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Using PixInsight, I took 75x20s sub fixed on Comet Lemmon and muted the stars. This image shows the fine structures within the narrow ion tail (left) and broad dust tail (right). Tail length in this cropped view is ~5 degrees long.
IC 405, The Flaming Star Nebula or SH 2-229 is an emission and reflection nebula located in the constellation of Auriga. The nebula surrounds the bluish, irregular variable star AE Aurigae.
Imaged over 2 nights, the 19th and 20th November 2025.
NEQ6 PRO
Askar103mm APO @ f/6.8
QHY294C Gain 2900 -20C
Optolong L-eNhance filter
600secX39subs
Processed using Pixinsight and Photoshop 6.
Shotdate: 13-8-2016
Camera: Nikon D4s
Optics: NIKKOR 24-120mm f4.0 @ 35mm f4.0
Mount: SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro
Exposure: 60 seconds
ISO-speed: 3200
Lights: 250
Darks: 25
Flats: 18
Bias: 105
Stacking in DeepSkyStacker
Post-processing of the background in PixInsight
Adding the meteors in PhotoShop, for a grand total of 29 Percoids and one other.
Imaging telescope or lens: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200
Imaging camera: FLI MicroLine 8300 CCD-camera FLI
Locations: FOVO - Field of View Observatory, Home, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
Mount: Paramount-ME
Guiding telescope or lens: Borg 77 ED
Software: Pixinsight 1.8
Filters: Ha 5nm, Astrodon Luminance, Astrodon Blue, Astrodon Red, Astrodon Green
Accessories: FLI Atlas, Starlight Xpress lodestar 2
Resolution: 3083x2196
Dates: Dec. 21, 2016, Dec. 22, 2016, Dec. 28, 2016, Jan. 4, 2017, Jan. 5, 2017
Frames:
Astrodon Blue: 26x300" bin 1x1
Astrodon Green: 25x300" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 44x10" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 50x30" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 27x300" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 43x60" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 197x600" bin 1x1
Astrodon Red: 24x300" bin 1x1
Ha 5nm: 54x300" bin 1x1
Integration: 47.1 hours
Despite a lot of clear nights over the last few weeks seeing has been average or worse. I decided that hunting down a interesting dim target would be pointless! Instead I chose something bright that could be well resolved and provide some detail. After 7-8 nights I decided i better process the data :). The is a lot of data here that has worked well for the two main galaxies. However with this many subs I was hoping for more IFN. There was a lot there but it was not clean, even with nearly 200 lum subs so I did my best to resist the temptation of pushing to hard and just focused on the galaxies. These did process well despite the conditions, on review I could have probably got similar results with 1/3 data but I wanted to see if IFN would resolve under average seeing. Answer is clearly a no! Well not in a way that is clean enough to process nicely!
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 88x300s
Bortle 7.
PixInsight,
The Horsehead and Flame Nebula.
WORC 51 + ASI533MC cooled to -15°/Gain 100.
A total of 70 lights for a total of 291 minutes or 4.83 hours
20 x 300-sec EXP / 5 x 600-sec EXP / 30 x 180-sec / 10 x 10-sec
Processed using: Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight and Adobe Photoshop.
I was trying out some new equipment tonight and figured the Moon would make a good target. This is a mosaic built from 11 tiles taken through an Optolong blue filter with a ZWO ASI120MM with a Celestron Edge HD 925. Seeing was maybe 2 or 3 out of 5 -- not a great night for detail work. SER files were 1000 frames each, and each tile used between 225 and 350 of the best frames. FireCapture was used for acquisition and AutoStakkert for stacking. Tiles were processed in PixInsight first, then composited in Photoshop. A few small touch ups in each of those programs gave this final result.
Lunation: 5.5 days
Illumination: 29%
Distance: 396000 km
The Moon's altitude dropped from 36° to 24° throughout the shoot.
M2 is a large, bright globular cluster in the constellation Aquarius. This image was acquired under dark skies near Goldendale, WA, using a telescope and cooled CCD camera designed for astroimaging.
Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 8
Camera: QSI 683wsg
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach 1 GTO
Integration: 25-30 minutes each of RGB (5 minute subs)
Post Processing Software: PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom
Astro-Physics 130 GTX + QUADTCC @ F/4.5
Moravian G3 11002 + Astrodon RGB + Chroma Ha 8nm
Astro Physics 1200
RGB: 75x300s bin 1x1
Ha: 23x1800s bin 1x1
Total exposure: 30h
Captured with Sequence Generator Pro
Processed with Pixinsight
IC 1848, Westerhout 5 or Sharpless 2-199 is an emission nebula located in the constellation of Cassiopeia. It lies at a distance of around 7,500 light years. Imaged over 3 nights in November 2024.
HEQ5 PRO
RedCat 51 WIFD
QHY183M Gain 21 -20C
Astronomik 6nm SHO narrowband filter set
Acquisition time 7hrs30min
Processed using Pixinsight and Photoshop 6.
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 97x300s
Bortle 8.
PixInsight. Bill Blanshan's Color Palette.
Telescope Triplet 115/800
Focal Reducer/ Flattener 0.79x
ZWO ASI 1600MMPRO
ZWO FILTER WHEEL 8x1.25
LRGB
Luminance: 40 x 180 (bin1x1)
Red: 40 X 180 (bin2x2)
Green: 40x180 (bin2x2)
Blue: 15X180 (bin2x2
DSS+Pixinsight
I've been messing around with the starnet++ and NoiseXTerminator plugins for Pixinsight. One of the cool things is removing all the stars, and just leaving behind the residual background, and the three galaxies left behind. The next step for me is in improve on re-adding all the stars back into the image.
-10-8-19
-Nikon D5300
-Skywatcher Star Adventurer
-Tamron 70-300mm f4-5.6 @300mm f8
-ISO 3200
-Exposure: 52x30sec
-Bortle 4
9-13-20
-Nikon D5300
-Skywatcher Star Adventurer
-Tamron 70-300mm f4-5.6 @300mm f7.1
-ISO 1600
-Exposure: 57x1 minute
-Bortle 4
9-10-21
-Nikon D5300
-Skywatcher Star Adventurer
-Tamron 70-300mm f4-5.6 @300mm f5.6
-ISO 1600
-Exposure: 81x1 minute
-Bortle 4
I have learned a few more Pixinsight techniques and applied them to the Iris Nebula that I did almost 1 year ago. Selective saturation! Big improvement I feel on the original here www.flickr.com/photos/astropictures/14963845019/in/photos...
Over 3 hours exposure and taken over 3 nights 31/8, 2/9 and 3/9/2014.
Using my SW 250pds, filter wheel, LRGB filters and Atik 490ex. Guiding was 90x50 finder with QHY5IIL. Software used was Artemis capture, PHD guiding, Pixinsight and Photoshop.
x14 L 180secs 1x1
x8 R 300 secs 2x2
x7 G 300 secs 2x2
x14 B 300 secs 2x2
NGC7023 the Iris Nebula is bright reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus. It is about 1300 light years away and 6 light years across. NGC7023 is the cluster inside the nebula. The nebula is illuminated by a +6.8 mag star SAO19158.
This subject is evidently very difficult to obtain much detail in light polluted sky's so I am reasonably pleased with this one. However there is rather to much Coma.
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.
Canon 6Da, Skywatcher N 200/1000 PDS, Baader h-alpha 7nm filter; iso3200, 32 x 5 minuten
PixInsight 1.8, Photoshop Elements 13
NGC3621
Planewave 17” CDK
Camera: FLI ML16803
Filter: Chroma L,R,G,B,Ha
Focuser: IRF90
Focal Length: 2939mm
Focal Ratio: f/6.8
Mount: 10 Micron GM3000
Location: Deep Sky West, Chile
9,6h of data, combination in PixInsight done:
R: 18 x 600sec
G: 20 x 600sec
B: 20 x 600sec
ASI 294 MC PRO.
Samyang 135mm.
Star Adventurer.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc
20x300s
L-Extreme
Bortle 8.
PixInsight, Topaz Denoise AI.
ASI 294 MC PRO.
Samyang 135mm.
Star Adventurer.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc
36x300s
L-Pro
Bortle 8.
PixInsight, Topaz Denoise AI.
Here is Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) from last evening. This is a nine minute exposure using 20-second subs. Just starting to capture some details in the tail.
Tech Specs: Canon 6D, Williams Optics REDCAT on an iOptron SkyTracker mount (1st Gen). ISO 400, 27 x 20 seconds with darks, bias and flat frames. Stacked in DSS and processed in PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom. Image Date: July 14, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
C9XLT + Starizona x0.63 + Player One Poseidon-C + AntliaTriBand
293 x 60" (4h53)
Pixinsight + Affinity Photo 2
Equipment:
ZWO ASI6200MM-P/EFW 2" x 7 (HO)
TeleVue NP101is (4" f/4.3)
Losmandy G11
Software:
Captured in NINA
Processed in PixInsight
Finished in Affinity Photo
Integration:
Ha 20 x 600s = 3:20
OIII 26 x 600s = 4:20
Total integration: 7:40
Non-linear finishing in Affinity Photo instead of PixInsight. See original posting for comparison.
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 and Affinity Photo
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.
Downloaded a free trial of Pixinsight yesterday, along with RC Astro blur, noise and starxterminator free trials. A lot of information to take on board but I have just reprocessed one of my images and I'm happy to say it has done a better job than Siril. A lot more involved but I'm sure the more I use it, just like Siril, the easier it will become. Followed Peter Zelinka Pixinsight for dummies and his new 2025 workflow youtube video. Sadr region of Cygnus with the star of Sadr at the top of the image. Shot with Canon R5 and RF100-500, Star Adventurer Gti tracker ...
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 51x300s
Bortle 8.
PixInsight, Topaz Denoise AI.
3 hours of data in really bad seeing and transparency. I might end of throwing away the data in the long run.
First crack at drizzling in PixInsight. Sure slows down the processing!
ASI 294 MC PRO.
SV503, 80 ED Svbony con
aplanador x1 (560mm).
HEQ5 PRO.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc.
L-Extreme 81x300s.
Bortle 7.
PixInsight.
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 8.
PixInsight,
Bill Blanshan's Color Palette.
One of my favourite locations in the night sky.
I have been saving this image (one of many) from Telescope Live for when I can spend a bit of time processing them.
The image comprises of 1360 minutes of LRGB data in 10 minute subs, its glorious data.
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Telescopio: Takahashi FSQ106EDX (f/5)
Montura: Takahashi EM400 Temma2
Cámara: CCD Atik 16200 mono
Filtros: Baader LRGB + IDAS LPS P2
Rueda: SX USB Filter Wheel 5x2"
Guiado: Lunático EZG-60 + SXLodestar
Enfoque: RoboFocus + AstroMatic (ftorrev)
Adquisición: AstroMatic (ftorrev)
Procesado y apilado: PixInsight Core + PS
L: 40x600 bin1, RGB: 12x300s bin2
Pioz, Guadalajara, España
TS-Optics Photoline 140mm
Touptek ToupTek 571c
iOptron CEM70G
84 shots 300 sec each
Antlia Tri Band RGB Pro 2"
Elaboration with Pixinsight
Very wet weather, even if i used dew heaters for the telescope i realized too later that dew was present also in the flattener lens.....so Flats have not worked very well. I had to use sintetic flats to mitigate issues.
RC8 @ 1092 mm, Player One Poseidon-C (first light), Player One IR/UV Cut, 315 x 60" (5h55)
NINA, Pixinsight, Affinity Photo 2
SW Esprit 80/400, Player One Poseidon-C, Player One Anti-Halo PRO Dual-Band Ha+OIII & UV/IR Cut, 104 x 300" (8h40)
Pixinsight + Affinity Photo 2
NGC 7023 located in the constellation Cepheus. Six images of 5 min's each taken at ISO 800 were stacked to give a total exposure time of 30 min's.
NGC2244 capture by TelescopeLive in Australia. Processing in PixInsight and Lightroom by Jan Zettergren.
SW Esprit 80/400, Player One Poseidon-C, Player One Anti-Halo PRO Dual-Band Ha+OIII (40x180") & UV/IR Cut (270x60") pour 6h30 au total
Pixinsight + Affinity Photo 2
Andromeda Galaxy is an island universe that lies some two million light years from our own Milky Way Galaxy. I think of my imaging system as a time machine that captured this object as it appeared two million years ago. If it is still there, I wonder what it looks like now.
This is an LRGB image that is augmented with Ha data to highight the star forming regions, which appear as reddish blotches in the spiral arms of the galaxy. The preliminary LRGB and Ha data that comprise this image were uploaded on November 1st and 12th, respectively.
60-second subframe exposures were taken in LRGB and HDRMT was used in PixInsight processing to minimize saturation in the bright galactic center.
ZWO ASI6200MM-P/EFW 2" x 7 (Chroma 3nm Ha, ZWO LRGB)
Tele Vue NP101is (4" f/4.3)
Losmandy G11
Integration time:
Ha: 600s x 16 = 2:40
L: 60s x 233 = 3:53
R: 60s x 74 = 1:14
G: 60s x 80 = 1:20
B: 60s x 71 = 1:11
Total integration time: 10:11
Captured with NINA, processed with PixInsight, and finished with Affinity Photo.
M106 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canis Venatici. This image was captured from dark skies near Goldendale, WA. Due to some equipment issues, I was only able to capture about 25 minutes of data per RGB channel and hope to revisit the galaxy later this year to capture additional data for a deeper final image.
Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 8 @ f/7 (1422mm focal length)
Camera: QSI 683wsg
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach1GTO
Integration: 8-9 x 3 mins (24-27 mins total) per channel
Post Processing: PixInsight 1.8, Adobe Lightroom.
Messier 106 (also known as NGC 4258) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. M106 is at a distance of about 22 to 25 million light-years away from Earth.
Technical Info:
67 x 180 sec. ZWO Red filter
68 x 180 sec. ZWO Green filter
65 x 180 sec. Zwo Blue filter
Gain 200, Offset 50, Binning 1x1
Total Integration 9.9 hours
Celestron Edge HD 9.25 f/10
Sensor cooled to -15°C on ZWO ASI1600MM Pro (mono)
Calibration frames: Bias, Darks, and Flats.
Plate Solve-PlateSolver 2 via N.I.N.A. 1.11
Image processing Pixinsight 1.8.9-2, and Photoshop CC 2024
The God Of Thunder
NGC 2359 otherwise known as Thor’s Helmet and Sharpless 2-298 in the constellation of Canis Major at a distance of 15,000 light years from earth and spanning 30 light years, The central star is the Wolf-Rayet star WR7, a very hot star thought to be in a pre-supernova stage of it's life.
Photographed using broadband filters in channels RGB together with narrowband filters H-Alpha mapped to the red channel and OIII mapped to the blue channel using the Sky-Watcher Esprit 150ED Triplet Super APO Refractor (which we have on loan for testing thanks to Sky-Watcher USA) together with the QHY163M Monochrome CMOS
This setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 2B grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment
Total acquisition time 21.13 hours.
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Astrobin : www.astrobin.com/naqfkx/
Technical Details
Captured and Processed by Kim Quick and Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
HA 280 mins 40 x 420
OIII 280 mins 40 x 420
RED min 192 mins 32x360
GREEN 258 min 43x360
BLUE 258 min 43x360
Filters by Optolong
Camera: QHY163 Monochrome CMOS
Calibrated with Dark, Dark Flat and Flat Frames
Optics: Sky-Watcher 150 Esprit (courtesy of Sky-Watcher USA)
Image Scale: 0.75 arcsec/pix
Field of View: 1.37 degrees
EQ Mount: Paramount MEII
Image Acquisition NINA, Pre Processing in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC
Thor (from Old Norse: Þórr) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, the protection of humankind, hallowing, and fertility. Besides Old Norse Þórr, the deity occurs in Old English as Þunor, in Old Frisian as Thuner, in Old Saxon as Thunar, and in Old High German as Donar, all ultimately stemming from the Proto-Germanic theonym *Þun(a)raz, meaning 'Thunder'.
Captured at PixelSkies, Castillejar, Spain
Red x 50 300 secs
Green x 43 300 secs
Blue x 32 300 secs
10 hrs 25 mins 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 Red, Green, Blue
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, BlurXTerminator
NGC4753
Planewave 17” CDK
Camera: FLI ML16803
Filter: Chroma L,R,G,B
Focuser: IRF90
Focal Length: 2939mm
Focal Ratio: f/6.8
Mount: 10 Micron GM3000
Location: Deep Sky West, Chile
16h of LRGB data, combination in PixInsight done:
L: 33 x 600sec
R: 18 x 600sec
G: 16 x 600sec
B: 29 x 600sec
Sh2-162 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
10,16h of RGBH data, integration in PixInsight done:
R: 26 x 300sec
G: 27 x 300sec
B: 29 x 300sec
Ha: 40 x 300sec
GraXpert AI, Pixinsight & BlurXterminator
Same datas from 2022 version : www.flickr.com/photos/133093801@N02/51868090328/in/datepo...