ioptron skyguider pro experiment

Telescopio::Celestron C11 XLT Fastar

Montatura: iOptron CEM60

Camera di ripresa :QHY 183 Color CMOS

Software:Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19 SharpCap 3.1 Pro Autostakkert 2.6.8

Fuocheggiatorte: Moonlite CF 2,5" focuser with high resolution stepper DRO

Risoluzione: 3000x2000, Ora Locale: 20:35

Pose: 300 su 10003 riprese

FPS: 24,00000

Lunghezza focale: 2800 mm

Seeing: 3 Trasparenza: 8

Acquisition Data:

-Explorer Scientific ED127CF

-ASI2600MM

-iOptron CEM40

-ASI220MM Guide Cam

-Exposure (~14 hrs):

L: 139 x 3 min

R: 49x 3 min

G: 56 x 3 min

B: 38 x 3 min

-Bortle 4

Imaging telescope: Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII

Imaging camera: QHY163M

Mount: iOptron CEM60

Astronomik Ha, OIII, SII 6nm filters - 9.3 hours total

Abastumanii, Georgia

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, Adobe Photoshop

Casalecchio di Reno - Italia

44° 29’ 29” N

11° 14’ 58” E

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Nikon d810a

85mm

ISO 2000

f/2.0

Foreground: 6 x 20 seconds

Sky: 28 x 30 seconds

H-Alpha: 4 x 60 seconds

iOptron SkyTracker

This is a 38 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising above an old farm shed at Walyormouring, 2 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia. I used a screw on hydrogen alpha filter along with my astro modded camera to capture the Ha regions, which are the prominent red regions of the sky, not normally captured using standard cameras.

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 : Player One Apollo M MAX

Equivalent Focal lenght : 4900 mm.

Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier;

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Casalecchio di Reno - Italia

44° 29’ 29” N

11° 14’ 58” E

A new project of mine to try get a super hi res image of the night sky. My first attempt went well with 85% of my 50 images lining up well. However there is an obvious colour vignetting visible around each frame due to my light pollution filter. Will try to rectify this issue next time.

M42 & M43 with the ES 80mm ED triplet APO refractor

Orion Field Flattener and Zwo ASI1600MM Pro cooled mono camera

Had clear skies last night, good tracking

Astronomik 1 1/4" 12nm Ha filter, EAF and EFW

#SharpCap Pro, PoleMaster

Ioptron i45 Pro EQ mount, PHD2 guiding

Orion 60mm guidescope Zwo 120MM mini

200 Gain offset 50, -10c cooling,

M42 was 2 hours and 10 minutes, 10s exp X60,

30s exp X60, 60s exp X60 and 180s exp X10

100 darks 100 flats and 100 bias frames for M42

I used multi-sessions in APP for stacking

Astro Pixel Processor and PS

Finally got a clear night at a good low light pollution area to finish my main goal for this winter.

D610 30 x 4 mins

ISO 800

50mm at f3.2

iOptron Skytracker

Alligned,stacked and processed in CC.

Date: 2022-2-25

Location: はやま湖

Camera: ASI294mc pro

Mount: iOptron CEM70, off-axis guide

Optics: Takahashi MT200, Heuib2 filter

Exposure: 180s x 91 frames gain 120

ASI294MC Pro

iOptron Photron 6RC

iOptron CEM26

ZWO Dual Band Filter

ZWO 120mm mono guide scope

ZWO ASIAIR Plus

47 / 5 minute subs

10 Dark frames

120 gain / -10c

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

Telescopio: APM 140 mm f 7 APO

Montatura:iOptron CEM60

CCD di ripresa: QHY10 CCD

Guida: RifrattoreTecnosky Sharp Guide 70/400 mm

Camera di guida:Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2

Filtro:IDAS LPS D1

Software:Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, PHD Guiding 2.6.5, EzCap 3.3.6, Stark Labs Nebulosity 4.2, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8

Accessori: Focuser Starlight 3,5", APM Flattener 2.5"

Pose: IDAS LPS D1: 10x240" -15C bin 1x1

Integrazione: 0.7 ore Dark: 3 Bias: 11

SQM medio: 18.60 Temperatura: 11.00

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Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) is seen near the galaxy NGC 4203 in the early morning hours of November 13, 2021. The image was made of 52 twenty second exposures taken with a Canon 80D and a Canon 200 mm f/2.8L II lens. (ISO 800, f/3.5). Tracking was done with an iOptron Sky Tracker with stacking in Nebulosity.

The large dark nebula (NGC 281A that makes up this "gaping mouth" is a molecular cloud made up predominantly of molecular hydrogen, but also dust and other gases. New generations of solar systems are being forged within its cold interior. Once these young stars' fusion engines switch on they will irradiate their surroundings - heating up, ionizing and eroding away the remaining dark material from which they formed.

Originally the whole Pac-Man nebula would have been one large dark molecular cloud - the stars that formed early on at its centre having progressively hollowed out the centre of the nebula. The gas in and around this central region is ionized by the copious UV radiation emitted by the central open star cluster (IC 1490), causing it to glow and providing the light by which this narrowband image was taken.

Location Image: London UK

Date: Various dates throughout Sept and October 2015

Telescope: Skywatcher Espirt 100ED

CCD: QHY9S MONO CCD

Filters: Chroma 3nm Ha, Chroma 3nm SII and Chroma 3nm OIII ( Taken during High moon transit )

Ha 1200s x 18

SII 1200s x 10

OIII 1200s x 10

Mount Ioprton CEM60

The rising constellation Orion captured a week ago limited by thin clouds.

Canon EOS 6Da and Canon EF16-35mm f/4L IS on iOptron Skytracker

Sky and foreground each: 4x 240sec | f/4 | ISO1600

William Optics Zenithstar 73 iii and 73a flattener, Ioptron CEM70NUC mount, Altair Tri-band filter, ASI2600MC Pro at -20C and ZWO focuser.

17 x 5 minute exposures (1 hours 25 minutes)

Gain 100, Offset 50, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.

Processed in Pixinsight, Photoshop and Topaz.

Imaged between 17:52 and 22:00 on the 29th of November 2022.

This is the bottom half of the Orion Constellation shot with my Nikon D600 and Rokinon 85mm f1.4 lens on an iOptron Skytracker mount. I didn't have a lot of time to collect exposures so this is only 11 exposures stacked, 5 minutes per exposure at ISO 800 and f4. This one will get a lot better once I can get more exposures stacked and then mosaic with the upper half of the constellation.

AT65EDQ scope

ZWO ASI183M camera

iOptron iEQ45 mount

Just stacked the top 20 of 200 due to passing clouds

PIPP, Autostakert3, Registax, PS

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

Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier;

Camera : ZWO ASI 174 MM;

Equivalent Focal lenght : 4900 mm.

Software : FireCapture, AutoStakkert3, Adobe Photoshop

Sun Active region : NOAA 12995

Casalecchio di Reno - Italia

44° 29’ 29” N

11° 14’ 58” E

Canon T3i Mod

Canon 70 200 L USM IS

iOptron Skytracker

Intervalometro

Exp: 69 x 60s

Iso: 1600

F: 5

Df: 200 mm.

Pixinsight 1.8

Guillermo Cervantes Mosqueda

Centro Ecoturistico Pinares

Poncitlán Jalisco México

EOS 700Da, 51 lightframes 120s. William Optics ZS61 on an iOptron Skyguider Pro.

While waiting for the Smoke Plumes to clear, I decided to work on another reprocessing project.

This was data from July 2022.

Messier 57 - The Ring Nebula - 14.7 hours of HaLRGB integration.

The original image was published in Amateur Astrophotographer Magazine. Since that version was the one published, I decided to preserve that version by adding the new version as its own post.

I was happy with the original result but felt I could try to improve on it. The original used many techniques to combine the Ha, Luminance, and RGB images. I built off of that approach but added some new tools and techniques - and I made different processing choices.

I aimed to bring out the outer gas shell shown in the Ha data.

Hope you like the new result.

The Web Post on this can be seen at:

cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/m57-ha-halo-reprocess

The original Image can be seen here:

cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/m57-ha-halo

Thanks,

Pat

Orion and Taurus with their nebulas and clusters alongside the Milky Way at left. Betelgeuse is dimmer than usual here in this scene from December 28, 2019. The star clusters M35 in Gemini and M37, M36 and M38 in Auriga are prominent at top left,. as well as the Hyades and the large open clusters NGC 1647 and 1746 in Taurus at upper right. The red Rosette Nebula is at left, and the Orion Nebula, M42, is below the Belt of Orion. The large Taurus Dark Clouds are at top.

This is a stack of 12 x 3-minute exposures at f/2.8 with the Canon 35mm lens and Canon EOS Ra at ISO 800, on the iOptron SkyGuider Pro, plus an additional exposure through the Kenko Softon A filter layered in for the enhanced star glows. However, thin haze and ice crystals added natural star glows.

Telescopio:Celestron C8 Edge HD

Montatura: iOptron CEM60

CMOS di ripresa: ZWO ASI 174 mono Cooled

Software:Emil Kraaikamp Autostakkert 3.0.14, Zoner Photo Studio X v. 19, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8, Astra Image 4 SI

Filtro Baader Planetarium IR-Pass 685nm

Data: 23 Maggio 2018 Ore: 21:14

Pose: 400 FPS: 50,00000

Lunghezza focale: 2000 mm

Seeing: 3 Trasparenza: 6

Barnards Loop aufgenommen mit Olympus M1 und Standard Zoom bei f=54mm und ISO1600 auf iOptron SkyTrack Montierung in Marokko. 3 RAW Aufnahmen mit einer Gesamtbelichtung von 956s in RawTherapee als 16BIT PNG Dateien entwickelt. Mit GIMP 2.9.5 eingelesen, ausgerichtet und summiert. Zwei Auszüge mit voller Summe und einer Teilaufnahme für HDR als JPG Dateien abgespeichert. Anschliessend mit fotoxx als HDR zusammengefaßt.

Barnards Loop taken with Olymous M1 and standard zoom lens at f=54mm and ISO1600 on iOptron SkyTrack mount in Morocco. 3 raw images with a total exposition time of 956s developed with rawtherapee into 16 BIT PNG files. Files read into GIMP 2.9.5, aligned and summed. Two excerpts, one with full sum and only one frame saved for HDR procedure with fotoxx. The HDR file in fotoxx saved as JPG file.

The constellation Orion is beginning its winter trek across the sky. One of many gems in that area of the sky is the amazing complex near the bright star Zeta Orionis, one of the three stars in Orion's belt. Here are the Horsehead Nebula, a.k.a. Barnard 33, and the Flame Nebula, a.k.a. NGC 2024, among other, smaller features.

November 12, 2021. 1x3 mosaic, each panel 8 6-minute exposures (2.4 hours total). Explore Scientific FCD-100 102mm telescope, ASI294MC camera, dual narrow-band filter (H-alpha, [O III]), iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir controller, processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom.

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Taken under dark skies at the Golden State Star Party near Adin, CA.

Telescope: Tele Vue 76mm Refractor with 0.8x reducer (f/5)

Camera: QSI 683wsg

Mount: iOptron iEQ45 Pro

Integration: 30 min (6 x 5 min) each of RGB

TS65Q (F=420mm)

iOptron ZEQ25

5Dmkii

5 sec

ISO 400

PixInsight

Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia

Imaging telescope or lens: Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII

Imaging camera: Central DS Astro 6D

Mount: iOptron CEM60

Guiding camera: Starlight Xpress Ultrastar

Focal reducer: Takahashi Reducer QE 0,73x

Filter: Hutech IDAS 2" LPSV4

1.5 hours only, then session was interrupted by wolves :D

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.

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Casalecchio di Reno - Italia

44° 29’ 29” N

11° 14’ 58” E

Telescope: William Optics GTF81

Mount: iOptron CEM70G

Camera ZWO ASI 294 MC PRO -10ºc gain 120

Filter: Optolong L-Enhance

Exposures: 76 x 300 "

Total integration time: 6h20m

Taken with APT

Bortle 5-6

Processed in Pixinsight

The cluster and nebula lie at a distance of 5,000 light-years from Earth[5] and measure roughly 130 light years in diameter

Re-processing of my July 19th project from Abastumani. This version is so outstanding from the previous one that I decided to share again!

Nikon D750

Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 @ f/2

iOptron SkyTracker

40 x 60 sec.

ISO 1600

no callibration

PixInsight & Lr

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

- www.kevin-palmer.com - I'm still sorting through pictures from the Geminid meteor shower, but I wanted to post this picture from early this morning. Comet 46P/Wirtanen flew by the Pleiades in the constellation Taurus. Also known as the Seven Sisters, this star cluster is one of the closest to Earth at a distance of about 444 light years away. The extra hot and luminous stars cast their light on the nearby reflection nebula, which gives it the blue color. Comet 46P/Wirtanen was at it's closest approach just 7.2 million miles (11.5 million km) away from Earth. This makes it one of the top 10 closest comet encounters of the Space Age. While they look the same size in this image, the comet is quite a bit fainter, just barely detectable to the naked eye. The nucleus of the comet is less than 1 mile wide, but it's diffuse coma (cometary atmosphere) is larger than the planet Jupiter.

This image was shot with a Nikon 180mm f2.8 lens on a Nikon D750. It is a stack of 8 2.5 minute exposures, along with 4 dark and bias frames. An iOptron Skytracker was used to track the stars. I'm going to need a new tracker soon though. After shooting images for 1 hour, I had to delete 2/3 of them due to tracking errors.

The dark #texasnightsky shines over desert mountains in west Texas. This was some of my first use of a star tracker and it allowed me to do a 30 seconds or longer shot of the sky with my 55mm lens vs a normal 6 or 8 seconds thus bringing out more detail.

Sony A7R3 with Sony 55mm f/1.8 and iOptron SkyGuider Pro tracker on a Gitzo 1325 tripod

Test image iOptron CEM40 mount. Unguided with Takahashi Epsilon 130ED. Imaged during the "grey nights", end of May, with the sky not getting dark anymore.

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, Adobe Photoshop

Casalecchio di Reno - Italia

44° 29’ 29” N

11° 14’ 58” E

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, Adobe Photoshop

Casalecchio di Reno - Italia

44° 29’ 29” N

11° 14’ 58” E

A very nice jewelbox! Open star cluster in the constellation Vulpecula.

3 hour exposure with Takahashi Epsilon 130ED, Nikon D810, iOptron CEM40 mount, unguided.

● Target data:

► M1 | NGC1952

► Stellar coordinates:

-Ra: 05h 34m 31.94s

-DEC: +22° 00′ 52.2″

► Distance: 6500±1600 ly

► Constellation: Taurus

● Gear:

► Telescope: SW 200/1000 F5

► Mount: IOptron CEM60-ec

► Camera: Canon EOS 700d astrodon

► Autoguiding: guidescope 50mm microspeed + ZWO asi

120mm

► Other optic(s): Baader mpcc mk3 coma corrector

► Filter(s): Astronomik CLS CCD eos clip

● Softwares:

► Preprocessing: PixInsight

► Autoguiding: PHD guiding 2

► Processing: PixInsight

● Data acquisition:

► 45 X 200 sec, total 2H30

► ISO 800

► Date: 12/02/2021

Nikon d810a

50mm

ISO 3200

f/3.2

Foreground: 6 x 13 seconds

Sky: 10 x 30 seconds

iOptron SkyTracker

This is a 16 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising over a wheat farm at Williams, 1.5 hours south east of Perth in Western Australia.

Nikon d810a

50mm

ISO 2000

f/1.8

Foreground: 6 x 13 seconds

Sky: 18 x 25 seconds

H-Alpha: 4 x 60 seconds

This is a 28 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising above a couple of water tanks with some interesting murals. I had driven past here a few times and finally found time to capture them under the stars.

M101 (NGC 5457), aussi appelé galaxie du Moulinet, est une très vaste galaxie spirale intermédiaire relativement rapprochée, vue de face et située dans la constellation de la Grande Ourse. Elle a été découverte par Pierre Méchain en 1781.

The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457) is a face-on spiral galaxy 21 million light-years (6.4 megaparsecs) away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781.

(source: wikipedia)

= Acquisition info =

William Optics Zenithstar 73ii (FL 430mm)

Risingcam IMX571 color

iOptron CEM26 + iPolar

ZWO ASI224MC + WO Uniguide 32/120

NINA & PHD2

= Séances photo =

- 21 et 21 décembre 2023 + 5 janvier 2024 (Filtre LPro, mix 300s et 180s)

- 5 janvier 2024 (Filtre IDAS NBZ : 300s)

= Traitement/processing =

Siril, Starnet++ & Gimp

@Astrobox 2.0 / St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec

AstroM1

(rsi4x)

Comet 252P/LINEAR was photographed near the M14 globular cluster in Ophiuchus early in the morning of April 6, 2016. The M14 cluster is seen below and to the left of the comet while the dimmer (10th mag) globular cluster NGC 6366 is seen to the lower right. The image was made of a stack of 38 twenty second exposures with a Canon 70D and a Canon 200 mm f/2.8L lens at f/3.2. (ISO 1000). Tracking was done with an iOptron Sky Tracker.

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko passes through the constellation Gemini on three consecutive nights: November 6, 7, and 8, 2021 (right to left), near the closest it will come to the Earth in its orbit. This is the brightest comet in the sky right now, though still not really very bright at all. ESA's Rosetta spacecraft orbited Comet 67P and the Phillae probe landed on it back in 2014. The orange-ish star at upper right is upsilon Geminorum, one of the bright stars in Gemini.

This is a composite of multiple exposures taken over several hours on each of the three nights. These were combined to produce a panoramic view of the background and of the comet on each night.

#astrophotography