I've gathered data with LExtreme; Now LEnhance... need to gather with LPro for true star color.

Another attempt at the Rosette Nebula in Monoceros using the L-Enhance filter. Looks much better and I'm very happy with this!

Picture saved with settings applied.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Mistral

The nebula is Named after the Chilean Poet when you see the photo in the link above you can miss the profile in the side. small part of the huge Carina nebula that is only seen in the Southern skies this is three nights worth of shots 41 Shots each night.

QHY 183C -10c 41 shots each night 10 min each over Three nights..

MeLE Mini PC

Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box

Prima Luce Essato Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, Nina

Pixinsight, Ps .

SpaceCat 51

Canon 6d rango completo

Optolong LEnhance

algo más de 3 horas en fotos de 600" y 1500" a ISO 3200

Procesado PIX y PS

bortle 3

This is a 4 night Two panel shot join is in the middle of the two shots. As I am able to rotate the Nikon 300mm F4 prime on its lens clamp I marked the degrees so I could rotate to suit camera angle. once done I got an error reading each night 1.4 degrees.

the two panels joined perfectly with next to no step between the two panels. I am impressed so much I am almost willing to for go the Auto Focus with the belt to be able to rotate the camera.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_Supernova_Remnant

for those interested a bit more info in the link.

Who can see the face in the shot.

ZWOASI071MC -10c 90 shots per panel 600 secs, over 4 night camera rotated.

ZWOEAF disconnected ,

Optolong LeNhance filter In filter draw,

Nikon 300MM F4 D Lens,

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned

Guided PHD2, SGP

Pixinsight, Ps & Lr.

Shot using an L-enhance filter from my deck.

5hrs of integration, 5min subs under bottle 6 skies. Scope Askar fra400, camera ZWO asi2600 my pro, filter Optolong Lenhance.

Ha and O3 extracted with Astropixel processor, combined and stretched in Adobe Photoshop.

Just over 4 hours' data on the Heart and Soul nebulae in Cassiopaeia with an Optolong l-eNhance filter, processed in AstroPixelProcessor, siril and darktable.

I have always known there was a Christmas tree in space but it never seemed to come up in time to post for Christmas.

You cant mistake the White/ Greenish Christmas tree with the big bright star at it top in the image. It is surrounded in a lot of red but I have tried not to over do the red.

Along with the Christmas tree there is the Cone nebula and the Fox Fur nebula in this shot.

So this is a real Merry Christmas from Space to everybody

QHY 183C -10c 38 shots each night 10 min each over Three nights.

MeLE Mini PC

Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box

Prima Luce Essato Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, Nina

Pixinsight, Ps .

Close up of the Center of the Very large Nebula. Still not Drunk enough to see a chicken any where in this nebula but I can see a Lioness in profile. A lot of learning editing between these two photos some two years worth and it getting a little easier.

QHY 183C -10c 45 shots 10 min each over three nights.

MeLE Mini PC

Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box

Prima Luce Essato Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, Nina

Pixinsight, Ps .

M42 taken with 8 in Meade SCT after collimation and cleaning a horrendously dirty mirrors and corrector plate. Image take by.a friend of mine using a cox mount that has some issues with tracking. 600 second exposure, ASI6200MC Pro camera at -7C. Lenhance filter, processed PixInsight and Photoshop.

Part of the Large Magellanic Cloud area but a part I have not taken before. N70 is the unmistakable Circular nebula top right. this was taken over two night to test out the New power supply box and how stable it is. The other effect of the power box was to reduce the number of cords that have to go from the top to the bottom to lessen the weight on guiding. the number of cord has reduced to two a far cry from the heavy load of the original 9. Now its fine tuning PHD2 to get the very small movement of guiding and better round stars.

ZWOASI071MC Pro -10c 90 shot 10 min

MeLE Mini PC

Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box

Prima Luce Essato Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, Nina

Pixinsight, Ps PTGui.

This was a trial with the MeLE Nuc to see if things where right I had three nights to "play" with the whole set up. The Nuc sits under the Skywatcker ED80 so 5 long 3 m cables gone going to the laptop they all stay up on the top of the scope.

Night one did not work out at all could not get plate solve to work properly could hardly see the stars. After some two hours I gave up went to bed.

Night two I bumped plate solve exposure by more than double the time finally plate solve worked. So I thought I would try some thing to check if the system worked. On taking the very first photo it would not down load and I lost the camera. The usb cable that was supplied with the camera died. My only option was to bundle up my normal 3m cable and connect up to the camera and the Nuc and try a fix the whole lot to the scope. The whole thing looked like it was normally what I was use to seeing.

Night three I had to remove the dead cable and wrap the 3m one around the guide scope. I decided to do a real test set up the system to start on it own 6:45Pm. I sat in side the computer room and watched the sequence start flawless totally on its own. This is the result of those two nights some more 1m cables on there way to lessen the weight of cables. Plate solve has gone back to its normal 10 sec exposure time.

QHY183C -10c 226 shot 2 min

MeLE Mini PC

Prima Luce Essato Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, SGP

Pixinsight, Ps.

The Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree cluster. Took this months ago but never could get the edit quite right until now.

This is bench colomated the just used as a trial I tried to collimate on the mount Its so bad I cant take photos as it can not focus.

QHY 183C -10c 104 shots 5 min each over one night.

MeLE Mini PC

Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box

Prima Luce Essato Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, Nina

Pixinsight, Ps .

Dati: 56 x 480 sec ( 7.47ore) gain 5 @ -10° c + 24 dark + 30 flat e darkflat

Filtro: Optolong L-Enhance

Montatura: EQ6 pro

Ottica: Takahashi FSQ106

Sensore: QHY168C

Cam guida e tele: asi120mm su Scopos 62/520

Software acquisizione: nina e phd2

Software sviluppo: AstroPixelProcessor e Photoshop

Temperatura esterna: 20 ° C - Umidità 50%

captured 14.01.22 . This turned a lot better then i expected . The moon was 89% illuminated and not far from Orion . I am now getting used to using light pollution filters , This picture is constructed of 68 3 minute exposures stacked over each other .

Can you see the dragons? For me, there are 2 dragons fighting, but who knows, right?

The "bubble" at the bottom of the image are two nebulae, NGC 6164 and NGC 6165. This bluish, soap bubble-like outer nebulosity is being pushed by the central star, an O7 supergiant, approximately 40 times more massive than our sun. Can you imagine such a thing?

14 hours of exposure, in a mix between L-PRO and L-Enhance filters (Enhance as luminance).

EXIF:

Canon 750D astromod

Long Perng 66mm f6

L-PRO: 114x120s, ISO 1600

L-Enhance: 214x180s, ISO 1600

This was a target I first did in 2019 even just this target on its own with the 300mm prime lens and converter. As the moon came up later I wanted to use the dark moomless time to get some detail especially the coloured stars that are associated with this target. what is staggering is the halo look is a multitude of very very small stars that ring the globular target on my computer I can enlarge the shot to see them, uncountable..........

QHY183C -10c 286 shot 2 min over two nights( second night was only up to moon rise).

Prima Luce Essato Focus ,

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro

Guided PHD2, SGP

Pixinsight, Ps.

This is a bit of an odd ball as it does not follow anthing like I have done before. I found this Dark looking structure on Stellarium but it was not named so could not select it by writing the name. I was able to use the cool feature in Nina Select it in Stellarium and it brings it into Nina as a target. The star is HIP 54413 at least I knew that part from Stellarium This is two nights worth of shots and about 6 goes at trying to edit this which is so different to how I have done all the others.

I think this is pushing the limits of the ED 80 with all this very light dusty part of the sky. The mount performed flawlessly so really happy with the two upgrades.

ZWOASI071MC Pro -10c 90 shot 10 min

MeLE Mini PC

Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box

Prima Luce Essato Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, Nina

Pixinsight, Ps PTGui.

I was starting to do the Witches head but the camera would not focus not matter what I did. My thought was where the stars too Faint. so I turned to Orion with it big bright star.

I did get focus but it turned out the program kept asking me to increase the step size . It turned out it was the very opposite I had to make the steps smaller to the perfect curve.

I had planned to do this as a one shot for both which i still will be doing Plus a 50mm shot of the whole area and the Huge Bernard's Loop of the Whole Orion Area.

This is 148 shot 2 min long all night long then the next night I had to take shorter shots 60 sec , 30sec and 15 sec to over come the blown out core of Orion.

QHY 183C -10c 148 shots & 138 shot 2 min over two nights.

MeLE Mini PC

Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box

Prima Luce Essato Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, Nina

Pixinsight, Ps PTGui.

Almost a year ago Almost to the day My first ever photo with a dedicated astro camera was taken. it was not without the huge effort of Carlos Taylor to tame the Computer and all the programs. NGC253 a year apart and a different camera(1520mm POV) but same scope and target. to look back is to see just how far you have come is a good thing you see just how more rewarding this type of photos are. I am happy that I have been able to do the target and effort of Carlos Taylor and more than a few others out there giving support, some justice. never in my wildest dream thought I would be able to produce an image like this. this was the level I always wanted to shot astro photos from the start.

QHY183C -10c 136 shot 10 min over three nights( one of those set on auto when i was out shooting the milky way well away from home see below) night 4 is burn off smoke and clouds so I post some 22 hours of shot time.

Prima Luce Essato Focus ,

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro

Guided PHD2, SGP

Pixinsight, Ps.

The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49) is an H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 (Caldwell 50) is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter.

Tak106 2600mc

9 subs 15 minutes - guided

no darks,flats,bias,darkflats

gain 0 offset 50 - Lenhance

-15*

APP PHCC

18.80 skies

You have seen part of this before but as I am waiting for a target to rise In the milky way that I found when I did the milky way panorama. I do not have a name for the nebula but know where it is on the milky way its one I have never see in any photo so it going to be a new look at some thing I have never seen close.

So what became just the" body" top left I went clockwise taking the whole of the Running Chicken Nebula as an extra 3 shot to get the whole of the Nebula. I still can NOT see it even though I am enjoying this years Shiraz I still cant see no chicken. none the less enjoy the fruits or a lot of night to get the total in all its detail. Last was a single shot ED80 and APSC ZWO as a single shot.

QHY 183C -10c 55 shots 10 min over 9 night some in moonlight. .

MeLE Mini PC

Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box

Prima Luce Essato Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, Nina

Pixinsight, Ps .

I was suggested my target I had chosen was good one but at astro fest no one is going to hang around to see a 10min shot. So I went for the area next the Star bank in the Large Magellanic cloud ( blueish area to the left.) .

The other advantage in live stacking the colour chip in this camera shows up when stacked. I tested out the sequence before I went live at astrofest. Its looking like this year is only indoors Saturday is Rain and total cloud cover. Oh well I got to learn a little more about Nina and the shot gets seen even though its not live. Part of doing the sequence the photos get saved in the stack from my trial night and the night at astrofest would only add to the stack but a better looking photo from all the combined shots.

ZWOASI071MC Pro -10c 260 over two nights shot 2 min

MeLE Mini PC

Prima Luce Essato Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, Nina

Pixinsight, Ps.

i shot this about a month a go ,but i have since had a minor re-edit and cleaned up the background and removed a lot of noise and made the nebula a bit more prominent .

This is a close up as I can get with current setup the detail in the nebula is just perfect.

QHY 183C -10c 38 shots each night 10 min each over four nights.

MeLE Mini PC

Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box

Prima Luce Essato Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, Nina

Pixinsight, Ps PTGui.

This is a three panel mosaic of the large star forming region called the Soul Nebula (Embryo Nebula, IC 1871, Sh2-199) and is found in the constellation Cassiopeia. Processed in the Hubble Palette color scheme. This is a total of 9 hours of exposure time over two evenings.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO AS2600mc-Pro running at -10C, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, Optolong L-eNhance 2” Filter, three panels each 36 x 300 seconds (9 hours total) guided exposures, ZWO EAF, ZWO ASIAir Pro. Processed using DSS and PixInsight. Image Date: October 21 and 27, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

This is a second go at this target but rains are killing any more nights worth of shots.

In the very center of the nebula there looks to be a dog sitting on it hind legs begging these are called the "Pillars of Creation" sadly this is a close as I can go.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation

QHY183C -10c 87shot 5 min

Prima Luce Essato Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro

Guided PHD2, SGP

Pixinsight, Ps.

This is the end result of starting End Of April Finished to 12/7/2022. what started out as a look at the area I have been taking photos of for years. To get this completed this is the third iteration getting the over lap correct so it finished first was 12% , and second was 23% but in the end I could see the panels walking away from each other as I shot, so settled for 45%. So the true start was early in April getting this part to get correct so it finished. Added to this I went from an easy Rotation Error of 5 degrees to a very small 1.5 degree. Even last night at 11:53pm at flip the camera had to be rotated 1.8 degrees after flip to finish out the night.

I thought the best way to tell you Milky Way core is 53 shots per night X 22 panels = 1166 shot or x 10min exposure time.. = 11660 minutes of exposure to get the whole thing or divide by 60min gives you hours. = 194 hours. not to get you confused...at all.

The result of two sequences and 22 panels (11 panels long)each panel a night shooting, The Tiff is 22653 x 8024 1.01 GB, Jpeg is 176Mb the shot here is under 25mb. The end was I thought my first sequence finished where I wanted to but I was way out by 6 more panels to get below the Eagle Nebula.

I thought Bonsai taught me patience but this has been a very long set of shots trying to get clear nights to get each panel between clouds and rain.

The march across the milky way as I took it stated with far right to left as the Milky Way rose in the sky:-

Fighting Dragons, Prawn , Cats Paw, Lobster, Dark horse ( bottom half only), Snake, Lagoon and Trifid, Horse Shoe, Swan and Eagle.

Enjoy the milky way like I have never seen before.

ZWOASI071MC -10 53 shots each of the 22 nights

10min rotated to error of 1.5 degrees.

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Nikon 105 mm f2.8 G Lens

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned

Guided PHD2, SGP

Pixinsight, PTGui, Ps, Lr.

I've always avoided doing DSOs in Moonlight but a while back, I bought an Optolong L-eNhance Triband filter which can be helpful in reducing light pollution and stray Moonlight - it predominantly passes 3 narrow band widths centred on:

Hydrogen Alpha: Red, 656.4 nm

Oxygen III: Green, 500.7nm

Hydrogen Beta: Green-Blue, 486 nm

The filter is certainly more opaque than my standard IDAS P3 light pollution suppression filter. Usually my flats are exposed at 1600ms but for this filter it was 6500ms at 0 gain. Autofocus and plate solving exposures were 4s at 578 gain.

The raw image was lacking in contrast - not surprising given the Moonlight but I've used curves enhancement and local contrast enhancement in PixInsight to improve that. I haven't altered the colour palette as this was a first test for this filter.

Technical Card

480/80mm f/6 Altair Starwave triplet refractor.

Altair Planostar 1.0 x FF with 2 inch L-eNhance filter

ZWO ASI2600MC; 39 x 360 second subs, Gain 100, Offset 25, Temp = -15c.

EQ6 pro mount with Rowan belt drives. EQMOD control. Primalucelab Sesto Senso electronic focuser.

Session control; SharpCap 4.0 on laptop with WiFi link to IPad.

Automated plate solving GOTO.

Automated FWHM multistar focusing every 16 frames. +/- 500 steps at 2s and 578 gain.

20 dark frames

50 flat frames (electroluminescent panel, 6500ms exposure @ 0 gain).

Post processed in PixInsight 1.8.9.

Light Pollution and Weather:

SQM (L) not recorded - 95% Moon

Session ended by cloud, target was also very near roof level.

Polar Alignment:

Resumed from previous Park.

Error measured by PHD2= 0 arc minute.

RA drift + 2.44 arcsec/min

Dec drift - 0 arcsec/min

Guiding:

PHD2 guiding with ZWO ASI290mm/Altair Starwave 206/50mm guider. Every 4th sub dithered.

RA RMS error 1.1 arcsec

Dec RMS error 0.82 arcsec

Astrometry:

Resolution: 1.612 arcsec/px

Rotation: -87.819 deg

Observation start time: 2023-02-07 20:41:29 UTC

Observation end time: 2023-02-08 01:09:49 UTC

Focal distance: 481.13 mm

Pixel size: 3.76 um

Field of view: 2d 9' 37.7" x 1d 41' 33.2"

Image centre: RA: 6 32 17.164 Dec: +4 58 40.33

Here is a supernova remnant known as the Veil Nebula. A section called Pickering's Triangle.

"It was discovered photographically in 1904 by Williamina Fleming (after the New General Catalogue was published), but credit went to Edward Charles Pickering, the director of her observatory, as was the custom of the day."

#veilnebula #pickeringstriangle #zwo #asi533mcpro #losmandy #patience #godsbeauty

#astrophotography #astrobackyard #losmandy #losmandygm8 #zwo #asi533mcpro #optolong

Technical Info:

Optics: SGO 6" f/4 Imaging Newtonian @ 610mm FL

Explore Scientific 2" HR Coma Corrector

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro

Filter: 2" Optolong L-Enhance

Mount: Losmandy GM8

Guiding: QHY Mini Guide Scope + PHD2 Software

Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro

Exposure: Light (Gain 200) - 35 subs @ 240 Seconds (2 hours 20 Minutes)

Calibration: 30 Darks, 50 Flats, 50 Dark Flats

​Processing: Deep Sky Stacker, Adobe Photoshop, Topaz Denoise AI, Astronomy Action Set plug in for PS, Astro Flat Pro plug in for PS

Getting to know Nina better.

QHY183C -10c 90 shot 10 min

MeLE Mini PC

Prima Luce Essato Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, Nina

Pixinsight, Ps.

This is the Flaming Star Nebula (IC405) and the Tadpole Nebula (IC410). The Flaming Star Nebula is the coma-shaped nebula on the top, the Tadpole Nebula is the large, circular nebula near the bottom. From Wikipedia, IC405 is an emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Auriga, surrounding the bluish star AE Aurigae. It shines at magnitude +6.0. IC410 is a faint and dusty emission nebula of more than 100 light-years across approximately 12,000 light-years away from Earth in the northern constellation of Auriga. NGC 1893, an open cluster, is embedded inside IC410. High clouds filled the imaging area causing the fuzzy display.

Tech Specs: Williams Optics REDCAT51, ZWO AS2600mc-Pro running at 0C, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro mount, Optolong L-eNhance filter (2”), 24 x 300 second exposures, guided using a ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 Mini, controlled with a ZWO ASIAir Pro, ProAstroGear Black-CAT and ZWO EAF, stacked in DSS and processed using PixInsight. Image date: September 23, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

After my last accidental panorama I thought I should at lest attempt a proper panorama.

This is a two shot vertical panorama of the whole area around the Dragon's as well. I did this as I was able to shoot two whole night in a row one night each panel some 61 shots each 10 min. this was mostly edited in PIxInsight stitched with PTGui that I have used for years to do all the milky way bows put the two photos together straight up. as you can see have been able to over come the filter colour in this shot.

The story goes these Dragons are fighting over the egg below NGC6164

Taken with ZWO CMOS camera 121 Files 10 min files Shot With

ZWO ASI071MC Pro @ -10c

Manual Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher EQM35Goto

Guided PHD2, SGP

DSS, Pixinsight, PTGui Ps, Lr.

This is night two (and that's it for well over a week) this came about by recollimating the mirrors on the mount. In short you have to line up the mirrors by following steps and "eyes" to see just where things are each adjustment is not on one screw but three bottom or main mirror and the secondary or top mirror. It better than the first shot but still could be better.

I have to remove the clips that hold the mirror and put silicone under the mirror to hold it in place gives cleaner stars. This also was stacked with the right flats the first had none as it was more a night to get focus which the Esatto did easily. In the end I let Nina look after the mount to get an idea how the stars as I never got a chance to recollimate the telescope after I put it on the mount.

So how do you like your Dragon Egg flipped

QHY 183C -10c 104 shots 5 min each over one night.

MeLE Mini PC

Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box

Prima Luce Essato Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, Nina

Pixinsight, Ps .

This is a Colour Photo of Gum 15 in contrast to My first effort with filters and borrowed B/W camera, Below. This has always reminded me of an apple and a hand (three finger like an Avatar) stealing the apple.

www.flickr.com/photos/33814724@N03/51841716708/in/datepos...

This Taken from my backyard in the city of Perth an improvement in understanding as some new tools editing has take a big leap for the better. Results like this was alway my main aim when I started.

QHY 183C -10c 38 shots each night 10 min each over Three nights.

MeLE Mini PC

Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box

Prima Luce Essato Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, Nina

Pixinsight, Ps .

This is my target for Astro fest but I had to take it well before hand so that the target shows up on screen as a quality image from the build up of shots. This is a very large part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

You are looking at two night worth of images at 200 Sec while I was after a third night clouds well and truly got in the way. This is two nights or 170 images worth of shots or 16 hours worth of data.

I have pulled all my gear ready to put in my car ready to set up on the site and run contactless from outside the tent on the field a Curtin University. There will be some 50 Telescopes on the field so viewing and some photographic like mine.

ZWO ASI 071 Mc -10c 170 shots 200sec over two nights ..

MeLE Mini PC

Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box

Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, Nina

Pixinsight, Ps

The North America nebula, NGC7000, Altair Astro 26C, Optolong l-eNhance filter, 3*30min subs plus calibrations.

It just so happens that the Dragon's are rising in the milky way at the moment so it made a good target to shoot but I had to wait for the Nebula to get above the shed and fence. This is two nights of 6.5 hours each night and yielded quite a spectacular image. very different to my first because of the filter and the size of the sensor 900mm shot.

Taken with ZWO CMOS camera 77 Files 10 min files Shot With

ZWO ASI071MC Pro @ -10c

ZWO AEF,

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher EQM35Goto

Guided PHD2,

Stacked DSS. Processed PixinSight (stil learning), PS and Lr.

This is the view I was after when the USB plug broke on the camera March last year. This proved to be a marathon getting images as the mount threw up a curveball and at this stage still not sure if I have found the answer to the problem.

This will be my last photo for a very long time as I do a huge panorama of the Milky way of some 40 odd shots. Enjoy it.

QHY 183C -10c 21 shots each night 10 min each over Five night..

MeLE Mini PC

Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box

Prima Luce Essato Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, Nina

Pixinsight, Ps .

A target I did a year ago with my DSLR and ED80 this is almost the other way around ZWO camera and 300mm Prime Nikon lens. the original shot give a good idea just how far in a year thing have improved. The Camera and lens rotated within the lens holder so the wings went from side to side across the whole picture. The next project is a wide field of the same area with 100mm lens.

ZWOASI071MC -6c 104 shots 600 secs, over 3 night camera rotated.

ZWOEAF disconnected ,

Optolong LeNhance filter In filter draw,

Nikon 300MM F4 D Lens,

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned

Guided PHD2, SGP

Pixinsight, Ps & Lr.

I was trying out some new equipment when I thought I would try Carina as it was over head. At one point I had to go inside the smoke was so strong and the Guiding got very bad. Only the Second shot I have done that was almost totally edited in PixInsight never see the amount of nebulocity around the main nebula. the mount stopped as the house next door got in the way enjoy the Southern hemisphere at 900mm. DSLR @ 600mm same scope.

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Taken with ZWO CMOS camera 49 Files 10 min files Shot With

ZWO ASI071MC Pro @ -10c

Manual Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher EQM35Goto

Guided PHD2, SGP

DSS, Pixinsight, Ps, Lr.

This is 12 shots(6x2) as the milky way rises in our Southern Skies as per the plan by Nina, This Is Not Seen North Of The Equator. This is halfway to where I want to get there is another panorama of 12 shots to go to get to the panorama I took last year. Each Panel is a night worth of shots then added to PtGui to get the panorama. There positively no edits on the stars this is the number that the camera can see.

ZWOASI071MC -10 43 shots per night

600 sec rotated 80 degrees.

Nikon 105 mm f2.8 G Lens

Optolong LeNhance filter,

MeLE Mini PC

Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned

Guided PHD2, Nina

Pixinsight, Ps Lr.

Here is a wide field shot of one of the most photographed objects in the night sky, the Horsehead Nebula. The Horsehead Nebula is a diffuse dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The Horsehead Nebula is also referred to as Barnard 33 and is located inside the emission nebula IC 434 (the reddish background), it lies about 1,500 light-years away. The bright star to the left of the Horsehead Nebula is actually the star Alnitak, the leftmost star in the belt of Orion.

Tech Specs: Williams Optics Redcat, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro mount, ZWO ASI2600MC-P camera, Optolong L-eNhance 2" filter, 48 x 300 seconds (4 hours) at -20C with darks from the library and flats taken the next morning, guided using a ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 Mini. Captured using ZWO AAP and processed using PixInsight. Autofocus was accomplished using the ProAstroGear Black-CAT and ZWO EAF. Image date: January 31, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

M42

Another trip into space, this time to Orion that, at present, rises above the horizon late in the evening and is visible higher up in the sky from midnight onwards. The Horsehead Nebula is an iconic dark nebula in the Orion constellation. Along with the nearby Flame Nebula (to the left in the image) they are part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. Compared to some nebulae, this one is very easy to find - it is located near the most eastern star in Orion's Belt, Alnitak and is 1500 light years from Earth.

My first attempt at this target

William Optics GT81

William Optics Flat 6AIII

ZWO ASI2600MC Pro

Optolong L-eNhance

ASI Air Pro

Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro

64 x 180s lights at -10C and gain 100

40 darks, flats and dark flats

Explore 07 November 2020

The often-photographed (certainly by me) area of the North America Nebula, NGC 7000, near the bright star Deneb, which is in the frame at right, in Cygnus. The Pelican Nebula, IC 5067/70 is right of the North America, in the “Atlantic Ocean” so to speak. The nebulosity at bottom is the “Cygnus Arc,” IC 5068. The small patch of blue reflection nebulosity at top is IC 5076. The patches of dark nebulosity above the North America Nebula are B352 and B356.

This is a stack and blend of: four exposures without a filter, each 8 minutes at ISO 800, and four exposures with an Optolong L-Enhance nebula filter to bring out the faintest nebulosity, each 16 minutes at ISO 1600. These are blended in with a Lighten mode. All were with the William Optics RedCat 51mm astrographic refractor at its native f/5 and Canon EOS Ra camera, the factory filter-modified camera capable of recording this type of hydrogen-alpha emitting nebulas. Guided with the ZWO ASIAir and ASI120MM guide camera, on the Astro-Physics Mach1 mount. Taken from home on a perfect summer night on August 15, 2020.