The seeing was horrible, but I'm learning to working with Fitswork4 and AutoStakkert so I show you my process.

Telescope Meade LX200 f10 8".

Camera DMK21AU4

This image is a testament to what is possible with the tools available to today's amateur astronomer. During the capture session, transparency varied between below average and poor, and seeing had similar variances. The data is so bad that some of the pieces of this 20 panel mosaic had to be manually pasted and nudged into place, because photomerge could not line up the panels. Also, the changing transparency meant that the amount of the light reaching the sensor for each frame varied. I compensated for this as best I could by adjusting the brightness, but it seems that other values probably needed to be adjusted as well.

ZWO ASI178MC

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)

Losmandy G11

1000 frames for each mosaic panel captured with Firecapture.

Best 75% of frames stacked with Autostakkert

Wavelet sharpened with Registax

Photomerged and finished with Photoshop

This is with my home setup -- Celestron Edge HD 925 with ZWO ASI120MM camera, 3x Barlow, and Optolong RGB filters. I wanted to see if I could keep Europa and its shadow looking decent while shooting with a mono camera. To do this, I limited the RGB SER files to 12 seconds and took each set in under a minute. After stacking in AutoStakkert and doing some sharpening in PixInsight, I used WinJUPOS to derotate the frames so I could check the resulting RGB images for color distortions around the moon or its shadow. Seeing that they weren't discernible, I stacked and derotated six RGB images from 0429 to 0440 UT in WinJUPOS and tweaked the result a little in PixInsight and Photoshop.

Europa is visible just below and a bit to the right of its shadow. I couldn't get any detail on it. Seeing varied from mediocre to good. This is from my backyard in Long Beach, CA.

Jupiter with the Great Red Spot visible, taken with my ASI 120MC-S, connected to my Sky-watcher Skymax 102 OTA.

I also used a 2x Celestron Barlow for this image.

These were mounted on my Star Adventurer Pro to keep the planet centered while capturing the video.

Capturing done in: Firecapture

Processing done in: PIPP, Autostakkert and Registax.

A close up through Skywatcher 8in Dobsonian. Manually tracked. Used ASI174M + 2.5x Powermate + 642nm filter. x5 sequential frames stacked in Autostakkert and processed in Registax and Faststone Image Viewer.

Optics : TEC 140 F/7 Apo + TeleVue barlow 2" 4X

Filter : Baader Cool-Ceramic Herschel Wedge + Baader Solar Continuum Filter (540 nm) 2";

Equivalent focal lenght : 3920 mm

Camera : ZWO ASI 174 MM;

Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier;

Software : FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Photoshop.

Casalecchio di Reno - Italia

44° 29’ 29” N

11° 14’ 58” E

19 Sept. 2025. Heavy cloud cover and poor seeing with brief gaps in the clouds. Mewlon 210 with Player One UranusC camera. Video stacked with Autostakkert, sharpening with Registax.

Blue channel only

ZWO ASI290MM/1.25" EFW

TeleVue 2.5x PowerMate

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)

Losmandy G11

FireCapture

PIPP

Autostakkert!

Registax

GIMP

Quand tout s’effondre et que plus rien n’a de poids,

Je m’en vais sous le ciel, loin des ombres et du froid.

La nuit s’étire en un manteau immense,

Et dans son silence, je trouve un sens.

J’installe mon télescope, gestes lents, précis,

Comme un rituel, un murmure, un abri.

Là-haut, tout est calme, tout est ancien,

Des astres m’observent, témoins lointains.

J’aperçois Orion, fier et figé,

Comme s’il savait ce que c’est d’exister.

Au bord de l’abîme, la Lune m’éclaire,

Comme une présence, douce et sincère.

Les jours sont lourds, mais les nuits me bercent,

Le ciel profond m’offre une trêve.

Car dans l’infini, au-delà des peines,

Je ne suis qu’un grain, mais je fais partie du ciel quand même.

-🔭 : Skywatcher 200/1000 PDS f/5.0.

- Skywatcher EQ6 Pro Go-To.

-📷 : ZWO ASI 224 MC.

-Filtre ZWO IR-Cut.

-🔍 : Barlow Tele Vue 3x.

- ⚙️ : Empilement des meilleures 20%.

- ️️: PIPP, Autostakkert, AstroSurface, Photoshop.

The bright Moon transitions to the vast darkness of space across this image. The transition begins as the lunar limb where the Moon and space meet. Roughly at center image the transition becomes lunar terminator, where the Moons limb lies in shadow. The transition between limb and terminator is roughly the lunar south pole.

ZWO ASI178MC

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)

Losmandy G11

3000 frames captured in FireCapture.

Best 30% stacked in Autostakkert.

Wavelet sharpened in Registax.

Noise reduction in Topaz DeNoise AI

Finished in Photoshop.

I couldn't be more pleased with this image. I almost didn't even get my scope out but everyone fell asleep on me. It was one of the clearest nights I could have hoped for.... cool, still and low humidity.

Definitely my best Saturn to date!!! :)

APM 152mm F8 Apochromatic Refractor

Zwoasi290 planetary camera

astromania specialized planetary filter set+lrgb

EQ6r pro mount

Best 20% of 7000 frames

stacked in Autostakkert

Wavelet transformation done in registax6

Post Processing in Photoshop

Finalized in Topaz Labs De-noise AI

Copernicus is a lunar impact crater located in eastern Oceanus Procellarum. It was named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. It typifies craters that formed during the Copernican period in that it has a prominent ray system. It may have been created by debris from the breakup of the parent body of asteroid 495 Eulalia 800 million years ago. It's about 93 kms wide.

Image Details:

- Imaging Scope: Celestron C8 Classic 8" SCT

- Mount: Celestron CGEM

- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC

- 2000 Frames captured in FireCapture

- Processed in AutoStakkert, Registax 6, Lightroom and Topaz Denoise

Takahashi FS60-Q

ZWO ASI224MC

Celestron Nexstar

Panorama de 4 teselas, cada una:

Frames: 2000

Stack frames: 10% (200)

Captura: Firecapture

Procesado: Autostakkert + Registax + ICE + Pixinsight + Photoshop + Lightroom

Distancia focal: 600 mm.

F: 10

Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda

Observatorio Astronómico Altaïr

Poncitlán Jalisco México

Image capture and processing by Doug Biernacki and Jim Johnson while preparing for the April 8th solar eclipse. North is up.

ZWO ASI2600MC-Pro

Tele Vue NP101is (4" f/5.4)

Losmandy GM-8

Capture: 0.0015s x 48 RGB frames at 0 gain with NINA. Processing in Autostakkert!3 (stacking), Registax (wavelet sharpening), and PixInsight (convert to monochrome, luminance adjustment, and cropping).

#ZW Optical

#Tele Vue

#Losmandy

**Warning, do not look at the sun without the needed protection/filter. This may cause severe damage to your eyes, and possibly even blindness!***

My first attempt ever at Solar Photography.

I used a Sky-watcher Skymax 102, Canon EOS 200D, Sky-watcher Star Adventurer Pro and Astrozap Baader Solar Filter.

I used 845 of 3200 frames.

Processed in PIPP, stacked in Autostakkert, sharpened in Registax 6 and finished in Photoshop 2020.

There's a small sun spot, and some solar activity visible. ;)

"Blue-Sky Moon"

A second image from this afternoon, again through the new telescope. This time I attached my Canon T3i to the prime focus of the telescope.

f/10, ISO 100, 2032mm focal length, 1/200 sec exposure

Stack of the best 15 of 50 shots.

ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25" (RGB)

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

Losmandy G11

Ten 30s RGB runs captured in Firecapture.

Preprocessed in PIPP

Best 60% of frames stacked in Autostakkert

Wavelet shapened in Registax

Frame and R/G/B De-rotation in WINJUPOS.

Finished Photoshop

This photo sequence is a combination of 1040 images (stacked) taken during the lunar eclipse of January 31, 2018. Canon 80D w/Tamron 150-600mm. sets of images were taken 10 minutes apart from start to finish. f/11 used throughout. Full moon = 1/500 sec. with each additional image 1 full stop down each. Tracked with Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer. Stacked with AutoStakkert 2 and finished with Photoshop CC.

Skymax 180+Zwo ASI 678MM + Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro/Traitement avec Autostakkert! et Astrosurface

Seeing was a little better Thursday night, January 23. Io's shadow and the Great Red Spot are clearly visible on the Gas Giant. Ganymede is seen to the upper right.

After seeing other recent images of Jupiter I realize that I captured an outbreak in the North Temperate Belt. It is the small white oval just above the ruddy colored North Equatorial Belt and is in line with the GRS at the time this image was taken. An outbreak is a giant thunderstorm (in simple terms) that can last for months.

Date: January 23, 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 2.0, Photoshop CC

The Full Wolf Moon passing in front of Mars (occultation) on Monday evening. This coincided with Mars closest approach to earth on Jan 12.

Occultation takes place when a celestial body with a greater apparent diameter passes in front of a body with a smaller apparent diameter. For example, when the moon passes in front of a star or planet. The occultation of the Sun by the Moon is called a solar eclipse.

Credit: www.starwalk.space.com

This is a composite image of Mars' path taken at 30 second intervals. (19:05:05 through 20:13:17MST)

10ms exposures, 3.2 frames per second for 10 seconds every 30 seconds. 50% stacked. Acquired with Sharpcap 4.1, processed in Autostakkert 4, IMPPG and Photoshop.

Imaging equipment:

PlaneWave CDK14 at 2,563mm focal length

Mesu 200 MKII mount,

QHY268M camera

104_7642-6 1/60s f/24 4000 ISO

Processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert.

Buenos Aires 2018-06-27 22:51 UT -3

Equipo: Star Adventurer - Mak 102 f/12,7 - Canon 6D - Telextender 3x

Video RAW Magic Lantern - ISO 6400 - 1/64s - 640 x 480 px

Apilado 75% de 1940 frames - Drizzle 1,5x

Procesado: MLV_DUMP - PIPP - AutoStakkert/3 - Photoshop - Lightroom

Telescope: Celestron C9.25 Edge HD @ 4037 mm

Focal ratio: f17

Camera: ZWO ASI462MC

FPS (avg.)=122

Shutter=8.159ms

Gain=315 (52%)

Resolution: 0.1482 arcsec/pixel

Stack: 25% best of 22050 frames (5512 frames)

Barlow: Explore Scientific 1.25" 2x Focal Extender

Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector: ZWO ADC

Focuser: MicroTouch Focuser

Capturing software: FireCapture 2.7

Mount: iOptron CEM60

Processing: Autostakkert! (30%), RegiStax, PixInsight

Date: 21-Ago-2021

Local Time: 9:49 pm

Universal Time (UT): 2:49 am

Location: Bogotá, Colombia

Bullialdus Crater – diameter is just under 61 km, named for Ismael Boulliau, French astronomer (1605-1694).

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.

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor and ASI120MC camera. This is a two pane mosaic, each pane was the best 50% of a 1,000 frame video, stacked using Autostakkert! 3, stitched using Microsoft ICE then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.

Aberkenfig, South Wales

Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W

A rare glimpse of The Mare Orientale on the morning of 10th October 2020.

Image captured at 04:34 UT (05:34 BST) (South is uppermost)

254mm Skywatcher Newtonian & ZWO ASI120MC

1000 frames out of 2000 processed using AutoStakkert!2 & wavelets with Registax 6.

Collage & annotations using G.I.M.P.

Cratère Clavius

Dimension: 225.0x225.0Km / 136.0x136.0Mi

Hauteur: 4600.0m' / 14800.0ft

Formation circulaire abîmée.

Versants escarpés criblés de cratères portant Blancanus au

Sud-Ouest.

Muraille très élevée chevauchée par Porter au Nord-Est.

Rutherford au Sud-Est. Clavius K au Sud-Ouest et Clavius L à

l'Ouest.

Fond plat immense avec Clavius D C N J & JA sur un arc de

cercle. Nombreux craterlets dont une chaîne au Sud-Ouest.

Lignes de crêtes.

Origine du nom:

Nom détaillé: Christoph Klau (dit Christophorus Clavius)

Mathématicien et astronome allemand du 16 ème siècle né

en Allemagne.

Source "Atlas Virtuel de la Lune"

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 - RegiStax 6 - Darktable - FastStone Images Viewer

Filtres: IR-Cut / IR-Block ZWO (M48)

Accessoire: GPU coma-correcteur Sky-watcher + Barlow Keppler x2.5 (x3.8 env. suivant mon montage)

Dates: 11 Mai 2022- 19h21

Images unitaires: SER (500x23.73ms) 9% retenues - Gain 0

Intégration: --

Échantillonnage: 0.17 arcsec/pixel

Seeing: 1.20"Arc

Echelle d'obscurité de Bortle: 4.50

Phase de la Lune (moyenne): 83%

Sometimes, it's worth staying up on clear nights.

Last night was heavenly. The stuff dreams are made of.

Saturn never shone so brilliantly. The best 40% of 11,250 frames in Autostakkert!3.

Captured with a Nikon D5500 and a 10-inch Meade LX200.

01 Feb. 2025. Image captured with a Mewlon 210 and Player One Uranus C camera. Autostakkert and Registack for processing.

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor and Canon 1100D on an EQ 6 mount.

Moon: ISO-800 1/3200 sec. 60 images shot during brief gaps in the cloud, then the best 80% of those were stacked using Autostakkert! 2.

Jupiter was taken with the same equipment but was a single shot at ISO-800 1/30 sec

The 2 exposures were brought together using a layer mask in Photoshop CS2, with enlarged detail inset also created in Photoshop

De la medianoche del 4/4/2018

Equipo: Star Adventurer - Mak 102 - Canon EOS 6D a foco primario

Procesado: Video Magic Lantern - PIPP - AutoStakkert - PS - LR

This moon will be the closest to Earth today than any other day of the year, making it the largest full moon of 2020. Moreover, this pink super moon will appear 7 percent larger than an average full moon. The moon, however, will not actually look pink unless it's covered by an opaque pink cloud or haze.

11 images processed and aligned in Lightroom and Photoshop and processed in Autostakkert.

Nikon D7500 and Sigma 150 - 600 mm with Kenko .4x teleconverter.

Camera settings: 1/800; F/9; ISO 640

Lens settings: Lens at 600 mm.

Overall Effective focal length of 1260 mm

Taken at 10:40pm, 13 hours after the Full Moon.

Take with a William Optics 70mm refractor on an EQ5 Pro mount, 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D.

ISO-800 1/1000 sec exp

Best 97 out of 117 frames stacked using Autostakkert!2 and processed in Lightroom

Image captured with a Mewlon 210 and Player One Uranus camera. Processing with Autostakkert and Registax.

4k videos processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert.

In Explore Highest position: 187 on Tuesday, March 11, 2025

106_4607-10

Kept best 5% of frames from a 5000 frame movie

---Hardware---

Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT

Camera : PointGrey Grasshopper GS3-U3-23S6M

Tube : AP130 EDF F/6

Barlow: Televue 4x

Effective focal length : 3120 mm

Effective aperture : ~ F/24

---Software---

Acquired with FireCapture

Stacked with AutoStakkert

Mosaic done with Microsoft ICE

Processed with Lightroom & Topaz SharpenAI

A bunch of stacks of the best 90/300 frames of AVIs shot with a Point Grey Flea3 color camera through a Celestron Edge HD 925 with 3x Barlow. Individual stacks were created in AutoStakkert, then processed in PixInsight. Those images were then registered, derotated, and combined in WinJUPOS. A wee bit of Photoshop at the end, and here you go.

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Canon 1100D + 300mm zoom lens. Stack of 50 images which were taken on a static tripod, exposed to bring out earthshine.

I centred the Moon using PIPP then stacked using Autostakkert! 3

At the top edge of the Moon, at about ten to the hour if it was a clock face, you can see the mag 8.95 star in Capricornus that was about to be occulted by the Moon.

This is my favorite area of the moon. The seeing at the time of this image was pretty good. I used my standard Autostakker/ Registax/Photoshop processing, but I intend to experiment with some alternative processing software and techniques.

ZWO ASI178MC/EFW 8 x 1.25"

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

Losmandy G11

10,000 OSC frames captured in FireCapture

Best 50% of frames stacked in Autostakkert

Wavelet sharpened in Registax

Finished in Photoshop

I used the C14 at Cerritos College with a 0.63x focal reducer and Skyris 618M camera to take 190 500 frame SER files. These were then stacked in AutoStakkert using the best 55% to 64% of frames from each video. Images were trimmed and sharpened in PixInsight, then composited into the final image in Image Composite Editor. There was a cleanup of some artifacts in Photoshop, followed by final processing in GIMP.

Lunation: 8.4 days

Illumination: 60.4% (yes, this technically makes it a waxing gibbous, but to the eye, it looks like a first quarter)

Distance: 388200 km

Altitude: 59°

Another Saturn

I worked out how to attach my 2x barlow to my dslr. This is shot with a Canon 7D + 1.4x TC + 2x Barlow + 10 inch skywatcher dob

Images captured with 5x live view in APT

Processed with Pipp, Autostakkert and Registax

Best 20% of ~4000 images

Canon EOS 200D, ZM3-5SA lense, tripod. Focal lengh 500 mm, aperture f/8, ISO 100, 30 fps, 64 sec. Post-processing PIPP, Autostakkert, AstraImage, Photoshop, FastStone, 400 frames stacked.

Aberkenfig, South Wales

Lat +51.542 Long -3.593

Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Tal 3x Barlow Lens, ZWO ASI 120MC Astronomical Imaging Camera.

Out of 9500 frames about 2300 processed with AutoStakkert! & Registax 6.

Colour contrast on albedo features and final levels adjusted with G.I.M.P.

Image size scaled up by 150%

The seeing conditions were reasonably good.

The target was about 42.4° above the horizon at the time of capture.

LX200 SCT 10"/254mm @f22 with Baader 2.25x barlow on EQ6. ZWO 290MM-cool + Astronomik 742nm IR pass filter. 9 panels, 500 of 10,000 frames, 300 flats. Autostakkert 3, Registax 6, Photoshop + PTGui. Poor seeing, hard processed.

North is left.

This image is about comparing Photoshop processing (my customary tool) of lunar data to PixInsight processing. This image, processed in PixInsight, is rendered from the same data as the Crater Copernicus image processed in Photoshop and posted on 2022-08-22.

My impression of this image is that although it reveals more detail than the one originally posted, there seems to be some remaining softness that can be improved by better seeing and use of a UV-IR cutt filter

After registration and stacking in Autostakkert, all follow on processing to this image was in PixInsight instead of Photoshop.

PixInsight processes used:

ChannelExtraction to pull out separate RGB channel images

LinearFit to normalize channel levels

ColorCombination to reassemble into a single RGB image

UnsharpMask for sharpening

CurvesTransformation for RGB, saturation and CIE c* component stretches

Waxing Gibbous Moon at 79.6%, 2023-01-01

This is a portion of the 9.68 day old moon near the terminator. The moon's terminator is the dividing line marking the edge between day and night on the moon.

The Lunar Straight Wall, Rupes Recta. A rectilinear fault situated on the East bank of Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds). Labeled a ‘most curious’ linear feature on the moons surface. Roughly on a vertical centerline of the Moon’s face, about 1/3 of the way up from the south pole. One day after first quarter, the rising sun makes it cast a dark shadow to the west, giving the impression it must be a massive high cliff. (Dimension 110km long and 900 feet high)

Imaging equipment:

Celestron EdgeHD 8 (2032mm focal length)

Mesu 200 MKII mount,

ZWOASI294MM Pro camera

Astronomic 642 (R-IR) filter

Best 3% of 5,000 images stacked with AutoStakkert!, processed with IMPPG & Photoshop.

Not bad seeing. BAA Mars Mapper 2020 for feature identification.

2020-09-28 22:44UT

250mm f4.8 Newtonian

x3 TAL Barlow 3600mm effective focal length

ZWO ASI290MC

120fps 3 minute video, 3% frames

Seeing III

Captured in Firecapture

Processed in Autostakkert, Registax and PS

Here is a view of last evening’s 60% illuminated moon shot through some heavy fog.

Tech Specs: Sky Watcher Esprit 120ED, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI290MC, ZWO EAF, Televue 1.5x Barlow. Captured in SharpCap Pro, processed in Autostakkert and Registax, four panel mosaic. Image date: October 13, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

Presently Saturn is emergeing from the morning twilight with its rings nearly edge-on as viewed from Earth, which neans that the rings are almost invisible. This contrasts with the view of Saturn's rings that could be seen just two and a half years ago. This image is deliberatly over exposed to reveal three of Saturn's satellites.

21 L frames at 1s captured in Firecapture

Stacked in Autostakkert

Finished in Photoshop