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  1. Thank you! I am actually thinking of doing the Triangulum in full narrowband at some point. Hoping to put my Orion Optics CT8 and the ASI294MM into play soon because with this combination, M33 is filling up the whole image and the nebulae inside it should come out really nice. Emil
  2. Thank you Dave. It's not too bad when the target is high in the sky. I originally planned a LRGB photo but just when I finished with them, someone posted a HaOiiiLRGB photo that looked so good and I thought I should give it a try and see what comes out of it. It's nothing compared to the photo that I saw but the guy was using an f2.3 scope under bortle 3 skies so I can't really complain. Emil
  3. Well, here's something I've never done before. Tough target for my f6.5 scope under suburban skies. Took me a while and I think it could be much better with some more data shot under dark skies but overall I'm happy with it. 55 hours and 50 minutes Barnard 11 and Barnard 13 are dark nebulae in the constellation Camelopardalis, located in the south of this constellation. The nebulae are part of the Southern Giraffe Clouds. Also, in this photo, you can see the following nebulae: LDN 1399, LDN 1400, LDN 1401, LDN 1402, LDN 1404 and LDN 1408. The image is illuminated by the Hydrogen-Alpha signal shown as the red background. I had an attempt to capture some of the extremely faint Oiii signal too (shown in blue in the lower right and center part of the image) but even after 100 x 600sec exposures I didn't get any structure in the fillaments. Mount: StellarDrive GT6 AstroTech 106LE f6.5 with upgraded Moonlite focuser TSFlat 2" field flattener ASI294MM Pro Cmos camera, cooled at - 15°C 8x1.25" ZWO USB filterwheel Chroma 1.25" RGB, Chroma 1.25" LoGlow filter and Chroma 1.25" 3nm Ha and Oiii filters Qhyccd QHY5L-IIM guide camera OpticStar AR90 as guidescope Chroma Blue 1.25": 50×180″(2h 30′) Chroma Green 1.25": 50×180″(2h 30′) Chroma H-alpha 3nm Bandpass 1.25": 100×600″(16h 40′) Chroma LoGlow Light Pollution 1.25": 300×180″(15h) Chroma OIII 3nm Bandpass 1.25": 100×600″(16h 40′) Chroma Red 1.25": 50×180″(2h 30′) Emil
  4. I love this little galaxy, it looks so much like M33 with all the star formation regions. I don't have a big scope for a closer look and increased detail but I hoped that drizzle x2 will help me crop the image without loosing out too much. Here's NGC2403 or Cadwell 7, a galaxy in Camelopardalis that I've been wanting to image for a long time. I was very lucky to have a week of good weather in January and this allowed me to gather 26 hours and 40 minutes of data. I was hoping for a little more Oiii for the star formation regions but it looks like the little amount that I shot was enough to give me a little bit of blue. Mount: StellarDrive GT6 AstroTech 106LE with upgraded Moonlite focuser TSFlat 2" field flattener ASI294MM Pro Cmos camera, cooled at - 15°C 8x1.25" ZWO USB filterwheel Chroma 1.25"Lo-Glow, RGB and Chroma 1.25" 3nm HO filters Qhyccd QHY5L-IIM guide camera OpticStar AR90 as guidescope Chroma Blue 1.25": 60×180″(3h) bin 2×2 Chroma Green 1.25": 60×180″(3h) bin 2×2 Chroma H-alpha 3nm Bandpass 1.25": 45×600″(7h 30′) bin 1×1 Chroma LoGlow Light Pollution 1.25": 100×300″(8h 20′) bin 1×1 Chroma OIII 3nm Bandpass 1.25": 11×600″(1h 50′) bin 1×1 Chroma Red 1.25": 60×180″(3h) bin 2×2 I hope you like it! Emil
  5. I miss the good old times when I was only using an astromodified DSLR and a very good modified 200p telescope. I was shooting 900sec without problems and everything was very simple and easy. I wasn't even using PHD2 for guiding, I was only using a Lacerta Mgen II but it worked. The nostalgia made me return to the data shot in 2017. I might go back to other targets shot back then. Equipment Imaging Telescopes: Sky-Watcher Explorer 200P Imaging Cameras: Canon EOS 700D / Rebel T5i / Kiss X7i (modified) Mounts: DarkFrame Optics Stellardrive 6 (N/EQ6) Filters: IDAS LPS-D1 EOS APS-C Accessories: Baader Diamond Steeltrack Focuser × · Baader Steeldrive II motor focuser with Controller × · Lacerta MGEN-2 standalone autoguider · TS-Optics Off-axis guider for Canon EOS cameras (TSOAG11) Software: Adobe Photoshop · Aries Productions Astro Pixel Processor (APP) · Distinct Solutions Ltd Astro Photography Tool (APT) · Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight · Russell Croman Astrophotography BlurXTerminator · Russell Croman Astrophotography NoiseXTerminator Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses: Sky-Watcher Explorer 200P Dates: 26 Aug 2017 Frames: IDAS LPS-D1 EOS APS-C: 13×900″(3h 15′) ISO400 Total integration: 3h 15′ Emil
  6. Wasn't sure if it will be cloudy on Christmas night, when he will become a naked eye object, so I took the opportunity of capturing him yesterday when he was coming out of the Christmas tree cluster. I had to use the HoHoHo pallette because until this week he was quite hard to capture, but the merrier and jolly he becomes the easier it is to see him flying across the galaxy. Some people spotted him flying around the Horsehead nebula area of the sky, so keep your eyes peeled until NORAD starts tracking him on Christmas night, while he delivers the presents to all the girls and boys. Merry Christmas to all! 🎅🦌🎄🎁🔭
  7. Thank you! Yeah, I didn't think much of it when I shot it in HaRGB with a colour camera but after seeing the California image that won the Stars and Nebulae category of the APOTY in 2021, I made it my plan to try and shoot it in full narroband too and to be honest I prefer mine to that one 🫣 Emil
  8. The time has come to go back and shoot the California nebula in full narrowband. The last time I have done it was in 2019 with a colour camera. I really love how it came out and I consider it to be one of my best photos to date. To make a good use of Blur Xterminator, I drizzled the stack which gave me a pixel scale of 1.26 "/px Full resolution and technical details on Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/817iqz/ (Warning: very large file) I hope you like it! Emil
  9. Thank you very much. A few days ago, a friend asked me if I could mark the globular clusters in the galaxy. I went the extra mile and annotated it in Pixinsight too. Emil
  10. The mighty Andromeda It took me a while but I had to go back to it especially that now I'm only using mono cameras. I hope you like it! More details and full resolution on my astrobin account: https://www.astrobin.com/5m9zuw Emil
  11. Hi guys, Does anyone have an idea where I can source a replacement motor for my High resolution stepper drive? Mine just decided to stop working. A new one is $120 and it's in the US, I was hoping to find a cheaper option hete in the UK but I can't find anything. Thanks Emil VID-20230708-WA0028.mp4
  12. Cygnus mosaic (18 panel) in SHO-RGB This is the first time I properly use my Samyang 135mm F2 lens with one of my mono cameras and I thought it would be a good opportunity to take on a big project that I've been planning for quite a while. Because of the lack of astronomical darkness in the UK during the summer months, a lot of people stop imaging but I never do, and despite that, I used the lens wide open at F2 to collect a lot of data in a short period of time. Most of the panels are done in a single night, because a single panel has 2 hours and 45 minutes worth of data and the nautical darkness only lasts for about 3 and a half hours. I shot 10 subs for each filter, 5 min for the narrowband and 30sec for the RGB stars. I initially started with the Sadr region which was processed separately, and after seeing how easy it is to collect the data during a single session, I started adding panels to make my largest mosaic to date. Equipment used: Mount: Dark Frame hypertuned EQ6 Samyang 135mm F2 lens QHY294M Pro Cmos camera, cooled at - 10°C QHYCCD QHYCCD CFW3M-US 36mm filterwheel antlia 36mm 3nm Ha, Sii and Oiii filters antlia 36mm RGB filters Deep Sky Dad AF3 autofocuser Qhyccd QHY5L-IIM guide camera Qhyccd Polemaster Software used: Eqmod, SGP - Sequence Generator Pro, PHD2, Stellarium with stellariumScope, SharpCap for polar alignment Date: 20.05 to 26.06.2023 Location: Hemel Hempstead, bortle 5 Frames: Antlia 3nm Narrowband H-alpha 36 mm: 180×300″(15h) Antlia 3nm Narrowband Oxygen III 36 mm: 180×300″(15h) Antlia 3nm Narrowband Sulfur II 36 mm: 180×300″(15h) Antlia V-Pro Blue 36 mm: 180×30″(1h 30′) Antlia V-Pro Green 36 mm: 180×30″(1h 30′) Antlia V-Pro Red 36 mm: 180×30″(1h 30′) Integration: 49h 30′ Stacked in AstroPixel Processor and processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop CC 2023 I hope you like it. Emil
  13. Not too long ago I finished a photo of the NGC4725 galaxy and very soon after, a friend told me about the LoTr5 planetary nebula located close by in the night sky as seen from Earth. Obviously, the distance between the 2 is astronomical, the planetary nebula is in our Milky-Way galaxy at 1650 light-years from us and the NGC4725 galaxy at 41 million light-years away. The following month, after I finished shooting the galaxy, was spent to gather enough data for LoTr5 so I can make a 2 panel mosaic which would include both the nebula and the galaxy. LoTr 5 is a large, faint planetary nebula in the constellation of Coma Berenices. In 2018, its parallax was measured by Gaia, giving a distance of about 1,650 light-years (510 parsecs). Technical details on astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/6kzyie/0/ Emil
  14. I don't know why I haven't done this earlier because I had the Samyang 135mm lens for quite a while. Last week I finally put it on my qhy294m. I had a Deep Sky Dad autofocuser too so I managed to pair it up with the combo. This week I had my first session and I used the lens wide opened at f2 to collect as much data as I can in a 5 min exposure. I ran it for 2 and a half hours on the Sadr region and I absolutely love it. I added another 15 panels on this so it will probably take me 16 clear nights to finish it off but for now, here's my take on the Sadr region in SHO. Emil
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