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William Optics Zenithstar 73 iii and 73a flattener, Ioptron CEM70NUC mount, Altair Tri-band filter, ASI2600MC Pro at -20C and ZWO focuser.
37 x 5 minute exposures (3 hours 5 minutes)
Gain 100, Offset 50, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight, Photoshop and Topaz.
Imaged between 00:09 and 03:57 on the 17th of January 2023
Lunar Eclipse on July 27, 2018. Lucky to catch at least the end of the eclipse. Captured with a ZWO ASI 178MC on a William Optics ZS61. 100 frames out of 1000, stacked with AutoStakkart.
Lagoon(M8) and Trifid(M20) nebula ( first attempt)
Total exposure : 4 Mins
Flat frames : 10
Light frames :8
Bias frames : 15
Dark frame : 1
Bortle scale : class 4
Mount : Ioptron skyguider pro
Camera : NikonD5600 ,70-300 kit lens
Sony A7s + Samyang 135 f2
810 poses de 30s soit 6h50
Monture ioptron CEM60-EC
no guidage
Traitement Pixinsight
Data during 18 Jan 2023
80 Lights 5mins each.
L-Pro filter
Telescope Ts-photon 6" f/4,
Mount Ioptron GEM45NUC
Camera ASI533MC. gain 101 offset 40
Pre process APP, post Affinity Photo.
Messier 39 (también conocido como M39 o NGC 7092) es un cúmulo abierto en la constelación Cygnus. Fue descubierto por Charles Messier en 1764. El M39 está a una distancia de unos 800 años luz desde la Tierra.
Los cúmulos estelares abiertos son grupos de estrellas formados a partir de una misma nube molecular, sin estructura y en general asimétricos. También se denominan cúmulos galácticos, ya que se pueden encontrar por todo el plano galáctico.(Wikipedia)
131 tomas de 60"" a Gain 1250, Offset 10, -10C
Equipo:
Telescopio/Telescope: TS RC 6" - Focal 1370mm
Montura/Mount: Ioptron ieq45 PRO
Seguimiento/Guiding: tubo SV106+QHY5IILM
Camara/Camera: QHY294C
Control: Astroberry
Procesado: StarTools+PS
4/9/2020- Markinez ,Álava
Messier 74 (también conocido como Galaxia del Abanico o NGC 628) es una galaxia espiral en la constelación de Piscis. Debido a su bajo brillo de superficie es considerada uno de los objetos más difíciles del Catálogo Messier.
la galaxia contiene dos brazos espirales claramente definidos y es por tanto usada como un ejemplo arquetípico de una galaxia espiral de gran diseño.
La galaxia de M74 posee una gran riqueza en objetos. Su color azulado se debe a que posee miríadas de cúmulos estelares, de estrellas con tonalidades azuladas (jóvenes).
M74 se halla a una distancia de alrededor de entre 23 y 30 millones de años luz de la Vía Láctea, Con una magnitud aparente de 9.9. (Wikipedia)
Tomada en Iturrieta, Alava, 30/9/2019.
Telescopio/Telescope: TS RC 6" + reductor X0.67 - Focal 918mm
Montura/Mount: Ioptron ieq45 PRO
Seguimiento/Guiding: tubo EZG80mm+ASI120MM+PHD2
Camara/Camera: Sony A7 mod + filtro optolong L-pro.
Lights: 20 tomas - ISO3200 - 4'
Total exposicion: 80'
+dark+bias.
Software: SIRILIC+Startools+PS
The planet Venus photographed on July 8, 2015 after sunset. The current phase is 27.8% full. Image Notes: Canon 6D, Celestron C6-A SCT, Televue 5x Powermate all mounted on a iOptron ZEQ25 mount. 1920 x 1080 video (571 frames) and the best 50 frames were used to create this image. Processed in Planetary Imaging PreProcessor (PIPP), Registax and Corel Paintshop Pro X5. Sky conditions were turbulent with passing clouds.
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M106 In the constellation of Canes Venatici.
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;
3 x Exp 300s
12 x Exp 500s
Frames: 15 Lights; 2 Darks; 200 flats
90% Crop
Capture: SharpCap
Processed: DSS; PS; Grad Exterminator.
Sky: 100% Full Moon, calm, minimal cloud, cold, excellent seeing.
22-25 million light years distant.
高橋FSQ106ED F5, Pentax 645z(IR modified), exp 5min*170, iOptron iEQ45 pro, QHY5導星. 2019年12/23與12/24昆陽, 2020/11/17塔塔加, 2020/11/18昆陽
NGC 659 is an open cluster in the Cassiopeia constellation. It was discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1783.
Equipment used
Telescope: Takahasi TOA - 130N
Camera: 690 CCD
Mount: Ioptron CEM60 (unguided)
Eta Ursae Majoris (Alkaid or Benetnash) is a star in the constellation Ursa Major. Alkaid is the eastern star in the Big Dipper asterism (the handle edge star).
Magnitude: 1.84, Surface Temperature: 16,820 K, Mass: 6.1 Solar mass, Apparent magnitude: 1.84
This image of Alkaid is composed of four 30-second exposures. I used a Canon 6D and 400mm lens attached to an iOptron ZEQ mount. Diffraction spikes added using fishing line on the front of the lens. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, stretched in ImagesPlus and final image edit done in Corel Paintshop Pro.
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Captured Aug 26th with a Borg 125SD @ F/3.9, 488mm and Nikon D5100. iOptron ZEQ25 mount guided with PHD2 and a QHY5L-II guide camera and a Borg 50mm guide scope.
Capture software, BackyardNIKON beta with dithering enabled.
Two hours of 300 second exposures stacked in DSS and processed in PS5.
This was shot with the Canon 16-35mm f/4 lens and the Canon 5D MKIII for 2 minutes at f/8 on a Celestron tripod with an iOptron Sky Tracker.
TS-Optics Photoline 140mm f/6.5
ToupTek ATR2600C
iOptron CEM70G
Antlia Tri Band RGB Pro 2"
TS-Optics TSFlat3
49 frames - 300 sec
Moon 77%
Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight · Stefan Berg Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy (N.I.N.A. / NINA)
Saturno em oposição ano 2020
foto em 20 de julho de 2020 as 20h30 utc-3
Gostei do fato das faixas do polo norte começarem levemente a aparecer nesta foto, em comparação com meus registros anteriores onde havia uma faixa única cinzenta.
Curiosidades gerais: Durante esse momento de órbita chamado oposição, o planeta está perfeitamente alinhado (Sol - Terra - Saturno), e do lado oposto, em relação ao Sol, de modo que a sombra do globo de Saturno, que geralmente é vista em parte projetando-se sobre seus anéis, acaba praticamente desaparecendo, porque está se projetando para o lado de trás do planeta.
E por que esses detalhes são interessantes? Porque esses detalhes e outros milhares mais observados, juntos confirmam o entendimento que a ciência tem, de sistema solar, e de sua mecânica celeste.
Telescópio Celestron 200mm C8 EdgeHD F/10
Barlow Televue 2x, câmera asi120mc, filtro UV/IR-cut Baader
Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) from Bloomington, Indiana, just as it was rising above the trees and dawn was beginning. Still not a super spectacular comet, but with a bright nucleus and prominent tail. And so far it's much better than the last two comets that were predicted to be knockouts.
Nikon Z 6, Celestron C5 (1250mm f/10), 1 sec., ISO 800, iOptron CEM25P drive, 11 exposures, processed in Lightroom, median combined in Photoshop.
Wide field image taken on June 6th with a Borg 60ED w/.70 reducer. iOptron ZEQ25 mount, guided in PHD with Lodestar and 50/162 guide scope.
Twelve 5 minute exp's @ ISO 800, no filters, with a Nikon D5100. Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5. No crop.
This is a very busy area of space.
M106 is a galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), which is located between 22 and 25 million light years away. M106 is a massive galaxy with a very active core region that is home to a supermassive black hole. The core is extremely bright relative to the galaxy and in my image the core is a little saturated because of this.
Also seen in this image is the edge on galaxy NGC 4248 located adjacent to M106, is located 25 Million Light years away. Towards the top you can also see a very small pair of galaxies NGC 4231 and 4232.
This was the result of 71 exposures of 120 sec each. Shot with a William Optics 132mm FLT APO refractor on a IOptron CEM60 mount. Camera was a ZWO ASI294MC-Pro. 25 Dark, 50 flat, and 60 bias calibration exposures. Processed via DeepSky Stacker, Pixinsight and Photoshop. This is preliminary processing to assess last nights capture. I will more carefully reprocess this on a cloudy night!
Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 33 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken Nov 1 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
I love imaging Orion. My goal with this shot was to include the Flame and Horsehead Nebulae, Barnard's Loop, Messier 78, and Lynds' Dark Nebula (LDN) 1622, the Boogeyman Nebula (upper left). It seemed like a good target for Halloween night.
This was my first try using a star tracker to photograph the Milky Way locally in a yellow light pollution zone. It took way longer than expected to align the tracker with Polaris, especially since it was a pretty cold night. I think I got reasonably close (although certainly not perfect). Next time I'll stop down to f/4 to help the sharpness in the corners. Taken with an iOptron Skytracker Pro for about 3 minutes.
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Nikon d5500
50mm + Hoya Red Intensifier filter
ISO 3200
f/2.8
10 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Ten shot panorama of the the Orion constellation and nebula at Quairading, about 2 hours east of Perth in Western Australia.
The star Sirius and the "Little Beehive" cluster (Messier 41) just moving up and over some trees in my yard (Weatherly, Pennsylvania) late last evening (January 2, 2016). Canon 6D, Canon 100mm f/2.8L, ISO 5000, 20 seconds, f/4.5, all mounted on an iOptron ZEQ215 mount. Star flares created using a Tiffen 67mm 4 Point Star Filter (2mm).
Setup Astrophotographie Solaire
Solar Astrophotography Setup
Nikon D5300 + William Optics Zenithstar 73ii
Thousand Oaks solar filter - ND5 - Solarlite Film
iOptron CEM26
Acquisition Data:
-9-9-22
-Nikon D5300
-iOptron CEM40
-AT72EDII & ASTRO-TECH .8X REDUCER
-Exposure: 68 x 2 min
-Bortle 8/9
This is a wide-field view of the spiral galaxy Messier 74 (M74) in the constellation Pisces (about 32 million light years distant). This was photographed on November 15, 2014 using 12 stacked 60-second exposures at ISO 3200. Photo taken in Weatherly, PA. Equipment: Canon 6D, Canon 400mm f/5.6 lens, iOptron ZEQ25GT mount.
The Andromeda Galaxy M31 is the 2nd furthest object visible to the naked eye. This is my wide field take on the target using an unmodified Nikon D750 full frame camera and my trusty 135mm f2 manual lens. It should be noted that every star you see here is in our own Milky Way Galaxy. Captured back in September while exposing another shot I had plenty of time to pull out my other camera and Skytracker to see what other targets were ripe for the picking. Hoping to capture some more photons in the coming week with my freshly modified D5600a. Stay tuned! 📷🔭🌌
Camera: Nikon D750
Lens: Rokinon 135mm f2
Aperture: f2
Mount: iOptron SkyTrackerPro
Stack: 29x30sec
Gain: ISO1600
Camera Temp: 3°C
OAT: 3°C
No Calibration Frames
Processing: PixInsight, LR
A huge tree lies fallen on the beach of Redfish Lake as the tree of the Milky Way rises over the horizon.
IC5070 Pelikannebel im Sternbild Schwan
Das Nebelgebiet ist ein Teil eines größeren Emisionnebel in ca.1800Lj Entfernung.
Aufgenommen mit 8"/1150mm, Montierung CEM60 iOptron
Luntsolar60DualStack50 - B1200
iOptron CEM70G
ASI 178 MM
1100 frames
Elaboration with avi2stack - pixinsight - photoshop
Keck's laser (bottom) and Subaru's laser (right) were being used to observe the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Shot with a star tracker and a Sigma 85 1.4 Art from Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Milky Way Rising over a water tower in East Aurora, CO.
composite of two images using an iOptron sky guider pro tracker. ISO 1000 f/2.8 2.5min exposure
the star tracker I used to get this shot can be found in the link below
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OBJECT: A Perseus and aurora over Czech Republic, August 11-12, 2024. Field of view 104x81 arcdeg.
GEAR: Nikon Z7 Kolari Full Spectrum + Nikkor Z 14-24/2,8 @ 14, Kolari H+ Clip in filter, UV lens filter, Dew heater strip, tracking mount iOptron HEM27EC - ipolar alignment, No auto guiding.
ACQUISITION: August 11,12, 2024, Struz, CZ, Subexposure 20s, f 2,8, ISO 3200, Interval 1 s, RAW-S. During two nights was taken 665 frames and only 20 meteors captured. No Moon, Backyard - Light pollution - Bortle 5.
STACKING AND POST PROCESSING: Gunther Wegner LRTimelapse, Adobe LR+PS 2024, Apple Imovie.
During my wide field imaging session on March 29, 2016 of the Messier pair M108 (Surfboard Galaxy) and M97 (Owl Nebula), I also caught a view of NGC 3631 in the lower right corner of the view. After zooming in on the galaxy, I noticed a bright star in one of the spiral arms, further investigation showed that this was, in fact, a supernova, SN2016bau, discovered on March 3, 2016 by Ron Arbour.
The wide field unprocessed image (available to view on my blog) shows the stacked, full frame, 10-minute exposure using a Canon 6D and Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM lens mounted on an iOptron ZEQ25 mount. 10 x 60 seconds at ISO 3200, stacked in DeepSkyStacker and further processed in Adobe Lightroom and ImagesPlus.
The clipped, zoomed and enlarged image is from the full frame view. I used a reference image of galaxy NGC 3631 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to show the galaxy without the supernova. The spiral galaxy is about 50 million light year away.
iOptron CEM 70G
ASI 294 MC Pro
Samyang 135mmf2
Guided with embedded CEM 70G guider
36x300secs-->3h
Filter L-enahnce
Transparence not the best...Medium light pooluted sky
This is a fish-eye view of the centre of the Galaxy region in Sagittarius and Scorpius nearly overhead before dawn on an austral autumn morning in March 2024. The Milky Way stretches from Aquila at bottom left to Crux and Carina at upper right.
The aboriginal Dark Emu made of dark dust lanes in the Milky Way is here fully visible with the head of the Emu being the dark Coal Sack nebula beside the Southern Cross at upper right.
The galactic core area made yellow from interstellar dust absorption contrasts with the bluer spiral arms to either side of the core.
The pre-dawn Zodiacal Light brightens the sky in the east at bottom. It can be traced across to the other side of the Milky Way at top as the Zodiacal Band along the ecliptic.
This is a stack of 4 x 4 minute tracked exposures, at f/2.8 with the TTArtisan 11mm full-frame fish-eye lens on the filter-modified Canon EOS R at ISO 800. It was on the old iOptron SkyTracker. The camera had an Astronomik clip-in UV/IR Cut filter in place which with this lens actually improves and sharpens its off-axis images when the filter shifts the infinity focus point inward.
Taken just before thin clouds moved in to spoil subsequent frames, on March 14, 2024, from the Warrumbungles Mountain Motel near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, at the 2024 OzSky star party.
Sol Región Activa 12860
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: 2021-08-27 (27 de agosto de 2021)
Hora: 15:48 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 1 minuto
Resolución: 1456x1164
Gain: 81 (15%)
Exposure: 0.032ms
Frames: 3242
Frames apilados: 14%
FPS: 54
Sensor temperature= 47.8 °C
Dark Nebula in Aquila Barnard 142 and 143 - This is an area near the star Altair in the constellation Aquila and is referred to as Barnard 142/143, a dark nebula. Look in the dashed circle in the wide field image below and you will see an object that looks like a ‘C’ and another small dark region below it. Barnard 143 is the upper ‘C’ region and Barnard 142 is the lower. Now, look at these areas combined, can you see how they form the letter ‘E’? These two combined dark nebula are also referred to as the E Nebula or Barnard’s E.
IMAGE DETAILS – imaging was done in August 2015, this is a mosaic of images using a Canon 6D and Canon 100mm f/2.8L lens mounted on an iOptron ZEQ25GT mount. Each image in the mosaic was 10 x 60 second exposures at ISO 3200. LOCATION: Weatherly, PA.
Reprocessed image of sunspot AR 2665 from July 9, 2017 showing a relative comparison to the size of the Earth.
Tech Specs: Celestron C6-A SCT, black polymer filter sheet made by Thousand Oaks Optical, iOptron ZEQ25GT mount. Best 2500 frames of 5000 frames captured using an ZWO ASI290MC, AutoStakkert! V3.0.14 (x64), FireCapture v2.5.10 x64 and Registax v6. Photographed on July 9, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.
Galaxies de Bode (M81), du Cigard (M82) et NGC3077
Constellation de la Grande Ourse
1- 17 avril 2022
Nikon D5300 + Zenithstar 73
iOptron CEM26 + iPolar
SVBony CLSfilter
ZWO ASI224MC + WO Uniguide 120mm
45 x 3min = exp 2h15 -- ISO 800
2- 31 janvier 2021
Nikon D5100 + Zenithstar 73
Star Adventurer pro
CLS filter
75 x 75sec = exp 1h30 -- ISO 800
Exposition totale = 3h45
AstroM1
(r2x.2)
Hi Folks,
I have been working the past week to capture data on four different projects from my new observatory, when I redirected my SCA260 "galaxy" scope for a single night to do a special side project.
There is a well-known galaxy known as NGC 7331 that is thought to be very similar in size and structure to our own. It has four small "companion" galaxies, and the group is known as the "Deer Lick" Group. (Why that? The main galaxy is thought of as a salt lick, and the small galaxies are 'deer' drawn to the salt lick. Who comes up with this stuff?)
The five galaxies are not truly a group. They are a chance alignment with the large one being 40 million light-years away, while the smaller ones are 300-350 million light-years away.
What makes this worth redirecting my other project to image? There was a Supernova that was discovered earlier in the month - SN2025rbs - and I wanted to try and capture this before it faded away.
I lost 1.5 hours of subs due to thin clouds passing through, and that left me with almost 5 hours of total integration time.
Taken on the night of August 30th, the supernova had diminished in brightness and was all but lost in the bright glare of the core. I could process the image to highlight the core and the supernova, but that made the galaxy look unnatural. My final image allows you to see the supernova, but it still retains the bright core that you would expect to see. I think this is a reasonable balance.
While this was kind of a "quick and dirty" project to capture the SN before it was gone, it was a fun little sub-project to do for a single evening!
The full story of this effort, along with a detailed and annotated processing walkthrough, can be seen here:
cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/ngc7331sn2025rbs#page
Thanks for looking!
Pat
- www.kevin-palmer.com - It was my first time testing out a Nikon 50mm f1.4 Nikkor AF-D lens that I recently bought. This image is a stack of 15 6-minute exposures (90 minutes total) along with 5 dark and bias frames. An iOptron Skytracker was used to track the stars.
The Cygnus region of the milky way contains many colorful nebulae, star clusters, and clouds of interstellar dust. When there are this many stars it's always hard to pick out the constellations, so I drew in the lines myself. Deneb is the bright star on the upper right near the North America nebula.
Constelación: Monóceros
IC447 es una muy tenue nebulosa de reflexión en la región de Monóceros. Estas nebulosas se denominan así debido a que reflejan la luz proveniente de las estrellas a su alrededor.
En la imagen también pueden verse las nebulosas IC446, NGC 2245, NGC 2247, LBN 895 y dos diminutas galaxias: PGC 19130 y PGC 19246
Datos de la imagen:
Exposure: RGB: 11 hr 45 min (141 x 5 min)
Telescope: Celestron C9.25 Edge - Hyperstar
Camera: ZWO ASI071MC Pro
Focal ratio: f2.3
Capturing software: Sequence Generator Pro - SGP
Filter: IDAS NBX
Mount: iOptron CEM60
Guiding: Orion StarShoot Autoguider with PHD2 and Stellarvue F60M3
Dithering: Yes
Calibration: 100 darks, 100 flat darks, 100 flats
Processing: PixInsight
Date: 25-Ene-2021 y 30-Ene-2021
Location: Bogotá, Colombia