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Here is a quick shot of the planet Jupiter and the moon Io, early on the morning of April 24, 2019. This is only the best 20% of 10k frames captured under poor seeing and high winds. The GRS (Great Red Spot) is just coming into view of the left, just below the pinkish South Equatorial Belt.
Imaging Specs: Meade 12" LX90, ASI290MC, stacked in AutoStakkert! And further processed in Registax. Image Date: April 24, 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
The southwestern limb of the Moon 8.5 hours before full phase, March 30, 2018. Notable craters are annotated, with some uncertainty in the far south. The South Polar Regions are in the lower right corner. Photographed through an IR-pass filter. This was my first run with FireCapture 2.5
Stack of 1826 video frames, ZWO ASI290mm camera, Optolong IR Pass (685nm) filter, Explore Scientific 3x Barlow, Explore Scientific ED 80 APO f/6 480mm refractor, Celestron Advanced VX EQ mount.
Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert!2 (3x drizzle), Registax 6 wavelets, Photoshop CC2018.
The Sun continues to provide stunning views. You are looking at the Sun's chormosphere. This is accomplished using a Hydrogen-alpha (Hα) filtered telescope that is also properly filtered to block out the harmful rays.
Telescope: Lunt 60mm Hα with double stack
2X Barlow (picture on right)
Camera: ZWO1294MC Pro
Capture Software: SharpCap
Processing Software:
AutoStakkert, RegiStax 6, Light Room Classic, Photo Shop
2020-07-13-1457_7-RGB RS4-denoise-denoise cs1 ab
Saturn from the backyard.
Equipment: Telescope 12" goto Skywatcher dobsonian, Camera QHY163m, baader rgb filters, Tele Vue 5x powermate.
Software: Sharpcap, PIPP, AutoStakkert 3, WinJupos, RegiStax 6, Topaz Denoise Ai, CS6.
Another great show on the Eastern limb!
Blend of two exposures, 10% of 1000 frames each. With correspondent dark.
I did a quick process of this data before I went away on holiday this year but never got around to uploading it. From memory I did a quick tweet on this without even getting it up the right way!
This image is a stack of 60% of only 61 frames. To be honest 30% doesn't make any difference to the quality. The reason for the short number of frames taken was that originally this was just a test to make sure my equipment and software was working well after a major IT change. The seeing this day must have been exceptional!
Equipment:
Skywatcher 120ED
Celestron AVX
Daystar Quark Chromosphere
Daystar Tilt Adaptor
Point Grey Grasshopper 3 (IMX174)
Processed in Autostakkert!2 and Adobe CS5
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).
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.
@LopesCosmos
Taken about 1hr 40 mins before Full Moon with a William Optics 70mm refractor on an EQ5 Pro Mount and Canon 1100D at prime focus
ISO-400 1/4000 sec, shot in RAW then converted into TIFFs
Best 72% of 180 images stacked using Autostakkert!2 and then processed in Adobe Lightroom
Used an 11 inch SCT with a ASI290MM camera this is an RGB composite Three series of 5000 images each channel. Stacked 50% using Autostakkert
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 %
Mars as seen on the 16th January 2025 at 01:27.
This is Mars at opposition as seen through my 14" telescope. Many features are visible in this photo including the main Arabia Terra region in the centre, the North polar cap and clouds on the far left limb of the planet.
This was only the second time ever that I had photographed Mars. I'm so happy I was able to capture it at opposition as usually it's completely clouded here in the UK for any celestial event.
Equipment / affiliate links
- Skywatcher 350P / 14" dobsonian - www.firstlightoptics.com/dobsonians/skywatcher-skyliner-3...
- ZWO 585MC - www.firstlightoptics.com/zwo-cameras/zwo-asi-585mc-usb-3-...
- TeleVue 3x barlow - www.firstlightoptics.com/barlow-eyepieces/tele-vue-barlow...
- ZWO ADC - www.firstlightoptics.com/zwo-accessories/zwo-125-atmosphe...
- PIPP
- SharpCap 4.1
- Autostakkert
- AstroSurface
"Handheld Shot" - a 28 shot burst that was initially processed in then exported from Lightroom, stacked in Autostakkert 3.0, and then final adjustments made in Photoshop ! - noise reduced in Topaz DeNoise 6
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 10000 frames about 2085 frames processed with AutoStakkert!2.
Wavelets processed with Registax 6
Colour contrast on albedo features and final levels adjusted with G.I.M.P.
Image size scaled up by 150%
Seeing conditions were reasonably good with the target about 44.5° above the horizon at the time of capture.
Meu segundo registro do planeta Marte 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 Starguider 5x. ASICAP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, WinJUPOS e Photoshop.
@LopesCosmos:
The impact craters Clavius and Tycho and their surroundings as photographed on September 23, 2015 on a ten-day-old, waxing gibbous moon. The crater Clavius is famous for being the location of the moon base in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" while Tycho is the crater where that film’s black monolith was discovered.
Captured using a five inch aperture refractor with a 5X Tele Vue Powermate and a ZWO ASI174MM camera all working together at an effective focal length of 3630mm (14ms exposure, camera gain 180, stacked best 50% of 914 video frames).
This image is best seen at full size (1280 x 1600) or in the Flickr light box (press the “L” key to enter the light box and/or click on the image to see it at a larger size).
Image processing done with Autostakkert!, Registax 6 and Photoshop CC2015.
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Moon @23:50:17 MSK 04.06.2015 taken with TIS DMK23U274 on Meade series 6000 80 mm APO triplet (f/6) on Celestron CG-4.
18% of 1200 frames stacked in AS!2 and deconvolved (Cauchy type PSF, 0,5 units, 4 iterations) in AstraImage PRO 3.0.
Three billion, eight hundred million years ago the Moon was rocked by a colossal collision with an asteroid. That impact changed the face of the moon. A vast 860 km wide basin was blasted into the Moon; its borders were defined by a ring of mountains that were raised in an instant. Large chunks were hurtled outward from the center of the impact, many forming new craters of their own, others gouging radial valleys as they bounded across the lunar surface. A wash of smaller debris buried surrounding surface features and filled the floors of older craters. The center of that impact slowly filled back with basalt and became what we now know as Mare Nectaris. This event marked the end of the Moon’s formative era and the beginning of another, the Nectarian Era.
This is a view of the Nectaris Basin today. Many of the once-vivid features of the basin have been obliterated in turn by subsequent impact events. A portion of the 860 km wide ring of mountains can be seen in the lower left portion of this image, starting at the left center margin and arcing down and to the right, ending at Piccolomini Crater. This is the Rupes Altai, a scarp or arc of cliffs, named after the Altai Mountains of Central Asia. The darker, smoother, circular lava plain in the center of this image is Mare Nectaris. Mare Nectaris marks ground zero of the massive Nectaris Impact Event.
340 video frames captured with SharpCap 3.1. Video frames were stacked into a single image with AutoStakkert!3 software, 3x drizzle. Wavelets applied in Registax 6. Post-processing and cropping in Photoshop CC 2018.
Explore Scientific ED 80 APO refractor, 480mm focal length, f/6
Explore Scientific 3x Focal Extender
Celestron Advanced VX mount
Explore Scientific 3x Barlow
ZWO ASI 290MM camera (monochrome)
Solar image taken with the following equipment.
Skywatcher Evo 80DS-Pro
Baader planetarium herchel wedge
ASI 224MC camera
Sesto Senso remote focuser
A 2000 frame video was taken with sharpcap, and processed in Autostakkert, IMGPP, and then false colour added and final tweaks in Photoshop CS5.5.
Best 45% of 3000 frames. Processed with Autostakkert, Registax 6, Photoshop CC 2015.
Telescope - Celestron CPC800 XLT GPS
Camera - ASI120MC-S and Shorty 2X Barlow lens.
Taken with a 70mm refractor, 2 x Barlow and Canon 1100D
Best 42% of 40 images stacked using Autostakkert! 2 and processed in Lightroom
Celestron C11, Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate, ZWO ASI290MC, Pierro Astro ADC
In addition to capturing regular RGB data using the colour camera and the UV-IR Cut filter I also captured video using the ZWO 850nm IR Pass filter.
I hadn't bothered with the data until today, and almost threw it into recycle bin, glad I didn't now.
The top 3 images are 3 stages of the IR850 capture:
. the IR stacked image (from Autostakkert 3.0)
.. then with Registax wavelets applied
... after being processed in photoshop.
The lower 3 images:
. the RGB stacked image,
.. then with Registax wavelets applied
... and the 3rd is a composit LRGB or (IR-RGB) image using the top right image (as the luminace channel) and the lower middle image for the RGB
Taken from Oxfordshire UK on Christmas Eve morning. I had the solar scope set up because there was an ISS solar transit visible from here at 11:09 GMT. There were two sunspot groups visible as well as a huge prominence on the eastern limb and a couple of smaller ones on the south western limb. The prominence in this photo is one of the biggest I've ever photographed. I used the solar ruler to measure its height and it was just over the 50,000 km mark, and it was approximately 150,000 km long!
Photo taken with a Coronado PTS solar telescope, ASI120MC camera with 2x Barlow fitted onto it. The telescope was on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier.
2,000 frame video was shot using SharpCap, then the best 75% of those frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3. The stacked image was processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer
Captured with a Nikon D5500 and a 10-inch Meade LX200 'Classic' f/6.3 wide-field telescope.
EXIF data is removed via stacking processes in Autostakkert!2 for planetary imaging and in Deep Sky Stacker for deep sky imaging.
Sunspot AR2767 @ 6562.8Å
Session Information :
* 51° N 3° E
* Torhout, Belgium
* Capture Date : 22.07.2020
* Capture Start : 16:05:11 UTC
* Capture Mid : 16:05:30 UTC
* Capture End : 16:05:50 UTC
Object Information
* Type : Sunspot
* Designation : AR2767
* Distance : 1.016 AU or roughly 151.987.000 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
* Capture Rate : 128 frames/sec
* Frames Stacked : 500
Capture Software
* FireCapture
Processing Software
* AutoStakkert!
* RegiStax
* Adobe Photoshop
* Topaz DeNoise AI
Contornando núvens, névoas, embaçamentos de espelhos do telescópio e turbulências atmosféricas, vamos, aos poucos, aprendendo e avançando. Registro captado em 29/06/2020, mas infelizmente eu ainda não havia podido continuar o processamento.
Refletor Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 com Onstep, ASI 290MC, Barlow SW 2x extendida para 2.8x, Filtro UV/IR Cut. FireCapture, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, PixInsight e Photoshop.
@LopesCosmos
www.instagram.com/lopescosmos/
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
2000 frames captured in Firecapture
Best 60% stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
Its been a long time since I've done any Calcium K solar imaging. The Calcium K wavelengths are into the near UV and represent excitation wavelengths of highly ionised calcium in the hot solar atmosphere.
Atmospheric seeing on Earth was poor to fair this morning but I thought I should see if my Calcium K set-up still works.
This is an image of Sunspot group AR2824 at the level of the Sun's chromosphere which is above the photosphere. The main features of the sunspot can be seen - umbra and penumbra but in addition, a paler network can be seen around the sunspot with a second concentration a little bit more distantly to the left.
These two zones represent the 2 poles of the magnetic field associated with the sunspot group. The lighter the pixel, the stronger the magnetic field. These light zones are called "Plages".
NASA can examine images like this with polarised light and determine which are N and S poles. See here for their equivalent of my image:
sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_1024_HMIB.jpg
Intense white spots represent very strong areas of electromagnetic flux where solar flares or Coronal Mass Ejections may originate.
Celestron 1000mm f/10 Omni XLT refractor
Lunt B1200 CaK module
ZWO ASI 290 MM CMOS camera
Calcium K 1.25 inch filter (Double stacked)
Hinode solar finder/guider
Acquired with FireCapture v2.6
Stacked in Autostakkert!3
Wavelet sharpening in RegiStax6
FireCapture v2.6 Settings
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Camera=ZWO ASI290MM
Filter=Calcium K
Profile=Sun
Frames captured=5000
ROI=1936x1096
FPS (avg.)=166
Shutter=1.011ms
Gain=37 (6%)
Gamma=off
Histogram=91%
Limit=5000 Frames
Sensor temperature=28.6°C
Focuser position=0
Taken from Oxfordshire UK on Christmas Eve morning. I had the solar scope set up because there was an ISS solar transit visible from here at 11:09 GMT. There were two sunspot groups visible as well as a huge prominence on the eastern limb and a couple of smaller ones on the south western limb.
Photo taken with a Coronado PTS solar telescope, ASI120MC camera with 2x Barlow fitted onto it. The telescope was on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier.
2,000 frame video was shot using SharpCap, then the best 75% of those frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3. The stacked image was processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer
Running diagonally across this image of our moon are the Montes Apenninus (Apennine Mountains) which contain Mons Huygens the highest mountain on the moon (elevation about eighteen thousand feet or four and one half kilometers).
“Okay Houston, the Falcon is on the plain at Hadley.”
Toward the upper right and just below a break in the mountain chain is Mons Hadley and the Hadley Rille. The Apollo 15 manned landing on the moon happened at a spot just above the ending curve in this rille, between the rille and Mons Hadley itself (and its prominent, triangular-shaped shadow).
Off to the upper left center from the Hadley plain is the large crater Archimedes. This fifty-two mile wide feature is a flooded-plain type crater that has had its interior covered by a relatively flat and smooth lava flow that is only broken by a number of small craterlets (visible in the full-sized image).
This photo was taken on the evening of December 29, 2014 with a Celestron 9.25” EdgeHD telescope and a Sony NEX-5R digital camera (1/15 second, ISO 200, e.f.l. 5340mm at f/23).
Image processing was done with PixInsight, AutoStakkert! 2, RegiStax 6, Photoshop and Lightroom CC 2014.
This photo is best viewed at full size (1666 x 1600) or in the Flickr lightbox (press the "L" key and then zoom the image with a mouse click).
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Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Coronado PST H-alpha solar telescope. Camera was an ASI-120MC fitted with a 2x Barlow. A 1,000 frame video was captured using SharpCap and the best 50% of the frames were stacked with Autostakkert! 3.
As the night sky refuses to cooperate, the extra sleep allows more effort on solar imaging.
NW limb of the sun taken yesterday. Decent seeing but the challenge is the sun is only at 28 degrees altitude. This means lots of atmosphere to image through. This is the best 180 frames out of 3,000 frames.
Learning more and more about Quark imaging via experimentation.
Equipment details:
Orion 80mm refractor
Quark Chromosphere filter
ZWO2600MM Pro using ROI
Rainbow RST135
Processed in Autostakkert, IMPPG and Photoshop
The recent full moon in color. :)
I connected my Canon 200D to the Skymax 102 Telescope to take a few pictures.
I stacked the images in Autostakkert, and sharpened the image in Registax 6.
Then, I added more Saturation/Luminance in Photoshop to bring out the colors (Titanium, Iron, ...) ;)
These 12 images were shot on 2022-07-15 from 0941 through 1011 UT; all data taken with a Celestron Edge HD 925 with a ZWO ASI120MM and Optolong RGB CCD filters; image scale is 0.078" per pixel
Images compiled from SER files with R, G, and B filters; best 35% from each file were stacked in AutoStakkert with 2.0x resample option; the resulting mono images were sharpened in PixInsight, then rotated and cropped in Photoshop; video rendered in Photoshop. Images were not derotated in WinJupos as I wanted to see what would happen if I just stacked the channels.
The effect you get with Io brightening dramatically is due, I think, to the fact that Jupiter's limb is facing at an angle to us while we are still getting the full reflectivity of the side of Io facing the Earth.
"Sunspot Group AR 2781"
We have a fine sunspot group on the Sun right now. This thing is crackling with C-class solar flares and is sparkling with less-intense magnetic explosions called "Ellerman Bombs". Ellerman bombs are about one-millionth as powerful as a true solar flare. They are named after Ferdinand Ellerman who studied the tiny blasts in the early 20th century. But note that when it comes to energetic magnetic events on the Sun, "tiny" is relative. A single Ellerman bomb is as large as a typical US state and releases more energy than a hundred thousand atomic bombs!
AR 2781 continues to produce occasional C-Flares as it moves across the southeast quadrant of the Sun. The region gained beta-gamma magnetic status on Friday and will remain a threat for an isolated M-Flare. The next several days will see 2781 in prime position for possible Earth directed eruptions.
Speaking of Earth, two Earths could fit into the circular sunspot with the dark center rightmost in the active region!
Explore Scientific ED80 Triplet refractor
Orion Shorty Barlow lens, 2x
Celestron Advanced VX EQ Mount
Thousand Oaks Solar Filter
ZWO ASI290MM video camera
Best 25% of 4928 video frames pre-processed in PIPP, stacked with AutoStakkert!3, wavelets processing with Registax 6, and final processing with Photoshop CC 2020.
My first Jupiter image built from separate R, G, and B channels. Imaged with a Celestron Edge HD with 2x Barlow, ZWO EFW filter wheel, ZWO ASI120MM camera, and Optolong RGB filters. Recorded in SharpCap 3.2, then stacked in AutoStakkert 3. Initial wavelets in PixInsight, then channel derotation and combination in WinJUPOS. Brought the resulting RGB image back into PixInsight for some sharpening and color correction, then some final touches in Photoshop.
Stacks were shot from about 2:00am to 2:35am local time. Jupiter was at a distance of about 612 million km (34.0 light minutes). It was at an altitude of about 43° from my backyard in Long Beach, CA.
Canon EOS 80D + Orion SkyQuest XT10 + Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate (giving an effective focal length of 3,000 mm).
Broadstairs, April 2021.
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
3000 frames captured in FireCapture
Best 50% stacked in AutoStakkert!
Intial wavelet sharpening and noise reduction in RegiStax
Final sharpening noise reduction in PhotoShop
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK just before 2am on the morning of 25th March
8" Ritchie Chretien telescope and Canon 1100D.
2000 frame video shot using Backyard EOS at x5 magnification
Best 50% of the frames stacked using Autostakkert! 3 Beta version, then wavelets adjusted in Registax 6. Image then tweaked using Lightroom, Photoshop CS2 and Fast Stone Image Viewer
Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor and Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier. 225 frames shot, turned into an avi using PIPP then the best 70% of the avi frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3 Beta. The image was processed in Lightroom and Focus Magic
Image was taken during our Observe The Moon outreach event for our friends in the village. We held a night before International Observe The Moon night because the weather forecast was looking much more promising for Friday evening!
Equipo Principal: ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + SW Explorer 200p + ZWO EAF + SW Coma Corrector 0.9x + EQ6R-Pro
*Gain 100, -20º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 5000 frames (apilado solo el 70%, 3500 frames en total)
Procesado: Sharpcap 3.2, Autostakkert 3, Registax 6, PS CC 2017
Taken with a Mewlon 250 (F/D close to 25), basler 1920, red filter. Registration with AutoStakkert 3, wavelets with Registax 6, Curves and level with CS2.
You probably know the "moon face" that appears to the naked eye from bright and dark surface areas of the full moon. But a telescopic view of Mare Imbrium shows another face on Earth's natural satellite!
This image was captured using the 10" f/16 refractor (4 m focal length) of the Volkssternwarte München with a Canon M50 MkII DSLM camera in prime focus. I recorded a 4K/25 fps video of about 3.5 minutes length, and stacked the 5% best images. The night was quite clear and seeing was, at least every now and then, quite good. The moon being high up in the sky also helped a lot.
The image material was good enough to not only deliver a crisp and detailed image (you can clearly see the Hadley Rille, where Apollo 15 landed. If you look very closely, you can even guess parts of the central rille of Vallis Alpes, which is less then one kilometer wide!), but also to increase color saturation and produce a selenochromatic image, or "mineral moon". The colors represent the varying composition of the lunar surface, where reddish tones are iron-rich, and blueish tones are titanium-rich.
I also tried marking some landmarks on the moon. Feel free to add, or correct mine if I made a mistake! (edit: this seems to work only in the browser version, not in the Android Flickr app.)
Image informatin:
Telescope: 10" f/16 Schaer refractor, Volkssternwarte München
Camera: Canon M50 MkII, unmodified
Raw data: 4K MP4 video, 25 fps, 3:27 min
Stacking: AutoStakkert!3
Sharpening: iterative Gauss sharpening, fitswork
Final touch: Luminar 2018
This animation shows about 30 minutes of Jupiter's rotation with Callisto moving past in front of the planet (from our perspective). This was from about 0830 UT to 0900 UT on 2023-09-09. SER files were shot with a ZWO ASI224MC camera and 2x Barlow through the Celestron C14 at Cerritos College. Those files had the best 44% of frames stacked in AutoStakkert, then processed in PixInsight. Images were then registered and derotated in WinJUPOS, using between 5 and 8 images to make each individual frame of the animation. They were then sequenced in Photoshop.
Maybe it's better to put this on a loop.
Imaged the full moon with my current setup on 10/31/20 (Happy Halloween!). First time colorizing it, so still need to get used to lunar processing, as the acquisition and processing is vastly different from DSOs (and a LOT less time consuming!) I need to return to this once I get a larger scope, though. I'm not satisfied with the low resolution the AT65EDQ gives.
Equipment:
- AT65EDQ Scope
- ZWO ASI1600mm-Pro Camera
- Orion Sirius Mount (Belt-Modded)
- Chroma RGB Filters
Software:
- Firecapture for Acquisiton
- Autostakkert!3 for Stacking
- Registax for Wavelets
- PS and PixInsight for colors and curves
Acquisition:
- 1000 frames captured through each filter (RGB)
Processing:
- Stacked best 30% of the frames in AS!3
- Brought tiff into Registax for Wavelet sharpening
- Export to PS for color balancing
- Final curves and saturation tweaks in PixInsight
- Save
This is a 12 panel stich taken with my Nikon D500 on the 21st March 2021
Each of the 12 panels is a stacked image, made from a 4k video of approx 20 secs in length. Each video was converted from .mov to .avi using PIPP and then stacked using Autostakkert! 2.6.6
The stacked images were then run through the wavelet editor in Registax before being put together in Microsoft ICE
Atmospheric conditions were not ideal, so there are some errors in this images due to AS!2 having trouble with the quality of the videos.
The telescope used was a Skywatcher skymax 180pro with a 2x barlow lens. The mount was an EQ6.