emyliano2000

For the long bank holiday Jubilee Weekend my family and I went on a short trip to the beautiful Welsh countryside. We've been there before last year but I wasn't lucky to have a clear night to enjoy the beautiful bortle 2 skies. This year the weather was on my side and the first night I had the opportunity to do something that I've been dreaming of for a long time, to shoot the Scorpius and RHO Ophiuchi region under no light pollution. I didn't have to go far to do it, this field is next to the cottage we were staying at and luckily, this year the sheep have been moved to a different field so I didn't have to worry about them knocking over my tripod The foreground is simple but I like it and I don't think it needs more than it already has. And now the geeky stuff. To take this photo I used my astromodified Canon 6d with the Sigma 50mm f1.4 art lens on a iOptron Skyguider Pro and Benro CF tripod. For the sky I shot 49x60sec ISO1600 exposures at f2.8 And for the forground I only took one 30sec ISO3200 shot at f2.8 when it wasn't very dark outside. I hope you like it as much as I do because I'm abolutely in love with it. Emil

This is the first time I enter into a SGL challenge and I'm honoured that my photo of Orion over the Seven Sisters cliffs has been chosen as the winner of the Landscape part of the competition, some really good photos in there. 😁 Thanks to the judges and organisers. Emil

During the last moonlit night, we were lucky to get some clear skies so I put the Antlia 3nm filter to the test on the Horsehead nebula and the companions in the Alnitak region. I managed to shoot 73x300sec. I'm really happy with this filter, can't wait to try out the other ones too. Emil

At some point last year, when I didn't know what to shoot with my TS65Q and 294MC I started looking through stellarium and found this part of Cygnus with the very fine wispy clouds of hydrogen alpha and made it my target. Until yesterday, I completely forgot about the data so I got to work and made it into a final image. I added the star spikes with the StarSpike Pro photoshop plugin to give it a sparkling effect. I also added the annotated image. I hope you like it. Details on my astrobin account: https://www.astrobin.com/i38qxn/ Emil

I bit the bullet and went for another LRGB target. I found this one to be quite tricky for my bortle 7 skies so I added a lot of luminance hoping that I will manage to get a good result. VdB 15 reflection nebula VdB 15 is an elongated reflection nebula in Camelopardalis, extending for about 0.8 degree. VdB 15 is illuminated by the supergiant star HD 21291 (B9 Ia) at a distance of 3,000 light years – an area of new star formation. VdB 15 is classified as a reflection nebula. However, there is a strong red component in the cloud structure and as a result, the object has a pink hue. This could possibly be from extended red emission from H-a emitting stars in the general vicinity, similar to IC59 and IC63. At the lower left-hand corner there appears to be small unnamed emission nebula. Details on my astrobin account: https://www.astrobin.com/zpof85/0/ I hope you like it. Emil

Orion rising over the cliffs of Birling Gap On Sunday night I managed to have my first outdoor night adventure for this year. I went to Birling Gap in East Sussex because that was one of the few places with a clear forecast. Canon 6D modified and Tamron 15-30mm f2,8 @30mm. 1x30sec ISO1600 for the foreground and 5x60sec tracked photos for the sky. Emil

Orion over the Seven Sisters Cliffs in East Sussex This is a composite, meaning that the stars are not in the exact place where they should be but not very far either. I prefer it because of the very nice foreground with the Seven Sisters Cliffs and the Coastguard Cottages. The foreground was shot when the moon was still in the sky, brightening the foreground enough to allow a single short exposure. The sky was shot later in the night when the moon was gone and the sky was at its darkest. Astromodified Canon 6d, Sigma 50mm f1.4 Art, Skywatcher Star Adventurer EXIF: Foreground: ISO800, f2, 1x13sec Sky: ISO3200, f2.8, 108x30sec Emil

A lot of my images contain Lynds Bright Nebulae but I never concentrated on imaging one as the main target. This has now changed and I can say that I have my first LBN target, LBN587. Ha: 100x300sec Bin 2x2, Gain 200 Offset 10 Oiii: 59x300sec Bin 2x2, Gain 200 Offset 10 Sii: 60x300sec Bin 2x2, Gain 200 Offset 10 Red: 10x60sec; Green: 10x60sec; Blue: 60x180sec; Bin 2x2, Gain 200 Offset 10 Total integration time 18 hours and 45 minutes Stacked in AstroPixel Processor and processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop CC 2021 Full resolution on Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/la6rf4/B/ I hope you like it. Emil

SH2-135, a faint emission nebula very often missed by the amateur astrophotographers. There aren't too many photos of this target on astrobin and most of them are in HaRGB. Although there is a fair amount of Sii, the Oiii is nearly invisible and I had to stretch the stack as much as I possibly could to highlight the Oiii areas. I'm pretty pleased with the result and I hope that more people will aim their telescopes towards it. I'm pretty sure it can be done better than I did from my bortle 7 back garden. Technical details and full resolution on my astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/i9sabf/B/ I hope you like it. Emil

I was curious about this too as I will be using the same sensor on my AT106 at 690mm focal lenght and my 8" f4 newtonian. Emil

Another sharpless object done, this time, it's SH2-140. Ha: 80x180sec Red: 50x180sec; Green: 50x180sec; Blue: 50x180sec Total integration time 14 hours and 10 minutes shot from my back garden in Bushey. I hope you like it. Emil

Thank you! Well my skies are not the best, my app says I'm bortle 6.8 at zenith and to top it up, I also have a horrible streetlight at the end of my garden. This is a photo shot with my phone on a cloudy night. Emil

This is my first attempt at a kind of target that I never thought it would be possible from my back garden. I always avoided dusty regions but this time I bit the bullet and had a go to see what comes out and I'm very, very surprised by the result. Looks like I can add quite a few more targets to my to do list. I don't know if the baader filters would be able to pull off something like this but, now, having used the chroma RGB and a chroma Lo-glow for luminance it surely paid off. So, this is Barnard 150 or the Seahorse nebula in Cepheus and until I get my newtonian ready for imaging, I added the star spikes for effect. A lot of people might not agree but I find them to give a nice glow to this image. AZ-Eq6 GT 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 Lo-Glow filters Qhyccd QHY5L-IIM guide camera Opticstar 90mm f5.5 guidescope Qhyccd Polemaster Luminance: 100x180sec Bin 2x2, Gain 125 Offset 30 Red: 50x180sec; Green: 50x180sec; Blue: 50x180sec; Bin 2x2, Gain 125 Offset 30 Total integration time 12 hours and 30 minutes Stacked in AstroPixel Processor and processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop CC 2021 I hope you like it. Emil

I tried it too and I do like it more than starnet but compared to starnet it seems to leave the area behind the bright stars very, very soft and blurred. Emil

Thank you all for the kind words. Since I've been shooting with a dslr I used a higher ISO for narrowband. When I got an ASI294MC dedicated OSC camera I've done the same thing, I increased the gain a bit, I think it was somebody who recommended 200. With the ASI294MM, I copied the settings used with the OSC and they seem to work very well. I never tried the unity gain on narrowband targets to compare them and I don't feel like I need to. Here's my astrobin gallery, you can find narrowband images shot with both the OSC and mono. https://www.astrobin.com/users/emyliano2000/ Emil

Hello guys! I found a bit more time to edit another photo from the backlog. This is something that I've been wanting to capture for quite some time and during a few clear nights in the summer months I got enough data to make a SHO image. Sh2-101, at least in the field seen from Earth, is in close proximity to microquasar Cygnus X-1, site of one of the first suspected black holes. The companion star of Cygnus X-1 is a spectral class O9.7 Iab supergiant with a mass of 21 solar masses and 20 times the radius of the Sun. The period of the binary system is 5.8 days and the pair is separated by 0.2 astronomical units. The black hole has a mass of 15 solar masses and a Schwarzschild radius of 45 km. A bowshock is created by a jet of energetic particles from the black hole as they interact with the interstellar medium. It can be seen as an arc to the right of the Sh2-101. (Wikipedia) The Tulip (SH2-101) and the Cygnus X-1Bow Shock in SHO with cloured stars from a HOO stack. I shot a bit more Oiii than I usually do, to make sure I will have the Bow Shock in the mage. For this one I used the new StarXTerminator plugin by Russel Croman for photoshop and I'm very, very impressed, I find the results much better and faster than starnet in pixinsight. Eq6-R AstroTech 106LE with upgraded Moonlite focuser TSFlat 2" field flattener ASI294MM Pro Cmos camera, cooled at - 15°C 8x1.25" ZWO USB filterwheel Chroma 3nm 1.25" Ha, Oiii and Sii filters Qhyccd QHY5L-IIM guide camera 70/400 Celestron guidescope Qhyccd Polemaster Date: 09.06 to 18.07.2021 Location: Bushey Herts, UK, bortle 7 Ha: 80x300sec Bin 2x2, Gain 200 Offset 10 Oiii: 80x300sec Bin 2x2, Gain 200 Offset 10 Sii: 50x300sec Bin 2x2, Gain 200 Offset 10 Total integration time 17 hours and 30 min I hope you like it. Emil

Thank you! 😊

Sadr region (y Cyg nebula and lots of DWBs, LBNs, LDNs and Barnard's Dark nebulae) Pointing a telescope towards Cygnus will always give you something interesting so I thought of choosing a random bright patch close to Sadr to see what I get. I started shooting this region in HaRGB with a colour camera but I soon replaced it with a mono and went back to it for some Oiii, Sii and a bit more Ha. Equipment used: Sky-Watcher Eq3 Pro mount Sky-Watcher EQ6-R TS65 Quadruplet imaging telescope ZWO ASI Cameras ASI294MC PRO Qhyccd QHY294M Pro 2" Antlia Astronomy Filter 3nm Ha 2" IDAS LPS D2 Baader Planetarium 36mm SHO filter set Qhyccd Qhy5 LII-M guide camera 9x50 finder-guider Software used: Eqmod, SGP, Stellarium with StellariumScope, PHD2, SharpCap for polar alignment Location: Back garden, Bushey, UK (Bortle 7) Date: 30.05.2021 to 18.09.2021 ASI294MC Pro: 24x600sec Antlia 3nm Ha Gain 200 Offset 10 55x180sec IDAS LPS D2 Gain 125 Offset 30 QHY294M Pro @Gain 1600 Offset 25: 56x300sec Baader Ha 7nm 49x300sec Baader Oiii 8.5nm 46x300sec Baader Sii 8nm Total integration time: 19 hours and 20 minutes Stacked in AstroPixel Processor and processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop CC I hope you like it. Emil

Thank you very much guys, I'm glad you like it. If anyone has any info about the object please post it here. I only know it's around 8500 light years away. Emil

Can't find much information and photos on this target. I wonder why, it's a beautiful emission nebula. Anyway, I had a go at it in SHO and this is my result, I hope you like it. Technical details Equipment used: Eq6-R AstroTech 106LE with upgraded Moonlite focuser TSFlat 2" field flattener ASI294MM Pro Cmos camera, cooled at - 15°C 8x1.25" ZWO USB filterwheel Chroma 3nm 1.25" Ha, Oiii and Sii 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: 18 to 22.07.2021 Location: Bushey, bortle 7 Ha: 80x300sec Bin 2x2, Gain 200 Offset 10 Oiii: 50x300sec Bin 2x2, Gain 200 Offset 10 Sii: 50x300sec Bin 2x2, Gain 200 Offset 10 Total integration time 15 hours Stacked in AstroPixel Processor and processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop CC 2021 Emil

Thank you again, I'm really glad you like it. To be honest I wasn't really expecting much from this target but it turned out to be one of my best photos 😊 Emil

Thank you all, I'm glad you like it 😊 Emil

Didn't have time to edit some of my finished targets lately, but here's a first one from the backlog. The Lion nebula in SHO. Eq6-R AstroTech 106LE with upgraded Moonlite focuser TSFlat 2" field flattener ASI294MM Pro Cmos camera, cooled at - 15°C 8x1.25" ZWO USB filterwheel Chroma 3nm 1.25" Ha, Oiii ans Sii filters Qhyccd QHY5L-IIM guide camera 70/400 celestron guidescope Qhyccd Polemaster Software used: Eqmod, SGP - Sequence Generator Pro, PHD2, Stellarium with stellariumScope, SharpCap for polar alignment Date: 01.06 to 15.07.2021 Location: Bushey, bortle 7 Ha: 80x300sec Bin 2x2, Gain 200 Offset 10 Oiii: 60x300sec Bin 2x2, Gain 200 Offset 10 Sii: 50x300sec Bin 2x2, Gain 200 Offset 10 Total integration time 15 hours and 50 minutes Stacked in AstroPixel Processor and processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop CC 2021 I hope you like it. Emil

Congrats and good luck, it's a great photo 😍 Emil

At the beginning of the year, I bought a L-extreme filter to capture HOO in one go with my ASI294MC camera but the halos around the bright stars were horrible so I sent it back and invested in a good Ha filter to have a go at HaRGB imaging with the colour camera. This is my first processed target with the new combination. DWB 111 - Propeller nebula in HaRGB Equipment used: Eq3 Pro mount TS65 Quadruplet imaging telescope ZWO ASI294MC PRO 2" Antlia 3nm Ha 2" IDAS LPS D2 Qhy5 LII-M guide camera 9x50 finder-guider Software used: Eqmod, SGP, Stellarium with StellariumScope, PHD2, SharpCap for polar alignment Location: Back garden, Bushey, UK (Bortle 7) Date: 25.04.2021 to 30.05.2021 100x300sec Antlia 3nm Ha 60x180sec IDAS LPS D2 Total integration time: 11 hours and 20 minutes Thanks for looking. Emil