First light for my new C11. Really terrible seeing, and lots of things to still learn, but already much better results than my old C7 Mak.

Weather was mostly cloudy or veiled, but I managed to get a few clean frames between the clouds

IC 1396 in narrowband from London.

Shot over three nights in August, September and October, with almost 19 hours of acquisition.
First light for both my new  ASI2600MM and Chroma narrowband filters.

Postprocessing using three different palettes: SHO (classic "Hubble palette", with more contrast), HOO (using only oxygen and hydrogen filters, more realistic colours), and HOS (middleground between the two).

This sequence was shot over 3.5 hours to try and capture Jupiter's rotation as smoothly as possible.
Seeing was fairly bad, but that's quite standard around here.
I also changed the camera to the ASI183MM Pro, cooled down to -15 degrees to try and minimize noise.

You can also see an eclipse of the moon Europa: at the beginning of the animation it disappears behind the Gas Giant, suddenly reappearing at the end of the video after leaving the planet shadow.

A better version of both videos can be found in my website: [url=https://gulinux.net/blog/2022-10-10-jupiter-animation-with-europa-eclipse]gulinux.net[/url]

First proper attempt at narrowband imaging and processing.
This started mostly just as a test session, since the first part of the night was cursed with passing clouds right in front of my target. I also had some problems with the autofocuser (that just stopped working at some point), and balancing issues.
All things considered, not too bad...
I processed the image in both HOO palette (more natural looking) and SHO.

California nebula under London Sky.

Conditions weren't exactly ideal: light pollution, obviously, then clouds rolled in just when I was ready to start my sequence, shortening capture time by a couple of hours.

Also, the nearly full moon was very close to the target, causing some nasty reflections on the (now cropped out) border of the image.

Overall I'm quite satisfied by the result though, the Optolong L-Enhance filter seems to be doing a really great job.

The target of the month, in two versions: a RGB combination (left), and with an IR-pass filter (right).

Finally got a decent night for imaging Jupiter and Saturn, very low here in the UK (just around 15 degrees above the horizon).

Seeing was terrible, but I'm still relatively satisfied with the results, given how difficult these planets are this year from this latitude.

Given the unusual stride of sunny days and clear nights, and the lockdown in force, forcing me to stay indoors instead of searching for dark places, but also offering more time for imaging at the same time, I decided to take a few steps in doing more "garden astrophotography".

This is my first experiment with some new equipment: an Optolong L-Enhance narrowband filter, and a iOptron CEM40. The first allows me to image many targets even from heavily light polluted skies (here in London, Bortle 8 or 9), the latter allows for longer exposures, a necessity using narrowband.

Full story: [url=https://blog.gulinux.net/en/blog/2020-06-01-backyard-deep-sky-north-america-and-pelican]https://blog.gulinux.net/en/blog/2020-06-01-backyard-deep-sky-north-america-and-pelican[/url]

Detail of the Small Magellanic Cloud. (NGC 346 and 371 among others)

Wide field shot of the Milky Way around Aquila. Altair is clearly visible in the field.

A first test for my new ASI 1600mm.

This camera has bigger pixels and a larger sensor than my other camera, the ASI 178mm, so it's more suitable for deep sky imaging rather than planetary shots.

But with such large field of view I can get a picture of the moon without having to stich it.

Blog article: [url=http://blog.gulinux.net/blog/2017-04-08-jupiter-and-moon-06-04-2017]http://blog.gulinux.net/blog/2017-04-08-jupiter-and-moon-06-04-2017[/url]

Composite shot of 78 images.

For each image I stacked 300 frames (out of 500).

Very poor seeing (lots of turbulence, since I shot it through an open window).

IC 1396 in narrowband from London.

Shot over three nights in August, September and October, with almost 19 hours of acquisition.
First light for both my new  ASI2600MM and Chroma narrowband filters.

Postprocessing using three different palettes: SHO (classic "Hubble palette", with more contrast), HOO (using only oxygen and hydrogen filters, more realistic colours), and HOS (middleground between the two).

First proper attempt at narrowband imaging and processing.
This started mostly just as a test session, since the first part of the night was cursed with passing clouds right in front of my target. I also had some problems with the autofocuser (that just stopped working at some point), and balancing issues.
All things considered, not too bad...
I processed the image in both HOO palette (more natural looking) and SHO.

A bit noisier than I would have hoped for, but given the terrible weather this winter I didn't manage to get enough frames for a better picture (barely 3 and a half hours in total).

Still, not a terrible picture either.

California nebula under London Sky.

Conditions weren't exactly ideal: light pollution, obviously, then clouds rolled in just when I was ready to start my sequence, shortening capture time by a couple of hours.

Also, the nearly full moon was very close to the target, causing some nasty reflections on the (now cropped out) border of the image.

Overall I'm quite satisfied by the result though, the Optolong L-Enhance filter seems to be doing a really great job.

Given the unusual stride of sunny days and clear nights, and the lockdown in force, forcing me to stay indoors instead of searching for dark places, but also offering more time for imaging at the same time, I decided to take a few steps in doing more "garden astrophotography".

This is my first experiment with some new equipment: an Optolong L-Enhance narrowband filter, and a iOptron CEM40. The first allows me to image many targets even from heavily light polluted skies (here in London, Bortle 8 or 9), the latter allows for longer exposures, a necessity using narrowband.

Full story: [url=https://blog.gulinux.net/en/blog/2020-06-01-backyard-deep-sky-north-america-and-pelican]https://blog.gulinux.net/en/blog/2020-06-01-backyard-deep-sky-north-america-and-pelican[/url]

Tarantula Nebula, shot from Tivoli Astro Farm, Namibia.

Quick test shot of M42 in London.

Veil nebula shot at Colle dell'Agnello

The region around Deneb and Sadr, in the Cygnus constellation.

Full of stars and nebulosity, given it's special position in the middle of the Milky Way, this picture features many of them, like the North America, Pelican, Gamma Cyg Nebula, Crescent.

Blog article: [url=http://blog.gulinux.net/blog/2017-06-20-cygnus-heart]http://blog.gulinux.net/blog/2017-06-20-cygnus-heart[/url]

Red data only, as light pollution ruined other wavelengths

Blog article: [url=http://blog.gulinux.net/blog/2016-11-29-wide-field-orion-nebula-flame-horsehead]http://blog.gulinux.net/blog/2016-11-29-wide-field-orion-nebula-flame-horsehead[/url]

Messier 42 in a first quick test shot