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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.
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the 4149, 4150, 4153, 4154, 4155, 4157 and 4160 and the 4079 spots.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is a long-period comet from the Oort cloud that was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) on 2 March 2022. The comet has a bright green glow around its nucleus, due to the effect of sunlight on diatomic carbon and cyanogen. The comet won't be seen again for approximately 50,000 years.
This was a bit of an experiment and taken with equipment that I have not used before for astrophotography. The mount is a 23 year old Meade LXD55 which is of low quality, but I have had it sitting around for many years, and while good for visual, have never used it for astrophotography. I wanted to try and set this up as a portable rig, so spent a few clear nights before capturing this image ironing out all the issues. I had to go an buy a new guide scope, as I have previously sold my spare one a few years ago. (I don't like having to re-buy items which I have previously sold). After getting everything tested, and a few false starts due to getting clouded out, it was time to image. I was able to successfully polar align, arrive at the co-ordinates of the comet, and image for 38 minutes before the batteries in both the laptop, and camera (canon 600d) went flat. Once I replace the camera battery, and mains powered the laptop, the comet set behind the roof of the house and out of sight of the telescope. The main reason for using this setup, was to see that it could work. I was happy with the result
This image was taken using 76 x 30 second exposures in color with the Canon 600d, Stacking and processing was done in PixInsight.
Equipment Details:
•Skywatcher 80ED F7.5 600mm focal length
•Meade LXD55 Mount with Autostar 497 controller
•Canon 600d unmodified CMOS Camera
•ZWO EAF Automatic focuser
•Orion Mini Guide Scope
•ZWO ASI120mc Guide Camera
•Astrophotography Tool Software for full automation
Exposure Details:
73 x 30 seconds
Total Integration Time: 38 Minutes.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Radian Raptor61 + QHY268c, Skywatcher EQ6-R Mount, guided
190 x 600 sec, 20 x 30 sec Radian Triad Ultra Quad-Band filter
54 x 600 sec broadband.
I can hardly believe what the camera can capture, and what can be pulled out with processing. The Great Orion Nebula. Mostly taken from my rooftop in central Phoenix, AZ Bortle 9.
This was my next target but the forecast was clouds for the next few days after I finished the wide field. The good news is have not seen any clouds that worried the mount . The tree next to the mount gets in the way of photos at 3am so getting less and less each day as the star seem to move across the sky( its us moving.)
I wanted to do this target as it is a very interesting shape and it is no a big one as you can see by the wide field photo of the Seagull the small white dot middle of frame. I had to rotate to get this orientation or it would have been along the length of the shot.
QHY183C -10c 98 shots 10 min each over 3 nights, Rotated 94.4 degrees.
Prima Luce Essato Focus , Focus every hour.
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.
Skywatcher Evostar Pro 80 ED (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D7500. 1200 total frames shot over 1 minute. Stacked in PIPP & AS!3, post-processed in Photoshop
The Horsehead Nebula is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, one of the bottom stars in Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.
This was our longest total exposure, comprising of approximately 15 hours of Ha. R, G and B frames. Captured with the Sbig ST2000xm attached to the Skywatcher ED80.