Starship Asterisk*

From Rose to Cone with SNR G206.9 +2.6 in bicolor with RGB stars It took 5 nights to capture this 2 panel mosaic from the Rosetta nebula and the Cone nebula with a 135mm Samyang telephoto lens. Often overlooked is the Supernovaremnant SNR G206.9 +2.6 in lower the east side. Each frame was 2h for Ha ...

Comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko passing by open cluster M35 and NGC 2158 on the morning of October 15th https://www.startrails.de/files/m35_67Psmall.jpg Higher res: https://www.startrails.de/files/m35_67P.jpg DIY 12" f/3.4 Newton and Sony A7R4, 30 Exposures, 60s each Copyright Achim Schaller ht...

Milkyway from the summer triangle to Orion rising in the east
Panorama stitched from 10 images with a 15mm fullframe lens
Location Feldberg, Black Forest, southern Germany



Higher resolution image: https://www.startrails.de/files/feldberg.jpg

Captured the ISS during a timelapse session at the Feldberg in the Black Forest



Link to higher res: https://www.startrails.de/files/isssmall.jpg

With a little bit of luck I took this picture of the crescent moon, Jupiter and Saturn above my private observatory between the clouds. 10 minutes after the sky was covered with clouds. https://www.startrails.de/files/greatcon_junctions.jpg Full size: https://www.startrails.de/files/greatcon_junctio...

http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/5db3d406adbfcad7c14b58c577ef17b7.620x0_q100_watermark.jpg http://www.astrobin.com/314487/?nc=user Startrails above the The Kaibab National Forest While sleeping in our campervan close to the Grand Canyon I took a series of images to make startrails. First I was...

http://cdn.astrobin.com/images/thumbs/e1d7b2e492059a4bc4602854366dfe5d.620x0_q100_watermark.jpg http://www.astrobin.com/314486/0/?nc=user Stack of 166 images of Corona Arch (near Moab, Utah). Thin crescent moon was lighting the arch. I used my own freeware "Startrails.exe" to stack the im...

thin Moon
Copyright: Achim Schaller

Dusty Taurus
Copyright: Achim Schaller

More than 500 single exposures (30s each) combined wit my freeware Startrails.exe (http://www.startrails.de/html/software.html)
Clear skies, Achim

Fallen stars:

Perseid meteor over an old Mecedes Benz which has lost his star...

Black Forest, Germany

Achim Schaller

Venus an Mercury above the "Sausenburg" castle in the southern Black Forest (Germany) http://www.startrails.de/files/IMG_2062kk.jpg Bigger: http://www.startrails.de/files/IMG_2062k.jpg http://www.startrails.de/files/IMG_2068kk.jpg Bigger: http://www.startrails.de/files/IMG_2068k.jpg Achim ...

Moon and Venus conjunction on January 29th over the Alps, seen from Mt Blauen (southern Black Forest, Germany) http://www.startrails.de/files/DSC_6576a.jpg http://www.startrails.de/files/DSC_6549a.jpg http://www.startrails.de/files/DSC_6558a.jpg http://macrosphaere.blogspot.de/2014_01_01_archive.html

Moonhalo and Jupiter on top of Mt. Blauen (southern Black Forest, Germany)

http://www.startrails.de/files/IRISFinalmedium.jpg http://www.startrails.de/files/IRISFinalmedium.jpg Irisnebula photographed wit a cooled Canon 550D and a 2.8/400mm lens, 58 exposures 300s each (photographer Achim Schaller) Central region photographed wit a ST10 CCD and a 15" Newton (photogra...

Panstarrs on 15th April 2013
Copyright: Achim Schaller

12 images with a cooled Canon 550D (ISO 1600), 2min each.
12" f/4 Newton
Southern Black Forest (Marzell, Germany)

Hi to all! I am the author of the "Startrails" software and its geat to see it is actually used... :) As the video module in Startrails is a little bit buggy I can recommend an other Freeware: Photolapse http://home.hccnet.nl/s.vd.palen/photolapse.html Clear skies, Achim http://macrosphaer...

Hi Ann,
I did not tweak the colors, maybe DeepSkyStacker did (align RGB-Channels) or the plugin "GradientXTerminator (balance background color).
Clear skies, Achim

http://macrosphaere.blogspot.com/

Comet Hartley and the double cluster
Copyright: Achim Schaller & Ulrich Schüly