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SkyWatcher Star Adventurer mechanika /Pro Pack/
Cullmann Mundo állvány
Jintu intervalométer
Canon EOS 250D
Tamron AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di LD Macro
Dátum / idő: 2020-11-07 21:55:29
F-szám: F 5.66
Fókusztávolság: 300 mm
50x60 mp 800 ISO
50x90 mp 800 ISO
korrekciós képek
5x Dark
5x Offset/bias
Skywatcher DOB GOTO 12'
Ackermann 2in coma corrector/ reducer 0.73
L : ZWO ASI294MM PRO gain300 ZWO UV-IR Filter 302 × 10sec
RGB : ZWO ASI294MC PRO gain390 ZWO UV-IR Filter 232 × 10sec
Skywatcher 150/750 + Datyson T7m + firecapture. Image stacked with Autostakker! 3 and post-treated with Registax
This is my current imaging setup with the Star Adventurer and the ASI1600MM-Cool.
Still tuning it, but it should work well once I'll receive the rings and dovetail.
The guiding scope is an Orion 50mm mini guider and the camera an ASI120MM ST4.
The tripod is a Manfrotto 535, very sturdy and light, perfect for this setup.
Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: SkyWatcher ED 80//600
Camere di acquisizione: Canon 1100D
Montature: SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro
Telescopi o obiettivi di guida: SkyWatcher 70/500
Camere di guida: Skywatcher Synguider 2
Riduttori di focale: SkyWatcher Reducer 0.85
Software: Pleiades Astrophoto S.L. PixInsight V1.8
Risoluzione: 3200x2088
Date: 12 maggio 2015
Pose: 16x423" ISO800
Integrazione: 1.9 ore
Dark: ~17
Flat: ~21
Bias: ~31
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 30min
30x 180sec
Calibration frames:
20 Darks
20 Flats
20 Dark flats
Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop
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:July 1, 2018, July 2, 2018, July 3, 2018
Frames:
Baader Ha 1.25" 7nm: 32x420" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium O3 1.25" 8.5nm: 4x420" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium O3 1.25" 8.5nm: 21x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium SII 1.25" 8nm: 19x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 10.9 hours
Darks: 29
Flats: 27
Bias: 100
Object description (wikipedia.org) :
The Pelican Nebula (also known as IC 5070 and IC 5067) is an H II region associated with the North America Nebula in the constellation Cygnus. The gaseous contortions of this emission nebula bear a resemblance to a pelican, giving rise to its name. The Pelican Nebula is located nearby first magnitude star Deneb, and is divided from its more prominent neighbour, the North America Nebula, by a molecular cloud filled with dark dust.
The Pelican is much studied because it has a particularly active mix of star formation and evolving gas clouds. The light from young energetic stars is slowly transforming cold gas to hot and causing an ionization front gradually to advance outward. Particularly dense filaments of cold gas are seen to still remain, and among these are found two jets emitted from the Herbig–Haro object 555. Millions of years from now this nebula might no longer be known as the Pelican, as the balance and placement of stars and gas will leave something that appears completely different.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus. The Sun is visually much 'quieter' at the moment.15 jpgs stacked using Autostakkert 2
1500 frames stacked from 5000
Telescope Sky-Watcher 200p
Camera QHYIII 178C
Barlow 5x
In my backyard
São Caetano do Sul City
São Paulo state
Brasil
Waxing gibbous moon photographed with mirrorless Nikon 1 J5 (1 inch sensor) and Skywatcher ProED 120mm refractor telescope.
shot with canon 50 1.2 L, 6d in Karpacz, Poland. Just put in flower pot, as didnt have tripod. No lens profile correction
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter. A Canon 600D DSLR at prime focus which is 600mm. Best 15 of 40 images stacked using Autostakkert 2 as this handles cloud contamination better than Registax 6 in that no artifacts are produced if a few strands of cloud are present in some of the images in the stack.
Equipment:
Canon 600D with Samyang 14mm lens
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro Mount
This is a composite image comprised of:
Foreground shot - ISO 1600, 4 seconds
Background stack - ISO 1600, 30 x 120 seconds (1 hour integration), Astronomik CLS clip-in filter, taken on Sunday 11th
Meteors - only 6 shots made it in the end, ISO 6400, 15 seconds, unfiltered, taken on Monday 12th
For the first time in a long time, I had a cloudless night here in the UK for the Perseids!
Rather annoyingly, I opted to take my background stack image on the Sunday night which meant I missed out on the Aurora on the following night! Oh well, I was lucky enough to see them earlier in the year back in May.
To capture the meteors, I ran at the highest ISO my camera can go to and took 15 second exposures all night. This provided me with roughly 1,300 exposures to sift through, it is honestly amazing just how many satellites there are these days. In total, I only managed to capture one decent meteor and five small ones. Hopefully the Geminids will provide more later in December.
Lots of light pollution too from my Bortle 6/7 garden here in Swindon, I was too lazy to lug all the gear to my nearest Bortle 4 site.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and Canon 500D DSLR. A Baader Astrosolar Filter was fitted to scope. Best 20 of 40 shots stacked using Registax 6 with manually selected alignpoints. Before this the 40 images were processed in PIPP to centre and crop each image into 16bit tiffs. Seeing was very good again today hence small stack size. A few wispy clouds getting in the way caused some small artifacts on the limb
Star forming nebula, complete with stars. 5000 light years from us and 50 light years across. Includes nice Bok Globules in NGC2237 at lower right.
Quite close to a bright moon tonight, but the Ha seems to have cut through okay and the subject is bright enough. I had less success with the Jellyfish Neb., even with double the time; it's just too dim for the conditions. Quick processing, but it looks okay. I'll probably tidy later and add in some RGB if the combination of clear sky + no moon ever happens again in my lifetime.
8 x 600s Ha, Esprit 100ED, Atik460EX -20C, AZEQ6, PHD2/ZWOASI100, Altair 60mm mini-guider. Processed in Nebulosity.
Sol Región Activa 2741 - Barlow Powermate 2'5X
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
20 minutos de integración capturas con refractor SW proed 80mm, reductor focal 0.85, Canon 6D, montura Ioptron cem25p.
Sol Regiones Activas 12995 y 12996
Buen seeing pero algunas nubes altas
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: 2022-04-21 (21 de abril de 2022)
Hora: 13:53 T.U. (Tiempo universal)
Lugar: 42.615 N -6.417 W (Bembibre Spain)
Vídeo: 1 minuto
Resolución: 2104x1670
Gain: 93 (18%)
Exposure: 0.032ms
Frames: 2052
Frames apilados: 3%
FPS: 34
Sensor temperature= 33.2°C
The photo was taken through the ocular of a Skywatcher telescope using a 50mm Nikkor prime.
Gear used:
Luneta SkyWatcher 90/900 AZ3
Caracteristici:
- Obiectiv:90mm
- Distanta focala:900mm
- Raport focal:f/10
- Magnitudine stelara:12.5
- Marire teoretica maxima:180x
- Montura:AZ3
- Oculare:Super 10mm(90x) si 25mm(36x)
- Cautator:6x30 SpringLoad
- Prisma diagonala:45 grade
- Diametrul focalizatorului:1,25"
- Trepied:aluminiu
- Greutate:7kg
More about the Moon here
Just finished wiring up the scope for another season of astrophotography. There is a Canon 350D hanging in there if you look carefully. clear skies!!
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + barlow 2X + super 25mm.
Afocal, Lumia 640.
Edited with MS Picture Manager
SkyWatcher 80ED + WO 0.8x TypeII + SEOCooledX2(-11C)
on SkyWatcher HEQ5 PRO
Frames: ISO800 7x900sec (Total:105min)
Guiding: Rumicon + Meade DSI Pro
RAP2, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop CS4
Locations: Kibikogen, Okayama, Japan
Jan. 2010
Skywatcher 707AZ2 (70mm) Telescope & Huawei Honor 10 Mobile Phone Camera
Using
x2 Barlow & "Super 25" lens / x2 Phone Camera Zoom (50%)
Edited in Photoshop CC2019 for Clarity and detail
Skywatcher 200P
ATIK 314L+
best of 30x 60s L, 20x 60s each of RGB
Guided with PHD 2.0
Some work to do with guiding/tracking issues and probably coma as well, but am pleased with this first effort from my new observatory :)
This image captures two iconic galaxies in the constellation Ursa Major, located approximately 12 million light-years from Earth:
•Messier 81 (Bode’s Galaxy): A spiral galaxy with well-defined arms and a bright nucleus. It's home to a supermassive black hole and is one of the most studied galaxies due to its proximity and clarity.
•Messier 82 (Cigar Galaxy): A starburst galaxy seen edge-on, known for its intense star formation and dramatic outflows of gas. Its core is over 100 times brighter than that of the Milky Way.
Despite their visual contrast—one serene and spiral, the other chaotic and bursting—these galaxies are gravitationally bound and have interacted in the past, triggering the starburst activity in M82.
️ Date Processed: August 2, 2025
️ Date Aquired: March2, 2025
📍 Location: Havant, UK
🔭 Target Object: M81 Bode’s and M82 galaxies
🎯 RA/DEC: 09h 55m 52.081s +69° 17' 35.237"
️ Field of View: 49.2; x 58.7’
📐 Image Scale: 1.01”/px
⏱️ Total Integration Time: 6h 40m
📷 Camera: ZWO ASI533MM Pro
🔧 Telescope/Optics: Skywatcher Evostar 120mm, Skywatcher 0.85x reducer flattener, f6.375, 768mm
🌀 Mount: iOptron CEM40g
Guiding: iOptron iGuider f4 integrated to the mount
Filters Used: ZWO Lum, ZWO Red, ZWO Blue, ZWO Green
- Subframes:
- Lum: 50 x 120s
- R: 50 x 120s
- G: 50 x 120s
- B: 50 x 120s
- Calibration frames:
- BIAS: 50
- Flats: 25
- Darks: 25
- Dark flats: 25
📚 Software & Processing Summary:
- Stacking: Pixinsight
- Processing: Pixinsight
- Final Editing: Photoshop
Skywatcher DOB GOTO 12" F3.65
Ackermann 2in coma corrector/ reducer 0.73 UVIR Filter
L: ASI294MM PRO gain390 -10℃ 10sec×236pix
RGB：EOS6DHKIR ISO8000 15 sec×114 pix
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus. Taken in very windy conditions with fast moving clouds. Best 15 of 45 images stacked using Autostakkert 2, Registax doesn't like frames with bits of cloud in them so much :-)
Imaging:
Canon 50D (modified) on Skywatcher Equinox 80mm with Televue TRF-2008
Lights:
10 x 1200s <-- 09-19-2012
12 x 960s <-- 09-01-2011
5 x 300s f/5 ISO 100
6 hours 32 minutes worth of exposure time.
Darks 5 x for both sets
Flats 76 x for both sets
Bias 64 x for both sets
Guiding:
SSAG on Skywatcher 80mm f/5 achromatic refractor
Guide frames x 2s
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I was out other night shooting M31 with longer exposure time than before, but when i processed the data i found only minimal improvement over last years shoot, so i combined the two data sets, and got a much more satisfactory result.