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Acquisition: 21/05/2022
56 x 300", retenues 51 soit 4h15
DOF 25, 25, 25
Gain 120, -10.0C
80ED sur HEQ5
Correcteur réducteur 0.85x
ZWO ASI294MC-PRO
Filtre L-Pro 2"
Guidage: ZWO ASI290MM et ZWO guidescope F/4
Guidage: PHD2
Prise de vue: AsiStudio
Empilement et Pré traitement: Siril
Traitement: Photoshop, Starnet, Pixinsight
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Located approximately 11 million light years away, Centaurus A (also known as NGC 5128) is a large elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus. It is the 5th brightest galaxy in the sky and an easy target for visual observers. Being a very bright radio galaxy as well, it has been studied extensively by astronomers.
This is a 7.5hr LRGB image (210, 80, 80, 80 mins). Lum subs were 15 mins unbinned and RGB subs were 20 mins unbinned.
FOV is 54 x 35 arcmins @ 1.05 arcsec/pixel.
Takahashi TOA-150 refractor @ F11.7 (FL=1760mm) on a Paramount ME with SBIG STL 11000M camera and AO-L.
Reflection nebula Messier 78 lies beneath pink wisps of hydrogen emission in Barnard's loop.
Taken with an unmodified Canon 6D and the f/2.8 SharpStar 150HNT. This is 2hr10min total exposure (26x300s) at ISO800, No filters used.
NGC 3981 is a small spiral galaxy in Crater that's rarely imaged by amateurs. At around 62 million light years away, it is part of the NGC 4038 group, named after one of the pair of galaxies called The Antennae.
The central portion is very small and the outer reaches are very faint! The bright central spiral structure is a mere 4 x 1 arc minutes. Its faint extended structures have an apparent size of roughly 8 by 5 arcmin and suggest some kind of interaction with another galaxy long ago.
This is an LLsRGB image (L=360 mins, Ls=160, R=165 mins, G=135 mins, B=180 mins) using 15 min subs. Total: 16.75 hours over 5 nights.
FOV (cropped for composition purposes from the full frame): 34.4 x 22.9 arcmins. Seeing was average and ranged from 1.9 to 2.6 arcsecs per pixel FWHM.
Data: CCDAutopilot and TheSkyX
Processing: CCDStack and Photoshop
Equipment: SBIG STXL 11002M, FW8G, AO-X, Officina Stellare ProRC360
The Lion Nebula SH2-132
Found in the constellation of Cepheus and is 10000 light years from Earth. Captured using narrowband filters to create a colour image. Was really nice to get back out and do some backyard astro it’s been a while, pretty pleased with how this turned out I’ve had a bit of time the last couple of days to tinker with some data. :)
Equipment Used;
FRA 600 telescope
CGX Mount
QHY268M camera
Astronomik narrowband filters
Capture details;
48 x 300 ha
48 x 300 oiii
48 x 300 sii
100 x bias (super bias in Pixinsight)
SHO
Software Used;
PHD2, SGP, Pixinsight & Photoshop
In occasione delllo Star Party organizzato dal "Gruppo Astrofili Catanesi" ho deciso di utilizzare il teleobiettivo ZENIT Jupiter-11A 135mm f/4, che avevo utilizzato con la nuova ASI533 soltanto insieme al filtro Optolong L-eNhance. Inoltre, visto che lo Jupiter-11A soffre di aberrazione cromatica nel blu, ero curioso di testare il filtro correzione colore SVbony SV231.
Ebbene devo dire che il filtro SV231 riduce l'aberrazione, non la elimina del tutto, rendendo più semplice il trattamento estetico post acquisizione.
In base alle condizioni del cielo ho deciso di fotografare una zona della Via Lattea dove tante stelle luminose bianco-blu spiccano sopra un tappeto di stelle e dove si intrecciano numerose nebulose oscure.
L'immagine inquadra una zona tra le costellazioni della Volpetta e Freccia i cui oggetti più interessanti sono "l'ammasso di Brocchi (Collinder399)" in basso a destra denominato anche " "Attaccapanni" " per l'asterismo che forma le sue stelle; l'ammasso aperto NGC6793; la nebulosa a riflessione Vdb126 attorno alla quale c'è il gruppo di nebulose oscure LdN 768-769 che formano la cosiddetta " nebulosa Loch Ness" o "nebulosa Nessie" e le nebulose oscure LdN 781-782-783.
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For the Star Party organized by "Gruppo Astrofili Catanesi", I decided to use the ZENIT Jupiter-11A 135mm f/4 telephoto lens, which I had previously used with the new ASI533 only with the Optolong L-eNhance filter. Furthermore, since the Jupiter-11A suffers from chromatic aberration in the blue range, I was curious to test the SVbony SV231 color correction filter.
Well, I must say that the SV231 filter reduces the aberration, but does not eliminate it completely, making post-acquisition aesthetic treatment easier.
Based on the sky conditions, I decided to photograph an area of the Milky Way where many bright blue-white stars stand out against a carpet of stars and where numerous dark nebulae intertwine.
The image frames an area between the constellations of Vulpecula and Freccia, whose most interesting objects are "the Brocchi Cluster (Collinder399)" at the bottom right, also known as "Attaccapanni" " for the asterism that forms its stars; the open cluster NGC6793; the reflection nebula Vdb126, around which lies the group of dark nebulae LdN 768-769, which form the so-called "Loch Ness Nebula" or "Nessie Nebula," and the dark nebulae LdN 781-782-783.
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Lens : ZENIT Jupiter-11A 135mm f/4 flic.kr/p/MekcC7
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC-Pro
Filter: SVbony SV231
Mount: Sky Watcher HEQ5 Synscan
Seeing: 3 (scala Antoniadi)
50X300s / 121 gain / 58 dark/ 22 flat/ 22 darkflat/ 100bias
Date: 27/06/2025
Integration: 4h 10min
Temperature sensor: -10°C
Location: Maniace (CT) , monti Nebrodi (Sicily-Italy) 890m slm
acquisition: NINA, PHD2
Processing: DSS +GraXpert+SIRIL+PSCC.
NGC 1491 is roughly 10,700 light-years from Earth and was discovered by William Herschel in 1790. It is located in the constellation Perseus.
If you use your imagination, you can 'see' the footprint. The heal is the lower right and the toes are the upper left.
Image captured over 9 nights; 2023-02-11, 14, 15, 2023-03-16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 25
30 hours total integration
Ha subs 50 * 1,200 sec = 16 hours 40 min
OIII subs 22 * 1,200 sec = 7 hours 20 min
SII subs 15 * 1,200 sec = 5 hours
R, G, B for stars = 1 hour
Imaging Equipment:
SharpStar 140PH Triplet 910mm focal length
Mesu 200 MKII mount,
ZWOASI2600MM Pro camera
SHO 3.0nm filters
Anticipating the end of the world this year, my starfield generator (the clearest piece of plate glass I have ever owned) decided to check out early - right in the middle of an exposure. Fortunately, the staff have found additional uses for the shards.
Sky-Watcher 150mm / f8
EQ3-2 On Step Mount
54 x 30" - Canon T1i mod
50 Darks, 20 Flats, 30 Bias
DSS + Pix + Ps 2021
Bortle 5/4 Sky
Porto Real - Brazil
A nebulosa da Lagoa é uma gigantesca nuvem interestelar na constelação de Sagitário. É classificada como uma nebulosa de emissão, cujos gases ionizados, principalmente hidrogênio, emitem radiação principalmente no comprimento de onda na faixa da luz visível vermelha.
Sobreposta à nebulosa existe um pequeno aglomerado aberto de estrelas. Tem magnitude aparente 6,0 e situa-se a 4 850 anos-luz em relação à Terra.
Uma das principais características da da nebulosa Laguna é a presença de nebulosas negras conhecidas como glóbulos de Bok, que são nuvens protoestelares com diâmetros de cerca de 10 000 UA.
A região mais brilhante da nebulosa (conhecida como a nebulosa da Ampulheta) é uma região onde ocorre intensa formação estelar: a intensa emissão luminosa é causada pela excitação de estrelas jovens e quentes, principalmente pela estrela Herschel 36.
Bastante próxima à região brilhante da Nebulosa encontra-se a mais brilhante estrela do objeto, 9 Sagittarii, de magnitude aparente 5,97 e classe espectral O5, que é responsável por grande parte do brilho da nebulosa.
Shortlisted for the Royal Greenwich Observatory Astro-image of the year - 2012.
It is L HaRGB. Ha blended with the R, Processed in Pixinsight.
Lum = 8 hours 1 x 1
R = 3 hours 20 mins 2 x 2
G = 3 hours 20 mins 2 x 2
B = 3 hours 20 mins 2 x 2
Ha = 1 hour 30 mins 2 x 2
Acquisition - 4" WO refractor, QSI WSG CCD, EQ6 mount, and Maxim DL
Processing - Pixinsight
Taken with self built 300/1130 Astrograph, self modded EOS 5DmkII, 61x5 min. Some Ha blended to the data taken with smaller telescope. Ágasvár, Hungary, 2013 December.
The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49) is a large spherical H II region (circular in appearance) located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 (Caldwell 50) is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter.
Camera - QHY128C
Telescope - Takahashi FSQ106
Mount - Astro Physics AP1600GTO
Made from 56 light frames with 52 dark frames by Starry Landscape Stacker 1.7.0. Algorithm: Mean Min Hor Star Dupe
This is data from Oct 29, 2022. I created two videos to show the workflow of pre and post processing the same dataset using Sirilic/Siril and AstroPixelProcessor. The image in this shot was done through APP. Slight adjustments in Photoshop but if you look at the end of the video, the edits are pretty miniscule because I wanted to do some noise reduction (since APP doesn't have one).
Video on processing in APP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RMpuJ0I7wI
Video on processing in Sirilic/Siril: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLGLcuwCBfw
Find more of my videos at: youtube.com/Naztronomy
See this on Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/21ot8k/
Equipment used:
* Astro-Tech AT60ED with the 0.8x Reducer/Flattener on Advanced VX Mount
* Mount controlled via Astroberry
* ZWO ASI533MC Pro
* Svbony 60mm guide scope with ZWO ASI120MM-Mini guide cam
* 28x300Sec
* 30 Darks
* 30 flats for each session
* 35 bias
* All frames were with Gain 101, Offset 70, at -10°C.
* Stacked in AstroPixelProcess and mostly post-processed in APP
* Photoshop: Noise and star reduction
Really beautiful object catalogued as 881 on the Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae.
It's one of the jewels that you could find on gamma Cygni nebula, on SADR region of Cygnus, one of my favorites regions of the sky.
"A dark nebula or absorption nebula is a type of interstellar cloud that is so dense that it obscures the visible wavelengths of light from objects behind it, such as background stars and emission or reflection nebulae. The extinction of the light is caused by interstellar dust grains located in the coldest, densest parts of larger molecular clouds." (wiki)
It was necessary to integrate more than 70 hours to show all faint and nice details on the estructure.
Here was captured using the HSO palette, please also check my natural palette on this link:
Technical card
Imaging telescopes or lenses:Teleskop Service TS Photoline 107mm f/6.5 Super-Apo , Altair Astro RC250-TT 10" RC Truss Tube
Imaging cameras:ZWO ASI183MM-Cool , ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mounts:Skywatcher EQ6R Pro , Mesu 200 Mk2
Guiding telescopes or lenses:Celestron OAG Deluxe , Teleskop Service TSOAG9 Off-Axis Guider
Guiding cameras:ZWO ASI174 Mini , ZWO ASI290 Mini
Focal reducers:Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x , Telescope-Service TS 2" Flattener
Software:Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight , Seqence Generator Pro
Filters:Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon L Gen.2 E-series 36mm
Accessory:ZWO EFW , MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30 , TALON6 R.O.R , MoonLite CSL 2.5" Focuser with High Res Stepper Motor
Dates:July 21, 2020 , July 22, 2020 , July 25, 2020 , July 26, 2020 , July 28, 2020 , July 29, 2020
Frames:
Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: 75.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: 75.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm: 205x600" (gain: 200.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm: 110x600" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: 75.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm: 111x600" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 73.2 hours
Avg. Moon age: 5.35 days
Avg. Moon phase: 33.86%
Astrometry.net job: 3811511
RA center: 20h 18' 42"
DEC center: +39° 43' 1"
Pixel scale: 1.007 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 90.555 degrees
Field radius: 0.403 degrees
Resolution: 2308x1724
Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain
Data source: Own remote observatory
Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• Astronomik L: 47x300s bin1 gain 0
• Astronomik RGB: 34x300s bin2 gain 125
(total integration 6.75h)
• ZWO OAG & ASI290Mini guide cam
• TS GPU coma corrector
• ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF & Pegasus Astro Ultimate Powerbox 2
Trevinca, Valding, Spain
Bortle 3, SQM 21.8
processed with Pixinsight
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Event Closing Date: July 22, 2023
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The Pleiades is a cultural icon for many cultures around the world. In Greek mythology, they were the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas; Zeus transformed them into stars to protect them from the hunter Orion. Similar stories are told in Aboriginal groups across Australia, where the Pleiades represent a group of young girls associated with sacred ceremonies.
As it turns out, the Pleiades are sisters in the real sense, and the true story is more fascinating than our imagined ones. Modern science has revealed that they are a group of hot blue luminous stars born from the same gas clouds within the last 100 million years. They travel through space hand-in-hand, bound together by mutual attraction - gravity. Currently, they are passing through a gigantic dust cloud; the intense energy produced by the stars illuminates their surroundings, forming the magnificent nebula you see in this image.
More about the life cycle of Star Clusters:
www.onebackpacker.com/behind-the-lens/open-clusters
(The original data was acquired from iTelescope, which I processed using pixinsight and photoshop).
The Pacman nebula or NGC 281 is a bright emission nebula in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia.
NGC 281 is estimated at 9200 light years from us and is 48 light years wide.
-Equipment-
Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -5°C
Guiding: ZWO OAG
Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM
Mount: Skywatcher NEQ5
Filter: Optrolong L-eXtreme
-Acquisition-
Light :167x300s ( 14h ) at Gain:101 Offset:49
Dark-100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100
Date : Take on 5 night 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 september 2021
Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5
-Software-
Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight
I use the ForaxX palette for HOO combination
ForaxX website : thecoldestnights.com
And the Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon
darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/
-Pre Processing in PixInsight-
Image Calibration
Cosmetic Correction
Debayer
Subframe Selector
Star Alignement
Local Normalization
Drizzle x2
Dynamic crop
-Processing
DynamicBackgroundExtractor the master_LRGB
___RGB layer___
Split RGB channels for build Ha and Oiii
Ha=R Oiii= B*0.3+G*0.7
EZ_Soft Stretch
HOO combination with Foraxx formula
R=Ha
G=((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Ha + ~((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Oiii
B=Oiii
Starnet++ for remove stars and build a mask nebula
Color Saturation
Curves Tansformation (K,saturation,hue)
Saturate stars for push up stars color
SCNR with star Mask for remove green in stars (OSC camera)
Bring back the stars with PixelMath
___L layer___
Ez_Deconvolution
Ez_Denoise
Ez_Soft Stretch
Ez_HDR
Local Histogram Equalization with nebula mask
UnsharpedMask with nebula mask
___LRGB___
Final Curve Transformation
DarkStructureEnhance script
EZ_Star Reduction
Save as BMP 32bit file
Clear skies !
A Valentine Message from the Universe, The Heart & Soul Nebulae
(IC1805 & IC1848)
The Heart and Soul Nebulae complex spans an area about 300 light years across and is a vast star-forming region. Illuminated by the light of the young stars surrounded by star-forming clouds of dust and gas. The two large clouds are separated by only 2.5 degrees. The stars in the region are less than a few million years old and are only beginning their life. For comparison, our Sun has been around for almost 5 billion years.
Images captured in RGB and Hydrogen Alpha from Grasslands National Park, SK. 2020-08-16
RGB subs = 39*180 seconds (1 hour 57 min)
Ha = 21* 300 seconds (1 hour 45min)
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M33 is visually the second largest galaxy observed in the Northern Hemisphere and can be seen by the naked eye in dark skies. It is 2.7 million ly from earth and named after the constellation Triangulum in which it sits near.
PI Workflow:
R (Drizzle / MMT Noise Reduction / MT Star Reduction / Deconvolution)
G/B (Drizzle / DBE / Debanding / MMT Noise Reduction / Linear Fit)
Ha/O (Drizzle / Debanding / DBE / MMT Noise Reduction / Linear Fit)
L (Drizzle / Deconvolution / Delinearize / HDRMT / LHE / CT)
RBGCombination
NBRGB Script
DBE
MaskedStretched / HT
Photoshop Workflow:
ColorEfex Pro / Detail Extraction
Curves
StarSpikes Pro to cleanup stars
Takahashi FSQ-106
Software Bisque MyT
QSI 683WSG-8
L 12x15min
R 8x15min
G 4x15min
B 7x15min
Ha 33x30min
Oii 13x30min
Total Integration Time = 30.75hrs
Data from Deepskywest Remote Observatory
The large dark nebula (NGC 281A that makes up this "gaping mouth" is a molecular cloud made up predominantly of molecular hydrogen, but also dust and other gases. New generations of solar systems are being forged within its cold interior. Once these young stars' fusion engines switch on they will irradiate their surroundings - heating up, ionizing and eroding away the remaining dark material from which they formed.
Originally the whole Pac-Man nebula would have been one large dark molecular cloud - the stars that formed early on at its centre having progressively hollowed out the centre of the nebula. The gas in and around this central region is ionized by the copious UV radiation emitted by the central open star cluster (IC 1490), causing it to glow and providing the light by which this narrowband image was taken.
Location Image: London UK
Date: Various dates throughout Sept and October 2015
Telescope: Skywatcher Espirt 100ED
CCD: QHY9S MONO CCD
Filters: Chroma 3nm Ha, Chroma 3nm SII and Chroma 3nm OIII ( Taken during High moon transit )
Ha 1200s x 18
SII 1200s x 10
OIII 1200s x 10
Mount Ioprton CEM60
A "quick" project between the last couple of new moons. LBN 328 (IC 5068) seems to be an often ignored region, located right "under" the North America and Pelican nebulae. This project was a bit over 38 hours of SHO narrowband combined in a "dynamic" palette that blends the traditional SHO color scheme with a more complex version of combining narrowband data.
- Location: Remote Observatory (Bortle 1, SQM 21.99) near Fort Davis, TX
- Total Exposure Time: 38.92 Hours
Equipment:
- Scope: Esprit 100ED w/ 1x Flattener
- Imaging Camera: QHY 268M
- Filters: Chroma 5nm Ha/3nm Oiii/3nm Sii (36mm)
- Mount: Astro Physics Mach1GTO
- Guidescope: SVBony 50mm Guidescope
- Guide camera: ASI 120mm mini
- Focuser: Moonlite Nitecrawler WR35
- Accessories: Pegasus Ultimate Powerbox v2, QHY Polemaster, Optec Alnitak Flip Flat
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Software:
- N.I.N.A for image acquisition, platesolving, and framing
- PHD2 for guiding
- PixInsight for processing
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Acquisition:
- Ha: 87 x 5m
- Oiii: 185 x 5m
- Sii: 195 x 5m
- All images at Gain 56, Offset 25 (Readout mode 1) and -5C sensor temperature
- 20 flats per filter
- Master Dark & Bias from Library
- Nights: 5/13-5/15, 5/18, 5/19, 6/7, 6/11-6/13, 6/17/22
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Processing:
- BatchPreprocessing for calibration
- StarAlignment and ImageIntegration of all masters
Ha Processing:
- DynamicCrop
- DynamicBackgrounExtraction
- NoiseXterminator
- StarNetv2 to remove stars
- GeneralizedHyperbolicStretch for initial stretch
- HistogramTransformation x 2 for further stretch
- CurvesTransformation for contrast
Oiii/Sii Processing (apply to each master):
- DynamicCrop
- DynamicBackgroundExtraction
- NoiseXterminator
- StarAlignment to Ha master
- Duplicate and make one version starless via Starnet2
- GeneralizedHyperbolicStretch for initial stretch
- HistogramTransformation x2 for further stretch
Combine into color:
- PixelMath x2 on starless masters - One SHO copy, one Foraxx combination copy
- 60-40 blend of Foraxx and SHO
- CurvesTransformation for hue shift, 'c' curve adjustment, and saturation boost
- Further CurvesTransformation to balance color
- ColorSaturation for selective saturation
Create Luminance Layer:
- PixelMath 80-20 blend of Ha and Sii starless
- CurvesTransformation for contrast
- LocalHistogramEqualization for details
- UnsharpMask for sharpness
Combine Lum and Color and add stars:
- LRGBCombination with saturation at 0.4
- STF on all masters with stars
- Combine star masters via ChannelCombination (OSH)
- Starnet to create starmask
- CurvesTransformation and SCNR on starmask to reduce green
- MorphologicalTransformation to reduce star size on starmask
- PixelMath to combine stars with color image
- DynamicCrop to crop edges
- ImageSolver to platesolve and annotate
- Save and Export
The Orion Nebula may be the best-known emission nebula, but it loses to the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) as the most spectacular. Measuring 2° across, the Carina Nebula looks like an ethereal orchid blossoming, with many dark rifts dividing it into several distinct “petals.”
Residing about 7,500 light-years from Earth, the Carina Nebula lies within its namesake constellation, Carina the Keel.
The nebula's fantastic landscape is sculpted by the action of outflowing winds and scorching ultraviolet radiation from the monster stars that inhabit this inferno. In the process, these stars are shredding the surrounding material that is the last vestige of the giant cloud from which the stars were born. The immense nebula contains at least a dozen brilliant stars that are roughly estimated to be at least 50 to 100 times the mass of our Sun.
The blast of stellar winds and blistering ultraviolet radiation within the cavity is now compressing the surrounding walls of cold hydrogen. This is triggering a second stage of new star formation. Our Sun and our solar system may have been born inside such a cosmic crucible 4.6 billion years ago.
EXIF
Canon EOS-Ra
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM ll
Canon EF-EOS-R drop-in adapter
IDAS NB12 filter
Skywatcher AZ-GTI, equatorially mounted
ZWO ASIAair for rig control
Stack of 20x 60s @ ISO1600, unfiltered & 5x 180s @ ISO6400, filtered
#OuterSpace #Astronomy #Nebula #Space #astrophotography #ngc3372 #CarinaNebula #deepscape #deepsky
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• Astronomik L: 219x300s bin1 gain 0
• Astronomik RGB: 148x300s bin2 gain 125
(total integration 30.5h)
• ZWO OAG & ASI290Mini guide cam
• TS GPU coma corrector
• ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF & Pegasus Astro Ultimate Powerbox 2
Trevinca, Valding, Spain
Bortle 3, SQM 21.8
processed with Pixinsight
1.2hrs of stacked photo's.
Stock DSLR, Sigma Lens and star adventurer tracker.
Calibration shots:
175 Lights
75 Darks
80 Flats
100 Bias
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• Astronomik L: 128x300s bin1 gain 0
• Astronomik RGB: 91x300s bin2 gain 125
(total integration 18.2h)
• ZWO OAG & ASI290Mini guide cam
• TS GPU coma corrector
• ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF & Pegasus Astro Ultimate Powerbox 2
Trevinca, Valding, Spain
Bortle 3, SQM 21.8
processed with Pixinsight
Imaginary Planet
Interplanetary Travel
Youtube: "4K" Road Trip in Tunisia - Visiting Tunisia "2019"
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
The Lagoon Nebula lies about 5,800 light years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. At its core lies the star cluster NGC 6530 and stars within this cluster illuminate the nebula. The brightest part of the nebula is known as the "hourglass nebula". Close inspection at full resolution will reveal dark spots called Bok Globules. These are believed to be collapsing clouds of gas in the process of forming into proto stars.
Full Resolution: www.pbase.com/gailmarc/image/144825967/original
This is a 8.83 hr LHaRGB image (60, 270, 60, 60, 80 mins). LRG subs were all 5mins, B subs were 10 mins and Ha subs were 30 mins. All unbinned.
FOV is 1.88 x 1.25 deg @ 1.69 arcsec/pixel.
Takahashi TOA-150 refractor @ F7.3 (FL=1095mm) on a Paramount ME with SBIG STL 11000M camera.
An LRGB image comprising of:
L- 1260m
R - 270m
G - 270m
B - 270m
Total of 34h 30m - 30 minutes subs.
Acquisition - Planewave 12.5" CDK, PME, QSI 583 8WSG CCD, Lodestar auto guider, TSX, Maxim DL.
Processing - Pixinsight 1.8
M16 Like you may have never see it before. I have to confess I know where the Eagle( its so small you would miss it) is but as a whole I see a sleeping face with closed Eyes and what looks like a beard. I even asked my wife to come look she did not even get past the door "there is a sleeping face, you can see the hair and the beard" and I did not say a word.
This is only possible With Carlos Taylor Smallrig getting to feel like its home. I do think we all get 100% dominated by longer focal lengths we do lose sight of the leaves on the tree . This is in part why I will not forget to use my nikon lens to bring to life the whole not just the macro with a 10".
Enjoy a whole new view and yes there has been some star reduction .
QHY183 C -10 100 shots over 3 night .
600 sec each shot.
Sharpstar 61EDPH II
Optolong LeNhance filter,
SESTO SENSO Focuser
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps Lr
Acquisition: 7-8-9 /02/2023
Composition SHO avec SII synthétique:
266 x 300", retenues 212 pour le Ha et 93 pour le OIII
DOF 50, 100, 100
Gain 120, -10.0C
Moyenne Lune : 92%
80ED sur HEQ5
Correcteur réducteur 0.85x
ZWO ASI294MC-PRO
Filtre L-Extrême 2"
Guidage: ZWO ASI290MM et ZWO guidescope F/4
Guidage: PHD2
Prise de vue: N.I.N.A
Empilement et Pré traitement: Siril, Pixinsight
Traitement: Photoshop, Starnet
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Here in the Orion Nebula, countless newborn stars are soaking up the surrounding clouds of gas and debris to become grown-up stars that may one day coalesce solar systems like ours.
Speaking of stars, today marks the beginning of my 36th trip around our own star. I don't know, 36 years ago, if my own nursery was stellar or not but I do know my parents were stellar people, just trying to do what they thought was best in their own Journey around the sun. It wasn't perfect but I wouldn't trade my childhood for anything.
During the good-times you learn trust and experience Joy. During the bad stuff you gain independence and build mental strength.
Kinda like the elementary particles colliding in the cosmic crucible pictured here. :)
Space is freaking awesome.
Emission nebula in the constellation Coach. The two formations in the core of the star cluster appear as two little tadpoles swimming.
FSQ-106
CEM70
ASI 2600MM
Shot in New Orleans, LA in Bortle 8 skies.
SHO: 50/43/30
Total Integration = 30.8h
PI: BXT, DBE, SXT, NXT, Rescreen, HOOS Comb
PS: ColorEfex, Curve, NXT, StarShrink, Screen stars onto starless version
The Pelican Nebula is an emission nebula located near the bright star Deneb in the constellation Cygnus. Approximately 1,800 light years away.
The nebula’s appearance is defined by dark dust clouds, which outline the pelican’s long bill and eye, and bright clouds of ionized gas, which form the curved shape of the pelican’s head and neck.
Equipment & Image Details:
Orion ED80 scope, Celestron CGEM II mount, ZWOASI1600MM Pro camera. Narrowband subs: 3*1,200 sec Ha filter, 1*1,200 sec OIII filter, 1*1,200 sec SII filter.
Processed with PixInsight and Photoshop.
Eq:
Scope: GSO 8" with 2" moonlight focuser + TS GPU CC
Camera: Nikon D610 stock
Mount: EQ6-R + ZWO 280/60 + ZWO ASI 120MC-S
Acquisition:
Lights: 75x300"
Darks: x60
Flats: x50
Bias: x50
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 🚀
Interplanetary Travel
Interplanetary travel has begun.
As of this morning, I have left this planet from which I came in August 2019. I have discovered many settlements from civilizations that have lived on this planet before. Many of the settlements I discovered were still standing. The architectural structures unique to the planet were quite impressive. Plutonia, which is generally a desert planet, has a suitable structure for living. I came across several plant species, trees with edible fruits. I came across water beds on the planet, which is mostly covered with desert. I took samples from these potable water sources. I would say hot for the climate of the planet. However, I cannot say that it has a scorching heat. This is quite unusual for a planet with 5 suns. The planet has 16 natural satellites. And all of these satellites are visible day and night. I think some moons are larger planets nearby. I have observed some of these planets on other planets I have visited. I have shared 148 special photos that I have chosen for you from this planet. I hope you are satisfied. I will soon pass through the atmosphere of the planet Plutonia and reach the outer space. Then I'll have to dock with my spaceship. And after entering the new route into the computer, I will have started my journey in outer space. I hope I can keep sending photos from outer space. I will try to stay in touch.
Goodbye.
Yusuf Alioglu
Youtube: "4K" Road Trip in Tunisia - Visiting Tunisia "2019"
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
Da qualche anno pensavo di cambiare il rifrattore Scopos TL805, compagno di tante avventure sotto cieli stellati; quindi dopo tanti dubbi, rinvii e prediligendo un telescopio con un rapporto focale il più basso possibile, visto che l'Inquinamento luminoso spesso mi costringe ad utilizare filtri a banda stretta, la mia scelta è caduta sul tripletto apocromatico Askar 103APO con il suo riduttore 0.6X.
E la sua prima luce nel mese di dicembre non poteva che essere la "Grande nebulosa di Orione" nota anche come "M42" . Con il rapporto focale f/4 è stato bello riuscire e scorgere anche le nubi interstellari più deboli. Mi ritengo molto soddisfatto di questo primo risultato e mi auguro il primo di una lunga serie.
Buon Natale a tutti.
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For some years I had been thinking about changing the Scopos TL805 refractor, companion of many adventures under starry skies; so after many doubts, postponements and preferring a telescope with a focal ratio as low as possible, given that light pollution often forces me to use narrow-band filters, my choice fell on the Askar 103APO apochromatic triplet with its 0.6X reducer.
And its first light in December could only be the "Great Orion Nebula" also known as "M42" . With the focal ratio f/4 it was nice to be able to see even the faintest interstellar clouds. I am very satisfied with this first result and I hope for the first of a long series.
Merry Christmas to everyone.
Google translator
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Optic: APO Refractor Askar 103APO + 0.6X
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC-Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher HEQ5 Synscan
Seeing: 3-4 (scala Antoniadi)
Filter: Narrowband Optolong L-eNhance 2"
-104x180s 121gain / 35 dark /21 flat / 18 darkflat /100 bias
-18x30s 121gain / 20 dark /100 bias
t° sensor: -10°C
Date: 10+16/12/2024
Integration: 5h 12min
Temperature: 7°C (media)
location for : Biancavilla -Catania-(Italy) 515m slm (Bortle 5-6)
Acquisition: NINA, PHDGuiding
Processing: DSS, SIRIL, PS, GraXpert.
Hi all,
This is my longest astrophotography project to date.
The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus.
It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop, a many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers. The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun, which exploded around 8,000 years ago. The remnants have since expanded to cover an area of the sky roughly 3 degrees in diameter (about 6 times the diameter, or 36 times the area, of the full Moon). The distance to the nebula is not precisely known, but Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) data supports a distance of about 1,470 light years.
Integration:
15 hours, 50 minutes of total exposure time
ISO 200
No Darks (Dithered)
200 Bias Frames
25 Flats Per Session
Equipment:
Telescope: William Optics Zenithstar 73
Mount: Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro Rowan Belt Mod
Autoguiding Scope: Starwave 50mm Guidescope
Autoguiding Camera: ZWO ASI 120MM Mini
Camera: Canon 80D (unmodified)
Software:
PHD2 Guiding
Astrophotography Tool
Deepskystacker
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Lightroom