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Optics : TEC140 Apo + TeleVue Barlow 2" 2x
Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier;
Camera : ZWO ASI 174 MM;
Equivalent Focal lenght : 1960 mm.
Software : FireCapture, AutoStakkert3, Adobe Photoshop
Copernicus Crater & Sinus Iridum
Casalecchio di Reno - Italia
44° 29’ 29” N
11° 14’ 58” E
Andromeda galaxy shot from my driveway on a dark autumn evening. This is the only benefit I see from changing the clocks back... earlier night sky viewing. 5 images (300mm - 30 seconds each) on an iOptron SkyTracker stacked in DeepSkyStacker to reduce noise.
Sol Región Activa 14079
Seeing y Jetstream bueno, nubes pasajeras y algo de viento
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: 2025-05-07 (7 de mayo de 2025)
Hora: 11:49 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.61 N -6.41 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 60 segundos
Resolución: 2056x1318
Gain: 82 (16%)
Exposure: 0.032ms
Frames: 2741
Frames apilados: 46%
FPS: 45
Sensor temperature= 34.2°C
The beautiful Veil Nebula. There's so much more detail I want to get out of this source, so this will be an ongoing project!
Equipment:
Camera: Sony A7RII
Telescope: Meade 6000 Series 80mm Triplet
Mount: Ioptron IEQ30 Pro
Subs:
Lights: 30 x 2m15s
Darks: 7 darks
Total solar eclipse August 21, 2017, Grand Teton National Park. Nikon D800, 200-500mm f/5.6, @500mm, 1/8 sec. f/11, ISO 200, on iOptron SkyGuider Pro drive.
Pleiades / M45 on a cold night from my primitive campsite in Northern VA. Very happy with how this turned out for using a tracker and 2.5hrs of exposure with the little 61mm scope.
Specs:
Subs: 43x215" at ISO 800
30 flats, 100 bias, 0 darks.
Total time: Total 2.5 hrs of integration time
Camera: Canon 6D
Scope: William Optics Zenithstar 61mm Doublet APO.
Mount: iOptron Skyguider Pro
Guidescope: Orion Mini 50mm w/ Orion Starshoot autoguider (Guiding in RA only).
Software:
Guided with PHD2
BackyardEOS for camera control
Stacked in DSS
Processed with Startools
Final refinements: Lightroom CC.
Background:
Historically, the Pleiades have served as a calendar for many civilizations. The Greek name “Pleiades” probably means “to sail.” In the ancient Mediterranean world, the day that the Pleaides cluster first appeared in the morning sky before sunrise announced the opening of the navigation season.
The modern-day festival of Halloween originates from an old Druid rite that coincided with the midnight culmination of the Pleiades cluster. It was believed that the veil dividing the living from the dead is at its thinnest when the Pleaides culminates – reaches its highest point in the sky – at midnight.
On a lighter note, the Zuni of New Mexico call the Pleiades the “Seed Stars,” because this cluster’s disappearance in the evening sky every spring signals the seed-planting season.
In both myth and science, the Pleiades are considered to be sibling stars. Modern astronomers say the Pleiades stars were born from the same cloud of gas and dust some 100 million years ago. This gravitationally bound cluster of several hundred stars looms some 430 light-years distant, and these sibling stars drift through space together at about 25 miles per second. Many of these Pleiades stars shine hundreds of times more brightly than our sun.
From: earthsky.org/favorite-star-patterns/pleiades-star-cluster...
Last evening's shot of the The Pleiades star cluster in the constellation Taurus. From northern latitudes you can watch rise in the East after sunset. The image is a composite of 14 one-minute exposures at ISO 3200. Moon rise prevented me from getting more data. Normally I clip images, but decided to leave the full frame so you can see the area covered with a 400mm lens on a Canon 6D.
Observation Site: 40.8978786 N,75.8921584 W Equipment: Canon 6D, Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM, iOptron ZEQ25GT mount. Software: Backyard EOS v3 (camera control), Starry Night Pro v6 (mount control).
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.
AT65EDQ
ZWO ASI183MM non cooled
iOptron iEQ45 w 8604 HC
24 @ 300 seconds gain 111 (unity) Schuler 9nm HA filter
guided with QHY5Lii M
Software: ASCOM POTH, SharpCap Pro 3.1, Photoshop CC 2017, Google remote desktop, CdC, APT - Astro Photography Tool, PixInsight 1.8 Ripley PixInsight, ProDigital Software Astronomy Tools Actions Set
Accessories:Arduino Focuser DIY FocuserPro2 arduino focus motor ( Robert Brown)
Data source: Backyard
Sharpless 2-101 ist ein Emissionsnebel im Sternbild Schwan.
Entfernung ca 6000Lj.
Optik: Meade 8"/SC
Montierung: iOptron CEM60
Guiding: Mgen
Ha35nm mit ASI1600mmc
RGB mit EOS60Da
William Optics Zenithstar 73 iii and 73a flattener, Ioptron CEM70NUC mount, Altair Tri-band filter, ASI2600MC Pro at -20C and ZWO focuser.
38 x 5 minute exposures (3 hours 10 minutes)
Gain 100, Offset 50, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight, Photoshop and Topaz.
Imaged between 21:07 and 0:10 on the 13th/14th of December 2022.
Air temperature was -6C
The famous Orion Nebula, Messier 42, captured on Fuji 200 film negative. Single 90 minute exposure on a tracking mount (iOptron HAE29) though my Pentax 105 SDP (670 mm focal length) telescope. I used a Nikon F80 camera. This was scanned with Nikon Coolscan 4000 ED negative scanner - the nebula has a huge dynamic range, I had to make three separate scans to capture the detail in the bright center, so it wouldn't appear blown out. I combined them in PS, then made some "modern" adjustments in PixInsight - background extraction and a little bit of NoiseXterminator and BlurXterminator. After this I did some corves adjustments in PS. if you're pixel peeping, you will see some processing artifacts, but for this first attempt I'm very satisfied. Stacking several exposures should make a difference.
Note that this is cropped - it's a 2x1.3 degree field of view, while the full frame is 3x2 degrees.
Just over two hours of exposure, I'm pretty happy with my first attempt at this target.
Nikon D7100 with the William Optics Zenithstar Z61, iOptron SkyGuider Pro mount.
The Summer Triangle stars and summer Milky Way setting into the southwest on a clear though slightly hazy late November night. This is the last of the summer Milky Way, with the centre of the Galaxy are long gone now, but the Summer Triangle stars remaining in the evening sky well into autumn.
Glows from light pollution in the west light the horizon, in a quick series of images shot in my rural backyard. Vega is at right, as the brightest star; Deneb is above centre, and Altair is at below centre, farthest south in the Milky Way.
I shot this as a test image for the Nikkor 14-24mm lens , here at f/2.8 and at 14mm, where it performs beautifully, with very tight star images to the corners. it does very well at 24mm as well.
The camera was the 36-megapixel Nikon D810a, also on test, and here it shows its stuff by picking up the red nebulas in Cygnus and Cepheus. This is a stack, mean combined, of five 2-minute tracked exposures, at f/2.8 and ISO 800. The camera was on the iOptron Sky-Tracker. So the stars are not trailed but the ground is! I made no attempt here to layer in an untracked ground shot, as there isn’t much detail of interest worth showing.
AstroTech 72ED telescope
Zwo asi294 camera
iOptron ieq45 mount
342 frames x 2 min
5 nights of integration
8 hrs
Stacked and processed in PixInsight and Photoshop
Open Clusters Messier 6 and Messier 7 in Scorpius – I captured these open clusters low on the southern horizon back in May 2016. The two bright stars are Shaula and Lesath, the tip of the tail of Scorpius. Messier 6, also known as the Butterfly Cluster is on the top, Messier 7, Ptolemy’s Cluster is just above the tree line. Tech specs: Canon 6D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM lens set at f/2.8 and 200mm, stack of four 15-second exposures, everything mounted on an iOptron Skytracker.
Orion Belt Region with Orion Nebula, and Horsehead Nebula
Camera: Canon EOS 7D mark ll
Lens: EF70-200 f2.8 L IS USM @ f2.8 & 120mm
Settings: 100 x 40s at ISO 800
Mount: iOptron Skytracker
Stacking: Fitswork 4
Post Processing: Photoshop
ASI294MC Pro
Sky Watcher EvoStar 72ED
iOptron CEM26
ZWO 120mm mono guide scope
ZWO ASIAIR Plus
ZWO Narrowband filter
27 / 5 minute subs
10 Dark frames
120 gain / -10c
Imaging Saturn, taken on July 31, 2015. Celestron C6-A SCT, Canon 6D and Televue 5x Powermate mounted on an iOptron ZEQ25GT mount. Laptop is running Backyard EOS for the planetary imaging. The lens bags hanging on the mount “manage” all the cables and connections.
L'Amas globulaire M15 (Messier 15 ou NGC7078) est l'un des amas les plus compact de la galaxie. Situé dans la Constellation de Pégase, il se trouve à environ 33000 années lumière de la Terre. Il a été découvert par Jean-Dominique Maraldi en 1746 et ajouté au catalogue de Messier quelques années plus tard.
M15 is a globular cluster in the constellation Pegasus. It is is one of the most densely packed globulars of the Milky Way galaxy.
*Acquisition:
Nikon D5300 + Zenithstar 73
iOptron CEM26 + iPolar
Optolong L-Pro
ZWO ASI224MC + WO Uniguide 120mm
26 x 3min (Exp=78min) -- ISO400
Astro Photography Tool (APT) & PH2D
*Traitement :
Siril & Gimp
AstroM1
(rsi1.b2)
Whirlpool Galaxy M51
July 19, 2015, Abastumani
LRGB Project, with autoguiding
L 16x300 sec
R 6x180 sec
G 8x180 sec
B 8x180 sec
Imaging telescopes or lenses: GSO 8" f/8 RC
Imaging cameras: QSI 660wsg-8
Mounts: iOptron CEM60
Recorded on Fuerteventura at the RIU Palace Tres Islas Hotel near Corralejo. Equipment: Samyang 135mm @ f/2 (50x60s), Canon EOS 600Da, IOptron SkyTracker
Saturn - captured on July 31, 2015. Canon 6D, Celestron 6", Televue 5x Powermate, all mounted on an iOptron ZEQ25 mount. 1500 video frames (1104x736) at ISO 3200 using Backyard EOS Liveview at 5x then processed in PIPP and Registax, fine tuned in Corel Paintshop Pro and Adobe Lightroom. Depending on conditions, will try 6000-8000 frames next run.
Messier 78 is a reflection nebula that us actually part of the main Orion nebula (located nearby). This is a 9-minute total exposure using a Canon 6D, 400mm lens and iOptron ZEQ25 mount. Photographed in January 2015.
Meteors from the 2020 Persied meteor shower before the clouds rolled in, which was around the same time as moonrise. A composite of six frames spanning about 2½ hours showing seven meteors plus some clouds and the Andromeda Galaxy (near the middle of the top edge). Nikon D850, 20mm f/1.8, 40 sec., f/7.1, ISO 3200, iOptron CEM25P tracking mount, Pluto. Trigger.
Abell 262 es un cúmulo de galaxias del catálogo de Abell . Es parte del supercúmulo Perseo-Piscis , una de las estructuras conocidas más grandes del universo. Aunque su galaxia central, NGC 708 , es una galaxia gigante , la mayoría de sus galaxias brillantes son espirales , lo cual es inusual para un cúmulo de galaxias.
Tomas:
100 x120'' - Gain 1600. -10ºC
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
08/10/2021 ,Santa Teodosia , Alava
The latest postcard from the constellation Auriga, a group of gas clouds in the process of forming stars: IC 417 (upper left), IC 410 and the associated star cluster NGC 1893 (center), and IC 405, sometimes known as the Flaming Star Nebula (right). Taken on a single nice clear but cold and moonless night from suburban Bloomington, Indiana.
3x3 mosaic, each tile 10 6 minute exposures (9 hours total exposure). Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC camera, dual narrow-band fillter (H-alpha and [O III]), iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir Pro controller, processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom.
I was playing around with my new Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM lens and decided to try out some short exposures of the constellation Cancer. Here is a wide filed image of Messier 44 and Messier 67, the Beehive Cluster and King Cobra Cluster. The Beehive Cluster is most impressive in a wide field or binocular view, it rides high in the southern sky after sunset this month (for Northern latitudes).
Tech Specs: The image shown is a 3-minute exposure, 3 x 60-seconds and three dark frames (3 x 60-seconds), using a Canon 6D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM lens, mounted on an iOptron ZEQ mount. A Tiffen star filter adds the diffraction spikes.
Photo Blog: www.leisurelyscientist.com
Optics : Takahashi FSQ106 + ZWO EAF + Televue Barlow 1,25" 2x
Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier;
Camera : ZWO ASI 174 MM;
Focal lenght : 960 mm.
Software : FireCapture, AutoStakkert3, Adobe Photoshop
Casalecchio di Reno - Italia
44° 29’ 29” N
11° 14’ 58” E
Messier 52 (M52, NGC 7654) is an open star cluster found in the constellation Cassiopeia. Distances to this open cluster vary from 3,000 to 7,000 light years.
My stacked image is composed of one hour and nineteen minutes of data collected in 60-second and 45-second shots taken over the last 12 months. The most recent data included images from October 2015. I used my wide-field setup including my trusty Canon 6D and Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM lens mounted on an iOptron ZEQ25 mount. Images were taken at f/5.6 and ISO 3200.
To the upper right of the open cluster, you can see the Bubble Nebula. Can you see the “bubble” inside the red nebula area? I’ll include more details on the Bubble Nebula in a future post as I’m trying to extract as much detail as possible from my image.
C90 mak-cas telescope
iOptron Skyguider Pro motorised equatorial mount
eyepiece projection using 17mm EP with 0 spacer
103_8062 Moons 1/8s f/31 12800 ISO
103_8074 Jupiter 1/60s f/31 1000 ISO
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 new try. I believe the vision was better tonight.
It is interesting to observe the alteration of the planetary axis after a few years.
Saturn 2022.07.03
Telescope Celestron C8 EdgeHD F10. asi120mc. Barlow Televue 2x. Filter Baader UvIr-cut.
This is my starless edition of the Trifed and Lagoon Nebulae. This image consists of 60x180sec OSC subs taken with my #asi2600 camera, ioptron ieq30pro mount.
M: iOptron EQ45-Pro
T: WO GTF81 Refractor
C: ZWO ASI1600MC
G: OAG
GC: ZWO ASI120MC
Gain: 200; RAW16; FITs
Temp: -15 DegC
Frames: 13 Lights; 10 Darks; 40 flats; 40 DarkFlats
Exp: 13 x 200s
50% Crop
Capture: Sharpcap
Processed: APP; PS, Gradient Exterminator.
Distance: ~30.4 Million light years.
Orion's belt,flame nebula,horsehead nebula
Total exposure: 13 min 30 sec
Light frames : 27 x 30",No Dark,flat frames
ISO: 800
Camera: Nikon D7500
Lens: Samyang 135mm @f2.8
Equatorial Mount: Ioptron Skyguider pro
Bortle class: 4
Stacked and processed using Deepsky stacker, Siril,Images Plus and PS
Image processing : Background extraction,Arcsinh/hyperbolic sine stretch,
and Green noise removal,low pass filtering
Photo is a merged image of two exposures (foreground and sky). Taken with 7Artisans 7.5mm f/2.8 fisheye lens and tracked with iOptron Skytracker Pro. Foreground is taken at ISO 400 at 2 minutes exposure (non-tracked). Sky is taken at ISO 800 and 2 minutes exposure (tracked).
C90 mak-cas telescope
iOptron Skyguider Pro motorised equatorial mount
eyepiece projection using 17mm EP and 0 spacer
103_7911 Moons 1/8s f/31 51200 ISO
103_7921 Jupiter 1/60s f/31 1000 ISO
Using the iOptron tracker with the canon 70-200 with x2 extender, a bit trickier to set up.. the weight of the camera was probably at its limit..
8x 1min exposures, manually aligned & tweakted in photoshop
M31 Andromeda Galaxy,
reprise data:
night of 28/09/2016 San Romano Italy
telescope TecnoSky 130/900 lanthanium, focal reduced with Riccardi 0.75x, ccd monochrome Qhy11, baader filters,
7*740sec ha 7nm, 10*640sec lum idas lpsp2, R G B on each channel 6*250sec bin2 at -15°
acquired with maximDl pro 5.25, focused with Seletek Armadillo 2 fwhm 1.49 Sky quality Meter 21.10 .
pre processed with maximDl eqaulization RGB in AstroArt 4, elaboration in PhotoShop Cs4, Astronomyb Tools, nik collectio
the mount ioptron Ieq45pro guided with Qhy5L II on cfw2m filterwheel.
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
I decided to take out the Canon 100mm f/2.8L lens for a series of wide-field views on the evening of January 2, 2016. I was also anxious to try out the Tiffen 67mm 4 Point Star Filter (2mm) that I recently purchased for this lens and see how it performed. I thought the created diffraction spikes would look interesting on a wide-field star shot. My first target was the California Nebula (NGC 1499) located in the constellation Perseus. On the night of January 2nd, the nebula was almost perfectly placed directly overhead, offering a few hours of good exposure time.
Tech Spec: Canon 6D, Canon 100mm f/2.8L lens, iOptron ZEQ25 mount, f/4.5, 21 x 60 seconds at ISO 3200. I also used a Tiffen 67mm 4 Point Star Filter (2mm) for the diffraction spikes.
M: iOptron EQ45-Pro
T: WO GTF81 Refractor
C: ZWO ASI1600MC-Cooled
G: No guiding required
SharpCap Settings:
RAW8; SER
Binning: Off
Temp: -20 DegC
Gain 260; Exp: 0.000311s
Brightness: 10
Processing:
Frames: 50% of 2000 Lights. No Flats or Darks.
Approx 60% Crop
Capture: Sharpcap
Processed: AS!2; Registax for Wavelets; PS,
Sky: Humid but clear, no cloud.
Andromeda (M31) taken with a iOptron Sky Guider and a Canon 5DII 100-400mm lens (at 400mm) from North Yorkshire on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, UK.
10 one minute exposures, with a number of dark, flat and offset pictures processed in DeepSkyStacker and then Lightroom.
The very first night I have used the SkyGuider or DeepSkyStacker. Very pleased with the result.