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Taken from my light polluted driveway
Gear used...
Askar PHQ65 with Reducer
ZWO ASI294MC Pro
iOptron CEM26
ZWO ASI120MM Mini
ZWO 30mm guide scope
Optolong L-Extreme filter
16 / 600 second exposures
3 Dark Frames
Información sobre este cometa:
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/46P/Wirtanen
Distancia: 14.8 millones de km
Constelación: Eridanus
Telescope: Celestron C9.25 Edge
Camera: ZWO ASI071 Pro
Focal ratio: f2.3
Exposure:
RGB: 3 hr 15 min (65 x 3 min)
Capturing software: Sequence Generator Pro
Filter: IDAS LPS D1
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Guiding: Orion StarShoot Autoguider with PHD2 and Stellarvue F60M3
Dithering: Yes
Calibration: No darks, 100 bias, 50 flats
Processing: PixInsight
Date: 05-Dic-2018
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Nikon d5500
50mm + Hoya Red Intensifier filter
ISO 3200
f/3.2
Foreground: 15 x 10 seconds
Sky: 10 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
25 shot panorama of the Milky Way setting over Yenyening Lakes near Beverley, about 2 hours east of Perth in Western Australia.
Even though this shot was taken very shortly after winter, the lake bed is dry.
Constelación en que se encuentra: Orión
Distancia: 6400 años luz
De la NASA y Sky Safari:
La nebulosa Cabeza de Mono (Monkey head nebula) está a 6400 años luz de distancia y tiene 16 años luz de diámetro físico.
Es un área de formación de estrellas que alberga nubes de polvo oscuro recortadas contra gas brillante. Las estrellas masivas recién formadas cerca del centro de la expulsan polvo dentro de la nebulosa, que está compuesta principalmente de gas hidrógeno, ionizado por la radiación ultravioleta. A medida que las partículas de polvo se calientan por la radiación de las estrellas en el centro de la nebulosa, se calientan y comienzan a brillar en longitudes de onda infrarrojas.
En la foto también se pueden ver otros objetos como estrellas variables (V) y la nebulosa Sh2-247, parte de la constelación Géminis, que es otra zona de formación de estrellas.
Datos de la imagen:
Exposure: 3hr 30 min (70 x 3 min)
Telescope: Celestron C9.25 Edge - Hyperstar
Camera: ZWO ASI071MC Pro
Focal ratio: f2.3
Capturing software: NINA
Filter: IDAS NBZ
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Guiding: ASI462MC with PHD2 and Stellarvue F60M3
Dithering: Yes
Calibration: 100 darks, 100 flat darks, 30 flats
Processing: PixInsight
Date: 21-ene-2022
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Optics : TEC 140 APO (980 mm F 7.0)
Filter : Baader Planetarium D-ERF 160 mm
Filter H alfa : Daystar Quark Cromosphere
Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier;
Camera : ZWO ASI 174 MM;
Focal lenght : 4116 mm.
Software : FireCapture, AutoStakkert3, Adobe Photoshop
Sun Active Region NOAA 12954 (right) , 12955 (left)
Casalecchio di Reno - Italia
44° 29’ 29” N
11° 14’ 58” E
This is the first image obtained from the original movie (500 frames for about 1Giga bytes) with the Autostakert software extracting the best 20% of the frames. It is obtained before any type of processing in terms of contrast, brightness, etc. and color performed with Adobe Phoshop software. It is therefore the first low contrast raw image obtained by the TEC 140 telescope and the Daystar Quark filter.
Nikon d5500
50mm + Hoya Red Intensifier filter
ISO 3200
f/3.5
16 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
16 image panorama of the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds over the 'Tree of Soles', a dead tree covered in old shoes, at Herron Point about an hour south of Perth in Western Australia.
Constelación en que se encuentra: Triangulum
Distancia: 2.8 millones de años luz
De SkySafari:
La galaxia Messier 33 (M33) es conocida como la Galaxia del Triángulo. Es visible a simple vista desde sitios con cielo muy oscuro y es la tercera galaxia más grande del Grupo Local después de la Galaxia de Andrómeda y nuestra propia Vía Láctea.
Probablemente fue descubierta por Giovanni Batista Hodierna antes de 1654, pero fue catalogada independientemente por Charles Messier en 1764 y la designó como M33. En esa época aún no se conocía el concepto de galaxia por fuera de la Vía Láctea, por lo que fue inicialmente se pensó que era una “nebulosa espiral”.
En 1926 Edwin Hubble publicó un estudio fundamental en el que encontró que las estrellas cefeidas que contenía M33 estaban tan lejos que debían estar por fuera de nuestra galaxia.
Se estima que el diámetro de M33 es de unos 60.000 años luz y que tiene unos 30 a 40 mil millones de estrellas (es decir un 10% de la cantidad de estrellas de la Vía Láctea).
En 2007 se detectó un agujero negro dentro de la galaxia, de unas 15.7 veces la masa del sol, que orbita alrededor de una estrella compañera y la eclipsa cada 3.5 días.
M33 se acerca al sistema solar a 182 km/s y está atada gravitacionalmente a la Galaxia de Andrómeda.
En la imagen se pueden observar 71 galaxias adicionales (PGC). También pueden verse 11 nebulosas del catálogo NGC – IC que están dentro de la galaxia M33 y aún así son visibles desde la Tierra.
Datos de la imagen:
Exposure: 5hr 57 min (119 x 3 min)
Telescope: Celestron C9.25 Edge - Hyperstar
Camera: ZWO ASI071MC Pro
Focal ratio: f2.3
Capturing software: NINA
Filter: IDAS D1
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Guiding: ASI462MC with PHD2 and Stellarvue F60M3
Dithering: Yes
Calibration: 50 darks, 50 flat darks, 50 flats
Processing: PixInsight
Date: 31-oct-2022
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Gear used...
Askar PHQ65 with Reducer
ZWO ASI294MC Pro
iOptron CEM26
ZWO ASI120MM Mini
ZWO 30mm guide scope
Optolong L-Extreme filter
36 / 600 second exposures
10 Dark
Processed with Pixinsight and Lightroom Classic
Nikon D5300 (no mod)
iOptron SkyTracker V2
Nikon 55mm micro lens f3.5 f5.6
ISO 400
36@300 seconds
Stacked in Pixinsight, NR, Star reduction, stretching in Pix, final edits in Photoshop
Bortle 4 skies (backyard)
Optics : TEC 140 APO (980 mm F 7.0)
Filter : Baader Planetarium D-ERF 160 mm
Beloptik Telecentric 5x
Filter H alfa : Coronado PST
Filter H alfa : SolarSpectrum S.O. 1.5 0.5A
Camera : ZWO ASI 174 MM;
Equivalent Focal lenght : 4900 mm.
Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier
Trolley : JMI Large Size Universal Wheeley Bars.
Software : FireCapture by Torsten Edelmann, AutoStakkert3 by Emil Kraaikamp, ImPPG by Filip Szczerek, Adobe Photoshop
Casalecchio di Reno - Italia
44° 29’ 29” N
11° 14’ 58” E
Nikon d5500
35mm
ISO 3200
f/3.2
Foreground: 4 x 30 seconds
Sky: 6 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
10 shot panorama of the Milky Way setting over a local farm near Harvey, about 125km south of Perth in Western Australia.
The Coma Berenices star cluster, aka Mel 111, with a smattering of galaxies, taken under dark skies on a spring evening. The edge-on galaxy NGC 4565 is at left.
I shot this as a test of the William Optics RedCat 51mm f/5 astrographic refractor (which provides a focal lengthof 250mm). This was on the iOptron SkyGuider Pro tracker, a popular portable mount to use with the RedCat. I used it unguided for a set of 2-minute exposures. Of the 20 exposures, 12 were relatively untrailed and so were selected for stacking for this image.
This is a stack of 12 x 2-minutes at ISO 1250 with the Canon EOS Ra. Stacked and blended in Photoshop CC. The little RedCat astrograph is very sharp to the corners. The field is about 8° by 5.5°.
Five minute exposure with a modified Canon T6i, with Canon 35mm lens, and iOptron Sky Tracker. Bortle 4 sky.
Telescopio: Officina Stellare APO 105 mm f 6.2
Baader Planetarium UV/IR Cut · LUNT Calcium-K module B 600
Lunghezza focale: 651 mm
Camera di ripresa: ZWO ASI 174 mono Cooled
Montatura: iOptron CEM60
Focuser Feather Touch Starlight 3,5"
Data: 08 Febbraio 2022 Ore: 12:10 Tempo Locale
Pose:255 sommate su 1.500 riprese a 37 fotogrammi al secondo
Seeing: 2 Antoniadi Trasparenza del cielo: 9
Telescopio:Tecnosky HR 80/480 mm
Lunghezza focale: 4128 mm Barlow Zeiss Abbe 2X
Camere di ripresa: ZWO ASI 174 mono Cooled
Montatura: iOptron CEM60
Daystar fillters Quark H-Alpha Chromosphere filter
Filtro: Tecnosky H-Alpha 12 nm 50,8 mm ,
Focuser Tecnosky V-Power 2" , PrimaLuceLab Focuser Sesto Senso 2 ZWO T2 Tilter
Data: 14 Luglio 2020 Ore: 11:18 Tempo Locale
200 frames sommati su 2009 ripresi a 162 fotogrammi al secondo
Seeing: 2 Trasparenza: 8
Location: Lynchburg Virginia
This is a hydrogen alpha emission nebula called IC1396 and also known as the Elephant Trunk Nebula. You can see the trunk pointing upwards at the center of the image. This nebula can be found quite easily in a telescope if you can locate the Garnet star.
I have been shooting this target for several nights from my backyard. I am under suburban skies, the darkest my skies get is about mag 20.6 at around 2am.
I have been testing the ASI Air Plus and it has made automating image sessions night after night a very easy task.
This is actually a partial mosaic to fit the large nebula on the frame from 2 panels.
This is 21.33 hours of data
128 x 600s subs
Camera: ASI 2600MC at 0c
Gain 100
Filter: No Filter Used
Scope: Sharpstar 76EDPH with Reducer 342mm F4.5
Mount: iOptron Cem25
Nikon d5500
35mm
ISO 3200
f/3.2
Sky: 6 x 25 seconds
Foreground: 5 x 15 seconds
11 shot panorama of the Magellanic Clouds over farmland at Harvey, approximately 125km south of Perth in Western Australia.
Nikon d5500
50mm + Hoya Red Intensifier Filter
ISO 4000
19 x 30 seconds
f/2.8
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 19 shot panorama of the Magellanic Clouds behind bands of airglow over the Pinnacles Desert in Western Australia, about 200km north of Perth. Airglow is light emitted from excited oxygen atoms in the upper atmosphere and can be either green or red.
The Magellanic Clouds are our neighbouring satellite galaxies recently found to have collided about 100m years ago.
A mosaic of 2 images captured at 1630 hrs UT.
Captured with Equinox Pro 900/120mm f/7.5 refractor
Ioptron ZEQ25GT mount
PGR Chameleon 3 CCD camera (1600 x 1200 px)
Baader 685nm IR pass filter.
The Rupes Recta (Straight Wall) is visible near the terminator.
Another galaxy image I had been sitting on trying to figure out how to edit, this one of Bode's Nebula and the Cigar Galaxy, shot with an ASI183mm Pro and William Optics GT81 (with Flat6Aii) on an iOptron GEM45.
I am always amazed at how opportunities manifest themselves. Recently I became fascinated with photographing the night sky. I did some research and found a lens recommended by astrophotographer's that wouldn’t break the bank. I purchased the Rokinon 14mm f2.8 lens for Canon AE. During lunch after a NANPA Meetup, one of our members mentioned having an iOptron SkyTracker camera mount for taking long exposures of the night sky without streaking or star trails. Half price, so I purchased it. Now I had all the necessary gear to capture stunning images of the milky way and starry nights with one exception, I live in one of the foggiest areas of the central coast. So just hopping outside to play with my new toys hasn’t been much of an opportunity. Occasionally we have cloudless nights but, they are far and few between.
After working on a recent photo shoot, I came home to check my answering machine and found a message with an invitation to go to Joshua Tree National Park to photograph the desert bloom and whatever else could be captured. Now if you know anything about Joshua Tree National Park, you know it is famous for its bizarre Dr. Seuss like trees, jumble rock formations and amazing dark skies at night. It also just happens that the center of the Milky Way has just recently been visible at night in the northern hemisphere. Who could ask for better chance than this play with new toys. So, I jumped at the opportunity.
This is my first foray into photographing the Milky way. I look forward to more opportunities in the future and hope to be able to share them with other enthusiastic photographers.
Nikon d5500
35mm
ISO 3200
f/2.5
3 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
3 stack image of the LMC over Collins Pool, Herron Point, about an hour south of Perth in Western Australia. The red hue is from airglow.
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Blended exposure with Ioptron Star Tracker for the milky way and shorter exposure for the foreground.
مجرة النحات هي مجره حلزونيه تظهر على شكل قرص في السماء الجنوبيه . تبعد عنا ١١ مليون سنه ضوئيه وتعد من المجرات الغنيه بتكوين النجوم الجديدة. Gear setup: Celestron HD11 @ f/7, iOptron CEM70G, ZWO 2600MM @-5C, Antlia HaLRGB Pro V Filters Lights L 80 x 300sec, RGB 18 x 300 each, Ha 18 x 300. total exposure 12.5 hours. Captured by NINA, Stacked in APP. Processed in PI & PS.
Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 800 with 0.7 reducer
Camera: ZWO ASI 071MC Pro
Exposure: 55 x 5min @ unity gain -5°C
Filters: Optolong L-extreme filter
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Location: Beveren-Waas Belgium
Date: 2025/08/10
Telescopio: Coronado Solarmax III 70 mm Double Stack
Camera di ripresa: ZWO ASI 174 mono Cooled
Barlow:Televue Powermate 2.5X ZWO T2 Tilter
Focuser: PrimaLuceLab Sesto Senso 2 CEM60
Montatura: Ioptron CEM 60
Data: 13 Giugno 2020 Ore: 12:03
Pose: 300 sommate su 3.008 riprese a 252 fotogrammi al secondo
Seeing: 2 Trasparenza: 8
Optics : TEC 140 APO (980 mm F 7.0)
Filter : Baader Planetarium D-ERF 160 mm
Beloptik Telecentric 5x
Filter H alfa : Coronado PST
Filter H alfa : Solar Spectrum S.O. 1.5 0.5A
Camera : ZWO ASI 174 MM;
Equivalent Focal lenght : 4900 mm.
Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier;
Software : FireCapture, AutoStakkert3, ImPPG, Adobe Photoshop
Casalecchio di Reno - Italia
44° 29’ 29” N
11° 14’ 58” E
Cassiopea area
Took this while I waited for Orion to clear the trees
24 X 120 seconds
ISO 800
20 darks
30 flats
55mm f5.6
Nikon d5300
IOptron SkyTracker V2
Stacked in Sequator
PP in Pixinsight
On Monday, April 1st, I photographed the planet Mars as it sat next to the Pleiades star cluster in Taurus.
Over the next few days, Mars will appear to travel farther and farther away from the Pleiades.
The actual distances between these objects is vast, but the "dance" of the planets across our sky has always fascinated me.
The photo is 31 x 60-seconds using a Canon 7D with a 24-105mm lens.
Shot at F/4 and ISO 400.
The camera tracked the apparent movement of the sky on an iOptron SkyTracker Pro camera mount.
VIDEO: youtu.be/B5BDkEdFnL8
Same shot as before from my Goblin Valley trip, shot with my NIkon D600 and 50mm f1.8g lens. Two panels, each a stack of 19 three minute exposures at f4, ISO 800 on the iOptron Skytracker mount.
I was determined to capture a wide field image of Orion before it was lost in the twilight. This was captured with a Fuji X-T2 and an old Pentax 50mm F2 lens on an iOptron SkyTracker Pro. It comprises of 20x 1 minute exposures at ISO 1600, and is two images stitched together.
Stacked Image, using Deep Sky Stacker, consisting of 12 light frames, 30 seconds each at ISO 800 @ f/1.4, 9 bias frames, 11 dark and 6 flat frames, taken with a Canon 70D, mounted on an iOptron Sky Tracker, fitted with a Sigma 50mm Art Lens. The result would look much better if not for the light pollution, and worse if not the Astronomik CLS filter. Taken from Georgina Island, Ontario, Canada.
Memo to self: move to Arizona!
This was taken one day after the "Super Blue Moon" so the sky was absolutely flooded with Moon glow.
Gear used...
Askar PHQ65 with Reducer
ZWO ASI294MC Pro
iOptron CEM26
ZWO ASI120MM Mini
ZWO 30mm guide scope
Optolong L-Extreme filter (definitely did its job)
36 / 600 second exposures
10 Dark
60 Bias
Processed with Pixinsight and Lightroom Classic
I gave it more of an SHO type look, rather than the classic style
Telescopio:Takahashi Mewlon 210 mm
Barlow: Televue Powermate 2.5X
Lunghezza focale: 6038 mm Montatura: iOptron CEM60
Camera di ripresa:ZWO ASI 174 mono Cooled
Filtro: Optolong Red CCD 50,8 mm
Focuser Primalucelab Esatto 2" ·
Data: 12 Gennaio 2022 Ore: 18:22 Tempo Locale
Pose:340 sommate su 2.000 riprese a 89 fotogrammi al secondo Seeing: 2 Antoniadi Trasparenza del cielo: 8
I couldn't believe how bright this comet was when I first observed it on October 13. Even low on the western horizon it was very apparent without the help of optics. I was glad my family was able to find it too and have some looks through binoculars.
I photographed in the next evening, October 14. Again, it was bright enough to find in my camera view finder. The tail doesn't even fit in my frame.
I'm hoping to get another shot at it when we have some cloudless skies again, and when it will be higher in the sky later this month.
It was fun to see that I also captured a hint of Globular Cluster (Messier 5), near the center of the frame.
Acquisition details: Taken October 14, 2024 between 7 and 8 pm local time. Fuji X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2 on an iOptron SkyTracker Pro. 21 frames, 10 sec per frame, ISO 1600, f/2.8. Pictures stacked in DeepSkyStacker, minor adjustments in GIMP.
Telescopio: Takahashi Mewlon 210 mm
Lunghezza focale: 2415 mm Filtro: Optolong Red CCD 50,8 mm Camera di ripresa: ZWO ASI 174 Color Cooled
Montatura: iOptron CEM60 Focuser Primalucelab Esatto 2"
Data: 15 Ottobre 2021 Ore: 20:28 Tempo Locale
Pose: 180 sommate su 1.20 riprese a 154 fotogrammi al secondo
Seeing: 3 Antoniadi Trasparenza del cielo: 8
Optic: Lunt LS80THa D.S. + ZWO EAF + Lunt B1200 Ha blocking filter
Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier;
Camera : ZWO ASI 178 MM;
Equivalent focal length = 560 mm.
Software : FireCapture, AutoStakkert3, Photoshop
Casalecchio di Reno - Italia
44° 29’ 29” N
11° 14’ 58” E
First attempt at Pleiades. Shot from a very light polluted bortle 6 area with no filters.
Canon 5D Mark IV
Canon 70-200mm f4 @ 200mm
iOptron Skyguider Pro
19 x Lights (2 minutes at iso 500)
5 x Darks
10 x Flats
10 x Bias
Nikon d5500
50mm + Hoya Red Intensifier filter
ISO 3200
f/3.5
Foreground: 11 x 13 seconds
Sky: 34 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 45 shot panorama of the Milky Way setting over Collins Pool at Herron Point, about an hour south of Perth in Western Australia. The object in the foreground isn't some weird dragon creature making its way back into the water, it's just a fallen dead tree ;-)
TS-Optics Photoline 140mm
Touptek ToupTek 571c
Antlia Tri Band RGB Pro 2"
iOptron CEM70G
38 shots 300 sec each
Elaboration with Pixinsight
Different elaboration from the past
Camera: Moravian G2 8300
Filters: 31mm unmounted Optolong
Optic: RC GSO 8" F/8
Mount: Ioptron CEM60 HP
Autoguider: Magzero QHY 5L II, OAG 9mm TS, Phd guiding
Frames: L: 12X600sec - RGB: 5-6-5 X600 sec Bin 2 -30°
Processing: Pixinsight, PS
From top to bottom the face-on spiral galaxy NGC 5985, elliptical galaxy NGC 5982 and the edge-on spiral NGC 5981. The three galaxies are known as the Draco Trio or the Draco Group, although there is no evidence that they form a compact group.
Emission nebula (HII region) in Sagittarius
Camera: Moravian G2 8300
Filters: 31mm unmounted Optolong
Optic: Televue 102 f/7
Mount: Ioptron CEM60 HP
Autoguider: camera Magzero 5m on SW 70/500, Phd guiding
Frames Ha 7nm: 13X600sec - RGB: 4X600sec each - Bin1 -20°
Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop
L 55x90s
RGB x 30 x 30s
William Optics Z61
ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
iOptron CEM60
Antlia LRGB filter set
William Optics 50mm Guiding Scope
ZWO ASI120M
ZWO EAF, EFW
Nina, PixInsight
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
Canon 100-400mm + 2X Extender
iOptron Sky-guider pro
800mm F11 70X15s
Standort Berlin Moabit 31.12.2019 0.30h
Heckathorn-Fesen-Gull 1 (HFG1) and Abell 6 are a duo of planetary nebulae from the constellation Cassiopea.
Camera: Moravian G2 8300
Filters: 31mm unmounted Optolong
Optic: Televue 102 f/7
Mount: Ioptron CEM60 HP
Autoguider: camera Magzero 5m on SW 70/500, Phd guiding
Frames: Ha 7nm: 36X600sec - OIII 6.5nm: 46X600sec - RGB: 6+6+8X600sec Bin1 -35°
Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop