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Canon EOS 200D, ZM3-5SA lense, tripod. Focal lengh 500 mm, aperture f/8, ISO 100, 30 fps, 53 sec. Post-processing PIPP, Autostakkert, AstraImage, FastStone, 500 frames stacked.
The lunar eclipse of 07.09.2025
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2025_lunar_eclipse
A time line photo of the eclipse, I made 703 photos and in this photo I made a timeline of 10 minutes interval between each moon photo
also I made a time-laps clip of the eclipse out of the 703 photos, using PIPP and AutoStakkert! and photoshop for building the clip
ZWO ASI178MC
Tele Vue 2.5x PowerMate
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
4000 frames captured in Firecapture
Best 2000 frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
130 fotografías stackeadas en Autostakkert!, procesadas en Registax 6 y refinada en Photoshop. Equipo usado: Nikon d5500, Nikon AF-P 70-300mm a 300mm, f/11 y 1/500s, filtro solar, tripode e intervalómetro.
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130 shots stackked in Autostakkert!, processed in Registax 6 and refined in Photoshop. Rig used: Nikon d5500, Nikon AF-P 70-300mm at 300mm, f/11 y 1/500s, solar filter, tripod and intervalometer.
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
2000 frames captured in Firecapture
Best 60% stackd in Autostakkert
Wavelet Sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
ZWO ASI178
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
3000 frames captured in FireCapture
Best 30% of frames stacked in Autostakkert
AI Sharpened with BlurXTerminaor
Finished in Photoshop
= Acquisition info =
William Optics Zenithstar 73ii (FL 430mm)
Risingcam IMX571 color
iOptron CEM26 + iPolar
Sharpcap
= Séance photo =
19 février 2024 @ 18h15
Filtre 685nm IR Pass
Best 500 de 2500 x 0,2s
= Traitement/processing =
PIPP, Autostakkert & Gimp
@Astrobox 2.0 / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec
AstroM1
Tycho Crater to the Lunar South Pole
May 10, 2022
"The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say."
- Gregory McGuire
I love the portions of the Moon along the dividing line between night and day, where details spring into sharp relief due to low-angle lighting and mystery lurks in the vast gulfs where no light can yet reach, save lonely peaks that rise high enough to touch the light of the Sun.
This is the best photo of the Moon that I have yet achieved. Seeing was 5/5 for about 2 hours, and gave me an outstanding data set. It needed almost no processing other than that necessary to create one photo from a stack of 1339 video frames. I cropped it to a 3x2 ratio, and raised the exposure 3/4 stop. That's it.
Please view this on a large screen, and take the opportunity to zoom in for closer looks. New details emerge with each step in. Explore the landscape of what may, in this decade, become the next home for humanity.
The best 25% of 5,355 video frames were stacked with AutoStakkert!3. Wavelets and histogram adjustments with Registax 6. Exposure adjustment and cropping with Camera RAW and Photoshop CC 2022.
Celestron Edge HD8 telescope
ZWO ASI 290MM camera
Celestron Advanced VX Mount
Initial capture before to use a Powermate 2,5 to increase focal length.
Really interesting how the Sun is increasing the activity.. and what we will see on the next years!!
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Lunt LS60THa/LS50FHa Double stack
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI174MM
Mounts
Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi ×
Filters
Lunt B1200 12mm Blocking Filter
Accessories
Primaluce Lab SESTO SENSO
Software
AstroSharp Ltd SharpCap · Emil Kraaikamp AutoStakkert! · Torsten Edelmann FireCapture
Acquisition details
Date: June 4, 2023
Time: 10:40
Frames: 10000
FPS: 107
Exposure per frame: 0.94 ms
Resolution: 1888x1756
File size: 2.6 MB
Locations: Berga Resort, Berga, Barcelona, Spain
Data source: Backyard
C8 @ 2000 mm
QHY5II-L monochromatic
Ir Pass Filter Baader Planetarium
best 25% of 60sec .ser movie
Ez Planetary
Autostakkert! 2
Astra Image (LR and ME deconvolution)
Vixen Super Polaris (not polar aligned)
From the balcony of my home in Taranto, bad seeing, variable trasparecny.
A copper flame in the dark.
This half moon rose like a glowing ember, hovering in silence over the night.
Captured from a stack of the top 3% best frames (out of nearly 3,000),
with no drizzle, no sharpening, and minimal editing in Lightroom to preserve natural texture.
Shot with the Lumix S5II + Sigma 150–600mm, processed in AutoStakkert and Lightroom Classic.
Taken with a ZWO ASI120MM camera and Optolong CCD RGB filters and a Celestron Edge HD 925 telescope from my backyard in Long Beach, CA.
The best 35% of frames from SER videos with each of the filters were stacked in AutoStakkert. This created 6 images in each of the three color filters. Those images were sharpened in PixInsight. All images with the same color filter were derotated and combined in WinJUPOS, then the R, G, and B stacks were derotated and combined to create the color image. I used Registax to get the color balance right, that did some small final touches in Photoshop.
Thank you to Damian Peach for making processing tutorials available through his Patreon channel. I was really struggling with getting Saturn to look right before viewing those.
CM longitudes:
System I: 56.8°
System II: 118.7°
System III: 205.6°
"Copernicus Crater"
April 2, 2020
Copernicus crater (93 km width, 3.8 km depth) is one of the most prominent features on the Moon, easily seen with binoculars, even during the full moon phase, sitting in its webwork of rays.
Here it is seen at high magnification. Its rays are discernable, especially in the lower right. Notice the myriad secondary craters surrounding it, most gouged by rocks blasted up by the original impact explosion, each digging a new crater of its own when it fell back to the Moon. The raised outer rampart walls are prominent, as are the terraced inner walls and central peak. Rubble (massive boulders) is strewn about the crater floor, especially in the southern half.
Celestron Edge HD8 telescope
Explore Scientific Focus Extender 3x
ZWO ASI 290MM camera
Celestron Advanced VX Mount
Jupiter, photographed from my backyard in Long Beach, CA
30 s SER files were taken with a ZWO ASI120MM camera through Optolong CCD RGB filters on a Celestron Edge HD 925 telescope using FireCapture. The top 80% of frames went into 6 stacks of each color filter. These stacks were made in AutoStakkert, then sharpened in PixInsight. Stacks were combined and derotated in WinJUPOS, and the resulting R, G, and B images were combined in WinJUPOS to make a de-rotated single color image. Color balancing in Registax, then final touches in Photoshop.
CM longitudes:
System I: 298.9°
System II: 269.5°
System III: 200.2°
Last night’s first quarter moon, three panel mosaic taken under partly cloudy skies.
Tech Specs: Orion 8" f/8 Ritchey-Chretien Astrograph Telescope, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro mount, ASI071MC-Pro, ZWO AAPlus, ZWO EAF, best 20% of 3000 frames, processed using Autostakkert!, Registax, and Adobe Lightroom. Image Date: March 28, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W95), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Taken with the 14" Celestron in the observatory at Cerritos College with a ZWO ASI224MC camera. The three images show the progress of the occultation at 2022-12-08 02:29:20 UT, 02:30:00 UT, and 02:30:13 UT. A small subset of frames were extracted from a longer SER file for each image, then those frames were stacked in AutoStakkert and sharpened in PixInsight. A light touch with Topaz Denoise and some final processing in Photoshop to assemble the three images aligned on Mars.
CM longitude on Mars at the time of the transit was 203°. The dark crater slight below Mars is Riccioli, with the north portion of Grimalidi to the right.
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Sun, Earth, and Moon align so that the Moon passes into Earth’s shadow, called the umbra. When the moon is totally eclipsed by the Earth, it takes on a reddish color. This is caused by Earth completely blocking direct sunlight from reaching the Moon's surface.
Total lunar eclipses usually occur every year and half, but sky watchers will have to wait until 14 March 2025 to see one again.
Sky conditions deteriorated from marginal to poor over the duration of the eclipse. Thin clouds, fog and ice crystals completely obscured the view by 4:00am. We were fortunate to capture this image at the beginning of totality.
Image captured between 3:25MST & 3:39MST. 100 * 8 second exposures. Best 10% stacked with AutoStakkert!, then processed with Photoshop.
Imaging equipment:
SharpStar 140PH Triplet 910mm focal length
Mesu 200 MKII mount,
ZWOASI071MC Pro camera
Antlia L filter (UV IR cut)
We had very good seeing again yesterday evening in the Long Beach area.
This is from 9 30 s SER files taken with a ZWO ASI224MC camera with 3x Barlow and a ZWO UV/IR cut filter through the C14 at Cerritos College. I used FIreCapture to take this data. SER files were used to create stacks of the best 41% of about 1500 frames in AutoStakkert, and those stacks were processed in PixInsight. The resulting images were registered and derotated in WinJUPOS, with the result undergoing some final tweaks in GIMP.
CM I: 131.3°
CM II: 122.0°
CM III: 290.4°
Earth's shadow covered 97% of the Beaver Full Moon at 2:03 MST. The shadow blocks most of the sun's light and stains the moon a dark, rusty red. This was the longest partial lunar eclipse in the last 580 years, lasting 3 hours 28 minutes and 23 seconds.
Image captured between 1:59MST & 2:07MST. 80 * 5 second exposures. Best 28% stacked with AutoStakkert!, then processed with RegiStax and Photoshop.
Imaging equipment:
SharpStar 140PH Triplet 910mm focal length
Mesu 200 MKII mount,
ZWOASI071MC Pro camera
Antlia L filter (UV IR cut)
Traitement pour faire ressortir la composition géologique de notre lune.
Mosaique de 14 panneaux au télescope newton 200/1000 et caméra asi290mc. Insta : Foubz Cawouette
Saturn at Opposition
August 13-14, 2022
After a night of astronomy at the Von Braun Astronomical Society planetarium, I was inspired to drag my Celestron Edge HD8 telescope out for a look at Saturn. I caught it about 12 hours before the time it was nearest Earth for this year. Seeing was decent, so I got my camera set up and this happened. Not a best ever image (I hope!), but still OK for an imager as rusty as me
Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 8
Mount: Celestron AVX equatorial mount
Camera: ZWO ASI 224 MC
Magnification: Explore Scientific 3x Focal Extender
Other equipment: ZWO UV-IR blocking filter
Best 15% of 7152 video frames, preprocessed with PIPP, stacked in Autostakkert!3, and buffed in Photoshop PSCC2022
Moon: 38.5%
Waxing Crescent
20.12.2020
🔭
Celestron CPC 800
ZWO ASI294MC pr
Focal Reducer F 6.3
Stacked
Autostakkert
Registax
Photoshop
Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, is a gas giant. It is the 5th planet from the sun, and easily visible in the night sky at the right time of the year.
The Great Red Spot seen in this photo is a giant storm that is known to have existed since at least the 17th century. Jupiter is currently in opposition. which means it is at it's closest distance to Earth. and this is why it is so bright in the night sky.
I took this image while I was waiting for the clouds to clear on my main imaging target. It consists of 3 x 60 second videos with each of the RGB filters, extracted with Autostakkert and combined and sharpened in PixInsight.
Equipment Details:
•6 Inch GSO Ritchey-Chretien (RC) F9 1370mm Focal length
•Skywatcher NEQ6 Mount
•ZWO ASI1600mm Cmos Camera cooled to -10'c
•ZWO EFW7 Filter Wheel
•Baader 36mm unmounted L, R, G and B
•Orion ST80 80mm Guide Scope
•ZWO ASI120mm mini Guide Camera
•ZWO ASIAIR Pro for full automation
Exposure Details:
•R 60 second video - 360p
•G 60 second video - 360p
•B 60 second video - 360p
Location: West Midlands, UK
Scope: Coronado SM60 II / BF10 / Teleview 2.5x Powermate
Camera: ASI 178MM
Mount: CEM60-EC
Integration: best 200 of 2000 frames with a sigle frame overlay of the plane
Acquisition: Sharpcap Pro
Processing: Autostakkert 3.1 / ImPPG / Photoshop
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
28K frames captured in 90s using FireCapture
Best 2K frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Noise reduction in Topaz DeNoise AI
Finished in Photoshop
All of Mare Nubium except for the northmost part can be seen in this image. Crater Bullialdus can be seen just above image center. Crater Tycho casts a ray across this crater from the lower right corner. Rupes Recta (Straight Wall) is at the upper right corner. (Rüki 53 and 54)
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
2000 frames captured in Firecapture at 4.25ms at 144 gain and 55% histogram
Best 75% stacked in Autostakkert!
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finishing in Photoshop - colors are slightly saturated.
Despite forecast predicted hazy weather, it remained clear till about 3:40am which gave me a chance to shoot LRGB videos. Seeing okey(ish) but jet stream was around 30m/s.
Getting there with derotating, but gosh it is a long process :)
Moons that I was rather struggling with, not very pleased with them for now but hope I'll get those sorted as well.
Equipment:
Skywatcher 250/1200 Flextube Dobson
Zwo ASI120MM
TeleVue 2.5x powermate
PIPP, Autostakkert 2,Registax and PS fro processing
astro.carballada.com/sun-20230212-1041utc/
Happy to use a new fast process and workflow that allows me to get ready the image in question of hours and not days like before.
My last Sun image was from Sep 2021 and it was testing a remote operation.
Currently I come back to my nomad rig and it's not fixed on the remote observatori anymore.
Anyway, talking about the capture, it's amazing how the activity increased during this period of time.
Now the surface and corona are completely full of events.
t's really nice to see that after all this time with no practically action.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Lunt LS60THa/LS50FHa Double stack
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI174MM
Mounts
Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi ×
Filters
Lunt B1200 12mm Blocking Filter
Accessories
Primaluce Lab SESTO SENSO
Software
AstroSharp Ltd SharpCap · Emil Kraaikamp AutoStakkert! · Torsten Edelmann FireCapture
Acquisition details
Date: Feb. 12, 2023
Time: 10:41
Frames: 1000
Resolution: 1145x1014
File size: 1.8 MB
Locations: Berga Resort, Berga, Barcelona, Spain
Data source: Backyard
One more time...
Sony FE 100-400 GM + 1,4 TC
Stack of 200 pics
Processed with Autostakkert, LR, PS & Astra Image
DC-G9 + Leica 100-400, 400 mm (800 mm/35),
1/125s, f6,3, -3,66 EV, ISO 200, without tripod, stack of 5 captures (PIPP/Autostakkert)
February 2, 2023. An AutoStakkert! experiment. A little fun while the moon dominates the night sky. You know, you start down that "I wonder if..." road and then get to sleep too late.
Taken with a Canon 70D DSLR and TMB92L refractor, using the following settings: f/5.5 1/1000 s and ISO 100. This is the result of 25 images stacked with AutoStakkert! and processed with Astra Image Pro and Adobe Photoshop CS6.
Mosaic of 18 videos
Kept best 5% of frames from each movie of 5000 frames
In addition I also took a few snapshots with the 4x barlow and I'm really impressed of how it turned out
---Hardware---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
Camera : PointGrey Grasshopper GS3-U3-23S6M
Tube : Celestron C11 EDGEHD
Barlow : Televue 4x
Mosaic:
Effective focal length : 2800 mm
Effective aperture : ~ F/10
Snaps:
Effective focal length : 11200 mm
Effective aperture : ~ F/40
---Software---
Acquired with FireCapture
Stacked with AutoStakkert
Processed with Lightroom
This picture of the Sun's chromosphere highlights a large prominence showing off the edge. The surface is showing several filaments (black lines), plage (white area) and one large sunspot.
Photo was captured in Elkridge, Maryland USA
Telescope: Lunt 60mm Hα with double stack
2X Barlow
Camera: ZWO I178MM monochrome
Note: Yellow color was added using PhotoShop
Capture Software: SharpCap
Processing Software:
AutoStakkert, RegiStax 6, Light Room Classic, Photo Shop
Topaz AI
ZWO ASI290MM/EFW (RGB)
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/Tele Vue 2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
4200 frames in R, G, and B captured in FireCapture
Preprocessed in PIPP
Best 50% stacked in AutoStakkert!
Wavlet sharpening and noise reduction in RegiStax
RGB frame derotation in WinJuPos
Finished in Photoshop
Yesterday's day moon.
Taken with a Canon 70D DSLR and TMB92L refractor, using the following settings: f/5.5 1/1000 s and ISO 200. This is the result of 29 images stacked with AutoStakkert! and processed with Astra Image Pro and Adobe Photoshop CS6.
Telescopio: APM 140 mm f 7 APO
Barlow Zeiss Abbe 2X
Camera CMOS di ripresa: ZWO ASI 224 MC
Montatura:iOptron CEM60
Software:SharpCap 3.2 Pro, Registax 6.1.0.8, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 3.0.14, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8
Focuser Starlight 3,5"
23 Giugno 2019 Ore: 23:25
Pose: 11500 su 20.000 riprese
fps: 250 Lunghezza focale: 1960 mm
Seeing: 2 Trasparenza: 9
R: 200/646 frames, 5 stacks
G: 220/696 frames, 5 stacks
B: 250/687 frames, 5 stacks
Stacking performed in AutoStakkert; initial sharpening in PixInsight; derotation and channel combination in WinJUPOS; final processing in PixInsight and Photoshop
CM I: 62.4° CM II: 15.2° CM III: 206.1°
Taken with the 14" Celestron in the observatory at Cerritos College with a ZWO ASI224MC camera. The three images show Mars emerging from the occultation at 2022-12-08 03:30:06 UT, 03:30:22 UT, and 03:30:40 UT. A small subset of frames were extracted from a longer SER file for each image, then those frames were stacked in AutoStakkert and sharpened in PixInsight. A light touch with Topaz Denoise and some final processing in Photoshop to assemble the three images aligned on the lunar surface features.
CM longitude on Mars at the time of egress was 203°. The large crater above (north of) where Mars reappears is Petavius.
Considerably less sunspot activity than yesterday.
Canon EOS 60Da (1/500s, ISO 100)
Tele Vue NP101is/2x Powermate (4" f/10.8)
Losmandy G11
Converted .cr2 to .avi in PIPP
Stacked best 75% of 100 frames in Autostakkert!
Wavelet sharpening in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
TS-Optics UNC 10" f/5, ZWO ASI662MC, ZWO ADC, Barlow Celestron X-Cel LX 3x, Baader UV/IR-Cut L CCD filter.
FPS (avg.)=75, Shutter=13.44ms, Gain=377 (62%).
FireCapture, Autostakkert, Registax, Photoshop.
4000 of 23078 frames stacked
Sept 4, 2017 - very active sun. Captured with Lunt Solar 50THa telescope, QHY5-III 178 CCD camera in video mode, and iOptron iEQ30 mount. Processed with AutoStakkert 3.
I finally got around to processing this. I was dreading having to use RegiStax. Decided to search the web to see if anything better existed, and discovered AutoStakkert. Runs so much faster. It also stacks and aligns so much better.
Taken with the Celestron C14 and ZWO ASI224MC camera from the observatory at Cerritos College. Three SER files were captured, then stacked in AutoStakkert and processed in PixInsight. Resulting images were derotated in WinJUPOS, and the resultant image processed in Registax and lightly denoised in Topaz Labs. Europa is to the left of Jupiter in this image, and Io is to the right. North is at the top.
CM longitudes:
CM I: 102°
CM II: 146°
CM III: 111°
Esprit 80, Daystar Quark, and QHY 174. 1000 frames in SharpCap, best 15%, processed in AutoStakkert, IMPPG, Photoshop, Topaz deNoise, and Lightroom.
In the middle of the huge period with closed/rainy weather (which has been going on for more than 3 weeks) in the region where I live, there was a beautiful opening on the night of the 10th to the 11th, when I took the opportunity to make some planetary records. When Mars's turn came, unfortunately the time closed again, right at the beginning, making it impossible to capture more frames.
"Given the vastness of time and the immensity of the universe, it is an immense pleasure for me to share a planet and a time with you". Carl Sagan
Newtonian reflector Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 with Onstep, ASI 290MC, Barlow Tele Vue 3x, UV/IR Cut filter. 3782 stacked frames. FireCapture, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, WinJUPOS and PixInsight.
@LopesCosmos
at 49.5% practically in the first quarter, our natural satellite can be seen again, in this HDR composition we can see in considerable detail the vast number of craters that stand out in the terminator, together with this the high saturation in the image allows us to discern the different mineralogy that populates the regolith on the lunar surface, it is worth mentioning that these colors are very subtle and only a photo with this technique can reveal them.
Gear: Nexstar 8SE + 7D Mark II
130 images stacked, process PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax and Photoshop CC 2022
This from 10 45 s SER files taken with a ZWO ASI224MC camera with 3x Barlow and a ZWO UV/IR cut filter through the C14 at Cerritos College. I used FIreCapture to take this data. SER files were used to create stacks of the best 25% of frames in AutoStakkert, and those stacks were processed in PixInsight. The resulting images were registered and derotated in WinJUPOS, with the result undergoing some final tweaks in GIMP.
The lighter area along the central meridian is Elysium Mons. Gale Crater, where the Curiosity rover is exploring, is also near the meridian of this image. The north polar ice cap is also prominent.
Not to much opportunities to nigh photo, I try new options on Solar.
New process: investigating tritones and different Barlow lenses.
There are also two options available.
Do you prefer monochrome or color?
In monochome the result it's more dramatic...
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Lunt LS60THa/LS50FHa Double stack
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI174MM
Mounts
Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi ×
Filters
Lunt B1200 12mm Blocking Filter
Accessories
Primaluce Lab SESTO SENSO · Tele Vue 2.5x 1.25" Powermate (PMT-2513)
Software
AstroSharp Ltd SharpCap · Emil Kraaikamp AutoStakkert! · Torsten Edelmann FireCapture
Acquisition details
Date: June 4, 2023
Time: 09:02
Frames: 10000
FPS: 103
Exposure per frame: 5 ms
Resolution: 1702x2290
File size: 3.4 MB
Locations: Berga Resort, Berga, Barcelona, Spain
Data source: Backyard
also I leave here the link to the mono version
astro.carballada.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/sun-2023_...
