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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

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.

Processed by me, data from Telescope Live Network.

PixInsight, APP and Photoshop.

M31 Andromeda

My first try with Pentax astrotracer

Pentax K-1 and samyang 135mm t2.2

20sec * 200 stack

AstroPixelProcessor and photoshop

Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5

Player One Uranus-C OSC (Offset:30 / Gain:211)

UV/IR filter

240 x 30sec. subs (2hrs.)

 

Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, GraXpert, StarNet and Affinity Photo

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.

The Crab Nebula (Messier 1) in the light of hydrogen

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

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

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

 

Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5

QHYCCD Minicam8

 

LRGB

30 x 120sec. subs each filter (2hrs. total)

 

Processed with Astro Pixel Processor, GraXpert, NoiseXTerminator and Affinity Photo

Supernova 2023ixf in Spiral Galaxy M101

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.....

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.

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

Located in the constellation Cassiopeia is the B5V star 68-Cas, also known as HD4142, HIP 3478 and HR189. The image is made up from RGB frames each with an exposure of 300s and two 360s luminescence exposures. The camera used was an Atik 314L+ mono CCD camera called to -15 deg C coupled to a Skywatcher 120ED refractor.

Eta Carinae nebula NGC 3372; 30 x 300s; ISO 200. Farm Kiripotib, Namibia

 

© Julian Köpke

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

The Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as Messier 101 (M101), is one of the best known spiral galaxies in the night sky.

 

M101 is a grand design spiral galaxy (a spiral galaxy with prominent and well-defined spiral arms) located in the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear. It is about 170,000 light years in diameter, which makes it roughly 70 percent larger than our galaxy, the Milky Way.

 

It is approximately 20.9 million light years distant from Earth, which means that we are seeing it as it was about 20.9 million years ago.

 

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Telescope: Celestron C11-A XLT Schmidt Cassegrain OTA

Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro

 

Controller: ZWO ASIAIR Plus 256G

Main Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -10C

Filter: Optolong L-Pro filter

Focuser: ZWO EAF

Guide Camera: ZWO ASI174MM Mini guidecam

Guide via: ZWO OAG

 

Stacked from:

Lights 93 at 120 seconds, gain 101, temp -10C

Darks 30 at 120 seconds, gain 101, temp -10C

Flats 30 at 1.08 seconds, gain 101, temp -10C

Dark Flats 30 at 1.08 seconds gain 101 temp -10C

 

Bortle 4 sky.

Integrated the saved frames in Astro Pixel Processor.

Processed in PixInsight

Added captions in Photoshop CS4

  

Dati: 17 x 300 sec a ISO 800 -16° c + 5 dark + 25 flat e darkflat

Montatura: EQ6 pro

Ottica: Nikkor 50 mm f/2 @ f/4

Sensore: Canon 40D CentralDS

Software sviluppo: AstroPixelProcessor e Photoshop

Temperatura esterna: 2 ° C - Umidità 55%

(passaggi di nuvole e velature)

NGC 281, shot with:

Redcat 51

ZWO ASI533MC

Optolong L-Ultimate

ASI120MM / ZWO 30mm f4

ZWO AM5 Mount

 

Processed in:

AstroPixelProcessor, PixInsight, Photoshop

 

114 5-minute frames

 

This is not final yet! Will add more frames as I shoot more. Goal is 100+ frames (5 minutes each)

The large sunspot group AR2936 on 30 Jan. 2022

RC8 at f/6

Player One Poseidon-C PRO

60 x 120sec. subs (2hr)

 

Processed with Astro Pixel Processor, GraXpert, BlurXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator, Siril and Affinity Photo.

B86, the Ink Spot, is a Dark Nebula in Sagittarius that obscures the light from the background stars of the milky way. On the left lies the Open Cluster NGC 6520.

 

Object: NGC 6520 + B 86 (Ink Spot)

Optics: Lacerta Newton 12" F4 + 3" Wynne-Corrector

Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8

Camera: ZWO ASI 183MM Pro @-20°C, Gain=53, Offset=10

Filter: ZWO EFW 7x36mm, ZWO 36mm Filters

Exposure: total ~1.3h, R 20x60sec, G 20x60sec, B 20x60sec, L 40x60sec, L (derived from RGB), 200 Bias, 40 Darks, 40 Flats per channel

Date: 2018-07-13

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 1.062: Calibration, Registration, Normalization, Integration, Channel Combination, Background Calibration, Auto Digital Development

Photoshop 19.1.5: Curves, Masked Dynamic (Saturation), Cosmetic Star Repair, Shadows/Highlights, Curves, Masked Dynamic (Saturation), Nik Output Sharpener

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

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...

Centaurus A is located about 11.5 million light years from Earth. It took light 11.5 million years to make its long journey to Earth. NGC 5128 is located in the Virgo Cluster of galaxies near to our Local Group of galaxies. The galaxy is about 60,000 light years in diameter which is about 60% the diameter of our Milky Way Galaxy. NGC 5128 is located in the skies of the southern hemisphere. It appears as a greyish smudge that is easily visible in a pair of binoculars in the night sky.

 

The Centaurus A Galaxy is considered to be two galaxies in mid-collision. One galaxy is elliptically shaped (spherically shaped) and the other is a spiral galaxy (disk shaped) that is viewed edge-on the Flickr photo. The dark dust band cutting across Centaurus A belongs to the spiral galaxy. The opposite ends of the dust band in the photo have been distorted as the result the of the mutual gravitational tidal forces between the two colliding galaxies.

 

Centaurus A is an example of a starburst galaxy. Starburst galaxies have a much higher rate of new star formation in them compared to normal galaxies like our Milky Way Galaxy. In the case of Centaurus A, the mechanism that produces the high star formation rate is the increased presence of shock waves in the spiral galaxy’s interstellar medium that is triggered by the gravitational interactions between the elliptical and spiral galaxy during the collision.

 

Centaurus A has a very active galactic nucleus. This is a sign of a supermassive black hole (SBH) at its center. The SBH is estimated to contain about 55 million solar masses. The activity of the SBH is manifested by two oppositely directed beams of X-rays and radio waves that are almost perpendicular to the spiral galaxy’s disk. The jets extend out to about 70,000 light years from Centaurus A’s center. The jets are generated by the disk of matter, an accretion disk, circling the SBH at such high speeds that it produces a magnetic beam-like structure that focus some of the material in the rotating disk away from the SBH at speeds close to the speed of light. The colliding matter in the jets produces X-rays and radio waves making Centaurus A which makes NGC 5128 one of the “brightest” radio sources in the sky. The jets are not visible in the Flickr photo since the astrograph’s camera detects visible light. X-ray and radio telescopes detect the jets.

 

The T30 astrograph located at iTelescope’s Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia was used to acquire imaging data from NGC 5128. T30 is a remotely controlled robotic astrograph that is controlled over the Internet by members of iTelescope. The imaging data was download to my home computer in the suburbs of Washington, DC for processing.

 

T30 consists of a PlaneWave CDK20 telescope and a Finger Lakes Instrumentation FLI PL6303E Monochrome CCD camera. The telescope is 508mm (20 inch) diameter and has a photographic speed of F/6.8. AstroDon Luminace, Red, Green, and Blue filters were inserted between the telescope and camera to produce the images needed to be combined to produce the single true color Flickr image of NGC 5128. At total of 3.8 hours of 5-minute exposures were combined using Astro Pixel Processor and PixInsight (PI) dedicated astrophotography software programs on my home PC. Adobe Photoshop 2021 was used to make tweaks in color and saturation to the output of the PI image.

 

The American astronomer Beverly T. Lynds published her catalogue of bright nebulae. This nebula is listed there as LBN 576, a supernova remnant. The age of the supernova is estimated to be 10,000 years.

 

The nebula appears as an ionised hydrogen gas bubble, which resembles a cross section through a human brain with spinal cord extension (medulla oblongata), which is why some amateur astronomers gave it the nickname "Medulla Nebula". Other popular names for it include the "Garlic" nebula or the "Popped Balloon" nebula. I'm going with Garlic to spice up the night sky.

 

The object is very faint. I saw nothing with my Seestar so this image took me three hours to capture with my William Optics ZenithStar 81 APO telescope.

 

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Controller: ZWO ASIAIR Plus

Main Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -10C

Filter: Optolong L-eNhance filter

Focuser: ZWO EAF

Guide Camera: ZWO ASI290MM Mini guidecam

 

Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 81 APO

Guidescope: William Optics Refractor 50/200 mm 50mm

Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro

 

Stacked from:

Lights 60 at 180 seconds, gain 101, temp -10C

Darks 30 at 180 seconds, gain 101, temp -10C

Flats 30 at 8.5 seconds, gain 101, temp -10C

Dark Flats 30 at 8.5 seconds, gain 101, temp -10C

 

Bortle 4 sky.

Integrated the saved frames in Astro Pixel Processor processed in PixInsight and titles added in Photoshop CS4.

  

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

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

60 exposures, 60 sec. each

Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 apochromat refractor

Stellarvue 0.8x reducer/flattener (571mm fl)

ZWO ASI2600MC Pro cooled color CMOS camera, gain 200, bin 2 -10ºC

IDAS DTD light pollution filter

ZWO EAF autofocuser

iOptron CEM25P mount

ZWO ASIAir Pro controller

auto-guided, SVBONY SV2165 30mm f/4 guide scope, ZWO ASI120MM Mini guide camera

Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop

 

#astrophotography #deepskyphotography #CometLemmon

Globular Cluster M 22 in the constellation Sagittarius, near the galactic center. It is some 10,000 light years away from earth and one of the brightest and largest Globular Clusters in the sky.

 

Object: M 22

Optics: Lacerta Newton 12" F4 + 3" Wynne-Corrector

Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8

Camera: ZWO ASI 183MM Pro @-20°C, Gain=53, Offset=10

Filter: ZWO EFW 7x36mm, ZWO 36mm Filters

Exposure: total ~0.5h, R 21x30sec, G 21x30sec, B 22x30sec, L (derived from RGB), 200 Bias, 40 Darks, 40 Flats per channel

Date: 2018-07-12, 2018-07-13

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 1.062: Calibration, Registration, Normalization, Integration, Channel Combination, Background Calibration, Star Colors Correction, Auto Digital Development

Photoshop 19.1.5: Curves, Exposure (Offset), Masked Nik Dfine 2 Denoise, Masked Dynamic (Dynamic, Saturation), Star Shrink, Curves, HighPass Sharpening

Three Messier objects: M17, M18, and M24 in the Milky Way. Nikon 300mm f/4 lens, ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera. 12 5-minute exposures.

 

An image in Ha RGB

 

This nebula according to Glaxy Map

 

is

 

"GRS 305.40 +00.20 (Kes 18), often named simply G305, is a major star formation region associated with several HII regions, the star clusters Danks 1 and Danks 2, an estimated 31 O stars and the Wolf-Rayet star WR 48a. It may be one of the most massive star formation regions known in the Milky Way"

 

Location : Bortle 6

 

Equipment

Sharpstar z4/Antlia 3 nm Ha filter/ Antlia Triband RGB filter/ZWO 533 Mm pro -for H-alpha /6/533 MC pro for RGB colour/ASIAIR/HEQ5/ASIAIR

 

Data

 

just under one and a half hours in RGB (5 minute subs)

 

3 hours in Ha (10 minute subs)

 

10 minutes in RGB ( 60 second subs) -for stars

  

Processing

 

stacked in AstroPixelProcessor, processed in PixInsight

 

Processing Notes

Ha and RGB separately

 

Stack

register Ha, RGB long and RGB short stacks

Dynamic Crop

Gradient Correction

Blur X -correction

Image Solver

SPCC

Starnet++

 

Nebula

BlurX

NoiseX

GHS

NoiseX

 

Curves Transformation

 

Stars

 

SetiAstro star stretch script

  

Curves Transformation after applying a luminance mask

 

Stars and starless combined with Pixelmath

 

Minor tweaking including a final crop - in Photoshop CS6

   

M101 Pinwheel Galaxy

 

Equipment:

Celestron AVX

Baader Moon and Sky Glow with IR cut filter

ES ED 102 FCD 100 Scope

SSAG Cope and Camera

ZWO 183mc Pro

Pegasus Focus Cube

 

Software:

SGP Acquisition

Sharp Cap - Initial Focus and Polar Align

AstropixelProcessor for stacking and initial stretch

Finished in Photoshop

 

I'll have to look to see how much integration, 3-minute subs for sure though.

 

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Several galaxies in Leo: M95, M96, M105, NGC 3384, NGC 3389. 48 exposures, 5 minutes each

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

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