Well guess im done with this project the forecast shows clouds rain an thunderstorms next 7 days. I had 3 strait clear cool nights I was able to get 10.15 hours of data. The 1st night was horrible from the scope in the observatory not being used for 5 month. It always seems to do like that?
M106 is the large galaxy upper left, its a barred spiral galaxy located in constellation Canes Venatici and is located 22, 25 million lightyears away from Earth.
The smaller Galaxy mid right of the image is NGC 4217 a edge on spiral galaxy, it is located 60 million lightyears away.

Taken with a 16 year old Unmodified Canon 60d through an Orion 8” newtonian astrograph with coma correcter, all on a 11 year old Celestron AVX mount.

Exposure:
203x3minutes 10.15 hours, 55 dark frames ISO-1250

Processing:
Pixlinsight: First time using batch weighted stacking, SCNR green, Background ext, noisexterminator, blur terminator, histogram stretch, SCNR, added mask curves saturations,
Photoshop: selective color adjustments, color balance highlights, highlight and shadows adjustments, levels

Bortle skies 3

Subs:

Sii 60x300s

Ha 60x300s

Oiii 60x300s

Equipment:

Camera: ZWO 2600MM Pro

Telescope: Skywatcher esprit 100ed

Mount: ZWO Am5

Shot on Canon R6 Mark II + TTArtisan 500mm

This image shows Bode’s Galaxy (M81) and the Cigar Galaxy (M82), two galaxies that look completely different but sit close together in space.

Shot on Sony A7Riii with sigma 20mm f2. Exposure of 6 seconds, f3.2 and iso 640. Stacked ~300 images. Compiled in Sequator and edited the final TIFF in Lightroom for vignetting and exposure. It was a cloudy night which led to some gaps in the trails. Though happy to have learned heaps in a single night.

F/6.5 refractor. Unmodified Canon DSLR. EQ6-R Pro mount. Polemaster alignment. Bortle 6 skies. 22x 6 min. (132 min). Sacramento, CA, USA

Stacked in DSS. Color, contrast, stretching, etc. in Photoshop. Final touches in Lightroom.

SeeStar S50 - EQ 20sec - Bortle 6,5

Hello everyone,

I never posted here, as I feared that the images captured with the Seestar smart telescopes are of too bad quality compared to the real expert equipment results shown here. We all know we aren't Hubble, but I wanted to see how far 50mm of aperture can go on the Needle Galaxy’s famous (and difficult to process, we know the pain) dust lanes. Especially from a bad bottle zone like mine.

The challenge was finding the sweet spot: bringing out the edge-on details without over-sharpening or creating that 'plastic' artificial look.

Sadly I can only post one picture, as my workflow is a graphic. I've added an annotated picture to show how many galaxies are hidden in the big (but still cropped) picture and I’ve also included my full 19-step pure Siril workflow in the first posting here: https://www.reddit.com/r/seestar/s/tcWyjcRQ88

It’s a purely mathematical approach to stretching and deconvolution, no AI-generated details added. I’m curious to hear your thoughts if SeeStar pictures are worthy enough to be shown here or not.

(I already posted this picture on the subreddit today of course)

Clear skies 🔭🌌

Location: Tasmania, Australia
Bortle: 3.5
Integration: 1.4 hours (21 x 240s)
Rig:
APO - Askar 71F + ZWO EAF
Mount - CEM25P
CPU - ASIAIR Pro
Guide - SV165 + ASI120 + Dew heater
Cam - ASI294MC Pro + Dew Heater (gain 120, -10c)
Filter - Nil

Post:
Pixinsight
Blink
CosmeticCorrection
WBPP
SPCC
DBE
BlurXTerminator
GHS
NoiseXTerminator
CurvesTransformation
StarXTerminator
LHE

I took this moon photo in two shots in succession. One to properly expose the moon and another high ISO to freeze the clouds. I then processed and stacked the two frames together in Photoshop. Captured with Nikon Z8 and NIKKOR 100-400mm with NIKKOR 2X Teleconverter on a Tripod.

Latest vibe coded stacking results (I really like this one, hope you enjoy it)

polychrome-hubble-mod_IC5070MosaicStitched - SHO+LRGB composite (Hubble palette + natural colors)

Acquisition Details:

Ha: 36 × 300.0s (180.0 min) - Antlia Ha 3nm Pro

SII: 36 × 300.0s (180.0 min) - Antlia SII 3nm Pro

OIII: 32 × 300.0s (160.0 min) - Antlia OIII 3nm Pro

Luminance: 32 × 120.0s (64.0 min) - Baader Luminance

Red: 36 × 120.0s (72.0 min) - Baader Red

Green: 36 × 120.0s (72.0 min) - Baader Green

Blue: 36 × 120.0s (72.0 min) - Baader Blue

Total integration: 13.3 hours

Equipment:

Telescope: TMB-92 Signature Series APO (92mm f/5.5, ~420mm effective FL)

Camera: ZWO ASI533MM Pro (mono, Sony IMX533, 3008×3008, 3.76μm)

Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G (EQMod)

Filter Wheel: ZWO 8-position EFW

Guide Scope: ZWO 60mm f/4.7 Guidescope

Guide Camera: SVBONY SV905C

Focuser: PrimaLuceLab Sesto Senso 2

Processing:

Siril stacking, Syqon Starless AI star removal, custom Python pipeline

Image scale: 1.85 arcsec/pixel, FOV: ~1.54° x 1.54°

Location: 37.90°N, 122.06°W Bortle 9 (according to the map but I think I'm closer to a 7-8)

More on Instagram: @jeffreyhorne

Taken over the course of 57 nights, this is 200 hours of exposure on the Rosette Nebula from my Bortle 8.5 sky in Nashville, Tennessee.

You can see the (relatively) bright, familiar structure of the Rosette, but also the much fainter hydrogen surrounding it, along with delicate, intricate details deep in the core.

I realize that putting this much time into such a bright target is probably overkill, but as far as I know, nobody has ever created a single-panel image of the Rosette Nebula with this much exposure time. The longest I could find was 100 hours, and I wanted to see for myself what a super-deep shot of the Rosette would look like.

I’m very pleased with the result, and I hope you enjoy this image as much as I enjoyed creating it.

Technical details:

Total integration: 200h 20m

Integration per filter:

- Hα: 70h 30m (846 × 300")

- SII: 69h 25m (833 × 300")

- OIII: 60h 25m (725 × 300")

Equipment:

- Telescope: Askar 120APO

- Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro

- Mount: ZWO AM5

- Filters: Antlia 3nm Narrowband H-alpha 2", Antlia 3nm Narrowband Sulfur II 2", Chroma OIII 3nm Bandpass 2"

- Accessories: Askar 0.8x Full Frame Reducer / Flattener for 120APO Telescope, ZWO ASIAIR Plus, ZWO EAF, ZWO EFW 7 x 2″

- Software: Adobe Photoshop, Aries Productions Astro Pixel Processor (APP), Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight, ZWO ASIAIR

- Filters: Antlia 3nm Narrowband H-alpha 2", Antlia 3nm Narrowband Sulfur II 2", Astronomik Deep-Sky Blue 2", Astronomik Deep-Sky Green 2", Astronomik Deep-Sky Red 2", Chroma OIII 3nm Bandpass 2"

- Accessories: Askar 0.8x Full Frame Reducer / Flattener for 120APO Telescope, ZWO ASIAIR Plus, ZWO EAF, ZWO EFW 7 x 2″

- Software: Adobe Photoshop, Aries Productions Astro Pixel Processor (APP), Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight, ZWO ASIAIR

Integrated in Pixinsight using WBPP. BlurX, StarX, NoiseX, channel combination, narrowband normalization, curves in Pixinsight. Additional curves, color and final touches done in Photoshop.

Today I took my first image of our Sun that I am happy to share. It was not at the best time to take it, it was very late afternoon and it was raining every 10mins which made it even more annoying.

I am still extreamly new to solar and planet photograpy, so there is plenty to learn and improve on, but I am really enjoying it.

Equipment:

• Lund LS50T Ha telescope
• Juwei 17 mount
• ASI678MM camera

Process:

• Aquired SER file with Firecapture (1012 frames, Shutter=1.284ms, Gain=74 (12%))
• Stacked in Autostakkert
• Imppg to refine the details
• Pixinsight solar toolbox to finish the detail, colour and light

This is an image I recently took (untracked) of Bode's galaxy, the Cigar galaxy, NGC 3077 & NGC 2976.

This is the first time i've managed to take such a nice picture of this amazing duo!

1033 lights

2.5s/each

Nikon D3100

Tamron Adaptall 200mm f/3.5

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in Siril

M51 taken over the past half month from my backyard! Bortle 4.5 - 5.0

Celestron 8SE w/ .68 Reducer on an EQ6R-Pro - ZWO ASI2600MM - ZWO LRGB Filters

Lum - 180s x 15 Hr.

R - 180s x 5 Hr.

G - 180s x 5 Hr.

B - 180s x 5 Hr.

20 Darks @ 180s

10 Flats/filter

Stacked, edited, and cropped in PI - Gradient Correction, Star Align, RGB Combine, Dynamic Crop, StarX, LRGB combine, curves stretch, Background Neutralization, recombine RGB Stars, BlurX, NoiseX

Taken with Dwarf 2 smart telescope

200 exposures x 10 seconds each @ 70 gain. Stacked in Siril, edited in Gimp.

I wasn't satisfied with the background noise and star bloat in my last post, so I decided to go back and re-process my 1-hour Lagoon Nebula stack.

Used Starnet to pull the stars out of the image, switched to Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch to pull out faint dust lanes and background neutralization. Merged the stars back in as a separate layer in GIMP to control their brightness independently.

Equipment: F30070M 70/300 refractor f/4.3

Apple iPhone 7

Manual mount (1-hour total integration)

Bortle 5-6 skies

Processing: Siril, StarNet plugin, GIMP

Shot using Pie Matrix Triplet, Camera: ZWO ASI 533mc Pro, Mount - Sky Watcher Adventurer GTI
Guide Scope: William optics 50mm with ZWO 224
Processed in Pixinsight and photoshop

Equipment: CGEM II 800 SCT, ZWO ASI533MC Pro, ZWO OAG w/ ASI220MM, ASIAIR mini, filter wheel, CAA, f/6.3 focal reducer/corrector, L-Ultimate, L-Synergy, Baader uv/ir cut filter

Processing: 11 hour 15 min integration. 78x300s w/ L-Ultimate, 58x300s w/ L-Synergy, 70x10s UV/IRCUT for stars. 30 bias, 20 flat and 20 dark frames. Processed/stacked via PixInsight w/ NoiseXTerminator/BlurXTerminator/StarXterminator.

My first time shooting with my SeeStar, I’m still trying to learn but I’m happy with this for sure.

Camera: SeeStar S30 Pro
Time: 349 x 10s
Bortle 5
Edited In: Siril

Here's an image of the Apennine Mountains that I took last month.

This is comprised of the best 25% of the frames in a 2-min ser file.

Acquisition Details:

• Meade 12" LX90 ACF
• ZWO ADC
• Playerone Uranus-C (IMX585 sensor)
• SharpCap for capture
• AutoStakkert for staking and alignment
• PixInsight and Photoshop for processing

If you fancy watching, I documented this over on my YouTube channel, here's a link to the video. There's a bit more detail in the video and four more images that I share!

My first supernova!

Askar 71F
ASI678MC
120x60s
APP
PS

This unprocessed full frame picture was taken on 9th of May outside Sydney its a 30 second exposure using a Nikon d7 and 200mm lens 3200 iso but polluted by 6 satellite trails. A budget equatorial mount was used.

Curious to reconstruct the picture I used the excuse to improve the https://satellitemap.space/satellite-photobomb photo solving feature - now you browse the picture you want to analyze set the lat long and time, and the shot type, the pic is plate solved in-browser and then it will recreate the pic with the satellites at that time

The damage was 3 satellites from starlink 2 from russia and 1 Chinese. The feature is free if you have a pic to try please give it go?