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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.
Je vous présente la nébuleuse de la trompe de l’éléphant, plus connu sous le nom de IC1396. Elle se situe dans la constellation de Céphée. Il y a 1h30 de signal, dans le futur, je prévois de faire une mosaïque de cette région absolument magnifique et riche en détail.
Pas de Dark, 50 offsets, 50 flats & 90 lights à 60sec, f/2.8, 1600iso (soit 1h30)
-Prétraitement APP (AstroPixelProcessor)
-Traitement APP, GraXpert, Starnet++, PS
Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
Altair Astro Hypercam 585C OSC (Offset:10 / Gain:100)
HDR mode on
137 x 120 sec. subs (~4.5hrs.)
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, StarNet, GraXpert and Affinity Photo
Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
Altair Astro Hypercam 585C OSC (Offset:8 / Gain:685 (HCG) )
120 x 60 sec. subs (2hrs.)
Processed with Astro Pixel Processor, StarNet, NoiseXTerminator and Affinity Photo
NGC 7822, a region of active star formation toward the constellation Cepheus with some amazing details of pillars and dust lanes.
70 total exposures in three mosaic tiles, 6 min. each (total 7.5 hours). Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 refractor, 0.8x reducer/flattener, ZWO ASI2600MM monochrome CMOS camera, 7nm H-alpha filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir controller, auto-guided. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom
#deepsky #astrophotography
Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
Altair Astro Hypercam 585C OSC (Offset:10 / Gain:190)
HDR mode on
67 x 120sec. subs (2hr 14mins.)
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Seti Astro Cosmic Clarity and Affinity Photo
The California Nebula, NGC 1499, a cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Perseus, named for its resemblance to the shape of California. I was surprised at the amount of detail and color separation, which results from the combination of exposures in the light of hydrogen (green), sulfur (red), and oxygen (blue). This is a mosaic of three frames with a total exposure of 9 hours with the dual hydrogen+oxygen filter and 6 hours with the sulfur filter.
Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera, dual narrow-band filter (Hα,[O III]), [S II] filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir controller. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom
#astrophotography #deepskyphotography #nebula
These glowing filaments and wispy tendrils of the Vela Supernova Remnant are all that remains of a star much like our sun. It once glowed bright and provided warmth to worlds like our earth. And then at the end of its life, the star went supernova and destroyed worlds - leaving a tapestry of colors and shapes behind.
Calibrated images of the Vela Supernova Remnant 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 using their T10 telescope based in the Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia. I handled the post-processing side with Astro Pixel Processor, Photoshop, Star Xterminator, Star Spikes Pro, Topaz Sharpen and DeNoise AI.
My goal with framing this shot was to include the Dumbbell Nebula (tiny, but bright, on the left), the asterism Brocchi's Cluster (lower right, AKA Coathanger) and some of the well-defined dark nebulae in the region (upper right). Emission nebulae are also fairly prominent near the center.
Acquisition details: Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 50 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken July 23, 2020 from Bortle 3/4 skies.
The area of sky surrounding Orion' belt and sword.
A beautiful area of sky in one of the most recognisable celestial constellations.
20 hours of exposure across 2 panels in LRGB colour palette.
Data from the Telescope Live network and processed by myself.
APP for mosaic tool
PixInsight for stacking and post-processing
Photoshop for final touches
North America & Pelican Nebula (2-panel mosaic)
Celestron RASA 8
Celestron Motorfocus
IDAS NBZ Dualband Filter
EQ6-R Pro
ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro (Gain 100, Offset 18, -10°)
25 x 240 secs for each panel
N.I.N.A., Guiding with ZWO ASI 462MC and PHD2
Astropixelprocessor, Photoshop, Pixinsight
Bortle 5
Three weeks after completing my capture of M 101, the supernova SN 2023ixf became visible, and a few days ago, I also photographed it and combined it with my previous data of M 101. Hope you like it!
Skywatcher 200/1000 @ 750mm f/3.75
Starizona Nexus Coma Corrector & Reducer (0.75)
EQ6-R Pro
ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro (Gain 100, Offset 18, -10°)
RGB (no filter): 517 × 60″ (8h 37′) & 40 x 30‘‘ (20‘)
TS 2600 MP Mono (Gain 100, Offset 50, -10°)
Ha: (Antlia EDGE H-alpha 4.5nm Filter): 151 × 120″ (5h 2')
Luminance: (Baader UV/IR Cut / Luminance Filter): 262 × 60″ (4h 22′)
Total 18h 21′
N.I.N.A., Guiding: ZWO ASI 120 MM & PHD2
Bortle 5
Astropixelprocessor, Photoshop, Pixinsight
M44 IC4665 Summer Beehive Cluster
This is a first light from a revamped setup where the camera and mount have been upgraded. The conditions were not ideal, the wind was moderate with gusts up to 16mph and the ambient temperature was in the teens deg C.
Processing didn't go as smoothly as I had originally hoped, with Pixinsight failing to register red and green filter lights. AstroPixelProcessor struggled with the light pollution mainly contained within the luminescence frames, however I was pleased with the the inital performance of the ZWO ASI533MM Pro.
Frames taken on June 6, 2023
Mount: iOptron CEM40G
OTA Imaging: Skywatcher 120ED with x0.85 flattener, f6.35, 768mm
Camera:ZWO ASI533MM Pro, Cooled to -10 deg C
Filter Wheel: ZWO EFW Mini
Focuser: Primaluce Lab ESATTO
Rotator: Primaluce Lab ARCO
Guiding: iOptron iGuide, 120mm : 2.9um
Computer: Primaluce Lab Eagle Pro 2 + ECCO2 (Enviroment)
Light Exposures:
Luminescence .. 40 x 60 seconds
Red ........... 40 x 60 seconds (2 rejected)
Green ......... 40 x 60 seconds
Blue .......... 40 x 60 seconds (5 rejected)
Calibration files:
BIAS .......... 100
Dark .......... 25
Flat .......... 25 per filter
Dark flat ..... 25 per filter
Total integration time: 2.55 hours
Processing
AstroPixelProcessor -> Photosphop -> Topaz DeNoise AI -> Photoshop
Center (RA, Dec): (266.608, 5.724)
Center (RA, hms): 17h 46m 25.849s
Center (Dec, dms): +05° 43' 25.817"
Size: 50.5 x 50.5 arcmin
Radius: 0.595 deg
Pixel scale: 1.01 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is -179.1 degrees E of N
A large but relatively faint, emission nebula in Vulpecula. it contains the small reflection nebula NGC 6820 and the open cluster NGC 6823. It is most well known for the prominent pillar in the brighter core, though many other fascinating substructures can be seen in the dimmer parts of the nebulosity. The main body of the nebula is crossed by a dark cloud.
The image was taken with Ha (mapped to red), S-II (mapped to yellow/green), O-III (mapped to cyan) ultra-narrowband filters as well as with the g’ photometric filter (mapped to blue) to pick up the faint reflection nebulosity. The O-III signal is weakest but present in the bright core. Stars are from the sulfur-II plates and are thus without colour. Processing in AstroPixelProcessor, StarTools, PixInsight and Photoshop.
SIGMA fp L (Monochrome)
Celestron RASA 11
10 Micron GM1000 HPS
4,5 hrs, ISO 400, 620mm, F2.2
Which way would you go? Left or right?
Taken with a @Canon 60D Mod at 14mm F4.0.
Sky - 13mins of 8sec untracked exposures, ISO5000, stacked in APP.
Foreground - 2x 1min exposures, ISO400, mosaic with ICE.
Processed in Photoshop
One of the brightest stars in the night sky and a dwarf galaxy right next to it: Regulus and the dwarf galaxy Leo I are a fascinating pair that I've had on my to-do list for quite some time. However, my first attempt turned out to be a failure because, after stacking, it turned out that a spike from Regulus was going right through the Leo I galaxy. I hadn't considered the spikes at all during the preparation of the capture. Fortunately, a new opportunity arose four weeks later, and I rotated the tube of my Newtonian telescope so that Leo I was now located between the spikes.
In the final stack, Leo I was nicely clear, bright, and clearly visible, so I could keep the editing very simple. Thanks to the CNC machined secondary spider, Regulus' spikes were also nearly perfect and required no corrections at all. I wish every image would work out like this...
I hope you enjoy my version of this odd couple!
Some more facts:
Regulus is not really a single star, but a multiple star system. It consists of two pairs of stars. Regulus A, the primary component in the Regulus system, is a spectroscopic binary star composed of a blue-white main sequence star with the spectral classification B7 V and a companion believed to be a white dwarf. With a visual magnitude of 1.35, Regulus A is reponsible for the star system’s brightness and bluish colour. The system lies approximately 79 light years from the Sun.
Leo I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the constellation Leo. At about 820,000 light-years distant, it is a member of the Local Group of galaxies and is thought to be one of the most distant satellites of the Milky Way galaxy.
Leo I is located only 12 arc minutes from Regulus. For that reason, the galaxy is sometimes called the „Regulus Dwarf“. Scattered light from the star makes studying the galaxy more difficult, and it was not until the 1990s that it was detected visually. Typical to a dwarf galaxy, the metallicity of Leo I is very low, only one percent that of the Sun. The galaxy may be embedded in a cloud of ionized gas with a mass similar to that of the whole galaxy.
Skywatcher 200 1000 @750mm f/3.75
Starizona Nexus Coma Corrector & Reducer
Secondary Spider by Backyard Universe
EQ6-R Pro
ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro (Gain 100, Offset 18, -10°)
RGB (Baader UV/IR Cut Filter): 180 × 60″
Total: 3 h
Bortle 5
Darks, Flats, Darkflats, Dithering
N.I.N.A., Guiding: ZWO ASI 120MM & PHD2
Astropixelprocessor, Photoshop, Pixinsight
An underrated area of the Gamma Cygni nebula IC 1318 - vdB 134 is a reflection nebula, reflecting the light of ω1 Cygni about 869 ly distant.
Toward the bottom of the frame is planetary nebula PLN 86 + 5 1.
128 * 3min lights OSC data with a Skywatcher 8" Quattro and Neodymium filter, lots of biases, flats and darks processed in APP, PI and Affinity.
With my experience capturing and processing deep space objects continuing to grow, I wanted to revisit a few of my favorite celestial locations including the North America and Pelican Nebulae. I think this version shows improvement and I hope you like it too.
I captured this image (from my home in Colorado) using iTelescope.net's T20 telescope located in an observatory in Beryl Junction, Utah. I captured 69 images over 2 nights using both wideband and narrowband filters and processed them with Astro Pixel Processor, Photoshop, Star Xterminator, Star Spikes Pro, and Topaz Denoise/Sharpen. I found that Star Xterminator allowed me to separate the nebulae clouds from the stars - a step that helped a quite a bit.
Exposure Settings
• 69 - 5 minute exposures
○ Luminance: 18
○ Red: 8
○ Green: 8
○ Blue: 8
○ Hydrogen-Alpha: 9
○ Sulfur-II: 9
○ Oxygen III: 9
• Total Exposure Time: 345 minutes
Telescope Optics & Camera
• Optics: Takahashi FSQ-ED (T20)
• Focal Length: 530 mm
• Mount: Paramount ME
• CCD: SBIG STL-11000 - 10.7 mb
• Observatory Location: Beryl Junction, Utah
Altair Astro 294c
Skywatcher 200pds
160x120s total integration
Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor
Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop
Dati: 156 x 300 sec ( 13 ore) gain 5 @ -10° c + 70 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: 18 ° C - Umidità 70%
A galaxy group in Ursa Major and Camelopardalis, one of the nearest galaxy groups to the Local Group at approximately 3.6Mpc away.
The big obvious spiral is M81, Bode's Galaxy at about 12 Mly away, with a supermassive black hole about 70 million solar masses. The bright blue the spiral arms are star formation regions; the pink/red spots are nebulae.
The second-largest is M82, aka the Cigar Galaxy, also 12Mly away, home to the brightest pulsar yet known, M82-X-2. Tidal forces from interaction with M81 have caused massive star formation.
The wispy lines and areas are Integrated Flux Nebulae (IFN), bodies of gas and dust outwith the main body of the galaxy illuminated by the light of the galaxies themselves. You could say it's a bit faint - there are stars down to magnitude 16.1 in here, easily.
This is 8 hours' exposure on the Altair 26C using 3-min subs, gain 100, Neodymium filter.
Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE cruising thought the constellation Auriga and about to enter the Lynx constellation. It has an orbital period of roughly 6.800 years, which means it was last seen around 4.800 B.C. At its closest point to the Sun, it's only 44 million kilometers away from it. At its furthest point from the sun, which it will reach in about 3.400 years, it'll be 107 billion kilometers away from it. Currently the comet is a naked-eye comet, meaning you can spot it in the night sky without the aid of binoculars or telescopes.
Object Information
* First frame date : 12-07-2020
* First frame time (local): 03:11
* First frame time (UTC): 01:11
* Distance from Earth : 129.540.000km
* Distance from Sun : 58.558.000km
* Last frame date : 12-07-2020
* Last frame time (local): 03:19
* Last frame time (UTC): 01:19
* Distance from Earth : 129.515.000km
* Distance from Sun : 58.574.000km
Shooting Location :
* 51° N 3° E
* Noordstrand, Oostende
* bortle class 6 beach
Hardware
* Imaging Lens : Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L II IS USM @ 200mm
* Imaging Camera : Canon EOS 6D Mark II
Exposures
* ISO speed : 1600
* Aperture setting : f/2.8
* Shutter speed : 2 seconds
* Light Frames : 77x
* Total Integration Time : 154 sec
Capture Software
* built-in intervalometer
Processing Software
* AstroPixelProcessor (Registration & stacking)
* PixInsight (Stretching)
* Topaz DeNoise AI (Noise reduction)
* Adobe Photoshop (Fine-tuning)
Date: 0:20JST- May.10, 2021
Location: Amagi Highland, Shizuoka Pref., Japan
Optics: SIGMA 70mm F2.8 DG MACRO | Art (f/3.2)
Mount: RainbowAstro RST-135
Camera: Canon EOS 6D (mod/SEO-SP4)
ISO speed: 1600
Exposure: 15x120sec.x3panel
Processing: PixInsight, AstroPixelProcessor
Even when it's not cloudy in Scotland, the sky never gets dark enough at this time of year to allow the observing of Deep Sky Objects. Therefore, on 22 May 2023, in order to capture this image of the recent supernova (SN 2023ixf) in the Pinwheel Galaxy (Messier 101), I logged on to iTelescope T11 in the Utah Desert Remote Observatory.
Equipment: Planewave 20" (0.51m) CDK OTA, FLI ProLine PL11002M CCD camera, Planewave Ascension 200HR mount.
Data: Luminance = 3 x 180 seconds; RGB = 3 x 120 seconds per filter.
Processed using AstroPixelProcessor and Adobe Photoshop.
Dati: 64 x 300 sec a gain 5 e offset 25 @ -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: 12 ° C - Umidità 37%
It'd been awhile since I'd been astrophotographing - felt great to be out under the stars and a smokeless sky. Fall is a excellent time for widefield astrophotography in the western US - there's a decent amount of astronomic dark, plenty of clear nights, temperatures aren't too cold, and quite a few interesting widefield subjects are available.
My goal with this small mosaic (only 2 panels) was to capture both the Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946, tiny here, bottom left) and the Elephant Trunk Nebula (IC 1396) in the same extent, with all of the interesting nebulosity in between, most notably the dark nebula Barnard 150 (AKA the Seahorse Nebula) in the lower left, one of my favs.
Surprisingly, I didn't detect much of the red emission Flying Bat Nebula (Sh2-129, center), part of which actually appears bluish (?, at first I was excited that I might have detected the Giant Squid Nebula (OU4), but nope, the blue is not in the right place). Previously I had captured Sh2-129, albeit faintly, with this same set up in the same location.
Part of the reason for this is that I stopped my Samyang 135mm down a half stop to f 2.4 (which I usually shoot wide open at f 2), not to tighten up stars, but to flatten out the heavy vignetting a tad. It did make a difference, but I did also notice that the Elephant Trunk Nebula didn't show up as strongly as expected based on my previous imaging of it. I'm still undecided whether I'll stay with f2 or move to f2.4, might depend on the subject.
There is a decent amount of what appears to be blue reflection nebulosity around star HD 198793 in the upper left quadrant; looking at widefield images of others, I can also see this faintly, but I haven't been able to find any closer images of it yet and it isn't cataloged in my astronomy app (SkySafari 6 Plus). It's possibly a processing artifact although it doesn't appear to be one.
Acquisition details: Fujifilm X-T10; Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.4, ISO 1600; tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro; two panel mosaic - 42 x 60 sec and 44 x 60 sec; stacking with DeepSkyStacker; editing and mosaicking with Astro Pixel Processor; and curves adjustment/star reduction/editing with GIMP; taken on Aug. 31, 2021 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula in the constellation of Cepheus.
First run at this target on a 99% full moon night.
M: iOptron EQ45-Pro
T: William Optics GTF81
C: ZWO ASI1600MC-Cooled
F: No Filters
G: PHD2
GC: ZWO ASI120mini
RAW16; FITs
Temp: -20 DegC
Gain 139
104 x Exp 100s
Frames: 104 Lights; 2 Darks; 200 flats
95% Crop
Capture: SharpCap
Processed: APP; PS; Grad Exterminator.
Sky: Full Moon, calm, no cloud, mild, good seeing.
NGC7023: 1.3 thousand light years distant.
h + chi, the famous double cluster in the constellation Perseus. The object was already know to the greek astronomer Hipparchus 130 B.C.
Object: h + chi Persei (NGC 869 + NGC 884, Perseus Double Cluster)
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 ~1h, R 40x30sec, G 40x30sec, B 40x30sec, L (mixed from RGB), 200 Bias, 40 Darks, 40 Flats per channel
Date: 2017-10-16
Location: Schwaig
Capture: Sequence Generator Pro
Guiding: Off-Axis, ASI120MM, PHD2
Image Acquisition: Stephan Schurig
Image Processing: Stephan Schurig
AstroPixelProcessor 1.070: Calibration, Registration, Normalization, Integration, Channel Combination, Background Flattening & Calibration, Star Colors Correction, Auto Digital Development
Photoshop 20.0.1: Levels, Curves, Exposure (Gamma, Offset, Exposure), Masked Nik Dfine 2 Denoise, Masked Dynamic (Dynamic, Saturation), Star Shrink, Masked HighPass Sharpening, Levels
I captured this image of Albireo, one of the main, visible stars in the constellation of Cygnus. Actually, make that two as it is a double star. They stand out brightly against the glittering backdrop of the Cygnus Star Cloud.
Albireo A is the larger, amber star and Albireo B is the smaller sapphire blue star. If they are orbiting each other the orbital period is at least 75,000 years.
It turns out that Albireo A is itself a binary star with the components orbiting every 100 years. This whole system is a mere 380 light years away. You could almost touch it - if you had long arms.
The amber star is about 50 times the size of our sun and shines 950 times as bright. The little blue star is only 3 times the mass of our sun and only shines 190 times as bright.
This is a combination of 62 ten-second exposures using my C11. Any longer and the bright stars would have been way over exposed, any less and the background stars would not have shown up.
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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: ZWO UV/IR Cut filter
Focuser: ZWO EAF
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI174MM Mini guidecam
Guide via: ZWO OAG
Stacked from:
Lights 62 at 10 seconds, gain 101, temp -10C
Darks 30 at 10 seconds, gain 101, temp -10C
Flat 30 at 570 ms, gain 101, temp -10C
Dark Flat 30 at 570 ms gain 101 temp -10C
Bortle 4 sky.
Integrated the saved frames in Astro Pixel Processor.
Processed in PixInsight
Added captions in Photoshop CS4
This is a SHO version of my capture of this beautiful area in Cepheus, located between „Wizard Nebula“ and „Elephant's Trunk Nebula“. Very faint, but comprising spectacular objects like the emission nebulae Sh2-134 and Sh2-135, the open star cluster NGC 7261 and a bunch of LDNs and LBNs, it turned out as a very nice photo project.
Celestron RASA 8 f/2
Celestron Motorfocuser
EQ6-R Pro
ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro (Gain 100, Offset 18, -10°)
Ha & OIII (IDAS NBZ Filter): 80 × 120″ (2h 40′)
TS 2600 MP Mono (Gain 100, Offset 50, -10°)
Ha: (Baader H-alpha Highspeed Ultra-Narrowband 3.5nm Filter): 70 x 120 (2h 20')
OIII: (Baader OIII Highspeed Ultra-Narrowband 4nm Filter): 140 x 120 (4h 40')
Total: 9 h 40‘
Flats, Darkflats, Dithering
N.I.N.A., Guiding with ZWO ASI 120MM and PHD2
Astropixelprocessor, Photoshop, Pixinsight
RA: 03h47m00.00s
Dec: 24°07'01.20"
Constellation: Taurus
Designation: M45
Image Details: 180x90S at Gain 0
Darks: 101 Frames
Flats: 101 Frames
Bias: 201 Frames
Acquisition Dates: Dec. 12, 2020 , Jan. 9, 2021 , Feb. 9, 2021 , Feb. 10, 2021
Total Capture time: 4.5 Hours
Equipment Details:
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI Cameras ASI6200MC Pro 62mpx Full Frame OSC
Imaging Scope: Sharpstar Optics 15028HNT Hyperboloid Astrograph
Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Ltd Lodestar X2
Guide Scope: 365Astronomy.com 280mm Guide Scope
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro
Focuser: Primalucelab Sesto Senso V2
Filter: Optolong Astronomy Filter 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
Full Size Image
Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/1m3rgl
Tried a new technique to capture Andromeda, 79 shots of 30 seconds exposure at ISO 10,000, stacked in Astro Pixel Processor. I would have taken more but the fog rolled in and crashed the party ;)
Nikon D500 - Nikkor 500mm f4 AI-P - Celestron CGEM
Date: 2020-05-23 and 05-29(2 days)
Location: Mt. Zao, Miyagi, Jpn.
Optics: Zeiss Apo sonner 135mm F2(F2.8)
Camera: Canon EOS 6D (mod)
Exposure: 120s x 32flames(23th) + 120s x 60flames(29th), ISO 1600
Processing: AstroPixelProcessor, Pixinsight, Photoshop.
The Cygnus Loop (a.k.a. Veil Nebula) in the constellation Cygnus, the remnants of a supernova explosion in which a star blew itself apart after exhausting its primary nuclear fuels.
A mosaic of 150 exposures, 300 sec. each in two overlapping fields in the light emitted by hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur gas, rendered in red, blue, and green, respectively. Explore Scientific ED102 0.1m f/7 refractor, Stellarvue 0.8x reducer/flattener, ZWO ASI294MC camera, 7nm H-alpha, 7nm [O III], 6.5nm [S II] filters, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir controller, autoguided. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom.
Dati: 102 x 300 sec ( 8,5 ore) gain 5 @ -15° c
Filtro: Astronomik UV/IR Block L2
Montatura: EQ6 pro
Ottica: Takahashi FSQ106
Sensore: QHY168C
Cam guida e tele: magzero Mz5m su Scopos 62/520
Software acquisizione: nina e phd2
Software sviluppo: AstroPixelProcessor e Photoshop
Temperatura esterna: 16 ° C - Umidità 60%
This is not the first time I have imaged the largest visible galaxy in our skies, the last time was with a DSLR Camera, so whilst I was trying out the ASI2400 Full Frame Camera I thought it would be a perfect target and I was not disappointed
Image Details: 172x90S at Gain 0
Darks: 101 Frames
Flats: 101 Frames
Bias: 201 Frames
Total Capture time: 4.3 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
Flickr Explore & Astrobin Image of the day 27 aug 2017:
www.astrobin.com/307683/D/?nc=iotd
Image of the week feb 5, 2018 on PhotographingSpace:
photographingspace.com/iotw-feb-5-2018/
Building further on the 48 (50) panel mosaic i added a row of 16 panels to include the Veil nebula Complex.The registration RMS error is only 0.1 pixel.......
As a basis for this Mosaic I used 70 separate stacks (also made with APP) with integration times between 45 and 345 minutes each depending on the object in the frame. An all new mosaic registration algorithm was used that is capable of truly sub pixel perfect registration of these large Mosaics. And the whole process is fully Automatic. The full size version is 29320x35386 pixels giving 1038 Megapixels).
That is not practicle for web use, but this upload is a 50% reduction and still a 120 Megabyte JPG.
You can download the 50% version by selecting the downloadlink here on Flickr.
Processing: only histogam stretch and curves adjustments, nothing else.
The Fits file size of the full version is 3.7 Gb.
Data collected between may 8 and july 31, 2017.
Esprit 100 Triplet APO f5.5 telescope and QHY16200 CCD Camera cooled to -20 C with Baader 6nm H-alpha filter.
Mosaic settings APP with version 1.0521 (Experimental version to test new Algorithm):
3) Analyse stars
min size: 4
Clip Prof: 0.1
Filter profile: off
Kappa: 3 (set to detect 3000-5000 stars)
4) Register
Pattern recognition: pentagons
scale start: 5
scale stop: 10
use dynamic distortion corr: on
same camera and optics: off
Distortion margin: 0.02
# of overlapping frames: 9
registration mode: mosaic
registration model: projective
6) Integrate
composition mode: full
LNC degree: 4)
LNC it: 3
enable MBB: on
MBB%: 5
No under/overshoot on
Integrate set scale 1.0
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There’s no better time to reprocess images than during cold and cloudy winter nights. I briefly imaged the California Nebula In September 2019. I planned to add many more hours of time on this target before posting it, but life and cloudy nights got I. The way, for now. .
The California Nebula is located 1,000 lys from Earth. .
This image consist of 20 minutes of data taken with: Stellarvue sv80ed, Asi294mc-p, ioptron iEQ30, baader uv/ir filter.
Data acquisition: 20x60sec @200 gain, 10 offset, 0 degrees.
Processed: #astropixelprocessor, pixinsight Lightroom, photoshop AND 1792 Bourbon.
Captured with: NINA.