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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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This is the summer Milky Way and Galactic Centre area over the red rocks of the Badlands formations at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta.
The Scutum Starcloud (top) and Small Sagittarius Starcloud (midway down the Milky Way) stand out. The main Sagittarius Starcloud just above the horizon and town skyglows is dimmed by its low altitude and some smoke in the air this night. Between the two Sagittarius starclouds is the pink Lagoon Nebula. Several Messier star clusters popular the field as well. The "Teapot" asterism that marks Sagittarius stands out fairly well.
Technical:
This is a blend of tracked and untracked exposures:
- one 4-minute untracked exposure for the ground at f/4 and ISO 1600,
- followed by a stack of 4 x 1-minute exposures for the sky, each at f/2 and ISO 400. All with the Nikkor 20mm S lens and Nikon Z6III camera. On the MSM Nomad tracker.
Taken July 8, 2024 as part of a set of images demonstrating untracked vs. tracked exposures. Adobe DeNoise AI applied to the ground image largely to eliminate the hot pixels, as I did not use Long Exposure Noise Reduction on this warm night to speed up the shooting.
This is Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, C/2023 A3, in wide-angle nightscape scene over the Badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, on October 23, 2024.
Dinosaur Park is home to one of the world's largest repositories of late-Cretaceous age fossils, from the time just below the K-Pg boundary layer created by the massive impact of a comet or asteroid that brought the age of non-avian dinosaurs to an end.
The Moon was well out of the way this week, so the comet was in a dark sky and higher than the previous week. And it was moving slowly each night up toward the rich summer Milky Way at left. The comet was easily visible to the unaided eye in a dark sky like this, so was about magnitude 4.5. The tail was visible to the eye, not just the bright coma, so it looked like a comet in the sky, not just a fuzzy star. In binoculars, the tail stretched across the 7º field, similar to the extent recorded here. The comet was in Ophiuchus at this time.
A faint anti-tail was still visible in front of the comet, though it is more diffuse than a week earlier when it appeared as a sharp spike.
Bands of green and red airglow tint the sky, as well as skyglow from the lights of Brooks to the southwest. We had our first snow just two days earlier.
The Milky Way contains the rich collection of star clusters, nebulas, and star clouds that populate this area of sky toward the galactic core. The bright Small Sagittarius Starcloud (aka M24) and, above it, the Scutum Starcloud stand out.
This image with a 28mm wide-angle lens has a field of view of 65º by 46º. The latitude was 51º N.
Technical:
This is a blend of tracked images for the sky and untracked images for the ground:
- A stack of 5 x 1-minute tracked exposures at f/2 and ISO 1600 for the sky, followed immediately by...
- A stack of 2 x 6-minute untracked exposures at f/2.8 and ISO 800 for the ground.
All with the Canon R5 and RF28-70mm lens, on the MSM Nomad tracker, and with an URTH Night light pollution reduction filter on the lens for all frames.
Blended in Photoshop with finishing touch effects added with Nik Color EFX. Generative AI filled in some missing ground content created when aligning the ground and horizon to the moving sky.
I have seen this light only twice in my photographic life. Each time, I thought I was "seeing things," but the camera saw it too.
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Finally, a full night of clear weather!
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Meade Starfinder 8
Imaging cameras: QHYCCD 163m
Mounts: Losmandy GM-8
Guiding telescopes or lenses: MEADE 60mm 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 10, 2021
Frames:
Blue: 60x60" bin 2x2
Green: 60x60" bin 2x2
Red: 60x60" bin 2x2
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter: 242x60" (gain: 120.00) -10C bin 2x2
Integration: 7.0 hours
Darks: ~100
Bias: ~100
Avg. Moon age: 26.70 days
Avg. Moon phase: 8.81%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4.00
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 4302841
Resolution: 2420x1968
Data source: Backyard
Here is a quick image of this morning’s (April 5, 2016) planets Mars and Saturn and the star Antares. Image was taken from Weatherly, Pennsylvania early in the morning with a few low clouds. More of an artsy view. Tech Spec: Canon 6D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM, tripod mounted, ISO 3200, two 8-second exposures at f/2.8 stitched together, 70mm, Tiffen star filter.
cause bad weather in Corse on september we got only 2h of lum with ASI1600 , so i've tryed to catch the color in this dslr version (B)
added 96min of Nikon DSLR shot from my friend Francesco
~3 millions light-years away...
Telescopio di acquisizione: Tecnosky APO Triplet 130/910 mm
Camere di acquisizione: ZWO Optical ASI1600MM-Cool, Canon EOS 600D full spectrum mod, Canon / CentralDS EOS Astro 50D
Montatura: Sky-Watcher EQ6 Pro
Telescopio o obiettivio di guida: Tecnosky 80/600 acromatico
Camere di guida: QHYCCD q5L-II-C, lacerta mgen2
Riduttori di focale: APM-Riccardi Riccardi 0.75x reducer/flattener, Tecnosky Spianatore 1X
Software: PixInsight, DeepSkyStacker, ESA/ESO/NASA FITS Liberator 3.0
Filtra: Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter
Accessorio: ZWO EFWmini (5 x 1.25″or 5 x 31mm)
Date: 25 novembre 2013, 26 novembre 2016, 22 settembre 2017
Pose:
12x260" ISO1600
28x280" ISO1600 ZWO LRGB 31.8 filters: 30x180" (gain: 139.00) -21C bin 1x1
Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 10x480" ISO1000 -16C
Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 10x360" ISO2500 -16C
Integrazione: 7.0 ore
The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years (ly) from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598, and is sometimes informally referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy, a nickname it shares with Messier 101. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, behind the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye.
The galaxy is the smallest spiral galaxy in the Local Group and it is believed to be a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy due to their interactions, velocities and proximity to one another in the night sky. It also has an H-II nucleus.
...more @ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulum_Galaxy
I didn't realize that the famous central "eye" region is so TINY. The outer shells are drastically fainter than the central, so I mostly blew out the core.
A much more challenging target than I realized...Beautiful, but challenging.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Meade Starfinder 8
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI1600 cooled mono
Mounts
Losmandy GM-8
Filters
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter · Blue · Green · Red
Accessories
Baader MPCC coma corrector · OnStep GoTo Controller · Rigel Systems Focuser
Software
PHD2 Guiding · Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy · Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
Svbony 60mm guidescope
Guiding Cameras
ZWO ASI120MM
Acquisition details
Dates:
April 3, 2022 · April 5, 2022
Frames:
Blue: 30x120" (1h) bin 2x2
Green: 30x120" (1h) bin 2x2
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter: 189x120" (6h 18') f/6 -10°C bin 2x2
Red: 30x120" (1h) bin 2x2
Integration:
9h 18'
Darks:
100
Bias:
100
Avg. Moon age:
3.09 days
Avg. Moon phase:
11.16%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 5653362
Resolution: 4456x3222
Data source: Backyard
Capella, rising in the northeast on a moonlit autumn night, reflects in the calm waters of Forget-Me-Not Pond in Kananaskis Country in southern Alberta on a September evening. Lights from Calgary tint the clouds to the east, but the effect of urban skyglow is muted by the bright light from the waxing gibbous Moon.
This is a stack of 5 exposures: 1 for the sky and 4 for the ground (except the reflections), with the latter mean combined stacked to smooth noise. All are 30-second exposures at f/4 with the 24mm lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 800.
This picture was taken at midnight in Mendocino County, about halfway between Boonville and Point Arena. The location is 55 miles (90 km) away from Santa Rosa, 100 miles (160 km) away from San Francisco and Oakland, and 110 miles (180 km) away from Sacramento, but the sky above those cities glows so bright that it makes the Milky Way difficult to see and noticeably lights up the landscape even here.
The amount and far reach of the light produced by modern cities is astonishing, considering the amount of electrical power required to illuminate the landscape and the sky within a radius of more than a hundred miles. Until recently certain lens filters were able to reduce the visibility of the sky glow in nighttime photos, but when cities switched street lighting from sodium vapor lamps to LEDs those filters stopped working.
"The Road to Orion", photographed in Shenandoah National Park on February 27, 2016 at the Thornton Hollow Overlook. Tech Specs: Canon 6D, Samyang 14mm, ISO 3200, 25 second exposure at f/2.8. Lighting supplied with a hand-held Yongnuo YN560-III-USA Speedlite Flash with an attached Neewer Pro Collapsible Octagon Studio Softbox Flash Diffuser.
Another globular cluster of stars close, from our vantage point, to the last globular imaged Messier 3.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Meade Starfinder 8
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI1600 cooled mono
Mounts
Losmandy GM-8
Filters
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter · Blue · Green · Red
Accessories
Baader MPCC coma corrector · OnStep GoTo Controller · Rigel Systems Focuser
Software
PHD2 Guiding · Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy · Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
Svbony 60mm guidescope
Guiding Cameras
ZWO ASI120MM
Acquisition details
Dates:
March 10, 2022
Frames:
Blue: 30x120" (1h) bin 2x2
Green: 30x120" (1h) bin 2x2
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter: 194x120" (6h 28') f/6 -10°C bin 2x2
Red: 30x120" (1h) bin 2x2
Integration:
9h 28'
Darks:
100
Bias:
100
Avg. Moon age:
7.43 days
Avg. Moon phase:
50.49%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 5581182
RA center: 13h12m47s.8
DEC center: +18°10′08″
Pixel scale: 0.641 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 268.359 degrees
Field radius: 0.475 degrees
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Resolution: 3195x4268
Data source: Backyard
June 9, 2022 - South Central Nebraska US
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All Images are also available for...
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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.
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"Quasar, an astronomical object of very high luminosity found in the centers of some galaxies and powered by gas spiraling at high velocity into an extremely large black hole."
Someone once asked me "What's the most distant thing you have ever seen". Kind of an interesting question really.
This takes the prize. Quasar 3c 309.1 off the bottom of the Little Dipper. Not much to look at, just a little dot really, but at a distance of 8 billion light years. Hard to imagine that photon left there 3 1/2 billion years before our planet even formed. Hard to imagine too a light source that powerful.
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: Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Filters: Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter
Accessory: Rigel Systems Focuser · Baader MPCC coma corrector
Dates:April 17, 2021
Frames: 246x75"
Integration: 5.1 hours
Avg. Moon age: 4.82 days
Avg. Moon phase: 24.09%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 4423103
Resolution: 4965x3759
Data source: Backyard
NGC 1342 in Perseus
My first image since rebuilding my scope mounting with new rings and mounting plate. The starfinder 8" uses a non standard size tube, so I reshaped a pair of standard rings and remounted my guidescope on a reinforcing aluminum rail. Took some time and made a mess of aluminum shavings, but it worked!
The previous system, in use for the last 6 years, involved rubber straps.
I still am getting some flexure, but it has been reduced by 90%, enough that I won't be opening up the OAG can of worms.
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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:Sept. 27, 2020
Frames:
Blue: 45x60"
Green: 45x60"
Red: 45x60" (gain: 120.00) 0C
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter: 220x60"
Integration: 5.9 hours
Darks: ~200
Bias: ~200
Avg. Moon age: 10.74 days
Avg. Moon phase: 82.75%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 3891944
RA center: 3h 31' 40"
DEC center: +37° 22' 44"
Pixel scale: 0.640 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 343.413 degrees
Field radius: 0.551 degrees
Resolution: 4864x3834
Data source: Backyard
Late at night/early morning on 4/3/2016 between 2:57am-5:00am PDT I set up a Rokonin 35mm lens with a Canon 6D (Hutech mod) and an Optolong UHC filter on top of a Celestron AVX mount to catch a wide field view of Comet P/252 Linear as it passes above the Milky Way.
A little while back I was lucky enough to receive two Optolong clip in filters for Canon EOS full frame cameras to test, a UHC which I used for this image and a L-Pro filter which I can't wait to use based on the UHC's performance. I took two image sets, one 15x300" @640 ISO without the UHC filter and another set of 8x300" @640ISO with the UHC filter then combined the two. Using the UHC I was able to draw out more areas of red nebulosity and contrast overall in this image, it also cut out a pretty big portion of skyglow/light pollution to the bottom right that would have made me crop out more of the filed of view if I hadn't used it.
For more info on Optolong filters check out their site: optolong.com/en/products/astronomy-filters
Special thanks to Agena Astro, the distributor who handled the delivery of the filters: agenaastro.com/
Comet P/252 isn't the only solar system body in this image, to the right you can see bright whitish colored Saturn just above the center of the Milky Way and a little to the left of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex then there's the even brighter Mars which shines orange above Rho Ophiuchi. In the background nestled withing the Milky Way there are a number of nebulae that shine mostly red, from left to right they are, M16 the Eagle Nebula, M17 the Omega Nebula, M20 the Trifid Nebula, M8 the Lagoon Nebula, NGC 6357 the Lobster or War and Peace Nebula, and finally NGC 6334 the Cat's Paw Nebula.
Technical Info:
15x300" Without UHC Filter at 640ISO
8x300" With UHC Filter at 640ISO
20x Bias
15x Darks
Camera: Canon 6D Hutech Mod
Lens: Rokinon 35mm at F/4
Mount: Advanced VX
Guide Scope: Orion Mag Mini With SSAG
Capture Software: Backyard EOS
Processing: Registar, Photoshop CC
Location: Just north of Red Rock Canyon State Park, CA
Almost a year has passed since my astrophotography trip to Italy. As spring is in the air again, it is time to refresh my memories of this beautiful journey.
This image was taken at one of the most photographed spots in Tuscany. You can find thousends of daylight images from this place, but despite its perfect orientation, I found no Milky Way nightscapes.
Light pollution probably is the reason why even local nightscapers do not shoot there at night, but even with very high humidity, I found it manageable with my light pollution filter.
I am glad that my planning proved to be correct and enabled me to capture my intended composition.
Prints available: ralf-rohner.pixels.com
EXIF
Canon EOS 6D astro modified
Sigma 35mm f1.4 ART
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
nachtlicht° light pollution filter
Sky:
Stack of 5 x 60s @ISO1600 f/2.8, tracked
Foreground:
Focus stack of 11 x 60s @ISO1600 f/2.8
A spectacularly clear night after a morning rainstorm. Lastovo, one of the remotest inhabitated islands in Croatia with exceptionally dark skies, but this night was very special. Milky Way and stars can be seen almost right to the horizon edge - the light domes on the left are from Dubrovnik (100 km away) and Montenegro coast. The one on the right is from Italy, probably Brindisi, more than 200 km away. It's not Bari (180 km), it's lights are brighter and off the right edge, I have it on other photos. There are some scattered street lights in Hidden Bay (that's a real name!) and you can see a light from the lighthouse that is featured in my previous photo. Green on the horizon is real - skyglow.
Nikon Z6, Nikkor S 20 mm, ISO 1600, 25x20s.
Color from last year's apo run. Funny coincidence that the number of frames and exposure were the same..
Interesting info (from Wikipedia):
"During 2009, a bright star within NGC 6946 flared up over several months to become over one million times as bright as the Sun. Shortly thereafter it faded rapidly. Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the star did not survive, although there remains some infrared emission from its position. This is thought to come from debris falling onto a black hole that formed when the star died."
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Meade Starfinder 8 · Astro Tech AT66ED
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI1600 cooled mono · QHYCCD 163C
Mounts
Losmandy GM-8 · Celestron CG-4 MotorDrive
Filters
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter
Accessories
Baader MPCC coma corrector · OnStep GoTo Controller · Rigel Systems Focuser
Software
PHD2 Guiding · Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy · Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
Svbony 60mm guidescope
Guiding Cameras
ZWO ASI120MM
Acquisition details
Dates:
April 11, 2021 · April 30, 2022
Frames:
114x120" (3h 48')
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter: 114x120" (3h 48') f/5 -10°C bin 2x2
Integration:
7h 36'
Darks:
100
Flats:
50
Bias:
100
Avg. Moon age:
29.08 days
Avg. Moon phase:
0.24%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale:
5.00
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 5727930
RA center: 20h34m54s.10
DEC center: +60°09′50″
Pixel scale: 0.640 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 196.143 degrees
Field radius: 0.521 degrees
Resolution: 4669x3538
Data source: Backyard
Imaging telescope or lens:Meade Starfinder 8
Imaging camera:Canon 450D modified baader) Canon baader modified dslr
Mount:Losmandy GM-8
Guiding telescope or lens:MEADE 50mm Finder Guidescope
Guiding camera:ZWO ASI120MM
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
Accessory:Baader MPCC coma corrector
Resolution: 8261x5130
Dates:Dec. 5, 2018
Frames: 86x241"
Integration: 5.8 hours
Avg. Moon age: 27.78 days
Avg. Moon phase: 3.44%
Data source: Backyard
Yet another shot at M34
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:Dec. 4, 2020
Frames: 125x120"
Integration: 4.2 hours
Avg. Moon age: 18.61 days
Avg. Moon phase: 84.21%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 4066960
Resolution: 3655x4906
Data source: Backyard
My capture of the Supermoon lunar eclipse in January, 2019 from our front porch in Northern Virginia. I think the temperature was around 14 degrees F at the time with -2 windchill...totally worth it! So surreal to see stars around a full moon!
10 second tracked shot at ISO400
Meade 6000 Series 80mm APO (480mm)
Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Mount
Canon T5i modified
Orion Skyglow 2" LPS Filter.
www.RochesterAstronomy.org/supernova.html#2021rhu
I just found out about SN 2021 rhu. I had imaged NGC7814 during the nights of 11/7 and 11/8 from southern Michigan. I collected a total of 173 two minute exposures for five hours forty eight minutes total. Attached are my original color photo and a cropped version that I toned down the brightness of the Galaxy core to see What I believe to be SN 2021rhu. Imaging was done with a C-8 edge and .7 reducer. Zwo294mc pro camera and a Baader Moon and Skyglow filter.
Can you confirm that I did capture the SN?
If you need any other info let me know. This is a 1st for me in my Astro imaging hobby.
Steven Brisbey
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Celestron EdgeHD 8"
Imaging Cameras
QHYCCD QHY163C · QHYCCD QHY163M
Mounts
Vixen GPDX
Filters
Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow 2"
Accessories
Celestron Focus Motor · Starizona HyperStar 8 v4 (HS4-C8)
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:
Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow 2": 675×30″(5h 37′ 30″)
Integration:
5h 37′ 30″
Resolution: 5103x3841
File size: 13.0 MB
Data source: Backyard
Imaged 21 Nov 2012 with a Nikon D5100.
Astro Tech 10" RC on a iEQ45 mount, guided by a 50mm Borg w/SSAG. Baader Moon/Skyglow filter. Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5, cropped.
Need to collimate the RC, and also had a problem with DEC...I forgot to lock it...:) It moved when I was putting the dew shield back on after refocusing (very cold).
Too lazy to polar align again so the stars are a little oval. Two and five minute exposures..about 90 minutes of subs.
ISOs 800 and 400.
edit-Nov 4 2021: I added data from a 200mm lens shot which registered quite well, so expanded the frame to a more complete and balanced image.
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Astro Tech AT66ED
Imaging cameras: QHYCCD 163C · QHYCCD 163m
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 · UV/IR Cut Filter UV/IR-Cut 1.25" · Ha filter
Accessory: OnStep GoTo Controller · Rigel Systems Focuser
Dates:April 6, 2021 , Oct. 31, 2021
Frames:
703x30" (5h 51' 30")
Ha filter: 227x120" (7h 34')
Integration: 13h 25' 30"
Avg. Moon age: 24.49 days
Avg. Moon phase: 26.13%
Basic astrometry details
RA center: 05h19m39s
DEC center: +34°09′00″
Pixel scale: 2.436 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 334.157 degrees
Field radius: 1.937 degrees
Resolution: 4630x3368
Data source: Backyard
M106 and a bunch of other galaxies including NGC 4217.
74x300s @ ISO800 lights
20x300s @ ISO800 darks
100x1/8000s @ ISO800 bias
60x2s @ ISO800 flat
Skywatcher 200PDS
HEQ5 PRO
Nikon D7000 (Ha mod)
Orion Skyglow 2" LP filter
Processing in Pixinsight 1.8
Data from 9/9/2016 while I was waiting for M33 to rise above the roof level.
40x240s @ ISO400 lights
20x240s @ ISO400 darks
100x1/8000s @ ISO400 bias
30x2s @ ISO400 flat
Skywatcher 200PDS
HEQ5 PRO
Nikon D7000 (Ha mod)
Orion Skyglow 2" LP filter
Processing in Pixinsight 1.8
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
The "Northern Triffid" with similarly beautiful contrasting colors.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Meade Starfinder 8 f/6 Newtonian OTA
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI1600MM
Mounts
Losmandy GM8 / GM8G
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:
Nov. 15, 2022 · Nov. 18, 2022
Frames:
Blue: 30×120″(1h) bin 2×2
Green: 30×120″(1h) bin 2×2
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter: 99×120″(3h 18′) -10°C bin 2×2
Red: 30×120″(1h) bin 2×2
Integration:
6h 18′
Darks:
100
Bias:
100
Avg. Moon age:
22.56 days
Avg. Moon phase:
45.77%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 6648048
RA center: 03h28m55s.2
DEC center: +31°22′22″
Pixel scale: 0.641 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 274.750 degrees
Field radius: 0.507 degrees
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Resolution: 3453x4538
File size: 17.0 MB
Data source: Backyard
The small apo is once again my narrowband, but for this target I mapped Ha/Oiii/Blue to RGB. The two targets may have faired better with a longer focal length, but I did like having them set in the fairly dense field of stars.
One advantage of using the Ha filter is it allowed me to image into the darker twilight thus extending the short night a bit.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Astro-Tech AT66ED
Imaging Cameras
QHYCCD QHY163M
Mounts
Meade LX70
Filters
Astronomik H-alpha CCD 12nm 2" · Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow 2" · Meade Blue 2" · SVBony OIII 7nm 2"
Accessories
Astro-Tech .8x Reducer/Field Flattener · OnStep Telescope Mount Goto Controller
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:
May 25, 2023
Frames:
Astronomik H-alpha CCD 12nm 2": 22×120″(44′)
Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow 2": 79×120″(2h 38′)
Meade Blue 2": 22×120″(44′)
SVBony OIII 7nm 2": 22×120″(44′)
Integration:
4h 50′
Avg. Moon age:
5.47 days
Avg. Moon phase:
30.23%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 7814431
RA center: 21h43m58s.1
DEC center: +65°53′13″
Pixel scale: 2.355 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 269.891 degrees
Field radius: 1.773 degrees
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Resolution: 3246x4341
File size: 18.0 MB
Data source: Backyard
- www.kevin-palmer.com - I went outside of town on this evening to test out a new lens. I didn't even know the cows were there until I heard them shuffling around. The middle one moved halfway through the exposure which made it transparent.
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Canon 5DmkII + Canon 17-40mm f/4.0L USM
ISO640, 30sec, f/4.0 @ 17mm
I went to bed early last night, and for once I managed to wake up to my alarm at 2am. Of course, knowing that there was fog predicted for this intended destination does wonders for the motivation.
So I head out and start shooting by 3:15, the moon light keeping exposure down to a decent 8 minutes. methodically I work my way through a list of shots I'd already planned in my head. This shot, the one I liked the most from the morning, was simply a product of chance and opportunity. On another note, i really need to learn how to stay more still for these 30 second exposures.
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Meade Starfinder 8
Imaging cameras: QHYCCD 163m
Mounts: Losmandy GM-8
Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI120MM
Software: NINA Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy · 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:Dec. 4, 2020
Frames:
Blue: 30x30"
Green: 30x30"
Red: 30x30"
Orion SkyGlow Imaging Filter: 360x30"
Integration: 3.8 hours
Darks: ~200
Bias: ~100
Avg. Moon age: 18.61 days
Avg. Moon phase: 84.21%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4.00
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 4087629
Resolution: 5205x4046
Data source: Backyard