Yawning Angel

Thanks! It doesn’t look like I’ll be adding to it any time soon 🤪❄️ 

Last time I tried this, I managed a handful of minutes of Ha, then the weather said "nope" for so long, I moved elsewhere.

Take 2 is getting there, with Ha and Oii but without any significant Sii contribution (for now). Once I have a full set as a first pass, I'll most likely try and rerun the set to double up on exposure time

Captured in IR-RGB around 5pm on Christmas eve. I hope everyone has a splendid holiday, however you are able to spend it

5 minutes ago, Skipper Billy said:

Thank You

You’re welcome, and what a cracking shot!

Thank you all for the kind comments!

Good old M42, 1hr 17mins with an Evostar80 / asi1600mm @ 510mm and unity gain. Ha / Oiii / Sii

Hubble(ish) palette in PixInsight, which didn’t seem too common a style for this target 🤔

Our constant nemesis 'clouds' where fighting to stop me, but with several breaks I grabbed just enough subs to make something presentable. 

30 x 1min Ha, 30 x 1min Oiii and just 17 x 1min Sii (clouds won the battle on that one!). Darks, but no flats yet! Hopefully I can add to this in the near future...I haven't offended the sky by buying any astronomy kit in ages, so fingers crossed!

SW80ED / asi1600mm

Since we're swathed in cloud, anyone who'd like a crack at this data can download it and have a play : Google drive - 12gb!

Folder contains the RGB and IR (ProPlanet 642 bp) raw SER files. 

Have fun! It'd be awesome so see other peoples results!

A lovely natural appearance! I’d be very please with that, bravo!

A happy accident, from the looks of that! Did you ever let it analyse the full 1000?

I'm surprised this has slipped passed without comment. What a wonderful image to scroll through! The Montes Alpes / Vallis Alpes area is especially striking, well done!

If AS!3 is giving you a hard time, could you try AS!3, under WINE? You might also get Microsoft ICE running for the mosaicking

Love in! Especially the colour treatment!

A very nice image! Thank you for sharing 

A tricky shot to pull off, well done!

A big thank you to everyone for their kind comments. It's a great boost and really appreciated!

This is a 2 panel mosaic of the full beaver / frosty moon. My asi178mm giving a little bit more than the asi1600 earlier. 

Kind of you to say, Steve. Thank you!

This time I set up to do something other than the moon (and the scope is doing that job as I type). However, with such a glorious face on, I had to point her way briefly

asi1600mm, L 25% of 1000 and RGB 25% of 500 each

Any time! I’m looking forward to your results 👍🏻

57 minutes ago, Skipper Billy said:

That's amazing!

Thank you!

Gear etc:

Skywatcher 80ED, ZWO 178mm, ZWO RGB filters and Astronomik ProPlanet 642 BP. This was purely RGB. 500 frame per filter. Between 50 and 100 gain and exposure time as low as possible, these 3.5ms for red, and green and 5ms for blue. I try to keep the histogram down around 65%, to stop the bright white crater rims from blowing out. Capture in Sharpcap

In AS!3, I used a stack percentage is based off the quality graph, I try to stack only the frames above 70% (roughly, by eye). For this resolution I used an 88 point size, but I tick multiscale as it seems to perform better on the darker areas

After AS13 I do a gentle wavelets in Registax, being careful of the highlights again. From there I use imgPPG to align the frames, RGB combine in Pi, and for this I allowed the green as luminance too, as it was the most detailed

Balance the colour in curves then into Photoshop for the Camera Raw plugin, which is awesome!

I headed out with the intention of hitting M45. Yeah, the north of England cares not for my plans. Never mind, since the clouds where broken and moving on I pointed at the glowing lightbulb instead!

I still ended up with a bit of a fight with the weather. The first try was rudely interrupted by rain before I could snag a blue channel! A little while later and a clear patch giving this jewel hanging in the inky black:

That is glorious in 'big'! Well done!

Surviving an initial showering out of nowhere, the moment I opened up the obs, I was able to grab about 20 minutes of scope time before the blanket was drawn back over the sky

Skywatcher 80ED / iOptron CEM60 / ZWO asi178mm
RGB with IR as R.
50% stacked of 1000 frames each channel

Click for the full view:

Detail:

A bit of a cloudy start on Tuesday, and I nearly packed up. However, since I was in an online group chat with a few mates, I hung about in the observatory, and boy was I glad I did!

Skywatcher 80ED, asi178mm and Baader RG and B filters. Sesto Senso 2 focuser. 75% of 500 stacked, 2 panel mosaic. Click for the full size

Workflow: Sharpcap -> AS!3 -> Registax -> Microsoft ICE -> PixInsight -> Photoshop

6 hours ago, Ade Turner said:

Just a bit! 😬 Using SkyPortal on my iPad the date, time and location are always current, so maybe not that unless they can clash somehow?

I’d certainly make sure the handset is correct. You might also check the official teamcelestron forum (free to join) for beta firmware