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Taken with an 8" Ritchie-Chretien telescope on an EQ6 with a Canon 1100D + focal reducer

ISO-400, 500 frame video shot with Backyard EOS in dreadful seeing conditions. Best 62% of those frames stacked using Autostakkert! 3 (Beta) and then processed using Focus Magic, Photoshop CS2, Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.

 

At the point where the X and V were becoming brighter and more pronounced, a big bank of cloud put an end to my imaging run. I had so many technical issues go wrong on me whilst shooting this so I'm pleased to have managed to get anything at all!

Moon imaged at 20:00GMT 01.11.17

 

Altair Astro StarWave 102ED Refractor.

Altair IMX178 colour Hypercam

 

Captured using AltairCapture

Stacked with AutoStakkert 3

Processed with Photoshop CC 2018

 

2 panel mosaic, combined using Microsoft ICE.

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.

  

Daystar Quark ( Chromosphere ), Canon 100-400 IS at 400mm, ASI174MM, best 50% of 500 frames stacked in AutoStakkert.

 

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

Celestron SCT8i

ZWO ASI120MC-S

Celestron CGEM

 

Frames: 5000 / 500 (10%)

Df: 2000 mm.

F: 10

Captura: Firecapture

Procesado: Autostakkert + Registax + Fitsworks + Pixinsight 1.8

9 Octubre 2020

 

Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda

Observatorio Astronómico Altaír

Poncitlán Jalisco México

Aberkenfig, South Wales

Lat +51.542 Long -3.593

 

Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Olympus E410 at prime focus. EQ6 Syntrek Mount.

 

25 single shot frames stacked.

1/400s ISO 200 for each frame.

 

Processed using Autostakkert! then wavelets with Registax 6.

Final adjustments to levels using Adobe Lightroom & G.I.M.P.

 

71.1% Illuminated. Lunar south is uppermost.

 

Best viewed using the expansion arrows.

Zona de Aristóteles, Eudoxus, montes Caucasus, etc

 

Telescopio: Celestron C6-A XLT 150/1500 f10

Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM

Montura: EQ5 Bresser EXOS2 motorizada sin goto

Filtros: Baader UV/IR Cut / L-Filter

Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Fitswork

Fecha: 2019-03-13

Hora: 21:02 T.U.

Fase lunar: 43.6% 6.8 días Creciente

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 2 minutos

Resolución: 2320x1560

Gain: 91

Exposure: 0,011754

Frames: 2935

Frames apilados: 18%

FPS: 25

Meade 16" ACF

QHY Img132e

Autostakkert

Registax

Fitswork

Cs6

This is a 2 panel mosaic of a section of the 64.2% phase at 9:49 p.m. Archimedes just coming out of the terminator on the left, Aristillus and Autolycus with their rims fully illuminated but still filled with cold darkness. Cassini nicely illuminated and Aristoteles and Eudoxus bathing in the blasting lunar heat. Portions of Mare Imbrium, Mare Frigoris and Mare Serenitatis in the FOV, and the unmistakable rim of Imbrium consisting of Montes Apenninus, Montes Caucasus and Montes Alpes with their higher altitude features brightly illuminated and casting distant shadows. Even looks like the Apollo 15 site surrounded by a perfectly timed shadow.

Each panel is the best 25% of 4,000 captured frames with Autostakkert, Some wavelets applied with Registax 6, cropped, fine tuned and hand-assembled in Photoshop CC 2015.

Two bright ISS passes captured with Mak 127/1500mm scope - hand-guided.

 

Was able to align red dot finder and focus scope on nearly full Moon and Jupiter before I started.

 

I can identify the solar panels, 1 bright radiator panel and at the far end of the "body" of the station is the Zvezda service module.

 

There are 3 dots in a row under the body of the station - Im not sure what those are - I know that currently, an Orbital ATK enhanced Cygnus cargo module (CRS 9, 6.3 m long) is docked to the Harmony module - about half way along the "body". Cygnus has a central cylindrical body and 2 round solar panels but Im not certain if thats it!

 

Just for my own records trying to improve:

 

Image on 26th was captured with an Astronomik red 2c filter in situ to try to reduce atmospheric distortion.

 

FireCapture parameters were:

Camera: ZWO ASI178 MM

FoV 3096 x 2080 pxl

Gain: 368

Exp: 0.785 ms

Gamma: 90

FPS: 30

 

PIPP parameters were:

8685 frames captured

1169 frames showed ISS (13.5%)

 

Best 15 that were relatively close in time stacked in AutoStakkert!3 then wavelets adjusted in RegiStax6

Captured in collaboration with Dr Ian Griffin on 18 July 2017, the 2nd of a three night run with the 1m scope at Mt John, this is a processed stack of 3200 frames captured at prime focus (13m focal length, f/13) using a ZWO ASI178 planetary imaging camera. Aligned and stacked in AutoStakkert, wavelet processing in Registax, final levels adjustment in Photoshop

Celestron NexStar 6SE

Zwo Asi224mc with IR cut filter

Zwo ADC

Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate

 

FireCapture for ADC tuning.

SharpCap for Capturing.

2 minute video, exposure-4.5ms, gain-360

 

Processed in AutoStakkert, RegiStax and Lightroom.

Mars with one of its moons Deimos. First time I’ve managed to capture a Martian Moon! Unfortunately it’s 2nd moon Phobos was too close to the planet to pick it up because of the technique I use to image moons.

2 stacked exposures combined

 

Celestron NexStar 6SE

Zwo Asi224mc with IR cut filter

Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate

 

2 minute video in SharpCap

Processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, Lightroom and PhotoLayers

Our star today captured with an 80mm APO Refractor at F/50. Daystar Quark Chromosphere and ASI290MM. Sharpcap has been used for the capture, then Autostakkert, ImPPG and PS for the post-processing. Active regions 2778 and 2779 are now very near the limb. Some nice prominences are visible as well.

Taken with an ED100 Refractor and Canon 500D, best 15 of 30 jpg's stacked in Autostakkert, no further processing apart from cropping.

Meade 8" LX10 SCT, Televue 2.5x Powermate, Baader UV/IR cut filter, ZWO 120MC. best 30% of 4000 frames. Stacked in AutoStakkert, wavelets in Registax 6 and processed in PS. Brisbane, Australia. Seeing fair.

Jupiter

 

Taken May 13, 2016 in Seattle, WA.

 

Telescope: TEC 180 @ f/21 using Tele Vue 3x powermate

Camera: ZWO ASI 120MM-S

Mount: Astro-Physics 900

L: 1000 frames, best 25% frames used

R,G,B: each 1000 frames, best 25% rames used

 

Processed in Autostakkert (align and stack), Registax (wavelets), PixInsight (LRGB combine, color calibration, denoise), and Photoshop (final touches)

 

This is my first attempt at imaging Jupiter. I learned A LOT about capture and processing. I'm pretty happy with this result for a first try, though.

Montes Apenninus enters the frame just below center left and swoops upward and rightward toward upper left of the frame. Nestled among the center of this range is the Apollo 15 landing site.

 

The range is surrounded by dark mare. Dominating the left is Mare Serenitatis. Bottom center is Mare Vaporum. In the lower left corner is Sinus Aestuum. And upper right is Mare Imbrium.

 

Crater Eratosthenes terminates the left end of the range, and nearby Crater Copernicus' ejecta rays come in from the lower left edge.

 

The trio of prominent craters at top center, from largest to smallest, are Archimedes, Aristillus, and Autolycus.

 

ZWO ASI178MC

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)

Losmandy G11

 

2000 frames captured in Firecapture

Best 60% of frames stacked in Autostakkert

Wavelet sharpened in Registax

Finished in Photoshop

 

High wind and some fluffy clouds

 

Skywatcher 120ED (F=900mm)

ZWO ASI120MM

AutoStakkert

PixInsight

This lunar image is about at good as its going to get for my location for two reasons. First is because of weather conditions, and second is because of the extremely fortunate timing of the Moon reaching its First Quarter phase at the vernal equinox.

 

My location is in central Maryland, where clear skies are rare, and clear skies with good seeing are even rarer. This image was taken on an exceptional March evening when the sky was crystal clear and the seeing was the best that I have seen here in a very long time.

 

In addition to having a great sky for imaging, the Moon was exceptionally well-placed for my location of 39.14N latitude. I captured this image just twelve minutes after the First Quarter Moon had transited the meridian at N25 degrees declination. This declination is about 14 degrees south of my zenith. At this high elevation above the horizon and with my observing site being 151 meters above mean sea level, the Moon's light passed through just 1.035 air masses.

 

The geometry of the celestial sphere that created this high-elevation transit is fascinating, and worth exploring.

 

The trace of the Sun's annual orbit among the fixed stars defines the ecliptic. The Moon’s orbit is inclined to the ecliptic by about 5.14 degrees, so it never wanders more than 5.14 angular degrees from it.

 

The reason for high-elevation lunar transit on the day of this image has to do with both the Sun’s and the Moon’s position on or relative to the ecliptic, and the Moon's position relative to the Sun. The Sun had arrived at the vernal equinox point on the ecliptic on this day, thus marking the first day of astronomical spring. In a quarter of a year from now, the Sun will have moved one quarter of the way around the ecliptic to arrive at the summer solstice point. This will be the day that the Sun passes overhead at its highest elevation each year.

 

The Moon, which is always situated near the ecliptic, was at First Quarter on this same day. This means that the Moon is one quarter of the way around it’s monthly orbit about the Earth since it was positioned in conjunction with the Sun just a week prior. This quarter orbit of distance from the sun put the Moon near the Sun’s summer solstice point on the ecliptic, which means the Moon was near its highest point of the year when it transits the meridian on this night.

 

This image is centered on the prominent crater Agrippa, which is located in the central lunar highlands between Mare Tranquilitatus to the East, and Sinus Medii to the west. Also present in this image are three extensive rille systems that stand out under the low Sun angle: Rima Ariadaeus to the north, Rima Hyginus to the northwest, and the extenisve Rimae Triesnecker to the west. Additional rilles can be found by zooming in and panning around.

 

ZWO ASI290MM

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)

Losmandy G-11

Autostakkert! (best 10% of 3,000 frames)

Takahashi FSQ106 EDXIII

ZWO ASI1600MM-C

Celestron CGEM

 

Frames: 2000

F: 5

Df: 530 mm

ROI: 1600 x 1600

Captura: Firecapture

Procesado: Autostakkert + Registax + Pixinsight + Darktable

 

Guillermo Cervantes Mosueda

Observatorio Astronómico Altaír

Poncitlán Jalisco México

تصويري لكوكب #المشتري والقمر #أوروبا

 

#my_astrophotography

#Jupiter and it's #Europa moon

 

تم التصوير باستخدام التليسكوب:

Taken by:

Telescope 🔭

Celestron CPC 800

وباستخدام الكاميرا:

And with the camera:

ZWO ASI290MC

2x Barlow Lens

 

تم التكديس والمعالجة باستخدام:

Stacked using:

Autostakkert

Registax

Photoshop

  

104_9953-5 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert.

ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25"

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

Losmandy G11

 

10 RGB runs (4.5ms, 408 gain, 2900 frames in 30s) in FireCapture

Preprocessed in PIPP

Best 40% of frames stacked in Autostakkert

Wavelet sharpened in Registax

Finished in Photoshop

This is an animation of some proms from 14th June 2023

 

Location: West Midlands, UK

 

Scope: Coronado SM60 II

Camera: ASI 178MM, 2 x TAL Barlow

Mount: CEM60-EC

 

Integration: 106 x 500 frames, best 20% from each

Acquisition: Sharpcap Pro

Processing: AutoStakkert, PI, ImPPG and PIPP

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.

106_1723-5 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert

Taken with a Canon 60D using a Tamron SP AF70-300mm VC USD Zoom lens through a Baader Astrosolar Filter. Taken at 300mm and cropped and enlarged. Stacked 10 shots using Autostakkert 2 after automatically centering and cropping using PIPP. Shot in JPG in continous burst mode for 2 seconds. Camera held in one hand as usual for solar photography as the other hand holds the filter :-).

It's sunset on the Sea of Crises.

 

That has a nice ring to it after 2020, doesn't it?

 

Mare Crisium is the exceptionally round looking "sea" that is along the edge of the Moon facing the western horizon in our skies, so it's the easternmost sea that is easily discernible on the Moon. The bright crater that you see below it here is Proclus. Some of the crater Cleomedies is visible at the far left, and Macrobius and Tisserand are the larger and smaller crater in the lower left corner.

 

The Moon was 17.6 days past new during this photo sequence, taken around 0830 UT on 2021-03-01. This is a mosaic of multiple panels. Individual panels were shot as .SER files with a Celestron Edge HD with 3x Barlow and a ZWO ASI120MM camera with green filter. The best 60 of 200 frames were averaged in AutoStakkert. After some processing in PixInsight, the panels were composited in Image Composite Editor. A few more tweaks in PixInsight and final touches in Photoshop brings you this image.

 

The total distance shown here, left (north) to right (south) is about 560 km, or roughly the distance from Los Angeles to San Francisco.

Star Adventurer

Skymax 102

Telextender 3x

Canon EOS 60D

Video RAW 640 x 320

50% of 3600 frames

PIPP

Autostakkert

Photoshop

Lightroom

Moon phase: waxing gibbous

96.7% illuminated

 

On the Earth-facing side of the Moon, this is part of the southwest region. Schickard is the most prominent crater in this photo. Below and to the left of it are Wargentin, Nasmyth, and Phocylides.

 

300 frame SER files were recorded with a ZWO ASI120MM camera on a Celestron Edge HD 925 with 2x Barlow. The best 55 of 300 frames were stacked from each video in AutoStakkert. The resulting images were combined in a mosaic in Image Composite Editor. Final processscing in PixInsight and Photoshop.

 

Recorded around 0700 UT on 2021-06-23.

Here is an image I took from March 24, 2017 distilled from a video and processed in Registax. It is the first time I have been able to identify the feature referred to as Oval BA, also known as Red Spot Jr. The image on the right was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on April 3, 2017 for comparison, you can more clearly see this cloud feature in the HST image.

From NASA, “Oval BA first appeared in the year 2000 when three smaller spots collided and merged. Using Hubble and other telescopes, astronomers watched with great interest. A similar merger centuries ago may have created the original Great Red Spot, a storm twice as wide as our planet and at least 300 years old.” (Source: science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/02mar_...)

I look forward to continue learning planetary image processing and collecting additional video streams.

Tech Specs: Video captured using Meade LX90 12” telescope and ZWO ASI290MC camera. Imaging was done on March 24, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania. Software included AutoStakkert! V2.3.0.21, Registax v6 and Sharpcap v2.9.

 

Equipo: SW Star Adventurer - Canon EOS 60D - Mak 102 a foco primario.

Video RAW - PIPP - AutoStakkert - Photoshop - Lightroom

104_9943-5 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert

104_9508-13 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert

104_8036 Moons 1/8s f/24 51200 ISO

104_8051-5 Saturn 1/60s f/24 4000 ISO 4K MP4s

MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert, enlarged to match scale of moons' photo and merged with PhotoShop.

Waxing Gibbous/77.4%

Moon Age 9.71 out of 29.39 days

 

March 19, 2024, about 2200 local, Tallahassee, Florida. Unusually good seeing tonight!

 

TMB 80mm f/6.3 refractor; ASI585MC, full resolution (3840 x 2160) cropped; UV/IR cut filter; No.15 yellow filter; SharpCap; best 1000 frames out of 10,000. Gain 300; PIPP, AutoStakkert. WaveSharp. Photoshop (for exposure and color adjustment.)

 

Saturn with the benefit of an IR/UV cut filter which brings out more detail. Questar 89/1350 mm telescope with Dakin 2x Barlow, UV/IR cut filter and ZWO ASI224MC planetary video camera. Taken 2018-08-07 05:36 UT from Austin, Texas. Exposed 57.6 msec at a gain of 330. The best 15% of 3,127 frames captured with FireCapture and stacked in Autostakkert 3 with 3x drizzle. Deconvolved in Lynkeos with final exposure white balance and crop in Photoshop.

Some more of the larger lunar features captured just before the full Moon of January 31st, this time from the south western region. The large, dark crater on the terminator (on the left) is Crater Darwin. Below that is Crater Byrgius. Above Crater Byrgius is a row of three crater, these are (from left to right) Crater Fréres, Crater Henry, and Crater Cavendish. On the right of the image is Crater Mersenius and at the bottom is Crater Vieta.

 

Created from 2 x 1000 frame videos with the best 1000 frames selected.

Captured with FireCapture

Processed in AutoStakkert, Registax and Photoshop

 

Equipment:

Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS

Skywatcher EQ5 Mount

ZWO ASI1600 MC Pro camera

x2 Barlow with extension tubes

106_1015-7 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert

Aberkenfig, South Wales

Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W

 

A reasonable outcome as the seeing conditions were not ideal when the images were captured.

 

20 single shot RAW images 1/320s @ ISO 200 obtained with a 254mm Skywatcher Newtonian & Nikon D780 at prime focus.

 

Images converted to TIFF format then stacked with AutoStakkert! 3.1.4.

 

Wavelets processed with Registax 6.

Final processing with G.I.M.P & Adobe Lightroom..

 

Best viewed using the expansion arrows.

A fantastic early morning seeing Jupiter with 2 of its moons Io and Ganymede casting their shadows on the gas giants surface! Io just starting it’s transit across the face too. Managed to pick up a bit of surface detail on Ganymede too.

 

Celestron NexStar 6SE

Zwo Asi224mc with IR cut filter

Zwo ADC

Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate

 

FireCapture for ADC tuning.

SharpCap for Capturing.

2 minute video, exposure-3.0ms, gain-320

 

Processed in AutoStakkert, RegiStax and Lightroom.

White light image of the sun taken this afternoon - my first!

 

Young group of 3 small sunspots (now labelled #2850) near bottom and slightly right of center. 2 faculae regions halfway below equator, on far east and far west.

 

The image is composed of the ~25% best images of 141. Images were discarded due to blurriness (seeing) or passing clouds.

 

Imaging data:

MC MTO-11SA 1000 mm f/10 ("Russentonne") on Samsung NX30

1/1000s @ ISO400

Filter: Baader AstroSolar foil ND5.0

(rough) tracking with clockwork barndoor mount (to keep the sun in the field of view)

 

Post-Processing:

manual pre-sorting of files

Stacking using AutoStakkert! 3 with 50% best frames and 3x Drizzle to enhance detail resolution

Further processing in Aurora HDR 2018 and Luminar 2018: contrast & detail enhancing, warmer colour temperature (because it looks better IMHO), sharpening, noise reduction

Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor using a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus. Atmospheric turbulence very bad today, image was blurring continually. Best 10 of 50 images stacked using Autostakkert 2

Mars at 23:23 UT, 21/09/2020. very Good seeing conditions tonight. 7.5 minutes worth of data, the result of merging 3 files in Winjupos, each the best 4,000 of 22,000 frames, resized 150%. Captured using Firecapture V2.5. Processed using Autostakkert V3.0.14 , Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera and Carl Zeiss 2 X Barlow.

 

Capture:

* Nikon D5300

* 3x Barlow

* 10" Dobsonian (by hand, the way Sir Isaac intended)

* 4 videos of varying lengths

 

Processing:

* PIPP and AutoStakkert! for stacking

* Lightroom for composite and adjustments

Europa - Io

 

Nexstar 8Se

GPCAM

CGEM

 

Autostakkert 2

Registax

Fitswork

Pixinsight

Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: Celestron 127/1500 Maksutov-Cassegrain

Camere di acquisizione: Svbony SV105

Montature: Celestron SLT

Software: Astra Image Company Astra Image 5 · PIPP x64 2.5.9 · AutoStakkert!

Accessorio: 2.5x barlow

Data:26 Ottobre 2020

Ora: 21:48

Pose: 2581

FPS: 14,00000

Lunghezza focale: 3750

Seeing: 3

Trasparenza: 7

Risoluzione: 932x621

Luoghi: Terrazzo di casa (Sant'Agata li Battiati), Sant'Agata Li Battiati, CT, Italia

Origine dei dati: Giardino

Pretty good conditions, but still not my best image. But you can see the large bright feature hellas planitia in the south, sitting below the dark volcanic region Syrtis Major Planum (the large dark vertical feature).

 

From wikipedia: "Syrtis Major was the first documented surface feature of another planet. It was discovered by Christiaan Huygens, who included it in a drawing of Mars in 1659. He used repeated observations of the feature to estimate the length of day on Mars."

 

Meade 8" SCT, ZWO ASI monochrome camera, 2xBarlow.

Stacked and processed with Autostakkert and Lynkeos.

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