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Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and a Canon 600D at prime focus. Baader Astrosolar filter fitted to scope. Not much to see in white light today
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks
Eyepiece: super 10mm.
Edited with MS Pciture Manager.
Skywatcher Esprit 100, EQ6-R.
QHY268M, Antlia 3.0nm SHO
Sii: 21x600"
Ha: 16x600"
[Oiii]: 18x600"
Total Integration: 9 hours 10 minutes
I sometimes like to go for lesser known objects that I can find from my back garden. This 'tiny' nebula, NGC 1931, is one I came across last night.
NGC 1931 was discovered by William Herschel on February 4, 1793 in the constellation of Auriga. It is a young star cluster, surrounded by a nebula of gas and dust and has partly amorphous, but partly also a filament-like structure. The dust nebula surrounds a small cluster of faint stars. It resembles a miniature version of the Orion Nebula and is located in a spiral arm of the Milky Way, which is probably an extension of the Perseus arm. The distance from earth is estimated at about 6 to 7 thousand light years.
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Telescope: Celestron C11-A XLT Schmidt Cassegrain OTA
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro
Controller: ZWO ASIAIR Pro
Main Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -10C
Filter: Optolong L-eNhance filter
Focuser: ZWO EAF
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI174MM Mini guidecam
Guide via: ZWO OAG
Stacked from:
Lights 26 at 180 seconds, gain 101, temp -10C
Darks 30 at 180 seconds, gain 101, temp -10C
Flat 30 at 740 ms, gain 101, temp -10C
Dark Flat 30 at 740 ms gain 101 temp -10C
Bortle 4 sky.
Integrated the saved frames in Astro Pixel Processor.
Adjusted in Photoshop CS4 and Topaz DeNoise AI
Shot in Chisinau, Moldova (Bortle 6)
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED (72/420mm)
IDAS LPS-D3 filter
Flattener
Nikon D610 (ISO200, 120s)
Guided on RA
Pre- and initial post-processing using Siril (all 225 frames stacked)
Tweaked in RawTherapee
Sent through StarFixer
Final post-processing in RawTherapee
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
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)
I made a solar filter for my SkyWatcher 900mm scope, using a Baader Planetarium film and then attached my Canon 550D.
During the eclipse it was cloudy, and we couldn't see anything, but the sun started to burn through it towards the end. I started trying to take photos, but could see nothing but black, so it took a while to find usable settings.
Once I discovered I could take photos that weren't completely one shade I started trying to line the scope up to actually find the sun. This took ages, but the sequence of photos here show what happened when I finally got it.
I'd missed almost the entire thing, but the moon was still taking a tiny bite out of the edge, so I didn't cry.
I could not focus the camera, sadly. It only adjusts so far and that proved not to be far enough. I'm not sure if that means astrophotography is out for me or if I can maybe change some cheap parts to improve it.
It's also not clear how much the home made filter affects this. Despite my best efforts, the solar film did end up a bit warped and wrinkly!
SkyWatcher Equinox Pro 80ED, Altair IMX178, Lunar Filter, 150 Frames Stacked and Processed in PIPP and Registax, Finished in Lightroom and Registax.
My third visit to the Orion Nebula liking it more each time I try to capture it. Nikon D5100 prime focus with Skywatcher 127 Mak
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
Also known NGC 1499, an emission nebula located in the constellation Perseus. Its name comes from its resemblance to the outline of the US State of California in long exposure photographs. It is almost 2.5° long and, because of its very low surface brightness, it is extremely difficult to observe visually. It can be observed with a Hα filter or Hβ filter under dark skies. It lies at a distance of about 1,000 light years from Earth. Its fluorescence is due to excitation by the nearby prodigiously energetic O7 star, Xi Persei, also known as Menkib..........Wikipedia
Skywatcher 8" Quattro f4
Skywatcher EQ6-R Mount
ZWO ASI533 Main Camera
ZWO AS120 Guide Camera
40 exp @180 secs
GraxPert, Siril & Adobe PS
This impressive sunspot group was captured with a Sky-Watcher 100ED, Thousand Oaks Optical solar filter and Imaging Source DFK 21AU04.AS camera.
Skywatcher 150/1200, prism de Herschel, DMK51, Barlow 2x, additions de 1000 images + de détails www.astrobin.com/67497/B/
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 :-)