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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
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
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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
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
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.
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
I had seen images showing faint gas and dust clouds surrounding Sh2-140 in the constellation Cepheus, and I wanted to make these visible using the RASA at f/2.2, focusing primarily on the RGB data. In the end, I accumulated nearly 25.5 hours of exposure time, with about 20.5 hours dedicated to RGB and 5 hours to H-alpha.
The processing was more challenging than expected because, despite the long exposure time, everything was still quite faint overall. I blended the H-alpha data very subtly to keep the RGB look. I was very pleased that the dust clouds became visible in the lower right of the image, as well as the two reflection nebulae VdB 153 (bottom center) and GN 22 12.3 (top center). Sh2-140 also stood out nicely with its shockwave, along with the gas cloud Sh2-145 (left).
Celestron RASA 8 f/2
Celestron Motorfocus
EQ6-R Pro
ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro (Gain 100, Offset 18, -10°)
RGB: 1223 × 60″ (20h 23‘)
TS 2600 MP (Gain 100, Offset 200, -10°)
Baader H-Alpha Highspeed 3.5nm: 157 × 120″ (5h 14‘))
Total: 25h 37‘
Bortle 5 (19.50 SQM)
N.I.N.A., Guiding: ASI 120MM & PHD2
Astropixelprocessor, Photoshop, Pixinsight
Date: Aug 26-29 & Sep 1, 2024
Location: Hannover, Germany (Bortle 5-6)
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.
The Wizard Nebula (NGC7380, Sh 2-142)
First attempt in SHO.
Shooting Location :
* 51° N 3° E
* bortle class 6 backyard
Object Information
* Type : Open Star Cluster with Emission Nebula
* Magnitude : 7,2
* Location (J2000.0): RA 22h 47m 00s / DEC +58° 06' 00"
* Approximate distance : 2.200 parsecs / 7.200 lightyears
Hardware
* Mount : Celestron CGX
* Imaging Scope : Sky-Watcher Explorer 150PDS
* Imaging Camera : ZWO ASI 183MM
* Filter Wheel : ZWO EFW 7*36mm + Baader Ha 7nm, Baader OIII 8.5nm & Baader SII 8.5nm
* Coma Corrector : Baader MPCC III
* Guide Scope : Sky-Watcher StarTravel 80
* Guide Camera : ZWO ASI 120MM
Exposures
* Single Exposure Length : 300sec
* Sensor Temperature : -20°C
* Gain : 111
* Offset : 10
* Light Frames :
> Baader Ha : 20x
> Baader OIII : 17x
> Baader S2 : 19x
* Flat Frames :
> Baader Ha : 25x
> Baader OIII : 25x
> Baader S2 : 25x
* Dark Frames : 30x
* Bias Frames : 100x
* Total Integration Time : 4h40m
* Capture Dates : 2018-07-14 & 2018-07-15
Capture Software
* Sequence Generator Pro
* PHD2 Guiding
Processing Software
* Astro Pixel Processor 1.061
* Adobe Photoshop
This image of the Messier 24 star cloud features many other named deep space objects, inter alia, Sharpless2-41, Barnard 92 and 93. Messier18, NGC 6603,NGC 6567
Location :Bortle 6 s
Equipment
Redcat 651/AM3/Antlia Triband Filter/ASIAIR
4 hours of integration, 5 minute subs
Processing
stacked in AstroPixelProcessor, processed in PixInsight
Processing Notes
Stack
Dynamic Crop
GraXpert
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
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
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.
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
🌌 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! 🌀.
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)
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
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
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
NGC 6905, also known as the Blue Flash Nebula, is a planetary nebula in the constellation Delphinus.
William Optics GTF102mm f6.9 with ASI183MM . Antlia 3.5nm narrow band filters.
Camera at 0 Deg c, gain 111
18 * 300 sec HA
18 * 300 sec O3
Avalon M Zero mount with PHD2,
NINA acquisition software.
Calibrated in AstroPixel Processor, lights darks, flats and dark flats.
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.
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.
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.
90 minutes under 73% moon!
Altair Astro 294c (gain 400, offset 50)
Optolong L-eXtreme dual band filter
Altair Astro 72EDF scope
Stacked and stretched in AstroPixelProcessor then processed in PixInsight
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
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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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!