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Imaging telescopes or lenses: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED APO Triplet
Imaging cameras: ZWO 1600MM-COOL
Mounts: Sky Watcher NEQ6 pro
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED APO Triplet
Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI 120 MC-s
Software: Photoshop CC Photoshop · Astrophotography Tool · DeepSkyStacker 4.1.1 64bit Deepskystacker
Filters: Chroma 5nm HA · Chroma OIII 3nm
Accessory: ZWO EFW 36 mm Filter Wheel
Frames:
Chroma 5nm HA: 32x600" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1
Chroma OIII 3nm: 32x600" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1
Using the new Skywatcher Adventure Mount. This is a mini EQ head for tracking the rotation of the sky only and, thus, is extremely simple to use and operate. It includes a polar alignment scope standard.
You can buy different kits, but I spent a few more bucks and got the Skywatcher Adventure "Star Adventure" that has a vixen mount for a telescope, but this vixen mount has an ingenious cutout so you can use the polar scope!!! This allowed me to mount my camera and then polar align. I used an iphone app to help me align.
Orion Constellation test, 60 images x 1minute, stacked in DPP, on a 10d infrared modified, Celestron UHC front mounted on 28-105mm lens at 28mm. Not a hard test, but pretty good for a first night out.
Internal reflections up the wazzu. But hey I've got well over 30 scared at night lights in my alley.
Skywatcher 250PX Flextube
10" F5 Dobsonian - great all round scope
South Coast Astro Group
Astronomy on the South Coast of the UK
Imaging:
Canon 1D3 on Skywatcher Equinox 80mm with Televue TRF-2008 Reducer/Flattener.
Lights 18 x 600s f/5.0 ISO 100
Darks 10 x
Flats 72 x
Bias 77 x
Guiding:
Piggy Back. Orion Starshoot on Skywatcher 80mm f/5 refractor.
Guide Frames x 2s
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I really wanted to get back to this one since i took this shot. Skies were quite clear last night, and with no moon, i decided to go for it.
Well i ended up messing up the framing a bit, if i had not used the flattener and my 1D3 the nebula would have been cut off, but luckily i got it all in frame. There are so many freaking stars around that area, and the nebula is so dark, it hard to know exactly where you are (yes i do use PHD to help acquire my targets). But all worked out well in the end.
Hot dam 10 minute lights, and all of them were bang on!
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks
Eyepiece: super 10mm.
Edited with MS Pciture Manager.
Skywatcher D 80mm, F 600mm, primary focus using CANON EOS 600D, single exposure 1/10s.
50 km south of Lakeland, Queenland, Australia
Ángel R. López-Sánchez (Australian Astronomical Observatory / Macquarie University,
Agrupación Astronómica de Córdoba / Red Andaluza de Astronomía)
SkyWatcher Equinox Pro 80ED, Altair IMX178, Lunar Filter, 150 Frames Stacked and Processed in PIPP and Registax, Finished in Lightroom and Registax.
Skywatcher ESPRIT120 ED@840mm focal length
Skywatcher Flattner 1.0x
ZWO ASI2400MC Pro
Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro
ZWO ASIAIR
Pix+PS
Exif:
150 x 120secs RGB
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks
Eyepiece: super 10mm
Brightness edited with MS Picture Manager.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor with a 10mm eyepiece in projection can connected to a Canon 600D. Baader Astrosolar filter fitted to scope. 12 image stack as scope non-guided on a AZ3 mount
Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED + Barlow 3x + Sony A7S. Pre-processed using RawTherapee, stacked using AS!3 (81 frames in the final stack) and post-processed again in RawTherapee
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and Canon 500D at prime focus ( 600mm ) Baader Astrosolar Film Filter..
Comparing this image with the one earlier with a continuum filter, I have to say that a small scope like the ED80 performs better without it. Waste of money ? possibly. May be of more benefit when using a larger scope which is more affected by seeing conditions. Going to try with my 6" Refractor at a later date. I am willing to concede that the Baader Continuum may make a difference when the seeing is not so good.
Processing the image from the continuum filter is also more laborious as the image is bright green to start with, possibly better to produce image from it in mono, but I don't like drab looking suns :-)
This impressive sunspot group was captured with a Sky-Watcher 100ED, Thousand Oaks Optical solar filter and Imaging Source DFK 21AU04.AS camera.
Skywatcher 72ED and Atik 314L with UHC and UV/IR block filters piggybacked to main scope on CEM60. 28 subs at 120secs each stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop CS2,no flat nor dark frame subtraction.
Pretty clean...
And fast..
This is only 3x900 unbinned.
And on a lighter mount (EQ6)
Shaking my head a bit.....all this struggle with the 30cm scope...........
maybe not worth it.
Skywatcher 150/750
HEQ 5 Pro Go To
ESO 1000D
160 subs * 60s DOF 28/34/15
ISO 400
Pre and post processing with Pixinsight
Skywatcher 150/1200, prism de Herschel, DMK51, Barlow 2x, additions de 1000 images + de détails www.astrobin.com/67497/B/
A video of the moon last night, ready for splitting up into frames and then stacking. Skywatcher Explorer 200p with a Canon 650d attached.
This is my Astrophotography setup. It comprises of the following:
Skywatcher NEQ6 pro SynScan Mount
HitecAstro EQDIR interface
HitecAstro Dew controller
Celestron 8 inch f4 reflector with a baeder mpcc.
Philips spc900 camera with long exposure mod
Skywatcher st102 refractor guidescope
QHY5 guide camera
Canon eos 450d with L series 70 - 200mm lens.
This is all run from a windows laptop running the following:
Cartes du Ciel
PHD
Deep Sky Stacker
Registax
Backyard EOS
Lightroom 3
Skywatcher 150/1200, DMK51, Barlow 2x, additions de 2500 images + de détails www.astrobin.com/84785/