Cosmos & Exploration

Credit: Christophe Brun

I captured this Image in the night after the Total Solar Eclipse, during my trip to Spain.

Equipment:

Telescope: SvBony SV555
Mount: Explore Scientific iEXOS-100
Camera: ZWO ASI2600 MC Pro
Guide Scope: SvBony SV165
Guide Cam: ZWO ASI120mm
+ ZWO AsiAir Mini

Acquisition:

65x180s (3,25h) at Gain 101 in an Bortle 2 Night in Spain. Laguna de Gallocanta.

Processing:

Stacked in Siril, processed in PixInsight finalized in Photoshop.

VLT images of the S301 star orbiting Sagittarius A* (Credit: ESO/GRAVITY collaboration)

Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy, the Milky Way, orbiting the black hole at its centre. The star, named S301, was detected with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) and reaches speeds of 25 000 km/s (8% the speed of light) as it travels around the four-million-Solar-mass black hole. It comes closer to it than any other observed before, so close that it feels the effects of the black hole’s rotation.

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2612/

This is 40 hours of imaging in OHS color palette from my backyard in Utah using a 10” Meade and ASI2600mm pro. Hope you like it so far. Still a little noisy…. Hopeful that I get more clear nights to finish this target.

The total solar eclipse over the 800 year old Burgos Cathedral from Spain. This final result contains much more data from the multiple exposures of the solar corona, even revealing the night side of the Moon.

Equipment: Canon 6D Mark II, Sigma 150-600mm lens.

Space is probably as dark as this...

I could only take around 3.5 hours of this target because the weather was not behaving... But still it came out pretty good! Next time I will add Ha data as well

Equipment and acquisition:

- OTA: Askar 71F

- Mount: Teseek 17

- Camera: ASI585MC Air

- 102 x 120 sec (approx. 3.5 hours)

Processing (Pixinsight)

- WBPP 2X drizzle, dynamic crop, SPCC, SPFC, multiscale gradient correction, blurX, starX

- Starless: setiastro statistical stretch, curves transformation with range and color masks, createHDRimage, noiseX

- Stars: Setiastro star stretch, star recombination in Pixelmath

I captured this Image in the night after the Total Solar Eclipse, during my trip to Spain.

Equipment:

Telescope: SvBony SV555
Mount: Explore Scientific iEXOS-100
Camera: ZWO ASI2600 MC Pro
Guide Scope: SvBony SV165
Guide Cam: ZWO ASI120mm
+ ZWO AsiAir Mini

Acquisition:

50x180s (2,5h) at Gain 101 in an Bortle 2 Night in Spain. Laguna de Gallocanta.

Processing:

Stacked in Siril, processed in PixInsight finalized in Photoshop.

Link to the science release on ESA website

A new study – guided by flyby images from ESA’s Hera asteroid mission – suggests that Mars’s small outer moon Deimos has been dramatically reshaped by a single violent asteroid impact.

This would account for its mysteriously smooth and youthful face: a thick layer of dust from the impact may have served as the planetary equivalent of cosmetic fillers.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

This is a re-image of an observation we acquired in 2016 to measure dune mobility. This is a remarkable and rare example of ice-dune interaction, which can be seen as a modern analogue of the burial of the wind-driven, ice-rich sedimentary deposit under the North Polar layered deposits of Mars.

ID: ESP_077242_2615

​date: 18 January 2023

​altitude: 319 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077242_2615

NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

I captured the data for this Image during the total Solar Eclipse 2026 in Spain. The excact spot was the "Laguna de Gallocanta". 

H-Alpha Equipment:
Telescope: SvBony SV555
Mount: Explore Scientific iEXOS-100
Camera: ZWO ASI533 MM PRO
FIlter: Baader D-ERF 75mm , DayStar Quark Chromosphere

Corona Equipment:
Camera: Canon EOS R100
Lense: Sigma 150-600mm

Captured with SharpCap, edited with imPPG, colored and merged in Photoshop.

I shot over 3 nights, 16 hours, 8 minutes.

Tech specs and more variations:

https://www.astrobin.com/5bdwcx/