Astrophoto thread (your own photos please)

[Kyle]

Here's my recent picture of the constellation of Orion.

 

[Messierhunter]

I couldn't pass up the opportunity of another clear night so I took a crack at the horsehead this morning, despite a bright nearby moon. Used an Astronomik UHC filter to try to get around that as much as possible.

New version with redone processing using a denoising plugin for GIMP recommended to me by someone in one of my other astronomy groups:

I rather like the improvement. Here's the link to the plugin if anyone else wants to try it:
http://gmic.sourceforge.net/

 

[Messierhunter]

My shot of Siding Spring approaching Mars made front page of ESA's website today:
http://www.esa.int/ESA

Here's a time lapse of the exposures that went into the stacked image (including a few I rejected from the stack such as the last one with a plane trail):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjNoxEL45vU

 

[Kyle]

That's like an astrophotographer's dream recognition there. Well done and well deserved!

 

[Prowler901]

Congrats!!! That timelapse... Amazing! Thanks for sharing. :thumbup:

Todd

 

[Scav]

That.

 

[Messierhunter]

NGC 253, Sculptor Galaxy

 

[Messierhunter]

Triangulum Galaxy M33.

 

[Yoda]

 

[Codz]

I ordered a job from the MicroTelescope Array, and here's the result. Raw image of M42.

 

[SolarLiner]

Not sure if truely astrophoto, but I had to share today's sunset, it was amazing.

(Those were quickly taken from my phone using two different exposure and white balance setups).

 

[kamaz]

Moon over Manhattan, April 2014:

Moon over Long Beach (CA) at sunrise, October 2011:

 

[steph]

Comet Lovejoy, as seen on New Year's Eve, with a 5 MP antiquated Canon Powershot S2 IS. I used CHDK to do a 64 second exposure. It certainly isn't much, but that smudge was just in the right place and appeared in all the exposures I did that night. The comet was juuuust barely visible with the naked eye, but very, very faint.

 

[Messierhunter]

Asteroid 2004 BL86 and the Beehive Cluster. Each dash is one frame of the asteroid's motion with 60 second exposures. Gaps are due to clouds.

Here it is in motion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEzM3F2a9yA

 

[Matias Saibene]

Not sure if truely astrophoto, but I had to share today's sunset, it was amazing.

(Those were quickly taken from my phone using two different exposure and white balance setups).

It is a perfect image to publicize the Church of the Holy Probe.

 

[Messierhunter]

Photo of the Horsehead and Flame nebula.

Manually guided for charity as part of the "Light Bucket Challenge" this past weekend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-R6PnLQQsc

 

[meson800]

Not sure if truely astrophoto, but I had to share today's sunset, it was amazing.
--snip--
(Those were quickly taken from my phone using two different exposure and white balance setups).

Very impressive.

What phone/what app are you using? I don't think I could capture an image like that with my phone if I tried...

 

[SolarLiner]

Very impressive.

What phone/what app are you using? I don't think I could capture an image like that with my phone if I tried...

Well, My Xperia Z2's 20.7 Megapixel camera is sure helping it
I admit it, I more or less lied for the second photo, I took it using a set ot 5 bracketed shots composited directly on app with A Better Camera (free limited version, HDR and other modes unlockable on demand)
First photo was taken with the default camera app, although it might have been slightly corrected by Google Photos.

 

[Messierhunter]

Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy last night:

 

[Messierhunter]

Scholz's star, said to have passed by our solar system less than a light year away some 70,000 years ago.

Combining the red channel of my image with the Palomar Sky Survey 1 and 2 plates allowed me to also create a gif animation of its motion with each images spaced 30 years apart:

It's the star right in the center. It appears to suddenly get brighter in my image because mine was really a red+infrared light view and this star is a very dim red dwarf (with a close brown dwarf companion) which is brighter in infrared.