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Mounted on an EQ6. Surprising how sharp this little beast is, the views of the Moon are gorgeous. has a focal length of 1800 so reasonable powerful for planets. Only drawback is it could do with electric focus. Also brilliant for viewing and imaging the Sun. but you need special solar filters for this. NEVER EVER LOOK AT THE SUN WITHOUT FILTERS
Skywatcher DOB GOTO 12'
Ackermann 2in coma corrector/ reducer 0.73
L : ZWO ASI294MM PRO gain300 ZWO UV-IR Filter 302 × 10sec
RGB① : ZWO ASI294MC PRO gain390 ZWO UV-IR Filter 232 × 10sec
RGB② : ZWO ASI294MC PRO gain390 IDAS NB4-PM Filter 179 × 10sec
The Sun taken with my Skywatcher 200p and Canon 7D shortly before 9am. Taken using Baader Solar film so you are seeing the Sun in it's actual colour. Sunspot AR1785 is roughly 11 times larger than Earth and growing.
first attempt at a photo of the moon.
didn't really have a lot of setup time as it was windy and about to rain. Had never used a camera on the scope before and the first clear sky in weeks!
Skywatcher 200/1000 PDS
Skywatcher EQ-6
Canon Eos 1000da
Guiding mit ALccd QHY 5 Autoguider
25 x 300 Sekunden Belichtungszeit
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor with a Canon 600D at prime focus ( 600mm ) Best 15 of 40 jpgs stacked in Registax 6. Seeing turbulent as moon very close to the horizon, within 5 degrees of it. Settings were :--- Telescope at F7.5 ISO 400 100th second exposure as moon quite dim. Processed in mono to get rid of false colour caused by atmospherics.
Skywatcher 72 ED
Nikon D3500
ISOSPEED= 800
EXPTIME = 14200.2996292114 / Exposure time (in seconds)
EXPOSURE= 14200.2996292114 / Exposure time (in seconds)
NCOMBINE= 315 / Number of stacked frames
SOFTWARE= 'DeepSkyStacker 5.1.6'
DATE-OBS= '2024-12-30T20:18:16'
processed with Siril and Darktable
After months of saving up I picked up this beast, the Skywatcher Esprit 120. This is one hell of a refractor, can't wait to start imaging!
Specifications :
Optical Design Apochromatic Refractor
Diameter 120mm
Focal Length 840mm
F/Ratio F/7
Tube Weight 9.61kg
Robin close up. Taken with Nikon D3300 + 600mm Skywatcher Pro 80ED + 2X teleconverter lens assembly from Vivitar Pentax 645 medium format mounted into Nikon macro tube.
Skywatcher Esprit 100 APO Triplet refractor with Optolong L filter and Canon 6D. 50x240sec iso1600 20 Flat frames, 65 bias frames.
Knight Observatory Tomar
Press L (followed by F11) for the best view.
Imaging:
50D on Skywatcher 127mm-Mak
Mosaic 5 x 32 x 1/30s f/11.8 ISO 100
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I remembered my hand controller this itme! :) Seeing was a bit better last night, less haze. Air was more calm, but not the best.
I did a bit of a test last night to see how well the 850ir filter works when skies are turbulent.
UV/IR filter is at the top, 850ir filter at the bottom.
Skywatcher 180 mak with QHY 462c camera
3rd November 2022
Original videos here -
and
Skywatcher 150PDS
Celestron CG5
TS optics 3x Barlow lens & Nikon 2x teleconverter
Microsoft LifeCam Studio
Firecapture v2.4
1500 frames total
AS!3 top 50% of frames stacked
RegiStax 6 wavelets
GIMP 2.10
Kept best 10% of 10000 frames
---Hardware---
Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT
Camera : ZWO ASI 224 MC
Tube : Astro-Physics 130 EDF F/6 with 4x barlow (Televue Powermate)
Effective focal length : 3120 mm
Effective aperture : ~ F/24
---Software---
Acquired with FireCapture
Stacked with AutoStakkert
Processed with Lightroom
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks
Eyepiece: super 10mm.
Edited with MS Picture Manager.
The Foxhead Cluster (NGC 6819). NGC 6819 is an open star cluster located 7,200 light years away in the Cygnus constellation.
Once again a rare clear night coincided with the full Moon lighting up the sky so a nice, bright, non-nebulous open cluster was tonight's target. This was also an opportunity to check the system and re-enter the many settings that were lost when the computer disastrously crashed at Kelvedon Common recently. Fortunately things seem to be working properly again now.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_6819
021 x 300 second exposures at Unity Gain (139) cooled to -20°C
050 x dark frames
025 x flat frames
100 x bias frames (subtracted from flat frames)
Binning 1x1
Total integration time = 1 hour and 45 minutes
Captured with APT
Guided with PHD2
Processed in Nebulosity, Lightroom and Photoshop
Equipment:
Telescope: Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS
Mount: Skywatcher EQ5
Guide Scope: Orion 50mm Mini
Guiding Camera: ZWO ASI120MC
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI1600MC Pro
Baader Mark-III MPCC Coma Corrector
Light pollution filter
I decided to have another go at a large daytime moon image.
This one is made from 18 panels, each taken as video using an ASI585mc camera in mono mode at full resolution.
The videos were processed into photos using Astrosurface, then put together into a single image using Microsoft ICE.
Finishing touches in Lightroom.
The Telescope was a Skywatcher 180pro Mak on an AQ6 mount
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor with a Canon 600D at Prime Focus. Baader Astrosolar Filter fitted to telescope. Best 20 of 50 images stacked in Registax 6 after centering and cropping with PIPP. All images shot in JPG.
Skywatcher DOB GOTO 12" F3.65
Ackermann 2in coma corrector/ reducer 0.73
L：ASI294MM PRO gain390 -10℃ 10sec×183 UVIR
RGB：ASI294MC PRO gain390 -10℃ 10sec×227 UVIR
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + barlow 2X + super 25mm.
Afocal, Lumia 640.
Edited with MS Picture Manager
Imaging:
Canon 50D on Skywatcher 127mm-Maksutov Cassegrain
Neptune 16 x 2s f/11.8 ISO 200
Uranus 32 x 1s f/11.8 ISO 200
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As far as i can tell these two images are pretty close to scale, Uranus should be about ~6 pixel in diameter, and Neptune should be ~3 pixels.
Please note that these two planets are not appearing to be this close to each other, i just put them in the same image to keep things simple. However they are still somewhat close to each other in the sky, being about 34 degrees from each other at the moment.
Skywatcher ed 80 f/7,5
QHY 5L-II mono
Televue barlow 3x
Filters RGB Meade
Baader UV/IR cut
Autostakkert, Registax, Photoshop cs 5
One of my first succesful LRGB images is of the globular cluster M3. Taken with a 4" Skywatcher refractor coupled to an Atik 314L+ mono camera. At the time I did not have aguide scope, each filter image was about 30s in length combined in Photoshop. The images were taken on April 10th 2019.
'Messier 3 (M3) is a globular cluster located in the constellation Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs.
Messier 3 is one of the brightest, largest globular clusters in the sky. It has an apparent magnitude of 6.2 and is approximately 33,900 light years distant from Earth. It has the designation NGC 5272 in the New General Catalogue.
It has an absolute magnitude of about -8.93 and a luminosity about 300,000 times that of the Sun. The cluster is approaching us at 147.6 km/s.
M3 contains an estimated half a million stars. The brightest stars in the cluster are of magnitude 12.7 and the average brightness of the 25 brightest stars is 14.23 mag.
The overall spectral type of M3 is F2. The cluster has a total mass of about 450,000 solar masses.
Messier 3 can be found halfway from the bright star Arcturus in Boötes constellation to Cor Caroli in Canes Venatici. It lies about 6 degrees north-northeast of Beta Comae Berenices, near the border between the constellations Canes Venatici and Boötes. The best time of year to observe the cluster from northern latitudes is during the months of March, April and May.
Charles Messier on May 3, 1764. It was the 75th deep sky object ever observed at the time of discovery and the first object in the Messier catalogue discovered by Messier himself, who noted:
“On May 3, 1764, when working on a catalog of the nebulae, I have discovered one between Bootes & one of the Hunting Dogs of Hevelius, the southernmore of the two, exactly between the tail & the paws of this Dog, according to the charts of Flamsteed. I have observed that nebula on the meridian, & I compared with Mu Bootis; its right ascension has been found as 202d 51′ 19″, & its declination as 29d 32′ 57″ north. That nebula which I have examined with a Gregorian telescope of 30 pouces focal length, which magnifies 104 times, doesn’t contain any star; the center is brilliant, & the light gets lost fading [outward]; it is round, & could have 3 minutes of arc in diameter. One can see it in a good sky with an ordinary [nonachromatic] refractor of one foot [FL].”
(Read more at: www.messier-objects.com/messier-3/)’
Taken using a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter. Canon 600D DSLR at prime focus. Best 20 of 40 images stacked using Registax 6. Scope AZ3 Mounted so not tracking as not needed.
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 ASI294MC Pro
Filters: Optolong L-eNhance
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro
Exposures:
6hr 35min
79x 300sec
Calibration frames
20 Darks
20 Flats
20 Dark flats
Processed in Pixinsight