Taken at 23:48 GMT on 5th November 2017 from North Oxfordshire, UK. 95% Waning Gibbous Moon, shot with an 8" Ritchie-Chretien telescope and Canon 1100D on an EQ6 mount. Dreadful seeing conditions

2 pane mosaic.

Both images shot using Backyard EOS, 1,000 frame video shot, and the best 44% and 31% of the frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3 (Beta), stitched using Microsoft ICE and processed in Lightroom, Fast Stone Image Viewer and Focus Magic.

From top right along the terminator, the large craters are Langrenus (with central peak), Vendelinus & Petavius (also with central peak)

TS65Q (F=420mm)

ZWO-ASI120MC-S

AutoStakkert

PixInsight

First attempt at colorizing the photo

Camera: PointGrey Grasshopper 3 Sony IMX174

Instrument: Megrez 90mm F/6.9 & Teleview Powermate 4x

Capture software: FireCapture

1ms exposure, 12bit, saved as SER raw movie.

Stacking software: AutoStakkert

Best 10% of ~6k frames

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK in very challenging conditions.

I used a Coronado PST solar scope.

Full disc: Imaged with a Canon 1100D and 2x Barlow. Best 50% of 180 images stacked

Close ups:

Taken with an ASI120MM camera

Looping prominence 56% of 3000 frames stacked, the smaller prominence was 75% of of 3000 frames stacked

All stacking was done in Autostakkert! 2, images duplicated and then one set tweaked to bring out surface features, the other to bring out the prominences using Lightroom. Then a layer mask was used in Photoshop CS2 to combine the layers

From 3 images

Stacked with Autostakkert

Processed with Darktable

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK just before 2am on the morning of 25th March

8" Ritchie Chretien telescope and Canon 1100D.

2000 frame video shot using Backyard EOS at x10 magnification

Best 25% of the frames stacked using Autostakkert! 3 Beta version, then wavelets adjusted in Registax 6. Image then tweaked using Lightroom, Photoshop CS2 and Fast Stone Image Viewer

Sony A1 with 600mm f/4 GM and 2xTC. Mounted on a ball-head because the gimbal won't let the rig point that high in the sky!

From a 2 minute 4k video; XAVC-I 4k60p video, converted to AVI with Premiere Pro (with 60% cropping and tracking to allow for the motion of the planet). Then converted again to AVI using PiPP, and imported into AutoStakkert. 1350 frames stacked. Resulting TIF file re-imported to LightRoom and processed with Topaz Sharpen.

Camera in APS-C mode, with 1.5x Zoom. No tracking, which is what limited the length of the video.

The waxing crescent Moon from Austin, Texas Taken 2019-01-10 01:13 UT with a Questar 1350/89 mm telescope and Sony a6300 at prime focus. A thee exposure HDR composite:

Crescent Moon - best 8 of 110 images exposed for 1/10 sec at ISO 100 stacked in AutoStakkert!

Earthshine - 10 images exposed for 10 sec at ISO 400 stacked in Nebulosity

Sky and Tree - single image exposed for 30 sec at ISO 6400

Images HDR stacked and edited in Photoshop

One of the benefit of working at Telescope House is I got to borrow a display/demo 4x TeleVue powermate.

I don't image the moon as a rule but I got fed up waiting for truly dark sky's when I can get back to some deep sky stuff.

This was going to be an RGB image but as this was taken at low altitude the blue and green data was badly affected by the atmosphere, therefore I only used the red data to create a mono image as this is less affected by scattering due to its longer wave length.

If I try this again I'll try using a 2x barlow, 2x binning and reduce the file size or I might just leave this to the experts😀

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EQUIPMENT:-

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Telescope Meade 6000 115mm and AZ-EQ6 GT

TeleVue 4x Powermate

ZWO ASI1600mm-Cool cmos camera

ZWO Red Filter

No Cooling

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IMAGING DETAILS:-

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Moon

8 Days Old

67% illumination

16m pixel image

Gain 139

15 of 50 frames (red only)

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PROCESSING/GUIDING SOFTWARE:-

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AutoStakkert

PS CS2

Taken from Oxfordshire UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor with 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro mount on a fixed pier.

209 images shot in RAW, converted into TIFFs then the best 66% of them was stacked using Autostakkert! 2, processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone, and wavelets sharpened in Registax 6.

Cropped from original full disc image

Moon: 52.8%

First Quarter

11.11.2021

🔭 Celestron CPC 800

ZWO ASI294MC Pro

Focal Reducer F 6.3

Stacked using

Autostakkert

Registax

Photoshop

"Janssen Crater Slips into Night"

Last night offered pretty good seeing, allowing me to practice photographing details of the lunar landscape. Here, the old, complex lunar crater Janssen straddles the day/night terminator. The extreme low angle lighting creates a lot of drama and casts the unusual topography of the crater into high relief.

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

106_1270-4 MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert.

Best 5% frames of RAW movies of 2500 frames each

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Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT

Camera : PointGrey Grasshopper GS3-U3-23S6M

Tube : Astro-Physics 130 EDF F/6 with 4x barlow (Televue Powermate)

Effective focal length : 3120 mm

Effective aperture : ~ F/24

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Acquired with FireCapture

Stacked with AutoStakkert

Mosaic done with Microsoft ICE

Processed with Lightroom

The yesterday's "whiskers" are gone. The Sun is sleeping :)

Acqusition time: 27.07.2016 09:30 MSK

TIS DMK 23U274 on Coronado PST via 2x Barlow lens.

9 panels 960x960 pixels 150 frames of 800 frames each stitched in MS ICE, deconvolved AstraImage 3.0 PRO (Richardson-Lucy aggressive, Cauchy-type, 0,3 pixels, 12 iterations). Contrast enchancement and masking-blending in PS.

104_6474-6 4K MP4s centred, cropped and stacked with PIPP and AutoStakkert. Moons brightened and planet contrast increased with PhotoShop.

Celestron C90, ASI290MC, Baader UV/IR cut, SA2i.

Best 15% of 5k frames, PIPP/Autostakkert/Registax/GIMP.

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK on 26th October 2018 during a 94% Waning Gibbous Moon. Shot with a 10" Dobsonian telescope and 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D. 2,000 frame video shot with Backyard EOS at 5x magnification. All frames above 50% quality on the analysis graph were stacked using Autostakkert! 2, wavelets sharpened in Registax 6, then processed in Lightroom & Fast Stone Image Viewer

Explore Scientific AR152 refractor @125mm aperture, with Baader x2.25 Barlow and ZWO 120MM-S (f17.8 0.35"/pixel) on EQ6. Baader OD 3.8 solarfilm, solar continuum + UV/IR cut filters. 250 of 2500 frames captured in SharpCap, processed in AutoStakkert.

C90 mak-cas telescope mounted on iOptron Skyguider Pro. 10mm EP with 15mm t-extension. F/83, effective focal length 7500mm.

1/60s f/83 8000 ISO

Converted from three 45s MP4s to one AVI with PIPP then stacked the best 10% with AutoStakkert before brightening the moons and adding text with PhotoShop.

From Copernicus Eratosthenes crater is towards north-east , Reinhold is to the south-southwest (the darker/deeper one) and Reinhold B atop of Reinhold.

This shot was take on the 2014.06.07

I gave a go for new processing method with Autostakkert 2, result is promising :)

The crater Piccolomini photographed on April 2, 2017 – The crater is named after 16th century Italian Archbishop and astronomer Alessandro Piccolomini. It is 88 kilometers in diameter and 4,500 meters deep. The main peak rises to a height of 2.0 kilometers above the surrounding floor.

Tech Specs: ZWO ASI290MC camera and Meade 12” LX90 telescope mounted on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount. Software used included Sharpcap v2.9 and AutoStakkert! Alpha Version 2.3.0.21. 10k frames, stacked the best 500. Photographed on April 2, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.

Captured on November 9th, 2020 in Kaunas, Lithuania using Canon EOS R and Skywatcher Explorer 150PDS with Meade 3X Barlow. I've captured 1 minute videos for each planet, selected 20% of clearest frames from the clearest videos and stacked using AutoStakkert and processed in Registax.

Best 50% of 3,000 frames in Autostakkert.

Wavelets - Registax 6

Photoshop CC 2015 for final touches.

Good transparency, Average Seeing, Pickering Scale = 5.

Celestron CPC800XLT

ASI120MC-S Camera

Shorty 2X Barlow

Telescope: Celestron 8SE

Camera: Celestron Skyris 132C with Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate

Image source: 8000 frame AVI video (5% frames used): processed with PiPP, Autostakkert, Registax, and PS.

Date: 07/4/2023

Venus angular diameter is 35.63 arcseconds and is 28.9% illuminated.

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.

First good Jovian moon capture for me! Pretty good seeing conditions tonight allowed for a great view of the cloud bands and Great Red Spot, as well as the moons of Io (top) and Europa (bottom). Not sure what the dark patch is at top left of the planet, maybe a processing/stacking error.

Two minutes of video captured at 45 frames per second, using a ZWO ASI120MC camera with 2x barlow, Celestron C8 scope and CGEM mount.

Captured in FireCapture.

Stacked in AutoStakkert, processed in Registax and LightRoom.

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.

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Sol Región Activa 12863

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 0.6, T=25%)

- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (double stacked) (540nm)

Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism

- TeleVue Lente de Barlow 2,5x Powermate 1,25"

Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop

Fecha: 2021-09-03 (3 de septiembre de 2021)

Hora: 14:10 T.U. (Tiempo universal)

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 3 minuto

Resolución: 1552x1042

Gain: 61 (11%)

Exposure: 0.032ms

Frames: 10830

Frames apilados: 12%

FPS: 60

Sensor temperature= 41.2°C

ZWO ASI178MC

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)

Losmandy G11

2000 frames captured in Firecapture

Best 60% stacked in Autostakkert

Wavelet sharpened in Registax

Finished in Photoshop

2021 - January 1st

Nikon z7 Tamron G2 150-600 Tcx20 1200mm f13 250iso 1/125s. Best 15% of 600 frames. Processed with Autostakkert and Darktable on Linux.

As I was wrapping up imaging on the morning of 2019-06-29, there was a low hanging waning crescent moon in the east. Is it possible to image the moon with a HyperStar and an Atik 314L+ camera through a Celestron Edge HD 925? When I had tried with the moon closer to full, I could not get the exposure short enough. A waning crescent reflects a lot less light toward the Earth. Will it work now?

The sunlit portion is a stack of 2 ms exposures, while the Earthlit portion is a stack of 1.6 s exposures. Each stack was saved as an AVI that was processed in AutoStakkert. Final compositing and processing in PS CS 5.1.

I think I actually like the individual components better, but it's always fun to try this and see how it comes out. I think lots of intermediate length exposures would be needed for a smooth transition.

This image is about comparing Photoshop processing (my customary tool) of planetary data to PixInsight processing. This image, processed in PixInsight, is rendered from the same data as the Jupiter image processed in Photoshop and posted on 2022-09-02.

My impression of this image is that it is interesting, but not as sharp as the Photoshop-processed image. I will experiment with the order of processing to see if a better result can be optained.

After registration and stacking in Autostakkert and de-rotation in WINJUPOS, all follow on processing to this image was in PixInsight instead of Photoshop. In particular, Before any sharpening, I separately de-rotated all images for each color channel, and did a de-rotation of R/G/B Frames.

PixInsight processes used:

ChannelExtraction to pull out separate RGB channel images

LinearFit to normalize channel levels

ColorCombination to reassemble into a single RGB image

UnsharpMask for sharpening

CurvesTransformation for RGB, saturation and CIE c* component stretches

Here is a widefield view of Mare Crisium and the bright crater Proclus – check out those distinctive impact rays.

Tech Specs: ZWO ASI290MC camera and Meade 12” LX90 telescope mounted on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount – an Antares Focal Reducer was used for the wide view. Software used included Sharpcap v2.9, AutoStakkert! Alpha Version 2.3.0.21, and ImagesPlus v5.75a. Best 2500 frames out of 10000 frames captured. Photographed on March 8, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.

500 frames. Taken with a ZWO ASI120MC camera, Celestron C8 telescope and Celestron CGEM mount.

Captured in SharpCap, processed in AutoStakkert and Lightroom.

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor with ASI120MM camera on an EQ5 Pro tracking mount on a permanent pier. Best 40% of a 2,000 frame video stacked in Autostakkert! 3 then processed in Fast Stone Image Viewer

Nébuleuse planétaire de la Lyre, répertorié M57 dans le catalogue Messier.

Newton 400 et caméra Zwo ASI224MC. Empilement Autostakkert3 et finitions photoshop.

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

Caught this one this morning. 7000 frames for LUM and 3000 frames each for R,G & B for a total 16,000 frames. Processed using Autostakkert and Registax 6 with derotation using Winjupos. Captured using Firecapture and a ASI120MM camera. Astronomik type Iic RGB filters and a Celestron 11 inch SCT.

My first GRS of the season. The seeing was not good, very wobbly but clear enough to get good visibility of the features in order to obtain good focus.

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor and ASI120MC camera + Powermate 5x Barlow.

Best 50% of a 2,000 frame video, stacked using Autostakkert! 3.

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

Quark image of today's happening on the Sun featuring two sunspot groups - ARs 2573 and 2576 - and a complex and large prom/filament.

Acqusition time: 09.08.2016 around 09:20 MSK

TIS DMK 23U274 via Daystar Quark on Meade series 6000 80 mm ED triplet

6 panels, 145 out of 1000 frames per panel were stacked in AS!2, stitched in MS ICE, deconvolved AstraImage 3.0 PRO (Richardson-Lucy aggressive, Cauchy-type, 0,3 pixels, 10 iterations). Contrast enchancement masking-blending, aggressive coloration and composing were done in PS.

Last night’s first quarter moon from the observatory

Tech Specs: Orion 8” RC Telescope, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at -10F, best 20% of 1000 images, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in AutoStakkert and Registax. Image Date: April 15, 2024. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: Celestron 127/1500 Maksutov-Cassegrain

Camere di acquisizione: SVBONY SV305

Montature: Celestron SLT

Software: DeepSkyStacker · AutoStakkert! · photoshop

Accessorio: 2.5x barlow

Data:14 Novembre 2020

Ora: 23:04

Pose: 2862

FPS: 30,00000

Lunghezza focale: 3750

Seeing: 4

Trasparenza: 8

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK around 10:30pm GMT

Equipment:

8" Ritchie-Cretien telescope with 0.75 focal reducer and Canon 1100D

ISO-800 1/800 second exposure

Processing:

Best 49% of 169 frames stacked using Autostakkert! 2, then processed in Adobe Lightroom, Focus Magic and Faststone Image Viewer

Shot through thick haze

This lunar image is a composite of 10 frames taken with a DSLR and telescope, stacked, combined, and sharpened using AutoStakkert 3.1.4 and Adobe PhotoShop.

Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 110mm f/7

Reducer: Astro-Tech 0.8x

Camera: Modified Canon 450D (XSi)

Mount: Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO

Composited Frames: 10

Post-Processing Software: AutoStakkert 3.1.4, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom

Maurolycus crater is 70.8 miles (114km) in diameter and 2.9 miles (4.7km) deep. It is one of the more prominent lunar craters in the southern highland region that is shows multiple overlapping crater impacts. Just to the southeast is a pair of overlapping craters, that appears to me at first glance as a giant footprint, are Barocius and Barocius B (the heel).

The outer walls of Maurolycus are tall, wide, and terraced, most notably in the eastern part. To the southeast the rim is lower and the crater is joined to what has the appearance of an overlain crater rim. Craters Maurolycus F and Maurolycus B lie across the northwest rim. The northwestern part of the crater floor is more rugged than the remainder. The other sections of the floor are relatively level, with a complex of central peaks and a pair of craterlets. The small crater Maurolycus A sets right on the southern part of the rim.

Image is the best 25% of 3000 frames processed with Autostakkert, followed by Registax 6 and Photoshop CC 2015.

Telescope=Celestron CPC800 XLT GPS

Camera=ASI120MC-S

Shorty 2X Barlow

106_2038-40 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert

Yesterdays solar prominence continues to put on a wonderful show. Here is a view from earlier this afternoon from Pennsylvania. The inset Earth image is for a "rough" comparison of size.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED, ZWO ASI290MC, Daystar Quark Chromosphere + Daystar 2" UV/IR filter, SharpCap Pro v3.0, best 15% of 500 frames, AutoStakkert, Registax. Image date: 30 July 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA, USA.