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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.
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 Equinox Pro 80ED, Altair IMX178, Astro Physics CCDT67, Best 30 Frames of 300 Stacked in PIPP and Registax, Finished in Lightroom
Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED + Quark Chromosphere + ZWO ASI174MM. Corrected and stacked in AS!3, sharpened in ImPPG and post-processed in RawTherapee. For obtaining flats FlatCap was used
The sky was reasonably stable for a long time on 2017/04/25. I manged to take 3 hours of rotation from Cairns Australia.
Start 10:43:52 (GMT) to End 14:03:15 (GMT). Each frame was processed with AutoSatkkert!2 (stack) and Registax6 (wavelet)
Ganymede (the 3rd moon) comes in from the right side.
8 inch-reflector
QHY5L-IIC
x5 Powermate
Skywatcher 150/750 + Datyson T7m + firecapture. Image stacked with Autostakker! 3 and post-treated with Registax
Skywatcher Newton 150/750mm with comakorrektor on NEQ5
Camera: ZWO ASI 178MM
Exposure : L 40x90s (Gain: 220) + RGB je 14x90s (Gain: 200) 2x2bin
Guding mit PHD2, 8x50 Finder Scope
Norderstedt/bei Hamburg
Firecapture + DSS+ Fitswork + CS2
Taken with a SkyWatcher Dobson 8 inch telescope and a Nikon CoolPix 7.1 MP compact camera held over the eye piece
Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED + Lacerta Herschel Wedge + Barlow 3x + Baader Solar Continuum filter + ZWO ASI174MM. Stacked using AS!3, sharpened in ImPPG, assembled in Hugin from 2 panels and post-processed in RawTherapee
This is my new SkyWatcher Esprit 80 f5 400mm focal length. Looks optically superb, and very well made. This is the bottom of the focuser assembly (it has a 2.5" focuser).
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED
Lacerta Herschel Wedge (replaced ND3 with ND1.8)
ZWO EFW
Baader Solar Continuum filter (540nm, 10nm)
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
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.
Skywatcher 200p , HEQ5 PRO, placed in my backyard.
SW 9x50 finderscope + QHY5-II mono guide cam ( PHD 2 guiding sotware)
ISO 1600
305x60'' ligts, 84x60'' darks, 67x flats, 60x bias
I used Backyard EOS v3 camera software with Canon EOS 6D mod (Baader MPCC Mark III coma corrector)
Stacked in deep sky stacker. Edited in Photoshop .
Skywatcher 130/650 PDS
ASI 1600MM-C -20C gain 139
ZWO filters
180 seconds
4x R
4x G
4x B
6x L
Skywatcher HEQ5
NINA
Deep Sky Stacker Kappa sigma clipping
Pixinsight 1.8
Skywatcher Explorer 200P Newtonian telescope with a Synta EQ5 mount with Synscan GOTO.
A from the telescope to the camera photograph, one of my first attempts at photographing the night sky.
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.