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

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.

Sharpless Sh2-10 is an emission nebula located in the constellation of Scorpius. It’s very rarely imaged despite being, so to speak, in plain sight between two of the most popular targets in Scorpio-The Lobster (aka The War and Peace ) Nebula and The Cat’s Paw Nebula. It is quite faint but presents interesting structure even when imaged with a small telescope.

This image was constructed with four hours of Ha data acquired with a Sharpstar Z4. 2 hours of colour data was acquired with a William Optics RedCat51. Ha and RGB data was stacked in AstroPixelProcessor. and the stacked images were registered and aligned in APP.

The registered and aligned images were cropped and processed in PixInsight

after gradient extraction with the SetiAstro ADBE script, the RGB image was plate solved and Spectrophotometrically Colour Calibrated.

Blur X was NOT applied on RGB- it was found to create " worms" -artefacts after stretching.

Stars were removed with StarNet ++ and the starless image was stretched with GHS.

A similar process was followed for the Ha data except Blur X was run twice, SPCC was not used (obviously)

After GHS stretching Dark Structure Enhance and Local Histogram Equalisation processes were run

starless RGB and Ha were combined using the combine Ha with RGB script

The resultant image was blurred with light deconvolution and a LRGB image was constructed using the combine LRGB script

Stars were processed using the SetiAstro star stretch script and added to the starless image with Pixelmath

M82 (Cigar Galaxy) Edge on 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: 18 x 120s

Frames: 18 Lights

Cal Frames: DarkFlats/Flats

Total Exposure: ~36 mins

90% Crop

Capture: NINA

Processed: APP; PS.

Sky: No moon, no breeze, no cloud.

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.

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

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)

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.

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%

TELESCOPE-Z4

CAMERAS; ZWO ASI 533 MC AND 533 MM @-10 DEGREES C

FILTERS; ANTLIA TRIBAND FOR RGB; ANTLIA 3 NM HA

INTEGRATION: 45 MINUTES IN RGB; 240 MINUTES IN HA

MOUNT; HEQ5 PRO

LOCATION: BORTLE 7.6

PROCESSING

STACKING IN ASTROPIXELPROCESSOR

PROCESSING IN PI-

ALIGNMENT

DYNAMIC CROP

ADBE

BLUR X CORRECT

BLURX SHARPEN

MAS

STARX

HARGB COMBINE RGB AND HA STARLESS

GHS

DARKSTRUCTURE ENHANCE

LOCALHISTOGRAM EQUALISATION

CURVES TRANSFORMATION

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.

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%

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.

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.

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

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_Nebula

A colour take on the California Nebula (NGC1499).

The California Nebula is an emission nebula located in the Northern constellation of Perseus, approx 1300 light years distant.

Taken through Luminance/Red/Green/Blue filters on a monochrome astrocamera. The result is a 4 panel mosaic of 36 minute (9 x 240s) exposures on each filter, and each of four panels. That's around 9.6 hours total exposure (2.4 hours on each panel).

T: William Optics 81GTF.

C: ZWO ASI533MM-Pro.

M: Pegasus NYX-101.

G: OAG & ZWO ASI220MM.

R: Pegasus Falcon V2.

EFW: ZWO Electronic Filter Wheel (2" LRGB only).

EF: Pegasus FocusCube 3.

S: NINA to Capture and APP & Photoshop to process.

Dati: 52 x 300 sec a gain 5 e offset 25 a -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: magzero mz5-m su Scopos 62/520

Software acquisizione: nina e phd2

Software sviluppo: AstroPixelProcessor e Photoshop

Temperatura esterna: 18 ° C - Umidità 68%

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

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.

Nikon D500, Nikkor 500mm f4 AI-P, Celestron CGEM mount, Astro Pixel Processor

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.

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

What's in a colour-palette? Back when I first produced this as a regular HOO image in glowing red and purply-blue, I also experimented with a weirder palette in PixInsight, more like OHO but with a few tweaks. Figured the resultant blue-green tonality would suit this time of year much better :)

(Formula, if you really want it:

// R:

OIII^2 + Ha/2

// G:

(Ha+OIII^1.05)/2

// B:

Ha + 0.5*OIII^2

)

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

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

This is one I've always wanted... It is definitely the first attempt of many to come!

D5300 (unmodded), 300mm f/2.8 AF-S, SW HEQ5 Pro

90 lights, 45seconds, ISO640, f/5.6

20 Darks

No Flats

Captured with APT, Processed with APP, GIMP, PS Elements

Supernova remnant IC 443, sometimes known as the Jellyfish Nebula in the constellation Gemini in the light of sulfur (red), hydrogen (green), and oxygen (blue).23 hours total exposure. Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC camera, dual narrow-band filter (Hα,[O III]), [S II] filter, [O III] filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom.

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

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

At the end of August, I captured this beautiful, faint emission nebula in Cygnus, which is rarely photographed and located between North America and Elephant‘s Trunk Nebula. SH2-124 and its surroundings offer a fascinating variety of structures and dark clouds that I processed in SHO first. Here's an alternative HOO version with a more „realistic“ look. I hope you like the picture in this bicolor version, too!

Skywatcher 200/1000 @750mm f/3.75

Starizona Nexus Coma Corrector & Reducer (0.75)

EQ6-R Pro

ZWO EAF Motorfokus

ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro (Gain 100, Offset 18, -5°)

Ha & OIII: 324 × 120 secs (10h 48′) with IDAS NBZ Filter

RGB (stars): 50 x 5 secs

N.I.N.A., Guiding: ZWO ASI 120 MM & PHD2

Bortle 5

Astropixelprocessor, Photoshop, Pixinsight

I've seen a number of images lately of the famous comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko* and thought I'd try my own. Here's the result from last night, clear enough after a modest snowfall during the day though with temps flirting with 0ºF overnight.

I'm a bit baffled by the tail that seems to be offset from the nucleus, which I don't recall seeing very often except in comets that are much closer to the Sun and sporting both ion and dust tails, and some oddball hybrid comet/asteroid objects.

The image is a composite of 100 frames, 90 seconds each; Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC camera, UV/IR cutoff filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom.

*67P is most famous because it was visited by ESA's fabulous Rosetta spacecraft in 2014 and its Philae lander.

200 * 30 second lights (100 minutes).

William Optics GT102 with ASi 294 MCPro & Televue Powermate *2. Guiding PHD2, no polar alignment.

Calibrated using AstroPiselProcessor

Brisbane city: Bortle class 7.

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

10 tomas de 120s calibrados sólo con 19 darks

Procesado: AstroPixelProcessor - Lightroom

A complex, dynamic region of star formation in the constellation Auriga with three named objects: IC 417, IC 410, and IC 405, also known as the Flaming Star Nebula in the light of hydrogen, from suburban Bloomington, Indiana.

229 total exposures, 6 min. each (total 23 hours) in several overlapping tiles. 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.

#Astrophotography #DeepSky

The Plejades, also known as Messier 45 or the Seven Sisters. The star cluster with hot blue B-type stars formed during the last 100 million years and is passing through dust clouds reflecting and scattering the light.

Telescope: Esprit 100 f5.5, Camera: QHY16200 @-15C.

78x300sec Red, 69x300sec Green, 74x300sec Blue (18.4 hrs)

Imaged on 5,6,7,8,9 &10 october 2018.

Processed in AstroPixelProcessor and Pixinsight.

Knight Observatory, Tomar.

Dati: 12 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

Wide field imaging of the Sagittarius region using Antlia narrowband filters 3nm HA and 03.

Captured using an ASI1600 and Sigma 70-200mm lens on a Star Adventurer mount. Nebulosity was the capture software.

30*2 min subs at 0 degrees.

Calibrated lights only in AstroPixel Processor.

Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5

Altair Astro Hypercam 585C OSC (Offset:10 / Gain:100)

HDR mode on

156 x 60 sec. subs (~2.5hrs.)

Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, GraXpert and Affinity Photo

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.

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

Processed by me, data from Telescope Live Network.

PixInsight, APP and Photoshop.

I added another half hour of imagery to what I already had, so this image consists of 65 minutes of data. After shooting it this latest time, I realized that I hadn't been balancing my tracker correctly when shooting south, so when I image it again this fall, I hope to be more efficient with getting non-star-trailed 60-second subs.

Acquisition details: Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 65 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken Oct. 6 2019 and Feb. 27, 2020 under Bortle 3/4 skies.

30x600" Lights

10x600" Darks

Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5

QHYCCD Minicam8

LRGBHa

15 x 120sec. subs each filter (2.5hrs. total)

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

The latest postcard from the constellation Auriga, a group of gas clouds in the process of forming stars: IC 417 (upper left), IC 410 and the associated star cluster NGC 1893 (center), and IC 405, sometimes known as the Flaming Star Nebula (right). Taken on a single nice clear but cold and moonless night from suburban Bloomington, Indiana.

3x3 mosaic, each tile 10 6 minute exposures (9 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.

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]).

> The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457) is a face-on spiral galaxy 21 million light-years (6.4 megaparsecs) away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major.

This is a stack of 60 images captured with a Nikon Z7ii, SkyWatcher Esprit 100 scope, and the HEQ5 Pro tracking mount. PHD2 software was used for guiding.

This image was made from 60x180s exposures at ISO 800, plus 20 darks and 40 flats stacked in AstroPixelProcessor and edited in Photoshop.