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.

So, this is my baseline image of Mars for 2020, now to work on increasing the capture time and collecting a lot more surface details.

Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, ASI290MC, best 20% of 5k frames, Sharpcap v3.2, Autostakkert, Registax. Image date: August 30, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.

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

104_5739-40 processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert.

33.4% illuminated

After a long time, we had a clear night, so I was finally able to take the telescope out to observe (and photograph) Jupiter. :)

Unfortunately, the GRS wasn't visible from Earth at the time, but I did get some detail in the clouds. ;)

4 of the biggest moons were also visible: IO, Europa, Ganymede, Calysto

I took several videos with different settings to capture the moons as well, which I merged in Photoshop.

Gear:

- Sky-watcher Skymax 102 OTA

- Celestron 2x Barlow

- ZWO ASI 120MC-S

- Sky-watcher Star Adventurer Pro

Software:

- Firecapture

- PIPP

- Autostakkert

- Registax

- Photoshop (composition)

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

From Wikipedia - The Sea of Nectar (Mare Nectaris) is a small lunar mare or sea (a volcanic lava plain noticeably darker than the rest of the Moon’s surface) located near the Sea of Tranquility (Mare Tranquillatis) and the Sea of Fecundity (Mare Fecunditatis). Several large craters are situated at the borders of Mare Nectaris. The largest one is lava-filled Fracastorius (124 km), which fuses with southern coast of the Sea. A prominent trio of 100-km craters Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina is located near northwestern coast.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, Televue Powermate 2.5x, best 50% of 5k frames under bad seeing. Captured with SharpCap v3 and processed using AutoStakkert! And Registax. Image Date: February 20, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.

Fairly low in the horizon but still, a decent image. Really like the SharpCap software I was messing with last night.

Taken with a ZWO ASI120MC, 2x barlow, Celestron C8 scope, Celestron CGEM mount.

1000 frames acquired in SharpCap, then stacked in AutoStakkert, with final processing performed in LightRoom.

The 27% illuminated waxing crescent moon from last evening. This is a three panel mosaic.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO AS2600mc-Pro running at -10C, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO EAF, ZWO ASIAir Plus, 3 x 1-minute video. Stacked in Autostakkert and stretched in Registax. Image Date: February 24, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

Same data set as the previous image, but I stacked 10 frames and they were the best ones out of 41 total for this set. Alignment was on lunar features and not the stars, unlike the previous image. All images in this set were taken between 4:39-4:41 AM CST on Nov 8th, 2022. 4 second exposures, gain 11, offset 17, QHY183c at -20C, TPO 180mm Lens (40mm, f/4.5.) I was able to do more enhancements to it due to less noise in the stack vs a single 4 sec image.

Update: Made a stars-only image with 41x4 sec sub-images and composited the moon from the 10x4 moon-aligned stack back in. I like this version the best.

lunar-eclipse2022-11-08-10x4of40f-qhy183c-40f4_5-v2

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

Copernicus Crater – diameter is 96 km, named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. It typifies craters that formed during the Copernican period in that it has a prominent ray system. Need many more frames to strengthen the details.

Tech Specs: ZWO ASI290MC camera and Meade 12” LX90, best 25% of 10k frames. Software used included Sharpcap Pro v3.1 and AutoStakkert!3. Photographed on March 17, 2019 from the Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, Pennsylvania, USA.

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):

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

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 34% of 169 frames stacked using Autostakkert! 2, then processed in Adobe Lightroom, Focus Magic and Faststone Image Viewer

Shot through thick haze

Telescopio: Celestron C8 Edge HD

Montatura:iOptron CEM60

Camera: 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, Stark Labs Nebulosity 4.2, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8

Pose: 150 FPS: 24,00000

Lunghezza focale: 2032 mm

Seeing: 3 Trasparenza: 8

Genova, Italy (18 Oct 2022 23:54 UT)

Planet: diameter 13.6", mag -0.9, 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

(320x240 @ 125fps - 90 sec - RAW16 - Gain 120)

Best 25% frames of 11238

Alignment/Stacking: AutoStakkert! 3.1.4

Wavelets/Deconvolution: AstroSurface T5

Final Elaboration: GIMP 2.10.30

April 23, 2021

Mare Insularum was named so because of its resemblance to a broad sea dotted by archipelagoes of small islands. Photos of Mare Insularum usually focus on its showpiece craters, Copernicus and Kepler, with their overlapping and intersecting ray systems.

In this photo, Copernicus is just out of the frame at the bottom and Kepler relegated to the margin, near the terminator. The following discussion focuses on lesser features, including those archipelagoes of small islands for which this lunar sea is named. The photo is presented such that North is on the right, with the lunar terminator on the top edge (West).

Let’s start with a few landmarks. In the lower left corner are the Montes Riphaeus, an irregular mass of peaks that extends for a 161 km in a North - South direction. These peaks top out at about 915 meters. They are thought to be the remnant western rim of an otherwise obliterated lunar basin.

Immediately west (above) of the Montes Riphaeus is the crater Euclides, a 12 km wide, bowl-shaped formation with a circular rim. It is surrounded by a field of ejecta that is brighter than the nearby lava plains.

To the right (North) of the Montes Riphaeus is the crater Lansberg (39 km diameter), with a sharp crater rim, terraced inner walls and a distinct central peak.

In the lower right corner are the westernmost peaks of the Montes Carpatus, which are one of the great mountain ranges formed as the outer ring of the Imbrium impact basin. In this area, the Montes Carpatus rise to a height of 2.13 km. Amid these mountains sits the largest crater in this region, T. Mayer crater (33 km in diameter).

In the upper (West) center portion of this photo is Kepler crater, with a deeply shadowed interior and a brightly illuminated western rim. Kepler has a diameter of 32 km. It has a distinctive ray system, visible here, extending outward and eastward into Mare Insularum, where it mingles with the greater ray system of Copernicus crater. Kepler forms nice triangle with Lansberg and T. Mayer craters, the sides of which are largely comprised of the multitudinous islands of Mare Insularum. Near Kepler to the left (South) is the 28 km diameter Encke crater. To my eye, Encke has a walnut shape, although it is usually described as polygonal.

The Lansberg - T. Mayer – Kepler triangle is home to some noteworthy lunar domes. These domes are the lunar version of shield volcanoes. Due to the viscous nature of the lavas they spewed, they are low mounds, usually a hundred to a few hundred meters high and 10-20 km in diameter. They are visible only when illuminated by low-angle light. Sometimes they appear in clusters, sometimes as isolated features. Both can be seen in this image. Halfway along the triangle leg connecting Lansberg and T. Mayer craters a cluster of small bumps can be seen, just north of the small Hortensius crater. Look closely, and you may see the dimples marking their summit vents. These are the Hortensius Domes. Another, more difficult cluster is found in the valleys between the mountain ridges extending to the left (South) from T. Mayer crater. These domes are detectable as swellings against the ridges, but close examination may show some summit vents. These are the T. Mayer Domes. An isolated dome can be spotted in the lava plains of Mare Insularum, northwest of the Hortensius Domes and south of the T. Mayer Domes, just west of the small crater Milichius. This dome is named Milichius Pi. It has a distinct summit caldera vent. Another isolated dome lies at the 1:00 position relative to Kepler, to the crater’s northwest, about one Kepler diameter distant from the crater. This is known as Ke1. It is an effusive dome with a diameter of nearly 14 kilometers and a height of 170 meters.

Lastly, note the wonderful tangle of wrinkle ridges in the middle left of this image. These are the Dorsa Euclides F, named for the tiny crater that straddles the left (southern) branch. These wrinkles form when deep basaltic lava flows contract as they cool.

Seeing conditions were supposed to be "average” but turned out a good bit better in my neighborhood, closer to 4/5 at the time this video was obtained.

The best 25% of 3998 video frames were used in creating this image.

I omitted my usual step of pre-processing the video in PIPP software, as tracking was good. Instead, the video was stacked without pre-processing with AutoStakkert!3 software. Wavelets and histogram adjustments of the AutoStakkert!3 output image were done with Registax 6. Final toning, cropping and watermarking were done with Camera RAW and Photoshop CC 2021.

Celestron Edge HD8 telescope

ZWO ASI 290MM camera

Celestron Advanced VX Mount

Shot in monochrome with a monochrome astrophotography camera. The moon has very little color, so monochrome works very well.

I used a 3x barlow for magnification. This was too much magnification for the conditions (I'm still learning) which introduced some artifacting and loss of detail, but still, it is my best image of these features to date. I especially like the small craterlets on the floor of Endymion, the largest crater. I also am pleased with the fractures on the floor of Atlas, the next largest crater.

9.6 MP equivalent from 13 movies of 1300 images each.

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3 x 1300 images each for the images with details

Kept best 10% of frames from each movie

---Hardware---

Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT

Camera : PointGrey Grasshopper GS3-U3-23S6M

Tube : Celestron 11 EDGE HD /w 0.7 reductor

Barlow : 4x PowerMate

Effective focal length : 8000 mm

Effective aperture : ~ F/28

---Software---

Acquired with FireCapture

Stacked with AutoStakkert

Mosaic done with Microsoft ICE

Processed with Lightroom & Topaz SharpenAI

Above average seeing on this night resulted in one of my best Jupiter images yet. Two of Jupiter's satellites are included in the frame. Ganymede is to the left and Europa to the right. The Great Red Spot is setting on the western limb.

Zooming in on Ganymede reveals albedo surface features and some processing artifacts. Maybe the best processing for Jupiter is not the best for Ganymede. I may try to extract Ganymede, process and repost separately.

ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25" (RGB)

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)

Tele Vue 2.5x PowerMate

Losmandy G11

One run of 45s per RGB channel captued in Firecapture

Stacked in Autostakkert

Wavelet sharpened in Registax

R/G/B frame de-rotation in WINJUPOS

Finished in Photoshop

Illustration of the conjunction between the gas giant Jupiter and our satellite, the Moon, last night. I brought the two objects closer together to fit the frame but the scales are respected.

A rather succinct treatment.

- Stacking of several hundred images for each star with Autostakkert

- Wavelets with Astrosurface

- Post-processing with Darktable

- Layers with Gimp

Imager: Nikon Z7

Lens: Tamron G2 150-600 + doubler

This is the image taken for the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn

21 December 2020

At 13:32 UTC

From Dubai - United Arab Emirates

Equipment

Celestron CPC 800 telescope

Camera: ZWO ASI290MC

800 Frames

And Stacked only 40% of total frames using Autostakkert then enhanced in Registax and Photoshop

As you can see 2 moons of Jupiter are visible

Europa and Ganymede

Tonight’s crescent moon from Weatherly, PA. Three panel mosaic image.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO AS2600mc-Pro running at -10C, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro mount that is pier mounted, ZWO EAF, ZWO ASIAir Plus, best 20% of the frames from a 60 second video. Processed in Autostakkert and Registax. Image Date: April 25, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

A view of the unusual Schiller Crater on the Moon -- The first thing you notice with this crater is the elongated shape, it almost looks like a footprint left on the surface. The crater measures about 179 x 71 kilometers and was formed by at least two impacts. The crater was named for Julius Schiller (c. 1580-1627).

Tech Specs: ZWO ASI290MC camera and Meade 12” LX90, best 25% of 10k frames. Software used included Sharpcap Pro v3.1 and AutoStakkert!3. Photographed on March 17, 2019 from the Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, Pennsylvania, USA.

I support Damian Peach on Patreon where he posts planetary and cometary astrophotography tutorials including some data posts.

www.patreon.com/peachastro/posts

This is data from one of Damian's Barbados sessions on a Celestron C14 + ADC using a ZWO ASI224MC camera.

The data was 13 x OSC TIF files which I have sharpened in RegiStax6, then centred each frame in PIPP. After that, I stacked all 13 frames in AutoStakkert!3 before finally using Photoshop for toning, vibrance, texture and unsharp mask.

Image credit: Damian Peach/John Purvis

Apparent Venus Diameter: 13.9 arc-seconds

Venus phase: 78.3% illuminated

Image date: 2024-10-27

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The image software used to produce the picture was:

SharpCap (SER video capture of 1000 frames),

Autostakkert (convert the best 20% of frames to TIF format),

Gimp (basic image processing) and

Topaz (enlarge and sharpen).

Each video frame exposure was 15.625 milliseconds.

Detailed capture of the moon of the area around the Tycho and Clavius crater.

In the middle, there's the Tycho-krater. This is one of the most noticeable southern craters that is visible on every moon picture (The big, white one at the bottom) :)

I turned the image 90° CCW to make it easier to observe. ;)

I took this picture with a ZWO ASI 120MC-S connected to a Sky-watcher Skymax 102 OTA, on a Star Adventurer Pro.

Recorded in Firecapture, frames stacked in Autostakkert, and sharpened in Registax. :) (y)

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.

www.flickr.com/photos/185380451@N02/51196404907/in/dateta...

I have also checked other's Mineral Moon images on Flickr, and I see some with similar artifacts and some without.

Tránsito de Mercurio con Bawlow Powermate 2'5x

Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED

Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM

Montura: iOptron CEM40

Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.9, T=12.5%)

- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (540nm)

Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism

- TeleVue Lente de Barlow 2,5x Powermate 1,25"

Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop

Fecha: 2019-11-11

Hora: 13:13 T.U. (Tiempo universal)

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 30 segundos

Resolución: 1920 x 1080

Gain: 110

Exposure: 0,000154 s

Frames: 857

Frames apilados: 23%

FPS: 28.44

Processed some old data from november last year.

Session Information :

* 51° N 3° E

* Torhout, Belgium

* Capture Date : 30.11.2019

Object Information

* Type : Solar edge with protuberances.

* Distance : 0.986 AU or roughly 147.5 million km

Hardware

* Mount : Celestron CGX

* Imaging Scope : TS Optics 152mm f/5.9 Achromat

* ERF : Baader 2" UV/IR Cut

* Filter : Daystar Quark Hydrogen-Alpha (Chromosphere)

* Imaging Camera : ZWO ASI 174MM

Exposure Settings

* Exposure : 6ms

* Gain : 0

* Gamma : 25

* Frames Surface : 4.000

* Frames Surface Stacked : 10% (400)

* Frames Protuberance : 4.000

* Frames Protuberance Stacked 10% (400)

Capture Software

* FireCapture

Processing Software

* AutoStakkert!

* RegiStax

* Adobe Photoshop

* Topaz GigaPixel AI

* Topaz Sharpen AI

* Topaz DeNoise AI

My first complete image of Jupiter and thee Galilean Moons. the moons from left to right Europa Ganymede and Lo. taken about midnight on 10/11/2022 Hope you all enjoy and thanks for any constructive comments.

Equipment:

Telescope - Celestron 9.25 Edge HD + 2.5x Barlow / ADC

Imaging Camera- Canon EOS R7

Mount - Sky-watcher EQ6-R Pro

Software:

Pipp

AutoStakkert

RegiStax6

Lightroom

Photoshop

Integration:

4K60 crop for 45 seconds

stacked best 1000 frames

Last night’s 73% illuminated moon.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO ASI2600MC camera, best 20% of 1300 frames, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in Autostakkert and Registax. Image Date: May 29, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

Io had emerged from behind Jupiter a few minutes before this image was taken. The Great Red Spot is about to rotate off the disk at the lower right.

This from 8 30 s SER files taken with a ZWO ASI224MC camera with 2x 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 17% of 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: 261°

CM II: 93°

CM III: 229°

Nice to have something back on the Sun again. Had hoped to follow it for a few days but the weather said no!

250mm f4.8 Newtonian, MPCC

ZWO ASI290MC

120s 100fps SER files

Baader solar film

Captured in FireCapture

Processed in AutoStakkert 3, Registax and PS

I've been doing mostly lunar imaging for the past several months. I enjoy hi-res imaging of the lunar surface.

Here is a newly-processed shot of features from the Moon's Northwestern quarter, the Copernican period crater Kepler (at lower center, with the prominent ray system) and the Aristarchus Plateau at upper center (featuring the bright Copernican period crater Aristarchus and the sinuous Vallis Schröteri). On the extreme left margin at center is Marius Crater (with the volcanic dome region known as the Marius Hills. Between them all lies a portion of the vast Oceanus Procellarum, where distinctive features can be sparse!

Data collected April 5, 2020

Celestron EdgeHD8 telescope, Celestron Advanced VX mount.

ZWO 290MM camera

Data collection with Firecapture: ROI=1936x1096; ROI(Offset)=0x0; FPS (avg.)=81; Shutter=1.300ms; Gain=142 (23%)

Preprocessing with PIPP

Stacking with AutoStakkert!3, best 25% of 4908 video frames used.

Final processing in Photoshop CC 2020: slight cropping of stacking artifacts on margins

Copernicus, with Pytheas, Eratosthenes, Stadius, Reinhold and Lansberg Craters

04/02/2020

The principal crater here is one of the Moon's best, the showpiece Copernicus. It is a relatively recent crater, still showing an extensive network of rays, a prominent set of central peaks, high outer ramparts, and terraced interior walls that make the whole look like an otherworldly amphitheater.

Look at the region around Copernicus. The area is peppered with tiny craterlets, each gouged by a chunk of the Moon that was blasted upward and outward by the main cratering event, then falling hard back onto the Moon, digging a hole of its own.

Other craters include the smallish Pytheas at upper left, impressive Eratosthenes (another young crater, somewhat older than Copernicus), the almost invisible ghost crater Stadius below Eratosthenes, Reinhold below Copernicus, and finally Lansberg in the lower left.

Celestron EdgeHD 8 telescope, ZWO ASI290MM monochrome camera, Celestron Advanced VX mount.

Pre-processing of 4926 frame .ser file with PIPP. Best 15% of those video frames stacked with AutoStakkert 3, wavelets processing with Registax 6, and final processing in Photoshop CC 2020.

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Moon from this evening at sunset.

Stack of 25 images. Stacked in Autostakkert and sharpened in Registax 6

1/50s, f/12.74, ISO-100, 1300mm FL

Canon 200D + Skywatcher Skymax 102 MAK

Skywatcher Star Adventurer Pro (Moon-mode) for tracking.

Un'elaborazione di una foto di Giove ripresa il 01/09/2021 alle ore 00:41. Il puntino sulla destra è il satellite Callisto. Celestron Maksutov 127 mm SLT; barlow GSO 2,5x; camera SVBony SV305; elaborati 450 frames su 2722 con PIPP, Autostakkert, Astrosurface, Registax.

Taken with an 8" Ritchie Cretien telescope with focal reducer & Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro mount

Best 50% of 150 images, stacked using Autostakkert! 2 and processed in Adobe Lightroom

How difficult it is to get tired of such landscapes. We Earthlings are incredibly lucky to have such a welcoming planet with a natural satellite as close as it is beautiful.

Nikon z7 Tamron G2 150-600 Tcx20 1200mm f/13 80iso 1/50s. Best 20% of 600 frames. Autostakkert + Registax + Darktable.

Last night’s moon from Weatherly, PA.

Tech Specs: Sky Watcher 120ED Esprit, Celestron CGEM-DX mount (pier mounted), ZWO ASI071MC-Pro, 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.

Last night's moon shining at 52% illumination, three panel mosaic with the Meade 12".

Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro, three panels, best 20% of 300 frames, unguided. Captured using SharpCap v3.2, processed in AutoStakkert, stitched in Microsoft Image Composite Editor. Image date: August 25, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.