tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86793187238195653482024-03-19T08:48:22.141+00:00Swansea Astronomical Society BlogGaynor Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11188277373433091683noreply@blogger.comBlogger3559125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-6215508347904327122024-03-18T21:23:00.003+00:002024-03-18T21:23:42.189+00:00Galaxies and the Rosette nebula<p>AstroDMx Capture was used to capture image through an Altair Starwave 60mm ED refractor through an LPRO MAX filter in the magnetic filter holder. 3 minute exposures were captured, and for the Leo Triplet and part of Markarian's chain, 1 hour 18 minutes total exposure was accumulated.</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on an image to get a closer view</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Leo Triplet</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture capturing data on the Leo triplet</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs01avaVTIU-HwJvfv4BfUYNax9-me0VeHNQRTPfSsjYr_Gi1p8UPbEE3tLASD0S8n1YEyBWh8-LYpgdjxJvt6NhBaeUNHnZ1xiDuIcPmhn9FFhkA4qsiUZp-MONgAadF88TYlfDrqKDcZX7-geirmuH4WAV_9ei65S2SbyJbabpQQVqTru47Iyvtr/s2256/Screenshot%20Triplet.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1504" data-original-width="2256" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs01avaVTIU-HwJvfv4BfUYNax9-me0VeHNQRTPfSsjYr_Gi1p8UPbEE3tLASD0S8n1YEyBWh8-LYpgdjxJvt6NhBaeUNHnZ1xiDuIcPmhn9FFhkA4qsiUZp-MONgAadF88TYlfDrqKDcZX7-geirmuH4WAV_9ei65S2SbyJbabpQQVqTru47Iyvtr/w400-h266/Screenshot%20Triplet.png" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Leo triplet of galaxies</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV98e3IFbmLdI0hpF1M5ahL-kODFKjmyaLWLbfxTAgQs5_I-eslYXmF1wBeV2yG0jUf3EdDN1wit79kzS9ap-LTJ61kWaiFlcV6mWae-mWyELPoLgRPGlkdMIAGUz4CpXmKeI2Oe-0_5JqFLPK5OOeDTn7Hpk6RxK1pQ4b6Xa3prDQXeVvL2PSbrYz/s1500/Leo-Triplet.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV98e3IFbmLdI0hpF1M5ahL-kODFKjmyaLWLbfxTAgQs5_I-eslYXmF1wBeV2yG0jUf3EdDN1wit79kzS9ap-LTJ61kWaiFlcV6mWae-mWyELPoLgRPGlkdMIAGUz4CpXmKeI2Oe-0_5JqFLPK5OOeDTn7Hpk6RxK1pQ4b6Xa3prDQXeVvL2PSbrYz/w400-h400/Leo-Triplet.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Part of Markarian's chain</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture capturing data on part of Markarian's chain</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVZr2kZozl8nAi7QeDbaKf_Ng-VNrwi3Vd0lwTssDw4G1iNxtaWf46ovYiinOUcB7q3EuAmUsni5CbUSNdGSwYXUdvb3TSQC5UNK4Bi1yYtBpIT3kOeVmaC-8azxbrSeu8ge7Lv6UyZo1enOoyv76VsqTngHdSTtOXITfiDiWTm-WWFUKOfW6E85U0/s2256/Screenshot%20M-Chain.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1504" data-original-width="2256" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVZr2kZozl8nAi7QeDbaKf_Ng-VNrwi3Vd0lwTssDw4G1iNxtaWf46ovYiinOUcB7q3EuAmUsni5CbUSNdGSwYXUdvb3TSQC5UNK4Bi1yYtBpIT3kOeVmaC-8azxbrSeu8ge7Lv6UyZo1enOoyv76VsqTngHdSTtOXITfiDiWTm-WWFUKOfW6E85U0/w400-h266/Screenshot%20M-Chain.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Part of Markarian's chain of galaxies</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGaaYYMwBn7ndLDknoNhb_YQNTr3UoRVrgRDNaC5VcOkFIrrZZzux4eU4KS_Y9XtrA35NQ15zXVdQVl96Z29jeSonZAZvVGhfgLNitA3Oe3Fu4npm0JO3Ie8gqAp6MqvsT7TsvI9dVrEeBXxPxaovdT_7ttLgwFZLVZFQbFmiAsE-fccS0jt-tR4XH/s1500/Markarian-chain.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGaaYYMwBn7ndLDknoNhb_YQNTr3UoRVrgRDNaC5VcOkFIrrZZzux4eU4KS_Y9XtrA35NQ15zXVdQVl96Z29jeSonZAZvVGhfgLNitA3Oe3Fu4npm0JO3Ie8gqAp6MqvsT7TsvI9dVrEeBXxPxaovdT_7ttLgwFZLVZFQbFmiAsE-fccS0jt-tR4XH/w400-h400/Markarian-chain.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Rosette nebula</span></p><p>A Ha-OIII dualband filter was placed in the magnetic filter holder</p><p>36 minutes total exposure of 3 minute exposures was captured of the Rosette nebula</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture capturing data on the Rosette nebula</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiaHOFg08xrE8pCUelk5z0rPWkrbw1UYsD3dGONLBMic1XXKM5MzLutaF6L59aKOEZdTqBmRvRkZfmiGGgwP-QzHXaAiyaDqFK8jsKQrj5h3ghBS3tWoLQ7KCjLw4XDqe-nQuNcUyj3ZF5-51Dx_1zJ4rkKN-VYYy9hfsMmqeGOWDDBLY5eeb3shGp/s2256/Screenshot-rosette.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1504" data-original-width="2256" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiaHOFg08xrE8pCUelk5z0rPWkrbw1UYsD3dGONLBMic1XXKM5MzLutaF6L59aKOEZdTqBmRvRkZfmiGGgwP-QzHXaAiyaDqFK8jsKQrj5h3ghBS3tWoLQ7KCjLw4XDqe-nQuNcUyj3ZF5-51Dx_1zJ4rkKN-VYYy9hfsMmqeGOWDDBLY5eeb3shGp/w400-h266/Screenshot-rosette.png" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Negative view</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirRHG5be29zRTUcIjVYYUMU23erX4XWU4qA_kTxembzl0Tdw10FduxXPX9HkteilORkDZ_-XjjRXqWLe07XtHYiqbPckCPNQn2qYmOuHK8XgtusCAlMkKuAUptvYeF0UIneGsJZamc3ry3uHx5zfFeVmv_g4s9xESh2dAMrtVdRqfgohgHFzZiHg3W/s2256/Screenshot-rosette-neg.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1504" data-original-width="2256" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirRHG5be29zRTUcIjVYYUMU23erX4XWU4qA_kTxembzl0Tdw10FduxXPX9HkteilORkDZ_-XjjRXqWLe07XtHYiqbPckCPNQn2qYmOuHK8XgtusCAlMkKuAUptvYeF0UIneGsJZamc3ry3uHx5zfFeVmv_g4s9xESh2dAMrtVdRqfgohgHFzZiHg3W/w400-h266/Screenshot-rosette-neg.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Rosette nebula in the 'Skull' orientation</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioFFV9X-nBfGicbuF2I7ISqpe2WlrECGLBTICjX0kzMiAfCZ6OhteComvwkQg39xcTn9RR4D2MyHbTs_2Az6s6_xAr-SP0gHlIdJAE0xvpbhHZ7Qln5vuTIJFZl86DQx7vlDuqfUXOe3wMH8RVtcsZpQwvSmQJsHunf5i1SDgPuvdy4BluNaO5G8Vr/s2000/Rosette-Skull.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1967" data-original-width="2000" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioFFV9X-nBfGicbuF2I7ISqpe2WlrECGLBTICjX0kzMiAfCZ6OhteComvwkQg39xcTn9RR4D2MyHbTs_2Az6s6_xAr-SP0gHlIdJAE0xvpbhHZ7Qln5vuTIJFZl86DQx7vlDuqfUXOe3wMH8RVtcsZpQwvSmQJsHunf5i1SDgPuvdy4BluNaO5G8Vr/w400-h394/Rosette-Skull.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin<br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-11621512450444631382024-03-17T17:22:00.000+00:002024-03-17T17:22:06.461+00:00M31 and M44<p>My image of M31 the Andromeda Galaxy taken with my 50MM Canon prime lens at f/2.8. The lens was mounted on a 1300D DSLR Canon camera Attached to a Star adventurer 2i pro tracking mount. Settings were 45s at 400ISO. I used an intervalometer to control the camera and a Bahtinov mask to focus on a bright star. The image is a stack of 56 images 35 flat frames and 30 dark frames all stacked in DSS and processed in Siril and Adobe Photoshop and Finished of in Fitswork to make the stars smaller. The image was taken under Bortle 3 skies in Falls Bay Gower. </p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on an image to get a closer view</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">M31</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY5z2yVA945V9MSDm0I-ihpK0Pnh3dQT7tKNLMek185f3O2nHKY6ypMKAroA90y6NzUlP7l2pPatWo8_bMiB42S5Dbm-el-c0ec9KcTnUso6L0aQIs1a0Cp_85NWm5QHJdiYnjB-CCFdyByB3Dp-XCX1cBWCYOYx9dg8lN1kYOfSp4vfBKjOtr7DrL/s1222/Autosave%20(2)%20copy_2.tif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="967" data-original-width="1222" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY5z2yVA945V9MSDm0I-ihpK0Pnh3dQT7tKNLMek185f3O2nHKY6ypMKAroA90y6NzUlP7l2pPatWo8_bMiB42S5Dbm-el-c0ec9KcTnUso6L0aQIs1a0Cp_85NWm5QHJdiYnjB-CCFdyByB3Dp-XCX1cBWCYOYx9dg8lN1kYOfSp4vfBKjOtr7DrL/w400-h316/Autosave%20(2)%20copy_2.tif" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>M44 the Beehive Cluster lies in the Constellations of Cancer. The image was taken with my 50MM Canon prime lens at f/2.8. The lens was mounted on my 1300D DSLR Canon camera. Settings were 45s at 400ISO. The camera was mounted on my Star adventurer 2i pro tracking mount. I used an intervalometer to control the camera and a Bahtinov mask to focus on a bright star. The image is a stack of 100 images, 35 flat frame and 30 dark frames all Stacked in DSS, processed in Siril and finished off in Adobe Photoshop. The image was taken under Bortle 3 skies at Falls Bay Gower. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">M44</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ6mhgJe-P6dwcg7MYfx7Jqh0D1eEFluKHJIxknFNVEQYsvy68ywBxfgbnY1Njeu3c8rhsUAbaBzqREwz7QyAS_T7bBUJQy7p4PDqRhPkWnngASk8CTNFEvlQvILrKqu2ouD4AaV3WEHb2e7mIbMB37M-hn-bhD3XrElk-YBqAVwS6zYu60gVbibPA/s2833/Autosave%20copy%202.tif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1900" data-original-width="2833" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ6mhgJe-P6dwcg7MYfx7Jqh0D1eEFluKHJIxknFNVEQYsvy68ywBxfgbnY1Njeu3c8rhsUAbaBzqREwz7QyAS_T7bBUJQy7p4PDqRhPkWnngASk8CTNFEvlQvILrKqu2ouD4AaV3WEHb2e7mIbMB37M-hn-bhD3XrElk-YBqAVwS6zYu60gVbibPA/w400-h269/Autosave%20copy%202.tif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Chris Playle</p>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-53897316110245311052024-03-16T17:02:00.006+00:002024-03-18T16:13:36.952+00:00March 15th Observing and imaging at the Brian Stokes Cygnus Observatory<p>On the 15th March members enjoyed some clear conditions at the Brian Stokes Cygnus Observatory to view an almost first quarter moon close to the Pleiades star cluster and observe comet 12P Pons Brooks passing close by the Triangulum and Andromeda galaxies. Several images were taken of M42 and the moon through society and members telescopes and some wide field time lapse images were also taken with a Sony Vlogging camera which managed to pick up the green comet with its long tail amidst the two galaxies. Twenty of the 60 second images taken with a 23mm lens at f/2.8 and ISO 100 were stacked to produce a higher resolution image at the comet and galaxy pair which was cropped out of the larger images as shown in the montage.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLKBkeeLWoQrsLxRh0gLyLDa_cMsYZcb13TJKkps5VKbtFydiz0raC0L7P7tNfNpxMOnrUuNTzmTCLkkx8VqVhALVyDXWqkXtjyfEWogTHhLZ0HN7iVM4e1rG9toPO9xaRjX4H5i-VyCtb4VOEeEmP-DwvtZsbZxEcXVuKN-N0HfMlQ5lQ_nPz5aaf/s400/Members_Montage_Fairwood_15_March_2024_Taller.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="266" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLKBkeeLWoQrsLxRh0gLyLDa_cMsYZcb13TJKkps5VKbtFydiz0raC0L7P7tNfNpxMOnrUuNTzmTCLkkx8VqVhALVyDXWqkXtjyfEWogTHhLZ0HN7iVM4e1rG9toPO9xaRjX4H5i-VyCtb4VOEeEmP-DwvtZsbZxEcXVuKN-N0HfMlQ5lQ_nPz5aaf/w266-h400/Members_Montage_Fairwood_15_March_2024_Taller.png" width="266" /></a></div><p>Comet 12P/ Pons-Brooks and M31/33: Numerous 60s time-lapse images were taken of the member's viewing and imaging evening using a Sony ZV-E10 Vlogging camera fitted with a Sigma 23 mm f/1.4 prime lens stopped down to f/2.8 at ISO 100. Some 20 of the images were aimed towards two of the scopes being used to view comet 12P/ Pons-Brooks as it was passing by M31 and M33 galaxies and successfully recorded the comet and the glaxies in a small part of the wide field images taken. The 20 images were stacked in DSS and processed in Pixinsight to produce a cropped image showing the comet, galaxies and nearby mag 2.0 star Mirach (Beta Andromeda). A montage was then compiled using a single 60s image showing the area of the frame cropped out to produce the stacked image.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2sKL4sp4UrTkblwIUPVjYVoxtHptHzzns6JUcRHN5QplCwFc6b04MA7tUVNIuUcY69HLYqoh5HkoRpU2zcO-qWhseBACTyIVIkEscl8x7x0vuUfO0ok7N95bndAkntd5HaZOPFm7K30JcT45y86UMGLWq47MGIdtziYzhL8S7tn1BoOSniJzL56TO/s1920/Comet_M31_M33_Annotated.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1262" data-original-width="1920" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2sKL4sp4UrTkblwIUPVjYVoxtHptHzzns6JUcRHN5QplCwFc6b04MA7tUVNIuUcY69HLYqoh5HkoRpU2zcO-qWhseBACTyIVIkEscl8x7x0vuUfO0ok7N95bndAkntd5HaZOPFm7K30JcT45y86UMGLWq47MGIdtziYzhL8S7tn1BoOSniJzL56TO/w400-h263/Comet_M31_M33_Annotated.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtMGo-LchO5FiM7_Ul2LHYkHgbd-2BI8PvDlKs_B2KPqfEtavkJ0Md770v5VrC64QnP-DCAFpr29gxTViDyzhYPtNZ9wnfDhyvZWYhyIZromP87ktpEIfqPWy9buPkx5GyQ3SpYigPPkQgE9tVSfG7tYq0N7sTLJ94_JjR0_TEcKd6RKS5RJsTOc7n/s2012/Comet_M31_M33_Inset_Foreground_Scope_Igloo.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2012" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtMGo-LchO5FiM7_Ul2LHYkHgbd-2BI8PvDlKs_B2KPqfEtavkJ0Md770v5VrC64QnP-DCAFpr29gxTViDyzhYPtNZ9wnfDhyvZWYhyIZromP87ktpEIfqPWy9buPkx5GyQ3SpYigPPkQgE9tVSfG7tYq0N7sTLJ94_JjR0_TEcKd6RKS5RJsTOc7n/w299-h400/Comet_M31_M33_Inset_Foreground_Scope_Igloo.png" width="299" /></a></div><br /><p>M42: 20 x 60s images were taken of M42 using an Atik 320e OSC camera attached to the society's Altair 115 mm triplet refractor fitted with a 0.8 x FR. The data were stacked in Affinity Photo and processed in Pixinsight.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5QXc8ibsZQp3pE1MQ5V_A-09W8PpzKDoK4mjYyzfmTvq5o3SWtemjg2GcdJJWvcXxNlfA3aaXJ74ALD2vl7QJypl5jUTZ6U9CDeT2via-2GUmwAwMhCDEULgnKHvLVIdnhG8BZP5wosG3nNhtHEB0xo3aq78_ev9Rsc20ayUp1xayOP6Fmr2bDHYe/s1500/M42_115mm_Triplet_FR-20_mins_Atik_320e_PI.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1129" data-original-width="1500" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5QXc8ibsZQp3pE1MQ5V_A-09W8PpzKDoK4mjYyzfmTvq5o3SWtemjg2GcdJJWvcXxNlfA3aaXJ74ALD2vl7QJypl5jUTZ6U9CDeT2via-2GUmwAwMhCDEULgnKHvLVIdnhG8BZP5wosG3nNhtHEB0xo3aq78_ev9Rsc20ayUp1xayOP6Fmr2bDHYe/w400-h301/M42_115mm_Triplet_FR-20_mins_Atik_320e_PI.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Chris Bowden</div>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-49631495729914016152024-03-14T20:51:00.001+00:002024-03-14T21:00:25.856+00:00Reprocessing of the Seestar S50 Orion nebula<p>The data were stacked and processed in various software and the results have been merged into this image. Just 3.5 minutes worth of 10s exposures.</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on the image to get a closer view</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Orion nebula</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtGdLvDNw_WoMGFko_ZNy_5kpgvuuIA5UZMty4i_zTR5wh_tNAi6cNPaLSk2BLhuoanOkaPszQ2zfE3nIBEM-xL5v82V_bro8_bPBanj996nPZqln4xykxx9HnOPyUstuyKgFSiw0LUnellfR1P2NMQ6HHlq1OtRhcPbF15y_EACznPwcGKvP5Pt9N/s1500/Orion-Seestar-procblend.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="842" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtGdLvDNw_WoMGFko_ZNy_5kpgvuuIA5UZMty4i_zTR5wh_tNAi6cNPaLSk2BLhuoanOkaPszQ2zfE3nIBEM-xL5v82V_bro8_bPBanj996nPZqln4xykxx9HnOPyUstuyKgFSiw0LUnellfR1P2NMQ6HHlq1OtRhcPbF15y_EACznPwcGKvP5Pt9N/w225-h400/Orion-Seestar-procblend.png" width="225" /></a></div><br /><p>Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin</p>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-44719100581914793592024-03-13T14:26:00.003+00:002024-03-13T14:26:27.801+00:00Sh2-284<p>Here's my processed image taken at Kelling last week. 32x10 minute subs in Ha,Oiii and Sii using my Atik 428 ccd camera, an Altairastro 60EDR refractor on my CEM40 mount. The refractor was fitted with a 0.8 focal reducer to give a 280mm field of view.</p><p>Calibrated and stacked using WBPP in Pixinsight, no flats used as I didn't take any! As the image scale with this setup was over 3 arcsec/pixel, so rather undersampled. I used a 2x drizzle when stacking in WBPP which has removed a slight blockiness in the stars. After integrating the subs, I used integerResample to reduce it to the original file size. This process improves the BlurXterminator process but the raw data needs to be dithered every frame when captured.</p><p>I then processed as normal by running Gradientremoval, colourcalibration, BlurXterminator and StarXterminator before adjusting the colours using Narrowbandnormalization.</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on the image to get a closer view</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sh2-284</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTz3WERrQzTgkmuiY-dLtLfp17bNWjaLaQuC2mkR1Wu0-IKEEJ01M7bIv81dOTXVkLMC6hOXzMZArqk68_jwoKTqySnNp0OdwOem1wZkWm49YGR5pP_u3HWI2aHKOynnxvhyphenhyphenPohLXDKloFTW2wJ90VXl9ylBGWOcyfAtiMdq2Rv0NqSbM0utTf7olV/s1850/Sh2_284_final.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1341" data-original-width="1850" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTz3WERrQzTgkmuiY-dLtLfp17bNWjaLaQuC2mkR1Wu0-IKEEJ01M7bIv81dOTXVkLMC6hOXzMZArqk68_jwoKTqySnNp0OdwOem1wZkWm49YGR5pP_u3HWI2aHKOynnxvhyphenhyphenPohLXDKloFTW2wJ90VXl9ylBGWOcyfAtiMdq2Rv0NqSbM0utTf7olV/w400-h290/Sh2_284_final.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Anne Startup</p>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-72999410555040808522024-03-13T14:17:00.001+00:002024-03-13T14:17:09.984+00:00Deep Sky Sketches<p> </p><p>Using a 6" refractor and a ZWO 533 camera as an electronic eyepiece</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The Leo 1 image comprises 4 hours and 40 minutes total exposure of LRGB/Ha and M5 one hour of LRGB data taken with an ASI 533MMPro attached to an Altair 60EDF doublet refractor fitted with a 0.8 x FR. Data were integrated and processed in Pixinsight.</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on an image to get a closer view</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgknFxvEku4RQfK-ZT8KZgEi_Ex1Q5G9VvJz31cLnIoShhrY8E368FQIqxOM5jTrgTBoQeaEIxSS6zwNAsK9tEM6gWLmmQGtTVZzZH4m4uFtWa7tziIMpAC4hMJieYtL7SeBlrCsZsvcDFJln8xL3tAbvkShaFNRqTUtbNsKZ6nfIYSnZt-dExwUmxv/s1965/M96_LRGB_Ha_4hrs_40_Cropped_with_Sep_Annotation_below_and_M5_1hr_to_right_and_scope_view_bottom.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1933" data-original-width="1965" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgknFxvEku4RQfK-ZT8KZgEi_Ex1Q5G9VvJz31cLnIoShhrY8E368FQIqxOM5jTrgTBoQeaEIxSS6zwNAsK9tEM6gWLmmQGtTVZzZH4m4uFtWa7tziIMpAC4hMJieYtL7SeBlrCsZsvcDFJln8xL3tAbvkShaFNRqTUtbNsKZ6nfIYSnZt-dExwUmxv/w400-h394/M96_LRGB_Ha_4hrs_40_Cropped_with_Sep_Annotation_below_and_M5_1hr_to_right_and_scope_view_bottom.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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John explained how the Astronomy and his work on outreach within the SAS benefited his health and confidence. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div>Some on site photographs and montage by Chris Bowden</div>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-317374321850124482024-03-07T18:04:00.008+00:002024-03-07T20:36:22.834+00:00First light for a ZWO Seestar S50<p>The ZWO Seestar S50 is a smart altazimuth telescope. It is a 50mm apochromatic triplet with a built in UV/IR cut filter and a dualband 20nm H-alpha and 30nm (OIII, H-beta) light-pollution filter (atumatically or 'manual' placed in the light path. It has a built in camera which uses the Sony IMX462 CMOS sensor which has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels (2 MP). The Seestar has a focal length of 250mm, and a focal ratio of f/5. For solar observing/imaging, a solar filter is provided. It has a built in dew heater and the Seestar software, which runs on Android or iOS can control the scope and autofocusing. The Seestar can be set to capture 10s 20s or 30s exposures or video (which can be RAW or MP4). Being an altazimuth mount, if long exposures are being used, it will depend on which part of the sky and elevation one is imaging, which exposure it will be reasonable to use. Our initial deep sky imaging was done with 10s exposures.</p><p>The scope plate solves to centre the object once located. The built in compass aids the telescope in finding it's targets. Once located and centred (which is a quick process) the scope can be set to start capturing. It captures exposures and does a live stack so you can see the image building up on the screen. (We used a 10.4 " Android tablet to get a really good view of the developing image.) </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj83Mvyrm_j9w5Kr4o4SbGbzauTp4Fhu8Q2kFbBdDniBxkMUt8bOrP-ZfX_mgJwUIRpor7BRe3Rmxac3RYD56Id1vYtfQqwy2J0Vw3OLOF1a1OJx-VNxQph31rlKCX0f6G666iaTHW1UVUMhFyNWxsmn-e0Tzfl4PuCx-MS3_bZQOphHRJ0Fw80yuVJ/s4160/20240306_201207.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj83Mvyrm_j9w5Kr4o4SbGbzauTp4Fhu8Q2kFbBdDniBxkMUt8bOrP-ZfX_mgJwUIRpor7BRe3Rmxac3RYD56Id1vYtfQqwy2J0Vw3OLOF1a1OJx-VNxQph31rlKCX0f6G666iaTHW1UVUMhFyNWxsmn-e0Tzfl4PuCx-MS3_bZQOphHRJ0Fw80yuVJ/w300-h400/20240306_201207.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Before the scope starts capturing images, it prepares by capturing darks which are then applied in real time to the captured images. It is possible to save just the stacked image, or, as we did, to save each of the individual exposures so that they can be stacked and processed in other software. The software that we have used to stack the exposures are: ZWOs ASIDeepStack, Siril, Deep Sky Stacker, PixiInsight and Affinity Photo.</span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Daytime Seestar.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Seestar with the provided solar filter</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ZAe0Pk47CvihLXvvKpMoRe_soCggCDtd8lqTUtdNcktArympGG4L862U_m9-9coWCEoeJN_dQQyDQS92pkATsPm1tmZP5Ri8Mo3kQfrBHmhQlut_MBK912KwflgQ_VrWEh0Kc5raJFiGntgduRdLcLqVsDSk8fnndzI5dNosEnwXPTY40vLCGFON/s800/Seestar-day.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="551" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ZAe0Pk47CvihLXvvKpMoRe_soCggCDtd8lqTUtdNcktArympGG4L862U_m9-9coWCEoeJN_dQQyDQS92pkATsPm1tmZP5Ri8Mo3kQfrBHmhQlut_MBK912KwflgQ_VrWEh0Kc5raJFiGntgduRdLcLqVsDSk8fnndzI5dNosEnwXPTY40vLCGFON/w275-h400/Seestar-day.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Solar image from stacking a RAW AVI file</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw_8xtkcQwhPAV0Tj43UXInJy3Tvdc9x0I9_0qmHdBnQZ1suvV1KEoMQaiqMwNGpEC1sf1BaxiqWxR29n4cztjFhpByfGs78AgKvZM90YWIkrGeUYySFMC4YKcDNmHkgxgjQk6tNqc0O5-oK6S1ltUobgsK9i3SzM5IBHWuBeJSga8kyn38J7SDW4V/s1920/Seestar-Rosette.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw_8xtkcQwhPAV0Tj43UXInJy3Tvdc9x0I9_0qmHdBnQZ1suvV1KEoMQaiqMwNGpEC1sf1BaxiqWxR29n4cztjFhpByfGs78AgKvZM90YWIkrGeUYySFMC4YKcDNmHkgxgjQk6tNqc0O5-oK6S1ltUobgsK9i3SzM5IBHWuBeJSga8kyn38J7SDW4V/w225-h400/Seestar-Rosette.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><p>Ten minutes stack of the Rosette nebula processed by PixInsight's <i>CreateHubblePaletteFromOSC</i> script.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">HOO rendering</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRoHTlKvYOHf3wRB6E-Cc2uDTpfwRs95Et4yf-N_Eqi1Z-IqFgD-8ZNFxHEf4jmoFEcJvntX9q5lUC7Dmv840vyf3OR5IrM5iJlZp8VqWKhYzpKqgOXFYbsianpO7erfjpNWhQzMQn5QiZCOeTQBBJ4kG4bpcZEXMXjMPZpTl0lmJHVaAuA7Dgduf4/s1500/Rosette-HOO.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbgbSsojgM8J4e3GubtClLd8Ez0TBEn7kzzF8R534Y3yxmYKoG0pae9beXZlcDunCzN6GlLpyqOV5snI4IJmLcWlqYvDqdDK7ytU5gfUhrSNfoKsZY9-rU-Vfj3Higkk7_Yp0wDzei0BgjWQ4hRZJ-oGvHW4zbP5-kxW_pEJlraKx0ufCHlzrDyKpx/s1500/HHead-Flame.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="836" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbgbSsojgM8J4e3GubtClLd8Ez0TBEn7kzzF8R534Y3yxmYKoG0pae9beXZlcDunCzN6GlLpyqOV5snI4IJmLcWlqYvDqdDK7ytU5gfUhrSNfoKsZY9-rU-Vfj3Higkk7_Yp0wDzei0BgjWQ4hRZJ-oGvHW4zbP5-kxW_pEJlraKx0ufCHlzrDyKpx/w223-h400/HHead-Flame.png" width="223" /></a></div><br /><span style="text-align: center;">So far, the ZWO Seestar S50 is exceeding expectations. We are looking forward to using it as a portable system and it is clear that it would be very suitable for outreach and EAA.</span><p></p><p><span style="text-align: center;">Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin</span></p>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-38898026971821190532024-03-07T13:26:00.000+00:002024-03-07T13:26:17.391+00:00M44: The Beehive cluster in Cancer.<p>M44 known as the Beehive star cluster in Cancer. Taken with my Rokinon 135mm prime lens at f/2.8 mounted on a 1300D DSLR Canon camera on a Star Adventure 2i pro tracking mount. Settings were 45s and 800ISO. I used an intervalometer to control the camera and a Bahtinov mask to focus on a bright star. The image is a stack of 35 images 25 flat frames and 30 drak frames all stacked in DSS and processed in Siril. </p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on the image to get a closer view</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">M44</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1S3xrl403vuDD-0S-z_LdRIfmhW7pbnBQtu-FGcNc-dZw6GDyhJADXEcin7INR_iS_ypfKuQ1log-sr81a_3Bg9uKNfYQXn_6GrfdzIklw3dFXMX3DwMesNRKv5JHd2GCqU-_v5SGFeuq6VKG-wTy9pZOi3CtpyvpVjspDia8-jXhbtlOMVpvL_uJ/s2000/Beehive.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1277" data-original-width="2000" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1S3xrl403vuDD-0S-z_LdRIfmhW7pbnBQtu-FGcNc-dZw6GDyhJADXEcin7INR_iS_ypfKuQ1log-sr81a_3Bg9uKNfYQXn_6GrfdzIklw3dFXMX3DwMesNRKv5JHd2GCqU-_v5SGFeuq6VKG-wTy9pZOi3CtpyvpVjspDia8-jXhbtlOMVpvL_uJ/w400-h255/Beehive.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Chris Playle</p>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-4889767781150019332024-03-07T10:35:00.004+00:002024-03-07T14:32:02.227+00:00Wide field image of Auriga<p>Wide field image of Auriga taken with my Rokinon 135mm prime lens at f2 mounted on a 1300D DSLR Canon camera on a Star Adventure 2i pro tracking mount. Settings were 45s and 800 ISO. I used an intervalometer to control the camera and a Bahtinov mask to focus on a bright star which was Rigel in Orion.The image is a stack of 250 images 25 flat frames and 20 dark frames all stacked in DSS and processed in Siril.The image was taken at Fall Bay, Rhossili Gower under Bortle 3 skies. </p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on an image to get a closer view</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Auriga wide field</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPnF41rf4UdmpwH0uhyQnrGWBymtCFxN-KA9_yI4clmFKzAxWfaDuGsQDSWSWCGl86N5azDaSAGxBrDE18HcTIbh1BiVEgVR3Z0GDT5GQsqs1HK9-_owL3jbkj8mE_lekRlHpacDNQ2ObU9kQbrUGH5gatF7YFpFNhiwbYUn_jNW9JcSm2TAZ4mcP4/s3202/Autosave%20copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="3202" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPnF41rf4UdmpwH0uhyQnrGWBymtCFxN-KA9_yI4clmFKzAxWfaDuGsQDSWSWCGl86N5azDaSAGxBrDE18HcTIbh1BiVEgVR3Z0GDT5GQsqs1HK9-_owL3jbkj8mE_lekRlHpacDNQ2ObU9kQbrUGH5gatF7YFpFNhiwbYUn_jNW9JcSm2TAZ4mcP4/w400-h225/Autosave%20copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Annotated image</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzNCIUyfp4pDLpui4NGeEiuL6447rvMaho-wfpMhR5L2nEX8NSMr883X2r9igm0HYJFHn8UyYOHrM_cYRAlFTotI1ku36QJeRqwJYOdFUz66zsrQ9KL7skyhBJxAtW1fcAk71yvuF5eZcNIT_NOyo1O76NNNMkx93-1-BK_NIxTwlxZKiMsEzDALKS/s1600/Annotated.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="899" data-original-width="1600" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzNCIUyfp4pDLpui4NGeEiuL6447rvMaho-wfpMhR5L2nEX8NSMr883X2r9igm0HYJFHn8UyYOHrM_cYRAlFTotI1ku36QJeRqwJYOdFUz66zsrQ9KL7skyhBJxAtW1fcAk71yvuF5eZcNIT_NOyo1O76NNNMkx93-1-BK_NIxTwlxZKiMsEzDALKS/w400-h225/Annotated.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Rigel focused with a Bahtinov mask</div></span><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXOVukbEqW2zpGJl6_UkWB9j0Xyv2MDpcNnsMB5DbWy3TZeBwlJ86kK855KV982iNo6m1NcqgDNmiUlaUJ5t3gfZ_-dc6pi80nwd_in-z3c1OjPfLXf-4XNPBrtmWFFee7X9VBGaEr2bL8s8JOxfOCthA4l8A-u0cu8PdCSXvrw-bCZsLwY_VfJeGY/s2000/Star-Rigel.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1332" data-original-width="2000" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXOVukbEqW2zpGJl6_UkWB9j0Xyv2MDpcNnsMB5DbWy3TZeBwlJ86kK855KV982iNo6m1NcqgDNmiUlaUJ5t3gfZ_-dc6pi80nwd_in-z3c1OjPfLXf-4XNPBrtmWFFee7X9VBGaEr2bL8s8JOxfOCthA4l8A-u0cu8PdCSXvrw-bCZsLwY_VfJeGY/w400-h266/Star-Rigel.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>Chris Playle</p></div>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-67118268828191545692024-03-07T10:26:00.004+00:002024-03-07T14:39:07.743+00:00NGC 3109, The Dolphin Head nebula, The Southern Pinwheel galaxy<p><br /></p><p>With a rare night of clear skies that encompassed the whole sky, I set up my scope at an elevated position to get the best vantage for imaging three southern hemisphere deep sky objects that skirt our horizon at this time of year. As each of the targets popped into view, I managed to take images of them as they reached their highest points at just 10 degrees above the horizon. A total of 6 hours imaging was achieved, using different filters with an ASI 533MM Pro camera attached to an Altair 60EDF doublet refractor fitted with a 0.8 x FR. Data were stacked and processed in Pixinsight with final processing done in Photoshop 7.0. A montage shows the three objects imaged, a view of the southern horizon looking out over Gower and the equipment used for imaging.</p><p>DSO's from left to right: </p><p>NGC 3109: This galaxy in the constellation of Hydra is thought to be the furthest galaxy in our local group at a distance of 4.3 Mly. This was a 1.6 hour LRGB integration.</p><p>Sh2-308 (the Dolphin head nebula): An area of ionised hydrogen lying 8 degrees below Sirius with a nebulous bubble lighting up a star preparing to go supernova. Thankfully it is around 5,300 ly away! This was 3.75 hrs of R/G and OIII.</p><p>M83 the southern Pinwheel: One of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies lying about 15 Mly away in the constellation borders of Hydra and Centaurus. This was just 0.6 hours of LRGB data. </p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on the image to get a closer view</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAjMhYx1eI7gJRAfKEDA6iN1EF6CJvOSZDYqbQcFdb935CiqDySjlvSd-4MgYDqEO4xJMHzB3CNj_FwpoREIFjvrbTTNO78qJSScLW4dDcT-ACyDOALAJRRKktwcFhg0rtvbK8BuCkEYfX0-RTUQ7Vb0V9gdiqizGmTgFXwIIjNWug4z-boiqHggfz/s2284/Dolphin_M83_and_NGC3109_Scope_Balcony_Montage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1899" data-original-width="2284" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAjMhYx1eI7gJRAfKEDA6iN1EF6CJvOSZDYqbQcFdb935CiqDySjlvSd-4MgYDqEO4xJMHzB3CNj_FwpoREIFjvrbTTNO78qJSScLW4dDcT-ACyDOALAJRRKktwcFhg0rtvbK8BuCkEYfX0-RTUQ7Vb0V9gdiqizGmTgFXwIIjNWug4z-boiqHggfz/w400-h333/Dolphin_M83_and_NGC3109_Scope_Balcony_Montage.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Leo</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyTr0qvw6YcJo2Kar-T31gZQyAFf6p4DXLAYWckvyzb7BUiJU24HT79EHgKqcpniJeJQ9wY3XyabZ-GshsoP8pvGYlXsR_wM1mY9LzeBHr49PUZEy3KgxwaL6kyVeMAav9ihIHOl4vaSbnwcOjRXCZDnZ2TrKr9air4d6bUupvHBHW9UHU-iV6sDfX/s2476/Leo_Adjusted.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2476" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyTr0qvw6YcJo2Kar-T31gZQyAFf6p4DXLAYWckvyzb7BUiJU24HT79EHgKqcpniJeJQ9wY3XyabZ-GshsoP8pvGYlXsR_wM1mY9LzeBHr49PUZEy3KgxwaL6kyVeMAav9ihIHOl4vaSbnwcOjRXCZDnZ2TrKr9air4d6bUupvHBHW9UHU-iV6sDfX/w400-h243/Leo_Adjusted.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Annotated Leo</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisntL7W0HhjavZfCWNMBz2fO9cYwcP5lI0iz_pjxTfjtT58xEhPFOZ-2GowphamOxTkAKfy13iIS75mSRBscaCz345HgMSe_NREFmOfguyWOtz6YF4qGPW7FOp0v_87CBl55zGWYyVEnZwotu_FNMPteCajwZKYPnKhPkNqSc3JMseWBSPq0CLIidO/s2476/Leo_Annotated_Astrometry.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2476" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisntL7W0HhjavZfCWNMBz2fO9cYwcP5lI0iz_pjxTfjtT58xEhPFOZ-2GowphamOxTkAKfy13iIS75mSRBscaCz345HgMSe_NREFmOfguyWOtz6YF4qGPW7FOp0v_87CBl55zGWYyVEnZwotu_FNMPteCajwZKYPnKhPkNqSc3JMseWBSPq0CLIidO/w400-h243/Leo_Annotated_Astrometry.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dolphin head nebula</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsPaQP9IWq6UxGDIfVrBP-GWZj8YKM4qi0I3CjlpzWm_IrqHz2gh4UwuiOSeyoymeKXWbL0CC6cnxfISLC9IlfBw0XHyHseV7SeR-jm2D3McRy6AnRa4P71EcvWL1WyluY5_ToR9D2IsajXFcN5IQrZmsekbeJL5HqQ0eizym7HOdDoau7Qxo0XMyS/s2877/Dolphin_3_75_hrs_R_G_OIII.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2601" data-original-width="2877" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsPaQP9IWq6UxGDIfVrBP-GWZj8YKM4qi0I3CjlpzWm_IrqHz2gh4UwuiOSeyoymeKXWbL0CC6cnxfISLC9IlfBw0XHyHseV7SeR-jm2D3McRy6AnRa4P71EcvWL1WyluY5_ToR9D2IsajXFcN5IQrZmsekbeJL5HqQ0eizym7HOdDoau7Qxo0XMyS/s320/Dolphin_3_75_hrs_R_G_OIII.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">M83</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWaWqnh2-yi0X8GSRuQzjhO1h0y3Zo46fsjaBQTBFkpR8msvDb1r7bl_-tNddxAruRpYctOL4JCPgmGfZjpsiAQwy4FBjlwhvpnGkOoohYob74kBiircNzUEyTOQ8UiLQAsi8099zXaCXhU2bkFNK6S0uY4B63u2-9ja8hN12qNBpVE3B5q9NdInDV/s1500/M83_LRGB_Edit.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1492" data-original-width="1500" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWaWqnh2-yi0X8GSRuQzjhO1h0y3Zo46fsjaBQTBFkpR8msvDb1r7bl_-tNddxAruRpYctOL4JCPgmGfZjpsiAQwy4FBjlwhvpnGkOoohYob74kBiircNzUEyTOQ8UiLQAsi8099zXaCXhU2bkFNK6S0uY4B63u2-9ja8hN12qNBpVE3B5q9NdInDV/s320/M83_LRGB_Edit.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">NGC 3109</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA_TlI91BT_Z4K5G58sQuWJOs7argn7riPE5vcAPHflblBECouqqIXOXGe_SGtquxFgSWY4sUDCTvBSfuLS66xyV2JuuCyO1i7_xtybC_UApZkIUmuIdBRgqKbxXQNPssDmvipazdxAuDiJbWbI8P55GRvfOvTezKLggLF4UeURTLdJkZvZdrCG5DB/s1500/NGC_3109_LRGB.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1495" data-original-width="1500" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA_TlI91BT_Z4K5G58sQuWJOs7argn7riPE5vcAPHflblBECouqqIXOXGe_SGtquxFgSWY4sUDCTvBSfuLS66xyV2JuuCyO1i7_xtybC_UApZkIUmuIdBRgqKbxXQNPssDmvipazdxAuDiJbWbI8P55GRvfOvTezKLggLF4UeURTLdJkZvZdrCG5DB/s320/NGC_3109_LRGB.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>Chris Bowden</div>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-85542019613139939842024-03-04T21:51:00.003+00:002024-03-05T01:18:32.744+00:00Gemini region<p>Wide field image of the Gemini region including M35 Star cluster, the Jellyfish nebula and the Monkey head nebula.Taken with my Rokinon 135mm prime lens at f/2.8 mounted on a 1300D DSLR Canon camera on a Star Adventure 2i pro tracking mount. Settings were 45s and 800ISO. I used an intervalometer to control the camera and a Bahtinov Mask to focus on a bright star. The image is a stack of 110 images 30 flat frames and 23 dark frames all stacked in DSS and processed in Siril. The image was taken at Falls Bay, Rhossili Gower under Bortle 3 skies.</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on the image to get a closer view</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The object rich Gemini region</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0cUx54v06UEfHUec5X0zBFP_-sWH_YS08Fg9mZW-8rFDcDwDJ-LfuW4aPnG_qgTKZMRaEFDjvuJ7E8U96ZCqV4UD_jMTHCqScgnInyXgGhddutp7FBBzr-Mcz5fUOAYgHzDcaVUHXDUXbwYNGIh9yrggaSMjYt8lapwS2cuW_QqerFkUd1M1jIZFB/s2000/Monkeyhead-region.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1343" data-original-width="2000" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0cUx54v06UEfHUec5X0zBFP_-sWH_YS08Fg9mZW-8rFDcDwDJ-LfuW4aPnG_qgTKZMRaEFDjvuJ7E8U96ZCqV4UD_jMTHCqScgnInyXgGhddutp7FBBzr-Mcz5fUOAYgHzDcaVUHXDUXbwYNGIh9yrggaSMjYt8lapwS2cuW_QqerFkUd1M1jIZFB/w400-h269/Monkeyhead-region.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Annotated image</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Iah7OZA5J7MJaSdSJOoLy685nMRgQfshlYlQoXubF8QekBfRbzR4ygSDeTFLiFFPK-GFuxOHadFT8L4qieI8clRCfL94c8TV4LhsfP58N6FhdJsWO79jrn81xmeuzhGqfQ16pGP3vYModle5v2-feTF-4QVYRxst5mdbvtfIzkXE_s_5nSNtu7HW/s1479/10077842%20(1).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="1479" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Iah7OZA5J7MJaSdSJOoLy685nMRgQfshlYlQoXubF8QekBfRbzR4ygSDeTFLiFFPK-GFuxOHadFT8L4qieI8clRCfL94c8TV4LhsfP58N6FhdJsWO79jrn81xmeuzhGqfQ16pGP3vYModle5v2-feTF-4QVYRxst5mdbvtfIzkXE_s_5nSNtu7HW/w400-h269/10077842%20(1).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>Chris Playle</p>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-22329457193275742972024-03-04T21:36:00.000+00:002024-03-04T21:36:13.654+00:00The Orion nebulae with very short exxposures<p>In the late 1990's we started doing deep-sky imaging with very low light (0.001 lux or lower) video cameras and later, frame-accumulating video cameras. These cameras were essentially TV cameras and made individual exposures of 1/50th of a second. Simulated long exposures were made by summing hundreds of thousands of these 1/50th s frames into 32 bit deep FITS files. In this session we decided to capture short exposures of the Orion nebulae to see what detail could be captured.</p><p>Very short exposures of the Orion nebula were made with AstroDMx Capture, through an Altair Starwave 60 ED refractor with an 0.8 reducer/flattener and 2" magnetic filter holder with a SkyTech LPRO MAX 2" broadband filter, using an SV605CC cooled, 14 bit OSC CMOS camera. The scope was fitted with a Pegasus FocusCube v2 controlled by AstroDMx Capture via INDI. The scope was mounted on an AVX GOTO mount which was controlled by AstroDMx Capture via an INDI server running on the imaging computer indoors.</p><p>Clouds limited the number of frames that could be captured so fewer images were captured than we would have liked. 150 images were captured in total: 100 x 1s, 30 x 3s and 20 x 5s exposures. The camera is a zero amp glow camera so dark frames were omitted. However, Flats, dark-flats and Bias frames were used.</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on an image to get a closer view.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The equipment used</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Iiii1R1K7TLRFr_u2fKKmDHvzyD315aI_S8wSmwpkeQRqm_68d5Z7b2oQWLnW-J35QcPMnl80n91IvIhaD-s2_kHMvsyZDVI5VPLo6ke_3wzSHVHE41TQo-HN23Y1SzD9zN02HjCRCwlIfdSkwCABzsrb79rmEQXTCyzrrSS6qmiszZfTeVtQbOh/s800/151_2555.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="800" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Iiii1R1K7TLRFr_u2fKKmDHvzyD315aI_S8wSmwpkeQRqm_68d5Z7b2oQWLnW-J35QcPMnl80n91IvIhaD-s2_kHMvsyZDVI5VPLo6ke_3wzSHVHE41TQo-HN23Y1SzD9zN02HjCRCwlIfdSkwCABzsrb79rmEQXTCyzrrSS6qmiszZfTeVtQbOh/w400-h344/151_2555.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">The scope/mount slewing was monitored by a pan/tilt security IP camera</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE865BWfuEC04ahK6fIjbfu8LeY_9i8TP0YSSwCH6tNbu6syBADqIb-JeUd9x931I0dvWshEtXGS8Kl2_6YUAOr5oFvBTkEhK_gzLMH4E93VBC94Zyv9EUrMzhOdVAb1KLlCiERoDGiX2LAqAaTnc7kDDPJfnHdtMXLq7QTp5cHVRlJBj3RJlgr-pX/s800/151_2554.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="800" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE865BWfuEC04ahK6fIjbfu8LeY_9i8TP0YSSwCH6tNbu6syBADqIb-JeUd9x931I0dvWshEtXGS8Kl2_6YUAOr5oFvBTkEhK_gzLMH4E93VBC94Zyv9EUrMzhOdVAb1KLlCiERoDGiX2LAqAaTnc7kDDPJfnHdtMXLq7QTp5cHVRlJBj3RJlgr-pX/w400-h399/151_2554.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Image captured by the IP camera of the scope pointing at the Orion nebula</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRr16gh2LmZF6JkvZ6dp9_qn2e1fvE3y6oI4GQU1QwyAtvoJwoGn4zXUwpdF7zFKc3jgs9PSL9ao9WuKXkktXINcSH-edD68yz6TOnV7jfhLC5us92SEGS3hCSo3mmQSa83RgXUApKuWfVeT5L1fZOV74L6LAQJvinzmZHj5KKwbo24suYFdz-muO8/s2304/1709495361054.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1296" data-original-width="2304" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRr16gh2LmZF6JkvZ6dp9_qn2e1fvE3y6oI4GQU1QwyAtvoJwoGn4zXUwpdF7zFKc3jgs9PSL9ao9WuKXkktXINcSH-edD68yz6TOnV7jfhLC5us92SEGS3hCSo3mmQSa83RgXUApKuWfVeT5L1fZOV74L6LAQJvinzmZHj5KKwbo24suYFdz-muO8/w400-h225/1709495361054.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture saving 5 second exposures</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcIXs4AYv0pIA2SsFZXyKBsFdGkAR7Ntz_43rZHSfXv80xUgcAF9YjBQ7B6nOeUhDEKTZBGHoS5y0x5N0jYtxY3l-fB9Mj7QpIl0oUyHBdfKMQjgt22bcKBAhcteIqNMN7pmArrbjKNhUCbEjsMX-Dg_wYTOLz5WhITEHOh1BJ0Wq82vr-HUmyhEJL/s1920/Screenshot-5s-exposure.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcIXs4AYv0pIA2SsFZXyKBsFdGkAR7Ntz_43rZHSfXv80xUgcAF9YjBQ7B6nOeUhDEKTZBGHoS5y0x5N0jYtxY3l-fB9Mj7QpIl0oUyHBdfKMQjgt22bcKBAhcteIqNMN7pmArrbjKNhUCbEjsMX-Dg_wYTOLz5WhITEHOh1BJ0Wq82vr-HUmyhEJL/w400-h225/Screenshot-5s-exposure.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>The data were all stacked together in Deep Sky Stacker using a high dynamic range entropy weighted average procedure. The data were processed in the Gimp, the Gimp Starnet++ plugin and neat image.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Orion and Running man nebulae produced by just 290 seconds worth of exposures</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3YbxVJ_iqrGhuxKHJ_R5uGIwV-NLKdNqzOsSp7Wk_l3zKxLbV_QujL5MWIhDoHlmLzbFZjTlEo0956zgvTw6wADhMPtfqsMaRiEpf_GbZA202lcngOLp5ugcNDI8mvyAXloAkSfANss4jYXk0NP0GMEzNN8uY7_bu-tfWoGE2vkMN39XwUbzTOpRN/s1500/Orion-shorts.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3YbxVJ_iqrGhuxKHJ_R5uGIwV-NLKdNqzOsSp7Wk_l3zKxLbV_QujL5MWIhDoHlmLzbFZjTlEo0956zgvTw6wADhMPtfqsMaRiEpf_GbZA202lcngOLp5ugcNDI8mvyAXloAkSfANss4jYXk0NP0GMEzNN8uY7_bu-tfWoGE2vkMN39XwUbzTOpRN/w400-h400/Orion-shorts.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin</div>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-61423248773393879352024-03-04T17:54:00.000+00:002024-03-04T17:54:11.307+00:00The Orion nebula<p>I managed to get almost 9 minutes of 1s exposures of RGB data last night in between the clouds which I stacked in DSS and then combined in Pixinsight and blended with the previous 30s and 15s data. I think the camera is so sensitive that maybe 0.24s might have been better! My HFR's weren't too good on green and blue, so this would probably benefit from a reshoot under better skies. Anyway I am happy with the way this turned out. Total exposure time was 65 minutes.</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on an image to get a closer view</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Orion nebula and the Running man nebula</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhii-Jjuqv7BwzAtRlksSj3UwLtLYPPJqol-hcilaRnXgCkBotS1SRZc6Latbx24kRXWdjlX6I-M-Kpe6Qd0Fl_z5gC5f3teuDXFRfOUU_q9yBz_YKmZLuRgGLvUb2CRxxP0ag6PZLi4IiaqYqD5q4DzsP_nvxXby-wbZ74cxA5yTZwEEJTdk_1HfB2/s1927/unnamed%20(1).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1927" data-original-width="1675" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhii-Jjuqv7BwzAtRlksSj3UwLtLYPPJqol-hcilaRnXgCkBotS1SRZc6Latbx24kRXWdjlX6I-M-Kpe6Qd0Fl_z5gC5f3teuDXFRfOUU_q9yBz_YKmZLuRgGLvUb2CRxxP0ag6PZLi4IiaqYqD5q4DzsP_nvxXby-wbZ74cxA5yTZwEEJTdk_1HfB2/w348-h400/unnamed%20(1).png" width="348" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF5y6JFE5So3-aUFkIhLhxumHzwIsXw3trJrTWEUU0y5i4F0mgX86MsRgw5n0izWRXzqzDuZoheanHe6t-6e2odyDeCGYls2lUVuc00nPNdwFAL-8gPSEJAiije4xqk6aDgR-DcD_-LCAcJc9DVJyTLQ3YAqUcnIahsz971b9-NBnrKZgTzkeHQE-x/s698/unnamed.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="613" data-original-width="698" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF5y6JFE5So3-aUFkIhLhxumHzwIsXw3trJrTWEUU0y5i4F0mgX86MsRgw5n0izWRXzqzDuZoheanHe6t-6e2odyDeCGYls2lUVuc00nPNdwFAL-8gPSEJAiije4xqk6aDgR-DcD_-LCAcJc9DVJyTLQ3YAqUcnIahsz971b9-NBnrKZgTzkeHQE-x/w400-h351/unnamed.png" width="400" /></a></div><p>Chris Bowden</p>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-62400543709992009602024-03-03T15:34:00.003+00:002024-03-03T15:34:46.896+00:00Orion nebulae and the Moon<p>M42 & Running Man nebula: 56 mins of 30 & 15s subs taken with an ASI 533MM Pro camera attached to an Altair 60EDF doublet refractor fitted with a 0.8 x FR. Data integrated, combined and processed in Pixinsight.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3aTCpFN_Z9Scvo_amdkElKLan05ytLCmiUXbsAHO7irGRWep0jpuiBISJmZ__YMYyo17GMA2kAf_a0_afTpDkXafbRldOvO6XzPOTcqqodWARdjMJkpuGji0gCGKhkSv1UN_hV9QHMBCaP_Qz_kmjdxqhphPW7hfbKjcPdl6QiWDowCagbbmfhGxL/s1468/M42_and_Running_Man-1hr_of_30s_and_15s_Edits_Cropped.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="1468" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3aTCpFN_Z9Scvo_amdkElKLan05ytLCmiUXbsAHO7irGRWep0jpuiBISJmZ__YMYyo17GMA2kAf_a0_afTpDkXafbRldOvO6XzPOTcqqodWARdjMJkpuGji0gCGKhkSv1UN_hV9QHMBCaP_Qz_kmjdxqhphPW7hfbKjcPdl6QiWDowCagbbmfhGxL/w400-h236/M42_and_Running_Man-1hr_of_30s_and_15s_Edits_Cropped.png" width="400" /></a></div><p>Waning gibbous moon (ARW): 30 x ARW’s taken with a Sony ZV-E10 Vlogging camera fitted with a 350 mm lens at F6.3, ISO 100 and 1/500s. The data were processed as an SER using PIPP and the best 50% of the frames were then stacked in Autostakkert! 4 and finished in Pi</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhocLCCtm1mB-zT45yMxNgSsLGaJ3aJJyMUkxZrXDHiw_vZCnSfLGt7dXBLTb1x37ZrOLm2dtEc30uKfmqKN35Td_Uk1CguDb6pVYHJnFUec7rZd5DmqoNWmVNCczzu53FhuxnzKBS-WXShoZNa9jICFMKH9bTJuAv2oe4jscgjc4h3EkteO36Pv3gb/s1414/Moon_30_ARWs_PIPP_AS_Pi.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1014" data-original-width="1414" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhocLCCtm1mB-zT45yMxNgSsLGaJ3aJJyMUkxZrXDHiw_vZCnSfLGt7dXBLTb1x37ZrOLm2dtEc30uKfmqKN35Td_Uk1CguDb6pVYHJnFUec7rZd5DmqoNWmVNCczzu53FhuxnzKBS-WXShoZNa9jICFMKH9bTJuAv2oe4jscgjc4h3EkteO36Pv3gb/w400-h286/Moon_30_ARWs_PIPP_AS_Pi.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Waning gibbous moon (Jpegs): 26 x Jpegs taken with a Sony ZV-E10 Vlogging camera fitted with a 350 mm lens at F6.3, ISO 100 and 1/500s with the camera using full clear image zoom. The data were precisely cropped in Astrocrop and the best 90% of the frames were then stacked in Autostakkert! 4 and finished in Pi</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQFRu48wzAXIpFZcSTTgZm4GXORCGhxQcG0ZT8vwcsrRM8FSn9oMv46SUfxzGMd364o5MeVeta6TRAsp_49GrZCZPKamES0oKcC204YuYXKbEfYAisWChBPc3Bmfbi7WzkEQc-ICdFYdQuPVyaY9W6ro432ricY8SOn0aAfFLOuBiADTfxN4hbUcK/s2000/Moon_26_Jpegs_ASTROCROP_AS_Pi.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1850" data-original-width="2000" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQFRu48wzAXIpFZcSTTgZm4GXORCGhxQcG0ZT8vwcsrRM8FSn9oMv46SUfxzGMd364o5MeVeta6TRAsp_49GrZCZPKamES0oKcC204YuYXKbEfYAisWChBPc3Bmfbi7WzkEQc-ICdFYdQuPVyaY9W6ro432ricY8SOn0aAfFLOuBiADTfxN4hbUcK/w400-h370/Moon_26_Jpegs_ASTROCROP_AS_Pi.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Comparison of Jpeg & ARW shots: A side by side comparison of similar data taken with the Sony ZV-E10 Vlogging camera fitted with a 350 mm lens shooting in Jpegs with clear image zoom and ARW's</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiINxn12dA39Qk2s4JnWJBP1bYw7U_nubDvhkZfruMPUbY8g3S6CryX2K04v8T1FcOnsQGAetAbOH2p7a_ivbTZw4HSTEutRwVrG198Z70X9riyNog0FbzPv7AFXYV2V0NNoHckrsp-wwdaiWctLTNQxqYZN_egjJX1z413bjaDheoBEhM9yDGWmF89/s1827/Moon_26_Jpegs_clear_zoom_and+30_ARWs_Comparison_Pi.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1120" data-original-width="1827" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiINxn12dA39Qk2s4JnWJBP1bYw7U_nubDvhkZfruMPUbY8g3S6CryX2K04v8T1FcOnsQGAetAbOH2p7a_ivbTZw4HSTEutRwVrG198Z70X9riyNog0FbzPv7AFXYV2V0NNoHckrsp-wwdaiWctLTNQxqYZN_egjJX1z413bjaDheoBEhM9yDGWmF89/w400-h245/Moon_26_Jpegs_clear_zoom_and+30_ARWs_Comparison_Pi.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Chris Bowden</p>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-53514729952562212352024-03-01T13:16:00.001+00:002024-03-01T13:16:48.893+00:00The Dolphin Head Nebula<p>Using an Altair Starwave 60 ED refractor with an 0.8 reducer/flattener and 2" magnetic filter holder with an Altait Ha/OIII 2" dualband filter, using an SV605CC cooled, 14 bit OSC CMOS camera. Data captured with AstroDMx Capture; calibrated and stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and post processed in Neat Image and the Gimp 2.10. Total integration of 18 x 5 minute exposures of the Dolphin Head nebula.</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on the image to get a closer view</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Dolphin Head nebula, Sharpless 308</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgOLGDkODtaRl5mQN7W7FlXk8I2CZxJtH0FhyrC3K1GpphfExKv7M1X04B2pUtkXIdxOiOp5AAaF-FlurEVcnTxTCqs7IQp_uLNoEzvJOnIakBF3w8967YjXP2urXUtppX4kh_iwLWNX9qFKCTOSD5XeA57iZCshjNWATAqCoweughtC9e9gnWVyts/s993/DolphinHeadNebula.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="989" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgOLGDkODtaRl5mQN7W7FlXk8I2CZxJtH0FhyrC3K1GpphfExKv7M1X04B2pUtkXIdxOiOp5AAaF-FlurEVcnTxTCqs7IQp_uLNoEzvJOnIakBF3w8967YjXP2urXUtppX4kh_iwLWNX9qFKCTOSD5XeA57iZCshjNWATAqCoweughtC9e9gnWVyts/w399-h400/DolphinHeadNebula.jpg" width="399" /></a></div><br /><p>Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin</p>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-57400227154802656262024-02-29T13:43:00.003+00:002024-02-29T13:43:22.265+00:00<p>The Sun in white light with Baader film: 70% of 45 ARW images taken with a Sony ZV-E10 Vlogging camera and a 350mm lens at 1/1000 s, ISO 100 and F6.3. Data was converted into an SER file using PIPP and stacked in Autostakkert! 4 then wavelet processed in Registax and finished in Adobe CS2.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpWqLwn_vNkbRV_ku62H5E8cRc1yGf9kI2FRIJTWFg1bZUYjXb1jX0jRXdLKGFn-fnlTLvt0sZ8xS_Zlx9CqgJ_B0SL1FBy18nBo1d7Xe_Gn3d3Aqb5nYyRHRN9mrSk6zxL_qtBIyWga0itRtIllD9W0eB4QyU0TFSY8xULFbZHXKJW7pfk1Mp0CFK/s995/DSC03697_pipp_lapl4_ap63_Reg_Pi.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="886" data-original-width="995" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpWqLwn_vNkbRV_ku62H5E8cRc1yGf9kI2FRIJTWFg1bZUYjXb1jX0jRXdLKGFn-fnlTLvt0sZ8xS_Zlx9CqgJ_B0SL1FBy18nBo1d7Xe_Gn3d3Aqb5nYyRHRN9mrSk6zxL_qtBIyWga0itRtIllD9W0eB4QyU0TFSY8xULFbZHXKJW7pfk1Mp0CFK/w400-h356/DSC03697_pipp_lapl4_ap63_Reg_Pi.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <div>Orion, Canis Major and Lepus: A wide field image taken at the Brian Stokes Cygnus Observatory during the members viewing and imaging evening using a Sony ZV-E10 Vlogging camera fitted with a Sigma 23mm prime lens with the camera mounted on an MSM tracker which was polar aligned using a polar scope. Some 60 x 30s exposures were taken using the camera's intervalometer at ISO 500 and F1.4. Data was integrated and processed in Pixinsight and Adobe CS2. The image was annotated via Astrometry.net.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH_5-hpRtKca3s0FTrGovqcoeMZM148HWZp9UKFnEEmihgxE9jrmRoWiN9RBNtHRVcHFyv4taN-WTeXl8EFKzUons_Gkr5boEapdQFeqtdHcP9CbIBiNEIoZDIEYDE862-4yqejhyphenhyphenZ47-Ry2OMzKpjUGdwzs5rUXC4CKzqUdlv5oNTuxm6_YDPJZhO/s1500/Orion_Over_Observ_in_bright_moonlight_E10_23mm_DBE.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1002" data-original-width="1500" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH_5-hpRtKca3s0FTrGovqcoeMZM148HWZp9UKFnEEmihgxE9jrmRoWiN9RBNtHRVcHFyv4taN-WTeXl8EFKzUons_Gkr5boEapdQFeqtdHcP9CbIBiNEIoZDIEYDE862-4yqejhyphenhyphenZ47-Ry2OMzKpjUGdwzs5rUXC4CKzqUdlv5oNTuxm6_YDPJZhO/w400-h268/Orion_Over_Observ_in_bright_moonlight_E10_23mm_DBE.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0rOgwgeviAqKjcp3tNo-JUFPQpYDYHhDGZkAAhzN-3upg_pqFD185Kmap1af8KaPijrKbPqX0JiwKPYRrGUR8xcVMAjyAJlfb_MUnk1Ddksv2FP8_wn0ltc3tHhyg55TmnRNsgx2uZcdC95lAs_jqfoOpn1CQsPbUMDY9gSaapCJ9pvBxE611J6OE/s1500/Orion_E10_23mm_Astrometry_Annotated.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1002" data-original-width="1500" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0rOgwgeviAqKjcp3tNo-JUFPQpYDYHhDGZkAAhzN-3upg_pqFD185Kmap1af8KaPijrKbPqX0JiwKPYRrGUR8xcVMAjyAJlfb_MUnk1Ddksv2FP8_wn0ltc3tHhyg55TmnRNsgx2uZcdC95lAs_jqfoOpn1CQsPbUMDY9gSaapCJ9pvBxE611J6OE/w400-h268/Orion_E10_23mm_Astrometry_Annotated.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Great Orion and Running Man nebula: A narrow field image taken at the Brian Stokes Cygnus Observatory during the members viewing and imaging evening using a Sony ZV-E10 Vlogging camera attached to the society's 115 mm Triplet refractor driven by an HEQ5 Pro mount. Various exposure settings were used to capture just 8 minutes of ARW data which was stacked and processed in Pixinsight.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8djsq5w0H-2jo7sY9HydNX3nn1iXOhpsJX5A_ejJlCcUXXKVT92OWtDwk6JGui4hQ4kBTmGIOnyvqaa9CcwtuyctN-JJjf-PGWO02Ez-sle9XDdzdues8GSTIZx8Orb75sVbubEMDa8DrqfLFraZl_jzIKw1ensT6Q0dPfrwUBBUN2ZgkeJkT3DjJ/s1500/M42_Sony_E10_on_115_mm_Triplet.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="1500" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8djsq5w0H-2jo7sY9HydNX3nn1iXOhpsJX5A_ejJlCcUXXKVT92OWtDwk6JGui4hQ4kBTmGIOnyvqaa9CcwtuyctN-JJjf-PGWO02Ez-sle9XDdzdues8GSTIZx8Orb75sVbubEMDa8DrqfLFraZl_jzIKw1ensT6Q0dPfrwUBBUN2ZgkeJkT3DjJ/w400-h265/M42_Sony_E10_on_115_mm_Triplet.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Jupiter and its Galilean moons: A narrow field image taken at the Brian Stokes Cygnus Observatory during the members viewing and imaging evening using a Sony ZV-E10 Vlogging camera attached to the society's 115 mm Triplet refractor driven by an HEQ5 Pro mount. Just two 6s exposure ARW images were taken at ISO 320 to show the position of the moons, with the planet over exposed. Data was stacked and processed in Affinity Photo with a cropped version of the image also made.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkQDW7B5dwDqcOBhJaUSVYDAWcXVQQ7CphkN-rdc9A-nJ_j1GZ7smtqMjEOGRRhgxd-u-que2ul4EcQBnxh5arimOTzLv3HgUWGsdvHhV4YZ6VSlXx5cFlso944yZ7e-wrc2SFPSz-ID4kFnkqgsAJhfZyiIx-3oTgt9ayyRrFlyFppd2Nh5oF2GCT/s1500/Jupiter_and_Gal_Moons_AP_No_Flats.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1002" data-original-width="1500" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkQDW7B5dwDqcOBhJaUSVYDAWcXVQQ7CphkN-rdc9A-nJ_j1GZ7smtqMjEOGRRhgxd-u-que2ul4EcQBnxh5arimOTzLv3HgUWGsdvHhV4YZ6VSlXx5cFlso944yZ7e-wrc2SFPSz-ID4kFnkqgsAJhfZyiIx-3oTgt9ayyRrFlyFppd2Nh5oF2GCT/w400-h268/Jupiter_and_Gal_Moons_AP_No_Flats.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC13dFaq6Ip6LqirX83rsGCQ_9_wxmeIMrYxebnCr7CWXW4q6PmCxMG71TcMImRoQAlo59teziRPyeLfwuPKNM45MxYuxowdrapjxPfQgTgFYJqjtbrtYPhIfnbhDMI3DsJFgNPz4Q75leB2KNeOEajBGU1FG97vWX7fwQls5F5LQykOOR8S3PXym0/s867/Jupiter_and_Gal_Moons_AP_No_Flats_Cropped.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="867" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC13dFaq6Ip6LqirX83rsGCQ_9_wxmeIMrYxebnCr7CWXW4q6PmCxMG71TcMImRoQAlo59teziRPyeLfwuPKNM45MxYuxowdrapjxPfQgTgFYJqjtbrtYPhIfnbhDMI3DsJFgNPz4Q75leB2KNeOEajBGU1FG97vWX7fwQls5F5LQykOOR8S3PXym0/w400-h260/Jupiter_and_Gal_Moons_AP_No_Flats_Cropped.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Chris Bowden</p></div>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-78550904930544034642024-02-28T11:18:00.002+00:002024-02-28T11:18:27.960+00:00A night at the Brian Stokes Cygnus Observatory on the 26th February <div class="ii gt" id=":n0" jslog="20277; u014N:xr6bB; 1:WyIjdGhyZWFkLWY6MTc5MjEzOTg0Mjg5NDk0MjkwN3xtc2ctZjoxNzkyMTM5ODQyODk0OTQyOTA3Il0.; 4:WyIjbXNnLWY6MTc5MjEzOTg0Mjg5NDk0MjkwNyJd" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; margin: 8px 0px 0px; overflow-x: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="a3s aiL " id=":mz" style="direction: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: small; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.5; overflow: auto hidden; position: relative;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;">Several members enjoyed a night at the Brian Stokes Cygnus Observatory on the 26<sup>th</sup> February to view and image several deep sky objects, the Moon and planet Jupiter with its Galilean moons. The cold and chilly conditions made for some excellent seeing conditions; even with the light from a 93% waning gibbous moon due to it being the furthest it can be from Earth at this time of year (apogee).<u></u><u></u></p></div><div class="yj6qo"></div></div><div class="hq gt" id=":oc" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; margin: 15px 0px;"></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Click on the image to get a closer view</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR2Nv_9-KEarfHFhDbSnGAb9wHQOpu8Qr-wHtz1alw2WsUFtZtGPxrqHJedLbt9JmTkgzzqyCUBZ50YiK5sw7aHIoJrilSbeJps7GW2PizTuOQJZ-XvhY6E28qvJldgu4oeyKFyOnsbv7JYC6ftYcyRoFxvdRPePn2cy3cVX8egc6BnXPYc1Elx4Qz/s1801/SAS_Observing-and_Imaging_26_Feb_24_Montage.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1801" data-original-width="1218" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR2Nv_9-KEarfHFhDbSnGAb9wHQOpu8Qr-wHtz1alw2WsUFtZtGPxrqHJedLbt9JmTkgzzqyCUBZ50YiK5sw7aHIoJrilSbeJps7GW2PizTuOQJZ-XvhY6E28qvJldgu4oeyKFyOnsbv7JYC6ftYcyRoFxvdRPePn2cy3cVX8egc6BnXPYc1Elx4Qz/w270-h400/SAS_Observing-and_Imaging_26_Feb_24_Montage.png" width="270" /></a></div><br /><p>Chris Bowden</p>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-71164370005573706602024-02-26T13:27:00.004+00:002024-02-29T19:40:20.679+00:00The Sun in white light and H-alpha<p>A Panasonic Lumix DMCFZ72, 60x optical zoom bridge camera fitted with an ICE ND100000 solar filter and mounted on a static tripod was used to capture 185 images of the Sun at ISO 100 and 1/1600s. The images were precisely cropped/registered in Nicola Mackin's AstroCrop before being sum stacked in Siril, wavelet processed in waveSharp and post processed in the Gimp 2.10.</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on an image to get a closer view</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Sun with the very prominent AR3590 sunspot group</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSBJUNANgk88jknbrpYTBc7YvVTp8YBkPeLLwp2rfCX0aMBpA9EW0nqsJEDcQEgLMQ-WHAhIXGk4RMJcEAIZGGkbC2vgYIL_hKtghRvbQUtGug8hW19hRgD0Cwq6rs3DS_0C3b-RhGbRME-YvSCkEKMqh2p5LE59HMC2S-iPSp7FW1gjKa3aFxj3yA/s1500/Sun-Feb-26.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSBJUNANgk88jknbrpYTBc7YvVTp8YBkPeLLwp2rfCX0aMBpA9EW0nqsJEDcQEgLMQ-WHAhIXGk4RMJcEAIZGGkbC2vgYIL_hKtghRvbQUtGug8hW19hRgD0Cwq6rs3DS_0C3b-RhGbRME-YvSCkEKMqh2p5LE59HMC2S-iPSp7FW1gjKa3aFxj3yA/w400-h400/Sun-Feb-26.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>H-alpha image capture with AstroDMx Capture and an SV305M Pro camera, through a Coronado 60 II BF15 H-alpha scope as two overlapping 1200 frame SER files. The best 80% of frames of each SER file were stacked in Autostakkert! stitched in Microsoft ICE and post processed in the Gimp 2.10.</div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Sun in H-alpha</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi18pTF141y1q1SRays0mhjl2cCgXrBt6n0-R5W5wJcxqzG-wroCpgYOwabQk_l3b0gx6sPTBOKTeLxOpFqPKk__jdjzukzt7QZ7qTOKvwtwKRm2gPQTDHOMTQI4pHS6OKnxye3jNWCEshNyoUFaYo3KWwk7KvDMzxADWYV44ZTVaufoZHOJ9hZ4rmC/s993/HaSun-Feb26-final.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="993" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi18pTF141y1q1SRays0mhjl2cCgXrBt6n0-R5W5wJcxqzG-wroCpgYOwabQk_l3b0gx6sPTBOKTeLxOpFqPKk__jdjzukzt7QZ7qTOKvwtwKRm2gPQTDHOMTQI4pHS6OKnxye3jNWCEshNyoUFaYo3KWwk7KvDMzxADWYV44ZTVaufoZHOJ9hZ4rmC/w400-h400/HaSun-Feb26-final.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin</div>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-13411266406926693222024-02-25T13:53:00.003+00:002024-02-25T13:53:43.644+00:00The Moon<p>I did a number of runs of the moon on Friday evening including this one of 80 Jpegs taken with the ZV-E10 set to the highest quality setting and full clear optical zoom at 350 mm FL, exposures of 1/1000" and aperture set to F6.3. I used AstroCrop to crop them in a square format using a search size setting of 30, stacked them in Autostakkert! 4, wavelet sharpened them in Registax and completed it in Pixinsight and Adobe CS2. I attach the processed image with the associated screen dumps shown below:</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on an image to get a closer view</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">AstroCrop showing the crop-box</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN9kcJBBDnMBAX-76NmDS4Topc6FGRMDWx6wZgWxdElPiwkZOa0R4V6hSIxtQCUHGG1Pg-DwonSkboYQsKoqOyQbBA3_Gs8QVlaJaoq2ldM1Sbl5AVzvjdxHkUsXF14a8kwHJlQ6P3y3t231uBLslGqbats76n4Wt8qrAi3zihSbf1rZsGi8TVOEqC/s1027/image.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="1027" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN9kcJBBDnMBAX-76NmDS4Topc6FGRMDWx6wZgWxdElPiwkZOa0R4V6hSIxtQCUHGG1Pg-DwonSkboYQsKoqOyQbBA3_Gs8QVlaJaoq2ldM1Sbl5AVzvjdxHkUsXF14a8kwHJlQ6P3y3t231uBLslGqbats76n4Wt8qrAi3zihSbf1rZsGi8TVOEqC/w400-h269/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk_DKUQ9Ei6EUgLRw62TO0r3rti0wRjFy5bw2zV4dvmXg6pE9pSV5weajfyhBtOH-qj6IPbAlCgHua8eMb2LSsRqs53lEJ86vje07rzONcQnov3ThcL4gWsREYfA3J3MpN4qmvGoO4MFJi5LIO8Qo-sZgjwRjsFj8jnwyWD8rn0PQ3fobRg8v81jWE/s1716/Moon_E10-80_Jpegs_AstroCrop_AS_Reg_Pi_CS2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1675" data-original-width="1716" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk_DKUQ9Ei6EUgLRw62TO0r3rti0wRjFy5bw2zV4dvmXg6pE9pSV5weajfyhBtOH-qj6IPbAlCgHua8eMb2LSsRqs53lEJ86vje07rzONcQnov3ThcL4gWsREYfA3J3MpN4qmvGoO4MFJi5LIO8Qo-sZgjwRjsFj8jnwyWD8rn0PQ3fobRg8v81jWE/w400-h390/Moon_E10-80_Jpegs_AstroCrop_AS_Reg_Pi_CS2.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Chris Bowden</p>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-15055681506240326452024-02-24T18:52:00.002+00:002024-02-24T19:40:40.673+00:00The Pleiades, Moon and Sun<p>M45 (The Pleiades): Stack of 62 x ARW images taken with a Sony ZV-E10 Vlogging camera fitted with a 70-350 mm zoom lens set at 222 mm at F5.6 and ISO 800. The camera was mounted on an MSM tracker with polar alignment carried out using a polar scope. The camera was controlled remotely with a mobile phone using the app "Camrote" to use its bulb intervlometer to achieve the longer exposures required. Associated darks were taken along with 20 flat field frames which together with the light frames were integrated and processed in Pixinsight.</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on an image to get a closer view</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">M45</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZyDTTowyFmWvhXcVQxmGsYxg70lADwQ__OPmFAawRBTyB9OqA4Cql2fQrmtTetOCfdSkiw7cXRw-NQn4DBFdDQ_cENhMBMbqVcK0ro0ZXkrXaYGCNboPfWJyhBDHp_f1PLn9z9B0yC_kKKGHaWP2g-pufYd4UwEjm9jettPYPYxC3NGRY2ihGZlNs/s1500/M45_1hr_of_60s_E10_222_mm_ISO_800_F5_6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="946" data-original-width="1500" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZyDTTowyFmWvhXcVQxmGsYxg70lADwQ__OPmFAawRBTyB9OqA4Cql2fQrmtTetOCfdSkiw7cXRw-NQn4DBFdDQ_cENhMBMbqVcK0ro0ZXkrXaYGCNboPfWJyhBDHp_f1PLn9z9B0yC_kKKGHaWP2g-pufYd4UwEjm9jettPYPYxC3NGRY2ihGZlNs/w400-h253/M45_1hr_of_60s_E10_222_mm_ISO_800_F5_6.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Almost full moon: A Sony ZV-E10 Vlogging camera was fitted with a 70-350 mm zoom lens which was fully extended to 350 mm and some 65 x ARW images were taken of the moon in burst mode at F6.3 and ISO 100 using a remotely controlled Bluetooth shutter release. The images were converted into an SER file using PIP which was used in Autostakkert! 4 to stack 50% of the frames. The output Tiff file was then processed in Pixinsight and finalised in Adobe CS2.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Moon</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDuIcn3BkUsPnMxgdm9nHUnYtyBYWz6Tiei7WAtEPZ3tzxsVmCbMaAeuQktVlJFPU-jbDaNcTlBxD_WBZhVXIys1Tp4fRc-3uyHlstVfcIZR18ZXs4DlraReTdSBj7IMrZP7rbd2APLOtoWo78FFuO5Ijnzcpz7112gMuWam2fD_RKdqmbypbSQQ4I/s1180/Moon_E10_65_1000_exposures_350mm_F6_3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="871" data-original-width="1180" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDuIcn3BkUsPnMxgdm9nHUnYtyBYWz6Tiei7WAtEPZ3tzxsVmCbMaAeuQktVlJFPU-jbDaNcTlBxD_WBZhVXIys1Tp4fRc-3uyHlstVfcIZR18ZXs4DlraReTdSBj7IMrZP7rbd2APLOtoWo78FFuO5Ijnzcpz7112gMuWam2fD_RKdqmbypbSQQ4I/w400-h295/Moon_E10_65_1000_exposures_350mm_F6_3.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>The Sun in white light:: Some 60 x ARW images were taken of the Sun using a Sony ZV-E10 Vlogging camera using a 70-350mm zoom lens fully extended at 350mm with the objective lens covered with Baader OD 5 solar film. The images were taken using burst mode using a Bluetooth remote control and the images were then made into an SER file using PIPP. The resultant Tiff file was then sent to Autostakkert! 4 to stack 50% of the frames and then Registax was used to wavelet sharpen the image with final processing done in Adobe CS2.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sun</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkZYxTdwQgQ39xU2FBKqWTy5R97I_IAFx_aQWTds5427JW9zVN7dxKKqAXe0M14ZOp8Ert80AQYnamE_kqCtlgRwyQsPY52lJfskiXLpzPKU7ytFRBEdMOO7gtYY3SXWPj0sFSo6ZZPxXHsGnxNuUdrNOstvfEnRxlxyvzhVoxXgzMEE7ugScTTv1Q/s1180/Sun_E10_60_ARW_Baader_350mm_1-500ths_F6-3_ISO_100.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="871" data-original-width="1180" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkZYxTdwQgQ39xU2FBKqWTy5R97I_IAFx_aQWTds5427JW9zVN7dxKKqAXe0M14ZOp8Ert80AQYnamE_kqCtlgRwyQsPY52lJfskiXLpzPKU7ytFRBEdMOO7gtYY3SXWPj0sFSo6ZZPxXHsGnxNuUdrNOstvfEnRxlxyvzhVoxXgzMEE7ugScTTv1Q/w400-h295/Sun_E10_60_ARW_Baader_350mm_1-500ths_F6-3_ISO_100.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Chris Bowden</p>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-73718461119213411252024-02-24T15:45:00.000+00:002024-02-24T15:45:29.894+00:00The Moon and Sun with a 60x optical zoom bridgee camera<p>Stack of 150 Panasonic Lumix DMCFZ72, 60x optical zoom Bridge camera images of the 99.6% Moon. Images registered and precisely cropped in Nicola's AstroCrop, sum stacked in Siril, wavelet processed in waveSharp and post processed in the Gimp 2.10.</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on an image to get a closer view</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">99.6% Moon</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEtIdubHfDEqqg9LQVMWggen1zDpbiHOEhj8G4jr3mhj86OKiYusuIyngHE6GJgJHz-wmOUdnH8U3HAJFnvGeQ5pMajv2R-oGFs2xoxDu1iKRAJNh7-pkR_zTuWhq0wHrG_vR1ZR-z_Qu3ma_28Q1Vau7cc1Mz0y1OUY_GduOdFmtdmjCi6KQF4t5q/s1500/99pt6pcMoon.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEtIdubHfDEqqg9LQVMWggen1zDpbiHOEhj8G4jr3mhj86OKiYusuIyngHE6GJgJHz-wmOUdnH8U3HAJFnvGeQ5pMajv2R-oGFs2xoxDu1iKRAJNh7-pkR_zTuWhq0wHrG_vR1ZR-z_Qu3ma_28Q1Vau7cc1Mz0y1OUY_GduOdFmtdmjCi6KQF4t5q/w400-h400/99pt6pcMoon.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>A Panasonic Lumix DMCFZ72, 60x optical zoom bridge camera fitted with an ICE ND100000 solar filter and mounted on a static tripod was used to capture 69 images of the Sun at ISO 100 and 1/2000s. The images were precisely cropped/registered in Nicola's AstroCrop before being sum stacked in Siril, wavelet processed in waveSharp and post processed in the Gimp 2.10.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Sun with the prominent active region AR3590 'naked eye' sunspot group (through a safe solar filter)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSMoPPr1yGTSonlKFDTL9LqJs0UCyAAWqwJVN4zPzYRR32JZO7ZnUhAVusZsw9vHtNgvivIzzH4N_zoDiewb9jSkEcxTlTI97JRiVOLtlkRhFKtmfvGuo_RgOHXpLLtSPGglPfk9aY6__2fB9vu5TNOrgYUqU7cBJfe63ZylzyRHA8TKgxpohozhTp/s1700/Sol-Feb24.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1700" data-original-width="1700" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSMoPPr1yGTSonlKFDTL9LqJs0UCyAAWqwJVN4zPzYRR32JZO7ZnUhAVusZsw9vHtNgvivIzzH4N_zoDiewb9jSkEcxTlTI97JRiVOLtlkRhFKtmfvGuo_RgOHXpLLtSPGglPfk9aY6__2fB9vu5TNOrgYUqU7cBJfe63ZylzyRHA8TKgxpohozhTp/w400-h400/Sol-Feb24.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Steve Wainwright</p>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679318723819565348.post-86451580942506124682024-02-23T17:36:00.001+00:002024-02-23T17:36:21.411+00:00The Medusa nebula<p>8 hours of 300s subs using the two Altairastro ultranarrowband Ha/O3 and S2/03 filters, the ASI533, Altairastro 70EDT refractor on the CEM40 mount. 48 subs for each filter.</p><p>All stacking and processing done in Pixinsight, as with my earlier images. I actually did an HSO version as well as this SHO one but the latter showed more of the gaseous emissions coming from the Medusa nebula area. I used narrowband normalisation to balance the 3 narrowband channels so that the S2, red section around the edge of the nebula showed well. Ha and O3 are in the same part of the nebula so tend to come out turquoise. I reduced the green slightly so as not to overwhelm the O3 signal. I also cropped the image once processed as the nebula is rather small for my field of view.</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Click on the image to get a closer view</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Medusa nebula SHO</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqw82tYFyftXLyd_QMyi16cg59tGVecygOCcd_TdhL6W9YO_t_iQ8rQjQKl7xQBBSyI7ES8m7vqkQg9Pwcn70nyDkUkcxKpotIralRV9l-W4PzYpZILAl_RrSx8n6wVzZJvQb-MyP-RQ7KTMMDfS3WtHLdrPPGsFd1KRULI5dMZmiRbtxCe79RzEdh/s2025/Medusa_Nebula_SHO_final_crop.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2008" data-original-width="2025" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqw82tYFyftXLyd_QMyi16cg59tGVecygOCcd_TdhL6W9YO_t_iQ8rQjQKl7xQBBSyI7ES8m7vqkQg9Pwcn70nyDkUkcxKpotIralRV9l-W4PzYpZILAl_RrSx8n6wVzZJvQb-MyP-RQ7KTMMDfS3WtHLdrPPGsFd1KRULI5dMZmiRbtxCe79RzEdh/w400-h396/Medusa_Nebula_SHO_final_crop.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Anne Startup</p>astroimagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12730981946452250685noreply@blogger.com0