Astro Photography

Took this over the past week. This was my second attempt at this target and I am quite happy with the result and the fine detail captured. This is a narrowband image. Taking with a WO FTL 132 and an ASI6200MM using a WO ZS 61 as the guide scope.

Photo taken on a Canon t5i using a Sigma 150-600mm lens.

First try of shooting Andromeda. The picture is more of an art image as I added a tilt shift effect.

41 x 25s lights 80mm ISO 3200

Anyone using the Sync for Lemmy app? I sure hope it starts supporting Kbin soon because it's hands down the best Fediverse app already. It has only been out a week.

Unfortunately, being in Kbin this Magazine is not very viewable on it yet. Something to do with Kbin doing things differently - any ideas on what that means?

#astrophotography

Thought I'd share my first image in a while! NGC 6823 has sooo much going on and looks great in both RGB and Narrowband. I went for Foraxx here, with RGB stars. Desperately needed more O3 - I lost 80% of my subs due to high haze. I had to stretch it within an inch of its life!

Taken at the awesome Roboscopes facility in spain on Pier 3 (ASA 12N). I am currently in the process of sending my Tak 160 there for hosting, the skies are FANTASTIC and the managed hosting service the guys there provide is world class. So much better than alternatives.

Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop

Stars RGB.

Manual calibration - WBPP gets Bias wrong :)

DBE on each channel, SPCC, BXT / NXT / SXT. I created a synthetic lum channel from the Ha O3 and S2 and processed that using GHS and curves.

I then GHS'd each NB channel to get them popping as much as possible, and combined them in Foraxx. Added the Lum using LRGB combine.

Then off to Photoshop for a few levels tweaks and the brilliant filter Camera Raw Filter (CTRL + SHIFT + A on a new layer). So many amazing tweaks to be had here. Use opacity to decide how much of the filtered layer to keep.

120 second subs for NB, 60 second for RGB. 3nm Antlia filters.

60 x 120s O3
180 x 120s S2
120 x 120s Ha
15 x 60s RGB

https://www.astrobin.com/88m2xc/

A nebula about 2,500 light years away, this image took about an hour to capture from a Colorado backyard.

Captured in a Colorado backyard on a Vespera telescope, with a dual band filter.

The Veil Nebula taken from a Colorado backyard on a Vespera telescope with a dual band filter.

Taken from the backyard. I love this target. I keep adding more integration time to it to bring out further details.

Taken on a Vespera telescope with solar filter.

I have a William Optics Fluroustar 132 refractor. I have an off-axis guider right now and I am tracking with 0.35 to 0.5" accuracy. But the OAG is interfering with my full frame camera sensor. As such I would like to switch to a dedicated guide scope.

Taken from a Colorado backyard on a Vespera telescope. About 30 minutes exposure.

Hi all. I set this up quickly in frustration of reddit, and I still have not returned to the site sinces Spez's Elon-fuelled tirade.

While this little slice of celestial heaven is small, it is no issue to just let things run. However, I am a dad of 4, I run my own business and my wife is just starting up her own one - time is not a commodity I am in great supply of.

If anyone would like to join the mod team that has more time, and frankly, is willing to put in the work that I can't then please do let me know. When Sync for Lemmy opens its doors more people will likely start moving to the Fediverse. I believe that the Dev is looking to include Kbin also.

Sync is an absolutely beautiful app - think Apollo for Android - https://www.reddit.com/r/syncforlemmy

I think a couple of mods will be more than enough for now - no rush.

shot on a pixel 7 pro, with a half second exposure.

Captured in January 2023 using a William Optics 132 refractor on a Sky Watcher EQ6R-Pro with a ASI 533MM Pro camera. I struggled a bit as my telescope pinched the stars a bit in the cold weather. This was 15hr of integration time over three nights.

This is my first ever attempt at an astro image and I thought why not share it here.

Equipment:

• Fujifilm XT-2
• Fujinon apsherical lens 80mm
• Tripod

Photos:

• ISO 6400
• 320 x 3s
• F 2.8

Editing:

• Stacked with Siril
• Star removal with Starnet++
• Stretching and final touches in Affinity

This was my first composition using my upgraded mount - an Orion EQ-G, shot several years ago. A bit of optical train artifacts on the brightest star in this field - this kind of artifact is a difficult one to suppress on particularity bright stars week my SCT/hyperstar setup

Often you will see this in significant more muted colors, but I took this one in narrowband SHO. Taken from the backyard last summer using a Celestron C8 on an Advanced VX mount via ASI AIR+. I love the internal detail this image captured. It is a planetary nebula, which means this is a shell of stellar material shed from the central dying star.

Captured this over the past month as a final target after doing my main targets. This took a lot of processing to bring out the details as it is a relatively small target. I also played with the hur and color curves in order to achieve this color scheme.

I took this over the last two nights using a William Optics 132 refractor. It is RGB but captured in monochrome and re-colored.

More details on the reflection nebula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Nebula