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

Canon 5dmkii f/2 C-11 /CGEM-DX / Hyperstar. 25 lights, no Darks, no Bias, no Flats, stacked in Deepskystacker.

 

The Pleiades or Seven Sisters (Messier 45 or M45), is an open star cluster containing middle-aged hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky. The celestial entity has several meanings in different cultures and traditions.

The cluster is dominated by hot blue and extremely luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years. Dust that forms a faint reflection nebulosity around the brightest stars was thought at first to be left over from the formation of the cluster (hence the alternative name Maia Nebula after the star Maia), but is now known to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium, through which the stars are currently passing. Computer simulations have shown that the Pleiades was probably formed from a compact configuration that resembled the Orion Nebula. Astronomers estimate that the cluster will survive for about another 250 million years, after which it will disperse due to gravitational interactions with its galactic neighborhood.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades

 

Canon EOS 450D at prime focus Skywatcher 150 Newtonian. 20 lights (30s ISO1600), 10 darks, 20 flats, 20 bias. Processed in DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight, Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop CS5

5 exposures 6 minutes each 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.

Nikon D300

AstroTrack

8 x 300 sec. 60mm Micro f3.5 ISO 800

DeepSkyStacker

3 x Drizzle of the total image

©️Eric Walker 10 Oct 2018

 

Top of Farm Track, Conon Bridge

 

2100h BST

 

Canon 760D f6.3 ISO6400 fl10mm 30s

 

15 frames stacked with DeepSkyStacker

 

Processed with Photoshop CC

8 min of exposure (16x30s) using a 5.5" Orion OMC-140 Maksutov Cassegrain and Nikon D90 at prime focus. ISO3200. HEQ-5 mount. Frames processed in DeepSkyStacker. Taken on the 4th October 2018. Image resized and cropped.

Camera: Nikon D50

Exposure: 1hr 9m (23 frames) ISO 800 RGB

Filter: Orion Skyglow Imaging Filter

Focus Method: Prime focus

Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm

Mount: LXD75

Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian

Guided: Yes - PHD Guiding

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

©️Eric Walker 10 Oct 2018

 

Top of Farm Track, Conon Bridge

 

2100h BST

 

Canon 760D f6.3 ISO6400 fl10mm 30s

 

15 frames stacked with DeepSkyStacker

 

Processed with Photoshop CC

Sony nex-5

Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 300mm f/4 MC

DeepSkyStacker

10 x 2sec. 800iso.

Riccardo Rossi / ISAA

22:35 CEST - 15 Lug 2020 - Denzano (MO)

 

NIKON D90 + Nikkor 70-300mm F/4.5-5.6G ED VRII

Focale 300mm - Apertura f/5.6 - Posa 30” a 400 ISO

Treppiede motorizzato EQ3

Stacking di 10 scatti con DeepSkyStacker

Under a dark rural sky on New Year's Eve I tried another shot of the four well known Orion nebulae. The tracking was slightly off (as illustrated by the elongated stars) so I only managed to use three of the six frames I took. Still that's 12 minutes of light gathering on the CCD sensor. There was no filter used during the exposure since I don't have one to fit the 72mm thread on the 180mm lens.

Located 1500 light-years from Earth, this nebula is glowing due to energetic radiation from the nearby star Menkib, the brightest visible in this photo.

 

January 2018

Bristol, UK (Bortle 9)

 

Telescope: Skywatcher Evostar 80ED DS-Pro, .85x r/f

Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-C

Mount: Skywatcher HEQ5 PRO

Guide: 50mm finderscope, QHY5

Software: SGPro; DeepSkyStacker; RegiStar; Photoshop; Lightroom

 

H-a (red): 40 x 4 mins, total 160 mins

SII (purple): 40 x 4 mins, total 160 mins

 

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Total integration time: 5 hours 20 minutes

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By Lee Pullen

North American Nebula in Cygnus (NGC7000, C20)

 

Image capture: Canon 760D with Sigma 70-300mm APO DG lens - f4.0, fl 70mm, ISO6400, 10s (11.11.18 21:30h)

 

Perfect focus achieved using a Starsharp2 Bhatinov grating.

  

I exposed it for 3s too long and got a bit of star trailing (500/70mm = 7.1s). Will remember next time or fix the camera to a guided mount!

 

Processing: 10 images stacked using DeepSkyStacker with appropriate flats, darks, and bias frames. Stacked image further processed using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.

M81 , M82 and areas ,,

201 Light Frames

106 Bias Frames

101 Dark Frames

Manual Hands trackin lol

Total Exposure 13 mn and 20 sec with Magic Lantern Nightly

 

Stakced with Deep Sky Stacker 3.3.4

reedit in Digital Photo Professional 3.13.51.1

  

Single Frame details :

File name_MG_2447.CR2

File Size23.0MB

Camera ModelCanon EOS 600D

FirmwareFirmware Version 1.0.2

Shooting Date/Time4/18/2014 11:47:56 PM

AuthorMzytengaM

Copyright NoticeMzytengaM

Owner's Name

Shooting ModeManual Exposure

Tv(Shutter Speed)4

Av(Aperture Value)5.0

Metering ModeEvaluative Metering

ISO Speed3200

Auto ISO SpeedOFF

LensEF75-300mm f/4-5.6

Focal Length220.0mm

Image Size5184x3456

Aspect ratio3:2

Image QualityRAW

FlashOff

FE lockOFF

White Balance ModeColor Temperature(5200K)

AF ModeManual focusing

Picture StyleUser Defined 1(Auto)

Sharpness3

Contrast0

Saturation0

Color tone0

Color SpaceAdobe RGB

Long exposure noise reduction0:Off

High ISO speed noise reduction2:Strong

Highlight tone priority0:Disable

Auto Lighting OptimizerStandard

Peripheral illumination correctionEnable

Dust Delete DataNo

Drive ModeSelf-Timer Operation

Live View ShootingON

Camera Body No.sure

Commentno comments

 

Picture saved with settings applied.

Milky Way - Seen from Carickalinga Beach. Early experiments with Astro Photography. 10 frames plus 2 dark frames stacked in DeepSkyStacker.

- 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

- 30 x 300 second Lights ISO 1600. Dithered each frame

- 30 flats

- No dark or bias

- Captured with BackyardEOS

- Guided with PHD2

- Stacked with DeepSkyStacker

- Processed in Pixinsight

- Imaged on October 1st from the Grandview Campground in the White Mountains near Bishop, California.

Mars in Gemini, over North Sydney

 

52 stacked 30second images using DeepSkyStacker.

Used Lumicon Hydrogen Alpha filter to cut out some of the light pollution.

Camera mounted on EQ1 mount.

 

View On Black

Canon 450D stock - 50 lights 30 sec iso 1600 stacked in Deepskystacker f/7 reducer on C-11 / CGEM-DX

M82 in Ursa Major. About 11 million light years away.

 

Taken at the prime focus of a Celestron CGEM EdgeHD 925.

 

Stack of 8 exposures of 1 minute each.

Stack of 21 exposures at 5 seconds, f1/8, ISO 1600. Processing in DeepSkyStacker and Iris. My platform was a cheap rickety aluminum tripod.

 

Check it out--right next to the leftmost star in Orion's belt (easier seen large). I got the flame nebula!

Tracker: Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer

Camera: Sony A57

Lens: Sony 85mm f/2.8 @f/2.8

Exposure: 144 minutes-cm2 (10x 120s ISO400)

Raw converter: RawTherapee

Stacker: Deep Sky Stacker (DSS)

Processing: rnc-color-stretch

Processing: GIMP

Captured on September 8, 2017 from a Bortle 5 zone

 

Equipment:

* TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian

* Orion Sirius EQ-G

* Canon Rebel T3 (Full spectrum modified)

* High Point Scientific 2" Coma Corrector

* StarGuy 2" CLS-CCD filter

* Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope

* ZWO ASI-120MC for guiding

 

Acquisition:

* Lights- 12x300" at ISO 800

* Darks- 10

* Bias- 100

Software and Processing:

Captured using AstroPhotography Tool and guiding done with PHD2. Stacked using DeepSkyStacker. Processed in Photoshop using levels, curves, Solar Screech plugins, and HLVG.

  

Imaging telescopes: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED APO Triplet

 

Imaging cameras: ZWO 1600MM-COOL

 

Mounts: Sky Watcher NEQ6 pro

 

Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI 120 MC-s

 

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

 

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

 

Accessory: ZWO EFW 36 mm Filter Wheel

 

Dates:Jan. 25, 2020 , March 6, 2020

 

Frames:

Chroma 5nm HA: 6x900" (gain: 200.00) -15C bin 1x1

Chroma OIII 3nm: 6x900" (gain: 200.00) -15C bin 1x1

Chroma Sii 3nm: 24x900" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1

 

Integration: 9.0 hours

Picture saved with settings applied.

Picture saved with settings embedded.

50 photos, stacked with DeepSkyStacker. ISO 3200, 20 s, 11 mm.

Shotdate 21-02-2011

Camera: Nikon D3x

Optics: Celestron 9.25" Edge HD

Guiding: LVI AutoGuider 2

Mount: Sky-Watcher HEQ6 Pro

 

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11 frames of 300 seconds (ISO: 800) - total exposure: 55 mn 4 s

 

RGB Channels Background Calibration: Yes

Per Channel Background Calibration: No

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

Offset: 120 frames exposure: 1/8000 s

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

Dark: 8 frames exposure: 5 mn

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

Flat: 40 frames exposure: 1/2 s

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

Staking: DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2

 

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Postprocessing: PixInsight 1.6

 

DynamicBackgroundExtraction

HistogramTransformation

HDRWaveletTransform

ACDNR

Saved the image with preforming five times a HistogramTransformation and saving each transformation in 32-bit TIF for making HDR composite

HDRComposite function

ChannelExtraction L (For a lightness mask)

HistogramTransformation on L

Applied the mask L

CurvesTransformation

HistogramTransformation

The Horsehead and Flame nebulas surrounding the bright star Alnitak at the left of constellation Orion's belt. 70 minutes of total exposure to an Orion Starshoot Pro Color (V1) camera through a Pentax 105EDHF refractor. The system is mounted on an Orion Atlas mount, guided piggyback style with a Vixen 80mm A80SS refractor using PHD software. The image was processed with Michael Herman's personal software and then stacked in DeepSkyStacker and further improved in Photoshop CS3. Images taken Jan 5 2010 from backyard in Sunnyvale, California.

A composite of about 20 frames. There's more detail, but the clouds are smeared out, obscuring much of it.

 

The Andromeda galaxy is visible above left of centre (it looks kinda like a smeared orange star).

A little part of Milky Way Galaxy.

4x20s - 1 Dark - 1 Flat Dark

ISO1600

Fuji FinePix S1 Pro

Nikkor 28-80mm F3.3-5.6 at 28mm F3.3

Deep Sky Stacker

Andromeda shot with my Nikon D50 and a plain 50mm lens. A total exposure time of 6 min 30 sec stacked with DeepSkyStacker. Each picture was 5secons exposure. ISO 1600 and f/2.8.

The moon was almost full so it has a negative influence on the picture. This was my first time i shot andromeda, but i will try again when there is no moon. Also there was alot of litepolution from the city, as this picture is shot from the middle of Oostende (Belgium).

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: 5400x3630

 

Dates: Sept. 11, 2018

 

Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 17x300" (gain: 11.00) 17C bin 1x1

 

Integration: 1.4 hours

 

Darks: ~30

 

Flats: ~40

 

Avg. Moon age: 1.96 days

 

Avg. Moon phase: 4.28%

 

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00

 

Mean FWHM: 6.50

 

Temperature: 14.00

 

Astrometry.net job: 2246126

 

Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

 

Data source: Backyard

Imaging telescope or lens: Canon 70-200L F4.0

Imaging camera: Canon EOS 350Da

Mount: AstroTrac TT320X-AG

Software: photoshop, DeepSkyStacker

 

Dates: Dec. 1, 2013

Frames: 14x180"

Integration: 0.7 hours

M27 The Dumbbell Nebula taken by Dan Brandon on 7-12-13 with an Orion 10"Newtonian Astrograph and a Canon T3i DSLR camera. This image is 5 x 120 sec. exposures Stacked using DeepSkyStacker

Nikon D5300

Nikkor 55-300mm DX ED VR @ 300mm

Orion AstroView EQ w/motor drive

 

~65 x 50 sec. exposures at f/8, ISO 640

Bortle 8 light pollution

 

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker

Processed with LightRoom and Fitswork

06/03/2013

Telescope: AstroTech 72ED

Field Flattener

Baader Sky Glow Filter

Canon T3i

18 x 3 min, ISO 400

13 darks

15 flats & dark flats

Capture Software: Backyard EOS

Processing Software: DeepSkyStacker, StarTools

Guiding: QHY5L-II/Orion Mini/PHD

 

OTA: Canon 300mm f/4, stopped to 62mm for f/4.8

Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM

Filters: Baader CMOS-Optimized Ultra-Narrowband

Exposure: Ha 12x10min, RGB 15x2min

Mount: CEM70G

Captured with SGP

Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker

Photographed from Round Rock TX (light pollution zone: red)

~150 images stacked using DeepSkyStacker.

Each photo 300mm, f2.8, 1.62, ISO3200, exposure +5. Using Nikon D7100 with Sigma 120-300/2.8.

Canon 6D

Canon 300mm f/4.0 @ f/4.0

Vixen Polarie tracking head

120 x 45 sec @ISO3200 & ISO12800

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker

Processed in Lightroom

Vorige donderdag bij Sterrenwacht Halley, het was helder, en het is alweer meer als een maand geleden toen we de Takahashi opnieuw hadden gecollimeerd dus: FOTOGRAFEREN!

 

De maan was voor 3/4e deel belicht, nevels zijn eigenlijk niet te doen maar we zijn toch eigenwijs, en hebben ic405 de Flaming Star Nebula proberen te pakken. De seeing was wel ECHT slecht, meer als 2 arcsec. en de dec as stond te springen in PHD, maar het is toch goed gegaan.

 

Uiteindelijk 2 uurtjes aan data verzameld, heb er toch nog wat uit kunnen halen, het is niet veel, maar we hebben wel bereikt wat we wilden. (Namelijk kijken of de collimatie o.k. is)

 

Collimatie is echt goed nu, alleen moeten we wel nog finetunen met de afstanden tot aan de corrector, want nu we een filter ertussen hebben gezet kan de afstand weer net 1mm meer zijn etc. etc....

 

Maar we kunnen wel zeggen dat we zo goed als klaar zijn in de kleine koepel!

 

Info:

Object: ic405, Flaming Star Nebula

Telescoop: Takahashi E300, f3.8 Astrograph

Camera: 450D Full Spectrum

Mount: AstroTechniek CP180

Guiding: ASH OAG, w/ Orion SSAG

Opnametijden: 26x5min = 2hr10mn totaal.

Darks: 3x5min

Flats: 21x2,5sec.

Bias: 35x1/4000sec.

Filter: Hutech IDAS LPS-P2

ISO: 400

Gestacked in: DeepSkyStacker (DSS)

Bewerking: Photoshop CS6

Plaats: Sterrenwacht Halley

Datum: 12-12-2013

Camera: Nikon D50

Exposure: 10 x 180s ISO 1600 RGB

Filter: none

Focus Method: Prime focus

Lens Aperature/Focal Length: 80mm×500mm

Lens: Adorama ProOptic f6.3 500mm Mirror Lens

Guided: PHD Guiding

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop

Location: Flintstone, GA

The Prawn Nebula IC 4628

There is a total of 3hrs and 20min of 5 minute subs in this image. I'd started using iso400 but upped the ante to iso 800 later, but I tossed all of them in the pot to create the final image.

Darks and flats taken separately.

Scope - ed 80

Mount - heq5pro

Guiding using qhy5

Camera Canon 20d

Software used ..... DeepSkyStacker and CS3

Imaged from a dark sky site on the 3rd and 4th of June 2010.

The newly discovered SN in M82 taken on local 22 Jan - 23 Jan predawn.

Info within the pic itself.

Dark and bias subtracted and flatfielded. Processed in DeepSkyStacker, Fitswork and Photoshop. Original size yet cropped.

The air temperature was the coldest since last winter, ~3 Celsius. Transparency excellent at the beginning, yet worsened as the humidity climbed up. The strong moonlight also was further scattered by droplets in the air. In a word I'm very pleased I was able to get the result from a suburban place where NELM was only ~4.5.

No attempt to do photometry with the G channel, as I'll be aware of the unevenness of the galaxy, very possibly leading to a mistaken background subtraction under the poor resolution.

This is the constellation Cygnus, the Swan.

 

Taken on 10/1/2013 near Gran Quivira National Monument in New Mexico.

 

Canon EOS T1i (modified) with a Nikkor 28mm lens at f5.6, ISO 400. Mounted on a Losmandy G-11/Gemini with autoguiding. Eight 4-minute exposures. Processed with DeepSkyStacker and Paint.NET.

10 subs at 5 minutes each of NGC 281 captured using my Skywatcher Esprit 150 apo triplet and Atik 314L with Ha filter (7nm). Stacked in Deepskystacker and processed using Photoshop.

Image taken 20/10/16

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:Stellarium, StellaiumScope Stellarium, FITS Liberator 3.0, 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: 5419x3618

 

Dates: Sept. 27, 2018

 

Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 32x300" (gain: 11.00) 15C bin 1x1

 

Integration: 2.7 hours

 

Darks: ~30

 

Flats: ~40

 

Avg. Moon age: 17.08 days

 

Avg. Moon phase: 94.06%

 

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00

 

Mean FWHM: 6.00

 

Temperature: 10.00

 

Astrometry.net job: 2275369

 

RA center: 78.977 degrees

 

DEC center: 34.393 degrees

 

Pixel scale: 0.783 arcsec/pixel

 

Orientation: 179.118 degrees

 

Field radius: 0.709 degrees

 

Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

 

Data source: Backyard

It's too bad that when you want your equipment to run while you are sleeping it starts to fail on you. Out of over 200 images shot in this serie, I only had 2 that I could use, because of a failing connection which cause my mount and guiding to stop working.

 

Shot date: 25-02-2012

Shot time: 0:23 cet

Camera: Nikon D3x

Optics: NIKKOR 1000mm f11

Mount: SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro

Guiding: LVI SmartGuider 2

 

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Stacked in DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2

 

Stacking mode: Standard

Alignment method: Bicubic

Stacking 2 frames (ISO: 3200) - total exposure: 1 mn 0 s

RGB Channels Background Calibration: Yes

Per Channel Background Calibration: No

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

Offset: 29 frames exposure: 1/8000 s

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

Dark: 53 frames exposure: 30 s

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

Flat: 40 frames exposure: 1/40 s

Method: Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

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Postprocessing in PixInsight 1.7

 

DynamicBackgroundExtraction

HistogramTransformation

ColorCalibration

(Extracting L-mask and applied a HistogramTransformation and ATrousWaveletTransform to it)

HistogramTransformation (masked)

CurvesTransformation (masked)

ACDNR

Manually, off-axis guided for 10 x 5-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/4.

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.

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