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Optic: Sharpstar 90mm f/5.6 Askar FRA500
Mount: Ioptron CEM60 HP
Camera: QSI 583wsg
Filters: 31mm unmounted Astrodon gen. 2
Frames: Ha 3nm: 18X600sec - OIII 3nm: 18X600sec - RGB 4X600sec each Bin1 -15°
Autoguider: ZWO ASI290MM mini on ZWO 30 F/4, Phd guiding
Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop
NINA automation
Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) is seen in the early morning hours of April 2, 2020 shortly after moonset. The comet was approximately magnitude 8 on this date. The image was made of 85 twenty second exposures taken with a Canon 80D and a Canon 200 mm f/2.8L II lens. (ISO 1000, f/3.5)
MEADE SN10, iOptron CEM60, ZWO-ASI174MM,
1000 frames captured in Firecapture 160fps, 0 Gain,
Best 65% Stacked in AS3, Wavelets applied in Registax 6.0
extra mayo & no pickles ;-)
Telescope: INTES MK-69 PhotoMak
Camera: ZWO ASI071MC Pro
Exposure: 40 x 3min @ unity gain -5°C
Filters: no filter
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Location: Cesseras France
Date: 2022.05.26
I love this shot because it shows the unique diversity of the cosmos in one frame. The emission nebula (sh2-101) at the lower right is an H II region emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. It is sometimes called the Tulip Nebula because it appears to resemble the outline of a tulip in photographic images. It lies at a distance of about 6,000 light-years from Earth.
The blue ring nebula WR 134 at the upper left is a Wolf-Rayet variable star also located about 6,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus and is surrounded by a faint bubble nebula created by the star's intense radiation and fast winds. It has five times the radius of the sun, but is 400,000 times brighter than the sun due to a temperature of over 63,000 K.
This is a result from a total exposure time of more than 9 hours: 600 seconds for OIII, and 450 seconds for Hα and SII, a total time of nearby 9 hours, captured in my Garden Observatory in the Alps in Pongau in Salzburg/Austria with the QHY268M and a 420mm f/2.8 Newton. I developed it with Astro Pixel Processor, Pixinsight and Adobe Photoshop.
more/mehr: www.fascinationcosmos.com
source: NGC6883_SH2_101_WR134_2023Sept_Wfw_SGP_QHY268M_HEM27EC_15Ha450s_30OIII600s_16SII450s+APP+PI+PS24d
40x90s Integration from a relatively dark site.
D610 180mm
ISO 1600
IDAS D1 Light pollution Filter
iOptron Skytracker V2
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
The deep southern Milky Way arching across the sky, from Puppis and Vela at upper right, to Centaurus at lower left. The two Magellanic Clouds are at lower centre, with the Large Cloud at top. The Small Cloud is just setting above the treetops with the globular cluster 47 Tucanae visible as a star below the Cloud amid the trees.
The Carina Nebula and Southern Cross are at upper left, and the paired stars of Alpha and Beta Centauri are rising above the trees at left. Canopus is at right, while Sirius shines through the gum tree at upper right. The faint red arc of the Gum Nebula in Vela can be seen at top in the Milky Way.
The scene depicts the austral autumn evening sky of late March from a latitude iof 30 degrees south.
This is a stack of 5 x 1.5-minute exposures, all tracked on the iOptron Sky Tracker, at f/2.8 with the 15mm fish-eye lens, and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 3200. The ground comes from just one of the tracked exposures to minimize blurring. Taken from the Tibuc Gardens Cottage near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia on March 30, 2016.
Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 800 with 0.7 reducer
Camera: ZWO ASI 071MC Pro
Exposure: 50 x 4min @ unity gain -5°C
Filters: IDAS LPS filter
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Location: Beveren-Waas Belgium
Date: 2023.09.14
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 2000
f/2.0
Foreground: 9 x 10 seconds
Sky: 48 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 57 shot panorama of the Crux & Carina region of the Milky Way above the sand dune desert of Nambung National Park, two hours north of Perth in Western Australia.
Crux is the dark nebula almost in the direct centre of the image while a little further above is the pink coloured Carina Nebula. Near the top is the deep red coloured Gum Nebula, captured thanks to a Nantong Foric screw on h-alpha filter. To the far left, just above the horizon, is a red noctilucent cloud.
The Eastern Veil Nebula is a part of the much larger Veil Nebula, a supernova remnant of a star 20 times the size of the Sun. It exploded 8000yrs ago and this cloud of ionized gas has been expanding ever since.
This image acquired through Ha (red) and OIII (blue) filters over a total integration time of 5.6hrs.
30 Ha and 38 OIII images (each 5min exposure length) stacked and processed in Pixinsight and Lightroom
Nikon D610
70-200mm at 165mm f2.8
45x90 seconds
iOptron Skytracker
ISO 1600
Stacked in PS using smart object method.
Quite happy with it for my 2nd attempt at imaging this area.
SHO 96X300sec RGB stars Askar 130mm f7.7 Quad refractor ASI 1600. Ioptron, ZWO everything else Pixinsight RC Astro PS.
Stargazing with my family is always a fun experience, and during our recent Namibia vacation, I had the great pleasure of introducing them to the wonders of the southern hemisphere sky.
Northern hemisphere dwellers are probably familiar with the constellations and nebulae in the upper part of the image, including the famous Dark Horse and Rho Ophichui. The Lobster, Cat's Paw, and Prawn Nebulae may also still be known to those not living too far north.
The next bright red hydrogen emission nebula, however, was a new one for me. NGC6188. Even though it was discovered by John Herschel in 1836, it never rises above the horizon in my home country, Switzerland.
Following the dust lanes of the Milky Way band further south, leads to the bright stars Rigil and Hadar (Alpha and Beta Centauri) and eventually to a very dark and dusty area, called the Coalsack.
To the lower right of the Coalsack lies the famous constellation Crux, the Southern Cross. South of the Southern Cross are two more prominent red nebulae, IC 2948, the 'Running Chicken Neblua', and NGC 3372, the bright 'Eta Carinae Nebula', one of the largest diffuse nebulae in our skies. Although it is four times as large as and even brighter than the famous Orion Nebula, the Carina Nebula is much less well known due to its location in the southern sky.
I conclude this little tour with the open star cluster IC 2602, the 'Southern Pleiades' near on the upper left edge of the Eta Carinae Nebula.
EXIF
Canon EOS-R, astro-modified
Tamron SP 15-30mm f/2.8
IDAS NBZ filter
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sky:
10 x 90s @ ISO1600, unfiltered & 4 x 180s @ ISO6400, filtered
Foreground:
Single exposure of 1s @ ISO100 during blue hour.
It was nice and clear last night and it yielded this image of the Pleiades. First time out with my IOptron pro. Shot with Canon 70D and manual Leica 135mm f2.8 lens at f4.
Optics : TEC140 Apo + TeleVue Barlow 1 1/4" 5x
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
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
This was a misty, awe-inspiring night at Spruce Knob Lake while the AT111 and Nikon D5300 captured data on the Leo Triplet of Galaxies. Jupiter taking center stage while following closely behind Antares and Rho Ophiuchi.
Even after growing up in SW Colorado, I believe the clarity and visibility of the Milky Way that was offered later that night was the best I've ever seen with the naked eye. Taken on Monday, June 3rd / morning hours of Tuesday June 4th, 2019 in West Virginia.
Canon 6D, iOptron Skyguider, Rokinon 24mm.
1x180 tracked sky shot, ISO 1600
1x200 untracked foreground shot ISO 800
Merged in Photoshop, refined in Lightroom CC.
M101, a face-on grand spiral galaxy, 23 million light-years away. Nikon D850, 200-500 f/5.6 lens, 500mm, 11 frames each 90 sec., f/7.1, ISO 5000. Post-processed in Lightroom and combinded in Starry Sky Stacker.
My first deep sky mosaic made up of 3 panels joined to create a single image covering an area of the night sky nearly 15 degrees wide by 10 degrees high.
Objects visible include the Southern Cross (Crux) which should be recognisable by anyone in the Southern Hemisphere. NGC4755, the Jewel Box, is a cluster of bright stars just to the left of the left star in the cross. In the bottom right of the image the red cloud is hydrogen gas in IC2944 also known as the Running Chicken Nebula. Directly above this the bright cluster of stars is NGC3766, the Pearl Cluster.
The Jewel Box and Pearl Clusters were identified in 1752 by French astronomer Nicholas Louis de Lacaille who travelled to South Africa to catalogue the Southern night sky during 1751 and 1752. The Running Chicken Nebula (IC 2944) was first catalogued in 1834 by Englishman John Herschel during a four year trip to South Africa made to catalogue and describe over 1700 night sky objects using a large reflector telescope with a 20 foot (roughly 6 metre) focal length.
This image was taken on 21 February 2025 from Bortle 2 skies in Coalgate in Canterbury, New Zealand, using a Samyang 135mm lens, ASI2600MC camera and CEM40 mount without guiding. Each of the 3 panels were 84 images of 30 seconds stacked in DSS, then GraXpert, combined in PS, and final edit in Siril. The second image was named using the nova.astrometry.net site.
Thank you for choosing this image of the Southern night sky for Explore on March 5, 2025.
There's a bright-ish comet passing through Orion these days [C/2020 M3 (ATLAS)]. It's the green fuzz at the top of the first photo, above Orion's three belt stars along with the decidedly bright Orion Nebula at lower right and nearby Horsehead and Flame nebulae around the. bottom belt star. The other image shows a detail of the comet with a longer focal length; no tail showing but a nice big coma. By the way the green is from carbon molecules excited by sunlight to emit mostly green light.
Nikon D800 (modified to record hydrogen light), 200-500mm f/2.8 @200mm, 20 exposures, each 90 sec., f/7.1, ISO 2500, iOptron CEM25P drive, processed in Lightroom, combined in Starry Sky Stacker.
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
Taken at Table Mountain in WA state. Equipment: Tele Vue 76mm refractor, Modified Canon XSi (450D) DSLR, iOptron iEQ45 Pro Mount. Total integration time: 80 minutes (16 x 5 mins).
I was hoping to shoot Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks before it fell below the horizon, but I was overly optimistic. By the time I arrived at my imaging site, the comet was sitting on the western horizon. I had all my gear and nearly clear skies and hadn't imaged in well over a year, so rather than head home, I decided to image something. I chose the Pinwheel Galaxy on a whim. I was able to squeeze the Whirlpool Galaxy into the frame as well.
Instead of using Astro Pixel Processor for gradient removal (my license expired), I used GraXpert for the first time. It worked well, especially considering the cost (free!).
Acquisition details: Fujifilm X-T10; Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600; tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro; 32 x 60 sec; stacking with DeepSkyStacker; gradient (i.e. vignetting) removal with GraXpert; and curves adjustment/star reduction/editing with GIMP; taken on April 8, 2024 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
M42 in Orion, 9 x10 second images and 3x30 second images taken with Takahashi FSQ106ED and Canon Ra on an iOptron CEM40 mount. Taken between Stow and Lauder in the borders 29th January 2022. Lights and Bias only
Scope TAKAHASHI FSQ106ED 530mm @ f 5.0
iOptron CEM40
ASIAIR Plus
Lights and Bias stacked in PixInsight
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 8000
f/2.5
Foreground: 5 x 25 seconds
Sky: 5 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 10 shot panorama of the Carina Nebula (top right corner) and the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds (centre) above Lake Ninan, 2 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia. The light pollution on the right is from the nearby Wheatbelt town of Calingiri.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - Jupiter is currently the brightest object in the sky aside from the moon. It reaches opposition on June 10th. Right now it's moving through Sagittarius in front of the milky way. I put my camera on a tracking mount to capture more detail in the surrounding sky.
Nikon d810a
35mm
ISO 2500
f/2.2
27 x 8 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 27 shot panorama of the recent worldwide aurora event on May 11 incorporated into a full panorama of the rising Milky Way taken at Stirling Dam, 1.5 hours south of Perth in Western Australia.
One thing I did not envisage when going out to shoot the aurora for the first time was the effect it would have on the other features of the night sky, in particular the Milky Way arch. The overpowering red glow covered the arch completely and I've had to try and temper its effect as best I could with this panorama as almost the whole sky was glowing and incredibly bright red.
When also shooting H-alpha frames it makes it even harder, being red in colour as well. You can just make out some of the Ha regions, mainly the Gum Nebula just above the tallest tree. The central yellow part of the aurora was brightened somewhat by the light pollution from an alumina mine about 15km south of the dam.
Optic: Lunt LS80THa D.S. + ZWO EAF + Lunt B1200 Ha blocking filter
Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier;
Camera : ZWO ASI 174 MM;
Equivalent focal length = 560 mm.
Software : FireCapture, AutoStakkert3, Photoshop
Casalecchio di Reno - Italia
44° 29’ 29” N
11° 14’ 58” E
PLEASE NOTE
This image detects strong signs of subsampling: the pixels of the ZWO ASI 174 MM (5.7µ) sensor are large in size compared to the minimum image detail. The previous image taken with the ZWO ASI 178 mm camera equipped with 2.4 µ pixels has a correct sampling since the camera is able to record all the image detail.
(Questa immagine rileva forti segni di sottocampionamento : i pixel del sensore ZWO ASI 174 MM (5,7µ), sono di dimensione grandi rispetto al dettaglio minimo dell'immagine. La immagine precedente ripresa con la camera ZWO ASI 178 mm dotata di pixel da 2,4 µ ha un ampionamento corretto dato che la camera è in grado di registrare tutto il dettaglio dell'immagine.)
The Coma Berenices star cluster, aka Mel 111, with a smattering of galaxies, taken in the deepening twilight and growing moonlight of 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. 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. But only 6 of the 12 images taken in quick succession were untrailed enough to be usable in the stack, about typical for shooting with a tracker unguided with focal lengths over 135mm.
This is a stack of 6 x 2-minutes at ISO 800 with the Canon EOS Ra. Stacked and blended in Photoshop CC. Taken as the waning gibbous Moon was rising this night on May 8, 2020. The little RedCat astrograph is very sharp to the corners. The field is about 8° by 5.5°.
Telescope: INTES MK-69 PhotoMak
Camera: ZWO ASI071MC Pro
Exposure: 55 x 3min @ unity gain -5°C
Filters: no filter
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Location: Beveren-Waas Belgium
Date: 2022.01.24
Conditions: bad transparency - high humidity
top left corner
Skywatcher 190MN telescope, Ioptron CEM70 NUC mount, Altair Tri-Band filter, ASI2600MC Pro at -20C.
40 x 5 minute exposures (3 hours 20 minutes) at Gain 100, Offset 50, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight, Topaz denoise, and Photoshop.
Collected between 23-10 and 03-17 on the 20th/21st of April 2023.
William Optics Zenithstar 73 iii and 73a flattener, Ioptron CEM70NUC mount, Altair Tri-band filter, ASI2600MC Pro at -20C and ZWO focuser.
Panel 1: 22 x 5 minute exposures (1 hour 50 minutes) 12/12/2022
Panel 2: 30 x 5 minute exposures (2 hours 30 minutes) 13/12/2022
Panel 3: 33 x 5 minute exposures (2 hours 45 minutes) 14/12/2022
Panel 4: 37 x 5 minute exposures (3 hours 5 minutes) 15/12/2022
Imaged between 5-30pm and 9pm.
Gain 100, Offset 50, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight, Photoshop and Topaz.
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is seen at the start of nautical twilight from Lancaster, PA (40 degrees N). The comet was easy to see with 7x50 binoculars from nautical twilight to the start of the blue hour before sunrise. The image was made of a stack of 24 eight second exposures, tracked on the nucleus. The images were taken with a Canon 80D and a Canon 200 mm f/2.8L II lens. (ISO 400, f/5.6, starting at 4:26 AM EDT) -- It was great to be able to see a comet in the viewfinder for once!!
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蜘蛛星雲 Tarantula Nebula NGC2070
蜘蛛星雲位於劍魚座大麥哲倫星系邊上，離我們於約十六萬光年。它是本星系群中已知的最活躍最大的造星區，直徑近1000光年。如果把它拉近放到獵戶座大星雲 (離我們最近的大形造星區) 的位置，即離我們約 1500 光年處，它會在天空中占據 30 度約 60 個滿月的大少， 光度甚至可在地上做成影子。
近年有研究表示，這個區域的造星運動這麼劇烈，是由於多個星團碰撞結合所引致，甚至可能是大小麥哲倫星系的重力牽近所造成的。
Photo by Michael Leung
Location：Lake Pukaki, New Zealand
Camera：CentralDS 600D @ -15c
Telescope：Borg 90FL / 0.72 Reducer (360mm f/4)
Mount：iOptron ZEQ25 guided QHY5LII Mono
Exposure：ISO1600, 240s x11 (Core 30s x20)
拍攝難度：★★ (五星最高)
建議鏡頭焦距：300mm+
適合拍攝月份：9月 ~ 3月 (南半球)
大概方向：大麥哲倫星系附近
Messier 1 [M1]. A supernova remnant in the constellation of Taurus.
M: iOptron EQ45-Pro
T: William Optics GTF81
C: ZWO ASI1600MC-Cooled
F: IDAS-LPS D2 (Light Pollution Filter)
G: PHD2
GC: ZWO ASI120mini - OAG
RAW16; FITs
Temp: -15 DegC
Gain 250;
19 x Exp 400s
1 x Exp 300s
Frames: 20 Lights; 10 Darks; 20 flats; 20 Dark Flats.
20% Crop
Capture: SharpCap
Processed: APP; PS
Sky: 10% Crescent moon, calm, minimal cloud, cold, good seeing.
6,523 light years distant.
Total exposure : 43 minutes
86x30 sec subs(no dark,bias flat frames)
Camera : Nikon D5600
Lens : 70-300 mm kit lens @300mm f6.3
Mount : iOptron Skyguider pro
Bortle scale :Class 4
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 2000
f/1.8
Foreground: 14 x 30 seconds
Sky: 40 x 25 seconds
H-alpha: 11 x 60 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 65 shot panorama of the Milky Way setting over the Stirling Range National Park, 4 hours south east of Perth in Western Australia.
The red areas of the sky are hydrogen alpha emitting regions captured using a special filter that isolates that part of the spectrum. The most prominent region here is Cygnus on the far right, home to the North America Nebula.
When I saw the huge advertisment for the most famous Swiss chocolate bar on the middle station of this chairlift, I knew I had to shoot the Milky Way over it.
Unfortunately this meant to snowshoe up the steep ski slopes for an hour in the middle of the night with a heavy backpack full of camera equipment.
As much as I love chocolate, I would never do this for some sweet treats, but for a nice Milky Way, I do it any time. I guess that makes me an addict.
What is your favorite nighttime snack?
Prints available:
EXIF
Canon EOS 6D astro modified
Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art @ f/2
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
26 panel panorama
Sky
13 x stack of 3 tracked exposures, each 15s @ ISO1600
Foreground
13 x stack of 3 exposures, each 30s @ ISO1600
Telescope: INTES MK-69 PhotoMak
Camera: ZWO ASI178MM + 2x Televue barlow
Filters: no filter
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Location: Beveren-Waas Belgium
Date: 2022.08.08
Instruments De Prise De Vue
Samyang 135mm f2 samyang
Caméras D'Imagerie
Sony A7S
Montures
iOptron CEM25P
Logiciels
PixInsight 1.8.5
Images unitaires:
200×30″(1h 40′)
Intégration:
1h 40′
Âge de la Lune (moyen):
21.72 jours
Phase de la Lune (moyenne):
54.59%
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每年十月下旬，對於天文發燒友來說，有機會每晚也是忙碌的一夜。月前剛好難得有數晚好天氣，再次以新的攝星組合拍攝了冬季必拍的目標之一《馬頭星雲》。在香港的環境下以無反相機也能夠拍攝到這種感覺，即使過程是多麼的疲倦也好，成果告訴我並沒有到浪費這次機會。
Photo by Timmy Wong
Location: 北潭涌 (RGB) , 沙田 (Ha)
Camera: Canon EOS-M mod.
Telescope: Sky-watcher 130mm F5
Mount: iOptron ZEQ25 guided
Filter: Astronomik 12nm Ha
Setting: 4mins x30 (RGB), 10mins x12 (Ha)
Process: PI, PS CC
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
Another toy: the William Optic Zenithstar 61 on my iOptron SkyGuiderPro. Photo taken with an unmodified EOS 7D. Relly bad visibility, so only 13 lightframes turned out OK...
Nikon d810a
85mm
ISO 2000
f/2
Foreground: 16 x 20 seconds
Sky: 81 x 30 seconds
H-Alpha: 15 x 60 seconds
iOptron Skytracker
This is a 112 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising above a sheep farm at Konnongorring, 2 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia.
I spent a couple of hours taking the individual shots for this panorama and had no idea there was a flock of sheep just in front of me, if you look around the windmill you can see them. They must have stood very still!
Prominent in this image are the Magellanic Clouds just right of the windmill. Partially obscured by light pollution is the large Gum Nebula and above that is the pink Carina Nebula. On the left are various areas of hydrogen alpha emitting regions, captured thanks to a special filter which isolates that wavelength.
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
Trolley : JMI Large Size Universal Wheeley Bars.
Software : FireCapture by Torsten Edelmann, AutoStakkert3 by Emil Kraaikamp, ImPPG by Filip Szczerek, Adobe Photoshop
2 images mosaic
Casalecchio di Reno - Italia
44° 29’ 29” N
11° 14’ 58” E