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First real try at Orion Nebula with tracking mount. About 2.5 hours of integration.
Nikon D5300 (unmodded)
SW HEQ5-Pro (unguided)
WO GT81
60s x 117 lights
30s x 60 lights
30 Dark frames
This image of the Veil Nebula was taken exclusively from my backyard under suburban light pollution using my radiantelescopes triad Ultra filter. .
The Veil Nebula - also known as the Filament nebula- consists remnants of a supernova. Its name is derived from its delicate, draped filamentary structures. The entire nebula is 110 light-years across, covering six full moons on the sky as seen from Earth, and resides about 2,100 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, the Swan. wisps of gas, which are all that remain of what was once a star 20 times more massive than our sun.
The fast-moving blast wave from the ancient explosion is plowing into a wall of cool, denser interstellar gas, emitting light. The nebula lies along the edge of a large bubble of low-density gas that was blown into space by the dying star prior to its self-detonation. (NASA) #astromaniacmag
Details:
Equipment: Stellarvue 80mm APO, #ioptron ieq30pro, #asi2600 #60mm guidescope w/asi 120mm camera.
Acquisition: NINA
Processing: #astropixelprocessor PI, LR.
Another great night with the Avalon m zero mount, this time imaging M27 in HOO using the Antlia 3.5nm narrow band filters. Camera was the ASI183MM connected to a WO GT71 with field flattener 6A2. Captured using Nebulosity.
50 mins total HA (5 min subs),
102 mins total O3 (2 min subs).
Again, just a rough PA so some walking noise in the shadows.
Calibrated in AstroPixel Processor with darks, flats and dark flats.
The Leo Triplet, named for the constellation it's in and consists of spiral galaxies: edge-on NGC 3628 at the top, M65 at lower right and M66 at lower left. They form a physical group, though fairly widely separated, about 40 million light-years away.
Taken over two nights from suburban Bloomnington, Indiana. Celestron Edge 8 SCT (203mm aperture f/10), 0.7x reducer/flattener, ZWO ASI294MC one-shot color and ZWO ASI2600MM monochrome cooled CMOS cameras, Losmandy GM811G mount, ASIAir controller, auto-guided. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Lightroom, and Photoshop.
#astrophotography #deepsky #galaxies
IC 342 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis. Despite it appears as the third-largest galaxy in the northern hemisphere - only smaller than M 31 and M 33 - its location in dusty areas near the galactic equator makes it difficult to observe, thus leading to the nickname.
Object: IC 342 (The Hidden Galaxy)
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 ~3.7h, R 12x240sec, G 12x240sec, B 13x240sec, L 19x240sec, 200 Bias, 40 Darks, 40 Flats per channel
Date: 2017-10-14
Location: Vockenroth
Capture: Sequence Generator Pro
Guiding: Off-Axis, ASI120MM, PHD2
Image Acquisition: Stephan Schurig
Image Processing: Stephan Schurig
AstroPixelProcessor 1.071: Calibration, Registration, Normalization, Integration, Channel Combination, Background Flattening & Calibration, Star Colors Correction, Auto Digital Development
Photoshop 20.0.4: 2x Curves, Masked Nik Dfine 2 Denoise, Color Balance, Masked Dynamic (Dynamic, Saturation), Star Shrink, Masked Smart Sharpen, Levels
Remarks: Dedicated to Gernot Semmer
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, on three consecutive nights: December 12, 13, 14, 2023 (right to left). GSO 8" f/8 RC OTA, ZWO ASI294MC Pro cooled one-shot color CMOS camera, ZWO EAF autofocuser, Losmandy GM811G mount, ZWO ASIAir Plus controller, auto-guided, AstroTech AT60GS 60mm f/4 guide scope, ZWO ASI290MM Mini guide camera. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Lightroom, and Photoshop.
🌌 M106 – A Galactic Masterpiece! ✨ After 11 hours of total exposure time in LRGB using my trusted equipment (mount EQ8-R, camera QHY268m, and optics Askar APO 185), this astrophotograph came to life. The processing was done with Astropixelprocessor, PixInsight, and Photoshop – truly a labor of love!
M106 (also known as NGC 4258) is a magnificent spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, located about 23 million light-years away from Earth. It captivates with its active galactic core and its distinct, slightly asymmetric spiral arms. Beyond its beauty, it’s scientifically intriguing: a supermassive black hole lies hidden at its center! 🌀.
M81, Bode's Galaxy.
Taken with a 102mm F7 Meade APO and ASI533MC Pro.
80 x 180 Seconds exposures, 4 hours of total integration time.
Filters used are a Baader UV/IR Cut Filter.
Image processing with AstroPixelProcessor and Pixinsight.
Taken with Canon M6 + 32mm f/1.4 on iOptron SkyTracker Pro.
Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor then process in Affinity Photo.
Equipo: Star Adventurer - Canon EOS 60D - Rokinon 10mm f/2,8
EXIF: 19 x 360s lights - ISO 800 - f/4 más darks y bias. Los flats te los debo.
Procesado: AstroPixelProcessor - Photoshop - Lightroom
19-11-2017 01:00 UTC -3
RC8 at f/6
QHYCCD Minicam8
RGB split over 3 hours total.
120 sec. subs.
Processed with Astro Pixel Processor, GraXpert, NoiseXTerminator and Affinity Photo.
Date: 20:00-23:00JST Mar.17, 2018
Location: Hirasawa Dam, Chiba Pref., Japan
Cloud Coverage: 5 ~ 10%
Wind: 0.5 ~ 1 kt
Temperature: 0.9C ~ -0.7C
Humidity: 92 ~ 96%
Air pressure: 1015hPa
Scope: BORG71FL(aperture 71mm -> 65mm), Reducer0.72xDGQ (288mm, f/4.4)
Mount: SWAT-200 (single axis autoguiding)
Autoguider: QHY5L-II, LM75JC, PHD2
Camera: Canon EOS 6D (SEO-SP4)
ISO speed: 3200
Exposure: 22x210sec.x2
Processing: PixInsight, Astro Pixel Processor
This image of the Veil Nebula was taken exclusively from my backyard under suburban light pollution using my radiantelescopes triad Ultra filter. .
The Veil Nebula - also known as the Filament nebula- consists remnants of a supernova. Its name is derived from its delicate, draped filamentary structures. The entire nebula is 110 light-years across, covering six full moons on the sky as seen from Earth, and resides about 2,100 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, the Swan. wisps of gas, which are all that remain of what was once a star 20 times more massive than our sun.
The fast-moving blast wave from the ancient explosion is plowing into a wall of cool, denser interstellar gas, emitting light. The nebula lies along the edge of a large bubble of low-density gas that was blown into space by the dying star prior to its self-detonation. (NASA) #astromaniacmag
Details:
Equipment: Stellarvue 80mm APO, #ioptron ieq30pro, #asi2600 #60mm guidescope w/asi 120mm camera.
Acquisition: NINA
Processing: #astropixelprocessor PI, LR.
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
This image of the Veil Nebula was taken exclusively from my backyard under suburban light pollution using my radiantelescopes triad Ultra filter. .
The Veil Nebula - also known as the Filament nebula- consists remnants of a supernova. Its name is derived from its delicate, draped filamentary structures. The entire nebula is 110 light-years across, covering six full moons on the sky as seen from Earth, and resides about 2,100 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, the Swan. wisps of gas, which are all that remain of what was once a star 20 times more massive than our sun.
The fast-moving blast wave from the ancient explosion is plowing into a wall of cool, denser interstellar gas, emitting light. The nebula lies along the edge of a large bubble of low-density gas that was blown into space by the dying star prior to its self-detonation. (NASA) #astromaniacmag
Details:
Equipment: Stellarvue 80mm APO, #ioptron ieq30pro, #asi2600 #60mm guidescope w/asi 120mm camera.
Acquisition: NINA
Processing: #astropixelprocessor PI, LR.
Testing out my new Avalon Industries m-zero mount. Such a delight to be able to do 10 minute subs with nice round stairs. Unfortunately clouds rolled through across the part of the sky being imaged and no where else. Unbelievable !!
Camera was the ASI1600mm at -10 degrees. Balcony astro with rough polar alignment. Boy, this mount is amazing.
7*600 sec subs so just over one hour integration time.
Calibrated AstroPixel Processor.
Imaging in a Bortle 8 city with a full moon. I love it.
At 14 december, right in between perihelion (12 dec) and closest approach to earth (16dec). 130x30seconds luminance (Esprit 100/QHY16200 @-20C) North is up.
Processed, calibrated in Astropixelprocessor (darks, bias, flats, BPB) and Pixinsight (staralignment, cometalignment, image integration, contourplot)
This image features the Galaxy M81 surrounded by faint Integrated Flux Nebula!
The overall exposure time for this image was 26 hours.
1400x60s for LRGB images (13hr Lum, 10hr RGB)
60x180s for H-Alpha
Gear used:
QHY183M
APM 150mm F8 Refractor
Custom Mount
Processing was mainly in Pixinsight, although AstroPixelProcessor and Photoshop were used as well. The image was processed mainly by using MultiScaleProcessing including processing the Background, Galaxy and stars separately.
Taken from Freiburg, Germany
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Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
Altair Astro Hypercam 585C OSC (Offset:6 / Gain:158)
HDR mode on
120 x 120sec. subs (4hr.)
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Affinity Photo
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
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
Processed by: Jesús M. Vargas
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 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.
The clouds finally gave me a break to shoot this. This is my first real comet capture (I shot NEOWISE a few years ago but it was just a stock DSLR/lens shot).
I have a very quick timelapse at the beginning of this video covering the comet if anyone's interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ApH5fxkWBI
You can find more of my videos at: youtube.com/Naztronomy
See this on Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/telzdd/
Equipment used:
* Astro-Tech AT60ED with the 0.8x Reducer/Flattener on Advanced VX Mount
* Mount controlled via Astroberry
* ZWO ASI533MC Pro
* Svbony 60mm guide scope with ZWO ASI120MM-Mini guide cam
* 25x240sec with L-Pro
* 15 darks
* 30 flats for each session
* 35 bias
* I stacked the Comet in AstroPixelProcessor and stacked the stars in Siril to try and just get the stars stacked. I then made a composite in Photoshop.
Due to my exposure settings, I couldn't get rid of the comet in a star stack in APP and I couldn't get rid of the stars in Siril so I ended up combining them.
You can see a higher resolution at www.naztronomy.com/images/portfolio/fullscreen/Comet_c202...
Happy to answer any questions! Thanks for looking!
Here's an interesting juxtaposition between the dwarf planet Ceres, a relatively nearby object in the Solar System, passing in front of M100, a large spiral galaxy much much farther away. It took light 52 million years to travel to us from M100, which looks much like our own Milky Way galaxy. Ceres is the bright streak to the left of the galaxy, showing its motion relative to the background sky over 2 hours of exposures. It is currently at its brightest (about mag. 7), located opposite the sun from our point of view. Other galaxies also appear in the image, some about the same distance as M100 but smaller, others farther away.
Ceres was the first of the asteroids discovered, identified in 1801, now also known to be the largest body in the Solar System other than the planets, and now classified as a dwarf planet (along with the much more distant Pluto).
M100 has some distinction as one of the largest members of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, though located in the constellation Coma Bernices. It also happens to have been one of the first targets for the Hubble Space Telescope after the first servicing mission in 1993, in which astronauts made repairs to correct the flaw in the primary optics. Those images clearly demonstrated the success of that mission and the promise of Hubble's many groundbreaking discoveries over its 33 years of operation -- and still going strong.
This image is a composite of 33 exposures, 4 minutes each (2hr 12min total) from suburban Bloomington Indiana on the night of March 15, 2023; Celestron Edge 8 (203mm aperture f/10) telescope, ZWO ASI294MC cooled one-shot CMOS color camera, Losmandy GM811G mount, ASIAir controller, off-axis guided; processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Lightroom and Photoshop.
#astrophotography #deepsky
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.
Oberon and Titania can be imaged with a small telescope, Ariel, Umbriel and Miranda are closer to Uranus and are lost in the Bright glare in these images. I used 3x120 seconds for each image made with 24 hrs interval. The"Moons of Uranus" observing tool shows the relative positions of the Moons. The movement of Uranus relative to the background stars is also obvious.
Esprit100 refractor/QHY16200 CCD.
Ref: www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/interactive-sky-watchin...
SA, D800 (modified), Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 lens, IDAS LPS P2 filter, ISO1600, 1min*33
AstroPixelProcessor, Starnet and CS6 processed.
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.
Dati: 32 x 300 sec a gain 5 e offset 25 a -10° c + 26 dark + 25 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
A part of the photo below.
Location: Hurtado Valley, Chile
Optics: Takahashi TOA150B
Camera: ASI6200MM Pro (-10C)
Processing: PixInsight, AstroPixelProcessor, Affinity Photo 2
[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.
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
Processed by: Jesús M. Vargas
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.
Another image of the Western Veil in Cygnus taken with slightly different camera settings.
Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
Player One Uranus-C OSC (Offset:20 / Gain:90)
UV/IR filter
28 x 140sec. subs (65 mins.)
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, GraXpert and Affinity Photo
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.
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)
The Veil nebula consists of different parts, each with their own designation. The best known ones are NGC6960, or the Eastern Veil Nebula, and NGC6992/NGC6995, or the Western Veil Nebula.
"The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus.It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers. The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun, and it exploded between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago. The remnants have since expanded to cover an area of the sky roughly 3 degrees in diameter (about 6 times the diameter, and 36 times the area, of the full Moon)."
- Wikipedia
Shooting Location :
* 51° N 3° E
* Bortle class 5 backyard
Object Information
* Type : Supernove Remnant
* Visual Size : Approximately 3°
* Magnitude : 7.0
* Frame Center (J2000.0): RA 20h 51m 07s / DEC +30° 40' 07"
* Approximate distance : 2.400 lightyears
Hardware
* Mount : iOptron CEM25P
* Imaging Scope : Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS II USM
* Focal Length Setting : 128mm
* Aperture Setting : f/2.8
* Imaging Camera : ZWO ASI 183MM
* Filter Wheel : ZWO EFW 7*36mm + Baader Ha 7nm, Baader OIII 8.5nm + Baader SII 8.5nm + Baader LRGB
* Guide Scope : --- No Guiding ---
* Guide Camera : --- No Guiding ---
Exposures
* Gain : 111
* Sensor Temperature : -20°C
* Light Frames :
- Baader Hydrogen-Alpha : 71x 120sec
- Baader Oxygen-III : 67x 120sec
* Dark Frames : 50x
* Total Integration Time : 4h36m
* Capture Dates : 2020-09-14 & 2020-09-21
Capture Software
* ZWO ASIair Pro
Color Mapping :
* Red : Hydrogen-Alpha
* Green : Oxygen-III
* Blue : Oxygen-III
Processing Software
* AstroPixelProcessor
* PixInsight
* Adobe Photoshop
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
REc51/ZWO ASI 183 MC/ASIAIR/Uv/IR Filter/Bortle 6
Only 8 minutes of integration!-Cloud interrupted sesssion.
Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor, processed in Pixinsight,
Stack
Dynamic Crop ( didnt have darks, so lots of ampglow !)
Gradient Correction
Blind Solver script from SetiAstro
Image solver
SPCC
Blur X
NoiseX
Histogram Stretch
Vibrance adjustment in Photoshop CS6
took longer to process than collect the data!
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