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William Optics FLT 132 Apo triplet
ZwoASI2600MC Pro
Optolong L-Pro broadband filter
20-300 second subs
Deepsky Stacker
Adobe Photoshop CC 2021
William Optics FLT 132 APO triplet
ZwoASI2600MC Pro
Optolong L-Pro broadband filter
23-300 second subs
Deepsky Stacker
Adobe Photoshop CC 2021
Orion Nebula Wide Angle
Equipment
Imaging cameras:Canon T3
Mounts:@celestronuniverse CG5 Advanced GT
Lights= 269 x 30s
Integration: 2.15 hrs
Darks= 50
Bias=50
Focal Length:120 mm
ISO Speed800
Resolution: 4272x2848
Seeing: 5
Transparency: 9
Dates:Jane 31, 2021
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Processing
- Debayer
- Cosmetic Correction
- WeightedBatchPreprocessing (adding darks,bias,flats and lights)
- applied STF auto-stretch
- DBE, subtraction
- Background Neutralization
- ColorCalibration
- SCNR, removing 85% green
- acdnr
- Histogram Transformation
- Curves color calibration
- touch up in PS noise removal and remove of gradient
Captured with:
William Optics Zenithstar 73 Apo doublet
Optolong L-Pro broadband filter
Zwo ASI2600MC Pro
Guided with:
Radian Raptor 61 Apo triplet
Zwo ASI290MM mini guide camera
Celestron CGX equatorial mount
35-180 second subs
SharpCap captured
DeepSky Stacker
Adobe Photoshop CC 2021
Here is the completed IC 1396 Elephant Trunk Nebula. This region of gas and dust is located 2400 light years away in the constellation Cepheus. The region was discovered to be an active star forming region back in 2003 with stars as young as 100,000 years old. This is my first completed DSO project since moving to England and despite battling streetlights (that thankfully turn off at around 1am) and the shortening nights, the weather has been fairly cooperative at night lately.
Equipment: Orion ED80, Skyview Pro mount, ASI1600MM Pro, Astrodon Ha/Oiii/Sii filters
Data:
51 x 300sec Ha 5nm, Gain 300, -30C
35 x 300sec Oiii 3nm, Gain 300, -30C
37 x 300sec Sii 5nm, Gain 300, -30C
The Western Veil Nebula (or the Witch's Broom Nebula for obvious reasons) on the top right along with Pickering's Triangle.
The image FOV is about 2 degrees wide, making it four times as wide as the full Moon. It would be great if our eyes were sensitive enough to see these terrifyingly large things in the sky.
The reds are mainly hydrogen alpha emission (areas of ionized hydrogen) and the bluish-green is due to Oiii emission corresponding to regions of doubly ionized oxygen.
The Veil Nebulae are part of the larger Cygnus Loop supernova remnant which is an expanding spherical shell material left over from an exploding star.
This was also the session where I finally got plate solving to work so now the rig knows what it is looking at, then compare it to what it should be looking at and then make the necessary adjustments.
Acquisition details
Lights: 10 x 300s = 50 mins at Voorhees State Park (Bortle 5)
Lights: 14 x 300s = 1 hr 10 mins at Summit NJ (Bortle 7-8)
Darks: 12 x 300s
Camera: ASI294MC pro at - 10°C
Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme
Scope: William Optics z103 710mm x 0.8 reducer/flattener (Flat6AIII) = 568mm effective focal range
Mount: iOptron ieq30 pro
Guidescope: 50mm guidescope
Guide camera: ASI120MM mini
Software: NINA for global acquisition control, PHD2 for guiding. ASTAP for stacking, Photoshop for stretching, denoising. Lightroom for final touches and framing.
Do you see the alien skull? This is the Rosette Nebula, a region of atomic hydrogen that has been ionized (HII region) by the star cluster in the middle.
The plan was to take about 40 x 200s exposures resulting in over 2 hours of integration. However, a tree came out of nowhere and ruined all the best laid plans of mice and screwed up guiding in most of the photos. At the end only 7 images were usable resulting in just under 25 mins of data.
The structure is about 5000 ly away and 130 ly wide.
Acquisition details
Lights: 7 x 200s = 23.3 mins
Darks: 10
Flats: telescope is too big to point at white monitor image :(
Camera: ASI294MC pro at - 10°C
Filter: Optolong L-Enhance
Scope: William Optics z103 710mm x 0.8 reducer/flattener (Flat6AIII) = 568mm effective focal range
Mount: iOptron ieq30 pro
Guidescope: 50mm guidescope
Guide camera: ASI120MM mini
Software: NINA for global acquisition control, PHD2 for guiding. ASTAP for stacking, Photoshop for stretching, denoising, and final touches.
William Optics FLT 132
ZwoASI2600MC Pro
11-300 second subs
DeepSky stacker
Adobe Photoshop CC 2021
No filter
William Optics Zenithstar 73 Apo doublet
ZwoASI2600MC Pro
Optolong L-Pro broadband filter
19-420 second subs
Deepsky stacker
Adobe Photoshop CC 2021
The Whirlpool Galaxy (and a few really faint ones in the background)!
16 x 5 minute light frames; flat and bias frames added, but no auto guiding.
My rig:
8” Celestron edge 8
Skywatcher EQ6Rpro mount
ZWO 294mcPRO camera
ZWO ASIAIR controller
AstroPixel Processor stacking
My equipment supplier: @highpointscientific
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#astropixelprocessor
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#psalm19
Acquisition Details:
Imaging telescopes or lenses: William Optics Space Cat 51
Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI 183MM-Cool Pro
Gain: 111
Mounts: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro
Guiding telescopes or lenses: ZWO Mini 120 f4
Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI 120 M
Focal reducers: N/A
Software: N.I.N.A., DSS, PHOTOSHOP, STARNET++
Dates: November 20, 2020
Frames:
Astronomik Ha 12nm: 3 hrs
Astronomik OIII 12nm: 2 hrs
Astronomik SII 12nm: N/A
Integration: 5 hours
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Altair Starwave 115 F7
Altair 50mm guide scope
Cannon 600d ( modded )
.79 reducer
CLS Filter
APT
Guided in PHD
Stacked in DSS
Photoshop
Left to right, these are the Lagoon (Messier 8) and Triffid (M 20) nebulae. These nebulae are located in the constellation of Sagittarius and are surrounded by the stars of the Milky Way. Open Star Cluster Messier 21 should also be visible to the upper right of Triffid.
I am still figuring this hobby out, but I am really happy with this image.
This was taken with just over an hour of data from a location near Cherry Springs State Park in Pennsylvania, USA. These are very dark skies (Bortle 2 on the light pollution scale). No filters were used and very little processing was required. I was also very lucky because the clouds were not cooperative.
Here is a link to the details. astrob.in/g5l0t6/0/
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Here is the result of me taking an image from both my light polluted skies near Pittsburgh, PA and from dark skies in Potter County, PA. This is the Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888). It is located in the Cygnus Constellation.
Technical details in the link: astrob.in/rq5c3f/B/
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