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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.

  

Open star cluster located approximately 385 light years from Earth.

 

The faint reflection nebulosity (forming the Maia and Merope Nebulae) visible around the hot blue stars is caused by light from the stars reflecting off dust in the surrounding interstellar medium.

 

Exposure: 100 x 15s exposures @ ISO2000 equiv. Darks & bias/offset, no flats. Total integration time: 25 mins.

Camera: Canon EOS 7D MKII

Lens: EF 70-200mm 1:2.8 L USM @ f/3.5. 200mm (x1.6).

Filters: None

Mount: Piggy-backed on 8" Meade LX10. Rough polar alignment.

Guiding: None

 

RAW images calibrated & stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PSPx9

[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

NGC4565 Needle Galaxy

C-11 @ F/2 Hyperstar CGEM-DX on Pier

OverallQuality = 1530.38 in Deepskystacker

41 subs 60 sec iso1600 unguided

5 flats

5 darks

5 bias

Total integration 41 minutes.

Canon 450D Full spectrum - self Mod

Filter - LPS2

seeing - better than normal

1st time on target

 

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.

 

Telescope: Celestron 8" newtonian reflector, C8N

Camera: Canon 6D (unmodified)

Exposure: 105x2min, ISO 800

Coma corrector: Baader MPCC

Filter: Orion Skyglow imaging filter

Mount: CGEM DX

Captured with BackyardEOS

Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker

Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)

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.

Clear and chilly tonight.

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?

Shot in Ventnor, Isle of Wight

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

 

Follow me on Instagram @astrosaldanha :)

 

More details, better Colourbalance, same raw-data as image before.

 

M31 - Andromeda Galaxy

 

13.08.2018

36 x 120 Sek. = 72 Mins

ISO-800 NIKON D750

Refractor 100mm f/5.8 Quadruplet Astrograph

Vixen SXD2 + PHD2

DeepSkyStacker + Photoshop

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

 

I last imaged this with the same setup a year ago, but here I managed to get more sub-exposures. Last time, the clouds moved in after just 3 frames; this time dew on the lens limited me to 8.

8 x 7-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/6.25. Modified EOS 600D & Sky-Watcher ED80 refractor, piggybacked on a Celestron C8 telescope for manual 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.

Canon 6D

Canon 300mm f/4.0 + Canon 1.4 Teleconverter @ f/5.6

Vixen Polarie tracking head

51 x 30sec @ISO3200

22 x 30sec @ISO12800

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker

Processed in Lightroom

9th of May 2017 - Jupiter, Io and Europa

First light of my ASI224MC camera

Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, and Celestron Advanced VX mount. Consists of 41 light and 39 dark frames, each a 50-second exposure at ISO 800, stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.

Kochab

2019-06-01 between 00:00h and 01:00h

50s / f4.0 / ISO500 /@280mm

Canon 80D / 70-200f2.8LII / ext 1,4x

stack 24 lights / 4 darks

Taken in my backyard (a street lamp very close)

Class 4 bortle

 

ennesima elaborazione da frustrato :) alla disperata ricerca della flux (la cui visibilità varia a seconda del tasso alcolico del medesimo), il tempo non collabora purtroppo. Mi piace ed affascina il dettaglio sulle galassie ed il bilanciamento colori ma è uno scatto tutto da rifare con un cielo degno, sob!

 

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Yet another frustrated and cropped stack :) in a desperate search of flux (whose visibility varies depending on the alcohol content in the body), unfortunately the weather does not cooperate. I like the detail on the galaxies and the color balance but i need to start all over again with a sky worthy, sob!

 

Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: APO Triplet 130/910 mm

Camere di acquisizione: Canon / CentralDS EOS Astro 50D

Montature: Sky-Watcher EQ6 Pro

Telescopi o obiettivi di guida: 80/600

Camere di guida: lacerta mgen2

Riduttori di focale: Flattener 2"

Software: DeepSkyStacker, photoshop, Adobe Lightroom 3, Noel Carboni's Astro Tools for PhotoShop

Filtri: Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter

Risoluzione: 1280x853

Date: 04 maggio 2013, 06 maggio 2013

Pose:

Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 15x300" ISO1600 -6C bin 1x1

Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 7x400" ISO1600 -6C bin 1x1

Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 12x480" ISO1600 -6C bin 1x1

Integrazione: 3.6 ore

Dark: ~16

Flat: ~20

Scala del Cielo Scuro Bortle: 3.00

Temperatura: 10.00

SW Esprit 150ED apo triplet with 0.77x reducer/flattener.

SX Trius 694 mono CCD

SX filter wheel and OAG.

Baader 2" 7nm narrowband filters set.

ASI462MC (guide camera)

Mesu-200 Mk1

Ha data taken back on the 16th Aug,OIII taken on the 20th Aug,four subframes @ fifteen minutes exposure for both filters.

Stacked in Deepskystacker and using Maxim DL4 to align and colour combine using Ha/OIII/OIII

sequence,processed in Photoshop CS2.

Taken using Skywatcher Evostar 80ED Pro (.85x reducer) & Nikon D3300. ISO 1600,135x30s lights, ~100 flats and bias. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and post processed in Photoshop.

Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, and Celestron CG-4 mount. Consists of 37 light and 29 dark frames, each a 40-second exposure at ISO 800, stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.

Just shy of 2 hours of data from my suburban backyard, 8 min subs. Modded Nikon D5100, Improved DGM NPB filter, CCDT67 reducer, GSO 6" RC. IOptron iEQ30 Pro, guided via 50mm guidescope, SSAG, and PHD2. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in StarTools.

Manually guided for 7 x 5-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 & colour-balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro; noise reduction via CyberLink PhotoDirector.

Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 37 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing in GIMP, taken August 3 under Bortle 3/4 skies.

M: iOptron EQ45-Pro

T: WO GTF81

C: ZWO ASI1600MC

Gain: 300; RGB24; FITs

Frames: 40 Lights; 5 Darks; 2 flats

Exp: 31s

Cropped to taste.

Capture: Sharpcap

Processed: DSS; PS

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