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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• Astronomik L: 55x300s bin1 gain 0
• Astronomik RGB: 26x300s bin2 gain 125
• ZWO Hα 7nm: 12x300s bin1 gain 200
(total integration 7.7h)
• 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
NGC 6960 a.k.a. Western Veil Nebula a.k.a. The Witch's Broom
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10,000 years ago, long before the first records in human history, a bright light appeared in the sky and lasted for weeks until it faded and disappeared. Now we know that the phenomenon was caused by the explosion of a supernova, a huge star, 20 times larger than the Sun. What is seen in the attached image is a part of the remnants of that star, remnants that created a cloud consisting mainly of hydrogen (red) and oxygen (blue) and which expands with a speed of about 1 milion miles per hour.
This nebula is found in the constellation Cygnus, at a distance of about 2400 light-years from Earth, and is one of the best known summer targets for astrophotography enthusiasts, but due to the large number of stars in that area, it cannot be considered a easy target.
Besides Witch's Broom, other names under which this nebula is known are: Finger of God, Filamentary Nebula or Lacework Nebula.
Equipment and settings:
Mount: SW EQ6R
Telescope: SW Newtonian 150PDS
Camera: ASI 533MC Pro
Filter: Optolong Lextreme
Integration: 6h
88 light frames x 4 min + calibration frames
Stacking with DSS. Edit in Pixinsight si Lightroom.
Location: my Bortle 6+ backyard
A faint emission nebula located in Cygnus. There is no information about the distance of this nebula.
This is a 2 pane mosaic so that all of the delicate dust is captured as well, using an Ha and OIII filter to create a bi colour image.
Details:
M: Avalon Linear Fast reverse
T: Takahashi FSQ85 0.73x
C: QSI690ws-g with 3nm Ha and OIII filter
Pane 1 - 11x1800s Ha, 10x1800s OIII
Pane 2 - 10x1800s, 9x1800s OIII
Totalling 20 hours of exposure time.
This is a 4 night Two panel shot join is in the middle of the two shots. As I am able to rotate the Nikon 300mm F4 prime on its lens clamp I marked the degrees so I could rotate to suit camera angle. once done I got an error reading each night 1.4 degrees.
the two panels joined perfectly with next to no step between the two panels. I am impressed so much I am almost willing to for go the Auto Focus with the belt to be able to rotate the camera.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_Supernova_Remnant
for those interested a bit more info in the link.
Who can see the face in the shot.
ZWOASI071MC -10c 90 shots per panel 600 secs, over 4 night camera rotated.
ZWOEAF disconnected ,
Optolong LeNhance filter In filter draw,
Nikon 300MM F4 D Lens,
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps & Lr.
Lunette triplet APO 80x480 + réducteur x0.79 + filtre Idas LPS D1.
HEQ5 et guidage chercheur + ASI120mc.
Canon 1000D défiltré partiel.
28 x 180s ; ISO400.
Ciel mag 21.12.
Siril, Pixinsight, Photoshop
Images taken on March 2, 2021
Mars reflects the sun's light and is ~22 light minutes from Earth. The Pleiades is an open star cluster that is ~ 442 light years away from us. While these two are so different, both of them are prominent and easy to spot in the night sky. It’s very cool to witness the two so close to each other. I knew this was happening, but my life and job have been so busy lately it slipped my mind until it was basically happening already.
Step outside tonight and take a lookup. You can find this event just ahead of the constellation Orion. The next time these two will be near each other in our night sky again in 2038!
Equipment:
Celestron CGEM Mount
Canon FD 300mm f/4 L at f/5.6
Sony a7RIII (unmodified)
Altair 60mm Guide scope
GPCAM2 Mono Camera
Acquisition:
Taos, NM: my backyard - Bortle 3
10 x 121" for 20 min and 10 sec of exposure time.
10 dark frames
15 flats frames
15 bais frames
Guided
Software:
SharpCap
PHD2
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop
My mount was polar aligned with SharpCap (what an amazing system for aligning). I'm not comfortable using my SCT as my lens yet. My solution is to piggyback my Sony a7RIII and adapted Canon FD 300mm f/4 L on a ADM dovetail rail on the top of my optical tube. I used DeepSkyStacker to combine all frames and then processed the TIFF file in Photoshop. I stretched the 32 bit file and used Gradient XT on the image. I then made it a 16 bit file and stretched in level, then curves. I used the color sampler tool and levels to do my best to keep the background space black. I then using my skillset and relied on Astronomy Tools Action Set, and dodging and burning a bit to give the image the finishing touches.
First image using the new Celestron Edge HD 9.25 SCT.
Messier 81 (M81), also known as Bode’s Galaxy, is a grand design spiral galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy lies at an approximate distance of 11.8 million light years from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 6.94. It has the designation NGC 3031 in the New General Catalogue. Technical Info:
36 x 180 sec. ZWO Red filter
35 x 180 sec. ZWO Green filter
32 x 180 sec. Zwo Blue filter
Gain 200, Offset 50, Binning 1x1
Total Integration 5.2 hours
Celestron Edge HD 9.25 f/10 SCT Reflector
Sensor cooled to -15°C on ZWO ASI1600MM Pro (mono)
Calibration frames: Bias, Darks, and Flats.
Plate Solve-PlateSolver 2 via N.I.N.A. 2.0
Image processing Pixinsight 1.8.9, and Photoshop CC 2023
Brief Description:
A dynamic looking region of the constellation Auriga where spherical nebulas appear hurled to crash into each other. This image features the nebulas Sh2-232, Sh2-235, Sh2-231, Sh2-234 and LBN 796, and the open star clusters M38 and M36.
In-depth Description:
This is a dynamic looking region of the constellation Auriga where spherical nebulas appear hurled to crash into each other. This image includes the nebulae Sh2-232, Sh2-235, Sh2-231, Sh2-234 and LBN 796, among others, and the open star clusters M38 and M36.
The eyeball looking nebula (Sh2-232) has been mistaken for a planetary nebula, but none of the round or semispherical objects in this image are actually classified as PNs (per Galaxymap and SIMBAD). In fact, the big fuzzy ball in the lower left center (right above cluster M36) does not seem to have any designation at all and is merely a part of the greater nebula LBN 796. A 2012 study suggests that these unusual forms are all part of an expanding shell, the result of an ancient supernova.
These nebulae are all features of a larger molecular cloud located 1800 pc from us. By comparison the two clusters are much closer: M36 (bottom center) is 1330 pc distant, and M38 (center right) lies only 1066 pc away.
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Designation: M15, NGC 7078
Constellation: Pegasus
Visual magnitude: +6.2
Apparent size: 18′
Diameter: 178 light years.
Distance: 34,000 light years.
21 minute exposure.
2019-10-24
Markarian's Chain is a stretch of galaxies that forms part of the larger Virgo Custer in the constellation of Virgo. The two bright galaxies on the lower section of the chain are M84 and M86 discovered by Charles Messier in 1781. In this field of view approximately 30 identified galaxies are visible making it a spectacular target to image.
A combination of 10 nights imaging in January and February 2022 and May 2023 using two different cameras. 2022 images were taken using a mono camera and 4 filters, 2023 images were taken using a colour camera and a single filter.
Imaging and processing details can be found on my Astrobin page at: astrob.in/full/zy1fpo/0/
Thank you for looking.
Technical summary:
Captured: 7,8,29,30,31 Jan 2022, 1,2,3 Feb 2022 and 13,14 May 2023
Imaging Sessions: 10
Location: Gérgal, Andalucía, Spain 2022 and Gorafe, Granada, Spain 2023
Bortle Class: 4 Gergal, 3 Gorafe
Total Integration: 23 hours 10 minutes
Blue 116x 120s 3hr 52m BIN 1 Gain 100 -5C
Blue 4x 300s 20m BIN 1 Gain 100 -5C
Green 123x 120s 4hr 6m BIN 1 Gain 100 -5C
Green 11x 300s 55m BIN 1 Gain 100 -5C
Red 149x 120s 4hr 58m BIN 1 Gain 100 -5C
Red 8x 300s 40m BIN 1 Gain 100 -5C
UV/IR 142x 120s 4hr 44m BIN 1 Gain 100 -5C
UV/IR 3x 300s 15m BIN1 Gain 100 -5C
Moon & Skyglow: 40x 300s 3hr 20m BIN 1 -5C
Pixel Scale: 2 arcsec/pixel
Telescope: William Optics GT 81 385mm
Imaging Cameras: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro and ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
Guiding: ZWO UniGuide 50mm - ZWO ASI120MM-S
Filters: ZWO R, G, B, UV/IR and Baader Moon & Skyglow
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro
Capture Computer: Eagle 4
Capture software: NINA, PHD2
Editing software: PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom
IC 2177 a.k.a. Seagull Nebula.
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IC2177 is a region of nebulosity that spans about 240 light-years along the border between the constellations Monoceros and Canis Major, at a distance of about 3,800 light-years from Earth.
This is not the first time I have shot at the same targets with both the color and mono cameras, but it is the first time I have used both data sets for a single image. The color camera data was used as the Luminance channel, along with the Halpha data, and for the final result I used an LRGB approach.
Equipment and settings:
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6R
Telescope: Skywatcher 72ED + 0.85 dedicated flattener/reducer
Camera: ASI 533MC pro + ASI 533MM pro
Filters : Antlia ALP-T / Astrodon H S O 5nm
Integration : 42 x 5 min with the color camera / S 26 x 4min, O 40 x 5min, H 21 x 5min
Stacking with DSS/Pixinsight.
Edit in Pixinsight.
Location: my Bortle 6+ backyard.
Wisps of charged gases continue to expand after a supernova explosion over 30,000 years ago
See on Fluidr
OTA: Takahashi FSQ-106 EDX4
GUIDER: None
MOUNT: Software Bisque Paramount MyT
CAMERA: FLI ML-16070M
GUIDE CAMERA: None
REDUCER: Takahashi 645 QE .72x f/3.6
SOFTWARE: SGP, PhD2, TheSkyX, Pixinsight, Starnet++, Photoshop
FILTERS: Astrodon LRGB; 5nm Hα, 3nm SII, 3nm OIII
ACCESSORIES: Optec Gemini Focuser/Rotator
LOCATION: SRO
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LBN 458, LBN 462, LBN 460 and more
Equipment:
Epsilon 130D dual rig
QHY268m + CFW3M
TS2600MP (Touptek IMX571) + ZWO EFW
Astronomik DeepSky RGB
Astronomik MaxFR
Pegasus NYX-101
June/July 2024
Location: french alp
412x180s Luminanz
34x180s red
46x180s green
43x180s blue
26,75 total
CTB 1 is a supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Cassiopeia and a source of optical, radio, and X-ray emissions. A recent study reports that a pulsar was born from the supernova that produced CTB 1 and ejected into the galaxy.
CTB 1 is approximately 9784 light years away and physically spans another 98 light years in diameter while it is dated to be approximately 10,000 years old.
Image captured over 5 nights; 2021-11-06, 07, 08, 10, & 11
20.5 hours total integration
Ha subs 18 * 1,800 sec = 9 hours
OIII subs 12 * 1,800 sec = 6 hours
SII subs 11 * 1,800 sec = 5 hours 30 min
Imaging Equipment:
SharpStar 140PH Triplet 910mm focal length
Mesu 200 MKII mount,
ZWOASI2600MM Pro camera
SHO 3.0nm filters
This deep-space image showcases two stunning nebulae in the constellation Auriga: the Tadpoles Nebula (IC 410) at the top center, and the Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405) toward the lower left.
IC 410, the Tadpoles Nebula, is an emission nebula located about 12,000 light-years from Earth. It surrounds the young star cluster NGC 1893, whose massive, energetic stars light up and shape the surrounding gas. The 'tadpoles' that give the nebula its nickname are dense streams of dust and gas about 10 lightyears long. They are assumed to be sites of star formation.
IC 405, the Flaming Star Nebula, lies in the lower left portion of the image. This beautiful mix of emission and reflection nebula is about 1,500 light-years away and is illuminated by the hot, massive star AE Aurigae. Its flowing, flame-like filaments of gas and dust give the nebula its name and striking appearance.
Set against a dense star field, this image uses narrowband imaging techniques to highlight different elements: hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur. The result reveals both the structure and composition of these rich star-forming regions.
This image is a SHO combination with the classic gold and blue hues of the Hubble Palette
Equipment
Telescope: William Optics Megrez 88
Mount: Equatorially mounted Skywatcher AZ-GTI
Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM
Filters: Baader H/Sii/Oiii with ZWO EFW
Autofocus: ZWO EAF
Autoguider: ZWO ASI 385MC & Artesky Guidescope UltraGuide 32mm
Rig control: ZWO ASIAir
15x 300s H
15x 300s Sii
15x 240s Oiii
Era doveroso, dopo 13 anni, ritornare su questa bellissima nostra "vicina di casa" extragalattica, la grande Galassia di Andromeda, catalogata con le sigle M31 e NGC224 distante dalla Terra circa 2,5 milioni di a.l.. Se i nostri occhi fossero molto sensibili e non ci fosse l'Inquinamento luminoso la vredremmo in tutta la sua grandezza: le sue dimensioni apparenti sono più di 6 volte quelli del disco lunare.
Con il mio setup ho dovuto realizzare un mosaico con 2 pannelli, ma dopo l'esperienza faticosa con la NGC7000, questa volta ho trovato il modo migliore per unire i 2 pannelli grazie all'applicazione Siril 1.4 che permette di unire più pannelli con opportuni accorgimenti, che rende il risultato finale più equilibrato nei punti di unione tra i pannelli (vd youtu.be/4apAdLWJ3Dg?si=gwMaWN7lphNVQitW).
Volevo integrare più ore in banda larga, utilizzando il filtro UHC, ma condizioni meteo avverse non lo hanno permesso con la galassia sempre meno alta sull'orizzonte e in una zona di cielo più inquinata.
Quindi mi sono concentrato sulle tantissime nebulose Ha presenti tra i bracci della galassia.
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It was only right, after 13 years, to return to this beautiful extragalactic "neighbor" of ours, the large Andromeda Galaxy, catalogued with the acronyms M31 and NGC224, about 2.5 million light years away from Earth. If our eyes were very sensitive and there were no light pollution, we would see it in all its grandeur: its apparent dimensions are more than 6 times those of the lunar disk.
With my setup, I had to create a mosaic with two panels, but after the tiring experience with the NGC7000, this time I found the best way to join the two panels thanks to the Siril 1.4 application, which allows you to join multiple panels with appropriate adjustments, making the final result more balanced at the joins between the panels (see youtu.be/4apAdLWJ3Dg?si=gwMaWN7lphNVQitW).
I wanted to integrate more broadband hours, using the UHC filter, but adverse weather conditions prevented it, with the galaxy increasingly low on the horizon and in a more polluted area of the sky.
So I focused on the many Ha nebulae present in the galaxy's arms.
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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"
panel1: 132x300s 250gain/ 35dark /27flat /80 bias
Integration: 11h 0m
panel2: 128x300s 250gain/ 35dark /27flat /80 bias
Integration: 10h 40m
Filter: Broadband Angeleyes UHC 1"
Panel1: 35x180s 250gain/ 23dark /27flat /80 bias
Integration: 1h 45m
Panel2: 43x180s 250gain/ 23dark /27flat /80 bias
Integration: 2h 9m
Date: 2025-11-19, 20, 23, 28, 29, 30
t° sensor: -10°C
Total integration: 25h 34m
Temperature: 14°C (media)
location for : Biancavilla -Catania-(Italy) 515m slm (Bortle 5-6) flic.kr/p/8AWHek
Acquisition: NINA, PHDGuiding
Processing: DSS, SIRIL 1.4, PS, GraXpert
Discovered in 1786 by William Herschel, the North
America Nebula shows its characteristic shape only in wide field astrophotographs.
The North America Nebula is separated from the Pelican Nebula by a dark dust cloud catalogued in 1962 as L935.
It took until 2004 for astronomers to identify the star that ionizes both the North America and the Pelican Nebula. The light of the inconspicuous star, named J205551.3+435225, is almost entirely blocked by the dark cloud L935. As J205551.3+435225 lies just off the “Florida coast” of the North America Nebula, it has been more conveniently nicknamed the Bajamar Star ("Islas de Bajamar," meaning "low-tide islands" in Spanish, was the original name of the Bahamas).
Equipment:
Telescope: William Optics Megrez 88
Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro
ZWO EFW with Baader HaRGB filters
ZWO EAF autofocus
ZWO ASI 385MC autoguider
Equatorially mounted Skywatcher AZ-GTI
Controlled with ASIair Plus
9-panel panorama, each 3x60s with RGB @ 5x 180s Ha, total exposure time: 3h36min
3 tuiles de 2h.
Lunette 80x480 + réducteur 0.79.
Canon 1000Ddp + filtre IDAS LPS D1.
HEQ5 pro goto + kit Rowan.
The first color image to feature Sivan 5 and Sivan 6?
I believe this is the first successful color image of the nebulae Sivan 5 and Sivan 6. Siv 5 is the larger mass at the top. Siv 6 lies beneath it and includes Sh2-287, the bright section bottom center. The swooping red wisp that stretches from left to right and looks like a ship’s hull isn’t officially part of either nebula.
Astronomer J.P. Sivan identified these forgotten nebulae in 1974 from an Hα survey of the Milky Way in which they appeared as a couple of tiny, irregular blots. Apparently, no one has bothered with them since.
Sivan nebulae are large and exceedingly faint: this image spans over 5° of the constellation Monoceros; and total exposure time is 74 hours with narrowband filters. This area has been photographed before, but always with far less exposure time. Thus, they scarcely reveal these Sivan objects at all, not that anyone was looking for them. In fact, even the small, brighter Sharpless objects in this image barely appear in most other widefield images. If you find any that clearly show these Sivan nebulae, please let me know and I will update this page.
...Speaking of blots, in the cosmic Rorschach ink blot test that is interstellar space, to me this looks like a dog (or seal) sitting in a boat with a single sail. So, I call this the Seadog Nebula.
OTA: Takahashi FSQ-106 EDX4
GUIDER: Stellarvue F50
MOUNT: Software Bisque Paramount MyT
CAMERA: FLI ML-16070M
GUIDE CAMERA: ZWO ASI 174 Mini M
REDUCER: Takahashi 645 QE .72x f/3.6
SOFTWARE: SGP, PhD2, TheSkyX, Pixinsight, Starnet++, Photoshop
FILTERS: Astrodon LRGB
ACCESSORIES: Optec Gemini Focuser/Rotator
LOCATION: SRO
COPYRIGHT: 2021 JKLOVELACE
Data Acquisition from 2020-10-17 until 2021-01-13
DSO Color Mapping: SH-HO-O with RGB stars
Original Image (Pix) Scale: 4.00
For More Technical Information: www.astrobin.com/1dnvcy/0/
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50mm Wide field of the Rho Ophiuchi region, with Mars and Saturn. To the bottom right is the Milky Way core, with the Cat's Paw nebula visible.
Mars is the biggest / brightest yellow object to the top left, Saturn is the smaller bright object bottom right.
Image details:
52 Minutes: 13x 240 second exposures
Camera: Canon 60Da
Lens: Canon 24-70mm LII F/2,8. Shot at 50mm F/3,2
Mount: SkyWatcher Star Adventurer
The skies were not really dark enough as our imaging location was only 1,5hrs drive out of town. I think to achieve more red in Antares' region I'll need to take separate Ha exposures and blend them to this.
Location:
Magalies mountain Sanctuary - Gauteng, South Africa
Date: #EveryNewMoon 6 May 2016
Check out PhotographingSpace.com for more tips and tutorials on #Astrophotography.
Or visit my website Astrotanja.com for other related stuff and more on the #EveryNewMoon project.
2 clear nights in the last few months one of them with a full moon.
exposure time: 12,5hour
Processing: PixInsight/affinity photo
Equipment:
Takahashi Epsilon 130ED
QHY163M
ZWO EFW 8x
Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB und SHO MaxFR
Skywatcher EQ8
89x300s H-alpha
23x300s SII
39x300s OIII
The Whirlpool Galaxy is an interacting spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici
at distance of 23 Mio. Lj
Equipment:
TS 10" f/4 ONTC Newton
1000mm f4
GPU Aplanatic Koma Korrector
ZWO ASI585mc
Skywatcher EQ8
Guding:
Lodestar on TS Optics - ultra short 9mm Off Axis Guider
PHD2
312x30s
total exposure time: 2,6 hours
Processing: PixInsight
The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus, at about 2400 light years from us.
It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop,a supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers. In modern usage, the names Veil Nebula, Cirrus Nebula, and Filamentary Nebula generally refer to all the visible structure of the remnant, or even to the entire loop itself. The structure is so large that several NGC numbers were assigned to various arcs of the nebula. There are three main visual components: 1. The Western Veil (also known as Caldwell 34), consisting of NGC 6960 (the "Witch's Broom", Lacework Nebula, "Filamentary Nebula"; 2. The Eastern Veil (also known as Caldwell 33), whose brightest area is NGC 6992, trailing off farther south into NGC 6995 (together with NGC 6992 also known as "Network Nebula"; 3. Pickering's Triangle (or Pickering's Triangular Wisp), brightest at the north central edge of the loop, but visible in photographs continuing toward the central area of the loop.
The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun which exploded between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago. At the time of the explosion, the supernova would have appeared brighter than Venus in the sky, and visible in the daytime. The remnants have since expanded to cover an area of the sky roughly 36 times the area of the full Moon.
Equipment and settings:
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6 R pro
Lens: Rokinon 135mm F2
Camera: ASI 533MM Pro
Filters: Astrodon SHO
Total integration: 10h30 ( Ha 49 exposures x 5 min, Sii 30 x 5 min, Oiii 77 x 3 min )
Edit in Pixinsight.
Location: my Bortle 6+ backyard.
This galaxy has an inner bar rotating at a faster speed than the outer bars resulting in this shape. Our own galaxy could also be a barred spiral galaxy.
L 13x5m / R 16x5m / G 9x5m / 12x5m) 4.2h
ASA RC-1000AZ
FLI PL16803 (0.27''/pixel)
PI:
Lum - Reg/Drizzle/DC/MMT/HT
RGB - Reg/Drizzle/Reg/RGBComb/PCC/ArcSin/HT/Curves
Data from Telescope.Live
M33 is a large, bright galaxy in the constellation Triangulum. Part of the Local Group of Galaxies, which also includes the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies, it lies at a distance of "only" 2.7 million light years.
Telescope: Tele Vue 76mm Refractor with 0.8x Focal Reducer (383mm focal length)
Camera: QSI 683wsg
Mount: iOptron iEQ45 Pro
Integration: 75 minutes each of RGB (15 x 5mins)
Software: PixInsight 1.8.8
Another project I've been working on, this one is part of the Orion complex, including the Orion, Running Man, Horse head, and Flame nebulae. These things have been extremely fun to put together and as I said with the last one, I love the context it gives when compared to a terrestrial objects. This is all shot at 300mm. Foreground is obviously shot separately from the sky.
The beautiful Rosette Nebula.
Emission nebula lit by bright ultraviolet light from stars at the center. NGC 2237.
fine detail present.
Captured 12/2020
Telescope
ASA 500N, F-3.8
CAMERA FLI PL16803
50 cm Newtonian telescope
Chile
Telescope Live
2 hours total exposure, SHO false color.
Pixinsight and photoshop, Topaz sharpen ai.
Nebula is 100 ly wide, and located at a distance of 5000 ly.
Distance: ca.30 Mio. Lj
Equipment:
TS 10" f/4 ONTC Newton
1000mm f4
ZWO ASI 1600mmc
Astrodon LRGB
Skywatcher EQ8
Guding:
Lodestar on TS Optics - ultra short 9mm Off Axis Guider
PHD2
total exposure time: 8 hours
121x180 luminanz
19x180 red
11x180 green
12x180 blue
14/22/23.03.2020
Processing: PixInsight/Capture One
You are looking at a galaxy edge-on that is located 30 million light years away in the constellation Andromeda.
Consider our own Milky Way galaxy which is a huge disk of stars measuring 100,000 light years in diameter but only 1000 light years thick. So galaxies are quite thin relatively speaking.
A so-called edge-on view of a galaxy is like looking at the edge of a dinner plate and trying to see to the other side through the most dense portion. In the case of a galaxy this is mostly interstellar dust which is the dark linear region you see here. NGC 891, also referred to as the “silver sliver” galaxy, is very similar to our own Milky Way in size and luminosity.
The next time you see the Milky Way in a dark sky remember you are actually looking at it edge on also but this time you are on the inside looking out!
Image info:
Location: SkyPi Remote Observatory, Pie Town, NM US
Telescope: Officina Stellare RiDK 400
Mount: Paramount MEII
Camera: QHY600 M
Data: LRGB 3,5,4,4 hours respectively
Processing: Pixinsight
Peek toward the handle of the Big Dipper with a telescope and you can find the Pinwheel Galaxy also known as M101. It lies 21 million light-years away, meaning the light traveled for 21 million years before hitting my camera's sensor. Discovered in 1781 by Pierre Méchain, one of Charles Messier's colleagues, the spiral arms stretches 170,000 light-years wide—almost twice the size of our Milky Way Galaxy.
Equipment:
SkyWatcher EQ6-R
Nikkor 800mm f/5.6 AI-S at f/5.6
Sony a7rIII (unmodified)
ZWO 30mm Guide Scope
GPCAM2 Mono Camera
Acquisition:
Taos, NM: my front yard - Bortle 3
40 x 212-second exposures for 2 hours, 11 minutes and 20 seconds of exposure time.
5 dark frames
15 flats frames
15 bias frames
Guided
Software:
SharpCap
PHD2
PixInsight
Photoshop
Lightroom
My a7rIII and adapted Nikon 800mm f/5.6 lens were mounted to my SkyWatcher EQ6-R mount using a vixen rail. The guidescope/camera was fixed to the front of the rail. I used SharpCap to achieve "excellent" polar alignment. I shot ISO 1600 at f/5.6. I took 212-second exposures using PHD2 with my guidescope to keep tracking accurately. I brought the lights/darks/flats/bias frames into PixInsight for stacking and aligning and then used: STF, Cropping, GraXpert, Dynamic Background Extraction, BlurXTerminator, plate solving, color correction, NoiseXTerminator, and then the galaxy was separated from the stars using StarXterminator, and both files processed and stretched separately and then recombined using PixelMath. That file was brought into Lightroom for Metadata and EXIF tags, light post-processing, and cropping. I used Photoshop to sharpen the final image.
Newton 200x1000 - HEQ5.
Guidage chercheur + ASI120mc.
123x2min - ISO400.
CANON 1000Dd - Filtre Idas LPS D1 - Correcteur de coma Baader MPCC Mark III.
PixInSight - PS.
Ciel Bortle 8.
☄️ La comète ZTF au 135mm !
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🙏 J’ai eu la chance de pouvoir la photographier alors que la Lune n’était pas encore trop forte et lorsqu’elle était proche de sa luminosité maximale, le 29 Janvier 2023. Après avoir parcouru 200km pour trouver une météo plus favorable, j’ai pu poser 2 setups ici, dans l’Aisne, et imager environ 4 heures. Une nuit très rude à rester éveiller jusqu’à 5h du matin par -5 °C.
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🌠 On peut remarquer très aisément les 3 différentes queues de la comète : la queue de gaz ionisée est la plus longue et la plus détaillée ici. Elle parcourt plusieurs dizaines de millions de kilomètres de long et recouvre près des 2/3 de mon capteur full frame ! La deuxième, plus diffuse, se situe sur le même plan que la première. Elle contient énormément de poussières qui s'échappent du corps de la comète. On la nomme souvent la “chevelure”. Enfin, la troisième, souvent nommée l’”anti-queue”, est opposée aux 2 autres et permet de connaître le direction dans laquelle la comète file. C’est également un résidu de poussière que la comète a laissé derrière elle. La couleur verte qui émane du cœur de la comète est dûe aux interactions chimiques qui se passent entre le Soleil et elle. La couleur verte à proprement dit, n’existe nulle part ailleurs dans l’univers à part aux travers du noyau des comètes.
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Photographier une comète pendant plusieurs heures est un vrai défi car elle bouge très vite, vous n’avez donc pas droit à l’erreur. L’image que je vous présente ici contient donc quelques défauts car le “dithering” est presque impossible ce qui induit du bruit numérique. Je suis très content d’avoir pu obtenir de tels détails sur cette comète, c’est très rare de voir la queue aussi développée au 135mm ! Et quelle ne fût pas ma surprise en découvrant sur une image, une étoile filante passant juste à côté de la comète ! Une chance inouïe d’avoir pu capturer ça, mettant en perspective un petit gravillon passant à quelques dizaines de kilomètres au-dessus du sol et une comète à des dizaines de millions de kilomètres de nous..
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EXIF :
- Canon France EOS R(a)
- Samyang France 135mm f/2
- @skywatcherusa Star Adventurer GTi
- 105*60s ISO1600 f/2
- Pix & PS
- Lune à 53%
- Bortle 4
Handheld and captured with my D500 and 18-200mm lens... This has a deep space vibe to it and I rather like it.
This is the 2nd brightest globular clusters after Omega Centauri and one of the most massive in our galaxy. The cluster has a very dense core where the light falls off to a point vs reaching a flatter profile near the center as in a typical globular cluster. It has been proposed a massive black hole may reside near the center. In the night sky this object is about the size of the full moon.
Takahashi TAO-150B
FLI 16200 (scale 1.1")
AP 1600GTO Abs Encoders
Data from Deepskywest El Sauce Observatory (Rio Hurtado, Chile)
L (23x120s) and (7x300s)
R (16x300s)
G (12x300s)
B (11x300s
Total Integration = 4.6hrs
Pixinsight
BPP
Lum HDRComb/DC/HDRMT/MMT
RGB MMT/ASSx2/HT/CT/LComb
Photoshop
Crop/Levels/Curves
Sharpen Stars w/ Mask
Vibrance
I wasn't quite happy with how the original version of this image turned out, so I decided to start all over with it using a new tool called BlurXTerminator, which works to deconvolve astro images using AI that has been fed data from the Hubble and James Webb telescopes for reference models (this is super interesting because these telescopes shoot from outside our atmosphere and therefore have a clearer view of the stars without the distortions of our atmosphere - among other things) - it's crazy such a thing exists. Anyway, I also processed the image using a Hubble palette, instead of the Ha / Oiii palette, which results in a more pleasing coloration (in my opinion). Anyway, here's the new version!
This is the Elephant Trunk Nebula setting behind Scott mountain here in East Tennessee. The scene is shot entirely at 300mm and is astronomically accurate.
Was blessed with an amazing rare phenomenon (Noctilucent Clouds) after a pleasant evening of astrophotography last weekend
The Orion and Running Man Nebulae are a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. The Orion Nebula is 1,500 light-years away, and the nearest star-forming region to Earth. Technical info: 210 x 300 sec. Astronomik Ha 12 nm filter
173 x 300 sec. Astronomik OIII 12 nm filter
170 x 300 sec Astronomik SII 12 nm filter
Gain 200, Offset 50, Binning 1x1
Total Integration 46.1 hours
Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 APO Refractor
Sensor cooled to -15°C on ZWO ASI1600MM Pro (mono)
Calibration frames: Bias, Darks, and Flats.
Plate Solve-PlateSolver 2 via N.I.N.A. 2.0
Image processing Pixinsight 2.0 and Photoshop 2023
English below
Abell 85 o LBN576, nota come Nebulosa Testa d'Aglio, è un resto di supernova nella costellazione di Cassiopea distante circa 9780 anni luce e di diametro di circa 98 anni luce.
11 ore e 20 minuti in pose guidate da 600 secondi con filtro dualband Antlia ALP-T 5nm, per le stelle un'ora in pose guidate da 60 secondi con filtro broadband SV260. Telescopio newton 150/600 con correttore Tecnosky 0.95x, camera Tecnosky Vision 571C, montatura Eq6-R Pro, elaborazione in Pixinsight.
Abell 85 or LBN576, known as the Garlic Nebula, is a supernova remnant in the constellation Cassiopeia, approximately 9,780 light-years away and approximately 98 light-years in diameter.
11 hours and 20 minutes in 600-second guided exposures with an Antlia ALP-T 5nm dual-band filter, and one hour for stars in 60-second guided exposures with an SV260 broadband filter. 150/600 Newtonian telescope with a Tecnosky 0.95x corrector, Tecnosky Vision 571C camera, EQ6-R Pro mount, and Pixinsight processing.
The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus. Older data reprocessed. Technical Info:
58 x 300 sec. Astronomik Ha 12 nm filter
51 x 300 sec. Astronomik OIII 12 nm filter
56 x 300 sec Astronomik SII 12 nm filter
Gain 200, Offset 50, Binning 1x1
Total Integration 13.8 hours
Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 APO Refractor
Sensor cooled to -15°C on ZWO ASI1600MM Pro (mono)
Calibration frames: Bias, Darks, and Flats.
Plate Solve-PlateSolver 2 via N.I.N.A. 1.11
Image processing Pixinsight 1.8.9-2 and Photoshop 2024