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Luna del 09/07/2016
Apilado 9 de 78 tomas video RAW de Magic Lantern.
SW Dob 8" f/6 - Canon 60D - ISO 400 - 1/400s - Barlow 2x - Foco primario
Procesado: PIPP - AutoStakkert - Adobe Lightroom
I embarked on a mammoth lunar imaging session on 10th February so I could produce an animation showing the sunrise over some prominent craters. I've already shared the video I created with the data but am now sharing the still images. If you didn't see the animation you can watch it here:
I was imaging from15:45 UT until 22:30 UT and during that time the Moon changed its illumination from 69% to 72%.
Taken from Oxfordshire with a William Optics 70mm refractor and ASI120MC camera through a Celestron 3x Barlow. A 2,000 frame video was shot with SharpCap and depending on the quality graph I stacked either 50 or 25% of the frames using Autostakkert! 3. Processing with Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.
Sol del 2017-06-18 15:17 GMT -3
Canon 60D - Sigma 70-300 @ 300mm - 1/400s - f/8 - ISO 100
Video RAW Magic Lantern - Apliado 25% de 148 frames - 1920 x 1078 pix
Procesado: PIPP - AutoStakkert/3 - Registax - PS
Jupiter 9th Jan 2024(17:09 UT) together with Io and its shadow. Good seeing conditions. This image consists of 4 images de rotated in Winjupos, each image the result of stacking the best 1,500 frames from nearly 10,000 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.
Best 50% of 4000 frames with Autostakkert, applied 1.5 drizzle. Northern Polar Ice Cap is visible as well as some potential dust storms.
FireCapture v2.3 Settings
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Scope=Orion XT8-i
Camera=ZWO ASI034MC
Filter=CH4
Profile=Mars
Diameter=12.42"
Magnitude=-0.64
CM=53.6° (during mid of capture)
FocalLength=4240mm
Resolution=0.29"
Filename=220940.avi
Date=240514
Start=220940.334
Mid=221127.155
End=221313.977
Duration=213.643s
Date_format=ddMMyy
Time_format=HHmmss
LT=UT-5h
Frames captured=4000
File type=AVI
Extended AVI mode=true
Compressed AVI=false
Binning=no
ROI=384x384
FPS (avg.)=18
Shutter=46.79ms
Gain=26
Gamma=50 (off)
WRed=25
AutoExposure=off
WBlue=87
USBTraffic=82
Brightness=0
Histogramm(min)=0
Histogramm(max)=188
Histogramm=73%
Noise(avg.deviation)=n/a
Limit=4000 Frames
Lots of filaments today... They are of two types - thin and relatively short, with crisp outlines, or large and more cloud-like.
WARNING! Sun is dangerous, use proper filters for observing and imaging!
Aquisition time (start of the session) : JD2456745,89619213 (29.03.3014 13:30:31 MSK - this is my local noon time, highest elevation of the Sun above horizont).
Image orientation: totally scrambled
Equipment:
Canon EOS 60D (unmodded) coupled to Coronado PST via Baader Planetarium Hyperion Zoom 8-24 mm Mark III click-stop system eyepiece and Baader Planetarium M43-to-T2 conversion ring and mounted on SkyWatcher NEQ-6 PRo mount.
Aperture 40 mm
Native focal length 400 mm
Projection zoom setting: 16 mm
Effective focal length 900++ mm
Tv = 1/10 seconds
Av (effective) = NA
ISO 400
Exposures: 75% of 54
Processing: images were converted to monochrome and exported as 8-bit .TIFFs. Images were assembled into stack in ImageJ and saved as .AVI. AVI was processed in Autostakkert!2.
Resulting image was subjected to Richardson-Lucy deconvolution in AstraImage 3.0 (Cauchy type PSF, size 2,1 units, 8 iterations).
High-pass filtering and no coloration made in Photoshop.
Finally, Image was scaled down to have Solar disk diameter about 1500 pix.
Notes: tracking is good! 1/10th of second @ISO400 is much better than 1/50th @ISO1000.
Solar activity and prominence today.
Imaged on May 8th 2020.
Tech details:
500 frames of Sun, 0% gain, 14.9ms exposure
500 frames of Prominence , 70% gain, 80ms exposure
Equipment:
Scope: Coronado PST
Mount: NEQ6
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI130MM
Software: SharpCap 3.2, AutoStakkert, Registax, Lightroom, Photoshop
A view of the northern end of the Apenninus mountain range. Also visible are the craters Archimedes, Autolycus and Aristillus.
In the centre of the image is the landing site of Apollo 15, Hadley Rille.
Taken 29nd December 2014 - Celestron 8SE
ZWO ASI 120MCS
Stacked in AutoStakkert 2.20
Post Processed in Registax 6
Total stacked frames: 4157. Best 831 frames used.
Taken 2048 UT. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Sky-Watcher Explorer 200P telescope. Prime Focus. Canon 1200D camera. Best 50% of 37 exposures used. Each 1/400 second. ISO-100. Cropped, stacked and processed using PIPP, AutoStakkert!2, Registax 6, Irfanview and GIMP 2.8. That is a lot of processing!
Equipo:
Celestron CPC 925 a F/20
Cámara QHY-5III 174M
Filtros RGB
Foto por Andrés Molina.
Imágenes:
Apilado de 500 imágenes por cada canal LRGB
procesado con PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax 6 y Photoshop CC 2019
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.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus.20 jpgs stacked using Autostakkert 2. PIPP used to centre and crop each jpg before stacking, PIPP outputs the jpgs as 8bit tiffs
Telescopio: Refractor Bresser Messier Acro 102/460 f4.5
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: EQ5 Bresser EXOS2 motorizada sin goto
Filtros: Baader Green CCD Filter
Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2019-07-06
Hora: 21:04 T.U.
Fase lunar: 21.9% 4.08 días Creciente
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 2 minutos
Resolución: 3096 x 2080
Gain: 103 (20%)
FPS: 2
Exposure: 6.157ms
Frames: 329
Sensor temperature=38.2°C
Frames apilados: 25%
01.09.18 00.45BST Moon (Waning Gibbous 72% illuminated)
Altair Astro 72EDF f/6
Altair Astro Hypercam IMX183C PRO TEC
SkyWatcher AZ-GTI mount
SharpCap 3.2 Pro
Best 100 frames stacked with AutoStakkert 3
Post processed with Photoshop CC2018
Taken with a Coronado PST and 2 x Barlow + ASI120MC camera.
I was imaging prominences around the entire solar disc between 11:00 - 11:15 UT. Between 500 and 1,000 frame videos were captured and the best 250 frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 3.
Jupiter, Imaged on the 15th March 2017 at around 23:28
Made up of 4 videos totalling 7920 frames (after a 75% selection in AutoStakkert) - 5m42sec of data..
Edited in RegiStax 6 for wavelets and then de-rotated and stacked using WinJUPOS.
My best images of Jupiter yet, I still have focusing to work on, I guess I need an evening of good seeing and more patience...
Luna del 16-07-2016
Video RAW Magic Lantern 2496 x 1080 apilado 26 de 130 cuadros.
SW Dob 8" f/6 - Canon 60D - ISO 400 - 1/1000 - Foco primario
Procesado: PIPP - AutoStakkert - Adobe Lightroom
19.02.2015, around 11:00 GMT+4
Evolution of the prominences along the eastern limb of the Sun in comparison with yesterday's image.
I have pushed the brightness of proms to get the fine things out and... See supplementary material in "comments" section :)
Acquisition: Coronado PST, 1/2 of Meade 2x Barlow lens and TIS DMK23U274, alltogether on tabletop Celestron CG-4 with motor.
Processing: Autostakkert!2, AstraImage PRO 3.0 and Photoshop.
Technical note: if the size of a frame is something like 1080x960, Autostakkert!2 opens the movie but scrambles the contents. I have used ImageJ to open the film and resave it as a sequence of tiffs. Strange, but it comes out flipped in comparison with the image in capturing software.
Mount: SkyWatcher Star Adventurer
Camera: SONY α6500 (model ILCE-6500)
Adapter: スターベースオリジナル Tリング用ワイドリング60W(M52P=0.75メスネジ), ビクセン Tリング(N) ソニーE用
@ ISO100 1/80ss x36 2018/02/05 2:02-2:05 (summer time 3:02-3:05)
Software: AutoStakkert! x3 drizzle, FlatAide Pro, RawTherapee
2019年１月２１日、ブラジル、ポルトアレグレ市
Sony a6500
Takahashi FS-60Q
1/200s, ISO100
RAW画像をPIPPで正方形に切り取って、AutoStakkert_3.0.14_x64で75％ドリズル３倍スタック、
Fitswork447とRawTherapeeで仕上げました。
Jupiter 1st April 2025 (20:03 UT) , average seeing conditions. This image consists of 8 images de rotated in Winjupos, each image used the best 2,000 frames from each 7,000 frame AVI captured in 75 seconds.. Captured using Firecapture V2.7, Processed using Autostakkert V4, Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera, and Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow. No ADC.
Reprocess - False Colour
Lunt 35mm Ha Solar Telescope
Skywatcher x2 Barlow
DMK21AU618
Captured: FireCapture - 5000 frames @ 60 fps
Stacking: AutoStakkert!2 - Best 25%
Postprocessing: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Taken during the May 2013 Astrocamp event in Cwmdu, Wales.
I ran afoul of Lightroom's flickr sync when I changed some settings and lost my title and description, but I think I've pieced together most of what was here before:
The dog got me up around 2am and the moon looked great! I stacked about 5000 frames in Autostakkert!2 that were cropped from their video frames using PiPP.
Lens: Olympus E-Zuiko AUTO-T 200mm f/4.0
Deuxième essai de capture à la webcam de l'année dernière. Un peu plus douce niveau traitement cette fois.
Acquisition vidéo de 19 secondes à 30 images par seconde.
Capture SharpCap
Empilement Autostakkert
Traitement Registax
Webcam spc900nc + Barlow x2
Skywatcher 130/900 sur eq2 non motorisée
3 x 2min derotated
Transparency (3/5)
Seeing (2/5)
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
The Moon
Frosty morning in Stourbridge, UK. About 0700.
Olympus OMD10 III, Altair Lightwave 72ED scope. 4K video, best 1200 frames out of 1350, PIPP, Autostakkert, GIMP.
Mars 18th Mar 2025(20:54 UT) , under poor seeing conditions and just 9.2 arc secs in diameter.This image is made up of 5 images de rotated using Winjupos, each image consisting of the best 2,000 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.
Celestron Nexstar 8se
ZWO ASI224-MC
Frames Capturados: 6000 (120s)
Frames Stack: 10%: 600
Distancia Focal: 2000 mm.
F: 10
Captura: Firecapture
Procesado: Autostakkert + Registax + Pixinsight
Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda
Observatorio Astronómico Altaïr
Poncitlán Jalisco México
No dust?! yes!
Transparency (4/5)
Seeing (3/5)
C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)
ZWO120MC
SharpCap
Winjupos
AutoStakkert
PixInsight
Best 50% of 4000 frames using Autostakkert. Captured with FireCapture software, ASI034MC camera, 2X Barlow, 8" reflector telescope. Wavelet filtering done with Registax 6. Europa and Io are in the field of view from left to right. At the time of capture, Jupiter was 5.0284 AU from Earth, or 467,418,481 miles.
Mosaic of the Moon
For 8k resolution click:
c2.staticflickr.com/6/5801/22778236457_f34265852e_o.jpg
Distance: 368615km
Phase: 56%
Date: 19/Nov/2015
Equipment:
Apo 130mm f7
QHY5L-II Mono
CGEM
Software:
AutoStakkert, Registax V6, Photoshop CC
+INFO: wanderermab.wordpress.com/Meseta-de-aristarco
El pasado 8 de abril la luna tenía un toque especial a través del telescopio, en las aguas oscuras más allá del terminador se colaba un leve cabo que se veía evolucionar a lo largo de las horas. Como si de una bajada de marea se tratase.
SW Maksutov MC 102/1300 - ZWO ASI120MM
SW AZ-EQ5
FireCapture, PIPP, AutoStakkert!, RegiStax, LR 6.0
(de luna nueva a luna llena)
Selección de 14 imágenes, tomadas entre el 25 de abril y el 05 de junio del 2020. Usando un telescopio Celestron Astromaster 130 eq + barlow x3 y la cámara Nikon D3500.
Programas para captura, apilado, procesado y editado: Smart shooter, PIPP, AutoStakkert, Photoshop, FantaMorph y Adobe Premier.
Música: Willka Wara, proyecto musical experimental "Hatun Mayu", de mi propia autoría.
Mi agradecimiento a Alvaro Cardenas Ugarte por su ayuda con los programas utilizados.
Gracias a Katia Hinojosa Vallenas por la inspiración.
Tránsito de Mercurio
Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: iOptron CEM40
Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.9, T=12.5%)
- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (540nm)
Accesorio: Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism
Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2019-11-11
Hora: 12:46 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 10 segundos
Resolución: 800 x 600
Gain: 72
Exposure: 0,000032
Frames: 1012
Frames apilados: 24%
FPS: 100.66
ZWO ASI290MM
TeleVue NP101is/2.5x PowerMater
Losmandy GM8
4000 frames captured in Firecapture
Best 60% stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
Recorded a sequence of fifteen 2000 frame SER's roughly 60 seconds apart using my PST mod 90/900 achromat and QHY5III 178M (ROI) between 13:09 and 13:26 UT. Stacking in Autostakkert ,wavelet sharpened in Astrosurface,using Maxim DL4 to create the animation.
for sure, but it seems that I have got some extra grip on solar imaging :)
I was very pleased with the contrast of the chromosphere images produced by PST-DMK23 combo. But... While the proms were visible through the eyepiece, they were hardly (or not at all) detectable on the images. All attempts to drag them out in processing resulted in appearance of otherwise undetectable defects including residual shot noise and smearing/charge leaks, not to mention the artificial feel of the images. What to do?
The obvious feature of Coronado PST is the "sweet spot" of a size about 1 mm in terms of real image size. It is located in the middle of the FoV and becomes overexposed first.
I have thought of it as a problem. But this time I have noticed that if the prominence falls into the sweet spot, it pops out.
The second point is that PST works at its full power at EFL of 800 mm. So here comes obvious conclusion: if I want prominence, I need to place it into the sweet spot.
By using focal extender/Barlow lens the size of the sweet spot on imaging sensor becomes larger, and the image becomes more uniformly illuminated.
The resulting image show both increased contrast of "surface" details and proms on the limb also stand out more prominently :)
Next new step was to apply wavelet sharpening, which I had kept disregarded for a while. Wavelets were applied using AstraImage software. Some practice is required and maybe more frames are needed for better wavelet processing, but wavelets really add to the resulting contrast.
Even more extra contrast can be obtained by high-pass filtering, but it comes with the cost of finest low-contrast details. Here the victim is the long singular spicule in the lower left corner of the image. Now it is barely seen if the image is viewed in darkened room. So high-pass filtering perhaps should be omitted.
16.03.2015, 09:29:23 GMT+4.
TIS DMK23U274 via 2x Barlow lens on Corondo PST.
Stacked 20% of 1200 frames acquired in 1 min. Flatfield was acquired by defocussing the image with the same camera setting.
Stacking and correction in Autostakkert!2. Resulting image was deconvolved (Cauchy type, 0,3 pixels, 9 iterations) and wavelet-treated in AstraImage PRO 3.0. High-pass filtering was done in Photoshop.
Mars, the 4th planet from the Sun. Its days and seasons are similar to those of Earth, and it may have been hospitable for life long ago. Evidence suggests that Mars once had a dense atmosphere with a warm climate and liquid water oceans like Earth. Today, Mars is a barren wasteland and its vast quantities of water have been frozen in time for billions of years. Mars also has two tiny moons which are captured asteroids.
This was the highly anticipated 2020 Mars opposition. Opposition occurs once every 26 months for the red planet. Its surface was entirely obscured by a global dust storm during the 2018 opposition, so I was glad to capture some details this time. The tiny southern ice cap can be seen at the 7 o'clock position. The dark regions are areas swept clean of dust, leaving dark, rocky material exposed.
200 x 1/50 second ISO100 (best of 10,455)
Phase angle: 2°
Apparent magnitude: -2.6
Apparent diameter: 22"
Distance from Earth: 0.421 AU
Atmospheric seeing: 3/5
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Camera: Canon T3i
Telescope: Explore Scientific ED80 f/6.0 Apochromatic Refractor
Barlow: Antares 3x Triplet Barlow (effective magnification is 4.932x for 2373mm focal length at f/29.66)
Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G
Captured with EOS Camera Movie Record
Processed with PIPP, AutoStakkert! 2, PixInsight, and Paint.NET
Taken in cloud with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and Canon 500D at prime focus ( 600mm ). Baader Solar Film filter used. 10 image stack using Autostakkert this time
The Theophilus, Cyrillus, Catharina craters, captured using a QHY5-III 290C attached to an Altair Wave 115ED with a Televue 2x Powermate. The final image is the result of 1000 frames, captured using SharpCap, sorted in PIPP, stacked in AutoStakkert 2, sharpened using Lucy Richardson Deconvolution in Astra Image Plus and finally processed in PhotoShop CS6
Recorded a few days after this year's opposition of Jupiter. This video comprises roughly two hours of footage that's been compressed into just a few seconds, and then looped.
Io is the bright dot, followed by its shadow.
It's a black and white video because I was imaging purely in the near IR.
ZWO ASI178MM
Baader IR-Pass filter
3x Barlow
Stacked in AutoStakkert!
Processed in Registax
Assembled in Premiere
Jupiter 13th May 2018, 23:49 UT. An average of 1,500 frames(total frames captured was 10,000, in 2.5 minutes). Celestron C14 Edge HD, ASI224MC with 2X Barlow.
Taken from Oxfordshire with a Coronado PST with Celestron 3x Barlow on an EQ5 Pro mount with a ZWO ASI120MC camera. 2,000 frame video shot, the best 50% of those frames were stacked in Autostakkert! 3, then processed in Fast Stone, Focus Magic and Lightroom. The colour was removed before processing then false colour added back in as a final step in Photoshop CS2. I find a get a better result that way.