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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
Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 400x180s
Bortle Scale: 4
Location: Isaszeg, Hungary
Acquisition date(s):
2021.04.08., 2021.04.16., 2021.05.04., 2021.05.05., 2021.05.07., 2021.05.08., 2021.05.09., 2021.05.10., 2021.05.11., 2021.05.12.
Another aspect of the beautiful gibbous moon of the 4th April here.
Slight enhancement of subtle variations of colour on the moon's surface. These highlight the difference in mineral composition between the more iron rich regolith areas (brown coloured) and those regolith areas richer in Titanium (blue coloured).
Imaged with a Skywatcher ED72 and a Nikon D5300 camera.
Part of the Large Magellanic Cloud area but a part I have not taken before. N70 is the unmistakable Circular nebula top right. this was taken over two night to test out the New power supply box and how stable it is. The other effect of the power box was to reduce the number of cords that have to go from the top to the bottom to lessen the weight on guiding. the number of cord has reduced to two a far cry from the heavy load of the original 9. Now its fine tuning PHD2 to get the very small movement of guiding and better round stars.
ZWOASI071MC Pro -10c 90 shot 10 min
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps PTGui.
NGC 5128 - Centaurus A is a galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus. It was discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop from his home in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. It is approximately 10–16 million light-years away,and is one of the closest radio galaxies to Earth. It is the fifth-brightest in the sky, but is only visible from the southern hemisphere and low northern latitudes.
At the center of the galaxy is a supermassive black hole with a mass 55 million times greater than the our Sun.
Equipment Details:
•8 Inch Skywatcher Quattro Carbon Fibre F4.0 Newtonian Reflector
•Skywatcher NEQ6 Mount
•SBIG ST 2000xm CCD Camera cooled to -20'c
•SBIG CFW8 Filter Wheel
•Custom Scientific Lum, Red, Green, Blue Filters
•SKywatcher BD 102mm Guide Scope
•Meade DSIii CCD Guide Camera
•Polemaster for polar alignment
Exposure Details:
•Lum 20X300 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Red 10X300 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Green 10X300 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Blue 10X300 seconds - Bin 1x1
Total Integration Time: 4 hours 15 Mins
Mosaik aus 2 Bildern (Stacks aus MP4 Videofiles),
Lumix GH5 an Skywatcher Skymax Maksutov 127/1500,
auf Fotostativ, das ist alles.
Mosaic of 2 images (stacks of MP4 video files),
Lumix GH5 on Skywatcher Skymax Maksutov 127/1500,
on photo tripod, that's all.
1500mm (3000 mm äquiv.), f 10.
The Helix Nebula, NGC 7293, is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Aquarius some 655 light years away.
This is a new version captured with the new camera, and is processed in a Bi color combination of Ha, Oiii, Oiii (HOO)
Equipment Details:
•8 Inch Skywatcher Quattro Carbon Fibre F4.0 Newtonian Reflector
•Skywatcher NEQ6 Mount
•SBIG STT 8300m CCD Camera cooled to -20'c
•SBIG FW8G-STT Filter Wheel
•Baader Ha and Oiii Filters
•SKywatcher BD 102mm Guide Scope
•Meade DSIii CCD Guide Camera
•Polemaster for polar alignment
Exposure Details:
•Ha 24X300 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Oiii 20X300 seconds - Bin 1x1
Total Integration Time: 3 hours and 45 minutes.
This galaxy is found in the constellation of Coma Berenices. A spiral galaxy it lies about 17 million light-years from us but the most striking aspect is the dark band of absorbing dust.
This dark dust is partially in front of the galaxy's bright nucleus giving the galaxy its nickname of the "Black Eye Galaxy". It is also known as the "Evil Eye" or "Sleeping Beauty" galaxy. Rather like an eye with mascara applied!!
A type 2 Seyfert galaxy the whole system has a diameter of around 54,000 light-years.
Imaged with a Skywatcher Esprit 120ED Triplet Apo and a ZWO2600MC camera.
Processed with AstroPixel Processor and Photoshop 2021.
100x120s Subs Gain 100 and cooled to -10
Temp. matched Darks, Dark Flats and Flats. Imaged using APT.
Thanks for looking!
After prolonged period of awful weather, which saw us miss out on fine weather in other parts, it was our turn at last to get some decent skies here so time to get the telescope assembled!
Both these galaxies are found in the Plough or Big Dipper constellation. This constellation is at its highest in northern skies in the spring, (though the plough is ciircumpolar) so this galactic pair is becoming well-placed for imaging here.
M81, also catalogued as NGC 3031, is a grand design spiral galaxy with well-defined and prominent spiral arms that extend clearly around the system. It lies around 12 million light-years from us.
M82 (to the right) is also known as the Cigar Galaxy is also at around 12 million light-years distance. This is a starburst galaxy (due to their fast rate of star production). Glowing red filaments of hydrogen gas can be seen emanating form the centre of the system.
Just partially creeping into the top of the frame is NGC 3077, sometimes known as the Garland Galaxy. This is a small, disrupted galaxy and is part of the M81 group. It is a Seyfert Galaxy having an active nucleus.
Just above M81 is a bluish-coloured irregular feature. This is Holmberg IX, a dwarf irregular galaxy that is a satellite galaxy of M81.
There are several other fainter galaxies within the field.
Imaged on the 28.02.22 with my Esprit 120ED and a ZWO 2600MC camera. The telescope was fitted with a Skywatcher 0.77x focal reducer.
100x180s Exposures (5hrs exposure) Gain 100 and camera cooled to -10°C.
Temp. matched darks, Flats and Dark Flats.
Completed with AstroPixel Processor. Photoshop 2022.
Thanks for looking!
Skywatcher Evostar Pro 80 ED (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D3300. 1200 total frames shot over 1 minute. Stacked in PIPP & AS!3, post-processed in Photoshop
This deepscape image shows the sword of Orion rising over a scenic mountain formation in central Switzerland. The famous Orion Nebula, the Horsehead and Flame Nebula and part of Barnard's Loop are coloring the sky in a stunning way.
Deepscapes are an attempt to take landscape astrophotography to the next level. This image is not a digital art collage of an unrelated sky and foreground, but a real alignment. A snowshoe hike with a mobile deep sky imaging rig to a carefully planned site on a mountain slope was required to capture this scene. Foreground and sky were captured back to back during the same night and from the same tripod position.
Capturing and processing the image required both deep space and landscape astrophotography techniques. The foreground and RGB color image of the sky were captured with an astro-modified Canon EOS 6D and a 200mm lens. The sky image was enhanced with 55min of H-alpha data captured with a cooled monochrome astrophotography camera through a narrowband filter.
Prints available: ralf-rohner.pixels.com
EXIF
Canon EOS 6D, astro-modified
ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L @ f/4
Skywatcher AZ-GTI controlled with ASIair
ZWO ASI 385MC autoguide camera
Sky:
- for RGB:
- astro-modified Canon EOS 6D @ISO1600, f/4, 200mm
- 50 x 40s
- 7 x 20s
- 7 x 10s
- 7 x 5s
- for H-alpha
- ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro @ Gain 220
- 11 x 300s with Baader 3,5nm ultra-narrowband H-alpha filter
- 96mm to match the FOV of the 200mm full frame image for foreground and RGB
Foreground:
Single exposure of 60s @ ISO1600, f/2.8, 200mm taken during the same night and at the same tripod position
Imaged during the early hours of the 20th March 2022.
It was very early in the season to image this object (I was actually imaging another object) but when I saw the familiar cross of Cygnus rising in the NE I thought I would turn the scope to the Pelican to finish the session and just to see how it would turn out.
Consequently this is a bit of a test image and represents only 1.6hrs of total exposure with my Ha filter. I tried to get some OIII data as well and I may post an early HOO image later.
The Pelican Nebula, catalogued as IC 5070 & IC 5067 is an emission nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. The various gaseous patterns within the nebula give the overall appearance of a Pelican hence the name.
The nebula lies at a distance of 1,800 light-years.
24 x 250s Ha Total 1.6Hrs
Skywatcher Esprit 120ED with Skywatcher Focal reducer and ZWO 1600MM cooled camera.
Baader Ha filter
Thanks for looking!
Skywatcher Evostar Pro 80 ED (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D3300.
50 lights x 90 s @ ISO 800, ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop.
Skywatcher Esprit 80/400, ASI2600MM-Pro, Astronomik SHO 6nm et HEQ5.
H : 81 x 300" = 6h45
O : 84 x 300" = 7h00
S : 94 x 300" = 7h50
@ Gain 100/Offset 50
21h35' au total.
NINA + Pixinsight, merci à lukomatico !
My first Deep Sky image.
Mi primera imagen del Cielo profundo.
Mount Skywatcher AZ EQ5 GT , Scope Skywatcher 80/400 , Canon EOS 100d.
ISO 800
10 Lights 3 min.
6 Darks
6 Bias
Proces. DSS , PS , LR
La galaxia de Andrómeda, también conocida como Galaxia Espiral M31, Messier 31 o NGC 224, es una galaxia espiral gigante con un diámetro de doscientos veinte mil años luz y que contiene aproximadamente un billón de estrellas.[4] Es el objeto visible a simple vista más lejano de la Tierra.
The Andromeda Galaxy (/ænˈdrɒmᵻdə/), also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 million light-years) from Earth.[4] It is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way and was often referred to as the Great Andromeda Nebula in older texts. It received its name from the area of the sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda, which was named after the mythological princess Andromeda.
Being approximately 220,000 light years across, Andromeda is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also contains the Milky Way, the Triangulum Galaxy, and about 44 other smaller galaxies. Despite earlier findings that suggested that the Milky Way contains more dark matter and could be the largest in the grouping,[12] the 2006 observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope revealed that Andromeda contains one trillion (1012) stars:[9] at least twice the number of stars in the Milky Way, which is estimated to be 200–400 billion.[13]
It is not perfect, have a few bad alignments near the center.
Anyway, it was my first mosaic in LRGB, which is a bit difficult to merge all of these filters. Luminance was easy, but with the others I was got a lot of troubles.
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
Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 400x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 50x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 50x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 50x180s
Bortle Scale: 4
Location: Isaszeg, Hungary
Acquisition date(s):
2021.04.08., 2021.04.16., 2021.05.04., 2021.05.05., 2021.05.07., 2021.05.08., 2021.05.09., 2021.05.10., 2021.05.11., 2021.05.12, 2021.05.15., 2021.05.16., 2021.05.20., 2021.05.21.
Found in the constellation of Orion (near the feet of Gemini!) NGC 2174 is an HII emission rich nebula.
Lying at a distance of 6,400 light years the nebula is a stellar nursery where hot, new stars are being formed.
I was able to gather some OIII data in addition to the Ha data I had acquired on the 23 & 26.02.19.
The Ha data was mapped to the red channel and the OIII data was mapped to the blue channel.
A synthetic green channel was created using a blend of the blue and red data.
A blend of the Ha and OIII data was used as luminance.
Imaged with a focal reduced Skywatcher ED80 refractor and a ZWO 1600MM Pro camera cooled to -15C. I used Baader narrowband filters.
35x600s Ha
23x600s OIII
Calibrated with temp. matched darks using DSS and processed using Photoshop.
The brightest part of the Heart nebula (a knot at its western edge) is separately classified as NGC 896, because it was the first part of the nebula to be discovered. The nebula's intense red output and its morphology are driven by the radiation emanating from a small group of stars near the nebula's center. This open cluster of stars, known as Collinder 26 or Melotte 15, contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass of our Sun, and many more dim stars that are only a fraction of our Sun's mass.
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
Lacerta Dew-heater 20cm
Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm
Programs:
PixInsight
Adobe Photoshop CC 2020
Details:
Camera temp: -15°C
Gain: 200
Astronomik 6nm Ha: 96x300s
Astronomik 6nm O3: 36x300s
The Heart Nebula, IC 1805, Sharpless 2-190, lies some 7500 light years away from Earth and is located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by William Herschel on 3 November 1787. It is an emission nebula showing glowing ionized hydrogen gas and darker dust lanes.
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
Lacerta Dew-heater 20cm
Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm
Programs:
PixInsight
Adobe Photoshop CC 2020
Details:
Camera temp: -15°C
Gain: 200
Astronomik 6nm Ha: 96x300s
Astronomik 6nm O3: 36x300s
Death star.
When an average G-type star like our Sun grows old, it uses up all its hydrogen, begins burning helium and swells up into a red giant. As it uses up its helium it ejects its outer layers, which expand outwards forming what we call a planetary nebula.
The life span of the nebula is relatively short - about 10,000 years.
Left behind is the star’s core, which becomes a white dwarf star, no longer undergoing nuclear fusion. It just radiates its heat away over billions more years until it cools into a black dwarf.
It is believed that the Universe is not yet old enough for black dwarfs to exist.
Exposure: 30 x 30 sec = 15 min.
SkyWatcher ED120 telescope + ZWO ASI071 camera.
Date: 2019-08-24
I was lucky with some really good seeing last night. Great detail when observing Mars with a half meter Dobsonian inspired me to 'fire up the Quattro' and have another go at imaging it. Quite pleased with this.
Skywatcher Quattro CF 25cm f4. 5mm eyepiece projection. Imaging Source DFK 21AU camera. 1/35th second exposures at max gain. PiPP, Registax and Affinity Photo to process. 2000 frames reduced to 1600.
The prominent dark monkey wrench shaped feature in the centre is Sinus Sabaeus with Sinus Meridiani at the tip. The subtle paler patch left of centre is Pyrrhae Regio and the large blank area upper right is Moab & Aeria. The row of dots stretching from left to right just below centre is, I believe, Decaulionis Regio.
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 OAG
ZWO 1.25 Helical focuser
Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm
Programs:
PixInsight
Adobe Photoshop CC 2020
Details:
Camera temp: -15°C
Gain: 111
Astronomik 6nm Ha: 25x300s
Astronomik 6nm Oxygen: 16x300s
Dark: 60x
Bias: 100x
Flat: 20x
Dark_flats: 20x
This is an image of the waxing, gibbous moon on Valentine's Day.
Managed to image the moon in a clear patch yesterday evening between unremitting cloud cover.
Imaged with my little Skywatcher ED72 refractor and a Canon 760D camera. A total of 75 stacked exposures.
Weather outlook is awful here so that could be it for a while.
Sky: Class 8 Bortle.
Lights: Total 5H30
33x600s Optolong L-Extreme
DOF: 20x
Prétraitement: Siril
Traitement: PixInsight / EZ Processing Suite / PS / DxO PhotoLab
Canon 700D Défiltré
Skywatcher 80ED Equinox (80x500)
Télévue TV85 Field Flatteneur 0.8x
Skywatcher Neq6 Pro
Guide Scope: Zwo 30mm F/4
Guide Cam: Zwo Asi120MM
Guide Soft: Phd2 on Rpi
distance ca. 1350 Lj
RGB Equipment:
Skywatcher ED80/600
Skywatcher Reducer x0,85
EOS 1000Da
Celestron VX
Guiding:
i-Nova PLA-Mx on 9x50 Finderscope
PHD
17x300s ISO800
08.12.2015
H-Alpha Equipment:
Skywatcher Esprit ED80
TS-Optics 0.79 Reducer
ASI183mm
1,25" Baader H-Alpha Filter
Celestron AVX
guiding with 50mm finderscope and ASI120
PHD2
64x240s H-Alpha
20.01.2020
Processing: PixInsight\Affinity Photo
Telescope , Skywatcher 90 mm f10 achromatic refractor.
Panasonic GF6 micro 4/3rds coupled to scope with T adaptor. This combination results in a working focal length of 1800mm.
EQ 3 Equatorial mount .
NGC 6188 is an emission nebula located about 4,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation Ara. The open cluster of NGC 6193, which is visible to the naked eye, is responsible for a region of reflection nebulosity within NGC 6188.
Not a lot of data was collected in this image, but we are very happy with the final result from this processing combination of Ha=red, Oiii=green and Oiii=blue
Equipment Details:
• 8 Inch Skywatcher Quattro Carbon Fibre F4.0 Newtonian Reflector
• Skywatcher NEQ6 Mount
• SBIG STT 8300m CCD Camera cooled to -20'c
• SBIG FW8G-STT Filter Wheel
• Baader Ha and Oiii
• SKywatcher BD 102mm Guide Scope
• Meade DSIii CCD Guide Camera
• Polemaster for polar alignment
Exposure Details:
•Ha 8 X300 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Oiii 6 X300 seconds - Bin 1x1
Total Integration Time: 1 hours and 10 minutes
OTA: Newtonian Celestron 130 mm/f5 modified
Mount: Skywatcher Heq 5
Imaging Camera: Canon 700D astro modified
Telescope Guide: Gso 50mm
Camera Guide: QHY5L II Mono
Baader Mk III Coma Corrector
Polemaster Eletronic Polar Scope
Total Exposure: 3:30 hours (subs 300 sec)
Deep Sky Stacker: Calibration and stacking
Adobe Photoshop Cs2 : Data Processing,
Pulg-in: Hasta la vista, green, astroflat pro
PHD Guiding 2: Guide
Darks, Dark Flats, Flats and Bias apply
Serra Negra ( Bortle 4) /São Paulo/Brasil . 11/2022
This is a two panel shot of the area the middle being the Horse Head. The right side took three night the left side took two night. the difference was the tree next to the mount got pruned so the shots went to 4 am.
This was my first trial of using the rotation marks and getting the cameras square to the shot all 5 night had the very same error 3.3 degrees within the 5 degree limit I had set. I watched each night to see if I had to change rotation. The two shots fitted together perfectly making this method very workable.
This was the fav nebula of mine since I was a kid seeing the close up of the Horse on the red background. My only regret my father did not get to see this shot.
QHY183C -10c 82 shots Each Panel 10 min each over 5 nights and camera rotated.
Prima Luce Essato Focus ,
Optolong L-eNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.
Andromède.
Images :
Canon EOS 700D défiltré
Canon 300mm F4L + Multiplicateur Kenko 1.4
Monture Skywatcher Star Adventurer
Trépied Vanguard Alta Pro 264 AT
44*90s à F5.6 et 1600ISOS + 50 darks + 40 offsets + 40 flats.
Traitement :
Siril
Photoshop / Astronomy Tools Action Set
Lightroom
November 2022 Total Lunar Eclipse 4:34AM - 5:56 AM EST
I got early on a Tuesday Morning to watch the eclipse out on my neighborhood street. While it was cold and windy, it was still an amazing sight as the moon descended down to moonset.
Pentax K-3
Skywatcher ED72 on Skywatcher Virtuoso Mount
Individual frames composited in Photoshop
It is need more integration time. My goal is 10 hours with Ha and 10 hours with Oiii too.
The Ha is done.
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: 111
Astronomik 6nm Ha: 120x300s
Astronomik 6nm Oiii: 50x300s
Bortle Scale: 4
Location: Isaszeg, Hungary
The Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Here are16 x 60 sec shots stacked in Sequator. Canon 60D with optolong L Enhance filter on a Skywatcher Quattro 250P F4 Scope.
Skywatcher 120mm f/7.5 refractor with Baader Hershel safety wedge. ASI290MM camera.
Best 10% of 13200 images (3 minutes at 74 fps) stacked in AutoStackert3!
Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's Day and i just got my Heart Nebula data processed and edited. First time using a dual-band pass filter and was excited to see what my OSC astro camera could capture, turned out pretty good altough the integration time was only 4hrs 30min.
Canon 400mm f5.6
Optolong L-eNhance Filter
Skywatcher HEQ5 PRO
ZWO Mini 30mm Guide scope
ZWO ASI120MM Mini mono
ZWO ASI 533 MC PRO
ZWO ASIAIR Plus
43 x 300s
5 x 600s
Equipment:
Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)
Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto
Guide scope: Lacerta 72/432 Apo
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, 200
Astronomik L-3 UV/IR Block: 36x180s
Astronomik 6nm Ha: 28x300s
Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 6x300s
Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 6x300s
Dark: 60x
Flat: 60x
I was suggested my target I had chosen was good one but at astro fest no one is going to hang around to see a 10min shot. So I went for the area next the Star bank in the Large Magellanic cloud ( blueish area to the left.) .
The other advantage in live stacking the colour chip in this camera shows up when stacked. I tested out the sequence before I went live at astrofest. Its looking like this year is only indoors Saturday is Rain and total cloud cover. Oh well I got to learn a little more about Nina and the shot gets seen even though its not live. Part of doing the sequence the photos get saved in the stack from my trial night and the night at astrofest would only add to the stack but a better looking photo from all the combined shots.
ZWOASI071MC Pro -10c 260 over two nights shot 2 min
MeLE Mini PC
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps.
You have seen part of this before but as I am waiting for a target to rise In the milky way that I found when I did the milky way panorama. I do not have a name for the nebula but know where it is on the milky way its one I have never see in any photo so it going to be a new look at some thing I have never seen close.
So what became just the" body" top left I went clockwise taking the whole of the Running Chicken Nebula as an extra 3 shot to get the whole of the Nebula. I still can NOT see it even though I am enjoying this years Shiraz I still cant see no chicken. none the less enjoy the fruits or a lot of night to get the total in all its detail. Last was a single shot ED80 and APSC ZWO as a single shot.
QHY 183C -10c 55 shots 10 min over 9 night some in moonlight. .
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps .
My first go at imaging the comet 'locally'.
Equipment: SkyWatcher ED80 refractor, Canon EOS 5D at prime focus, HEQ5 mount.
Stack of 11 x 90-second exposures @ f/7.5 and ISO-3200.
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the 3310, 3311, 3312 and 3313 spots.
The Horsehead Nebula is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, one of the bottom stars in Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.
This was our longest total exposure, comprising of approximately 15 hours of Ha. R, G and B frames. Captured with the Sbig ST2000xm attached to the Skywatcher ED80.
Equipment:
Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6
Focal length: 432mm
Corrector: Flattener for Lacerta 72/432 Apo
Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto Belt-modded
Guidescope: Orion 50mm mini 162mm F3.2
Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini
Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera
Accessories:
ZWO EFW 8x1.25"
ZWO EAF
Lacerta Dew-heater 20cm
Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm
TP-Link TL-WR902AC
PegasusAstro Pocket Powerbox Advance
Programs:
PixInsight
PHD2
Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy N.I.N.A.
Details:
Camera temp: -15°C
Gain: 53
Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 19x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 15x120s
Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 15x120s
Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 15x120s
Bortle Scale: 4
Location: Isaszeg, Hungary