Yawning Angel

Jupiter from last night. Europa shadow transit and Callisto bottom right. 30 frames over 1 hour, looped. C11 / PlayerOne Mars II-c

Lovely images, thank you!

I recently acquired a C11 (it was ALREADY cloudy, it's not my fault!) and this is my first try at some lunar imaging. It was only a brief stop off on my way to the nearby Jupiter C11 - PlayerOne Mars-Cii - x2 powermate. 15 panel unplanned mosaic

Thank you! Cheers, its a heavy lump but very nice! Cheers! Yes, wide open at f1.4. The corner stars we're slightly T shaped, but nothing horrible I'm not disappointed, that's for sure!

During our family holiday in Wales last week, I was able to sneak off one evening to try out my shiny new Sigma 14mm f1.4 lens This is the Milky way over Bangor, shot from Beaumaris across the Menai Strait. 30 x 10sec, Sony A7iv

Thank you! Its quite eerie, like something is hiding inside

The seeing went a little in the middle. PlayerOne Mar-M / APM 107 / Quark. 1:30hrs, 120 frames

Its a busy day up there! Daystar Quark, 4 panel mosaic

Thank you Damian! I was a work day for me too, but I can run the scope from my home office 🙂

35 frames, looped. about 45mins. Quark / PlayerOne Mars-M

Having only a brief window of time (and a new lens to play with) I popped outside just long enough to grab a burst of 52 images. Taken at f/8, ISO 100, 1/125th. Sony A6400 with the 200-600G @ 600mm Loaded the RAW images into PIPP, aligned them and outputted as an SER file. The SER was then run through the usual AS!3 and Registax.

M106 and it's fuzzy companions. APM 107 / 700mm - asi1600mm - Baader filters - iOptron CEM60 150 x 120sec Luminance 60 x 120sec each RG & B 48 x 300sec Ha Total integration time 15 hours. Processed in PixInsight - The RGB was a fight, as it was captured under a full moon, but a clear night isn't something to be squandered 🙂

Thank you Olly! Now that it's against the forum pure black background that the warmth of the background looks so obvious 🫣 I had a go in Photoshop as you suggested, but didn't have any joy - it's something I'll practice and see it in action for myself. It sounds like a potent technique, especially with my Lancastrian skies! Your comment did however point me back to a simple step that I might have missed in PixInsight, which was the Background Neutralization. It seems to have helped tame the beast a little:

This is put together from 5 hours luminance, 2 hours each for RGB and 4 hours of Ha, across 3 nights, Bortle 6 and a practically full moon. I had a bit of a mare trying to tame the background, which was a mess. I used the Normalize Scale Gradients script in Pi to simplify the job, but it's had to be processed harder than I'd like. Should there be the opportunity, I'm going to re shoot the RGB subs, sans moon! APM 107x700mm / asi1600mm I love all the extra fuzzies that accompany this FOV (slight crop for composition)

Thank you!

Thank you all for the comments!

Taken on the evening of the 3rd, before starting a session of deep sky. This is from my APM 107 x 700 with a 2x Powermate and asi1600mm with filters At 2x this only just fit on the sensor! Stacked in AS!3, aligned with imPPG and processed in PixInsight, and Photoshop for cleaning up some colour fringing

Lancashire! The land where clouds settle down to retire I don't think I'd even have checked the footage if it wasn't for this alert, so thanks!! aurora23-03-23.mp4

Thank you! I know what you mean too…I’m leaving it at least for now

I hadn't noticed in the video, but the moonlight is reflecting off my house windows and lighting up the observatory walls! Even pointing so far from the full moon, there is NO ESCAPE!

Thank you! Lovely feedback 👍🏻

It's a lovely complex little knot of features. Thank you!

Yep, I love how N.I.N.A. handles them. Still freaks me out if I'm not aware it due and the mount suddenly starts slewing at full speed!

Oooh, congratulation on the new toy! Just in time for the snow 😁😁

Dreyer's Nebula - IC 2169 I though I'd finished with this for the year, as its slipping slowly toward my house roof. But in the hunt for something to shoot under the full moon, I realised I could snag some Ha APM 107x700mm / asi1600mm. Bortle 6 L = 70 x 180sec B = 19 x 300sec G = 12 x 300sec R = 12 x 300sec Ha = 44 x 300sec Total of 10hrs 45min The background is suffering a little, for which I think I need more RGB - but I'm happy with it, especially for a target I stumbled on which panning around in Stellarium 🙂 Surprise clouds! ic2169 v clouds.mp4