Eta Carina and a new image processing pathway!

This image was stacked from 6 x 2 minute individual frames in Deep Sky Stacker and prleminary stretching and noise reduction was carried out in Startools (Previously I have used Nebulosity for both these functions).  Then, as per my old ways, some tweaking in Photoshop.

Here's the same image processed in my old image processing pathway Nebulosity and Photoshop.

Aurora Australis at Blackstone Heights Tasmania

Crazy Chickens IC2944

First part of a failed 2 panel mosaic with a Dual Band Filter, Ha and Oiii.

5 x 300second Exposures stacked and enhanced in post processing.

6 Panel Mosaic, 30 x 5 minute exposures in total, taken at Font Hill 2nd April with a ZWO1183MC and ED80 Refractor 2023 

Integration 5 and a half hours in Astro Pixel Processor and further processing in Nebulosity and Photoshop.

The 'Head' of the Chicken. iTelescope Data July 2022

My Home Setup, Canon 450D SWED80  10 X 10min Frames Nebulosity and Photoshop

Running Chiecken Via T13 at Coonabarabran.  Takahashi Sky90 90mm Refractor and Sbig Universal Colour Camera. 15th April 2018. 5 x 5 minute frames stacked and  processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop.

Running Chicken. T12 at Coonabarabran.  Takahashi FSQ ED 106mm Refractor and FLI  Monochrome Camera plus filters for colour.

New Addition/Editions

Above Stacking in Nebulosity and Combination in Photoshop

Running Chicken. T8 at Coonabarabran.  Takahashi FSQ ED 106mm Refractor and FLI  Monochrome Camera plus filters for Hubble Colour Pallette(HA Hydrogen Alpha, OIII Oxygen 3 and SIII Sulphur 3)

Below Preprocessing, integration and combination in AstroPixelProcessor with star reduction/removal in Photoshop.

Itelescope Images

 Bodes Nebula Imaged 'online' via Itelescope Observatory at New Mexico, T5, Takahashi Epsilon 250MM, SBIG ST10XME, 5 x 5 minute exposures(2 Clear, 1 Red, 1 Blue, 1 Green)  Processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop.

Centaurus A imaged 'online' via Itelescope Observatory in Coonabarabran NSW,  Planewave CDK 700mm, 1x 5 minute luminance.

Running Chicken Via T13 at Coonabarabran.  Takahashi Sky90 90mm Refractor and Sbig Universal Colour Camera. 15th April 2018. 5 x 5 minute frames stacked and  processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop.

IC2944 Running Chicken Via T12 at Coonabarabran.  Takahashi FSQ ED 106mm Refractor and FLI  Monochrome Camera plus filters for colour. 3 x Monochrome 1 x Red, 1 x Blue, 1 x Green.  Stacked and combined and processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop

M101 Spiral Galaxy in Ursa Major 

Imaged via iTelescope T3 Takahashi TOA 150 MM

Sbig Universal Colour Camera

5 x 5 Minute frames stacked and processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop

NGC 3372 Eta Carina Nebula Via T12 at Coonabarabran.  Takahashi FSQ ED 106mm Refractor and FLI  Monochrome Camera plus filters for colour. 3 x Monochrome 1 x Red, 1 x Blue, 1 x Green.  Stacked and combined and processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop.

M51 Whirlpool Galaxy, Itelescope Observatory at New Mexico, T5, Takahashi Epsilon 250MM, SBIG ST10XME, 5 x 5 minute exposures(2 Clear, 1 Red, 1 Blue, 1 Green)  Processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop.

Pelican and North American Nebulae and adjacent star field.  

Imaged via T14 106mm Refractor and SBIG STL-11000M Camera, I-telescope New Mexico.

Fireworks Galaxy NGC6946 Imaged via iTelescope T3 Takahashi TOA 150 MM Sbig Universal Colour Camera, 6 x 5 Minute frames stacked and processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop

M6 Butterfly Cluster in Scorpius.  Via T13 at Coonabarabran.  Takahashi Sky90 90mm Refractor and Sbig Universal Colour Camera. 8th and 10th August 2018. 4 x 5 minute frames stacked and  processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop.

Font Hill 17th March

Orion Nebulae M42

Galaxy Centaurus A (The Hamburger) and Open Star Cluster NGC4755 (The Jewel Box)

Eta Carinae, Small Magellanic Cloud and NGC2516

Rosette NGC 2237 2238 2239 and 2246

Taken with Canon 450D and SWED80 Telescope.  6 x10 minute frames (had nine but guiding went badly on last three with cloud).  Stacked and procesed with Nebulosity and Photoshop.

Horsehead Nebula and surrounds from 15th January 2018

Taken with modified Canon 450D with SWED80 on EQ6 mount.   5 X 10 minute frames stacked and processed in Nebulosity and further processing in Photoshop CC.

Full Lunar Eclipse 31st Jan / 1st Feb 2018

A wonderful clear night in an otherwise stormy and tempestuous week weather wise greeted us for the viewing and imaging of a full lunar eclipse.    The eclipse was purported to be a trifecta of a Supermoon (Moon at it's closet pass to Earth or Apogee), a Blood Moon (Full Lunar Eclipse) and a Blue Moon (2nd Full Moon in same calendar month).  However due to the adjusted daylight savings hours the full moon actually occurred in the first hour of the 1st of February at our location in Launceston Tasmania.  I am prepared to say that this adjustment is of no consequence and happy to let the trifecta be.

Images taken with a William Optics ZS70 Refractor Telescope and Canon 760D Camera.  I setup with the Northern Valleys Astronomy Group at Bruce Nye's Eagle Rock Observatory at Riverside on the outskirts of Launceston in Tasmania.  Other images from the night are here.

Totality and background stars!

Faint star near the limb of the moon.

Eclipse Sequence in visible white light.

 Totality

Eclipse sequence in Red (reflected light from Earth)