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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 52x300s.
Bortle 8.
PixInsight.
SNR G206.9+23
Optics
Skyrover 130SA 130mm f/5 Refractor
Camera
ZWO ASI6200MM Pro
Filters
Blue: Chroma
Green: Chroma
Luminance: Chroma
Red: Chroma
Mount
SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6 GT
Observatory
Daocheng Glacier Observatory
www.insightobservatory.com/p/home-page.html
Blue 34x300 sec
Green 32x300 sec
Ha 38x900 sec
Lum 57x 300 sec
OIII 64x900 sec
Red 33x300 sec
SII 64x900 sec
Integration in PixInsight, BlurXTerminator used.
Photographed Jan 08, 2022 from the Alexander Valley, Sonoma County, California.
"Messier 42 (M42), the famous Orion Nebula, is an emission-reflection nebula located in the constellation Orion, the Hunter. With an apparent magnitude of 4.0, the Orion Nebula is one of the brightest nebulae in the sky and is visible to the naked eye. It lies at a distance of 1,344 light years from Earth and is the nearest stellar nursery to Earth.
The Orion Nebula is very easy to find as it is located just below Orion’s Belt, a prominent asterism in the winter sky. The nebula appears as the fuzzy middle star in Orion’s Sword, which is formed by a vertical row of three stars (i.e. two stars and M42) south of Orion’s Belt. The nebula can easily be seen in binoculars and small telescopes. Covering more than a degree of apparent sky, the nebula appears over four times the size of the full Moon.
Small telescopes at higher magnifications will reveal the four brightest stars in the Trapezium Cluster, an open cluster of young, hot, massive stars that were formed within the Orion Nebula. The four stars form a trapezoidal shape and energize the surrounding nebulosity."
For the techies:
Scope: Stellarvue SVX130T w/reducer: 677mm FL, f/5.25
Camera: ASI2600MC 100 gain -10deg cooled
Mount: EQ6R Filters: L-Extreme
Moon Phase: 45% waxing
Lights: 30 @ 10” / 30 @ 30” / 30 @ 90” / 30 @ 180” Total: 2.6 hrs
Darks: MD’s 10”, 30”, 90”, 180”
Flats: 30 @ 4”
Dark Flats: 30 @ 4”
Processed in HOO using A.P.P., Pixinsight, LR & PS .
Celestron 9.25 + Celestron f/6.3 Reducer + ZWO ASI533MC + Optolong L-Pro
EQ6-R Pro
Guiding with ASI120MC-S + William Optics UniGuide 32mm
214x120" lights calibrated with darks and bias frames
Nebulosity4 for Mac
PixInsight
Cairns, Australia
Bortle 6
Sh2-155 grayscale
Optics: Sharpstar SCA260 f/5 1300mm
Camera: Player One Zeus455 Mono
Filters
Blue: Optolong
Green: Optolong
Ha: Optolong (3nm)
Luminance: Optolong
OIII: Optolong (3nm)
Red: Optolong
SII: Optolong (3nm)
31h of data, integration in PixInsight done:
Blue: 17x180 sec
Green:17x180 sec
Ha: 58x600 sec
OIII: 59x600 sec
Red:17x180 sec
SII: 54x600 sec
starbase.insightobservatory.com/home
Calibration
Center (RA, Dec):(344.176, 62.544)
Center (RA, hms):22h 56m 42.146s
Center (Dec, dms):+62° 32' 36.669"
Size:69.3 x 53.8 arcmin
Radius:0.731 deg
Pixel scale:0.315 arcsec/pixel
think ive just about got to the end of this image, its been one of the hardest images to process to date, it was also my 1st time imaging an object over 1 night
I 1st captured night 1 data on the 21'st September 2014 which consisted of 25 subs giving me 4.16 hours on M31
Then the next chance i got to grab night 2 data was 16'th Jan 2015! due to weather/work......
i managed to grab 19 more 10 min subs giving me another 3.16 hours of data, so in total of night 1 & 2 i now have a total of 7.32 hours on M31
i have been over and over this combined night 1 and 2 stack so many times lol, think im going to now file it away as "finished" for now, till i get more data later on in the year......maybe
*Shot details*
44 x 10 min subs @ ISO800
dark/flat/bias calibration frames used
SW 130-pds
HEQ5
Baader LP filter
SW Coma corrector
Canon 7D
Pixinsight
The Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth in the Andromeda constellation
Distance to Earth: 2,538,000 light years
Apparent mass: ~1,230 billion M☉
Age: 9 billion years
Stars: 1 trillion
Constellation: Andromeda
Apparent dimension: 60′–190′
For Valentine’s Day
We transform our relationships when we listen with our ears, hearts, and souls.
Deepak Chopra
Here is my latest Hubble Palette (SHO) version, a very wide view of The Heart IC1805 and Soul Nebula IC1848 using data from Grand Mesa Observatory’s System 1a the William Optics Redcat together with a QHY16200A Monochrome CCD, this combination is giving a field of view of approximately 6 x 5 degrees, In this Hubble Palette version the H-Alpha is mapped to green, SII is mapped to red and OIII is mapped to the blue channel. Captured over 6 nights in 2020 and 2021 for a total acquisition time of 15.3 hours.
The William Optics Redcat with QHY16200A and its 7 position filter wheel is now available at Grand Mesa Observatory for subscription, see here for details grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment
View in High Resolution:
Astrobin www.astrobin.com/s7iu8d/
7000-7500 light-years distant in the constellation of Cassiopeia lie the emission nebulae colloquially known as the Heart and The Soul Nebulae. The gasses (mostly hydrogen) that comprise the nebulae are being ionized by the stars within the region and as a result, the gasses glow, much like a neon sign.
The pressures exerted upon the material by the stars nearby are causing the material to become compressed. When enough of the gas becomes highly compacted, it triggers the birth of new stars. In effect, this is a beautiful snapshot of a multimillion-year process of an enormous cloud of dust and gas transforming itself into new stars.
Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Sep 29th, Oct 14th, 16th, Nov 11th 2020, Jan 1st and 2nd 2021
HA 270 min 27 x 600 sec
OIII 340 min 34 x600 sec
SII 310 min 31 x 600 sec
Filters by Chroma
Camera: QHY16200A
Gain 0, Offset 130 Calibrated with Flat, Dark and Bias Frames.
Optics: William Optics Redcat 51 APO @ F4.9
EQ Mount: Paramount MEII
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre Processing in Pixinsight
Post Processed in Photoshop CC
Star Removal by Starnet
Canon 5d4 400 DO II@800mm F/8
Guiding PHD2 Canon 100-400 II@400mm F/8
27x180s iso 1250
Siril + Pixinsight + LR
Askar 65PHQ with 0.75x reducer
iOptrion CEM26
ZWO ASI294MC Pro
Optolong L-Extreme
ZWO ASI Air Plus
ZWO 120MM Guide Camera
ZWO 30mm Guide Scope
120 Gain / -10c
50 / 300 sec exposures
10 Dark calibration frames
Processed with Deepsky Stacker - Pixinsight - Photoshop and Lightroom
I believe I'm one of the few who captured the Relativistic Jets so clearly with a Sky Bortle 5 in Brazil! I'm not trying to be better at anything in Astrophotography. My words are based on the photos I see of this object in my country! I thought it was important to capture enough data in H-Alpha to show the relativistic jets and praise the Galaxy Mergers!
Wide field image of the entire constellation. Image taken with an Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens stopped to f/2.8. Camera is a Canon Ra set to ISO 3200. This was a stack of 15 images of varying exposure times, from 15s up to 2 min's. Image processing done in Pixinsight and Photoshop.
Newton SW 200x1000 sur HEQ5 pro modifiée Rowan.
Canon 1000D défiltré + filtre Idas LPS D1 + correcteur de coma Baader MPCC Mark III.
71x120s ISO400, 40 dark, 101 bias, 15 flat.
Ciel Bortle 8.
PixInSight, PS.
A reprocess of www.flickr.com/photos/124244349@N07/51786194929/in/datepo...
The Rosette Nebula is a fairly large structure to the east of Orion's shoulder. The significant H-alpha content makes it a fine target for imaging from light polluted locales like the New York City suburbs.
I have not been very meticulous with this reprocess as I'm just getting my bearings with some new features of PixInsight before teaching Urban Astrophotography starting next week for New York City's Amateur Astronomers' Association.
aaa.org/event/urban-astrophotography-deep-sky-imaging-202...
Tech Stuff: Borg 71FL/Borg 1.08X Flattener/ZWO ASI 1600MC Color cam/IDAS LPS V4 nebula filter/iOptron CubePro mount, unguided. 2.5 hours of 8 second exposures captured in SharpCap livestacks, processed in Pixinsight and finished with ACDSee GemStone 12. From my yard in Westchester SQM-L 18.8 (red zone Bortle 7).
Captured from Grand Mesa Observatory, both the WO 12" RC and QHY600 Mono CMOS are coutesy of and recently supplied by William Optics. I was so encouraged by these great results and with permission from William Optics this setup is now available as an option "System 5" on GMO's subscription plans.
The Eagle Nebula was captured over 2 nights using the QHY600M with just 4 x 300 second exposures (bin 1x1) each channel LRGB and 8 x 600 second H-Alpha (bin 2x2). The William Optics WO12 RC is currently setup using the William Optics .8 reducer providing a 1971mm focal length @ F6.4. Bin 1x1 the image scale is 0.39 arcsec/pix and Bin 2x2 the image scale is 0.79 arcsec/pixel.
Total acquisition time 2.66 hours.
View High Resolution HaLRGB
View High Resolution H-Alpha
Filters used were supplied courtesy of Optolong
Plate Solve Information
Referentiation matrix (world[ra,dec] = matrix * image[x,y]):
+1.09243694e-04 -9.03580643e-07 -5.20203876e-01
+8.72695046e-07 +1.09320113e-04 -3.53349451e-01
WCS transformation ....... Linear
Projection ............... Gnomonic
Projection origin ........ [4788.284896 3194.021007] px -> [RA: 18 18 54.820 Dec: -13 50 32.63]
Resolution ............... 0.393 arcsec/px
Rotation ................. 179.514 deg
Observation start time ... 2020-04-25 09:58:01 UTC
Observation end time ..... 2020-04-25 10:03:01 UTC
Focal distance ........... 1971.28 mm
Pixel size ............... 3.76 um
Field of view ............ 1d 2' 47.5" x 41' 53.2"
Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Dates of Capture April 26 and 27th 2020
HA 80 min 8 x 600 sec
LRGB 80 min 4 x 300 sec
Filters by Optolong
Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS
Gain 60, Offset 76 with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: William Optics 12" RC @ F6.4
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6 Pre Processing in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC
The incandescence of the Eagle Nebula is laced with intricate dark lanes, globules, and huge clouds of dust which shroud ongoing star formation from direct view. The most prominent dark structures are the so-called “Pillars of Creation”, three long fingers of gas and dark dust nearly ten light years long. The Pillars are a field laboratory for the study of star formation and have been examined intensely by astronomers at visible, infrared, and ultraviolet wavelengths. Within the Pillars are much smaller, warmer, and denser regions called evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs), some of which contain just a few solar masses. The EGGs are ground zero for star formation, though it’s difficult to catch these new stars in the act of igniting because they remain obscured by cloaks of dark dust. EGGs located near bright stars are elongated by winds of light and charged particles into what look like schools of celestial tadpoles.
The stars within the Eagle Nebula appear to be in an intermediate state. Stars within the Pillars and other dusty regions remain obscured, while a cluster of some 400 new stars clearly appears in a more transparent section of the nebula. The largest of these stars has a mass some 80 times that of our Sun and the luminosity of perhaps a million Suns. The cluster formed just 2 to 5 million years ago. The nebula itself is only slightly older.
The light we see from the Eagle Nebula and its associated stars left some 7,000 years ago, but some astronomers suspect the Pillars of Creation may have already been obliterated when a massive young star within the nebula detonated as a supernova. The Spitzer Space Telescope detected evidence of a patch of hot gas near the Pillars which may have been caused by such an event about 8,000 years ago. Information from our e-book cosmicpursuits.com/astronomy-courses-and-e-books/armchair...
IC 4633 & MW9 - LRGB
Optics
Takahashi FSQ106 ED f/5
Camera
Moravian C3-61000
Observatories - Hakos, Namibia
-23.235, 16.363
Blue 62x300 sec
Green 66x300 sec
Luminance 147x300 sec
Red 80x300 sec
North America and Pelican Nebula in Cygnus
Camera: CCD Moravian G2 8300
Optic: 135mm Samyang lens f/2 @f/2.8
Frames: Ha 7nm 12X600sec - OIII 6.5nm 12X600sec - RGB 4X600sec each - Bin1 -35°
Mount: Ioptron CEM60 HP
Processing: Pixinsight, PS
Melotte 15 (in IC 1805)
Skywatcher Esprit 150 refractor
QSI 6120wsg CCD camera
Starlight Xpress AO unit
Paramount MX mount
Narrowband image:
H-alpha: 94 x 10m
SII: 98 x 10m
OIII: 82 x 10m
Taken at IC Astronomy, Oria, Spain
Processed with PixInsight and Photoshop.
distance: ca. 2000 ly
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abell_31
HaLRGB
Equipment:
TS 10" f/4 ONTC Newton
1000mm f4
GPU Aplanatic Koma Korrector
Moravian CCD G2-8300FW
Astrodon LRGB Filter
Astronomik H-Alpha Filter
Losmandy G11/LFE Photo
Guding:
Lodestar on TS Optics - ultra short 9mm Off Axis Guider
PHD2
9x1800 H-Alpha
3x1200 RGB
total exposure time: 7,5 hour
Processing: PixInsight
07.Ferbruar.2015
13.March 2015
15.March 2015
22.March 2015
Here is my photograph of Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) aka “The Green Comet” which I captured on January 30, 2023—a soul-crushinginly cold night with temperatures around -25°C—in the Skull Valley desert, Utah, United States. With so many cloudy nights this winter, I thought I would miss this one. But circumstance gave me one good opportunity as long as I was willing to brave the cold. Did you know that touching metal after hours outside at these temperatures enables it to somehow “burn”?
This image was created using 175 separate 30-second exposures (longer and the comet actually streaks relative to the stars due to its movement), combining of the comet image separately from the stars, and then re-combining the two. As a bonus, you can multiple galaxies in the image.
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), called the “green comet” in various news coverage, is visible in the night sky right now, although less impressive than 2020’s Comet Neowise.
ZTF will be hard to see under moonlight with heavy light pollution, but easier to see with no moon and binoculars. With little light pollution it is much easier to see. (Apparently it was quite striking to see when my mom checked it out under her crazy-dark Wyoming skies!) This comet’s “near pass”—the closest point in its orbit to the earth—was on February 2nd. While still visible, it is now traveling farther away from earth, growing fainter day-by-day. If it survives its journey, it will return again in around 50,000 years. Something for the kiddos to look forward to!
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), at the time these photos were captured, featured two prominent ‘tails’:
The blue-tinted tail (extending frame right) is the ion tail, which is created by ultraviolet radiation ejecting electrons off particles in the coma (a cloud of gases surrounding the comet’s nucleus). The appearance of the ion tail can change rapidly (e.g. even between short exposures) due to interplay with and fluctuation of the solar wind (a continuous flow of charged particles ejected from the sun).
The warmer, fainter, larger “tail” is the dust tail, formed by solar radiation vaporizing volatile compounds in the comet, which stream out and carry dust with them. This reflects sunlight directly.
How do you end up with the name “Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)”? Breaking it down, “C” represents a non-periodic comet: it takes more than 200 years to orbit the sun. It was discovered in 2022. “E3” represents the time period of discovery, with “E” represents the fifth half-month of the year, and “3” representing the third comet discovered in that half-month. “ZTF” stands for who discovered it! In this case, the Zwicky Transient Facility, which is a wide-field sky astronomical survey running through the Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California. What about 2020’s “NEOWISE”? In that case, it was discovered by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
Why are articles calling this “The Green Comet”? Mainly, I expect, because very cool or very terrifying things love to have a name of some sort in media coverage, and “The Green Comet” got to stick. “ZTF” is not so catchy, to be fair. Comets typically present with a clear blue-green glow around the nucleus. It is rather prominent on this comet, relative to other signal, but not a unique characteristic of this comet. So why this color? Sources frequently cite that this color comes from Cyanogen (CN) in the comet, but this is not correct. As best I can determine, the most likely explained by a combination of “Swan Bands” of Carbon (C2) emissions—which is to say, some blending of prominent light emissions is responsible for the color we observe. This was probably discussed in early interviews and got to stick.
Edited in PixInsight and Adobe Photoshop. For full details on post-processing, reference the link at AstroBin or the processing notes in this text document:
July 20th and 25th 2021 - Edinburgh Bortle 8 zone
Celestron RASA 8"
ZWO 183mc pro
IDAS NBZ filter
ZWO air pro
Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro
2 panel from a 4 panel mosaic
each panel 30 X 60s
Gain 122 at -10C
processed in APP and Pixinsight
distance: 6,000 ly
HaRGB
Equipment:
TS 10" f/4 ONTC Newton
1000mm f4
GPU Aplanatic Koma Korrector
Moravian CCD G2-8300FW
Astrodon LRGB Filter
Astronomik H-Alpha Filter
Losmandy G11/LFE Photo
Guding:
Lodestar on TS Optics - ultra short 9mm Off Axis Guider
PHD2
21x600 H-Alpha
4x900 RGB
total exposure time: 7hour
Processing: PixInsight/Lightroom
15.September 2014
This rarely image part of the sky is a considered a dark nebula. It is part of a larger dark nebula region called Lupus 1 or The Dark Wolfe Nebula.
CDK24
Moravian Camera
El Sauce Observatory, Chile
L: 32x15m
R: 21x15m
G: 19x15m
B: 21x15m
Total Integration = 23.25h
PI (RGB): BXT, RGB, SXT, NXT, HT, CT, Rescreen
L: BXT, SXT, NXT, HT, CT, Rescreen
PS: ColorEfex, StarShrink, Selective Color, Shadow Highlights, Curves, Saturation
Data from Martin Pugh.
TMB LZOS 152 + Riccardi Reducer @ F/6
Atik 460EX + Astrodon LRGB E series gen 2
Parallax Instruments HD200c
L: 61x300s bin 1x1
RGB: 50x60s bin 2x2
SQM: 21.5-21.7
FWHM: 1.9"
Total exposure: 7.5h
Captured with Sequence Generator Pro
Processed with Pixinsight
NGC7762 & Sh2 170
Askar FRA300 + Poseidon-C + Filtre IR/UV Cut
Mosaique de 2 panneaux (302 x 60" + 318 x 60").
Pixinsight & Affinity Photo 2
Rosette Nebula from Cheddar Ranch Observatory, Oklahoma City Astronomy Club 12-20-20
Telescope: Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ED, 550mm focal length, F5.5
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-r Pro
Camera: Nikon D810 (Ha modified) with Optolong L-Pro clip-in filter.
69 10-minute, 400iso lights
69 Darks
69 Flats
69 Bias
Guided with Phd2, dithered every 3rd frame.
Stacked with PixInsight
Edited with PixInsight and Photoshop.
NGC 2170 and Surrounds
Post-processing- Warren Keller
Telescope Live CH-2
Camera- FLI PL16803
Filters: Astrodon
Location- Chile
PixInsight 1.8.9, Photoshop 2022
Object description at www.billionsandbillions.com
Ic443 in Narrowband
30 x 300s S2,HA,O3
Skywatcher Esprit 100ed
ZWO ASI2600MM
SG Pro
Processed in Pixinsight
RGB shot
2 panel mosaic
1,8 hours per panel
Equipment:
Epsilon 130ED
QHY268m
Astronomik Filter
Skywatcher EQ8
September 2022
Processing: PixInsight
M13 Hercules Cluster
L 38 * 60s
R 14 * 180s
G 14 * 180s
B 14 * 180s
Integration Time 2h 44m
Takahashi epsilon-160ed
ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
iOptron CEM60
Antlia LRGB filters
ZWO OAG-L + ZWO ASI174MM
ZWO EAF, EFW
Nina, PixInsight, Topaz DeNoise AI, Photoshop
NDN 935, NGC7000 H-Alpha
distance: 2000 - 3000 ly
NDN 935, NGC7000 HSO RGB
distance: 2000 - 3000 ly
Equipment:
10" /f4 TS ONTC Newton
QHY268m
Astronomik H-Alpha MaxFR
Skywatcher EQ8
September 2021
Processing: PixInsight/affinity photo
Sh2-117 North America Nebula (NGC 7000) and Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) and Surrounding Region
Pictured here is a region known as Sh2-117 (roughly the area of brightest intensity), a complex star-forming region comprised of bright emission nebulae and patches of dust lanes which obscure stars and light includes. Featuring prominently, among other interesting structures, is the North America Nebula (NGC 7000), named for its resemblance to the land comprising the United States, and the Pelican Nebula (IC 5070), named for resembling, well, a pelican. Sh2-117 is estimated to span some 140 light years across with the North America Nebula, on its own, spanning some 90 light years end-to-end.
Departing our little blue marble, it would take us about 1,800 light years to arrive at the Pelican or 2,200 light years to arrive at the North America Nebula.
(A “light year” is the distance light would travel given a year of transit. For context, in a vacuum light travels at 670,616,629 mph or 1,079,252,849 km/h. These numbers are stupid-hard to comprehend. Traveling 2,680 miles across the United States, at this speed, we would arrive in 14.39 milliseconds.)
I’m guessing it is obvious which structure is the North America Nebula, but the “Pelican” may not be so clear. It is the prominent structure “above right” from the North America Nebula, and makes more sense with the view rotated 90°. Or, click below for a preview.
If we could see these nebulae clearly with the naked eye, we would also be in for a treat. In terms of apparent “size” in the sky from our point of view, this region is massive. The moon is large enough (if it were eclipsing these nebulae from our view) to rather effectively plug the “Great Lakes” void in the North America Nebula. But it is hard to see much of this region with the naked eye, beyond cloudiness under dark skies, in part due to the most intense light from this region emitting in Hydrogen-alpha at a red-spectrum wavelength our eyes aren’t sensitive to. But you can see more in binoculars, and a consumer camera can start to “see” clear structure in seconds.
This photo is comprised of 17 hours of images captured across four nights at my home in Salt Lake City, Utah. A narrowband filter was used to isolate wavelengths imaged on a color camera and blended into a false-color palette (a form of presenting narrowband in color, similar to how Hubble images are presented) where the blues represent dominant Oxygen III regions and the reds represent regions rich in Hydrogen-alpha regions. I used a RedCat 51 telescope and a Sony A7R IV, mounted on an iOptron CEM-40EC equatorial mount. Editing was done in PixInsight and Adobe Photoshop. Synthetic channels were derived from the color data to create the false color palette. For more information about equipment and detailed editing notes, see below on AstroBin.
2024-10-27
Harney, MD
This is my first attempt to use two panels to capture a celestial object. I used Photometric Mosaic to merge the panels in Pixinsight.
Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC
Guide Camera: QHY5III462
Telescope: Vixen ED80SF f/7.5
Mount: Losmandy G11
Integration:
107x120s (3.56 hrs) Panel 1
92x120s (3.06 hrs) Panel 2
No filters
Capture: NINA
Processing: Pixinsight, Affinity
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: 94x300s bin 1x1
RGB: 50x300s bin 1x1
Total exposure: 20h
Captured with Sequence Generator Pro
Processed with Pixinsight
Tech Specs: Fujifilm X-T5, Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 @ f/4.0, exp 57x13s, iso 800, Astrotrac 320-AG, Post in PixInsight. Sky transparency 9 of 10. Bortle 5, moonless, Clear sky, breezy. Temperature 52F.
Comet's magnitude estimate at 4.3 with persistent faint anti-tail, and greenish tint when color calibrated in PixInsight. Was visible in binoculars with tail extending ~10 degrees. In this 7.5x5.0 deg image, the tail looks very uniform. The slighter bright right side of the tail maybe the ion tail superimposed on the dust tail.
Picture of the Day
Diese interessante Galaxiengruppe befindet sich im Sternbild Jagdhunde.
Die Galaxiengruppe besteht aus den Galaxien NGC 5350, NGC 5353, NGC 5354, NGC 5355 und NGC 5358
und ist ca. 100 Millionen Lichtjahre entfernt.
Links im Bild befindet sich die Balken-Spiralgalaxie NGC 5371, diese gehört allerdings nicht zu Hickson 68.
Auch hier wieder unglaublich viele Hintergrundgalaxien im Bild, sowie der Quasar [VV2006] J135445.9+403344
Processing: PixInsight
total exposure time: 7 hours
120x120s Luminanz
Equipment:
10" f/4 ONTC Newtonian Teleskope
ASI294mmPro
Astronomik L-2
Skywatcher EQ-8 Pro
RGB Moravian G2-8300FW 2015
4x900s red
4x900s green
4x900s blue
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.
Shot on the morning of 20th January, 54 x 120s frames processed in PixInsight following Adam Block's excellent tutorial. This was shot using a William Optics Redcat51 on an ASI2600MC Pro camera.
C9XLT + Starizona x0.63 + MiniCam8
L : 80 x 45", RVB : 30 x 45" (2h07')
NINA, Pixinsight, Affinity Photo 2
Equipment:
10" f/4 ONTC Newtonian Teleskope
ASI294mmPro
Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB
Astronomik L-2
Skywatcher EQ-8 Pro
exposure time: 16hour
Processing: PixInsight/affinity
photo
285x120 Luminanz
74x120s red
74x120s green
75x120s blue
Quick reprocess M27 to try out new BlurXterminator in PixInsight.
Definitely made a big difference in separation and sharpness of stars. Lots of stars that were previously merged now quite distinct. Nebulosity also seems slightly sharper.
Celestron 9.25 + Celestron f/6.3 Reducer + ZWO ASI533MC + Optolong L-eXtreme
EQ6-R Pro
36x180" lights
No calibration frames
Nebulosity4 for Mac
PixInsight
Photoshop CC
Cairns, Australia
Bortle 6
Comet Lemmon taken on Oct 5 at 5AM MDT (11:00 UT)
Capture info:
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ 106N
Camera: QHY 268C
Mount: Rainbow Astro RST 135E
Data: 40 x 90sec (1 hour)
Processing: Pixinsight
This is 12 shots(6x2) as the milky way rises in our Southern Skies as per the plan by Nina, This Is Not Seen North Of The Equator. This is halfway to where I want to get there is another panorama of 12 shots to go to get to the panorama I took last year. Each Panel is a night worth of shots then added to PtGui to get the panorama. There positively no edits on the stars this is the number that the camera can see.
ZWOASI071MC -10 43 shots per night
600 sec rotated 80 degrees.
Nikon 105 mm f2.8 G Lens
Optolong LeNhance filter,
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.
Flaming Star Nebula IC405
distance 7500 Lj
bicolor
Equipment:
TS 10" f/4 ONTC Newton
1000mm f4
GPU Aplanatic Koma Korrector
Moravian CCD G2-8300FW
Astrodon LRGB
Astronomik Ha Filter
Astronomik OIII Filter
Losmandy G11/LFE Photo
Guding:
Lodestar on TS Optics - ultra short 9mm Off Axis Guider
PHD2
5x900s Luminanz
4x900s red
4x300s green
4x900s blue
10x900s OIII
10x900s h-alpha
total exposure time: ca. 9:30 hour
Processing: PixInsight/Lightroom