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B33 / Horsehead Nebula

 

HSO data from Telescope Live. Processed with PixInsight.

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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.

 

ASI 294 MC PRO.

72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.

Star Adventurer.

Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.

Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc

L-Extreme 30x300s

Bortle 8.

PixInsight, Topaz Denoise AI.

Askar FRA300, Player One Poseidon-C, Anti halo IR/UV Cut

252 x 60" (4h12'), Ha/OIII

67 x 300" (5h35')

Pixinsight, Affinity Photo 2

Clouds were problematic but I managed to get 30 subs exp 10s at iso 500, F/4 with my 180mm telephoto lens. Transparency was a 2 of 10. Stacked and post process in PixInsight.

 

The green nucleus is a new feature and the comet is around 4.5 magnitude. The anti-tail is barely visible at the lower right in this 7.5x5.0 degree field of view image.

 

Picture of the day

1st of Jan. 2025: First light for my new Vespera Pro. Just a short test, due to poor weather conditions. Just 30min of data, integration done in PixInsight. CLS Filter used. Moon: First quarter 5%

Lunette TS 60/330 + réducteur X0.8

Player One Poseidon-C + filtre Ha/OIII + Filtre Altair SII/OIII

2 X 60 x 180" (6h), Pixinsignt, Affinity Photo 2

Astro-Physics 130 GTX + QUADTCC @ F/4.5

Moravian G3 11002 + Astrodon RGB

Astro Physics 1200

TMB LZOS 152 + Riccardi Reducer @ F/6

Atik 460EX + Astrodon Ha 5nm

Parallax Instruments HD200c

 

RGB: 25x300s bin 1x1

Ha: 60x300s bin 1x1

L: 16x300s bin 1x1

 

Total exposure: 12h

  

Captured with Sequence Generator Pro

Processed with Pixinsight

 

Image Details:

6x900s, 7x1800 Ha (5hrs)

10x1800 OII (5hrs)

8x1800s SII (4hrs)

Darks, flats and bias, all binned 1x1.

Total exposure of 14 hours.

Optic - SW Evostar ED80 DS-PRO with SW 0.85 reducer.

Mount - HEQ5 PRO Synscan with Rowan Belt Drive mod.

Sensor - Atik 383l+ Mono CCD + Baader 36mm 7nm Ha, 8.5nm OII and 8nm SII filters.

Guiding - ZWO ASI120MM + Orion 162mm/F3.2 guidescope with PHD2.

Sequence Generator Pro and PixInsight.

 

Thanks for looking.

ASI 294 MC PRO.

72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.

Star Adventurer.

Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.

Ganancia 200/ Offset 30 -10ºc

42x300s

L-Extreme

Bortle 8.

PixInsight, Topaz Denoise AI.

Astro-Physics Riccardi-Honders 305mm @ F/3.65

Moravian C3 61000 + Chroma L

Astro Physics 1200

Astro-Physics 130 GTX + QUADTCC @ F/4.5

Moravian G3 11002 + Astrodon RGB

Astro Physics 1200

 

L: 102x300s bin 1x1

RGB: 25x300s bin 1x1

 

Total exposure: 15h

  

Captured with Sequence Generator Pro

Processed with Pixinsight

Originally captured 25th March 2014.

 

My final reprocess with this data using techniques learned in Pixinsight. Unusual for me to say this but I am quite pleased with this. Especially considering the limited data capture time.

 

First proper use of my Atik 490 CCD. Telescope was Skywatcher 250pds. Baader LRGB Filters. Guiding was QHY5 II mounted on finder scope.

 

Software was Artemis capture and Processed in Pixinsight.

Exposures were all Binned 2x2 200secs x5 except Luminance which was 1x1 300 secs x5.

 

Lunt 60 + Player One Neptune M

AS4, RS6, Pixinsight

First attempt with starless layers to bring more details, depth and structure in the nebulas

  

Canon EOS 6Da | Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L

Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro | Lacerta M-GEN | Finderscope 9x50

25x 300sec | ISO800

Flats, Bias, no filters used

 

My Astrobin My 500px My Facebook

 

© Claus Steindl

NGC281 grayscale

Locations: Deep Sky West, Rowe, New Mexico, United States

PlaneWave17" CDK Telescope:

NGC 281, IC 11, Sh2-184 or Pacman Nebula in grayscale: SHO combination in PixInsight done

S: 5x1200sec

H: 6x1200sec

O: 5x1200sec

Camera: FLI ML16803

Filter: Astrodon SHO

Focal Length: 2939mm

Focal Ratio: f/6.7

Pixels: 9μm

Mount: Paramount Taurus 400

 

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Astro-Physics 130 GTX + QUADTCC @ F/4.5

Moravian G3 11002 + Chroma Ha 8nm

Astro Physics 1200

 

21 Panels:

 

Ha: 5x1800s bin 1x1

 

Total exposure: 53h

  

Captured with Sequence Generator Pro

Processed with Pixinsight

NGC6334

 

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106EDX III

Camera: Moravian Instruments G4-16000 MK I

Filters:

Blue: Astrodon (Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance)

Green: Astrodon (Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance)

Ha: Astrodon (5nm)

OIII: Astrodon (5nm)

Red: Astrodon (Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance)

SII: Astrodon (5nm)

Mount: Planewave L-500

 

Integration Time13h 20m

 

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NGC 281 ... commonly known as the Pacman Nebula because of its vague resemblance to the famous video game character ... is an emission nebula found in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia. Discovered in 1883 by Edward Emerson Barnard, it is approximately 9000 light years from earth.

 

This is the result of 900 ten second images taken with the Seestar telescope ... stacked and processed in PixInsight, Nik Collection plugin for Photoshop, and Topaz software.

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 .

  

L : 16x1800s Ha + 14x1800s SII + 16x1800s OIII (at6rc + trf-2008, drizzled 2x)

 

R: 14x1800s SII (at6rc + trf-2008) [tmb92ss data fhwm was too high to include]

G: 16x1800s Ha (at6rc + trf-2008) + 10x1200s Ha (tmb92ss + trf-2008, drizzled 2x)

B: 16x1800s OIII (at6rc + trf-2008) + 16x1200s OIII (tmb92ss + trf-2008, drizzled 2x)

 

Camera: SBIG STT-8300M with astrodon 5nm filters

 

Mount: Mach1 GTO

 

Aquisition Software: Sequence Generator Pro + Equinox Image

 

Processing Software: Pixinsight 1.8.4.1195

 

Hi guys,rho ophiuchi region.

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

Lpro: 30x600s exposure @ 100 Gain

Integration: 5hrs

It took me three short summer nights to capture this image with the Moon at 96% Ha (5:50), 99% OIII (5:20), and 100% RGB (3x1:20), for 15h10 in total.

The small planetary nebula is PN A66 69, located on the left in the upper half of the image.

 

Askar FRA300, MiniCam8 - NINA, Pixinsight

Nuevo procesado en PixInsight en modo "narrowband" con canales separados y mezclas de canales para sacar los tonos azules , tan difíciles de sacar con este filtro "dual band"

C9XLT + Starizona x0.63 + Player One Poseidon-C + Player One Ha/OIII 132 x 180" (6h36)

Player One IR/UV Cut 60 x 60" (1h)

Pixinsight + Affinity Photo 2

Peek toward the handle of the Big Dipper with a telescope and you can find the Pinwheel Galaxy also known as M101. It lies 21 million light-years away, meaning the light traveled for 21 million years before hitting my camera's sensor. Discovered in 1781 by Pierre Méchain, one of Charles Messier's colleagues, the spiral arms stretches 170,000 light-years wide—almost twice the size of our Milky Way Galaxy.

  

Equipment:

SkyWatcher EQ6-R

Nikkor 800mm f/5.6 AI-S at f/5.6

Sony a7rIII (unmodified)

ZWO 30mm Guide Scope

GPCAM2 Mono Camera

 

Acquisition:

Taos, NM: my front yard - Bortle 3

40 x 212-second exposures for 2 hours, 11 minutes and 20 seconds of exposure time.

5 dark frames

15 flats frames

15 bias frames

Guided

 

Software:

SharpCap

PHD2

PixInsight

Photoshop

Lightroom

 

My a7rIII and adapted Nikon 800mm f/5.6 lens were mounted to my SkyWatcher EQ6-R mount using a vixen rail. The guidescope/camera was fixed to the front of the rail. I used SharpCap to achieve "excellent" polar alignment. I shot ISO 1600 at f/5.6. I took 212-second exposures using PHD2 with my guidescope to keep tracking accurately. I brought the lights/darks/flats/bias frames into PixInsight for stacking and aligning and then used: STF, Cropping, GraXpert, Dynamic Background Extraction, BlurXTerminator, plate solving, color correction, NoiseXTerminator, and then the galaxy was separated from the stars using StarXterminator, and both files processed and stretched separately and then recombined using PixelMath. That file was brought into Lightroom for Metadata and EXIF tags, light post-processing, and cropping. I used Photoshop to sharpen the final image.

With a month's delay, here's my Mars-between-Pleiades-and-Hyades pic. Only 14 of my exposures were reasonably cloud-free, so this needed a lot of denoising and, ultimately, a 2x total downsample.

 

1 stack of 14 180s images, Canon 800D at ISO 800, Canon 50mm f1.8 lens at f4, iOptron Skyguider Pro tracker. 50 darks, 120 biases. Pixinsight processing details to follow

Capture TelescopeLive CHI-2 Coquimbo Regon Chile..90 minutes capture at 1525m altitude.Processing Jan Zettergren, PixInsight and LR

Askar FRA300, Player One Poseidon-C, Anti halo IR/UV Cut

304 x 60" (5h04') + Ha/OIII 22 x 300" (1h50).

Pixinsight, Affinity Photo 2

This image shows what PixInsight's Dynamic Background Extractor does to an image. The amazing detail is brought out by balancing the background light such as caused by light pollution or breaking dawn in this case.Tech specs: Nikon d3500, Nikkor 180mm, f/2.8 @ f/2.8, iso 1100, stacked 16x30s raw, post-processed in PixInsight, Lightroom and Photoshop. Taken between 3:59AM to 4:09AM MDT.

 

F.O.V. is ~7x5 degrees. Comet's tail stretched at least 6 degrees in this uncropped image. The comet has changed since yesterday (24 hours earlier): www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/50105687121/in/photost....

LBN 458, LBN 462, LBN 460 and more

 

Equipment:

Epsilon 130D dual rig

QHY268m + CFW3M

TS2600MP (Touptek IMX571) + ZWO EFW

Astronomik DeepSky RGB

Astronomik MaxFR

Pegasus NYX-101

 

June/July 2024

Location: french alp

  

412x180s Luminanz

34x180s red

46x180s green

43x180s blue

 

26,75 total

Tubo óptico TS60-290 , cámara canon 600d , montura HEQ5 , guiado Phd2 , captura APT astrophotografy, apilado con DSS, procesada con PIXINSIGHT 1,8, 52 tomas de 180sg iISO 800 , más tomas de calibración

This is a long running project of mine: to slowly gather enough photons to image this wickedly faint blue nebula, known as the giant squid nebula. It's shape and emissions are consistent with it being a planetary nebula (the remains of a dying sun-like star). It sits in front of the majestic Bat Nebula (red) which is an emission region. It's not known exactly how close these two nebula might actually be to one another, but they make for a dramatic sight together!

 

Image details:

Shot with:

Tele Vue NP 101 @ f/4.3

QSI 6120 Camera

3nm Astrodon HA and OIII filters

Guide camera - QHY 5IIL-M

Sky-Watcher AZEQ-5 Mount

Sequence capture controlled with Sequence Generator Pro

 

Location:

Central District, Seattle, WA

 

53x5min HA

142x5min OIII

=16-1/4 hours total integration time over 5 nights

 

Processed with Pixinsight

Tech Specs:

 

Taken 21-22 Dec 22, Oracle, Arizona, Bortle 4,

Transparency 9/10, calm, temperature 38F, RH 78%

Nikon d7100, Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 @ f/5

212x90s, iso 3200, Raw

Orion Sirius EQ mount, PixInsight

SW Esprit 80/400, Player One Poseidon-C, Player One Anti-Halo PRO UV/IR Cut (270x60" : 4h30)

Pixinsight + Affinity Photo 2

Newton 150/750 avec correcteur-réducteur x0.95, MiniCam8 (0.84"/pix).

SHO par brutes de 5 minutes avec 6h30 en Ha, 2h30 pour SII et OIII puis 30 minutes pour chaque RVB (les étoiles), 13h.

NINA, PixInsight, Affinity Photo 2

SW Esprit 80/400, Player One Poseidon-C, Player One Anti-Halo PRO Dual-Band Ha+OIII (30x80") & UV/IR Cut (210x60") pour 5h au total

Pixinsight + Affinity Photo 2

SW Esprit 80/400, Player One Poseidon-C, Player One Anti-Halo PRO Dual-Band Ha+OIII & UV/IR Cut, 94 x 300" (7h50)

Pixinsight + Affinity Photo 2

SW Esprit 80/400, Player One Poseidon-C & UV/IR Cut (360x60") pour 6h au total

Pixinsight + Affinity Photo 2

NGC 7000 North America Nebula

 

HA:= 23 x 900s

OIII:= 16 x 900s

SII:= 19 x 900s

 

(SHO Hubble Palette)

 

Takahashi FSQ-85

NEQ6 Pro

Atik 383L+

 

Taken on the nights of 6th, 7th, 8th, 12th and 13th July 2013

 

Captured with Artemis.

PHD Guiding

Stacked, aligned with Pixinsight

 

Flats, Bias and Darks applied.

Processed with Pixinsight and Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Tone Mapping).

 

NGC 7000

The North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, close to Deneb (the tail of the swan and its brightest star). The remarkable shape of the nebula resembles that of the continent of North America, complete with a prominent Gulf of Mexico.

 

Link here for cropped 'wall'. www.flickr.com/photos/steve_furlong/9379598760/

Astro-Physics 130 GTX + QUADTCC @ F/4.5

Moravian G3 11002 + Astrodon RGB

Astro Physics 1200

 

RGB: 320x300s bin 1x1

 

Total exposure: 27h

  

Captured with Sequence Generator Pro

Processed with Pixinsight

ASI 294 MC PRO.

Samyang 135mm.

Star Adventurer 2i.

Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.

Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc

50x300s

L-Extreme.

Bortle 8.

PixInsight.

Bill Blanshan's Color Palette.

 

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 50x300s.

Bortle 7.

PixInsight.

This is a reprocess of M31 using Affinity Photo for non-linear processing instead of PixInsight. I think that the result is pretty good for the first time out, and I got a sense that using this tool instead of PixInsight holds some powerful possibilities that will take much more practice and experience to reach a mastery level.

 

ZWO ASI6200MM-Pro/EFW 2" x 7 (LRGB)

Tele Vue NP101is/LCF (4" f/5.4)

Moonlite CFL 2.5"

Losmandy G11

 

L: 166 x 60s

R: 55 x 90s

G: 56 x 90s

B: 52 x 90s

06:50:30 total integration time

 

Captured with NINA

Processed with PixInsight and Affinity Photo

ASI 294 MC PRO.

72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.

Star Adventurer.

Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.

Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc

L-Extreme 39x300s

Bortle 8.

PixInsight, Topaz Denoise AI.

The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus, at about 2400 light years from us.

It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop,a supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers. In modern usage, the names Veil Nebula, Cirrus Nebula, and Filamentary Nebula generally refer to all the visible structure of the remnant, or even to the entire loop itself. The structure is so large that several NGC numbers were assigned to various arcs of the nebula. There are three main visual components: 1. The Western Veil (also known as Caldwell 34), consisting of NGC 6960 (the "Witch's Broom", Lacework Nebula, "Filamentary Nebula"; 2. The Eastern Veil (also known as Caldwell 33), whose brightest area is NGC 6992, trailing off farther south into NGC 6995 (together with NGC 6992 also known as "Network Nebula"; 3. Pickering's Triangle (or Pickering's Triangular Wisp), brightest at the north central edge of the loop, but visible in photographs continuing toward the central area of the loop.

The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun which exploded between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago. At the time of the explosion, the supernova would have appeared brighter than Venus in the sky, and visible in the daytime. The remnants have since expanded to cover an area of the sky roughly 36 times the area of the full Moon.

Equipment and settings:

Mount: Skywatcher EQ6 R pro

Lens: Rokinon 135mm F2

Camera: ASI 533MM Pro

Filters: Astrodon SHO

Total integration: 10h30 ( Ha 49 exposures x 5 min, Sii 30 x 5 min, Oiii 77 x 3 min )

Edit in Pixinsight.

Location: my Bortle 6+ backyard.

Data from Telescope Live. Processed with PixInsight.

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Poseidon-C + TS 60/330 @ x0.8 + Player One IR/UV cut

5 hours, Pixinsight & Affinity Photo 2

3000 light years away, a distant supernovae reminiscent Sh2-240

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