![]() ![]() This month's planetary photo comes from Cape Coral, Florida. I also used an equatorial mount (Sky Watcher GTi),Īn electronic focuser, and a guide camera - all controlled via a mini pc (the ASIAIR). (ZWO ASI294MC Pro) paired with the Rokinon 135mm camera lens while This image was taken with a dedicated color astronomy camera Something I've never really attempted before from my apartment in the city. I was able to capture some of the fainter dust surrounding the "Seven Sisters". With darker skies (bortle 4) and a fast lens (I had it at F2), Via stacking software (Astro Pixel Processor), and edited in Photoshop to produce I took this photo in Yucca Valley, near Joshua Tree, California,Īggregating over a hundred 3-minute sub-exposures (5 hours total exposure time) "starless" version of the image which really enhances both the Pleiades and the dust surrounding the open cluster. This months photo captures the Pleiades and the surrounding area including the dust clouds. I use PIPP to extractĪll the frames into Tiff files then find the frames with with ISS in them. When I see the ISS pass I stop the video. Seconds before the transit time I start to record the video. I use dimensions 4 to update my laptop time. Since the ISS was in shadow I had to rely on the time from a wellĬalibrated clock. I use to find transits happening close to home. If anybody else is interested in doing these types of shots, Later also from a separate shot I took a few minutes after the transit. The bottom of the Moon didn't fit in the FOV, so I had to blend that in Is comprised of all the frames of the video that contained the I graduated from 39 years ago! I used a Celestron C9.25 working atį6.3 paired with a ZWO asi294mc pro shooting 19 fps. I was shooting from the Springdale Elementary School baseballįield parking lot, which is coincidentally the elementary school This image was taken November 9th, 2022 in Stamford Connecticut. My goal is to worship God through these shots for as long as I can-He makesĭana Weisbrot once again blows our minds with an incredible capture of the ISS transiting the moon. I continue to enjoy learning form you all. And thanks to Daniel Fiordalis for making this site happen! This is such a great forum to share our new and old ways of doing things in a non-threatening and supportive environment. Thank you all for sharing your remarkable shots with me and the world. Slight final star reduction and star enhancement for color and detail.Several overlay layers to enhance contrast in certain areas.Separate masks for color, detail and vibrance. ![]() Isolating the stars and adding back in as a "color dodge, add" layer in Photoshop.Slight linear stretch after stacking in DSS.My workflow is all in Photoshop CC and consists of I also decided to keep Navi (gamma cass) in the shot it just looks like the nebula is reaching out toward the star! My reasoning here was that as I stretched the data there was so much detail in the head (IC 63) that I wanted to get as much as possible without blowing out the highlights. The final image is much brighter than most "ghost" images I've seen. N.I.N.A for capture, focusing, framing and sequencing.Camera: modded Canon 6D, L-Extreme (7nm h-alpha and Oiii).To be much more beneficial in the final stack than my "twilight sky" method of flats. Method on this shot was to use a flashlight and white T-shirts for my flats. Hours per night of data, which finally gave me 14.3 hours of integration time. Took advantage of every night that was not cloudy, which turned out to be four of those seven.īecause my light dome to the North is so high (about 40 degrees) I was limited to roughly 4 Integration time as the weather would allow. Using the Optolong L-Extreme filter in my imaging train. I took a gamble on the "Ghost of Cassiopeia" Nebula My bortle 6/7 skies are rapidly becoming brighter and getting to image higher magnitude Imaging from my backyard in Menifee, Southern California has always been a challenge. Huge thanks to Tom for submitting this incredible photo of IC63 for December's APOM! ![]()
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