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M81 and M82 are a pair of galaxies located in the constellation Ursa Major.

 

Shot using a Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED APO refractor, with 0.85x Focal Reducer/Flattener at f6.37, SynScan EQ5 go-to mount, a Nikon D300 modified, a ZWO ASI120MM mono camera with the Orion Mini 50mm guide scope.

 

Pre-processed in APP, post-processed in Pixinsight with final touches done in Lightroom.

Total integration: 175 minutes

Zwo Asi183mm-p & Lacerta 72/432 F6

Total of 22hours and 46 min integration time.

Astronomik Deep-Sky LRGB filters.

Galaxy Season is starting again... time for a first look on the beautiful Whirlpool Galaxy :-)

60 x 300s

ASI 2600 MC Pro

Skywatcher 150/750 PDS

 

Equipment:

 

Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto

Guiding: OAG

Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini

Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera

 

Accessories:

 

ZWO ASIAIR Pro

ZWO EFW 8x1.25"

ZWO EAF

ZWO OAG

ZWO 1.25 Helical focuser

Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm

 

Programs:

 

PixInsight

Adobe Photoshop CC 2020

 

Details:

 

Camera temp: -15°C

Gain: 111

Astronomik 6nm Ha: 56x300s

Astronomik 6nm Oiii: 42x300s

 

Bortle Scale: 4

Location: Isaszeg, Hungary

Zwo Asi183mmp with Lacerta 72/432 F6 apo

Total of 32 hours of integration in LRGB, two panel mosaic.

A couple of the objects in the M81 group, including M81, M82, NGC3077, and NGC2976.

 

So I'm learning the rhythm of deep sky object observation...what's up this month, when is the sky dark, and when are the winds calm. It's a little different than for nightscapes, but not hugely. It's a little easier to select a location, but harder to find the right night. I knew I was looking for M81 and M82, but I did not think I'd have enough to capture much else, so the NGC's are a nice bonus. I also managed to capture a bit of the unique features of M82 and NGC 2976.

 

This is actually the second round of processing. I felt the first round had too much stretching and lost some color detail in the DSOs. The second round, I used some luminosity masks to have greater control over the stretching.

 

I wonder: how many individuals from these galaxies will look our way millions of years from now when today's photons reach them and wonder how many eyes were looking their way across the void.

 

Peace and cheers!

 

CATEGORY: STACKED / TRACKED

 

EXIF: 120 light images. 10s, ISO 12800. 15 dark images. William Optics ZenithStar 61II Doublet Refracting scope (360 mm). Canon EOS Ra.

Zwo Asi183mm-p & Lacerta 72/432 F6

  

Hantelnebel

22 x 600s

Sony a6000a - Skywatcher 150/750 PDS

IDAS LPS D2

Here is the final version of these two galaxies, any feedback are welcome!

 

Equipment:

 

Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto

Guiding: OAG

Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini

Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera

 

Accessories:

 

ZWO ASIAIR Pro

ZWO EFW 8x1.25"

ZWO EAF

ZWO OAG

ZWO 1.25 Helical focuser

Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm

 

Programs:

 

PixInsight

Adobe Photoshop CC 2020

 

Details:

 

Camera temp: -15°C

Gain: 53, 111

Astronomik 6nm Ha: 155x300s

Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 132x180s

Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 20x180s

Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 20x180s

Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 20x180s

 

Bortle Scale: 4

Location: Isaszeg, Hungary

Acquisition date(s):

2021.02.28., 2021.03.02., 2021.03.06., 2021.03.07., 2021.03.08.,

I clearly need more data for this one, but this is part of my learning curve for shooting through the Celestron Edge HD 925 with the Nikon D5100. I used a light pollution filter and was shooting at ISO 1600. This is a stack of 30 exposures that were around 55 s in length at a focal length of 2200 mm. I reduced the size of the final image substantially because it was so noisy.

 

Preprocessing, registration, stacking, and initial processing were done in PixInsight; final touches in Photoshop.

The Andromeda Galaxy shot in 3 sessions under Bortle 3 and 4 skies.

Total exposure time: 270 minutes.

 

Equipment:

- Skywatcher Black Diamond ED80 refractor with an .85x Reducer/Flattener

- Skywatcher EQ5 PRO SynScan GoTo mount

- Modified Nikon D300

- Orion Starshoot autoguider and Orion Mini 50mm guide scope

- PHD2 guiding with ASCOM drivers

 

Acquisition details:

- 135 light frames at ISO800 x 120 sec

- 87 dark frames

- 90 flat frames

- 90 bias frames

 

Processing Software:

AstroPixel Processor, PixInsight, Adobe Photoshop with Astronomy Tools Action set, Adobe Lightroom.

New Version of Bode´s and Cigar Galaxy.

Combined Lights of 3 Nights

146 x 90s

52 x 120s

plus Darks, Flats, Bias

Sony a6000a

Skywatcher 150/750 PDS

Equipment:

 

Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto

Guiding: OAG

Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini

Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera

 

Accessories:

 

ZWO ASIAIR Pro

ZWO EFW 8x1.25"

ZWO EAF

ZWO OAG

ZWO 1.25 Helical focuser

Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm

 

Programs:

 

PixInsight

Adobe Photoshop CC 2020

 

Details:

 

Camera temp: -15°C

Gain: 53, 111

Astronomik 6nm Ha: 155x300s

Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 132x180s

Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 20x180s

Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 20x180s

Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 20x180s

 

Bortle Scale: 4

Location: Isaszeg, Hungary

Acquisition date(s):

2021.02.28., 2021.03.02., 2021.03.06., 2021.03.07., 2021.03.08.

I think I'm done with it, with this small scope. The Moon is out again, so I decided to add some Ha too it.

Any comments are welcome!

 

Equipment:

 

Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto

Guiding: OAG

Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini

Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera

 

Accessories:

 

ZWO ASIAIR Pro

ZWO EFW 8x1.25"

ZWO EAF

ZWO OAG

ZWO 1.25 Helical focuser

Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm

 

Programs:

 

PixInsight

Adobe Photoshop CC 2020

 

Details:

 

Camera temp: -15°C

Gain: 53, 111

Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 199x180s

Astronomik 6nm Ha: 67x300s

Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 20x180s

Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 20x180s

Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 19x180s

Bortle Scale: 4

Location: Isaszeg, Hungary

Acquisition date(s):

2021.03.10., 2021.03.11., 2021.03.15., 2021.03.16., 2021.03.17., 2021.03.24., 2021.03.26.

Taken from Coral Towers Observatory using an SBIG STL-11K camera and Takahashi BRC 250 telescope on a Software Bisque PME Mount.

L=Ha/IR R=IR>850 nm G=IR 800-900 nm B=IR 700-800 nm.

One hour each filter.

a6000a - Skywatcher 150/750 PDS

50 x 90s

M100 is the 100th entry in Charles Messier’s catalog of 110 “non comet” objects which the French astronomer published in 1781. Of course, he did not know at the time that M100 is a “grand design” spiral galaxy, which contains prominent and well-defined spiral arms, as opposed to multi-arm and flocculent spirals which have subtler structural features.

 

The spiral arms of a grand design galaxy extend clearly around the galaxy, covering a significant portion of the galaxy's circumference. As of 2002, approximately 10 percent of all currently known spiral galaxies are classified as grand design type spirals (Wikipedia).

 

M100 is one of the brightest and largest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster and is approximately 55 million light-years from our galaxy, about 166,000 light-years in diameter, about 1 ½ times larger than our Milky Way galaxy.

 

Capture info:

Location: SkyPi Remote Observatory, Pie Town NM US

Telescope: Officina Stellare RiDK 400

Camera: QHY 600M

Mount: Paramount MEII

Data: LRGB 10, 9, 7.5, 8.5 hours approximately.

Processing: Pixinsight

 

A mosaic of two LRGB images of spiral galaxies M98 (NGC 4192) on the right and M99 (NGC 4254) on the left. Data taken over the nights of 2023-04-19 and 2023-04-20. Celestron Edge HD 925 at focal length 535 mm with Hyperstar; Atik 414-EX mono camera with Optolong CCD filters. Preprocessing in Nebulosity; stacking, registration, mosaic composition, and initial processing in PixInsight; final touches in GIMP.

 

Taken from my Bortle 8/9 backyard in Long Beach, CA

Lacerta 200/800 F4 Carbon Newton, Zwo Asi183mm Pro

Equipment:

 

Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto

Guiding: OAG

Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini

Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera

 

Accessories:

 

ZWO ASIAIR Pro

ZWO EFW 8x1.25"

ZWO EAF

ZWO OAG

ZWO 1.25 Helical focuser

Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm

 

Programs:

 

PixInsight

Adobe Photoshop CC 2020

 

Details:

 

Camera temp: -15°C

Gain: 111

Astronomik 6nm Ha: 56x300s

Astronomik 6nm Oiii: 42x300s

 

Bortle Scale: 4

Location: Isaszeg, Hungary

Samyang 135 F2 @ F2.8, Zwo Asi183mm Pro

Equipment:

 

Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto

Guiding: OAG

Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini

Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera

 

Accessories:

 

ZWO ASIAIR Pro

ZWO EFW 8x1.25"

ZWO EAF

ZWO OAG

ZWO 1.25 Helical focuser

Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm

 

Programs:

 

PixInsight

Adobe Photoshop CC 2020

 

Details:

 

Camera temp: -15°C

Gain: 53, 111

Astronomik 6nm Ha: 121x300s

Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 146x180s

Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 20x180s

Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 20x180s

Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 19x180s

 

Bortle Scale: 4

Location: Isaszeg, Hungary

Acquisition date(s):

2021.03.02., 2021.03.08., 2021.03.13., 2021.03.19., 2021.03.20., 2021.03.23.

Seriously - it's just 4 stars.

 

I tried to process this to bring out some background galaxies, but I only managed to catch three of them with these settings. And they're all super distant/tiny.

 

Yep - M73 - do not recommend

Total of 50 hours integration time in LRGB.

Taken with an SBIG STL-11000 camera and BRC 250 telescope on a Software Bisque PME Mount.

My biggest project so far. It is needs more of exposure time with various filters, but I think it is done for this year.

 

Camera: Zwo Asi183mm Pro

Imaging Lens: Samyang 135mm F2 (most of the time I stopped down it to F2.8, but once I somehow stopped it to near F5.6, this the reason for the 'spikes' for the biggest stars unfortunately.)

Filters: Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB, Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block, Astronomik 6nm SHO

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Belt-modded

Guiding: Orion 50mm Mini guidescope, Zwo Asi120mm mini kamera, N.I.N.A

 

Images:

 

Astronomik L-3 UV/IR: 1057x120s

Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 128x120s Gain 111 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 161x120s Gain 111 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 146x120s Gain 111-15°C

 

Bortle 4, Isaszeg, Hungary

Equipment:

 

Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto

Guiding: OAG

Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini

Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera

 

Accessories:

 

ZWO ASIAIR Pro

ZWO EFW 8x1.25"

ZWO EAF

ZWO OAG

ZWO 1.25 Helical focuser

Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm

 

Programs:

 

PixInsight

Adobe Photoshop CC 2020

 

Details:

 

Camera temp: -15°C

Gain: 53

Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 146x180s

 

Bortle Scale: 4

Location: Isaszeg, Hungary

Acquisition date(s):

2021.03.08., 2021.03.19.

Camera: Zwo Asi183mm Pro

Telescope: Lacerta 200/800 F4

Corrector: Gyulai Pál GPU

Filters: Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB, Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block, Astronomik 6nm SHO

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Belt-modded

Guiding: Orion 50mm Mini guidescope, Zwo Asi120mm mini kamera, N.I.N.A

 

Images:

 

Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 264x120s Gain53 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 100x120s Gain53 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 104x120s Gain53 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 109x120s Gain53 -15°C

 

Isaszeg, Bortle 4

M74 (The Phantom Galaxy) was one of the first targets of JWST. This image is from my backyard in Long Beach, CA using a Celestron Edge HD 925 at focal length 535 mm with Hyperstar. I used Optolong LRGB filters with an Atik 414-EX camera to get the following stacks:

 

L channel: 178 25 s exposures

R channel: 65 75 s exposures

G channel: 59 75 s exposures

B channel: 60 75 s exposures

 

Preprocessing in Nebulosity with dark, bias, and flat frames. Registration, stacking, channel combination, and initial processing in PixInsight. Photoshop and Topaz Labs for final processing and noise removal.

M109 (NGC 3992) is a barred spiral galaxy that appears near the star Phecda - a star in the bowl of the Big Dipper. Recent measurements with the Tully-Fisher relation put it at a distance of 25 Mpc, or 82 million light years away. There are several other more distant galaxies in the same field shown here.

 

This image was built from the following stacks:

R channel - 84 1 min exposures

G channel - 68 1 min exposures

B channel - 66 1 min exposures

 

All images were taken with an Atik 414-EX monochrome camera with Optolong CCD filters from my backyard in Long Beach, CA on the night of 2023-02-15. The scope was a Celestron Edge HD 925 with Hyperstar, giving an image scale of 2.48"/pixel. Images were preprocessed in Nebulosity, then stacks were created and combined in PixInsight. After additional processing in PixInsight, final touches were made using Photoshop.

  

90 x 90 second exposures -135 minutes.

Gain 100, Offset 50 @ -5c

Guiding with PHD2/Primaluce 240 F/4 guider.

 

RA RMS error 0.62 arcsec

Dec RMS error 0.51 arcsec

 

Polar alignment error 0.3 arc minute (PoleMaster).

Resolution 0.987 arcsec/pixel

 

50 x darks

Flats not usable - see below.

 

Im now using a ZWO ASI2600MC Pro as my main OSC camera and SharpCap 4.0 as my acquisition software.

 

Still on the learning curve. After a few goes, I was able to use plate solving in SharpCap 4/ASTAP to GOTO M33 without star aligning the EQ6 mount (3-4 seconds at gain 700).

 

Optimal exposures are still a bit of a guessing game: 2 minutes (Gain 100, Offset 50 at -5c) seems to equate to 10 minutes on my uncooled modified Canon 80D so I tried 90 seconds here which seemed to work well.

 

I had less luck with my EL panel flats - I took 50 x flats at 3000ms/2200ms/1800ms and 1725ms but all were too bright and caused negative vignetting! - will try a range of lower values next time. the recommended values from the Smart Histogram tool seem way off to me.

 

Havent got my Moonlite electronic focuser fully setup to use the automated multi-star FWHM tool either. Will need to bench test that.

 

Also differential flexure somewhere in the system - stars were oval but guiding good. My guidescope rings only just grip the scope and I think they got loose as the night progressed, the scope got more vertical and temperature dropped.

I ran PixInsight’s FWHM eccentricity tool which told me there was no significant sensor tilt. Have replaced the guide rings with some spares

 

Apart from that, not too bad!!!

An open cluster of young stars forming in a zone of hydrogen - either as cold dense dark clouds or less dense bright areas of gas emitting strongly in the hydrogen alpha wavelength.

 

Eventually, the light pressure of ultraviolet radiation from the young stars will push the clouds of gas away leaving just an open cluster like the Pleiades.

 

Infrared analysis of the iconic Eagle dark nebula shows more young stars forming within.

 

16 x 10 minute Hydrogen alpha sub-exposures on itelescope T21, a 1939mm focal length, f/4.5 corrected Dall-Kirkham scope.

 

Astrometry

Center (RA, hms): 18h 19m 12.203s

Center (Dec, dms): -13° 48' 03.394"

Size: 31.2 x 26.3 arcmin

Radius: 0.340 deg

Pixel scale: 0.956 arcsec/pixel

Orientation:Up is 0.886 degrees E of N

 

I have used the program "Straton" to remove the stars then added a gradient map in Photoshop for colour.

Overall, I'am happy of the weather for let me finish this project for this year.. But, it is have too much gradient.. I will work on it lately.

 

Equipment:

 

Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto

Guide scope: Orion 50mm mini

Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini

Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera

 

Accessories:

 

ZWO ASIAIR Pro

ZWO EFW 8x1.25"

Lacerta Dew-heater 20cm

Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm

 

Programs:

 

PixInsight

Adobe Photoshop CC 2020

 

Details:

 

Camera temp: -15°C

Gain: 53

Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 30x180s

Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 21x180s

Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 29x180s

Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 30x180s

Dark: 60x

The Great Orion Nebula, number 42 in the Messier catalogue - this is centred on nearby M43, deQuervain's nebula - the bright pink circle.

Four young, massive and intensely luminous O class stars (in the bright white zone) pump out enough UV and soft X-ray light to illuminate this whole region of space and make hydrogen clouds fluoresce pink at 656.4nm.

Those stars will burn rapidly through their hydrogen fuel and then probably go supernova in just a few million years - burn bright and die young!

Cold gas forms dark clouds, folds and shadows. New stars will form where the cold gas collapses under gravity.

 

15 x 6 minute exposures on a 150mm refractor in New Mexico.

Description: This image of the Pleiades Star Cluster M45 was developed by me from 120x300s subs or 10.0 hours of total exposure time.

 

Date / Location: 9-11, 13, 14, 16-19 December 2022 / Washington D.C.

 

Equipment:

Scope: WO Zenith Star 81mm f/6.9 with WO 6AIII flattener/focal reducer x0.8

Cooled camera: ZWO ASI 2600MC Pro at 100 Gain and 50 Offset

Mount: iOptron GEM28-EC mount

Guider: ZWO Off-Axis Guider

Guide camera: ZWO ASI 174MM mini

Focuser: ZWO EAF

Light pollution filter: Chroma LoGlow Broadband Light Pollution Reduction Filter - 2"

 

Software: Pixinsight

 

Processing Steps:

Preprocessing: I preprocessed 120x300s subs (= 10.0 hours) in Pixinsight to get an integrated image using the following process steps: Image Calibration > Cosmetic Correction > Subframe Selector > Debayer > Select Reference Star and Star Align > Image Integration.

Linear Postprocessing: Rotation > Dynamic Crop > Dynamic Background Extractor (both subtraction to remove light pollution gradients and division for flat field corrections) > Background Neutralization > Color Calibration > Noise Xterminator.

Nonlinear Postprocessing and additional steps: Histogram Transformation > Local Histogram Equalization > Curves Transformation > SCNR Noise Reduction. Multiple passes of Histogram Transformation, Local Histogram Equalization and Curves Transformations were made in small doses.

Camera: Zwo Asi183mm Pro

Telescope: Lacerta 200/800 F4

Corrector: Gyulai Pál GPU

Filters: Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB, Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block, Astronomik 6nm SHO

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Belt-modded

Guiding: Orion 50mm Mini guidescope, Zwo Asi120mm mini kamera, N.I.N.A

 

Images:

 

Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 264x120s Gain53 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 100x120s Gain53 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 104x120s Gain53 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 109x120s Gain53 -15°C

 

Isaszeg, Bortle 4

Taken with the C14 and SBIG STXL-6303 from Cerritos College Observatory with LHaGB filters on 2024-07-14.

 

L: 20 30 s exposures

Ha: 19 180 s exposures

G: 20 60 s exposures

B: 21 60 s exposures

 

Frames captured with Maxim DL; calibration in AIP4Win; registration, stacking, channel combination and initial processing in PixInsight; final touches in GIMP

 

This is a Bortle 9 site, so it is especially difficult getting the reflection nebula at the top. Narrowband filters are your friends in these conditions.

  

Equipment:

 

Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto

Guiding: OAG

Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini

Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera

 

Accessories:

 

ZWO ASIAIR Pro

ZWO EFW 8x1.25"

ZWO EAF

ZWO OAG

ZWO 1.25 Helical focuser

Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm

 

Programs:

 

PixInsight

Adobe Photoshop CC 2020

 

Details:

 

Camera temp: -15°C

Gain: 53, 111

Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 114x180s

Astronomik 6nm Ha: 26x300s

Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 20x180s

Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 20x180s

Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 19x180s

Bortle Scale: 4

Location: Isaszeg, Hungary

Acquisition date(s):

2021.03.16., 2021.03.19., 2021.03.22., 2021.03.25., 2021.03.31., 2021.04.02.

This is an uncropped field of view of Markarian's Chain of Galaxies in Virgo. Imaged robotically using the GMO System 1 scope in Colorado.

 

The constellation of Virgo looks out towards a large cluster of galaxies. PixInsight has annotated all the Messier catalogue and NGC/IC catalogue galaxies in field in this image but there are a further 636 small galaxies in the background in the PGC catalogue which would just overwhelm the image so I omitted them.

 

There are 3 Messier objects in field, the elliptical galaxies M84, M86 and M87.

 

There are 52 NGC/IC catalogue objects.

 

The smallest PGC galaxies appear as non-stellar smudges, smears and lines.

 

Image processed in PixInsight.

 

Astrometry:

Resolution ............... 2.395 arcsec/px

Focal distance ........... 323.82 mm

Pixel size ............... 3.76 um

Field of view ............ 3d 11' 7.4" x 2d 7' 29.7"

Image center ............. RA: 12 27 38.660 Dec: +13 04 29.85

 

System 1 Scope:

Camera: QHY600M 16-Bit CMOS, Binned x2

Optics: Takahashi FSQ130

Aperture: 130mm

Focal Length: 650mm

Focal Ratio: F5

Guiding: Stellarvue 50mm

Equipment:

 

Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto

Guiding: OAG

Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini

Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera

 

Accessories:

 

ZWO ASIAIR Pro

ZWO EFW 8x1.25"

ZWO EAF

ZWO OAG

ZWO 1.25 Helical focuser

Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm

 

Programs:

 

PixInsight

Adobe Photoshop CC 2020

 

Details:

 

Camera temp: -15°C

Gain: 111

Astronomik 6nm Ha: 56x300s

Astronomik 6nm Oiii: 42x300s

Astronomik 6nm Sii: 25x300s

 

Bortle Scale: 4

Location: Isaszeg, Hungary

Camera: Zwo Asi183mm Pro

Scope: Lacerta 200/800 Carbon F4

Flattener: Gyulai Pál GPU

Filters: Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB, Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block, Astronomik 6nm SHO

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Belt-modded

Guiding: Orion 50mm Mini guidescope, Zwo Asi120mm mini kamera, N.I.N.A

 

Images:

 

Astronomik 6nm Ha: 58x180s Gain111 -15°C

Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 372x120s Gain53 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 95x120s Gain53 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 72x120s Gain53 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 150x120s Gain53 -15°C

 

Programs used: PHD2, N.I.N.A, PixInsight

Hungary, Isaszeg, Bortle 4

Zwo Asi183mm-p & Lacerta 72/432 F6

Added Ha for it.

Messier 88 is a classic spiral galaxy. It measures 6.9 x 3.7 arcminutes. A supernova was detected there in 1999.

 

26 x 10 minute subs. Modified Canon 80D at ISO400 on an Equinox 120ED doublet refractor.

 

See previous wide field for more details.

Took the new 12-inch Meade LX200 out for a nice drive in the cosmos over the last few nights and put it through its paces.

 

The mount is still in need of some work but this scope is amazing!

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