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Radian Raptor 61 F/4.5 Apo triplet refractor

ZwoASI2600MC Pro cooled, one shot color CMOS camera

Optolong L-Pro broadband light pollution filter

Orion Astroview equatorial mount

 

32 - 135 second subs

Stacked in DeepSky Stacker

Edited in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021

This an unguided, cropped image

Sideways 2017 @ Helsinki, Finland

 

Day 1:

 

01. The Thurston Moore Group

02. Huoratron

03. Kaleidobolt

04. Kynnet

05. Editors

06. Mikko Joensuu: Amen 3

07. Demdike Stare

08. DJ Shadow

09. Tommy Cash

10. The Holy

 

Day 2:

 

01. The Radio Dept.

02. Chelsea Wolfe

03. Kairon; IRSE!

04. Death Hawks

05. Röyksopp

06. The Coathangers

07. Ilpo Väisänen & Jimi Tenor: Mika Vainio -tribuutti

08. Dinosaur Jr.

09. Sanni

10. U.F.Ojala

 

bl:

deepskyobject.blogspot.com/2017/07/sideways-2017-helsinki...

 

pl:

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4QcWvf2qqEL8Zdps3_ES6jv_d...

 

fl:

www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/albums/72157682673923681

 

in:

www.instagram.com/explore/tags/sideways2017

 

#suomi #finland #seenlive #sidewayshel #sideways2017 #sideways

Double amas de Persée (NGC 869 et NGC 884)

 

Le double amas de Persée est constitué de deux amas ouverts issus d'un même nuage de gaz. Ils regroupent de nombreuses étoiles encore jeunes, nées il y a une dizaine de millions d'années. La plupart de ces étoiles sont des "supergéantes". Ce sont des étoiles très chaudes et beaucoup plus lumineuses que le Soleil.

 

Photo prise le 01/09/2019

 

Newton SkyWatcher 200/1000 sur N-EQ5

Canon 1300D natif

75x30" => 37'30" de pose

ISO 800

Darks Offsets Flats 20-31-21

Traitement SIRIL + PS

 

Edit 05/07/2020 : Nouveau traitement avec Pixinsight

OBJECT: AG Carinae

CONSTELLATION: Carina

POSITION (2000.0): 10 56 11.6 -60 27 12.8

URANOMETRIA 2000.0 MAP: 199L

DIAMETER: 39" x 30"

DISTANCE (parsecs): 6000

TYPE: Nebular shell LBV

CLASS: LBV (Luminous Blue Variable)

MAGNITUDE: 6.96

REFERANCE: Various sources

 

DATE: Apr. 29, 2013

TIME: 08:15 to 08:35 PM (local time)

PLACE: Sossusvlei Desert Lodge, Namibia, Africa

INSTRUMENT: 12 Inch (30 cm) Meade LX200 SCT

FOCAL RATIO: f/10

ACCESSORIES: none

MOUNT: Meade Altazimuth

CAMERA: Canon 60Da

EXPOSURE: 7 minutes 15 seconds

SUBS: 15 seconds

ISO: 6400

 

Aquisition data and uncut picture can be found at www.astrobin.com/2lxl53/

Slowdive - Golden Hair (Syd Barrett cover) - Live (Sonic Cathedral, 2019)

 

Vinyl, 7" [Sonic Cathedral Singles Club, Limited Edition]

A. Golden Hair (Live) (Part I)

B. Golden Hair (Live) (Part II)

 

Written-By – Christian Savill, James Joyce, Neil Halstead, Nick Chaplin, Rachel Goswell, Simon Scott, Syd Barrett

 

Design – Marc Jones

Mastered By – Heba Kadry

Mixed By – Neil Halstead

Recorded By – Michael Brennan

 

Photography By – deepskyobject

Capturing the Orion Nebula well is difficult. The high dynamic range means that it is easy to either lose the dim details or blow out the bright regions. This was my first attempt at combining two different exposures to preserve more details. The first image is a combination of 300s exposures for the faint details and 5s exposures for the details in the bright core.

  

The Orion Nebula is about 1350 ly away from us and one of the few nebulae that are easily visible with the naked eye during good sky conditions.

 

Acquisition details

Lights: 14 x 300s = 1 hr 10 mins

Lights: 30 x 5s = 2.5 mins

Darks: 12 x 300s

Darks 20 x 5s

Flats: telescope is too big to point at white monitor image :( + laziness preventing me from doing the t-shirt thing in the morning

Camera: ASI294MC pro at - 10°C

Filter: Optolong L-Enhance

Scope: William Optics z103 710mm x 0.8 reducer/flattener (Flat6AIII) = 568mm effective focal range

Mount: iOptron ieq30 pro

 

Guidescope: 50mm guidescope

Guide camera: ASI120MM mini

 

Light pollution: Bortle 7

 

Software: NINA for global acquisition control, PHD2 for guiding. ASTAP for stacking, Photoshop for stretching, denoising, combining the two exposures. Lightroom for final touches and framing.

M77 Region - 7 Hours of integration in the backyard under mixed skies - mostly with the waxing moon nearby. Humidity was high, dew was everywhere.

 

First night used the Baader Moon and Skyglow filter. Two other nights used the IDAS LPR filter. Sky background is a muddy brown because of the nearby sodium lights.

 

Total subs used: 42 at 10 minutes at 400 ISO.

 

Calibrated with Maxim DL with master files based on 256 bias and 35 flats with temperature matched darks. I'd report the exact number of darks used, but I calibrated at different times and didn't keep notes. Suffice to say it's more than 50.

 

Stacked in DSS 3.3.3 beta 47. I've noticed that when stacking in other than mosiac mode, DSS tends to enhance the gradients significantly. Because there were framing issues from the successive nights, there is only a small section of the mosaic that is good. Still, it's interesting to see what galaxies popped out of the background.

 

Processed in PI: cropped, DBE, masked stretch script, scnr, mask made of the L channel and stretched, this mask was used repeatedly as a positive and negative for: ATrous, Deconvolution, curves (for saturation), and histogram stretch.

 

Once I exported this, I did not modify it in LR3. I'm happy enough with how it looks.

 

I think I finally understand how to use Atrous a bit more. An important thing to do was apply it on the Chrominance and Lumincance separately and avoid applying it to RGB.

 

I've also done some reading in Berry & Burnell's Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing regarding using deconvolution. Thus, I was better able to understand how some of the settings work there.

 

I'm still ham-fisted, but it's coming along.

NGC 6888 as seen at the Golden State Star Party.

Taken with the modified Pentax K10D camera on the Stellarvue SV4. Baader Moon and Skyglow filter used.

 

This is a stack of 58 lights of 10 minutes duration at 400 ISO - best 80% out of 75. A ton of temperature matched darks were used - about 15 or more for each temperature. I found that there were problems with stacking the full frames because of non-optimal centering left uncontrolled or over controlled amp glow at the edges. Removed this issue by doing a custom rectangle and a 2x drizzle.

 

Rest of the processing in PI was easy - masked stretch and then histogram stretch. Not much else needed. I couldn't get the image solver to work on this image.

 

I'll be going to RBA's PI workshop on Sunday and maybe I'll learn something.

I've loved this region ever since I first saw it - it looks just like a butterfly!

Date: Aug 12th, 2018

Location: Sugag (Alba), Romania

Technical details: Canon 750D & Stellarvue 80ED + flattener

32 x 1min; ISO 12800

Canon 70D

Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L

SkyGuider Pro

10 images stacked, 90sec exposure, 400mm, f/5.6

20 * 300s Ha

11 * 300s Oiii

11 * 300s Sii

Попался фильм, как клип, сначала даже не понял что это (потом впрочем тоже), но стало интересно — так я случайно посмотрел «Кровь машин» (Blood Machines), музыка тоже показалось знакомой и это оказался Carpenter Brut.

 

Franck Hueso (Франк Уэзо) назвался Carpenter Brut в честь Джона «Нечто» Карпентера и шампанского Charpentier Brut, видео для него делает 'Сет Икерман' (Seth Ickerman), это дуэт режиссеров Рафаэля Эрнандеса (Raphaël Hernandez) и Савитри Джоли Гонфарда (Savitri Joly-Gonfard) — в 2016 они сваяли клип на хит Carpenter Brut - Turbo Killer, который набрал 14 млн просмотров, и на волне его популярности решили снять продолжение, так появилась «Blood Machines», деньги на кино они собирали через Kickstarter, т.е. клип стал основой для diy sci-fi фильма, класс!

 

Правда жаль, что он всего 50 мин (авторы рассчитывали вообще на 30, но собранных денег хватило почти на час, на сценариста уже не хватило и наверняка кому-то может показатся что это полный сюр), с другой стороны, получилась пилотная серия прохладного sci-fi сериала (будущего), где сюжет яляется лишь фоном для картинки, а визуал сделан в лучших неоновых традициях 80-х, по заветам культовых LEXX и Blade Runner — спасаясь от военного космического корабля, небольшой звездолёт с искусственным интеллектом по имени Мима терпит крушение на неисследованной планете, где его обнаруживают женщины загадочного племени (владеющие телепатией и телекинезом), но восстановить умирающий корабль им не даёт банда грабителей...

 

В ролях:

Elisa Lasowski as Corey (a priestess)

Anders Heinrichsen as Vascan (spaceship captain)

Christian Erickson as Lago (spaceship mechanic)

Joëlle Berckmans as Mima (a ghost)

Noémie Stevens as Tracy

 

Joëlle и Noémie сыграли и в клипе «Turbo Killer», на основе которого снимали этот мини-фильм, саундтреком к фильму стал второй альбом Carpenter Brut.

 

Ранние треки Hueso (Le perv, 2012 и Roller Mobster, 2013) попали в популярную игру Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (2015) после чего он и стал известен, тогда же вышла его третья епишка — III (2015), с хитом Turbo Killer, и в 2016 появился знаменитый клип

 

Мода на synthwave, благодаря Chromatics, Miami Night 1984 и остальным, была в самом разгаре, но он ушёл немного в сторону, провалившись в дебри darksynth / horror synth, исследовать которые чуть раньше начал другой француз — Perturbator, он же James Kent — смотри не перепутай!

 

Perturbator я видел в СПб в 2016 (www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/30777096655) и на фесте Roadburn 2017 (www.flickr.com/photos/deepskyobject/albums/72157676706213765) в Голландии, его мать, кстати, была вокалисткой французской new wave группы Radio Romance, а отец — британский журналист.

 

Интересно, что Carpenter Brut параллельно продюсирует французскую блэк-метал группу Deathspell Omega, которая сохраняет анонимность.

 

Помню его забойные концерты в СПб — Carpenter Brut @ St Petersburg, Russia (2015-2016).

 

Turbo Killer (2016)

 

Obituary (2019)

 

Blood Machines (2018-2020)

 

#darksynth #electrohouse #frenchelectro #synthwave #horrorsynth #futuristic

Orion Nebula 1-14-2015. 201 1 second images f 2.8 @ iso 2000 CR2 Canon 50D with Tamron 80-200 @ 200mm. Temp 15* F ,Self guided on tripod.Edited Deep Sky Stacker and PS CS5.5 . Columbus, Ohio.

Eta Carinae Nebula.

My first time image of this DSO.

Imaged from dark sky location on Feb 25th 2017.

Just 35mins of data integration. Fog, dew & passing clouds did hamper session. Stars a little blob.

I also lost 30mins of imaging time due to a power line showing up in the image...HAHAH... :) had to wait for it go out of the field.

Canon 5dm3 (Unmoded), Canon 300mm f 2.8 L, Celestron AVX.

ISO 1600, 120s subs.

Your C&C welcome. Regards.

New pictures of the Triangulum Galaxy and new processing skills. I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.

Date: Aug 9th, 2018

Location: Sugag (Alba), Romania

Technical details: Canon 750D & Stellarvue 80ED + flattener

45 x 1min; ISO 1600

 

Eastern Veil Nebula (NGC6992), 07/06/2020

 

Spent the night dodging clouds and I was able to grabs this image in the hour or so of clear skies. This is another part of the same super nova remnant I shot a couple of weeks ago. I had much better data to play with but spent way too much time processing it until I was happy with the results. Happy Astrophotographer is happy.

 

Equipment:

RASA 8

CGEM-dx mount

ZWO ASI294MC-Pro

ZWO Asiair Pro

Optolong L-eHhance filter

 

Details:

Location – My back yard in Tacoma WA

Bortle Class 8

Gain 120

60 60-second Lights

60 Darks

60 Bias

60 Flats

Astro Pixel Processor

Lightroom

Photoshop

 

#astrophotography #astronomy #comos #nightphotography #space #telescope #deepsky #asi294mcpro #amateurastronomy #backyardastronomy #asiair #rasa #celestron #astropixelprocessor #optolong #telescope #astronomyphotography #deepskyobject #zwo #longexposurephotography #ngc6992 #veilnebula

 

William Optics Zenithstar61 II

Flat61

Ioptron Sky Guider Pro

Optolong L extreme 2"

Canon T3I astro modded

 

IC1805 :

 

35 x 180"

Darks x 10

Offsets x 10

Flats x 10

 

Total integration : 01h45

 

IC1848 :

 

76 x 150"

Darks x 15

Offsets x 50

Flats x 50

Total integration : 03h15

 

Central image :

 

3 x 150"

Darks x 5

Offsets x 5

Flats x 5

 

Total integration : 00h09

  

Iso800

 

Sky Bortel 9

 

Montréal, Qc, CA

 

Siril / Photoshop

This is a somewhat noisy shot of the center of our galaxy. (It was a really warm night, which generates noise when taking long exposures) No telescope was used for this one. It contains many deep sky objects. There are more than I listed, but too dim to see clearly. Throughout the summer I'm going to image all of them, and insert close-ups of each one. :)

 

05/23/12

Joshua Tree National Park, CA

1x35 second exposure ISO 6400 f/5

Guided on my LXD75 EQ Mount

Canon Rebel T3 DSLR

ALTAIR: Altair belongs among the brightest stars in the night sky. It's a part of the constellation Aquila and it's one of the three stars which are creating the Summer Triangle... This picture I took in July from Bortle class 3 in the Šumava National Park in the Czech Republic. Unfortunately, the conditions were bad and the clouds were coming up. But fortunately in this case the clouds are very profitable, because the light is diffusing on them, and the stars are more glowing, bigger, and brighter. And it does the picture nicer.

 

ALTAIR: Altair patří mezi nejjasnější hvězdy noční oblohy. Nachází se v souhvězdí Orla a je to jedna ze tři hvězd, které tvoří Letní trojúhelník... Tuto fotografii jsem pořídil v červenci z Bortleho třídy 3 v Národním Parku Šumava v České republice. Podmínky bohužel nepřály a mraky se blížily. V tomto případě jsou ale mraky naštěstí přínosné, protože se na nich pěkně rozptyluje světlo, a hvězdy tak vypadají zářivější, větší a jasnější. A to dělá fotku hezčí.

 

Canon EOS 760D, Canon EF 50mm 1.8, 11x8sec, ISO 6400, f/2.2, Sequator, Photoshop, Šumava National Park, Czechia, 12/07/2021

The Flame and Horsehead Nebula regions after an additional night's worth of data. This incorporates a lot of recent learning.

 

Recalibrated the earlier data set and added a bunch more lights from Nov 26. Total stack is 31 lights for 5 hours of integration.

 

There was a big dust mote that appeared to move during flat generation, so these are flawed. Also, there's a big flare. I want to learn how to handle these kinds of corrections earlier in the process so that I don't have as much of a challenge to fix them later.

 

When I saw the STF after DBE, I could see a lot of dust extending all the way to the edge of the view. However, there was a lot of noise!

 

I've tried some different ways of handling ACDNR to try to bring it under control. I may have used too heavy of a hand. I may come back to this data set again.

 

new platesolve resuts becuase of a different crop:

Referentiation Matrix (Gnomonic projection = Matrix * Coords[x,y]):

-0.000070937313 -0.000526098545 +0.686166083573

+0.000525917576 -0.000071387269 -0.863108020752

+0.000000000000 +0.000000000000 +1.000000000000

Resolution ........ 1.911 arcsec/pix

Rotation .......... 82.282 deg

Focal ............. 655.21 mm

Pixel size ........ 6.07 um

Field of view ..... 1d 53' 43.8" x 1d 7' 44.4"

Image center ...... RA: 05 41 05.319 Dec: -02 22 03.36

Image bounds:

top-left ....... RA: 05 43 50.234 Dec: -03 13 49.47

top-right ...... RA: 05 42 49.213 Dec: -01 21 09.80

bottom-left .... RA: 05 39 21.272 Dec: -03 22 56.44

bottom-right ... RA: 05 38 20.609 Dec: -01 30 16.03

18 * 300s Ha

23 * 300s Oiii

13 * 300s Sii

Canon 70D

Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L

SkyGuider Pro

16 images stacked, 70sec exposure, 400mm, f/5.6

The galaxies Messier 81 (left) and Messier 82 (right) in Ursa Major. Both are 12 million light-years from Earth and are physically near each other. M81 is a grand-design spiral galaxy, and M82 is a starburst galaxy, thought to be triggered by its close encounter to the more-massive M81.

Canon 70D

Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L

SkyGuider Pro

10 images stacked, 90sec exposure, 400mm, f/5.6

Canon EOS R

RF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM

 

Mount: iOptron Skyguider pro

 

ISO1600, F/4.5

5min*7

Total exposure 35min

 

OBJECT: NGC 6520; Cr 361; Mel 187; OCL 10; Mrk 35; C1800-279

CLASS: Open Cluster aka Galactic Cluster

CONSTELLATION: Sagittarius

POSITION (2000.0): 18 03 25 -27 53.5

URANOMETRIA 2000.0 MAP: 145R

DIAMETER: 5.0'

DISTANCE (parsecs): 1614

TYPE: I2r n

MAGNITUDE: 7.6

MEMBERS: 60

REFERANCE: Star Clusters - Archinal & Hynes, 2003

 

DATE: Apr. 28/29, 2015

TIME: 02:39 to 02:57 AM (local time)

PLACE: Sossusvlei Desert Lodge, Namibia, Africa

INSTRUMENT: 12 Inch (30 cm) Meade LX200 SCT

FOCAL RATIO: f/6.3

ACCESSORIES: Meade 0.63x reducer

MOUNT: Meade Altazimuth

CAMERA: Canon 60Da

EXPOSURE: 12 minutes 45 seconds

SUBS: 15 seconds

ISO: 6400

 

8" f/4 astrograph and D-700. Approximately 1 min @ 1600 ISO

Here's another, re-processed attempt at the open cluster, M41. It's right below the brightest star in the sky, Sirius. The stars are only about 240 million years old.. which is about 1.7% the age of our Universe. They're just babies. :)

 

12/25/11

Escondido, CA

1x10, 1x20, 1x15 second exposures ISO 6400

1x30, 1x55 second exposures ISO 3200

Images stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in Gimp 2

80mm Skywatcher Refractor LXD75 EQ Mount

Canon Rebel T3 DLSR

Veil Nebula NGC 6992

Taken at Calstar 2012 on the nights of September 13 and 14 while I was waiting for other targets to rise.

 

Heavily cropped due to poor framing. I would have liked to include more of the original mosiac, but the amp glow on the edge makes it difficult to smooth out these errors.

 

Stack of 21 subs of 10 minutes at 400 ISO using the cooled, full-spectrum Pentax K10D on the Stellarvue SV4 telescope at prime focus. Temperature range varied from 24-29C so I had to match darks with groups according to temperature. 100 total darks used to correspond to the range.

 

Stacking done with DSS 3.3.3 beta 47. PI 1.7 used to crop, annotate, apply DBE, masked stretch, and some NR. Final step in LR3.

 

I probably will return to this data set to see if I can reduce the size of the stars. There was some trailing caused by PEC and poor polar alignment.

Taken with Nikon D40 through a Celestron CPC800, stack of 10 exposures, 30 seconds each, ISO 800

spec :

 

William Optics Zenithstar 61 II

Ioptron Sky Guider Pro

Canon rebel T3I Astro modded

William Optics FLAT61

Optolong L extrem 2'

 

122 x 60" exposure

(2h02 total integration)

 

Darks x30

Offsets x30

Flats x30

 

ISO 800

 

Pixinsight / Photoshop

 

St Agathe des Monts, QC, Canada

Bortel 4

 

This is another open cluster, M93 in the constellation Puppis. It is about 3,600 light years away, and is around 100 million years old.

 

12/25/11

Escondido, CA

1x5, 1x20, and 1x30 second exposures ISO 6400

80mm Skywatch Refractor LXD75 EQ Mount

Canon Rebel T3 DSLR

First attempt to capture Andromeda Galaxy...nearest spiral galaxy...2.5 million light years away..

NIkon D5600

Nikon VR 18-55mm.

William Optics FLT 132 APO triplet

ZwoASI2600MC Pro

Optolong L-Pro broadband filter

23-300 second subs

Deepsky Stacker

Adobe Photoshop CC 2021

Planetary nebula located about 1227 light years from earth. Very first planetary nebula ever discovered (by the way by Charles Messier in 1764). What's more, the central star is a white dwarf, which is the larger white dwarfs ever found. The mass is about 0.56 mass of the sun.

 

Hardware:

Nikon D3200 DX

Telescope Newton Sky-Watcher BKP15075

Baader UHC-S / L-Booster-Filter 2"

Baader MPCC Mark III 2"

Mount EQ3-2 with single axis motor

Aluminum Tripod LT1

 

Summary:

192x20s RGB, ISO-800

Final picture exposure: 64 minutes

Calibration frames: 20xD, 20xB, 20xF, 20xDF

Light pollution: 37.08 (VIIRS 2019)

Bortle Scale: 8

Processed in PixInsight 1.8

2020-07-14, Wroclaw, Poland

Jellyfish Nebula is a supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Gemini. Its distance is roughly 5,000 light years from Earth.

 

Sky-Watcher 80ED 600mm

Sky-Watcher 0.85x Reducer/Flattener

Sky-Watcher HEQ5

MII G2-8300 + H-aplha filter 12nm

 

23x600s (3h 50min)

Location: Montclair, California, USA (Bortle 8)

Date: August 28-29, 2022

Moon: Waxing Crescent (4-9%)

Camera: ZWO ASI6200MC Pro

Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 61II APO f/5.9

Flattener/Reducer: William Optics FLAT61A Field Flattener

Filter: Antlia ALP-T 2”

Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro

Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini

Guide Scope: William Optics UniGuide 32 f/3.75

Camera Settings: Gain 100 | f/5.9 | 300 sec

Acquisition: 83 x 300 sec Lights | 30 Darks | 30 Bias

Integration Time: 6 hr 55 min

Software: PixInsight, NoiseXTerminator, StarXTerminator, Adobe Lightroom Classic

 

Copyright © 2022 Steven K. Wu Photography. All Rights Reserved.

 

Astrobin: astrob.in/foia0r/0/

M77 Region - 7 Hours of integration in the backyard under mixed skies - mostly with the waxing moon nearby. Humidity was high, dew was everywhere.

 

First night used the Baader Moon and Skyglow filter. Two other nights used the IDAS LPR filter. Sky background is a muddy brown because of the nearby sodium lights.

 

Total subs used: 42 at 10 minutes at 400 ISO.

 

Calibrated with Maxim DL with master files based on 256 bias and 35 flats with temperature matched darks. I'd report the exact number of darks used, but I calibrated at different times and didn't keep notes. Suffice to say it's more than 50.

 

Stacked in DSS 3.3.3 beta 47. I've noticed that when stacking in other than mosiac mode, DSS tends to enhance the gradients significantly. Because there were framing issues from the successive nights, there is only a small section of the mosaic that is good. Still, it's interesting to see what galaxies popped out of the background.

 

Processed in PI: cropped, DBE, masked stretch script, scnr, mask made of the L channel and stretched, this mask was used repeatedly as a positive and negative for: ATrous, Deconvolution, curves (for saturation), and histogram stretch.

 

Once I exported this, I did not modify it in LR3. I'm happy enough with how it looks.

 

I think I finally understand how to use Atrous a bit more. An important thing to do was apply it on the Chrominance and Lumincance separately and avoid applying it to RGB.

 

I've also done some reading in Berry & Burnell's Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing regarding using deconvolution. Thus, I was better able to understand how some of the settings work there.

 

I'm still ham-fisted, but it's coming along.

William Optics FLT 132 Apo refractor

ZwoASI294MC Pro

Here's a less interesting open cluster I imaged tonight. It turned out fairly decent considering the amount of light pollution in Orange County. This is M34 in the constellation Perseus.

 

01/13/12

Fullerton, CA

140 second exposures ISO 3200

1x10 second exposure ISO 6400

1x45 second exposure ISO 1600

Images stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in Gimp 2

80mm Skywathcer Refractor LXD75 EQ Mount

Canon Rebel T3 DSLR

Here's M47.

 

01/15/12

Fullerton, CA

31 second exposures ISO 6400

120 second exposures ISO 3200

Images stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in Gimp 2

80mm Skywathcer Refractor LXD75 EQ Mount

Canon Rebel T3 DSLR

IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk Nebula.

293 x 120sec Lights

20 darks

ASI2600MC Pro -10 100 Gain

ASIAIr Pro

Skywatcher Star Adventurer GTi

Optonlong L-Pro Filter

Williams Optics RedCat51

Processed in PixInsight using Hubble Colour Palette from Bill Blanshan and tweeked a bit.

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