Aberkenfig, South Wales

Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W

16 single shot RAW images 1/400s @ ISO 200 obtained with a 254mm Skywatcher Newtonian & Olympus E410 at prime focus.

Images converted to TIFF format then stacked with AutoStakkert! 3.1.4.

Wavelets processed with Registax 6.

Final processing with G.I.M.P.

Lunar south uppermost.

We are entering a new era in manned exploration and inhabitation of the Moon. Much interest focuses on the Southern regions of the Moon, especially the dark-shadowed craters near the South Pole. Prime among them is Shackleton Crater. Shackleton is a 21 km diameter crater located adjacent to the geographic south pole.

I have a friend who is involved in designing probes to explore Shackleton Crater. She recently asked me if I had ever seen it. I cannot claim to have done so. Seeing it is possible, for a wobble in the Moon’s rotation periodically tilts the South Polar region towards us. I have recently gained the capability to photograph the region in intelligible detail. Making sense of what I see forces me to confront the bewildering geometry of the Southern lunar landscape. This is a region of extreme foreshortening. Instead of craters, one sees a bewildering jumble of ridges. Fortunately, lunar orbiters have looked directly down on the Moon’s South Pole. We know what features are found there. Further, scientists have spent countless hours peering through telescopes and charting their observations of the area. These maps are available to people like me, guiding us in our efforts to decipher the features we see. I am beginning to make sense of the terrain I photograph, piecing together a path towards Shackleton. I am increasingly confident that the South Pole lies near the lower right "Rule of Thirds" intersection point in this photo. One feature intrigues me, a small chevron of light just inside the outermost illuminated ridge. It resembles an inverted Nike swoosh. Could this be a portion of Shackleton's crater rim? The explorations continue...

33.2MP equivalent from 20 movies of 5000 images each.

Kept best 5% of frames from each movie

---Hardware---

Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT

Camera : PointGrey Grasshopper GS3-U3-23S6M

Tube : Celestron 11 EDGE HD

Effective focal length : 2800 mm

Effective aperture : ~ F/10

---Software---

Acquired with FireCapture

Stacked with AutoStakkert

Mosaic done with Microsoft ICE

Processed with Lightroom & Topaz SharpenAI

Made with Maksutov 180 telescope and ASI-290mm camera+ Proplanet 642 near IR filter.

2000 frames per panel @ 67 frames per second. 250 best frames stacked with Autostakkert, wavelets applied with Registax and Mosaic made with Microsoft ICE.

Remember, there are 2 zoom levels, click 1 and click 2....

Sony A7RIV 200-600mm+1.4TC ,stacked images in AutoStakkert , Sharpened in Astro Image colourised in Photoshop

You're looking at the solar chromosphere through a narrowband hydrogen-alpha telescope. The seeing was pretty good today and it was unusually warm with a high of 26C.

Imaged with a Lunt LS50THa solar telesope double-stacked with an LS50C front etalon and captured with a ZWO ASI178MM monochrome camera using Sharpcap. Stacked in AutoStakkert! (best 15 images out of 500) and processed with IMPPG and Photoshop.

Taken with a Coronado PST, 2x Barlow & Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro mount

Images shot in RAW, cropped and colour removed in Lightroom then exported at TIFF files. Best 57% of 254 images stacked using Autostakkert! 2.

Stacked image was duplicated, one processed to enhance the prominences, the other to enhance surface features. Images exported again as TIFFs, then merged together in Photoshop CS2 using a layer mask, before adding false colour back into the image. The final merged image was then tweaked using Lightroom and Focus Magic

My Lunt 40 got delivered at the end of May and I'm loving it so far. I did a first light review of the Lunt 40 here if anyone's interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0NDs0DoWoA - I show images I took with my Phone and DSLR as well.

This shot was taken on May 26, 2023 from my driveway. The skies were still filled with Canadian wildfire smoke at the time but it all still worked out.

Equipment used:

* Lunt 40

* AVX Mount

* ZWO ASI120MM-Mini

* FireCapture

* 33% of 1000 frames stacked and sharpened in AutoStakkert!3

* Colorization in Photoshop (the image in this post was actually done automatically using a Python script I'm playing with)

You can see a higher resolution at www.naztronomy.com/images/portfolio/fullscreen/Sun-5.26.2...

More details on Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/q8boil/

My YouTube: youtube.com/Naztronomy

LATEST VERSION: flic.kr/p/2nJs39B

Jupiter, the 5th planet, just a few hours after opposition. Io, one of the four Galilean moons, is also visible in this shot. Jupiter has 80 known moons and a faint ring system. Its atmosphere is separated into several bands at different latitudes, resulting in turbulence and storms along the boundaries.

1,000 x 1/30 second ISO1600 (best of 5,492)

Phase angle: 0.24°

Apparent magnitude: -2.88

Apparent diameter: 49"

Distance from Earth: 4.013 AU

Altitude above horizon: 50°

Atmospheric seeing: 4/5

Captured at 05:46 UTC on 08/20/21

Location: Coral Springs, FL

Camera: Canon T3i

Telescope: Explore Scientific ED80 f/6.0 Apochromatic Refractor

Barlow: Antares 3x Triplet Barlow (effective magnification is 4.932x for 2373mm focal length at f/29.66)

Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G

Captured with Magic Lantern RAW Video (10 bit, 30 FPS, 640 x 426)

Processed with MLV App, PIPP, AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, and Paint.NET

Wrapping up my 2021 planetary images! Here is my sharpest Jupiter image yet. The black circle just left of center is the shadow of Europa, one of Jupiter's largest moons. The Great Red Spot is visible southeast of the shadow. The GRS is the largest storm in the Solar System, with a diameter larger than Earth. Wind speeds in the storm peak at 268 mph (432 km/h).

Jupiter has 80 known moons and a faint ring system. Its atmosphere is separated into several bands at different latitudes, resulting in turbulence and storms along the boundaries.

1,000 x 1/30 second ISO1600 (best of 6,305)

Phase angle: 0.29°

Apparent magnitude: -2.88

Apparent diameter: 49"

Distance from Earth: 4.013 AU

Altitude above horizon: 50°

Atmospheric seeing: 5/5

Captured at 05:45 UTC on 08/19/21

Location: Coral Springs, FL

Camera: Canon T3i

Telescope: Explore Scientific ED80 f/6.0 Apochromatic Refractor

Barlow: Antares 3x Triplet Barlow (effective magnification is 4.932x for 2373mm focal length at f/29.66)

Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G

Captured with Magic Lantern RAW Video (10 bit, 30 FPS, 640 x 426)

Processed with MLV App, PIPP, AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, and Paint.NET

This is a two part mosaic pseudo-coloured. What you really see through a H-alpha scope is much more red (656.3nm) in colour. The prominence over the eastern limb was wonderfully intricate. The detail in this image is some of the best I've seen and captured so far. I have the good seeing and larger aperture to thank.

Taken with a Coronado Solarmax SM90 I with two front etalons (double-stack) and a ZWO ASI178MM monochrome camera. Stacked in Autostakkert!, best 20 frames from 500. Processed in IMPPG and Photoshop.

Genova, Italy (28 Oct 2022 21:25 UT)

Planet: diameter 48.0", mag -2.8, altitude ≈ 44°

Telescope: Orange 1977 vintage Celestron C8 (203 F/10 SC)

Mount: EQ5 with ST4 hand controller (no GoTo)

Camera: QHY5III462C Color

Barlow: GSO APO 2.5x

Filter: QHY UV/IR block

Recording scale: 0.150 arcsec/pixel

Equivalent focal length ≈ 3990 mm F/19.7

Image resized: +50%

Recording: SharpCap 4.0

(640x480 @ 60fps - 120 sec - RAW16 - Gain 120)

9 videos: 21:07, 21:12, 21:17, 21:21, 21:25, 21:29, 21:34, 21:39, 21:45

Best 25% frames of about 7200 for each video

Alignment/Stacking: AutoStakkert! 3.1.4

Wavelets/Deconvolution: AstroSurface T5

Derotation: WinJUPOS 12.1.2

Final Elaboration: GIMP 2.10.30

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 is just beginning to set on the easter shore of Mare Fecunditatis, the large flat plain at center image. Crater Langrenus is the "fresh" crater on the central eastern shore. Crater Petavius is the more worn and overlapped crater on the southeastern shore. The waning gibbous moon is just two days past full. Seeing was horribly poor at the time of capture.

ZWO ASI178MC

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)

Losmandy G11

Two panels of 3000 frames captured in FireCapture.

Best 30% stacked in Autostakkert.

Wavelet sharpened in Registax.

Noise reduction in Topaz DeNoise AI.

Panels combined and image finished in Photoshop

A. Rukl 37, 48, 49, 59, and 60.

437 photos à ISO 400, f/8, 1/200s

220 photos empilées

Canon 550D + Tamron SP 150-600 G2

Pré-traitement dans Lightroom

Recadarage dans PIPP

Empilement dans Autostakkert

Accentuation de la netteté dans Registax

Traitement dans Photoshop

Reprocess of Mars 25 May 2018 from the backyard - - - Equipment: 12" Newt, QHY 163m, baader RGB filters —-Software: firecapture, autostakkert 3, WinJupos, registax 6, topaz denoise ai, cs6, PIPP.

In questa foto, due grandi macchie solari segnano il progressivo aumento dell’attività solare, che viene misurata in cicli di undici anni a partire dal 1755. Attualmente il Sole si trova nel venticinquesimo ciclo, iniziato a fine 2019, e sta progressivamente raggiungendo il massimo, che avverrà nel 2025. Con l’aumento dell’attività si manifestano forti perturbazioni magnetiche, con la comparsa di regioni attive sulla superficie. In questa immagine della cromosfera solare, ripresa il 19 Gennaio 2023 alle 12.26 (Tempo Medio dell’Europa Centrale, TMEC), sono visibili due grandi regioni attive catalogate come AR3190 (in basso) e AR3191/AR3192 (in alto). Quando osserviamo la cromosfera con un filtro che isola la lunghezza d’onda dell’idrogeno ionizzato (H-alpha) queste regioni appaiono come una complessa associazione di zone brillanti (facole) e scure (macchie). La macchia associata alla regione 3190 è una delle più grandi apparse nell’attuale ciclo solare: è grande quattro volte la Terra è potrebbe essere vista ad occhio nudo, naturalmente utilizzando una adeguata schermatura per gli occhi.

Scope: LUNT LS60T Ha

Mount: 10micron GM2000 hps II

Camera: ZWO ASI 174mm

Processing: Autostakkert!3 - PixInsight

n basso si vede il cratere Posidonius, a sinistra Atlas (il più grande) e Hercules, in alto si vedono invece i crateri Aristoteles (il più grande) ed Eudoxus. Per avere un'idea si consideri che il cratere Posidonius che si vede in basso ha un diametro di circa 96 Km. Foto fatta con Maksutov 127 mm, smartphone Samsung S21, adattatore universale per smartphone, oculare Ploss 9 mm, filmato di 1460 frames di cui il 50% elaborati con PIPP, Autostakkert e Astra Image.

Celestron C11, 4x TeleVue Powermate, ZWO RGB FIlter Set, ZWO ASI174MM, Pierro Astro ADC

9 RGB image runs taken over several months in 2017 were used to make the image map of Jupiter I used to make this full rotation video.

Several small parts of Jupiter were missing (mainly on the poles) so I copied and pasted similar looking detail into those areas, just so that I could complete the map (note: as such the map is not 100% accurate, only about 94%)

When the seeing was not as good I have attempted to compensate for those by sharpening those more, and by also blurring back the images captured on the better nights.

To integrate (blend) the images together - I used the map tools in Winjupos to initially create a master (with all 9 maps added, just showing their best parts), then manually blended (in photoshop) the parts that varied quite a bit in sharpness/colour and brightness - it took about 1 full day to blend the images for this rotation !

Each of the 9 images I captured images were either RGB or LRGB runs vids taken over 20mins to an hour between May-July 2017...

Software Used: Firecapture, Autostakkert, Registax, Winjupos & Photoshop

Merseyside, UK

Acqusition time: 09.08.2016 around 09:20 MSK

TIS DMK 23U274 via Daystar Quark on Meade series 6000 80 mm ED triplet

145 out of 1000 frames were stacked in AS!2, deconvolved AstraImage 3.0 PRO (Richardson-Lucy aggressive, Cauchy-type, 0,3 pixels, 10 iterations). Contrast enchancement masking-blending, coloration and composing were done in PS.

Telescope: Celestron C11 XLT

Camera: ZWO ASI120MM-S, ZWO RGB filters

GSO Barlow x2.5

EXP: Per channel 5000 x 3 - 1500 best ones + deroatation + final derotation of RGB channels

Software: Sharpcap, Autostakkert!3, WinJUPOS, PS

Location: Vojnićka Krivaja,

18.10.2020. UTC 21:25

Move cursor over image for notes.

Click on the image and move mouse L - R to scroll the panorama.

I am typically a "North-is-Up" advocate, but I tried this photo in all 4 rotational positions and this one was the more visually appealing orientation.

Telescope = Celestron CPC1100 Deluxe HD

Camera = Altair Hypercam IMX174 Mono

Tele Vue Powermate 2.5

ZWO Filter Wheel (and Red fliter)

Reprocess - Best 10% of 5,000 frames - Autostakkert 2

Registax 6 - Wavelets

Photoshop CC 2018 - final tweaks and panel assembly.

What a difference stacking makes! I tried using AutoStakkert for once (sorry Registax!) using the drizzle option and the results are brilliant.

Taken at the eclipse event at Earlsdon Primary on March 20th 2015 - the partial solar eclipse across Britain!

Celestron 130SLT TeleVue 2.5x zwo 120mc-s

50% of 2000 frames

Autostakkert 3

Registax 6

Affinity

Spanning the center of this wide-angle photo, from left to right, are six prominent craters, very familiar to Moon observers and photographers. They have been featured in other Moon photos I have posted, but never have I imaged them so well. The craters are arranged in two groups of three. On the left are (L-R) Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus, and Arzachel; on the right are Purbach, Regiomontanus, and Walther. These six craters usually emerge into lunar daylight or plunge into the lunar night at roughly the same time in the lunar cycle; at these times they are compelling features of the southern terminator.

The better known of these two triplets is that of Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus and Arzachel. These three give classic examples of craters with differing degrees of degradation. Ptolemaeus, the largest of the three, is a broad, flat lava plain within a circular rampart of cliffs and ramparts. Its interior is pocked with many craterlets, and it has no central peak. To its right is Alphonsus, with a single remaining central peak, a ridge that runs across its middle, and a large crack in its eastern floor (upper side, in this image). Then, near the center of the shot, comes Arzachel. Arzachel has a complex central peak, a prominent secondary crater in its interior, also a crack in its eastern side, and a well-defined terrace structure to its interior rim walls. These features mark Arzachel as the youngest of the three.

Purbach, Regiomontanus, and Walther are less well defined. They lie in the Southern Highlands of the Moon, where they blend into the welter of craters in the region, except around the times they lie along the terminator. Purbach is a key player in the popular feature known as the Lunar X. This is a transient effect of the play of sunlight along the eastern rim of Purbach, along with the rims of the adjacent La Caille and nearby Blanchinus craters. The high ground responsible for this feature is found in this photo on the upper (eastern) side of Purbach crater. The Lunar X is visible for a few hours prior to the Moon’s First Quarter phase. Spotting it is almost a sporting event for lunar observers. Immediately to the right of Purbach is Regiomontanus. Notice how the southern wall of Purbach intrudes onto Regiomontanus, squashing the crater into more of an oval than a circle. Notice too the central peak of Regiomontanus. There is a 6 km wide crater right on the peak, making the feature look like a volcano (it isn’t). The last of this three, Walther has a central peak, one that has been battered by several smaller cratering events. The northeastern portion of the crater floor is hilly and rubble strewn, whereas the flatter southern and southwestern portions are streaked by rays of lighter material blasted from Tycho, 425 km distant.

Lastly, look back at Arzachel. On its rim, at the 8 o’clock position in this photo is a small secondary crater, Arzachel B. This crater measures 7.7 km in diameter. It is a near twin in size to another impact crater, the Wetumpka Crater, located in my home state of Alabama, 233 km to my south, near Montgomery. The Wetumpka Crater’s age is estimated to be about 85 million years old. The meteorite that caused the crater was estimated to be 1,100 feet in diameter. It likely impacted at a 30-45 degree angle from the Northeast, onto a shallow sea that was about 300–400 feet deep. I have stood on the rim of Wetumpka Crater, and driven across a portion of its floor. It is unnoticeable except to a trained eye. For me, Arzachel B is more readily detected, if not directly experienced!

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

Pre-processing of 2233 frame .ser file with PIPP. Best 25% of those video frames, stacked with AutoStakkert 3, wavelets processing with Registax 6, and final processing in Photoshop CC 2020

This image looks almost decent, but there are some issues that I want to work on. As for softness, I am well-collimated and I prefocused on Alderaban, but average seeing could be an issue. I can add an IR/UV cut filter. I noticed an image size issue in WINJUPOS when making the measurements in the wire frame. It seems that IR, which I used for the R channel, is much less intense than the G or B channels. Because of this the IR image appeared somewhat smaller than the G or B channel images. I am going to go back to using the Red filter for the R channel.

10 iRGB runs (60s and 34,000 frames/filter) in Firecapture.

Best 10% stacked in Autostakkert

Wavelet sharpening in Registax

Derotation in WINJUPOS

Finishing in Photoshop

ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25x

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

Losmandy G11

We're having a nice stretch of clear nights! The moon is very low, about 30 degrees above the southern horizon at transient, so the seeing is a bit wobbly.

Another six-image panorama using a Skymax 150mm f/12 Mak and ZWO ASI432MM. IR pass filter. Autostakkert, MS ICE, and Photoshop.

#my_astrophotography

#clavius_crater

Using data gathered by the Faint Object infraRed CAmera for the SOFIA Telescope (FORCAST) onboard the NASA/DLR Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), astronomers have detected water molecules (H2O) in sunny Clavius Crater, one of the largest craters visible from Earth, located in the Moon’s southern hemisphere. The SOFIA data reveal water in concentrations of 100-412 parts per million — roughly equivalent to 355 ml (12 ounce) of water — trapped in 1 m3 of soil spread across the lunar surface.

Clavius is one of the largest crater formations on the Moon and the second largest crater on the visible near side.

🔭 Celestron CPC 800

ZWO ASI290MC

Focal Reducer F 6.3

5000 Frames

Stacked using

Autostakkert

Registax

Photoshop

250/1000 Frames of an .avi file in Autostakkert!2

Celestron 8

QHY5L-II monochromatic

EzPlanetary as acquisition software and Registax6 for postprocessing

Seeing varied between 4 and 4.5 out of 5 this night, and transparency was decent. Jupiter was at an altitude of 39° and a distance of 601 million km.

Separate R, G, and B SER files were captured between 0626 and 0647 UTC. Each SER was 30 s in length. This produced 7 usable stacks for R images, 7 for G images, and 6 for B images. Each stack was 175 frames for R, 200 frames for G, and 230 for B. The images for each color band were de-rotated in WinJUPOS, and the resulting single R, G, and B images were compositied and derotated in WinJUPOS.

Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 925

Camera: ZWO ASI120MM

Filter wheel: ZWO EFW

Filters: Optolong RGB set for CCD/deep sky

Captured with FireCapture

Processed in AutoStakkert and PixInsight

CM longitudes:

CM I: 342.5° CM II: 133.1° CM III: 317.2°

White Light image:

8" Ritchie Cretien telescope with Mylar solar filter (my first test of this new filter), focal reducer and Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro mount

Best 50% of 75 images stacked in Autostakkert! 2, then processed in Lightroom, Photoshop CS2 & Lightoom

H-alpha image:

Coronado PST 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D on and EQ5 Pro mount

120 images shot in RAW (camera set to mono to help focusing), then the images were cropped and colour removed in Lightroom, exported as TIFFs.

Best 54% of 120 stacked in Autostakkert! 2. Stacked image was duplicated, one processed to enhance surface details, the other to enhance prominences. Images processed in Lightroom then colour added and images merged using Photoshop CS2. Final tweaks made in Lightroom and Focus Magic

Telescopio: Tecnosky APO Doublet 102/714 mm

Montatura: Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro Synscan

CCD: Lumenera Skynyx 2.2 mono

Filtro: LUNT Calcium-K module BF 600

Moonlite CF 2" focuser with high resolution stepper DRO

Software: Astra Image 3.0 SI, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 2.3.0.19, Lucam Recorder

Lunghezza focale: 714 mm

Seeing: 3 Trasparenza: 5

Balcone di casa Formigine (Modena), Italy

Our Moon photographed through my refractor telescope on 03.04.2021 @ 2:15 AM. Illuminated side is 65% with 20.7 days age. Gear setup: WO 71 APO Refractor f/5.9 with focal reducer x0.8, iOptron GEM 45 pro, ZWO 294 MC. 1000 frames Captured by Sharpcap pro and stacked for the best of 90% by Autostakkert!, wavelets by Registax 6 and final touch up by PS 2020 CC.

Finally! While I have seen this happen a lot visually, my timing has always been off in terms of getting this in an image. Tonight, I got it! SO, that's Ganymede and its shadow at upper right, with Io further out to the right. I may even have captured some surface detail on Ganymede???

First time using the SharpCap capture software. Amazing, and free!

Captured with a Celestron C8 telescope, Celestron CGEM mount, ZWO ASI120MC camera. Captured in SharpCap and processed in AutoStakkert and Lightroom.

This is from another video I captured on May 20, 2017 showing Jupiter and two moon, Io and Europa. The original video capture was 10,000 frames over 3-minutes. I only processed the first 1-minute of the video stream (about 3,500 frames) for this image. Three minutes is simply too long unless you derotate the video images (from Jupiter rotating during the capture).

The next step is to refine the capture process to maximize the frames per second (fps) for a 1-minute video.

Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90 telescope, ASI290MC camera, Celestron CGEM-DX mount. Software included: FireCapture v2.5.10 x64, AutoStakkert! V3.0.14 (x64), Registax v6 and Adobe Lightroom. Date: May 20, 2017. Location: Weatherly, Pennsylvania.

Today, 18.03.2015, around 09:00 GMT+4 the Sun has "bursted out" a great deal of cool proms all around the limb. This is the eastern(?) part. I definitely should sort out the image orientation in my setup...

Some clouds are already here and I'm expecting more to come tomorrow or the day after, so I'm racing up :)

All the same company, Coronado PST, 1/2 of Meade 2x Barlow lens and TIS DMK23U274, alltogether on tabletop Celestron CG-4 with motor, backed with Autostakkert!2, AstraImage PRO 3.0 and r&v Photoshop.

Hopefully, you are not bored with the Sun ;)

Jupiter and Saturn from September 19, 2021, just a quick 30-second video capture of each testing out the ZWO AAP for video capture. You can see Europa in transit on Jupiter.

Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI290MC. Captured using ZWO AAP and processed using Autostakkert and Registax. Image date: September 19, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

12-08-14 Taken with a Canon 60D using a Tamron SP AF70-300mm VC USD Zoom lens. Seeing very turbulent as was low in the sky and raining at the time, took a 30 shot burst and stacked the best 12 of them with Autostakkert 2. Taken in a small cloud gap.

My humble (2nd) attempt at capturing the planet Saturn.

This time, I decided not to use my 2x Barlow, and simply use my camera at prime focus, which resulted in little to no Chromatic aberration this time! Instead, I used Drizzle to enlarge my final picture.

This was taken with a Sky-watcher Skymax 102 and an ASI 120MC-S, mounted on a Star Adventurer Pro.

Software: Firecapture, PIPP, Autostakkert and Registax.

Copernicus – 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.

From Wikipedia: The Copernican Period in the lunar geologic timescale runs from approximately 1.1 billion years ago to the present day. The base of the Copernican period is defined by impact craters that possess bright optically immature ray systems.

Tech Specs: ZWO ASI290MC camera and Meade 12” LX90 telescope mounted on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount. Software used included Sharpcap v2.9, AutoStakkert! Alpha Version 2.3.0.21, ImagesPlus v5.75a, and Registax v6.1.0.8. Photographed on January 7, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.

Mosaico de 14 teselas con Nexstar 8 Se, ZWO Asi128mm, filtro ir850nm y CGEM. Procesado en Autostakkert, ICE, Pixinsight y Fitswork.

21.3% waxing crescent moon during nautical twilight. The sun was 10 degrees below the horizon, so this was just after the peak of blue hour. The dark side of the moon is visible thanks to Earthshine. This is a true HDR composite with all of the images captured on the same night.

Apparent magnitude: -9.57

Apparent diameter: 30'57"

Distance from Earth: 0.002580 AU

Altitude above horizon: 44°

HDR composite created from 6 image stacks:

13x [2.0 seconds ISO800]

5x [1/2 second ISO800]

5x [1/8 second ISO800]

5x [1/30 second ISO800]

5x [1/125 second ISO800]

5x [1/500 second ISO800]

Background starfield created from 1 stack:

13x [2.0 seconds ISO800]

Location: Coral Springs, FL

Camera: Canon T3i

Telescope: Explore Scientific ED80 f/6.0 Apochromatic Refractor (with ES field flattener)

Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G

Processed with DPP, PIPP, AutoStakkert! 3, PixInsight, FDRTools, and Paint.NET

L'activité solaire est très forte ces jours-ci...la région action AR3664 est retour selon les analyses de Spaceweather, maintenant sous l'appellation AR3697

Soleil du 1er juin avec 8 régions actives et 135 taches solaires.

The Sun is very active these days. The famous active area AR3664 seems to be back, not tagged as AR3697.

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Risingcam IMX571 color

William Optics Zenithstar73ii

iOptron CEM26

Filtre UV/IR cut

Filtre Thousand Oaks Solarlite ND5

Exp. 18ms / Gain 100

Best 500 de 3000

Aquisition: Sharpcap

Traitement: PIPP, AutoStakkert 4.0, Registax et Gimp

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

AstroM1

Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor, 2 x Barlow and Canon 1100D

Best 39% of 101 frames stacked in Autostakkert!2 and processed in Lightroom

Here is a feature called the Vallis Alpes, or Alpine Valley. It is a valley that bisects the Montes Alpes range and runs from Mare Imbrium to Mare Frigoris. This feature is over 80 miles in length and widens to almost 6 miles. While I have imaged this feature in the past, to date, this is the best resolution I have obtained.

Tech Specs: ZWO ASI290MC camera and Meade 12” LX90 telescope mounted on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount. Software used included Sharpcap v2.9, AutoStakkert! Alpha Version 2.3.0.21, ImagesPlus v5.75a, and Registax v6.1.0.8. Photographed on January 7, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.

With Sunspot AR2770 (left) and the remains of AR2769 (center) and AR2768 (right)

Mosaic made from 7 panels.

Full resolution image (6250 x 1949 pixels) available for download.

Session Information :

* 51° N 3° E

* Torhout, Belgium

* Capture Date : 05.08.2020

* Capture Start : 08:31:38 UTC

* Capture End : 08:37:48 UTC

Object Information

* Type : Sunspot

* Designation : AR2770

* Distance : 1.014 AU or roughly 151.743.000 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 : 111

* Gamma : 50

* Frames Captured : 5.000 per panel

* Capture Rate : 128 frames/sec

* Frames Stacked : 50 per panel

Capture Software

* FireCapture

Processing Software

* AutoStakkert!

* RegiStax

* Adobe Photoshop

* Topaz DeNoise AI

Eleven-day Moon about 78% illuminated. Seeing was quite good last night, for N. Florida. The image is a bit pixelated when pixel peeping. It looks a bit too "crunchy" for my tastes. I'm not use to the interface for the replacement software for Registax called WaveSharp. I need to get a feel for it. I get the impression "less-is-more" with it.

80mm refractor; ASI585MC, full resolution (3840 x 2160); best 1000 frames out of 10,000. Gain 300; frame rate about 19 fps.

PIPP, AutoStakkert. WaveSharp. Photoshop (for exposure and color adjustment.)

Elaborazione di Saturno per mettere in evidenza l'elusivo anello C. La ripresa è sempre quella di giorno 31 agosto, realizzata con ilMaksutov da 127 mm.

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

Composite Image.

Stacking : Autostakkert

Wavelets : Astrosurface

Colors : Darktable

Layers : Gimp

Nikon Z7 + Tamron G2 150-600 + TCx20 + Baader Astrosolar ASSF

In the news today, AR2941 launched a CME that knocked out 40 Starlink satellites.

Canon EOS 60Da (1/640s, ISO 100)

TeleVue NP101is/2x Power Mate (4", f/10.4)

Losmandy G11

100 subframes captured with Backyard EOS (BYE). CR2 files converted to AVI by PPIP. Best 75% of frames stacked in AutoStakkert! Sharpened in Registax and finished in Photoshop.