Submissions: 2023 October

[starsoverbucks]

Annular Eclipse Oct 14 2023. Image taken from Kerrville Texas.
Details
Sigma 150-600mm lens @ 600mm
Canon Eos R6 Mkii
Thousand Oaks Solar Filter
Star Adventurer Pro mount
1/10s exposure at ISO 4000 to intentionally overexpose to create Ring of Fire effect

[Guest]

An eclipsed sun in a blue sky by Agostinho Gomes da Silva, no Flickr

[andrea_girones]

The Bumps on the Sun and the Moon

Shortly before second contact during an Annular eclipse the opposing horns of the slender solar crescent begin to converge on one another. As they do so, bits of the solar atmosphere can be seen against the dark sky passing along the edges of the Moon. Neither the Moon, with its craters and mountains, nor the Sun with its solar storms and prominences is a smooth and perfect disk.
As seen in the left solar ring image, two small solar prominences located in a perfect spot, accentuated the Baileys' Beads effect just before second contact and the beginning of annularity.

Shot October 14th 2023 from Albuquerque New Mexico with a Lunt 40mm Solar H alpha scope and an ASI174MM camera tracked on a star tracker. The solar disk was processed inverted to show greater chromospheric detail.

Andrea Girones

Rings of the Sun by Andrea Girones, on Flickr

[andrea_girones]

The Moment Before Annularity
This image shot with a dedicated H Alpha solar telescope, captured a moment filled with great anticipation. After a questionable forecast all week the morning of October14th, 2023 turned out to be spectacularly clear and crisp .
My image was taken in Albuquerque New Mexico with a dedicated H alpha solar telescope so as to capture the chromospheric detail on the sun.
This is the moment before the Moon centered itself on the the face of the Sun for a full "Ring of Fire" effect typical of an annular eclipse. Dramatic solar prominences and sunspots are all visible in the chromosphere.

Shot under lovely New Mexican skies in Albuquerque on October 14th 2023.

Lunt 40mm scope and the ASI 174MM camera and tracked on a star adventurere tracker. The solar disk is processed invereted so as to increase the detail on the sun.
Andrea Gironesannular just before copy by Andrea Girones, on Flickr

[isultan]

Heart and Soul Nebulae

This is a widefield view of the Heart and Soul Nebulae in the constellation Cassiopeia. Captured from Bortle Class 8-9 city skies over three nights in dual narrowband (H-alpha and O III).

164x300 sec

Equipment:
ZWO ASI533MC Pro
Samyang 135mm f/2
Optolong L-Ultimate 2" filter
Star Adventurer GTi, ZWO 30mm f/4 guidescope, ASI120MM Mini guidecamera, ASIAIR Pro

Processing:
Astro Pixel Processor, PixInsight (incl. BlurXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator, Bill Blanshan Narrowband Normalization scripts), StarNet v2, Adobe Photoshop

Location: Des Plaines, Illinois
Dates: 9/30-10/2 2023
Copyright: Imran Sultan

[rkas12]

LBN 917 & its friends - or "The Forgotten Nebulae" - as I like to call it.

Why the "Forgotten Nebulae" you may ask ? Simply because these nebulae are located very close to M42 or IC 2118 - Two very famous targets imaged by astrophotographers. On the other hand, LBN 917 and its "neighbours" are rarely imaged. Hence the naming.

Copyright & acquisitions details:
@ae_astrophotons
Imaged in LRGB with my epsilon 160 ed
Integration time : 24h
El Saube Observatory, Chile

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/532 ... a9ee_h.jpg

[Richardwhitehead]

WR134 Wolf-Rayet star Nebula in Cygnus
Shot from Hinesburg, VT, USA

[Kinch]

Andromeda Galaxy

Click on above to enlarge.

Full info & higher resolution available @ https://www.kinchastro.com/andromeda-galaxy-2022.html

[Harles99]

NGC 891 and Abell 347 Galaxy Cluster

NGC 891 is an edge on spiral galaxy that is 100,000 light years across and is approximately 30 million light years away. Just above the galaxy is the Abell 347 Galaxy Cluster. Abell 347 is a galaxy cluster with multiple galaxies but is approximately 240million light years away!


Shot on a ZWO ASI 2600MC DUO
TS Optics 90mm CF APO F6 Refractor
Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro Mount
Exposure 85x300"
Bortle 2 location - Weston Colorado.

Edited in Pixinsight & Photoshop (minor color tweaks)

©NebulosityMedia2023

NGC 891 and Abell 347 Galaxy Cluster by Harley Grady, on Flickr

[Chris Peterson]

Annular Eclipse
Beginning to end in 5-minute increments. Right on the centerline south of Farmington, NM.

Details:
Canon 7D camera on a Stellarvue FS102, iOptron CEM25P mount
ISO 100, 1/2000 sec exposures
Processed with Photoshop
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[tommy_h]

Sh2-64 or Westerhout 40
http://www.distant-lights.at/sh2-64-2018_07_01.htm
Copyright: Thomas Henne

[Wolfgang]

VDB38
https://www.astrobin.com/82thle/
Copyright: Wolfgang Promper

[Wolfgang]

ARP295
https://www.astrobin.com/ibp6ul/
Copyright: Wolfgang Promper

[KuriousGeorge]

Sculptor Galaxy. KG Observatory, Julian, CA.

https://www.astrobin.com/gf7mmb/D/

[KuriousGeorge]

A Young Barium Star Surrounded by a Ringlike Planetary Nebula (WeBo 1). KG Observatory, Julian, CA.

https://www.astrobin.com/7nopda/

[zombi]

LBN 550 - Dark Nebulas of Cepheus


LBN 550 - Dark Nebulas of Cepheus by .zombi., on Flickr

Imaging telescopes: Takahashi FSQ-106EDXIII
Imaging cameras: Moravian G3-16200EC
Accessories: Reducer-QE 0.73X
Mounts: Sky-Watcher NEQ6-Pro
Software: N.I.N.A. · PixInsight · Adobe Photoshop

Frames:
Baader Blue (B-CCD) 50 mm: 10×180″(30′)
Baader Green (G-CCD) 50 mm: 10×120″(20′)
Baader Red (R-CCD) 50 mm: 10×120″(20′)
Baader UV/IR Cut / Luminance 50 mm: 38×600″(6h 20′)

Photographic technique: LRGB

Integration: 7h 30′
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 3/4

Location: Borchów
Dates: September 14-16, 2023

Description:
Picture taken in September during starparty.

Image Credit & Copyright: Przemysław Ząbczyk

Links:
http://www.astrobin.com/users/zombi/
https://www.astropolis.pl/tags/zombi/

[george9]

Moon approaching the Sun before first contact of the annular eclipse as seen in a 50mm homemade coronagraph from Comb Ridge in southeast Utah, October 14, 2023 at 9:08am local time (15:08UT). South is up. On the right is the Sun behind the cone of the coronagraph. On the left is the Moon in front of the solar E-corona (5303 Angstroms). The Moon is grey instead of black due to atmospheric scatter of the sunlight.

Here is a montage of images of the Moon approaching and covering the Sun, with times labeled as UT. The last image is minutes before second contact.

https://solarchatforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=42971


George

[tommasostella]

The "Seahorse" nebula (LDN 1082 or B 150)
Author: Tommaso Stella
From: Italy (Stigliano)
Total integration: 10.4 hours
web:https://www.facebook.com/tommaso.m.stella
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Technical details:
2023-07-14,15 Stigliano (MT) Italy, SQM 21.2
L:128x300s, Optolong LCCD, Newton SW 250 Quattro, SW AZEQ6GT, Omegon VeTec571C

[andrea_girones]

The Mountain, The Desert and The Sun.

The Mountain, the Desert and the Sun by Andrea Girones, on Flickr
The magnificent New Mexican high desert
At the base of the Sandia mountains in east Albuquerque I met up with my lovely STELA group for our Eclipse fiesta. This was a long planned image made possible by our lovely hosts, the Armijo family, in Albuquerque

This is a composite of unfiltered sky images shot at dawn and filtered images of the sun taken in 3 minutes (roughly) intervals over the next 3 hours. Because the sun was going to rise so high finding a foreground was challenging and the mountains were a perfect solution. Additionally in order to get the whole path in one frame I would have to use a very wide lens and thus have a very small sun.

So instead I shot a 3 panel mosaic/pano for the sun. I used a crop sensor camera, and a zoom lens at 32mm ( roughly equivalent to a 50mm lens on a full frame camera) on a fixed tripod in portrait mode. I set alarms and 2x during the eclipse I rotated the camera slightly westward to keep the sun in the frame. My sun is bigger but it took more work to align up the suns in post processing. The sun images were shot on a non-tracking tripod so you can see the rotation of the moon across the face of the sun.

The Foreground was shot as a 3 rows/5 image panorama as I wanted LOTS of sky. The FG images were shot slightly to the left of the Sun images to get the house out off the frame. But the alignment remained consistent with the mountains.

Shot October 14th 2023 9:10 am to 12:09
Albuquerque NW
Nikon D7000 32MM lens ISO 100 F/6.3 Exposure 1/2500 to 1/1000
Baader 5 Solar film Filter
FG 3x5. panorama unfiltered
Sky 3x1 mosaic

[andrea_girones]

Bailey's Beads At Second and Third Contact

Bailey's Beads Second and Third Contacts by Andrea Girones, on Flickr
In an annular eclipse as the moon approaches second and third contact, the horns of the crescent sun start to converge.
Whisps of the bright sun can be seen between the caves and crevasses of the moon, an effect known as “Bailey’s beads” .
Normally this is a total eclipse phenomenon, but not always…

Between the horns of each ring, you can see the beads although some well placed solar prominences helped to light them up.

Shot with a Lunt 40mm solar scope and aan ASI174MM camera, tracking on a Skywatcher Star Adventurer under the beautiful New Mexican skies October 14th 2023. The Sun was processed inverted.

[Ayiomamitis]

Tiangong Transits the Sun (2023)
http://www.perseus.gr
Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis

My second solar transit opportunity by the Chinese Space Station Tiangong in less than two months but now at a range of 1026 km and with the Sun only 18 degrees above the horizon. Further details at https://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Sat-Trans-2023-10-21.htm .

[MrRat]

SH2-132 taken from my bortle 4 backyard in Hartford, AL, USA. 75 shots at 300 seconds each taken with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount. The last set of images were taken Oct. 15th, 2023.

[SantiRoHe]

vdB152, LDN1217,LBN538,DeHt5,SNR110.3+11.3

From Torroja del Priorat (Spain)
Esprit 120 + reductor aplanador F:640mm
ZWO ASI 2600MC,
12x300s (Gain 100, Offset 50... tª-5ºC) L-extrem (1h)
Without filter... 133x180s (6h 39m) (Gain 0, Offset 50, tª -5ºC)

Image43d6_2500x1662 by Santi Rodríguez Hernández, en Flickr

[Wolfgang]

NGC5367
Copyright: Wolfgang Promper
https://www.astrobin.com/2r4s2c/

[astrosama]

Orionid Meteor Shower Over the Black Desert Egypt

This photo is a Panorama of the winter constellations with the Orionid's Meteor Shower over the Black Desert of inside the western Egyptian desert

Orionid's Meteor Shower Over the Black Desert Egypt by osama Fathi, on Flickr

Location : Black Desert, Egypt
20-21 Oct 2023

Bortle 2

Gears:
Nikon z6 Mod
Sigma 28-70
Nikkor 14-24 mm
Skywatcher Staradventurer 2i

Exif:
Sky (tracked Pano) : 9 (3 rows, 3 columns) 180 sec, iso 800, f2.8
Meteors : 1500, 10 Sec, Iso 10000, F2.8 @24 mm
Foreground: 1/20 sec, Iso 1000, f2.8 at the blue hour

Credit
Osama Fathi
Social:
https://www.instagram.com/osama.fathi.nswatcher85/
https://www.facebook.com/NSWatcher/

Black Desert , Egypt