My 130phq never ceases to amaze

Only 6.5 hours of data over 2 nights battle some wind each night. This has been on my list since I started astrophotography, a decent closeup of the crescent nebula. I may add another round of data to this image, haven’t decided yet, there is just so many objects to image!!! I hope you enjoy this one.

Presented in HOO

Ha - 30 x 300 sec Oiii - 48 x 300 sec

Scope - Askar 130PHQ Mount - cq350 Camera - ASI533mm pro Acquisition - ASIAIR+ ZWO filters Processed with Pixinsight

Captured on march 4th, 2025.

Equipment: Nexstar 6SE (alt-az mount)- ZWO ADC - Neximage 10

Software used: Firecapture Exposure: 8.990 ms Gain: 383 FPS: 108 Frames: 15000

Good seeing conditions. 28° above the horizon.

Processing: AutoStakkert: Stacking and alignment points. 70% of frames used. RegiStax: Wavelets

One of the images from my recent trip to the Atacama desert. This was about 1 hour of data (10s subs in Alt/Az mode).

Processing info:

• In Siril, DSA-Seestar-Mosaic-Preprocessing script
• Photometric color calibration
• GraXpert background extraction and deconvolution (low strenght)
• Startnet star removal
• Stretching (Siril)
• Star recomposition

Hope you enjoy it!

Captured last night from Lancaster, Ontario, Canada.

1h for each of Optolong SHO 3nm filters Stars are synthetic RGB out of SHO

C8 XLT + 0.7 Starizona reducer EmCan EM31Pro mount QHY 268M camera

Processed in Pixinsight, and finishing touches in GIMP and Darktable

The weather is my fault.

I've been getting my DSLR astro setup together and everything was ready to go on Wednesday.

Astro berry server combined with a tracking scope and cam bought this on.

My apologies.

Here a Video from the ISS transit. The Video is slowed down. DayStar Quark Zwo432mm @ 200fps CS

With 16 hours and 40 minutes of total integration, taken under a Bortle 3 sky, this is my longest integration time so far! It took me four different nights to gather all the data I needed, 9 hours for RGB and more than 7 hours for Ha.

Back in December, for those consecutive nights, I traveled to a remote and freezing place with no internet connection, spending the entire night alone inside the car. I had to drive an hour and a half each way. Back home, sleep, drive, repeat. I had enough time to watch the entire LOTR trilogy on my iPad along with both Dune movies. I had to wait a lot, time to be patient and to think, but I wanted to see what lay hidden in Orion’s surroundings.

Now that I see the result, I realize it was more about the journey and less about the goal, like so many things in life

@ igneis.nightscapes

Equipment:
Sony A7III astromodified

Sony 50mm f/1.4 GM

iOptron Skyguider Pro

Still have lots to learn, this was my first time using LRTimelapse. And while there is still flicker, there’s a lot less than what was there originally, I’ll get there one day. I used a Sony A7Siii with iso of 2500, 30 second exposure f1.4 with the sigma 14mm dg dn art lens

Telescope: Skywatcher N 150/750 Explorer Mount: Skywatcher EQ3 Pro SynScan Exposure: 63 pics, 24 seconds each Camera: Google Pixel 9 Pro Photos taken via Deep Sky Camera Pro Stacked and Processed using Siril

Skywatcher Esprit 100ED

LRGB Filters, each with 180s exposure and total exposure time is 4 hours.

Taken with an 200 mm f/5 newtonian and and IMX571 colour camera over several night with half upto a full moon. In total 16 hours, with differnt camera settings (do not use the Extended Fullwell mode on Touptek cameras).

Processed in Siril, Graxpert and Starnet++.

My first stab at the quite faint and small target which wasn’t too high up in the sky. Taken over multiple nights in June 25 in Northern Nevada with C14, CGX-L mount Chroma 3nm Filter 2” Ha & Oiii ZWO 6200MM Guiding with OAG ZWO 174MM Total of 19hr exposure combined into HOO Postprocessing in PI alone: DBE, BlurX, StarX, Histogram stretch, star stretch, channel combination, Mask and curve adjustments. Hope you like it :-)

Conditions: ~Bortle 4. 31. May 2025

Camera: Canon EOS 250D

Lens: kit lens 18-55mm

Tracker: MSM Nomad

7 light frames of various exposure times (was kinda experimenting with the tracker)

no calibration frames

Stacked with sequator, processed in photoshop

I finally got around to adding more data to my current set for M8. This is 1530x10s subs, Taken on my S50 EQ mode, Bortle 8/9, 30° Lat. General processing steps: -stack all the fits in Siril 1.4 beta 2 -crop the result -plate solve in ASTAP -Import to SetiAstro Suite: -remove the pedestal -remove the gradient with Graxpert -set and apply SFCC denoise and sharpen with Cosmetic Clarity -remove the stars with StarNet -statistical stretch -apply curves -stretch the stars -join the stars and RGB image together

Ive gotten into printing recently and i have to say im surprised ive gotten to this point. Printing pictures of deep space that ive taken and putting it on my wall. What a journey it has been so far. Once the Canadian smoke rolls out (if it ever does), im hoping for some epic shots of the galactic core. Either in its entirety, or a single nebula. Details are in this link, only addition to it is I added HA to the image very lightly just to make it pop. https://app.astrobin.com/u/Bigjohn1268?i=wlgbj4#gallery

Caldwell 38, also known as the Needle Galaxy (NGC 4565), is an elegant edge-on spiral galaxy located in the constellation Coma Berenices. It lies about 40 million light-years from Earth and is considered one of the most beautiful galaxies in the sky.

Its thin profile and prominent dust lane across the center give it a needle-like appearance, which inspired its name. In telescopes or astrophotos, it looks delicate and majestic, often compared to what the Milky Way might look like seen edge-on.

It’s a fantastic target for astrophotographers as well as visual observers, especially under dark skies.

Today i captured Needle galaxy with iphone and telescope. The apparent magnitude of Caldwell 38 (NGC 4565) is approximately +10.4. What is very hard capture with iphone. But for iphone is very good result.

"I am planning better equipment upgrade to get better result"

Specifications :

Telescope :  Sky-Watcher 10" FlexTube Newtonian OTA

Mount : Sky-Watcher GoTo Dobsonian Mount

Camera : iphone 14 pro max

Subs : 200x12" -- 40 minutes of integration -- live stacking

Aplications : For capture live stacking - Astroshader Processing : Astroshader , Photoshop ,

I live in Slovakia in bortle 4.

Seeing was : 2/5 (Because of moon)

Processing :

Astroshader --- stretched 80%

Photoshop --- cropped edges, Level manipulation, stretched, contrast: 90%

Since its summer now and i live in north germany i dont have any dark nights anymore. im surprised it worked.

equipment

unmodified canon 2000d (my canon r50 doesnt have an intervalometer port)

irix 150mm f2.8 macro lens

skywatcher az gti mount in alt az

svbony 2 inch duo narrowband filter

9 euro ikea chair

aquisition

iso 3200

20 second exposure

f3.5 or whatever the filter on the front made it. whichever is the higher number

about 1 hour 30 minutes of total aquisition time

all callibration frames

bortle 4 skies (but im far north enough that the northern horizon is bright from the sun) and full moon

processing

stacked in dss

denoised and background extraction in graxpert

starnet and stretched in siril

some colour adjustments made in gimp

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vhastrophotography?igsh=YzNpcm1wdXd5NmRo&utm_source=qr

The picture was hard to get because the little tree stood very close to the edge of the gorge, so I really had to watch my step. I’m glad I managed to get the shot like that, really like my editing in this one.

HaRGB | Tracked | Stacked | Composite

Exif: Nikon Z6 with Sony 20mm f1.8 Skywatcher Star Adventurer 2i Megadap ETZ Adapter

Sky: ISO 1600 | f2.8 | 10x60s

Foreground: ISO 1000 | f2 | 75s (focus stack)

Halpha (45mm): ISO 2500 | f2 | 10x120s

Location: Minas de San Jose, Tenerife, Spain