June 2012 Contest Images

[Javio]

The June edition of the 2012 PixInsight Monthly Astrophotography Contest is open. Send your images until June 20th. Please use this post ONLY to submit your images.

Good luck!

[Ioannis Komianos]

Ngc 6992/6995 Eastern Veil (network Nebula)
Location / Date : Poros Island August 2011
Mount : HEQ5 Pro (EQmod, Cartes du Ciel)
Telescope: TS APO65 Quadruplet
Camera: QHY9m (-15C)
QHY CFW : HaLRGB
Guiding: QHY5, Finderscope, PHD
Total Exposure : ~5,5 hours
Darks-Flats-Bias
Pixinsight 1.7

[Giorgio]

2012.05.11 NGC4565
camera: ApogeeU8300
telescope: Taka Fs128 f/8
mount: 10Micron 2000
acquisition: MaximDL5.18
exposure:
Lum  4,5 ore sub 15 minuti
R  80 minuti sub10'
V  80 minuti sub 10'
B  100 minuti sub 10'
Complete Calibration Processing with PixInsight
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53758843@N03/7361367920/
Giorgio

[jeffweiss9]

M106 LRGB 7.1 hrs
Scope used and reducer: APM LZOS 130/780 f/6 LW CNC II (W.O. 110/132 FF)
Mount Used: Takahashi EM-200 Temma2
Camera Used: SBIG ST-2000XM Astrodon Gen 2
ISO/Exposure: L: 30x8min, RG:16x4min (2x2), B:15x4min (2x2)
Location: Mercy Hot Springs, CA
Seeing 1-10: 5/15/12: 8    5/19/12: 9
Capture: CCDSoft v5
Processed entirely in PixInsight 1.7
Image at:
http://www.astrophotogallery.org/showphoto.php?photo=9612&title=m106-lrgb&cat=500

[Alejandro Tombolini]

Transit of Venus

This time a picture of the last transit that we took in June 5

Object: Sun and Venus
Camera: Point Grey
Telescope: Lunt 60 mm - Focal Length 500 mm - f/8.3 - Barlow 2x
Images: 934.
Total time: 31 seconds.
Credits: Andrés Vattuone and Alejandro Tombolini
Program: Registax - PixInsight.



Link to full image: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aCZ4u1ifr0Y/T-Hl0yaRYkI/AAAAAAAAAdY/95zYW8uBnjE/s1600/Venus+Transit.jpg

Details of processing

The .raw images where converted to .fit with BathConvertionScript and the aligned and integrated with Registax:



Fourier. I tried to eliminate a faintest lines in the background





The new image without lines



Built a mask to be use to give a white effect in the Sun. Venus is deleted in the mask because the white effect I am looking for is only in the Sun.







Built another mask to be use protecting the background and give color only to the Sun.



ChannelCombination



HT protecting the background whit mask 2



HT protecting the background whit mask 1 - Note the value of Midtones



MMT for more details without mask



New mask to protect background



MMT to Sun with mask



New mask to protect background and Sun



MMT



Noise reduction



ExponentialTransformation protecting Sun with mask 1



New mask to protect background



UnSharpMask



Little Crop



Signature



Saludos.