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Grand design spiral galaxy M51a (NGC 5194) interacting with smaller companion M51b (NGC 5195) in the constellation Canes Venatici (Hunting dogs)
SW MN190 on AZ-EQ6
Canon450D modified
30x420"
Image taken with a SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + 10mm lens.
Edited with Photofiltre and MS Picture Manager, to get more details.
I never imagined I would EVER get any of the Leo Triplet with my setup and this is a first attempt. Very noisy due to stretching the image to show the faint fuzzy mag. 16.5 blob that is comet 67p/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Only ended up with 10 mins of usable 60 sec data at ISO 1600 due to racing clouds (actually clear when I set up originally at 20.30 BST. Should have hung around for more data but the wind was getting too intense so packed away.
Equipment: Skywatcher 120ED Esprit (840mm) at F7
Focal reducer 0.8
Celestron AVX (unguided - hence slight trailing)
Canon 700D (unmodded)
NGC 3628 (the one I cut off!), M66, M65 - the Leo Triplet. Other faint galaxies are IC 2745 and IC 2763.
67P is hanging around this region for my DSLR's FOV for at least another 3 days. Had I more time I'd probably have tried for at least 60-70 x 60 second images for a decent blob and tail.
Equipment:
Takahashi Epsilon 130ED
ASI294mmPro
ZWO EFW 8x
Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB und SHO MaxFR
Skywatcher EQ8
exposure time: 6,4hour
Processing: PixInsight/affinity photo
Todays afocal capture of the Sun - wispy cloud, but pleased we got a viewing today ;0)
Digital camera, Skywatcher Goto telescope fitted with Baader Homemade Solarfilm filter
Thank you for all the views, favourites and comments! Very much appreciated!
My favorite deep sky object! Eagerly waiting for another clear night, to add more photos to this on-going project ^_^
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer + Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED + field flattener + Nikon D610 (ISO200 & 65x120s). Pre- and post-processed in SIRIL. Stacked all 65 images. Initial post-processing in RawTherapee and GIMP, then sent through starfixer and final tweaking in Siril
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the 3571, 3576, 3529, 3579, 3581 and 3582 spots.
Stack of 40 photos of 90'' exposition. Dark, flat and bias correction. Process with pixinsight.
Telescope Williams optics ZIII 73
Skywatcher Star Adventurer GTi
Camara Sony Alpha 6400
Filter L-eNhance Optolong
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: 200 for Ha 111 for RGB
Astronomik 6nm Ha: 15x300s
Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 10x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 10x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 10x180s
Tránsito de Mercurio con Bawlow Powermate 2'5x
Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: iOptron CEM40
Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.9, T=12.5%)
- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (540nm)
Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism
- TeleVue Lente de Barlow 2,5x Powermate 1,25"
Software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2019-11-11
Hora: 13:13 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 30 segundos
Resolución: 1920 x 1080
Gain: 110
Exposure: 0,000154 s
Frames: 857
Frames apilados: 23%
FPS: 28.44
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Nikon D780 at prime focus with Skywatcher coma corrector. EQ6 Syntrek Mount.
Imaging session commenced 01:20 UT
35 x 25s at ISO 2000
Also 18 dark frames & 18 flats.
Processed with Deep Sky Stacker and levels adjusted with Lightroom & G.I.M.P.
Final image slightly cropped.
Horsehead and Flame Nebula in Orion.
TS72 APO + TS72flat on a Nikon d610
432mm /f6/ iso800
6hrs 24min. Data acquired over 2 nights.
Tracked with the SA
TS 50mm f3.6 guidescope connected on a zwo asi120mc-s
Stacked in DSS and processed in Photoshop
NGC7331 & Stephan's Quintet in the constellation of Pegasus. NGC7331 is the large solo galaxy on the right of frame and Stephan's Quintet is the group of small galaxies left of centre.
7x10 minute exposures.
Hardware. QHY8 CCD camera. Skywatcher 25cm Quattro CF. EQ6 mount with autoguider.
Software used. APT, Ezcap, FitsWorks, DeepSkyStacker. and Photoshop.
The pinwheel is a face on spiral galaxy found in the constellation of Ursa major, the great bear. Which is a circumpolar constellation, meaning that it never sets below the horizon in the Northern hemisphere.
21 million light years away and some 170,000 light years in diameter, the galaxy is estimated to contain upwards of one trillion stars. It was first observed by Pierre Méchain on the 21st of March 1781.
M101 is just about visible through a pair of 10x50 binoculars under a dark sky with the right conditions. Though a telescope of 6" and above would be preferable.
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 & Affinity Photo.
NGC1333
Optics: Skywatcher Esprit 150ED f/7 Refractor with 0.77x reducer/flattener
Camera: QHY 268M
Blue: 36x600 sec
Green: 39x600 sec
Ha: 66x1200 sec
Lum: 121x600 sec
Red: 41x600 sec
Messier 13 or M13, also designated NGC 6205 and sometimes called the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules or the Hercules Globular Cluster, is a globular cluster of several hundred thousand stars in the constellation of Hercules.
Equipment
Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro
William Optics Z73
Altair Astro Hypercam 183m V2
Luminosity Filter
40 x 30sec = 20 minutes
The Triangulum Galaxy (M33)
Scope: Skywatcher Esprit ED 120 Pro
Main camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro - Cooled
Mount: Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro
Guide Scope: Skywatcher EvoGuide ED50
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI290MM mini
Controller: ZWO ASIAIR Pro
Filter : ZWO EFW::Red, Blue, Green, Hydrogen Alpha, Luminescence.
Processed using APP and a touch of Photoshop.
Panel 2 of Orion Mosaic
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.
6X480 secondi a 640 iso vista la qualità del cielo, con Eos 5D Mk 2 su telescopio acromatico Skywatcher 120/1000,autoguida con PHD Guiding su Soligor 200 mm. e Orion Starshoot, processing Pixinsigth 1.8.8-6 elaborazione Photoshop CC15 e Topaz Labs plugin.
NGC 4236 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Draco.
distance 11.7 Mly
Equipment:
10" /f4 TS ONTC Newton
ASI1600mmc v2
ZWO EFW 8x
Skywatcher EQ8
Guiding TS9 OAG Lodestar
Canon EOS 6Da | Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro | Lacerta M-GEN | Finderscope 9x50
18x 900sec | ISO800
Flats, Bias, Darks, no LP-filters used
Referred to as Bode's Nebula, it is however, a spiral galaxy located close to the Big Dipper or Plough asterism in Ursa Major. It has a close companion galaxy M82 the Cigar galaxy, so close together, they are often imaged as a pair.
Lying about 12 million light years from Earth and about 90,000 light years across. Binoculars will pick up M81 as a faint fuzzy patch of light under reasonable sky conditions.
First discovered by a German astronomer by the name of Johann Elert Bode in 1774, hence Bode's Nebula. At the time no one had any clue it was a whole other galaxy.
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 -20c gain 110, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools.
1 min video stack taken 2019-02-09
Sunrise takes about fourteen Earth days to cross the Lunar disc from New Moon to Full Moon.
The dark elliptical shaped crater is Mare Crisium. To it’s left is the dark irregular shape of Mare Fecunditatis
EDIT: thanks to everyone who made this my most Faved image!
This was a project almost 4 months in the making. I spent over the course of 24 separate short late spring/summer nights capturing subs on this, most challenging target. Starting May 8, then every clear night until August 19, after discarding several hours (over 11 hours) of sub standard frames I ended up with just over 53 hours of usable data. Ever since I saw a picture of the object I wanted to capture it myself. but I had no idea the frustration that would ensue! I worked for hours/days on putting the final image together to something I was proud of. I have seen so many gorgeous renditions of this object and I wanted to give it justice as well. I went with a more natural approach to the final version. OU4 is an extremely faint "nebula" I wanted to make sure that it was visible in the final version, but also maintain the appearance of being very faint and natural looking. I did not want to "over cook" OU4.
The oxygen portion of the image was taken with 37 hours of total integration time. It was still very difficult to isolate OU4 from the background even with that amount of time. I went through countless iterations of workflow to bring it out and make it look authentic. The Chroma 3nm filter did a great job of isolating the signal, it is just so faint, maybe 30min subs instead of 20 min subs would have made a difference?
I have done some minor star reduction, but Cepheus is a very dense star field so I wanted to keep them there, just not distracting, to keep the natural feel of the image. Did I succeed?
I have searched for what I perceive as everywhere on the internet for data on OU4 regarding the apparent magnitude of the object. If anyone has this info please let me know.
Overall I am very happy with the way this image has turned out, don't know if I will ever tackle it again as it takes up a lot of clear skies at a time of the year when the dark nights are very short. I would love to hear your feedback and suggestions for the future.
Thank you and clear skies
Dan.
Still learning… a better shot of our amazing «close» neighbor M31.
Shot with Canon 5DmkIV and 100-400mm lens on Star Adventurer tracker.
120min (60x120s) integration time with 20 dark, bias and flat frames.
Stacked in Affinity Photo, post-processed in PixInsight with final cosmetic in Lightroom and Photoshop.
Camera: Canon EOS 6D Mark I
Lens: Canon 100-400 L IS USM
Mount: SkyWatcher Star Adventurer
Exposures:
10 x 60"
Stacked with Pixinsight and processed with Photoshop.
Captured from El Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and Canon 600D. Baader Continuum and Astrosolar filters fitted to telescope. Best 20 of 45 stacked in Registax 6. Green colour caused by Continuum filter removed in Registax 6 after stacking using RGB Balance and Mix tools
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
A freckled Sun. It's possible to see the 3636, 3638, 3639, 3641, 3643. 3644, 3645, 3647, 3649 and 3650 spots
Pickerings Triangle, the lesser photographed part of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant. It actually has no NGC classification number, although NGC 6979 is sometimes used. This portion of the Cygnus loop was discovered in 1904 by Willamina Fleming, but credited to Edward Pickering, the director of her observatory. This was customary back in that time.
I tried this object last year but was not happy with the data as my timing and clear skies happen to occur during some extremely hot and smoky filled(forest fires) days. This year, the skies cooperated and was able to capture some decent data.
A deep look at Omega Centauri ( NGC 5139 ) - by Mike O'Day ( 500px.com/MikeODay )
This image is an attempt to look deeply into the mighty Omega Centauri star cluster and, by using HDR techniques, record as many of its faint members as possible whilst capturing and bringing out the colours of the stars, including in the core.
Image details:
Resolution ........ 0.587 arcsec/px
Rotation .......... 0.00 deg
Focal ............. 1374.64 mm
Pixel size ........ 3.91 um
Field of view ..... 58' 33.7" x 38' 53.9"
Image center ...... RA: 13 26 45.38 Dec: -47 28 16.6
Telescope: Orion Optics CT12 Newtonian ( mirror 300mm, fl 1200mm, f4 ).
Corrector: ASA 2" Coma Corrector Quattro 1.175x.
Effective Focal Length / Aperture : 1470mm f4.7
Mount: Skywatcher EQ8
Guiding: TSOAG9 Off-Axis-Guider, Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2, PHD2
Camera:
Nikon D5300 (unmodified) (sensor 23.5 x 15.6mm, 6016x4016 3.9um pixels)
Location:
Blue Mountains, Australia
Moderate light pollution ( pale green zone on darksitefinder.com map )
Capture ( July 2018 ):
8 sets of sub-images with exposure duration for each set doubling ( 2s to 240s ) all at ISO 250.
200 x 249sec + 10 ea for other exposures
Processing:
Calibration: master bias, master flat and master dark
Integration in8 sets
HDR combination
Pixinsight Dec 2018
Links:
500px.com/MikeODay
photo.net/photos/MikeODay
The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49) is a large spherical H II region (circular in appearance) located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Momoceros region of the Milky way galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 (Caldwell 50) is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter
The cluster and nebula lie at a distance of some 5,000 light yeads from Earth and measure roughly 130 light years in diameter. The radiation from the young stars excites the atoms in the nebula, causing them to emit radiation themselves producing the emission nebula we see. The mass of the nebula is estimated to be around 10,000 solar masses.
This image is a total of 6 hours of integration split between OIII and Ha. First light with the Esprit 80 Telescope.
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.
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Nikon D780 at prime focus. EQ6 Syntrek Mount.
Imaging session commenced 23:27 UT
32 x 25s at ISO 1000
Also 17 dark frames.
Processed with Deep Sky Stacker and levels adjusted with Lightroom & G.I.M.P.
Final image cropped.
iphone to 12mm TeleVue Delos lens and SkyWatcher 200P ( 8 inch ) 1200mm telescope - Moon phase Waxing Gibbous 78%
Hello folks,NGC6726.
Telescope: SharpStar 150 f2,8
Guide Scope:Zwo Mini Guidescope
Mount : Skywatcher HEQ5
Imaging camera: ZWO 2600MC
Guiding camera: ZWO 290MC
Filters: None
Plate solving: SGpro
Imaging software: Sgpro
Guiding software: PHD2
Processing software: Pixinsight
Frames:108 X 300s exposure @ 0Gain.
Integration:9 hrs
Qualche sera fa ho provato a fotografare con il telescopio (e dalla città) la galassia M51, chiamata anche Galassia Vortice. In realtà si tratta di una meravigliosa coppia di galassie interagenti che si stanno scontrando a una distanza di decine di milioni di anni luce da noi.
Come sempre, fotografare l'universo dalla città è sempre una impresa difficile, ma grazie alla tecnologia, ad una corretta attrezzatura, un po' di soldini e tanta pazienza, si può pensare sempre più in là.
#m51 #messier #galassia #vortice #skywatcher #newton #200 #1000 #f/5 #universo #astronomy
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