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Taken with a Lunt Solar Systems LS60THA Double-stacked hydrogen alpha solar telescope and QHY5II-L-M camera.
20% of 1000 frames stacking in Autostakkert!
Wavelet processing in Registax
Prominence and disk detail combined in iMerge
Final histogram adjustments with PixInsight.
The waning gibbous moon from Austin, Texas at 2018-03-07 12:11 UT. Questar 1350/89 mm telescope with Sony a6300 camera at prime focus. Exposued for 1/30 sec at ISO 100. Best 8 of 110 images stacked in Autostakkert 3, deconvolved in Lynkeos, with finall exposure and crop in Photoshop.
This picture of Mars was captured near the time of closest opposition. It is a composite of the 200 best frames out of 10000 frames, taken over the course of just 5 minutes. I was unable to get color frames the same night, so the image is grayscale.
Processed with AutoStakkert and Registax
Telescope Celestron C14, Mount MYT, Camera QHY5III 178M
Stack of 500 frames taken with iPhone 6 through Celestron NexStar 8 SE telescope. Stacked & processed in PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax & Gimp.
'Lunar X'
Celestron C9.25 Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope
ZWO ASI120MM mono camera
Best 30% of 3000 frames stacked in Autostakkert, wavelets adjust with Registax6
This time the atmosphere was calmer and I have started my search for Venus earlier, that allowed me to collect 143 frames while planet was still relatively high. And before processing I have checked the brightness of colour channels. The dominant component is Red, peaking near 55000. The Green is about 40000, and Blue only reaches 29000. The same ratios were preserved after processing.
Left - just like it was shot, NR and Sharp - off; center - contrast set to "Linear"; right - processed as below.
Aquisition time (start of a session): JD 2456659.041748 (01.01.2014 17:00:07 MSK)
Image orientation: straight.
Equipment:
Canon EOS 60D (unmodded) with Vixen Deluxe 2x Barlow lens on Vixen VMC110L Klevtsov-Cassegrain telescope mounted on photo-tripod via Manfrotto 410 Junior geared head.
Aperture 110 mm
Focal length 2070 mm
Tv = 1/60 seconds
Av = f/18,8
ISO 800
Exposures: 143
Processing: contrast curve was set to linear for all images and images were converted to 16 bit clour .TIFFs, assembled into stack in ImageJ and separated into colour channels. Each channel was saved as .AVI and stacked in Autostakkert!2. Images were asembled into colour composites in ImageJ and subjected to Richardson-Lucy deconvolution in AstraImage 3.0 (Gaussian type PSF, size 2,2 units, 7 iterations).
Note: apparent size of a planet exceeded 1 minute of arc :)
Taken with a Canon 60D using a Tamron SP AF70-300mm VC USD Zoom lens. 10 image stack using Autostakkert 2 tried for fun :-) Image heavily cropped and enlarged
So after a huge fail mounting my old 400mm on my barn door tracker (it has too much errors for 400mm so i'll build a better one), i decided that i was going to spend my time shooting images for stacking the moon. I've never done that before so i wanted to give it a try.
This was made with 80 exposures, f32 1/800 iso100. Centered, cropped (2000x2000 crop) and converted to Tiff with PIPP then stacked in Autostakkert2. Finished in PS.
Quite glad with the result for a first try!
This region shows Aristarchus and Herodotus, plus Vallis Schroter. It also extends out towards Copernicus and the ejecta rays from it were looking gorgeous!
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, Celestron 3x Barlow and ASI120MC camera.
Best 75% of 1,000 frames stacked with Autostakkert! 3, then processed in Lightroom and Focus Magic.
Genova, Italy (05 Sep 2022 01:12 UT)
Planet: diameter 49.1", mag -2.9, altitude ≈ 46.5°
Telescope: Orange 1977 vintage Celestron C8 (203 F/10 SC)
Mount: EQ5 with ST4 hand controller (no GoTo)
Camera: QHY5III462C Color
Barlow: GSO APO 2.5x
Filter: QHY UV/IR block
Recording scale: 0.148 arcsec/pixel
Equivalent focal length ≈ 4028 mm F/19.8
Image resized: +50%
Recording: SharpCap 4.0
(640x480 @ 60fps - 120 sec - RAW16 - Gain 120)
Best 25% frames of about 7257
Alignment/Stacking: AutoStakkert! 3.1.4
Wavelets/Deconvolution: AstroSurface T3
Final Elaboration: GIMP 2.10.30
Nella foto si vede a sinistra il satellite Europa, vicino al bordo orientale di Giove invece è visibile il satellite Io, con la sua ombra proiettata sul pianeta.
Dati tecnici:
Telescopio Celestron 114/900 Newton
montatura eq2 con motore AR
camera qhy5L-II-C
filtro Uv Ir cut
Barlow 2x Celestron Omni
Sharpcap per l'acquisizione dei video
Pipp, Autostakkert 3 e Astrosurface per le elaborazioni
Camera raw per luminosità, contrasto e bilanciamento del colore
Luogo: Cabras (OR)
Data: 16-12-2021 17:27 UTC
Main craters are Stofler and Maurolycus (76 miles and 69 miles wide respectively). Lots of interesting details here, ridges, craterlets etc
At the bottom left is a prominent ridge which is part of the Heraclitus formation:
From the Virtial Moon Atlas: "Heraclitus: Circular formation forming a remarkable quartet with Licetus. Heraclitus D and an other crater to the West.
Pretty steep slopes crushed by Licetus to the North Cuvier to the East and Heraclitus D to the South.
Pretty high walls riddled of craterlets.
Tormented floor riddled with craterlets and separated in two by a central crest line."
Equipment: Altair Starwave Ascent 102ED F7 scope, SW HEQ5/Pro mount, Altair 9mm lightwave EP, Scopetronix digi-t kit, Olympus OMD EM10 III MFT camera with OM 50mm 1.8 lens. Afocal really.
4k video processed in PIPP, Autostakkert, Astrosurface, GIMP.
Taken from Stourbridge, UK about 1930 on 2021-04-19
Mars at 23:59 UT, 20/09/2020. Good seeing conditions at times on this occasion. 7.5 minutes worth of data, the result of merging 3 files in Winjupos, each the best 4,000 of 20,000 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.
Taken just over 9 hours past the exact time of Full Moon, during the 2nd Full Moon of January 2018 making this a Blue Moon.
Taken with an 8" Ritchie-Chretien telescope, focal reducer and Canon 1100D on an EQ6 mount.
1500 frame videos shot with Backyard EOS, best 50% of the first video and 53% of the second video stacked using Autostakkert! 3 (Beta) then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer. The 2 sections were stitched together using Microsoft ICE
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Helios 102mm refractor fitted with a home made Baader solar film filter + Celestron 3x Barlow Video captured with SharpCap. Best 60% of a 1,000 frame video was stacked in Autostakkert! 3 then processed in Lightroom, Photoshop CS2 and Fast Stone Image Viewer. The first step in processing was to remove all colour, then false colour was added back in after processing because I find I get a better result that way. As well as the sunspot there are some lovely faculae showing up (the brighter white wiggly bits!)
"3D" anaglyph of Jupiter. Red/cyan glasses needed to see the 3D effect.
I used two images of Jupiter I took on May 26 to create this composite. The "right eye" image was taken first. 15 minutes later, as Jupiter rotated a bit, a second image was captured, to serve as the left eye perspective.
Further details on how the images were captured and processed:
ASI planetary camera on an 11" Celestron Edge HD with a 2.5x PowerMate (about 7000mm focal length). Used the best 20% of 36,000+ frames captured over 5 minutes. De-rotated the subs using WinJupos. Stacked using AutoStakkert!2. Wavelet sharpened using Registax. Other adjustment made in Photoshop.
This Mars really had me working. Seeing was less than average and I noticed sort of a ghost line on the top. After aligning and measuring several times in Winjupos I decided to check images of other astrophotographers and realized that most of them have the same line especially an image from Christopher Go on the same night. I then realized that the polar cap has a dark ring and some dark features were actually turning into the visible part of the disc as I imaged so it gives the impression of a ghost shadow. Anyway I still feel there is a shadow but there will be more Mars to image this week. The Image has 15.000 frames on Luminance and 5000 for each of the color filters (R,G,B). Camera was the ASI120MM and processing using Autostakkert, Registax and Winjupos. Will continue to pursue Mars during April.
Shot from Joshua Tree, CA - 30% illuminated. I usually do not shoot with the Nikon D80 through the telescope, but there wasn't much to do while waiting for the Moon to set this night, other than photograph the Moon.
The following maria are present in the photo:
Mare Crisium
Mare Tranquillitatis
Mare Serenitatis
Mare Nectaris
Mare Fecunditatis
The terminator falls across the craters Eudoxus and Aristoteles in the north.
This is a stack of 11 images shot with the D80 through a Celestron Edge HD 9.25" scope at f/10 and ISO 400. Each frame was 1/200 s. 14 frames were put together in VitrualDub, and AutoStakkert 2 was used to combine the best 11 of those. Final processing in both PixInsight and PS CS 5.1.
Terrible seeing condition tonight.
Transparency (3/5)
Seeing (2.5/5)
C9.25 Edge HD, F=4700mm (2x barlow)
ZWO 120MC-S
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
LATEST VERSION: flic.kr/p/2oHFL6m
Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, about 3 weeks after its 2022 opposition. The Great Red Spot, visible in the southwest, is a giant storm with a diameter larger than Earth. Wind speeds in the storm peak at 268 mph (432 km/h).
This is one of my top 3 Jupiter images from the 2022 season. Using this 6" SCT with a planetary camera is so much fun, and the results are shocking to me. I could have never imagined getting images this sharp when I started this hobby back in 2018!
Phase angle: 4.05°
Apparent magnitude: -2.90
Apparent diameter: 49.20"
Distance from Earth: 4.007 AU
Stack of ~4,500 frames (best 25% of 18,000)
Captured from 04:20 to 04:23 UTC 10/15/22
Exposure 10 ms, Gain 250, Offset 25
Location: Summerville/Ladson, SC
Atmospheric seeing: 4/5 to 5/5
Camera: ZWO ASI224MC
Telescope: Celestron C6 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope
Barlow: Tele Vue 2x 1.25" Barlow (gives an effective focal length of 3404mm at f/22.7)
Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G (unguided)
Captured with FireCapture
Processed with AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, and GIMP
Il pianeta mostra una sottile falce molto luminosa ed è avviato verso la congiunzione inferiore che sarà il 9 Gennaio 2022, poi sarà di nuovo visibile al mattino prima dell'alba. Il suo diametro apparente aumenterà ancora e la falce sarà sempre più sottile fino a quella data, in cui Venere sarà in fase "nuova".
In questi giorni si trova nella costellazione del Sagittario e brilla con magnitudine -4.5 verso SW subito dopo il tramonto. A volte quando il cielo è molto limpido lo si può vedere anche in pieno giorno data la sua elevata luminosità.
Dati:
Telescopio Celestron Newton 114/900
montatura eq2 con motore AR
camera Qhy5L-II-C
filtro Uv ir cut
barlow 2x Celestron Omni
Sharpcap per un video da 4 minuti
Autostakkert 3 e Astrosurface per l'elaborazione del 25% dei fotogrammi
Camera raw per luminosità, contrasto e bilanciamento colore
Luogo: Cabras (OR)
Data: 16-12-2021 alle 16:58 UTC
Morning of 22nd November 2021 (about 0700-0730). Stacked image taken from best 1200 frames out of 1500 on an Olympus OMD EM10 III attached to Altair 72ED scope on an AZ-GTI mount. PIPP, Autostakkert, GIMP. Stourbridge UK. Clear skies in midlands too good to miss. Onthe Oly turned OFF stabilization. Aperture priority.
Jupiter 24th March 2025 (19:36 UT) , very good seeing conditions at last. This image consists of 9 images de rotated in Winjupos, each image used the best 2,000 frames from each 7,000 frame AVI captured in 75 seconds.. Captured using Firecapture V2.7, Processed using Autostakkert V4, Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera, and Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow. No ADC.
Full disk taken through 72ED with Coronado Solarmax 40 and BF10 filter set and QHY5III178M
Two 1000 frame SER files recorded using Firecapture (one for solar disk and the other overexpose for the prominence's)
Stacked in Autostakkert 3 and using layers in PS CS2 to combine the two images,moved to Astrosurface to sharpen and then once again into PS CS2 to process.
Second image taken through my 80mm f/7.5 achromat with Lunt pressure tuned module from the 50THa and double stacked with Solarmax II 60 richview etalon and again with the 178M This image is a two pane mosaic showing the area of AR 2978. two 1000 frame SER files again recorded using Firecapture,stacked in AS3 and mosaic stitched using PS CS2 and sharpened in Astrosurface and back to PS to process.
03.06.2015 07:20:35 MSK
Ungodly quick grab of the thing I haven't yet seen.
Calling for experts - is this an emerging flux region?
DMK23U274 via 2x Barlow lens on Coronado PST over Celestron CG-4 motorized. 20% of 600 frames stacked in Autostakkert!2, deconvolved and wavelet sharpened in AstraImage PRO 3.0. Arranged in Photoshop.
Moon taken with a Canon 200D and a Canon 55-250mm IS STM.
Software used:
Autostakkert 3 (for stacking the images)
Photoshop 2020 (Adobe Camera Raw, for editing)
Mars at 19:23 UT, 05/12/2020. Poor seeing conditions tonight. 7.5 minutes worth of data, the result of merging 3 files in Winjupos, each the best 4,000 of 20,000 frames, resized 150%. Captured using Firecapture V2.5. Processed using Autostakkert V 3.1.4 , Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera and Carl Zeiss 2 X Barlow.
Image captured with a Mewlon 210 and Player One Uranus C camera. Autostakkert and Registack for processing.
Saturn
Best 5% of 4.5k Frames
Video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hzej46U2HM&ab_channel=stormlv
---Hardware---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
Camera : ZWO Camera ASI 224 M
Tube : Celestron 11 EDGE HD
Focal length : 2800 mm
Aperture : ~ F/10
Barlow : Televue Powermate 4x
Effective focal length : 11200 mm
Effective aperture : ~ F/40
---Software---
Acquired with FireCapture
Stacked with AutoStakkert
Processed with Lightroom & Topaz Denoise
Taken with a Canon T3i DSLR and TMB92L refractor, using the following settings: f/5.5 1/800 s and ISO 100. This is the result of 13 images stacked with AutoStakkert! and processed with Astra Image Pro and Adobe Photoshop CS6.
This is my best photo of Mars so far. It shows the 'Red Planet' at opposition in Jul 2018 when it was 0.39 AU (58 million Km - it's closest to Earth for 15 years.
The image was captured using a QHY5-III 290C camera attached to a Sky-Watcher SkyMax 180 Pro with a Tele Vue 2x PowerMate, mounted on a Celestron Evolution mount. It is the result of the best 20% of 2000 frames, captured using SharpCap 3.1 Pro, stacked using AutoStakkert 2 and processed using Registax 6 and PhotoShop CC.
Just four hours after the April full Moon at 2018-04-30 04:39UT from Austin, Texas. Questar 1350/89mm telescope and Sony a6300 camera at prime focus. Exposed for 1/60 sec at ISO 100. Best 8 of 200 images stacked in Autostakkert 3, deconvolved in Lynkeos, with final crop and exposure in Photoshop.
Taken with a Canon T3i DSLR and TMB92L refractor, using the following settings: f/5.5 1/500 s and ISO 200. This is the result of 29 images stacked with AutoStakkert! and processed with Astra Image Pro and Adobe Photoshop CS6.
Saturn taken on 13th June, two days before coming into opposition. I wasn't going to process this originally because I accidentally left the gain on the camera turned all the way up and I thought I'd spoiled the shot but it turned out to be the best of a series of shots taken as an experiment to find the ideal settings to image Saturn with the Skywatcher Explorer 150 PDS which has a much shorter focal length than I'm used to. For this image a Barlow lens was used but also another Barlow tube with the lens removed to give the longest extension available in order to maximise the image size. Not only did it work, I think it's the best Saturn image I've managed to get so far.
The best 75% from 2 x 1000 frame videos of different exposures.
Captured with FireCapture
Processed in AutoStakkert, Registax and Photoshop
Equipment:
Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS
Skywatcher EQ5 Mount
ZWO ASI120 MC imaging camera
x2 Barlow
The actual Jupiter / Saturn conjunction happens 3 days later (on December 21, 2020), but December 18 was the only day with clear skies around here (weeks of cloudy weather before and after), so here is my attempt at imaging this special event, on December 18.
The two planets were already close enough (~20 arc min apart) to fit into my astrocamera SVbony SV305 (1920x1080 pixels), attached to the prime focus of my 150mm/F5 Newtonian. I took a 6-minunte sequence of 12-bit images using SharpCap - around 4000 frames at 1920x1080 pixels (4 ms exposures), then stacked them together using AutoStakkert software (using 30% of the best frames). Then I reduced the brightness of Jupiter (so it's easier to see both planets), and sharpened the whole image using wavelets (Registax 6 software).
In addition to the two planets, one can also see the four largest moons of Jupiter (see my next image, with labels). With increasing contrast, one can even see the largest moon of Saturn - Titan (see my another image).
A cylindrical projection of the previous image, giving a clearer view of the multi-ringed structure of the Mare Orientale impact basin.
This was compiled using WinJupos, the same software I used to make the Mars 2020 map.
Jupiter captured with a Mewlon 210 and Player One camera. Autostakkert and Registax for processing, fair seeing.
Sol en color iinvertido.
Lunt Ls35THa
QHY Img132e
Vixen Polarie
EzPlanetary
Autostakkert.
Registax
Fitswork
Cs6
LR
255 frames
Mexico CDMX
Mars 15th Jan 2025(22:01 UT) , under below average seeing conditions. This image is made up of just 5 images de rotated within Winjupos,(most of my 17 AVI's were of poor quaity). Each image consists of the best 1,000 frames from a 10,000 frame AVI. Captured using Firecapture V2.7, Processed using Autostakkert V4, Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera,and Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow and ZWO ADC.
Amas d'hercule M13 au newton 400 + caméra Zwo ASI224MC en lucky imaging (environ 800 poses de 500ms soit moins de 8minutes cumulée!
empilement autostakkert3 et finitions sous photoshop
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.
I shot about 15000 frames of UHD video using my Panasonic 100-300mm F/4.0-5.6 on my G7. I cropped and registered the frames and subtracted a master dark frame (made from about 30 seconds of video with the lens cap on) from each using PiPP.
I stacked the best half of the frames using Autostakkert, and had that program use its implementation of the Drizzle method to upsample the final image to 1.5x the size of the original frames. Some final adjustments were made in Lightroom.
Of the three moon images uploaded tonight, I think this one looks the best.