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Shotdate: 1th september 2011

Location: Teuge, NL

Camera: Nikon D3x

Optics: 80-400mm @ 80mm f7.1

Mount: SkyWatcher NEQ6Pro

Guiding: LVI Guider 2

 

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Stacking in DeepskyStacker 3.3.2

 

DeepSkyStacker settings:

Stacking mode: Custom Rectangle

Alignment method: Bicubic

Drizzle x2 enabled

Stacking16 frames ISO 1600 total exposure: 1 hr 20 mn

 

RGB Channels Background Calibration: Yes

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

 

Offset: 108 frames

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

 

Dark: 8 frames

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

 

Flat: 32 frames exposure: 1/3 s

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

 

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Postprocessing in PixInsight 1.6

 

HistogramTransformation: 6 times same histogram

Writing file: 001.tif to 006.tif Writing TIFF: 32-bit floating point, 3 channel(s), 4838x3402 pixels, chunky: 100%

HDRComposition: 001.tif to 006.tif

HistogramTransformation: Processing view: hdr

ChannelExtraction: Processing view: hdr

HistogramTransformation: Processing view: hdr_L

CurvesTransformation: Processing view: hdr, star mask from inverted mask hdr_L

This image is for a DeepSkyStacker tutorial on my blog, Flintstone Stargazing: flintstonestargazing.com/2009/06/26/my-quick-deepskystack...

Acquisition details:

OTA: Celestron 8" newtonian reflector, C8N

Filter: Orion Skyglow imaging filter

Corrector: MPCC

Mount: Celestron CGEM DX

Camera: Canon 450d mod BCF, 68F

Exposure: 43x2min ISO 400

Guided with PHD, SSAG, 9x50

Captured with BackyardEOS

Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker

Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)

Produced using 2 layers of stacked frames to preserve the brighter area in the centre.

Layer 1: 2 x 10-minute & 5 x 5-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f10.

Layer 2 (centre): 7 x 2-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f10.

Off-axis, manually guided. Frames registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; layering & curves adjusted in Paint Shop Pro.

Unmodded Canon EOS 40D & Celestron C8 telescope.

The data for this image was gathered during four nights, 23-24/08; 25-26/08; 16-17/09 and 14-15/10/2017. Imaged through an 8" GSO RC at f/8 with PrimaLuceLab 700Da camera cooled at -5 degree Celsius and -10 degree Celsius, respectively. With 8.5 hours this is my longest exposure series on an object. The image consists of 28x3 min. + 26x5 min. exposures without CLS filter and 58x5 min. exposures with CLS filter. The sets with and without CLS filter were stacked separately using different white balance settings in DeepSkyStacker. The stacking mode was set to auto adaptive weighted averaging. The two stacking results were then combined and further enhanced in PS. Background calibration was carried out with Fitswork. In the end a slight noise filter with Noiseware Community.

Telescope: 80 mm f/6 TS APO + field flattener; Camera: PrimaLuceLab 700Da cooled to -5 degree Celsius; 22 images of 2 min exposure at ISO 3200; simply tracked on EQ5.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker in sigma clipping mode and further processed in PS. My friend Leonard Ellul Mercer was so kind and gave it a final touch on the colour balance.

Monte Amiata 24/05/09

Transparency 4/5

Seeing 4/5

Meade SN6 (Schmidt Newton 15cm/6")

Canon 350D Baader ACF II

20x480 sec RAW 800ISO

15 Dark - 21 Bias- 21 Flat

Guided with PHD

Philips Vesta Pro+Sigma 400mm f5.6

Picinsight;Deepskystacker; Photoshop

 

notes: 2nd elaboration with different method and color balance.

see the old processing: www.flickr.com/photos/zio81/3570839021/

The faint nebulosity in the picture is actually our own Milky Way. You can't see the stripe of the Milky way in the image because it's actually wider than this image.

 

I mainly took this because I wanted to get a feel for how large the Dumbbell Nebula actually is. I've seen it through a telescope, but that's hard to translate to how big something is when you look up at the sky. This image was taken with a plain old 50mm camera lens. The nebula is small enough that you really have to look at the original size to see it. It's quite visible as a blueish dumbbell just above and to the left of center and it's not much bigger than the stars, only a few pixels across... That makes sense since the Dumbbell Nebula is a planetary nebula. When a medium sized star like our own dies, it blows off the outer shell of gas first which slowly expands, making a small, short-lived nebula. Our own sun is fated to do this in a few billion years.

 

With the help of planetarium software, I picked out several of the other faint fuzzy objects in this neighborhood. Most of them appear as faint fuzzy light patches not much bigger than a star on the original sized image, with the exception of the coathanger.

 

30 minutes of total exposure time in 17 subexposures, F/4, ISO 1600. Three darks were taken as well. All of it was combined in DeepSkyStacker. Adjusted a bit and added constellation lines in photoshop.

AstroTech AT8RC + CCDT67 + Atik383L(-15C) on SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6GT

Astrodon Tru-Balance E-Series Gen2 (with EFW2)

L5x600sec,R1x600sec,G1x600sec,B1x600sec (Total:80min)

Guiding: OAG9 + LodestarX2

StellaImage7, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop CS6

Locations: Ooashi Kogen, Mimasaka, Okayama, Japan

Sep. 2014

This is the Soul Nebula(IC1848). Blending was done by putting the Halpha data into the R-channel, Oii into the G-channel, Siii into the B-channel, and then applying a Luminance layer.

This is not a well-processed photo by any means, especially the overexposed centre of M42. However, I wanted to see how much nebulosity I could capture in a light polluted city sky. I will keep practicing on this photo.

11 shots stacked plus darks & offsets. Nikon D700 NIkkor 135mm AIS @ f/2,8 11x13s ISO 3200, Skytracker, DeepSkyStacker.

The Cocoon galaxy.

Actually two galaxies, those being, NGC4490 & NGC4485

They have spent millions of years interacting with each other, but are now moving apart.

 

My equipment for the image was a Skywatcher 150p reflector on a EQ3-2 mount fitted with dual axis motor drives. So it was tracking, but not guiding.

Canon 1100D, stock version. An intervalometer for the camera control.

Best 40% of 260 light frames, each of 30 seconds at an ISO rating of 1600.

40 frames each of Darks, flats, dark flats & bias.

Stacking software was DeepSkyStacker

Processing software was StarTools.

 

9 usable lights (60s), 10 darks, 20 flats, 20 bias. Canon EOS 450D DSLR prime focus, ISO1600. Baader Neodymium filter and coma corrector. Sky-Watcher 150P Explorer on EQ3-2 mount. DeepSkyStacker > PixInsight > PhotoShop.

Whirlpool Galaxy (M51)

 

Nikon D3100 on a SkyWatcher EQ5, F5.6, 250 mm

Total exposure: 4 x 3 min

ISO: 2 x 800 & 2 x 1600

 

Images stacked in DeepSkyStacker, then resulting image was enhanced and cropped in GIMP.

Lens: Nikon 180mm ED AI-s f/2.8, shot at f/2.8

Camera: Canon 6D (unmodified)

Exposure: 17x4min ISO 100

Filter: None

Mount: Celestron CGEM DX

Captured with BackyardEOS

Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker

Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)

better processing, don't have to deal with all the low signal in G and B channels

Top Left is straight out of camera.

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>> Deep Sky Stacker >>

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Top Right is after hot-spot removal

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>> Photoshop >>

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Bottom Left is after some colour correction

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>> Noiseware >>

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Bottom Right is the final product

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. 11, 2018

 

Frames: Badaar Moon and SkyGlow Badaar: 12x300" (gain: 11.00) 16C bin 1x1

 

Integration: 1.0 hours

 

Darks: ~30

 

Flats: ~40

 

Avg. Moon age: 1.96 days

 

Avg. Moon phase: 4.28%

 

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 7.00

 

Mean FWHM: 5.50

 

Temperature: 13.00

 

Astrometry.net job: 2246187

 

RA center: 48.680 degrees

 

DEC center: 47.246 degrees

 

Pixel scale: 0.783 arcsec/pixel

 

Orientation: 99.871 degrees

 

Field radius: 0.710 degrees

 

Locations: Home Observatory, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

 

Data source: Backyard

Ts-Optics InED70 Carbon

Celestron CG-5

 

Canon 500d

28 shots

65 seconds exposure time

800 ISO

 

15 dark frames

28 bias

10 flat field

10 dark flat field

 

Processed with DeepSkyStacker.

  

Decisamente un brutta foto, ne sono consapevole...scentrata, poca nebulosità, artefatti intorno alle stelle e chi più ne ha più ne metta!

Resto comunque dell'impressione che il mio maggior problema sia (oltre all'inquinamento luminoso) l'elaborazione al pc! Se qualcuno vuole gli posso passare il TIFF originale e elaborarlo, così, giusto per vedere quanto sengnale mi mangio...

 

Ho deciso di pubblicarla perchè ho fatto una fatica bestia per farla...ma, ahimè, non è un gran risultato!

Manually, off-axis guided for 24 x 5-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/6.3.

Modified EOS 600D & Celestron C8 telescope.

Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker software; noise reduced using Noel Carboni's tools in Photoshop Elements; curves & colour-balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro.

This is the same session as the previous one but tone mapped to show dark features more clearly.

 

Canon 6D

Canon 300mm f/4.0 + Canon 1.4 Teleconverter @ f/5.6

Vixen Polarie tracking head

51 x 30sec @ISO3200

22 x 30sec @ISO12800

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker

Processed in Lightroom

Immagini ripresa da Alberto Ossola il 19 dicembre da Muzzano, in barba all'inquinamento luminoso.

L'immagine è stata raccolta con una camera Canon 350D, modificata con filtro Baader, e un rifrattore apo 90 mm f:6,3.

60 riprese di 60 s non guidate, selezionando automaticamente le migliori con DeepSkyStacker.

(Foto di Alberto Ossola)

Something I made last month that I didn't post. Stacked with DeepSkyStacker.

Messier Object M13 (Globular Cluster)

Date: 08-21-2012

Telescope (Lens): Orion 8in f/3.9 Newtonian Astrograph

Addition Optics: None

Camera: Canon XSi

Exposure: 41 x 120 sec (ISO 800) + Darks x10,Flats x10, Bias x10, & Dark Flats x10

Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop

Mount: Atlas EQ-G

Tracking: EQMOD / Stellarium

Guidance: PHD Guiding - 9x50 Finderscope w/ Logitech 3000 Pro Webcam

 

Astromomy weather as forcasted by Canadian Meteorological Center:

Cloud Cover: Clear

Transparancy: Above Average

Seeing Category: III (Average)

Temp: 74°F

Humidity: 65°

 

Light Pollution: "Red" - Based on Light Pollution Map

 

NGC 2174 is an H II emission nebula located in the constellation Orion and is associated with the open star cluster NGC 2175. It is thought to be located about 6,400 light-years away from Earth. The nebula may have formed through hierarchical collapse.

 

Imaged on 1/24/20.

 

Nikon D5300 (Ha modified)

Explore Scientific ED102 APO Refractor

Celestron AVX

IDAS LPS D1 light pollution filter

 

54 light frames for 300 seconds at iso 800 stacked in DSS @90% (4 hrs integration).

darks, flats, and bias calibration frames.

 

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and Processed in Startools 1.6.382.

Picture information:

Meade 80mm ED APO

Canon 40D

Celestron CG5-GT

Autoguided

52x5min eksposures

Deepskystacker

Pixinsight

20 NEF images stacked in Deep Sky Tracker, finished in Picture Window Pro 8

FSQ106ED + QE0.73X + Atik383L(-15C)

Astrodon Tru-Balance E-Series Gen2 (with EFW2) L9x600sec

WilliamOptics Star71 + LPS-P2 SEOCooledX2(-2C) ISO800 9x600sec

on SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6GT

(Total:180min)

Guiding: OAG9 + LodestarX2

RAP2, DeepSkyStacker, StellaImage7, Photoshop CS6

Locations: Ooashi Kogen, Mimasaka, Okayama, Japan

Dec. 2014

Monte Amiata 24/05/09

Transparency 4/5

Seeing 4/5

Meade SN6 (Schmidt Newton 15cm/6")

Canon 350D Baader ACF II

20x480 sec RAW 800ISO

15 Dark - 21 Bias- 21 Flat

Guided with PHD

Philips Vesta Pro+Sigma 400mm f5.6

Picinsight;Deepskystacker; Photoshop

M42: the great nebula in Orion. SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro GoTo mount | Orion ShortTube 80mm refractor + Star Shoot Auto Guider both for guiding | Canon EF 70-200mm (for imaging) | Canon EOS 60D (unmodified) | 200 mm | f/3.5 | ISO 1600 | Backyard EOS | DeepSkyStacker | Photoshop Elements. A 7.7 degree wide field image was cropped to about 2+ degrees. 31 x 180s + 20 x 300s subs, 9 x 180s darks at 33c, 6 flats.

L4 PANSTARRS and M31 (Andromeda galaxy).

 

At this point the comet is moving away from M31 every day. Too bad I couldn't catch it earlier, when it was closer.

 

The faintest stars you can make out on this photo are magnitude 10.

 

50 x 8 sec at ISO 400.

Camera: Sony Alpha DSLR-A200

Lens: CZJ Pancolar electric 50/1.8, stopped down to f/2.8

Software: DeepSkyStacker + Krita for postprocessing

Here’s my last image from Thursday night’s Danville trip. The wind had picked up more and the clouds started coming through so I had to limit this one to only 30 minutes. I had to meridian flip in the middle and I was surprised to see that DeepSkyStacker was able to align them without issues. I was also surprised to easily pick up the horsehead with my stock Canon in exposures as short as 60 seconds.

 

M42 Area – 10x180s + 10x10s + 10x5s (10 and 5 seconds for the trapezium area) – 32.5 minutes

  

Observation date: Morning of 10 March 2023

Total exposure time: 2 hours 39 minutes (106 light frames taken at ISO 200, 90s exposure)

Approximate location: My backyard in Eden Glen, Edenvale, Gauteng

 

Equipment Used:

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Unmodified Canon EOS 1200D camera

Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS II lens set at 250mm and f/5.6

Sky-Watcher EQ5 mount with Orion Truetrack Dual-Axis Motor Drives and GPUSB Shoestring Astronomy EQMOD

Starfield F/3.6 60mm guide scope

Altair Astro GPCAM2 290M Mono guide camera

Acquisition via laptop with Astrophotography Tool (APT) and PHD2 autoguiding software

 

Post-processing Techniques Used:

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106 light frames were stacked in DeepSkyStacker with 137 dark frames, 120 bias frames, 95 flat frames and 95 dark flat frames. The resulting stacked TIF image was further processed in PixInsight. Workflow included dynamic crop, background extraction, photometric color calibration, noise reduction with TGV Denoise and Multiscale Median Transform, non-linear stretch, colour saturation, removed magenta colour around stars, star reduction, contrast enhancement with Curves and Histogram Transformation, and further background smoothing with Multiscale Linear Transform.

 

Yolanda Combrink

  

21x60s, ISO 3200

Processed in DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop

NGC2158 & M35 or She Buckle Cluster

 

Unmodified Canon 100d DSLR, Skywatcher 200p scope, NEQ6 mount, guided.

 

40 x 1 minute images at 800 ISO, 5 x 1 minute Darks, 5 x Biases & 10 Flats stacked by DeepSkyStacker.

NGC2024 - The Flame Nebula (left) and IC434 - The Horsehead Nebula (upper right) taken on 02/17/2012. 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.

This image of the Ring Nebula (M57) has been made from some shots that I took during the small hours of today. DeepSkyStacker used to stack the best 80% (108 frames used). The shots were captured with Backyard EOS using a Canon 60D mounted onto a Skywatcher 200 reflector.

Minha primeira captura da Galáxia do Triângulo (M33). É uma de nossas galáxias vizinhas, sendo grande e brilhante no céu, localizada relativamente próxima a Andrômeda. O enquadramento não foi dos melhores e nem a guiagem, porém ainda sim gostei bastante da captura. A captura foi feita a partir de um local bortle 1/2, o @campingecachoeiradoscristais sem filtros.

 

My first capture of the Triangulum Galaxy (M33). It's one of our neighbour galaxies and is big and bright in the night sky, being located next to the Andromeda galaxy. The framing or guiding wasn't the best, but even though I like the results. The picture was taken from a bortle 1/2 site, the @campingecachoeiradoscristais , without filter.

 

Canon T3i modified, Sky-Watcher 200p (200/1000mm) with comma corrector 1.1x, ISO 800. Guiding with Asiair and ASI290mc in an adapted finderscope 50mm, Eq5 Sky-watcher mount and AstroEq tracking mod. 9 Ligth Frames of 180s, 62 darks and 50 bias. 27m total exposure. Processing on Pixinsight. Bortle 1/2.

 

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Nikon D90

Nikkor 70-300 @ 200mm

2s, f/5.3

ISO 5000

~100 light frames + 30 darks stacked with DeepSkyStacker, editing in Lightroom.

   

From Skyline Vista Point, Redwood City CA

7/19/2020 around 10:20pm, before the police kicked everybody out of that place :^)

D810 200-500mm f/5.6 Nikkor

1.5sec f/5.6 500mm ISO 2000

26 shots stacked with DeepSkyStacker

post processed in LightRoom (with heavy noise reduction)

Messier 17, também conhecida como Nebulosa Ômega ou Nebulosa do Cisne, é uma das maiores regiões de formação de estrelas na nossa galáxia Via Láctea.

 

A Nebulosa Ômega foi descoberta em 1745 pelo astrônomo Suíço Jean-Philippe Loys de Chéseaux. Está localizada a 5.500 anos-luz da Terra na constelação do Sagitário. A nebulosa tem uma magnitude aparente de 6 e pode ser vista com binóculos.

 

Trecho traduzido do site:

 

www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/messier-17-the-omega-ne...

  

Setup:

 

Telescópio Refrator Celestron Omni XLT 150R f/5

Montagem Celestron Advanced CG5-GT

[Sem guiagem]

Câmera Atik 16 CCD Mono

Filtro Baader Semi APO

Filtro Baader narrowband O-III

Filtro Custom Scientific R

Régua de filtros Lumicon

 

R-OIII-OIII

22x90s cada canal

Deep Sky Stacker

Lightroom

Snapseed

(São Paulo – Bortle 9 - 2019)

Unmodified EOS 40D & Celestron C8 telescope.

12 x 10-minute exposures at f10, ISO 1600, manually off-axis guided.

Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker software.

 

Canon 350D (modified)

Canon EF f/2.8 L 70-200mm @ f/4, 200mm.

38 x 90 seconds plus 20 darks.

Astrotrac mount. Stacked in DSS. Processed in CS4.

First astrophoto

 

Info:

Object: M27

Telescope: Skywatcher explorer 150p f/5

Camera: Canon 1100d unmodified

Mount: Heq 5 pro

Guiding: N.v.t.

Imaging time: 40x30 sec waarvan 36 gestacked (~20 min)

Filters: -

Darks: 10x30sec

Flats: N.v.t. (Wel Kunstmatige flat)

ISO: 800

Stacked in: DeepSkyStacker (DSS)

Editing: Photoshop CS5

Location: Heesch (NL)

Date: 07-10-2012

9 frames of 8 seconds each processed in Deep Sky Stacker,

Canon 40D, ISO 1600, EFS 55-250mm (@55mm), f/4, manually focused, desaturated to monochrome.

August 23, 2014

 

The North American Nebula (on its side, west down) is about halfway between Deneb (the brightest star near the center) and the bottom edge of the image.

 

Autosave005.res.nr

Skywatcher 120ED 840 mm, Canon EOS 6D. 12x300 s. ISO 1600. DeepSkystacker, PixInsight, PHD.

Here's a stacked image of the great orion nebula. The setup was a standard camera tripod so there's no tracking. I'm in the process of building an EQ mount. I'll repost this nebula when that's all done.

Acquisition details:

OTA: Celestron 8" newtonian reflector, C8N

Filter: Astronomik CLS EOS-Clip

Corrector: MPCC

Mount: Celestron CGEM DX

Camera: Canon 450d mod BCF, 28F

Exposure: 17x8min ISO 200

Guided with PHD, SSAG, 9x50

Captured with BackyardEOS

Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker

Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)

Taken on the night of 24th March using SX Trius 825 and C9.25 at f/10. Stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop CS2.

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