Moon Jupiter Saturn December 18 2020

Jupiter and Saturn getting closer and closer. Picture taken with Nikon D7500 and 18-200mm lens. The insert was taken with ASI224MC and TLAPO80/480 f/6. 

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This evening both the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn low above the south-western horizon.

 

Jupiter and Saturn within field of view

This evening Jupiter and Saturn are getting closer and closer with a final approach on december 21st. Today both planets came into field of view of my Nikon D7500/TLAPO 80/480 train. 

A made a composition of 3 pictures : 18mm, 200mm and 480mm

NOAA18 10122020 UT10h02

NOAA18 weather image of this morning UT10h02. Picture was received via WebSDR @Nurnberg (Germany). Pictures are stacked and editing using CS4 and DeNoise AI.

Flame and Horsehead Nebula

On the evening of december 5th, I made some pictures of the flame nebula (NGC2024) and horsehead nebula (IC434). For the first time I used my new H-alpha filter 13nm narrowband. It was difficult to get the stars in focus but next time I will spend more time to get this fixed.Conditions : at start high humidity, later freezing -2.5°C and high clouds. So conditions were poor but still I'm proud of the final resuls. My best ever flame and horsehead nebula.

Setting : Nikon D7500 and TLAPO 80/480 f/6; H-alpha ISO6400 19x90s; lights ISO3200 10x60. Cameracontrol with DigiCamControl; stacking using DeepSkyStacker (seperate Ha and lights) and final stacking of the two results with CS4. DeNoise AI was used to remove the noise from the picture.

NOAA18 091220 UT10h14

NOAA18 weather image of this morning UT10h14. Picture was received via WebSDR @Nurnberg (Germany). Pictures are stacked and editing using CS4 and DeNoise AI.

M33 Triangulum Galaxy

The Triangulum Galaxy or Messier M33 (NGC589) is located in constellation Triangulum and about 2.73 million ly away from Earth. It's the third largest galaxy of the Local Group, next to our own Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy M31. Some people are able to see M33 with the naked eye making this object the most distant object seen without ny optical support.

Setting : Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6; ISO3200 72x60s and 5x darks. Camera control with DigiCamControl. Stacking using APP and final editing in CS4 and DeNoise AI.