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Foto creada a partir del stackeo de 85 tomas consecutivas en modo Prioridad de Apertura, sin trípode y con el Vr activo. Con PIPP se preprocesaron las tomas recortándolas a 3000x2000, despues en Autostakkert! se hizo el stacking de las 55 mejores tomas y finalmente en Registax 6 y Photoshop se hizo el procesado final (En Registax se usaron las Wavelet para quitar ruido y aumentar nitidez y en Photoshop recortar la imagen final y mejorar la saturación).
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Photo created from 85 consecutive shots in Aperture Priority mode without tripod and VR active.
The shots were preprocessed with PIPP, cropping the photos to 3000x2000 res, then I stacked the 55 best shots in Autosttakert! and then in Registax and PS I did the final postprocessing (In registax I used the wavelets to denoise and sharpen the photo and in PS I crop the final picture and improve the saturation).
Taken with a Canon 70D DSLR and TMB92L refractor. This is the result of 29 images stacked with AutoStakkert! and processed with Astra Image Pro and Adobe Photoshop CS6.
I wantet to test the big telescope and took some shots of the nearly full moon. I took (3x3) nine panels and stacked them in Autostakkert.. Best 30 of 1000 frames per panel. Out of curiosity I researched the landing site of the japanese "SLIM" lunar lander that is currently active up there.
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Bei klarer Nacht wollte ich mal mit der großen Optik auf den Mond halten. Irgendwie kam ich auf die Idee, mal die Landestelle der japanischen Mondmission "SLIM" herauszusuchen, die habe ich hier mal nach bestem Wissen markiert. Die Landefähre konnte ich auf den Bildern nicht entdecken 😁
Technik : Die Aufnahme ist aus einzelnen Panels (3x3) zusammengesetzt. Für die neun Einzelbilder wurden jeweils kurze Videosquenzen mit je 1000 Bildern verwendet, aus denen die jeweils besten 30 Bilder für das Stacking ausgewählt wurden. Software: Autostakkert, GIMP. Teleskop 8" RC, Auflösung im Original ist 5200x5299 Pixel.
In questa foto, due grandi macchie solari segnano il progressivo aumento dell’attività solare, che viene misurata in cicli di undici anni a partire dal 1755. Attualmente il Sole si trova nel venticinquesimo ciclo, iniziato a fine 2019, e sta progressivamente raggiungendo il massimo, che avverrà nel 2025. Con l’aumento dell’attività si manifestano forti perturbazioni magnetiche, con la comparsa di regioni attive sulla superficie. In questa immagine della cromosfera solare, ripresa il 19 Gennaio 2023 alle 12.26 (Tempo Medio dell’Europa Centrale, TMEC), sono visibili due grandi regioni attive catalogate come AR3190 (in basso) e AR3191/AR3192 (in alto). Quando osserviamo la cromosfera con un filtro che isola la lunghezza d’onda dell’idrogeno ionizzato (H-alpha) queste regioni appaiono come una complessa associazione di zone brillanti (facole) e scure (macchie). La macchia associata alla regione 3190 è una delle più grandi apparse nell’attuale ciclo solare: è grande quattro volte la Terra è potrebbe essere vista ad occhio nudo, naturalmente utilizzando una adeguata schermatura per gli occhi.
Scope: LUNT LS60T Ha
Mount: 10micron GM2000 hps II
Camera: ZWO ASI 174mm
Processing: Autostakkert!3 - PixInsight
I have always loved the moon, since the fisrt times I was learning photography basics. A few years ago I have seen a beautiful image of the moon with very nice colors, much different from the usual monochromatic version (bw, yellow, orange, reddish, white) which is everywhere.
This kind of processing it is called "Mineral Moon", because it is aimed at extracting colors which are (or at least should be!) already present on lunar surface, the colors of its mineral composition. In practice several saturation filters are applied to the image, few of them with extreme settings.
Toughest step is taking a sharp photo of the moon, because a very long focal length is needed and very good weather condition.
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EXIF and Technique:
Moon (Milan 2021):
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
Canon EF 100-400
Canon Extender 2x
800mm - 1/500s - f/11 - ISO 400
16 shots
Background stars (Sardinia 2017):
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
Canon EF 16-35
16mm - 20s - f2.8 - ISO 6400
Workflow:
Basic corrections in ACR and conversion in TIFF
Pre-processed in PIPP
Stacked in AutoStakkert (16 shots)
Sharpen using RegiStax
Processed in Photoshop in 8 layers:
1. Basic adjustments of light/contrast/wb
2. Colors extraction and calibration
3. Colors saturation first step
4. Colors saturation second step
5. High pass sharpening
6. Glow and Orton with Tonality Masks Landscape Panel
7. Selective corrections with Tonality Masks Core Panel
8. Background stars (basic adjustments)
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Canon EOS 60D
TeleVue NP101is/2x PM
Losmandy G11
Captured 100 frames at 1/500, ISO100
Stacked best 75% in Autostakkert!
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finishing in Photoshop
= Acquisition info =
William Optics Zenithstar 73ii (FL 430mm)
Risingcam IMX571 color
iOptron CEM26 + iPolar
Sharpcap
= Séance photo =
17 février 2024 @ 18h15
Filtre UV/IR cut
Best 250 de 1000x0,2s
= Traitement/processing =
PIPP, Autostakkert & Gimp
@Astrobox 2.0 / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec
AstroM1
Made with three photos taken at different times and places. The illuminated part of the moon was taken this evening.
Nikon z7 Tamron G2 150-600+Tc x20. 1200mm f/13 160iso 1/50s.
Best 33% of 600 frames.
Stacking: Autostakkert
Wavelets: Registax
Enhancements: Darktable
Compositing: Gimp
Although Crater Copernicus and its southern ejecta field are the dominant features in this image, it is about the Apollo 12 and 14 landing sites. Apollo 12 landed in Mare Insularium, and Apollo 14 just outside of Fra Mauro's north rim. (Rükl 41)
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
2000 frames captured in Firecapture at 4.25ms at 144 gain and 55% histogram
Best 75% stacked in Autostakkert!
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finishing in Photoshop - colors are slightly saturated.
My most recent little project.
A composite of the moon I photographed recently, merged with a starry sky I photographed last month ;)
Technical info:
Moon:
Canon EOS 200D + Sky-watcher Skymax 102
(1/40s; f/12.74; ISO-100; 1300mm)
Stack of 25 photos, stacked in Autostakkert, and sharpened in Registax 6.
Stars:
Canon EOS 200D + Tamron 10-24mm
(30s; f/4; ISO-800; 10mm)
Stack of 30 photos, stacked in Sequator and edited in Photoshop 2023
All of the tracking was done with an older Sky-watcher Star Adventurer Pro.
Sun Spot AR2965, 2022-03-13
Captured from our backyard on Sunday March 13. Seeing was not that great, so we stacked best 5% of 5,000 frames.
Equipment details:
Orion 80mm refractor
Quark Chromosphere filter
ZWO2600MM Pro using ROI
Processed with Autostakkert!, IMPPG, and Photoshop.
Sunspot AR2965 has a 'beta-gamma' magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class solar flares.
Scientists classify solar flares according to their x-ray brightness in the wavelength range 1 to 8 Angstroms. There are 3 categories: X-class flares are big; they are major events that can trigger planet-wide radio blackouts and long-lasting radiation storms. M-class flares are medium-sized; they can cause brief radio blackouts that affect Earth's polar regions. Minor radiation storms sometimes follow an M-class flare. Compared to X- and M-class events, C-class flares are small with few noticeable consequences here on Earth.
Both disks of the Moon are derived from the same data. The "duller" one is a single, unprocessed frame from the source video capture. The other one is after final processing.
This was all made possible by the following software:
Firecapture: Capture of 1500 OSC video frames
PIPP: Debayer
Autostakkert!: Stacking
Registax: Wavelet sharpening
Photoshop: Color balance, curves adjustments, saturation enhancement
See Mineral Moon image posted 2021-11-17 for more capture details.
TS-Optics UNC 10" f/5, ZWO ASI462MC, ZWO ADC, Barlow 2x. FireCapture, Autostakkert, AstraImage, WinJUPOS, Photoshop, Lightroom. 25 313 frames stacked.
"Clavius Crater and Points South"
April 22, 2021, 23:18 CDT
Moon age 10.3 Days
I have been on a craters kick for a day or so. Anyone who pays attention to these is wise to expect a photo of Clavius crater to show up sometime. I can’t help it – Clavius is a beauty, and it dominates a region offering dramatic contrasts of light and shadow.
This image catches Clavius under pretty high-angle light, like late morning. The craters to its South are increasingly shadowed, until it becomes difficult to separate them from each other and from the edge of night. Here and there, first light catches the peaks of mountains emerging from the gloom.
Seeing conditions were about 4/5 at the time this video was obtained. I did not venture using a focal extender to magnify the image because I had a nice focus locked in and did not want to risk losing it: instead, I opted to use a smaller region of interest in FireCapture (1000x800px, an in-camera crop) on this one.
The best 12% of 5779 video frames were used in creating this image.
I omitted my usual step of pre-processing the video in PIPP software, as tracking was good. Instead, the video was stacked without pre-processing with Auto Stakkert!3 software. Wavelets and histogram adjustments of the AutoStakkert!3 output image were done with Registax 6. Final toning, minor cropping and watermarking were done with Camera RAW and Photoshop CC 2021.
Celestron Edge HD8 telescope
ZWO ASI 290MM camera
Celestron Advanced VX Mount
Distance 5.265AU (489,412,000 mi)
Best 33% of 3,000 frames
Diameter=37.39"
Focal Length=4800mm
Average FPS=54
Shutter=18.38ms
Phase=0.99
Illuminated 99.2%
Telescope=Celestron CPC800XLT
Camera=ASI120MC-S
Shorty 2X Barlow
FireCapture 2.4.09
Autostakkert 2.3.0.21
Registax 6
Photoshop CC 2015
Over the past several years, I have had difficulty processing my color moon photos in color. My computer simply balked at stacking the large data files, so I opted to present them as monochrome images. Recently I overcame that problem, and I have started to revisit some of those old data sets, restoring to them their color.
Here is the waxing Pink Moon of April 16, 2016. Enjoy!
Stack of the best 21 of 31 images.
Canon T3i camera.
Orion 2x Shorty Barlow lens.
Explore Scientific ED80 APO refractor telescope, 460mm, f/6.
1/100 second exposure, ISO 200.
Pre- and post-processing with Photoshop CC 2021,
stacking with AutoStakkert!3, and wavelets processing with Registax 6.
The Apenninus Mountains are one of my favorite locations to image on the moon. It is also home to our moons tallest mountain, Mons Huygens, which stands 3.4 miles tall! I never get tired of imaging this region, each time trying to get more details. Thus far, this is my best wide-field view to date of this mountain range. I hope you like it!
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, best 25% of 10k frames. Captured with SharpCap v3 and processed using AutoStakkert! And Registax. Image Date: March 26, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.
Telescopio: Celestron C11 XLT Fastar
Montatura: Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro Synscan
CCD: Lumenera Skynyx 2.0 mono
Software: Astra Image 3.0 SI, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 2.3.0.19, Lucam Recorder
Filtri: Baader Planetarium R G B pro
Accessori: ATIK Ruota portafiltri EFW2, Moonlite CF 2,5" focuser with high resolution stepper DRO, Barlow Zeiss Abbe 2X
pose: 3600 FPS: 17,00000
Lunghezza focale: 5600
Seeing: 4 Trasparenza: 7
This is a photo of the Mare Insularum region of our Moon. It includes the large, prominent crater Copernicus (upper right), and the smaller craters Kepler (center left), Lansberg (center bottom) and Reinhold (between Lansberg and Copernicus.
Copernican System craters, named for the prime example, Copernicus, are all features that have originated over the most recent 1.1 billion years. These craters have sharply-defined features, terraced interior crater walls, prominent central peaks, high outer ramparts made of excavated materials, and extended bright ray systems surrounding them that radiate across the surface of the moon, covering other older features.
The rays are bright because they are comprised of materials that were blasted outward from the interior of the Moon in the moments following the impact of a meteor or asteroid. These materials have not yet been subjected to the "weathering" and darkening effect of eons of exposure to solar radiation and micrometeorite bombardment.
Craters Copernicus and Kepler illustrate these features well. Examine these craters and their surrounds and note how the impact events that formed them transformed the face of the Moon. Close examination will reveal myriad tiny craterlets around the primary craters. These craterlets were formed when material, ejected at high speed by the impact that created the primary craters, fell back to the Moon. They are often arrayed as linear features, little chains of craterlets, radiating outward from the primary crater.
Celestron EdgeHD 8 telescope, f/10, 2032 mm focal length
ZWO ASI290MM Camera
Celestron Advanced VX Mount
Stack of the best 50% of 2,960 video frames, captured with Firecapture software
Pre-Processing with PIPP
Stacking with AutoStakkert!3
Wavelets processing with Registax 6
Post-processing with Photoshop CS 2019
Seeing conditions were at best 3/5. High Jet stream winds negatively affected what might otherwise have been outstanding viewing conditions.
The ACEAP 2019 team first saw this lovely crescent moon with brilliant earthshine as we headed down from the ALMA technical building to the residencia for dinner. I rushed up to my room for my camera & tripod. I thought that I'd missed the moment, but I couldn't head home without an image of the Moon from a world upside down. Dust near the horizon dimmed the earthshine. The Moon sank behind a featureless flat topped ridge, instead of a nearby volcano...
Without my tracker, only one set of earthshine exposures was clear. The Atacama has wonderful contrast between the foothills of the Andes and flat desert. With the HDR image put together, it captured the flatness of the desert and color of the dust. This almost monochromatic image captures the moment; I can almost smell the dust. This rendering is lightened a bit to show well on phone screens, if you print the full resolution image you will probably want to adjust the exposure.
Sony a6300 with Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 shot at 5.6 with a 1.4x teleconverter. Crescent data exposed 1/50 sec at ISO 1600. 88 frames 1.5x drizzle stacked in Autostakkert 3. Earthshine and ridgeline data exposed 30 sec at ISO 200 with 5 images stacked. Final HDR composite and crop in photoshop.
Astrophotographers, get yourself to the Atacama in Chile. With no forests to burn, humidity of 3% and 0.3 arc second seeing, the Atacama is second only to the Antarctic and low earth orbit for imaging possibilities. Chile has warm welcoming people, great food, and lots to see and do when you are not looking up. Thanks again to AUI, the NSF, and their partners in giving me this opportunity. For more about this trip, more images, and press articles see: astronomy.robpettengill.org/ACEAP-2019.html or #ACEAP2019 on social media.
#ACEAP2019 #AstroAmbassadors #NSFfunded
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
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
Soleil - Région active majeure : AR3590 -- approx 10x la taille de la Terre
The Active region AR3590 is about 10 times Earth size.
== Acquisition ==
Nikon D5100 + Nikkor 70-300 @300mm
Filtre Solarlite ND5 Thousand Oaks optical
30 x 1/100s -- f/10 -- ISO 100
= Traitement/processing =
PIPP, Autostakkert & Gimp
@Astrobox 2.0 / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec
AstroM1
The slightly pinkish hue of the moon is unnatural. It is a slight effect that I applied to the photo.
The sky was slightly cloudy, with no wind. The conditions were not perfect but it was almost unhoped for to make this capture tonight.
Nikon z7 Tamron G2 150-600 Tcx20 1200mm f/13 80iso 1/60s. Best 5% of 700 frames. Autostakkert + Registax + Darktable.
Luminous Crescent @ 21% photographed on 01/10/2021 @ 3:00AM. Gear setup: ES 102 APO FCD100 @ f/5.6, ZWO ASI294MC pro. Captured by Sharpcap pro. Stacking by Autostakkert, wavelets by Registax and touch up in PS. For full image details: www.astrobin.com/full/xmqj7p/0/
Telescopio: APM 140 mm f 7 APO
Montatura:iOptron CEM60
Camera CMOS di ripresa: ZWO ASI 224 MC
Lunghezza focale: 2548
Software:SharpCap 3.2 Pro, Registax 6.1.0.8, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 3.0.14, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8
:Focuser Starlight Feather Touch 3,5", Barlow Zeiss Abbe 2.6X
Data: 25 Giugno 2019 Ore: 22:28
Pose: 3000 sommate su 20.008 riprese
FPS: 299 Seeing: 3 Trasparenza: 8
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
Captured 1000 frames with Firecapture
Stacked best 75% with Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened with Registax
Finished with Photoshop to include oversaturating colors
Telescopio: Celestron C8 Edge HD
Montatura: iOptron CEM60
Camera: QHY 178 mono cooled
Filtro:Optolong Red CCD 50,8 mm
Software:SharpCap 3.2 Pro, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 3.0.14, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8
Pose: 150 FPS: 24
Lunghezza focale: 2032 mm
Seeing: 3 Trasparenza: 9
Full pano of the Sun from 03.06.2015 07:20:35 MSK.
In addition to suspected EFR we have had classic hedgerow proms with streamers on the left, very interesting swirl right above sunspot and several other interesting features including filaments and lesser proms.
Nothing unusual in acquisition in processing.
I'm slightly surprised and dissapointed by the difference in contrast of the panels - some are just right, some are lacking. Plus the background - the upper part isn't black, while the bottom is. I would attribute all this to the poor seeing :)
Jupiter from last night, the jet stream was very good and i was able to use the 5x barlow, which meant imaging at a total 5000mm fl with my 200p 8inch aperture f/5 newt :)
edit; (barlow is a kind of teleconverter lens = 5x 1000mm )
Scope- SkyWatcher 200p
Camera-ZWO ASI120MC
Barlow - 5x (5000mm fl)
Software; Sharpcap2 / Registax6 / AS!2
The same active region as yesterday was creating some really nice prominence's 24-hours later.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher 120ED Esprit, ZWO ASI290MC, Daystar Quark Chromosphere + Daystar 2" UV/IR filter, 0.5x reducer, SharpCap Pro v3.0, best 10% of 1k frames, AutoStakkert, Registax. Image date: 10 July 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA, USA.
Seestar S50, filmato da 2 minuti (1406 frames). Il 75% dei fames sono elaborati con PIPP, Autostakkert, Astra Image e Photoshop.
Telescope: Celestron C9.25 Edge HD @ 4037 mm
Focal ratio: f17
Camera: ZWO ASI462MC
FPS (avg.)=122
Shutter=8.159ms
Gain=315 (52%)
Resolution: 0.1482 arcsec/pixel
Stack: 25% best of 22050 frames (5512 frames)
Barlow: Explore Scientific 1.25" 2x Focal Extender
Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector: ZWO ADC
Focuser: MicroTouch Focuser
Capturing software: FireCapture 2.7
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Processing: Autostakkert! (30%), RegiStax, PixInsight
Date: 21-Ago-2021
Local Time: 9:49 pm
Universal Time (UT): 2:49 am
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Callisto is casting its shadow onto the tops of Jupiter's clouds. About an hour before this, I could see the shadows of both Ganymede and Callisto on Jupiter, but I wasn't ready to shoot yet. In retrospect, that's kind of a shame, because that would be the rarest pairing of shadows visible in amateur scopes.
From left to right in this picture, we have Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa. It was a good pile-up of satellites to share with my astronomy lab students.
This picture combines stacks from R, G, and B channels shot with a ZWO ASI120MM and filter wheel on the back of a Celestron Edge HD 925. Each stack was 20 s and done in quick succession using FireCapture. Seeing only allowed for 35 frames from the R and G channels and 45 frames from the B channel to be stacked, which was done in AutoStakkert. The stacks were sharpened and channels combined in PixInsight. Final touches in Photoshop. Shot from my backyard in Long Beach, CA.
Crater Plato dominates the upper right quadrant of this image. Its "flooded" floor appears to be of similar material to that of Mare Imbrimum, which lies to the crater's south. Valles Alpes, a rift valley can be seen horizontally biscecting the more rugged terrain to the southeast. (A. Ruki 3, 4)
ZWO ASI178MC/2.5x PowerMate
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy LX850
4000 frames captured in Firecapture
Best 240 frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
Le Soleil, avec 12 régions actives et 243 taches solaires!
The Sun, with 12 Active regions and 243 Sunspots
Risingcam IMX571 color
William Optics Zenithstar73ii
iOptron CEM26
Filtre UV/IR cut
Filtre Thousand Oaks Solarlite ND5
Exp. 20ms / Gain 100
Best 500 de 3500
Aquisition: Sharpcap
Traitement: PIPP, AutoStakkert 4.0 et Gimp
@Astrobox 2.0 / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec
AstroM1
Lunt 60 h-alpha solar telescope, Player One Uranus-C camera (585 chip), 600 frames. Stacking in Autostakkert, sharpening in Lucky Stack Worker.
Saturn with its rings nearly edge-on, and the shadow of its largest moon Titan, as it transits across Saturn's surface as imaged using a ZWO ASI224MC astronomy camera through a vintage-1998 Celestron Celestar 8 Deluxe 2032mm f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope plus a Celestron Ultima SV-Series 2x Barlow lens. After pre-processing in PIPP, the best 47% of 31807 frames captured in SharpCap 4.0 were aligned and stacked using Autostakkert! 3 with wavelets processing in Registax 6. Final adjustments using Adobe CS5, Luminar Neo, and noise reduction in Topaz.
AS_P47 copy V2
ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25" (RGB)
Tele Vue 2.5x PowerMate
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
3 RGB runs of 90s each captured in Firecapture.
Best 2000 frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
R/G/B frame Derotation in WinJuPos
Finished in Photoshop
Our neighbour red planet.
Setup:
C9.25 SCT.
Baader IR/UV cut filter.
IMX385 camera.
Best 400 out of 5000 frames stacked.
Post-processing in Autostakkert, Registax and Photoshop.
Here is a view of last evening’s waxing gibbous moon. This is a composite image of the north and south regions spliced together using Microsoft Image Composite Editor (a.k.a. Microsoft ICE).
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX90, Canon 6D, Backyard EOS, each region was the best 50% of 1500 frames captured, processed in AutoStakkert! V3.0.14 (x64). Image Date: August 30, 2017. Location: The Dark Side Observatory.
Four panel mosaic of last nights first quarter moon, April 22, 2018.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASI290MC camera, best 25% of 5k frames per panel (four panels total). Captured with SharpCap v3 and processed using AutoStakkert!, Registax, and Microsoft ICE. Image Date: April 22, 2018. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA.
Taken a little before midnight on February 26th with a Celestron C6 SCT, Celestron AVX mount, 2x Barlow, and ASI120MC. Captured with SharpCap, stacked with AutoStakkert, and processed with Astra Image Pro and Photoshop.
Telescopio: Officina Stellare APO 105 mm f 6.2
Montatura:iOptron CEM60
Camera di ripresa: QHY CMOS 183 Color Cooled
Lunghezza focale: 651 mm
Software:SharpCap 3.2 Pro, Registax 6.1.0.8, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 3.0.14, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8
Data: 16 Luglio 2019 Ore: 23:31
Pose: 122 su 200 rprese a 5 fotogrammi al secondo
Seeing: 2 Trasparenza: 8
The Sun imaged from London in Hydrogen Alpha on the 1st June 2019. Sometimes you get a happy accident...
The Solar disk is a stack of the best 50% of 4000 frames, processed in Registax and Autostakkert. A single frame of the 4000 frame video containing the image of the bird crossing in front of the Sun was extracted and sharpened with the motion blur around the bird removed using Stabilise mode in Topaz AI Sharpen. This was then blended with the stacked image using a darken layer in Photoshop CC.
The whole image was then rendered in false colour.
Lunt LS60T Ha scope, ASI174MM camera
The moon is an object that can be both loved and reviled by astronomers, both amateur and professional alike.
Its close proximity and brightness make it a joy to observe with thousands of fine features that can be observed using even small telescopes.
On the other hand, it's brightness in its fuller phases washes out the sky, which is a frustrating time for stargazers looking to observe those faint, deep sky objects. The glow of the moon has much the same effect as light pollution, making deep sky observation prohibitively difficult or impossible. This is what earns it the distinction of "The Devil's Flashlight" amongst astronomy buffs who try to avoid its presence or use filters in an attempt to minimize its effect.
But no one can deny the beauty of our closest celestial neighbour as it does its eternal gravitational dance with our home planet.
-=Tech Data=-
-Equipment-
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
Mount: Celestron CGX
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
Filter: STC Astro Duo-Narrowband filter (Hα and OIII) (yes, this was shot with a filter!)
-Software-
Acquisition: Sharpcap
Pre-processing: Planetary Image Pre-Processor (PiPP)
Stacking: Autostakkert!3
Post Processing: Photoshop CC with Astra Image Deconvolution plugin
Best 1500 of 2100 shots
Shot at the Camden Lake Provincial Wildlife Area near Moscow Ontario.