#EQ6-R Pro

[the0phrastus]

Well, that worked pretty well for an 88% waxing moon with the ZWO ASI071MC color camera. The near-full moon and Jupiter at opposition were just far enough away to make this set up work--plus a lot of 5-minute exposures. That band of red at the top left is the tail end of the ridge of hydrogen that runs behind the Horsehead Nebula (B33). Imaging notes: 63 x 300-second subs, no filters with the ZWO ASI071 color camera cooled to 0C, William Optics RedCat 15 Apo refractor, Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro mount. The Orion Nebula (M42), Running Man Nebula (Sh2-279), De Mairan's Nebula (NGC 1982,M43), and surrounding nebulosity.

More of my astro stuff here: https://SaltwaterWitch.com

[mckitterick]

New telescope mount!

look what just arrived! unboxed and assembled, this beefy mount is now ready for the incoming Astro-Tech 152mm (6") f/8 triplet apochromatic refractor - my dream setup!

the mount (Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro) weighs about 80 pounds, but it's also very portable, with a handle and removable counterweights - same for the 'scope (only 30lbs), with its own handle and quick-release to remove it from the mount. admittedly, this setup is at the limit of portability, but no worse than my big Dobsonian or even the Schmidt-Cassegrain!

why buy now when we have a baby on the way? well, with the incoming administration's promises of tariffs, expect prices of imported goods to rise 20-60% depending on how much or little they kiss orange buttocks

I recommend you do the same if you've been holding off on a big purchase - not only did I save 25% on both the mount and 'scope, but also an additional many percent by buying now before prices rocket upwards

BTW: this means I have a couple big reflectors to sell, so if you're looking for a 12" Meade LX90 Schmidt-Cassegrain or a 16" LightBridge f/4.5 truss-tube Dobsonian, hit me up

[toddcharlson]

Eagle Nebula

Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI2600mm

Imaging Telescope: William Optics FLT132 APO Refractor

Aperture: 132

Focal Ratio: f/6.9

Field Corrector: William Optics Field Flattener 68III

Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro

Filters: Chroma Ha, Chroma SII, Chroma OIII

Dates: 2023/05/14, 2023/05/15, 2023/05/17, 2023/05/18, 2023/05/19

[amberfaber40]

M42/M43, NGC 1976, Orion Nebula

M42/M43, NGC 1976, Orion Nebula

APOD: 2019 December 17 - The Horsehead Nebula

The Orion Nebula

First try with HDR in pixinsight, hope you like it ! -Equipment- Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal) Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -25°C gain 101 offset 49 Guiding: ZWO OAG Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme -Acquisition- Light : 62x300s + 88x120s Total integration time 8h Dark: 100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100 100s120s Date : 30 January 2022 07,26,27 Febuary 2022 Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5 -Software- Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/ -Pre Processing in PixInsight- Image Calibration Cosmetic Correction Debayer Subframe Selector Star Alignement Local Normalization Image Integration Drizzle x2 Dynamic crop -Processing *HRD* DBE 300s and 120s StarAlignement -> register 300s and 120s HRDComposition -> blend 300s and 120s frame Split L,R,G,B Chanel __L__ Ez_Deconvolution Ez_Soft Streatch HDRMultiscaleTransform StarNet++ for build nebula mask UnsharpedMask with mask LocalHistogramEqualization with mask __RGB__ ChanelCombination(RGB) BackgroundNeutralization PhotometricColorCalibration Ez_Soft Streatch HDRMultiscaleTransform Starnet++ SCNR star mask __LRGB__ LRGBCombination Ez_Denoise StarNet++ Final CurvesTransformation Save as jpg Clear skies !

Orion nebula M42 , SHO Hubble palette from Singapore.

Horsehead Nebula in Orion

The Horsehead Nebula and Flame Nebula. This iconic deep-sky object is a dark nebula in the constellation Orion. Astrophotography tips, facts, and more.

Orion Nebula wallpaper by DLJunkie - Download on ZEDGE™ | 5dcb

Orion

The Orion Nebula (M42/M43, NGC1976/1982) This picture shows the great nebula in the constellation of Orion the Hunter. On a good clear night, from a dark site well away from the lights of modern civilization, this glowing cloud of gas and dust can be seen with the naked eye as a fuzzy patch surrounding the star Theta Orionis in the Hunter's Sword, below Orion's belt. It is probably the most spectacular of all the objects cataloged by Charles Messier and now called by their `M' numbers. M42 had been known since the beginnings of recorded astronomy as a star, but it is so outstanding that it was first noted as an extended nebula in 1610, only a year after Galileo's first use of the telescope. Detailed descriptions started appearing later in the seventeenth century, and it has been a popular target for anyone with a telescope ever since. So many details are visible in even a small telescope that M42 will more than repay the observer who makes it a frequent target, and who will find that it is hard to make a realistic sketch that can capture all of the finer features. So outstanding is this nebula that it has two numbers. M43/NGC1982 is the separated portion to the north-east (top left), surrounding an irregular variable star. Although Messier stopped at only two, other parts of the nebula in this region have received further NGC numbers. M42 is our closest example of an HII region, being composed mainly of ionized hydrogen which gives off the red glow so dominant in every picture of the nebula. Deep photographs such as this one show that it is nearly a degree across, larger than the full Moon (although the Moon is so bright that it looks much larger). The energy to keep the nebula glowing comes from the very hot young stars in a formation called the Trapezium, embedded in the brightest part of the nebula and not visible in this photograph. The nebula and the brighter stars are very young indeed by astronomical standards, at about 30000 years. Compare this to our own Sun, which is considered to be a middle-aged star at over four billion years! M42 probably contains several hundred stars younger than a million years, still bursting with the energy of youth. Stars are still being born in a dense cloud behind the nebula, but they are hidden from our view by a concentration of dust which reduces their light to only a million-millionth of its original intensity. Fortunately, astronomers have developed special cameras and other detectors which are sensitive to infra-red radiation, more popularly known as heat, which penetrates the dust and reveals to us this stellar nursery. Although M42 is mostly hydrogen, in both neutral and ionized states, with a fair quantity of dust, it does contain significant amounts of other elements, especially oxygen. The green glow of doubly-ionized oxygen is strongest near the intense ultraviolet starlight at the middle of the nebula. To the north-east (the upper left in this picture) is a feature called the Dark Bay, which is a thick cloud of neutral gas which has not yet been ionized. Location: 05 hrs 35.4 min, -05 deg. 27 min (2000). Distance: nearly 500 parsecs (1600 light-years). Size: about 66 by 60 arc minutes. Mass: about 300 solar masses. Magnitude: 4.0. Power source: O and B stars. Photograph: Bill Schoening, KPNO 4m telescope, October 1st 1973. Original Ektachrome color transparency.Credit:Bill Schoening/NOIRLab/NSF/AURAUsage of NOIRLab Images and VideosAre you a journalist? Subscribe to the NOIRLab Media Newsletter.Image FormatsFullsize Original20.7 MB Large JPEG1.2 MBScreensize JPEG144.3 KBZoomableZoomableWallpapers1024x768131.3 KB1280x1024203.7 KB1600x1200314.3 KB1920x1200411.5 KB2048x1536568.3 KBCrossfade image:Optical (DSS2)Infrared (2MASS)Crossfade image:

[jupiter-bringer-of-jollity]

Rosette Nebula by Tim Via Flickr:

[jzholloway-sncastro]

NGC 7822 - The Question Mark Nebula I attempted this target earlier in the year using the L-eNhance filter and once I got the L-eXtreme I wanted to give it another go. Captured over 3 nights at the end of imaging sessions, I was able to capture 4.5 hours and it blows my 3 hours with the L-eNhance away. Note, IG doesn't do this target justice, so head over to astrobin, link in Bio or below, to check it out full size. . Full resolution and details at Astrobin. Link in Bio or here: https://www.astrobin.com/tmdibg/ . 54 x 300s 800 ISO Dark, flat, dark flat and bias calibration frames Providence, RI - Bortle 8 . @radiantelescopes Raptor 61 @canonusa EOS Ra @optolongfilter L-eXtreme filter Sky Watcher EQ6-R Pro ZWO 30mm f4 MiniScope (guide) ZWO asi224mc (guide) . @provjournal . . . #astrophotography #astrophoto #astronomy #highpointscientific #OPTeam #myOPTgear #agenaastro #astromaniacmag #questionmarknebula #ngc7822 #cepheus #nebula #milkyway #stars #space #spaceimage #igworldclub_astrophotography #ig_spaceimage #ig_astrophotography #optlonglextreme #optolongfilter #canonphotography #ShotOnCanon #radianraptor61 #rhodeisland #astrobackyard #backyardastronomy #cityastrophotography #telescope #photography (at Providence, Rhode Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiNEpsxOSfv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[astronerdscorner]

Comet meets M3 ... For me this picture is astrophotography in a nutshell ... Objects there for thousands and millions of years and than an event like a comet with only 2hrs time to capture it. Bilddaten: - 51x 90s / ISO1600 Setup: - 432mm ED 72 - Canon EOS 600Da - Skywatcher EQ6 R Pro - Zwo Asi 178mm als Guide cam

[kornkidd]

Posted @withregram • @real_astrophotography Heart Nebula ❤️ Captured a few nights ago from my backyard. One of the few nebulas whose name actually makes sense 😁 The beautiful red glow comes from the ionized hydrogen gas that is energized by the small star cluster in the center. 📍location: backyard (bortle 5) 🔭 telescope: William Optics GT81 📸 camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro Color ⚙️ mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro @skywatcherusa #astrophotography #nebula #space #astronomy #science #night #longexposure #williamoptics #highpointscientific #beamazed #zwoasi #skywatcher #telescope #stars #photography #optolong #galaxy #pleiades #universe #stargazing #outdoors #nightsky #astrophoto #astropics #starynight #heartnebula #star #stars https://www.instagram.com/p/CUs_zZJLZQ9/?utm_medium=tumblr

[the0phrastus]

Astrophotography from my backyard--from last night's imaging run: M78, LDN 1622, and a piece of Barnard's Loop. Top right is a structure composed of a batch of dark nebulae clustered around the reflection nebula Messier 78 (M78, NGC 2068), about 1,350 lightyears away, and bottom left is LDN1622, the "Boogeyman Nebula" about 500 lightyears away. And the wide ribbon running between them, mostly ionized hydrogen and interstellar dust, is part of "Barnard's Loop", which runs around the Alnitak side of the constellation Orion.

Imaging Notes: 49 x 300-second subs taken with the ZWO ASI071MC color camera (cooled to 0°C, gain 0) and the William Optics Redcat 51 apochromatic refractor (250mm FL, f/4.9), Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro mount, ZWO ASIAir Plus astro controller. I shot 94 sub-expsures at 5-minutes each, starting around 7pm and running through the night to about 4am, but ended up tossing almost half of them, stacking the best 49.

https://SaltwaterWitch.com

[thomasbrisenio]

IC 443 - Jellyfish Nebula. Imaged through Meade's 70mm Astrograph.

Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI294MM Pro

Mounts: Skywatcher EQ6-R PRO

Guiding cameras: Asi224mc · Sky-Watcher EvoGuide 50E

PC: Meade Brand Ambassador, Chris Bulik - https://bit.ly/2Vk08O0

[toddcharlson]

NGC 6960 The Witch's Broom Nebula in HOO

Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI2600mm

Imaging Telescope: William Optics FLT132 Triplet APO Refractor

Aperture: 132

Focal Length: 910mm

Focal Ratio: f/6.9

Field Corrector: William Optics Field Flattener 68III

Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro

Guide Scope: William Optics ZenithStar 61II Doublet APO Refractor

Guide Camera: ZWO ASI178mm

Filters: Chroma 3nm Ha, Chroma 3nm SII, Chroma 3nm OIII

Dates: 2023/07/08, 2023/07/09, 2023/07/10

Frames:

Integration Time: 556 minutes (9.27 Hours)

[howtodrawaeyes]

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Trump at the South Lawn of the White House on February 7, 2020. Photo by William Moon

Looks like someone photoshopped Trump’s face onto Trump.

Happy birthday to the legend

I miss you, Left-Shark. You were too beautiful for this world.

After 6 years of trying, I’ve finally picked up 1 year of sobriety.

1 Illuminati dollar.

Captain Native America

His sidekick is also called Hawkeye

My Japanese friend found a game about himself in a shop in the Netherlands

Nice to meet you, Mr. Gun.

Barack and Michelle Obama, shortly after their marriage in 1992.

Obama: aged 3 years from 1992 to 2008. Aged 25 years from 2008-2016

Fire station in Italy looks like a villain hideout

"Do you expect me to talk?" "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to drop low, below the smoke, and crawl to the nearest exit in the event of a fire!"

My 5th attempt at an oil painting, I struggled a lot with it but I like how it came out

I'd hang it on my wall.

Bill introduced himself as Dr. Peter Venkman & talked to my kids every other hole at the ATT Pro Am.

Makes you wonder if there’s a Bill Murray look a like going around doing random things and saying “no one will ever believe you”. Edit: he was hired by Bill Murray

Ehhh... What’s up Don?

I absolutely had big ol' gut laugh at this. Thank you so much.

Nyakim Gatwech model with the darkest skin in the world. Just stunning!!!

Anish Kapoor is going to sue her

GWB awarding Mr. Rogers the presidential medal of freedom

We need more people like Mr. Rogers.

My friend the Emperor Hadrian.

I made this to make the comparison a little easier.

Rosa Parks deservedly receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1996

Didn't know she was alive in 1996... Seriously..

Indoor arcade shot of my friend,.

I feel like I’m falling into that shirt

This is more like it...

Stolen from photoshop battles! Unless this is creator, in that case, carry on.

Brexit Billboard in Brussels.

This isn’t a brexit billboard it’s cryptocurrency advertisement with a tongue n cheek to brexit

This Is Barcelona.

Interestingly the street corners in Barcelona are all angled as you can see. Ildefons Cerdà designed the city before automobiles, he included wide streets and his famous angled corners in anticipation of urban steam trams distributing goods and people. They would need lots of room to turn. These days however the angled corners allow the streets to broaden at every intersection making for greater visibility, and fluid traffic in all directions. Once you notice it while walking around you can appreciate how open the streets are compared to other European cities

An amazing view from the Faroe Islands

"Go out and mow the roof or there's no more screen time, young man" "But maaaaaaaa!"

Shakira appears to be wearing her Zootopia character outfit lol

She looks amazing!

I spent the last month capturing this 31 hour exposure image of the Vela Supernova Remnant from my backyard

Finally after a month of imaging, it is done. This is a 31.4 hour HOO image of a really faint region of the Vela SNR taken from my backyard in Auckland, New Zealand. If you enjoy my images, my instagram handle is @OkeWoke Additionally higher quality display of all my images here my personal site. Equipment: Scope: GSO 8" F/4, flocked, 2" moonlite, DIY AutoFocuser, DIY Secondary Dew Heater Coma Corrector: SkyWatcher Aplanatic/Quattro Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MMC PRO (Image scale ~1"/pixel) Mount: EQ6-R Guide Scope: ZWO 60mm Guide Cam: QHY5LIIC All ZWO LRGBSHO filters Acquired on 31/12/2019, 03/01/2020, 07/01/2020, 17/01/2020, 18/01/2020, 19/01/2020, 20/01/2020, 22/01/2020, 28/01/2020, 31/01/2020. Subs & Integration times: Ha: 91 x 300s (7.6 hrs) + 38 x 900s (9.5 hrs) 17.1 hours total Oiii: 172 x 300s (14.3 hrs) Grand Total: 31.4 hours All at unity gain, 21 offset, -15 degrees celsius Acquired with the NINA imaging suite. Guided with PHD2. Mount interface: EQMOD Processing: Flat and dark calibration 1x drizzle w/ 0.6 dropshrink Ha & Oiii: ABE, DECON, TGV NR, MMG NR, HT Stretch Channel Combination to create RGB image with HOO mapping. Colour Curves on Hue, a and b channels to achieve final colours. LHE applied to dark and bright region using rangemask Contrast Curves ACDNR Star Reduction Further curves TL;DR Pointed telescope and monochrome camera using two special filters at this region of sky. Took many small exposures (5 or 15 minutes). Combined together to create this.

My uncles superbowl party in Minnesota

It wasn’t even cold this year, by Minnesota standards anyway. Read the full article

[wineandastronomy-blog]

Pacman Nebula in Hubble Palette

This is a depiction of the Pacman Nebula (NGC 281) in a color palette commonly known as the Hubble Palette.

The data was captured using three narrowband filters; Hydrogen-Alpha (Ha), Oxygen III (O3) and Sulfur II (S2) emission lines.

Final image is a blend of these three narrowband images assigned as S2 to the Red channel, Ha+S2 to the Green channel and O3 to the Blue channel.

1) Equipment used:

Camera : ZWO ASI1600MM - monochrome camera Filter and Wheel : Baader 36mm unmounted filters with ZWO Electronic Filter Wheel Telescope : TS Optics TS107/700 with 0.8x focal reducer (effective focal length 560 mm f/5.2) Mount : Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro with EQMOD control software with Stellarium. Guiding : Astromanis 60mm with ZWO ASI-120MM-S monochrome camera Capturing Software : Sequence Generator Pro

Captured 50x360 secs of Ha. 50x300 secs of O3. 50x480 secs of S2.

30xflats in each channel 30xdarks in each channel

Bortle sky scale is on border of 5-6. ​

2) Pre-processing Using PixInsight (PI):

Use this tutorial as the guide and I change the workflow a bit depending on the target:

http://www.lightvortexastronomy.com/tutorial-pre-processing-calibrating-and-stacking-images-in-pixinsight.html

PI processes used for pre-processing: ImageCalibration, CosmeticCorrection, SubframeSelector (script), StarAlignment, LocalNormalization, ImageIntegration and DrizzleIntegration

​ 3) PI processes used for integration:

Started with DynamicCrop and basic Dynamic Background Extraction in each channel. Linear fit the O3 and Ha to S2. Channel Combination with PixelMath. Red - S2, Green - Ha, Blue - O3. Background Neutralization. Color Calibration. Extracted star mask and used Morphological Transformation for star reduction. Extracted lightness mask and used with Multiscale Linear Transformation in Luminance first and then on Chrominance. ACDNR for low scale noise reduction. Histogram transformation with Arcsinhstretch. Used the masks for two sets of curves transformation, once for star color and once for overall. Hue transformation for the golden/blue tone. SCNR with green reduction. Curves transformation for added saturation.

[jzholloway-sncastro]

Cocoon Nebula - IC 5146 Located in Cygnus, the IC 5146 is a reflection and emission nebula. I finally decided to put everything together on the Celestron EdgeHD 8 for deep space and do some testing to make sure my guiding worked and that I could reach focus. Guiding was the easy part, focus was the pain. I finally got it and on the first night I captured m27 amd NGC 869, those I will post soon. On night two, I decided to shoot the Cocoon on both my Edge as well as my Meade 80mm Triplet. This here is from the Edge, and though I had some focus drift in the middle of my imaging (can't seem to get the auto focus to do its thing when using my Canon), I am happy with the result, especially considering I did not use any filters. . Full resolution and details at Astrobin, link in Bio or here: https://www.astrobin.com/k22kkd/B/ . 274 x 60s 400 ISO Dark, flat, bias and dark flats used for calibration Providence, RI - Bortle 8 . @celestronuniverse Edge HD 8 Celestron 0.7 Reducer @canonusa EOS Ra Sky Watcher EQ6-R Pro Svbony 60mm Guide Scope (guide) ZWO asi290mm-mini (guide) Pegasus Powerbox Advanced . Captured using Astro Photography Tool, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, Pixinisight used for crop, color calibration, background extraction, star removal and Canon banding removal. Processing finished in Photoshop . @provjournal . . #astrophotography #astrophoto #phototography #astronomy #highpointscientific #OPTeam #myOPTgear #agenaastro #astromaniacmag #astrobackyard #backyardastronomy #cocoonnebula #Cygnus #ic5146 #darknebula #igworldclub_astrophotography #ig_spaceimage #ig_astrophotography #celestron #edgehd8 #canonphotography #ShotOnCanon #space #milkway #nebula #rhodeisland #canoneosra #apod #photo #nightphotography (at Providence, Rhode Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cim8KwIuPJ6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[astronerdscorner]

IC 405 or the flaming star nebula on the right and IC 410 or tadpole nebula on the left in the constelation Auriga Bilddaten: - 81x 180s / ISO800 - 50 Flats - 50 Bias - 50 Darks Setup: - 750mm F5 Skywatcher Newton - Canon EOS 600Da - Skywatcher EQ6 R Pro - Zwo Asi 178mm als Guide cam

[kharvilak]

M3 (NGC 5272) is a globular cluster of stars in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici. It was discovered on May 3, 1764, and was the first Messier object to be discovered by Charles Messier himself. 4//2/2021, 9:49 pm. Westminster, MD. William Optics Gran Turismo 81 IV (480mm focal length, F/5.9), Celestron Luminos 2.5x Barlow (total combined focal length: 1200 mm @ f/14.75), Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro mount, Nikon D5100. 77 x 120 sec light subs, 32 darks, 31 bias, no flats. ISO 1600, 2 hours and 34 minutes total integration. Stacked and post-processed in Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP. Cropped for composition. Some star elongation from not using a flattener, and the barlow compounds the issue. #astrophotography #astroimaging #astronomy #nightskyphotography #globularcluster #M3 #skyandtelescope #williamoptics #williamopticsgt81 #celestronluminos #skywatcher (at Westminster, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNO0QGNnLoo/?igshid=1t6izb8ih7qam