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I found a suitable stacking software after problems trying to utilize Registax and AutoStakkert. This is a stack of 11, 60" frames (11 min. total) with no calibration. Processed using Deep Sky Stacker (DDS) and Photoshop.
Canon 550D
ISO 3200
Exposure: 60"
Orion 8" Newtonian F/4
Skywatcher EQ6 Mount
No Guiding
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.
104_8339 moons 1/8s f/24 51200 ISO
104_8348-52 Saturn 1/60s f/24 4000 ISO 4k MP4s
Saturn processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert, enlarged and merged with photo of moons.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor with a Canon 600D at prime focus ( 600mm ) Best 20 of 50 images stacked using Autostakkert 2 as some frames had wisps of cloud in them. A Baader Astrosolar Filter was fitted to the telescope.
This is a composite of 8 frames stitched using Microsoft ICE. A ZWO ASI290MM camera plus an Astronomik Pro Planet filter (642nm - 840nm) was used.
Each frame is 90s at 37fps. 20% was stacked by AutoStakkert before final processing in Photoshop.
This was shot at 1.15 in the morning and is my first Waning Gibbous Moon.
Blustery wind,cloud and the odd rain shower didn't stop me running off a few scans using the 72ED/Hoya ND16 and Sol'Ex SHG/QHY5III 178M during the odd gaps in the cloud. 16x sidereal speed used on CEM60,this image is a stack of two out of six using Autostakkert,wavelet sharpened in Astrosurface and processed in Photoshop CS2.
Stack of 1200 frames from iPhone 6 video taken through Celestron NexStar8SE telescope. Stacked & processed using PIPP, AutoStakkert, Registax, Nebulosity, Gimp & Snapseed.
Sabado 28 Noviembre 2020
Ocotlán Jalisco México
Takahashi FS60
ZWO ASI120MC-S
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
15 Frames de la ISS
Captura: Firecapture
Procesado: Autostakkert + Ps + Pixinsight 1.8
Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda
Observatorio Astronómico Altaír
Ocotlán Jalisco México
June's Strawberry full Moon from Austin, Texas. Taken 2020-06-06 05:06 UT. Questar 1350/89mm f/15 telescope with a Sony a6300 at prime focus. Exposed 1/60 sec at ISO 100.
Best 16 of 130 images stacked in Autostakkert 3, doconvolved in Lynkeos, with final crop and exposure adjustments in Photoshop.
Taken on Canon M50 m2 using a converted Tokina SD 400mm F/5.6
Aperature: f/8
Iso: 100
Shutter Speed: 1/60
Autoaligned JPEG images and converted to TIFFs using PIPP
Stacked TIFFs using AutoStakkert
Edited and sharperned in LightRoom
This portion of the lunar surface stretches from Copernicus on the left (southwest) to Eratosthenes and the southern end of Montes Appeninus (northeast) on the right. Just over 73% of the sunlit side of the Moon was facing the Earth at the time; it was 8.9 days past new. I wanted to show the change in illumination from near the terminator, where Copernicus was, to the mountains, which were in more direct sunlight. The total distance on the moon from the left to right edge of the image is about 540 km.
Images were taken with a Celestron Edge HD 9.25" scope and 3x Barlow using a Point Grey color CCD shooting at 50 fps. Seeing was good, but transparency average to poor; humidity was above 90%. AVIs were 600 frames in length, and the best 150 frames were stacked in AutoStakkert. Initial wavelet processing was done in PixInsight, and images were mosaiced with Microsoft ICE. A few final touches were done in PS CS 5.1
Taken with Imaging Source DFK21AU618 camera. Best 2000 shots selected by PIPP, stacked with Autostakkert and sharpened with PSE 12.
This active region rotated into view a few days ago. The photo was taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Coronado PST and ASI120MC fitted with a 2x Barlow. A 2,000 frame video was captured using SharpCap and the best 75% of the frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3. Stacked image was processed in Lightroom, Fast Stone Image Viewer, Photoshop CS2 and Focus Magic.
Taken with a Canon 600D using a Canon F4 IS L 70-200mm Zoom Lens. 20 images stacked using Autostakkert 2. Image cropped heavily and enlarged. Focused on moon with liveview and when confirmed turned autofocus off, took 20 jpg's in burst mode for 4-5 seconds. Images then processed in PIPP to automatically centre and crop the moon to a 2000x1800 pixel image. Used Autostakkert in 'surface' mode to stack images as cloud and blue sky present in all images. Camera settings were F5.6 ISO100 500th second exposure Lens at 200mm.
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
Used my C9.25 @ f/10 and ZWO ASI462MC colour camera to capture 116 SER files of 250 frames each to create this mosaic of the full Moon. All files eventually stacked in Autostakkert 3,mosaic stitched using Microsoft ICE and processed in Astrosurface and PS CS2.
Active area 2665 with protuberances (and Earth showing the scale) imaged in southern Finland around noon today. Seeing was pretty nice and protuberances clearly visible.
Details: 90 mm D-ERF, 80/480 APO, Quark, 0.5x reducer and ASI178MM on AVX. Image acquisition with Firecapture v2.6 beta. Best 5 % frames stacked out of 5000 frames. Stacked with Autostakkert3!, processed with ImPPG and colored with Photoshop.
Imaged at lat: 60° 13.1259'
lon: 24° 48.0592' (WGS84).
1000 frame SER for the prominence and a 500 frame SER for the limb recorded in IC capture with a DMK21au using my 6" f/8 with Lunt 50THa etalon. Stacked in Autostakkert,the two images combined using layers in Photoshop,sharpened in ImPPG returning to Photoshop to finish processing and false colouring. North is toward top right hand corner of image.
Taken early evening of 16/06/20
My first complete solar system collage! Details:
Sun & Prominence, May 19, 2012
Composite image taken with iPhone 4S through Coronado PST H-alpha solar telescope.
Mercury, May 24, 2014
My first telescopic photo of tiny Mercury. Stack of 26 frames taken with iPhone 4S attached to NexStar 8SE telescope.
Venus, July 2, 2015
Stack of 51 frames taken with iPhone 6 through 8" telescope. Processed in Registax, Nebulosity, Gimp & Flickr.
Mars, June 24, 2016
Stack of 1200 frames with iPhone through NexStar 8 SE telescope. Stacked & edited in PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax, Nebulosity & Gimp.
Jupiter & Double Moon Shadow Transit, March 22, 2016
Includes Great Red Spot and shadows of moons Io & Europa. Stack of 700+ frames taken with iPhone 6 through 8" telescope.
Uranus, Feb 26, 2017
Stack of 150 iPhone 6 video frames taken with the NightCapPro app through 8" telescope.
Neptune, Jan 2, 2017
Stack of 5 single images taken with iPhone 6 using the NightCapPro app through 8" telescope.
Additional details available on my blog here: canadianastronomy.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/the-solar-syst...
Taken 22:56 BST with an 8" Ritchie-Chretien telescope on an EQ6 mount with a Canon 1100D at prime focus.
ISO-800 1/1250 sec exp
250 shots taken, shot in RAW. Converted into TIFFs using Lightroom then the best 60% stacked using Autostakkert! 2. Stacked image then processed in Lightroom, Fast Stone Image Viewer and Focus Magic
Mars at 21:11 UT, 22/10/2020. 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 20,000 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. Reprocessed using smaller AP's (48 size) in Autostakkert for a sharper image.
...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.
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.
The Sky at Night gallery, October 2021
Taken with my ZWO AS120MM-mini guide camera Skywatcher 130PDS and a a x3 barlow. Video recorded in Sharpcap, processed in Autostakkert and sharpened in Registack.
It was my late father who got me into astronomy with the Moon being one of his favourites. I vividly remember his pointing this out when showing me.
I've not really got into closeup Moon photography before so abit of a first for me. My sister and brother came to visit and stayed in their camper van. My brother in law Nick is interested in taking up the hobby at some point so we set up the equipment. When the Moon is so full you have to take pictures of the Moon.
I'm not sure I sold it very well because there was a lot of faffing about. I've not done it for a while, it was cold, I was using my rubbish laptop and the seeing was terrible.
Anyway, we managed to get some pic's and in the end it wasn't too bad.
Copernicus and Kepler are a stunning pair! Their namesakes are legendary in astronomy. Nicholaus Copernicus gave astronomy a heliocentric theory of the solar system, and Johannes Kepler derived the fundamental laws of planetary motion.
Near the upper left is Kepler. This crater is 32 km in diameter and 2.6 km deep. The crater proper features sharply terraced walls and a central peak. A gently sloping rampart surrounds the crater wall, and transitions downward to the dark basaltic plain of Mare Insularium below. A bright ray system extends outward for up to 300 km. Interestingly, one of Crater Tycho's rays intersect Kepler, a reminder of the real life connection between Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler.
Copernicus, toward the lower right of the frame, is a larger example of the features found in Kepler. This crater is 93 km in diameter, and 3.9 km deep. It has three central peaks that overlook the crater floor. The ray system extends outward for 800 km. This bright, large crater can be seen from Earth with binoculars.
Meade LX850 (12" f/8), ZWO ASI290MM
Autostakkert! (stacking - best 10% of 3,000 frames)
Registax (sharpening)
Photoshop (final processing)
2 Nov 2020
15 horas (Central Mx)
Link HD: memoastronomy.wixsite.com/memoastronomy/copy-of-cielo-pro...
Coronado PST
QHY5-II MONO
Barlow 2x
Celestron AVX
Frames: 1000 (Stack 150)
Flats: 5
Df: 800 mm.
F: 20
Captura: Firecapture
Procesado: Autostakkert + Pixinsight + Ps
Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda
Observatorio Astronómico Altaïr
Poncitlán Jalisco México
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
Larger Craters on view:
JANNSEN, VLACQ, PITISCUS, ROSENBERGER
[ North down ]
12/10/2014 00:40 BST
Skywatcher 200P F5 + 2.5x Powermate, ASI120MC-S
PIPP, AutoStakkert!2, Registax 6, Photoshop CC
FireCapture v2.4 beta Settings
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Camera=ZWO ASI120MC-S
Filter=L
Profile=Moon
Filename=Moon_004126.avi
Date=121014
Start=004126.724
Mid=004138.658
End=004150.593
Start(UT)=234126.724
Mid(UT)=234138.658
End(UT)=234150.593
Duration=23.869s
Date_format=ddMMyy
Time_format=HHmmss
LT=UT
Frames captured=2000
File type=AVI
Extended AVI mode=true
Compressed AVI=false
Binning=no
ROI=800x640
FPS (avg.)=83
Shutter=4.173ms
Gain=47
WRed=52
AutoExposure=off
SoftwareGain=10 (off)
Brightness=0
USBTraffic=100
WBlue=95
Overclock=0
Gamma=19
Histogramm(min)=0
Histogramm(max)=107
Histogramm=41%
Noise(avg.deviation)=n/a
Limit=2000 Frames
Sensor temperature=14.8 °C
Three 1 minute MP4s centred, cropped and stacked using PIPP and AutoStakkert. The moons are from left to right: Callisto, Ganymede and Europa. Io was in Jupiter's shadow.
Jupiter 34.5 arcsec diameter, 20 degrees above horizon.
104_6675-7
Aufgenommen um 22.40 MESZ mit einem VC200L bei 1800x2mm Brennweite und einer ZWO ASI120MC-S CMOS Kamera. 3 Minuten Film bei 7ms Belichtungszeit, bearbeitet mit Autostakkert, Giotto und Lightroom. Der Planet ist etwa halb so groß wie de Erde und befand sich 2 Wochen vor Opposition in 0.42 AE Entfernung von der Erde (62442693 km). Der scheinbare Durchmesser am Himmel war 22.4''. Die kleinsten sichtbare Strukturen von ca. 1'' entsprechen somit ca. 300km. Ganz unten im Bild ist die sehr kleine südliche Eispolkappe zu sehen. Die Oberflächenstruktur ist rötlich gefärbt aufgrund des Eisenoxid-Staub. Ein paar Dunstschleier sind im Norden (oben) und am Planetenrand zu erkennen.
Image taken with Vixen VC200L + 2xBarlow + ASI 120 MC-S, Asicapture, AutoStakkert3!, Giotto & Lightroom processing
150mm achromat PST modified scope (stopped down to 120 to give f'/10) and QHY5III 178M.
White light image of AR 2835 taken using C9.25 @ f/10 with full aperture Baader ND3.8 solar film and the 178M with continuum filter. Stacked in Autostakkert 3 and processed in Astrosurface and PS CS2. Second Ha image has been inverted to negative image then false coloured.
Here is Saturn as seen on 22nd October 2022.
The seeing conditions just after sunset were the best I've seen in a long time. I was live streaming the views through my 14" telescope online, then I captured this image at 21:46. Conditions progressively got worse, but I managed to get this image captured before they deterioated too much.
Equipment
- ZWO 585MC
- Skywatcher 350P / 14" GoTo dobsonain
- TeleVue 3x barlow
- ZWO ADC
Software
- SharpCap 4.1 Pro
- PIPP
- AutoStakkert
- AstroSurface
Sol Región Activa 2738
Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: EQ5 Bresser EXOS2 motorizada sin goto
Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.6, T=25%)
- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (540nm)
Accesorio: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism
- TeleVue Lente de Barlow 2,5x Powermate 1,25"
Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2019-04-12
Hora: 16:30 T.U.
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 1 minuto 20 segundos
Resolución: 1040 x 1040
Gain: 94
Exposure: 0,000034 seg
Frames: 5991
Frames apilados: 8%
FPS: 74.30
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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Triple stacked 80mm f/7 scope using SM40/SMII 60 front etalons and Lunt pressure tuned module at the back. Region of Interest selected to get inside sweet spot with QHY5III 178M. 23 SER files recorded in Firecapture,stacked in Autostakkert and mosaic stitched in PS CS2,wavelet sharpened in Astrosurface,finishing off in CS2.
Taken 15/04/22
From crater Theophilus (100km diameter) below to crater Langrenus above.
Blue is titanium rich lava, red is Iron rich.
Below Langrenus is the Mare Fecunditatus, To the right of Theophilus is the Mare Nectaris, to the left is the Mare Serenitatis.
Assuming the Moon has a diameter of 3475km = 30 arcminutes, Theophilus is approximately 52 arcseconds across.
Celestron Nexstar 8se 2000mm f/10
ZWO ASI174 MC cooled CMOS camera
Ioptron ZEQ25GT Equatorial mount.
Acquisition: FireCapture
Stacking: AutoStakkert!3 best 50% of 5000 frames
Processing: luminosity- wavelets in Registax6 then luminosity masked over RGB image. RGB - saturation enhanced in Photoshop.
Celestron NexStar 6SE
ZWO asi224mc with IR cut filter
Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate
ZWO ADC
FireCapture for ADC tuning
2 minute capture in SharpCap-
exp 3.60ms gain 350
35K frames and stacked 55%
Processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax Wavelets and finished in Lightroom.
- Skywatcher Star Adventurer Equatorial Mount
- Celestron C90 + 2x barlow + Olympus OMD EM10 MKII
- Prime focus
- A 2 minutes video stacked with AutoStakkert
My #astrophotography
Jupiter at opposition, it is more brighter than ever, it is also at the closet approach 590 Million KM to Earth.
Equipment Details:
🔭 Celestron CPC 800
ZWO ASI290MC
Orion (2") 2x Barlow Lens
Baader UV/IR-Cut L-filter
Post-processing Details:
Imaging Software:
FireCapture
Stacked using:
Autostakkert
Registax
Photoshop
Imaging details using:
ImageMagic (FireCapture sub program) .
First attempt at using WinJUPOS for de-rotation. 5 Images captured between 6:47 and 7:00 a.m.
Each image is the best 15% of 4,000 frames stacked in Autostakkert, WinJUPOS, Registax 6 for wavelets, Photoshop CC 2015 for final touches. My understanding is that some artifacts in the image are the result of average seeing conditions and come from the de-rotation segment or processing.
Celestron CPC800XLT
ASI290MC camera
Shorty 2X Barlow
Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, almost 2 months after its 2023 opposition. This time-lapse animation shows 1 hour of motion. The Great Red Spot (GRS) is visible moving towards the east. This is the largest storm in the Solar System, although it has been shrinking in recent history. Even in its "smaller" state, the GRS is still roughly the size of Earth.
Jupiter rotates about its axis every 10 hours, making it the fastest-rotating planet in the Solar System. As a result, it is noticeably wider at the equator. Its atmosphere is separated into several bands at different latitudes, which creates turbulence and storms along the boundaries.
Phase angle: 9.45°
Apparent magnitude: -2.65
Apparent diameter: 45.11"
Distance from Earth: 4.370 AU
Each one of the 17 frames in this video was processed as a standard planetary image stack:
Stack of 1,500 frames (best of ~17,000)
Captured from 01:50 to 03:01 UTC 2023/12/24
Exposure 5 ms, Gain 350, Offset 25
Location: Summerville/Ladson, SC
Atmospheric seeing: 3/5 to 4/5
Camera: ZWO ASI224MC
Filter: ZWO UV/IR-Cut
Telescope: Celestron C6 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope
Barlow: Tele Vue 2x 1.25" Barlow (with ZWO ADC before Barlow, gives an effective focal length of ~3950mm at f/26.3)
Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G (unguided)
Capture software: FireCapture
Processing software: AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, and PIPP (to create the video)
Altair Astro LightWave 72EDR Altair Hypercam IMX178 colour
Imaged using SharpCap 3.1 Pro
Best 15% of 3000 frames stacked with AutoStakkert 3
Post processed with Photoshop CC2018
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK on 26th October 2018 during a 94% Waning Gibbous Moon. Shot with a 10" Dobsonian telescope and 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D. Video shot with Backyard EOS, 800 frame videos were taken for each of the 13 regions, then the frames above 50% quality on the analysis graph stacked using Autostakkert! 2 (varied from 40% to 70%). All 13 images were cropped then stitched together using Microsoft ICE. Wavelets sharpened in Registax 6, then processed in Lightroom & Fast Stone Image Viewer