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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.
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 . 05/2022
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
Over the last three night I chose this target not knowing how it would come out. The processing in Pix and Ps I get this, as we are about to get clouded in I have gone with the 100shots. Camera rotated to get this view.
QHY183C -10c 100 shots 10 min each over 3 nights, Rotated 103 degrees.
Prima Luce Essato Focus , Focus every hour.
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.
The (relatively) small batch of North East Proms today with Earth for scale, best 30% of 2100 frames in AS2, bin2x2 - very fast moving low clouds and gusty (45mph+) squalls today, hid in the gazebo with the scope and held on for dear life until I got a break. Image rotated 90 deg CW. Skywatcher 120ED Esprit, Daystar QC, Grasshopper 3 (IMX174). Genika software worked for once too without falling over.
Also different configuration for scope, replaced the Diagonal with an 80mm extension tube (UV/IR filter attached to this), then the Quark, then the camera. Seems to work just as well and lets me have more back focus. For a sense of further scale, see here www.flickr.com/photos/76699751@N07/28517451253/in/photost...
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 10mm.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the 2765 spot, the most proeminent to emerge on solar disk since January.
My biggest project so far.
Camera: Zwo Asi183mm Pro
Imaging Lens: Samyang 135 F2 at F2.8
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 6nm Ha: 500x300s Gain111 -15°C
Astronomik 6nm Oiii: 285x300s Gain111 -15°C
Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 755x120s Gain111 -15°C
Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 112x120s Gain111 -15°C
Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 163x120s Gain111 -15°C
Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 120x120s Gain111 -15°C
Programs used: PHD2, N.I.N.A, PixInsight
Hungary, 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 3690, 3691, 3695, 3697, 3698 and 3699 spots.
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
So what you read next is not going to make sense, for the last four day in the morning I get the data. I have edited as per I know the shot as a colour sensor looks. After looking at it on the fouth days edit I did not like it so I thought time to try some thing new. Glass of red wine and Pink Floyd "Wish you where here" playing on the computer "Shine on you crazy Diamond", edit how I see the data not some thing else.
I hope there is a few out there understand the madness and like the edit.... for those of you like me never found the chicken once starless the chicken stood out. Bottom left corner on the rim of the light patch looking into the middle of the shot. 100% looking at The lioness profile on the other side of the nebula. This is 27 hours worth of data.
QHY268M -10c 110 Odd shots 5 min each filter over 4 nights .. 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser Rotated 90 degrees
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps, Lr
Tracked, stacked, composite astroscape, made with Fujifilm X-T2, Fujifilm F1.4 at F2, and Skywatcher Star Adventurer.
21*4min tracked, iso320
Widefield Iris Nebula (NGC 7023) and Ghost Nebula (VdB 141) in Cepheus Region
Canon EOS 7Da | Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L at f/4.0
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro | Lacerta M-GEN | Finderscope 9x50
5x 1800sec | ISO200
3x 900sec | ISO400
no filters used
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Nikon D780 at prime focus with Skywatcher Coma Corrector, EQ6 Syntrek Mount.
Imaging session commenced 02:23 UT
11 x 15s at ISO 3200
17 x 20s at ISO 3200
6 x 25s at ISO 3200
8 x 30s at ISO 3200
15 dark frames & 15 flats.
Processed with Deep Sky Stacker and levels adjusted with Lightroom & G.I.M.P.
Full frame image cropped on final processing
Took advantage of an early start today from 08.50 UTC until 9.30 UTC conditions were great, total blue sky and hardly any wind until 10.00 UTC. What a difference too using the SW120 today with the Quark Ha eyepiece.
So this is a final goodbye to AR2403 disappearing around the western limb.
Discovered a great plug in for my CS5 programme today ideal for deconvoluting.
Equipment used:
Skywatcher 120ED Esprit, Daystar Quark Chromosphere, 0.5x reducer, Orion SSPIAG 3mp camera.
Best 1200 frames out of 2000, aligned in PIPP, best 85% of 1200 stacked in AS2!. Processed in CS5
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the 4043, 4044, 4045, 4046, 4048 and 4049 spots.
This was unceremoniously cut short with a two weeks of rain and clouds so It was case of stack and the result came out very well none the less.
QHY183C -10c 52 shot 10 min
Prima Luce Essato Focus, Focus on the hour ,
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA Rotated 53 degrees
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps.
Equipment:
Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)
Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto
Guiding: OAG
Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini
Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera
Accessories:
ZWO ASIAIR Pro
ZWO EFW 8x1.25"
ZWO EAF
ZWO OAG
ZWO 1.25 Helical focuser
Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm
Programs:
PixInsight
Adobe Photoshop CC 2020
Details:
Camera temp: -15°C
Gain: 53, 111
Astronomik 6nm Ha: 121x300s
Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 146x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 20x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 20x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 19x180s
Bortle Scale: 4
Location: Isaszeg, Hungary
Acquisition date(s):
2021.03.02., 2021.03.08., 2021.03.13., 2021.03.19., 2021.03.20., 2021.03.23.
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: 2:30 hours (subs 300 sec)
Deep Sky Stacker: Calibration and stacking of frames
Adobe Photoshop Cs2 : Data Processing, Plug-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 . may/2021
Captured: July 14. 2018.
Location: AO Nostromo, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia
Telescope: SkyWatcher MN190 on SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6 mount
Camera: DSLR Canon 450D (full spectrum)
Frames: 15 x 240″
Software: PHD2; BackyardEOS; PixInsight; Photoshop
Testaufnahme mit der Canon 6D
Trotz schlechter Transparenz, recht gutes Ergebnis dabei herausgekommen
distance 444 ly
Equipment:
Skywatcher ED80/600
Skywatcher Reducer x0,85
Canon 6D
Celestron AVX
Guiding:
i-Nova PLA-Mx on 9x50 Finderscope
PHD
30x300s ISO3200
19.01.2017
28.01.2017
total exposure time: 2:30
Processing: PixInsight/Lightroom
4 panels merged of Orion Mosaic
Each panel info:
25) 3-minute, ISO-1600, F/4, 135mm focal length lights.
25) Darks
25) Flats
25) Bias
Guided, dithered after every frame, stacked with DSS, edited in PixInsight and Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon D750a
Lens: Rokinon 135mm F2
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro
Location: Fort Davis State Park, Texas.
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.
For this image, I used just 9 subs. A lot of the subs were not good enough guided. I dont know really why. The MGEN autoguider works very good and sometimes it breaks out...( Dithering was enabled).
Conditions were bad, the whole sky was fogged up.
Exposure
9x300" ISO 500
Equipment used
Telescope/Lens: APM Apo107/700 mm
Mount: Skywatcher AZ EQ6 GT
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Guidescope:TS Deluxe 60mm
Guidecam: Lacerta MGEN
Las Pléyades o Las siete hermanas (Messier 45 o M45) es un cúmulo estelar abierto que contiene estrellas calientes de tipo espectral B, de mediana edad, ubicadas en la constelación de Tauro. Está entre uno de los cúmulos estelares más cercanos a la Tierra, y es el cúmulo mejor visible a simple vista en el cielo nocturno. Las Pléyades albergan un prominente lugar en la mitología antigua, así como una diversidad de significados en diferentes culturas y tradiciones.
El cúmulo está dominado por estrellas calientes extremadamente azules y luminosas que se han formado en los últimos 100 millones de años. El polvo que forma una débil nebulosidad de reflexión alrededor de las estrellas más brillantes se pensó en un principio que provenía de una disgregación de la propia formación del cúmulo (de ahí el nombre alternativo para nebulosa Maia en vez de estrella Maia), pero ahora se sabe que es una nube de polvo no relacionada en el medio interestelar, a través de la cual las estrellas están pasando actualmente.
Realización:
Montura: skywatcher EQ6R
Tubo: SW ED80+Reductor 0.85x
Camara principal: Canon 450Da
Guiado: Telescope Guide 60mm+ASI 120MC
Filtro: Hutech IDAS LPS-P2
30 tomas light 300´´
tomas de calibración. darks ,flats ,bias.
Venturada (Madrid)
Total exposición: 2.5horas aprox
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + barlow 2X + super 25mm.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
Skywatcher ED80 + Atik 314 (Colour), Taken Nov 2013
Celestron C8 Hyperstar + Atik 490 (B/W Ha), Taken March 2015.
Stacked using Registar.
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + barlow 2X + super 25mm.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
Equipment:
Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)
Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto
Guide scope: Orion 50mm mini
Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini
Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera
Accessories:
ZWO ASIAIR Pro
ZWO EFW 8x1.25"
Lacerta Dew-heater 20cm
Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm
Programs:
PixInsight
Adobe Photoshop CC 2020
Details:
Camera temp: -15°C
Gain: 53
Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 92x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 16x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 14x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 20x180s
The Trifid Nebula (catalogued as Messier 20 or M20 and as NGC 6514) is an H II region in the north-west of Sagittarius in a star-forming region in the Milky Way's Scutum-Centaurus Arm. It was discovered by Charles Messier on June 5, 1764 Its name means 'three-lobe'. The object is an unusual combination of an open cluster of stars, an emission nebula (a relatively dense, red-yellow portion), a reflection nebula (the mainly NNE blue portion), and a dark nebula (the apparent 'gaps' in the former that cause the trifurcated appearance also designated Barnard 85) Shot with Canon 60D on a SW Quattro 250 /f4 on a SW NEQ6 Pro. 7 x 30 sec frames and 5 x 55sec frames blended together in Sequator.
Bortle 8, UK, back garden, 72ED with Sony A6000, 433 subs, 35 secs, Tracked using AZ-GTI, NINA sequencer, Stacked in ASTAP, processed by @astroben in Siril, PS.
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
About 23 thousand light years away and 145 light years in diameter comprising of several hundred thousand stars. Most of these stars are incredibly old, about 12 to 13 billion years. Sometimes, as they are so densely packed together, they collide and make new ‘blue straggler’ stars. I can imagine living on a planet around one of these stars, you must not be able to see beyond the local cluster. (Wikipedia and Earthsky)
12 300s and 13 250s Lights (Approx. 1.5 hours) with 21 flats and 79 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: - Newish
Light Pollution and Location: - Bortle 8 in Davyhulme, Manchester.
Seeing: - Goodish
Notes: - Much as I have enjoyed taking galaxies I really wanted to try something different so had another go at the M13. I did some reading on this beforehand and a lot of people say they don’t overexpose as the core gets blown up. For this reason I took several 30s, 60s, 150s and 300s subs. In the end, the Star Tools Decon module did a really good job of bringing out detail in the core even with my 5 minute exposures so I have just abandoned my shorter ones.
Colour is a constant problem for me with my red/green colour blindness so I rely on the Max RGB option in Star Tools and my wife although I didn’t bother her in this process. In this case I cranked up the ‘Cap Green’ option, and took a sample of the core/nearby galaxy so I hope this is close to being right.
The amount of noise in this picture is annoying me. Another go may be required at some point, either to reprocess or to take the picture when its closer to the zenith.
Previous attempt for comparison:- www.flickr.com/photos/andrewsingleton/8721642768. 7 years ago and some new equipment has made a remarkable improvement on this old picture. This was my first ever attempt at astrophotography through a telescope.
NGC 6744 55 x minutes of data taken with QHY 183C PRO on a Sky Watcher Quattro 250 P scope. NGC 6744 is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Pavo. It is considered as a Milky Way mimic in our immediate vicinity, displaying flocculent arms and an elongated core. Wikipedia
IC410 is an emission nebula in the constellation of Auriga. Often called the Tadpole Nebula in reference to the two tadpole shaped clumps in the upper left of the nebula.
NGC1893 is the open cluster of stars in the middle of IC410. It's these stars that are ionizing and shaping the surrounding nebula. The tadpoles themselves could be collapsing in to new stars.
The nebula is around 12 to 12,500 light years away and 100 light years across.
The open star cluster is believed to have been formed 2 to 4 million years ago.
Captured from my back garden in Rochdale, UK. Bortle 6.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8"S with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Backyard Universe primary mask and Backyard Universe secondary spider. Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.
120s exposures.
Best 80% of 40 light frames.
Darks, Flats, Dark Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.
Orion widefield
Jupiter 135mm f5/6
ISO800
Canon Eos 100D (modified)
Skywatcher HEQ5 ProGoto
Lacerta Mgen2 autoguider
Made from 48 x 88 sec frames with 6 dark frames. Pentax K3II Pentax DA*300mm f4 on SkyWatcher GTi tracking mount.
Shot taken with a Skywatcher 80ED refractor telescope mounted on my Nikon D500. The resulting focal length is 1200mm (1800mm eq) due to the 2x Barlow lens added to the setup.
Edited in Photoshop to extract the shades of the minerals on the moon soil (just saturation increased in multiple small steps).
© Matteo Foiadelli
Do not use this photo without my express consent
Les Dentelles du Cygne (Veil Nebula).
Premier essai en combinant le Celestron RASA 11'', filtres Astronomik LPS et deux à bande étroite (H alpha 12nm et O III 12nm) et un traitement avec Siril, en me concentrant sur une partie seulement du rémanent de supernova. Traitement Siril et PS CS4
RGB: 11 images et 20 Flats. Ha: 19 images et 21 Flats. O III 39 images et 22 Flats 30 Darks, 28 Offsets.
Nikon D5300 modifié astro par Eos for Astro, Celestron RASA 11'', tiroir à filtres UFC Baader télécommande Twin1 ISR2 + Monture Skywatcher EQ6-R pro.
Paramètres: 60s F/2.2 ISO 800, 620mm (équivalent à environ 930mm en 24x36).
Série prise le 6.8.2020.