Dopo tanti anni ho avuto la possibilità di rivedere una cometa visibile chiaramente ad occhio nudo.

Anche se pubblicizzata come la cometa del secolo (ricordo che ancora mancano 76 anni al 2100) i giorni propizi per osservarla non sono stati poi tanti; inoltre la sua luminosità è stata disturbata dalla Luna piena. Comunque è stata una bella esperienza e poterla osservare ad occhio nudo è stato molto emozionante. Sono riuscito a fotografarla soltanto per 2 sere mentre dopo le condizioni meteo non lo hanno più permesso.

Il 14 ottobre la coda della cometa si notava più lunga anche se più stretta rispetto sera precedente. Inoltre aveva pure un'anticoda.

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After many years I had the chance to see a comet clearly visible to the naked eye.

Even though it was advertised as the "comet of the century" (I remember that there are still 76 years to go until 2100) the favorable days to observe it were not that many; furthermore its brightness was disturbed by the full Moon. However it was a beautiful experience and being able to observe it with the naked eye was very exciting. I managed to photograph it only for 2 evenings while after that the weather conditions did not allow it anymore.

On October 14, the comet's tail was noticeably longer, though narrower, than the previous evening. It also had an anticoda.

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Lens: Yashica ML 50mmf/2 @ f/4

Camera: Canon EOS 550D (Rebel T2i) mod. Baader BCF

Mount: tripod

39x4s 3200iso /15dark

date 14/10/2014

Location: Etna (Sicily) – Piano Vetore – 1750 m. s.l.m.

Processing: Sequator 1.6 + PS.

Camera: Canon 6D

Lens: Tamron 150-600mm @ 150mm

Filter: None

Tracker: iOptron SkyGuiderPro

Stacked: Deep Sky Stacker

Process: Camera Raw, Photoshop

Capture Time: 16 Minutes

My 1st attempt at these 2 beautiful Nebulae , M20 TRIFID NEBULA on the left side and M8 LAGOON Nebula on the right. I was trying for the Lagoon and was lucky with the lens I used that I managed both in 1 x go. 126 x light frames 17 x dark frames and 32 flat frames, lights were 30 secs each so a total of 1 hour 3mins of data captured and stacked in Sequator software. Canon 60D and Asahi Takumar 135mm f 3.5 old mf lens on a Star adventurer 2i tracker. Very damn happy with this 1st attempt.

First Attempt at Star Trails.

Not bad.

- Technically could be improved, as I found focusing on the arch for the foreground exposure difficult in the dark and with Fuji's fly by wire focusing system on the 10-24mm.

- Also I had to crop a portion of the sky out as because I was using a ultra wide angle lens the rock from the above me was entering into the shot. This could only be avoided if I placed myself on area where there was no fence between me and a 20/30 foot drop so I accepted I'd have to crop a bit.

- If possible I would have stayed a bit longer, another half hour would have been nice to accentuate the trails more and to have more moonlight over the arch.

- I would have liked to take a similar image at Gozo's Azure Window, but unfortunately storms a number of years ago caused the arch to collapse but this smaller (but still pretty big) sea arch made a great subject.

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However, all in all I'm pretty happy with this. And was surprised by how little editing was required, beyond stacking the exposures I've barely made any changes.

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Stack of around 150 images (40 second exposures, at F4, iso 3200) taken over a period of around 2 hours.

Foreground arch composited in from a longer exposure iso 200 at around 8 minutes.

The Galactic Core of our own Galaxy, taken last Sunday at Portwrinkle on the South coast of Cornwall. Perfect conditions after the moon had set. The Milky Way was easily visible with the naked eye. Really good spot this, was also using a new method for astro-landscape, really happy with the result. 9 exposures stacked to reduce image noise using a free program called Sequator.

Tokina 11-16 f/2.8

Matériels utilisés :

- Monture NEQ-5 motorisée

- Nikon D7200 + Tamron 70-200mm F/2.8 G2

Temps de pose : 20 x 20s

ISO 1600

Traitement sous Sequator et Photoshop

About 6 photos stacked in Sequator,

25 seconds each, ISO 3200

modest light painting of the abandoned cabin

13 x 3 min. Sequator & Lr.

평창군 청옥산 은하수

Sky : 600s @ 24mm F2 iso800 (tracked+stacked)

Ground : 120s @ 40mm F1.4 iso400 (single exposure)

Filter : Kenko PRO1D PROSOFTON Clear

Editing : Sequator, GraXpert, Photoshop, Lightroom

The second of three of my locations from Sunday 6/9/2019. I'd like to think that once upon a time the inhabitants of this home once sat on the front porch enjoying the West Texas sunsets and dark starry night skies.

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Milky way, the Galactic arm, the home of 200-400 billion star is flying over my tent in the middle of no where. Image taken in my latest astro imaging trip. Gear setup: Sigma 14-24mm @20mm f/3.5, Canon R6, SO 1600, 20 subs, Stacked in Sequator, Processed in Lr, Ps, Topaz denoise.

Finally!

What an epic night. At -5.5°C, after having a hard time convincing the camera lens to keep from freezing, everything was in place for a wonderful night of pictures.

That night, on 17/10/2020, I took around 750 pictures. 11 went into making this one.

Background: 10 images stacked with Sequator, 20" ISO 800 f/3.5, atken with with my CANON 1200D.

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as the Great Nebula of Andromeda or, with the acronyms M31 and NGC 224, is a giant spiral galaxy about 2.538 million light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Andromeda, from which it takes its name. It is the largest galaxy closest to ours, the Milky Way; it is also visible to the naked eye and is among the most distant objects visible without the aid of tools. The Andromeda Galaxy is the largest in the Local Group, a group of galaxies that also include the Milky Way and the Triangle Galaxy, plus about fifty other smaller galaxies, many of which are satellites of the main

Canon eos 1100d fullspectrum, canon target 75/300 a 200mm f 6/3, iso 1600,120x30s,optolong filter l-pro eos a clip,capture with apt,sum with sequator photoshop processing

Another photo from the trip out to Folly Island in South Carolina to capture the Milky Way rising over the groins and ocean. This is a 20mm composite of 10 photos, stacked in Sequator, and a separate stack of 5 photos for the foreground in Photoshop. The resulting images were then blended in Photoshop.

Camera: Nikon Z6

Lens: Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S

10 x (20mm @ f/2.5, 13 sec, ISO 6400)

Foreground:

5 x (20mm @ f/2.5, 13 sec, ISO 6400)

Stack of (30) 90second exposures (10) 30 second exposures, 20 darks. ISO 800, 35mm lens at f3.5. Raw conversions to tiffs with RawTherapee, stacked in Sequator, finale edits in Photoshop. Taken late Friday night/early Saturday morning.

We had a lovely clear sky in Oxfordshire overnight on 28th/29th July. Just as the Waning Gibbous Moon was rising, I headed out to a local farm to capture the Milky Way before the moonlight affected the sky too much. I wanted something different in the foreground than what I get from our garden. and I've been waiting for the Milky Way to be in the right position so I could get it from the road that passes this farm. I took several photos from slightly different locations but this is one of my stacked images.

Taken with a Canon 1100D with Canon 10-18mm lens. ISO-1600 for 25 seconds at f/4.5.

14 x lights + 30 darks stacked using Sequator, then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.

I took this picture using only my smartphone (Huawei P40 Pro Plus) on a tripod. No telescope, external lens, or equatorial mount used.

It's a stack of 149 pictures, with a 3 second shutted speed at ISO 3200. I used the integrated 240mm lens (10x optical magnification).

I used Sequator for stacking, and Photoshop for editing.

Les étoiles filantes des Géminides (14/12/2020). Première partie en time lapse traité avec Sequator.

Deuxième partie, les rémanents de fumée laissés par la combustion dans l'atmosphère, visibles à la suite des plus brillantes Géminides (tri manuel parmi 1800 images).

Troisième partie, filmée à 10 images secondes, laissant voir l' ionisation résiduelle des étoiles filantes (tri manuel parmi 202000 images !).

a7s, Samyang 24 f1,4 et 85 f1,4.

lightroom, sequator, topaz video enhance ai, respeedr, SVP.

zik: essai rapide et perso d'un archet électronique et guitare électrique (si vous aimez pas coupez le son ;) )

The Galactic Core of the Milky Way rises above snow covered Mt. Katahdin and the other mountains of northern Maine. I shot this at 50mm so the mountains wouldn’t be just tiny specks, and to get a lot of detail in the Galactic Core.

At 50mm the pink nebulae around the core also become much more visible, including the Lagoon Nebula (largest pink spot center-left in the sky), as well as the Trifid Nebula, Eagle Nebula, and Swan Nebula. The bright star Antares and others around the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex are visible in the upper right.

Nikon Z 6 with NIKKOR Z 50mm f/1.8 S lens @ f/1.8, ISO 6400. Star stack of 20 x 4 second exposures for sharp stars and low noise. I stacked the raw files in Starry Landscape Stacker (Mac only but you can do this with Sequator on Windows), then did some basic edits on the resulting file in Lightroom Classic, and then final edits for really bringing out detail in the Milky Way in Photoshop.

The few reflections of stars in the open area of water on the lake blurred far too much with the stacking, and treating the water as the "sky" in Starry Landscape Stacker didn't work because there simply aren't enough stars in the reflection for the software to properly align the reflections. So to get a lower noise version of the reflections I manually aligned and stacked 10 of the sky photos in Photoshop, moving the layers a few pixels at a time to get the reflections to line up between shots. I could have used all 20 shots but 10 was more than enough for just the little bits of reflection that I needed. Averaging that stack resulted in a lower noise version of the reflections, and I was able to mask them into the final shot with a combination of using the lighten blend mode and manual masking of just the reflected starlight.

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One of the coolest things about comets is the ionized gas tail. I spent time trying to bring that out. I could only do so much given the brightness of the Seattle metro area.

About 2-3 hours of work:

Sony A7iii w/ Sony 70-200 F/4 lens. Untracked. Taken at the Tacoma waterfront - Bortle 6-7 skies.

10 x 4s light, 10 Darks, 10 Bias

Stacked in Sequator. Processed in Pixinsight, background extraction/subtraction, archsinstrech, histogram, curves.

Lightroom - noise reduction, color and exposure adjustments to bring out the ion tail.

At the Thistle Dew Lavender Farm in Afton, TX. A big thanks to Danny and Laurie Davis for letting a few of us come out to photograph their farm.

Taken from a field on the edge of Durlston Country Park on the night of 7th September. My husband Mark and I took lots of images over three nights using several different cameras and lenses. We worked together to capture the photos then we have taken the images and done our own processing of them.

This was taken with a Canon 1100D with Canon 18-55mm kit lens on a Star Adventurer Mini tracking mount. This is a stack of 12 x 120 seconds at ISO-3200 f/3.5. The images were stacked using Sequator, which wouldn't keep the foreground frozen so I had to manually blend in the foreground from one of the single shots.

Shooted with geared head, without tracker. 596 pic 1sek shutter. Stacked with sequator.

Camp Verde, Arizona - Milky Way Rising - Sequator

Foto compuesta de una toma para el suelo de 30 segundos a ISO800 f3.5 tomada con la Canon 6D modificada y objetivo youngnuo 50 mm y 23 tomas de 90 segundos a ISO400 f3.2 para el cielo tomadas con la canon 6d modificada y el objetivo youngnuo 50 mm sobre montura omegon LX2 para el seguimiento. Las tomas del cielo se han apilado con Sequator y el conjunto se ha procesado con PS y PIX

Milky Way over Phillips Lake, Hancock County, Maine.

Six frame pano. Each frame has 10, 6-second exposures, stacked using Sequator and edited with Lightroom.

Stack of 2 x 9 x 15 exposures of 15 seconds @ISO 3200

Full spectrum Nikon Z5 - Astrofilter - Soligor 25/2,8 @f4

stacked with Sequator - stitched with Hugin - post processing with Darktable

The Orion (M42, NGC 1976) and Running Man (NGC 1977) Nebulas. First attempt with Nikon's new Nikkor 500mm f/5.6 PF lens. This is 10 images at ISO 400 stacked in Sequator and post processed in Photoshop CC2019. There are also several faint satellites passing through.

Clear sky last night (24 April) in Belfast so got the telescope out for another go. This time the Leo Triplet, a small group of galaxies in the Leo constellation, 35 million light-years away.

Skywatcher Startravel 102T telescope (Single axis RA motor)

Nikon D5500 camera

35 mins total exposure

Edited in Sequator, Lightroom & Photoshop Elements (with ProDigital AstroFlat plugin)

From our "Gobs of Ghost Towns" Bodie - Nevada (and Tioga Pass) workshop last week.

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Another view of lighthouse Struga on Lastovo island, Croatia. You can see the green airglow, luminescence of Earth's atmosphere. It is more prominent when solar activity is high, as was the case here.

Nikon Z6, Nikkor S 20 mm f/2, ISO 1600, 20x20s exposures combined in Sequator and processed in Photoshop.

A view of the Milky Way over the Horseshoe Pass and the village of Pentredwr nestled between the hills in North Wales. 16x 15 second exposures stacked in Sequator

Orion and the spiral arm of the Milky Way shine over red rock in Caprock Canyons.

Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE photographed form my backyard in South Burlington, Vermont.

Nikon D850, Sigma 50 f1.4 DG HSM Art. ISO 1250, 2 sec f1.4

Stack of 12 images processed with Sequator. Exposure corrections, sharpening and cropping with PS Elements.

14x10s , Sequator & Lr.

91x20sek, 300mm f8, ISO1600

My very first time trying to shoot the milky way. I am quiet happy with it! :)

Unfortunately the castle was spotted by some lights till 1am, so the milky way moved from the point over the castle right to the forest.

This is picture was stacked from 6 shoots via sequator.

Exif-Datas:

Sony Alpha 7r II

Tamron 17-28mm f2.8

13sec.

Iso6.400

Thanks to TrippleBender for lending me the lense!

"The Veil Nebula (NGC 6960), is the tattered remains of an ancient supernova explosion, is one of the most spectacular objects in the night sky." - Sky and Telescope

Technical Info:

Optics: GSO 6" f/4 Imaging Newtonian @ 610mm FL

Explore Scientific 2" HR Coma Corrector

Camera : Canon t3i (Astro Modified)

Filters: None

Mount: Losmandy GM8

Guiding: None

Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro via Plate Solving

Exposure: Light (ISO 800) - 112 subs @ 30 seconds

Calibration: 20 Darks

​Processing : Sequator, Photoshop, PS Astrotools, Astroflat Pro PS plug-in

This is a circumpolar star trail around the "Padella meteorological radar". The main canvas with the trails was created by merging 30 shots with the Sequator application. Each shot was 1 minute long. After, getting the main canvas. Finally, the resulting canvas was processed with Darktable following my traditional pipeline.

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Camera: Sony A7 with MC Rokkor-PF 1:17 55mm lens

Settings: F/1.7, ISO 800, 1.6 Sec exposure

Image source: 92 subs, 40 darks, 20 flats, stacked with Sequator & cropped

Date: 7/22/2020

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NOTE: Ion tail is visible on the left.

Milky Way from Dugi otok, Croatia. I almost forgot I took this beautiful vertical photo - at the time I was planing on doing a timelapse which was obviuosly landscape oriented, but fortunately I did a few vertical shots, too! This is 6x15s stacked in Sequator. I used BlurXterminator in PixInsight and just minimal processing in PS.

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Here is the second from my series of "Star Trucks" shot at a location that I found a few years ago and have shot a number of times since. With this image of this truck (this one is west of the first one and the concrete culverts are stacked higher) I wanted to align the stars to make it look like the truck is hauling the galaxy.

Shot with my Fuji X-T2 and Meike 25mm f/1.8. (5) 8 second shots + (2) dark frames @ f/2.0, ISO 6400, 3800K WB. One LED panel used for LLL. Stacked in Sequator with final edits in Photoshop using a few Topaz plugins.

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Late on Saturday night I headed down to the Daymark Tower to capture some Milkyway shots as the forecast was for clear skies. On arrival though the sky was full of clouds but after around an hour it did clear and I was treated to a wonderful starry sky. Here is one of many images I captured which shows the core of the Milkyway as it started to set towards the South Western horizon with the bright light of the Start Point Lighthouse.

Tech Specs -

Nikon Z6ii

Nikon 50mm 1.8G lens

Skywatcher Star Adventurer 2i WiFi

Sky - 7 x 90 secs at f/2, ISO 800 (tracked)

Foreground - 1 x 90 sec at f/2, ISO 800 (untracked)

Stacked using Sequator and blended in Photoshop with final editing in Lightroom.

Bortle 4 Sky.

Thank you for looking.