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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.

Details:

Mount: DM-6

Scope: Lunt 60mm Pressure-tuned Halpha scope

Camera: ASI120MM

Software: Firecapture, Autostakkert, Pixinsight

Acquired: 9/9/2017

Part of a bigger animation : i.imgur.com/VukkJd5.gif

Kept best 5% of 2000 frames

 

---Hardware---

 

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

 

---Software---

 

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.

106_1452-4 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert.

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

104_9464-7 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert

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:

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200824.html

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

 

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