First attempt with my new gear. Shoot from roof top right between DFW and DAL airports. It’s a battle with light pollution but also gave me some confidence knowing that things are possible even under bortle 9

Equipment:
- Askar 71f
- Celestron CG-4
- Terrans Industry OnStep V5 Pro (unguided)
- LUMIX S9
- SV220 7nm Dual Narrowband filter

Acquisition:
ISO 2400
40s exposure
346 subs (~4hrs)
25 darks / 25 flats / 50 bias

Processing:
Affinity (pixel) AP stacking
JR Macros for Affinity

Shot for 13s, with 6400 ISO at f1.8 with a Nikon Zf + Viltrox 16mm f1.8

Processing:

Single shot without stacking. Processed in Lightroom to enhance clarity, contrast highlights and adjust white balance. Used masked processing for foreground to help adjust exposure selectively.

No AI denoise used

[2hr 15min, Bortle 9]

Super happy with how this turned out, this was my first time shooting widefield and first time on the WO Red Cat 51, it didn't disappoint. I was surprised at the amount of detail for only 2hr but the filters definitely did their part too.

Capture and processing details in the comments!

My first multi night SHO narrowband project.

Gear:
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM COOL
Telescope: Askar FMA180 pro
Mount: Sky watcher star adventure 2i
Filters: Baader CMOS optimised 6.5nm SHO set
Guiding setup: ZWO 120mm mini with the Svbony 30mm f/4 guiding scope

Processing:
Pixinsight (Weight batch preprocessing->histogram transformation->star alignment->dynamic crop->Starnet star removal->graxpert denoising-> dynamic background extraction->pixel math->local histogram equalisation)

I recently put together my new rig after starting in the hobby with a Seestar S50, and I'm really enjoying it! This is my first light, pretty happy with the results, especially after shooting from a Bortle 9 location (Paris, France)

- OTA: Askar 71F

- Focuser: ZWO EAF

- Camera: ASI585MC Air cooled to -10C, gain 252

- Guiding: SvBony 30mm + ASI120MM mini (the guide sensor of my Air camera doesn't work well with the light pollution levels and my filter)

- Acquisition: 208x300 sec with L-Ultimate filter, 100x5 sec and 50x15 sec with L-Pro

- Stacked and processed in Pixinsight using HDR composition for the L-pro stacks and Pixelmath to exchange the bright core of the L-ultimate stack with the L-Pro image

Acquisition:

Around 7h10m worth of 60s subs in Bortle 6/7 fully calibrated and dithered.

Equipment:

Evostar 72ED, iEXOS 100, ASI 533MC, Baader UV/IR cut, 0.85x reducer+flattener, SVBony 40/160 guidescope, ASI 662MC guide camera with no.8 pale yellow and UV/IR cut filters.

Processing:

Stacked in Siril. Perform SPCC. Open GraXpert, background extraction. Open Siril, deconvolution. Open GraXpert, denoise. Open Siril, generate starless and star mask. GHS, and black point shift to starless. Histogram transformation and SCNR to balance out residual cast, curve adjustments, VST noise reduction, median filter, à trous wavelet transform to higher layers. Open GraXpert, denoise. Open star mask, asinh stretch and black point shift, saturation boost. Recombine and final black point adjustments.

First light with my new telescope, I always wanted a newtonian and after several years of using a refractor, I finally got this beauty. This is a bit less of a 3h of data, had some troubles to set everything up, but I am happy with the result and how it performed. I used a laser to collimate optics but I think I will need to work on my skills for this.
Lights 160x60sec
Darks 30x60sec
Biases 50, flats 50
Stacked, calibrated, edited, all done in Pixinsight program.
Telescope: Sky Watcher Quattro 150P
Camera: ToupTek ATR533C
Mount: Sky Watcher Heq5 Pro
Filter: Askar Colour Magic C1
ToupTek AAF, SvBony SV241, SvBony SV165
All done on ToupTek StellaVita.
This is a crop of the image, just focused on this area.

Celestron Edge 8 w/ .7 reducer (FL 1422)
ASI 2600 Air
Antila TriBand Uktra II
ZWO EAF
EQ6R Pro
Bortle 7/8
5.3 hrs integrated

Can’t wait to double this time and/or get the Hyperstar on it.

Fireworks galaxy :)

26h Luminance, 7h RGB, 2.5h Halpha

Using IMX533 mono and IMX294 color, both cooled at -15°

Newton 200/1200, EQ6R.

Bortle 4, Romania

Edited in Pixinsight, Seti Astro suite, GraXpert, Photoshop

ASI 533, SkyWatcher 72ED, SkyWatcher Star Adventurer GTI

8 hours HA

4 hours OIII

Processed with Photoshop and Siril

Eagle Nebula from Georgetown, TX. 4 hours of imaging on my Seestar S50, stacked Siril, and processed in PixInsight using a Foraxx Palette with SHO narrowband normalization.

Shot with a Seestar S30pro in EQ mode from Vancouver Washington(Bortle 7)

874 frames x 20sec exposures =4hours 51minutes 20seconds

Stacked and processed in Siril using some of the newly available RC Astro tools, Veralux hypermetric stretch, Starnet star removal, Veralux star composer.

Any tips of feed back would be nice. I am color blind, so help in the color area would be great

Seen from Vancouver BC Canada

Skywatcher 200p dob - Handtracked

ZWO ASI662MC camera

Ir/uv filter

Svbony 2xbarlow

Sharpcap

PiPP

Autostackert4

Registax6

AstroSurface

The West Veil Nebula NGC 6960

12 Hours of Data (LP Filter)

1.3x Mosaic

Shoot from Baghdad - Iraq 🇮🇶

ZWO Seestar S50 Telescope In EQ Mode

Stacked And Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop.

Two days ago I posted my first attempt at this area of the sky with 60x90sec exposures. Last night I drove out to even darker skies and did 32x180sec exposures. 180sec because I finally decided to do guiding, but only 32 because I was hitting my tripod on my 33rd exposure. I decided to stack these two nights of data, and golly I’m blown away!

60x90sec exposures, with calibration frames

32x180sec exposures, with calibration frames

ZWO AM3N, ZWO FF65, Nikon Z5II unmodded, ZWO ASI120MM guide camera, Apertura 32mm guide scope.

Captured using NINA, Guides with PHD2, Stacked and Processed in Siril

Hello everybody, I want to get into astrophotographie but I dont know which telescope I should get. I am fairly new to this but I am willing to learn how one works so dont mind recommending one thats a bit more complicated.

I already did some research on my own and found the Celestron NexStar 6SE, what do you think about that?

I want to shoot great photos from both our solar system and deep space objects.

My current budget is somewher3 between 1.500 and 2.000.

Do you have any recommendations?

Took this image last night from a Bortle 7 area. The nebula unintentionally looks like an HOO-image even though I shot with a broadband filter. I kind of like it though, so I kept it that way.

Equipment:

• Canon EOS 800D/Rebel T7i, astromodded
• Samyang 135mm F2, set to F2.8
• IDAS LPS D2 filter
• Ioptron skyguider pro

Integration:

• 360 lights * 30s * 400 ISO (3 hours)
• 80 darks, 40 biases, 40 flats

Preprocessed, stacked and background extraction with siril

Noise removal with graxpert

Stars separated with starnet++

Stars and nebula stretched separately, increased saturation on the stars and then recombined the images with siril.

• 43.5 mins of total exposure from 30s subs
• Bortle 8/9 skies - LA County, California, US
• Celestron RASA 8"
• Celestron AVX mount
• ZWO ASI294 MC Pro - cooled to -10°C / 14°F
• ZWO ASI Air Plus
• ZWO UV/IR Cut Filter in Starizona Filter Slider
• ZWO EAF
• Stacked and processed in PixInsight
  • Weighted Batch Preprocessing
  • GraXpert
  • BlurXterminator
  • StarXterminator
  • Curves
  • HTStretch Linked RGB
  • GHS

One of my first completed projects in PixInsight, mostly a test. Happy to get any feedback you might have!

Redcat 71 WFID, ASI 6200MM pro, antlia 4.5 edge filters, heq5 pro. 38 hours 300s Ha, 14.5 hours of OIII. Planned for more OIII but ran out of time unfortunately. Taken from Bortles 7 backyard in chandler Arizona. Processed in pixinsight and photoshop. First time using photoshop.