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Taken from Oxfordshire on 1st May 2023 with a William Optics 70mm refractor and ZWO ASI120MC camera fitted with a Powermate 5x 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. Crater J. Herschel is actually circular - it only appears oval because it's located towards the edge of the Moon as viewed from Earth.
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.
Earth-orbiting satellites detected an X1.1-class solar flare from sunspot AR3217 on Feb. 11th @ 1548 UTC. (upper right). These images were taken a few hours after the event.
Although this X1-class solar flare attracted all the attention, it did not produce a CME (coronal mass ejection). Five hours before the X-flare, a filament of magnetism erupted from the sun's northern hemisphere and hurled a CME into space. This produced the G1 aurora show last night (2023-02-14)
Three versions of the same image each provide different views of the solar surface. Black and white (native), inverted black and white, and false colour.
Best 12% of 1,000 frames.
Equipment details:
Orion 80mm refractor
Quark Chromosphere filter
ZWO2600MM Pro using ROI
Processed in Autostakkert, IMPPG and Photoshop
Composite of two stacked images (one capturing the North half and one the South half of the moon) made from ~400 frames of iPhone video through 8" telescope. Aligned in Photoshop, stacked and edited with PIPP, AutoStakkert, Registax, and Nebulosity.
Optics: Meade LX200 GPS 10" F10 + x2 Barlow, ADC
Cameras: Imaging Source DBK21AU04.AS
Mounts: Meade LX200 10" GPS
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS2, Registax6, WinJupos, Autostakkert! 2, FireCapture 2.3, ImagesPlus IP6
Filters: Revelation Astro IR Blocking Filter
Giove
AUTORE: Aldo Rocco Vitale (Gruppo Astrofili Catanesi “Guido Ruggieri”)
DATA: venerdì 14 giugno 2019
ORA: 22:50 – 23:00
LOCALITA’: S. Agata Li Battiati (CT) 250 m. s.l.m.
TEMPERATURA: 24°
UMIDITA’: 75%
SEEING: 5
TRASPARENZA: 2
EST. SKY QUALITY: 18.92 Mag.
BORTLE CLASS: 8
COSTELLAZIONE: Ofiuco
OGGETTO: Giove
TIPO: Corpo del Sistema Solare
DIMENSIONE: 46’’
DISTANZA: 5.3 Unità Astronomiche (793 milioni di Km c.a.)
OBIETTIVO: Celestron Mak C90; D=90 mm; F=1250 mm; f/13.8 + Celestron Barlow APO 2X
MONTATURA: Skywatcher Star Adventurer
CAMERA DI RIPRESA: ZWO ASI 120 MC
TEMPO DI POSA: Stacking di 854 frames da filmato Ser di 2800 frames
SOFTWARE DI ELABORAZIONE: Autostakkert + Registax + Iris + Pixinsight + Astroart
Processed image of Mars (left) compared to prediction (right - from Stellarium).
Frames captured ~ 70000
Equipment:
TS130 at f/14 (barlow x2) on Avalon Linear and ASI120M 3.0 camera with Baarder IR-pass filter
Processed with AutoStakkert, IMPPG and Adobe Photoshop
Date: 23/10/2020 22:20 UT
S.C. de La Laguna, Spain
IR742 + RGB image.
3rd November 2020 22h 13m ut.
C14 working at F33 (FL 11.73m)
Baader filters
ASI174M camera
Sharpcap
Autostakkert
Registax6
Photoshop
SharpenAI
Struggling with terrible seeing.
Seeing 2/5
Transparency 4/5.
10 min video derotated. 1.5X drizzle
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
Celestron NexStar 6SE, ZWO asi224mc with IR cut filter, 2.5x TeleVue Powermate and ZWO ADC. 2.5 minute video Captured in SharpCap, processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax Wavelets then Lightroom.
Luna del 20-07-2016
Apilado 50% de 32 tomas - 32 darks.
SW Dob 8" f/6 - Canon 60D - ISO 400 - 1/1000 - Foco primario
Procesado: PIPP - AutoStakkert - Adobe Lightroom
A resampled and cropped version of one the Jupiter shots taken on 23rd August - Jupiter reached opposition on August 19-20. Two of Jupiter's moons are visible in this shot, Io (closest to the planet) and Europa.
Captured with SharpCap
Processed in PIPP and AutoStakkert
Post-processed in Photoshop
Image made from 2000 video frames
Gain - 11%
Exposure - 0.106461 seconds
Equipment:
Telescope: Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS
Mount: Skywatcher EQ5
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI120 MC
x2 Barlow with extension tube (equivalent to x3.3)
104_7995 moons 1/8s f/24 51200 ISO
104_8005-9 Saturn 1/60s f/24 4000 ISO 4K MP4s
MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert then merged with shot of moons.
Taken on 2nd January 2017 from Oxfordshire UK. Taken with a Canon 1100D with 300mm zoom lens on a static tripod.
110 still images shot, then centred, cropped and converted into an AVI using PIPP, then the best 60% of those stacked using Autostakkert! 2
What a difference $27B per year makes!
My attempt on the left; NASA's on the right (MOONTrek screen shot.)
I used an Earth-based Skymax 150mm f/12 Mak and ZWO ASI432MM. IR pass filter with a 2.5x PM. Sharpcap, Autostakkert, MS ICE, and Photoshop. Seeing was quite good for North Florida.
2 Pane mosaic with skywatcher 130p and a Nikon D3300 using a x2 Barlow.
250 frames stacked out of 1500 in autostakkert!2 Sharpened in imppg and finished in Photoshop.
Thanks For looking.
Coronado PST
QHY5-II Mono
Barlow 2x
MemoFocus PST
Celestron AVX
Frames: 1000 (Stack 15%)
Df: 800 mm.
F: 20
Captura: Firecapture
Procesado: Autostakkert + Registax + Pixinsight 1.8
Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda
Observatorio Astronómico Altaïr
Poncitlán Jalisco México
The moon was nice and high [at the end of my imaging session](gfycat.com/madeverlastingindianpangolin) so I decided to point my DSO rig at it. Seeing was 'above average' according to Astrospheric. **This photo has had the saturation increased to emphasize the differences in the lunar soil**, which are *barely* noticeable to the eye through larger telescopes (for me at least). Tan/orange indicates iron rich minerals, and blue indicates titanium rich minerals. Captured at 6:20am on September 27th, 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 - 2000 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 20% of frames in Autostakkert (autosharpened, 3X Drizzle)
**[PixInsight Processing:](i.imgur.com/sORySKX.png)**
* DynamicCrop
* ChannelCombination to combine monochrome images into RGB image
* HistogramTransformation (slight stretch, also applied to red stack)
* LRGBCombination using red stack as luminance
* CurvesTransformations to adjust lightness, contrast, colors, saturation, etc.
* ColorSaturation to desaturate red fringing around some craters
* SCNR green > invert > SCNR > invert
* more curves
* LocalHistogramTransformation
*Histogramtransformation to lower black point
* shitloads more Curves
* FastRotation
* Annotation
Mars shot through a hole in the clouds 2016-05-21. Reworked this image with AutoStakkert. Questar 3.5" with 2x2x Dakin Barlows and Sony a6300 for 1/40 sec at ISO 800. Best 16 of 180 images stacked and RGB aligned in AutoStakkert. Deconvolved in Lynkeos. Final exposure tweaks in PS.
Finally I had made my full disk Solar image from data recorded a week ago!
The most interesting feature is at the bottom of an image - a spiraling plasma filament that looks like a tether of a baloon :)
WARNING! Sun is dangerous, use proper filters for observing and imaging!
Aquisition time: JD 2456640.821701 (14.12.2013 11:43:15 MSK)
Image orientation: scrambled.
Equipment:
Canon EOS 60D (unmodded) coupled to Coronado PST via Baader Planetarium Hyperion Zoom 8-24 mm Mark III click-stop system eyepiece and Baader Planetarium M43-to-T2 conversion ring and mounted on photo-tripod.
Aperture 40 mm
Native focal length 400 mm
Projection zoom setting 20 mm.
Effective focal length ~800 mm
Tv = 1/20 seconds
Av (effective) = ~f/20
ISO 800
Exposures: 13
Processing: images were converted to monochrome (this is a key step) and exported as 8-bit .TIFFs. Images were assembled into stack in ImageJ and saved and resulting dataset was dissected into 10 overlapping panels. Panels were saved as .AVIs and were processed in Autostakkert!2.
Resulting images were stitched back in Microsoft ICE and stitched image was subjected to Richardson-Lucy deconvolution in AstraImage 3.0 (Gaussian type PSF, size 2 units, 7 iterations).
On this step I decided to do something new, and since stacked image is to all extents and purposes an(sic?) HDR image and since my solar images lack contrast I tonemapped it in Luminance HDR (formerly known as QTPFSGUI) using Mantiuk'06 tonemaping operator (contrast factor 0,291; saturation factor 0,8; detail factor 1; pregamma 0,515). This step causes the second loss of bit depth, but it already doesn't matter.
High-pass filtering and coloration were made in Photoshop.
Note: I'm starting to feel the first symptoms of "Solar aperture fever".
Saturn, the 6th planet, just before opposition. Long and short exposures were blended to create a composite image. On this rare occasion, the eight brightest moons of Saturn appeared close to the planet.
I don't think anyone else has ever captured eight moons with such modest equipment (80mm refractor and a DSLR). Clockwise from the upper-left: Iapetus, Rhea, Tethys, Enceladus, Mimas, Dione, Hyperion, and Titan.
Mimas is difficult to image because it orbits Saturn closely and it is very dim (13th magnitude). Capturing this moon (and the other six) was my main goal for this image. I didn't even think about capturing Hyperion because of how dim it is (between 14th and 15th magnitude).
I only realized during post-processing that my field of view was large enough to include Hyperion. I found an extremely faint smudge towards the bottom right of Titan, but I brushed it off as a hot pixel artifact since its position did not match the data from Stellarium.
After reading posts about similar endeavors on CloudyNights, I found NASA's extremely accurate tool for planetary systems (pds-rings.seti.org/tools). I quickly discovered that Stellarium was significantly inaccurate. I then compared my image with the new data, and the real position of Hyperion matched up perfectly with the smudge in my image. Victory at last!
See unannotated version here: flic.kr/p/2nJyDdq
See original long exposure stack here: flic.kr/p/2mfau48
Moons:
3,600 x 1/5 second ISO1600 (best of 5,062)
960 x 640 px @ 5 FPS
Captured from 07:25 to 07:42 UTC on 07/25/21
Saturn:
2,000 x 1/30 second ISO6400 (best of 183,714)
640 x 426 px @ 30 FPS
Captured from 06:11 to 08:11 UTC on 08/01/21
Phase angle: 0.11°
Apparent magnitude: 0.18
Apparent diameter: 43.33" (with rings)
Distance from Earth: 8.935 AU
Atmospheric seeing: 5/5
Location: Coral Springs, FL
Camera: Canon T3i
Telescope: Explore Scientific ED80 f/6.0 Apochromatic Refractor
Barlow: Antares 3x Triplet Barlow (effective magnification is 4.932x for 2373mm focal length at f/29.66)
Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G
Captured with Magic Lantern RAW Video (10 bit)
Processed with MLV App, PIPP, AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, and Paint.NET
Rare night with better seeing. Olympus Mons is easily visible rising on the eastern horizon (upper left edge)
2 X 5 min de-rotate.
Transparency (4/5)
Seeing (3/5)
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
Gruppi di macchie AR2993 e AR2994. Telescopio: Celestron Maksutov 127 mm. Montatura: Celestron SLT. Oculare: Plossl 9 mm. Adattatore universale per smartphone. Camera: smartphone Samsung S21. Filmato da 3600 frames di cui 50% elaborati con PIPP, Autostakkert e Astrosurface.
La "super pleine lune bleue" hier soir vers minuit lorsque le ciel s'est finalement dégagé, et avant l'arrivée d'une perturbation pluvieuse.
Nikon Z7 Tamron 150-600 + doubleur de focale. 1200mm f/13 1/60s 100iso.
Empilement avec Autostakkert.
Ondelettes avec Astrosurface.
Couleurs et contrastes avec Darktable.
The solar season is completely on :)
Nice calm morning air, no ripples, just occasional gentle pushes of the wind, which don't distort, but just slightly displace the image... The dream!!
Acquisition time: 15.03.2016 around 08:45 MSK.
North is up and a bit to the right, East is left.
TIS DMK 23U274 on Coronado PST via 2x Barlow lens.
15 panels (9 is enough, but I decided to help ICE with extra data and it payed off) 800x800 pixels (another novelty, helps to get better, more uniform illumination for flat-fielding), 200 out 1000 frames for each.
Processed in AS!2 with bag-flat :)
Stitched in MS ICE, deconvolved and wavelet sharpened in AstraImage 3.0 PRO (D: Richardson-Lucy aggressive, Cauchy-type, 0,3 pixels, 9 iterations, WL: 1-10-15-10-1). Contrast enchancement, masking-blending and double hi-pass filtering in PS.
And a heap of Quark data to play with later!!!
Upd: I have reprocessed the image, removed some rough stiching, and believe me - this one is better than v1.0 :)
Taken from my backyard in Houston. The picture is a composite of three different exposures, one for Jupiter, one for it's moons, and one for Saturn. All were taken with a 5 inch fixed (non tracking) telescope, 650mm focal length with a 2x Barlow.
I took roughly 50 pictures at each exposure, all 1/30s at different ISOs.
Stacked in Autostakkert and Sharpened/cleaned in Registax. Composite created in Photoshop and further edited in Lightroom.
Jupiter 8th Oct 2022(22:36 UT) , poor 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.
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 image was processed like a small planetary image stack:
12 x 1/4000 second ISO6400 (best of 25 frames)
Apparent magnitude: -3.5
Apparent diameter: 42"
Distance: 335 mi (539 km) at 49° altitude
Atmospheric seeing: 2/5
Captured from 23:37:40 to 23:37:44 UTC on 02/05/22
Location: Summerville, SC
Camera: Canon 7D Mark II
Telescope: Explore Scientific ED80 f/6.0 Apochromatic Refractor
Barlow: Tele Vue 2x Barlow 1.25" (effective magnification is 2.86x for 1377mm focal length at f/17.2)
Tripod: Cayer BV30L 72" Aluminum Tripod with K3 Fluid Head
Processed with PIPP, AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, and Paint.NET
Tycho.
taken with my canon 600d + X 3 barlow on skywatcher quattro 8s on NEQ6 mount.
I took a video, ran the MOV video through PIPP, then ran the new avi file through autostakkert, Final sharpening done in registax and finished off in lightroom.
Canon EOS 80D + Orion SkyQuest XT10 + Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate (giving an effective focal length of 3,000 mm).
Broadstairs, May 2019.
Montes Apenninus and Montes Alpes
Celestron SCT 6"
Televue Powermate 2.5x
ZWO ASI120MC-S
Firecapture
Autostakkert
Pixinsight
PS
Stack of 900 frames with iPhone 6 through Celestron NexStar 8SE telescope. Stacked, processed and cropped with PIPP, AutoStakkert, Registax, Nebulosity, Gimp, and the Snapseed app :)
Stacked 85% of 321 frames in AutoStakkert with 3x drizzle. Wavelet sharpening in Registax. Resize to 2x drizzle in photoshop and add contrast.
Celestron NexStar 6SE, ZWO asi224mc with IR cut filter, 2.5x TeleVue Powermate and ZWO ADC. 2 minute videos Captured in SharpCap, processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax Wavelets then Lightroom.
Lunar X y Lunar V del 08-09-2016 21:33 GMT -3
Canon 60D - Foco primario - SW Dob 8" f/6 - ISO 400 - 1/500s
Apilado 50% de 252 frames video MLV 1728 x 1152 recortados
Procesado: PIPP - AutoStakkert - Adobe LightRoom
Lunt LS50Tha
ZWO ASI120MM
Captured with firecapture. Best 20% of 6000 frames stack with Autostakkert, wavelets adjusted in Registax6, colour added in PS
Been cloudy for a month (it's what I get for having the gumption to go to a dark site), but today the sun decided to shine on my balcony briefly for me to get this. My apartment faces north so I only have a brief 30 min window to capture the sun/moon when they're at high declinations and low in the west.
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**[Equipment:](i.imgur.com/ejpKkwU.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
* Astrozap BAADER AstroSolar Density 5 filter
**Acquisition:**
* Green filter - 272 frames at gain 76 and 0.768ms exposure
> had planned to do more frames but more clouds came in at the end of the capture
**Capture Software:**
* Captured using sharpcap
**Processing:**
* Stacked the best 15% of frames in Autostakkert, 2X resample and autosharpened
* Colorized using curves in Photoshop
* Annotated in PixInsight
Three color imaging of Mars (left) compared with model image (right).
Meade 8" SCT, ZWO ASI monochrome camera, 2xBarlow.
Stacked and processed with Autostakkert and Lynkeos.
Can't help thinking this might be the best image I ever get of Mars with current gear.
Lunt 50THa double stacked with Solarmax 40 for full disk and PST modified 150mm (reduced to 100mm to bring to f/10) for filaprom image. QHY5III 178M used on both scopes (ROI used on PST mod) to record SER's,stacked in Autostakkert and processed in Astrosurface and PS CS2 adding false colour.
Buena pues aquí dejo un nuevo reprocesado, esta vez he utilizados distintos software tanto como para apilar como para procesar, los usados han sido... PIPP, AutoStakkert, WinJUPOS, RegiStax y Photoshop.
celfoscastrofotografia.blogspot.com.es/2017/05/atrapado-e...
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with an 8" Ritchie Chretien telescope and Canon 1100D with a 0.8 focal reducer on an EQ5 Pro mount
ISO-800 1/800 sec
Images shot in RAW, converted into TIFFs using Adobe Lightroom.
Best 100 images stacked using Autostakkert! 2 then processed in Fast Stone Image Viewer. Crop from original full disc image
Saturdays' Sun was rather visually boring, hence the title :)
Bright rim aside - it's a deconvolution artifact - this is how the Sun looks like if observed visually through Hα interference filtering telescope.
WARNING! Sun is dangerous, use proper filters for observing and imaging!
Aquisition time: JD 2456717.886007 (01.03.2014 13:15:51 MSK).
Image orientation: inverted (west is left and North is down)
Equipment:
Canon EOS 60D (unmodded) coupled to Coronado PST via Baader Planetarium Hyperion Zoom 8-24 mm Mark III click-stop system eyepiece and Baader Planetarium M43-to-T2 conversion ring and mounted on photo-tripod.
Aperture 40 mm
Native focal length 400 mm
Projection zoom setting: 20 mm.
Effective focal length ~900 mm
Tv = 1/30 seconds
Av (effective) = NA
ISO 800
Exposures: 74 (all in :)
Processing: images were converted to monochrome and exported as 8-bit .TIFFs. Images were assembled into stack in ImageJ and saved as .AVI. AVI was processed in Autostakkert!2.
Resulting image was subjected to Richardson-Lucy deconvolution in AstraImage 3.0 (Cauchy type PSF, size 2,8 units, 10 iterations). Deconvolve image was tonmapped in Luminance HDR (QTPFSGUI) using Mantiuk'06 operator with contrast factor 0,3 and pre-gamma 0,515.
Contrast enchancement, high-pass filtering and coloration made in Photoshop.
Image was scaled down to have Solar disk equals to 1265 pixels in diameter to compensate oversampling.
Prominance zoo: detached proms on the left, filament-prom transition at "the top" along with two arches and typical fountain-like prom.
To my surprise, I was able to get flatfield work with QHY5L-IIm+Coronado PST combo. The happiness lasted for one session and as soon as I had adjusted camera settings, my master flat-field image had retired. Should I have made after the session with the exactly same camera settings, I wonder?
No hope to check this up in five days... Or more...
Taken 18.02.2015 at around 11:00 MSK (UT+3).
QHY5L-IIm via detached business end of Meade 1,25" 2x Barlow lens on Coronado PST riding Celestron CG-4 mount set atop of Vixen SX halfpier over SX tabletop tripod.
Aperture 40 mm
Native focal length 400 mm
Effective focal length ~800 mm (not sure, because Barlow lens was used unconventionally)
Tv = 1,3 ms
Av ~f/20
ISO N/A
Capturing software: FireCapture
Exposures: 23% of 400 frames per panel, 3 panels.
Movies were stacked in Autostakkert2! 2.3.021alpha, resulting images were subjected to Richardson-Lucy deconvolution (Cauchy type PSF, 1,5 units, 10 iterations), stiched in Microsoft ICE and colorized in PS.