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Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus. Seeing poor today and it made focusing difficult due to turbulence. Stacked 15 of 40 images using Autostakkert 2.
Mercury transit animated sequence from first contact to approx 3pm BST. White light. Skywatcher 150, Baader filter, Canon 600d
Skywatcher ED80 APO refractor. Field flattener, Canon 600D and IDAS D2 clip filter. 44 minutes total exposure
Skywatcher 150/750
HEQ 5 Pro Go To
EOS 1000D
57 subs * 60s DOF 49/23/10
ISO 400
Pre and post processing with Pixinsight
I’ve been playing with a new workflow and tools in Pixinsight using Cuiv’s mastering Pixinsight YouTube video as inspiration and a guide. I thought I would have a go at re-processing the data I captured on February 26th, 2021. It is, in effect, a rework of the image I posted on March 3rd, 2021 [https://www.flickr.com/photos/matt3775/51000661947]. The nebula's centre isn’t ideal, but this resulted from trying to reduce the overall brightness of the Trapezium Cluster, which was blowing the whole centre out.
The main subject nebulosity is M42, The Orion Nebula, an emission-reflection region. Just above M42 is the smaller nebulosity surrounding the irregular variable star HD37061, known as De Mairan’s Nebula or M43.
Using Pixinsght, the background was extracted using Seti Astro’s Automatic DBE before using Russel Crowman’s BlurXterminator and NoiseXterminator.
Imaging session: 26 February, 2021
Sky quality:l Bortle 5 (approx.)
Mount: Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro
OTA Imaging: Skywatcher 120ED with x0.85 flattener, f6.35, 768mm
Camera: Atik 314L+, Cooled to -10 deg C
Filter Wheel: Atix EFW2
LRGB Filters: Baader
Focuser: Primaluce Lab ESATTO
Guiding: ZWO ASI120MM and 60mm guidescope
Computer: Primaluce Lab Eagle Pro 2 + ECCO2 (Environment)
Light Exposures:
Luminescence .. 4 x 90s
Red ........... 50 x 12s
Green ......... 50 x 12s
Blue .......... 50 x 12s
Calibration files:
BIAS .......... 50
Dark .......... 25
Flat .......... 25
Dark flat ..... 25
Total integration time: 36 Minutes
Processing
Using Pixinsght, the background was extracted using Seti Astro’s Automatic DBE before using Russel Crowman’s BlurXterminator and NoiseXterminator. Some further noise reduction using Topaz DeNoise and touching up with Adobe Photoshop.
Center (RA, Dec): 83.833, -5.386
Center (RA, hms): 05h 35m 19.879s
Center (Dec, dms): 05° 23' 10.166"
Size: 36 x 27 arcmin
Radius: 0.375 deg
Pixel scale: 1.73 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is 349.3 degrees E of N
Equipment:
Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)
Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto
Guiding: OAG
Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini
Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera
Accessories:
ZWO ASIAIR Pro
ZWO EFW 8x1.25"
ZWO EAF
ZWO OAG
ZWO 1.25 Helical focuser
Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm
Programs:
PixInsight
Adobe Photoshop CC 2020
Details:
Camera temp: -15°C
Gain: 53, 111
Astronomik 6nm Ha: 155x300s
Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 132x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 20x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 20x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 20x180s
Bortle Scale: 4
Location: Isaszeg, Hungary
Acquisition date(s):
2021.02.28., 2021.03.02., 2021.03.06., 2021.03.07., 2021.03.08.,
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + barlow 2X + super 25mm.
Afocal, Lumia 640 IS0200 1/125s f/2,2
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
Skywatcher 150/750
HEQ 5 Pro Go To
ASI 183 MC PRO
25*300s with DOF 60/0/10
Gain 0 Offset 7
Temp -10°C
Pre and post processing with Pixinsight
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the 3986 3989, 3990, 3991, 3992, 3993, 3994, 3996 and 3997 spots.
Pacman Nebula or NGC 281
Skywatcher 200p, NEQ6 mount, Optolong CLS-CCD filter, Baader MPCC M3 coma corrector, ASI294MC Pro at -20C.
NINA Observatory Software.
37 x 5 minute exposures (3 hours 5 minutes) at Gain 121, dithering every frame, Offset 30, 40 dark frames, 40 flat fields, 30 dark flat frames.
Processed in APP, Topaz de-noise and Photoshop.
22nd January 2021. A bright moon limited possibilities.
Not easy to capture NGC7000, or the North America nebula with an unmodified DSLR. But the area around Deneb (in Cygnus) is beautiful anyway. This is captured fom a small countryside village, with some light pollution still.
This is the result of several 30s to 3min exposure shots taken with a Nikon D5200 and a Tamron 16-300 at about 150mm. The camera was mounted on the Skywatcher Staradventurer mount. Pretty good for its size and weight!!
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus. Best 20 of 50 images stacked using Registax 6 as very turbulent seeing today.
Just a quick and fun photo using the 77mm Kenko Pro Softon-A filter from Japan. This thread on filter gives you the "fuzzy stars" effect.
15) 2-minute exposures, 1600ISO, F/4 at 50mm. Tracked with Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer. Stacked with Registar, edited in Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon D750a
.Realización:
Montura: skywatcher EQ6R
Tubo: SW ED80+Reductor 0.85x
Auto enfoque: RB Focus
Cámara principal: Zwo ASI294MC Pro
Filtro: Baader Ha 7nm
20 tomas light 300"
tomas de calibración. darks
Desde Daganzo de arriba (Madrid) 22/8/2020
Bortle 6
Total exposición: 1h 40min
This is my largest mosaic yet with the William Optics Minicat! this image is a 4 panel mosaic, taken over several nights. It includes the Elephant trunk, squid, Flying bat and the seahorse nebula, it also includes the Fireworks galaxy. Hope you all enjoy and thanks for any constructive comments.
Equipment:
Telescope - William Optics Minicat 51
Imaging Camera- Qhy268m
Mount - Sky-watcher EQ6-R Pro
Software:
Sequence Generator Pro
Pixinsight
Lightroom
Photoshop
Lights:
Sii-90x180sec
Ha-90x180sec
Oiii-120x180sec
Oiii-60x300sec
L-300x30sec
R-200x30sec
G-200x30sec
B-200x30sec
35 Darks
100 Bias
Total integration 27.5 hours
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor using a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a with a Canon 600D at prime focus. Best 15 of 40 images stacked using Autostakkert 2. Seeing average but lots of light wispy cloud interfering as usual :-) Yellowish colour rendered by just altering the blue channel in Canon's DPP software.
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 00:19 UTC with an 88.2% illuminated waxing gibbous moon in Pisces.
25 x 10s at ISO 1600
18 dark frames & 18 flats.
Processed with Deep Sky Stacker and levels adjusted with Lightroom & G.I.M.P. Final image slightly cropped.
Best viewed using the expansion arrows.
2022-01-20
Altair Lightwave 72ed scope,
Olympus OMD EM10 III,
Skywatcher AZ-GTi in AZ mode.
30 x 10 second lights
5 x darks
Stacked in Sequator, some post in Gimp/Gmic
I had another hour out with my Skywatcher 180 Pro last night.
This is a 10 shot Stich - taken at prime focus with my Nikon D500 in 4k video mode.
Converted in PIPP, stacked in Registax and put together in ICE.
This is an 11 panel mosaic taken using my Skywatcher 180 pro mak scope and ASI585mc camera.
1000 frames per video, processed in Astrosurface before putting together in Microsoft ICE
Skywatcher ED80, 3x ED Barlow lens, altair astro GPCam2, Stacked in registax, best 60% of 160 frames
SkyWatcher Star Adventurer háromláb
SkyWatcher AZGTi mechanika
SkyWatcher 102/1300 Makszutov-Cassegrain távcső
2x Barlow
Canon EOS 250D
Pipp, Autostakkert, Ps
Messier 8, NGC 6523 - Lagoon Nebula
Skywatcher Quattro 10" f4 Newtonian.
Skywatcher AZ Eq6 GT Mount
Orion auto guider - PHD2.
Baader MPCC Mark 3 Coma Corrector, UHC-S 'nebula' filter.
Nikon D300 (unmodified).
Field of view (deg) ~ 1.35 x 0.90.
UHC-S 23 x 240 sec ISO200 (14bit NEF).
PixInsight and Photoshop
2 August 14 (reprocessed PixInsight March 15)
Skywatcher 200p on NEQ6 mount. ASI294MC Pro camera. Optolong CLS-CCD filter.
The best frames from 2000 X 200 microsecond images, sensor temperature -20C. Recorded as a .ser video. Processed in Registax to align and stack and then Photoshop with Topaz denois AI filter.
28th November 2020
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: 111
Astronomik 6nm Ha: 24x300s
Dark: 60x
Skywatcher 150P
Canon EOS 650D
Astronomik UHC-E Clip Filter
Capture:
BackyardEOS
-Lights
--20 x 20 seconds @ ISO 800
--20 x 80 seconds @ ISO 800
--8 x 120 seconds @ ISO 800
-10 Darks per exposure length
-20 Flats
Stacking: DSS
Postprocessing: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Reprocess of flic.kr/p/qTVv67
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + barlow 2X + super 25mm.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
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 Pixinsight Topaz denoise and Photoshop.
Collected between 2:08 and 4:14 on the 26th of March, 2022.
The Iris Nebula, also NGC 7023 and Caldwell 4, is a bright reflection nebula and Caldwell object in the constellation Cepheus. NGC 7023 is actually the cluster within the nebula, LBN 487, and the nebula is lit by a magnitude +7 star, SAO 19158.[1] It shines at magnitude +6.8. It is located near the Mira-type variable star T Cephei, and near the bright magnitude +3.23 variable star Beta Cephei (Alphirk). It lies 1,300 light-years away and is six light-years across
This is the very first time I have imaged this object, and it is the first object ot be imaged with my new Skywatcher Quattro 8-CF F4 telescope, I am extremely happy with the results
The image consists of the following:
Luminance: 19x300S
Red: 13x300S
Green: 13x300S
Blue: 13x300S
All frames have 25 darks and 25 flats applied also
Gear Used
Mount: Skywatcher EQ8 Pro
Imaging Scope: Skywatcher Quattro 8-CF F4 Newtonian
Guide Scope: Celestron C80ED
Imaging Camera: Atik 383L+ Mono CCD Cooled to -20C
Filter Wheel: StarlightXpress 7x36mm USB Filterwheel
Guide Camera: QHYCCD 5L-II
Software Used
Image Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro
Guiding: PHD2
Telescope Control: EQMOD
Image Processing:
Pre-Processing: Nebulosity 3
Stacking: Maxim-DL
Post Processing: Photoshop, HLVG and GradientXterminator
Skywatcher 200p , HEQ5 PRO, placed in my backyard.
SW 9x50 finderscope + QHY5-II mono guide cam ( PHD 2 guiding sotware)
ISO 3200
33x120'' 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 .
Telescope: Skywatcher ED80, 0.85 FF/FR
Camera: ASI1600mm pro @ -20°C
Mount: SW EQ6 Pro
Guiding: finderguider with QHY5L-IIc
Exposure: Baader Ha 51x180 sec, Gain 200, Offset 50, Dark, Flat, Flat dark
Baader SII 39x180 sec, Gain 200, Offset 50, Dark, Flat, Flat dark
Total integration time: 4.5 hrs
Software: Sequence Generator Pro, PHD2, PixInsight, PS CC 2017
Location: Samobor mountains, Croatia 28.12.2018.
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + barlow 2X + super 25mm.
Afocal, Lumia 640 IS0200 1/200s f/2,2 3mm
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
Instrument de prise de vue: Skywatcher T250/1000 Newton F4
Caméra d'imagerie: Player-One Uranus-C IMX585
Monture: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 Pro Goto USB
Instrument de guidage: sans
Caméra de guidage: sans
Logiciels acquisition: Stellarium - ScharpCap
Logiciels traitement :Siril - Starnet++ - FitsWork - Gimp - Darktable - FastStone Images Viewer
Filtres: IR-Cut / IR-Block Player-One
Accessoire: GPU coma-correcteur Sky-watcher - Focuseur ZWO EAF
Dates: 25 Oct. 2023- 19h30 GMT
Images unitaires: (1201x1") - Gain 492
Intégration: 20'
Échantillonnage: 0.60 arcsec/pixel
Seeing: 1.55/1.20 "Arc
Bortle: 5
Phase de la Lune (moyenne): 85%
IC1396 or the Elephant's Trunk Nebula, in full natural colour.
Scope: Skywatcher MN190
Focal length: 1000mm f/5.2
Camera: QHY163m
Filters:
Luminance (12 x 300s)
R, G, B (12 x 180s each filter)
All exposures binned 2x2.
Taken 21/04/17 from Cumbria (UK)
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Tal 3x Barlow Lens, ZWO ASI 120MC Astronomical Imaging Camera.
Out of 8200 frames about 2400 processed with Registax 6
Colour contrast on albedo features and final levels adjusted with G.I.M.P.
Image size scaled up by 150%
The seeing conditions not at their best but were occasionally fairly good. Drifting cloud and an intermittent moderate breeze did present a challenge during captures.
The target was about 39° above the horizon at the time of capture.
The Syrtis Major, Mare Tyrrhenum, Mare Cimmerium & Hellas Basin are clearly visible.
Skywatcher 72 ED
Nikon D3500
ISOSPEED= 3200
EXPTIME = 18167.5995368958 / Exposure time (in seconds)
EXPOSURE= 18167.5995368958 / Exposure time (in seconds)
NCOMBINE= 403 / Number of stacked frames
SOFTWARE= 'DeepSkyStacker 5.1.6'
DATE-OBS= '2024-12-29T02:09:50'
Processed with Siril and Darktable
Skywatcher 72ed
Celestron SE mount on homemade wedge.
Canon 600d (un-modified)
140x 60 second exposures- ISO 400
30x Darks 40x Flats 30x Bias frames
Processed in DSS, GIMP and Lightroom.
Sol Regiones Activas 12993 y 12994
Seeing decentillo pero algo de brisa
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: 2022-04-18 (18 de abril de 2022)
Hora: 13:31 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 1 minuto
Resolución: 2224x1816
Gain: 73 (14%)
Exposure: 0.032ms
Frames: 2097
Frames apilados: 24%
FPS: 34
Sensor temperature= 36.5°C
Mosaico de 4 tomas
Seeing normalito.
Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: iOptron AZ Mount Pro
Filtros: Baader G CCD Filter
Software: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax, Microsoft ICE y Photoshop
Fecha: 2021-09-21 (21 de septiembre de 2021)
Hora: 00:16 - 00:18 - 00:20 - 00:23 U.T. (Tiempo universal)
Fase lunar: 100.0% 0.2 días menguante (Llena a las 23:54)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 4 videos de 2 minuto cada uno
Resolución: 3096x2080
Gain: 150 (29%)
FPS: 29
Exposure: 0.097ms
Frames: 3500 cada video (media aprox)
Frames apilados: 20%
Sensor temperature= 29.7°C
Eagle Nebula - Messier 16
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.
ISO800, 14bit NEF, Long Exp. NR on.
33 x 180sec (1/3 before & 2/3 after zenith)
New Moon, 4deg C, 75%RH, moderate LP.
PixInsight
NGC 2174 or Monkey Head Nebula
Skywatcher 200p, NEQ6 mount, Altair Triband filter, Baader MPCC M3 coma corrector, ASI294MC Pro at -20C.
NINA Observatory Software.
34 x 5 minute exposures (2 hours 50 minutes) at Gain 121, Offset 30, dithering every third frame, 40 dark frames, 40 flat fields, 30 dark flat frames.
Processed in APP, Topaz de-noise and Photoshop. Used APP to extract synthetic Ha and Oiii images, then re-combined using Ha: 100% R, 20% G, 15% B, Oiii: 0% R, 40% G and 45% B.
Processing still to be improved.
11th February 2021.