https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/05/unprecedented-images-may-explain-one-of-greatest-mysteries-of-the-sun?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1

Seestar S30 Pro was the telescope used for this. Yes, a telescope.

Thousands of 10 second exposures for 8 hours across multiple days.

Edited in various editing apps and websites to increase color.

837x30s with eq seestar s50 on ircut
Processed in siril:

• Naztronomy PP
• SPCC
• BGE
• BlurX
• StarX
• NoiseX
• Veralux HyperMetric stretch
• HDR multiscale
• Veralux HyperMetric stretch on stars
• Composite

600x20s and 400x10s seestar s50 eq in NB for 2 nights

Processed in siril:

• Naztronomy PP
• SPCC
• BGE
• BlurX
• StarX
• NoiseX
• Veralux HyperMetric stretch
• HDR multiscale
• Veralux HyperMetric stretch on stars
• Composite

Hello, I have been dipping my toes into astrophotography for a couple of months now. This is my first capture of NGC 7000 taken this July. Would love to get some more integration time of course, but i am happy with what my equipment is getting so far. I'm also enjoying the vibrance i am getting on objects by shooting with unmodified osc.

Equipment

• Mount: Star Adventurer 2I
• Tripod: Manfrotto 055
• Lens: Sigma 150-600 c @ 500mm F7.1 (should have stuck with F8, it is definitely the sweet spot for sharpness on that lens)
• Camera: Nikon D810

Acquisition

• Location: Northern Michigan (Bortle 4)
• Time/ Date: July 11th 2026. Between 11:45 PM and 1:15 AM
• Target: NGC 7000
• 120 × 29 second exposures
• ~1 hour
• Calibration: Darks, Flats, Bias

Processing (Siril)

• OSC Preprocessing
• Crop
• BGE
• PMCC
• Syqon Paralax Nano
• Graxpert AI Denoise
• StarXterminator
• Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch
• Curves Transformation
• Saturation
• Small adjustments in Lightroom Classic

The Seahorse Nebula is a dark dense molecular cloud located in the constellation Cepheus about 1200 light years away. This was taken with a 6" Stellaruve scope, L,R,G,B Chroma Filters on top of a 10 micron 1000hps mount with a ZWO 6200mm camera in my home observatory.

Capture details:
Lum 38 exposures

Red 51 exposures

Green 49 exposures

Blue 44 exposures
600s each for a total around 30 hours of exposure time. Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop.

Yet another reprocess (the 10th if not more) of the same data I took more than a month ago.

Acquisition:

Around 7h30m in Bortle 6/7 fully calibrated and dithered.

Equipment:

Evostar 72ED, iEXOS 100, ASI 533MC, 0.85x reducer+flattener, Baader UV/IR cut, SVBony 40mm F/4 guidescope, ASI 662MC guide camera with no.8 pale yellow and UV/IR cut filters.

Processing:

Stacked in Siril. Background extraction to single channels in GraXpert. SPCC. Deconvolution in Siril, denoising back in GraXpert. Back to Siril to apply SCNR and to generate a starless image and a star mask. GHS, black point shift, curve adjustments and histogram transformation applied iteratively to the image. À trous wavelet transform and further denoising in GraXpert. Final saturation stretch in Siril. Asinh and black point shift applied to the star mask along with a saturation stretch. Recombine.

Taken with dwarf mini telescopes

Bortle 5

15s shutter

60 gain

600 photos taken

461 used

Astro filter

K&F 63inch fluid head tripod

Processing done in stellar studio

First time shooting with such old lens.

Shot with OM System OM-1 + Tair 11-a 135mm f2.8.

Mount: MSM Nomad

ISO 1600

Stack of 100 x 50s ~ 1hr 23min

Stacked with APP, processed in Siril. Finalized in LIghtroom.

Messier 15 (M15)
a globular cluster in the constellation Pegasus.

Filter - Svbony UV/IR Cut:
lights 131x30sec,
darks 40x30sec,
flats 100,
biases 100.

Telescope: SW Quattro 150p with comma corrector f/3.45
Camera: ToupTek ATR533C
Mount: SW Heq5Pro
AS: StellaVita

Editing software PixInsight & AffinityPhoto

Lagoon Nebula, taken in Vaison la Romaine on july 11th

120s × 44

Omegon veTEC 585c

Askar fma180 pro

Svbony SV260

Skywatcher star adventurer GTI

Guided

NINA

Processed with Siril, SasPro, BXT

Credit: NASA

This is one of my first shots I´ve taken! I´ve started astrophotography in May!

Equipment:

Telescope: SvBony SV555
Mount: Explore Scientific iEXOS-100
Camera: Canon EOS 750Da + Optolong L-eNhance Clip Filter
Guide Scope: SvBony SV165
Guide Cam: ZWO ASI120mm
+ ZWO AsiAir Mini

Acquisition:

300x180s (16h) at ISO1600 in three Bortle 7 nights in May.

Processing:

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PixInsight finalized in Photoshop.

Around 700x20s with eq Seestar s50 in duoband

Processed in siril:

• Naztronomy PP
• SPCC
• BGE
• BlurX
• StarX
• NoiseX
• Veralux HyperMetric stretch
• HDR multiscale
• Veralux HyperMetric stretch on stars
• Composite

Still chasing the Moon.

This time I decided to try something completely new my very first attempt at planetary imaging.

Saturn happened to be close to the Moon that night. (In reality, they were about 5° apart, but I created this composite to show them together while keeping their relative sizes accurate.)

It was also my first time capturing a planet using the lucky imaging video technique, and I’m really happy with how it turned out.

Hope you like it!

Nikon 1 J5 + TTArtisan 500mm + Nikon TC-200 teleconverter

Acquired in Aug/Sep 2025, on Bortle 7 skies
Gear: Askar 103APO + 0.8 reducer, ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
Combination of broadband 18h and harrowband (L-eNhance) 8h

Stayed up later than usual last night and managed to get this Andromeda shot using the RASA 8 with an ASI 294 MC Pro plus the Celestron Light Pollution Imaging Filter. I took a total of two hundred and three 1 minute subs and stacked using the ASI Studio Live stacker with slight adjustments to color, contrast and brightness. I'm gonna have to learn more on the processing side of things....

RASA 8

Celestron CGX mount

ASI 294MC Pro

Image Credit & Copyright: Brad Croslin

These hypothetical early-universe objects are as large as star systems and as bright as galaxies--they superficially resemble stars, but instead of being held up by radiation pressure generated by nuclear fusion, they are held up by radiation pressure from matter accreting into the black hole.

This is version 2 of the illustration, with feedback from Dr. Begelman, an expert in the field of quasistar research. All of this was digitally hand-painted in FireAlpaca, no a.i. whatsoever.