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The Triangulum Galaxy photographed from the southern desert of Abu Dhabi (Bortle 3). I stacked 96 light frames of 120s each captured using a Sharpstar 13028HNT telescope (364mm @ ƒ/2.8 ) with a ZWO ASI2600MC Air camera on their AM5 go-to mount. The image was calibrated, stacked, and processed using Pixinsight with final touches applied in Lightroom.

Taken over the span of over a year, with a Celestron 5SE telescope.

This is sort of a farewell post for the 5SE, cause I’m hoping to blow these out of the water with the new 9.25” Evolution 👀

Same telescope except for an astro camera ($200) and a 2x barlow!

Celestron 5SE, ASI662MC, 2x Barlow for planets

By the way, all the planets of our system were visited by spacecraft in one way or another. Most often, Earth probes reached Mars, and Uranus and Neptune were visited only once by the Voyager 2 probe in the 80s of the last century.

As the title states, this is a full disk image of yesterday’s Sun in the hydrogen alpha portion of the spectrum (656nm) using my homemade spectroheliograph - basically a spectrometer for the Sun. I need to work on clarity of the focus, but you still get enough detail here to make it worth looking at imo.

The Veil Nebula is a beautiful supernova remnant left behind after a massive star, 20 times the size of our Sun, exploded thousands of years ago. This glowing cloud of gas and dust, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals intricate details of the star's violent death, showcasing shades of purple, pink, yellow, and orange spread across the cosmos.

Taken through night vision device.

Their partially destroyed edges hint at a turbulent past, perhaps caused by flooding.

Hello! I am an amateur astrophotographer through hobby/ passion and this is my first attempt at imaging the Andromeda Galaxy!

124 images taken stacked in siril with 25 calibration frames each. Used Photoshop for editing.

Camera: Canon rebel T7 Lense: Rokinon 135mm F/2.0 telephoto lense

Follow me along my journey on instagram! @stellarvoyage671

• Celestron C8 on AVX mount
• 41x 300s L-ultimate
• 22x 60s iruv cut
• Flats, Darks, Darkflats
• Split channel, align, and pixelmath recombination
• blurX, NoiseX, StarX
• Spcc for stars
• Statistical stretch on narrowband
• Dark structure enhancement
• Pixelmath to screen stars back in
• Bortle 4 at 41° N latitude

Spent our 4 year anniversary under the stars, and it was a beautiful weekend to do so. Orion, Rosette, and the Seagull Nebulas were all out, and the water was completely still. It was definitely a night to remember!

More content on my Instagram: Gateway_Galactic

Location: Patterson, MO

Bortle: 3

Gear: Sony A7III (astro-mod) Sony 24mm f/1.4 GM Skywatcher Star Adventurer

Acquisition: RGB Sky - f/2.8, ISO640, 5 x 60s (tracked/stacked) Ha Sky - f/1.4, ISO3200, 5 x 60s (tracked/stacked) Foreground - /2.8, ISO640, 5 x 60s (stacked)

I'm impressed with the amount of detail the L-extreme filter is able to pull out of this nebula. I've shot this target before but haven't been able to produce as clean an image until now. A real game changer!

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D5300 (Full Spectrum)
Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 61 II
APO with Field flattener
Filter: Optolong L-extreme
Guide Camera: ZWO 120mm mini
Mount: Skywatcher Star Adventurer GTi

Acquistion:
Shot in Bortle 5
-Lights: 50x300
-Flats: 100
-Bias: 100

Processing:
-Stacked and stretched in Siril
-Additional stretching in Photoshop