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I added false color to make our star look like a blue giant

In this wide field view of the southeastern lunar highlands, the lunar south pole is just off of the left edge of the photo. Tycho's bright rays can be seen emerging from the top left corner of the photo. The large Janssen crater complex is held in striking relief as the lunar terminator approaches from the right edge of the photograph.

 

Meade LX850 (12" f/8), ZWO ASI290MM

Autostakkert! (stacking - best 10% of 3,000 frames)

Registax (sharpening)

Photoshop (final processing)

5 May 2019

03:30 UTC

 

Full aperture baader.

ZWO ASI290MM

C9.25 (F=2350mm)

AutoStakkert (stacked 200/10000)

PixInsight

 

Bad seeing (2/5)

Jupiter 21st Sept(23:18 UT) Io and it's shadow in transit either side of the Great Red Spot. Only average seeing conditions. This image consists of 4 images de rotated in Winjupos, each image the result of stacking the best 2,000 frames from nearly 8,000 frames captured in 3 minutes. 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.

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

Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM

Montura: EQ5 Bresser EXOS2 motorizada sin goto

Filtros: Baader Green CCD Filter

Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop

Fecha: 2019-04-10

Hora: 20:59 T.U.

Fase lunar: 28.5% 5.2 días Creciente

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 2 minutos

Resolución: 3096 x 2080

Gain: 90

Exposure: 0,005052

Frames: 1679

Frames apilados: 20%

FPS: 13.98

 

Montes Appenines.

 

Taken with a ZWO ASI120MC camera, Celestron C8 telescope and Celestron CGEM mount.

 

Captured in SharpCap, processed in AutoStakkert and Lightroom.

106_1444-8 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert.

Hurried shot of partial solar eclipse 25th October 2022. Taken through the back bedroom window. Complete with wispy clouds ! Sharpcap and Autostakkert Starwave 102ED and Altair 294C

Jupiter has been prominent in the southwestern sky for months and I've been using it to align my telescope without ever taking much of a close look at it. As part of my ongoing field test of the Questar PowerGuide 3 mount, I decided to take one good run at imaging a GRS transit. The 3.5" Questar does paticularly well for visual observation of the sun, moon, and planets, and with a bit of coaxing can deliver a respectable image as shown above.

Tech Stuff: Questar 3.5" telescope on unguided PG3 mount; imaged with ZWO ASI 120MC camera through 2.0X Televue Barlow. I'm a bit rusty with planetary image processing so I cycled through Registax 6.0 and Autostakkert 2 plus PIPP and PixInsight. Final image used sharpened stacks from 6 sets of 1000 frame avi files collected during the 20 central minutes of the GRS transit, derotated with WinJupos and finished with PixInsight, GIMP, and ACDSee.. Imaged from my yard 10 miles north of New York City.

The clouds parted for a lovely view of the waning gibbous March moon through our oak tree. This is shot with the WO RedCat 250/52mm 2 inch telescope and Sony a7iii. The high resolution Moon is thanks to a four frame dithered stack in Autostakkert. HDR composite in Photoshop. Taken 2020-03-11 04:16 UT from Austin, Texas. Sony a7iii with f/4.9 RedCat 51 telescope,

 

Moon 1/250 sec exposure and foreground 1/5 sec. Best 4 of 45 exposures lucky image stack in AutoStakkert 3, deconvolution in Lynkeos, and HDR compositing, crop, and exposure adjust in Photoshop.

Saturn from Bay of Plenty New Zealand on 29th July 2013, a very good clear night. Taken through Celestron C8 on CG-5 GT mount with GSO 2x barlow and Canon 60D. Image stacked in Autostakkert 2 from 1m 42s of video. Wavelet sharpening on stacked image in Registax 6 then levels, saturation, other processing, and image resizing in Photoshop Elements 9. Noise reduction using Neat Image plugin.

The impact craters Tycho and Clavius (upper right and lower left, respectively) and their surroundings as photographed on the evening of July 13, 2016 on a nine-day-old, waxing gibbous moon.

 

Craters smaller than 2km are clearly shown in this photo which would suggest an image resolution of less than 1 arc second (about the same size as a dime when viewed from two miles away).

 

The crater Clavius is famous for being the location of the moon base in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey." Also, the crater Tycho is where that movie’s fictional black monolith was found.

 

Taken with a Celestron 9.25” EdgeHD telescope and a ZWO ASI178MM-Cool camera (prime focus, best 25% or 1000 frames). Image processing done with Autostakkert!, Registax, and Photoshop CC2015.

 

This photo is best viewed at full size (1300 x 1624 pixels) or against a dark background (press the "L" key to enter the Flickr light box and/or click on the image to get full zoom).

 

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AR12832 is about to rotate out of view but I got this faint photo of it in H-alpha, where it is just a faint pale spot. 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.

The Littrow Valley, site of the Apollo 17 landing, is situated among the group of peaks near center image. (A. Ruki 24, 25)

 

ZWO ASI178MC

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)

Losmandy G11

 

Captured 3,000 frames in Firecapture

Stacked best 1,500 frames in Autostakkert

Wavelet sharpened in Registax

Finished in Photoshop

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with a Thousand Oaks glass solar filter. Camera was an ASI120MC fitted with a Baader continuum filter. A 2000 frame video was captured using Sharpcap and the best 75% were stacked using Autostakkert! 3. Processing was done in Focus Magic and Lightroom

2 panel mosaic.

F=1800mm

img132e

Autostakkert

Microsoft ICE

PixInsight

Taken with a Canon 1100D with 300mm zoom lens on a static tripod. 150 images shot, centred and cropped using PIPP then the best 75% stacked in Autostakkert! 2. Tweaked in Lighroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer

Mosaic of 18 videos

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 : Celestron C11 EDGEHD

Barlow : Televue 4x

 

Effective focal length : 2800 mm

Effective aperture : ~ F/10

 

---Software---

 

Acquired with FireCapture

Stacked with AutoStakkert

Processed with Lightroom

This was my first time using the ZWO Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector. The difference is incredible! I was able to capture a decent Mercury image through poor seeing even as it descended from 12° to 6° in altitude. Can't wait to see the improvement in my planetary images this year.

 

As light passes through our atmosphere, different wavelengths experience varying levels of refraction. The result is a color shift, where blue light is shifted upwards (away from the horizon) and red light downwards. The ADC magically reverses the destructive effect, increasing sharpness.

 

Phase angle: 102°

Apparent magnitude: 0.08

Apparent diameter: 7.71"

Distance from Earth: 0.872 AU

Altitude above horizon: 9.82°

 

No ADC: best 10% of 4610 frames

With ADC: best 10% of 9261 frames

Captured from 00:30 to 00:32 UTC (04/12)

Exposure 5 ms, Gain 300, Offset 25

 

Location: Summerville/Ladson, SC

Atmospheric seeing: 2/5

Camera: ZWO ASI224MC

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)

Captured with FireCapture

Processed with PIPP, AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, and Paint.NET

72 image stack, worked pretty well. Altair Astro 70mm f6 triplet at f12 using 2x teleconverter on Nikon D5300. Stacked in Autostakkert (Windows) and processed using deconvolution in Lynkeos (Mac).

My best image of Saturn to date. Seeing was mediocre, and my imaging and processing skills are still developing. I believe that better seeing could have greatly enhanced this image.

 

Meade LX850 (12" f/16), ZWO ASI290MM

Autostakkert! (stacking)

Registax (sharpening)

Photoshop (final processing)

Poor Seeing - (and a little overexposed in the blue channel) -So not the best image of Mars, but it is the first for me for this year's opposition. You can just make out Olympus Mons in the top right quadrant. Celestron C8 SCT , Televue Powermate 2.5X, ZWO ASI 178MM/EFW RGB, recorded in Firecapture. Processed with Pipp, Autostakkert AS!2, Registax, Lightroom. Poor Atmosphere/Seeing

Luna del 20-07-2016

Apilado 75% de 32 lights más 32 darks.

SW Dob 8" f/6 - Canon 60D - ISO 400 - 1/1000 - Foco primario

Procesado: PIPP - AutoStakkert - Registax - Adobe Lightroom

Theophillus & Cyrillus Craters and to the right is Mare Nectaris

[ North Up ]

12/10/2014 00:40 BST

Skywatcher 200P F5 + 2.5x Powermate, ASI120MC-S

PIPP, AutoStakkert!2, Registax 6, Photoshop CC

  

FireCapture v2.4 beta Settings

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Camera=ZWO ASI120MC-S

Filter=L

Profile=Moon

Filename=Moon_005147.avi

Date=121014

Start=005147.989

Mid=005155.351

End=005202.714

Start(UT)=235147.989

Mid(UT)=235155.351

End(UT)=235202.714

Duration=14.725s

Date_format=ddMMyy

Time_format=HHmmss

LT=UT

Frames captured=500

File type=AVI

Extended AVI mode=true

Compressed AVI=false

Binning=no

ROI=1280x960

FPS (avg.)=33

Shutter=8.317ms

Gain=38

WRed=52

AutoExposure=off

SoftwareGain=10 (off)

Brightness=0

USBTraffic=100

WBlue=95

Overclock=0

Gamma=19

Histogramm(min)=9

Histogramm(max)=126

Histogramm=49%

Noise(avg.deviation)=n/a

Limit=500 Frames

Sensor temperature=12.5 °C

 

Image dated April 14, 2015 extended exceptional solar flare

And the explosion of magnetic poetry in the eastern part of the sun

And the emergence of new sunspots in the eastern part of the disk of the sun

Image consisting of 63 exposure was photographed using

Celestron telescope 6-inch filter (H-Alpha)

By stacking program AutoStakkert! 2

السلام عليكم

صورة بتاريخ (14 ابريل 2015)

تمدد استثنائي لوهج شمسي ،،وانفجار شعره مغناطيسية في الجزء الشرقي من الشمس وظهور بقع شمسيه جديدة في الجزء ،،الشرقي من قرص الشمس الصورة مكونه من (63) تعريض تم تصويرها باستعمال تلسكوب سلسترون 6 انش وفلتر (H-Alpha) التكديس والدمج بواسطة برنامج

AutoStakkert! 2

 

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.

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

Jupiter 22nd August 2021(22:57 UT). Three 3 minute stacks(best 4,000 frames each - 12,000 frames in total, merged with Winjupos. Captured using Firecapture V2.5.

Processed using Autostakkert V3.1.4 ,Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera and Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow.

 

Here is my best detailed picture of the moon until now. Made with 11 panels from 4K videos, stacked in Autostakkert, sharpened in Registax and assembled with Photoshop.

Maksutov 180/2700

EQ6R-Pro

Barlow Televue Powermate 2x

Canon 5DIV

5400mm, 1/30, f/30, ISO 800

Pixel scale 0.2"/px

Final picture is 65Mpx

Time (UTC):8/17/2024, 2:00:00 AM (8/16/24 2200 lcl)

Phase: 90.17% (12d 14h 47m)

Diameter: 1919 arcseconds

Distance: 373484 km (29.27 Earth diameters)

J2000 Right Ascension, Declination: 19h 21m 1s, -27° 15' 45"

Sub-Solar Longitude, Latitude:30.091°, 1.101°

Sub-Earth Longitude, Latitude: -6.14°, 6.587°

Position Angle: 352.289°

 

Data REF: NASA 2024

 

August 16, 2024, about 2200 lcl, Tallahassee, Florida. Suburban sky, Bortle 7.

 

Six-image panorama using a Skymax 150mm f/12 Mak and ZWO ASI432MM. IR pass filter. Autostakkert, MS ICE, and Photoshop. Seeing was average for North Florida.

Celestron C9.25

ZWO ASI 120MM

Best 25% of 6000 frames Autostakkert and Registax6

C9.25 @ f/10 with full aperture Baader photographic solar film and solar continuum filter attached to QHY5III 178M used to record 1000 frame SER file for close up image of 2976.

72ED apo used with Hershel wedge for white light full disk and Lunt Cak B1200 module for calcium full disk. Autostakkert 3 and PS CS2 used for stacking,processing and false colouring.

Taken 2022/03/24

Yeay! Big sunspot!

 

Skywatcher 120ED (F=900mm)

ZWO ASI120MM

AutoStakkert

PixInsight

Christmas Eve 2020

Stourbridge UK

Taken using a vintage Royal Astro Optics R77 3" Refractor, Skywatcher HEQ5/Pro, GtVision GXCAM 3EY5 microscope camera.

Used CDC, Toupview, PIPP, Autostakkert, Astrosurface

 

The prominent crater in the top left is BULLIALDUS (35 miles wide) which sits on the west bank of Mare Nubium. Some nice impact rays from Tycho here.

Eng - Crater Humboldt - thanks to favorable libration

skyandtelescope.org/observing/bah-humboldt-visit-with-a-f...

 

Time: 13 April 2024, 21:20 UT+2

Telescope: SW Maksutov 150/1800mm @ f/24

Mount: CG-5 AS-GT

Barlow: SW APO 2x

Camera: ZWO ASI 120MC- S, 60 fps

Stack: 3% of total 3442 frames

SharpCap, Autostakkert!3.1, Registax6, GIMP

YouTube video:

STACKING THE MOON AT 1800MM W/ TELECONVERTERS | PLAYIN' W/ ZOOM

 

▼ Recorded with Sony Alpha A65...

 

■ Settings

▪ Highlights 1/30th and shadows 1/8th, shutterspeed

° Video 1/100 50FPS

▪ Lens: Tamron 6.9/400, model FO-69 @ F11

° Sony APS-C cropfactor 1.5x

° HELIOS 3X Auto Teleconverter

° 1800mm, 35mm-equiv

▪ WB: Daylight

▪ ISO: highlights 200, shadows 1600, video 400

▪ Exposure Compensation

° Highlights +3

° Shadows +3

° Video +2

▪ Stabilization N/A

▪ Manual Focus on a tripod

 

■ Post Processing

▪ AutoStakkart alignment, RegiStax6 Wavelets

° www.autostakkert.com/

° www.astronomie.be/registax/

▪ Brightness and Contrast, Levels, Color Balance tweaks

▪ Manually Masking various areas

▪ Moon highlight 21 stacked 24Mp images

▪ Moon shadow 3 stacked 24Mp images

 

■ Moon:

▪ Distance from Earth: ~369 thousand Km

Had a go at Mars the other night but couldnt realy get any detail out of it other than a slight view of the polar ice caps, if you look hard an use your imagination.

Filmed with Sony A6000 anf stacked with autostakkert

I have been told there is a great dust storm on Mars which could be why I couldn't get any features in my pictures.

A nice clear night for the waxing gibbous Moon. Taken 2019-04-15 02:33 UT from Austin, Texas. Questar 1350/89mm f/15 telescope and Sony a6300 camera at prime focus. Exposed 1/30 sec at ISO 100. Best 8 of 154 images stacked in AutoStakkert 3, deconvolve in Lynkeos, with final crop and exposure in Photoshop.

Cropped from a full disk image of the moon taken in Austin, Texas, on 2018-12-24 04:54 UT. Taken with a Questar 1350/89 mm telescope and Sony a6300 camera at prime focus and exposed for 1/50 sec at ISO 100 f/15.

The best 4 of 108 images stacked and processed in AutoStakkert, Nebulosity, and Photoshop. Still a work in progress.

104_9900-2 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert

27% Waxing Crescent Moon. Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor with ASI120MC camera + Celestron 3x Barlow. The telescope was on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier.

 

Between 21:17 and 21:35 BST, 11 x 2,000 frame videos were captured covering the whole Moon using SharpCap, the best 30% of the frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3. 7 of the stacked images were stitched using Microsoft ICE then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer. The first video I shot was pretty clear but then thin cloud was moving across the Moon for the remainder of the imaging session.

Mars as it looked on the night of 6th-7th August. With an orbital period of 686.971 days, Mars only appears as more than a red dot every couple of years so its appearance is something I always look forward to. Mars reaches opposition on October 13 and at that time it will appear significantly larger, brighter and rounder than it looks now (in this image it is 87.1% illuminated, at opposition we will see the full disk). However, despite being two months away from opposition, Mars is very dominant in the night sky and well worth observing.

 

Captured with SharpCap

Processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert and Registax

Post-processed in Photoshop

 

3,540 stacked video frames at 30 fps

Gain - 50%

Exposure - 0.008607 seconds

Total integration - 30.47 seconds

 

Equipment:

Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS

Sky-Watcher EQ5 Mount

ZWO ASI120 MC camera

x2 Barlow with extension tube (equivalent to x3.3)

Captured with a Nikon D5500 and a 10-inch Meade LX200 'Classic' f/6.3 wide-field telescope.

 

EXIF data is removed via stacking processes in Autostakkert!2 for planetary imaging and in Deep Sky Stacker for deep sky imaging.

  

The International Space Station / ISS

 

The ISS is a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in low Earth orbit, with an orbital speed of 17,100 mph (27,600 km/h). It has been continuously occupied by humans since November 2000. It is the largest artificial satellite in orbit with a length of 357.5 ft (109 m).

 

Each one of the 4 images in this composite was processed like a small planetary image stack:

12 x 1/4000 second ISO6400 (best of 15 to 30 frames each)

 

Apparent magnitude: -3.5

Apparent diameter: 42"

Distance: 335 mi (539 km) at 49° altitude

Atmospheric seeing: 2/5

Captured from 23:36:24 to 23:37:44 UTC on 02/05/22

 

Location: Summerville, SC

Camera: Canon 7D Mark II

Telescope: Explore Scientific ED80 f/6.0 Apochromatic Refractor

Barlow: Tele Vue 2x Barlow 1.25" (effective magnification is 2.86x for 1377mm focal length at f/17.2)

Tripod: Cayer BV30L 72" Aluminum Tripod with K3 Fluid Head

Processed with PIPP, AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, and Paint.NET

Best 66% of 3,000 frames in Autostakkert.

Wavelets - Registax 6

Photoshop CC 2015 for final touches.

Good transparency, Average Seeing, Pickering Scale = 5.

 

Celestron CPC800XLT

ASI120MC-S

Shorty 2X Barlow

Saturn 30th Aug 2024, 00:21 UT. My first attempt at Saturn this year. The attached is a combination of the best 4 images derotated in WinJupos. Each image was a stack of the best 3,000 frames from 7,500 frame AVI's. Captured using Firecapture V2.7, Processed using Autostakkert V4, Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera, Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow and ZWO ADC.

Equipo: Star Adventurer - Mak 102 - Barlow 2x - Canon 60D

Magic Lantern 640 x 480 x 5x

Video RAW . ISO 800 - 1/250s - 20 fps - Apilado 50% de 2425 frames

Procesado: DNG2RAW - PIPP - AutoStakkert - Photoshop

Taken using a 140mm refractor and a Baader Herschel wedge and Continuum filter / 3x Barlow / PGR Grasshopper 3. The best 10% of around 1000 images were stacked using Autostakkert 2 and sharpened using Photoshop CS5, then false colour added.

Captured with a Nikon D5500 and a 10-inch Meade LX200 'Classic' f/6.3 wide-field telescope.

 

EXIF data is removed via stacking processes in Autostakkert!2 for planetary imaging and in Deep Sky Stacker for deep sky imaging.

  

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