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.
Taken from the backyard. I love this target. I keep adding more integration time to it to bring out further details.
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Nice work! Have you tried star removal yet? It would be awesome on this image.
A lot unfortunately. I've got just under $20K Canadian invested. Many of the most expensive pieces (the big scope and the big mount) I was able to buy at a discount used on FB marketplace, so that saved a lot.
This was infinitely better than my first attempt at astrophotography.
You have the horsehead nebula in the upper middle/leff as well! Nice capture! This is a great start.
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.
That is excellent for an unguided capture with a non-astrophotography camera! Great work!
Yeah, I find the worse is astrobin, where you can see the pic of the day and they used a 24" PlaneWave OTA. Yikes. https://planewave.com/product/cdk24-ota/
Nice work!I want to use Siril more for processing.
Beautiful! What size SCT?
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I was trying to match the color palette of this beautiful image I saw from the Very Large Telescope project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbbell_Nebula#/media/File:M27_-_Dumbbell_Nebula.jpg
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
I captured this over 2 nights in narrowband using H and O filters. This was done using a Celestron C8 on a Sky Watcher EQ6R-Pro with an ZWO EAF, EFW and a ASI533MM Pro (Cooled) camera.
I have two William optics scopes here, a 61 and a 132. I love refractors. I am targeting the eastern veil nebula with the 61 and the iris nebula with the 132.
I took this photo in late May 2023. I used a William Optics Fluorostar 132 refractor with a ASI 6200MM Pro camera. It was a series of 100 photos which I picked the top 10%. Its the highest quality moon shot I've taken so far.
Isn't it a little close to the fence? When I built my "astronomy deck", I built it up so that I could see above the fences.