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6/8/2024 09:25am From my garden in Hawkinge Kent UK.

Very large Sunspots (3780)

Just come around the East limb of the sun

Altair 3X barlow lens

Altair starwave ascent 80ED refractor telescope.

Lunt White Light Herschel Solar Wedge

Altair Astro GPCam2.

Captured in SharpCap

Stasked in autostakkert

Process in Regestax.

Finished in Photoshop CS6.

24.07.2019, 02:15 UT

ZWO ASI 174MM + C14 Edge HD (f/27.5)

Baader IR filter (685 nm)

 

Post-Processing:

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Autostakkert 3: 250 / 5000 frames stacked

Registax 6: histogram correction, wavelet sharpening

Adobe Photoshop CS2: image crop, level correction,

unsharp mask

Topaz Denoise: Noise reduction

 

Location: Schwentinental OT Raisdorf

9 images - de-rotated

Seeing 2.5/5

Transparency 3/5

 

Collimation slightly off

 

C9.25 EDGEHD

ZWO120MC

SharpCap

Winjupos

AutoStakkert

PixInsight

 

Jupiter 21st Sept(22:32 UT) A wider view showing Io and it's shadow and Ganymede, only average seeing conditions. This image is just a merge of two images in Winjupos, each image the best 2,000 frames from 5,700 frames captured in 3 minutes. Captured using Firecapture V2.7, Processed using Autostakkert V3.1.4, Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera, Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow and ZWO ADC.

Jupiter as secondary capture target. Captured with Celestron NexStar 8SE, ZWO ASI120MC and Celestron 2X barlow.

Photograph is bit blurry due to thin cloud layer at target area.

 

Image processed using AutoStakkert and RegiStax with 500 frames.

 

Location: Maharagama, Sri Lanka at 3:25 AM (IST).

Cloudy conditions

Transparency (2.5/5)

Seeing (2/5)

 

C9.25 EDGEHD (F=2350mm)

ZWO120MC

SharpCap

Winjupos

AutoStakkert

PixInsight

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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 15.00ms

gain 50

frames 1329

Profile=Jupiter

 

Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3

 

Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)

 

Final postprocessing by Gimp:

Sharpen + denoise

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Coronado PST, Celestron 3x Barlow and ASI120MC camera on an EQ5 Pro mount on a permanent pier. Videos captured with SharpCap.

2,000 frame video shot, the best 75% stacked with Autostakkert! 3. Image was de-saturated then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone, then false colour added back in using Photoshop CS2.

Partial solar eclipse in late autumn/winter with the sun quite low about 8 degrees above the horizon in Tromsø in October. There were some light clouds passing during this shot, close to maximum, at 55% coverage of the Moon in front of the Sun in Tromsø, Norway. Seeing average/poor. Ambient temperature -7'C.

 

Skywatcher EQ5+ Asterion drive kit

William Optics Z61

Lunt 1.25" Herschel wedge

ZWO ASI178MC

 

Settings: 16bit RAW-mode, gain 0, 0.5ms, resulting in 18 frames/sec

Best 65% of 1000 frames stacked in Autostakkert, + sharpening with restoration filter in PixInsight.

18 Pane Mosaic.

ASI174 mono camera, Celestron C11, Mesu 200 Mount.

Best 39% of 2000 frames (per panel) stacked in Autostakkert. Sharpened in ImPPG

Mosaic stitched in Photoshop

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

First light again! My TIS DMK23 U274 has arrived. Sometimes this unit shows up in flashy futuristic outfit and prefers to be called Celestron Skyris 274m.

 

Unlike its astronomical sibling, DMK23 comes without cable and nosepiece. I have taken a C-threaded tube that comes with QHY5L-II - fits nicely. USB3.0 cable was a big surprise - very rigid and heavy, it can easily rip out the flimsy camera's USB socket. I was forced to loop it and to attach the loop's base to the telescope's body with Velcro tape. Not elegant at all :(

Once again, PST demonstrated that it was designed as scope for visual observing - the camera reaches the focus when the focus knob runs into its limit, so I'm not sure that it's really a focus position. The image looks satisfactory in this case anyway, so this is disturbing but acceptable.

With the Barlow lens the camera CAN'T reach the focus. I'm using THAT Meade 2x lens :) So I screw out the optical part and just dropped it into the PST's eyepiece port. Focus is now achievable somewhere near the middle of focusing knob travel distance. Unfortunately, it requires 3 panels to capture the full solar disk.

But all above mentioned are minor things compared to the primary benefit: NO! NEWTON'S! RINGS!! :D

 

Software?

SharpCap finds the camera easily but didn't support 12 bit ADC mode. Discarded. FireCapture detected the camera but failed to launch the main screen - new model, nuff said. I had high hopes for this program since it produce 16-bit .ser files that are "edible" for Autostakkert!2. Finally, TIS's own software, IC Capture... Not particualry convinient to use, important functions and dialogues are to be accesed through the main menu, but it's so very fast and "solidly built" - very nice. And when I had stepped on another rake. The data is saved in 16-bit form as "Y16" .avi. The version of AS!2 I was using was unable to open such files. Very bad! With fingers crossed I have opened the file in ImageJ... Yes! ImageJ opened it as a stack of 16-bit frames. I re-saved it as a bunch of TIFFs and AS!2 processed them nicely and properly. But it wasn't very appealing to do such a conversion, especially given the need to process three panels.

Fortunately it appears that while stable release of AS!2 can't do that, the current alpha 2.3.0.21 already supports Y16 encoding. So the middleman was removed.

Today there were too few very weak proms, so the open question remains - what about them? That's a subject for next sunny morning :)

 

Does anyone have pills against logorhea?

 

WARNING! Sun is dangerous, use proper filters for observing and imaging!

 

Aquisition time (start of the session) : JD 2456897.804387 (11:18:19 MSK).

Image orientation: scrambled;

Equipment:

TIS DMK23 U274 via partially disassembled Meade 2x Barlow lens on Coronado PST riding on Celestron CG-4 motorised mount set over Vixen SX half-pier over Vixen SX tabletop tripod on a windowsill.

Aperture 40 mm

Scope's native focal length 400 mm

Effective focal length 800 mm

Tv = 1/4000 s (WOW!)

ISO NA

Gain: --- (something like 19 dB in IC Capture's terms)

Capturing software: TIS IC Caoture;

Exposures: 3x598 (50% used in stacking);

Processing:

1) stacking in AS!2 2.3.0.21alpha;

6) stiching in Microsoft ICE;

7) deconvolution in AstraImage 3 PRO (Richardson-Lucy algorithm, Cauchy type PSF, size 2,1 units, 6 iteartions);

8) high-pass filtering, contrast and brightness adjustment and 0,68x downsampling (bicubic sharper) in Photoshop.

Instruments de prise de vue: Celestron C8

Montures: SkyWatcher AZ EQ6 GT

Accessoire: Televue Barlow 2x

Caméras d'imagerie: QHY CCD QHY5LII-M

Filtres: Lumicon Rouge #23A

 

Logiciels: Registax 6/Autostakkert! 2/Gimp

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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 5.00ms

gain 50

frames 8030

Profile=Jupiter

 

Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3

 

Postprocessing by Registax (Wavelets)

 

Final postprocessing by Gimp:

Sharpen + red channel values slight adjustment

Gibbous moon - about 10 days old and 72% illumination. Some craters visible near the terminator are: Bullialdus, Longomontanus, Clavius (with its curving chain of interior craters: Rutherfurd, Clavius D, C, N, J and JA), Gruemberger and Moretus. The Chandrayaan-3 landing site may be visible near the craters Simpelius and Manzinus.

Samsung S8+ 20s video through BST StarGuider eyepiece on 127mm Maksutov telescope.

PIPP: Converted 50% best frames from mp4 to api.

AutoStakkert: Stacked 25% best frames.

GIMP: Cropped and adjusted Curves.

Registax: Wavelets.

 

Solar activity picking up at last.

Canon 100-400mm, DayStar Quark (Chromosphere), ASI174mm - stacked best 50% of 100 frames with Autostakkert.

Celestron C11 XLT Altair 385c 2x Barlow ZWO ADC. 10k frames in Firecapture. 11% stacked in Autostakkert. Processing in Startools.

Mars 25 Sept 2020 0301am, Poetry Ranch, TX. Celestron C11 at f/20, ASI224MC best 5,346 frames of 20,000. 238 frames/sec 3.15ms shutter speed. Video captured in FireCapture, mono then debayered to RGB color in Debayer, Stacked to produce .TIF in AutoStakkert, image sharpened in Registax using Wavelets, final post-processing in Photoshop CS2.

Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Coronado PST on an EQ5 Pro mount.

Camera was an ASI120MC fitted with a 2x Barlow. A 1000 frame video was captured using Sharpcap and the best 60% were stacked using Autostakkert! 3. Processing was done in Focus Magic and Lightroom

Jupiter 25th August(00:28 UT) with Europa's shadow in transit , fairly good seeing conditions. This image consists of two images de rotated in Winjupos (best 3,000 frames each), 10,000 frames captured in 3 minutes for each AVI. Captured using Firecapture V2.7, Processed using Autostakkert V3.1.4, Registax V6 and Winjupos. Equipment used, Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, ZWO ASI224MC camera, Carl Zeiss 2X Barlow and ZWO ADC.

This spectacular view caught my eye last night while scanning along the waning terminator,which extends perfectly across these 4 substantial craters and enhances their depth. Furnerius Crater has a diameter of 77.6 miles and is 2 miles deep. Petavius Crater, with the last tendrils of lunar daylight revealing it's dynamic interior, has a diameter of 110 miles and 2.1 miles deep. Vendelinus has a diameter of 91.3 miles and 1.6 miles deep. Langrenus has a diameter of 82 miles and also 2.1 miles deep.

This is a two panel mosaic processed with Autostakkert 2 and was a first attempt at using some different filtering techniques using Photoshop CC 2014, brought to my attention by Robert Reeves.

Camera -ASI034MC (640 x 480 @ 60fps)

Autostakkert - best 40% of 2000 frames for each of the two panels.

Orion XT8-i telescope and Shorty 2X Barlow and eq tracking platform.

Telescopio: Meade 60 mm.

Camara: ZWO ASI120MM

Filtro: Prisma de Herschel + Baader Solar Continum (540 nm) + Optolong Uv / Ir

Montua: Eq5 Synscan

 

Frames: 1000

Df: 360 mm.

F: 6

 

Captura: Firecapture

Procesado: Autostakkert + Fitsworks + Darktable + Pixinsight 1.8

 

Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda

Observatorio Astronómico Altaír

Poncitlán Jalisco México

The Moon, Clavius Crater, 14th Feb 2019. C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO mount and ZWO ASI224MC. An average of 500 frames, stacked using Autostakkert V3.0.14.

 

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

Several point of interest in this field of view; Ramsden crater.

can be seen at the bottom center of this image with it's interior in darkness and just the rim of

the 15.5 mile (25km) diameter crater rim illuminated. Ramsden A is on the southeast rim and is 3.1 miles (5km) in diameter.

The crater lies across Rimae Ramsden, a rille system that spans an area over 80 miles (130 km) across,

sprawling over the western section of Palus Epidemiarum (latin for Marsh of Epidemics).

 

The larger lava filled stadium-like feature to the east of Ramsden is Capuanus and is 37.2 (60km) in diameter.

Not to be confused with Campanus crater 30 miles (48 km) in diameter, and it's close neighbor Mercator 29 miles (47 km) in diameter,

that pair of craters near the right center . On the right center of the image, you can see the lava-filled Kies crater, that looks

like it has a paint drip, and to the 8 o'clock position from Kies see the lunar dome structure designated Kies Pi (π) and the tiny

volcanic crater on it's top.

 

The unmistakable grooves that extend up/down in the center of the image are Rimae Hippalus, and from left to right are named by

the IAU with their Roman numeral designation as I, II, and III. This family of three prominent rilles is concentric to

the Humorum Basin and formed by bending of the crust as the center of the basin subsided due to the weight of the Humorum lavas.

Rille I extends through the lave-filled remnants of Hippalus crater (36 miles / 58km diameter).

 

That impact crater in the upper right of the image is Bullialdus, it's diameter of 39 miles (61km) boasts a central peak

and terraced walls, and is located in the western part of the Mare Nubium.

 

Image is the best 40% of 3000 frames processed with Autostakkert, Registax 6 and Photoshop CC 2015.

Telescope - Celestron CPC800 XLT GPS

Camera - ASI120MC-S, and a luminance filter was used as a test.

 

Jupiter 5th Feb 202519:50 UT) , good seeing conditions. This image consists of 10 images de rotated in Winjupos, each image used the best 2,000 frames from each 6,500 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.

Second try at processing..

 

Not super great technically, but I did like the perspective of "lunar day" top left to "lunar night" bottom right.

 

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Celestron Edge 8

 

Imaging cameras: Point Grey Grasshopper 3 1.4MP

 

Mounts: Celestron CG-4 MotorDrive

 

Software: Autostakkert! Autostackert! · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4

 

Filters: Red

 

Accessory: Orion Shorty Barlow 2x

 

Date:Feb. 18, 2021

 

Frames: 300

 

FPS: 25.00000

 

Focal length: 3200

 

Resolution: 3449x4670

 

Data source: Backyard

Slightly better processing this time. I also averaged a bit more data (20% this time)

 

Equipment: QHY5L II

TEC Maksutov

AP BARADV

Autostakkert

Marte del 17/06/2016 20:29 GMT -3

 

Lente: SW Dobson 8" f/6 - Barlow 2x - Canon 60D

Video MLV (Magic Lantern) - ISO 400 - 1/160s - 1600 x 400 px

Apilado 56 frames de 805 - Recorte 400 x 400 px

Procesado: PIPP - AutoStakkert - Adobe Lightroom

ZWO 80mm F/7.5 FF APO - AM5n - Asi 585MC Pro

Seeing 5

SharpCap Pro

AutoStakkert

ImPPG

Lightroom

Sol Regiones Activas 2740 y 2741

 

Telescopio: Refractor Bresser Messier Acro 102/460 f4.5

Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM

Montura: EQ5 Bresser EXOS2 motorizada sin goto

Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 1.8, T=1.5%)

- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (540nm)

Accesorio: Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism

Software: SharpCap, Pipp, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop

Fecha: 2019-05-10

Hora: 17:28 T.U.

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 3'2 minutos

Resolución: 3096 x 2080

Gain: 79

Exposure: 0,000073

Frames: 2890

Frames apilados: 13%

FPS: 14.50

106_1421-5 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert.

reprocessed jupiter 31.12.2012 60 secs vids processed in AutoStakkert + roteted and wavelets in registax 6 and what a difference think i will be processing with AutoStakkert now and wavelets in r6. Taken with a spc900 in a x 3 TeleVue skywatcher 200 dps on a eq5 pro goto unguided

Light banding is visible on the planet and the Cassini Division is easily seen in the rings.

 

This was taken with a Canon T4i at prime focus on a 90mm Celestron C90 telescope (1250mm focal length) and a photo tripod.

 

Approximately 83 exposures were stacked in AutoStakkert and processed in Registax.

Sol Regiones Activas 12786, 12785, 12783

Comparando imagen filtro Continuum y filtro K-line

 

Foto 1 Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (540nm)

Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED

Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM

Montura: iOptron CEM40

Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 1.8, T=1.5%)

- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (540nm)

Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism

Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop

Fecha: 2020-11-23 (23 de noviembre de 2020)

Hora: 14:32 T.U. (Tiempo universal)

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 1 minuto

Resolución: 3096x2080

Gain: 192 (37%)

Exposure: 0.069ms

Frames: 1793

Frames apilados: 25%

FPS: 29

Sensor temperature= 39.6 °C

 

Foto 2 Baader K-Line Filter 1¼" (double stacked) (394nm)

Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED

Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM

Montura: iOptron CEM40

Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.6, T=25%)

- Baader K-Line Filter 1¼" (double stacked) (394nm)

Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism

Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop

Fecha: 2020-11-23 (23 de noviembre de 2020)

Hora: 14:24 T.U. (Tiempo universal)

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 1 minuto

Resolución: 3096x2080

Gain: 206 (40%)

Exposure: 0.032ms

Frames: 1774

Frames apilados: 25%

FPS: 29

Sensor temperature= 39.2 °C

106_1429-31 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert.

104_8965-7 4K MP4s processed with PIPP and AutoStakkert.

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 Celestron 3x Barlow.

Best 50% of a 2,000 frame video stacked using Autostakkert! 4, sharpened in Focus Magic and processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.

7 Frames stitched in Microsoft ICE. Each: 90s x 32fps (best 20% selected in AutoStakkert).

Processed in Photoshop.

Coronado PST

ZWO ASI120MM

Eq5 Synscan

 

Tesela de 2 tomas, de las cuales 2 son subexposiciónes para el centro y 2 sobre exposiciónes para el limbo. Cada una Tomados 1000 frames y apilados 500.

Df: 400mm

F: 10

 

Captura: Firecapture

Procesado: Autostakkert + Registax + Fitsworks + Ps

 

Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda

Observatorio Astronómico Altaír

Poncitlán Jalisco México

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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 10s

exp 12.00ms

gain 50

frames 834

Profile=Moon

 

Stacked in: AutoStakkert! v3

 

Postprocessing by Registax (Linked Wavelets) + desaturation

 

Final postprocessing by Gimp:

Sharpen, denoise + brighten by increasing exposure

Telescopio: Refractor Bresser Messier Acro 102/460 f4.5

Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM

Montura: EQ5 Bresser EXOS2 motorizada sin goto

Filtros: Baader L CCD Filter

Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop

Fecha: 2019-08-04 (4 de agosto de 2019)

Hora: 21:01 T.U. (Tiempo universal)

Fase lunar: 19.6% 3.74 días Creciente

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 2 minutos

Resolución: 3096 x 2080

Gain: 101 (20%)

FPS: 12,15

Exposure: 5.245 ms

Frames: 1458

Sensor temperature= 35.2°C

Frames apilados: 25%

Meade LX200 8" (alt-az), ZWO ASI 120MC-S, oaCapture, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, Photoshop. Stack of 7x the best 10 frames out of a clip of 500.

 

3 panel mosaic

Fuji X-T20

SW120ED (2x barlow to F=1800mm)

800+ frame stacked from video

Autostakkert

Microsoft ICE

PixInsight

Jupiter captured with Celestron NexStar 8SE and ZWO ASI120MC.

 

Image processed using AutoStakkert and RegiStax with 1000 frames.

 

Location: Maharagama, Sri Lanka at 2:57 AM (IST).

 

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

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 30% 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!

Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and a Canon 600D

Sol Regiones Activas 2740 y 2741

 

Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED

Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM

Montura: EQ5 Bresser EXOS2 motorizada sin goto

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, Pipp, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop

Fecha: 2019-05-10

Hora: 16:49 T.U.

Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)

Vídeo: 2 minutos

Resolución: 3096 x 2080

Gain: 50

Exposure: 0,000032

Frames: 1745

Frames apilados: 10%

FPS: 14.52

1500 frames @1600iso captured with BackyardEOS, processed in PIPP and then stacked in Autostakkert.

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