Fine light bridges cross the umbra.

Filaments seen in the penumbra

Bright faculae trail behind the sunspot

Granulations visible on the photosphere

900mm f/7.5 Skywatcher Equinox ED scope

TeleVue x2.5 Barlow

Baader Herschel wedge

Zwo 174 MM monochrome CMOS camera

Skywatcher EQ6 mount with Rowan belt drives.

Hinodi solar guider.

Best 40% of 1300 frames

Stacked in AutoStakkert!3

Wavelets in RegiStax6

High pass/overlay and shadows/highlights in PS

Frames captured=1300

File type=SER

ROI=1936x1216

FPS (avg.)=24

Shutter=12.89ms

Gain=0 (0%)

Gamma=50

Here is a view of last evening’s near full moon in high contrast. This is a four panel mosaic captured using the video capture mode of the ZWO ASIAIR Plus. Each panel was a one minute video processed in Autostakkert software.

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

Copernicus is the prototype of a "young" lunar crater. It has a high rampart surrounding it, an interior that resembles a terraced amphitheater (just add stadium lights), and a system of rays that radiate away from the crater itself. It has not been battered by subsequent impacts, and it's interior still shows rubble that fell back into the crater after being blasted high above the moon's surface. All of these are textural cues that signal "freshness" in the crater marketplace.

When I captured video for this photo, atmospheric "seeing" conditions were forecast to be "average", but turned out a good bit better in the area of my neighborhood. I did not venture using a focal extender to magnify the image, but opted to use a smaller region of interest (I cropped the active area of my camera sensor to 1000x800px) on this one to close in on Copernicus.

The best 30% of 5779 video frames were used. Seeing was slightly above average, 3.5-4 on a 5-point scale.

Image selection and stacking accomplished with AutoStakkert!3. Subsequent wavelets and histogram adjustments with Registax 6. Toning and minor cropping with Camera RAW and Photoshop CC 2021.

Celestron Edge HD8 telescope

ZWO ASI 290MM camera

Celestron Advanced VX Mount

Mars 11 October 2020 - a few days from opposition and a few days after its closest approach. 2020. Image taken at around 40 degrees altitude as well! From the back yard.

Equipment: Telescope 12" goto Skywatcher dobsonian,

Camera QHY163m, baader rgb filters, Tele Vue 5x powermate.

Software: Sharpcap, AutoStakkert 3, RegiStax 6, Topaz Denoise Ai, CS6.

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

ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25"

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/2.5x PM

Losmandy G11

20 RGB runs (19ms, 422 gain, 2400 frames in 45s) in FireCapture

Preprocessed in PIPP

Best 40% of frames stacked in Autostakkert

Wavelet sharpened in Registax

Finished in Photoshop

A very interesting solar prominence on today's sun.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, ZWO ASI290MC, Daystar Quark Chromosphere + 2" UV filter, SharpCap v3.2, best 15% of 10k frames, AutoStakkert, Registax. Image date: 23 June 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.

Mars 11 October 2020 - a few days from opposition and a few days after its closest approach. 2020. Image taken at around 40 degrees altitude as well!

Equipment: Telescope 12" goto Skywatcher dobsonian,

Camera QHY163m, baader rgb filters, Tele Vue 5x powermate.

Software: Sharpcap, AutoStakkert 3, RegiStax 6, Topaz Denoise Ai, Topaz Sharpen Ai, CS6. Taken about 30 mins after my previous Mars photo from the same day.

Mars imaged during the evening of the 6th November. This image is a further process of data obtained near the end of my imaging session.

Conditions were disappointing but at least I managed to get a reasonable image with some nice detail visible despite the circumstances.

This is an RsGB image with the green component being a blend of the red and blue channels.

Three separate RGB runs with the resultant images stacked using Autostakkert 3. The stacks were then sharpened with Registax and finally derotated and assembled using Winjupos. The image was finished in Photoshop.

I am going to post an annotated version identifying some of the features visible in the image.

Thanks for looking!

Lune décroissante 45.5%, prise au petit matin vers 6h30

Moon photographed early in the morning, around 6h30.

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Risingcam IMX571 color

William Optics Zenithstar73ii

iOptron CEM26

Filtre Optlong L-Pro

Exp. 15ms / Gain 101

Best 500 de 2500

Aquisition: Sharpcap

Traitement: PIPP, AutoStakkert 4.0, Registax et Affinity Photo 2

@Astrobox 2.0 / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec

AstroM1

Yesterday’s sun in white light, pretty active with a lot of sunspots. A few dark areas from dust in my imaging train that I didn’t catch.

Tech Specs: Orion 8" f/8 Ritchey-Chretien Astrograph Telescope, Orion Glass Solar Filter, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ASI071MC-Pro, ZWO AAPlus, ZWO EAF, best 10% of 1000 frames, processed using Autostakkert and Registax. Image Date: April 4, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

Close-up shot of Clavius

iOptron iEQ45pro + ES127 + ZWO ASI 178MC +3xBarlow. Captured with SharpCap. 20ms exposure, 100/1000 frames.

Stacked with AutoStakkert

Here is a view of the crater Arzachel on Earth’s moon. This crater is about 56 miles wide and 2.2 miles deep. I love the terraced crater rim that shows up very well when the moon is near the first quarter phase.

Tech Specs: Canon 6D, Meade 12” LX90 telescope, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, best 50% of 1500 frames. Software: AutoStakkert! V3.0.14 (x64) and Registax v6. Location: Weatherly, PA. Date: June 2, 2017.

Taken with a Celestron Edge HD 925 and ZWO ASI120MM camera from my backyard in Long Beach, CA.

2 45 s SER files were recorded in RGB filters. The best 40% of frames were stacked in AutoStakkert, then sharpened in PixInsight. The frames were registered and combined in WinJUPOS. Some final touches were applied in Photoshop to attempt to get the color right.

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

Taken at 2:30am with a 70mm refractor, 2 x Barlow and Canon 1100D

ISO-800 1/800 sec exp

Best 69% of 158 frames stacked in Autostakkert! 2 and processed in Lightroom

Telescopio: Celestron C11 XLT Fastar

CCD: ZW Optical ASI120MM

Montatura: Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro Synscan

Software: Firecapture 2.3, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 2.3.0.19, Astra Image 3.0 PS

Filtro Baader Planetarium IR-Pass 685nm

Pose: 350 a 29 fps

Lunghezza focale: 2800 mm

Seeing: 3 Trasparenza: 8

Tycho Crater – diameter is 86 km and it is about 4.8 km in depth, located in the southern region of the moon. The crater was named after Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546–1601). From Wikipedia, “The crater is sharply defined, unlike older craters that have been degraded by subsequent impacts. The interior has a high albedo that is prominent when the Sun is overhead, and the crater is surrounded by a distinctive ray system forming long spokes that reach as long as 1,500 kilometers. Sections of these rays can be observed even when Tycho is illuminated only by earthlight. Due to its prominent rays, Tycho is mapped as part of the Copernican System.”

Tech Specs: ZWO ASI290MC camera and Meade 12” LX90 telescope mounted on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount. Software used included Sharpcap v2.9 and AutoStakkert! Alpha Version 2.3.0.21. Photographed on February 6, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.

Dusty Mars.

27 days to opposition.

Low in the horizon. Still rising.

Seeing 2.5/5

Transparency 3/5.

3 images derotated. 1.5X drizzle

C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)

ZWO120MC

SharpCap

Winjupos

AutoStakkert

PixInsight

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D. 260 images shot in RAW, cropped and converted into TIFFs with Lightroom. Best 65% of those images were stacked using Autostakkert! 3 then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer

Image captured about 30 minutes before sunset. Altitude was 18 degrees. Seeing was poor.

Replaced original image with one reprocessed on 2021-10-06 with additional sharpening in Registax. Original image used 3x drizzle in Autostakkert. No drizzle used in replacment image.

Next Venus capture will be as it crosses the meridian, and more frames will be captured.

Capture:

IR - 2 minutes

UV - 2 minutes

Color channel mapping:

R: IR

G: IR/UV 50/50

B: UV

ZWO ASI290MM

TeleVue 2.5x PowerMate

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)

Losmandy G11

The Moon - Waxing Gibbous - Taken right after sunset. Illumination approx 65%

IR-RGB combination - about 750 frames stacked per channel (3000 frames total)

Imaging telescope, mount and camera:

TS Optics/GSO 6'' f4 Newtonian

Celestron CGEM-DX

ASI1600MM-Cool

Processed with: Autostakkert, Pixinsight, Astra Image, and Photoshop CC

Location:

Home Backyard, Geleen, Limburg, Netherlands (Bortle 6/7)

Aristarchus Plateau is located in the northern Oceanus Procellarum and is dominated by the brightest crater on the Moon, Aristarchus. Ejecta rays from various craters criss-cross this scene. (A. Ruki 18, 19)

ZWO ASI178MC

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)

Losmandy G11

4000 frames captured with Firecapture

Best 240 frames stacked in Autostakkert

Wavelet sharpened in Registax

Finished in Photoshop

Il cratere Gassendi è una meraviglia lunare: con il suo imponente diametro di 110 km e il fondo segnato da intricati solchi (rimae), racconta una storia geologica complessa fatta di impatti violenti e successivi episodi di vulcanismo. Questo cratere, situato vicino al confine tra il Mare Humorum e gli altopiani, è uno dei più spettacolari per chi osserva con un telescopio. Durante le fredde notti di dicembre, il nostro satellite ci svela la sua mutevolezza, ora dopo ora, ricordandoci che siamo a solo un secondo luce da un mondo di roccia, lava solidificata e sabbia.

Foto ottenuta con Mak 127mm a 1500m di focale e Barlow 2.5x. PIPP + Autostakkert + Registax + PS

#moonphotography #lunarcrater #telescopics #stargazing #astrophotography #cratereGassendi #esplorazione #nottiDInverno #lunarlandscape #naturaCosmica #spacetimetravel #moonwatching #decembernights #amazinguniverse #astrografia #esplora #osservazione #satellite #lucefredda #mutamentilunari

Telescopio Maksutov Celestron 127 SLT. Camera SVBony SV305, Barlow GSO 2,5x. Elaborazioni con Autostakkert e Registax.

The Apenninus Mountains is one of my favorite locations on the moon, probably best view just after the first quarter moon when they are draped in some shadows. This is one of the first times I have imaged this region when almost fully illuminated, lots of details visible.

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. Photographed on July 4, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.

Tonight’s moon (Nov 12, 2021) currently 66% illuminated, two panel mosaic.

Tech Specs: Orion 8" f/8 Ritchey-Chretien Astrograph, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI071, ZWO EAF. Captured in SharpCap Pro, processed in Autostakkert and Registax, two panel mosaic. Image date: November 12, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

Sunspot pair AR 3315. As this is a single stack etalon image some of the white light detail of the umbra/penumbra leaks through the filter adding more detail to the sunspot.

The swirls of activity around the pair reflect the magnetic fields. Between the opposite poles of the sunspot pair is a bright transition zone with 3 dark field transition arches crossing between - this is the boundary between the 2 poles.

Single Etalon on Celestron 1000/102mm f10 refractor.

ZWO ASI290MM camera

Processed in AutoStakkert!3 and imPPG.

Moretus Crater is located in the highland region of the lunar south pole. The central mountain formation rises about 2,700 meters above the floor of the crater. In this view of the crater, south is at the top.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, Televue Powermate 2.5x, best 20% of 20k frames. Captured with SharpCap v3 and processed using AutoStakkert! And Registax. Image Date: February 26, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.

Here is a collection of Venus images from December 2016 to February 2017 showing how the size and phase of Venus has changed as it starts to move between the Earth and the Sun. Eventually, Venus will pass between the Earth and Sun and emerge into the morning sky once again.

TheSkyLive.com has a nice animated solar system map that you can view online (theskylive.com/).

Imaging Tech Specs: Meade LX90 12” Telescope, ZWO ASI290MC camera at prime focus, each image was composed of the best 2,000 frames of 10,000 frames sampled. Taken from Weatherly, Pennsylvania. Software included Sharpcap v2.9, AutoStakkert! Alpha Version 2.3.0.21, Registax, and Adobe Lightroom.

A re-process of my H-alpha Sun data taken on 23rd April. The reprocess has brought out some better detail on the disc

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Coronado PST, 2 x Barlow and Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro mount.

Shot through thin cloud

ISO-800 1/100 sec

Images shot in RAW, then imported into Lightroom. Colour was removed, images tweaked and cropped before exporting as TIFF files.

Best 63% of 303 TIFF files then stacked in Autostakkert! 2.

Stacked image was duplicated, then imported into Photoshop CS2. One image was processed to bring out the prominences, the other to bring out surface features, then false colour applied. The images were merged using a layer mask. Final tweaks to the resulting image were made in Lightroom and Focus Magic

NGC 2170 o también llamada Nebulosa Ángel, se encuentra situada en la constelación de Monoceros a 2,700 años luz de distancia.

Es una nebulosa de reflexión rodeada de corrientes de gas interestelar ionizado, causante del tono rojizo perceptible en la parte superior de la imagen, así como de nebulosas de absorción y estrellas calientes.

Para capturar esta imagen se utilizaron filtros LRGB y una exposición total de 1h 20min:

2x600 Luminance

2x600 Red

2x600 Green

2x600 Blue

Registrado y apilado con Siril, procesado no lineal con PS.

Las líneas verticales son rastros de satélites que no pude eliminar del todo.

Hace un poco más de un año que inicié en el mundo de la astrofotografía y el procesado de datos con Telescope Live, estoy muy, muy feliz. Le he perdido el miedo a los parámetros manuales de las cámaras fotográficas, aprendí a utilizar diferentes herramientas para procesado de astrofoto como DSS, Sequator, Siril, FITS Liberator, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, también los maravillosos PS y LR.

Aprendí a reconocer las condiciones meteorológicas adecuadas para lograr una buena astrofotografía, a ubicar las constelaciones en el cielo y diferenciar ciertas regiones. A tomar fotografías con un simple celular y reconocer algunos de los equipos más avanzados para este trabajo.

Y es que no solo se trata de saber ubicarse en el cielo y tener el mejor equipo para realizar una buena foto, también se debe entrenar la paciencia y la perseverancia.

Sin duda he obtenido muchas satisfacciones de esto, es la mejor distracción cuando “estoy mal”, he conocido gente genial y muy experta en este ámbito, algunos que me han dado consejos para mejorar en tomas y procesado y otras que se han convertido en buenos compañeros.

La astrofotografía me acerca cada vez más al cielo, que es lo que más, más me gusta en esta vida y lo que más quiero conocer. 🌌

Aberkenfig, South Wales

Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W

Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian, Tal 2x Barlow,

ZWO ASI 385MC.

4000 frames captured using Firecapture.

Approx. 1000 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 conditions revealing some of the craterlets on its floor.

ZWO ASI178

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)

Losmandy G11

3000 frames captured in FireCapture

Best 30% of frames stacked in Autostakkert

AI Sharpened with BlurXTerminaor

Finished in Photoshop

Lunt Ls35THa

QHY Img132e

Vixen Polarie

EzPlanetary

Autostakkert.

Registax

Fitswork

Cs6

255 frames

Mexico CDMX

"Clavius Portrait"

I am a great fan of the lunar crater Clavius. I first noticed it in the early 1980's when I began observing the Moon through 11x80 binoculars. In those optics, it was an enormous crater that dominated landscape south of Tycho, especially on those days of the lunar cycle that it was near the terminator. I was able, with my 30 year old eyes, able to see it without binoculars at on these days. It was one of the first craters whose name I learned, after Tycho and Copernicus.

Once I began to photograph the Moon, I would be thrilled whenever my images showed Clavius clearly, clear enough to notice the beautiful arc of craterlets that adorn the Moon ' floor. The arc seems mathematically precise, and the craters seem to decrease in size with similar precision.

Over the past few years, I have tried to improve my images of Clavius. A year ago I achieved a personal milestone when I caught the region of Clavius under very good seeing conditions and with a freshly tuned-up telescope, making an image I still count as one of my best.

Here I present my current "portrait" of Clavius, this time with good seeing, a tuned telescope, AND a 3x magnifying lens. The magnification allows me to single Clavius out from the myriad craters crowding this part of the Moon. I have tried to present an image as near as possible to the visual experience one might have looking through an eyepiece. Photoshop enhancement was used, but sparingly.

The image is created from a stack of 9852 video frame images, collected in two one-minute video clips. The best 5% were identified and combined into a single image. This method, called "lucky imaging", uses each video frame as a sample of the seeing (a measure of atmospheric stability) at a brief moment in time, here averaging 1.9 milliseconds per video frame. In other words, out of 120 seconds of video, only the best 0.936 seconds were used in the final image.

So, here 'tis. My current best portrait of Clavius crater.

Instrumentation:

Celestron EdgeHD 8 telescope, Explore Scientific 3x Focal Extender, ZWO ASI290MM monochrome camera, Celestron Advanced VX mount.

Processing:

Video data captured with Firecapture software as two 60-sec .ser files. Pre-processing of each 4926 frame .ser file with PIPP. Best 5% of 9852 video frames from the two combined .ser files were stacked with AutoStakkert!3, mild wavelets processing done with Registax 6, and final processing in Photoshop CC 2020.

Time: 15.8.2021. 20:13 UTC

Location: Zagreb, Medvednica (850m)

Telescope: Celestron C6

Barlow: GSO x2.5

Camera: ASI120MM-s + Zwo RGB filters

Software: Sharpcap, Autostakkert!3, Registax6, Winjupos, Photoshop

Crater Thales is the bright, rayed crater just below and right of center frame.

ZWO ASI178MC

Tele Vue 2.5x PowerMate

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)

Losmandy G11

4000 frames captured in Firecapture

Best 2000 frames stacked in Autostakkert

Wavelet sharpened in Registax

Finished in Photoshop

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: ZWO ASI290MC camera and Meade 12” LX90, best 20% of 5k frames. Software used included Sharpcap Pro v3.1 and AutoStakkert!3. Photographed on February 16, 2019 from the Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, Pennsylvania, USA.

Sunday evening's 4.29 day old moon. 19.4% illumination. Approximate distance from Earth 390,117km.

Mare Crisium, Sea of Crises, is fully illuminated. Formed during the Nectarian period (from -3.92 billions years to -3.85 billions years).

Mare Fecunditatis, Sea of Fruitfulness, is partially illuminated along the terminator line. This sea was formed during the Pre-Nectarian period (from -4.55 billions years to -3.92 billions years).

Image Equipment:

SharpStar 140PH Triplet 910mm focal length,

Mesu 200 MKII mount,

ZWOASI2600MM Pro camera

Red filter

Best 10% of 5,000 images stacked with AutoStakkert!, then processed with RegiStax and Photoshop.

Saturn with moons (left to right) Rhea, Enceladus, Mimas, Tethys, Dione & Hyperion, imaged during a night of above average seeing with a Celestron C8 in LRGB at F30 with a ToupTek G3M2210M camera.

Software used was FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax and Photoshop.

Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 925

Camera: ZWO ASI120MM

Filter wheel: ZWO EFW

Filters: RGB set from Optolong

R: best 140/677 frames, 7 stacks

G: best 165/687 frames, 7 stacks

B: best 180/669 frames, 8 stacks

Processing in Autostakkert, PixInsight, WinJUPOS, and Photoshop

Jupiter was at 41° altitude and at a distance of 603 million km

CM I: 206.0° CM II: 310.8° CM III: 136.4°

🇬🇧 Illustration of the conjunction between Jupiter and the Moon. Composition of 4 photos (Full Moon of last month, Moon of tonight, Jupiter of tonight, Background taken from an archive). The Moon and Jupiter were each taken separately at the same focal length (1200mm). The size ratio between the Moon and Jupiter is therefore correct. On the other hand, Jupiter and the Moon have been brought closer together than in reality.

Illustration de la conjonction entre Jupiter et la Lune. Composition de 4 photos (Pleine lune du mois dernier, Lune de ce soir, Jupiter de ce soir, Fond de ciel d'une archive). La Lune et Jupiter ont été prises chacune séparément à la même longueur focale (1200mm). Le rapport de taille entre la Lune et Jupiter est donc correct. Par contre les deux astres ont été rapprochés par rapport à la réalité.

All photos were taken with the #nikon #z7 with #tamron G2 150-600 and #samyang 135.

Softwares used : Autostakkert, Registax, Starmax, Darktable, Gimp.

The Eastern part of our moon in detail. I took this picture a few days ago.

Stack of 5 pictures, made with a Canon 200D, Sky-watcher Skymax 102 and Celestron 2x Barlow. Tracking with a Star Adventurer Pro.

Photos stacked in Autostakkert and sharpened in Registax. Finishing touch in Photoshop 2020.

EXIF:

1/8s

f/12.74

ISO-100

4160mm FF-equivalent (1300mm x 2 x 1.6)

ZWO ASI178MC

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)

Losmandy G11

2000 frames captured with Firecapture.

Best 30% of frames stacked with Autostakkert!

Wavelet sharpened in Registax

Finished in Photoshop

My Photography of the moon today

Moon: 76.7%

Waxing Gibbous

6 Panels

Telescope: Celestron CPC 800

Camera: ZWO ASI294 MC Pro

2x Barlow Lens

Stacked and stich in

AutoStakkert

RegiStax 6

Image Composite Editor

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.

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, Celestron CGEM-DX mount (pier mounted), ZWO ASI290MC, best 25% of 2,500 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.

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

Best 75% of 175 images stacked in Autostakkert! 2 and processed in Lightroom

Total Lunar Eclipse

This is a montage of the phases of the eclipse which were actually visible. The rest of the eclipse was obstructed by clouds Well, I'm glad I was able to see anything at all... 😊

Images captured with my William Optics ZS61 and a ZWO ASI 178MC, all on an iOptron iEQ45pro. Video sequences with 200-1000 images, best 50-100 frames stacked with AutoStakkert.

#eclipse #lunareclipse #totallunareclipse #totallunareclipse2018 #lunar #mond #moon #mondfinsternis #totalemondfinsternis #totalemondfinsternis2018 #astr #astronomie #astronomy #astrofotografia #astrobin #astrofotografie #astrophotography #sky #himmel #nachthimmel #nightsky #bavaria #lkrpfaffenhofen #pfaffenhofen #williamoptics #ioptron #zs61 #zwoasi178mc #ieq45pro