Taken on Samsung S22 with no lenses

Took it with an iphone 13 pro and a 130mm dobsonian.

The video was filmed in .MOV format, processed into .Ser with PIPP and stacked with autostakkert.

ZWO FF110 APO
ASI2600MC AIR
ZWO duo band filter
AM5N mount
160 x 300sec subs
Processed in Siril
Bortle 8 location

About 5 hours of broadband and another 4ish of Ha/OIII. I have some optical artifacts I need to figure out. But collimating a fast newt is a but of a learning curve. I think I have it ironed out.

Telescope Carbonstar 150

Mount Heq5-pro

Camera SV405cc

Filters/guiding Svbony stuff, works decent for the price.

Telescope-AR102
Mount-iexos pmc eight
Camera-fujifilmxt100
126x15s
Processed with siril only. Did a little stretching but nothing crazy

Orion f/3.9 10" Newtonian Astrograph on Az/EQ 6 mount

SVBony SC571CC camera and 7nm HO narrowband filter from Bortle 4 skies, near full moon, captured with N.I.N.A.

Stacked and processed in PixInsight with SpectrographicFluxCalibration, SpectrographicColorCalibration, BlurXTerminator, StarXTerminator, Arcsinstretch, NoiseXTerminator, DarkStructureEnhance

Final histogram and local tone mapping in PaintShop Pro.

30x5 min of Ha

20x5 min of OIII

20x5 min of SII

Svbony SV503 80ED w/0.8x (448mm focal length)

QHY163m camera

iOptron CEM26 mount

ZWO SHO filters

ZWO EAF

QHY OAG w/ASI120mm guide cam

Captured using NINA.

Stacked and processed in Astro Pixel Processor using the SHO 2 formula preset.

1h57min on Dwarf Mini

15+hrs on Bubble nebula taken with a Celestron Edge 8, focal reducer, and an ASI 2600 Air.

Took a super crop of the bubble and processed to bring out as much detail as possible. The “colors” have taken a second seat to detail, although I’m not sure how this will translate through Reddit compressions.

The rainbow trout palette is growing on me.

Last night I captured 180 60-second subs of the Wizard Nebula and this was the result! I used my usual backyard rig, C8 + hyperstar f/2 + ASIAIR/533MC + EQ6, no filters used, bortle 9 area in SoCal.

Moon photo I took a while ago. I used a Nikon P1100. Took 35 photos of correctly exposed moon and another 35 of overexposed moon and later combined in post. I used affinity photo for this.

Settings: Manual mode, 1/250, f/7.1, ISO 100

A new image featuring WR 134, a Wolf-Rayet star located in the constellation Cygnus, approximately 6,000 light-years from Earth.

Wolf-Rayet stars are extremely massive, incredibly hot stars at an advanced stage of their evolution. They shed vast amounts of material through stellar winds that can reach speeds of several thousand kilometers per second.

It is precisely this phenomenon that gives rise to the spectacular structure visible in this image.

💨 WR 134 is literally blowing its own material out into space.

Its stellar winds collide with the surrounding interstellar medium, compressing and ionizing it, and over time sculpting a massive gas bubble around the star.

The delicate blue and cyan structures visible in the center represent this shell shaped by WR 134's winds, while vast red hydrogen clouds extend all around it.

A Wolf-Rayet star does not remain in this state forever; this extremely brief phase in the life of a massive star generally precedes a spectacular end—a supernova explosion that may result in the formation of a neutron star or a black hole.

🌟 What we see here is, in a sense, the signature of a giant star's breath before its demise.

https://astrob.in/buxfgl/B/

CDK 400mm F/7 Gallifrey Optics

Eq8 R Pro

Zwo asi 6200MM

Filtre Optolong 2" RGB Ha Oiii 3nm

28 Juillet 2026

7 Août 2026

9 - 11 Août 2026

22 Août 2026

Images:

Optolong Blue 2": 15×120,″(30′)

Optolong Green 2": 14×120,″(28′)

Optolong H-Alpha 3nm 2": 107×300,″(8h 55′)

Optolong OIII 3nm 2": 200×300,″(16h 40′)

Optolong Red 2": 15×120,″(30′)

Acquisition : 27h 3′

M31 in Suzhou China
lightpollution 5

Dumbbell nebula :)

Spent quite some time on it, collecting hydrogen alpha when the moon was not allowing for anything else

36.5 hours Halpha, 3nm Antlia filter

19 hours OIII, 12nm Astronomik filter

Romania, Bortle 4.5

Processed in Pixinsight, Seti Astro suite, GraXpert, Photoshop.

IMX 533 mono, -15°

Newton 200/1200

EQ6R

This was a shot I took around this time last year whilst on holiday in Guernsey. Taken with my Nikon D3400 and Samyang 14mm at f2.8 ISO 400 totalling 10 minutes exposure on my star adventurer.

Bortle 2 in Pleinmont, South-West Guernsey.

Processed in Siril and Photoshop.

Total integration 4h (80 × 180s), Bortle 5 skies
Gear: Askar 103APO + 0.8x reducer, ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
Processing: PixInsight + NoSkiesTools

Taken over multiple nights using a Canon Rebel T7 and kit zoom lens at 135mm

Star adventurer 2i

Roughly 11.5 hours of total exposure in 40s subs at 800 iso, no filters from bortle 7 skies

Got a free trial of pixinsight and the RC Astro tools to stack and process this project. BlurX and NoiseX work wonders when using a budget set up like this.

Finished up and adjusted colors in GIMP.

My interpretation of NGC 6960 - The West Veil of Cygnus or Witches Broom. Imaged in Beverley, Yorkshire, UK 17 Jul 2026. A little under 3 hours total integration. I plan on adding more to this when I get the chance. Full resolution image and integration details here.

Altair 80ED Triplet APO w/ 0.8x reducer
HEQ5 Pro mount
SV260 multiband pass filter
Guiding w/ 50mm + ASI120MM
AsiAir control

55 x 120-second exposures 30 darks, 30 flats, 30 biases

Stack and process in Pixinsight & DarkTable

Scope: Askar Fra400
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro
Mount: star adventurer 2i

Broadband: 1638 * 20 seconds subs (9 hours total)

Ha/OIII: 677 * 20 second subs (4 hours total)

Stacked and stretched on Siril.

Capture Details:

• 6 Panel Mosaic
• Total Integration: 13.2 Hours (Across all tiles and filters)
• ~2.2 hours/tile
• HII: 7.4 Hours (223 x 120s)
• OIII: 5.8 Hours (174 x 120s)

Equipment Details:

• Main Camera: ZWO ASI183MM Pro
• Telescope: WO Zenithstar 73
• Mount: SA GTI Equatorial
• Guide Scope: Svbony 50mm
• Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM
• ZWO EFW
• Filters: ZWO 7nm HII, OIII
• Custom Autofocuser

Software:

• Captured via Ekos/Kstars on an M1 Mac
• Processed in Pixinsight and Darktable

Processing:

Pixinsight: For each channel (HII, OIII), register and combine mosaic tiles --> starnet2 --> histogram adjustment --> combine into RGB --> curves adjustment, multiscale transform --> add stars --> export to Darktable --> noise reduction, tone equalizer.

Cygnus Loop Info:

The Cygnus Loop is a supernova remnant that is roughly 1000-2000 light years from us. The supernova occurred around 20,000 years ago, and we can observe what is left behind as The Cygnus Loop. Within the overall structure are The Eastern Veil (6992, NGC 6995, and IC 1340) and Western Veil (NGC 6960), in addition to a few other smaller structures.

Overall:

This is my first attempt at a mosaic, and I have learned that my computer can BARELY handle an image that is effectively 100MP, on top of all the data that comes with stacking. Pixinsight crashed several times, and while I could (and probably should) get more data per tile, the size and scope of this project has been overwhelming me, so I have decided to call it where it is.

All of the images were captured over the course of a few weeks in late July - early August, with varying moon brightness and seeing conditions. This was also the first real test of my handmade autofocuser, which while cool, also led to a huge learning curve and a lot of time spent quashing bugs. Now that everything works, I feel much more confident setting things up and taking things down quickly and efficiently. The clouds have set in where I live, but I am hopeful that I'll get another shot at a late summer target before fall and winter arrive, weather (and personal time) permitting.

Also, side note, I don't have RGB filters and I am in desperate need of them for stars, as my current stars always turn out a little funky when they're pulled from any SHO data.

Enjoy :)

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My latest image of the Cocoon Nebula, IC 5146, surrounded by the huge amount of dark interstellar dust running through this part of Cygnus.

I wanted to capture more than just the bright Cocoon itself, so the processing was aimed at bringing out the much fainter dusty structure and dark nebula surrounding it while still retaining the dense background star field.

**Equipment**

• Askar 107PHQ + 0.7× reducer (~524mm, f/4.9)

• ZWO ASI2600 Duo

• Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro

• Optolong L-eNhance

• UV/IR-cut filter

• PHD2 guiding

**Light frames**

• UV/IR: 29 × 120s = 58 minutes

• L-eNhance: 46 × 240s = 3h 04m

• Total light integration: **4h 02m**

**Calibration**

• 30 × 120s darks for the UV/IR data

• 30 × 240s darks for the L-eNhance data

• 50 flats per filter

• 50 dark-flats per filter

The UV/IR and L-eNhance data were calibrated and stacked separately. The broadband UV/IR data provided most of the natural star field and faint dusty structure, while the L-eNhance data was used to strengthen the Hα/OIII emission from the Cocoon.

Processing involved gradient/background correction, noise reduction, separate star and starless processing, stretching and then combining the two filter datasets. A fair bit of care was needed with the stretch because pushing the background too far very quickly makes the faint dust overly contrasty.

The part I particularly like is the dark nebula itself. The Cocoon is obviously the bright centrepiece, but once the surrounding dust starts appearing you realise just how much structure there is across the entire field.

**IC 5146 – Cocoon Nebula, Cygnus**

**Total integration: 4h 02m**

~6.5 hr integration with 60s subs, ISO 1600, Bortle3 location (Nakolec 🇲🇰), f/5.6, 250mm (cropped)

Taken with Canon 77D with Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-f5.6 IS STM Lens and Star Adventurer 2i.

Stacked with DSS and processed with Siril and PS.