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June 9, 2022 - South Central Nebraska US
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A Sultry Evening...
One my favorite things to do... Watch a ominous lighting intense storm come over the horizon. With continuous cloud to cloud lightning & a few cloud to ground strikes. This was one of those perfect photogenic Nebraska storms.
Severe warned right after sunset. Found an open spot to shoot just some incredible June storm photography for 2022!
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Imaging telescopes or lenses: Astro Tech AT66ED
Imaging cameras: QHYCCD 163C
Mounts: Celestron CG-4 MotorDrive
Guiding telescopes or lenses: MEADE 50mm Finder Guidescope
Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI120MM
Focal reducers: Astro Tech 0.8x Reducer/Flattener
Software: NINA Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy · Open Guiding PHD2 Guiding · Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Filters: Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter
Accessory: Rigel Systems Focuser
Dates:March 14, 2021
Frames: 190x120"
Integration: 6.3 hours
Avg. Moon age: 3.72 days
Avg. Moon phase: 14.84%
Resolution: 3413x4561
Data source: Backyard
Contains: M 105 · M 95 · M 96 · NGC 3351 · NGC 3368 · NGC 3379 · NGC 3384 · NGC 3412
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Astro Tech AT66ED
Imaging cameras: QHYCCD 163C
Mounts: Celestron CG-4 MotorDrive
Guiding telescopes or lenses: MEADE 50mm Finder Guidescope
Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI120MM
Focal reducers: Astro Tech 0.8x Reducer/Flattener
Software: NINA Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy · Open Guiding PHD2 Guiding · Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Filters: Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter
Accessory: Rigel Systems Focuser
Dates:April 6, 2021
Frames: 147x120"
Integration: 4.9 hours
Avg. Moon age: 24.25 days
Avg. Moon phase: 28.37%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 4394329
RA center: 10h 47' 4"
DEC center: +12° 17' 27"
Pixel scale: 2.407 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 269.756 degrees
Field radius: 1.836 degrees
Resolution: 3391x4321
Data source: Backyard
June 9, 2022 - South Central Nebraska US
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A Sultry Evening...
One my favorite things to do... Watch a ominous lighting intense storm come over the horizon. With continuous cloud to cloud lightning & a few cloud to ground strikes. This was one of those perfect photogenic Nebraska storms.
Severe warned right after sunset. Found an open spot to shoot just some incredible June storm photography for 2022!
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Dale Kaminski @ NebraskaSC Photography
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Ancora rumorosetta... sgrunt! purtroppo poca integrazione, la luna stava sorgendo, ma è pur sempre un inizio
Still a little noisy, sgrunt! unfortunately not a lot of integration time, the moon was rising, but it's a beginning
:)
The Horsehead Nebula is approximately 1500 light years from Earth. Also known as Barnard 33 in emission nebula IC 434, also called as 'the Flame', is a dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of the star Alnitak, which is farthest east on Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. (from from wiki).
dettagli dello stack:
Telescopi di acquisizione: APO Triplet 130/910 mm, TecnoSky 102ED
Camere di acquisizione: Canon EOS 50D, Canon / CentralDS EOS Astro 50D
Montature: Sky-Watcher EQ6 Pro, Sky-Watcher HEQ5
Telescopi guida: 80/600
Camere guida: lacerta mgen2, LVI Smartguider 2
Riduttori di focale: Flattener 2"
Software: DeepSkyStacker, Adobe Lightroom 3, Silicon Fields StarTools 1.3, Noel Carboni's Astro Tools for PhotoShop
Filtri: Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter, Hutech IDAS LPS-V4
Date: 25 febbraio 2012, 25 novembre 2013
Pose:
Hutech IDAS LPS-V4: 6x550" ISO800 bin 1x1
Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 6x400" ISO1600 -18C bin 1x1
Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 2x150" ISO2500 -18C bin 1x1
Integrazione: 1.7 ore
Dark: ~21
Flat: ~22
Temperatura: -3.00
The two apparently separated rings give the appearance of a cat's eye, hence the nickname, although the outer rings are very difficult to see visually in all but very large telescopes.
Dodging the Moon on this one, but it seemed to work to take luminance first and color after moonrise.
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Meade Starfinder 8
Imaging cameras: QHYCCD 163m
Mounts: Losmandy GM-8
Guiding telescopes or lenses: MEADE 50mm Finder Guidescope
Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI120MM
Software: NINA Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy · Open Guiding PHD2 Guiding · Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Filters: Blue · Green · Red · Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter
Accessory: Rigel Systems Focuser · Baader MPCC coma corrector
Dates:March 30, 2021
Frames:
Blue: 60x60" bin 2x2
Green: 60x60" bin 2x2
Red: 60x60" bin 2x2
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter: 127x60" (gain: 120.00) -10C bin 2x2
Integration: 5.1 hours
Darks: ~100
Bias: ~100
Avg. Moon age: 16.72 days
Avg. Moon phase: 95.73%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 4366298
Resolution: 2650x3466
Data source: Backyard
Imaging telescope or lens:Astro Tech AT66ED
Imaging camera:Canon T1i Full Spectrum
Guiding camera:ZWO ASI120MM
Focal reducer:Astro Tech 0.8x Reducer/Flattener
Software:DeepSky Stacker (DSS) DSS 3.3.2, Open Guiding PHD2 Guiding, Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4 , Stark Labs Nebulosity Nebulosity 2.1.2
Filter:Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter
Resolution: 6382x4807
Dates:Dec. 3, 2018
Frames: 79x89" ISO1600
Integration: 2.0 hours
Darks: ~50
Bias: ~48
Avg. Moon age: 25.78 days
Avg. Moon phase: 15.11%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4.00
Astrometry.net job: 2410270
RA center: 84.996 degrees
DEC center: -2.270 degrees
Pixel scale: 1.980 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 87.953 degrees
Field radius: 2.197 degrees
Data source: Backyard
The "Surfboard Galaxy" in Ursa Major.
From the Nasa website: "M108 is one of the largest and brightest members of the Ursa Major cluster, as well as part of the Virgo supercluster of galaxies. It has a magnitude of 10 and is located just under the bowl of the Big Dipper. M108 can be seen with small telescopes as an elliptical streak of light with a brighter core, while telescopes 8 inches or larger will reveal more detail. "
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Celestron Edge 8
Imaging Cameras
QHYCCD 163C
Mounts
Meade LX70
Filters
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter
Accessories
Raspberry PI 4B Astroberry · Celestron Focus Motor for SCT · OnStep GoTo Controller · Celestron 0.7x Focal Reducer for EdgeHD 8
Software
PHD2 Guiding · Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy · RegiStar · Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
Svbony 60mm guidescope
Guiding Cameras
ZWO ASI120MM
Acquisition details
Dates:
March 8, 2022 · March 9, 2022
Frames:
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter: 177x60" (2h 57')
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter: 142x60" (2h 22') -10°C
Integration:
5h 19'
Darks:
100
Bias:
100
Avg. Moon age:
6.09 days
Avg. Moon phase:
36.48%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 5577333
Resolution: 3305x4441
Data source: Backyard
A shot of the constellation Bootes and the bright star Arcturus rising above the treeline in my backyard on May 20, 2017 - a small meteor can be seen in the top part of the frame, lucky capture for a 20-second exposure.
Tech Specs: Canon 6D and Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM lens, tripod mounted, 20 second exposures at ISO 3200, f/4 and 17mm. Location: Weatherly, Pennsylvania. Photographed on May 20, 2017.
The Omega Nebula (M17) and the Black Swan Cluster (M18), 3-minute stacked exposure from August 2014. Both are found in the constellation Sagittarius. Low in the southern sky for me so sky glow is always an issue.
The Marina Fire by Mono Lake, just north of Lee Vining shortly after 10 pm last night.
Visitors to the area planning on passing north of Lee Vining should check the status of Highway 395 on the Mono County Sheriff's Facebook page: www.facebook.com/MonoSheriff/?fref=ts
I left the aircraft lights in the shot because it looks a lot like an airplane trail that I had in my photos of Yosemite's Rim Fire, when Predator drones were being used to map the area and spread of the fire (by coincidence I was just looking at one of those photos yesterday).
The Veil Nebula in Cygnus is a supernova remnant with several regions of bright red and blue nebulosity popular with backyard astrophotographers. The region shown above spanning the Eastern Veil on the left through the Western Veil or Witch's Broom on the right covers a stretch of sky about six times the diameter of the moon. The bright pieces form a roughly spherical shape with a 110 light year diameter, emanating from a central explosion estimated to have occurred 8000 years ago.
I can't see this nebula at all through my small telescopes from my suburban yard. No telescope was used for this image -- rather a 200 mm SLR lens on a cooled astro-camera using two different narrowband filters, H-alpha and OIII. Narrowband imaging allows the light emitted by the ionized Hydrogen and Oxygen regions of the nebula to come through, while filtering out most of the New York skyglow.
Tech stuff: 200 mm f/4 Super Takumar lens on Starlight Xpress SX-694C camera; mounted on Sky Watcher Star Adventurer drive guided with SBIG STi guider and PHD. Astronomik OIII filter 12 X 600 second + H-alpha 8 X 600 second exposures stacked and processed with Nebulosity and PixInsight. Imaged from my yard 10 miles north of New York City as part of my exploration of ultraportable deep sky imaging systems.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Astro-Tech AT66ED
Imaging Cameras
QHYCCD QHY163C · QHYCCD QHY163M
Mounts
Meade LX70
Filters
Astronomik H-alpha CCD 12nm 2" · Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow 2"
Accessories
Astro-Tech .8x Reducer/Field Flattener · OnStep Telescope Mount Goto Controller · Rigel Systems Stepper motor
Software
Adobe Photoshop · Aries Productions Astro Pixel Processor (APP) · Open PHD Guiding Project PHD2 · Stefan Berg Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy (N.I.N.A. / NINA)
Acquisition details
Frames:
Astronomik H-alpha CCD 12nm 2": 121×120″(4h 2′)
Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow 2": 100×120″(3h 20′)
Integration:
7h 22′
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 7870472
RA center: 20h14m47s.5
DEC center: +41°34′15″
Pixel scale: 2.352 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 180.508 degrees
Field radius: 1.854 degrees
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Resolution: 4599x3324
File size: 18.4 MB
Data source: Backyard
June 9, 2022 - South Central Nebraska US
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A Sultry Evening...
One my favorite things to do... Watch a ominous lighting intense storm come over the horizon. With continuous cloud to cloud lightning & a few cloud to ground strikes. This was one of those perfect photogenic Nebraska storms.
Severe warned right after sunset. Found an open spot to shoot just some incredible June storm photography for 2022!
*** Please NOTE and RESPECT the Copyright ***
Copyright 2022
Dale Kaminski @ NebraskaSC Photography
All Rights Reserved
This image may not be copied, reproduced, published or distributed in any medium without the expressed written permission of the copyright holder.
#ForeverChasing
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June 9, 2022 - South Central Nebraska US
Prints Available...Click Here
All Images are also available for...
stock photography & non exclusive licensing...
Storm Chasing Video from night on Flickr Click Here
A Sultry Evening...
One my favorite things to do... Watch a ominous lighting intense storm come over the horizon. With continuous cloud to cloud lightning & a few cloud to ground strikes. This was one of those perfect photogenic Nebraska storms.
Severe warned right after sunset. Found an open spot to shoot just some incredible June storm photography for 2022!
*** Please NOTE and RESPECT the Copyright ***
Copyright 2022
Dale Kaminski @ NebraskaSC Photography
All Rights Reserved
This image may not be copied, reproduced, published or distributed in any medium without the expressed written permission of the copyright holder.
#ForeverChasing
#NebraskaSC
A very Dr. Seuss landscape, Joshua Tree. Moonrise with the trees and rock lit by skyglow from the setting sun behind me.
Do see large to appreciate.
Luminance from last night. Color from the DSLR taken in 2018
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Meade Starfinder 8
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI1600 cooled mono · Canon T1i Full Spectrum
Mounts
Losmandy GM-8
Filters
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter
Accessories
Baader MPCC coma corrector · OnStep GoTo Controller · Rigel Systems Focuser
Software
PHD2 Guiding · Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy · RegiStar · Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
Svbony 60mm guidescope
Guiding Cameras
ZWO ASI120MM
Acquisition details
Dates:
March 15, 2018 · March 5, 2022
Frames:
78x181" (3h 55' 18")
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter: 164x120" (5h 28') -10C bin 2x2
Integration:
9h 23' 18"
Darks:
100
Bias:
100
Avg. Moon age:
15.19 days
Avg. Moon phase:
6.53%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale:
4.00
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 5562624
RA center: 11h57m33s.1
DEC center: +53°24′14″
Pixel scale: 0.640 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 203.766 degrees
Field radius: 0.511 degrees
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Resolution: 4621x3420
Data source: Backyard
I normally shy away from these widefields with galaxies since the galaxy itself seems so small, but there is a certain perspective of vastness that is lost when the galaxy fills the frame. This is still "zoomed in" here to some extent (320mm), but kind of puts a huge galaxy, once thought to be the entire universe, in perspective...and this is, from our perspective, one of the bigger galaxies. Many smaller ones can also be seen in the image.
The bright star you see is the bottom left of the bowl of the Big Dipper.
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Astro Tech AT66ED
Imaging cameras: QHYCCD 163C
Mounts: Celestron CG-4 MotorDrive
Guiding telescopes or lenses: MEADE 50mm Finder Guidescope
Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI120MM
Focal reducers: Astro Tech 0.8x Reducer/Flattener
Software: NINA Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy · Open Guiding PHD2 Guiding · Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Filters: Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter
Accessory: Rigel Systems Focuser
Dates:March 10, 2021
Frames: 153x120"
Integration: 5.1 hours
Avg. Moon age: 26.70 days
Avg. Moon phase: 8.81%
Resolution: 4856x3841
Data source: Backyard
Imaging telescope or lens:Astro Tech AT66ED
Imaging camera:Canon T1i Full Spectrum
Mount:Celestron CG-4 MotorDrive
Guiding telescope or lens:Takumar 200mm prime lens Takumar 200mm
Guiding camera:ZWO ASI120MM
Focal reducer:Astro Tech 0.8x Reducer/Flattener
Software:DeepSky Stacker (DSS) DSS 3.3.2, Open Guiding PHD2 Guiding, Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4 , Stark Labs Nebulosity Nebulosity 2.1.2
Filter:Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter
Resolution: 8886x5782
Dates:Oct. 14, 2018
Frames:Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter: 53x241" ISO3200
Integration: 3.5 hours
Darks: ~50
Avg. Moon age: 5.35 days
Avg. Moon phase: 29.01%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4.00
Astrometry.net job: 2331828
Data source: Backyard
June 9, 2022 - South Central Nebraska US
Prints Available...Click Here
All Images are also available for...
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Storm Chasing Video from night on Flickr Click Here
A Sultry Evening...
One my favorite things to do... Watch a ominous lighting intense storm come over the horizon. With continuous cloud to cloud lightning & a few cloud to ground strikes. This was one of those perfect photogenic Nebraska storms.
Severe warned right after sunset. Found an open spot to shoot just some incredible June storm photography for 2022!
*** Please NOTE and RESPECT the Copyright ***
Copyright 2022
Dale Kaminski @ NebraskaSC Photography
All Rights Reserved
This image may not be copied, reproduced, published or distributed in any medium without the expressed written permission of the copyright holder.
#ForeverChasing
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This morning’s planetary conjunction, October 27, 2015. Jupiter, Venus and red Mars. If you look close, there are also two moons of Jupiter in the field of view. Canon 6D and Canon 100mm f/2.8L, tripod mounted, set at f/2.8, ISO 1000, 3.2 second exposure.
Location: Near Hickory Run State Park in Pennsylvania just south of Interstate I-80.
Walt Disney World
The Magic Kingdom
Liberty Square
Looks much better viewed large on black by pressing "L"
Usually light pollution is ugly and anything but creative. However, on rare occasion it can work to your advantage. I’ve been fighting for flickr time lately... hopefully will be back to posting with more regularity soon.
Thanks for looking!
Constellation: Perseus (Per) · Contains: IC 312 · IC 313 · NGC 1259 · NGC 1260 · NGC 1264 · NGC 1265 · NGC 1267 · NGC 1268 · NGC 1270 · NGC 1272 · NGC 1273 · NGC 1275 · NGC 1277 · NGC 1278 · NGC 1282 · NGC 1283 · NGC 1293 · NGC 1294 · Perseus A
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Meade Starfinder 8 f/6 Newtonian OTA
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI1600MM
Mounts
Losmandy GM8 / GM8G
Filters
Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow 2" · Meade Blue 2" · Meade Green 2" · Meade Red 2"
Accessories
Baader 2" MPCC Mark III Newton Coma Corrector (2458400A) · OnStep Telescope Mount Goto Controller · Rigel Systems Stepper motor
Software
Adobe Photoshop · Aries Productions Astro Pixel Processor (APP) · Open PHD Guiding Project PHD2 · Stefan Berg Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy (N.I.N.A. / NINA)
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
SVBony SV106 60mm Guide Scope
Guiding Cameras
ZWO ASI120MM
Acquisition details
Dates:
Sept. 30, 2022 · Oct. 1, 2022
Frames:
Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow 2": 218×120″(7h 16′) bin 2×2
Meade Blue 2": 16×120″(32′) bin 2×2
Meade Green 2": 16×120″(32′) bin 2×2
Meade Red 2": 16×120″(32′) bin 2×2
Integration:
8h 52′
Darks:
100
Bias:
100
Avg. Moon age:
5.24 days
Avg. Moon phase:
28.15%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: None
Resolution: 4701x3854
File size: 20.9 MB
Data source: Backyard
Right after a nighttime snow storm, there's always a beautiful white skyglow. I'm not sure, but I think it's caused by man-made lights reflecting off both the new snow and the clouds. In any case, it's sublime. I'd been wondering what the exposure value for such a scene is and the answer is EV100 = 0.7. :)
Body: Hasselblad 500 C/M
Lens: Zeiss 50mm Distagon f/4 T*
Film: Fujichrome T64 (expired 2010)
Exposure: f/11 for 2 minutes (EV100 = 0.7)
Developed & Scanned by NCPS
Added some data from the 8" reflector (from 2017).
Imaging telescope or lens:Astro Tech AT66ED
Imaging camera:Canon T1i Full Spectrum
Mount:Celestron CG-4 MotorDrive
Guiding telescope or lens:MEADE 50mm Finder Guidescope
Guiding camera:ZWO ASI120MM
Focal reducer:Astro Tech 0.8x Reducer/Flattener
Software:Astro Pixel Processor, Open Guiding PHD2 Guiding, Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Filter:Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter
Resolution: 4918x3831
Dates:Oct. 30, 2019
Frames: 468x60"
Integration: 7.8 hours
Avg. Moon age: 2.57 days
Avg. Moon phase: 7.31%
Astrometry.net job: 3026490
Data source: Backyard
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Astro Tech AT66ED
Imaging cameras: QHYCCD 163m · Canon T1i Full Spectrum
Mounts: Celestron CG-4 MotorDrive
Guiding telescopes or lenses: MEADE 50mm Finder Guidescope
Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI120MM
Focal reducers: Astro Tech 0.8x Reducer/Flattener
Software: Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy · Open Guiding PHD2 Guiding · RegiStar · Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Filters: Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter · Ha filter
Accessory: Rigel Systems Focuser
Acquisition details
Dates:
Oct. 4, 2018 · May 3, 2021 · July 8, 2022
Frames:
70x120" (2h 20')
38x180" (1h 54')
Ha filter: 70x180" (3h 30') (gain: 200.00) -10°C
Integration:
7h 44'
Darks:
50
Bias:
100
Avg. Moon age:
18.35 days
Avg. Moon phase:
48.48%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 5967566
RA center: 21h38m19s.2
DEC center: +57°37′01″
Pixel scale: 2.350 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 269.853 degrees
Field radius: 1.363 degrees
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Resolution: 3248x2626
File size: 11.7 MB
Data source: Backyard
June 9, 2022 - South Central Nebraska US
Prints Available...Click Here
All Images are also available for...
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Storm Chasing Video from night on Flickr Click Here
A Sultry Evening...
One my favorite things to do... Watch a ominous lighting intense storm come over the horizon. With continuous cloud to cloud lightning & a few cloud to ground strikes. This was one of those perfect photogenic Nebraska storms.
Severe warned right after sunset. Found an open spot to shoot just some incredible June storm photography for 2022!
*** Please NOTE and RESPECT the Copyright ***
Copyright 2022
Dale Kaminski @ NebraskaSC Photography
All Rights Reserved
This image may not be copied, reproduced, published or distributed in any medium without the expressed written permission of the copyright holder.
#ForeverChasing
#NebraskaSC
From White Mountain (adjacent to Bishop, in eastern central California) the Milky Way manages to shine despite the increasing light leakage from Bishop to the west and several large towns in Nevada to the east.
This is a 4000 ISO shot at f/2.8, 30 seconds, 16mm. I took it on the same night that I took the horizon to horizon vertorama of the Milky Way.
This image was taken near the Grand Vista View north of the Grand View Campground area frequented by astronomers. Even though this was taken well after sunset, most of what you see is light pollution from Bishop scattering in the low thin clouds. I'm excited to be going even higher up on the mountain and spending 3+ nights there in August as I teach a workshop with Harold Davis and the Point Reyes National Seashore Association. (Sorry, no space left it sold out in 4 days!)
Later, in November, I'll be back with the StarCircleAcademy gang for our annual Alabama Hills workshop. There are still a few spots left in that workshop.
*Explored Jun 3, 2011 #266*
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StarCircleAcademy.com (or the BLOG)
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Not really great conditions..near full moon, passing clouds, but I couldn't let the first clear-ish night in 6 weeks go by.
Plus it was the first time to try out my new GoTo system... which worked pretty well.
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Astro Tech AT66ED
Imaging cameras: QHYCCD 163C
Mounts: Celestron CG-4 MotorDrive
Guiding telescopes or lenses: MEADE 50mm Finder Guidescope
Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI120MM
Focal reducers: Astro Tech 0.8x Reducer/Flattener
Software: NINA Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy · Open Guiding PHD2 Guiding · Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Filters: Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter
Accessory: Rigel Systems Focuser
Dates:Nov. 28, 2020
Frames: 280x30"
Integration: 2.3 hours
Avg. Moon age: 13.04 days
Avg. Moon phase: 96.68%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 4048126
RA center: 5h 28' 50"
DEC center: +35° 40' 19"
Pixel scale: 4.816 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 189.964 degrees
Field radius: 2.092 degrees
Resolution: 2312x2106
Data source: Backyard
Poem.
Pale-grey river wends its short course from Loch Morar to Morar Bay.
At low tide in an evening light the famed white sands are sandwiched between river and sea into an elegant mercury-grey crescent.
Distant tanker chugs its course through the pewter-grey sea-channel.
The indigo hills of Rum are silhouetted against the burnished glow of a setting sun as the headlands spike the image with acute rocky arms.
The combination of river, sandbank, sea, headland and island undulations, in such understated evening hues, provides a compelling scene ………
a special moment.
A ball of about 330,000 stars orbiting our Milky Way galaxy.
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Meade Starfinder 8
Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI1600 cooled mono
Mounts: Losmandy GM-8
Guiding telescopes or lenses: MEADE 50mm Finder Guidescope
Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI120MM
Software: NINA Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy · Open Guiding PHD2 Guiding · Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Filters: Blue · Green · Red · Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter
Accessory: Rigel Systems Focuser · Baader MPCC coma corrector
Dates:April 5, 2021
Frames:
Blue: 45x75" 0C bin 2x2
Green: 45x75" bin 2x2
Red: 45x75" (gain: 139.00) bin 2x2
UV/IR Cut Filter UV/IR-Cut 1.25": 117x75" (gain: 139.00) -10C bin 2x2
Integration: 5.2 hours
Darks: ~100
Bias: ~100
Avg. Moon age: 23.25 days
Avg. Moon phase: 38.36%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: None
Resolution: 3621x2751
Data source: Backyard
A multi scope effort between the LRGB of the newtonian over 3 nights and a night of Ha through the Edge.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Celestron EdgeHD 8" · Meade Starfinder 8 f/6 Newtonian OTA
Imaging Cameras
QHYCCD QHY163M · ZWO ASI1600MM
Mounts
Losmandy GM8 / GM8G · Vixen GPDX
Filters
Astronomik H-alpha CCD 12nm 2" · Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow 2" · Meade Blue 2" · Meade Green 2" · Meade Red 2"
Accessories
Baader 2" MPCC Mark III Newton Coma Corrector (2458400A) · Celestron 0.7X Reducer EdgeHD800 (94242) · OnStep Telescope Mount Goto Controller · Rigel Systems Stepper motor · Sharpstar 2" 0.95× coma corrector (CRC2095)
Software
Adobe Photoshop · Aries Productions Astro Pixel Processor (APP) · Open PHD Guiding Project PHD2 · Stefan Berg Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy (N.I.N.A. / NINA)
Acquisition details
Dates:
Sept. 7, 2021 · Aug. 26, 2022 · Aug. 29, 2022 · Aug. 30, 2022
Frames:
75×120″(2h 30′) bin 2×2
81×120″(2h 42′) f/6 bin 2×2
Astronomik H-alpha CCD 12nm 2": 83×120″(2h 46′) -10°C bin 2×2
Meade Blue 2": 45×75″(56′ 15″)
Meade Green 2": 45×75″(56′ 15″)
Meade Red 2": 45×75″(56′ 15″)
Integration:
10h 46′ 45″
Darks:
100
Bias:
100
Avg. Moon age:
8.57 days
Avg. Moon phase:
3.92%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 6351768
Resolution: 4093x5238
File size: 26.6 MB
Data source: Backyard
One of my fist short exposure learning/test Astro-images (photographed close to the city).
A deep sky wide field astro-photo of Omega Centauri (NGC 5139), a globular cluster in the constellation of Centaurus. Located at a distance of 15,800 light-years, it is the largest globular cluster in the Milky Way Galaxy (at a diameter of roughly 150 light-years).
To give an indication of distance, light travels about 10 trillion kilometers or 6 trillion miles in a year. The Omega Centauri globular cluster is estimated to contain approximately 10 million stars and a total mass equivalent to 4 million solar masses (1 solar mass is equal to the mass of the Sun, weighing in at about 2 Nonillion kilograms).
Globular Clusters were described by Carl Sagan like a "swarm of bees". In this case it is 10 Million suns in a dense cluster.
Photographed rather close to the "light polluted" suburbs of the West Rand and North Rand of Johannesburg (Gauteng Province, South Africa). Light Pollution Map.
Astrometry info:
RA, Dec center: 201.667367509, -47.469712706 degrees
Orientation: 1.04623985658 deg E of N
Pixel scale: 6.1860599014 arcsec/pixel
Field contains: NGC 5139
nova.astrometry.net/user_images/774840#annotated
Gear:
GSO 6" f/4 Imaging Newtonian Telescope (Astrograph).
Celestron Advanced VX Equatorial Mount.
Orion UltraBlock Narrowband Light Pollution Filter.
Canon 60Da DSLR (sensitive to IR light at 656.28 nm).
Processed in PixInsight.
Polar Aligned, but Unguided.
Stacked 10 sec. exposures (Lights/Subs).
Calibration Frames: Darks and Bias frames (no Flats).
Martin
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LRGB from the Starfinder with additional luminance from the Edge.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Celestron EdgeHD 8" · Meade Starfinder 8 f/6 Newtonian OTA
Imaging Cameras
QHYCCD QHY163M · ZWO ASI1600MM
Mounts
Losmandy GM8 / GM8G · Vixen GPDX
Filters
Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow 2" · Meade Blue 2" · Meade Green 2" · Meade Red 2"
Accessories
Baader 2" MPCC Mark III Newton Coma Corrector (2458400A) · Celestron 0.7X Reducer EdgeHD800 (94242) · OnStep Telescope Mount Goto Controller · Rigel Systems Stepper motor
Software
Adobe Photoshop · Aries Productions Astro Pixel Processor (APP) · Open PHD Guiding Project PHD2 · Stefan Berg Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy (N.I.N.A. / NINA)
Acquisition details
Dates:
Aug. 23, 2022 · Sept. 8, 2022
Frames:
Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow 2": 150×120″(5h) bin 2×2
Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow 2": 90×120″(3h) -10°C bin 2×2
Meade Blue 2": 30×120″(1h) bin 2×2
Meade Green 2": 30×120″(1h) bin 2×2
Meade Red 2": 30×120″(1h) bin 2×2
Integration:
11h
Darks:
100
Bias:
100
Avg. Moon age:
19.32 days
Avg. Moon phase:
54.13%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 6631784
Resolution: 3374x4591
File size: 11.9 MB
Data source: Backyard
June 9, 2022 - South Central Nebraska US
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A Sultry Evening...
One my favorite things to do... Watch a ominous lighting intense storm come over the horizon. With continuous cloud to cloud lightning & a few cloud to ground strikes. This was one of those perfect photogenic Nebraska storms.
Severe warned right after sunset. Found an open spot to shoot just some incredible June storm photography for 2022!
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