Target:The Sun, showing increasing sunspot activity as it moves out of solar minimum.

Location:12:32pm 26-03-2022, UK.

Acquisition:100x 1.5ms Red (best 50% of 200 frames), bin1x1, Subframe.

Equipment:Skywatcher 200P, EQ6RPro, Altair H183MPro, ZWO EFWmini & RGB, Baader MPCCMkII coma corrector, Solar film.

Software:Sharpcap Pro, EQMOD.

Processing:AutoStakkert, Registax, Affinity Photo, Topaz DeNoiseAI.

Took 4K video and used best 75% of 1200 frames. This was an experiment using old SLR lens/teleconverter with an URTH adapter and a ICE Lipo light pollution filter to try and improve contrast.

Conditions: Good

Location: Stourbridge, UK

Equipment: Olympus OMD E-M10 III.

Urth OM -> M4/3 adapter.

Vivitar 2x teleconverter.

Optomax 300mm 1:5.6 lens.

ICE LiPO filter

Software: PIPP, Autostakkert, GIMP

Transparency (4/5)

Seeing (3/5)

C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)

ZWO120MC

SharpCap

Winjupos

AutoStakkert

PixInsight

Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, about 2 months before its 2023 opposition. 2 of the 4 Galilean moons are visible.

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: 10.62°

Apparent magnitude: -2.61

Apparent diameter: 44.25"

Distance from Earth: 4.456 AU

Stack of 3,000 frames (best of 23,356)

Captured from 06:39 to 06:41 UTC 2023/09/03

Exposure 5 ms, Gain 350, Offset 25

Location: Summerville/Ladson, SC

Atmospheric seeing: 2/5

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, GIMP

Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and a Canon 600D at prime focus. 20 image stack using Autostakkert 2. Levels adjusted to bring out the pale moon from the bright blue sky

After almost 10 days of overcast skies, finally managed to get some gaps in between the clouds. Also managed to get about 220fps for Mars using Sharpcap. Not bad.

Jupiter and Saturn were de-rotated from a 90sec video

The weird lines were all over the place. Any idea what causing it?

Transparency 2/5

Seeing 3/5

C9.25 EDGEHD

ZWO120MC

SharpCap

AutoStakkert

PixInsight

Northfield, OH

May 15, 2022, a partly cloudy night, with a few opportunities to observe this eclipse..

TS 130 APO

Skywatcher EQ6

Neximage 5 2x barlow

6389 frames in SharpCap

Stacked 2875 in Autostakkert

1.5 Drizzle

Post Astra Image PS cc.

Taken on April 8 2017 @ DSVA

The large prom that showed up to the North of my good friend AR2585 had given me a stimul to play with PST tuner to get more contrast of this feature. The resulting new settings killed the edge-on proms but had enchanced disk details, including prom of interest and "plages" in active regions (right), which were mostly unseen with previous setting (left).

North is up and to the left, West is right and up.

Acqusition time: 06.09.2016 04:45 and 08.09.2016 09:50 UT TIS DMK 23U274 on Coronado PST

140 out of 800 frames were stacked in AS!2 were deconvolved in AstraImage 3 PRO (Cauchy 0,4-11) and processed ImageJ and PS.

It's a beautiful clear night in Austin, Texas, with a 2 day old waxing crescent Moon at 2018-10-11 01:00 UT. Questar 89 mm f/15 telescope with a Sony a6300 camera at prime focus. Crescent exposed 1/10 sec at ISO 400, earthshine exposed 10 sec at ISO 400.

Crescent best 8 of 81 images stacked in Autostakkert 3. Eathshine 15 images stacked in Lynkeos. Images deconvolved in Lynkeos, the composited, cropped, and exposure adjustments in Photoshop.

This was SOOOOOOO much work (and the result is a video less than a minute long!!!!!!).

I started imaging the Moon at 15:45 UT on 10th February, while it was still daylight. I shot videos of several regions of interest then went back out again once it had got darker. I then decided that I'd go out at regular intervals during the evening and do some repeat observations of the same regions. My final observations where at 22:30 UT, bringing my total number of repeat observations to five. I would have done more but I ran out of hard disc space on my laptop!

Equipment used was a William Optics 70mm refractor and ASI120MC camera, shot through a Celestron 3x Barlow. Each video was 2,000 frames, and depending on the quality graph, I stacked either the best 25% or the best 50% of the frames. Images were stacked in Autostakkert! 3, then processed in Lightroom. I then went through the painfully laborious process of manually aligning the shots of each region using Photoshop CS2 so I could make a little animation.

This video shows the sunrise and evolution of the shadows on craters that were already illuminated over 6 hours 45 minutes.

28 Febrero 2020

Celestron Nexstar 8i

ZWO ASI120MC-S

1000 Frames

Df: 2000mm

F: 10

Captura: Firecapture

Procesado: Autostakkert - Registax - Ps6

Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda

Observatorio Astronómico Altaír

Poncitlán Jalisco México

Jupiter at Opposition with Europa approaching transit.

Probably my best Jupiter image so far, I tried out my Skywatcher 200PDS with the 2.5 Powermate. Sky was very damp and Jupiter was quite wobbly so pleased with what I got.

ASI462MC Camera with IRcut filter.

Focal length 2250mm @ f9 1.625ms exposure @271 gain.

90 sec video in Firecapture (For some reason Sharpcap wasn't responding to me last night !)

I really wanted to capture the transit but the Clouds rolled in immediately after this capture, and I knew rain was forecast so packed up at @ 12.40am.

I used Firecapture, Autostakkert, Registax, Photoshop and finished in Lightroom.

Whitelight (continuum) Sun dated back to 3th of August 2014.

Image taken with Seymour Solar 100 mm clear aperture ERF and Baader Planetarium 450+/-20 nm Solar Continuum filters mounted on Vixen VMC110L Klevtsov-Cassegrain telescope coupled to Canon 60D.

20 untracked shots (1/20", ISO800) stacked in AS!2 and passed through deconvolution in AstraImage (Cauchy type PSF, size 5,7 units, 6 iterations).

Given 1035 mm focal length and 100 mm clear aperture I'm getting f/10,35 and 1,4" resolving limit.

The diameter of Solar disk is 2511 pixels, and given it's 30 arcminutes wide the equivalent pixel size 1,6" while the minimal resolvable distance on the image is - obviously - 1,4". Undersampling, sir :)

Q: does fine chaotic pattern seen at fullsize image correspond to photospheric granulations or it's a noise+moire exaggerated with deconvolution?

Limiting resolution experiment is pending but delayed due to the sudden change of the weather :(

BTW: My first observation of (reversed (: ) Wilson effect!

WARNING! Sun is dangerous, use proper filters for observing and imaging!

Captured through hazy conditions. Settings were marginally overexposed.

Captured with C8 Edge HD and a QHY5L II M with 742 IR filter through a 2x barlow.

Settings::

Binning 2x2

Gain: 8

Exposure (ms): 11.48

Processing::

Autostakkert, Registax (wavelets), Adobe PS

150mm f/8 refractor with Lunt pressure tune module (off 50THa) and internal ERF,Altair GPCAM2 130M/1.6 magnimax element.Imaging through thin cloud and unsteady seeing captured SER file in Sharpcap,stacked in Autostakkert 3 and processed in Astrosurface and PS CS2.

This image is from October 27, 2023. You can see 3 Galilean moons from left to right: Europa, Io, and Ganymede. Although you can kind of see Callisto on the far left.

I first shot Jupiter in 2013! I made a quick video going over how I improved as well as a timelapse in this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=af7j9EdcBRs

If you want to skip to the timelapse, it starts at the 5:07 mark: www.youtube.com/watch?v=af7j9EdcBRs&t=307s

Equipment used:

* NexStar 6SE SCT

* 2x Orion Shorty Barlow

* ZWO ASI533MC Pro

* CEM 40 mount

* Stacked in AutoStakkert!3 and processed in AstroSurface (Sharpening, Wavelets, and White Balance)

You can see a higher resolution at www.naztronomy.com/images/portfolio/fullscreen/Jupiter_20...

More details on Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/hwzdrc

My YouTube: youtube.com/Naztronomy

Taken through light fast moving cloud with a Skywatcher ED80 Refracting Telescope fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus which is 600mm. Best 15 of 60 images stacked using Autostakkert 2 as Registax doesn't like contaminated frames.

Last night's (3rd Oct 2023) waning Moon with some saturation boost to show mineral colour on the Lunar surface.

Celestron C11 SC XLT

Canon EOS RP (modified) ×

Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6 GT

Software

Adobe Lightroom · Adobe Photoshop · Chris Garry Planetary Imaging PreProcessor (PIPP) · Emil Kraaikamp AutoStakkert!

Date: Oct. 3, 2023

Frames: 340

FPS: 1

Exposure per frame: 0.25 ms

Resolution: 4968x4984

Locations: Wicklow Town,

Data source: Backyard

Trying out the ASI224 camera on Saturn while waiting for Mars to clear a tree. Image take 2018-08-04 05:22 UT, fair seeing, with a Questar 1350/80mm telescope, 2x Dakin Barlow, and ZWO ASI224MC planetary video camera.ASI224MC planetary video camera.ASI224MC planetary video camera. Exposure 32.3 msec, gain 380. The best 10% of 584 8 bit color frames captured with FireCapture and stacked in Autostakkert 3 with 3x drizzle. Deconvolved in Lynkeos with final exposure and crop in Photoshop.

The Sun in white light at 14:08 UT on Friday 13th January 2023 from Oxfordshire, UK. I couldn't get the Sun from the back garden at all with the telescopes so I just used my Canon 1100D with 300mm zoom lens and my homemade white light filter that I made to take to the USA for the 2017 eclipse. I took 190 images, cropped and aligned them in PIPP, then stacked the best 75% in Autostakkert! 3. I shared a labelled version of this separately and you can view that here: flic.kr/p/2objB8H

Celestron NexStar 6SE, ZWO asi224mc with IR cut filter, 2.5x TeleVue Powermate and ZWO ADC. Captured in SharpCap, processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax Wavelets then Lightroom.

Last Super Blue Moon until 2037.

"Why a blue supermoon? That’s an entirely different story. A blue moon is not actually blue at all; that is simply the nickname that’s given to the second full moon that occurs in a month, and the phenomenon does not happen often; just 3% of full moons are also blue moons, according to NASA. The rarest shy show of all occurred last night—and will continue on Sept. 1 — when a combination of full moon plus super moon plus blue moon appeared in the sky. If you miss it, you’ll have to wait a while for the next one: according to NASA, the next blue supermoon will not occur until 2037. Typically, blue supermoons occur only once every 20 years or so." [1]

I've made a 15-panel monochrome mosaic for luminance and a single panel imaged with a mirrorless camera for color channels.

Captured with SharpCap and processed with Ptgui, Imppg, Autostakkert, PixInsight and Photoshop.

APM107/700, Sony A7iV, Apollo 432mm, Televue 4x Powermate with red filter (used for mosaic only).

[1] How the Blue Super Moon Looked Around the World.

Related video simulation of the blue supermoon rising

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.

Moon - saturated to show the minerals - 12" dob, baader mpcc, zwo asi2600mc, sharpcap 3.2, PIPP, CS6, Autostakkert 3

2021-08-19-0939_3_AS_P20_lapl

5_ap137_conv copy 2 Saturate

Camara: ZWOASI1600MM-C

Telescopio: Takahashi FS60 + Takahashi Modulo Q 1.7x

Montura: Celestron CGEM

Df: 600mm

F: 10

Frames: 1000

Autostakkert 2 + Registax 6 + Pixinsight 1.8

Observatorio Astronómico Altaír

Poncitlán Jalisco México

Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda

Telescopio: Meade 60 mm.

Camara: ZWO ASI120MM

Filtro: Prisma de Herschel + Baader Solar Continum (540 nm) + Optolong Uv / Ir

Montua: Eq5 Synscan

27 videos, cada 10 minutos,

Cada una:

Frames: 1000

Df: 360 mm.

F: 6

Captura: Firecapture

Procesado: Autostakkert + Fitsworks + Darktable + Pixinsight 1.8

Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda

Observatorio Astronómico Altaír

Poncitlán Jalisco México

106_0422-5 4K MP4s processed wityh PIPP and AutoStakkert

Sol Región Activa 12975

Mal seeing con un poco de brisa

Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED

Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM

Montura: iOptron AZ Mount Pro

Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.6, T=25%)

- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (double stacked) (540nm)

Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism

- TeleVue Lente de Barlow 2,5x Powermate 1,25"

Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop

Fecha: 2022-03-24 (24 de marzo de 2022)

Hora: 12:51 T.U. (Tiempo universal)

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 1 minuto

Resolución: 1968x1504

Gain: 85 (16%)

Exposure: 0.032ms

Frames: 2517

Frames apilados: 10%

FPS: 41

Sensor temperature= 32.7°C

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier. Camera used was a ZWO ASI120MC with a 5x Powermate Barlow attached to the camera nose.

4,000 frame video shot in Sharpcap, best 75% of those frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3, then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.

Mal seeing y mucho jetstream, a ratos nubes altas o sea que condiciones bastante flojas.

Telescopio: Refractor Bresser Messier Acro 102/460 f4.5

Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM

Montura: Montura: iOptron CEM40

Filtros: Baader G CCD Filter

Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop

Fecha: 2019-12-04 (4 de diciembre de 2019)

Hora: 21:01 U.T. (Tiempo universal)

Fase lunar: 55.5% 8.23 días Creciente

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 1 minutos

Resolución: 3096 x 2080

Gain: 150 (29%)

FPS: 27

Exposure: 1.271 ms

Frames: 1660

Sensor temperature= 24.5°C

Frames apilados: 30%

OTA: SW Mak-Cass 127 @ f12.7, 1500mm fl

Imaging: AS120MM-S, unguided

Mount: Az-GTi (Alt-Az mode)

Sequencing & Capture: ASICAP

700/960 frames, 50 Gain, Auto Exposure

PP: Autostakkert 2.0, GIMP 2.0

Waning Gibbous at about 60%

Best 50% of 200 single frames.

Autostakkert + Registax + Darktable.

Nikon z7 Tamron G2 150-600mm Tcx20 1200mm f/13 200iso 1/200s.

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@moon_of_the_day

Gibbous moon - about 11 days old and 80% illumination. Some areas of interest are: Sinus Iridum and craters: Plato, Copernicus, Gassendi, Tycho and Clavius (with its curving chain of interior craters: Rutherfurd, Clavius D, C, N, and J).

DSLR video at prime focus on 127mm Maksutov telescope.

.MOV file converted to .API with PIPP.

50% best frames stacked with AutoStakkert.

Wavelets with Registax.

Cropped and adjusted curves with NXStudio.

Celestron Maksutov 127

ZWO ASI120MC-S

Eq5 Synscan

Frames: 1000

Df: 1500

F: 12

Captura: Firecapture

Revelado: Autostakkert + Registax + Fitsworks + Lr

Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda

Observatorio Astronómico Altaír

Poncitlán Jalisco México

Waning Gibbous Moon - (85% illuminated) imaged with Altair Astro 72EDF refractor and Altair Astro IMX183C Hypercam PROTEC. 2000 frames captured with SharpCap 3.2 Pro and the best 50 stacked with AutoStakkert 3. Post processing with Adobe Photoshop.

The dust on Mars is starting to clear. Image take 2018-08-02 05:09 UT, fair seeing, with a Questar 1350/80mm telescope, 2x Dakin Barlow, and ZWO ASI224MC planetary video camera. Best 5% of 5750 images from FireCapture, stacked in AutoStakkert 3, deconvolved in Lynkeos, with final exposure and crop in Photoshop

Taken in misty conditions with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus.20 jpgs stacked using Autostakkert 2.

12"dobsonian, ZWO ASI 2600MC (first light!) Baader MPCC, Autostakkert 3, Sharpcap 3.2

2021-08-19-0939_3_AS_P35_lapl5_ap137_conv

Daytime infrared Moon images 2020-03-29/30

250mm f4.8 Newtonian

ZWO ASI290MC IR filter

30s AVI @47fps 1024x768

10% frames stacked in Autostakkert

Final process in Photoshop

The impact crater Aristarchus is generally considered to be the brightest large feature on the moon and it is clearly visible in many pictures as a bright white streak near the western limb of the full or nearly full moon (it is even visible under earthshine).

Note also the rille or valley called Vallis Schroteri (Schroter's Valley) that runs partiality across the darkened region immediately above Aristarchus. That region is known as "Wood's Spot" and it may be the most colorful surface area on the earth-facing side of the moon.

Much closer to the shadowed terminator of the moon and toward the upper right is Mons Rümker. This roughly circular feature is believed to have been formed by a series of volcanic eruptions that formed a relatively shallow mound that eventually reached an elevation of just over 3,000 feet. On Earth, this type of geological structure is known as a shield volcano.

Taken on the morning of April 2, 2015 with a Stellarvue SV80ST2 telescope (80mm aperture, 480mm prime focal length, f/6) using a 4X Powermate/barlow and a ZWO ASI120MC planetary/video camera.

Autostakkert!2, Registax V6, and Photoshop CC 2014 were used for the image processing.

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Saturn 14th August 2022(23:05UT) Opposition !

A single 12,000 frame AVI was used here to produce a stack of 2,000 frames under poor seeing conditions. Several other AVI's that were captured were even worse than this one. 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 again, camera temperature was showing as 29 C !

106_1584-6 processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert.

Skywatcher 150/750 + Datyson T7 - captured with FireCapture. Stacked with Autostakkert! and finished with Registax

Taken with Imaging Source DFK21AU618 camera. Best 2000 shots selected by PIPP, stacked with Autostakkert and sharpened with PSE 12.

After I had imaged the two active regions visible on today's Sun, I upped the exposure level and checked around the limb for any other prominences. I was really happy when I spotted this lovely looping prominence on the SE limb, but once I'd stacked and processed the image, I noticed some other fainter proms a bit further up. Photo 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.

Lunar Landing Sites: Ranger 8, Surveyor 5, Apollo 11, and Apollo 16

The Moon phase on the night of May 31, 2017 was good for observing several historic lunar landing sites. Earlier I posted a view which included the site of the last manned mission to the Moon, Apollo 17. The top of this picture overlaps with the bottom of that photo, at the junction of Mare Serenitatis and Mare Tranquillitatis. It extends southward along the lunar terminator into the Lunar Highlands. The large crater trio of Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina can be seen in the lower right. In this photo, I was able to capture the locations of the Ranger 8 and Surveyor 5 unmanned probes, and the Apollo 11 and 16 manned missions. Of course, Apollo 11 was the FIRST manned landing on the Moon.

The Ranger Missions were designed as hard landing photographic missions. Ranger 8 was a successful mission, impacting within 24 km of its target area in Mare Tranquillitatis. Ranger 8 took more than 7,000 high-resolution images of the moon before impacting the lunar surface on February 20, 1965. These images detailed the kind of terrain and obstacles that a human explorer might encounter, and paved the way for future human exploration of the moon, beginning with Apollo 11, which landed less than 70km away. The Ranger 8 site is marked (approximately) with a RED plus sign.

The Surveyor Program was the first time the U.S. achieved a soft landing on an extraterrestrial body. The program was the test-bed for the entire technology of soft landings. The actual landings provided essential data as to the nature of the lunar surface, as well as the mechanical characteristics and composition of the surface materials. Surveyor 5 landed very near the future Apollo 11 landing site, and relayed back to Earth up-close images of the terrain that the Apollo 11 astronauts might encounter. The Surveyor 5 landing site is marked with a GREEN plus sign.

Apollo 11 was, as stated above, the first landing of a manned craft on an extraterrestrial object. The primary mission objective was to perform a manned lunar landing and a subsequent return to Earth. Choice of the Mare Tranquillitatis site (BLUE plus sign) was based on several factors: the site was smooth and had relatively few craters and boulders; there were no large hills, high cliffs, or deep craters that could deceive the lunar module landing radar; landing would require the least expenditure of spacecraft propellants: and the site presented less than 2° slope in the approach path and landing site. The site was also scientifically interesting, suitable for laser ranging experiments (STILL ongoing!), for solar wind analysis and for selenographic/geologic research.

So, the Apollo 11 landing site may have been chosen for ease of approach. That turned out to be wise, as the landing was far from uneventful. A switch was set in the wrong position, triggering a series of mysterious computer error codes during the descent. Fuel sloshing in the tanks resulted in erroneous fuel level readings. Boulders were strewn across the “smooth” landing area. Armstrong and Aldrin still managed to bring the Eagle landing craft module to a safe touchdown in the western end of their targeted landing ellipse. “Houston, uh - Tranquility Base here; the Eagle has landed.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1_nhshK2zU

Now look where Apollo 16 landed, a mere 33 months, 4 successful landings and one “successful failure” later. The target for Apollo 16 (YELLOW plus sign) was the heavily cratered lunar highlands. No “smooth” lava plain without large hills, high cliffs or deep craters. NASA had rapidly gathered enough experience, confidence and chutzpah to venture into crater hell. There were no new procedures or equipment to test. With the aid of a Lunar Roving Vehicle, the astronauts could venture farther afield and collect more samples. This was a mission devoted to science and exploration.

Apollo 16's landing spot in the highlands was chosen to allow the astronauts to gather geologically older lunar material, sample surfaces unaffected by the magma effusions that had filled maria they had previously explored or that comprised much of the ejecta strewn over other landing sites. This was important, because the origin of the craters in the lunar highlands was, at that time, a matter of considerable debate. Simply put, the lunar surface here resembles areas on Earth dominated by volcanoes; many scientists held the opinion that the craters were volcanic in origin, not the products of meteor impacts. The samples gathered in this domain of craters disproved the hypothesis that those formations were volcanic in origin. The Moon’s cratered face was here sculpted by bombardment from above, not eruptions from below.

The Apollo 16 Command Module "Casper" is on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, here in Huntsville, Alabama.

Image created from stack of 450 individual video frames. Video obtained using infrared light only. Imaged via eyepiece projection through an Orion 20mm Sirius Plossl eyepiece.

ASI ZWO290MM Camera

Optolong IR Pass (685nm) Filter - 1.25"

Explore Scientific ED80 APO Triplet f/6 Refractor, 480mm focal length

Celestron Advanced VX EQ Mount

Solar Transit of the International Space Station in H Alpha.

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.

Fair seeing conditions, 87% humidity. 37 Degrees. Shot with Sony A99ii + Minolta 400/4.5 + 2X TC. 11 image stack. (Best 11 out of 47) Processed with PIPP, Autostakkert!2, Astra Image 5 and LR6

Taken in Lowestoft, UK, last month.

Celestron NexStar 6se SCT & Altair Hypercam 183c. AVI video stacked in Autostakkert 2. Wavelets in Registax 6. Touched-up in PSP8 & PS CC.

The South Polar Ice Cap is very small, but the Ice Cap has grown in the North Polar Region, as it is their northern winter.

Seeing was very good; I think that's my best Mars image captured so far!