20 images stacked and registered with Deep Sky Tracker

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED APO Triplet

Imaging cameras: ZWO 1600MM-COOL

Mounts: Sky Watcher NEQ6 pro

Guiding telescopes or lenses: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED APO Triplet

Guiding cameras: ASI290MM

Software: Photoshop CC Photoshop · Astrophotography Tool · DeepSkyStacker 4.1.1 64bit Deepskystacker

Filters: Chroma Sii 3nm · Chroma 5nm HA · Chroma OIII 3nm

Accessory: ZWO EFW 36 mm Filter Wheel

Frames:

Chroma 5nm HA: 32x600" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1

Chroma OIII 3nm: 32x600" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1

Chroma Sii 3nm: 34x900" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1

Integration: 19.2 hours

Darks: ~30

Flats: ~30

Flat darks: ~30

Bias: ~30

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 6.00

Astrometry.net job: 3986609

RA center: 18h 4' 15"

DEC center: -24° 19' 10"

Pixel scale: 1.415 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 179.919 degrees

Field radius: 1.042 degrees

Janco Moolman

As seen and photo'd 9-9-2017 from the Dark Skies of Ward, Arkansas

So this is the first astro photo I've taken where I can clearly see a galaxy. I think I can see Andromeda on the right hand side just above the sloping roof line of the house. Wish it was this clear at home!

Also in the shot: The Pleiades (M45), Cassiopeia and a bunch of others. The white glow at bottom centre is from Jupiter.

Info:

20111223 @ 22:34

SW sky (Much Wenlock)

30x20s, f3.5, ISO2000

16mm

Stacked with Deep Sky Stacker

It was a bit cloudy (that's what what all the smudging along the bottom quarter is)

My first try at imaging the Horsehead Nebula. Shots taken during the early hours of yesterday morning using an unmodified Canon EOS 60D mounted on a Skywatcher 200 reflector in a city suburb. No filter or guiding; 1 star alignment used.

DSS used to stack 57 frames (ISO 6400; exp 30s). Further processing done using Photoshop CS6.

This is the first day shot of Astrography shoot !! Brought in some demon like Canon / CentralDS EOS 50D Astro with Celestron CG-5 Advanced GT, Sky-Watcher EQ6 Pro and HEQ5 Sky-Watcher and telescope Tecnosky 80/600

3guys one mission

M42

Galaxy shots are in RAW so post u after editin n processing.

Stuffs used here

Camera: Canon 5D Mark III with

Sky-Watcher EQ6 Pro

Lens: 14mm f/2.8 L II USM

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

Date: January 02, 2013

Places: Erba

Eye-Fi adhoc

MacBook

Celestron 8" Newtonian and an AVX Mount.

ZWO1600MC - Cooled Colour Camera.

Image: (Subframes of 1 minute each were stacked)

Stacking with DeepSkyStacker

Processing in Photoshop and LightRoom.

Eagle Nebula M16 - 95 Minutes of Light

Hendrik le Roux

Flickr Page:

flic.kr/s/aHsmP2ST1d

10 x 2-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/2.8.

Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker software.

Modified EOS 600D with Leica 50mm f/2 lens, piggybacked on a Celestron C8 telescope. Unguided.

Total 1hr 10min

H-Alpha - 7x600sec

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker & processed in PS2.

Camera: Atik 314L+ Mono

Filters: Baader H-Alpha 7nm.

Scope: Sky-Watcher Equinox 80ED .

Mount: AZ EQ6-GT goto, PhD guided with Orion 50mm guidescope & SSAG.

Brief details:

QHY9 CCD @ -35C

TMB 130SS + 0.8X reducer

260 minutes of Ha 7nm

Processed in DeepSkyStacker and PSCS2

314L with Ha filter attached to a Tamron 70-200 zoom lens set at 135mm and piggybacked to the main scope.

5 subs at 10 minutes each stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in StarTools and Photoshop.

Image taken 2/01/17

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: 5419x3627

Dates: Sept. 26, 2018

Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 18x300" (gain: 11.00) 15C bin 1x1

Integration: 1.5 hours

Darks: ~30

Flats: ~40

Avg. Moon age: 16.10 days

Avg. Moon phase: 98.01%

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00

Mean FWHM: 6.50

Temperature: 11.00

Astrometry.net job: 2272025

RA center: 303.008 degrees

DEC center: 26.465 degrees

Pixel scale: 0.783 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 278.445 degrees

Field radius: 0.709 degrees

Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

Data source: Backyard

鏡筒: 8cm F6 (笠井 BLANCA-80EDT) + 0.6x レデューサー

カメラ: OM-D E-M5

赤道儀: スカイメモS

288mm, F3.6, 20s, ISO1000 を DeepSkyStacker で8枚コンポジット。LightRoom CC でトリミング、トーンカーブ調整等。

100 mm f/9 refractor, prime focus Nikon Z6, Processed with DeepSkyStacker, 17 light frames, set comet and stars fixed

The Lagoon Nebula (M8) and Trifid Nebula (M20), imaged on 14th May 2018 in the Tankwa Karoo.

Software and equipment:

Imaging Telescope: William Optics GTF-81

Imaging Camera: Canon 7D Mark II

Mount: iOptron ZEQ25GT

Guiding: Moravian Instruments G0-300 with off axis guider

Software: Sequence Generator Pro, DeepSkyStacker and Adobe Photoshop.

The camera was set to ISO 1600 and fifteen 10 minute exposures were used in the final image for a total integration time of 2.5 hours.

Zander Horn

Took my new Sony A7CII out to my favorite dark sky location to see how it handles the night sky. It did wonderfully! No more star eater bug, Sony finally fixed it!

This is M51, I haven't attempted this target for 11 years. This is 3x6 min ISO800 frames + 1x4min ISO6400 stacked with DeepSkyStacker and then processed in Lightroom. I will try this one again with more frames sometime.

One of the most colourful regions of the sky

On this night I captured Comet Hartley with my camera piggy-back on my telescope, through a zoom lens (Canon T1i, 300mm, F5.6, ISO3200). It's a wide view, 4 full moons could span the height of this image.

40x 30 second exposures were shot between 11:17pm and 11:50pm PST, 20 minutes total exposure time over 33 minutes.

Stacked to hold the comet still with Deep Sky Stacker 3.3.3 b25, 'Kappa-Sigma' formula which in this case represses the star trails. This version brings out more of the glow of the comet, and a hint of a tail going off to the top right.

On this night, Comet Hartley was in the constellation Perseus, shining at about magnitude 5.7. It has a distinct green glow but no distinct tail.

Canon 5D3 with Celestron CGEM 1100HD and 0.7x focal length reducer. Manually guided using Celestron's off-axis guider and Orion's 12.5mm illuminated reticle eyepiece.

Stacking (using Deepskystacker) of 11 shots taken at ISO 800 with 10 minute exposure (plus dark frame for each). I took 16 shots of the sky in the morning for the flats to correct background brightness variations.

Seeing was very good for Wisconsin, lots of detail in this one.

- www.kevin-palmer.com - I decided to go back and re-process this image from the middle of summer. This part of the sky is just filled with interesting objects to observe. On the bottom is the large "Lagoon Nebula". The multi-colored "Trifid nebula" is above that, with the star cluster M21 above the trifid. The large star cluster at the top right is M23. This is a stack of about 65 pictures taken with a Takumar 135mm f2.5 lens. All shot at 4 seconds, f2.5, iso 8000.

First picture from my new photographic challenge.

Tech: Sky watcher Sky Adventurer Eq mount. Nikon D700 Sigma 150-600mm @600mm f/6.3.

Stack of 51 images (lights) 30s exposure ISO1600 and 24 darks. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, developed in StarTools demo. Some horisontal "tracks" in the image, not sure what have caused it. I was "plagued" with Aurora this evening, so maybe the tracks are remains of that. I am very sure the colors are very much of.

Pretty happy with my first attempt, LOADS of things to learn, not least in the fine art of post processing.

This is a 6-minute stacked image from three 2-minute exposures. I'm looking forward to my next dark sky outing. Hopefully Monday will be clear for the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. The AstroTrac is too cool. :)

Oh, and the processing is quick-and-dirty. I should really have spent a bit more time getting the colour tweaked accurately.

The Rosette nebula imaged at our local Stargazing Live event in Ipswich on the evening of monday Jan 16th.

Whilst the 300 (yes, 300!) people were all queing up to look through some of the scopes set up I was showing them images taken on my modest imaging rig via my laptop. In the mean time the rig was snapping away at the Rosette nebula.

This is a total of 23 X 6 minute exposures with matching darks and flats applied. The full details are as follows:

Photographer: Ben Jarvis

Location: Christchurch park, Ipswich, Suffolk

Date and time: 6pm - 9pm Mon Jan 16th 2012

Camera: Canon Eos 500D (modded)

Filters: LP clip filter only

Scope: Williams Optics Megrez 72 Apo + FF2 flattener/reducer operating at 345mm fl and f4.8

Mount: SkyWatcher HEQ5 Pro

Guiding: SX Lodestar camera + ST80 scope - PHD + EQMod

Stacking: DeepSkyStacker

Processing: Photoshop 7

I consider this pic somewhat of a homage to the BBC's Stargazing Live show as it was that show that got me into this hobby exactly one year ago :-)

Here is my image taken tonight (February 16th, 2008) of the decaying spy satellite USA 193 as it crossed through the heart of the Orion Constellation. About 10 minutes later, the ISS did the same thing, from a 90º angle. The faint line is the trail of USA 193, at Magnitude 1.2, while the brighter line is the Magnitude -2.4 ISS.

This is a 4x6-inch crop from a much larger image taken with a Losmandy G11 Gemini mounted Canon D40, using an 28-135mm lens set at 28mm, ISO 640, using 30-second subs, live-view focusing and mirror lockup. The combined exposure time was just over 30 minutes. DeepSkyStacker combined all the images. Then the combined image was imported into Photoshop CS, where the individual images showing the trails (2 for each satellite) were overlaid as separate layers, using the "Lighten" mode in Photoshop, so the trails would show.

No dark frames, flat fields, bias frames or image clean-up was done on the final image. I plan to use darks and bias frames at least, but it will take all night long for the computer to combine all the individual files. The final image was rotated 90º so it looks like what was seen visually.

I had also captured the trail of the Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission - TRMM satellite just before 7:00 p.m. PDT, right at the end of the image capturing session. It was Magnitude 2.0, but shows very faintly in the original images. This was the faintest of the 3 trails captured going through the Orion Constellation tonight. I will try to add the two images that made up the whole trail. The TRMM cut through Orion just above his feet, essentially knocking him off his feet. First he got hit in the chest by the other 2 satellites, and now this! Looks like Orion had a hard night.

Comments, questions, and critiques welcome. This is pretty crude, but it was incredible to see visually - the ISS was extremely bright tonight!

Clear skies!

Acquisition details:

Camera: Canon 450d mod BCF, 81F

Lens: Canon 50mm f/1.8 at f/4

Filter: None

Mount: Celestron CG5 ASGT

Exposure: 13x3min ISO 1600

No guiding

Captured with BackyardEOS

Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker

Photographed from Granger Lake, TX (Green Zone)

Camera: Meade DSI Color II

Exposure: 29m (15 x 1m) RGB + (14 x 1m)L

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: None

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

Reprocessed version of the Rosette Nebula.

Capture date: November 3

Scope: Equinox 80mm Apo @ f5 (0.8X WO flattener)

Mount: HEQ5 unguided

Camera: Modified Canon 350, ISO800, IDAS LPS P2 filter

Exposure: 60 minutes, 30x120sec lights, 12 darks, 10 flats

Conditions: average seeing, good transparency

Processing: stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PS CS2

Cencenighe, 13/03/2010

Transparency: 4/5 (SQM-L 20.80)

Seeing 3/5

Temp: -3°

Meade SN6 (152mm f5)

Canon 350D Baader modified

No LPR Filters

25x300 Sec RAW 800 ISO

21 Dark - 21 Bias - 11 Flat

Guided with PHD Guiding (dithering)

Magzero Mz5-m+Orion ShortTube 80 f5

Nebulosity, Deepskystacker; Pixinsight, Iris (remove gradient), Photoshop CS2

IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk Nebula

Ha: 28/10/2012 + 11/10/2012, Diepenbeek, Belgium

OIII: 6/9/2013, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Lights: OIII: 41x120 sec. Ha: 65x120 sec, Darks: 68x120 sec.

Total time = 212 min

Equipment used:

-Skywatcher 200mm F4 Carbon

-NEQ6 mount

-Atik 314L+

-Televue Paracorr 2

-Baader Ha, OIII Filter

-DeepSkyStacker

-Astrozap Dew-shield

-Guiding: Synguider

-Gimp

A volte il silenzio è la migliore musica.

Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari in Oro, incenso e birra

La Via Lattea ripresa dalla riva del Salar di Uyuni. E' la stessa immagine di Sotto lo stesso cielo, stavolta elaborata con Iris e non con DeepSkyStacker.

Grazie a Sergione per il supporto e la compagnia.

Whirlpool galaxy captured using

my C9.25 at f10 with Atik 314L and light pollution filter. 7 subframes captured at 10 minutes each stacked and flat frame calibrated in Deepskystacker and processed in StarTools and Photoshop. Autoguiding used 60mm refractor,SX Lodestar and PHD guide software. Image taken 29/04/15

Messier 3 (M3; also NGC 5272) is a globular cluster of stars in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici.

It was discovered on May 3, 1764, and was the first Messier object to be discovered by Charles Messier himself. Messier originally mistook the object for a nebula without stars. This mistake was corrected after the stars were resolved by William Herschel around 1784

Equipment: EQ5Pro, GSO Newton astrograph 150/600, GSO 2" coma corrector, QHY 8L-C, SVbony UV/IR cut, guiding QHY5L-II-C, SVbony guidescope 240mm.

Software: NINA, DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Adobe photoshop

100x120 sec. Lights gain5, offset115 at -10°C, master bias, 60 flats, master darks.

16 and 17 March 2023

Belá nad Cirochou, northeastern Slovakia, bortle 4

NGC 3507 is the face-on spiral near the centre. NGC 3501 is the edge-on galaxy to the lower right.

In the upper left there is a collection of much fainter, more distant galaxies.

Aggregate exposure ~20 minutes.

Star Trails with Canon EOS M.

Multiple 30 sec images composited with DeepSkyStacker

Above Crowthorne, UK

TS-Optics Photoline 90mm f/6.67 (600mm) Refractor & Flattener

Celestron CGX Mount

Nikon D7500 DSLR

28x320s Light (2 hr. 29 min. 20 sec.)

11x Dark, 50x Flat, 50x Bias

Backyard Nikon, DeepSkyStacker, Nebulosity, Lightroom

Canon 6D

Canon 300mm f/4.0 + Canon 1.4x Teleconverter

Vixen Polarie tracking head

40sec exposures @ISO 3200, f/5.6

90x Light Frames

41x Dark Frames

29x Flat Frames

30x Offset Frames

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker

Processed in Photoshop and Lightroom

41 light - 800 iso - 300 sec.

15 dark - 800 iso - 300 sec.

31 offset - 800 iso - 1/8000 sec.

21 flat frame - 800 iso - 1/40 sec.

Reflex no modded on eq5 synscan with guide QHYL5ii-mono and telescope refractor TSED70Q 474mm 70mm F6.7.

Processed with DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2, Photoshop CS6

After sitting in the garage for most of the winter whilst the Borg was

getting used all the time, the Skywatcher 190 MakNewt got to point its

one near-perfect eye at a dark sky again on Sunday night.

After grabbing the RGB data for the Rosette image early in the evening

with the Borg, I quickly swapped over the imaging side of the ADM

side-by-side bar to the MakNewt, rebalanced, realigned, focused, and

fired up CCD Commander to center up M81/M82.

I have forgotten how nice the images are with the MakNewt :) The full

size version has some quite intricate detail, something that gets lost

when uploaded here.

Mount: EQ6 via EQMOD

OTA: Skywatcher 190 MakNewt

Guiding: SW ED80 + SX Lodestar + MaximDL

Imaging: Starlight Xpress M25C + MaximDL, 30×300s, Hutech IDAS LPR (101

bias, 101 flats)

Orchestrated: CCD Commander

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker Post Process: PSCS2 + PixInsight

Canon EOS 450D prime focus Skywatcher 150 Explorer Newtonian. EQ3-2 mount. 10 lights (30s ISO1600), 10 darks, 20 flats, 20 bias. DeepSkyStacker > PixInsight > Photoshop CS5

Lens: Sigma 135mm Art f/1.8

Camera: Canon 6D (unmodified)

Exposure: 14x2min, ISO 1600

Filter: None

Mount: CG5-ASGT

Captured with BackyardEOS

Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker

Photographed from Davis Mountains, TX

The Pleiadies star cluster.

Canon 40D with 500mm Rubinar mirror lens piggybacked on a Celestron C6S-GT telescope.

20x4min at ISO 1600

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, processing in PixinsightLE and Photoshop CS3

Tracking wasn't great and there's some bad internal lens reflections, but still not bad. I caught the nebulosity around the brighter stars at least.

Was a BEAUTIFUL night tonight, so I decided to go out there and do some astro-photography! Please view LARGE!!

Stack of 10 light frames, 2" exposures at ISO12800, f/5.6 with 5D Mark II + 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS lens @ 400mm

Subtracted 26 dark frames, 20 bias frames.

I'm trying this one more time with a different stacking method to try and reduce the noise a bit more!

C/2013 X1 PanSTARRS is moving across Milky Way.

Comet stacking with DeepSkyStacker

Canon EOS 450D prime focus Skywatcher 150 Explorer Newtonian. EQ3-2 mount. 19 lights (30s ISO1600), 10 darks, 20 flats, 20 bias. DeepSkyStacker > PixInsight > Photoshop CS5

First image is obviously the original, stacked using DeepSkyStacker.

The star trails image was created using startrails.exe

Nikon d5100

18mm

Stack of 40 20sec exposures

ISO 640

f5

Celestron EdgeHD 8" SCT

Advanced VX Mount (unguided)

Canon EOS T3i (600D)

13 x 30sec subs, ISO 1600, f/10

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker

Finished in Lightroom

Taken July 2013 from Stargate Observatory, MI

Taken on September 25, 2011 near Butler, Missouri using an SBIG8300C camera mounted on a CGE1100 Telescope using Hyperstar (F/2). This is the sum of 8 ten minute images, stacked using DeepSkyStacker. The image was then processed with Photoshop CS2.

Guiding used PhD Guiding with an Orion Starshoot autoguider.

First try with Celestron Oxygen Filter, 2 nights before Full Moon.

Only 12x300s exposure ISO 1600 on Orion 80ED with 4 dark, Bias & 3 Flats to begin with.

Stacked using DeepSkyStacker 64bit.

Minor processing on Photoshop CC

Cencenighe, 12/06/2010

Transparency: 4/5 (SQM-L 21.00)

Seeing 4/5

Temp: 16°

Takahashi FS60-C with flattener f6,2

Canon 350D Baader ACF mod

No LPR Filters

16x480 Sec

7 Dark - 21 Bias - 15 Flat

Guided with PHD Guiding

Magzero Mz5-m+Orion ShortTube 80 f5

Nebulosity, Deepskystacker; Pixinsight LE; Photoshop CS2

Notes:n/a