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La otra noche salí a hacer foto nocturna con unos amigos. Algo de Lightpainting, pero también algo de cielo profundo. Era la primera vez que usaba un telescopio refractor Skywatcher ed80 de 600mm f7,2. Pude disparar a Pleiades. Son 24 fotos de 10 segundos a ISO 6400 con la A7R fullspectrum, apiladas con SIRIL. Espero que os guste.
The other night I went out to shot night photos with some friends. Some Lightpainting, but also some deep sky pictures. It was the first time I used a Skywatcher ed80 600mm f7.2 refractior telescope. I was able to shoot Pleiades. This is a 24 photos stacked using SIRIL, each one of 10 seconds at ISO 6400 with my A7R fullspectrum. I hope you like it.
Imaging telescope or lens: SkyWatcher ED80 ED APO
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM-Pro
Mount: Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro Goto
Guiding telescope or lens: 9x50 Skywatcher finder-guider 9x50 finder-guider
Guiding camera: QHYCCD QHY5L-IIc
Focal reducer: Skywatcher 0.85x Reducer & Flattener
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS6 , Sequence Generator Pro , PixInsight 1.8 Ripley
Filters: Baader SII 8nm 1.25" , Baader OIII 8.5 nm 1.25" , Baader Ha 7nm 1.25"
Dates:Nov. 10, 2018 , Feb. 22, 2019 , Feb. 23, 2019 , Dec. 1, 2019 , Feb. 13, 2020
Frames:
Baader Ha 7nm 1.25": 57x180" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Baader OIII 8.5 nm 1.25": 60x180" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Baader SII 8nm 1.25": 54x180" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 8.6 hours
Darks: ~40
Flats: ~40
Flat darks: ~40
Avg. Moon age: 12.86 days
Avg. Moon phase: 55.58%
Panel 5 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.
The core of the Milky Way rises above Clavell Tower overlooking Kimmeridge Bay in Dorset. 2 merged exposures. One 7 minute exposure for the sky using the SkyWatcher Star Adventurer tracking mount, and an eleven minute exposure for the foreground.
NGC-1365 is also known as the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, and is a double-barred spiral galaxy. It is approximately 56 million light-years away from earth and is in the constellation Fornax.
This is a quick 1hr 48 min test of 3 min luminance exposures.
Taken 27/11/19 with the SBIG ST2000xm and Skywatcher Quattro 8inch carbon fibre Newtonian reflector telescope.
A really beautiful conjunction, enhanced by a strong earthshine.
Tracking with Skywatcher Staradventurer GTI
Foreground:
Sigma 14mm f1.8 @ F2.8
Background:
7 x 180s tracked with SkyWatcher Star Adventurer
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM @ F2.8 + NISI Natural Night lightpollution filter
Captured: March 4, 2019.
Location: AO Nostromo, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia
Telescope: SkyWatcher MN190/1000
Mount: SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6 GT
Camera: DSLR Canon 450D (full spectrum)
Frames: 34×420″
Exposure: 4h
Software: PHD2; BackyardEOS; PixInsight; Photoshop
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
Adobe Photoshop Cs2 : Data Processing
PHD Guiding 2: Guide
Darks, Dark Flats, Flats and Bias apply
Serra Negra ( Bortle 4) /São Paulo/Brasil . July/2019
This is a wider field view of the lovely Perseus Double Cluster complex imaged during the night of the 9th October.
The image shows the two open clusters, NGC869 (top) and NGC884 (below) sitting within a rich star field. This rendition illustrates a nice perspective I feel.
The myriad of stars that compose the flat disk of our Milky Way galaxy pass right through Cassiopeia and Perseus – and in doing so they also pass in front and behind the Double Cluster resulting in this lovely view.
The two clusters making up the complex lie at a distance of around 7500 lightyears from us.
Imaged with a Skywatcher 72ED refractor fitted with a flattener and a ZWO 2600MC camera.
29x180s guided exposures
30xDarks (temp. matched)
Gain 100 camera cooled to -10°C
Flats & Dark Flats
Thanks for looking!
Dragons of Ara / NGC 6188
Capturing these beautiful creatures of space located at cca 4000 LY. They are 10s of light years in length and found near the edge of a large dark molecular cloud and are composed of sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms.
Better resolution at astrob.in/oyak7t/0/
Setup: ASIAIR Pro, ASI294MC Pro, ASI120MM Mini guide, Explore Scientific ED102 FCD100, Skywatcher EQ5 Pro, iPad.
Images: RGB 300s x 10, UHC filter 600s x 5 - temp at -15c and gain 120 on both RGB & UHC.
Software: ASIAIR, Pixinsight & Photoshop.
Imaged from Bay of Islands / New Zealand.
25.11.20
In the constellation of Cepheus, 2400ly away within the wider IC1396 complex of ionized gas and dust region this dense globule is illuminated by the nearby bright star.
16 x 300s subs,
bias, flats, darks x15,
Skywatcher 10" F4 Newtonian,
NEQ6 pro guided,
Modded Canon 1100D,
Astronomik Ha clip filter,
Processed with DSS and Affinity photo.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and Canon 500D. Baader Astrosolar Filter cap fitted. 12 jpg stack as caught in a very small cloud gap.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor with a Baader Astrosolar filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus
Nikon d610 with TS72
iso1600
2hrs.17min
Tracking: Skywatcher Star Adventurer
Software used:
Stacking: DeepskyStacker
Processing: Adobe Photoshop,Adobe camera raw, Photokemi Startools action set, GradientXterminator, Nik software, HLVG
Taken with a Skywatcher 200PDS refelctor telescope. A ZWO ASI224MC camera was used to take 5000 frames of video which was then processed with PIPP, Autostakkert and Photoshop.
Clouds cleared enough last night giving me a quick chance to image the moon.
Used my little Skywatcher 72ED and my ZWO 2600MC.
You are looking at The Eagle Nebula, also known as M16 (Messier Object 16). It is a diffuse emission nebula about 5700 light-years away in the constellation Serpens (in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way). This nebula is probably most famous/known because of a 1995 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) called "The Pillars of Creation". That image showcased the central region of star formation in the image before you, now. If you've never seen the HST's 20-year update of that image, you really should check it out in all its splendor!
I've actually been attempting this target for about a month, now. It is low enough in the sky (at least given my neighboring trees/houses) that I only have had a brief window to shoot after sunset. I had repeated calibration and alignment issues, but I had two sessions that combined to make this image. I used about an hour of data from two separate nights to make this image.
I've been really enjoying some good telescope time, lately... so I think I should have some more to share with you quite soon!
The specifics:
Exposures: Hydrogen-alpha(H) = 10x180s, Oxygen-ii(O) = 10x300s, Sulfur-iii(S) = 10x180s
Monochromatic images combined in PixInsight, mapped SHO to RGB.
Location: Parkesburg, PA
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM with ZWO EFW and filters
Scope: Skywatcher 150PDS
- Canon 1100D
- Skywatcher 200PDS
- Baader Neodymium + Solar Film Filter
APT Assist for capture, Stacked with registax 6, False Color CS6 duotone
The strongly shining, waxing gibbous moon was too hard to ignore last night. I had again intended to do some deep sky work but a combination of strong moonlight and annoying clouds made this very difficult!
So I decided I had to image our beautiful natural satellite which was now over 97% illuminated.
Towards the left of the image the blue colour of the bright crater Aristarchus is very noticeable.
I have slightly boosted the natural colour of the lunar surface to highlight the different mineral composition present in the lunar regolith. Trying to keep the colour variations and transitions as subtle as possible.
Regions which are a muddy brown are more rich in iron compounds in comparison to those areas which have a more blue cast being richer in titanium compounds.
The prominent lunar highland crater Tycho's huge ray system is well displayed.
Many thanks for looking!
Imaged with a Skywatcher Esprit 120ED scope and a ZWO 2600MC camera.
Captured using SharpCap PRO. Sharpened in Registax with final processing being done in Photoshop 2021.
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Olympus E410 at prime focus. EQ6 Syntrek Mount.
Imaging session commenced 02:16 UT
Out of 35 frames captured, 33 were used in the processing.
9 x 60s @ ISO 800
24 x 50s @ ISO 800
Also 10 dark frames.
Processed with Deep Sky Stacker.
Final levels slightly adjusted with G.I.M.P.
Some coma towards the edges. I should invest in a coma corrector but I may just wait until I can upgrade the camera.
Single 55 sec shot of M8 , with new setup , consisting of SW NEQ6 PRO , SW Quattro 250 /f4 and Canon 5DSr .The Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) is a bright emission nebula in the constellation Sagittarius. It is an active stellar nursery, an area of dust and gas in space where stars are formed. It lies about 5,000 light-years away, near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy in the rich starfields of Sagittarius.
Samyang 135 F2
Zwo Asi183mm Pro
Skywatcher EQ5 Belt-modded
R: 48x120s Gain 53 -15°C
G: 48x120s Gain 53 -15°C
B: 48x120s Gain 53 -15°C
L: 760x120s Gain 53 -15°C
Ha: 128x300s Gain 111 -15°C
——— STRUMENTAZIONE ———
Telescopio: Skywatcher 200/800 Wide Photo
Camera: Zwo Asi 294 mm pro monocromatica
Montatura: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6
Autoguida: 60mm UltraGuide Artesky con zwo asi 224mc
Correttore di coma: aplanatico Skywatcher f4
Focheggiatore motorizzato Zwo Eaf
Ruota portafiltri Zwo Efw
Filtri: Antlia pro Ha LRGB
Software d'acquisizione Sgpro
————— FOTO ————
temp 0 con dark, flat e darkflat
Ha 72 x 300s
L 50 x 180s
R 50 x 180s
G 50 x 180s
B 50 x 180s
————— ELABORAZIONE ———
Pixinsight
Photoshop
Messier 81 also known as Bode's Galaxy is a grand design spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It has a diameter of 96,000 light-years. Because of its relative proximity to the Milky Way galaxy, large size, and active galactic nucleus which harbours a supermassive black hole, Messier 81 has been studied extensively by professional astronomers.
Skywatcher 8" f4 Quattro Reflector
Skywatcher EQ6-R Mount
ASI ZWO533 & 120 Cameras
Pixinsight & Adobe Photoshop
First lunar light with my Skywatcher 200p 200 / 1000 newtonian telescope.
These beautiful colours are from the variants of iron and titanium. The reddish areas are from iron, the blue areas are titanium.
I was so eager to finally shoot some higher res lunar images. I’ve always only had camera lenses and had to crop enormous amounts. Of course, due to seeing it became pure luck as high res video wasn’t an option in order to stack properly.
For this image, I tried out my ZWO 290MM (which I use for guiding) as a luminance set of data. I captured and made a 6 panel mosaic using this camera with the 8” newt.
For each panel I captured 1000 frames full resolution, then stacked the best 10% of these.
For the colour, I used my ZWO 533MC Pro. I captured 2000 frames at 2256px ROI.
I stacked all these in Autostackkert 2, used wavelets in Registax, aligned and pano created in Photoshop.
These images were shot before total darkness, so I have a few issues with the luminance layers having slightly different black levels. However, I think this came out good overall :)
Lum data was captured at sunset and colour post sunset.
Hardware Details:
Skywatcher EQ6R Pro
Skywatcher 8” 200/1000 newt
SharpStar 0.95x coma corrector
Astronomik 2" UV IR L2
ZWO 533MC Pro (with UV IR)
ZWO 290MM (no filter)
Here is a quick capture of the planet Jupiter and an overexposed image of Jupiter on the top showing the four Galilean moons.
Tech Specs: Sky Watcher Esprit 120ED, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI290MC, and ZWO EAF, Televue 1.5x Barlow. Captured in SharpCap Pro, processed in Autostakkert and Registax, top image single 3-second exposure, bottom image is best 20% of 9000 frames. Image date: October 13, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
What started out as a question became a small marathon. I was getting shadow /reflections of the filters in the shot. So it became full clean down mirrors and filters. once put together I did a NB night and a RGB night to see if all had gone, happy to say its all clear.
What better way to really see so I did 5 nights of NB in total about 130 shots per filter. This is a Hubble SHaO pallet. One thing that showed up in those 5 night 2 am in the morning mount would disconnect. It would restart straight away once I got the port recognized. Turns out the fitting for the EQMOD cable for the mount was not firm even if the screws where. Two small slithers of a wall plug on the screws the whole thing is a tight as a drum and ran all night.
Now who cant see the chicken running Bottom left cant miss it. Still cant get over the detail in the shot.
QHY268M -10c 130 Odd shots 5 min each filter over 5 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
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
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian, Tal 2x Barlow,
ZWO ASI 385MC.
4000 frames captured using Firecapture.
Approx. 1700 frames processed with Registax 6. Final levels slightly adjusted using G.I.M.P.
Lunar south is uppermost. Quite good seeing.
A very favourable libration revealing the very elusive lunar crater Hausen.
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
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
06_01_2021
M42 Orion Nebula
20 180s lights
10 60s lights for core
stacked in DSS
Skywatcher ED80
Heq5 Pro
Orion 50mm guidescope
Canon 100d (modded)
All shots taken near Washpen Falls in very dry but very cold conditions (-10°C).
Nikon D810A
Nikon 600mm F4
Skywatcher NEQ6
Canon 600d (astromod)
Skywatcher Equinox ED80 APO
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro tracking mount (unguided)
Short 2 min sub exposures adding to 30 min in total
Stacked in DeepSky Stacker
Processed in Photoshop CS6
Situated about 2,400 light years away (that's aprox. fourteen thousand trillion miles....!!!!) the Elephant Trunk Nebula is an interstellar gas and dust cloud residing within our galaxy in the constellation Cepheus.
The name is due to a small part of the nebula resembling the nose of the Elephant, it can be seen just to the right and above the center of my image. This area of gas has been ionised by the large blue star toward the centre, the radiation this star emits is absorbed by the atoms and molecules in the cloud which then become excited and consequently emit radiation themselves to reduce their energy states, making them glow in IR and visible light.
This again is an image that I need to do much longer exposures on to really pull out any real detail in the nebula, however you can make out the structure of the trunk and i thought i would put it up non the less as i still think its pretty.
Keep looking up!
Todays afocal capture of the Sun, digital camera, Skywatcher Goto telescope fitted with homemade Baader Solarfilm filter
La comète 46P/Wirtanen à travers un Skywatcher Quattro (F=800mm, D=200mm)et un réducteur de focale (focale résultante sur un 24x36: environ 1000mm F/3.5) Suivi à l'aide d'une Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro. Nikon D5300 avec filtre clip in LPS-V4-N5. Télécommande Twin1 ISR2
64x 59s, 1600 ISO.
Assemblage dans IRIS , cosmétique dans Photoshop CS4.
The 46P/Wirtanen comet through a skywatcher Quattro (F=800mm, D=200mm) with a coma reducer (resulting in a focal lenght in 24x36 of roughly 1000mm F/3.5) Tracking with a Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro. Nikon D5300 with clip in filter LPS-V4-N5. Remote Twin1 ISR2
64x 59s, 1600 ISO.
Compiling in IRIS , cosmetics in Photoshop CS4.
Captured late last year (2021) from my back garden.
Messier 33 (M33) is located 2.73 million light years away in the Triangulum constellation. It’s a small hop away from the famous M31, Andromeda Galaxy making it relatively easy to find in the night sky.
You’ll need quite dark skies to see it visually, but astrophotography can reveal all it’s faint details and colours.
I used my ZWO 533 camera to capture this with my 8” newtonian telescope from Skywatcher. I use a Ha filter to bring out the nebulae within the galaxy too.
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian, EQ6 Syntrek Mount & Modified Philips SPC 900NC Webcam.
Captured using Sharpcap
25 frames @ 25s
10 Dark frames
Processed using Deep Sky Stacker.
Levels slightly adjusted with G.I.M.P.
Sharpcap Settings:
[Philips SPC 900NC PC Camera (LX Mode)]
Resolution=640x480
Colour Space / Compression=YUY2
Exposure (s)=25.2476670702873
Brightness=90
Contrast=40
Saturation=72
Gamma=3
ColorEnable=255
BacklightCompensation=0
Gain=30