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Telescope: 10'' Skywatcher GoTo Dob
Camera: Canon SD750 with CHDK firmware
Eyepiece: 25mm + Barlow x2
Image Properties: 1/20secs, ISO 200, 25mm EP + Barlow x2
Noise Ninja Process @ Aperture
Skywatchers looking up this Saturday night (May 5) at the full moon may sense it’s a bit more striking than usual- and they won’t be imagining it. Thanks to coincidental timing of the moon being at its closest approach to Earth for 2012 while in its full phase, our planet’s companion will appear 16% larger and 30% brighter than usual. While some are calling it a supermoon, astronomers say that the hype surrounding its supposed ’super-effects’ on Earth are unwarranted.
For thousands of years connections between the motion and phase of the moon have been made with various happening here on Earth from timing of harvests to ocean navigation, so making the leap that the Moon not only reflects, but actually controls natural occurrences is very understandable, astronomers say. But now we have physics and astronomy on our side and we know pretty well what’s possible and what is not.
Wow, Venus and Jupiter continue to dazzle skywatchers, such as myself. Pics taken from around San Jose, CA. (Thursday evening, July 2, 2015)
Astronomy news:
Venus and Jupiter continue their dance in the sky at dusk. Venus and Jupiter had their close conjunction just last Tuesday (June 30, 2015), but the show isn’t over. They were still quite close together; two unequal 'stars,' now about a thumb’s width apart at arm’s length, lined up horizontally. With a little imagination, they look like the two bright eyes of some ethereal sky beast, or a great kitty in the dusk with flashlight eyes. Ok, more of astronomy... Jupiter appears less than a tenth as bright as Venus. In the coming days, the planets would then start to separate further while remaining horizontal. They’ll also sink lower each evening. But another conjunction was to occur. The moon, Venus and Jupiter will again put a dazzling show but was to be lower near the horizon. By the time the crescent moon passes them on July 18 and 19, you’ll have to look for them while the sky is still a bit bright in order to catch them before they set.
Skywatcher 200/1000 PDS
NEQ-6 Pro GoTo
Canon Eos 1000da
Guiding mit ALccd QHY 5 Autoguider
35 x 300 Sekunden Belichtungszeit
Skywatcher 130 with Vesta Pro webcam
Stacked with AVIStack2, stitched with iMerge, wavelets with Registax6 and final touches with GIMP
Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED + Barlow 3x + ZWO ASI120MM-S. Pre-processed using PIPP, stacked using cvAstroAlign, sharpened in RegiStax, assembled using PIPP, ImageMagick and GIMP
Skywatcher 130PDS, Canon 1300D. Taken from Woolwich, London [ISO200, 300s, 27 frames - 2 hours 6min. in total]
Roma, 20/02/2020. Equipaggiamento:TS71SDQ Quadrupletto,Skywatcher Eqm35 pro,Zwo Asi 294 MC Pro,Optolong L-Enhance. Dati:Light 288x40sec. Dark 33. Bias 53. Flat 33 Immagine acquisita con la tecnica delle pose corte(no autoguida)Programmi utilizzati Pixinsight e Photoshop. Questa è la Nebulosa Rosetta(C 49 o NGC 2237) una nebulosa a circa 5200 anni luce dal nostro sistema solare e ha una dimensione approssimativa di 100 anni luce. Al centro della nebulosa si trova un brillante ammasso aperto che emettendo radiazione ultravioletta eccitano il gas della nebulosa portandolo ad emettere luce rossa.Si pensa che il vento stellare del gruppo di stelle O e B eserciti pressione sulla nube interstellare causando una compressione, seguita dalla formazione di stelle; nella regione infatti sono stati osservati molti globuli di Bok, ritenuti sede di formazione stellare. Scatti realizzati in collaborazione con mio zio English version:Rome, 20/02/2020 Rosetta Nebula (C 49 or NGC 2237). Equipment: TS71SDQ Quadruplet, Skywatcher Eqm35 pro, Zwo Asi 294 MC Pro, Optolong L-Enhance. Data: Light 288x40sec. Dark 33. Bias 53. Flat 33.This is the Rosetta Nebula (C 49 or NGC 2237) a nebula about 5200 light years from our solar system and has an approximate size of 100 light years. At the center of the nebula is a bright open cluster which emitting ultraviolet radiation excites the gas of the nebula causing it to emit red light.Stellar wind from the group of stars O and B is thought to exert pressure on the interstellar cloud causing compression, followed by formation of stars; in fact, many Bok globules have been observed in the region, believed to be the star formation site. Shots made in collaboration with my uncle.
Finders Telescope:
Skywatcher 8x50 and my travelscope 70/400 with rings guide scop (the latter to start with astrophotography in parallel).
SkyWatcher 80Ed + canon 550D no modificada+Eq6
miniborg+luna qhy5 monocroma
Apilado de 300seg+600+600+600+900+1200+900+600seg=95min todas iso 800
Apilado con DSS + 5 dark + 5 Bias
Procesado con Pixinsight
Tª=6-7 gradosC.
mucha humedad.Todo empañado y chorreando agua
Photo taken using a Nikon D40 attached to Skywatcher ED80 refractor. Exposure is of 17min and 2s. Composite image, no dark frames. No autoguiding was used during the taking of the images. Processing was done using DeepSky Stacker and GIMP.
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!
Jupiter on the 14-12-2010, as seen through my Skywatcher ED80, using a x2 barlow and sing a Philips SPC900 webcam.
distance ca. 1350 Lj
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
Processing: PixInsight/Lightroom
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED
Lacerta Herschel Wedge (replaced ND3 with ND1.8)
ZWO EFW
Baader Solar Continuum filter (540nm, 10nm)
Barlow 3x
ZWO ASI174MM
FireCapture v2.7beta
Ubuntu 18.04 (kernel 5.0)
AS!3 / AviStack 2 for stacking
ImPPG for sharpening
Hugin for assembling panorama (6 panels)
RawTherapee for final tweaks
Skywatcher 102 MAK on AZ GOTO mount
Neximage CCD imager. 31 seconds at 15fps. no Barlow.
300+ frames stacked and processed in Registax 6
Enlarged and post processed in Photoshop CS3
First decent stacking attempt at Jupiter taken with skywatcher130m and Phillips modified webcam,2 and half minute exposure,30f/s stacked with Regisatx 6.