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HorseHead Nebula
Telescope: ZWO Seestars50
Total exposure: 65 minutes
Total integration: 395x10" subs
Filters: Dual band filter (OIII and Hydrogen Alpha)
Technical Information:
QHY168C:
Telescope: AIRY APO 130T PrimaLuceLab
Mount: Paramount MyT - Software Bisque
Camera: QHY168C -- Gain:10 ; Offset:50 – -20°C with Dark and Flat Frames
Filter: Optolong 2" L-Pro
Frames RGGB: L-Pro: 225 x 240s
Total Integration: 15 Hours
Software: SGP – PHD2 – DSS – PixInsight – CS6
Location: Noventa di Piave - (Venice) 4 meter a.s.l. – ITALY
Environment Temperature: 11°C
Relative Humidity: 71%%
Date: 16.04.20 - 22.04.20 - 23.04.20
QHY9 Camera:
Telescope: AIRY APO 130T - PrimaLuceLab
Mount: Paramount MyT - Software Bisque
Camera : QHY9 -- -20°C
Filter: Optolong L-Pro 36mm
Frames: 118 x 240s
Total Integration: 7.86 Hours
Software: SGP – PHD2
Location: Noventa di Piave - (Venice) 4 meter a.s.l. – ITALY
Environment Temperature: 13°C
Relative Humidity: 76%
Date: 14.04.20 - 15.04.20
Total Integration: 22.86 Hours
NOTE: The image was acquired from a polluted sky - Bortle 5).
I selected M100 but it is very small for my equipment.
Hi Folks,
I just published a new imaging project on my website.
Messier 101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy with the recently discovered supernova - SN2023ixf!
This target is located 21 Million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major.
This was about a 3-hour exposure in LRGB using my widefield Askar FRA400 Platform.
Everybody and their brother seems out there shooting images of this galaxy with its supernova.
And who's to blame them? Supernovae are amazing events. At the end of its life, a star explodes, releasing as much energy in one second as our Sun will emit in its entire lifetime!
This does not happen every day, and to have one in a galaxy as beautiful as the Pinwheel is worth shooting.
But with so many images of this out there - why should I shoot it tool. Do I think I can do better than everyone else? Hardly!
This is such a cool event that I did want to have one captured in my portfolio.
But during my last imaging session, my widefield Askar FRA400 Platform was the only scope that was untasked. During galaxy season, there are relatively few large targets to shoot. So I pointed it at M101 and decided to go for it!
My expectations were very low, though:
- A widefield scope shooting a galaxy - that will be a problem!
- I was only able to get 3 hours of integration - my last shot of M101 had 11 hours - so that's going to be a problem
- I am shooting with some thin smoke from the Alberta Wildfires in the air - that IS a problem.
So why shoot it at all?
- Supernovae are one the coolest events in our night sky - I wanted to capture an image of that - even a poor one!
- I saw this as an opportunity to dive into what supernovae were all about and describe that in my web write-up
- I have the twisted part of my personality that likes the challenge of getting a better image out of compromised data
I drizzle processed, then cropped like mad, and took advantage of BlurXTerminator and NoiseXTerninaor to help improve a dicey image.
The final result is not wonderful, but it is not horrible either!
The full story of this imaging project, and some cool info on supernovae, can be found here:
cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/m101-sn2023xif
Thanks,
Pat
My Cable Car , officially the State Cable Transportation Company My Cable Car, is the public company responsible for the administration of the La Paz - El Alto Cable Car urban transport system, which links the cities of La Paz and El Alto , as well as a line tourist in Oruro in Bolivia . The first of its lines began operations on May 30 , 2014 . At the end of the first three lines, it became the longest urban transport cable car network in the world. [On March 9, 2019, the last line corresponding to the second phase of implementation was inaugurated: the Silver Line, which closed the circuit called the Metropolitan Integration Network, and became the tenth line in operation. The system was raised in response to various problems in the metropolitan area of La Paz , made up of the cities of La Paz and El Alto that had a precarious public transport service that did not respond adequately to the increasing demand from users and significant expenses in time and money involved in mobilizing between the two cities, in addition to the chaotic traffic and with high levels of environmental and auditory pollution they generated, the growing demand for gasoline and diesel, which are subsidized by the state. The service allowed the effective connection of the city of La Paz at an average height of 3600 meters above sea level, which has an intricate topography, surrounded by mountain ranges and diverse rivers with the city of El Alto settled on a plain located at 4100 meters above sea level. , reducing travel times and costs.
The cost of the ticket on each line is 3 bolivianos per person. When transferring to another line, the cost is 2 Bolivians. The service allows you to transport bicycles paying an extra ticket except on weekends on the Green and Yellow Lines.
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9hr 50min Integration over 8 nights, from end of December 2020 to start of January 2022.
48x5min Ha
47x5min SII
21x5min OIII
Taken with an ASI 294MM on an Esprit 80ED, guided on a CGX mount. Bishopbriggs, Scotland. Bortle 8.
The ever patient and reflective Spirit of Earth, Onua is as steadfast and wise as the earth itself.
Back in 2020 I challenged myself to get back into the hobby and build a MOC a month. This was the fourth build I finished.
Just a typical Toa Mata revamp, nothing crazy or neat. This guy was an exercise in first tries, specifically color blocking and using CCBS shells and connectors in a build. I initially stopped MOCing back when Hero-Factory had just come out, so CCBS has been pretty new to me. Throughout 2020 and 2021 I've been trying to incorporate in into my building style as much as I can. There's so many neat parts and it's been fun seeing how people integrate them and learning how to do so myself.
...this is one of my oldest images...but i relly love it...i never seen a scene like this before and after in berlin...she was in the park with her husband and kids...they played basketball...suddlendy she went up and through a few balls...luck that i have my camera with me...
...i hope some more people view and like it...
@{-->-- ... thank you all very much my friends...:)))
Ced 214 (also known as Sh2 -171 ) is a large emission nebula visible in the constellation of Cepheus .
It is an extensive nebula region linked to the stellar association Cepheus OB4 and illuminated by the stars of the open cluster Berkeley 59; vigorous star-formation processes are active inside it , generating low- mass stars .
The sky area in which this nebulous system is observed is located in the eastern part of the constellation of Cepheus, about 8 ° north of the bright star Caph , in a stretch of the Milky Way strongly obscured by interstellar dust and unlit nebulae; in its direction we observe HD 225216, an orange star of apparent magnitude5,68, which however is not linked to the nebula being in the foreground. Under a very dark sky and with the help of filters it is possible to see some vague details of the nebula, especially with large diameter instruments and using very low magnifications due to the large size of the object; in photography, on the contrary, the system becomes very evident.
Acquired on May 2020
H-alpha - 120 x 120 sec
OIII - 60 x 120 sec
SII - 55 x 120 sec
Total integration time: 7:50 hours
Imaging telescope, mount and camera:
TS Optics/GSO 6'' f4 Newtonian
Celestron CGEM-DX
ASI1600MM-Cool
Processed with: Pixinsight and Photoshop CC
Location:
Home Backyard, Geleen, Limburg, Netherlands (Bortle 6/7)
A booster of the Ariane 5 launcher that will carry ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) into space is being transferred from the booster storage building (BSE) to the launch vehicle integration building (BIL) at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The booster is installed on a platform that will be fitted onto the launch table in the BIL.
The trees and lorry give some idea of the size of this booster – at 31 m tall, it would be far too long to fit inside a 25-m swimming pool. It forms part of a pair that will be anchored to the Ariane 5’s central core stage this week. After anchoring, engineers will carry out mechanical and electrical checks. The proper functioning of these boosters is vital to get Juice into space – each contains 240 t of solid propellant, and together they provide 90 percent of the thrust at liftoff.
Juice is humankind’s next bold mission to the outer Solar System. It will make detailed observations of gas giant Jupiter and its three large ocean-bearing moons – Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. This ambitious mission will characterise these moons with a powerful suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments to discover more about these compelling destinations as potential habitats for past or present life. Juice will monitor Jupiter’s complex magnetic, radiation and plasma environment in depth and its interplay with the moons, studying the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giant systems across the Universe.
These activities mark the beginning of a six-week campaign to prepare the Ariane 5 for launch on 13 April. It runs in parallel with teams preparing Juice for launch, which started three weeks earlier. On 1 April Juice will be placed onto the Ariane 5 before being encapsulated on 4 April. The whole system will be rolled out onto the launch pad on 11 April.
Credits: 2023 ESA-CNES-ARIANESPACE / Optique video du CSG - S MARTIN, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
North America Nebula, NGC 7000, emission nebula in Cygnus.
Location: 11-07-2025 St Helens UK Bortle 7 Full Moon.
Acquisition: 25x 540s L-Extreme calibrated with Biases, Darks, Flats. Total integration 3.75 hours.
Equipment: Altair 60EDF, Flat 60. Optolong L-Extreme. ZWO ASI260MCpro, AM5, EAF.
Guiding: Altair MG32mini. ZWO ASI120MMmini.
Software: Ekos, K-Stars, Indi, PHD2, RustDesk on Mele Quieter 3 with Linux Mint OS.
Processing: Siril, Starnet2, GraXpert, Affinity Photo, NoiseXTerminator.
Comments: Being irritated with Win11 updates causing problems with my imaging PC's decided to move to Linux Mint for better stability. This was first light with the new setup which proved to be very successful.
Die Geschichte von Kreta ist sehr bewegt
-Minoische Zeit etwa 3000 v. Chr. bis 13.Jh v Chr
-archaische Zeitalter : 6. bis zum 4. Jahrhundert
-Byzantinisches Reich (395–1204)und Sarazenenherrschaft (826–961)
- Venezianische Herrschaft (1204–1669)
- Osmanische Herrschaft (1669–1897)
- De-facto-Unabhängigkeit (1898–1913)
- Vereinigung mit Griechenland (seit 1913)
- Minoan-Mycenaean Crete(3000-1300 BC)
- Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Arab Crete(395-1204)
- Venetian Crete (1205–1669)
-Ottoman Crete (1669–1898)
- Independence(1898-1913)
-Crete was unified with mainland Greece(1913)
(Wikipedia)
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Im Straßenbild sieht man noch Minarette und Moscheen , aber die die meisten wurden einem anderen Zweck zugeführt. Geschichte kann man aber nicht ausradieren und ein friedlicher, harmonischer Mix aus Religionen, Architekturen, Kulturen kann doch nur bereichern.
There are still minarets and mosques in the street, but most of them have been brought to a different purpose. But you can not eradicate history and a peaceful, harmonious mix of religions, architecture, cultures can only enrich
I am taking a different turn in photography.
I love incorporating art with photographs so now I play with my iPad and Laminar software.
Thus allows me to layer my bits and pieces hopefully into a more interesting landscape.
The brightest and most accessible to photography cluster in the constellation of Coma Berenices.
336 million light years from earth. Contains over a thousand different galaxies (most of them are elliptical) and huge amount of dark matter.
One of the few places in the sky where most objects are galaxies and not stars
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• Sky-Watcher BK P2001 with TS Optics 2" Dual Speed Focuser
• EQ6-R Pro
• ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
• ZWO L: 167x120s
• ZWO R, G, B: 60x120s bin2
(total integration 7.5h)
• -20° sensor temp., Gain 0 (HDR)
• Baader MPCC Mark III coma corrector
• 60x240 guide scope, ZWO ASI290Mini guide cam
Captured with ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF, ZWO ASIAIR, Pegasus Astro Powerbox
Saint Petersburg, Russia. Red light pollution zone, balcony
Photo By Bawind L.
Post Processing By Fluorine Z.
Image Telescope/Lens : Takahashi TSA120
Image Camera : Atik One 6.0
Mount : iOptron CEM60
Frames : R(27*600sec)/G(22*600sec)/B(23*600sec)
integration : 12hours
Location : Lijiang , Yunnan , China
Cropped Version!
Merry Christmas~~！
NGC 1566, also known as the ”Spanish Dancer”, is a magnitude 10, intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Dorado, positioned about 3.5° to the south of the star Gamma Doradus, seen on the right side of the frame edge.
The distance to this galaxy is estimated to be about 69 million light years.
Imaged using a 8" SCT at f6.3 (1280mm focal length), with a QHY268M camera for a total integration time of 20 hours and 04 minutes.
NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket poised to send four astronauts from Earth on a journey around the Moon next year may appear identical to the Artemis I SLS rocket. On closer inspection, though, engineers have upgraded the agency’s Moon rocket inside and out to improve performance, reliability, and safety.
SLS flew a picture perfect first mission on the Artemis I test flight, meeting or exceeding parameters for performance, attitude control, and structural stability to an accuracy of tenths or hundredths of a percent as it sent an uncrewed Orion thousands of miles beyond the Moon. It also returned volumes of invaluable flight data for SLS engineers to analyze to drive improvements.
For Artemis II, the major sections of SLS remain unchanged – a central core stage, four RS-25 main engines, two five-segment solid rocket boosters, the ICPS (interim cryogenic propulsion stage), a launch vehicle stage adapter to hold the ICPS, and an Orion stage adapter connecting SLS to the Orion spacecraft. The difference is in the details.
In this image, teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems integrate the SLS (Space Launch System) Moon rocket with the solid rocket boosters onto mobile launcher 1 inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in March 2025. Artemis II is the first crewed test flight under NASA’s Artemis campaign and is another step toward missions on the lunar surface and helping the agency prepare for future human missions to Mars.
Credits: NASA/Frank Michaux
#Artemis #NASAMarshall #Space #NASASLS #NASA #Artemis #ArtemisII
Shot in New Orleans under Bortle 8 skies.
Ha 900s x 23
Sii 900s x 36
Oiii 900s x 25
Total Integration = 21h
Takahashi FSQ-106
Takahashi EM-200
ASI 2600MM
Antilia 3nm SHO
Pixinsight:
S/H: BXT / HT
O: BXT / HT / SXT / NXT -> Photoshop (local nebula boost) -> Rescreen Stars
SHO: Blue/Gold Combo
Photoshop: Levels, Shadows/Highlights, Curves, Sat, Local Adjustments, Smart Sharpen (masked)
This design took absolutely forever to finish up. The shaping of the hind legs gave me nightmares until I came up with a way for integrating them onto the body itself.
I'm working on the pattern right now! :)
So yesterday it was the queens jubilee and the British weather was bang on queue. So with the bad whether I thought that I would do some high-speed photography in my garage.
I’ve been trying this sort of shot for some but I’ve not had much luck with getting the lighting correct on the other occasions. I spent a good 5 hours in the garage trying different ideas for crowns, reflections and lighting but I’ve come to the conclusion that the YN460s just aren’t bright enough… time to get the credit card out :-)
Not overly impressed with this and there is definite room for improvement but it's my best effort to date; as I mentioned above my flashguns just aren’t bright enough especially when trying shots like this. I found that the crown came out okay but there wasn’t enough light for the reflection, I tried higher ISOs and a brighter flash output but it just looked noisier and more blurred than this :-(
Another thing that I’ve struggled with is getting the food dye to integrate with the cream properly, if anyone can offer a tip or two it would be very much appreciated.
Not the most imaginative title, if anyone can come up with a better one let me know.
Canon 100mm macro
AV f/16
TV Bulb
ISO 200
Flash guns 2 x Yongnuo yn460
Trigger with an Arduino
Looks better on black, press L
Caligraphy work "نهایت" (means extremity in persian) done by "Ahmad Reza Dadkhah Bidgoli" an Iranian talented young painter.
This transcendental painting represents concepts such as freedom, integration, connection, union of diffrences and the expansion of meanings from inception into extremity.
painted on 2×1 m canvas with acrylic colors.
The Seagull Nebula, 6 hours of integration in SHO with Red Cat 51 Petzval telescope, ASI6200mm pro 61-megapixel full-frame Mono camera, on Paramount MX 6 mount, are 74 shots of which in Ha 19x300 seconds, in OIII 20x300 seconds and in SII 35x300 seconds, processing with Pixinsight and Photoshop. All data and shots were acquired with Sadr Astro Observatory. The Seagull Nebula (also known as Gum 2, sometimes mistakenly known by the abbreviation IC 2177) is a diffuse nebula visible on the border between the constellations Canis Major and Monoceros.
The nebula is located about 9 degrees northeast of the star Sirius and extends for two degrees in the NNE-SSW direction, in an area very rich in hot and blue stars, of recent generation, part of the stellar association Canis Major OB1 to which the initials Canis Major R1 was initially assigned due to the presence of numerous reflection nebulae. It can also be identified with good binoculars, in which it appears, especially with averted vision, as a slight elongated halo; Its shape is clearly visible in large telescopes and suggests the shape of a seagull in flight, hence its proper name.
From an astronomical point of view, the object is a large H II region in which star formation is active, as evidenced by the presence of numerous infrared and X-ray sources associated with young or forming stars; in its surroundings you can observe a large number of other small nebulae, some of which are reflection, often recognizable by their bluish color. There are also some open clusters in the area, such as NGC 2353.
To the east of this nebulous complex is another, less extensive nebulous complex, known as LBN 1036; Both are part of the same molecular nebula complex, whose shape is due to the explosion of a supernova that occurred about 500,000 years ago. The extension of the complex is about 100 parsecs.