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Gear: SW Adventurer - Mak 102 - Telextender 3x - Canon EOS 6D - Video Magic Lantern 640 x 480 crop mode
Processing: PIPP - AutoStakkert - Photoshop - Lightroom
A-ha! No more snow, no more -20°! Here comes the Sun!
First run of the year, this time with little PST.
Acquisition time: 28.02.2016 09:04 MSK
Telescope: Coronado PST with 2x Barlow lens, mosaic of 9 panels.
Camera: TIS DMK23U274
Software: TIS IC Capture, AS!2, AstraImage PRO 3.0,
MS ICE, Photoshop.
AstraImage:
Deconvolution: Cauchy type PSF, 0,3 pixels, 9 iterations.
Wavelet pattern: 1-10-15-5-1.
PS:
High-pass filtered image (size 95 pix) was placed over the main image in "Soft Light" blending mode for more contrast.
Some problems with flat-field image, but that's ok for now.
This picture was captured using a telescope with a Hydrogen-alpha (Hα) filter. This lets us see the Sun's chromosphere. There are some nice prominences in view today. Although only one sunspot is visible, there are many filaments on the solar disc.
Telescope: Lunt 60mm Hα with double stack
Camera: ZWO I178MM monochrome
Capture Software: SharpCap
Processing Software:
AutoStakkert, RegiStax6, Light Room Classic, Photo Shop
Distance au 1er Mars 2023 = 403 968 km
Mosaïque de 2 photos assemblées avec Gimp.
Instrument de prise de vue: Sky-watcher T250/1000 Newton F4
Caméra d'imagerie: ZWO ASI294 MC-Cool
Monture: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 Pro Goto USB
Instrument de guidage:
Caméra de guidage:
Chercheur :
Logiciels acquisition: Stellarium - ScharpCap
Logiciels traitement : AutoStakkert - Registax - Gimp - Darktable - FastStone Images Viewer
Filtres:IR-Cut / IR-Block ZWO
Accessoire: GPU coma-correcteur Sky-watcher + Barlow Kepler x2.5
Dates: 01 Mars 2023 - 17h53 TU
Images unitaires: 2x1000 x 4 ms (2x50 retenues)
Intégration: 0.4"
Gain :233
Échantillonnage: 0.384 "/px
Seeing: 1.19 "Arc
Bortle: 5
Phase de la Lune (moyenne): 73 %
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.
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.
Dobson 8" f/6 - Canon 6D - Filtro Baader
Video RAW Magic Lantern
Procesado: PIPP - AutoStakkert/3 - Registax 6 - Adobe PS
mosaique de 2 panneaux des xcratères Moretus et Clavius. Acquisition au MAK180 et caméra Zwo ASI224MC
Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: Bresser Messier AR 102/1000
Camere di acquisizione: SVBONY SV305
Montature: Celestron SLT
Software: ASTROSURFACE · PIPP x64 2.5.9 · AutoStakkert! · photoshop
Accessorio: astrosolar
Data:01 Dicembre 2020
Ora: 12:00
Pose: 1685
FPS: 20,00000
Lunghezza focale: 1000
Seeing: 3
Trasparenza: 8
This is my latest effort capturing Solar System objects in broad daylight.
Blessed with good clean sky today, Venus, Jupiter and Mercury were captured around 12.10pm-12.30pm in the afternoon.
Seeing wasn't great this time, thus we have that fluffy Jupiter. Mercury was surprisingly easy to spot, despite it was located about 5º 14' from the Sun!
Towards late evening, the Moon was imaged about 5.50pm. Saturn was a tougher to get mostly due to clouds. Only when around 6.20pm did I managed to get it between the clouds.
Local sunset time was 7.30pm
All image was taken using Skywatcher 120ED, running on EQ6 mount, controlled via Cartes du Ciel. IMG132e camera used. Stacked via Autostakkert, and extensive post-processing and cleanup in PixInsight.
WARNING! 16 megapixels of the Moon!
Ambitions were high. I planned to make a panoramic assembly of almost full lunar disk @4750 mm of effective focal length. But I quickly ran out of fuel disk space and went astray at the same time. So to get some result, I have reduced EFR 2,5 times (falling down to 1500 mm) and made this one - ~16 megapixels of the Moon and a bit of cold void around, built of 21 GB of raw data in 32 panels :)
Aquisition time (start of the session) : JD2456851,36642361 (13.07.2014 00:47:39 MSK).
Image orientation: almost real
Equipment:
QHY5L-II monochrome CMOS camera via 2x Barlow lens Celestron OMNI XLT 150 mm Newtonian riding Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro SynScan mount.
Aperture 150 mm
Native focal length 750 mm
Effective focal length 1500 mm
Tv = 1 ms
Av = f/10
ISO NA
Gain 47/1000
Software: FireCapture
Exposures: 300/600 x32
Processing: movies was processed in Autostakkert!2. Resulting images ware were stitched in Microsoft ICE. Resulting panorama was sliced in four 2500x2500 pix panels. AstraImage has troubles handling BIG images. So panels were separately subjected to Richardson-Lucy deconvolution in AstraImage 3.0 (Gaussian type PSF, size 1,6 units, 7 iterations) and deconvolved images were stictched back in ICE.
Of course, final touches were made in PS and involved some contrast stretching and tone curve adjustment.
Notes on QHY5L-IIm CMOS camera:
Most appealing features were eye-piece design (with dustcap on it looks like a 35 mm film canister for me :), 30 fps at full resolution of 1280x960 pixels, high QE and every-pixel-worthy monochrome sensor. Build-in guide port would come handy one day also.
Of course it fits nicely into PST's eye-piece port and gets the focus instantly without need of cumbersome adapters. Barlow lens can be used also. One just needs hi-class luxury lens with compression ring not to scar the camera housing with fixing screws (my Bresser 5x SA Barlow is of that class :).
Unfortunately, in combination with PST it appears to be vulnerable to Newton ring's pattern that originates somewhere inside the telescope. Interesting - where is this "somewhere"? The only way to get rid of it is to let the Sun drift across the field of view, so any steady patterns are lost in stacking, while moving details are preserved. It's a PST-Sun exclusive issue.
Of course it's neglectable size and miniscule weight make it easy to balance the setup but adds a need of having a computer nearby the telescope and thus some extra cables. Well, foldable table, a chair and mount's remote controller make the session rather comfortable.
Design and usability: cool!
Speed... Surprise! Some capturing softwares, like EZPlanetary (QHY's own) and FireCapture, support .RAW readout, that results in 16-bit .ser files. Really nice. Of course the speed is limited to about 6 fps in this mode. In normal mode - 8 bit monochrome - with some tweaking, including adjusting disk write buffer size (FireCapture provides a tool for determining optimum) and choosing proper port I was able to get 15 fps, which can be turned into 30+ by specifing region of interest say 800x600 pix. But still it's not promissed 30 @full resolution. A problem to be solved.
Speed and performance: satisfactory+ :)
Sensor's performance... 1 ms shutter speed and 47/1000 gain at f/10 with the Moon as the target. And no Baeyr's pattern that reduce the effective resolution twofold. I like it!
But! Nonetheless I'm still unable to capture solar prominances along with surface features. Needs to try couple more times.
Sensor: good!
Sorry for apparent wordiness :)
Obtained with my Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian, Tal 2x Barlow and a recently purchased ZWO ASI 385MC.
4000 frames captured on each image using Firecapture. Then approx. 1600 to 1700 frames stacked with AutoStakkert! 3.1.4. Wavelets processed with Registax and final adjustments with G.I.M.P.
I have now uploaded a separate and better quality capture & process of the Hortensius Domes as two pane mosaic. It includes the lunar domes situated to the north of Milichius
Lunar south is uppermost.
région nord de la lune, cratère Goldschmidt. Acquisition avec mak 180 + caméra Zwo ASI224MC. Empilement avec autostakkert et ondelettes avec Registax 6.
Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor on an EQ5 Pro mount and Canon 1100D
ISO-800 1/3200 sec
Best 62% of 130 frames stacked using Autostakkert!2, then tweaked in Lightroom and Focus Magic
C90 mak-cas telescope mounted on iOptron Skyguider Pro. 13mm eyepiece, no t-extension. Two minute 4K MP4 video centred, cropped and best 50% converted to AVI with PIPP. Best 20% of AVI stacked with AutoStakkert. Moons brightened and planet contrast increased with PhotoShop. Camera settings added to EXIF with ExifTool GUI.
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.)
Had an UNBELIEVABLY awesome night with Saturn, tonight.
Skies were crystal clear and the atmospheric crud (read: upper-level disturbances) were at a minimum.
Through the eyepiece, this was one of the most stellar views of Saturn I've ever had. Almost religious in terms of the experience.
Using that homebrew 6x barlow was astoundingly beautiful!
Captured with a Nikon D5100 coupled to a 10-inch Meade LX200. Magnification for the sensor provided by a custom 6x barlow, plus a 2x Orion Shorty Plus barlow.
8,500 frames. Stacked in Autostakkert!2 and sharpened in Registax. Final color and enhancements done in Photoshop and Lightroom.
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
Telescopio: Celestron Maksutov 127/1500 mm. Proiezione con oculare Plossl 9 mm. Smartphone: Samsung S21. Filmato: elaborazione del 50% di 977 frames con PIPP, Autostakkert, Astrosurface, Photoshop.
Telescopio: APM APO-SD 140/980 mm f 7
Camera CMOS QHY5III178C
Montatura: iOptron CEM60
Software: SharpCap 3.0, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 2.6.8, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8, Astra Image 4 SI
Risoluzione: 3000x2001
Data: 31 ottobre 2017 Ora: 20:40
Pose: 200 FPS: 28,00000 Lunghezza focale: 1470 mm Barlow 1.5X
Meu segundo registro do planeta Júpiter com o telescópio atual. Avançando aos poucos no reprendizado de registros planetários.
Refletor Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 com Onstep, ASI 120MC-S, Barlow SW 2x (extendida para 2.8x). ASICAP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, WinJUPOS e Photoshop.
@LopesCosmos:
**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. ;)
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 surface features.
I centred the Moon using PIPP then stacked using Autostakkert! 3
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 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
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
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
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with an Orion 10" Dobsonian telescope, Celestron 3x Barlow and ASI120MC camera. This video was taken at 23:04 GMT / 00:04 BST overnight on 17th/18th July 2021.
2,000 frame video captured using SharpCap. The telescope was powered but wasn't tracking so I was manually nudging the gears to keep Jupiter in the frame as I captured the video.
The best 25% of the frames was stacked using Autostakkert! 3 then processed in Registax 6 and Fast Stone Image Viewer.
"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.
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.
While waiting for the red spot to appear on Jupiter I thought why not image the moon! This is a closeup of one of my favorite craters on the surface. Hope you all enjoy and thanks for any constructive comments.
Equipment:
Telescope - Celestron 9.25 Edge HD+ 2.5x Barlow / ADC
Imaging Camera- Canon EOS R7
Mount - Sky-watcher EQ6-R Pro
Software:
Pipp
AutoStakkert
RegiStax6
Lightroom
Photoshop
Integration:
4K60 crop for 240seconds
stacked best 2000 frames
17-06-14 Taken with a Canon 60D using a Tamron SP AF70-300mm VC USD Zoom lens. A 1 second burst in jpg , 6 images stacked in Autostakkert 2.
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
Taken with a AZ4 mounted Skywatcher ED100 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 60D at prime focus. Best 10 of 25 images stacked using Autostakkert 2.
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.
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.
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
01 Feb. 2025. Image captured with a Mewlon 210 and Player One Uranus C camera. Autostakkert and Registack for processing.
4k videos processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert.
In Explore Highest position: 187 on Tuesday, March 11, 2025
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Evostar 72ED with Hoya Pro ND16 full aperture filter and Sol'Ex SHG and QHY5III 178M.
16x sidereal used on CEM60 to force the scan of the slit across the solar disk. Stack of four out of five images stacked in Autostakkert and processed in Astrosurface and PS CS2
Scans recorded between 15:34 and 15:36 UT 25th Feb 2023
We had very steady clear skies in Austin after the rain. This image of the waxing gibbous Moon catches Copernicus just at sunrise. Exposed on 2019-06-12 05:55 UT. Sony a6300 camera at prime focus on a Questar 89/1350mm f/15 telescope. Exposed for 1/25 sec at ISO 100.
The best 9 of 100 images 1.5x drizzle stacked in Autostakkert 3, with deconvolution in Lynkeos, and final exposure and crop 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°
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.