Iexos 100, Askar 300FRA Pro, MiniCam8 Mono

All calibrated 30 second subs from Bortle 8/9

HaHSO version

H - 332 subs

S - 599 subs

O - 178 subs

Processed and edited with Siril, Affinity, SAS Pro, GraXpert, and Rawtherapee

Reprocessed data from the winter/spring of this year. This was a new processing technique I was playing around with today.

Dwarf Mini
100-exposures
60-seconds
Gain-90
Eq Mode
Duo-band filter

Astrobin

This has been a favorite target for me recently with my S30 Pro, especially with external filters and longer exposures in NINA. I felt it'd be worth trying my new setup on the Cygnus Wall for comparison, and despite stars needing some extra work I am loving this upgrade for smaller targets.

Equipment:
- Scope: Askar 71F
- Camera: ZWO ASI585MC Pro
- Mount: ZWO AM3N
- Guide Scope: Apertura 32mm Guide Scope
- Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini
- Misc: ZWO ASIAIR Plus, 5x2" EFW, EAF, CAA

Acquisition:
- 12 x 300'' (1hr)
- SvBONY SV220 3nm Hα/OIII Filter

Manually Stacked in Siril since ASIAIR only gave me master calibration frames and light subs. Did my usual GraXpert DBE + Noise, SPCC, and stretch, and liked the HOO outcome better than the original. I still think stars are my weak area; I just don't typically do much with them when I should. I may just capture them separately in wideband and slap them on.

Taken on May 31st 2026 with Samsung A56 Camera phone using StarSense Explorer 10" Smartphone App-Enabled Dobsonian Telescope10 and edited manually .

Enjoy!

ZWO ASI585MC Air, Askar 65PHQ w/ ZWO EAF & nrStellar Custom Spike Mask, and Teseek 14 mount

167 x 120s @ 200 gain, ten flats, darks, and bias

Processed in Siril with Veralux, Graxpert, Syqon, and Seti Astro tools

Higher resolution on AstroBin: https://app.astrobin.com/i/8dldyi

M27 is one of the brightest planetary nebulae in the night sky, located around 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula. The vibrant colors and structure come from ionized gases expelled by a dying central star.

Acquisition Details:

• 346 × 30s exposures

• Bortle 7 skies

• Captured with Seestar S50

• Processed in Siril & GraXpert

Love me some Ophiuchis. What a treat for the eyes. Or a fever dream if overcooked... Please tell me how you feel about this rendition?! 😀 The damned thing only goes as high as 20 degrees in the aky out here.

Anyway, this is a 2 panel mosaic taken from Bortle 4.5 sky in Eastern Ontario, Canada. One panel is around 8h of acquisition, and another about 3h. I used a Sharpstar 61 III Apochromatic refractor with 0.75 reducer and ToupTek 2600C color camera with IMX571 sensor.

Acquired over 6 nights in total this year.

Stacked panels separately in Pixinsight. Did star correction, ADBE, background neutralization, then mosaic by coordinates, photometric mosaic, plate solved, SPCC, separated stars out, multiscale adaptive stretch, a lot of GHS and curves, dark structure enhance, stretched stars with SetiAstro star stretch. Combined in Affinity Photo 2 layers based editor, some final adjustments there and voila!

Hey everyone,

This is the Eastern Veil Nebula (NGC 6992) taken with my ASI533MC Pro + Askar 71F + L-eXtreme dual-band filter. Integration time was about 4.5 hours under the Bortle 6 sky in my backyard.

All processing was done in SiriL & Lightroom.

Seestar s30 EQ mode

Stacked and edited in siril

213x60s

2x drizzle

Cropped

Plate solved

Spectrophotometric color calibration

Remove green noise

Cosmic clarity sharpen

Starnet star removal

Background extraction with dither

Veralux silentium for Denoise

Remove green noise

Veralux hypermetric stretch

Veralux star composer

Aberration remover

Veralux revela

Cosmic clarity denoise

Data captured from my observatory in San Antonio, Bortle 9

Ha: 93x300s (7.75 hours)

Oiii: 71x300s (5.91 hours)

Sii: 111x300s (9.25 hours)

EdgeHD8 @ f/7, Sky-Watcher EQ8-R, ASI2600MM, Primalucelab EAGLE6 S, Chroma 3nm SHO filters

Processed in PixInsight

Messier 101 is a grand spiral approximately 25 million light-years away in Ursa Major. Its core glows warm yellow with the light of ancient stars threaded by dark dust lanes, while the sweeping outer arms blaze blue with clusters of newly born stars. Scattered among them are vivid red hydrogen nebulae: vast clouds where the next generation of stars is igniting right now.

When this light left M101, the Himalayas were still being thrust skyward as India pressed relentlessly into Asia, a collision that continues to this day. The global climate was on a long, slow journey toward the cooler, drier world where forests were gradually giving way to open grassland, and the diversity of mammalian megafauna that had inherited the post-dinosaur Earth was in full flourish.

Most significantly for us, this was the moment in evolutionary history when our ancestral lineage, the apes, began to diverge from the Old World monkeys, setting our branch of the family tree on the path that would eventually lead to us.

Acquisition:

• Shot in Bedfordshire, UK, Bortle 7
• Broadband: 17hrs

Equipment:

• Modified SkyWatcher Explorer 200P-DS
• Optolong L-Quad
• ZWO ASI533MC-Pro
• SkyWatcher EQ6R-Pro
• ZWO OAG + Helical Focuser + ASI174MM Mini

PixInsight DSO Processing:

• WBPP
• SPFC
• SPCC
• GraXpert BE
• BlurX
• NoiseX
• StarX
• MAS + GHS
• Curves
• ColorSaturation
• PixelMath

Lightroom Processing:

• Contrast enhancement
• Black Level
• Clarity increase

This was the result of 75 2-minute subs from 9-12am last night - The bright star is Sadr at the center of the IC 1318 complex about 5000 light years away, with those gorgeous dark molecular clouds LDN 881-883 which are actually only about 1500 ly away. Captured with C8, asi533mc, eq6, hyperstar f/2, filter optolong l-ultimate 2” in bortle 8 skies

Captured this section of the Veil Nebula with my Seestar S50 under Bortle 7 skies. The intricate filaments are part of a massive supernova remnant in Cygnus — the shockwaves from a star that exploded thousands of years ago are still energizing the surrounding gas today.

Honestly amazed at how much structure and faint nebulosity came through from such a compact setup and light-polluted skies.

Acquisition Details:

• 147 × 30s exposures

• LP filter used

• Bortle 7 skies

• Processed in Siril & GraXpert

Setup : Seestar S30 (Dual band filter + broadband)

Image details : 1500 x 10 sec frames (4hrs of integration); stacked and processed in Siril manually.

Captured from Bortle 8 skies.

Equipment:
Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
Telescope: Askar 120APO
Filter: Optolong UV/IR Cut
Guide Camera: ZWO 120mm mini
Mount: Skywatcher Wave 150i
Autofocuser: ZWO EAF (5V)

Acquistion:
Shot in Bortle 4
-Camera cooled to -10°C
-Lights:
UV/IR Cut:
188x180s (9hrs 24mins)
L-eXtreme:
37x300s (3hrs 5mins)
Total integration time:
68hrs 8mins

-Flats: 50
-Bias: 50
-Darks: 50

Processing:
-Pixinsight
-Dynamic Crop
-Seti Astro ADBE
-BlurX
-ImageSolver
-SPCC
-StarX
-GHS (initial stretch)
-NoiseX
-Photoshop
-3 curve layers
-3 camera raw layers
-Selective color
-Pixinsight
-Curve Adjustments
-More selective color
-Lightroom
-Final touches and crop

IC 1396A in Cepheus. Dual narrowband (Hα/OIII) mapped to a modified Hubble palette.

Used my C8, ASI533MC pro, EQ6-R pro, hyperstar f/2, and 2" optolong l-ultimate filter. This image represents about 4 hours of 2-minute subs from bortle 8/9 suburbs.

Processed in PixInsight, DBE, BXT correction only, GHS stretch, StarXTerminator for star separation, recombined via screen blend in PixelMath.

Equipment: Asi 2600mm pro Zwo FF 130 APO, Chroma 3nm filters, Zwo filter wheel, Zwo auto focuser, Asi 174 mini guide camera with OAG, Zwo AM5 mount, N.I.N.A

Processing: Pixinsight, WBPP, Linear fit, DBE, Pixel math, Narrowband normalization, StarX, NoiseX, BlurX, GHS, curves adjustment, Photoshop levels/ saturation adjustment

More details in Astrobin: https://app.astrobin.com/i/mz2dk0

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Skywatcher 200p, celestron phone Adapte, eq 5 mount and i filmed a video for 1:30 mins with a iphone 15 pro.

software: PIPP, Autostakkert, Registax 6.

centering jupiter in the video with PIPP, Stacking the frames to an image minimal detailed image with autostakkert and improving the colours with Registax 6 auto coloring option and adding some detail.

After saving up and buying a lot of second hand equipment for 3 years earning only a few hundred bucks per month. I am finally complete! Ts photon f4 6' newton, skywatcher eq5 pro (expecting to upgrade to eq6r pro later this year), asi1600mm cool, asi290mm mini with 60mm guide scope, asiair plus, efw with 36mm narrowband filters, and other small stuff like coma corrector etc. Lets hope i dont stumble upon missing something when i start shooting. Sadly there is a lot of rain coming in next week so i'll have to wait even longer

180x120s total 6 hours  
Sardinien Italy April 2026

Equipment:
N150 custom
Starizona Nexus 0.75x
SVBONY SV605CC
Pegasus NYX-101

This image of M8 represents about 500 subs (30 second exposures) with a remotely controlled Seestar S30 stationed out at Starfront Observatories in Rockwood TX.

They recently launched this $100/month subscription to take over a seestar there -- really cool idea of theirs, great for cloudy nights like last night when I can't utilize my actual telescope and rig in my backyard. This was my first image with a smart scope and I am really impressed with the data quality!

My main takeaway is if this is achievable with the S30 in bortle 3/4, I can't imagine what my full rig could do there.