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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
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
80mm f/7/Lunt 50 pressure tune etalon mod and QHY5III 178 attached to Ioptron Minitower Pro. Full disk taken same camera but through 72ED with Solarmax 40/BF10 filter set. Sequence shows flare event on AR 2817. SER movies stacked in Autostakkert 3 and processed in Astrosurface and PS CS2 adding false colour. Times are UT
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
Full Solar Disk - False Color
Taken May 15, 2015 from Wild Horses Monument near Vantage, WA.
Telescope: Pressure-Tuned Lunt LS60THa
Mount: AP 900
Camera: ZWO ASI120MM-S
5 Panel Mosaic, each panel 3000 frames (best 20-50% frames taken, depending on panel analysis).
Analyzed and Stacked in AutoStakkert!2
Processed with Registax 6, AutoStitch, and Photoshop CS5.
Moderate to good seeing - Mare Cimmerium, Syrtis Minor, and Polar Hood visible. Celestron C8 SCT , Televue Powermate 5X, ZWO ASI 662MC, recorded in Firecapture. Processed with Pipp, Autostakkert AS!2, Registax, Lightroom. I had about an hour of clear sky in between clouds.
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
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: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2019-07-06
Hora: 21:04 T.U.
Fase lunar: 21.9% 4.08 días Creciente
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 2 minutos
Resolución: 3096 x 2080
Gain: 103 (20%)
FPS: 2
Exposure: 6.157ms
Frames: 329
Sensor temperature=38.2°C
Frames apilados: 25%
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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.
40 DSLR (Canon EOS 450D) shots 1/125s ISO100 prime focus. Baader Neodymium filter. Sky-Watcher 150 Explorer Newtonian. Autostakkert for alignment and stacking and Registax for wavelets—post-processing in Photoshop. Taken from Wolverhampton, West Midlands.
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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
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 /
El Sol 12-Julio-2023
Pruebas para el eclipse anular de sol de Octubre.
Primera captura del sol con la ZWO ASI 178.
Telescopio Explore Scientific ED 80 CF
Filtro Solar Continuum
Captura FireCapture.
Apilado Autostakkert.
Procesado Pixinsight
Color en Pixinsight
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
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.
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
Schuler UV / Baader UV / Methane 880 nm / 50 nm
IAS Observatory Gamsberg, Namibia
28" Newton 3120mm, f/4.4
ZWO ASI290MM with Baader FFC 4x
Assistant and filter change: Martin Rietze
Seeing: 7/10
Image processing: AutoStakkert!, PixInsight, CS PS CC
#Planet #Space #Venus #UV #Methan
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.
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
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.
Gave Mars a shot and I wasn't expecting much at all, Turned out pretty well! This is an animation taken in good seeing just before the sun rose
Celestron C8 + 2x barlow
ASI120MC
1.5x drizzle in Autostakkert!2
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
Image prise depuis le nouvel observatoire Tomastro le 16 Novembre 2017. Lunt60 BF 600 sur EQ6 avec une ASI 1600MM-C. Traitée sous Autostakkert et Lightroom 5
Not the best of seeing condition this morning. Facing towards Valles Marineris area.
Seeing 2.5/5
Transparency 3/5.
10 images derotated. 1.5X drizzle
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
Stacked composite of the November 10th waxing gibbous Moon. 9 images stacked with Autostakkert AS2!, Sharpened and saturated with Photoshop CC. EOS700D - Altair Astro 102ED refractor scope.
This pair of craters, Messier (right) and Messier A (left), are unique in their noticeably elongated shapes that are caused by the low impact angle of an impacting body that approached from the east (from the right). After creating the Messier crater, the impacting body could have rebounded and formed Messier A. A nearly linear ray of impact ejecta extends westward across the floor of Mare Fecunditatis. A series of dorsa can be seen crossing the rays at a nearly perpendicular angle.
Rima Messier can be seen extending downward toward the southeast near the top center of the image.
Meade LX850 (12" f/16), ZWO ASI290MM
Autostakkert! (stacking - best 10% of 3,000 frames)
Registax (sharpening)
Photoshop (final processing)
Jupiter 30-11-13 with Europa, Io & Ganymede
Celestron 127SLT Mak, Philips SPC900 webcam, 1500 frames stacked in Autostakkert!2, wavelets in Registax6. Two separate captures: planet disc, then overexposed disc to capture moons. Processed & layered in PS