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.
This is 11 h 22 min of M31 collected over three nights.
I still have another three nights of data available, but those were captured as 30 second subs under a full Moon and have noticeably stronger gradients. I’m still debating whether adding them would improve the final result or whether the moonlit data would do more harm than good. I’d be interested to hear what others would do.
This was also a bit of a processing experiment for me, trying several new techniques and working with separate starless/star layers. I’m happy with how much dust structure came through, but I’m not completely satisfied with the final processing yet and feel there’s probably more hiding in the data. Any processing tips, criticism, or feedback are very welcome.
Acquisition Details:
Camera: Nikon D3400 (unmodified)
Telescope: Askar FMA180 Pro
Aperture: 40 mm
Focal length: 180 mm
Focal ratio: f/4.5
Mount: Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTi (unguided)
Acquisition software: N.I.N.A.
ISO: 400
Sub-exposure: 60 seconds
Light pollution: approximately Bortle 6
Capture dates:
2026-08-08 → 2026-08-09
2026-08-09 → 2026-08-10
2026-08-10 → 2026-08-11
Accepted integration:
Aug 8/9: 252 × 60 s = 4 h 12 min
Aug 9/10: 244 × 60 s = 4 h 04 min
Aug 10/11: 186 × 60 s = 3 h 06 min
Total: 682 × 60 s = 11 h 22 min
Calibration frames:
Darks
Flats
Dark-flats
Processing:
Stacked in Siril
Plate solving and SPCC in Siril
Cropping / framing
BlurXTerminator
NoiseXTerminator
StarXTerminator
Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch (GHS)
Local contrast enhancement
SCNR green cast removal
Global and selective color saturation
Star reduction with Morphological Transformation
Separate stretching and processing of the star layer
Starless processing and color finishing in Adobe Photoshop / Camera Raw
Curves and tonal adjustments
Selective HSL / Color Mixer adjustments
Stars recombined using Screen blending
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.
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
Taken from my Bortle 9 backyard in Baltimore over 4 nights
20 hours of total integration
180x180 second exposures HA
220x180 second exposures Oiii
I may add SII soon, but I'm not sure
Gear
Mount - Teseek 14
Telescope - Samyang 135mm
Camera - Touptek ATR585M
Filters - Touptek 6.5nm SHO
Stacked in Siril and processed in SASPro, siril and Graxpert
Camera: Canon EOS R8
Lens: Canon RF 28-70mm f2.8
Mount: Star Adventurer GTi
Acquisition Settings: 35mm, f4, ISO 3200
Integration: 60x30s (30 minutes)
Calibration Frames: None
Processing: DSS for stacking, GraXpert to remove background gradients, Lightroom + Photoshop for final processing and editing.
Location: Tucson, AZ (Bortle ~5)
Date: August 16th, 2026
I've been learning astrophotography for a few months now, and this is the first image I've gotten that I feel truly proud of!
That said, it certainly still has room for improvement, so feedback is appreciated!
One new technique I tried for this image was removing the stars in photoshop, so I could stretch/edit the milky way dust clouds separately from the stars. Then I added the stars back to the image (I also shrank the stars a bit). I'm amazed at how much this technique improved the image! I feel like the dust clouds really pop out.
Voici une animation 4K de l'ensemble de la séquence de l'éclipse solaire du 12 août 2026, capturée depuis l'Aveyron, France.
Lors de cette séance, j'ai eu une chance incroyable de capturer deux passages d'avion à travers le disque solaire (un exactement 1 minute avant C1, et le deuxième juste avant le coucher de soleil). Pour créer cette animation fluide et haute résolution, mon ordinateur a dû traiter 1,3 To de fichiers vidéo bruts .SER. L'atmosphère durant le maximum était absolument irréelle.
🎬 Regardez l'animation complète en 4K avec les passages ici :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Mq_XbEzik
Équipement :
Acquisition & Traitement :
Vous pouvez lire l'analyse technique complète et mon expérience de la totalité sur mon site Web : https://doffinastrophoto.com/astrophotography-solar-eclipse-2026/
Camera: Sony A7iii
Lens: Samyang 135mm f1.8
Mount: Star Adventurer 2i
Acquisition: ISO 1000
Integration: 70x120s
Processing: Siril & Gimp
Location: Payson, AZ (Bortle 3?)
Date: August 17th
Extremely new to the hobby and photography in general. Just picked up my first camera in June and all of the equipment above weeks later.
But it was such a cool experience to capture something so distant. I didn’t really know what I was doing outside of watching a few YouTube videos but the hobby is getting me out there and going to places outside of the city which is very fun for me. Also always welcome any feedback or tips!
Pixel 9 Pro - Astrophotography mode
Phone was in a small tripod sitting on top of a wall
Cropped and a small amount of colour and blackness adjustments in the Google photos app done that night
Taken in the Mourne Mountains in-between Slieve Donard and Chimney Rock Mountain, Northern Ireland
BACKGROUND
📷 Camera: Canon EOS 6D mod.
🔎 Lens: Samyang 14mm f/8
🔭 Mount: Star Adventurer 2i
🌌 Acquisition: ISO1600
⏰ Integration: 150x60s (2.5h)
💻 Processing: Siril, GIMP, Snapseed
📍 Location: 36°47'34.79"N, 12°3'13.03"E
📅 Date: Aug. 11, 2026
Captured with a Canon R5 and the RF 100-500, processed in photoshop. I used a solar filter for the partial phases and no filter during totality.
I wanted to delve into the realm of wide field astro to welcome the first dark night in my location. There as quite a bit of cloud cover but I imagine to get a single usable frame at least.
This is a single 2 minute and tracked exposure using the Fujifilm X-H2S, the Viltrox 27mm and MSM tracker from a Bortle 2 location. Processed in PixInsight and Lightroom.
The Elephant Trunk
80x180s
Askar 71F
ASI533MC Pro
CGEMii
ASI678MC
Siril
Photoshop
My favorite event to witness for sure. Spent a while learning a lot of new processing techniques, ended up with this photo.
Image details and rough processing steps on my astrobin
Got this data July 30th - 3h 40minutes total
Askar D1 and D2 filters, Sharpstar 13028HNT and Touptek 2600C
More details in AstroBin: https://app.astrobin.com/i/trmotf
Stacked and processed in PI. ADBE on both, star correction, sharpening, extract S/H/O channels, recombine into color using SetiAstro's perfect palette picker (dynamic inverse)
Do you think it's Foolish to image at full moon?
I'm 1/2 way through my M31 run, 89 x120 L, 30 x 180 R, 30 x 180 G, 29 x 180 B. going to add 120 L to stack tonight, then an hour of Ha at 300 sec. Ran everything through astro wizard then SyQon stuff in pixinsight. Bortle 2.9 outside twentynine palms.
FRA600
Reducer(3.9 at 420mm)
AM3N
ASI2600MM pro UniGuide 50mm ASI220mm
ASIAIR Plus
EAF
EFW 7x36mm
Antlia LRGB-V & SHO (SII, Ha & OIII) Narrowband 3nm Pro 36mm
My first image of Saturn, I used a ad10 telescope and a Zwo 715mc planetary camera, processed video by Pipp and stacked by autostakkert aswell as a little bit of processing with registax.