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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
The International Space Station / ISS
The ISS is a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in low Earth orbit, with an orbital speed of 17,100 mph (27,600 km/h). It has been continuously occupied by humans since November 2000. It is the largest artificial satellite in orbit with a length of 357.5 ft (109 m).
This is my first decent image using the 10" Dobsonian telescope. I bought it in March 2022 but haven't had the time and energy to take it outside much. I plan on using this monster scope for visual astronomy (with eyepieces!), ISS images, and high-altitude contrail photography.
Apparent magnitude: -3.6
Apparent diameter: 28" (pressurized module length)
Distance: 306 mi (492 km) at 57° altitude
This image was processed like a small planetary image stack:
4 x 1/1000 second ISO400 (best 25% of 15 frames)
Captured at 01:59:15 UTC on 08/01/22 (21:59:15 EDT 07/31/22)
Location: Summerville, SC
Atmospheric seeing: 2/5
Camera: Canon 7D Mark II
Telescope: Apertura AD10 f/4.9 Newtonian Reflector (with GSO 2" Coma Corrector)
Effective focal length: ~1408mm
Mount: Dobsonian base
Processing software: PIPP, AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, Paint.NET
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
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.
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.
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.
clavius du 24/05/18. Newton 400 + barlow televue powermate 2.5x couplé à caméra Zwo asi224mc.
empilement autostakkert3 et finitions 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
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.
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
Move cursor over the image for notes.
My eyes were drawn to the wrinkle ridges in the Sea of Tranquility and the outline of the submerged crater Lamont, then then I spotted the two Arago Domes. The low angle of sunlight nicely enhances these features. A wide variety of different types of surface features encompass this field of view.
Hyginus is one of the few craters on the Moon that was not created as a result of an impact, and is instead believed to be volcanic in origin. It lacks the raised outer rim that is typical with impact craters. It was planned as the landing site for the canceled Apollo 19 mission. Smaller craterlets in Rima Hyginus can also be seen along the length of this rille, possibly caused by a collapse of an underlying structure.
Best 40 % of 2,000 frames. (FireCapture, Autostakkert, Registax 6, Photoshop CC 2015)
Telescope - Celestron CPC800 XLT GPS
Camera - ASI120MC-S and Shorty 2X Barlow.
I forgot to process some of my total lunar eclipse photographs of september 28, 2015.
So, here is an image made of 50 stacked pictures taken few minutes before totality.
The blue/violet curve on the moon's surface is caused by the sunlight scattering in the ozone layer of the Earth's atmosphere.
Technical Datas :
Canon EOS 600D + 200/800 mm reflector + meade lxd75 mount (lunar tracking)
50 x 4 secs exposure
ISO 400
F/4
Autostakkert + Lightroom softwares
Location : Brittany, France
My newly-created blog (french description): astroguigeek.blogspot.com/
A waxing crescent moon captured after the early spring sunset.
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
25 single shot images 1/250s @ 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 levels & curves processed with G.I.M.P. & Adobe Lightroom
Best viewed using the expansion arrows.
EXIF Note: Error in date & time. I did not enter the correct day or time when I reconfigured some of the settings. I always keep a manual note of my observations to cross reference the digital dates. I only had the camera for a few days around this time. Have a look at my Orion Nebula dated 2022-03-06, that was the first time I tried it out on the night sky with my 254mm Newtonian.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus. Seeing poor today and it made focusing difficult due to turbulence. Stacked 15 of 40 images using Autostakkert 2.
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Nikon D780 at prime focus. EQ6 Syntrek Mount.
25 single shot frames stacked.
1/640s ISO 160 for each frame.
Processed using Autostakkert! then wavelets with Registax 6.
Final adjustments to levels using Adobe Lightroom & G.I.M.P.
Lunar north is uppermost.
Best viewed using the expansion arrows.
تصويري لكوكب #زحل
My Astrophotography of #Saturn
🔭 Celestron CPC 800
ZWO ASI290MC
Filter: Baader UV/IR-Cut L-filter
التكديس Stacked
Autostakkert
Registax
Photoshop
Mars at 21:21 UT, 03/11/2020. Good seeing conditions at times tonight. 10 minutes worth of data, the result of merging 4 files in Winjupos, each the best 4,000 of 22,000 frames, resized 150%. Captured using Firecapture V2.5. Processed using Autostakkert V 3.1.4 , Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera and Carl Zeiss 2 X Barlow.
“Aristarchus Rising”
In my early years of exploring the night sky with binoculars, I was frequently amazed by a brilliant feature on the Moon, to the left of Mare Imbrium. I wondered, “What could be so bright?”. After a little reading, and consultation with a local wizard (Herbert Z. Lund, MD, avid amateur astronomer, and mentor/friend to both my wife and I), I learned that the bright spot was the crater Aristarchus. I learned that it is among the very brightest features on the Moon, due to the unusual reflectivity of the material within and around the crater. It sits on the edge of a plateau with a history of intense volcanic activity, including immense channels through which lava rivers once flowed, contributing to the vast lava plains (maria) that surround the plateau. I learned that Neil Armstrong reported an unusual brightness, with some fluorescence, from the area of Aristarchus during the Apollo 11 Mission. Could the fires of Aristarchus still be active? I was hooked. Aristarchus became a favorite observing target for me.
Last Thursday night, at the Pop-Up Telescopes event, I noticed Aristarchus being illuminated by the first rays of sunlight, a bright point on the day-night terminator line of the Moon. As I seldom capture this Moon phase photographically, I decided to do so after I returned home. Below is the photo I captured.
The photo shows a region of the Moon where the huge lava plains of Mare Imbrium merge with the gargantuan lava plain of Oceanus Procellarum, below the Jura Mountain range that defines the western and northwestern rim of Mare Imbrium. Aristarchus occupies the bottom center in this photo, next to the line dividing bright daylight from the deep night darkness. Its raised rampart and interior western crater walls are illuminated, but its depths are still deeply shadowed. Some of the edge of the surrounding plateau can be seen, as can a piece of the rim of adjacent Hesiodus crater, which otherwise is cloaked by night. The area of the lower right portion of the photo shows streaks of lighter-toned material that generally radiate away from Aristarchus crater. These are the ray system that surrounds Aristarchus, composed of material that was blasted upward and outward when an asteroid gouged the crater into the Moon. Ray features, over eons of time, are darkened by constant bombardment by solar radiation and they become indistinguishable from the older lunar surface materials. Their presence declares that Aristarchus is one of the young lunar craters. It can’t be more than half a billion years old! Alas, my photo reveals no sign that the fires are still burning.
To the right and upward from Aristarchus there is a horseshoe shaped feature, surrounded by a few mountains. The horseshoe is Prinz crater; long ago flood basalt surges overtopped the southern rim of Prinz crater and filled its interior. The mountains surrounding Prinz crater are called the Montes Harbinger, the “Harbinger Mountains”, for they become visible a day before dawn comes to Aristarchus. Inspection of the valleys between the mountains and the area between the mountains and Aristarchus shows several squiggly features, like streambeds, flowing away from the mountains. These are ancient lava channels; each originates in a dormant volcanic vent and marks a path the lava flows took to the plains below. They are collectively named Rimae Prinz. The similar features originating on the edge of the Aristarchus Plateau are called Rimae Aristarchus.
Above and left of the Harbinger Mountains is a medium-sized crater, with a deeply shadowed interior. This is Krieger crater. On its bottom-side rim is another small crater, which shows due to its brightly-lit western rim. This is Van Biesbroeck crater. Take a moment to appreciate the long triangular shadows cast by the craters and mountains in this area. To the left of Krieger crater are two tiny craters, with the rather cute names, first names really, Rocco (upper) and Ruth (lower). Rocco is 4.37 km in diameter, and Ruth only 3.0 km. I discovered during preparation of this writeup that the middle region of this photo is dotted with tiny craters with first names. Names like Gaston, Linda, Boris, Samir, Louise, Isabel, Walter, and Ivan. These are not just informal names: they are official designations assigned by the International Astronomical Union. And they are truly tiny. The smallest I have identified in this photo is Samir, at 1.87 km. I am puzzled as to the Why? behind giving these features official names. It seems they were given names during the preparation for NASA of the highly-detailed Apollo-imagery related maps known as the Topophotomap series. The legends at the bottom of the maps say the names were intended as “informal” names, to be used only in describing that particular map. However, in 1976, most of them were formally adopted into the official IAU Nomenclature. So why are they named? Because that they happened to fall in one of the very few portions of the Moon covered by a Topophotomap. I hope the names are significant for someone, maybe honoring loved ones, friends, or pets. They are examples of fun things one finds when rummaging through science, like when I found out that there is a dinosaur named after Mark Knopfler.
Back to the image. Near the right middle edge of the photo is another medium-sized crater with a partially shaded interior and surrounded by what appears to be a rubble field. This is Delisle crater. To its left is a lamb chop shaped mountain called Mons Delisle, and to its upper right is what seems to be a tiny chain of craters (catena) called Rupes Boris. The word “rupes” means cliff or escarpment, and yes, it’s named after the previously mentioned Boris crater. The area around Rupes Boris is home to the previously mentioned Boris, Linda and Gaston craters. If you squint, you might detect one or two. Below Delisle crater is a smaller bowl-shaped crater called Diophantus. Between Delisle and Diophantus you can see a light-shaded patch. At the center is a tiny crater. This is Samir. Its bottom is only 1 km across, so maybe this is my break into the club of astrophotographers that can claim to have resolved 1 km. If not, give me a break and let me enjoy my moment. Resolving a one km feature (or even a 1.87 km feature) from a distance of 380,000 km is a pretty cool feat.
Now for the final stretch on this essay. In the upper left corner of the photo the terrain becomes very broken and mountainous. These are the Jura Mountains of the Mare Imbrium rim. Amidst these mountains is the prominent crater Mairan. At the lower end of these mountains are two larger mounds. These are the lunar volcanoes Gruithuisen Gamma (left) and Gruithuisen Delta (right). Gruithuisen Gamma even has an obvious summit crater. They are unusual among lunar volcanoes for their heights (1,500 and 1,800 meters, respectively). This is the first time I can recall capturing them in a close-up photo. Lastly, at the upper center of the photo there is a projection of mountains into the plains of Mare Imbrium. This is Promontorium Heraclides, marking the southern end of the popular lunar feature, Sinus Iridum.
Best 12% of 19,399 video frames processed with PIPP and stacked with AutoStakkert!3. Wavelets processing performed with Registax 6. Post-processing with Photoshop CC 2024.
Celestron Edge HD8 telescope
ZWO ASI 290MM camera
Celestron Advanced VX Mount
Seeing: below average, 2/5
Reflector SW 250/1200, barlox x3 y cámara ZWO Asi 120 MC, desde cielo urbano (Rosario SF, Argentina).
Captura con Sharpcap en video AVI, suma de 993 cuadros con Autostakkert, procesado con Astroart.
Dobson 8" f/6 - Canon 6D - Filtro Baader
Video RAW Magic Lantern
Procesado: PIPP - AutoStakkert/3 - Registax 6 - Adobe PS
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor and ASI120MC camera fitted with a Celestron 3x Barlow. 2,000 frame video captured with Sharp Cap, the best 75% were stacked with Autostakkert! 3
Crater Messala is the large and well-worn crater just right and below center frame.
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
De Sky Safari: Al frente se observa el cráter Platón, y a la izquierda el cráter Anaxágoras. Se estima que tienen 101 y 52 km de diámetro y que su origen es de impacto.
Telescope: Celestron C9.25 Edge HD @ 4700 mm
Focal ratio: f20
Camera: ZWO ASI462MC
FPS (avg.)=134
Shutter=7.4ms
Gain=191 (70%)
Resolution: 0.127 arcsec/pixel
Stack: 25% best of 24544 frames (6052 frames)
Barlow: Explore Scientific 1.25" 2x Focal Extender
Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector: ZWO ADC
Focuser: MicroTouch Focuser
Capturing software: FireCapture 2.7
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Processing: Autostakkert! (25%), RegiStax, PixInsight
Date: 18-jan-2022
Local Time: 11:49 pm
Universal Time (UT): 4:45 am
Location: Bogotá, Colombia