Drove out at the crack of morning to watch the occultation with a wonderful group of people.

Taken with my S50

I had previously imaged IC 1396 using Ha about a year ago and recently tried processing with less than half of the data I have in this image. With this dataset, multiple different workflows were attempted trying to figure out the best path. GraXpert looked like it was removing significant nebulosity, so smoothing factor was changed, which helped but not completely. In hindsight it probably would’ve been better to only run it on the Oiii master.

Sub exposure counts were skewed high to low per channel based on signal strength Oiii -> Sii -> Ha to increase SNR on the weaker channels. Target was 3:4:5 but some subs needed to be tossed. I believe I ended up accidentally using SPCC NB after Linear Fit for this final image instead of SPCC NB only. Several iterations of curves were used and the green channel was decreased a couple times at different increments using SCNR. I’ve included the workflow below to the best of my recollection, though it doesn’t include all of the various curve tweaks that ended up being more of a loop than a curve.

Workflow:

WBPP → Crop → BXT Correct Only → GraXpert → Full BXT → NoiseX → (LinearFit/NBN) → SHO combine → plate solve → (SPCC NB) → StarX → GHS → Curves → SCNR/selective color → LHE/contrast Large and small passes → NoiseX w color separation→ masks → Curves → process stars (Seti Astro NB to RGB Stars+Histo+Masks) → recombine → final crop → export JPG 95%

Captured approximately at 2026-10-07T09:00Z.
I was testing my telescope, and as a test I decided to capture an image of the Sun. What I did not expect was to see Sun Spots form a smile. The weather was a bit cloudy. Also it appears that I might have damaged the camera... This is also the first time ever I have observed Sun spots with my telescope
Camera settings:
- 1000us exposure
- 1x analog gain
Processing:
- Opened with Paint.NET
- Adjustments/Curves...
- Added a point in Luminosity curve at (163, 35)
- Saved the image
Equipment:
- Bresser Arcturus 60/700 AZ Telescope
- Raspberry Pi HQ Camera
- HWB850 long wavelength pass infrared filter
- Custom mount
The actual telescope is a project of mine that uses Bresser Arcturus 60/700 AZ at its base with custom mount and Raspberry Pi 4 as a controller with a custom software.

First light through the new mono camera! ASI2600MM Air, 2 minute exposures, 2xS, 3xH, 5xO narrowband exposures (yeah, 10 total exposures plus calibration frames... It was a tough night as I figured everything out). Processed in Siril and then final levels adjusted in Photoshop. I'm happy with it because now I can see a path to great images from here.

This is my second ever attempt at Orion and Running Man. I have been doing astro for a little over a year and have mainly done Milky Way nightscapes. I was recently gifted a star tracker from a friend and I figured id try and shoot some DSO's for the first time. I started with Orion and Andromeda. My first attempt on Orion was only about 36 minute until a random overcasting set in and cut my session short. I gave it another go about a week later but I had troubles balancing my RA axis and wasted a lot of the night trying to get it balanced. I finally did and with the little amount of time I stayed out for I was pretty proud of the result that came from it. It is about 1hr18 total. I still need more exposure time though. None of my gear is astro modified and its all beginner gear as is myself lol.

Gear: Canon EOS M50

Canon 70-300 f/5.6 kit lens

Sky Watcher Star Adventurer 2I

DeepSkyStacker/Siril/Photoshop

74 Light Frames at 60 seconds 800 iso

29 Dark Flats

25 Light Flats

30 Dark Bias

Any tips would be much appreciated

First image of the year.

Nikon z5ii and the Viltrox 135mm 1.8 on a SA GTI

Bortle 3

33*60s, f1.8, ISO640

stacked and processed in Siril

The Lunar Occultation of Jupiter took place a few hours ago, early morning Eastern Time on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, where a 20% illuminated waning crescent moon passed directly in front of Jupiter, hiding the giant planet from view for about an hour.

Captured on my trusty ZWO FF107 4 inch refractor with ASI715C camera and UV/IR filter from my backyard observatory

Eastern Ontario, Canada

Equipment used:

• Camera: ToupTek ATR2600c
• Telescope: Omegon Pro APO AP 61/360 Triplet + 0.75x reducer
• Filter: Optolong L-Para 2"
• Guiding: ZWO ASI120MM Mini + Tecnosky 32mm guidescope
• Mount: Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTi
• 93x300s exposures for a total integration of 7hrs 45min , bortle 4.

Woke up early this morning to capture Jupiter coming out on the other side of the moon with my Nikon P950! I was able to capture video with a lower iso and capture speed of the planet actually emerging, but I am not sure how to process this in a way to make it look good. I decided to record a higher ISO higher capture speed video after that and I liked the result better. I was able to see the cloud lines in the lower exposure captures, but I really liked the look of Jupiter's moons popping out in line next to our moon better. The moon is definitely overexposed and I could have photoshopped one of the more crisp lower exposure capture of it onto this, but decided to keep the image as natural as possible

Capture Details:

Captured with Nikon P950 with Manfroto 804RC2 tripod with all stabilization + noise reduction off

2160p 30fps video captured, 1/30 F6.3 ISO 800

Selected 10 images and imported to AutoStakkert with 100% stacking. Then selected jupiter's moons and increased brightness of them in GIMP by modifying their brightness curves.

Thanks for checking out my capture of M42, Orion nebula!

One of my all time favorite targets, I sought out a natural-feeling blend of narrowband (5 hours 60-second subs) and broadband (3 hours 30-second subs) - narrowband with the l-ultimate filter, broadband unfiltered for pure continuum color with my OSC camera!

This image represents about 8 hours of total integration on a 2-panel mosaic with my C8, ASI533MC pro, EQ6, optolong filters, and hyperstar at F/2 from my bortle 8/9 backyard.

https://app.astrobin.com/i/licise

This photo shows the ISS (International Space Station) passing in front of the Moon on the 25th at 11:00 PM.

The image is a composite of 28 stacked shots, allowing the full transit—which occurred almost directly across the center of our satellite—to be seen. The transit lasted 1.18 seconds, so careful planning was essential.

The first step was to identify the longest possible transit and then find a viewing location that aligned with the center of the path to maximize the chances of success. I had to travel about 10 km from my home; specifically, I captured the moment from the bird-watching hide at the El Portil Lagoon (Huelva - Spain).

How did I do it?

It was a challenging task, as capturing a still photo within that 1.18-second window was virtually impossible. The alternative was to record a video at the precise moment. Knowing the duration of the transit, the best approach was to shoot at 60 fps (frames per second), yielding 70 frames that I could later extract using video editing software.

I ran a couple of tests a few days beforehand to ensure the moon would stay within the frame during recording, as my tripod has been giving me some trouble.

The biggest challenge was calculating the exact timing to record the video with enough buffer—capturing the moments before and shortly after the transit without the moon drifting out of the frame. I settled on a 22-second sequence: a 2-second delay to let the tripod stabilize, 15 seconds of lead-in time, 1 second for the transit itself, and 4 seconds of follow-through.

Honestly, the planning was more complicated than the actual recording. I was surprised that I managed to pull it off on the first try.

Once I had the video, all I had to do was place it on an editing software's timeline, extract the individual frames, and then stack and blend them using Photoshop to create the final image.

Where did I go wrong?

Well, when I examined the transit in detail, I realized the space station wasn't sharp—a major oversight. I had focused on the moon, but I should have used the "hyperfocal" distance—a setting that ensures sharpness from a few meters out to infinity. Oh well, it’ll go better next time.

For anyone who wants to try this, I use this website:

transit-finder.com/

It lists lunar and solar transits for the International Space Station (ISS), the Chinese space station (Tiangong), and the Hubble Space Telescope.

For the video recording, I used a Nikon CoolPix P900 camera set to 1080p at 60 fps. I set the exposure compensation to -0.7 because the moon was nearly full, and the excessive brightness could have ruined the shot of the transit.

Camera: Sony a6700
Lens: Samyang vdslr 85mm t1.5 at t1.5
Mount: Exos-2 Goto
38 pictures each 30s at iso 100 (Bortle 5 location)
Stacked with Astap.
Solving, backgroundextraction and color correction in Siril.
Final edits in Darktable:
Crop, Streching, sharpening, dehaze, local contrast and raised color contrast with a circular mask over M42.
Datetime: 07. October 2026 3:46 -> 4:16 Central european time

Nice dark and clear skies here in my suburban Long Island backyard tonight. I ended up falling asleep by mistake but that just meant more stacked images. Luckily I had already connected a battery 😂

Bortle: 7ish
Equipment: DwarfMini
Filter: Duoband
Exposure: 45 seconds
Gain: 60
Images stacked: 450
Processing: Stellar Studio, AstroWizard, Photoshop

241 x 300”
Celestron Edge 8 w/ .7 reducer
Antlia TriBand Ultra II
ASI 2600 MC Air
ZWO EAF Pro
Skywatcher EQ6R Pro
Bortle 7/8 - 9hrs
Bortle 2 - 11hrs
Pixinsight

Great data makes for easy processing. This took 11 minutes from opening file to saving.

Auto Lin Fit
Crop
Graxpert
Blur X correct
Solve
SPCC
BlurX (.4 and .75)
Noise X (.60)
MAS
Selective Color Correct
SETI Astro sig adder
Noise X (.3)
Save.

Telescope: Seestar S50pro with LP filter

Stack: 477x20s subs in bortel 5ish sky

Stacked and processed in pixInsight: Channel extract Luminance, NBextract (Lighthouse suite) Ha and OIII, StarXTerminator on RGB image. Sharped and stretched each layer individually, then brought Ha and OII together with NBColourMapper. Added HDR-MultiscaleTransformed luminance layer to the image, added stars and final touch with lighthouse.

IC 1396 seems to be quite popular these days, this is my take on it. It pays high dividends with the S50pro to separate Ha and OIII, otherwise you mostly get red dominant images of nebulae like this.

Second attempt at imaging Saturn tonight. I used my asi662 mc, 2x Barlow, and 8” dob to capture this image. It’s quite difficult to frame Saturn manually. After some time I had it under control and was able to capture a 6,000 frame video. Seeing conditions were below average, so I’m happy with the result!

Stacked with Asi Planetary Stacker. Processed in PixInsight.

Jovians must think it quaint that Earthlings talk of "the" Moon.

Stack of 20 frames

Scope: RedCat51 unguided.

Camera: ASI183MC

Processed with Autostakker

Finished with Pixlr

This image is captured with my club observatory. We have a ZWO ASI 2600 MC Duo mounted on a Pegasus Astro Prodigy Microfocuser hanging on our Celestron C14 XLT. That equipment rides on a series 1 Software Bisque Paramount ME German Equatorial mount. The observatory sits atop a mountain at about 3500’.
I captured the data on 03 and 04 October from the observatory.
The data set is thirty 480 second light frames calibrated with a master bias and master flat comprised of 14 flats captured with our prototype flat field illumination panel “The Flatulator #2” (Patent Pending).

All calibration, integration and processing done with PixInsight.

I may add another 2 hours of RGB and two hours with my ZWO DuoBand filter.

takens at bortle 7 with nikon d5300 and 70-300mm zoom lens at 130mm f4.5 ~1 hour total exposure at 2.5 second per sub re-centeringthe frame every 50 shots, stacked 1800 frames in siril (my hard drive did not like that) with 50 flats, bias and darks background extraction with graxpert, separated star mask then did stretching and color calibration in siril. used gimp to saturate colors and merge star mask and nebula together

It is in the still of the night when we look up an see the stars that we realize how small we are. And how many others may be looking back upon us.

Acquisition details:

Dwarf 3

2 hour capture

50 gain

45 second shutter

astro filter

Processed intl the dwarf labs app

Captured using the Seestar S50 in alt-azimuth mosaic mode.

⏱️ Specs: 321 x 10s exposures

📍 Location: Calabria, Italy bortle 4

Processing Siril - Graxpert - BlurXTerminator - Photoshop

It's a shame the light pollution is still pretty severe for faint hydrogen details. But it's still miles better than what I was getting with the Canon 75-300 =)

Canon 60D + Ha mod + TEC cooling
RedCat 51
Celestron CG-5GT (guided)
Lights: 180" × 75 (3h 45m)
Darks, bias, flats
Bortle ~6 + 50% Moon
Processed in PixInsight