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White Light image:
8" Ritchie Cretien telescope with Mylar solar filter (my first test of this new filter), focal reducer and Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro mount
Best 50% of 75 images stacked in Autostakkert! 2, then processed in Lightroom, Photoshop CS2 & Lightoom
H-alpha image:
Coronado PST 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D on and EQ5 Pro mount
120 images shot in RAW (camera set to mono to help focusing), then the images were cropped and colour removed in Lightroom, exported as TIFFs.
Best 54% of 120 stacked in Autostakkert! 2. Stacked image was duplicated, one processed to enhance surface details, the other to enhance prominences. Images processed in Lightroom then colour added and images merged using Photoshop CS2. Final tweaks made in Lightroom and Focus Magic
Taken from the observatory on the campus of Cerritos College using the Celestron C14, ZWO ASI224MC, 2x Barlow, ZWO ADC and ZWO UV/IR cut filter
SER files were taken in FireCapture of 30 s each. The best 35% of frames from those videos were stacked in AutoStakkert. The resulting image from each stack was processed in PixInsight, then those images were registered, derotated, and combined in WINJupos. The resulting image had some final adjustments in GIMP.
The Great Red Spot has shrunk, even since this past October. Longitudinally, it now measures only about 13,100 km -- only slightly bigger than the diameter of the Earth.
Sunspot AR2767 @ 6562.8Å
Session Information :
* 51° N 3° E
* Torhout, Belgium
* Capture Date : 22.07.2020
* Capture Start : 15:27:03 UTC
* Capture Mid : 15:27:22 UTC
* Capture End : 15:27:42 UTC
Object Information
* Type : Sunspot
* Designation : AR2767
* Distance : 1.016 AU or roughly 151.987.000 km
Hardware
* Mount : Celestron CGX
* Imaging Scope : TS Optics 80mm f/6 APO Refractor
* ERF : Baader 2" UV/IR Cut
* Filter : Daystar Quark Hydrogen-Alpha (Chromosphere)
* Imaging Camera : ZWO ASI 174MM
Exposure Settings
* Exposure : 6ms
* Gain : 111
* Gamma : 50
* Frames Captured : 5.000
* Capture Rate : 128 frames/sec
* Frames Stacked : 750
Capture Software
* FireCapture
Processing Software
* AutoStakkert!
* RegiStax
* Adobe Photoshop
* Topaz DeNoise AI
Ecco un mosaico della Luna al 93% prima del 16 maggio mattina, giorno di fase piena e in cui diventerà rossa a causa del fenomeno dell'eclissi.
In questo caso ho aumentato la saturazione dei colori per mostrare le differenze di composizione chimica della regolite sulla superficie lunare.
Dati:
- Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newton
- montatura eq2 con motore AR
- camera planetaria QHY5L-II-C
- filtro UV-IR cut
- Sharpcap per l'acquisizione di 21 video da 30 secondi ognuno
- Autostakkert! 3 e Registax 6 per elaborarli
- Autostitch per assemblare le 21 parti del mosaico
- GIMP per luminosità, contrasto e saturazione dei colori
Luogo: Cabras (OR)
Data: 13 maggio 2022 alle 20:20 UTC ( 22:20 ora locale)
Venus and the Moon show a very similar crescent, when Venus is on the near side of the Sun. A composite of images taken 2020-04-27 about 01:48 UT. The overlayed Venus is magnified 3 times more than the Moon in this image.to reveal its shape. Both images were taken with a Questar 1300/89 mm telescope and Sony a6300 camera.
Venus was exposed 1/400 sec and the Moon 1/15 sec at ISO 100. Both images were stacked in Autostakkert 3. Venus the best 16 of 100 frames was 3x drizzle stacked. The Moon was stacked from the best 8 of 50 frames. Final composite, exposure adjustment, and crop was done in Photoshop.
Un'altra foto di Giove molto sofferta. Seeing decente, ma velature che diminuivano di molto la luminosità del pianeta, costringendo ad aumentare il gain e il tempo di posa.
Pianeta: Giove.
Data: 26 marzo 2016.
Diametro: 43.90"
Magnitudine: -2.44
CMI=168.2° CMII=5.2° CMIII=120.9°
Luogo: Pedara (CT).
Ora (locale): 01:01.
Seeing (scala di Antoniadi): 3/5.
Telescopio: Celestron CPC-800 xlt.
Barlow: 2.5x GSO.
Lunghezza focale: 4950mm
Risoluzione: 0.16"
Camera di ripresa: ASI120MC.
Numero di frames acquisiti: 3000.
Numero di frames elaborati: 33% (1000).
FPS: 17.
Durata del filmato: 167 s.
ROI: 640x480
Software di elaborazione: Autostakkert 2.7.7, Astra Image 5, Photoshop CC 2015.
Was pleased to note a sunspot was visible on the Sun's photospheric surface today so chased after it.
This is a fairly simple sunspot with a small dark pore seen down at 5 O'Clock. Filaments are seen in the gray penumbra and the background surface of the Sun shows granulations (individual convection cells) quite well - the atmosphere was not turbulent when this was taken this AM.
By the McIntosh classification system it is:
HSx - simple unipolar sunspot with a symmetric penumbra
900mm f/7.5 Skywatcher Equinox ED scope
x3.0 Explore Scientific Focal extender.
Baader Herschel safety wedge
ZWO 174 MM monochrome CMOS camera
Skywatcher EQ6 mount with Rowan belt drives.
Hinodi solar guider.
Best 50% of 4000 frames
Stacked in AutoStakkert!3
Wavelets in RegiStax6
Sunspot group AR2993 was in the news this week for producing an X2.2 solar flare, the most powerful in many years.
ZWO ASI290MM
TeleVue NP101is/2.5x PM
Losmandy G11
Captured 1000 frames with FireCapture
Stacked best 50% with Autostakkert!
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
C9.25 @ f/10 with full aperture Baader photographic solar film and QHY5III 178M/Baader solar continuum filter (using region of interest). Unsteady seeing and thin hazy cloud hampered the session making focusing difficult.
2000 frame SER stacked in Autostakkert,wavelet sharpened in Astrosurface and false coloured in PS CS2.
This is a two-panel overlay showing a nice solar prominence on August 23rd. The prominence and surface features were each captured using the best 20% of 2000 frames
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ASI462MC camera, Daystar Quark Chromosphere, ZWO 0.5x Reducer, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO UV/IR Filter (2”), focus with a ZWO EAF, captured with SharpCap Pro v4 and processed using Autostakkert and Registax. Image Date: August 23, 2024. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Tonight the sky was exceptionally clear and pure. The result is spectacular and allows us to fly over the moon with superb details. The shadows in this phase are fabulous.
Nikon z7 Tamron G2 150-600 Tcx20 1200mm f/13 160iso 300x1/50s. Stacking with Autostakkert. Wavelets with Registax. Post-processing with Darktable.
Here is an animated GIF showing the rotation of Jupiter on July 19, 2018. The view shows 28-minutes of rotation time.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mmED Triplet Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ASI 290MC, each image in the animation was the best 25% of 20k frames. Captured with SharpCap, processed in AutoStakkert, refined in Registax and Lightroom. Image Date: 19 July 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, Pennsylvania, USA.
Clavius crater.
Meade 16" SC telescope at F/10. Imaging camera: ZWO ASI 120MC-S. Selection of 120 frames out of a 4000 frames video capture. Exposure +- 4ms. Post-processing with Autostakkert, Registax and PS.
The waxing gibbous Moon from Austin, Texas. Clear steady skies last night showed a spectacular view of Vallis Schroteri cutting through the highlands north and west of Aristarchus. Imaged with a Questar 1350/89 mm telescope with a Sony a6300 camera at prime focus. Best 10% of 114 images stacked in AutoStakkert 3, deconvolved in Lynkeos, with final crop and exposure in Photoshop.
To see Vallis Schroteri best take a look at the full resolution image.
I gave the AVI from last week a restack and process, and i guess it's close to the best i can get it. :) This was taken with the newtonian 8inch, good seeing -5 x barlow and ZWO ASI120MC - joined two videos together and stacked about. 15% of 2000 frames.
Genova, Italy (17 Oct 2020 - 01:24 GMT+2)
Orange vintage C8 (203 F10 SC Telescope) on EQ5 Mount + QHY5L-II Color Camera @ F25 (Barlow APO 2.5x).
Best 15075 frames of 50250 (30%)
Recording: SharpCap 3.2 (320x240 @ 130fps)
Stacking: AutoStakkert! 3.1.4
Wavelets: Registax 6.1
Final: GIMP 2.10.8
Nikon z7 Tamron G2 150-600 Tcx20 1200mm f/13 160iso 1/125s.
Stacking with Autostakkert, Wavelets with Autostakkert, post-treatment with Darktable.
Taken around 2am on February 14th with a Celestron C6 SCT, Celestron AVX mount, 2x Barlow, and ASI120MC. Captured with SharpCap, stacked with AutoStakkert, and processed with Astra Image Pro and Photoshop.
The Partial Solar Eclipse of June 2021 as seen from Milan, Italy at 12:46 local time. Here I have used a Daystar Quark H-Alpha filter to show the Chromosphere along with a nice prominence on the east limb of the Sun. The black portion of the Moon disk on the left is of course a simulated continuation of the main part which is actually eclipsing the Sun's surface.
Sharpstar 61EDPH APO refractor telescope
Star Adventurer Mount
Daystar Quark Chromosphere H-Alpha
ASI290MM
Best 10% of 500 frames
Autostakkert, IMPPG, PS
Image comprises of one 500 frame AVI for prominence and a 200 frame for the limb using a QHY5L-II through my 90mm PST mod refractor. Both AVI were stacked using Autostakkert and using layers in Photoshop to combine the images,moving into Registax to wavelet process then back into PS to add false colour.
Image taken 19/08/2018
The Moon from Austin, Texas, just 7 hours before full on 2018-04-29 06:02 UT. Transparency and seeing were a challenge, but the prospect of cloudy skies all the next week were great motivation. Lucky image stacking pulled out a good image using the best 8 of 96 images shot. Questar 1350/89mm with a Sony a6300 at prime focus. Exposed for 1/60 sec at ISO 100. Stacked in Autostakkert 3, deconvolved in Lynkeos, with final exposure and crop in Photoshop.
Good seeing = sharp images
That's the most important thing for detailed shots of planets, above anything else.
Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 925
Camera: ZWO ASI120MM
Filter wheel: ZWO EFW
Filters: RGB set from Optolong
R: best 280/851 frames
G: best 500/785 frames
B: best 330/854 frames
Processing in Autostakkert, PixInsight, WinJUPOS, and Photoshop
Jupiter was at 43° altitude and at a distance of 604 million km
CM I: 265.8° CM II: 185.3° CM III: 4.9°
Evostar 72ED + Hoya Pro ND 16 filter (full aperture) and Sol'Ex SHG with QHY5III 178M. 16x sidereal speed used on CEM60 to force the scanning of the slit across the solar disk. Stack of six out of sixteen using Autostakkert,processed in Astrosurface and Photoshop CS2.
Taken with a Celestron C6 SCT, Celestron AVX mount, 2x Barlow, and ASI120MC. Captured with SharpCap, stacked with AutoStakkert, and processed with Astra Image Pro and Photoshop.
Less than 7 degrees above horizon so seeing not great. 50 frames stacked and processed in Autostakkert and Faststone Image Viewer. Used 6D mounted on 9.25 in SCT. Each frame was 1/128th sec at ISO1600.
August Full Moon
Often called the called Sturgeon Moon because of the large number of sturgeon fish that were found in the Great Lakes in North America this time of year.
My first successful Mineral moon. Saturday evening after returning home from the Super Star Party at Lake Metroparks Penitentiary Glen Reservation that our Astronomy Club attended, I looked up at that full moon we had just been viewing and thought I need to shoot it. At first I used my DSLR/telephoto lens in my driveway. But then thought let's try my rig at Starfront in Texas,
Turned out the FOV was perfect. So I captured 1 two minute video each of LRGB. The seeing was great and the rig tracked perfect.
Equipment:
Stellarvue SVX102T and Flattener
#zwo ASI533MM, ZWO AM5, EAF, EFW
#chroma L, R, G, B
Acquisition: Sharpcap
Processed/Stacked/Edited in PIPP, Autostakkert, Photoshop
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, Celestron 3x Barlow and ASI120MC camera.
Jupiter's disc:
Best 75% of 1,000 frames stacked with Autostakkert! 3.
Galilean Moons:
Best 75% of 100 frames (at a higher exposure)
Wavelets where sharpened in Registax 6, then the image processed in Fast Stone Image Viewer.
The two images were merged using a Layer Mask in Photoshop CS2.
100 stacked images using AutoStakkert. Imaged through a 6 inch refractor with a Zwo ASI294MC camera using a solar wedge and a polarising filter.
Slightly longer exposure and I finally managed to pickup Rhea and Dione on the video.
104_6259 MP4 centred, cropped with PIPP, stacked with AutoStakkert. Moons brightened, planet contrast increased wuth PhotShop.
Have re-spaced the objective lenses on my Helios 150mm f/8 achromat to a gap of 2.99mm to improve its performance in UV end of the spectrum and this is one of the images I got yesterday afternoon showing the region of AR 3007,seeing was unsteady and wind got up enough to shake scope and thin cloud also got in the way :( Used QHY5III 178M with region of interest to record a 2000+ SER fie,stacked in Autostakkert,wavelet sharpened in Astrosurface and finished in PS CS2.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK on Friday 29th May 2020 when the Moon was at 42% illuminated waxing crescent phase.
William Optics 70mm refractor with Celestron 3x Barlow and a ZWO ASI120MC camera on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier.
2,000 frame video shot, the best 70% were stacked with Autostakkert!. The stacked images were stitched together using Microsoft ICE, then the stitched image was processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer
Celestron NexStar 6SE
Zwo Asi224mc with IR cut filter
Zwo ADC
Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate
FireCapture for ADC tuning.
SharpCap for Capturing.
Saturn
2.5 minute video, exposure-5.0ms, gain-360
Processed in AutoStakkert, RegiStax and Lightroom.
Cloudy day but breaks in the clouds allowed capture of these images. 72ED/Lunt CaK B1200 module and Lunt 50THa double stacked using Coronado Solarmax 40 etalon,QHY5III 178M switched between both scopes,seeing was unsteady for calcium so focus was a bit soft.
SER's stacked in Autostakkert and processed in Astrosurface and PS CS2 adding false colour.
Stack of 1200 iphone video frames through Celestron NexStar 8SE telescope. Stacked & edited with PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax, Nebulosity, Gimp & Snapseed. Rotated with North at top.
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
Shot 203 seconds before the maximum at the location of recording
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer mount
Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED (72/420mm) OTA
Lacerta Herschel wedge
TeleVue Barlow 2.5x
UV/IR filter
ZWO ASI533MC Pro @ 10 degrees Celsius (0.1ms)
FireCapture 2.7 for recording
PIPP for pre-processing
AutoStakkert! 3 for stacking
ImPPG for sharpening
RawTherapee for post-processing
AR 2533 isn't a good substitute fo 2529 :(
21.04.2016 08:45 MSK, hazy/cloudy.
DMK23U274 via 2x Barlow on Corondo PST.
3 panels 0f 17% of 800 frames stitched in MS ICE, deconvolved, wavelet-sharpened and masked/blended/colorized.
Here is a quick stacked image of the planet Venus taken last evening shining bright on the Western horizon. Currently 45% illuminated.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at -20F, 45 second video capture, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in Autostakkert and Registax. Image Date: January 20, 2025. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Taken from Oxfordshire on 1st May 2023 with a William Optics 70mm refractor and ZWO ASI120MC camera fitted with a Powermate 5x Barlow.
The telescope was on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier, tracking at lunar rate. It was still twilight when I started imaging and I was also dealing with varying amounts of thin cloud. The Moon was 85% Waxing Gibbous. Schiller is on the few genuinely oval shaped lunar craters. Most of the others that appear oval are only that shape because of its position as viewed from Earth, i.e. the crater is foreshortened when located towards the edges so it causes the crater to look slightly squashed.
A 2,000 frame video was captured using SharpCap and the best 25% of the frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3. Processing was done in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer, plus a bit of sharpening in Focus Magic.
Jupiter 19th Sept 2022(23:24UT) good seeing conditions. This image consists of just three images de rotated in Winjupos (best 3,000 frames each), 10,900 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 from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, 2 x Barlow and Canon 1100D on an EQ5 mount
Best 60% of 50 images pre-processed in PIPP, then stacked in Autostakkert! 3 Beta and processed in Registax 6 and Lightroom
ZWO ASI178MC
2.5x PowerMate
TeleVue NP101is
Losmandy G11
300 frames captured in Firecapture.
Best 75% stacked in Autostakkert!
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, almost 2 months after its 2023 opposition. The Great Red Spot (GRS) is visible near the center. This is the largest storm in the Solar System, although it has been shrinking in recent history. Even in its "smaller" state, the GRS is still roughly the size of Earth.
Jupiter rotates about its axis every 10 hours, making it the fastest-rotating planet in the Solar System. As a result, it is noticeably wider at the equator. Its atmosphere is separated into several bands at different latitudes, which creates turbulence and storms along the boundaries.
I'm finally making some progress on these images. This was a surprisingly good result from late in the 2023 Jupiter season. I'm excited to process the remaining images in the archive!
Phase angle: 9.45°
Apparent magnitude: -2.65
Apparent diameter: 45.11"
Distance from Earth: 4.370 AU
Stack of 1,500 frames (best of 17,367)
Captured from 01:53 to 01:56 UTC 2023/12/24
Exposure 5 ms, Gain 350, Offset 25
Location: Summerville/Ladson, SC
Atmospheric seeing: 4/5
Camera: ZWO ASI224MC
Filter: ZWO UV/IR-Cut
Telescope: Celestron C6 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope
Barlow: Tele Vue 2x 1.25" Barlow (with ZWO ADC before Barlow, gives an effective focal length of ~3950mm at f/26.3)
Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G (unguided)
Capture software: FireCapture
Processing software: AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, GIMP