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My first attempt at 'lucky imaging'. Taken May 10, 2022
Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M1MarkII in 4K video mode
Filters: none
Telescope: TS 102mm ED f/11 doublet refractor
Post: Autostakkert!3, ffmpeg. - best 50% of 3660 frames
Finish: Affinity Photo - stretch, levels, contrast, sharpen
One hour of the Sun's life squizzed into 6 seconds...
WARNING! Sun is dangerous, use proper filters for observing and imaging!
Aquisition time: 12.10.2013, betwee 12:48 and 13:50 MSK (UTC+4)
Image orientation: inverted (North is down, East is to the right).
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 riding on Celestron CG-4 equatorial mount.
Aperture 40 mm
Native focal length 400 mm
Effective focal length 931 mm (zoom setting - 16 mm)
Tv = 1/60 seconds
Av (effective) = f/23
ISO 1600
Exposures: around 1500-2500 for each frame. The Sun was imaged for 30-45 seconds every 4 minutes and 20 seconds during one hour. 25% of frames were used to generate each of 11 frames of the resulting movie.
Processing: MOVs to AVI in SUPER(C). AVIs stacked in Autostakkert!2. Deconvolution in Astra Image 3.0 (Ricardson-Lucy algoruthm, Cauchy-type PSF, size - 6 units, 7 iterations). Coloration, contrast enchancement and pre-stacking (bad, bad tracking :) in Photosshop, clean-up alignment, time-stamping and movie generation in ImageJ.
Jupiter, the 5th planet, is growing larger in our sky as we approach opposition in August. This was my first time capturing the Great Red Spot since July 2019. The GRS is the largest storm in the Solar System, with a diameter larger than Earth. Wind speeds in the storm peak at 268 mph (432 km/h).
Two of Jupiter's moons are also visible in this shot: Europa (closer to the planet) and Io (further). Jupiter has 80 known moons and a faint ring system. Its atmosphere is separated into several bands at different latitudes, resulting in turbulence and storms along the boundaries.
5000 x 1/100 second ISO6400 (best of 7,281)
Phase angle: 5.8°
Apparent magnitude: -2.78
Apparent diameter: 48"
Distance from Earth: 4.126 AU
Atmospheric seeing: 4/5
Location: Coral Springs, FL
Camera: Canon T3i
Telescope: Explore Scientific ED80 f/6.0 Apochromatic Refractor
Barlow: Antares 3x Triplet Barlow (effective magnification is 4.932x for 2373mm focal length at f/29.66)
Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G
Captured with Magic Lantern RAW Video (10 bit, 30 FPS, 640 x 426)
Processed with MLV App, PIPP, AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, and Paint.NET
Taken about 30 minutes before sunset. Seeing was reasonable. Really clear skies but slightly hazy.
Transparency (4/5)
Seeing (3/5)
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
Taken on 22 June 2019 at 23.34 UTC, with Celestron NexStar 6se SCT and NexImage 5 Camera. Video captured in SharpCap and stacked in AutoStakkert. Touched-up in Registax and LR.
Coronado PST
ZWO ASI120MM
Sky Watcher Star Adventurer
2 Videos, unos sobre expuesto y uno sub expuesto, cada uno:
Frames: 1000
Frames en stack: 800
Captura: Firecapture
Procesado: Autostakkert + Ps + Pixinsight 1.8
Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda
Observatorio Astronómico Altaír
Poncitlán Jalisco México
La X lunare, visibile in questa foto, si forma quando la luce solare arriva a lambire le parti più elevate dei crateri La Caille, Blanchinus e Purbach. La X si può osservare nei pressi del terminatore (la linea che separa la parte illuminata da quella notturna) per diverse ore quando la Luna è vicina alla fase di Primo Quarto.
Dati:
- Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newtoniano
- Montatura Eq2 con motore AR
- Camera planetaria QHY5L-II-C
- Filtro UV-Ir cut
- Barlow 2x Celestron Omni
- Sharpcap per acquisire un video da 1500 frames
- Autostakkert!3 e Registax 6 per elaborare circa il 50% dei frames
- GIMP per regolare luminosità e contrasto
- Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia
- Data: 6 giugno 2022
- Ora: 21:46 UTC (23:46 ora locale)
Telescope: Celestron 11 - CGEM
Powermate 2X - Filter #25 (Red)
Camera: ASI120MM
Software: Firecapture - Autostakkert!2 - Registax - PS6
Sinus Iridum (236km) also known as the ‘Bay of Rainbows’ is located in the North Western region of the moon and forms part of Mare Imbrium.
The bay is really part of a crater which has been filled with lava leaving only the higher edges visible and a faint outline to the south.
China landed their Yutu lunar rover on 14th December 2013 just to the south east of the Bay of Rainbows.
Image taken 21st November 2015
Equipment:
Celestron 8SE
ZWO ASI 120MCS
Software:
Pre-Processed – PIPP v2.5.4
Stacked in AutoStakkert 2.20
Post Processed in Registax 6
Post Processed in Photoshop CC 2015
Total stacked frames: 998. Best 249 frames used.
False Colour
Lunt 60mm Ha Solar Telescope
TIS DMK21AU618
Captured: FireCapture - 2000 frames @ 60 fps - Disc
2000 frames @ 30 fps - Proms
Stacking: AutoStakkert!2 - Best 30%
Postprocessing: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Taken during the September 2013 Astrocamp event in Cwmdu, Wales.
It's been too long since I've taken a moon image. Past time to see how the little 2" RedCat performs on the Moon, it took a couple of weeks to get around to processing the images. I had to wait for a bug to be fixed in Crossover Mac to allow the stacking program that I prefer, Autostakkert 3, to run on the all 64bit macOS Catalina. I now have 64 bit versions of all my astronomy software running again on macOS. The waxing gibbous Moon of 2020-01-05 05:24 UT from Austin. I used the Sony a6300 for a less undersampling and a 1.5x drizzel and the Moon is nice and clear even with just 250mm of focal length. Not as sharp as the Questar but with plenty of room for other interesting things in the image although the moon was too high in the sky this time for that.
William Optics RedCat 51 and Sony a6300 exposed 1/250 sec at f/4.9 and ISO 100. Best 4 of 83 images stacked in AutoStakkert 3, deconvolved in Lynkeos, with final exposure and crop in Photoshop.
1st official Venus and Mercury photoshoot.
Skywatcher Equinox 120ED
F=1800mm
ZWO ASI120MC
AutoStakkert
PixInsight.
Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor on an EQ5 Pro with a Canon 1100D
Best 61% of 120 frames stacked in Autostakkert! 2 and tweaked in Lightroom
This image is monochrome only, because I am still working out an issue that is preventing my filter wheel from responding to filter change commands. As Mars' opposition is just two weeks away and unfavorable weather can linger for days, I am anxious to get this resolved.
I deemed this image worthy of posting as it represents an improvement over my last Mars image. I attribute this to better focus that was aided by better seeing and me having developed a better eye for focusing planetary images. Astrospheric.com was calling my local seeing condition as above average, and the difference between this and what I have experienced so far in my planetary imaging journey was remarkable, and I am sure that factor alone made a difference in my ability to focus accurately. As far as the "me" factor, I spent more time watching for the smallest detail that I could discern in the shimmering image, and committing those brief instances of clarity to memory. After making focus adjustments, I would compare the new image with my memorized image, and make additional adjustments as necessary.
Major features visible in this image are south polar cap, Terra Sirenum, Valles Marineris, Solus Lacus, Olympus Mons, and Amazonis.
Meade LX850 (12" f/16)
ZWO ASI290MM
Autostakkert
Registax
Cloudy condition this evening. About 103 days to go to Inferior Conjunction.
Transparency (2/5)
Seeing (3/5)
5 images derotated. 1.5X drizzle
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
Image of the Sun taken today in Calcium K line showing Sunspot AR2765. 72ED Pro with Lunt CaK 1200 module and QHY5III 178M,500 frame SER taken in Firecapture,stacked in Autostakkert,processed in ImPPG and Photoshop CS2 adding false colour. Hazy conditions due to thin cloud covering the Sun
Saturn fading
Celestron C8 SCT , Televue Powermate 2.5X, ZWO ASI 178MM/EFW RGB, recorded in Firecapture. Processed with Pipp, Autostakkert AS!2, Registax, Lightroom.
The 62 mile diameter lunar crater Tycho. Used 9.25 in Celestron SCT telescope and ZWO ASI120MM-S Camera. Processed in Autostakkert, Registax and Faststone.
The ringed planet, with the Cassini Division clear as day, and maybe even a hint of the Encke gap. Much better results than when my telescope is fogged up! Easily my best Saturn yet...and you'd better believe I'll go at it again when Saturn gets closer to opposition and I maybe get a better (apo) Barlow or try out various eyepiece projection techniques.
(Atmospheric seeing: Very Good 4/5 )
Equipment: Celestron C8, "Shorty" 2x Barlow, Canon 60D (movie crop mode, using Magic Lantern to slow down the frame rate to 15fps), processed in PIPP, Autostakkert, and Registax.
Sol Región Activa 13190 y 13194
Seeing regular, nubes bajas y algo de viento. Jetstream malo.
Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: iOptron AZ Mount Pro
Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (NDND 1.8, T=1.5%)
- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (double stacked) (540nm)
Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism
Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2023-01-20 (20 de enero de 2023)
Hora: 11:54 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.61 N -6.41 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 60 segundos
Resolución: 1552x1146
Gain: 171 (33%)
Exposure: 0.032ms
Frames: 3289
Frames apilados: 25%
FPS: 54
Sensor temperature= 33.5°C
Result of stacking in AutoStakkert! (AS) 899 video frames from Seestar S50 and further processed in Lightroom. Moon as seen on 2025-03-12 at 21:16:37 EDT from Washington DC.
Used PIPP to convert the original mp4 file to avi followed by stacking in AS with an alignment point size of 168 and minimum brightness of 45 for 62 alignment points which cover almost the entire lunar surface.
5 stacks of a total of 31 caught over the span of 4 hours
Kept best 10% of 3000 frames
---Hardware---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
Camera : ZWO ASI 224 MC
Filters:
PierroAstro ADC Mk2
ZWO UV/IR Cut
Tube : Celestron C8 with 4x barlow (Televue Powermate)
Effective focal length : 8000 mm
Effective aperture : ~ F/40
---Software---
Acquired with FireCapture
Stacked with AutoStakkert
Processed with Lightroom & Topaz DenoizeAI
Luna del 16-07-2016
Video RAW Magic Lantern 2496 x 1080 apilado 26 de 130 cuadros.
SW Dob 8" f/6 - Canon 60D - ISO 400 - 1/1000 - Foco primario
Procesado: PIPP - AutoStakkert - Adobe Lightroom
The Moon (28/7/2015). Gibous. One of my best moon images yet! Notice the drastic colour change in the soil from gray to yellowish in the right upper side. It is due to different mineral deposits in different regions on Lunar surface.
Thanks to Ankit, Anubhav dada and Shiladitya dada for accompanying and helping me during the imaging session.
Celestron 8" Cassegrain. Nikon D5100. Stack of 25 frames.
Processing the images was a hard time! Autostakkert almost cried out and hanged multiple times trying to stack 25x 16mgpx frames tongue emoticon So I had to align and stack them manually in PS. Sharpened using wavelets in Registax. Touched up in PS.
Foto por: Carlos Gómez
Marte 7-09-2020
Telescope=Maksutov 180 mm
Camera=ZWO ASI290MM
Powermate 2X
Filters=IR,R,G,B
Diameter=19.85"
Magnitude=-1.96
CM=298.3° (during mid of capture)
FocalLength=5900mm
Resolution=0.10"
Date=070920
Sensor temperature=21.2°C
FireCapture, Autostakkert, Pixinsight, Lightroom
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Coronado PST and ASI120MC camera fitted with a 2x Barlow.
A 2,000 frame video was captured using SharpCap then the best 50% were stacked using Autostakkert! 3. Processing in Lightroom, Photoshop CS2, Focus Magic and Fast Stone Image Viewer,
Captured with a Nikon D5500 coupled to a 10-inch Meade LX200 f/6.3 telescope.
Captured using video capture settings at 60p. MOV decompiled and converted to uncompressed AVI via ffmpeg and the best 55% of 2100 frames stacked in the beta version of Autostakkert!3.
Just for fun, took 22 shots of the ISS with my Canon 600D and Canon F4 IS L 70-200mm Zoom Lens at 200mm. Stacked them in Autostakkert and cropped and enlarged the result.
26th May 2018 21:49 UTC.
Cloudy condition. 9 images derotated. Not the best of view. Couldn't get a sharp focus under the bad turbulance.
Seeing 2.5/5
Transparency 2/5
C9.25 EDGEHD
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
AutoStakkert
Winjupos
PixInsight
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.
The 12th-day Moon, 89.6% illuminated.
Nikon D70s + LZOS MC MTO-11CA 1000mm f10 mirror lens, ISO400, 1/160s.
I would like to see if I could get some good lunar pictures from aging 6MP Nikon D70s. Gratiflyingly, with stacking and processing, the results turned out to be quite satiflying.
Stack of 7 frames. Pre-process using PIPP (Planetary Image PreProcessor), stacking using AutoStakkert!3.0, sharpen using wavelet function of RegiStax 6, enhancement with Photoshop, denoise with Topaz DeNoise AI Beta.
Hoping to see the suspected unraveling of GRS
Cloudy condition. Seeing was terrible
Transparency (2/5)
Seeing (1/5)
C9.25 Edge HD
ZWO 120MC-S
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
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10" GSO Dobson Deluxe non-motorized
IR cut filter
Camera: ZWO ASI462MC
Captured by FireCapture with following settings:
Resolution: 1936x1096
duration 20s
exp 50.00ms
gain 50
frames 3333
Profile=Saturn
Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3
Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
Layer masks
Had few attempts at Jupiter now but this is the best attempt so far!
2 mins video with around 50% of best frames stacked in Autostakkert!2 and wavelet sharpened in Registax 6.
Taken on 24th March 2016 at 2243hrs.
Celestron Neximage 5 + Celestron C6 + Advanced VX mount
A HDR composite image of the Moon with Jupiter and its four Galilean moons. Sony a7iii with WO RedCat 250mm f/4.9 telescope. Exposures 1/100 sec at ISO 100 and 0.3 sec at ISO 800.
Best 8 of 80 lunar exposures stacked in Autostakkert and deconvolved in Lynkeos. HDR stacking, final crop, and exposure adjustments in Photoshop.
Mars, last night's efforts, I think my post processing is improving. Sky-Watcher SkyMax102 Maksutov with 2X Barlow (effective fl:2624mm), iOptron SmartEQ Pro Mount, ZWO ASI224MC Camera processed in PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax6 and GIMP
10% of 500 frames stacked.
Equipment:
Camera: ASI120mm
Filter: DayStar Quark
Mount: Astro-Physics 1100GTO
Stacked using AutoStakkert!. Tweaked by Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop.
Fotografía tomada en Linares (Jaén). Skywatcher 200/1000, Celestron AVX, Asi 120 mc.
Autostakkert, Registax, Photoshop
Mineral editing to bring out the colours on the Moon. 8 k video edited in Pipp, Autostakkert, Astrosurface, Photoshop, On1 Perfect Effects, Skylum Neo, Topaz Sharpen Ai.
Video taken about 11pm from Penrith, NSW, Australia. Sony A7RV, Canon 600mm F4 plus 2 X tele-extender = 1200mm, 1/400, f/11, ISO 100. 8k 90 second video.
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Celestron Edge 8
Imaging cameras: Point Grey Grasshopper 3 1.4MP
Mounts: Meade LX70
Software: Autostakkert! Autostackert! · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Filters: Red
Accessory: Orion Shorty Barlow 2x
Date:March 16, 2021
Frames: 1500
FPS: 25.00000
Focal length: 3200
Resolution: 6663x10257
Data source: Backyard
Description
5 panel mosaic, each 300/5000 frames.
Sol Región Activa 12991
Seeing decentillo pero algo de brisa
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: 2022-04-18 (18 de abril de 2022)
Hora: 13:29 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 1 minuto
Resolución: 1136x852
Gain: 73 (14%)
Exposure: 0.032ms
Frames: 4389
Frames apilados: 12%
FPS: 73
Sensor temperature= 36.6°C
Evostar 72ED with Coronado SM40/BF10 filter set and QHY5III 178M. SER file stacked in Autostakkert 3 and processed in
Astrosurface and PS CS2 adding false colour
It's rather hard to make a small-aperture image of Mars to look convincing, so here is a development story of my third Martian attempt.
Top left: one (the best) frame from the sequence, top right - stacking result of best 800 frames out of 6000 (two minutes long movie @50fps), bottom left - deconvolution in AstraImage 3.0 (parameter - see below) and bottom right - final image after adjusting black and white points with levels and overall contrast with curves in Photoshop.
Acquisition time (capture started): JD2456742,35668981 (26.03.2014, 00:33:38 MSK).
Image orientation: almost straight
Equipment:
Canon EOS 60D (unmodded) attached to Vixen VMC110L Klevtsov-Cassergain telescope via 2x Barlow lens riding on Celestron CG-4 (Skywatcher EQ-3) equatorial mount without RA motor (manually, just manually :).
Aperture 110 mm
Focal length 2070 mm
Tv = 1/60 second (video recording 640x480 @50 fps)
Av = f/18,8
ISO 1600
Exposures: 800 of 6000
Processing: Canon .MOVs were converted into .AVIs with eRight Software SUPER(r). Stacking was done in Autostakkert2 (image stabilization by center of gravity). Stacked image was deconvolved in AstraImage 3.0 (Cauchy type PSF, size 2,3 units, 8 iterations). The channels were aligned and contrast enhancement was made in Photoshop.
Note: font - Freestyle Script.
Quite a lot of atmospheric turbulence today so high res views were quite poor but managed to get a full solar disk (composite of 2 frames) with Active Regions annotated.
A large sunspot region, AR2786 is seen.
Equinox ED 900mm f/7.5 refractor with Baader Herschel Wedge.
ZWO ASI 174MM camera
Best 20% of 5000 frames.
Acquired with FireCapture
Stacked in Autostakkert!3
Wavelet sharpening in Registax6