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The Geminid meteor shower as seen under Bortle 4 skies
Details:
Background
-The background is one continuous 6.5 minute picture shot as f8 + 400 iso
Orion/star background (39 minute integration)
-Stock Canon Rebel T7 on Star Adventurer Pro
-14mm Rokinon lens at f/4.0, ISO 800 and 39 minute-long exposures stacked in Siril along with calibration frames (50 bias, 20 flats and 20 dark frames)
-Total integration time of 39 minutes
-Final stacked image histogram stretched in Photoshop
-Black and white filter applied
--Lowered contrast
Meteor pictures (90 minute integration)
-Stock Canon Rebel T7 on Star Adventurer Pro
-14mm Rokinon lens at f/2.8, ISO 3200 and about 500 10-second exposures
-After collection, I manually went through every picture and noted the ones that had meteors
-Overlaid meteor shots on background layer, masked, inverted and lightened the meteors
Lying 25 million light years from Earth, Messier 101 is a spiral disk of stars, dust and gas about 170,000 light years across, which is nearly twice the diameter of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The spiral arms contain large regions of star-forming nebulas. Imaged from the back garden in Colchester, my picture contains almost 600 x 20" exposures at ISO 1600, on a modified Nikon D750 DSLR, Sky-Watcher Explorer 150p, EQ5 Pro, via Stellarmate in Kstars/Ekos. Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor, cropped and adjusted in Photoshop and Lightroom.
The fuzzball in the lower centre is Messier 87 or NGC 4486, an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo that is believed to contain several trillion stars. Strikingly it has a jet of plasma streaming out from its core, which you can just make out in my image. M87 also has a massive black hole in its centre - famously pictured by the Event Horizon Telescope team in 2021. My picture was imaged in the back garden in Colchester on a ZWO ASI585MC camera, with the light coming from a Sky-Watcher Explorer 150P telescope through Baader MPCC III coma corrector and ZWO UV/IR cut filter. I stacked the best 70% of 160 x 20" exposures at Gain 300 in Astro Pixel Processor and tweaked it in Photoshop and Lightroom.
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PLACE: Moccasin Lake, Winston, Georgia
INSTRUMENT: 14 Inch (36 cm) Meade LX200 SCT
FOCAL RATIO: f/6.3
ACCESSORIES: Meade 0.63x reducer
MOUNT: Orion HDX110 EQ-G
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Orion Constellation and Orion Nebula (M42). The Flame Nebula can also faintly be seen above Alnitak (leftmost star in Orion's belt).
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-Canon Rebel T
7 on a fixed tripod
-18-55mm kit lens @f/3.5, ISO 800 and 130 six-second exposures stacked in Deep Sky Stacker along with calibration frames (50 bias, 30 dark, and 30 flat frames)
-Total integration time of 13 minutes
-Final stacked image histogram stretched, light-pollution gradient subtracted and color-corrected in Photoshop and Lightroom
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
This little gem - Messier 57 or NGC 6720 - is a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra. "Planetary" is a misnomer based on early astronomers' misunderstandings of what such objects were. It is actually ionized gases shed from a star late in its life. Cropped from an image captured on an ASI585MC camera attached to my Sky-Watcher Explorer 150P in Colchester UK, with a ZWO UV/IR cut filter and Baader MPCC III coma corrector, on an EQ5 Pro mount, unguided. I shot 300 x 20" exposures at Gain 300, but a lot of them were useless because of passing clouds overnight. Here are the best stacked in Astro Pixel Processor and tweaked in Lightroom.
Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31, NGC 224) is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth. It is approximately 220,000 light years across, and it is the largest galaxy of the Local Group.
Olympus 150mm 5.6 (40-150mm f/4-5.6)
Sky-Watcher HEQ5
Olympus E-PM2
25x60s @ ISO800 (25min)
Calibrated, registered, stacked in DeepSkyStacker.
Postprocessing in PS5.
Present Perfect 2020 @ St.Petersburg, Russia
Nina Kraviz, Shadowax (Mirabella Karyanova - Ishome), PTU, Nocow, Philipp Gorbachev, Mujuice, Moa Pillar, Flaty, Kedr Livanskiy, Sofia Rodina, Kate NV, ГШ, Vladimir Dubyshkin, Buttechno, Simple Symmetry, Errortica, Kovyazin D, Полиритм, Void Of Gene
Double open cluster - h and χ Persei
Olympus 150mm 6.3 (40-150mm f/4-5.6)
Sky-Watcher HEQ5
Olympus E-PM2
34x60s @ ISO6400 (34min)
Calibrated, registered, stacked in PixInsight.
Postprocessing in PS5.
Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888), 08/04/2020
This is the Crescent Nebula, an emission nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. It is about 5000 light-years from earth, that is pretty close all things considered. Do you see that bright star in the middle of the nebula? That star is energizing the gas that was blown off into space when the star became a red giant. This left behind gas, absorbs the star light and then emits its own faint light that my camera is able to see.
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
43 300-second Lights
60 Darks
60 Bias
60 Flats
Astro Pixel Processor
Lightroom
Photoshop
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PLACE: Moccasin Lake, Winston, Georgia
INSTRUMENT: 14 Inch (36 cm) Meade LX200 SCT
FOCAL RATIO: f/6.3
ACCESSORIES: Meade 0.63x reducer
MOUNT: Meade Fork
CAMERA: SBIG ST-1001 ccd
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Mar. 4, 2005
Moccasin Lake, Winston, GA
14 inch SCT Meade LX200
SBIG ST-2002 ccd camera
10 sec subs, 39 frames
exposure 6 minutes 30 seconds
Processed with MaxIm DL
Gemini
PN G197.8+17.3
07 29.2 +20 55 (J2000.0)
47"x43"
9.2 mag; 10.4 mag CS
Type 3b+3b
2,900 light years
Uranometria 2000.0 Map 75R
Cave Nebula, also known as Sh2-155 or Caldwell 9 is a huge emission nebula located in the constellation of Cepheus. The Cave itself is the dark arcuate object in the center surrounded by the red emission nebula. It has about 14 light years in diameter and is part of a much bigger cloud of gas and dust, which lies at a distance of 2740 light years.
I captured this image in September through a borrowed telescope Vixen 81S with my modified camera Canon EOS 1300D. It is my first attempt at taking emission nebulae through the telescope, not a lens, and I am pretty happy with it. There is much more detail than it would be through the common lens.
Canon EOS 1300D (modified), SVBony CLS filter
Vixen 81S, EQ-5 mount
EXIF: 48x120sec (1 hour 36 minutes in total), ISO 6400
Darks, flats, biases
Processed in DSS, Siril, StarNet++ and Photoshop
15/09/2023, Mašov, Czech Republic (Bortle 5)
Psychic TV (PTV3) @ Sala Apolo, Primavera Sound, Barcelona, 2016.05.30
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The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulas under Bortle 4 skies.
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-Stock Canon Rebel T7 on Star Adventurer
-135mm Rokinon lens @f/2, ISO 1600 and 25 minute-long exposures stacked in Deep Sky Stacker along with calibration frames (25 bias, 15 flats and no dark frames)
-Total integration time of 25 minutes
-Final stacked image histogram stretched and color-corrected in Photoshop
-Starnet++ used to separate and color-correct star clouds and nebulae in photoshop, final result was merged with stars
I've decided to take more photos, and stack them.
So, this is my result by 131 x 2,5 sec light frames and 15 dark frames.
10" Newton
Canon 60D
20 x 400s
Alccd5l-llc (Guiding)
After two weeks of testing and tuning my new 10" Newton this is my first picture with it.
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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 Altazimut
CAMERA: Canon 60Da
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Psychic TV (PTV3) @ Sala Apolo, Primavera Sound, Barcelona, 2016.05.30
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Soul Nebula (IC 1848)
The Soul Nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia.
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Location: Montclair, California, USA (Bortle 8)
Date: January 4-5, 2022
Moon: Waxing Crescent (8-14%)
Camera: ZWO ASI6200MC Pro
Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 61II APO f/5.9
Flattener/Reducer: William Optics FLAT61A Field Flattener
Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme 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 | 5 min
Acquisition: 53 x 5 min Lights | 50 Darks | 100 Bias | 20 Flats
Integration Time: 4 hrs 25 min
Software: ZWO ASIAIR PRO, PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom Classic
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Copyright © 2022 Steven K. Wu Photography. All Rights Reserved.
The Sombrero Galaxy (M104), 04/18/2021
Like I said in my last photo, its galaxy season, lol. A few weeks ago, I took my gear up into the woods and was able to capture lots of images while in the dark skis. I have always wanted to photography this galaxy, but it is really small and far away (31 million light-year), but I did it anyways. This picture is cropped in a lot. The Sombrero Galaxy is almost perfectly edge on to our field of view, so the dust lanes really pop. It also contains one of the biggest super-massive black holes ever discovered.
Equipment:
RASA 8
iOptron GEM45
ZWO ASI294MC-Pro
ZWO Asiair
Optolong L-Pro filter
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Location – Long Mire Campground
Bortle Class 2
167 30-second Lights (1.4 hrs.)
60 Darks
60 Dark flats
60 Flats
Astro Pixel Processor
Lightroom
Photoshop
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Canon 60D
6" Newton
ISO 800
13 x 7min
20 x 2min
15 x 20s
This is my first Orion Nebula of the season. I used my smaller 6" Newton to capture it. In the next weeks i try to use the 10" to get a detailed picture of the center of the nebula.
Bode's Galaxy (M81), Cigar Galaxy (M82), NGC 3077
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Location: Whittier, California, USA (Bortle 8)
Date: March 2, 2021
Moon: Waning Gibbous (80%)
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro
Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 61II APO f/5.9
Flattener/Reducer: William Optics FLAT61A Field Flattener
Adapter: None
Filter: Optolong L-Pro
Mount: iOptron SkyGuider Pro
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Guide Scope: William Optics UniGuide 32 f/3.75
Imaging Controller: ZWO ASIAIR PRO
Camera Settings: Gain 100 | f/5.9 | 4 min
Acquisition: 44 x 4 min Lights | 100 Darks | 100 Bias
Integration Time: 2 hour 56 min
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Copyright © 2021 Steven K. Wu Photography. All Rights Reserved.
Canon 60Da
10" Newton
ISO 800
80 x 2min
This is my first time using the H-Alpha Version of my Canon 60Da. Great to see it captures the H-Alpha lines so well. Barnard 33 is one of the most amazing objects is captured so far, I hope you enjoy the picture !
Sky-Watcher 80/400 (Achromatic Refractor)
Sky-Watcher HEQ5
Canon 350Dm
45x60s @ ISO1600 (45min)
Calibrated, registered, stacked in PixInsight.
Postprocessing in PS5.
Leo Triplet (M65, M66, NGC3628), 03/17/2021
Galaxy season is here. In Spring most of the nebulas set too early to photograph so attention turns to distant and dim galaxies. For my current setup this is unfortunate because I have wrong field of view for tiny galaxies. But a YouTube channel I watch (Chuck’s Astrophotography) did this group using the same telescope I have so I gave it a go. Thanks Chuck! I did spend a lot of time on this so I would have enough detail to crop it in a bit. So, I give you the Leo Triplet, unsurprisingly found in the constellation Leo. These gravitationally bound galaxies are approximately 35 million lights years from you.
Equipment:
RASA 8
iOptron GEM45
ZWO ASI294MC-Pro
ZWO Asiair
Optolong L-Pro filter
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Location – My Backyard
Bortle Class 7
109 120-second Lights (3.6 hrs.)
60 Darks
60 Dark flats
60 Flats
Astro Pixel Processor
Lightroom
Photoshop
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The Rosette Nebula is a large spherical H II region around open cluster NGC 2244. The stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter. The cluster and nebula lie at a distance of some 5,000 light years from Earth and measure roughly 130 light years in diameter.
Sky-Watcher 80ED 600mm
Sky-Watcher 0.85x Reducer/Flattener
Sky-Watcher HEQ5
Canon 450Dm
73x600s (12h 10min)