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Taken from Oxfordshire, UK at 3pm BST, with a Coronado PST, 2x Barlow & slimline T-ring attached to a Canon 1100D
Shot through quite a lot thin high level cloud.
ISO-800 1/60 second exposure
324 images shot and the best 50% stacked using Autostakkert! 2. Resulting stacked image was processed using Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop CS2, Focus Magic and Faststone Image Viewer
Quando la Luna è prossima al primo quarto si possono osservare una lettera X e una lettera V lungo il terminatore.
La X si forma perchè la luce del Sole lambisce i bordi dei crateri La Caille, Blanchinus e Purbach. La V invece si forma a causa della luce che arriva principalmente al cratere Ukert. Queste configurazioni si possono osservare in questa fase lunare solo per poche ore al mese.
Dati tecnici:
- Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newtoniano
- Montatura Eq2 con motore AR
- Camera planetaria QHY5L-II-C
- Filtro UV-Ir cut
- Sharpcap per acquisire 10 video da 20 secondi ognuno
- Autostakkert 3 e Registax 6 per elaborare i video
- Autostitch per creare il mosaico
- GIMP per regolare luminosità e contrasto
- Frazione illuminata: 52%
- Luogo: Cabras (OR), Italia
- Data: 8 febbraio 2022
- Ora: dalle 18:50 alle 18:59 UTC
Sony A7RIV+ 200-600mm + 1.4TC , crop mode . 300 images 40% stack in Autostakkert, Sharpened in Photoshop using Astra Image filter, Oldham , UK
Mosaïque lunaire ( 14 tuiles)
Seing moyen, collimation non réalisée, mise en station rapide.
Skywatcher 200/1000
Monture eq6-r-pro
Camera ZWO 290 couleur
Logiciel : Autostakkert, Registax et Photoshop
région du cratère Platon au newton 400 + caméra Zwo ASI224MC. Empilement autostakkert3 et finitions photoshop
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.
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.
"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.
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
Telescopio Maksutov Celestron 127 SLT. Camera SVBony SV305. Elaborazioni con Autostakkert e Registax.
Stack of best 85% out of 1,500 frames. Shot with a Canon EOS 60D mounted on a Celestron NexStar 6se. Stacked in Autostakkert, denoised in Topaz, and adjusted in Photoshop and Lightroom.
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.
Processed in Lightroom, Autostakkert 3, and Photoshop, from a stack of 25 subs. Focal length 500mm, ISO 400, 1/1000 @ f/5.6.
Happy to finally have first light with new ASI120MC-S camera. Clouds finally were non-existent after about 6 weeks. Seeing was average. This was from a second capture during observation.
Processed with Autostakkert 2.5.1.7, Registax 6.
FireCapture v2.4 Settings
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Camera=ZWO ASI120MC-S
Telescope=Celestron CPC800 XLT - 2" Star Diagonal XLT
Shorty 2X Barlow
Waxing crescent moon, 6.07 days past new
The prominent crater near the center of this picture is Posidonius. It is at the northeast edge of Mare Serenitatis and just south of Lacus Somniorum. Other prominent craters in this image are Proclus (bright, at lower right), Macrobius (larger, just above Proculs), and Atlas and Hercules (at the top).
Celestron Edge HD 925 at f/6.3 with focal reducer
ZWO ASI120MM camera with 80A blue filter
Stack of the best 100 frames from a 350 frame video, stacked in AutoStakkert 3
Processing in PixInsight and PS CS 5.1
Saturn with 4 Moons
From L-to-R: Rhea, Titan, Dione, Tethys
1500 of 5000 frames
Celestron SCT 6"
Televue Powermate 2.5x
ZWO ASI 120MC-S
Firecapture
Autostakkert
Pixinsight
Photoshop
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
Still good seeing
2020-09-17 22:46UT
250mm f4.8 Newtonian
x3 TAL Barlow 3600mm effective focal length
ZWO ASI290MC
110fps 3 minute video, 25% frames
Seeing II
Captured in Firecapture
Processed in Autostakkert, Registax and PS
Hardware: ZWO-ASI174MM, TeleVue 4x Powermate, EOS-90D, Meade SN10, iOptron CEM60
Software: Firecapture, Autostakkert! & Photoshop 2020
Taken in storm force conditions with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and a Canon 600D at prime focus. Seeing terrible so stacked the best 10 from 30 images taken in Autostakkert 2 and just used the built in sharpening blend to process automatically.
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.
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Taken from North Oxfordshire, UK with an Orion 10" Dobsonian telescope, Celestron 3x Barlow and ZWO ASI120MC camera. The telescope has tracking and GoTo but we are having some technical issues with it at the moment so I had to manually slew the telescope, keeping Jupiter in frame, while I captured a 2,000 frame video using SharpCap. I shot several videos over a ten minute period, whilst deal with stripes of thin cloud. I stacked the best 5%, 10% and 15% of the frames. This image was the best of the bunch and it was a stack of 5% of 2,000 frames.
The images were stacked using Autostakkert! 3, sharpened using Focus Magic, then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer. Considering the technical issues + cloud I am surprised I got this much detail! The dot to the left is Jupiter's Moon Io.
Jupiter, photographed from Long Beach, CA
30 s SER files were taken with a ZWO ASI120MM camera through Optolong CCD RGB filters on a Celestron Edge HD 925 telescope using FireCapture. The top 55% of frames went into 5 stacks of each color filter. These stacks were made in AutoStakkert, then sharpened in PixInsight. Stacks were combined and derotated in WinJUPOS, and the resulting R, G, and B images were combined in WinJUPOS to make a de-rotated single color image. Color balancing in Registax, then final touches in Photoshop.
CM longitudes:
System I: 289.2°
System II: 143.9°
System III: 66.2°
First light on Saturn for this viewing season, still very low on the southern horizon when this image was taken (around 21:45 local time) thus not many details are visible. It was still nice seeing Saturn slowly making its way in the early evening sky.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX90, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ASI290MC, best 5k of 10k frames, AutoStakkert! V3.0.14 (x64), FireCapture v2.5.10 x64 and Registax v6. Date: July 1, 2017. Location: Weatherly, Pennsylvania.
The sun imaged in hydrogen-alpha at 04:07 UT on 2022 July 10, featuring a chromospheric disk full of activity and many varied prominences around the edge. AR 3055 is lower left while AR 3053 is left of centre; north is up. Filaments up to 300,000 km in length are present in the southern hemisphere. Impressive!
Lunt 102mm solar telescope with ZWO ASI174MM video camera; frames selected and stacked in AutoStakkert, wavelet sharpened in RegiStax 6 and colour added in Photoshop CS5.
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
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
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
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.
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
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 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
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.
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
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
Captured 1000 frames with Firecapture
Stacked best 75% with Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened with Registax
Finished with Photoshop to include oversaturating colors
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
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
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
Copernicus Crater – diameter is 96 km, named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. It typifies craters that formed during the Copernican period in that it has a prominent ray system. Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX90, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ASI290MC, best 2.5k of 5k frames, AutoStakkert! V3.0.14 (x64), FireCapture v2.5.10 x64 and Registax v6. Photographed on July 4, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.
"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
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
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:
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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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
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