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#31

Astrophotography / Re: M31 Reprocessed

Last post by Dave A - May 27, 2025, 15:22:41

Lovely image Carole-  M31 is always great to observe and capture

#32

Astrophotography / Re: M31 Reprocessed

Last post by Carole - May 26, 2025, 21:36:12

Hmm for some reason the second image would not post above:

This is the new process after SX

#33

Astrophotography / M31 Reprocessed

Last post by Carole - May 26, 2025, 21:34:32

Not enturely reprocesssed as I don;t seem to have the orginal data any more. 

One of my early images:
Combination of data from 3 different years.

Colour is from Sept 2011 with DSLR - traveller
Luminance is from August 2013 - Astro campsite
Ha is from January 2014 - Backyard SE London
Re-processed October 2015

This was the original process:

#34

Astrophotography / Re: Gallery "keywords" are act...

Last post by Rick - May 25, 2025, 23:40:56

Yes, if you look at the description of your private "Works in progress" album (which only you can see, usually) you'll find a Link-Word in it which is the one you should use. For most folk it's the same as their username, but there are exceptions which have been contrived in order to avoid clashes.

#35

Astrophotography / Re: Gallery "keywords" are act...

Last post by Carole - May 25, 2025, 16:26:49

I thought you culd put your name, so you can search for all your images later on. 

[Please]

#36

Astrophotography / Re: Gallery "keywords" are act...

Last post by Rick - May 25, 2025, 10:22:44

I have just spent a couple of hours sorting out the mess that the link-word collection had become. Two points:

• Please put information about the images in the other fields, particularly the Title and Description.
• Please only put words explicitly associated with albums in the gallery (as listed in the top post above) in the Link-words field.

#37

Astrophotography / Re: More from Petts Wood in Ma...

Last post by Dave A - May 23, 2025, 17:24:12

Fantastic collection again Roberto- well done 

#38

Astrophotography / Re: More from Petts Wood in Ma...

Last post by Roberto - May 23, 2025, 08:14:25

Thank you Carole. According to Clearoutside from FLO, I'm Bortle 6 for whatever that means.

I won't be in the UK next week so will miss the meeting (again  )

Roberto

#39

Astrophotography / Re: More from Petts Wood in Ma...

Last post by Carole - May 22, 2025, 22:17:39

Another great collection Roberto, you can certainly get a lot done with a remotely controlled set up.

I can only get half into this month's presentation, the other half will have to go into the next month. 

Can you remind me of your Bortle Scale, is it 6 or 7? 

Carole

[Moon - 5 May 2025 - Montes Apenninus and Craters]

#40

Astrophotography / More from Petts Wood in May

Last post by Roberto - May 22, 2025, 12:31:42

Moon - 5 May 2025 - Montes Apenninus and Craters

Acquisition: 150 × 8.00ms

Equipment:
- Telescope: TEC MC250 f/20
- Camera: ZWO ASI174MM
- Mount: Astro-Physics 1100GTO
- Accessory: Sherizhe eADC
- Software: Emil Kraaikamp AutoStakkert!, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight, Torsten Edelmann FireCapture

For more information, visit AstroBin:
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Montes Apenninus & Archimedes


Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus, Arzachel


Sun Ha and CaH - 10 May 2025 - SHG700 and Coronado DS SM60 animations

Acquisition: 5 × 0.43ms

Equipment:
- Telescope: Moonraker 94mm F/7 Refractor
- Cameras: ToupTek G3M 678M, ZWO ASI174MM
- Mount: Astro-Physics 1100GTO
- Filters: Antlia Solar Discover Dualband Energy Rejection Filter (ERF) Antlia Solar Discover Dualband Energy Rejection Filter (ERF), MLAstro SHG 700, Solarscope 60mm Etalon
- Accessory: Meade 3x Telenegative Multi-Coated
- Software: AstroSharp Ltd SharpCap, Cédric Champeau JSol'Ex, Emil Kraaikamp AutoStakkert!, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight

For more information, visit AstroBin:
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Prominence animation



Full disc using SHG700


Sun Ha - 11 May 2025 - Mosaic Full Disc - Prominence Animation

Acquisition: 150 × 6.00ms

Equipment:
- Telescope: Moonraker 94mm F/7 Refractor
- Camera: ZWO ASI174MM
- Mount: Astro-Physics 1100GTO
- Filter: Solarscope 60mm Etalon
- Accessory: Meade 3x Telenegative Multi-Coated
- Software: AstroSharp Ltd SharpCap, Chris Garry Planetary Imaging PreProcessor (PIPP), Filip Szczerek ImPPG (Image Post-Processor), Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight

For more information, visit AstroBin:
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Animation



Full disc



NGC5907, 5905, 5908, 5879 and M102 - LRGB

Total integration: 39h 35m

Integration per filter:
- LP: 13h (78 × 600")
- Multiband: 13h 10m (79 × 600")
- No filter: 13h 25m (161 × 300")

Equipment:
- Optics: Astro-Physics StarFire EDF 152mm f/7.5, Astro-Physics StarFire GTX 110mm f/6, Astro-Physics Stowaway 92mm f/6.65
- Cameras: Moravian Instruments C5A-100M, ToupTek SkyEye24AC, ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
- Mount: Astro-Physics 1600GTO-AE
- Filters: Antlia ALP-T Dualband 3nm Ha & OIII 2", IDAS LPS-P2 50 mm
- Accessories: Astro-Physics 0.83x CCD Telecompressor Corrector for 110mm f/6 StarFire GTX (110TCC), Astro-Physics 0.8x CCD Telecompressor for 92/105mm (92TCC), Astro-Physics F/5.7 CCD Telecompressor Corrector for 160f/7.5 StarFire EDF (160TCC), Moravian Instruments External Filter Wheel 7x50mm
- Software: Open PHD Guiding Project PHD2, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight, Stefan Berg Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy (N.I.N.A. / NINA), Tom Palmer Target Scheduler

For more information, visit AstroBin:
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LDN1261, 1262, LBN573, 575 in Cepheus - LRGB and Dualband data

Total integration: 30h 35m

Integration per filter:
- LP: 10h 10m (61 × 600")
- Multiband: 10h 20m (62 × 600")
- No filter: 10h 5m (121 × 300")

Equipment:
- Optics: Astro-Physics StarFire EDF 152mm f/7.5, Astro-Physics StarFire GTX 110mm f/6, Astro-Physics Stowaway 92mm f/6.65
- Cameras: Moravian Instruments C5A-100M, ToupTek SkyEye24AC, ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
- Mount: Astro-Physics 1600GTO-AE
- Filters: Antlia ALP-T Dualband 3nm Ha & OIII 2", IDAS LPS-P2 50 mm
- Accessories: Astro-Physics 0.83x CCD Telecompressor Corrector for 110mm f/6 StarFire GTX (110TCC), Astro-Physics 0.8x CCD Telecompressor for 92/105mm (92TCC), Astro-Physics F/5.7 CCD Telecompressor Corrector for 160f/7.5 StarFire EDF (160TCC), Moravian Instruments External Filter Wheel 7x50mm
- Software: Open PHD Guiding Project PHD2, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight, Stefan Berg Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy (N.I.N.A. / NINA), Tom Palmer Target Scheduler

For more information, visit AstroBin:
https://app.astrobin.com/i/zklqbn



Roberto