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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.
Move cursor over image to activate the notes feature and identify some of the targets in this field of view.
Along the upper edge of the image, towards the left, lies a lunar dome structure designated Kies Pi (π). It has a small crater at the top, and is believed to be volcanic in origin.
Rima Hesiodus is seen running 187 miles from SW to NE and ends at its namesake crater, Hesiodus, and notice the nearly bulls-eye impact named Hesiodus-D, and just to the south see the unusual circular crater with a concentric inner wall named Hesiodus-A.
Just east of Hesiodus, in the upper right corner of the field of view is Pitatus, an ancient impact crater located at the southern edge of Mare Nubium. The complex wall of Pitatus is heavily worn, and has been encroached by lava flows Pitatus is a floor-fractured crater, meaning it was flooded from the interior by magma intrusion through cracks and openings. Rimae Pitatus is the slender clefts that
mark the crater floor, and the more prominent portions of these rills can be seen following the edges of the inner walls.
The western end of Rima Hesiodus extends into Palus Epidemiarum (Marsh of Epidemics). Just to the south of the western end of the rille is Capuanus crater which also hosts a few lunar domes, nicely revealed in this low angle of sunlight. These domes are also believed to be volcanic in origin. Notice also some ejecta ray material from Tycho in the Mare Nubium.
This image is the best 66% of 3,000 frames, processed with Autostakkert, Registax 6, Photoshop CC 2017.
Celestron CPC800XLT
Altair GPCAMv2 130 Mono
Orion Shorty 2X Barlow
ZWO Filter Wheel and Green filter.
Three 4K MP4 videos centred, cropped and stacked with PIPP and AutoStakkert. Moons brightened and planet contrast increased with PhotoShop.
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Celestron SCT 6"
ZWO ASI120MC-S
FireCapture
Gain 15
Shutter 29.2 ms
30% of 2156 frames stacked in AutoStakkert
Processed in Registax6 and PS
Recorded close to the opposition (unfortunately I had not been able to process so far).
Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 reflector with Onstep, ASI 290MC, Barlow Tele Vue 3x, UV/IR Cut filter. 4000 frames stacked. FireCapture, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, AstroSurface, Fitswork and PixInsight.
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The moon was beautiful last night, nice and high in the sky, had to take a few images before moving on to other targets. Here is the waxing gibbous moon on April 1, 2020. At the time, 57% illuminated and moving through the constellation Gemini.
Tech Specs: Meade 12" LX-90, Antares Focal Reducer, ASI071mc-Pro, best 25% of 250 frames at maximum resolution, stacked in AutoStakkert. Date: 1 April 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, Pennsylvania, USA.
I took a video of the moon using a TS doublet 660mm and a skywatcher HEQ 5 eq mount that the local star tower I am a member at has.
Stacked using autostakkert 2.
slightly altered the curves.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Meade LX65 6" MAK OTA
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI224MC
Mounts
Celestron Advanced VX
Filters
SVBony UV/IR Cut
Software
Adobe Photoshop · AstroSharp Ltd SharpCap · Cor Berrevoets et al. Registax · Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert
Acquisition details
Date: July 10, 2022
Time: 21:42 UTC
Frames: 3000
FPS: 63.970
Exposure per frame: 3.45 ms
Focal length: 1800
Resolution: 1156x920
Locations: Sassari, Sassari, Sardegna, Italy
Data source: Backyard
From Tycho to Clavius in Infrared
The clearest image of the moon I have ever captured
Best 1800 images stacked from over 7000
C9.25 2350mm F10 290MM IR807nm+
Captured in SharpCap Pro, Stacked AS3!, Sharpened in Registax, Processed in Photoshop.
Sunspot groups on the eastern limb viewed and captured this morning around 10.31am BST before the heat of the day creates bad seeing conditions, temperatures due to rise to 24 C today (75 F) but the moderate breeze should take the edge off that.
Sunspot group AR2321 has a beta-gamma magnetic field that contains energy for M-class solar flares.
Equipment used:
Skywatcher 120ED Esprit
Mount: Celestron AVX
Camera: Orion SSAG (1.3 MP sensor) captured in Planetary software
Best 85% of 3000 frames stacked in Autostakkert!2
Processed in CS5
Taken 18.04.2014 this is 40% best of 2 minute avi. First time using my ASI120MC Planetary camera on mars. This was my last try using a SPC900 webcam www.flickr.com/photos/nightcasper/6949990175/in/set-72157...
Camera: ZWO ASI120MC
Optics: Skywatcher 200PDS, X3 Televue barlow lens
Filter: IR
Mount: Skywatcher AZ EQ6-GT EQ & Alt-Az Mount connected to the Sky X
Image Acquisition: Sharpcap
Stacking and Calibrating: AutoStakkert,RegiStax 6
Processing: Photoshop CS2
Finalmente, la luna llena de octubre. 🎃
Imagen obtenida del apilado de 11 imágenes al 70% con los siguientes parámetros:
F/7.1
1/100s
ISO100
300mm
AutoStakkert, RegiStax 6, PS y PS Mobile.
Seeing mediocre.
1 tomas de 120 segundos
Telescopio: Takahashi Mewlon 180/2160 f12 Dall Kirkham
Cámara: ZWO ASI 678MC
Montura: iOptron AZ Mount Pro
Filtros: Baader L CCD Filter
Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, WinJUPOS, Fitswork y Photoshop
Fecha: 2023-11-18 (18 de noviembre de 2023)
Hora: 01:22 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 1 tomas de 120'' (2' en total)
Resolución: 600x600
Binning NO
Gain: 107 (17%)
FPS: 34
Shutter: 29.29ms
Frames: 4089
Frames apilados: 23%
Sensor temperature: 18.7°C
Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor on an EQ5-Pro mount, 2x Barlow & Canon 1100D
Best 46% of 160 frames stacked in Autostakkert! 2 and processed in Lightroom
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Coronado PST on an EQ5 Pro mount.
Camera was an ASI120MC fitted with a 2x Barlow. A 1000 thousand frame video was captured using Sharpcap and the best 75% were stacked using Autostakkert! 3. Processing was done in Focus Magic and Lightroom
Mars 13th Nov 2022(22:00 UT) , another night of poor seeing conditions. This image consists of two images de rotated in Winjupos (best 5,000 frames each), 21,000 frames captured in 3 minutes for each AVI. Captured using Firecapture V2.7, Processed using Autostakkert V3.1.4, Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera, Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow and ZWO ADC.
Taken with Skywatcher 250PDS telescope.
ASI120MC camera 290 frames avi file
Stacked in AutoStakkert
No extra magnification
Here is a view of Jupiter from last evening, May 10, 2017 under less than favorable conditions. This is my first attempt at using the ASI camera along with a Televue 2.5x Powermate. The process looks promising if I get a night of good seeing. I also need to do a better alignment job to capture more than 2,500 frames of data. With this magnification, my framerate has dropped down to less than 40 fps.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90 telescope, ASI290MC camera, Televue 2.5x Powermate, Celestron CGEM-DX mount. Software included: FireCapture v2.5.10 x64, AutoStakkert! V3.0.14 (x64), Registax v6 and Adobe Lightroom. Date: May 10, 2017. Location: Weatherly, Pennsylvania.
Jupiter, with Io (Bottom) and Callisto (Top). Taken using a QHY IMG132E, attached to a Altair Wave 115 ED Triplet Refractor with a Tele Vue 2 x Powermate to increase magnification. It is the result of 400 images, stacked using AutoStakkert 2 and processed using RegiStax 6.
Unfortunately we cannot reveal beautiful features, as in Jupiter, because Neptune is much more distant from us, but it is worth the record. At the time of capture (carried out on a date contiguous to that of its opposition), Neptune (the last planet in the solar system from the Sun) was about 4.33 billion kilometers away from Earth.
Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 reflector with Onstep, ASI 290MC, Barlow Tele Vue 3x, UV/IR Cut filter. FireCapture, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, AstroSurface, Fitswork and PixInsight.
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Gassendi had diameter of 63 miles and a depth of 6,233 feet.
Another image acquired during my lunar imaging exercises back on the 20th. Gassendi has always been an eye-catcher with the criss-crossing rilles, designated Rimae Gassendi, and the numerous hummocks and rough spots across its floor. With the right angles of illumination, a great number of these dynamic features jump out.
During the Apollo era, Gassendi Crater was one of two primary landing site alternatives to the Apollo 17 site at Taurus-Littrow. The candidate location was south of the westernmost edge of its central peaks. The main scientific motivation landing there was the possibility of sampling ancient highland rocks in the crater's central peak. Sampling from the region would have also supplied ages for the Humorum basin impact and the Gassendi crater impact. However, engineering constraints kept this location from becoming an Apollo landing site because it was uncertain if the terrain was too rough and dangerous for astronauts to successfully approach the central peak and obtain a sample, but boy o boy what a panoramic view that would have been.
Celestron CPC Deluxe 1100 HD
Altair GPCAMv2 130 Mono
Tele_vue 2.5 Powermate
ZWO Filter Wheel and Red filter
Best 60% of 9,000 frames with Autostakkert 3.0.14
Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor on an EQ5 Pro mount, 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D.
ISO-800 1/320 sec exp
Best 44% of 171 images stacked using Autostakkert!2 and processed in Lightroom and Focus Magic
The bright top edge of Sinus Iridum is the Montes Jura mountain range.
We have a new sunspot visible on the Sun! Active Region 2765 is turning more directly into view from Earth. As it does so, this sunspot group is also growing. Within the past several hours, additional spots have started to emerge and depending on further development, could help the chances for at least minor C-Class solar flares. For now the Solar X-Rays remain stable. Something to keep an eye on as the day progresses.
We know AR2567 is a member of Solar Cycle 25 because of its magnetic polarity. According to Hale's Law, sunspots switch polarities from one solar cycle to the next. Southern sunspots from old Solar Cycle 24 have a -/+ polarity. This sunspot is the opposite: +/-, marking it as a member of Solar Cycle 25.
The primary dark core of AR2765 is about as wide as Earth, with two satellite sunspots closer in size to the Moon. A frothy wake of magnetic turbulence stretches 70,000 miles behind the trio. These dimensions make the sunspot group an easy target for backyard solar telescopes.
Explore Scientific ED80 Triplet Refractor
Explore Scientific 3x Focal Extender
Celestron Advanced VX EQ Mount
Thousand Oaks Solar Filter
ZWO ASI224MC video camera.
Best 25% of 2000 video frames stacked with AutoStakkert!3, wavelets processing with Registax 6, and final processing with Photoshop CC 2020.
Eudoxis Crater (Lunar) – diameter is 70 km, named after the Greek astronomer (c. 408-355 BC). Noted for the terraced slopes on the interior walls (that you can make out in my image) and not having a central peak.
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 with a William Optics 70mm refractor, 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D.
Shot through thin cloud, and only 63 shots taken before the cloud got too thick.
The best 38% of those were stacked in Autostakkert! 2 and processed in Lightroom and Focus Magic
Here is a view of Mars from the early morning hours of August 5, 2018. Horrible seeing, Mars just barely makes it high enough to image. Tried both 25% and 10% best of the captured frames and this seems to be the most detail I can pull out of it.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mmED Triplet Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ASI 290MC, Televue Powermate x2.5, best 25% of 30k frames. Captured with SharpCap, processed in AutoStakkert, refined in Registax and Lightroom. Image Date: 5 Aug 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, Pennsylvania, USA.
région du golf des iris. acquisition avec MAK 180 + caméra Zwo ASI224MC. empilement autostakkert et ondelettes registax 6.
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 - FastStone Images Viewer
Filtres: IR-Cut / IR-Block ZWO (M48)
Accessoire: Barlow Kepler x2.5
Dates: 21 Oct 2022- 23h24
Images unitaires: SER (2000x11.41ms) 5% retenues - Gain 123
Intégration: --
Échantillonnage: 0.22 arcsec/pixel
Focale résultante: 2735 mm
F/D: 10,9
Seeing: 1.08 "Arc
Echelle d'obscurité de Bortle: --
Phase de la Lune (moyenne):
2020-07-13-1336_0-2020-RGB RS4 PS5a upscale
Jupiter one day off opposition. Seeing 5/10 - taken from backyard.
Telescope 12" goto Skywatcher dobsonian, Camera QHY163m, baader rgb filters, Televue 5x powermate.
Software: Sharpcap, PIPP, AutoStakkert 3, WinJupos, RegiStax 6, CS6.
The moon Europa is transiting (and eclipsing shadow on surface of planet), and Io is off to the left side, the Great Red Spot just in view to the right.
93 million miles from us and with 28 times the gravity of the Earth, the Sun is not just the biggest object in the solar system, it is over 99% of it. Yes, all the planets, moons, asteroids and comets constitute less than 1% of all the mass in the solar system.
And yet... the Sun is just a tiny Yellow Dwarf star. A mere marble by comparison with the biggest stars discovered so far.
The Sun and everything else in the solar system all formed 4.6 billion year ago. Since then the Sun has been burning gas at a startling rate - 600 million tons per second - and yet it is only half way through its life.
This image was taken using a Coronado PST solar telescope and an Image Source DMK41 mono camera. It was processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert 3 and Photoshop.
If you are unfamiliar with images like this, you may be wondering why the Sun is red instead of yellow. This is because the filter used in the telescope blocks out all light apart from one lightwave - the one emitted by Hydrogen alpha. This is at 656 nanometers and is in the red area of visible light. Thus the Sun looks red through the telescope and not yellow as you would expect. There are other lightwaves that some filters are tuned to such as Calcium K which emits light at 454 nm and so the Sun looks blue through this filter.
Looking at the Sun at different lightwaves - and other wavelengths throughout the electromagnetic spectrum - allows scientists to analyse the Sun in different ways resulting in a greater understanding of our amazing star.
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 and noise reduction in PhotoShop
Reprocessed version, using Autostakkert 3.0.14,
Registax 6, Photoshop CC 2017.
Telescope=CPC800XLT
Camera=Altair GPCAMv2 130 Mono
Orion Shorty 2X Barlow
ZWO filter wheel and LRGB filter set.
Taken with a Coronado PST, 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D on an EQ5-Pro mount
Camera set to mono to aid focusing, then 200 images shot in RAW. Images imported into Lightoom, colour removed and images cropped then exported as TIFFs.
Best 35% of those 200 images were stacked in Autostakkert! 2.
Stacked image was duplicated, then in Lightroom one was processed to enhance the prominences, the other to enhance the surface features. Both images saved as new TIFF files.
The 2 images were opened in Photoshop CS2, false colour added back to the images, then they were merged together using a layer mask. Final tweaks made in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer
First light with camera. Europa first contact during transit with its shadow on Jupiter. 05:08 a.m.
Clear Sky Chart data indicated Transparent skies with average 3/5 Seeing. Not the best conditions for clarity of details. Waiting for good and/or excellent seeing conditions.
Stack = best 66% of 3,000 frames with AutoStakkert 2.6.8
Wavelets applied with Registax 6.1.0.8
Final tweaks with Photoshop CC 2015
Distance 4.706 AU (437,450,029 miles)
99.6 Illumination phase
FireCapture v2.5 Settings
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Camera=ZWO ASI290MC (w/ Shorty 2X Barlow)
Diameter=41.84"
Magnitude=-2.32
CMI=73.3° CMII=120.7° CMIII=229.1° (during mid of capture)
FocalLength=4850mm
Resolution=0.12"
Start=050806.888
Mid=050827.592
End=050848.297
Duration=41.409s
LT=UT -5h
Frames captured=3000
File type=AVI
Binning=no
ROI=800x640
FPS (avg.)=72
Shutter=13.71ms
Gain=293 (48%)
WBlue=95
USBTraffic=100
HighSpeed=off
AutoHisto=75 (off)
AutoExposure=off
Brightness=1
WRed=52
Histogramm(min)=0
Histogramm(max)=217
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
Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, 1 month after its 2023 opposition. One of the Galilean moons, Io, casts a dark shadow on the surface of Jupiter. The Great Red Spot is also visible near the center.
Coincidentally, the GRS and Io's shadow are almost in the same position as when I captured Jupiter at opposition. Notice how the angle between Io and its shadow has changed: flic.kr/p/2qEZLp5
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, which creates turbulence and storms along the boundaries.
Phase angle: 7.02°
Apparent magnitude: -2.78
Apparent diameter: 47.30"
Distance from Earth: 4.168 AU
Stack of 3,000 frames (best of 11,576)
Captured from 02:21 to 02:23 UTC 2023/12/07
Exposure 5 ms, Gain 350, Offset 25
Location: Summerville/Ladson, SC
Atmospheric seeing: 3/5
Camera: ZWO ASI224MC
Filter: ZWO UV/IR-Cut
Telescope: Celestron C6 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope
Barlow: Tele Vue 2x 1.25" Barlow (with ZWO ADC before Barlow, gives an effective focal length of ~3950mm at f/26.3)
Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G (unguided)
Capture software: FireCapture
Processing software: AutoStakkert! 4 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, GIMP
Camera: ZWO ASI120MC
Telescope: William Optics FLT110
Tracker: Zeq25GT, Unguide
Stacking software: Autostakkert 2.6.6 (1000 frames)
Editing software: Photoshop CS6
© P Williamson
Abu Dhabi, UAE
RG-RGB
50% of frames from 30secs @30fps.
(3 sets of RGB, 0133hrs - 0142hrs, de-rotated to 0137hrs)
Stacked in Autostakert2, wavelets in RegiStax 6, De-rotated in Winjupos.
Camera: TIS DMK21.618 Mono
Scope: Celestron C11 with Tele Vue Powermate x 2.5
Filters: Baader RGB
Mount: AZ EQ6-GT goto.