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Timestamp: 31.5.2023 17:25:10 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 4081 (50% best stacked)

Profile=Sun

 

Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3

 

Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)

 

Final postprocessing by Gimp:

Color levels (RGB) adjustments + Sharpen + Crop

The first light image from our new Coronado Solarmax II 60 Double Stack.

 

Photo Spec:

Coronado Solarmax II 60

ZWO ASI 178MM

SkyWatcher Star Adventurer.

 

Processing:

Stacked in Autostakkert!2

Sharpening in Registax 6

Coloration in Photoshop CS6

 

Photo by Janmejoy Sarkar.

Jupiter with moons Europa an Io on April 28th, 2018 from Broemmelsiek Park in Wentzville, MO.

 

Equipment:

Scope: Celestron C14 (3910mm focal length)

Upgraded with Moonlite CF focuser with motor

Imager: ZWO ASI174mm and ZWO filter wheel

Filters: ZWO RGB

Mount: Celestron CGE Pro

Acquisition using FireCapture

Integration using AutoStakkert!3.0

Processing with PixInsight 1.8

This is a quick stack and process of Petavius crater.

  

Lunar 100 Reference - L16 Crater with domed and fractured floor

  

Moon Age - 4.2 days waxing

  

Illumination - 18.3%

  

OTA - 20" F15

  

File -Moon Petavius Widefield_220858_lapl4_ap440_conv_R resized 1024.TIFF

  

ZWO ASI290MC

 

Exposure - 2mins video stacked 50% frames

 

FPS - 7

 

Frames Stacked - 500

 

Tenerife, Canary Islands

 

Date Taken - 27th June 2017

 

7,540ft

 

All processing in AutoStakkert 3 and PixInsight

C8 SCT. ~0.6" per pixel. UV/IR filter.

Best 10% frames taken from a 2 minute video @~200fps.

Firecapture, Autostakkert and Pixinsight.

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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 15.00ms

gain 50

frames 1334

Profile=Jupiter

 

Preprocessed in PIPP

Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3

 

Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)

 

Final postprocessing by Gimp:

Sharpen + denoise

Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and a Canon 500D DSLR. A Baader Astrosolar Filter fitted to telescope. Scope at F7.5 ISO200 1600th sec exposure.Focal length is 600mm ( not allowing for sensor crop value ) Best 25 of 55 images stacked with Autostakkert after processing jpg's in PIPP which centres and crops each image and outputs in this case to tiffs ready for stacking. Using jpg's as camera takes these much quicker than raws, and the resultant image doesn't seem any different from raw files. Much faster to process as a result and more chance of getting sharper images due to seeing conditions as can take many more jpg than raws quickly.

Télescope Schmidt Cassegrain F/D = 10 Celestron NexStar 6 SE + APN compact Nikon Coolpix S200 en mode vidéo en projection à l'oculaire. Photos extraites d'un film AVI, traitées avec AutoStakkert et Registax 6

Skywatcher EQ6 Pro.

Carbon fibre C9.25" O.T.A.

ZWO asi 290mm mono camera.

Baader RGB filters.

Xagyl USB motorised filter wheel.

Astronomic 642 I.R.P. filter.

Hitec DC motorised focus unit.

Televue 2.5x Powermate.

Software:

Firecapture 2.6

Hitec DC focus.

Stellarium.

PIPP.

Autostakkert 3.

Registax v6.

Adobe Photoshop CS4

Gimp.

A triplet of similarly sized craters, Theophilus, Cyrillus, and Catharina, are situated vertically from north to south on the lunar terminator. The plain to the east is Mare Nectaris. Fracastorius is the ancient, flooded crater in the lower left corner of the image. (A. Ruki 46, 47, 57, 58)

 

ZWO ASI178MC

Meade LX850 (12" f/8)

Losmandy G11

 

Captured 3,000 frames in Firecapture

Stacked best 1,500 frames in Autostakkert

Wavelet sharpened in Registax

Finished in Photoshop

Sol Región Activa 12882

Buen seeing con un poco de brisa

 

Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED

Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM

Montura: iOptron AZ Mount Pro

Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 1.8, T=1.5%)

- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (double stacked) (540nm)

Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism

Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop

Fecha: 2021-10-07 (3 de octubre de 2021)

Hora: 13:00 T.U. (Tiempo universal)

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 2 minuto

Resolución: 1184x858

Gain: 150 (29%)

Exposure: 0.032ms

Frames: 8718

Frames apilados: 39%

FPS: 72

Sensor temperature= 38.0°C

Celestron NexStar 6SE, ZWO asi224mc with IR cut filter, 2.5x TeleVue Powermate and ZWO ADC. Captured in SharpCap, processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax Wavelets then Lightroom.

Sol Región Activa 13217

Seeing regular bueno, algo de viento. Jetstream bueno.

Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED

Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM

Montura: iOptron AZ Mount Pro

Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.6, T=25%)

- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (double stacked) (540nm)

Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism

- TeleVue Lente de Barlow 2,5x Powermate 1,25"

Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop

Fecha: 2023-02-09 (09 de febrero de 2023)

Hora: 13:31 T.U. (Tiempo universal)

Lugar: 42.61 N -6.41 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 60 segundos

Resolución: 1808x1450

Gain: 109 (21%)

Exposure: 0.032ms

Frames: 2503

Frames apilados: 9%

FPS: 41

Sensor temperature=36.0°C

Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, 1 day before its 2022 opposition. I have only practiced collimation a handful of times with the C6, but it seems like I'm getting the hang of it. I was blown away when I made a rough "preview" edit of my first Jupiter image with this setup, and the final result was even more shocking. I could have never dreamed of getting an image this sharp when I started this hobby 4 years ago!

 

Phase angle: 0.48°

Apparent magnitude: -2.94

Apparent diameter: 49.88"

Distance from Earth: 3.953 AU

 

Stack of ~15,000 frames (best 50% of 29,977)

Captured from 05:55 to 05:58 UTC

Exposure 6 ms, Gain 300, Offset 25

 

Location: Summerville/Ladson, SC

Atmospheric seeing: 4/5

Camera: ZWO ASI224MC

Telescope: Celestron C6 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope

Barlow: Tele Vue 2x 1.25" Barlow (gives an effective focal length of 3404mm at f/22.7)

Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G (unguided)

Captured with FireCapture

Processed with PIPP, AutoStakkert! 3 (with 3x drizzle), PixInsight, and Paint.NET

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

Still a very dusty looking Mars!

 

Transparency (4/5)

Seeing (2.5/5)

 

C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)

ZWO120MC

SharpCap

Winjupos

AutoStakkert

PixInsight

Telescope: Celestron 11 - CGEM

Powermate 2X - Filter #23A (Red)

Camera: ASI120MM

Software: Firecapture - Autostakkert!2 - Registax - PS6

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

Tránsito de Mercurio

 

Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED

Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM

Montura: iOptron CEM40

Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.9, T=12.5%)

- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (540nm)

Accesorio: Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism

Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop

Fecha: 2019-11-11

Hora: 12:41 T.U. (Tiempo universal)

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 30 segundos

Resolución: 800 x 600

Gain: 72

Exposure: 0,000032

Frames: 3052

Frames apilados: 16%

FPS: 101.68

Skymax 180 and an ASI224MC with a 2x Barlow and an IR cut filter. Best 2,500 of 10,000 frames processed in Autostakkert, Registax and Affinity Photo.

Jupiter season is back! This is my first Jupiter image of 2017 (and hopefully it won't be my last). This is also the first planetary image I have taken with my ASI120MC camera. It's a great camera, and I can capture 60 fps video with a 1/120 sec exposure. So, lots of frames to pick from and better noise rejection. Even though the seeing wasn't great, the final image wasn't too bad!

 

I used AutoStakkert! and Images Plus to put this together. I used the best 15% of the frames from a three-minute video.

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10" GSO Dobson Deluxe non-motorized

IR cut filter

Camera: ZWO ASI462MC

 

Captured by FireCapture with following settings:

Resolution: 1936x1096

duration 47s

exp 5.00ms

gain 50

frames 3002

Profile=Jupiter

 

Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3

 

Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)

 

Final postprocessing by Gimp:

Sharpen

Jupiter 6th Jan 2024(20:12 UT) together with Ganymede and Europa. Only average seeing conditions. This image consists of 2 images de rotated in Winjupos, each image the result of stacking the best 2,000 frames from nearly 8,000 frames captured in 3 minutes. 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.

Part of a bigger animation.

Can be found here: i.imgur.com/EW1jMkT.gif

 

Kept best 10% of 2500 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 & Topaz DenoizeAI

 

3 panel mosaic. Captured early morning October 3 as a test using my old $99 Orion Starshoot Solar System Color Imaging Camera-IV on CPC800 XLT telescope. First time using my old camera on the new scope. Each panel is best 33% of 1800-2000 frames with AutoStakkert. Minimal wavelets applied with Registax 6. Hand assembled with Photoshop CC 2015.

Image by Dewald van Rensburg

 

63% Illuminated Waxing Gibbous Moon

 

Camera Settings:

Canon PowerShot SX30 IS on Tripod

 

52 Image Stack

Alignment & Calibration: PIPP

Stacking: AutoStakkert!2

Adjustments: Lightroom 5

Jupiter 28-03-2016, 21:01 UT

Good views of the Great Red Spot tonight.

Celestron C9.25 Telescope on Skywatcher N eq6 pro mount

Televue x2 Barlow, Baader LRGB filters

ZWO ASI120mm camera

Best 30% of 2100 frames stacked each channel in Autostakkert

Wavelets adjusted in Registax 6

RGB channels combined using WinJUPOS

It was -5°c out in the Peak District's best dark sky spot when I took this at 3am on 6th December. Made focussing this big lens all the more harder when you're trying to suppress shivering.

 

Taken with Olympus E-P5 and Tamron 500mm f/8 catadioptric lens. Merge of best 50% of 140 shots all taken at 1/320 and ISO640. Stacked in AutoStakkert 2, post-processed in Photoshop. I kept sharpening modest for a more natural, grain free look.

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK on 8th October 2019. Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor and ZWO ASI120MC camera with Powermate 5x Barlow. Mounted on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier, tracking at lunar speed.

2,000 frame video shot, the best 45% was stacked with Autostakkert! 3, processed in Lightroom, Fast Stone Image Viewer and Focus Magic. I was imaging between 20:30 – 21:20 BST. The seeing was not great and the Moon was quite low in the sky, but I’m always amazed at what this little camera can achieve on such a small refractor!

ZWO ASI178MC

2.5x PowerMate

TeleVue NP101is

Losmandy G11

 

300 frames captured in Firecapture.

Best 75% stacked in Autostakkert!

Wavelet sharpened in Registax

Finished in Photoshop

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.

Interested to see what could be caught with just a 200mm lens, wished I'd taken more pictures though for stacking and a couple of darks, still, it shows what can be done with basic equipment :-) Star and Coma elongation caused by longish exposure of 6 seconds, camera not guided as mounted on a normal tripod

104_9242-8 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert

Jupiter on the morning of November 7, 2014. ASI200 on an 11" Celestron HD Edge. RGB filters. Stacked using AutoStakkert! and color channels blended in Photoshop.

 

Playing around with processing... May repost a better version later.

Marte

Seeing aceptable pero jetstream medio/alto.

11 tomas de 280 segundos 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: 2020-09-30 (30 de septiembre de 2020)

Hora: 04:36 T.U. (Tiempo universal)

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 11 videos de 280"' (51' en total)

Resolución: 304x400

Binning NO

Gain: 300 (50%)

FPS: 218 (media)

Exposure: 1.821ms

Frames: 61256 (media)

Frames apilados: 5%

Sensor temperature: 21.5°C (media)

An image of the Transit of Mercury 9th May 2016.

 

Image made from 1000 frame video

Captured with FireCapture

Processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, Registax, and Photoshop

 

Equipment:

Celestron NexStar 127 SLT

Skywatcher EQ5 Mount

ZWO ASI120 MC imaging camera

Baader White Light Solar Filter

Orange filter (for purely aesthetic purpose)

 

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Timestamp: 28.5.2023 21:53:58 CEST

10" GSO Dobson Deluxe on Astrothingy EQ platform

Barlow lens 2.5x

IR pass filter

Camera: ZWO ASI462MC

 

Captured by FireCapture with following settings:

Resolution: 1936x1096

duration 20s

exp 10.00ms

gain 50

frames 2000 (25% best stacked)

Profile=Moon

 

Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3

 

Postprocessing by Registax (Linked Wavelets)

 

Final postprocessing by Gimp:

Curves adjustments + Sharpen + crop

Trying to further my moon photography here. I shot this with a Tokina 500mm F/8 mirror lens. The lens is not very sharp at F/8, so I created an aperture disk to stop it down to about F/22. Shot at 1/125 sec at ISO 800. I used a weighted tripod and mirror lock up to minimize vibration. I shot about 25 RAW files. Then I used a procedure I read about on ArsTechnica. I cropped and aligned the pics using PIPP. Then I sorted and stacked the best 16 frames using AutoStakkert to reduce noise. Then I sharpened the image using RegiStax with the Wavelet Sharpen tool. Finally, I used GIMP to adjust some curves and apply some chroma NR using the G'MIC plugin.

Taken with Celestron NexStar 6 SE Telescope and ZWO asci224mc Camera, sometime in the winter of 2017/18 (I'll find the date). Video stacked in Autostakkert 2 and processed in PS CC.

 

Rigel (β Orionis) appears as a bright blue white star found in the constellation of Orion. It shows some variability but is the currently the 7th brightest star in the night sky. It is believed to be 860 ± 80 light years away from Earth.

 

Rigel is believed to be a 3 star system, consisting of a massive blue supergiant Rigel A and two distant and much dimmer companions.

 

Much of Rigel's energy is emitted as ultraviolet radiation, but the visible component is around 40,000 times brighter than the Sun.

 

High mass stars such as Rigel exhaust their fuel at a far quicker rate than smaller stars, and so exist for only a few million years. Rigel is only around 8 million years old and has already exhausted the supply of hydrogen in its core.

 

Over the next few million years Rigel will expand to an even greater size as it becomes a red supergiant and is likely to explode as a supernova. If this does occur, it will become the brightest object in the night sky apart from the moon.

This is a collaboration between Hawk Wolinski and I. This image consists of 229 gigabytes of video data (22x3000 video frames) processed into a 22 panel mosaic was taken on March 8, 2024.

 

Consisting of 43x120s exposures (1.4 hours)

Camera: ZWO 432MM

Scope: Explore Scientific 127 with 4x Barlow

Filter: Daystar Quantum PE 0.4A

Mount: PlaneWave A200HR

Processed in Autostakkert 3, Registax, and Lightroom

 

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

Imaging telescope or lens:GSO 8" f/5 Newton

Imaging camera:ZWO ASI 183 MM PRO

Mount:SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro Goto

Guiding telescope or lens:GSO 8" f/5 Newton

Focal reducer:Pal Gyulai GPU Aplanatic Koma Korrector 4-element

Software:Adobe PhotoShop CS5, FitsWork 4, Giotto 2.21, Autostakkert! 2 AutoStackkert 2.3.0.21

Filters:Baader R 1.25'' CCD Filter, Baader B 1.25'' CCD Filter, Baader G 1.25'' CCD Filter

Accessory:TSOptics TS Off Axis Guider - 9mm

Date:Feb. 16, 2019

Time: 23:16

Frames: 1000

FPS: 25.00000

Focal length: 1000

Taken with a Celestron C6 SCT, Celestron AVX mount, 2x Barlow, and ASI120MC. Captured with SharpCap, stacked with AutoStakkert, and processed with Astra Image Pro and Photoshop.

Telescopio: TPO Ritchey Chretien 8"

Camara: ZWO ASI120MC-S

Montura: Quasar Eq5 Synscan

 

Frames: 1800

F: 8

Df: 1600 mm.

Fecha y hora de captura: 13/06/19 23:00 horas aproximadamente

Captura: Firecapture

Procesado: Autostakkert + Registax + Pixinsight 1.8

 

Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda

Observatorio Astronómico Altaír

Poncitlán Jalisco México

654 frames using my S4 Zoom, converted from MP4 to AVI via PIPP and stacked in AutoStakkert 2. Used my Nexstar 127SLT and a 25mm ep.

10" GSO Dobson Deluxe non-motorized

IR cut filter

Camera: ZWO ASI462MC

 

Captured by FireCapture with following settings:

Resolution: 1936x1096

duration 42s

exp 6.00ms

gain 50

frames 5750

Profile=Jupiter

 

Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3

 

Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)

 

Final postprocessing by Gimp:

Sharpen

Tránsito de Mercurio

 

Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED

Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM

Montura: iOptron CEM40

Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.9, T=12.5%)

- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (540nm)

Accesorio: Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism

Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop

Fecha: 2019-11-11

Hora: 12:39 T.U. (Tiempo universal)

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 30 segundos

Resolución: 1600 x 1200

Gain: 72

Exposure: 0,000032

Frames: 1543

Frames apilados: 18%

FPS: 51.05

The sun imaged in hydrogen-alpha at 04:15 UT on 2022 June 18, featuring a chromospheric disk with considerable activity. Features include minor flaring around active regions, several nice filaments and all shapes and sizes of prominences around the edge; south is up. The inset shows a part of the NW quadrant with the complex AR3030 to the west of the simpler AR3032 with several highly structured filaments adding to the spectacle.

 

Lunt 102mm solar telescope with ZWO ASI174MM video camera; frames selected and stacked in AutoStakkert, wavelet sharpened in RegiStax 6 and colour added in Photoshop CS5.

Best 33% of 3,000 frames in Autostakkert.

Wavelets - Registax 6

Photoshop CC 2015 for final touches.

Good transparency, Average Seeing, Pickering Scale = 5.

 

Celestron CPC800XLT

ASI290MC Camera

Shorty 2X Barlow

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