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ASI 294 MC PRO.
72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.
Star Adventurer 2i.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc
L-Extreme 40x300s
Bortle 8.
PixInsight,
Bill Blanshan's Color Palette.
M33 with Vespera Pro
2304x10s= 6.4h of integration time. Telescope: Vespera Pro, no filter.
Processing with PixInsight done
Nouveau traitement V5.
Sky: Class 8 Bortle.
Lights: Total 3H
36x300s Optolong L-Extreme
DOF: 20x
Prétraitement: Siril
Traitement: PixInsight / EZ Processing Suite / PS / DxO PhotoLab
Canon 450D Défiltré
Skywatcher 80ED Equinox (80x500)
Télévue TV85 Field Flatteneur 0.8x
Skywatcher Neq6 Pro
Guide Scope: Zwo 30mm F/4
Guide Cam: Zwo Asi120MM
Guide Soft: Phd2 on Rpi
LDN1235 nebula is a reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus. It is so thick with interstellar dust that it blocks most of the light from the stars behind it.
It is also known as the Shark Nebula, because of its resemblance to a shark, with a distinct nose, dorsal fin and tail fin.
This cropped image of Comet Leonard near M3 was taken (3 Dec) with a Fujifilm X-T3, Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 @ f/5.6, iso 3200, exp 80x60s. Post-processed in PixInsight and Photoshop. Taken between 3:12AM and 4:46AM under very thin broken clouds and some wind.
Of note: Attempts taking 120 second exposures proved useless due to the comet's relative rapid motion. In the coming days, I'll be forced to take ~30s exposures with higher iso.
Picture of the Day
M78
Optics:
Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ED
Camera:
QHYCCD QHY268 M
Filters:
Blue: Antlia
Green: Antlia
Ha: Antlia (3nm)
Luminance: Antlia
Red: Antlia
Mount:
Astro-Physics 900GTO
Integration Time: 102h 45m
NGC 281 a.k.a. Pacman Nebula
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Discovered nearly 130 years ago by E.E. Barnard, an American astronomer, NGC 281 is an emission nebula that spans nearly 100 light-years and is located about 9,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia.
NGC 281 is also known as the Pacman Nebula for its resemblance to the video game character.
Although it is an emission nebula, the Pacman Nebula is bright enough to be seen with a medium-sized telescope, preferably from low-light locations.
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Equipment and settings:
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6R Pro
Telescope: Explore Scientific 102ED
Flattener/reducer: APM Riccardi 0.75x
Camera: ASI 533MM Pro
Filters: SHO Astrodon 5nm
Total integration: 18 hours ( Ha 57 x 5 min, Sii 70 x 5 min, Oiii 88 x 5 min)
Edit in Pixinsight.
Location: my Bortle 6+ backyard
This is my first RGB image after flocking my focuser drawtube. I saw no evidience of corner rings while proceesing. The gradient in the masters looked linear and normal, and was easily removed with ABE. Further processing was nominal.
ZWO ASI6200MM-Pro/EFW 7 x 2" (LRGB)'
Tele Vue NP101is (4" f/5.4), larger field corrector
Losmandy G11
Software:
Captured with NINA
Autoguided with PHD2
Processed with PixInsight
ASI 294 MC PRO.
72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.
Star Adventurer 2i.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 123/ 30 offset/ -10ºc
367x120s
L-Pro
Bortle 8.
PixInsight,
A different view of Carinae
Telescope Service 115/800
TS Flattener/Reducer 0.80
ZWO ASI 1600 MMPRO
ZWO FW 8x1.25
SHO filter Optolong
Frames:
SII: 60 x 300
OIII: 60 x 300
Halpha: 60 x 300
Total: 15 hours
DSS + Pixinsight + PS6
IC1848 emission nebula located in Cassiopeia.
Skywatcher 100ED
Canon 700d
Celestron CGEM DX
14x180s (42 mins) ISO800
Processed in PixInsight
10328px x 6833px
Resolution ............... 0.797 arcsec/px
Rotation ................. 90.001 deg
Observation start time ... 2023-01-21 21:29:28 UTC
Observation end time ..... 2023-01-21 22:31:41 UTC
Focal distance ........... 554.90 mm
Pixel size ............... 2.15 um
Field of view ............ 2d 17' 14.8" x 1d 30' 48.1"
Image center ............. RA: 2 53 17.192 Dec: +60 26 17.38 ex: +0.053614 px ey: -0.001726 px
ASI 294 MC PRO.
72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.
Star Adventurer 2i.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc
L-Extreme 51x300s
Bortle 8.
PixInsight.
Captured by David Wills at PixelSkies, Castillejar, Spain
Lum x 154 300 secs
Red x 116 300 secs
Green x 66 300 secs
Blue x 49 300 secs
32 hrs 5 mins hours in total.
Equipment used:
Telescope: Takahashi Baby Q FSQ-85ED F3.9
Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Pro Mono Cooled to -10C
Image Scale: 2.82
Guiding: OAG
Filters: Astronomik Lum, RGB
Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount
Image Acquisition: Voyager Advanced
Observatory control: Lunatico Dragonfly
Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight
Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC, StarXTerminator, StarNet v2,NoiseXTerminator
NGC6888 / Sh2-105 in HOO
24.8.2025:
APM LZOS 130mm
ZWO ASI2600 MONO DUO
Ha 55x 120sec
OIII 75x 120sec
Integration time of 4h20min, processed with PixInsight.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK-20sU394I
PixInsight Tutorial - Processing in a Flash! - Free Practice Data
Data by others - Processed by me.
SH2-236 with a Rokinon 135
Camera: QSI 583 WSG5
Filter: Astrodon RGBH
Focuser: Robofocus
Focal Length: 135mm
Focal Ratio: f/2.0
Pixel Size: 5.4μm
Image Scale: 8”
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO
Location: Deep Sky West, New Mexico
8h of LRGBH data, integration in PixInsight done:
L: 5 x 300sec
R: 30 x 300sec
G: 19 x 300sec
B: 15 x 300sec
Ha: 27 x 300sec
My mom was offended when she found out that California has it's own nebula, but Colorado (our home state) does not. I guess I'll have to be on the lookout for a perfectly rectangular cloud of gas... but then we might not be able to tell it apart from Wyoming...
Technical Details:
Telescope: Tele Vue NP101 @ f/4.3
Camera: QSI 6120
Mount: Takahashi EM-200 Temma2
Guiding: Off-Axis with QHY 5IIL-M
Filters: Astrodon 3nm Narrowband
12x5min H-Alpha
32x5min OIII
12x5min SII
4.7 hours total integration time over two nights
Sequence Generator Pro
PHD2 Guiding
Processed with PixInsight
Captured in the Central District, Seattle
This is a reprocess of an earlier version.
100 x 5 minutes
100 x 10 seconds
50 darks, 100 flats, 100 bias
Equipment: Canon 450D (self-modded), Orion 8" f/3.9 Newtonian Astrograph, Atlas EQ-G, Orion SSAG+50mm guidescope
Calibration and post-processing in Pixinsight
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• Astronomik L: 55x300s bin1 gain 0
• Astronomik RGB: 26x300s bin2 gain 125
• ZWO Hα 7nm: 12x300s bin1 gain 200
(total integration 7.7h)
• ZWO OAG & ASI290Mini guide cam
• TS GPU coma corrector
• ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF & Pegasus Astro Ultimate Powerbox 2
Trevinca, Valding, Spain
Bortle 3, SQM 21.8
processed with Pixinsight
The data for this image was collected over several nights and combined to increase the signal-to-noise ratio. For the luminance channel, a narrowband H-alpha filter was used. H-alpha corresponds to the emission of ionized hydrogen – the most abundant element in the universe – and allows for capturing fine structural details of nebulae. This technique also effectively suppresses light pollution, including city lights and even moonlight.
The H-alpha data was captured from my backyard under suburban skies, while the RGB color data was collected during a separate session in the High Black Forest (Hochschwarzwald), under much darker conditions. Without this RGB component, the result would be a false-color image lacking natural color tones.
🔧 Technical Details (Astrophotography Setup):
🔭 Telescope: 5-element Flatfield APO, 520 mm – true color, perfect field correction
🔎 Focal Length: 520 mm
🌙 Optics: Integrated corrector and flattener
🎯 Guiding: M-GEN autoguider (precision ±0.01 px)
🔭 Guide Scope: Dedicated scope for tracking the guide star (paired with M-GEN)
️ Mount: HEQ mount (resolution: 9,024,000 microsteps/rev)
Control: SynScan / SkyScan – computerized GOTO and alignment system
Finderscope: Red dot finder for rough target acquisition
🔥 Dew Control: Heating bands on main optics and guide scope
This was taken with a telescope and an astronomical camera. Twelve 90 second shots stacked and processed with the PixInsight software and a little additional tweeking in Photoshop. More shots taken for a longer time would yield much more detail.
Some facts about M51:
1. Discovered by the French astronomer Charles Messier in October of 1773. Hence the 'M' designation. There are 110 objects in the Messier catalogue.
2. Its companion galaxy, NGC 5195, or M51 b as some call it was not discovered until 1781 by another French astronomer, Pierre Méchain.
3. These objects are about 26 million light-years from earth.
4. The diameter of M51 is approximately 76,000 light-years.
5. M51 is visible through binoculars ... but don't expect to see any color. In fact, you won't see any color using a telescope either. These objects are too far away ... too faint ... and the eye is just not able to gather enough photons. It will appear as a faint greenish-yellow object ... faint fuzzies some call them ... in binoculars. With a 100mm or 150mm scope and a good eyepiece some of the spiral structure will become visible.
6. If you want to try to find it in binoculars here's where to look: Find Alkaid, the last star in the handle of the Big Dipper, and then look just below and to the right of it ( actually 3.5° to the southeast of it).
Out last night with my Seestar S50.....dodging the clouds.......Jellyfish Nebula (IC443)......is the remnant of a supernova lying 5,000 light years from Earth.........240 x 10secs exposures........processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop
Part of the Veil supernova complex.
Image Details:
Scope: A-P 130mm EDFS @ f/4.9 (reduced with 27TVPH)
Camera: QSI 6120
Mount: Takahashi EM-200
Guiding: QHY 5LII-M & Mini Guidescope (PHD2)
Image Capture: Sequence Generator Pro
Processing:
PixInsight
AstroPixelProcessor - Palette Blending - HSOO
Location: Central District, Seattle, WA
Ha: 30x10min
OIII: 30x10min
SII: 31x10min
Total integration time = ~ 15 hours
C9XLT + Starizona x0.63 + Player One Poseidon-C + AntliaTriBand
428 x 60" (7h08)
Pixinsight + Affinity Photo 2
Equipment:
Epsilon 130ED dual rig
QHY268m + CFW3M
Touptek IMX571 + ZWO EFW
Astronomik MaxFR
Skywatcher EQ8
September 2022
Processing: PixInsight/affinity photo
This was shot in my backyard using my Sharpstar 61 telescope @ 270Fl with a ZWOasi2600mcpro. This was close to 14 hrs of light frames on 4 different nights using Antlia quad band , Lextreme, and built in camera uvir without filter. Processed in Pixinsight and Affinity .
Comet C/2020 M3 Atlas in emerald green color passes by the main colorful nebula of the Constellation Auriga in this image captured and processed from Grand Mesa Observatory on 12/8/2020 by Terry Hancock and Tom Masterson. This image was captured using QHYCCD’s latest offering the QHY410C Back Illuminated Full Frame one shot color CMOS camera that we have the honor of testing.
The main nebulae in this image are the Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405) the comma shaped red and white/purple nebula to the top and right along with the Tadpole Nebula (NGC 1893) located to the center left. Comet C/2020 M3 Atlas is seen almost ‘touching’ the Tadpole Nebula in this image. Distance-wise Comet C/2020 M3 Atlas was a mere 3.74 light-minutes from Earth when this image was captured while the Flaming Star Nebula is about 1,400 light-years distant and further still is the Tadpole Nebula which is roughly 12,400 light-years away.
Technical Info:
Total Integration time 3.3 hours
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Date of capture: December 9th, 2020
Color RGGB 200 min, 100 x 120 sec
Camera: QHY410C Back Illuminated Full Frame Color CMOS
Gain 0, Offset 76
Read Mode: High Gain Mode
Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre-Processed in Pixinsight
Post Processed in Photoshop
ZWO ASI6200MM-Pro/EFW 2" x 7 (LRGB)
Tele Vue NP101is
Losmandy G11
Captured in NINA (3 hours total integration)
L: 45 x 120s
RGB: 15 x 120s
Processed in PixInsight
This wider field capture of Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF
This wider field capture of Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF passing by Mars from Grand Mesa Observatory on the night of 2/11/2023 shows more of the comet's ion tail streaming away from the nucleus to the left in this image.
This roughly 4.33 x 2.93 degree image (the full Moon is about half a degree in width for reference) captures more of the scene around this interesting and transitory event. The comet nucleus shows up surrounded by a green coma and the two tails stream off to the left, the curved off white/yellowish more fanned out tail is the dust tail that is streaming off the comet relative to it's movement through it's orbit while the ion tail shoots out almost in a straight line from the nucleus which is driven by the intense solar wind coming from our Sun. Mars in this image is about 1.3 degrees away from the comet from our perspective here on Earth at the time of this capture. Also to note is the dark nebula Barnard 22 and reflection nebula IC 2087 above Mars in this image, to be sure this nebula is not located in our solar system but is much farther away at about 430 light-years distant.
This data and setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 2c grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment-rentals
Captured on 11th February for a total acquisition time of 66 minutes
View in High Resolution
Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/v0cyk7/
Technical Info:
Captured and Processed by Tom Masterson, Terry Hancock and Kim Quick at Grand Mesa Observatory
Capture date 2/11/2023
Location: Grand Mesa Observatory grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment-rentals
Grand Mesa Observatory System 2c
Camera: QHY 128 Pro C One Shot Color
Optics: Borg 107ED
Image Acquisition software N.I.N.A
Pre Processing in PixInsight Post Processing in Photoshop CC
Messier 101 ,a very large Galaxy located in Ursa Major
It has a diameter of 170 million light years in comparison to our milky way 's diameter of 100 million LYs
It is distance of 21 million light years from earth.
80x300L
40x300 RGB
QSI 583 Astronomik LRGB
SG pro
Stellarvue SVX102T-R with flattener
Losmandy G11T
Lodestar x2
PixInsight
Hello folks here M45
Telescope: SharpStar 150 f2,8
Guide Scope:Evoguide
Mount : Skywatcher HEQ5
Imaging camera: ZWO 2600MC
Guiding camera: ZWO 290 MC
Filters: Lpro
Plate solving: SGpro
Imaging software: Sgpro
Guiding software: PHD2
Processing software: Pixinsight
Lpro180X60s exposure@100Gain
Integration: 3 hrs
Henize 70 Superbubble in SHO
nova.astrometry.net/user_images/13024992#annotated
6h of HSO data from Telescope Live. Processed with PixInsight.
Comet A3 is fading fast but still was visible in binoculars while overlooking Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Tech specs: RAW sub 9x30s, iso 800, f/5.6, FL 180mm, Fujifilm X-T5, PixInsight, Astrotrac 320X-AG. Fixed star with no comet drift in 4.5 minutes of integrated time. Bortle 5.5, transparency 8 of 10, clear moonless skies. Faint anti-tail still visible.
Datos técnicos:
Telescopio: Takahashi FSQ106EDX (f/5)
Montura: Takahashi EM-400 Temma2
Cámara: Atik 16200 (KAF-16200)
Guiado: Lunático EZG-60 + SXLodestar
Filtros: Astrodon Gen2 LRGB I-Series 50,8mm
Enfocador: RoboFocus Rev3.1
Fecha: Julio del 2021
Lugar: Guadalajara, España
Programas de captura: MaxIm DL + AstroMatic
Procesado: PixInsight Core + Photoshop CC 2019
Exposición: L: 15x600s bin1, RGB: 12x300s bin2.
Total: 5h 30m
The Double Cluster lies over 8000 light years from Earth in the constellation Perseus. To get this image I took 48 - 5 min frames along with darks, flats and bias. and integrated them and processed the integrated image in PixInsight.
Taken with an 8" Astrograph on a Celestron AVX mount.
Guiding equip used was a 50mm guide scope, ZWO ASI120MC guide camera. Phd2 guiding software.
Total RMS was 0.42 - 0.56
NGC1747 SHO
Planewave 17” CDK
Camera: FLI ML16803
Filter: Chroma Ha,OIII,SII
Focuser: IRF90
Focal Length: 2939mm
Focal Ratio: f/6.8
Mount: 10 Micron GM3000
Location: Deep Sky West, Chile
31h of data, SHO combination in PixInsight done:
Ha: 20 x 1800sec
OIII: 24 x 1800sec
SII: 18 x 1800sec
Version LHaRVB.
100x180s (5h) - Filtre Idas LPS D1 - gain 120, -10°C - ciel Bortle 4.
80x300s (6h40) - Filtre Optolong L-Extreme - gain 120, -10°C - ciel Bortle 7.
Lunette TS triplet 80x480.
Réducteur TS x0.79.
Monture HEQ5 pro goto modifiée.
Caméra ZWO ASI294mc pro.
Guidage chercheur SW 9x50 + ASI120mm mini.
Asiair pro.
Pixinsight, PS.
Image capture by Carlos Araya, Chile, and processed by Martin Campbell using Pixinsight and Photoshop CC 2023. Image stack of 1.5 hours using a Canon 6D and a Nikon Nikkor 85mm F/1.4 lens at F/4 on a SW Star Adventurer.
IC5146
Vespera Pro: 1548x10sec CLS and 693x10sec no filter = 6h13min of integration time. Processed with PixInsight.
Tech Specs: Nikon d7100, Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 @ f/4, iso 3200, 17x60s. Processed in PixInsight, Lightroom, and Photoshop, guided with Astrotrac Mount. This is an uncropped image measuring 10.5hx17.5w degrees.
NGC6992
Optics
Skywatcher Esprit 100 f/5 Refractor
Camera
QHY 268M
Mount
Skywatcher EQ6R-Pro
Observatory
Private - Hertford, North Carolina, USA
36.186, -76.47
Blue: 20x60 sec
Green: 20x60 sec
Ha: 81x300 sec
Oiii: 64x300 sec
Red: 20x60 sec
Canon 400 f2.8 III + Tc 1.4x (Focale 560mm)
Camera Zwo ASI 2600 MC
AP1100GTOAE
90 pauses de 300s (7h30 total)
Pixinsight / LightRoom
The Andromeda Galaxy (IPA: /ænˈdrɒmɪdə/), also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula (see below), is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years (770 kiloparsecs) from Earth and the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way.[4] The galaxy's name stems from the area of Earth's sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda, which itself is named after the Ethiopian (or Phoenician) princess who was the wife of Perseus in Greek mythology. (source Wikipedia)
Messier 78 is a reflection nebula located in the constellation of Orion. M78 is the brightest diffuse reflection nebula in the sky and lies at an approximate distance of 1,600 light years. This is by far the most difficult object I have attempted to process. Imaged over 2 nights, the 29th and 30th of January. On both nights conditions were below average conditions and I had to stretch the data quite a bit to bring out the detail.
NEQ6 PRO
TSAPO130Q @F/5
QHY183M cooled CMOS camera
Baader 7nm Ha and LRGB filter set
Guided using Lodestar x2 mono ccd
Total integration time 5hrs 24mins.
Processed using Pixinsight and Photoshop.