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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
Imaged during the day, before sunset at Mount Tamalpais, CA.
Dec 21, 2020 4:56PM PST
🔭 5" f/6.3 refractor, 2x barlow (1638 fl)
📷 ZWO ASI224MC
Stacked in AutoStakkert!, sharpened in Registax, processed in Lightroom
Taken at around 12:30pm BST from Oxfordshire, UK on the hottest day of the year so far! There was some ongoing solar flare activity at the time the images were taken.
White Light: 8" Ritchie Chretien fitted with Baader solar filter, focal reducer and Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro Mount
Best 70% of 225 images stacked in Autostakkert! 2, then processed in Photoshop CS2, Lightroom, Faststone Image Viewer and Focus Magic
H-Alpha:
Coronado PST, 2x Barlow & Canon 1100D.
Best 75% of 235 images stacked in Autostakkert! 2, then processed in Photoshop CS2, Lightroom, Fastone Image Viewer and Focus Magic
There it is, in the bottom right quadrant :)
Safety first while watching the SUN!
28.04.2015 09:21 MSK (I'm totally lost in relating my local time to whatever standard).
TIS DMK23U274 on Coronado PST on Celestron CG-4 with motor.
Clumsy blend of two datasets of 25% of 600 frames taken with 1/500 and 1/293 seconds per frame. Stacked in Autostakkert!2, deconvolved and wavelet-sharpened in AstraImage 3.0, aligned and blended in PS.
Note: need extra technical details? Feel free to ask ;)
Tech note: I have found out that in deconvolution (at least that of Richardson-Lucy type) AstraImage tends to saturate image to untolerable extent. Since I keep my historgram near 90-95% saturation, it is a big problem. It can be solved by adding say 9 pixels of pure 65536 in the corner of the image to trick the programm. Works fine!
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)
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and Canon 600D. Baader Astrosolar Filter cap fitted to telescope. Best 10 of 18 jpg's stacked in Autostakkert, most I could get due to cloud.
Celestron C8, 2.5x Barlow, Canon 60D crop movie mode, PiPP, Autostakkert, Registax, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. Maybe I need a PowerMate to avoid the horrific chromatic aberration.
This is the most surface detail I've captured on Mars - I think the dark horizontal band is Meridiani Planum
Notable features here include the Plato crater, Mare Imbrium, Montes Alpes, Montes Caucasus, Mare Crisium, Mare Serenitatis, and the approximate landing sites of the Apollo 15 and Apollo 17 lunar missions.
Taken May 30, 2015 from Magnusson Park in Seattle, WA.
Moon phase: 90% illuminated, waxing gibbous.
Telescope: TEC 180 @ f/14 (using AP BARADV)
Mount: AP 900
Camera: ZWO ASI120MM-S
Section of a larger mosaic. 59 panels captured in total, 500 frames per panel (29,500 frames captured in total). The mosaic was not completed due to a failure to capture certain parts of the moon, thus I don't have a complete moon shot. Best 5% of frames taken.
Analyzed and Stacked in AutoStakkert!2
Processed with Registax 6 and Photoshop CS5.
Altair 178c, Altair 0.8x reducer flattener, Altair 72EDF scope. Great for the whole moon in one frame
Stacked in Autostakkert!3, colour balanced in Registax, sharpened using convolutions in Astro Image. Processed in Photoshop.
Good seeing this morning, Mars is certainly getting bigger everyday.
C9.25HD
F=2350mm
ZWO ASI120MC
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
Gibbous Moon - 100% crop from 16 stacked subexposures (best 16 out of 360)
Image Scale = 0.44 arc-second/pixel
Date: 2011/11/21 - 19:04 to 19:57 EST
Exposure: mixture of 1/250 sec at ISO 200 and 1/125 at ISO 100
Telescope: Celestron EdgeHd 800 -- approx 2000mm at f/10
Camera : unmodified Canon T2i = 550D
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900 -- rough polar alignment (no drift alignment)
Processing:
1) Focusing via EOS utility live view, exposures made from live view mode (EFSC active, so no mirror slap or first shutter curtain shake?). Three individually focused sequences were done. Two were at ISO 200 and one at ISO 100. The Feathertouch motorized focuser was moved 20 or 25 steps between groups of about 25 shots at each focuser position. The total range in each sequence was about 75-80 steps between closest focus and farthest. The hope was that some of the shots in each sequence were near optimal focus, and these would be selected later by stacking software.
2) 16 best of 360 individual shots selected, centered and cropped to 4400 x 3000 using Planetary Imaging PreProcessor (PIPP).
3) These 16 shots were split 9 ways in a 3x3 grid (with overlap), into 1800 by 1200 pixel panes using Photoshop CS5, since neither Registax nor AutoStakkert 2 would handle the large 4400 x 3000 frames. (Zerene stacker PMAX mode could handle them, but the output was not good.)
4) The 16 sub-shots in each of the 9 panes was passed to Registax for stacking, using 50% drizzle, yielding one 3600 x 2400 output stack for each of the 9 panes. "Wavelets" processing was done on each pane, using the same settings. These setings were far from optimal, since the whole wavelets thing is a mystery to me.
5) The 9 panes were then combined into a mosaic using Auto Pano Pro 2.
6) Photoshop was used to expand the canvas size to 9600 x 7200, convert to gray scale, adjust the levels, do 90 degree rotation, and then reduce the image size to 4800 x 3600 (100% crop of the original shots from the T2i). JPEG conversion was done with quality = 10.
Solar activity on 2017-05-19. Two sun spots are visible. Slight haze in the atmosphere, thus not completely clear skies.
Photographed with the usual setup including 90 mm D-ERF, 80/480 APO, Quark, 0.5x reducer, ASI178MM on AVX. Best 5 % frames stacked out of 5000 frames. Autostakkert3!, ImPPG and Photoshop.
Imaged at lat: 60° 13.1259'
lon: 24° 48.0592' (WGS84).
A stable area of high pressure and indeed fair seeing.
One Shot Color Camera, Greatstar ADC, 3 minutes of imaging. Autostakkert 3 can compensate the minimal rotation during the 3 minutes very well by its technique of multialigment. Poor man's derotation ;-). 1000 selected frames out of 20.000.
Celestron 14
Jupiter Febuary 2016.
Celestron SkyProdigy 130
Canon Eos 70D
Eye piece projection 10mm
Processed with Autostakkert 2 and Registax 6.
Taken in my back garden Stevenage Uk.
My 2nd hand skyprodigy was £150 supplied with the wrong handset.Ipurchased a starsence hand set for £25 from ebay(I was lucky with that one.).The handset socket on my telescope proved to be faulty but plugging the hand set into the aux port works fine.The mount does not track very accurately and I always get out of shape stars when I try long exposure.The canon 70D was a gift to replace a 550d I had bought 2nd hand for £200 including a 70-300 lens.
For chromosphere.
Blanca70ED + SolarMax II 60 Filter
+ BF10 + Vixen2xBarlow + ASI174MM
3188frames
For prominence
Blanca70ED + SolarMax II 60 Filter
+ BF10 + QHY183C
1250frames
on on iOptron SmartEQ Pro
AutoStakkert, Registax V6, Photoshop CC
Locations: Okayama, Japan
Jan. 2018
Coronado PST & ASI174MM Mini. Best 25% of 1000 frames +1 Frame of Swan :)
Autostakkert/GIMP/Rawtherapee.
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:June 17, 2020
Frames: 400
FPS: 45.00000
Focal length: 800
Resolution: 4161x3280
Data source: Backyard
Description
400 of 20,000 frames
Lucky Imaging test. The best 300 frames from 1000 captured with SharpCap, combined with AutoStakkert and processed in PixInsight and Photoshop. ES102ED with Zwo ASI1600MC-C ,1/4 resolution @ 30fps
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Timestamp: 3.6.2023 13:28:50 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 4036 (40% best stacked)
Profile=Sun
Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3
Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
Color levels (RGB) adjustments + Sharpen + Crop
Mars 20th Dec 2024(23:00 UT) , fairly good seeing conditions, although the Jetstream was over the UK. This image consists of 4 images de rotated in Winjupos, each image used the best 1,000 frames from each 11,000 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 , No ADC.
This is a six image panorama using a 36 year old, multiple owner, 8-inch SCT. I flocked the interior of the scope and cleaned the optics the best I could. In the process, I discovered that the secondary mirror needs re-silvering. The primary mirror looks in good shape. The collector looks OK too, though given multiple owners who probably removed it like I did, who knows how it is aligned. Despite all that, not a bad image given the seeing was poor, the moon was only about 30-degrees above the horizon, and my collimation skills need practice.
Autostakkert, MS ICE, and Photoshop.
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK on the night of 26th February when the Moon was at 95% Waning Gibbous.
Telescope used was a William Optics 70mm refractor and ASI120MC camera fitted with a 5x Powermate..
Best 50% of a 1,000 frame video stacked using Autostakkert! 4, sharpened in Focus Magic and processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.
Captured with a 10" Meade LX200 and a Nikon D5100 using BackyardNIKON. 700 *.avi video frames stacked in Autostakkert!2 and post-processed in Adobe Photoshop 6/ and Adobe Lightroom 5.5.
Home-built solar filter and barlow lens.
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Timestamp: 28.5.2023 21:54:53 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
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 - Fitswork - Adobe Lightroom
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Coronado PST and ASI120MC camera fitted with a 2x Barlow.
A 2,000 frame video was captured using SharpCap then the best 50% were stacked using Autostakkert! 3. Processing in Lightroom, Photoshop CS2, Focus Magic and Fast Stone Image Viewer,
Overexposed and normal image (latter inset) both taken on 15 October 2017, just after midnight (former at 23.10 GMT) with ZWO ASI224 MC Camera and Celestron NexStar 6 SE Telescope.
Video was captured in SharpCap, processed in Autostakkert and edited in PS.
The main image was overexposed to show the Uranian moons. These are: O = Oberon, A = Ariel, T = Titania, U = Umbriel.
Telescopio o obiettivo di acquisizione: Celestron 127/1500 Maksutov-Cassegrain
Camera di acquisizione: SAMSUNG Galaxy S6
Montatura: Celestron SLT
Software: AutoStakkert! , photoshop
Accessorio: Shackcom Supporto universale per smartphone su oculare
Ecco come si vedeva Alula Australis (separazione 2,2", mag. 4,33 e 4,80) il 14 aprile 2020 con il Maksutov Celestron 127 SLT con oculare plossl 5 mm (300x) e smartphone Samsung S6 (tenuto da un supporto universale). Ho fatto un filmato da circa un minuto a 30 fps e ho elaborato con Autostakkert il 25% dei migliori frames. Questo è il risultato, ma visualmente si vedeva molto meglio perché, nonostante le velature, c'era un seeing davvero ottimo.
Captured 300 frames with Firecapture
Stacked best 75% in Autostakkert!
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
ZWO ASI178MC
Tele Vue NP101is/2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
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.
3000 pixels in size, reduced from 5000, so not small.
18 panes, 203mm RC8 @f8
30s AVIs for each pane
ZWO ASI290MC, infrared pass filter
Captured in FireCapture
Processed in AutoStakkert 2, MS ICE, Photoshop
Mars- moderate seeing- Sinus Meridiani center right, Mare Acidalium and Niliacus Lacus top center, and Argyre is bright spot bottom just left of center. Celestron C8 SCT , Televue Powermate 2.5X, ZWO ASI 662MC, recorded in Firecapture. Processed with Pipp, Autostakkert AS!2, Registax, Lightroom.
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Timestamp: 28.5.2023 12:39:26 CEST
10" GSO Dobson Deluxe on Astrothingy EQ platform
2.5x Barlow lens
Thousand Oaks Optical Solar Filter
Meade #908N Narrowband filter
Camera: ZWO ASI462MC
Captured by FireCapture with following settings:
Resolution: 1936x1096
duration 15s
exp 3.00ms
gain 0
frames 2041 (25% best stacked)
Profile=Sun
Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3
Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
Color levels (RGB) adjustments + Color curves adjustments + Sharpen + Crop
Ganímedes y su sombra y JÚPITER
Mal seeing, poca transparencia y encima poca experiencia con la cámara, así que no me quejo de lo que conseguimos sacar.
Telescopio: Celestron C6-A XLT 150/1500 f10
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: EQ5 Bresser EXOS2 motorizada sin goto
Filtros: Baader RGB CCD-Filterset
Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax, WinJUPOS, Fitswork y Photoshop
Fecha: 2019-04-30
Hora: 04:30 T.U.
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 1'26" + 1'26" + 1'26" (4' 18" en total)
Resolución: 640 x 480
Gain: 278 + 278 + 278
Exposure: 0,007514 + 0,007514 + 0,007514
Frames: 6496 + 5405 + 9821
Frames apilados: 15% + 10% + 18%
FPS: 75 + 63 + 114
Philips Toucam Pro II 2 minutes video > SharpCap > PIPP > AutoStakkert > Registax 6 > Photoshop. Sky-Watcher 150P Explorer Newtonian, 2x Barlow, Baader Neodymium filter.
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
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/Tele Vue 2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
3000 frames captured in FireCapture
Best 50% stacked in AutoStakkert!
Intial wavelet sharpening and noise reduction in RegiStax
Final sharpening and noise reduction in PhotoShop
Mars 5th August 2018, 23:11UT. The attached is the result of merging 2 x 4,500 stacked images in winjupos, total of 6 minutes of data captured. The images merged here were processed with Autostakkert V3 , Registax and Winjupos. Captured using a Celestron C14 Edge HD , 2 x Barlow, and ZWO ASI224MC camera.
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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 12.00ms
gain 50
frames 1667
Profile=Jupiter
Preprocessed in PIPP
Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3
Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)
Final postprocessing by Gimp:
Sharpen + denoise
Note: Registrax introduced circle around Jupiter
80mm f/7 achromat with Solarmax II 60 Richview and BF10 double stacked using Solarmax 40. Nine SER files recorded with QHY5III 178M and Firecapture,stacked in Autostakkert and mosaic stitched in Photoshop CS2,wavelet sharpening in Astrosurface.
87% Illuminated - 18 days into cycle.
Altair LightWave 72ED Refractor
Altair IMX178 colour Hypercam
SkyWatcher AZ-GTI mount
Captured in RAW8 with SharpCap 3.1beta
Best 25% of 3000 frames, stacked with Autostakkert 3.
Post processed with Photoshop CC 2018