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

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.

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′

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

1h57min on Dwarf Mini

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.

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.

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.

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

Taken on Samsung S22 with no lenses

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.

~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.

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.

M31 in Suzhou China
lightpollution 5

Processed from last year, one of my favourite targets! Seestar S30, processed with Siril and Photoshop.

This is comet 220p/McNaught from my backyard in upstate NY. I captured this image on 8/22 in the early morning hours. I actually started the night off collecting Veil nebula data. I set an alarm for 3am but unfortunately I didn’t wake up till nearly 4. By the time I got slewed to this i only ended up with around a half hour before the fog rolled in super thick and put an end to my session.
I captured this data with a Redcat 51 and 183.mc pro. I had those on my Celestron avx. I used DSS to stack and Pixinsight to process.

Finally had clear skies to test out my setup.

I had switched from canon to Sony cameras several years ago so I have several canon bodies gathering dust and worth nothing so I figure it won’t hurt to astro modify it myself.

Camera - Canon T6i. DIY Astro modded following YouTube video for a different t canon camera. Nerve wracking but in hindsight, not really that hard.

Lens is sigma 150-600mm. I tested at 150 and at 600mm.

I added an SVbony SV220 3nm dual narrowband filter (like optioning L-ultimate) mounted on a 3d printed filter holder mounted between lens and body (like those clip on astronomik filters). I also made one for a UV/IR cut filter for use with galaxies.

Mount is Skywatcher Star Adventurer gti on skywatcher tripod

Guiding is ASI120mm camera + SV165 scope mounted on top of camera hotshoe

Controller is ASIAIR plus

Whole setup is powered by a single NP-F970 battery. All night session used only half the capacity. Battery is rated at 10500mah 75.6WHr. Somehow the rating is different from phone chargers which are based on 3.6v. The NP battery rating is based on 7.2v

What surprised me with the setup is the guiding error is about 1.5 arcseconds and at times less than 1. I have only tested up to 3 minute exposure. Don’t have patience to try 5 minutes.

At many points I wasn’t sure if this project would succeed but I’m glad it did and got something usable out of it.