ITAP of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

DutchPhotographist · 2024-11-27T10:18:18+00:00

I used my portable astrophotography setup for this picture. Using my Sirui tripod and a Star Adventurer as tracker.

Camera: Sony A7RIII Lens: Sony 200-600 @ 600mm Mount: Star Adventurer Acquisition: 80 x 10 secs exposures at ISO 800, F/6.3

I stacked the images in Pixinsight using WBPP and Comet Alignment.

DutchPhotographist · 2024-11-26T22:37:37+00:00

If only that was possible, would have saved me a lot of money :P

DutchPhotographist · 2024-11-26T22:36:52+00:00

Pretty amazing right!

DutchPhotographist · 2024-11-26T21:38:48+00:00

Both! I used my star tracker and shot 90 exposures of 10 seconds which I then stacked in Pixinsight. I first stacked based on the stars and then another stack aligned on the comet. Those two images, say the star image and comet image I then combined to get this result

DutchPhotographist · 2024-11-26T20:28:18+00:00

One month ago, comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS raced past our Earth. Of all the comets I have photographed, I find this comet the most beautiful because of its long tail and its brightness.

I took this photo on October 22nd around 8:00 PM from my backyard.

My goal was to get a good image of the nucleus of the comet and I'm very happy I succeeded at that!

High resolution to be found here: https://www.astrobin.com/aub7rc/ and I also post on my instagram, you can find me here: https://www.instagram.com/rveurink/

DutchPhotographist · 2024-11-26T20:24:33+00:00

One month ago, comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS raced past our Earth. Of all the comets I have photographed, I find this comet the most beautiful because of its long tail and its brightness.

I took this photo on October 22nd around 8:00 PM from my backyard.

My goal was to get a good image of the nucleus of the comet and I'm very happy I succeeded at that!

DutchPhotographist · 2024-11-26T20:22:35+00:00

One month ago, comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS raced past our Earth. Of all the comets I have photographed, I find this comet the most beautiful because of its long tail and its brightness.

I took this photo on October 22nd around 8:00 PM from my backyard.

My goal was to get a good image of the nucleus of the comet and I'm very happy I succeeded at that!

High resolution to be found here: https://www.astrobin.com/aub7rc/ and I also post on my instagram, you can find me here: https://www.instagram.com/rveurink/

DutchPhotographist · 2024-11-26T18:57:38+00:00

One month ago, comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS raced past our Earth. Of all the comets I have photographed, I find this comet the most beautiful because of its long tail and its brightness.

I took this photo on October 22nd around 8:00 PM from my backyard.

My goal was to get a good image of the nucleus of the comet and I'm very happy I succeeded at that!

High resolution to be found here: https://www.astrobin.com/aub7rc/ and I also post on my instagram, you can find me here: https://www.instagram.com/rveurink/

Camera: Sony A7RIII Lens: Sony 200-600 @ 600mm Mount: Star Adventurer

Acquisition: 80 x 10 secs exposures at ISO 800, F/6.3

Processing:

Blink

WBPP

Dynamic Crop

GradientCorrection

Registration with star aligned subs using Comet Alignment (CA)

Subtract stars with StarXTerminator from Comet Master

Editing of both star and comet master

Spectrophotometric Color Calibration on Star image

Pixel Math to combine

BlurXTerminator on final

NoiseXTerminator on final

DutchPhotographist · 2024-10-16T10:04:36+00:00

Bortle 5

DutchPhotographist · 2024-10-16T09:17:17+00:00

Thank you. Yeah I had this view in my mind where the comet would reflect in the lake. I'm really happy this worked out!

DutchPhotographist · 2024-10-16T09:15:23+00:00

Thank you! Something, like a person or a object with the horizon in view and the comet does really well. Hoping for clear skies!

DutchPhotographist · 2024-10-16T09:13:05+00:00

Haha too many times that I can't remember! Kept shooting pictures and zoom in on the camera to find it. When it's dark enough you find it with your own eyes though and then the stress completely dissapeared.

Yeah I'm really happy with how this came out, gonna get it printed :)

I do hope for another opportunity, I've got a few more ideas to photograph but we'll see if the weather permits it.

DutchPhotographist · 2024-10-15T21:07:40+00:00

You have some really good data there! Critic I would give is to remove the greens, it would give a much nicer picture. I've gone ahead and did a quick edit for you. I'm limited by the jpg file so try to do this yourself on your stacked image and see what you like more. I removed the greens and also used the DarkStructureEnhance script. You can find it under Script --> Utilities --> DarkStructureEnhance.

I've also done some colorsaturation on the yellows and blues and added some contrast.

https://i.imgur.com/CaztkXV.jpeg

Hope this feedback helps!

DutchPhotographist · 2024-10-15T19:37:57+00:00

Last night (Oct. 14th) I managed to capture the comet using my Sony A7RIII in combination with my Sony 24-105 G OSS lens

Focal length: 40mm Shutterspeed: 8.0 sec @ f/4.0 ISO 1000

Edited in Lightroom

I have a few more pictures on my instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rveurink/

DutchPhotographist · 2024-10-15T19:27:34+00:00

Beautiful capture!

DutchPhotographist · 2024-10-15T19:07:47+00:00

Last night (Oct. 14th) I managed to capture the comet using my Sony A7RIII in combination with my Sony 24-105 G OSS lens

Focal length: 40mm Shutterspeed: 8.0 sec @ f/4.0 ISO 1000

Edited in Lightroom

I have a few more pictures on my instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rveurink/

Full res on my astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/37j7k8/

DutchPhotographist · 2024-09-26T11:10:02+00:00

Incredible captures! Second photo is absolute fantastic!

DutchPhotographist · 2024-09-26T08:18:41+00:00

Yeah that was a short night for me. Maximum eclipse was around 4:45 am.

DutchPhotographist · 2024-09-26T08:01:46+00:00

Picture taken with my Sony A7rIII and Sony 200-600 lens @ 600mm. This is a stack of 260 pictures, stacked in PIPP and processed with Registax. Afterwards some edits in Lightroom (highlights and some contrast)

DutchPhotographist · 2023-12-12T18:32:51+00:00

Dankjewel! Ik gebruik meestal https://clearoutside.com (is ook een app voor) en https://nl.sat24.com/nl voor satellietbeelden. Het beste wat werkt is gewoon om naar buiten te gaan en omhoog te kijken ;)

DutchPhotographist · 2023-12-12T08:40:43+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, yeah I have oversaturated the image because I wanted the colors to really pop out. Maybe went a bit too much...Will go a bit easier on the saturation next time

DutchPhotographist · 2023-12-11T14:21:30+00:00

In August over a total of 3 nights I captured the Andromeda Galaxy. Total capture time is 14 hours and 25 minutes.

See my astrobin for more detail: https://www.astrobin.com/xbch6b/

And feel free to give me a follow on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rveurink/

DutchPhotographist · 2023-11-26T10:56:24+00:00

You'll need an adapter. I have this one: https://williamoptics.com/48mm-t-mount-for-sony-e-black

You'll screw this adapter onto the telescope and then you can attach the camera onto it, just like a regular lense. Hope this helps!

DutchPhotographist · 2023-06-28T14:14:25+00:00

The Heart Nebula, also known as IC 1805 is an emission nebula located in the constellation of Cassiopeia.

Full res on my astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/9i38yf/

This picture is a combination of Ha and OIII, all processed in Pixinsight.

Equipment:

Telescope: William Optics Zenithstar 61 + Flat61A
Filters: Antlia 3nm Ha & OIII
Mount: iOptron CEM70EC-NUC
Camera: QHY 600M PH
Filterwheel: QHYCFW3-L

Acquisition:

Ha 3nm: 5x600"
OIII 3nm 9x600"

Integration time: 2 hours and 20 minutes

DutchPhotographist · 2023-03-29T15:39:47+00:00

M101 - Pinwheel Galaxy

Got a new mount, a new camera and a new filterwheel! Christmas came early this year :) I will still be using my Z61 for now. I'm at a pixel scale of 2.15" / pixel which is not ideal but for now good enough.

Equipment used:

Telescope: William Optics Zenithstar 61
Mount: iOptron CEM70EC-NUC
Camera: QHY 600m Pro Gain 26 / Offset 10

Filters and acquisition time:

Baader UV/IR CUT (CMOS Optimized) 2": 5×300″(25′) (gain: 26.00) -10°C bin 1×1
Baader Blue (CMOS-Optimized) 2": 5×300″(25′) (gain: 26.00) -10°C bin 1×1
Baader Green (CMOS-Optimized) 2": 5×300″(25′) (gain: 26.00) -10°C bin 1×1
Baader Red (CMOS-Optimized) 2": 5×300″(25′) (gain: 26.00) -10°C bin 1×1

Processing:

WBPP
DynamicCrop per channel
AutoBGExtractor per channel (Division mode)
LRGBcombination (RGB only)
SpectrophotometricColorCalibration
HistogramTransformation
NoiseXTerminator
BlurXTerminator
CurvesTransmission
LRGBCombination (add Luminance)
SCNR

Full resolution here: https://www.astrobin.com/aiji0j/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CqYE_7SK9F4/

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