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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
M52
SHO data from Telescope Live. Processed with PixInsight.
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
M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy
Easily one of the most photographed deep sky objects, M51 never ceases to amaze me. My first ever astrophoto in 2012 was of this galaxy, and I've shot it pretty much every year since, constantly improving on what had come before. This year was no different other than the amount of data I had.
I shot this over many nights in the spring and early summer despite having a lot of cloud cover to deal with. Overall, I had about 12 hours of data, but much of that didn't quite measure up due to clouds blowing through, deteriorating my images. It look me quite a long time to go through hundreds of images manually to weed out the obviously bad stuff until I had just shy of 8 hours of data. Then finally in stacking, I whittled that down even further.
This is the final image with 6 hours, 10 mins of data made up of a mix of 3 and 5 minute exposures.
-= Tech Data =-
-Equipment-
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
Mount: Celestron CGX
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
Filter: SCT Duo Narrowband
Focus: Pegasus Astro Dual Motor Focuser
Guide Camera: Orion SSAG
Guide Scope: Starfield 60mm guide scope
Dew Control: Kendrick
Power: Pegasus Astro Pocket Power Box
- Acquisition -
∙ 6H 10M of mixed 3 and 5 minute exposures.
Calibration:
∙ Darks: Master darks for each subframe length
- Bias: Master bias from my bias library (stack of 100 exposures)
- Software -
Acquisition / Rig Control: Sequence Generator Pro
Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor
Processing: PixInsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC
Shot at the Camden Lake Provincial Wildlike Area near Moscow, Ontario.
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...
50 Mio ly
Equipment:
10" /f4 TS ONTC Newton
ASI1600mmc v2
ZWO EFW 8x
Guiding TS9 OAG Lodestar
Losmandy G11
total 5,3 hours
2021
One of the earliest shots of space I took when I first started it looked nothing like this thats for sure. I took this as a photographer I chose to take the basic frame work at 300 sec but I then did a night each of Ha and Oiii at 120 sec to try and over come the blown out look of the center of the Trantula. This was because I found out that in Pixinsight you can stack them all together as long as you allow a differential in exposures.
This is SiiHaOiii in colour pallet. The detail of all the tendrils is staggering . This has me going to start a 30 shot panorama of the Whole LMC area and surround.
QHY268M -10c 5 min and other times each filter over 5 nights , 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
ZWOCAA rotator
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps
Crop of larger image
Imaging telescopes or lenses: RCOS 14.5", Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200
Imaging cameras: FLI MicroLine 8300 CCD-camera FLI, QSI 683WSG-8 OAG QSI 683
Mount: Paramount-ME
Guiding telescope or lens: Borg 77 ED
Software: Pixinsight 1.8
Filters: Astrodon Luminance, Astrodon Blue, Astrodon Red, Astrodon Green
Accessories: FLI Atlas, Starlight Xpress lodestar 2
Resolution: 3374x3925
Dates: Nov. 2, 2016, Nov. 7, 2016, Nov. 8, 2016
Frames:
Astrodon Blue: 16x180" bin 1x1
Astrodon Green: 18x180" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 9x300" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 46x600" bin 1x1
Astrodon Red: 20x180" bin 1x1
I have been looking forward to this target for quite some time.
The RCOS over in DSW has been busy collecting the lum which I have paired with an abandoned LRGB shot I was taking on my OS (i collected the RGB but decided to abandon the lum as target was too small). However the RCOS luminance data has allowed me to have a look at this object. I will likely have another go when the RGB is from DSQ is also available.
Not only is this a lovely target to look at but there is so much going on. The result of a recent (1 billion years ago sort of recent) galaxy collision. Massive outburst and super clusters and of course the polar rings (which are at c45 degrees not 90 so not clear on the naming!)
Here's the Wikipedia data..........................
NGC 660 is a peculiar and unique polar-ring galaxy located approximately 45 million light years from Earth in the Pisces constellation. It is the only such galaxy having, as its host, a "late-type lenticular galaxy". It was probably formed when two galaxies collided a billion years ago. However, it may have first started as a disk galaxy that captured matter from a passing galaxy. This material could have, over time, become "strung out" to form a rotating ring.
The ring is not actually polar, but rather has an inclination from the plane of the host disk of approximately 45 degrees. The extreme number of pinkish star-forming areas that occurs along the galaxy's ring could be the result of the gravitation interaction caused by this collision. The ring is 50,000 light-years across - much broader than the disk itself - and has a greater amount of gas and star formation than the host ring. This likely indicates a very violent formation. The polar ring contains objects numbering in the hundreds. Many of these are red and blue supergiant stars. The most recently created stars in the ring were just formed approximately 7 million years ago. This indicates that the formation of these stars has been a long process and is still occurring.
Data about the dark matter halo of NGC 660 can be extracted by observing the gravitational effects of the dark matter on the disk and ring's rotation. From the core of the disk, radio waves are being emitted. The source of these waves is an area only 21 light years across. This may indicate the presence of a super-cluster of stars located within an area of cloud of gas. The region in the centre has a vast amount of star formation, so luminous that it is considered to be a starburst galaxy.
Late in 2012, this polar-ring galaxy produced an enormous outburst having a magnitude of approximately ten times brighter than a supernova explosion. The cause is not certain, but this event may have resulted from a tremendous jet being emanating from galaxy's central black hole.
Captured: March 29, 2019.
Location: AO Nostromo, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia
Telescope: SkyWatcher MN190/1000
Mount: SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6 GT
Camera: DSLR Canon 450D (full spectrum)
Frames: 36×420″
Exposure: 4.2h
Software: PHD2; BackyardEOS; PixInsight; Photoshop
A complete reedit starting with Pixinsight and only using Ps to finish out the edit. This was only ever a trial as it only 28 subs to see how I could get photos from in the city very early on in the journey of deep space photography with computerised programs. Never before have I seen this much detail of the dust clouds around Orion or the very small nebula just below NGC1999. Ps have never given me anything like this amount of detail. Compare the shot below my first look at editing this nebula.
At the end of the year this will be revisited out of the city on a farm, where I have all night to capture frames no trees no houses.
Long integration capture using narrow band filters and HSO palette plus rgb stars.
My longest integration up to now (51 hours), capturing frames during the last three months.
"The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant in the constellation of Taurus.
The nebula lies in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way galaxy, at a distance of about 2.0 kiloparsecs (6,500 ly) from Earth. It has a diameter of 3.4 parsecs (11 ly) and is expanding at a rate of about 1,500 kilometres per second or 0.5% of the speed of light."
(desc. credits: Wikipedia)
Technical card
Imaging telescopes or lenses:Altair Astro RC250-TT 10" RC Truss Tube, Teleskop Service TS Photoline 107mm f/6.5 Super-Apo
Imaging cameras:ZWO ASI183MM-Cool, ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mounts:Skywatcher EQ6R Pro, Mesu 200 Mk2
Guiding telescopes or lenses:Teleskop Service TSOAG9 Off-Axis Guider, Celestron OAG Deluxe
Guiding cameras:ZWO ASI174 Mini, ZWO ASI290 Mini
Focal reducers:Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x, Telescope-Service TS 2" Flattener
Software:Main Sequence Software Seqence Generator Pro, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Filters:Optolong OIII 6.5nm 36mm, Optolong SII 6.5nm 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, MoonLite CSL 2.5" Focuser with High Res Stepper Motor
Resolution: 1979x1476
Dates:Oct. 27, 2019, Nov. 24, 2019, Nov. 30, 2019, Dec. 2, 2019, Dec. 22, 2019
Frames:
Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 60x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 60x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm: 175x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Optolong OIII 6.5nm 36mm: 63x600" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 60x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Optolong SII 6.5nm 36mm: 63x600" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 51.7 hours
Avg. Moon age: 18.27 days
Avg. Moon phase: 14.46%
Astrometry.net job: 3149190
RA center: 83.630 degrees
DEC center: 22.014 degrees
Pixel scale: 1.007 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 90.441 degrees
Field radius: 0.345 degrees
Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain
Data source: Own remote observatory
Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility
Here is a view of C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) taken last evening, October 27, 2025. This is a stacked 30-minute exposure and was stacked on the moving comet.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO ASI071MC camera running at -10F, 30 x 60 second exposures, EQ6R-Pro Mount, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in DSS and PixInsight. Image Date: October 27, 2025. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
ASI 294 MC PRO.
72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.
Star Adventurer.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 250 -10ºc
14x300s
L-Enhance
Bortle 8.
PixInsight, Topaz Denoise AI.
5.5 hr total exposure, taken with an ES ED152 CF @ f/8 and a SXVR-H814 camera. L:30x5 min, RGB 3x12x5 min binned 2x2. Processed with Pixinsight as LRGB.
---Photo details----
Stacks RGB: 82x2min
Darks : 100
Flats: 100
Exposure Time : 2h44min
Stack program : PixInsight
---Photo scope---
Camera : ZWO ASI2600MC PRO
CCD Temperature : -10C
Filter(s) used: Optolong L-Pro
Tube : Takahashi FSQ-106 EDX4
Field flattener / Reducer : -
Effective focal length : 530 mm
Effective aperture : F/5
---Guide scope---
Camera : ASI Mini guider
Guide exposure : 2 sec
---Mount and other stuff---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
---Processing details----
NINA for acquisition, controlling the following:
- ASTAP (plate solving)
- PHD2 (guiding)
- Stellarium
PixInsight : stacking, alignment, background extraction, histogram manipulation
Lightroom for final touchups
Topaz Denoise for a last processing step
From the Wiki…
The Flame Nebula, designated as NGC 2024 and Sh2-277, is an emission nebula in the constellation Orion. It is about 900 to 1,500 light-years away.
The bright star Alnitak (just outside the field of view at the top of this image), the easternmost star in the Belt of Orion, shines energetic ultraviolet light into the Flame and this knocks electrons away from the great clouds of hydrogen gas that reside there. Much of the glow results when the electrons and ionized hydrogen recombine. Additional dark gas and dust lies in front of the bright part of the nebula and this is what causes the dark network that appears in the center of the glowing gas. The Flame Nebula is part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, a star-forming region that includes the famous Horsehead Nebula.
At the center of the Flame Nebula is a cluster of newly formed stars, 86% of which have circumstellar disks. X-ray observations by the Chandra X-ray Observatory show several hundred young stars, out of an estimated population of 800 stars. X-ray and infrared images indicate that the youngest stars are concentrated near the center of the cluster.
Thanks for looking, take care.
Hi res link:
live.staticflickr.com/65535/50747689278_5f37be0762_o.jpg
Information about the image:
Center (RA, Dec):(85.407, -1.689)
Center (RA, hms):05h 41m 37.563s
Center (Dec, dms):-01° 41' 21.605"
Size:47.9 x 31.3 arcmin
Radius:0.477 deg
Pixel scale:0.732 arcsec/pixel
Orientation:Up is 119 degrees E of N
Instrument: Planewave CDK 12.5 | Focal Ratio: F8
Camera: STXL-11000 + AOX | Mount: AP900GTO
Camera Sensitivity: Lum, Ha: BIN 1x1, RGB: BIN 2x2
Exposure Details: Total: 23.0 hours | Lum: 48 x 900 sec [12.0hr], Ha: 16 x 1200 sec [5.0hr], RGB 16 x 450sec each [6.0hrs]
Viewing Location: Central Victoria, Australia.
Observatory: ScopeDome 3m
Date: November-December 2020
Software Enhancements: CCDStack2, CCDBand-Aid, PS, Pixinsight
Author: Steven Mohr
While I was editing the shot from last night I looked at the Shots and saw they joined the other Panorama well.
While Ptgui was able to put it together I could not see the shot as it was 115898 x 73441 pix size not just big, huge. This is the 10th go at trying to get a shot that would save on the computer. In the end I hit on the idea of cutting the two down in size to below Half full size. This is a even further cut down of the shot that came out to get it on to Flickr. This is 5 panoramas to get this length 42 panels or 21 long x 2 wide. I was able to get on top of Nina's Rotation as well as this is how the second half ( which is the right hand side) was taken. This put paid to the idea to get the rest of the milky way very late winter to finish out the left hand side. It will now never been done as my small computer cant handle the Huge files.
Just editing this File size 31265x 5960 pix 2.75 GB a lot of the editing was 5 min each part. I am happy the way this has come out The head of the Emu and the body Show up very well as do the pointers and the Southern Cross. This Shot of the Milky way Bow gives you a good idea just what you are looking at a bit more than the whole left hand side of the Bow.
ZWOASI071MC -10 43 shots per night
600 sec rotated .
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Nikon 105 mm f2.8 G Lens
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.
54*600s - 800ISO - Ha 12nm
60*300s - 800ISO - RVB
Soit environ 15h d'exposition totale.
Set-up:
TS70/420mm
Canon 1000D défiltré partiel + Canon 1000D débayerisé
HEQ5
Traitement:
Siril - Pixinsight - Photoshop CS6
ASSA Astrophotography Workshop 2018
Bendleby Ranges - South Australia
19th March 2018
QHY8Pro
Sigma Art 50mm f/1.4 DG @ f/3.5
HEQ5-Pro
4x600sec
Processed in PixInsight
ASI 294 MC PRO.
72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.
Star Adventurer 2i.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc
L-Extreme 40x300s
Bortle 8.
PixInsight.
Telescope: ASKAR 300
Camera: QHY 268m
Mount: 10 Micron GM2000 hps II
Filters: Baader [ SII] 6.5nm Astrodon Ha 5nm, [OIII] 5nm
Processing: PixInsight
Total exposure: 19h 30m
Antonio.ferretti & Attilio Bruzzone - Gruppo Astrofili Frentani
5x180s @ ISO800 light
20x180s @ ISO800 dark
100x1/8000s @ ISO800 bias
50x1s @ ISO800 flat
(data from 5/11/2015)
SW 200PDS
Nikon D7000 (Ha modded)
HEQ5 PRO
Processing in pixinsight 1.8
From the Wiki…
The Henize 70 Super Bubble is located approximately 170,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Seabream, and is within the Large Magellanic Cloud. A superbubble or supershell is a cavity which is hundreds of light years across and is populated with hot gas atoms, less dense than the surrounding interstellar medium, blown against that medium and carved out by multiple supernovae and stellar winds. The winds, passage and gravity of newly born stars strip superbubbles of any other dust or gas.
Thanks for looking, take care.
Hi res link:
live.staticflickr.com/65535/52413765376_596efd6ac8_o.jpg
Information about the image:
Center (RA, Dec):(85.856, -67.868)
Center (RA, hms):05h 43m 25.348s
Center (Dec, dms):-67° 52' 04.293"
Size:46.9 x 31.3 arcmin
Radius:0.470 deg
Pixel scale:0.733 arcsec/pixel
Orientation:Up is 17.7 degrees E of N
Instrument: Planewave CDK 12.5 | Focal Ratio: F8
Camera: STXL-11000 + AOX | Mount: AP900GTO
Camera Sensitivity: Lum, Ha: BIN 1x1, RGB: BIN 2x2
Exposure Details: Total: 21.33 hours | Lum: 20 x 900 sec [5.0hr], Ha: 31 x 1200 sec [10.33hr], RGB 16 x 450sec each [6.0hrs]
Viewing Location: Central Victoria, Australia.
Observatory: ScopeDome 3m
Date: Aug 2018 - Mar 2022
Software Enhancements: CCDStack2, CCDBand-Aid, PS, Pixinsight
Author: Steven Mohr
Ha 7x600s and OIII 5x600s, binned 1x1, -20deg.
Atik 383l+ Mono CCD + Baader 36mm 7nm Ha 8nm OIII filters.
Total exposure 2 hours.
Skywatcher Evostar 80 DS-PRO with Skywatcher 0.85 FR/FF
HEQ5 PRO Synscan with Rowan Belt Drive mod.
Orion 50mm guidescope with ASI120MM.
Stacked and processed in PixInsight.
Thanks for looking.
Messier 97 Owl (25% Crop)
Skywatcher 100ED
Canon 700d
ISO800 10x120s (20 mins)
Celestron CGEM DX
Processed in PixInsight
The Heart Nebula (IC 1805) lies about 7,500 light years away from Earth in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. The brightest part of the nebula (a knot at its western edge) is separately classified as NGC 896, because it was the first part of the nebula to be discovered. The nebula's intense red output and its morphology are driven by the radiation emanating from a small group of stars near the nebula's center. This open cluster of stars, known as Melotte 15, contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass of our Sun, and many more dim stars that are only a fraction of our Sun's mass. The Heart Nebula is located adjacent to the Soul Nebula forming a view referred to as the Heart and Soul Nebula.
Tech Specs: William Optics REDCAT 51 Telescope, ZWO ASI071MC camera running at 0F, 180-minutes using 5-minute exposures, Optolong l-eXtreme 2” filter, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro mount, ZWO EAF (ProAstroGear Black-CAT) and ASIAir Pro, guided using a ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 mini, processed in PixInsight. Image Date: July 28 and August 25, 2024. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
The Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146) in the constellation Cygnus. This is a reflection/emission nebula, note the dark trail behind it, this is a dark nebula called Barnard 168 and it forms the appearance of a trail behind the Cocoon.
Tech Specs: William Optics REDCAT 51 Telescope, ZWO ASI071MC camera running at 0F and Optolong L-eXtreme 2” Filter, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro mount, ZWO EAF (ProAstroGear Black-CAT) and ASIAir Pro, guided using a ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 mini, processed in PixInsight. Image Date: August 1, 2025. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
My best telephoto shot as the sun cleared the trees.
Tech Stuff: Canon EOS 400D; Canon 75-300 zoom at 300mm. Single frame 1/4000 at f/25, ISO 100. Processed in PixInsight and ACDSee.
This is first look at a coloured nebula this side of Town As these two are so close this is a two shot Panorama in this case sitting vertically. This shot went straight together in PTGui even though it was only stars as the join. This is a part of the Carina Nebula the Hand cluster is to the left and carina to Right.
This is two nights per panel or 105 shots each as the nights get longer.
QHY183C -10c 105 shot 10 min over two nights each.
Prima Luce Essato Focus, Focus on the hour ,
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA Rotated 76 degrees
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps.
Robotic data from Grand Mesa Observatory Scope 4.
14 subexposures were blended as comet only and star only images then combined.
The globular clusters are Messier 53 and NGC 5053.
Processed only in PixInsight.
okay. i think i've done as much as i'm going to be able to do with the subs that i've got here.
all data acquired with LB-0003 in rodeo, nm, between 11/15/2009 and 11/18/2009. LB-0003 is a 12", f/9 R-C astrograph attached to an Apogee Alta U16M CCD camera. FOV is 45 by 45 arcminutes.
L(RGB); L=180s,240s and 480s @ 1x1 bin. histogram stretch in pixinsight LE, followed by 'hdr' fusion with enfuse. resultant tiff then processed with curves and a trous wavelet functions in pixinsight LE.
RGB = 180s and 240s each channel @ 2x2 bin. 2 separate stretches+curves prepared from 240s data and one prepared from the 180s data using pixinsight LE. these 3 frames hdr merged with enfuse, then upsized to 4098x4098 and slight noise reduction in pixinsight LE.
LRGB stack in photoshop CS, then final tweaks in lightroom 2.
all frames registered and aligned with deepskystacker.
all of this and the trapezium is still blown and grey... ugh.
UPDATE: a bit of photoshop to get rid of those UFOs.
update2: very nice composition using this picture: www.flickr.com/photos/terrakate/4539705783/
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I took this photo in Nelson, NV, a Ghost Town that is very close to my stargazing and imaging spot. It was my first time actually trying light painting on huge objects such as this tower and the vehicles. It took a bit of trial and error but I am pretty happy about the final image. This beautiful town is in a Bortle 3 zone, the Milky Way was, to the naked eye, grey/blue but had obvious details.
Walking around the town wasn't relaxing. We had to have our torch light towards the ground at all times in case there was snakes or huge spiders. We could also hear coyotes barking very loud inside the town itself...
I hope to do a few Milky Way shots like this one before the next Winter, let me know what you think!
Composición de dos fotos , una con un tiempo de 1/250s para tomar la luna y otra con 0.8s para tomar el resto.
Procesado con capas en PS y Pixinsight
Equipo igual que en las anteriores
Even at the Summer Solstice there's just enough darkness for a couple of hours imaging at my latitude.
This nebula was discovered by William Herschel on October 24, 1786, from Slough, England. The wall structure in NGC 7000 is rich in ionised hydrogen and oxygen gasses. The golden areas of the image map the distribution of hydrogen and the blue oxygen.
The image is made up of a total of a little of 7 hours exposure time using Hydrogen alpha and Oxygen III filters.
Imaged using an Altair 6"RC Atik 460ex and the processed in Pixinsight and CS5.
Stephan’s Quintet can be found in the constellation Pegasus, the apparent magnitude of these galaxies hovers around 14.0, making this a tough object to capture in a smaller telescope. This group of galaxies was discovered by Edouard Stephan in 1877 at Marseille Observatory. Although referred to as a quintet, only four of the five galaxies are interacting with each other at a distance of about 300 million light years! NGC 7320 is actually much closer at a distance of “only” 40 million light years.
The members in the group include NGC 7320, NGC 7319, NGC 7318a, NGC 7318b, and NGC 7317. The group is also listed in the Arp catalog as ARP319.
Observation data (Epoch J2000)
Constellation(s): Pegasus
Right ascension: 22h 35m 57.5s
Declination: +33° 57′ 36″
Number of galaxies: 5
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90 SCT Telescope, Antares Focal Reducer, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at 0F, 177 x 60 seconds, Celestron CGX-L pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in DSS and PixInsight. Image Date: August 1, 2025. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
While the Old year Ended and the New Started my final shot of the year edited 5am this morning. This is the Horse head nebula in the view we are more use to seeing but not in the colour's we would expect. This is the Hubble pallet with RGB stars.
What is different about this to the last shot of the Horse head in November was being able to Rotate the focuser and also have a counter weight to offset the filter wheel. Where the filter wheel ends up the weight is opposite.
This was rotated 40 degrees straight up because of the scale I put on to suit the body of the focuser. The scale is long lines 10 and the small 5 degrees of rotation.
The trial will continue and get slowly better refined so rotation will become the normal to suit the image much the same way on a DSLR we compose the shot we want. This was much the same way I used the ED80 and my Nikon lens all views rotated to suit the target.
Happy new Year to all the readers here and Look forward to 2025 and our shots, clear skies and cool nights
QHY183M -10c 100 Odd shots 5 min each filter over five nights .. 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps, Lr
Image Details:
7 hours 5 mins exposure.
19x300s and 10x600s L 1x1 (3 hrs 15mins)
15x300s R 1x1 (1hr 15mins)
14x300s G 1x1 (1hr 10mins)
17x300s B 1x1 (1hr 25mins)
Scope - Altair Astro 8"RC, CCDT67 reduced to 1231mm/F6.06.
Sensor - Atik 383l+ Mono CCD + Baader LRGB filters. -20degC.
Scale - 0.91 arcsec/pixel.
Mount - Altair Astro Pier mounted iOptron CEM60.
Guiding - Lodestar X2 and SX OAG with PHD2.
Sequence Generator Pro and PixInsight.
Thanks for looking.