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Video of Jupiter from Dec. 2022. Mewlon 210 and QHY 5lll 290C camera. 50% of 3000 images stacked with Registax, Astrosurface and Autostakkert. Registax used for sharpening. Do you think there is a clear winner?
24 panel mosaic captured during the 97% waxing phase on January 26. Each panel is the best 60% of 4000 frames and was captured at 1920x1280 ROI.
Celestron CPC Deluxe 1100 Edge HD
Altair IMX174 Mono camera - Green Channel Filter
X-Cel 3.0 Barlow
PrimaLuceLab Eagle 2 Pro
If viewing with a PC, click on the image twice to zoom to full size then move the cursor around to move the image.
SharpCap, Autostakkert 3.14, Registax 6.1.0.8, Photoshop CC 2021
First Saturn of the season. A slightly more successful night's imaging but it was still touch and go with uninvited cloud mucking up the shots, so this is cobbled together from the best frames of each video. Saturn reached opposition on the 2nd June so this is the best time to view and image it.
Image made from 3 videos - a total of 6076 frames
Captured with FireCapture
Processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, Registax, and Photoshop
Equipment:
Celestron NexStar 127 SLT
Skywatcher EQ5 Mount
ZWO ASI120 MC imaging camera
Forzada saturación de colores en Photoshop para distinguir diferente composición mineral.
Seeing normalito tirando a malo.
Telescopio: Refractor Bresser Messier Acro 102/460 f4.5
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MC
Montura: iOptron AZ Mount Pro
Filtros: Baader Contrast Booster Filter
Software: FireCapture, Pipp, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2021-07-24 (24 de julio de 2021)
Hora: 01:42 U.T. (Tiempo universal)
Fase lunar: 100.0% 13.94 días Creciente (Llena a las 4:36)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 5 videos de 1 minuto cada uno
Resolución: 3096x2080
Gain: 229 (44%)
FPS: 30 + 29 + 30 + 29 + 29
Exposure: 0.282ms
Frames: 1802+1763+1800+1822+1768 = 8985
Frames apilados: 45%
Sensor temperature= 33.5°C
The ISS crossing in front of the Sun as seen from Wimbledon, South West London on 18th June 2017
Composite image consisting of individual frames extracted from the capture video
Lunt LS60 scope, Televue 2.5x Powermate, ASI174MM camera
Processed using Virtualdub, PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax and Photoshop CC
Rendered in false colour
The atmosphere was somewhat less turbulent than normal, not great, but much better than the usual bad conditions. One problem of living under the jet stream.
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Meade Ar5 refractor
Imaging cameras: Point Grey 5MP mono
Mounts: Celestron CG-4 MotorDrive
Software: Autostakkert! Autostackert! · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Filters: Red
Date:Jan. 22, 2021
Frames: 600
FPS: 12.00000
Focal length: 1150
Resolution: 5983x7927
Data source: Backyard
Description
2 panel mosaic, each 300/2500 frames
ZWO ASI290MM
TeleVue NP101is/2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy GM8
4000 frames captured in Firecapture
Best 60% stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
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 centred (not cropped) and best 50% converted to AVI with PIPP. Best 5% of AVI stacked with AutoStakkert. Brightened moons and moved planet and moons back to the diagonal with PhotoShop.
Inspired by a lecture to our astronomy society from Damian Peach, as well as a short discussion with the great planetary imager afterwards, I revisited the best nights of data capture I have ever had for Jupiter, the successive nights of 14 and 15 October 2011, taken from my home observatory in Southern England. Although there have been some good nights in the intervening years, none have been quite as clear and certainly none at all so far in 2015-2016.
This time I have stacked the raw RGB files with Autostakkert, sharpened the wavelets in Registax and used Winjupos to derotate four RGB sets covering around 18 minutes on the late evening of 15 October 2011.
Happy memories and an improved final image!
Peter
Equipment used:
12inch LX200 SCT, 2.5x Powermate, RGB filters, DMK 21AU04 mono CCD.
Seeing 2.5/5
Transparency 2.5/5.
15 min video derotated. 1.5X drizzle
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
First light for my new ZWOASI120MC cmos camera which I got for Christmas. We've had the mono version for years and I loved it, but it stopped running on my Windows 8 laptop and nothing we tried would stop it from crashing each time I plugged it in. So I haven't used it for a very long time and it's in fact now used as a guide camera in our observatory set up! I got the colour version for Christmas but hadn't even plugged it in because I assumed I would have the same issues that I had with the older camera. Today I just figured I'd give it a try and to my astonishment it worked!
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, and the ASI120MC camera with a 2x Barlow attached. The whole assembly was on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier.
2,000 frame video shot using SharpCap, the best % frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3 Beta and wavelets adjusted in Registax 6. The image was then processed in Lightroom, Fast Stone Image Viewer and Focus Magic.
104_8252 moons 1/8s f/24 51200 ISO
104_8254-6 planet 1/60s f/24 4000 ISO
Prcessed planet with PIPP and AutoStakkert, enlarged to match still photo of moons, then merged with PhotoShop.
The moons from left to right are: Ganymede, Europa, Io and Callisto. The GRS is to the left of the upper equatorial belt.
104_6424,5,6 4K MP4s centred, cropped and stacked with PIPP and AutoStakkert.
Plenty of activity on this side of the sun at the moment, today there was an M5-class solar flare from sunspot AR2173. Seeing pretty turbulent so not as sharp as I'd like. Captured using PHD Planetary on the Orion SSAG, best 1800 frames of 2000 stacked in Autostakkert! and processed in PS.
Thanks for looking!
Taken with a Coronado PST, 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D
Different set of exposures taken for the full disc and the prominences, then the colour was removed before stacking.
Full disc: best 65% of 150 frames
Prominences: best 50% of 173
Images stacked using Autostakkert! 2, then processed in Adobe Lightroom. The 2 images were then merged using a layer mask in Photoshop CS2 and false colour added back in
27% Waxing Crescent Moon. Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor with ASI120MC camera + Celestron 3x Barlow. The telescope was on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier.
2,000 frame video was captured using SharpCap, the best 30% of the frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3 then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer. The first video I shot was pretty clear but then thin cloud was moving across the Moon for the remainder of the imaging session.
This region shows the craters near to the shadow terminator and the south western region. The crater with a central peak at the top of this image is Piccolimini. To the lower left are two more craters with central peaks, and they are Pitiscus and Vlaq. There are so many craters to study during this lunar phase!
Ok Seeing
Skywatcher 130P, Nikon D3300, x2 Barlow
800/2000 frames stacked in Autostakkert!2, Wavelets in R6, final tweaks in Photoshop.
Questa l'immagine del Sole stamattina in luce bianca con il Seestar S50. Da un filmato di 1793 frames, il 50% dei quali elaborati con PIPP, Autostakkert, AstroSurface V5, Photoshop.
A 2 panel stitched image.
Telescope: Altair Astro StarWave 102ED
Camera: Altair IMX178Colour Hypercam.
Captured using Sharpcap 3.0
Post processed with Autostakkert 3.0, Microsoft ICE and Photoshop CC 2017
Mak 102 - Canon 60D - Foco primario - Video RAW - SW Star Adventurer
Procesado: PIPP - AutoStakkert - Registax - Adobe LR
10 panel mosaic
Skywatcher 120ED (F=900mm)
img132e
Autostakkert 2
PixInsight
Microsoft ICE
Sri Damansara, Malaysia
On Sunday night my balcony observatory got half an hour of great seeing.
I observed visually, and it was probably the best Jupiter that I have ever seen. The eye could easily distinguish the disks of the satellites and almost all the details and swirls that are in the photo. It was really amazing. While I was installing the camera, focusing etc, turbulence was increasing rapidly so Blue channel was taken in best seeing, Green is average and Red was below average.
This was taken from my balcony in Brisbane.
OTA: TAL250K (Klevtsov's System, 250mm, F/8.5 or 6.0 with flattener/reducer)
Mount EQ6-R PRO, camera ASI290MM Mono, 2x Svbony Barlow Lens effectively as 2.5x. Noname 1.2" LRGB filters set and manual noname wheel.
Three videos was captured about 200 seconds (~10K frames) each, best frames margin was set about 35%.
Software Toolchain:
FireCapture -> AutoStakkert -> WinJupos -> Registax(Wavelets) -> PS
Photos taken with 8in SkyWatcher Dobsonian telescope mounted on Asterion Ecliptica equatorial platform.
Saturn processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert then merged with shot of moons using PhotoShop.
104_7521 Moons 1/4s f/24 51200 ISO
104_7556-60 1/60s f/24 4000 ISO
Optics : TEC 140 F/7 Apo
Filter : Baader Cool-Ceramic Herschel Wedge + Baader Solar Continuum Filter (540 nm) 2";
Camera : ZWO ASI 174 MM;
Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier;
Software : FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Photoshop.
Casalecchio di Reno - Italia
44° 29’ 29” N
11° 14’ 58” E
Captured 300 frames with Firecapture
Stacked best 75% in Autostakkert!
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
ZWO ASI178MC
Tele Vue NP101is/2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor on an EQ5 Pro mount with a Canon 1100D at prime focus.
ISO-800 1/2000 sec exp
Best 49% of 178 frames stacked in Autostakkert! 2 then processed in Lightroom and Focus Magic.
This is the first time I've imaged the Moon with this set up without the 2x Barlow in the imaging train and I think it has improved the result, even though the final image is a much more aggressive crop from the original
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor using a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus. Best 20 of 40 images stacked using Autostakkert
I decided to setup for some Planetary imaging last night. I ended up with a fairly decent image of Jupiter with two Galilean moons "IO" and "Europa".
APM 152mm Apochromatic Refractor
Zwoasi224 planetary camera
EQ6r pro mount
Best 30% of 2000 frames
stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet transformation done in registax6
Post Processing in Photoshop
Finalized in Topaz Labs De-noise AI
First imaging run with a dedicated astrocam - a QHY5L-II guider / planetary camera.
This image is a stitch of 7 images covering the thin crescent moon yesterday evening.
Video sequences were recorded and the sharpest frames processed by AutoStakkert and Registax. The individual images were then combined using Microsoft ICE.
Another cloudy day but with a few gaps now and then so managed to run off a few SER recordings using the 72ED with full aperture Hoya neutral density 16 filter and Sol'Ex with QHY5III 178M. Dopplergram is a single image created in INTI,Continuum image I chose as near a secluded line slightly past the Halpha line and this is a stack of four. Halpha image is a stack of six out of ten. Stacking carried out in Autostakkert,processing in Astrosurface and PS CS2.
Note.Use of Hoya neutral density filter on the front of the scope is to protect the mirror slit of the SHG. Under no circumstances is it to be used in this way for visual use.
Questa è l’immagine ottenuta dall’ultima ripresa video del gigante gassoso nella notte tra il 17 e il 18 settembre. Grazie a una migliore stabilità atmosferica ho ottenuto forse il miglior risultato della serata. Poi ho preferito un’elaborazione più leggera e ho aumentato un po’ la saturazione per mostrare meglio la GMR e i colori delle bande atmosferiche.
Il satellite Europa è in basso a destra.
Dati:
Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newton
Montatura eq2 con motore AR con pulsantiera
Camera QHY5L-II-C
Barlow 2x Celestron Omni acromatica
Filtro UV-IR cut
Sharpcap per un video di 90 secondi contenente 9847 fotogrammi
PIPP, Autostakkert!3 e Astrosurface per elaborarne il 25%
Data: 17 settembre 2022 alle 22:44 UTC
Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia
There will be a partial solar eclipse visible in the UK on the morning of 10th June 2021. From Northern Ireland, about 43% of the Sun will be eclipsed.
I usually use my 900mm f/7.5 refractor for solar work but it is too zoomed in to give me a complete disc.
This was taken with my 480mm f/6 refractor. If its clear at my home location, I will use this set-up to safely image the event.
At a focal length of 480mm, there wont be much detail in any sunspots. AR2824 is seen here with AR2825 on the limb.
Must aim to centre the Sun a little better.
480mm f/6 refractor with Baader Herschel Wedge.
ZWO ASI 174MM camera
Best 25% of 30 second video.
Acquired with FireCapture v2.6
Stacked in Autostakkert!3, best 25%
FireCapture v2.6 Settings
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Camera=ZWO ASI174MM-Cool
Filter=L
Profile=Sun
Duration=30.005s
Frames captured=2873
File type=SER
Binning=no
ROI=1936x1216
FPS (avg.)=95
Shutter=0.406ms
Gain=120 (30%)
Gamma=OFF
Histogram=97%
Limit=30 Seconds
Sensor temperature=25.6°C
Focuser position=0
Equipment:
- Nikon D90 (Astro-Mod)
- Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
- Sky-Watcher Tripod
- Rokinon 135mm f2
- AF-S NIKKOR 500mm f/5.6E
Acquisition:
- Taken 6/24/2021 from Sharon CT
- Taken from a bortle class 2 zone
- ISO 100, F2.8, 1/320 second
- 1505 total frames, stacked the best 35%
- 100 dark frames
Processing:
- Pre-processed to tif in PIPP
- Stacked with 1.5x drizzle in Autostakkert
- Linearfit RGB to get better color in pixinisight
- SNCR green
- Sharpened in registax
- Blended sharpened and unsharpened version to get nice halo in pixinisight
- invert+sncr to get rid of purple noise
- curves transformation to up saturation
- LRGB combo for finishing touches
Atmospheric turbulence was quite bad tonight but pleased to get my first image of Mars. Southern Polar cap seen at the bottom.
The dark feature towards the top is Niliacus Lacus. The bright region on the left is the Tharsis region.
Celestron 9.25 inch SCT with ZWO224MC colour camera.
ZWO ADC at +/-2
FireCapture acquisition software
AutoStakkert!3 for stacking.
RegiStax6 for wavelet sharpening
Colour balance in PS.
Best 50% stacked of a 5000 frame video @ 108 frames per second. Focal length = 6000mm.
21 arcseconds diameter and increasing as it nears Earth in its orbit. It’s just after winter solstice on Mars (Ls =279) so Southern Hemisphere is tilted sunwards.
Magnitude -2.2
Distance 3.7 Light minutes
CM = 40
Skywatcher Evostar 120
Quark Daystar Chromosphere
ZWO ASI120MM Camera
best 40% of 2000 frames sacked in Autostakkert, wavelets adjusted in Registax6 and colour added in PS
Mond in RGB
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Nikon D5300
Sigma 150 - 600 mm @ 600 mm
ISO 320
f/8
293 x 1/1250 Sec.
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Stacking & Edit
Lr CC
PIPP
Autostakkert
Astra Image
PS
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This is the same data as used in www.flickr.com/photos/79161275@N05/8523074995/in/photostr...
I think I have managed to tease out a little more detail. Not sure if that is because Autostakkert has done a better job than Registax or my wavelet tweaks were more effective. Comments very welcome please.
Skywatcher Explorer 250 pds, x2 Barlow QHY132E. Stacked in autostakkert2 wavelets in registax. Finished in Photoshop.
I embarked on a mammoth lunar imaging session on 10th February so I could produce an animation showing the sunrise over some prominent craters. I've already shared the video I created with the data but am now sharing the still images. If you didn't see the animation you can watch it here:
I was imaging from15:45 UT until 22:30 UT and during that time the Moon changed its illumination from 69% to 72%.
Taken from Oxfordshire with a William Optics 70mm refractor and ASI120MC camera through a Celestron 3x Barlow. A 2,000 frame video was shot with SharpCap and depending on the quality graph I stacked either 50 or 25% of the frames using Autostakkert! 3. Processing with Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.
The waxing crescent moon as photographed on the evening of April 30, 2017.
Taken using a 5" refractor and a ZWO ASI178MM-Cool camera with a Baader Long Pass filter (610nm, deep red).
Image stacking with AutoStakkert! (best 20% of 2000 frames), sharpening with Registax, and final processing with Adobe Photoshop CC2017.
Best seen at full size (2048 x 1405 pixels) and against a dark background (click on the image to enter the Flickr lightbox).
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SkyWatcher Explorer-130/900 EQ2, 3xBarlow and Vesta Pro webcam.
Stacked in Autostakkert!2 and post processed with Registax 6 and GIMP.
Palus Epidemiarum literally translates as the "Marsh of Epidemics", though there are better reasons to keep your face covered on the Moon.
Canon EOS 80D + Orion SkyQuest XT10 + Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate (giving an effective focal length of 3,000 mm).
Broadstairs, April 2021.
The galactic centre of the Milky Way located about 30,000 light years from the Earth, the two giants Jupiter and Saturn, above the Atlantic towards the islands of Houat and Hoedic from the "pointe du Conguel" at the end of the Quiberon peninsula.
July the 16th.
Nikon z7 20mm f/1.8 5000iso 8s. 5 frames stacked with Autostakkert. Processed with Darktable.
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Région de Seleucus et Schiaparelli dans l'océan Procellarum.
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 - Darktable - FastStone Images Viewer
Filtres: IR-Cut / IR-Block Player-One
Accessoires: Focuseur ZWO EAF - Barlow Kepler x2.5 + Projection par oculaire 9mm
Dates: 25 Nov. 2023- 20h45 GMT
Images unitaires: SER (500x109ms) 30% retenues
Gain: 284
Échantillonnage: 0.04 arcsec/pixel
Focale résultante: 14760mm
F/D: 59
Seeing: 2.10 "Arc
Bortle: 5
Phase de la Lune (moyenne): 96%
First test runs of hybrid H-alpha-continuum solar imaging system :)
Left - the setup in operation. The shot is Photomatix-fused HDR of three subexposures of 1/250, 1/60 and 1/15 seconds taken with Canon 60D through EF-S 17-55 f/2.8 IS USM @17 mm f/14.
Right - full-disk image of the Sun @07.06.2015 11:15 MSK taken through Meade 6000 (EFR = 960 mm, f/12). 6 panels of 180/1000 frames, stacked, deconvolved, wavelet-sharpened and manually stitched in PS using difference blending. ICE failed :(
Inset right - H-alpha fulldisk taken through piggy-backing PST with DMK23 (400 mm, f/10). 180/1000 frames, deconvolution, high-pass filtering. Orientations of images are matched.
Some considerations and observations.
1) I thought QHY5L-IIm would be good for white-light imaging of the Sun. Nope. The images show distracting vertical banding of obviously electronic nature. I'll give it yet another chance but I have doubts.
Upd: defocussed flat-field image clears the stripes very effective.
2) All these look imposing but it is effectively 20 kg so I have dismounted PST and gave it personal mounting plate. Advantage: now both tubes work with the same small counterweight - I just need to move it along the shaft when remounting.
3) Use of 2x Barlow lens gives 2,1 pixels per the unit of resolution - 1,75 arcseconds here.The use of 2,5x lens would be just fine for Nyquist sampling.
4) Cameras have difficulties reaching the focus without use of Barlow lens on 6000. Even with the diagonal. But I think that the empty casing of Meade Barlow would make a good extension tube.
Upd: proven!
Taken with a ZWO ASI120MC, 2x barlow, Celestron C8 scope, Celestron CGEM mount.
1000 frames acquired in SharpCap, then stacked in AutoStakkert, with final processing performed in LightRoom.
Trying to not use Registax anymore for processing as the results looked a little too cartoonish for my liking. I think this is a more realistic image.