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Exifs
■ Mount: skywatcher neq-6 goto with Rowan modification belt
■ Telescope: skywatcher 200/1000 F/5
■ Autoguiding: Asi 120mm
■ Total exposure: 2H35Min || 31 X 300 seconds
■ Camera: modified canon eos 700d astrodon
■ Filter(s): astronomik CLS ccd eos clip
■ Other optic(s): baader coma corrector
■ Software : Siril / photoshopCC
NGC 2359 - Thor's Helmet is an emission nebula in the constellation Canis Major. The nebula is approximately 11.96 thousand light years away from Earth and 30 light-years in size.
This is an HOO process with Ha mapped to red, oiii to green and blue.
Equipment Details:
•8 Inch Skywatcher Quattro Carbon Fibre F4.0 Newtonian Reflector
•Skywatcher NEQ6 Mount
•SBIG ST2000xm CCD Camera cooled to -20'c
•SBIG CFW8 Filter Wheel
•Astranomik Ha and Oiii Filters
•SKywatcher BD 102mm Guide Scope
•Meade DSIii CCD Guide Camera
•Polemaster for polar alignment
Exposure Details:
•Ha 25X180 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Oiii 18X180 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Oiii 18X180 seconds - Bin 1x1
Total Integration Time: 2 hours and 10 minutes
The Helix Nebula (also known as NGC 7293 or Caldwell 63) is a planetary nebula (PN) located in the constellation Aquarius. 48 Minutes of data 16 x 180 secs shot with Canon 5Dsr on Skywatcher Quattro 250 p f4 scope.
Second attempt at capturing this beautiful Galaxy.
Shot with Nikon D7500 and Sigma 100-400 (at 400mm) on Skywatcher Staradventurer mount.
11 pictures of 30s each stacked together with Deepskystacker.
Deuxième tentative de photographie de la Galaxie d'Andromède, notre voisine la plus proche. Sous un ciel bien sombre elle est visible à l'oeil nu. On aperçoit aussi ses deux galaxies satellite: M32 et M110.
Y a du progrès depuis ma première tentative mais j'essaierai de faire encore mieux à l'avenir :)
Paying homage to Polaris...our friend in the N. Hemisphere! In the old days, when shooting film, I would use my Canon EF, take out the battery, use the mechanical shutter on Bulb setting, and take a single 3 hr photo, on film, to get the star trails....Now, 25 sec exposures, 300+ stacked together for the same effect. ....but that takes up a lot more room on the hard drive!
in the foreground the Sky Watcher EQR pro with a Radian Raptor 61 with a QHY 268c is clicking away on a distant nebula. Camping at Badger Creek, AZ.
Last time I tried to shoot this region, it was last year. It took me almost 5 nights to tame the AZ-GTI. This time was clearly easier! It was a kind of revenge :D
I was supposed to shoot during two nights, but after processing the first night, it was clearly enough. (Even with a 90% Moon)
Clear Skies (without Moon !!)
Lights : 22 x 600 sec (3h40)
Darks : 60 ~ Offset : 100 ~ Flats : 60
Setup :
Camera : ZWO ASI 2600 MC
Main Scope : Skywatcher Esprit 100 ED
Guide Camera : ZWO ASI 120MM Mini
Guide Scope : ZWO Mini Guide Scope
Mount : Skywatcher EQ6-R
Filters : Antlia ALP-T
Others : ZWO ASIAIR PRO, ZWO EAF
Skywatcher Evostar Pro 80 ED (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D3300.
125 lights x 90 s @ ISO 800, ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop.
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.
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
Niente filtri, solo tanta pazienza e lotta continua contro le luci per fotografare una bellissima galassia nell'Orsa Maggiore, la famosa M81, a circa 12 Milioni di anni luce da noi.
Posa equivalente di 20x5 minuti (100 minuti totali), al fuoco del Newton 200/1000.
L'universo è davvero affascinante!
#m81 #bode #galaxy #galassia #bigdipper #orsamaggiore #skywatcher #spiral #arms #bracci #spirale #universe
well, finally the last image of the winter milky way i managed to capture. i will definitely add more subs next fall or winter, there is so much more detail hidden in longer exposure time :)
camera: ToupTek ATR533C
mount: Skywatcher HEQ5Pro
scope: TS Optics 115/800 with 0.8x reducer
RGB: 70x180sec @gain 100 and 1x1 binning, cooled to -10°C
Ha: 50x240sec @gain 100 and 1x1 binning, cooled to -10°C
stacking and editing in APP, SIRIL and Photoshop
shot in two nights (RGB at 5% a waning moon and Ha at 51% waxing moon) under a bortle 5+ sky from my backyard
The Lagoon Nebula (M8), is a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius. It is classified as an emission nebula.
This image was taken the same night as the previous comet and was first light for my new camera, the ASI585MC-Air, an all in one camera, computer and off-axis guider. I was extremely impressed at how everything worked, and how quickly I was able to adapt it to my setup.
Imaged from my light polluted driveway, north of Melbourne
Stacked and processed using PixInsight.
Equipment Details:
• Skywatcher ED80 600mm F/L Telescope
• Skywatcher NEQ6 Mount
• ZWO ASI585MC-Air Color Camera cooled to -10'c
• Guiding, image aquisition and tracking with the ASI585MC-Air
Exposure Details:
• 20 X 180 seconds - Bin 1x1
Total Integration Time: 60 mins
The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33) is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. It appears within the southern region of the dense dust cloud known as Lynds 1630, along the edge of the much larger, active star-forming H II region called IC 434.
The Horsehead Nebula is approximately 422 parsecs or 1,375 light-years from Earth. It is one of the most identifiable nebulae because of its resemblance to a horse's head. /wikipedia
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
Lacerta Dew-heater 20cm
Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm
Programs:
PixInsight
Adobe Photoshop CC 2020
Details:
Camera temp: -15°C
Gain: 200
Astronomik 6nm Ha: 16x300s
Astronomik 6nm O3: 3x300s
Total of 1h35m hour integration.
A re-process of some data gathered in August 2024.
Having improved a little with PixInsight, I feel I've improved a little on my older version of this.
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 gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.
180s exposures.
Best 90% of 44 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo
My main scope, all decked out. SkyWatcher Esprit 120mm, Orion 60mm guide scope, Primaluce Eagle 4s, Moonlight Nightcrawler focuser and rotator, QHY filterwheel and 268M camera. In the background is a wallpaper of the Triangulum Galaxy that I took with this telescope.
NGC7000 – North America Nebula
M: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro GoTO
S: Lacerta 72/432 F6
R: Skywatcher 0,85x
C: Pentax K-1
F: Optolong L-eXtreme 2"
G: Orion 50mm mini
GC: ZWO ASI 120mm Mini
Exposures:
Light: 10x300s, ISO12800
50x300s, ISO3200
my aim was to get in a photo the whole of this large nebula. this was taken with the Nikon 300mm F4 D lens. the first was ED80 and Full frame next was ED80 zwoasi071mc. this is the only photo to include the whole nebula in detail.
ZWOASI071MC -10 102 shots
600 sec rotated 7 Degrees
Nikon 300 mm f4 D Lens
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.
Equipment Used and Process Details: astrobackyard.com/orion-nebula-backyard/
Imaged from my light-polluted backyard in the Niagara Region. So many re-processes, I finally ended up with this. As always, more time under darker skies would help. I blended some 10 second exposures of the core in.
Explore Scientific ED80. Skywatcher HEQ-5. Canon Xsi (modified)
Not sure how flickr picked up Canon 7D with the 300mm, I do own that camera and lens but this was definitely the Xsi through a telescope! lol
One of the most popular celestial objects.
Cam: Canon EOS 6Da
Scope: Sky-Watcher Esprit ED80 Triplet Apo
Astromount: Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro
Autoguider: Lacerta M-GEN plus Finderscope 9x50
18x 600sec | 10x 60sec | 10x 10sec | ISO800
My Astrobin My 500px My Facebook
© Claus Steindl
During the early hours of 8th December 2022, the almost Full Moon occulted the planet Mars.
I imaged it with a William Optics 70mm refractor, Celestron 3x Barlow, ZWO ASI120MC camera. I used my portable Skywatcher AZGTi mount because I wasn't sure if I'd get the egress from my permanent pier as there are trees in that direction. This image is a reprocess of the video showing the first part of egress; the time when Mars re-emerged from behind the Moon at 06:01 UT.
I shot a two thousand frame video and had to do two separate stacking processes on them, one for the Moon and one for Mars because they were moving so quickly relative to each other. I then processed the images in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer. I'm slightly astounded to have captured surface features on Mars with such a small refractor, but this amazing telescope often surprises me with how versatile it is! The Celestron 3x Barlow is excellent quality too, which really helped with this. This image is a crop from the original photo.
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.
Telescopio: Celestron C11 XLT Fastar
Montatura: Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro Synscan
CCD: ZWO ASI120MM-S USB 3.0
Software: Firecapture 2.4.06 beta, Astra Image 3.0 SI, Avistack 2.0
Filtro Baader Planetarium IR-Pass 685nm
Moonlite CF 2,5" focuser with high resolution stepper DRO
Pose: 1000 59 fps Lunghezza focale: 2800 mm
Seeing: 3 Trasparenza: 8
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
Just getting high enough in the sky now to be seen over the houses behind us in Belfast. First attempt with my new Skymax 127mm telescope and cheap TC7 astro camera
NGC 6334 - the Cat's Paw Nebula, is an emission nebula and star-forming in the constellation Scorpius It was discovered by astronomer John Herschel in 1837. It is approximately 5500 light years distance from earth.
another dark nebula i tried my best on, seems to be a very faint one as 6h of exposure made it only that visible. though the nights are still getting shorter and shorter for 5 more weeks, maybe i spend one or two extra nights on it.
camera: ToupTek ATR533C
mount: Skywatcher HEQ5Pro
scope: TS Optics 115/800 with 0.8x reducer
120x180sec @gain 100 and 1x1 binning, cooled to -10°C
stacking and editing in APP, SIRIL and Affinity 2
shot under a bortle 5+ sky at 12% waxing moon
SH2-157
Caméra 2600MM
Caméra 120MC
RAF zxo filtres Astrobin 5nn SHO
eaf zwo
Asiair pro
évoguide skywatcher 242mm
traitement pixinsight
H 177X5mn
S 57X5MN
0 57X5mn
total 24H25mn
Skywatcher EQM 35 Pro Goto
Skywatcher Evostar 72ED
Canon EOS 550D Défiltré Partiel
Correcteur/Reducteur 0.85x
Filtre Baader IR-Cut
182x90s
800 iso
DOF 50/100/100
SIRIL
Lightroom ; DenoiseAI
252 1/52s exposures.
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. (Not sure if this is needed but was doing some deep sky stuff straight after so didn’t see any harm)
Wireless Remote: PIXEL TW-283 DC2 2.4G.
Mount: - Skywatcher EQ6R.
Polar Aligned with SharpCap Pro. (Again, was doing some deep sky work after so probably not essential)
Control Software: - Stellarium Scope, Stellarium, Poth Hub, EQMOD and All Sky Plate Solver.
Processing Software: Stacked jpg’s in Registack and cropped in PS Lightroom. No stretching or fiddling of other sliders done.
Light Pollution and Location: - Bortle 8 in Davyhulme, Manchester.
Seeing: - Average.
Notes: - I know you can film the moon or planets instead of taking so many pictures but the equipment I have doesn’t fit the Moon into frame. Also its easy enough just to let it snap lots of pictures using the remote timer.
Skywatchers were treated to the extremely rare phenomenon of a super blue blood moon early today Wednesday.
The unusual lunar trifecta occured for the first time in North America since 1866.
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
Keep on in a freckled Sun. It's possible to see the 3636, 3638, 3639, 3643, 3644, 3645, 3647 and 3650 spots
Almost gave up when high cloud thwarted my attempts to see Jupiter but a short clear gap gave a chance to capture this image. The moon Europa was a bonus! (Skywatcher 127 Mak, ASI-178MC, 30s avi, stacked and processed with Autostakkert, Registax and Topaz denoise)
Technical card
Imaging telescope or lens: Teleskop Service TS Photoline 107mm f/6.5 Super-Apo
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mount: Skywatcher AZ EQ-6 GT
Guiding telescope or lens: Celestron OAG Deluxe
Guiding camera: QHYCCD QHY5III174
Focal reducer: Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x
Software: Main Sequence Software Seqence Generator Pro, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Filter: Baader Planetarium Ha 1.25" 7nm
Accessory: ZWO EFW
Resolution: 4596x3424
Dates: July 23, 2017
Frames: Baader Planetarium Ha 1.25" 7nm: 39x120" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 1.3 hours
Avg. Moon age: 29.06 days
Avg. Moon phase: 0.25%
Astrometry.net job: 1665080
RA center: 306.212 degrees
DEC center: 42.477 degrees
Pixel scale: 1.468 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 90.541 degrees
Field radius: 1.169 degrees
Locations: Berga Resort, Berga, Barcelona, Spain
Had a go at a HDR Moon last night following Alyn Wallace Photography's YouTube tutorial. This is 2 images merged into 1, a 1/60s exposure for the crater detail and a 15 second exposure for the dark side detail and surrounding stars, both iso 100 shot straight after each other last night. Lunar tracking on my Heq5Pro using Skywatcher Equinox80ED and Canon 5dsr, no filters
April 8, 2024 from West Plains, MO. Canon 6DM2 Sigma 150-600mm @600mm, ISO500, F8
sky-watcher EQ6Rpro
These two relatively nearby spiral galaxies, M66 top and M65 bottom are relatively "close" at a distance of around 35 million light-years. Their different physical characteristics means they provide an attractive pair to observe and image.
Both are around 100,000 light years in diameter, similar in size to our own Milky Way galaxy. They are also gravitationally bound to each other.
They are visually strikingly different to each other. M65 is low in dust and gas and there is little star formation in it so it looks relatively bland in comparison to M66. There is however a prominent dust lane visible. M65 may have a central bar but because of its oblique angle to us that is hard to ascertain.
In contrast M66 is an intermediate spiral galaxy which shows signs of contortion due to strong gravitational interaction. It has, in stark contrast to M65, striking dust lanes and bright star clusters along its sweeping arms. These colourful arms with tell-tale pink areas of hydrogen gas emissions indicate the galaxy has a high rate of star formation.
Both galaxies are found in the constellation of Leo.
Imaged with a Skywatcher Esprit 120ED Triplet and a ZWO 1600MM Pro Camera with Baader LRGB filters.
34 x L 120s
23 x R 180s
22 x G 180s
20 x B 180s
All @-20C Unity Gain
Flats & Darks
Processed using Astro Pixel Processor and Photoshop.
This was imaged back in April 2020 but I decided to revisit and do some slight reanalysis.
Thanks for looking!
NGC 3576 nebula in the Sagittarius arm of our galaxy . A popular name for the nebula is "The Statue of Liberty" because of the distinctive shape in the middle of the nebula.
This is the same data used in the previous image, but processed in the Hubble palette.
Equipment Details:
•8 Inch Skywatcher Quattro Carbon Fibre F4.0 Newtonian Reflector
•Skywatcher NEQ6 Mount
•SBIG ST2000xm CCD Camera cooled to -20'c
•SBIG CFW8 Filter Wheel
•Astranomik Ha and Oiii Filters
•SKywatcher BD 102mm Guide Scope
•Meade DSIii CCD Guide Camera
•Polemaster for polar alignment
Exposure Details:
•Ha 22X180 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Oiii 25X180 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Sii 22X180 seconds - Bin 1x1
Total Integration Time: 3 hours and 27 minutes
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: 155x300s
Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 132x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 20x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 20x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 20x180s
Bortle Scale: 4
Location: Isaszeg, Hungary
Acquisition date(s):
2021.02.28., 2021.03.02., 2021.03.06., 2021.03.07., 2021.03.08.