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distance: 2400 ly
Equipment:
Takahashi Epsilon 130ED
ASI294mmPro
ZWO EFW 8x
Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB und SHO MaxFR
Skywatcher EQ8
June/July 2021
Processing: PixInsight/affinity photo
This Globular Clusters in the constellation Serpens is one of the brighter in the sky. It photographs nicely at low exposures. Shot from Bortle 8 skies in New Orleans.
Takahashi FSQ-106 / EM-200 / ASI 2600MM
L 188x30s
RGB 60x30s
Lum: Drizzle (2x, 0.9, circular) / DBE / BlurXterminator / MMT (denoise) / HT / HDR
RGB: Drizzle (2x) / DBE / BlurXterminator / NoiseXterminator / RGBComb / ArcSin (8x2) / LRGB (Sat=0.4)
PS: Dfine2 / Curves / Levels
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This is the culmination of my exploration of Cygnus from my back yard, my summer 2016 mosaic. It has been an adventure into the dark areas of the undulating mountainous nebular complex around Gamma Cygni. I was surprised to find the forgotten Weinberger Planetary Nebula and amazed by the giant nebula structures . The mosaic consists of 8 panels with and integration of around 200 hours of photography over July and August and two weeks of processing. I hope you find it as interesting, as I found the adventure of capturing it.
After many months of clouds, wind and/or extreme temperatures, we finally completed this winter target. Imaged from late February to late March as conditions allowed.
The HII region, Sh 2-261, is often called Lower's nebula because it appears on a photographic plate taken by the father-and-son team of Harold and Charles Lower in 1939.
Image captured over 5 nights; 2022-02-25, 2022-03-06, 21, 24 & 29
15 hours 40 minutes total integration
Ha subs 23 * 1,200 sec = 7 hours 40 min
OIII subs 9 * 1,200 sec = 3 hours
SII subs 15 * 1,200 sec = 5 hours
Imaging Equipment:
SharpStar 140PH Triplet 910mm focal length
Mesu 200 MKII mount,
ZWOASI2600MM Pro camera
SHO 3.0nm filters
La saison d'Orion est bientôt terminée, la Voie Lactée commence à se lever tôt le matin mais j'ai encore quelques clichés du ciel d'hiver à vous partager !
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C'était surement la plus grosse sortie de cet hiver avec @remi.aug . Pas moins de 5 projets photos que j'avais en tête ont étés réalisés. Une nuit qui aura été bien prolifique avec des conditions exceptionnelles du début à la fin.
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Un cliché pensé depuis des mois et des mois et qui m'a rendu la vie un peu difficile au traitement. Ce n'est pourtant pas le projet le plus compliqué que j'ai pu faire lors de cette soirée. La météo m'a clairement empêché de le faire plus tôt dans l'année mais une fois les tempêtes Eunice et Franklin passées, le beau temps est revenu !
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Vous pouvez admirer les principales nébuleuses en Hydrogène (rouge) qui accompagnent notre ciel d'hiver. L'hexagone d'hiver se dessine au centre de l'image, il est formé par 6 étoiles brillantes et permet de connaître le positionnement de la Voie Lactée car elle passe en son centre.
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La Voie Lactée est bien visible au dessus de la mer, c'est grâce à l'absence de pollution lumineuse. On peut quand même remarquer l'énorme pollution de Boulogne-sur-Mer à gauche, quelques villes très éloignées mais avec une pollution lumineuse quand même visible (Le Tréport, Dieppe, etc...), quelques bateaux et sur la droite de l'image, les premières villes des côtes anglaises.
A cool region of sky containing (surprise) a lot of dust and reflection. LDN 1355, the helping hand nebula, is rather aptly named. It appears to sit in front of a reflection region, Van den Bergh 9. VdB 7 is visible on the right hand side of the frame.
- Location: Remote Observatory (Bortle 1, SQM 21.99) near Fort Davis, TX
- Total Exposure Time: 33.3 Hours
Equipment:
- Scope: Esprit 100ED w/ 1x Flattener
- Imaging Camera: QHY 268M
- Filters: Chroma LRGB (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:
- L: 332 x 3m
- R: 113 x 3m
- G: 112 x 3m
- B: 110 x 3m
- All images at Gain 56, Offset 25 (Readout mode 1) and -5C sensor temperature
- 20 flats per filter
- Master Dark, Flat & Bias from Library
- Nights: 8/2, 8/3, 8/6, 8/7, 8/22, 8/26, 8/27, 8/29, 9/5, 9/6, 9/20, 9/21, 10/3, 10/4/22
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Processing:
- WeightedBatchPreProcessing for calibration
- Blink to remove unwanted subs
- ImageIntegration for stacking of masters
RGB Processing (apply to each master):
- DynamicCrop
- MureDenoise
- DynamicBackgroundExtraction
- StarAlign G and B to Red
- ChannelCombination to combine into linear RGB
- StarAlign to Lum
- HistogramTransformation x 4 to stretch
- NoiseXterminator for NR
- CurvesTransformation for saturation and hue adjustment
- ColorMask to create green chrominance mask - apply to image
- CurvesTransformation to bring down green patches
- Further unmasked CurvesTransformation to neutralize blue hue of image
Luminance Processing:
- DynamicCrop
- MureDenoise
- DynamicBackgroundExtraction
- StarXterminator to make starless and generate star_mask
- GeneralizedHyperbolicStretch for initial stretch to non-linear
- HistogramTransformation x3 for further strethc
- Slight NoiseXterminator for NR with Lum_mask
- CurvesTransformation for contrast
- Additional masked NoiseXterminator for NR
Combine Lum and RGB and further processing:
- LRGBCombination to combine Luminance and RGB
- CurvesTransformation for color balancing
- ACDNR with Luminance mask for chrominance noise reduction
- Slight CurvesTransformation for contrast
- UnsharpMask for slight sharpening
- LocalHistogramEqualization for slight detail boost
Add Stars back in to image:
- HistogramTransformation x3 on RGB stars - save all 3 instances of HT
- Invert -> SCNR -> invert back to remove magenta
- CurvesTransformation to remove green hue and saturate stars
- Apply saved HistogramTransformation instances to extracted Luminance stars
- LRGBCombination to combine luminance stars with RGB stars with saturation at 0.35
- CurvesTranformation on combined stars to increase blue channel
- HistogramTransformation on stars and nebula images to bring to pseudo-linear state
- PixelMath to combine stars and nebula images
- HistogramTransformation to "re-stretch" image with both nebula and stars
Further Processing:
- CurvesTransformation for slight contrast adjustment
- MMT to disable layer 12 for chrominance noise blotching
- Additional CurvesTransformations to color balance
- NoiseXterminator (2 rounds) with luminance mask for additional noise reduction
- Invert -> SCNR Green -> Invert to remove magenta cast
- MMT for debotch and chrominance NR using inverted luminance masks
- Final CurvesTransformation for contrast
- DynamicCrop to remove edges
- Save and export
Continuing my series of deep space objects juxtaposed with terrestrial objects, this is the Elephant Trunk Nebula setting behind a mountain here in the Smokies. The entire scene was captured at 300mm and is astronomically correct, however was obviously not captured in a single photo.
By comparison, the moon at this focal length would fit inside the dark area at the center of the nebula.
IC 2944, aka the Running Chicken Nebula, is an emission nebula associated with an open star cluster in the constellation Centaurus. Just right of centre are Thackeray's Globules - a group of Bok Globules comprised of dense cosmic dust and gas. Bok Globules are often a site of star formation but not in this case.
Captured at Yass, Australia 5-24 April, 2018.
Scope: Planewave CDK17 @ f/6.8 = 2939mm FL
Mount: Paramount ME
Camera: SBIG STXL-11002/AOX
Filters: Astrodon LRGB gen II, 3nm NB
Image scale: 0.63 arcsec/pixel
Exposures: 14x1800s Ha, 14x1800s Oiii, 14x1800s Sii (21 hours)
Processing: PixInsight 1.8.5
RGB shot
2 panel mosaic
1,8 hours per panel
Equipment:
Epsilon 130ED
QHY268m
Astronomik Filter
Skywatcher EQ8
September 2022
Processing: PixInsight
Reprocess of old data.
Equipment:
Scope: GSO 8" f/4 with 2" moonlight autofocuser, flocked
Coma corrector: TS GPU
Mount: EQ6-R
Camera: Nikon D750 mod
Guide scope: ZWO 280/60
Guide camera: ZWO ASI 120MC-S
Filter: Antlia ALP-T / Baader UV/IR Cut
Acquisition:
Location: central Poland, Bortle 5/6
Lights:
- ALP-T: 130x300s ISO 400
- Baader UV/IR Cut: 33x90s ISO 400
Darks: none
Flats: x70
Bias: x50
Total integration time: 11h 39min
Orion nebula, horsehead nebula, witch head nebula, and more rising over a volcanic plug in the Navajo volcanic field in northwestern New Mexico, as seen with an 85mm lens on a full frame camera.
Can you believe this image took only 1 hour of exposures to stack to this level of cleanliness? New Mexico has some of the darkest skies in the United States, and the high altitude allows for even better imaging conditions than you get in many other dark sky national parks.
And being winter with sunset so early in the day, it means you can image something like this, eat dinner, and go to sleep at a reasonable hour! This image was stacked for denoising, but the perspective is unaltered, i.e. if we had extremely sensitive eyes, this is exactly how you would see it.
More than 38 hours of total exposures went into this 4 panels mosaic covering about 140 square degrees of sky.
Pentax 67 EDIF 300mm f/4 - FLI Proline 16803 - Ha (920m) OIII (890) R (160m) G (160m) B (160m) - Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia
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Crop.
120 x 2min ISO400.
Lunette APO80x480 + correcteur + filtre IDAS lps d1 + 1000D défiltré.
Heq5 pro goto + guidage chercheur ASI120mc.
Siril + PS.
Bortle 8
Acquisitions 03/05/2023 : 86 x 180s soit 4h18 seulement au total + DOF (version croppée)
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Lunette SW 80ED sur HEQ5
Correcteur réducteur 0.85x
ZWO ASI294MC-PRO
Filtre L-Pro 2"
Guidage: ZWO ASI290MM et ZWO guidescope F/4
Lᴏɢɪᴄɪᴇʟs ⬇️
Guidage: PHD2
Prise de vue: N.I.N.A
Empilement et Pré traitement: Siril
Traitement: Photoshop, Starnet
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Located in the constellation Orion and is associated with the open star cluster NGC 2175. NGC 2174 is about 6,400 light-years away from Earth.
Image captured over 8 nights; 2021-03-07 to 2021-03-16.
13 hours total integration
Ha subs 15 * 1,200sec = 5 hours
OIII subs 13 * 1,200sec = 4 hours 20 minutes
SII subs 11 * 1,200sec = 3 hours 40 minutes
Imaging Equipment:
SharpStar 140PH Triplet 910mm focal length
Mesu 200 MKII,
ZWOASI2600MM Pro camera
3nm Ha, OIII & SII filters
NGC 2359 - better known as Thor's Helmet - is an emission nebula located about 12,000 light-years away in the constellation of Canis Major. Also known as Sh2-198 and Gum 4, NGC 2359 is a “bubble” nebula measuring approximately 30 light-years across in size. It has a very complex structure and is powered by its central star, WR7, a Wolf-Rayet star, an extremely hot star that is thought to be in the pre-supernova stage.
This is my first image of 2022 and results from only 2.5 hours of Narrowband data collected on March 9 and March 29, 2022.
This image was shot with my Astro-Physics 130mm F/8.35 Telescope Platform with the IOptron CEM60 and the ASI2600MM-Pro Camera with Astronomiks 6mm narrowband fitters.
This spring's weather has been problematic, and this target is located very low in the sky between trees on my property, which gives me only about 1.5 hours of access on any given night. I only had two nights clear, allowing the capture of photons, and now it is beyond my reach, so I cannot add to it this year.
So with a paltry 2.5 hours of data - what could be done to pull an image out of the noise?
While far from a perfect image, I was a little surprised that it came out as well as it did, given the low integration time!
The story of the image and complete processing details can be seen on my website at:
cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/ngc2359-thors-helmet
Thanks for looking, and let me know if you have any questions!
CS,
Pat
Officially named NGC 281, IC 11 or Sh2-184, the nebula is popularly named the Pacman Nebula for its resemblance to Pac-Man, the character in the popular 1980s maze video game. A dark dust lane forms the Pac-Man’s mouth.
The Pacman Nebula is a bright emission nebula and part of an H II region in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia. It is part of the Milky Way's Perseus Spiral Arm, lies approximately 9,200 light years from Earth and stretches 48 light years across.
The nebula is a star-forming region that contains young stars, large dark dust lanes and Bok globules. Bok globules are small, dense dark nebulae packed with material from which new stars are formed.
EXIF
ZWO ASI 1600MM
Baader Ha Oiii RGB filters
William Optics Megrez 88 f/5.6
Skywatcher AZ-GTI controlled with ASIAir
Total integration time: 4h20min
I have just returned from a trip to southern California. This area is a desert, and has so many amazing desert bird species, which I spent a lot of time photographing. Another goal I had for this trip was to visit the light-pollution free skies of Joshua Tree National Park to photograph the Milky Way. The Milky Way is tough in March as it only rises in the last few hours of the night. We had to up at 3:30 AM to photograph it! We would have about two hours to photograph it before it would begin to fade as the sun begins to rise, and those two hours were some of the most amazing of my life. Seeing so many stars and the Milky Way with the naked eye was amazing! I have never seen anything like it before. It was an incredible experience, something I will never forget!
I took tons of pictures, and this was one of my favorites. The orange light on the horizon is light pollution likely coming from a nearby city like Indio.
Canon EOS 7D Mark II | Tokina 16.5-135mm f/3.5-5.6 AT-X DX @ 17mm | 13 seconds | ISO 12800 | f/3.5
In the constellation of Ursa Major, at about 25 million light years from us lies the Pinwheel Galaxy. This beautiful galaxy has 170,000 light years across, about twice of our Milky Way.
In the photo, two types of color clusters hint on the objects present: the red-pinkish ones are the hydrogen rich nebulas where star forming is taking place and the blue ones on the spiral arms are clusters of young and hot blue stars.
This photo is a cropped reprocessing of my previously published photo.
Shot at Santa Susana, Portugal on Mar.26th and Barcarena, Portugal on Apr.1st and Apr.28th 2022.
Technical details:
LUM: 129 x 180’’ (6h45)
RGB: 160 x 180’’ (8h00)
Ha: 82 x 300’’ (6h50)
Total integration: 21h35
TS Optics Triplet APO 800/115 | QHYCCD 268M | Skywatcher AZ EQ5-GT | Optolong RGB | Baader Ha 6nm TSOptics TSFLAT 3’ 0.79x
Acquisition: N.I.N.A. | Processing: Pixinsight
Giant Star Lightfalls
Interplanetary Travel
Youtube: The Moon Meditation
4K | Plutonia - Interplanetary Travel
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• Astronomik L: 47x300s bin1 gain 0
• Astronomik RGB: 36x300s bin2 gain 125
(total integration 6.9h)
• 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
Explanation: Follow the handle of the Big Dipper away from the dipper's bowl, until you get to the handle's last bright star. Then, just slide your telescope a little south and west and you might find this stunning pair of interacting galaxies, the 51st entry in Charles Messier's famous catalog. Perhaps the original spiral nebula, the large galaxy with well defined spiral structure is also cataloged as NGC 5194. Its spiral arms and dust lanes clearly sweep in front of its companion galaxy (left), NGC 5195. The pair are about 31 million light-years distant and officially lie within the angular boundaries of the small constellation Canes Venatici. Though M51 looks faint and fuzzy to the human eye, the above long-exposure, deep-field image taken last month shows much of the faint complexity that actually surrounds the smaller galaxy. (Text from apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090526.html)
This photo was taken for four nights in May and June 2013 in Crimea and Khlepcha observatory near Kiev, Ukraine.
Equipment: reflector S&D 10" f/4.7, Mount WhiteSwan-180, camera QSI-583wsg, Tevevue Paracorr-2. Off-axis guidecamera Orion SSAG.
LRGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
L=20*900 sec. bin.1 RGB: 10*900 sec. each channel, bin.1 Total exposure 12.5 hours.
North left.
Processed Pixinsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6.
This is a faint emission nebula in the shape of a claw near the more famous bubble nebula. I processed the narrowband data using a HOOS technique.
Imaged in New Orleans, LA in Bottle 8 skies.
SHO: 35/73/53x15m
Total Integration = 40.75h
PI: BXT, SXT, NXT, Rescreen, HOOS Comb, HT
Lum: H, HT, CT, HDR, LRGBComb
PS: Levels, Curves, Sat, SH, Star Screen
Eq:
Scope: GSO 8" f/4 with 2" Moonlite autofocuser, flocked
Coma corrector: TS GPU
Mount: EQ6-R
Camera: Nikon D750 mod
Guide scope: ZWO 280/60
Guide camera: ZWO ASI 120MC-S
Filter: Baader UV/IR cut
Acquisition:
Location: central Poland, Bortle 5/6
Lights: 140x90s ISO 1600, 26x30s ISO 1600, 28x10s ISO 1600
Darks: none
Flats: x80 per night
Bias: x100
Total integration time: 3h 48min
Software: Pixinsight (+rc-astro), Photoshop
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, is a true wonder of the cosmos. From its location in the southern sky, the Large Magellanic Cloud offers a breathtaking view of a celestial spectacle - two big, bright smudges of light hanging over the southern horizon like two stubborn clouds refusing to dissipate.
With the help of a telescope and camera, its glowing gas clouds and vibrant colours reveal a dazzling display of cosmic artistry. The colourful regions peppered across the galaxy are a massive collection of supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and star clusters. Intense radiations from those active targets energise the nearby hydrogen gases, causing them to glow like neons. Perhaps the most striking target is the Tarantula Nebula (the largest nebula seen in the pictures), a sprawling gas cloud resembling a giant spider dancing in the night sky.
(The data was acquired from Telescope Live, which I processed using Pixinsight and Photoshop).
🌺 Balade cosmique dans le jardin de Diane de Poitiers ✨.
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Cet été était prévu un très court road trip de quelques jours pour visiter un maximum de châteaux de la Loire avec @amande.sen 💜. Et comme d’habitude, je ne peux pas m'empêcher de sortir faire de l’astro quand j’en ai l’occasion surtout dans ce secteur où le ciel est bien sombre. Bien-sûr j’avais des rêves d’astrophotos avec les châteaux en tête mais en sachant pertinemment que ça allait être compliqué de trouver ces lieux ouverts de nuit…
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J’ai eu l’immense chance d’avoir accès à Chenonceau de nuit pour moi tout seul, chose qui ne se fait pratiquement jamais surtout aussi tard la nuit en été. Je suis tellement reconnaissant pour cette opportunité et je remercie infiniment la personne qui a rendu cela possible 🙏. Avancer dans l’allée centrale, voir le château au loin, se rapprocher, déambuler dans les magnifiques jardins de nuit, c’était un mélange d'émotions et un sentiment d’être tellement privilégié de me tenir ici. La magie est encore montée d’un cran quand toutes les lumières se sont éteintes…
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🏰 Je voulais faire le maximum de projets photos que j’avais en tête pour ne rien regretter. J’en avais 2, peut-être 3 dépendant de la météo qui prévoyait des nébulosités en fin de nuit… Il y en a bien eu 3 et on commence par le dernier : un panorama ultra détaillé réalisé au 135mm avec le centre de la Voie Lactée passant juste derrière le château et la région de Rho Ophiuchi derrière la Tour des Marques, le tout s’alignant avec le superbe jardin de Diane de Poitiers. Le cadre est idyllique, on dirait que l’alignement de ces 3 éléments a été pensé tellement c’est parfait, la géométrie et les courbes menant vers le fond l’image… A ce moment, je m'imaginais les balades sous les étoiles qui pouvaient se passer ici il y a plusieurs siècles, c’est juste dingue.
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EXIF :
-@canonfrance EOS R(a) by a-m.de
-@samyangfrance 135mm f/2 ED UMC
-@nisifrance Natural Night Filter
-@skywatcherofficial Star Adventurer GTi
-Ciel : 16 tuiles 45s f/2.4 ISO1600
-Sol : 12 tuiles 45s f/2 ISO3200
-Pix/PS/DxO/PTgui
The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is one of my favorite spring targets. Not only is the region extremely colorful, it also consists of many interesting astronomical objects:
- Rho Ophiuchi is the star within the blue reflection nebula. If you zoom into the image you can see that it is actually a 3-star system. The blue color of the nebula is produced by Rayleigh Scattering, the same process that colors our daylight sky blue.
- The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex on the other hand is the dark nebula south of the star Rho Ophiuchi. At a distance of 427 light-years, it is one of the closest star forming regions to the solar system.
- The yellow star within the yellow nebula is Antares, the brightest star of the constellation Scorpius. It is a red supergiant, nearing the end of its live. The star has depleted the fuel supply of hydrogen within its core and is now bloated to monstrous proportions. As it goes through its death throes, the star has expelled a lot of its mass as shells of gas and dust into space. The nebulosity surrounding Antares is created by this gas and dust which is reflecting the dying star’s yellowish light.
- To the right of Antares is the globular cluster M4. Globular clusters are massive, tightly packed spheres that contain thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of individual stars.
- Above M4 you find Sigma Scorpii. It is multiple star system of hot, young stars, emitting of UV radiation. As this high energy UV light hits the hydrogen atoms it energizes them, and the electrons separate from the atomic nucleus. When they recombine, the electrons give off a reddish-pink light which makes the gas cloud glow.
- Below Antares is Tau Scorpii, surrounded by another faint emission nebula of energized hydrogen.
- Both Sigma and Tau Scorpii share the same name: Al Niyat. They got their name from ancient Arabic astronomers and it means, "the arteries". Seeing how these stars with their red nebula flank Antares, the heart of Scorpius, it makes sense that they could be viewed as the arteries of that colossal, dying heart.
As you can see, the region around Rho Ophiuchi has it all. Its colors tell a story of darkness and light, of peaceful coexistence and violence and of birth and death.
EXIF
Canon EOS 6D, astro-modified
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 135mm
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sky:
15 × 60s @ ISO1600
Foreground:
7 x 60s @ ISO3200
is a barred spiral galaxy located 22.5 million light years away
distance 22.5 Mly
exposure time: 13,7 hours
Processing: PixInsight/affinity photo
Equipment:
10" /f4 TS ONTC Newton
ASI1600mmc v2
ZWO EFW 8x
Skywatcher EQ8
Guiding TS9 OAG Lodestar
247x120s Luminanz
55x120s red
50x120s green
59x120s blue
February/March 2021
Little Bright Blue Stars
My Interplanetary Memories
Interplanetary Travel
As the two suns illuminating the planet set behind the mountains, bright blue stars began to illuminate the sky. They looked like little blue light bulbs. They were like those little blue light bulbs that light up the scene on a wedding night. I really felt like I was at a country wedding while watching the sparkles of the stars. But I was the only guest at this wedding. There was no one around me to dance with. There was neither a groom nor a bride in this country wedding, illuminated by the stars in the sky. There was only me. Maybe this was the wedding of my eternal solitude. That night, under the stars, the whole universe witnessed this agreement that would last forever with my loneliness. It was a night when I blessed my loneliness. Thanks to this wedding, my loneliness would not bother me for many years and I would be able to continue my journey in space without any problems. It was as I thought. For many years, I never thought of my loneliness. I was very healthy mentally. Until the end of these long years. For the past year, all I've been thinking about was no longer the lost civilization of Plutonia. There was one more profound thing occupying my mind. My loneliness. I couldn't help but think about this situation. Maybe I should have made myself a new wedding of solitude. I should have remarried my loneliness. It is very difficult to make a decision in this huge vacuum of space. I want to get to the ending without hurting myself any further. I don't know yet what this ending will be. All I want is an end.
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
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
80x180 luminanz
22x180 red
22x180 green
22x180 blue
total exposure time: 7,3 hours
Processing: PixInsight/Capture One
Old data processing of M106 galaxy ( 24/04/2020 ) .
Processed with the help of sp.la.sh.id, find him on Instagram: www.instagram.com/sp.la.sh.id/
Gear used:
■ Mount: skywatcher neq-6 goto with Rowan modification belt
■ Telescope: skywatcher 200/1000 F/5
■ Autoguiding: Asi 120mm
■ Total exposure: 2H25m || 29 X 300 seconds
■ Camera: modified canon eos 700d astrodon
■ Filter(s): no filter
■ Other optic(s): baader coma corrector
■ Software : Siril / PixInsight / photoshopCC
Unfortunately the seeing and the conditions were bad and got worse and worse that i had to break off early.
Many haze clouds were around.
Also the collimation of the RC-Telescope is still not very good.
/// Setup
- Camera: Moravian G2-8300 + OAG
- Telescope: TS 10" RC 254/2000
- TS 2.5" Corrector
- Mount: Paramount MX+ on concrete pier
- Guiding Camera: Starlite Xpress Lodestar X2
/// Software
- Capturing Software: TheSkyX, Kstars Ekos
- Processing Software: PixInsight 1.8
/// Image Integration
- 3x900" H-alpha / bin 1x1 / -30°C
- 2x900" OIII / bin 1x1 / -30°C
(1.25h)
NDN 935, NGC7000 H-Alpha
distance: 2000 - 3000 ly
NDN 935, NGC7000 HSO RGB
distance: 2000 - 3000 ly
Equipment:
10" /f4 TS ONTC Newton
QHY268m
Astronomik H-Alpha MaxFR
Skywatcher EQ8
September 2021
Processing: PixInsight/affinity photo
Explanation: These two spiral galaxies make a photogenic pair, found within the boundaries of the northern constellation Draco. Contrasting in color and orientation, NGC 5965 is nearly edge-on to our line of sight and dominated by yellow hues, while bluish NGC 5963 is closer to face-on. Of course, even in this well-framed cosmic snapshot the scene is invaded by other galaxies, including small elliptical NGC 5969 at the upper left. Brighter, spiky stars in our own Milky Way are scattered through the foreground. Though they seem to be close and of similar size, galaxies NGC 5965 and NGC 5963 are far apart and unrelated, by chance appearing close on the sky. NGC 5965 is about 150 million light-years distant and over 200,000 light-years across. Much smaller, NGC 5963 is a mere 40 million light-years away and so is not associated with the edge-on spiral. Difficult to follow, NGC 5963's extraordinarily faint blue spiral arms mark it as a low surface brightness galaxy. (text: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120216.html)
This picture was photographed during April 2016 in Rozhen observatory, Bulgaria.
Equipment: home assembled reflector 10 in., f/3.8
Mount WhiteSwan-180 with a control system «Eqdrive Standart», camera QSI-583wsg, Televue Paracorr-2. Off-axis guidecamera QHY5L-II.
LRGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
L = 31 * 900 seconds , bin.1, RGB = 15* 450-600 seconds, bin.2 each filter. 14 hours total.
FWHM source in L filter 1.86"-2.76", sum in L channel - 2.30"
The height above the horizon from 58° to 75°, the scale of 1"/ pixel.
Processed Pixinsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6
NGC7822 & SH2-171 imaged from Seven Skies Observatory 2022-09-21 thru 2022-10-04.
The third of 3 images captured during our 'test run' with the new observatory.
NGC 7822 is a young star forming complex in the constellation of Cepheus. The complex encompasses the emission region designated Sharpless 171, and the young cluster of stars named Berkeley 59. NGC7822 is approximately 2,900 light years from Earth.
Image captured over 8 nights; 2022-09-21, 24, 25, 26, 27 & 30, 2022-10-01, & 03
18 hours 40 minutes total integration
Ha subs: 27 * 1,200 sec = 9 hours
OIII subs: 14 * 1,200 sec = 4 hours 40 min
SII subs: 15 * 1,200 sec = 5 hours
Imaging Equipment:
SharpStar 140PH Triplet 910mm focal length
Mesu 200 MKII mount,
ZWOASI2600MM Pro camera
SHO 3.0nm filters
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
2.4 hours of 3 min stacked exposures. 120mm Skywatcher , Canon Rebel 6ti mod, My first great astrophoto. 1,500 light-years away. The left star is the left star in Orion's Belt.
Caldwell Object 79
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Constellation: Vela
Magnitude: +6.75
Apparent size: 20 arc min
Diameter: 93 light years.
Distance: 16,000 light years.
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Image date: 2021-03-04
Exposure: 44 minutes
Frames: 11×239.6 sec
Field of View: 1.59° x 1.06°
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This is my latest deep-space photography shot. This was from October 26th at Lake Hudson Recreational Area in Michigan. This image is from 68 minutes of data exposure (34 photographs each at 2-minute exposures).
Located close to the Orion Nebula and usually included in the same frame but not very often given the main stage.
Imaged 17 Dec 2022 on a single night test imaging session after a complete rebuild of the Celestron C11 Edge HD imaging setup.
This is 362 x 60 second subframes totaling 6 hours of integration.
The full details are available on my Astrobin page astrob.in/w1lbb3/0/
Technical summary:
Celestron C11 Edge HD with 0.7 focal reducer.
ZWO ASI2600 MC Pro camera.
Baader Moon and Sky Glow filter.
EQ6 R Pro mount.
200mm guide scope.
No flats, no darks only 50 bias frames for calibration.
Edited with PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom Classic.
On this night the skies were beautifully clear and I was able to capture the data to create this image of Centaurus A (aka NGC5128 or 'The Hamburger Galaxy').
This is one of the closest radio galaxies to earth and is the fifth-brightest in the sky thanks to the supermassive black hole at the centre. This black hole has an estimated mass of around 55 million solar masses and ejects cosmic rays from it's core which can be captured in images taken at different wavelengths.
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Image Information
Telescope: Planewave 17" CDK | f6.8
Camera: FLI Proline 16803 CCD
Mount: Planewave Ascension 200HR
Exposure Details: L 12 x 300 sec (bin 1x1), R 6 x 200 sec (bin 2x2), G 6 x 150 sec (bin 2x2), B 6 x 300 sec (bin 2x2),
Observatory: Siding Spring, NSW, Australia
Date Taken: 15 April 2020
Post-Processing: AstroPixelProcessor, Lightroom Classic CC
The Iris Nebula or NGC 7023, is a reflection nebula, its color comes from the light of its central star, which lies in the constellation Cepheus. You can find it nearish to the North Star. It is located ~1,400 light-years away from Earth, and its gasses stretch ~6 light-years across.
Equipment:
Celestron CGEM Mount
Nikon 500mm f/4 P AI-s
Sony a7RIII (unmodified)
Altair 60mm Guide scope
GPCAM2 Mono Camera
Acquisition:
Taos, NM: my backyard - Bortle 3
101 x 181" for 5 hours 4 min and 41 sec of exposure time.
6 dark frames
15 flats frames
15 bais frames
Guided
Software:
SharpCap
PixInsight
Lightroom
Photoshop
My mount was polar aligned with SharpCap (what an amazing system for aligning). I then mounted my a7RIII and adapted Nikon 500mm f/4 P Ai-s lens to the top rail of my scope. I used SharpCap to achieve "excellent" polar alignment. I shot ISO 3200, f/4 and 181" exposures. Image frames were stacked and integrated and processed in PixInsight using: STF, Cropping, Dynamic Background Extraction, BlurXTerminator, plate solving, color correction, NoiseXTerminator and then the DSO was separated from the stars, 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 to the final image.