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Managed to capture a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) on Friday July 28th 2023 starting from 15:42UT to 16:13UT.
Location:
Botkyrka, Stockholm, SE
This is by far the best solar I have ever captured in my entire time as an amateur solar photographer, a journey I started back in early 2022.
Equipment in use:
Lunt Solar Systems LS50THa/B600
Player One Astronomy Neptune-M (IMX178), 6 MP mono
iOptron GEM28 GoTo
Software in use:
SharpCap for capturing
Autostakkert! 3 for stacking
ImPPG for deconvolution
Photoshop CC for colorization and creating the video with
EXIF (Metadata):
1000 frames each, MONO16, 30 fps, SER format, 4 ms Exposure, 0 Gain, 0 Offset
40% stacked with Resample 2x
This wasn't as good a night for 'seeing' as my previous Jupiter postings on 17 March but for a brief period three Galilean moons were in close proximity of to the right of Jupiter. The brighter two are Io furthest right then Europa, with below them a faint Callisto in the top left image. Top right shows Europa and a faint Callisto, Io is just out of shot. Middle lower shows Europa and Callisto and the final image on the lower right shows just Callisto, on its return journey behind but below Jupiter from its crossing across in front of the Northern region of Jupiter on 17 March.
I was experimenting in these images with different combinations of camera, software and telescopes. The top two images and the first on the lower left were taken with a colour USB3 CCD, the Skyris, using Firecapture and processing with Autostakkert and Registax. Top left is through my 130mm with a 2.5x Powermate and ADC attached. Top right 5x Powermate and ADC through 130mm. The final colour Skyris image on the lower left is with a 2.5x Powermate and no ADC through my 12inch SCT.
The final two images were taken with my mono USB 3 Basler Ace CCD. The first with 2.5x Powermate, RGB and IR filters and the second a straight set of RGB images. Images captured with Genika and then processed with Autostakkert and Registax
In every sequence containing Gailean moons I have reprocessed the moon data to bring out a faint Callisto in the images.
Peter
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and a Canon 600D at prime focus. A Baader Astrosolar Filter was fitted to telescope. Best 25 of 55 images stacked in Autostakkert after processing with PIPP.
Crater Goldschmidt is an example of a walled plain, which is a shallow crater that features a flooded floor, and heavily eroded crater wall. This crater is 113 km wide and 2 km deep.
As testament to its age, it is floor is heavily cratered, and its western wall is overlapped by the much younger crater Anaxagoras, whose rays can be seen traversing Goldschmidt's floor. In the foreground (lower right corner) is Epigenes, another ancient and shallow crater.
For me, the craters in this photo often pop out as bumps, and no matter how I think about them, I can't "pop" them back in.
Meade LX850 (12" f/16), ZWO ASI290MM
Autostakkert! (stacking - best 10% of 3,000 frames)
Registax (sharpening)
Photoshop (final processing)
MINERAL HDR MOON
Captured on 8 inch Newtonian
Composite of 3 images (Star, Full moon, Crescent moon)
Sony A7iii
Captured on 3 different dates
Software used- PIPP, Autostakkert 2, registax, LR, PS, Snapseed
Picture credits- Dhruv shah
Location- Ghaziabad,India
Explanation-This image shows the mineral present on the moon.Elements known to be present on the lunar surface include, among others, oxygen (O), silicon (Si), iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), aluminium (Al), manganese (Mn) and titanium (Ti). Among the more abundant are oxygen, iron and silicon.Titanium on the moon is primarily found in the mineral ilmenite, a compound that contains iron, titanium and oxygen. If humans one day mine on the moon, they could break down ilmenite to separate these elements.Terrestrial and lunar mineralogy and geology differ greatly. Compared with that of Earth, the lunar crust has few minerals. And unlike Earth's minerals, those on the Moon formed in a chemically reducing environment devoid of liquid water and free oxygen. Although fairly abundant, most lunar oxygen is bound into silicate and oxide minerals. Hydrous or basic minerals such as clays and micas, which have attached water molecules or hydroxyl ions and which are abundant on Earth, are non existent on the Moon because of the lack of chemical oxidation.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and Canon 600D. Telescope fitted with a Baader Astrosolar filter. Best 20 of 30 jpg's stacked in Autostakkert after processing with PIPP
38 images stacked using PIPP+AutoStakkert
First time taking pictures of a lunar eclipse. I only have one 17-70mm lens so not enough reach to get much detail on the moon. The result came out better than I expected though.
Taken from Tokyo in clear Bortle 8-9 sky.
Imaging telescopes or lenses:Coronado PST 40mm
Imaging cameras:Point Grey Grasshopper 3 1.4MP
Mounts:Vixen Polaris
Software:Autostakkert! Autostackert! , FireCapture 2.4 Firecapture , Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Accessory:Orion Shorty Barlow 2x
Date:July 13, 2020
Frames: 200
FPS: 45.00000
Focal length: 800
Resolution: 3036x3116
Data source: Backyard
Saturno. Apilado de 2100 frames, Webcam JWin + Celestron Omni 102 (102/1000mm) + barlow X-Cel x2, montura CG-4. 12-05-2020 (5:38 am)
Moon mosaic taken with SkyWatcher Esprit 100ED, ZWO ASI224MC, Sharpcap, PIPP, Autostakkert and Microsoft ICE.
My first ever photo of Uranus, captured last night (2024-01-26)
This was captured using my newly purchased ZWO 715MC. This camera has amazingly small pixels that allows a telescope often used for deep sky to overcome its small focal length with densely packed small 1.45 micron pixels.
This is a perfect match for my 8" newtonian which has a native focal length of 1000mm. Typically you'd need an SCT or a big dobsonian with a camera with larger pixels. Up until now, basically all planetary cameras have had a pixel size of 2.9 microns.
This photo shows 4 of Uranus' moons. They're incredibly faint even on a relatively fast aperture setup for planetary. At magnitude 15, they're as faint as many deep sky targets requiring long exposures to reveal them. Long exposures and planetary are not something you hear very often.
The setup:
- ZWO ASI 715MC
- ZWO ADC
- ZWO EAF
- Skywatcher 200P (modified)
- Skywatcher EQ6R
- SharpCap
- AutoStakkert
- Registax
- Photoshop
10,000 frames captured at 112FPS, Moons 5s x 20 (max gain of 600)
Lunt 50THa double stacked with Solarmax 40 and 72ED refractor with Lunt CaK B1200 module.
QHY5III 178M used to capture 500-600 frame SER,stacked in Autostakkert 3,processed in Astrosurface and PS CS2 adding false colour.
Imaging telescope: Celestron Nexstar 8SE SCT
Mount: Celestron Advanced VX Goto
Imaging camera: Astrolumina ALccd5L-IIc
Software: FireCapture, Autostakkert 2, Fitswork, Photoshop CS3
Date. 08.03.2016
Time: 0:24 MET
Frames captured: 2667 (60% stacked)
FPS: 21
Gain: 135
Focal length: 4210mm
Seeing: 5/5
Transparency: 5 / 10
Jupiter on 26th October 2023. 8 images derotated. Each image was a stack of 50% of 30k frames. Captured using SharpCap Pro, stacked using Autostakkert, wavelet sharpening in Registax, derotated using WinJupos. Celestron C11 XLT, Altair 385c camera, 2x Barlow. Mounted on Skywatcher AZEQ6-GT.
Taken in Lowestoft, UK, on 13 July 2020, at 03.09 am bst.
Celestron NexStar 6se SCT & ZWO asi224mc.
AVI video stacked in Autostakkert 2. Touched-up in Registax (as wavelets), & PS CC.
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is a retrograde comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020, by astronomers using the NEOWISE space telescope. At that time, it was a 10th-magnitude comet, located 2 AU (300 million km; 190 million mi) away from the Sun and 1.7 AU (250 million km; 160 million mi) away from Earth.
By July 2020, it was bright enough to be visible to the naked eye. For observers in the northern hemisphere, in the morning, the comet appears low above the north-eastern horizon, below Capella. In the evening, the comet can be seen in the north-western sky. In the second half of July 2020, Comet NEOWISE will appear to pass through the constellation of Ursa Major, below the asterism of the Big Dipper (The Plough).
The comet is one of the brightest visible to observers in the northern hemisphere since Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997. Under dark skies, it can be clearly seen with the naked eye. It is supposed to remain visible to the naked eye throughout most of July 2020.
Source: Wikipedia
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK, shot during freezing fog/mist!
I was booked to do an astronomy session with our village Beavers group, to help them work towards their Space Exploration Badge. I had planned to take one of our telescopes across so they could all look at some crater shadows. Before I went to do the talk I shot some video of 3 different regions where the shadows were looking really good, then after I got home again I shot the same regions to show how the shadows evolved over that time. The gap between the two imaging sessions was just over 3 hours. In the time between the two images, the crater shadows have shortened on the floor of Ptolemaus, the Sun has risen on the floor of craters Alphonsus so the central peak shadow is now visible. The Sun has also risen on crater Purbach, the central peak of Arzachel has become illuminated and the central peak shadows of Regiomontanus and Walther have shortened
Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor with 3 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, the best of those were stacked with Autostakkert! 3 (between 45% and 75% depending on the quality of each video) The stacked image was then processed with Focus Magic, Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer
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Timestamp: 27.7.2023 17:47:52 CEST
10" GSO Dobson Deluxe on Astrothingy EQ platform
Thousand Oaks Optical Solar Filter
Meade #908N Narrowband filter
Camera: ZWO ASI462MC
Captured by FireCapture with following settings:
Resolution: 1936x1096
duration 30s
exp 1.00ms
gain 0
frames 4061 (50% best stacked)
Profile=Sun
Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3
Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
Color levels (RGB) adjustments + Sharpen + Crop
Acqusition time: 11.08.2016 around 06:55 MSK
TIS DMK 23U274 on Coronado PST
140 out of 1200 frames were stacked in AS!2 deconvolved AstraImage 3.0 PRO (Richardson-Lucy aggressive, Cauchy-type, 0,3 pixels, 12 iterations). Contrast enchancement and masking-blending were done in PS.
The white border is a histogramm trap which doesn't allow deconvolution algorithm to go wild and redefine the white point of the image.
12"dobsonian, ZWO ASI 2600MC (first light!) Baader MPCC, Autostakkert 3, Sharpcap 3.2
2021-08-19-0939_3_AS_P35_lapl5_ap137_conv
Byrgius A is a bright, young, and rayed crater located on the eastern rim its parent crater Byrgius near the western limb of the Moon. Its sharp, bright features contrast with the ancient and worn parent crater, which is not readily visible in this image due to the Sun being high overhead. This is an example of how bright features tend to show better while shallow features can be barely visible when the Sun angle is high. Montes Rook, the eastern rim of Mare Orientale, can be seen on the horizon.
Meade LX850 (12" f/16), ZWO ASI290MM
Autostakkert! (stacking - best 10% of 3,000 frames)
Registax (sharpening)
Photoshop (final processing)
Kept best 10% of 10000 frames
---Hardware---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
Camera : ZWO ASI 224 MC
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
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10" GSO Dobson Deluxe non-motorized
IR cut filter
Barlow lens 2.5x
Camera: ZWO ASI462MC
Captured by FireCapture with following settings:
Resolution: 1936x1096
duration 20s
exp 50.00ms
gain 50
frames 501
Profile=Saturn
Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3
Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
Sharpen + Noise reduction
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Timestamp: 10.5.2022 22:28:03 CEST
10" GSO Dobson Deluxe non-motorized
Barlow lens 2.5x
IR pass filter
Camera: ZWO ASI462MC
Captured by FireCapture with following settings:
Resolution: 1936x1096
duration 18s
exp 12.00ms
gain 50
frames 1533
Profile=Moon
Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3
Postprocessing by Registax (Linked Wavelets)
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
Sharpen + denoise + exposure increase + crop
Waxing Crescent, 16.3%, 4.10 days.
AA115 APO, EQ6-R, ZWO ASI290MM, Astronomik Pro Planet Filter (R - IR).
4 frames. Each 90s x 32fps. 20% stacked in AutoStakkert. Processing: PS
Mars just after oppsiton reworked with 20% of images stacked and better color balance. The southern polar cap of Mars is really standing out now. Seeing in Austin was only fair. Questar 89/1350 mm telescope with Dakin 2x Barlow, UV/IR cut filter and ZWO ASI224MC planetary video camera. Taken 2018-08-07 05:36 UT from Austin, Texas. Exposed 17.5 msec at a gain of 200. The best 20% of 13,132 frames captured with FireCapture and stacked in Autostakkert 3 with 3x drizzle. Deconvolved in Lynkeos with final exposure white balance and crop in Photoshop.
Comparaison entre l'empilement avec Autostakkert!2 et le traitement direct! Phase 98.6%, Constellation : Sagittaire /
6 images - de-rotated
Seeing 2.5/5
Transparency 3/5
Collimation slightly off.
C9.25 EDGEHD
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
Taken from Oxfordshire with a William Optics 70mm refractor with Thousand Oaks solar filter and Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro mount. 300 images shot, converted into an avi using PIPP then the best 69% stacked using Autostakkert!3 Beta
Celestron NexStar 6SE
Zwo Asi224mc with IR cut filter
Zwo ADC
Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate
FireCapture for ADC tuning.
SharpCap for Capturing.
Jupiter and moons-one exposure.
Processed in AutoStakkert, RegiStax and Lightroom.
1st image of 2020, taken on 20 June 20, at 3.32 am bst.
Celestron NexStar 6se SCT & Altair Hypercam 183c.
AVI video stacked in Autostakkert 2. Touched-up in PS CC.
Seeing was moderate.
Strawberry half moon from a few days ago, where colors show the minerals of the moon.
Equipment: Orion XT8 dobsonian, Nikon 1 J1 mirrorless
Processing: PIPP, Autostakkert (top 30% of ~60 frames), Registax, Photoshop
Des Plaines, Illinois
Waning Gibbous Moon 07/01/2018. I messed up my attempt to image the conjunction of Jupiter and Mars and the data just aren't good enough to do much with...but it was absolutely spectacular to observe. I hate returning from a session empty-handed so here is an image of the Moon which I haven't imaged for a while. It was about time the Celestron had an outing too and this was a good opportunity to experiment further with the ZWO ASI1600MC Pro camera. Sky was partly cloudy with some very clear patches, seeing was reasonable but it was quite windy...and very cold!
47 x frames taken from 52 frame video
Shutter - 0.918ms
Sensor temperature - 7.5 °C (uncooled)
Gain - 300 (50%)
No callibration frames
Captured with FireCapture
Processed in AutoStakkert, Registax and Photoshop
Equipment:
Telescope: Celestron NexStar 127 SLT
Mount: Alt-Az
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MC Pro
Saturn 1 week after opposition. Best 1000 frames of a 2000 frame clip. Captured using a QHY IMG132E and Sky-Watcher Explorer 190MN Pro. Processed using Autostakkert 2 and Registax 6
Solar scan using 72ED apo with Sol'Ex SHG and QHY5III 178M.
16x sidereal speed on EQ5 mount to force the scan, this image is a stack of three of six scans using Autostakkert 4,processing carried out in Astrosurface.
Altair Astro Starwave 102ED-R (2017), Altair Hypercam IMX178C, Altair 0.6X Reducer, UHC Filter, Altair IR Filter, EQ3-2, Best 35% of 223 Frames. Processed in AutoStakkert. Finished in Lightroom.
My first ever attempt at imaging the sun through a telescope. Just used some Baader Solar filter material on a plywood off axis mask (4.75 " in diameter) on my C14. 18th June 2025, 12:52 UT, sunspot groups 4114 & 4115 taken with the ASI224MC at F11, the best 25% frames from 3,885 captured were stacked. Equipment used Celestron C14 edge HD and CGEPRO mount. Processed using Autostakkert V4 and Registax V6.
Truly multispectral!
Here is a 12V fluorescent light seen in thermal infrared, visible and X-Ray. (In the X-Ray shot the light wasn't operating, hence the lack of crocodile clips connecting it to a power supply).
The thermal image was made using my Therm-App thermal imager with 13mm f/1 lens and ThermApp Plus software, the visible with a Nikon D700 with 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 and the X-Ray image with my Scanmax 20 X-Ray mail scanner. Images were post-processed using AutoStakkert! and Paint Shop Pro.
The thermal range is 14-7µm, visible is about 700-400nm and the X-Ray image is at about 20pm (50-70keV - best guess). That's a very wide spectral range in anyone's money.
Comments are warmly invited.
For more thermal images covering a diverse range of subjects please visit (and join!) the Therm-App (and others) thermal imaging group at www.flickr.com/groups/therm-app-users/
3-minute series completed 10:33 pm EDT on 3 Oct 2020
Celestron C8 with 2X barlow
ZWO ASI224MC camera
SharpCap, PIPP, Autostakkert, RegiStax
Northern Nassau County, NY
Skywatcher ed 80 f/7,5
QHY 5L-II mono
Televue barlow 3x
Filters RGB Meade
Baader UV/IR cut
Autostakkert, Registax, Photoshop cs 5
Maybe..just maybe the dust is settling down a bit(?)
Transparency (3/5)
Seeing (2/5)
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
Star Adventurer - Mak 102 - Canon EOS 60D
ISO 400 - 1/1000s - Video RAW
PIPP - AutoStakkert - Photoshop - Lightroom
Stacking with Autostakkert. Best 40% of 76 frames. Wavelets with Registax.
Nikon Z7 / Tamron G2 150-600 + TC x20
Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: Bresser Messier AR 102/1000
Camere di acquisizione: SVBONY SV305
Montature: Celestron SLT
Software: ASTROSURFACE · AutoStakkert! · photoshop
Accessorio: astrosolar
Data:14 Novembre 2020
Ora: 12:44
Pose: 225
FPS: 30,00000
Lunghezza focale: 1000
Seeing: 3
Trasparenza: 8
Kept best 10% of 10000 frames
---Hardware---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
Camera : ZWO ASI 224 MC
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
Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: Orion Mini Guidescope
Camere di acquisizione: SVBONY SV305
Montature: Celestron SLT
Software: PixInsight 1.8 Ripley Pisinsight 1.8 · AutoStakkert! · photoshop
Date:07 Gennaio 2021
Pose:
22x30" (gain: 10.00)
372x10" (gain: 17.00)
Integrazione: 1.2 ore
Giorno lunare medio: 23.32 giorni
Fase lunare media: 37.67%
Scala del Cielo Scuro Bortle: 8.00