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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 from Oxfordshire on 1st May 2023 with a William Optics 70mm refractor and ZWO ASI120MC camera fitted with a Celestron 3x Barlow.

The telescope was on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier, tracking at lunar rate. It was still twilight when I started imaging and I was also dealing with varying amounts of thin cloud. The Moon was 85% Waxing Gibbous. Promontorium Heraclides is also known as Cassini's Moon Maiden because he drew this promontory with a woman's head with long, wavy hair. It is believe to have represented the head of Geneviève de Laistre, who would become Cassini's wife in 1673. This makes her the first woman on the Moon.

 

A 2,000 frame video was captured using SharpCap and the best 25% of the frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3. Processing was done in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer, plus a bit of sharpening in Focus Magic.

Taken with a Celestron C6 SCT, Celestron AVX mount, 2x Barlow, and ASI120MC. Captured with SharpCap, stacked with AutoStakkert, and processed with Astra Image Pro and Photoshop.

Capture BYE

Stacking: Autostakkert!3

Sharpening: Registax

Finishing: Photoshop

 

Canon EOS 60Da (100 subs at 1/640s, ISO 100)

Tele Vue NP101is/2x PM (4" f/10.4)

Losmandy G11

Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus. Best 12 of 40 images stacked using Autostakkert 2. Most of the frames had cloud in them.

Saturn on the evening of Sept 25 at 20:33 (mid of capture) in seeing conditions that were fluctuating in the above average range. (3.5-4/5). Image is the best 45% of 12,159 frames with Autostakkert.

Earth distance 10.014 AU

Phase 99.8%

 

Celestron CPC Deluxe 1100 HD

ASI290MC camera

X-Cel 2.0 Barlow

ZWO ADC

9400mm focal length

14.8ms exposure

67 fps average

180 seconds capture.

Mid of capture 20:33 PM (UDT-4)

I used a TMB 80mm f/6.3 refractor on a roughly polar-aligned GEM. I used a ZWO120MC CMOS camera (old, original model) with SharpCap. The final image is composed of four individual images, each obtained from separate stacks of roughly 1000 to 1600 frames. The stacks were processed using PIPP and AutoStakkert. The four images were combined using Photoshop's photomerge feature. The combined image was color and levels adjusted, and sharpened using Topaz.

 

Seeing that night was horrible. I had a really hard time finding a reasonable focus. The observation site is suburban, Bortle 7.

The young Earth and Moon suffered periods of extreme bombardment by asteroids, meteors and comets in the first two billion years of their existence. This was a time when all manner of sub-planetary-sized bodies were scattered throughout the solar system in great numbers. Frequently the movements of the planets jostled the smaller bodies into orbits that crossed those of the inner rocky planets. They frequently collided with the inner planets. The record of these collisions is preserved in the battered surface of the Moon, for the moon lacks the geologic mechanisms, such as erosion and tectonic “recycling”, that continuously refresh the Earth’s face. Still, the process of meteor bombardment is itself a process which churns and alters the Moon’s face. The Moon’s long history of meteor impacts has obscured much of the record of its earliest history.

 

This photo illustrates how that hidden record can be sussed. First, let’s find some landmarks. The most striking crater in this photo is the extremely elongated crater Schiller. In the top left corner, the trio of Wargentin, Nasmyth and Phocylides is seen. Occupying the bottom right corner is a medium-sized crater with a wide inner wall on its northwest and a central peak. This is Bettinus. Its floor is flooded, and Its rampart cratered. Nearby, to the northwest is the slightly smaller Zucchius. a young crater, possessed of a symmetrical crater rim, a terraced inner wall terraced, and a group of small central peakr. Viewed under direct sunlight, Zucchius even sports a ray system. Below Zucchius and Bettinus in this photo, the vast crater Bailly is caught along the lunar terminator. We can see little of this crater other than its enormity. This is the largest crater on the visible side of the Moon, fully 303 km in diameter. That is big. Further, it is estimated to be more than 3 billion years old, part of the Nectarian system of craters. That is old. Now let’s put these landmarks to work.

 

There is, in the center of this photo, an impact crater that is both bigger and older than Bailly. One might think it easily seen. It is not. All we see now are traces of it. Once you know the traces, your mind can “reconstruct” the whole. Look hard, you will see it too. Start with Schiller: look at the points that define its major axis, its longest diameter. Starting with the rightmost of these two points and then extend the line of the major axis about one “half-Schiller” to the right and a little down. There is a pair of craters near the right photo margin. Passing between them, a line of ridges can be detected. Below the crater pair the ridges become a wide scarp. It arcs around toward the left, where it first glances the northern (upper) rim of Bettinus and then intersects Zucchius. Beyond Zucchius, the track is harder to follow. If you allow your mind to “connect the dots” a broken arc of hills and ridges extend the track to Phocylides, where it merges with this crater’s southeastern rim. Beyond Phocylides, it is easier to see the ridge that reconnects Phocylides with Schiller near the northern point of Schiller’s major axis.

 

So, take a moment and behold the Schiller-Zucchius Basin. At 335 km diameter, it exceeds that of Bailly. The interior of its ring is pretty much indistinguishable from the rest of the lunar surface. It has lava plains, craters, crater chains, hills and ridges. The scars of its life are its camouflage.

 

Now use your skills of tracking the remains of circles and see if you can detect another ring, concentric with and interior to the outer ring. This is best seen in the southeastern side, interior to the arc connecting Schiller and Zucchius craters. There is even one more ring (Confession: I do not yet see it) which forms a bullseye at the center. Beneath this, a mass concentration has been detected by lunar orbiting spacecraft. This makes the Schiller-Zucchius Basin one of the Moon’s multi-ring basins, in the company of the Imbrium, the Occidentale and the Nectarian Basins, as well as several others. These multi-ringed basins are the products of the most colossal collisions between heavenly bodies.

 

I mentioned the Nectaris Basin and stated that Bailly crater dated to the Nectarian Period of the Moon’s history. The creation of that basin marks the second of the recognized periods in the geological history of the Moon. This seventy-million-year long period spanned a time from 3.92 to 3.85 billion years ago. The Schiller-Zucchius Basin is recognized as a relic from the PRE-Nectarian Period, the first era in the life of the Moon. That makes the Schiller-Zucchius Basin a relic of the Moon’s most ancient history, perhaps half a billion years or more older than Bailly Crater.

 

Instrumentation:

Celestron EdgeHD 8 telescope, ZWO ASI290MM monochrome camera, Celestron Advanced VX mount.

 

Processing:

Video data captured with Firecapture software as a .ser file. Pre-processing of 4919 frame .ser file with PIPP. Best 10% of those video frames stacked with AutoStakkert!3, wavelets processing with Registax 6, and final processing in Photoshop CC 2020.

  

Theophilus and Cyrillus Craters photograph on April 2, 2017 – transparency remained pretty good, but seeing was on the horrible side with resulting in a very wavy image. Tech Specs: ZWO ASI290MC camera and Meade 12” LX90 telescope mounted on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount. Software used included Sharpcap v2.9 and AutoStakkert! Alpha Version 2.3.0.21. 10k frames, stacked the best 2k. Photographed on April 2, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.

Seestar S50, filmato da 1577 frames di cui il 50% elaborati con PIPP, Autostakkert e AstraImage.

A few days ago, I picked up a 12-inch Meade LX200 GPS model and this evening, I set my sights on Venus as a "first light" trial.

 

Captured using a Nikon D5500. Best 55% of 5,400 frames, processed in Autostakkert!3.

   

Takahashi FS60-C

ZWO ASI120MC-S

Celestron AVX

 

Frames: 34 + Stack lunar (2000)

Df: 360 mm.

F: 5.9

Captura: Firecapture

Procesado: Autostakkert + Registax + Ps + Pixinsight 1.8

Hora de captura: 16:14´20

 

Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda

Observatorio Astronómico Altaïr

Poncitlán Jalisco México

© P Williamson 2015

Abu Dhabi, UAE

 

LRGB

3 sets of 70% of 4000(L) & 2000(RGB). Stacked in Autostakert2, wavelets in RegiStax 6, derotated in Winjupos, finished in PS2.

Time (UTC) 0007 - 0054, derotated to 0032hrs.

 

Camera: TIS DMK21 618 Mono

Scope: Celestron C8 with TeleVue Powermate x 2.5

Filters: L R G B

Mount: AZ EQ6-GT goto.

 

Processed with AutoStakkert!2.

somme de 34 photos (prises en rafalle) avec #autostakkert et traitée avec Dxo-SilverEffex.

Phase 98.6%, Constellation : Sagittaire /

Crater Archimedes (top left), the Appenins mountain range and crater Eratostenes (bottom right). Celestron 8 telescope with ZWO ASI120 MC-S camera. Composite of 80 frames out of a 4000 frame capture. Processing with Autostakkert and Registax.

A bit better night for the local seeing, so tried a bit more "zoom" on this one.

 

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: April 19, 2021

 

Frames: 1000

 

FPS: 30.00000

 

Focal length: 3500

 

Resolution: 7625x7995

 

Data source: Backyard

Description

 

2 panels each 500/10,000 frames

Seeing was unsteady but managed to salvage this image of AR 2882 using my 150mm f/8 achromat stopped down to 100mm and Lunt CaK B1200 module on an EQ6 . 60% stack of a 1772 frame SER using Autostakkert 3,processed in Astrosurface and PS CS2.

North is toward top left corner.

Solar Image AR3354, 2023-06-29

 

Still image for comparison to time-lapse. One processed in native B&W the other processed with false colour. Best 8% of 2,000 images used.

 

Equipment details:

Orion 80mm refractor

Quark Chromosphere filter

ZWO294MM Pro using ROI

Processed in Autostakkert, IMPPG and Photoshop

Crater Tycho is accompanied by the most extensive ray systems on the lunar surface. When captured in the context of this ray system, the crater itself is an amorphus bright blob. In this lunar surafce closeup, Details in the craters ramparts, interior walls, floor and central peak can be seen. (A. Ruki 64)

 

ZWO ASI178MC/2.5x PowerMate

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)

Losmandy LX850

 

4000 frames captured in Firecapture

Best 320 frames stacked in Autostakkert

Wavelet sharpened in Registax

Finished in Photoshop

Telescopio: Takahashi FS60BC

Camara: ZWO ASI120MC-S

Montura: Celestron CGEM

 

Frames: 900

Df: 360mm

F: 6

Captura: Firecapture

Procesado: Autostakkert + Registax + Pixinsight 1.8 + Lightroom

 

20 Enero 2019

 

Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda

Observatorio Astronómico Altaír

Poncitlán Jalisco México

Northern section of the moon's terminator.

Taken a few weeks after this year's opposition. Very chuffed with this one!

 

Skywatcher 400P Dobsonian

ZWO ASI178MM

Baader IR-Pass filter + RGB

2x Barlow

Stacked in AutoStakkert!

Processed in Registax

Assembled in Photoshop and Lightroom

15 Dec 2016 1145 UTC

Skywatcher 120ED (F=1800mm)

ZWO-ASI120MC-S

AutoStakkert

PixInsight

106_1605-9 processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert.

Crater Plato and the Vallis Alpes (right). Celestron 8 telescope with ZWO ASI120 MC-S camera. Composite of 80 frames out of a 4000 frame capture. Processing with Autostakkert and Registax.

Jupiter 20th Oct 2022(21:40 UT) , average seeing conditions. This image consists of three images de rotated in Winjupos (best 3,000 frames each), 10,900 frames captured in 3 minutes for each AVI. 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.

Sol Regiones Activas 12824 y 12826

 

Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED

Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM

Montura: iOptron CEM40

Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.6, T=25%)

- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (540nm)

Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism

- TeleVue Lente de Barlow 2,5x Powermate 1,25"

Software: FireCapture, Pipp, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop

Fecha: 2021-05-26 (26 de mayo de 2021)

Hora: 13:38 T.U. (Tiempo universal)

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 2 videos de 1 minutos cada uno

Resolución: 1992x1770

Gain: 58 (11%)

Exposure: 0.032ms

Frames: 2150 + 2150

Frames apilados: 25%

FPS: 35

Sensor temperature= 43.0 °C

Montes Apenninus e arredores

03-01-2021

500 frames

 

Toya 114mm EQ-5

QHY 462C + ir-cut + Celestron x-cel 3x

 

FireCapture, AutoStakkert, AstroSurface e PhotoShop

 

Matupá/MT

Finished Lunar mosaic, recorded on 2023-03-28. C8 XLT SCT, F/10, Uranus-C camera. Composed of 15 panels, captured in 15x30 seconds videos, stacked in Autostakkert, processed in Registax and PS CS2. 100% sampling (0,29"/px).

Full disk in Calcium and H alpha taken using Skywatcher 72ED apo with Lunt CaK B1200 module,Coronado Solarmax 40/BF10 filter set and QHY5III 178M. Autostakkert 3,Astrosurface and PS CS2 used to stack and process,adding false colour to both images.

Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor, 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro mount

 

ISO-800 1/1600 sec

250 images shot in RAW, imported into Lightroom then cropped and tweaked and exported as TIFFs

Best 61% of 250 frames stacked in Autostakkert! 2, then final tweaks made in Lightroom and Focus Magic

 

Shot through thin cloud

Ecco un mosaico della Luna al 93% prima del 16 maggio mattina, giorno di fase piena e in cui diventerà rossa a causa del fenomeno dell'eclissi.

Dati:

- Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newton

- montatura eq2 con motore AR

- camera planetaria QHY5L-II-C

- filtro UV-IR cut

- Sharpcap per l'acquisizione di 21 video da 30 secondi ognuno

- Autostakkert! 3 e Registax 6 per elaborarli

- Autostitch per assemblare le 21 parti del mosaico

- GIMP per luminosità e contrasto

Luogo: Cabras (OR)

Data: 13 maggio 2022 alle 20:20 UTC ( 22:20 ora locale)

 

PHOTOS:

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK at 3pm BST, with a Coronado PST, 2x Barlow & slimline T-ring attached to a Canon 1100D

  

Shot through quite a lot thin high level cloud.

  

ISO-800 1/60 second exposure

  

324 images shot and the best 50% stacked using Autostakkert! 2. Resulting stacked image was processed using Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop CS2, Focus Magic and Faststone Image Viewer

 

SKETCHES:

Taken from photos because I didn't have time to sit at the telescope that day. Sketched with coloured pastells on black paper

Here is another capture of the Sun taken on the morning of the 15th of February. This is the best 20% of frames from a 5 minute RAW video, processed in Autostakkert. You are able to see some of the granulation in this one.

 

Equipment Used:

Seestar S50

Solar Filter

 

Exposure:

5 min Raw Video

104_7371 Moons 1s f/36 51200 ISO

104_7392-8 Saturn 1/60s f/36 8000 ISO

 

MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert, enlarged then merged with still shot of moons.

104_9975-8 processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert

Luna del 09-08-2016

Apilado 7% de 131 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

Taken with Rubinar 1000mm mounted on an Olympus PEN E-P5 at ISO800, shutter at 1/160th

 

Taken 2017-04-02 at 10pm but forgot about the RAWs until today!

 

Aligned in PIPP, stacked with AutoStakkert (best 75% of 91 images), post-processed in Photoshop.

Kept best 5% of frames from a 5000 frame movie

 

---Hardware---

 

Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT

Camera : PointGrey Grasshopper GS3-U3-23S6M

Tube : AP130 EDF F/6

Barlow: Televue 4x

 

Effective focal length : 3120 mm

Effective aperture : ~ F/24

 

---Software---

 

Acquired with FireCapture

Stacked with AutoStakkert

Mosaic done with Microsoft ICE

Processed with Lightroom & Topaz SharpenAI

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

 

My first go with our ASI120MM camera.

Short video of 1000 frames, run through PIPP then best 40% of 750 frames stacked in Autostakkert!2 and processed in Lightroom

Jupiter and one of its moons Europa

Captured on a Skywatcher 200p Scope. ASI120MC-S Camera and a 5x Barlow.(Powermate)

This is a stack from 6 x 2 minute captures and 1 x 3 minute capture. 15 minutes in total. 7 stacked files de Rotated in Winjupos. Stacking by Autostakkert!2 and wavelets in Registax6, and a little tweak in Photoshop.

40 DSLR (Canon EOS 450D) shots 1/320s ISO100 prime focus. Baader Neodymium filter. Sky-Watcher 150 Explorer Newtonian. Autostakkert for alignment and stacking; Registax for wavelets and post-processing in Photoshop. Combined after stacking with uncropped single DSLR shot from same series. Taken from Wolverhampton, West Midlands.

APM 107/700, EOS 60Da on Ioptron CEM25 mount. No polar alignment was necessary, just approximate pointing to North. A subset of %50 from 500 shots at 1/250s @ISO 250.

 

Stacked and processed with AutoStakkert! 3.1.4, Topaz Sharpen AI, Registax 6.1, PixInsight and Photoshop CC

 

A video by SpaceRip : Where did the moon come from? What is it made of? And what events created the distinctive pattern of light and dark on its surface

Elaborazione con PIPP, Autostakkert e AstroSurface dell'immagine solare di stamattina con il Seestar S50. Da un filmato di 769 frames di cui il 75% elaborati.

False color image of active region (AR) 2665 from July 16, 2017 a quick view before it slips around to the other side of the sun.

Tech Specs: Celestron C6-A SCT, black polymer filter sheet made by Thousand Oaks Optical, iOptron ZEQ25GT mount. Best 2500 frames of 5000 frames captured using an ZWO ASI290MC, AutoStakkert! V3.0.14 (x64), FireCapture v2.5.10 x64 and Registax v6. Photographed on July 16, 2017 (late afternoon) from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.

 

Stack of ~1000 iPhone video frames taken through Celestron NexStar 8SE telescope. Stacked & edited in PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax, Nebulosity, Gimp and Snapseed.

Full Moon

Taken with MC 3M-5CA 500mm f/8 with 2x Converter K-1

Programs used: Planetary Imaging PreProcessor, Autostakkert 3

My first image of Mars in just over two years,

Mars was a barely above 16 degrees so the atmospheric effects were making the imaging very difficult.

 

Equipment:

 

Celestron 8SE

x2 Barlow Lense

ASI120MC Imaging camera

2000 Frames captured, used best 10%

 

Software:

 

Fire Capture v2.4

PIPP v2.5.4

AutoStakkert 2.3

Registax 6

Photoshop 2015 CC

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