Pixlimit blog around my astro activities.

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In this blog I document interesting events around my astro activities. My videos can also be viewed on my pixlimit youtube channel.

Youtube - Andromedas Parachute - live view, EAA and final processed - through my Celestron C14 telescope, February 2022

Andromedas Parachute or J014709+463037 is a very interesting deep sky object, a Quadruply Lensed Quasar at z=2.377, 11 billion light years away. This video is going to walk through how I make the most out of live stacking using Sharpcap Pro and my equipment.

Celestron C14 First light, Januar 2022

IC 349 also known as Barnard's Merope Nebula, taken with my Celestron C14 at about 2620 mm focal length, First light with Lucky imaging.

First Celestron C14 test image sequence at F/7.4 stacked with Autostakkert (AS!3), December 2021

The image test sequence was taken with my new baby, a Celestron C14 at about 2620 mm focal length, without autoguiding with an ASI294MC pro CMOS camera at -20 ° C. Each of the 16 images consists of approx. 180 x 1 second single frames and saved one after another as an animated gif. There is no picture selection, that means no lucky imaging. What you can see very well are two effects, walking noise (looks like rain) and seeing.

M 57 - Ring Nebula, Takahashi Mewlon 210 F/9.3, September 2021

Sequence of approx. 3.900 x 1 second exposure time, M 57 stacked with Autostakkert, 1 s. single frames, lucky imaging, approx. 50 % used from imagingsequences, Takahashi Mewlon 210 with focal length 1961 mm, ASI533MC, cooling -10 C.

First light M51 with ASI533MC and Celestron RASA C8 f/2.0, April 2021

First light M51 with ASI533MC and Celestron RASA C8 f/2.0, taken with the short exposure method, 18x 60 x 10s.( 10.000 s.)
more, M 51 4K resolution

M 42 Orion Nebula - live view, live stacking and EAA through my telescope - SkyWatcher Heritage 150p, January 30, 2021

This video is going to walk through how I make the most out of live stacking using Sharpcap Pro and my equipment. I'll walk through the settings and steps. All shots with Skywatcher Heritage 150p / Skywatcher EQ6-R Mount / without autoguiding/ no cooling ASI290MC Camera and using SharpCap 3.2 Pro.