Category Archives: Astronomy

Astronomy, Moon

Clavius crater

Clavius is for sure one of the most photographed subjects on the moon, 230Km of diameter it is dedicated to Christopher Clavius a mathematician of XV century. It appears stretched due to his meridian position and it is one of the oldest know craters.

Astronomy, Moon

Moon panorama

An unusual good night, this panel was composed by 3 shoots each of 15K frames. Only the 20% of the frames was selected.

Many famous crater are visible, the are was between Mare cognitum , Mare vaporum and Mare Ibrium. In the middle the beautiful Montes Apenninus with the Erathostenes, Archimedes and Manilus craters. In the bottom Plato crater.

Astronomy, Deep Sky

M42 – close up

Started as a stunning night, but after a couple of hours, it began to cloud over. Anyway it was a good surprise to see the result of these shoots because the scope was unguided, the total drift can be honestly improved. No flat, bias and dark was taken

  • Location: Ghiro observatory
  • Instrument: Enewton2 (unguided)
  • Camera: ZWO ASI290MM 
  • Filter: ZWO Filter Set L-RGB per ASI 1600 MM
  • Processing: Autostakkert, Iris, Photoshop
  • 240 X 1sec (each channel)
  • Total integration 12min
Astronomy, Deep Sky

Pleiades with sigma150mm

  • Location: Ghiro observatory
  • Instrument: sigma 150mm @f3.2
  • Mount: Enewton2
  • Camera: Canon 20D @800iso
  • Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop, Firecapture, PHD2
  • 40 frame (50s) – 50 dark – 42 flats – 41 bias
  • Integration: 40min

First test of autoguide with enewton and ZWO and sigma 150mm. No filter was used, so high light pollution cover the nebulosity.