Yawning Angel

I have folder upon folder full of moon data and shot, but still enjoy capturing her, especially when she's not ruining the sky quality by being full 🙂

1st quarter moon from the 9th, imaged with my asi1600mm as I was moving on to deep sky straight after. Slightly mineralised

The north west of England hasn't the best reputation for clear skies and cloudless nights, so I feel quite lucky to have been able to leave the roof of the observatory open for a number of full nights while I dared go to sleep! 

The Leo Triplet. APM 107 / 700mm + asi1600mm + Baader LRGB & Ha

30 x 120 sec RG&B
30 x 240 sec Ha
60 x 120 sec Lum

Sadly, asteroid 202 Chryseis had to be cloned out, but lives on here: What was wandering through the Leo triplet? (thank you to @Astroscot2 for the find!)

Full FOV:

Crop:

NGC 3628:

M65:

M66:

2 hours ago, Astroscot2 said:

Look to be this asteroid.

Fantastic! Thank you for tracking it down for me - my first minor planet!

Here's how it manifested in the RG and B (R and B from the 8th, G on the 9th)

On the 8th of April I captured a few hours on the Leo Triplet, which when stacked had an anomaly that the rejection didn't completely remove. Assuming I had done something wrong, I looked at the subs, but couldn't spot anything awry until I Blinked the registered files and got this moving object. I'm not sure how to go about identifying it, but the evening after it was still in frame, just level with the core of the Hamburger, along the same line

25 x 2min exposures, between 2022-04-08 22-08-02 and 2022-04-08_23-03-17

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated (No, I don't think it's aliens!)

BlinkScreen.tif 

Just 700mm and with the wrong camera (asi1600mm rather than the 178), but still clearly visible - Thanks for the heads up!

4 minutes ago, Kon said:

The full image is just amazing and the 28 panels have paid off.

Thank you! It played a little better than my previous attempt 🙂

I'm clearly a glutton for punishment - another 28 panel solar mosaic. Daystar Quark - APM 107/700mm - Hypercam 174m

At least Photoshop pulled a blinder, after ICE came very close to aligning it, but messed up a couple of edges. False coloured, and composited with a 2nd stretched image to bring up some prominences

Inverted

Not Inverted

Quick grab between speeding clouds and a surprise rain shower! LRGB combine with a gentle saturation lift for the colours

15 hours ago, Owmuchonomy said:

Hi both, I was looking for the profile conversion as I recall doing that in PS, so thanks again.  I've quickly done a full disk test with Alex's method but I am familiar with the curves suggestion from Olly so will try that too.  Many thanks, Chris.

Colour success! Glad we could get to the bottom of it 🙂

40 minutes ago, ollypenrice said:

If AP has Curves then that should work

Indeed it does, so that is another way👍

I tend to use Curves to do it if I'm using PixInsight, but levels in PS or AP?! I don't have a reason for doing it that way, so I'll have to try out your method, Olly!

I wonder if it's a greyscale image. Convert it to RGB?

7 hours ago, Owmuchonomy said:

 I'm trying to false colour a mono solar image as I used to in PS using the Tint function

Aye, easier to explain with pictures of a quick and dirty process

B&W image loaded, click levels

Select the Red channel and slide the gamma left to around 0.5 (Just as a starting point)

Green channel, right to 1.2ish

Blue much further, 1.8?

Twiddle to taste, or get close then use HSL to nail it

---Or---

You can use recolour to tint it, then HSL again to fine tune:

Hope that helps 🙂

Adjustments in the right hand tray, levels

RGB gamma adjustments to suit. If it needs livening up, add a HSL level

I found it creates artefacts if you merge levels from right clicking, but is fine from the levels menu

26 minutes ago, maw lod qan said:

That is an unbelievable image!

Very kind, thank you!

8 minutes ago, Ags said:

If ICE can't stitch a whole disk, is it possible to do it hierarchically - stitch four quarters of the sun separately, then stitch the quarters together?

yes, I did this in strips then used PS to combine those

22 minutes ago, Ags said:

This picture changed my life.

Happy to oblige! 

This was with an APM 107 / 700mm, Daystar Quark Chromosphere and Altair Hypercam 174m 

39 minutes ago, TakMan said:

I've never had much luck getting Ps to stitch

Thank you! This was stitched with MS ICE, which I find can manage small areas fine, but usually throws it's toys out on full disks 🙂 (I have enough capture files to try this later)

4 panel mosaic covering AR 12978 and the surrounding activity / prom

Adding a significant amount to my earlier 1r40 on M51 taking it up to 5hrs 20min: LRGBHa 
107/700mm + asi1600mm + CEM60
L: 60 x 120sec
R: 20 x 120sec
G: 20 x 120sec
B: 20 x 120sec
Ha: 20 x 240 sec
Processed in PixInsight

100% crop

Full FOV:

On 20/03/2022 at 11:04, Nik271 said:

full frame sensor then

Argh, the bank balance!!!

3 hours ago, Stargazer33 said:

It was definitely worth it!

Thank you! It might be needed if the sun keeps putting on a show 🙂

22 minutes ago, maw lod qan said:

Oh yeah!!

😁😁

9 hours ago, WestCoastCannuck said:

Nice!   I like the colour. 

Thanks Mike!

Had another crack at this, and improved the colour I think. 

100% crop

Full FOV

3hr 40min LRGB with a full moon. No sign of the faint tidal stream that accompanies it - I suspect that needs darker skies than my Bortle 6 / moon wash to tease out

asi1600mm / APM107

100% crop

Full FOV

8 hours ago, Kon said:

worth the effort!

Thank you! 

7 hours ago, Craney said:

amazingly detailed

Cheers! 👍🏻