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M: iOptron EQ45-Pro
T: William Optics GTF81
C: ZWO ASI1600MC-Cooled
F: No Filter
G: PHD2
GC: ZWO ASI120mini [OAG]
RAW16; FITs
Temp: -15 DegC
Gain 200;
25 x Exp 15s
Frames: 25 Lights; 50 Darks; 50 Flats
60% Crop
Capture: SharpCap
Processed: APP; PS
Sky: No moon, calm, 30%cloud, mild, good seeing.
Or the Beak of the Kiwi?
Shot at Te Arai Pt.
Canon 600D
200mm ƒ2.8L II lens
iOptron Skytracker
30 x 30 second exposures
ƒ3.2
6400 ISO
No darks or any calibration frames.
Stacked in Nebulosity, stretched in Photoshop then final edit in Lightroom.
Taken with Canon 70D, SMC Takumar 200mm lens, IOptron Star Tracker Pro, Rigel Systems quick finder. 19 x 90 sec exposures.
Manually stacked in Photoshop.
I wanted to include the Perseus molecular cloud in the same extent as the California Nebula, but it didn't quite fit in the 1.5x-crop-factor field of view of my Fuji + Samyang 135mm lens, so I shot a mosaic of 4 panels. I thought snct astro did a great job framing the extent here (flic.kr/p/2kcoAZu), so I imitated their framing.
Panels were 26, 30, 22, and 37 x 1 min integrations and overlapped substantially, so most areas were covered by more than one panel. I also added 50 x 1 min of imagery of the Perseus Molecular Cloud from Nov. 20, 2019 (flic.kr/p/2hNZ6iA). So in total this is 165 minutes worth of data.
Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking of individual panels done with DeepSkyStacker, flattening of individual panels and mosaicking done with Astro Pixel Processor, editing in GIMP.
Skies were Bortle 3/4 for the 4 panels shot on Dec. 5, 2020, and Bortle 2/3 for the 50 exposures from Nov. 20, 2019.
It was fun discovering the planetary nebula NGC 1514 below the California Nebula as I processed this. Even though it's tiny at 135mm, it was very apparent that it was a planetary nebula rather than a star.
How many horses can you see in this image?
When I saw these two prancing horses, while scouting the sculptures in Borrego Springs, I immediately knew that I had to capture them with their galactic cousin, the Dark Hores Nebula.
The Dark Horse Nebula is a collection of dark nebulae near the galactic center that resemble the side silhouette of a prancing horse. It is part of the Great Rift, a dark gap that splits the band of the Milky Way in half, starting at the Northern Cross and extending all the way down to the “Teapot” of Sagittarius in the south.
The Dark Horse Nebula in this image is facing the prancing horse sculpture, like a smaller morror image. Its back is partially hidden by the head of the horse on the left, to make the answer to the introductory question a bit less obvious.
The sky art sculptures in Borrego Springs were created by the amazing artist Ricardo Breceda. Visit his stream to learn more about his work: ricardobreceda.com
Prints available: ralf-rohner.pixels.com
EXIF
Canon EOS 6D, astro-modified
Samyang 24mm f/1.4
iOptron Skytracker Pro
Low Level Lighting
Foreground
6 x 30s @ ISO1600
Sky:
6 x 30s @ ISO1600, tracked
Comet Leonard (more formally known as C/2021 A1) is brightening, still not up to naked-eye visibility though unless your eyes are a lot better than mine; may be possible in binoculars. This image was made this morning before sunrise from fairly bright suburban Bloomington, Indiana (plenty of light pollution and a last quarter Moon) the tail is visible in the image for about 1 degree (about twice the Moon's diameter) and the green coma is very obvious.
84 frames, each 90 sec. (just over 2 hours total exposure), processed in Astro Pixel Processor, once to register on the comet, again to register on the stars, processed in Lightroom and composited in Photoshop.
Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC camera, UV/IR cut fillter, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir Pro controller.
#cometleonard #astrophotography #solarsystem
TS-Optics Photoline 140mm
Touptek ToupTek 571c
Antlia Tri Band RGB Pro 2"
iOptron CEM70G
50 shots 300 sec each
Elaboration with Pixinsight
Photo By Wang Chuan
Post Processing By Fluorine Z.
Imaging Telescope/Lens : SKY ROVER 102APO PRO
Imaging Camera : QHYCCD QHY695A
Mount : iOptron CEM60
Filter : Astrodon LRGB
Frames : L(71*300sec)/R(27*300sec)/G(27*300sec)/B(30*300sec)
I captured this panorama during my Namibia vacation in 2023. It shows the setting Milky Way arching over one of the iconic dead trees in the Namib Rand Desert.
On my YouTube channel I try a new form of presenting such a big image, which not only allows me to zoom in and show the true resolution of the panorama, it also gives me the opportunity to showcase a few of the astronmical wonders it contains and share some insights about them.
You find this astronomy tour through the panorama on my YouTube channel:
youtu.be/aL8K9k754M0?si=7dSHyKyQR95S6O0M
Thanks for watching and I love to hear your feedback about how you like this form of presenting an image.
EXIF
Canon EOS-R, astro-modified by EOS 4Astro
Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART
IDAS NBZ filter
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sky:
Panorama of 10 panels, each a stack of 7x 45s @ ISO1600, unfiltered & 3x 90s @ ISO6400, filtered
Foreground:
Focus stacked panorama of 10 panels, each a stack of 4x 1/30s @ ISO100 during blue hour.
Foreground: Yambuk Windmill Farm, Victoria
Background: Milky Way Core
Captured with Nikon D750
Nikkor 80-200 f/2.8 @ 92mm, f/5.6
240s
Tracked using iOptron Skyguider Pro
15 light frames, 4 dark frames stacked in Sequator
Processed in Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop
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
A 360° horizon-to-zenith panorama of the northern spring sky on an early May night (May 10/11, 2016) in the wee hours at about 2 am with the Milky Way rising across the east. A odd, isolated auroral arc glows to the east, adding the green and magenta arc. The green arc over the southern Milky Way may be from airglow. My house is to the right.
Cassiopeia and Perseus are at left, Cygnus at left of centre, and Sagittarius at centre low on the horizon. At centre is Mars (brightest) and Saturn above Antares in Scorpius low in the south. At upper right are the spring stars of Arcturus and the Big Dipper, here distorted by the map projection. At lower right is bright Jupiter and Leo, setting into the west. The Gegenschein (a glow from cometary dust directly opposite the Sun) is faintly visible low in the sky right of centre, to the west of Mars, then three weeks before opposition.
I shot this from the field next to my rural yard in southern Alberta. Lights from farms and gas plants mar the horizon and brighten the sky to the north and east, while the lights of Strathmore and Calgary light the sky to the west at right. I shot this as a test of the iOptron iPano motorized panning mount. This is a stitch of 44 segments (!), shot in 4 rows or tiers of 11 segments each, with the 35mm lens at f/2 and stock Canon 6D at ISO 4000.
All segments developed in Camera Raw, then exported to TIFFs to import into PTGui software. I used the Equirectangular projection to stitch the segments. Final processing of the flattened panorama in Photoshop.
The original is 32,500 x 8,100 pixels and 4 Gb.
Sony A7III FE 35mm f2.8
iOptron Skytracker.
Sky:
13x120s, 35mm, f2.8, 35mm, ISO1600
Landscapet:
3x300s , 35mm, f3.5 35mm, ISO1600
The Pleiades star cluster in the constellation Taurus. Stars and dust gravitationally bound to each other.
1x3 mosaic, each tile 30 300 second exposures frames (7.5 hours total exposure). Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC camera, UV/IR cut fillter, iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir Pro controller.
Nébuleuse de l'Hippocampe
155 poses de 300s/gain100/-10°
asi 2600mc pro
EDPH 94/414
ioptron CEM26
asiair pro
optolong L prp
siril,pixinsight,photoshop.
First light Touptek 571c plus Antlia Tri band RGB
Samyang 135mm f2.8
Touptek 571c
iOptron Cem70G
Antlia Triband RGB
51 frames , 300 sec each
Taken in very light polluted sky above my back garden. 11minutes total exposure 10 images stacked in DSS.
Canon 600D samyang 14mm lens. Ioptron skytracker.
This is a composite of the total lunar eclipse on 28. September 2015.
The sequence was tracked with an iOptron SkyTracker and consists of images taken every 8 minutes.
The camera settings were:
4 x 1/1600s @ ISO 200
2 x 5s @ ISO 400
6 x 5s @ ISO 800
2 x 3.2s @ ISO 800
3 x 2s @ ISO 800
Comet NEOWISE on August 8, 2020. A composite of 13 frames registered on the comet. Nikon D850, 200-500mm f/5.6 on an iOptron CEM25P mount, 60 second exposures, f/7.1, ISO 4000, post-processed in Lightroom and combined in Photoshop.
L'Amas NGC 1502 et l'astérisme de la cascade de Kemble (Kemble 1) sont situés dans la constellation de la Girafe. L'astérisme est formé par l'alignement d'une vingtaine d'étoiles comprises entre la cinquième et la dixième magnitude, et qui s'étale dans le ciel sur un diamètre apparent équivalent à cinq pleines lunes (wikipedia).
Kemble's Cascade is an asterism located in the constellation Camelopardalis, next to the star cluster NGC 1502.
Acquisition:
Nikon D5300 + Zenithstar 73
iOptron CEM26 + iPolar
Filtre Optolong L-Pro
ZWO ASI224MC + WO Uniguide 120mm
Astro Photography Tool (APT) & PHD2
Best 35 de 42 x 3min -- ISO400
Traitement/processing :
Siril & Gimp
AstroM1
(rsi1.2)
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 4000
f/1.8
Foreground: 5 x 10 seconds
Sky: 10 x 20 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 15 shot panorama of the Milky Way above Mushroom Rock near Kalbarri, 6 hours north of Perth in Western Australia.
Mushroom Rock is the one in the middle of the image, balancing on top of the outcrop.
The Owl Cluster (NGC 457) in the constellation of Cassiopeia as images from London, on the evening of 15th October , 2017. It's approximately 8,000 light years away and is also referred to as the Kachina Doll Cluster or ET Cluster. Most of its 150 or so stars are dim (magnitude 12 or fainter), so its two most prominent stars (magnitude 5 and 7) are thought of as bright eyes. Because there are few dust clouds in the direction of Cassiopeia, star fields appear richer than in apparently nearby constellations, Perseus for example, where such clouds are more noticeable.
Taken with a Takahashi 130 telescope
Qsi ccd
Lrgb At 6 x 120seconds each per filter
Ioptron cem60 mount
iOptron Telescopes
#london #astrophotography
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;
Equivalent Focal lenght : 4116 mm.
Software : FireCapture, AutoStakkert3, Adobe Photoshop
Casalecchio di Reno - Italia
44° 29’ 29” N
11° 14’ 58” E
Date: 2020-11-15
1:20~4:15(JST)
Camera: ASI294MC-pro
Optics: Celestron RASA 11", heuibII filter
Mount: iOptron CEM70G
Exposure: 240sec x 52flames
(gain 120)
A short video segment was made of the Aldebaran occultation on March 4, 2017. All images were taken with a Canon T6s and a Canon 200 mm f2.8L lens. Tracking was done with an iOptron Sky Tracker. Thank you for viewing!
Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 800
Camera: ZWO ASI 178MM
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Location: Beveren-Waas Belgium
Date: 2023.03.01
Hi Folks,
During the past two years, the amount of imaging I was able to do was very limited by the big move and the construction of my Whispering Skies Observatory.
But now that my observatory is fully operational, I have been really cranking out the images, and I must admit that this has been great!
Today we have a new image - which hits a milestone of its own! This is the 150th project I have completed since I first started my Astrophotographic Journey!
This is SH2-155 - Better known as the Cave Nebula!
This is the result of 13.5 hours of narrowband integration and is rendered in the Hubble SHO color palette.
This mix of bright and dark nebulae is located 2,400 light-years away in the constellation of Cepheus.
I first shot this target 5 years ago in RGB broadband, and now I have revisited it, bringing out the incredible detail that narrowband can show.
The full story of this project, and a detailed and annotated processing walkthrough, can be seen here:
cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/sh2-155-cave-sho-2025
Thanks for looking!
Clear Skies,
Pat
An H-alpha image of the California Nebula. This 100 light year long emission Nebula, spans 2.5° of the sky in Perseus, making it a fitting target for my 200mm lens. The Nebula is a mere 1000 light years away from us, each light year being about 6 trillion miles.
Tech stuff: 200 mm f/4 Super Takumar lens on Starlight Xpress SX-694C camera; mounted on iOptron Cubepro 8200 guided with SBIG STi guider and PHD. The 20 X 5 minute exposures using an Astronomik H-alpha narrowband filter were stacked and processed with Nebulosity and PixInsight. This mount is sold as an alt-az mount but is used here in equatorial mode and was clearly able to track well with the weight of this standard quality camera lens used instead of a telescope. Imaged from my yard 10 miles north of New York City.
This is just the sky portion of the previous shot I posted, 6 panels stitched together, each panel is a stack of 8 shots, ISO 400, f2.5, and 2 of each exposure at 4 minutes, 3 minutes, 2 minutes, and 1 minute. Each panel was stacked with Deep Sky Stacker, initial edits done with PixInsight, then all the panels were stitched with PTGui and final edits were done with Photoshop and Lightroom. Shot from a Bortle 4/5 zone at Rockport Reservoir, Utah.
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
Optics : TEC140 Apo + TeleVue Barlow 2" 4x
Camera : ZWO ASI 174 MM;
Equivalent Focal lenght : 3920 mm.
Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier;
Software : FireCapture, AutoStakkert3, Adobe Photoshop
Casalecchio di Reno - Italia
44° 29’ 29” N
11° 14’ 58” E
Photo By 周志伟
Post Processing By Fluorine Zhu
Image Telescope/Lens : SKY ROVER 102APO PRO
Image Camera : ZWO ASI1600mm
Mount : iOptron IEQ30Pro
Frames : R 20*60sec/G 20*60sec/B 20*60sec
Integration : 1 hours
Location : Zhuhai, Guangdong, China (Bortle Scale 5-6)
My first attempt at the Horsehead & Flame nebulas.
Shot with the Fujifilm XT3 using the William Optics ZS61 mounted on iOptron Skyguider pro.
M63
Photo By Bawind Lin
Post Processing By Fluorine Zhu
Image Telescope/Lens : TAKAHASHI TSA120
Image Camera : Atik One 6.0
Mount : iOptron CEM60
Integration : 31.75 hours (LRGB)
Emission nebulae in Cygnus
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: 22X600sec - RGB: 6X600sec each Bin1 -25°
Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop
The most famous open cluster at this year epoch, shines brighly under dark skies, this image was taken on one of the best night's at Tatacoa' desert in Colombia
Gear;
Canon 70D
Orion Astrograph 6"
Mount Ioptron CEM25P
89x2min ISO 1600
Images stacked and processed on Pixinsight 1.8 and Adobe Photoshop CC 2021
Tatacoa Desert, Huila, Colombia
Telescope: Tele Vue 76mm f/6.3 Refractor with 0.85X Reducer
Camera: QSI 683wsg
Mount: iOption iEQ45 Pro
Integration: 10x10min Ha, 15x20min OIII, 8x20min SII
Taken from Lmuma Creek Recreation Area in the Yakima Canyon, WA.
The Belle Tout Lighthouse near Beachy Head pictured under a clear night sky and the Milky Way whilst lit up by a passing car
Andromeda Galaxy with M110, M32
William Optics 61 APO refractor
Zwo ASI183MC Pro cooled color camera
Ioptron i45 EQ mount
SharpCap Pro
Deep Sky Stacker
PS
Darks flats and bias frames
PoleMaster
Nikon d5500
35mm
ISO 3200
4 x 25 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
4 shot stack of the Orion constellation reflected in the still waters of Yenyening Lakes near Beverley, about 2 hours east of Perth in Western Australia.
199 poses de 300s/gain100/-5° bin1 sur 3 nuits
avec filtre L pro
D.O.F
Askar FMA 230
ZWO asi 2600 MC pro
ioptron GEM 28
Asiair pro
Siril, Pixinsght, Photoshop.
Ciel Bortle 6/7