Bluecloudyeagle

On 25/10/2022 at 21:10, Mick J said:

Stunning, sharp, interesting, super nice 😀  well done Shivam, clear in Agra ?

thanks! yep, it was totally clear

On 25/10/2022 at 22:05, Mandy D said:

Superb! I only got white light through cloud.

thank you!

This is my best image of this target yet, with 31+ hours shot on this target and the best 24 hours stacked to get this vibrant result! The much fainter Sii sulphur data provided the yellowish-orange colour as opposed to the traditional red associated with this target. It’s hard to believe such an image can be shot from a light polluted city, but it just shows the power of narrowband filters and long integration times. It took my 15 nights to shoot this target, the longest I’ve done by far. This is a 2 panel mosaic, which was needed to fit the large nebula at my FL of 360mm. With the help of NINA’s platesolving, the mosaic alignment and capture was a breeze.

OTA: William Optics Z61
Mount: ioptron CEM-40
Camera: ZWO 1600MM pro
Filters: ZWO 7nm Ha, Sii, R,G,B
Ha: 138 x 6 mins = 13h48min
Sii: 101 x 6 mins = 10h06min
R,G,B: 120s x 15 = 30min
Capture: N.I.N.A
Processing: DSS, PS, PI
Total Integration: 24h24mins
Shot over 15 nights in Oct 2021
Location: Agra, India -Bortle 8
 

Hi all. I got my daystar quark last week and captured my first full solar disc image on sunday. Hope you enjoy

zwo 1600mm pro
William optics Z61
Daystar quark chromosphere
Baader 2” uv/ir cut for energy rejection
CEM-40
Best 35% of 518 frames for prominences
Best 25% of 663 frames for surface
Flat calibration in AS3
ASI studio, AS3, registax, PS, LR
12:56pm, 14th November 2021
Agra, India

13 hours ago, Space Hopper said:

Superb....!! 😀👍🏼

thanks  

Today, an extremely rare celestial event took place. The moon passed in front of the planet Mars, obscuring it from view for around 1 hour. This event was only visible from a small part of the world, around southeast Asia  I was able to capture the reappearance of Mars from behind the moon at 7:11pm local time! An absolutely incredible experience. My first planetary occultation. 

Last night there were thunderstorms in my area, so I was trying to keep my hopes down for the big day. But fortunately, I lucked out with clear sky. I have waited for this event since 1+ year, so I’m extremely glad I was able to capture it. Mars has moved away from the earth and is quite small in the sky now, hence the surface details aren’t as good as last year end.

This image is a blend of two videos, processed and stacked to compensate for the relative motion of the moon and Mars.

EXIF:
GSO 8” CC
CEM-40
Neximage 5
Best 5% of 10,000 frames for mars
best 10% of 2,500 frames for moon
AS3, Registax, Lightroom
17th April 2021, 7:11pm

GSO 8" CC

Neximage 5

best 5% of 6,000 frames

Hope you enjoy! I love the long shadows

On 25/12/2020 at 17:06, Moonshed said:

Marvellous! Such fine detail.

thanks

Very happy with this image! I've wanted to do an HaRGB image of M31 for a long time, and I finally got some good data by travelling to a bortle 4 sky. Hope you enjoy!

- Shivam 

Canon EOS R
sigma 150-600mm
skyguider pro
ISO 6400 45" f6.3
RGB: 232 x 45s = 2h54min
1600mm pro + Ha filter   
Ha: 120s x 19 = 38 min 
total integration: 3h32min
DSS, PS, LR
Jarar, U.P, India (bortle 4)
12th and 14th December 2020

On 04/10/2020 at 14:57, Adam1234 said:

Lovely image

thanks

On 04/10/2020 at 16:54, MarkAR said:

That a very nice image, well framed with the Triffid. I do however find the core of the Lagoon looking extremely bright on my screen.

 

thanks! yep I did blow it out a bit, couldn't fix it later.

On 05/10/2020 at 03:16, PH-R said:

Very nice, well done.

thanks

Very pleased with how this one turned out, considering the moon and light pollution. hope you enjoy 

-Shivam 

EXIF:
William optics Z61 OTA
ASI 1600MM pro ZWO EFW & 7nm filters
CEM-40 w/ ipolar
no autoguiding
120s x 120 = 4 hours Ha
120s x 120 = 4 hours Oiii
Gain 200 temp -2C
8 hours total integration
darks, flats, dark flats
N.I.N.A, DSS, PS, LR
2,3,4 october 2020
Avg moon phase: 96%
Agra, India -bortle 8

Hi All,

here is my best narrowband image yet. Just got the new cam last week. 

WO z61
ASI 1600MM pro ZWO 7nm filters
CEM-40 w/ ipolar 
no autoguiding
60 x 162 = 2h42min Ha
60 x 100 = 1h40min Oiii
Gain 200 temp -2C
4 hour 22 min total integration
darks, flats, dark flats
N.I.N.A, DSS, PS, LR
30 sep, 1 october 2020
Avg moon phase: 99%
Agra, India - bortle class 8

I travelled 135km to watch my third ever ISS transit, and got my best photos yet! it transited in just 0.76 seconds.

Canon eos R
150-600mm sigma lens + solar filter
Skyguider pro
4K video at 25fps
Frames extracted and stacked in AS3 to make the background sun image
LR, registax, PS
1:28pm
1st October 2020

Northern India

Here is Mars with its two small asteroid moons Phobos and Deimos! I’m really surprised I was able to capture these very faint moons. I overexposed the image and barely detected them near mars, in the correct positions according to my app to confirm I identified them correctly. The first image is a blend of two exposures to show both mars and the moons.

GSO 8” CC
CEM-40
Neximage 5
Canon eos R
Best 5% of 22k frames
1:53am 23rd September 2020
Agra, India

4 minutes ago, thomasv said:

Hi, great picture. Just a question as you have obviously captured well the Ha wavelength, do you have the EOS R or EOS Ra ?

Thanks.

Thanks!  I have the standard eos R

Got good seeing couple of nights back and got my best image of the North America Nebula yet  very pleased with this, considering captured in bortle 8 light pollution from the middle of my city. 

EXIF:William Optics Z61
Canon EOS R
 UHC nebula filter
CEM-40 (unguided)
ISO 3200 f5.9
120s x 125 = 4h10 min integration
Darks, flats, bias
DSS, PS, LR
23rd September 2020
Agra, India -Bortle 8

On 09/09/2020 at 23:44, tooth_dr said:

Very nice and under difficult conditions 👍

thanks

19 hours ago, Sunshine said:

Simply a beautiful image of M31 to say the least, i agree with Ouroboros, i love the colour temperature in the core region.

Thanks  

17 hours ago, MarkAR said:

Excellent image.

Thanks Mark!

11 minutes ago, Ouroboros said:

Absolutely cracking  image. There’s a warmth about the central region. The outer regions look natural and the sky is a velvety black.  What’s  Bortle class 😎 ? I’m guessing good. 

thank you! Bortle 8, in the middle of a city. Light pollution is a real challenge here 

Added 2 more hours on my old image, and am very pleased with the result. Hope you enjoy

captured over 2 nights from bortle 8 sky 

Canon eos R
sigma 150-600 @400mm
Ioptron CEM-40 (unguided)
45 sec ISO 3200 f6.3
25/8/20: 1h17min integration
28/8/20: 1h58 min integration
total: 3h16min
darks, flats, bias
Agra, India bortle class 8
Edited in DSS, photoshop, Lightroom

4 minutes ago, Tenor Viol said:

No, it's a satellite. The sun is still north of the equator for a few more weeks. and Andromeda is relatively 'north'. It's probably a wretched specimen of that which shall not be named.

But isn't it moving too slow to be a satellite? this took 10 minutes to cover roughly 500 arcmins of sky (just a tiny patch in north east) , whereas starlink and other satellites can go from horizon to horizon in 5-7 minutes

Hi All, sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. But I need your help.

A few days ago while photographing Andromeda galaxy, 12 of my frames caught this object passing. It can't be a low earth satellite (won't be illuminated at midnight) and also they move too fast. each shot here was 45 sec exposure, meaning in total this object took over 10 minutes to pass a very small area of the sky.

Video showing all 12 frames: https://youtu.be/qemo588FUoQ

link to still image: https://ibb.co/CW6c22D

26 august 12:17am to 12:26am IST (25 aug 6:47pm to 6:56pm utc)

observing coordinates:  78 01 18 E 27 12 8 N

equipment: Canon EOS R, 400mm lens, CEM-40 mount 

Is this some near earth Asteroid? Any clues would be appreciated,

Thanks,

Shivam 

On 28/08/2020 at 19:57, MarkAR said:

Lovely image, looks warm and inviting.

thanks

Hi all, here is my first good image of M31! I’m extremely pleased with what I could get using 1h17min integration on a canon eos R.

canon eos R

sigma 150-600mm lens

45” ISO 2000 f6.3

CEM-40 mount 

On 19/08/2020 at 17:06, westmarch said:

Great post.  I am not sure I have heard the word easy used before to describe finding Pluto. 

John

haha. thanks

On 19/08/2020 at 17:24, PaulM said:

Interesting post, may have a go myself if we get any clear skies here in the UK in the same week\month to do so haha

Do you have tracking on your telescope?

Yes I have CEM-40 goto mount with tracking