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Jupiter just rising above the moon

Edit added capture details:

Telescope: Celestron Nexstar 8se
Camera : iPhone 13 mini
Exposure: 5s in night mode

More to come
20% of 1000 frames
ETX 125 OTA
HEQ5-R pro mount
ZWO ASI 662mc camera shot at 70 fps

After watching countless YouTube videos finally I was able to ​capture this full-disk shot of the Sun in H-Alpha using Lunt 50mm solar telescope and zwo 120 mm camera. Visible across the surface are several active sunspot groups, solar filaments, and prominences extending along the outer edge.

I capture saturn with begginer level telescope, "celestron powerseeker 114eq" I capture almost 3000 frames tell me does this is a good result and also tell me the messy thing seeing on borders is normal or my telescope needed collimation or cleaning

Taken with ES ED102 and Uranus C. Stacked with 400 shots

• Apertura AD10 untracked dobsonian
• ZWO ASI585MC + 2x barlow
• Captured using Sharpcap - 7ms exposures with Gain=438
  • I tried a separate set of captures at the native Gain of 300, but required 40ms+ exposure times, and since I am untracked and just let the planet drift, I thought the result was coming out too soft.
• PIPP, AutoStakkert, and Registax used to process the best 67% out of ≈8000 frames
  • This was my first time manually adding alignment points (APs) instead of having Autostakkert do them automatically. I think I got a better result out of it.
• Color, contrast, and curves adjustments done in GIMP

Registax is a PITA to get your hands on since it's way out of production at this point. So if you don't already have it installed you have to sleuth around the internet to find it. Everyone says to use Wavesharp instead which is apparently its spiritual successor, but I for the life of me cannot get NEARLY the same level of results trying to sharpen in Wavesharp.

Has anyone had success with Wavesharp and/or know of a good tutorial on how to use it effectively to sharpen an image stack coming out of Autostakkert?

Captured Jupiters rotation

First try of Jupiters rotation

Combined 8 frames each of 45 seconds video stacked

Telescope - 10" Dobsonian GSO

Camera - Uranus C player one

Filter - UV/IR cut filter Optlong

3X barlow

Softwares - pipp , registax , astrosurface

Total time of rotation - 45 minutes

Tried to use Winjupos to Derotate the images but couldn't do it , the the final image is soo bad...

Astro Rover

My second attempt at capturing the orion nebula ☝️

Equipment:
Telescope: sky-watcher heritage 130p
Camera: iPhone 14
Mount/Adapter: Universal Smartphone Adapter (Mount)
Acquisition & Settings (AstroShader):
ISO: ~7000 - 8000
Exposure: ~0.89s per frame
Frames: ~50 frames stacked in-app

Greetings folks. I am new to telescopes and have been shopping around to find my first one. I agreed to pay $350 for an apertura 8” dobsonian, and the seller offered to throw in this Meade ETX 125EC and field tripod for $50 more. So now I’ve got two telescopes! I’ve got the Dobson all figured out, it was ready to use and in decent shape just needing cleanup.

Based on some googling, the Meade scope itself needs a power source and the controller for its go to computerization, if it even works. I can’t seem to find a model number on the tripod itself, just a label on the leg that says made in Irvine California. The mounting plate does not seem immediately compatible with this telescope based on what I can see - so I would love for someone more knowledgeable to provide a bit of info!

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I think this turned out not half bad for being shot with my phone up to the eyepiece of my 9.25". Unfortunately my laptop died 20 minutes before the eclipse cause it's a piece of shit so couldn't use my ZWO.

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.

i saw it in more detail with averted vision, super cool!! showed my little cousin too, he was happy to see belt