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The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49)
First test shot with new CEM60 mount from iOptron
Scope: Celestron RASA 11"
Camera: QHY168C @-10C
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Guide: 60mm guidescope with ZWO ASI120MC
Exposure 49x180s =147min
An Emission Nebula in the constellation of Cygnus.
Ha 17x600s
Oiii 18x600s
Sii 18x600s
Processed in the Hubble Palette.
Here is an image of last evening's (February 18, 2016) Waxing Gibbous Moon that was 86% illuminated. Canon 6D and Celestron 6" telescope, mosaic of eight different images using Microsoft Image Composite Editor for photo stitching. Images were video captured using Backyard EOS v6 using 1/40th second exposures at ISO 1000. Photo taken in Weatherly, PA.
Here we go with another image from my shooting at the metal sculptures from Ricardo Breceda at Galleta Meadows Estate in Borrego Springs.
The Sea Serpent is probably one of the most photographed sculptures, both in daylight and with the summer Milky Way at night. I tried to give it a new twist by capturing it under the winter Milky Way and the constellation Orion, the Hunter.
EXIF
Canon EOS-R, astro-modified
Sigma 28mm f/1.4
IDAS NBZ filter
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sky:
Vertical panorama of 3 panels, each a stack of 10s 30s @ ISO800, unfiltered & 5x 90s @ ISO3200, filtered
Foreground:
Focus stack of 5x 1/8s @ ISO100 during blue hour
Messier 44 - The Beehive Cluster (or also called the Praesepe) is a open cluster that lies in the constellation Cancer, the location of this open cluster also creates a great many photo opportunities as it is located close to the ecliptic (the line that planets, the sun and moon follow across the sky) thus creating many different conjunctions.
Learn more here: www.leisurelyscientist.com/?p=1573
This wide-field image was taken on February 28, 2016 using my Canon 6D, Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM and an iOptron ZEQ25 mount. Total exposure time was 30 minutes using 60-second subframes @ ISO 3200, the lens was set at f/6.3 adding some light star spikes to the image. The image was stacked using DeepSkyStacker, stretched with ImagesPlus and edited in Corel PaintShop Pro X5 and Adobe Lightroom.
William Optics Zenithstar 73 iii and 73a flattener, Ioptron CEM70NUC mount, Altair Tri-band filter, ASI2600MC Pro at -20C and ZWO focuser.
40 x 5 minute exposures (3 hours and 20 minutes)
Gain 100, Offset 50, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight, Photoshop and Topaz.
Imaged between 19:05 and 22:59 on the 13th of February 2023
William Optics Zenithstar 73 iii and 73a flattener, Ioptron CEM70NUC mount, ASI2600MC Pro at -20C and ZWO focuser.
22 x 1 minute exposures
Gain 100, Offset 50, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight, Photoshop and Topaz.
Imaged between 6:04 and 7:11 on the 26th of December 2022.
clouds and satellite trails limited the amount of usable data.
The comet will approach through January and should brighten.
MEADE SN10, iOptron CEM60, 4x Teleview Powermate,
ZWO-ASI174MM
capture was slightly under-exposed, so a fair amount of banding seemed to show itself, happy with the detail in the near shadow side of Plato itself, and the ripples - shame it was cloudy yesterday, would have liked to have caught Archimedes then, its very rare that I catch it when the shadow (right-hand-side) is about 1/3-1/2 way across the centre, way more dramatic then !!!
207 poses de 300s
camera asi 2600mc pro
ioptron cem26
TS optics EDPH 94/414
asiair pro
filtre optolong L extreme.
pixinsight,siril, photoshop.
On a crisp winters night in the UK.
M: iOptron EQ45-Pro
T: WO GTF81 Refractor
C: ZWO ASI1600MC-Cooled
G: 200mm (FL) Finder and PHD2
GC: ZWO ASI120MC
Gain: 240; RAW16; Ser Format Movie File
Temp: -20 DegC
Frames: Best 80% of 600
Exp: 1/1000 Second
Cropped
Capture: Sharpcap
Processed: PIPP cropped and converted to AVI; Stacked in Registax-6 with wavelet sharpening, Mild further sharpening in PS CC.
368 poses de 30s à 3200iso
D.O.F(65 environ de chaque)
Sony A7S stock
teknosky 71/447 F/4.9
ioptron sky guider pro
siril,photoshop
LDN 673 (upper right quadrant) is one of those dark nebula that I often stopped to admire when surfing astroimages. I was excited to find that I could capture some of its structure at 135mm, and that it would fit nicely in the same 135mm extent with the more frequently imaged Barnard's E. This shot has been planned for awhile but took me awhile to get to.
Acquisition details: Fujifilm X-T10; Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600; tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro; 36 x 60 sec; stacking with DeepSkyStacker; editing with Astro Pixel Processor; and curves adjustment/star reduction/editing with GIMP; taken on Sept. 2, 2021 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
Addition de 27 poses de 5mn à 800iso prises avec un canon 450D déf. et une lunette iOptron 108-660 sur une monture EQ6-R autoguidée.
A Gigors et Lozeron, le 29/08/2022.
2022-08-29_IC410_450Ddef_L-iOptron-108-660_27x300s-800a_500_Gigors_003-01d
TS-Optics Photoline 140mm f/6.5 ToupTek 2600MC
iOptron CEM70G
Antlia Tri Band RGB Pro 2"
TS-Optics TSAPORed075
01 December 2024
Fotogrammi:
Antlia Tri Band RGB Pro 2": 30×1,″(30″)
Antlia Tri Band RGB Pro 2": 30×10,″(5′)
Antlia Tri Band RGB Pro 2": 30×30,″(15′)
Antlia Tri Band RGB Pro 2": 22×300,″(1h 50′)
Integration:
2h 10′ 30″
This is an HDR image on a very wet conditions using the Touptek 2600MC . I had to test multiple aspects of my configuration :
HCG setting --> had to redo Darks and Flats ...my initial tests were with LCG
0.74x reducer for the TS Photoline 140mm
Here my comments :
HCG seems not good on such subjects, i have to say that the two images did so far on LCG are better manageable and Full Well not saturated as in this image
0.74x reducer is working great as per my opinion
In general the camera seems working great , a big improvement respect to my past ASI 294MC which is in any case a great camera.
Acquisition Data:
-8-11-23
-Explorer Scientific ED127CF
-ASI2600MM
-iOptron CEM40
-ASI120MM with Orion 50mm guidescope
-Exposure:
L: 17x3min
R: 8x3min
G: 6x3min
B: 6x3min
-Bortle 4
Buen seeing.
Telescopio: Refractor Bresser Messier Acro 102/460 f4.5
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: iOptron AZ Mount Pro
Filtros: Baader G CCD Filter
Software: FireCapture, Pipp, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2021-07-16 (16 de julio de 2021)
Hora: 21:26 U.T. (Tiempo universal)
Fase lunar: 44.0% 6.84 días Creciente
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 5 videos de 1 minuto cada uno
Resolución: 3096x2080
Gain: 150 (29%)
FPS: 30
Exposure: 1.500ms
Frames: 1813+1782+1831+1671+1832 = 8929
Frames apilados: 45%
Sensor temperature= 42.5°C
I shot this area with this exact framing last December, but wanted to improve my image. This time my focus was better (I didn't have a Bahtinov mask then), I shot and processed raw (jpeg last time), and I used Astro Pixel Processor tools for processing.
The only thing that wasn't better this time around was my tracking - I only used 50% of my subs, many of which still had slightly trailed stars; I think my balance was off. I would have liked more integration time, but still got a result I'm happy with using only 35 minutes of data.
Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 35 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken on Oct. 6, 2019 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
Jan 7 2020 edit: A very slight re-edit - I monkeyed with the original stack a bit less this time - I like the Horsehead Nebula better in this version.
Capture of North America, and Pelican emission nebulae through a narrow-band H-alpha filter (therefore the dominant red color). The brightest star in the upper right quadrant is Deneb, a first-magnitude star in the constellation of Cygnus (the swan). It is also the head of the Northern Cross, and a vertex of the Summer Triangle. Deneb radius is 200 times the radius of our sun; it is 196000 times more luminous, but is about 2600 ly away. When looking through the H-alpha filter in the camera live view, only a faint sight of Deneb is there visible to help us focusing. "L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux".
This image is a superposition of 24 x 3 min exposures taken with a Sony alpha 7 iii camera, and a Sony FE 135 mm f/1.8 GM objective at f/2.5 ISO-1600; using an Astromomik H-alpha 12 nm filter. Tracking was unguided with an IOptron Skyguider Pro, on a Manfrotto Element Tripod (just a hiker's gear). Exposures were calibrated, and stacked using Deep Sky Stacker software with 20 bias frames, and 10 dark frames (no flats). The output was processed in Photoshop with the plug-in Astronomy Tools Actions Set from Pro Digital Software.
Image size: 7546 x 9432 = 71 Mpx
A mosaic of the Sword and Belt region of Orion the Hunter, showing the diverse array of colourful nebulas in the area, including: curving Barnard’s Loop, the Horsehead Nebula below the left star of the Belt, Alnitak, and the Orion Nebula itself as the bright region in the Sword.
Also in the field are numerous faint blue reflection nebulas. The reflection nebula M78 is at top embedded in a dark nebula, and the pinkish NGC 2024 or Flame Nebula is above Alnitak. The bright orange-red star at far right is W Orionis, a type M4 long-period variable star.
This is a 4-panel mosaic with each panel made of 5 x 2.5-minute exposures with the 135mm Canon L-series telephoto wide open at f/2 and the filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1250. The night was somewhat hazy which added natural glows on the stars. No filter was employed here. The camera was on the iOptron Sky-Tracker for tracking but no guiding. Shot from outside Quailway Cottage near Portal, Arizona, Dec 7, 2015. All stacking and stitching performed in Photoshop CC 2015. Stacking done with median combine stack mode to eliminate geosat trails through the fields.
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4 Panels Mosaic
William Optics Z61
ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
iOptron CEM60
Antlia Ha 3.5nm filter
Askar FMA180 Guiding Scope
ZWO ASI120M
ZWO EAF, EFW
Nina, PixInsight, Topaz DeNoise AI
Took this as a first attempt with the iOptron iPolar alignment scope. Was able to get 30 second exposures. 18 Light Frames and 4 Dark Frames. Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and processed in Photoshop. F/3.5; ISO 1600; 30 second exposures and camera lens at 195 mm. Nikon D7500 camera and Tamron 70-200 f/2.8 lens.
85mm / F1.8 / 15x20sec / iso 3200 /Jul 20 2020
Tracked with ioptron SkyGuide pro
Stacked with Sequator
Blended
There is a supernova right next to the core of the galaxy. Supernova SN 2025rbs.
Acquisition Data:
-Explorer Scientific ED127CF
-ASI2600MM
-iOptron CEM40
-ASI220MM Guide Cam
-Exposure (~4 hrs):
L: 24 x 3 min
R: 18 x 3 min
G: 18 x 3 min
B: 18 x 3 min
-Bortle 3
Saw at the last minute that we were going to have clear skies at Pettigrew State Park, so I took a drive to the park and made it just in time. I only had an hour till the moon would rise. I set up and captured 10 tracked sky images using the iOptron Skyguider Pro. Those were stacked in Sequator, and then blended with 7 light painted foreground frames in Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon Z6 II
Lens: Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S
Sky:
10 x (20mm @ f/2.5, 60 sec, ISO 1600)
Foreground:
7 x (20mm @ f/2.5, 10 sec, ISO 1600)
Telescopio: GSO RC14 F8
Camera Cmos: Player One Poseidon-M PRO
Montatura: IOptron CEM120EC
Guida Telescopio:PLAYER ONE FHD-OAG MAX Lodestar X2
Software: Voyager - PixInsight
Light: L 24X300 BIN 2X2 - HA 24X300 BIN 2X2 - R 24X300 BIN 2X2 -G 24X300 BIN 2X2 - B 24X300 BIN 2X2 - 11 Dark 11 Flat 11 Bias
Filtri: Optolong L 50.8 – Optolong R 50.8 – Optolong G 50.8 – Optolong B 50.8 – Optolong HA 3NM 50.8 – Optolong OIII 3NM 50.8 – Optolong SII 3NM 50.8
Accessori: Pegasus Astro Ultimate Powerbox· Focheggiatore Elettronico FocusCube V2 Pegasus Astro
Data: 08-04-25 09-04-25 11-04-25 12-04-25
Luogo di Ripresa: Gualdo Tadino(PG) Italia
Luna: 85% 91% 98% 99%
C90 mak-cas telescope mounted on iOptron Skyguider Pro.
Moons: 104_5766 13mm EP, no t-extension, f/44, effective focal length 4000mm
Saturn: 104_5780-81 10mm EP, no t-extension, f/63, effective focal length 5625mm
The Sunflower Galaxy (also known as M 63 or NGC 5055) is a spiral galaxy visible in the northern constellation of Hunting Dogs; it was discovered in 1779 by Pierre Méchain, a colleague and friend of Messier and who collaborated in the writing of the famous catalogue.
The Sunflower galaxy is a spiral of the Sb or Sc type, showing an irregular spiral pattern; it appears to form a physical group with the Girandola Galaxy, the Vortex Galaxy and many other minor galaxies; it may belong to the M101 Group (subgroup of M51) . The name sunflower is due to the very large number of spiral segments that surround the nucleus, well wrapped around it and pervaded by a large number of interstellar dust clouds; the total mass of the galaxy would be between 80 and 140 billion solar masses, with a diameter of 90,000 light years, that is similar to that of our own Milky Way. The distance is estimated at 37 million light years and is moving away from us at a speed of 580 km/s.
In May 1971, a Type Ia supernova was observed in its arms, reaching an apparent magnitude of 11.8.
Constellation: Hunting Dogs
Distance from Earth: 37.000.000 light years
This shot of this magnificent galaxy was captured with two telescopes of different diameters:
TS Ritchey - Chrétien 12"
TS Apochromatic Triplet 152
For a total of 15 hours of shots.
Last view of the summer Milky Way for 2025. This is the backyard view at my family's place in Southern Colorado.
This was shot on an old 13 year old Fuji Xpro1 with a 16mm F1.4 lens @f2 , 2min exposures. I used the iOptron Skyguider Pro to get the long exposure shot.
Im super impressed with the Fuji Xpro1 and its X-Trans1 sensor. Still works great to produce beautiful images today!
The Eastern Veil Nebula
30 lights 180s at ISO1600
15 darks plus bias
EOS700 Da on a William Optics ZS61
Mount: iOptron iEQ45 pro
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#astrofotografia #astrofotografie #astrophotography #dso #deepsky #stars #sterne #nightsky #nachthimmel #nebula #nebel #astro #astronomie #astronomy #deepskyphotography #veilnebula #westernveilnebula #easternveilnebula #cirrusnebel #cirrusnebula #williamoptics #ioptron #zs61 #caldwell33 #ngc6692
TS-Photoline 140mm F6.5
iOptron CEM 70G
ASI 294MC Pro
Antlia ALP-T 2" Dualband 5nm
3h integration - 5mins frames
Telescopio Tecnosky 70AG F5
CCD Moravian G3 16200
IOptron CEM120EC
L 24X600S Bin 1X1
R 6X600S Bin 2X2
G 6X600S Bin 2X2
B 6X600S Bin 2X2
11 Dark 11 Flat 11 Bias
Elaborazione Pixinsight
Luogo di ripresa Gualdo Tadino (PG)
Luna: 70%
Here's a little experiment. The dotted line is the International Space Station (ISS) passing through the field of view of my small telescope, very near the interesting little object known as NGC 246, a planetary nebula sometimes called the Skull Nebula in the constellation Cetus.
This wasn't by chance. Watching for these sorts of coincidences, I consulted the trusty sky simulation software SkySafari and noticed that the path of the station would take it in front of a few interesting features in the sky, in addition to this one: M13, the Great Hercules Globular cluster in Hercules, Vega, the brightest star in Lyra, and The Veil Nebula in Cygnus.
Because of the tremendous difference in brightness, I captured the ISS and the nebula field separately. (The ISS is the third brightest object in the night sky, after the Moon and Venus). For the ISS pass, I made a short video with a Nikon Z 6 mirrorless camera and Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 refractor. The image of NGC 246 was made afterward with a ZWO ASI294MC camera and Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 lens @200mm, 15 6-minute exposures processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom. The ISS track is in the correct position and scale, composited in Photoshop. In addition, the inset is an enlargement of a few video frames and shows some detail in the ISS.
#astrophotography, #ISS
CATEGORY: PANO
TITLE: "La Seggiola d'Orione"
STORY & TECHNIQUE:
This is my concept of "Seggiola del Papa" with Beehive Cluster and Orion constellation over Ancona (Italy), in the middle of bloody light pollution.
two panel merged with PS:
top -> 49 shoots tracked with iOptron Sky Guider Pro (stacked with DSS) + 1 shoot of ground
bottom - > 2 shoots for the ground
each shoot has the same setting: 40s, ISO800, f/4
EXIF: Nikon D750 (modded), AF-S NIKKOR 20mm f/1.8G ED, iOptron Skyguider Pro, Nisi Filter ND32
Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus, Arzachel and Herchel craters on first quarter moon. C90 mak-cas telescope on iOptron Skyguider Pro motorised equatorial mount. Eyepiece projection using 13mm EP with no spacer giving net focal length of 4000mm (3.2 x prime focal length of 1250mm).
asi 294mm pro
asiair pro
EDPH 94/414
filtres antlia 3nm
ioptron gem28
116 poses de 300s/gain120/-10° en Ha
108 de 300s en SII
93 poses de 300S en OIII
Siril,pixinsight,photoshop.
El cúmulo globular M2 , se encuentra en la constelación de Acuario. Fue descubierto por Jean-Dominique Maraldi en 1746. Tiene un diámetro de aproximadamente 175 años luz, y contiene unas 150 000 estrellas, además de ser uno de los cúmulos más compactos y ricos conocidos.
Equipo:
61x 90" - Gain 1600, Offset 10, -10ºC
Equipo:
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
27/82021 , Iturrieta , Alava
ISS transiting the Sun captured with:
Explore Scientific 102ED APO Telescope + 4x powermate and Nikon D700 on iOptron iEQ45 mount.
Focal length 2856mm, focal ratio f/28 and shutter speed 1/2000s @ ISO 320
Solar filter used (is a must to capture it): Lunt Herschel Wedge
Viewing conditions: Transparency above average, Seeing above average
This picture consists of 5 exposures stacked and is not cropped. It was shot with continuous shooting mode (6fps) in JPEG format.
The picture is normally white I added the orange color to see the details better and make it more pleasing to look at.
ISS transit details:
ISS distance (range) 541.8km, transit duration 0.71s, transit time around 10:08:08am, Sun altitude 47.0°
Finally after 3months I captured the ISS transiting the Sun. Mainly the bad weather in the past months delayed the capture and the fact it does not happen every week and also it need to be on a weekend (I had to work on weekdays during daylight).
Of course I’m not the first to capture it.
Thanks go to Phil McGrew for introducing to me and other photographer friends the idea of capturing the ISS transit and what tools are used for calculating such event. And Thanks to Ed Morana for writing the tool to calculate the transit.
AR means active region with sunspots and other activity.
533MC Pro
WO RedCat 51
GEM28
ASIAIR Pro
ZWO UV/IR Cut 2”
Total Exposure: 2.58hr
2021/07/26, 07/27, 08/08
Detail: astrob.in/8ul45x/0/
M101 In the constellation of Ursa Major.
M: iOptron EQ45-Pro
T: William Optics GTF81
C: ZWO ASI1600MC-Cooled
F: No Filters
G: PHD2
GC: ZWO ASI120mini
RAW16; FITs
Temp: -15 DegC
Gain 139;
73 x Exp 300s
Frames: 73 Lights; 10 Darks; 200 flats
70% Crop
Capture: SharpCap
Processed: PIPP; DSS; PS
Sky: No moon, calm, minimal cloud, cold, fair seeing.
20.87 million light years distant.
This comet last visited 50000 years ago when Neanderthals lived here
Total exposure: 7 mins 50 seconds
Camera: Nikon D7500
Lens : Samyang 135 mm at 2.8
Light frames: 18 x 30",ISO 1600
Dark frames: 1 x30"
Equatorial Mount: iOptron Skyguider Pro
Bortle class: 4
Stack of only 9 images - repocessed.
Nikkor f:3,5/400mm ED-IF
30sec, f:5.6, ISO 400, iOptron SkyGuider Pro
I caught the ISS passing in front of the Sun again today, and didn't even have to leave my back yard! Thought I'd be clouded out but there was a partial hole just at the right time. A bonus was getting a sunspot (near the left edge of the Sun, AR2770), rather rare these days.
The geometry is such that the station is about as close as it gets, about 283 mi, so is relatively large, about 1/30 the angular size of the Sun's disk. The tradeoff is that it happens much faster than when it's farther away; the entire transit took less than a second. So I shot a movie to get as many frames as possible and combined individual frames for this composite.
Nikon Z6, Celestron C5 (1250mm, f/10), ISO 200, 1/5000 sec., tracked with an iOptron SkyGuider Pro. Post-processed in Lightroom and stacked in Photoshop. Time and location computed using ISS Transit Finder transit-finder.com/.
#ISS #transitfinder
This Image was taken on the 26 of August this year in the Italian Dolomites.
Gear:
Nikon D850
Nikkor 24mm 1.8 ED
ioptron Skytracker Pro
Images/Processing:
This Image consists of 10 light frames shot at f4 30s ISO5000 and one foreground frame shot at f7.1 330s ISO6400.
- Exported slightly adjusted (Lightroom) light Images as 16bit Tiffs
- Stacked in Sequator
- Import into Pixinsight
- Background neutralization to combat light pollution
- Morpohological Transformation to reduce star intensity
star mask to protect the brightness/colour of the stars
- overall curve adjustment (s) to add contrast to the entire sky area
- local curve adjustment to the core to make it stand out more
- locally increased the saturation of yellows, reds and magentas
- SRBG conversion to match the capability of my monitor and the web to further insure an accurate print
- imported into photoshop and added the masked foreground for the final image
- Export as JPEG
This was my first shot at working with Pixinsight and i must say i am overwhelmed by the amount of options. Im looking forward to further honing my skills in post and also in the shooting itself.