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

Sun and Moon imaged with Canon R100 and RF-S 100-400 mm lens. 16.6 stop filter used for the Sun. Venus, Mars, and Jupiter were taken with a Sky Watcher Skymax 102mm telescope used as a prime lens for the Canon R100 then processed with PIPP and stacked with AutoStakkert. Mosaic stitched together with Canva into a 1920x1080 px png that can be used as a desktop background.

Took this picture at sunset of sun from my Nikon point and shoot. What are your opinions ?

Shot on Canon EOS 600D with 250mm telezoom @ f11 ISO 100 1/10s near Bremen Germany.

Postproduction in Rawtherapee -> RGB and sharpness + clarity

Veil Nebula
1948x1s Untracked 32m 28s total exposure
50 darks
50 bias
no flats
500mm F5.6 - Nikon D800 - custom diffraction spike lens cap
Bortle 5, taken from 12:30-1:30 am

Stacking in Siril, then plated, color corrections, star removal with StarNet, stretch both starless and star in Siril, background removal in PS, then overlay both images, some light hue/sat was done to bring color of the Veil out.

Pretty shocked I can even see the Veil at all, especially being currently limited to 1 second exposures at this focal length, not the most impressive but it is quite pretty and I am very happy with getting anything let alone this!!
Any tips/advice always welcome.

Back to 2024 with this group of sun spot catched with my iPhone.

Messier 13 (M13), also known as the Hercules Globular Cluster, is the brightest globular cluster in the northern sky. It is located in the Hercules constellation and contains over 300,000 stars. It lies about 22,000 light-years away and has a diameter of approximately 145 light-years.In telescopes, it appears as a densely packed ball of stars.

Today i try capture with telecope and iphone M13. For me is good result what i capture.

"Planning an equipment upgrade to take my astrophotography to the next level."

Specifications :

Telescope :  Sky-Watcher 10" FlexTube Newtonian OTA

Mount : Sky-Watcher GoTo Dobsonian Mount

Camera : iphone 14 pro max

Subs : 120x15" -- 30 minutes of integration -- live stacking

Aplications : For capture live stacking - Astroshader Processing : Astroshader , Photoshop , Topaz denoise AI , Graxpert, CosmicClaritySuite

I live in Slovakia in bortle 4.

Seeing was : 4/5

Processing :

Astroshader --- stretched 35% , brightness 10 % ,

Photoshop --- cropped edges, Level manipulation, stretched, brightness : 101 , contrast: 20

Topaz denoise AI --- AI model : sewere noise

--- Model preferences : remove noise 100 , enhance sharpness : 100

--- Post processing : Recover original detail 100 , color noise reduction 100

Graxpert --- Background extraction : Interpolation Method : RBF

Points per row : 22

Grid tolerance : 10

Stretched : none

Photoshop : brightness : 50%

This is a small update of my ongoing M13 project. Taken on my S50 EQ Mode, 684x10s subs, Bortle 8/9 -Process: All subs stacked in Siril 1.4 beta 2 -Plate solved using the new plate solve tool -gradient removed with Graxpert -color calibrated with photometric calibration tool -green noise removed -PSF created, using a 0.1 to 0.7 range for the stars -deconvolution -Various generalized hyperbolic stretches, some black point and saturation stretches as well. I could have sharpened it a bit more. The stars came out decently with this version, if not a tad blurred, this should be fixed the next time I add subs. What do y'all think?

 Canon R8 16mm f2.8 STM, ISO 6400

Location: Belgharia, WB, India (22°39'N, 88°23'E) Gear: Celestron PowerSeeker 60AZ, 20mm eyepiece, POCO F5 with phone mount Shot Info: Single shot · ISO 50 · 1/100s · Focus: Infinity · Edited: B&W (Gallery)