Hawksmoor
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From the album: Backyard Astronomy
The application of AstroSharp software to this image of Messier 57 in Lyra really brought out the shock fronts in the planetary nebula and also showcased the spiral nature of galaxy IC1296 which appears close by. -
From the album: The Moon
127mm Meade Apo refractor, x3 Televue Barlow and QHY5L-iic planetary camera. The use of AstroSharp software really brought out the ray systems associated with craters Furnerius A and Stevinus A. -
This image on my iphone looks absolutely terrible but I quite like it when viewed on my laptop. I guess it is a dynamic range thing. Not a fan of phones! -
When I give thought to the more stupid behaviours of our species I recall a copy of the ‘Mad’ magazine I read in my youth. Alfred E Newman was considering the improvement of his High Fi system by instalments. The system starts small with a few components and issuing from the speakers was the bubble “eat more pork sausages ma”! After adding more components over time and at considerable cost, the smiling Mr N looks on whilst issuing from the bank of speakers was the bubble “EAT MORE PORK SAUSAGES MA”! Good job humans also come packaged with kindness and love but a bit more common sense and environmental responsibility wouldn’t go amiss! George next the sea.
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From the album: Backyard Astronomy
Rework of data captured with my 127mm Meade Apo refractor and Canon 600d DSLR. Used the combination of AffinityPhoto2, Starnet GUI, AstroSharp, ImagesPlus and GradientXterminator. Better definition and colour than original process. -
From the album: Saturn
AstroSharp worked a treat on this old data from 2017. I recommend it to the house! -
Like books so have many collected over 35 years. Not good at throwing stuff away so many of the technical books are now of interest mainly historically. Very untidy so Astro books mixed in with art and geology. Mrs H has novels and poetry books in numbers. At anyone time I keep the last two years of Astronomy Now and the Sky at Night magazines in shelves by our bed and there are even books on shelves in my shed.
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From the album: Backyard Astronomy
A pretty bit of the Milky Way with a difficult mother, a distressed daughter and a Greek hero on a winged horse. -
From the album: Backyard Astronomy
Have been playing about with the limited data I was able to capture the other night over the top of our carport. This is a stack of 6x30sec lights at ISO800 taken with my un-modded Canon 600d DSLR and 135mm Samyang lens, all on my Star Adventurer EQ mount. Quite pleased to have picked up some dust lanes and glowing gas. -
Fabulous image!
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Very proud of Mrs H! Her sun halo image was published in the July edition of Astronomy Now magazine.❤️
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From the album: Backyard Astronomy
Reprocess and crop of the image taken with my Canon 600d DSLR and 135mm Samyang lens. Nice to have captured the faint globular cluster NGC 6411 along with it's brighter brother Messier 4. Nice and colourful just as I like them! -
From the album: Backyard Astronomy
Antares and the globular star cluster M4 are always low on the horizon when viewed from our backyard. I finally found a place on our drive looking over our car port where for about an hour on a clear June night I can get a few photos with my Canon 600d DSLR and 135mm Samyang lens on my Star Adventurer EQ mount. 10x30sec lights at ISO800. Stacked and processed mainly in Affinity Photo2. -
Nice transparent night in Lowestoft tonight. Found a spot at the top of our short drive where I could image Antares and colourful chums using my DSLR on my Star Adventurer eq mount. Just able to see Antares over our carport roof and between ours and our neighbour’s houses.
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From the album: Out and About
Found some very old data, a stack captured at Les Granges with my old tripod mounted Canon 400d and the standard zoom Eos lens. The data wasn't much mucked about with so I thought a good test for applying AI free-wares Starnet GUI and Astro Sharp, Topaz Denoise and GradientXterminator and AffinityPhoto2 all roughly in the right order! Reasonably pleased with the result and will amend future processing work flow to suit. -
Heads up regarding a considerable chunk of AI software which seems to work rather well on deep sky images . Anyone who has looked at my deep sky photos will know that they are invariably blurry and have considerable room for improvement! Well I came across this as a reference on the wonderful internet resource 'Professor Morison's Astronomy Digest' . It is his latest post https://www.ianmorison.com/astrosharp-astronomical-sharpening-tool/. . Astrosharp is a freeware AI based sharpener which uses a model trained on Hubble images. Very much worth a donation to its creator!
Unlike Russel Croman's excellent Blur Exterminator which currently is only available as a Pixinsite plug in, this works as a standalone program. (I don't have Pixinsite)
I have inserted one of my blurry photos which has had a 60% sharpened layer blended into the original. This was applied to a pre-sharpened image so if astrosharp had been applied earlier in the workflow it would have been better. Definitely worth downloading in my opinion!
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Show us your set up in action during the day.
Hawksmoor replied to Nigella Bryant's topic in The Astro Lounge
My mini rig with 66mm Altair Astro ED refractor, Star Adventurer and new QHY5111 series camera doing some solar white light video clips from our backyard .
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I'm getting really envious of the rest of the UK, high pressure and transparent skies. In Lowestoft wall to wall cloud and cold for days on end. The weather is very weird here. Did a crop and enlargement of another video clip of the sun in white light that I sneaked during a very brief break in the clouds the other day. Surprised how much detail my new planetary camera delivered whilst using my 66mm Altair Astro ED scope a a telephoto lens. QHY make fine value for money cameras!
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From the album: The Moon
127mm Meade Apo Refractor, x3 Televue Barlow and QHY5l11c planetary video camera. Processed PIPP, AS!3, Registax6, AffinityPhoto2 and Topaz Denoise AI. Wasn't sure whether the vertical banding was a real surface affect, a camera issue or a processing artefact. Will reimage with new planetary camera given a break in the cloud. -
From the album: The Sun
First image created with my new QHY5111462c planetary camera. Taken today in less than good conditions and using my small Altair Astro Lightwave 66mm ED Refractor mounted on a Star Adventurer EQ mount. Best 25% of 3000 frames. Thanks to Bernard at Modern Astronomy for recommending this camera for my various setups. Its a cracker! -
From the album: Out and About
Composite image taken with a Canon IXUS compact camera and a Canon 600d DSLR. Quite frankly I am too old to go to this rather precipitous location in the dead of night. It does make for a great foreground though. AffinityPhoto 2 used for stacking and composition. Nice holiday in Cyprus with Mrs H, first in many a year post Covid. -
From the album: Backyard Astronomy
Lots of galaxies in the constellation Virgo. -
Updated my planetary camera kit by purchasing a QHY5111462c from Modern Astronomy. Thank you for excellent advice and service Bernard.
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From the album: Backyard Astronomy
Modded Canon 200d DSLR with the standard EOS telephoto zoom lens. Iso 800 stacked 2 minute exps using Affinity Photo 2. • On display : • The star 24 Com A • The star 24 Com B • NGC 4293 • NGC 4382 • M 85 • NGC 4394 • NGC 4450
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, just to coincide with the lightest eveinings 
