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This image is an exploration of what can be done with a conventional camera lens and not a telescope. I restacked the data from the previous image in Autostakkert with a 1.5 drizzle to squeeze a bit more resolution from it.
Sony a6300 with Nikkor 300mm f/4.5 AI-s lens with 1.4x teleconverter shot at f/11 for 1/30 sec
Best 16 of 65 images stacked with 1.5x drizzel in Autostakkert 3, deconvolved in Lynkeos with final exposure and crop in Photoshop
Austin, Texas on 2019-07-10 00:44 UT.
Sol Regiones Activas 13006, 13004, 13001 y 12999
Buen seeing y algo de viento (poco pero muy tocapelotas)
Telescopio: Refractor Bresser Messier Acro 102/460 f4.5
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: iOptron AZ Mount Pro
Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.6, T=25%)
- Baader K-Line Filter 1¼" (double stacked) (394nm)
Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism
Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshopp
Fecha: 2022-05-05 (5 de mayo de 2022)
Hora: 15:31 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 1 minuto
Resolución: 3096x2080
Gain: 42 (8%)
Exposure: 0.032ms
Frames: 1225
Frames apilados: 49%
FPS: 20
Sensor temperature= 42.8°C
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.
PST Coronado
ZWO ASI120MM
Eq5 Synscan
2 Tomas en tesela vertical, cada una:
Frames: 1000
Frames Apilados: 500
Df: 400 mm.
F: 10
Captura: Firecapture
Procesado: Autostakkert + Registax + Fitsworks + Ps
Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda
Observatorio Astronómico Altaír
Daytime Jupiter. 2 hours after sunrise (about 25 deg above horizon - west)
Skywatcher 120ED (F=1800mm)
ZWO ASI120MC
AutoStakkert
PixInisight
Saturn 11th Oct 2025, 22:08 UT. This image is made up of 13 stacks of the best 3,000 frames from 12,000 frame AVI's de rotated within Winjupos. 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.
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
Luna de perigeo 19 de febrero.
Visionking 80mm triplet ed
Risingcam ar0130
Mosaico de 4 teselas.
Autostakkert, registax y Pixinsight
This is a mosaic stitched from 16 panels taken at 1625mm.
Telescope: Skywatcher 130PDS
GSO Barlow x2.5
Camera: ZWO ASI 120MM-s
Mount: SW EQ3
Software: Sharpcap, Autostakkert!, Photoshop.
Third Quarter Moon
50.2% Illuminated
Moon Altitude:32.25
Date: 10th Oct. 2020
Location: Zagreb
My first Waning Crescent Moon and worth a 3.00 am rise!
7 frames (each 90s x 33fps) stitched in Microsoft ICE, 20% of which were chosen and stacked by AutoStakkert. Processing done in PS.
AA 115mm APO, EQ6 R, ZWO 290MM and Astronomik pro -planet filter (R/IR).
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
Transit de l'ISS devant la pleine lune, à 27.600 km/h
Prise le 12-11-2019 à 00h07m24"
Durée du transit : 0.64s
Diamètre apparent de l'ISS 53.3"arc
Distance 519.1 km
Elevation 54.1°
Composite de 13 images (17 fps)
Canon EOS 1300D
Newton SW 200/1000
Acquisition BackyardEOS
Traitement Autostakkert!3, Registax 6, Photoshop
"Another" cloudy day on Venus. Still, at least there's Mars to look forward to in the autumn.
Captured with an Orion SkyQuest XT10 Dobsonian reflector, a Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate and a Canon 80D DSLR.
Frames processed in AutoStakkert and RegiStax.
31 March 2020, 18:51 BST.
Stack of 500 frames taken with iPhone 6 through Celestron NexStar 8 SE telescope. Stacked & processed in PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax & Gimp.
Active region 2443 on the Sun. Taken at 11am on November 2, 2015 from Honolulu, HI.
ASI174MM camera on a 8" Meade LX200 ACF telescope with 3x Barlow on f/6.3 focal reducer/field flattener and a Baader Astrozap non-selective solar filter. 15% best quality frames from a 60-second movie were stacked (final count about 600 frames) using AutoStakkert!2. Wavelet sharpening using RegiStax6. Further sharpening, curve stretching and colorizing using Photoshop.
This image is from October 28, 2023. Taken with a Hydrogen Alpha telescope. I had a few requests to show my entire capture and process workflow and if anyone's interested, the full guide is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrKCVU6luHY
Equipment used:
* Lunt 40
* Sky-Watcher SolarQuest
* QHY5-III 178m Mini Cam
* FireCapture
* Stacked in AutoStakkert!3, post processed in ImPPG, and colorized in Photoshop
You can see a higher resolution at www.naztronomy.com/images/portfolio/fullscreen/Sun_10-28-...
More details on Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/gyogku/
My YouTube: youtube.com/Naztronomy
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.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor + ASI120MC camera fitted with a 3x Barlow. The mount was my Skywatcher AZ GTi on a tripod. I had to use my portable set up because the Moon was too low to get above the trees from my permanent pier or from the observatory shed.
I grabbed the telescope because I wanted to capture the Lunar X and V on the 44% Waxing Crescent Moon before the Moon set. I had to dodge endless patches of cloud which were making my life miserable! Given the conditions I'm really really happy with the photos I got!
I captured a 1,000 frame video using SharpCap. I stacked the best 50% of those frames in Autostakkert! 3, then processed the images in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.
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
For those wondering the dots on the right are Jupiter's moons Io and Ganymede, respectively. Last night it was too cloudy for deep sky imaging but clear enough for some quick planet shots. This is probably my sharpest image of Jupiter yet (I'm pushing this 5" scope to the limit). Captured on July 24th, 2020.
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**[Equipment:](i.imgur.com/ml6iyvo.jpg)**
* TMeade ETX125-EC (1900mm f/15)
* Orion Sirius EQ-G
* ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
* Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector
* ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm
* Astronomik LRGB+CLS Filters- 31mm
* Astrodon 31mm Ha 5nm, Oiii 3nm, Sii 5nm
* Meade #64 adapter
* Moonlite Autofocuser
**Acquisition:** (camera at gain 200)
* R- 1000x41ms
* G- 1000x26ms
* B- 1000x48ms
**Capture Software:**
Captured using Sharpcap. [N.I.N.A.](nighttime-imaging.eu/) for filter wheel and mount control.
**Processing:**
* Stacked the best 15% of frames in Autostakkert!3 (2x resample used)
* Wavelet sharpening in Registax
* ChannelCombination to combine monochrome stacks into color image in PixInsight
* ColorCalibration
* ChannelMatch (red channel was slightly misaligned)
* [Curves](i.imgur.com/g302IVT.png)Transformation (saturation boost and slight darkening)
* Unsharp mask
* Extract L channel, LRGBCombination to reduce chrominance noise
* TGVDenoise
* Lightness curve and MorphologicalTransformation to make Io and Ganymede brighter (star mask used)
* Another curve (contrast increase)
* DynamicCrop to 1920x1080
* Annotation
The stunning Copernicus lunar crater. 93km across and 3.8km deep. This can be seen by the naked eye, but if you have binoculars you will get a super view!
This image was taken using the ZWO ASI120MC attached to the Celestron 8" edge HD scope. the best 15% of 5000 frames stacked in Autostakkert, and tweeked in Photoshop.
The full moon in partial penumbral eclipse from Austin, Texas at 11:29 PM CDT 2020-07-04. Where is the eclipse? This partial penumbral eclipse of the upper third of the Moon has only reduced the sunlight there by a few percent. This makes this eclipse invisible to all but photometric measurements.
Questar 1350/89mm telescope with a Sony a6300 camera at prime focus.
The best 9 of 75 images were stacked in Autostakkert! 3, deconvolve in Lynkeos, with final exposure and crop in Photoshop.
The waning crescent moon from Austin, Texas. Questar 1350/89mm f15 telescope with Sony a6300 at prime focus. Exposed for 1/20 sec at ISO 100. Best 8 of 100 images stacked in Autostakkert 3, deconvolved in Lynkeos, with final crop and exposure in Photoshop.
Sky-Watcher 100ED Pro
ZWO ASI120MM-Mini
ZWO IR 850 nm.
Celestron AVX
Panorama de 9 teselas, cada una:
Video: 1000 frames
Stacked frames: 100 (10%)
Df: 900 mm.
F: 9
Captura: Firecapture
Procesado: Autostakkert + ICE + Registax + Ps + Pixinsight
18 Marzo 2022
Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda
Observatorio Astronómico Altaïr
Poncitlán Jalisco México
Copernicus from 2020-06-01 from UK. I'm quite pleased with this one.
'Montes Carpatus' to the North West, 'Gay-Lussac' and 'Gay-Lussac A' top left of Copernicus (no sniggering at the back please)
Equipment: Altair Starwave Ascent 102ED F7
Altair Superview 15mm EP
Altair Lightwave 2x Tele-Extender
Samsung VP-HMX20C Camcorder
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro.
Software: PIPP, AutoStakkert, Registax, GIMP
Wasnt even supposed to be an imaging session so no laptop and fancy pants cameras. Not even tracking properly. Ended up taking vids till the batteries on the camera breathed their last. No spares.
Image captured with a Mewlon 210 and Player One Uranus C camera. Autostakkert and Registack for processing.
Solar Eclipse today.
Imaged on June 21st 2020.
Tech details:
500 frames of Sun, 25% gain, 11ms exposure
500 frames of Prominence , 70% gain, 111ms exposure
Equipment:
Scope: Coronado PST
Mount: NEQ6
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI130MM
Software: SharpCap 3.2, AutoStakkert, Registax, Lightroom, Photoshop
This Nikon D500 shot is a 9 part stitch made from 9 x 1m 4k videos, stacked using Autostakkert and Registax. Image put together using Microsoft ICE with some final tweaks in Lightroom.
Telescope was an Orion Optics OMC140
This is perhaps my most detailed moon panorama so far
14th May 2015
There are a few errors in the black areas, but I'm very happy with how it came out overall.
View animation here: www.flickr.com/photos/zamb0ni/33191470741/sizes/o/
Hot off the hard drive (still imaging right now). Really good seeing. Just a stack of 4000 out of 11000 frames, and this is just from the sharpening in Autostakkert
The six-day-old crescent moon as photographed on April 12, 2016 at approximately 8:40PM PDT.
Image capture done with a 5” refractor (e.f.l. 990mm, f/7.8) and a ZWO ASI178MM-Cool camera. A three panel mosaic using the best 40% of 500 frames for each segment.
Image processing done with AutoStakkert!, Registax, and Photoshop CC2015.
Best seen at full size (1224 x 2048 pixels) and against a dark background.
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Celestron NexStar 6SE, ZWO asi224mc with IR cut filter, 2.5x TeleVue Powermate and ZWO ADC. 90 second video Captured in SharpCap, processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax Wavelets then Lightroom.
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.
Jupiter 8th August 2020 (22:05 UT). Very low in the sky here in the UK, only had 20 minutes to capture in between the trees. Each stack best 3,000 of 12,000 frames, 3 images merged with Winjupos ( 9 mins). 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 Barlow.
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
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).
Stack of 27 video frames taken with iPhone 6 through Celestron NexStar 8SE telescope. Staked in Autostakkert, sharpened in Registax (wavelets) and Nebulosity.
104_7986-94 4K MP4s
Processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert. Moons brightened and planet contrast increased with PhotoShop.
A lunar close-up showing Crater Kepler in the centre of the image. Kepler is a lunar impact crater that lies between the Oceanus Procellarum to the west and Mare Insularum in the east. To the southeast is the crater Encke. Kepler is named for the 17th century German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler. Kepler is most notable for the prominent ray system that covers the surrounding mare. The rays extend for well over 300 kilometers, overlapping the rays from other craters. Kepler has a small rampart of ejecta surrounding the exterior of its high rim. The outer wall is not quite circular, and possesses a slightly polygonal form. The interior walls of Kepler are slumped and slightly terraced, descending to an uneven floor and a minor central rise.
Information from Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_(lunar_crater)
Created from 574 frames of video
Exposure = 0.022697 at Gain 139 (Unity)
Processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, Registax, and Photoshop
Equipment:
Telescope: Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ5
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI1600MC Pro
x2 Barlow lens with extension
Houston, Texas. Equipment: Celestron 9.25" f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain, positive projection with Baader Hyperion Zoom Mark III 8-24mm eyepiece (set at 8 mm), Nikon Z7, Celestron AVX Mount. Stacked frames from 1 min videos using camera movie mode: 2160p, 1/30 s, ISO 100, DX frame. Post-Processing: PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, and Photoshop.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK, shot during freezing fog/mist!
4 pane mosaic, shot at 16:40 GMT with a
William Optics 70mm refractor with 2 x Barlow and ZWO ASI120MC camera on an EQ5 Pro Mount which is on a permanent pier. Tracking at lunar rate.
2,000 frame video shot, then the best frames were stacked with Autostakkert! 3 (between 40% and 75% depending on the quality of each video). The stacked images were stitched using Microsoft ICE then processed with Focus Magic, Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer