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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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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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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).
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
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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
370 poses de 300s avec filtre IDAS NBZ
Askar FMA 230
asi 2600 mc pro
ioptron GEM28
siril,pixinsight,photoshop
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The region of the Cone Nebula (NGC 22264) and Hubble's Variable Nebula in the constellation Monoceros.
William Optics Z61
Canon Rebel SL2
ioptron skyguider pro
Astronomik CLS filter
100 x 40s (1 hr. 7 min. total) @ 200 ISO
DSS + Photoshop + Lightroom
I did this from my back yard. After I finished taking the photos I realized that the lens was fogged up from the cool air outside, so I am surprised by the way it turned out.
104_6474-6 4K MP4s centred, cropped and stacked with PIPP and AutoStakkert. Moons brightened and planet contrast increased with PhotoShop.
Voici une image de la célèbre zone du ciel située dans le Cygne et incluant les nébuleuses NGC7000 (Amerique du Nord à gauche), IC5067 (Pélican à droite) et IC5068 (en bas à droite).
Ces 3 nébuleuses à émission traversées par des bandes de poussiéres obscurcissantes constituent une zone très riche du ciel et cette image couvre une zone de 3.5 x 4 degrés soit environ 7x8=56 fois la taille apparente de la Lune.
Il s'agit d'une mosaïque de 2 images en 35h30 d'acquisitions réalisées cet été 2022 au travers de filtres SHO et la 2nde image réalisée avec mon setup grand champ constitué de :
Lunette Takahashi FS60CB Feathertouch
Camera ZWO ASI 2600mm & filtres ANTLIA SHO 3.5nm
Autoguidage OAG M68 ZWO + camera ASI 290mm mini
Montures Ioptron CEM70 & CEM25p
Acquisitions From 07/14/22 to 08/08/22
NGC7000 & IC5067 panel :
S : 56x300s
H : 92x300s
O : 65x300s
IC5068 panel :
S : 52x300s
H : 104x300s
O : 88x300s
Optic: Lunt LS80THa S.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
Located in the constellation Monoceros.
Takahashi FSQ-106ED
iOptron CEM70
ASI 2600MM
Anitiia 3nm SHO
Shot in Bortle 8 skies in New Orleans.
H: 42x15m
S: 46x15m
O: 46x15m
Total Integration = 36.5h
Pixinsight: BXT, SHO (Blue/Gold), NXT
PS: Color Efex, Starshrink, Curves, Dodge/Burn
Canon 5D Mark III, 10 frames X 4 minutes at ISO 800. Takahashi FS60C with a reducer so 264mm fl and f4.4. It was on my iOptron CEM25EC
C90 mak-cas telescope mounted on iOptron Skyguider Pro. 10mm EP with 15mm t-extension. F/83, effective focal length 7500mm.
1/60s f/83 8000 ISO
Converted from three 45s MP4s to one AVI with PIPP then stacked the best 10% with AutoStakkert before brightening the moons and adding text with PhotoShop.
MEADE SN10, iOptron CEM60, ZWO-ASI174MM, 760nm IR Filter
The camera was set @ prime focus (1016mm), so only a single video was needed to capture this shot - sky was a little hazy, and the scope was flailing around like a windsock in the brisk breeze, been in for 2 hours, my hands are still cold :-/
1000 frames captured in Firecapture 160fps, Best 65% Stacked in AS3, Wavelets applied in Registax 6.0
extra mayo & no pickles ;-)
Lens: Rokinon 85mm F/1.4 at F/2.0
Imaging cameras: Canon 550D Modded
Mounts: iOptron Skytracker
28x90sec frames
The Wizard Nebula (Sharpless 142 or SH2-142 for short) is a diffuse nebula surrounding the developing open star cluster NGC 7380. It spans about 140 × 75 light-years and lies within our Milky Way Galaxy, about 7,200 light years away in the constellation of Cepheus. It is moving toward us at 34.13 kilometers per second.
Taken with
Skywatcher Esprit 100ED
QSI 690 CCD
Astrodon Filters
Ioptron CEM 60 mount
Sol Región Activa 12863
Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: iOptron AZ Mount Pro
Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.6, T=25%)
- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (double stacked) (540nm)
Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism
- TeleVue Lente de Barlow 2,5x Powermate 1,25"
Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2021-09-03 (3 de septiembre de 2021)
Hora: 14:10 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 3 minuto
Resolución: 1552x1042
Gain: 61 (11%)
Exposure: 0.032ms
Frames: 10830
Frames apilados: 12%
FPS: 60
Sensor temperature= 41.2°C
Ma, Pa, and now Little Junior....
The one on the right is my original rig that I put together almost tow years ago now: William Optics FLT 132MM APO F/7, Ioptron CEM60 mount, Sharpstar 61EDPHII guide and wide scope, Falcon Rotator, ZWO ASI 1600MM-Pro camera and Filter wheel.
The one on the left is what I put together last summer: Astro-Physics Starfire APO F/8.35 Scope, Ioptron CEM60 Mount, TV76 Wide and guide scope, Falcon Rotator, ZWO ASI2600MM-Pro camera and Filter Wheel.
The newest little guy I shared recently: Askar FPA400 72mm Quintuplet Astrograph, William Optics 50mm guide scope, Ioptron CEM26 mount, ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro camera and Filter wheel.
Eagle nebula (M16 / NGC6611) revisited with the new Tamron 150-600 mm f/6.3!
EXIF: Canon 70D, Tamron 150-600 mm @ 600 mm (x1.6 cf = 960 mm) Di VC USD G2, f/6.3, iso 12.8k, 20'' with iOptron II.
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Processed 4K video
4500 frames stacked
Camera Nikon Coolpix P1000
iOptron skyguider pro Mount
PIPP, processed aligned SER file
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)
I hadn't planned on making a time-lapse; however, after reviewing the images, I really liked this short sequence between the clouds.
Orion and the star Sirius, at left, setting in the dawn sky over the Chiricahuas on the morning of December 9, 2015. The orange star is Betelgeuse. Light from the eastern dawn illuminates the landscape. Haze added the natural star glows — no filter used here.
The sky is a stack of 5 x 90 second exposures at f/2.5 with the 35mm lens and Canon 5D MkII at ISO1600, with the camera on the iOptron Sky-Tracker to keep stars from trailing. The ground is from another set of 5 similar exposures with the tracker motor off, the eliminate blurring from the camera tracker motion.