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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.
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.
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
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 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
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
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).