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I find that the app "Clear Outside" is accurate 9/10 times... down to the hour in my location... there are times where Clear Outside was showing cloudy than clear at a certain time and it might have not happened at the time shown, but 2 hours later, it was clear... I recommend to give it a go, out of all of the forecasts I experienced, there is no such thing as perfectly accurate forecast (unless you're a lefty and can forecast 100 year in the future.. apparently) this one was most reliable.
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From the album: Deep Sky Imaging
A emission nebula in Orion 1350LY away known as the "Flame" Nebula (NGC 2024)... image reprocessed from my old data taken in December 2021 and January 2022. This object would have been perfect for such a short exposure time at this f-ratio if not for the reflection rings caused by the bright star, "Alnitak" reflecting of the corrector plate... as are very obviously visible here and were bright enough to be distracting in my first version photo of the "Flame". This image is a compilation of the channels which had the least amount of reflections visible, in this case the channels were the luminance, red, green and Hydrogen Beta used as blue. The data for this image was exposed on multiple nights between 14th December 2021 and 28th January 2022. The total integration time for the signal used in this photo Luminance, Red, Green and H-Beta was 6 hours and 20 minutes. Image taken through a Celestron 8" SCT at f10 (2032mm focal length) using a QHY268M astronomy camera on a CGEM mount.© Mariusz Goralski
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Collection of my Deep Space objects. These images have been take through a 8" SCT, 80mm refractor or various lenses using a full spectrum modded and cooled Canon 40D or a QHY268M ColdMOS astro camera (as stated in the description of each photo).
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From the album: Deep Sky Imaging
Located in the constellation "Puppis", the "Skull & Crossbones" nebula (NGC2467) reprocessed as SHO, Hubble palette style, narrowband image with natural colour stars with the extra 10 hours of signal integration time used in the HOO version of this object. This object was imaged in narrowband across multiple nights. The total integration time was 27 hours and 58 minutes for all three narrowband, Sulfur II, Hydrogen Alpha, Oxygen III filters and Red, Green and Blue wideband filters for the natural colour stars. Exposed through a C8 SCT at f6.3 with a QHY268M camera cooled to -5°C. Software used to capture, stack and process this image was APT 4.42, PHD 2.6.13, DSS 5.1.5, Siril 1.2.1 and Photoshop.© Mariusz Goralski
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From the album: Deep Sky Imaging
The "Skull & Crossbones" nebula (NGC2467) located in the constellation "Puppis". This object was imaged in narrowband and natural color RGB across multiple nights... image consist of a combination of HOO+SII with RGB Stars. The total integration time was 27 hours and 58 minutes for all three narrowband filters, Sulfur II, Hydrogen Alpha, Oxygen III, Red, Green and Blue through a C8 SCT at f6.3 with a QHY268M camera cooled to -5°C.© Mariusz Goralski
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SHO Skull & Crossbones Nebula in Puppis - (March 2024)
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SHO Skull & Crossbones Nebula in Puppis - (March 2024)
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From the album: Deep Sky Imaging
The "Skull & Crossbones" nebula (NGC2467) located in the constellation "Puppis". This object was imaged in narrowband across multiple nights. The total integration time was 18 hours and 40 minutes for all three narrowband filters, Sulfur II, Hydrogen Alpha and Oxygen III, through a C8 SCT at f6.3 with a QHY268M camera cooled to -5°C.© Mariusz Goralski
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Planet & Solar System Images taken through a 8" SCT using various cameras and barlow lens combinations as stated in the description of each photo.
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From the album: Solar System Objects
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You're not the first to point out the orientation of Orion... I did image this from Australia, so kept the orientation in the way it's visible down here...- 2 comments
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From the album: Deep Sky Imaging
A widefield three plate mosaic image of the constellation Orion. Imaged in natural color with added Hα and OIII narrowband to the LRGB data. Orion is easily identifiable in the sky between November and February, but long exposure photography reveals the immense amount of nebulosity within that is hidden from view. Exposed between 23 November and 28 December 2022 using a stock Canon 40D DSLR for the color data and a QHY 268M mono camera for the HAlpha, OIII and luminance signal through a 80-400mm f4 lens set at 80mm. Exposures Plate 1: DSLR RGB:17x60s, 17x120s, 17x180s @ ISO1600, Ha:18x300s & 15x180s @ HCG:62/OFS:25 (3h57m) Exposures Plate 2: DSLR RGB:18x60s, 18x120s, 17x180s @ ISO1600, Ha:18x300s & 12x180s @ HCG:62/OFS:25 (3h51m) Exposures Plate 3: DSLR RGB:17x60s, 17x120s, 17x180s @ ISO1600, OIII:6x180s, Ha:14x300s & 9x180s @ HCG:62/OFS:25 (3h37m) Exposure Time was 11 hours and 25 minutes.© Mariusz Goralski
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From the album: Deep Sky Imaging
This is an image of a not popular and rarely imaged and very faint nebula located almost exactly in between Alpha and Beta Centauri making it a deep southern sky object. Another batch of data I had on the HDD that I didn't process exposed during last July. I came across this uncommon and unpopular object on a post when searching for a new object to image but researching this object did not result in too much information other than it is a rarely imaged emission nebula in the constellation ”Centaurus”. It’s labeled as ”The Devils Tower”, resembling the "Devil's Tower National Monument" in the USA. This nebula is about 6000 light year away and it is number 85 in the RCW (Rodgers, Campbell & Whiteoak) catalog… which is an astronomical catalogue or Hα-emission regions in the southern Milky Way. This image was exposed with a QHY268M through a simple doublet 80mm refractor (at 500mm focal length) between 12-22 July 2023. The total integration time was 38 hours and 40 minutes of subs in Hα, OIII and SII narrowband with LRGB wideband color. This photo consists of 61 x 300s of Luminance and 21x120s of Red, 21x180s of Green and 20x300s of Blue wideband subs with most of the signal picked up through the narrowband filters consisting of 49x600 of Hα, 46x900 of SII, 42x900 of OIII subs. Software used to capture and stack this image was APT 4.26, PHD 2.6.11 and DSS 5.1.3.© Mariusz Goralski
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Flocculent Intermediate Spiral Galaxy in Leo - NGC3521
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From the album: Deep Sky Imaging
Flocculent Intermediate Spiral Galaxy in Leo, NGC3521, located around 26 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Leo. I imaged this galaxy almost a year ago and did not have a chance to process the data until now... having nights which seem to be permanently cloudy allowed me time to do some house keeping with data exposed in the past and occasionally come across unfinished projects. This is my second attempt at this galaxy as my previous year's result was very soft with bloated stars... and even though this year's result is a slight improvement, I think that it's still far from perfect. This galaxy is a difficult object to image because it is engulfed in a thick dusty haze which shifts the natural color of this galaxy toward red, making it look orange and this dust also seems to be softening the finer details. Imaged using a 8" SCT at f6.3 (1280mm focal length), with a QHY268M camera on a HyperTuned CGEM mount for a total integration time of 31 hours and 25 minutes. Software used to capture and stack this image was APT 4.01, PHD 2.6.11 and DSS 5.1.3.© Mariusz Goralski
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From the album: Solar System Objects
Processed data I captured 2 months ago and forgot all about it... AND this is very likely my last image of Jupiter from this years Jovian opposition season as I'm itching to get back to DSO imaging. Weather, once again, is looking very poor for astronomy for at least the next week, it might be that by the time it clears up and I get excellent planetary seeing conditions, we will have moved well away from Jupiter, enough to keep me from imaging it... of course I'll be imaging Jupiter one more time if I get a clear night in a high pressure lobe, with almost no atmospheric turbulence and a seeing detail level of around 0.5 arc-sec forecast in "meteoblue".© Mariusz Goralski
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From the album: Solar System Objects
At last I had an opportunity to spend time in the observatory after a 6 week hiatus... and the seeing was quite good with a large, sharp, contrasty and detailed Jupiter in the eyepiece magnified up to 290X... I couldn't have a view like that and end my astronomy session without Jupiter being photographed. This is Jupiter in LRGB from 10 November 2023 @ 13:34 UTC... 11 November at 34 minutes past midnight local time. Imaged with a Celestron C8, ZWO120MM mini for Luminance & Skyris 618C for color data.© Mariusz Goralski
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From the album: Solar System Objects
This is the first quarter Moon imaged in LRGB natural color with cropped sections from the full 48 megapixel resolution image. It's been a quite while since I imaged the full disc of the Moon without an event such as a lunar eclipse so it was time to photograph it again with my current, and updated from last time, equipment... resulting in my most detailed photograph of the moon that I have ever taken. Imaged with a QHY268M through a C8 SCT at f6.3 to fit the full disc of the moon into the frame. 150% Drizzle stacked the sharpest 15% of the frames from a 300 second luminance video, and 60 second videos for each of the red, green and blue channels captured at 6.8fps. Shutter speed was 10ms for Luma and 20ms through each of the color filters. Captured with FireCapture 2.7.13, stacked in Autostakkert 3.1.4 64bit (needed 64bit for the amount of >4Gb RAM needed to process the data) and Registax 6. -
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Saturn with moons (left to right) Tethys, Dione and Rhea, imaged during a night of great seeing with a Celestron C8 SCT.© Mariusz Goralski
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A Star Formation Region East of the Lagoon Nebula - SHO (Hubble Palette)
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From the album: Deep Sky Imaging
My last image of the Star Formation Region East of the "Lagoon" Nebula from all of my exposed data. This image is a Hubble Palette style narrowband color image (SHO) located in the Sagittarius constellation. Also known as the "Chinese Dragon" nebula because of the small dark nebula in NGC6559 resembling the shape of a Chinese Dragon but to me it looks more like a "Thanos" fist. This image was taken through a doublet 80mm refractor (at 500mm focal length) on multiple nights between 26 July and 10 August 2023. The total integration time was 18 hours and 10 minutes of 37x600 of Hα, 24x900 of SII and 36x900 of OIII subs. Software used to capture and stack this image was APT 4.26, PHD 2.6.11 and DSS 5.1.3.© Mariusz Goralski
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WR 134 and the Ring Nebula - the power of progress!
MarsG76 replied to Yoddha's topic in Imaging - Deep Sky
That is a fantastic image.... to answer your question of where we'll be in 6 years?... I suspect up to APT version 7.2... Full AI integration 😉 -
A Star Formation Region East of the Lagoon Nebula - SIIHaOIIIHbLRGB
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From the album: Deep Sky Imaging
Narrowband and natural color image of a star forming region east of the Lagoon nebula in the Sagittarius constellation. Also known as the "Chinese Dragon" nebula because of the small dark nebula in NGC6559 resembling the shape of a Chinese Dragon. This image was taken through a doublet 80mm refractor (at 500mm focal length) on multiple nights between 26 July until 16 August 2023. The total integration time was 31 hours and 15 minutes of 57x300s of Luminance, 30x120s of Red, 30x120s of Green, 40x120s of Blue, 37x600 of Hα, 24x900 of SII, 36x900 of OIII and 30x600 of Hβ subs.© Mariusz Goralski
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A Star Formation Region East of the Lagoon Nebula - RGB
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From the album: Deep Sky Imaging
Natural color image of a star forming region east of the Lagoon nebula in the Sagittarius constellation. Also known as the "Chinese Dragon" nebula because of the small dark nebula in NGC6559 resembling the shape of a Chinese Dragon. This image was taken with a QHY268M through a doublet 80mm refractor (at 500mm focal length) between 10-16 August 2023. The total integration time was only 3 hours and 20 minutes of subs, Red (30x120s), Green (30x120s) & Blue (40x120s) subs.© Mariusz Goralski
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From the album: Deep Sky Imaging
The "Eagle" nebula (M16/NGC6611) in the constellation Serpens is also known as the "Star Queen" Nebula and contains a segment known as "The Spire". Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the center of the nebula, the area which was made famous by the 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image known as as the "Pillars of Creation". This image was exposed with a QHY268M through a simple doublet 80mm refractor (at 500mm focal length) as a secondary project during the mornings between 12-24 July 2023 to take advantage of the couple of hours of the night sky after the primary imaged object drifted out of the line of sight. The total integration time was 14 hours and 10 minutes of subs, SII (26x600s), Hα (11x600s) & OIII (20x600s) subs with added 21 subs of 300 second of Luminance, 30x60 second red channel subs, 29x120 second green channel subs and 29x180 second blue channel subs for the star color data.© Mariusz Goralski
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From the album: Deep Sky Imaging
The "Eagle" nebula (M16/NGC6611) in the constellation Serpens is also known as the "Star Queen" Nebula and contains a segment known as "The Spire". Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the center of the nebula, the area which was made famous by the 1995 Hubble Space Telescope image known as as the "Pillars of Creation". This image was exposed with a QHY268M through a simple doublet 80mm refractor (at 500mm focal length) as a secondary project during the mornings between 12-24 July 2023 to take advantage of the couple of hours of the night sky after the primary imaged object drifted out of the line of sight. The total integration time was 9 hours and 50 minutes of subs, 21 subs of 300 second for Luminance, 30 x 60 second subs for the red channel, 29 x 120 second subs for the green channel and 29 x 180 second subs for the blue channel, with aded colorized data of Hα (11x600s) & OIII (20x600s) subs.© Mariusz Goralski
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From the album: Deep Sky Imaging
Messier 55 (also known as NGC 6809) is a globular cluster in the south of the constellation Sagittarius about 17,600 light-years away from Earth. This image was exposed through a 80mm f6.3 refracting telescope with a QHY268M camera. The total integration time for this image through all of the LRGB filters was 3 hours and 50 minutes. Exposures: L:32x300s, R:25x60s G:25x120s B:25x180s @ HCG:62/OFS:25© Mariusz Goralski
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The answer to your frustration is a permanent setup... ever since I built a mini observatory that takes me literally minutes to start astronomy, you'll be able to take advantage of every moment of clarity... when theres a break in the clouds, open up and you're looking up.. if the clouds return, shutdown is just as fast... no setup and pulldown frustration or guess work...
