Our Beautiful Universe - Photos and Videos

[Razvan Mihai]

Monkey head nebula. Total integration time 30 minutes, via Tecnosky 70/420 Apo, with ASI 533 color camera, on iOptron SkyHunter mount, guided.
Processed with Pixinsight and SetiAstroSuite.
Bortle 7, Ploiești, Romania.

 

[Razvan Mihai]

Rosette nebula. Total integration time 60 minutes.
With Canon 600 D, on iOptron SkyGuiderPro mount, through APO Tecnosky 70/420, Ploiești, bortle 7, Romania.
Initial processing with Pixinsight and later reprocessed with SetiAstroSuite.

 

[Razvan Mihai]

Planet Jupiter, through mak 127/1500, 2x barlow, 3 minutes integration.
Processing with PIPP, AS3 and Registax. Denoising with PS.

 

[Razvan Mihai]

M 51. 4 hours total integration (2 nights), with Seestar S50.
Processing and editing with Pixinsight and SetiAstroSuite.
Ploiești, Romania, bortle 7

 

[AlexB23]

Since I'm not willing to chop down trees to increase my field of view, the only thing I could image for the past month has been M27 (Dumbbell nebula):

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Nikon D810 + Nikkor 800/5.6 @ f/8, 6s subs, 14.5 hours viewing time on Losmandy GM-8, stacking and post-processing using Astro Pixel Processor.

Not only is the nebula and neighborhood rather boring (all things considered), it's also hard for me to image well because of the low elevation (poor seeing) and nearness to celestial equator (which is why the subframe time is so short). At least the final result looks good.... sigh.

Wow, this is high quality. Professional observatories from a hundred years ago and much bigger telescopes could not compete with your work, probably cos CMOS tech can show more contrast compared to film. Goes to show how much telescope tech evolved. And hey, sacrificing one or two trees for great pictures may be alright. Potentially plant two or three trees in an area you will not be using your telescope.

 

[Razvan Mihai]

Helix nebula. Is a planetary nebula, lies about 650 light-years, in the constellation Aquarius.
Image taken with Seestar S50, from Şirnea, BV, Romania.
The target was at low altitude and atmospheric turbulence made its presence felt. Only 40 minutes total integration time. Out of 2 hours of total exposure of 10 seconds each, many were rejected for stacking.
Processing and editing with Pixinsight and Seti Astro Suite.

 

[Andy Resnick]

Wow, this is high quality. Professional observatories from a hundred years ago and much bigger telescopes could not compete with your work, probably cos CMOS tech can show more contrast compared to film. Goes to show how much telescope tech evolved. And hey, sacrificing one or two trees for great pictures may be alright. Potentially plant two or three trees in an area you will not be using your telescope.

Thanks for the compliments!

 

[AlexB23]

Thanks for the compliments!

You're welcome, man.

 

[Andy Resnick]

The moon and jupiter are close enough to capture @ 400mm (about 7 degrees separation), I "helpfully" magnified jupiter pasted it on to better see the detail, one exposed to see the lunar and planetary details, and another exposed to show the 4 galilean moons: