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The Milky Way over Zion Lodge.
I wasn't thrilled about having the lodge in the photo. If I had planned ahead, I would have taken the shuttle bus up to the next stop to shoot the night sky, and walked back to the lodge (or taken the last shuttle).
I stacked six or so images in DeepSkyStacker, extracting two alignments (for foreground and sky). I also extracted and manually blended two exposures for the foreground.
(Explore #107, 11/22/2010)
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) as seen from the Lentevreugd nature reserve in Wassenaar in the Netherlands, on 21 July 2020.
The image shows the blue ion tail, redder dust tail, & the C2+ green-tinged nucleus.
This is a stack of 85 images taken with a Nikon D7000 + 85mm at f/2, ISO 1600, 3 sec exposures (untracked), 8.8º x 12.8º crop, at around 00:45CEST.
The images were stacked using DeepSkyStacker and the final image was processed using LightRoom. Quite a lot of work was needed to adjust the background vignetting, as I didn't take any flat fields.
Rho Ophiuchus region + Antares.
Canon EF 200mm f/2L IS USM on a Celestron CGE Pro mount, Canon 5DMkIII. Stack of 67 images @ 1 minute each, ISO1600, f/2.2.
Deepskystacker + Photoshop processing.
Elephant Trunk Nebula narrowband 2 panel mosaic. Each panel was stacked, assembled, and processed with the following exposure times: 20X900"Ha, 20X900"OIII, and 20X900"SII.
Equipment used:
Canon 200mm f2.8 lens at f4, Atik 428ex camera, AP900 mount, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop levels, curves, blending, guided with ZWO174mm and Stellarvue SVR90T.
The clouds held just enough to get a few shots of the milky way under the beautiful dark skies of Bon Echo Provicial Park.
Here are my first few edits, feel free to comment on some improvements. I'm using Rawtherapee for all pictures, and will be using DeepSkyStacker to try and lower noise down in my next edits.
Thanks for viewing!
First Test of shooting the Milky Way with my new lens 50 mm f/1.8.
I was surprised by the brightness of the stars (I was able to see them even with the live view !).
I superimposed 30 photos of this part of the sky with DeepSkyStacker without taking any offsets or darks...
On it we can see clearly the red color of the nebulas NGC7000 and IC5070.
Sorry for the bad focus .
Technical datas :
ISO 1600
50 mm
f/1.8
30 x 13 Seconds
Tripod
Canon EOS 600D
Astrographe epsilon160 f3.3 takahashi
eos350d baader+ cls
24x5 minutes 200asa
deepskystacker+photoshop
24x5min le 15.02.2009
Canon 500D
Sigma 120-400 @250mm
ISO 800
f 5.6
frames of 1 min, 2 min and 3 min
total exposure about 50 minutes
dark bias flat
Date: 6th December 2008
Location: Cambridge, UK
OTA: Skywatcher 190mm F/5.3 Maksutov-Newtonian Astrograph
Guiding: Skywatcher ED80 + DSI-C + PHD
Imaging: QHY8 + Nebulosity, 42×300s, IDAS LPR
Stacked: DeepSkyStacker
Post Process: ImagesPlus + PSCS2 + Noel Carboni’s AstroTools
Taken through a borrowed Sigma 70-200 f/2.8, lightly cropped. Two 2-minute exposures stacked in DeepSkyStacker. If I had more time with the lens, I'd liked to have done an HDR set (so as not to burn out M42), but alas, condensation on the glass cut my imaging time short. I also didn't get a flat frame, which made processing difficult... once I brought out the Horsehead, the center of the picture was a bright orange blob. I tried synthesizing a flat in IRIS with no luck, and eventually just used a flat frame I took with one of my own lenses, which almost matches.
Esprit 150ED APO and QHY168C with UHC filter. 5 subs at 900 seconds each stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop CS2
Image taken 1/10/18
Reprocessed this image using RAW photos instead of JPEG. This is way back from 10/20/2012. I learned that DeepSkyStacker likes it when I convert my RAW files to DNG first and then stack.
Shot with a Sony NEX-5. Guiding with the Orion SSAG and 50mm mini guidescope piggybacked on 8" SCT w/ f/6.3 reducer mounted on CG-5GT.
First light with my modded 1000d on my new Skytracker.
Lens: Canon 70-200 4L
DIY modded Canon 1000d with Astronomik CLS-CCD Clipfilter on iOptron Skytracker
30x15sec
30x30sec
15x90sec
Stacked with DSS
FSQ106ED + QHY16200A(-0C) L10x600sec (Ambient +27C)
WilliamOptics Star71 + ATIK383L+(-15C)
Astrodon Tru-Balance E-Series Gen2
R4x600sec,G4x600sec,B4x900sec
on SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6GT
(Total:240min)
Guiding: QHYOAG + LodestarX2
DeepSkyStacker, StellaImage7, Photoshop CC2015
Locations: Kamogawa Sports Park, Kibichuocho, Okayama, Japan
Aug. 2016
My first image with my new astro gear. Taken with an unmodified Sony a7R and Astro-Tech AT65EDQ 65mm f/6.5 refractor mounted on a Losmandy G11 mount. 12 x 5 minute sub-frames, 5 averaged darks processed with DeepSkyStacker.
Here's Comet C/2013 US10 (Catalina) above Alpha Centauri at about 8pm last night. At the moment it is gliding through the Milky Way starfields in the southern constellation Circinus. This untracked image is a 22 x 4 sec exposures taken with a Canon 6D and 70-200mm lens at f/4 and 21800 iso, stacked using DeepSkyStacker and processed in Lightroom 5.
Some of the brighter stars and star clusters are labelled in this image.
Distancia: 1350 años luz
Información sobre la nebulosa de Orión: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/M42
Constelación: Orion
Camera: Canon T1i unmodified
Exposure: 1hr 40 min (20 x 5 min) at ISO 800
Capturing software: Backyard EOS
White balance: Custom
Mode: RAW
Focal ratio: f6.3
Telescope: Celestron C6 SCT OTA
Filter: Astronomik CLS Light Pollution Filter - Canon EOS Clip
Mount: iOptron iEQ45
Guiding: Orion StarShoot Autoguider with PHD and Stellarvue F60M3
Dithering: Yes
Calibration: 30 flats, 24 darks, 31 flat darks
Processing: Stacking in Deep Sky Stacker, PixInsight
Date: 30-Dec-2011
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
IC405 Flaming Star Nebula - 13 and 15/01/12 - 8" reflector on HEQ5 mount - QHY8L CCD camera + Coma Corrector + LPR Filter, prime focal, guided with SPC880 webcam FinderGuider and PHD, 36 frames (600sec) Total Exp:6h20m + 29 darks + 29+49 EL panel flats, captured with Nebulosity 2, stacked with DeepSkyStacker, post-processed with Capture NX2/Nebulosity 2
Reprocessed with drizzle and PSF sharpening/deconvolution
Acquisition details:
OTA: Celestron 10" f/4.7 newtonian reflector, C10N
Filter: Orion Skyglow Imaging filter
Corrector: MPCC
Mount: Celestron CGEM DX
Camera: Canon 450d mod BCF, 40°F
Exposure: 16x2min ISO 400
Guided with PHD, SSAG, Orion 50mm guide scope
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)
Milky Way between the constellations eagle (Aquila) and Swan (Cygnus)
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Teleskop / Kamera:
Montierung: Star Adventurer
Optik:60mm f/3.5
EF-S60mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Kamera: Canon EOS 650D
Guider: -
Filter:-
Aufnahmedaten:
Zahl der Aufnahmen: 20
Brennweite:60 mm
Öffnungsverhältnis: 3,5
Belichtungszeit pro Aufnahme: 30 sek.
Empfindlichkeit ISO-Wert: 1600
Darkframes -
Flats -
Bildbearbeitung:
DeepSkystacker:
Standard / Light = Durchschnitt / Ausrichtung= Automatsch / 100% der Bilder
Photoshop Elements 10:
Tonwertkorrekur, Sättigung
Bode Galaxy/Galaxia de Bode (M81) and Cigar Galaxy/Galaxia del Cigarro (M82)
The Bode and the Cigar Galaxy are 12 million light years apart and located in the constellation Ursa Major. The first is a spiral galaxy with about 250 billion stars, and the second is a long, narrow irregular galaxy with about 30 billion stars.
La galaxia de Bode y la galaxia del Cigarro están a una distancia de 12 millones de años luz y están ubicadas en la constelación de la Osa Mayor. La primera es una galaxia espiral con alrededor de 250.000 millones de estrellas y la segunda es una galaxia irregular alargada y estrecha con cerca de 30.000 millones de estrellas.
- Date/Fecha: 21/08/2020
- Location/Lugar: Piedrafita de Jaca - Huesca (42°42'4.4"N 0°19'52.6"W)
GEAR/EQUIPO
- Tracker/Montura Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi
- Guiding with QHY 5L-II Mono and guidescope EZG-60
- Camera Sony ILC3-A7M3 Modo APS-C
- Lens Sony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
IMAGE/IMAGEN:
- 85 Lights at 900mm, ISO 10000, 20seg, f6.3
- 20 Darks at ISO 10000, 20seg, f6.3
- Total time of exposition/Tiempo total de exposición 28min. 19seg.
SOFTWARE
- Stellarium Scope & Stellarium to guide the tracker
- Stacked with DeepSkyStacker
- Guiding with PHD2
- Image viewer Adobe Bridge
- Image processing with Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe Photoshop CC
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This is a portion of the Milky Way running through Cygnus, The Swan. Deneb is the swan's tail and Sadr is the body. The wings go out in each direction and the neck extends out of the frame to the lower right.
The North American Nebula is clearly visible to the left of Deneb, and it got its name for obvious reasons. Just off the coast of "Florida", there's another, much fainter nebula called the Pelican Nebula. The nebulosity around Sadr is called IC1318... As far as I know, it doesn't have a nice, easy to remember name.
Taken with my "nifty fifty" lens, Canon's super-cheap-but-decent-quality 50mm prime lens. 15 exposures, each at 100 seconds (25 minutes total exposure time). ISO 1600 and F/4.0. Aligned and combined in DeepSkyStacker then tweaked a bit in photoshop.
Localisation : CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date : 2017-01-20
Auteur/Author : ROUGÉ Pierre
Mouture/mount : Orion Atlas EQ-G
Tube/Scope : Samyang 500mm F6.3
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 : 75 minutes [25 subexposures of 180 sec each (selected from 25)] @ ISO 1600
Calibration : Dark & Bias : 29/11 @ ISO 1600 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 17/0 @ ISO 100
Temps/Weather : Bonne transparence. Faible faible sud-est. T=6°C. Humidité nulle.
Constellation : Cassiopae / Cassiopée
Surnom/ Surname : Nébuleuse du Coeur / Heart nebula (IC1805)
Software Used : Astro Photograph Tool (v3.13), DeepSkyStacker 3.3.6, Pixinsight LE, PhotoShop 7, xnview, Noiseware Community Edition
45x30sec lights,20darks. ISO1600. Skywatcher Esprit APO 100ED and Canon EOS 5D mk2. Processed Deepskystacker and Startools.
Except for the rings of Saturn, the Ring Nebula (M57) is probably the most famous celestial band. Its classic appearance is understood to be due to our own perspective, though.In this well-studied example of a planetary nebula, the glowing material does not come from planets. Instead, the gaseous shroud represents outer layers expelled from the dying, once sun-like star, now a tiny pinprick of light seen at the nebula's center. Intense ultraviolet light from the hot central star ionizes atoms in the gas. In the picture, the blue color in the center is ionized helium, the cyan color of the inner ring is the glow of hydrogen and oxygen, and the reddish color of the outer ring is from nitrogen and sulfur. The Ring Nebula is about one light-year across and 2,000 light-years away.
Source of explanation: NASA
11 x 4-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/4. Manually guided off-axis. 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.
Taken on the last and clearest night of my Christmas/New Year break.
9 x 6-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
All i can find about this nebula is that it has number 289 in Lynd's Catalog of Bright nebulae. It is not bright at all and "Hidden" in a dense Milky way star field. In the middle of the field of view we can see an open star cluster with code DO45. The location is: RA 21h12m, DEC 37D00m.
Canon 6Da on Esprit 100 triplet APO with Optolong L filter. 51x240sec iso1600 48darks, 30flats, 174bias frames. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, Processed in Pixinsight.
Knight Observatory, Tomar
- Canon 7D Mark II
- Orion 8" f/3.9 Astrograph
- Baader MPCC Mark III Coma Corrector
- Orion Atlas Pro Mount
- ZWO ASI 120MC-s guide camera w/ 60mm guide scope
- 20 x 300 second Lights ISO 1600. Dithered each frame
- 10 flats
- No dark or bias
- Captured with BackyardEOS
- Guided with PHD2
- Stacked with DeepSkyStacker
- Processed in Pixinsight
- Imaged on July 1st 2016 at the Golden State Star Party
More info - www.youtube.com/watch?v=trkccIaMYIs
The Great Andromeda Galaxy, wide field.
Fotografia a largo campo della Grande Galassia in Andromeda
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-Massa, 44° 2'31.08"N 10° 7'9.22"E
-29/09/2011 10 p.m.
-Canon 450D
-Pentacon 2.8/135
-Heyford EQ8
-27 lightframes (20s, 135mm, f/4, iso 800)
-27 darkframes
-Backyard Eos
-Deepskystacker
-Photoshop CS 2
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Couldn't resist this :) I knew there was more there, and there is, but I may have pushed it a little too far. There's only the very faintest suggestion of nebulosity to the right (south) of the loop, and I can't bring it out. When the moon's gone, I'll give it another go. First iteration
Is this an improvement, or is this too "in ya face"? Despite appearances, it's just this side of being clipped.
Nikon D70 modded, 55-200 Nikkor at 55mm (cropped), f5.6, 1600iso, Baader Neodymium filter.
51 x 3 min, unguided EQ5
Darks, flats and bias
Stacked and processed in DSS and CS5
On a whim I decided to go to the big annual Oregon Star Party, an amazing event for astro-nerds and fellow travelers that's held out in the boonies about a 4-1/2 hour drive from Portlland, and 1 1/2 hours east from Prineville in the Ochoco National Forest.
At the swap meet I bought a decent amature 8-inch telescope, but this photo was taken with my Canon T1i with the 18-55 lens zoomed to the widest view. The only trick was taking lots of 20-second exposures at ISO 3,200. This is the result of stacking 24 images with DeepSkyStacker. I didn't set out trying to get this kind of image, but rather trying to capture more meteors. No meteors showed up, but thanks to some tips from the astro-nerds I discovered photo stacking. It sure brings out the stars, the Milky Way, and the Andromeda Galaxy!!
Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, and Celestron Advanced VX mount. Consists of 38 light and 38 dark frames, each a 60-second exposure at ISO 800, stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.
10" f/4 Newtonian and modified Canon 1100D c/w UHC filter. Captured 5 subs at 5 min exposure at ISO 1600 using capture software BackyardEOS . Stacked in Deepskystacker and processed using Nebulosity 4 and Photoshop,no darks nor flats subtracted. Image taken early hours of 9/9/15
I am finding post processing of astro images very hit and miss, and quite difficult, had another go at this one from the same stack file as previous, and tried very hard not to blow out the highlights, and this is the result, I think to an exstent astro post is very much to personal taste.
Orion Nebula 19-12-20.
57 images stacked in DeepSkyStacker post processed in Photoshop, taken from my garden last night.
Nikon D750, Nikon 80-400mm at 400mm wide open on a Skywatcher Star Adventurer mount, 57 1 minute iso800 lights, 20 darks, 20 flats 20 bias
The Orion Nebula is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being 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 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 2,000 times that of the Sun. Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula.
The Orion Nebula is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky, and is among the most intensely studied celestial features. The nebula has revealed much about the process of how stars and planetary systems are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers have directly observed protoplanetary disks, brown dwarfs, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula.saved with settings embedded.
FSQ106ED + QE0.73X + EOS6D(SEO-SP4)
40x300sec (Ambient +11C) ISO1600
on SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6GT
(Total:200min)
Guiding: ASI120MM + 50mm
DeepSkyStacker, StellaImage7, Photoshop CC2015
Locations: Kamogawa Sports Park, Kibichuocho, Okayama, Japan
Oct. 2016
Using new techniques i've recently learned on cancelling out light polution in Photoshop, I decided to put it to the test and have re-processed this image taken last year of the Orion Nebula. It takes a little time to do but the results are well worth it compared to my earlier attempt seen here.
Nikon D7000 mounted on an AstroTrac: 10 x 240sec 180mm f5.8, stacked in DeepSkyStacker.
An attempt at capturing some of the Milky Way through some pretty bad light pollution. 24 light frames, 25 seconds each and some 20 darks. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and edited more in Photoshop. Processing it all was... interesting, which I think shows in the image. It may look a bit too blotty and blown out in places for my liking but I'm done tweaking it for now!
You can see most of the constellation Cygnus in the lower part of the image with the star Deneb close to the middle of the frame.
I have done this image of a part of the Milky Way by stacking 67 images of 8 seconds each at 3200 ISO with my Canon EOS 600D (unmodified) equipped with a basic 50 mm f/1.8 II lens.
I used also as it can be seen, no tracking mount. Just a simple tripod.
For french speaking people (or you can translate the thing) I have writen an How-capture-the-Milky-Way tutorial, available on my Blog : astrospace-page.blogspot.fr/2014/12/tutoriel-photographie...
This part of the milky way is really pleasant for me because it hides reams of nebulas !
We can find on this picture :
- North America Nebula (NGC 7000)
- Pelican Nebula (IC 5070)
- Butterfly Nebula (IC 1318)
- Veil Nebula (NGC 6992 and NGC 6960)
CANON EOS 600D + 50 mm f/1.8 lens
f/1.8
67 x 8 secs
ISO 3200
My first success at using the HEQ5 Pro and SkyWatcher 200PDS.
Stack of 4 exposures 6 minutes each.
4 lights, 15 darks, 60 bias stacked with DeepSkyStacker.
5DMkIII on a Skywatcher 200PDS with a Paracorr coma corrector.
HEQ5 Pro mount controlled via PHD2.
QHY5II guide camera on a Skywatcher 9x50 finderscope.
Camera control via BackyardEOS.
Raw files stacked with DeepSkyStacker and postprocessed in Lightroom.
Here is my first picutre of the Great globular Cluster in Hercule constellation taken last night.
The full moon was a bit disturbing and despite the polar alignement was not precisely made, I managed to get a result that I tought worst !
This image is made of 20 frames of 15 seconds each at ISO 1600 with a Canon T3i.
The telescope used is a 200/800 reflector (without coma corrector ^^)
20 x 15 secs (5 min) + 10 darks
ISO 1600
F/4
800 mm
M31, NGC 224, Andromeda Galaxy
Optics: Takahashi FS60CB with 0.72x Reducer (255 mm F4.2)
Exposure: Fujifilm X-E3 (APS-C) iso6400 x 1min x 50 frames (with 30 Dark frames )
Mount: Toast Pro (TP2) with Polemaster
Software: DeepSkyStacker, Astronomy Tools, GradientXTerminator, Photoshop
A reprocess and uncropped version of another image of this pair I uploaded a few days ago. This one is the full field of view from my 80ED f/6.
Fireworks Galaxy NGC 6946 and Open Cluster NGC 6939
I've been experimenting with this image. It's a reprocess and uncropped version of the image I posted yesterday (bit.ly/2aZeH54). This time, I tried using the stacking in Photoshop instead of using my tried and true DeepSkyStacker.
What I find most interesting is that despite NOT using dark frames for noise reduction in this stack, the image actually turned out cleaner and with less noise than the version I stacked with DSS including dark frames. And I think the overall result is actually much nicer as a result of this.
That said, Photoshop lacks a lot of what I would consider critical features for doing this (like image quality estimation) and other tools, but in the case where I have a uniformly good data, the results were pretty astonishing.
Nikon D5100
Explore Scientific ED80
Celestron AVX mount, unguided
1H 30m of 2 min exposures @ ISO 1600