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

Fujica GW690, 90mm, f3.5.

Single 45 minute exposure.
Kodak Gold 200,
Skywatcher Adventure Mini Tracker,
Bortle Class 4 skies.

Really did not expect this to work as well as it did, was so difficult to line up and focus the camera through its very murky viewfinder. Also just trusting the tiny tracker to do its job with a camera that's the size of a small shed was slightly unnerving! haha.

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!

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: 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

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

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

Shot on the Dwarf Mini under bortle 3 skiea and a 97% moon. It was shot with 60 gain 45s shutter and 2 panel Mosaic it took me 6 and a half hours to image it it was Proccesed in Stellar studio dividing the stars and Dust then edited in lightroom the dust and later blended with picsart.

The beautiful remains of a stellar explosion, captured from my back garden in Warrington, UK, under Bortle 7 light-polluted skies.

Also known as the Witch’s Broom Nebula, NGC 6960 is part of the much larger Veil Nebula complex in the constellation Cygnus (The Swan).

💫 A few fascinating facts:

🔭 Distance: Approximately 2,400 light-years from Earth.

💥 Origin: The expanding debris of a massive star that exploded as a supernova around 10,000–20,000 years ago.

🌌 Size: The entire Veil Nebula complex spans roughly 110 light-years across, covering an area of sky approximately six times the diameter of the full Moon.

⭐ 52 Cygni: The bright star appearing within the Western Veil is actually a foreground star, unrelated to the supernova remnant.

🎨 Those incredible colours: The glowing red filaments are primarily ionised hydrogen, while the delicate blue-green structures trace doubly ionised oxygen. These gases are excited by shock waves travelling through space as the ancient supernova debris continues to expand.

📸 Imaging Details

📍 Location: Warrington, UK

🌃 Sky Conditions: Bortle 7 (suburban light pollution)

🔭 Telescope: William Optics RedCat 51

📷 Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Pro

⚙️ Mount: ZWO AM3

🔴 Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme dual narrowband

⏱️ Exposure: 48 × 300 seconds

🕒 Total Integration: 4 hours

Processed in Pixinsight

Capturing faint deep-sky objects under Bortle 7 skies presents its challenges, particularly with significant urban light pollution. Thankfully, narrowband filters help isolate the light emitted by these distant nebulae, revealing incredible structures otherwise hidden in the glow of our night skies.

What amazes me most about astrophotography is that we’re not simply photographing beautiful clouds in space. We’re capturing the aftermath of a star’s death, an explosion whose light reached Earth thousands of years ago.

The universe has a remarkable way of turning destruction into beauty. 🌠

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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.

taken with sony camera and no editing done yet

My first moon photo on PANASONIC DMC-FZ45, any recommendations?

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.

Taken on mobile phone

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

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.

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.

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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

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

Taken from my bortle 9 balcony in Paris, this was didn't have such a strong gradient as I normally get here, so I enjoyed the processing a lot! I'd like to revisit this object with my wider FOV rig next year, I think it looks pretty cool

Equipment and acquisition:

- Askar 71F + 0.75X reducer

- Asi585MC Air

- Teseek 17

- SvBony + asi120mm guide camera

- ZWO EAF, ZWO EFW

- L-Ultimate filter: 216 x 180 sec

- Antlia ALP-T SII-OIII 3nm: 233 x 180 sec

(approx. 22.5 hours in total)

- 30 darks, 30 flats per filter, 30 bias

Processing (PI)

WBPP 2x drizzle, SetiAstro AutoDBE, SPCC, blurX correct only, starX

On starless images: DBXtract, linear fit to Ha, then channel combination. Extract L component. SetiAstro statistical stretch (soft), then manual curves transformations with different color and range masks, selective color correction script, noiseX. For luminance, stretch and masked curves to bring up details, noiseX. LRGB combination, dark structure enhance script.

For stars: setiastro NB to RGB star stretch, pixelmath to recombine with starless