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A few new images:
Inside the Tarantula RGB: Hubble color mapping: Messier 74: Messier 1: NGC 6164-6165: NGC 253: Full resolutions:
https://www.pbase.com/tango33

Cheers,

Kfir Simon

Ann wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 3:23 pm

angeloperrone wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 6:47 am

Title: "From Cassiopea to Sagittarius"

- Equipment used: Nikon D750, Carl zeiss 135mm Apo Sonnar ZF, Skywatcher Star Adventurer, Optlong L-Pro Filter

- Imaging target and time: Photomerge of 43 panels

- Briefly describe your photo, location of the photography included: This image have been taken in Otranto from June to September 2018. I have used Skywatcher Star Adventurer astro tracker with Optolong L-Pro filter for reduce light pollution. The sky is composed by 43 mosaic panels captured with Carl Zeiss 135mm Apo Sonnar ZF telephoto at f/4 ISO 1600 and 120” seconds of exposure for each image. Each panel Is ccomposed of 20 light frames and 5 darks.

- Digital processing methods employed: Why I use telephoto lens for capture milky way? Because a telephoto give to my milky way image extraordinary details and 3D image depht. The colors of the nebulae are not altered or added because my Nikon D750 lacks the infrared filter and therefore sensitive to the full spectrum of visible light. The entire mosaic Is a work of hundreds hours of Digital workflow in Adobe Photoshop with help of my Astro Panel.

www.angeloperrone.it

It's a lovely picture, but I couldn't really enlarge it, just make it wider. Is it supposed to get bigger?

Ann

See this link
https://i.ibb.co/cCjHV1S/Mosaico-43-ima ... 9x1705.jpg

But the original Image Is more bigger than this...about 65000 pixel wider

angeloperrone wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 6:31 am
See this link
https://i.ibb.co/cCjHV1S/Mosaico-43-ima ... 9x1705.jpg

But the original Image Is more bigger than this...about 65000 pixel wider

Thank you!

Ann

ISS over the French Alps

It's always magical to see and photograph the ISS, mainly over moutains in winter.
The scene, which took place on January 30 at 7:08 pm, was worth climbing a bit to grab it.

The International Space Station has crossed the sky from west to east, with an intense white glow of its own.
At the moment of passing "in" the Ursa Major constellation, the ISS has passed into the shadow of the Earth: note the change of color of its luminous path, from white to orange. For the astronauts on board, they saw a sunset.

In the center of the image (top), the Polar Star shines a little isolated from other luminous stars. The image is oriented perfectly to the North.

On the ground, Mount Pelvoux (left), Pointe des Arcas (center left, bottom) and the trio of the Cime Condamine / Head Lauzières / Tête d'Amont (center right and right) share the landscape in the background, all lit by Vallouise, the village in the valley floor.


Nikon D750 Astrodon
Samyang 35mm f/1.4 AS UMC
NiSi Natural Night Filter 77mm
Panoramic head Nodal Ninja IV ID-16
EZ-Leveller II base

Panoramic of 40 RAW + 17 for ISS (track almost all his positions across the sky) + 1 for Vallouise (Smart Digital Blending)
Ratio 2:1, stereographic projection

Ground, sky and ISS: 10s, 2500ISO, f/2.8, 35mm
Vallouise: 6s, 1600ISO, f/4, 35mm

Copyright : Maxime Oudoux

NGC 2024 Flame Nebula

Equipment :
OTA : Celestron C11 XLT - Starizona Hyperstar f2 - Stellarvue SV80ST2
Mount : EQ8
Camera : Atik 460ex - 460 exc
Guiding : GuidScope 50mm- Lodestar X2
Filters : Astronomik CLS

SoftWare :
DSS - Pix - Cs

Exposure :
L : 35min C11
RGB : 30min Stellarvue

Location : Chalkidiki Greece

The Owl Cluster NGC 457

NGC 457, sometimes called the Owl Cluster or ET Cluster after the famous movie, is an open cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia. The cluster was discovered by William Hershel in 1787. The distance is not known with certainty, but is probably is between 2000 and 10,400 light-years away. The image was taken with an SBIG STF8300m camera and a RCOS 12.5” f/9 astrograph at f/6 (Astro-Physics CCDT67) on a Paramount ME in Mayhill, NM on 13 Dec 2018. Image was a total of 3 hours exposure (3 x 1200 sec @ -15 degrees C in R, G, and B filters (SBIG), 24 darks, 128 bias, 128 flats in R, G, and B) Processed in PixInsight 1.8.6.1457 Ripley (x64) using a Synthetic Luminance and Photometric Color Calibration.

I took this image during the August 2017 solar eclipse in Huntington, Oregon with a DSLR and an 80mm refractor. The image is a single exposure, and I feel that it does a good job of highlighting the deep hydrogen-alpha red color of solar prominences set against the dark lunar disk and sky.

I was looking through the archives, and didn't see any pictures similar to mine so I figured I would submit it! This is my first time submitting an image, so if you have any feedback that would be much appreciated

NGC 6992 The Eastern Veil

Equipment :
OTA : Celestron C11 XLT - Starizona Hyperstar f2 - 560mm FL
Mount : EQ8
Camera : Atik 460ex
Guiding : Stellarvue 80mm - Lodestar X2
Filters : Ha-Sii-Oiii HighSpeed f2

SoftWare :
DSS - Pix - Cs

Exposure :
Ha : 1h
Oiii : 1h
Sii : 1h

Location : Greece

Freddyuniverse wrote: ↑Mon Feb 11, 2019 8:37 pm The Moldy Strawberry Nebula and surroundings

Takahashi Épsilon 180 + Moravian G4 16000
Procesed with PixInsight
2019-02-05
All the data on my website
https://www.freddyuniverse.com/galeria- ... nebulosas/
www.freddyuniverse.com
The Moldy Strawberry Nebula and surroundings by Freddy S., en Flickr
The Moldy Strawberry Nebula and surroundings Annotated by Freddy S., en Flickr

And I return with the Moldy Strawberry Nebula, which I did not finish convincing and I have put a reprocessing! what do you think !!??
The Moldy Strawberry Nebula and surroundings by Freddy S., en Flickr

NGC 1893 & Tadpoles

NGC 1893 & Tadpoles by Brendan Kinch, on Flickr

Kinch.

Moon Mosaic made out of 38 single images:

Made this panorama of our Moon out of 38 video-files using the "lucky imaging" technique with my 10inch Newtonian reflector two days ago.

Rosette nebula to Cone nebula

H-Alpha with DSLR and Optolong H-alpha 7nn Astronomy Filter
Canon 6D + ImagingStar71
Mosaic 5x900" + 5x900"

Large image

Large image, annotated version







José Jiménez

NGC 2237 Rosette nebula

Rosette nebula SHO + RGB

Large image

Large image, annotated version





Raul Villaverde & José Jiménez

IC 410 - The Tadpoles

Paletta Hubble
RGB Canon 550D cooled + Imaging Star 71, 15 x 600" ISO 1600
H-Alpha 25x600" Atik 383L + MN190
S 30x600" Atik 383L+ MN190
O 30x600" Atik 383L+ MN190



José Jiménez

Freddyuniverse wrote: ↑Sat Feb 16, 2019 9:53 am

Freddyuniverse wrote: ↑Mon Feb 11, 2019 8:37 pm The Moldy Strawberry Nebula and surroundings

Takahashi Épsilon 180 + Moravian G4 16000
Procesed with PixInsight
2019-02-05
All the data on my website
https://www.freddyuniverse.com/galeria- ... nebulosas/
www.freddyuniverse.com
The Moldy Strawberry Nebula and surroundings by Freddy S., en Flickr
The Moldy Strawberry Nebula and surroundings Annotated by Freddy S., en Flickr

And I return with the Moldy Strawberry Nebula, which I did not finish convincing and I have put a reprocessing! what do you think !!??
The Moldy Strawberry Nebula and surroundings by Freddy S., en Flickr

Thank you, Freddyuniverse, your Mouldy Strawberry Nebula portraits are very beautiful! By the way, the bright blue star in your pictures is Bellatrix in Orion, and the large red nebula at left is the Lambda Orionis Nebula.

Ann

M1 Crab Nebula in RGB(HaOIII) M1 Crab Nebula in SHO Side-by-side comparison of the two: Copyright: Christopher Sullivan

Full resolution images available here:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/386404/
https://www.astrobin.com/full/387582/

not a red rose
www.peterkurucz.com
Copyright: Peter Kurucz
https://www.peterkurucz.com/apod-submission

Hello
I submit you this Tycho's picture.
Very little time in a life the sky allows in the Rhône valley in France to exploit almost fully the capabilities of large telescopes like my newton 24" that I built. It lasted 20 minutes on the night of February 15. I was able to image some craters like Tycho in high resolution. The focal length used is 10920 mm (barlow 4), red filter 610, camera QHY5-III 178M, original at 120% image to better see the details.

Regards
Luc CATHALA
Mazan FRANCE


original : https://www.astrobin.com/full/391518/F/ ... real=&mod=

Hello everyone,

I submit you a picture of a Lunar Transit of the ISS.

21:47 UT
29.11.2018.
Budapest, Hungary

72/500 refractor
10mm Plössl eyepiece
Samsung Galaxy A5 smartphone in video mode


ISS transit by Balazs Benei, on Flickr

Dark nebulae LDN 1251 and LDN 1262 in Cepheus




Large image

Large image, annotated version

La Jonquera, Sant Quirze de Colera and Albanya - Girona
Equipment used :
- ImagingStar 71 Telescope
- SkyWatcher EQ-6 mount
- Camera Canon 6D mod
- 50x600 "RGB Canon 6D mod
- 35 Darks, 35 Flats and 75 Bias

José Jiménez

Orion

78 Panel Mosaic at 1.67 pixel scale, captured over the last three years.



High Res: https://www.astrobin.com/full/391560/0/?real=&mod=

Details:
Equipment:
2x William Optics 132 w/ .8 Reducer operating at F5.6
Moonlite Rotating Focuser with DRO Panel
2x QHY 16200 with Astrodon LRGB Filters
Astro Physics 1100 GTO
QHY Medium OAG
Kendrick Power Panel
Kendrick Dew Heater ATS 48” Pier
ADM dual saddle with ADM robin Cassidy aiming device.

Integration per panel: L- 8 x 180s R- 8 x 180s G- 8 x 180s B- 8 x 180s Darks, Bias, & Flats acquired for each panel

Acquisition: Captured with the use of Sequence Generator Pro by Main Sequence Software. Edited and calibrated bin Pixinsight Astro Imaging Software. Export & Levels in Adobe Photoshop. Data captured over the course of three years, traveling remotely to image from dark sites in TN, GA, and TX. 2019 data captured in the Marathon Remote Imaging Observatory (MaRIO) in Marathon, TX.

Workflow: Calibration in BPP with flats, darks, bias, and light frames-per scope (Batch Pre Processing) Integration with star alignment outside of BPP with the Star Alignment Tool Processing with LRGB combination and photometric Color calibration applied per pane Histogram transformation, SCNR and Curves to match each panel. Assembled by image solving per panel Mosaic by coordinates Gradient Merge Mosaic to ensure proper panel alignment and solving Levels and exporting in Photoshop

Ann wrote: ↑Sun Feb 17, 2019 12:25 pm

Freddyuniverse wrote: ↑Sat Feb 16, 2019 9:53 am

Freddyuniverse wrote: ↑Mon Feb 11, 2019 8:37 pm The Moldy Strawberry Nebula and surroundings

Takahashi Épsilon 180 + Moravian G4 16000
Procesed with PixInsight
2019-02-05
All the data on my website
https://www.freddyuniverse.com/galeria- ... nebulosas/
www.freddyuniverse.com
The Moldy Strawberry Nebula and surroundings by Freddy S., en Flickr
The Moldy Strawberry Nebula and surroundings Annotated by Freddy S., en Flickr

And I return with the Moldy Strawberry Nebula, which I did not finish convincing and I have put a reprocessing! what do you think !!??
The Moldy Strawberry Nebula and surroundings by Freddy S., en Flickr

Thank you, Freddyuniverse, your Mouldy Strawberry Nebula portraits are very beautiful! By the way, the bright blue star in your pictures is Bellatrix in Orion, and the large red nebula at left is the Lambda Orionis Nebula.

Ann

Thanks Ann, they are Bellatrix and Lambda Orionis, but do not tell me that you are not a little afraid of the ghost (SH2 265) that runs between Bellatrix and the Strawberry Nebula...

Mosaic of the Andromeda Galaxy - 8 single parts:

Oh boy, what a challenge to process 130 subs, collected from July to October last year, and make an 8 panel mosaic out of it, using my 10inch Newtonian reflector and DSLR, to get a detailed image of our neighbour galaxy:

Luc CATHALA wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:33 am Hello
I submit you this Tycho's picture.
Very little time in a life the sky allows in the Rhône valley in France to exploit almost fully the capabilities of large telescopes like my newton 24" that I built. It lasted 20 minutes on the night of February 15. I was able to image some craters like Tycho in high resolution. The focal length used is 10920 mm (barlow 4), red filter 610, camera QHY5-III 178M, original at 120% image to better see the details.

Regards
Luc CATHALA
Mazan FRANCE


original : https://www.astrobin.com/full/391518/F/ ... real=&mod=

Drool.

The biggest and brightest Supermoon of the year rises over the Acropolis in Athens, Greece on Feb 19, 2019.
https://www.instagram.com/alexmaragos
Copyright: Alexandros Maragos


Supermoon 2019 over the Acropolis by Alexandros Maragos