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A giant Stellar Fish captured from NW Durham bortle 5 skies with a Skywatcher Esprit telescope and Zwo asi 1600 mono camera. 600s subs processed in PI modified forax SHO .
Barnard 150 (LDN1082), is a dark (absorption) nebula located in the constellation of Cepheus.
Due to its shape it’s also known as The Seahorse Nebula. Dark nebulae are clouds of dense interstellar material that obscures the light from objects behind it, such as background stars.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and a Canon 600D at prime focus. A Baader Astrosolar Filter was fitted to the telescope. Very cloudy today so only got a single shot in a small gap in the cloud
Imaging:
Canon 50D on Skywatcher 127mm Maksutov Cassegrain with Televue PMT-2200 2.0x 2" Powermate
Mosaic x 9 x 48 x 1/30s 23.6 ISO 1600
Frames taken from 0943 to 1017 UTC
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Pretty good seeing for the city, definitely shooting 9 sets of frames and processing them takes time, but I think it's worth it!
FYI to low bandwidth users, original size is ~8MB
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
Telescope: SkyWatcher Black Diamond ED80 + Reducer 0.85x
OTA: SkyWatcher Ηeq5 Pro
Guiding: SkyWatcher 9x50 Finder με ZWO ASI120 MM
CCD: ATIK 414ex
Filter: Baader L
Proccess: DeepSkyStacker 3.3.4, Adobe Photoshop CS6
L : 125x56
Darks : 10
bias : 45
Flats : 45
Dark Flats : 45
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and Canon 500D at prime focus ( 600mm ) Baader Astrosolar Film Filter fitted to scope. Best 23 images out of 125 stacked, remaining frames had cloud bits in them. Active Regions marked on image
Bode's Nebula and the Cigar Galaxy.
It's been cloudy for months and now the nights are so short, imaging time is severely limited. Despite this, I had a chance to finally test out the ASI 2600mm mono camera and capture a few hours of M81.
There are only 6 Ha subs of 10 minutes, and 12, 2-minute subs with the Blue and Green filters combined to make a HaGB image processed in Pixinsight.
Darks are easy because I can cool the camera and do them throughout the day!
This was using a Skywatcher Esprit 100ED scope and a HEQ5 mount. I had to be quick with alignment since the night is so short, so I am using a Polemaster and Starsense to get the mount ready quick.
Skywatcher 200/1000 PDS
Skywatcher EQ-6
Canon Eos 1000da
Guiding mit ALccd QHY 5 Autoguider
18 x 300 Sekunden Belichtungszeit
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and a Canon 600D at prime focus. A Baader Astrosolar and Continuum filter were used for this image. Best 25 out of 55 images stacked in Registax 6. The green image generated by the continuum filter was removed using RGB balance/align/mixing in Registax 6. Seeing poor today.
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
Skywatcher ed 80 f/7,5
Atik 314 L+ mono
QHY 5L-II mono
LRGB filters Meade
L:155 min
R: 30 min
G: 30 min
B: 30min
Location: Greece, Grammatiko
Skywatcher Evostar 72ED, Star Adventurer 2i, MGEN III, Nikon D5300a, Optolong L-Extreme
85x300s @ ISO 800, edited in PixInsight, Affinity Photo
Skywatcher 250pds on EHQ6 mount and QHY 132E Camera plus televue x2 Barlow. This is a 900 (385 used) frame video stacked in Registax and Wavelets tweaked plus adjusted further in Photoshop.
Mount: SW EQM35-pro
Telescope :WO ZenithStar 80mm f/6.8 II ED APO
WO Flattener/ Reducer x0.8 v.II
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro Color
Baader IR-cut 2" filter
72 frames x90s., gain 140
Jupiter with Ganymede to the left, Io to the right and Europa next to the planet. Skywatcher 200p, Philips webcam and 2x Barlow.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and a Canon 600D at Prime focus ( 600mm ). Seeing very turbulent today so stacked the best 20 out of 70 images in Registax 6. A Baader Astrosolar filter was fitted to the telescope. Settings for this picture were F7.5 600mm focal length ISO100 1600th second exposure. Scope AZ3 ( unguided ) mounted.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and Olympus E-410 at prime focus. Best 20 of 40 images stacked in Registax 6. A Baader Astrosolar Filter fitted to telescope. Shot in very high winds and lots of fast moving cloud