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Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 40 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing in GIMP, taken July 29 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
Milky Way (stacking): 7 pictures (ISO 1600; 30sec; f2.8) stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Olympus OMD-EM10 MKII + Zuiko 17mm 1.8
This is one of the most beautiful and distinctive nebulae in our galactic neighbourhood.
The eye-catching Bubble Nebula is designated as NGC 7635, Sharpless 162 and Caldwell 11 and lies close to the direction of the open cluster Messier 52.
It is 7 light-years across – about 1.5 times the distance from our Sun to its nearest star, Alpha Centauri and resides 7100 light years from Earth in north-western Cassiopeia close to the border with Cepheus.
The 8.7 magnitude seething star forming this nebula (BD+60°2522) is 45 times more massive than our Sun. Gas on the star gets so hot that it escapes away into space as a stellar wind moving at almost 7 million km/h.
As the surface of the bubble's shell expands outward, it collides with dense regions of cold gas on one side of the bubble. This asymmetry makes the star appear dramatically off-center from the bubble, with its location in the 10 o'clock position in this image.
Camera: Canon 350Da with Hutech IDAS LPS,
Telescope: Celstron C8 at f/6.3 (with focal reducer)
Guiding scope: Celestron ED80
Mount: Takahashi EM200 Temma Jr
Autoguiding: Toucam 740K, PHD Guiding
Total exposure time: 166 min (9955 sec)
Exposures in detail: 55 x 181 sec , ISO 1600 , 2009-07-25
Alignment and stacking: DeepSkyStacker
Final post-processing: Pixinsight LE, Photoshop CS3
IC1848 is actually the open star cluster in the lower right of the picture. IC1871 can also be found towards the upper middle, looking a little bit like a knight's boot.
This is a 4 panel mosaic captured on the 5th of December 2023 at the Astronomy Centre, Todmorden, UK.
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 -10c gain 100, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
4 panels combined, each panel made up from 15 exposures, 180 seconds each exposure.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, stitched together in Microsoft ICE and processed in StarTools & Affinity Photo.
Slice of our galaxy in the Cassiopee region. This is not the brightest part of the Milky Way but always fabulous to see it :-)
Canon Eos 600D
3 min 20 s exposure
ISO 1600
f/3.5
18 mm
10 photos superimposed with DSS.
I'd been eyeing this area in Camelopardalis for awhile because of the concentration of dark nebulae. Barnards 8-13 are the dark nebulae on the lower left.
It was a bit of a let down to process - It's not nearly as neat as the the dark nebulae in Taurus or Cepheus, in my opinion, but it was fun to explore anyway. I almost didn't post it because it's a bit underwhelming, but since there aren't too many images of this area, I decided to post anyway.
Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 50 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken on Nov. 24, 2019 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
TS-Optics 6" f/4 UNC Newtonian Telescope - Carbon
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
ZWO EAF Electronic Auto Focuser · TSOptics TS Off Axis Guider - 9mm · Pal Gyulai GPU Aplanatic Koma Korrector 4-element
Software
Luc Coiffier DeepSkyStacker (DSS) · PHD2 Guiding · PhotoShop CS5 · FitsWork 4 · CCDCiel
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
TS-Optics 6" f/4 UNC Newtonian Telescope - Carbon
Guiding Cameras
Astrolumina Alccd5L-IIc
Acquisition details
Dates:
April 4, 2021
Frames:
Baader B 1.25'' CCD Filter: 17x180" (51') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Baader G 1.25'' CCD Filter: 17x180" (51') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Baader L 1.25'' Filter: 35x180" (1h 45') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Baader R 1.25'' CCD Filter: 17x180" (51') (gain: 53.00) -20°C bin 1x1
Integration:
4h 18'
Canon 135mm f/2 lens (stopped down to 2.8) attached to SX Trius 694 via a Geoptik adapter with internal 7nm Ha filter,piggybacked to main scope on CEM60 mount.
Each image comprises of 12 x 300sec subs stacked in Deepskystacker,mosaic created and processed in Photoshop CS2.
Taken 05/01/22
20 superimposed images with DeepSkyStacker
50 mm
f/1.8
ISO 1600
13 x 20 seconds
(JPEG editing only)
Location : France
Just starting to learn things in astrophotography of course with the help and support of GeoAstro team ^_^
27 frames were shot with Nikon D5100, 200mm lens f/2.8, ISO 3200, Exp. 30"
Processed in Deepskystacker and retouched in Photoshop cs6.
Part of the famous Veil Nebula supernova remnant. The bright star with the reflection halo is 52 Cygni.
Unfortunately, this has the frequent problem I get with bloated stars towards the lower right. Not got to the bottom of it yet, but something in the optical chain must be getting out of alignment. I do check collimation before each session. Anyway, I was pleased with the detail in the nebula, so have posted despite the flaws.
Manually, off-axis guided for 11 x 4-minute exposures at ISO 1600, 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.
35 x 8 minutes, ISO 400
30 darks, 100 flats, 100 bias
Equipment: Canon 450D (full spectrum mod), Orion 8" f/3.9 Newtonian Astrograph, Orion Atlas EQ-G, Orion SSAG/80mm, Baader MPCC
Acquisition: EQMOD, Cartes du Ciel, Backyard EOS, Astrotortilla, PHD
Calibration and Post-processing in DeepSkyStacker and Pixinsight
After weeks of cloudy skies, I finally had the opportunity at grabbing a couple of shots of Lovejoy on it's passage past us towards the Sun.
Used 7 x exposures at 100mm, via Deepskystacker, which has removed the green tint from the Comet that shows up single exposures - obviously I need to do some reading up on the Software :)
6sec exposures, ISO5000 at f/2.8 - cropped down to 50%
Guess who got an ED80 for his birthday then? :)
This is my first half successful attempt at using the thing with my new go-faster budget guiding kit :) Guiding was fine, but I ran out of vis towards the end, and as the Reading Fest had just kicked off, I had to contend with searchlights passing through the frame every 20 seconds or so! So on that basis, this ain't too bad - even though it needed a little encouragement during the processing :) Horrendously noisy, hence the small image :)
SW ED80/EQ5
Nikon D70 modded, iso 1250, Baader Neodymium filter
15 x 6 mins for a total of 1 hour 30 minutes
Guiding: Quickcam Pro4000/9x50 finderscope, PHD
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5
Taken using Olympus E-P5 with Panasonic 14mm f/2.5 lens at f/4.
Stack of 52x 13 second exposures at ISO3200, 11 mins total exposure.
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, edited heavily in Photoshop to bring out the Galaxy.
46 x 30sec images
My first foray into using a dedicated astro camera.
Images were taken on the first opportunity of a cloud free night (or close to it) but there was however, a full moon.
I suspect the full moon took away some of the finer details and the blues/purples. Time will tell.
These image files (FITS) were stacked with DeepSkyStacker and then edited in Adobe Photoshop.
Gear used:
ZWO ASI Air Pro
ZWO ASI294
Skywatcher EQ6r
ZWO ASI290 guide camera
William Optics Redcat 51
Latitude:
42deg South
My first attempt to capture Horse Head nebula.
Too much light pollution to capture as expected.
Canon 500D
Sigma 120-400 @120mm
f 6.3
ISO 800
35 frames x 120 seconds
58 frames x 60 seconds
total exposure about 128 minutes
60 darks
61 bias
45 flats
After I have spent hours to watch the starry sky, I tried to realize a image of our nearest neighbor galaxy : Andromeda M31.
Wihtout using a tracking mount, I took 64 images (+ 20 darks) that I superimposed with DeepSkyStacker software.
In order to improve the clarity of the photograph, I used lightroom. But the focus is not perfect unfortunately...
Tehnical datas :
Canon T3i on tripod
50 mm lens
f/1.8
64 x 8 s = 8.5 minutes of exposure
ISO3200
JPEG editing
Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, and Celestron CG-4 mount. Consists of 41 light and 23 dark frames, each a 35-second exposure at ISO 800, stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.
[English]
The Orion Nebula, also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976, is a diffuse nebula situated south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 ± 20 light years and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across. It has a mass of about 2000 times the mass of the Sun.
Nikon D90 - Meade LX200 10" - f/6.3 - 1600mm - ISO 800 - 14 minutes of total exposure - 42 frames of 20 seconds, stacked with DeepSkyStacker. Tweaked with Adobe Photoshop CC.
Information taken from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Nebula
[Español]
La nebulosa de Orión, también conocida como Messier 42, M42, o NGC 1976, es una nebulosa difusa situada al sur del Cinturón de Orión. Es una de las nebulosas más brillantes que existen, y puede ser observada a simple vista sobre el cielo nocturno. Está situada a 1.270±76 años luz de la Tierra, y posee un diámetro aproximado de 24 años luz.
Nikon D90 - Meade LX200 10" - f/6.3 - 1600mm - ISO 800 - 14 minutos de exposición - 42 fotos de 20 segundos, apiladas con DeepSkyStacker. Postprocesado con Adobe Photoshop CC.
Imagen recortada de la original.
Info de Wikipedia (es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebulosa_de_Ori%C3%B3n)
The Pleiades M45, shot from a dark location in the Black Forrest at almost 1000 m. It was taken on December 3rd in a clear and moonless night.
This was the first field use of my Celestron AVX mount and my new guiding setup.
Camera: Canon EOS 600D, modified
Lens: Canon EF 200 L 2.8 @ f/4 with aperture stopper (I don’t like spikes)
Mount: Celestron AVX
Guiding: ALccd5L-IIc with PHD
Shot Info: 16 x 600 s, ISO 800, total time 160 minutes, 20 bias, no darks, no flats
Software: Astro Photography Tool for Imaging, DeepSkyStacker and PixInsight
Skywatcher Esprit 100mm triplet APO and Canon 6D full spectrum with Astronomik L (IR/UV cut) XL clip filter 40x180sec at iso1600. Stacked with Deepskystacker and processed with Pixinsight 1.8. Image dates 21 and 22 july 2015.
Press L (followed by F11) for the best view.
M-51 Whirlpool Galaxy
C-11 @ F/2 Hyperstar CGEM-DX on Pier
23 subs 60 sec iso1600 unguided
0 flats, 0 darks, 0 bias
Total integration 0 hours 23 minutes.
Canon 6D Baader Mod – by Hap Griffin.
Filter - LPS2
seeing - average
5th time on target.
Stacked in Deepskystacker
Had a session on this last night, and combined with last year's effort for a total of 2 hrs 23 mins.
Not sure that I've gained much, although a little less noisy in the wispy bits, and a couple of fuzzies visible. Don't think I'll get much more out of this target without a serious upgrade of kit! :)
SW 200p, EQ5 unguided
Nikon D70 modded, iso1600, Baader MPCC and Neodymiun filter
142 x 60sec
darks, bias and flats.
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5
Eskimo Nebula or Clown Face Nebula.
Not my best attempt as I went a little too long with the exposures I think, but still not my worst .
NGC 2392 can be found in the constellation of Gemini about 5,000 light years away.
First spotted by William Herschel in 1787. It's thought that this planetary nebula started to form around 10,000 years ago.
Planetary nebulae are formed from dying stars that have burnt through all their fuel supplies and start shedding off outer layers in to space.
Boring techie bit.
Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector
EQ6 R pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & Altair GPcam
Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.
60 exposures of 120 seconds each with the best 75% stacked together with calibration frames.
Software used, PHd2, DeepSkyStacker, StarTools.
2 Panes - Total 4hrs
Red/Blue 12x300sec each pane
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PS2 (Synth Green).
Camera: Atik 314L+ Mono
Filters: Baader Red & Blue.
Scope: Sky-Watcher Equinox 80ED .
Mount: AZ EQ6-GT goto, PhD guided with Orion 50mm guidescope with SSAG.
El equipo empleado fue...
Telescopio: ED80 Sky Watcher
Montura: LXD75 Meade
Cámara: QHY163m
Guiado: MiniScope 50mm Orion, CámaraGuia/QHY5 L-II c
Adquisición: APT (AstroPhotographyTool)
Apilado y procesado: DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight, Photoshop
Tomas
L: 6x600s
Expo Total: 1h
Temperatura sensor: -10°C
Distancia Focal: 600mm
F/ 7,5
celfoscastrofotografia.blogspot.com/2018/08/noche-de-pers...
The North America nebula and surrounding area in the constellation Cygnus.
28 x 4min @ ISO 1600 & f/4
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Processed in Photoshop CS3
Canon 350D modified
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Astronomik CLS filter
Astrotrac TT320
Télescope C11 - 280 mm - Focale 2800 mm
Monture Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro
Nikon D5200
346 photos - ISO 6400 - 15 sec
50 Darks - 10 Flats
Post-Traitement :
DeepSkyStacker, DxO, SIRIL, Topaz AI Denoise et Sharpen, GIMP
...that is the question. ;)
Nikon D70 modded, 55-200 Nikkor at 185mm (cropped), f6.3, 800iso, Baader Neodymium filter.
12 x 3 min, unguided EQ5
Darks, flats and bias
Stacked and processed in DSS and CS5, with a little help from Noel's tools.
The Butterfly Nebula and Sadr in Cygnus September 2013. Yet another collaboration between myself and Dave Williams (we'll run out of things to do soon).
This is a difficult one for me as the un-focal-reduced ED80 is a little slow, but the Ha helps. Added 35% Ha to the red channel to give it a boost, as well as using it for luminance.
RGB:
SW ED80/EQ5
Canon 500D modded, Baader Neodymium filter
101 x 180 second subs, iso 1600, for just over 5 hours
Acquisition: APT
Guiding: Quickcam Pro4000/9x50 finderscope, PHD
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5
Ha (Dave Williams):
Stats to follow :)
A couple of galaxy images from the rare clear night on Saturday.
29 x 1-minute exposures, ISO 6400, f/4. I also included a handful of 10-minute exposures at ISO 1600, taken previously, to further reduce digital noise. 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.
25x60s@iso400
65x30s@iso400
150mm (750mm FL) F5 Newtonian with GSO coma corrector.
First try with autoguiding using PHD2. Unfortunately the 3D printed guidescope mount was not nearly robust enough. 2/3 of the exposures were thrown out.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and post processed in Photoshop.
Unfortunately a large number of Geo satellites were present in the view and created streaks.
Next -- attempt to remove that pesky light gradient from the background
North-American and Pelican nebula imaged on the night of September 2, during a few hours of nautical/astronomic twilight in Tromsø. I opted for "mono" 12nm-filter as there was still a lot blue in the Arctic autumn twilight night sky. Seeing conditions were unusually stable compared to the usual turbulent atmosphere on the coast of northern Norway. Auroral activity was also quite low.
Canon EOS2000D (Baader modified)
Astronomik 12nm Ha-filter
Samyang135mmf2.0@f2.8
Skywatcher Staradventurer2i
ISO800, 129x60sec lights (+flats+darks+bias).
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Edited in Pixinsight using MLT, STF+HT and finally CT.
Haven't had the scope out for a while :) Unfortunately means a return to 60 sec exposures (and half of them I had to ditch). Bit of mist up there noticeable when the moon put in an appearance. May try adding more data to this over the next couple of days - if the forecast is to be believed. :)
200p/EQ5 unguided
Nikon D70 modded, iso1600, Baader Neodymium Filter
78 x 60 secs
Darks, flats and bias
Stacked and processed in DSS and CS5
Acquisition details:
OTA: Celestron 8" newtonian reflector, C8N
Filter: Astronomik CLS eos-clip
Corrector: MPCC
Mount: Celestron CGEM DX
Camera: Canon 450d mod BCF, 70F
Exposure: 29x2min ISO 800
Guided with PHD, SSAG, 9x50
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone
Tamron 55-200 zoom lens set to 85mm attached to an Atik 314L piggybacked to scope. 50 subs at 1 second each stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop CS2.
Image taken early evening 03/04/20.
Total 2hrs 34 min
H-Alpha - 8x600s + 8x60s, Oiii 6x600s + 6x60s. (60s for the Core)
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker & processed in PS2. (Synth green)
Camera: Atik 314L+ Mono
Filters: Baader H-Alpha 7nm, Oiii.
Scope: Sky-Watcher Equinox 80ED .
Mount: AZ EQ6-GT goto, PhD guided with Orion 50mm guidescope & SSAG.
Skyobjekt: Messier-42 ( Orionnebula & NGC1977)
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Equipment
Nikon D5300
Sigma 150-600mm
IBresser Messier EXOS-2 EQ GoTo
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Lense 600 mm
ISO 2000
f/ 6.3
Lights 60x 60 sec
Darks 20
Bias 30
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Edit
DeepSkyStacker
PixInsight
Photoshop CC
Lightroom CC
Three sessions over the last month or so resulted in 276 x 60 second subs for 4 hours 38 minutes. I find this a difficult one to process but I'm pleased with M82 (maybe a little bright), less so with M81, which is very noisy (are 276 subs not enough?!) First upload for a while :)
SW 200p, EQ5 unguided
Nikon D70 modded, iso1600, Baader MPCC and Neodymiun filter
276 x 60sec
darks, bias and flats.
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5
Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 70-200 F4 L IS, 191mm, F4. Stacking con DeepSkyStacker di 62 fotogrammi "light" (1sec, ISO 12800), 22 "dark" e 21 "bias", dal terrazzo di casa, in zona ad elevato inquinamento elettromagnetico.
Vuol essere semplicemente una prova per affinare il metodo di acquisizione e di post, sperando quest'estate, durante un soggiorno ad alta quota, di avere occasioni per fare scatti del genere, con risultati migliori grazie al cielo buio delle Alpi.
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Orion Nebula, astrostacking with DeepSkyStacker. Single photos taken in the nearby of Florence. This is simply an attempt made to improve the technique in view of a stay at high altitude next summer, when I hope to be able take these kind of photos away from sources of light pollution.
40min total (8x300s@800iso)
Broadway Village 11/1/14
Takahashi FSQ106ED f/5
Celestron Advanced Vx Mount Guided
Canon D1100 (modified) CLS filter
BackyardEOS, PHD
Deepskystacker, Photoshop CS6
This is a stack (to reduce the noise) of 3 frames for the sky and 10 frames for the ground/sea. All 20s exsposures at f/2.8 and ISO 6400 taken with a Canon 60D & 14mm Samyang.
On clear summer nights, under a good dark rural sky, I can stare up into this region of space forever. Unlike the Sagittarius region, however, the Cygnus region just defies photography. I have imaged it many times and I'm seldom satisfied with the results.
Taken with my 400D and kit lens at 18mm. Typically I've left the lens wide open at f/3.5 to bring in as much light as possible; this time I stopped down to f/4.5 to try and bring a little better definition to the eleventy billion stars visible in the frame.
Stack of 6 five-minute shots, 18mm, f/4.5, ISO 1600; total 30 minutes exposition time. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed further in Canon DPP.
Total of 44 minutes exposure (various settings, taken during different sessions). Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" f/4 Newtonian reflector telescope.
Frames registered and stacked in DeepSkyStacker software; curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; noise reduction in CyberLink PhotoDirector.
Taken in, and around, Algonquin Park, ON. My second attempt at stacking pictures seemed to work out favorably :) I forgot to take the dark and bias frames when I was there, so I stuck my camera in the fridge to bring the temperature down.
4 shots at ISO6400, f/3.5, 10mm, 30" stacked in DeepSkyStacker with dark and bias frames subtracted.