Keith Bramley

I’m on a free trial so trying it out on a few different data sets. I’m very impressed, it works wonders on edge of field stars where I tend to suffer from abberations.

Interesting question, generally the darker nebulosity that is back lit is in front of the ionisation sources and brighter nebulosity. The stars most likely have Gaia data available which would allow you to determine their distances too. I have seen stereograms made but not sure how accurate they are

That’s an excellent image of Mel-15 too, I do like the colours. There is so much interesting nebulosity all around the Heart and Soul nebula region.

Yes I ran BlurXterminator on the starless image and on the stars only image before stretching.

Had a go processing some of my older narrowband data in Pixinsight of Melotte 15 in the Heart Nebula. I feel this is a better result this time, more finer structure and better stars. This was 18 hours data with Ha, SII and OIII using Atik 383L+ and 190MN #astrophotography

Excellent shot Mike

Its raining again so here is an image from earier this year. M81 and M82 galaxies. 6 Hrs Lum and 2 hrs total R,G,B using 190MN and ZWO 2600MM. 100% crop of each galaxy and the full image rescaled. This is another Pixinsight re-process, still learning but very happy with this :) #astrophotography

Wow look at those colours, great job.

Re-processed my M106 image with Pixinsight, wish I had taken the leap earlier to PI, much improved, although had to crop a portion to avoid poorly calibrated frames. This is a LRGB image, total of 19 hours exposure with 190MN and ZWO 2600MM camera, click left image for 100% crop #astrophotography

Here is my SH2-125 The Cocoon Nebula, imaged in HaLRGB. Total of 3 hours each R,G,B 3 hours Lum and 3 hours Ha. Imaged with a 190MN and ZWO 2600MM camera. This is my first try at using Pixinsight, so far I'm super impressed :) full resized and 100% crop image #astrophotography

After an extended summer break from Astrophotography I am back in the saddle and capturing photons again. Amazingly everything fired up first time, although many critters have been evicted. Tonight’s target is SH2-125 The Cocoon Nebula, might take a couple of nights.

The NGC 4631 Group is a poorly defined group of galaxies, about 25 million light-years from Earth in the Coma Berenices and Canes Venatici constellations. The NGC 4631 Group is one of many that lie within the Virgo Supercluster

NGC 4631 (also known as the Whale Galaxy or Caldwell 32) is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 30 million light years away from Earth. It was discovered on 20 March 1787 by German-British astronomer William Herschel. This galaxy's slightly distorted wedge shape gives it the appearance of a herring or a whale, hence its nickname. Because this nearby galaxy is seen edge-on from Earth, professional astronomers observe this galaxy to better understand the gas and stars located outside the plane of the galaxy

NGC 4656/57 is a highly warped edge-on barred spiral galaxy located in the local universe 30 million light years away from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. This galaxy is sometimes called the Hockey Stick Galaxy or the Crowbar Galaxy. Its unusual shape is thought to be due to an interaction between NGC 4656, NGC 4631, and NGC 4627

After a decent haul of clear nights here is some new images. This is my NGC 4631 The Whale Galaxy and its buddy NGC 4656 The Hockey Stick Galaxy. With crops of each at full resolution. A total of 10 hours using LRGB filters with my 190MN scope and ZWO 2600MM camera. #astrophotography #galaxy 🔭

Thank you ☺️ Wow bortle 1 is pretty wild, I would expect the full Moon may have less impact especially if well off axis. Would be interested to see the results, I imagine gradient will be the challenge.

It’s a great target, I first saw it through the eyepiece 20 years ago in my little 6” Newt, then it was just a fuzzy blob, but I found it by hand and I was chuffed ☺️

Do you let the Seestar do all the processing or do you do it in separate software.

Nicely done, I’m seeing some great shots out of the Seestar 👏🏻

A globular cluster, a compact group of over one hundred thousand stars. Located 22,000 light years from Earth.

With the Moon big and bright I decided to switch to Globluar Clusters, here is my image of M13 The Great Gobular Cluster in Hercules. Several hundred thousand stars, mind blown 🤯. Total of 2 hours Luminance and 1.5 hours each RGB using 190MN and ZWO 2600MM #Astrophotography #space #stars 🔭

I’ll send these clear skies over to you, it looks like it’s all going back to normal cloud and rain on Sunday here. The Moon is a crashing the party atm, I have abandoned my galaxy imaging and gone for some globular clusters for a couple of nights 👌🏻

Clear nights appear to be like buses, you wait for ages then 5 come at once.

Thank you for babysitting them, hopefully you will get some clearer skies soon 🤞🏻

Hah, yeah I know, but It’s all going back to factory settings on Sunday 😬

Not sure if it’s just me but for us UK based astrophotographers this must be the longest continuous streak of clear nights in decades, I think I have had nearly 3 weeks of cloudless skies so far ☺️, it’s so unusual, normally it’s a few a month at best #astrophotography

Here is Mare Imbrium and craters including Plato, Cassini, Archimedes and others, see the annotated version for more info. This is my image from this last night with a ZWO 2600MM and 190MN scope, best 200 frames from 1000 standard luminance filter. #Astrophotography #thephotohour #space 🔭

The crater Copernicus, a large impact crater on the Moon

The crater Copernicus, named after Nicholas Copernicus - Polish Astronomer (1473-1543). It is 93km wide and 3.8km deep. This is my image from this last night with a ZWO 2600MM and 190MN scope, best 200 frames from 1000 standard luminance filter. #Astrophotography #thephotohour #space 🔭

lol same here, maybe one day.

Great shot Rob, really looks like you are in actual orbit around the Moon 👏🏻

A super Seagull Nebula (IC 2177) by Darren, can be a tough target for our latitude here in UK, need a clear southern horizon.

Waxing Cresent Moon 3.8 days old

Tonights Moon, 100 frames with 190MN Scope and ZWO 2600MM cam. Some Moony facts -
15.7% Illuminated
3.8 days old
Waxing Crescent
360,230km from Earth
-6.9 Visual Magnitude
33.2 arcmin Apparent size

#astrophotography #moon #luna

The central region of the Rosette Nebula, also known as SH2-275 and contains the open cluster NGC 2244. There is a blue central region comprising of OIII emmisons, there is an interesting collection of darker dust regions atthe bottom known as the Carnival of Animals

Here is my image of SH2-275 The Rosette Nebula, My FOV at this focal length can't fit it all in, but this is the central region. 2.5 hours each of SII, H-Alpha and OIII imaged with a ZWO 2600MM and 190MN scope. Love the dust formations, how many animals can you spot? #Astrophotography #nebula 🔭

Classic UK weather for todays partial solar eclipse 🌙 , for the rest of the week though it’s wall to wall sunshine, first year I have had access to a solar scope I could use too, gutted.