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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.
ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25"
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/2.5x PM
Losmandy G11
20 RGB runs (19ms, 422 gain, 2400 frames in 45s) in FireCapture
Preprocessed in PIPP
Best 40% of frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
Lunt 60 h-alpha solar telescope, Player One Uranus-C camera (585 chip), 600 frames. Stacking in Autostakkert, sharpening in Lucky Stack Worker.
ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25"
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/TV 2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
10 RGB Runs (18ms, gain 420, 2500 frames/filter) captured in FireCapture
Preprocessed in PIPP
Best 50% of frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet Sharpened in Registax
De-rotated in WINJUPOS
Finished in 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.
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
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: 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.
Our nearest neighbour, captured in the Ha wavelength
Location: West Midlands, UK
Scope: Coronado SM60 II / BF10 / Teleview 2.5x Powermate
Camera: ASI 178MM
Mount: CEM60-EC
Integration: 6 panel mosaic, best 200 of 2000 frames for each panel
Acquisition: Sharpcap Pro
Processing: Autostakkert 3.1 / ImPPG / Photoshop
Skywatcher 130/900 f/7
QHY 5L-II mono
Filter: Astronomik, planet IR pro 807
Barlow: Televue 3x
Processing: AutoStakkert 2.1.0.5, Registax 6, Photoshop
Location: Vironas, Athens, Greece
UT: 185802.132
Date: 26-03-2021
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.
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.
Copernicus – diameter is 96 km, named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. It typifies craters that formed during the Copernican period in that it has a prominent ray system. From Wikipedia: The Copernican Period in the lunar geologic timescale runs from approximately 1.1 billion years ago to the present day. The base of the Copernican period is defined by impact craters that possess bright optically immature ray systems.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ASI462MC camera, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in Autostakkert and PixInsight. Image Date: May 29, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
First light exercises with new combination of hardware.
Mare Crisium (the "Sea of Crises") is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. The basin is of the Pre-Imbrian period, 4.55 to 3.85 billion years ago, and is 245 miles (555 km) in diameter.
Click on image to view in larger format, move mouse to slew. Move cursor over image for notes.
North is down towards the 8 o'clock position for aesthetic purposes.
Telescope = Celestron CPC1100 Deluxe HD
Camera = Altair Hypercam IMX174 Mono
Tele Vue Powermate 2.5
ZWO Filter Wheel (and Red fliter)
Best 15% of 5,000 frames - Autostakkert 2
Rupes Recta, the "Straight Wall", is the vertical bright line bisecting the eastern Mare Nubium. It is a fault line that is 110 km long, 250 meters high, and 2.5 km wide with a 7-degree slope. The prominent crater at the top left corner is Arzachel and at the lower corner is Purbach. (A. Ruki 54, 55)
ZWO ASI178MC/2.5x PM
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
4000 frames captured in Firecapture
Best 600 frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavlet sharpening in Registax
Finishing in Photoshop
Stacked 76 photos of Moon(30MP photo)
Used deep neural networks for super resolution
Processed using PIPP,Autostakkert,PS
...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 :)
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
Move cursor over image to identify moons.
Reprocess of previous capture. Experimenting with some processing tweaks. Clouds, rain and Jupiter season being over, are to blame. :) Had to sacrifice frame rate to gain field of view to include the moons Europa, Io and Callisto.
Best 60% of 2,000 frames in Autostakkert
Registax 6 for wavelets
Photoshop CC 2015 for final "tweaks"
Celestron CPC800 XLT
ASI120MC-S camera
Shorty 2X Barlow lens
1280x960 ROI @ 20 FPS
Taken Central Seattle, June 28th 2016.
Celestron 6SE / ZWO ASI120MC-S / FireCapture
Processing in Registax and AutoStakkert
This is probably the best view I have ever captured of our natural satellite.
I used a canon 600D camera with a barlow lens x2 at prime focus of a 200/800 mm Newtonian.
80 pictures were stacked together to reduce atmospheric aberrations.
Technical Datas :
Canon EOS 600D + 200/800 mm reflector + x2 barlow lens +meade lxd75 mount (lunar tracking)
1600 mm (+ cropped picture)
80 x 1/320 secs exposure
ISO 800
F/8
Autostakkert + Registax + Lightroom softwares
Location : Brittany, France
Find my night images on my website : astroguigeek.blogspot.com/
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.
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
Above average seeing on this night resulted in one of my best Jupiter images yet. Two of Jupiter's satellites are included in the frame. Ganymede is to the left and Europa to the right. The Great Red Spot is setting on the western limb.
Zooming in on Ganymede reveals albedo surface features and some processing artifacts. Maybe the best processing for Jupiter is not the best for Ganymede. I may try to extract Ganymede, process and repost separately.
ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25" (RGB)
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Tele Vue 2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
One run of 45s per RGB channel captued in Firecapture
Stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
R/G/B frame de-rotation in WINJUPOS
Finished in Photoshop
Sunrise over Mare Crisium
3.3 day old moon, 11.4% illuminated.
This image was captured just 20 minutes after sunset.
ZWO ASI290MM (9.3ms, 312db)
Tele Vue NP101is/2.5x Powermate (4" f/13.5)
Losmandy G11
500 frames captured in FireCapture.
Best 75% of frames stacked in Autostakkert!3
Wavelet sharpening in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
#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.
The Sun was wonderfully active on this day. You can clearly see a number of prominences around the solar disc, as well as sun spots, filaments, and plages' on the solar "surface".
This image was captured at my home in Elkridge, MD USA.
Telescope: Lunt 60mm Hα (double stack configuration)
Camera: ZWO ASI178MM
Capture Software: SharpCap Version 3.2
Processing Software: AutoStakkert, RegiStax6, Lightroom Classic, PhotoShop
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
Getting Better... Celestron C8 SCT , Televue Powermate 2.5X, ZWO ASI 178MC recorded in Firecapture. Processed with Pipp, Autostakkert AS!2, Registax, Lightroom.
Still Low in Sky with lots of atmospheric disturbance.
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 the Celestron C14 and ZWO ASI224MC camera with IR cut filter and 2x Barlow from the observatory at Cerritos College. Ten SER files were captured, then stacked in AutoStakkert and processed in PixInsight. Resulting images were derotated in WinJUPOS, and the resultant image processed in Gimp.
CM longitudes:
CM I: 122°
CM II: 268°
CM III: 207°
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
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
This image is a testament to what is possible with the tools available to today's amateur astronomer. During the capture session, transparency varied between below average and poor, and seeing had similar variances. The data is so bad that some of the pieces of this 20 panel mosaic had to be manually pasted and nudged into place, because photomerge could not line up the panels. Also, the changing transparency meant that the amount of the light reaching the sensor for each frame varied. I compensated for this as best I could by adjusting the brightness, but it seems that other values probably needed to be adjusted as well.
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
1000 frames for each mosaic panel captured with Firecapture.
Best 75% of frames stacked with Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened with Registax
Photomerged and finished with Photoshop
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.
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
Jupiter
Best 5% of 3.3k Frames
---Hardware---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
Camera : ZWO Camera ASI 224 M
Tube : Celestron 11 EDGE HD
Effective focal length : 2800 mm
Effective aperture : ~ F/10
---Software---
Acquired with FireCapture
Stacked with AutoStakkert
Processed with Lightroom & Topaz Sharpen
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 AZ4 mounted Skywatcher ED100 Refractor using a Herschel Wedge with a Canon 60D at prime focus. Only 10 images ( jpgs ) stacked using Autostakkert 2.
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.