3x8 minutes tracked, stacked, foreground shot on an other location.

Fujifilm X-T2, Samyang 12mm F2 at F4, Skywatcher Star Adventurer

The whirlpool galaxy is actually two galaxies interacting with each other. The quite obvious spiral galaxy that is M51 and the much smaller galaxy catalogued as NGC 5195.

First discovered by Charles Messier in 1773, M51 is located 31 million light years away in the constellation Canes Venatici.

Data gathered at www.astronomycentre.org.uk/ on the 18/03/2025.

Boring Techie bit:

Telescope: Skywatcher Quattro 8"

Mount: EQ6r pro

Camera: ZWO 533mc pro

Filter: Optolong UV/IR.

Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+ using Altair Starwave 50mm & ZWO 120mm mini.

248 light frames 60 seconds each.

Stacked with darks using WBPP in PixInsight.

Processed using Graxpert, StarNet2, PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

knew that the was a lot of red wisps around the Seagull nebula. this is my 105mm Nikon prime lens first try at Astro photography with the very same camera as the shot next to this, there is just so many stars out there you almost loose the faint red wisps. This was not auto focus but Bahtinov mask.

I had to call it quits as I am now clouded in but the idea of the wisps show very well. the very small white nebula that is in view just below the seagull is Thors Helmet the target that I wanted to do next but as its only 30 shots a night till the tree gets in the way I will leave for next year. the next week or so is clouded in so no point even starting to get more.

ZWOASI071MC -7c 39 shots 600 secs, over 2 night camera rotated 104 degrees.

ZWOEAF disconnected ,

Optolong LeNhance filter In filter draw,

Nikon 105MM F2.8 Lens,

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned

Guided PHD2, SGP

Pixinsight, Ps & Lr.

In cygnus constellation.

Acquisition length : 10h30

Camera : Canon 600D modded

Main Scope : Askar FRA400 + reducer

Mount : Skywatcher EQ6-R

Filter : Optolong L-Extreme

Softwares used : NINA, Siril, PixInsight

Canon EOS 1100D mod

Skywatcher 200/800

Heq5 pro

17*300s / ISO 800

2017 12 17-19

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Playing around with photoshop plugins

I had been putting off processing this image because the conditions were not good on the night it was taken, and I was not convinced there would be enough data to work with, especially since there was no Oxygen or Sulphur data. I plan to revisit during the winter of 2024/2025 to gather more data. The Bubble Nebula (NGC7635) image comprises RGB and Hydrogen Alpha data.

Located in Cassiopeia, NGC7635 (Caldwell 11, Sharpless 162) is an emission nebula close to M52. The bubble is created by the wind emanating from the young central star SAO 20575. The surrounding gas is part of a giant molecular cloud that is also excited by this star.

Imaging session: 10/01/2024

Sky quality: Bortle 5 (approx.)

Mount: iOptron CEM40G

OTA Imaging: Skywatcher 120ED

Camera: ZWO ASI533MM Pro

Filter Wheel: ZWO

HaRGB Filters: ZWO

Focuser: Primaluce Lab ESATTO

Guiding: iOptron

Computer: Primaluce Lab Eagle 5 + ECCO2 (Environment)

Light Exposures:

Ha ……….. 12 x 300s

Red ........... 20 x 90s

Green ......... 20 x 90s

Blue .......... 20 x 90s

Calibration files:

BIAS .......... 100

Dark .......... 50

Flat .......... 20

Dark flat ..... 50

Total integration time: 2.5hrs

Processing

Using Pixinsght, the background was extracted using Seti Astro’s Automatic DBE before using Russel Crowman’s BlurXterminator and NoiseXterminator. Some further noise reduction using Topaz DeNoise and touching up with Adobe Photoshop.

Astrometric Information

Center (RA, Dec): 350.195, 61.201

Center (RA, hms): 23h 20m 46.707s

Center (Dec, dms): +61° 12' 05.268"

Size: 49 x 48.7 arcmin

Radius: 0.575 deg

Pixel scale: 1.96 arcsec/pixel

NGC 1566, also known as the Spanish Dancer Galaxy is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Dorado. It was discovered by James Dunlop in 1826 and is a 10th magnitude Galaxy in brightness. Because of its distance it is difficult to determine the Galaxies distance from earth, but it is beleived to be approximately 40 million light years.

This is a reprocess of some old data from our old 6 inch Skywatcher Newtonian reflector a few year back.

Equipment Details:

•6 Inch Skywatcher F5.0 (150/750mm) Newtonian Reflector

•Skywatcher HEQ5 Mount

•SBIG ST2000xm CCD Camera

•SBIG cfw8a Filter Wheel

•Custom Scientific Lum, Red, Green and Blue Filters

•Orion Mini 50mm Guide Scope

•Meade DSIii CCD Guide Camera

•Polemaster for polar alignment

Exposure Details:

•Lum 20X180 seconds - Bin 1x1

•Red 10X180 seconds - Bin 1x1

•Green 10X180 seconds - Bin 1x1

•Blue 10X180 seconds - Bin 1x1

Total Integration Time: 2.5 hours

SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.

Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.

It's possible to see the huge 3590, 3591, 3592 and 3594, 3595 and 3596 spots

SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.

Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.

It's possible to see the 3690, 3691, 3695, 3697, 3698 and 3699 spots.

This is my first attempt at capturing the Rosette Nebula, also known as Caldwell 49 in the constellation of Monoceros. Using a full frame mirrorless camera, 70-200mm lens and a Star Tracker I was able to get this image from my back garden in Torquay, Devon, UK.

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I had set up to capture 120 light frames but due to intemittent cloud cover and condensation on the filter I only came away with 50 subs so need to get some more when the weather clears again. Still, I am pleased with what I managed to get.

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Nikon Z6ii (unmodified)

Tamron 70-200 G2 lens at 200mm

60 sec subs (61 mins total exposure time)

f/4

ISO 800

61 lights, 50 darks, 50 flats & 50 biases

Skywatcher Star Adventuer 2i tracker

K&F Light Pollution Filter.

Bortle 5 sky.

Edited in Siril, Photoshop & Lightroom.

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Thank you for stopping by and taking a look.

Only an hour's data. Experimenting with exposure settings. Awaiting equipment for guiding so no dithering yet. Will repeat with longer subs and different filter.

40*90s lights -7ºC, tracked unguided, plus lots calibrations frames.

Skywatcher Telescope 70mm

Canon T5

Barlow 2.5

Didn't expect to get much today due to a lot of cloud, thin, thick and all degrees in between, this was a brief spell before midday taken at 11.47 UTC (end point) over a 5 min period - 1725 frames out of 20,000, using PIPP, AS2 and CS5 for processing.

This must have been at the beginning of the X9 flare.

Equipment:

Skywatcher 120ED

Celestron AVX

Daystar Quark Chromosphere

Point Grey Flea 3

OTA: Newtonian Celestron 130 mm/f5 modified

Mount: Skywatcher Heq 5

Imaging Camera: Canon 700D astro modified

Telescope Guide: Gso 50mm

Camera Guide: QHY5L II Mono

Baader Mk III Coma Corrector

Polemaster Eletronic Polar Scope

Total Exposure: 3:00 hours (subs 300 sec)

Deep Sky Stacker: Calibration and stacking

Adobe Photoshop Cs2 : Data Processing,

Pulg-in: Hasta la vista, green, astroflat pro

PHD Guiding 2: Guide

Darks, Dark Flats, Flats and Bias apply

Serra Negra ( Bortle 4) /São Paulo/Brasil . 06/2023

Made with Fujifilm X-T20, Samyang 12mm F2, Skywatcher Star Adventurer.

Camera: Zwo Asi183mm Pro

Telescope: Lacerta 200/800 F4

Corrector: Gyulai Pál GPU

Filters: Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB, Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block, Astronomik 6nm SHO

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Belt-modded

Guiding: Orion 50mm Mini guidescope, Zwo Asi120mm mini kamera, N.I.N.A

Images:

Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 264x120s Gain53 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 100x120s Gain53 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 104x120s Gain53 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 109x120s Gain53 -15°C

Isaszeg, Bortle 4

A crop of NGC 3372 Carina Nebula to show all the extra details close to the core.Keyhole Nebula ,Eta Carinae ,Homunculus Nebula ,Defiant Finger ,Trumpler 14 , 15 and 16 .Mystic Mountain. 15 x 55 second exposures with flat and darks stacked in DSS improved in Pixinsight and PS. Canon 5DSr on a Sky Watcher Quattro 250 F4 mounted to a Sky Watcher NEQ6 pro .

Skywatcher 130/900 f/7

QHY 5L-II mono

Filter: Astronomik, planet IR pro 807

Barlow: Televue 3x

Processing: AutoStakkert 2.1.0.5, Registax 6, Photoshop

Location: Vironas, Athens, Greece

UT: 185802.132

Date: 26-03-2021

Bodes Galaxy is a grand design spiral galaxy about 12 million light years away. The Cigar Galaxy is thought to have at some point interacted with Bodes Galaxy, taking lots of dust and causing it to be become a starburst galaxy where stars are being born 10 times faster than the milky way. (Wikipedia)

60 300s Lights with 62 flats and 67 bias. Dithered.

Telescope: - Skywatcher 130PDS Newtonian.

Camera: - Nikon D3100.

ISO: 400. Automated white balance

Filters: - Baader Mark-III MPCC Coma Corrector. IDAS D2 Light Pollution Suppression Filter

Flats taken with a Huion L4S Light Box.

Wireless Remote: PIXEL TW-283 DC2 2.4G.

Mount: - Skywatcher EQ6R.

Guiding: Skywatcher EvoGuide 50ED & ZWO ASI120MM-Mini.

Polar Aligned with SharpCap Pro.

Control Software: - Stellarium Scope, Stellarium, Poth Hub, EQMOD, All Sky Plate Solver, PHD Guiding 2 and PHD Dither Timer.

Processing Software: Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and edited in Star Tools.

Moon: - New

Light Pollution and Location: - Bortle 8 in Davyhulme, Manchester.

Seeing: - Good

Notes: - I have got to the point where I can just set up and get going. This has taken me a long time to get to. I did take pictures for 2 nights but in the end only kept the second nights work. I may at some point come up with a successful re-process with both days data. In the end I felt 5 hours is enough for this setup although I have read somewhere that this object benefits from as much data as possible.

I think the flats on the first night and prior shots I’ve taken had too much exposure. I still think I am overexposing these as I am getting rings in my pictures. I’ll go even lower on the next object.

The Helix Nebula, NGC 7293, is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Aquarius some 655 light years away.

This is a new version captured with the new camera, and is processed in a Bi color combination of Ha, Oiii, Oiii (HOO)

Equipment Details:

•8 Inch Skywatcher Quattro Carbon Fibre F4.0 Newtonian Reflector

•Skywatcher NEQ6 Mount

•SBIG STT 8300m CCD Camera cooled to -20'c

•SBIG FW8G-STT Filter Wheel

•Baader Ha and Oiii Filters

•SKywatcher BD 102mm Guide Scope

•Meade DSIii CCD Guide Camera

•Polemaster for polar alignment

Exposure Details:

•Ha 24X300 seconds - Bin 1x1

•Oiii 20X300 seconds - Bin 1x1

Total Integration Time: 3 hours and 45 minutes.

Skywatcher ED80 APO

DSLR (600D) 34minutes 8 seconds total exposure

SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.

Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.

It's possible to see the 3521, 3528, 3529, 3530, 3531 and 3533 spots.

image was taken with 3x Barlow lens and SkyWatcher Dobsonian telescope.

my first try. Skywatcher 150/1200 on a exos 2 goto 29x30sec.

stacked with dss and lightroom

Camera: Zwo Asi183mm Pro

Telescope: Lacerta 200/800 F4

Corrector: Gyulai Pál GPU

Filters: Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB, Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block, Astronomik 6nm SHO

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Belt-modded

Guiding: Orion 50mm Mini guidescope, Zwo Asi120mm mini kamera, N.I.N.A

Images:

Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 71x120s Gain53 -15°C

Isaszeg, Bortle 4

SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.

Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.

It's possible to see the 3772, 3774, 3777, 3780, 3781, 3782 and 3784 spots.

Canon 700D modified - cls filtre - TS Triplet apo 80/480 - FF WO - EQ6 pro

120 x 60sec -800 iso

Triangulumgalaxy M33

170 x 40 s Lights + Darks, Flats, Bias

Sony a7 III - Skywatcher 150/750 PDS

SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.

Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.

It's possible to see the huge 3607, 3613, 3614, 3615 and 3617 spots

Skywatcher Teleskop Evostar 72 mm f/6 ED Apochromatic Refractor

First discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714. It was 50 years later when Charles Messier added the cluster to his list of objects that he was not interested in, giving it the designation M13.

The cluster is 25,000 light years away from us and can be found in the Constellation Hercules. Giving it it's more prestigious title of 'The Great Cluster in Hercules'.

M13 is one of the brightest globular clusters visible to us, especially from the Northern hemisphere. Containing over 100,000 stars it is quite easy to detect with a modest pair of binoculars and a dark sky.

Leave a comment below if you find it with some binoculars.

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -10c, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools.

Messier 97 Owl (25% Crop)

Skywatcher 100ED

Canon 700d

ISO800 10x120s (20 mins)

Celestron CGEM DX

Processed in PixInsight

The bright star Gamma Cas is attended by two large wisps of nebulosity, IC 59 and IC 63.

Processing was done in Fitswork and Photoshop CS2. No callibration data (darks, flats, bias) used. Image is cropped.

IMAGING DATA

8x 600 seconds ISO400

1.3 hours of total exposure time.

EQUIPMENT

Camera: Canon EOS60Da

Telescope: TS ONTC 10" f4.7 Newton

Corrector/ Flattener: TS Wynne 2.5" Coma Corrector

Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 on concrete pier

Guiding: Finderscope,

Lacerta MGEN Autoguider

Ormai il pianeta Giove si allontana sempre di più dalle condizioni ideali di osservazione. Fra la fine dell'anno scorso e l'inizio di questo, ho iniziato a fare sul serio e a riprendere in mano la mia grande passione: osservare il cielo e sentirmi parte dell'Universo.

Qui Giove ripreso qualche giorno fa con una focale equivalente di 2.250 mm su un telescopio dal diametro di 15cm. Il risultato è notevole perché arriva al limite massimo teorico dello strumento

Buona giornata

#giove #skywatcher #pianeta #osservazioni #solarsystem #newton #barlow #bands #bande #astronomy

This is first look at a coloured nebula this side of Town As these two are so close this is a two shot Panorama in this case sitting vertically. This shot went straight together in PTGui even though it was only stars as the join. This is a part of the Carina Nebula the Hand cluster is to the left and carina to Right.

This is two nights per panel or 105 shots each as the nights get longer.

QHY183C -10c 105 shot 10 min over two nights each.

Prima Luce Essato Focus, Focus on the hour ,

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA Rotated 76 degrees

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro

Guided PHD2, SGP

Pixinsight, Ps.

Second attempt this summer of the Andromeda Galaxy, now from the viewpoint of the stars at Sesué, in the Benasque Valley.

Segundo intento este verano de la Galaxia de Andromeda, ahora desde el mirador de las estrellas de Sesué, en el Valle de Benasque.

Andromeda Galaxy / Galaxia de Andromeda

M31, Messier 31, NGC 224

- Date/Fecha: 31/08/2019

- Location/Lugar: Mirador de las estrellas, Sesué - Huesca (42°33'58.5"N 0°28'19.3"E) Alt. 1270m

IMAGE / IMAGEN

- 91 Lights at 600mm, ISO 8000, 20s, f5.6

- 25 Darks at ISO 8000, 20s, f5.6

- Haida Slim Nano Pro MC Clear Night filter

- Total time of exposition / Tiempo total de exposición 30m 20s

GEAR / EQUIPO

- Tracker / Montura de seguimiento Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi

- Camara Sony ILC3-A7M3 Modo APS-C

- Objetivo Sony FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS

SOFTWARE

- Stellarium Scope & Stellarium to guide the tracker

- Stacking with DeepSkyStacker

- Image Stretching with the rnc-color-stretch algorithm by Roger N. Clark (ClarkVision.com), GUI RNCColorStretch 0.3 by Vincent Duparc and Davinci 2.18 from Arizona State U. (davinci.asu.edu)

- Image processing with Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe Photoshop CC

- Stellarium Scope & Stellarium para el guiado de la montura

- Apilado con DeepSkyStacker

- Ajustes de color con el algoritmo rnc-color-stretch de Roger N. Clark (ClarkVision.com), párametros a través de la GUI RNCColorStretch 0.3 de Vincent Duparc y Davinci 2.18 de la Arizona State U. (davinci.asu.edu)

- Procesado con Adobe Camera Raw y Adobe Photoshop CC

©2019 All rights reserved. MSB.photography

Thank all for your visit and awards.

C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) or Comet NEOWISE is a long period comet with a near-parabolic orbit. Here seem in Triunfo, Pernambuco, Brazil, on 23-July-2020. Using the Skywatcher Star Adventurer tracker.

Last night's moon, known by some as The Worm Moon, was blazing in the sky here last night, once some earlier low cloud and mist had passed.

So was very hard to ignore and with its light swamping any desire to do some deep sky stuff!

So this is an image captured from last night imaged with my Skywatcher Esprit 120ED refractor @f5.4 and ZWO 2600MC camera.

The moon was in Virgo and was 15.5 days old. The great rayed crater Tycho is presenting nicely!

Many thanks for looking!

16 x 300s integration tiime

ZWO ASI 533 MC Pro

ZWO ASIAIR

Canon 400mm f5.6

Optolong UV/IR cut filter

Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro mount

120mm guide scope

Autrement dit, la Voie Lactée depuis le désert d'Atacama

Or the Milky Way from the Atacama Desert, Chile

Nikon D7500 on Skywatcher Staradventurer - single shot

SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.

Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.

It's possible to see the 3628, 3629, 3632 and 3633 spots

Distance: ca.46 Mio. Lj

total exposure time: 25,5 hours

418x180s luminanz

32x180s red

30x180s green

31x180s blue

April 2019

March 2020

10" /f4 TS ONTC Carbon Tube Newtonian

ASI1600mmPro

Astrodon LRGB Filter

Skywatcher EQ8

Guiding TS9 OAG Lodestar

Processing: PixInsight/Capture One

My highlight of 2017.

Diamond Ring shortly after end of totality (3rd contact) during total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017.

Corona still visible, red spots are protuberances on solar surface.

Casper, Wyoming, USA

Canon EOS 5DIII with 100-400II and 2xIII Extender @800 mm focal length on Skywatcher Star Adventurer Mount

With all these clear nights in Montana I am finishing target's every 4 nights or so. Much better than my percent in Seattle!

Crescent nebula NGC 6888

Meade 6000 series 115 APO

Asi 1600mm

Skywatcher Eq6R-Pro

Proxima Centauri.

Our elusive nearest stellar neighbour.

It orbits Alpha Centauri, more than two degrees away, which is outside the field of view of my image and much brighter.

Distance 4.2 Light years.

Magnitude: +11.

Field of View: 47.8 x 31.7 arcmin.

Exposure: 300 seconds.

Skywatcher Esprit 120 refractor.

ZWO ASI071 camera.

2020-08-25.

A full description is provided on my website: cosmicfocus.wordpress.com/2020/08/27/our-closest-star/com...

Skywatcher 130/900

QHY 5L-II mono

Barlow Televue 3x

RGB Astronomik

one of my favourite deep sky targets, it contains several NGC-objects with a very bright star cluster in the middle (NGC2244), causing the gases to shine brightly.

though it being end of winter and thus only getting about 3h after sunset to shot images in the south, it was two nights in a row to gather 4 hours of data, heavy wind gusts ruined about 1.5 hours worth of data. i also recognized starlink being a problem the last couple of sessions i have, luckily due to stacking its trails usually disappear in post processing.

camera: ToupTek ATR533C

mount: Skywatcher HEQ5Pro

scope: TS Optics 115/800 with 0.8x reducer

80x180sec @gain 100 and 1x1 binning, cooled to -10°C

stacking and editing in APP, SIRIL and Photoshop

shot in two nights at a waning moon (approx 20%) under a bortle 5+ sky from my backyard

Sony a7 III - Skywatcher 150/750 PDS - 2x Barlow