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120ED skywatcher on EQ6. Hutech modded EOS 350D

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 : Ivan Johnasen

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skywatcher star adventurer dslr camera timelapse telescope mount

Skywatcher 130PDS, Canon 1300D. Taken from Woolwich, London [ISO200, 300s, 27 frames - 2 hours 6min. in total]

Skywatcher 200/1000;heq5,Zwo 224mc+filtre ir cut,Adc Zwo,Barlow Televue x2

Although it doesn't show too well, the black metallic finish looks amazing.

Finders Telescope:

Skywatcher 8x50 and my travelscope 70/400 with rings guide scop (the latter to start with astrophotography in parallel).

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.

Shot with a Canon t1i on a 190mm Skywatcher Maksutov Newtonian telescope using an Antares 1.6x 2" barlow.

 

I had the telescope setup in a small park next to the Fraser River. Over 3 hours I had about a dozen people stop by to chat and look at the moon, most of them had come out specifically to see the super moon and were excited to find a telescope waiting for them :)

 

Despite all the media hype, the moon passes closest to us once per month. The moon is only just a little closer and a little brighter than usual this time around. The numbers quoted in the media compared the brightness and size of the 'super' moon with how the moon looks 2 weeks later at it's furthest point from earth. Yipee 'Super' journalists.

 

Processed with just a bit of stretching, contrast etc. I took many exposures for stacking of this view at some point.

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 120/900, 2,25x Barlow, EOS 550D im "reduced video mode"

Jupiter on the 14-12-2010, as seen through my Skywatcher ED80, using a x2 barlow and sing a Philips SPC900 webcam.

Taken with my Skywatcher 200p and a Trust WB-5400 webcam I got today from eBay for 99p!

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.

Skywatcher 250pds & DMK21AU618 camera

PB095822-900

 

Hi-res image available upon request.

 

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Skywatcher DOB GOTO 12' F5 coma corrector

ZWO ASI294MC PRO gain340 154 × 10sec

SIGHTRON QBP Filter

Skywatcher ed 80 f/7.5

QHY 5L-II mono

Baader astrosolar ND 5.0

Baader solar continuum

Barlow Televue 3x

SkyWatcher Equinox Pro 80ED, Lunt Herschel Wedge, Altair Hypercam IMX178, Solar Continuum, Best 95% of 110 Frames processed in PIPP and Registax, Coloured in Photoshop.

Waiting for clear skies...

Composite image taken by processing streams of 1000 to 2000 frames of video captured from my 8" Newtonian Telescope through Registax 5 to align and stack frames and produce an optimised image.

 

Post-processin in Registax 5 is done by way of adjusting various wavelet patterns to produce the correct balance.

Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer

Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED

Lacerta Herschel Wedge (replaced ND3 with ND1.8)

ZWO EFW

Altair Astro NUV filter (395nm, 7nm)

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 130/ 900

QHY 5 L-II mono

Televue barlow 3x

Autostakkert, Registax, Photoshop

A timelapse covering 45 minutes, showing 3 of Jupiter's moons travelling in their orbits while Jupiter rotates. The shadow of the moon Europa can be seen transiting Jupiter.

 

Canon T1i, Skywatcher 190mm Maksutov Newtonian telescope with a 1.6x barlow. Resulting F ratio ~13.

 

These are rough jpg shots, not stacked or cleaned up. You'll notice that the seeing conditions were quite variable.

 

Music credit:

[B.A.M. (Lee Rosevere) / CC BY-NC 3.0]

Skywatcher 200/800

TeleVue 3x Barlow

AZ-EQ6 GT

ZWO Asi 178MC-s camera

2022 10 16

 

SkyWatcher 250/1250 Newton+SkyWatcher AZ-EQ-6+Canon 700D ISO1600 30sec 20db+DSS+Ligtroom

SkyWatcher 150P-DS on HEQ5 Pro mount

Canon 600D unmodded with 2x Barlow

ISO 800

Lights: 68 x 60s

Total Exposure: 1 hour 8 minutes

20x dark, 20x flat and 20x bias frames

 

Stacked using Deep Sky Stacker

Processed in Gimp

 

Date: 17-09-2020

Location: 51°25'43"N 0°54'45"W

Taken with my Skywatcher 200p. Philips webcam and x2 barlow.

My first moon shoot into telescope SkyWatcher 60/700 AZ2

 

Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer

Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED

Lacerta Herschel Wedge (replaced ND3 with ND1.8)

ZWO EFW

ZWO IR850 filter (>850nm)

ZWO ASI174MM

FireCapture v2.7beta

Ubuntu 18.04 (kernel 5.0)

PIPP for cropping out

AS!3 for stacking (2x resample)

ImPPG for sharpening

RawTherapee for colorization and final tweaks

Skywatcher Explorer 200p

EQ5 Mount

Nikon D90

Single Raw shot

Skywatcher Telescope AC 80/400 StarTravel 80 EQ-1 + Homemade T-Adapter for Nikon D5100

This is my new SkyWatcher Esprit 80 f5 400mm focal length. Looks optically superb, and very well made. Focuser from the Right hand side. Underneath is the Vixen style mounting plate (attaches to the actual telescope mount).

Taken with a Skywatcher 200p dobsonian telescope, 15mm revelation EP and spc880/900 webcam

Skywatcher reflector 200mm/f1000mm

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