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Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C.
17 x 10 minute exposures (1 hour and 50 minutes),
Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in APP, Pixinsight and Photoshop.
This was meant to be a vertical 2 panel mosaic. Unfortunatelly Nina lost its connection to the telescope and produced this "belly button" shot.
Imaged between 17:35 and 20:46, on 10th of December 2021.
Skywatcher 150PDS
Skywatcher EQ3-2
TS optics 3x Barlow lens
Nikon D90
ISO: 2500
Exposure: 1/80 s
120 frames for each panel
3 panels
AS!3 top 80% of frames stacked
Image Composite Editor
GIMP 2.10
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C.
40 x 5 minute exposures (3 hours 20 miutes) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in APP, Pixinsight (based on www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV6ObLVRvNk ), Topaz denoise and Photoshop.
19:29 - 00:33 UTC, 24th/25th November 2021.
Skywatcher 190MN telescope, Ioptron CEM70 NUC mount, Altair Tri-Band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 53 x 5 minute exposures (4 hour 15 minutes) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight, Topaz denoise, sharpen AI and Photoshop.
Collected between 21:43 and 23:26 on the 1st of September, 21:01 and 23:22 on the 12th September and 2:02 and 4:26 on the 13th September 2022.
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 60 x 2 minute exposures (2 hours) at Gain 275, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in APP, Pixinsight, Starnet, Topaz de-noise and Photoshop.
Lots of thin cloud and a bit windy.
25th October 2021.
Skywatcher 190MN telescope, Ioptron CEM70 NUC mount, Altair Tri-Band filter, ASI2600MC Pro at -20C. 34 x 2 minute exposures (1 hour 8 minutes) at Gain 100, Offset 50, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight, Topaz denoise, and Photoshop.
Collected between 20:16 and 21:37 on the 5th of November 2022.
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Tri-band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C.
NINA Observatory Software.
36 x 300 second (3 hours) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat frames, 50 dark flat frames.
Re-processed in a Hubblesque palette using APP, Pixinsight, Topaz de-noise and Photoshop.
Data collected on the 19th September 2021 (www.flickr.com/iasmith/51501168073), re-processed on the 17th February, 2022.
This is M101, the pinwheel galaxy. Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 DS Pro, on an HEQ5 Pro mount. I had stripped the mount down 2 years ago and replaced all the bearings, as it was a secondhand purchase and not it turned out in great condition. Work and life meant I hadn't actually used it much since then, but I am really pleased as these are 2 minute unguided exposures with no trails.
The camera was my old Canon 40D which has been modified, I think it really shows its age on fainter objects like this.
A surprising amount of cloud last evening (given that the forecast was for clear skies) meant that imaging the moon was a bit of a hide and seek contest!
Nevertheless I managed to acquire this image of the 72% illuminated waxing moon.
The crater Copernicus is nicely highlighted towards the terminator.
The lunar highlands (bottom) containing craters Tycho and Clavius are also nicely contrasted.
Imaged with a Skywatcher 72ED refractor and a Nikon D5300.
Skywatcher 190MN telescope, Ioptron CEM70 NUC mount, Altair Tri-|Band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 118 x 1 minute exposures (1 hour 58 minutes) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight Topaz denoise and Photoshop.
Collected between:
11:48 and 1:20 on the 19/20th of April,
22:24 and 22:46 on the 20th of April and
22:22 and 23:28 on the 22nd of April, 2022
Many frames rejected due to intermittent clouds.
Technical card
Imaging telescope or lens: GSO RC8 Carbon Fiber
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mount: Skywatcher AZ EQ-6 GT
Guiding telescope or lens: Celestron OAG Deluxe
Guiding camera: QHYCCD QHY5III174
Focal reducer: Telescope-Service TS 2" Flattener
Software: Main Sequence Software Seqence Generator Pro, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Filters: Baader Planetarium Ha 1.25" 7nm, ZWO red, ZWO green, ZWO blue
Accessories: ZWO EFW, Baader Planetarium Steeltrack 2"
Resolution: 4420x3192
Dates: Aug. 21, 2017, Aug. 22, 2017, Aug. 24, 2017, Aug. 25, 2017
Frames:
Baader Planetarium Ha 1.25" 7nm: 15x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
ZWO blue: 10x120" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
ZWO blue: 15x60" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
ZWO green: 10x120" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
ZWO green: 15x60" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
ZWO red: 12x120" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
ZWO red: 15x60" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 4.3 hours
Avg. Moon age: 8.66 days
Avg. Moon phase: 4.78%
Astrometry.net job: 1717632
RA center: 328.376 degrees
DEC center: 47.266 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.479 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 271.423 degrees
Field radius: 0.362 degrees
Locations: Berga Resort, Berga, Barcelona, Spain
Omega Nebula in Sagittarius ( Messier 17, NGC 6618 ) by Mike O'Day ( 500px.com/MikeODay )..Visible to the naked eye the Omega Nebula (also known as the Swan, Horseshoe or Lobster Nebula) M17 is in the Milkyway and is aound 4200 light years distance from Earth..Links:..https://500px.com/MikeODay.http://photo.net/photos/MikeODay..Details:..RA 18h 22m, Dec -16deg 10'. .Skywatcher Quattro 10" f4 Newtonian. .Skywatcher AZ Eq6 GT Mount.Orion auto guider - PHD2. .Baader MPCC Mark 3 Coma Corrector..Nikon D5300 (unmodified)..Field of view (deg) ~ 1.35 x 0.90..37 x 100 sec ISO800..Pixinsight & Photoshop.14 August 2015.reprocessed 8 Aug 2016
Skywatcher 200/1000 PDS
Skywatcher EQ-6
Canon Eos 1000da
Guiding mit ALccd QHY 5 Autoguider
10 x 300 Sekunden Belichtungszeit
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C.
22 x 5 minute exposures (1 hours 50 miutes) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in APP, Pixinsight (based on www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV6ObLVRvNk ), Topaz denoise and Photoshop.
04:19 - 06:14 UTC, 25th November 2021.
The first proper stacked image from the SkyWatcher 130PDS! I kept the exposures low at 20 seconds each, despite this there is a fair amount of detail. I focused it by eye and it's ever so slightly off so the image is a little soft...definitely need to pick up a Bahtinov mask soon to get that pinpoint focus.
I collimated it with some help from a friend which has made a huge difference!
I played around with some other settings on the camera and did some tests, I think that with good alignment, low wind and level ground ~40 seconds exposures would be feasible unguided which is impressive.
I love the star spikes the telescope produces, they look fantastic, looking forward to some more photos with this set-up, hopefully it proves to be a good balance of portability and magnification.
Image Details:
Taken with my Canon 600D
Tracking: Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer Pro
Telescope: SkyWatcher 130PDS Reflector (650mm)
F-stop: f/5
45 Light Frames at 20", f/5 and ISO800
26 Dark Frames at 20", f/5 and ISO800
No Flats
No Flat Darks
No Bias
Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
Edited in Adobe Photoshop
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Telescopio: Skywatcher evostar ed80
Camera: Zwo Asi 294 mm
Montatura: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6
Autoguida: 60mm UltraGuide Artesky con zwo asi 224mc
Correttore 0.85x ed80 skywatcher
Filtri: Optolong 3nm Ha O3
Software d'acquisizione Sgpro
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temp -10 con dark, flat e darkflat
primo pannello
HA 300s x 92scatti
O3 300s x 79scatti
secondo pannello
HA 300s x 81scatti
O3 300s x 49scatti
—— ELABORAZIONE ——
Pixinsight
Photoshop
astrobin: www.astrobin.com/a7x6tx/
Made a bit of a hash of this.
I shot all my light frames (72 of them) in RAW but, all my calibration frames in JPEG :-(
So this is simply 70% of 72 light frames 153 seconds each at ISO 400. Captured with a Canon 450D modded with the usual Astronomik clip in filter. Telescope it was attached to was a Skywatcher Quattro 8"S.
Skywatcher 200p , HEQ5 PRO, placed in my backyard.
SW 9x50 finderscope + QHY5-II mono guide cam ( PHD 2 guiding sotware)
ISO 2000
7x120'' ligts, 10x120'' darks, 10x flats, 10x bias
I used Backyard EOS v3 camera software with Canon EOS 6D (Baader MPCC Mark III coma corrector, astronomik CLS CCD clip filter, ).
Stacked in deep sky stacker. Edited in Photoshop .
Single exposure of the moon from Christmas Eve 2020.
1/125th of a second at ISO 100
Canon 1100D with a Skywatcher Quattro 8" on a HEQ5 pro mount.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 and a Canon 600D. 4 image stack in Autostakkert. Having colour problems when using PIPP to convert RAW images to tiffs. No issues at all when using PIPP to convert jpg's. These colour artifacts only appear during wavelet sharpening after stacking, as a result the above image is only a 4 image stack but still some red artifacts, any more than 4 I get green artifacts. JPG's are so much more reliable and faster to process and are just as detailed. Reverting back to jpg for now. NOTE :--- Later on tried converting all the RAW images to 16bit tiffs before processing with PIPP to center and crop and the colour issue disappeared but the resulting image was no better than taking jpg's straight from the camera in the first place and much less processing time too :-)
The Merope Nebula (also known as Tempel's Nebula and NGC 1435) is a diffuse reflection nebula in the Pleiades star cluster, surrounding the 4th magnitude star Merope. It was discovered on October 19, 1859 by the German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel. The discovery was made using a 10.5cm refractor. John Herschel included it as 768 in his General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars but never observed it himself.
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
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-|Band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 23 x 5 minute exposures (1 hour 55 minutes ) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight Topaz denoise and Photoshop.
Collected between 0:01 and 1:53 on the 26th of March, 2022.
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 11 x 5 minute exposures (55 minutes) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in APP, Pixinsight and Photoshop.
Imaged whilst waiting on the Cave nebula to pass the meridian
17:25 - 18:23 UTC, 5th December 2021.
Skywatcher 190MN telescope, Ioptron CEM70 NUC mount, Altair Tri-Band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 33 x 5 minute exposures (2 hour 45 minutes) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight, Topaz denoise and Photoshop.
Collected between 23:45 and 2:32 on the 4/5th of June, 2022. The sky never really got dark but the tri-band filter helped.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and a Canon 600D at prime focus. Best 20 of 40 jpg images stacked with Registax 6 after centering and cropping with PIPP.
Skywatcher 150PDS
Skywatcher EQ3-2
Nikon D90
ISO: 800
Exposure: 1/100 s
200 frames
AS!3 top 80% of frames stacked
Registax 6 wavelets
GIMP 2.10
Skywatcher 190MN telescope, Ioptron CEM70 NUC mount, Altair Tri-Band filter, ASI2600MC Pro at -20C. 48 x 5 minute exposures (4 hours) at Gain 100, Offset 50, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight, Topaz denoise, and Photoshop.
Collected between 21-03 on the 22nd of September and 1:57 on the 23rd September 2022.
The bright star caused some processing difficulties.
お気に入りのSkyWatcher AZ-GTiのアリミゾをK-ASTEC製に交換しました。
今までのものはネジで直接アリガタを固定するタイプだったのですが、それだとアリガタに傷が入ってしまいます。
ここしばらくビクセン規格とアルカスイス規格の両用のものに変更しているのですが、それが傷だらけになるのが嫌でした。
今回は傷が入る前に交換しました。
それと重い機材を載せることは無いのですが、3点支持でしっかり支えることが出来るのも良いですね。
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Telescopio: Skywatcher evostar ed80
Camera: Zwo Asi 294 mm
Montatura: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6
Autoguida: 60mm UltraGuide Artesky con zwo asi 224mc
Correttore 0.85x ed80 skywatcher
Filtri: Optolong 3nm Ha O3
Software d'acquisizione Sgpro
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temp -10 con dark, flat e darkflat
primo pannello
HA 300s x 92scatti
O3 300s x 79scatti
S2 300s x 55scatti
secondo pannello
HA 300s x 81scatti
O3 300s x 49scatti
S2 300s x 45scatti
—— ELABORAZIONE ——
Pixinsight
Photoshop
astrobin: www.astrobin.com/rvro4g/
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 31 x 5 minute exposures (2 hours 35 minutes) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in APP, Pixinsight Topaz denoise and Photoshop.
Collected between 1-05 and 4-47 on the morning of the 2nd of March, 2022.
It was supposed to be imaged with the CLS-CCD filter but communication with the filter wheel failed.
Image of Comet C2022 E3 (ZTF) (The Green Comet) taken tonight 26/01/2023 from my drive with my Canon 1300D attached to my Skywatcher 150 Telescope, 4000ISO, 30sec Exp
Taken with Skywatcher 250pds, Coma corrector, Canon 1100d astro mod + Astronomik CLS click filter. Guided by synguider on SW80.
x4 Exposures 300 seconds, Darks + Bias, DSS and PS to process. These exposures are RAW format.
When processing this I was pleased to see the elusive propeller. You should be able to make it out to the left side of the central core. Evidently many times this object is imaged the propeller can not be seen. Considering the light pollution I was rather pleased with this.
Not sure how true this is but Wiki posts this info which if true is mind blowing. It says .... "Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules"
Technical card
Imaging telescope or lens: GSO RC8 Carbon Fiber
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mount: Skywatcher AZ EQ-6 GT
Guiding telescope or lens: Celestron OAG Deluxe
Guiding camera: QHYCCD QHY5III174
Focal reducer: Astro-Physics CCDT67 - 0.67x Reducer
Software: Main Sequence Software Seqence Generator Pro, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Filters: Baader Planetarium OIII 1.25" 8.5nm, Baader Planetarium Ha 1.25" 7nm, Baader Planetarium SII 1.25" 8nm
Accessory: ZWO EFW
Resolution: 4158x3197
Dates: July 6, 2017, July 30, 2017, Sept. 23, 2017
Frames:
Baader Planetarium Ha 1.25" 7nm: 14x180" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium Ha 1.25" 7nm: 14x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium OIII 1.25" 8.5nm: 20x120" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium SII 1.25" 8nm: 19x120" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 3.2 hours
Avg. Moon age: 7.15 days
Avg. Moon phase: 47.68%
Astrometry.net job: 1755318
RA center: 323.882 degrees
DEC center: 57.485 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.735 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 272.399 degrees
Field radius: 0.535 degrees
Locations: Berga Resort, Berga, Barcelona, Spain
Image taken with a SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2, using a super 10mm lens + barlow 3x.
I edited it with Photofiltre and MS Picture Manager, to get more details.
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to se the 2835 and 2836 spots.