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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
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
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
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.
Maksutov Celestron 127 mm su montatura Celestron SLT; smartphone Samsung S21, oculare Plossl 9 mm. Stack di 1000 frames con Autostakkert. Elaborazione con Astrosurface.
Close-up from the moon.
Sky-watcher Skymax 102, Celestron 2x Barlow and ZWO ASI120MC-S.
Used 40% of 500 frames captured in Firecapture.
Stacked in Autostakkert, sharpened in Registax 6.
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
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and Canon 600D DSLR. Baader Astrosolar Filter fitted to telescope. Best 15 of 25 images stacked in Autostakkert
Saturn as primary capture target. Captured with Celestron Omni XLT 150R, ASI120MC and Celestron 3X barlow.
Photograph is bit blurry due to thin cloud layer at target area.
Image processed using GIMP 2.8, AutoStakkert and RegiStax with 200 frames.
Location: Maharagama, Sri Lanka at 3:07 AM (IST).
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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 401
Profile=Saturn
Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3
Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
Sharpen + Noise reduction + layer masks
Deuxième session planétaire à la sueur de mon front ! Et oui, je n'avais aucun moteur sur ma monture et c'était une vraie galère de garder la belle aux anneaux centrée dans l'œil de ma webcam.
Fichier vidéo de 22 secondes à 60 images par secondes
Capture SharpCap
Empilement Autostakkert
Traitement Registax
Webcam spc900nc + Barlow x2
Skywatcher 130/900 sur eq2 non motorisée
Jupiter 9th March 2025 (21:40 UT) , poor seeing conditions. This image consists of just 2 images de rotated in Winjupos, each image used the best 2,000 frames from each 7,000 frame AVI captured in 75 seconds.. 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. No ADC.