Submissions: 2020 November

[Lefty's Astrophotography]

My photo of the star forming complex NGC 7822

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This is exactly 24 hours of SHO exposure from my Bortle 6 Driveway (modified SHO palette). Captured using a 6" f/4 newtonian, ASI1600, and Astrodon filters on an Orion Sirius mount.
Direct link to the full size image: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/506 ... 4b04_o.png
Full acquisition/processing details can be found here: https://www.astrobin.com/46esr3/

[anirban]

Horsehead nebula and Flaming Tree nebula

Imaged from backyard in Santa Clara, CA on 11/15/2020.

Equipment used:

Telescope - Explore Scientific ED102
Focal reducer - Starizona APEX ED 0.65x
Imaging camera - ZWO ASI294MC
Imaging filter - Optolong L-enhance
Guide camera - ZWO ASI120MC-S
Mount - Celestron CGEM DX

Total integration of 40x3' lights at gain 120 and -15C temperature, 20 dark frames, 12 flat frames and 12 dark flat frames.

Horsehead nebula and Flaming Tree nebula

[anirban]

Orion nebula with dust clouds

Imaged from backyard in Santa Clara, CA on 11/15/2020.

Equipment used:

Telescope - Explore Scientific ED102
Focal reducer - Starizona APEX ED 0.65x
Imaging camera - ZWO ASI294MC
Imaging filter - Optolong L-enhance
Guide camera - ZWO ASI120MC-S
Mount - Celestron CGEM DX

Total integration of 20x3' lights at gain 120 and -15C temperature, 20 dark frames, 12 flat frames and 12 dark flat frames.

Orion nebula with dust clouds

[anirban]

Rosette Nebula

Imaged from backyard in Santa Clara, CA on 11/14/2020.

Equipment used:

Telescope - Explore Scientific ED102
Focal reducer - Starizona APEX ED 0.65x
Imaging camera - ZWO ASI294MC
Imaging filter - Optolong L-enhance
Guide camera - ZWO ASI120MC-S
Mount - Celestron CGEM DX

Total integration of 45x4' lights at gain 120 and -15C temperature, 20 dark frames, 12 flat frames and 12 dark flat frames.

Rosette Nebula

[ChrisKotsiopoulos]

Saturn, Jupiter and the Moon behind the Door!
Shot at 18/11/2020, Dorset, England.

[alcarreño]

Copyrights : Raul Villaverde, Domingo Pestana and Nicolas Romo
IC405&IC410_2020 by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

[Rositsa]

The lunar dance in 30 days
https://tripswithrosie.com/
Copyright: Rositsa Dimitrova

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THIS is how the Moon moves throughout a full lunar cycle and it "only" took 7 months to shoot it.

I'm currently shooting a solar analemma, so a few months back I started wondering how the path of Moon would look like for a single lunar cycle. I'd seen many lunar panoramas that were completely unrealistic and I really wanted to create a realistic one. I started shooting the different phases of the Moon, but due to cloudy days it took me solid 7 months to do it.

Afterwards, I used Stellarium to check the coordinates of the Moon in the sky for each day - from February 8th to March 8th 2020 (for location: Bulgaria) adjusted by 51 minutes (which is the average time between moonrises every day). I also took into account the inclination of the Moon on that exact date and time. I managed to translate these Stellarium calculations into Photoshop, as I wanted the positions to be as precise as possible.

Shot on Sony A7iii, Sigma 100-400mm (lunar phases) + Sony 28mm (foreground & sky)

Socials:
https://www.facebook.com/tripswithrosie/
https://www.instagram.com/rosie.kerrigan/

[litobrit]

Hello,
9 hours LRGB with my ASA10, Moravian16200 and AZEQ6
The full is here. https://www.astrobin.com/full/3sko6k/B/?nc=user

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[felix_wegerer]

NGC 281 - The Pacman Nebula
Emission Nebula imaged in SHO palette. Constellation Cassiopeia.
There's a lot of integration time in this image.
I got nearly 100 subs for Ha and O3, and 50 subs for S2. Every sub is 10 minutes, O3 and S2 are binned 2x2.
That's a total integration time of over 40 hours.
Imaged in multiple nights in August and November 2020 from the city of Linz, Austria.
203/1800 LZOS APO
SBIG STXL 11002 with Baader Narrowband filters Ha(7) O3(8.5) S2(8).

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Visit my profile on Instagram http://www.instagram.com/felix_wegerer/ for more astro from Linz.
Felix Wegerer Astrophotography

Hope you like it, this is the most integration time I gathered for one image till now.
Clear skies!

[NJWilson]

This is the 'The Elephants Trunk' Nebula (IC 1396) in the constellation of Cepheus.
Equipment used:
Skywatcher 80DS Pro + 0.8x Focal reducer
Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 equatorial mount
50mm guide scope + ZWO ASI120 camera
Altair Hypercam 183M Pro Tec mono camera. (-10C)
Captured using N.I.N.A.
Stacked with D.S.S. and processed using Photoshop.

Ha 8 x 300 Sec
Oiii 8 x 300 Sec
Dark frames. 8 x 300 Sec

IC 1396 Elephant Trunk Nebula by Neil Wilson, on Flickr

[NJWilson]

This is the 'The Crescent' Nebula (NGC 6888) in the constellation of Cygnus.
Equipment used:
Skywatcher 80DS Pro + 0.8x Focal reducer
Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 equatorial mount
50mm guide scope + ZWO ASI120 camera
Altair Hypercam 183M Pro Tec mono camera. (-10C)
Captured using N.I.N.A.
Stacked with D.S.S. and processed using Photoshop.

Ha 15 x 300 Sec
Oiii 15 x 300 Sec
Dark frames. 15 x 300 Sec

The Crescent Nebula NGC 6888 by Neil Wilson, on Flickr

[StefanMuckenhuber]

IC342 - The hidden galaxy with IFN

Full resolution: https://www.astrobin.com/full/mzwd7d/0/

Image aquisition: Rainer Eisendle
Processing: Stefan Muckenhuber

L: 47*600
RGB: 11*600 each

Processing in Pixinsight

[PDXPat]

IC1805 and IC1848 - The Heart and Soul Nebulae
https://flic.kr/p/2k8DTQc
Copyright: Patrick Pesetti

Taken in Northern California (Bortle Class 4 - rural/suburban transition) on 14-Nov-2020.

Equipment used:

• Canon R6 with Tamron 150-600mm lens. Lens set to 200m

• 60 Light frames. 120 second exposure, ISO 800, f/5. 2 hours total.

• 32 Dark frames. 120 second exposure, ISO 800, f/5.

• iOptron Sky Guider Pro

• Initial preparation in Adobe Camera Raw (Adjusted exposure, brought down highlights, brought down temperature, lens profile correction).

• Stacked with Deep Sky Stacker

• Post-processing in Photoshop (levels, curves, selective color and de-noising).

[Jean-Baptiste Auroux]

Barnard 150 : a dancing shadow in Cepheus

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Full version : https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/lio87Es ... czOqwr.jpg

The dark nebula Barnard 150, located about 1200 light years away.
We traditionally see a "seahorse" there, but for my part I have the impression to see a moonwalk-dancer with a long cape behind him

Setup : TSA102 - AZEQ6 - CCD AtikOne6
Filters : Astronomik LRGB
L : 40 x 600s bin1
RGB : 60 x 300s bin2
Total : 11h40

28/29 May 2020
Fouras (France)

Copyright: Jean-Baptiste Auroux
https://millenniumphoton.com/
https://www.astrobin.com/users/Jean-Baptiste_Paris/

[KuriousGeorge]

Abell 370 Galaxy Cluster and The Dragon – 5 billion light years. KG Observatory, Julian CA.

https://www.astrobin.com/352w9d/B/

[AstronomyLive]

ISS and SpaceX Crew-1
https://www.youtube.com/messierhunter
Copyright: Scott Ferguson

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Equipment: 8" Meade LX200 Classic @ f/20 (2x barlow)

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K

Samsung SCB-2000 and 55mm lens (viewfinder camera for optical tracking corrections)

ISS and Resilience recorded on 11-18-2020, tracked by my open source SatTraker software (https://github.com/AstronomyLiveYt/SatTraker ). This is a single frame recorded from a 78 degree high pass that flew by Jupiter as ISS rose (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UL0y4ZF-8c ). Captured with an 8" Meade LX200 Classic in alt/az mode @ f/20 with a 2x barlow. The frame was recorded by a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K with a 1/500s exposure at ISO 25600. The video was processed in Davinci Resolve using temporal noise reduction set to 5 frames with "better" motion estimation with 100% stength on both luma and chroma channels. Spatial noise reduction was set to 20% in the luma channel and 100% in the chroma channel. Color saturation was set to 85 and a very slight single point downward bend was applied to the curves adjustment. This frame was then exported and loaded into GIMP. I then sharpened the frame using unsharp mask in GIMP (radius 3.8, amount 0.2), cropped a 1920x1080 area around ISS from the original image size of 3840x2160, and exported it.

For the rest of the video linked above, I passed the video through a frame stabilization program I wrote in Python which centers each frame on ISS based on the center of mass of the contour of ISS above a minimum brightness level. It also rejected frames where the center of ISS was farther than 80% of the radius to an edge of the frame (to eliminate frames with ISS partially off the sensor). It also performed a frame quality estimation based on the total area of ISS within the image and rejected frames where the total area was greater than the mean of a 0.5 second rolling average of area (to reduce frames where ISS was smeared by bad seeing or motor vibrations). Acceptable frames were saved to an MP4 file and included in the video with no further alterations.

[rhess]

Central region of the Pelican Nebula in the constellation Swan, with the Herbig-Haro Object 555 (HH 555).

Telescope: ASA EQ1000 f7 - ASA 1 m equatorial telescope
Location: Vega Observatory - House of Nature Salzburg, Austria
Camera: FLI Microline 16803
Exposure time: 41x7min. Luminance, 6x20min Ha, 16x7min.RGB all unbinned

Copyright: Rochus Hess

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larger resolution
http://www.astrofotografie-hess.at/ic5070.html
full resolution
http://www.astrofotografie-hess.at/asse ... _large.jpg

Website
http://www.astrofotografie-hess.at/

[AstroGabe]

The California Nebula, NGC1499.

Details:
Scope: Astro-Physics 92mm Stowaway @f/5.3
Reducer: Astro-Physics 0.8x telecompressor
Camera: ASI6200MM Pro
Guide Camera: ASI174MM Mini
Mount: Mach1 GTO
SII: 24x15min
Ha: 20x15min
OIII: 41x5min total
Software: Voyager, PHD2, APCC, Pixinsight
21.2 hrs total exposure
Imager/Processing: Gabe Shaughnessy

Astrobin for more details:
https://www.astrobin.com/7fiviz/B

https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/A-YTQsu ... sHzdbN.png

[AstroGabe]

The Andromeda Galaxy, M31.

Details:
Scope: Astro-Physics 92mm Stowaway @f/5.3
Reducer: Astro-Physics 0.8x telecompressor
Camera: ASI6200MM Pro
Guide Camera: ASI174MM Mini
Mount: Mach1 GTO
L: 92x5min
RGB: 47x5min
Ha: 17x15min
Software: Voyager, PHD2, APCC, Pixinsight
15.8 hrs total exposure
Imager/Processing: Gabe Shaughnessy

Astrobin for more details and high-res:
https://www.astrobin.com/bii2f8



https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/blYRhLQ ... RbjYxX.png

[KuriousGeorge]

NGC 2903 – A Barred Spiral Galaxy.

KG Observatory, Julian CA.

https://www.astrobin.com/ngiy6m/

[mikiclinic]

Detail of sh2-132]
This Image was taken with 20inch RC& FLI KL4040 CCD device with ASTRODON 3nm SAO filter.
(SII 150min,HA500min,O3 150min)
http://miki-hosp.or.jp/BIND/
Copyright: NOBUHIKO MIKI

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[Wissam Ayoub]

Hi,

My submission:
Spaghetti Nebula, Simeis 147, Sh2-240



Imaging lens: Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC.
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI1600MM Pro-Cool.
Mount: iOptron CEM60.
Imagining date: Nov. 19, 2020.
Frames:
Chroma 3nm Ha: 20x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Chroma 3nm OIII: 20x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Total integration: 6.7 hours
Processing: 2 days.
Location: UAE desert, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

https://flic.kr/p/2k9nve2

Copyright: Wissam Ayoub.

Thank you,

[alcarreño]

Copyrights : Raul Villaverde, Domingo Pestana and Nicolas Romo
IC405&IC410_2020 by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

We add palette SHO and SHO+RGBHalfa
IC405_IC410_NB_2020 by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

IC405_IC410_NB_RGBHalfa_2020 by Raul Villaverde, en Flickr

[felopaul]

NGC 1316

LRGB :

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full size : http://www.cielaustral.com/galerie/photo125f.jpg

done with CDK20, Moravian G4-16000 on Paramount ME2 near Actacama Desert in Chile, El Sauce Observatory

http://www.cielaustral.com
Copyright: Team CielAustral with J.C CANONNE, G.CHASSAIGNE, N.OUTTERS, P. BERNHARD, D. CHAPLAIN & L. BOURGON

[_TheHeavensDeclare]

M33 Triangulum Galaxy - True Color

Triangulum Galaxy - M33 True Color by The Heavens Declare, on Flickr

This true color, broadband image of M33 was shot at a dark sky site in Virginia, United States over the course of three nights during November 2020.

Image Details:
75x300sec at 3200 ISO
20 Dark Frames
25 Flat Frames
100 Bias Frames
-Processed in DSS and Photoshop (curves adjustment, as well as color/levels balancing)

Technical Specifications:
-Mount: Atlas EQG
-OTA: Meade LX200 10" SCT, f/6.3 focal reducer
-Imaging Camera: Rebel t7i
-Guide Scope: ZWO mini guide scope
-Guide Camera: 120mm-s mini
-Phd2 for guiding, APT for imaging