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Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer + Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED + field flattener + Nikon D610 (ISO200 & 50x 2 minutes & 50x 30 seconds). Pre- and post-processed in SIRIL. HDR created using enfuse. Color post-processing in RawTherapee. Layering done in GIMP. Sent through starfixer as well
Equipment: Skywatcher 190MN telescope, NEQ6 mount, ASI294MC Pro camera at -20C and Altair Tri-band filter.
39 x 5 minute exposures (3 hours 15 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 17th of January, 2022 between 20:36 and 23:57.
The Soul nebula is too expansive to fit into the scope's (1000mm) field of view, so this image shows the central or inner area.
A very bright and full Wolf Moon was shining down.
Skywatcher 150PDS
Celestron advanced gt
TS optics 3x Barlow lens
Nikon D90
ISO: 2500
Exposure: 1/160 s
100 frames for each panel
3 panels
AS!3 top 80 frames stacked
Image Composite Editor
GIMP 2.10
Skywatcher 250/1200 Flextube Dobson tube (no motors)
Zwo ASI 120MM mono camera + Red filter
TeleVue 2.5x powermate
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-|Band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 52 x 5 minute exposures (4 hours 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 20:32 and 22:24 on the 20th and between 19:34 and 22:11 on 21st of March, 2022.
Imaged mainly through thin clouds and with a Bright moon.
Taken with:
skywatcher EQ3_2 mount
skywatcher 150/750 Newtonian Telescope
cell mount adapter
redmi notte 8 pro smartphone
Photo from yesterday - today it's raining here - a lot! Tussi was out briefly under the roof to our patio, but when a raindrop hit her, she rapidly ran indoors again ;)
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 10mm.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the 2767 spot.
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible the tiny 2863, 2864, 2866 and 2868 spots this time.
distance from earth: 1.300 lightyears
Skywatcher Equinox 120 + TSAPORED075 = f/5.625
astromod. Canon EOS 6D
100x 2 Min. ISO1600 + 50x 3 Min. ISO1600
60x FLATs, 60x BIAS, dithered
Location: Wuppertal (Germany)
Date: 22.04.2019 + 01.05.2019
Testing out the Nikon d810 and Skywatcher 120mm refractor telescope and luckily got this shot of a pigeon in flight. My shutter speed was too slow but you get what your get. Hope you like this accident.
Skywatcher 200p on NEQ6 mount. ASI294MC Pro camera. Baader MPCC M3 coma corrector,Optolong CLS-CCD filter.
The best frames from 2000 X 100 microsecond images, gain 482, sensor temperature -20C. Recorded as a .ser video. Processed in Autostakkert to align and stack and then Photoshop with Topaz denoise AI filter.
22nd January 2021
This is one of the first images through my new Esprit 120. It is the hydrogen alpha data and was taken on Dec 19, 2015. My intent was (and still is) to obtain SII, OIII and RGB data on this target but our winter weather has been so bad that this has not been possible. The target is dropping now and my next opportunity will be in the fall.
NGC281, the Pacman Nebula in hydrogen alpha.
10 x 8 min lights at ISO400 + darks, flats & bias.
Skywatcher 130pds
HEQ5 pro
Self debayered 350d + 6nm ha clip
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Nikon D780 at prime focus with Skywatcher Coma Corrector, EQ6 Syntrek Mount.
Imaging session commenced 22:39 UTC with a 79% illuminated waxing gibbous moon near the celestial equator, just below the Circlet of Pisces.
50 x 13s at ISO 800
18 dark frames & 18 flats.
Processed with Deep Sky Stacker and levels adjusted with Lightroom & G.I.M.P. Final image cropped.
Best viewed using the expansion arrows.
NGC 2239 Rosette Nebula
NGC 2239 the Rosette Nebula in a 4-panel mosaic.
Another target reshot with the updated gear.
The Rosette Nebula or Caldwell 49 is an HII region emission nebula that lies about 5,200 light years from Earth in the constellation Monoceros
I thought I'd try something different this time but still using the base SHO (Hubble) palette. A bit of artistic license you might say.
83 x 5min subs @-10C spread across 6 nights for a total integration time of about 7hrs
For a higher resolution visit: www.astrobin.com/92ddzw/
Equipment used:
Skywatcher 10" Quattro
Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro Hypertuned by Astronomy Academy Perth
Skywatcher f4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Sesto Senso2 Electronic Focuser
ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
ZWO Off Axis Guider
ZWO ASI290MM Mini Guide Camera
ZWO Electronic Filter Wheel
Antlia 3nm Narrowband 36mm unmounted filters
Rollon rolloff modified shed observatory
Bortle 5
Data acquisition software: NINA Astronomy Software
Processing software: PixInsight and Photoshop CC
Waxing Gibbous Almost Pink Supermoon
Skywatcher 200p on NEQ6 mount. ASI294MC Pro camera. Baader MPCC M3 coma corrector, no filter.
The best 25% of frames from 2000 X 32 microsecond images, gain 380, sensor temperature -20C. Recorded as a .ser video. Processed in Autostakkert to align and stack and then Photoshop with Topaz denoise AI filter.
The sky wasn't fully dark and seeing was quite bad. 25th April 2021.
This time a cloud-free sky allowed me to image the approx. 96% illuminated moon.
Imaged with a 120mm Skywatcher Esprit refractor and a Nikon D5300.
Copyright and personal information:
My name: Cornelis van Zuilen
My instagram: www.instagram.com/cvz_astrophotography/
Heiloo, The Netherlands
Equipment used:
Telescope: Askar 103APO
Main camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro
Filters: Optolong L-Pro
Guidescope: SvBony Sv106 50mm
Guide camera: ZWO ASI224MC
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro
Exposures:
Optolong L-Pro
1hr 30min
136x 180sec
0hr 2 min
126x 1sec
Calibration frames for each stack:
20 Darks
20 Flats
20 Dark flats
Processed in Pixinsight
Extra information:
Each year since 2021 I try to take at least one night of exposures of the Orion Nebula, but the final picture I made this year is by far the best one I've ever made. It's also the first time that I was able to see the 4 main trapezium stars in the core and a small protoplanetary disc slightly to the right of it (between the two bigger stars). This result motivates me to take an even better picture next year. Maybe with at least 10 hours of data? Maybe also use my dualband filter? Who knows, lets see what will happen. For now I hope you enjoy this picture as much as I do!
The western portion of the Veil Nebula in Cygnus (NGC6960).
I've reprocessed data taken in 2012 to include this image in my forthcoming book on astrophotography.
Camera: Canon 300D
Scope: Skywatcher MN190
Focal length: 1000mm f/5.2
Exposure: 40 x 5minutes @ISO800
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + barlow 2X + super 25mm.
Afocal, Lumia 640.
Edited with MS Picture Manager
Telescope: Skywatcher 102/1300 MC
Camera: Canon 500D
Mount: Skywatcher AZ GTi
20 x 1 ms stacked
Date: 2020.12.23
Time: 17:00 UT
Location: Kaposvár, Hungary
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks
Eyepiece: super 10mm.
Edited with MS Picture Manager.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and Olympus E-410 at prime focus. Baader Astrosolar filter fitted to telescope. Best 10 of 15 images stacked in Registax 6
NGC 7822
Skywatcher 200p, NEQ6 mount, Optolong CLS-CCD filter, Baader MPCC M3 coma corrector, ASI294MC Pro at -20C.
NINA Observatory Software.
72 x 2 minute exposures (2 hours 24 minutes) at Gain 121, dithering every 7 frames, Offset 30, 20 dark frames, 40 flat fields, 40 dark flat frames.
Processed in APP, Topaz de-noise and Photoshop.
8th January 2021
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer mount
Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED (72/420mm)
Lacerta Herschel wedge (ND3 filter replaced with ND1.8)
ZWO EFW
Altair NUV filter
Barlow 3x
ZWO ASI174MM
oaCapture 1.8.0 (captured 5000 frames per panel, 129fps)
AviStack 2 (stacked 512 frames per panel)
ImPPG (sharpening)
Hugin (assembled 6 panel panorama)
RawTherapee (false coloring and final tweaks)
I'm excited to share this one with you! This target (IC 443) was on the top of my to-shoot list when my camera broke in early January... so when I got the loaner-camera, I started working on it. It took me 4 separate nights of shooting to get the full amount of exposures I was hoping for with this one, but I think it was worth the wait.
The end result came from about 8 hours of exposures, hand-selected from about 16 hours of candidates). The Jellyfish nebula currently sits above Orion's left shoulder in Gemini. It is a supernova-remnant that is about 5,000 light-years away. The bright star is a red giant named Propus. The colors are a little different and interesting, here! This region emits largely in the Hydrogen-alpha (H) and Sulfur-ii (S) part of the spectrum, which give it the reddish-orange hue you see here in the Hubble palette. There's just a bit of Oxygen-iii (O) which outlines a few parts in blue. The Hubble palette means mapping SHO to RGB. I've said more about it in other posts when I describe my narrowband-imaging process.
Telescope: Skywatcher 150PDS on Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro
Camera: ZWO ASI1600 MM Pro with ZWO EFW and filters
I used the 850IR filter on my ASI585 camera again this morning - it was a very cold, frosty morning and the sun was up.
Skywatcher 180pro and ASI585
NGC7023 (Iris Nebula), with Luminance data added to previous RGB information.
Camera: QHY163M
Scope: Skywatcher MN190
Focal length: 1000mm f/5.26
Exposures:
Luminance - 20 x 600s bin2
Red - 12 x 300s bin2
Green - 10 x 300s bin2
Blue - 10 x 300s bin2
Taken 14th & 16th May 2018, from Cumbria (UK).
Processed in Pixinsight, ImagesPlus and Photoshop.