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Imaged through a 4x barlow
---Hardware---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
Camera : PointGrey Grasshopper GS3-U3-23S6M
Tube : Celestron 11 EDGE HD
Extender: Televue 4x
Effective focal length : 11200 mm
Effective aperture : ~ F/40
---Software---
Acquired with FireCapture
Stacked with AutoStakkert
Mosaic done with Microsoft ICE
Processed with Lightroom & Topaz SharpenAI
Taken with a Celestron C6 SCT, Celestron AVX mount, 2x Barlow, and ASI120MC. Captured with SharpCap, stacked with AutoStakkert, and processed with Astra Image Pro and Photoshop.
A reprocess of a shot taken in August with the ASI224MC camera on the Sun. I hadn't thought much of what I managed to capture, but decided to have more of a play with the data and try a few things. You can see in the earlier post it was very blue/purple.
Quite pleased with the results fora quick capture when testing. Taken with a SkyWatcher ED80 DS-Pro telescope using Baader safety film.
Imaging telescope or lens:Meade Starfinder 8
Imaging camera:Point Grey 5MP mono
Mount:Losmandy GM-8
Software:Autostakkert! Autostackert! , FireCapture 2.4 Firecapture , Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Filter:Ha filter
Date:May 26, 2020
Frames: 300
FPS: 15.00000
Focal length: 1220
Resolution: 9886x11806
Data source: Backyard
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK on 26th October 2018 during a 94% Waning Gibbous Moon. Shot with a 10" Dobsonian telescope and 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D. 2,000 frame video shot with Backyard EOS at 5x magnification. All frames above 50% quality on the analysis graph were stacked using Autostakkert! 2, wavelets sharpened in Registax 6, then processed in Lightroom & Fast Stone Image Viewer
Venus, the evening star, from Austin, Texas on 2020-04-27 01:54 UT. Questar 1350/89mm telescope with Sony a6300 camera at prime focus.
3x drizzle stack with RGB align in Autostakkert 3. Final crop and exposure in Photoshop.
William Optics Zenithstar 61
ZWO ASI120MM
Extensor Orión 1.25
Tripie
700 frames
Frames usados 500
Df: 360
F: 6
Captura: Firecapture
Revelado: Autostakkert + Fitsworks + Lr
Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda
Observatorio Astronómico Altaïr
Poncitlán Jalisco México
Eng. - Saturn
Time: 15 July 2023, 03:20 UT
Telescope: Celestron SC 203/2032mm @ f/35
Eyepiece projection / f=15mm /
Mount: CG-5 AS-GT
Camera: ZWO ASI 120MC-S, 18fps
Stack: 15% of total 3100 frames
Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert! 2.1, Registax6, GIMP
Place: Virovitica, Hrvatska - Croatia
Mars 10th Dec 2022(22:16 UT) , average seeing conditions. This image is the result of merging 3 images in Winjupos, each the best 4,000 frames, (21,000 frames captured in 3 minutes for each AVI). Captured using Firecapture V2.7, Processed using Autostakkert V3.1.4, Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera, Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow and ZWO ADC.
OTA: ASKAR FRA400
Imaging: 290MM (Non-guided)
Mount: Az-GTI
Filters: Green Filter #56
Sequencing: ASICAP
Integration: Best 10% of 500 frames
PP: AutoStakkert 2.0
Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Geophysical Activity Report and Forecast
SDF Number 204 Issued at 2200Z on 23 Jul 2021
IA. Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity from 22/2100Z to 23/2100Z: Solar activity has been at very low levels for the past 24 hours. There are currently 5 numbered sunspot regions on the disk.
IB. Solar Activity Forecast: Solar activity is expected to be very low with a chance for a C-class flares on days one, two, and three (24 Jul, 25 Jul, 26 Jul).
IIA. Geophysical Activity Summary 22/2100Z to 23/2100Z: The geomagnetic field has been at quiet levels for the past 24 hours. Solar wind speed reached a peak of 457 km/s at 22/2119Z. Electrons greater than 2 MeV at geosynchronous orbit reached a peak level of 245 pfu.
IIB. Geophysical Activity Forecast: The geomagnetic field is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels on day one (24 Jul) and quiet levels on days two and three (25 Jul, 26 Jul).
III. Event probabilities 24 Jul-26 Jul
Class M 01/01/01
Class X 01/01/01
Proton 01/01/01
PCAF green
IV. Penticton 10.7 cm Flux
Observed 23 Jul 087
Predicted 24 Jul-26 Jul 087/085/085
90 Day Mean 23 Jul 078
V. Geomagnetic A Indices
Observed Afr/Ap 22 Jul 009/010
Estimated Afr/Ap 23 Jul 008/011
Predicted Afr/Ap 24 Jul-26 Jul 010/012-006/005-005/005
VI. Geomagnetic Activity Probabilities 24 Jul-26 Jul
A. Middle Latitudes
Active 35/10/10
Minor Storm 20/05/01
Major-severe storm 05/01/01
B. High Latitudes
Active 10/15/15
Minor Storm 25/20/20
Major-severe storm 50/20/15
2020-11-07 22-03 Mars
(220315)
Diameter=18.81"
Magnitude=-1.91
LX90 8"
ASI244MC
2x barlow
5% of 19623 frames
avg 235 fps
1.0ms
binning=no
gain 303
pipp 2.5.9
autostakkert! 3.0.14
registax 6.1.0.8
White light:
70mm refractor + Thousand Oaks solar filter & Canon 1100D
Best 61% of 100 stacked in Autostakkert!2 and processed in Lightroom
H-alpha full disc:
Coronado PST & Canon 1100D. Etalon adjusted to bring out the filaments better so it lost some of the swirling detail that is visible at other wavelengths.
Best 52% of 110 images stacked in Autostakkert!2 and processed in Lightroom
H-alpha prominences:
Coronado PST & Canon 1100D. Best 74% of 80 images stacked using Autostakkert!2 and processed using Lightroom and Paintshop Pro
Conditions were not ideal with lots of high cloud and haze
TEC 250 @ F/8 + ASI 1600MM-C
2 pane mosaic, 200 frames each
Image scale 0,38"
Captured with Sharpcap
Processed with AutoStakkert!2, Pixinsight
Several active zones ("plages"), several filaments, lots of proms in the Southern hemisphere, couple of spots... Nice Saturday state of the Sun :)
WARNING! Sun is dangerous, use proper filters for observing and imaging!
Aquisition time: JD 2456724.891829 (around08.03.2014 13:24:14 MSK).
Image orientation: staright (west is right and North is up)
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 = 1/50 seconds
Av (effective) = NA
ISO 1000
Exposures: 51 (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 - harsh, but 88 stacked frames hold it nicely).
Contrast enchancement, high-pass filtering and coloration made in Photoshop.
27.11.17 - Another image of the Waxing Gibbous Moon (60% illuminated) imaged at 18:10UT using Hydrogen Alpha (red) filter only.
Altair Astro StarWave 102ED
Altair IMX174 mono Hypercam
ZWO EFW Mini
Altair Ha filter
Best 30% used of 2000 frames.
Captured with SharpCap 3.0
Stacked with AutoStakkert 3.0
Post processed with Photoshop CC 2018
Skywatcher ED80 DS-PRO, Baader Planetarium Herschel Wedge with continuum filter. White light image processed from video in autostakkert and Photoshop.
Mercury transmitting the Sun on 9th May 2016, at 17:20.16. Taken with a Celestron CPC800 and ZWO ASI120MC-S camera. Stacked in Autostakkert!2 and processed in Registax and Photoshop.
Mars at 23:21 UT, 17/09/2020. Only average seeing conditions on this occasion. 9 minutes worth of data, the result of merging 3 files in Winjupos, each the best 4,000 of 24,000 frames, resized 150%. Captured using Firecapture V2.5. Processed using Autostakkert V3.0.14 , Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera and Carl Zeiss 2 X Barlow.
Moon mosaic - best 5% out of 10,000 frames. Captured in Sharpcap 3 beta, stacked in Autostakkert! 3, stitched in Image Composite Editor, Processed in Photoshop
Cráteres Copernicus y Erathostenes del 11-09-2016
Canon 60D - SW Dobson 8" f/6 - Barlow 2x - Foco primario
ISO 400 - 1/160s - Apilado 4% de 80 frames video MLV 2946 x 1080 recortados.
Procesado PIPP - AutoStakkert - Adobe Lightroom
Taken with a Canon 70D DSLR and TMB92L refractor, using the following settings: f/5.5 1/640 s and ISO 100. This is the result of 25 images stacked with AutoStakkert! and processed with Astra Image Pro and Adobe Photoshop CS6.
The waxing crescent moon from Austin, Texas at 2019-04-09 02:29 UT. Questar 1350/89 mm f/15 telescope with a Sony a6300 at prime focus. Exposed 1/15 sec at ISO 200. Best 8 of 85 images stacked in Autostakkert 3 and deconvolve in Lynkeos. Final crop and exposure in Photoshop.
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.
This is from a series of six SER files recorded with a ZWO ASI224MC camera in conjunction with a 2x Barlow, ZWO ADC, and ZWO IR cut filter. This was with the Celestron C14 at Cerritos College. Data was taken between 0554 and 0559 UT, with stacking in AutoStakkert, sharpening in PixInsight, combination of derotated images in WinJUPOS, then final touches in PixInsight and GIMP.
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
1000 frames captured, best 200 frames stacked using AutoStakkert AS!3. Post Processed with Photoshop CC 2017.
Telescope:Altair Astro 72mm f/6 EDR LightWave refractor 432mm focal length.
Camera: Altair IMX178 colour Hypercam.
Mounted on a SkyWatcher AZ-GTI goto mount.
Kept best 10% of 25000 frames
---Hardware---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
Camera : ZWO ASI 224 MC
Filters:
PierroAstro ADC Mk2
ZWO UV/IR Cut
Tube : Astro-Physics 130 EDF F/6 with 4x barlow (Televue Powermate)
Effective focal length : 3120 mm
Effective aperture : ~ F/24
---Software---
Acquired with FireCapture
Stacked with AutoStakkert
Processed with Lightroom & Topaz DenoizeAI
Solar image taken 20 August 2017, showing Sunspots 2671.
Taken with a SkyWatcher ED80 telescope using a Baader solar filter. Imaged with a Canon 5DMK3 using EOS Movie record to capture video zoomed in, processed in PIPP and Autostakkert.
Taken with a ZWO ASI120MC camera, Celestron C8 telescope and Celestron CGEM mount.
Captured in SharpCap, processed in AutoStakkert and Lightroom.
Taken with a Celestron C6 SCT, Celestron AVX mount, 2x Barlow, and ASI120MC. Captured with SharpCap, stacked with AutoStakkert, and processed with Astra Image Pro and Photoshop.
First light for my new ZWOASI120MC cmos camera which I got for Christmas. We've had the mono version for years and I loved it, but it stopped running on my Windows 8 laptop and nothing we tried would stop it from crashing each time I plugged it in. So I haven't used it for a very long time and it's in fact now used as a guide camera in our observatory set up! I got the colour version for Christmas but hadn't even plugged it in because I assumed I would have the same issues that I had with the older camera. Today I just figured I'd give it a try and to my astonishment it worked!
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, and the ASI120MC camera with a 2x Barlow attached. The whole assembly was on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier.
2,000 frame video shot using SharpCap, the best % frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3 Beta and wavelets adjusted in Registax 6. The image was then processed in Lightroom, Fast Stone Image Viewer and Focus Magic.
After imaging an ISS solar transit, I shot some more video of the Sun in white light. I caught AR12833 on the upper left, which rotated into view a few days ago, but also very faintly to the right is AR12832 which is about to rotate out of view on the opposite side. Photo taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with a Thousand Oaks glass solar filter. The camera was an ASI120MC. 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.
Captured at 9.31pm on January 5th 2024, this photo shows Jupiter and its famous Great Red Spot transiting the surface.
I captured this from my garden telescope (1000mm focal length newtonian at F5) with a combination of a 2X Barlow with spacers to increase magnification. The camera I used was a ZWO 533MC.
2 minute capture of around 13000 frames. Best 50% were stacked in AutoStakkert 3 using 1.5 drizzle mode.
RGB image from 15th September 2021
C14 x2.5 powermate F27.5
Baader filters ASI174m camera
Sharpcap - AutoStakkert - Registax6 - Photoshop - Sharpen AI.
30/5 19:12 GMT -3
Dobson 8" f/6 - Canon 60D a foco primario - Apilado 25% de 16 tomas a ISO 400 - 1/800s
Procesado: PIPP - AutoStakkert - PS y LR
Celestron NexStar 6SE
ZWO asi224mc with IR cut filter
Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate
ZWO ADC
FireCapture for ADC tuning
2 minute capture in SharpCap
Processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax Wavelets and finished in Lightroom.
Pequeña Luna llena de bolsillo
Apilado de video MLV 50% de 196 frames.
SW Dob 8" f/6 - Foco primario - Canon 6D - ISO 400 - 1/2000 - 1824 x 1224 recortado.
Procesado PIPP - Autostakkert - Adobe LR
Pianeta: Saturno.
Data: 17 aprile 2016.
Diametro: 17.73"
Magnitudine: 0.28
CMI=152.8° CMIII=25.5°
Luogo: Pedara (CT).
Ora (locale): 03:55.
Seeing (scala di Antoniadi): 4/5.
Telescopio: Celestron CPC-800 xlt.
Barlow: 2.5x GSO.
Lunghezza focale: 4850mm
Risoluzione: 0.16"
Camera di ripresa: ASI120MC.
Numero di frames acquisiti: 3000.
Numero di frames elaborati: 50% (1500).
FPS: 10.
Durata del filmato: 276 s.
ROI: 640x480
Software di elaborazione: Autostakkert 2.5.17, Registax 6.1, Photoshop 6.
Il cratere Copernico ha un diametro di 96 Km, profondità di circa 4, e si trova nella zona orientale dell'Oceano delle Tempeste (Oceanus Procellarum). Possiede una raggiera molto estesa come altri crateri sulla Luna.
Dati:
Celestron 114/910 Newton
Montatura eq2 con motore AR
Camera planetaria QHY5L-II-C
Barlow 2x Celestron Omni
Filtro UV IR cut
Sharpcap per acquisire 2 video da 3000 frames ognuno
Autostakkert!3 e Registax 6 per elaborare circa il 40% dei frames totali
GIMP per luminosità e contrasto nel risultato finale.
Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia
Data: 13 maggio 2022 alle 22:04 UTC
Fase della Luna: Gibbosa crescente al 93%
Last night I've been staring at my ISS animation and spotted a black cylindrical shape object with a bright blob on its top which I could suddenly identify. At first sight it looked like a russian spacecraft and also looked like it is docket to Pirs module on the Earth facing side of ISS. Which was awkward because I knew for a fact that there is no spacecraft docked to Pirs at the moment.
There is only one spacecraft around there which is Soyuz MS-08 (okey and Progress 69 too at the very top of the russian segment docked to Zvezda module :) ). So I had to come to the realization that the low 50° pass just happened in such angle that I am looking at ISS from sideways instead of upwards.
Wait up, what??!! Spacecraft on the "far side" of the station? That's coool!! :)
I think when has passed its highest altitude I rather begin to look at it from behind, just from the correct angle to be able to see MS-08. We see ISS from sideways when ratiator blocks us from seeing it fully. As frames go by MS-08 comes out from radiator's obstruction and shows its beauty, black body with white top .
I have never ever spotted spacecrafts docked to the "far side" of ISS :D
I used a 10" dobsonian telescope (250/1200 Flextube) with a Zwo ASI224MC color camera and a TeleVue 2.5x powermate to record a video at 60fps frame rate, after carefully aligning my Telrad and my main scope.
Video recorded with Fire Capture at these values:
Expo: 0.798ms
Gain: 210
After the bright ISS pass I processed the video first in PIPP. It turns a video to single frames.
Then I carefully analized the frames by checking each and every one of them. When my manual tracking was accurate, I could manage to record between 4-7 sharp frames right after each other. Those can be stacked, for stacking I always use Autostakkert 3.
I eventually ended up with 4 stacked image, so I've made an animation in Windows Movie Maker after post processing all 4 frames in Photoshop.
The picture about the ISS showing the currently docked spacecrafts is from Nasa's ISS Blog.
This is from a series of 8 SER files recorded with a ZWO ASI224MC camera in conjunction with a 2x Barlow, ZWO ADC, and ZWO IR cut filter during a period of very good seeing. This was with the Celestron C14 at Cerritos College. Data was taken between 1009 and 1023 UT, with stacking in AutoStakkert, sharpening in PixInsight, combination of derotated images in WinJUPOS, then final touches in PixInsight and Photoshop.
Jupiter 24th Sept 2022(22:25 UT) showing Europa in transit and casting it's shadow, average seeing conditions. This image consists of three images de rotated in Winjupos (best 3,000 frames each), 10,900 frames captured in 3 minutes for each AVI. Captured using Firecapture V2.7, Processed using Autostakkert V3.1.4, Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera, Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow and ZWO ADC.
Setup:
SkyWatcher Star Adventurer háromláb
SkyWatcher AZGTi mechanika
SkyWatcher 102/1300 Makszutov-Cassegrain távcső
2x Barlow
Canon EOS 250D
Pipp, Autostakkert, Ps
The waxing gibbous Moon from Terlingua, Texas. Good seeing right after sunset showed off the Moon to good advantage over the desert. Taken 2018-06-23 03:02 UT.
Questar telescope 1350/89 mm, f/15, with a Sony a6300 camera at prime focus. Exposed 1/40 sec at ISO 100. Best 8 of 80 images stacked in Autostakkert 3, deconvolved in Lynkeos, with final crop and exposure adjustment in Photoshop.
Absolutely happy for a clear early morning sky finally, I've been waiting for this since a while.
Not great, actually really poor seeing, but I couldn't care less :)
Took a few hours to get an initial clue, how to do the steps in Autostakkert 2, Registax and Winjupos fot derotation.
Skywatcher Allview mount
Skywatcher 127/1500 maksutov
ASI 120MM mono cam
Zwo LRGB filters
TeleVue 2.5x powermate
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer mount (it has a lunar tracking mode available) + Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED (72/420mm) + filter wheel with Baader LRGB filters set (for the transit UV/IR filter was used) + Barlow 2x + ZWO ASI174MM camera. To get the color shot R, G and B channels, 3000 frames per each (and 3000 more through UV/IR filter, which was used as L channel later on). As the Moon doesn't fit the field in this configuration, two panels were shot. ISS cropped out manually using Gimp; stacked and sharpened using cvAstroAlign (25 frames out of 70 went into stack); later on got ISS out using Gimp. Moon stacked using AutoStakkert! 3, then aligned the channels using PlanetarySystemLRGBAligner, then combined to obtain RGB using ImageMagick; L channel added in Gimp. Then assembled the panorama using Hugin. Post-processing in RawTherapee. Added ISS back using Gimp
Mars on Aug. 2, 7, and 16 from Austin, Texas. Dust on Mars and dust, smoke, and clouds on Earth made me work for these. Questar 89mm telescope and ZWO ASI224 planetary camera. Images stacked in AutoStakkert 3, deconvolved in Lynkeos and PixInsight, with final composition in Photoshop.
More information on the image can be found at: astronomy.robpettengill.org/blog180817.html