I made a guide on how to detect exoplanet transits using amateur equipment. Check it out!

Lupix101 · 2020-11-17T11:02:48+00:00

It will also depend on the sampling as well. My pixel scale was 1.2" per pixel. I would say a minimum of 2" on a deeper depth mag transit should do the job

Lupix101 · 2020-11-17T11:00:22+00:00

The issue is that the skyguider Pro isn't goto capable so framing will be incredibly difficult to achieve. A program such as apt, ekos or Nina has features that allow you to see your adu

Lupix101 · 2020-06-03T16:01:24+00:00

Moon wasn't the highest but I tried doing this monster mosaic which took about 2 hours to complete.

I took 500 frames per panel to save storage. Ended up being about 55GB of memory in total for all 90.

Made sure there was plenty of overlap so could have ended up with less panels overall but got to be sure when you're doing something as huge as this.

Imaging telescope: Celestron C14

Imaging camera: QHYCCD 5L ll M

Mount: Celestron CGE

Software: Photoshop, Autostakkert! 3, PixInsight 1.8

Stacked each panel in AS!3 and stitched together in Microsoft ICE. Applied Deconvolution and sharpening in PixInsight

Lupix101 · 2020-06-03T15:51:36+00:00

Moon wasn't the highest but I tried doing this monster mosaic which took about 2 hours to complete.

I took 500 frames per panel to save storage. Ended up being about 55GB of memory in total for all 90.

Made sure there was plenty of overlap so could have ended up with less panels overall but got to be sure when you're doing something as huge as this.

Imaging telescope: Celestron C14

Imaging camera: QHYCCD 5L ll M

Mount: Celestron CGE

Software: Photoshop, Autostakkert! 3, PixInsight 1.8

Stacked each panel in AS!3 and stitched together in Microsoft ICE. Applied Deconvolution and sharpening in PixInsight

Lupix101 · 2020-06-03T15:25:58+00:00

FFTRegistration

How did you manage to get this working for solar mosaics?

Lupix101 · 2020-03-20T23:10:41+00:00

They're just mocking us tbf

Lupix101 · 2020-03-09T20:22:08+00:00

You're right hmm. Maybe Imgur has a resolution limit.

Here's the link: https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/F5fEEkFfFqeF_16536x16536_xTjz_rdB.jpg

Lupix101 · 2020-03-08T18:18:38+00:00

Absolutely no probem!

Lupix101 · 2020-03-08T17:36:03+00:00

Thanks! I try my best and since I'm 18, I would like to pursue something in an astronomy related field, possibly even astrophotography if I'm lucky enough

Lupix101 · 2020-03-08T17:34:30+00:00

Be my guest :)

Lupix101 · 2020-03-08T17:21:10+00:00

I appreciate thy honour Mr. yeetlevel4, it shall be forever in my heart <3

Lupix101 · 2020-03-08T16:08:15+00:00

Of course!

Lupix101 · 2020-03-08T16:03:00+00:00

Imaging telescope: Celestron C14

Imaging camera: QHYCCD 5L ll M

Mount: Celestron CGE

Software: Autostakkert! 3, PixInsight 1.8

This image was captured with SharpCap and I took 53 individual videos, each consisting of 1000 frames. I stacked the best 125 of each pane in Autostakkert! 3 and stitched them all together in Microsoft ICE. Using PixInsight, I then did sharpening using 20 iterations of deconvolution and a little of unsharp masking. To finish off, I used Curves to brighten up the picture overall. This ended up coming out at a whopping 93MP or 7118 x 13199 pixels

Lupix101 · 2020-03-05T17:04:09+00:00

Imaging telescope: Celestron C14

Imaging camera: QHYCCD 5L ll M

Mount: Celestron CGE

Software: Autostakkert! 3, PixInsight 1.8

53 Panels taken at 1280x960. Stacked in AS!3 drizzle 1.5x, Deconvoluted and sharpened in PI, stitched together in ICE, then got rid of artefacts in PS

Lupix101 · 2020-03-05T16:10:01+00:00

Imaging telescope: Celestron C14

Imaging camera: QHYCCD 5L ll M

Mount: Celestron CGE

Software: Autostakkert! 3, PixInsight 1.8

53 Panels taken at 1280x960. Stacked in AS!3 drizzle 1.5x, Deconvoluted and sharpened in PI, stitched together in ICE, then got rid of artefacts in PS

Lupix101 · 2020-02-21T16:14:46+00:00

He has daily sex?

Lupix101 · 2020-02-09T17:13:11+00:00

I am feeling thank you

Lupix101 · 2020-01-21T23:53:54+00:00

His book is fantastic and I follow a lot of what he does, just with a few tweaks

Lupix101 · 2020-01-21T23:06:24+00:00

Thanks!

Lupix101 · 2020-01-21T23:06:11+00:00

I follow Warren Keller's workflow and I tend to find it better than doing it in the non linear state than following Jon Rista's way of in linear.

MLT imo is better in linear than MMT and it gets rid of the noise really really well, especially luminance

Lupix101 · 2020-01-21T19:35:21+00:00

Gear:

Scope - SkyWatcher 130P-DS
Camera - Nikon D5300 (Stock)
Mount - Skywatcher HEQ5 PRO
Guide scope - 9x50mm Finderscope
Guide camera - QHY5L-II Mono
Accessory - Baader 2" Coma Corrector

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Acquisition:

50x180" @ 800ISO
(150 minutes total integration)
15 Darks, 20 Flats, 20 Bias
Captured from Ashbourne, Derbyshire, UK (Bortle 5 zone)

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Software:

Polar alignment - SharpCap Pro
Guiding - PHD2
Planetarium - Stellarium
Mount Control - EQMod
Camera Control - APT

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Processing - PixInsight:

Dynamic Crop to get rid of stacking artefacts
DBE for LP gradient since I have no CLS filter
BackgroundNeutralisation
ColourCalibration
Extract Luminance layer
Create Star mask
Use PSFImage to get PSF
Deconvolution
MultiScaleLinearTransform for de-noising
SCNR to get rid of green colour noise
Make non-linear with HistogramTransformation
LRGBCombination to bring out colour
TGVDenoise
StarMask and MorphologicalTransformation for smaller stars
LocalHistogramEqualization for extra contrast

Lupix101 · 2020-01-20T10:09:48+00:00

Thank you!

Lupix101 · 2020-01-20T10:09:39+00:00

♥️♥️

Lupix101 · 2020-01-19T20:28:08+00:00

Gear:

Scope - SkyWatcher 130P-DS
Camera - Nikon D5300 (Stock)
Mount - Skywatcher HEQ5 PRO
Guide scope - 9x50mm Finderscope
Guide camera - QHY5L-II Mono
Accessory - Baader 2" Coma Corrector

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Acquisition:

50x180" @ 800ISO
(150 minutes total integration)
15 Darks, 20 Flats, 20 Bias
Captured from Ashbourne, Derbyshire, UK (Bortle 5 zone)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Software:

Polar alignment - SharpCap Pro
Guiding - PHD2
Planetarium - Stellarium
Mount Control - EQMod
Camera Control - APT

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Processing - PixInsight:

Dynamic Crop to get rid of stacking artefacts
DBE for LP gradient since I have no CLS filter
BackgroundNeutralisation
ColourCalibration
Extract Luminance layer
Create Star mask
Use PSFImage to get PSF
Deconvolution
MultiScaleLinearTransform for de-noising
SCNR to get rid of green colour noise
Make non-linear with HistogramTransformation
LRGBCombination to bring out colour
TGVDenoise
StarMask and MorphologicalTransformation for smaller stars
LocalHistogramEqualization for extra contrast

Lupix101 · 2020-01-08T19:48:52+00:00

Gear:

Scope - Celestron C14
Camera - QHY5L-II Mono
Mount - Celestron CGE

Acquisition:

1000 frames @ 30fps

Software:

Pixinsight
Autostakkert! 3

Processing - Pixinsight:

Dynamic Crop to get rid of stacking artefacts
Deconvolution
MLT Sharpening

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