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30-04-2017 - 01:00 aprox. GMT -3
Star Adventurer
Canon 6D - Sigma AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro @ f/5,6
ISO 1600 - 5150K - 120 segundos - DF 190mm
16 lights, 19 darks y 300 bias
AstroPixelProcessor, Photoshop y Lightroom
25x600 seconds, Esprit 100 f5.5/QHY16200 @-20C. (This is a detail from a 72 panel Orion Mosaic i am working on.)
Knight Observatory, Tomar
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko passes through the constellation Gemini on three consecutive nights: November 6, 7, and 8, 2021 (right to left), near the closest it will come to the Earth in its orbit. This is the brightest comet in the sky right now, though still not really very bright at all. ESA's Rosetta spacecraft orbited Comet 67P and the Phillae probe landed on it back in 2014. The orange-ish star at upper right is upsilon Geminorum, one of the bright stars in Gemini.
This is a composite of multiple exposures taken over several hours on each of the three nights. These were combined to produce a panoramic view of the background and of the comet on each night.
#astrophotography
The Hyades star cluster is the head of the bull in the Taurus constellation; Aldebaran, the brightest yellow star, is the eye. Quite a few dark nebulae are also present in this extent, as well as star cluster NGC 1647 in the upper left.
I normally wouldn't have astrophotographed on a night forecast to have only a small window of clear skies, but it had been a couple months since I had been able to image, so I went for it. I only managed 20 minutes of data without high, thin cloud cover despite shooting for well over an hour, but you have to take what you can get during winter in north Idaho. I'm going to shoot this one again sometime.
Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 20 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken on Jan. 21, 2020 under Bortle 3 skies.
A portion of the star-forming nebula IC 1396, or the Elephant Trunk Nebula in the constellation Cepheus. 3-panel mosaic, each 20 300 sec. exposures (5 hours total exposure). Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC camera, dual narrow-band fillter (H-alpha and [O III]), iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir Pro controller, processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom.
Easily the largest Seagull ever seen, by light years ;-)
The Seagull Nebula (Sh2-296) lies just on the border between the constellations of Monoceros (The Unicorn) and Canis Major (The Great Dog) and is close to Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky. The nebula lies more than four hundred times further away than the famous star.
The complex of gas and dust that forms the head of the seagull glows brightly in the sky due to the strong ultraviolet radiation coming mostly from one brilliant young star HD 53367.
The radiation from the young stars causes the surrounding hydrogen gas to glow. Light from the hot blue-white stars is also scattered off the tiny dust particles in the nebula to create a contrasting blue haze in some parts of the picture.
Spanning about 100 light-years from one wingtip to the other, Sh2-296 displays glowing material and dark dust lanes weaving amid bright stars.
It is a beautiful example of an emission nebula, in this case an HII region, indicating active formation of new stars, which can be seen peppering this image.
The Seagull Nebula complex was observed for the first time by the German-British astronomer Sir William Herschel back in 1785.
SHO Taken between 22 and 27 February 2022 (65% - 13% Moon), RGB stars taken 7 March 2022 (22% Moon). Last chance to capture this target for me in my location for 2022, but also my first attempt. I could have squeezed in Thor’s Helmet if I had rotated the camera but I didn’t want to change the optics at this point. I could only manage 2.5 hours a night due to the target getting lower by this time of year, and crashing into a neighbours tree.
I spent far too many hours processing and reprocessing using new and different Pixinsight work flows to get the best from the data, and of course I would like to start over again, but time to let this big bird free until I capture it again next time around.
Sky Quality 19.67 Magnitude Class 5 Bortle.
Astromiks 50mm SHO 6nm Filters
Sii=26 x 300s + 19 x 180s
Ha=27 x 300s + 18 x 180s
Oiii=14 x 300s + 17 x 180s
RGB Stars 46 x 60s x 3
10 hours 10 minutes total
30 x Darks, Flats and Bias
ZWO ASI6200MM Pro
ZWO 7x2" EFW
ZWO EAF
Williams Optics GT81 IV
WO 6A III Field Flattener 0.8
HEQ5 Pro Rowan
ASIAIR Pro
Astro Pixel Processor
Pixinsight
Photoshop 2022
im Sternbild Schwan. Ein Supernova Überrest.
Je 9x3min in RGB, 81min Gesamtbelichtungszeit. Bearbeitet mit AstroPixelProcessor, Photoshop , Starnet. Datensatz von iTelescope.net: Takahashi FSQ-ED APO 106mm, f/5, SBIG STL-11000M CCD Kamera.
With one of the more spectacular views in the night sky, Thor's Helmet Nebula (NGC 2359) features a bubble shaped emission nebula. This bubble (containing hundreds of solar masses of ionized material) appears to be getting blown by solar wind coming from the central star. This is a rare type of central star known as a Wolf-Rayet star which runs extremely hot and is thought to be in a pre-supernova stage.
Calibrated images of Thor's Helmet Nebula were provided by iTelescope.net. In addition to providing access to their telescopes, iTelescope.net provides subscribing members with a combination of premium image sets (with the rights to use & post them) and webinars that show how to process them. Itelescope.net captured the images and I did the post-processing with Astro Pixel Processor, Photoshop and Topaz Sharpen AI. Star spikes are natural.
Exposure Settings
• 27 images (9 red, 9 green & 9 blue)
• Exposure Time: 10 minutes (each image)
• Total Exposure Time: 270 minutes
Galaxy IC342 at 10.7 Million lightyears distance is seen here obscured by the dust and gas in the plane of our Milky way Galaxy. That is why IC342 has a reddish color.
LRGB data (11.6 hrs Luminance+12.5hrs RGB) shot on 15,16,17,18,19 and 20 November 2017. Esprit 100 refractor with QHY16200 Mono CCD camera @-20 Celcius.
Processed with AstroPixelProcessor and Pixinsight.
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_342
Knight Observatory, Tomar
In Explore 20180401
M101
Planewave - CDK 431mm - FLI
L = 22*300s
RGB = 10 * 300s bin2
Ha = 13 * 600s
AstroPixelProcessor
Pixinsight
Affinity Photo
M 81 and M 82 are truly „iconic“ deep sky objects! I spent more than 17 hours on capturing this widefield, comprising „Bode’s Galaxy“, the „Cigar Galaxy“, some smaller galaxies nearby (like NGC 3077 and NGC 2976) and the galactical cirrus, that consists of dust within our own galaxy's disk.
To create a picture from RGB, H-Alpha and Luminance data and keep the balance between both, the bright galaxies and the faint cirrus, was a real challenge and took me many, many hours. Hope you like it!
Celestron RASA 8 f/2
Celestron Motorfocuser
EQ6-R Pro
ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro (Gain 100, Offset 18, -10°):
RGB (no Filter): 420 x 60 (7h)
TS 2600 MP (Gain 100, Offset 50, -10°):
Ha (Baader H-alpha Highspeed Ultra-Narrowband 3.5nm Filter): 100 × 120 secs (3h 20')
Luminance (Baader Baader UV/IR Cut Filter): 475 × 30 secs (3h 57′ 30″) & 182 × 60 secs (3h 2')
Total: 17h 19′ 30″
Flats, Darkflats, Dithering
N.I.N.A., Guiding with ZWO ASI 120MM and PHD2
Astropixelprocessor, Photoshop, Pixinsight
D5300 Nikon 500mm Catadioptric Mirror Lens. 30sec f/8 ISO 400.
Captured in Astro Photography Tool. 140 Lights, 30 Darks, 30 Flats, 30 Bias frames. LR, AstroPixelProcessor, PS. Sky-Watcher Star Tracker. (The D5300 is used vs the D610 for the smaller pixel size- 3.89 microns vs 5.97 microns- to avoid undersampling.)
I made this image with the Esprit 100 APO refractor and QHY16200 CCD. R,G and B filters, 64x120 seconds each. Ha (6nm) filter 17x900 seconds (total integration: 10.6 hrs.). 10,11,12,13,14 and 15 November 2017.
Stacks made with AstroPixelProcessor and further processing with Pixinsight (Histogram, RGB+ NBRGBCombination, Curves)
Knight Observatory, Tomar.
The Veil Nebula NGC6979 and NGC6974.
This is my first attempt at processing Pickering's Triangle, a segment of the Veil Nebula, using data from iTelescope's new Delta Rho 500 f/3 (T26) in Utah. The data was provided as part of my subscription plan; as such, it was limited to 2 x 600s HA, SII, and OIII files already calibrated, giving a one-hour integration time.
The files were first integrated using AstroPixelProcessor, then processed using PixInsight, with a final tweak using Photoshop to bring out a little more contrast.
6 hours total on M81 and M82
Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor and processed in PixInsight
QHY163m camera
This HII complex on the border of Monoceros and Canis Major. Covers about 3 degrees of sky, The nebula lies in one of the farthest arms of our Milky Way galaxy and is about 100 light years across.
The head of the Seagull is Vdb 93. Also contained within the nebula are the open clusters - NGC 2343, NGC 2335, Collinder 465, and Collinder 466.
This is a HaRGB Combination from the Canon 6Da RGB data from march 8, 10 &11 2016 and Ha data shot with QHY16200 on november 17,18,19 &20 2017. (3 hrs RGB+7 hrs Ha)
telescope: Esprit 100 f5.5.
Knight Observatory, Tomar
SN2020ue was discovered on 12 january 2020. It is a type 1a supernova in elliptical Galaxy NGC4636 at 55 Million Lightyears. I made this image on 20 jan 2020 (02:00-04:00), 21 x 300 seconds luminance. Stacked in Astropixelprocessor with 2 x drizzle and processed/annotated in Pixinsight.
Asteroid 1989 Tatry moved through the narrow field of view (Identified with the Minor planet center MPC checker) It is an inner main belt Asteroid with 17km diameter.
www.rochesterastronomy.org/supernova.html#2020ue
I wanted to include the Perseus molecular cloud in the same extent as the California Nebula, but it didn't quite fit in the 1.5x-crop-factor field of view of my Fuji + Samyang 135mm lens, so I shot a mosaic of 4 panels. I thought snct astro did a great job framing the extent here (flic.kr/p/2kcoAZu), so I imitated their framing.
Panels were 26, 30, 22, and 37 x 1 min integrations and overlapped substantially, so most areas were covered by more than one panel. I also added 50 x 1 min of imagery of the Perseus Molecular Cloud from Nov. 20, 2019 (flic.kr/p/2hNZ6iA). So in total this is 165 minutes worth of data.
Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking of individual panels done with DeepSkyStacker, flattening of individual panels and mosaicking done with Astro Pixel Processor, editing in GIMP.
Skies were Bortle 3/4 for the 4 panels shot on Dec. 5, 2020, and Bortle 2/3 for the 50 exposures from Nov. 20, 2019.
It was fun discovering the planetary nebula NGC 1514 below the California Nebula as I processed this. Even though it's tiny at 135mm, it was very apparent that it was a planetary nebula rather than a star.
The Butterfly Nebula (IC 1318) in the constellation of Cygnus is one of the most popular objects in the summer sky. Surrounding the supergiant star Sadr (Gamma Cygni), there is a variety of gas and dark nebulae that make this area incredibly fascinating! I had heard that there is a relatively high amount of SII emission in this region, and indeed, that turned out to be true. I captured a total of 9.5 hours of exposure at f/2, to create this SHO version.
Celestron RASA 8 (400mm f/2)
Celestron Motorfocus
EQ6-R Pro
TS 2600 MP (Gain 100, Offset 50, -10°)
Baader H-Alpha Highspeed 3.5nm: 95 × 120″ (3h 10′)
Baader O-III Highspeed 4nm: 95 × 120″ (3h 10′)
Baader S-II Highspeed 4nm: 96 × 120″ (3h 12′)
Total: 9h 32‘
N.I.N.A., Guiding: ZWO ASI 120MM & PHD2
Astropixelprocessor, Photoshop, Pixinsight
Perchée à près de 1000 mètres d’altitude (913 mètres exactement), la majestueuse Tour de Peyrebrune veille fièrement sur les contreforts du Lévézou. Nichée au sommet d'Alrance, elle offre une vue imprenable sur le lac de Panat, dans un cadre naturel à couper le souffle. Jadis, au Moyen Âge, cet endroit abritait un château fort et un ensemble de fortifications, témoins d’un passé riche en histoire.
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Mon objectif était simple : jamais je n’avais vu de photo de la tour prise en astrophoto, un vide qu’il me fallait impérativement combler. La plus grande difficulté résidait dans la recherche du point de vue parfait, suffisamment dégagé pour laisser apparaître, sous un ciel étoilé, Orion, les Pléiades et la splendide nébuleuse de la Californie.
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Ciel : 25min (25x60sec)
Sol : un seul cliché de 30sec sur le lever de lune
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Logiciel utilisé : AstroPixelProcessor, GraXpert, Starnet++, Photoshop & Lightroom
✨ Voyage au cœur de la constellation d'Orion ✨
Après 4 heures de prise de vue et près de 30 heures de travail, avec 4 versions différentes à la clé, voici le résultat de ma dernière session d'astrophotographie.
J’ai capturé une partie de la majestueuse constellation d’Orion avec mon 135mm, mettant en lumière les subtiles nébuleuses qui peuplent cette région de notre ciel hivernal.
Durant ces 4 heures d’acquisition, j'ai aussi réalisé une série d’images sous-exposées pour mieux révéler le cœur de la nébuleuse d’Orion. Un grand merci à mon ami Harry Collis pour ses précieux conseils, sans qui je n'aurais peut-être pas atteint ce résultat avec autant de facilité. 🙏
Orion, la star de l'hiver, n'arrêtera jamais de nous fasciner et de nous inspirer, nous les astrophotographes du monde entier. ✨
Technique :
Apn défiltré + star aventurer + Samyang 135mm f2
240 lights à 60sec, 1600 iso, f2.8, 30 lights à 15sec, 30, lights à 4sec & 30 lights à 1sec (même réglages pour la série sous exposée)
100 flats, 100 offsets
AstroPixelProcessor, GraXpert, Starnet++, Photoshop, LR (export)
VdB 14 & 15 (left in the picture) are two very beautiful reflection nebulae, which also contain a few reddish emission components and belong to an even larger dust cloud in the inconspicuous constellation Camelopardalis. VdB 15 is the larger, lower area of the nebula and surrounds the star CE Cam, a variable supergiant. VdB 14, the upper part of the nebula, is located near the star CS Cam, which is also a supergiant. The distance to earth is around 3,000 lightyears.
The open star cluster Stock 23 can be found on the right in the picture and is also a nice object for visual observation. Its distance is estimated at 1,240 lightyears and it is surrounded by several spectacular dark clouds. It is embedded in the large but faint emission nebula SH2-202, which extends over the entire right half of the picture.
Equipment:
Celestron RASA 8 f/2
Celestron Motorfocuser
EQ6-R Pro
ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro (Gain 100, Offset 18, -10°)
RGB (no filter): 300 × 30″ (2h 30′)
RGB (IDAS LPS-D3 Filter): 260 × 120″ (8h 40′)
TS 2600 MP Mono (Gain 100, Offset 50, -10°)
Ha: (Baader H-alpha Highspeed Ultra-Narrowband 3.5nm Filter): 130 x 60 (2h 10')
Total: 13h 20'
Flats, Darkflats, Dithering
N.I.N.A., Guiding with ZWO ASI 120MM and PHD2
Astropixelprocessor, Photoshop, Pixinsight
Date: November 23, December 8 & 15, 2022
Location: Hannover, Germany (Bortle 5-6)
M: iOptron EQ45-Pro
T: William Optics GTF81
C: ZWO ASI1600MC-Cooled
F: No Filter
G: PHD2
GC: ZWO ASI120mini [OAG]
RAW16; FITs
Temp: -15 DegC
Gain 200;
25 x Exp 15s
Frames: 25 Lights; 50 Darks; 50 Flats
60% Crop
Capture: SharpCap
Processed: APP; PS
Sky: No moon, calm, 30%cloud, mild, good seeing.
A mosaic of a region of active star formation in the constellation Cassiopeia. near the center is an interesting feature known as the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635), quite small in this large scale image. Above and to the left of that is a nice open star cluster known as M52, and to the right is another bright star-forming region, NGC 7538.
Tech: 8 tiles, each 12 5-minute exposures. ZWO ASI294MC camera, Explore Scientific FCD-100 102mm telescope, dual narrow-band filter (H-alpha, [O III]), iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir controller. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom.
The Sadr Region features a rich complex of dust clouds and glowing nebulosity set against the plane of the Milky Way. It harbours a number of notable deep sky objects. Within this capture you can see IC 1318 The Butterfly Nebula, NGC 6888 The Crescent Nebula, open cluster NGC 6910 to name a few.
The young open cluster NGC 6910 occupies 10 arc minutes of the apparent sky and has a visual magnitude of 7.4. It lies half a degree east-northeast of Sadr and may be physically related to the Gamma Cygni Nebula. The cluster contains a number of OB stars, as well as supergiant stars, including the red supergiant RW Cygni. It is the core cluster of the Cygnus OB9 stellar association. It was discovered by William Herschel in October 1786.
Collinder 419, also within the image, is a young open cluster that surrounds the massive O-class star HD 193322. The cluster has a visual magnitude of 7.60. The nearby open cluster Collinder 421 is fainter, with an apparent magnitude of 10.10.
IC 1311 is another open cluster that can be seen in the region. With an apparent magnitude of 13.10, it is considerably fainter than the others and embedded in nebulosity.
Total of 22 hours capture over May, June and July. Originally an HOO project, but decided to add Sulphur ii and RGB Stars.
Sky Quality 19.67 Magnitude Class 5 Bortle.
Astromiks 50mm SHO 6nm Filters and RGB Filters
30 x Darks, Flats and Bias
ZWO ASI6200MM Pro
ZWO 7x2" EFW
ZWO EAF
Williams Optics GT81 IV
WO 6A III Field Flattener 0.8
HEQ5 Pro Rowan
ASIAIR Pro
Astro Pixel Processor
Pixinsight
Photoshop 2022
Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
QHYCCD Minicam8
HSO
30 x 60sec. each filter.
Processed with Astro Pixel Processor, NoiseXTerminator and Affinity Photo.
Dati: 54 x 300 sec a gain 5 e offset 25 a -15° c + 117 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: 17,5 ° C - Umidità 54%
Comet Leonard (more formally known as C/2021 A1) is brightening, still not up to naked-eye visibility though unless your eyes are a lot better than mine; may be possible in binoculars. This image was made this morning before sunrise from fairly bright suburban Bloomington, Indiana (plenty of light pollution and a last quarter Moon) the tail is visible in the image for about 1 degree (about twice the Moon's diameter) and the green coma is very obvious.
84 frames, each 90 sec. (just over 2 hours total exposure), processed in Astro Pixel Processor, once to register on the comet, again to register on the stars, processed in Lightroom and composited in Photoshop.
Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC camera, UV/IR cut fillter, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir Pro controller.
#cometleonard #astrophotography #solarsystem
10 hours RGB plus 3 hours dual band data over 3 nights 4-6th April 2021
Skywatcher 200pds
Altair Astro 294c
Optolong L-eXtreme dual band filter
Stacked in Astropixelprocessor
Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop
M81 (Bodes Galaxy) Spiral Galaxy found in the constellation of Ursa Major.
M: iOptron iEQ45-Pro
T: Celestron C8 SCT
C: ZWO ASI1600MC-Cooled
G: OAG and PHD2
GC: ZWO ASI220MM
RAW16; FITs
Temp: -10 DegC
Filter: No Filter
Gain 139; Exp: 32 x 120s
Frames: 32 Lights
Cal Frames: DarkFlats/Flats
Total Exposure: ~64 mins
95% Crop
Capture: NINA
Processed: APP; PS.
Sky: No moon, no breeze, no cloud.
The Pleiades star cluster in the constellation Taurus. Stars and dust gravitationally bound to each other.
1x3 mosaic, each tile 30 300 second exposures frames (7.5 hours total exposure). Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC camera, UV/IR cut fillter, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir Pro controller.
Left - Eastern Veil. NGC 6992
Right - Western Veil. NGC 6960 (the 'Witch's Broom')
On the night of the 13th September I imaged the East and West sides of the Veil Nebula in Cygnus.
Each image was 8 x 8 minute exposures with flats and darks.
Taken with a 25cm f4 Quatrro CF, belt modded EQ6 and autoguider and a Canon 60Da.
Software used: APT, PHD2 and Carte du Ciel.
Processing: AstroPixelProcessor, Affininty Photo and Topaz.
The Esprit 100 APO triplet f5.5 was used for RGB (Canon 6Da) and Ha (QHY16200 @ -20C). RGB : 99x240 seconds iso1600 and Ha : 22x900 sec. (RGB on 8,21 and 22 jan 2017 and Ha on 6 and 7 May 2017 (>85% Moon).
Processing was done with Astro Pixel Processor and Pixinsight. The HaRGB Combination script was used.
Knight Observatory, Tomar
Horseheadnebula IC434 as famous member in the Orion constellation. HaRGB mode. Around 10 hours of integration. It’s ~1500 Lightyears away from the earth. Diameter ~3 Lightyears. Postprocessing in Astropixelprocessor, Pixinsight and Photoshop.
Camera was #qhy268m
#C11 at 2000mm focal length
#EQ8R
#youresa
#astrophotography #longexposure #galaxy #neustadtanderweinstrasse #apod #jwgermany #jw #jwphotography #jw_snapshots #passioneastrofotografia
Dati: 57 x 300 sec ( 4.75ore) gain 5 @ -20° c + 38 dark + 30 flat e darkflat
Filtro: Astronomik UV/IR Block L2
Montatura: EQ6 pro
Ottica: Takahashi FSQ106
Sensore: QHY168C
Cam guida e tele: asi120mm su Scopos 62/520
Software acquisizione: nina e phd2
Software sviluppo: AstroPixelProcessor e Photoshop
Temperatura esterna: 5 ° C - Umidità 50%
note: PRESENZA DI VELATURE IN CIELO
Part of the much larger Cygnus Loop, it's the ionised gas remnants of a supernova and is around 1470 LYs from Earth. The area is VAST ( it would take me a month of solid imaging to capture it all on this camera and scope set up).
This image is a mono capture using two filters to capture light from different gases in the nebula: Hydrogen alpha and Oxygen 3. These have then been combined into Red = Ha, Blue and Green = O3.
I love shooting this area of the sky as the detail that comes out is fantastic - shame it's only visible in the summer when dark hours are down to a couple per night.
QHY163m, Skywatcher 130pds (with 0.9x coma corrector)
Baader 7nm Ha and 8nm O3 filters
Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor and processed in PixInsight
50x240s exposures per filter, 20 darks, 20 flats, 20 dark flats
Comet 19P/Borrelly, currently the brightest comet in the sky, though rather faint.
A composite of 61 exposures, 2 minutes each, processed to register on the comet and separately to register on the stars, combined in Photoshop.
Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 refractor, 0.8x reducer/flattener, ZWO ASI294MC camera, UV/IR cutoff filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir controller. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, and Lightroom.
This is my first Post-Covid image but also my first Mosaic since switching back to a MONO imager, was so happy with the performance of my ASI6200MC Pro that I stuck with the same model but the MONO version, taken from Bortle 4 skies in the south east UK
RA: 05h23m06.99s
Dec: +33°58'17.2"
Constellation: Auriga
Designation: IC405, IC410 / NGC1893, IC417, NGC1907, NGC1931
Image Details:
Panel 1: 101x150S in 3nm Ha, 4.5nm OIII and 4.5nm SII
Panel 2: 101x150S in 3nm Ha, 4.5nm OIII and 4.5nm SII
Darks: 201 Frames
Flats: 201 Frames
Bias: 201 Frames
Acquisition Dates: Jan. 29, 2022 · Feb. 4, 2022 · Feb. 6, 2022 · Feb. 18, 2022 · Feb. 19, 2022 · Feb. 21, 2022 · Feb. 22, 2022 · Feb. 24, 2022 · Feb. 25, 2022 · Feb. 26, 2022 · Feb. 27, 2022
Total Capture time: 25h 15min
Equipment Details:
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro 62mpx Full Frame
Imaging Scope: SharpStar 15028HNT Hyperboloid Astrograph
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI260MC Pro
OAG: ZWO L-OAG
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro
Pier: Altair Astro Skyshed 8" Pier
Focuser: Primalucelab Sesto Senso V2
Filter: Baader Ultrafast F2 3nm Ha, 4.5nm OIII and 4.5nm SII
Power and USB Control: Primalucelab Eagle4 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
Two star clusters within the same small field of the sky about a degree apart, but vastly distant from us and about 1,000 light-years apart from each other. M53, at upper right consists of many thousands of old stars formed at around the same time. NGC 5053, at lower left is much looser and contains fewer stars.
A composite of 30 frames, 5 hours total exposure. Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC camera, UV/IR cutoff filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir controller. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, and Lightroom.
I never get bored of imaging the closest galaxy to our own, at 2.5 moon widths wide, it is an easy target to spot with the naked eye, really good field of view with the ASI6200 on the SHarpStar 15028HNT
RA: 00h42m44.33s
Dec: 41°16'07.50"
Constellation: Andromeda
Designation: M31
Image Details: 201x90S at Gain 0
Darks: 101 Frames
Flats: 101 Frames
Bias: 101 Frames
Acquisition Dates: Nov. 15, 2020 , Nov. 18, 2020 , Nov. 19, 2020 , Dec. 12, 2020
Total Capture time: 5.0 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-Pro 2"
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
✨ Sous le ciel étoilé de l'Aubrac… 🌌
Dans la pureté du plateau de l'Aubrac, entre l'Aveyron et le Cantal, j'ai réalisé cette image au buron de la Lande du Clapier, situé à près de 1300m d'altitude. Un endroit qui, loin de la pollution lumineuse, offre un spectacle céleste d'une rare intensité.
Le ciel est une toile vivante : des nébuleuses comme celle de la Californie, qui semble s'étirer à l'infini, la majestueuse nébuleuse et constellation d'Orion, qui éclaire la nuit de sa lueur éclatante, avec sa boucle de Barnard, un cercle d’étoiles dansant dans la profondeur du cosmos. 🌠
Jupiter, la planète géante gazeuse, surplombe cette scène, tandis que les Pléiades scintillent dans leur halo bleuté.
Cette photo témoigne d’une passion profonde pour l’astronomie et la nature, un mélange entre art et science, où chaque élément du ciel trouve sa place dans un équilibre parfait. ✨🌍
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Techniquement c’est un tracked/stacked/blended autrement dit un empilement avec suivie à la monture équatoriale de 25min pour le ciel avec un grand angle composé en 25x60secondes et d’un autre empilement de 5min pour le sol en 5x60sec. — Traitement avec AstroPixelProcessor, GraXpert, Starnet++, Photoshop et Lightroom uniquement pour l’export.
Sh2-263 is a red HII emission nebula in the constellation of Orion, located in the center of this image. The central star is HD 34989, a blue-white 5.8 magnitude star, located 1700 light-years away. The blue reflection nebula near the center is called vdB-38
Camera: QHY268M
Telescope: 11" Celestron Edge HD with Hyperstar V4
Mount: Orion HDX-110
Filter: Optolong UV/IR cut (Luminance)
60x120sec
Camera: QHY128C
Telescope: AstroTech AT65EDQ
Mount: Orion HDX-110
Filter: Optolong UV/IR cut (RedGreenBlue)
15x480sec
The L+RGB shot from the 2 telescopes were acquired with SGPro and APT, processed in AstroPixelProcessor, Pixinsight & combined in Photoshop 2024
Resolution ............... 1.430 arcsec/px
Rotation ................. -3.498 deg
Reference system ......... ICRS
Observation start time ... 2024-02-01 12:00:00 UTC
Focal distance ........... 532.19 mm
Pixel size ............... 3.69 um
Field of view ............ 2d 20' 48.0" x 1d 31' 50.4"
Image center ............. RA: 5 21 41.606 Dec: +8 24 07.36
Annotated Version: flic.kr/p/2pxbT6x
Altair 294c
60x60s, 45x120s
Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor
Processed in PixInsight
Finished in Photoshop
I've never been that interested in imaging this region of the Milky Way with my Samyang 135 for whatever reason, perhaps because I can't resolve the Pillars of Creation in the center of the Eagle Nebula (bright emission nebula in upper right quadrant) with my 135mm lens. Even so, the wider field is full of interesting contrasting features. This area is quite bright and colorful relative to other regions that I've imaged recently, so processing was a cinch.
Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 30 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken on Aug. 23, 2020 under Bortle 3/4 skies around the setting of the 25% illuminated moon.