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Skywatcher 130PDS
ZWO ASI183mmPro
Astrodon LRGB Filter
Celestron AVX
total exposure time: 4,4 Std.
62x120 Luminanz
23x120 red
24x120 green
24x120s blue
Pixinsight/Affinity Photo
Copernicus from 2020-06-01 from UK. I'm quite pleased with this one.
'Montes Carpatus' to the North West, 'Gay-Lussac' and 'Gay-Lussac A' top left of Copernicus (no sniggering at the back please)
Equipment: Altair Starwave Ascent 102ED F7
Altair Superview 15mm EP
Altair Lightwave 2x Tele-Extender
Samsung VP-HMX20C Camcorder
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro.
Software: PIPP, AutoStakkert, Registax, GIMP
Wasnt even supposed to be an imaging session so no laptop and fancy pants cameras. Not even tracking properly. Ended up taking vids till the batteries on the camera breathed their last. No spares.
Primo scatto con l'ottica nuova, uno skywatcher 80 ed sulla solita meade lxd75 e la canon EOS 400D. Scatto in Raw, elaborazione in PS (contrasto).
Location: Cambridge, UK
Equipment: Canon 300mm f/4L USM, Canon EOS 1100D, Skywatcher HEQ5
Exposure: 296 x 40s @ ISO800
Total exposure: 3 hour 17 min 20 sec
Processing: Deep Sky Stacker and Fitswork
Except for the rings of Saturn, the Ring Nebula (M57) is probably the most famous celestial band. Its classic appearance is understood to be due to our own perspective, though.In this well-studied example of a planetary nebula, the glowing material does not come from planets. Instead, the gaseous shroud represents outer layers expelled from the dying, once sun-like star, now a tiny pinprick of light seen at the nebula's center. Intense ultraviolet light from the hot central star ionizes atoms in the gas. In the picture, the blue color in the center is ionized helium, the cyan color of the inner ring is the glow of hydrogen and oxygen, and the reddish color of the outer ring is from nitrogen and sulfur. The Ring Nebula is about one light-year across and 2,000 light-years away.
Source of explanation: NASA
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 ASI2600MC AIR
Filters: Optolong L-Pro
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro
Exposures:
Optolong L-Pro
1hr 12min
24x 180sec
Calibration frames:
20 Darks
20 Flats
20 Dark flats
Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop
Skywatcher 150/750, Neq3-2 AD motorised
Nikon D3000
70x25" @1600 ISO
40x8" @800 ISO
30 Dark, 20 Offset, 11 Flat
06-11-2015
Tunis, Tunisia
Skywatcher 12" goto dob, 5x TeleVue Powermate, ZWO224MC, Sharpcap, PIPP, AS3
2021-08-25-1302_9-2021-08-25-1303_0__pipp_lapl5_ap1181_Drizzle15_RS1
Todays afocal capture of the Sun (through very hazy cloud) - digital camera, Skywatcher Goto telescope fitted with homemade Baader Solarfilm filter
Skywatcher 80ED Pro
canon500D
4x900" ISO800 + 3 Dark + 15 Bias + 21 flat
Not a good one but this is all I could do
This is my highest resolution image of the moon which I have left full size so you can enjoy every crater! Imaged with a Canon EOS 5DmkII mounted to a Canon EF600mm F4 lens with stacked 1.4x and 2.0x teleconverter. Mounted on an astromount Skywatcher HEQ5 PRO skyscan GOTO to enable slow shutter speeds without the blur due to the moon's movement. 1/4 sec, F22, ISO100. Enjoy and no you can't quite make out the lunar landers (I've checked!).
Sol Regiones Activas 2740 y 2741 - Barlow Powermate 2'5X
Foto izquierda Región Activa 2740
Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: EQ5 Bresser EXOS2 motorizada sin goto
Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.6, T=25%)
- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (540nm)
Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism
- TeleVue Lente de Barlow 2,5x Powermate 1,25"
Software: SharpCap, Pipp, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2019-05-10
Hora: 17:05 T.U.
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 2 minutos
Resolución: 1024 x 768
Gain: 100
Exposure: 0,000049
Frames: 13179
Frames apilados: 8%
FPS: 109.797
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Foto derecha Región Activa 2741
Telescopio: Skywatcher Refractor AP 120/900 f7.5 EvoStar ED
Cámara: ZWO ASI178MM
Montura: EQ5 Bresser EXOS2 motorizada sin goto
Filtros: - Baader Neutral Density Filter 1¼" (ND 0.6, T=25%)
- Baader Solar Continuum Filter 1¼" (540nm)
Accesorios: - Baader 2" Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism
- TeleVue Lente de Barlow 2,5x Powermate 1,25"
Software: SharpCap, Pipp, AutoStakkert, Registax y Photoshop
Fecha: 2019-05-10
Hora: 16:59 T.U.
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 2 minutos
Resolución: 1024 x 768
Gain: 100
Exposure: 0,000049
Frames: 14662
Frames apilados: 10%
FPS: 121.95
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, StarSpikes Pro, PHD2 Guiding
Filters:Baader R 1.25'' CCD Filter, Baader B 1.25'' CCD Filter, Baader G 1.25'' CCD Filter
Accessory:TSOptics TS Off Axis Guider - 9mm
Dates:Oct. 10, 2018
Frames:
Baader B 1.25'' CCD Filter: 84x60" (gain: 53.00) -20C bin 1x1
Baader G 1.25'' CCD Filter: 84x60" (gain: 53.00) -20C bin 1x1
Baader R 1.25'' CCD Filter: 84x60" (gain: 53.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 4.2 hours
Darks: 31
Flats: 27
Artificial Star spikes by StarSpikes Pro
Object description (wikipedia.org):
The Double Cluster (also known as Caldwell 14) is the common name for the open clusters NGC 869 and NGC 884 (often designated h Persei and χ Persei, respectively), which are close together in the constellation Perseus. Both visible with the naked eye, NGC 869 and NGC 884 lie at a distance of 7500 light years. NGC 869 has a mass of 3700 solar masses and NGC 884 weighs in at 2800 solar masses; however, later research has shown both clusters are surrounded with a very extensive halo of stars, with a total mass for the complex of at least 20,000 solar masses. Based on their individual stars, the clusters are relatively young, both 12.8 million years old. In comparison, the Pleiades have an estimated age ranging from 75 million years to 150 million years. There are more than 300 blue-white super-giant stars in each of the clusters. The clusters are also blueshifted, with NGC 869 approaching Earth at a speed of 39 km/s (24 mi/s) and NGC 884 approaching at a similar speed of 38 km/s (24 mi/s). Their hottest main sequence stars are of spectral type B0.
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-eNhance
Guidescope: SvBony Sv106 50mm
Guide camera: ZWO ASI224MC
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro
Exposures:
Optolong L-eNhance
4hr 05min
49x 300sec
Calibration frames for each stack:
20 Darks
20 Flats
20 Dark flats
Processed in Pixinsight
Extra information:
The first image made with my Askar 103APO telescope!
Skywatcher 150/750
HEQ 5 Pro Go To
ESO 1000D
74 subs * 60s DOF 83/44/42
ISO 800
Pre and post processing with Pixinsight
M45 4x lights @ 20s each, 5x darks @ 15s each, 5x bias, all at ISO3200.
PentaxK50 and Skywatcher Explorer 130PdS on EQ5.
Managed to just about pick up the nebula too!
is a bright emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia.
total exposure time: 25 hours
Processing: PixInsight/Affinity Photo
Equipment:
10" /f4 TS ONTC Newton
ASI1600mmc v3
ZWO EFW 8x
Skywatcher EQ8
Guiding TS9 OAG Lodestar
123x300s h-alpha
72x300s OIII
60x300s SII
15x300s red
15x300s green
15x300s blue
Image obtained in a light polluted suburban garden in Widnes, Cheshire, England, using a second hand Skywatcher 130/900 telescope, a cheap webcam, and some free software obtained from the internet.
A mosaic of 45 images each created from a stack of 400 frames, were stitched together to produce the above image of an (almost) full moon.
Telescope Skywatcher 130/900 with RA motor drive
Camera Microsoft HD3000 webcam
Lens 2x Barlow
Image count 45 finals @ 400 stacks per image
Software Registax 6 & iMerge
Afocal capture of this evenings beautiful Waxing Crescent Moon
12" Dobsonian Skywatcher telescope, Canon IXUS digital camera (conditions poor, lots of thick cloud and quite windy too!)
Skywatcher 150PDS
Skywatcher eq3-2
Nikon D90
ISO 1600
1/100 s
40 frames total
AS!3 top 95% of frames stacked
RegiStax 6 wavelets
GIMP 2.10
Skywatcher 200/1000 Newtonian
EQ6-R Pro
Baader MPCC MkIII
ASI294MC Pro
L-Extreme
Pixinsight + Gigapixel
Taken from my Montreal Backyard (Bortle 9+)
Skywatcher 66/400mm Equinox
Canon 6Da
UV IR Block Filter, CLS Filter
6x60s, ISO 2500
Crop 50%
DSS, GIMP
Bortle 5/6 Skyclass
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor with a Baader Astrosolar Filter fitted to scope, a Canon 600D connected at prime focus. Not much to see at the moment, as little visible activity, so much for Solar maximum :-)