Telescopio: Officina Stellare APO 105 mm f 6.2

Barlow Zeiss Abbe 2X

Montatura: Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro Synscan

Lunghezza focale: 1302 mm

CCD di ripresa: Point Grey Flea3 FL3-U3-32S2M

Filtro: Baader Planetarium IR-Pass 685nm

Software:Registax 6.1.0.8, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 3.0.14, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8, Firecapture 2.4 beta

Pose: 245 a 55 ftgs

Seeing: 4 Trasparenza: 8

Taking advantage of some above average conditions and mild weather to do some solar imaging.

Coronado 70 Solarmax III Double stack Ha BF-15 blocking filter.

Orion Atlas Pro EQ mount.

ZWO ASI174mm camera.

SharpCap, Autostakkert, Lightroom, Photoshop software.

Best 10% of 700 exposures stacked.

...and my Flickr friedns :)

The Sun of 04.07.2015 @10:41:40 MSK.

This looping prom on the left looks like as it can erupt....

Many swifts' transits were detected, photos pending.

DMK23U274 via 2x on Coronado PST. 9 panels, 20% of 1000 frames stacked, calibrated with "flat-cap" flat. Deconvolved, stitched in MS ICE and wavelet sharpened. High-pass filtered, contrast adjusted and colorised.

Note: CLAHE algorithm were tested but found to produce nasty edge effects.

Note 2: I have made a "bag-flat-cap", which is a great little thing to create flat-field images with PST. The technique is the same as used for making whitelight film filter from doublesided sticky-tape and cardboard :)

#my_astrophotography

#mars_in_opposition

A planet is said to be in opposition when Earth lies directly between it and the Sun. As the planet sits in the opposite part of the sky to the Sun, it’s positioned closest to Earth for its current ‘apparition’, or period of visibility.

Dubai - Distance from Earth 62.675 million KM, when imaging the planet at 10:22pm UAE 4+ GMT 13.10.2020

Taken by:

Telescope 🔭

Celestron CPC 800

And with the camera:

ZWO ASI290MC

2x Barlow Lens

Baader UV/IR-Cut L-filter

11280 Frame

Speed

94 f/s

120 sec.

Stacked only

40% of total frames

Stacked using:

Autostakkert

Registax

Photoshop

Nikon D5500, Nikkor 500mm f/8 Reflex, 1/1000 sec.exp., ISO100, 18 exposures stacked in Autostakkert and post processed on GIMP.

Has some cloud artifacts on the top part of the disk. It was about to set so had a go anyway. Taken with a Skywatcher ED100 Refractor with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 60D. Took 60 jpg's and stacked the best 30 of them with Autostakkert 2 as Registax 6 refused to stack them.

On this date, July 16, in 1969, men first left earth on a voyage to another world. Today 50 years later a beautiful full moon reminds us that there is no one there to look back at us, to remind us of the pettiness of our differences, and fragility of our pale blue orb. Questar 1350/89mm f/15 telescope with a Sony a6300 camera at prime focus. Exposed for 1/30 sec at ISO 100. The best 16 of 120 images stacked in Autostakkert 3. Deconvolved in Lynkeos. Final crop and exposure in Photoshop

Il golfo delle Iridi è un antico cratere da impatto quasi completamente sepolto dalla lava basaltica del Mare delle Piogge, situato nella zona nord-occidentale della Luna. La struttura ha un diametro di circa 230 km ed è delimitata dai promontori Laplace (a destra nella foto) ed Heraclides. Vicino ai Monti Jura si trova il cratere Bianchini (circa 40 km di diametro) e all'interno della "baia" si possono notare altri crateri più piccoli e corrugamenti simili a onde. Grazie alla vicinanza al terminatore, si possono anche vedere le lunghe ombre proiettate dal promontorio Laplace e da altre montagne sulla superficie scura del mare Imbrium.

Telescopio Celestron 114/910 Newton

Montatura Eq2 motorizzata Sky-Watcher

Camera planetaria QHY5L-II-C

Q-Barlow 2,25X Baader Planetarium

Filtro UV/IR cut

Firecapture 2.7, Autostakkert!4, Iris, GIMP 3

Data e ora: 18 agosto 2025 03:28 UTC (05:28 ora locale)

Seeing medio, ottima trasparenza

Luogo: Cabras, Sardegna, Italia

Le Soleil, avec 9 régions actives et 156 taches solaires! En bas

à droite la région active 3664; d'une taille de 2100MH, soit plus de 12x la taille de la taille!

The Sun, with 9 Active regions and 156 Sunspots. The biggest Sunspots are located in the Active Region 3664, which is about 12x Earth size (2100 MH).

Risingcam IMX571 color

William Optics Zenithstar73ii

iOptron CEM26

Filtre UV/IR cut

Filtre Thousand Oaks Solarlite ND5

Exp. 18ms / Gain 100

Best 500 de 2500

Aquisition: Sharpcap

Traitement: PIPP, AutoStakkert 4.0, Registax et Gimp

@Astrobox 2.0 / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec

AstroM1

This is the Sun taken at 10.00am on the 2nd of August 2024. It was imaged using the ZWO Seestar with the standard white light solar filter. It is a 1 minute 30 second video and processed in Autostakkert Lots of Sunspots are visible and are responsible for the Auroral activity the last few days.

The title came so easily this time :) The image is extracted from the usual movie I was making to be processed in Autostakkert. I saw a plane coming but I couldn't imagine that it would cross the disk of the Moon.

Telescopio: Celestron C8 Edge HD

Camera di acquisizione: QHY 183Color CMOS

Montatura: iOptron CEM60

Software: Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, SharpCap 3.0, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 2.6.8, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8

Data: 25 Marzo 2018 Ora: 21:46

FPS: 8,00000 Lunghezza focale: 2032 mm

Seeing: 4 Trasparenza: 6

For this one I put the 7Dii + 300 2.8 on the Genie, Genie set to move at 15 degrees/hour (my best guess on how fast the Moon is moving), set the 7Dii at 10 frames per second and took 25 pics. Converted the .raw into TIFF via PIPP (Planetary Image Preoproccor), then stacked the TIFFs in AutoStakkert. Finally saturation layers in CS6 to see some of the colors of the minerals on the lunar surface.

Shot 5/9/2017 10:20pm PDT

Seattle, WA

9.25" @ f/30

ZWO 178MC (2.4 um pixel size)

Takahashi EM-200 Temma Mount

1 min AVI, best 50% of frames

Capture with FireCapture

Pre Processed with PIPP

Stacked with Autostakkert!

Wavelets and final processing with Registax

Telescopio: Celestron C11 XLT Fastar

Camera di acquisizione: Lumenera Skynyx 2.0 mono

Montatura: Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro Synscan

Software: Astra Image 4 SI, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 2.3.0.19, Lucam Recorder

Filtra: Baader Planetarium R G B pro

Accessori: ATIK Ruota portafiltri EFW2, Barlow Zeiss Abbe 2.6X

Optics : TEC 140 F/7 Apo + TeleVue barlow 2" 4X

Filter : Baader Cool-Ceramic Herschel Wedge + Baader Solar Continuum Filter (540 nm) 2";

Equivalent focal lenght : 3920 mm

Camera : ZWO ASI 174 MM;

Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier;

Software : FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Topaz Lab Photo AI, Photoshop.

Equivalenti focal lenght: 3920 mm

Sun active region : NOAA 13664

Casalecchio di Reno - Italia

44° 29’ 29” N

11° 14’ 58” E

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.

TECH SPECS: Meade 12” LX-90, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI290MC, Antares Focal Reducer. Captured using SharpCap v3.2, stacked in Autostakkert (best 15% of 2500 images), sharpened in Registax, final image processed in Corel Paintshop Pro. Image Date: March 22, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4 Zone).

Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor with a Canon 600D at prime focus. Moon low in the southwest.Best 10 of 20 images stacked using Autostakkert 2 in surface mode, alignpoints manually placed on the lunar disk as quite pale against the blue sky.

Used Autostakkert with 95 images of the moon.

Nikon D5300

Tamron 70-300mm

Telescopio Maksutov Celestron 127 SLT. Camera SVBony SV305, Barlow GSO 2,5x. Elaborazioni con Autostakkert e Registax.

A single 5300 frame SER file was taken with FireCapture using a ZWO ASI224MC with a UV/IR cut filter and 3x Barlow and a C14 in the observatory at Cerritos College.

The best 20% of frames were stacked in AutoStakkert, then processed in PixInsight and GIMP.

The central meridian is 286°.

Cloudy condition. Seeing was not bad (3/5).

C9.25 Edge HD

ZWO 120MC-S

Winjupos

AutoStakkert

Background granulation is showing well. Each "granule" is a solar convection cell about 1000km across which gives an indication of the size of this sunspot group.

900mm f/7.5 refractor with Baader Herschel Wedge.

ZWO ASI 290MM camera with Explore Scientific x3 focal extender.

Acquired with FireCapture v2.7

Stacked in Autostakkert!3, best 5% of about 12000 frames

FireCapture v2.7.10 Settings

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Camera=ZWO ASI290MM

Profile=Sun

Date=200423

Start=123257.460

Frames captured=11833

FPS (avg.)=32

Gain=165 (27%)

Gamma=50

Histogram=80%

eADU=1.547

Limit=6 Minutes

Sensor temperature=28.0°C

This picture was captured using a telescope with a Hydrogen-alpha (Hα) filter. This lets us see the Sun's chromosphere. The area featured is cataloged as Active Region 2941 (AR2941), The bright area is a "plage". It is extremely hot and bright. On each end you can see a sunspot. If you were using a telescope with a "white light filter", you would not see the same features as you would be looking at the the Sun's photosphere. However, you would see many more sunspots in AR2941 that are obscured here by the plage. There are also filaments seen in this picture.

Telescope: Lunt 60mm Hα with double stack

Camera: ZWO I178MM monochrome

Capture Software: SharpCap

Processing Software:

AutoStakkert, RegiStax6, Light Room Classic, Photo Shop

M.Zuiko 300mmF4 IS Pro

MC-14 teleconverter (x1.4)

Film at 4k, convert and stack with PIPP and Autostakkert

1.- Canon T6

2.- QHY Img132e 5 teselas

Celestron C8

CGEM

Autostakkert

Registax

Ps Cs6

LR

Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor on an EQ5 Pro mount, 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D

Best 74% of 202 frames, shot in RAW, converted into TIFFs then stacked in Autostakkert!2 and processed in Adobe Lightroom

Lunt Ls35tha

Barlow 2x

CGEM

ZWO Asi120mm

Autostakkert 2

Pixinsight

Ps Cs6

The large dark oval in the bottom left is Plato crater (101 km / 63 mi diameter). It is a flat lava plain surrounded by high crater walls. Below it in this image is the much larger lava plain of Mare Imbrium (“Sea of Showers”). Surrounding Plato crater is a broad mountain chain called the Montes Apenninus. These mountains form part of one of the ring structures that surround the Moon’s Imbrium Basin. In these mountains to the right of Plato Crater a straight diagonal gash through the mountains is visible This is the Apennine Valley. It is a type of geological feature known as a graben, formed when the crust of the Moon was stretched and split, with subsequent collapse of material above the split settling down into the crevice that was opened by the split. Similar features are known on Earth, and some have recently formed in Iceland as part of the volcanic activity in the Reykjanes Peninsula.

Above the arc of the Apennine Mountains is another area of volcanic plains called Mare Frigoris “Sea of Cold”). This is an unusual lunar lava “sea”, in that it is elongated, not like the usual round shape of lunar lava plains. If you look closely you might see that the region of Mare Frigoris just right of center has a reddish tint, differing from the grayish colors of the rest of Mare Frigoris. That is material that was dredged up and scattered over the surface by the impact that gouged the youngish crater at center right known as Aristoteles. The reddish material surrounds Aristoteles itself, and spreads across Mare Frigoris and into the crater fields above the mare.

Aristoteles crater forms a prominent pair with Eudoxus, just below it. The mountains and escarpments below and to the left of this crater pair are a remnant of another, outermost ring structure surrounding the Imbrium Basin.

The area above Mare Frigoris is part of the North Polar region of the Moon. Here the landscape is dominated by a jumble of overlapping craters and plains. Most of these are old, weathered, and partly filled with ejected material from other impact events. On the boundary of this region and Mare Frigoris, above Plato Crater, a crater can be seen that appears nearly square. This is W. Bond crater. It is streaked by rays of lighter material. Similar rays can be seen across the North Polar regions. The North Pole itself is toward the upper left, beyond the horizon line. The northernmost crater I can detect in this photo is Byrd crater.

Celestron EdgeHD 8

Celestron Advanced VX Mount

ZWO 224MC

Best 92 video frames of 369

PIPP

Autostakkert!3

Registax 6 wavelets

Photoshop

25% of 120 sec .ser movie

C8 f/10, QHY5II-L mono, Baader PLanetarium IRPass (>685nm), Super Polaris Mount

Autostakkert! 2 and Wavelets in Registax 6

Maksutov Celestron 127 mm su montatura Celestron SLT; camera SVBony SV305; 50% di 1000 frames elaborati con PIPP, Autostakkert 4 e Astrosurface V2.

Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor on an EQ5 Pro mount, 2xBarlow and Canon 1100D

Best 71% of 161 images stacked using Autostakkert! 2 then tweeked in Lightroom. Insets are crops from a full size image which was processed slightly differently

Genova, Italy (06 Oct 2022 23:07 UT)

Planet: diameter 49.7", mag -2.9, altitude ≈ 44°

Telescope: Orange 1977 vintage Celestron C8 (203 F/10 SC)

Mount: EQ5 with ST4 hand controller (no GoTo)

Camera: QHY5III462C Color

Barlow: GSO APO 2.5x

Filter: QHY UV/IR block

Recording scale: 0.150 arcsec/pixel

Equivalent focal length ≈ 3990 mm F/19.7

Image resized: +50%

Recording: SharpCap 4.0

(640x480 @ 60fps - 120 sec - RAW16 - Gain 120)

Best 30% frames of 7253

Alignment/Stacking: AutoStakkert! 3.1.4

Wavelets/Deconvolution: AstroSurface T5

Final Elaboration: GIMP 2.10.30

Best 60% of ~660 frames

Autostakkert + AstroSurface + Darktable

Yesterday's day moon.

Taken with a Canon 70D DSLR and TMB92L refractor, using the following settings: f/5.5 1/640 s and ISO 100. This is the result of 29 images stacked with AutoStakkert! and processed with Astra Image Pro and Adobe Photoshop.

Composite picture I have made of several captures ;)

The moon doesn't fit when I use my telescope and astrocamera, so I stitched different panels in Photoshop.

The background picture of the stars was made with my DSLR and 50mm lens :)

For the Moon:

Skymax 102 telescope

ASI 120MC-S

Star Adventurer Pro (tracking)

For the stars:

Canon 200D

Canon 50mm f/1.8 STM

Star Adventurer Pro (tracking)

The moon was recorded in Firecapture and edited in PIPP, Autostakkert , Registax and Photoshop.

The background picture of the stars was a stack of multiple photos that I stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and edited in Photoshop..

The Moon covers an area of about 70 megapixels in this highly detailed view. Shot from 0610 to 745 UT on 2020-09-04, this is an assemblage of 55 individual stacks of imaages of the Moon. Each stack is from the best 120 frames out of 800 saved as a SER file from SharpCap. Those files were stacked in AutoStakkert, initially processed in PixInsight, and combined with photo merge in Photoshop with a few final processing steps.

Illumination: 96%

Distance: 4.00 x 10^5 km

Imaging was done with a ZWO ASI120MM camera with a #58 green filter. Shot through a Celestron Edge HD 925 at f/10.

Canon EOS 80D + Orion SkyQuest XT10 + Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate (giving an effective focal length of 3,000 mm).

Broadstairs, April 2021.

Jupiter with the Great Red Spot visible. Accompanied by one of the Galilean moons, Callisto.

Picture was taken with:

Sky-watcher Skymax 102, Celestron 2x Barlow and ZWO ASI 120MC-S (on a Star Adventurer Pro)

Recorded in Firecapture, 10% of 2000 frames stacked in Autostakkert, and then sharpened in Registax 6. 😉

Saturn about ten days before opposition.

ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25"

Meade LX850 (12" f/8) 2.5x PowerMate

Losmandy G11

6 runs x 30s for each RGB filter captured in Firecapture

Preprocessed in PPIP

Best 25% of frames stacked in Autostakkert

Wavelet sharpening in Registax

De-rotation and RGB combination in WinJuPos

Finishing in Photoshop

On either end of the Sinus Iridum (Bay of Rainbows) are two capes, or points, called Promontorium Laplace and Promontorium Heraclides that were right near the sun-shadow line on the moon. This area has also been called the “jeweled scimitar” because of its resemblance to the scimitar sword (or sabre).

Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX90, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ASI290MC, best 2.5k of 5k frames, AutoStakkert! V3.0.14 (x64), FireCapture v2.5.10 x64 and Registax v6. Software used included Sharpcap v2.9 and AutoStakkert! Alpha Version 2.3.0.21. Photographed on July 4, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.

In processing I tried to remember how the event looked through binoculars and replicate the color and detail I saw with my eyes the night before.

40 exposures (1 second each) stacked. Processing with Autostakkert, PixInsight, Photoshop. Telescope: Stellarvue SVQ86. Camera: Canon 5D mk iii. Capture software: Lunar Eclipse Maestro.

This is from 6 30 s SER files taken with a ZWO ASI224MC camera with 3x Barlow and a ZWO UV/IR cut filter through the C14 at Cerritos College. I used FIreCapture to take this data. SER files were used to create stacks of the best 22% of about 660 frames in AutoStakkert, and those stacks were processed in PixInsight. The resulting images were registered and derotated in WinJUPOS, with the result undergoing some final tweaks in GIMP.

CM I: 296.1°

CM II: 63.0°

CM III: 226.8°

Taken with an 8" Astrograph with focal reducer & Canon 1100D on an EQ5 Pro Mount

Shot through thin cloud

Best 35% of 150 images stacked in Autostakkert! 2 and processed in Lightroom

Jupiter, photographed from Long Beach, CA

30 s SER files were taken with a ZWO ASI120MM camera through Optolong CCD RGB filters on a Celestron Edge HD 925 telescope using FireCapture. The top 60% of frames went into 8 stacks of each color filter. These stacks were made in AutoStakkert, then sharpened in PixInsight. Stacks were combined and derotated in WinJUPOS, and the resulting R, G, and B images were combined in WinJUPOS to make a de-rotated single color image. Color balancing in Registax, then final touches in Photoshop.

CM longitudes:

System I: 308.9°

System II: 31.9°

System III: 306.2°

Clavius – diameter is just under 231 km, named for Christopher Klau (Clavius); German mathematician (1537-1612).

Tech Specs: ZWO ASI290MC camera and Meade 12” LX90 telescope mounted on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount. Software used included Sharpcap v2.9, AutoStakkert! Alpha Version 2.3.0.21, ImagesPlus v5.75a, and Registax v6.1.0.8. Photographed on January 7, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.

Full color image of the Moon with slightly exaggerated color saturation to highlight various mineral deposits on the lunar surface.

Best 70 percent of 1500 frames debayered in PIPP, stacked in Autostakkert, wavelet sharpened in Registax, and post processing in Photoshop.

ZWO ASI978MC

TeleVue NP101is

Losmandy G11

Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 925

Camera: ZWO ASI120MM

Filter wheel: ZWO EFW

Filters: RGB set from Optolong

R: best 140/677 frames, 6 stacks

G: best 165/687 frames, 6 stacks

B: best 180/669 frames, 6 stacks

Processing in Autostakkert, PixInsight, WinJUPOS, and Photoshop

Jupiter was at 42° altitude and at a distance of 603 million km

CM I: 237.9° CM II: 342.4° CM III: 168.1°

la mer des crises. Ce bassin ovale d’environ 600 km de diamètre s’est formé à la suite de l’impact d’un astéroïde il y a un peu moins de 4 milliards d’années. Les « remparts » de ce cratère les falaises entourées la mer des crises atteignent une hauteur de 3 000 m. La sonde russe Luna 15 s’y est écrasée le 21 juillet 1969, pendant que de leur côté les membres de la mission américaine Apollo 11 foulaient le sol de la Lune pour la première fois (sur la mer de la Tranquillité).

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Telescope 200/1000 sur Neq6 Pro Goto.

Canon 200d. Barlow x2.

Empilement d’environ 5000 frames (mode video)

Traitement PIPP, AutoStakkert, Registax et PS.

Rupes Recta, a linear fault line, or rille, was casting quite the shadow on February 28, 2023. The name is Latin for straight cliff, although it is more commonly called the Straight Wall. This fault has a length of about 68 miles (110 kilometers). The small (11 miles wide) crater Birt lies just to the west.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO ASI462MC, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO EAF, ZWO ASIAir Plus, Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate, best 20% of 5000 frames. Processed with Autostakkert and Registax. Date: February 28, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).