Das sind die Nordamerika (links) und Pelikan Nebel (rechts) im Sternbild Cygnus. Getrennt werden die beiden Emissionsnebel durch die so genannte "Great Wall", eine gigantische Staubwolke.
Die Aufnahme ist als HOO Variante entwickelt, also als Falschfarbendarstellung, um die Verteilung der verschiedenen Gasgebiete zu zeigen.
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula IC 1396 was the target of yesterdays clear night and here I would like to share the result:
My first try on a DSO two panel mosaic.
Guiding and banding noise have been quite a problem for this project, well there is always room for improvements...
Disclaimer: This is a "false" color image using a HOO color palette.
Je n'avais pas fait d'astrophoto depuis ... longtemps! Je m'y suis remis la nuit dernière, profitant des conditions météo enfin idéales. J'ai pas mal pataugé avant de pouvoir prendre une série d'images de l'amas globulaire Messier 5 dans la tête du Serpent. Les logiciels d'acquisition et de traitement ont beaucoup progressé en 18 mois... Le weekend n'est pas fini, encore des nuits blanches à venir ! #astrodon#astronomy#astronomie#DeepSky#astrophotography#stars#Ekos#Siril#StarClusters
M42 is special for me. It's the reason I started my astronomy journey and it's my favorite object in the winter night sky. I keep coming back to it again and again and it became a nice benchmark of my skills in astrophotography.
Finally the moon phase allowed me to make better use of my new dedicated astrocam.
So I decided to go for the rosette nebula, since it fits nicely in the field of view at 400mm
I used this image also as a training object for better calibration and post processing using APP, Siril, Starnet++ and Darktable to combine their strengths.
I captured this image about a week ago and, while processing, had to find out that there‘s a huge white flare overlaying the whole image. Capturing deep sky at full moon is a bad idea already, but this time, I was too close to it and got a massive moon light leaking into my scope. The data went straight to trash. But I just had to try recovering it. So after a LOT of Photoshop trickery, I ended up with an acceptable image :)
Scope: Askar 103APO
Lens: Askar 0.6x Reducer
Camera: Canon EOS 6Da
Filter: Altair Tri-Band
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ5-GT
Guiding: Svbony SV165 with ZWO ASI224MC
Controller: ZWO ASIAir Pro
My telescope was in auto-tracking mode and the exposure time was 4 minutes with the default Pixel Camera app.
I am astonished by this photo! You can see freaking color! COLOR! I only tuned down the gamma a bit but that's all of the editing I've done. Here is another unedited photo with a 20mm eyepiece:
I was soooo surprised to see this coming out of the phone :D - damn so fucking cool! 1.3 thousand light years away, stars forming.....so beautiful....so mindblowing!
I'm satisfied of the images I've been able to capture in 2023 despite multiple extended periods of cloud cover. This is a montage of most of those images, in no particular order.
Very likely my last image of 2023, this is the Jellyfish Nebula (IC443), the remnant of a supernova in the constellation Gemini. The two large orange stars are Mu and Eta Geminorum, two red giants at the feet of the rightmost of the two "stick figures" that form the constellation Gemini.
A widefield view of the Pleiades cluster and reflection nebula (M45) at the North-West end of the constellation Taurus. The surrounding interstellar dust in is illuminated by the blue giant stars of the cluster, giving this nice fuzzy blue cloud look.
While most images of the Pleiades focus on the cluster itself, I wanted to take a wider field image to show the extent of the interstellar dust in this area, including this long arching structure to the left of the cluster in the image.
Editing is done and voilà: Orion the hunter, marvel of the winter nightsky! 🙌 🌌
It's a bit sad, there was much white in the bottom right corner (probably due to a streetlamp) so I had to crop it there. But still the main target is nicely visible. The use of 'BlurXTerminator' in PI still amazes me: Look at the detail of the horsehead (close to Alnitak, the bottom of Orion's belt).
Exif: 38 x 90s; F/2; 50mm; ISO-800;
The heart of the Heart Nebula (IC1805) in the constellation Cassiopeia.
This is the first image from my new 150/750mm f/5 Newtonian telescope, and the first image I produce in months due mostly to bad weather and some guiding issues with the new scope (resolved with off-axis guiding).
Me with my #travel#astrophotography setup (first image), with the final result - the elephants trunk nebula (second image). This image consists of 202 single 180s exposures, with a total integration time of ~7h. This is the first of my #deepsky images taken during my trip to #tuscany two months ago in september. #photography#astrodon#space