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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.
Jupiter a day before it reached opposition. This is the time when Jupiter is closest to Earth (a mere 588 million km away compared to 968 million km at its furthest) and so it appears bigger and brighter making it the perfect time to image it even though it is quite low in the sky compared with other years. Conditions were not ideal with lots of high cloud to contend with but the forecast for the following days was significantly worse so this seemed like the best night to try for a shot. Three of Jupiter's Galilean moons are visible in this shot; on the left is Ganymede and on the right, closest to the planet is Io. Europa is on the far right of the image. Callisto was much further to the right and doesn't appear in this image. Also visible in the image is Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a persistent high-pressure region in the atmosphere of Jupiter, producing an anticyclonic storm with wind speeds at the edge of about 432 km/h. It is the largest storm in the Solar System and one that has been observed for at least 350 years.
Created from a 1000 frame video with all frames stacked
Captured with SharpCap
Processed in AutoStakkert, Registax and Photoshop
Gain 100%
Exposure 0.04495 seconds
Equipment:
Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS
Sky-Watcher EQ5 Mount
ZWO ASI120 MC camera
x2 Barlow with extension tube
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
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
Still learning the fine process of planetary imaging, here is an image of Jupiter from April 8, 2017 while it was still low in the eastern sky. Some of the major belts identified for you. On a side note I learned that the cloud belts are not always present and they do change in width over time.
Tech Specs: Meade LX90 12” telescope, ASI290MC camera, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, AutoStakkert! V2.3.0.21, Registax v6, and Adobe 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.
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
Taken at 23:45 GMT on 5th November 2017 from North Oxfordshire, UK with an 8" Ritchie-Chretien telescope and Canon 1100D on an EQ6 mount, shot under dreadful seeing conditions.
2 pane mosaic.
Both images shot using Backyard EOS, 1,000 frame video shot, and the best 68% and 78% of the frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3 (Beta), stitched using Photoshop CS2 and processed in Photoshop, Fast Stone Image Viewer and Focus Magic
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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A first attempt at planetary imaging.
Best 20 frames from a 3min video. Taken with an ASI224MC on a Takahashi Mewlon 180C, with ADC and 2.5x PowerMate. PIPP/Autostakkert!2/Registax6/Photoshop.
01/10/2020
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
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.
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°
This video shows two rotations of Mars, compiled in WinJUPOS from data captured in September and October 2020.
Telescope: Orion XT10 Dobsonian reflector
Focal length amplifier: Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate
Luminance data: ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Colour data: Canon 80D DSLR
Nice to get out with the Quark today.
This is an animation of a solar prominence showing its movement over the course of half an hour.
6 x 30sec AVIs shot at 5 min intervals. Stacked in Autostakkert, creating 6 tiffs which were then aligned in IMPPG. The AVI was created from these 6 tiffs in PIPP.
Equipment Used
Sky-watcher 120mm Evostar
Daystar Quark
PG Blackfly
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
This is a picture, that we have taken last night. I was experimenting with stacking. So here is, how I have done it:
First I have taken over 600 raw pictures of the moon. As fast as I could manage to do with the Camera. I also took some "dark frames". Then I went to bed again.
The next work was done wiwith PIPP (that is a free software for astro photograpy. I dragged and dropped all NEF( RAW) files, I had taken. Did the same with the dark files in the "dark file" register. I selected PIPP to choose the better 60% (looking through the files showed that the quality was decent)., also "lunar/solar" and *.SER as output format. The pictures were processed., which took about 10 minutes and I had the SER file.
AutoStakkert did the next job: generating a single TIFF from the SER. This diod not take long.
My 300mm zoom is probably not perfect and the moon is still small on my photo. Since PIPP reports the quality rating of the pictures used for the SER, I could take the best single picture and processed it with Lightroom, too. I think, that stacking is worth doing. The stacked file shows much more detail than the single picture. But it also generated a huge amount of data.
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
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.
18-06-14 Taken with a Canon 60D using a Tamron SP AF70-300mm VC USD Zoom lens. 10 images stacked using Autostakkert 2, then cropped and enlarged using Canon DPP software.
Celestron SCT5+
ZWO ASI120MM-C
Barlow 2x SvBony
Panorama de 5 teselas, cada una:
Frames totales: 500
Frames apilados: 50
Df: 2500 mm.
F: 20
Fase lunar: Luna cresciente (61.3%) Octubre 10 del 2021
Captura: Firecapture
Procesado: Autostakkert + Registax + Pixinsight 1.8
Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda
Observatorio Astronómico Altaïr
Poncitlán Jalisco México
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
60 single shot RAW images 1/320s @ ISO 200 obtained with a 254mm Skywatcher Newtonian & Olympus E410 at prime focus.
Images converted to .tif format then 33 stacked with AutoStakkert! 3.1.4.
Wavelets processed with Registax 6.
Final processing with G.I.M.P. & Adobe Lightroom
Lunar south uppermost & best viewed with expansion arrows
A better outcome after stacking & processing but still not the same resolution as producing a mosaic using a planetary imaging camera.
I'm attempting to collect an image of the moon for each day of it's "lunation." cycle of about 29.5 days. It will be a challenge between the weather and my need for sleep. The waning phases will be the hardest to get since I will have to stay up late or rise up early.
Last night was mediocre. Everything was milky because of a layer of high cirrus and the seeing was miserable. I used waveSharp 1.beta, the successor to Registax, during processing to try to compensate for the poor conditions. It gave the image a "crunchy" look.
I'm having less challenges with my equipment on the other hand. I've installed a pier for my mount and telescope and have been able to get a good enough polar alignment using NINA's three point method and PHD2's drift alignment function (I don't have a view of Polaris in my suburban observing location.} Tracking for DSOs is marginal; I have to use guiding even for short exposure times. Three minute images are about the best I can do. But for large objects like the moon and the sun using lucky imaging, tracking is more than adequate.
March 18, 2024, about 21:30 local, Tallahassee, Florida. Moon Phase Waxing Gibbous/68.8%
Moon Age 8.70 out of 29.39 days
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.)
This is my first serious attempt at Mars.
Taken with a Celestron C6 SCT, Celestron AVX mount, 2.5x Televue PowerMate, and ASI120MC. Captured with SharpCap, stacked with AutoStakkert, and processed with Astra Image Pro and Photoshop.
[Oh yea, I forgot to mention that you should go and view the full size version, it is kinda big :) ]
I put together a Moon mosaic Saturday night while waiting for Saturn to rise at opposition. I captured 30 x 45s videos between 1:45 and 2:17UT on 5/11. These videos were processed in AutoStakkert! 2. The resulting panels were stitched together using Microsoft ICE. The stitched image was then sharpened, color corrected (and boosted) in Photoshop.
Videos were taken with my Celestron C8 + ASI120MC.
Sunrise at Gassendi, 22nd Feb 2021, 20:35UT. taken with the ASI224MC at F11 with IR pass filter(685Nm), Two images stitched together, 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.
Stacked 300/10,000 frames
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Celestron Edge 8
Imaging cameras: Point Grey Grasshopper 3 1.4MP
Mounts: Meade LX70
Software: Autostakkert! Autostackert! · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Filters: Ha filter
Accessory: Orion Shorty Barlow 2x
Date:March 25, 2021
Frames: 300
FPS: 25.00000
Focal length: 3200
Resolution: 3847x4632
Data source: Backyard
This is a complete revisit to my 2013 video data and reprocessing in Autostakkert, Registax and then a few post processing tweaks to try to create a smoother, subtler and more detailed image than my original effort.
Peter
Sol Región Activa 12860
Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: iOptron AZ Mount Pro
Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.6, T=25%)
- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (double stacked) (540nm)
Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism
- TeleVue Lente de Barlow 2,5x Powermate 1,25"
Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2021-08-27 (27 de agosto de 2021)
Hora: 15:48 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 1 minuto
Resolución: 1456x1164
Gain: 81 (15%)
Exposure: 0.032ms
Frames: 3242
Frames apilados: 14%
FPS: 54
Sensor temperature= 47.8 °C
Ecco la Luna in fase piena a poche ore dall'istante in cui si trovava al Perigeo ( il punto dell'orbita più vicino alla Terra). Per questo motivo la notte del 13 il nostro satellite appariva leggermente più grande e luminoso con un diametro apparente maggiore del 7% rispetto alla media. Quindi ecco il motivo per cui viene chiamata anche "superluna", ma in realtà la differenza di dimensione è molto difficile da percepire ed è corretto invece chiamarla Luna Piena al Perigeo. Questa di luglio viene chiamata anche Luna Piena del Cervo ed è la più grande e luminosa del 2022.
La foto è un mosaico di dimensioni 2674x2674 pixels e l'ho ottenuto assemblando 16 immagini delle diverse zone della superficie lunare.
Dati:
Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newtoniano
Montatura Eq2 con motore AR con pulsantiera
Camera planetaria QHY5L-II-C
Filtro UV-Ir cut
Sharpcap per acquisire 16 video da 40 secondi ciascuno a 17 fps
Autostakkert!3 e Registax 6 per elaborare ogni video
Autostitch per assemblare le immagini
GIMP per luminosità, contrasto e riduzione rumore (pochissimo)
Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia
Data e ora della ripresa: 14 luglio 2022 da 01:29 a 01:48 UTC
Using Skywatcher 72ED with Lunt Cak B1200 module and Coronado Solarmax 40/BF10 filter set and QHY5III 178M to capture these full disk images of Sun. Stacked in Autostakkert 3 and processed in Astrosurface and PS CS2 adding false colour.
Best 5% frames of RAW movies of 2500 frames each
---Hardware---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
Camera : PointGrey Grasshopper GS3-U3-23S6M
Tube : Astro-Physics 130 EDF F/6 with 4x barlow (Televue Powermate)
Effective focal length : 3120 mm
Effective aperture : ~ F/24
---Software---
Acquired with FireCapture
Stacked with AutoStakkert
Mosaic done with Microsoft ICE
Processed with Lightroom