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Saturday, September 22, 2018
NGC Open and Globular Star Clusters
Astropictures of a couple of NGC Open and Globular Star Cluster.
NGC 6633 : Open Star Cluster - Italy Cluster
NGC 6517 : Globular Star Cluster
NGC 6709 : Open Star Cluster - Flying Unicorn
NGC 6760 : Globular Star Cluster
NGC 6535: Globular Star Cluster
All pictures taken with Nikon D7500 on refractor TLAPO80/480 f/6. Pictures in DNG and stacked using DeepSkyStacker with final editing in CS4.
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Comet 21P Giacobini-Zinner
The Comet 21P Giacobini-Zinner, this morning UT02h15 as seen in the constellation Gemini. It's current distance is about 60 million km from Earth.
Pleiades Messier M45
Astropicture of the Seven Sisters or the Pleiades (Messier M45) can be fount in the constellation Taurus. The open star cluster is located at a distance of 444 light years from Earth.
The picture is the result of a long exposure of 40 minutes. It's a combination of ISO800, ISO3200 and ISO6400 with exposure each time 30s. Pictures are converted to DNG and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; final editing using CS4 16bits and result below is Jpeg.
The green line is probably an airplane.
The picture is the result of a long exposure of 40 minutes. It's a combination of ISO800, ISO3200 and ISO6400 with exposure each time 30s. Pictures are converted to DNG and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; final editing using CS4 16bits and result below is Jpeg.
The green line is probably an airplane.
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Open Star Clusters NGC1039, 1342, 7281 and 7261
Astropictures from Open Star Cluster
- NGC1039 or Messier M34; the Spiral Cluster - the picture also shows Galaxy NGC1053
- NGC1342
- NGC7281
- NGC7261
All pictures made using Nikon D7500 on TLAPO 80/480 f/6. DeepSkyStacker is used to stack the DNG files. Photoshop CS4 is finally used to edit the DeepSkystacked Tiff files.
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