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Altair Astro 294c
Skywatcher 200pds
160x120s total integration
Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor
Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop
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.
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
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
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
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.
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%
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.
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) October 16, 2024.
30 frames, 60 sec. each (30 min. total)
Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 apochromat refractor, Stellarvue 0.8x reducer/flattener
ZWO ASI294MC Pro cooled color CMOS camera, gain 120, -18ºC, ZWO UV/IR cutoff 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, Lightroom, 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%
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
The Astro Pixel Processor website: www.astropixelprocessor.com/
More versions and information on : www.astrobin.com/307683/C/
Knight Observatory, Tomar.
(Explore)
After adding 5 panels extra the "Volcano shape" with M81 at the volcano top is clearly visible. This is an annotated version.
The Integrated Flux Nebulae (or Galactic Cirrus) are high galactic latitude nebulae that are illuminated not by a single star (as most nebula in the plane of the Galaxy are) but by the energy from the integrated flux of all the stars in the Milky Way. These IFN are very faint and were discovered in 2005 by Steve Mandel. This mosaic shows sections of 2 main Nebula in the Mandel-Wilson Catalogue, the Volcano Nebula (MW3 near Messier 81/82) and the Angel Nebula MW2.
1583x300 second Luminance subs (132 hrs)
Image dates: 17 nov, 1,5,6,8,12,31 dec 2018, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 jan 2019. 2,3,4,5,6,7 feb 2019.
Esprit 100 f5.5 APO refractor/ QHY16200 CCD @-20C.
Processed/calibrated/Mosaic: AstroPixelProcessor (APP), Final processing/annotation with Pixinsight.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mandel
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Flux_Nebula
Photographing Space Image of the week: 4 Nov. 2019: photographingspace.com/iotw-nov-04-2019/
Knight Observatory, Tomar
Comet C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) continues to brighten but is still quite faint, though positioned fairly high in the sky overnight. It will likely get somewhat brighter as it approaches closest to Earth in July. Last night the comet appeared near the loose open cluster IC 4665 in the constellation Ophiucus as our streak of clear nights continues.
10 3-minute exposures, Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC camera, UV/IR cutoff filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir controller. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Lightroom, and Photoshop.
10 x 150 sec iTelescope T2 a 150 mm Takahashi refractor
Although small, NGC 2266 is a nice cluster, it has stars of diverse colors that not as well presented with short exposure necessary due to the comet's motion requiring only a few minutes of capture. The different colors of the stars within the cluster is quite apparent even with short integration time. Aligned on stars, the comet although slow moving against the background is a little elongated from motion. AstropixelProcessor and Photoshop processed.
The area around the well-known "Ghost of Cassiopeia" had been on my agenda for a while, and this year I was finally able to make it happen. Once again, I wanted to use my fast f/2 optics and a 400mm focal length to capture not only RGB data but also as much H-alpha signal as possible across the entire region. My goal was to show how deeply IC 63 and IC 59 are embedded within the H-alpha clouds. For this, I gathered 9.5 hours of RGB and 6.75 hours of H-alpha data.
To ensure that the beautiful reflection nebulae of IC 63 and IC 59 weren’t completely overwhelmed by the narrowband data, I combined the H-alpha data in this area with the RGB data using continuum substraction. Finally, I invested a few more hours in finding a good balance between the RGB and narrowband components for the final image.
Hope you like it!!!
Celestron RASA 8 f/2
Celestron Motorfocus
EQ6-R Pro
ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro (Gain 100, Offset 18, -10°)
RGB: 576 × 60″ (9h 36′)
TS 2600 MP (Gain 100, Offset 200, -10°)
Baader H-Alpha Highspeed 3.5nm: 202 × 120″ (6h 44')
Total: 16h 20'
Bortle 5 (19.50 SQM)
N.I.N.A., Guiding: ASI 120MM & PHD2
Astropixelprocessor, Photoshop, Pixinsight
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.
This Supernova remnant at 1470 Lightyears distance is imaged here in RGB color. The reddish and Blue-Green Emission Nebula shows the colours of H-Alpha and [OIII]. This image is a small section of a Veil Nebula Complex Mosaic i am working on.
Imaged with an Esprit 100 f5.5 refractor/QHY16200 CCD @-20C.
Integration time 10.8 Hr.(43x300 sec Red, 42x300sec Green, 44x300sec Blue)
Imaged on 17,18,19 Apr+ 13,14,15,16 May 2018.
Processed in Astropixelprocessor (Using 2x Drizzle) and Pixinsight.
Knight Observatory, Tomar
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 72 exposures, 300 sec. each in six overlapping fields in the light emitted by hydrogen gas. Explore Scientific ED102 0.1m f/7 refractor, Stellarvue 0.8x reducer/flattener, ZWO ASI294MC camera, 7nm H-alpha filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir controller, autoguided. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom.
Imaging the Eastern Veil Nebula with a William Optics GT71 telescope, ASI183MM camera and Antlia 3.5nm HA and 03 filters.
All the gear is finally coming together.
6*600 secs HA
6*600 sec O3
Gain 111
Temp 0 Deg c
Using the Avalon Instruments m-zero mount with a rough polar alignment.
Image acquisition software was NINA.
Guiding PHD2.
Calibrated darks, flats and dark flats in AstroPixel Processor.
This image was a cooperation with Mabula Haverkamp (the maker of astropixelprocessor) who was imaging M106 at the same time as I did. We shared our data to look what we could get out.
This is the result with a resolution of 1.36"/pixel and a limit of a magnitude of around 22.5.
We were quite happy with this result!
Mabula:
Telescope: Takahashi TSA102
Camera: ASI 1600mm-c
B: 33x120s, 97x300s 9,2h
G: 33x120s, 57x300s 5,9h
R: 33x120s, 85x300s 8,2h
Ha: 20x900s 5h
L: 20x120s, 198x300s 17,2h
Andre:
Telescope: TMB92ss
Camera: QSI583ws
L: 130x300s 10,9h
Total: 56,4 h
LDN 673 (upper right quadrant) is one of those dark nebula that I often stopped to admire when surfing astroimages. I was excited to find that I could capture some of its structure at 135mm, and that it would fit nicely in the same 135mm extent with the more frequently imaged Barnard's E. This shot has been planned for awhile but took me awhile to get to.
Acquisition details: Fujifilm X-T10; Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600; tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro; 36 x 60 sec; stacking with DeepSkyStacker; editing with Astro Pixel Processor; and curves adjustment/star reduction/editing with GIMP; taken on Sept. 2, 2021 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
100*30 second exposures of the galaxy M33 taken using the IDAS NGS1 Di light pollution filter. Taken from my north facing balcony 'observatory' in Bortle class 7 skies.
Gain= 220
Temp = 0
Acquired in NINA
Guiding PHD2 & dithering
Processed in AstroPixel Processor. Lights only with Bayer drizzle
Avalon M Zero mount
I shot this area with this exact framing last December, but wanted to improve my image. This time my focus was better (I didn't have a Bahtinov mask then), I shot and processed raw (jpeg last time), and I used Astro Pixel Processor tools for processing.
The only thing that wasn't better this time around was my tracking - I only used 50% of my subs, many of which still had slightly trailed stars; I think my balance was off. I would have liked more integration time, but still got a result I'm happy with using only 35 minutes of data.
Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 35 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken on Oct. 6, 2019 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
Jan 7 2020 edit: A very slight re-edit - I monkeyed with the original stack a bit less this time - I like the Horsehead Nebula better in this version.
Here's a little experiment. The dotted line is the International Space Station (ISS) passing through the field of view of my small telescope, very near the interesting little object known as NGC 246, a planetary nebula sometimes called the Skull Nebula in the constellation Cetus.
This wasn't by chance. Watching for these sorts of coincidences, I consulted the trusty sky simulation software SkySafari and noticed that the path of the station would take it in front of a few interesting features in the sky, in addition to this one: M13, the Great Hercules Globular cluster in Hercules, Vega, the brightest star in Lyra, and The Veil Nebula in Cygnus.
Because of the tremendous difference in brightness, I captured the ISS and the nebula field separately. (The ISS is the third brightest object in the night sky, after the Moon and Venus). For the ISS pass, I made a short video with a Nikon Z 6 mirrorless camera and Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 refractor. The image of NGC 246 was made afterward with a ZWO ASI294MC camera and Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 lens @200mm, 15 6-minute exposures processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom. The ISS track is in the correct position and scale, composited in Photoshop. In addition, the inset is an enlargement of a few video frames and shows some detail in the ISS.
#astrophotography, #ISS
This is one of those astronomy targets where I cannot quite make out the relationship between the name and the visual appearance of the object, but nevertheless this is SH2-132 or commonly known as The Lion Nebula.
I think the dark lines near the two dark areas may represent the lions mouth like an upside down Y, but who knows. This region is rich in HII, but also very rich in OIII as you can see by the blue in the image. I have produced both the HOO (Hydrogen Alpha+Oxygen III + Oxygen III as RGB) and the Hubble Palette SHO (Sulphur Dioxide II + Hydrogen Alpha + Oxygen III as RGB)
Image Details:
Acquisition Dates: Aug. 9, 2022 · Aug. 20, 2022 · Sept. 17, 2022 · Sept. 19, 2022 · Sept. 25, 2022 · Sept. 28, 2022 · Nov. 4, 2022 · Nov. 17, 2022 · Nov. 19, 2022
Frames:
Baader H-alpha Highspeed(f/2) 50 mm: 101×150″(4h 12′ 30″) (gain: 100.00) -10°C bin 1×1
Baader O-III Highspeed(f/2) 50 mm: 101×150″(4h 12′ 30″) (gain: 100.00) -10°C bin 1×1
Integration: 8h 25′
Darks: 51
Flats: 51
Bias: 201
Equipment:
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI Cameras ZWO Astronomy CamerasASI6200MM Pro Gain 100 -10C
Imaging Scope: Sharpstar Optics 20032PNT F3.2 Paraboloid Astrograph
Filters: Baader Planetarium Ultra Fast, Ultra Narrow Ha, OIII and SII 50.4mm filters
Filterwheel: ZWO ASI Cameras ZWO Astronomy Cameras 7x EFW
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI Cameras ZWO Astronomy Cameras ASI290MM
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro German Equatorial Mount
Auto Focuser: Primalucelab Sesto Senso2
Environmental conditions: Primalucelab ECCO2
Observatory Control: PrimaLuceLab Eagle Eagle 4 Pro
Roof Control: Talon RoR
Image Acquisition: Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro
Image Calibration and Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor
Image Processing: PixInsight, EZ Processing Suite and StarExterminator
Dati: 58 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: 11 ° C - Umidità 50%
auch als "Siebengestirn" bekannt. 43 Aufnahmen (12xL, 11xR, 10xG, 10xB, zur Hälfte jeweils 30sec und 60sec). 32 Minuten Gesamtbelichtungszeit. Aufgenommen mit T14 von iTelescope.net in Mayhill, New Mexico. Bearbeitet mit AstroPixelProcessor, Photoshop, AstronomyTools, Lightroom.
20 6-minute exposures, ZWO ASI 294MC camera, Nikon 200-500mm lens @500mm, iOptron CEM25P mount, ZWO ASIAir controller, dual narrow-band filter (H-alpha + [O III]).
12*300 second subs using the ASI1600MM and Antlia 3.5nm HA filter. Was aiming for some O3 but the sun came up.
Mount was the Avalon Instruments M Zero with PHD2 guiding with only a rough polar alignment. Again, I am just amazed at how well this mount tracks.
NINA was the acquisition software, camera gain = 111 and temp = 0 Deg.
Calibrated in APP, lights, darks, flats and dark flats
Balcony astro with a full moon. Gota love narrow band imaging.
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula or IC 1396 as it is otherwise known, but never with such a wide field of view, at a distance of around 2400 light years from earth and is mainly illuminated by a single bright star. It is thought that this region of space is home to a pretty young star forming region.
This image consists of the same data as the RGB Image but has been processed using my tutorial on creating SHO images from One Shot Colour Cameras which you can read here:
www.stastrophotography.com/creating-a-hubble-palette-imag...
RA: 21h39m00.01s
Dec: 57°29'24.00""
Constellation: Cepheus
Designation: IC1396
Image Details: 128x300S at Gain 100
Darks: 101 Frames
Flats: 101 Frames
Bias: 201 Frames
Acquisition Dates: Nov. 5, 2020 , Nov. 7, 2020 , Nov. 24, 2020 , Dec. 1, 2020 , Dec. 24, 2020 , Dec. 27, 2020
Total Capture time: 10.7 Hours
Equipment Details:
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI6200MC Pro 62mpx Full Frame OSC
Imaging Scope: SharpStar 15028HNT Hyperboloid Astrograph
Guide Camera: StarlightXpress Lodestar X2
Guide Scope: 365Astronomy 280mm Guide Scope
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro
Focuser: Primalucelab Sesto Senso V2
Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme 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