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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

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

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

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

Absolutely incredible! 😍😍 Emil

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

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! 🎅🦌🎄🎁🔭

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blast from the past - Back to the beginning In 2016 I bought my first telescope that I used a while for visual astronomy. Shortly after, when I discovered astrophotography I upgraded my mount and in the first photo you can see my first astrophotography setup: Eq6 Pro mount Skywatcher explorer 200p, f5 newtonian Astromodified Canon 700D Astronomik CLS-CCD clip in filter Baader mpcc coma corrector Lacerta Mgen standalone autoguider TS09OAG off axis guider for EOS. It took a while to learn how to use the equipment properly and only at the beginning of 2017 I started to take my first deep sky photos that I was proud of. One of the tergets was the Leo triplet shot in Bushey, Hertfordshire between 24 and 31 March 2017 The second photo is my first ever edit of these 3 beautiful galaxies. This week I went back to the data to see if I can bring an improvement and you can judge that for yourself (3rd photo) but I suggest you go to the full resolution photo on my astrobin account https://www.astrobin.com/3wvz7p/D/ where you will also see the capturing details. Emil

Shot in December but only recently had the time to edit it. Equipment used: Mount: Dark Frame hypertuned EQ6 Telescope: TS65Q quadruplet Apo refractor #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 Qhyccd QHY5L-IIM guide camera Qhyccd Polemaster Software used: Eqmod, SGP - Sequence Generator Pro, PHD2, Stellarium, SharpCap for polar alignment Date: 09.12 to 26.12.2022 Location: Hemel Hempstead, bortle 5 Acquisition details Frames: Antlia 3nm Ha 36 mm: 61×300″(5h 5′) (gain: 1600.00) -10°C bin 1×1 Antlia 3nm OIII 36 mm: 60×300″(5h) (gain: 1600.00) -10°C bin 1×1 Antlia 3nm SII 1.25": 60×300″(5h) (gain: 1600.00) -10°C bin 1×1 Antlia V-Pro Blue 36 mm: 20×60″(20′) (gain: 1600.00) -10°C bin 1×1 Antlia V-Pro Green 36 mm: 20×60″(20′) (gain: 1600.00) -10°C bin 1×1 Antlia V-Pro Red 36 mm: 20×60″(20′) (gain: 1600.00) -10°C bin 1×1 Total Integration: 16h 5′ Emil

And with the galaxy season upon us, here is my first for this year. Because both of my cameras were out for repairs, this galaxy was shot with a friend's ASI183M who was very kind to lend it to me so won't be out of action. NGC 2903 (cropped photo, had some problems with the flats) Equipment used: Eq6 hypertune gen2 by DarkFrame Ltd AstroTech 106LE with upgraded Moonlite focuser TSFlat 2" field flattener ASI183MM Pro Cmos camera, cooled at - 15°C 8x1.25" ZWO USB filterwheel Chroma 1.25" LoGlow and RGB filters Qhyccd QHY5L-IIM guide camera 9x50mm finder-guider Qhyccd Polemaster Software used: Eqmod, SGP - Sequence Generator Pro, PHD2, Stellarium with stellariumScope, SharpCap for polar alignment Date: 27and 28.02.2023 Location: Hemel Hempstead, bortle 5 Luminance:105x120sec, Gain 111 Offset 10 Red: 55x120sec; Green: 55x120sec; Blue: 56x120sec; Gain 111 Offset 10 Total integration time 9 hours and 2 minutes Stacked in AstroPixel Processor and processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop CC 2023 A bit more luminance with no moon would've helped a bit but I'm happy with what I got so far. Emil

Thank you very much, I really lile how it came out, I consider it one of my best photos 😊 Emil

Another over looked target that doesn't draw much attention because of a famous neighbour but this time it's SH2-284 in Monoceros. I call it The Ring of Fire nebula It also resembles the alien writting from the Arrival movie Sh2-284 is a HII star forming region of gas and dust located approximately 15 thousand light years from the Earth. It is observed in the central-eastern part of the constellation, about 5° southeast of the famous Rosette Nebula. 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" RGB and Chroma 1.25" 3nm SHO filters QHY294M Pro Cmos camera, cooled at - 15°C QHYCCD QHYCCD CFW3M-US 36mm filterwheel Antlia 36mm 3nm Ha filter Qhyccd QHY5L-IIM guide camera OpticStar AR90 as guidescope Qhyccd Polemaster Date: 17.01.2022 to 17.12.2022 Location: Bushey, Hertfordshire, Bortle 7 and Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, bortle 5 Frames: Antlia 3nm Narrowband H-alpha 36 mm: 41×600″(6h 50′) Chroma Blue 1.25": 10×60″(10′) Chroma Green 1.25": 10×60″(10′) Chroma H-alpha 3nm Bandpass 1.25": 49×600″(8h 10′) Chroma OIII 3nm Bandpass 1.25": 40×600″(6h 40′) Chroma Red 1.25": 10×60″(10′) Chroma SII 3nm Bandpass 1.25": 38×600″(6h 20′) Total integration time 28 hours and 30 minutes Stacked and calibrated in AstroPixel Processor and processed in Pixinsight (with help from Blur Xterminator, Star Xterminator and Noise Xterminator) and Photoshop CC 2023 https://www.astrobin.com/qp86tv/ Emil

I'm in Hemel Hempstead and it's cloudy but I did set up my camera up on my garden table with the tripod fully extended and tied to the parasol so it doesn't fall. I might not get anything but it's wirth a try. The SE coast looks clear around that time. Emil

C/2022 E3 (ZTF) (Take II) This time I captured a few galaxies in the foreground too. Antlia V-Pro Blue 36 mm: 15×120″(30′) Antlia V-Pro Green 36 mm: 15×120″(30′ Antlia V-Pro Luminance 36 mm: 40×120″(1h 20′) Antlia V-Pro Red 36 mm: 14×120″(28′) Total Integration: 2h 48′ Stacked in AstroPixel Processor and processed in Pixinsight, with the help of Noise and Star Xterminator, and Photoshop CC 2023 I used a method somebody shared on facebook and I'm really pleased with it. First in APP I registered all the subs on the comet and saved tham all, after that I registered all the subs on the stars and saved them all. I took the comet registered subs into pixinsight and with the Process batch in StarXterminator, I removed the stars from all of them. This took quite a while but the result was great. When the star removal was finished, I integrated each channel of the starless comet and the each channel of the stars. I did a LRGB combination for the starless comet and a LRGB for the stars and galaxies but because the stars were quite bright in the LRGB, I also did a RGB combination for the stars only. I aligned the LRGB for the stars and galaxies and the RGB for the stars with one of the subs registered on the comet to make sure I have everything in the right position, removed the stars from the LRGB for stars and galaxies to be able to add the galaxies to the starless comet and made a star mask from the RGB stars so I can add it to the LRGB starless comet + galaxies. I tried StarXterminatoon but for some reason the extracted stars looked awful. Starnet did a much better job. Obviously, I had to clone stamp the trailed comet from the starless LRGB for galaxies. At the end I had a LRGB starless comet image, a LRGB starless galaxies image and a RGB image with the stars all aligned and ready to be moved into photoshop. I added the galaxies to the starless comet as a layer in lighten mode and the stars in screen mode. I hope this helps other people too. Emil

Thank you Lee. I do have a version with more stars and no halos too but I prefer this version because it make the nebulosity muck more visible 😊 Emil

Thank you very much, I love it too, made it my desktop and phone wallpaper and I think I will make a large print out of it. I'm so glad I went back to it and re-edited it 😊 Emil

In my case, I was lucky to have the stack in linear state, I tried it on the finished image and because of those huge halos, it looked horrible. I usualy move the stacks, masters and finished image into the folder where I have all the data for that particular target. Emil