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Astronomical seeing was pretty decent when I captured the Jupiter data for the image immediately proceeding this one. My optics were starting to dew over, to I replaced the front cover, waited for an hour and found that the dew heater had completely dried the front glass on my SCT. I slewed to Mars and found that astronomical seeing had dramatically worsened. Being at the telescope and ready for another capture, I did 10 iRGB runs of 45s per filter at gain 400. In processing I found the B channel completely unuseable and the G channel not much better. I tried combining the colors anyway, and the image barely looked like Mars. The R channel, captured in IR, looked pretty decent, so I salvaged what I could.
ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25"
TeleVue NP101is/2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
About 20,000 frames per filter x 10 RGB runs captured with FireCapture
Best 60% stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
Taken on the 12-11-13 with a Canon 600D using a Canon F4 IS L 70-200mm Zoom Lens. 10 images stacked using Autostakkert 2
Waxing Gibbous Moon (72%)
5 min AVI video processed in PIPP (Planetary Imaging PreProcessor) using 25% best images; 1,767 images processed in AutoStakkert using 1000 best images; Deconvolution in Astra Image; High Pass sharpening in Photoshop, final edit and export in Lightroom Classic.
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Location: Montclair, California, USA (Bortle 8)
Date: January 11, 2022
Moon: Waxing Gibbous (72%)
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro
Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 61II APO f/5.9
Flattener/Reducer: William Optics FLAT61A Field Flattener
Filter: Optolong L-Pro 2”
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Guide Scope: William Optics UniGuide 32 f/3.75
Camera Settings: Gain 100 | f/5.9 | 5 ms
Acquisition: 5 min video
Software: ZWO ASIAIR PRO, PIPP, AutoStakkert!, Astra Image, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom Classic
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Copyright © 2022 Steven K. Wu Photography. All Rights Reserved.
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/i8)
Losmandy G11
2000 frames captured in Firecapture
Best 60% of frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpening in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
Captured with a Nikon D5500 and a 10-inch Meade LX200 'Classic' f/6.3 wide-field telescope.
EXIF data is removed via stacking processes in Autostakkert!2 for planetary imaging and in Deep Sky Stacker for deep sky imaging.
Celestron Maksutov 127
ZWO ASI120MC-S
EQ5 Synscan
Frames: 1440
Df: 1500mm.
F: 12
Captura: Firecapture
Procesado: Autostakkert + Fitsworks + Registax + Lr
Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda
Observatorio Astronómico Altaír
Poncitlán Jalisco México
After learning more skills in processing, I've pre-processed this Lunar Mosaic I composed of 18 individual shots I took on 09-09-14. I'm a lot happier with this version, the colour looks natural and not as over processed as before.
09 / 09 / 14
98% Illuminated
Scope: Skywatcher 200P 8" Newtonian
Mount: EQ5
Camera: ZWO ASI120MC-S
Capture info: 18x 1000 Frame Captures, 50% (500) frames stacked.
Software: Firecapture 2.4beta, PIPP, AutoStakkert!2, MS ICE, Photoshop CC 2014
This animation includes Jupiter, Europa and its shadow, Ganymede and its shadow, and Io. At the beginning of the animation, Io is already in front of Jupiter's disk near the left limb, but has blended with Jupiter's surface and cannot be seen.
Ganymeded is the bright object to the left of Jupiter. It can be followed in its transit toward the right for a few frames, at which time it also blends with Jupiter's surface. At about the same time and in about the same place that Ganymeded blends, Io's shadow appears on Jupiter's surface just inside of the left limb.
Next, Ganymede's larger and darker shadow appears of Jupiter's left limb and begins follow Io's shadow as they transit toward the right. At about the same time, Europa becomes visible just inside of Jupiters right limb, and can be seen completing its transit of Jupiter, and exiting toward the right.
While all of this is occuring, Io is passing behind Jupiter and is either hidden by Jupiter itself, or hidden in Jupiter's shadow. Shortly after Europa exits from Jupiter's disk, Io emerges from Jupiter's shadow well-separated from Jupiter's disk in the upper right corner of the image.
At the very end of the sequence Ganymede approaches the right limb and can be seen up until just before it exits Jupiter's disk.
The sequence is composed of 63 sets of
1,900 OSC frames shot in four minute intervals. The best 50% of each set of frames were stacked in Autostakkert, and the stacked image was wavelet sharpened in Registax. The AVI animation was compiled in PIPP.
ZWO ASI178MC
Tele Vue 2.5x PowerMate
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
Jupiter 4th Sept 2021(22:49 UT). Two 3 minute stacks, (best 4,000 frames each) - 8,000 frames in total, 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.
Here is a view of last night's 68% illuminated moon. Video capture and stacked using the best 20% of 1000 frames.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90 SCT Telescope, Antares Focal Reducer, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at 0F, best 20% of 1000 captured frames, Celestron CGX-L pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in Autostakkert and Registax. Image Date: June 4, 2025. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Equipment
ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25" (iRGB)
Tele Vue 2.5x PowerMate
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
Software
2 x iRGB runs of 45s each in FireCapture
Preprocessed in PIPP
Best 50% of frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
De-rotated in WinJuPos
Noise reduction in Topaz DeNoise AI
Finished in Photoshop
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Three 1 minute 4K MP4s centred, cropped and stacked with PIPP and AutoStakkert. Moons brightened and planet contrast increased wih PhotoShop,
A view in white light of today’s sun showing the two huge active regions AR12674 and AR12673. Image composite of the north and south regions merged to create this whole sun view, artificial color added to the view.
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 4, 2017.
[Update] : Watch full video here (because Flickr limits the video duration) on YouTube : www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuEm7tNwT4w.
Here is finally my video of the rare total supermoon eclipse of september 28 2015 captured from France.
I made a small "movie introduction", if you prefer you can directly go at 1:08 .
All pictures were taken during this event.
You will find most of them in this album : flic.kr/s/aHskmB4pXT
Some images are more detailed because they are composed of several photos stacked together with Registax or Autostakkert freewares.
Feel free to share and give me your impression about this video.
Technical Datas :
- Canon EOS 600D at prime focus of a 200/800 mm newtonian without coma corrector
- Lunar Tracking with a lxd75 mount
- Some videos were taken using a small sony handycam sx15
The music used is made by Valère Leroy (Space Music : space-music.net/topic/index.html)
My newly-created blog (french description): astroguigeek.blogspot.com/
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
Shot before dark with a setting Sun nearby. An experiment really but I'm quite surprised with the result!
Shot through a R/IR filter. 3 frames each 120 x only 8fps. 20% stacked in AutoStakkert. Final process/rescue in Photoshop!!!
Lunar crater Bailly, 25th Feb 2021, 20:13UT. taken with the ASI224MC at F11 with IR pass filter(685Nm), Six images stitched together using MS ICE, each image the best 500 frames from 2,000 captured (1 minute). Equipment used Celestron C14 edge HD and CGEPRO mount. Processed using Autostakkert V3 and Registax V6, Microsoft Image Composite Editor.
C9.25 @ f/20,ZWO ADC and ASI 462C colour camera. Captured a 3000 frame SER using IR block filter and a 2500 frame SER with I/R pass filter in Firecapture,stacked in Autostakkert 3 (50% of each video) and LRGB combined in
Maxim DL4,finishing in AstroSurface and PC CS2.
Seeing was,as per usual,unsteady making focusing difficult.
Captured using Askar FRA400 with Altair Hypercam 533C.
Processed in AutoStakkert and Affinity Photo.
Main region at top-right is 3363.
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 Mare Serenitatis with the large crater Posidonius on the right hand edge. The little bay below that is Le Monnier. The partially illuminated crater at the bottom is Plinius.
Equipo: Star Adventurer - Mak 102 - Barlow 2x - Canon 60D
Magic Lantern 640 x 480 x 5x
Video RAW . ISO 1600 - 1/33s - 30 fps - Apilado 75% de 1798 frames
Procesado: DNG2RAW - PIPP - AutoStakkert - Photoshop
The Shadow of Io and the Great Red Spot
I used the 2700mm f15 Skymax 180 scope for this shot but doubled its focal length to 5400mm with a 2x Powermate.
Prior to my session, I used Stellarium to look for interesting interactions between Jupiter and its moons and finally found what I was looking for. Io was to sit just outside Jupiter’s disk on November 15th, with its dark shadow projected onto the planet’s surface and the Great Red Spot front and center. The principles were projected to be in position by 11pm. It took nearly two hours to get the scope set up and cooled down but I still had plenty of time before the big event.
I used the ZWO 585, making SER files in FireCapture at about 14fps, stacked 1,588 individual frames in Autostakkert, sharpened with Registax and tweaked in Lightroom.
2 days to go!
Transparency (4/5)
Seeing (3/5)
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
Re-Process:
My first Jupiter with the ASI120MC-s. I took this on the 6th January. I had a few issues getting used to the software settings in Firecapture, but I've picked up a few tips since, so I'm already looking forward to the next session when the weather calms down again.
Skywatcher 200p
ASI120MC-S
2.5x Powermate
3000/5000 frames stacked in Autostakkert!2
Registax6
Photoshop CC 2015
Houston, Texas. Saturn passing 0.1° west-northwest of Jupiter 32 minutes after sunset on December 21, 2020. Equipment: Celestron 9.25" f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain, Nikon Z7, Celestron AVX Mount. Stacked frames from 5 x 1 min videos using camera movie mode: 2160p, 30 fps, DX frame, varying ISO (64, 100, 200, 400, 800). Post-Processing: PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, and Photoshop. Previous such close conjunction happened on July 17, 1623. Next such close conjunction will be on March 15, 2080.
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. This is a crop of the original image that showed all four Galilean Moons.
ZWO ASI 1600 Cool on Double Double stacked Lunt L60 Pressure Tuned.
55 frames of 200 stacked in Autostakkert, Lucy-Richardson de-convolution in ImPPG.
Final processing in Photoshop
Shown here on the waning gibbous moon, the crater Plato and the Alpine Valley (upper left third and lower right third respectively).
This photo is best seen at full size (1600 x 1080) or in the Flickr Lightbox.
Image capture done with a Celestron C9.25 Edge HD, an Astro-Physics 2X barlow, and a Sony NEX-5R digital camera (manually selected, best 29 images out of a series of 80 still captures, ISO 200, 1/15 second at an effective focal length of 5170mm).
Image processing done in AutoStakkert! 2 (stacking), PixInsight (sharpening), Photoshop CS5, and Adobe Lightroom.
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Image captured with a Stellarvue SVX90T and Player One Uranus camera. Autostakkert and Registax used for processing.
The waning gibbous Moon from Austin, Texas at 06-03-2018 10:02 UT. Questar 1350/89mm f/15 telescope with Sony a6300 camera at prime focus. Exposed for 1/30 sec at ISO 100. Best 8 of 115 images stacked in Autostakkert 3, deconvolved in Lynkeos, with final crop and exposure in Photoshop.
Luna del 09-08-2016
Apilado 7% de 41 frames de video MLV 2496 x 1080 recortados.
SW Dob 8" f/6 - Canon 60D - ISO 400 - 1/400s - Foco primario.
Procesado: PIPP - AutoStakkert - Registax - Adobe Lightroom
For the first time I've managed to stack a few frames. They've been taken in a very short period of time, then stacked in Autostakkert 2. Some convincing result came out of it eventually, more details and less sensitivity for extra saturation. This way solar arrays have a faint, but steady orange colour, Progress-67 cargo vehicle and other elements of the station are somewhat more realistic. Stacking (8 ISS frames) proved to be very helpful eventually, definitely the way forward...
Pochi frames per questo Saturno in una serata con seeing buono, ma le velature hanno subito interrotto la "festa" costringendomi ad interrompere l'acquisizione.
Pianeta: Saturno.
Data: 8 giugno 2016.
Luogo: Pedara (CT).
Ora (locale): 03:55.
Seeing (scala di Antoniadi): 4/5.
Telescopio: Celestron CPC-800 xlt.
Barlow: 2.5x GSO.
Lunghezza focale: 5150 mm
Risoluzione: 0.16"
Camera di ripresa: ASI120MC.
Numero di frames acquisiti: 572.
Numero di frames elaborati: 75% (429).
FPS: 13.
Durata del filmato: 42.446 s.
ROI: 640x480
Software di elaborazione: Autostakkert 2.5.17, Registax 6.1, Photoshop 6.
Telescopio Celestron Newton 114/900, Montatura eq2 Camera planetaria Qhy5L-II Software Sharpcap per l’acquisizione di 15 video da 10 secondi a 15 fps Autostakkert 3 e Registax 6 per l’elaborazione di ciascun video Autostitch per unire 15 foto Camera raw per luminosità e contrasto Dimensioni della foto:2406 x 2449
Date: July 24, 2021
Location: Cabras, Italy
Bresser 90mm f/10 achromat and Lunt CaK B1200 module with QHY5III 178M. Six 500 frame SER files recorded in Firecapture,stacked in Autostakkert 3 and stitching of mosaic carried out in Photoshop CS2,wavelet treatment in Astrosurface and final processing back in PS CS2.
Taken 03/04/22
Saturn, taken on March 25, 2015, from the summit of Haleakala on Maui. Conditions were good but there was still a fair amount of star twinkle.
Shot three two-minute 8-bit movies using a monochrome ASI120MM camera through red, green and blue filters on an 11” Celestron Edge HD telescope. Stacked the 30% best frames using AutoStakkert! Wavelet sharpening using Registax. De-rotated and color channels blended using WinJUPOS.
'Lunar X'
Celestron C9.25 Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope
ZWO ASI120MM mono camera
Best 30% of 3000 frames stacked in Autostakkert, wavelets adjust with Registax6
Sometimes, you grab the equipment nearby and do what you can.
I have an on-going project on Instagram under the account lunar_thad -- the idea was to get out my 10" Coulter Odyssey Dobsonian more often. I figured I could set it up quickly, get out my phone, and get an afocal shot of the moon on any night where other life obligations didn't make that too difficult.
Last night (2019-04-11), after getting home from teaching an astronomy lab, the sky was clear. From the weather forecast earlier, I was not expecting that. I set up for my shot, and I saw the lunar X along the terminator. I had never been observing at just the right time to notice it before, but it was really obvious. I played with exposures a bit, and settled on 1/250 s to get features along the terminator.
Later, I pulled the images off my phone and turned them into an AVI. When I tried running this AVI through AutoStakkert, it let me stack 5 frames. That is what you have here. The lunar X is about 1/4 of the way up from the bottom. For a stack of impromptu afocal shots, I'm pretty happy with this. And I finally caught the X!
Lunation: 6.87 days
Illumination: 43.9%
Distance: 371000 km
Altitude: 34°
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 and Canon 600D. Best 20 of 35 JPGs stacked in Autostakkert. No other processing involved other than cropping and some levels. Total processing time was less than 10 minutes.
White light image taken with a 70mm refractor + Thousand Oaks solar filter
H-alpha image taken with a Coronado PST
Both images produced by attaching an ASI120MM CMOS camera to the telescope. Best 1000 frames stacked in Autostakkert!2 and processed in Lightroom
H-alpha is a stitch of 2 images. Some lovely filaments on show today.
I had so many technical issues today that I'm amazed I actually got anything usable! Still on a steep learning curve with the CMOS camera
The very nice Active Region 2835 (along with the smaller 2836 and 2837). Sharpstar 61 EDPH with Artesky Herschel Wedge and ASI290MM. Skywatcher Star Adventurer. Best 20% of 1000 frames acquired with Sharpcap and processed with Autostakkert, Registax and PS.
Seeing 3/5 T
ransparency 2.5/5.
10 min video derotated. 1.5X drizzle
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
Three panels imaged on the 21st February 2018 with a 33% waxing Moon on day 6 of that cycle.
Celestron Nexstar 8SE with Moonlite powered microfocuser.
Ioptron ZEQ25GT equatorial mount
ZWO ASI 174 MC Cooled running at -1c
Each panel was a 5000 frame video with best 50% of frames stacked in AutoStakkert!3.
Dark blue is titanium rich lava and dark brown is Iron rich lava in the Mare regions.
Separate processing of luminance (wavelets in Registax) and RGB data (saturation and vibrance in LR and PS) then combined as layers with luminance overlay in Photoshop.
Some Lunar 100 objects in this field:
L10 Mare Crisium
L12 Proclus
L16 Petavius
L25 Messier and Messier A
L31 Taruntius
L85 Langrenus rays
Stavolta il seeing buono unito ad una discreta trasparenza (almeno nei pochi minuti in cui ho fatto il filmato, poi si è annuvolato) hanno permesso di ottenere una foto di Marte che mi soddisfa.
Data: 08/06/2016
Diametro: 18.35"
Magnitudine: -1.86
CM=337.4°
Luogo: Pedara (CT).
Ora (locale): 23:08.
Seeing (scala di Antoniadi): 4/5.
Telescopio: Celestron CPC-800 xlt.
Barlow: 2.5x GSO.
Lunghezza focale: 5150 mm
Risoluzione: 0.15"
Camera di ripresa: ASI120MC.
Numero di frames acquisiti: 5000.
Numero di frames elaborati: 75% (3750).
FPS: 38.
Durata del filmato: 131.031 s.
ROI: 640x480
Software di elaborazione: Autostakkert 2.5.17, Registax 6.1, Photoshop 6.