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A little bit of Solar activity going on here. The energy released here from the sunspot causes a Solar Flare which you can make out in this picture. It looks like a dark ribbon. In fact there is a second one higher up the disc. Click on it to see more detail.
Lunt LS60T Ha and ASI 178 Mono camera
20 seconds avi file
Stacked in Autostakkert. Best 50%
Wavelets in Registax
Colour in PS using levels R=1.6, G=0.8 and B=0.2
Sharpening in PS
Create flat master from video (flat fram calibration avi, same exposure as surface, de focus) to get rid of dust bunnies)
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Mars in watery seeing conditions. (2.5/5) A hint Olympus Mons slightly visible near the 1 o'clock position inwards from the limb.
Best 18% of 60,000 frames - Autostakkert
Celestron CPC Deluxe 1100 HD
ASI209MC camera
ZWO ADC
X-Cel LX 2.0 Barlow
Magnitude -2,74
Distance 632,729 Million km
Distance 4,230 UA
Temps lumière 0h35m10,6s
Diam. Apparent 0°00'46,61"
Diam. Équatorial 142984 km
Instrument de prise de vue: Skywatcher T250/1000 Newton F4
Caméra d'imagerie: Player-One Uranus-C IMX585
Monture: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 Pro Goto USB
Instrument de guidage: sans
Caméra de guidage: sans
Logiciels acquisition: Stellarium - SharpCap
Logiciels traitement :AutoStakkert - Astrosurface - Registax 6 - Darktable - FastStone Images Viewer
Filtres: IR-Cut / IR-Block Player-One
Accessoires: Focuseur ZWO EAF - Barlow Kepler x2.5 + Projection par oculaire 9mm
Dates: 12 Déc. 2023- 21h41 GMT
Taille: 1920x1080
Images unitaires: SER (2509x5ms) 70% retenues
Gain: 500
Échantillonnage: 0.086 "/pixel
Focale résultante: 7000mm
F/D: 28
Seeing: 0.97 "Arc
Bortle: 5
Phase de la Lune (moyenne): 0%
ZWO ASI178MC
Tele Vue 2.5x PowerMate
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
4000 frames captured in Firecapture
Best 2000 frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25"
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
RGB x 30s ea filter captured in Firecapture
Best 10% of frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finshed in Photoshop
Celestron C90, ASI290MC, Baader UV/IR cut, SA2i.
Best 10% of 10k frames, PIPP/Autostakkert/Registax/GIMP.
Getting better data from the new camera inspired me to put some more effort into my Pixinsight planetary workflow. I'm very pleased with my results. Questar 89/1350 mm telescope with Dakin 2x Barlow, UV/IR cut filter and ZWO ASI224MC planetary video camera. Taken 2018-08-07 05:36 UT from Austin, Texas. Exposed 57.6 msec at a gain of 330. The best 15% of 3,094 frames captured with FireCapture and stacked in Autostakkert 3 with 3x drizzle. Postprocessing in PixInsight with final exposure tweaks in Photoshop.
Contornando núvens, névoas, embaçamentos de espelhos do telescópio e turbulências atmosféricas, vamos, aos poucos, aprendendo e avançando. A lua que aparece (e também projeta sua sombra) na imagem é Ganímedes. Nesse registro, foi a primeira vez que consegui, mesmo que sutilmente, registrar nuances da superfície (tons mais escuros) de uma lua de Júpiter. Registro captado em 03/07/2020, 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, WinJUPOS, PixInsight e Photoshop.
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While developing a recent full-disc image of the waning gibbous moon, I noticed that I'd coincidentally taken a similar image earlier this year, but with almost exactly the opposite phase (i.e, waxing gibbous). So I decided to combine them both into a single image, which almost looks like it is mirrored at first glance. But it's just the curve of the lunar day-night transition that's almost exactly opposite. The many craters and Maria are almost in the same positions - but not quite! Since the moon is on an elliptical orbit around earth, and in addition its rotational axis is slightly tilted with respect to its orbit, we are seeing it under slightly different angles over the course of one moon-month. Still, on average the moon always shows us the same side since its rotation period matches the orbital period in a bound rotation.
In addition, you can see interesting variations in contrast and surface colour between the two images. Some of them, particularly the strength and direction of shadows, are due to the different illumination. The colouring, which basically originates from different mineral compositions of lunar surfaces, may partly also be due to lighting conditions, but also due to using two different instruments with nearly the same focal length. I tried but couldn't quite digitally match the colour rendering of every part of the two images.
In the left-hand image taken on 2024-09-21, a 120/900 mm ED apochromatic refractor was used. For the right-hand image taken on 2024-06-18, a 100/1000 mm Maksutov-Cassegrain vintage telephoto lens was used.
For both images, I acquired 4k mp4 videos with a Canon M50 Mk.II DSLM camera, and stacked the 20% respectively 25% best frames.
Both images were taken from the exact same location at the Volkssternwarte München, piggybacked onto the mount of one of the larger telescopes there.
Stacking was done using Autostakkert!, sharpening was performed using fitswork, processing of the individual images in Luminar 2018. Finally, both images were scaled to the same size and mounted side-by-side using Photoshop, along with some minor tilt and color/brightness adjustments.
Filmed with Skywatcher 150-PDS + Canon EOS R + Canon 1.4 extender
24 seconds video processed with PIPP, Autostakkert and Registax
RGB Composite.
Celestron CPC Deluxe 1100 HD
Altair Hypercam 174 Mono
X=Cel 2.0 Barlow
ZWO Filterwheel R, G, B channels
FireCapture, Autostakkert, Winjupos, Topaz Sharpen AI
Transit of the moon Ganymede (largest moon in the Solar System) over Jupiter, with a projection of its shadow on the planet. In the images, the moon Ganymede is the spherical (grey hued) object seen in the vicinity of the Great Red Spot. Ganymede's shadow projection appears as a dark circle near the center of Jupiter.
"Fifth in line from the Sun, Jupiter is, by far, the largest planet in the solar system – more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined. Jupiter's familiar stripes and swirls are actually cold, windy clouds of ammonia and water, floating in an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium. Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a giant storm bigger than Earth that has raged for hundreds of years".
Source: NASA solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/jupiter/overview/ (To view the article, click on "More" at the bottom of the site)
Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 Reflector Telescope with Onstep and ZWO EAF Electronic Focuser, ASI 290MC, Barlow Tele Vue 3x, Svbony UV/IR Cut Filter. FireCapture, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, AstroSurface, WinJUPOS, Camera Raw and Fitswork.
@LopesCosmos
Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: Celestron 127/1500 Maksutov-Cassegrain
Camere di acquisizione: Svbony SV105
Montature: Celestron SLT
Software: Registax · DeepSkyStacker · AutoStakkert! · photoshop
Accessorio: 2.5x barlow
Data:31 Ottobre 2020
Ora: 21:26
Pose: 2500
FPS: 30,00000
Lunghezza focale: 3750
Seeing: 3
Trasparenza: 7
Risoluzione: 768x512
Luoghi: Terrazzo di casa (Sant'Agata li Battiati), Sant'Agata Li Battiati, CT, Italia
Origine dei dati: Giardino
High-resolution imagery of lunar details around five prominent craters in the Southern Highlands region.
What I want an observer to see in this image is the multitude of tiny craterlets and other small features scattered throughout the image. I have not yet measured the smallest of them, but it is likely that they range down in size to less than 2 km diameter.
I have never achieved this kind of detail in my imaging before. I am trying to find ways to best display these features without overprocessing the data. Anyone with advice, please comment or send a flickrmail.
Celestron EdgeHD 8 telescope, f/10, 2032 mm focal length
ZWO ASI290MM Camera
Celestron Advanced VX Mount
Stack of the best 15% of 1717 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
Image cropped and rotated.
Complex bipolar region with spots in between the leading and trailing elements.
900mm f/7.5 refractor with Baader Herschel Wedge.
ZWO ASI 290MM camera
Acquired with FireCapture v2.7
Stacked in Autostakkert!3, best 5% of about 12000 frames
Camera=ZWO ASI290MM
Profile=Sun
Date=200423
Start=121846.198
Frames captured=11833
FPS (avg.)=32
File type=SER
ROI=1936x1096
Shutter=1.500ms
Gain=68 (11%)
Gamma=50
Histogram=83%
eADU=1.547
Limit=6 Minutes
Sensor temperature=27.1°C
The Moon. This shot was taken on the night of 7-1-20. I don't normally do Moon or planet imaging, but I was tweaking part of my rig and the Moon as there ... so why not? I shot a 200 frame high res video sequence using my ZWO ASI294MC-Pro camera and SharpCap Pro software. When you watch the video you have see the image of the Moon wavering around as the atmosphere was distorting it. The video was analyzed and the sharpest 66 frames were stacked using Autostakkert 3 software. I then used Registax software to do Wavelet sharpening of the image. Finally, Photoshop was used to finish things up. It was interesting to try out a different form of capture and image processing.....
Esprit 150ED apo triplet with Herschel wedge/solar continuum filter and QHY5III 178 (reduced frame size using ROI). 856 frame SER stacked in Autostakkert 3 and processed in Astrosurface and PS CS2,adding false colour.
Taken 07/11/20
Super Sturgeon Moon
August 1, 2023
10 45 PM CDT, eight hours past full, two hours before perigee
Shot through clouds, which lent the colorful halo to the image.
Explore Scientific ED 80 APO refractor, f/6, 480mm
Canon T3i camera, ISO 100, 1/320 sec exposure
tripod mount
Best 27 of 54 images centered with PIPP, stacked with AutoStakkert!3, wavelets processing with Registax 6, final processing with Photoshop CC2023.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with an 8" Ritchie Chretien telescope and Canon 1100D with a 0.8 focal reducer on an EQ5 Pro mount
ISO-800 1/800 sec
Images shot in RAW, converted into TIFFs using Adobe Lightroom.
Best 100 images stacked using Autostakkert! 2 then processed in Fast Stone Image Viewer.
Crop from original full disk image
Ok Seeing
Skywatcher 130P, Nikon D3300, EP Projection (10mm + x2 Barlow)
500/1500 frames stacked in Autostakkert!2, Wavelets in R6, final tweaks in Photoshop.
Jupiter Seeing 3/5 Transparency 4/5. 10 min video derotated
Saturn Seeing 2.5/5 Transparency 3/5. 10 min video derotated
Mars Seeing 3/5 Transparency 3/5. 10 images derotated
Mars -> 51 days to opposition
Saturn -> 21 days to opposition
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
The lighting over Mare Tranquillitatis in this image is a very good representation of how the area would have looked as Armstrong and Aldrin were on final approach for their landing on 1969-07-20 2018 UT. The altitude of the Sun over this region would have matched what it was for the crew of Apollo 11 at that time, to within a degree or so. This image was taken 618 lunar months after the first successful landing of humans on the Moon. The craters named after Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins are just resolved in this image.
This is a stack of the best 400 frames from a 1500 frame AVI shot with a Point Grey Flea3 color camera through a Celestron Edge HD 925 at f/10 (no Barlow lens). Stacking was done in AutoStakkert!3, with further processing in PixInsight (mostly wavelets) and PS CS 5.1.
Date of observation/acquisition: 2019-05-22 20:28 UT
Camera/Telescope: ASI290MM + red filter, 12" f/8 GSO RC
A time-accurate composite image from 2 consecutive 30-second video captures required to create this image, over the course of approximately 1 minute. A separate acquisition for Saturn's brightness for the moon's brightness is required, as their apparent exposure requirements are very different. While it CAN be captured a single acquisition, rather, by adjusting the gamma level of the imaging camera (boosting it...), a better quality image can often be obtained by properly exposing for each target.
Post-processed using Autostakkert!3, PixInsight, and combined in Photoshop. After stacking and processing was done, the moon and Saturn were then recombined into one final image.
Using a monochrome camera, it takes time to capture different exposures. As time elapses, in the apparent close quarters where two objects are moving independently in space, they must be treated separately and recombined in post, requiring a composite image.
We all hate composite images. But, when they are created with transparency and ethics, that’s what we as astrophotographers need to do. We must remain ethical and accurate at all times.
Target:Moon at 77%
Location:22/04/2021 Ty-Newydd Farm Campsite Aberdaron Wales Bortle 2.
Aquistion:75x 0.001sec Green Bin2x2
Equipment:Skywatcher 200P Newtonian Altair Astro Hypercam 183M Pro.
Software:Capture: Astroberry Ekos
Process: Autostakkert RegiStax Affinity Photo
Memories:When it is galaxy season and the Moon is up... shoot the Moon or globular clusters.
Celestron CPC800XLT
Altair GPCAMv2 130 Mono camera
Orion Shorty 2X Barlow
ZWO Red Filter (Filter Wheel)
40% of 3,000 frames
Software used - FireCapture, Autostakkert, Registax 6, Photoshop CC 2017
Approx 9:30pm BST from Oxfordshire, UK
Taken with a 70mm William Optics refractor, 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D
ISO-800 1/400 seconds
Best 67% of 120 frames stacked in Autostakkert!2 and processed in Lightroom
Knowing seeing was dreadful I still went out to see if I could image Mars. Seeing was appalling, Mars was only at 10 degrees, the same as my winter Sun, so therefore was in the tree as well. I am amazed this came out, honestly, Mars was never a round circle so I don't know how Autostakkert made it one :)
140mm refractor / 5x powermate / Blackfly colour cam
At the time of registration (which is my first on this planet), Uranus was 2.8 billion kilometers away from Earth.
Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 reflector with Onstep, ASI 290MC, Barlow Tele Vue 3x, UV/IR Cut filter. 11877 stacked frames. FireCapture, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, AstroSurface, Fitswork and PixInsight.
@LopesCosmos
Two sunspot groups were visible near the Eastern solar limb today. AR2824 has made steady progress across the Sun over the last 7 or 8 days but AR2826 has grown quite rapidly and looks a little irregular.
900mm f/7.5 refractor with Baader Herschel Wedge.
ZWO ASI 290MM camera, then x3 focal extender for inset panels.
60 second video.
Acquired with FireCapture v2.6
Stacked in Autostakkert!3, best 5%
FireCapture v2.6 Settings
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Camera=ZWO ASI290MM
Filter=L
Profile=Sun
Duration=60.007s
Frames captured=10001
FPS (avg.)=166
Shutter=0.709ms
Gain=130 (21%)
AutoGain=off
Gamma=off
HighSpeed=on
Histogram=78%
Limit=60 Seconds
Sensor temperature=31.8°C
Focuser position=0
This was another tough imaging session, with the planets playing hide and seek with endless bands of cloud, rain showers and a biting wind. Thankfully we had some brief gaps to get more photos of this awesome event!
Taken by Mary and Mark McIntyre from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor and ASI120MC on a Star Adventurer Mini. We shot as many 1,000 frame videos as we could during the gaps. The videos used to create this image were taken at 17:36 and 17:45.
All the processing on this was done by me, Mark has processed them himself as well and is posting on his own Flickr page too.
The videos were stacked using Autostakkert! 3; the first one was 50% of 1,000 frames, the second was 65% of 1,000 frames. The stacked images were then processed using Lightroom. I did a parallel process on the 17:36 video, one to brighten Saturn and the other to turn the brightness down on Jupiter to preserve the detail. The video at 17:45 had a higher exposure setting to bring out the Galilean Moons. This final image is a blend of those three different exposures to create an image with a larger dynamic range.
Given the weather forecast for tomorrow when they're even closer, I'm so pleased we were able to capture this today. This is not a big telescope so it's mind blowing that we were able to pick up so much!
one day shy of a full moon, x150 photos stacked with AutoStakkert!3, wavelet sharpened with Registax6 and post processed with DxO PhotoLab4
Canon EOS R5
Canon EF600mm f/4 III
(1/800, f/5.6, ISO100)
One of the more prominent impact craters on the Moon, Copernicus is a younger feature. It is estimated to be from an impact about one billion years ago. The crater is 93 km in diameter and reaches depths of 3.7 km. The Sun is shining on it low in the east during this imaging session.
Taken during my Astronomy Lab on 2021-09-16
ZWO ASI120MM camera with a red Optolong filter on a Celestron Edge HD 925
Best 250 of 600 frames; stacked in AutoStakkert
Processing in PixInsight and Photoshop
Waxing gibbous Moon phase at 89,3%. August 2020
Processed with PIPP and stacked with AutoStakkert. It has finally been finished off with Adobe Photoshop CC.
Luna en cuarto creciente al 89,3%. Agosto 2020
Procesada con PIPP y apilada con AutoStakkert. Finalmente se ha rematado con Adobe Photoshop CC.
SONY A7III with 2X TELECONVERTER (SEL20TC) + Sony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G)
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Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED
ZWO EFW
Baader LRGB filter set
Barlow 3x
ZWO ASI174MM
oaCapture 1.8.0 (recording)
AutoStakkert! 3 (stacking)
ImPPG (sharpening)
Hugin (assembling 6 panel panoramas for all 4 channels)
PIPP (pre-alignment)
PlanetarySystemLRGBAligner (aligning R, G and B panoramas to L panorama)
ImageMagick (assembling RGB)
RawTherapee (post-processing RGB)
GIMP (assembling LRGB)
RawTherapee (post-processing LRGB)
questo è uno stack di 60 frames scattati in raw con una EOS M al fuoco diretto di un GSO RC6.
Sto cercando di capire se era meglio fare un video o degli scatti con una dslr, e intanto vi mostro :)
Per lo stack: Autostakkert2
Saturn, taken at 3:15 am this morning from the summit of Haleakala. Conditions were good but there was still a fair amount of star twinkle.
Shot three two-minute 12-bit movies using a monochrome ASI120MM camera through red, green and blue filters on an 11” Celestron Edge HD telescope. Stacked the 30% best frames using AutoStakkert! Wavelet sharpening using Registax. Increased size using Photoshop. De-rotated and color channels blended using WinJUPOS.
There are several groups of sunspots visible in this picture. They are cataloged with letters AR (Active Region) followed by a number. If a sunspot should make it all the way around during the Sun's 26 day cycle for one rotation, the sunspot number will change.
Looking from left to center and down: AR2941, AR2940, AR2930
More difficult to see at the very far right edge just north of center is AR2936 and AR2938
Telescope: Astro Physics 5" f8 refractor
Filters: Zeiss White Light Solar Filter, B+W 48E 106 64X, B+W 48 102 ND 0.6 - 2 BL 4x MRC
Focal Reducer: 0.5
Camera: ZWO I178MM
20 stack
Software: AutoStakkert, Lightroom Classic, PhotoShop
Location: Elkridge, Maryland USA
Optics : TEC 140 APO (980 mm F 7.0)
Filter : Baader Planetarium D-ERF 160 mm
Filter H alfa : Daystar Quark Cromosphere
Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier;
Camera : ZWO ASI 174 MM;
Focal lenght : 4116 mm.
Software : FireCapture, AutoStakkert3, Adobe Photoshop
Sun Active region : NOAA 12975 (center), NOAA 12976 (left)
Casalecchio di Reno - Italia
44° 29’ 29” N
11° 14’ 58” E
Black and white image processed with Photoshop starting from the raw image obtained with the Autostakkert software from the movie (.ser file, 16 bit) taken with ZWO ASI 174 MM camera and with FireCapture software
The following Photoshop tools were used in sequence:
1) Duplication of the background
2) Applications of the "High Pass" filter, with radius = 3.0 mm
3) Application of the "Blending Method = Overlay" to the layer with 65% fill
4) Unification of the two levels
5) Creation and adjustment of a new "Brightness / Contrast" level
6) Creating and adjusting a new "Tonal Values" layer
7) Creating and adjusting a new "Curve" layer
8) Application of an Advanced Filter
9) Application of the Photoshop Plug-in "APF-R"
10) Final application of the "Camera Raw Filter - Sharpness".
This wide view of our Moon’s landscape spans the region from 37° North to the lunar North Pole. It is full of visually and geologically interesting features. Let’s take a tour…
Let’s start with the crater at lower right, with the distinct outer rampart, the lava-filled crater floor, and two craters entirely enclosed within the crater floor. This is Cassini crater. The larger of the two craters inside the main basin is Cassini A. Notice that the Cassini A crater has a heart shape in this lighting (Andrew Planck describes it as a tear drop). Also note the relatively bright patch in the mountains above Cassini. This is a feature known as Cassini K. A meteor impact here dug a 3.47 km wide crater here (not resolved in this photo), and the light material is likely the subsurface material excavated and ejected by the impact. It must be relatively recent, as it has not had time to be weathered and darkened by long exposure to solar radiation.
The arc of mountains above Cassini are the Montes Alpes. These mountains are part of the outer basin ring surrounding Mare Imbrium, the vast lava plain filling the lower center and left of this photo. The mountains disappear in the darkness at the lunar terminator, just beyond the large circular walled plain of Plato crater. A keen eye might detect three or four craterlets in Plato’s interior. Less acuity is needed to detect the meandering crack extending from Plato’s eastern rim, Rimae Plato, running eastward and northward into a second lava sea known as Mare Frigoris which marks the outer limits of the Montes Alpes. To the east of Plato Crater a broad slash can be seen cutting through the Montes Alpes. This is the Alpine Valley, a graben feature, or “stretch mark” in the Moon’s crust, a place where the Moon’s surface stretched apart, and the ground surface fell into the resultant gap. Another close look reveals another thin crack running the length of the Alpine Valley. Detecting this crack and the craterlets in Plato are the two of the aspects of this photo which please me. Not that they are great achievements in imaging, but they are like trophies for me.
To the left of Cassini Crater a lonely mountain rises 2.3 kilometers above the floor of Mare Imbrium. This is Mons Piton. It may be part of a mostly buried inner ring of mountains surrounding the Imbrium Basin. Other isolated peaks and the larger mountain complexes below Plato (the Montes Teneriffe) also seem to be part of this inner ring. Below Mons Piton, near the bottom of the image right of center is an oddly shaped hill. Once, this feature was called Piton Gamma (not very interesting, that), but the name was dropped from the official lunar nomenclature in 1973 and now the feature is officially nameless. Recently the lunar and astrophotographer Robert Reeves has championed the unofficial designation “Thor’s Hammer”. Even the quickest of looks will convince a viewer of the aptness of this name.
Returning to the North, consider Mare Frigoris. This long, narrow lunar sea spans most of the northern portion of the visible face of the Moon. That makes it sort of an oddball among the great lunar seas. The others appear roughly circular and fill basins on the Moon. Current thought regards Mare Frigoris as a relic of a great fissuring episode in the history of the Moon’s nearside crust. Staggering volumes of lava flowed from these rifts covering much of the nearside face of the Moon, creating not only Mare Frigoris, but also the vast Oceanus Procellarum.
North of Mare Frigoris, above Plato crater, is an irregular ring of hills. Its western extent touches the lunar terminator. It encloses a jumbled and block-strewn basin that is barely distinguishable among the myriad craters of the lunar north. As an Alabamian, this crater stands out to me for its name: this is Birmingham. East of Birmingham a larger diamond-shaped plain is seen. This is W. Bond crater. The crater sitting astride its southwestern face is Timaeus, and the smaller crater within the eastern point of the diamond is W.Bond B. Crossing the center of the diamond roughly horizontally is a hairline crack marking an officially unnamed rille, otherwise widely known as Rima W.Bond. Imaging this is another of the small personal “woo-hoo!”s of this photograph.
Above W. Bond lies a mid-sized walled-plain crater known as Barrow crater. Barrow Crater abuts on its northeastern side the larger multi-lobed lava plain called Meton (it always resembles a clover to me). On its northwestern side Barrow touches another large lava plain called Goldschmidt. Note the impressive shadows cast by the higher portions of Goldschmidt’s eastern rim. Goldschmidt’s western rim has been destroyed by a younger crater; this one has a well-defined rampart on its eastern side which intrudes onto Goldschmidt’s basin, and its high western rampart peaks brightly reflect the light of the rising sun. This is Anaxagoras crater, one of the most recent generation of lunar craters. It retains a system of bright rays. These rays are best seen when the Sun strikes the Moon more directly, but they are evident in this photo as the lighter streaks of material sprayed across Meton, Barrow and W. Bond craters.
Lastly, we skip to the top of the Moon, to the point where the illuminated limb of the Moon meets the lunar terminator. Here lunar features are very difficult to sort out due to extreme foreshortening effects. Broad round craters are visible only as thin ovals. The very topmost trace of illuminated ridges seen here are actually high points of features from the far side of the Moon. They are seen because the Moon, on day this photo was taken, was leaning with its North Pole slightly towards the Earth. In that uppermost corner of the Moon, one of those long thin ellipses can be seen emerging from the dark beyond the terminator and extending eastward, its northernmost rim illuminated just inside those high points from the other side. This ellipse is the crater Peary. Its interior is almost constantly hidden from the light of the Sun. Over its northernmost rim, just below the point where the Moon’s northern limb touches the lunar terminator, lies the Moon’s North Pole. It is amidst the perpetually gloomy voids carved into this polar region, like similar regions at the Moon’s South Pole, that humankind dreams of establishing a permanent base. NASA, like the space programs of other countries, has begun recruiting the class of astronauts that will be tasked with this remarkable feat of exploration. Within our lifetimes. Within this decade.
Celestron EdgeHD 8 telescope, ZWO ASI290MM monochrome camera, Celestron Advanced VX mount.
Pre-processing of 1133 frame .ser file with PIPP. Best 25% of those video frames stacked with AutoStakkert 3, wavelets processing with Registax 6, and final processing in Photoshop CC 2020.
Image taken February 2, 2020.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 and a Canon 600D. 4 image stack in Autostakkert. Having colour problems when using PIPP to convert RAW images to tiffs. No issues at all when using PIPP to convert jpg's. These colour artifacts only appear during wavelet sharpening after stacking, as a result the above image is only a 4 image stack but still some red artifacts, any more than 4 I get green artifacts. JPG's are so much more reliable and faster to process and are just as detailed. Reverting back to jpg for now. NOTE :--- Later on tried converting all the RAW images to 16bit tiffs before processing with PIPP to center and crop and the colour issue disappeared but the resulting image was no better than taking jpg's straight from the camera in the first place and much less processing time too :-)
Saturn
This is the first planetary record I've done this year. The seeing was not favorable in the region where I live (unfortunately), but the training is worth it. In 2021, the closest approximation between Saturn and Earth will take place in August.
Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 reflector with Onstep, ASI 290MC, Barlow Tele Vue 3x, UV/IR Cut Filter. FireCapture, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, AstroSurface, WinJUPOS and Fitswork.
@LopesCosmos
ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25" (RGB)
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
7 RGB runs (60s and 21,000 frames per filter) in FireCapture
Preprocessing in PIPP
Best 40% of frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpening in Registax
Finnishing in Photoshop
Saturn
This is the first planetary record I've done this year. The seeing was not favorable in the region where I live (unfortunately), but the training is worth it. In 2021, the closest approximation between Saturn and Earth will take place in August.
Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 reflector with Onstep, ASI 290MC, Barlow Tele Vue 3x, UV/IR Cut Filter. FireCapture, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, AstroSurface, WinJUPOS and Fitswork.
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Very active and feature-rich Sun @07:52am MSK, 13.05.2015.
TIS DMK23U via 2x Barlow lens on Coronado PST.
Mosaic of 9 panels, 18% of 800 frames per panel.
Deconvolution, wavelets and hi-pass filtering.
Mars.
Mars was at its closest position to Earth tonight. This image took me HOURS to prepare for, including several test nights earlier this week, collimation of my scope's optics and learning new software processes. Quite happy with this result, some lovely surface detail here!
Celestron C8 OTA
Celestron CGEM mount
ZWO ASI183MC camera
Celestron 2x barlow
3000 combined frames, captured at 130 frames per second. Processed in PIPP, Auto Stakkert, Registax and Lightroom.
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