This is a section of a mosaic of the northern, Earth-facing region of the moon. Visible in this picture are Mare Frigoris, Sinus Roris, and Sinus Iridum. The crater Plato is prominent in the center of the image.

All images were taken from Long Beach, CA, with a Celestron Edge HD 9.25" telescope at f/10 with a Point Grey Flea3 color CCD camera. The best 200 of 800 frames were stacked in AutoStakkert!2, then processed in GIMP 2.6. The frames were assembled into a mosaic with Microsoft ICE.

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. The difference in the length of the central peak shadow on crater Walther is really noticeable. In image 2 the Sun has also risen on the floor of crater Purbach (this is the location of the "Lunar X". The rim of crater Huggins has also come into view on the second image.

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

Target practice. Hit 2 out of 2 :)

WARNING! Sun is dangerous, use proper filters for observing and imaging!

Acquisition time (start of the session):

The Sun: JD2456904,711968 (04.09.2014 09:05:14 MSK).

The Moon: JD2456905,210602 (04.09.2014 21:03:16 MSK

Image orientation:

The Sun: scrambled;

The Moon: as in the sky;

Equipment:

The Sun: TIS DMK23 U274 on Coronado PST riding on Celestron CG-4 motorised mount set over Vixen SX half-pier over Vixen SX tabletop tripod on a windowsill.

Aperture 40 mm

Focal length 400 mm

Tv = ~1/1500 s

Gain: ~6-8 dB

Capturing software: TIS IC Capture;

Exposures: 22% of 800;

The Moon: Canon EOS 60D with Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8L backed with EF 2x III extender handheld.

Aperture (effective): 63,5 mm

Focal length: 400 mm

Tv 1/250 sec

Av f/6,3

ISO 400

Capturing software: N/A

Exposures: 9 of 25

Processing:

The Sun:

1) stacking in AS!2 2.3.0.21alpha;

2) stacked image was used to make two components - one by applying convex curve for proms, and one with concave curve applied - for the disk details;

3) both derivative images were deconvolution in AstraImage 3 PRO (Richardson-Lucy algorithm, Cauchy type PSF, size 0,9 units, 6 iteartions);

4) high-pass filtering, masking, blending and stichingcollage-ing were made in Photoshop.

The Moon:

1) Raw images were converted to linear, brightness adjusted to +1EV, color set to monochrome, the sharpness and NR set to 0 in Canon DPP;

2) Images were pre-cropped to 1024x1024 and exported as 16-bit .TIFFs and stacked in AS!2 - I just discovered that it can consume image sequences. One just need to drag-and-drop them into main screen instead of using Open button :)

3) deconvolution (Richardson-Lucy algorithm, Cauchy type PSF, 0,9 units, 6 iteraion) in AstraImage Pro 3;

4) high-pass filtering and collage-ing were made in Photoshop.

M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy.

Taken Febuary 2016 with my Canon Eos 70D and Tamron 150-600mm lens.

Total exposure 33mins 24 sec

184 lights at 12 to 13 seconds each iso 12800.

28 darks

23 bias

camera was mounted on celestron Skyprodigy tripod with out the telescope.

No guide scope used.

Marte

Seeing sorprendentemente aceptable (las previsiones eran malas). 2 tomas de 5 minutos derrotadas y apiladas con WinJUPOS

Telescopio:Sky-Watcher Skymax Mak-Cass 180/2700 f15

Cámara: ZWO ASI290MC

Montura: iOptron CEM40

Filtros: Baader L CCD Filter

Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax, WinJUPOS, Fitswork y Photoshop

Fecha: 2020-09-11 (11 de septiembre de 2020)

Hora: 04:18 T.U. (Tiempo universal)

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 5' + 5' (10' en total)

Resolución: 304x300

Binning NO

Gain: 200 (33%)

FPS: 143 + 144

Exposure: 6.944ms

Frames: 43196 + 43203

Frames apilados: 25%

Sensor temperature: 31.5°C + 31.7°C

Taken May 30, 2015 from Magnusson Park in Seattle, WA.

Telescope: TEC 180 @ f/14

Mount: AP 900

Camera: ZWO ASI120MM-S

Approximately 1800 frames captured, 600 each RGB (best 5% frames taken).

Analyzed and Stacked in AutoStakkert!2

Processed with Registax 6 and PixInsight 1.8.

Went back to some older video captures of Saturn and reprocessed with the latest updates to AutoStakkert (AutoStakkert!4) and waveSharp (waveSharp 2.0). This capture is from October 2022. The results of the updated post-processing are a noticeable improvement from the original posts.

Date: October 5, 2022

Bortle Class 5 backyard, SF Bay Area (East Bay)

Capture: 2000 frames, lucky imaging (FireCapture)

Telescope: Celestron 127SLT

Camera: ZWO ASI485MC

Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate

Mount: Celestron alt-az go-to mount

Processing: AutoStakkert!4, waveSharp 2.0, WinJUPOS 12.3.12, Photoshop CC

Celestron SCT 6"

Televue Powermate 2.5x

ZWO ASI120MC-S

Firecapture

Autostakkert

PS

Seestar S50, da un filmato di 90 secondi elaborato con PIPP, Autostakkert, AstroSurface e Photoshop.

29 DSLR (Canon EOS 450D) shots 1/250s ISO100 prime focus. Baader Neodymium filter. Sky-Watcher 150 Explorer Newtonian. Autostakkert for alignment and stacking; Registax for wavelets and post-processing in Photoshop. Combined after stacking with uncropped single DSLR shot from same series. Taken from Wolverhampton, West Midlands.

Genova, Italy (17 Oct 2020 - 01:24 GMT+2)

Orange vintage C8 (203 F10 SC Telescope) on EQ5 Mount + QHY5L-II Color Camera @ F25 (Barlow APO 2.5x).

Best 15075 frames of 50250 (30%)

Recording: SharpCap 3.2 (320x240 @ 130fps)

Stacking: AutoStakkert! 3.1.4

Wavelets: Registax 6.1

Final: GIMP 2.10.8

Jupiter 12th Nov 2024(00:59 UT) , good seeing conditions at times. This image consists of 5 images de rotated in Winjupos, each image used the best 2,000 frames from each 6,000 frame AVI. Captured using Firecapture V2.7, Processed using Autostakkert V4, Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera, Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow and ZWO ADC.

This is an incomplete mosaic made up of 9 images. I was concentrating on the crater/mountain shadow details across the terminator of light and dark, sadly the cloud rolled in before I could finish the full mosaic.

Altair Astro 102ED f/7 refractor

Altair Astro IMX224 colour GPCAM

TeleVue x2.5 Powermate

SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6

Each of the images is a stack captured from the best 30% of 2000 frames for each image.

Captured with SharpCap 3.0

Stacked with AutoStakkert 3

Post processed with Photoshop CC2018

Mosaic elements combined using AutoStitch.

Soon very explosive AR2297 will rotate out of sight.

Acquisition: Coronado PST, 1/2 of Meade 2x Barlow lens and TIS DMK23U274, alltogether on tabletop Celestron CG-4 with motor.

Processing: Autostakkert!2, AstraImage PRO 3.0 and Photoshop.

A time-lapse of one of Jupiter's Galilean moons, Io, and its shadow transiting the planet. In this video, you can see the Io and its shadow transit from left to right while Ganymede (on the right) makes its way toward Jupiter. The Great Red Spot also bcomes visible as the planet rotates. We were lucky with the timing because Jupiter set behind houses shortly after the transit. This was shot 9 days before Jupiter reached opposition so the planet appears quite large and very bright. The video playback loops a few times at 18fps and a few times a 6fps.

17/09/2022

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Video made from 82 x 1,000 frame videos stacked to make 82 animation frames.

Total frames used: 82,108

Gain: 139 (unity gain)

Average Exposure: 0.048963 seconds

Time covered: 3 hours and 38 minutes

Video playback: 18 fps and 6fps

Video duration: 2 minutes and 42 seconds

Video loops numerous times

Captured with Sharpcap

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 ASI 1600MC Pro with USB-ST4

Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI120MC

Barlow: x2 with extension tube (x3.3)

MOON: Waxing Gibbous, 74%, 9.70 days.

8 frames stitched in Microsoft ICE. Each 90s at 65 fps. 20% stacked by Autostakkert

Made with 16 panels from 4K videos, stacked in Autostakkert, sharpened in Registax and assembled with Photoshop.

Maksutov 180/2700

EQ6R-Pro

Barlow Televue Powermate 2x

Canon 5DIV

5400mm, 1/30, f/30, ISO 800

Pixel scale 0.2"/px

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Coronado PST H-alpha solar telescope + Celestron 3x Barlow and ASI120MC camera. The telescope was on an EQ5 Pro mount, tracking at solar rate.

2,000 frame video captured with SharpCap, the best 75% stacked using Autostakkert! 3, then processing was done using Lightroom, Photoshop CS2, Fast Stone Image Viewer and Focus Magic.

This was an impressive region of prominence activity on the south eastern limb, and it was amazing to see how the area had changed in the space of an hour. There were several filaments visible on the disc as well.

🔭 30.09.2020

Località: Verona, Italia

Rielaborazione di Giove ripreso l'anno scorso...

Integrazione: 800 frame .ser Elaborati 100

Elaborazione: Registax + AutoStakkert!3

2021-04-19. East of the Alpine Valley (top left) we have crater ARISTOTELES (53 miles across), South of that we crater EUDOXUS (41 miles wide) and at bottom-left we have the amazing craters-within-a-crater formation called CASSINI (35 miles). On the middle-right we have the 24 mile-wide crater BURG with it's terraced walls and central peak.

Lots of interesting things to see around here including ridges and wrinkles near BURG and a lava filled crater with just the rim showing between the Alpine valley and Aristoteles (EGEDE)

Taken with a 4" refractor (Altair 102ED) with an Olympus OMD EM10 III camera and 50mm 1.8 lens (attached in afocal mode onto an 9mm EP and 3x Altair barlow.) 4K video taken and massaged with PIPP, AutoStakkert, Astrosurface and GIMP

104_9256-9 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert

Mars- poor seeing - again (frowny face) Solis Lacus bottom right, Valles Marineris north of that, Amazonis top center, Olympus Mons is light area in top center, and Polar Hood visible. Celestron C8 SCT , Televue Powermate 2.5X, ZWO ASI 662MC, recorded in Firecapture. Processed with Pipp, Autostakkert AS!2, Registax, Lightroom.

Active Region 2403

Quark Chromosphere, ASU 174 camera on Altair 115mm Triplet.

Stacked in Autostakkert, deconvolved in ImGPP. Finished in Photoshop

Mars 12th Nov 2024(01:56 UT) , good seeing conditions. This image consists of 9 images de rotated in Winjupos, each image used the best 2,000 frames from each 7,000 frame AVI. Captured using Firecapture V2.7, Processed using Autostakkert V4, Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera, Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow and ZWO ADC.

Image by Harvey Scoot

Taken with Celestron C11 EdgeHD, with a ZWO 120MC camera.

Final stacked image consists of just over 2000 frames (using Autostakkert 2, Registax.)

Le cratère Tycho Brahe, de 82 km de diamètre. Ses bords se dressent à 4700m du plancher.

Il contient un pic central de 2000m d'altitude.

Newton SW 200/1000

EQ6-r pro

Caméra T7 mono (ASI 120mm)

Barlow Televue x3

Acquisition FireCapture

Traitement Autostakkert!3 + Registax6

300 images / 1000

18 Apr 2019

01:30 UTC

Full aperture baader.

ZWO ASI290MM

C9.25 (F=2350mm)

AutoStakkert

PixInsight

Moderate seeing (3/5)

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Timestamp: 10.5.2022 21:35:29 CEST

10" GSO Dobson Deluxe non-motorized

Barlow lens 2.5x

IR cut filter

Camera: ZWO ASI462MC

Captured by FireCapture with following settings:

Resolution: 1936x1096

duration 15s

exp 10.00ms

gain 50

frames 958

Profile=Moon

Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3

Postprocessing by Registax (Linked Wavelets)

Final postprocessing by Gimp:

Sharpen + denoise + exposure increase + crop

Telescope Skywatcher 200/1000 PDS

Monture EXOS-2 GOTO

Canon EOS 2000D (non défiltré)

Prétraitement : PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax

Traitement : Lightroom

62 x 1/4000 secondes, 800 ISO F/5

Âge moyen de la Lune: 10.4 jours

Phase moyenne de la Lune: 76.5%

My best Jupter, so far. This one is taken in RGB on November 25 2012 at 21:29 UTC, using a Celestron C8 scope and a TIS DMK21AF04 planetary camera. Used also Astronomik RGB filters and an Antares 3x barlow lens (~7m focal lenght).

Stacked best 600 of 1500 frames/channel. Each channel was 50 s @30 fps, with pauses of 10 s between each.

Processed using Castrator, Autostakkert, and Registax 6 for wavelets and finally using Maxim DL for Richardson-Lucy deconvolution and color recomposition.

Il mio miglior Giove, finora; ripreso in RGB il 26 novembre 2012 alle 21:29 UTC, a ~7m di focale con telescopio Celestron C8 e camera planetaria TIS DMK21AF04. Filtri RGB Astronomik, barlow Antares 3x.

Stacking dei migliori 600 su 1500 frame per canale, ripresi in sequenze da 50 s con pause da 10 s.

Wavelet con Registax, deconvoluzione Lucy-Richardson con Maxim DL.

Luna del 21-08-2016

Apilado 18% de 104 frames de video MLV 2496 x 1080 recortados.

SW Dob 8" f/6 - Canon 60D - ISO 400 - 1/1000s - Foco primario.

Procesado: PIPP - AutoStakkert - Registax - Adobe Lightroom

Explore Scientific 152/988 with Altair Hypercam 183C and SharpCap.

5 minutes video in Autostakkert (best 125 frames), Wavelets in Registax

IAS Observatory Gamsberg / Hakos, Namibia

28" Newtonian 3120mm

20" Keller Cassegrain 4500mm

Image processing: AutoStakkert!, Giotto, Fitswork, PixInsight, WinJupos, PS CC

Tiny crop from the Eastern limb of the Sun where the things were happening during March 20th eclipse.

To watch the action take a look on Original size image (animated GIF).

Main window shows the final frame with the Moon getting where :)

The sequence spans about one hour (32 frames each 2 minutes) from the beginning of the eclipse at 12:12 to 13:23 GMT+4 - slightly past maximum as seen from Moscow.

Images were prepared as describe here, cropped, rotated, masked and blended for contrast enchancement, upscaled and saved as animated GIF. Flickr tends to stop playback of low framerate videos near the middle of the movie so GIF again.

Note: well, dark frame substraction is needed if faint stuff is to be pulled out.

Note 2: I have used two masks - one with gamma>1 for the disk and another with lowered white-point for proms. They were used for all frames. And the images had accumulated some shift due to imperfect alignment - hence the dark band along the limb. For top precision each frame should be masked individually. Next time I'll try to employ PS actions for this.

Upd. 23.03.2015: I have replaced the original image with more precisely aligned version.

Telescope: FS-60Q

Mount: SkyWatcher Star Adventurer

Camera: SONY α6500 (model ILCE-6500)

Adapter: スターベースオリジナル Tリング用ワイドリング60W(M52P=0.75メスネジ), ビクセン Tリング(N) ソニーE用

@ ISO100 1/80ss x79 (2017/08/04)

Software: AutoStakkert! x3 drizzle, RawTherapee 5.2 (crop), Lightroom

New active regions coming around into view.

8 individual panes stitched into a single image.

ASI 174 on QUark chromospher, mounted an Altair Astro 115mm Triplet. Stacked in Autostakkert!2 and Lucy Richardson deconvolution applied in ImPP

Mars captured using a Celestron NexStar 6SE a Canon 600d and Svbony 3x Barlow. 3 minute video processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax Wavelets and finished off in Lightroom.

Also quickly taken on Christmas Eve, this picture shows craters Aristoteles and Eudoxus, clearly standing out as the sun rises on the 87 and 67km-wide craters. Craters Hercules and Atlas are visible to the upper left. Mare Frigoris is left of Aristoteles.

Picture data: Celestron 8 telescope at F/10, ASI120MC-S camera. Stack of 200frames out of a 6000 frames video. Processing with Autostakkert and Registax. Acquisition with FireCapture.

4 panel mosaic captured early this morning before sunrise. Each panel is best 500/850 frames processed with Autostakkert. Hand assembled in Photoshop 7.

Hesiodus

03-01-2021

500 frames

Toya 114mm EQ-5

QHY 462C + ir-cut + Celestron x-cel 3x

FireCapture, AutoStakkert, AstroSurface e PhotoShop

Matupá/MT

How can we call this thing in the bottom left corner of the frame - the sprite? The ghost? The CME?

I have got dynamic range - 12 bits, no kidding! - but no luck with flatfielding yet...

WARNING! Sun is dangerous, use proper filters for observing and imaging!

Aquisition time (start of the session) : JD2456852,72667824 (14.07.2014 09:26:25 MSK).

Image orientation: west is down, I think

Equipment:

QHY5L-II monochrome CMOS camera via 2x Barlow lens on Coronado PST riding tuned motor-driven Celestron CG-4 EQ mount set over Vixen SX tabletop tripod and SX half-peir.

Aperture 40 mm

Native focal length 400 mm

Effective focal length 800 mm

Tv = 2 ms

Av = f/20

ISO NA

Gain 23 out 1000

Software: FireCapture

Exposures: about 400/800

Processing: camera was running in raw mode, producing 4096 shades of gray. The movie was saved in .ser file. Movie was processed in Autostakkert!2. Resulting image was subjected to Richardson-Lucy deconvolution in AstraImage 3.0 (Cauchy type PSF, size 2,7 units, 5 iterations).

High-pass filtering was made and contrast adjustment were done in Photoshop.

Note: the Newton's rings are the primary problem now.

Camera : Nikon Coolpix P1000

Processed 4K video (3 min 55 seconds video)

PIPP,autostakkert and Registax,1.5x drizzled

Did not have very good seeing last night, but was still able to capture Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, appearing after occultation.

Date: November 28, 2024

Bortle Class 5 backyard, SF Bay Area (East Bay)

Capture: 1500 frames, lucky imaging (FireCapture)

Telescope: Celestron C9.25 SCT

Camera: ZWO ASI664MC

Filters: None

Tele Vue 2x Powermate

Mount: iOptron GEM45

Processing: AutoStakkert!4, waveSharp 1.0 beta, Photoshop CC

In questa immagine è visibile l'ombra di Io quasi alla fine del transito e sul pianeta è visibile la Grande Macchia Rossa.

Dati tecnici:

Telescopio Celestron 114/900 Newton

montatura eq2 con motore AR

camera qhy5L-II-C

filtro Uv Ir cut

Barlow 2x Celestron Omni

Sharpcap per l'acquisizione dei video

Pipp, Autostakkert 3 e Astrosurface per le elaborazioni

Camera raw per luminosità, contrasto e bilanciamento del colore

Luogo: Cabras (OR)

Data: 16-12-2021 18:10 UTC

Acqusition time: 09.08.2016 around 09:00 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 and aggressive composing were done in PS.

El sol, hoy dia 13 de febrero a las 12:48 TUC

(Datos de captura👇)

Telescopios:

-Coronado SolarMax III 70mm

Cámaras Fotográficas:

-Player One Neptune-M

Monturas:

-iOptron GEM45

Filtros:

-Coronado 15mm blocking filter

-Coronado Solarmax II 60mm Double Stacking Etalon Programas:

-Adobe Photoshop

-Emil Kraaikamp AutoStakkert!

-Torsten Edelmann FireCapture

Detalles de adquisición

Fecha: 13 de Febrero de 2024

Hora: 13:48

Tomas: 1500

FPS: 33

Exposure per frame: 2,40 ms

Gain: -0,99

Seeing: 3

Transparencia: 5

Resolución: 2180x1844

Taken from Oxfordshire with a 70mm refractor on an EQ5 Pro mount, 2 x Barlow and Canon 1100D

Best 34% of 200 frames stacked using Autostakkert! 2, then processed in Lightroom

This was about 18 hours away from Full Moon

Our star imaged on the 23/1/2019. An active region, AR12733 (left of centre), a filament or two, some prominences around the edge and lots of granulation. North approx to top.

Monochrome video captured through Astronomical Society of Victoria's H-alpha solar telescope; frames stacked and aligned in AutoStakkert, processing and colour addition in Photoshop CS5.

Not bad for solar minimum!

Waxing Crescent Moon captured at 17:12BST (16:12GMT) 24% illuminated 4.8 days since New Moon - 27.05.2020

Altair Astro 72EDR (f/6) telescope (432mm focal length)

Camera: Altair Astro IMX178C Hypercam (CMOS)

Mount: SkyWatcher AZ-GTI

Data: 5000 frames captured with SharpCap 3.2Pro (3.

5ms / Gain = 115)

Processing: Best 15% of data stacked with AutoStakkert 3, white balance adjusted with Registax6.

Post processing with Astra Image Deconvolution plugin and final curve tweaks with Photoshop 2020

Close up of AR 2579 environs startegically archived for cloudy days :)

Acquisition time: 23.08.2016, 09:36 MSK

TIS DMK 23U274 via 2x Barlow lens on Coronado PST

140 out of 1000 frames for each of 2 panels were stacked in AS!2 with corresponding bag-flat and dark frame calibration, deconvolved in AstraImage 3.0 PRO (Richardson-Lucy aggressive, Cauchy-type, 0,3 pixels, 11 iterations), manually stitched (MS ICE had failed :( ) and contrast adjusted in PS.