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The Moon, Sunrise at Archimedes, 2nd March 2020. Celestron C14 Edge HD at F11, with CGEPRO mount and ZWO ASI224MC with IR pass filter (685nm). An average of nearly 2,000 frames were captured using Firecapture V2.5, 500 frames were stacked using Autostakkert V3.0.14. Processing with Registax V6. Two images were stitched together using Microsoft ICE to create a wider field of view.
Trying to figure out what to do with my scope during the summer and a 6% illuminated moon close to the sun in the sky seemed like a good choice. End result is slightly grainy due to the extremely short exposures I had to use.
7 panel mosaic
1000 frames per mosaic @ ~25fps
Skywatcher 200PDS
ZWO ASI120MC
HEQ5 PRO
Processed in PIPP, autostakkert 2, gimp 2
Telescope: Maksutov 180/2700mm with ASI290mc camera in prime focus, 2000 frames in 23 seconds, 30% stacked with Autostakkert! and processed with pixinsight.
Luna 2 impact site also marked.
15 march 2019, 20:37 UTC
This is a 150% view, RGB converted to grayscale.
Imaging software: Firecapture v2.6
ref: www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_15/landing_...
RGB image of Mars, with Syrtis Major on the meridian. 1st October 2020.
C14 F27.5
EQ8 mount
ASI174m camera
Baader filters
Sharpcap
Autostakkert
Registax6
Photoshop
SharpenAI
Imaging telescopes or lenses: GSO 8" f/5 Newton
Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI 183 MM PRO
Mounts: SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro Goto
Guiding telescopes or lenses: GSO 8" f/5 Newton
Focal reducers: Pal Gyulai GPU Aplanatic Koma Korrector 4-element
Software: PhotoShop CS5 · PHD2 Guiding · Autostakkert! 2 AutoStackkert 2.3.0.21 · FitsWork 4
Filters: Baader L 1.25'' Filter
Date: April 2, 2020
Time: 21:12
Frames: 1000
FPS: 25.00000
Focal length: 1000
104_7620 Moons 1/4s f/24 51200 ISO
104_7642-6 Saturn 1/60s f/24 4000 ISO
Processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert then merged with PhotoShop.
Saturn from Caguas, Puerto Rico under variable seeing conditions:
OTA: Celestron Edge HD 8 "
Barlow: Zhumell 2x
Camera: ZWO ASI 120MC
Mount; Celestron Advance VX
Capture Program: SharpCap 3.0
Processing Programs: Autostakkert, Registax6 and Photoshop
This is the new Raspberry Pi HQ camera mounted at prime focus on a William Optics RedCat 250/51 mm telescope. The HQ camera module has a 12.3 MP back illuminated Sony IMX477 sensor with 1.55x1.55 micrometer pixels.
The Moon is just a day past first quarter from my driveway in Austin at 2020-05-31 02:57 UT. Exposed at ISO 100 for 1/320 sec at f/4.9. The best 10 of 173 images were stacked in Autostakkert! 3, deconvolved in Lynkeos, with final exposure adjustment and crop in Photoshop.
The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive, small but powerful computer the size of a pack of cigarettes. Learn more about astrophotography with the Pi and its camera modules at astronomy.robpettengill.org/astroRPi.html
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK
White Light:
William Optics 70mm refractor + Thousand Oaks glass solar filter and Baader Continuum Filter. Camera was an ASI120MC.
H-alpha:
Coronado PST with 2x Barlow and ASI120MC
Video captured using Sharpcap and the best 250 frames stacked using Autostakkert! 3
The sun today around noon from the France west coast (it looks 'fancy'). At this time of year, it's really low on the horizon, even at noon. So low that I found it hard to aim between the trees. This also results in quite a lot of turbulence. We can see a lot of small spots, a sign of the renewed activity of our star since 1 year.
Nikon z7 Tamron G2 150-600 Tc x20 1200mm f/13 1/60s 64iso. Best 10% of 600 frames.
Stacking: Autostakkert
Wavelets: Registax
Post-processing: Darktable
Artistic-processing: Gimp
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Olympus E410 at prime focus. EQ6 Syntrek Mount.
18 single shot frames stacked out of 31.
1/160s ISO 200 for each frame.
Processed using Autostakkert! then wavelets with Registax 6.
Final adjustments to levels using Adobe Lightroom & G.I.M.P.
Lunar south is uppermost.
It displays an interesting libration with the crater Clavius close to the southern limb and the crater Plato further from the northern limb.
It is worth comparing this image with the 20d 17h Waning Gibbous Lunar phase taken on 2023-09-06 in my Lunar Phases album. It displays how much our moon appears to wobble in its path around the Earth.
My second attempt at the Moon this month this time with the Edge 8". The seeing was unsually good, for this area anyway, and the Moon high in the sky, so some nice detail.
10 panels with ~100 GB in raw data from the Point Grey 5MP camera, 250 frames stacked from each panel.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Celestron EdgeHD 8"
Imaging Cameras
Point Grey Grasshopper3 GS3-U3-23S6M-C
Mounts
Meade LX70
Filters
Meade Red 1.25"
Accessories
OnStep Telescope Mount Goto Controller
Software
Adobe Photoshop · Emil Kraaikamp AutoStakkert!
Acquisition details
Date: March 29, 2023
Frames: 2500
FPS: 8
Resolution: 7381x8217
File size: 36.9 MB
Data source: Backyard
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus. Best 20 of 35 jpg's stacked using Autostakkert after centering and cropping with PIPP
Taken with a AZ3 mounted Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and a Canon 60D at prime focus. 20 images stacked using Autostakkert 2 in surface mode. Image cropped to 1700x1600 before stacking using PIPP and then enlarged to 3000x2616 pixels after stacking
Close up views of Active Region 12673 taken on September 4, 2017.
Tech Specs: Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM + Canon 2x Extender III + ZWO ASI290MC camera piggyback mounted on a Meade 12” LX90 telescope on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount. Best 50% of 20000 frames collected using SharpCap v3.0 and AutoStakkert! V3.0.14 (x64). A 77mm Thousand Oaks Optical Solar Filter was on the business end of the lens. Date: September 4, 2017.
Processed slightly differently.
First light with an ZWO ASI174MM on a Lunt 35HaDX at prime focus. 1000 frames stacked with AutoStakkert!2
Altitude 20 degrees, 30% best frames from 10959 total frames.
Maksutov 180/3000 telescope with ASI290mm/ Proplanet 642 filter.
Firecapture, Autostakkert, Registax, Pixinsight
Today's active solar regions. Best 450 of 500 frames captured this morning using Skywatcher 120ED Esprit on AVX mount, homemade Baader solar filter hat, Orion SSAG in Planetary mode. Stacked in Autostakkert! which appears to work very well for solar closeups. This has to be the most spots I've seen in one (relatively) small area since solar viewing, still can't reduce the disc size down even with the T2 female adaptor on and a 0.8 reducer in the focal train, but quite chuffed with the clarity of this one. Focus must have been spot on for once! For the whole disc think I would have to put a mosaic together using the SSAG. Final processing in CS6.
Every time I put my solar viewing setup together now I feel more confident with the equipment each time.
Thanks for looking!
Venus 1st September 2021
Red IR, Green Synth IR/UV, Blue UV
Imaging telescopes or lenses: SkyWatcher 12" GOTO Collapsible Dobsonian
Imaging cameras: QHYCCD Qhy163m
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Televue Powermate 5X Barlow
Focal reducers: Tele Vue Optics 5x Powermate
Software: Photoshop · Autostakkert 3 · PIPP
Filters: ANTLIA U-Venus · ZWO IR850
Resolution: 1160x880
Data source: Backyard
Solar Transit of the International Space Station in H Alpha.
A reprocess of the image showing prominence details.
Date and Time:
6:51:37 UTC | 1st May, 2018.
Location:
North Bengal, India.
26.742330 N ; 88.643774 E.
Equipment:
Coronado Solarmax II 60, ZWO ASI 178 MM.
Sky Watcher Star Adventurer.
Software: SharpCap 2.8, Autostakkert! 2, Registax 6.
Photo by Janmejoy Sarkar.
Stack of 1200 frames from iPhone 6 through 8" telescope. Stacked in Autostakkert & edited in Registax, Nebulosity & Snapseed.
Decided to shoot the moon last night.
Captured Oceanus Procellarum with the Marius Hills - a region of volcanic domes whose heights don't exceed 1,500 feet. Their name comes from the nearby crater named Marius, whose diameter is 25 miles.
Captured using a 10-inch Meade LX200 Classic, coupled to a Nikon D5100 in movie mode. A 20-second MOV file was coverted to AVI, then stacked in Autostakkert!2. The final stack was then moved to Photoshop CS6 for final processing, and Lightroom 5.5 for enhancement.
Magnification powered by a custom-built barlow lens.
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
A huge sunspot region named AR 2665 has been recently rotating into view. Here are two images showing a view of this area, the backdrop image gives you an idea of the size when compared to the disk of the sun. The inset image processed a bit harder to bring out details.
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 9, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.
C9.25 @ f/20,ZWO ASI 462MC colour camera with ADC and Xagyl filterwheel. Captured 6651 frame AVI for RGB data and a 2770 frame AVI using I/R pass filter for the Luminance data in Firecapture,stacked in Autostakkert 3,colour combined in Maxim DL4 and processed in AstroSurface and Photoshop CS2. Taken in the early hours of 11/09/20
old pic, new processing skills.
From Eratosthenes at the bottom along the Apennine mountains with Archimedes half way up. Some nice rilles close to Archimedes.
Celestron Nexstar 8SE (equivalent to 2000 mm focal length and f/10).
Red 2c filter
Point Grey Research Grasshopper 3 CCD camera
Ioptron ZEQ25GT polar aligned equatorial mount.
Best 7% stack of 1500 frames in AutoStakkert!2
FireCapture 2.4 settings
Gain: 234
Exposure: 27.34 ms
Gamma: 1536
Saturn with moons, from top Tethys, Mimas and Dione.
Rather than combining 2 exposures (one for Saturn and one for moons) I upped the exposure and contrast in Lightroom which made the moons visible, I then did selective editing to up the exposure just on the moons leaving Saturn untouched.
Celestron NexStar 6SE
ZWO asi224mc with IR cut filter
Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate
ZWO ADC
FireCapture for ADC tuning
3 minute capture in SharpCap
Processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax Wavelets and finished in Lightroom.
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
Note: Don't forget to take a look at the original size image, the mosaic is over 5000px in size!
After taking some Saturn images, I decided to try a moon mosaic with the C8 + ASI120MC at prime focus. I got lucky because I forgot to change tracking to lunar rate, and I was able to capture 44 videos without leaving any gaps! The seeing held up quite good over the time I captured all of the videos.
Each video was 30s @ 30fps. Best 80% of frames were stacked in Autostakkert!2. Each stacked image was then stitched together with Microsoft ICE. Deconvolution, color and contrast adjustments were done in Photoshop.
Celestron C11, Celestron AVX Mount, Celestron 2.5 Luminos Barlow, ZWO ASI174MM, ZWO R-G-B Filters.
Firecapture 2.5, Autostakkert 2, Registax 5/6, PS6
A close up through Skywatcher 8in Dobsonian. Manually tracked. Used ASI174M + 5x Powermate + 642nm filter. x12 sequential frames stacked in Autostakkert and processed in Registax and Faststone Image Viewer.
104_8369 moons 1/8s f/24 51200 ISO
104_8384-9 Saturn 1/60s f/24 4000 ISO 4K MP4s
Processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert, enlarged then merged with photo of moons.
A 2000 frame stacked image taken while testing new software last night.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm Zenithstar II Doublet
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with ZWO Duo Band filter
- Acquisition Software: Firecapture
- 2000 frames at 1/500 second
- Stacked in AutoStakkert
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, and Topaz Denoise AI
William Optics 61mm
Normal sized, sharp version.
Taken in Lowestoft, UK, on 7 August 20, at 02.19 am bst.
Celestron NexStar 6se SCT & Altair Hypercam 183c.
AVI video stacked in Autostakkert 2. Touched-up in PS CC.
Seeing was average. The South Polar Ice-cap (composed of water ice & dry ice) shows up very nicely, but has shrunk since mid July. The dark patches includes (I think) Mare Sirenum to the SW, Mare Erythracum to the SE, & possibly Olympus Mons to the far NW, according to Sky & Telescope, Mars Profiler.
Mars is getting closer to Earth & will be in opposition at 2320 utc on October 13, 2020.
Acqusition time: 26.05.2016 08:44 MSK
TIS DMK 23U274 on Coronado PST via 2x Barlow lens.
9 panels 1000x100 pixels 33% of 800 frames each stitched in MS ICE, deconvolved and wavelet sharpened in AstraImage 3.0 PRO (D: Richardson-Lucy aggressive, Cauchy-type, 0,3 pixels, 12 iterations, WL: 1-5-15-10-1). Contrast enchancement, masking-blending and hi-pass filtering in PS.
Note: ok, it's now clear that there is a ghost in every PST. This is it, in the top left corner of theimage :(
Three views of the solar disk showing sunspot group AR 2781.
Skywatcher 72ED apo was used with an Herschel wedge,Coronado SM40 front etalon and BF10 and a Lunt CaK 1200 module. For full disk images a QHY5III 178 was used and for the close up image a Skyris 618M and x2 Barlow.
SER's recorded in Firecapture,stacked in Autostakkert 3 and processed in Astrosurface and Photoshop CS2
adding false colour.
Ocultação de Marte do dia 05/08/2020! Passe para frente!
A primeira foto, a aproximação do planeta vermelho da Lua, claro, de forma aparente apenas para quem observa da terra.
A segunda foto, Marte já bem próxima da Lua. Neste momento, devido ao forte brilho da Lua, já não era mais possível observá-la a olho nu.
A terceira foto na verdade é um Gif, com imagens de trechos do planeta até que ele estivesse totalmente oculto pela Lua.
A quarta, é o vídeo acelerado do momento exato que capturei da ocultação do planeta vermelho.
Todas as fotos foram feitas com Sky-watcher 200p e Canon T7. A primeira foi foco direto, as outras capturas foram em projeção ocular 4mm.
#Moon #mars #occultation #astrophotography #astrofotografia #CanonT7 #skywatchertelescope #telescopio #telescope #nightsky #skywatcher #skywatcher200p #planets #astronomy #astromomia #planetas #marte #bortle8 #bortle8sky #planets #pipp #autostakkert #registax
Celestron NexStar 6SE
Zwo Asi224mc with IR cut filter
Zwo ADC
Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate
FireCapture for ADC tuning
SharpCap for capturing
Processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax and Lightroom.
Zoom in and you can see Hadley Rille, visited by the astronauts of Apollo 15 in 1971.
Canon EOS 80D + Orion SkyQuest XT10 + Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate (giving an effective focal length of 3,000 mm).
Broadstairs, May 2019.
Closely matched in size, but with a significant age difference, this pair of craters has caught my eye for three consecutive nights. In this image, the setting Sun casts a long shadow off of Theophilus' central peak. This image is shot with an IR filter instead of a luminance filter.
ZWO ASI290MM
Meade LX850 (12" f/16)
Autostakkert! (stacking - best 30% of 3000 frames)
Registax (sharpening)
Photoshop (final processing)
Ecco un mosaico di Luna Gibbosa Crescente al 78% del 1° gennaio 2023.
Dati:
Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newtoniano
Montatura Eq2 motorizzata Sky-Watcher
Camera planetaria QHY5L-ll-C
Filtro UV IR cut
Sharpcap 3.2 per l’acquisizione di 25 video ognuno da 30 secondi e contenente 443 fotogrammi
Autostakkert! 3.1.4 e Astrosurface T5-TITANIA per le elaborazioni
Autostitch per assemblare le 25 parti
Astrosurface per regolare luminosità e contrasto nel risultato finale
Condizioni del cielo: ottima trasparenza e seeing sufficiente
Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia
Data e ora delle riprese: 01-01-2023 dalle 22:30 UTC alle 22:55 UTC
Sony A7RIV 200-600mm +1.4 TC , 230 images, 20% stack in AutoStakkert , Sharpened in Astro image/ Topaz sharpen
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
A significant observatory upgrade now allows Loowit Imaging to capture the sun through a broader emission spectrum. This is the sun through a Meade/Coronado hydrogen alpha scope, which filters out all but the hydrogen alpha emission lines. The image produces a deep pinkish-red image, which has to be muted in post-processing.
A combined stack of 5,000 frames, converted to AVI from MOV in Autostakkert!3 (then stacked, best 65%).
Image overlaid onto the master capture/framing composite.
Instrument de prise de vue: Sky-watcher T250/1000 Newton F4
Caméra d'imagerie: QHY5III462
Monture: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 Pro Goto USB
Instrument de guidage: sans
Caméra de guidage: Sans
Logiciels: Stellarium - ScharpCap - AutoStakkert - RegiStax 6 - Darktable - FastStone Images Viewer
Filtres: IR-Cut / IR-Block ZWO (M48) - Baader AstroSolar Safety FolieOD 5.0)
Accessoire: GPU coma-correcteur Sky-watcher
Dates: 27 Avril 2022- 11h17
Images unitaires: SER (1000x3.759ms) 12% retenues - Gain 108
Intégration: --
Échantillonnage: 0.60 arcsec/pixel
Seeing: --"Arc
Echelle d'obscurité de Bortle: --
Phase de la Lune (moyenne):