxies are also in the image, though most are very faint and don't appear in the most familiar catalogs (Messier, NGC, IC) except for one: UGC 5570. Also a couple of stars in our Galaxy are bright enough to be in the HD catalog of bright stars.
This galaxy also hosted several other supernovae recently, the latest just this year, but that one has become much fainter than what I'm able to photograph. The usual frequency of supernovae in most galaxies is more like one every 100 years or so, so it's pretty unusual to get so many. Our Milky Way Galaxy is way overdue for a supernova though, by several hundred years, so keep watching the sky!37 exposures, 4 minutes each (108 min. total), ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera (cooled to -15ºC, gain 150, dark, flat, dark flat frames), Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 lens @200mm, iOptron CEM25P drive, ASIAir controller, processed with AstroPixelProcessor, Lightroom and Photoshop.
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.
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
Clouds rolled out finally for a moment! I had been waiting this for almost couple of months already.
Taken with Sony a6000 DSLR, Canon 300mm 2.8 IS, iOptron SkyGuider Pro, autoguided with ASI 120 mini mono and QHY miniguidescope. 112 x 67 second frames @ f2.8 / ISO 1600. Total integration time 1 hour 52 minutes. Processed with AstroPixelProcessor, Pixinsight and PhotoShop.
ZWO AM5
ZWO ASI2600MC PRO (-10C)
ZWO ASIAir
Stella Mira 90ED CF APO
120s x 60 subs (2hr)
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Affinity Photo
NGC 253, the Sculptor Galaxy, is the brightest member of the 10 million light-years away Sculptor Galaxy Cluster, which is one of the neighbouring clusters of our own, the Local group. From southern skies it reaches a proper altitude and thus a perfect target for astrophotograpers.
Object: NGC 253 (Sculptor Galaxy)
Optics: Skywatcher Esprit 80ED F5 + 1,0x Flattner
Mount: Astro-Physics EQ8
Camera: ZWO ASI 183MM Pro @-20°C, Gain=53, Offset=10
Filter: ZWO EFW 7x36mm, ZWO 36mm Filters
Exposure: total ~3.4h, R 13x240sec, G 13x240sec, B 13x240sec, L 12x240sec, 238 Bias, 40 Darks, 53 Flats per channel
Date: 2022-06-28, 2022-07-03
Location: Tivoli Astrofarm, Namibia
Capture: N.I.N.A.
Guiding: Off-Axis, ASI120MM mini, PHD2
Image Acquisition: Stephan Schurig, Paul Schuberth
Image Processing: Stephan Schurig (AstroPixelProcessor, Photoshop)
A stack of 59 3 second images taken with the Pentax M300/4 green star at F whatever the first stop is right after F/4. Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor
The Leo Triplet in the constellation Leo...lol
The Leo Triplet is an interesting cluster of 3 gravitationally interacting galaxies in the constellation Leo. It is essentially part of the large Virgo Galaxy Cluster separated by just the artificial construct of constellation boundaries.
The triplet is comprised of M66 (NGC3627 - lower left); M65 (NGC3623 - lower right); and NGC3628 (top) it is also listed in the Arp catalogue of peculiar interacting galaxies as Arp.317.
At approx. 35 million light years away the 3 galaxies are gravitationally influencing each other. Suggestive evidence of this perhaps can be seen in the deformation of the outer spiral in the upper galaxy (NGC3628). (lower right edge).
The gorgeous star in the lower right is η Leonis. It is an orange-red giant almost 24 times the size of our sun. It has a very close companion star, making it a binary or true double star. The two stars are very close to each other giving them a short 8 year orbital period. (the image does not resolve the binary, and it appears as one star)
The total exposure integration is 129 minutes of LHaRGB composition at 540mm with an ASI2600MM Pro camera cooled to -5ºC.
Lum - 20x60sec
Ha - 1x680sec
Red - 20x60sec
Grn - 20x60sec
Blu - 20x180sec
Image integrated with AstroPixelProcessor, Processed with PixInsight, Affinity Photo and Topaz DeNoiseAI
9 hrs of data on the Dark Shark Nebula, LDN1235. Data obtained in Grandpre, France, over the course of 3 nights end of August and beginning of September 2024.
Omegon 76ED Pro APO 342 mm f/4.5 flat field.
iOptron HAE43 mount
Nikon D800 DSLR (unmodified)
ASIAIR
Processing done in APP and Darktable.
Date: 2020-05-23 and 05-29(2 days)
Location: Mt. Zao, Miyagi, Jpn.
Optics: Zeiss Apo sonner 135mm F2(F2.8)
Camera: Canon EOS 6D (mod)
Exposure: 120s x 32flames(23th) + 120s x 60flames(29th), ISO 1600
Processing: AstroPixelProcessor, Pixinsight, Photoshop.
11x120seconds @ 250mm f/4.9; Camera: ASI183MC Pro, Optolong L-Extreme, ONAG guiding PHD2; Lights and Calibration Frames stacked with AstroPixelProcessor; Post processing with Affinity Photo.
The bright star in the lower right of the image is Sadr (gamma Cygni). Sadr is the center star of the Northern Cross, a very recognizable asterism in the constellation Cygnus (the Swan). Although it appears to be "surrounded" by IC1318, the Gamma Cygnus Nebula, Sadr, at ~750LY, lies only about 1/8 to 1/4 of the distance to the nebula. The nebula is roughly 2000 to 5000 light years from our sun, but is still in our local region of the Milky Way.
Processed as 'LRGBHSO' in APP.
In the constellation of Auriga.
M: iOptron EQ45-Pro
T: William Optics GTF81
C: ZWO ASI533MM-Cooled
F: L,R,G,B,Ha,Oiii & Sii
G: PHD2 & Baader FlipMirror
GC: ZWO ASI120mini
RAW16; FITs
Temp: -10 DegC
Gain 101;
L 5 x Exp 200s
R 5 x Exp 200s
G 5 x Exp 200s
B 5 x Exp 200s
Ha 5 x Exp 400s
Oiii 5 x Exp 400s
Sii 5 x Exp 400s
Frames: 30 Lights; 0 Darks; 6 flats
100% Crop
Capture: SharpCap
Processed: APP; PS
Sky: 80% Gibbous moon, breezy, minimal cloud, cold, fair seeing.
3.477 light years distant.
Also known as the Witch's Broom
Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
Player One Uranus-C OSC (Offset:20 / Gain:60)
UV/IR filter
30 x 170sec. subs (85 mins.)
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Siril, GraXpert and Affinity Photo
IC1848 Soul Nebula.
Soul nebula IC1848, narrowband processed. The stars are forming in the soul of the Queen of Ethiopia. More specifically, in a star-forming region called Soul Nebula can be found in the constellation Cassiopeia, a constellation Greek mythology identified as the arrogant wife of a king who has long ruled the lands around the top river Nile. the Soul nebula contains several open clusters of stars, an intense radio source known as W5 and huge bubbles formed by winds from massive young stars. Located about 6,500 light-years away, the Soul Nebula spans about 100 light years.
Technical data:
Remote Observatory "FarLightTeam"
Team: Jesús M. Vargas, Bittor Zabalegui,José Esteban, Marc Valero.
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106 ED 530mm f/5
CCDs: QSI683 wsg8
Filters: Baader Planetarium - Halpha-SII-OIII
Mount: 10Micron GM1000 HPS
Imaging Software: Voyager
Processing Software: PixInsight-AstroPixelProcessor
Imaging Data:
Captured through 12 December 2021 to 21 February 2022, ( Fregenal de la Sierra ) Badajoz, Spain.
Image composed of a Mosaic of 2 tiles:
Ha: 94x1200"
SII-OIII: 147x1200"
Darks, flats, bias
Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
Altair Astro Hypercam 585C OSC (Offset:6 / Gain:158)
HDR mode on
80 x 120sec. subs (2hr 40min.)
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Affinity Photo
Canon 1100D Fullspectrum CLS CCD Tecnosky 70/420 ED 1X; Skywatcher AZEQ5
ISO 1600 - Exp: 11h10' RGB (70x10') - 5h HAlpha 35nm (30x10') ASI120MC guide; Darks & Flats & Bias
APP + PS (Astronomy Tools; Tonalitymasks) + LR
Provincia di Siena, 01-03-05-06/08/2019
Technical data:
Remote Observatory "FarLightTeam"
Team: Marc Valero, José Esteban, Jesús M. Vargas, Bittor Zabalegui.
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106 ED 530mm f/5
CCDs: QSI683 wsg8
Filters: Baader Planetarium - LRGB
Mount: 10Micron GM1000 HPS
Imaging Software: Voyager
Processing Software: PixInsight-AstroPixelProcessor
Imaging Data:
Captured Between February 1 to April 30, 2022 in 6 sessions due to bad weather.
( Fregenal de la Sierra ) Badajoz, Spain.
Hosting "E-EYE Entre Encinas y Estrellas"
Image composed of:
Luminance 54 x 900" .....13,5 hours
RGB 28x300" on each channel ..... 7 hours
Total ....20,5 hours
Darks, flats, bias
Technical explanation of objects :
The Virgo cluster is a cluster of galaxies located approximately 59 ± 4 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Virgo. It contains some 1,300 known galaxies, although there may be as many as 2,000, and forms the central region of the Local Supercluster, in which the Local Group is also found. Its mass is estimated to be 1.2×1015 MS up to about 8 degrees from the center of the cluster, which is equivalent to a radius of about 2.2 Mpc.3
Many of the bright galaxies in this cluster, including the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87, were discovered in the late 1770s and early 1780s and later included in Charles Messier's catalogue. Described by Messier as starless nebulae, their true nature would not be discovered until the 1920s.
The cluster subtends a maximum arc of about 8 degrees centered on the constellation Virgo, and many of its galaxies can be seen with an amateur telescope. Its brightest member is the giant elliptical galaxy M49, but the most notable and famous is the galaxy M87, located in its center.
In the center of the image we show we have NGC 4435 and NGC 4438, also known as the Eye Galaxies or Arp 120, they are two galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, about 52 million light years from our galaxy, also visible with amateur telescopes.
NGC 4435:
NGC 4435 is a barred lenticular galaxy showing a ring of dust around the nucleus. Through studies carried out with the Spitzer telescope, a young stellar population has been detected in its center, which indicates that 190 million years ago it suffered a stellar outbreak perhaps caused by an interaction with NGC 4438, and almost all of its hot gas, according to studies. made in X-rays with the Chandra telescope, is concentrated in its central region. It also seems to have a long tail that was also thought to be produced by this event, but which is actually a system of dust clouds in our galaxy that is totally unrelated to NGC 4435.
NGC 4438:
NGC 4438 is a hard-to-classify galaxy that has been classified as both a spiral galaxy and a lenticular galaxy, which explains its inclusion in Halton C. Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. It is one of the most notable galaxies in the cluster due to its highly distorted appearance, which shows that it is undergoing or has undergone gravitational interactions, and for the unknown mechanism that causes its central region to show activity, and that it has expelled opposing gas loops at one the other. A starburst, a black hole, or an active galactic nucleus has been thought of, and all possibilities are under investigation. It also shows a low content of neutral hydrogen, perhaps due to its friction with the hot gas that fills the intergalactic medium of Virgo or with the corona of hot gas that surrounds the nearby galaxy M86 and/or due to having been torn away by gravitational attraction. of some galaxy with which it was about to collide (perhaps M86 itself), in addition to a displacement of the different components of its interstellar medium (neutral hydrogen, molecular hydrogen, hot gas, and interstellar dust, which reaches up to a distance of 4-5 kiloparsecs from its disk) in the direction of NGC 4435 -which tends to be attributed, however, to friction with the aforementioned intergalactic medium-, and finally traces of having undergone several bursts of star formation.
A pair of interacting galaxies?
NGC 4435 and NGC 4438 have been and are considered by numerous authors to be a pair of interacting galaxies, having calculated that the two galaxies came close 100 million years ago to just 16,000 light years from each other. In any case, and despite the strong evidence in favor of an interaction between the two, other scientists have expressed doubts as to whether the two galaxies are actually interacting despite their apparent proximity, since their redshifts are different and NGC 4435 is barely visible. has suffered the effects of such interaction. It has also been speculated that NGC 4438 may actually be two galaxies merging, having nothing to do with NGC 4435, which has interacted in the past with M86 (to which it seems to be joined by filaments of gas and in which it is detected certain amount of interstellar dust and atomic and ionized hydrogen that seems to come from NGC 4438, which reinforces this possibility) causing the peculiarities observed in it, that the three mentioned galaxies have interacted with each other, and even that NGC 4438 may be being torn apart by the gravity (tidal forces) of M87, which is only 58 arcminutes away from it (and seems to have gotten as close as 300 kiloparsecs).
Sh2-155 s a diffuse nebula in the constellation Cepheus, within a larger nebula complex containing emission, reflection, and dark nebulosity. At an estimated distance of 725 parsecs (2400 ly), Sh2-155 is an ionized H II region with ongoing star formation activity.
SkyWatcher 80ED, IDAS NBZ dual-narrowband filter
112 * 300s lights
128 darks, flats and bias calibration frames
At 9hr20 the OIII signal was still very weak and tricky to process, requiring a lot of noise-reduction trickery. I'll definitely have to return to this target again.
The colour palette is particularly weird. Normal HOO tends to be strident reds and blues; HaHOO makes for paler yellow-gold and cyan colours. After a bit of playing around, this formula of my own gives excellent cold blue-green tonality instead.
Available as prints, cards and more via the website: shiny.photo/photo/Sharpless-Sh2-155---The-Cave---Nebula-6...
First light with the Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
Altair Astro 533C PROTEC OSC (Offset: 64 / Gain: 101 / HCG On)
28 x 120sec. subs (56 mins.)
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, GraXpert and Affinity Photo
This 3-part mosaic covers a spectacular region of the constellation Vulpecula and was a very enjoyable summer project: the 'Coathanger Cluster,' the 'Loch Ness Nebula,' and many more LDNs and LBNs, which seem to float on an endless sea of stars.
The 'Coathanger Cluster' (also known as Brocchi's Cluster or Collinder 399) is an asterism of 10 stars. Of these, 6 stars appear to be lined up, but it is believed that the stars are not gravitationally bound to each other.
Several LDNs and LBNs (LBN 133 & 134, LDN 768, 769, 772, 773, 774, 775, 779) form the dark nebula structures that stand out against the starry backdrop and resemble the shape of the 'Loch Ness Monster.'
Celestron RASA 8
Celestron Motorfocuser
EQ6-R Pro
ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro (Gain 100, Offset 18, -10°)
RGB: 190 x 60" (3h 10'), 191 x 60" (3h 11'), 200 x 60" (3h 20')
Total: 9h 41‘
Darks, Flats, Darkflats, Dithering
N.I.N.A., Guiding: ZWO ASI 120MM & PHD2
Astropixelprocessor, Photoshop, Pixinsight
Ioptron CEM 25p
W/O Zenithstar 73 + flattner
ASI 533MC pro
W/O Uniguide 50mm
ASI 120mini
ZWO EFW
Duo Narrowband filter
ASIair pro controlled
26x5min (total time: 2,2h)
Darks + Flats
Post-processed #astropixelprocessor, PS and LR
M106, also known as NGC4258, UGC7353 and PGC39600.
"Messier 106 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. M106 is at a distance of about 22 to 25 million light-years away from Earth. M106 contains an active nucleus classified as a Type 2 Seyfert, and the presence of a central supermassive black hole has been demonstrated from radio-wavelength observations of the rotation of a disk of molecular gas orbiting within the inner light-year around the black hole."
- Wikipedia
Shooting Location :
* 51° N 3° E
* bortle class 5 backyard
Object Information
* Type : Spiral Galaxy
* Size : 135,000 lightyears in diameter
* Magnitude : 8.4
* Location (J2000.0): RA 12h 18m 57s / DEC +47° 18' 14"
* Approximate distance : 7.3 million parsecs / 23.7 million lightyears
Hardware
* Mount : Celestron CGX
* Imaging Scope : TS Optics 80mm f/6 APO FPL53
* Imaging Camera : ZWO ASI 183MM
* Filter Wheel : ZWO EFW 7*36mm + Baader Ha 7nm, Baader OIII 8.5nm + Baader SII 8.5nm + Baader LRGB
* Corrector : TS-Optics Flattener/Reducer 0.79x
* Guide Scope : Omegon 50mm f/4
* Guide Camera : ZWO ASI 290MM
Exposures
* Gain : 111
* Sensor Temperature : -20°C
* Light Frames :
- Baader Luminance : 152x 180sec
- Baader Red : 32x 180sec
- Baader Green : 32x 180sec
- Baader Blue : 32x 180sec
* Flat Frames :
- Baader L : 30x
- Baader R : 30x
- Baader G : 30x
- Baader B : 30x
* Dark Frames : 100x
* Total Integration Time : 12h36m
* Capture Dates : 2020-03-21 & 2020-03-25
Capture Software
* ZWO ASIair (Original)
Processing Software
* PixInsight
* AstroPixelProcessor
* Topaz Denoise AI
* Adobe Photoshop
30*120 sec subs taken with ASI1600MM and Sigma 70-200mm lens. Camera at 0 degrees C. Some walking noise in the image which is strange as the mount was polar aligned with a Pole Master.
This target could do with longer subs but the Star Adventurer can't handle it. (when its badly polar aligned)
Calibrated lights only in AstroPixel Processor.
Needs more signal.....
Mars in conjunction with the Pleiades (M45) taken at Kelling Heath Spring Star Party. This object was very low so the raw images suffered from gradients from the 'claggy' atmosphere at low elevations and from the tops of the trees encroaching in the image as streaks of dark blurs. These were fixed using Astro Pixel Processor (a trial version but based on this I will be buying it as it is significantly better (but slower and more complicated) than the free Deep Sky Stacker.
IC1848 Soul Nebula.
Soul nebula IC1848, narrowband processed. The stars are forming in the soul of the Queen of Ethiopia. More specifically, in a star-forming region called Soul Nebula can be found in the constellation Cassiopeia, a constellation Greek mythology identified as the arrogant wife of a king who has long ruled the lands around the top river Nile. the Soul nebula contains several open clusters of stars, an intense radio source known as W5 and huge bubbles formed by winds from massive young stars. Located about 6,500 light-years away, the Soul Nebula spans about 100 light years.
Technical data:
Remote Observatory "FarLightTeam"
Team: Jesús M. Vargas, Bittor Zabalegui,José Esteban, Marc Valero.
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106 ED 530mm f/5
CCDs: QSI683 wsg8
Filters: Baader Planetarium - Halpha-SII-OIII
Mount: 10Micron GM1000 HPS
Imaging Software: Voyager
Processing Software: PixInsight-AstroPixelProcessor
Imaging Data:
Captured through 12 December 2021 to 21 February 2022, ( Fregenal de la Sierra ) Badajoz, Spain.
Image composed of a Mosaic of 2 tiles:
Ha: 94x1200"
SII-OIII: 147x1200"
Darks, flats, bias
La famosa galassia Vortice (Whirlpool) M51 che si trova nella Costellazione dei Cani da Caccia, a 31 milioni di anni luce dal sistema solare sembra toccarsi con la sua compagna in basso NGC-5195.
Setup SkyWatcher Heq5 goto, rifrattore Svbony SV503 102ed, camera Qhy183, impostata a -5 gradi, gain 11 offsett 30 filtro Svbony CLS, camera guida Asi 120mm teleguida 60/240.
Tot. Integrazione ore 16:00 risultato della somma di 240Light da 240” più Dark, Flat e DarkFlat.
Software di acquisizione Ekos tramite dispositivo raspberry e OS StellarMate.
Software somma e elaborazione, AstroPixelProcessor, Pixinsight.
Bortle 7.2.
Cieli Sereni