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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
Opposition for Jupiter will fall on September 26, 2022 so there is about another month of the planet appearing bigger and brighter - but it's already looking very nice. This image is a composite of two stacked shots - one exposed for the planet and another for the three visible Galilean moons.
Captured with SharpCap
Processed in PIPP and AutoStakkert
Post-processed in Photoshop
Date: 13/08/2022
Jupiter
Made from 2,001 stacked video frames (75% quality and above)
Gain - 70%
Exposure - 0.010842 seconds
Integration - 21.69 seconds
Moons
Made from 2,001 stacked video frames (75% quality and above)
Gain - 70%
Exposure - 0.026945 seconds
Integration - 53.92 seconds
Equipment:
Telescope: Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS
Guide scope: Orion 50mm Mini
Guide camera: SVBony SV105 with ZWO USBST4 guider adapter
Mount: Skywatcher EQ5
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI120 MC
x2 Barlow with extension tube (equivalent to x3.3)
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.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Canon 1100D with 300mm zoom lens on a static tripod
100 images shot, centred and cropped using PIPP, then the best 45 images stacked using Autostakkert! 3. Processed in Fast Stone Image Viewer
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.
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
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK at 6:30pm BST with a William Optics 70mm refractor on an EQ5 tracking mount, 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D
ISO-200 1/200 sec exp
Best 66% of 100 frames stacked using Autostakkert! 2 and processed in Lightroom
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.
Happy to finally have first light with new ASI120MC-S camera. Clouds finally were non-existent after about 6 weeks. Seeing was average.
Processed with Autostakkert 2.5.1.7, Registax 6.
FireCapture v2.4 Settings
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Camera=ZWO ASI120MC-S
Telescope=Celestron CPC800 XLT - 2" Star Diagonal XLT
Barlow=Shorty 2X
Filter=RGB
Profile=Saturn
Diameter=18.27"
Magnitude=0.15
CMI=89.9° CMIII=100.7° (during mid of capture)
FocalLength=5750mm
Resolution=0.13"
Filename=Sat_224338.avi
Date=160615
Start=224338.969
Mid=224822.961
End=225306.954
Start(UT)=024338.969
Mid(UT)=024822.961
End(UT)=025306.954
Duration=567.985s
Date_format=ddMMyy
Time_format=HHmmss
LT=UT -5h
Frames captured=1351
File type=AVI
Extended AVI mode=true
Compressed AVI=false
Binning=no
ROI=480x320
ROI(Offset)=0x0
FPS (avg.)=2
Shutter=420.8ms
Gain=35
Brightness=0
Gamma=50 (off)
AutoExposure=off
Overclock=0
USBTraffic=80
WBlue=100
WRed=45
HighSpeed=on
SoftwareGain=10 (off)
Histogramm(min)=0
Histogramm(max)=231
Histogramm=90%
Noise(avg.deviation)=n/a
Limit=none
Sensor temperature=31.2 °C
Celestron NexStar 6SE
Zwo Asi224mc with IR cut filter
Zwo ADC
Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate
FireCapture for ADC tuning.
SharpCap for Capturing.
Jupiter
2 minute video, exposure-3.0ms, gain-300. Processed in AutoStakkert, RegiStax and Lightroom.
Target:The Moon at day 20 imaged 2021-08-28 @ 03:15
Aquisition:Best 80% of 500x 30ms Ha
Equipment:Skywatcher 200P Newtonian, HEQ5Pro, Baader coma corrector, ZWO EFWmini, Ha filter, Altair 183MM Pro,
Software:Sharpcap pro.
Processing:AutoStakkert, Registax, Affinity Photo.
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.
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".
Taken with a Canon 600D and a Canon F4 IS L 70-200mm Zoom Lens at 200mm. Took 24 images in cloud, manually cropped the moon out ( PIPP no use as too much cloud ) and stacked in expanded surface mode with Autostakkert 2. Finally adjusted in DPP.
Skywatcher 130/ 900 newtonian
QHY 5L- II mono
Televue barlow 3x
Filters RGB Meade
Autostakkert, Registax, Photoshop
A "super" Moon.
August 20, 2024, about 0200 lcl, Tallahassee, Florida. Suburban sky, Bortle 7.
Six-image panorama using a Skymax 150mm f/12 Mak and ZWO ASI432MM. IR pass filter. Sharpcap, Autostakkert, MS ICE, and Photoshop. Seeing was average for North Florida. Passing alto-cumulus clouds were a annoyance. The Weatherman lied to me!
Full Moon/99.6%
Moon Age 15.78 out of 29.61 days
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 :)
June 7, 2025; Tallahassee, Florida; SW Mak 150, ASI432MM, IR cut filter. 250 of the best frames from 1000. I got about 85 fps uncropped and MONO16 image format. The image is a mosaic of six individual images. They were processed with AutoStakkert and image composite editor, with touch-ups in PS.
As a side note, I have used a Wonderbox Lite DC-USB hub tethered to a PC, but not for lunar or planetary imaging. (It works fine for deep sky imaging.) I would typically get less than 15 fps running the camera through the hub. Connecting the camera directly to the PC solved the issue. For some reason, the Wonderbox can't handle the through-put when taking video. I recently obtained a SvBony DC-USB hub. It works fine while in video mode when cabling the camera through it.
The night was mild but humid. Seeing was poor, like looking through a swimming pool on a sunny day. There was also high cirrus clouds left over from the afternoon's thunderstorms. "Lucky Imaging" is a powerful technique. Thanks to the smart folk that developed it!
Phase 90.68% (11d 23h 57m) UTC
Imaging telescope or lens:Coronado PST 40mm
Imaging camera:Point Grey Grasshopper 3 1.4MP
Mount:Vixen Polaris
Software:Autostakkert! Autostackert! , FireCapture 2.4 Firecapture , Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Accessory:Orion Shorty Barlow 2x
Date:May 6, 2020
Frames: 200
FPS: 40.00000
Focal length: 800
Resolution: 4144x3218
Data source: Backyard
Helios 150 f/8 achromat with re-spaced objective lens,Lunt CaK B12 module and QHY5III 178 (using ROI). 2000 frame SER stacked in Autostakkert,sharpened in ImPPG and finished in PS CS2.
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
Genova, Italy (30 Sept 2023 01:23 UT)
Planet: diameter 47.6", mag -2.8, altitude ≈ 60°
Telescope: Celestron CPC C8 XLT (203 F/10 SC)
Camera: QHY5III462C Color
Focal Extender: Explore Scientific 2x (1.25")
Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector: Artesky
Filter: QHY UV/IR block
Recording scale: ≈0.15 arcsec/pixel
Equivalent focal length ≈4000 mm F/19.7
Image resized: +50%
Recording: SharpCap 4.0
(640x480 @ 125fps - 120 sec - RAW8 - Gain 189)
Best 25% frames of ≈15000
Alignment/Stacking (Jupiter): AstroSurface U4
Alignment/Stacking (Io): AutoStakkert! 3.1.4
Wavelets/Deconvolution: AstroSurface U4
Final Elaboration: GIMP 2.10.34
A HDR composite image of the waning crescent Moon with earthshine and HD90428 in Leo from Austin, Texas. Take with a Questar 1350/89 mm f/15 telescope and a Sony a6300 camera at prime focus. 2018-11-02 12:22 UT
The best 8 of 110 images of the crescent exposed for 1/25 sec at ISO 100, stacked in Autostakkert 3, deconvolve in Lynkeos, with final crop, exposure, and HDR compositing in Photoshop. Earthshine 5 images exposed for 5 sec at ISO 100 stacked in Lynkeos. Sky 6 images exposed for 15 sec at ISO 100 stacked in Lynkeos.
Hires test
Bad seeing
Stack from an .avi of 120 sec (33% used for that image) with Autostakkert.
Post processing in Registax (RGB Alignment and Wavelets filter)
Setup: Celestron 8 mounted on an Vixen Super Polaris, SPC900, XCel 2x Barlow lens.
I think I’ve managed to get a bit more detail out of some previous data. Celestron NexStar 6SE, ZWO asi224mc with IR cut filter, 2.5x TeleVue Powermate and ZWO ADC. 2 minute video Captured in SharpCap, processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax Wavelets then Lightroom.
Some lunar features. With the waxing gibbous Moon this close to full (about 93%) it's difficult to image much else so this was a good opportunity to test some of the video capabilities of the ZWO ASI1600 MC Pro camera and also to practice imaging the Moon in such a way that the images may in future have some scientific value (mainly by recording as much information as possible about location, conditions, settings and equipment). But for now here is the first of several processed images. This is an area of the north west of the Moon as seen in the northern hemisphere. The large craters are (from the lower left to upper right) Crater Pythagoras (with Crater Babbage in front), Crater Anaximander (the worn and eroded one), Crater Carpenter, Crater Anaximenes, and part of Crater Philolaus. In the centre of the image is Crater Herschel bordering Mare Frigoris.
Created from 1000 frame video
Captured with FireCapture
Processed in AutoStakkert, Registax and Photoshop
Equipment:
Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS
Skywatcher EQ5 Mount
ZWO ASI1600 MC Pro camera
x2 Barlow with extension tubes
Captured with an Orion SkyQuest XT10 Dobsonian reflector, a Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate and a Canon 80D DSLR.
It looked a lot better through the eyepiece, but for some reason I couldn't capture the same degree of sharpness and detail that I managed with Jupiter the previous month.
Frames processed in AutoStakkert and RegiStax.
14 July 2018.
Please view original size for details www.flickr.com/photos/alexandra4/13644932965/sizes/k/
Taken with a Solarscope DS 100mm filter / PGR Grasshopper 3. The best 10% of around 1000 images were stacked using Autostakkert 2. A composite of 9 photographs were stitched together using Photomerge in Photoshop CS5 to obtain a full disc. The image was sharpened using Photoshop CS5, then false colour added.
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
Jupiter 18th July 2022(02:11 UT). Io can just be seen starting to emerge from behind the planet on the right hand edge. A single 10,000 frame AVI was used here to produce a stack of 2,500 frames. Captured using Firecapture V2.5, Processed using Autostakkert V3.1.4 and Registax V6 . Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera, Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow and ZWO ADC.
A very warm night here, average seeing and a camera temperature of 26 C !
1 min video, best 50% of 883 frames.
Captured with FireCapture
Stacked with Autostakkert!
Wavelets with Registax
Equipment:
Astro-Physics 130mm Refractor
Takahashi EM-200 Temma 2 Mount
Daystar Chromosphere Quark
ZWO ASI 174MM Camera
Telescope: Celestron 11 - CGEM
Powermate X2 - Filter #23A (Red)
Camera: ASI120MM
Software: Firecapture - Autostakkert!2 - Registax - iMerge -
PS6
a short video capture to test a camera 744 frames processed in PIPP, autostakkert 2 and registax 6.
QHY5Lii celestron 200 reflector.
This image of the moon was captured by Tom using his 150P Dobsonian and a QHY IMG132E camera. It's the best 40 frames of a 10s video clip. He stacked the images himself using AutoStakkert 2 and then processed the final image in Registax 6.
C90 mak-cas telescope mounted on iOptron Skyguider Pro. 21mm EP with 7.5mm t-extension, F/28, effective focal length 2500mm.
4K MP4 video centred, cropped (2048x1536) sorted for quality and best 50% converted to AVI. Best 10% of that stacked with AutoStakkert. Moons brightened, planet darkened and contrast increased with PhotoShop.
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.
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
Not the best outcome as the seeing conditions were not ideal when the images were captured. The western limb exhibits a very favourable libration that offered a rare glimpse of the Mare Orientale.
20 single shot RAW images 1/400s @ ISO 200 obtained with a 254mm Skywatcher Newtonian & Olympus E410 at prime focus.
Images converted to TIFF format then stacked with AutoStakkert! 3.1.4.
Wavelets processed with Registax 6.
Final processing with G.I.M.P & Adobe Lightroom..
Best viewed using the expansion arrows.
Waxing Gibbous Moon stacked from a 2 minute video in Autostakkert!3 and post-processed in Lightroom.
The Moon and Mars in a beautiful conjunction on 2020-08-09 06:50 UT. A HDR composite taken with the WO Redcat 51 f/4.5 telescope with Sony a7iii at prime focus from my home in Austin, Texas.
Moon best 5 of 70 images exposed 1/100 sec at ISO 100, 1.5x drizzle stacked in AutoStakkert! 3. Mars 5 images exposed 1/160 sec at ISO 100, 1.5x drizzle stacked. Deconvolution in Lynkeos. Tree single exposure 5 sec at ISO 100. HDR composite in Photoshop.
This image of the Moon was captured on September 30, 2018, at 11:47 UT, with a C9.25 Edge HD telescope and ASI183mm camera, using a green filter. The original video file was stacked in Autostakkert (version AS!3, stack of 2000 frames), and this reprocessed version was edited in PixInsight.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro mount which is on a permanent pier.
ISO-800 1/1600 sec. 250 images taken and the best 75% were stacked in Autostakkert! 3, then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer
Stack of 5 Pictures (PIPP/Autostakkert)
DC-G9 + Leica 100-400, 400 mm (800 mm/35),
1/250s, f8, ISO 200, without tripod)
This lovely sunspot has just rotated into view and is currently nestled in a group of faculae.
Taken from Oxfordshire with a William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with a Thousand Oaks glass solar filter. The camera was an ASI120MC fitted with a Celestron 3x Barlow. The telescope was on an EQ5 Pro mount tracking at solar speed. A 2,000 frame video was captured using SharpCap, then the best 50% of the frames were stacked in Autostakkert! 3. Stacked image was processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer. The colour was removed before processing then false colour added back in using Photoshop CS2 once the image had been processed.