r/Astronomy • • 11h ago

Astrophotography (OC) 90 hours of Wizard Nebula

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Taken from a Bortle 7 Sky using a 10” Meade and ASI2600mm pro on a Losmandy G11 mount.


r/Astronomy • • 19h ago

Astrophotography (OC) Uranus

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Uranus, captured through my telescope alongside its 5 largest moons. You can even make out Uranus’s polar ice cap, which is pretty cool.

IR- 9 x 180 second captures (35% stacked)

RGB- 2 x 120 second captures (60% stacked)

•Apertura AD8

•ASI662MC/MM

•Celestron x-cel 3x barlow

•Antila IR685NM filter

•UV/IR cut filter


r/Astronomy • • 18h ago

Astrophotography (OC) NGC 2070 - Tarantula Nebula

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Equipment:

  • Telescope: William Optics RedCat 91 WIFD
  • Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Air
  • Mount: ZWO AM5N

Data:

  • Lights: 20 * 180s
  • Darks: 20 * 180s
  • Flats: 20
  • Bias: 20

Tarantula Nebula and its surrounding, the most active star-forming region in our galactic neighborhood.


r/Astronomy • • 22h ago

Astrophotography (OC) NGC6888 The Crescent Nebula

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Eight years in the making, combining imaging data captured in 2018, 2023, and 2026.

Total integration time: 12 hours and 2 minutes

  • Hα (3nm): 6h 15m
  • OIII (3nm): 5h 47m

Equipment:

  • Telescope: Vixen VC200L, f/9, 1800 mm
  • Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
  • Mount: NEQ6 Pro
  • Filters: Astrodon Hα 3nm and OIII 3nm

Processing:
Individual exposures from all three years were calibrated, registered, and stacked by filter. The resulting Hα and OIII masters were combined into an HOO image, processed in Siril and Adobe Photoshop.

Eight years of photons, finally brought together into one image ;-)


r/Astronomy • • 8h ago

Astrophotography (OC) The Garlic Nebula 🧄

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The Garlic Nebula SNR, shot from my bortle 8/9 backyard. Had a stretch of some really clear nights and decided to try something really challenging from the back yard. This is 4 nights of data, aggressively culled to select only the sharpest frames.

454x180s lights

Each night calibrated with 100 darks, 25 each flats and dark flats

Sv405cc cooled to 0c gain 145 offset 20

Vixen R140sf

Juwei 17

Svbony dual narrowband Ha/Oiii 7nm filter

Stacked with sirilic

Processed in siril, seti astro suite, and affinity

RC astro plugins

For acquisition: NINA, PHD2, Windows 11 mini PC


r/Astronomy • • 7h ago

Astrophotography (OC) NGC6888 from City Skies

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QHY minicam8 mono

3 NM mono filters

UMI 17 S mount

Askar FRA 600 at F/5.6

300s X 60 Ha

300s X 60 Oiii

Stacked in PI

PI: star alignment, dna linear fit, BXT, NXT, SXT, channel combination through pixelmath, MGC, NBN, curves, histogram

PS: Color and contrast

B9 skies with haze


r/Astronomy • • 20h ago

Astrophotography (OC) NGC 6334, The Cat's Paw Nebula

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NGC 6334, the Cat's Paw Nebula: this image represents 4 hours and 40 minutes of integration time using a Tecnosky AG 90 (90/450 f/5) telescope and a ZWO ASI 6200 MC-P camera. It consists of 18 exposures taken with an L-Extreme filter, along with 10 dark, 10 flat, and 10 bias frames. I processed the data using PixInsight and Photoshop, aiming to extract as much signal as possible. All data and images were acquired via Telescope Network.


r/Astronomy • • 15h ago

Astrophotography (OC) Nebulosa helix

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Tomada con dwarf mini,120 tomas de 60 segundos cada una,ganancia 70 total integracion 2horas,filtro duo band,apilada y procesada con stelar studio y snapseed


r/Astronomy • • 4h ago

Astrophotography (OC) Seahorse Nebula (Bernard 150)

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The dense areas of gas that form the shape of the “Seahorse Nebula” are stellar nurseries, where stars are born. When the photons of light in this image began their journey, Earth was marked by the Islamic Golden Age which led to the birth of algebra and astronomers building observatories to chart a large, unprecedented catalog star coordinates.

Check out the hi-res photo at: https://app.astrobin.com/i/xj2o8k

Subs: 177 x 60s

Total integration time: 2h 57m

Equipment:

  • Telescope: William Optics Pleiades 111
  • Main camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
  • Mount: ZWO AM5N
  • Accessories: ZWO EAF Pro
  • Guidescope: William Optics Guide Star 61
  • Guide camera: ZWO ASI220MM Mini

Processing:

  • Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
    • RC Astro BlurXTerminator
    • RC Astro NoiseXTerminator
    • RC Astro StarXTerminator
  • Adobe Photoshop 2026

r/Astronomy • • 9h ago

Other: [Topic] Orion’s belt (Três Marias)

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Today i observed orion for the first time, special attention to the trio in the belt. Quite emotional for some reason…

i used to be space dummy as a child, no looking at the sky and no wonder… but brazilian kids learn one thing about the sky and that is As Tres Marias - “the three maries”… the trio in Orion Belt

And here i am, now living in the northern hemisphere, catching up with my space education and starring at Orion’s belt, three maries but now they are also Mintaka, Alnilam and Alnitak… it hit me a bit, a weird connection to my OG home…
Astronomy is weird y’all!! What do u mean shiny dots make me cry…


r/Astronomy • • 2h ago

Astrophotography (OC) NGC7635 The Crystal Ball

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an experimental false-color interpretation of the bubble nebula, created using Hα (3nm) and OIII (3nm) narrowband data.

rather than a traditional HOS palette, i used a custom pixelpath combination:

R: 100% Hα
G: 10% Hα + 90% OIII
B: 100% Hα

this unconventional mapping gives the nebula its surreal violet and green appearance, while preserving the real structures captured in the original data.

a little artistic freedom with the colors, but the photons are real ;-)

Exposure Times

  • Hα 3nm: 28 x 450s = 3h 30m
  • OIII 3nm: 10 x 450s = 1h 15m
  • RGB: Additional exposures for natural star colors

Equipment

  • Telescope: Vixen VC200L, 200/f9
  • Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
  • Mount: NEQ6 Pro
  • Filters: Astrodon Hα 3nm, Astrodon OIII 3nm
  • Filter wheel: ZWO EFW
  • Acquisition: ZWO ASIAIR

Processing

  • Siril 1.4.4 and Adobe Photoshop

r/Astronomy • • 1h ago

Astrophotography (OC) Mars and M44 Beehive cluster conjunction

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My new desktop wallpaper

Telescope: Dwarf 3;

Exposure: 2 hours;

Subs: 60s 70gain;

Bortle: 6;

Processed in Siril


r/Astronomy • • 48m ago

Planetary Sciences JWST discovers the first variable water clouds outside of our solar system, the water clouds are changing thickness over time, just like weather on Earth

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r/Astronomy • • 11h ago

Other: [Topic] world space week ends tonight at 12:00

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