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Raw data from DSS on the left, and what was pulled out with PixInsight on the right.
Shotdate: Januari 9th 2011
Camera: Nikon D3x
Optics: AF VR 80-400mm 1:f4.5-5.6 D
22 x 125 sec
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2
Postprocessing in PixInsight 1.7
Workflow:
BackgroundNeutralization
BR : 2.19567e-002
BG : 1.35852e-002
BB : 8.25521e-003
DynamicCrop
DynamicBackgroundExtraction (with over 350 points!)
Start of the semi-HDR function (15 iterations).
ChannelExtraction: Extracting lightness
(HistogramTransformation ,when necessery, to keep the background near black).
ATrousWaveletTransform (switched off layer 1, 2 and 3) using layer 4 and R.
HistogramTransformation: Masking from swap files... (L)
Used a 0,4 value in the midtones of the HistogramTransformation, the mask is inverted, so the stars are bright red and the nebulosity is just to be seen for each itteration.
End of the semi-HDR function.
HistogramTransformation to pop up the last bit of the image.
ChannelExtraction
ATrousWaveletTransform (switched off layer 1 and 2) using layer 3, 4 and R.
CurvesTransformation: Masking from swap files... (L)
ChannelExtraction
CurvesTransformation: Masking from swap files... (L)
ChannelExtraction
HistogramTransformation: Masking from swap files... (L)
to bring out some of the darker area's, I used a normal mask.
ChannelExtraction
HDRMultiscaleTransform: Layers: 2
Applying large-scale deringing routine on L1
HistogramTransformation: L1 bringing out the dark area's
HistogramTransformation: Masking from swap files... (L1)
ACDNR
Last two iterations to bring out some more HDR:
ChannelExtraction
HistogramTransformation: L
ATrousWaveletTransform
HistogramTransformation: Masking from swap files... (L)
Running Man Nebula, M43 and M42 in constellation Orion. Distance:1300l.y.
Taken from suburban Sydney backyard on 17/10/2009
Modified Canon EOS 400D, Orion ED80 (FL600mm) at prime focus. IDAS LPS filter
EQ5 mount autoguided by PhD
ISO800 3 X 4.5min subs stacked in DeepSkyStacker with darks.
A much improved effort from the previous :
www.flickr.com/photos/26678755@N07/2636349230/in/set-7215...
Localisation : CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date : 2017-09-26
Auteur/Author : ROUGÉ Pierre
Mouture/mount : Orion Atlas EQ-G
Tube/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 : 81 minutes [27 subexposures of 180' @ ISO 1600]
Dark & Offset 5/9 @ ISO 1600 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 11/9 @ ISO 1600
Temps/Weather : Bonne transparence. Vent nul. T=15°C. Humidité faible.
Constellation : Cépheus / Céphée
Software Used : Astro Photograph Tool (v3.33), DeepSkyStacker 3.3.6, Pixinsight LE, PhotoShop 7, xnview, Noiseware Community Edition
While I was about it thought I'd have another crack at this. Not quite as contrived as my previous version (which was hugely contrived ;) ). This is full frame, more or less.
Nikon D70 modded, 55-200 Nikkor at 175mm, f6.3, 1600iso, Baader Neodymium filter.
20 x 4 min and 20 x 5 min subs for a total of 3 hours, unguided EQ5
Darks, flats and bias
Stacked and processed in DSS and CS5, with a little help from Noel's tools.
- 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
- 22 x 300 second Lights ISO 400. Dithered each frame
- 10 flats
- No dark or bias
- Captured with BackyardEOS
- Guided with PHD2
- Stacked with DeepSkyStacker
- Processed in Pixinsight
- Imaged on September 2nd 2016 from the Grandview Campground in the White Mountains near Bishop, California.
Celestron CGEM 1100HD with Canon 60Da. ISO 800 with 10 minute exposure. Dark frames and flats were collected after session. Used Celestron's off-axis guider and Orion's 12.5mm illuminated reticle eyepeice for manual tracking. Stack of 19 shots using DeepSkyStacker with GIMP for post processing (mostly tone-down the stars).
Like the dust lane that surrounds this galaxy. It is about 30 million light-years away and only 1/3 as wide as the moon (relatively speaking).
First attempt at stacking an image in Deep Sky Stacker
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My Astrophotography Set
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8 light shots
3 dark shots
Canon EOS 60D
Sigma 17-70 os
190 XproB tripod
Cold fingers
It's often concerned me that my stars always seem to be devoid of colour, so I thought I'd make a small change to my processing steps and came up with this. The original is here. I'd really appreciate some feedback on this because I've been staring at this for hours and my eyes have gone funny. There's certainly more colour in it (there's very little in the original), but I'm not sure if it's overdone or a little too forced. There seem to be an awful lot of blue stars about!
25 May 2011
200p, EQ5 unguided
Nikon D70 full spectrum prime focus
29 x 60sec
iso 1600
darks, bias and flats.
Stacked in DSS processed in CS5
Twain Harte, California.
Unmodified Sony a7R and Astro-Tech AT65EDQ 65mm f/6.5 refractor mounted on a Losmandy G11 mount. 20 x 10 minute sub-frames, 5 averaged darks processed with DeepSkyStacker.
This is better I think. Less forced than the original (which has been relegated to my "Not good Astro!" set!). Better definition in the dust lanes. I'll open the lens up next time, and equip myself with an LP filter, which is the reason why stars are a little lacking in the bottom right hand corner.
Nikon D70 full spectrum mounted directly on an EQ5, 18-55 Nikkor at 18mm , f7.1, 1000iso
11x4 min subs for a total of 44 minutes, unguided
Darks and bias.
Taken at Moel Farwyd in Snowdonia looking over the light pollution of Ffestiniog. The stars are tracking on the mount which is why the hills are blurred. The centre of the Milky Way is near the bottom.
15 40 second frames (About 10 Minutes) ISO 1600, f/5.6. Lens set at 18mm.
Nikon D3100 connected to the mount with a dovetail.
Yongnuo MC-36R/N3 Wireless Timer Remote.
Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker with darks.
Processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
Taken on the 7th July 2013.
Camera: Canon Rebel T3i
Lens: 75-300mm zoom lens
Focal length: 75mm @f/5
Exposure: 47x30 seconds (23.5 minutes)
Location: Locust Valley, NY
Calibrated with dark and flat frames.
Processed with DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop, GradientXTerminator and Astronomy Tools plugin
Photo of M31, the Andromeda galaxy, taken from Trondheim city center. I used Astronomik CLS clip-in filter to remove the city glow.
Stack of 13 exposures 7 minutes each.
Canon 60D with 300L.
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.
A wide-field view of the Triangulum Galaxy in the constellation of the same name captured in a stack of fifty images that were exposed for 25 seconds each using a hand-driven, barn-door type tracking mount (two boards, a hinge, and a screw you turn by hand). The Triangulum Galaxy is generally consider to be the most distant object that can be seen with the naked eye (it is smaller, dimmer, and more distant than the Andromeda Galaxy).
This is my first serious attempt to photograph M33 and although this image has some problems it actually turned out better than I expected (given that I'm not using a telescope and considering the rather poor conditions from my front driveway -- pretty serious light pollution since I live very close to the center of a large metropolitan area). I can just make out the spiral arms on the galaxy but the short exposure and "push" processing has drained all of the color from the now-bloated stars.
In the image notes I've identified a small object that may be NGC 604 (a very large nebula and star forming region in the Triangulum galaxy -- NGC 604 is perhaps a hundred times the size of the Milky Way's Orion nebula).
In any case, this image is best viewed in the Flickr light box (press the "L" key to toggle the light box or click the following link):
Captured on December 22, 2011 between the hours of 8:09PM and 8:44PM PST with a Nikon D5100 DSLR (ISO 4000, 25 second exposure x 50) and a 105mm AI-S 1:2.5 Nikkor lens set to aperture f/4. Image stack created with DeepSkyStacker using 50 image frames combined with 48 dark frames (no flats or bias).
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Samyang 14mm + SEOCooledX2 on CD-1
15x300sec (Total:75min)
StellaImage7, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop CS6
Locations: Koresato, Akaiwa, Okayama, Japan
Nov. 2010
Taken 5-05-16 at Lake Ray Roberts, TX
Scope: William Optics GT81 w/ 0.8x reducer (382mm focal length at f/4.7)
Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G
Guidescope: Orion 50mm guidescope
Guiding camera: StarShoot Autoguider
Imaging camera: Canon t3i (unmodified)
ISO400
13x600" lights (2hr 10min total exposure time)
5x darks
30x flats
150x bias
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker (3x drizzle custom rectangle)
Processed in Photoshop CS6
This image of the Ring Nebula (M57) has been cropped from a stacked data-set of images taken last night using a Canon EOS 60D mounted onto a Skywatcher 200 reflector.
A bit more software experimenting, this time using Deepskystacker.
This works in a different way to Starstax which layers up multiple frames for startrails. This one aligns the stars, making them brighter, by adding one on top of the other.
A side effect of this action is that it loses a lot of the other rubbish that is in the original images like meteors, aircraft, satellites and clouds, Oh and hot pixels from the sensor.
This is a blend of 48 x 20second exposures, then the foreground from one of the original shots blended in, as in the lining up process, fixed land based objects get blurred.
Must find a more interesting sky to experiment with this software some more :)
none of these astro pics could have been possible without Mo. Thanks for helping the noobie Mo.
So for DeepSkyStacker alludes me....this stck done via CS6 and Dr.Brown's stack-o-matic out of Bridge.
The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. (Wikipedia)
148 photos stacked in DeepSkyStacker.
Check out the full size farm4.staticflickr.com/3785/9516814696_f2c9e3f37f_o.jpg
Canon EOS 450D
50 mm
f/2.0
5 s
ISO 1600
Basic tripod
15 lights (10s f/5.6 ISO1600), 10 darks, 20 bias. Canon EOS 450D DSLR + Tamron 70-300mm zoom @ 124mm on static tripod. DeepSkyStacker > PixInsight > Photoshop (incl Star Spikes Pro 2)
An old favourite I've imaged several times.
7 x 5-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.
Quick shot of the Elephant's Trunk Nebula & surrounding area. Located approximately 2400 light years from Earth.
Exposure: 62 x 30s exposures @ ISO3200 equiv. Darks & bias/offset, no flats.
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Lens: EF 70-200mm 1:4 L USM @ f/4.5. 200mm (x1.6).
Filters: Astronomik CLS
Mount: Piggy-backed on 8" Meade LX10. Rough polar alignment.
Guiding: None
RAW images stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PSPx5.
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy
Canon 5D III
Canon EF 200/2.8L II @ f3.5
34x120s @ ISO800
Tracked on NEQ-6 un-guided
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Post Processed in PS CC x 64
Ring Nebula (M57 or NGC6822) - a planetary Nebula in constellation Lyra.
Shot trough Celestron C11 - Schmidt-Cassegrain 280/2800mm with Canon 550D mounted on NEQ6Pro.
26 frames at 20s, ISO 3200 each.
Stacking with DeepSkyStacker.
522 1-s exposures, ISO 6400, f/5.6, 300 mm. Photographed from an urban location -- lights from a million people.
Using my 120mm f5 achromat refractor and modified 1100D with 2" UHC filter I captured 17 subs at 4 minutes at ISO 1600 to create this widefield view of the Cocoon nebula in Cygnus.
Stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop.
Image taken 20/09/15
Orion Nebula (M42)
50 frames processed in DeepSkyStacker
38 - 20 sec @ iso 800
10 - 20 sec @ iso 400
2 - 20 sec @ iso 1600
12 dark frames, 10 bias frames, 17 flat frames
Camera Canon 50D with a f/2.0 HyperStar 3 lens
Mounted on an 11” Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope.
Manually guided for 12 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 & colour-balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro; noise reduction via CyberLink PhotoDirector.
Localisation :
CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date :
2016-10-04
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 :
60.0 minutes [6 subexposures of 600 sec each (selected from 6)] @ ISO 800
Calibration :
Dark & bias : 3/11 @ ISO 800 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 800
Weather :
Bonne transparence. Vent nul. T=17°C. Humidité nulle.
Constellation : Cassiopea / Cassiopée
Software Used :
Astro Photograph Tool (v3.13), DeepSkyStacker, PhotoShop CS
... until I've overhauled my EQ5, sometime when. I need more data and can't get it with 30 second exposures. Hopefully the overhaul will enable me to hit an unthinkable 90 seconds!
This one's better framed than my previous efforts, and the running man is just about visible, which is nice. Pleased considering there was a big moon up there.
21/1/2011
200p/EQ5 unguided
Nikon D70 full spectrum prime focus, ISO 1600
70x30 second
10x10 second for the core
22 darks
30 bias
10 flats
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5
Re-processed here
I`ve been waiting for a clear moonless sky for many months now, just so I could give my latest filter a proper test. I purchased a Hutech IDAS LPS-V4 Nebula filter earlier this year to see if a One Shot Color CCD could do a decent job of recording Ha and OIII at the same time. The theory was that as the OIII wavelength falls almost exactly half way between the green and blue pixels (at a lower sensitivity though), I should get be able to stack the 2 green channels and the blue channel all as one large stack, and therefore grab 3 times the exposure of OIII compared to the single red pixel collection Ha data. Well, it kind of worked. The Ha data is nearly sharp as previous sessions with a 13nm Ha filter, and certainly usable, but not as good as my current Baader 7nm Ha filter. The OIII data (even after stacking) seems a bit washed out, and I believe this is because of the wide passband around the OIII wavelength (50nm wide at the very top of the peak), allowing in additional noise that a real narrowband filter would
block.
Even so, as an Ha/OIII/OIII combined image, taken from a moderately light polluted area in one single session without having to change filters, I would say it was worth the time to do this test. The real question will be what happens to the OIII data when the moon fills the skies, as OIII tends to be washed out from moonglow far more than Ha data.
Mount: EQ6 via EQMOD
OTA: Borg 60 @ f/3.8
Guiding: SW ED80 + SX Lodestar + Maxim
Imaging: Starlight Xpress M25C + MaximDL, 16 x 900s, Hutech LPS-V4
Nebula filter
Orchestrated: CDD Commander
Stacked: DeepSkyStacker
Post Process: PSCS2 + PixInsight
my "second" first astro picture! :) sony a6000, Minolta MD Tele Rokkor 2.8/135 @ f4, 1s@ISO3200 on static tripod, 12 Lightframes, 11 Darkframes, 11 Flatframes stacked in DeepSkyStacker, heavily cropped
Celestron Nexstar 130 SLT
Canon EOS 10d
24*20 sec. Iso 1600.
DeepSkyStacker.
Photoshop.
Very fast editing, too tired.. Later better version.
Interacting galaxies M51a and M51b.
Distance: 30 million light years
Shot in March 2019. Had guiding issues about 2 hrs in and aborted.
Equipment/Software:
Explore Scientific ED 102 APO
Celestron Advanced VX Mount
Orion Starshoot Autoguider on Orion 50 mm guidescope
Nikon D3300 (unmodified)
80 images at 120 seconds at iso 800
DeepskyStacker - Startools
This is one way that you can setup the equipment that I have for sale. I prefered setting up the guidescope and main scope in a side by side configuration. If you wanted to you could attach the guidescope directly to the telescope. All required cables are included.
To take and process pictures you will need the following:
BackyardEOS - purchase online $24
Deepskystacker - free download
PHD - free download
Some form of image editing software
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
My first attempt at tracked astrophotography. What a learning experience it was!
Canon 80D and 70-200 F4L IS
200mm, f4, ISO 1600, 45" x 23
5 darks, 5 biases
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, default settings
Edited in lightroom and photoshop.
Most important lesson learned: tripod stability is everything. I took 35 mins of exposures, and lost 12 to shake, likely from passing cars. Next time, I go further from the road, stabilize the tripod better, and pick sturdier ground.
Date:15/9/2011
Location:Brisbane Australia
Imaging Camera: Opticstar 142M
Imaging Scope: Orion EON 80mm ED Refractor
Focal Length: 500mm F6.1
Guide Camera: SSAG
Guide Scope: Orion 80mm F5 Refractor
Guided with PHD Guiding
Mount: Celestron EQ5 GT
Exposure:
30 min Red 15x2min
30 min Green 15x2min
30 min Blue 15x2min
Darks: 40 min 20x2min
Processing: DeepSkyStacker, CS5, Noel Carboni's Astronomy Tools
Primer intento de combinar data de dos días diferentes.
1) 20200907: 277 lights + 22 darks
2) 20200910: 356 lights + 32 darks
Todo a 30 segundos a ISO800
Todo esto da un total de exposición de 5 horas 16 minutos y 30 segundos.
El procesado en DeepSkyStacker tardó unas 8 horas (para tenerlo en cuenta) y luego trabajé en Gimp para ajustar curvas y niveles.
Las fotos de sacaron con una Canon T2i + evostar 72 ed sobre montura eq3 motorizada en AR.
Telescopio Vixen 130 f/5
Cámara Canon T2i sin modificar
Tomas:
30 Light 60 seg + 12 Darks 60 seg
ISO 800
Apilado con DeepSkyStacker
Post proceso y recorte por:
Renán Van De Wingard con Photoshop
Locación: Observatorio Cerro Pochoco de ACHAYA
24 enero 2012
First night out with the Explore Scientific ED102CF Telescope. 60x60" exposures shot with a Nikon D7200 on an unguided Celestron AVX Mount. Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in Lightroom/Photoshop.
Pentax K5
Tair 3S 300mm F4.5
iOptron SkyGuider Pro
~ f/6@ISO 800
99x180s stacked using DeepSkyStacker
Processed in PixInsight
Press L to view with black background!
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Cropped, rotated and generally faffed about with this one. Far more neb, but the stars are a pig - I hate stars! ;). Original process here.
Nikon D70 full spectrum, 55-200 Nikkor at 200mm , f5.6, 1600iso
45x90sec subs for a total of about 1hr 7 mins, unguided, EQ5
Darks, flats and bias
Stacked and processed in DSS and CS5, with a little help from Noel's tools.
The owls on the hillside just north of my home have been keeping me company at night. This little star cluster has risen above the treeline from which they call.
Nikon D90 camera
Sigma 150-500mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM APO Autofocus Lens
Orion TeleTrack GoTo Altazimuth Telescope Mount
20 X 30” exposures, f/6.3, ISO1600, 500mm
Dark, flat, dark-flat, and offset-bias frames applied
Stacking software: DeepSkyStacker
Post-processing: Photoshop CS5
New images (only a few due to cloud cover) and a new method of processing. It is a little blotchy but much more detail in the cloud.
Date:6/9/2009
Location:Brisbane Australia
Imaging Camera: Canon 1000D prime focus
Imaging Scope: Skywatcher 127mm Mak Cas
Focal Length: 1500mm F12
Guide Camera: SSAG
Guide Scope: Orion 80mm F5 Refractor
Guided with PHD Guiding
Mount: Celestron EQ5 GT
Exposure: 24 min (6x4min) full colour
Darks: 4x4min
ISO: 800
Processing: DeepSkyStacker, CS3, Noel Carboni's Astronomy Tools
The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus.
It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers. The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun which exploded between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago. At the time of explosion, the supernova would have appeared brighter than Venus in the sky, and visible in daytime. The remnants have since expanded to cover an area of the sky roughly 3 degrees in diameter (about 6 times the diameter, and 36 times the area, of the full Moon). While previous distance estimates have ranged from 1200 to 5800 light-years, a recent determination of 2400 light-years is based on direct astrometric measurements.
Imaged from my backyard on 8/19/20.
Explore Scientific ED102/Nikon D5300 (Ha mod) with IDAS LPS D-1 filter, w/Stellarview FF/0.80FR.80% illuminated moon.
55 Light frames at iso 400 for 240 seconds
Total integration of 3 1/2 hours.
Processed in DeepSkyStacker , Startools, Starnet++, and Photoshop.
Localisation : CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date : 2016-11-30
Auteur/Author : ROUGÉ Pierre
Mouture/mount : Orion Atlas EQ-G
Tube/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 : 63 minutes [21 subexposures of 180 sec each (selected from 21)] @ ISO 400
Calibration : Dark & Bias : 11/11 @ ISO 400 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 400
Temps/Weather : Bonne transparence. Vent nul. T=11°C. Humidité faible.
Constellation : Perseus/Persée
Software Used : Astro Photograph Tool (v3.13), DeepSkyStacker 3.3.6, Pixinsight LE, PhotoShop 7, xnview, Noiseware Community Edition