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Image Details:
Captured over 4 nights
18 hours 10 mins exposure.
17x1200s Ha 1x1 (5hrs 40mins)
25x900s OIII 2x2 (6hrs 15mins)
25x900s SII 2x2 (6hrs 15mins)
Darks, flats and bias, -20c.
Scope - SW Evostar ED80 DS-PRO with SW 0.85 reducer.
Mount - Altair Astro Pier mounted iOptron CEM60.
Sensor - Atik 383l+ Mono CCD + Baader 36mm 7nm Ha, 8.5nm OIII and 8nm SII filters.
Guiding - ZWO ASI120MM + Orion 162mm/F3.2 guidescope with PHD2.
Sequence Generator Pro and PixInsight.
Thanks for looking.
Simple wide-field view of the Milky Way taken with a 35mm prime lens and full-frame DSLR camera.
131, 1-minute, ISO-1000, F2.8 subs, tracked, guided, dithered, and stacked. No flats, darks or bias frames.
Nikon D750a
Tamron 35mm, F1.4 prime
Ioptron CEM26 mount
ZWO ASI120mm guide cam
PHD2, stacked with Registar, edited with Pixinsight and Photoshop.
Okie-Tex Star Party
9-28-22, 11:26pm - 2:08am
Finally some astro photography again. 3h25m integration. 300s lights, plus darks, flats and dark flats. William Optics ZS61 on an iOptron iEQ45pro. ZWO ASI 294MCpro. L-eXtreme.
Nikon d5500
35mm
ISO 3200
f/2.5
Foreground: 3 x 10 seconds
Sky: 7 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
10 shot panorama of the Milky Way as it sets further into the light pollution of nearby Perth. Taken at Bailup, not far from the city limits.
Gear used...
Askar PHQ65 with Reducer
ZWO ASI294MC Pro
iOptron CEM26
ZWO ASI120MM Mini
ZWO 30mm guide scope
Optolong L-Extreme filter
27 / 600 second exposures
10 Dark
Processed with Pixinsight and Lightroom Classic
Lo dicho en la anterior toma:
Le he añadido 1:30 de tomas(67) a iso 1600 y 80s.
sumadas a las 2 horas de tomas en Halpha.
Es un proceso interesante, que tengo que pulir, pero da mucho juego en tomas de gran campo donde las nebulosas de emisión proporcionan formas increíbles.
Equipo:
Telescopio/Telescope: Skywatcher ED80 + reductor 0.80 - Focal 480mm f5.6
Montura/Mount: Ioptron ieq45 PRO
Seguimiento/Guiding: tubo SV106+QHY5IILM
Camara/Camera: Sony A7 mod
Filtro: Lumicon Night Sky Hydrogen-Alpha 2"
Control: Astroberry
29/7/2020- Iturrieta ,Álava
Telescopio: Celestron C11 XLT Fastar
Montatura: iOptron CEM60
CMOS di ripresa: ZWO ASI 174 mono Cooled
Lunghezza focale: 2800 mm
Filtro: Optolong Red CCD 50,8 mm
Focuser: Moonlite CF 2,5" focuser with high resolution stepper DRO
Software:SharpCap 3.2 Pro, Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 3.0.14, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8
Pose: 400 su 1017 riprese a 65 fotogrammi al secondo
Seeing: 1 Trasparenza: 8
Statue of Liberty Nebula (NGC 3576) and NGC 3572.
Another beautiful emission nebula located in the constellation of Carina, very close to the famous Eta Carinae!
It was the first time I photographed her, and the first time I used L-Enhance.
EXIF:
Long Perng 66mm f6
Canon T6i modified
Ioptron CEM25P
Optolong L-Enhance
40x300s, ISO 1600
Guidance with ZWO 60/280 and QHY5L-ii-Color
Acquisition Data:
-Explorer Scientific ED127CF with 0.7x focal reducer.
-ASI2600MM
-iOptron CEM40
-Exposure:
~20 hrs LRGB
-Bortle 8/9
Despite mostly cloudy skies, I was able to catch a few glimpses of the Venus and Mars conjunction on October 5, 2017. This morning, the pair was an incredible 0.25 degrees apart. A small diffraction rainbow is seen as Venus enters the passing cloud cover. The photograph was taken with a Canon 70D and a Canon 200 mm f/2.8L II lens. (f/4.0, ISO 800, 5 sec)
Telescopio o obiettivo di acquisizione: TS Optics APO102 triplet fpl53
Camera di acquisizione: Moravian G2-8300FW
Montatura: iOptron iEQ45-pro
Telescopio o obiettivio di guida: Orion Short Tube 80/400
Camera di guida: QHYCCD Q5L-II-M
Riduttore di focale: TS Optics 0,79x Reducer 4-element
Software: Pleiades Astrophoto S.L. PixInsight V1.8
Risoluzione: 3276x2436
Date: 27 luglio 2017
Pose:
Baader Ha 36mm 7nm: 18x600" -15C bin 1x1
Baader O3 36mm 8.5nm: 18x600" -15C bin 1x1
Baader S2 36 mm 8 nm: 18x600" -15C bin 1x1
Integrazione: 9.0 ore
Dark: ~13
Flat: ~15
Bias: ~31
This image is believed to be the first deep colour image of the nebula.
It was captured jointly with Sven Eklund using our 3 robotic telescopes located in Southern Spain.
Image processing by Marcel Drechsler.
Data captured between 30 August - 10 September 2022.
Scopes: APM TMB LZOS 152 Refractors and Celestron C14 Edge HD
Cameras: QSI6120wsg8 and ZWO ASI6200MM Pro
Mounts: 10Micron GM2000 HPS and iOptron CEM120
A total of 84 hours 20 minutes (HaOIIIRGB)
More information at www.imagingdeepspace.com/iphasx-j0552262323724.html
An international team of astronomers led by members of the Laboratory for Space Research (LSR) and Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), have discovered a rare celestial jewel–a so-called Planetary Nebula (PN) inside a 500 million-year-old Galactic Open Cluster (OC) called M37 (also known as NGC2099). This is a very rare finding of high astrophysical value. Their findings have just been published in the prestigious open-access paper Astrophysical Journal Letters. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac88c1
The planetary nebula, known as IPHASX J055226.2+323724, is only the 3rd example of an association between a planetary nebula and open cluster out of the ~4,000 planetary nebulae known in our Galaxy. It also appears to be the oldest planetary nebula ever found. The small team led by Professor Quentin Parker, Director of the HKU LSR, have determined some interesting properties for their discovery: the authors found the PN has a “kinematic age” of 70,000 years. This estimate is based on how fast the nebula is expanding, as determined from the PN emission lines, and assuming this speed has remained effectively the same since the beginning, and is the time elapsed since the nebular shell was first ejected by the host, a dying star. This compares to typical PN ages of 5,000-25,000 years. It is truly a grand old dame in planetary nebula terms but of course a mere “blink of the eye” in terms of the life of the original star itself that runs to hundreds of millions of years
A gate to large meadow at the base of the Sawtooths opens the way to big skies and a bright Milky Way.
The brightest, and likely most recognized constellation in the northern hemispheres winter sky is Orion - The Hunter. In early Babylonian records (686 BC), it was referred to as "The Loyal Shepherd of Heaven."
In addition to the prominence of its bight starts (e.g. betelgeuse, upper left and Rigel, lower right), the constellation is home to the "Orion Molecular Complex", which contains one of our closest star-forming regions - the Orion nebula (below center). This nebula can be seen by the unaided eye under darker suburban skies. The complex also contains the Flame and Horsehead nebula, and Barnars loop - a faint emission nebula which forms an arch that surrounds the area.
Related images:
Nikon D5500
Nikon 50mm D1.4, f/2.5, 30s, 1600iso - Hoya RI filter
50x30s + darks
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Regim Sig18 stack w/darks & flats
Affinity Photo
Ocean City, MD - 20171124
Hoya Red Intensifier (RI) filter -> poor man's light pollution filter
50% reduced
RG_Ori50mm_sig18f_apGCtifAP_50r85q
NGC2264 (nébuleuse du cone) et l'arbre de noel en SHO
157 poses de 300s Ha
102 poses de 300s OIII
130 poses de 300s SII
avec asi 2600mm pro
filtre Baader 3.5nm
ioptron GEM28
takahashi FSQ85 EDX avec correcteur 1.01
asiair plus
ciel bortle 6/7
siril, pixinsight.
Same framing and process as a week ago, but this time I shot 20 x 30 second subs from some better Bortle 3 skies, and NEOWISE was about 15 degrees above the horizon, which made a big difference - the background sky gradient was less severe, the green color of the nucleus is showing and there are more stars (and spiral galaxy NGC 3198, 6.5 arc min long with a visual mag. of 10.3 is just visible in the upper lefthand corner).
Acquisition details: Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 20 x 30 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken July 20, 2020 from Bortle 3 skies at 11:00 pm Pacific (the beginning of astronomic dark).
Although several dozen minor galaxies lie closer to our Milky Way, the Andromeda galaxy is the closest large spiral galaxy to ours. The Andromeda galaxy is the brightest external galaxy you can see. At 2.5 million light-years, it’s the most distant thing most of us humans can see with the unaided eye.
Imaged from London (UK)
November 2021
Takahashi 106
QHY 128 OSC 30 x 5 mins
Ioptron GEM45
The close pairing of Venus and Spica was imaged on the morning of November 21, 2018. The image was made of a stack of 8 fifteen second exposures. (Canon 70D, Canon 200 mm f/2.8L II lens, f/3.2)
IC 1396 / Elephant's trunk nebula
Hi everyone, Here is my newest picture.
This is the first time i'm using a dedicated astronomy camera and i'm really impressed and proud of this first result.
IC1396, also known as the elephant's trunk nebula is a emission nebula located in the constellation Cepheus at +-3000Ly from earth. This field of view represent a small part of a much bigger complex
I have used the HOO bi-color map to make a better separation between hydrogen alpha ( red ) and oxygen III ( blue ) gas. Unlike my last HOO combination attemp, this one has a better color saturation and contain less noise.
Hope you like these improvements,
Clear skies.
► Object specifications:
● Designation: IC 1396
● Object type: Emission nebula
● Stellar coordinates:
-Ra: 21h 39m 10,3s.
-DEC: +57° 30′ 12″.
● Distance: 3000 Ly.
● Constellation: Cepheus.
● Magnitude: 9.4
► Gear:
● Telescope: SW 200/1000 F5
● Mount: IOptron CEM60-ec
● Camera: QHY294C
● Autoguiding: guidescope 50mm microspeed + ZWO asi
120mm
● Other optic(s): TS coma corrrector Maxfield 0.95X
● Filter(s): Optolong L-extreme 2"
► Softwares:
● Acquisition: Nina
● Autoguiding: PHD guiding 2
● Preprocessing: PixInsight
● Processing: PixInsight, Photoshop CC
► Data acquisition:
● 148 X 300 sec, total 12H20min
● Gain: 1601
● Offset: 60
● Cooling: -5°C
● Date(s): 05/08/2022 -> 09/08/2022 | 5 nights
Telescopio: Celestron C8 Edge HD
Montatura: iOptron CEM60
Lunghezza focale: 2032 mm
Camera di riresa: ZWO ASI 174 mono Cooled
Filtro: Optolong Green CCD 50,8 mm
Folcuser: Moonlite CF 2,5" focuser with high resolution stepper DRO
Data:02 Luglio 2020 Ore: 22:20 Tempo Locale
Pose: 360 sommate su 2002 riprese a 165 fotogrammi al secondo
Seeing: 2 Trasparenza: 5
Optics : TEC 140 F/7 Apo + TeleVue barlow 2" 4X
Filter : Baader Cool-Ceramic Herschel Wedge + Baader Solar Continuum Filter (540 nm) 2";
Equivalent focal lenght : 3920 mm
Camera : ZWO ASI 174 MM;
Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier;
Software : FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Topaz Lab Photo AI, Photoshop.
Equivalenti focal lenght: 3920 mm
Sun active region : NOAA 13664
Casalecchio di Reno - Italia
44° 29’ 29” N
11° 14’ 58” E
NGC 891 es una galaxia espiral situada a 32 millones de años luz de la Vía Láctea en la constelación de Andrómeda, es uno de los mejores ejemplos de galaxia espiral vista de canto que se pueden ver con telescopios de aficionado.
Tomas:
50 x180'' - Gain 1600. -10ºC
Telescopio/Telescope: TS RC 8"
- Focal 1610 mm
Montura/Mount: Ioptron ieq45 PRO
Seguimiento/Guiding: tubo EZG80mm+QHY5IILM
Camara/Camera: QHY294C
Control: Stellarmate
Procesado: StarTools+PS
29/7/2021 ,Markinez , Alava
Nikon d810a
35mm
ISO 6400
f/2.5
Foreground: 3 x 4 x 20 seconds
Sky: 6 x 20 seconds
H-alpha: 3 x 60 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 21 shot panorama of Orion & Barnard's Loop above Buckley's Breakaway at Pingaring, 4 hours east of Perth in Western Australia.
Telescope: INTES MK-69 PhotoMak
Camera: ZWO ASI071MC Pro
Exposure: 30 x 5 min & 90 x 3min
Filters: IDAS LPS filter
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Location: Beveren-Waas Belgium
Date: 2025.03.27 & 2022.02.25
This spiral galaxy is about 25 million light years away. It is 18 x 8 arc min in diameter. Gear setup: Celestron Edge HD 8 @ f/7, iOptron GEM 45, Celestron OAG w/ ZWO 174MM, ZWO 2600MC @0, ZWO EFW 2”, Optolong L-Pro 2”. Lights subs 24 x 300 sec, Flats 20, Darks 20, Bias 50, total exposure 2 hours. Captured by APT, Sharpcap pro, PHD2, Stacked by APP and Processed by PI, PS, Topaz Denise. Bortle sky class 4.
Imaging telescope: Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII
Imaging camera: QHY163M
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Ha - Astronomik 6nm - 16x600sec exposures, Gain-10/Offset -50
Bazaleti, Georgia
Nikon d810a
35mm
ISO 1600
f/1.8
Foreground: 6 x 30 seconds
Sky: 6 x 30 seconds
H-alpha: 3 x 60 seconds
IOptron SkyTracker
This is a 15 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising above the Pinnacles Desert, 2 hours north of Perth in Western Australia.
Quick shot of Bodie Lighthouse and the Pleiades and friends... California Nebula even making a bit of an appearance as I raced to beat a week's worth of cloud cover that was rolling in.
120" tracked ISO1600 sky shot merged with 180" ISO800 foreground shot in Photoshop. Refined in Lightroom. Canon 6D, Rokinin 24mm 1.4 @F2.8, iOptron Skyguider Pro for tracking.
Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 800 with 0.7 reducer
Camera: ZWO ASI 071MC Pro
Exposure: 84 x 5min @ unity gain -5°C
Filters: IDAS LPS filter
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Location: Beveren-Waas Belgium
Date: 2025/04/18-25-26
This image is shot from Bortle 5 sky using a William Optics Star 71 telescope (348mm at F4.9) on an iOptron CEM26. Camera used is a Starlight Xpress 814 Trius Pro mono using Astrodon S2, HA and O3 filters.
Total of 45 frames x 20 minutes exposure each.
Total exposure is 15Hr.
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The Heart Nebula (also known as the Running dog nebula, IC 1805, Sharpless 2-190) is an emission nebula, 7500 light years away from Earth and located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by William Herschel on 3 November 1787. It displays glowing ionized hydrogen gas and darker dust lanes.
The brightest part of the nebula (a knot at its western edge) is separately classified as NGC 896, because it was the first part of the nebula to be discovered. The nebula's intense red output and its morphology are driven by the radiation emanating from a small group of stars near the nebula's center. This open cluster of stars, known as Collinder 26 or Melotte 15, contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass of the Sun, and many more dim stars that are only a fraction of the Sun's mass.
The Heart Nebula is also made up of ionised oxygen and sulfur gasses, responsible for the rich blue and orange colours seen in narrowband images. The shape of the nebula is driven by stellar winds from the hot stars in its core. The nebula also spans almost 2 degrees in the sky, covering an area four times that of the diameter of the full moon.
So, that's finally my last capture before I get my DSLR modified for astrophotography.
Of course, my ideia is to shot an emission nebula hard to capture with a stock camera.
If everything ends right, soon I'll post a version of this same target, with some quite similar exposure, but with an astromoded Canon T6i.
Wish me luck!
Well... what a hard target for a Bortle 6 skies and a stock DSLR. Almost 3 hours of exposure and I hardly got some nebulosity. I hope it will change soon, as soon my camera come back and my Optolong L-Pro arrive.
Milky Way over the South Tufas at Mono Lake.
Foreground:
Stack of 10 exposers of 25s @ ISO 3200 from a fixed tripod.
Static light painting with 3 lights.
Sky:
Single exposure of 50s @ ISO 3200 tracked with iOptron SkyTracker
ASI294MC Pro
Sky Watcher EvoStar 72ED
iOptron CEM26
ZWO 120mm mono guide scope
ZWO ASIAIR Plus
ZWO Dual Narrowband filter
48 / 5 minute subs
15 Dark frames
120 gain / -10c
B6 sky - Seeing "good"
Taken with my ES 102mm ED Triplet refractor ASIair Pro 1600mm Pro camera, 2 minutes each 1 hour total APP & PS, Ioptron iEQ45 Pro mount, Ha filter
A new imaging project has been published on Cosgrove's Cosmos!
Pickering's Triangle is a smaller and fainter portion of the Cygnus Loop/Veil Nebula Supernova remnant. It is a triangular region of shimmering filaments and sheets that gracefully intertwine.
This image was taken on my Williams Optics 132mm f/7 FLT APO telescope platform, which uses a ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro camera and is supported by an IOptron CEM60 Mount.
Twelve hours of narrowband data were collected over four nights ending on September 2nd.
The image was processed by using a Synthetic computed Luminance image and extensive use of starless processing workflows.
The final image is rendered using the Hubble SHO palette.
The full story behind this image, along with a detailed processing walkthrough, can be found at:
cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/pickerings-triangle
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Pat
Nikon d5500
35mm
ISO 4000
f/2.2
Sky: 12 x 30 seconds
Foreground: 19 x 8 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
I was just playing around with composition ideas with this one. Foreground and sky were shot separately to get both in focus.
The North America nebula accompanied by Deneb (bright star on the right). Taken some weeks ago.
EXIF: Canon 70D, Tamron 70-200 mm @ 200 mm, f/3.2, iso 8k, 50'' with iOptron II.
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La nébuleuse du Cocon est une nébuleuse en émission située dans la constellation du Cygne (IC 5146 (ou/also Caldwell 19, Sh 2-125, Barnard 168).
The Cocoon Nebula is a reflection/emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus.
Acquisition:
Rising Cam IMX571 color + Zenithstar73
iOptron CEM26 + iPolar
ZWO ASI224MC + WO Uniguide 120mm
NINA & PHD2
Séances:
-11 août 2023 : Filtre IDAS NBZ / 300 sec x 10
-13 août 2023 : Filtre UV/IR Cut / 120 sec x 14
-16 août 2023 : Filtre IDAS NBZ / 300 sec x 14
-18 août 2023 : Filtre UV/IR Cut / 60 sec x 20 & 120 sec x 19
Traitement/processing :
Siril, StarNet++ & Gimp
@Astrobox 2.0 / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec
AstroM1
(rsi5x.2r2)
Telescopio: Tecnosky 110 mm f 7
Barlow: Televue Powermate 5X
Lunghezza focale: 3850 mm
Camera di ripresa: ZWO ASI 174 mono Cool
Montatura: iOptron CEM60
Filtro: LUNT Calcium-K module B 600
Data: 13 Marzo 2022 Ore: 11:14 Local Time
Pose: 352 sommate su 1.600 riprese a 129 fotogrammi al secondo
Seeing 2 Antoniadi, trasparenza del cielo 7, vento
A stack of ten 4-minute exposures of the Milky Way tracked on an iOptron SkyTracker. The foreground is extracted from one of the tracked images that was stacked and shows myself and my friend @adam.c.images and I as I was helping him set up foreground focus for one of his amazing shots.
Nikon D750
iOptron SkyTracker
4 minute exposures @ ISO 400
Shot from the North Frontenac Township Dark Sky Preseve near Plevna, Ontario
Tránsito de Mercurio
Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: iOptron CEM40
Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.9, T=12.5%)
- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (540nm)
Accesorio: Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism
Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2019-11-11
Hora: 12:39 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 30 segundos
Resolución: 2320 x 1560
Gain: 72
Exposure: 0,000032
Frames: 963
Frames apilados: 26%
FPS: 31.92
SHO
Ha 72 * 600s
Oiii 41 * 600s
Sii 48 * 600s
Integration Time 26h50m
William Optics Z61
ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
iOptron CEM60
Antila Ha, Oiii, Sii 3.5nm filters
Askar FMA180 Guiding Scope
ZWO ASI120M
ZWO EAF, EFW
Nina, PixInsight, Topaz DeNoise AI, Photoshop
M86 (top center) and other galaxies of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies
Optic: RC GSO 8" - Astro Physics telecompressor 0.67X
Mount: Ioptron CEM60 HP
Autoguider: ZWO ASI290MM mini, Phd guiding
Camera: QSI 583wsg Filters: 31mm unmounted Astrodon gen. 2
Frames: L 16X600sec Bin1 - RGB 5X600sec each Bin2 -30°
Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop
APT automation
A first result of my yearly astroweek getaway with friends in the south of France during the new moon in September.
This picture shows the area around NGC1333, a dusty region close to the trijunction of Taurus, Aries and Perseus.
Scope: SW Esprit 100ED with 0.75x reducer
Mount: Ioptron CEM40
Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM
Integration: 150 x 120s (5h)