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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
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus. Best 20 of 40 images stacked using Autostakkert 2. Wavelet processing done using Registax 6
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).
Venus occultation from Moon
June 19th 2020
Canon 250D
Homemade refractor 150/2250
Ilario Melandri e Cristina Cellini
Took a picture of the moon when the sun was still up. :)
I used a Skymax 102, and connected my Canon 200D using a suited T-ring. I tracked the moon using a Star Adventurer Pro.
The image is a stack of 15 images. Stacked in Autostakkert!3, and sharpened in Registax 6. :)
Waning Crescent Moon, 40 % illuminated
A Mineral Moon photo lets you see what you can watch of the Moon: its colors!
As you can see, lunar maria are blue, because of their basaltic composition, while mountain zones are usually orange/red for anorthite.
Technical data: It is a “mineral lunar” mosaic (oversatured to exalt colors), made up by 3 photos of 3 parts of the Moon for luminance channel + one photo (from a 18 min video) for RGB channel . Each luminance photo is a stacking of 6 min videos, captured by a Canon Eos 550d and an Explore Scientific Maksutov MN 152/740 with afocal method.
RGB channel was captured by a Canon Eos 1300d that followed the Moon by a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer.
I elaborated them by PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax and Photoshop. The mosaic was made up by Autostitch.
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
Full moon, Oct 17, 2024. I don't "shoot the moon" very often, but thought I'd give it a shot.
Taken with an Esprit 120 scope, FL 840mm, Hydrogen filter to cut down the light, QHY268M camera, SharpCap acquisition, best 150/516 frames. Processed in AutoStakkert, IMPPG, Adobe Lightroom, and Topaz photo AI.
Taken from Starfront Observatory, Texas
At 7.7 days old, this moon is just past First Quarter and is 53.7% illuminated. Image is compiled from a three-panel mosaic. Each panel was captured in 500 frames that were shot in Firecapture at 70% histogram. Best 75% of frames were stacked in Autostakkert!, sharpened in Registax, and finished in Photoshop.
ZWO ASI178MC
TeleVue NP101is/2.5x Powermate (f/13.4, 1,350mm)
Losmandy G11
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
Here is a view of the Mercury transit across the sun from earlier today in Pennsylvania.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED, ZWO ASI290MC, Daystar Quark Chromosphere + Daystar 2" UV/IR filter + 0.5x focal reducer, SharpCap Pro v3.0, best 15% of 500 frames, AutoStakkert, Registax. Image date: 11 November 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA, USA.
This is a view of the region to the east of Mare Imbrium, where the Montes Caucasus (the eastern rim of the Imbrium Basin, separating Mare Imbrium from Mare Serenitatis), intersect with the Montes Alpes (the northern rim of the Imbrium Basin) and the lava plains of Mare Frigoris. This image is caught when the Sun was high in the Moon’s morning sky. Two prominent craters dominate the center of the region and will be the focus of this discussion.
The more northern and larger crater of the pair is Aristoteles (87 km wide and 3.3 km deep). Aristoteles is the older of the two craters, belonging to the Eratosthenean Period of the Moon’s history; it is between 1.1 and 3.2 billion years old. Aristoteles lies near the southern edge of Mare Frigoris and east of the Montes Alpes. A smaller crater (Mitchell) sits directly on the eastern rim of Aristoteles. Somewhat unusually, it is even older than Aristoteles, having survived the huge impact that created Aristoteles. The inner walls of Aristoteles are wide and terraced, and the floor of the crater is hilly. The central peaks are visible, but they are small and displaced south of the center of the crater basin. The area surrounding Aristoteles is covered by a blanket of ejecta, which has a radial pattern of dispersion, especially to the north.
The southern crater is Eudoxus. It lies just northeast of the Montes Caucasus. Eudoxus is about 67 km in diameter and 3.4 to 4.3 km deep. The mountains forming its rim tower as much as 3.35 km above the crater floor. The rim of Eudoxus has a series of terraces on the interior wall, and slightly worn ramparts about the exterior. It lacks a single central peak, but has a cluster of low hills about the midpoint of the floor. The remainder of the interior floor is relatively level. Eudoxus has a ray system (not visible in this image), and is consequently mapped as part of the Copernican System of craters, being less than 1.1 billion years old. Material ejected by the impact that excavated Eudoxus lapped up to and even spilled over the southern rim of Aristoteles.
The two craters lie in a jumbled, hummocky terrain. This is an area of broken and uplifted bedrock overlain by a wash of ejecta. Both of these terrain conditions are a consequence of the massive blast that created the Imbrium Basin. The craters themselves formed a billion and more years after this catastrophic event.
These two craters form a distinctive pair. They are well-known friends to those of us who enjoy telescopic views of the Moon.
This image was cropped from a splice of two separate but overlapping images. Microsoft ICE software was used to create the splice. Each image was created from a stack of the best 30% of 5350 video frames.
Software:
Video capture software: FireCapture
Stacking software: AutoStakkert! 3
Wavelets-processing: Registax 6
Final buff: Photoshop CC 2021.
Equipment:
Celestron EdgeHD8, 2032mm focal length, f/10
ZWO ASI 290MM planetary camera
Celestron Advanced VX Equatorial Mount
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
Jupiter and Europa
May 23, 2019
My first Jupiter image with the C8. Monochrome image. Lots to learn!
Celestron EdgeHD 8
ZWO ASI 290MM
Celestron Advanced VX mount
Best 15% of 650 video frames.
Pre-processing with PIPP
Stacking with AutoStakkert!3
Registax 6 wavelets.
Seeing 3/5
Transparency 4/5.
10 images derotated. 1.5X drizzle
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
Last night’s partial lunar eclipse from Weatherly, PA in a higher resolution. What a great show!
Tech Specs: Orion 8" f/8 Ritchey-Chretien Astrograph, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI071, ZWO EAF, and ZWO AAP. Captured using SharpCap Pro, processed in Autostakkert and Registax, best 20% or 500 frames captured at 4944 x 3284. Image date: November 19, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
The Moon in the daytime sky from Austin, Texas. Taken 2021-01-22 at 5:59 PM with a Questar 1350/89mm and Sony a6300 camera.
Best 9 of 45 images stacked and sharpened in AutoStakkert. Final crop and exposure in Photoshop.
North is up. This image is derived from a single RGB run captured in Firecapture, stacked in Autostakkert, wavelet sharpened in Registax, and color channel derotated in WINJUPOS.
Seeing was Average at capture. I had hoped to stack and sharpen in PSS, but the result was disappointing. I have four more RGB captures that can be derotated and added to this data. I feel like I am missing something with PSS, which is still new to me. I'll take a deeper dive when time permits.
Langrenus et Petavius. Sur cette photographie, se trouvent plusieurs cratères situés sur la rive orientale de la Mer de la fécondité. Le cratère Petavius (presque au centre de l’image) ayant un diamètre de 177 km et une profondeur de 3 400 m, et tout à droite le cratère Langrenus avec un diamètre de 132 km et 2 700 m de profondeur.
Telescope 200/1000 sur Neq6 Pro Goto.
Canon 200d. Barlow x2.
Empilement d’environ 5000 frames (mode video)
Traitement PIPP, AutoStakkert, Registax et PS.
Others have recently posted beautiful photos of the region surrounding Aristarchus Crater. Here is one of my best efforts to date on this amazing bit of lunar geography.
Aristarchus Crater is a bright feature in the northwestern region of the Moon. It is sited in the southeastern corner of a rectangular plateau rising above the basaltic plains of Oceanus Procellarum. This plateau was, billions of years ago, a hellish region of volcanic activity, featuring massive lava flows and pyroclastic eruptions. Notice the winding features in this photo, features that resemble riverbeds. Think rivers of lava, originating in volcanic vents on the plateau, and running down onto and spreading across the basaltic plains below. Notice especially the enormous Schroter's Valley that originates just above the bright Aristarchus Crater at an arcuate vent called the Cobra's Head, and then winds across the plateau. Notice also the the winding features above the partially flooded crater Prinz (the Rimae Prinz) to the right of Aristarchus, and near the Harbinger Mountains close to the right edge of the frame. A close look in the lower left will reveal the isolated lunar volcanic dome Herodotus Omega and its summit caldera, below and left of Herodotus Crater, the partner crater on the left side of Aristarchus.
There have been recurring reports from Moon observers of brightenings, color changes, and other unexpected events in this area over the years. These may signal that the area's furnaces have not died. Such activity may make the Aristarchus Plateau an attractive place for human exploration.
Image cropped and reprocessed from video data collected April 5, 2020. Best 20% of 4234 video frames used. Seeing was above average, 4/5.
Pre-processing in PIPP. Stacking with Auto Stakkert!3. Wavelets and histogram adjustments with Registax 6. Final toning and resizing with Camera RAW and Photoshop CC 2021.
Celestron Edge HD8 telescope
ZWO ASI 290MM camera
Celestron Advanced VX Mount
My mediocre contribution to the transit of Mercury fiesta :)
North is up, east is left.
The initial idea was to shot the complete ingress sequence, but I was confronted by to serious problems - very timely arrived mammoth-sized cloud and suddenly emerged mysterious power-outage :(
Since I can't deal with clouds I had focussed on the latter and won!
This is what I came out with...
Acquisition time: 16:05 MSK
Telescope: PST with 2x Barlow
Camera: TIS DMK23U274
6 out of 9 800x800 pix panels 25% 0f 500 frames each.
MS ICE refused to stich the latter three leaving the Sun trunkated...
Here is a quick capture of tonight's 61% illuminated moon.
Tech Specs: Meade 12" LX90, Antares Focal Reducer, Celestron CGEM-DX Mount, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro camera, best 15% of 1000 images, unguided, processed in Autostakkert and Registax. Image date: January 21, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
The planet Saturn imaged on the evening of July 31, 2017 under below average conditions.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX90, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ASI290MC, Televue 2.5x Powermate, best 1000 of 2000 frames, AutoStakkert! V3.0.14 (x64), FireCapture v2.5.10 x64 and Registax v6. Photographed on July 31, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.
Here is a four image mosaic of last evening’s 66% illuminated Waxing Gibbous moon. Each panel is the best 20% of 5,000 images captured in video mode and stitched together using Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE).
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO ASI462MC, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO EAF, ZWO ASIAir Plus, best 20% of 5000 frames on four panels. Processed with Autostakkert, Registax, and Microsoft ICE. Date: February 28, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Here is a composite image showing how the view of planet Venus is changing just from April 28th the May 13th, each night forming a thinner crescent shape. I’m now at the point where I must image Venus during the day because it is too low after sunset to image from inside the observatory. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and I'll be able to add a few more pics to this series.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, ZWO ASI290MC, UV/IR filter, unguided. Captured using SharpCap Pro, stacked in Autostakkert, processed in Registax. Image date(s): April 28 to May 13, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
Moon yesterday just after midnight - 525 frames stacked of total 1050 taken using autostakkert, wavelets in Registax, contrast in Photoshop. Explore Scientific ED102, ASI294MC Pro, ASIAIR Pro in video mode. 26 Sep 2021.
This image is a testament to what is possible with the tools available to today's amateur astronomer. During the capture session, transparency varied between below average and poor, and seeing had similar variances. The data is so bad that some of the pieces of this 20 panel mosaic had to be manually pasted and nudged into place, because photomerge could not line up the panels. Also, the changing transparency meant that the amount of the light reaching the sensor for each frame varied. I compensated for this as best I could by adjusting the brightness, but it seems that other values probably needed to be adjusted as well.
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
1000 frames for each mosaic panel captured with Firecapture.
Best 75% of frames stacked with Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened with Registax
Photomerged and finished with Photoshop
Both panels of this image were from the same ZWO ASI178MC (OSC) capture.
I am trying to eliminate, or greatly reduce the gold highlights in the bottom panel of this image.
The top panel is the first raw frame of the of the video capture. The Bayer pattern is still intact, and the image is otherwise completely unprocessed. Zooming in on the upper limb, hints of the gold artifact are evident.
Every processing step seems to increase the gold color. It becomes more prevalent in the Autostakkert output TIF, and it becomes even more so after even moderate wavelet sharpening in Registax. A simple Auto Color treatment in Photoshop increases it even more.
The bottom panel is highly over-processed (debayered, stacked, wavelet sharpened, and saturation enhancement) to show more places that the gold highlights are hiding.
I can see these gold colored highlights around craters on the terminator in my first full disk lunar image off of this same camera a couple of days ago.
www.flickr.com/photos/185380451@N02/51686606172/in/dateta...
I cannot see them in a similarly processed image off of a Canon 60Da a couple of months ago.
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I have also checked other's Mineral Moon images on Flickr, and I see some with similar artifacts and some without.
Telescopio: Celestron C11 XLT Fastar
Montatura: Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro Synscan
Camera di guida: Lumenera Skynyx 2.0 mono
Software: Astra Image 3.0 SI, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 2.3.0.19, Lucam Recorder
Filtri: Baader Planetarium R G B pro
Accessori: ATIK Ruota portafiltri EFW2, Moonlite CF 2,5" focuser with high resolution stepper DRO, Barlow Zeiss Abbe 2X
pose: 3600 FPS: 17
Lunghezza focale: 5600 mm
Seeing: 4 Trasparenza: 7
Canon EOS 80D + Orion SkyQuest XT10 + Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate (giving an effective focal length of 3,000 mm).
Broadstairs, December 2019.
Jupiter et 2 de ses principaux satellites, Europe et Ganymède à droite qui projettent leurs ombres sur la planète.
Instrument de prise de vue: Sky-watcher T250/1000 Newton F4
Caméra d'imagerie: QHY5III462
Monture: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 Pro Goto USB
Instrument de guidage: sans
Caméra de guidage: Sans
Logiciels: Stellarium - ScharpCap - AutoStakkert - Astrosurface - FastStone Images Viewer
Filtres: IR-Cut / IR-Block ZWO (M48)
Accessoire: Projection par oculaire 9 mm
Dates: 26 Oct 2022- 23h11
Images unitaires: SER (1000x20.91ms) 23% retenues - Gain 123
Intégration: --
Échantillonnage: 0,18 arcsec/pixel
Focale résultante: 3324 mm
F/D: 13,3
Seeing: 1.63 "Arc
Echelle d'obscurité de Bortle: --
Phase de la Lune (moyenne):
A view of Tycho and Clavius craters on Earth's Moon on December 7, 2019.
Tech Specs: Sky Watcher 120ED Esprit, Celestron CGEM-DX mount (pier mounted), ZWO ASI290MC, best 15% of 2500 frames, unguided. Captured using SharpCap Pro v3.2 and stacked in AutoStakkert! 3.0.14. Image date: December 7, 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
Lunt 152 double stacked, ASI120mm. 800 frames. Stacked in Autostakkert, wavelets in Registax 6, colourised in Photoshop CC
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
2,000 frames captured in FireCapture
Best 500 frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
Seeing was not as good as for the 2025--01-02 image
This from 12 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 15% of about 800 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: 77.2°
CM II: 96.3°
CM III: 251.2°
100% illumination. I took 200 images with my a7RIII, using Celestron Edge HD 800 as lens. Used PIPP to get the best 50 of the 200 and then stacked with AutoStakkert!3. That TIFF file brought into Photoshop for sharpening.
This from 13 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 250 frames of about 2050 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.
Seeing was not as good as other recent sessions - I'm hoping we can get some steady skies again soon.
CM I: 154°
CM II: 41°
CM III: 188°
Jupiter with Ganymede, Callisto and Europa.
Shot under poor to average seeing conditions with occasional light cloud blowing through.
Photo geekery (since this has been requested of me):
8" Meade LX90 ACF
Celestron AVX mount
ZWO ASI120MC-S camera
Best 2200 of 3300 frames. Pre-processing in PiPP, stacked in Autostakkert!3, wavelet sharpening in Registax 6, final processing in Photoshop CC2017.
ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25"
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/2.5x PM
Losmandy G11
5 x 30s RGB runs captured in FireCapture
Best 50% of ~11,000 frames per filter stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Color channels separately derotated, then R/G/B derotation in WINJUPOS
Finished in Photoshop
Optics : TEC140 Apo + ZWO EAF + Televue Barlow 2” 4x
Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier;
Filter : Lunt B600 Calcium K wave length;
Camera : ZWO ASI 174 MM;
Software : FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Photoshop, Topaz Labs Photo AI.
Equivalent Focal Length = 3920 mm
Sun active region : NOAA 13664
Casalecchio di Reno - Italia
44° 29’ 29” N
11° 14’ 58” E
Telescope: Celestron 11 - CGEM
Powermate 2X - Filter #25 (Red)
Camera: ASI120MM
Software: Firecapture - Autostakkert!2 - Registax - PS6
Rupes Recta, a linear fault line, or rille, was casting quite the shadow on June 2, 2017. 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: Canon 6D, Meade 12” LX90 telescope, best 750 frames out of 1,500 frames captured. Software included AutoStakkert! V3.0.14 (x64), Backyard EOS v3 and Registax v6. Location: Weatherly, PA.