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The Crescent Nebula.
Scope: William Optics z103 (710mm) x0.8 reducer
Camera: Nikon d600 (unmodified)
Filter: Optolong L-Enhance
Guidescope: Generic 50mm
Guide camera: ASI120MM mini
10 x 600s Lights
3 x Darks
Stacked using DeepSkyStacker
Stretched in Photoshop
Final edits in Lightroom
NGC 7027, also known as the Jewel Bug Nebula or the Magic Carpet Nebula, is a very young and dense planetary nebula located around 3,000 light-years (920 parsecs) from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. Discovered in 1878 by Édouard Stephan using the 800 mm (31 in) reflector at Marseille Observatory, it is one of the smallest planetary nebulae and by far the most extensively studied.
Observation data: J2000 epoch
Right ascension: 21h 07m 1.7s
Declination: +42° 14′ 11″
Distance: 3,000 ly
Apparent magnitude (V): 10
Apparent dimensions (V): 16" × 12"
Constellation: Cygnus
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at 0F, 81 x 60 second exposures, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in DSS and PixInsight. Image Date: August 25, 2024. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Image taken in October of 2010, but reprocessed on 10/13/11.
30 min total exposure, taken at Roxbury, NY.
Canon T1i, 200mm 2.8L lens. Drizzled at 2x (doubled resolution) in DeepSkyStacker.
I am no expert in astro-photography. Just wanted to try it once with my new D750 - the sensor is amazing! Nikkor 50mm/1.8, 55 frames à 5sec, ISO 6400, F=2.8 - Deep Sky Stacker software - The pink structure in the upper center close to Deneb is NGC 7000, the North America Nebula. --
Region der Milchstraße im Sternbild Schwan. Ein erster Versuch, die neue D750 in den Himmel zu richten. Der Sensor ist schon erstaunlich - so wenig Rauschen. Aufnahme-Ort: bei Lauffen bei Heilbronn, mittlere bis starke Lichtverschmutzung. Gut zu sehen sind Deneb (obere Mitte) und NGC 7000, Nordamerika-Nebel, als lila Struktur links davon.
Taken near Mariental (Namibia)
18x30s @ ISO 3200
(+12 blacks, +5 bias)
Equipment: Explore Scientific ED 80, iOptron Skytracker Pro, Canon EOS M3
Software: CHDK, DeepSkyStacker, Affinity Photo
As promised, here's Orion again but this time a 16 minute exposure made with eight 2-minute frames stacked in DeepSkyStacker and then postprocessed with Noel Carboni's Astronomy Photoshop actions.
OTA: Celestron C8N, 8" newtonian reflector and MPCC-III
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM
Exposure: RGB: 12x2min each, L:73x2min
Mount: CGEM-DX
Captured with SGP
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (light pollution zone: red)
Skywatcher 72ED Apo/field flattener,SX Trius 694/filterwheel/OAG (Lodestar)
riding on CEM60. 6x600 subframes taken through Ha and OIII filters,stacked in Deepskystacker,colour combined in Maxim DL4 (Ha,OIII,OIII) processed in Astroart 8 and PS CS2.
Taken 31/10/21
Equipment: Newton 250/1000, EQ6r-pro, Sony a6100
In three nights all together 65 light frame (ISO 3200, 300sec), 25 dark, flat and bias frames.
Processed in deepSkyStacker, Pixinsight and Photoshop
Location: Copernicus public observatory (Volkssterrenwacht), Overveen, The Netherlands.
Date & time: 18 february 2015, 21.50 Local Time (GMT+1).
Moonlit sky, moon low on the horizon, waxing crescent (21%).
Seeing moderate to good.
Telescope: Televue 85 refractor (f=600mm).
Lumicon UHC filter.
Camera: Pentax K-r SLR.
Mount: Paramount ME II; tracking only.
Software used: DeepSkyStacker, PhotoPlus.
10 lightframes @240s, 10 darkframes @240s, 10 biasframes, 10 flatframes; RAW-format @1600 ASA.
Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, and Celestron AVX mount. Consists of 42 120-second light frames and 45 120-second dark frames, all at ISO 800, as well as 32 flat and 50 bias frames. Captured with BackyardEOS, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Photoshop.
M31 - two panel mosaic
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Sky-Watcher Esprit 80ED
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI 183 MM PRO
Mounts
Sky-Watcher NEQ6-Pro
Filters
Baader B 1.25'' CCD Filter · Baader G 1.25'' CCD Filter · Baader R 1.25'' CCD Filter · Baader L 1.25'' Filter
Accessories
TSOptics TS Off Axis Guider - 9mm · Skywatcher Field flattener for Esprit 80mm
Software
Luc Coiffier DeepSkyStacker (DSS) · PHD2 Guiding · PhotoShop CS5 · FitsWork 4 · CCDCiel
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
Sky-Watcher Esprit 80ED
Guiding Cameras
Astrolumina Alccd5L-IIc
Acquisition details
Dates:
Sept. 18, 2020
Frames:
Baader B 1.25'' CCD Filter: 5x300" (25') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Baader G 1.25'' CCD Filter: 5x300" (25') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Baader L 1.25'' Filter: 10x300" (50') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Baader R 1.25'' CCD Filter: 5x300" (25') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Integration:
2h 5'
Another clear sky, albeit with half a moon :)
Continuing my obsession with all things cluster, this is M67 in Cancer. Apparently there are few Galactic clusters known to be older (this is something like 4 billion years old), and none of them are as close as M67, so it is the subject of much study (according to Wiki). Slight variation in the spikes on this one, just to ring the changes :) A little noisy, but I had some trouble retaining the colour so decided to put up with it.
SW ED80/EQ5
Canon 500D modded, Baader Neodymium filter
60 x 180 sec subs, iso 800
Acquisition: APT
Guiding: Quickcam Pro4000/9x50 finderscope, PHD/EQMOD/AstroEQ
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5.
Messier 31, the Andromeda Galaxy, looks much better photographed from the dark sky of Killarney Provincial Park than downtown Burlington!
Taken with a Canon 70D fitted with a Sigma 50mm Art Lens mounted on an iOptron SkyTracker. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, ten 60 second light frames shot at f/1.6, ISO 1600, with in-camera noise reduction on, and ten bias frames, no flats.
A guided image of the open star clusters M35 and NGC 2158 in Gemini taken last night using a ZWOASI183MC Pro astronomy camera on an Astro-Tech 70ED refracting telescope with a .8 focal reducer. Thirty 30 second images were processed using DeepSkyStacker, Adobe Lightroom, and Topaz AI. NGC 2158 is the smaller cluster on the top of the image and is at a distance of 14,700 light years from Earth. The larger cluster in the middle of the image is M35 and it is at a distance of 2800 light years from Earth. M35 is estimated to about 100 million years old where as NGC 2158 is thought to be about two billion years old. The bright star at the bottom on the image is 5 Geminorum. It is an orange giant at a distance of 568 light years from Earth and is 20.5 times the Sun's diameter in size.
Askar FRA400 with Altair Hypercam 533C
RGB 26 x 120s
Processed with Deep Sky Stacker and Affinity Photo
I'm still working on MPCC-III spacing and focuser tilt. The previous MPCC was much more forgiving, but it suffered from red reflections on the backside.
OTA: Celestron C8N, 8" newtonian reflector and MPCC-III
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM
Exposure: RGB: 15x2min each, L:85x2min
Mount: CGEM-DX
Captured with SGP
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (light pollution zone: red)
Yep, my first comet :) 5,5m - not bad to try for the first time. If not the Moon :(
Left image is what I consider "normal", the right image is overcooked to drag out, kicking and screaming, what I think is the comet's tail.
Acquisition time: 07.01.2014 22:22-22:58 MSK (UT+3), comet's maximum elevation for me was around 22:41 MSK and peaked at 31° 37'.
Equipment: Canon 60Da with Astronomics CLS-CCD clip-in filter and Baader Planetarium MPCC MkIII coma corrector on Celestron OMNI XLT 150 mm Newtonian reflector riding on Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro.
Exposures: 33 @ISO800 55 seconds with 48 darks, 60 offset frames and 50 flat field frames.
Capture software: Magic Lantern
Processing: images were stacked in DSS in comet tracking mode and stacking result was post-processed in Photoshop.
Note: the Moon: -11,8m, 93,4% full, 19° 07' high.
Note 2: DeepSkyStacker is clever. Of 33 frames I have used it had mistaken the star for the comet on just one frame. Predictive powers :)
The area around Orion's belt, taken with an old 135mm lens on 350D - about 8 x 3mins stacked in deepskystacker
Canon 20D, Tamron 18-250mm @18mm, f/3.5, H1 (3200) ISO, 15 Second Exposure
Stacked 40 light frames with Master Dark and Flat Frames, (each made from 20 shots) and made curves and saturation adjustments in Deep Sky Stacker.
Post Processed in Photoshop CC with Astronomy Tools Actions, using a number of light pollution and noise filters.
Image taken in New South Wales, Australia.
[edit: fixed the color balance a little]
:) finalmente l'80ino tripletto e' stato sistemato dal buon Giuliano di tecnosky, e ho potuto scattare queste due nebulose, prima che passi il periodo e non si vedano fino al prossimo anno
Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: Apo triplet 80/480
Camere di acquisizione: Canon / CentralDS EOS Astro 50D
Montature: Sky-Watcher EQ6 Pro
Telescopi o obiettivi di guida: 60/228
Camere di guida: lacerta mgen2
Riduttori di focale: 0.8X flattener/reducer
Software: DeepSkyStacker, Adobe Lightroom 3, Noel Carboni's Astro Tools for PhotoShop
Date: 10 agosto 2013
Luoghi: Monte Leone, Niella Belbo(CN)
Pose:
Astronomik CLS CCD clip in: 12x360" ISO1600 4C bin 1x1
Astronomik CLS CCD clip in: 3x520" ISO1600 4C bin 1x1
Integrazione: 1.6 ore
Dark: ~22
Flat: ~22
Scala del Cielo Scuro Bortle: 2.00
Temperatura: 20.00
WARNING!! Original size image contains 39 tiny megapixels*!
Constellation Cygnus, the Swan, is in the trend now, so I want to participate. The black gap in Milky Way (sometimes reffered as the Nothern Coal Sack :) where the Swan resides, is full of emission nebulae, so it is there I pointed the camera this time.
SWANS stands for Semi-Wide Angle Nebulae Survey. I'm a big fan of the way how NASA and CERN name their experiments and missions.
Lots of upgrades in all aspects of imaging. Prime lens, UHC filter, firmware hack in camera, three overlapping datasets collected in two nights, artificial flat-field image, automatic stitching, formalized processing in Photoshop. This is the positive side. On the other hand, the second night of imaging brought with it the hazard of dewing. That was the negative experience. Cost me a lot of precious time.
Some trailing is apparent at 1:1 view and bugs me, but with the arrival of polar finder it wouldn't be an issue anymore, I hope.
Another issue is the inconsistency of data, since the "Albireo" panel is this image and it differs from two other in ISO value (3200 vs 2000) and in amount of data (10 subframes vs 29 and 20, respectively).
And yet another bit of information: the Crescent nebula (see note on the image) is an unusual object. It's an emission nebula produced from the outer layers of so called Wolf-Rayet star. These rare objects are massive - about 10-15 Solar masses - highly evolved stars that had lost the outer hydgrogen shells and are in fact the exposed helium cores that produce tremendous amount of energy and dense streams of "stellar wind". Amazing objects :)
Aquisition time: 03 and 04.08.2013 between 00:00 and 01:40 MSK (UTC+4)
The Sun's deepest dive was -17° @01:30, so stricktly speaking I was imaging in the dusk.
Equipment:
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro USM lens and Baader Planetarium 2" UHC filter mounted in front of the lens via step-down ring attached to Canon EOS 60D running Magic Lantern 2.3 firmware override riding on Vixen Polarie tracking platform over photo-tripod (alltogether codenamed "Anywhere Is, SWANS configuration").
Aperture 21,4 mm
Focal length 60 mm
Tv = 60 seconds (Magic Lantern's bulb timer and intervalometer rock the suburban skies :)
Av = f/2.8
ISO 2000 for "Deneb" and "Sadr" areas and 3200 for "Albireo" area
Exposures: 29 for "Deneb" area, 20 for "Sadr" area, 10 for "Albireo" area (plus 10 dark frames and 10 offset frames plus 2 fake flat-field frames).
Processing: Contrast was set to "linear" for all images in Canon DPP and 16-bit outputs were fed to DSS.
Flat-field images were made by applying Gaussian Blur of 250 pixel radius to a randomly chosen image from the series. After blurring the histograms were adjusted to end at 70% of saturation. Since I have aquired three series of overlapping fields, I made a Master Flat by combining fakes from both series. Works fine - without it the Veil nebula can't be seen due to vingetting.
16-bit stacking results were then processed in Photoshop with AutoContrast and Levels (namely gamma was set to 3,5), stiched in Microsoft ICE (that's coool!) and back in PS Curves were applied(skewed sigmoid curve was applied at first step, and at step two the segment of red and blue curves corresponding to the brightness of nebulae was elevated).
* 1 Megapixel = 1048576 pixels.
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Cometa C/2013 R1 Lovejoy desde Peña Cabarga (Santander) foto del 28 de Noviembre de 2013 a las 6:30 de la mañana.
Datos: Canon 5DMII @100mm f/2.8 30 segundos ISO 2500
Con seguimiento montura vixen polarie
24 fotos (12 minutos de exposición) + Dark + Bias
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Compilation de 15 photos avec le logiciel DeepSkyStacker.
Exifs:
canon 5D mark II
canon ef 28/70 f2.8 L
15x2.5s= 37.5s
f3.2 ISO 5000
M82 (Cigar Galaxy) taken on the evening/morning of 9-10 Oct 13.
H-Alpha - 7x900s
Red/Blue - 9x600s
Green - Synthesized from Red & Blue channels.
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker & processed in PS2.
Camera: Atik 314L+
Filters: Baader H-Alpha 7nm, Red & Blue
Scope: Celestron C8 with 6.3 F/reducer.
Mount: AZ EQ6-GT goto, PhD guided with Orion SSAG through OAG.
Taking advantage of a clear night for some astrophotography loving. Oh, and read the lovely interview I did for Meera Sethi at Inkling Magazine: www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/qa-phillip-chee
Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 47 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing in GIMP, taken Sept. 3 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
I saw a few meteors as I was imaging this one, and was excited to find that I'd caught a small Perseid shooting through the Heart Nebula on one of my frames. The placement of the meteor is uncannily similar that of this APOD by Roger Clark, which is one of those inspirational astroimages that has stuck with me: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160905.html
Used my 10" f/4 Newtonian and Atik 314L with narrowband filters to capture 6 subs at 5mins each in OIII and 8 subs at 5mins each in Ha. Stacked both image sets in Deepskystacker and colour combined (Ha,Ha,OIII) in Maxim D/L 4. Final processing carried out in Photoshop. Image taken 9/10/15
This is two interacting galaxies, NGC 4490 being the larger, and NGC 4485 being the smaller one above.
They have already passed by one another, but interacted heavily with each other as they went. They are still connected by a stream of material stretching some 25 light years.
The pinkish spots on NGC 4490 are area's of intense star birth which have been triggered by the close fly by from NGC 4485.
They have passed through each other now, however gravity may well just pull them back together and smash them in to each other again and again over billions of years.
We are safe here for now. This is all happening about 24 million light years away in the constellation of Canes Venetici.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector
HEQ5 pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & GPcam setup
Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.
67 exposures of 133 seconds at ISO 800
Stacked together with 20 each of Flats, Darks, Dark Flats & Bias calibration frames.
Processed with Deep Sky Stacker & StarTools.
Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 60 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing in GIMP, taken July 30 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
Reprocessed Aug. 2 without using a luminance layer, to keep emission nebulae red; I like the colors much better now and the Seahorse Nebula also pops better in this version. I decided several months ago to use luminance layers in processing after getting some nice results, but after reprocessing several images without luminance and getting better color results, I'm thinking using a luminance layer is now the exception rather than the rule for me.
The universe is in constant motion in many ways, ranging from slow movement following nice, predictable, easy-to-understand Newtonian physics to mind-blowing accelerating cosmic expansion. Please refer to Monty Python's Universe Song for more information! The black smudge along the bottom is a line of trees at the edge of the field I was shooting from, blurred by the motion of the sky tracker which rotates the camera at the same rate as the Earth, pointing continuously in a fixed direction in the sky. Really, it's nowhere near as complicated as it sounds! :)
Taken under the glorious dark sky of Killarney Provincial Park in Ontario, located about 30,000 light years from the centre of the Milky Way galaxy!
Nikon D610
AF-S Nikkor 50 mm f/1.4G @ f/2.8
Vixen Polarie
Hoya RA54 (didymium)
iso 400
24 lights de 30"
24 darks
12 flats
12 bias
Encuadre y enfoque: APT
Utilidad astro para DSLRs Nikon: Dark current enable tool
Calibrado, registro y apilado: DSS
Post-procesado: Startools demo: Develop, crop, wipe, color
Captura de pantalla de startools demo.
Salou, Tarragona
Agosto 2020
Bright supernova in M101.
A stack of the best 27 of 30x60s exposures using a QHY22 camera on a TS Imaging Star71 - 71mm f/4.9 Imaging APO telescope. Unguided. CLS filter. Flats, darks and bias applied. 2x2 binning.
Calibration and stacking done in DeepSkyStacker and post-processing in PixInsight.
Nebulae area of constellation Cygnus in hydrogen alpha narrowband 3 panel mosaic. Each panel was stacked and processed with 24, 10min exposures for each panel: 24X600"
Equipment used:
Canon 85mm f1.8 lens at f4, ASI183mm camera, AP900 mount, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop levels, curves, blending, Sometimes guided with ZWO174mm and Stellarvue SVR90T.
I processed this photo in Photoshop CC. Can Deep Sky Stacker produce similar or better milky way landscape photo?
Location :CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date :2016-07-09
Author :Pierre Rougé
Scope :Newton Orion 200/1000 (f/5) + MPCC Baader
Autoguiding :Skywatcher Synguider (v1.1) & Meade ETX 70/350 mm
Camera :Canon EOS 400D (Digital Rebel Xti) refiltré Astrodon in Side (modded Astrodon in Side)
+ EOS CLIP CLS Astronomik
Exposure :95 minutes [19 subexposures of 300 sec each (selected from 19)] @ ISO 800
Calibration :Dark & bias : 16/9 @ ISO 800 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 800
Weather :Très bonne transparence. Vent Nord-Ouest. T=24°C humidité faible.
Software Used :Astro Photograph Tool (v3.11), DeepSkyStacker, PhotoShop CS
This is my first image of 2021 and my first time using a hydrogen-alpha filter. It’s amazing how far away and faint this object is, but with the right equipment, hidden wonders beyond everyday light pollution can be uncovered.
I decided to go with a fiery look considering this was my first attempt with a Ha filter. The bright reds and burning oranges never get old especially when you understand this area in space is both a hot star-forming region and where tons of cold, dark gas come together to create beautiful, artistic silhouettes.
Telescope: Startravel 120/600mm
Camera: Astro-modified Canon 60D
Mount: Heq5 Pro
Integration: ~8.3 hrs
Filters:
30x600s using Astronomik 12nm Ha
20x600s using Lumicon UHC
ISO: 500
Location: Vancouver, BC
Bortle 8
Date: January 21 - February 11, 2021
Acquisition:
Astrophotography Tool
PHD2
EQMOD
Processed (in this order):
Deepskystacker
Siril
Starnet++
Photoshop
Denoise AI
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Nice easy summer (northern hemisphere) target; easy to find, and quite bright for a nebula. Always admired this object in my astronomy books as a kid, and now I finally took a photo of it myself!
M57, “Ring Nebula”
Canon 40D
ISO1250
Optical Craftsmen 8" Newtonian, f/5, 900mm
Orion Starshoot autoguider
BackyardEOS, PHD
36 × 60s lights, 40 darks, 40 bias, no flats
Processed in DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop CC, Lightroom 5
Here's a quick shot of Comet P46 Wirtanen above a palm in my suburban backyard, taken through a small gap in the clouds last night. Lots of Brisbane light pollution so the comet was not visible with the naked eye, but it was easily spotted in 7x50 binoculars, and the camera picked up its greenish glow fairly well.
This is 10 x 3.2 second exposures with my 100mm macro lens at f/2.8 and 3200 iso, stacked in DeepSkyStacker.
Manually guided for 5 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.
The red halo around Gamma Cass is an imaging artefact (Probably an internal reflection). Also, I had to crop the image due to badly distorted stars around some edges - evidently something wasn't aligned correctly.
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.
Camera: Sony A65
Lens: Minolta 135mm f/2.8
Exposure: ~180 minutes-cm2 (10x60s f/2.8 ISO800)
Tracker: Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Raw converter: RawTherapee
Stacker: Deep Sky Stacker (DSS)
Processing: rnc-color-stretch
Processing: GIMP
Total 6hrs 15min
H-Alpha - 1x600 & 11x900s, Red 8x600s, Blue 5x600s & Green 3x600s
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker & processed in PS2.
Camera: Atik 314L+ Mono
Filters: Baader H-Alpha 7nm, RGB.
Scope: Sky-Watcher Equinox 80ED .
Mount: AZ EQ6-GT goto, PhD guided with Orion 50mm guidescope & SSAG.
Imaging telescope or lens:Altair Astro 72edf deluxe
Imaging camera:Pentax K-5
Mount:iOptron SkyGuider Pro
Guiding telescope or lens:QHYCCD miniGuideScope
Guiding camera:QHYCCD QHY5II-L
Focal reducer:Hotech SCA Field Flattener
Software:DeepSkyStacker 4.1.1, Pleaides Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8 Ripley
Frames:
19x120" ISO800
81x135" ISO800
Integration: 3.7 hours
Darks: ~41
Flats: ~30
Flat darks: ~30
Bias: ~100