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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.
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.
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.
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.
Celestron CPC800XLT
Altair Hypercam IMX174 Mono
Orion Shorty 2X Barlow
Best 25% of 4,000 frames with Autostakkert.
Registax 6 for wavelets.
Photoshop CC 2017 for final adjustments.
A quick view of this morning's crescent moon.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, Antares Focal Reducer, ASI071MC-Pro, best 20% of 500 frames, processed using AutoStakkert and Registax. Image Date: July 23, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Here is a three panel mosaic of last evening's moon at 69% full. I placed the old Meade 12" LX90 back in service for galaxy season, forgot how much detail this scope provides on lunar shots.
Tech Specs: Meade 12" LX-90, Celestron CGEM-DX mount (pier mounted), ZWO ASI071MC-Pro, each panel 500 images at full resolution 4944 x 3284, best 20% of those frames. Captured using SharpCap v3.2 and processed in Autostakkert! 3.0.14. Image date: February 3, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
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.
Taken with the Celestron C14 and ZWO ASI224MC camera with IR cut filter and 2x Barlow from the observatory at Cerritos College. Ten SER files were captured, then stacked in AutoStakkert and processed in PixInsight. Resulting images were derotated in WinJUPOS, and the resultant image processed in Gimp.
CM longitudes:
CM I: 122°
CM II: 268°
CM III: 207°
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
Telescopio: Celestron C11 XLT Fastar
Montatura: iOptron CEM60
CMOS di ripresa: ZWO ASI 174 mono Cooled
Lunghezza focale: 2800 mm
Filtro: Optolong Red CCD 50,8 mm
Focuser: Moonlite CF 2,5" focuser with high resolution stepper DRO
Software:SharpCap 3.2 Pro, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 3.0.14, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8
Pose: 400 su 1017 riprese a 65 fotogrammi al secondo
Seeing: 1 Trasparenza: 8
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian, Tal 2x Barlow,
ZWO ASI 385MC.
3000 frames captured using Firecapture.
Approx. 1300 frames stacked with AutoStakkert! 3.1.4, wavelets with Registax 6 & final levels slightly adjusted with G.I.M.P.
Lunar south is uppermost. Reasonably good seeing.
The Jewelled Handle clair obcsur effect of the Montes Jura catching the rising sunlight never fails to impress.
The Promontorium Heraclides on the south western edge of the Sinus Iridum also provides another clair obscur effect known as The Moon Maiden.
Best viewed using the expansion arrows.
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun
Lens: Sky-Watcher Mak 90 (Telescope)
Mount: AZ-GTe (AZ)
Camera: Canon EOS M5
Accessories: NPZ Barlow 2x
Frames: Light 96x
Processing: PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax
Location: Moscow region
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
3000 frames captured in FireCapture
Best 50% stacked in AutoStakkert!
Intial wavelet sharpening and noise reduction in RegiStax
Final sharpening and noise reduction in PhotoShop
ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25"
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/TV 2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
10 RGB Runs (18ms, gain 420, 2500 frames/filter) captured in FireCapture
Preprocessed in PIPP
Best 50% of frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet Sharpened in Registax
De-rotated in WINJUPOS
Finished in Photoshop
Small sunspot AR2767 imaged on Monday, July 27, 2020.
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: 27 July 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA, USA.
Taken with my ZWO AS120MM-mini guide camera, Skywatcher 130PDS and a a x3 barlow. Video recorded in Sharpcap, processed in Autostakkert and sharpened in Lightroom.
I think the crater to the left is called Pythagoras.
I've not really got into closeup Moon photography before so abit of a first for me. My sister and brother came to visit and stayed in their camper van. My brother in law Nick is interested in taking up the hobby at some point so we set up the equipment. When the Moon is so full you have to take pictures of the Moon.
I'm not sure I sold it very well because there was a lot of faffing about. I've not done it for a while, it was cold, I was using my rubbish laptop and the seeing was terrible.
Anyway, we managed to get some pic's and in the end it wasn't too bad.
Venus occultation from Moon
June 19th 2020
Canon 250D
Homemade refractor 150/2250
Ilario Melandri e Cristina Cellini
Optics : TEC 140 F/7 Apo + TeleVue barlow 2" 4X
Filter : Baader Cool-Ceramic Herschel Wedge + Baader Solar Continuum Filter (540 nm) 2";
Equivalent focal lenght : 3920 mm
Camera : ZWO ASI 174 MM;
Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier;
Software : FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Topaz Lab Photo AI, Photoshop.
Equivalenti focal lenght: 3920 mm
Sun active region : NOAA 13664
Casalecchio di Reno - Italia
44° 29’ 29” N
11° 14’ 58” E
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).
Our grey companion on March 10th 2022, 00:33 o clock.
Taken with a QHY600C and an Esprit 550/100; stack of 15 exposures of 0.1 seconds each. Processed with Autostakkert and Photoshop.
Northfield, OH
May 15, 2022, a partly cloudy night, with a few opportunities to observe this eclipse.
Best 75% of 2000 frames with Autostakkert.
FireCapture v2.4 Settings
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Scope=Celestron CPC 800 XLT
Camera=ZWO ASI120MC-S, Shorty 2X Barlow
Filter=RGB
Diameter=35.73"
Magnitude=-1.96
CMI=28.1° CMII=231.8° CMIII=274.5° (during mid of capture)
FocalLength=4700mm
Resolution=0.17"
Start=205542.293
Mid=205622.371
End=205702.449
Duration=80.156s
LT=UT -4h
Frames captured=2000
Binning=no
ROI=640x480
ROI(Offset)=0x0
FPS (avg.)=24
Shutter=40.08ms
Gain=50
Histogramm=71%
Sony A7RIV+ 200-600mm + 1.4TC , crop mode 1/100S, ISO 100 , F9 tripod mounted, remote release , image stabalisation off. 400 images 10% stack in Autostakkert, Sharpened in Photoshop using Astra Image filter, Oldham , UK
Here is a view of Saturn from August 4, 2018.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mmED Triplet Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ASI 290MC, best 25% of 30k frames. Captured with SharpCap, processed in AutoStakkert, refined in Registax and Lightroom. Image Date: 4 Aug 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, Pennsylvania, USA.
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.
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...
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
3000 frames captured in FireCapture
Best 50% stacked in AutoStakkert!
Intial wavelet sharpening and noise reduction in RegiStax
Final sharpening and noise reduction in PhotoShop
"Crescent Moon, 12.2% Full"
I had a little time Tuesday night to spend with the Moon. This shot was taken with the Moon about 15° above the Western horizon. I could not image from home due to an intervening ridgeline, so I packed up my small telescope and shot from a location with a clear view to the West.
17 images shot at ISO 1600, 1/60 sec exposure, stacked with AutoStakkert!3, Registax Wavelets applied.
Camera: Canon T3i
Lens: Explore Scientific ED 80 APO Triplet refractor, f/6, 480mm focal length
Explore Scientific 3x Focal Extender
Celestron Advanced VX mount
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.
Easily visible with binoculars, this lunar mountain range is home to many mountain peaks including Mons Huygens, the tallest mountain on the moon. I find the best time to view this area is right after the first quarter when the shadows really highlight this mountain range.
Tech Specs: Canon 6D, Meade 12” LX90 telescope, best 1250 frames out of 5,000 frames captured. Software included AutoStakkert! V3.0.14 (x64), Backyard EOS v3 and Registax v6. Location: Weatherly, PA. Date: June 2, 2017.
Celestron CPC800XLT
Altair GPCAMv2 130 Mono camera
Orion Shorty 2X Barlow
ZWO Red Filter (Filter Wheel)
40% of 3,000 frames
Software used - FireCapture, Autostakkert, Registax 6, Photoshop CC 2017
Nice solar prominence on today’s sun! First light using the Williams Optics Redcat 51 for solar imaging.
Tech Specs: Williams Optics Redcat 51, ZWO ASI290MC, Daystar Quark Chromosphere + Daystar 2" UV/IR filter, SharpCap v3.0, best 15% of 10k frames, AutoStakkert, Registax. Image date: 30 June 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA, USA.
Telescopio: Celestron C8 Edge HD
Montatura:iOptron CEM60
Camera di acquisizione:QHY 178 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
Ora: 21:04
Pose: 250 FPS: 45
Lunghezza focale: 2032 mm
Seeing: 3 Trasparenza: 7
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°
Taken in foggy/hazy conditions with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor with a Canon 600D at prime focus. Images underexposed to reduce the halo that appeared around the moon due to atmospherics.Best 15 of 35 images stacked using Autostakkert 2. Gain on each frame further reduced in the stacking options to normalise at 70%
The cold, crisp evenings has made for some really good nights of lunar imaging. The temperature in the observatory hovered around 10F during both sessions. I took advantage of the last two nights to capture some wide field views using a combination of my Canon 6D and ASI290MC with an Antares Focal Reducer. Here is a view of the Apenninus Mountains, best viewed just after the first quarter moon when they are draped in some shadows. The capture area was 1936 x 1096 and then slightly clipped.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX90, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, Antares Focal Reducer, best 5,000 frames out of 10,000 captured with Sharpcap v3.0 and processed in AutoStakkert! V3.0.14 (x64). Image Date: December 26, 2017. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.
Seestar S50, da un filmato di 1394 frames, di cui il 50% elaborati con PIPP, AutoStakkert, AstraImage, Photoshop.
Here is a view of last evening’s moon, 75% illuminated.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90 Telescope, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ASI071MC-Pro, ZWO AAPlus, ZWO EAF, best 15% of 500 frames, two image composite. Processed using SharpCap, Autostakkert, Registax and Luminar Neo. Image Date: June 9, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Telescopio: Celestron C11 XLT Fastar
CMOS: ZWO ASI 174 mono Cooled
Montatura: iOptron CEM60
Software:Registax 6.1.0.8, 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 Baader Planetarium IR-Pass 685nm
Focuser: Moonlite CF 2,5" focuser with high resolution stepper DRO
FPS: 65,00000 Lunghezza focale: 2.800 mm
Seeing: 3 Trasparenza: 9
A waxing crescent moon captured after the early spring sunset.
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
25 single shot images 1/250s @ ISO 200 obtained with a 254mm Skywatcher Newtonian & Nikon D780 at prime focus.
Images converted to TIFF format then stacked with AutoStakkert! 3.1.4.
Wavelets processed with Registax 6.
Final levels & curves processed with G.I.M.P. & Adobe Lightroom
Best viewed in intermediate expanded mode.
EXIF Note: Error in date & time. I did not enter the correct day or time when I reconfigured some of the settings. I always keep a manual note of my observations to cross reference the digital dates. I only had the camera for a few days around this time. Have a look at my Orion Nebula dated 2022-03-06, that was the first time I tried it out on the night sky with my 254mm Newtonian.
Large solar prominences viewed yesterday, Earth is shown as an approximate size comparison.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ASI462MC camera, Daystar Quark Chromosphere, ZWO 0.5x Reducer, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro pier mounted, ZWO UV/IR Filter (2”), focus with a ZWO EAF, captured with SharpCap Pro v4 and processed using Autostakkert and Registax. Image Date: May 10, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Mare Humorum
The Mare Humorum basin is one of the best examples of subsidence that you can see on the Moon. As the basin sank under the weight of its lavas, arcuate cracks opened up on both the east side and the west side. Do examine this photo and note the wonderful variery of massive cracks that can be seen. Around the outer edges of the Mare, craters tilted inward and their "seaward" rims sank beneath the lava flows which filled the basin of Mare Humorum.
Look closely at the rilles just east of the mare. Notice how some of them plough through both mountain ridges and craters, and some are interrupted completely by small craters but continue on the other side. This gives you a clear indication of the sequence of activity.
Three generations of crater age can be easily observed on Mare Humorum. In order of age we have Mare Humorum itself, which is overlapped by the younger crater Gassendi on the north rim, which in turn is overlapped on its north rim by the even younger Gassendi A. (Both Gassendis, taken together, are sometimes referred to as the "diamond ring".) The invariably dependable rule is that the topmost of several overlapping craters is always youngest
-Text adapted from Andrew Planck's wonderful blog.
Celestron EdgeHD8
Celestron Advanced VX mount
ZWO ASI290MM Camera
Canon EOS 60Da
TeleVue NP101is/2x PM
Losmandy G11
78 frames captured with EOS Backyard
Compiled as SER file in PIPP
Best 75% stacked in Autostakkert!
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
Genova, Italy (06 Dec 2022 23:33 UT)
Planet: diameter 17.1", mag -1.9, altitude ≈ 68°
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
(320x240 @ 225fps - 60 sec - RAW16 - Gain 120)
Best 25% frames of about 13500
Alignment/Stacking: AutoStakkert! 3.1.4
Wavelets/Deconvolution: AstroSurface T5
Final Elaboration: GIMP 2.10.30