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M13 Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

 

Had a few cloudless hours to grab an easy target. It is the first DSO I have imaged since November. Either my sky conditions have really deteriorated since November or there were some high thin clouds. Either way it was good to give the gear a run.

I tried something different and shot 200 Luminance filter subframes only 5 seconds each. I combined this with some RGB I shot in 2013 from my QHY23M and AT65. The large number of subframes really seemed to produce a much cleaner image. In a few months when it is clear again I will give 100+ subs a try again

 

Telescope:11" Celestron EdgeHD w/Hyperstar(F2)

Camera:QHY163M

Mount: Orion HDX-110

 

Optolong LUM filter

  

I decided to capture and add some Ha filtered subframes to my M78 from January 2015.

 

12/4/15

Ha- 9x300s

 

1/15/15

L- 9x300s

L- 24x60s

RGB- 10x60s

 

Celestron 11" Edge HD w/HyperStar(F/2)

QHY23M (cooled to -20C)

CGEM-DX

This stack of 18 images contains nearly the entirety of the constellations Andromeda, Cassiopeia, and Perseus. Numerous outstanding objects are within its bounds. From left to right (roughly east to west), they include:

The Pleiades (M45, lower left corner)

The California Nebula (NGC 1499, above the Pleiades)

The Double Cluster in Perseus (NGC 869 and NGC 884, near top center)

The Heart and Soul Nebulae (IC 1805 and IC 1848, above the Double Cluster)

M34 (open star cluster, bottom center)

The Triangulum Galaxy (M33, along the bottom border, right of M34)

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31 and satellite galaxy M110, bright elongated object in lower right area of image)

 

Subframes were taken with an astrophotography modified Nikon D5100 at ISO 4000 and focal length of 18mm. Stacking and processing in PixInsight, with a few final touches in Photoshop.

 

The solution for the image from astrometry.net places the center at

RA 2h 3m

DEC +50° 20'

Andromeda-Galaxy (M31) over pine trees near my observatory. The circle next to my name represents the apparent diameter of full moon relative to the same conditions. I used the 8 last subframes (of a large series) to an integration (8 x 80 sec, ISO 4000) and one single frame (1 x 80 sec, ISO 400) for a atmospheric composite. Sony A7s (CentralDS), Canon 200/F1.8 @1.8, L-pro filter, EQ8 mount, Tenerife, Canary Islands, 1180 m altitude.

IC 405 also known as the Flaming Star Nebula, SH 2-229, or Caldwell 31,

 

Seestar S50. This is a composite of 567 ten-second exposures (subframes). Taken January 26, 2025.

Located in the constellation Triangulum. Takne through NP127is 5 inch refractor at f/4.2. Collected with a Canon 7D MKII. approximately 4 hours total exposure of 7 minute ISO 1600 subframes. Taken at Grandview Campground.

This image shows two groups of galaxies. You might recognize Stephan's Quintet, the galaxies near the lower left corner, as the conversing angels in the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life”. 😀 The Deer Lick Group of galaxies, with NGC 7331 as its largest member, is near the upper right corner.

 

Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 8 at f/7

Camera: QSI 683wsg

Mount: Astro-Physics Mach 1 GTO

Integration: Approx 65 mins each of RGB (~13 x 5 minute subframes)

Processing Software: PixInsight v1.9, Adobe Photoshop

 

Captured under dark skies near Goldendale, WA.

NGC 6914 is a reflection nebula located approximately 6000 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus.

+/- 3800 Stars in this picture

 

-Equipment-

Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -5°C gain 101 offset 49

Guiding: ZWO OAG

Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM

Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6

Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme

 

-Acquisition-

Light : 42x300s

Total integration time 3,5h

Dark: 100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100

Date : 28 April 2022

22 May 2022

Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5

 

-Software-

Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight

Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon

darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/

 

-Pre Processing in PixInsight-

Image Calibration

Cosmetic Correction

Debayer

Subframe Selector

Star Alignement

Local Normalization

Image Integration

Drizzle x2

Dynamic crop

 

-Processing

 

DBE MasterLRGB

 

___RGB layer___HOO

Split RGB channels to build Ha and Oiii

Ha=R Oiii= B*0.3+G*0.7

EZ_Soft Stretch

HOO combination with Foraxx formula

R=Ha

G=((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Ha + ~((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Oiii

B=Oiii

SCNR

Starnet++ build a mask nebula

Color Saturation

Curves Tansformation

 

___L layer___

Ez_Deconvolution

Ez_Soft Stretch

Local Histogram Equalization with nebula mask

UnsharpedMask with nebula mask

 

___LRGB___

Ez_Denoise

Final Curve Transformation

Annotation

Save as JPG

 

Clear skies !

  

M42 The Orion Nebula imaged in HaOiiiOiii. The Ha image is mapped to red and consists of 4 1/2 hours of 60 second subframes. The Oii image is mapped to green and blue and consists of 2 1/2 hours worth of 60 second subframes.

Ha data was captured on the 22nd, 29th and 30th December 2019 and the Oiii data on the 12th January 2020.

 

Ts65 Quad Astrograph & ASI1600MM Pro camera

For FlickrFriday

Theme: Subframing

Prague, Czech Republic

1962 Mercedes-Benz 190 SL Roadster

 

Further to posting the steering wheel and dash board the other day, here is the rest of the car, which didn't actually sell at the auction last September so it may still be up for sale.

 

"Announced in 1954 and based on the 180 saloon whose all-independently-suspended running gear it used, the 190 SL did not enter production until January 1955, the delay being caused by alterations aimed at strengthening the saloon's shortened platform to compensate for the open body's reduced stiffness. Mounted on a detachable subframe along with the four-speed manual gearbox, front suspension and steering, the power unit was a 1,897cc overhead-camshaft four - the first such engine ever to feature in a Mercedes-Benz. Breathing through twin Solex down-draft carburettors, the M121 unit produced 105bhp at 5,700rpm, an output sufficient to propel the 190SL to 60mph in 13 seconds and on to a top speed of 107 miles per hour."

McNally Jackson Independent Booksellers. Fulton Street.

Lower Manhattan.

A morning on the beach.

Everybody's favorite. This version has plenty of space surrounding the galaxy and shows good detail.

  

Dwarf III | 200 fifteen-second subframes | gain: 60 | Astro filter | mosaic mode | Equatorial mount

Not to be confused with the Loch Ness Monster Nebula.

 

LdN-768 on the left side a bit below the middle.

 

I would like to take this image again’t with the Dwarf 3 to capture a bigger section and get slightly better resolution.

 

Seestar S50

582 ten-second subframes.

Members of NIghtSky45 (an astronomy club) went to Antalope, Oregon to take astro photos. The darker the sky, the better. But clouds covered the area both days we were there. About 3:00 am on the last night I woke to see that the clouds had partially lifted. I took this image during about a one hour opening.

 

I think I'm going to collect data on this image and add to it when we get more clear night skies.

 

Dwarf 3

 

72 45-second subframes.

 

 

this is actually a reprocessing of the image I took earlier in the year, now that I have a slightly better understanding of how to process astro images, another challenge is that instead of a stack of one hour of data this is simply a single 2 minute subframe stretched, very happy with how it came out

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

taken from my backyard on May 12 , 2020 just before midnight . 26 subframes 120 sec each stack in PI

For this rendition of the 2-panel mosiac, I ran all of the subframes through the same PixInsight WBPP run so that they would all be at the same local normalization, I applied ChannelCombination to the RGB masters for each panel separately before merging the panels, and I produced separate star and nebula images before applying nonlinear stretches. The stars image was stretched delicately while the nebula image was stretched very agressively. I like the stars that resulted from this treatment.

 

ZWO ASI6200MM-Pro

Tele Vue NP101is (4" f/5.4)

Losmandy G11

 

NINA for session management

PixInsight for processing

 

Each panel consisted of qty 8 240s subs each for RGB, and qty 16 subs for L. Total integration time was 2:20 per panel.

Flickr Friday: Subframing

This is a re-process of my original RGB photo from May 2024. An additional 1 hour of luminance subframes was added to the original image stack. Thsi helped to bring out the details of the molecular cloud and trails of dust.

 

Additional technical details can be seen at my Astrobin page:

 

www.astrobin.com/j2vrmb/B/

 

B&W Project 2020 - Week 5/26 - Subframing

Definition: Sub-framing is a type of compositional photography technique wherein one or more photo elements are framed by another element.

At the edge of the 'Veerse bos', hikers are framed by nature.

1,100 ten second subframes

 

Seestar S50

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth.

Images taken at the end of September 2023.

 

Full resolution : astrob.in/o8h9n7/0/

 

Sii= 75x300s

Ha= 76x300s

Oii= 75x300s

  

Total time : 18h50'

 

-Equipment-

Scope: Askar107PHQ (740mm focal)

Camera: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro at -5°C gain 101 offset 49

Filter: Optolong SHO 3nm 50.80mm

Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6

Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM+ZWO OAG-L

 

All processing was done in Pixinsight exept one step

 

-Pre Processing-

Image Calibration

Cosmetic Correction

Subframe Selector

Star Alignement

Local Normalization

Image Integration

Drizzle x2

 

-Processing-

 

Star Alignment

Dynamic Crop

Dynamic Background Extractor

BlurXTerminator

NoiseXTerminator

StarXTerminator

HistogramTransformation

 

-Stars-

ChanelCombination

ImageSolver

SpectrophotometricColorCalibration

HistogramTransformation

ACDNR (green100%)

ACDNR (green50%)Ctrl+i

ColorSaturation

 

-L-

Mix max(Ha and Sii)

HDRMultiscaleTransform with mask

Mix (0.75xL+0.25xL_boost)

 

-SHO-

SHO palette

TSL/color in Lightroom

ColorSaturation

 

-L-SHO-

LRGBCombination

CuvesTransformation

ColorSaturation

More CurveTransformation

Add Stars

FinalCrop

Photo by Alexandre Fernandez

 

Press L for a better view my friend :-)

 

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Die Preise werden maßgeblich durch die Rostfreiheit der Karosserie (besonders an Schwellern und Hilfsrahmen), die Originalität (bei Sammlerstücken) oder die Qualität der Motorsport-Komponenten (bei Umbauten) bestimmt.

 

Prices are largely determined by the rust-free condition of the body (especially on the sills and subframe), its originality (for collector's items), and the quality of the motorsport components (for conversions).

The first light with my new mount and telescope.

 

165 minutes of total exposure, 33x300sec subframes, calibrated with darks and bias frames.

 

Camera: QSI 583wsg

Mount: Sky-Watcher NEQ6 pro

Telescope: TS 8" f/5 Newtonian

comma corrector: Baader MPCC mark III

Wide field view.

 

Dwarf III. 188 45-second subframes | Polar Alignment | Mosaic mode.

As of last week, the Bugatti Veyron is once again the fastest car in the world. The figures are stunning: 8.0 litres, 4 turbochargers, 16 cylinders, 1001 hp, 4wd.

 

This Lego model has been built to 1:15 scale (16-wide) for Eurobricks 2010 LDD Challenge and features a mid-mounted W8 piston motor, 4wd, four-wheel independent modularised suspension. The vehicle is built to true automotive method. The front passenger tub is technic pin mounted to the rear engine/chassis subframe. All exterior panel except the roof are unstressed and can be detached from the body. The rear spoiler is also height and pitch adjustable.

Chatsworth House, Peak District, Derbyshire

NGC 2244 also know as the Rosette Nebula is a emission nebula located in the Monoceros constellation.

The nebula is at 5200 light years from earth and is approximately 65 light years wide

 

-Equipment-

Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -25°C gain 101 offset 49

Guiding: ZWO OAG

Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM

Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6

Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme

 

-Acquisition-

Light : 76x300s

Total integration time 6,3h

Dark: 34x300s Flat-50 Bias-100

Date : 12 January 2022

26,27,28 Febuary 2022

Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5

 

-Software-

Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight

Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon

darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/

 

-Pre Processing each panels in PixInsight-

Image Calibration

Cosmetic Correction

Debayer

Subframe Selector

Star Alignement

Local Normalization

Image Integration

Drizzle x2

Dynamic crop

 

-Processing

 

DBE MasterLRGB

 

___RGB layer___HOO

Split RGB channels to build Ha and Oiii

Ha=R Oiii= B*0.3+G*0.7

EZ_Soft Stretch

HOO combination with Foraxx formula

R=Ha

G=((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Ha + ~((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Oiii

B=Oiii

Starnet++ for remove stars and build a mask nebula

Color Saturation

Curves Tansformation

Saturate stars for push up stars color

SCNR star mask

Bring back the stars with PixelMath

 

___L layer___

Ez_Deconvolution

Ez_Soft Stretch

Local Histogram Equalization with nebula mask

UnsharpedMask with nebula mask

 

___LRGB___

Ez_Denoise

Final Curve Transformation

Annotation

Save as JPG

 

Clear skies !

  

For this image I took two photos of two horses looking over a fence, I then superimposed a close up of one of the horses, reduced it in size and repositioned it onto the original image which I made black and white.

NGC 6979 also know as the Pickering's Tringle is a part of a larger nebula, the Cygnus Loop in the Cygnus constellation.

The Triangle is brightest along the northern side of the loop.

 

This supernova remnant is located around 2400 light-years.

 

Full resolution : flic.kr/p/2nxmK3E

 

-Equipment-

Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -5°C gain 101 offset 49

Guiding: ZWO OAG

Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM

Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6

Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme

 

-Acquisition-

Light : 76x300s

Total integration time 6,3h

Dark: 100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100

Date : 3,5,6,7,9 July 2022

Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5

 

-Software-

Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight

Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon

darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/

 

-Pre Processing in PixInsight-

Image Calibration

Cosmetic Correction

Debayer

Subframe Selector

Star Alignement

Local Normalization

Image Integration

Drizzle x2

Dynamic crop

 

-Processing

 

DBE MasterLRGB

 

___RGB layer___HOO

Split RGB channels to build Ha and Oiii

Ha=R Oiii= B*0.3+G*0.7

EZ_Soft Stretch

HOO combination with Foraxx formula

R=Ha

G=((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Ha + ~((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Oiii

B=Oiii

SCNR

Starnet++ build a mask nebula

Color Saturation

Curves Tansformation

 

___L layer___

Ez_Deconvolution

Ez_Soft Stretch

Local Histogram Equalization with nebula mask

UnsharpedMask with nebula mask

 

___LRGB___

Ez_Denoise

Final Curve Transformation

Annotation

Dynamic Crop

Save as JPG

 

Clear skies !

  

First try with HDR in pixinsight, hope you like it !

 

-Equipment-

Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -25°C gain 101 offset 49

Guiding: ZWO OAG

Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM

Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6

Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme

 

-Acquisition-

Light : 62x300s + 88x120s

Total integration time 8h

Dark: 100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100

100s120s

Date : 30 January 2022

07,26,27 Febuary 2022

Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5

 

-Software-

Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight

Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon

darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/

 

-Pre Processing in PixInsight-

Image Calibration

Cosmetic Correction

Debayer

Subframe Selector

Star Alignement

Local Normalization

Image Integration

Drizzle x2

Dynamic crop

 

-Processing

 

*HRD*

DBE 300s and 120s

StarAlignement -> register 300s and 120s

HRDComposition -> blend 300s and 120s frame

 

Split L,R,G,B Chanel

__L__

Ez_Deconvolution

Ez_Soft Streatch

HDRMultiscaleTransform

StarNet++ for build nebula mask

UnsharpedMask with mask

LocalHistogramEqualization with mask

 

__RGB__

ChanelCombination(RGB)

BackgroundNeutralization

PhotometricColorCalibration

Ez_Soft Streatch

HDRMultiscaleTransform

Starnet++

SCNR star mask

 

__LRGB__

LRGBCombination

Ez_Denoise

StarNet++

Final CurvesTransformation

Save as jpg

 

Clear skies !

 

M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy

 

Easily one of the most photographed deep sky objects, M51 never ceases to amaze me. My first ever astrophoto in 2012 was of this galaxy, and I've shot it pretty much every year since, constantly improving on what had come before. This year was no different other than the amount of data I had.

 

I shot this over many nights in the spring and early summer despite having a lot of cloud cover to deal with. Overall, I had about 12 hours of data, but much of that didn't quite measure up due to clouds blowing through, deteriorating my images. It look me quite a long time to go through hundreds of images manually to weed out the obviously bad stuff until I had just shy of 8 hours of data. Then finally in stacking, I whittled that down even further.

 

This is the final image with 6 hours, 10 mins of data made up of a mix of 3 and 5 minute exposures.

 

-= Tech Data =-

 

-Equipment-

Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P

Mount: Celestron CGX

Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro

Filter: SCT Duo Narrowband

Focus: Pegasus Astro Dual Motor Focuser

Guide Camera: Orion SSAG

Guide Scope: Starfield 60mm guide scope

Dew Control: Kendrick

Power: Pegasus Astro Pocket Power Box

 

- Acquisition -

∙ 6H 10M of mixed 3 and 5 minute exposures.

 

Calibration:

∙ Darks: Master darks for each subframe length

- Bias: Master bias from my bias library (stack of 100 exposures)

 

- Software -

Acquisition / Rig Control: Sequence Generator Pro

Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor

Processing: PixInsight

Post Processing: Photoshop CC

 

Shot at the Camden Lake Provincial Wildlike Area near Moscow, Ontario.

  

NGC 6820 is an emission nebula located 6000 light years away in the constellation Cygnus. This nebula is approximately 65 light years wide

 

Uncropped version : flic.kr/p/2nD9DFa

 

-Equipment-

Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -5°C gain 101 offset 49

Guiding: ZWO OAG

Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM

Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6

Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme

 

-Acquisition-

Light : 75x300s

Total integration time 6,3h

Dark: 100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100

Date : 7,8 August 2022

Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5

 

-Software-

Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight

Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon

darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/

 

-Pre Processing in PixInsight-

Image Calibration

Cosmetic Correction

Debayer

Subframe Selector

Star Alignement

Local Normalization

Image Integration

Drizzle x2

Dynamic crop

 

-Processing

 

DBE MasterLRGB

 

___RGB layer___HOO

Split RGB channels to build Ha and Oiii

Ha=R Oiii= B*0.3+G*0.7

EZ_Soft Stretch

HOO combination with Foraxx formula

R=Ha

G=((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Ha + ~((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Oiii

B=Oiii

SCNR

 

___L layer___

Ez_Deconvolution

Ez_Soft Stretch

Local Histogram Equalization with nebula mask

UnsharpedMask with nebula mask

 

___LRGB___

Ez_Denoise

Curve Transformation

Crop + Rotation

Annotation

Save as JPG

 

Clear skies !

 

Dwarf 3 Smartscope

 

99 30-second subframes | 60 gain

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