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Taken on the evening of February 14, 2016 at the prime focus of a 5 inch, f/5.2 refractor using a ZWO ASI178MM-Cool camera (exposure 9.6ms, camera gain of zero, Baader red filter).
Unfortunately, my processing software won’t allow me to work on a large enough image to include the end cusps of the moon, so I had to crop the picture and that’s why I can only show two third of the original framing. I suspect that I’m going to have to divide the original image into at least two parts to allow the software to handle such a large processing task.
This picture was produced from a stack of the best 30% of 500 images taken at a scale of 0.75 arc seconds per pixel. Processing was done with AutoStakkert and Photoshop CC 2015.
Best seen at full size (1920 x 1172) and against a dark background.
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Skywatcher 130/900
QHY 5L-II mono
Barlow Televue 3x
RGB filters Astronomik type 2c
Firecapture, Autostakkert, Registax,Photoshop
UT 22:12
Decided to photograph the moon before switching to deep sky objects for the rest of the night. This photo has had the saturation increased to highlight the differences in the lunar soil, which are *barely* noticeable to the eye when viewed through larger telescopes (usually in Mare Serenitatis or Mare Imbrium for me, at least). Tan/orange indicates iron rich minerals, and blue indicates titanium rich minerals. Captured at 6pm on November 12th, 2021.
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**[Equipment:](i.imgur.com/6T8QNsv.jpg)**
* TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian
* Orion Sirius EQ-G
* ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
* Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector
* ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm
* Astronomik LRGB+CLS Filters- 31mm
* Astrodon 31mm Ha 5nm, Oiii 3nm, Sii 5nm
* Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope
* ZWO ASI-120MC for guiding
* Moonlite Autofocuser
**Acquisition:** (Camera at Unity Gain, -15°C)
* R - 1000 x 1.618ms
* G - 1000 x 1.397ms
* B - 1000 x 2.172ms
**Capture Software:**
* Captured using Sharpcap and [N.I.N.A.](nighttime-imaging.eu/) for mount/filterwheel control
**Stacking:**
* Stacked the best 15% of frames in Autostakkert (autosharpened, 3X Drizzle)
**PixInsight Processing:**
* DynamicCrop
* ChannelCombination to combine monochrome images into RGB image
* ChannelMatch to align G and B colorchannels to red
* ColorCalibration
* HistogramTransformation (slight stretch, also applied to red stack)
* LRGBCombination using red stack as luminance
* CurvesTransformations to adjust lightness, contrast, colors, saturation, etc.
* SCNR green > invert > SCNR > invert
* UnsharpMask for additional sharpening
* LocalHistogramTransformation
* more curves
* Annotation
Orion XT10 & Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate
- ZWO ASI120MM Mini (luminance)
- Canon 80D DSLR (rgb)
14 September 2020, 01:05 BST.
25th May 2018 21:56 UTC
My first attempt derotating Mars from 5 images
Seeing 3/5
Transparency 3/5
C9.25 EDGEHD
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
AutoStakkert
Winjupos
PixInsight
Orion XT10 & Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate
- ZWO ASI120MM Mini (luminance)
- Canon 80D DSLR (rgb)
22 October 2020, 22:01 BST.
Waxing Gibbous Moon at 92.4%, 2023-01-03
This is a portion of the 11.61 day old moon near the terminator.
Kepler Crater, an isolated circular impact formation with an extensive ray system. The prominent rays (radial streaks of fine ejecta thrown during impact) extend over 300km. They are most visible in this image above the crater. Dimensions: 31km X 31 km, height 8,300 feet.
Copernicus Crater, an impact formation with hexagonal form. Copernicus is visible with binoculars. Located slightly NW of the center of the moon’s visible face. Dimension: 93km X 93km, 11,400 feet high
Full disk image from VMA. (Image 2)
Imaging equipment:
Celestron EdgeHD 8, 2032mm focal length,
Mesu 200 MKII mount,
ZWOASI294MM Pro camera
Astronomic 642 (R-IR) filter
Best 3% of 5,000 images stacked with AutoStakkert!, processed with IMPPG & Photoshop.
The moonscape in this image is located at the western edge of Mare Nubium. Crater Kies Pi lis the flooded crater near image center. Dome Kies Pi, indicated by the arrow, lies just west of its namesake crater.
The Dome is a shield volcano that is approximately ten kilometer in diameter, and it rises about 150 meters above the surrounding mare floor. The Dome is only visible in the lunar sunrise, as seen in this image, or in the lunar sunset. The Dome "disappears" when it ceases to cast any shadow as the Sun ascends above the horizon.
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
2000 frames captured in Firecapture
Best 60% stacked in Autostakkert
Topaz Denoise and Sharpening
Finished in Photoshop
A so called supermoon. Colour boosted to show minerals. x25 frames processed with PIPP, Autostakkert & Faststone. Taken with a 550D using Skywatcher 8in Dob. 1/4000th sec at ISO 200.
This is my first decent image of Uranus. I actually picked up some kind of atmospheric swirls or it's just some kind of noise. I'm not sure lol.
APM 152mm Apochromatic Refractor
Zwoasi224 planetary camera
EQ6r pro mount
Best 50% of 4000 frames
stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet transformation done in registax6
Post Processing in Photoshop
Finalized in Topaz Labs De-noise AI
Mars was almost 67 degrees high at the time the film was taken! The seeing varied nevertheless very much. "Autostakkert" was again THE basis to select the best 1000 out of 34,000 frames.
The image is dominated by Syrtis Major ("Little Africa") and Mare Cimmerium to the left.
Celestron 14
Tonight was the night for me to give a good try on this great planet.
Very good conditions, unusually good in London. No jet stream, it's been so long when I had time and the weather was good too....
Equipment:
Skywatcher Explorer 200/1000 + ASI 120MC + Celestron 2x barlow.
9952 frames were captured, best 40% survived the stacking process. Autostakkert 2 and Photoshop.
11:12pm London, UK
Telescope: Celestron Maksutov 127 SLT.
Camera: smartphone Samsung S6
Eyepiece: Plossl 9 mm.
Software: PIPP, Autostakkert 2; AstroSurface.
Kept best 5% of frames from each movie of 5000 frames
---Hardware---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
Camera : PointGrey Grasshopper GS3-U3-23S6M
Tube : AstroPhysics 130 EDF GT
Barlow : Televue 4x
Effective focal length : 3120 mm
Effective aperture : ~ F/24
---Software---
Acquired with FireCapture
Stacked with AutoStakkert
Processed with Lightroom
...the Moon.
That explains the idea of angular size and ambiguity of apparent magnitude :) But it doesn't explain, why StarWalk app messes with altitude readings... I don't believe this program anymore and I need a marine sextant.
And - I had just noticed this! - the Moon moves! Not only it moves "along with the sky" but it also moves by itself eastward. When there is such a nice reference as Venus it becomes obvious.
Aquisition time: JD 2456714.665556 (26.02.2014 07:58:24 MSK)
Image orientation: straight.
Equipment:
Canon EOS 60D (unmodded) with Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2.8L IS USM lens and EF 2x III extender mounted on photo-tripod via Manfrotto 410 Junior geared head.
Aperture (effective) 50 mm
Focal length 400 mm
Tv = 1/200 seconds
Av = f/8
ISO 400
Exposures: 23
Processing: RAWs were dimmed down 0,5 EV, pre-cropped to about 1700x1700 pix and exported as 8 bit .TIFFs. Output was assembled into .AVI movie and fed to AutoStakkert!2. Stacked image was subjected to Richardson-Lucy deconvolution (Gaussian type PSF, 0,6 units, 7 iteration) and tweaked in Photoshop.
Saw that the moon was stupid bright when I was about to bring my deep sky rig in and decided to shoot it. Not that often we get a full/blue moon on Halloween. Captured at 1am on October 31st, 2020.
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**[Equipment:](i.imgur.com/6T8QNsv.jpg)**
* TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian
* Orion Sirius EQ-G
* ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
* Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector
* ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm
* Astronomik LRGB+CLS Filters- 31mm
* Astrodon 31mm Ha 5nm, Oiii 3nm, Sii 5nm
* Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope
* ZWO ASI-120MC for guiding
* Moonlite Autofocuser
**Acquisition:** (Camera at Unity Gain, -15°C)
* R -1000 frames per RGB filter
* Exposure times varied from ~0.14-0.19ms
**Capture Software:**
* Captured using Sharpcap and [N.I.N.A.](nighttime-imaging.eu/) for mount/filterwheel control
**Stacking:**
* Stacked the best 15% of frames in Autostakkert (autosharpened, 2X resample)
**PixInsight Processing:**
* ChannelCombination
* ChannelMatch to Align RGB channels
* LRGBCombination with Red channel as luminance
* Serveral CurveTransformations to adjust lightness, contrast, and most importants, **lots of saturation boosting**
* SCNR Green
* UnsharpMask
* ACDNR
* LocalHistogramEqualization
* DynamicCrop
* Annotation
Kept best 5% of frames from each movie of 5000 frames
---Hardware---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
Camera : PointGrey Grasshopper GS3-U3-23S6M
Tube : AstroPhysics 130 EDF GT
Barlow : Televue 4x
Effective focal length : 3120 mm
Effective aperture : ~ F/24
---Software---
Acquired with FireCapture
Stacked with AutoStakkert
Processed with Lightroom
It was a spectacular spring day in Austin, perfect for a neighborhood crawfish boil. I caught this shot of the Moon just 18 hours after full with a Questar 1350/89mm f/15 telescope and Sony a6300 camera at prime focus. 2019-04-20 05:04 UT from Austin, Texas. This is the best 8 of 105 images exposed for 1/50 sec at ISO 100. Stacked in AutoStakkert 3, deconvolve in Lynkeos, with final crop and exposure adjustments in Photoshop.
Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor, 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D
Best 50% of 156 frames stacked in Autostakkert!2 and processed in Lightroom
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Canon 1100D with 300mm zoom lens. Two different exposures blended together, one to preserve lunar surface features the other exposure for Mars. Both were shot at the same time, same focal length, both at ISO-800. Mars was 1/8 sec, the Moon was a stack of 25 x 1/3200 sec exposures, aligned in PIPP then stacked in Autostakkert! 3 then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer. Images blended in Photoshop CS2.
ZWO ASI290MM
TeleVue NP101is/2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy GM8
4000 frames captured in Firecapture
Best 60% stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
Orion XT10 & Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate
- ZWO ASI120MM Mini (luminance)
- Canon 80D DSLR (rgb)
10 October 2020, 00:36 BST.
Celestron NexStar 6SE, ZWO asi224mc with IR cut filter and ZWO ADC. 2 minute video Captured in SharpCap, processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax Wavelets then Lightroom.
2018-05-25 22:27 GMT -3
Equipo: Mak 102 - Barlow 2x - Canon 6D - Star Adventurer
Video RAW Magic Lantern - ISO 1600 - 1/80s - 640 x 640 - 31 fps
Apilado 75% de 2263 frames
Procesado: MLV Dump - PIPP - AutoStakkert - Photoshop - Lightroom
Jupiter this morning with good seeing around 8/10. Used a ASI120MM. 5000 frames in L and 3000 for each R, G and B Stacked in Autostakkert , wavelets in Registax and de rotation in Winjupos. This was the last shot I did this morning I think it is the best of all six.
Northfield, OH
May 15, 2022, a partly cloudy night, with a few opportunities to observe this eclipse.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK on 8th October 2019. Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor and ZWO ASI120MC camera with Powermate 5x Barlow. Mounted on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier, tracking at lunar speed.
2,000 frame video shot, the best 70% was stacked with Autostakkert! 3, processed in Lightroom, Fast Stone Image Viewer and Focus Magic. I was imaging between 20:30 – 21:20 BST. The seeing was not great and the Moon was quite low in the sky, but I’m always amazed at what this little camera can achieve on such a small refractor!
- Skywatcher Star Adventurer Equatorial Mount
- Celestron C90 + 2x barlow + Olympus OMD EM10 MKII
- Prime focus
- A 2 minutes video stacked with AutoStakkert
Luna del 2017-02-07
Apilado de video RAW - Canon 60D - IS0 400 - 1/1600s
SW Dobson 8" f/6 a foco primario
25% de 116 frames
PIPP - AutoStakkert - Adobe LR
Moon Mosaic of 8 panels
11-7-2024
Equipment:
-Celestron Edge Hd 11".
-Sky watcher CQ350 .
-Canon R5 for moon color.
-Player one Uranus C (planetary camera) .
software :
-Autostakkert.
-sharpcap
-registax.
-Ps.
-Microsoft ICE.
Astrobin :
www.astrobin.com/users/Khalidsnd/
Instagram :
Taken on 28 August 2017, at 23.34 UTC with ZWO ASI224 MC Camera and Celestron NexStar 6 SE Telescope. Video was captured in SharpCap, processed in Autostakkert and edited in PS.
The moons were copied from an overexposed image in my album taken at 23.36 UTC, and pasted onto standard version in PS, the moons were stretched, then sharpened, shrunk and labelled.
September's rising full moon, in three colors according to its proximity to the horizon, in orange it has just come out.
Processed with PIPP and stacked with AutoStakkert. It has finally been finished off with Adobe Photoshop CC.
Salida de la luna llena en Septiembre, a tres colores según su cercania al horizonte, en naranja acaba de salir.
Procesada con PIPP y apilada con AutoStakkert. Finalmente se ha rematado con Adobe Photoshop CC.
SONY A7III with Sony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G)
©2020 All rights reserved. MSB.photography
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First Quarter Moon
Taken May 13, 2016 in Seattle, WA.
Telescope: TEC 180 @ f/7
Camera: ZWO ASI 120MM-S
Mount: Astro-Physics 900
17-panel mosaic. Each panel is 1000 frames, best 100 frames used
Processed in Autostakkert (align and stack), Registax (wavelets), and AutoStitch (mosaic stitching)
Mars 3rd Nov 2022(22:42 UT) , a difficult set of images to process due to poor seeing conditions. This image consists of four images de rotated in Winjupos (best 3,000 frames each), 18,000 frames captured in 2.5 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 Región Activa 12824 con barlow 2,5X
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, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2021-05-19 (19 de mayo de 2021)
Hora: 14:00 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 2 videos de 1 minutos cada uno
Resolución: 1736x1504
Gain: 58 (11%)
Exposure: 0.032ms
Frames: 2523 + 2523
Frames apilados: 26%
FPS: 42
Sensor temperature= 44.5°C
~3 panels
100x frames each panel taken from a stack of 1000
Cropped from the whole mosaic of 5 panels
SkyWatcher 200PDS
HEQ5 PRO
Microsoft Lifecam Studio
TS UV/IR cut
processing in autostakkert 2, registax 6, pixinsight 1.8 and gimp 2.
Stacked in AutoStakkert!3 then processed in Photoshop using Astra Image filters (highly recommended)
The Moon, enhanced to bring out the faint colours of the Lunar soil.
Celestron 8" SCT. Nikon D5100. Autostakkert!2 and Photoshop.
The Sun today showing three sunspot groups. Processed in PIPP, Auotostakkert and Photoshop from video taken with a Canon 5DMK3 through an ED80 telescope.
Huge solar prominence on the Sun earlier today. Earth image for a "rough" comparison of size.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED, ZWO ASI290MC, Daystar Quark Chromosphere + Daystar 2" UV/IR filter, SharpCap Pro v3.0, best 15% of 500 frames, AutoStakkert, Registax. Image date: 29 July 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA, USA.
This image was taken at maximum libration in both latitude (south) and longitude (east), and therefore shows many features that are rarely observed from Earth. Of special interest in this image are the following features:
1. Shackleton crater, marking the true lunar South Pole.
2. Schrodinger crater (rim visible), a far side impact basin
3. Vallis Schrodinger, a long linear valley on the lunar far side.
4. Numerous far side craters visible near the limb (more details below).
Shackleton crater, marking the true South Pole of the Moon, is visible at the top right of the image, although locating it among the complex crater strewn landscape is not so simple. The rim of Shackleton is partially illuminated, whereas the interior experiences perpetual darkness. To the left of Shackleton, the elevated terrain on the lunar limb marks the perimeter of Schrodinger crater, a large impact basin on the lunar far side. The far side craters Ganswindt and Idel'son are clearly visible here, with Rittenhouse further to the left. Further still to the left, some features of Vallis Schrodinger can be observed on the extreme limb. Vallis Schrodinger is a linear valley on the lunar far side that likely formed during the Schrodinger impact. Vallis Schrodinger crosses through the far side crater Sikorsky, which is partially visible on the extreme limb of the image. Far side craters Chamberlin and Moulton (visible towards left of image, along the limb) lie at the northern terminus of the valley. And finally, at the lower left of the image, we see the edge of Mare Australe. Other notable features in the image include Vallis Rheita at lower left, Boussingault crater near top center (large crater with multiple terraces), polar craters Amundsen and Scott at top right, and a series of striking craters along the lunar terminator.
The image was captured with a C9.25 Edge HD telescope, ASI183mm camera, and 610nm long pass red/IR filter on July 20, 2018, at 03:17UT, from San Diego, CA. Focal length 2350mm @f/10. Stack of 500 frames. Software utilized: Autostakkert (version AS!3 for stacking), PixInsight, Photoshop.
I want to improve my planetary imaging before October this year when Mars will be very prominent in the night sky.
At its furthest, Mars is quite small at about 4 or 5 arcseconds - about a 1/3 of the size of Venus in this image. At opposition, it will be about 22.6".
To do it well, I'll have to master automatic filter wheel changes, automated acquisition sequences and planetary guiding.
This image of Venus was taken with a Celestron Nexstar 8SE and a TeleVue x 2 Barlow giving a focal length of 4000mm at f20 - more zoomed in than Ive tried before with Venus imaging. Its interesting that the software thinks my focal length is actually 5500mm - could be because there is a long imaging train of focuser, flip mirror box, filter wheel and Barlow attached to the end of the scope! Focusing by moving the primary mirror of an SCT also affects focal length.
I set up autorun sequencing in FireCapture 2.6 to take 18 x videos of 5000 frames each (36 seconds to acquire each video at 137 fps), stacked those in AutoStackert!3 (best 5%) and then stacked the 18 images again to produce this 1 image. Luckily, AutoStakkert!3 does batch processing!
I managed to get autoguiding running in FireCapture (by using ASCOM to control my mount) but it wasn't as accurate as me doing the guiding manually.
Overall, Ive got FireCapture to control my electronic focuser, filter wheel and mount using ASCOM and am getting to grips with planetary guiding and acquisition sequencing.
I'd love to see some cloud detail in the Venusian atmosphere so next time will either try a Violet filter (+IR blocker) or a Baader U filter which passes UV light.
Equipment and settings:
Celestron Nexstar 8SE SCT @ 2032mm focal length and f/10
TeleVue PowerMate x 2
SkyWatcher EQ6 pro mount with Rowan Belt Drives
ZWO ASI290MM monochrome CMOS camera.
IR pass filter @ 742nm
Acquisition with FireCapture 2.6
Stacking with AutoStakkert!3
ASI290 settings:
Camera=ZWO ASI290MM
Filter=IR742
Profile=Venus
Diameter=15.39"
Magnitude=-4.10
FocalLength=5500mm
Resolution=0.11"
Duration=36.314s
Frames captured=5000
File type=SER
ROI=880x646
FPS (avg.)=137
Shutter=1.323ms
Gain=323 (53%)
Histogram=38%
Limit=5000 Frames
Sensor temperature=16.6°C
Focuser position=865
Orion XT10 & Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate
- ZWO ASI120MM Mini (luminance & moons)
- Canon 80D DSLR (rgb)
31 July 2020, 00:42 BST.
Interactive tool for identifying Saturn's moons (Sky & Telescope)