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Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
At a certain angle of the sun's illumination a number of volcanic lunar domes are visible near the craters of Hortensius, Milichius & T. Mayer. This area is also referred to by the popular name "Domeland"
A two pane mosaic obtained with my Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian, Tal 2x Barlow and a recently purchased ZWO ASI385MC.
The pane with the Hortensius Domes is a much better quality compared to my previous capture uploaded with the Copernicus crater.
4000 frames captured on each pane using Firecapture. Then approx. 1400 to 1500 frames stacked with AutoStakkert! 3.1.4.
Wavelets processed with Registax and images stitched with Image Composite Editor.
Final adjustments, collage and annotations using G.I.M.P.
Lunar south is uppermost. Best viewed in fully expanded mode.
For a reference to scale, the diameter of the crater Hortensius is 15Km (9 miles).
Composite image.
Phase: Waxing crescent
Illumination: 11.07% Visible
Moon Age: 3.19 Days
Moon Angle: 0.51
Nikon z7 Tamron G2 150-600 + Tc x20 1200mm f/13 500iso 1/50s.
Autostakkert + Registax + Gimp
Nice solar prominence on the Sun yesterday.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED, ZWO ASI290MC, Daystar Quark Chromosphere + Daystar 2" UV/IR filter, ZWO 0.5x Reducer, SharpCap Pro v3.2, best 20% of 5k frames, AutoStakkert, Registax. Image date: 17 May 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA, USA.
This is my first color attempt at Mars with my new planetary setup. I like what I've been able to do with Jupiter and Saturn so far, but Mars is tricky. I'm not sure if I "overcooked" the features here.
This uses 4 60s stacks each of R, G, and B filter images. The best 65% of red stacks were used along with the best 55% of green and blue stacks. Captured with a Celestron Edge HD 925 with a ZWO ASI120MM camera and Optolong RGB filters using FireCapture 2.5. Stacking done in AutoStakkert, initial processing in PixInsight, derotation and channel combination in WinJUPOS, final processing in Photoshop.
Central meridian on Mars is 241° in this image. Syrtis Major is visible at the left edge of the image, and there are clouds above the north polar cap (at top).
The moon with 61 EDPH II refractor and ZWO ASI 585 MC Pro. Photo taken on the 05/11/2025
Stacking of 1091 frames extracted from a 2183 frames SER movie captured with Sharpcap pro.
Processed with autostakkert and astrosurface
Equipment: Stellarvue 90mm f/7 SVR90T-25SV apo triplet refractor, SFF3-25-48 large photographic field flattener, Nikon Z7, iOptron AZ Mount Pro with Tri-Pier. Camera setting: ISO 500, 10 s. Stack of 40 exposures. Post-Processing: PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, and Photoshop.
Just a quick Saturn from early July 3, 2020. I confess, I have no clue yet how planets are supposed to be imaged. This one is, at least, one step closer.
Planetary imaging is hard; it ages you...
Seeing was below forecast expectations: 2-3/5
Celestron EdgeHD8 telescope, Celestron Advanced VX mount.
ZWO 290MM camera
Data collection with Firecapture: ROI=1936x1096
ROI(Offset)=0x0
FPS (avg.)=28
Shutter=10.00ms
Gain=383 (63%)
Preprocessing with PIPP
Stacking with AutoStakkert!3, best 25% of 1719 video frames used.
Final processing in Photoshop CC 2020: slight cropping of stacking artifacts on margins
Canon EOS 80D + Orion SkyQuest XT10 + Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate (giving an effective focal length of 3,000 mm).
Broadstairs, December 2019.
Practising with a new planetary camera ASI-178MC attached to Skywatcher 127 Mak telescope. Best photo I've managed of Saturn so far - but still room for improvement. (Autostakkert and Registax software used for processing)
The Moon's current phase for today and tonight is a Waxing Crescent Phase. A Waxing Crescent is the first Phase after the New Moon and is a great time to see the features of the moon's surface.
Nikon z7 Tamron G2 150-600 + Tc x20 f/13 320iso 1/60s 1200mm
Autostakkert + Registax + Darktable + Gimp (composite with previous full moon).
Details: Canon 550D (t2i), Canon EF 70-300mm @ 300mm f/5.6
Stacked with AutoStakkert, Wavelets in Registax, Sharpened in Adobe Photoshop CS6
6 pictures mosaique
Taken from Toulouse (France) on May 2011
6 x 150 best snapshots stacked of 3000
TIS DFK41 color camera on a 200 mm reflector
Pre-processed in AutoStakkert!
Processed in Photoshop and LightRoom
Seestar S50, filmato da 90 secondi. 75% dei frames elaborati con AutoStakkert, AstroSurface e Photoshop.
Mare Imbrium is the flatter, darker terrain that dominates the bottom two thirds of this image. Inside of the northern shoreline are, from left to right, Montes Recti, Montes Teneriffe, Mons Pico and and Mons Piton rise out of the surface. Just north of there a crescent of lunar highland arch from one side of the image to the other. The most prominent features is this region, from left to right, are Sinus Iridum, (Bay of Rainbows), Crater Plato, and Vallis Alpes bisects the Montes Alpes. The western end of Mare Frigoris arches across the upper edge of the image. (Rükl 2-4, and 10-12)
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
2000 frames captured in Firecapture at 4.25ms at 144 gain and 55% histogram
Best 75% stacked in Autostakkert!
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finishing in Photoshop - colors are slightly saturated.
August 18, 2021
The crater pair of Copernicus (center bottom) and Eratosthenes (center right) become prominent in the Moon's middle latitudes in the days following the First Quarter Moon. Here they are seen in high angle light, their floors fully or nearly fully illuminated. There is enough shadow for the multitude of secondary craterlets surrounding them to be detected. These can be seen to radiate deeply into Mare Imbrium, the broad lava plain that fills the upper third of the image.
Separating Copernicus and Mare Imbrium are the peaks of the Montes Carpatus. These mountains are remnants of the high rim of the Imbrium Impact Basin.
On the bottom left edge of the photo lies a small cup-shaped crater named Hortensius. Just above this small crater a cluster of small bumps can be seen. These low mounds are lunar volcanoes, the Hortensius Domes. Look closely and the summit calderas of some can be seen. These humble mounds are the lunar equivalent of the large shield volcanoes (e.g., Mauna Loa) seen on the Earth.
This photo is a stack of the best 30% of 5369 video frames.
Video capture software: FireCapture
Stacking software: AutoStakkert! 3
Wavelets-processing: Registax 6
Final buff: Photoshop CC 2021.
Celestron EdgeHD8, 2032mm focal length, f/10
ZWO ASI 290MM planetary camera
Celestron Advanced VX Equatorial Mount
Soleil - Avec plusieurs régions actives majeures, dont AR3615 -- approx 5x la taille de la Terre
The Active region AR3615 is about 5 times Earth size.
== Acquisition ==
Nikon D5100 + Nikkor 70-300 @300mm
Filtre Solarlite ND5 Thousand Oaks optical
30 x 1/250s -- f/10 -- ISO 100
= Traitement/processing =
PIPP, Autostakkert & Gimp
@St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec
AstroM1
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/Tele Vue 2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
3000 frames captured in FireCapture
Best 50% stacked in AutoStakkert!
Intial wavelet sharpening and noise reduction in RegiStax
Final sharpening noise reduction in PhotoShop
Equipment:
Canon EOS 60Da (1/500s, ISO 100)
TeleVue NP101is/2x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
Conditions:
Below average transparency, Above average seeing.
Software/Processing:
75 frames captured in BYE
Best 50% stacked in Autostakkert!
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
spaceweatherlive.com
2022-06-15 - Sunspot region 3032 produced a long duration M3.4 solar flare this morning peaking at 04:07 UTC. Type II and IV radio sweeps were observed and a very nice partial halo coronal mass ejection was launched into space.
This image is composed from a UV capture and an IR capture. In processing, IR was mapped to the red channel, IR/UV (50/50) was mapped to the green channel, and UV was mapped to the Blue channel.
I believe that the red and bluish areas represent actual cloud details.
ZWO ASI290MM/2.5x PowerMate
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
UV and IR were 180s captures in Firecapture
Best 75% of frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finishing in Photoshop
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
5000 frames captured with FireCapture
Best 1250 frames stacked with Autostakkert!
Wavelet sharpened with Registax
Noise reduction with Topaz DeNoise AI
Finished in Photoshop
Rukl 31
Telescopio: Celestron C11 XLT Fastar
Montatura:iOptron CEM60
CMOS di ripresa: ZWO ASI 174 mono Cooled
Lunghezza focale: 2800 mm
Filtro: Optolong Red CCD 50,8 mm
Software:SharpCap 3.2 Pro, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 3.0.14, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8, Astra Image 4 SI
Focuser: Moonlite CF 2" focuser with high resolution stepper DRO
Pose: 400 su 1009 riprese a 65 fotogrammi al secondo
Seeing: 1 Trasparenza: 8
Sunspot AR 3100 in the Sun's Chromosphere
H-alpha image of the Sun using a ZWO ASI 174MM Camera and a Daystar Quark Combo Chromosphere H-alpha filter with a Questar 3.5 50.5-inch focal length Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope. Best 50 of 500 frames were captured with SharpCap 2.9 and aligned and stacked using Autostakkert! 2 with wavelets applied in Registax 6.
Image by Doug Biernacki and Jim Johnson
Partial solar eclipse approximately 35 minutes before totality.
ZWO ASI2600MC-Pro
Tele Vue NP101is
Losmandy GM8
Processed with Autostakkert
Best 40% of 3000 frames. Processed with Autostakkert, Registax 6, Photoshop CC 2015. Seeing was favorable but transparency was somewhat watery and humidity was high.
Telescope - Celestron CPC800 XLT GPS
Camera - ASI120MC-S and Shorty 2X Barlow lens.
Here is a quick image of the huge sunspot AR2529 taken this afternoon, April 13, 2016 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania. Captured using my Celestron C6-A SCT, you can check out my solar setup and filter at www.leisurelyscientist.com/?p=581
This is a video capture using a Canon 6D and the software package Backyard EOS, 1500 frames were captured, and I stacking the best 750 frames using AS!2 (AutoStakkert!).
This sunspot is huge, by my estimation it is approximately five Earth’s wide!
The north central region of the Moon as imaged using a Questar 3.5-inch 1380mm focal length Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope with a ZWO ASI224MC planetary astro CMOS camera.
The best of 2002 frames were captured in SharpCap, aligned and stacked in Autostakkert!3, with wavelet sharpening in Registax. Final touches were made in Adobe CS5 and Luminar Neo.
20_01_28 V2_pipp_lapl6_ap819_conv V2
Taken with canon t3i
Canon 400mm f5.6 L prime lens
370 frames stacked on Autostakkert
I obtained a 13 second 3x crop video and I exported each frame with adobe premiere.
Frames were stacked with autostakkert and tiff file processed in photoshop
The sun is setting on this section of the lunar terminator. The dark crater near the interesection of the terminator and center image is Endymion. Moving toward the foreground is the prominent pair of craters Hercules and Atlas. Still moving toward the foreground is Lacus Somniorum, which features the larger crater Posidonius as its southwestern boundry. Mare Serenitatis can be seen in the lower left corner of the image.
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
3000 frames captured in FireCapture.
Best 30% stacked in Autostakkert.
Wavelet sharpened in Registax.
Noise reduction in Topaz DeNoise AI
Finished in Photoshop.
Rukl 7, 14, 15, and 16.
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
5000 frames captured with FireCapture
Best 1250 frames stacked with Autostakkert!
Wavelet sharpened with Registax
Noise reduction with Topaz DeNoise AI
Finished in Photoshop
Rukl 52.
Jupiter, photographed from Long Beach, CA
By the time I shot this, Jupiter was lower in the sky and also above my house. Both of these would degrade the seeing compared to images I got earlier this year. Right now, you have to get to work shortly after sunset to get good shots of the big planet.
There's also a bit less data here. 30 s SER files were taken with a ZWO ASI120MM camera through Optolong CCD RGB filters on a Celestron Edge HD 925 telescope using FireCapture. The top 70% of frames went into 4 stacks of red images and 5 stacks each of green and blue. These stacks were made in AutoStakkert, then sharpened in PixInsight. Stacks were combined and derotated in WinJUPOS, and the resulting R, G, and B images were combined in WinJUPOS to make a de-rotated single color image. Color balancing in Registax, then final touches in Photoshop and Topaz Labs.
CM longitudes:
System I: 9.0°
System II: 142.7°
System III: 356.8°
My very first shot of Saturn, taken on September 23rd 2018. I used a Celestron CPC 1100 telescope, with eyepiece projection method on an Olympus OMD E-M5. Captured 1 minute of video, and post-processed with Autostakkert 3. Result is above expectations, considering I could barely see a thing in the screen of my camera. Cassini division is clearly visible.
May 21, 2021
Moon 74.7% full
Here is a previously unprocessed photo of the region of three prominent craters familiar to all selenophiles: the trio of (from top to bottom) Purbach, Regiomontanus, and Walther. Here they are captured under high-angle illumination from the East (late morning on the Moon), which reduces contrast and makes photography a challenge.
Photographic conditions for this session were challenging, with below average transparency, variable seeing (2.5-3 out of 5) and thin, high clouds. To counteract these difficulties, more images were collected and an IR (infrared passing) filter was used. The best 15% of 5,767 video frames were used to create this photo.
Stacking was done with Auto Stakkert!3. Wavelets and histogram adjustments with Registax 6. Toning, cropping and rotation with Camera RAW and Photoshop CC 2021.
Celestron Edge HD8 telescope
Optolong IR-Pass filter (685nm)
ZWO ASI 290MM camera
Celestron Advanced VX Mount
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
Captured 1000 frames with Firecapture
Stacked best 75% with Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened with Registax
Finished with Photoshop to include oversaturating colors
Everything in this modest image leads to the Gassendi crater. Seeing was definitely not my best ally; The image of the Moon on the computer screen swayed from side to side as a result of atmospheric fluctuations. A lunar photograph does not remotely live up to the view through the eyepiece of my maksutov telescope; The poor vision that was evident with the camera was not noticeable to direct view and all was calm in the soft, deep contrast of the telescope. An intense glow towards the lunar terminator and then, the deepest darkness.
Gassendi rises above the Mare Humorum crowned by a circular rim, barely distorted here by the effect of foreshortening, and a small crater that breaks the edge, generating the visual idea of a diamond ring; Cracks come and go between cliffs and fissures forged in stone and lava millions of years ago.
Perhaps due to the turbulence or my own inexperience, the photograph is far from being a good lunar photo, but it preserves the spatial mystery and the indecipherable sensation of silence of a mythical lunar wasteland.
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Telescope: Maksutov Cassegrain "Explore Scientific" 127, f/15.
Camera: Player One Neptune-M (monochrome).
Filter: Player One IR685.
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ3.
Stacking: AutoStakkert
Preprocessed: AstroSurface.
Post-processing: Gimp.
February 21, 2024, 01:16 UT.
Zona rural, Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina.
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The May Flower Super Full Moon from my front walk in Austin, Texas early Thursday morning, 2020-05-07 0523 UT. Questar 1300/89 mm f/15 telescope with Sony a6300 camera at prime focus. The best 20 of 205 images stacked in Autostakkert 3, with LR deconvolution and wavelet sharpening in Lynkeos. Final crop and exposure adjustments in Photoshop.
Single video stacked. 300 of 1500 frames stacked in Autostakkert.
Skywatcher Explorer 130P
Nikon D3300
Taken with a Canon 70D DSLR and TMB92L refractor. This is the result of 30 images stacked with AutoStakkert! and processed with Astra Image Pro and Adobe Photoshop CS6.
I am one who cannot take a telescopic trip to the moon without at least dropping by Plato Crater for a short visit. I just find it so visually appealing. The evening of February 2nd this photo found Plato bathed in early morning light, with only the western two-thirds of its crater floor illuminated. The view was especially striking for the dramatic shadows the peaks of Plato’s eastern rim cast across the crater’s smooth lava floor. Looking at them in this photo, I was reminded of the jagged peaks that tower over Moorea’s Ōpūnohu Bay, which, although magnificent, are considerably smaller than the peaks of Plato’s eastern rim. That set me musing over ways to conceptualize the heights of those peaks. I have read that three of these peaks tower 1.5, 1.8, and 2.1 kilometers above the floor of Plato. Now that might seem like a lot, towering almost 6,900 feet (higher than any peak in the Eastern USA), but then I compared those values to other things I read about Plato. For example, consider that Plato has no central peak. Why not? It’s because the floor of Plato is buried under 2.6 km of lava, enough to overtop even the tallest of the eastern rim peaks, were it in the center of Plato. That is a LOT of lava. Plato is 101 km in diameter. Considering the mass of lava filling Plato as a cylinder of diameter 101 km and height of 2.6 km, that comes out around 20,830 cubic km of lava, maximum. (Somebody check my math: I’ve never excelled at math.) But consider another thing I have learned about Plato. See those tiny craterlets in its floor. The biggest of them, the one nearly in the center, that little sucker is about 2.7 km in diameter. THAT MAKES IT WIDER THAN THOSE PEAKS TOWER ABOVE IT.
Celestron EdgeHD 8 telescope, ZWO ASI290MM monochrome camera, Celestron Advanced VX mount.
Pre-processing of 3401 frame .ser file with PIPP. Best 10% of those video frames, stacked with AutoStakkert 3, wavelets processing with Registax 6, and final processing in Photoshop CC 2019.
Equipment
ZWO ASI290MM (RGB)
Meade LX850 (12" f/8) with 2.5x Tele Vue PowerMate
Losmandy G11
Capture:
FireCapture
5 RGB runs 45s each/3900 frames
5 to 8 ms exposures
Processing
PIPP - preprocessing
AutoStakkert! - registration and stacking
Registax - wavelet sharpening
PixInsight NXT - noise reduction
Photoshop - final processing
Seeing was below average during capture.
Le Soleil, le 14 juin 2025 à 11h
The Sun, June 14, 2025 at 11h.
Info: Le Soleil aujourd'hui / The Sun today (Spaceweatherlive.com)
* 134 = Nb de taches solaires / Sunspots number
* 9 = Régions de taches solaire / Sunspot regions
Risingcam IMX571 color
William Optics Zenithstar73ii
iOptron CEM26
Filtre SVBony UV/IR cut
Filtre Thousand Oaks Solarlite ND5
Exp. 20ms / Gain 101 / caméra refroidie à 10 degrés
Best 25% de 2500
Aquisition: Sharpcap
Traitement: PIPP, AutoStakkert 4.0, Registax et Affinity Photo 2
@Astrobox 2.0 / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec
AstroM1
Optics : TEC 140 F/7 Apo + TeleVue barlow 2" 4X
Filter : Baader Cool-Ceramic Herschel Wedge + Baader Solar Continuum Filter (540 nm) 2";
Equivalent focal lenght : 3920 mm
Camera : ZWO ASI 174 MM;
Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier;
Software : FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Photoshop.
Casalecchio di Reno - Italia
44° 29’ 29” N
11° 14’ 58” E
Genova, Italy (15 Lug 2022 01:16 UT)
Planet: diameter 18.5", mag +0.5, altitude ≈ 31°
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: 0.165 arcsec/pixel
Equivalent focal length ≈ 3625mm F/17.9
Image resized: +33%
Recording: SharpCap 4.0 (640x480 @ 60fps - 180 sec - RAW16)
Best 40% frames of about 10820 for each video
Alignment/Stacking: AutoStakkert! 3.1.4
Wavelets/Deconvolution: AstroSurface T3
Final Elaboration: GIMP 2.10.30
Date: 7 July 2018
Time: 2:30 AM
Bialystok, Poland
This photo is a result of stacking 100 frames.
Canon700D
Sky-Watcher N-150/750 EQ3-2
Registax6, Autostakkert!3, Photoshop CC2018, Fast Stone Image Viewer
M.Zuiko 300mmF4 IS Pro
MC-14 teleconverter (x1.4)
Film at 4k, convert and stack with PIPP and Autostakkert
Questi sono i colori abbastanza reali del nostro satellite.
Telescopio: Officina Stellare APO 105 mm f 6.2
Montatura:iOptron CEM60
Camera:QHY 183C Color
Software:SharpCap 3.2 Pro, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 3.0.14, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8
Here is a seven panel mosaic of last night’s waxing gibbous moon, happy with the details.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, best 25% of 5k frames per panel (seven panels total). Captured with SharpCap v3 and processed using AutoStakkert!, Registax, and Microsoft ICE. Frame rate averaged 116fps, Exposure=0.000563, Gain=231. Image Date: April 26, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.
Jupiter and Callisto, photographed from Long Beach, CA
Callisto is Jupiter's second largest satellite and the third largest moon in the solar system. It has a low albedo due to having an ancient surface, so I boosted its brightness a little here so it could be seen more easily.
30 s SER files were taken with a ZWO ASI120MM camera through Optolong CCD RGB filters on a Celestron Edge HD 925 telescope using FireCapture. The top 48% of frames went into 14 stacks of each color filter. These stacks were made in AutoStakkert, then sharpened in PixInsight. Stacks were combined and derotated in WinJUPOS, and the resulting R, G, and B images were combined in WinJUPOS to make a de-rotated single color image. Color balancing in Registax, then final touches in Photoshop.
CM longitudes:
System I: 136.8°
System II: 105.4°
System III: 23.7°
My view from South Huntsville on August 15, 2020, just before midnight. Jupiter is prominent in Alabama skies now, easily found in the Southeastern sky during late evenings. Around 10 PM it reaches its highest point in our sky, to the South. As a Southern state, Alabama sees Jupiter rise high in our skies, affording us a view those farther to the North do not get. As a bonus, Saturn is nearby, bright, a little farther to the East. Mars rises in the East about the time Jupiter shines highest in the South; by October Mars will appear brighter in the sky than Jupiter.
Celestron EdgeHD8 telescope
Celestron Advanced VX mount.
ZWO 224MC camera
Explore Scientific 3x Focal Extender
F/30, 203.2mm aperture, 6096mm focal length
Preprocessing with PIPP
Stacking with AutoStakkert!3, best 60% of 4944 video frames used,
Registax wavelets processing applied
Final processing in Photoshop CC 2020: Image cropped to 8x10 ratio.