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20 frames; Celestron NexStar 6 SE Prime focus; Stacked using Affinity photo and processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.
Uncropped; 2250mm eq. focal length.
More info here: edrosack.com/2021/02/21/t-mount-try-out/
Image of the Sun on 29/09/2021 at 1213 UTC. I'm not sure how the banding occurred across the surface, can't explain why but believe it only occurred after using the Powermate.
Telescope - Coronado SolarMax III 70mm
Camera - ZWO ASI 120MM
Powermate 2x
Exposure 10ms
Gain 6
Stack from 500 frames
Edited with:
ASI AutoStakker
Lightroom
Sharpen AI
Photoshop
TS-Optics UNC 10" f/5, ZWO ASI178MC, 2x Barlow lense. FireCapture, Autostakkert3, AstraImage, Photoshop.
1100 of 22070 frames stacked.
Moon. I used my 80mm ED refractor along with StarShoot SolarSystem Color Imager IV and software to create this image
Courtesy NASA:
solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/754/what-is-a-lagrange-point/
The easiest way to understand Lagrange points is to think of them in much the same way that wind speeds can be inferred from a weather map. The forces are strongest when the contours of the effective potential are closest together and weakest when the contours are far apart.
Lagrange Contours
L4 and L5 correspond to hilltops and L1, L2 and L3 correspond to saddles (i.e. points where the potential is curving up in one direction and down in the other). This suggests that satellites placed at the Lagrange points will have a tendency to wander off (try sitting a marble on top of a watermelon or on top of a real saddle and you get the idea). But when a satellite parked at L4 or L5 starts to roll off the hill it picks up speed. At this point the Coriolis force comes into play - the same force that causes hurricanes to spin up on the earth - and sends the satellite into a stable orbit around the Lagrange point.
Very good seeing this night. The mount for the C14 is currently out of commission, so I used my Edge HD 925 with a CGEM DX mount the school has.
This is from 13 45 s SER files taken with a ZWO ASI224MC camera with 3x Barlow and a ZWO UV/IR cut filter. I used FIreCapture to take this data. SER files were used to create stacks of the best 24% of about 800 frames in AutoStakkert, and those stacks were processed in PixInsight. The resulting images were registered and derotated in WinJUPOS, with the result undergoing some final tweaks in GIMP.
During the next shadow transit, Titan will also cross the face of Saturn.
CM I: 2.7°
CM II: 97.8°
CM III: 241.4°
Probably the last opportunity for me to catch the comet yesterday. 7 shots with 20 seconds exposure time each. Stacked in Siril.
Das war vermutlich gestern die letzte Gelegenheit für mich, den Kometen noch einmal abzulichten. 7 Aufnahmen zu jeweils 20 Sekunden, gestacked in Siril.
Thick grey clouds. So dark. So a little play with some oil on water. I am pretending that is the sun and planets.
Mars will be at opposition on October 13th, but its already so bright in our sky and only getting brighter. I planned to use my planetary camera to get an up close view, but I had some technical difficulties last night. So I did what I often do, shoot the heavens with my 500mm lens!
Equipment:
Celestron CGEM Mount
Nikkor 500mm f/4 P Ai-s at f/5.6
Sony a7RIII (unmodified)
Altair 60mm Guide scope
GPCAM2 Mono Camera
Acquisition:
Taos, NM: my backyard - Bortle 3
14 x 60" for 14 min of exposure time.
5 dark frames
15 flats frames
15 bais frames
Guided
Software:
SharpCap
PHD2
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop
My mount was polar aligned with SharpCap (what an amazing system for aligning). I'm not comfortable using my SCT as my lens yet. My solution is to piggyback my Sony a7RIII and adapted Nikkor 500mm f/4 P Ai-s on a ADM dovetail rail on the top of my optical tube. I used DeepSkyStacker to combine all frames and then processed the TIFF file in Photoshop. I stretched the 32 bit file just a bit, and sharpened quite a bit to make the diffraction spikes stand out. I brought it into Lightroom and used the selective hues to make Mars the color I wanted, a bit of texture added and then export.
Reprocess of a Jupiter image from last week. Additional sharpening was applied and then de-noised using Topaz Labs de-noise which is an amazing piece of software
Comet C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS), currently the brightest comet in the sky. This image is from the dark and clear morning of June 30th from suburban Bloomington, Ind., with the comet against the rich star background of the constellation Ophiucus. It will be getting a little closer to Earth in the next couple of weeks and so may still be a bit brighter, but will be up against a bright, full Moon, so this may be the best I can do.
29 frames, 180 sec. each. Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC Pro cooled camera, UV/IR cutoff filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, auto-guided, ASIAir controller. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Lightroom, and Photoshop.
Images were combined twice, once with the stars aligned but the comet trailed and again with the comet registered but the stars trailed. These two rendered images were combined in Photoshop to produce the composite.
#comet #astrophotography, #deepsky, #solarsystem #PanSTARRS
The Moon shot from London on 10th October 2016
6 panel mosaic using Celestron Edge HD11 and EOS Rebel T3i
Far left to far right in a shallow, climbing diagonal line: Venus, Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. 0345 looking east.
Jupiter imaged on 19th April from London with satellites Callisto, Europa and Io (bottom left to top right)
Celestron Edge HD11, ASI120MM camera IRRGB
Processed in AS!2, Registax6 and PS CS6
Rise of a Planet
Planet Dokeia
Interplanetary Travel
Camera: Samsung Galaxy S8
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
La Luna di stasera, bellissima, galleggia nel cielo blu dell'imbrunire... sospesa fra luce e buio. La sottile linea del terminatore evidenzia crateri, montagne, solchi, valli... testimonianze di un passato remoto alquanto travagliato... che contrasta immensamente con la visione romantica del nostro amato satellite.
Di questi tempi, c'è poco altro da fare che alzare gli occhi al cielo..
Foto di poco fa
Buona serata
#luna #half #cycle #ciclo #crateri #craters #mari #maria #geological #geo #astronomy #love #heart #romance #meteor #meteroriti #solarsystem #covid19
Venus conjunction with Crescent moon on 09 Oct 2021 in Scorpius constellation. However, Venus is paired with star called Dschubba. In this image, planet Venus is about 3 arc degree from the 3 days old Moon. Also, you can see the Earthshine on the Moon’s dark side with 9% illuminated crescent.
Original image taken from the same NASA planetary size comparison chart as Jupiter: solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?Category=Plan...
This looks like a flipped version of the "Saturn's rings" photo (Photo ID: P-23883C/BW) from the NASA NSSDC Photo Gallery: nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-saturn.html
It was taken by Voyager 2 on July 21, 1981.
It was really fun capturing this year’s blood moon. I wasn’t expecting to see it due to the back to back storms we’ve been having, but Mother Nature was kind and moved the clouds for about an hour so we could enjoy it! I wish I’d captured it rising over something interesting, but I still think it’s mesmerizing by itself surrounded by the night sky.
SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.
Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.
It's possible to see the huge 3590, 3591, 3592 and 3594 spots
National Air and Space museum.
Washington DC.
Exploration reveals that our solar system is filled with amazingly diverse places that transform our understanding of Earth and worlds beyond.
The Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery probes the science and history of our exploration of planets and moons. This exhibit tells the stories of the diversity of worlds circling our Sun and how exploring those worlds helps enhance our own understanding of Earth. Exploring the Planets draws on research from scientists in the Museum’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, who are actively involved in current planetary missions.
Captured just before dawn from Red Rock Canyon State Park, CA. Five minute exposure, unguided, with a WO RedCat.
Well I have done my best to try and catch up with everyone, I was so far behind that I could only favourite photo's that I like as I just don't have the energy to comment on the all. I really want to keep up with everyone but I can't promise because I have been feeling so tired.
Today I managed to get a few photo's sorted that I hope to post over the next few days, mostly wildlife shots from last year plus of course photo's of Cirrus and Sweet Pea.
Shot w/ Celestron Nexstar 127 SLT on Nexstar Alt/Az Mount & ZWO ASI2900MM Mini. 8000 total frames shot over 1.5 minutes. Stacked in AS!3, post-processed in Registax 6 & touched up in Photoshop
Ciao piccola cometa Wirtanen... sei stata difficile da vedere, con la tua chioma rotonda ed azzurra... sempre inseguita dalla luna e dal cattivo tempo... ci vediamo fra 5 anni, forse :)
Foto scattata alcuni giorni fa, 70mm f/4.
Buona giornata
#cometa #wirtanen #celestial #celeste #stelle #stars #astronomy #life #periodic #solarsystem #blue #tail #coda #round #rotondo
Andromeda Galaxy - the closest neighbouring galaxy to us at (only) 2.5 million light years.
This image is basically what Andromeda looked like 2.5 million years ago, when the light photons first started out on their long journey to Earth, before ultimately arriving on my camera sensor.
All of the individual stars you can see in this pic are actually in the foreground - a part of our own Milky Way, and therefore much closer to us than Andromeda.
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Experts go easy on me! This is my very first attempt at photographing a DSO and I don't have a scope or tracker. Any advice appreciated :)
- 200mm, manually tracked by adjusting the tripod every 30 or so frames to keep the galaxy as central as possible.
- 400 x 1.6sec exposure (ISO16000,f2.8), 20 x dark frames, 20 x bias frames.
- Stacked using Deep Sky Stacker.