Hardware: Mount Skywatcher Solarquest, TS-Optics 70mm f/6 ED, Daystar Quark Chromosphere Filter, Player One Neptune-M (IMX178), UV/IR Cut Filter

Software: SharpCapture, AutoStakkert!3, ImPPG, PS, Topaz Sharpen AI

Comparison image showing the relative (apparent) sizes of the three planets. Jupiter and (particularly) Saturn appear less sharp than Mars because they're been very low in the sky for the last few years.

Telescope: Orion XT10 Dobsonian reflector

Focal length amplifier: Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate

Taken with a Willam Optics 70mm refractor on an EQ5 Pro mount, and Canon 1100D at prime focus

ISO-400 1/3200 sec

Best 65% of 150 images, stacked using Autostakkert! 2, and processed in Adobe Lightroom

Luna 2018-08-21 - 22:10 T.U.

Mare Imbrium, Plato, Sinus Iridum

Telescopio: Celestron C6-A XLT 150/1500 f10

Cámara: ZWO ASI120MM

Montura: EQ5 Bresser EXOS2 motorizada sin goto

Filtros: Astronomik ProPlanet 742 IR-pass filter

Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Fitswork

Fecha: 2018-08-21

Hora: 22:10 T.U.

Fase lunar: 82.2% 10.7 días Creciente

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 4 minutos

Resolución: 1280 x 960

Gain: 50

Exposure: 0,006726

Frames: 4383

Frames apilados: 20%

FPS: 18

Taken with a Skywatcher 200PDS refelctor telescope. A ZWO ASI224MC camera was used to take 5000 frames of video which was then processed with PIPP, Autostakkert and Photoshop.

March 9th, 2020 Super Moon

Captured using a 90mm Mak telescope, as a prime lens. Composed of 3,000 frames stacked in AutoStakkert.

taken with an Esprit 80 (fl 400mm) and a Daystar Quark Hydrogen filter, with a QHY174 camera. Lucky imaging technique. lots of processing of course: autostakkert, IMPPG, Photoshop, Lightroom, NAFE, and PixInsight.

EzPlanetary 750/1000 frames in Autostakkert!2

Celestron 8

QHY5L-II monochromatic

Postprocessing in Registax 6

Reprocessing of old movies

Deslandres Crater, seen in the center of this photo, is a battered crater, so heavily eroded and otherwise altered by the "rain" of eons of meteor strikes that it was not recognized to be a distinct crater until the mid-20th Century. It is located to the southeast of the Mare Nubium (a portion of which fills the upper left of this image), in the area where the rugged southern highlands of the Moon begin to abut the lunar maria. In fact, a small region of mare material, due to basaltic lava, can be seen in the eastern interior floor of Deslandres (right side of the crater, as north is up). Despite its near invisibility amidst the welter of craters in the area, Deslandres is the third-largest crater formation on the side of the Moon visible from Earth. The crater Walther is attached to the remnant of the eastern rim, and Ball intrudes into the southwestern rim. The crater remnant Lexell has broken across the southeastern rim, forming a "harbor" in the crater floor due to the wide gap in its northern rim. The irregular crater Regiomontanus is attached to the northeast rim of Deslandres. The relatively youthful appearing crater Hell

lies entirely within the western rim; it is seen here with its interior nearly halfway illuminated, and with its central peak caught in the spotlight.

My eye is drawn to the notable chain of 5 or 6 craters in the eastern portion of Deslandres. The craters seem to regularly increase in size as they stretch towards the northeast. they point conveniently to the patch of mare material previously mentioned.

Do take some time to explore around the image. Note how irregular and rugged the terrain is. It is truly a fitting setting for a crater named Hell.

Regarding Regiomontanus, the squashed-looking crater on the northeastern border of Deslandres: there is something about its central mountain that is surprising. Look closely and you might be able to see that a small meteor has impacted precisely on the tip of its highest peak and left a tiny 3½-mile craterlet in its place (Thanks to Andrew Planck for pointing this out in his blog: I finally saw it!)

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

Best 10% of 3034 video frames, stacked with AutoStakkert 3, wavelets processing with Registax 6, and final processing in Photoshop CC 2019.

Image of our star being eclipsed by our local satellite. What a wonderful sight.

Sky-watcher 62ED

Quark Chromosphere

iOptron Skyguider Pro/Manfrotto MT55

ZWO ASI174 mono

Best 50% of frames from one 30 second AVI stacked in Autostakkert. False coloured and sharpened in PS2025.

Nikon z7 Tamron G2 150-600 + Tc x20. 1/60s 125iso 1200mm. Stacking with Autostakkert, wavelets with Registax, enhancements with Darktable, embellishments with Gimp. This image is the result of a composition of several photos I took.

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Aberkenfig, South Wales

Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W

A comparison of one single shot image compared to sixteen separate images stacked with AutoStakkert! 3.1.4, wavelets processed with Registax 6 & final processing with G.I.M.P.

Each image captured @ 1/400s ISO 200 with an Olympus E410 at prime focus of a 254mm Skywatcher Newtonian.

Lunar south uppermost.

Best viewed in expanded mode.

104_9140-2 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert

Telescope: Celestron 11 - CGEM

Powermate 2X - Filter #25 (Red)

Camera: ASI120MM

Software: Firecapture - Autostakkert!2 - Registax - PS6

Telescope: Planewave 17"

Video 45 sec at 18fps

AutoStakkert using the best 10% frames

Credits: Aris Anastou, Fanis Smanis, Kostas Delibasis

= Acquisition info =

William Optics Zenithstar 73ii (FL 430mm)

Risingcam IMX571 color

iOptron CEM26

Sharpcap

= Séance photo =

13 juillet 2024 à 20h10

Filtre UV/IR

Best 450 de 3000 x 10ms

= Traitement/processing =

PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax & Gimp

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St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec

Bortle 9

AstroM1

Had a pretty decent night last night. Two of Jupiter's Galilean moons are visible in this image. Ganymede is near the top of the planet. Io is to the right of the planet. Io's shadow can be seen on Jupiter's right limb.

Date: January 16, 2025

Bortle Class 5 backyard, SF Bay Area (East Bay)

Capture: 5000 frames, lucky imaging (FireCapture)

Telescope: Celestron C9.25 SCT

Camera: ZWO ASI664MC

Filters: None

Tele Vue 2x Powermate

Mount: iOptron GEM45

Processing: AutoStakkert!4, waveSharp 1.0 beta, Photoshop CC

Here is our star showing some sunspots through an Orion glass solar filter (white light).

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at ambient temperature, best 20% of 500 images, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in Autostakkert and Registax. Image Date: May 18, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

Telescopio: Lunt LS60THaDS50 Double Stack

Montatura: Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro Synscan

CCD: Lumenera Skynyx 2.2 mono

Software: Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 2.3.0.19, Astra Image 3.0 PS, Lucam Recorder, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19

Barlow Zeiss Abbe 2X

Pose: 500 a 10 fps

Lunghezza focale: 1000 mm

Seeing: 3 Trasparenza: 5

Balcone di casa Formigine (Modena), Italy

Ecco un mosaico di Luna Gibbosa Crescente al 78% del 1° gennaio 2023.

Usando la tecnica della "Mineral Moon", ho aumentato la saturazione in ognuna delle parti per evidenziare le piccole differenze cromatiche, le quali indicano una diversa concentrazione di elementi chimici sulla superficie del nostro satellite. Quindi il blu dei mari lunari indica una maggiore presenza di ferro e titanio, le zone di colore arancio o giallo sono ricche di ferro ma povere di titanio e quelle rosse sono povere di entrambi gli elementi. I crateri da impatto più recenti tendono all’azzurro o blu chiaro, mentre quelli più antichi al rosso e blu scuro. Il colore marrone indica la presenza di antico materiale vulcanico.

Dati:

Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newtoniano

Montatura Eq2 motorizzata Sky-Watcher

Camera planetaria QHY5L-ll-C

Filtro UV IR cut

Sharpcap 3.2 per l’acquisizione di 25 video ognuno da 30 secondi e contenente 443 fotogrammi

Autostakkert! 3.1.4 e Astrosurface T5-TITANIA per le elaborazioni

GIMP per aumentare la saturazione dei colori

Autostitch per assemblare le 25 parti

Astrosurface per il bilanciamento del bianco e per regolare luminosità e contrasto

Condizioni del cielo: ottima trasparenza e seeing sufficiente

Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia

Data e ora delle riprese: 01-01-2023 dalle 22:30 UTC alle 22:55 UTC

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK

White Light:

8" Riitchie-Chretien telescope with Baader astrosolar filter, focal reducer and Canon 1100D on an EQ6 Mount

49% of 225 images stacked using Autostakkert! 2 then processed using Lightroom, Photoshop Cs2 and Focus Magic

H-Alpha:

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

Disc and prominences exposed differently.

Disc: 54% of 120 images stacked

Proms: 75% of 101 images stacked

Stacked using Autostakkert! 2, processed using Photoshop CS2, Lightroom and Focus Magic. The 2 images were then blended together using Photoshop CS2.

Small solar prominence yesterday, July 13, 2019.

Tech Specs: Williams Optics Redcat 51, ZWO ASI290MC, Daystar Quark Chromosphere + Daystar 2" UV/IR filter, SharpCap Pro v3.0, best 10% of 2k frames, AutoStakkert, Registax. Image date: 13 July 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA, USA.

Taken from the best 104 of 150 frames of an SER file shot with a ZWO ASI224MC camera with UV/IR Cut filter through the C14 at Cerritos College. Frames were stacked in AutoStakkert, sharpened and color corrected in PixInsight. The resulting image was touched up in GIMP.

This shows Mars emerging from behind the lunar limb at 2025-01-14 02:45:11 UTC. Mare Undarum appears at the left edge of the frame, and the crater Neper is visible just above where Mars appears.

Today’s sun (April 20, 2022) in white light with some HUGE sunspots coming into view.

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 15% of 1000 frames, processed using Autostakkert and Registax. Image Date: April 20, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

Close-up shot of our Moon.

Gear used:

- Skywatcher Skymax 102 OTA

- Skywatcher Star Adventurer Pro

- ASI 120MC-S

500 frames captured using 'Firecapture'.

I ran the video through PIPP, and stacked the frames in Autostakkert!3.

I used 320 frames of 500.

Final result was sharpened in Registax 6 (Wavelet).

Here is a quick capture of the planet Jupiter and an overexposed image of Jupiter on the top showing the four Galilean moons.

Tech Specs: Sky Watcher Esprit 120ED, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI290MC, and ZWO EAF, Televue 1.5x Barlow. Captured in SharpCap Pro, processed in Autostakkert and Registax, top image single 3-second exposure, bottom image is best 20% of 9000 frames. Image date: October 13, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

ZWO ASI178MC

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)

Losmandy G11

1100 frames captured in Firecapture

Best 60% stacked in Autostakkert

Finished in Photoshop

Coronado PST

ASI183M

x2 barlow

best 25% of 500 frames for surface

best 50% of 500 frames for prominences

captured in Sharpcap

stacked in Autostakkert!3

sharpened in imppg

blend and color in Photoshop

Composite picture of the moon.

For the moon, I used a Sky-watcher Skymax 102 in combination with an ASI 120MC-S.

For the stars, I simply took a picture with my Canon 200D and Canon 18-135mm lens.

Software used: PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax, Photoshop 2020

Meu primeiro registro do planeta Saturno com o telescópio atual. Faltando ainda alguns meses para a sua maior aproximação, neste ano, com a Terra. Infelizmente, a atmosfera estava turbulenta. Segue o reaprendizado para capturar e processar registros planetários.

No momento dos registros, Saturno estava a cerca de 1,52 Bilhões de quilômetros de distância da Terra.

Refletor Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 com Onstep, ASI 120MC-S, Barlow Starguider 5x. ASICAP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, WinJUPOS e Photoshop. Empilhados, aproximadamente, 6000 frames.

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16MP equivalent from 14 movies of 5000 images each.

Kept best 3% 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

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

This is an image of Mars captured using an IR 685nm filter.

Unfortunately imaging was cut short due to the deteriorating weather here...

However, I was able to acquire three IR runs and these were stacked with Autostakkert 3, sharpened using Registax wavelets and the resultant images derotated using Winjupos. The images were finished using Photoshop 2020.

Some nice detail is present before conditions deteriorated and I was at least thankful to get something!

I have included an annotated image naming some of the albedo features which were resolved that night.

Imaged using a Celestron C8 SCT with ZWO290MM camera and Baader IR filter.

Thanks for looking!

Meu primeiro teste com a câmera planetária ZWO ASI 290MC. Novamente, a atmosfera estava turbulenta, prejudicando o registro. Mas vale o exercício, buscando aprender e avançar nas próximas oportunidades. Em momento oportuno, vou precisar adquirir outro notebook (que possua USB 3.0 e mais recursos) para poder aproveitar melhor o potencial/velocidade desta câmera. Também vou precisar de um filtro UV/IR Cut (este já está a caminho). Estou ainda em faze de testes, buscando melhores formas de captar e processar imagens planetárias. No momento do registro de Júpiter, a lua Europa (ao lado dele na imagem) estava projetando sua sombra (círculo preto) sobre parte do planeta.

Refletor Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 com Onstep, ASI 290MC, Barlow SW 2x (Júpiter e Saturno) extendida para 2.8x (Marte). FireCapture, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, PixInsight e Photoshop.

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Just another moon shot. :)

Taken with my Canon 200D, connected to my Sky-watcher Skymax 102 via Prime Focus.

1/20s

f/12.74

ISO-100

1300mm

Stacked in Autostakkert, sharpened in Registax 6

"Waxing Gibbous Moon, 82.8% Full"

May 14, 2019

Explore Scientific ED 80 APO Triplet Refractor Telescope, 480mm FL, f/6

Canon T3i camera

ISO 100, 1/200 second exposure

15 images stacked

Pre-processing with PS Camera RAW and PIPP

Stacking with AutoStakkert!3

Wavelets applied with Registax 6

Post-processing with Photoshop CC 2019

Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor, 2x Barlow and ZWO ASI120MM

2 images stitches together using Microsoft ICE.

Each image was a stack of the best 50% of 2002 frames, stacked using Autostakkert!2 and processed in Lightroom

I zoomed in on a few craters that were very visible because of the shadows. :)

This was a total of 4160mm Focal Length (Full-frame equivalent).

Photo made with:

Canon EOS 200D

Sky-watcher Skymax 102

Sky-watcher Star Adventurer Pro

Celestron 2x Barlow

Frames analysed and stacked in Autostakkert; wavelet sharpening done in Registax 6 and finished in Photoshop 2020. :)

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, 2x Barlow and ASI120MC camera, when the Moon was a 40% illuminated Waxing Crescent.

This is a 3 pane mosaic, each pane was a 2,000 frame video shot with SharpCap Pro, the best 75% of the frames were stacked with Autostakkert! 3. The images were stitched using Microsoft ICE, then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer

Celestron CPC800XLT

ZWO LRGB filter set & wheel

Orion Shorty 2X Barlow

Altair GPCAMv2 130 Mono

Autostakkert 2.6.8

Registax 6

Photoshop CC 2017

Sony A7RIV+ 200-600mm + 1.4TC , crop mode 1/160S, ISO 100 , F10 tripod mounted, remote release , image stabilisation off. 200 images 10% stack in Autostakkert, Sharpened in Photoshop using Astra Image filter,

Imagine flying over the moon in a space capsule and looking down at the lunar surface. What you would see would be astonishing. This image gives a bit of an impression what you could see flying over the Clavius region in the southern part of the Moon when approaching in orbit from the north. That is why I called this image Moonflight...

This image was recorded by my 10 year old son about 1,5 month ago and I decided, because of the great result he got from this data himself, to see if I could extract even a bit more detail from it. Seeing was perfect that night, so that made this image a nice challenge. Also he made a perfect job from focussing so that a lot of detail was recorded.

I decided to use the drizzle function in Autostakkert to see how much detail I could retrieve. It showed that with the drizzle I could even see more details then in the original undrizzled data. The smallest craters I can find in this image are about 1,7 km wide and I think that's very close to the theoretical limit of my Celestron C11 telescope.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do...

Sunspots 2859 and 2860 cluster - each dot is roughly the size of earth - from this morning. Explore Scientific ED102, ASI224MC camera. 2135 (50% of total) frames stacked in Autostakkert, wavelets/contrast/dynamic range in Astrosurface and Photoshop for cropping/export. 26 Aug 2021.

The 18% illuminated waxing crescent moon from last evening and imaged under poor seeing conditions. This is a three panel mosaic.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO AS2600mc-Pro running at 0C, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO EAF, ZWO ASIAir Plus, 3 x 1-minute video. Stacked in Autostakkert and stretched in Registax. Image Date: February 23, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

Date: April 20, 20121

Our Sun continues to get more active as we move further into Solar Cycle 25. Here is a very nice grouping that is identified as AR2817. AR = Active Region

This picture was captured using an Astro Physics 5", 1100 mm focal length refracting telescope and a ZWO monochrome camera.

Capture Software: SharpCap

Processing Software: AutoStakkert, RegiStax6, Lightroom, Photoshop

"Moretus Crater"

I finally got into a groove with my new telescope last night, after collimation and the blessing of good seeing. I pushed my personal boundaries with this shot, using a 3x focal extender. The subject is Moretus Crater and the area toward the southern limb of the Moon. So much yet to learn about imaging with this telescope!

Please click to show the full image.

Celestron EdgeHD 8 telescope, f/10, 2032 mm focal length

Explore Scientific 3X Focal Extender

ZWO ASI290MM Camera

Celestron Advanced VX Mount

Stack of the best 50% of 1750 video frames, captured with Firecapture software

Pre-Processing with PIPP

Stacking with AutoStakkert!3

Wavelets processing with Registax 6

Post-processing with Photoshop CS 2019

Behold, the grand finale: my best Jupiter image so far. This is the result of just a few minutes of good seeing and many hours of pushing the outside of the envelope in image processing. WinJUPOS derotation and PixInsight deconvolution are incredible tools for planetary imaging.

Jupiter rotates about its axis every 10 hours, making it the fastest-rotating planet in the Solar System. As a result, it is noticeably wider at the equator. Its atmosphere is separated into several bands at different latitudes, resulting in turbulence and storms along the boundaries. The Great Red Spot, visible in the southeast, is a giant storm with a diameter larger than Earth.

Phase angle: 1.74°

Apparent magnitude: -2.93

Apparent diameter: 49.79"

Distance from Earth: 3.960 AU

Derotation of 7 images, each image consisting of 500 frames (best 500 of ~30,000)

Captured from 04:52 to 05:16 UTC 09/19/22

Exposure 6 ms, Gain 300, Offset 25

Location: Summerville/Ladson, SC

Atmospheric seeing: 4/5 to 5/5

Camera: ZWO ASI224MC

Telescope: Celestron C6 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope

Barlow: Tele Vue 2x 1.25" Barlow (gives an effective focal length of 3404mm at f/22.7)

Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G (unguided)

Capture software: FireCapture

Processing software: AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, WinJUPOS, GIMP

The earliest moment of Mercury transit that I was able to capture before clouds and unstable power supply united in (futile) attempt to beat me down :)

North is up, East is left. At least I had solved the image orientation correctly.

Acquisition time: 14:23 MSK (11 minutes after first contact)

Telescope: PST with 2x Barlow

Camera: TIS DMK23U274

HEQ5 Pro telescope mount

STF Mirage OTA (180/1800mm)

Sony A7 III (ISO1600, 1/320s)

PIPP for pre-processing

AutoStakkert! 4.0.11 for stacking (50% from 159 frames)

ImPPG for sharpening

RawTherapee for post-processing

Sunspot AR2846

Images with a ZWO ASI120MC Astro Camera (in monochrome mode) with a Baader Solar Continuum filter, mounted on a Questar 3.5-inch (89mm) f/14.4 Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope.

Best of 500 frames captured in SharpCap 2.9 and stacked using Autostakkert!2. Wavelets applied using Registax 6.