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Taken with a Canon 1100D with 300mm zoom lens
Best 75% of 90 frames stacked in Autostakkert! 2 then tweaked in Lightroom
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.
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
Three 4K MP4 videos centred, cropped and stacked with PIPP and AutoStakkert. Moons brightened and planet contrast increased with PhotoShop.
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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
Have not been lucky with seeing conditions in the past two months. I will continue to be patient and hope to post a better image in the next few weeks. And Jupiter is just around the corner.
Date: September 22, 2024
Bortle Class 5 backyard, SF Bay Area (East Bay)
Capture: 500 frames, lucky imaging (FireCapture)
Telescope: Celestron C9.25 SCT
Camera: ZWO ASI662MC
Filters: Baader UV/IR Cut
ZWO ADC
Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate, 1.25"
Mount: iOptron GEM45
Processing: AutoStakkert!4, waveSharp 1.0 beta, Photoshop CC
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Tal 3x Barlow Lens, ZWO ASI 120MC Astronomical Imaging Camera.
Out of 9500 frames about 2200 processed with AutoStakkert! & Registax 6.
Colour contrast on albedo features and final levels adjusted with G.I.M.P.
Image size scaled up by 150%
The seeing conditions were reasonably good.
The target was about 43.5° above the horizon at the time of capture.
The location of Olympus Mons is visible to the upper right.
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.
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.
A trio of interesting craters running north to south. Ptolemaeus (dimension 154kmX154km), Alphonsus (dimension 118kmX118km) and Arzachel (dimension 98kmX97km).
Ptolemaeus is an ancient lunar impact crater close to the center of the near side, named for Claudius Ptolemy, the Greco-Roman writer, mathematician, astronomer, geographer and astrologer.
Imaging equipment:
Celestron EdgeHD 8, 2032mm focal length,
Mesu 200 MKII mount,
ZWOASI294MM Pro camera
Astronomic 642 (R-IR) filter
Best 3% of 3,500 images stacked with AutoStakkert!, processed with IMPPG & Photoshop.
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
Taken with the Celestron C14 and ZWO ASI224MC camera with a 2x Barlow from the observatory at Cerritos College. Nine SER files were captured, then stacked in AutoStakkert and processed in PixInsight. Resulting images were derotated in WinJUPOS, and the resultant image processed in gimp and Registax.
CM longitudes:
CM I: 59°
CM II: 76°
CM III: 93°
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 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.
Waxing Gibbous Moon at 92.4%, 2023-01-03
This is a portion of the 11.61 day old moon near the terminator.
Montes Jura, a semi circular mountain range around the Sinus Iridum. As the terminator advances near this range two to three nights after the first quarter moon, the peaks of this range catch the sunlight at their tops. Dinension: 497km X 30km, height 18,200 feet
Plato Crater, a lava filled impact crater. The floor is dark and free of significant impact craters. However, there are a few small craterlets scattered across the floor. Dimension: 101km X 101km
Full disk image from VMA. (Image 2)
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.
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.
Jupiter et 3 de ses principaux satellites, Io à gauche, Europe et Ganymède à droite qui projettent leurs ombres sur la planète.
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 - Astrosurface - Darktable - FastStone Images Viewer
Filtres: IR-Cut / IR-Block ZWO (M48)
Accessoire: Projection par oculaire 9 mm
Dates: 27 Oct 2022- 00h10
Images unitaires: SER (1000x13.38ms) 30% retenues - Gain 123
Intégration: --
Échantillonnage: 0,215 arcsec/pixel
Focale résultante: 2788 mm
F/D: 11,2
Seeing: 1,63 "Arc
Echelle d'obscurité de Bortle: --
Phase de la Lune (moyenne):
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.
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.
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 four RGB images from 0527 to 0531 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. Even though the seeing was better at this time compared to my previous image (see flic.kr/p/2pfGTKC ), I still couldn't get any detail on it. This is from my backyard in Long Beach, CA.
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.
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
"Posidonius"
Posidonius is located on the north-eastern edge of Mare Serenitatis, to the south of Lacus Somniorum and ominously named Lacus Mortis, which was featured in an image I posted two days ago. Posidonius is 95 km wide and 2.3 km deep. It is an impressive crater, with many distinctive features that make it fun to examine through a telescope. Here it is seen in "afternoon" lighting, with the sunlight coming in at a moderate angle from the west.
Posidonius is a textbook example of a "floor-fractured crater". Close examination will immediately reveal the reason for this designation: the floor of the crater is crisscrossed by numerous large cracks. This kind of crater is most often found in the regions of the moon near lunar mare. The mechanism of their formation involves several stages. Sometime after the impact event that gouged out the crater, lava upwelled from the lunar interior and formed a magma chamber beneath the crater. Pressure within the magma chamber then lifted the entire floor of the crater, creating a bulge. Eventually the lava found its way to the surface through cracks in the crater floor and covered it to considerable depth. As the lava cooled, it contracted, cracked, and slumped back downward into voids in the magma chamber. The cracks within the crater are known collectively as Rimae Posidonius.
Posidonius lacks a notable central peak. Instead, numerous hills are seen. One relatively unique feature is the "doubling" of the eastern rim. It appears that there might be a second crater rim, or perhaps part of the original eastern rim broke away and slumped toward the center of the crater . Posidonius also features a prominent (11 km diameter) secondary crater within it called Posidonius A.
The area to the southeast of Posidonius is quite rugged and mountainous. This is a portion of the Montes Taurus. Here too are prominent fissures. The most prominent lies to the east of Posidonius. This is Rima G.Bond. The area is riddled with a multitude of small craterlets and many old, worn craters.
In contrast, the area to the west of Posidonius seems remarkably featureless and smooth. This is Mare Serenitatis, the "Sea of Serenity". Serene indeed. A few small craters pock the surface, and long, low ridges meander across its expanse. Whatever history of intense meteor bombardment this area has received over the eons, most evidence of it was covered up by the vast lava flows that created this mare. In fact, this entire sea was created by an enormous collision of the Moon and an asteroid, which created the Serenitatis Impact Basin, one of several such basins seen on the Moon. "Serene"? Maybe not so much.
Celestron EdgeHD 8 telescope, f/10, 2032 mm focal length
ZWO ASI290MM Camera
Celestron Advanced VX Mount
Stack of the best 50% of 8880 video frames, captured with Firecapture software
Pre-Processing with PIPP
Stacking with AutoStakkert!3
Wavelets processing with Registax 6
Post-processing with Photoshop CS 2019
Optics : TEC 140 F/7 Apo + TeleVue barlow 2" 2X
Filter : Baader Cool-Ceramic Herschel Wedge + Baader Solar Continuum Filter (540 nm) 2";
Equivalent focal lenght : 1960 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
Taken with the Celestron C14 and ZWO ASI224MC camera from Cerritos College campus on 2024-01-27. A 0.63x focal reducer was used, and a UV/IR cut filter was in place on the camera.
The large crater in the lower part of the image is Langrenus. The broad, darker area that takes up most of the picture is Mare Fecunditatis - the Sea of Fertility. The crater in the top left with the long streak pointing toward the top-left corner is Messier.
An SER video of 1000 frames was taken with FireCapture. The best 600 of 1000 frames were stacked in AutoStakkert. The resulting stack was color balanced and sharpened in PixInsight. Some final sharpening and other adjustments were done in GIMP.
Camera: ZWO ASI120MC
Telescope: William Optics FLT110
Tracker: Zeq25GT, Unguide
Stacking software: Autostakkert 2.6.6 (1000 frames)
Editing software: Photoshop CS6
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a 70mm William Optics refractor, 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro mount.
Best 57% of 150 images stacked with Autostakkert!2 and processed in Lightroom, and Fast Stone Image Viewer
Mars in the evening sky taken with a ZWOASI224MC planetary camera through a 2x barlow lens in a Celestron 5se Cassegrain telescope. A SharpCap video capture of 1000 frames was stacked with Autostakkert then processed using RegiStax and Adobe Lightroom.
Best 25% of 6000 frames
8" Meade SCT
Televue 2.5x Powermate
ZWO 462 at 110 fps
Stacked in Autostakkert, wavelets in Registax 6 and processed in PS
Seeing fair
Ormiston, Queensland
Sol Región Activa 12835
Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: iOptron AZ Mount Pro
Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 1.8, T=1.5%)
- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (540nm)
Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism
Software: FireCapture, Pipp, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2021-07-05 (05 de julio de 2021)
Hora: 15:10 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 2 videos de 1 minutos cada uno
Resolución: 1472x1116
Gain: 149 (29%)
Exposure: 0.032ms
Frames: 3378 + 3378
Frames apilados: 30%
FPS: 56
Sensor temperature= 40.7 °C
Reprocess of video taken 11/25/2017 using a 3x drizzle process in AutoStakkert!2.
This is an area I have photographed several times over the years. It is a view along the terminator about 8 days after new moon, one day past first quarter. I took the video for this image November 25, 2017.
Many noteworthy craters appear in this image, and they are all familiar friends to those who examine the moon. Two trios of larger craters dominate the image. The upper trio includes the very large Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus, and Arzachel (at center). The lower trio are, from the top, Purbach, Regiomontanus, and Walther (bottom, right of center).
The high ridges where Purbach, LaCaille and Blanchinus craters intersect are responsible for the famous "Lunar X" visual feature. For a few hours, when sunlight first touches these ridges at the First Quarter Moon phase, they shine brightly against the dark, shadowy terminator in the shape of a distinctive "X".
Best 80% of 650 video frames. Preprocessing with PIPP to stretch whites to 90%, and crop to the area shown. Stacking with AutoStakkert!2 (3x drizzle), post-processing in Photoshop CC 2018.
ZWO ASI290mm camera, Optolong IR Pass (685nm) filter, Explore Scientific ED 80 APO f/6 480mm refractor, Celestron Advanced VX EQ mount.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and Canon 600D in variable cloud. 15 images stacked with Autostakkert 2
In this feed I show you the last images of the recent phases of Venus including the rare ring arc captured very close to the Sun just before the inferior conjunction. On June 2 only 0.05 percent of it was still illuminated. You see these irregularities in the brightness of the ring? It could caused by differences in the thickness of the aerosol layer of the Venusian atmosphere.
For the Venus Ring I used my Traveler from Astro-Physics in combination with a Baader FFC (and Herschel Prism). A RG-610 filter helped to improve the contrast. My old QHY5LII-M camera was a good choice to capture sequences of 10,000 frames. With AutoStakkert I stacked ~30% of two selected video files. Location: Spicheren, France
Image: Dr. Sebastian Voltmer
The report: www.apollo-13.eu/tages-astrofotografie-der-venus
Learn more about the capturing techniques and my other photographic works in the Instagram profiles @sebastianvoltmer and @artcontrasts
Same data as before, but this time, just to so how well it worked, I processed it through my solar stacking software SolHAT rather than using PiPP & AutoStakkert. My drizzle isn't nearly as good as Emils, but I like my alignment (though I told the software it was looking at the Moon since I haven't written in planetary support).
Post opposition, 15-06-2019
OTA: SW Mak-Cass 127 @ f12.7, 1500mm fl
Imaging: AS120MM-S, unguided
Mount: Az-GTi (Alt-Az mode)
Filters: Optolong RGB
Sequencing & Aiding Tools: ASICAP
1990/5400 frames, 66 Gain, 0.02ms
PP: Autostakkert 2.0, Fitswork
Here is a quick capture of the planet Saturn and an overexposed image of Saturn capturing seven of the planet's brighter moons.
Tech Specs: Sky Watcher Esprit 120ED, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI290MC, and ZWO EAF, Televue 1.5x Barlow. Captured in SharpCap Pro, processed in Autostakkert and Registax, top image single 5-second exposure, bottom image is best 20% of 9000 frames. Image date: October 13, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
This is a 2-panel mosaic. Move mouse cursor over image to see identification discussed below. Click image to open expanded view.
In the upper left - Bullialdus crater. 38 miles in diameter and 2.2 miles deep. Located in western Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds), with terraced inner walls and showing many signs of landslides. The outer ramparts are covered in a wide ejecta blanket that highlights a radial pattern of low ridges and valleys. In the center of the crater is a formation of several peaks and rises that climb to approx 2/3 of a mile in height.
Towards the south the lavafilled crater that looks like it has a paint drip pointing southward is Kies. It is the remnants of a crater that has been flooded by basaltic lava, and only the outer rim remains.
To the south-southwest (8 o'clock position) lies a lunar dome structure designated Kies Pi (π). It has a small crater at the top, and is most likely 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, and on the right center 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.
Both images are best 66% of 3,000 frames, processed with Autostakkert, Registax 6, Photoshop CC 2017.
Celestron CPC800XLT
Altair GPCAMv2 130 Mono camera
ZWO green filter (filter wheel)
Orion Shorty 2X Barlow
8:41 and 8:44 p.m.