Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: Bresser Messier AR 102/1000

Camere di acquisizione: SVBONY SV305

Montature: Celestron SLT

Software: ASTROSURFACE · PIPP x64 2.5.9 · AutoStakkert! · photoshop

Accessorio: astrosolar

Data:01 Dicembre 2020

Ora: 11:57

Pose: 300

FPS: 20,00000

Lunghezza focale: 1000

Seeing: 3

Trasparenza: 8

Moon 62% illuminated taken on 04/04/17 using my 8" SCT and ZWO camera. This is made up from nine video's of 2000 frames each totaling over 100Gb of data, the best 10% were stacked in Autostakkert!2 then sharpened in Registax 6 followed by the usual yweaking in PhotoShop.

Saturn without a telescope...Processed 37 seconds 4K video,

Processed using PIPP, AutoStakkert!, Registax wavelet processing(3x Drizzled)

Tracked using iOptron Skyguider pro mount

Nikon Coolpix P1000 at 3000mm

Cassini Division is also visible

6D + ETX125. 100 frames stacked, processed in PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax & Faststone. 1/500th sec, ISO 800.

Here is a view of last nights waxing gibbous moon, 63% illuminated, from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.

Tech Specs: Canon 6D, Meade 12” LX90 telescope, Backyard EOS for video capture, best 500 frames of 2000 frames captured using AutoStakkert! V3.0.14 (x64), final post processing in Corel Paintshop Pro. Location: Weatherly, Pennsylvania. Date: July 31, 2017.

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor and ASI120MC camera + Celestron 3x Barlow.

Best 50% of a 2,000 frame video, stacked using Autostakkert! 3.I shot two separate videos, one exposed to pick up the Moons and one for Jupiter. I then layered them together into one image using Photoshop. From left to right the Moons are Callisto, Europa, Io and Ganymede is on the right side of Jupiter.

ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25"

TeleVue NP101is/2.5x PowerMate

Losmandy G11

10 RGB runs captured in Firecapture (30s and 2900 frames/filter)

Best 60% stacked in Autostakkert

Wavlet sharpened in Registax

De-rotated in WINJUPOS

Finished in Photoshotp

Moon of November 27, 2022.

Equipment used: Lumix s5 with sigma 150-600 lens and 2x teleconverter.

About 500 images from a video in 4K apsc format stored on PIPP, Autostakkert and Registax

For CaK image,SW 72ED apo reduced to 40mm with Lunt CaK B1200 module and QHY5III 178M.

For Ha image same scope and camera with Coronado Solarmax 40/BF10 filter set.

SER files stacked in Autostakkert 3 and processed in Astrosurface and PS CS2 adding false colour.

Taken on the evening of April 20, 2018 using a Celestron C90 telescope (90mm aperture, f/13) and an uncooled QHY5III-178C camera. Best 20% of 2000 frames, 4-frame mosaic using AutoStakkert!, Registax, and Photoshop CC2017. Image capture done with SharpCap.

Here is a link to the full-size image (on Flickr, 2236 x 3714 pixels)

www.flickr.com/photos/latent0image/41561951152/sizes/o/

Some rights reserved. The use of this image for any form of remuneration or profit is prohibited.

Image captured with a Stellarvue SVX90T and Player One Uranus C video camera. Autostakkert and Registax used for processing.

Best 66% 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

Equipment

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses

Celestron EdgeHD 8"

Imaging Cameras

Point Grey Grasshopper3 GS3-U3-23S6M-C

Mounts

Meade LX70

Filters

Meade Red 1.25"

Software

Adobe Photoshop · Emil Kraaikamp AutoStakkert!

Acquisition details

Date: April 30, 2023

Frames: 400

FPS: 8

Resolution: 3328x2511

File size: 8.9 MB

Data source: Backyard

Today I was out between 12 noon and 13:00 BST capturing videos. I was shooting through thin cloud so conditions weren't the best, but I got this nice prominence on the NE limb. I shot a few videos with my Celestron 3x Barlow on the camera and after my initial processing I didn't think I would get anything worthwhile from the data, but I've just reprocessed the video of this prominence to see if I could make it better. There is a bit more detail visible than the previous image I shared that was taken with the 2x Barlow.

Taken with a Coronado PST and ASI120MC camera fitted with a 3x Barlow on an EQ5 Pro mount tracking at solar speed.

This image is the best 50% of a 2,000 frame video. Stacked in Autostakkert! 3, colour removed and processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone then false colour added back in using Photoshop CS2 (I've recorded my own action for this to try to get a bit of consistency)

A collage utilizing both H-alpha and CaK imaging of our Sun. Subframe positions is "artistic" and does not represent correct orientation compared to Sun - all images are however taken by me excluding the Apollo era (free) picture of Earth showing approximate scale. Pictures taken in southern Finland during summers of 2016 and 2017 as I haven't had time to image at all lately.

See www.flickr.com/photos/130947324@N08/46483974944/ for labels.

Recorded with BW ASI178mm camera, colors added in post production. H-alpha images colored to red and yellow and they are partially inverted to pop out surface details, protuberances and filaments. CaK is colored to blue to mimic imaging bandwidth for CaK.

H-alpha: 656.28 nm (deep red in reality) hydrogen line. Tunable wavelength. Exposure times around 2 ms.

CaK: About 8 nm wide bandpass at the Calcium II K-Line centered around 395 nm (ultraviolet). Exposure time of about 0.8 ms.

Prefilter: Baader D-ERF (with H-alpha), Baader AstroSolar film (with CaK)

Scope: TS Express 80/480 mm FPL53 APO

Filter: Daystar Quark or Baader CaK

Camera: ASI 178mm with 0.5x reducer

DIY Arduino based focuser motor control

Mount: Celestron AVX (equatorial mount), StarAdventurer

Software: FireCapture, SharpCap, Autostakkert!, ImPPG and Photoshop CC.

Typically stacked a best few percents of 5000 images to create each of the separate photos. Full disk H-alpha sun is a composite of several sub images. I roughly estimated that I collected about 180 000 frames and 775 GB of uncompressed AVI video as raw material. Final stacked image number should be close to 4000 in that composite.

Stack of ~1000 frames taken with iPhone 6 through Celestron NexStar 8SE telescope. Stacked & processed in PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax, Nebulosity, Gimp and Snapseed.

Post opposition, 12-07-2019

OTA: SW Mak-Cass 127 @ f12.7, 1500mm fl

Imaging: AS120MM-S, unguided

Mount: Az-GTi (Alt-Az mode)

Filters: Optolong LRGB

Sequencing & Capture: ASICAP

9,568/11,960 frames, 66 Gain, 0.2ms

PP: Autostakkert 2.0, Fitswork, PixInsight, GIMP 2.0

Planetary Workflow Routine:

Data Processing 1 - Autostakkert 2.0

1. Analyse & Drizzle Capture Data

2. Stack % frames according to quality graph analysis

3. Normalisation @ 30%, Sharpen @ 50%

4. Drizzle set to 3.0

5. Alignment Point - Manually acquire 15-20+ APs by manipulating AP size

6. Export extension .TIFF

7. Run through sequence 1-6 for all color channels

Data Processing 2, Channel Combination - FitsWork

1. L+RGB Image Combination, Autoscale

2. Export extension .TIFF/PNG

Image Enhancement - PixInsight

1. Dynamic Background Extractor

2. Color Calibration

3. Curves Transformation

Notes:

1. A 210s total sequencing time to prevent/reduce hints of planetary rotation and hence correction (TBC).

Taken from Oxfordshire with an 8" Ritchie-Chretien telescope with focal reducer and Canon 1100D. ISO-800 1/1600 sec. 170 images shot in RAW, converted into TIFFs. The best 69% were stacked using Autostakkert!2 then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer

Crop of original full disk image

My 1st sunspot image using C9.25 Edge. Full aperture baader.

ZWO ASI290MM

C9.25 (F=2350mm)

AutoStakkert

PixInsight

Bad seeing (2/5)

A picture I took of our neighbour planet, the Gas Giant Jupiter and 4 of its largest moons. :)

Gear used:

- Skywatcher Skymax 102 MAK

- Star Adventurer Pro

- ASI 120MC-s

- MSI gaming laptop (capturing)

Software used:

- Firecapture

- PIPP

- Autostakkert!3

- Registax 6

Jupiter 28th August 2021(23:13 UT). Io and its shadow in transit. best 8,000 frames, merged with Winjupos. Captured using Firecapture V2.5.

Processed using Autostakkert V3.1.4 ,Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera and Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow.

Reprocessed July 2022.

Jupiter reached opposition on August 19-20 so we imaged the planet on 23rd August close to the moment when it is at its biggest and brightest to us. Two of Jupiter's moons are visible in this shot, Io (closest to the planet) and Europa. We took numerous shots with different settings but this is the first of the batch to be processed.

Captured with SharpCap

Processed in PIPP and AutoStakkert

Post-processed in Photoshop

Image made from 2003 video frames

Gain - 50%

Exposure - 0.014258 seconds

Equipment:

Telescope: Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS

Mount: Skywatcher EQ5

Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI120 MC

x2 Barlow with extension tube (equivalent to x3.3)

This is an image I found while cleaning my computer. Taken Feb 18th 2014 with the C11. LRGB image. I captured 20.000 frames for the LUM and 5000 on each of the color filters R,G and B. Focal length aprox. 7200 mm. Processing done using Autostakkert, Registax for wavelets and Phtoshop Elements. De rotation of the LRGB images with Winjupos

Celestron C5+

ZWO ASI120MM-Mini

Panorama de 14 cuadros, cada uno:

Frames: 500, efectivos: 50

F:10

Df: 1250 mm.

Captura: Firecapture

Procesado: Autostakkert + I.C.E. + Registax 6 + Pixinsight 1.8

Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda

Observatorio Astronómico Altaïr

Poncitlán Jalisco México

jupiter du 18/05 entre 23h48 et 23h58.

traitement de 3 SER avec autostakkert3 puis registax6. Et dérotation avec winjupos.

finitions cosmétiques avec photoshop.

acquisition faite avec newton 400mm et caméra Zwo ASI224MC + barlow televue powermate 2,5x.

This is a 2-panel mosaic that was from my 2nd outing with new mono camera. Captured Friday evening during the 94% waxing phase just prior to the recent Super Moon. I had to look twice at the frame rates during these captures at full 1920 x 1200 region of interest (ROI), and 128 Frames Per Second!

Top left of the field of view starts with the terminator over the Rocca family of craters. Slightly southeast from that point you see two overlapping craters named Sirsalis and Sirsalis-A. Sirsalis is 26 miles in diameter and 1.8 miles deep. Rimae Siralis seen extending towards the southwest for 240 miles and ending in crater Darwin. Crüger is just to the north of Darwin, lava-filled and smooth.

Near the bottom center of this field of view, the prominent crater that is right on the terminator is Inghirami Crater, 56.5 miles diameter and 1.8 miles deep. Just east of Inghirami is Shickard crater, and is designated as a great walled plain with a diameter of 128 miles (206km). Notice the lighter and darker patches across its floor.

As Andrew Planck has noted, "When you look at Schickard, you should immediately notice something unusual: Schickard’s floor has stripes! It is dark on both the north and south ends, but there is a wide central stripe of lighter material. You are looking at terrain that is made up of two different chemical compositions and is a result of a combination of lighter highland material that was blown in from the formation of the Mare Orientale basin and dark basaltic material (molten lava that welled up from underneath) on the northern and southern portions of Schickard."

Best 25% of 4,000 frames in Autostakkert, wavelets in Registax 6, final tweaks and hand assemble in Photoshop CC 2017.

Telescope - Celestron CPC800XLT

Camera - Altair Hypercam IMX174 Mono (no filters)

Orion Shorty 2X Barlow

Move cursor over image for notes.

Telescopio: Maksutov Celestron 127 SLT.

Fotocamera: Smartphone Samsung S6

Oculare: Plossl 9 mm.

Supporto universale per smartphone.

Elaborazione con Pipp, Autostakkert e Astra Image 3.0.

Some lunar landscape with crater Langrenus in the center, through an 8inch newtonian 200p, and ASI120MC 3x barlow. Pretty good atmospheric conditions that night. For the post processing i gave the program Astra Image a trial, the wavelets are good, not necessarily better than registax6 but different and worth using if the registax wavelets aren't giving the results you are looking for :)

ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25"

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/TV 2.5x PowerMate

Losmandy G11

10 RGB Runs (6.5ms, gain 385, 3800 frames/filter) captured in FireCapture

Preprocessed in PIPP

Best 50% of frames stacked in Autostakkert

Wavelet Sharpened in Registax

De-rotated in WINJUPOS

Finished in Photoshop

I tried to get the most accurate result possible on a full moon with a telephoto lens. It is always quite difficult to bring out details because the vertical brightness of the sun flattens all the reliefs. I hope you will appreciate the result achieved here.

Nikon z7 Tamron G2 150-600 Tcx20 1200mm f/13 50iso 1/50s 800 frames. Stacking and Wavelets with Autostakkert, post-treatment with Darktable.

This test may be of interest to planetary imagers using one shot colour cameras (OSCs). Both images have been stacked in Autostakkert, processed in Registax and post-processed in Paint Shop Pro and then Topaz DeNoise identically.

Two years ago I switched from my usual planetary camera, the mono ASI174MM to the then new ASI462MC, a colour camera that is also very sensitive in IR and has the same pixel size at 2.9 mu of the mono ASI290MM. While I was happy with the image scale on Mars as well as Jupiter and Saturn that year I wasn't totally happy with the image, which always seemed to me to be slightly washed out in colour and slightly less sharp than if I had used a mono camera. I persisted due to its convenience but more recently purchased an ASI482, which is meant to be an entry level all round OSC camera and coincidentally has the same pixel size as the old ASI174MM (5.86 mu).

I didn't buy the 482 to use on general planetary work as I had it in mind for some experiments on Venus next year. But when I tried it, to my surprise I found it produced images as sharp as the ASI174 for Jupiter and Mars when both were used with my 4x PowerMate, which gave an identical image scale to using the ASI462 or 290 with a 2.5x PowerMate. The ASI174 doesn't really gather enough light for Saturn to operate at the exposures I wanted but I found that the ASI482 could do although it can't operate as fast as the 174 or indeed quite as fast as the 462.

In this test I ran the 462 and 482 at identical image sizes by using the 2.5x PowerMate with the 462 and the 4x PowerMate with the 482. For the same exposure length on Jupiter the 482 ran slightly slower, at 72fps compared to 76fps, hence the 462 had 3,500 frames per video and the 482 3,200 frames per video in the same time (to ensure no blurring by rotation of Jupiter). Seeing did vary slightly but towards the end of use with the 482 it became distinctly worse. I think the 462 has a problem with colour bleed and the IR sensitivity while great for IR imaging and methane filter use on Jupiter does seem to work to its disadvantage in terms of sharpness of image compared to the 482 which does a good job of matching the sharpness of mono cameras.

Peter

Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus. Best 20 of 45 images stacked using Autostakkert 2. PIPP was also used prior to stacking to centre and crop and eliminate cloudy frames.

My first attempt at capturing the planet Saturn. 😁

The Cassinni-Division in the rings is also visible. :)

I captured it using:

- Sky-watcher Skymax 102 Mak

- Sky-watcher Star Adventurer Pro

- ASI 120MC-S

- Celestron 2x Barlow

I recorded the video in Firecapture. The processing and stacking was done in: PIPP, Autostakkert!3 en Registax 6.

Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus. Tried RAW images today to see if there was a difference between jpgs. Processing a lot longer with no visible benefit the result. Slower shooting too due to file sizes. Best 20 of 30 images stacked using Autostakkert 2

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK. We only had a penumbral eclipse from here. I was shooting between bands of cloud and this was my clearest set of images. You can clearly see the dimming on the lower right side of the Moon's disk.

Shot at 19:00 GMT with a Canon 1100D with 300mm zoom lens on a static tripod. I shot 80 images, aligned and cropped the images using PIPP, then stacked the best 45% using Autostakkert! 3. Processed in Registax 6, Fast Stone Image Viewer and Focus Magic

104_8723-7 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert.

The Full Wolf Moon passing in front of Mars (occultation) on Monday evening. This coincided with Mars closest approach to earth on Jan 12.

Occultation takes place when a celestial body with a greater apparent diameter passes in front of a body with a smaller apparent diameter. For example, when the moon passes in front of a star or planet. The occultation of the Sun by the Moon is called a solar eclipse.

Credit: www.starwalk.space.com

This is a composite image of Mars' path taken at one minute intervals. (18:51:45 through 20:40:19MST)

10ms exposures, 3.2 frames per second for 10 seconds every minute. 50% stacked. Acquired with Sharpcap 4.1, processed in Autostakkert 4, IMPPG and Photoshop.

Imaging equipment:

SharpStar 140PH Triplet 910mm focal length

Mesu 200 MKII mount,

ZWO2600 camera

ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25" (RGB)

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/2.5x PowerMate

Losmandy G11

5 RGB runs captured in Firecapture

Preprocessed in PIPP

Stacked in Autostakkert

Wavelet sharpened in Registax

Finished in PhotoShop

1st quarter waxing moon taken around 22:30 on 26th April 2023.

Taken with a Canon EOS Ra fitted with a 100-400mm and a 1.4 tele extender. The stack was 90% of the best frames from a 742 frame MP4 video using PIPP, Autostakkert and finished in Lightroom.

Gear: SW Adventurer - Mak 102 - Telextender 3x - Canon EOS 6D - Video Magic Lantern 640 x 480 crop mode

Processing: PIPP - AutoStakkert - Photoshop - Lightroom

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Processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert then used PhotoShop to brighten moons and increase planet contrast

Wide field view of Active Region 12674 and 12673 taken on September 7, 2017.

Tech Specs: Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM + Canon 2x Extender III + ZWO ASI290MC camera piggyback mounted on a Meade 12” LX90 telescope on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount. Best 50% of 5000 frames collected using SharpCap v3.0 and AutoStakkert! V3.0.14 (x64). A 77mm Thousand Oaks Optical Solar Filter was on the business end of the lens. Date: September 7, 2017.

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Coronado PST, 5x Powermate Barlow and Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro mount. This was the first time I've tried the 5x Barlow on this telescope.

I imaged in RAW with my camera set to Mono. Images pre-processed and cropped in Lightroom then exported as TIFFs. The best 50 or 60% of 200 frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 2 then processed in Lightroom, Photoshop CS2, Fast Stone Image View and Focus Magic. False colour added back into the images at the end of processing.

I shot a lot of sections intending to create a stitched mosaic of the full disk of the Sun but things didn't work out so I'm just showing the best stacked images. My full disc image turned out really badly. I suspect the sustained hot weather here in the UK at the moment it making it hard to get a good, sharp image through this little scope. That said, I was pleased with the detail I got on the 2 small prominences, in particular the looping prom because that was very faint. I was also pleased to have captured AR 12715 before it rotated out of view. It's been a while since I did any serious solar imaging so I'm very rusty!

Saturn is pretty stunning right now.

- 3000 frames shot at 15 frames per second

- 8" Celestron SCT (C8)

- ZWO ASI120MC camera.

- Captured in FireCapture

- Stacked with 1.5 drizzle in AutoStakkert

- Sharpened in Registax & Adobe Sharpener Pro

- Levels, saturation and noise reduction in LightRoom.

Jupiter with the GRS and a shadow transit from io. Taken a couple of nights back on the 6th April at 20.55pm.

18cm Intes MN71 and a IS DFK 21AU04.AS camera. 1500 frames from a 2000 frame AVI. Eyepiece projection. Processed with PIPP, AutoStakkert and Photoshop. Slightly wobbly seeing.

Tonights 81% with my usual birding gear.

This little montage based around the images I produced of Mars on 7th November gives some idea of the processes I go through from stacking the raw videos in Autostakkert to the final products fine tuned with software equivalents of Adobe Photoshop and finished with Topaz DeNoise.

Peter

Taken with a Canon 60D using a Tamron SP AF70-300mm VC USD Zoom lens. This image was a stack of 30 images taken in high speed burst mode while hand tracking.I used Autostakkert 2 in 'surface mode' It's an experiment to see how much detail was possible with only 300mm on a aircraft at high altitude. This image is also at 3000 pixels wide

A7R4 200-600mm + 1.4TC + 1.5 CIZ. 4k 30fps video into PIPP then into AutoStakkert. Lightroom Classic, Topaz Sharpen and Photoshop for background

Before wrapping up this imaging session, I thought I'd try imaging the Moon with an H-alpha filter. That lengthened the exposure for each frame of the SER files, but narrowed the bandwidth to 7 nm. This is from two separate stacks using the best 19% of each stack. Processed in AutoStakkert, PixInsight, and Photoshop.

Clavius dominates the view here. There are even some interesting "runoff" featuers on one of the slopes of Rutherfurd crater (on the left, inside of Clavius). Above Clavius (and farther south on the Moon) is the crater Blancanus. The crater Scheiner is partially cut off in the top right corner of the pic.

The Moon was drifting a lot in the field of view while shooting this, so I omitted the areas that didn't get enough coverage from the frames included in those stacks.

Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 925

Camera: ZWO ASI 120MM

ZWO EFW with Optolong H-alpha filter and 2x Barlow