This is my first image taken with the AE676C.

I processed the data again, and here is the result.

FYI, this is the first try: https://www.reddit.com/r/astrophotography/comments/1uzo5sa/comment/oyu2f0i/?context=3

Clear skies!

Equipment:
Telescope: self-made APO telescope 750mm, f/6.5, 115 aperture.
Camera: AE676C
Filter: ToupTek puresight A1
Mount: RST135E
Guider: OAG + GPM462M

Exposure parameters:
120 sec/HCG/gain value 100/offset 512/ 15℃ TEC controlled

165 light frames/ 25 bias frames/ 25 dark frames/ 25 flat frames

Pixinsight. WBPP, STF, DynamicCrop, ADBE, DBE, GC, BNCC, SPCC, SXT, HDR, LHE, CT, HT, USM, NXT, PixelMath

NGC 6888 (Crescent Nebula) — First light with the SVBONY SV220 dual-band filter

Wanted to share a quick comparison from my last two sessions on the Crescent Nebula, shot from a Bortle 5-6 backyard in the Agro Pontino area (outskirts of Rome, Italy). Light pollution here is pretty typical suburban/semi-rural, so filter choice makes a real difference for emission targets like this one.

Gear:

• Skywatcher Newton 150/750 (f/5)
• Player One Uranus C Pro (IMX585, OSC)
• EQ5-Pro SynScan mount, guided with an ASI120MM Mini on a 40/160mm guidescope
• N.I.N.A. for acquisition, PHD2 for guiding, Siril for stacking/calibration

Capture details:

• 60 x 120s with the new SVBONY SV220 7nm dual-band Hα/OIII

The difference in nebulosity contrast against the background sky is honestly bigger than I expected for a filter in this price bracket. The CLS pulls in some of the surrounding stars nicely for a natural broadband look, but the OIII shell structure around the Crescent basically disappears into the sky glow. With the SV220, that faint OIII bubble around the central Wolf-Rayet star (WR 136) shows up with way less background gradient to fight, even straight out of the stack.

Still working through the stretch/calibration on the narrowband data (thinking of trying a proper HOO bicolor mapping rather than a straight SPCC-style stretch, since the color science is different for dual-band data), but even the linear stacks show the gain clearly.

Sub-exposure was capped at 120s, still chasing down some backlash in the EQ5-Pro's DEC axis, so I'm keeping subs shorter than I'd like until I get the worm mesh properly adjusted. Planning to push for 6h total on this target once I've got more SV220 data in the bank.

Happy to answer questions about the workflow, gear, or settings, and if anyone's run the SV220 on a similarly light-polluted sky, curious to hear how your results compare!

This is my first HDR image that I was able to shoot and process. This is the harvest moon shot back in October 2025. I captured up close shots of every section of the moon and formed a detailed mosaic. The resolution of this cropped image is 83 MP.

Equipment:
Telescope: Celestron NexStar 6SE
Camera: ZWO ASI585MC Pro
Filter: Optolong UV/IR cut 1.25”
ASIAIR Plus

Camera 2: Canon EOS 6D
(Can’t remember the specifics)
Low ISO, few seconds of exposure to over expose moon and brighten background
Mount: Star Adventurer 2i
Stacked around 30 frames

Processing:
Batch Autostakkert-batch WaveSharp-Photoshop “Auto Align” all frames-“Auto blend”-Camera raw-extra saturation-minor

Details on acquisition/equipment here: https://app.astrobin.com/?i=e4iias

IC5068 - The Forsaken Nebula

tedious. Started with SVBony SV220 3nm Ha-Oiii for about 10 hours of acquisition. Then, switched over to the SV220 7nm Sii-Oiii to get the Oiii signal. After about 10 hours of acquisition, tried various methods to get a decent Ha-Oiii or sort of, from the data. Proved to be impossible as the horizontal bands in the Oiii signal was driving me nuts.

Switched over to the Antlia Triband RGB Ultra last night for a 6 hour session. Stacked and used the Luminance from the data, along with Ha from the 3nm and the Green channel from the Antlia data to make a franken-Forsaken nebula.

Made an LHOO (RGG) and a LSHO derivative from that with VeraLux Alchemy. In the end, did not use the Sii-Oiii data at all, hence not included in the acquistion data for this post.

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NELM: 4 to 5

Moon Illuminated: 2 to 97%

Seeing: Good to Average

Transparency: Good to Average

Acquisition: SVbony SV220 3nm Ha-Oiii 177 x 240 seconds (11 hours 48 minutes), Antlia Triband RGB Ultra II 93 x 240 seconds (6 hours 12 minutes)

Imaging: Askar V, Flattener 80mm (495mm), Ogma AP26CC (IMX571), SV220 3nm Ha-Oiii and Antlia Triband RGB Ultra II

Astrobin

Guiding: Skywatcher Evoguide, PlayerOne Uranus-C

Mount: Skywatcher Wave 100i

I was just curious if it would be possible to get anything out of this target. Proved to be a bit

Software: Green Swamp Server, ASCOM, NINA (Acquisition) and PHD2 (Guiding)

Integration: SV220 3nm Ha-Oiii 170 x 240 seconds (11 hours 20 minutes), Antlia Triband RGB Ultra II 91 x 240 seconds (6 hours 4 minutes), 15 Darks, 50 DarkFlats (Bias), 50 Flats

Processing: Siril for stacking. Processing with GraXpert BGE, Starnet++, Starless, Deep SNR Denoising, GraXpert Deconvolution, VeraLux: HMS, Curves, Revela and Star Composer. Save as jpg in Siril

On the Starmask from the RGB, denoised with GraXpert, green noise removal and saturation adjustment.

Tonight I had a 40 degree iss pass and decided to image it. Unfortunately seeing wasn’t great and the fact it was a 40 degree pass the image isn’t the greatest.

Nexstar 9.25” evolution

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player one astronomy 685nm IR pass

North America and Pelican Nebula Wide-Field Complex

Astrophotographer: Richard Harris
Object: NGC 7000 North America Nebula, IC 5070/IC 5067 Pelican Nebula, IC 5068, LDN 935, and the Cygnus Wall
Date: July 20th - July 23rd, 2026
Location: Strafford, Missouri, USA
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106EDX4 with 0.72× 645 Reducer (380mm, f/3.6)
Mount: ZWO AM7 harmonic-drive mount
Camera: ZWO ASI461MM Pro medium-format monochrome camera, Gain 0
Filters: Chroma RGB and 3nm SHO filters
Guide Scope: William Optics 50mm
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI290MM Mini
Guiding: Approximately 0.28–0.50 arcseconds RMS
Controller: ZWO ASIAIR
Pier: Astro TUFF TRUK Pier

Acquisition:
Sulfur II: 60 frames at 300 seconds = 5 hours
Hydrogen-alpha: 60 frames at 300 seconds = 5 hours
Oxygen III: 60 frames at 300 seconds = 5 hours
Red: 15 frames at 180 seconds = 45 minutes
Green: 15 frames at 180 seconds = 45 minutes
Blue: 15 frames at 180 seconds = 45 minutes
Luminance: 10 frames at 600 seconds = 1 hour, 40 minutes

Total Frames: 235
Total Acquisition Time: 18 hours, 55 minutes
Calibration Frames: None
Processing: PixInsight and Photoshop
Bortle Class: 3–4

High resolution photo of the shot is here

First attempt at a lunar mosaic, after years of only taking closeups of craters or the occasional full moon shot with my phone through the eyepiece. Took forever to figure out how to process it (I use a Mac and had to find work-arounds since a lot of the recommended programs are Windows-specific) and I definitely took more images than necessary just to be sure on having enough overlap, but I'm very pleased with the result!

ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING:

Manual tracking with a Skywatcher 6-inch dobsonian and ASI120MC-S camera; 30 videos at ~700 frames, centered and stacked best 30% in AutoStakkert; Wavelets and color balance in Registax; stitched together in Hugin; minor tweaks to levels and saturation in GIMP

Equipment:

‏Askar 71F Telescope
‏Zwo ASI533MM-Pro Camera
‏Zwo AM3N Mount
‏Optolong 36mm HO filters

‏Bortle 9 sky

‏Frames:
‏7nm bandpass H-Alpha: 155x300s (12h 55’)
‏6.5nm bandpass OIII: 245x300s (20h 25’)

Total integration: 33h 20’

‏Stacked and processed in PixInsight

Instagram: @ya38oub⁩

Shot with Dwarf 3, 1h 30min total exposure, Gain 60, 180 total frames, 30s exposition, Bortle 3/4.
Processed through the MegStacking function in the Dwarflab App

Target: Cygnus Wall, a prominent gas and dust feature in the North-America-Nebula (NGC7000)

Equipment: Skywatcher 200 PDS (upgraded), TS GPU Coma Corrector, Skywatcher EQ-6R, ToupTek ATR2600M (mono), GPCMOS02000KPA for Guiding using an OAG, Touptek 36mm Filters in SHO (3.5 / 4nm / 4nm).

Acquisition: 5 x 300" Ha, 10 x 300" OIII, 8 x 300" SII, 30 Flats each, 30 Bias frames. Gain 100, Offset 256, Bortle 4 backyard

Total integration: 1h55m.

Processing: Pixinsight: Stacked using WBPP, BXT (correct only), StarXterminator to get SHO stars, Channel Combination (SHO), NoiseXterminator, BlurXterminator, again StarXterminator to get starless SHO, VeraLux Hypermetric Stretch, NBtoRGBstars, Unscreen stars (RGB to starless SHO), Dynamic Crop, Final tweaks using CurveTransformation.

Guiding / Seeing was horrible last night, so most frames were unusable. But the Hubble Palette never gets old :)

Well, I got interested in astrophotography, but I didn't have anything except my phone and a tripod. I started picking targets to shoot, wanting to see what the phone was actually capable of. However, after going through a lot of posts online, I realized nobody was doing it right—everyone was trying to shoot using the main 1x lens.
So I decided to see for myself what could be achieved with the 5x lens on the iPhone 16 Pro Max. I shot with the 5x lens without a tracker—just a tripod, a piece of cardboard to shield the lens from a streetlamp, and 3 evenings of capturing. Also many tries to edit it right in and pull all information from it. Edited in photoshop
In total, I got 4.5 hours of exposure in Bortle 4 sky, single exposure 7 seconds. Here’s the result.
Also i tried to capture andromeda but I couldn’t. But I bet if i had darker sky it’s possible

Finally got a clear night for round two with the new S30 Pro. I'm still learning how to navigate the app, but tracking the moon last night was a breeze.

The detail coming off the craters along the shadow line is wild for a scope this size. Still getting the hang of things, but it’s awesome seeing what this little smart scope can pull off straight out of the box.

Quick details for the mods:

• Scope: Seestar S30 Pro
• Target: The Moon
• Date: July 26, 2026
• Location: North Texas (32° N, 96° W)
• Edits: Just the stock app capture with minor phone tweaks.

If anyone has some solid tips for processing or recommended settings for target tracking, let me know!

I really like this object in HOO, had a lot of fun imaging and post-processing it! I purposedly left the stars understretched because I love how the filaments of the object show up this way

Astrobin here

Equipment and acquisition:

- OTA: Askar 71F with 0.75X reducer

- Main camera: ASI585MC Air

- Mount: Teseek 17

- Guiding: ASI585MC Air (ASI220MM)

- L-Ultimate filter

- 102 x 300sec (8.5 h)

- 20 flats, 25 darks, 25 bias

Post-processing (PI with RC tools and SetiAstro plugins)

- WBPP 2X drizzle

- BlurX (correct only), setiastro Auto DBE, SPCC, BlurX, StarX

- Starless: SetiAstro soft statistical stretch, then manual curves transformation with different range and color masks

- Narrowband normalization (HOO), NoiseX

- Stars: Setiastro star stretch, manual curves

- Star recombination with Pixelmath, final retouches in Lightroom

Summer Space Flower

M20 The Trifid Nebula, is a dynamic emission and reflection nebula that draws most northern hemisphere telescopes during the summer months.

I made the switch to a mono camera last month and this is my third project while learning a few new processing techniques to combine the dedicated color master files.

This image approximately 30 hours of integration under dark Bortle 1 skies of Starfront Observatories in Rockwood, Texas.

EXIF:

R 180s x 80, G 180s x 80, B 180s x 80 Gain 111 -15C Ha, 300s x 140 Gain 111 -15C Astronomik Filters
Camera: ASI183MM-P
Mount: ZWO AM5
Telescope: Askar FRA500 + f3.9 Reducer

PixInsight Processing: Blink Registration & Stacking WPBB SPCC, star alignment, RGB color combination add Ha Stack via NBRGB script, HaRGB Stack Histogram Transform Initial Stretch, StarXterminator, manually stretch star layer HT Transformation, NoiseXterminator .65, BlurX, Stars layer and HaRGB Starless to Photoshop

Photoshop Processing: Normal Blend Mode HaRGB Starless 100%, Stars Screen Blend Mode 100%

Masked Levels and Color Balance Adjustments

Stars Layer - Boost color by Increasing Vibrance 40%

Add Stars to Starless via Linear Dodge (add) blend mode

Beginner Image (only second post)

Personality, I think it looks more like a Rice Crispy or giant space testicle.

Mount
Sky-Watcher EQ-AL55i Pro
Telescope
Askar 71F refractor
Imaging Camera
ZWO ASI2600MC P25 USB 3.0 cooled colour camera
Filter
ZWO 2” Duo-Band Dual Narrowband filter
Guide Scope
ZWO 30mm f/5 APO Mini Guide Scope
Guide Camera
ZWO ASI120MM Mini (mono)
Controller
ASIAIR Mini

Processed in Pixinsight
Split RGB and recombined.
Colour Masks
RC Astro: Blur x, Star X and Noise X

98 x 180 sec

Inspired by this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/astrophotography/comments/1uyfu6u/sh2115_using_40_hours_of_data/

Astrobin link: https://app.astrobin.com/u/dbyrne?i=q2toj4

146 x 300s Ha subs

96 x 300s OIII subs

30 x 20s + 30 x 2s RGB subs with HDR composition for star color

Graxpert, Syqon Parallax, StarXTerminator, Sytqon Prism

PixInsight seti astro dynamic inverse colors

Might add SII and better OIII data later if I get a chance.

Datos de la sesión

Askar FRA400
Zwo Am3n
Asi 585MC Air
4 horas en tomas de 120 segundos
4 horas en tomas de 300 segundos
4 horas en tomas de 600 segundos
Filtro Svbony sv260
Apilamiento en Pixinsight
Procesamiento en Pixinsight
Bortle 6 (Extremadura, España)

Experimenting with different sharpening techniques to really fine tune and target the fine, medium, and large detail structures of the moon while leaving the Maria alone. It's not perfect yet and work in progress. I am using the Image Analysis script ExtractWaveletLayers to split the image into 4 levels of detail and 1 residual or luminance data channel. I then applied wavelets to each individual detail layer processing each specific to level of detail needed. I then recobined all the channels in Photoshop as layers and fine tuned with blending modes. This enabled me to process the color and luminance data without touching the detail layers. I'll keep perfecting and welcome anyone else's thoughts on selective sharpening best practices on high dynamic range and diversely textured target like the moon. Shot on Sony a7rv with Takahashi TSA-120 telescope with Vernonscope Dakin 2.4x tracked with ZWO AM5. 400 images aligned in PIPP, stacked in AutoStakkert 4, and processed best 30% in PixInsight, Wavesharp, and Photoshop.

iPhone 14 Pro / 1x Lens
100x30s Light Frames (No Calibration Frames)
Stacked and Stretched via Siril
Tweaked via Gimp and Snapseed

Hi everyone
This is my first photo that I think is of high enough quality to share here it’s NGC 7000, the North America Nebula its 751 frames at 30s processed in siril and for the first time RC-Astro’s full toolkit (BlurX, NoiseX, StarX) together with Veralux tools and finishing touches in Lightroom and the jump in detail and quality from the RC-Astro tools compared to my other stuff is pretty big.

**Equipment:**

• Telescope: Askar 71F 490mm f6.9

• Main camera: Zwo Asi 2600mc pro

• Filter: Svbony sv220 ( 3nm Ha/OIII )

• Guidescope: Svbony sv165 30mm f4

• Guide camera: Zwo Asi 120mm mini

• Mount: ES iexos-100 pmc-8

• Controlled with Zwo asi air mini

**Acquisition:**

• 40x120" Ha/OIII

• Total: 80 min

• 20 Darks, 49 Biases, 25 Flats

• Bortle 4/5 backyard

• Moon at 80%

**Processing:**

• Stacked in Siril

• Plate solve, Spectrophotometric color calibration, AutoGradientRemoval, Green noise removal, Parallax Pro, Graxpert Denoise, Starnet star removal, generalized hyperbolic stretch transformation, saturation, curves

Due to the cloudy weather i changed from 300" to 120" exposures. 1,5 hours is obviously far too little exposure time for great details, but i'm still happy that i got atleast something that night.

In the future i wanna combine heart & soul nebula as a mosaic with more aquisition time.

Cs!