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29.05.2025.

Prisjeka, Croatia

Telescope: SW 130PDS

Camera: ZWO ASI585MC PRO

Filter: ZWO UV/IR 1.25''

Mount: AstroBobo HEQ5 Pro (Mod by Leviner)

Guding: ZWO ASI120MMS + SVBONY 120MM F4

 

321x120s (10h42min)

Skywatcher MC 102/1300

 

Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Tri-band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C.

 

NINA Observatory Software.

 

34 x 300 second (2 hours 50 minutes) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields, 50 dark flat frames.

 

Processed in APP, Topaz de-noise and Photoshop.

 

27th August 2021

Fish Head Nebula or LBN 645

 

Skywatcher 200p, NEQ6 mount, Altair Triband filter, Baader MPCC M3 coma corrector, ASI294MC Pro at -20C.

 

NINA Observatory Software.

 

24 x 300 second (2 hours) at Gain 350, Offset 30, dithering every 3rd frame, 40 dark frames, 40 flat fields, 40 dark flat frames.

 

Processed in APP (using Ha-OIII formula), Topaz de-noise and Photoshop. .

 

9th/10th April 2021.

www.astrobin.com/314511/

 

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

NGC 6357 in Scorpius

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

reprocessed 9 Aug 15

Skywatcher 190MN telescope, Ioptron CEM70 NUC mount, Altair Tri-Band filter, ASI2600MC Pro at -20C.

 

51 x 5 minute and 25 x 3 minute exposures (5 hours 30 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 23-05 on the 12th October and 3-08 on the 13th of October and 20-00 and 22-02 on the 14th of October 2022.

 

3 minute exposures taken by accident instead of 5 minute exposures.

 

Image has been stacked using DeepSkyStacker (DSS), but no other processing done.

 

Taken with an Imaging Source DMK 21AU04.AS mono ccd camera. Skywatcher Quattro 8" steel tube on a HEQ5 pro mount.

Eleven, forty second exposures captured with Sharpcap and stacked with calibration frames.

Skywatcher 80ED

F=500mm

Image taken with a SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Barlow 3X + 10mm lens (210x).

 

Edited with Photofiltre and MS Picture Manager, to get more details.

Skywatcher 150/750

HEQ 5 Pro Go To

ASI 183 MC PRO

34*300s with DOF 60/0/10

20*60s with DOF 100/0/10

Bin 2x2

Gain 0 Offset 7

Temp -10°C

Pre and post processing with Pixinsight

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.

 

Imaged between 18:25 and 21:177 on the 24th of January, 2022.

 

Probably needs more time

Skywatcher 300PDS & DMK21 camera

Imaging telescope or lens:Skywatcher Esprit 80 ED Triplet Super Apo

Imaging camera:ZWO ASI 183 MM PRO

Mount:SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro Goto

Guiding telescope or lens:Skywatcher Esprit 80 ED Triplet Super Apo

Guiding camera:Astrolumina Alccd5L-IIc

Focal reducer:Skywatcher Field flattener for Esprit 80mm

Software:Main Sequence Software Seqence Generator Pro, Adobe PhotoShop CS5, FitsWork 4, DeepSky Stacker Deep Sky Stacker 3.3.4, PHD2 Guiding

Filters:Baader Ha 1.25" 7nm, Baader Planetarium SII 1.25" 8nm, Baader Planetarium O3 1.25" 8.5nm

Accessory:TSOptics TS Off Axis Guider - 9mm

Dates:May 14, 2019, May 23, 2019, May 29, 2019, June 1, 2019

Frames:

Baader Ha 1.25" 7nm: 44x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1

Baader Planetarium O3 1.25" 8.5nm: 27x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1

Baader Planetarium SII 1.25" 8nm: 25x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1

Integration: 16.0 hours

Darks: ~50

Flats: ~27

Bias: ~100

 

Object description (wikipedia.org):

 

The Elephant's Trunk nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth. The piece of the nebula shown here is the dark, dense globule IC 1396A; it is commonly called the Elephant's Trunk nebula because of its appearance at visible light wavelengths, where there is a dark patch with a bright, sinuous rim. The bright rim is the surface of the dense cloud that is being illuminated and ionized by a very bright, massive star (HD 206267) that is just to the west of IC 1396A. (In the Figure above, the massive star is just to the left of the edge of the image.) The entire IC 1396 region is ionized by the massive star, except for dense globules that can protect themselves from the star's harsh ultraviolet rays.

 

The Elephant's Trunk nebula is now thought to be a site of star formation, containing several very young (less than 100,000 yr) stars that were discovered in infrared images in 2003. Two older (but still young, a couple of million years, by the standards of stars, which live for billions of years) stars are present in a small, circular cavity in the head of the globule. Winds from these young stars may have emptied the cavity.

 

The combined action of the light from the massive star ionizing and compressing the rim of the cloud, and the wind from the young stars shifting gas from the center outward lead to very high compression in the Elephant's Trunk nebula. This pressure has triggered the current generation of protostars.

Skywatcher ST80 on tripod

ZWO ASI120MC

Registax - CS6

Sunflower Galaxy or M63

 

Skywatcher 200p, NEQ6 mount, UV/IR Cut filter, Baader MPCC M3 coma corrector, ASI294MC Pro at -20C.

 

NINA Observatory Software.

 

14 x 300 second (1 hours 10 minutes) at Gain 350, Offset 30, dithering every 3rd frame, 40 dark frames, 40 flat fields, 40 dark flat frames.

 

Processed in APP (using Ha-OIII formula), Topaz de-noise and Photoshop.

 

The centre is unfortunately over exposed.

 

11th/12th April 2021.

informations;

-Mount: skywatcher neq-6 goto with Rowan modification belt

-telescope: skywatcher 200/1000 F/5

-autoguiding: Asi 120mm

-total exposure: 39Min//05sec || 47 X 50sec

-Camera: canon eos 700d astrodon

-filter(s): astronomik CLS ccd eos clip

-other optic(s): baader coma corrector

 

Date: 31/08/2018

Skywatcher 150PDS

Celestron CG5

TS optics 3x Barlow lens & Nikon 2x teleconverter

Microsoft LifeCam Studio

 

Firecapture v2.4

5000 frames total

 

AS!3 top 50% of frames stacked

RegiStax 6 wavelets

GIMP 2.10

Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5

Altair Astro Hypercam 585C OSC (Offset:10 / Gain:100)

HDR mode on

 

156 x 60 sec. subs (~2.5hrs.)

 

Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, GraXpert and Affinity Photo

Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 21 x 5 minute exposures (1 hours 45 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 on the evening of the 1st of March, 2022 between 21:59 and 23:55.

Nikon d610

80mm /f2.8/ iso400

19x 180sec

Stacked in DSS and processed in Photoshop

 

Beautiful plejades, just one step out of the house in our garden...the Milky Way.

 

captured with:

 

Telescope: TSAPO100Q 580mm f5,8

Camera: Moravian G2-8300 (black/white)

mount: Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro

guider: Lodestar 2 as Off-axis guider

 

in germany (30km south of Frankfurt a.M.)

  

And postprocessed in Pixinsight and lightroom

Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-|Band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 16 x 5 minute exposures (1 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 23:40 and 0:55 on the 16th and 7th of March, 2022.

 

Lots of thin cloud illuminated by a bright moon.

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%

 

M33, the Triangulum Galaxy.

 

Mount: SkyWatcher NEQ6.

Camera: ASI1600MM.

Telescope: SkyWatcher Newton 150/750.

Flattener: Baader MPCC Mark III.

Filters: Baader RGB, ZWO H-alpha.

Exposition: L: 93 x 120s, RGB: 12 x 120s (x 3), H-alpha: 5 x 300s.

Capture software: CCDciel, ASTAP, PHD Guiding.

Proccessed with PixInsight.

Shot through a SkyWatcher 80mm refractor.

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.

Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C.

 

45 x 5 minute exposures (3 hours and 45 minutes),

 

Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.

 

Processed in APP, Pixinsight and Photoshop.

 

Imaged between 22:45 and 02:55, on 16/17th of December 2021.

SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.

 

Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.

 

It's possible to see the 3708, 3709, 3711, 3712, 3713 and 3716.

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 and Photoshop.

 

Imaged over two nights, 1st and 5th of December 2021, due to varying weather.

Skywatcher 72ed and Canon 600d

Quick test on the Great Orion Nebula.

Imaged during night of full moon.

25min exposure at iso200 with Nikon d610 and TS72

North America Nebula in constellation Cygnus with brightest star Deneb.

Nikon d610

145mm @ f4

iso1000

18 frames - total exposure time 64min

Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5

QHYCCD Minicam8

 

LRGBHa

15 x 120sec. subs each filter (2.5hrs. total)

 

Processed with Astro Pixel Processor, GraXpert, NoiseXTerminator and Affinity Photo

The Pearl Cluster in constellation Centaurus ( NGC 3766 ) by Mike O'Day ( 500px.com/MikeODay )..The Pearl Cluster, visible from the Southern Hemisphere, shimmering like a pearl to the naked eye, is an open cluster of mostly young blue stars approximately 5500 light years from Earth. ..Links:..https://500px.com/MikeODay.http://photo.net/photos/MikeODay..Details:..NGC 3766 - RA 11h 37m, Dec -61deg 41'. .Skywatcher Quattro 10" f4 Newtonian. .Skywatcher AZ Eq6 GT Mount..Guiding: Orion Shortube 80 guidescope, Starshoot Autoguider, PHD2..Baader MPCC Mark 3 Coma Corrector..Hutech IDAS D1 filter..Nikon D5300 (unmodified)..Field of view (deg) ~ 1.35 x 0.90..Combination of 55 images 30 sec @ ISO400...Pixinsight

Copyright and personal information:

My name: Cornelis van Zuilen

My website: www.CVZastro.com

Heiloo, The Netherlands

 

Equipment used:

Telescope: Askar 103APO

Main camera: ZWO AS2600MC AIR

Filters: Optolong UV/IR cut

Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro

 

Exposures:

2hr 27min

49x 180sec

 

Calibration frames

20 Darks

20 Flats

20 Dark flats

 

Processed in Pixinsight & Photoshop

Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 27 x 5 minute exposures (2 hours 15 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 ), Topaz denoise and Photoshop.

 

Many passing clouds.

18:25 - 21:50 UTC, 4th November 2021.

SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + barlow 2X + super 25mm.

 

Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.

Skywatcher 72/420 ED Apo + Canon 600D

SCHEDA TECNICA

Tubo ottico riflettore: Newton Skywatcher 150/750 PDS Explorer

Telescopio guida: 60/280

Montatura: EQ - Celestron AVX Advanced VX

Riprese: Camera CCD ZWO Asi 1600 mono PRO (raffreddata a -10°)

Filtro: H-alfa

Inseguimento: Camera CCD ZWO Asi 120 mono

Software riprese: SharpCap 3.2

Software inseguimento: PHD Guiding 2

Integrazione: 75 pose (.fits) × 60 secondi + dark frame

Elaborazione: Deep Sky Stacker + Photoshop

Messier 52 or M52, also known as NGC 7654, is an open cluster of stars in the constellation of Cassiopeia. Messier 52 can easily be seen with binoculars. In 10×50 binoculars, it appears as a hazy, nebulous patch of light. 4-inch telescopes reveal a dense, compressed star cluster populated by many faint stars, with a shape resembling that of the letter V. More stars are visible in 6-inch and larger instruments. The cluster occupies an area just less than half of the size of the full Moon.

 

Observation data (J2000 epoch)

Constellation: Cassiopeia

Right ascension: 23h 24m 48.0s

Declination: +61° 35′ 36″

Distance: 4.6 kly

Apparent magnitude (V): 7.3

Apparent dimensions (V): 13.0′

 

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at 0F, 41 x 60 second exposures, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in DSS and PixInsight. Image Date: July 28, 2024. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

Image taken with a SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2, using a super 10mm lens.

 

Once I could get the best results throughout the Moon's disk I joined two shots with the same data, one about two thirds north-south of the disk and another covering the rest.

 

I edited and joined them with Photofiltre and MS Picture Manager, to get more details.

Lunar close-up from last night.

Sky-watcher Skymax 102, ZWO ASI 120MC-S, Star Adventurer Pro.

Used Software: Firecapture, PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax

Exifs:

■ Mount: skywatcher neq-6 goto with Rowan modification belt

■ Telescope: skywatcher 200/1000 F/5

■ Camera: ZWO asi 120 mc-s

■ Other optic(s): celestron omni barlow 2X

■ Software :autostakkert / registax6 / photoshopCC

■ Date : 31-03-2020

Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus. Best 20 of 45 images stacked using Autostakkert 2. PIPP was also used prior to stacking to centre and crop and eliminate cloudy frames.

Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus. Tried RAW images today to see if there was a difference between jpgs. Processing a lot longer with no visible benefit the result. Slower shooting too due to file sizes. Best 20 of 30 images stacked using Autostakkert 2

Skywatcher 250pds, IMG132e x2 Barlow

1800 frames in Registax. 80% used

Wavelets in Registax + RGB Tweaks

Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus.

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