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Transparency (4/5)

Seeing (3/5)

 

C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)

ZWO120MC

SharpCap

Winjupos

AutoStakkert

PixInsight

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.

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..

Image taken with a Coronado PST, 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro mount

 

Images shot in RAW with the camera set to mono to assist with focusing. Images then cropped and tweaked in Lightroom and exported as TIFFs

Best 30% of 320 images stacked using Autostakkert! 2. Stacked image was duplicated, then using Lightroom one was processed to enhance the prominences and the other to enhance the surface details.

False colour was then added and the 2 images merged using a layer mask in Photoshop CS2, then final tweaks made in Lightroom and Focus Magic

 

Sketch was done with coloured pastel pencils on black paper then photographed

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Mare Crisium, Mare Fecunditatis, and the surrounding area are lit by sunlight coming in at a low angle in this pair of views. The top image was shot around 2020-09-04 0620 UT and the bottom image around 0900 UT. Look closely at the length of shadows in each - you can see how the Sun has sunk closer to the horizon during the time between the two images.

 

The north edge of the Moon is at the left in these images. Looking along the terminator, some craters that stand out are Geminus and Cleomedes to the north and Langrenus and Petavius to the south. The central peaks of Langrenus and Petavius show the change in the length of their shadows particularly well.

 

Each image is a composite from stacks of SER files shot with a ZWO ASI120MM with a #58 green filter. The scope was a Celestron Edge HD 925 at f/10. Stacking in AutoStakkert with the best 75 of 300 frames; individual images merged in Photoshop for the composite; final processing in PixInsight.

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.

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

My first attempt at photo stacking the moon.

 

Shot with Nikon Z 7, Tamron 150-600mm G2. Processed with Lightroom, PiPP, AutoStakkert!3, and Registax.

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

Seestar S50, 50% di frame elaborati da un filmato di 90 secondi, elaborati con AutoStakkert, AstroSurface e Photoshop.

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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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.

15 Dec 2016 1145 UTC

Skywatcher 120ED (F=1800mm)

ZWO-ASI120MC-S

AutoStakkert

PixInsight

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

Magnitude 5,64

Distance 2806,728 Million km

Distance 19,617 UA

Temps lumière 2h36'02,2s

Diam. Apparent 0°00'03,76"

Diam. Équatorial 51118 km

 

Instrument de prise de vue: Skywatcher T250/1000 Newton F4

Caméra d'imagerie: Player-One Uranus-C IMX585

Monture: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 Pro Goto USB

Instrument de guidage: sans

Caméra de guidage: sans

Logiciels acquisition: Stellarium - SharpCap

Logiciels traitement :AutoStakkert - Astrosurface - Darktable - FastStone Images Viewer

Filtres: IR-Cut / IR-Block Player-One

Accessoires: Focuseur ZWO EAF - Barlow Kepler x2.5 + Projection par oculaire 9mm

Dates: 12 Déc. 2023- 21h30 GMT

Taille: 1920x1080

Images unitaires: SER (1502x60ms) 10% retenues

Gain: 600

Échantillonnage: 0.086 "/pixel

Focale résultante: 7000mm

F/D: 28

Seeing: 0.97 "Arc

Bortle: 5

Phase de la Lune (moyenne): 0%

Venus, the 2nd planet from the Sun, has the hottest surface temperature in the Solar System at a scorching 867°F (464°C). This is caused by a runaway greenhouse effect from the buildup of carbon dioxide. Inevitably, Earth will suffer a similar fate within a few billion years as the Sun's luminosity increases. At the rate we're going, humans will be long gone before then.

 

Because its orbit is smaller than ours, Venus goes through phases from our perspective just like the moon does. But unlike the moon, Venus grows significantly larger during the thin crescent phases as it gets closer to us (and largest at "inferior conjunction," the equivalent to new moon). I'm looking forward to documenting the phases with my new equipment over the next few months.

 

Phase angle: 61.7°

Percent illuminated: 73.7%

Apparent magnitude: -4.05

Apparent diameter: 14.93"

Distance from Earth: 1.118 AU

Altitude above horizon: 21.2° to 13.5°

Luminance: stack of 2,000 frames (best of 488,912)

RGB: stack of ~1,700 frames (best of 6,907)

Captured from 01:07 to 01:45 UTC (04/12/23)

Exposure 3 ms (300 FPS), Gain 150, Offset 25

 

Location: Summerville/Ladson, SC

Atmospheric seeing: 2/5

Camera: ZWO ASI224MC

Filters: Baader 685nm IR-Pass (for luminance), ZWO UV/IR-Cut (for RGB)

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: PIPP, AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, GIMP

Venus captured at 6pm in complete daytime. 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.

Cropped from last night's Moon photo from 6" Refractor using PIPP

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

Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer mount

Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED OTA (72/420mm)

Tele Vue Powermate 2.5x

ZWO ASI533MC Pro (at 0 degrees)

oaCapture 1.8.0 (recording)

PIPP (pre-processing)

AutoStakkert! 3 (stacking)

Siril (splitting the 3 channels)

ImPPG (sharpening)

PlanetarySystemLRGBAligner (aligning separate channels to the original RGB image)

Siril (recombining back channels into RGB)

RawTherapee (RGB post-processing)

GIMP (creating LRGB, with original RGB as the L channel)

RawTherapee (LRGB post-processing)

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.

Sol Región Activa 12936

Seeing regular

 

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: 2022-01-29 (29 de enero de 2022)

Hora: 13:56 T.U. (Tiempo universal)

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 3 minuto

Resolución: 1816x1236

Gain: 73 (14%)

Exposure: 0.032ms

Frames: 9169

Frames apilados: 9%

FPS: 50

Sensor temperature= 34.6°C

- Skywatcher Star Adventurer Equatorial Mount

- Celestron C90 + 2x barlow + Olympus OMD EM10 MKII

- Prime focus

- A 2 minutes video stacked with AutoStakkert

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

Skywatcher Heritage 114P Virtuoso

SVBONY 305 Pro Camera

PIPP

Autostakkert

Registax

Photoshop express

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