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Here is a view of Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) from last evening, March 21, 2020. This is just a 14-minute stacked exposure showing the comet as it is traveling through the constellation Ursa Major. The comet tail is clearly visible.
Technical Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro, 14 x 60 second exposures, Gain 200, Temp -5C, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Captured using SGP v3.1 and processed in DeepSkyStacker. Image date: March 21, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
Using my C9.25 at f/10 and 314L attached to SX filterwheel with OAG I captured 4 subs at 900 secs each in Ha and another 4 subs at 900secs each in OIII. Stacked in Deepskystacker,using Maxim DL4 to colour combine (Ha,OIII,OIII) then processed in Photoshop CS2. No darks nor flats.
Image taken 30/11/18
Atik 314L+ with Sigma 70-300 zoom lens (set to 135mm) and Baader 7nm Ha filter (1.25") piggybacked to main scope on a CEM60. Four subframes of fifteen minutes each stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in PS CS2.
Taken early hours of 30th Sept 2021
The Beehive Cluster (M44), an open star cluster in Cancer taken with a Rokinon 135mm f/2 lens. Ten 3 second images at ISO 3200 and f/2 were combined with DeepSkyStacker and processed with Gimp and Lightroom.
Manually guided for just 3 x 7-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/6.25. Modified EOS 600D & Sky-Watcher ED80 refractor, piggybacked on a Celestron C8 telescope for guiding.
Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; initial curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; final curves and colour balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro; noise reduction via CyberLink PhotoDirector.
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Melotte 15, is a small cluster of stars 7500 light years away in the heart of the Heart Nebula a few of which are 50 times the size of our sun. Their energetic light and wind sculpts the dust pillars into the enigmatic shapes we see today.
Acquisition:61x 240s Ha, 50x 240s (OIII). Calibrated with Darks, Flats and Dark Flats. Total integration 7.4h.
Location:08-10-2022 & 03-11-2022, St Helens, UK Bortle 7, full to 78% moon.
Equipment:Skywatcher 200P, EQ6-R Pro. Altair H183Mpro. ZWO EFWmini, EAF. Baader MPCCMkIII coma corrector, 6.5nm NB filters.
Guiding:Skywatcher Evoguide 50ED and Altair GPCAMAR0130M.
Software:NINA, PHD2, EQMOD.
Processing:DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Affinity Photo with StarXTerminator, Topaz DeNoiseAI and HLVG plug-ins.
with Sigma 4/500 Sports and Nikon d850
40 pics (selected from 100), low tripod, 2nd Lens support with grain pad, no tracking;
0,8 sec Exposure time
4.0 Aperture
ISO 4000
Live View Modus (no mirror movement);
20 dark- and 20 bios-frames;
stacked with DeepSkyStacker, result processed in lightroom
digital enlarged : about x2,5
After a lot of Deep Sky Stacker frustration, I have managed to combine 25x 5sec exposures here for a decent result.
Starless Orion and Running Man Nebulae
Captured from my light-polluted Cambridgeshire garden with a small refracting telescope and a DSLR.
All photons my own.
Ed
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a star exploded. This is the galaxy designated NGC 5033 located in the constellation Canes Venatici. Inside the galaxy is the supernova 2025mvn that I imaged on July 4, 2025. My magnitude estimate based on 60 minutes of collected data is V16.3.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90 SCT Telescope, Antares Focal Reducer, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at 0F, 60 x 60 seconds, Celestron CGX-L pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in Tycho Tracker and PixInsight. Image Date: July 4, 2025. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
NGC 6934 is a globular cluster of stars in the constellation Delphinus. It's located about 52,000 light-years from the Sun and is home to some of the most distant stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
NGC 6934 is located close to the celestial equator, so it's visible from both hemispheres at certain times of the year. Backyard scopes show a fuzzy disk of nebulosity, about 5 arc minutes in diameter with a brighter core. The cluster stars are estimated to be some 10 billion years old.
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Class: VIII
Constellation: Delphinus
Right ascension: 20h 34m 11.37s
Declination: +07° 24′ 16.1″
Distance: 52 kly
Apparent magnitude (V): 8.83
Apparent dimensions (V): 1.20′
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90 SCT Telescope, Antares Focal Reducer, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at 0F, 81 x 60 seconds, Celestron CGX-L pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in DSS and PixInsight. Image Date: August 3, 2025. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
12/4/2018 12:46-1:41am MST
Grand Mesa Observatory
14x 240sec
Processing: Photoshop CC, PixInsight
Stacking: DeepSkyStacker
Camera: QHY367C One Shot Color CMOS
Pixel Size: 4.88x4.88
Image Scale (1x1): 1.55 arcsec/pixel
FOV: 127.3 x 190.1 arcmin
Optics: Takahashi FSQ130
Aperture: 130mm
Focal Length: 650mm
Focal Ratio: F5
Guiding: Stellarview 50mm
Mount: Paramount ME
Shot from my light polluted back yard (5.7 Bortle)
Camera: Canon M6 Mark ii
Lens: Canon 500mm F4 w/2X TC
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker
7 x F8/60s/800iso
11 x F8/20s/800iso
10 x F8/10s/800iso
Atlas EQ-G Tracking Mount
Starshoot Autoguider
Finally some good weather around here. I managed to capture 1h of this magnificent emission nebula.
Canon T6i astromoded + Optolong L-Pro Clip EOS + Long Perng 66/400mm + ioptron CEM25P
63x60s, ISO 1600.
150 darks, bias em flats each.
Maybe I'll try to add more light to this project, if the sky allow.
This is the planetary nebula NGC 7048 found in the constellation Cygnus. This planetary nebula has an apparent magnitude of 12.1 and is about 5,260 light years away.
Observation data: J2000 epoch
Right ascension: 24h 14m 15.25s
Declination: +46° 17′ 16.1″
Distance: 5260 ly
Apparent magnitude (V): 12.1
Apparent diameter: 1.02′
Constellation: Cygnus
Designations: PK 088-01 1, PN ARO 41, IRAS 21124+4604
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90 SCT Telescope, Antares Focal Reducer, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at 0F, 135 x 60 seconds, Celestron CGX-L pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in DSS and PixInsight. Image Date: July 24, 2025. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Nikon d610 with Nikkor 85mm 1.8
iso400
11hrs.25min
Tracking: Skywatcher Star Adventurer
Software used:
Stacking: DeepskyStacker
Processing: Adobe Photoshop , Photokemi Startools action set, GradientXterminator, Nik software, HLVG
First Light results for my new "space yacht" - Meade 6000 series 80 mm APO triplet refractor :D
It's not ready to "fly high" yet, since it badly needs the field curvature corrector, but I was very eager to try the new degree of comfort and predictability of where the eyepiece would end up after next slewing :)
Hence the choice of a target...
Acquisition time: 2015.03.14, 20:37:58 GMT+4 (start of the session)
Equipment: Magic Lantern powered Canon 60Da with Astronomics CLS-CCD clip-in filter inside, attached to Meade 6000 80 mm APO via Baader Planetarium 2"-to-Canon EF adapter, riding Sky Watcher NEQ-6 Pro unguided.
FL 480 mm
Av f/6
Tv 55 sec
Exposures: 20 frames @ISO1600 and 10 frames @ISO400 plus two sets of 10 darks, 2x50 of flats and 2x50 dark flats (I'm meticulous!), no offset (shame on me!).
The sets were processed twice: firstly the all things were thrown in DSS in two groups. When only ISO 400 set was processed on its own.
And when the Photoshop "masquerade party" has begun.
The ISO 400 output was used as a base. It was stretched using gamma value of 2,5, the black level was adjusted separately for each channel and the image was saturated. When it was copied and placed over the base in Screen blending mode. The core was masked with several apllication of Gaussian blurred black blob.
When the second result (also contrast stretched and saturated) was inserted underneath. The solid black background was added also. The core on the second image was totally "black-blobbed" away. The basic layer was when also blended down in screen mode.
The result was duplicated, flattened and contrast-adjusted.
It is rather grainy - too few frames were used in too much stretched image. The abscence of offset may also affect the quality of result.
Note: would I be able to reproduce all that again, I wonder? :P
My latest image of the 'Pacman Nebula' was taken this fall using my most-used astro-camera of 2024 from my light-polluted backyard.
I used a dual-narrowband filter to isolate this dynamic nebula from a washed-out city sky (Bortle 6).
While I shoot mono often, I've really been enjoying this color camera/filter combo lately.
There is still plenty of time to capture this nebula in the northern constellation Cassiopeia this month - if you need to take a break from Orion! 😆
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120 x 4-minutes (8 hours total)
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed in PI and Photoshop
I managed to get three targets in this shot thanks to the little Asker FRA400 scope and the 533 sensor. Located in the constellation of Cassiopeia.
All data was gathered at www.astronomycentre.org.uk/
They are: NGC 7635 the Bubble Nebula. Discovered by William Herschel in 1787 it lies about 7,100 light years away and spans about 7 light years across.
NGC 7538 Northern Lagoon Nebula is the bright patch to the lower left. This is a stelar nursery some 9,000 light years away. It is actively forming proto stars, many of which are 40 times the mass of our Sun.
M52 open star cluster.
Also given the NGC 7654 tag.
Discovered by Charles Messier in September 1774. Sometimes called The Scorpion cluster lies about 5,000 light years away and is the only one of these 3 targets that can be picked up in a pair of binoculars.
Boring Techie bit:
Telescope: Askar FRA400
Mount: EQ6r pro
Camera: ZWO 533mc pro
Filter: Optolong L'eNhance.
Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+
Best 80% of 138 light frames 120 seconds each.
Stacked with darks, flats, dark flats & bias with DSS.
Processed using Graxpert, PixInsight & Affinity Photo.
Now that it's April, the iconic summertime objects are starting to rise high enough before dawn to photograph for northern hemisphere astrophotographers. The Trifid Nebula (M20) is one of my favorites -- a flower-like emission/reflection nebula in Sagittarius. I took the opportunity of a spectacular night up at Fremont Peak to image it through a 6-inch f/9 Ritchey-Chretien telescope -- my first night using this scope. It was mounted on an Orion Sirius EQ-G mount and guided with a StarShoot AutoGuider and Orion 50mm guidescope.
This is a composite of 25 exposures of 6 minutes each with a modified EOS 500D camera at ISO 1600. Dark and flat frames were applied. Images were stacked in DeepSkyStacker and the composite image processed in Photoshop CC.
While talking to a local guide he told me that every night when he is finished working he looks up at the milky way and is still astonished by its beauty, even though he has seen it hundreds of times already.
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Milkyway over Winkelmoosalm
Andromedanebel, Vega, Denab, Altair
Star Adveturer / Stack with DSS
Total exposure time 52min 13sec
EOS80D; EFs 10-22; F/ 3,5; ISO800
Night 2020-08-11 / 12
Edited in LR / ON1 RAW
Object name: Carina Nebula
Constellation: Carina
Object ID: NGC3372 & NGC3293, NGC3324, IC2599
Coordinates: RA: 10h42m42.455s, DEC: -59°28’54.086”
Apparent FOV/Radius: 3.23° x 2.16° (193.8 x 129.6 arc-min)/1.943°
FOV Angle: Up is 134.9° E of N
Exposure Date: 12 March - 3 April 2025
Sky Bortle Class: 4
Distance: ~8,500 LY
Magnitude: 1.0
Exposures: Hα:200x60s, OIII:137x90s, SII:184x120s, R:230x60s, G:245x60s, B:270x60s @ HCG2CMS:62/OFS:25 (25h18m30s)
Telescope: Celestron C8 HyperStar V4
Focal length: 389.73mm (f1.9)
Camera: QHY268M -5°C BIN1x1
Resolution: 3.93”/px
Guiding: ToupTek G3M220M on BOSMA refractor guide scope
Mount: CGEM-HT
Capture & Guide Software: Astrophotography Tool 4.60, PHD2.6.13dev7 Guiding
Processing Software: Siril 1.2.6, DeepSkyStacker 5.1.9, Photoshop CS4, GraXpert 3.1.0rc2, Starnet V2, Cosmic Clarity Suite 6.4AI3.5.
M106 In the constellation of Canes Venatici.
A second run at this target on a moonless night, with more light exposures. Definitely more detail!
M: iOptron EQ45-Pro
T: William Optics GTF81
C: ZWO ASI1600MC-Cooled
F: No Filters
G: PHD2
GC: ZWO ASI120mini
RAW16; FITs
Temp: -15 DegC
Gain 139;
42 x Exp 360s
Frames: 42 Lights; 2 Darks; 200 flats
100% Crop
Capture: SharpCap
Processed: DSS; PS; Grad Exterminator.
Sky: No Moon, calm, no cloud, cold, excellent seeing.
22-25 million light years distant.
410 frames, 5s exposure each, taken with Canon EOS Rebel T7 equipped with 18-55mm kit lens. Stacked with Deepskystacker.
This was the first proper astrophotography outing for my 100mm. Seeing Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away I am pretty happy with the results. I'd like it to have more light-gathering capability. Chuffed to have captured M32 - a local orbiting galaxy - I bet they are posting better pictures on their version of Flickr.
About 45 minutes of 5 min exposures stacked in deep sky stacker and cleaned up in Ps.
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This is my first test with iOptron SkyTracker. Photo was done in NYC.
Light pollution in the New York City is crazy; by naked eyes you can see only some brightest stars (see for example my previous NYC photo on the Flickr). I don’t expect that will be able to get such details of the Orion Nebula.
Original idea was tested tracking of iOptron SkyTracker. For this photo I used Canon 60Da with Canon Telephoto Lens EF 200mm f2.8 L II USM. For 15 second with this lens and fixed tripod I got star tracks. So I decided for testing use exposure 15 second. For this exposure and with such light pollution (and 3 / 4 Moon near Orion) I choose small ISO-320.
Total number of shots was 204 (total time 51 min). I stacked images using DeepSkyStacker, and for post-processing used Photoshop. iOptron SkyTracker pretty much can handle Canon 60Da with 200mm lens and result not even expected for such extreme astrophotography conditions.
Finally got a couple of clear nights :-)
This object is far to the south, and I only have a short time to image it between obstructions, hence the short exposures and high ISO.
13 x 1-minute exposures at ISO 3200, f/4. Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" Newtonian reflector telescope.
Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; initial curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; final curves & colour-balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro; noise reduction via CyberLink PhotoDirector.
NGC6888 Crescent Nebula:
C-11 @ F/2 Hyperstar CGEM-DX on Pier
OverallQuality = 9594.22 in Deepskystacker
174 subs 60 sec iso1600 unguided
5 flats
5 darks
5 bias
Total integration 2 hours 54 minutes.
Canon 450D Full spectrum - self Mod
Filter - LPS2
seeing - better than normal
5th time on target
The well known nebulosity in Orion's Sword lies 1350 light years away from our solar neighborhood . This huge area of star formation is consisting mostly by hydrogen while the glow of the gas is caused from the energetic stars in the central region, the "Trapezium".
Almost 8.5 years after, I returned back to reprocess one of my very favorite deep sky objects. 52 exposures with different exposure times were combined in order to preserve as many details as possible due to the extended dynamic range. Nonetheless the famous "Trapezium" is unfortunately not distinguishable at this image.
Alignment and stacking took place in DeepSkyStacker and there was a lot of work then as usual in Photoshop.
Date: 2009-02-05
Camera: Canon 350Da (Baader modified)
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Takahashi EM200 Temma Jr
Exposures (ISO 800):
4 x 6 sec
3 x 12 sec
11 x 32 sec
34 x 182 sec
total exposure time = 110 min
Fossil Footprint Nebula aka NGC 1491 is a bright nebula in the constellation of Perseus. The bright star on the right is λ Persei.
Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 81 Refractor
Mount: Fornax Lightrack II
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MC Pro
Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme Dual-band Filter
Site: Elk Grove, California, USA Bortle 6
Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop 2020, DXO PhotoLab 4
Calibration Files: None
Guiding: None
The diffuse dark Horsehead Nebula (for the astronomers known as Barnard 33), and the 4 light-years wide bright blue reflection nebula NGC 2023 to its lower left, lie both 1500 light years away from Earth. They are part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.
The Horsehead is one of the most identifiable nebulae because of the shape of its swirling cloud of dark dust and gas which is similar to that of a horse’s head when viewed from Earth. The dark molecular cloud is visible only because its obscuring dust is silhouetted against the bright emission nebula IC 434 which is illuminated by the nearby bright hot blue star Sigma Orionis.
The darkness of the Horsehead is caused mostly by thick dust and gas, but also by the complex blocking the light of stars behind it. The heavy concentrations of dust in the nebula results in alternating sections of nearly complete opacity and transparency.
Technical details:
Camera: Canon 350Da, Canon 1000Da with Hutech IDAS LPS,
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Takahashi EM200 Temma Jr
Autoguiding: Toucam 740K, PHD Guiding Software
Total exposure time: 4.33 hours (15588 sec)
Exposures in detail:
18 x 242 sec , ISO 800 , 2008-11-04
30 x 132 sec , ISO 1600, 2008-12-09
7 x 242 sec , ISO 800 , 2009-02-05
24 x 182 sec , ISO 1600, 2009-11-21
5 x 242 sec , ISO 1600, 2009-11-21
Alignment and stacking: DeepSkyStacker
Final post-processing: Photoshop CS3
M31 Andromeda galaxy is the nearest large galaxy next to our own Milky Way. It contains around 1 trillion stars and is 2.5 million light years away from Earth.
⏱️ 10h36m (159 x 4min ISO 400 frames)
Kaunas, Lithuania (Bortle 7 skies)
📅 December 2021 - January 2022
Setup:
📷 Canon EOSR unmodified
🔭 Skywatcher Explorer 150PDS
️ Baader MPCC and IDAS LPS-D2 filter
⚙️ Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro
↖️ Guiding with ZWO ASI 120MM Mini + ZWO 30mm Mini Guide Scope + PHD2
💻 Stacked and edited with DeepSkyStacker and PixInsight
Image of the Bubble nebula I took back in July of this year re-worked using all the data set. Originally left out the SII data so this time round I added it using SII,Ha,OIII combination. Equipment used was my Esprit 150ED Apo,Atik 314L and Baader narrowband filters. captured 6x600sec in Ha and 7x600sec for both SII and OIII,each set stacked in Deepskystacker and colour combined in Maxim DL4,processed in Startools and Photoshop CS2.
Image was taken July 15th 2018
In my view of the Draco Trio you see a close grouping of three very different looking galaxies. There is a spiral galaxy on the top, NGC 5985, the elliptical galaxy NGC 5982, and on the bottom is the edge-on spiral galaxy designated as NGC 5981. All are part of a large group of galaxies called the NGC 5982 cluster. This image is about four hours of collected data.
Tech Specs: Orion 8” RC Telescope, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at 0F, 240 x 60 second exposures, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in DeepSkyStacker and PixInsight software. Image Date: May 1, 2024. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
25 x 1-minute exposures, ISO 6400, f/4. Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" Newtonian reflector telescope.
Frames registered and stacked in DeepSkyStacker software; curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; noise reduction in CyberLink PhotoDirector.
An unguided image of the Sombrero Galaxy (M104) in Virgo taken with a ZWOASI183MC Pro camera on an Explore Scientific 102ED refracting telescope. 30 45 second images were used to make the image with Deepskystacker, Gimp, and Lightroom.
Galáxia Espiral Barrada M 95
[English Below]
Das poucas galáxias que registrei até o momento, esta é a de menor tamanho aparente. Além de se tratar de um objeto sem grande brilho e tamanho aparentes (visto da Terra), infelizmente a poluição luminosa estava bastante acentuada na direção inicial (e em grande parte do caminho) do alvo, o que prejudicou o registro, dificultando o processamento. Também tentarei fazer mais frames para revelar melhores detalhes em uma próxima oportunidade. Vale o exercício. Este registro contém 2 horas e 36 minutos de exposição.
Messier 95 (NGC 3351) é uma galáxia espiral barrada, com braços quase circulares, localizada a cerca de trinta e oito milhões de anos-luz de distância na direção da constelação de Leão. É uma das galáxias menos brilhantes no catálogo Messier. Fonte: Wikipedia (adaptado).
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Of the few galaxies I have recorded so far, this is the one with smallest apparent size. In addition to being an object without great brightness and apparent size (seen from the Earth), unfortunately light pollution was quite accentuated in the initial direction (and in most of the path) of the target, which impaired the registration, making processing difficult. I will also try to make more frames to reveal better details in the next opportunity. Worth the exercise. This record contains 2 hours and 36 minutes of exposure.
Messier 95 (NGC 3351) is a barred spiral galaxy, with almost circular arms, located about thirty-eight million light years away in the direction of the Leo constellation. It is one of the least bright galaxies in the Messier catalog. Source: Wikipedia (adapted).
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Refletor Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 com Onstep, Canon T6 (foco primário) não modificada. Guidescope 50mm com ASI 120MC-S. 35 light frames (30x300s + 01x281s + 1x84s), 10 dark frames, 19 bias frames. ISO 800. Processamento: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop e PhotoScape.
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Scorpius constellation as seen from Coonabarabran, NSW on 04/10/2015
Canon 5D MkII + Canon 50mm f/1.8 STM mounted on a Skytracker with an Arca-Swiss ballhead.
- 32 x 1 minute light frames @ f/3.2 ISO800
- 55 x 1 minute dark frames.
- 1 x 1 minute light frame taken with a Kenko Softon filter to bring out the bright stars.
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker with curves and level adjustments in PhotoShop. Some minor NR and colour balance in LR.
The heart nebula, IC1805, is a beautiful object in the northern hemisphere's sky for moderate magnification. Coincidentally, it is actually rather well visible around Valentine's Day, although this specific image was acquired a few weeks earlier (you never know how the weather will turn out...).
The image was taken using the newly-installed William Optics Redcat 71 at the Volkssternwarte München, with an ASI 294 MC Pro camera and IDAS NBZ-II duo-narrowband filter.
Image information:
Telescope: William Optics Redcat 71 (350 mm f/4.9)
Camera: ASI 294 MC Pro
Mount: equatorial
Filter: IDAS NBZ-II
Location: Volkssternwarte München
Exposure: 153x 60 s (2h 33min)
Gain: 120
Camera temperature: -5 °C
Capture software: SharpCap Pro
Stacking: Deep Sky Stacker (re-stacking of raw data from live stacking)
Processing: SiRiL, fitswork, Luminar 2018
Better known as the Pacman Nebula.
This emission nebula can be found 6,500 light years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia.
Do you think it looks like pacman chomping his way across the Galaxy?
All data gathered at the Astronomy Centre 12th of August 2024.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.
60s exposures.
Best 75% of 100 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.
M97: The Owl Nebula in the constellation of Ursa Major [Blue 'Owl eyes]
M108: The Surfboard Galaxy in the constellation of Ursa Major [Bottom Right]. Also known as NGC 3556.
First run at this target on a moonless night.
M: iOptron EQ45-Pro
T: William Optics GTF81
C: ZWO ASI1600MC-Cooled
F: No Filters
G: PHD2
GC: ZWO ASI120mini
RAW16; FITs
Temp: -15 DegC
Gain 139
11 x Exp 600s
Frames: 11 Lights; 2 Darks; 200 flats
60% Crop
Capture: SharpCap
Processed: DSS; PS; Grad Exterminator.
Sky: No Moon, calm, no cloud, cold, excellent seeing.
M97: 2.03 thousand light years distant.
M108: 45.9 million light years distant.