Submissions: 2020 October

[Hellobozos]

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Mars. 10-12-20, 8SE,CGEM,14mm EP,EOS T3i x3 digital zoom, 6 hours of rotation. Universal ,Orl ,FL ,USA

[Amedeo98]

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A “mineral lunar” mosaic (oversatured to exalt colors), made up by 3 photos of 3 parts of the Moon for luminance channel + one photo for RGB channel. You can see the Moon in waning crescent phase (40% illuminated). More explanation on the link:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/190199010 ... 463006332/

[Daniel DeSclafani]

IC1318 - SHO

Link to both my Telescopius & Astrobin

33 x 300" Ha
70 x 300" SII
61 x 300" OIII

Equipment:

• William Optics GT81
  HEQ5 Pro
  ZWO ASI183MM Pro
  ZWO ASI 120MM Mini
  ZWO EAF
  ZWO OAG
  ZWO EFW8 x 1.25"
  Raspbery Pi 4 w/ Stellarmate OS
  Pegasus Astro Powerbox Advance
  Astronomik 6nm Ha, SII & OIII Narrowband Filters

Processing Software:

• Astro Pixel Processor
  Pixinsight
  Photoshop

Taken over two weeks between September and October from my backyard in New Jersey.

[Robin_Onderka]

Among the stars
Credits: Robin Onderka | www.instagram.com/robin_onderka
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This image is a composite made of 2 photos I took in Croatia this summer. It is an artistic vision of the Milky Way, which is flipped by 90 degrees. It is not possible to see nor photograph Milky Way like that in a northern hemisphere!

The sky was tracked using Skywatcher Star Adventurer to get the best quality (I can do) out of it. Photographed with my astro-modified Canon 6D and Sigma 35 mm f/1,4 lens.

15 x 60" f/2.8 ISO 3200 stacked, tracked
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contact email: robinonderka@gmail.com

Among the stars by Robin Onderka, on Flickr

[Daniel Zoliro]

The Pleiades/Subaru/Seven Sisters


Pleiades FB Sig 3 by Daniel Smith, on Flickr

Image captured with a Celestron c9.25 SCT w/Hyperstar adapter on an EQ6-R Pro mount and ASI533mc camera. Guiding done with a 30mm guidescope and an ASI224mc.
120x60" - total integration of 2 hours at gain 100. 30x each of darks, flats, and flat darks.
Processed with DSS, Pixinsight, Photoshop, and Starnet++

[afmolinam]

Andromeda within a sea of stars
https://flic.kr/p/2jW1SXc

Endless stars from our milky way fill the space in the region of the Andromeda constellation, at the center the Andromeda galaxy appears shining through them

2020/10/09

Desierto de la Tatacoa, Huila, Colombia

Gear:Camera Canon 70D
Lens YN 50mm f/1.4 at stopped down to f/2.0
Mount Ioptron CEM 25P

Image: 16x120s exposure, calibration 30 darks, 50 BIAS
Stacked with Pixinsight, processed with Pixinsight, and Photoshop CC 2020
Copyright: Andres Molina

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[strongmanmike]

At 70 million light years away, NGC 578 floats majestically among many other distant galaxies. Small
pink and blue regions scattered along the spiral arms hint at the star forming going on. One background
galaxy (yellow feature left of the galaxy core) seems to protrude up from the arms of NGC 578 but in
reality it is many millions of light years beyond and we are looking at it "through" NGC 578.

See the large version here: https://pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ima ... 3/original

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Copyright: Michael Sidonio

[KuriousGeorge]

NGC 278 – A Burst of Star Formation

Trying a rarely imaged 2' x 2' galaxy (about the size of the Ring Nebula) with my planetary setup. Hubble tried this too...

https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1641a/

Here, 60s luminance subs are between 1.24" and 2.1" FWHM. 300s RGB subs are between 1.6" and 2.8".

https://www.astrobin.com/ox84bt/

[Raphdubuc]

Wonderful Nord Boreal galaxy M31
I hope a day that the world visit another planetary system with the Breakthrough Starshot project and in a very distant future may be visit Andromeda.
The world is constantly evolution in tecnology and science, we just a have to continue to working together.

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3 hours exposure with Modded Canon 6D
Sky watcher 80 Ed Refractor
Eq-6

Québec, Canada
Copyright:Raphaël Dubuc

[themis85_GR]

www.astrothemis.gr

My latest work on Bubble nebula.
More info about photo:
http://astrothemis.gr/more/recent-image ... alrgb.html
http://astrothemis.gr/images/phocagalle ... FINAL2.jpg

Chalkidiki,Greece
Copyright:Themis Karteris

[Ann]

NGC 278 – A Burst of Star Formation

Trying a rarely imaged 2' x 2' galaxy (about the size of the Ring Nebula) with my planetary setup. Hubble tried this too...

https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1641a/

Here, 60s luminance subs are between 1.24" and 2.1" FWHM. 300s RGB subs are between 1.6" and 2.8".

https://www.astrobin.com/ox84bt/

Wow, George, I love it! This may the first time I've seen a good RGB image of this galaxy, which caught my interest many years ago when I saw it as a UBV image in James D Wray's Color Atlas of Galaxies. Hubble beat you when it came to resolution, but you sure beat Hubble when it comes to bringing out the beautiful colors of this fascinating starburst galaxy! (Which reminds me a bit of starburst ring galaxy M94.)

Thank you!

Ann

[barretosmed]

A distant Jupiter

More details
https://www.astrobin.com/full/ujngxn/0/?nc=user

Equipment
MEADE LX200 10 "UHTC
ZWO Optical ASI 462 MC
Filter: Planetary Baader L 1.25 "
Accessory: TeleVue Powermate 2.0x
Assembly: Ioptron Cem60
Polar alignment: Sharcap
Capture: SharpCap V3.0
Processing: Photoshop CS6, AutoStakkert AutoStackert !, Registax 6, Winjupos

10/12/20
22: 15UT
São Paulo-SP-BRAZIL

Copyright: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
Email: Barretosmed@hotmail.com

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[KuriousGeorge]

Wow, George, I love it! This may the first time I've seen a good RGB image of this galaxy, which caught my interest many years ago when I saw it as a UBV image in James D Wray's Color Atlas of Galaxies. Hubble beat you when it came to resolution, but you sure beat Hubble when it comes to bringing out the beautiful colors of this fascinating starburst galaxy! (Which reminds me a bit of starburst ring galaxy M94.)

Thank you!

Ann

Thank you Ann! Your always very interesting feedback is much appreciated.

[Freddyuniverse]

Sagittarius Star Cloud

I took it in June, one of the photos that has cost me the most to process, I think I have processed it about 8 times !!! It is worth seeing it on my website in high resolution and getting lost among the stars, really ...
https://www.freddyuniverse.com/galeria- ... cloud-m24/

Camera; Moravian G4 16.000
Takahashi Epsilon 180 EDC
Procesed with PixInsight
2020-06-23
www.freddyuniverse.com
Copyright: © Freddyuniverse, Alfredo Sayalero
Sagittarius Star Cloud by Freddy S., en Flickr

[Ann]

Sagittarius Star Cloud

I took it in June, one of the photos that has cost me the most to process, I think I have processed it about 8 times !!! It is worth seeing it on my website in high resolution and getting lost among the stars, really ...
https://www.freddyuniverse.com/galeria- ... cloud-m24/

Camera; Moravian G4 16.000
Takahashi Epsilon 180 EDC
Procesed with PixInsight
2020-06-23
www.freddyuniverse.com
Copyright: © Freddyuniverse, Alfredo Sayalero
Sagittarius Star Cloud by Freddy S., en Flickr

Oh wow, Freddy, this picture is just amazing! Totally fantastic! The sheer incredible number of small stars peppering the screen, the amazing colors, the Milky Way as a beach of dark seaweed and millions of dark and light and colorful grains of sand and tiny glittering jewels.... It's marvellous!

Oh, P.S. I just remembered that you had posted another absolutely fantastic picture here at Starship Asterisk*, a picture of IC 1396 and The Elephants Trunk Nebula:

viewtopic.php?p=296434#p296434

That picture is also absolutely brilliant! So thanks again!

Ann

[Freddyuniverse]

Hi Ann, as always, your comments are brilliant !! and they make me discover new details and aspects of the photo, and that I have spent many hours in front of it, the millions of stars and the diversity of colors and shades it contains have complicated the processing, now reading your words I know that I have done well !! thanks !!

[Ann]

Click to view full size image

A “mineral lunar” mosaic (oversatured to exalt colors), made up by 3 photos of 3 parts of the Moon for luminance channel + one photo for RGB channel. You can see the Moon in waning crescent phase (40% illuminated). More explanation on the link:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/190199010 ... 463006332/

Hi and welcome to Starship Asterisk*, Amadeo98! That's a fine image of the Moon!

Ann

[Andromeda 2013]

Active Region 2776

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/50504400581

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak

[Andromeda 2013]

Mars

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/50493203622

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak ©

[Andromeda 2013]

Moon

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92681330@N06/50466101881

Copyright: Daniel Pasternak ©

[DustSpeakers]

M3 Globular Cluster

Click on thumbnail to see hi-res image


More detail: https://astrob.in/403318/0/
Equipment: Celestron CGX/Edge HD 9.25'', Canon EOS 550D / Rebel T2i
Location: Home backyard (Bortle 5), UK

Processing and capture:
Backyard EOS, Deepsky Stacker Deep Sky Stacker, PHD 2, StarTools, Gimp
40 x 300 sec @ ISO 400 Lights
30 x ISO 400 Flats

Copyright: SJF Astroimaging

[DustSpeakers]

The Wizard Nebula, NGC 7380

Click on thumbnail to see hi-res image


More detail: https://astrob.in/8oy5sq/B/

The Wizard Nebula (a.k.a. SH2-142) is located just 8000 light years away in the constellation of Cepheus. The nebulosity surrounds the open star cluster NGC 7380 and the active star forming region is about 100 light years across.

Equipment: Celestron CGX/Edge HD 9.25''/0x7 reducer, ZWO ASI1600MM, ZWO Ha/SII/OIII filters
Location: Home backyard (Bortle 5), UK

Processing and capture:
Processed in DSS, StarTools and Gimp in SHO -> RGB
• Ha – 22 x 300s at 139 gain bin 2x2
• OIII – 25 x 300s at 139 gain bin 2x2
• SII – 30 x 300s at 139 gain bin 2x2
Total integration time ~6.5 hrs

Copyright: SJF Astroimaging

[DustSpeakers]

Moon panoramic mosaic

Click on thumbnail to see hi-res image


More detail: https://astrob.in/391176/0/

Panoramic mosaic of Mare Imbrium region featuring amongst others:
- Archimedes, Cassini, Plato, Eratosnethes, and Ptolemaeus craters
- Montes Apenninus, Montes Alpes
- Vallis Alpes
- Mare Serenitatis

Equipment: Celestron CGX/Edge HD 9.25'', ZWO ASI120MC
Location: Home backyard (Bortle 5), UK

Processing and capture:
AVIs at 1280x960, ~100 frames of 1000 each 3 mosaic panels

Copyright: SJF Astroimaging

[Ann]

The Wizard Nebula, NGC 7380

Click on thumbnail to see hi-res image


More detail: https://astrob.in/8oy5sq/B/

The Wizard Nebula (a.k.a. SH2-142) is located just 8000 light years away in the constellation of Cepheus. The nebulosity surrounds the open star cluster NGC 7380 and the active star forming region is about 100 light years across.

Equipment: Celestron CGX/Edge HD 9.25''/0x7 reducer, ZWO ASI1600MM, ZWO Ha/SII/OIII filters
Location: Home backyard (Bortle 5), UK

Processing and capture:
Processed in DSS, StarTools and Gimp in SHO -> RGB
• Ha – 22 x 300s at 139 gain bin 2x2
• OIII – 25 x 300s at 139 gain bin 2x2
• SII – 30 x 300s at 139 gain bin 2x2
Total integration time ~6.5 hrs

Copyright: SJF Astroimaging

Hi and welcome to Starship Asterisk*, and thank you for the two images you posted here! I particularly like the one of NGC 7380 and the amazing "bubble" blown by a massive star. The bubble is pink in your image. Very nice!

Ann

[DustSpeakers]

Thanks Ann, I'm happy to be a new forum member