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EXIF - L-extreme: 305X120" (10h5min) + Astronomik L-2: 90X120" (3h) - 13h5min total
Calibration: Flats - 60, Darks - 60
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro (cooled to 0°C)
Filters: Optolong L-extreme & Astronomik L-2 Luminance UV/IR Block 1.25"
Main optics: Sky-Watcher Explorer 200P (modified)
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Guiding: Artesky UltraGuide 70 + ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Accessories: ZWO ASIair Pro, ZWO EAF
Software: DeepSkyStacker + Pixinsight + Photoshop
Location: Sibenik, Croatia
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Stacks : 38 frames (+darks and flats)
Exposure Time : 38x2min (1h 16min total) @ ISO 400
Stack program : DeepSkyStacker
Stack mode : Auto Adaptive Weighted Average
Post processing : CS5 for : curves adjustments, Lightroom 4 for local adjustments (contrast, exposure)
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Camera : Sony SLT-A77
Tube : Skywatcher Explorer 150P
Type : Newton
Focal length : 750 mm
Aperture : F/5
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Camera : Starlight Xpress Lodestar
Tube : Skywatcher StarTravel-102
Type : Refractor
Focal length : 500 mm
Aperture : F/4.9
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Mount : Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro
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Source : dso-browser.com/
Les nébuleuses de l'Amerique du Nord (NGC7000, découverte par Herschel en 1784) et du Pélican (IC5067/IC5070) sont deux nébuleuses en émission de la constellation du Cygne, distantes d'environs 2000 années-lumière.
L'étoile la plus brillante est Deneb.
1h30 (18x5min) de pose, Canon EOS 350D défiltré ("Baader"), Canon EF 70-200/2.8L à 135mm f4, sur monture Losmandy Titan. Prétraitements avec DeepSkyStacker (9 darks, 21 flats, 21 offsets), traitements avec Photoshop. Réalisé à l'observatoire du CALA.
Free for non-commercial use, please notify me of every use !
Libre pour une utilisation non commerciale, merci de me notifier de son utilisation
Image includes recent sub-exposures (taken 26 Jan 2012), plus those from previous sessions over 2 years. Total of just over 3 hours exposure.
Combination of 4 x 10, 7 x 8, 1 x 6, 8 x 5 & 12 x 4-minutes at ISO 1600, f7.5.
All exposures manually, off-axis guided, except the 4-minute ones (unguided). Sub-exposures registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; processed using Canon Photo Professional and Noel Carboni's tools in Abobe Photoshop Elements.
Meade 127mm ED telescope & unmodded EOS 40D.
Tried for the zodiacal light but too much clouds reflecting the the light pollution back down to the horizon, although there's a hint of hit from Venus to the Pleiades.
Exposure: 36 x 30s exposures @ ISO1600 equiv. Darks & bias/offset, no flats.
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Lens: EF 70-200mm 1:4 L USM @ f/4.5. 172mm (x1.6).
Filters: None
Mount: Piggy-backed on 8" Meade LX10.
Guiding: None
RAW images stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PSPx5.
Here we are! My first deep sky picture!
Ts-Optics InED70 Carbon
Celestron CG-5
Canon 500d
20 shots
60 seconds exposure time
1600 ISO
12 dark frames
10 bias
Processed with DeepSkyStacker.
Comments, criticisms and advices are welcome
Faint one, this one. Tough to catch at F10 from my location.
C8 EdgeHD at F10
astro modded Canon XSi at ISO 1600
15x13min, 20 darks, 20 flats
Stacked and processed in DeepSkyStacker and PixinsightLE
On the nights of August 11th and 12th, I setup my Canon T1i on my LXD75 mount to track the sky with a laptop to continuously shoot 30 or 60 second exposures of a patch of sky including part of the constellation of Perseus.
I was hoping to catch several shooting stars to stack into one photo that would show how they radiate from Perseus.
On the first night I saw only 1 shooting star and caught none on camera. On the second night (peak night) In 3 hours I saw just 14 including one fireball that left a trail for 10 seconds or so. I caught 2 on camera. This photo shows the two shooting stars stacked into one photo.
I used a 2" Antares light pollution filter on my standard 18-55mm lens, using some tape to hold it in place. It definitely helped but there is a lot of purple noise or sky glow around the edge of each exposure.
In total i took over 500 exposures. About half were lost from dew collecting on the lens at times when it operated unattended (I left it running and went to bed). I may try stacking the better exposures as a wide shot of the sky.
Hopefully I'll have better luck next year or during the Leonids. I wish I had the camera back in 2001 when I counted over 1000 shooting stars in the Leonid Meteor Storm!
18mm, F4.5, ISO 1600. 2x 30 second exposures stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
Telescope: Meade 10" LX200GPS, unguided, with f/6.3 Focal Reducer
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3
Location: Lawrence Lake, AB, Canada
Image composed of:
21 90sec light frames at ISO 3200,
10 90sec dark frames at ISO 3200,
22 1/20sec flat frames at ISO 3200,
20 1/20sec flat dark frames at ISO 3200,
25 1/4000sec bias frames at ISO 3200.
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker v3.3.4
Additional processing with Adobe Photoshop CS5.1
Re-edit of M27
48frames iso800 5 darks
total exposure about 16min
Celestron Nexstar 130Slt
Canon Eos 10D
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop
Data processing of 2018 images of the Pleiades and of April 3, with Pleiades and Venus directly with deepskystacker in "medium" mode. No graphic manipulation
Best view ---- www.flickr.com/photos/90671057@N02/8616595365/sizes/o/in/...
Optimal view ----- www.flickr.com/photos/90671057@N02/8616595365/sizes/k/in/...
Second of TWO edited versions.. this one its editing with DSS and Photoshop and convertion with PS and FastStoneImageViewer ..
in use : Camera Canon powered by Magic Lantern Nightly and Deep Sky Stacker and tripod lol ..
First Version . Less DSS more PS --> www.flickr.com/photos/90671057@N02/8616577811/in/photostr...
Total Exposure: 8 min 22s .201 light
Tracking: Hand System Tracking LOL
Bias Frames: 25
Dark Frames: 25
Light Frames: 201
Object name: Stock 2
Object type: Open cluster
Magnitude: 4.4
Size: 60.0'
Constellation: Cassiopeia
few details about single Frame :
File Name: _MG_3609.CR2
Camera Model: Canon EOS REBEL T3i
FirmwareVersion: 1.0.2
Shooting Date/Time: 4/1/2013 8:18:42 PM
Author: AlfaShedar
Copyright Notice: MzytengaM
Owner's Name:
Shooting Mode: Manual Exposure
Tv(Shutter Speed): 2.5
Av(Aperture Value): 4.0
Metering Mode: Evaluative Metering
ISO Speed: 640
Auto ISO Speed: OFF
Lens: EF75-300mm f/4-5.6
Focal Length: 75.0mm
Image Size: 5184x3456
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Image Quality: RAW
Flash: Off
FE lock: OFF
White Balance Mode: Color Temperature(5300K)
AF Mode: Manual focusing
AF area select mode: Manual selection
Picture Style: User Defined 3(Auto)
Sharpness 3
Contrast 0
Saturation 0
Color tone 0
Color Space: Adobe RGB
Long exposure noise reduction: 2n
High ISO speed noise reduction: 2:Strong
Highlight tone priority: 1:Enable
Auto Lighting Optimizer: Disable
Peripheral illumination correction: Enable
Dust Delete Data: No
File Size: 19639KB
Drive Mode: Self-Timer Operation
Live View Shooting: ON
Camera Body No.: lol
Comment: no comment
Picture saved with settings applied.
Localisation : CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date : 2017-01-07
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 : 41 minutes [41 subexposures of 60 sec each (selected from 41)] @ ISO 1600
Calibration : Dark & Bias : 20/11 @ ISO 1600 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 400
Temps/Weather : Bonne transparence. Faible vent nul. T= -2°C. Humidité faible.Lune/moon 62 %.
Constellation : Aurigae / Cocher
Software Used : Astro Photograph Tool (v3.13), DeepSkyStacker 3.3.6, Pixinsight LE, PhotoShop 7, xnview, Noiseware Community Edition
Comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy)
Exposure: 57 x 30 sec at ISO 1600
Camera: Olympus E-PL1
Telescope: Sky-Watcher 750mm f/5, EQ3-2 mount
Software: DeepSkyStacker, Krita, Darktable
Telescope: 10" Newtonian
Exposure: 61"
Total: 22 Minutes.
Mount: Atlas EQ-G Mount
Processed and stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Location: Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan. and Kurihara, Miyagi, Japan.
Date: 5min. x 4shot since 2011/01/03 23:33 and 5min. x 16shot since 2011/01/08 0:24
Camera: EOS kiss X4, ISO800
Lens: EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS (250mm F5.3 or F6.3 or F8)
Mount: GP2 Guide Pack
Software: DeepSkyStacker, Adobe Photoshop Elements 9
I wanted to see how much detail I could capture in Orion without a tracking mount. I was surprised to find 5 seperate nebulas in this image. This is a stack of about 105 pictures each shot at 4 seconds, f4, ISO 8000 with a Takumar 135mm f2.5 lens. It was then cropped about 50%. One of these days I'll get an astrophotography mount so I can capture even more. To give you an idea of what else is in that constellation, check out this picture with nearly the same field of view: www.flickr.com/photos/28192200@N02/5776855550/
100x 15 sec exposures using ZWO ASI1600MC camera and AltairAstro ED triplet refractor. Stacked in DeepSkystacker and processed in Adobe Lightroom. No calibration frames or autoguiding.
The first picture taken through my AltairAstro 3" refractor on 30 Nov 2017. 70% moon so well pleased !
M42 is a diffuse nebula in the Milky Way approx. 1350 light years away and is the archetypical stellar nursery with stars emerging from clouds of hydrogen gas and dust. The bright area consists of a cluster of young stars called the Trapezium (overexposed in the photo in order to bring out the surrounding nebulosity).
Quelques tentatives réussies de capturer la comète C/2012 S1 ISON. Malheureusement, la queue ne se détache que très mal du fond du ciel. Les raisons peuvent être le début de l'aube et la présence de la Lune presque pleine, bien qu'à l'opposé. Je tenterai de combiner les 17 fichiers d'assez bonne qualité avec Deepskystacker ou IRIS.
Some attemps of capturing Comet C/2012 S1 ISON. Unfortunately, the comet's tail doesn't detach that clearly from the background sky. Reasons can be the approaching dawn and the almost full Moon, although it was far in the sky. I will try to stack the 17 good files I made in Deepskystacker or IRIS.
EXIF - 220X30" (1h50'), Gain 120, f5
Calibration: Flats - 60, Darks - 60
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro (cooled to -10°C)
Filter: Astronomik L-2 - UV IR Blockfilter 1,25"
Main optics: Sky-Watcher Explorer 200P
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Guiding: Artesky UltraGuide 70 + ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Controller: ZWO ASIair Pro
Electronic focuser: ZWO EAF
Software: DeepSkyStacker + Pixinsight + Photoshop
Location: Bilice, Sibenik, Croatia
I knew I had to do this - the last one wasn't too good. And I've now replaced this photo three times!
Think I've got about as much as I'm going to get out of this one. I'm pleased with it now, and will leave it alone! :)
From the original image:
200p, EQ5
Nikon D70 Full Spectrum
48 x 60 second subs iso 1600, unguided, plus darks, flats and bias.
Stacked in DSS, processed in CS5.
Reprocessed again!
Galaxy M109 in Ursa Major.
C6S-GT at F6.3
14x1min exposures.
Canon 30D at ISO 3200
Autoguided with PHD guiding and a DSI Pro.
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight.
Pretty happy with this one from my light polluted backyard. I will definitely revisit this one over the next few months and get some more data.
My first ever try on this..
I was going to shoot more, but I noticed a fire behind near building, and I got very busy...
I know this is not good picture, but first ones are always like that. ;) I´m hoping to get back to this tonight.
Nights are getting darker and darker.
39*30sec
iso 1600
5 Darks
5 Flats
Celestron Nexstar 130 SLT
Canon Eos 10D
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop
The center of the Milky Way. Includes the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius. Numerous star clusters and nebula are shown in addition to the dark dust clouds between Earth and the galaxy core. The beating heart of the scorpion, Antares, a red super giant, shines a bright reddish gold in this image. Also includes several Messier objects, including the larger Ptolemy Cluster (M7), the Lagoon Nebula (M8), and the Sagittarius Star Cloud (M24). Though faint, the red hue of the bright nebula IC 4628 is visible in the tail of Scorpius. Hover your mouse over the image to show identified objects.
Stack of 3x25 secs RAW, ISO 1600 taken with a Canon 50D. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker; processed in Photoshop CS3 using curves and levels adjustments; banding reduction using Astronomy Tools actions from within Photoshop; and final processing using Noise Ninja from within Photoshop.
Taken under dark (Bortle 2) and clear skies at St. George Island, Florida.
90 frames x 2 minutes exposures @ISO6400, using Celestron Nexstar 8SE on CG-5, Starizona field flattener, astromodded EOS550, CLS clip filter, Moonlite focusser, guided with Celestron guidescope with SPC900C guide camera and PHD guiding. BackYard EOS camera control, DeepSkyStacker stacking. Final image processing for levels and gamma in Photoshop. Dark skies, and everything worked for a change - best result so far for a galaxy.
EXIF - L-extreme: 100X120" (3h20min) + Astronomik L-2: 45X120" (1h30min)
Calibration: Flats - 30+30, Darks - 60
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro (cooled to 0°C)
Filters: Optolong L-extreme & Astronomik L-2 Luminance UV/IR Block 1.25"
Main optics: Sky-Watcher Explorer 200P
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Guiding: Artesky UltraGuide 70 + ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Controller: ZWO ASIair Pro
Electronic focuser: ZWO EAF
Software: DeepSkyStacker + Pixinsight + Photoshop
Location: Medviđa, Croatia
Location :CastresmallObservatory (Castres, Tarn - France)
Acquisition Date :2016-06-28
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 :75.0 minutes [15 subexposures of 300 sec each (selected from 15)] @ ISO 800
Calibration :Dark & bias : 6/9 @ ISO 800 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 9 @ ISO 800
Weather :Bonne transparence. Faible vent de E à SE. T=25°C humidité nulle.
Software Used :Astro Photograph Tool (v3.11), DeepSkyStacker, PhotoShop CS
Handful of exposure after New Year. Exposure 90s, 150s & 180s steps each 10 using Canon T4i. Camera Orion 80ED on G11
Processed in Layers after stacking in DeepskyStacker.
[31032017] Komet 41P-Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák
Fuji X-E1
Fujinon 35mm F1.4@F1.4
10x10s @ISO400/1600/6400
RawTherapee 4.2
Deepskystacker
Fitsworks
Detail of M20 from this shot. I think it came out nicer than M8--being a little higher in the sky helped a bit.
The deformation caused by the lens gives a nice sens of speed on the way to our galactic core.
Pentax K-5 II
smc PENTAX-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL WR
72x21 seconds stacked using DeepSkyStacker
Post processing in Photoshop
Celestron Nexstar 130 SLT
Canon eos 10D
39*20 sec.
Dark picture.
Iso 800.
DeepSkyStacker.
Photoshop.
Cropped.
It was cloudy for long time.
This night was clear, but moon was shining. I wanted to test lower iso value, than before, and I think it is much better.
Composite of moon and background stars taken 07APR20 (moon) and 10APR20 (stars). Nikon D780 DSLR camera.
Stellarvue SV105SVFT telescope. Celestron CGX mount. 150X1/200sec subs for moon and 20X10 sec subs for stars. Processed with DeepSkyStacker (moon), Nebulosity 4 (stars), Pixinsight (batch resample) and Photoshop CS2.
Imaging telescope or lens:Explore Scientific 102mm ED CF APO triplet ED 102 CF
Imaging camera:Altair Hypercam 183C
Mount:iOptron iEQ30 Pro iOptron
Guiding telescope or lens:Starwave 50mm guidscope Starwave
Guiding camera:Altair Astro GP Cam 130 mono Altair
Focal reducer:Altair Lightwave 0.8 Reducer/Flattener Altair Lightwave
Software:PHD2 2.6.4, APT - Astro Photography Tool APT 2.43, DeepSkyStacker (DSS) Deepskystacker 3.3.2, Photoshop CC 2017 Photoshop
Filter:Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar
Resolution: 5412x3630
Dates: Sept. 22, 2018
Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 38x300" (gain: 11.00) 14C bin 1x1
Integration: 3.2 hours
Darks: ~30
Flats: ~40
Avg. Moon age: 12.33 days
Avg. Moon phase: 93.45%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00
Mean FWHM: 5.75
Temperature: 11.00
Astrometry.net job: 2268124
RA center: 350.185 degrees
DEC center: 61.203 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.784 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 98.148 degrees
Field radius: 0.709 degrees
Data source: Backyard
25min total (5x300s@800iso)
UK 31/12/13
Takahashi FSQ106ED f/5
Celestron Advanced Vx Mount Guided
Canon D1100 (modified) CLS filter
BackyardEOS, PHD
Deepskystacker, Photoshop CS6
Comet Iwamoto was at its closest to Earth this morning, so I headed out to dark skies southwest of Brisbane early this morning to photograph it. This is a FAST comet, so even though I only had 20 minutes worth of exposures I had to align them to the comet rather then the background stars,
20 x 60 second exposures at 200mm, f/4 and 3200 iso, stached in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Lightroom.
There is a faint tail visible extending towards 11 o'clock.
This is M33 after a long time of processing. You can see more about this galaxy on Wikipedia.
The original lights came from the evenings of September 18 and the night of September 23-24, 2009
Taken with my Pentax K10D camera with the Stellarvue SV4 scope, operating at Prime Focus. A field flattenter was also used as well as a Baader Moon and Skyglow light pollution filter. Tracking was done with the Orion Starshoot Autoguider using a Stellarvue SV 70 ED. The DLSR in-camera noise reduction was turned off. Most shots were done with using the Pentax remote control software to do bulb interval shots. I allowed about 2 minutes of time between shots to give the camera a chance to cool off and for the batteries to recover.
Most of the darks were recorded well after the lights in an effort to help understand and control the noise that is generated by this camera. I learned that I had to be vigilant regarding IR light getting into the camera when making this library of darks. Also, it appears that the telescope body itself seems to act as a heatsink for this camera, making collecting darks requiring connecting the camera as if it was in the field.
Stacking was with DSS using the below settings:
Stacking mode: Custom Rectangle
Drizzle x2 enabled
Total exposure: 4hrs 42 mins 21s
Stacking step 1 ->2 frames (ISO: 800) - total exposure: 16 mn 4 s
-> Offset: 36 frames (ISO: 800) exposure: 1/4000 s
-> Dark: 40 frames (ISO : 800) exposure: 8 mn 3 s
-> Dark Flat: 36 frames (ISO : 800) exposure: 1/4000 s
-> Flat: 24 frames (ISO: 800) exposure: 1/4000 s
Stacking step 2 ->2 frames (ISO: 800) - total exposure: 20 mn 6 s
-> Offset: 36 frames (ISO: 800) exposure: 1/4000 s
-> Dark: 90 frames (ISO : 800) exposure: 10 mn 5 s
-> Dark Flat: 36 frames (ISO : 800) exposure: 1/4000 s
-> Flat: 24 frames (ISO: 800) exposure: 1/4000 s
Stacking step 3 ->4 frames (ISO: 400) - total exposure: 1 hr 0 mn 20 s
-> Offset: 24 frames (ISO: 400) exposure: 1/4000 s
-> Dark: 18 frames (ISO : 400) exposure: 15 mn 7 s
-> Dark Flat: 48 frames (ISO : 400) exposure: 1/1600 s
-> Flat: 19 frames (ISO: 400) exposure: 1/1600 s
Stacking step 4 ->1 frames (ISO: 400) - total exposure: 20 mn 7 s
-> Offset: 24 frames (ISO: 400) exposure: 1/4000 s
-> Dark: 3 frames (ISO : 400) exposure: 20 mn 9 s
-> Dark Flat: 48 frames (ISO : 400) exposure: 1/1600 s
-> Flat: 19 frames (ISO: 400) exposure: 1/1600 s
Stacking step 5 ->11 frames (ISO: 400) - total exposure: 2 hr 45 mn 44 s
-> Offset: 24 frames (ISO: 400) exposure: 1/4000 s
-> Dark: 11 frames (ISO : 400) exposure: 15 mn 4 s
-> Flat: 19 frames (ISO: 400) exposure: 1/1600 s
Processing was with PixInsight LE 1.0 using the instructions provided by Rogelio Andreo regarding gradient subtraction:
blog.deepskycolors.com/archivo/2010/05/
Further processing was done via the tutorial at this page from David Nash's website:
www.davesastro.co.uk/techniques/pixinsight_tutorial/index...
I'm extremely happy with how this image turned out. I know that there are a few gradients still showing up. Still, this is much better than I've been able to get from what I've always known was good data. The missing bits were getting a library of decent darks and flats and bias frames to give DSS some meat to chew on.
Finally being able to follow what is happening in PixInsight really helps as well.
Now I'll try to fill in the holes in my other data from last year and I'll see what I can get!
30 x 10s ISO800
20 darkframes
DeepSkyStacker
Canon XS @ Celestron C6N
Segundo intento de fotografiar orion, di mas tiempo de exp aunque perdiera un poco de definicion (mi montura no tiene un seguimiento correcto)
Promete el asunto :)
DeepSkyStacker: 62 frames X 1 sec, f/2.8, 3200 ISO.
First time trying stacking, I had very little idea what I was doing, but it came out ok. You can see some of the texture of the galaxy, and no star trails (I don't have a tracking mount). I learned a lot for next time I try it, mostly just MORE FRAMES.
Time: 2019. 1. 26. 20:00 ~
Location: Boeun, South Korea (Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4)
Optics: Takahashi FS60CB with Flattener(370 mm ƒ/6.2)
Exposure: Sony A7s (Modified) ISO 8000 x 30s x 280 subs (with Dark, Flat, Bias frames)
Filter: Optolong L-Pro filter
Mount: Toast Pro (TP2)
Software: DeepSkyStacker, Astronomy Tools, GradientXTerminator, Adobe Photoshop
Shotdate: 4-12-2013
Camera: Nikon D3x
Optics: 105mm AF Micro Nikkor @ f4
ISO speed: 1600
Subs: 10 x 300 seconds
Calibration: 108 bias, 32 dark and 32 flat frames.
Stacking in DeepSkyStacker and post-processing in PixInsight
The Orion Nebula (M42) is close to Earth in universe scale at only 1,344 light years away. The nebula is visible to the naked eye, even in light polluted areas as a "fuzzy" star in the middle of Orion's sword,, to the south of Orions belt. This nebula is busy forming new planets and stars.
My first astro photography photograph.
Capture Details:
Exposure duration: 38x 120s (1h16m)
ISO: 800
Canon EOS 1100D
AdvancedVX Mount
Sky-Watcher Pro 80ED APO Refractor (600mm Focal Length, 3.1" or 80mm Aperture)
Guider: Orion Magnificent Mini Autoguider
Post processing: DeepSkyStacker + Corel Photo Paint X6
All Star Polar Alignment assistance: @AstroTanja
Auto-guider configuration assistance: @TheAstroShake
Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: Sky-Watcher Equinox 80ED
Camere di acquisizione: QHY8L
Montature: Skywatcher AZ EQ6 GT
Telescopi o obiettivi di guida: Celestron 102mm f/6.6 Achromat
Camere di guida: Magzero MZ-5m
Software: DeepSkyStacker, photoshop, Absoft Neat Image
Accessori: TecnoSky Flattener 1x
Risoluzione: 2988x1962
Date: 13 aprile 2015, 17 aprile 2015
Pose:
60x300" -15C bin 1x1
21x600" -15C bin 1x1
Integrazione: 8.5 ore
Dark: ~57
Flat: ~31
Bias: ~40
Giorno lunare medio: 25.26 giorni
Fase lunare media: 22.65%
Scala del Cielo Scuro Bortle: 3.00
Temperatura: 8.50
Centro AR: 184,572 gradi
Centro DEC: 47,211 gradi
Orientazione: -86,153 gradi
Raggio del campo: 1,603 gradi
Luoghi: Drassa, Corinth, Grecia
This is the Whirlpool Galaxy one of two major galaxies visible in Ursa Major. It is about twice the size of our galaxy and 27 million light-years away. It is an archetypal spiral galaxy seen head-on. This is the first time I've managed to record this galaxy with any success. I'll post a wider-field view of this later.