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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.
✨ Wolf-Rayet 134 – A Cosmic Jewel ✨
Captured WR 134 in stunning RGB, H-alpha, and OIII, revealing its breathtaking nebular structures! 💫 This Wolf-Rayet star, located 6,000 light-years away in Cygnus, shines through intense stellar winds, forming a spectacular bubble-like nebula.
📷 Gear used: 🔭 Telescope: Askar 185 Camera: QHY268M Mount: EQ8-R
Narrowband data enhances the delicate ionized gas surrounding WR 134, showing off its dynamic, turbulent beauty. Every photon traveled thousands of years to reach my sensor—astronomy never ceases to amaze! 🌌
#Astrophotography #WR134 #WolfRayet #Nebula #Space #Cosmos #AstroScience #HubblePalette #AstronomyLover #Astrophotography #CosmicBeauty #DeepSky #SpaceLovers #AstroGear #PixInsight #Astropixelprocessor #QHY268m #Askar185APO #EQ8R #NebulaPhotography
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.
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
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
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.
M42 Nebula from the Alps
Canon 80D 1600 ISO + 300mm F6.4 + Astrotrac
540 * 30 seconds RGB + 160 * 30 seconds Ha
AstroPixelProcessor + Pix + Affinity
When you look at the Rosette Nebula, you're seeing raw materials making a transition into stars, planets, and eventually life. With a balance between creation and erosion, these same processes formed our sun. Every atom of oxygen, carbon, and iron in our bodies came from environments like this. Looking at the colors, we're seeing orange hydrogen gas, (mostly) pink dust, and blue light coming from hot stars that emit so much radiation that they burn away the hydrogen from the center.
The Rosette Nebula goes by a few names including the less than exciting "Caldwell 49". With the circular shape, I think it should have gotten something more fitting like "Homer's Donut". At least the state of Oklahoma was quick to adopt it as their official astronomical object.
Images for this 2x1 mosaic 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 them and webinars that show how to process them. I was planning on shooting the Rosette Nebula someday and so I was very happy to see the webinar and the images from that same area. It was extra nice that they included images that came from 3 hours, 35 minutes of capture time - giving me potential for very good image quality.
I did my processing with Astro Pixel Processor, Photoshop and Topaz Denoise. Star spikes are natural.
Exposure Settings
• 26 images (12 red, 8 green & 6 blue)
• 17 images (6 red, 6 green & 5 blue)
• Exposure Time: 5 minutes (each image)
• Total Exposure Time: 3 hours, 35 minutes
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Telescope Optics & Camera
• Optics: Planewave 24" CDK (T24 Reflector)
• Focal Length: 3,962 mm (deep field)
• CCD: FLI-PL09000 (9.3 megapixels)
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
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.
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
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
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: 40 x 300 sec a gain 5 e offset 25 a -10° c + 70 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
Temperatura 14° C - Umidità 63%
A colour take on the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Taken through Red/Green/Blue & Helium-alpha filters on a monochrome astrocamera. The result is a 4 panel mosaic of 15 minute (10 x 90s) exposures on each panel.
T: William Optics 81GTF.
C: ZWO ASI533MM-Pro.
M: Pegasus NYX-101.
G: OAG & ZWO ASI220MM.
R: Pegasus Falcon V2.
F: ZWO Electronic Filter Wheel (RGBHa only).
S: NINA to Capture and APP & Photoshop to process.
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%
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.
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
Orion Nebula—same data as in www.flickr.com/photos/mikejolley/50621468907/, but with some alternative processing. These were done in AstroPixelProcessor instead of DeepSkyStacker.
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
Bortle class 4, 60 minutes drive from Brisbane
35 * 120 seconds
temp =10 deg
gain = 300
ZWO ASI 294 with Olympus Om 50mm lens
Skywatcher Star Adventurer polar aligned with Polemaster
The Cats Paw and Lobster visible in the top left.
Calibrated in AstroPixelProcessor with darks flats and dark flats
The bright object is Jupiter
M13, located in the constellation Hercules, is one of the brightest and most spectacular globular clusters in the northern sky. Approximately 500,000 stars are packed into a region with a diameter of 150 light-years at a distance of 25,000 light-years. The red and blue giant stars appear in yellowish and bluish hues.
With this reprocessing, I was able to make a large number of very faint stars visible in the outer regions of the cluster, making M13 appear significantly larger compared to my first version. Hope you like it!
Skywatcher 200 1000 f5
TS - Optics coma corrector
EQ5
ASI 533 mc pro (Gain 100, Offset 15, - 15°)
180 x 60 secs, Darks, Flats, Darkflats
No filter
Guiding: ASI 432 MC & PHD2
N.I.N.A., APP, PS, Lacerta Flatfieldbox
Bortle 5
Astropixelprocessor, Photoshop, Pixinsight
✨ 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.
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
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
A mono take on the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Taken through a luminance filter on a monochrome astrocamera. The result is a 4 panel mosaic of 15 minute (30 x 30s) exposures on each panel. Might even get around to take red, green and blue filtered exposures to give a full technicolour experience.
T: William Optics 81GTF.
C: ZWO ASI533MM-Pro.
M: Pegasus NYX-101.
G: OAG & ZWO ASI220MM.
R: Pegasus Falcon V2.
F: ZWO Electronic Filter Wheel (Luminance only).
S: NINA to Capture and APP to process.
A colour take on the Triangulum Galaxy (M33). Taken through Red/Green/Blue & Helium-alpha filters on a monochrome astrocamera. The result is stack of (10 x 200-300s) exposures on each filter [Lum, Red, Green, Blue, Hydrogen Alpha).
T: William Optics 81GTF.
C: ZWO ASI533MM-Pro.
M: Pegasus NYX-101.
G: OAG & ZWO ASI220MM.
R: Pegasus Falcon V2.
EF: Pegasus FocusCube 3.
F: ZWO Electronic Filter Wheel (LRGBHa only).
S: NINA to Capture and APP & Photoshop to process.
About 2.8 hours total exposure.
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)
Comet C/2019 L3 (ATLAS) passes the small open cluster NGC 2266. Processed once to register the stars, again to register the comet and composited in Photoshop.
Explore Scientific ED102 0.1m f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC camera, UV/IR cutoff filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir controller, Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Lightroom, and Photoshop.
Altair Astro ED60 with 0.8x reducer/flattener @ f/4.8
ZWO ASI585MC OSC
180 x 60sec. subs (3 hrs.)
Processed with Astro Pixel Processor, NoiseXTerminator and Affinity Photo.
Under a frigid but very clear sky last night I tried out a new filter and was able to combine the resulting data with some previous images to produce this composite of the star-forming region known as IC 410, the larger cloud at upper left, along with the smaller IC 417 to the lower right. (For the astronomy purists, this is rotated relative to the usual north-up orientation, but I thought it looked more interesting this way (and there's no "up" in space anyway).
This rendering is a lot like many of the images from the Hubble Telescope that combine the light of the three elements sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen into the colors red, green and blue respectively.
Mosaic of 13 separate frames, multiple exposures each; Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC camera, dual narrow-band filter (H-alpha+[O III]), [S II] filter, ASIAir controller, iOptron CEM25P mount, processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom.
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.
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
I have imaged the Dark Shark Nebula before as a 2-Panel mosaic due to the field of view from a smaller sensor size, so with a Full Frame such as the ASI2400MC Pro I manage to capture the whole shark in one frame as well as the surrounding dark nebulosity
Image Details: 175x150S at Gain 26
Darks: 101 Frames
Flats: 101 Frames
Bias: 201 Frames
Acquisition Dates: Sept. 14, 2020 , Sept. 15, 2020 , Sept. 18, 2020 , Sept. 21, 2020 , Sept. 22, 2020
Total Capture time: 7.3 hours
Equipment Details:
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI2400MC Pro 24mpx 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
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 1.8.6 and EZ Processing Suite for Star Reduction
✨ Cette image est le fruit d’une mosaïque de 4 tuiles, chacune capturant 1h30 de signal, soit un total de 6h d'intégration au 135mm, sur plusieurs nuits (Ciel en Bortle 3)
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🔧 Traitement : AstroPixelProcessor · GraXpert · Starnet++ · Photoshop
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
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
M33, a beautiful spiral galaxy in the constellation Triangulum. It's "only" about 2.8 million light-years away, making it the next nearest large spiral galaxy to us (just beyond M31, the Andromeda Galaxy), and part of the association of galaxies called the Local Group. Had a couple of nice clear, calm nights recently, though the moon is waxing past last quarter, and local lights add to the sky brightness.
Tech: 75 5-minute exposures, ASI294MC camera, Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6 lens, UV/IR cut filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir controller, auto-guided, processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom.
Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
QHYCCD Minicam8
Hubble Palette combined with HOO
30 x 60sec. subs each filter (1.5hrs. total)
Processed with Astro Pixel Processor, NoiseXTerminator and Affinity Photo
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
Same comet, same images [lights] processed differently using Astro Pixel Processor. I prefer this one.
This version of the recent Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), whilst zipping through the constellation Auriga a few days ago. Processed from a stack 100 light frames, each with an exposure of 60s. Astro Pixel Processor image processing application used to track the comet across the stack of images, while letting the background stars blur. The ion tail is visible here shooting off to the top left. Star trails are the 'smudges' going from bottom left to top right.