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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
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.
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
Skywatcher Esprit 80/400, ASI2600MM-Pro, Astronomik SHO 6nm et HEQ5.
3 X 110 x 150" (4h35) @ gain 185, 13h45 au total.
NINA + Pixinsight
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.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus. Best 20 of 40 images stacked using Autostakkert 2. Wavelet processing done using Registax 6
The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy ( Messier 83, NGC 5236 ) in the constellation Hydra - by Mike O'Day ( 500px.com/mikeoday )..Messier 83 is a relatively large and bright spiral galaxy visible from southern and mid latitudes. Clearly visible is the central bar with its bright central bulge as well as multiple dark dust lanes and areas of nebulosity in the sweeping arms. At a distance of 15 Million light years, the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, whilst close in astronomical terms, is too far away and hence way too small for my backyard telescope to resolve individual star; so all of the stars that can be seen are in fact in the near foreground of the image and reside, like us, in the Milkyway Galaxy...Much harder to see are the multitudes of far more distant galaxies that look like tiny fuzzy stars in the image. The easiest of which are PGC 724536 and PGC 48132 that appear close together in the centre of the image just to the right of Messier 83. Both are edge on and look like tiny flying saucers...Details:..Skywatcher Quattro 10" f4 Newtonian. .Skywatcher AZ Eq6 GT Mount .Orion 80mm f5 guide scope and auto guider - PHD2. .Nikon D5300 (unmodified)...Hutech IDAS D1 filter, 14bit NEF, Long Exp. NR on. 25 June 2016.17 x 4min ISO400 ..Plus No filter, 14bit NEF, Long Exp. NR on. 28 June 2016.9 x 3 min ISO200..Pixinsight and photoshop..Links:.https://500px.com/mikeoday.http://photo.net/photos/MikeODay.
The little pinwheel galaxy in Ursa Major. A face on unbarred spiral galaxy some 40 million light years away.
First discovered on the 18th of March 1787 by William Herschel. It's 2 main spiral arms are predominantly blue, which suggests mostly young hot stars inhabit them.
Many fainter more distant galaxies can be spotted in the background.
All data gathered at www.astronomycentre.org.uk/
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 60mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong UV/IR 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.
180s exposures.
21 light frames.
Darks, Flats, Dark Flats.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in Graxpert, PixInsight & Affinity Photo.
Imaging:
Canon 50D (modified) on Skywatcher Equinox 80mm with Televue TRF-2008
Lights 12 x 960s f/5 ISO 100 + 5 x 300s f/5 ISO 100
Darks 5 x for both sets
Flats 76 x for both sets
Bias 64 x for both sets
Guiding:
SSAG on Skywatcher 80mm f/5 achromatic refractor
Guide frames x 2.5s
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Ok so updated with image with core not blown, the rest of image is exactly the same ( I usually save my images as 16-bit TIFF before JPEG save), so this is an HDRish shot. I basically just copy/pasted the core area from 5 min stack in 16min stack, then used curves and Hue/saturation tools to match rest of image.
I think I've done about as much as i can do with this one.
I would have taken more images but camera batteries died (50D can use AA, so I need to get my NiMH charged up for next time.)
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus via a Focal Reducer. 5 pictures taken in Magic Lantern HDR mode and combined in Canon's DPP software. The blue channels were altered to give the sky a bluish tint and other frames altered to give the sun a yellowish tint.
Bright Nebula NGC 6357 in the constellation Scorpius - by Mike O'Day ( 500px.com/mikeoday )..NGC 6357 in Scorpius is a diffuse nebula discovered in 1837 by John Herschel and is around 400 light years wide and about 8,000 light years from Earth...Details:..Skywatcher Quattro 10" f4 Newtonian. .Skywatcher AZ Eq6 GT Mount.Orion 80mm f5 guide scope and auto guider - PHD2. .Baader MPCC Mark 3 Coma Corrector, UHC-S 'nebula' filter..Nikon D5300 (unmodified)..Field of view (deg) ~ 1.35 x 0.90..UHC-S - 100 x 100 sec ISO800 (14bit NEF, Long Exp. NR on)..Pixinsight and photoshop.5 October 14.re-processed 31 July 2016..Links:.https://500px.com/mikeoday.http://photo.net/photos/MikeODay
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + barlow 2X + super 25mm. Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
This was taken Two consecutive night no moon in the edge of the city of Perth. This was a View I forgot to take so was very high in the sky.
Taken with ZWO CMOS camera 116 Files 10 min files Shot With
ZWO ASI071MC Pro @ -10c
ZWO AEF,
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher EQM35Goto
Guided PHD2,
DSS, Pixinsight, Ps, Lr.
A lovely clear night back in April allowed me to squeeze in (despite shortening nights) this LRGB image of this iconic triplet of galaxies in the constellation of Leo.
Two of the galaxies are found within Charles Messier's catalogue - M65 (right) & M66 (bottom). The third galaxy is to be found in the NGC catalogue as NGC 3628 - also known as the "Hamburger Galaxy"
This is a true group of interacting galaxies and lying at a distance of around 35 million lightyears from us.
Our viewpoint means we see these three systems tilted at different angles - NGC 3628 appears edge on (displaying lots of dust and a prominent dust lane.
M65 & M66 are inclined enough so that their spiral arms are visible.
What's more the three galaxies exhibit rather different characteristics.
M66 - A barred spiral and the largest and brightest shows a high rate of star formation - evident by the extensive red regions of glowing hydrogen gas. It also shows deformed drawn out spiral arms - evidence of the interactive gravitational forces within the group.
M65 - An, intermediate spiral, is poor in dust and star formation. It appears the least by affected by interactions showing a more or less classical spiral shape.
NGC 3628 is an unbarred spiral which we are seeing edge on. The galaxy is transacted by a broad band of dust which stretches along its outer edge hiding young stars in the galaxy's arms.
Imaged with a Skywatcher Esprit 120ED and a ZWO 1600mm camera equipped with Baader LRGB filters.
34 x L 120s
23 x R 180s
22 x G 180s
20 x B 180s
All @-20° 139 gain (Unity)
Flat, Darks
Processed using APP and Photoshop.
Thanks for looking!
Messier 27 (M27), also known as the Dumbbell Nebula, Diabolo Nebula or Apple Core Nebula, is a planetary nebula in Vulpecula. The Dumbbell Nebula is extensive and bright, making it popular among amateur astronomers. It can be seen in binoculars and small telescopes.
The nebula covers an area of 8 by 5.6 arc minutes of the apparent sky and has a linear radius of 1.44 light years. Its faint halo stretches out to more than 15 arc minutes. M27 lies approximately 1,360 light years, or 417 parsecs, from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 7.5. It has the designation NGC 6853 in the New General Catalogue.
Source: www.messier-objects.com/messier-27-dumbbell-nebula/
Imaging session: September 15, 2023
Sky quality:l Bortle 5 (approx.)
Mount: iOptron CEM40G
OTA Imaging: Skywatcher 120ED with x0.85 flattener, f6.35, 768mm
Camera: ZWO ASI533MM Pro, Cooled to -10 deg C
Filter Wheel: ZWO EFW Mini
Focuser: Primaluce Lab ESATTO
Rotator: Primaluce Lab ARCO
Guiding: iOptron iGuide, 120mm: 2.9um
Computer: Primaluce Lab Eagle Pro 2 + ECCO2 (Environment)
Light Exposures:
Luminescence .. 25 x 180s
Red ........... 25 x 180s
Green ......... 25 x 180s
Blue .......... 23 x 180s (The weather curtailed the last two blue exposures.)
Calibration files:
BIAS .......... 100
Dark .......... 25
Flat .......... 25 per filter
Dark flat ..... 25 per filter
Total integration time: 4.9 hours
Processing
Method eg AstroPixelProcessor -> Topaz DeNoise AI -> -> Topaz SharpenAI -> Photoshop
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the 3762, 3763, 3764, 3765, 3766, 3767, 3768, 3769 and 3770 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 02:12 UT
28 x 30s at ISO 5000
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
Some noise in the lower half of the frame but a satisfying outcome for a short sequence of data capture.
2 picture mosaic (43*60sec, 50mm, f3.5, ISO3200). I love this area of Milky Way, full of light/dark nebulas, stars and starclusters.
Unmodified Pentax k-50, Skywatcher Star Adventurer tracker.
The Horsehead Nebula (NGC2023) and Flame Nebula (NGC2024) in the constellation Orion.
Skywatcher 130PDS
QHY IMG2PRO
HEQ5
6nm Ha clip filter
10x600sec lights plus darks
With one thing and another I haven't been able to do any deep sky imaging since March. An opportunity presented itself during the night of 22-23 October This was really a familiarisation session to see if I could remember what went where etc!!
After the inevitable software glitches I attempted to get an image of our well-known galactic neighbour M31 which is also catalogued as NGC 224.
Conditions were poor with lots of high cloud heralding the arrival of yet another Atlantic system here. However, I decided to try as the forecast for here looks hopeless in the coming days.
The Andromeda Galaxy is one of the faintest objects visible to the naked eye and is 2.5million light years distant. The galaxy is considerably larger than our own Milky Way system.
The galaxy has a dense and compact nucleus and some star clusters can be seen within the spiral arms as well as numerous prominent dust lanes.
Two satellite galaxies, M32 above and M110 below - which has visible dust areas within its structure - are visible accompanying M31.
Imaged with a focal reduced Skywatcher 120ED refractor on an EQ6r pro mount. I used a ZWO 2600MC camera.
60 x 240s subs
Lights were calibrated with temp. matched Darks, Flats & Dark Flats.
Data processed using:-
APP
Starnet
Photoshop 2024
Many thanks for looking!