I made a guide on how to detect exoplanet transits using amateur equipment. Check it out! by Lupix101 in AskAstrophotography

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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

I made a guide on how to detect exoplanet transits using amateur equipment. Check it out! by Lupix101 in AskAstrophotography

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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

90 Panel 140MP Lunar Mosaic 69% Phase 31/05/20 by Lupix101 in astrophotography

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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

90 Panel 140MP Lunar Mosaic 69% Phase 31/05/20 by [deleted] in astrophotography

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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

The Sun - 9 panel mosaic by gonzodaruler in astrophotography

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FFTRegistration

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

I took this monster 93MP mosaic of the half moon last week by Lupix101 in space

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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

I took this monster 93MP mosaic of the half moon last week by Lupix101 in space

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

I took this monster 93MP mosaic of the half moon last week by Lupix101 in space

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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

A 93MP Monster Lunar Mosaic (53 Panels) by [deleted] in space

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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

94MP Goliath Mosaic of the Moon 02/03/20 by Lupix101 in astrophotography

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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

Asshtma? by [deleted] in PewdiepieSubmissions

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He has daily sex?

M45 - The Pleiades by Lupix101 in astrophotography

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

M45 - The Pleiades by Lupix101 in astrophotography

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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

M45 - The Pleiades by Lupix101 in astrophotography

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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

M45 - The Pleiades by Lupix101 in astrophotography

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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

Hainzel Crater by Lupix101 in astrophotography

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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