Eastern limb of the Sun presents a lot of interesting activity today.

Acqusition time: 26.06.2016 10:13 MSK

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

9 panels 1000x1000 pixels 100 out of 800 frames each stitched in MS ICE, deconvolved and wavelet sharpened in AstraImage 3.0 PRO (D: Richardson-Lucy aggressive, Cauchy-type, 0,3 pixels, 12 iterations, WL: 1-5-15-10-1). Contrast enchancement, masking-blending and hi-pass filtering in PS.

about 10mins of image data; stacked/derotated/etc..

Celestron C11 on AVX Mount

ZWO ASI290MC & ZWO L Filter

2.5x Tele Vue Powermate

Pierro Astro ADC

Software:

Firecapture, WinJupos, AutoStakkert 3, Registax 6

Telescope: Celestron 11 - CGEM

Powermate 2.5x - ADC

Camera: ASI224MC - Filter IR/UV Cut

Software: Firecapture - Autostakkert!2 - Registax - PS6

Taken with an 8" Ritchie Chretien telescope and Canon 1100D on an EQ6 mount

Top image is a composite of 2 single shots, one exposed to bring out the Galilean Moons, the other to try and maintain Jupiter's cloud detail. They were merged in Photoshop using a layer mask

Middle image was captured using Backyard EOS at 5x magnification. 2000 frame video shot, the best 55% stacked using Autostakkert! 3 and tweaked in Registax 6, Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer

Bottom image was captured using Backyard EOS at 10x magnification. 2000 frame video shot, the best 30% stacked using Autostakkert! 3 and tweaked in Registax 6, Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer

Exifs:

■ Mount: skywatcher neq-6 goto with Rowan modification belt

■ Telescope: skywatcher 200/1000 F/5

■ Camera: ZWO asi 120 mc-s

■ Other optic(s): celestron omni barlow 2X

■ Software :autostakkert / registax6 / photoshopCC

■ Date : 31-03-2020

Luna Menguante Gibosa 19/02 06:40 al 63% desde la Ciudad de San Luis. 2650 Mosaicos apilados.

Por primera vez use (jugué en realidad 😆) filtros especiales para definir mejor el entorno y reducir la contaminación lumínica, aunque disipó la luz y algunas nubes cercanas sobre un costado y me gustó el resultado final.

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Config: cámara Player One Neptune C.

Telescopio 🔭:Sky-Watcher SkyMax102mm (1300mm).

Montura: iExos 100 v2 PCM 8 Explore Scientific.

Guiado: Tubo ZWO 30mm / Player One Ceres.

Control center by N.I.N.A.

Apilado AutoStakkert 4 / Procesado AstroPixel Processor

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Proyecto ASTROFOTO 💫.

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#GLSfotografia #GLSpro #iamskywatcher #skywatcher #iexos100pmceight #playeroneastronomy #explorescientific #playeroneneptune #moon #luna #moonobsession #moonhdrcomposition #moonhdr #moonlovers #mosaicmoon #photopills #photographylovers #sanluis #sanluisargentina #photography #photoastronomy #welcometomoon #astrofoto💫 #moonoftheday #argentina

Mak 102 - Canon 6D - Star Adventurer - Foco primario

6 Teselas de videos en RAW Magic Lantern de 2688 x 960 px

ISO 400 - 1/250s - 5 fps (75% de 150 a 250 frames)

Procesado: MLVDUMP - PIPP - AutoStakkert - Photoshop - Lightroom

Entre el 27-01 23:34 y 28-01 00:04

Here is a stacked image of Jupiter and the four Galilean moons Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto taken in the early hours of April 15, 2017. I used an Antares focal reducer on this image to fit the entire family in the frame and also my first go at using the software platform called FireCapture, much to learn.

Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX90, ASI290MC, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, FireCapture v2.5.10 x64, Planetary Imaging PreProcessor PIPP (v 2.5.3), Registax v6, Adobe Lightroom v6.

106_3286-8 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert

Celestron C11, 4x TeleVue Powermate, ZWO RGB FIlter Set, ZWO ASI174MM, Pierro Astro ADC

6 sets or RGB image runs taken over 30mins; de-rotated in Winjupos - Firecapture, Autostakkert, Registax & Photoshop

Merseyside, UK

Northfield, OH

May 15, 2022, a partly cloudy night, with a few opportunities to observe this eclipse.

Jupiter 13th Sept 2022(22:27 UT) showing Ganymede in transit and casting it's shadow, poor seeing conditions and thin cloud. This image consists of three images combined in Winjupos (best 3,000 frames each), 10,000 frames captured in 2.5 minutes for each AVI. I did capture 12 AVI's on this occasion but the poor conditions meant that only three were usable. 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.

Shooting Location :

* 51° N 3° E

* bortle class 5 backyard

Object Information

* Type : Moon

* Magnitude : -10.7

* Approximate distance : 371.850 km

- Illumination : 39,4%

Hardware

* Mount : Celestron CGX

* Imaging Scope : Sky-Watcher Explorer 150PDS

* Imaging Camera : ZWO ASI 183MM

Exposures

* Panels : 2 (top & bottom)

* Frames Captured : 2.000 / panel

* Frames Stacked : 500 / panel

* Sensor Temperature : -20°C

* Gain : 111

* Offset : 10

* Capture Time : 2019-04-11, 20:45:45 UTC

Capture Software

* FireCapture

Processing Software

* AutoStakkert (Stacking)

* Registax (Wavelets)

* Adobe Photoshop

25th February 2018

ZWO ASI120MM Camera

Takahashi TOA-150 Refractor @ f/7.3

Mesu-200 mount

Processed in Autostakkert 2 & Registax, 400 frames from a 2000 frame sequence.

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.

My goal was to get some practice imaging Mars before its opposition on Dec 8th, but with good transparcy, seeing, and decent processing, this ended up being my best shot of Mars to date.

I created a quick video of my equipment and acquisition details in this video here if you're interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKOeYdYOTSg

The equipment I used for this shot:

* NexStar 6SE SCT

* 3x Televue Barlow

* ZWO 533mc

* Celestron AVX mount

* Processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert!3, and AstroSurface. I also did a version with Registax that I show in the video.

900mm f/7.5 Skywatcher Equinox ED scope

Baader Herschel wedge

Zwo 174 MM monochrome CMOS camera

Skywatcher EQ6 mount with Rowan belt drives.

Hinodi solar guider.

Best 15% of 1152 frames.

Stacked in AutoStakkert!3

Wavelets in RegiStax6

Finished in PS

Setting on ZWO 174 MM

FPS (avg.)=23

Shutter=2.293ms

Gain=0 (0%)

Gamma=50

Imaged, stacked with Autostakkert, assembled 8 panel mosaic with Photoshop Photomerge, and tweaked with Camera Raw filter.

Celestron CPC Deluxe 1100 Edge HD

Altair IMX174 Mono camera

Manual Filter Wheel (Red Channel Filter)

Primalucelab Eagle 2 Pro

Each of the 8 panels is the best 50% stack of 6,000 frames.

The seeing wasn't great but you can make out the main albedo features: Syrtis Major, Hellas Basin etc., as well as the South Polar Cap (SPC) & North Polar Hood (NPH).

Processed with AutoStakkert!3, Registax 6 and Photoshop CC.

The visible moons from left to right are Europa and Io. Ganymede is in Jupiter's shadow and Callisto is out of the field to the right.

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Three 4K MP4s centred, cropped and stacked with PIPP and AutoStakkert. Moons brightened and planet contrast increased with PhotoShop.

Taken with a 70mm refractor, 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D.

ISO-800 1/400 sec exp

Best 75% of 155 frames stacked in Autostakkert!2 and processed in Lightroom

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.

Lots of clouds and rain lately but I was lucky enough to have an hour to image the sun on the Solstice. There was a massive prominence sticking out. I created a video showing my setup, capture, and quick processing steps here if anyone's interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqHkWGkMIXo

The image itself is a composite where I did the prominences separately and blended it. Not the best job, still practicing.

Equipment used:

* Lunt 40

* AVX Mount

* ZWO ASI120MM-Mini

* FireCapture

* 35% of 1000 frames stacked and sharpened in AutoStakkert!3

* Colorization in Photoshop via curves adjustments

You can see a higher resolution at www.naztronomy.com/images/portfolio/fullscreen/Sun_6-21-2...

More details on Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/1ba1ue/

My YouTube: youtube.com/Naztronomy

104_8005-9 4K MP4s

Processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert.

Mak 102 - Canon 60D - Foco primario - Video RAW - SW Star Adventurer

Procesado: PIPP - AutoStakkert - Registax - Adobe LR

My first record of sunspots. This image contains, from left to right, sunspots 2786 and 2785.

"Sunspots are temporary phenomena on the Sun's photosphere that appear as spots darker than the surrounding areas. They are regions of reduced surface temperature caused by concentrations of magnetic field flux that inhibit convection. Sunspots usually appear in pairs of opposite magnetic polarity.[2] Their number varies according to the approximately 11-year solar cycle". Source: Wikipedia.org

Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 reflector (with ZWO EAF), EQ5 (with Onstep), ASI 290MC, Thousand Oaks Solar Filter, UV/IR Cut Filter. FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Fitswork and Photos.

@LopesCosmos

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The planet Mars that I was able to capture in between clouds last night. :)

Sadly, I didn't get to keep a lot of good frames due to the passing clouds. :\

I'm happy to see one of the Polar Ice Caps though!

Gear:

- Sky-watcher Skymax 102

- Celestron 2x Barlow

- ASI-120MC-S

- Sky-watcher Star Adventurer Pro

Software:

- Firecapture

- PIPP

- Autostakkert

- Registax

Decided to photograph the moon before switching to deep sky objects for the rest of the night. **This photo has had the saturation increased to highlight the differences in the lunar soil**, which are *barely* noticeable to the eye when viewed through larger telescopes (usually in Mare Serenitatis or Mare Imbrium for me, at least). Tan/orange indicates iron rich minerals, and blue indicates titanium rich minerals. Captured at 9pm on April 10th, 2022.

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**[Equipment:](i.imgur.com/ejpKkwU.jpg)**

* TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian

* Orion Sirius EQ-G

* ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro

* Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector

* ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm

* Astronomik LRGB+CLS Filters- 31mm

* Astrodon 31mm Ha 5nm, Oiii 3nm, Sii 5nm

* Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope

* ZWO ASI-120MC for guiding

* Moonlite Autofocuser

**Acquisition:** (Camera at Unity Gain, -15°C)

* R - 1000 x 1.541ms

* G - 500 x 1.206ms

* B - 500 x 1.797ms

**Capture Software:**

* Captured using Sharpcap and [N.I.N.A.](nighttime-imaging.eu/) for mount/filterwheel control

**Stacking:**

* Stacked the best 15% of frames in Autostakkert (autosharpened, 3X Drizzle)

**PixInsight Processing:**

* DynamicCrop

* ChannelCombination to combine monochrome images into RGB image

* ChannelMatch to align G and B colorchannels to red

* ColorCalibration

* HistogramTransformation (slight stretch, also applied to red stack)

* LRGBCombination using red stack as luminance

* CurvesTransformations to adjust lightness, contrast, colors, saturation, etc.

* SCNR green (a little)> invert > SCNR (a lot) > invert

* UnsharpMask for additional sharpening

* LocalHistogramTransformation

* more curves

* Annotation

C90 mak-cas telescope mounted on iOptron Skyguider Pro. 17mm EP with 12.5mm t-extension, f/42, effective focal length 3750mm. MP4 4K video cropped, centred and converted to AVI with PIPP. Best 10% stacked with AutoStakkert, moons brightened with PhotoShop.

The Flower Moon from Austin, Texas at 2018-05-30 05:02 UT. Taken with a Questar telescope 1350/89mm f/15 with a Sony a6300 camera at prime focus for 1/60 sec at ISO 100. The best 8 of 100 images were stacked in Autostakkert 3, deconvolved in Lynkeos, with final crop and exposure adjustments in Photoshop.

Stack of 1200 frames with iPhone through NexStar 8 SE telescope. Stacked & edited in PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax, Nebulosity & Gimp.

White light image taken with a 70mm refractor with Thousand Oaks Solar Filter

H-alpha image taken with a Coronado PST

Both images shot with an ASI120MM camera. Best 50% of 3000 frames stacked using Autostakkert!2 and processed in Lightroom

Taken using Celestron 127 SLT, Nikon D3300, 400 stacks, ISO 800, 1/3200. Post-Processed in PiPP, Autostakkert 3!, & Photoshop.

Saturn 18th July 2022(01:55 UT). The transit of Iapetus can just be seen. A single 11,000 frame AVI was used here to produce a stack of 5,000 frames. Several other AVI's that were captured this morning were not as sharp. Captured using Firecapture V2.5.

Processed using Autostakkert V3.1.4 and Registax V6 . Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera, Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow and ZWO ADC. A very warm night here, camera temperature was showing as 26 C !

This is my goto region for testing imaging the Moon.

The craters at the bottom are Herodotus (on the left) and Aristarchus (on the right). Extending above them, to the north then turning west is Vallis Schroteri. Toward the top of the image is Mons Herodotus and Rima Agricola.

This was shot with the Celestron Edge HD 925 and ZWO ASI120MM. I tried taking stacks with the green and blue filters, but clouds were moving in. I wasn't able to get as sharp an image with those. Thus, this is only with the Optolong R filter. The imaging path off the back of the scope was a ZWO EFW filter wheel, followed by a TeleVue 3x Barlow (mounted backwards), followed by some spacers, followed by the camera. Using the Barlow this way doesn't quite give you 3x, but it still more than doubles the focal length. I'll need to do some tests to figure out exactly what I'm getting. I have found that the farther you put the camera from the Barlow, the more focal length you get. That shouldn't be surprising, but it was nice to confirm.

Best 400 of 1000 frames, stacked in AutoStakkert. Remaining processing in PixInsight. Taken on the night of 2021-08-20, with the Moon at a lunation of 12.65 days, 98.0% illuminated, and a distance of 371500 km.

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.

Meade 8" SCT @ f/50

UV = BG39 + W47 filters

Baader 680nm IR Pass filter

2500 frames stacked each channel with Autostakkert

IR-sG-UV

Processed in Photoshop CS5 with Astra Image wavelets and Topaz Detail

Stack from iPhone video through 8" telescope. Edited heavily in Nebulosity, Gimp & Instagram. Aligned in PIPP, stacked in Autostakkert, RGB aligned in Registax

104_8459-61 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert.

Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus. The Sun is visually much 'quieter' at the moment. Best 10 of 20 jpgs stacked using Autostakkert 2

6 Pane Mosaic, each pane is a stack of 300 frames from a 3000 frame stack. Stacked in AutoStakkert!2 and pieced together in MS ICE. Processed in Astra Image 4.

Telescope: Skywatcher 200P

Camera: ZWO ASI120MC-S

5x Powermate

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 and Canon 1100D at prime focus on an EQ5 Pro mount, tracking.

Best 75% of 195 frames shot in RAW, converted into TIFFs then stacked using Autostakkert! 2. Stacked image was processed in Registax 6, Fast Stone Image Viewer and Lightroom

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

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

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.

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.