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Genova, Italy (06 Oct 2022 23:07 UT)
Planet: diameter 49.7", mag -2.9, altitude ≈ 44°
Telescope: Orange 1977 vintage Celestron C8 (203 F/10 SC)
Mount: EQ5 with ST4 hand controller (no GoTo)
Camera: QHY5III462C Color
Barlow: GSO APO 2.5x
Filter: QHY UV/IR block
Recording scale: 0.150 arcsec/pixel
Equivalent focal length ≈ 3990 mm F/19.7
Image resized: +50%
Recording: SharpCap 4.0
(640x480 @ 60fps - 120 sec - RAW16 - Gain 120)
Best 30% frames of 7253
Alignment/Stacking: AutoStakkert! 3.1.4
Wavelets/Deconvolution: AstroSurface T5
Final Elaboration: GIMP 2.10.30
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK around 10:30pm GMT
Equipment:
8" Ritchie-Cretien telescope with 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D
ISO-800 1/100 second exposure
Processing:
Best 50% of 127 frames stacked using Autostakkert! 2, then processed in Adobe Lightroom, Focus Magic and Faststone Image Viewer
Shot through thick haze
Yesterday's day moon.
Taken with a Canon 70D DSLR and TMB92L refractor, using the following settings: f/5.5 1/640 s and ISO 100. This is the result of 29 images stacked with AutoStakkert! and processed with Astra Image Pro and Adobe Photoshop.
Composite picture I have made of several captures ;)
The moon doesn't fit when I use my telescope and astrocamera, so I stitched different panels in Photoshop.
The background picture of the stars was made with my DSLR and 50mm lens :)
For the Moon:
Skymax 102 telescope
ASI 120MC-S
Star Adventurer Pro (tracking)
For the stars:
Canon 200D
Canon 50mm f/1.8 STM
Star Adventurer Pro (tracking)
The moon was recorded in Firecapture and edited in PIPP, Autostakkert , Registax and Photoshop.
The background picture of the stars was a stack of multiple photos that I stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and edited in Photoshop..
The Moon covers an area of about 70 megapixels in this highly detailed view. Shot from 0610 to 745 UT on 2020-09-04, this is an assemblage of 55 individual stacks of imaages of the Moon. Each stack is from the best 120 frames out of 800 saved as a SER file from SharpCap. Those files were stacked in AutoStakkert, initially processed in PixInsight, and combined with photo merge in Photoshop with a few final processing steps.
Illumination: 96%
Distance: 4.00 x 10^5 km
Imaging was done with a ZWO ASI120MM camera with a #58 green filter. Shot through a Celestron Edge HD 925 at f/10.
I know, I know -- I've shot this part of the Moon 10 or 20 or more times before. However, when I shoot the Moon from home, I generally go with a monochrome camera. This is with the ZWO ASI224MC and Celestron C14 from the Cerritos College Observatory. Seeing wasn't optimal, so I put a 0.63x focal reducer in there to get a wider field. There was also a ZWO UV/IR cut filter.
I took 1000 frames with FireCapture on the night of 2024-01-27 at 0818 UT. The moon was in a waning gibbous phase, about 96.5% illuminated. I stacked the best 650 of those in AutoStakkert. The stack was cropped and sharpened in PixInsight, then I boosted the saturation in GIMP. I suspected there had to be some color variation in the eastern (toward the right; north is at the top) edge of Mare Crisium. It's subtle, but it's there.
There's also what looks like a sizable valley at that edge of the mare. I searched USGS lunar maps, but couldn't find a name for it. It seems to be between the craters Eimmart and Alhazen. Maybe I should just name it after myself. Nah... I'm never going to get there.
Here is a view of Aristoteles and Eudoxus craters on the moon. Aristoteles, the larger of the two and measures about 53 miles across while Eudoxus measures about 41 miles across.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, Televue Powermate 2.5x, best 25% of 20k frames. Captured with SharpCap v3 and processed using AutoStakkert! And Registax. Image Date: March 23, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.
Canon EOS 80D + Orion SkyQuest XT10 + Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate (giving an effective focal length of 3,000 mm).
Broadstairs, April 2021.
Jupiter with the Great Red Spot visible. Accompanied by one of the Galilean moons, Callisto.
Picture was taken with:
Sky-watcher Skymax 102, Celestron 2x Barlow and ZWO ASI 120MC-S (on a Star Adventurer Pro)
Recorded in Firecapture, 10% of 2000 frames stacked in Autostakkert, and then sharpened in Registax 6. 😉
Saturn about ten days before opposition.
ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25"
Meade LX850 (12" f/8) 2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
6 runs x 30s for each RGB filter captured in Firecapture
Preprocessed in PPIP
Best 25% of frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpening in Registax
De-rotation and RGB combination in WinJuPos
Finishing in Photoshop
On either end of the Sinus Iridum (Bay of Rainbows) are two capes, or points, called Promontorium Laplace and Promontorium Heraclides that were right near the sun-shadow line on the moon. This area has also been called the “jeweled scimitar” because of its resemblance to the scimitar sword (or sabre).
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX90, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ASI290MC, best 2.5k of 5k frames, AutoStakkert! V3.0.14 (x64), FireCapture v2.5.10 x64 and Registax v6. Software used included Sharpcap v2.9 and AutoStakkert! Alpha Version 2.3.0.21. Photographed on July 4, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.
In processing I tried to remember how the event looked through binoculars and replicate the color and detail I saw with my eyes the night before.
40 exposures (1 second each) stacked. Processing with Autostakkert, PixInsight, Photoshop. Telescope: Stellarvue SVQ86. Camera: Canon 5D mk iii. Capture software: Lunar Eclipse Maestro.
This is from 6 30 s SER files taken with a ZWO ASI224MC camera with 3x Barlow and a ZWO UV/IR cut filter through the C14 at Cerritos College. I used FIreCapture to take this data. SER files were used to create stacks of the best 22% of about 660 frames in AutoStakkert, and those stacks were processed in PixInsight. The resulting images were registered and derotated in WinJUPOS, with the result undergoing some final tweaks in GIMP.
CM I: 296.1°
CM II: 63.0°
CM III: 226.8°
Taken with an 8" Astrograph with focal reducer & Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro Mount
Shot through thin cloud
Best 35% of 150 images stacked in Autostakkert! 2 and processed in Lightroom
Jupiter, photographed from Long Beach, CA
30 s SER files were taken with a ZWO ASI120MM camera through Optolong CCD RGB filters on a Celestron Edge HD 925 telescope using FireCapture. The top 60% of frames went into 8 stacks of each color filter. These stacks were made in AutoStakkert, then sharpened in PixInsight. Stacks were combined and derotated in WinJUPOS, and the resulting R, G, and B images were combined in WinJUPOS to make a de-rotated single color image. Color balancing in Registax, then final touches in Photoshop.
CM longitudes:
System I: 308.9°
System II: 31.9°
System III: 306.2°
Clavius – diameter is just under 231 km, named for Christopher Klau (Clavius); German mathematician (1537-1612).
Tech Specs: ZWO ASI290MC camera and Meade 12” LX90 telescope mounted on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount. Software used included Sharpcap v2.9, AutoStakkert! Alpha Version 2.3.0.21, ImagesPlus v5.75a, and Registax v6.1.0.8. Photographed on January 7, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.
Full color image of the Moon with slightly exaggerated color saturation to highlight various mineral deposits on the lunar surface.
Best 70 percent of 1500 frames debayered in PIPP, stacked in Autostakkert, wavelet sharpened in Registax, and post processing in Photoshop.
ZWO ASI978MC
TeleVue NP101is
Losmandy G11
Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 925
Camera: ZWO ASI120MM
Filter wheel: ZWO EFW
Filters: RGB set from Optolong
R: best 140/677 frames, 6 stacks
G: best 165/687 frames, 6 stacks
B: best 180/669 frames, 6 stacks
Processing in Autostakkert, PixInsight, WinJUPOS, and Photoshop
Jupiter was at 42° altitude and at a distance of 603 million km
CM I: 237.9° CM II: 342.4° CM III: 168.1°
la mer des crises. Ce bassin ovale d’environ 600 km de diamètre s’est formé à la suite de l’impact d’un astéroïde il y a un peu moins de 4 milliards d’années. Les « remparts » de ce cratère les falaises entourées la mer des crises atteignent une hauteur de 3 000 m. La sonde russe Luna 15 s’y est écrasée le 21 juillet 1969, pendant que de leur côté les membres de la mission américaine Apollo 11 foulaient le sol de la Lune pour la première fois (sur la mer de la Tranquillité).
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Telescope 200/1000 sur Neq6 Pro Goto.
Canon 200d. Barlow x2.
Empilement d’environ 5000 frames (mode video)
Traitement PIPP, AutoStakkert, Registax et PS.
Rupes Recta, a linear fault line, or rille, was casting quite the shadow on February 28, 2023. The name is Latin for straight cliff, although it is more commonly called the Straight Wall. This fault has a length of about 68 miles (110 kilometers). The small (11 miles wide) crater Birt lies just to the west.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO ASI462MC, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO EAF, ZWO ASIAir Plus, Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate, best 20% of 5000 frames. Processed with Autostakkert and Registax. Date: February 28, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Almost gave up when high cloud thwarted my attempts to see Jupiter but a short clear gap gave a chance to capture this image. The moon Europa was a bonus! (Skywatcher 127 Mak, ASI-178MC, 30s avi, stacked and processed with Autostakkert, Registax and Topaz denoise)
This is image was captured using a 60mm Hydrogen-alpha (Hα) telescope. It is showing the Sun's chromosphere.
There were very interesting features on August 18, 2022. At the top is a filament in the shape of a circle. It is also raised quite a distance above the chromosphere. Going down to the right thee is a very large and thick filament. Just to the left of that filament is a sunspot (AR3081) surrounded by a plage. Also visible are seveal other filaments on the solar disc. Around the edges, small prominences are visible.
Capture location: Elkridge, Maryland USA
Telescope: Lunt LS60T Hα
Double Stack: LS50F Hα
Camera: ZWO ASI178MM
Processing software:
Autostakkert, RegiStax6, Lightroom Classic, Photo Shop
Equipo: Star Adventurer - Mak 102 - Canon 60D a foco primario
Video MLV - Apilado 50% de 72 frames
Drizzle x 1,5
Procesado: MLV_DUMP - PIPP - AutoStakkert - Photoshop - Lightroom
Jupiter
Best 5% of 3.3k Frames
---Hardware---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
Camera : ZWO Camera ASI 224 M
Tube : Celestron 11 EDGE HD
Effective focal length : 2800 mm
Effective aperture : ~ F/10
---Software---
Acquired with FireCapture
Stacked with AutoStakkert
Processed with Lightroom & Topaz Sharpen
ZWO ASI178MC
Televue NP101is
Losmandy G11
10,000 OSC frames captured in Firecapture
Best 60% stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
Telescopio: Celestron C8 Edge HD
Montatura:iOptron CEM60
CMOS di ripresa: ZWO ASI 174 mono Cooled
Lunghezza focale: 2032 mm
Filtro: Optolong Red CCD 50,8 mm
Software:SharpCap 3.2 Pro, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 3.0.14, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8, Astra Image 4 SI
Focuser: Moonlite CF 2,5" focuser with high resolution stepper DRO
Pose: 200 a 65 fotogrammi al secondo
Seeing: 2 Trasparenza: 3
Saturn is a bit over a week past opposition in this image. You can see the shadow of the planet on the rings just starting to creep onto the left side. It looks like I got the hexagon pretty well, and there's a bit of the Encke gap on the right. That's the first time I can definitively say I caught it. Not sure why it didn't show up on the left, but there's still data to play with from this night of excellent seeing.
3 stacks each for R, G, and B channels.
R stacks are 450 frames each, 43.1 ms exposures, 90% gain
G stacks: 180 frames each, 95.6 ms exposures, 90% gain
B stacks: 75 frames each, 114 ms exposures, 94% gain
Each color channel was derotated and combined with the same channel stacks in WinJUPOS, then those averages were brought together in WinJUPOS. Stacking done in AutoStakkert; initial sharpening in PixInsight; some final processing and touch ups in PixInsight and Photoshop.
Celestron Edge HD 925
ZWO ASI120MM
ZWO EFW filter wheel
Optolong RGB filter set
3x TeleVue Barlow behind the filter wheel
Saturn was at a distance of 1.34 billion km and an altitude of 37°
CM I: 333.5° CM II: 188.1° CM III: 324.0°
Explore Scientific AR152 refractor @125mm aperture, with Baader x2.25 Barlow and ZWO 290MM-PRO (f17.8 0.27"/pixel) on EQ6. Baader OD 3.8 solarfilm, solar continuum + UV/IR cut filters. 250 of 2500 frames captured in SharpCap, processed in AutoStakkert. False colour Photoshop Duotone.
Nikon z7 + Tamron G2 150-600 + Tcx20 + Baader Astrosolar ASSF Filter
Stacking with 30% of ~1300 photos
Softwares : Autostakkert + Astrosurface + Darktable.
Genova, Italy (22 Aug 2023 23:47->23:59 UT)
Saturn: diameter 19.0", mag +0.4, altitude ≈ 34°
Moons left to right: Enceladus (+12.0), Mimas (+13.0), Tethys (+10.4), Rhea (+9.8), Dione (+10.6), Titan (+8.6, 0.8" diameter), Iapetus (+11.2)
Titan's disk is probably "real", while the diameters of the other moons are limited to the resolution of the telescope (they are actually much smaller)
Telescope: Celestron CPC C8 XLT (203 F/10 SC)
Camera: QHY5III462C Color
Focal Extender: Explore Scientific 2x (1.25")
Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector: Artesky
Filter: QHY UV/IR block
Recording scale: 0.150 arcsec/pixel
Equivalent focal length ≈ 4000 mm F/19.7
Image resized: +50%
Recording: SharpCap 4.0
Saturn & Enceladus (23:47 UT):
(640x480 @ 60fps - 240 sec - RAW8 - Gain 240)
Best 25% frames of ≈ 14400
Alignment/Stacking: AstroSurface U4
Other Moons (23:59 UT):
(1024x768 @ 15fps - ≈132 sec - RAW8 - Gain 318)
Best 75% frames of 2000
Alignment/Stacking: AutoStakkert 3.1.4
Wavelets/Deconvolution: AstroSurface U4
Final Elaboration: GIMP 2.10.34
Nice solar prominence on yesterday’s sun! Earth was added to give a rough idea of the size.
Tech Specs: Williams Optics Redcat 51, ZWO ASI290MC, Daystar Quark Chromosphere + ZWO 2" UV/IR filter, SharpCap, best 25% of 5k frames, AutoStakkert, Registax. Image date: 2 July 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA, USA.
Taken in very challenging conditions with the wind buffetting the telescope and terrible seeing!
Taken with an 8" Ritchie Cretien telescope with focal reducer and Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro mount
Best 35% of 200 images stacked using Autostakkert! 2 and processed in Adobe Lightroom
Telescopio: Celestron C8 Edge HD
Montatura: iOptron CEM60
Camera di ripresa: ZWO ASI 174 mono Cooled
Filtro: Optolong Red CCD 50,8 mm
Software:SharpCap 3.2 Pro, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 3.0.14, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8, Astra Image 4 SI
Focuser: Moonlite CF 2,5" focuser with high resolution stepper DRO
Pose: 2390 a 150 ftgs
Lunghezza focale: 2032 mm
Seeing: 3 Trasparenza: 5
Clavius is a large crater found on the southern side of the moon, it measures approximately 136 miles across. The crater was named after Christoph Klau (or Christophorus Clavius) a 16th century German mathematician and astronomer.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90 Telescope, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ASI290MC, ZWO AAPlus, ZWO EAF, best 15% of 10000 frames. Processed using SharpCap, Autostakkert, Registax and Luminar Neo. Image Date: June 9, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
This is a wide field view of the area around Tycho Crater on Earth's moon. Tycho has a diameter of 53 miles and it is nearly 3 miles deep.
TECH SPECS: Meade 12” LX-90, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI290MC, Antares Focal Reducer. Captured using SharpCap v3.2, stacked in Autostakkert (best 15% of 2500 images), sharpened in Registax, final image processed in Corel Paintshop Pro. Image Date: March 22, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4 Zone).
A view of last evenings waxing gibbous moon, 96% illuminated. This is a six panel mosaic, each panel consisting of the best 25% of 500 images.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90 (at f/10), ZWO ASI071mc-Pro, unguided. Captured using SharpCap Pro v3.2, stacked in Autostakkert, mosaic pieced together using Microsoft ICE. Image date: March 7, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
Waning Gibbous Moon, 87.9% Full
November 4, 2020
00:15 hours
Photographed with an Explore Scientific ED80 APO refractor telescope (f/6, 480mm focal length), an Orion 2x Shorty Barlow lens and a Canon T3i camera (unmodified). I used a fixed tripod mount. ISO 200, 1/100 sec. exposures. Seeing somewhat above average, 3.5-4/5.
Best 40% of 100 images preprocessed with PIPP and stacked with AutoStakkert!3. Post-processing with Photoshop CS2021. Saturation enhanced to bring out lunar colors.
Seven-panel mosaic of the moon. Each panel is the best 75% of 500 frames captured with OSC. Stacked in Autostakkert!. Stitching, sharpening and curves adjustments in Photoshop.
ZWO ASI178MC
TeleVue NP101is/2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
Telescopio: APM 140 mm f 7 APO
Lente di Barlow Zeiss Abbe 2X
Camera di ripresa: :ZWO ASI 174 mono Cooled
Montatura: iOptron CEM60
Software:Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 3.0.14, SharpCap 3.1 Pro, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8, Astra Image 4 SI
Filtro:Meade Red 31,8 mm
Risoluzione: 2000x1259
Pose: 200 a 33 fps
Lunghezza focale: 1960 mm
Seeing: 3 Trasparenza: 7
ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25" (RGB)
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/TV 2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
Five RGB Runs at 30s and 2900 frames per filter captured in Firecapture.
Preprocessed in PIPP
Best 60% of frames integrated in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
A view of last evening's moon 50% illuminated (First Quarter).
Tech Specs: Meade 12" LX-90 telescope, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI290MC and ASI071MC-Pro, ZWO AAPlus, ZWO EAF, Antares Focal Reducer, best 15% of 1000 frames at full resolution, Sharpcap Pro, Autostakkert, Luminar Neo. Image Date: May 8, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
The Sun was wonderfully active on this day. You can clearly see a number of prominences around the solar disc, as well as sun spots, filaments, and plages' on the solar "surface".
This image was captured at my home in Elkridge, MD USA.
Telescope: Lunt 60mm Hα (double stack configuration)
Camera: ZWO ASI178MM
Capture Software: SharpCap Version 3.2
Processing Software: AutoStakkert, RegiStax6, Lightroom Classic, PhotoShop
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor with a Canon 600D at prime focus. Best 15 of 35 images stacked using Autostakkert . Shot in varying haze hence the 20 frame drop out
25% of 120 sec .ser movie
C8 f/10, QHY5II-L mono, Baader PLanetarium IRPass (>685nm), Super Polaris Mount
Autostakkert! 2 and Wavelets in Registax 6
The Sun in H-alpha provides us with a stunning view, revealing the dynamics of its atmosphere. In this wavelength, we appreciate the impressive prominences, filaments, and sunspots. Prominences are gigantic structures of ionized gas that rise from the solar surface, creating immense loops and arcs. In contrast, filaments are dark lines that extend along the surface where the gas is colder and denser. We can also observe the sunspots, dark and magnetically active regions that indicate areas of intense solar activity. This fascinating H-alpha view allows us to delve into the secrets and wonders of the Sun.
Gear: Coronado SolarMax II 60 single stack etalon
Camera QHY 174M cmos
Skywatcher Allview mount
Image: stack 600 frames (best 20%), 1 fits image for background at 40ms overexposure
Process PIPP, Autostakkert, and Photoshop CC 2023
Seeing 3/5
Transparency 4/5.
10 images derotated. 1.5X drizzle
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
Copernicus crater from March 8, 2017 – not my best attempt, high winds really prevented the capture of any fine details.
Tech Specs: ZWO ASI290MC camera and Meade 12” LX90 telescope mounted on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount. Software used included Sharpcap v2.9, AutoStakkert! Alpha Version 2.3.0.21, and ImagesPlus v5.75a. Best 2500 frames out of 10000 frames captured. Photographed on March 8, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.