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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
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
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
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.
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
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
For this image of the Triangulum Galaxy I took
33 - 5 min light frames
3 - 5 min dark frames (had mount issues)
no flat frames
50 bias frames
Images were stacked in DSS and processed in PixInsight
Clavius is a large crater found on the southern side of the moon, it measures approximately 136 miles across. The crater was named after Christoph Klau (or Christophorus Clavius) a 16th century German mathematician and astronomer.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ASI462MC camera, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in Autostakkert and PixInsight. Image Date: May 29, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
This image was selected for AAPOD www.aapodx2.com/2016/20160316.html
18 x Ha 23 x OIII 8 x SII. Managed to get one clear night over Christmas to finish this one off. Some of the OIII was taken in not ideal conditions but decided to use them anyway I would have liked to get some more data on SII but its time to move onto the next target.
24.5Hrs in total.
Optics: Takahashi Baby Q FSQ-85ED F5.3
Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Mono Cooled to -15C
Image Scale: 2.08 Arcsec
Guiding: OAG, Lodestar X2
Filter: Baader Ha,OIII,SII
Mount: Skywatcher AZ EQ6-GT EQ & Alt-Az Mount connected to the Sky X and Eqmod via HitecAstro EQDIR adapter
Image Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro
Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight
Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC
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.
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 37x300s
Bortle 8.
PixInsight,
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.
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
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
M42 - Orion Nebula taken 22.11.2014 from Co. Monaghan
SW 200PDS on CG5-GT
Canon 1100D - Baader Neodymium Filter
8x 4"
5x darks
25x bias
25x flats
Processed in PixInsight & CS5
PixInsight/NarrowbandNormalization was used to get the colors right.
ZWO ASI6200MM-P/EFW(Chroma 3nm SHO)
Tele Vue NP101is (4" f/4.32)
Losmandy G11
Ha: 8 x 600s
Oiii: 4 x 600s
Sii 8 x 600s
3:20 total integration time
Another Version of Moon. Processed in PixInsight, Starfire102mm, ASI6200MM Pro, gain 100, exposure 0.001, LRGB, AutoStakkert with PixInsight to combine LRGB files.
This image shows two groups of galaxies. You might recognize Stephan's Quintet, the galaxies near the lower left corner, as the conversing angels in the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life”. 😀 The Deer Lick Group of galaxies, with NGC 7331 as its largest member, is near the upper right corner.
Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 8 at f/7
Camera: QSI 683wsg
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach 1 GTO
Integration: Approx 65 mins each of RGB (~13 x 5 minute subframes)
Processing Software: PixInsight v1.9, Adobe Photoshop
Captured under dark skies near Goldendale, WA.
Imaging telescope or lens: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 MKII Gus
Imaging camera: FLI MicroLine 8300 CCD-camera FLI
Mount: Paramount-ME
Software: Pixinsight 1.8
Filters: Astronomik Deep-Sky R Filter, Astronomik Deep-Sky B Filter, Astronomik Deep-Sky G Filter, Astronomik L2 Lum, Astronomik Ha 6nm
Accessory: FLI Atlas
Resolution: 3146x2484
Dates: Dec. 21, 2017, Dec. 22, 2017, Dec. 23, 2017
Frames:
Astronomik Deep-Sky B Filter: 19x300" bin 1x1
Astronomik Deep-Sky G Filter: 19x300" bin 1x1
Astronomik Deep-Sky R Filter: 19x300" bin 1x1
Astronomik Ha 6nm: 38x300" bin 1x1
Astronomik L2 Lum: 31x300" bin 1x1
Integration: 10.5 hours
Locations: Image The Universe Remote Telescopes, Fregenal de la Sierra, Extremadura, Spain
The new RH 200 MKII is nearly ready to roll - a few tweaks yet to be done to improve a few aspects but nothing major. The test data was very nice, hopefully, the image demonstrates that.
At just 10.5 hours including Ha the benefits of such a fast scope are clear to see.
As well as the nice blue reflection around the Christmas Tree Cluster area which structurally seems to be lifted out from the red emissions, I was also interested to see the nice yellow tones appearing just below the cone.
Hope you enjoy.
Another object that I can't reach from my backyard.. taken in the desert of Utah. Never realized those famous pillars would be visible in my small telescope.
from space.com: "The Eagle Nebula is located in the constellation Serpens and covers an area of 70 by 55 light-years. It is home to the iconic Pillars of Creation, made famous by an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995.
Parts of the Eagle Nebula are emission nebulas, meaning that the clouds of gas and dust are so hot they produce their own light. Other parts are dark nebulas, which are made of cold gas and are only visible because of the silhouettes they create against the nebula's glowing backdrop."
Askar 120APO: 840mm f/7
ZWO ASI533MM Mono Camera at -20C
Guided on ZWO AM5
20x180s with Ha filter
20x180s Oiii
20x180s Sii
Processed with PixInsight, Ps
The heart of the Heart nebula revisited using the "natural palette" with special attention to the dark nebulas there.
It a complete rework of a previous image made on SHOrgb.
A total of 57 hours of integration and a lot of intermediate version on the process.
Still I think that I could obtain more details, but this will be next year (maybe :P ).
Technical card
Imaging telescopes or lenses:Teleskop Service TS Photoline 107mm f/6.5 Super-Apo , Altair Astro RC250-TT 10" RC Truss Tube
Imaging cameras:ZWO ASI183MM-Cool , ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mounts:Skywatcher EQ6R Pro , Mesu 200 Mk2
Guiding telescopes or lenses:Celestron OAG Deluxe , Teleskop Service TSOAG9 Off-Axis Guider
Guiding cameras:ZWO ASI290 Mini , ZWO ASI174 Mini
Focal reducers:Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x , Telescope-Service TS 2" Flattener
Software:Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight , Seqence Generator Pro
Filters:Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm , Optolong SII 6.5nm 36mm , Optolong OIII 6.5nm 36mm
Accessory:ZWO EFW , MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30 , MoonLite CSL 2.5" Focuser with High Res Stepper Motor
Dates:Nov. 29, 2019
Frames:
Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm: 166x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Optolong OIII 6.5nm 36mm: 80x600" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: -75.00) -15C bin 1x1
Optolong SII 6.5nm 36mm: 80x600" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 56.6 hours
Avg. Moon age: 2.95 days
Avg. Moon phase: 9.53%
Astrometry.net job: 3907933
RA center: 2h 34' 16"
DEC center: +61° 21' 18"
Pixel scale: 1.007 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 359.646 degrees
Field radius: 0.408 degrees
Resolution: 1760x2328
Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain
Data source: Own remote observatory
Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility
Reprocess while waiting for our UK weather to improve.
Data captured 10th, 13th, 14th and 15th April. Scope was Skywatcher 250pds. Atik 490EX CCD, Baader RGB filters and Astronomik CLS for L. Guiding was 90x50 finder with QHY5IIL. Software used was Artemis capture, PHD guiding, Pixinsight.
Processed to try to bring out the nebulosity area's as much as possible.
6 1/2 hours exposure in total and a similar time to process.
L x42 1x1 300 secs total 210 mins
R x12 1x1 300 secs total 60 mins
G x11 1x1 300 secs total 55 mins
B x14 1x1 300 secs total 70 mins
NGC 1499. Still a work in process. A three panel mosaic to capture most of it. HOO dual band capture with RGB stars. 10 hours per panel and 1 hour for stars.
StellarVue 90mm Raptor
Askar FMA 180 Pro
ASI 2600mc pro
ASI 290mm
AM5
AA+
Processed in PixInsight
Astrophotography always creates a perspective shift.
Check our my full astrophotography gallery in my Albums, or on my website here. (link might not be visible on mobile)
As always, captured on a clear night in my Bortle 3 backyard in southern Arizona using my C8, AM5, and ASI533MC Pro. About 2 hours of integration.
Image Details:
11x1200s Ha 1x1 (3hrs 40mins)
8x900 OIII 2x2 (2hrs)
8x1800s 2x1200 SII 1x1 (4hrs 40mins)
Darks, flats and bias, all binned 1x1 @-20c.
Total exposure of 10 hours 20 mins.
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 OIII and 8nm SII filters.
Guiding - ZWO ASI120MM + Orion 162mm/F3.2 guidescope with PHD2.
Sequence Generator Pro and PixInsight.
Thanks for looking.
Target
NGC6888 The Crescent Nebula
The Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus.
It was formed by the stellar winds of Wolf-Rayet star WR 136 colliding with and energizing
the slower moving winds ejected by the star when it became a red giant around 250,000 to 400,000 years ago
Distance - about 5000 light years from earth.
Gear:
Mount: ZWO AM5
Main Cam: ZWO ASI294MC Pro @ gain 121 and 14F
Guide Cam: ZWO ASI120MM Mini with ZWO 30mm f/4 scope
Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 500
Filter: Antlia ALP-T 5nm Ha and Oiii
Acquisition:
48 5 min exposures total of 4.0 hours
Location: Rural area just west of Houston outer loop
Bortle: 4/5
Moon: 34% below horizon for most of session
Processing:
Pixinsight WBPP
Pixinsight SPCC, SCNR
Pixinsight DBE
PixInsight BlurXTerminator
Pixinsight NoiseXTerminator
Pixinsight StarXterminator
Pixinsight EZ Soft Stretch
PhotoShop/ACR selective colors
Pixinsight Curves, MMT, EZ Star Reduction, recombine stars
This is a reprocess of the Horsehead and Flame Nebula with additional Hydrogen Alpha data. Shot from Samphran, Thailand by the team at SC Observatory using an Officina Stellare RH 300 on a 10 Micron GM3000 with an FLI PL 29050. Processed using PixInsight and Photoshop.
The Milky Way rises over the fog near Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California. Mount Tamalpais is often considered symbolic of Marin County. Much of Mount Tamalpais is protected within public lands such as Mount Tamalpais State Park, the Marin Municipal Water District watershed, and National Park Service land, such as Muir Woods. Astromodified Nikon Z7, 4x180s exposures, Skywatcher Star Adventurer Mini, PixInsight, Photoshop.
M7
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
10h of LRGB data, combination in PixInsight done:
L: 20 x 600sec
R: 15 x 600sec
G: 10 x 600sec
B: 16 x 600sec
ASI 294 MC PRO.
72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.
Star Adventurer.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 123/ 30 offset/ -10ºc
48x120s
L-Pro
Bortle 8.
PixInsight, Topaz Denoise AI.
The first image I have under taken in a few years, a massive thanks to Ian King of Ian King imaging.
Equipment:
Skywatcher Esprit 150 ED PRO Triplet.
PME mount.
QSI 6120 12MP CCD Camera.
Astrodon filters.
Lodestar X2 guider.
TSX, SGP, Phd II guiding.
A bi-colour two panel mosaic comprising of 2 x Ha and 2 x OIII panels.
Ha = 840 minutes.
OIII = 480 minutes.
Total of 1320 minutes or 22 hours
Processed with PixInsight.