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NGC 7000, NGC 6997, NGC 6996, IC 5070
2-Panel Mosaic
RGBHOO data
65, 10-minute, Ha
65, 10-minute, OIII
65, 1-minute, Red
65, 1-minute, Green
65, 1-minute, Blue
About 23hrs Per panel.
46hrs total integration.
ASI2600mm pro camera
Sky-watcher Esprit 100ED, 550mm focal length, F5.5
EQ6-R Pro mount.
ASI174mm guide cam
Dithered every frame
2x drizzled in PIX
Pixinsight and Photoshop.
Data collected at Bortle-6 and Bortle-1 locations.
8/17/2023, 8/19/2023, 8/20/2023, 8/21/2023, 8/22/2023, 8/24/2023, 8/25/2023, 8/26/2023, 8/28/2023, 8/29/2023, 8/31/2023, 9/1/2023, 9/2/2023, 9/6/2023
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51·542 Long -3·593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Tal 2x Barlow Lens, ZWO ASI 120MC Imager.
Captured using Firecapture in daylight.
FPS (avg.)=53
Shutter=0.314ms
Gain=38 (38%)
Apparent diameter at time of capture 23.01"
Phase 52%
Magnitude -4.46
Processed with Registax 6 & G.I.M.P.
Seeing Conditions: Reasonably good.
Out of 7000 frames captured, about 2200 used for processing. Final image enlarged to 150%
Image taken with a SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2, using a super 25mm lens (28x).
It's related to the Emission Nebula RCW 33 and also known as Collinder 230, it lies at Vela (The Sail) constellation.
Afocal, with Lumia 640.
Edited with MS Picture Manager.
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm, 1200mm f/l Newtonian Reflector, Nikon D780 at prime focus with Skywatcher Coma Corrector, EQ6 Syntrek Mount.
Imaging session commenced 21:51 UT
26 x 20s at ISO 2500
18 x 20s at ISO 3200
18 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
Best viewed using the expansion arrows.
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 24 x 5 minute exposures (2 hours) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in APP, Pixinsight, Starnet, Topaz de-noise and Photoshop.
28th August 2021.
SkyWatcher 200/1000 Newton
EQ6-PRO GoTo mount
Canon EOS 70D
Baader MPCC MkIII
100*30s exp.
70*10s exp.
ISO 1600
2017.12.30.
Mogyoród, Hungary
Skywatcher 150/750
HEQ 5 Pro Go To
ASI 183 MC PRO
27*300s with DOF 60/0/10
Gain 0 Offset 7
Temp -10°C
Pre and post processing with Pixinsight
Messier Object 104 is a galaxy that is about 1/3 the size of our own galaxy and 29 million light-years away. It's been dubbed "The Sombrero Galaxy" because of its love of guacamole.
I really love the structure of this galaxy! It's pretty small in my scope... I had to crop the image a bit for this result and I don't know that it'd make a great print, but I still smile at how it looks. The galaxy is roughly magnitude 8 and in the region of Virgo and Corvus.
This image came from 3-hours of RGB-data, 1 hour in each color. Individual exposures were 3 minutes long. I'm actually encountering some new astrophotography issues right now, involving the cooling of my camera, and this is limiting some of my results currently. I do plan to keep persevering even if my issues will limit me in some ways.
Telescope: Skywatcher 150PDS
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM
Skywatcher T250/1000 Newton F4
Player-One Uranus-C IMX585
Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 Pro Goto USB
Logiciels acquisition: Stellarium - SharpCap
Logiciels traitement : PIPP - AutoStakkert - Pixinsight
Filtres: IR cut
Accessoires: Focuseur ZWO EAF - Barlow Kepler x2.5
Dates: 18 Janv. 2025- 22h38 GMT
Images unitaires: SER (1054x3.36ms) 10% de 10541
Gain: 330
Échantillonnage: 0.137 "/pixel
Focale résultante: 4390mm
F/D: 17.56
Seeing: 1.10 "Arc
Bortle: 5
Phase de la Lune (moyenne):72%
Frames: 8x90" ISO 800 (0,2hrs)
Equipment:
Mount: Skywatcher AZ EQ6 GT
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm L IS USM
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-|Band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 22 x 5 minute exposures (1 hour 50 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 1:05 and 2:53 on the 27th of March, 2022.
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 25 x 5 minute exposures (2 hours 5 minutes) 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 ) and Photoshop.
A bit windy.
23:30 - 01:05 UTC, 30th - 31st October 2021.
A picture I took of our neighbour planet, the Gas Giant Jupiter and 4 of its largest moons. :)
Gear used:
- Skywatcher Skymax 102 MAK
- Star Adventurer Pro
- ASI 120MC-s
- MSI gaming laptop (capturing)
Software used:
- Firecapture
- PIPP
- Autostakkert!3
- Registax 6
Telescopio GSO 200mm F4
ZWO 533 MC Pro + Corrector de Coma
Montura Skywatcher NEq6
83 Lights de 3' Gain 100 -10°C
100 Darks
Cielos Bortle 7
Chivilcoy, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sol Región Activa 12863
Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: iOptron AZ Mount Pro
Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.6, T=25%)
- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (double stacked) (540nm)
Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism
- TeleVue Lente de Barlow 2,5x Powermate 1,25"
Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2021-09-03 (3 de septiembre de 2021)
Hora: 14:10 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 3 minuto
Resolución: 1552x1042
Gain: 61 (11%)
Exposure: 0.032ms
Frames: 10830
Frames apilados: 12%
FPS: 60
Sensor temperature= 41.2°C
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, ZWO green, ZWO blue
Accessories: ZWO EFW, Baader Planetarium Steeltrack 2"
Resolution: 4352x3140
Dates: Sept. 20, 2017
Frames:
Baader Planetarium Ha 1.25" 7nm: 60x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium OIII 1.25" 8.5nm: 13x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium SII 1.25" 8nm: 13x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
ZWO green: 20x60" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
ZWO red: 10x60" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 7.7 hours
Avg. Moon age: 29.31 days
Avg. Moon phase: 0.06%
Astrometry.net job: 1751696
RA center: 344.191 degrees
DEC center: 62.615 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.688 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 84.523 degrees
Field radius: 0.512 degrees
Locations: Berga Resort, Berga, Barcelona, Spain
Mars and the Pleiades rising above the mountains. I also framed the California nebula which adds a nice touch of colour.
Shot with D7500 partially de-filtered. The ground was shot untracked. 30s exposures were used for the sky, tracked with Skywatcher Staradventurer and stacked with Siril. The ground and sky were then blended in Photoshop.
Image taken with a SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2, using a super 10mm lens.
I edited it with Photofiltre and MS Picture Manager, to get more details.
Skywatcher Explorer with IMG132e camera
Processed in Registax. 1300 frame video.
Conditions very not ideal
On May 3, 1764, Charles Messier discovered this globular cluster (M3) and mistook it for a nebula without stars. He added it to his growing catalog of objects/regions that comet-hunters should avoid so they are not misled by diffuse non-star objects. He would end up cataloging 110 different "Messier objects" in his lifetime, while searching for comets. To him, these were basically areas of "non-interest" and he was far more interested in the 13 comets that he discovered throughout his observations.
Onto the object at hand... Messier 3 (M3) is a globular cluster that contains about 500,000 stars. The center of this cluster is about 32,000 light years away from Earth. This particular image came from about 3 hours of RGB data, roughly 1 hour in each color. Taken in my backyard on April 23-24, 2021 in Parkesburg, PA.
Scope: Skywatcher 150 PDS on Skywatcher HEQ5
Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro with EFW and ZWO filters
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C.
26 x 5 minute exposures (2 hours 10 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.
17:58 - 20:41 UTC, 28th November 2021.
Skywatcher Equinox 80ED
EQ6 SynScan GPS
No Auto Guider
Canon T5i unmodified
Best 50 of 63 @ 60 sec
ISO 3200
Stacked in DSS,
post Photoshop, Star Tools
Early start this morning. The insert was taken using a Mono CCD camera 2000 frames of video stacked in Registax and tweaked in photoshop. Scope was a Skywatcher 250 pds. The main picture was with my iphone 7plus.
The Venus close up was taken around 5:15am. The main picture about 20 minutes later. It really was a most beautiful site to see. Very bright in the sky.
Stock Canon 550D, Sigma @ 600mm,Sky-watcher Star adventurer.
Camera is showing its age, sensor stripes :( but cant complain too much about the result!
50mins lights
30 darks
30 flats
40 bias
Telescopio GSO 200mm F4
ZWO 585 MC Pro + Corrector de Coma
Filtros:
UV/IR Cut Astronomik L2
Montura Skywatcher NEq6
Lights: 720 de 1' Gain 101 0°C
100 Darks
ZWO 662 mc + Starguider
ASIAir Plus
ZWO EAF
Crop
Potrero de los Funes, San Luis, Argentina
Polución Lumínica: Bortle 5
Last nights waxing gibbous Moon with some moderately clear skies! A nice change from days of unending UK rain...
This is a stack of 15 images taken through my SkyWatcher 130 PDS.
Image Details:
Taken with my Canon 600D
Telescope: SkyWatcher 130PDS Reflector (650mm)
F-stop: f/5
Shutter: 1/500 sec.
ISO: 100
Edited in Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop
SkyWatcher 200/1000 Newton
EQ6-PRO GoTo mount
Canon EOS 70D
Baader MPCC MkIII
Lacerta/MGEN standalone autoguider
24*300s exp.
ISO 800
2018.10.05.
Mogyoród, Hungary
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C.
28 x 5 minute exposures (2 hours 20 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.
Imaged between 19:42 and 22:40 on the 27th of January, 2022.
Passing clouds and puffs of wind.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor with a Canon 600D at prime focus. Best 20 of 40 images stacked with Autostakkert 2. No filters used. Average seeing but most frames had light fast moving cloud in them which causes stacking problems due to the varying brightness of each frame. Registax 6 failed to achieve a clean stack due to this I think. Could have easily removed the tinges of false colour but liked it better this way . None of the single frames had any false colour whatsoever so putting this down to seeing and cloud. Going to check the ED80's focuser alignment tomorrow though all the same as haven't checked it for 3-4 years :-) The Lens cell is not collimatable on this scope.
Lights: 220x30" (1h50)
DOF: 30
Iso: 1600
Traitement: Siril / DxO PhotoLab
Nikon D3100 (Non Défiltré)
Skywatcher 80ED Equinox (80x500)
Skywatcher Az-Gti Equatorial Mode
Sky-Watcher 8inch reflector, eq5 GOTO
NikonD90 piggyback mounted + Tamron 70-300
15x30sec ISO6400 @300mm F5.6
2x60sec ISO6400 @300mm F5.6
2x120sec ISO6400 @300mm F5.6
20 bias frames
35 dark frames
The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth. It is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way and estimated to contain twice the amount of stars than our own galaxy.. It received its name from the area of the sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda, which was named after the mythological princess Andromeda which was Cassiopeia's daughter.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor with a Baader Astrosolar Filter fitted. A Canon 600D was at prime focus
Soul Nebula image taken on Dec 11, 2023. 3.8 hours of 3 minute sub-images (76x180 sec.)
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Equipment and site: QHY294c, Baader UHC-S filter, Astro-Tech AT60ED at F/4.8, SkyWatcher GTi goto mount. SharpCap 4.x LiveStacking for acquisition. Location was a metro area with a Bortle 7-8 sky, 34 degrees F, clear, transparent.
A difficult target at my focal length. 5 hours data, 2 minutes subs ISO1600. Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED and modified Canon DSLR
Jupiter , QHYCCD QHY5III462 , GSO(Kasai) GS-150CC + Tele Vue 2.5x PowerMate , Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi
この日は大気の状態が良い、その上大赤斑がこっちを向く日なんですよね。
と言うことで頑張りました。
NGC 7380 (also known as the Wizard Nebula) is an open cluster discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. William Herschel included his sister's discovery in his catalog, and labelled it H VIII.77. It is also known as 142 in the 1959 Sharpless catalog (Sh2-142). This reasonably large nebula is located in Cepheus.
Whilst I think target looks so much better in Hubble Palette (Which I am working on) here's my LRGB+HA Version
Image Details:
18x300S Luminance
15x300S Red
15x300S Green
15x300S Blue
22x600S HA (As Overlay in Red Channel)
Equipment Used:
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 8-CF 8" F4
Imaging Camera: Atik Cameras 383L+ Mono CCD Cooled to -20C
Flattener: Sky-Watcher Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Guide Scope: Celestron Telescopes C80ED
Guide Camera: Qhyccd QHY5L-II
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro
Filter Wheel: Starlight Xpress Ltd 7x36mm EFW
Image Acquisition: Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro
Stacking and Combining: Maxim-DL
Post Processing: Photoshop
Taken with a Skywatcher ED100 Refractor with a Canon 600D at prime focus ( 900mm ) processed in mono as did not want a blueish sky in the picture :-) Best 15 of 45 shots stacked in Registax 6, seeing was average to poor with noticeable shimmering. All frames shot in JPG, not RAW.
Luogo: Ladispoli (Roma)
Telescopio: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED Professional F/5.5
Montatura: 10Micron Gm1000HPS
CCD: Moravian G2 8300
Filtri: Astrodon 36mm - Ha 5nm, O3 3nm, SII 5nm
Pose (non guidate):
Ha 27X600" bin 1
SII 29x600" bin1
O3 27x600" bin1
Temperatura sensore -20°
Integrazione: 13 ore, 150 min
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-|Band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 19 x 5 minute exposures (1 hour 35 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 1:05 and 2:40 on the 17th of March, 2022.
Lots of thin cloud illuminated by a bright moon.
This is a false colour version of the previous image of the sun captured on the 10th June 2021.
The sun imaged in natural white light after the excitement of the partial eclipse passed.
The eclipse itself was plagued by cloud here and I was unable to satisfactorily use my scope.
This image was taken a no. of hours later when the sky was much clearer! Typical of course.
Two sunspot groups are visible.
AR2832 near the centre of the disk and AR2829, with much associated faculae, towards the right limb.
Imaged with a Skywatcher Esprit 120ED fitted with a home-made Baader Solar Film filter and a ZWO 2600MC camera.
I added some false colour using Photoshop to give this traditional "yellow sun" version. I think it may emphasise some of the features on the solar surface.
Thanks for looking!
More commonly known as the Crescent Nebula but sometimes called the Euro Nebula because of its resemblance to the currency.
This is the latest series of data captured and processed over 5 nights from GrandMesaObservatory.com in Purdy Mesa Western Colorado using the Sky-Watcher Esprit 150mm ED F7.0 Triplet APO Refractor courtesy of Sky-Watcher USA.
The data is from “System 2” and available through Grand Mesa Observatory’s Subscription services which you can read more about here: grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment-rentals
The 2 renderings in Hubble Palette (SHO) and the more natural LRGB with H-Alpha and OIII were assembled and processed in Photoshop CC, we acquired the data using the QHY163M Monochrome CMOS and all 7 filters LRGB and Narrowband Ha, OIII and SII Filters by Optolong
In the Hubble Palette version the H-Alpha is mapped to Green, SII is mapped to Red and OIII is mapped to Blue and I used the natural stars from LRGB. With the LRGB version H-Alpha is mapped to red and OIII mapped to blue.
57 individual frames make up these images having a total Integration time of 12.8 hours
Image technical and capture details
By: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Dates: captured over 5 nights May 24, 25th, 29th, June 3rd and 8th 2019
H Alpha 19x900
OIII 12x900
SII 13x900
LUM 4x600
RGB 3x600
Camera: QHY163M Monochrome CMOS with 4/3-Inch sensor
Gain 85, Offset 77, Calibrated with Flat, Dark & Bias
Optics: Sky-Watcher Esprit 150mm ED Triplet APO Refractor
Filters by Optolong
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6.0
Pre Processed in Pixinsight
Post Processed in Photoshop
The Crescent Nebula, located near the middle star that marks the heart of the constellation Cygnus, is a complex arc of gas that’s powered by the machinations of a massive dying star. Called WR 136, this star is just 4-5 million years old, but it’s big enough to have quickly burned through its store of fuel in its core and has now entered a stage where it sheds mass from its outer layer at a prodigious rate, nearly one full solar mass every 10,000 years. This fast-moving hot gas, which moves at a speed of 2,000-3,000 km/s, collides with cooler gas ejected by the star during its quieter days, and the collision excites the gas to emit light. Massive and mass-losing stars like WR 136 are called Wolf-Rayet stars. There are only about 150 such stars known in the Milky Way.
WR 136 will eventually detonate as a supernova when it finally runs of fuel and collapses. The explosion will obliterate the nebula and most other material within several dozen light years of the star. In its place will be a new type of nebula called a “supernova remnant” that consists of a rapidly expanding shock wave that excite the scant atoms lingering in the interstellar medium.
The location of the Crescent Nebula near the star Sadr in the constellation Cygnus, spread out over about 25 light years and lies at a distant 4,700 light years. It’s sometimes called the “Euro” nebula because of its resemblance to the symbol for the currency.
Explanation by publisher and author Brian Ventrudo from one of my ealier images cosmicpursuits.com/275/the-crescent-nebula/
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-|Band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 28 x 5 minute exposures (2 hour 20 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 20:03 and 22:21 on the 22nd of March, 2022.
Passing thin clouds.