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Part of a bigger animation : i.imgur.com/VukkJd5.gif
Kept best 5% of 2000 frames
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Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
Camera : PointGrey Grasshopper GS3-U3-23S6M
Tube : Astro-Physics 130 EDF F/6 with 4x barlow (Televue Powermate)
Effective focal length : 3120 mm
Effective aperture : ~ F/24
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Acquired with FireCapture
Stacked with AutoStakkert
Mosaic done with Microsoft ICE
Processed with Lightroom & Topaz DenoiseAI
Mars captured using a Celestron NexStar 6SE, Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate and Canon 600d at 4x digital zoom. 2.5 minute video processed in PIPP, AutoStakkert, RegiStax Wavelets then Lightroom.
Luna llena del 20/06/2016
Apilado 6 de 13 tomas.
SW Dob 8" f/6 - Canon 60D - ISO 400 - 1/1250s - Foco primario
Procesado: PIPP - AutoStakkert - Adobe Lightroom
Mars 5th Feb 2025(21:23 UT) , under average seeing conditions. This image is made up of 4 images de rotated using Winjupos, each image consisting of the best 3,000 frames from a 12,000 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 No ADC.
False Colour
Celestron Nexstar 127 SLT
DMK21AU618
Baader Solar Film
Baader Solar Continuum Filter
Captured: FireCapture - 899 frames @ 30 fps @ f11.8
Stacking: AutoStakkert!2 - Best 30%
Wavelets: Registax 6
Postprocessing: Adobe Photoshop CS5
A few images from yet another cloud hampered solar session.
150mm PST mod refractor (stopped down to 100mm) and QHY5III 178M used to record SER;s of AR 2822,a large prominence and a new active sunspot appearing on the NE limb. Stacked in Autostakkert 3,processed in Astrosurface and PS CS2.
A mere 3.6% illuminated!
8-9 days to go before Inferior Conjunction!
Skywatcher 120ED (F=1800mm)
ZWO ASI120MC
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
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
On 2014 October 23, we used the Coranado 60mm H-alpha solar telescope on a CGEM with a Point Grey Flea3 color CCD to capture these images from Cerritos College in Norwalk, CA. The frames span about 25 minutes of the eclipse, beginning at 15:20 PM PDT. Students in my Tuesday and Wednesday Observational Astronomy labs helped me process the movies into individual frames using AutoStakkert 2 and GIMP. The individual frames were assembled into an animation in GIMP and PS CS 5.1.
The sun had an enormous active region (AR 2192) at the time of the eclipse, and some small flaring activity is visible in the video. There is also a large filament that gets obscured by the moon, and many prominences, which show hydrogen gas, danced around the limb of the sun.
Mewlon 210 and Player One Uranus camera. Autostakkert and Registax for processing. An unusual feature.
This image obtained one day after the Great Conjunction of 2020.
Tak Mewlon 180c; ASI294 MC Pro camera; Ioptron AZ Pro mount. 2 minutes of video processed with Autostakkert, Registax and ACDC.
Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor and 2x Barlow on an EQ5 Pro mount. 300 images shot in RAW, converted into TIFFs then the best 80% stacked using Autostakkert! 2. Image processed in Lightroom, Registax 6, Photoshop CS2 and Fast Stone Image Viewer
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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 10.00ms
gain 100
frames 5997
Profile=Saturn
Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3
Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
Sharpen + duplicate layer/layer mask + crop
72ED apo used with Herschel wedge/continuum filter,Coronado SM40/BF10 filter set and Lunt CaK B1200 module to capture these views of AR2795 (closest to limb) and AR2794. SER's of various frames recorded in Sharpcap using a QHY5III 178M mono camera,stacked in Autostakkert processed in Astrosurface and PS CS2 adding false colour. The image showing sunspots close up was taken through a C9.25 sct at f/10 with Baader ND3 solar film and the 178M with I/R pass filter. SER file stacked and processed using the same principle as the full disk images.
Taken 24/12/20
150mm f/8 (stopped down to 100mm) PST mod for prominence and AR 2822 images,72ED with SM40/BF10 filter set for full disk. Stacking carried out in Autostakkert 3 and processed in Astrosurface and PS CS2 adding false colour.
Taken 12th May 2021.
Captured at 21:28:47 as Ganymede made first contact. Captured 1000 frames every 5 minutes for over an hour until it disappeared behind Jupiter.
Software used, Autostakkert 2.0, Registax 6 (wavelets).
FireCapture v2.3 Settings
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Scope=Orion XT8-i
Camera=ZWO ASI034MC
Filter=CH4
Profile=Jupiter
Diameter=45.22"
Magnitude=-2.56
CMI=103.6° CMII=70.1° CMIII=343.0° (during mid of capture)
FocalLength=3960mm (with Orion TriMag Barlow)
Resolution=0.31"
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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 17s
exp 12.00ms
gain 50
frames 1415
Profile=Moon
Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3
Postprocessing by Registax (Linked Wavelets) + desaturation
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
Sharpen + denoise + brightness + contrast + crop
Note: I removed L47 designation as the dark spots are not visible.
Full disks taken through 72ED,Solarmax 40/BF10 (Ha) and Lunt CaK 1200 module and QHY5III 178 riding on a CEM60. Sequence of images showing AR 2817 nearing the limb,prominence and image of sunspot AR 2816 taken through either 150/PST mod or 150/Lunt 50 pressure tune module mod scopes with QHY5III 178. SER's Stacked in Autostakkert 3 and processed in Astrosurface and PS CS2 adding false colour. All times are UT.
Meade 60mm
ZWO ASI120MC-S
Prisma de Herschel + Baader Solar Continuum
Celestron CG-4
1000 frames
Df: 360 mm.
F: 6
Firecapture + Autostakkert + Fitsworks + Lr5
Observatorio Astronómico Altaír
Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda
Poncitlán Jalisco México
Taken from Oxfordshire with a Coronado PST and 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro mount. 300 images shot, converted into an avi using PIPP then the best 75% stacked using Autostakkert!3 Beta
Copernicus is a lunar impact crater located in eastern Oceanus Procellarum. It's diameter is 58 miles. Image was made from a 2 minute AVI video, processed in Autostakkert and Pixinsight. BlurXterminator in Pixinsight made a huge differenc to detail in this image.
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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 50s
exp 6.00ms
gain 50
frames 6789
Profile=Jupiter
Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3
Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
Sharpen
Overexposed and normal image (latter inset) both taken on 16 October 2017, just after midnight with ZWO ASI224 MC Camera and Celestron NexStar 6 SE Telescope.
Video was captured in SharpCap, processed in Autostakkert and edited in PS.
The former image was overexposed to show the Triton.
Jupiter as imaged on 31 March 2237hrs, from Male', Maldives
Celestron C6 + Neximage 5
2 min video Stacked in Autostakkert!2 and sharpened in Registax 6
For fun, took 20 shots of the moon at 200mm using a Canon 600D and a Canon F4 IS L 70-200mm Zoom lens. Processed the images in PIPP, to center and crop them and convert them to 20 tiffs, then stacked the result using Autostakkert. Pleased with the result.
D7100 + tamron 150-600 + Sigma 1.4x (focal 840)
varias exposiciones apiladas con PiPP+AutoStakkert. Procesado posterior con Lightroom
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10" GSO Dobson Deluxe non-motorized
IR cut filter
Barlow 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
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
unsharp + denoise + duplicate layer/layer mask
A British diesel-electric locomotive seen in longwave thermal imaging.
Image made with a Therm-App thermal imager operated by ThermAppPlus software, post-processed in Autostakkert! 2.1.0.5 for resolution enhancement.
I was frankly amazed that we can read the number on the cab door and (with difficulty) "First Great Western" on the side. Paint usually has exactly the same temperature as whatever it's painted on - particularly if the surface is highly conductive, like metal - so this can only be because the lettering paint has different emissivity from the surrounding area.
A visible light view of this exact same locomotive can be seen at www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=323657&nseq=1 (that image is nothing to do with me).
For more thermal imaging of a wide variety of subjects, visit the Therm-App users' group at www.flickr.com/groups/therm-app-users/
Comments are warmly welcomed.
14 panel mosaic. Captured Saturday morning. 0.5 focal reducer used in front of ASI120MC-S camera and CPC800. Each panel is best 25% of 1000 frames processed with Autostakkert, Registax 6 and Photoshop CC 2015. Hand-assembled the panels in Photoshop CC 2015.
2 minutes video recording stacked with AutoStakkert
Olympus OMD EM1 MKII
Celestron C90 MAK + Skywatcher Staradventurer + Baader hyperion zoom eyepiece
High dynamic range composite image
Canon 650D + Lightdow 420-800 mm
30 x 4" ISO 800 (ML silent pics)
150 x 1/10" ISO 400 (ML raw video crop_rec 4K)
MLV app, ACR, Autostakkert, Ps
Inspired by Miguel Claro's work:
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Canon 1100D with 300mm zoom lens.
100 images shot, converted into an avi using PIPP then the best 55% stacked using Autostakkert! 3 Beta. Image processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Celestron 9.25 SCT
Imaging cameras: Celestron NexImage
Mounts: Celestron Advanced CG5-GT
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Celestron Finderscope 9x50
Software: PIPP - Planetary Imaging PreProcessor · RegiStax · SharpCap · Adobe Phosotshop CC · AutoStakkert! 3
Accessory: Kendrick Astro Instruments Kendrick Dew Control
Date: January 16, 2025
Bortle Class 5 backyard, SF Bay Area (East Bay)
Capture: 5000 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
A more realisitc look, maybe. When performing actions in Registax, while more detail comes out, planets look more like drawings. This is more pleasing.
3 minutes of capture at 27 frames per second.
Captured in FireCapture using Celeston C8 telescope, CGEM mount, ZWO ASI120MC with 2x barlow.
Stacked in AutoStakkert.
Additional processing in Lightroom.
Composite of background Moon and cloud shot with a 9 image stack of the Moon processed in Autostakkert and Registax. Combined in Photoshop. Sky-watcher 150P Explorer Newtonian. Baader Neodymium filter.
Telescope: Celestron 11 - CGEM
Powermate 2.5x
Camera: ASI120MM - Filter #23A (Red)
Software: Firecapture - Autostakkert!2 - Registax - PS6
After the eruption of "The Great Wall of Fire"...
Intended for full size viewing - there is a lot of subtle physics hiding inbetween spicule pattern and a ghostly cloud-like prom hangs near the "equator" on the left side of the image. Inset shows it with more contrast.
Safety first while watching the SUN!
29.04.2015 09:23 MSK
TIS DMK23U274 via 2x Barlow lens on Coronado PST on Celestron CG-4 with motor.
Mosaic of seven plates, each 25% of 600 frames taken at 1/200 per frame, Gain 1,79 dB.
Capturing software: TIS IC Capture.
Datasets were stacked in Autostakkert!2 with dark and bag-flat, white reference point added in PS*, images were deconvolved in AstraImage 3.0 (Richardson-Lucy algorithm, 0,3 pixels, 9 iterations) and piece-meal stitched in MS ICE**. Complete image was wavelet-sharpened in AstraImage 3.0 (1-10-15-5-1) and touched-up in PS again.
*One of them is still here, near the bottom left corner.
**MS ICE can stitch the whole set at once, but it does it rough and dirty. Stitching panel-by-panel - say 1+2, when summ+3, when 4+5+6+7, when summ+summ -creates far more better final product.
Processed image of Saturn in false color
SER video:
812.208"
Frames captured=29221 (15% of best frames were used)
Pixel depth: 8 bit/pixel
fps: 36,10
gain: 550,00
exp: 43,00 ms
gamma: 76,00
Equipment:
TS130 at f/45 (barlow x5) on CGEM DX and QHY5L-II camera (no filters)
Processed with AutoStakkert, Registax V6 and Photoshop CS
Date: 27/05/2016 0:30 UT
Madrid-Spain
Jupiter 25th August(00:21 UT) A wider view showing Europa and it's shadow in transit , fairly good seeing conditions. This image is just a single image , best 2,000 frames from just over 5,000 frames captured in 2.5 minutes. Captured using Firecapture V2.7, Processed using Autostakkert V3.1.4, Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera, Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow and ZWO ADC.
ARs 2107, 2108, 2109 and 2010 along with other chromospheric features.
WARNING! Sun is dangerous, use proper filters for observing and imaging!
Aquisition time (start of the session) : JD2456847,70671296 (09.07.2014 09:48:21 MSK).
Image orientation: mirrored
Equipment:
QHY5L-II monochrome CMOS camera via 2x Barlow lens on Coronado PST riding Vixen SkyPod AZ goto mount.
Aperture 40 mm
Native focal length 400 mm
Effective focal length 800 mm
Tv = 1 ms
Av = f/20
ISO NA
Gain 20 out 1000 (SharpCap convention)
Exposures: about 65/100
Processing: movie was processed in Autostakkert!2. Resulting image was subjected to Richardson-Lucy deconvolution in AstraImage 3.0 (Cauchy type PSF, size 1 units, 8 iterations). Deconvolved images were stitched in Microsoft ICE.
High-pass filtering was made in Photoshop. Image was scaled down to 75% of original size to "tighten" the features and get the target value of 2,5 pixels per 3,5".
Note: I continue to think about why color cameras show better performance in solar imaging in H-alpha giving the possibility to capture prominences and the "surface" details in one exposure? My idea is that it's a result of in-camera de-Bayering process gone wrong. Green channel normally defines the overall luminostiy, but in monochromatic image, such is that is produced by H-alpha telescope there is no green and the luminocity (or should that be "luminance") is restored incorrectly to the benefit of the photographer, nonetheless :)
High resolution, 4 panel mosaic of the full moon taken with a Canon 7D through my Celestron C8. Each panel is a stack of 50 of the best images from 95 original photos of each of the 4 hemispheres of the moon. Pre-processed in PIPP for basic alignment and quality analysis, then ran a Photoshop batch action to crop, stacked in AutoStakkert! 2, Lucy-Richardson deconvolution and wavelet sharpening in AstraImage 3 SI then stitched together and post processed in Photoshop CC.
Lunar Mosaic from Florida on 01-08-2017. 9 individual panels stitched together with MS ICE. Each panel is a capture of 1,000 frames and the best 20% stacked in Autostakkert!2. Wavelets processed in Registax6. Finalized in CS5. Captured with a Celestron C6 (1500mm F10) and ZWO ASI178MC CMOS camera (6.4MP).
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
To the lower centre is the crater Plato (109km) with its smooth floored interior, Rimae Plato can be seen winding its way off from its North Western edge.
Below are the Montes Tenerife and Montes Recti mountain ranges as well as a number of large peaks Mons Pito and Mons Piton.
The Vallis Alpes cuts an impressive valley off to the west itself has a rille running along its length, it’s just about visible.
Was the valley caused by an asteroid impact, volcanic activity or by some other means?
Taken 18th January 2016 – Celestron 8SE
ZWO ASI 120MCS
Stacked in AutoStakkert 2.20
Post Processed in Registax 6 and PS CC2015
Photos taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Coronado PST, 2x Barlow and ASI120MC camera, which was set to capture in mono.
A 2,000 frame video was captured and the best 75% of the frames were stacked in Autostakkert! 3, then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer. I decided to leave these images monochrome rather than add false colour to them. North is 10 degrees clockwise