emyliano2000

I just finished M33 in full narrowband with 3nm filters.

I shot it in both broadband and narrowband but a SHO-LRGB palette looked a little bit weird so I decided to do 2 palettes, HOO-LRGB and full narrowband in SHO.

I used my 200p telescope with the ASI294M and 1.25" chroma filters.

I can't really say if there is an advantage over the 7nm filters because I never used 7nm filters on galaxies before but I found that I get pretty good results with the 3nm.

I don't usualy shoot Sii for galaxies and only occasionally, when there are large star formation regions, I use the Oiii filter but knowing that M33 has some really big nabulae inside it, I added Sii to see what comes out. For the Sii, I only shot 600sec.

This is the annotated SHO version and below it, the HOO-LRGB version.

Emil

I finally used my Samyang 135mm and my modified Canon 6d under dark skies.

At the begining of the month we went on a family holiday to La Palma and even though I didn't have time to use it up on the mountains where there's absolutely no light pollution, I did use it from the garden of the house we stayed at. The sky was pretty good over there too, you could clearly see the Milky-Way with the naked eye.

For the first photo, I went for the center of the galaxy region between the Large and the Small Sagittarius Star Clouds with the Lagoon and Trifid nebulae in the center of the image.

This photo is a stack of 70 x 60sec ISO1600 with the lens wide open at f2.

For the second photo, I wanted to shoot the Cepheus region of the sky because of the large amount of dark nebulae but because I didn't have the counterweights and the bar with me, it was very difficult to rotate the camera in the position that I wanted when I was trying to shoot that particular region. Instead I pointed the camera towards the big W in the sky (I think you know what I'm taking about 😁)

This photo is a stack of 119x120sec ISO1600 with the lens at f2 again.

I added the annotated versions too.

I hope you like them!

Emil

8 hours ago, assouptro said:

Stunning!! 

I’m currently capturing data on M16 myself when the clouds allow (not often!) 

I am a bit further north than London (Lancaster) and it’s just scraping 22° and using a different scope and config but if I manage to put together anything close to your result I’d be very happy! 

Well done! 
 Wonderful image 

Thanks for sharing 

Bryan 😊

Thank you Bryan, I can only imagine how much more difficult it must be from further up north. Please do post a photo here when you finish it! 🙂

All I can wish you is clear and steady skies, I was very lucky to have that.

Emil

7 hours ago, Bluemoonjim said:

Superb image. 
Using an Esprit 80ED? (Astrobin)

Thanks! Omg, I loaded the wrong configuration in astrobin, thanks for pointing it out, I changed it now 😁

https://www.astrobin.com/u39r7y/

Emil

A very tough and challenging target for my latitude, the Eagle nebula is crossing the meridian at only 24° in altitude and it's scraping the neighbour's roofs but I had to try out a Hubble Space Telescope challenge. 
Also, the fact that London is not that far in the south doesn't help either but hey ho, I did it.

I added the HST photo to compare my results and even though my photo is not very close to it I'm extremely pleased with the result.

For more details here's the astrobin link: https://www.astrobin.com/u39r7y

I hope you like it too!

Emil

1 hour ago, Ouroboros said:

I like it very much. The soap bubble is an elusive object isn’t it? I’ve looked for it and not found it on my images of the Crescent.  You need your 24 hours of data to bring it out. Excellent image, very nicely processed. 

Thank you! Yes it is indeed. I knew it was quite faint, that's why I shot mostly 600sec. Having the scope reduced to f5.3 must've helped too. 😊

Emil

Another target that was waiting to be properly done and because now, I reduced my AT106 to 566mm, why not add the Soap Bubble in the frame to make it more exciting.

I chose the HOO palette with RGB stars because I haven't seen any photos of the Soap Bubble in the SHO palette that I would like.

Full details on my astrobin account: https://www.astrobin.com/slu9yo/

I hope you like it!

Emil

The second photo taken with my Orion Optics CT8 f4.5 newtonian telescope it's the Owl nebula in HOORGB.
I had this target on my bucket list for quite a while and a few years ago I've learned that it has a faint Oiii outer shell so I made it my goal was to make it stand out.
For the closer look, I drizzled x2 all of the stacks and cropped them in half before I started editing them.

Full details on my astrobin account:https://www.astrobin.com/q7cg3m/
I hope you like it!
Emil

With the galaxy season coming to an end, I present to you my take on 2 of the galaxies in the Virgo constellation, NGC4535 and NGC4526.
This is my first finished photo with my Orion Optics CT8 f4.5 newtonian telescope.

Full technical details on my astrobin account: https://www.astrobin.com/yvh6e7/

I hope you like it!

Emil

That's beautiful! I recently finished shooting it and I'm really hoping of getting the outer halo too even though my skies are not as good as yours. 

Emil

My second aurora photo was shot with the exact same gear and using the exact same settings but the camera was pointing North rather than NE like my previous one.

Emil

And here is my take on the aurora shot on Friday the 10th of May at Cuckmere Heaven, Seaford

For this photo I used a Canon RP camera with my Tamron 15-30mm f2.8 

ISO 1600, 15mm, f2.8, 2.9sec

Emil

And finally, my 3rd and last photo is with the same Portland Bill Lighthouse but shot from a different angle.

While scouting for a good composition, I noticed the little flowers growing on the edge of the cliff and I immediately stopped for a few photos.

Even though there are lights everywhere around Portland Bill lighthouse, this particular place was quite dark. To brighten up the foreground I used my head torch for a fraction of a second which turned out to be just enough to make the flowers pop.

Again, the equipment used is similar to my other 2 photos.

The foreground is a single 30sec and the sky is a stack of 13x120sec photos blended in position with the help of photoshop.

Even though the details in the Milky-Way are not as great as in my other 2 photos because the Milky-Way core was only coming up from behind the horizon, I am still very pleased with thee photo.

I hope you like it too!

Emil

The second photo I took on he same night is shot from the cliffs, not far away from the lighthouse.

I always wanted a selfie with the Milky-Way in the background and what better place to do that than the Dorset's Jurassic Coast.

Same as the previous photo, the equipment used was the modified canon 6d, Sigma Art 24-35mm f2 lens and the iOptron Sky-Guider Pro tracker.

The foreground is a single 30sec ISO1600 @24mm f2.8 and the sky is a stack of 10x120sec shot with the same settings.

The editing was done in Lightroom Classic, Pixinsight and Photoshop and the blending with the final touches in Photoshop.

Emil

Night-time at Portland Bill Lighthouse

Knowing that this weekend was going to be a Bank Holiday weekend, with 3 days off and no moon about to mess things up, I really hoped to have at least one clear night to go out and try my luck at some Milky-Way shots before the UK will be losing the astronomical darkness.

The forecast looked good for Friday night and because the last time I went to Portland Bill I didn't manage to get home with anything good, I thought of giving it another go. Even though it was a 4 hour drive from my house, I'm over the moon I went there because I haven't seen the sky so nice and clean in a very, very long time, it was just perfect.

As always, I used my Astro-modified Canon 6d that never disappoints, but this time I used it with the Sigma Art 24-35mm f2 lens at 24mm f2.8 and the Optolong L-Pro clip-in filter for Canon full frame.

The foreground is a single image, 5sec, ISO 1600, 24mm f2.8 and the sky is a stack of 13 x 120sec, ISO 1600, 24mm f2.8 tracked images using my iOptron Sky-Guider Pro star tacker.

The editing was done in Lightroom Classic, Pixinsight and Photoshop and the blending with the final touches in Photoshop.

I hope you like it!

Emil

2 hours ago, wimvb said:

Very nice, especially with the addition of Oiii. In my own experience, I find that galaxy images gain a lot when narrow band is added. Unfortunately, I don't have room for an additional filter in my filter wheel.

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 hours ago, Laurin Dave said:

Fabulous image of what must be a very tough target from your location.. well done

Dave

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! 🎅🦌🎄🎁🔭

On 28/11/2023 at 16:32, Magnum said:

I really like that Emil, I normally find the California a boring object but the high resolution has picked up so much detail. 

Mono still has the edge in terms of smoothness and final detail .

 

Lee

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