Thanks for checking out my capture of NGC 1491 from last night!

This image represents about 6 hours of 3-minute exposures with my usual backyard rig in my bortle 8/9 zone: C8, ASIAIR, ASI533MC, EQ6-R, hyperstar f/2, optolong l-ultimate 2”

Target: Squid and Flying Bat Nebulae
OTA: ES152mm CF Apo
Camera: ASI6200MM pro
Acquisition Dates: Oct 19th-25th

Hi everyone! Sharing my shot of Saturn.
Telescope: 6-inch (150mm) Dobsonian
Eyepiece: 12mm
Barlow: 2x
Seeing: Average
Processing: Stacked with AutoStakkert! and sharpened using RegiStax wavelets.

✨ Target: Sh2-103 (Cygnus Loop)

🔭 Mount: Star Adventurer 2i

📷 Camera: ASI 294 MC Pro Color

🔎 Scope: Askar FMA180 Pro

🕶️ Filter: Dualband Svbony SV220

🎯 Guide Camera: ASI 120mm Mini Mono

🦮 Guide Scope: Svbony SV165

🔬 Sampling: 5.32"/px

❄️ Cooling: -10°C

🔴 Acquisition: Gain 120

⏰ Integration: 110x120s (3h 40min)

📊 Calibration: 40 dark, 40 flat, 40 dark-flat

💻 Processing: PixInsight, RawTherapee

📍 Location: Saint-Barthélemy (Italy)

📅 Date: Sept. 11, 2026

🌌 Sky: Bortle 3

I captured NGC 281 with my Seestar S50 for 5 hours using 20sec EQ subs in bortle 5 skies, stacked in Stacking Wizard and processed in Astrowizard! I love using the Hubble Palette to show off different areas of a nebula

I photographed the Moon and Saturn using my Modified 1998 Nintendo Game Boy Camera on a Celestron C14 Edge HD telescope! 🌙🪐

For those unfamiliar, the Game Boy Camera uses a tiny 128 × 112 pixel CMOS sensor and captures images in just four shades of gray! The C14 EdgeHD has a 14-inch (356 mm) aperture and a 3,910 mm focal length, making for a pretty unusual but outstanding astrophotography setup!

A HUGE shoutout and thank you to everyone at the Adirondack Sky Center in Tupper Lake, NY, for seeing my original post and inviting me out to experiment with all of their amazing equipment!

Everyone there, from the volunteers to the visitors, was incredibly friendly and knowledgeable! If you’re ever in the Adirondacks, I highly recommend checking out one of their public viewing nights!

This was another exciting step toward my ultimate goal of photographing the night sky through some of the world’s largest optical telescopes using this little camera!

Taken on mobile phone

taken with sony camera and no editing done yet

This one was a challenge to process in the way I wanted with narrowband adding as much as possible while preserving the natural look from RGB
After 9 years I finally managed to get a result I'm happy with :)
For more crops and starless versions see the image on Astrobin

Target
This three panel mosaic spans from NGC6604 with its Sh2-54 surroundings to M17. The middle panel contains the famous M16 - Eagle nebula.
Between and around them the field is full of dark dust lanes and globules. The brown glow is the unresolved Sagittarius–Scutum star cloud behind it, which is why I added the RGB data back as a body layer.
This was my main project for my 3rd trip to Kiripotib Astrofarm. In total it contains over 40 hours of exposure between Ha, OIII and RGB.

Acquisition

This is a mosaic of 3 panels shot with a monochrome Nikon D600 side-by-side with a modified Nikon D600.
The mono D600 was used on an APM107/700 with Riccardi reducer and modified Nikon D600 on a TS Quadruplet 480/80, mounted on Fornax 51 and guided with MGEN.

Panel I - NGC6604
Ha 29x12min ISO400
OIII 13x12min ISO400
RGB 27x12min ISO400

Panel II - M16
Ha 24x12min ISO400
OIII 16x12min ISO400
RGB 23x12min ISO400

Panel III - M17
Ha 25x12min ISO400
OIII 16x12min ISO400
RGB 35x12min ISO400

Location: Astrofarm Kiripotib, Namibia

Processing (PixInsight)

1. Calibration, stacking and registration. WBPP per panel and filter. The RGB panels were stacked with Local Normalization and PSF weights. RGB and OIII were registered onto the Ha grid of each panel with surface splines.
2. Mosaic. PhotometricMosaic with M16 as reference, then NGC 6604, then M17. Applied to Ha, OIII and RGB separately One SPCC (Gaia DR3/SP) on the finished RGB mosaic, not per panel.
3. Deconvolution and star removal. BXT on all three mosaics, then SXT to split stars and starless.
4. Nebula layer. OIII was continuum-subtracted (OIII − 0.34·B). Ha was not continuum-subtracted, and I decided that after measuring it. In the star-cloud zones most of the “Ha” is actually star-cloud continuum, so subtracting it gained nothing. NXT on the narrowband was used, gated so it does not add noise in the empty sky. I combined Ha and OIII into an HOO palette with PixelMath.
5. RGB body layer Starless RGB with a linked stretch, with its colour taken from the stars-included RGB. It is screened into the nebula at weight 0.45. Outside the emission regions (a smoothed Ha/OIII mask), the colour is taken from the RGB only. That keeps the gold-brown star clouds and the dust lanes, while the nebulae stay in HOO colour.
6. Stars. RGB stars were stretched separately and screened back on. A per-channel black-point correction (about 0.06–0.07) was applied to the base before the stars went in.

For more crops and starless versions see the image on Astrobin

First time trying Lunar photography. I didn't use a video to get the frames, used photos instead and very less integration(about 45 frames) using my a6400 and the kit 50-210 lens. I'm gonna try using a video next time. Stacked in Autostakkert! And processed a little bit in lightroom.

M45 — The Pleiades

This is my first time processing this Pleiades image outside the Seestar, using PixInsight and Photoshop to bring out the blue reflection nebulosity in the captured data.

Captured with my Seestar S50 from my backyard in Round Rock, Texas, on August 12, September 24, and September 28, 2025. IR-cut filter, gain 80.

This is a mosaic combining 685 exposures: 671 × 20 seconds and 14 × 30 seconds, for 3 hours, 50 minutes, and 40 seconds of total capture time. Exposure coverage varies across the mosaic, so each part of the image received a different amount of integration.

August 12: 7 minutes September 24: 2 hours, 27 minutes September 28: 1 hour, 16 minutes, 40 seconds

Processed with separate star and nebulosity stretches, background correction, color balance, and noise reduction.

This was taken over 2 nights in Bortle 2 skies camping in central Oregon with my Orion 16" Goto Dobsonian. I started this astrophotography habit in August. This was the last image on the last trip of the year and I'm quite happy with it. I can't wait for my first galaxy season!

Total integration: 5h 20m

Integration per filter:

- No filter: 5h 20m (3200 × 6s)

Equipment:

- Telescope: Orion SkyQuest XX16g GoTo Truss Tube Dobsonian Telescope

- Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro

- Accessory: Starizona Nexus 0.75x Newtonian Focal Reducer/Coma Corrector (NEXUS-075)

- Software: Aries Productions Astro Pixel Processor (APP), Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight, Stefan Berg Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy (N.I.N.A. / NINA)

142 hours of exposure over the last 4 months.

Mount- ZWO AM3
Telescope- William Optics ZenithStar81
Guide Scope- ZWO OAG
Camera- ZWO ASI183mc Pro
Guide Camera- ZWO ASI120mm
Imaging Filter- Optolong L-Ultimate, SII, OIII
Other accessories- ZWO EAF, ZWO filter wheel, ZWO ASIair Plus, 6aiii reducer/field flattener

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Hunter's Moon from Tennessee on 10-26-26

Equipment: Canon EOS 90D and Sigma 150-600mm Contemporary lens at 600mm

Exposure: 731 x 1/250 at f8 and ISO 100

Processing:

Centered/cropped in PIPP

Stacked in Autostakkert!

Sharpened in Registax

Final edit in Photoshop

Finally got my Barlow x2 lens and this was my first time trying it.

Used 10 inch Sky-Watcher 254/1200 with s24 ultra 4K 120FPS with Barlow x2 and 6mm planetary eyepiece.

Processed with PIPP then Autostakkert! and then Astrosurface.

This was my second time trying planetary imaging so any advice will be welcomed.

I started this object last month and so far have 52 hours and it needs much much more.

Imaged using my skywatcher 200P setup, 533MMPro and starizona .75 reducer.

Also imaged using my SHO Altair 3nm filters and all of this resting on my AM5 mount.

It was processed in AstroStakr and Photoshop.

It’s a $20 telescope this is my first time, saving up for a better one. Let me know if yalls favorites

Starseeker IV 150/750

Touptek Ae676c

Bortle 4.8

Exposure ~1ms, ~1000 Pictures

Positional correction and Stacking with Python (astroaligne)

Fine Tuning with Therawpee and Photocraft

This image was taken on February 23rd, 2009 with a Nikon D300 and Sigma 150-600mm lens at 150mm. Exposure was 8 seconds, f/5, ISO 6400. Processed in Affinity and On1 NoNoise.

This was my first ever photo taken of the moon almost a year a go with my very first telescope.

Telescope: Bresser Refractor Telescope 700/60mm
Eyepiece: 20 mm
Camera: Samsung Galaxy A36
Processing: Minor contrast and brightness adjustments on phone.

The great Orion Nebula and Running Man Nebula! This majestic stellar nursery is about 1400 light-years away and is one of the brightest deep sky objects in the night sky!

A very nostalgic target for me. This was the first deep sky object I captured 10 months back when I was just getting started in this hobby. Visited this back again now that the orion constellation is back up again! 🙂

Telescope: Seestar S50
Data: 4.5 hours
Tools used: GraXpert, Siril, GIMP
Script mentions: DeepSNR, CosmicClarity Sharpen, VeraLux (Revela & Curves), HDR_multiscale
Bortle 8-9

Believe it or not, the image in the eyepiece was even better than the video!

12" DOB + Astral Fields EQ Platform

SVBony 705C + ADC + Barlow 2x

Firecapture + PiPP+ Autostakkert + Registax + Fast Stone Image Viewer