astrophotography

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.

Photo taken on a Canon t5i using a Sigma 150-600mm lens.

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Have been using a William Optics GT71 refractor since 2017. Nice scope, but despite tweaking the flattener / reducer and post processing the heck out of the subframes, I never was amazed by the crispness of the stars nor the flatness across the whole frame. I’d seen images posted on astrobin and elsewhere from newer astrograph...

First try of shooting Andromeda. The picture is more of an art image as I added a tilt shift effect....

Thought I'd share my first image in a while! NGC 6823 has sooo much going on and looks great in both RGB and Narrowband. I went for Foraxx here, with RGB stars. Desperately needed more O3 - I lost 80% of my subs due to high haze. I had to stretch it within an inch of its life!...

Taken from the backyard. I love this target. I keep adding more integration time to it to bring out further details.

Taken from a Colorado backyard on a Vespera telescope. About 30 minutes exposure.

Hi all. I set this up quickly in frustration of reddit, and I still have not returned to the site sinces Spez's Elon-fuelled tirade....

Pressure treated 2x4s, fourteen sides, two of which are a door. Bolted into a ton of concrete. About to put the sides on. No pier, just a place to keep the tripod in a stable location to cut down on setup time. Top rail is level and smooth, but not sure yet if I’ll have the dome rotate, or just have removable sections.

2000x1500pxls. One of my last unguided images with a WO GT71 and Fujifilm XT20, before springing big bucks for an ASIAIR and an ASI183MC Pro, along with a guider. 2.5 hours of 30s subs. SIRIL and GIMP.

shot on a pixel 7 pro, with a half second exposure.

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.

This is my first ever attempt at an astro image and I thought why not share it here....

45 minutes unguided with Fujifilm XT20 camera through a WO GT71 with reducer/flattener on a CEM26. Siril and Gimp.

Back in the days when I had a smaller GT71 refractor, unguided, a Fujifilm XT20 DSLR, and just did 20-45 minute integrations of 30-60 second subs using Siril and GIMP for postprocessing.

This was my first composition using my upgraded mount - an Orion EQ-G, shot several years ago. A bit of optical train artifacts on the brightest star in this field - this kind of artifact is a difficult one to suppress on particularity bright stars week my SCT/hyperstar setup

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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 but 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....

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.