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Thirty minutes of live stacking with a Celestron Origin. Extra processing with Pixinsight.

56 Minuten belichtet mit dem EF2/100 bei F4. 56 Einzelbelichtungen mit dem Optolong LPro Filter auf einer modifizierten Canon 6D. Bildbearbeitung mit PixInsight, Topaz AI und Lightroom.

The Elephant's Trunk nebula is a region of ionized gasses located in the constellation Cepheus at a distance of 2,400 light-years from Earth. Of interest in this area is the population of very young newborn stars, whose intense stellar winds are excavating the interior of the nebula. Dark wisps of dust hide the cocoon of forming stars, called "globules", which will be blown away when the star ignites.

 

Captured recently in Narrowband and Broadband using a QHY600 60 Megapixel Full Frame Monochrome CMOS camera mounted on a Takahashi 130 FSQ, courtesy of QHYCCD.

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

grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment-rentals.

In this Hubble Palette version (SHO) the H-Alpha is mapped to green channel, SII is mapped to red channel and OIII is mapped to the blue channel. The raw data was preprocessed using Pixinsight, the stars were removed using a tool called "Starnet" I was so delighted with the result of the starless image I decided to post a starless image as well as the image with the RGB stars.

Captured bin 2x2 over 5 nights between March and July 2021 for a total acquisition time of 13.1 hours.

View in High Resolution

Astrobin

Starless Version: www.astrobin.com/n0379w/

RGB Stars Version: www.astrobin.com/0vf46r/

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Technical Details

Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado

Dates of Capture April 18th, July 1st, 4th, 7th and 8th 2021

HA 140 min, 28 x 300 sec

OIII 145 min, 29 x 300 sec

SII 135 min, 27 x 300 sec

LUM 94 min, 47 x 120 sec

RED 96 min, 48 x 120 sec

GREEN 92 min, 46 x 120 sec

BLUE 84 min, 42 x 120 sec

Narrowband Filters by Chroma

Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS Photographic version

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

Calibrated with Dark, Dark/Flat Frames

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

Mount: Paramount ME

Image Scale:2.39 arcsec/pix

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

 

An LRGB image of IC4812

 

Data subs courtesy of Telescope Live.

 

Processed in PixInsight and Affinity Photo.

Astro-Physics 130 GTX + QUADTCC @ F/4.5

Moravian G3 11002 + Astrodon LRGB

Astro Physics 1200

 

RGB: 25x300s bin 1x1

 

Total exposure: 6h

  

Captured with Sequence Generator Pro

Processed with Pixinsight

Whirlpool Galaxy M51

Shot on fast newtonian 8" f/3 with Televue Paracorr 2 and QHY183

Image integration of 46x150sec

Binning=1x1

Capture Area=5544x3692

Colour Space=RAW16

Processed in Pixinsight

 

Canon R7

85 mm (136 mm FF) f1.4 ISO 800 20 fotos

Procesado Pixinsight y PS

Date: 25:50-26:55JST Aug.3, 2019

Location: Amagi Highland, Shizuoka Pref., Japan

Cloud Coverage: 5 ~ 30%

Wind: Calm

Temperature: 15.7C ~ 17.7C

Humidity: 93 ~ 94%

Air pressure: 899hPa

Lens: SIGMA 70mm F2.8 DG MACRO | Art (f/3.2)

Mount: SWAT-310 (single axis autoguiding)

Autoguider: QHY5L-II, LM75JC, PHD2

Camera: Canon EOS 6D (SEO-SP4)

ISO speed: 1600

Exposure: 20x180sec.

Processing: PixInsight

 

updated on Aug.9, 2019

Imagen procesada por mi con Pixinsight y PS a partir de los ficheros existentes en el Hubble Archive Legacy y correspondientes a cuatro longitudes de onda 814, 658 , 555 y 435 nm. La imagen recoge la impresionante galaxia en espiral M51 , también llamada del remolino y la galaxia NGC 5195 sita al final de uno de los brazos.

Charles Messier descubrió en 1773 la galaxia del remolino, M51 o NGC5194 y en 1781 Pierre Mechain descubrió NGC5195, la galaxia acompañante. Las galaxias se encuentran a unos 31 millones de años luz de la Tierra en la constelación de Canes Venatici. Tiene una magnitud aparente de 8,4 y se puede detectar con un pequeño telescopio con mayor facilidad durante el mes de mayo en las cercanías de la estrella más oriental (Alkaid) de la Osa Mayor.

Los brazos son autenticas fabricas de estrellas y están recorridos por nebulosas de hidrógeno en color rojo intenso , a modo de pequeñas joyas , engarzadas por cadenas de polvo marrón.

NGC5195 la galaxia amarillenta en uno de los extremos de un brazo, está , de acuerdo a los datos del Hubble, pasando por detrás de la galaxia M51 , ejerciendo fuerzas de marea sobre los brazos.

 

Image processed by me with Pixinsight and PS from existing files in the Hubble Archive Legacy and corresponding to four wavelengths 814, 658, 555 and 435 nm. The image includes the impressive spiral galaxy M51, also called the whirlpool and the galaxy NGC 5195 located at the end of one of the arms.

Charles Messier discovered in 1773 the whirlpool galaxy, M51 or NGC5194 and in 1781 Pierre Mechain discovered NGC5195, the companion galaxy. The galaxies are located about 31 million light years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. It has an apparent magnitude of 8.4 and can be detected with a small telescope more easily during the month of May in the vicinity of the easternmost star (Alkaid) of Ursa Major.

The arms are authentic factories of stars and are crossed by hydrogen nebulae in deep red color, like small jewels, set by chains of brown dust.

NGC5195, the yellowish galaxy at one end of an arm, is, according to Hubble data, passing behind the M51 galaxy, exerting tidal forces on the arms.

There is a lot of unglamorous work associated with owning a private observatory. In our case, we had to upgrade the telescope control system about a year ago and thereafter ensued a lot of additional upgrades and testing which revealed other problems we had not been aware of. Consequently we have cleaned the 26" primary mirror, adjusted the polar alignment, fine-tuned the tracking rate, laser-collimated the optical system, installed new dome control, installed a new auto-guiding system, added three new cameras and a new filter wheel. Each step is followed by testing an exhausting number of star images on every clear night available, which commences after our observatory guests have left around midnight.

You might guess that the glamorous part is getting to capture images of the wonders in our universe, but actually it is meeting the wonderful people who visit us and shake our hands when they leave.

Prior to this image, we had photographed the Pinwheel in April of 2021 and by a complete coincidence chose it as our live-stack object for guests about 10 1/2 hours after Supernova SN 2023ixf was discovered on May 19, 2023. At the time of discovery, the estimated magnitude was 14.9 and the object brightened significantly in our subsequent imaging to an estimated magnitude of 11 on May 22.

This image was taken on July 9, showing that the object has dimmed and while not a perfect image, we are noting significant improvement and claiming a bit of success following the work we have done on our imaging train thus far.

Equipment: 26" Newtonian Reflector Telescope f/4.8

Custom Mount with PMC-8 Controller

ZWO ASI6200 MC Pro Camera (broadband single shot color)

Optec TCF Focuser

Imaging: 119 images captured in Sharpcap Pro @ 60 sec unguided

Processed in Deep Sky Stacker, Pixinsight, Astro-Flat, StarXTerminator and Topaz

 

Thank you for reading.

NGC2427 LRGBHa grayscale

 

Planewave 17” CDK

Camera: FLI ML16803

Filter: Chroma L,R,G,B,Ha

Focuser: IRF90

Focal Length: 2939mm

Focal Ratio: f/6.8

Mount: 10 Micron GM3000

Location: Deep Sky West, Chile

29h of LRGBHa data, combination in PixInsight done:

L: 36 x 300sec

R: 30 x 300sec

G: 30 x 300sec

B: 36 x 300sec

Ha: 36 x 1800sec

  

PhotometricColorCalibration in PixInsight done.

BlurXTerminator used.

 

www.deepskywest.com/

planewave.com/product/cdk17-ota/

L = 300s x 6

RGB = 300s x 1

PixInsight

Planewave CDK700WF

Planewave Alt-Az

CCD: FLI PLO09000

Astrodon E series

Localizado na constelação de escorpião, temos um dos Aglomerados abertos mais belos do nosso céu.

Ptolomeu observou esse aglomerado ainda no século II, em 1764 Charles Messier o catalogou em sua lista de objetos

como Messier 7.

Em um céu com pouca poluição luminosa é possível observa-lo a olho nú, próximo a cauda do escorpião.

Tem idade estimada em 220 milhões de anos e se encontra a 800 anos-luz da Terra. Sua magnitude aparente

é de 3,3.

Ao fundo dessa imagem podemos observar centenas de milhares de estrelas. Passear pelo background dessa

imagem nos da uma pequena noção do nosso tamanho no universo.

Acima desse denso véu de nossa casa, a viá láctea, podemos observar em seu esplendor o Aglomerado de Ptolomeu.

São cerca de 100 estrelas que compõem essa jóia encrustrada na cauda do escorpião.

Outro fator de destaque são as núvens de poeira. Elas encobrem parte do fundo da imagem, o que nos dá

uma noção de sua densidade, escurecendo algumas regiões da imagem.

No canto superior esquerdo, podemos também observar um aglomerado globular denominado: NGC 6453, descoberto

em 1837 por John Herschel

 

Ficha Técnica:

Telescope: Triplet 115/800

Reducer: 0.79

Camera: ZWO ASI 183MMPRO

Filter Wheel: ZWO ASI 8x1,25

Filters: RGB Astrodon

Red: 40 subs 120 seconds

Green: 33 Subs 120 seconds

Blue: 31 Subs 120 seconds

Darks, flats and Bias

Total: 208 minutes

DSS + PixInsight + PS6

Recaptured M27 this month. processed entirely in PixInsight for the first time...

 

Captured with a Sony a6000 on a 6" GSO RCT

used ~40 sub frames captured over 2 nights at 5 min exposure time each at ISO 800.

 

The Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Apple Core Nebula, Messier 27, M 27, or NGC 6853) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1,360 light-years.

 

Like many nearby planetary nebulae, the Dumbbell contains knots. Its central region is marked by a pattern of dark and bright cusped knots and their associated dark tails (see picture). The knots vary in appearance from symmetric objects with tails to rather irregular tail-less objects. Similarly to the Helix Nebula and the Eskimo Nebula, the heads of the knots have bright cusps which are local photoionization fronts.

 

The central star, a white dwarf, is estimated to have a radius which is 0.055±0.02 R☉ (0.13 light seconds) which gives it a size larger than most other known white dwarfs.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbbell_Nebula

  

Le double amas de Persée.

3h09 d’intégration.

Asi 1600mm sur Newton SW 200/800. Prétraitement et traitement Pixinsight.

Bode's Galaxies M81 and M82 in the constellation Bid Dipper

 

Firstlight with my first Newton ever

Besides the collimation and the camera distance to the coma corrector are far from prefect, i'm still impressed from the fine resolution of the 10 inch mirror :)

 

Cam: Canon EOS 7Da

Scope: Lacerta Newton ohne Namen 254/1000

Coma Corrector: Lacerta/SkyWatcher GPU

Astromount: SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6 GT

Autoguider: Lacerta M-GEN plus Finderscope 9x50

20x 600sec | ISO400

Processed with PixInsight, PS

 

My Astrobin My 500px My Facebook

 

© Claus Steindl

Taken with iTelescope.netT14 (T14, Mayhill, New Mexico: Takahashi FSQ-ED 106mm, SBIG STL-11000M)

 

70 minutes of data: 3 red, 3 green, 5 blue, 5 luminance each of 5 minutes

 

Processing with FixFits (remove bad columns) and PixInsight (star alignment, image integration, linear fit, integration of rgb with channel combination, luminance added separately, final gentle processing with curves transformation).

While the main and most prominent object in this image is the Glowing California Nebula otherwise known as NGC 1499, there is much dust and in the annotated version www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/49425960883/in/datepos... an abundance of distant galaxies are also visible. It only takes 1000 years for light to reach us from the California Nebula, yet in this very same image we are looking at photons that left the distant elliptical galaxy IC 2027 287 million years ago.

 

Captured from Grand Mesa Observatory in Western Colorado over 3 nights using the QHY128C Full Frame One Shot color CMOS camera on one of the Twin Takahashi E-180 Astrographs “System 4a” and available from their legacy data archive: grandmesaobservatory.com/legacy

 

Total Integration time 13 hours

 

Image details

Terry Hancock downunderobservatory.com

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado

 

Dates of capture: December 30th 2019, 14th, 17th January 2020

Color RGGB 785 min, 157 x 300 sec

Camera: QHY128C Color CMOS

Calibrated with flat, Dark & Bias

Optics: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph

Filter UV-IR Cut by Optolong

Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6

Pre Processed in Pixinsight

Post Processed in Photoshop

Star Reduction with Starnet

 

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

starbase.insightobservatory.com/inventory

 

nova.astrometry.net/user_images/10932951#annotated

NGC 7000 North America Nebula - Cygnus Wall

 

HA:= 23 x 900s

OIII:= 16 x 900s

SII:= 19 x 900s

 

(SHO Hubble Palette)

 

Takahashi FSQ-85

NEQ6 Pro

Atik 383L+

 

Taken on the nights of 6th, 7th, 8th, 12th and 13th July 2013

 

Captured with Artemis.

PHD Guiding

Stacked, aligned with Pixinsight

 

Flats, Bias and Darks applied.

Processed with Pixinsight and Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Tone Mapping).

 

NGC 7000

The North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, close to Deneb (the tail of the swan and its brightest star). The remarkable shape of the nebula resembles that of the continent of North America, complete with a prominent Gulf of Mexico.

 

IC410 is an emission nebula in the constellation of Auriga. Often called the Tadpole Nebula in reference to the two tadpole shaped clumps in the upper left of the nebula.

NGC1893 is the open cluster of stars in the middle of IC410. It's these stars that are ionizing and shaping the surrounding nebula. The tadpoles themselves could be collapsing in to new stars.

The nebula is around 12 to 12,500 light years away and 100 light years across.

The open star cluster is believed to have been formed 2 to 4 million years ago.

Captured from my back garden in Rochdale, UK. Bortle 6.

 

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8"S with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Backyard Universe primary mask and Backyard Universe secondary spider. Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.

120s exposures.

Best 80% of 40 light frames.

Darks, Flats, Dark Flats & Bias.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

Target: IC1396 Elephant Trunk Nebula.

This is my first light using the ASI294MM Pro Mono camera with Narrowband filters.

I used Pixinsight and Photoshop to produce the SHO Hubble Pallet and added RGB stars

The processing details listed below are incomplete as my workflow is a work in progress

 

Gear:

• Mount: ZWO AM5

• Main Cam: ZWO ASI294MM Pro @ gain 120 and 4F

• Guide Cam: ZWO ASI120MM Mini with Askar OAG

• Telescope: Askar 103APO w/ 1.0x reducer/flattener - 700mm f/6.8

• Filter: Antlia EDGE Antlia SHO 4.5nm

• Filter: Antlia V-Series LRGB Pro

 

Acquisition:

• Light frames: 19 5min subs with each SHO filter

• Light frames: 12 2min subs with each RGB filter

• Sessions: 12-Nov-2024

• Moon: 11 days old 90% 63 deg from target

• Location: Houston Backyard ~ Bortle 8/9

 

Processing

• Pixinsight Auto DBE

• Pixinsight BTX, NXT

• Pixinsight Statistical stretch, HT to balance background if needed

• Pixinsight LRGB Combination, STX

• Pixinsight SHO Starless Image - Statistical Stretch

• Pixinsight RGB Stars - Star Stretch

• Pixinsight HT black point color balance, Saturation Curves

• Photoshop ACR contrast, black point, clarity, dehaze

• Photoshop Selective Colors, ACR, D&B

• Photoshop Screen stars, duplicate layer/black mask/reveal select stars

• Photoshop Final curves, Healthy Crop, watermark

Optics

PlaneWave CDK 12.5 f/8

Camera

ZWO ASI6200MM Pro

Filters

Blue: Astronomic

Green: Astronomic

Luminance: Astronomic

Red: Astronomic

Mount

Paramount MEII

Observatory

Utah Desert Remote Observatories - Beryl, Utah USA

Blue 12x300 sec

Green 12x300 sec

Luminance 12x300 sec

Red 13x 300 sec

 

starbase.insightobservatory.com/inventory

 

nova.astrometry.net/user_images/10384172#annotated

Finally processed and edited the narrowband images taken with Chilescope's T3 (Newtonian 500mm F3.9) back September to November 2018 over 5 nights, of the nebula Sharpless2-308 in Canis Major.

 

All images bin 1x1 acquired with a FLI Proline 16803, processed and edited with PixInsight and DxO PhotoLab 2.

17 x 600" in Ha

15 x 600" in OIII

10 x 600" in SII

 

The calibration files used are from 2019, I somehow did not keep the ones from 2018 ... I ended up with an annoying dark band at the top of the image and had to crop tighter around the nebula, loosing some nearby nebulosities in OIII. Oh well ...

Imaged in Negev Desert at Nov 13, 2015 and Feb 12, 2016. About 5.5 hours of integration time using APM APO 107/700, LRGB filters, processing in PixInsight and Adobe CC PS/LR.

Northfield, OH

Oct 19, 2024

 

Equipment --

Canon R5, 500mm lens, no tracking

 

Imaging--

Lights: 6x2s

Darks, Flats, DarkFlats, Bias: assorted

Sky: Bortle 6 (nominal)

 

Post processing--

Software: PixInsight, Photoshop

Scope: Meade LX200 10" ACF

Mount: 10micron GM2000 hps II

Camera: QHY 268M

Filters: Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB

From Lanciano (Italy)

Bortle Scale 7

Processing: PixInsight

Total exposure: 15 hours

 

Autori: Antonio Ferretti e Attilio Bruzzone

Gruppo Astrofili Frentani

 

Canon 550D

Televue 85

Televue 2.5x Powermate

30 shots (1/125; ISO200) stacked in Lynkeos

Processed in PS and PixInsight

This image is a two-panel mosaic of the Heart Nebula and the Soul Nebula that was produced from separate images that were captured over two weeks apart. I did not frame the two captures with the intent to compose a mosiac, but it turned out that there was enough common edge between the two images, and enough overlap that a mosiac image was possible.

 

ZWO ASI6200MM-P/EFW 2" x 7 (SHO)

Tele Vue NP101is (4" f/4.3)

Losmandy G11

 

The Heart Nebula- 2024-10-08:

SII: 16 x 600s = 2:40

Ha: 30 x 600s = 5:00

OIII: 12 x 600s = 2:00

Total integration time: 9:40

 

The Soul Nebula - 2024-10-24:

SII: 16 x 600s = 2:40

Ha: 16 x 600s = 2:40

OIII: 10 x 600s = 1:40

Total integration time: 7:20

 

Processed in PixInsight

Finished in Affinity Photo

Bretagne - Taupont

 

Le 16/07/2020

Lights: 13x3" F1.8

Iso: 1600

 

Traitement: PixInsight / DxO PhotoLab

 

Nikon D7000

Sigma 18-35mm F1.8

Trépied Photo.

Comet ZTF was observed under scattered to broken cirrus clouds after moonset. Comet ZTF continues to lose its anti-tail although it is still noticeable in long duration images. The cropped image at left was taken with a Nikon d7100, Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 @ f/2.8, exp 5x80s, iso 3200, fixed comet and stars; the right image in the panel is an invert of the center without stars (57x80s or ~1.25 hours integrated time). All images post-processed with PixInsight.

 

Under dark moonless skies, the naked eye visibility was about the same as 24 hours earlier. I'd estimate the magnitude of the comet at +5.3. The left image was only 5 subs before comet drift became noticeable (6.7 mins integrated time).

 

Bortle 4, sky transparency 8/10, temperature 34F, RH 50%, calm winds. Orion Sirius EQ Mount used.

 

Picture of the Day

I have added Sii and more Oiii narrowband to an earlier image of this shot in HOO + L and RGB for stars. The longest capture time for me so far totalling 35.5 hours,.

 

The Bubble Nebula is 7 light-years across – about one-and-a-half times the distance from our sun to its nearest stellar neighbour, Alpha Centauri – and resides 7,100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. For perspective, I worked out that it would take a Voyager Spacecraft about 140,000 years to travel across the Bubble Nebula.

 

Ha, Oiii, LRGB 6 to 10 August 2022 -Moon 50% to 96% but nice and low and setting during the sessions. Sii and more Oiii 21,22,26,31 August 2022 - Moon 29% to 18%.

 

RGB Stars 60s x 30 for each filter

L 60s x 180 + 120s x 51

Sii 300s x 77

Ha 300s x 118

Oiii 300s x 153

35.5 hours total

Astromiks 36mm SHO 6nm Filters

30 x Darks, Flats (for each filter) and Dark Flats

ZWO ASI294MM Pro 120 gain, -10C

ZWO 7x36mm EFW

ZWO EAF

Stellalyra 8” Ritchey-Chrétien Carbon

EQ6-Pro

ASIAIR Plus

Astro Pixel Processor

Pixinsight

Photoshop 2022

 

Tried HDR with (20 * 20 , 40 * 20, 60 *20, 120 * 20 ) in Pixinsight.

The Vail Nebula remnants of a supernova explosion that occurred as early as 5000 years ago taken from my backyard 🔭.

2020 is coming to a close and with that my last set of yet to be processed deep sky data captured this past Summer. Here’s to wishing everybody a fun and exciting 2021!

 

Camera: ASI2600MC-Pro

Telescope: Celestron RASA 8

Aperture: f2.0

Mount: Celestron CGX

Filter: RASA8 LPS (Astrodon)

Frames: 154X30sec

Gain: 0 Offset: 10

OAT: 8°C

Camera Temp: -10°C

Guiding: ASI290MC

Bias: 50 frames

Darks: 50 frames

Flats: 50 frames

Post Processing: Pixinsight, PS, LR

Equipment:

Epsilon 130D dual rig

QHY268m + CFW3M

TS2600MP (Touptek IMX571) + ZWO EFW

Astronomik DeepSky RGB

Pegasus NYX-101

 

54x180s Luminanz

18x180s red

17x180s green

23x180s blue

 

Gesamt: 5,6 Std

 

August 2023

Col de la Bonette, France

Messier 106 is a Seyfert II galaxy 25 million light years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is a member of the Canes II group of galaxies, which is part of the Local Supercluster. This image was taken from my home observatory in Missouri.

 

Details:

 

24 x 480s, ISO 800

50 flats, 75 darks, 300 bias

 

Equipment: Canon 450D (full- spectrum modified), Explore Scientific 80mm APO Triplets @ 384mm, Televue 0.8x Reducer, Orion Atlas EQ-G

 

Software: Backyard EOS, PHD Guiding, Astrotortilla, EQMOD

 

Processed in Pixinsight

Distancia: 5.900 años luz

 

Constelación en la que se encuentra: Monoceros y Canis Major.

 

IC 2177, también conocida como la nebulosa de la gaviota, se encuentra en la frontera entre las constelaciones de Monoceros y Canis Major, al noreste de Sirius (la estrella más brillante del cielo nocturno).

 

Varios cúmulos abiertos también están en esta área, siendo el más notorio NGC 2335

 

Datos de la imagen:

Exposure: RGB: 3 hr 35 min (43 x 5 min)

Telescope: Celestron C9.25 Edge - Hyperstar

Camera: ZWO ASI071MC Pro

Focal ratio: f2.3

Capturing software: NINA

Filter: IDAS NBZ

Mount: iOptron CEM60

Guiding: ASI462MC with PHD2 and Stellarvue F60M3

Dithering: Yes

Calibration: 25 darks, 50 flat darks, 50 flats

Processing: PixInsight

Date: 31-ene-2023

Location: Bogotá, Colombia

This is the very last nebula that is visible on our part of the milky way. from now to the very end of the year its Dust and stars.

 

To look at this it is so hard to think its not painted out in space but this is Random dust. I captured them in Ha S both red as that is want the area really is. The face is near perfect mouth nose eyes and ear. Do you get the feeling we really are being watched.

  

This was shot as best I could between rain storms and in part was made harder by the fact the tree next door killed the night at 2:30 am . So this is Using two filters that show up red and was put together as Ha SS

  

QHY183M -10c Ha Sii about 120 shots 5 min each filter over 4 part nights .. 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.

ZWO Filter wheel and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO

MeLE Mini PC

Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box

Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser Rotated

Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA 800mm

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

I never posted this from my trip to Win Green, originally I didnt think that there was much detail or colour to pull out of the images but was really impressed with it in the end.

 

I've spent some time re-editing a few of my recent images in PixInsight, I've managed to pull out quite a lot more from them!

 

Image Details:

  

Taken with my Canon 600D

 

Tracking: Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer Pro

 

Lens: Tair PhS 300mm f/4.5

 

66 Light Frames at 300mm, 60", f/5.6 and ISO1600

 

25 Dark Frames at 300mm, 60", f/5.6 and ISO1600

 

No Flats

 

No Flat Darks

 

No Bias

  

Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

  

Edited in PixInsight

Lunette Skywatcher Esprit 80/400, caméra ASI2600MM + filtres Astronomik CLS/RVB.

5h en luminance (CLS) et environ 1H30 h par couleur

Pixinsight

The Rosette Nebula is a cloud of dust containing enough gas and dust to make about 10,000 stars like our Sun. In the centre of the nebula is a cluster of hot, bright young stars. These are warming up the surrounding gas and dust, making it appear bluer. The small, bright white regions are cocoons of dust in which huge stars are currently being born. These “protostars”, each one of which will probably become a star up to ten times more massive than the Sun, are heating up the surrounding gas and dust and making it clow brighter. The smaller, redder dots on the left side and near the centre of the image also contain protostars, but these are smaller, and will go on to form stars much like our Sun. Just as the centre of the nebula contains bright young stars, in a few tens or hundreds of millions of years these stars will have died, but the protostars will have evolved into fully-fledged stars in their own right. In this way, the star formation will move outwards through the nebula.

Windy weather greeted me at 4:22 am as a dry cold front moved through. Temperature dropped from 55F to 44F during the next hour as I attempted to capture Comet Lemmon. I took the best 24 raw images between 5:30am-5:45am and post-processed in Pixinsight. The moon was 65% illuminated.

 

Fujifilm X-T5, Nikkor 80mm f2.8 @ f/5, 24x15s, iso 3200, Astrotrac mount, star trails 49x15s. Cropped fixed comet in normal and inverted.

  

IC2944 Ha

 

Planewave 17” CDK

Camera: FLI ML16803

Filter: Chroma Ha

Focuser: IRF90

Focal Length: 2939mm

Focal Ratio: f/6.8

Mount: 10 Micron GM3000

Location: Deep Sky West, Chile

6,6h of Ha data, combination in PixInsight done:

 

Ha: 24 x 1200sec

 

BlurXTerminator not used.

 

www.deepskywest.com/

planewave.com/product/cdk17-ota/

Reflection nebula located 3,300 light years away

 

Equipment:

TS 10" f/4 ONTC Newton

1000mm f4

ZWO ASI 1600mmc

Astrodon LRGB

Losmandy G11/LFE Photo

 

Guding:

Lodestar on TS Optics - ultra short 9mm Off Axis Guider

PHD2

 

Luminanz 66x180

red 20x180

green 19x180

blue 20x180

 

29.06.2019

30.06.2019

01.07.2019

 

total exposure time: 6:15

 

Processing: PixInsight/Capture One

From the Wiki…

NGC 2427 is an intermediate magellanic-type spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Puppis, about 44 million light-years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel in 1835.

 

About the galaxy NGC2427, there is little written about it, however the scene in which we view it is surrounded by massive areas of accumulated dust, some called “Cometary Globules”. A good example of a cometary globule can be seen in the top left of the image, with an orange star near centre of it. Cometary globules were first observed in 1976, and are described as interstellar clouds with comet-like morphology, consisting of compact, dusty, and opaque heads and long, faintly luminous tails. Unlike most dark clouds, CG's are isolated neutral globules surrounded by a hot ionized medium.

  

Thanks for looking.

 

Hi res link:

live.staticflickr.com/65535/50818001803_8069ff8b85_o.jpg

 

Information about the image:

 

Center (RA, Dec):(114.340, -47.864)

Center (RA, hms):07h 37m 21.708s

Center (Dec, dms):-47° 51' 51.185"

Size:48.9 x 32.6 arcmin

Radius:0.490 deg

Pixel scale:0.732 arcsec/pixel

Orientation:Up is -134 degrees E of N

  

Instrument: Planewave CDK 12.5 | Focal Ratio: F8

Camera: STXL-11000 + AOX | Mount: AP900GTO

Camera Sensitivity: Lum: Bin 1x1, RGB: Bin 2x2

Exposure Details: Total: 4.25 hours | Lum: 8 x 900 sec [2.0hr], RGB 6 x 450sec each [2.25hrs]

Viewing Location: Central Victoria, Australia.

Observatory: ScopeDome 3m

Date: March 2020

Software Enhancements: CCDStack2, CCDBand-Aid, PS, Pixinsight

Author: Steven Mohr

 

lo poco que pude apilar antes que saliera el sol

5:45 -> 6:00

9min total

Canon 6d + Canon 70-200mm v2 @f4.5

DSS + Pixinsight + photoshop

 

www.astrobin.com/slwz3t/

 

Close to 30 hours of integration time, under one of the best skies in Europe!

 

IC 5146 (the Cocoon Nebula) is a reflection/emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. The cluster is about 4,000 ly away, and the central star that lights it formed about 100,000 years ago; the nebula is about 12 arcmins across, which is equivalent to a span of 15 light years.

 

(description credits: Wikipedia)

 

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:QHYCCD QHY5III174

 

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

 

Accessories:ZWO EFW, MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30

 

Resolution: 2328x1760

 

Dates:Sept. 5, 2019, Sept. 6, 2019, Sept. 7, 2019, Sept. 23, 2019, Sept. 26, 2019

 

Frames:

Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 80x180" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1

Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 80x180" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1

Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm: 20x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1

Astrodon L Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 280x180" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1

Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 80x180" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1

 

Integration: 29.3 hours

 

Avg. Moon age: 14.73 days

 

Avg. Moon phase: 40.69%

 

Astrometry.net job: 2947619

 

RA center: 328.369 degrees

 

DEC center: 47.267 degrees

 

Pixel scale: 1.007 arcsec/pixel

 

Orientation: 270.069 degrees

 

Field radius: 0.408 degrees

 

Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain

 

Data source: Own remote observatory

 

Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility

IC2944 Ha

 

Planewave 17” CDK

Camera: FLI ML16803

Filter: Chroma Ha

Focuser: IRF90

Focal Length: 2939mm

Focal Ratio: f/6.8

Mount: 10 Micron GM3000

Location: Deep Sky West, Chile

6,6h of Ha data, combination in PixInsight done:

 

Ha: 24 x 1200sec

 

BlurXTerminator not used.

 

www.deepskywest.com/

planewave.com/product/cdk17-ota/

My hubby took this, but I processed it in PixInsight and CS6

Seestar S50, eqmode, LP filter, 214x20 secondi di posa. Elaborazione con PixInsight e Photoshop.

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