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Mars at 19:55 UT, 12/12/2020. Average seeing conditions tonight. 5 minutes worth of data, the result of merging 2 files in Winjupos, each the best 4,000 of 20,000 frames, resized 150%. Captured using Firecapture V2.5. Processed using Autostakkert V 3.1.4 , Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera and Carl Zeiss 2 X Barlow.
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.
Lunar close-up showing Mare Tranquillitatis. On the left edge of the image are two craters close together. These are, from left to right, Crater Ritter and Crater Sabine. Just a little to the right of Crater Sabine is the spot where on July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 landed and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon. You can't resolve the landing site (not with my kit anyway) as it is far too small at 250,000 miles but that is where history was made.
Made from a 1000 frame video (best 75%)
Captured with FireCapture
Processed in AutoStakkert, Registax and Photoshop
Equipment:
Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS
Skywatcher EQ5 Mount
ZWO ASI120 MC imaging camera
x2 Barlow
Kept best 10% of 3000 frames
---Hardware---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
Camera : ZWO ASI 224 MC
Filters:
ZWO UV/IR Cut
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 & Topaz DenoizeAI
Taken with Imaging Source DFK21AU618 CCD Camera at prime focus of Celestron EdgeHD 925. Stacked with Autostakkert and processed with PSE12.
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.
The Stonyhurst Disk superimposes correct orientation, axis of rotation and position of solar magnetic poles.
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
Composite image made by combining two separate output from different exposure videos.
Taken on 21 June 2019 at 23.43 UTC, with Celestron NexStar 6se SCT and ZWO asi224mc Camera. Video captured in SharpCap, stacked in AutoStakkert, then processed in PSP8, Registax 6 and LR.
Hazy sky tonight.
4 panel mosaic
Fuji X-T20
SW120ED (2x barlow to F=1800mm)
Autostakkert
Microsoft ICE
PixInsight
A couple of weeks ago I doubted I could even find planet Uranus with the Skymax 127 telescope, in a light polluted (Bortle 6) area of Belfast, let alone get it to appear on a planetary camera (ASI-178MC) but there it was last night!
Uranus currently 2.8 BILLION km from Earth!
A very short time-lapse of 3 of Jupiter's Galilean moons. In this sequence, you can see the end of Europa's transit and the start of Ganymede's transit. The dark spot is Europa's shadow passing in front of the planet. Europa itself is some way ahead of the shadow and becomes visible on the right side of Jupiter. Meanwhile, Ganymede starts to transit on the left of Jupiter just before Europa clears the planet. Io is further out in the left and has already emerged from behind Jupiter.
It's a shame we couldn't get more shots but the conditions were not great. However, we continued shooting until Jupiter finally set behind houses.
06/09/2021
Video made from 9 x 2,000 frame videos stacked to 9 x animation frames.
Total frames used: 15,933
Gain: 79%
Exposure: 0.010164 seconds
Time covered: 57 minutes and 45 seconds
Video playback: 10 fps
Video duration: 4 seconds
Video loops 50 times
Total input frames: 9
Total output frames: 663
Captured with APT
Guided with PHD2
Processed in PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax, Photoshop
Video compiled in PIPP
Equipment:
Telescope: Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS
Mount: Skywatcher EQ5
Guide Scope: Orion 50mm Mini
Guiding Camera: ZWO ASI1600MC Pro with USB-ST4
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI120MC
Barlow: x2 with extension tube (x3.3)
ISS Solar Transit
July 4th, 08:39:10 MST, 0.6 seconds
Composite of best 150 of 1595 frames with 17 of ISS
Celestron 6se with solar filter and f/6.3 reducer
Celestron AVX
Zwo ASI1600MC-C
Sharpcap, Autostakkert!, PixInsight, Photoshop
Lunar X del 08-09-2016 - 21:12 GMT -3
Canon 60D - SW Dobson 8" f/6 - Barlow 2x - Foco primario
ISO 400 - 1/100s - Apilado 18% de 150 frames video MLV 960 x 960 recortados.
Procesado PIPP - AutoStakkert - Adobe Lightroom
Captured this image of Mars one day prior to closest approach in 10 years.
2016-05-29 at 23:18:17
From Male', Maldives
Celestron C8 + Televue Powermate 2.5x + Neximage 5
5000mm at f/25
60% of 2800 frames stacked and drizzled 1.5x in Autostakkert!2 and sharpened in Registax 6
Taken on Christmas Eve between two drinks :o), this picture shown crater Julius Caesar (lower left) and Rima Ariadaeus (straight canyon crossing the flat terrain in the center of the picture). Mare Tranquilitatis and crater Arago are to the upper left of the picture.
Picture data: Celestron 8 telescope at F/10, ASI120MC-S camera. Stack of 200 frames out of a 4000 frames video. Processing with Autostakkert and Registax. Acquisition with FireCapture.
21:50BST 96% illuminated, bright but hazy sky with poor transparency, not too bad, but details couldn't be sharpened much more.
Altair Astro Lightwave 72EDR f/6
AA IMX178C Hypercam
SkyWatcher AZ-GTI mount
Exp = 1.85ms
Gain= 250
Best 10% stacked with Autostakkert 3, of 3000 frames captured with SharpCap Pro 3.2
Post processed with Registax 6 and Photoshop CC2019 with Astra Image plugins for deconvolution, and sharpening.
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)
Captured with Celestron NexStar 8SE, ZWO ASI120MC and Celestron 2X barlow.
Image processed using AutoStakkert and RegiStax with 1500 frames.
Location: Maharagama, Sri Lanka at 4:15 AM (IST).
30 Sep 2016 0130 UTC
Coronado PST 40mm
IMG132e
Autostakkert
PixInsight
ShahGazer Observatory, Sri Damansara, Malaysia
Maksutov Celestron 127 mm su montatura Celestron SLT; smartphone Samsung S21, oculare Plossl 9 mm. Stack di 1000 frames con Autostakkert. Elaborazione con Astrosurface.
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
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.
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
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