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This is a dark nebula in the constellation Puppis. These nebulas were not discovered until the late '70s and were called cometary globules due to their long shape. This object appears as the hand of God reaching out and grabbing the galaxy PGC21338.
LRGBH 36/30/30/35/33
Total Integration = 27.4h
PI: LRGBH - BXT, RGB, NBRGBComb
PS: Levels, Curves, ColorEfex, Dfine2, Sat, Smart Sharpen
CDK17
Data from DeepSkyWest
El Sauce Observatory, Chile
NGC 6752
Sitting in the constellation Pavo this is the 4th brightest globular in the sky and closest to Earth. It has a nice appearance and distribution of yellow and blue stars.
PlaneWave CDK24
Moravian
El Sauce, Chile
R: 20x60s
G: 20x60s
B: 22x60s
PI: BXT/DBE/RGB/PCC
Photoshop: SC/L/C/SmtShrp/StrShrink
T Coronae Borealis
LRGB data from TelescopeLive. Processed with PixInsight.
2025-01-28 Foraxx Palette
Winter Star Party, Scout Key, FL
This is my first image I processed using the Foraxx palatte. This is an HOO image. This nebula is located in the constellation Monoceros and is at a distance of 5200 lys.
Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC
Guide Camera: QHY5III462
Telescope: Vixen ED80SF F/7.5
Mount: Losmandy G11
Integration: 32 x 900s=450m (7.5 h)
Filter: Optolong Utimate Dual
Capture: NINA
Processing: PIxinsight, Affinity
This object is a globular cluster that was first identified as non-stellar by Edmond Halley in 1677. It is 17,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus. This is the largest globular cluster in the Milky Way Galaxy's halo with a diameter of about 150 light-years, and it is comprised of approximately 10 million stars that orbit a common center of gravity. The cluster is 12 billion years old and contans 4 million times the sun's mass. This is a very dense cluster with individual stars packed very closely to one another. The average distance between two stars is about 0.1 light year. This compares to our Sun's nearest stellar neighbor, which is 4 light years away.
Omega Centauri's appears in Earth's sky as a 3.9 magnitude object that is 36 arcminutes in diameter. This means that it can be seen with the unaided eye appearing as a fuzzy star-like object, and with a small telescope appearing about the same size as the full moon. As this is a southern hemisphere constellation, it is best observed from southern locations like the Florida Keys or even further south.
The small galaxies that can be seen within the frame have a reddish appearance that is due to the object being situatued close to the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy. This is because higher concentrations of dust and gas in this direction more easily pass red light while scattering other colors of the spectrum.
Observing Report for February 17/18, 2023
Trip Report for Winter Star Party, February 13 - 19, 2023, Scout Key, Florida.
EQUIPMENT
ZWO ASI6200MM-Pro/EFW 2" x 7 (LRGB)
Tele Vue NP101is/Large Field Corrector (4", f/5.4)
Losmandy G11
Autoguiding with PHD2
CAPTURE
Object was about 17 degrees above the horizon when captured at approximately 0300 local time.
Captured in NINA (1 hour total integration)
L: 95 x 20s
RGB: 30 each filter x 20s
PROCESSING
PixInsight with WBPP, DBE, LinearFit, SPCC, BlurXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator, and HDRMT.
Date: 18:30-20:00JST Dec.15, 2020
Location: Amagi Highland, Shizuoka Pref., Japan
Cloud Coverage: < 5%
Wind: 5 ~ 20 kt
Temperature: -3.9C ~ -4.5C
Humidity: 78 ~ 79%
Air pressure: 891.1 ~ 891.5hPa
Lens: SIGMA 70mm F2.8 DG MACRO | Art (f/3.2)
Mount: Rainbow Astro RST-135
Autoguider: QHY5L-II, LM75JC, PHD2
Camera: Canon EOS 6D (mod/SEO-SP4)
ISO speed: 3200
Exposure: 12x120sec.x3panels
Processing: PixInsight, Astro Pixel Processor
Updated on Dec.23, 2020
The Flaming Star - IC405 (right) and Tadpoles - IC410 (left) nebulae in the constellation Auriga, 1500 and 12400 light years away respectively.
William Optics GT81
William Optics Flat 6AIII
ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
ZWO ASI Air Pro
Skywatcher HEQ 5 Pro
Optolong L-eXtreme filter
108 x 180s lights, 40 darks, 50 flats, 50 flat darks at gain 100 and cooled to -10C.
Stacked in PixInsight and processed in PixInsight, PS and LR.
Data captured earlier this year, only processed now as the cloudy weather starts. Experimenting with a different processing technique, and highlighting the dust clouds (consisting mainly of Hydrogen), with star reduction so that the gas and dust stand out.
The Lagoon Nebula (M8, Messier 8 or NGC 6523), is a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius. M8 is estimated to be between 4,000 - 6,000 light-years from Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy, and is classified as an emission nebula.
About Emission nebulae:
Emission nebulae are glowing clouds of interstellar gas which have been excited by some nearby energy source, usually a very hot star. The red light seen in this picture is glowing hydrogen captured in the Hydrogen-Alpha (Hα) Infrared wavelength of light at 656nm.
About this image:
Imaged in Narrowband in the SHO palette (Ha, SII and OIII).
Image Acquisition & Plate Solving:
SGP Mosaic and Framing Wizard.
PlaneWave PlateSolve 2 via SGP.
Integration time:
22 hours.
Processing:
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
and finished in Photoshop.
Photographed in the following wavelengths of light:
OIII line at 500.7nm
H-alpha line at 656nm
SII line at 672nm
Astrometry Info:
Center RA, Dec: 271.120, -24.243
Center RA, hms: 18h 04m 28.736s
Center Dec, dms: -24° 14' 35.817"
Size: 1.63 x 1.19 deg
Radius: 1.011 deg
Pixel scale: 3.67 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is 176 degrees E of N
nova.astrometry.net/user_images/3151067#annotated
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2 panel mosaic. 3 hours of each Ha & OIII in each panel totalling 12 hours exposure time.
Imaged with an Altair 6" RC Atik 460ex & processed in Pixinsight and CS5.
Scope: Meade LX200 ACF 10"
Camera: QHY268m
Mount: 10 micron GM2000 HPS II
Filters: Astrodon LRGB Tru-Balance
Processing: PixInsight
Total exposure: 32 hours
October/November 2022
From Lanciano - Italy -
Antonio Ferretti & Attilio Bruzzone - Gruppo Astrofili Frentani
**Explore**
-Dos fotos combinadas en Photoschop de 180 seg a iso 1250 y a 24 mm: alternando Photoschop, Lightroom y PixInsight.
-Two photos combined in Photoshop from 180 sec to iso 1250 and 24 mm: alternating Photoschop, Lightroom and PixInsight.
8.25 hours exposure time completed in a single cold, frosty December night.
Imaged with an Altair Astro 6"RC, Atik 460ex and Astrodon 3nm Ha & 5nm OIII filters.
Captured then processed with Sequence Generator Pro, Pixinsight and CS5.
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745–46. Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the center of the nebula, an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the aforementioned Pillars of Creation. The Eagle Nebula lies in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way.
Equipment:
Explore Scientific ED127, ZWO ASI2600MM, EAF, EFW, ASIAIR, AM5
Antlia 3nm SHO Pro filters
Pixinsight, Photoshop
With the constellation Orion currently rising early in the morning I couldn't help having a quick look at it.
This image only contains around 30 Minutes of exposure time and wasn't even shot during proper darkness. Considering how close Orion currently is to the horizon this image shows a suprising amount of detail.
Sadly I didn't take any underexposed images to create a HDR, but I will probably do that once Orion is higher up in the winter night sky.
Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Mount: Skywatcher EQ5 Pro
Telescope: Omegon Pro Astrograph 154/600 F4
Guide camera: Orion starshoot autoguider
Guidescope: Orion 50mm
Coma Corrector: Skywatcher aplanatic coma corrector
Edited in Pixinsight and Darktable.
Luminance
40 x 180 seconds
ZWO ASI183MMPRO
Triplet 115/800
Flattener 2''
ASTRODON LUMINANCE FILTER
PIXINSIGHT Processed
NGC3372 LRGBHaOIIISII
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
34h of LRGBHaOIIISII data, combination in PixInsight done:
L: 24 x 300sec
R: 24 x 300sec
G: 24 x 300sec
B: 32 x 300sec
Ha: 26 x 1200sec
OIII: 18 x 1200sec
SII: 32 x 1200
NGC2170
LRGB data from Telescope Live. Processed with PixInsight.
Over 150 globular star clusters populate the Milky Way Galaxy. Many formed early in the evolution of the galaxy and are distributed in a roughly spheroidal halo extending above and below the galactic plane. The four clusters in this composite image were captured with the same telescope and camera under similar conditions and are identically scaled, allowing us to see how they compare as viewed from earth. Each photo spans just under 0.5 degrees on a side, or about the width of the full moon.
Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 8 @ f/7 (1422mm focal length)
Camera: QSI 683wsg
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach1GTO
Integration: ~10 mins per channel (10 x 1 mins subs)
Post Processing: PixInsight 1.8, Adobe Photoshop
22h30 d'intégration 270x300s
octobre 2023
traitement pixinsight+ps2014
LRGB-HOO
Caméra zwo 2600mm
filtre astrodon 3.5
eaf+raf+ 462mc zwo
Fsq85 Takahashi
cem60 monture
evoguide 242mm
Stack of 40 individual DSLR shots. Sky-Watcher 150P Newtonian. Prime focus, Baader Neodymium filter. PIPP > Registax > PixInsight > Photoshop with colour blend layer from individual raw frame.
North America Nebula NGC7000
Equipment H-Alpha:
TS 10" f/4 ONTC Newton
1000mm f4
GPU Aplanatic Koma Korrector
Moravian CCD G2-8300FW
Astronomik H-Alpha Filter
Losmandy G11/LFE Photo
Guding:
Lodestar on TS Optics - ultra short 9mm Off Axis Guider
PHD2
15x600 H-Alpha
10.07.2016
Processing: PixInsight/Lightroom
OTA: Newtonian Celestron 130 mm/f5 modified
Mount: Skywatcher Heq 5
Imaging Camera: Canon 700D astro modified
Telescope Guide: Gso 50mm
Camera Guide: QHY5L II Mono
Baader Mk III Coma Corrector
Polemaster Eletronic Polar Scope
Total Exposure: 4:30 hours (subs 300 sec)
Deep Sky Stacker: Calibration and stacking of frames/ Drizzle 2x
Adobe Photoshop Cs2 : Data Processing, Pulg-in: Hasta la vista, green
PHD Guiding 2: Guide
Darks, Dark Flats, Flats and Bias apply
Serra Negra ( Bortle 4) /São Paulo/Brasil . march/2019
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth.
Images taken at the end of September 2023.
Full resolution : astrob.in/o8h9n7/0/
Sii= 75x300s
Ha= 76x300s
Oii= 75x300s
Total time : 18h50'
-Equipment-
Scope: Askar107PHQ (740mm focal)
Camera: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro at -5°C gain 101 offset 49
Filter: Optolong SHO 3nm 50.80mm
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6
Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM+ZWO OAG-L
All processing was done in Pixinsight exept one step
-Pre Processing-
Image Calibration
Cosmetic Correction
Subframe Selector
Star Alignement
Local Normalization
Image Integration
Drizzle x2
-Processing-
Star Alignment
Dynamic Crop
Dynamic Background Extractor
BlurXTerminator
NoiseXTerminator
StarXTerminator
HistogramTransformation
-Stars-
ChanelCombination
ImageSolver
SpectrophotometricColorCalibration
HistogramTransformation
ACDNR (green100%)
ACDNR (green50%)Ctrl+i
ColorSaturation
-L-
Mix max(Ha and Sii)
HDRMultiscaleTransform with mask
Mix (0.75xL+0.25xL_boost)
-SHO-
SHO palette
TSL/color in Lightroom
ColorSaturation
-L-SHO-
LRGBCombination
CuvesTransformation
ColorSaturation
More CurveTransformation
Add Stars
FinalCrop
NGC1398
LRGB data from Telescope Live. Processed in PixInsight. Ha data not added yet.
This is a preliminary image with the Hydrogen Alpha data that I will add to the LRGB data that was posted on November 1st. The Ha data highlights the star-forming regions in the spiral arms of the galaxy.
ZWO ASI6200MM-P/EFW 2" x 7 (Chroma 3nm Ha)
Tele Vue NP101is (4" f/4.3)
Losmandy G11
Integration time:
Ha: 600s x 16 = 2:40
Captured with NINA, processed with PixInsight, and finished with Affinity Photo.
Messier 91
at distance of 20 Mio. Lj
Equipment:
TS 10" f/4 ONTC Newton
1000mm f4
GPU Aplanatic Koma Korrector
ZWO ASI585mc
Skywatcher EQ8
Guding:
Lodestar on TS Optics - ultra short 9mm Off Axis Guider
PHD2
1080x30s
total exposure time: 9 hours
Processing: PixInsight
This is my initial processing attempt at M33 the Triangulum Pinwheel.
Comments and critique always welcome, Thanks for the Favs.
Lum:276 @ 30s
Red: 47 @ 60s
Green: 49 @ 60s
Blue: 42 @ 60s
4 hours 36 minutes total integration.
Data Collected January 2021 from Ridgecrest CA.
Telescope: Orion 8" f/3.9 Newtonian.
Mount: Orion Atlas Pro Az/Eq-G
Guide: Camera ZWO 290mm Mini with OAG
Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM-Pro
Zwo Filters
Captured with N.I.N.A., processed with PixInsight
Lens: Canon 70-200 f/4 L
Cameras: Canon 550D, 500D
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ3
Guiding: ZWO ASI120MM-S
EXP: 397x120s iso800 f/4
Pixinsight, Photoshop
Iteration on the Sharpless catalogue of faint nebulae.
It's not a common object, and here is the close up. Very faint and difficult. I am really proud of it :D
Sh2-170 is an emission nebula in Cassiopeia at around 7500 light years away.
The bright star at the centre of the nebula is ionising the surrounding hydrogen gas, causing the nebula to glow.
This nebula is about 2/3 the diameter of the full moon.
Technical card
Imaging telescope or lens:Altair Astro RC250-TT 10" RC Truss Tube
Imaging camera:ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mount:Mesu 200 Mk2
Guiding telescope or lens:Celestron OAG Deluxe
Guiding camera:ZWO ASI174 Mini
Focal reducer:Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x
Software:Main Sequence Software Seqence Generator Pro, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Filters:Astrodon L Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm, Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm, Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm
Accessories:ZWO EFW, MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30
Resolution: 2328x1760
Dates:Sept. 25, 2019, Sept. 26, 2019, Sept. 27, 2019, Sept. 28, 2019
Frames:
Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 35x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 35x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm: 97x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm: 35x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 35x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm: 30x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 27.9 hours
Avg. Moon age: 27.48 days
Avg. Moon phase: 6.38%
Astrometry.net job: 2980353
RA center: 0.392 degrees
DEC center: 64.612 degrees
Pixel scale: 1.007 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 91.169 degrees
Field radius: 0.408 degrees
Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain
Data source: Own remote observatory
Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility
Date: 23:15-24:10JST Feb.10, 2021
Location: Asagiri Arena, Shizuoka Pref., Japan
Cloud Coverage: < 5%
Wind: Calm
Temperature: -7.7C ~ -8.0C
Humidity: 66% ~ 68%
Air pressure: 921.4 ~ 921.7hPa
Lens: SIGMA 135mm F1.8 DG HSM | Art (f/2.2)
Mount: RainbowAstro RST-135
Autoguider: QHY5L-II, LM75JC, PHD2
Camera: Canon EOS 6D (mod/SEO-SP4)
ISO speed: 3200
Exposure: 25x120sec.
Processing: PixInsight
SSRO- RCOS 16", Alta U9, PlaneWave Ascension 200HR, PixInsight 1.8, ACP, MaxIm DL, FocusMax
Object description at www.billionsandbillions.com
Faint dust and gas of the Dark Nebula LDN122 (Lynds' Catalog of Dark Nebulae) in the constellation Ophiuchus.
About this image:
Imaged in LRGB over several nights in rural dark skies of Southern Africa.
Technical Info:
William Optics Star 71mm f/4.9 Imaging APO Refractor.
Sensor cooled to -25°C on my QHY163M.
Integration Time: 14 hours
L = 8 hours (Binning 1x1)
R = 2 hours (Binning 2x2)
G = 2 hours (Binning 2x2)
B = 2 hours (Binning 2x2)
Calibration frames:
Bias, Darks and Flats.
Astrometry Plate Solving:
SGP Mosaic and Framing Wizard.
PlaneWave PlateSolve 2 via SGP.
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
and finished in Photoshop.
Astrometry Info:
Center RA, Dec: 253.987, -16.200
Center RA, hms: 16h 55m 56.791s
Center Dec, dms: -16° 12' 01.644"
Size: 1.6 x 1.07 deg
Radius:0.962 deg
Pixel scale: 3.6 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is 273 degrees E of N
View an Annotated Sky Chart for this image.
This image is part of the Legacy Series.
APOD GrAG:
apod.grag.org/2019/06/05/the-stardust-of-ldn122
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.
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TS-Optics 140mm
Touptek ToupTek 571c
Antlia Tri Band RGB Pro 2"
iOptron CEM70G
60 shots 300 sec each
Elaboration with Pixinsight
Equipment:
GSO RC8
1800mm f8
Moravian CCD G2-8300FW10
Astrodon LRGB Filter
Losmandy G11 LFE Photo
Guiding:
Starlight Lodestar an Celestron OAG + PHD
Date: Januar 2013
A test 2hr image integration of M42 from the Bortle 1 skies of Northern Chile, November 2024. Integration processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop using a Takahashi FSQ106 and a ZWO294 colour camera.
43X300 secondi,iso 800 Eos 5D Mk2 su FS60 CB e TKA20582 flatner F6,2
autoguida su AZEQ6 GT SW,processing Pixinsight 1.8.6 PCC function,elaborazione Photoshop CC15 e Topaz Labs plugin.
aggiunti altri 21 frames da 5 minuti
Lunt LS60THa/LS50FHa Double stack
ZWO ASI178MM
iOptron CEM70G
Lunt B1200 12mm Blocking Filter
Software
Filip Szczerek ImPPG (Image Post-Processor) · Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight · Torsten Edelmann FireCapture
Captured on August 22, September 23 at Grand Mesa Observatory using QHYCCD’s QHY600PH Back Illuminated Full Frame Monochrome camera that we have the honor of testing for QHYCCD.
IC 1396 is a large, faintly bright, star-forming region that is about 100 light-years across and lies toward the constellation Cepheus at a distance of about 2,400 light-years from the Solar System. In this nebula, cometary globules and long columns of dense dark dust are abundant, potential sites for the generation of new stars. One of these columns is the popular Elephant Trunk Nebula, better known by its name in English Elephant Trunk Nebula, named by astronomers for its amazing resemblance to an elephant's trunk, is cataloged as IC 1396A and shown by contrast against the bluish cavity that fills the center of IC 1396. This dense column of star births is more than 20 light-years long and is eroded by ultraviolet radiation from the star HD 206267, which is part of the open star cluster cataloged as Collinder 439 and Trumpler 37, which is located in the center of the nebula.
Infrared observations, capable of passing through the dust, indicate that this dense column of dust contains more than 250 very young stars in and around this cloud, some of them are baby stars that are not older than 100,000 years, in addition to 2 stars young of two million years of age, residing in a circular cavity located in the head of the globule. This cavity may have been carved out by radiation and winds from stars in the process of being born. The combined action of the light from the massive star that ionizes and compresses the edge of the cloud, and the wind from the young stars that displaces gas from the center outward, leads to very high compression in the Elephant Trunk Nebula, this pressure has unleashed the current generation of protostars. The star mu Cephei, 38,000 times brighter than the Sun, is a red supergiant with a diameter greater than the orbit of Saturn, some 2,536 times the diameter of the Sun, making it one of the largest known stars. mu Cephei is a variable whose brightness oscillates between magnitudes 3.4 and 5.1 in periods that approximate 730 days. Mouse over the image or click on touch screens to identify the objects mentioned. In this image north is 36º to the right of the vertical. Explanation and Publication by Juan Carlos "universo magico" www.universomagico.net/2022/11/ic-1396-por-terry-hancock....
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Technical Info:
Total Integration time 13.8 hours
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Date of capture: August 22, September 23
HA 275 min, 55 x 300 sec
OIII 345 min, 69 x 300 sec
SII 210 min, 42 x 300 sec
Camera: QHY600M Back Illuminated Full Frame Color CMOS
Gain 26 Offset 76
Read Mode: Photographic 16 bit
Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: Takahashi E-180 F2.8 Astrograph
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Mount: Paramount ME
Image Scale:1.55 arcsec/pix
Pre Processed in Pixinsight
Pre Processed Pixinsight and Post Processed in Photoshop
Messier 83
TS 115/800
ZWO ASI 1600 Mono Cooled
QHY OAG
LRGB (150 - 30 - 30 - 30) Frames de 5 minutos
Total: 4 horas
PixInsight + PS6
Seestar S50, EQ mode, LP filter, pianificazione da app Seestar, 384x20 secondi di posa. Elaborazione con PixInsight e Photoshop.
I was given a tip about colour calibrating my M31 image, and I managed to work out how to do this through Pixinsight. I never really understood how to do this before, but what a difference! I think the colours are more as they should be and it also makes me wonder what my other images might have looked like had I have done this with them too! Oh well...