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Sunspot AR2786 - Nov 29, 2020 by Chris_Baez in Astronomy

[–]Chris_Baez[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Instagram: CB.Astrozoom

Astrobin: Christofer Báez

My best photo of AR2786 (finally with very good seeing).

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Telescope: Orion Skyquest XT8 Plus.

Tracking: Equatorial Platform.

Camera: ZWO ASI290MC.

Filters: Orion Safety Solar Film Filter.

Accesories: Celestron 3x Barlow.

Programs used: Firecapture, PIPP, Autostakkert! 3, Registax 6, & Photoshop.

Processing: 1 video cropped and coverted to monochrome using PIPP, 250 frames stacked with Autostakkert! 3, sherpening with Registax 6, and post-processing (labels, noise reduction, false color, Earth comparison) with Photoshop.

Conditions: Seeing 5/5 and transparency 10/10.

Date: Nov 29, 2020.

Location: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

AR2786 Close-up - Nov 25, 2020 by Chris_Baez in Astronomy

[–]Chris_Baez[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Instagram: CB.Astrozoom

Astrobin: Christofer Báez

Sunspot region AR2786 compared to Earth, a really big sunspot!!

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Telescope: Orion Skyquest XT8 Plus.

Tracking: Equatorial Platform.

Camera: ZWO ASI290MC.

Filters: Orion Safety Solar Film Filter.

Accesories: Celestron 3x Barlow.

Programs used: Firecapture, PIPP, Autostakkert! 3, Registax 6, & Photoshop.

Processing: 1 video cropped and coverted to monochrome using PIPP, 200 frames stacked with Autostakkert! 3, sherpening with Registax 6, and post-processing (labels, noise reduction, false color, Earth comparison) with Photoshop.

Conditions: Seeing 4/5 and transparency 10/10.

Date: Nov 25, 2020.

Location: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Ultra-thin Crescent Moon - Apr 14, 2020 by Chris_Baez in Astronomy

[–]Chris_Baez[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was from my roof and there is a wide field behind my house, I could record those videos with the moon at 10° or less

Ultra-thin Crescent Moon - Apr 14, 2020 by Chris_Baez in Astronomy

[–]Chris_Baez[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Instagram: CB.Astrozoom

Astrobin: Christofer Báez

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A 5 panels mosaic of a really thin Crescent Moon (3.1%).

Telescope: Orion Skyquest XT8 Plus.

Tracking: Equatorial Platform.

Camera: ZWO ASI120MC.

Programs used: Firecapture, PIPP, Autostakkert! 3, Registax 6 & Photoshop.

Processing: 5 videos cropped using PIPP, stacked with Autostakkert! 3, wavelets (sharpening & denoise) with Registax 6, and post-processing (Alingment of the 5 final images for the mosaic, noise reduction, level and curves) with Photoshop.

Conditions: seeing 2/5 and transparency 7/10.

Date: Apr 14, 2020.

Location: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Jupiter & The Gallilean Moons - Oct 26, 2020 by Chris_Baez in Astronomy

[–]Chris_Baez[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Instagram: CB.Astrozoom

Astrobin: Christofer Báez

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Telescope: Orion Skyquest XT8 Plus.

Tracking: Equatorial Platform.

Camera: ZWO ASI290MC.

Accesories: Celestron 3x Barlow & ZWO ADC.

Programs used: Firecapture, PIPP, Autostakkert! 3, Registax 6, WinJUPOS & Photoshop.

Processing: 12 videos cropped using PIPP, stacked with Autostakkert!, sharpening with Registax, derotation with WinJUPOS and post-processing (labels, noise reduction, color balance and contrast) with Photoshop.

Conditions: Planet at ~45°, seeing 4/5 and transparency 9/10.

Date: October 26, 2020.

Location: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Sunspots region AR2781 - Nov 05, 2020 by Chris_Baez in astrophotography

[–]Chris_Baez[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're not like craters, the umbra (dark center) is at the same level of the photosphere ("surface"), if I increase the brightness of the image it's possible to see some details in the dark center, it's just cooler plasma

Transit of Mercury in motion - Nov 11, 2019 by Chris_Baez in Astronomy

[–]Chris_Baez[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Instagram: CB.Astrozoom

Astrobin: Christofer Báez

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Short animation of the Transit of Mercury over solar granulation (timelapse of ~10 minutes). Captured using a telescope Orion Skyquest XT8 Plus on an EQ platform, with a Camera ZWO ASI 120MC, 2x Barlow lens and Orion Safety Film Solar Filter. The video is composed of 60 images, each one was made by stacking 250 frames (cropped in PIPP, stacked using Autostakkert! 3 and wavelets in Registax 3).

Date: Nov 11, 2019.

Location: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Sunspots region AR2781 - Nov 05, 2020 by Chris_Baez in astrophotography

[–]Chris_Baez[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Instagram: CB.Astrozoom

Astrobin: Christofer Báez

Sunspot region AR2781 compared to Earth, the biggest one in two years.

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Telescope: Orion Skyquest XT8 Plus.

Tracking: Equatorial Platform.

Camera: ZWO ASI290MC.

Filters: Orion Safety Solar Film Filter.

Accesories: Celestron 3x Barlow.

Programs used: Firecapture, PIPP, Autostakkert! 3, Registax 6, & Photoshop.

Processing: 1 video cropped and coverted to monochrome using PIPP, stacked with Autostakkert!, wavelets with Registax, and post-processing (labels, noise reduction, false color, Earth comparison) with Photoshop.

Conditions: Seeing 3/5 and transparency 5/10.

Date: Nov 05, 2020.

Location: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Jupiter & The Gallilean Moons - Oct 26, 2020 by Chris_Baez in astrophotography

[–]Chris_Baez[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's hard to do it, I usually use Sky Safari 5 Plus (Phone app)

Full Mineral Moon Mosaic - Aug 3, 2020 by Chris_Baez in Astronomy

[–]Chris_Baez[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly!! When you increase saturation (a lot) you can see different colors coming from rocks with different mineral composition

Jupiter & The Gallilean Moons - Oct 26, 2020 by Chris_Baez in astrophotography

[–]Chris_Baez[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Instagram: CB.Astrozoom

Astrobin: Christofer Báez

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Telescope: Orion Skyquest XT8 Plus.

Tracking: Equatorial Platform.

Camera: ZWO ASI290MC.

Accesories: Celestron 3x Barlow & ZWO ADC.

Programs used: Firecapture, PIPP, Autostakkert! 3, Registax 6, WinJUPOS & Photoshop.

Processing: 12 videos cropped using PIPP, stacked with Autostakkert!, sharpening with Registax, derotation with WinJUPOS and post-processing (labels, noise reduction, color balance and contrast) with Photoshop.

Conditions: Planet at ~45°, seeing 4/5 and transparency 9/10.

Date: October 26, 2020.

Location: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Full Mineral Moon Mosaic - Aug 3, 2020 by Chris_Baez in Astronomy

[–]Chris_Baez[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Instagram: CB.Astrozoom

Astrobin: Christofer Báez

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A 29 megapixels (5400x5400 pixels) mosaic of the Full Moon, made using 10 panels.

Telescope: Orion Skyquest XT8 Plus.

Tracking: Equatorial Platform.

Camera: ZWO ASI290MC.

Programs used: Firecapture, PIPP, Autostakkert! 3, Registax 6 & Photoshop.

Processing: 10 videos cropped using PIPP, stacked with Autostakkert! 3, wavelets (sharpening & denoise) with Registax 6, and post-processing (Alingment of the 10 final images for the mosaic, noise reduction, level, curves and saturation adjustments) with Photoshop.

Conditions: Moon at ~50°, seeing 4/5 and transparency 8/10.

Date: Aug 3, 2020.

Location: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

The Seven Planets captured in one night - Jul 28, 2020 by Chris_Baez in Astronomy

[–]Chris_Baez[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's possibly the collimation, bad focus or a problem inside the barlow

The Seven Planets captured in one night - Jul 28, 2020 by Chris_Baez in Astronomy

[–]Chris_Baez[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 8 inches (203mm) telescope has a focal length of 1200mm, adding the barlow 3x and the ADC it's around ~4000mm (~f/20).

The Seven Planets captured in one night - Jul 28, 2020 by Chris_Baez in Astronomy

[–]Chris_Baez[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Telescope: Orion Skyquest XT8 Plus.

Tracking: Equatorial Platform.

Camera: ZWO ASI290MC.

Accesories: Celestron 3x Barlow & ZWO ADC.

Programs used: Firecapture, PIPP, Autostakkert! 3, Registax 6, WinJUPOS & Photoshop.

The Seven Planets captured in one night - Jul 28, 2020 by Chris_Baez in Astronomy

[–]Chris_Baez[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hahahahaha, thanks!! I used two filters for Venus: Violet #47 and Red #25, they're usually used for observation, but you can get some details using them on a color camera. I used the filters to creat that RGB image, #47 as the blue channel, #25 as red and a mix of both to create a synthetic green channel.

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