distance ca. 1350 Lj

RGB Equipment:

Skywatcher ED80/600

Skywatcher Reducer x0,85

EOS 1000Da

Celestron VX

Guiding:

i-Nova PLA-Mx on 9x50 Finderscope

PHD

17x300s ISO800

08.12.2015

H-Alpha Equipment:

Skywatcher Esprit ED80

TS-Optics 0.79 Reducer

ASI183mm

1,25" Baader H-Alpha Filter

Celestron AVX

guiding with 50mm finderscope and ASI120

PHD2

64x240s H-Alpha

20.01.2020

Processing: PixInsight\Affinity Photo

The Iris Nebula is a bright reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus. It resides about 1,300 light-years away from earth and is six light-years across. Technical Info:

34 x 300 sec. Badder UV/IR Cut filter

22 x 300 sec. Astronomik Ha 12 nm filter

46 x 300 sec. Optolong L-eHance

Gain 200, Offset 50, Binning 1x1

Total Integration 8.5 hours

Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 APO Refractor

Sensor cooled to -20°C on ZWO ASI294MC Pro (OSC)

Calibration frames: Bias, Darks, and Flats.

Plate Solve-ASTAP via N.I.N.A. 1.11

Image processing Pixinsight 1.8.8 and finished in Photoshop CC 2021

37 tomas de 300 seg a ISO 1600

30 tomas de 300 seg a ISO 800

15 Darks

Flats

Canon 6D Modificada

Filtro Optolong L-Pro

Skywatcher Ed-80

Skywatcher EQ6-r

N.I.N.A

PixInsight

Photoshop

Wikipedia:

La galaxia de Andrómeda, también conocida como Galaxia Espiral M31, Messier 31 o NGC 224, es una galaxia espiral con un diámetro de doscientos veinte mil años luz (en lo que concierne a su halo galáctico) y de unos ciento cincuenta mil años luz entre los extremos de sus brazos. Es el objeto visible a simple vista más lejano de la Tierra (aunque algunos afirman poder ver a simple vista la galaxia del Triángulo, que está un poco más lejos). Está a 2,5 millones de años luz en dirección a la constelación de Andrómeda. Es, junto con nuestra propia galaxia, la más grande y brillante de las galaxias del Grupo Local, que consiste en aproximadamente 30 pequeñas galaxias más tres grandes galaxias espirales: Andrómeda, la Vía Láctea y la galaxia del Triángulo.

La galaxia se está acercando a nosotros a unos 300 kilómetros por segundo,​ y algunos especulan que ambas colisionen en unos 5860 millones de años en el futuro fusionándose en una galaxia mayor,​ en el evento conocido como Lactómeda.

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.

La nebulosa Cabeza de Delfín, también conocida como Sharpless 308 (Sh2-308) se encuentra en la constelación de Canis Major al sur de la estrella Sirio , la mas brillante en la noche, es una burbuja cósmica creada por los vientos a que da lugar la estrella Wolf-Rayet HD50896 que se encuentre en su centro. La nebulosa tiene un diámetro de 60 años luz y una edad de unos 70.000 años, se expande con u na velocidad de 13 UA al año.

Imagen tomada con un telescopio remoto de OS 600 mm y cámara de fotograma completo con filtros H alfa y OIII, y procesadas con Pixinsight para hacer una paleta HOO. Son dos horas por cada filtro.

La imagen es un recorte tamaño aps-C.

Trabajo conjunto con mi amigo Kike

APOD by Astronomia

The Dolphin Head Nebula, also known as Sharpless 308 (Sh2-308) is located in the constellation Canis Major south of the star Sirius, the brightest at night, it is a cosmic bubble created by the winds it gives rise to Wolf-Rayet HD50896 star at its center. The nebula has a diameter of 60 light years and an age of about 70,000 years, it expands with a speed of 13 AU per year.

Image taken with a remote OS 600mm telescope and full-frame camera with H alpha and OIII filters, and processed with Pixinsight to make a HOO palette. It is two hours for each filter.

Image is aps-C size crop.

Joint work with my friend Kike

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 .

Here is my winning image in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards in the Stars and Nebulae category for 2021. Thanks to the Royal Museum and the judges for selecting this image and congratulations to all of the other winners.

If you missed the awards you can watch it on YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DkA-q9Rm10

#APY13

California Dreamin' APOTY "Stars and Nebulae"

The California Nebula, otherwise known as NGC 1499 Captured using Broadband and Narrowband Filters with a QHY600 60 Megapixel Full Frame Monochrome CMOS camera mounted on a Takahashi 130 FSQ APO Refractor telescope, I had captured NGC1499 previously however I was so excited to see what this new camera was capable of producing on one of my favorite deep sky objects using narrowband filters and the results far exceeded my expectations.

The raw data was preprocessed using Pixinsight, the stars were removed using a tool called "Starnet" and the stars were later replaced during Post Processing in Photoshop CC with the more naturally colored stars from the RGB data.

In this Hubble Palette version (SHO) the H-Alpha is mapped to green, SII is mapped to red and OIII is mapped to the blue channel. while the colors in this image are not the true colors, the narrowband filters used in the making of this Hubble Palette image reveal much more of the hidden gasses not visible in a broadband image.

Captured at Grand Mesa Observatory over 5 nights in January and February 2021 for a total acquisition time of 11.6 hours.

#APY13

Telescope: Astro-Physics RH 305

Imaging camera: FLI MicroLine 8300 CCD-camera FLI

Mount: Paramount-ME

Software: Pixinsight 1.8

Filters: Astrodon Red, Astrodon Green, Astrodon Blue, Ha 5nm, Astrodon Luminance

Resolution: 3264x2400

Dates: Oct. 12, 2017, Oct. 14, 2017, Oct. 16, 2017

Frames:

Astrodon Blue: 18x600" bin 1x1

Astrodon Green: 18x600" bin 1x1

Astrodon Luminance: 25x600" bin 1x1

Astrodon Red: 17x600" bin 1x1

Ha 5nm: 21x600" bin 1x1

Integration: 16.5 hours

Locations: Deep Sky West Remote Observatory (DSW), Rowe, New Mexico, United States

Been a few weeks since I last processed.

The Helix Nebula is one of those iconic deep sky objects (planetary nebula) that draws you into the hobby.

A lot more difficult to process than I had anticipated! Happy with the result though I will revisit with some much longer exposures for the outer shells.

For those at the International Astronomy Show 2017 I have used both the Lum and the colour stretching approaches I presented.

Sky: Class 4 Bortle.

Lights: Total 2H30

22x400s

DOF: 10x

Prétraitement: PixInsight

Traitement: PixInsight / EZ Processing Suite / DxO PhotoLab

Canon 700D 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

Resembling the shape of a medieval Sorcerer in the constellation Cepheus the open cluster NGC 7380 and the surrounding Nebula known as “The Wizard Nebula” otherwise known as Sh2-142 lies at a distance of approximately 8500 light years and spans 20 light years.

Captured recently using the new QHY600 60 Megapixel Full Frame Monochrome CMOS camera mounted on the Takahashi 130 FSQ that we have the honor of testing for QHYCCD.

This new setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 1. grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment

In this Hubble Palette version (SHO) the H-Alpha is mapped to green, SII is mapped to red and OIII is mapped to the blue channel. while the colors in this image are not the true colors, the narrowband filters used in the making of this Hubble Palette image reveal much more of the hidden gasses not visible in a broadband image, I used Starnet in Pixinsight to make the image Starless and then added the more natural star color by inserting stars from the RGB image. Captured over 4 nights in October 2020 for a total acquisition time of 11.6 hours.

View in High Resolution

Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/owlueu/

Technical Details

Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado

Dates of Capture October, 14th, 19th, 20th, 21st 2020

RED 65 min 13 x 300 sec

GREEN 60 min 12 x 300 sec

BLUE 40 min 8 x 300 sec

HA 170 min 17 x 600 sec

OIII 170 min 17 x 600 sec

SII 190 min 19 x 600 sec

Narrowband Filters by Chroma

Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS Photographic version

Gain 60, Offset 76 in Read Mode Photographic 16 bit

Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames

Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5

Image Scale: 1.19 arcsec/pix

Field of View: 3d 7' 41.0" x 2d 3' 5.3 (127.3 x 190.1 arcmin)

EQ Mount: Paramount ME

Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6 Pre Processing and Starnet in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC

NGC1909 / IC2118

Takahashi TOA-150

Camera: FLI ML16200

Filter: Chroma L,R,G,B

Focuser: FLI Atlas

Focal Length: 1100mm

Focal Ratio: f/5.0

Mount: A-P 1600GTO-AE

Location: Deep Sky West, Chile

11,3h of LRGB data, combination in PixInsight done:

L: 21 x 600sec

R: 16 x 600sec

G: 14 x 600sec

B: 17 x 600sec

www.deepskywest.com/

takahashi-europe.com/catalog/refractors/triplets/toa-150

Comet Leonard: This post-processing image was taken with a Fujifilm X-T3, Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 @ f/5.6, iso 1600, exp 149x30s, in PixInsight and Photoshop on Dec8 between 4:17AM and 5:55AM.

During this period Comet Leonard was moving very quickly. The movement was evident in 1 minute exposures.

IC63 & IC 59 are faint emission and reflection nebulae in the Cassiopeia constellation.

Shot outside Arnaia, Greece (bortle 4) in November 2022.

Equipment used:

Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED with an .85x Reducer/Flattener

EQ5 SynScan equatorial mount

Nikon D300 modified

Orion Starshoot autoguider

Orion Mini 50mm guide scope

Frames and Processing Software:

170 minutes total integration

34 lights

50 darks

50 flats

48 bias

Preprocessing: APP & Pixinsight

Post-processing: Pixinsight & Adobe Lightroom

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.

The Seagull Nebula was my favorite deepscape target in January. This composition includes Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky. The blueish speck above the horizon, to the left of the central peak, is Thor's Helmet (NGC 2359). This is an emission nebula, powered by a central Wolf-Rayet star, an extremely hot star, thought to be in a brief pre-supernova stage of evolution.

Those who remember my previous posted deepscape of the Seagull Nebula may recognize the peak as Mt. Druesberg in central Switzerland and wonder why the alignment of the nebula over the mountains is different. The reason for this is simple: I captured this image one night earlier and from a different spot, one mountain range further back.

EXIF

Cameras:

Canon EOS 6D, astro-modified (for color data)

ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro (for H-alpha)

Lens & Filters:

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8

Baader Ultra Narrowband 3,5nm H-alpha filter

Mount:

Equatorially mounted Skywatcher AZ-GTI

ZWO ASIair for mount and camera control.

Foreground:

Stack of 12 x 30s @ ISO1600

Sky:

RGB - Stack of 31 x 30s @ ISO1600 / 145mm

H-alpha - Stack of 14 x 120s @ Gain200 / 70mm (to match the 145mm full frame FOV)

NGC7599

LRGB data from Telescope Live. Processed with PixInsight.

app.telescope.live/en

nova.astrometry.net/user_images/13070523#annotated

This images was the result of using PixInsight and 62 subs. The comet's movement within 15 mins integrated time resulted in minor star trailing: www.flickr.com/photos/cloud_spirit/54069262835.

The anti-tail was recorded with camera settings between iso 160 and 800 and exposure times between 20s and 30s, mounted on an Astrotrac clock drive. I removed most starts in order to boost the comet's structure and magnificent anti-tail.

The field of view is ~ 7.5 x 5 degrees. The entire tail's length was more than 10 degrees and the anti-tail may have been almost as long.

Here's a 2 pane mosaic of a small part of the Veil Nebula that I have been working on for some time. This is the first mosaic I have done in a long time. I used Microsoft Image Composite Editor to stitch the two images together then Pixinsight and Photoshop for the processing.

The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated ionized gas, oxygen, sulfur, and hydrogen in the constellation Cygnus.

Captured by David Wills at PixelSkies, Castillejar, Spain www.pixelskiesastro.com

The Western Veil Nebula

Ha 45 x 900s

OIII 63 x 900s

Pickering's Triangle

Ha 64 x 900s

OIII 72 x 900s

61 hours in total.

Equipment used:

Telescope: Takahashi Baby Q FSQ-85ED F5.3

Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Pro Mono Cooled to -10C

Image Scale: 2.08

Guiding: OAG

Filters: Astronomik Ha,OIII

Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount

Image Acquisition: Voyager

Observatory control: Lunatico Dragonfly

Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight

Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC

M13

Vespera Pro 01.10.2025: 15min integration time. Processed with PixInsight.

nova.astrometry.net/user_images/13664514#annotated

NGC3324 Grayscale

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

29h of data, combination in PixInsight done:

Ha: 21 x 1800sec

OIII: 14 x 1800sec

SII: 23 x 1800sec

www.deepskywest.com/

planewave.com/product/cdk17-ota/

Shot from Poipu Beach, Kauai, Feb 12-26, 2022

A-P 92mm refractor

0.8x reducer

QHY 268C

IDAS NB1 filter

RST-135 Mount

122 x 2 min exposures

Camera control - N.I.N.A.

(First time with 3-star polar alignment - worked great off the condo balcony w/o view of Polaris)

Processing - PixInsight

Canon 6Da, ef 500mm f4; iso1600, f4, 24 x 3 minuten; 25 februari 2022, Vorden

PixInsight 1.8, Photoshop Elements 13

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

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.

The Ghost Nebula Sh2-136, VdB 141 is a reflection nebula located in the constellation Cepheus.

It lies near the cluster NGC 7023. The Ghost Nebula is referred to as a globule and over 2 light-years across. There are several stars embedded, whose emissions make the nebula shine in brownish colour.

Captured by David Wills at PixelSkies, Castillejar, Spain www.pixelskiesastro.com

Lum 99 x 600s

Red 163 x 180s

Green 182 x 180s

Blue 168 x 180s

42 hours 9 mins in total.

Equipment used:

Telescope: Takahashi Baby Q FSQ-85ED F5.3

Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Pro Mono Cooled to -10C

Image Scale: 2.08

Guiding: OAG

Filters: Astronomik Lum,Red,Green,Blue

Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount

Image Acquisition: Voyager

Observatory control: Lunatico Dragonfly

Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight

Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC

The California Nebula Captured recently in Narrowband using the new QHY600 60 Megapixel Full Frame Monochrome CMOS camera mounted on the Takahashi 130 FSQ that we have the honor of testing for QHYCCD.

This setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 1.

grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment

In this Hubble Palette version (SHO) the H-Alpha is mapped to green, SII is mapped to red and OIII is mapped to the blue channel. while the colors in this image are not the true colors, the narrowband filters used in the making of this Hubble Palette image reveal much more of the hidden gasses not visible in a broadband image.

Captured over 5 nights in January and February 2021 for a total acquisition time of 11.6 hours.

Technical Details

Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado

Dates of Capture January 16, 20, 26, 31 and February 6th 2021

HA 210 min 21 x 600 sec

OIII 280 min 28 x 600 sec

SII 210 min 21 x 600 sec

Narrowband Filters by Chroma

Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS Photographic version

Gain 60, Offset 76 in Read Mode Photographic 16 bit

Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames

Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5

Image Scale: 1.19 arcsec/pix

Field of View: 3d 7' 41.0" x 2d 3' 5.3 (127.3 x 190.1 arcmin)

EQ Mount: Paramount ME

Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6, Pre Processing and Starnet in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC

Intégration 26H36

Caméra 294MC 272X180S

Caméra 2600 154x300

Dark 64 par temps d'exposition, 20 flats

Filtre optolong l'ehnance, Monture azeq6 lunette fsq85, guidage 120mc-s

traitement 95% pixinsight étoiles avec cs

Astro-Physics 130 GTX + QUADTCC @ F/4.5

Moravian G3 11002 + Astrodon RGB

Astro Physics 1200

4 Panels:

RGB: 25x300s bin 1x1

Total exposure: 25h

Captured with Sequence Generator Pro

Processed with Pixinsight, Astro Pixel Processor

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.

First Light Image using a new QHY600M Water Cooled photographic version monochrome CMOS camera that we are beta testing for QHYCCD, a review of this awesome new camera is forthcoming soon.

Quote from QHYCCD: The water cooled version provides an additional 10C ambient over the standard version and an important feature is the water cooled version has zero vibration because there is no fan inside the camera.

This setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 1.

grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment-rentals.

In this Hubble Palette version (SHO) the H-Alpha is mapped to green channel, SII is mapped to red channel and OIII is mapped to the blue channel.

Captured bin 2x2 over 3 nights in December 2012 for a total acquisition time of 16.25 hours.

Here is an earlier image of IC443 for comparison using the QHY367C Pro www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/49625298658/in/datepos...

The Supernova Remnant IC443 otherwise known as the Jellyfish Nebula and Sharpless 248, lying at a distance of approximately 5000 light years from us in the constellation Gemini, visible towards the top left in this image is the Jellyfish, the remains of a supernova that occurred between 3000-30000 years ago, lower right in this image is the diffuse and reflection Nebula IC444 otherwise known as Sharpless 249.

View in high resolution

Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/r7b7ue/

Technical Details

Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado

Dates of Capture December 2nd, 3rd and 4th 2021

HA 330 min, 66 x 300 sec

OIII 325 min, 65 x 300 sec

SII 320 min, 64 x 300 sec

Narrowband Filters by Chroma

Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS Photographic version

Gain 26, Offset 76 in Read Mode Photographic 16 bit, bin 2x2

Calibrated with Dark, Dark/Flat Frames

Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5

Mount: Paramount ME

Image Scale:2.39 arcsec/pix

Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6, Pre Processing in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC

Ha (AIP):

Telescope: TS115 Triplet APO refractor (focal lenght: 630mm)

Mount: Takahashi EM-400

Camera: CCD Atik 460EX mono + Baader Ha 7nm

Guider: Lunático EZG-60 + SXLodestar

Focus: RoboFocus + AstroMatic (ftorrev)

Adquisition: MaximDL + AstroMatic (ftorrev)

Processing: PixInsight Core 1.8 + PS

Ha: 13x900s bin1 -10ºC from Camarma de Esteruelas, Spain and 15x600s bin1 -5ºC from Pioz, Guadalajara, Spain.

OIII (Maritxu & Jesús):

Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106EDX (focal lenght: 530mm)

Mount: Losmandy Gemini v.4

Camera: QSI 683 ws8 + Baader OIII 8,5nm

Guider: Lunático EZG-60 + QHY5

Focus: Seletek

Adquisition: MaximDL

Processing: PixInsight Core 1.8 + PS

OIII: 8x600s bin1 from Benamahoma, Cádiz, Spain.

SII (Maritxu & Jesús):

Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106EDX (focal lenght: 530mm)

Mount: Losmandy Gemini v.4

Camera: QSI 683 ws8 + Baader SII 8nm

Guider: Lunático EZG-60 + QHY5

Focus: Seletek

Adquisition: MaximDL

Processing: PixInsight Core 1.8 + PS

OIII: 14x600s bin1 from Benamahoma, Cádiz, Spain.

Another re-edit using Pixinsight / StarXterminator.

3hours in 3 minute subs

Flourostar 91mm

ZWO 2600 MC pro

EQ6-R-Pro

Leyburn, Queensland

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 reworked image of the Gamma Cygni nebula.

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed with PixInsight.

-captured: 25.09.16

26x600" ISO200

4.33h

A HaSHO palette of NGC1760. Image subs courtesy of Telescope Live.

I have had this data set for a while but I have never been happy with the results, now I am fairly happy.

Processed in PIxInsight 1.8 and Affinity Photo

Equipment

ZWO ASI6200MM-Pro

TeleVue NP101is

Losmandy G11

Capture

R: 20 x 90s

G: 20 x 90s

B: 20 x 90s

Total Integration: 1.5 hours

Processing

PixInsight

Photoshop

Pixinsight with StarNet module

Astro-Physics 130 GTX + QUADTCC @ F/4.5

Moravian G3 11002 + Chroma Ha 8nm + Astrodon RGB

Astro Physics 1200

Ha: 24x1800s bin 1x1

RGB: 25x300s bin 1x1

Total exposure: 18h

Captured with Sequence Generator Pro

Processed with Pixinsight, Astro Pixel Processor

The Leo Triplet is a small group of galaxies about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. This galaxy group consists of the spiral galaxies M65, M66, and NGC 3628.

Captured by David Wills at PixelSkies, Castillejar, Spain www.pixelskiesastro.com

Lum 83 x 600s

Red 49 x 180s

Green 53 x 180s

Blue 49 x 180s

21 Hours 23 mins in total.

Equipment used:

Telescope: Takahashi Baby Q FSQ-85ED F5.3

Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Pro Mono Cooled to -20C

Image Scale: 2.08

Guiding: OAG

Filters: Astronomik Lum,Red,Green,Blue

Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount

Image Acquisition: Voyager

Observatory control: Lunatico Dragonfly

Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight

Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC

Another collaboration by Tom Masterson and Terry Hancock captured at Grand Mesa Observatory 11/25/2021 using their System 4a telescope now available for subscription grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment

The image captures a steadily brightening Comet C/2021 A1 Leonard as it passes by the Whale Galaxy (NGC4631) and the Hockey Stick Galaxy (NGC 4556 and 4657 in the early morning hours this past Thursday 11/25/2021.

You might remember this particular celestial backdrop from another image (apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210513.html) Tom and I captured of Comet C/2020 R4 (ATLAS) earlier this year back in early May of 2021. It's pretty neat that we have another comet traveling through this portion of our sky, can't say I've ever experienced such a repeat :)

Technical info:

Location: Grand Mesa Observatory, Purdy Mesa, Colorado

Date of capture: 11/25/2021

Exposures: 116 x 60 second

Camera System 4a: QHY367 Pro C One shot Color CMOS

Gain: 2850 Offset: 76

Optics System 4a: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph

Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6

Pre-Processed in Pixinsight, Deep Sky Stacker

Post Processed in Photoshop

M101 with SN2023

LRGB data from Telescope Live. Processed with PixInsight.

app.telescope.live/en

nova.astrometry.net/user_images/13071146#annotated

Images prises avec une lunette 60/330 mal réglée et une 294MC en 75 minutes :)

NINA + Pixinsight

1 stack of 110 30s images, Canon 800D at ISO 800, Canon 400mm f5.6 lens wide open, iOptron Skyguider Pro tracker. 100 darks, 350 biases. Processed in PixInsight (full description at www astrobin com 6v85ug )

This is a two panel shot of the area the middle being the Horse Head. The right side took three night the left side took two night. the difference was the tree next to the mount got pruned so the shots went to 4 am.

This was my first trial of using the rotation marks and getting the cameras square to the shot all 5 night had the very same error 3.3 degrees within the 5 degree limit I had set. I watched each night to see if I had to change rotation. The two shots fitted together perfectly making this method very workable.

This was the fav nebula of mine since I was a kid seeing the close up of the Horse on the red background. My only regret my father did not get to see this shot.

QHY183C -10c 82 shots Each Panel 10 min each over 5 nights and camera rotated.

Prima Luce Essato Focus ,

Optolong L-eNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned

Guided PHD2, SGP

Pixinsight, Ps Lr.

IC5146

Vespera Pro: 1548x10sec CLS and 693x10sec no filter = 6h13min of integration time. Processed with PixInsight.

nova.astrometry.net/user_images/13673980#annotated

Captured on September 22nd at Grand Mesa Observatory using QHYCCD’s latest offering the QHY410C Back Illuminated Full Frame one shot color CMOS camera that we have the honor of testing. A myriad of different types of objects are visible in this wide field image covering over 4 x 2.4 degrees of sky. From Lynde’s Catalogues of Bright and Dark Nebulae LDN 1089, LDN 1100, LDN 1094, LBN 444, LBN 447. Emission Nebula Sh2-130, face-on intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 6949 and 17 distant galaxies from the PGC catalogue.

This new setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 4a

View High Resolution

Astrobin www.astrobin.com/6mfj8b/

Technical Info:

Total Integration time 3.75 hours

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado

Date of capture: September 22nd 2020

Color RGGB 225 min, 45 x 300 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 and Deep Sky Stacker

Post Processed in Photoshop

Taken using T12 on iTelescope.net (Takahashi FQS-ED 106mm / SBIG STL-11000M). 45 minutes of data (3 Ha, 3 Sii, 3 Oii). Images stacked and processed using PixInsight

A wide-field 2 panel mosaic, of the cosmic dust clouds that cross the rich field of stars of Corona Australis (Latin for the Southern Crown).

Gear:

William Optics Star 71mm f/4.9 Imaging APO Refractor Telescope.

QHY163M Camera Sensor cooled to -30°C.

Technical Card:

Integration Time: 18 hours total (9 hours per panel).

L = 9 hours total (Binning 1x1).

R = 3 hours total (Binning 2x2).

G = 3 hours total (Binning 2x2).

B = 3 hours total (Binning 2x2).

Calibration frames:

Bias, Darks & Flats.

Image Acquisition:

Guiding in Open PHD.

Image acquisition in Sequence Generator Pro.

Plate Solving in Platesolve 2 via SGP Framing & Mosaic Wizzard.

Processing:

Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,

star separation with StarNet++ Pi Plug-in,

and finished in Photoshop.

Astrometry Info:

Center (RA, Dec): 285.970, -37.530

Center (RA, hms): 19h 03m 52.739s

Center (Dec, dms): -37° 31' 46.701"

Size: 3.63 x 2.86 deg.

Radius: 2.312 deg.

Pixel scale: 8.17 arcsec/pixel.

Orientation: Up is 162.5 degrees E of N.

View an Annotated Sky Chart of this image.

View image in the WorldWideTelescope.

This image is part of the Legacy Series.

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2022-12-21

Photo usage and Copyright:

Medium-resolution photograph licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Terms (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For High-resolution Royalty Free (RF) licensing, contact me via my site: Contact.

Martin

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An LRGB image of Gum 15. It is part of the Gum catalog, an astronomical catalog of 84 emission nebulae in the southern sky. It was made by the Australian astronomer Colin Stanley Gum.

Data subs courtesy of Telescope Live.

Subs stacked and processed in PixInsight with the finishing touches in Affinity Photo.