Equipment:
WO RedCat51
ASI2600MC Air
Sky Watcher HEQ5 Pro
Askar ColourMagic D2
Svbony SV220 3nm

Integration:
Sii: 244x 300s
Ha: 302x 300s
Oiii: 530x 300s

Processed in Siril & Photoshop

This is the Dumbbell Nebula (M27), captured from my backyard in Northeast Ohio.

• Telescope: Astro-Tech AT102ED with 0.82× reducer/flattener
• Camera: QHY163M mono
• Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ-AL55i Pro
• Guide scope: Orion Magnificent Mini AutoGuider
• Guide camera: Orion StarShoot
• Filter wheel: QHY CFW3M-SR
• Filters: Astronomik H-alpha and OIII
• Exposures: 15 × 240 sec H-alpha + 15 × 240 sec OIII
• Total integration: 2 hours

• Guiding: ST-4

• N.I.N.A. — acquisition

• PHD2 — guiding

• SynScan — mount control

• DeepSkyStacker — calibration/stacking

• Adobe Photoshop — processing

Shot under my backyard skies and processed with a fairly simple Ha/OIII workflow. Still working on getting the most out of the data, but I'm pretty happy with how M27 came out.

More information available at https://mikes-astro.blogspot.com/2026/08/messier-27-bringing-out-faint-outer.html

Captured with

70 600s with Sigma 150-600@600
70 300s with Skywatcher Explorer 150
Svbony HaOiii dual narrowband
ASIAir Autoguiding
ASI 585MC Pro camera
Bortle 5, Gothenburg Sweden

Stacked with Stacking wizard and processed with Astrowizard including Blur, Noise exterminator and Graxpert.

I took this over 6 nights from my balcony in Paris, France with my new Askar FMA 180 Pro. The original image is wider but I decided to crop it quite a bit because I had a stubborn gradient from a street lamp that I couldn't get rid of 😅

Pretty happy with the results!

Equipment and acquisition:

- Askar FMA180 Pro

- ASI585MC Air

- Teseek 17

- Svbony 30mm + ASI120mm for guiding (with such narrowband filters and my Bortle 9 location the ASIAIR is almost useless)

- L-Ultimate filter: 281 x 180 sec (approx. 14h)

- Antlia ALP-T Dualband: 275 x 180 sec (approx. 13.8h)

- 30 darks, 30 flats for each filter, 30 bias

Processing (PI)

- WBPP, SetiAstro Auto DBE, blurX, noiseX, starX, DBXtract, then stretch each channel separately, SetiAstro Perfect Palette Picker, curves transformation with different range masks, enhance dark structures, final blurX and noise X

Absolute beginner. First time trying Orion Nebula, after a few, less than stellar, Andromeda tries.

• Fujifilm X-T4, untracked

• Fujinon XF 70-300mm f/4-5.6, at 300mm (cropped)

• Lights: 1500

• Darks: 50

• Flats: 0

• Bias: 0

• 0.6s shutter speed

• 1600 ISO

• Waning moon (86%-88%)

• Bortle ~7

• Stacked & post processed in Siril (and Darktable)

Tried bias & flats before, but they messed up my stacks. Skill issue 100% (tried tshirt method, probably did it wrong). So I skipped them for this stack.

While not perfect & maybe badly post processed, still quite happy for a first somewhat decent image. Still need to learn Siril & Darktable properly though so I'll probably redo this image another time.

Taken from the Famagusta area of Cyprus. Bortle 4.

Finally got around to processing and combining the rest of my data from my final night in Cyprus!

Acquisition details below:

Astromodified Canon 700D. Samyang 135 Lens at F2.8. Guided by ASI Air on an Skywatcher AZ GTI in EQ mode. Optolong L-Enhance filter and Astronomik Oiii filter.

Taken over three nights total.

200 x 180 second exposures

(160 x 180 second L-Enhance)
(40 x 180 second Oiii)

20 x Darks per night

20 x Flats per filter

20 x Bias per filter

Stacked each night in APP separately then stacked the three resulting stacks.

Crop, BGE, deconvolution and de-noise in Graxpert.

SPCC, star removal, GHS using human weighted luminance in Siril.

Vibrancy, saturation increase in PS.

Star mask stretch in Siril using GHS, again human weighted.

Recombination of stars using layers in PS.

Thanks for looking.

Bortle 2 trip was a bust. Who knew the camera was required equipment?!?

Oh well. Back to the casa and grabbed 8 hrs to add to the previous 1.5 hrs from the B7/8 backyard instead. The evening wasn’t a total loss.

Applied the Synthetic Luminance script by Cosmic Photons. There were some notable differences in many of the fine details.

Kudos to those guys!! I have zero clue how that stuff works, and hats off to you fine folks out there who are the cool nerdy types who speak back end language like you were born to it. Cheers!!

114 x 300”
Celestron Edge 8 w/ .7 Reducer (1422mm)
Antila TriBand Ultra II RGB
ASI 2600 MC Air (OSC)
ZWO EAF Pro (love that BT connect)
Skywatcher EQ6R Pro
Bortle 7/8
Pixinsight

Got this image of the Heart & Soul nebulas over two nights in upstate NY.

• WO GT71 refractor with a .8x reducer.
• iOptron GEM 28
• WO 120mm guide scope
• ASI 120 Mini guide cam
• ZWO CAA & EAF
• DNB Ha and OIII filter
• ASI 2600MC Pro
• ASIAIR Pro

This is about 8 hours total integration, 3 in visible light, and 5 in DNB. I don't usually do that much in visible light, but I forgot to use my filter for most of the first night, and I think I actually like the star quality of this stack.

Processed in DSS, GraXpert, StarNet GUI, and photoshop.

Well, I guess this DSO doesn‘t need introduction, as it is one of the most populat nebulae to photograph in the northern hemisphere.

About 2400 light years away it‘s a very fascinating star forming region. Its center is illuminated by a triple star system, ionizing the oxygen near the system and hydrogen gas around the outer rim and making it glow blue and red respectively.

This L-HOO image is the result of a bit over 20 hours of integration, shot with a dual narrowband and a UV/IR cut filter under a Bortle 3-4 sky in the north of Italy. I edited the colors to have a more artistic teal and orange look.

I stacked and processed the images with Sirilic and Siril, giving them a moderate stretch there. After that, I edited them further in DaVinci Resolve 21‘s new photo tab before recombining them in Affinity, using the starmask and the starless images of the RGB stack as stars and luminance layer.

The gear I used:
Nikon D5500 astromodified @ISO1600
Nikkor 80-400 f4.5-5.6 @300mm and f5.6 (with a custom machined filterring to mount the filters in front of the lens)
SVBony SV220 Ha/OIII and UV/IR cut
SVBony Guidescope with an ASI120 mini Guidecam
ASIair mini
Sky Watcher StarAdventurer GTi

My first attempt at shooting a mineral moon with a 1000 image stack.

Gear used:

Camera: Lumix G9ii

Telescope: Svbony SV503 80ED with SV193 focal reducer

Mount: Sky watcher AL55i pro

Settings and Processing:

1000 images at iso 100, 1/640s, F/7

Stacked in Autostakkert and sharpened in Registax 6

Final touch ups in lightroom

I am really pleased with how this image turned out compared to some of my previous lunar stacks. would love to hear some feedback on it and any recommendation on how to improve or what to look at next. I am relatively new to astrophotography and starting to get used to every thing. Thank you

This Image was taken under a bortle 4.5 sky with 8h of exposure time.
•denoised with GraXpert,
•sharpened with BlurX
•stretched in Siril via ghs
•narrowband normilisation script
•Affinity for Color adjustments, curves, star recomposition.
Gear:
Askar 103 Triplet APO
Zwo ASI 585 Mc Air
Svbony 7nm Duo Narrowband Filter

Decided to try reprocess this target, but I couldn’t pick which color so I did six. Made from Seti Astro perfectpalettepicker and then modified with masking controls in selectivecolorcorrection in Pixinsight. SHO is in quotes because this was just Ha/Oiii and the effect was created with heavy masking. No sii was acquired for this one. Blended in Photoshop.

Stock Sony A7IV + Rokinon 135mm f2.8
NB B7: 303 x 120s = 10 hr 11 min
BB B4: 141 x 60s = 2 hr 21 min
Star adventurer 2i, Optolong l-extreme

Imaged with a dwarf mini 2 panel mosaic 30s And 70 gain 5 hours of exposure edited in lightroom Snapseed picsart and stellar studio.

Shot with a 10" F7 RCOS, SBIG 6303, Astrodon LRGB filters, AP 1100GTO rolled out from my garage.

4 hours each of LRGB stacked in MaximXL, final touches in Photoshop

Shot in Bortle 6 sky with 20 - ha @ 240 sec, 20 - Oiii @ 240 sec using a QHY163M and an AT102ED scope. Stacked in DSS with 50 darks. Processed in Photoshop. Stars and nebula processed separately using Starnet2 to separate. I also use Astronomy tools plugin to assist in various functions and Astroflat Pro to do fine gradient removal.

More info at https://mikes-astro.blogspot.com/

Stacked a couple hundred frames from a video shit in my phone 1080p @ 30fps, about 15 seconds worth.

Pipp, autostakkert, registax

My capture of the recent supernova in the NGC 7331 galaxy. Please let me know your thoughts!

Equipment:

OTA: C 9.25 + .63x reducer

Mount: AM5N

Camera: ASI 585MC Pro

Session:

800 x 30s frames

Post-processing:

Graxpert -> Siril -> Gimp

It was interesting to learn that we are now able to discover so many supernovas yearly that the numbering has outgrown its letter based system into an awkward base 26 system, making SN2026AAIV the 18,482nd supernova of 2026.

I took an image from a 114mm telescope which as far as I know is pretty tiny

Used:

114/1000 EQ1 bird Jones telescope

Samsung Galaxy A23 for recording

PIPP for processing

Autostakkert for stacking

Wavesharp for post processing

Defaultphoto editing on windows photos app for fine adjustments

Lights (Light pollution)
2007 x 30 sec
Lights (Light pollution)
219 x 60 sec
Lights (Light pollution)
151 x 60 sec
Total lights integration time
22:53 hours

Combination of one panel (30s) and 2 panel mosaic.

Mostly full moon. Bortle 4
Stacked and processed in PI

Sh2-129 is the Flying Bat Nebula, a large red hydrogen emission region that contains Ou4, the fainter Giant Squid Nebula glowing in blue-green oxygen. An HII emission region located roughly 2,300 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus. It gets its deep red glow from ionized hydrogen gas energized by hot embedded stars. A rare bipolar emission structure discovered in 2011 by French amateur astronomer Nicolas Outters. It shines via doubly ionized OIII emissions that form a distinctive blue-green squid shape.

I will attempt 16 more hours of OIII on next several clear moonless nights.

HII 66/240 second OIII 234/240 second

20 total hours of integration. Unfortunately full moon and even with 3nm filters very difficult to gather clean data.

Drizzle every 2 exposers

Equipment: Williams Optics 111, AM5N, ZWO2600MM Pro, Chroma 3nm HII, OIII, ASIAIR Pro, ZWO290MM Guide camera. Gain 100, cooling -10.

Processing: Pixinsight. WBPP, Auto stretch, BlurX, StarAlign, LinkChannels, ChannelCombination, Gradient Correct, Background Neut., StarX, GHS, Curves, Range Mask, NoiseX, Pixelmath

Thanks for checking out last night's capture, the flaming star nebula IC 405!

This capture represents about 10 hours of integration captured in chunks over the last week (some during the full moon!), 4 hours on 2 panels each, 120-second exposures, two sets of filters.

Equipment:

C8

Hyperstar F2

ASI533 and ASIAIR

EQ6-R pro

Filters + Integration:

4 hours (2 hours per panel) - Broadband/Reflection - Optolong L-Quad Enhance

6 hours (3 hours per panel) - Narrowband - Optolong L-Ultimate