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SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the huge 2786 spot, the largest to rise over the Sun for at least 3 years and the biggest of the recent new cycle (25).
is a barred spiral galaxy located 22.5 million light years away
distance 22.5 Mly
exposure time: 13,7 hours
Processing: PixInsight/affinity photo
Equipment:
10" /f4 TS ONTC Newton
ASI1600mmc v2
ZWO EFW 8x
Skywatcher EQ8
Guiding TS9 OAG Lodestar
247x120s Luminanz
55x120s red
50x120s green
59x120s blue
February/March 2021
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, 111
Astronomik 6nm Ha: 67x300s
Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 80x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 20x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 20x180s
Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 11x180s
Bortle Scale: 4
Location: Isaszeg, Hungary
Acquisition date(s):
2021.03.27., 2021.03.29., 2021.04.04.
7 x 600second Ha
10 x 600second OIII
10 x 600second darks
Skywatcher 130pds, HEQ5
QHY Img2pro
6nm Ha Astronomik Clip filter
12nm OIII Astronomik Clip filter
Designation: NGC 2070, Caldwell 103
Constellation: Dorado.
Location: Large Magellanic Cloud.
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Visual magnitude: +5.0
Apparent size: 40 x 25 arc-minutes.
Diameter: 1833 light years.
Distance: 160,000 light years.
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Total exposure: 106 min.
SkyWatcher Esprit 120 mm apochromatic 3-element refractor.
Camera: ZWO ASI 071 MC Pro.
Date: 2020-02-19
Skywatcher Esprit 80/400, ASI2600MM-Pro, Astronomik Ha-OIII en 6 nm pour 6h et 5h.
HEQ5 kit Rowan
Capture : NINA
Traitement : Pixinsight (Plugins NoiseXterminator et StarXterminator), GraXpert
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
ZWO EFW 8x1.25"
Lacerta Dew-heater 20cm
Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm
Programs:
PixInsight
Adobe Photoshop CC 2020
Details:
Camera temp: -15°C
Gain: 111
Astronomik 6nm Ha: 52x300s
Astronomik 6nm Oxygen: 15x300s
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible the tiny 2882 spot this time.
This was the other project that I was going to work on with the 105mm lens. The Vela Super nova and the Gums. Also in an area not far from the Carina Area, This show you more the relation ship of the parts to each other. This has been worth while using just a Nikon lens to capture there and i quite good detail.
This was shot over two nights Nikon 105mm F2.8 Macro lens in total 100 odd shots. Its good to see most of the target I have taken over the last few years with the ED80 in reality to each other. I make no apology for the number of stars in the shot.
ZWOASI071 -7 100 shots 450 sec rotated 7 Degrees
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.
Old data processing of M106 galaxy ( 24/04/2020 ) .
Processed with the help of sp.la.sh.id, find him on Instagram: www.instagram.com/sp.la.sh.id/
Gear used:
■ Mount: skywatcher neq-6 goto with Rowan modification belt
■ Telescope: skywatcher 200/1000 F/5
■ Autoguiding: Asi 120mm
■ Total exposure: 2H25m || 29 X 300 seconds
■ Camera: modified canon eos 700d astrodon
■ Filter(s): no filter
■ Other optic(s): baader coma corrector
■ Software : Siril / PixInsight / photoshopCC
2.4 hours of 3 min stacked exposures. 120mm Skywatcher , Canon Rebel 6ti mod, My first great astrophoto. 1,500 light-years away. The left star is the left star in Orion's Belt.
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: 4:00 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 . 05/2022
Helix Nebula ( NGC 7293, The Eye of God ) in Aquarius - by Mike O'Day ( 500px.com/MikeODay )..The visible remains of a star that died around 10,000 years ago, the Helix Nebula ( NGC 7293 ) is one of the closest and largest of the so-called planetary nebulae that are observable from Earth. Situated in the same arm of the Milkyway galaxy as ourselves, the Helix Nebula is around 650 light years away, is growing at a rate of over 100,000 kms / sec and is currently around 2.5 light years across...Links:..https://500px.com/MikeODay.http://photo.net/photos/MikeODay..Details:..RA 22h 30m 33.9s, Dec -20deg 44' 57.1"'. .Skywatcher Quattro 10" f4 Newtonian. .Skywatcher AZ Eq6 GT Mount.Orion auto guider - PHD2. .Baader MPCC Mark 3 Coma Corrector..Nikon D5300 (unmodified)..Field of view (deg) ~ 1.35 x 0.90..long exp. noise reduction on.17 x 120 sec ISO800..Pixinsight & Photoshop.12 August 2016.
C/2020 NEOWISE F3
Need to work on my comet processing but my days, what a beauty Comet Neowise is. This is a total of 10 minutes exposure, 20x30 seconds with 20 darks, tracked and guided on the nucleus. Canon 5dsr, no filters, Skywatcher EquinoX 80ED, HEQ5Pro
I was trying out some new equipment when I thought I would try Carina as it was over head. At one point I had to go inside the smoke was so strong and the Guiding got very bad. Only the Second shot I have done that was almost totally edited in PixInsight never see the amount of nebulocity around the main nebula. the mount stopped as the house next door got in the way enjoy the Southern hemisphere at 900mm. DSLR @ 600mm same scope.
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Taken with ZWO CMOS camera 49 Files 10 min files Shot With
ZWO ASI071MC Pro @ -10c
Manual Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher EQM35Goto
Guided PHD2, SGP
DSS, Pixinsight, Ps, Lr.
The Perseus double cluster complex imaged during a brief period of clear weather on night of 9th October. Consisting of two open star clusters NGC869 (top) and NGC884 (below) the complex lies at a distance of around 7500 lightyears from us.
Both clusters contain hot white and blue-white comparatively young stars as well as some supergiant red ones. These red/orange stars are more numerous within NGC884.
The clusters are physically close in space and are believed to contain at least 300 hot-white and blue-white super massive, super-luminous, giant stars in each cluster.
Conditions were not great with clouds coming and going with variable transparency on Saturday night. Eventually fog and mist moved in calling a halt to my imaging session and I had to trash a number of exposures.
Imaged with my little Skywatcher 72ED refractor with flattener and a ZWO ASI2600MC camera.
29 x 180 second guided exposures
30x Darks
No flats
Gain 100 @-10°C
Thanks for looking!
Three consecutive nights of shots in the city light area some with moon light some with no moon. 118 shots 10 min ISO 200 Guided PHD2 Dev3. Shot DSLR Nikon D810 using a Skywatcher ED80.
This was a case of set and let it auto start in SGP each night in the end close to 20 hours of shot time in total. First time all of this has gone without a hitch all in auto mode starting and stopping by itself.
Most of this editing was stretching very little colour edit as much as possible as shot. I wanted all the colour that is around the nebula as well as the nebula. Only very small crop to remove stacking artifacts.
M106 captured over the course of 3 months from my back garden.
Captured in LRGBHa totalling an exposure time of around 39 hours.
- ZWO 533MM
- Antlia LRGB V-Pro & 3nm Ha 36mm filters
- EQ6R Pro
- Skywatcher 200P (modified)
- NINA, APP, PS
NGC 3372 Carina Nebula to show all the extra details close to the core.Keyhole Nebula ,Eta Carinae ,Homunculus Nebula ,Defiant Finger ,Trumpler 14 , 15 and 16 .Mystic Mountain. 15 x 55 second exposures with flat and darks stacked in DSS improved in Pixinsight and PS. Canon 5DSr on a Sky Watcher Quattro 250 F4 mounted to a Sky Watcher NEQ6 pro .
M78 and Barnard's Loop in the constellation Orion.
Preliminary result of one of my favourites.
I have to double the total exposure time with longer subs for a smoother background and to enhance the weaker parts of the nebula.
Canon EOS 7Da
Lacerta ED 72/432 plus 0,85x Flattener
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro | Lacerta M-GEN | Finderscope 9x50
17x 1200sec | ISO400
more Details: www.astrobin.com/274868/?nc=all
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© Claus Steindl
This is the result Of shooting three nights in a Row with out a moon or clouds. In total 68 shots or 11 1/2 hours shot time I had the trees one side and the house the other so limited my number of shot to 30odd a night. The shots guided with PHD2 Dev3 which proved very good at guiding. For the first time editing done in Pix Insight, Photoshop and Finished out in Light room. This is the Skywatcher ED 80 scope at work with the D810 the extra detail that came out with each night photos added made this worth while.
This is 12 shots(6x2) as the milky way rises in our Southern Skies as per the plan by Nina, This Is Not Seen North Of The Equator. This is halfway to where I want to get there is another panorama of 12 shots to go to get to the panorama I took last year. Each Panel is a night worth of shots then added to PtGui to get the panorama. There positively no edits on the stars this is the number that the camera can see.
ZWOASI071MC -10 43 shots per night
600 sec rotated 80 degrees.
Nikon 105 mm f2.8 G Lens
Optolong LeNhance filter,
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.
M16, Eagle Nebula with its Pillars of Creation. The Eagle Nebula lies in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way, about 7,000 light-years away.
Esprit 120, QHY268M SkyWatcher EQ6R pro mount
This is an image of the Sunflower Galaxy in Canes Venatici.
Discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1779 it lies at approaching 30 million light-years from earth and is some 100,000 light-years across. It was catalogued by Charles Messier as M63. The galaxy is also catalogued NGC 5055.
The galaxy has been given its moniker because of its resemblance to the dense, seedy head and overlapping petals of a Sunflower!
M63 is what is known as a flocculent spiral galaxy. These galaxies are characterised by their patchy, feathery, flaky or lumpy disjointed arms giving a mottled appearance. The Sunflower has only 2 spiral arms but the flocculate appearance makes it hard to define them.
Surprisingly, flocculate galaxies actually make up 30% of spiral galaxies with only 10% being grand design spirals - the more common perception of what a galaxy should look like!
A prominent dust lane is visible in the galaxy at front left.
Imaged with a Skywatcher Esprit 120ED and a ZWO 2600MC camera.
A total of 7.0hr exposure over 3 nights April 2021, March 2022 and March 2024.
Calibrated with Temp. matched darks, Flats and Dark Flats.
Thanks for looking!
After cloud cover all day a brief unexpected clearance last night allowed me to image the waxing moon.
The moon is approx. 85% illuminated and the brightest area of the moon, the crater Aristarchus, is nicely contrasted within the gloom of the lunar terminator. (LHS)
The subtle colour variations within the moon's surface are also nicely revealed.
My small short focal length refractor, a Skywatcher ED72, was already mounted and I attached it to a Nikon D5300 DSLR to capture this image.
This image shows the AZ-GTI carrying a heavy load with a William Optics Megrez 88 telescope, a ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro astro camera, a filter wheel and an autoguider.
The images I take with my Skywatcher AZ-GTI mount raise many questions about how I can use this ALT/AZ mount for astrophotography.
I recently wrote an article about the topic that should answer most of these questions. You find it under:
milkywayphotographers.com/article/2021/03/11/sky-watcher-...
I hope it makes an interesting read.
Luna 19 May 2013.
I was determined to try my first real session of astrophotography using my new telescope last night, but a failure to correctly polar align, as well as incoming clouds put an end to that idea.
I did however manage to observe saturn which was amazing, and of course Luna.
This was taken prime using a Canon 1000D (baader modified) through my Skywatcher 200P-DS. I need to get a 2" barlow :)
P.S It makes a lovely iPad mini homescreen image :)
Camera: Zwo Asi183mm Pro
Telescope: Lacerta 200/800 F4
Corrector: Gyulai Pál GPU
Filters: Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB, Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block, Astronomik 6nm SHO
Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Belt-modded
Guiding: Orion 50mm Mini guidescope, Zwo Asi120mm mini kamera, N.I.N.A
Images:
Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 264x120s Gain53 -15°C
Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 100x120s Gain53 -15°C
Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 104x120s Gain53 -15°C
Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 109x120s Gain53 -15°C
Isaszeg, Bortle 4
Images :
Canon EOS 700D défiltré
Canon 70/200mm F4L à 80mm
Monture Skywatcher Star Adventurer
Trépied Vanguard Alta Pro 264 AT
240*90s à F4 et 1600ISOS + 150 darks + 80 offsets + 80 flats.
30*20s à F4 et 800ISOS + 10 darks + 10 offsets et 10 fats pour le coeur d'Orion.
Traitement :
Siril
Lightroom
Photoshop / Astronomy Tools Action Set.
Cloud iridescence or irisation is a colorful optical phenomenon that occurs in a cloud and appears in the general proximity of the Sun or Moon. The colors resemble those seen in soap bubbles and oil on a water surface.
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the 4076 and the huge 4079 spots.
ASI 294 MC PRO.
72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.
Star Adventurer 2i.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc
L-Extreme 37x300s
Bortle 8.
PixInsight,
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 10mm.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the 2765 spot, the most proeminent to emerge on solar disk since January.
Practising with a new planetary camera ASI-178MC attached to Skywatcher 127 Mak telescope. Best photo I've managed of Saturn so far - but still room for improvement. (Autostakkert and Registax software used for processing)
First look at the New Prima Luce Lab Esatto Focuser, not a cheap option but a far better option the the Skywatcher and ZWO.
104 shot 10 min each over two night
ZWO ASI071MC Pro @ -10c
Prima Luce Essato Focus ,
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher EQM35Goto
Guided PHD2, SGP
DSS, Pixinsight, Ps.
Part of an HII (ionized Hydrogen) region in Cassiopeia the Pacman Nebula is a bright emission nebula.
Named for its resemblance to the video game character the nebula lies at a distance of around 9500 light years from earth.
This image captured in narrowband Ha light was acquired over 2 nights - 17 & 18th September in strong moonlight. After a prolonged period (seemingly never-ending!) of poor skies was glad to be out imaging again!
Hopefully will have some OIII and SII to add later.
My first narrowband effort with my new Skywatcher Esprit 120ED scope.
40x300s Guided Ha subs. using ZWO 1600MM cooled to -15 and Gain 200.
Darks
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Designation: Caldwell 92, NGC 3372.
Constellation: Carina.
Visual magnitude: +1.0.
Apparent size: 120′ x 120′.
Diameter: 349 light years.
Distance 10,000 light years.
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Date: 2020-02-14
Exposure: 68×106.6 sec = 120 min.
Camera: ZWO ASI 071 MC Pro
Telescope: Skywatcher Esprit 120
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6R
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My first try with the new chip that was put in the camera to replace the broken usb.
I was sent a QHY183M mono chip not the QHY183C Colour chip caused all sorts of problems in the end this camera getting found is now know as QHY183M but takes coloured photos. I lost a whole lot of time with the camera Changes and setting up. This is in effect only 33 shots But happy the way it came out.
QHY183C -10c 33 shot 10 min
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps.
An inverted mono, false coloured wide view of a solar active region (AR12644) and solar limb prominences. Original data captured on April 2nd 2017.
Equipment Used :
Skywatcher 120mm Evostar (HEQ5)
Daystar Quark Chromosphere Ha Eyepiece
PG Blackfly Mono CMOS
The heart of the Heart nebula revisited using the "natural palette" with special attention to the dark nebulas there.
It a complete rework of a previous image made on SHOrgb.
A total of 57 hours of integration and a lot of intermediate version on the process.
Still I think that I could obtain more details, but this will be next year (maybe :P ).
Technical card
Imaging telescopes or lenses:Teleskop Service TS Photoline 107mm f/6.5 Super-Apo , Altair Astro RC250-TT 10" RC Truss Tube
Imaging cameras:ZWO ASI183MM-Cool , ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mounts:Skywatcher EQ6R Pro , Mesu 200 Mk2
Guiding telescopes or lenses:Celestron OAG Deluxe , Teleskop Service TSOAG9 Off-Axis Guider
Guiding cameras:ZWO ASI290 Mini , ZWO ASI174 Mini
Focal reducers:Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x , Telescope-Service TS 2" Flattener
Software:Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight , Seqence Generator Pro
Filters:Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm , Optolong SII 6.5nm 36mm , Optolong OIII 6.5nm 36mm
Accessory:ZWO EFW , MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30 , MoonLite CSL 2.5" Focuser with High Res Stepper Motor
Dates:Nov. 29, 2019
Frames:
Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm: 166x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Optolong OIII 6.5nm 36mm: 80x600" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: -75.00) -15C bin 1x1
Optolong SII 6.5nm 36mm: 80x600" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 56.6 hours
Avg. Moon age: 2.95 days
Avg. Moon phase: 9.53%
Astrometry.net job: 3907933
RA center: 2h 34' 16"
DEC center: +61° 21' 18"
Pixel scale: 1.007 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 359.646 degrees
Field radius: 0.408 degrees
Resolution: 1760x2328
Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain
Data source: Own remote observatory
Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility
This is the beautiful last quarter waning moon imaged this morning (29/09) after a very chilly night here.
Imaged with my little Skywatcher 72ED refractor and a ZWO 2600MC camera.
Comet Leonard 31-12-21 Canon 5Dsr 70-200mmL @200mm. 22 x 30 sec shots stacked in sequator . Piggy backed on skywatcher Quattro 250P F4 on a NEQ6 PRO Mount.
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the colossal 3664 -- that gave the strongest solar storm since 2003 -- 3666, 3667, 3670, 3671 and 3672 spots.
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: 146x180s
Bortle Scale: 4
Location: Isaszeg, Hungary
Acquisition date(s):
2021.03.08., 2021.03.19.