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M13 - The Great Hercules Cluster. This 11.65 billion year old formation of stars is one of the most impressive globular clusters in the northern hemisphere. Containing over 300,000 stars packed into a 145 light year sphere, the center of this object is 500 times more concentrated than its outer perimeters.
Technical Details:
- Explore Scientific ED80
- Focal length: 480mm
- Celestron AVX mount
- Canon EOS M3 with CHDK
- 11 lights, 5 darks, ISO 800, 20 sec each
- altogether: 3:40 min exposure
- Processed with DeepSkyStacker and Affinity Photo
Telescopio: Maksutov Celestron 127 mm
Montatura: Celestron SLT.
Fotocamera: Canon EOS R100 (non modificata).
Pose: 51x15 secondi @3200 ISO.
Elaborazione: DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Pixinsight, Gimp.
M34 open star cluster
Taken on 28th of September
Messier 34 is in the constellation of Perseus, approximately 1,500 light years away. It's designated NGC1039 in the New General Catalogue. Best observed in the months of October, November and December. You will need at least a pair of 10x50 binoculars to see it, but it looks it's best through a telescope at low magnifications.
Best 70% of 300 exposures, each 30 seconds at ISO 800
50 darks, flats & bias.
Stacked using DeepSkyStacker & processed using StarTools.
Used an 8" Skywatcher Quattro on a HEQ5 mount, my camera as always old Canon 1100D.
Fujifilm X100 on iOptron Skytracker mount and travel tripod.
About 20 subs, 2 minutes, F/4 @ iso 400. A few darks and flats.
Stacked in deepskystacker, edit in photoshop.
Date 23 Sep.2014 Iwaki-City Fukushima Japan
ISO1600 480sec. * 20 (total exposure 160 min.)
Camera : Astronomically customized Canon EOS 6D
Telescope : Takahashi FS60CB with RD0.72
Tracking Mount : Takahashi P-2 with HD-4
Guiding Camera : QHY5L-Ⅱ Mono
Guiding Telescope : COSMICAR 50ｍｍ F1.8
Auto Guide Software : PHD Guiding and others
Softwear：DeepSkyStacker ,Photoshop CS6(CC)
Playing around with astrophotography. This is a stack of about 580 dark-subtracted exposures from a stationary mount, 0.3 seconds each, ISO 1600, Pentax DA* 300mm f/4 wide open. Trailing of stars is still apparent. I'm impressed by how much detail even a single exposure contains. It would be nice to get the O-GPS1 accessory to extend the individual exposure time to several seconds without star trails.
Canon 5D3 with CGEM 1100HD. ISO 1600 with stack of 13 shots at 10 minutes exposure over two nights. Seeing was good to excellent. Manually guided with a dark frame for each shot. Celestron Off-Axis Guider was used with Orion's 12.5mm illuminated reticle eye piece. Processed using Deepskystacker.
The new camera is GREAT! Its low light capability is about twice that of the 550D. Here we see just a little grain in the nebulous areas. Here the gamma curve was boosted a lot to bring up the dim spirals causing the grain to become noticable - will need to increase my exposure time and/or ISO. The good seeing allowed lots of detail as well. Looks like the supernova (SN 2011fe) has dimmed a lot since last August (blue star at end of white line).
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Sky-Watcher Equinox 80ED
Imaging cameras: QHY8L
Mounts: Skywatcher AZ EQ6 GT
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Celestron C6XLT
Guiding cameras: Magzero MZ-5m
Software: DeepSkyStacker, photoshop, Absoft Neat Image
Resolution: 1650x1106
Dates: Sept. 1, 2013
Frames: 37x600" -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 6.2 hours
Darks: ~24
Flats: ~36
Bias: ~52
Avg. Moon age: 25.36 days
Avg. Moon phase: 18.39%
RA center: 43.590 degrees
DEC center: 60.355 degrees
Orientation: -89.839 degrees
Field radius: 1.636 degrees
[08122015]
Plejaden(M45)
Fuji X-E1
Walimex Pro IF 85mm F1.4
77x
F2.8/ISO200|6400|12800|25600/2.5s|5s/85mm
DeepSkyStacker
Fitsworks
FaststoneViewer
The Pinwheel Galaxy is a face on spiral located approximately 21 million light-years from Earth. The galaxy was first discovered in 1781. It is approximately 70% larger than the Milky Way and is estimated to have a mass of over 103 billion solar masses.
Exposure: 92 x 30s exposures @ ISO3200 equiv. Darks & bias/offset, no flats.
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Lens: EF 70-200mm 1:4 L USM @ f/4.0. 200mm (x1.6).
Filters: Astronomik CLS
Mount: Piggy-backed on 8" Meade LX10.
Guiding: None
RAW images stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PSPx5.
NGC1973/5/7 - The Running Man Nebula (left) and M42 - The Orion Nebula (center) taken on 02/06/2012. Unguided 60 second exposures taken using a Hyperstar-equipped Celestron CGEM-925, Canon EOS Rebel T1i, and IDAS LPS-P2 filter. Stacked and processed in DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop.
Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) looking spectacular on 8/01/2015. Taken from the Gold Coast Hinterland Australia using Olympus OMD EM1 and Zuiko Digital 150mm f2.0 lens on IOptron Skytracker mount. 11x30 second exposures ISO1600 Stacking on Stars in DeepSkyStacker and Processing in Neatimage and Photoshop.
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Stacks : 19 frames
Exposure Time : 19x302sec (1h 35min total) @ ISO 400 (+15 flats)
Stack program : DeepSkyStacker
Stack mode : Auto Adaptive Weighted Average
Post processing : CS6 for : curves adjustments, contrast, Lightroom 4 for local adjustments (contrast, exposure), global WB adjustments
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Camera : Sony SLT-A77
Tube : Skywatcher Explorer 150P
Type : Newton
Focal length : 750 mm
Aperture : F/5
---Guide scope---
Camera : Starlight Xpress Lodestar
Tube : Skywatcher StarTravel-102
Type : Refractor
Focal length : 500 mm
Aperture : F/4.9
---Mount---
Mount : Skywatcher EQ-6
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Objects
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M65 - Intermediate spiral galaxy located 35 million ly away from us.
M66 - Intermediate spiral galaxy located 36 million ly away from us.
NGC 3628 - Unbarred spiral galaxy located 35 million ly away from us.
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Source : dso-browser.com/
This image of 5 galaxies in Leo has been made by stacking some shots that I took earlier today using an unmodified Canon EOS 60D mounted onto a Skywatcher 200D reflector.
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
102 light frames at iso 800 for 120 seconds (3 hrs and 24 minutes integration) Darks and bias Mid histogram flats Nikon D5300 (Ha modified). Equipment/Software:
Explore Scientific ED 102 APO
Celestron Advanced VX Mount
Orion Starshoot Autoguider on Orion 50 mm guidescope
DeepskyStacker - Startools - Photoshop CC, Astrophotography Tool
A quick single frame of 15-second exposure of the Double Cluster in Perseus. Satellite trail was extra.
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, 68°F
Exposure: 50x2min ISO 800
Guided with PHD, SSAG, Orion 50mm guide scope
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)
Close up on C/2011 L4 comet and Andromeda galaxy. Too bad it was over a town and light pollution got in the way.
23 x 8s stacked in DeepSkyStacker. Shot with compact camera, so forgive rather poor quality.
17*10 second shots. I used the K-1 astrotracer for this one, but it seems I need to use shorter time (or better callibration) next time.
This was done with the tamron 500mm/8 mirror lens 55BB.
stacked in deepskystacker, processed in rawtherapee
Taken from Rockleigh, just over an hour east of Adelaide.
Top left: Rigel
Middle: Orion Nebula
Bottom right: Horsehead Nebula
30 shots stacked in DeepSkyStacker. Highlights and curves tweaked in Lightroom.
Sony A7-R - FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS - 5.0 sec at f/2.8, ISO 2000
Reprocessed with drizzle and PSF sharpening/deconvolution
Acquisition details:
OTA: Celestron 10" f/4.7 newtonian reflector, C10N
Filter: Astronomik CLS
Corrector: MPCC
Mount: Celestron CGEM DX
Camera: Canon 450d mod BCF, 28°F
Exposure: 37x2min ISO 800
Guided with PHD, SSAG, Orion 50mm guide scope
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)
10mins total 120s@1600iso, Chiswick 18/01/2015
Altair 115ED/APO, AZ-EQ6, Canon 1100D (modified) CLS filter
BackyardEOS, Deepskystacker, Photoshop CS2
William Optics Zenithstar 73
Optolong L-Pro broadband filter
ZwoASI2600MC Pro
PHD2 guiding
SharpCap
DeepSkyStacker
Adobe Photoshop CC 2021
36-180 second subs
M1 Crab Nebula - Reprocessed 15-Jan-2014 with improved debayering, flat frame stacking and sharpening, Captured 16/01/12 and 17 and 18/12/11 - 8" reflector on HEQ5 mount - QHY8L CCD camera + Coma Corrector + LPR Filter, prime focal, guided with SPC880 webcam FinderGuider and PHD, 23 frames (300sec) + 11 frames (600sec) Total Exp:3h55m + 29 darks + 29+49+29 EL panel flats, captured with Nebulosity 2, stacked and drizzled with DeepSkyStacker, post-processed with Capture NX2/Nebulosity 3
The data for this images was collected on three evenings (02/03, 17/03 and 19/03/2017). North is up. My aim was to show the hydrogen gas being ejected from the galaxy, hence I used the CLS light pollution filter which suppresses the continuum of the stars a bit.
Technical data: 8" f/8 GSO RC and PrimaLuceLab 700Da cooled at -15 degree degree Celsius; ISO 3200.
The 23x5 min and 21x10 min exposures were stacked with DeepSkyStacker in auto adaptive weight averaging mode and further processed in Fitswork4, PS and Noiseware Community.
Àger (Lleida).
June, 20th and Agost, 22th 2009.
Pictures; 10x600s, 3x900s, 3x30s, ISO 400.
Telescope: Long Pern 66/320 with William Optics reducer-corrector 0'8.
Camera: Modified Canon 350D.
Tracking: Lunatico EZ60 and Meade DSI II (black-white).
Processing; DSS and PixInsight.
Àger, fotografies del 20 de juny i 22 d'agost de 2009.
10 imatges de 10 minuts, 3 de 15 minuts i 3 de 30 segons, totes a ISO 400. registrades i cal·librades amb DeepSkyStacker. Tractament amb PiCore.
Telescopi LongPern 66/320, amb corrector-reductor William Optics 0'8x, càmera Canon 350 modificada. Autoguia amb Meade DSI II-pro i Lunatico EZ60.
M7 Milky Way 9-02-2014, Central Ohio. a rudimentary image of the Milky Way Galaxy with Sagittarius, M7 Cluster and the Butterfly Cluster. The fog was already starting to rise with high clouds in the sky. From Hilliard you can not see the Milky Way with the naked eye. I also captured moon light in the upper right. Shot with my 50D and a Tamron 50mm prime 1.5 lens.This is full view with no crop.
First attempt at deep space astrophotography, taken in the garden with a standard tripod. 94 x 2 seconds at f/4, ISO 3200 with canon 40d and 70-200mm l lens, at 200mm. Stacked using Deep Sky Stacker with 94 dark frames, then processed (through trial and error) in CS4.
Cencenighe, 13/02/2010
Transparency: 4/5
Seeing 3/5
Temp: -4°
Sigma 300 Apo f4@f4.5
Canon 350D Baader modified
No LPR Filters
17x480 Sec RAW 800 ISO
21 Dark - 21 Bias - 21 Flat
Guided with PHD Guiding
Magzero Mz5-m+Orion ShortTube 80 f5
Nebulosity, Deepskystacker; Pixinsight, Photoshop CS2
Notes: Crop to remove green gradient
EXIF - 150x120" (5h)
Calibration: Flats - 60, Darks - 60
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro (cooled to -10°C)
Filters: Astronomik L-2 Luminance UV/IR Block 1.25"
Main optics: William Optics RedCat 51
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Guiding: William Optics Uniguide + ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Controller: ZWO ASIair Pro
Software: DeepSkyStacker + Pixinsight + Photoshop
Location: Sibenik, Croatia
Shot at Volkssterrenwacht Bussloo with the Nacht van de nacht (Night of the night).
Shotdate: 26-10-2013
Camera: Nikon D3x
Optics: Celestron 9,25" Edge HD
Mount: SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro
Guiding: 500mm F90 APO with LVI SmartGuider 2
ISO: 1600
Exposure: 8 x 300 seconds
Emberger Alm (Austria), 09/10/2010
Transparency: 5/5 (SQM-L 21.45, peak 21.60 at 3am)
Seeing 5/5
Temp: -4°
Takahashi FS60-C F6.2
Canon 350D Baader ACF mod
No LP Filters
18×600sec 800ISO
4 Dark - 11 Bias - 9 Flat
Guided with PHD Guiding
Starlight Lodestar+TS OAG9
Nebulosity, Deepskystacker; Pixinsight, Photoshop CS2
Notes: wonderful
22/10/10 Astronomy.FM AAPOD: astronomy.fm/aapod/2010-10-22_M45-and-surrounding-Dust.html
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: 5406x3624
Dates: Sept. 17, 2018
Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 12x300" (gain: 11.00) 25C bin 1x1
Integration: 1.0 hours
Darks: ~30
Flats: ~40
Avg. Moon age: 7.86 days
Avg. Moon phase: 55.03%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00
Mean FWHM: 5.75
Temperature: 20.00
Astrometry.net job: 2258981
RA center: 276.873 degrees
DEC center: 6.583 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.783 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 278.026 degrees
Field radius: 0.708 degrees
Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Data source: Backyard
Celestron EdgeHD 8" SCT
Advanced VX Mount (unguided)
Canon EOS T3i (600D) (unmodified)
24 x 60sec subs, ISO 1600, f/10
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Finished in Lightroom
Taken August 2013 from New Haven, MI
This is an image of Messier object 1, the Crab Nebula. Taken as a part of a test done in the back yard to check the way the PEC was working on the mount. I was also testing to see how well double stacking the Baader UV/IR filter with the Moon and Skyglow filter would work to give tighter stars.
I was pleased with the results of the double stack when using it on the SV4 refractor. On the Mak, it gave better results than expected. I was able to get better looking diffraction spikes for focus so it helped ensure good stars.
The stack is the result of 10 subs of 10 minutes each at 400 ISO using the full spectrum modified Pentax K10D camera on the 127mm Orion Maksutov Cassegrain operating at F13.1.
Only after taking these pictures and then looking at them a day or so later did I realize that there was something moving in the frames. It required a bit of work, but I believe that the object is identified in this list from the Minor Planet Checker:
Object (33078) 1997 WN35 RA 05 34 23.2 DEC +22 20 36 Magnitude 19.9 Motion in Arcsecs/Hr: RA 76+ DEC 0-
The finding of this object in the data meant that I had to get something out of the stack, which meant that I would work it over via trial and error.
Data was calibrated in Maxim using 77 darks, 15 flats, 256 bias. I had some flawed darks so I spent a long time chasing the errors. Stacking was done in DSS. Processing in PixInsight for DBE, background calibration, masked stretch, A Trous wavelets for de noise and sharpening, and a few more curve/histogram stretches before annotation. TIF files exported and then passed through LR3 for publish.
Here's the platesolve results:
Referentiation Matrix (Gnomonic projection = Matrix * Coords[x,y]):
+0.000009000243 +0.000208674202 -0.283327255590
-0.000208561976 +0.000008951188 +0.388714444083
+0.000000000000 +0.000000000000 +1.000000000000
Resolution ........ 0.752 arcsec/pix
Rotation .......... -92.479 deg
Focal ............. 1665.55 mm
Pixel size ........ 6.07 um
Field of view ..... 48' 4.3" x 31' 56.9"
Image center ...... RA: 05 34 32.519 Dec: +21 59 10.01
Image bounds:
top-left ....... RA: 05 33 18.987 Dec: +22 22 28.32
top-right ...... RA: 05 33 28.313 Dec: +21 34 27.73
bottom-left .... RA: 05 35 37.099 Dec: +22 23 50.72
bottom-right ... RA: 05 35 45.650 Dec: +21 35 49.67
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, 70°F
Exposure: 40x2min ISO 800
Guided with PHD, SSAG, Orion 50mm guide scope
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)
This season is now officially opened!
Celestron Nexstar 130SLT
Canon EOS 10D
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop
16* 30 sec, iso 200
5 Dark
5 Flat
Biases
Nights are still very bright, but I cold visually see those two stars under Vega, where this nebula is between.
Actually this was 3th time I tried this, but 2 sessions went badly due startrails.
Its exciting..
Date: 7/7/13. UK.
Exposure: 9min (3x180s), iso 400/800, f/6.3, Guided.
Celestron 8SE OTA, Celestron Advanced Vx mount, Canon 1100d DSLR (modified) with UV/IR filter, Orion 10x50 finder, LifeCam Cinema (modified) guide camera.
Backyard EOS, PHD, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop.
19-08-2017 North America Nebula from Triglia beach. My first attempt to a real astrophotography target after 12 years pause. Camera Canon 350D zoom lens 55-250@250 5x5min + 10 Dark frames and stacked at DeepSkyStacker processed at Photoshop
Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) looking spectacular on 30/12/2014. Taken Taken from the Sunshine Coast Hinterland Australia using Olympus OMD EM1 and Zuiko Digital 150mm f2.0 lens on IOptron Skytracker mount. 11x30 second exposures ISO1600 Stacking on Stars in DeepSkyStacker and Processing in Photoshop.
1/1/2013, Diepenbeek, Belgium
Light: 38x120 sec, Dark: 35x120 sec, Flat: 28x0.5 sec, ISO800.
Total time = 76 min
My first image with my new IDAS-LP2 filter
Equipment used:
-Skywatcher 200mm F4 Carbon
-NEQ6 Pro mount
-Canon 500D
-Televue Paracorr 2
-TS65-M48a adapter connecting Paracorr 2
-Hutech IDAS-LP2 filter
-DeepSkyStacker
-Synguider
-Astrozap Dew-shield
Bubble nebula "SHO palette" narrowband: 12X1200"Sii, 21X1200"Ha, 12X1200"Oiii SVR90T OTA, Atik 428ex, AP900, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop levels, curves, blending, guided with Orion SSAG and Orion ShortTube guidescope.
Montelabro (GR), 08/08/2010
Transparency: 4/5 (SQM-L 21.00)
Seeing 4/5
Temp: 13°
Takahashi FS60-C F6.2
Canon 350D Baader ACF mod
No LP Filters
16×480sec 800ISO
11 Dark - 21 Bias - 21 Flat
Guided with PHD Guiding
Magzero Mz5-m+TS OAG9
Nebulosity, Deepskystacker; Photoshop CS2
Notes: it's a 2000x1200 (about) crop for strong vignetting and aberrations of OAG, some denoise
Bode's galaxy (Messier 81, M81) and Cigar galaxy (Messier 82, M82).
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6 Pro
Scope: William Optics Fluorite Doublet 80/555
Camera: Nikon Z6
Exposures of 30 seconds, unguided.
Seeing conditions: 70-80%
Result of my first stacking using DeepSkyStacker.
Sum of the following 30'' exposures:
- 5 x ISO4000 *
- 5 x ISO3200 *
- 5 x ISO2500 *
- 7 x ISO2000 *
- 10 x ISO1600
- 15 x ISO1000
* shots obtained using Long exposure Noise Reduction