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[Dave Mitsky]

Here's a cropped version. 

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[Dave Mitsky]

M101 was my only galaxy target that night.

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[Dave Mitsky]

And here's a cropped version.

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[Dart106A]

First pic of Sol through my S50. Total rookie shot! I need to research this a bit more -- and do take the photos when it is not 94 degrees outside! That and a clear day. Lots of stray clouds, so that, and the heat kind of killed it for me this afternoon. Anyway, at least I have a start.

 

73, Mark

 

 

 

[DyDyMT]

Sh2-101 The Tulip Nebula.  With such a pretty name, I couldn't stop until I gave it my best shot to see what I could get. And I do believe it does look like a Tulip (wow, one of the few that resemble the name?) 1698frames x2Drizzle PI

 

click for a larger Tulip 

Edited by DyDyMT, 14 June 2025 - 07:34 PM.

[project nightflight]

We put the currently long astronomical twilight to good use and captured the dwarf planet Haumea, one of the largest known transneptunian objects. Haumea is currently 49 AU away and glows dimly at magnitude 17.3. Seestar S50 image in equatorial mode.

 

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[Dwight J]

https://www.cloudyni...968_434967.jpeg.  NGC 6820 taken over 2 hours X 10 sec subs.  Noise reduction done onboard the Seestar.  

[Dart106A]

A couple new ones for me yet to be processed (other than a quick auto adjust on my cell phone. The light pollution is awful where I am.) Plenty of M81 pics here, but I haven't seen one of M107. I'll mess with them later.

 

73, Mark

 

 

 

[DyDyMT]

Winding down with the galaxies (for now), but found a few files of M51 Whirlpool, and stacked all the lights. 1102frames x2Drizzle, PI, Topaz ~ playing with a little bit of color in Curves, but not enough to throw me off my Comfort Bus.

 

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[Old Speckled Hen]

I had a short mosaic of the Eastern Veil from a wee bit back, only 315frames, but what I liked about this one was the teeny nebula piece at the bottom - if it were reversed and turned upside down, it could be a "Mini-Me" of NGC 6992. How cute. 

 

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This is NUTS!

 

     

[Cfeastside]

M27 the dumbell nebula shot last night in the backyard under a rising moon.   
89 min using 10s exposures in eq mode

this is the jpeg file from seestar edited on my ipad with Astro Edit, Snapseed and ios photo editor.  Couldnt quite get all the green out of the stars

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[DyDyMT]

My original post of The Northern Lagoon forever ago, didn't have much data, was upside down from this image and it looked like a fluffy cat.  More data (1028fr. x2Drizzle PI, Topaz) reveals no cat, but a nice little nebula.  NGC 7538 is better to use for this, because trying to find it in my Origin using SH2-158 gave me an entirely different object. 

 

Here is NGC 7538, The Lagoon Nebula, click for gallery

 

 

[Stevan Klaas]

Could finally test it in a bortle 4-5 sky, mag 20.10 - 20.60. About 5 hours each.

 

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[mourip]

https://www.cloudyni...968_434967.jpeg.  NGC 6820 taken over 2 hours X 10 sec subs.  Noise reduction done onboard the Seestar.  

Did you get that color straight out of the S50 also? Looks great.

[mourip]

And here's a cropped version.

Much better framing than the standard cell phone aspect ratio straight out of the scope.

 

To my eye cropping can make a good image into a great one.

[Dart106A]

Dear forum members using Seestar S50,

 

would some of you be kind enough and post a few S50 photos as they come right out of the Seestar and without further processing?

 

This would help me greatly to evaluate whether a purchase would make sense, since I am interested in the Seestar, but would rather not spend much time with processing (I am a visual observer and have zero experience with astrophotography and related processing).

 

Many thanks!!!

Pinac

Here is one I just took of Messier 57; the Ring Nebula. Haven't done a thing to it. One hour of 10 second subs in Bortle 6 with a light/dew shade.

 

73, Mark

 

Edited by Dart106A, 20 June 2025 - 12:22 AM.

[Pinac]

Thank you!!!

[rkaufmann87]

How about:

 

[appiantiqua]

NGC 7023  Iris Nebula 28h20mn50sec of integration

 

post processing : Siril, Astrosurface, Seti Cosmic Clarity & Gimp

 

 

 

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[Dart106A]

I'm actually very impressed with the basic pics taken with my S50 without processing. I've only messed a bit with Graxpert, Siril, and Gimp, but am not even close to knowing what I am doing with that software. Saturday night and into the morning I spent some time on NGC 6960 - Western Veil Nebula -- and using just the auto-adjust feature on my phone, got this image. Did the same thing Sunday night into this morning with NGC 6992 -- the Eastern Veil Nebula. Please enjoy these as much as I do!

 

73, Mark

 

 

 

Edited by Dart106A, 23 June 2025 - 07:40 PM.

[rkaufmann87]

NGC 5146 Cocoon Nebula, approximately 4 hours shot on 6/23/2025

 

[Dart106A]

Had something interesting happen tonight with my S50. Decided to go for Messier 5, and clicked on all the right buttons to set her up. As soon as it told me it was ready to start imaging -- and I am watching the screen on my tablet -- I saw the dim, rough blur of M5 suddenly shift to the right of the screen. I wish I would have been able to grab a screenshot, but it happened very quickly. The wind was a bit rough tonight, so I stopped taking subs at 40 minutes. It looks okay, but definitely not centered. Hmm?

 

Here's the result with just an auto-adjust on the cell phone.

 

73, Mark

 

 

[mikef0924]

Wildfire smoke hampered many spring opportunites for AP.  I'm a bit rusty but creating a mosiac in PI is fairly straightforward.

This 3x2 panel mosaic has ~ 6.5 hrs per panel using 15s subs.

Seestar Alp control. EQ mounted S50 array

higher resolution link here

 

 

[highfnum]

comparison seestar 50 6960

with 105 year old   film shot from Yerkes

any change in a century?

 

[mikef0924]

An interesting comparison! ...even more so if that was taken with the great Yerkes Refractor?  Cold Cameras would've been the cutting edge technology of that day.

I remember being amazed with some of my first cookbook 245 camera images that I thought were often comparable with photo emulsions taken at the great observatories from long ago.

In 1997 you could build one of those cameras for about the cost of a Seestar S50 today.

Edited by mikef0924, 25 June 2025 - 10:27 AM.