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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
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
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.
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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
My second attempt at imaging the sun through a telescope, using Baader Solar filter material on a plywood off axis mask (4.75 " in diameter) on my C14. 19th June 2025, 10:33 UT, sunspot groups 4114 & 4115 taken with the ASI224MC at F11, the best 25% frames from 2,685 captured were stacked. Equipment used Celestron C14 edge HD and CGEPRO mount. Processed using Autostakkert V4 and Registax V6.
The Sun was very interesting this morning. My personal fave is a long thin filament encircling the sunspot AR 2106. But I also like the obvious spiralling patterns around 2109, 2108 and 2111.
So it just happenend very good for firstlighting my new QHY5L-IIm camera :D
WARNING! Sun is dangerous, use proper filters for observing and imaging!
This is how this was done...
Aquisition time (start of the session) : JD2456846,78288194 (08.07.2014 10:48:21 MSK).
Image orientation: mirrored (why?!)
Equipment:
QHY5L-II monochrome CMOS camera in prime focus Coronado PST on photo tripod via Manfrotto 410 Junior geared head.
Aperture 40 mm
Native focal length 400 mm
Tv = 1 ms
Av = f/10
ISO NA
Gain 20 out 1000 (SharpCap convention)
Exposures: about 60-100 out of 120-200 from three movies (I let the Sun drift across the field of view at different "latitudes")
Processing: three resulting movies were processed in Autostakkert!2. Resulting image was subjected to Richardson-Lucy deconvolution in AstraImage 3.0 (Cauchy type PSF, size 2 units, 6 iterations). Deconvolved images were stitched in Microsoft ICE.
High-pass filtering was made in Photoshop.
Note 1: A bit of simple math now.
The solar disk is 1800 arcseconds wide and fits in 977 pixels on this image.
Optical resolution of PST is
Rd = 140/40 = 3,5"
This means that the Sun contains 1800/3,5 = 514 resolvable units. Reileigh resolution in this combo is achieved then the solar disk's size becomes larger than 1028 pix. Very good value is 1466 which is 1,5x extra magnification or 600 mm effective focal length. Using 2x Barlow lens will go up to 1954 pix which is a bit too much, but since I have such a lens it can be tried instantly :)
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.
Imaged through a 4x barlow
---Hardware---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
Camera : PointGrey Grasshopper GS3-U3-23S6M
Tube : Celestron 11 EDGE HD
Extender: Televue 4x
Effective focal length : 11200 mm
Effective aperture : ~ F/40
---Software---
Acquired with FireCapture
Stacked with AutoStakkert
Mosaic done with Microsoft ICE
Processed with Lightroom & Topaz SharpenAI
40 DSLR (Canon EOS 450D) shots 1/125s ISO100 prime focus. Baader Neodymium filter. Sky-Watcher 150 Explorer Newtonian. Autostakkert for alignment and stacking and Registax for wavelets—post-processing in Photoshop. Taken from Wolverhampton, West Midlands.
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.
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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
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Taken with a Solarscope DSF-100mm filter / PGR Grasshopper 3 / 1.6x Barlow. The best 10% of around 1000 images were stacked using Autostakkert 2. A composite of 9 photographs were stitched together using Photomerge in Photoshop CS5. The image was sharpened using Photoshop CS5, then false colour added.
Cráteres Kircher, Bettinus, Zucchius y Bailly en el terminador.
14-09-2016 21:55 GMT -3
Canon 60D - SW Dobson 8" f/6 - Barlow 2x - Foco primario
ISO 400 - 1/125s - Apilado 10% de 149 frames video MLV 2946 x 1080 recortados.
Procesado PIPP - AutoStakkert - Adobe 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 - Fitswork - Adobe Lightroom
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Meade LX65 6" MAK OTA
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI224MC
Mounts
Celestron Advanced VX
Filters
SVBony UV/IR Cut
Accessories
Tecnosky Barlow Apo 2X
Software
Adobe Photoshop · AstroSharp Ltd SharpCap · Cor Berrevoets et al. Registax · Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert
Acquisition details
Date: July 19, 2022
Time: 03:02
Frames: 2000
FPS: 62.440
Exposure per frame: 6.55 ms
Focal length: 3600
Resolution: 1267x867
File size: 788.1 KB
Locations: Sassari, Sassari, Sardegna, Italy
Data source: Backyard
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
Seestar S50. Immagine elaborata da un filmato di 90 secondi ed elaborata con Autostakkert e Astrosurface.
Taken in Lowestoft, UK, in September 2020.
Celestron NexStar 6se SCT & Altair Hypercam 183c. AVI video stacked in Autostakkert 2. Wavelets in Registax 6. Touched-up in PSP8 & PS CC.
The South Polar Ice Cap is very small, but the Ice Cap has grown in the North Polar Region, as it is their northern winter.
Seeing was very good - this is my best Mars image of 2020 apparition!
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
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
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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
GanÃmedes y su sombra y JÚPITER
Mal seeing, poca transparencia y encima poca experiencia con la cámara, asà 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)
VÃdeo: 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
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
PST mod 90/900 achromat and QHY5III 178M (using ROI).
Cloud hampered imaging this X-flare from AR 3006,managed to record seven SER files between 13:49 and 13:57 UT each one roughly 2-3 minutes apart. Stacked in Autostakkert and wavelet sharpened in Astrosurface using Maxim DL4 to create animation.
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
The largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter, with the largest moon, Ganymede, 17th April 2016 20:38 UT
Celestron C9.25
Skywatcher NEQ 6 pro
Televue x2 Barlow
Baader L-RGB filters
ZWO ASI120mm camera
Best 30% of 2000+ frames stacked in Autostakkert for each channel, wavelets adjusted in Registax6 and frames combined in WinJupos
Taken from Oxfordshire UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, Celestron 3x Barlow and ZWO ASI120MC camera on an EQ5 Pro mount.
2000 frame video shot, the best 50% was stacked using Autostakkert! 3 then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer. These transient features are only visible for around 4 hours per month and are a real challenge on a daytime Moon!
Capture : Lunt LS60MT/B1200 + Zwo ASI 178mm + Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro - AsiCap
Treatment: Autostakkert! 4 + Registax 6 + post-treatment with Photoshop Elements 2024
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.
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
Jupiter 7th August 2021(00:09 UT). Poor conditions, only one AVI was captured before clouds rolled in. A single stack(best 2,000 frames of - 10,000 frames in total). Captured using Firecapture V2.5. Processed using Autostakkert V3.1.4 and Registax V6. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera and Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow.