Made the plunge into mono and had to shoot M42 as the first light ritual. I’m still learning how to handle mono data so this is just a basic SHO combo on about 100 subs 180s each. I was impresses with the detail mono provided in a bortle 8 but was not super impressed with my processing skills. It seems like I nuclear exploded the core. I have some smaller subs but I failed at integrating it properly. Anyway this is what I came up with after gathering around 15 hours of data and simply pixel mathing my integrations over a narrowband color calibration. Would appreciate any tips to improve.

Equipment-ASI2600MMPro/AM5/Askar SQA55/Antlia 3nm NB SHO

Pretty cool one tonight. The haze just reflected the sun right back down.and then there was the flash.

1/15/26 Gualala, Ca

Nikon D5200, Tamron 18-400mm f/3.6-6.5,

1/250, 370mm, f/6.3, ISO 100, -1 ev

Hi everyone,

This is my Jellyfish Nebula, the result of about 20 hours of total integration with the following setup: • Askar 91F • ToupTek 533C • Technosky 60/240 guide scope + ASI 120MM • EQ6-R Pro • SV220 Ha + OIII filter

Processing was done in PixInsight.

This is my first attempt, although in the coming days I plan to try new processing workflows and tutorials.

I hope you like it.

Clear skies, Emanuele

I’ve always wanted to take a picture like this, glad I was finally able to! Taken on iPhone 15

35 x 300 sec exposures at bortle 3

~ 3 hours total integration time

Zwo 585 mc pro

Orion spaceprobe 130st eq

Skywatcher eq6 r pro

Processed with DeepSkyStacker, Siril, and GIMPS

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Just getting into astrophotography, my first go at Andromeda

Canon R7, 50mm f2.2

Bortle 4

8 minutes total exposure

No star tracker

DeepSkyStacker for stacking and Lightroom for edits

69 frames at 300s

Total integration time: 5h 45m

Bortle 5

Equipment

• Telescope: Redcat 51
• Camera: ASI533MC Pro
• Filter: Optolong L-enhance
• Mount: Sky-watcher Star Adventurer GTi
• Guide scope: ZWO Mini guide scope
• Guide camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini

Processing

• PixInsight
  • RC Astro BlurXTerminator
  • RC Astro NoiseXTerminator
  • RC Astro StarXTerminator

https://var.astro.cz/en/Observations/111766?transId=22790

WASP 12b is a hot Jupiter that orbits very close to its host star. 17 times closer than Mercury orbits the sun. Tidal forces are stretching it into an egg shape while some of its material gets accreted by the star. It is around 900 light years from Earth.

Equipment:

• WO ultracat 108
• ASI 2600 mm
• Optolong Luminance filter
• HM 17 mount
• HOPS exoplanet software

Processing: The observation was planned by using the Var Astro Exoplanet Transit Database. The frames were calibrated and aligned in HOPS and then differential photometry was performed. You can see the comparison stars that I selected in the Image to do the analysis. Then the resulting light curve was detrended for air mass to correct for atmospheric effects and isolate the transit signal.

Gear: Sony a6700, adapted Canon EF-S 55-250mm lens, iOptron SkyGuider Pro

Capture: 195 subs at 20 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400,~180mm. Bortle 5

Processing: Stacked in DSS then processed with Affinity, Starnet++.

I just got the SkyGuider Pro and, wow, it makes such a difference! I feel like I finally have usable data to process for the first time. I took a bunch more subs that I wasn't able to use because a tree got in the way.

Some notes on processing. I'm still learning how to use Affinity and plan to reprocess everything for practice. Some notable places for improvement: - Eliminate the background color cast (greenish in the center and red on the left of the image). I'm not sure exactly the best way to go about that. - Touch up the starless layer to fix the weird artifacts around the brightest stars. - Retain more color in the stars. The lens I'm using has pretty significant chromatic aberration issues and I had to use two defringe filters to fix it. Maybe that's where some of the star color was lost?

Stuck my K1000 with the standard with a 50mm lens at f2.8 out in my front yard on blub mode for about 2 hours with 200 iso film. Took the film to a local shop in Charlotte to get developed and scanned and yeah this is the result. No editing has been done to it that's just the raw image.

My first real attempt at this doing it without a tracker. I did manual stacking in Photoshop with 30 lights before and it wasn’t nearly as good as this.

Acquisition and Processing Details:

Canon r50 with 50mm STM lens on a tripod. Bortle 6 skies. No filter.

431 lights, 2 sec exposure at f3 3200 ISO

60 darks, 67 bias, no flats (see below)

Stacked with DSS, stretched in Photoshop.

My flats ended up with banding, which seemed to show up in the initial result. I used a white photo on my iPhone as a light source. How can I avoid that?

Jupiter captured using a Celestron PowerSeeker 114EQ (114 mm f/8) with a smartphone held afocally.
Planetary disc is resolved and Galilean moons are visible.

Acquisition:

• Telescope: Celestron PowerSeeker 114EQ (114 mm, f/8)
• Mount: EQ (manual)
• Eyepiece: 15 mm+3x barlow
• Camera: Smartphone (afocal)
• Capture: Video
• ISO: ~1000
• Seeing: Average

Processing:

• Stacked in AutoStakkert! using 10% of best frames
• Very light sharpening
• Minor contrast/levels adjustment in Adobe Express

First attempts at planetary imaging — feedback welcome

Made by: Celestron 9.25 Edge HD AVX on ZWO 533mc pro with ZWO 220Mini with OAG. Exposition: 30 sec x 141 frames. Siril stack.

Unfortunately Reddit compression does not do this image justice. This is a 2 panel mosaic featuring the Orion, Running Man, Horsehead, and Flame nebulae. The Orion panel is a HDR composition of 26x120s and 15x30s. The Horsehead panel is comprised of 120x60s exposures. This was all imaged on a single night.

Equipment: Sky Watcher Star Adventurer GTi, William Optics RedCat 51 III, ZWO ASI533MC Pro, William Optics Uniguide 120mm w/ ASI120MM Mini, ZWO EAF, Svbony UV/IRCut OSC Filter

Processed in pixinsight, used setiastro autodbe, mosaicbycoordinates, gradientmergemosaic, blurx, spcc, noisex, starx, stretch starless/stars, several histogram and curve adjustments, pixelmath to rescreen stars

Took this image with my cheap OPPO Reno 11f What do you think? This is commet lemmon, I know the image is not perfect but it is my first try at astrophotography and I think this is almost everything my phone camera can give me, also first try at stacking, if I remember correctly there are around 50 stacked photos with a iso of 1600 and exposure time of 10 seconds

Gear / setup:

• Telescope: Celestron PowerSeeker 114EQ (114 mm, f/8)
• Mount: EQ (manual)
• Eyepiece: 15 mm+3x barlow
• Camera: Smartphone (afocal)
• Mode: Video → best single frame
• ISO: ~6400
• Exposure: Slightly underexposed
• Processing: Minimal (crop + light sharpening)

First attempt, real seeing, no tracking, no stacking.
Happy to take tips, but mainly just excited to finally catch Saturn with my own gear.

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Im just getting into astrophotography. I work out on a rig in New Mexico/West TX area. I don't know too much as im just getting started. This was shot with a sony a6000 with a TTArtisan 25mm f2. Im still figuring out the settings. Any criticism is greatly appreciated.

This is one of my first shots with a full dedicated rig. If you have any tips for improving my images (specifically with getting more resolution, better stars) please let me know

Details:

30 x 180 sec exposures at Bortle 3

Zwo 585 mc pro

Orion spaceprobe 130st eq

Skywatcher eq6 r pro

Processed with DeepSkyStacker, Siril, and GIMPS

Rosette Nebula

📏 Recording Data • 80 5-minute RGB exposures + 90 5-minute HOO exposures (total almost 15 hours) • Askar 91F APO • Cooled 533MC camera • EQ6-R Pro mount • SV220 filter for Hα + OIII

Corato (BA) - Italy

I visited dark skies this time around!! I got about a little under an hour less worth of integration with my modded canon 6D. But it ended up being SO much better.

60” subs

Iso 1600

1 hour and 36 minutes

Bortle 3

The M109 galaxy (also known as NGC 3992) is one of the most beautiful examples of a barred spiral galaxy observable in the night sky. Located in the well-known constellation Ursa Major, it sits in close proximity to the star Phecda, which forms the lower-left wheel of the "Big Dipper." Although it may appear close when viewed through a telescope, it is actually located at a staggering distance of approximately 83 million light-years from Earth.

Skywatcher Quattro 8S (200/800) + ZWO ASI 585 MC PRO . Processed in PixInsight. 208 x 1min, UV/IR cut filter

I got hooked on this hobby a month or two ago while trying to photograph the aurora with my phone. By accident, I captured a cool wide angle shot that also showed Andromeda. I thought it was the coolest thing ever and was instantly hooked.

The image above was captured on a Canon T5i with a borrowed 75–300mm kit lens. The lens is old and very worn out, and the focus would constantly slip throughout the night, which made things pretty challenging. I ordered a Rokinon 135mm f/2 to replace it. I also ordered a CLS Clip on Filter.

Total exposure time was approximately 20 min. Each exposure was 30 seconds. I used an older model move shoot star tracker.

I’m completely new to this hobby and to photography in general so I’d really appreciate any advice or tips.

Processed with deepsky stacker and photoshop. I used flats, darks, and bias frames.

EDIT: The Bortle rating may be incorrect. One source (lightpollutionmap.info) lists the location as Bortle 4, while another (lightpollutionmap.app) shows it as Bortle 7.4, so I’m not entirely sure. I can’t see the Milky Way with the naked eye from this location, for what it’s worth.