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A lovely crescent Venus started off a planetary marathon in Marathon, Texas. Seeing conditions were a disappointment, but my ZWO ADC (Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector) was not! The FireCapture tool for adjusting the ADC worked very well. This image was made from the best 10% of 16 thousand images captured with a Questar 1350/89mm telescope, Dakin 2x Barlow, ZWO UV/IR cut filter, ZWO ADC, and ZWO ASI224 planetary video camera. Images stacked in AutoStakkert 3, with final crop and white balance correction in Photoshop.
Jupiter and Io at opposition on May 7th, 2018 from Broemmelsiek Park in Wentzville, MO.
This image was featured in the May/June 2018 St Charles County Parks newsletter: www.sccmo.org/CivicSend/ViewMessage/Message?id=58788
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
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus.15 jpgs stacked using Autostakkert 2.
Janssen is an interesting system of craters in the southeastern quadrant of the Moon. As the Sun sets on this dramatic scene, many interesting features can be seen in the contrasting shadows and sunlit portions of the terrain.
The largest crater, encompassing many other features, is Janssen. It is a well-worn, shallow and ancient crater. The second largest crater in the scene, Fabricius, is located almost entirely within Janssen's outer wall. In addition to several other craters, Rimae Janssen is visible on Janssen's floor.
Meade LX850 (12" f/16), ZWO ASI290MM
Autostakkert! (stacking - best 10% of 3,000 frames)
Registax (sharpening)
Photoshop (final processing)
Camera: ZWO ASI120MC
Telescope: William Optics FLT110
Tracker: Zeq25GT, Unguide
Stacking software: Autostakkert 2.6.6 (990 frames)
Editing software: Photoshop CS6
Northfield, OH
May 15, 2022, a partly cloudy night, with a few opportunities to observe this eclipse.
Somewhere in France - Lockdown #2 Day one.
The weather was good today.
The sky is clear at the beginning of the night. I think I have just taken my most precise shot of the Moon with a telephoto lens. Tonight, the moon is almost 100% brightness which is not always easy to manage. However, I am quite proud of the level of detail and the accuracy of the colours obtained.
Nikon z7 Tamron G2 150-600 Tcx20 1200mm (Dx mode eq 1800mm) f13 160iso 1/200s ~400frames. Stacking with Autostakkert, Wavelets with Registax, Colors with Darktable.
#moon #themoon #moonlight #moonlovers #fullmoon #sky #ciel #etoiles #stars #astrophotography #astrophoto #astrophotographie #astronogeek @astronogeek #nantes #nikon #z7 #tamron #1200mm #tcx20 #lockdown
16/09/2018
Jupiter. Captured with a 9.25" Celestron Edge, ASI 174MC, 3x Barlow. AutoStakkert using 25% from 1200 frames. Colour corrected with some sharpening applied within Photoshop.
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
In particolare nella foto sono visibili le regioni attive AR2994 e AR2995 con il loro gruppo di macchie. Dati: Celestron 114/910 Newton montatura eq2 con motore AR camera qhy5L-IIC filtro UV IR cut filtro Astrosolar Sharpcap per un video di 3 minuti Autostakkert 3! e Registax per l'elaborazione del video Gimp per migliorare nitidezza e contrasto Luogo: Cabras (OR) Data: 26-04-2022 9:21 UTC
1) build a base;
2) search for water ice;
3) look for helium-3;
etc... :)
11,073,511 pixels of the Moon, look closer ;)
Aquisition time (start of the session) : 27.12.2014, 20:17:54 UT+3).
Image orientation: close to straight;
Equipment:
QHY5L-IIm via Vixen Deluxe 2x Barlow lens on Celestron OMNI XLT 150 mm Newtonian riding Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro SynScan mount.
Aperture 150 mm
Focal length 1500 mm
Tv = 9 ms
Av = f/10
ISO N/A
Gain 0
Software: SharpCap :(
Exposures: 12 panels, 30% of ~400 frames were used for each panel.
Processing: moviws were processed in Autostakkert!2. Stacking results were subjected to Richardson-Lucy deconvolution in AstraImage 3.0 (Cauchy type PSF, size 1,5 units, 8 iterations) and stitched with Microsoft ICE. Black and midtones were adjusted in Photoshop.
The Jupiter. Photographed long back. Celestron 8" SCT with a SPC 900 camera and 2x Barlow.
Pre Processed in PIPP, Stacked in Autostakkert, processed inRegistax and PS.
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Timestamp: 10.5.2022 22:36:55 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 20s
exp 12.00ms
gain 50
frames 1667
Profile=Moon
Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3
Postprocessing by Registax (Linked Wavelets)
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
Sharpen + denoise + exposure increase + crop
Celestron 6se with 2x Barlow (3000mm FL)
Celestron AVX
Zwo ASI1600MC-C
Best 25% of 1000 frames
Sharpcap, Autostakkert!, PixInsight
Acqusition time: 22.08.2016 around 09:25 MSK
TIS DMK 23U274 on Coronado PST
140 out of 1000 frames were stacked in AS!2, deconvolved in AstraImage 3.0 PRO (Richardson-Lucy aggressive, Cauchy-type, 0,3 pixels, 11 iterations). Contrast enchancement and masking-blending were done in PS...
What we get is on the left. What is obvious is the brightness gradient from the center of the solar disk towards the edges. I know at least two version of why this happens with PST, and while this effect gives the Sun "spherical look", I don't like it. What can be done?
To all intens and purposes this is vignetting. Vignetting can be supressed either by removing the components which cause it (physics), or by flatfield correction (math). Modding PST is a possibility, but I don't wholeheartedly embrace it. So I went the path of math. I have taken my already processed image into ImageJ and made a copy of it. The copy was subjected to Gaussian blur with radius of 15 pixels. And the I DIVIDED the source image by blurred image using ImageJ Image Calculator function. The result was 32-bit image with negative and fractional brightness values :). It looks ugly but has all the information preserved*. I had adjusted the histogram of to include all the usefull signal and converted it into cozy 16-bits. I have taken it back to PS and placed it on top of my procesed image. Some contrast tweaking and masking-blending resulted in the image on the right. It looks pancake-flat , which may not be pleasing, but it has even and high contrast across the face of the Sun.
Opinions are welcomed ;)
*Close inspection had revealed some pixel-level junk bits, but they are tolerable.
10.9 days old
7 panel mosaic
Fuji X-T20
SW120ED (2x barlow to F=1800mm)
Autostakkert
Microsoft ICE
PixInsight
Jupiter 24th Nov 2023(21:15 UT) . Only average seeing conditions. This image consists of 3 images de rotated in Winjupos, each image the result of stacking the best 3,000 frames from nearly 12,000 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.
Telescopio: Celestron C6-A XLT 150/1500 f10
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: EQ5 Bresser EXOS2 motorizada sin goto
Filtros: Baader RGB CCD-Filterset
Software: FireCapture, PIPP, AutoStakkert, Registax, WinJUPOS, Fitswork y Photoshop
Fecha: 2019-08-03 (3 de agosto de 2019)
Hora: 01:04 U.T. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 5' + 5' + 5' (15' en total)
Resolución: 456 x 412
Binning: 2
Gain: 125 (24%) + 125 (24%) + 125 (24%)
FPS: 16 + 14 + 8
Exposure: 60.48 + 70.34 + 119.0 ms
Frames: 4957 + 4266 + 2519
Sensor temperature= 33.3 + 31.7 + 31.3 °C
Frames apilados: 13% + 13% + 13%
Jupiter and Its Moons (without a telescope)
Stacked 1200 photos
From left IO and Europa
Image processing : PIPP, AutoStakkert!,Registax wavelets processing, PS
Lunar close-up showing the very cratered southeastern region. In the centre of the image is Crater Piccolomini, a prominent lunar impact crater named after the 16th century Italian Archbishop and astronomer Alessandro Piccolomini. It is 88 kilometers in diameter and 4,500 meters deep. It was created 3.8 to 3.2 billion years ago. The long escarpment, Rupes Altai extends from the western rim of Crater Piccolomini and continues northwards for about 427 km. Above Crater Piccolomini is the much eroded Crater Fracastorius which is located at the southern edge of Mare Nectaris. At the bottom of the image is Crater Metius
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
Altair Astro Starwave 102ED-R (2017), Altair Hypercam IMX178C, Altair 0.6X Reducer, UHC Filter, Altair IR Filter, EQ3-2, Best 25% of 850 Frames. Processed in AutoStakkert. Finished in Lightroom.
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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 60s
exp 5.00ms
gain 50
frames 8097
Profile=Jupiter
Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3
Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
Sharpen + red channel values slight adjustment + crop
jupiter on the 1.1.013 at about 00:34 60 secs vids stacked in AutoStakkert and wavelets done in registax 6 . Taken with a spc900 in a x 3 TeleVue barlow skywatcher 200 dps on a eq5 pro goto unguided
Taken with a Solarscope 100mm filter / 2x Barlow / DMK41, The best 20% of around 1000 images were stacked using Autostakkert 2 and sharpened using Photoshop CS5. A composite of 4 photographs stitched together using Photomerge in Photoshop CS5. The image was then inverted and false colour added.
Sunspot AR2740 fading away.
Inverted Sun disk.
Session Information :
* 51° N 3° E
* Torhout, Belgium
* Capture Date : 12.05.2019
* Surface Capture Start : 13:00:04 UTC
* Surface Capture Mid : 13:00:20 UTC
* Surface Capture End : 13:00:36 UTC
Object Information
* Type : Sunspot
* Designation : AR2470
* Distance : 1.010 AU or roughly 151.1 million km
Hardware
* Mount : Celestron CGX
* Imaging Scope : TS Optics 152mm f/5.9 Achromat
* ERF : Baader 2" UV/IR Cut
* Filter : Daystar Quark Hydrogen-Alpha (Chromosphere)
* Imaging Camera : ZWO ASI 174MM
Exposure Settings
* Exposure : 6ms
* Gain : 0
* Gamma : 25
* Frames Surface : 4.000
* Frames Surface Stacked : 10% (400)
Capture Software
* FireCapture
Processing Software
* AutoStakkert!
* RegiStax
* Adobe Photoshop
* Topaz DeNoise AI
Sol Regiones Activas 14100, 14099, 14101, 14102, 14096 y 14092
Seeing y Jetstream mediocres
Telescopio: Refractor Bresser Messier Acro 102/460 f4.5
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 Photoshopp
Fecha: 20254-05-28 (28 de mayo de 2025)
Hora: 12:40 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.61 N -6.41 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 1 minuto
Resolución: 3096x2080
Gain: 164 (32%)
Exposure: 0.032ms
Frames: 1695
Frames apilados: 33%
FPS: 28
Sensor temperature= 43.7°C
A shot of the first quarter moon alongside the Empire State Building from 5th Avenue. Sony RX100 V with at 14.7 mm (40 mm equiv) focal length. Images taken 2018-04-22 around 23:00 EDT. Moon exposure 1/50 sec, f/3.2, ISO 400 best 8 of 50 images stacked in Autostakkert 3. Empire State single image exposed for 15 sec, f/3.2, at ISO 400. Final composite and crop in Photoshop.
Rima Ariadaeus is one of several linear rille systems nestled in the highlands between Mare Vaporum and Mare Tranquillitatis, and is about 155 miles (250 km) long. It is believed to be formed as a result of tectonic activity.
Kaguya flyover video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9aGuQNv0Fg
FireCapture v2.4 Settings
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Camera=ZWO ASI120MC-S, Shorty 2X Barlow
Telescope=Celestron CPC800 XLT
Duration=159.798s
Frames captured=5000
File type=AVI
Binning=no
ROI=1280x960
ROI(Offset)=0x0
FPS (avg.)=31
Shutter=31.31ms
Gain=50
HighSpeed=on
Histogramm=84%
Sensor temperature=32.8 °C
Best 25% processed with Autostakkert, Registax 6, Photoshop CC 2015.
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SPECIAL THANKS TO (for heads up): AstroEH17
10" GSO Dobson Deluxe non-motorized
IR cut filter
Camera: ZWO ASI462MC
Captured by FireCapture with following settings:
Resolution: 1936x1096
duration 42s
exp 5.00ms
gain 50
frames 5725
Profile=Jupiter
Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3
Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
Sharpen + red channel values slight adjustment + crop
Imaging telescope: Celestron 11
Mount: Celestron Advanced VX Goto
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI 224mc
Software: Autostakkert 2, Fitswork, Photoshop CS5
Date. 10.04.2016
Time: 19:52 MET
Frames captured: 1700, (55% stacked)
FPS: 55
Gain: 80
Focal length: 3000 mm
Seeing: 3/5
Transparency: 6 / 10
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10" GSO Dobson Deluxe non-motorized
IR pass filter
Barlow lens 2.5x
Camera: ZWO ASI462MC
Captured by FireCapture with following settings:
Resolution: 1936x1096
duration 10s
exp 15.00ms
gain 50
frames 668
Profile=Moon
Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3
Postprocessing by Registax (Linked Wavelets) + desaturation
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
Sharpen, denoise + brighten by increasing exposure
I still have to find out where did I actually landed :)
Update: oh, yes! The reconaissance data allows to conclude that it's a border between Mare Imbrium (up and to left, into the shadows) and Mare Serenitas.
Intended to be viewed at Original size.
Aquisition time: JD 2456725,189479 (around 08.03.2014 20:32:00 MSK).
Image orientation: as in the sky :)
Canon EOS 60D (unmodded) with 1,25" Baader Planetarium UV-IR cut filter and 5x Barlow lens coupled to Celestron OMNI XLT150 Newtonian reflector riding on Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro SynScan mount
Aperture 150 mm
Focal length (effective) 3750 mm
Tv = 1/60 seconds (movie crop 640x480 video recording mode)
Av (effective) = f/20
ISO 1000
Exposures: 700-1500 (50% of total)
Processing: Quicktime movies were converted to .AVI with SUPER video converter and processed in Autostakkert!2. Image was assembled in Microsoft ICE and was subjected to Richardson-Lucy deconvolution in AstraImage 3.0 (Cauchy type PSF, size 1,9 units, 10 iterations).
Nombreuses photos, prise avec un canon r6 et un objectif rf 800, empilées avec autostakkert, et traitée avec registax et lithroom.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK.
White Light: 13:08 BST
William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with a Thousand Oaks glass solar filter. Camera was a ZWO ASI120MC with 2x Barlow attached. 2,000 frame video was shot, best 57% stacked using Autoskattert! 3 Beta.
H-Alpha: 12:05 BST
Coronado PST H-alpha solar telescope. Camera was ASI120MC with 2x Barlow. 3,580 frame video was shot, the best 75% of the frames were stacked with Autostakkert! 3 Beta.
Stacked images processed in Lightroom , Fast Stone Image Viewer and Focus Magic. Collage created in Photoshop CS2
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.
The Sun today 29th Aug, 15:13 UT, showing Sunspot groups 4195/96/97, using Baader Solar filter material on a plywood off axis mask (4.75 " in diameter) on my C14. Taken with the ASI224MC at F7, the best 500 frames from 2,985 captured were stacked. Equipment used Celestron C14 edge HD and CGEPRO mount. Captured using Firecapture and Processed using Autostakkert V4 and Registax V6.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK, shot during freezing fog/mist!
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 60% of those were stacked with Autostakkert! 3. Stacked image was then processed with Focus Magic, Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer
Skywatcher 150/750 + Datyson T7 + Barlow x2. Captured with FireCapture. Stacked with Autostakkert ! and treated with Registax (wavelets).
The long route to get to here- 426 images takes with Canon EOSR and Tamron G2 150-600. Imported to Lightroom for basic adjustments, sent to PIPP for cropping and centering, sent to AutoStakkert 3 for stacking, sent to Registax for wavelet sharpening and then imported to Photoshop for minor touchup.
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 imagined 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
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and Canon 600D. A Baader Astrosolar Filter Cap fitted to telescope. Best 20 of 32 images stacked in Autostakkert after centering and cropping with PIPP. All images in JPG.
The seeing was not very good and variable (5-7/10) and the image was very smudgy sometimes.
The video was taken through a 10 inch ACF from Meade with 2x Hyperion Barlow lens, which gives me around 5 m focal length. In order to reduce the effects of the seeing and atmospheric dispersion I used a red interference filter (from the RGB filter set) which has an upper limit at the IR side.
35% of 1200 images of 5 ms each stacked in Autostakkert and sharpened and brightness/contrast adjusted in PS.
Tracking was very bad that night and is the reason why the video was so short. North is to the left. I orientated it that why because of the format of the image.
Click on the image to enlarge.